Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: A few weeks ago, you said you didn't want to
Speaker 2: be traded in the middle of the season, which is
Speaker 2: why you didn't come to the Warriors, which I thought
Speaker 2: was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I was at the game. I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 3: KD came over here. He showed me love.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, we about to get KD. Uh.
Speaker 3: Do you want your career to end in Phoenix?
Speaker 5: Man, I want my career to end on my terms.
Speaker 5: That's the only thing. Then, God, that's the only thing
Speaker 5: I'm worried about, you know what I'm saying. That's all
Speaker 5: that matter because I see a lot of drudes that
Speaker 5: don't get that opportunity, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 5: I want to keep putting in that work to make
Speaker 5: that choice on my own. But as far as the Warriors,
Speaker 5: I just didn't think it was, you know, And then
Speaker 5: I didn't want to move. And then it's a player
Speaker 5: like me. I just I cost a lot. I cost
Speaker 5: me going into your team is gonna make It's gonna
Speaker 5: be a whole new era team when I get to
Speaker 5: your team, you know what I'm saying. So, and that's
Speaker 5: a lot of work and change for the season, Like
Speaker 5: I'm still a value, you know what I'm saying, especially
Speaker 5: in my contract and just my production that me just
Speaker 5: getting up and moving in the middle of season, it's
Speaker 5: going to be a big blow to any team I'm
Speaker 5: going to, you know what I'm saying. So it's like
Speaker 5: I get while y'all want to trade me, and you know,
Speaker 5: y'all looking at it just from simple fact that's just business,
Speaker 5: but from me looking at and I'm just like, it
Speaker 5: just don't make sense for either side right now to
Speaker 5: go go through that, you know what I'm saying, when
Speaker 5: we just played the season out and if that's the
Speaker 5: decision you want to make, you know in the off season,
Speaker 5: then you know, you figure it out. It's just such
Speaker 5: a big change to make. And I've been through it before.
Speaker 5: I was like, damn, it's not really it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it ain't the right move, like to be able,
Speaker 2: and I wonder in the middle of the series and
Speaker 2: all that twenty six games left, you know, if.
Speaker 5: I can't stop it, then why not, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. But and then the narratives that's going to
Speaker 5: come with all that shit, It's just like, you know,
Speaker 5: you don't want to go state of you don't want
Speaker 5: to go play with Draymond no more. You don't want
Speaker 5: to narrative that in your way, you don't want to
Speaker 5: go back. I was like, yeah, that shit is annoying.
Speaker 5: I don't like it, but I can play under like
Speaker 5: you don't know what, like the type of ship that
Speaker 5: people say. I mean, I could play under it. The noise.
Speaker 5: It's a simple fact that like, it's no need. I
Speaker 5: didn't feel like it was a need to, you know,
Speaker 5: make that big of a change right now. It didn't
Speaker 5: make sense to me, so I tried to I'm glad
Speaker 5: it was you know, in't looking look at look what
Speaker 5: you're doing right now, Dre, y'all looking good, Jimmy, And
Speaker 5: then you still got coming on the way back, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So I didn't think it made sense.
Speaker 6: Absolutely no. I think a lot of people don't realize
Speaker 6: what you're going through. That in Phoenix, Uh the Midnight
Speaker 6: our trade, m H Bridges leave, I think Aiden left, no,
Speaker 6: Cam Johnson, Cam Johnson, Bridges, Cam Johnson. Those were big gaps,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. To try to fill those holes,
Speaker 6: you make that move in offseason. There may be a
Speaker 6: third team you can get involved in different stuff where
Speaker 6: you don't have to deplete your whole team during the
Speaker 6: middle of the season.
Speaker 4: That is very tough to do, and I don't think
Speaker 4: people realize.
Speaker 6: And then, like you said, also being at your age,
Speaker 6: like I think everybody still look at you like you
Speaker 6: a spring chicken because of the way you play, So
Speaker 6: you still hooping at the same level, but you're set
Speaker 6: in your life and in your ways at this age.
Speaker 4: To just up and lead that is a lot.
Speaker 6: Like for Jimmy, Jimmy needed that, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like Jimmy needed a change.
Speaker 4: That was a different thing.
Speaker 6: But you know, if he didn't want that change before,
Speaker 6: which is probably why he was never traded before, because
Speaker 6: y'all do have that type of power to say nah,
Speaker 6: And no franchise ultimately want to disrespect guys like y'all
Speaker 6: because if they do, how do you ever get another one?
Speaker 5: Exactly exactly? And then I just want to see it through.
Speaker 5: You know, when you commit to something in a season
Speaker 5: like that and it's like everybody still nobody's like big injuries,
Speaker 5: like everybody's in the lineup, and like, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, I'm trying to figure see this through to
Speaker 5: the end and see what we can really do with it,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So, and I feel like
Speaker 5: I'm committed to my coaches and teammates and I want
Speaker 5: to see it through. So I wanted to lock in
Speaker 5: on that.
Speaker 2: Do you think people are still mad at you for
Speaker 2: playing with the Warriors?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure some people are not gonna like
Speaker 5: let it go. I don't I'm gonna say they mad.
Speaker 5: They still angry about it, But I don't think they're
Speaker 5: gonna forget that I went to the Warriors. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. That's gonna always be a talking point
Speaker 5: when it comes to my career. But I don't give
Speaker 5: a shit. We did some incredible things and we got
Speaker 5: some of the most fun times of my life moving
Speaker 5: around as a Warrior. So it's gonna be people that
Speaker 5: love it. It's gonna be people that hate it, man.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, it happened.
Speaker 2: And it was great and were happy it, Dick because
Speaker 2: they created a dynasty. Man got to say, see you
Speaker 2: at the peak of your career and your moment. And
Speaker 2: so when you think about when time passed and people
Speaker 2: are like, damn, bro, like we've it's just for to
Speaker 2: stay together for you know, three four more years.
Speaker 5: Yeah they gonna say that. They won't say that, but
Speaker 5: when they should just be you know, going back and
Speaker 5: watching that footage so they can learn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that part. You hear people say that shit all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 6: And the reality is twenty and fifteen to twenty nineteen
Speaker 6: is in my opinion, the best era of NBA basketball
Speaker 6: for the best five year stretch of NBA basketball in
Speaker 6: my opinion. But regardless if that's your opinion or not,
Speaker 6: you may say, oh it was the show. Talent is
Speaker 6: somewhere in the top three, which is the amount of
Speaker 6: gods that's coming to NBA. That's a big deal. And
Speaker 6: you coming to the Warriors elevated it so much to
Speaker 6: where that's why it became. It doesn't become that we
Speaker 6: never we never really experienced the era of basketball we
Speaker 6: experienced had you not came to the Warriors. That's actually
Speaker 6: what elevated the game because it elevated teams because then
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, it was like, oh, whoa wait,
Speaker 6: we got to build to beat them and that dude,
Speaker 6: it elevated the team in elevated skill sets.
Speaker 4: I think it elevated so much in my opinion.
Speaker 5: No, I agree. I agree. And as I was making
Speaker 5: that decision to leave Okay See, it was like, all right,
Speaker 5: if I stay at Okay, See, I think I'm passing
Speaker 5: up on something so incredible that I don't know if
Speaker 5: I could just pass this up. This ain't this no
Speaker 5: regular opportunity. That's how I was feeling. And I didn't
Speaker 5: know exactly how it would play off, obviously, but it
Speaker 5: just felt like this would be a huge, huge shifting moment,
Speaker 5: and not just to people that consume the game, but
Speaker 5: just how the game is played itself, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. This seemed like this seemed like something that
Speaker 5: can't turn down right now, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: And it turned out to be that big, and I agree,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. There was so many great
Speaker 5: teams like sixty seven wins Spurs that year y'all won
Speaker 5: seventy three, Cleek sixteen and had won with fourteen in
Speaker 5: the playoffs. I think when they fourteen and one, it
Speaker 5: was like insane shit that was going on team wise
Speaker 5: and individual player wise, you know what I'm saying. We
Speaker 5: were seeing that. That's when Kawhi started the Maerage to
Speaker 5: become a superstar from there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That's when y'all the Warriors started to come around twenty fifteen,
Speaker 5: That's when you know, you, Steph Clay started to you know,
Speaker 5: jump on to be All Stars every year, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So Kyrie started playing with bron that year. We've seen
Speaker 6: Kyrie in a totally different.
Speaker 5: Light exactly, you know what I'm saying. So it was
Speaker 5: a it was a lot of shift and like you know,
Speaker 5: dudes that are transforming to be like, oh there are
Speaker 5: stars now, these dudes are superstars too. Now I'm saying,
Speaker 5: there was a few extra dudes that you weren't expecting,
Speaker 5: like a Kawhi like us.
Speaker 6: James James had just kind of left you right when
Speaker 6: that happened, and James became James James James.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. Like even Steph, I mean
Speaker 5: Steph was at an all Star level, but he has
Speaker 5: sended to like god tear levels around that time, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So when you see these dudes,
Speaker 5: you know, even myself, you know, going from VP, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, And you see everybody is sitting
Speaker 5: with the road, you know, just go down the line.
Speaker 4: Run everybody.
Speaker 5: Everybody leveled up, everybody left up at that time, and
Speaker 5: it all felt like at the same time. And when
Speaker 5: you go from seeing dudes become young stars to super
Speaker 5: mega stars just going to you know, push the league
Speaker 5: forward for the next ten years, it's just like, wow,
Speaker 5: that ship. That shit happened quick and surprised us too,
Speaker 5: you know, because it was so used to the Kobe
Speaker 5: Shock era of things that slowed down pace of guards
Speaker 5: back in the back of you down all the way
Speaker 5: down court. It was very rare you see a BD
Speaker 5: or Steve Francis or you know what I'm saying, or
Speaker 5: now you were seeing these dudes every night, every night.
Speaker 5: So I think the players that went to the next level,
Speaker 5: and then the team building I went to the next
Speaker 5: level too.
Speaker 6: Earlier this year, you had an interview where you said
Speaker 6: that it's a dish by subtraction. Did you think it
Speaker 6: would become this big of a deal that you say
Speaker 6: that you play how you can play Philly, look how
Speaker 6: they like and everybody blowing that up, Like what did
Speaker 6: you think of that when you said that, did you
Speaker 6: know was headed here?
Speaker 7: Noah I didn't.
Speaker 8: I didn't think it was going to be as blown
Speaker 8: up as it was, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 8: honestly was just looking like a as just motivation, you
Speaker 8: know what I'm saying, get I'm finally get the opportunity,
Speaker 8: you know, Like I always felt like I was the
Speaker 8: guy that, like the team's a lot on you know
Speaker 8: what I'm saying, as that X factor to help, you know,
Speaker 8: get us wins or push us over the top.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: But I always had the feeling that, you know, I
Speaker 8: could be in that position, you know, and when I
Speaker 8: you know, the moves that were made and that opening
Speaker 8: was there, it was just like auditioned by subtraction because
Speaker 8: like I can I can feel that void, you know
Speaker 8: what I'm saying, Like I can be the one to
Speaker 8: step in and have that same production or impact, you know.
Speaker 8: And it was just like a mentality approach to it.
Speaker 8: It wasn't like the stoke shot at PG and and
Speaker 8: do all that, you know. It was just like like
Speaker 8: I'm here now, you know what I'm saying, I get
Speaker 8: an opportunity, you know, to be one of the guys
Speaker 8: that I've always wanted to be.
Speaker 7: But then you know, media takes it in and runs
Speaker 7: with it.
Speaker 8: You know, you got people talking about it, and then
Speaker 8: Philly starts the way they start, got people mad at
Speaker 8: PG for leaving, and then like it just turns into
Speaker 8: this like Norm versus PG. Norm's playing better than PG.
Speaker 8: Right now, the Clippers are better than the Sixers. Like
Speaker 8: it just turned into this whole crazy thing. And it
Speaker 8: was just like nah, Like we got like not only myself,
Speaker 8: but we got other guys who were scratching and colon
Speaker 8: as well. We had four Hall of Famers on our team,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean for two seasons and we
Speaker 8: had to figure out how to how to make it work.
Speaker 8: And you know, you've got to take a lesser role,
Speaker 8: you know, and play to help the team win. And
Speaker 8: now that that's that's not here anymore. Like you got
Speaker 8: the addition or these other guys and audition of me
Speaker 8: to be able to step into a larger role.
Speaker 2: No, I like it, man, because you know I've been
Speaker 2: I was calling baller vision for a couple uh, I
Speaker 2: think two seasons.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And just to watch your evolution just coming off the bench,
Speaker 2: you know, candidate for six man in a year, you know,
Speaker 2: coming in and being focal in the offense right, being
Speaker 2: a focal point in the offense over the last two
Speaker 2: years and now becoming you know that guy I remember,
Speaker 2: you know, I would say my third year when I
Speaker 2: kind of stepped into the role, like hey, it's up
Speaker 2: for grabs. There's five, six, seven more points for me.
Speaker 2: There's more responsibility, you know. Talk about this for you,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, this being your year, you know,
Speaker 2: to be able to show what you can do, and
Speaker 2: not that it was something that you know you've been
Speaker 2: waiting for this moment. You know, you can pretty much
Speaker 2: say nine years of your career, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, Yeah, I think you know.
Speaker 8: It's just being ready to stay prepared and continue to
Speaker 8: have faith and belief, you know, like in yourself throughout
Speaker 8: this grinme. You know, like I said, like I've always
Speaker 8: been the guy that teams like value in terms of
Speaker 8: like a winning player, you know, that can come in
Speaker 8: and help, a guy that you can plug and play
Speaker 8: in situations, you know, And I've had sparks and moments
Speaker 8: and stints in my tenure career where like guys get hurt.
Speaker 8: And now I'm playing for fifteen straight games starting, averaging
Speaker 8: twenty plus shooting, efficiency.
Speaker 7: Good everything.
Speaker 8: But then guys come back and now I'm at the
Speaker 8: end of the bench and I got to fill that
Speaker 8: role again.
Speaker 7: Just being up and down with that. But like I said,
Speaker 7: I always.
Speaker 8: Believe that I could do this, you know, and I
Speaker 8: always wanted the opportunity, like talking to Aja, my trainer.
Speaker 8: Let you all know, you know, just like man, like
Speaker 8: we just have conversations in the summer, like I really
Speaker 8: want to see what it's like when when I got
Speaker 8: the rains, you know what I mean, Like, cause I
Speaker 8: feel that I can I can produce. I can do
Speaker 8: this Like I've seen it up close. I've had it
Speaker 8: in stints and spurts. I've learned. I've watched the guys
Speaker 8: in front of me tomorrow, Kyle Kauhi operate, Dame CJ.
Speaker 8: Like I've seen how these franchise players and organizations that
Speaker 8: hold these guys to a high standard operate and approach
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 7: And I have the same mentality, have the same approach.
Speaker 8: I have the same work ethic, if not more in
Speaker 8: some cases, like like I want to see what.
Speaker 7: It looks like.
Speaker 8: But it was just about staying ready and staying prepared
Speaker 8: and believing in myself through all the ups and downs
Speaker 8: and just waiting, you know, and having talks with with
Speaker 8: l and Mark when they traded for me, you know
Speaker 8: about my value, you know, Like I just came from
Speaker 8: starting from Portland. I don't really want to come off
Speaker 8: the bench again. Like I'm trying to keep elevating my career,
Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying, to hopefully become one of
Speaker 8: those guys, you know. And they said it like we
Speaker 8: see you as a starter, you know, but like in
Speaker 8: terms of how our team is configured right now, like
Speaker 8: we think it's the best for you to come off
Speaker 8: the bench, you know and be that spark plug and
Speaker 8: help us in that way because we need fire power
Speaker 8: off the bench and me being I want to win
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, no matter what what
Speaker 8: it is, like, I want to win. I want to
Speaker 8: win championships, I want to win games. I want to
Speaker 8: be known as a winning player. So I'm gonna do
Speaker 8: whatever it takes for the team to win, whether that's
Speaker 8: me taking a lesser role, me stepping up into a
Speaker 8: bigger role, like like I'm all by winning and that's
Speaker 8: what it is. And with this opportunity here, I told
Speaker 8: Elle in the summer like I'm ready for the ups
Speaker 8: and downs, like you can lean on me, you know
Speaker 8: what I'm saying, I'm gonna be ready for I'm not
Speaker 8: going to shy away from everything. Like it's gonna be
Speaker 8: a learning experience because this is my first time, you know,
Speaker 8: in the league actually having this leadership role for a
Speaker 8: full season, you know, and being looked upon. So it's
Speaker 8: not gonna be pretty every single game, every single night,
Speaker 8: but like you know, you got somebody that you can
Speaker 8: lean on. It's going to continue to put the work
Speaker 8: in and go out there and try to help this
Speaker 8: team win.
Speaker 2: I know, you know this year you've been having a
Speaker 2: kick ass year, you know, all Star year. I want
Speaker 2: you to tell everybody you know why you believe you're
Speaker 2: All Star.
Speaker 7: Dang man, you know be there. I don't like talking
Speaker 7: about myself, man, I.
Speaker 2: Know you know, like I mean, I could do it
Speaker 2: for you, but you know, just talk about you know,
Speaker 2: the role, the role you stepped into, you know where
Speaker 2: people didn't think you know, let's say with PG right
Speaker 2: and you know Russ not being there as well, and
Speaker 2: then you know the Clippers not being you know, h
Speaker 2: thought of as you know, James Harden saying I am
Speaker 2: the system, you know what I mean, like, you know,
Speaker 2: talk through all that and then how you've emerged, you know,
Speaker 2: as their counterpart. You know, I think, you know, I
Speaker 2: want to hear from you, but also the fans want
Speaker 2: to hear from you, you know, just about your getting
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and your pace this year
Speaker 2: and you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think for me, you know, I
Speaker 7: think I'm all Star.
Speaker 8: Just like you said, like where the team and where
Speaker 8: they saw us at, you know, like we just think
Speaker 8: second to last and in the West, Like they had
Speaker 8: no belief that we're going to be a good team
Speaker 8: because we lost PG, we lost Russ and then the
Speaker 8: whole Kawhi, you know, being out and being hurt, and
Speaker 8: then the narrative around James.
Speaker 7: You know, he's not the same player that he was.
Speaker 8: He's not gonna be able to carry a team that
Speaker 8: you know, the his best basketball days you know are
Speaker 8: behind him, you know, and for me and him to
Speaker 8: you know, come together, you know, and be the two
Speaker 8: guys that he is leading this team, you know what
Speaker 8: I'm saying on a nightly basis and making sure that
Speaker 8: we're competitive. You know that that's a testament to who
Speaker 8: we are as a players, and then just my production
Speaker 8: as well, you know, from being able to be in
Speaker 8: a role of six man behind four Hall of Fame guys,
Speaker 8: you know, still putting up production in points last year
Speaker 8: to stepping in and increase some my averages across the board,
Speaker 8: being super efficient from the field from the three point line,
Speaker 8: and still being competitive. DG said at the beginning, if
Speaker 8: we can stay in that top five in the standings,
Speaker 8: you know I have a good chance. But just mere
Speaker 8: emerging it as a guy that you know, people didn't
Speaker 8: think we'll be able to do this in year ten.
Speaker 8: You know that I was just fitting this certain role.
Speaker 8: I think that's the strongest candidate, that my strongest pitch
Speaker 8: that I have.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm producing every single night. You know, I'm
Speaker 7: doing my thing.
Speaker 8: I'm holding it down against the top dogs, the top teams,
Speaker 8: and my mentality and approach has always been the same.
Speaker 7: You know, my work ethic hasn't changed.
Speaker 8: I think the biggest thing that I've done going into
Speaker 8: the season knowing that I'm going to have a bigger
Speaker 8: role and more pressure and stuff on me from myself,
Speaker 8: not every much external because like I don't really care
Speaker 8: what media and stuff talking about because they don't really know.
Speaker 8: But just with myself was just a mental approach, you know,
Speaker 8: just like what is my going to be? What's going
Speaker 8: to be my daily approach to the game, you know,
Speaker 8: good days, back ays, day days and games like am
Speaker 8: I going to be somebody that rises a wave? I'm
Speaker 8: not going to be even killed, you know what I'm
Speaker 8: saying and going at it the same way. So I
Speaker 8: put a lot of emphasism, just like the mental part
Speaker 8: of the game, making sure that my mind is ready
Speaker 8: night in the night out because I know my body, yeah,
Speaker 8: can do it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: I stressed my body out all summer long, three workouts
Speaker 8: a day, five days a week, you know, going at
Speaker 8: it three weeks on, one week off, traveling, still still trained,
Speaker 8: still getting it in. So I know my body's up
Speaker 8: for the grind. But where my mental going to be?
Speaker 8: You know, when you know you're go one night, you
Speaker 8: know I got thirty thirty seven and then the next
Speaker 8: night I got twenty two or fifteen. I'm shooting five
Speaker 8: for nineteen, you know, like I'm a oh man, like
Speaker 8: the team meeted me tonight, man, Like I can't do
Speaker 8: this or it's going to be like you know this happens,
Speaker 8: like how do I get better?
Speaker 7: How to improve? How do I I still get the
Speaker 7: best from the team.
Speaker 8: So that's the biggest thing that I changed going into
Speaker 8: this season is just making sure that I'm ment to
Speaker 8: lead strong no matter what. No matter what it is,
Speaker 8: whether I'm playing great for a stretch of games or
Speaker 8: you know, I have a few games where you know
Speaker 8: the ball's not going into the basket.
Speaker 7: How can I still be that leader?
Speaker 8: How can I still be impactful and keep this team,
Speaker 8: you know, as one of the top teams in the conference.
Speaker 8: And I think I've been able to do that so far,
Speaker 8: even with being out with injury and things like that,
Speaker 8: Still being in guy's ears, still bringing that competitive fire
Speaker 8: and grit to the game. But when I'm on the floor,
Speaker 8: like like we're hanging in there, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 8: We're gonna figure it out. We're going to be competitive
Speaker 8: every single night. And I think that's what makes me
Speaker 8: an All Star this year.
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Speaker 2: Man, you and Donovan Mitchell, y'all look great this year
Speaker 2: together after three seasons.
Speaker 3: You know, it looked like y'all finally finding y'all grew.
Speaker 2: I remember playing with David Wesley, you know, and when
Speaker 2: you uh, you know, it's like almost simular size backcourt, right,
Speaker 2: it take you a little bit of time to figure out, like, okay,
Speaker 2: he's he a point guard to you said, having a
Speaker 2: ball in his hand.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a point guard. This is what I
Speaker 3: really want to do.
Speaker 2: Like when did y'all really like, what was it a
Speaker 2: player or when when did y'all really feel like y'all
Speaker 2: was locked in, you know, as teammates and when did
Speaker 2: you feel like, Okay, I'm the point guard.
Speaker 3: You the two but I understand you know, how are
Speaker 3: you flowing?
Speaker 11: To be completely honest, bro, I'm gonna really say this summer.
Speaker 12: Really really got locked in on what we really want
Speaker 12: to do with what we want to accomplish.
Speaker 11: He knew that I was pretty upset about last.
Speaker 12: Year and not having the performance that I wanted and
Speaker 12: what he wanted, and as like a team perspective, Yeah,
Speaker 12: we just sat down and talked and we just really
Speaker 12: explained to each other, like this is what we're gonna
Speaker 12: have to do to win this what we're gonna have
Speaker 12: to do to get to the Eastern Conference finals and
Speaker 12: to the finals, and yeah, it was like a grown
Speaker 12: man conversation. It's really sat down and just unfolded everything.
Speaker 12: That's like probably like the first row man conversation I
Speaker 12: had in the league so far.
Speaker 11: It was like, yeah, it was.
Speaker 12: Like a lot of release off my shoulders, and I
Speaker 12: knew it was a lot of release off his as well,
Speaker 12: because I know that Tannem can work perfectly.
Speaker 11: He's a scoring.
Speaker 12: Guard and I like to play make And then coming
Speaker 12: to this year, he's used to average thirty and high twenties,
Speaker 12: but now this year his minutes are down low and
Speaker 12: he's not averaging twenty five. He's asging like twenty three,
Speaker 12: twenty four, and we did a number one team in
Speaker 12: the league, right, Like he just realized what the talent
Speaker 12: that he had around him, and he's just letting me
Speaker 12: facilitate and he's just playing off me a lot more
Speaker 12: as well. Just trying to get him open shots and
Speaker 12: open lists because everybody's going to hand him on an
Speaker 12: offense event because he's Donovan Mitchell raining all, he's a
Speaker 12: VP candidate, So just trying to get him some easy ones,
Speaker 12: get him going, and we need to stretch and make
Speaker 12: some tough shots. That's when you can go be go
Speaker 12: be spider that everybody else knows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: I feel like that a grown man conversation you can see,
Speaker 2: because that's how y'all operating in the back court like
Speaker 2: grown professionals. You got taken care of each other, and
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes it's not even communication it's the numb
Speaker 2: and you can tell he'll play make for you to
Speaker 2: get you going right. At the same time you're doing
Speaker 2: the same thing for him, you know, and you can
Speaker 2: see the maturity. I just like the fact that you know,
Speaker 2: that's your first growl man conversation and it's with your
Speaker 2: back court mane.
Speaker 11: It definitely took us over the top of what I
Speaker 11: believe h.
Speaker 12: Because that was my thing, like my first All Star
Speaker 12: year at Laurie Market and Jared Allen Evan mob as
Speaker 12: a rookie Isaaca Corro, like I thought I had to
Speaker 12: do it all by myself.
Speaker 11: He felt the same utah before he came over here.
Speaker 12: So it's like, now we got a dynamic duo with
Speaker 12: these two cent footage that here that can move their
Speaker 12: feet on the defensive end, block shots and then catch
Speaker 12: lots break springs on the offensive en, So let's figure
Speaker 12: this thing out. Then we bring Max Strews, George Me
Speaker 12: and Big Top hooping here, Like you know, we got
Speaker 12: we got a lot more pieces now, so we don't
Speaker 12: have to do as much on the ball. We can
Speaker 12: get off the ball a little bit more and they
Speaker 12: can go make and play for themselves.
Speaker 11: So I mean it was. It was a perfect dynamic.
Speaker 2: For sure, you're staring down the possibility of joining the
Speaker 2: exclusive fifty forty ninety club this season. I know you're
Speaker 2: a team first guy, but how important is it for
Speaker 2: a point guard to be in this club?
Speaker 5: Especially the season you haven't?
Speaker 11: Man, it's cool.
Speaker 12: I mean, I think it's like eight guys in the
Speaker 12: NBA history that has actually done it and actually completed
Speaker 12: it for an entire season, which is pretty tough to do.
Speaker 12: But I mean it's cool just having the stats and
Speaker 12: like a great a go percentage, like Drake mand said,
Speaker 12: like at my size, it's pretty hard. So I mean
Speaker 12: it's cool just being up there with some of those
Speaker 12: guys haven't been completed yet for the entire season, so
Speaker 12: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna like jump into it,
Speaker 12: but I mean it's cool just being recognized like that.
Speaker 11: It's cool to have some stats like that. For sure, you.
Speaker 2: Walk into the game, right, It's not like you're saying
Speaker 2: on fifty forty ninety you hitting those marks?
Speaker 3: You walking in the game, like what is that? What
Speaker 3: does that feel?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Because because you had a high clip, right, man, Like,
Speaker 3: what is that?
Speaker 4: Confidence?
Speaker 2: What's what's that feel, Bro, it's gotta be a yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean, just going in with confidence, bro, just trying
Speaker 12: to play the right way, be aggressive when I can,
Speaker 12: but just trying to take the right shots, playing the
Speaker 12: system a little bit, you know, but just trying to
Speaker 12: be aggressive at all times, trying to get into paint
Speaker 12: as much as possible. And then with the lob trist
Speaker 12: that we got, I mean, everybody going back to their man.
Speaker 12: They five man fives don't never want their bigs to
Speaker 12: score ever. Going right now, I'm getting some easy layups,
Speaker 12: so that's why the field goal percentage so high.
Speaker 11: I'm getting looks from the three point line.
Speaker 12: Been saying some really good screens for me to come
Speaker 12: off and get some open looks, and then my team
Speaker 12: may send me up so well, So get in the
Speaker 12: free tem percentage. I mean, that's just focused and concentration,
Speaker 12: So not too much to say. I'd be pretty focused
Speaker 12: and concentrated. I'm going to the free throw line.
Speaker 6: I like that right, Telling me it's just focus and concentration,
Speaker 6: that's just simply not true. But you just made that
Speaker 6: sound less difficult than what I see. No, No, I'm
Speaker 6: talking about one thing you said and specific, which is specifically,
Speaker 6: which is you said bigs don't want their their centers
Speaker 6: don't want their man or, so I'm getting easy layups.
Speaker 6: I disagree with that. I agree that sinners don't like
Speaker 6: their man score, but I think you do such an
Speaker 6: incredible job of keeping like what we're taught as bigs
Speaker 6: is to cat and mouse, like never give up, like
Speaker 6: if you're going to fully commit to the guard, never
Speaker 6: give up if you're completely taking a big away when
Speaker 6: you're in that two on one situation, and you do
Speaker 6: it just about as well as anyone where you will
Speaker 6: literally pass the ball at the very last second, like
Speaker 6: if you.
Speaker 4: Get all the way to the rimm and you about.
Speaker 6: To lay the ball up and finally I go because
Speaker 6: I have to go at that point. You do as
Speaker 6: good a job as anyone of them making that drop
Speaker 6: off fast after you get.
Speaker 4: That guy to commit at the last second, And that's
Speaker 4: such an incredible skill.
Speaker 6: So I have to disagree with you there where you
Speaker 6: say I'm getting easy layoups because I got live threats,
Speaker 6: Because I get a lot of guys with live threats
Speaker 6: in that situation and they can't finish, and so they
Speaker 6: can't finish that layup don't know when to take that layup.
Speaker 6: And if they dropped that ball off, you better believe it.
Speaker 6: I'm going to steal it. Didn't go the other way,
Speaker 6: and you do it as well as anyone in this league.
Speaker 6: So I just wanted to throw that out there while
Speaker 6: you make it sound so easy.
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Speaker 6: You spoke about being from Chicago. We all heard about
Speaker 6: the Chicago runs. I had the opportunity to go to
Speaker 6: a couple of them in my day, which is.
Speaker 4: After the heyday of them.
Speaker 6: But Brian recently was talking other day about getting on
Speaker 6: the court with MJ being there.
Speaker 4: I was there, was guardable, and I know you were there.
Speaker 6: I was there, So I want to know what he
Speaker 6: really as unguardable as he said he was the other
Speaker 6: day in the clip that he was talking about being
Speaker 6: unguardable in that pickup game.
Speaker 1: You're talking about Mike unguardable.
Speaker 6: No, was bron as unguardable as he's Bron said he
Speaker 6: was unguardable that day he got out there.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I was listening to Maverick. He was talking
Speaker 1: about Lebron being at there. We wanted to see what
Speaker 1: he had, what he could do. He didn't do it
Speaker 1: all the time because he had he had broke his
Speaker 1: wrist and he and it was like it was like
Speaker 1: a week after his uh. He took the cast off.
Speaker 6: He came in.
Speaker 1: He was playing, and he came down a fast break
Speaker 1: and we thought he was gonna pass. The motherfucker took
Speaker 1: off from frietow mind. He just took off. He missed,
Speaker 1: he missed, but the motherfucker said too, I mean, just
Speaker 1: like that. We we thought he was gonna pass. It
Speaker 1: was it was a three or two. We thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna pass, and it was like in slow motion.
Speaker 1: The motherfucker just took off and I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: he he just missed and the ball slipped out of
Speaker 1: his hand. He missed. But I said, you know, that's incredible,
Speaker 1: that's incredible. I mean for for a sixteen seventeen year
Speaker 1: old kid to come in and do some ship like that,
Speaker 1: and he was making shots, playing defense, passing the ball,
Speaker 1: you could feel his press. You feel his press? Then
Speaker 1: you you knew that he was going to be that
Speaker 1: motherfucker in the NBA. You knew that.
Speaker 3: That Wow.
Speaker 6: So for everybody out there who said Brian be lying
Speaker 6: about all these stories he told and you know right
Speaker 6: here he ain't holding nobody.
Speaker 1: Ye yeah, yeah, yeah, he was real. He was real
Speaker 1: that sixteen seven, that thing was seventeen eighteen whatever.
Speaker 6: Uh he was real.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And talk about you know, Isaiah Thomas being your favorite player.
Speaker 2: We got a clip where you hit him with the
Speaker 2: UTEP step. I need to know one that moment. But
Speaker 2: also the origination of the UTEP two step.
Speaker 5: How did that come about?
Speaker 1: Well, it came about because everybody be like, you know,
Speaker 1: we had games in Chicago, and I didn't like going
Speaker 1: out because that's when people started shooting up places and
Speaker 1: backyards and all that type of stuff and game you knows,
Speaker 1: following you in cars and you know, all this type.
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: It was wild.
Speaker 1: So I'm still in high school and so u uh,
Speaker 1: I just used to work on my game. I had
Speaker 1: an unfinished basement downstairs. We didn't have shit, we didn't
Speaker 1: have computers. We had three camels on the TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had. We had three channels on the TV and
Speaker 1: it got stale. So I used to go downstairs and
Speaker 1: I had two beams and I just used to work
Speaker 1: on behind them, bad dribbles, spin moves, in and out moves,
Speaker 1: crossover playing like it was like an eight foot ceiling.
Speaker 1: I used to make layups, come coming down, doing some stuff,
Speaker 1: and just just working on my game downstairs for about
Speaker 1: an hour. And it was no you know, it was
Speaker 1: cold outside. You didn't go outside. So I'm just out
Speaker 1: there working on my just working on ball heads. So
Speaker 1: that's where my ball handling came in. And I used
Speaker 1: to go outside during the summer and play against the
Speaker 1: guys outside and we used to have this uh uh
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. It was like if you could steal
Speaker 1: a ball from a person. It was like four four
Speaker 1: people and I used to drive between four or five
Speaker 1: people over this GalF and and if you go on
Speaker 1: the grass, that's about the ball up. I need to
Speaker 1: control motherfuckers, push motherfuckers off, and just do all that
Speaker 1: type of stuff. I used to go back and forth
Speaker 1: for about three or four times and then I like,
Speaker 1: I get it stole, just so you know, game go
Speaker 1: on and ship like that. I have some friends that
Speaker 1: I should I uh uh, you know, work on my ship, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want to love yeah, so on, so on.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go the idea. My coach took me out.
Speaker 1: I was I was in sixth grade. Uh non, seventh grade.
Speaker 1: Coach me out of school. He said, we went to
Speaker 1: the Amphitheater. He said, I want you to check out
Speaker 1: number eleven. I said, all right, say Jose, I'm checking
Speaker 1: him out, Like wow, that's so cold in my mind
Speaker 1: and stuff. He said, what you think? I said, keep
Speaker 1: cold blood? He nice? And he said, you play like him.
Speaker 1: I said, you fuck out of here. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm bad.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry. I said, you no, I don't
Speaker 1: play like him, he said, he said. He said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. You play just like him. You
Speaker 1: got the confidence like him, You control the team like him,
Speaker 1: you make shots like him. You do all the things
Speaker 1: that he's doing right now. Just in steventh grade and
Speaker 1: at that particular time when he told me that, I
Speaker 1: started watching Isaiah pattern in my game. When he went
Speaker 1: to Indiana, I steady watched him, steady watched him, and
Speaker 1: this pattern in my game after he came back for
Speaker 1: some league, watched him love. I knew, knew they scheduled,
Speaker 1: knew when he was gonna play. I'm there an hour
Speaker 1: ahead of time. I'm in the front row watching him play,
Speaker 1: you know. And so and so he kept in touch
Speaker 1: with me. Somebody told him about me, and we was
Speaker 1: at a high school summer league game and we playing
Speaker 1: and they said, yeah, we got a surprise y'all whoever
Speaker 1: make the final four. You know the teams they come
Speaker 1: in and we got a special guest player. And somebody
Speaker 1: told me, and I told my team. I said, I
Speaker 1: don't know what y'all gonna do, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: here every game and I'm making the final four. I'm
Speaker 1: making the final four. And Isaiah came in there and talked.
Speaker 1: And after he talked everybody, like you know, everybody's out
Speaker 1: the least, say hey, Tim Hardway, let me talk to you.
Speaker 1: You want to talk to me. He's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. He talked to me, said yeah, somebody told
Speaker 1: me that you've been panning your game after me. I've
Speaker 1: been checking you out. I've been keeping tabs on you
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And I was blown away. He
Speaker 1: just said, keep doing what you're doing. Go to school,
Speaker 1: get your education. You know, I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: gonna make it or nothing like that. And he said,
Speaker 1: just just use basketball, get your education. And but you
Speaker 1: you're playing well, man, and keep up good work and
Speaker 1: keep your confidence and keep playing. I said, okay, and
Speaker 1: and so and so and so we came to Detroit
Speaker 1: my rookie year. He came to pick me up at
Speaker 1: the hotel and went to his house, had pregame meal,
Speaker 1: and on the drive back to the hotel, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I gonna tell this man. I appreciate you, uh taking
Speaker 1: me to your house and feed me, but uh, I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna bust your ass. So and so and so
Speaker 1: before I got it out, he said, now you know,
Speaker 1: because you know, you know, took you out for pre
Speaker 1: game meal, to the house and everything and talk to you.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't take it easy. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: What I was gonna.
Speaker 1: I was gonna I've been trying to figure out how Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take me. That's what I want to hear.
Speaker 1: And we we played.
Speaker 2: We beat him here too.
Speaker 1: And uh in Detroit and uh yeah, man, I always
Speaker 1: wanted to play against him, man, and uh, it's like
Speaker 1: the highlight of your whole career. Who played Yes, that dude.
Speaker 3: That's how it was.
Speaker 1: Man, Man, it is it is. I know how you feel, Parrens,
Speaker 1: but man, it was.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was like wow, I mean there's one of those moments.
Speaker 3: It was one of those moments.
Speaker 4: It has become rivals.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: We can't thank you enough.
Speaker 6: O G.
Speaker 4: That was incredible just hearing the stories.
Speaker 6: Hey, so we all make mistakes, but owning up it
Speaker 6: is the right thing to do. You know what degree
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Speaker 2: it does. Because cool Rush fans really turned up the
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Speaker 2: There's a reason why it's been the number one men's
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Speaker 2: It's the same reason why people were not happy when
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Speaker 4: Hand to your local Walmart to Target to try the
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Speaker 6: J Wall, have you seen anybody in the NBA from
Speaker 6: baseline and baseline as fast as you?
Speaker 4: Either after you for the.
Speaker 13: Only one I could compare?
Speaker 14: You know, like, you know how this should everybody trying
Speaker 14: to compare somebody to somebody. Only guy seen that's like
Speaker 14: close to me, I say, Darren Fox, he's just left crazy,
Speaker 14: like I wondered. I remember I forgot what he was. Was
Speaker 14: in Houston about to play. We had a day off
Speaker 14: for the game. I went, I drove like an hour
Speaker 14: trial to go watch him Blake Wow, And I was like,
Speaker 14: you know what, this the one kid I can say
Speaker 14: is close to what I could see in myself because
Speaker 14: I was basically supposed to be left handed, but he
Speaker 14: was really left fit. I'm like, this is the only
Speaker 14: guy I seen that was close to me with that
Speaker 14: type of speed, Like don't get me wrong, you know,
Speaker 14: like d Rose is quick like his crick is on
Speaker 14: the whole other level.
Speaker 13: You know what I mean.
Speaker 14: I feel like Jah got a different type of quick,
Speaker 14: but they don't have that speed to go baseline the base.
Speaker 4: That's a different speed.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So I say the only one I can say
Speaker 13: is darreon Fox.
Speaker 4: Speaking of d Rose, it's funny.
Speaker 6: I was just about to ask you a question about
Speaker 6: d Rose just and you know, enlighten him just retiring.
Speaker 4: You coming into the league.
Speaker 6: Where like prime d Row not even prime d Ros
Speaker 6: because I would say, like he never got the opportunity
Speaker 6: to really reach his prime, but what we know in
Speaker 6: his career is prime d rolls. You coming into the league,
Speaker 6: what was those matchups like you with the because the
Speaker 6: thing about your speed was it was speed, but your
Speaker 6: speed was powerful, you know what I'm saying, Like you
Speaker 6: played with so much force so where it just wasn't
Speaker 6: like like the Aaron Fox speed was like he still
Speaker 6: got it, but he played with way more pace now,
Speaker 6: but like his speed was just like fast speed. I
Speaker 6: feel like yours was like fast, but it was also
Speaker 6: like powerful. And coming into the league with a guy
Speaker 6: like d Rose that, like you said, quick but also powerful,
Speaker 6: what was those matchups like early on in your career against.
Speaker 14: D Roll, I tell you this, my rookie, it was
Speaker 14: AVVP year for him. Wow, just to be honest, but
Speaker 14: I mean we played them in preseason. I was just like, damn,
Speaker 14: this might be like the first guy say that's like
Speaker 14: quicker faster to mean. I mean, just because he's already
Speaker 14: been in the league, he already had his twitch. He
Speaker 14: already had to know what he wanted to do. Because me,
Speaker 14: like when I watched him play in college, I forget
Speaker 14: that it's playing Tennessee. I'm Oklahoma in the garden and
Speaker 14: I was like, this is where I'm going to school.
Speaker 14: Like when I seen that game and I seen him
Speaker 14: play Tennessee in Memphis, I already knew in my mind
Speaker 14: I'm going to play for coach Coyle just because the
Speaker 14: way he allowed the Rose to play, I knew I
Speaker 14: played a similar way. But when I was in the league,
Speaker 14: like I always tell you people, it's three people, that
Speaker 14: was like three people three to four people hard as
Speaker 14: me Kyrie because he could do everything, scoring every level.
Speaker 14: But the hardest person I had problems with was d
Speaker 14: Rose was a problem because you got to think with
Speaker 14: tim system, everybody around him was located to play defense
Speaker 14: and the ball, get the ball, and you couldn't stop.
Speaker 14: It's unlimited pick and rolls. He's scoring that wheel. And
Speaker 14: you look at any other guards that played for Tim,
Speaker 14: they all got that freedom. But you know, d Road
Speaker 14: just on a different level. And like I said, like
Speaker 14: I always say, like you you know, injuries are part
Speaker 14: of the game. But I feel like if he Ain't
Speaker 14: never had no injuries, bro, we wouldn't even be talking
Speaker 14: about a lot of these other guards the way we do.
Speaker 14: That's interesting because guys, because a lot of guys was
Speaker 14: acting like they were sick when he came into I
Speaker 14: got an ankle injury, I got the flu like he was.
Speaker 14: He was scaring people, he was. I look and I
Speaker 14: look at it. Like my third year, I kind of
Speaker 14: realized to build my compidence to another level, like I
Speaker 14: really can go at this guy toe to toe.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm man.
Speaker 4: First time.
Speaker 13: Rickie y'all was like, man, this is right, He's.
Speaker 6: Got different It's always interesting to think, like what what
Speaker 6: does the the guard race, if you will, or the
Speaker 6: guard outlook like the outlook on the position look like
Speaker 6: if a d Rose never got hurt, you know, if
Speaker 6: a Penny never got hurt, right, John, if you never
Speaker 6: got hurt like you got, I don't think.
Speaker 4: People realize you got hurt right.
Speaker 6: In the middle of your prime and then like and
Speaker 6: we'll get into the entries a little later. But I
Speaker 6: always wonder, like what does the guard position look like
Speaker 6: at that? And never what does the rap game look like?
Speaker 6: If bigger your part can never get killed? Right, like
Speaker 6: you always had those what if of like you see
Speaker 6: how it played out right like steps steps golded like
Speaker 6: Russ like yeah, yourself, like the work everybody put in.
Speaker 6: But you just always wonder if it looks different at
Speaker 6: all if d Rose never gets hurt, Like why does
Speaker 6: that pan out?
Speaker 14: That's interesting to be honest, I feel like, man, I
Speaker 14: don't know. It's like you said, like they were so
Speaker 14: close to getting close to the championship in the East,
Speaker 14: like if he don't get hurt, like how they was
Speaker 14: giving Miami to run everything. I mean when they started
Speaker 14: to get to that point, he was right there on
Speaker 14: their toes. So and then you had Indiana, you know,
Speaker 14: like with Paul George's there. It's just like you said,
Speaker 14: you just never really know what could have happened or
Speaker 14: what would have went on. For sure, but you know,
Speaker 14: I mean, like you say, you definitely got to get
Speaker 14: the Roses Flowers, bro, because being the youngest MVP, having
Speaker 14: the battles against him and it was it was super
Speaker 14: excited and to see him go through the journey he did.
Speaker 13: And fighting back, you know what I mean.
Speaker 14: I watched the game and he had his first fifty
Speaker 14: point game and breaking down in tears. And I've been
Speaker 14: watching a lot. You know, he never really talks, so
Speaker 14: I watched a lot of his podcasts. I mean, he
Speaker 14: was talking about like when he realized he was injured
Speaker 14: with his toy Ac had to come back.
Speaker 13: Like people don't realize.
Speaker 11: That's the hardest thing in the world.
Speaker 13: Bro.
Speaker 14: Now you be on top of the world and then
Speaker 14: you just feel like you hit rock bottom and you
Speaker 14: just got to get through that. And everybody thinks everything's
Speaker 14: fine because we make the money and we live in
Speaker 14: this letter's life.
Speaker 13: But the game we.
Speaker 14: Love, it's taken away from us for the time being.
Speaker 14: So you got to fight your ass off to get
Speaker 14: back to even feel like you one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that happened to me, you know, but I was
Speaker 2: I watched you college, but in college, right, and it's
Speaker 2: a lonely island, especially as a point guard when you're
Speaker 2: an explosive point guard, because now you have to figure
Speaker 2: out a different way to jump, a different way to land.
Speaker 2: You know, uh, how to you gotta change your game.
Speaker 2: And I was going to ask you that, you know,
Speaker 2: as you came into the league, you know as fast, explosive,
Speaker 2: one man fast break. Talk about, you know, the steps
Speaker 2: of how you evolved right from a point guard perspective
Speaker 2: from like year one, because you made the leap from
Speaker 2: year one to year three to being dominant.
Speaker 5: Right, talk about that process.
Speaker 14: I think, like really just man like having Sam Cancell around,
Speaker 14: you know, I mean him being my coach, Like he
Speaker 14: was the master of a mid range. So he was like, yo,
Speaker 14: you can't outrun everybody because I'll be pushing the breaking
Speaker 14: like dam where everybody at They not even fast half court.
Speaker 14: Yet he was like you gotta slow down, Like you
Speaker 14: got to figure it out. So just watching film with
Speaker 14: him and understand like you had the master the mid range.
Speaker 14: But like I always told you my whole life, I
Speaker 14: never had to shoot, Like I always got wherever I wanted.
Speaker 14: I mean, no matter if I played up or played
Speaker 14: I never tried to play my age, I played up.
Speaker 14: I always got wherever I want, even in college, like
Speaker 14: theyre go zone or by I find ways to get
Speaker 14: there because we were just so talented. But in the
Speaker 14: league we had real power for real center, so nobody
Speaker 14: You might probably shoot ten, three, eleven threes a whole game,
Speaker 14: so your most mid range was your form.
Speaker 13: So the paint is back and then you come across
Speaker 13: the lane, they're hitting you.
Speaker 14: So just just working with Sam a lot, working with
Speaker 14: Robin Clinam at the time, that was d Rose, you know,
Speaker 14: Kevin love Russ, Kevin Durant, all those guys. Trainer, just
Speaker 14: teaching me the basically like, yo, you just got to
Speaker 14: slow down, you got to be a knocked down the
Speaker 14: mid range because no he was going on these screens.
Speaker 13: It's to race to the basket.
Speaker 14: I feel like I can get there every time, but
Speaker 14: I might have a seven foot of there. So just
Speaker 14: learning that, like learning how to change my pace and
Speaker 14: learn how to knock down the mean range a lot
Speaker 14: more with confident.
Speaker 13: I think that made my game evolved.
Speaker 14: Like I was always good at passing, always trying to
Speaker 14: get my teammates involved in finding those guys because I
Speaker 14: knew in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 13: If I passed the bar.
Speaker 14: Early on in the fourth quarter, you can't double team
Speaker 14: as much because my teammates have the confidence to make
Speaker 14: these open shots instead of them only getting the ball
Speaker 14: in the fourth quarter and they're like, damn, Bro, I
Speaker 14: don't got in a rhythm. So that's kind of how
Speaker 14: to my development. Just working with Sam a lot, working
Speaker 14: on my mid range, working on change of pace, and
Speaker 14: just watching film Bro, and just watching our teams, just
Speaker 14: guarding
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