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Speaker 1: I can't thank you all enough. But we're going to
Speaker 1: get into the show b D.
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Speaker 3: Hey man, you know it's I'll start weekend coming up.
Speaker 4: You know I got about when I say, about nine
Speaker 4: ten months to get ready for training camp. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So, hey man, I had to cut
Speaker 4: the dreams off. They was holding me back. I was
Speaker 4: missing shots and ship. So I staid off off with
Speaker 4: the hair. You trying to go back to BD with
Speaker 4: the with the hornet. When I show up in training camp,
Speaker 4: I'm out of headband, everything in the baggy shorts. Ah.
Speaker 1: This man just popped up on TV with a bar.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, you know I just switch him up.
Speaker 4: I had to look more professional, you know, we gotta
Speaker 4: look put more professional. The handing out these Amazon, MTV, NBC,
Speaker 4: Netflix deals, I'm like, okay, let me is it the hair.
Speaker 1: Let's see it was there because I know I could
Speaker 1: talk to talk. Is the hair is the hair? To me?
Speaker 3: You're scared of the gyms. These just say't real?
Speaker 1: Did you shave it?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Did you shave your hair with a raise or clippers?
Speaker 4: Now what happened, bro, was the barber. He gave me
Speaker 4: a good cut, but my hairline I had a stephen
Speaker 4: Ag And so my kids kept calling me stephen A.
Speaker 4: And so I went back to the barber and I
Speaker 4: was like, hey, bro, I cannot be called stephen A nowhere.
Speaker 5: In l A.
Speaker 3: My kids is doing this. They was on the FaceTime
Speaker 3: them and all their prayers. They was like, stephen A.
Speaker 3: My dad got a stephen A. So I told the barber,
Speaker 3: I said, bro, take me all the way, take me home,
Speaker 3: take me home.
Speaker 4: So are you so?
Speaker 1: Are you saying stephen A need to come on home too?
Speaker 3: Man? I stephen A. That's that's his moniker, that's his logo.
Speaker 8: If you had a he was a silhouette, you would
Speaker 8: you would know that. You wouldn't know that stephen A.
Speaker 4: You feel me like he is like if that's how
Speaker 4: that's how pretty much you know, think about it, like
Speaker 4: if he was a silhouette. You can look at the
Speaker 4: silhouette and say, oh, that's Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith.
Speaker 1: So he can never go ball.
Speaker 3: Nah. He you gotta keep that. Yeah, he got it,
Speaker 3: he got it. He gotta keep that. You know.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like when you go to the lowrider
Speaker 4: so and they got the uh and they got the trunk,
Speaker 4: like will help it so.
Speaker 3: You can see the motor.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Oh my god, I could have a low rider.
Speaker 4: I can't have a trunk open. I said, Man, I'm
Speaker 4: just cutting off. I can't be Stephen at it.
Speaker 2: Just go ahead and go home, man, kudos, ta.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into today's guests.
Speaker 3: Oh man, listen, get.
Speaker 1: Today's guests.
Speaker 2: Uh an all star point guard And I say that
Speaker 2: were all pun intended, and we will get into that. Nonetheless,
Speaker 2: he's average twenty one seventh shooting nearly fifty percent from
Speaker 2: the field. He's very close to the fifty forty ninety
Speaker 2: club right now. And the twenty one points on fifty
Speaker 2: percent from the field at that size says a lot.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into this.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, he is a twenty twenty two NBA All Star,
Speaker 2: and like I said, he gotta get another one this year.
Speaker 1: One of the best guards in the league that I
Speaker 1: play in.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, he been on the pod this this rundown that
Speaker 2: I saw. I say, a friend of the pot. He
Speaker 2: ain't no friend of no goddamn pot. That's just my
Speaker 2: young dog right there. Dj PG, what's happening?
Speaker 1: You're good with You.
Speaker 10: Appreciate youa having me, man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: He's staring down the possibility of joining the exclusive fifty
Speaker 4: forty ninety club this season. I know your team first, guy,
Speaker 4: but how important is it for a point guard to
Speaker 4: be in this club? Especially season you haven't?
Speaker 10: Man, It's cool.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think it's like eight guys in the
Speaker 6: NBA history that's actually done it and actually completed it
Speaker 6: for an entire season, which is pretty tough to do.
Speaker 6: But I mean it's cool just having the stats and
Speaker 6: like a great field goal percentage, like Drake mand said,
Speaker 6: like at my size, it's it's pretty hard. So I mean,
Speaker 6: it's cool just being up there with some of those
Speaker 6: guys haven't been completed yet for the entire season, so
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna like jump into it,
Speaker 6: but I mean it's cool just being recognized like that.
Speaker 10: It's cool to have some stats like that.
Speaker 4: For sure, you walk into the game, right, It's not
Speaker 4: like you're saying on fifty forty ninety you hit those marks.
Speaker 3: You walking in the game, like, what is that? What
Speaker 3: does that feel? Right? Because because you had a high clip, right, man?
Speaker 2: Like, what is that?
Speaker 3: Confident? What's what's that feel? Bro? It's gotta be a yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, just going in with confidence, bro, Just trying
Speaker 6: to play the right way, be aggressive when I can,
Speaker 6: but just trying to take the right shots, playing the
Speaker 6: system a little bit, you know, but just trying to
Speaker 6: be aggressive at all times, trying to get into paint
Speaker 6: as much as possible. And then with the live thrist
Speaker 6: that we got, I mean, everybody going back to their man.
Speaker 6: They five man fives don't never want their big.
Speaker 10: To score ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, going right now, I'm getting.
Speaker 6: Some easy layups. So that's why the field goal percentage
Speaker 6: so high. I'm getting looks from the three point line.
Speaker 6: Been saying some really good screens for me to come
Speaker 6: off and get some open looks, and then my teammate
Speaker 6: send me up so well so and then the free
Speaker 6: two percentage, I mean that's just focused and concentration, so
Speaker 6: not too much.
Speaker 2: I'd be pretty focused and concentrated. I'm going to the
Speaker 2: free throw line, not like that telling me it's just
Speaker 2: focus and concentration. That's just simply true. But you just
Speaker 2: made that sound less difficult than what I see. No,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about one thing you said and specific which
Speaker 2: is specifically, which is you said, biggs don't want their
Speaker 2: their their sinners don't want their men to score, so
Speaker 2: I'm getting easy layups.
Speaker 1: I disagree with that. I agree that sinners don't like
Speaker 1: their man to score.
Speaker 2: But I think you do such an incredible job of
Speaker 2: keeping like what we're taught as biggs is to cat
Speaker 2: and mouse, like never give up, like if you're going
Speaker 2: to fully commit to the guard, never give up if
Speaker 2: you're completely taking a big away when you're in that
Speaker 2: two on one situation, and you do it just about
Speaker 2: as well as anyone where you will literally pass the
Speaker 2: ball at the very last second, like if you get
Speaker 2: all the way to the rim and you about to
Speaker 2: lay the ball up and finally I go because I
Speaker 2: have to go at that point. You do as good
Speaker 2: a job as anyone of them making that drop off
Speaker 2: fast after you get that guy to commit at the
Speaker 2: last second, and.
Speaker 1: That's such an incredible skill.
Speaker 2: So I have to disagree with you there where you
Speaker 2: say I'm getting easy layouts because I got live threats,
Speaker 2: Because I get a lot of guys with live threats
Speaker 2: in that situation and they can't finish. And so they
Speaker 2: can't finish that layup, don't know when to take that layup,
Speaker 2: and if they drop that ball off, you better believe it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to steal it and go the other way.
Speaker 1: And you do it as well as.
Speaker 2: Anyone in this league. So I just wanted to throw
Speaker 2: that out there while you make it sound so easy.
Speaker 2: But moving on, I love that you call this your
Speaker 2: revenge season because I know the player that you are,
Speaker 2: and last couple of years you haven't quite been the
Speaker 2: DG that I know. And that's due to some injury,
Speaker 2: right like you bring Donovan Mitchewan that takes some time
Speaker 2: to get used to. Everybody think it's just gonna happened
Speaker 2: the next day. That don't happen like that, right like,
Speaker 2: And so there's things that were happening that I think
Speaker 2: could have caused it. Nonetheless, I want to ask you what,
Speaker 2: what for what reason did you feel that you needed
Speaker 2: a revenge season.
Speaker 6: A lot of people doubted me last year, bro, Like
Speaker 6: you said, I was going through a lot of injuries,
Speaker 6: broken jaw, a lot of family stuff that I was
Speaker 6: dealing with. But I mean, most importantly, the jaw was
Speaker 6: detrimental to me, to be honest. I mean, I lost
Speaker 6: fifteen pounds. I'm eating out of a straw. I'm trying
Speaker 6: to literally just blend anything up I can find in
Speaker 6: the house just to try to get some nutrients in
Speaker 6: my body.
Speaker 10: And I mean that's what it was, bro.
Speaker 6: Like, I'm in the second round of playoffs playing against
Speaker 6: the Boston Celsius I won the finals. I'm down fifteen
Speaker 6: pounds in that little since high school. So I'm playing
Speaker 6: at the highest level and the most intense basketball in
Speaker 6: my career and I'm not even fully healthy.
Speaker 10: Like I'm just going out there. I just really rushed it.
Speaker 6: Just trying to get back out there with the guys
Speaker 6: and play the game that I love for real. So yeah,
Speaker 6: this is I knew coming to that summer. The next summer,
Speaker 6: like I really had to really lock in on my body,
Speaker 6: really lock in in the gym, and that was my
Speaker 6: whole mindset, Like I'm coming to get what I deserve
Speaker 6: and what I had, Like, I want all that back.
Speaker 6: I want the All Stars back. I want to get
Speaker 6: back to the Eastern Conference finals that we really want
Speaker 6: to get to.
Speaker 10: I want to get back. I was saying, have like
Speaker 10: a like a good little jump start for it, you know.
Speaker 6: So I mean that was that was just like a
Speaker 6: big thing for me last year and going into that
Speaker 6: summer was just it's my time to get what I deserve.
Speaker 6: And I mean I just had that confidence send me
Speaker 6: every sense the injury, just to go in and have
Speaker 6: that mindset like let's go get it.
Speaker 4: I see a different look at different fire, different confidence,
Speaker 4: and a different poise.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I also read that you got a list.
Speaker 4: I love the fact that you got a list. You
Speaker 4: feel me you have to have a list when.
Speaker 3: You're a PG.
Speaker 4: Can you talk about this list and if you want
Speaker 4: to give me like three or four names off the list.
Speaker 4: I heard you check sawm a. You know, I'm just
Speaker 4: here as a witness, you know, to say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: The list was just I mean, you know, y'all know
Speaker 6: this this league is really hard guard heavy. So it's
Speaker 6: a lot of great guards in this league. And I
Speaker 6: want to be mentioned as one of the top guards
Speaker 6: in this league because I really feel like I'm one
Speaker 6: of those guys. And I mean, just this summer, I'm
Speaker 6: just thinking about all the guards that I had to
Speaker 6: go through to get back to this All Star level
Speaker 6: and even get an All Star node. And it's a
Speaker 6: couple of people on the list that I got it
Speaker 6: this year so far. Uh we forty games in, we
Speaker 6: got a whole nother second part of the season. But
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna take no names though, b D. I'm sorry, Broyes.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can guess, Yeah, I can guess.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I just want to play with that confidence.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 6: It's not about like just knocking nobody off or anything
Speaker 6: like that, but I want to be seeing that's one
Speaker 6: of the best guards in this league. And that's been
Speaker 6: my mission. That's been my goals since I was a younger.
Speaker 6: I wanted best to to play at this position. So yeah,
Speaker 6: just having that confidence in me, Bro, going out there
Speaker 6: and playing with confidence and having that swagger that I've
Speaker 6: always had, and having the trust in my teammates and
Speaker 6: my coaching staff that I can go out there and
Speaker 6: do it on a nightly basis.
Speaker 3: But that list is like a chip, Yeah you got
Speaker 3: you put some chips on your shoulders for me.
Speaker 4: I remember it was Steve Nash, Tony Parker, Chauncey Billis
Speaker 4: because each one was like a different level.
Speaker 3: You know. It's almost like a video game. And I
Speaker 3: want to go to and oh against him four and
Speaker 3: oh against him. You know. I like that you got
Speaker 3: them chips.
Speaker 4: When you put them names, you know, on the board,
Speaker 4: it's like you really got you really got a issue.
Speaker 3: Right. It's not friendly basketball no more. What other point
Speaker 3: goes exactly, And.
Speaker 10: That's that competition level.
Speaker 6: Man, just having to chip on my shoulder and just
Speaker 6: going out there and competing at a high level, especially
Speaker 6: against those guards. But on a nightly basis, it is
Speaker 6: always a different guard that's gonna give you something different
Speaker 6: every night. So I mean you still got to go
Speaker 6: out them, go at them the same way you're going
Speaker 6: at the guys that you got on your list.
Speaker 10: So it's on a night to light basis.
Speaker 6: Every every guard in this league is really good at
Speaker 6: something that they do, and I'm just trying to go
Speaker 6: at them and tack them as much as I can.
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Speaker 2: You spoke about eating out of a straw word on
Speaker 2: the streets that you start to step into your grown
Speaker 2: man weight now like you to put on twenty five pounds, Like,
Speaker 2: do you feel the difference in the weight helping you,
Speaker 2: like getting in that weight room getting stronger? Are you
Speaker 2: f feeling that difference because I think that probably is
Speaker 2: a part in the confidence as well.
Speaker 10: Not for sure, that's definitely part of the confidence.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I've been in the weight room consistently this year, which
Speaker 10: is totally different.
Speaker 6: This like my first year actually being in there consistently,
Speaker 6: and then the weight that I put on that helped tremendously.
Speaker 10: So I'm just trying to keep that weight on.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm getting somebody.
Speaker 6: It's a little bit bumping a little bit and my
Speaker 6: chest a little bit more on the defensive bands. So
Speaker 6: I could definitely tell a difference just getting through screens
Speaker 6: actually like making the first blow instead of taking it first,
Speaker 6: you know, keep me off my heels. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: getting a little bit more physical in the trenches.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I see in your defensive mentality that you're stronger like
Speaker 2: you're You're looking to guard more than I've ever seen
Speaker 2: you look to guard, and it's like on a possession
Speaker 2: of possession basis. At times, it's you turning around everybody like,
Speaker 2: hey man, we need to get a stop, and you
Speaker 2: sitting down.
Speaker 1: And the what that brings to a team.
Speaker 2: For a point guard to be doing that like yourself,
Speaker 2: it gives you your guys behind a whole another set
Speaker 2: of confidence. But even but not even the confidence, it
Speaker 2: gives them a whole nother sense of responsibility. And you know,
Speaker 2: for y'all to have a Jared Allen and an Evin Mobley,
Speaker 2: you know, who are two defensive stars in their own right,
Speaker 2: but to see our point guard turn around and give
Speaker 2: us that sense of responsibility, that's a totally different thing.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, and I see that, and
Speaker 2: I think that is due to you putting that weight on,
Speaker 2: and it's like, no, I can. I can take the bump,
Speaker 2: you know, and still be there. And that comes with
Speaker 2: a different bravado.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like me just turning around talking to them like
Speaker 6: I'm the head of the snake, like I'm the person
Speaker 6: on the ball, So I gotta be the one that's
Speaker 6: that's sitting down pulling on my shorts and try to
Speaker 6: try not let him get in our paint even though
Speaker 6: we do seven for this down there. That's all defensive
Speaker 6: caliber type of guys, which helps a lot for sure.
Speaker 6: Just being in the weight room, Bro, I'm actually taking
Speaker 6: a lot more challenges. And I owe that to Kenny
Speaker 6: Kenny Akinson man, He's he let me know you're gonna
Speaker 6: guard this year.
Speaker 10: Like we switching one through three, one through four.
Speaker 6: You go out to guard bigger guys, And that's motivated
Speaker 6: me a little bit more to get and more in
Speaker 6: the rate room so I can guard small fowards that's
Speaker 6: trying to post me up and how to back me
Speaker 6: down like they did in my earlier years.
Speaker 10: So yes, like you, like BD says, it's a chip
Speaker 10: on my shoulder.
Speaker 6: Bro, I'm trying to let nobody just score on me
Speaker 6: whenever they can or just blow by me, and trying
Speaker 6: to try other bas so he can get in rotations
Speaker 6: and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: So yeah, just trying to put my shorts up and
Speaker 10: move my puppies.
Speaker 1: A little bit more, park.
Speaker 4: Man, You and Donovan Minta, y'all look great this year,
Speaker 4: uh together after three seasons, you know, it looked like
Speaker 4: y'all finally finding y'all groove.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: I remember playing with David Wesley, you know, and when
Speaker 4: you uh, you know, it's like almost similar size backcourt, right,
Speaker 4: it take you a little bit of time to figure out, like, Okay,
Speaker 4: he's he a point guard to you said, having a
Speaker 4: ball in his hand. You know, I'm a point guard.
Speaker 4: This is what I really want to do. Like when
Speaker 4: did y'all really like what was.
Speaker 3: It a player?
Speaker 4: Or when did y'all feel really feel like y'all was
Speaker 4: locked in, you know, as teammates, And when did you
Speaker 4: feel like, Okay, I'm the point guard.
Speaker 3: You the two But I understand you know how you flowing.
Speaker 10: To be completely honest, bro, I'm gonna really say this summer.
Speaker 6: Really really got locked in knowing what we really want
Speaker 6: to do with what we want to accomplish. He knew
Speaker 6: that I was pretty upset about last year and not
Speaker 6: having the performance that I wanted and what he wanted,
Speaker 6: and as like a team perspective, Yeah, we just sat down.
Speaker 1: And talked and.
Speaker 6: We just really explained to each other, like, this is
Speaker 6: what we're gonna have to do to win, this is
Speaker 6: what we're gonna have to do to get to the
Speaker 6: Eastern Conference finals and to the finals. And yeah, it
Speaker 6: was like a grown man conversation. It's really sat down
Speaker 6: and just unfolded everything. That's like probably like the first
Speaker 6: row man conversation I had in the league so far. Wow,
Speaker 6: it was like, Yeah, it was like a lot of
Speaker 6: release off my shoulders, and I know it was a
Speaker 6: lot of release off his as well, because I know
Speaker 6: that Tannem can work perfectly. He's a scoring guard and I.
Speaker 10: Like to play mate.
Speaker 6: And then coming to this year, he's used to average
Speaker 6: thirty and high twenties, but now this year his minutes
Speaker 6: start down low and he's not averaging twenty five. He's
Speaker 6: assuring like twenty three, twenty four, And we did a
Speaker 6: number one team in the league, right, like he just
Speaker 6: realized what the talent that he had around him, and
Speaker 6: he's just letting me facilitate, and he's just playing off
Speaker 6: me a lot more as well. Just trying to get
Speaker 6: him open shots and open list because everybody's going to
Speaker 6: hand him on the office event because he's Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 6: Righting a VP candidate, So just trying to get him
Speaker 6: some easy ones, get him going, and when we need
Speaker 6: stretch to make some tough shots, that's when you can
Speaker 6: go go be Spider to everybody else knows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4: I feel like that grown man conversation you can see
Speaker 4: because that's how y'all operating in the back court like
Speaker 4: grown professionals.
Speaker 13: You got taken care of each other, and you know,
Speaker 13: sometimes it's not even communication, it's the numb and you
Speaker 13: can tell he'll play make for you to get you
Speaker 13: going right at the same time you're doing the same
Speaker 13: thing for him, you know, and you can see the maturity.
Speaker 4: I just like the fact that you know, that's your
Speaker 4: first grown man conversation and it's with your back court man.
Speaker 10: It definitely took us over the top of what I believe.
Speaker 6: Because that was my thing, like my first All Star
Speaker 6: year at Laurie Market and Jared Allen Evan mob as
Speaker 6: a rookie Isaaca Corro, like I thought I had to
Speaker 6: do it all by myself.
Speaker 10: He felt the same youtubh before he came over here.
Speaker 6: So it's like, now we got a dynamic duo with
Speaker 6: these two cent footage down here that can move their
Speaker 6: feet on the defensive end, block shots and then catch
Speaker 6: lots break screens on the offensive end. So let's figure
Speaker 6: this thing out. Then we bring Max Strews, George Me
Speaker 6: and God talk big top hooping here, Like you know,
Speaker 6: we got we got a lot more pieces now, so
Speaker 6: we don't have to do as much on the ball.
Speaker 6: We can get off the ball a little bit more
Speaker 6: and they can go make a play for themselves. So
Speaker 6: I mean, it was it was a perfect dynamic for sure.
Speaker 2: As we're taping this, y'all are currently thirty four six,
Speaker 2: and I must say, before a couple of days ago,
Speaker 2: I thought, yall, I was getting a little worry y'all
Speaker 2: was getting a little too close to being on pace
Speaker 2: to break to seventy three.
Speaker 1: So you know, lose a couple of games, but.
Speaker 2: Lo now the last team to have for All Stars,
Speaker 2: though Comet the same team in the one season was
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen gold to State Warriors. Why do you
Speaker 2: think the Cavs should have four All Stars this season?
Speaker 2: And by the way, before you answer, I'll say, I
Speaker 2: think y'all should have four All Stars this season.
Speaker 6: Number one, the league, best record in the league, four
Speaker 6: guys playing probably the best in the career, all Star
Speaker 6: level at an All Star level, and all guys played
Speaker 6: thirty nine forty games so far. You know, that's I
Speaker 6: think that's going to be something that actually means something.
Speaker 6: By playing games this year, especially the new rules for
Speaker 6: the All Stars, everybody's playing at a high level. Bro
Speaker 6: guys at an MVP caliber level. Mostle he's breaking the
Speaker 6: threshold and showing the world that he's one of those guys.
Speaker 6: And Jared Allen he's showing that he's one of the
Speaker 6: best centers in the league and playing every game at
Speaker 6: a high level, and both fans of the floor. So,
Speaker 6: I mean, I think it's pretty simple that we should
Speaker 6: have four in the game.
Speaker 10: But you know that's not up to me.
Speaker 1: That's set up.
Speaker 6: That's up to the guys that's doing the votes and
Speaker 6: the coaches and people like that. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 6: it's it's definitely four for sure, and kidny acac coaching
Speaker 6: that you saw.
Speaker 10: And I'm a stamp it. I'm a stamp it.
Speaker 1: Listen, I respect it.
Speaker 2: I think I think all for you when I look
Speaker 2: at so when you take a step back and you
Speaker 2: look at how things have gone in the past when
Speaker 2: talking All Star voting, the reality is.
Speaker 1: Most guys that becomes an All Star usually gets snubbed.
Speaker 2: And so if you think about it from that perspect
Speaker 2: I'm sorry Evan Mobley, but you have to be the
Speaker 2: one that get snubbed because you've never been snubbed before, right, Like,
Speaker 2: that's just it used to be a rite of passage
Speaker 2: if you was going to become an All Star, unless
Speaker 2: you was Lebron or somebody becoming an All Star year one,
Speaker 2: year two, you had to get snubbed first. Now I
Speaker 2: don't necessarily think the way things used to be in
Speaker 2: the NBA there are that way anymore. But for me,
Speaker 2: I have a hard time figuring out of the four guys,
Speaker 2: which one of them shouldn't be an All Star. And
Speaker 2: the answer is none of them, Like all of y'all
Speaker 2: should be an All Star. But say they take three,
Speaker 2: if they take three, then it just has to be Evan,
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry because he's playing some of the best basketball.
Speaker 2: He is playing the best basketball he's ever played in
Speaker 2: the NBA. But he's playing some of the best basketball
Speaker 2: of any power of power forwards in the NBA, and
Speaker 2: it sucks that it would have to be him. But
Speaker 2: You've been an All Star, Don's been an All Star,
Speaker 2: and if I'm not mistaken, Jared Allen, I think he's
Speaker 2: been an All Star.
Speaker 1: Twice, but has he been twice?
Speaker 3: He's a snub Yeah, he was snubbed down for sure.
Speaker 2: But to my point, he's been snubbed already, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, So it's not right for him to
Speaker 2: necessarily get snubbed again. And so just in looking at
Speaker 2: it through that lens, like, it definitely has to be you, Donovan,
Speaker 2: and Jared, and there should be four because I think
Speaker 2: Evan's definitely playing at an All Star level. But if
Speaker 2: there has to be three, it's unfortunately it has to
Speaker 2: be him because he just hasn't been snubbed yet.
Speaker 1: That's kind of that. That's how I look at it.
Speaker 1: What about you, Bed, I like, for I.
Speaker 4: Think the record they have, the way they've been playing,
Speaker 4: the type of basketball they've been playing, the consistency of
Speaker 4: the stars. When I look at the East, I don't
Speaker 4: see why not there is not a strong case right
Speaker 4: outside of the You know, there's a lot of guards
Speaker 4: in the East, but you know, you and Donovan and
Speaker 4: right now when you look at the Eastern Conference, big
Speaker 4: guys like Evin Mobley, Jared Ally, Johannest a couple other
Speaker 4: people like, I'm not sure if it be made, you know,
Speaker 4: like andmb it ain't even play this year.
Speaker 3: Does he make it right?
Speaker 1: So like, so.
Speaker 4: As I'm looking at it, I'm like, number one record,
Speaker 4: big guys are playing well. You know, you have top
Speaker 4: ten big guys at both positions, top ten guards at
Speaker 4: both positions.
Speaker 3: You know you number one in the East.
Speaker 4: This is the time that the league should take for
Speaker 4: This is the time y'all should be on Slam magazine.
Speaker 3: This is the time that you know. I like it
Speaker 3: because I like the hype.
Speaker 4: I like for y'all to get y'all shine, And I
Speaker 4: also want to see y'all get youall flowers and beat
Speaker 4: the dogs, like let's get the competition going, you know,
Speaker 4: I want to see what Boston feel like after All
Speaker 4: Star weekend, Right, it's just for me, you know, as
Speaker 4: a fan raises the end. But it's also rewarding you
Speaker 4: all for the type of season that you haven't and
Speaker 4: you just you a buzz saw, You just you buz
Speaker 4: saw and everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do I feel about the All Star votes?
Speaker 10: Is it a popularity contest?
Speaker 1: It is a.
Speaker 2: Popularity for sure. I'm gonna tell you how. You know
Speaker 2: it's a popularity contest. Be He's just said Joel may
Speaker 2: be an All Star. Joys played two games this year,
Speaker 2: So you know it's a popularity right, because that's the
Speaker 2: way it's been a condition.
Speaker 1: It's one thousand percent of popularity contest.
Speaker 2: But if I'm honest, there ain't much popularity doing anything
Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference, right, Like, so when you look
Speaker 2: across the East, you got from Boston, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: j T and jb right from the Knicks, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have Kat and Jalen.
Speaker 1: From Milwaukee, you're gonna have Dane and Jannis.
Speaker 2: Orlando would have had one or two guys early in
Speaker 2: the season, they've been hurt the rest of the year.
Speaker 9: Atlanto get Trey Young, in Detroit to get Ka, then
Speaker 9: Miami maybe here maybe, but like after that and then Charlotte,
Speaker 9: Charlotte will get.
Speaker 1: LaMelo in.
Speaker 2: So when you look at the guards, you got LaMelo,
Speaker 2: you got Donovan, got Jaylen Brunston, you got DG. You
Speaker 2: got Dane. That's five guards. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And k Cunningham that's six guards. All right, Now you
Speaker 2: got Jannis, you got JT. You out Evan, Jared Allen,
Speaker 2: Jaylen Brown and.
Speaker 1: Cat. That's your twelve wall Stars.
Speaker 2: That's eleven. That's that's six guards. That's six six bigs.
Speaker 2: That's your twelve all stars. And I don't see how
Speaker 2: that could play out any differently than that like to
Speaker 2: be because here's the thing. Some people try to make
Speaker 2: the argument and say Derek White, right, which Derek White's
Speaker 2: balling is after twenty points. But if you're gonna say
Speaker 2: they get three in, y'all are six games ahead of
Speaker 2: them in the Eastern Conference with forty games in, you're
Speaker 2: six games ahead. And so you can't say both of
Speaker 2: y'all get three in. Y'all six games ahead. And I
Speaker 2: think that gives y'all to note like I think there
Speaker 2: should be four guys. But it's definitely a popularity contest.
Speaker 2: And I think there's not much like at some point
Speaker 2: with this All Star stuff and with the voting stuff
Speaker 2: in general, they gotta get it figured out, man like,
Speaker 2: because it's just it's just all over the place. It's
Speaker 2: too many opinions that don't really have a real opinion.
Speaker 2: But they got to say it's it's just it's too
Speaker 2: all over the place for me, if I'm honest about it.
Speaker 4: And then and then when you look at the coaches,
Speaker 4: you know, I would say I got stuff probably twice
Speaker 4: because the coaches hated me because I was, you know,
Speaker 4: because if you're killing the coaches, they not going to
Speaker 4: vote with somebody who really killing them, right. Uh So
Speaker 4: it's a it's all a campaign thing. I used to
Speaker 4: look at it like, man, if I don't make it,
Speaker 4: then now on my list, you know, now on my
Speaker 4: list coming up. And I always wanted to prove myself
Speaker 4: I guess the best, but I start I stopped kind
Speaker 4: of relying on that and more so start looking at, Okay,
Speaker 4: what does my numbers look like against whoever they think.
Speaker 3: Are the top dog.
Speaker 2: I think y'all get four and I just don't plays
Speaker 2: out any other way. And you're definitely an All star. H.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's how we move you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: all the Star.
Speaker 4: Vote right now, you right now you uh you and guards,
Speaker 4: so you know, and that's that's just that's just a
Speaker 4: fan vote. But you know, you leading this team man
Speaker 4: as the point guard and and and and taking taking
Speaker 4: the role as that that PG for this unit. I
Speaker 4: definitely see you in as an All Star this year.
Speaker 4: And you know, as we're talking, you're coming off one
Speaker 4: of the worst or one of the toughest losses of
Speaker 4: the season. And okay, see Thunder who also been balling
Speaker 4: in the West. When you lose, was a game like
Speaker 4: that in that type of fashion, how do you bounce back?
Speaker 4: Like what do you say that as a team, how
Speaker 4: do you'all bounce back from that?
Speaker 6: You play Minnesota tomorrow? That part, yeah, I was just
Speaker 6: watching him play the Knicks h super tough, super long,
Speaker 6: defensively gotten to kill Alexander and seeing mcdames out there
Speaker 6: at six seven sixty six.
Speaker 10: You know, you got Rudy.
Speaker 6: And man just a dog, you know on an offensive end,
Speaker 6: and uh, Julius Rendall just playing his part. So I
Speaker 6: mean it was it was an old fashioned built ass.
Speaker 6: I mean that's what it was on national television. So yeah,
Speaker 6: we watched that film and try to figure some things
Speaker 6: out on the defensive end, trying to stop Shade, which
Speaker 6: is pretty tough to do. But it's just eighty two
Speaker 6: game season, man, So I look forward to the next game.
Speaker 6: We got another tough oppony coming out the West in Minnesota,
Speaker 6: so let's getting ready for that one.
Speaker 10: Let's me they on our list.
Speaker 1: Brother.
Speaker 2: What I'll tell you is this, y'all just had a
Speaker 2: tough loss to the second to the team with the
Speaker 2: second best record in the NBA. The year we won
Speaker 2: seventy three games, we lost to the Lakers, who won
Speaker 2: seventeen games all year twice by twenty five happen, and
Speaker 2: people will try to point to that loss and be like,
Speaker 2: y'all because we live in this twenty four hour news cycle, right,
Speaker 2: so people try to point to the los as.
Speaker 1: Soon as y'all lose. Ah, man, they're not big enough,
Speaker 1: they're not strong enough.
Speaker 2: Look, we just showed y'all and a team that y'all
Speaker 2: just beat last week, right, Like, that's just the news
Speaker 2: cycle we live in.
Speaker 1: But y'all, y'all will be y'all will be just.
Speaker 6: Fine and then they start talking about trade talks immediately
Speaker 6: right after the loss.
Speaker 10: So I'm like, on the plane yet now I'll talk about.
Speaker 2: Thirty four and six, best record in the league by four,
Speaker 2: three or four games games.
Speaker 1: I had the next closest team in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: That's that's the world we live in, though, so get
Speaker 1: used to it.
Speaker 2: Enjoy it because as y'all sit at the top, which
Speaker 2: I don't see that changing, that's that's just what comes
Speaker 2: with it. And take it on the chain, keeping pushing.
Speaker 2: I call them all smart dummies. They're smart, they got
Speaker 2: they don't know. Kenny Atkinson was assistant coach for US
Speaker 2: for three years, one of one of my favorite guys.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: I remember Kenny was interviewing for the job and he
Speaker 2: called me and he was like, what do you think
Speaker 2: about this job? You know they got I think you know,
Speaker 2: they got Darius, they got Donovan, Like what are you thinking?
Speaker 2: And I was like, well, I think they got talent.
Speaker 2: You know, they have the pieces, but it hasn't worked.
Speaker 2: And he was so excited to get there to get
Speaker 2: the job number one, but then once he got it,
Speaker 2: or at the opportunity to get a job, and then
Speaker 2: once he got it and just seeing how he went
Speaker 2: to work.
Speaker 1: You know, I got to know him really well, and
Speaker 1: I love the way he have y'all moving the ball.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: When we played y'all the.
Speaker 2: First time, I felt like my net was like this,
Speaker 2: Like so I turned one time, somebody drove and I dropped,
Speaker 2: and I turned my head for a second.
Speaker 1: The ball flew by my head and I turned to
Speaker 1: go back to where I.
Speaker 2: Was, and you was way on the other side. I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: these dudes moving and moving this ball crazy. But what
Speaker 2: has it been like just having Canny come in? What
Speaker 2: would you say it is that he did initially? Because
Speaker 2: the season is this season, right, Like y'all got talent
Speaker 2: the offense, obviously, but what what was some of the
Speaker 2: things that Kenny did initially before you ever even had
Speaker 2: a practice like summertime.
Speaker 1: What was some of the things that he did to
Speaker 1: ultimately get y'all rolling to the way y'all are now.
Speaker 6: Man, just building that confidence and everybody, Like literally from
Speaker 6: day one he came to Nashville and see me just
Speaker 6: to sit down and talk to me. It was like,
Speaker 6: I need you to be that all star guard that
Speaker 6: she was. He told me straight up, like I need
Speaker 6: you to go go run a team and go do
Speaker 6: what you do. Go play with that confidence and that
Speaker 6: swiker that I've seen you with for the last three
Speaker 6: or four years before that. So I mean I took
Speaker 6: that and I just had that in the back of
Speaker 6: my head the entire summer, like I got to get
Speaker 6: to work and I gotta go be me. And he
Speaker 6: did the same thing to down. He did the same
Speaker 6: thing that Evan and Ja so and that's our core foward,
Speaker 6: that's that's really locked in with each other. And then
Speaker 6: as soon as he got the job, we went to
Speaker 6: training camp, you know, a couple of years ago with
Speaker 6: JB he had Evan and Ja and the and like
Speaker 6: the dunker a lot more. Now Evan's on the three
Speaker 6: point line and a lot more spacing in the trail position,
Speaker 6: and he's like Kenny saw a lot of things that
Speaker 6: Evan could do on the floor on the outside, like
Speaker 6: behind the perimeter, he can all he can make the
Speaker 6: right reads and uh, he's stretching the floor this year,
Speaker 6: shooting the three ball a lot more. So that's that
Speaker 6: little slight change chance our entire offense for us. Just
Speaker 6: a lot more spacing for me and Donna get downhill
Speaker 6: to create for others. And then Evan just having that
Speaker 6: confidence in himself and his his work. Just shooting a
Speaker 6: trade ball with confidence, and I think he's shooting at
Speaker 6: like a forty rate right now and it ain't on
Speaker 6: a three game either, right, just confidence him just to
Speaker 6: shoot the tray balls just so he keep the defense, honest.
Speaker 10: I mean it changed the world for us.
Speaker 2: Before Kenny coming to Nashville and having those conversations with you,
Speaker 2: did a part of you feel like you was possibly
Speaker 2: going to ultimately need to change the scenery. You know,
Speaker 2: it hadn't been quite going the way it has started
Speaker 2: going for you in Cleveland. You kind of not feeling
Speaker 2: like yourself before having that conversation and Kenny assuring you, like, no,
Speaker 2: this is the guard that I need. Did a part
Speaker 2: of you feel like, Man, maybe I need to change
Speaker 2: the scenery because that createps into all our minds. I've
Speaker 2: been here for thirteen years. I can't tell you the
Speaker 2: amount of times I've been like, man, maybe I do
Speaker 2: need to change the scenery. Like throughout the course of
Speaker 2: this journey.
Speaker 6: He crept in my mind a little bit, especially a
Speaker 6: couple of times over the summer. But I mean, it
Speaker 6: was really really my parents, Bro, They was like, just
Speaker 6: stick with it. You didn't have a great season last
Speaker 6: year with the injuries and stuff like that, and you
Speaker 6: and Don just now getting to really have a good
Speaker 6: feel for each other, Like, just just stay with it,
Speaker 6: just for another year.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 10: With Kenny coming in, I didn't I didn't know how
Speaker 10: it was gonna be. I didn't know how it was
Speaker 10: gonna work.
Speaker 6: But when we got to Sarasota in training camp, Bro,
Speaker 6: it was it was off and running after that, like
Speaker 6: everything was just flowing.
Speaker 10: Our connection is was pretty.
Speaker 6: Good at the time, but now it's it's really good.
Speaker 6: We can talk to each other off and on the floor.
Speaker 6: I get a lot of input from him, he get
Speaker 6: input from me and Don. So I mean it's it's
Speaker 6: like a work in tandem right now, Bro, in our relationship. Man,
Speaker 6: I remember even asking you a little bit dre about
Speaker 6: Kenny and how he was going to be, and I mean,
Speaker 6: that's that's my dog, Bro, To be honest with you, I.
Speaker 1: Told you you great coach. He know the game.
Speaker 2: And the one thing that I love, really loved about
Speaker 2: Kidney as a coach is he knows those analytics better
Speaker 2: than anyone but he's not an analytical nightmare, you know.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2: By analytical nightmare is he gonna tell you, hey, so
Speaker 2: know this about this number. He ain't throwing it in
Speaker 2: your face every day, like yo, these numbers say this.
Speaker 2: You need to and to understand the analytics like he does,
Speaker 2: but have the feel that he has. That's a dangerous combination.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: I had him in New York. He used to work
Speaker 4: me out. He was an assistant coach. He's sharp, he
Speaker 4: worked hardy efficient. He understand analytics, but he understand players.
Speaker 3: He liked players. He like he liked hooping.
Speaker 4: And anytime you find a coach that like hooping and
Speaker 4: like hoopers, then you give him the little, you know,
Speaker 4: analytics stuff. It makes it perfect for the point guard.
Speaker 4: I was going to ask you that with the relationship
Speaker 4: with the coach, Like how important is it for you
Speaker 4: as the point guard this year to have that relationship
Speaker 4: and that communication with a coach like Kenny.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's super important.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 6: Me and Kenny like we really like this right now,
Speaker 6: like no bs like my dog. We even talked about
Speaker 6: the OKC loss this morning. He came up to when
Speaker 6: I was getting recovery. He was like, we we didn't
Speaker 6: shoot it well, but they kicked our ass.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. That's here. Yeah. I just asked him.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's it.
Speaker 10: He was like, yeah, get ready for get ready for Minnesota.
Speaker 6: So you feel the same way how we feel like
Speaker 6: once in the next one, we got another, we got
Speaker 6: another game coming up.
Speaker 10: You're inassured and shoot rounds. Like He's on the floor
Speaker 10: with me.
Speaker 6: When I'm getting shots up, He's guarded me, trying to
Speaker 6: get over his screen. He going unders, giving me a
Speaker 6: hark like this this was gonna be like in game.
Speaker 6: And then when I'm done, he'd go over and take
Speaker 6: a ball, go on the sideline, start working on his
Speaker 6: hand doing so.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 10: Like man, I just alright, So it's super cool.
Speaker 6: Just have like an active coach like that, just always
Speaker 6: on the floor with us, always getting input from us,
Speaker 6: and then he can receive it and then we can
Speaker 6: receive it as well, and just that communication part.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 6: It really means a lot to me as a point
Speaker 6: guard to have like another point guard coach. I actually
Speaker 6: been through it, and she played the game. I actually know,
Speaker 6: and it actually been around great players. That's one of
Speaker 6: one of my favorite players to ever played the game.
Speaker 6: So I try to get like some little input from Kenny.
Speaker 6: How what was stuff doing? Like what can I do
Speaker 6: to help my game? How can I How can I
Speaker 6: get over this screen a little bit fast, get my
Speaker 6: feet down quicker to get into the shot.
Speaker 10: So it's getting like a little notes from him like that.
Speaker 10: It's it's super cool.
Speaker 1: I know y'all just saw me laugh now.
Speaker 2: I was laughing because a couple of years ago, Kenny
Speaker 2: with that same intensity, uh him and laying our video
Speaker 2: guy got to talking some ship and uh, you know
Speaker 2: Kenny like Kenny, check up, Kenny always check up, check
Speaker 2: rock always.
Speaker 1: First play towards quad, first play. He was pissed that ladd.
Speaker 1: He like, come on, let's go.
Speaker 2: Come on now, you want to come on, let's go
Speaker 2: first play towards Quad. That choir slowed him down before.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you before when Kenny first got here, before
Speaker 2: that quad, Kenny was like a machine. He worked out
Speaker 2: all day every day, right like all of that he
Speaker 2: tore that quad and that that choir slowed him down.
Speaker 1: That choad slowed him down for sure.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, it's chasing you over the screen all
Speaker 2: that like that was Kenny, like he got crazy energy
Speaker 2: and crazy shape. But and eat, sleep and breathe basketball.
Speaker 2: But that that Quaird slowed down like to now though.
Speaker 1: Bro he he in the gym he was.
Speaker 6: We was at Okay, see shoot a route. He on
Speaker 6: the stairs, hands up, running up the stairs, the ball
Speaker 6: handling drills.
Speaker 10: He was in a pool.
Speaker 4: He enjoyed and all that minute he said, I said,
Speaker 4: I'll be doing if I was stunting, I'll be doing.
Speaker 3: The same thing. But I'm playing. You know, I'm trying
Speaker 3: out for the Warriors next year. I'm going to train camp.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, me and d Me and Jay got a bed.
Speaker 3: I tell him I'm gonna make the team. Man, he
Speaker 3: keep he keep doubting me. I've been doing that ship too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's easy. It's easy.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean. I gotta come back to
Speaker 4: the league. Money, y'all gotta retire me. You know, I
Speaker 4: love y'all game. I'm just like, man, put me on
Speaker 4: the bench, let me come in guaris time. That one
Speaker 4: of the young young dudes trying to retire me. Hey,
Speaker 4: but I'm definitely making this court come back, he said,
Speaker 4: come had some braids. Man, I was going for you
Speaker 4: for the hang time. I was going like that, said, man,
Speaker 4: let me go, let me reverse to the clock and ship.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Jake, we hopped on DJ.
Speaker 4: We hopped on the zoom today. This man had this
Speaker 4: hood off.
Speaker 2: He had the bar oat mills going, he had the
Speaker 2: little dreads going.
Speaker 1: He had and it's not hopped on this zoon with
Speaker 1: a hood off. And he took his hood off.
Speaker 3: You can.
Speaker 1: On the zoom with the body.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: People was asked me, I went from here, someone's wrong.
Speaker 1: He like, go to the taper. That man went from here.
Speaker 4: To I ain't gonna I ain't gonna even known this time.
Speaker 4: I went, okay, take you know, take the bread, take
Speaker 4: the dress down. Let me get the best heavy curls.
Speaker 4: I looked at the curls. I said, you know what,
Speaker 4: let me get a cod biness. Let me give me
Speaker 4: a Draymond Green.
Speaker 3: So I go to get the Draymond Green to cole
Speaker 3: bidis you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4: And I look in the mirror and I said, oh,
Speaker 4: I go, oh right. So I FaceTime my kids and
Speaker 4: they get I'm not playing. I FaceTime my kids, bro,
Speaker 4: and they get on the fall and they said, oh,
Speaker 4: Stephen A Smith And they.
Speaker 7: Said I look and I said, damn, look the line.
Speaker 7: The hairline. The hairline was like he had line me up.
Speaker 7: I said, come on, bro, take my ship up.
Speaker 4: I'm hey, bro, my hairline was like this that she
Speaker 4: was clean, but that ship was he said, Now.
Speaker 2: I got cut it off. Bro, I'm just here to
Speaker 2: tell you that desperate, I'm here to tell you it
Speaker 2: wasn't clean. If your hairline was here, it wasn't clear.
Speaker 2: It was no way for it to be clean.
Speaker 3: No, I was a sick edge. She put a sick
Speaker 3: edge on it.
Speaker 4: Like imagine if you take three inches back and then
Speaker 4: that's your hair.
Speaker 3: Lord, I mean that's sick.
Speaker 1: Bro is crazy.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and that's what we are.
Speaker 9: Bro.
Speaker 4: Hey tell it before we get out of here. Tell
Speaker 4: us about Tenfold why you decided to start that series.
Speaker 10: A lot of people want to know, like the real DJ.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm just trying to give him a little input,
Speaker 6: but what we go through, what I go through on
Speaker 6: a daily day basis, and then like my number ten,
Speaker 6: you know, tenfold, I've been ten times greater than I
Speaker 6: was ten times I was the day before.
Speaker 10: You know, just play on the number ten just got
Speaker 10: a little insights on what I do on a day
Speaker 10: to day basis.
Speaker 4: Now, I love that because this first person as shall perspective, right,
Speaker 4: And you know, for fans and people who know your game,
Speaker 4: the more we get to know you, you know, the
Speaker 4: more we pour in and root for you.
Speaker 3: And you talked about how Chicago and Derrick Rose is
Speaker 3: one of your favorites growing up.
Speaker 4: You know, tell us about why he is one of
Speaker 4: your favorites, and like, what aspect of this game do
Speaker 4: you try to implement into yours.
Speaker 6: I'm a Gary Deanna kid, born and raised Gary Deanna
Speaker 6: by the way in Nashville. But yeah, that number one jersey.
Speaker 6: That was the first jersey I've had, and I was
Speaker 6: the only one I've had. I just got rid of
Speaker 6: it when I moved to my house in Cleveland. So
Speaker 6: probably like my second second year of the league, that's
Speaker 6: that's I got rid of the jersey.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: But then my rookie year, my first preseason game was
Speaker 6: against d Rose when he was in d I was like, man,
Speaker 6: this is insane.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: But just going to the United Center, brouh, just making
Speaker 6: that little drive to the city. That's my grandmother's favorite team.
Speaker 6: So we used to watch that going to over her house.
Speaker 6: We used to watch all the games growing up with
Speaker 6: Kirk Hyenry, Ben Gordon and all the other guys. But
Speaker 6: man d Rose just had the whole regional lot like
Speaker 6: from Indiana to Chicago, damn near the whole world, not
Speaker 6: even a lot.
Speaker 10: To but just his relentlessness, bro, he was just relentless,
Speaker 10: like by any means necessary.
Speaker 6: He couldn't shoot it as well, but just his handle,
Speaker 6: his quickness and just getting to the paint, shooting a floater,
Speaker 6: using using his athleticism which I don't have, wish I
Speaker 6: I wish I had, but nobody got his b Yeah.
Speaker 6: It was just just this was insane. He just brought
Speaker 6: so much excitement to the city. And then like as
Speaker 6: a young kid just watching him on a night and
Speaker 6: night basis, it was super cool to see the youngest
Speaker 6: MVP in the league. It just brought so much inspiration
Speaker 6: for us. Like we used to lower the gold so
Speaker 6: I can go dunk like d Rose.
Speaker 2: DG you have some bounds you have so can you
Speaker 2: still dunk? You have some bounce first? You still dun't
Speaker 2: you both.
Speaker 3: That I didn't you know this?
Speaker 10: NBA take your least knee surgery man and being old bro.
Speaker 10: My turn twenty five this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my goodness, his insurance about to go down, ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, his car insurance is about to go down.
Speaker 1: That's that's yeah.
Speaker 6: I did have bounce at high school and college, though
Speaker 6: I had a couple of bodies in my day, you know.
Speaker 10: But if I get to the floating down trying to
Speaker 10: save a couple of those bounces.
Speaker 2: By the way, for the for those of y'all that
Speaker 2: don't don't know it, don't understand, he said that short
Speaker 2: driving you probably like shorts ride from Nashville d G
Speaker 2: to PG is from scary Gary, Indiana for those of
Speaker 2: y'all don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, scary Gary the next great place to shoot a
Speaker 4: horror movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah got y'all got so many vacant buildings, all.
Speaker 10: Of churches and liquor stores and abandoned houses.
Speaker 1: I love the city though, absolutely. That's sagging off for you,
Speaker 1: sagging all the same way.
Speaker 3: Gary.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3: Shaging got cows in farms.
Speaker 2: You think Gary, Indiana don't the part of sagonof I'm
Speaker 2: from don't have farm.
Speaker 1: But if you drive far enough out you're gonna find
Speaker 1: a but not in Gary.
Speaker 2: Bro Yeah, it's no farm sitting in sagon Off. But
Speaker 2: you dry far enough, you gonna find a far better Believe.
Speaker 6: Without lights a Paraiso and Hammon, you might You're gonna
Speaker 6: catch a farm, for sure, he and Gary, though, no,
Speaker 6: you ain't find nothing.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Two more before we get out of here, I saw
Speaker 1: a firefire ask you are you going.
Speaker 2: To bring us a championship this year? And your response
Speaker 2: to him was we have enough, more than enough. Why
Speaker 2: do you feel like this is the year y'all can
Speaker 2: get over that hump and capture your first ring, Cleveland's
Speaker 2: first ring since twenty sixteen, and.
Speaker 1: You know, second ring all time. Man.
Speaker 6: Just the talent that we have. Our depth is insane.
Speaker 6: We can go nine ten deep, which a lot of
Speaker 6: teams really can't do.
Speaker 10: I think that's for another notch. And then our coaching
Speaker 10: staff is really good.
Speaker 6: Bro'll y'all hit on it earlier with ka Uh just
Speaker 6: being so intensed and being so detailed, and scouts and
Speaker 6: everybody around them that helps us really locked in on
Speaker 6: both sides of the ball and actually understand the game
Speaker 6: and actually been in some important games in their careers
Speaker 6: as well, so they know what it's like. And then
Speaker 6: back to our team, it's we've been in some of
Speaker 6: those games now too. We had a couple of playoff appearances,
Speaker 6: so we know what it's like. We know what the
Speaker 6: physicality is like, and we know what it's like in
Speaker 6: that last six minutes of a close game in the
Speaker 6: playoff series. We're gonna have to really take care of
Speaker 6: the ball and execute at a high level. They and
Speaker 6: to fit at a high level. And with those two
Speaker 6: big sound foots back there at the all defensive level,
Speaker 6: I think they can take us anywhere.
Speaker 10: With the competition and the spirit that we play with.
Speaker 1: Then we got a chance.
Speaker 6: Man, But another team and that Green is they hungry
Speaker 6: for another one as well, and USC in the West
Speaker 6: and in Minnesota over there as well.
Speaker 1: Go to stay y'all.
Speaker 6: Y'all never know sleepers with the talent. So it's gonna
Speaker 6: be tough, but I think we have a chance for sure.
Speaker 4: You know, I was gonna be a shifty guard. I
Speaker 4: always say I created the bot.
Speaker 3: Uh Me and Jay.
Speaker 4: We love a good list, you know, you being one
Speaker 4: of the shiftiest guards in the league. Right now, give
Speaker 4: us your top five shiftiest guards in the NBA right.
Speaker 1: Now, right now five shifters, the shifters.
Speaker 10: I ain't gonna lie b d I gotta, I gotta.
Speaker 10: I stole a couple moves from you too, though.
Speaker 3: Bro, come on, man, thank you like that?
Speaker 4: Hey, Dremond, I'll be sitting on the bench twenty five,
Speaker 4: twenty six.
Speaker 1: Your back, you're back when out walking around. It's over
Speaker 1: for you. It's over for you.
Speaker 4: I threw my back out soft dance, Hey, dj I
Speaker 4: was I was SA dance and that's how I really
Speaker 4: threw my back out.
Speaker 2: You know that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you feel me.
Speaker 1: D G.
Speaker 2: You threw us back out the day before kids were
Speaker 2: pop on that crip Walker threw us back out of there, Andy.
Speaker 5: Looking out ball, no matter how many crips.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. Oh man.
Speaker 2: Five, though I'm including myself, you can if you want
Speaker 2: your list of top five shifters.
Speaker 10: No order, no order, I'm gonna put me Kai o
Speaker 10: h shay, I'm gonna put Trey in there.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: The last one I got too.
Speaker 3: He ain't gonna car I already know he ain't gonna call.
Speaker 10: I don't know where that fifth could be.
Speaker 1: Bro ain't good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, mm hmmm, Well mellow Fleet.
Speaker 6: Okay, I guess yeah, Fred got a lot of snatches.
Speaker 6: I don't know Mellow, Mellow Pack, Jordan Poole.
Speaker 4: I might go with Pool, Jalen Brs do you think
Speaker 4: do you consider Jalen Bruston shifty or crafty?
Speaker 1: I like George Jordan Pool. I like that on the
Speaker 1: shifty list, George Pool shifty as hell.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna beat Shae Trey and JP go Pool.
Speaker 1: That's a good list. I like that.
Speaker 3: We'll be on that list next year for sure.
Speaker 2: Hey man, it's oversea, and that's why we got to
Speaker 2: get out of here, because this went ball. And think
Speaker 2: he back in Charlotte with the number one jersey. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry to tell you Mellow took the jersey. He took
Speaker 2: to Jersey.
Speaker 3: Playing for the Warriors.
Speaker 2: All right now he won't now now he want us
Speaker 2: to be struggling more than we already are.
Speaker 3: This is crazy, Lak. The Lakers signed that dude to
Speaker 3: attend that he was fifty six years old. Remember that.
Speaker 5: I got a chance.
Speaker 1: They was looking out for brother. Ain't nobody looking out
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 3: It is over I get on sorry because of you.
Speaker 3: You got me, big brother.
Speaker 1: You gotta go sit down somewhere.
Speaker 2: We're gonna keep doing this, and sooner or later I'm
Speaker 2: gonna join you sit down somewhere too.
Speaker 1: But it's over.
Speaker 3: I'll be on the TAM next year.
Speaker 1: DJ, we're not listening to this, No, Hey, DZ, we
Speaker 1: we appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing you out here at All Star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a I'm A. I'm a definitely throw me
Speaker 2: a banger at All Star. So I'm gonna make sure
Speaker 2: you got your section for DG to PG the All Star.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a good time. But keep hooping, bro,
Speaker 2: Keep keep staying in that weight room.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: The weight room is the key to success. Bro.
Speaker 2: We don't understand that. As basketball players, we don't understand that.
Speaker 2: You know how important that weightroom is. But the sooner
Speaker 2: you get it figured out, the more longevity you'll have,
Speaker 2: the better you'll play, the less injuries from a day
Speaker 2: to day basis you have. Like obviously, longevity is one thing,
Speaker 2: but just from a day to day basis, Bro, when
Speaker 2: you're lifted the knicks and knacks, they don't happen as much.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And so stay in that weightroom, bro, keep doing what
Speaker 2: you're doing and this is your second of the next
Speaker 2: non All Star appearances, So congratulations, my dog.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you coming on the shelf.
Speaker 10: It means a lot.
Speaker 1: Absolutely love bro. That's a rab y'all pleads.
Speaker 6: The volume
Speaker 2: Mmahm.