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Speaker 1: Ball and Bryan Mott and I is my guest. We've

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Speaker 1: been friends since nineteen nineties seven, when we both transferred

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Speaker 1: into Oaklahoma State. You've heard us before talking about Eddy

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Speaker 1: Sutton stories. So in getting you ready for Game six

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Speaker 1: and talking a little NBA draft and giving you some

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Speaker 1: rising freshmen in the country, I thought we'd ask him

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Speaker 1: about it. So take listen to our conversation. Okay, what

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Speaker 1: do you think of this series before it started? All right,

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Speaker 1: Celtics and the Warriors? Before it started, what do you think? Man,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be. I thought i'd be

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Speaker 1: I think Marcus Smart does a heck of a job

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Speaker 1: be a really good matchup for the Celtics defensively. So

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Speaker 1: I figured that the Warriors would struggle a little bit,

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Speaker 1: been a little back and forth the last few games,

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Speaker 1: but the Warriors have been playing extremely well. You know,

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Speaker 1: Steph in Game four had a phenomenal, phenomenal game, and

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Speaker 1: then Game five with Wiggins, you know, doing what he did,

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Speaker 1: I think kind of put the Warriors over the top

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Speaker 1: a little bit. You know. It's interesting. Wig was really good,

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Speaker 1: to stop stop staff Seth. I mean I think about that,

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Speaker 1: and I mean it worked now, you know. Wig became

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Speaker 1: Like there's no kind of commitment to like cut off

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Speaker 1: the head of the snake. He does everything. I totally agree, man,

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Speaker 1: but I figured they had to do something different after

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Speaker 1: Game four, you know, and he's been playing phenomenal this series, man.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's been he's been by far head and

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Speaker 1: shoulders better than what I thought, or what I anticipated

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Speaker 1: You know, Marcus has done a really good job with him,

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Speaker 1: but game four you couldn't guard him the same way

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Speaker 1: you were gonna guard him in game Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 1: in game five, you're not gonna guard him the same

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Speaker 1: You want to get fired the correct and so so

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Speaker 1: for him. That's why I kind of anticipated one of

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Speaker 1: the you know, and Clay, the guys have been solid,

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Speaker 1: but they just haven't had a breakout game, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean Clay Clay is is you know, he's been

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Speaker 1: Wiggins hasn't had that breakout game. But the way they

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Speaker 1: Game four, you know, step Steph was getting open looks, man,

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Speaker 1: I would be like, man, it would be hard for

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Speaker 1: based off of the way the series has gone so

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Speaker 1: So I mean this one's a hard one because on

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Speaker 1: I want to see Game seven, man, I want to

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Speaker 1: I mean, who wouldn't want to have a Game seven?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it. I think it's it would

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Speaker 1: be a lot of drama involved. Yeah, the game seven

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Speaker 1: Father's Day. He got the idea of the Warriors trying

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Speaker 1: not that I don't like Tatum. I liked Tatum, but

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Speaker 1: I've never been just in love. It's weird because I mean,

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Speaker 1: but but still, I mean, he wasn't Statistically, he wasn't terrible.

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Speaker 1: because he's at his athletic peak, you know, right right?

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Speaker 1: Is this speak like you said, is that is it a?

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Speaker 1: kind of learned, you go through the They're playing the Warriors, right, right,

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Speaker 1: The Warriors have been there, you know, staff Clay Draymond,

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Speaker 1: that's got to He's got to play phenomenal tomorrow night

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Speaker 1: how is that? That's the weirdest kind of phenomenon. Ever,

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Speaker 1: it's not because I've you know, we saw with the

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to make the comeback. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a weird I guess in the regular

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Speaker 1: hasn't been buzzer beaters, haven't been overtime games. You know,

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Speaker 1: they already got overtime. Like, man, that's kind of fun. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's okay, Let's let's go to NBA draft. Are you

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Speaker 1: reason I like him is he's he's very skilled. I

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Speaker 1: is he gonna look like in five years? You know,

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Speaker 1: he adds twenty pounds of muscle and he's not getting

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Speaker 1: pushed around. He's a matchup nightmare. So to answer a question,

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Speaker 1: We had a tennis ball, so we would play. And

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00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: I mean I'm talking like it. I mean it was

425
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: a tight area. The driveway was really small. It was

426
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: like ten ft ten feet wide by maybe fifteen feet

427
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,360
Speaker 1: in depth. And we would play three on three out

428
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: there and just shooting hoop and everything else. I mean,

429
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: that's that's where it started. Man. And then as I

430
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: got older, there was a park it was called Parslow

431
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: Park where where you'd go out man, and I'd walk

432
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: to the park, dribble my basketball, get out there, and

433
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 1: then in the summertime, growing man would come out and

434
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: start playing about three four o'clock and they would play

435
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: all night. Man, they would sit there till ten eleven

436
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 1: o'clock at night and play. So that was my first,

437
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, when I fell in love with with hoop

438
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 1: and was going to the park and and just just

439
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: playing with these grown men man. I mean, and you

440
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: know the chain, the chain that. You know, it wasn't nets.

441
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: It was chain linked nets. That's a net. It's a net.

442
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: It's just not a cloth net. Yeah. But you know

443
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: in the double rims, the double rims, double rims, the

444
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 1: worst who invented double rims? Oh? Yeah, so so but

445
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: it was just hooping man with grown men. Man. I mean,

446
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like where you where you you

447
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: learn how to play man? Oh, you learned about a

448
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: bench of things. So so mine was we used to well,

449
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: there's two places. One there's racquetball World. My daddy's played raquetball.

450
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 1: I go up there. He'd get me in a game.

451
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: And all you had to do that racketball World was

452
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: you had to be like I don't want to say,

453
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: you had to be thirteen. And I started going, I

454
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: was twelve. Whatever. You put your name on the board,

455
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: they'd call it up, and so we got like are

456
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: you thirteen? Like, yeah, I'm thirteen. But that was super

457
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: late bloomed anyway, and it was four on four sideways

458
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: and you know you're planning just old men that just

459
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: can barely move. They was trying to get exercise. But

460
00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: that was good, I mean, because they were you know,

461
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: you had to deal with their size whatever. Then he

462
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: had to make shots or make plays in order to

463
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: kind of feel like you're earn people's respect that you

464
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: weren't just out there. And then we go to Miles

465
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: Square Park on Saturday morning at seven am. So he

466
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: would get me up at like six thirty. And I

467
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: don't remember like I remember him getting me up. Just

468
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: I would go and get in the car and we'd

469
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: go to the park and he would basically call game

470
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: for me and then help me pick up a team,

471
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: and then you know, stayed us playing and I usually

472
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: if he won the first game, then he would just

473
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: take off and if I lost the next. If I lost,

474
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: then he would help me call game and then maybe

475
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: he'd stay around for like fifteen more minutes. And then

476
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: he was at I'll see you later, and he give

477
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: me five bucks, and I just when I was hungry,

478
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 1: I would go across the street. I get you know,

479
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: he speedsa in some a gatorade and then or a

480
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: coke or something, and then I'd come back and I play,

481
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: and then eventually he'd show up. That was it. That

482
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: was my I loved every second of it. It was

483
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: how cool was it? Thole? Like back back when we

484
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: were coming up, Like you would literally go to the

485
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: park and hoop all day long. Yes, like all day long.

486
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: I remember going. I remember when I played in junior

487
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,479
Speaker 1: college out at Fullerton, Man, we would go to Newport

488
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: Beach or go to Venice. We would do it. Yeah,

489
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: we would go down there and sit there right and

490
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: you may wait an hour to get on the court,

491
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: and if you lost, you might wait two hours to

492
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: get back on the court. That's just how many people

493
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: were down there hooping. Man. So it was like I

494
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: remember being at Venice one day and we won like

495
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: three or four games in a row, Man, and it

496
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: was it's just it's just a different vibe. But you

497
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: spent all day at the park just hooping. Yeah, I

498
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: mean I fitness for that, because you know, they have

499
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 1: gyms in like all their other spots now. So yeah,

500
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: but you drive it's like it's like here in Oklahoma, Man,

501
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,199
Speaker 1: when it's not three hundred degrees outside, you drive by

502
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: a park, Man, there's no one out there hooping. You know,

503
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: a long time ago, there would be there would be

504
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: you know, you go buy a part, man, there's there's

505
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: a ton of dudes out there playing, you know, I

506
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: just but no way. He talks about the pickup of

507
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: toul soklong like, man, you wouldn't get to pick up

508
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: in here's the deal. But but but think about it,

509
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: think about it, Doug, when we were in high school,

510
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: how many how many pros? No? I know, I know

511
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. They don't play out no way

512
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 1: plays outside anymore. It is so, but do do people

513
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: still play pick up the way they used to play

514
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: pick up? Or is now? Is it everybody going to trainers,

515
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: well careers. Guys that have careers mostly do trainers. Guys

516
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: that are post careers, they did pick up. But I'm

517
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,959
Speaker 1: just saying high school guys high school guys because they

518
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: play in tournaments where they just play a bunch of games.

519
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I did with my son to

520
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: in order to play playing more is play them on

521
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: two different teams, you know, one high level one low level.

522
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: I mean in one like thirteen one twelve, and then

523
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: it's like playing pick up. You know, he played four

524
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: games in a day, you know, play feel like he

525
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: played four games? Like didn't you want to play pick

526
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: up as a kid? Yeah? We played all day, man,

527
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: you played all day all day like dog, Yeah all day.

528
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, yes, coach and your son. Yes,

529
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: are you hard on him? I was really hard on

530
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: him for a long time and that did not go well,

531
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: and that probably that's probably the hardest part in you know,

532
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: he's got a little PTSD from it. But uh, I

533
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: have a ton of fun with him too, and he's

534
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: like a fun kid, a fun kid. So but yeah,

535
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: I was really hard on him. Now not as much

536
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: because now, you know, I want it's easier to talk

537
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: to him. He's older and he understands more. And you know,

538
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: we'll still get an argument every now and again and

539
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: I usually win them. But you know, he started becoming

540
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: kind of a better listener. But yeah, there's there's some

541
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: I've been hard on him in the past. I'm a

542
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: lot a lot better to him now. So let me

543
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: ask you. You leave the court, or you leave the court,

544
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: you get into him a little bit during the game,

545
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: You leave the court, get you get in the car.

546
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: Is it continue in the car ride home or is

547
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: it done? Usually what I do is like, hey, let's

548
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: just leave it at one thing, you know, and then

549
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: say that one thing and then move on. And usually

550
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to hear the one thing, and then

551
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, listen to me your phone and

552
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: if I have his phone and have his at tension,

553
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: and then it was just like one thing. Then I

554
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: tell him and then he's good, and then we're good.

555
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: It's usually we leave it, you know. And then and

556
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: then usually when we roll backs like hey, don't tell

557
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: your mom we got like that. No, listen, I got

558
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: you at doctor Pepper. Just don't tell her anything, you know.

559
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: So this is the funny thing dealing with this, right,

560
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: coaching your kid. Like last night I got in I

561
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: told Jalen to do something, and he was like, why

562
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: would I do that when I was open? So I

563
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: got an him a little bit because I told you

564
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: I feel rule, because I told your right. I told

565
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: him a rule in my life because I told you

566
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: so right, So so I I got an him a

567
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: little bit. So then after the game, his mom is

568
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: looking at me sideways like I can't believe you yelled

569
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: at him like that, you know. But I'm like, wait

570
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: a minute, you call me complaining about him when he

571
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: doesn't clean his run up room up or he talks

572
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: back to you or does all this other stuff. But

573
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: like I just yelled at him for not doing what

574
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to do playing. It's because it's in public.

575
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: I think that's what it is. I think it's in

576
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: it's in public, and then somehow they feel a part

577
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: of it, you know, attack on them whatever, and it's

578
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's their baby. They're still maternal. I mean,

579
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't wait. I can't wait till

580
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: you call me and tell me his room is not

581
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: clean and you told him to do something and he

582
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: didn't do it. I can't because I'm gonna do the

583
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: same thing. I'm gonna I'm gonna roll my eyes at you,

584
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: all right, last thing? Uh who wins morning or tonight? Sorry?

585
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: This still dropped him on. So who insight Celtics get

586
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: it done at home? Force to get why? Because you

587
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: want to see a game seven? That's real? That for sure,

588
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: that's I mean, I'm I want to see a game seven.

589
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: I just think I think it's gonna be really hard.

590
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of toughness and a lot

591
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: of pride with the Celtics, obviously. I just think them playing.

592
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: I don't think Wiggins is gonna have the game he

593
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: had in Game five. Somebody's gonna have to step up

594
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: and beat them. Besides Steph, you got Clay. Look, I'll

595
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: tell you this, I think the Warriors win. I mean,

596
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: I just the construct of the Celtics is'll throw five

597
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: great defenders out there, you know, and they're okay offensively,

598
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: you know, two guys is obviously better than the rest.

599
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: I think Kadom's pretty pretty damn good. They're just kind

600
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: of a mess and you can't give them extra possessions.

601
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: They've kind of figured you out a little bit, you know.

602
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm in talking with the Warriors, kind of figured you

603
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: out a little bit. And you know, I think like

604
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: Gary Peyton's getting more comfortable, Clay is getting more comfortable,

605
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, Wiggins, everybody's like Wiggins did play great,

606
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: but he still hasn't made a shot. He's gonna he's

607
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: gonna make a shot. And you know, you're just you're

608
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: still you're getting a little bit more from Clay every game.

609
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, look, if I'm Boston, I

610
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: played the exact same way defensively, that shit worked. Take

611
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: that dude out of the game, you know, and just

612
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: being in his head, just face guard him the whole time,

613
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: don't give him. They'll let him get the ball. Fine,

614
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's I'm sure they're gonna get some easy

615
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: shots and some floaters, you know when they when they

616
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: blit some on a trappick. I don't know, just take

617
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: him out of the game. That that gives you a

618
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: kind of competitive advantage to take that guy. It does.

619
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: It puts pressure on everybody else. But I do think

620
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: they have some other dudes, So I think Draymond gets

621
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: in the way though. Game game six, man, Yeah, it's possible.

622
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: It is Kurg gonna take him out again. I think

623
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: he did a hell of a job game four by

624
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: by benching him. They were the Warriors were searching for

625
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: answers and Kerr bench and Draymond, you know, for that

626
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: five six minute stretch was huge, man, and then Steph

627
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: being But I just I don't know. I think I

628
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be a game seven, man, you know,

629
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: I really do, And I'm hoping for it. I'm hoping

630
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: that they'll you know, like I'm with you, I think

631
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: I think they guard step the same way they did

632
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: in game five and try to make someone else beat them,

633
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: all right, and hoping we get a game seven. We

634
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Speaker 1: shall see, Hey, dude, thanks for doing this. We did

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Speaker 1: talk about your kids, clean his room and all other stuff,

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Speaker 1: and we'll do it again, all right, brother, appreciate you ONMI.

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Speaker 1: Thanks met everybody. So that's my conversation with my man.

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Speaker 1: Brian Montinotty, of course, is head coach at Owassa High School.

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Speaker 1: He played a long time, play with me at ok State,

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Speaker 1: done previous stuff with him. But I just thought you'd

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Speaker 1: appreciate a little bit of you know, dad of a

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Speaker 1: prodigy and let me assume dad dad to a prodigy,

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Speaker 1: right add to a prodigy, and then of course a

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Speaker 1: little bit of coaching your kid and a lot of

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Speaker 1: NBA talk, you know, getting ready for a historic game

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Speaker 1: six like you know. For me, I mean I do,

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Speaker 1: I like, I obviously respect how the Celtics played defensively,

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Speaker 1: how tough they are, and how they took kind of

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Speaker 1: the next step this year. And no, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to the well with Chris Middleton would have played thing

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Speaker 1: all right now, just talking about the Celtics. So it's

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Speaker 1: not out of like a lot like I like what

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Speaker 1: they've done. They've built a team that's sustainable, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be good for a long long time. You know they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll switch out some pieces, but that's a group that

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Speaker 1: that's going to stay together and be really good for

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Speaker 1: a long time. But the Warriors are They're unique there,

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Speaker 1: They're a meteor. These things don't come along very often.

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Speaker 1: And how they play without the basketball, the joy with

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Speaker 1: which they play, that the talk of playing for each other,

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Speaker 1: cheering for each other to succeed, like what in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: like really like that's exactly what they do. And I

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Speaker 1: just I want to see him win in Boston. Guard.

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Speaker 1: That's really what it is. I think that's that's a

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Speaker 1: baller deal. When you win on the road, win a championship,

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Speaker 1: you take champagne their locker room. Hell yeah right, that's

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Speaker 1: Those are the best. Those are the best. Yeah, road

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Speaker 1: wins are the best. I remember you can listen to

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Speaker 1: The Doug Gotlieb Show daily three to six Eastern cul

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