Speaker 1: But y'all know what it is. We got Steve Jack
Speaker 1: the damn certain file. Let's get it. Thank you, brother doll.
Speaker 1: Let's get it. Lots going on in the league, Lots
Speaker 1: going on, league. I gotta ask you just before we
Speaker 1: kick it off. Hold on, Nate, hold a right, man,
Speaker 1: Joe watching the league? Man, man, why don't we have
Speaker 1: h Why I can't Carmelo Anthony, DeMarcus Russell, DeMarcus Cousins,
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony, Why why aren't whyren't Why aren't these players
Speaker 1: still in the league. Dwight Howard still has good basketball
Speaker 1: in them, Bro, tell tell me why these players aren't
Speaker 1: in the league.
Speaker 2: Well, One, you're talking about guys that march to the
Speaker 2: beat of their own drum. You can't just tell them
Speaker 2: what to do, especially in the game of basketball or
Speaker 2: something they've been doing their whole life. And I respect
Speaker 2: that because you can't tell me nothing about basketball.
Speaker 1: So I respect that.
Speaker 2: And two, these guys play the game with a certain
Speaker 2: passion and a certain way that they.
Speaker 1: Don't want in the NBA no more.
Speaker 2: And and and I think that's why they're not in
Speaker 2: the game. The Marcus Cousins is a big, mean fella.
Speaker 2: He plays a game in a certain passion, a certain
Speaker 2: way that you don't see in the game at all.
Speaker 2: You know, Dwight Howard is a big, mean guy out
Speaker 2: there in China where I think Chinaman getting seventy points
Speaker 2: in fifty.
Speaker 1: Rebounds you that don't belong.
Speaker 2: And we talking about and then we go to Carmelo
Speaker 2: future Hall of Famer, How is he not in the
Speaker 2: league playing on none of these teams because he's a
Speaker 2: dog and he's always did things his way and not
Speaker 2: their way. So it's clear to see what they're doing.
Speaker 2: They trying to control, you know, the other people's narrative.
Speaker 2: But I guarantee you when all these people retire and
Speaker 2: get a chance to tell you the story and what
Speaker 2: they went through in their career, you're gonna see it
Speaker 2: from a different side.
Speaker 1: So it ain't about basketball. It ain't about coming out mellow,
Speaker 1: being able to score with these young guys. It ain't
Speaker 1: about you know, cousins being able to post up and
Speaker 1: still be you know, effective, or be able to give
Speaker 1: give a team something. You don't think it comes downs
Speaker 1: to skill at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: They definitely gonna come down to skill, because I's what
Speaker 2: Embiid is doing right now. The Marcus Cousins is doing
Speaker 2: that in Sacramento, putting up fifties in twenties. He been
Speaker 2: doing that right. So so it's definitely not scared. I
Speaker 2: definitely think it's personal. It's crazy, man, Man, are you watching?
Speaker 2: I gotta get this off, man. You know, I watched
Speaker 2: the games like I really sit there and I watch it.
Speaker 2: You know when players watch, man, I'm watching the Nuances.
Speaker 2: Last night, man, I was watching the Lakers play Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and I watched Minnesota be without you know, Rudy.
Speaker 1: Gobert, the kid mc daniel. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: The kid, you know, hit the wall, broke his hand.
Speaker 1: I think Rudy fired on Kyle. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm saying all this to set up that Minnesota was
Speaker 1: a to me, full throttle with their team, right. But
Speaker 1: this was the first time I think second half I
Speaker 1: saw Bron human. He looked tired. Are you seeing the
Speaker 1: same thing? Do you think Lebron James is coming to
Speaker 1: the point where, I mean, we've always seen him in
Speaker 1: a jetic stat We've always seen him in this youthfulness. Bro.
Speaker 1: Last night he deferred. I counted. You know, I'm scouting too, Bro,
Speaker 1: watching the game, I'm programmed to think like this. But
Speaker 1: as I'm watching the game, Bro, he looks like he
Speaker 1: was gassed the first time.
Speaker 2: I think he at the age now where you know
Speaker 2: we used to put scylind reports in for Braun. You know,
Speaker 2: when we was playing that ship, he was just good
Speaker 2: enough and that stronger energy thatyway, it didn't work.
Speaker 1: I think now he's at.
Speaker 2: The age we did slowed down scottlond reports starting to
Speaker 2: work on him, sending them certain ways and put them
Speaker 2: in certain positions. He don't have the energy or the
Speaker 2: advantage to do it the whole game, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. He might can do it the first quarter
Speaker 2: or something like that. But back when we was playing,
Speaker 2: he can do it and he outthink the double teams
Speaker 2: and all the shit and still be able to be effective.
Speaker 1: But now I don't think he's at the age we
Speaker 1: can still have the energy to force Sselff to get
Speaker 1: through all. That's a true assessment. He looked gassed, or
Speaker 1: he looks like he's slowing down to you, you dead on,
Speaker 1: he looked a little gas straight up like whatever. He
Speaker 1: wasn't even I think he hit one three in the
Speaker 1: sequence of like seven minutes. The turnovers though he had
Speaker 1: three turnovers that brought them back. Man, they got back
Speaker 1: in the game, like and what that say? We know that.
Speaker 1: I'm just it just seems like I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to harp on
Speaker 1: this too much. But it was a disconnector that I
Speaker 1: that I caught. It wasn't a desire. It wasn't it
Speaker 1: wasn't a go get the ball. You know, LA used
Speaker 1: to cold going to get the ball, playing hero. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I hate to say that, but
Speaker 1: I'm calling the spade a spade. That's the shadow he
Speaker 1: end and he he didn't go yet it he didn't
Speaker 1: have that job. You know what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's to play in. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, I wanted to throw it at you
Speaker 1: to see if you were seeing the same game.
Speaker 2: He looked at little gas Bro and we know when
Speaker 2: I when I play out, when you played, when I
Speaker 2: made three turnovers in the row, it definitely came from
Speaker 2: being tied. Fatigue, you know what I'm saying. Mentally, fatigue exactly.
Speaker 2: So what shit as you're looking forward to? Uh, we
Speaker 2: were just rapping about the sacond Golden State. I want
Speaker 2: that's that's Uh, both teams at home. Uh, you got
Speaker 2: a young team with the head coach now who's been
Speaker 2: in Golden State the last couple of years, and one
Speaker 2: rings there. He think he got the cheat code. He
Speaker 2: think he got the cheat code. But the thing is,
Speaker 2: though this was kind of messing with me. Mike Browno
Speaker 2: is a defensive coach. The Sacramento's not good defense, So
Speaker 2: I don't know how I don't know how the dynamic
Speaker 2: gonna work. I think he just took the offensive there
Speaker 2: and that's why they've been successful. But young team, all
Speaker 2: the team with experience is I think that's the series
Speaker 2: to watch.
Speaker 1: Sack's confident, very Sack. I think Sack thinking like we
Speaker 1: third like I think they thinking like that, like saying,
Speaker 1: y'all did that last year? What's up? Like they are?
Speaker 1: I smart? God, they're looking at when I watched them
Speaker 1: play Bro, you have to be a better team. I
Speaker 1: watched them play Milwaukee one time in Sack, and Milwaukee
Speaker 1: had to be the better team as how they how
Speaker 1: they flowed, they had the execute they had. They had
Speaker 1: the run offense to be able to beat a young team.
Speaker 1: You gotta be a solid team to beat a solid
Speaker 1: young team, right, And that's what I think Golden State is.
Speaker 1: Golden State I think has been has been food gazinging.
Speaker 1: I think they've been they've been lollygagging. They've been they've
Speaker 1: been pacing it for you're not wanting full times. You
Speaker 1: got the form on how to win it. And I
Speaker 1: feel like now everything's finna get slowed down by ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen twenty possessions and now we're really find the
Speaker 1: lock in. I love the kid, the Aarian Fox and
Speaker 1: high years in the fourth quarter. I want to see
Speaker 1: him in the playoffs under this pressure. Man, that's sad.
Speaker 1: Crowd gonna be crazy. It's the ones turn up canny
Speaker 1: and then Golden State gonna be in the house. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be gotta you played in this environment. Man,
Speaker 1: tell us what the Bay Yeah, everybody talk about the
Speaker 1: New York miss and the Yankee Subway. Serious, man, tell
Speaker 1: us about this Bay Series? What what's that like? It's
Speaker 1: no away game, so each game is a home everybody
Speaker 1: coming up the road. Then with shat go down, everybody
Speaker 1: gonna be down there, bro. But they've been dying for
Speaker 1: this for a long time. That area, the Bay Area
Speaker 1: been dying for this rivalry, for this, for this to
Speaker 1: for them to play in the playoffs eventually, you know,
Speaker 1: second being in the playoffs and forever. But it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good robbery. You know.
Speaker 2: It adds on to it that Mike Brown and Steven
Speaker 2: you know, coaches, Like it's just the whole dynamic of it.
Speaker 2: You know, Matt Matt working up for Sacramento calling the
Speaker 2: games he played on both teams, Like, it's a lot,
Speaker 2: it's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. We're gonna we actually gonna be there at
Speaker 1: the first game. So it's gonna be when the house,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna be in the house. We're gonna be in
Speaker 1: the house. Game one Jersey. Matter of fact, you said,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that. I got a call. I
Speaker 1: gotta get one. I got I want to Draymond jerrys
Speaker 1: Jersey because I want Draymond got to be a bully
Speaker 1: this series. He got to because the bonus would give
Speaker 1: him a good thirty. What is the key matchup and
Speaker 1: for what's the key matchups that you're looking at. What
Speaker 1: is your favorite match up in this match? Bro?
Speaker 2: I got really got to If Steph gotta guard Fox,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a but if Fox got like that,
Speaker 2: that's gonna.
Speaker 1: Be that's gonna be crazy. That's gonna be step gotta
Speaker 1: guard Fox. He got the ball a lot. Fox gotta
Speaker 1: goard step coming off screens and ship how his movement.
Speaker 1: He got the stamina to do both. And Bonus and Draymond.
Speaker 2: Can Draymond keep his focus because Sabon's gonna get it shot,
Speaker 2: you know what, They gonna get his shots. Draymond might
Speaker 2: get some tough calls. They need Draymond on the court.
Speaker 1: You put Draymond or you put Mooey on it. You
Speaker 1: putting mooey on on Big Fellow, you put lo On on
Speaker 1: that just to give you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: I think Sam Bonus will cook Looney. I think so.
Speaker 1: I think the Bonus are cooking on. I think they
Speaker 1: work raders right there, stack. I like the way both
Speaker 1: of them work. Obviously some Bonus is a better passer,
Speaker 1: you know, consolidator.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this is yeah, bro, who.
Speaker 1: What about you though? Hold On, I gotta ask you
Speaker 1: one more from each team? Who are your who are
Speaker 1: your who are your sleepers? That that that that there
Speaker 1: ain't nobody talking about, that's gonna come off that bench
Speaker 1: and help each team to give me one from give
Speaker 1: me one from Shack, and give me one from Golden
Speaker 1: Sick because Wiggas is back. Wiggas is back. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. Gary Payton, Junr is back. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They got them, They got them dogs.
Speaker 1: Pool going into the playoffs looking really good. Stack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who are they? Who are these hitting gyms that you
Speaker 1: think from each team got? You know, Malie Monk is
Speaker 1: a walking bucket, real ship. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But I'm but I'm gonna go further with them. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go Mitchell Oh, I like little micause. I like
Speaker 2: his defensive presence.
Speaker 1: Bro. They don't need that. They gonna need that.
Speaker 2: Don't need that, especially coming off the bench with and
Speaker 2: I I got Pool. On the other end, I think
Speaker 2: the Pool can have some big games series that we'll
Speaker 2: be close. He gets some thirty thirty games and Step
Speaker 2: get a thirty point game. They got a good chance
Speaker 2: of walking the series. You know what I'm probably.
Speaker 1: When I lose. I gotta say this was my favorite.
Speaker 1: My man, the dopest series I'm looking to is the
Speaker 1: Cleveland New York Knicks Silent sold Listen the narrative that
Speaker 1: Donald Mitchell almost ended up as a nick. Do you
Speaker 1: see how he's transferred like Cleveland was already on another
Speaker 1: path of creating this crazy shout to JB too, Man,
Speaker 1: JB don't get enough notoriety. He's had these kids, he
Speaker 1: had these young men. Excuse me, my bad. He had
Speaker 1: these young men playing like like on another level before
Speaker 1: he even got there. I love the kid Garland, I
Speaker 1: love Young Mobley, I love I didn't like Kevin Love leaving.
Speaker 1: I thought kay Love fit perfectly in that. Man. I
Speaker 1: thought he fit perfectly in there, man, and man, that
Speaker 1: hurt me when he left there. But a getting donaldval Mitchell. Man.
Speaker 1: I watched him in Utah when he was doing for
Speaker 1: Utah and he was going unspoken. Nobody was saying, Man,
Speaker 1: Donald Mitchell was doing some incredible shitt in Utah, and
Speaker 1: then we're under the radar and what he's doing in
Speaker 1: fucking Cleveland. Man, It's not surprising because I've seen him
Speaker 1: hit big shots. I've seen him carrying the team. I
Speaker 1: seen him go you know, seven minutes, four minutes in
Speaker 1: a row where he's just going crazy. Right, So man,
Speaker 1: listen and he ain't even know MVP talks, which is weird.
Speaker 1: But this is gonna be a crazy series because to me,
Speaker 1: New York's like New York's strength is that they play
Speaker 1: hard in their hick coming at your ass for forty
Speaker 1: eight minutes. Brunton is better than what we giving him credit.
Speaker 1: We don't put him on those levels. But I think
Speaker 1: he's proven night in night out, at least through the
Speaker 1: regular season, even when he was in Dallas, Like, he's
Speaker 1: been consistent to be that player that he is. And
Speaker 1: you know with the emergent, obviously you got Randall, he's
Speaker 1: not had some time to rest that ankle. Man, you
Speaker 1: got quickly come into his own quickly might be six man,
Speaker 1: I got Malcolm Brocklin, but quickly is one of them
Speaker 1: deals to where he can come men and change the series. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this Nick Cash here, that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna be watched TV. That's gonna be popcorn TV.
Speaker 2: So who yo, who Your's gonna make an impact?
Speaker 1: Man? You know, like like I said, quickly. I'm watching
Speaker 1: quickly get thirty in the Army can and uh Obi
Speaker 1: toppling man. Obie Toplin got another level to him that
Speaker 1: I think he just flirting with you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I know it's a lot of pieces over there are
Speaker 1: j Barren gonna be big for this series. We really
Speaker 1: heard his name and a lot of stuff. Man, Kim
Speaker 1: Mobley gonna have to come out of the ship. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He's random, he got the random matchup.
Speaker 1: He's got to either balance that match up or come out.
Speaker 1: He can't come like on his heels, man, he cannot
Speaker 1: be on his heels this whole, this whole tournament, man,
Speaker 1: I mean this whole, this whole series. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to come out and they're gonna have to play. I'm
Speaker 1: looking for Garland to have a have a breakout. I
Speaker 1: think Garland is one of these guys where you start
Speaker 1: looking at Donovan Mitchell and giving him so much attention
Speaker 1: that Garland Garland can give you a fifty ball, he
Speaker 1: can give you a forty ball. You know what I'm saying, Man, Man,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be it right here. You know, I
Speaker 1: love I love all the all the matchups and and
Speaker 1: and and probably the most anticipated playoffs with so many
Speaker 1: different narratives. But this, this popcorn TV right here between
Speaker 1: the Knicks and the Cabs gonna be good. Straight up.
Speaker 1: You see the matchup man with the other grizzlies in
Speaker 1: the Lakers. You know, I just.
Speaker 2: I want to I want to say the Lakers man
Speaker 2: so bad. But just the inconsistency of a d you know, uh,
Speaker 2: I say, like I said, we talked about Braun.
Speaker 1: He just looked gassed.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, just god reports that people
Speaker 2: put in on them and start to affect him, you know,
Speaker 2: at his age. I just don't see them having enough
Speaker 2: energy and having enough dogs to deal with grind City
Speaker 2: Memphis is just they're just a different team. They cocky,
Speaker 2: they confident, you know what I'm saying. They and they
Speaker 2: heard all the talk. Everybody been saying, yeah, y'all, he't
Speaker 2: done that yet. Yea ain't done nothing yet. Well, this
Speaker 2: is a big step knocking the Lakers out first round.
Speaker 2: This is a big step for them. When I guarantee
Speaker 2: you they gonna be focusing ready. But I don't see
Speaker 2: the Lakers having enough energy to beat the you know,
Speaker 2: in this series, right now really, Yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 1: Like I like Memphis in this series too. But you know,
Speaker 1: I've been that, I've been that older player that's been
Speaker 1: motivated off of the naysayers and they can't do and
Speaker 1: we're older and all this other shit. Ad has taken
Speaker 1: another step in these last like fifteen to twenty games,
Speaker 1: too crazy. I actually think that they should go through
Speaker 1: him more. I actually think that the office should go
Speaker 1: through him. His should initiate they trapping down, move moo move, Bron,
Speaker 1: get you some spot up, get you some spot up,
Speaker 1: twos and threes, get you some cuts going to the basket,
Speaker 1: some easy ones, stuff like this. But I think that
Speaker 1: they're a program to do. And just like, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I had to remind myself that I was watching a
Speaker 1: seven and eighth seed playing each other. It looked like it.
Speaker 1: It looked like seven and eight. Nobody looked polished or
Speaker 1: nobody looked like, ooh, you know what I'm saying. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I say that to say that if it was a
Speaker 1: team that could because Bron come with so much star
Speaker 1: power and he does have so much experience that we
Speaker 1: think that, you know, at least one of these games
Speaker 1: he gonna go into booth, right, you don't come out
Speaker 1: with nothing, right, I'm expecting that right.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So if it's one team that can beat I think
Speaker 1: give you at least a scare. Is this team just
Speaker 1: because of their star power and if they can get
Speaker 1: it going because they still got a young enough superstar
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis, they can carry you and get forty
Speaker 1: and twenty and be that minute to where he getting
Speaker 1: five blocks. The Jared Jackson Jr. And Anthony Davis matchup
Speaker 1: is the key matchup to me. Steven Adams back, No,
Speaker 1: he's out for the series. Now that's big. See That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. See, that's big. And then two, what
Speaker 1: we're not talking about is that new Lakers. The new Lakers,
Speaker 1: the Vanderbilts, the Bezels, the Beasley excuse me, Denzel Russell's
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. In Russell, he's confident around
Speaker 1: this time, you know, got a lot of confidence in himself. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are scary, but I don't know if they
Speaker 1: can put it together. But I like their pieces. Beasley
Speaker 1: and Vanderbilt alone make them tougher. Scrappier gets some extra
Speaker 1: second third options and then being able to read. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you know Memphis got those boys over there.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyus Jones is probably the backup of the year.
Speaker 1: Like he's I don't know why we don't talk about
Speaker 1: with him six man, he's probably one he can start
Speaker 1: on some teams, you know what I'm saying. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun match up to watch. I
Speaker 1: think Memphis actually takes it though. I mean, and what
Speaker 1: in six So Desmond Bain has to wear a special
Speaker 1: shoe for his toe and they are Lebrons and it's
Speaker 1: kind of yeah, I want to get your views on
Speaker 1: the unspoken rule. And you know, obviously our generation are
Speaker 1: totally different, you know generation, but we're speaking on today
Speaker 1: in the current what's your views on you know, he
Speaker 1: got to get a I guess it wasn't no other
Speaker 1: shoes in the world that can do this special shit.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I'm pretty sure if he can do
Speaker 1: it in that shoe, he can do it in other shoes.
Speaker 1: So you know what these are Lebrons. Do you have
Speaker 1: an issue with your teammate wearing the opposition and who
Speaker 1: were getting ready to go into playoff battle with or
Speaker 1: against wearing their shoes? I do, Bro, I do? I do.
Speaker 2: I have a big problem with it because that's just
Speaker 2: some mental shit with me. Like you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 1: I have friends.
Speaker 2: That I hung out with, like Al Harington all summer,
Speaker 2: but during the season, when we get ready to play them,
Speaker 2: we ain't talking. The day before the game, when he
Speaker 2: getting town, we probably you know what's up, Bron in timer,
Speaker 2: we ain't hanging together.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: We'll hang the night after the game, but before the
Speaker 2: game were not talking or nothing. Even in the Big Three.
Speaker 2: I was about to go to blows but.
Speaker 1: Soon as the game but as soon as the game over,
Speaker 1: I'm with him.
Speaker 2: So I'm saying that to say, no, Bro, I'm not
Speaker 2: having nothing on the of the opposing team, nothing related
Speaker 2: to them having talked to them.
Speaker 1: No, I want them to know that there's beef. It's up,
Speaker 1: all the way up. So wearing the shoes is the
Speaker 1: wrong thing to do because you sending the message whether
Speaker 1: you whether you know it or not. Bron walk out
Speaker 1: there and see you with his shoes on. In his mind,
Speaker 1: I got it. He's a fan.
Speaker 2: Right, And I ain't have my own shoe And I
Speaker 2: had fans on other teams and I knew once I
Speaker 2: saw him shaking my hand up, browing's up.
Speaker 1: What you're doing out? Yeah I got I got a
Speaker 1: good easy ten points on him because he more worried
Speaker 1: about hanging out with meet and guard me wear shoes
Speaker 1: and Bron gonna give you one hundred points, trust me,
Speaker 1: don't do it. That's how I feel. That's the psychic color.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel it, Bro, I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: psychic color. You know what's crazy? Man? I'll probably during
Speaker 1: the rest folks, let me go ahead and start so one.
Speaker 1: I would never be in like another man's space, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like if Jack come in and
Speaker 1: how he gotta prepare his music and being wild like
Speaker 1: I played with some wild wild cats, right, And what
Speaker 1: I had to learn is that everybody prepares differently, and
Speaker 1: we we're gonna wear whatever, right. Uh, some guys will
Speaker 1: wear their jewelry and have it out and be doing.
Speaker 1: I gotta worry about Kevin first, right. Yeah. It's when
Speaker 1: it's now we're getting the playoffs everything to play, we
Speaker 1: tighten up everybody in this room. It gets tightened up
Speaker 1: from the coaches. Like playoffs come, all the extra fat
Speaker 1: gets trimmed because it can't be no distractions. That one
Speaker 1: distraction that you let the ball go out of bounce,
Speaker 1: so that one possession you were supposed to do something
Speaker 1: you didn't do, it might cost you the series. So
Speaker 1: I've never gotten into Guy's space to where, uh where
Speaker 1: I was really like adamant about certain things. Now, if
Speaker 1: what he's doing is affecting us by wearing or doing
Speaker 1: some shit, then we gotta address it. But it would
Speaker 1: probably give me motivation, like Chan shoot and I'll be
Speaker 1: I'll be on that like like I wouldn't be sitting
Speaker 1: there thinking that I actually say that, like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta guard code. You out here with cod
Speaker 1: like like my generation, there was an unspoken rule and
Speaker 1: then everybody we revealed Mike, Mike was Mike is King Kings,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I'm talking about over our era, right,
Speaker 1: But I would never think that Shaq would come out
Speaker 1: there with some Jordans on, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like an unspoken route or a shot show
Speaker 1: up with Ewing's one or Elajahuon's like we're not doing that,
Speaker 1: Like everybody knew that. And then when you got your
Speaker 1: own shoe that says something about who you are. And
Speaker 1: then uh, when you saw somebody in your shoes like
Speaker 1: just what Jack said. Ah yeah, the mental part of you.
Speaker 1: You know, you you being in in someone's product as
Speaker 1: me and you support that person. Now on that you're
Speaker 1: a you're a fan, you probably gonna want me to
Speaker 1: sign these like that hole straight up. So in that man,
Speaker 1: my moves are reflecting that through you going through like
Speaker 1: you seeing him different. Now you're going through him like
Speaker 1: when you go to bang their mom through this moon
Speaker 1: like like it's a whole it's a whole mental it's
Speaker 1: a whole mental like dominance about that, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying that you can't really explain. But to be
Speaker 1: in that moment and see a motherfucker like riding dick
Speaker 1: like that, you're like, man, like we're gonna say something.
Speaker 1: Somebody came to you for the game. You know, I
Speaker 1: know how you be, you be in your zone. Can
Speaker 1: can we work out together? No? No, no, no, I
Speaker 1: know you'd be like, get your bitch ass away from me.
Speaker 1: Not even that dog. I'll be shocked that the niggas
Speaker 1: actually talking to me like real ship. I hate to
Speaker 1: say this, like this but man, we really looked at
Speaker 1: it like war yup, straight up, like like like we
Speaker 1: all were Spurs, bro. Like I was like, man, the
Speaker 1: team you could. I was just then we might even
Speaker 1: so subject so yeah, and it's cool. It's all right
Speaker 1: cool and then if it go down, he got somebody,
Speaker 1: I got his like it be man, man, listen, the
Speaker 1: art of war is a real thing in professional sports
Speaker 1: and a competition. When it's dog on dog, it's gotta
Speaker 1: go like this, it's beast on beast. One way, bro,
Speaker 1: this is what it is. And if you ain't built
Speaker 1: for this, you can't be out here. So you know,
Speaker 1: I say that to say it's a respect that comes
Speaker 1: with everything, but also it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's another like if you show up with another shoe
Speaker 1: with that same procedure in that shoot and it ain't
Speaker 1: bron Yeah yeah, yeah, So you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So there's some more contexts on that. One of your
Speaker 1: former teammates, Tyus Jones, obviously all the Grizzlies now he's
Speaker 1: trying to kind of uphold that mentality and he isn't
Speaker 1: feeling doing doing that. See, I knew it was one
Speaker 1: I knew it was one, and listen, it's probably a
Speaker 1: lot more, but don't want to actually say it or
Speaker 1: don't want to actually have that, you know, because you
Speaker 1: want to support your man too, And guess what if
Speaker 1: this will help you shoot better, then let's get it.
Speaker 1: Be a fun broun. But we were gonna keep it
Speaker 1: funking with him now, you know, if you can't find
Speaker 1: another shoot, Bro, you should, right, Bro, fuck the snigger.
Speaker 1: We have to snicker? Oh like you gotta like you
Speaker 1: gotta maybe put that in here. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: We should ask bang that should be that. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We should have bank a big fucking you know, man,
Speaker 1: go ahead, ask naked. They can do it with Lebron,
Speaker 1: they can do it. You know, I shoot that shoot
Speaker 1: sixty percent. You know what, keep wearing the mom you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I guarantee Brooks ain't gonna have
Speaker 1: on the Brons. Right, this is gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: match up. It's gonna be a bunch of bullshit in this.
Speaker 1: To look for the antist, look for all the antics
Speaker 1: and all the mental games to be played. Bro, Bro, listen,
Speaker 1: another one we're not talking about, Bro, Phoenix and the Clippers. Bro,
Speaker 1: you know why we're not talking about it though? While
Speaker 1: we're not talking about it, no, pg man, it's Kauadoh man,
Speaker 1: we forget how great Kawha was about three years ago,
Speaker 1: four years ago, not too long ago? Could we see
Speaker 1: this series? KG? Booker, George, we could have got ain't No,
Speaker 1: he ain't No, hey, we could have got that though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well who got to step up? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we go. We're going right into it. Listen, man, Chris
Speaker 1: Paul is the dark horse in this. I'm expecting Devin
Speaker 1: Booker to be Devin book I'm expecting KD to be KD.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to They're gonna be primaries of the offense. Right,
Speaker 1: But ain't nobody talking about Chris Paul. They talking about
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayden. They're talking about Booker, They talking about KD.
Speaker 1: You know what Chris Paul doing in the corner. He
Speaker 1: gonna get probably the fourth or fifth best defender. Oh man, shit,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul good enough to cook an you got you
Speaker 1: still gotta put like he's smart enough to manipulate get fouls.
Speaker 1: He like, Chris Paul is probably a dark horse that
Speaker 1: no one's got in no narratives. They got good. Chris
Speaker 1: Paul is real shit that knows the game, knows anticipation,
Speaker 1: he knows how to like point guards like Rondo, point
Speaker 1: guards like Stockton. Isaid, they would manipulate like Mark Jackson,
Speaker 1: great manipulate like their magic. They know how to manipulate
Speaker 1: not only the plays but fouls and hey, how to
Speaker 1: pace it how the refs are calling the touching versus
Speaker 1: whatever they in the refs, is they politic like? He
Speaker 1: knows how to actually get all that off and put
Speaker 1: them in the early foul trouble and early shooting like
Speaker 1: stuff like this that most people aren't even paying attention to.
Speaker 2: But man, I like the Clippers, if they just Winnsday series,
Speaker 2: Chris Paul has to be the fourth option.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the half. He has to be putting. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he gotta because you gotta give eight and that love.
Speaker 1: You know, Book and KD gonna be solid, they go.
Speaker 1: They gotta be the stars. But you gotta give that
Speaker 1: inside presence, that love. As you know, you don't throw
Speaker 1: him no bones. He ain't gonna do nothing on the
Speaker 1: other end, and that's where you need aid for them
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: Successful on the other end, getting all them rebounds, controlling
Speaker 2: the paint, being big in the paint. But like you
Speaker 2: already know, if you don't throw that big man in
Speaker 2: bones run up and down that court, he ain't gonna
Speaker 2: do nothing on the other.
Speaker 1: Nothing, dude. The Clippers got a chance to win a
Speaker 1: game in this series, yeah, because they got a deep team,
Speaker 1: and I think Power can come. He can step in
Speaker 1: for PG and have a big game. Pole plays hard.
Speaker 2: You know, KDN the book ain't the best defenders, so
Speaker 2: they can get their ship off. You know, Kawai gonna come.
Speaker 2: He gonna shoot the motherfucker every time, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? What what what can Bone Holland do? What
Speaker 2: can Zubac do?
Speaker 1: Now? They got it? They got a pretty deep team,
Speaker 1: you know, between all them, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: What you gotten serious, man, I ain't gonna ge as
Speaker 1: the kid k and what probably five? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No PG No PG though, I think that's a big
Speaker 2: difference for me. But I haven't Paul George because Paul
Speaker 2: George is gonna make book of work. You know, if
Speaker 2: he making work like that, his offense gonna come down
Speaker 2: a little bit. But he ain't got ship.
Speaker 1: And then I'm expecting them to to balance each other
Speaker 1: out right exactly that. Kawai kd fin to be watched.
Speaker 1: Kawhi has to go dumb. He gotta be Toronto, Toronto.
Speaker 1: He gotta be Toronto Kawhi. But do he still have
Speaker 1: that after all the you know, the games, he's missed it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he got that. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he got it. Kawak can still get fifty, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I think he can give you a
Speaker 1: good thirty five close to forty. I don't think he
Speaker 1: can football. He give you forty ball, he ain't get
Speaker 1: it for no fifty ball, fifty ball. I don't think
Speaker 1: Kawaii got no fifty ball. He didn't give you four.
Speaker 1: You don't think he hit a fifty ball. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I just don't see.
Speaker 2: I don't in the playoffs right now, I just don't
Speaker 2: see Kawai give him a fifty ball in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I don't think he got it forty year. He can
Speaker 1: get it forty forty five, especially with Paul out there,
Speaker 1: With Paul out there and a lot of it and
Speaker 1: not all that attention on him, he probably can get
Speaker 1: a fifty, but a fifty with just him, with no
Speaker 1: Paul George, with most of the attension on him. In
Speaker 1: the playoffs, it's a team like Phoenix. He ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get that. He ain't gonna get that. Yeah, ka still
Speaker 1: get fitted. Yeah, you know. And one team has to
Speaker 1: make a big, a big run in the playoffs. You
Speaker 1: know what they or they get broken up, or you
Speaker 1: break this whole thing up, or you've taken it in
Speaker 1: another direction. So I'm gonna have to go with You
Speaker 1: can go with two teams too, you can go multiple team.
Speaker 1: Give me your first two off the top. What you're thinking,
Speaker 1: I know you think Denver, Oh World, because we're not
Speaker 1: seeing this about what six years? How long that shit
Speaker 1: been together? About funk all that, we're not seeing this
Speaker 1: whole She's like Portland. I'm tired of watching this Portland ship. Man,
Speaker 1: this man, shit, I don't know. Nobody want to say it. Man, man,
Speaker 1: come on, man, come on man. I'm a trailblazer. I
Speaker 1: love to watching Dann I love the trail Blaze. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of a I'm a historian. Gotta give me
Speaker 1: something different, baby, come on now, baby, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, come on now, they ain't gotta get out
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, man, it's time for Dame. I want
Speaker 1: to see you on another you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But man, is the same thing with Denver. We gonna
Speaker 1: watch this for like five years at least something gotta
Speaker 1: give Bro. So if they don't if they don't win
Speaker 1: this year, like all that ship, uh Mrry and Jokic,
Speaker 1: I gotta scrap that started over. They gotta scrap. I
Speaker 1: gotta go.
Speaker 2: You gotta move one of them. And I doubt it's
Speaker 2: gonna be Yokic. You know what I'm saying. I doubt
Speaker 2: I doubt it was gonna be Yokic. Whatever, you can
Speaker 2: pull a move for Murray in a dang get Dame
Speaker 2: over there with Yokics. You see what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: that'll be crazy, That'll be crazy. Who you got in
Speaker 2: the East?
Speaker 1: Who? Who do you think? If they don't win this,
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna see some major, major, major movements Miami.
Speaker 1: They need to make some moves, they do. They need
Speaker 1: to figure that out. Yeah, they need to figure that.
Speaker 1: It's about our third what this out? Fourth? For your
Speaker 1: third year on that same station, name and all.
Speaker 2: I would I would say Philly, but I just think
Speaker 2: they got something that will work. They just they're gonna
Speaker 2: pay James with with Maury being in Philly and all that,
Speaker 2: I don't think James going no, well, I.
Speaker 1: Think they're gonna Masshley got a chance to make some
Speaker 1: real bread. Did get mask some. I think Mary, yeah,
Speaker 1: Masski gets some bad. But I think Maury's layer to James.
Speaker 1: They together. That's just like he left and went to Philly,
Speaker 1: James go to Philly. Like. I just think they got
Speaker 1: a great relationship. They've been I've been hearing some like
Speaker 1: snipless of you know, James saying they might go back
Speaker 1: to Houston.
Speaker 2: He got roots in Houston, got businesses in Houston. You know,
Speaker 2: I think he still lives in Houston, uh in the
Speaker 2: summer time. So I think that'll be dope for the city.
Speaker 2: I don't know how dope it be for the team.
Speaker 1: It was. It was he ain't gonna fit in good
Speaker 1: with that, But I said the end of that ship
Speaker 1: was toxic. At the end bro that ship. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying that you know what I'm saying. It
Speaker 1: happening that that's not the team for him. That's he
Speaker 1: just laying down right. How much how much you think
Speaker 1: James got left? Jane, he got, he got smooth left.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just led the league in Sais. I asked, man,
Speaker 1: James still get forty?
Speaker 2: Nah, he gonna get because he's a twenty five and
Speaker 2: fifth and twelve player.
Speaker 1: Now he gets twenty five and twelve. Sis, he's a
Speaker 1: he's a he's a real point guard. Now he's a
Speaker 1: real destributor. And I think he liked that because he
Speaker 1: don't need that much energy to play. That's five right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, distribute right. I think he
Speaker 1: liked that. He's gonna have to have He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to go into Booth two one time in one series. Now,
Speaker 1: one time he's gonna James Harn's gonna have to have
Speaker 1: a predominant series where we you got to see some
Speaker 1: Houston straight straight up. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He
Speaker 1: might have to go for like a hog thirty or something. Bro,
Speaker 1: he still got that. You know, he can't get your
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five. He can get you, get you thirty.
Speaker 1: But it's just like this ship he gotta deal with
Speaker 1: on the other end. You know what, I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: he got they got some shipping that eas that he
Speaker 1: got to deal with it and he got to see
Speaker 1: Big Bro at that's point guard spot. He got to
Speaker 1: see a lot of business. Holiday holiday probably best defending
Speaker 1: the game right now, smart Brogden Holiday. Yeah, that he's
Speaker 1: got some dogs at the point, yeah, smart Mark smart
Speaker 1: right Murray like it's thinking about it with it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to deal with it. So I don't know
Speaker 1: that's a good I think Philly, man, you know, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, you know, before you before you went, I
Speaker 1: was thinking Philly, and then uh yeah, the Lakers. I
Speaker 1: think the Lakers, Bro, I think the Lakers. If I
Speaker 1: think that, I don't think you can give the Laker
Speaker 1: fans a repeat of this the Lakers, the Lakers now
Speaker 1: had two years now too. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you badly made it. You just you just you strashing
Speaker 1: like you you know what I'm saying, Like, I think
Speaker 1: we put them at another level of y'all y'all supposed
Speaker 1: to be right. Yeah, I don't think you can give
Speaker 1: the Laker fans and the NBA fans another dose of this.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna sit back and whay we're
Speaker 1: gonna give next year. I think ad showing he could
Speaker 1: be that player, but it took him like twenty five
Speaker 1: thirty games to get here, right Like, yeah, Brono, lookers,
Speaker 1: bron don't look like he's into this. Bro. I'm just
Speaker 1: being I'm sorry, huh, Carrie down, y'all know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if Kyrie Carrie into with those two yes, man,
Speaker 1: that changes the whole name you got up? Man? What
Speaker 1: that makes the needle jump? That makes the needle jump.
Speaker 1: Broun get to Mareenes Kyrie getting o. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. You
Speaker 1: get one man, Do Kyrie take a cut to come
Speaker 1: to the league. Gonna have to. That's a lot. And
Speaker 1: then that's man ship. You want to say if that works?
Speaker 1: But then the pieces? You know what I liked about
Speaker 1: the trade. I like the I'm going I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna tempt to say his name, but the Japanese kid,
Speaker 1: I don't want to disrespect his name. How you say
Speaker 1: his name? How some more? I like Shimoor, I love Beasley,
Speaker 1: and I love Vanderbilt. I think they got some pieces.
Speaker 1: What's the young white kid? I'm sorry, Austin Reeves is
Speaker 1: playing with a confidence on another level. The Angela Russell,
Speaker 1: he's confident. I like the pieces they got in l A.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if you gotta you gotta continue
Speaker 1: to add. And I think if you put a you
Speaker 1: put a you put a Kyrie in the mix of us. Man,
Speaker 1: that changed the narrative of the West. The Lakers jump,
Speaker 1: The Lakers jumped quick. Oh Lord, have mercy. But that's
Speaker 1: so many veritables, Bro, that's so many veritables, man, i'ma
Speaker 1: be honest man. My. When we got the first first
Speaker 1: first place seed, it was it was obviously a goal
Speaker 1: the whole year. That flip put in all kind of
Speaker 1: our our radar, but it was it was the way
Speaker 1: we went about it. We had Sam Cassel the trail speed,
Speaker 1: where we had Erwin Johnson. We had different pieces carry Trump.
Speaker 1: We had pieces on our team in which we thought
Speaker 1: matched up with some of the goals we were setting
Speaker 1: for ourselves. And then when we actually got there, we
Speaker 1: made it. And then we looked at Denver as a young,
Speaker 1: hungry team, but we was sham. Consale was walking us
Speaker 1: through this no, no, and he had been through so
Speaker 1: many series that he was giving us confidence on playing
Speaker 1: it out. Nah den was gonna give us a little run,
Speaker 1: but they don't have nothing, and then we're gonna beat
Speaker 1: them like this. Then we're gonna and there we gotta
Speaker 1: play Sackle, We gotta play like he was just walking
Speaker 1: us through us. And that's when I really value the veteran.
Speaker 1: That's when I looked at the veteran to stand up.
Speaker 1: Not the coaches, not not not the organization, but the
Speaker 1: veterans that has been through it. They navigated us through
Speaker 1: that whole ship. No, we was never worried at no
Speaker 1: point in time. I know, or we knew that Denver
Speaker 1: was a very good team, but we we wasn't threatening
Speaker 1: at no point. And I actually thought we was gonna
Speaker 1: win that bitch, you know. Four I thought was I
Speaker 1: was gonna you know, man, Sam don't mess his hip
Speaker 1: hop and we don't go through all that. Man. We
Speaker 1: we we give ourselves a good chance against La because
Speaker 1: we played well against the Lakers. Obviously Shack and Cole
Speaker 1: was a monster. But yeah, the mother pieces, they were
Speaker 1: just pieces. You know what I'm saying. What about your
Speaker 1: rocking to though? That's when, yeah, Tony Park was getting cooked.
Speaker 1: That's like I always say that, Yeah, was getting cooked
Speaker 1: by every point guard that year.
Speaker 2: Speedy Claxon saved us. I don't know why they don't
Speaker 2: talk about Speedy Claxton and give him his property. Bro
Speaker 2: Tony Park was damn there on the bench every fourth
Speaker 2: quarter because Steph was frying.
Speaker 1: Uh, Jason k.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about old playoffs, but I get to Phoenix series.
Speaker 2: I was excited to be in the playoffs. I ain't
Speaker 2: gonna lie, you know what I'm saying. But I knew,
Speaker 2: like going to my mind, big bro, I knew that
Speaker 2: they was gonna suck over me, Like I just in
Speaker 2: my mind. So before we even wanted they spurs. Oh
Speaker 2: so going into the playoffs, define fun over You wasn't
Speaker 2: gonna pay me?
Speaker 1: Well, oh so you wasn't okay Oka Before the playoffs
Speaker 1: even started, I'm already thinking about some I had a
Speaker 1: great year, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I I wasn't playing at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 2: Now I'm starting to the point where I'm averaging. I'm
Speaker 2: the second or third averaging at least going the team
Speaker 2: to we got the best record in the league. But
Speaker 2: y'all got to see me this summer right, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, That's.
Speaker 1: What that's on my mind. But I I see how
Speaker 1: they fucking me, how Pop taking me out the game
Speaker 1: and in certain situations, are I make a mistake.
Speaker 2: He yanked me out trying to fuck with me mentally.
Speaker 2: So when the playoffs came, you know, I ate all
Speaker 2: that shit. I still I just went to work. Wasn't
Speaker 2: paying no attention to all that and I was able
Speaker 2: to play good. But I was excited to be in
Speaker 2: the playoffs because not only was I in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: I was at home.
Speaker 1: I was in Texas five so all my family could drive,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Everybody got a chance to see me play in the
Speaker 2: playoffs and to win that motherfucker in San Antonio was
Speaker 2: a great feeling, you know what I'm saying, because you
Speaker 2: know what I went through to get to the league.
Speaker 2: Broke both of my foot, try both my feet, tried
Speaker 2: off for eighteen NBA teams got cut by damn near
Speaker 2: everybody went overseas and my third year, I'm getting a chip,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So that was a that
Speaker 2: was a different feeling, and I'm glad I was able
Speaker 2: to get it. Earlier in my career, because you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, You get that motherfucker earlier career, you
Speaker 2: might never get back to the finals the rest of
Speaker 2: your career. So I was lucky to see I played
Speaker 2: in the West Conference finals a couple times. They won
Speaker 2: the championship early. That that's a dope, bad story.
Speaker 1: Fuck the Spurs though, yeah, take me back to them
Speaker 1: Golden State days. Man, when y'all be listen, bro, A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to talk about.
Speaker 3: This, but you're supposed to bet that with us. Let's
Speaker 3: we don't go there, Anna. This is about y'all, man.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, the young Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying going into how much confidence
Speaker 3: did y'all have going into the Dallas series and probably
Speaker 3: to that series. What was y'all record like that year
Speaker 3: because you played each other full times? Do you remember
Speaker 3: do you recall what y'all?
Speaker 1: You know? If they beat the ship out of them
Speaker 1: all full times? Oh wow, So y'all was already confident
Speaker 1: if we didn't beat them, for we beat them three
Speaker 1: out of four, you know what I'm saying. And you
Speaker 1: know that was don else every time we played them,
Speaker 1: it was like his championship game. Oh yeah, because Nelly
Speaker 1: was personal. He was beefing with him, right, He was
Speaker 1: suing them at the time. He was you know, he
Speaker 1: was suing marcuting for money and something like that time.
Speaker 1: So they was beefing. So when we was getting ready
Speaker 1: to play him in the.
Speaker 2: Playoffs, his whole attitude was, I don't give a fuck
Speaker 2: about nothing.
Speaker 1: We have to beat them. Afterwards. I'm gonna tell I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get you that after the what happened after this,
Speaker 1: I don't They basically say, he don't even care about
Speaker 1: the season after that, this is my championship. We have
Speaker 1: to beat them. You know.
Speaker 2: That's they played this whole style. He drafted Dirt. I
Speaker 2: think he was there when they drafted Dirt, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So he he had some man connects
Speaker 2: to that team. He had built that whole team, so
Speaker 2: he knew how to break it. The chinks in the armor.
Speaker 1: Bro. He gave me Dirt's the Playbook of Dirt. I
Speaker 1: Hot of Guard, and I did and he won MVP
Speaker 1: that year. You know, it's crazy. They didn't get out
Speaker 1: the first round, and up until that point, no no
Speaker 1: player has ever won in v It never got out
Speaker 1: of the first round. And that's that Cuban effect. Not
Speaker 1: to take anything away from yeah, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because you still gotta play any two you you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Everything is earned. But man, man I
Speaker 1: had I had a real issue with that. You know,
Speaker 1: as everybody did. You know what I'm saying, because we
Speaker 1: all been in those talks, we all been right there.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: We ate all they food, bro Lord, they couldn't come
Speaker 2: in the lunch room. It's only you know, the stack house,
Speaker 2: you know, came in the lunch room and grabbing some
Speaker 2: food and ran out of the every now and then.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. He was the only one
Speaker 1: really really getting buckets and going to you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He was stepping up.
Speaker 2: But the rest of the team don't come in the
Speaker 2: lunch room matter fact, come buy food and walk out.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. The whole series. We went down.
Speaker 1: We went down in one game one in Dallas, and
Speaker 1: I want to throw the side note of here, this
Speaker 1: is when small ball is implemented and it's fucking up
Speaker 1: the league and it's listen, it's fucking up the league
Speaker 1: because the biggest can't play with the pace, and you
Speaker 1: gotta have one big. The league has been built off
Speaker 1: of two bigs, and those two bigs usually bring the
Speaker 1: pain and form this wall and the paint. If you
Speaker 1: don't have one of them bigs in there, your defense
Speaker 1: is damned near shot from a from a strategic you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Oh, but if he puts small
Speaker 1: ball in, now you have bigs having the guard threes.
Speaker 1: Two's slashers he he he, Listen, you know what slashers
Speaker 1: know how to do slash. You know how big bigs
Speaker 1: don't know how to guard slasher? You say, do I deny?
Speaker 1: What do I do? So? Guess what if you don't
Speaker 1: teach the big how to guard slasher? He he hit
Speaker 1: it the first quarter yard, I gotta bring a two
Speaker 1: or three in here. Now you're giving up an officer rebounding.
Speaker 1: Now he's six, saying, guess what he's not gonna do.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna shrink no time soon. So when the
Speaker 1: ball go up and there's three six eight, motherfuckers, here
Speaker 1: gets your six five six, two six y four guards too,
Speaker 1: guards right, because we got they gotta chase. Y'all, guess
Speaker 1: what now he not quit slashing. He's back, He's back there,
Speaker 1: he's posted up now. That was Donasa as soon as
Speaker 1: he said small ball fucked up the league from from
Speaker 1: how do regard this? And then if you figured it out,
Speaker 1: it was three years don Nelsia's out the league, y'all spoiler, Like, lord,
Speaker 1: don't nobody know what small ball did? Fuck the whole
Speaker 1: thing up. It cut the whole hold on, do I
Speaker 1: get more forwards or do I get more threes? Like
Speaker 1: real shit? Then analytics come in here. Analytics fucked us
Speaker 1: all up. Don't take the two no more. He loved
Speaker 1: threes and that little that little that John getting to
Speaker 1: the three, that little side three, that's his favorite. That's
Speaker 1: pull that motherfucksh hold, I said, man man Joe, like,
Speaker 1: I'm saying that to say the context that not only
Speaker 1: did you have the Bible to Dirk and how to
Speaker 1: lock it up, and but y'all had small Ball and
Speaker 1: no one was prepared for that. We had dogs too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like b D Steve Nash BD had thirty points the
Speaker 1: first game in Dallas. Bro I'm telling up, I'm on
Speaker 1: the court. But I'm like this, I don't even want
Speaker 1: the ball, Bro, I'm enjoying watching you Friday's motherfuckers on
Speaker 1: national TV for game one, the number one seed in
Speaker 1: the league, they had nothing for us, Bro, and we
Speaker 1: got kicked out two of the two out of the
Speaker 1: six games in the series and still won and six damn.
Speaker 1: I gave him thirty three in game seven.
Speaker 2: Dang to visit cent I mean yeah, the game six,
Speaker 2: Game six, the centem home gave him thirty three something home.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But see, we had the blue Press, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: we had a team full of dogs, Bro, me bead
Speaker 2: al mad Monte. You know what I'm saying. Like, we
Speaker 2: were just hungry, Bro. We were already counted out, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, And we should. I think we
Speaker 2: won like sixteen out our last twenty one game, So make.
Speaker 1: The playoffs some ship like that crazy you make it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Run Yeah, I got yep, I.
Speaker 2: Got traded, missing suspended seven games when I first got
Speaker 2: there for the shoot out of Strip Club when I
Speaker 2: first got there, So I missed seven games as soon
Speaker 2: as I get there.
Speaker 1: But we go on the road.
Speaker 2: We start off shady because we didn't have no camaraderie.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell y'all. When the team clicked, we all
Speaker 2: met up in my crib and smoked over after that,
Speaker 2: after practice, we all met up in my crib. We
Speaker 2: was like, man, how we gonna turn this shit around?
Speaker 2: Me beat Matt j Ridge, Monte. We all sat in
Speaker 2: my crib and burn and burned something about how we
Speaker 2: gonna turn this shit around, turn to the round, and
Speaker 2: Bad said the craziest shit ever, and that shit stick
Speaker 2: with all of us.
Speaker 1: This nigga bet saye big big, big room for us.
Speaker 1: We all looking at He was like and Park too.
Speaker 1: We was like, y'alls hard, no, look but look that's Dinny. No.
Speaker 2: If you know Baron Davis, he say ship like that, Bro,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So we all crying, laughing
Speaker 2: and shit. That all stuck with us, like you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Like we think about that moment. That's
Speaker 2: when it clicked. We all laughing and ship the high
Speaker 2: and shit. But after that we went on a run, bro, y'all.
Speaker 2: We went on the run from that moment.
Speaker 1: And Nelly was the type of coach for that type
Speaker 1: of team. Bro. After we beat Dallas, me and Nellie
Speaker 1: stayed at the same building. Fox. He had the he
Speaker 1: had the whole roof, right. So he tells us to
Speaker 1: come into a spot. You already know what time it is.
Speaker 1: We celebrating, like we want to check me and Matt
Speaker 1: hit the door. Hey Jack go in the back Woody
Speaker 1: Harrison on Wilson back there Roland dubies. Wow at this spot.
Speaker 1: That was our coach dog. We get our last drug
Speaker 1: test and you talk for the second round. It's all certified,
Speaker 1: by the way. Yeah what I'm saying. He meet, he meet,
Speaker 1: he meet me, me and Bede. When we come up
Speaker 1: to the locker room with our yellow, our pink slip,
Speaker 1: he giving us high fives. He know what time it is.
Speaker 1: We ain't got to hide it. No, we love Nellie
Speaker 1: bro Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, and he's in if you ain't know Waii, he's
Speaker 2: in Mawi right now. He has his own strand called
Speaker 2: Maui Wowie Nellie Weed. Yeah, Nelly cuts, go get it,
Speaker 2: fuck with you, shout to Nelly.
Speaker 1: Got that. Soon they're done. He was one of one
Speaker 1: Joe my favorite Don Nelson story. He show up to
Speaker 1: the joint. Boy, he got the whole beer in here. Boy.
Speaker 1: He coaching the all Star game. So look, guys, cigars man,
Speaker 1: he was drinking a mill of highlight while he was
Speaker 1: talking about what was about to go on. Cold got
Speaker 1: the look we look up. Cole got the Cold got
Speaker 1: the one, two, three hot packs on the right arm,
Speaker 1: three hot packs on the All Star and the All
Speaker 1: Star got. This is how he's sitting on the thing
Speaker 1: listening to done Nelson. We all ain't even over. But
Speaker 1: what you about to do? We just bust out laughing
Speaker 1: Nelly drinking beer, laughing with listen, you know we can't.
Speaker 1: The niggas came down from twenty five beers. M Who
Speaker 1: you got? Uh? Who you coming? Who you got coming
Speaker 1: out on top of all this whole series of this
Speaker 1: whole thing, this whole playoffs. You got top of who who?
Speaker 1: King of the hill housing the trophy? And yeah yeah
Speaker 1: yeah overlightable, Yeah yeah, I'm basically your finals MVP.
Speaker 2: My finals MVP. Mm oh yeah hm, well I got
Speaker 2: the Warriors winning it. Mm I got the Warriors winning it,
Speaker 2: and I got stuff as the MVP.
Speaker 1: Ooh.
Speaker 2: But if I had to pick somebody who name is
Speaker 2: gonna be ringing even if he don't win the championship,
Speaker 2: it's John Morant I think he's gonna make some noise
Speaker 2: and all the shit that's been said about him. You know,
Speaker 2: I think this is his time to shut everybody up.
Speaker 2: I've been in a situation like that, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, where everybody just talking about you because they
Speaker 2: get a chance to kick you while you down and
Speaker 2: you make a mistake. We all make mistakes giving all
Speaker 2: this money as a youngster, I made mistakes, so but
Speaker 2: they try to make it seem like the world is over.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad to get a chance to redeem himself.
Speaker 2: And I think he gonna do that with Flying Colors
Speaker 2: as playoffs series, m you know, we went for the
Speaker 2: under dollars.
Speaker 1: With doubt, no doubt shot the job. Man. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm curious to see what type of run he
Speaker 1: has too, you know what I'm saying, Man, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a good ask question. God damn who you got
Speaker 1: winning it? Man? It's gonna sound crazy, but man, Joe, Man,
Speaker 1: I want man Phoenix. Bro Hey, how that sound crazy?
Speaker 1: Because in the back of all our mind, I wanna
Speaker 1: say that, I'm saying, i'm'a listen, I wanna say Phoenix
Speaker 1: is gonna see Milwaukee again, but I won't. I really
Speaker 1: want the Seege to win this, bro, Bro, I I'm
Speaker 1: watching the narrative, you know, you know, you know, I
Speaker 1: like to think that one of my superpowers being able
Speaker 1: to catch uh rhythm and catch styles and how shit flow. Right, Man,
Speaker 1: It's nothing better than a a greater narrative than to me,
Speaker 1: you know, I I I obviously I want I want
Speaker 1: the Seege to win it. I'm being biased, but I
Speaker 1: think they've done enough throughout the whole year to get
Speaker 1: to a certain year. But I'm watching also how Milwaukee
Speaker 1: is moving. Milwaukee is moving at a different a different ratem.
Speaker 1: I'm watching brook Low pairs and uh jew Holidays play
Speaker 1: is just on another level. I'm just saying it. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm worried about the Middleton Creston mark, right,
Speaker 1: but I'm just watching in the line. I'm watching the
Speaker 1: Seas make a similar balance, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Tatummate as fiery, but man, Jay Brown is doing his thing.
Speaker 1: So I'm just up in the air. But when I
Speaker 1: sit back and watch it, man, I'm I'm I'm man.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting on Phoenix to get it and when
Speaker 1: they click boom boom, you know it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: ugly or what the possibilities is. And I'm just reaching here, Yo, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got I got the motherfucker like Devin Book or
Speaker 1: Chris Paul being the MVP, and that's the narrative, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Cause they gonna need a KD
Speaker 1: to beat up Milwaukee or something like that. But man,
Speaker 1: Phoenix Milwaukee, Uh finals, f uh Phoenix Celtics Finals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then I'm going tatum. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Somebody or Jay Brown or something like.
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of dope narratives here that that that
Speaker 1: I think is gonna come out of this. But yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll see. Lord listen to every player in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all something. Yes, it's gonna hurt. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hurt. Yeah, you're gonna hurt more than hurt.
Speaker 1: That's why they got taller' all, so they got ad
Speaker 1: This why they got all this other shit. Right, you're
Speaker 1: gonna hurt and when you go hard, Yes, it's gonna
Speaker 1: hurt a little more. Yes, it's gonna hurt. This is
Speaker 1: the professional range. This is what the top is. But
Speaker 1: guess what when you get to that game and you
Speaker 1: gotta make that rotation and that talk is loud swing swings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what this is. The fuck y'all thought this was this?
Speaker 1: Ain't that walk down? Come up here, do that? Non,
Speaker 1: This ain't none of that. This is the top, bro,
Speaker 1: and the top. It's gonna hurt in the top. You're
Speaker 1: gonna limp in the top. You're gonna play hurt, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to gain your respect. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying to every nigga out here playing to every
Speaker 1: cat out here playing the ass off, you gotta do that.
Speaker 1: That's what's expected. We're not gonna give you flowers for
Speaker 1: something you're supposed to do. This is part of being
Speaker 1: a professional, nah man. I'm seeing niggas hit niggas on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, when we start swinging on each other at
Speaker 1: the bitch bro bro, bro b the other team, bro. Come,
Speaker 1: we don't bite each other, grown bro man. The league
Speaker 1: gotta get a big brother perspective in this, and we
Speaker 1: gotta get a big brother I don't even know what
Speaker 1: to call it. We gotta get a big brother system
Speaker 1: in here to teach the narrative, or to baby, to
Speaker 1: teach culture, to teach how to be a profession you nobody.
Speaker 1: They don't want that in there though, because when I'm
Speaker 1: teaching you something, I'm gonna teach you how to be
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of whole king, how to stand on
Speaker 1: your crown, how to leverage It's that's why they ain't
Speaker 1: gonna let us in here, because when I'm gonna give you,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna just give you no basketball show. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this imagination when it comes to the
Speaker 1: CBA and how to grow your shit and how to
Speaker 1: control your movement. Nah, then them jewels they don't want that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, but I'm being honest
Speaker 1: to what I'm saying here. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like real shit, being a professional, bro, this is what
Speaker 1: it is. All this shit I'm talking about. You can
Speaker 1: go ask any vet that's not did it he gonna
Speaker 1: he gonna he gonna add on to what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But yeah, news flash, this is the top and this
Speaker 1: is what it is to be on top. Straight up.
Speaker 1: This ain't none of that other ship. This ain't China.
Speaker 1: Respect to the other leagues. But the NBA, the NBA
Speaker 1: is only what it's only four hundred of us four
Speaker 1: twenty if it's right, feel me, yeah, like five hundred
Speaker 1: now four fifty fifty. Man, come on, man, come on,
Speaker 1: man as chosen few and that's earned. And so you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And this ain't noning title shit, Bro,
Speaker 1: you gotta earn that, you know.
Speaker 2: I I think a lot of players too, like we
Speaker 2: can we say, like if you ask us about people
Speaker 2: we played on the team, where I'll be like, man,
Speaker 2: y'all want we went to wall together?
Speaker 1: Facts?
Speaker 2: A lot of times you actually players today know they say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I played with him, We was on the same team. Mm,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, because they didn't rock how
Speaker 2: we rocked with each other?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like we was with each
Speaker 1: other as teammates more than we with our own.
Speaker 2: Family, all right, Right, So when we approach the games,
Speaker 2: like a lot of people that I played with, a
Speaker 2: lot of us was counted out and one supposed to
Speaker 2: be here. So we have a different chip on our
Speaker 2: shoulder when we go out there, we go on the wall, Bro,
Speaker 2: were trying to win, We're trying to be little on you, bro.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying that that that's our mind frame,
Speaker 2: kill or be killed? That that was our mindframe. So
Speaker 2: they don't have that attitude now, dog. And that's why
Speaker 2: it's easy to see it. Just the statuy that I
Speaker 2: came up, I uh sart o the day, first time
Speaker 2: in Big history where every team that scored eighty points
Speaker 2: some more in every game.
Speaker 1: Damn, scoring is up, is what you're saying. No defense,
Speaker 1: that's no competing. Defense is competing. Well, the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: already know what time it is. Defense wins championship. That's
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And that's and defense is
Speaker 1: competing though, and so they by by them want more
Speaker 1: points and less defense. They want to take the competition
Speaker 1: at the game. Bro. They want them to be friends.
Speaker 1: They want them to be hanging out together and working
Speaker 1: out in the summer time. That's what they want, and
Speaker 1: that's what the game has come to. Damn, man, ship,
Speaker 1: we could have we could have kept going on that,
Speaker 1: hey man, And that's certified. Let's get it good ship, bro,
Speaker 1: These are the better gym picture of the Wigs. Let's
Speaker 1: get that man. The Hawks in Boston, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead, and I'm gonna say that I got the
Speaker 1: I got the seas for the series, but in this
Speaker 1: particular game, I got to seize at home. I think
Speaker 1: it's very important to come my winn this first game,
Speaker 1: established home, established dominance, established play and pace. I think
Speaker 1: it's a very important. It's vital, you know. I think
Speaker 1: it's very vital for the for the Celtics to come
Speaker 1: out and not give a young Hawks team that has confidence,
Speaker 1: has the players. Yeah, I think it's vital that they
Speaker 1: come out with a with a great game one to
Speaker 1: establish what the series is gonna be. But I got
Speaker 1: the Celtics winning first game and I got them winning
Speaker 1: the series. Listen, I see these two teams is very
Speaker 1: very close to each other. And I'm not saying in
Speaker 1: personnel or anything like that, but just how they play
Speaker 1: and how Yeah, I like both teams. I like uh,
Speaker 1: I like Cleveland at home. I think Cleveland is a
Speaker 1: problem just like I think New York is a problem
Speaker 1: at home. I think Cleveland plays well at home. Man,
Speaker 1: I think this game, I think the series goes to seven,
Speaker 1: seven games. I think, man if if if New York
Speaker 1: can win a game in Cleveland, I think it changes
Speaker 1: the scope of the series. But I think in this series,
Speaker 1: each team wins at home, and this is gonna be
Speaker 1: one of the ones. I got Cleveland winning the series.
Speaker 1: Oh but very very close, straight up, yeah I do,
Speaker 1: even though I think in my mind I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this like if Cleveland wins Game one, New York is
Speaker 1: that team. Seeing Brunson and how he's been taking over games,
Speaker 1: how Randall has to potential to do some of the
Speaker 1: same thing. I think that if you you get a
Speaker 1: you get a third piece, like like like I like
Speaker 1: the Kid Grimes man, the Quentin grind Grimes kid man
Speaker 1: like man, He's he's like a He's like a dark horse.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody really speaking about you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like I like him. But at the end, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know if the Knicks got enough to to to
Speaker 1: beat that talented Cavs team. So yeah, I got, I got, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got the Captain Man. Game one Warriors at Kings
Speaker 1: This is gonna be much watch TV. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a great series. I think this is a series
Speaker 1: of pace. The Warriors play like trash on the road,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But this is the playoffs
Speaker 1: and they got pieces back. I like to think that
Speaker 1: they're they're the hunted and they're gonna come in motivated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got this first game. Sack and sack at home
Speaker 1: is gonna be a problem at home. I think I
Speaker 1: think it helps the narrative for them to win at home.
Speaker 1: And I think their crowd is gonna make a huge difference.
Speaker 1: That home crowd is gonna be a really big, a
Speaker 1: really big issue and that we're not talking about. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I got I got the Kings. I got the Kings
Speaker 1: winning the first game Sunday, Sunday Ay Lakers Lakers, who
Speaker 1: Lakers playing the Grizzlies at the Grizzlies. I think, I
Speaker 1: think it makes for a great TV. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Memphis wins this first game, and I got Memphis
Speaker 1: in the for the series. I don't know if Bron
Speaker 1: and the company has enough gas. I actually like Bron's
Speaker 1: company versus uh, you know, the team they started off with.
Speaker 1: I like Beasley, I like Vanderbilt, I like I like
Speaker 1: all the pieces, and I think the key matchup two
Speaker 1: is gonna be that Anthony Davis Jared Jackson junior matchup.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. Matchup. Whoever dominates that I think,
Speaker 1: I think, I think definitely controls the series. And those
Speaker 1: are the bedoms GM picks of the Week.