Speaker 1: People don't know that man. Jered West put his his his,
Speaker 1: his everything on the line to align with players when
Speaker 1: they was getting shitty conditions and when black people couldn't
Speaker 1: come into like certain restaurants or certain certain r uh
Speaker 1: hotels through the front door. Jared West uh uh uh
Speaker 1: uh set the precedent to that. Nah. If they can't
Speaker 1: go through and I ain't going through here, and if
Speaker 1: we can't go through here, we ain't staying here. He
Speaker 1: helped the Brothers understand the power of their dollar. You
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. This is before the emergence of
Speaker 1: the ABA. This is for the emergence of of Leed.
Speaker 1: This is when the Lakers and the Celtics really carried
Speaker 1: the little handful of teams the league had. You remember
Speaker 1: this peak, You remember all this? Bro. Listen, man, this
Speaker 1: smallfucker was a godfather. Bro. It was not by coincidence.
Speaker 1: He kept a job in the league all these years.
Speaker 1: Found a member, bro, part of the order. He was.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't become the logo if you ain't
Speaker 1: part of what we doing. He's been in the fraternity. Bro.
Speaker 1: He's like the closest thing we got to a godfather, bro.
Speaker 1: Real shit, what were any experience that you had Jerry weston?
Speaker 1: So so for everybody who watching this, bro, Jerry West
Speaker 1: was like the ultimate godfather. If you saw him in
Speaker 1: the building, you had to go speak to him, you
Speaker 1: had to go say what's up? And it was rightfully
Speaker 1: so he would give you some mentor advice preloaded already
Speaker 1: for when you pulled up on him. Hey, how you
Speaker 1: doing your fella? Have you staying in shape? Hey, how's
Speaker 1: the family? Blah blah blah. You know, he was just
Speaker 1: a cold ass mentor, one hundred percent always on. Pee.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen Jerry West and he ain't never
Speaker 1: been on? Have you ever just popped up with him?
Speaker 1: And he just Lord, he was always going. If you
Speaker 1: sat there, he would be sitting there analyzing the game
Speaker 1: as a coach. Then he'd be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, if they brought it in advertising right here
Speaker 1: on his left side, right here, they can pay for
Speaker 1: this whole Like he was just always on, Bro. He
Speaker 1: was the constant, constant, constant mentor. Bro.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember, but Will's at the
Speaker 2: at the Cleveland seventy five ceremony when me and you
Speaker 2: and mckill was by the bar and then Jerry west
Speaker 2: came over.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolute remember that moment. He was like these damn Celtics.
Speaker 3: It says something he said.
Speaker 1: Yeah on some I still have nightmares about your business.
Speaker 1: And you didn't know how real of a nigga he was.
Speaker 1: He got a lot of brothers respect on how he
Speaker 1: actually approached the game. That motherfucker was an animal, Broke.
Speaker 1: You hear what I'm saying. You see that Steph Curry focused,
Speaker 1: or that James Harden focused when or that p or
Speaker 1: that bron when they get into that locked inn. Bro
Speaker 1: he had another level of locked in to where he
Speaker 1: was the original. That's where we got that from. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He was one of the original
Speaker 1: greatest shooters. He started that. He set the president for that.
Speaker 1: But he was one of the most feared. He man
Speaker 1: when he played man, he played with eternacity. He was
Speaker 1: the most He was one of the most respected people
Speaker 1: thought because hits. You know his how he looked this shit. Bro.
Speaker 1: Man was an animal. Bro. I think he even said it, bro,
Speaker 1: I was a wolf. I ate dogs. Whoa that's a
Speaker 1: bar man. Shout out to the great Jerry west Man
Speaker 1: straight up condolences to the west Family, the Ryan west Man.
Speaker 1: We lost a great one today. Yo, Pete Man, what's
Speaker 1: your view on Shorty getting left off the Olympic team.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just thought it was I just thought
Speaker 2: it was a bad move to Y. Whether you like
Speaker 2: it or not, you're trying to grow women's game, Whether
Speaker 2: you like it or not, this is an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The US said they came out and said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she ain't had enough reps.
Speaker 3: Well, it don't matter.
Speaker 2: I don't care what the reps is and I don't
Speaker 2: care how political this is. Yes, politics, yep, it show
Speaker 2: is because when Sabonis get left off the All Star
Speaker 2: team for Anthony Davis, it's politics. When you know certain
Speaker 2: things happen, it's politics. Politics coming to play on everything.
Speaker 1: Politics are part of the growth.
Speaker 2: It's part of everything, any type of growth. So when
Speaker 2: you don't take advantage of that, you drop the ball. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know what I'm saying, what you want
Speaker 2: to say, and the animosity and whatever y'all got tought
Speaker 2: or she since she been here, or if you want
Speaker 2: to throw Angel Reese in there, she probably should have
Speaker 2: been on the two. Throw Angel Reese on there too.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So that's what I would
Speaker 2: have did personally, angel Rees and Caitlin. I would have
Speaker 2: put both of them on Olympic team for the simple
Speaker 2: fact that I really didn't watch the Olympic girls just
Speaker 2: to be one hundred witch. But if that had to happen,
Speaker 2: I probably would have watched one hundred. You know, I
Speaker 2: catch the highlights here and see that they've been just
Speaker 2: blowing everybody about a fifty. Like, you know, they didn't
Speaker 2: want that last eight eight Olympics and we always catch
Speaker 2: the gold, you know. But like she I'm gonna watch
Speaker 2: the preliminaries and the pool play and all that. If
Speaker 2: they throw these two on there, like would you. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna catch it, Like, okay, let me see what
Speaker 2: they on. Let me let me see what they're on with.
Speaker 2: You know, if they gonna play, even if they played
Speaker 2: them two five minutes, I would have tuned in, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, And they would have gotten national
Speaker 2: coverage if they think about, like all the sports is
Speaker 2: playing at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like say you got one hundred.
Speaker 2: Meters, the swimming and the basketball all on the same time.
Speaker 2: If she's on that team, they.
Speaker 1: Gonna give that the coverage that day, right, Ain't no
Speaker 1: more Michael Phelps.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's fifty to fifty. If you're gonna
Speaker 2: throw uh, what's my girl name the Olympia?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 2: Uh small boughs? If she performing it in the basketball?
Speaker 2: If fifty fifty, who they're gonna throw on? You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, I just think that just for
Speaker 2: that aspect, And I don't even care what nobody else think.
Speaker 1: You should have did it. I think USA dropped the
Speaker 1: ball on this. Yeah, and as we see here, man,
Speaker 1: I say this wholeheardly man, media, X players, GMS, everybody
Speaker 1: who has a take on this. Man, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: the responsibility. It's our responsibility now as just not X players,
Speaker 1: but now analysts. It's our responsibility to grow the game,
Speaker 1: not just through the through through concept and through analysts
Speaker 1: and being analytical and giving our views on the game,
Speaker 1: but being able to articulate the game to the viewer
Speaker 1: and what they're watching and what's going on is that
Speaker 1: we have a we have an obvious new wave coming
Speaker 1: in here. I spoke to this, bro, I spoke to
Speaker 1: this we have a new wave coming in and it's
Speaker 1: being denied. You know, I think I think everybody's I
Speaker 1: think the w n B A and this is just
Speaker 1: my view. Bro. They've established something and they built something, right,
Speaker 1: they got something. But in order to in order to
Speaker 1: take it to another level, you gotta have another level
Speaker 1: of not just interest, but influence politics in there. You
Speaker 1: gotta have talent too. Bro. It's a new wave that
Speaker 1: is here and it's got a major blockage on it. Man,
Speaker 1: listen to everybody out here, Bro, We're not fighting over
Speaker 1: the pot has been established. The ideal is to grow
Speaker 1: the pie. That's what we're trying to do here. And
Speaker 1: now we're four years behind for not putting these girls
Speaker 1: on the team. Now, I agree with you. Both of
Speaker 1: them should have been on that because what you're saying
Speaker 1: now is that I'm gearing enough for the next four years.
Speaker 1: These girls, You're right, they ain't been on the team.
Speaker 1: Guess what, This is no better opportunity to bring in
Speaker 1: some younger talent to see how it's done. And that's
Speaker 1: how tradition is brought. It's passed down. Man. This is
Speaker 1: a fraternity. There are sorority in this whole thing. Knowledge
Speaker 1: is gonna get passed down Bro, we're not around each
Speaker 1: other enough for us to be exchanging information, and shit,
Speaker 1: this is when you do it. Bro. Man, Man did
Speaker 1: not not only drop the ball, but it set us back. Bro,
Speaker 1: what you mean, reps? This girl plays basketball and has
Speaker 1: played basketball against every type of defense defender, the best
Speaker 1: that the female has, She's seen it. You hear what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Man, you made a lie? Boston? Could she
Speaker 1: if none on that could have been on that? I
Speaker 1: don't know it. You know what I'm saying. I'm saying
Speaker 1: this to say, the gear up for the next Yeah,
Speaker 1: they want a Yeah, it's time for some new energy
Speaker 1: and what y'all built has to take another step. And
Speaker 1: you can't take a step if you ain't got the
Speaker 1: talent and you ain't got the interest, and you ain't
Speaker 1: got the all of it to go with it. And
Speaker 1: this new wave is going. Hey listen, these young girls
Speaker 1: keep receipts too. Bro. These new girls are finnive. Take
Speaker 1: the league. They gonna come back. Bro, It's important to
Speaker 1: establish some type of medium ground here. Man. But I
Speaker 1: thought the USA Basketball dropped us for this.
Speaker 3: Ain't a USA Basketball came out said.
Speaker 1: I don't care about I don't give a fuck about that.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, though, is that they dropped the ball
Speaker 1: in progressing our game. Nobody plays like shorty. All you
Speaker 1: young girls out there, if you're a point guard, if
Speaker 1: you're a two guard, if you ain't got something left right,
Speaker 1: two step back, three ball from bomb, bro, the wave
Speaker 1: gonna be like that. We ain't even seen this monster
Speaker 1: that's in college called Jujus. You understand, she's sitting back
Speaker 1: watching all this shit. She a whole nother wave. You understand.
Speaker 1: I was through her on too, bro. Bro. What I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that these young girls are the waves, and
Speaker 1: you gotta implement them to get to the wave. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to put them in the wave at some point,
Speaker 1: Diana Tarassi and Caitlin Clark in the same room with knowledge, Man,
Speaker 1: that's fucking unbelievable. And guess what after this. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can still have that same room. Foh yes,
Speaker 1: Kitlen Clark gonna be a lot more smarter. She's gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot more to say. She's gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot more, a lot more to you feel what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know everybody's interested to come together, bro, and
Speaker 1: this ain't it. I ain't feeling none of this, This
Speaker 1: ain't this doesn't propel us. And then too, this new
Speaker 1: wave of basketball. Man, let's just be honest. Ain't nobody
Speaker 1: don't nobody want to see it? Come down? Throw it
Speaker 1: in the post in twenty eight times? This ain't that
Speaker 1: ain't the wave. The wave is paced today. When we
Speaker 1: talk about the fucking Celtics and the MAVs, guess what
Speaker 1: the one thing we got talk about. We got to
Speaker 1: talk about the pace of the game. That is gonna
Speaker 1: have to make the pace of the game quicker because
Speaker 1: they're not scoring enough. They're not even damn they're getting
Speaker 1: a hundred points. You hear what I'm saying. I say
Speaker 1: that to say that the pace and the wave of
Speaker 1: where we going is high paced basketball, high end offense.
Speaker 1: And if you ain't got it, you can't be in this.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna leave a lot of people out of it.
Speaker 1: And that's where we're at. That's what I got to say, yo,
Speaker 1: respect real shit, straight up. Damn Yo. Think about that.
Speaker 1: The globalization of her putting out game, a women's game
Speaker 1: on the map like this with Angel Reese. You hear me,
Speaker 1: bro Dan, you can actually be hands on with these
Speaker 1: young ladies when they're around you. Hey, hey, there's too
Speaker 1: much pride going on right now. Man, the ogs need
Speaker 1: to put some pride aside and accept these young girls. Man,
Speaker 1: they've helped grow the game. Y'all done. Y'all part TC's
Speaker 1: young girls on how to grow the game. Be beatn
Speaker 1: be on that shit.
Speaker 2: I think if you see the excitement surrounded around the
Speaker 2: women's game, if you added these.
Speaker 1: Two kicklon clerk and it takes it to another level.
Speaker 3: It takes it to another level.
Speaker 2: Now when they're not in the w NBA and they
Speaker 2: go over to China or they go over here to play,
Speaker 2: the money up, money up everywhere, money up here, tho
Speaker 2: stances up everywhere. So it's beyond the WNBA, is bro,
Speaker 2: this is about you, the countries that's like, oh damn,
Speaker 2: we need we need these girls out here playing with
Speaker 2: us over here in Greece, facts over.
Speaker 1: Here in China, right over in Spain, over here in Spain. Right.
Speaker 2: So now they go from making you know, because a
Speaker 2: lot of them played over there, because that's where they
Speaker 2: brand butter come from. Because they weren't getting in the
Speaker 2: w NBA. So that money go up now.
Speaker 1: Too, everything goes up. The pie is being grown. You
Speaker 1: don't even have to go nowhere no more. You can
Speaker 1: damn just sit here and then the summer if you
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, go back to where you at, respectfully,
Speaker 1: have camps, have all bunch of whole bunch of program
Speaker 1: where you established. Bro, that's the move. Don't nobody want
Speaker 1: to do that though? And I get it, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody to their own individual but this is about growing
Speaker 1: the pie. And if you don't understand that, then you
Speaker 1: don't understand what's what's going on. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's respect to all the ladies, man, real shit, this
Speaker 1: is about growing y'all man, And yeah, we all got
Speaker 1: something to say about it. So respect everybody who has
Speaker 1: something to say. That's my take. Let's get it. Let's
Speaker 1: get into this ship. Yeah, y'all know what it is. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: taking the truth baby. Yeah. I want to start off
Speaker 1: the show by saying big respects to Jerry West, Respects
Speaker 1: to the West family. You know what I'm saying, Condonuss
Speaker 1: to the West family and everything Jerry West was to
Speaker 1: our league. Man, we miss your godfather. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want to just say, like just the influence.
Speaker 2: First off, we lost a second basketball icon within the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, you know, the first being Bill
Speaker 2: Walden and now Jerry West. It's just a sad day
Speaker 2: for the NBA brotherhood when you lose godfathers, guys who
Speaker 2: are pioneers of this.
Speaker 3: League, who helped build it to what it was today.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you know what Bill Walton brought to the game
Speaker 2: on the court and off the court with us play
Speaker 2: in this analyst of the NBA in college. Obviously you
Speaker 2: know Jerry West to be one of the great players, executives,
Speaker 2: the logo cornerstone, you know, and one of the forefathers
Speaker 2: of the league. And so today is really a sad
Speaker 2: day for the NBA family. And you know it's just
Speaker 2: you just never know. So value your friendships, value the
Speaker 2: people you admire, you know, and don't hold grudges.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That's all I can say, because.
Speaker 2: You just never know. So we love you, Wes. What
Speaker 2: you brought to the game. The logo will never be forgotten.
Speaker 1: Respect. Go ahead, and Nate, you said that Tarass Oh
Speaker 1: no we can we can move on. No, no, no, Tarasi
Speaker 1: has going for her six go go go.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's ever going to happen. Ever, in
Speaker 4: like us, say basketball, six gold medal, that means twenty
Speaker 4: four years of playing basketball. She's forty two years old.
Speaker 4: That means she started her USA basketball.
Speaker 1: Career eighteen, so she was still a Connecticut.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, I damn doing the math. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's going for six gold medal. She's still averaging sixteen
Speaker 4: in the WNBA two at forty two years old. So
Speaker 4: just a shout out to her, man.
Speaker 1: Shout to the white mam. But man, man, dt man,
Speaker 1: she stayed doing it. Man, she won the originals of it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. She's carried not only the league,
Speaker 1: but you know, that prestige, that level she's she's always
Speaker 1: she's one of the ones. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: her rap, she's just crazy. Huge respect to Diana Man
Speaker 1: and what she's accomplished in this league, what she's going
Speaker 1: to continue to do. I think with her personality, just
Speaker 1: being able to work with her in a couple of
Speaker 1: times on some content. Man, she's funny and shit, she
Speaker 1: got a crazy personality. She got a wealth of knowledge
Speaker 1: that I think that she can share with a lot
Speaker 1: of these young ladies. That. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: these young ladies need a lot of these young nay
Speaker 1: let the young ladies need script yo. And Diana's not
Speaker 1: done it on the top of the top, not just collegiate,
Speaker 1: but in the pros. And then she's with international. She's
Speaker 1: been that, she's been that woman. She's been her for
Speaker 1: a long time and she got the personality. I think
Speaker 1: she's gonna bring another level to the content world, to
Speaker 1: the broadcasting world if she chooses to do that, because
Speaker 1: I think she's that great all around. She's she's totally
Speaker 1: three sixty. Shouts to Diana Man the white Mama, Yo.
Speaker 2: Shout out to d right up t I had a
Speaker 2: chance to up watch her at Connecticut real, you know,
Speaker 2: being in the Northeast and following the legendary team she
Speaker 2: played on and her for to carry that on to
Speaker 2: the w NBA going for her sixth whole medals. You
Speaker 2: know you only get you know this is this is
Speaker 2: huge for like a team sport.
Speaker 1: This is crazy, bro.
Speaker 2: You know, team sports don't get you don't You don't
Speaker 2: go to six Olympics. This would be the thing about
Speaker 2: this about like six Olympics spans the course of twenty
Speaker 2: four years. Wait for a twenty four years, I mean
Speaker 2: span the course of twenty four years in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: You know, we you know there's people that has more
Speaker 2: gold medals because they only give out one gold medal
Speaker 2: in this one.
Speaker 3: You know the individuals.
Speaker 2: You know, you can win swimming, you know, gymnastics, track,
Speaker 2: you can win multiple gold medals in one Olympics when
Speaker 2: you only got the opportunity to win one gold medal
Speaker 2: per Olympic and now you're going for your sixth. Point
Speaker 2: you get one opportunity to get one medal and you're
Speaker 2: going for your sixth. So that's over the oh man,
Speaker 2: that's crazy. Yeah, she's one of the more decorated just
Speaker 2: basketball players. Let's talk about men's and women, just basketball players,
Speaker 2: she's one of the more decorated of all times.
Speaker 3: So congrats.
Speaker 1: Dta BT White Mamba. I didn't even call you, bro,
Speaker 1: So were you shot? Game one?
Speaker 2: I was shocked game one because I didn't see the
Speaker 2: tsunami that Porzingis came out with, you know, after being
Speaker 2: out for that so long, and he just came just
Speaker 2: all right, sweep that under rud This is this is
Speaker 2: a no contest.
Speaker 1: You know, it just felt like This felt like this
Speaker 1: been in the bag. They've been waiting on this. You
Speaker 1: know how long they had to wait on this? A
Speaker 1: whole year? Pee? Every time we talk to them, what
Speaker 1: they talk about? Pee these moments right here? Lord. When
Speaker 1: I saw the first game, I was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: they unleashed it. This is what all them conversations it
Speaker 1: led to this. This has been let out the bad
Speaker 1: These boys are pissed. They've been pissing's Golden State. They
Speaker 1: really won't Golden State getting back. They really won't. Hey,
Speaker 1: check that back up. We won't. We won't. We want to.
Speaker 1: We w on ones. So that's what this feels like.
Speaker 1: And I don't see I haven't seen Dallas ad just
Speaker 1: to either game. No, the pace is too slow for them,
Speaker 1: Pete pee. I think I think they gotta. So, I
Speaker 1: think they gotta. I think they gotta quicken the pace up.
Speaker 1: I think I think they gotta. They gotta. I think
Speaker 1: they need to play hardaway, Junior. I think they need
Speaker 1: to play hardy a little more and quicking the pace
Speaker 1: up a little bit. What are you doing if you
Speaker 1: Dallas bro, what are you doing? Tell me right now?
Speaker 2: Well, I think they have to do it like you said,
Speaker 2: you got to quick and you gotta speed up pace.
Speaker 2: And I think the way to do that is like
Speaker 2: when you get the rebound, allow Kyrie to push it,
Speaker 2: not look, you know, throw it they had to Kyrie.
Speaker 3: He slows it down. He don't play at that pace,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: And his uses rate it's highest in the league. So
Speaker 2: if you emphasize, let's get the ball to Kyrie on
Speaker 2: the rebound and see if we can get early offense,
Speaker 2: you know, because when the Celtics set up their defense,
Speaker 2: they're so tough to slitten. Think about it, like our
Speaker 2: half court defense when we played. You didn't want to
Speaker 2: do that. Listen, and I see that with the Celtic.
Speaker 1: No one's talking about the supreme defense that we see
Speaker 1: from these cards. Man, this is the best I've ever
Speaker 1: seen someone play. Currie. This is the best I've ever
Speaker 1: seen someone play with Derek White and holiday that I'm
Speaker 1: telling you this, this is supreme. And nobody's talking about
Speaker 1: the supreme defense that we're seeing not just from them too,
Speaker 1: but they're initiating the energy Jayson Tatums and they talking
Speaker 1: about Jason Tatum playing back by that motherfucker almost had
Speaker 1: a triple double in the game. Bro.
Speaker 3: No, you know what I see from his game.
Speaker 1: I see maturity facts because old Jason Tatum would have
Speaker 1: tried to go on on two right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he would have been settling. He would
Speaker 2: have been what you wouldn't have saw the rebounding, in
Speaker 2: the passing because I.
Speaker 3: Remember in the first finals.
Speaker 2: I remember one game, I was like, damn, he had
Speaker 2: I think that he had like twenty two and ten
Speaker 2: assists something like that. They won the game, and I
Speaker 2: looked at how he played, how he orchestrated, and I
Speaker 2: was like, damn, I was a hold on. If this
Speaker 2: version of Jason Tatum plays, they gonna win because he
Speaker 2: was playing with the other version, the one that needed
Speaker 2: to score thirty. But this one he knows he don't
Speaker 2: got to score thirty.
Speaker 1: Facts.
Speaker 2: He understands what someone understands, and he understands that he
Speaker 2: can't just settle for threes all night long. I love
Speaker 2: the way he wasn't getting the call, but I love
Speaker 2: the way he was attacking the basket game too. It
Speaker 2: was like, you know, he didn't make a lot of
Speaker 2: the layups, but he was going. He was going downhill
Speaker 2: and it was putting pressure on them. And then when
Speaker 2: he didn't shoot the ball. He was finding God.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh okay, I like this mental. I
Speaker 2: like the mentality he came in this game with.
Speaker 1: They're making Luca guard Lord, Yeah, making Luca guard and
Speaker 1: they blow by and blow by Lord listen, they put
Speaker 1: the putting him everything out everything and man, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw you in the building game too. Man, tell
Speaker 1: me about the energy in the building. Bro, I saw you.
Speaker 1: You was kind of mild. You and Dzel looked like
Speaker 1: I was chill, was talking about the game. Yeah. You know.
Speaker 2: We was like, man, look like it looked like the
Speaker 2: crowd in Kyrie head man that looked like Diesel. Diesel
Speaker 2: was like yeah. We was like, man, dude, look like
Speaker 2: the crowd in his head. I mean, because you know,
Speaker 2: he brought that on the self.
Speaker 1: Thought.
Speaker 2: He was like, oh this crowd ain't it wasn't that loud?
Speaker 2: I know he activated because so they was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh god for so look and now you see Kyrie.
Speaker 2: He looking in the crowd, people talking to him. He
Speaker 2: paying attention to it, like he like you dog, don't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: Like I love that he was. He was, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was just noticed. He was looking.
Speaker 3: I mean he wasn't not now, he wasn't locked in.
Speaker 1: He was lit the crowd.
Speaker 3: I think he was locked in.
Speaker 1: He looking at the death. He didn't. He didn't look
Speaker 1: like you see. They was paying over to him.
Speaker 2: I was right there watching, like a look at it.
Speaker 2: He engaging with the crowd again. He doing certain stuff
Speaker 2: like with the I'm like dog, don't do that like
Speaker 2: lock in like he see. That's the one thing about
Speaker 2: ticket ticket. He never nothing with the crowd. You didn't
Speaker 2: even you didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't even think he knew it was a crowd
Speaker 1: in it in the a REAMA ticket didn't even know
Speaker 1: we had crowds on the road. It was no bullshit, y'all.
Speaker 1: The crowd is a big part of when you play,
Speaker 1: and if you don't know how to control energy when
Speaker 1: it hits you. See, this is what nobody tells you. Okay,
Speaker 1: we can practice right, but until you play in front
Speaker 1: of a motherfucker. The element of embarrassment, the element of defeat,
Speaker 1: to be beaten in front of somebody in front of you.
Speaker 1: Feel me. To be the entertainment, bro, you know what
Speaker 1: you gotta be like to be the to be the show.
Speaker 1: You know what you gotta be to be the show.
Speaker 1: But you gotta be polished. You got to be a professional.
Speaker 1: You got to be owned. You don't get no excuses.
Speaker 1: So what p yo, you broke your toe. You gotta
Speaker 1: fucking swollen knee. Drain that shit. Let's you hear what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Don't come out here, bro, Bro this level
Speaker 1: of professionalism to play in front of twenty thousand. Bro,
Speaker 1: Nobody teaches you this. You gotta go through it yourself.
Speaker 1: And then you got to put the ball in the
Speaker 1: bucket with a nick on you who's specializes in stomping you.
Speaker 1: Bro's levels to this his shit.
Speaker 2: Listen, I straight up holiday he looked different right now. No,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the way he playing. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: like I've been to regular season games this year and
Speaker 2: I'm talking about even his body looked different.
Speaker 1: I mean, he looks strong. He looked it looked like
Speaker 1: he hadn't lost more weight since since the season.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about dog.
Speaker 2: It looked like right now, he's in his peak condition.
Speaker 2: Right now. I was like, damn, he looking slimmer, more
Speaker 2: like cut up that I'm normally seeing him like.
Speaker 1: He looked I look like Damn. I was like, oh no.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a long series for Kyrie, Like it's
Speaker 2: so hard to win. See, this is why it's so
Speaker 2: hard to win a championship because he gonna be playing
Speaker 2: it like like when you get to the finals, you're
Speaker 2: playing against the motherfuer that's either just as good as
Speaker 2: you are better than you like even like I'm telling you, like.
Speaker 1: It's the best of the best right here. This is
Speaker 1: the cream of the cream man you're playing against.
Speaker 2: Like I just remember going through playoff runs where one
Speaker 2: night I'm playing against the score one series. In the
Speaker 2: next series, I'm playing against a top rated defender. Then
Speaker 2: the next I'm playing against the best all around player.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like, God damn, I got him to
Speaker 2: night I got I got Joe Johnson first round. Then
Speaker 2: we go from Joe Johnson, we got Ron.
Speaker 1: Now I got fucking all world defender. It's like, God damn.
Speaker 1: Every series was something. You know what I'm saying, God
Speaker 1: damn bad Knight. Or is it he getting beat up?
Speaker 2: I think it's the combination of the defense because he's
Speaker 2: never seen anything like this on the switches. You know,
Speaker 2: when you looked at the Minnesota series and they putting
Speaker 2: you in the switches with certain guys. You know you
Speaker 2: got that advantage. Whereas think about it, you might go
Speaker 2: from getting drer Drew Holliday to getting switched onto our
Speaker 2: Horford who can slide his feet to Jaylen Brown. Now
Speaker 2: you you you wanted this switch. Oh now you're gonna
Speaker 2: pick over here with Jason Tatum. Like I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just like it's no, it's no advantage nowhere. It's like, damn,
Speaker 2: you might as well just go going on one whoever
Speaker 2: in front of you.
Speaker 1: And they know your game and they know your wiggle.
Speaker 1: You understand. That's another thing we ain't talking about them
Speaker 1: young boys play with Kyrie. They in practice. You got drills.
Speaker 1: You got drills where I had the guard peep, he
Speaker 1: got turned around guard me. It's one on one's you.
Speaker 1: You play enough against each other and you see enough
Speaker 1: because I got to get these guys open to I
Speaker 1: know if he liked the ball, I know how he
Speaker 1: liked the ball in the post. You know, I know
Speaker 1: you know each other's game. So you got to think
Speaker 1: that that goes into play too. Bro. All the stuff
Speaker 1: that he can get off, and I think two, he's
Speaker 1: so expedatious when he go to the other hand, bro
Speaker 1: and go to the left. He got the same wiggle
Speaker 1: with the left right. He could do it exactly what
Speaker 1: he does. Right, he can do left and finished left right,
Speaker 1: and they know all that.
Speaker 3: He just looked so indecisive.
Speaker 1: Yeah he does. He looks like he has a menuor
Speaker 1: shit and he ain't. He ain't picked one. He got
Speaker 1: three fourth things he started off with one. Oh, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me and it's all reaction. When I watched the
Speaker 1: shoot around, dope, I watched I watched NBA TV the
Speaker 1: other day yesterday, and I watched the shoot around. Everybody
Speaker 1: else was, you know, lose, and they was dancing and
Speaker 1: ship and it looked real relaxed on the shoot around.
Speaker 1: It's two motherfuckers that wasn't smiling and wentn't two motherfuckers
Speaker 1: that wasn't doing none of that. Ship. Yeah, Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: and Lucas.
Speaker 3: Oh that's another thing I said.
Speaker 2: So look, so Game two, I'm sitting there, I'm standing
Speaker 2: in the front row. I'm standing up watching the warm ups.
Speaker 1: Tick.
Speaker 2: I swear to God, Hey, and so I'm watching the
Speaker 2: warm ups and you know what it reminded me of.
Speaker 2: I swear to it reminded me of When we played Orlando,
Speaker 2: it was a lot of goofy shit going on and
Speaker 2: that ship, you know, and you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 2: right doing all these antics. They're dancing, then they're doing
Speaker 2: they playing volleyball, playing football. Yeah, so the dude run over.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking like, do they know this is I'm
Speaker 2: talking to my cousin. I said, oh, they think this
Speaker 2: is a joke, like they playing a game within the game,
Speaker 2: don't y'all know y'all in the NBA Finals on the
Speaker 2: road game too, And I'm seeing all this extra stuff
Speaker 2: go on, and I'm thinking, like, dog, that would have
Speaker 2: never happened on our team. You better be locked in.
Speaker 2: It just looked like a certain level of And I
Speaker 2: know y'all probably was doing this all year long. Y'all
Speaker 2: probably did this during the season. Y'all probably did this
Speaker 2: in this other rounds and this is what y'all do.
Speaker 2: But this is the finals, bro. It's a level of seriousness.
Speaker 2: It's a level of focus that you gotta have. Like
Speaker 2: all that it looked goofy. I'm telling you, I'm seeing
Speaker 2: I'm looking you know what I'm talking about. When we
Speaker 2: played Orlando was on the layup line, so so I
Speaker 2: can explain it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Remember you, you you tapped me in. It's like, Pete,
Speaker 2: what they doing they out there playing look like the Globetrotters.
Speaker 2: They doing something offended and we got offended by that.
Speaker 2: We look like we looked like we stopped our layup
Speaker 2: line and turned around to watch their goofiness. On the
Speaker 2: other end, they're not even laying the ball up taking
Speaker 2: us serious.
Speaker 1: You know what that is? Though, I've learned and you've
Speaker 1: helped me understand this. Young people need to feel like
Speaker 1: this is joyful, it's fun, and that's the way we
Speaker 1: living up. You remember, the biggest class in our locker
Speaker 1: room used to be older players and how we prepare
Speaker 1: and then the younger generation. Younger generation likes music. They
Speaker 1: wan't it live. They want Remember when Nate being the
Speaker 1: dancing and so that didn't do well with us, and
Speaker 1: the old school is one way, and this new generation
Speaker 1: needs to feel like it's lively, it's fine, it's recreational
Speaker 1: because when it becomes seriousness, it activates anxiety, It activates
Speaker 1: some of these other insecurities within ourselves. Bro Let me
Speaker 1: say something to y'all. Everybody who watching us. I want
Speaker 1: you to go find a thousand people and shoot a
Speaker 1: free throw. I want you to go to the game
Speaker 1: and Ashley go on the floor, you know when they
Speaker 1: do that little contest for everybody. I want you to
Speaker 1: go down there and shoot a free throw in the
Speaker 1: middle of the timeouse when they gonna go a go
Speaker 1: down that shoot a free throw, man, yo ass sole
Speaker 1: finna get this's god damn tight. And if you don't
Speaker 1: shit on yourself, I understand. If you shit on yourself,
Speaker 1: I totally get it. Bro. That the fucking crowd is
Speaker 1: a fucking piece of it. When they call it the
Speaker 1: twelfth Man, the sixth man, whatever you want to call
Speaker 1: that shit, that is a real thing. And that energy
Speaker 1: in the building is a real thing. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know how to process that, bro, it can take
Speaker 1: you over. The pressure of a free throw can crush you, Bro,
Speaker 1: and a lion pin a frenth throw up here by yourself. Bro.
Speaker 1: I've seen real niggas get up to the free throw
Speaker 1: line and crush them.
Speaker 2: You know what Luca is shooting right now through two
Speaker 2: games and a free throw forty six percent? Listen, man,
Speaker 2: he shooting forty six percent.
Speaker 1: I mean Ain't that crazy? You damn it gotta be perfect.
Speaker 3: But that's crazy though. Yeah, it is for Luca for
Speaker 3: shot Maker.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, it's not a perfect game. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be parts where you know he get right, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be parts where you know, you get something with
Speaker 1: Luca and then you know you lose things.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying Drew in the locker room, Like, look,
Speaker 2: it's like this serious. Ain't other fellas, don't get it twisted. Fact,
Speaker 2: my team came back and won Folk straight. So for
Speaker 2: the mental part of this, this is perfect for them,
Speaker 2: you know. You know what I'm saying having him in
Speaker 2: the locker room to give them a visual of like, look,
Speaker 2: don't get complacent, right because I've been on the opposite
Speaker 2: end of this, So right now we need to take
Speaker 2: their heart. They need to take Dallas's heart right now.
Speaker 2: Just do it down right here, and that's how they
Speaker 2: gotta play. So I want to see Dallas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they need to prove that they can turn that
Speaker 1: off because they're gonna have to turn around and play
Speaker 1: some fucking defense too, and all five and it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be just like three or four guys it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be like some it's gonna be have to it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a collective.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you guys specifically about a play
Speaker 4: in Game two. So late late in the third quarter,
Speaker 4: Celtics are up six. They sub out Drew Holiday for
Speaker 4: Peyton Pritchard. They run play for him where he hits
Speaker 4: a deep three, it goes in. That's a play they've
Speaker 4: drawn up for Peyton Pritchard a couple of times and
Speaker 4: he's you know, it's a maker, miss league. But I
Speaker 4: want to ask you guys specifically, what were some plays
Speaker 4: that were drawn up for you guys that you felt
Speaker 4: like we're effective in the playoffs for you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to have new plays when the playoffs
Speaker 1: came to me. And that's another thing too, ball you
Speaker 1: don't know your playbook. You can't play because he ain't
Speaker 1: got time to be It's all timing. So when he
Speaker 1: goes certain where you got to be moving to and
Speaker 1: if you ain't moving at the same he what what's
Speaker 1: going on? What he wanted? Impatient? Ash niggas on offense
Speaker 1: he got run test grabbing him, pulln and ship Hey
Speaker 1: what man? Slow up? Got away from the pass man again.
Speaker 1: What's up this nigga right here? You know when Pete
Speaker 1: was getting the ball, because he'll slow all the way down.
Speaker 1: Let you do what you're doing. The man you was
Speaker 1: the word saint, give it some off. I knew when
Speaker 1: you want getting the bark and you'll just die. You'll
Speaker 1: be like that. This is when pet wouldn't getting the ball.
Speaker 1: People knew this on a plane, ray coming off the
Speaker 1: door every night. Turn back Around'm like, nigg what you doing.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I'm like, nigga, come off boom. When
Speaker 1: he was getting that motherfucker what women were talking. We
Speaker 1: all like, what we're doing. Nigga relaxed, do it ain't
Speaker 1: even came across half listen, listen, and then he knew
Speaker 1: we was gonna knock the ship off of the motherfucker too.
Speaker 1: Pete would come off a pig and then repick the
Speaker 1: nigga that's it because he know me and purk was
Speaker 1: you feel me here we get a perk damn and
Speaker 1: he come off watch out. Yeah yeah lord, he look
Speaker 1: we got there. I saw you come off more picks
Speaker 1: that I've ever seen you come off straight up. But
Speaker 1: that nigga is the most impatient, impatient as off offensive,
Speaker 1: while I've ever like, man, relax, relaxed, don't we coming dog?
Speaker 1: Here we go, come on? And then he had this
Speaker 1: little yeah, he'll do that, He'll do that, He'll do that.
Speaker 1: That's what I used to That's when we slipped the pick.
Speaker 1: We'll slip that. Fuck you. We wanted to say, he
Speaker 1: do that. You couldn't. Ain't seemed to hear do all
Speaker 1: that dirty ass nigga man, but yeah, yeah, he ain't.
Speaker 1: Ship Yeah, p a ship.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you, Paul and Skal talked about
Speaker 4: this over the week and the G Unit runs. Uh,
Speaker 4: so I want to ask you specifically, Ticket, you got
Speaker 4: any stories to tell about the G Unit runs.
Speaker 1: So the Genie Unit runs used to be so so
Speaker 1: fierce that it was actually tell you what it was like,
Speaker 1: what it was? What was the g it was what? Okay?
Speaker 1: So the definition of what G Unit runs was it
Speaker 1: was there was no foul, no harm, no foul. If
Speaker 1: you called the foul in this, you couldn't. You couldn't
Speaker 1: call the foul. Nigga had to either give it to
Speaker 1: you or was it was next guy up? And it
Speaker 1: was so intense, and you know, we had different stages
Speaker 1: of one on one. So in the morning, Paul's way
Speaker 1: to all of us. First off, Paul Ray and myself
Speaker 1: would always in Doc will always be the first four
Speaker 1: in the building, and we all had our own little
Speaker 1: regiments to lift and get yourself going, and we would
Speaker 1: have our own workouts. And one of Paul's ways to
Speaker 1: end his workout was to play one on ones and
Speaker 1: whoever was in the building, that's whatever. So TA he got.
Speaker 1: Paul used to have this thing called Paul University where
Speaker 1: it was ta all his little minie perch Scots and
Speaker 1: it was like six niggas. So they would be there
Speaker 1: after room. They were all trained together and then they
Speaker 1: come in and they would start early morning once to
Speaker 1: wake up. Then we would have practice and then practice
Speaker 1: had a segment where the guards played one on one,
Speaker 1: and then the bigs play one on one. Every now
Speaker 1: and then Doctor had the big the guards come down
Speaker 1: here play the big and it was it was just
Speaker 1: it was it was always g union and gen unw
Speaker 1: went like say, boom, I found I found Pe. We're
Speaker 1: both look at each other and then I get I
Speaker 1: go to get the ball. He knew exactly what that was,
Speaker 1: and I knew what that was. I knew whatever move
Speaker 1: I made, I'm finna get clobber. I knew that. And
Speaker 1: it helped you not only keep your cool, but it
Speaker 1: helped you play through physical play. It helped you understand
Speaker 1: different you know, different matchups. Know when people play up
Speaker 1: guy like big Baby, they go to play me or
Speaker 1: go to play It was similar to when Ronald Tess
Speaker 1: would catch it or tayshaun wo you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it was actually helping each way. Then when you
Speaker 1: guarded a Paul Pierce or Tony Allen or Rondo, it
Speaker 1: helped you move your feet. For Steve Nash to Derreck
Speaker 1: Roses in the Quicker Guards, So it was it was great.
Speaker 1: But the geniu the runs at the end of practice.
Speaker 1: Let me get it right here, Jean, the rules was
Speaker 1: right here, So I call that right. It's still some
Speaker 1: everybody want blood. So genia in the rooms was only
Speaker 1: for a certain group guys, and it was always at
Speaker 1: the end. It's always at the end, and the end
Speaker 1: was dark and you couldn't and the light right here.
Speaker 1: We practiced right here and at the end had to
Speaker 1: had to have the big old missing banner before we
Speaker 1: got it. So it's a bunch of testosterone with edginess.
Speaker 1: So Man's about six. And we used to walk down
Speaker 1: there every day and I used to always grab my
Speaker 1: jersey take me. When I took my jersey off, that
Speaker 1: mean I was done. And I would sit on my
Speaker 1: one knees shit at half court, watch watch the gu
Speaker 1: And every day it was a segment. It was it
Speaker 1: was all it was. It was all the big its,
Speaker 1: all the bigs, Skoal, it was big Baby, it was Perk,
Speaker 1: it was Leon, Poe Man and that was it. And
Speaker 1: they know almost, it ain't almost. There was some blows
Speaker 1: in there some days, every now and then me and
Speaker 1: Peter jumping there. And then it gets so it gets
Speaker 1: so wild, yo that like I remember, Perk split the motherfuckermember.
Speaker 1: Perk split split somebody split. He split them all fuck
Speaker 1: like splitting like when your elbows high and like bro.
Speaker 1: It used to be the toughest part of practice, and
Speaker 1: it made everybody better. And uh, that's how we were
Speaker 1: and that's how we actually operated, uh, and getting each
Speaker 1: other ready for the pistons and the pacers and you
Speaker 1: know the physical the knicks and the parts of the
Speaker 1: Miami Heat. This is how we actually we caught the
Speaker 1: Jeda runs and it said something to win that. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, It said something to win that.
Speaker 1: If you won the GA the Runs that day, you
Speaker 1: walked around with like an honor, like dad working, y'all ship,
Speaker 1: y'all trash. Yeah, Nick came through it man, shirt off,
Speaker 1: talk of ship and everybody got out your way that day.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, straight up, Jed the Runs
Speaker 1: was seious, Joe. It was some real ship in g
Speaker 1: the Runs.
Speaker 3: Dog Damn, if you wanted Jeter runs that day, you
Speaker 3: is walking out.
Speaker 1: Of there with your chest You walking out like man.
Speaker 1: I was kidding, straight up. And then you know it's
Speaker 1: crazy about the scraps. Man, the scrap might go on, Dude,
Speaker 1: we break it up. Niggas say what the y'all say? Boom,
Speaker 1: go right back to the g Uni runs, right man,
Speaker 1: Bro Like it made us better, bro. And that's how
Speaker 1: we all communicated and talk to each other. That's how
Speaker 1: we resolved things. And we had that team. We never
Speaker 1: had issues. When it came to an issue, we always
Speaker 1: had a pride and taking care of the issue and
Speaker 1: not letting the coaches and outside people come in our stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: we controlled us with Doc juice something up. We ain't
Speaker 1: feeling man. Peoples like now now I went on this side.
Speaker 1: I don't like we had that authority to do that. Bro.
Speaker 1: You might pull up to the plane me pauling and
Speaker 1: Ray might be on a plane having a cigar with
Speaker 1: big Dog talking about offense. You hear what I'm saying, Bro,
Speaker 1: we we bro Man. Our time in the league was
Speaker 1: a different Bro. Don't know what's going on now, But
Speaker 1: Bro were sitting on the steps having a cigar, Doc
Speaker 1: talking about Man think we should fuck with Zone and
Speaker 1: now I ain't doing those Zone and man you think,
Speaker 1: man man Man, And then Ray be like, man, Zone
Speaker 1: might help us with you know, helping you do it.
Speaker 1: And then be like, nah, let's see what we're doing
Speaker 1: working man, who got the light up? Let me see
Speaker 1: when we bullying, we were getting We got the one
Speaker 1: who got the young man. Let's get the cars. Bro.
Speaker 1: We was it was a real lifestyle and we studied
Speaker 1: and when we set up that, we had our books
Speaker 1: and we was like, Bro, you see the ship. They
Speaker 1: didn't do it. They running for y'all. Y look how
Speaker 1: they're doing cold on it? Bro Man, Bro hold on.
Speaker 1: You didn't put up, Bro, Come on, you gotta put up.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Bro, Bro, Look look look
Speaker 1: look what they got for cold Bro. Right, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to help you, man, you have to send them baseline.
Speaker 1: We're trapping, which you think about trapping Rondo? Man, don't
Speaker 1: trap that motherfucker. Man, make that one more Bro. The
Speaker 1: conversation and how we dealing Bro, Bro, we jump passed Man,
Speaker 1: he hit the court. Bro. It was it was I
Speaker 1: can't even explain what this was. It was like the
Speaker 1: closest thing to the right pack meets the NBA type
Speaker 1: ship and it was a it was a real lifestyle
Speaker 1: and which not only information and ship was was exchanged,
Speaker 1: but man knowledging this whole building of what we're doing here. Bro,
Speaker 1: it was no we we knew we was gonna win
Speaker 1: the eight seven o eight championship. We show just on
Speaker 1: how we prepared real ship. The coaching matchup, obviously you
Speaker 1: got one that played one that didn't peak out. I'll
Speaker 1: let you talk about this year, well, the two teams
Speaker 1: in the fights, but more importantly, the difference in a
Speaker 1: coach playing and then a coach who's you know, it's
Speaker 1: just coaching. I just think when I first came into
Speaker 1: the league to where I was in the league for
Speaker 1: a little bit, and because I first came into the league,
Speaker 1: I wasn't with a coach that played in the league.
Speaker 3: I was a casino, you know, So you know, to
Speaker 3: go from.
Speaker 1: That, he's a real coach, Like he's a real just structured, structure,
Speaker 1: disciplinarian and.
Speaker 2: You know, just now for two hard knows just coached
Speaker 2: you like you was an elementary just getting into basketball.
Speaker 2: It's type of coach. And that's how all the coaches
Speaker 2: were back then. They were more disciplinarians, like every mistake
Speaker 2: was on the line, every you know, it was disciplined
Speaker 2: actions for like all mistakes to where you know a
Speaker 2: players coach understood the players because he was in it.
Speaker 2: And that way, when you understand the player as a
Speaker 2: player and you're a coach, they can relate to you
Speaker 2: and then you build better relationships.
Speaker 3: Because at the end of the day, think about.
Speaker 2: Coaches get fired because they not in tune with their
Speaker 2: star player, you know what I'm saying. And it can
Speaker 2: be as much as like we just had a back
Speaker 2: to back now we practicing WEDN just had three games
Speaker 2: and four nights and now you know what we like.
Speaker 2: It's just certain little things about NBA culture you don't
Speaker 2: do when you in line with your star player, you know,
Speaker 2: but when you are lined up and y'all on the
Speaker 2: same page. And I think that's what former players understand
Speaker 2: more so than these old school coaches. And so that's
Speaker 2: why you're seeing more and more former players be head coaches.
Speaker 2: Now we have Jason Kidd and Tyde Lou and Doc
Speaker 2: Rivers and Monty Monty Williams. I mean, it's just so
Speaker 2: many former players that are coaches and I love to
Speaker 2: see it. And I think that's the difference in just understanding. Look,
Speaker 2: I got guys that, you know, as long as they
Speaker 2: give me what they give me on the court, it's
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten. I know they gonna probably go
Speaker 2: out and party and.
Speaker 1: Do what they do.
Speaker 2: What they do is grown in and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to control that, whereas before they tried to control all
Speaker 2: of that. Oh we gotta curfew, oh you know after
Speaker 2: you know, And I think they understand it's a long season.
Speaker 2: Player coaches understand it's a long season. Guys is gonna
Speaker 2: do what they do. But as long as you keep
Speaker 2: it in the context of not getting arrested and doing
Speaker 2: all this other stuff to where you practicing hard, you
Speaker 2: showing up your on time, you respecting the game, be
Speaker 2: a professional, then it's all right.
Speaker 1: You think it plays into any extras and o's any differently, Well,
Speaker 1: I think a great or not.
Speaker 2: You know, I think you understand the game i qis
Speaker 2: and as you continue to coach, you learn the exes
Speaker 2: and those. But I think having a great coaching staff
Speaker 2: along about to say that, you know that helps. You know,
Speaker 2: you got these guys and that's all they do. They
Speaker 2: just look at personnel, plays, put together the system, implement
Speaker 2: the system. And you know where the head coach comes in.
Speaker 2: He's somewhat of your motivator, he's somewhat of your just influencers.
Speaker 3: He gets you going every night. Yeah, and so I
Speaker 3: think you know you have to And it's different now
Speaker 3: because assistance.
Speaker 2: Back in the day didn't used to talk, didn't have
Speaker 2: a voice. They didn't have a voice. Now you're giving
Speaker 2: the voice to assistance. And that's why there's so many
Speaker 2: Now this one is going to be more x'es and o's.
Speaker 2: This one is defense, this one is players relationships, and
Speaker 2: you know you know, it's just so many different roles
Speaker 2: of a coach that makes the whole coach better.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy that to piggyback what you're saying, that's
Speaker 1: better the coach because that's one less thing the coach
Speaker 1: has to worry about. I think, UH, yesteryear's coach and
Speaker 1: today's coach. UH, today's coaching more delegates, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I think more assistant coaches have been asked
Speaker 1: to do outside of their UH, their ram and what
Speaker 1: their what there the title is. I think the reason
Speaker 1: why you have a younger and some pieces on your
Speaker 1: assistance a squad is for their relationship. Think about Shamgar
Speaker 1: Shamgard didn't play in our league for a very long time,
Speaker 1: but he has a wealth of knowledge that any guard
Speaker 1: would be able to be able to sit and build
Speaker 1: with him. He's built a great UH relationship with not
Speaker 1: just a mask, but with that whole guard system. He's
Speaker 1: part of that. Him and Derek d Armstrong. They got
Speaker 1: a Twitter man down there, Dereck Juttley, Jared Dutley down there.
Speaker 1: Like the systems actually make up these coaches too, and
Speaker 1: you really don't know who these people are. Sweet Sweetening
Speaker 1: down there with Jason Kidd both sides when Missoula got uh,
Speaker 1: Sam Cassell, a host of great guys that are in
Speaker 1: Boston helping them. I will say this though, and in
Speaker 1: times where if you've been a coach and you've been
Speaker 1: an assistant and you sat there in that you know,
Speaker 1: seat to the left, and you've watched and you've been
Speaker 1: in some of these games as an assistant, one might
Speaker 1: argue that that's just like being a player in the game,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Although I would argue being
Speaker 1: in the game, being in the experience, having the ball,
Speaker 1: making that decision, you know, being in you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Being in it is totally different. So we're
Speaker 1: watching two styles actually go against each other, and I'm
Speaker 1: just configuring that Missoula, to me, has better pieces that
Speaker 1: he's working with. These pieces have been together. It's a
Speaker 1: little more solidified team, and this team is super motivated.
Speaker 1: And right now we all say this defense wins championships
Speaker 1: and for the whole year has been an offensive league
Speaker 1: up until now. This is the most supreme defense I've
Speaker 1: seen throughout the year of any team play any team.
Speaker 1: And it also happens to be peaking at the finals
Speaker 1: the most perfect time two peak. So you know in
Speaker 1: that not only am I expecting Jason Kidd because he played,
Speaker 1: to be able to make these adjustments, but his staff.
Speaker 1: He and his staff come up with something. Because nobody
Speaker 1: and I'm including me and Paul, I don't think we've
Speaker 1: seen the team play this excellent on defense. I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously patting ourselves on the back, but it's
Speaker 1: the teams we can go through that have supreme defense.
Speaker 1: But this is the This is the best defense I've
Speaker 1: seen in the finals in a very long time, and
Speaker 1: I'm eager to see how the coaching who played actually
Speaker 1: adjustice to it. But the styles are very very different,
Speaker 1: both respectable and both have promise. So yeah, shout to
Speaker 1: both coaches. Man has been one of those. This is
Speaker 1: Jedi coaching too, by the way, because you have two
Speaker 1: great teams playing each other on that Jedi level. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. With two with multiple great greats
Speaker 1: on both sides, you understand they got We don't have
Speaker 1: just one or two guys. We got two greats. We
Speaker 1: got two greats on both sides. If you want, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Jalen And and Tatum are gonna
Speaker 1: go down. But what jew Holiday and what White are doing? Man?
Speaker 1: Pausingis man? This is a bussaf bro. This this is
Speaker 1: probably one of the better, better finals I've seen in
Speaker 1: a very long time. To be at this level here,
Speaker 1: this is an apex right here, straight up? Hey, what
Speaker 1: did you expect coming into the series? You knew Holiday
Speaker 1: and Kyrie. I honestly thought it was gonna be Holiday
Speaker 1: on Luca and I thought Derek White would be more
Speaker 1: on Kyrie. Right, what did you expect from the matchup before?
Speaker 1: Get a back up matchup?
Speaker 3: You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: You know, Ala was saying before this series that this
Speaker 2: is the best offensive back court we've ever seen, No doubt.
Speaker 1: We stamp that what it is.
Speaker 2: But on top of that, this might be the best
Speaker 2: defensive back court. Facts in NBA history. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I got a couple of notable ones. Maybe you could
Speaker 2: say Nate McMillan, Gary Payton pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, Jerry West good Rich was a good one. Okay,
Speaker 1: That's that's solid. That's finals. And Jerry West, Jordan and
Speaker 1: Harper Jordan Jordan Harper, Jordan Jordan who.
Speaker 3: Jordan, Michael Jordan Harton around Harper.
Speaker 1: That was the back court, right, I was going to
Speaker 1: Jordan Pippen. Well, I mean, if you're putting what I'm
Speaker 1: saying back court, okay, Okay, okay, I'm saying back court okay,
Speaker 1: because this is the two back courts, right, Holiday and
Speaker 1: and Derek White against Luca and Kyrie. So just just
Speaker 1: back courtout defensive, defensive.
Speaker 2: I think this is the greatest I mean, damn defensive
Speaker 2: defensive back court.
Speaker 3: Be in the conversation.
Speaker 1: You gotta get to the that's a hell of a
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, duo saying defense.
Speaker 2: Though, defense, defensive, hold a bunch of more. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: so it's someones we can talk about. That's a good
Speaker 2: one though. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But they in the conversation if they win it and
Speaker 2: they keep holding Kyrie to what they doing to Kyrie,
Speaker 2: they in the conversation for greatest defensive back court versus
Speaker 2: the offensive, greatest offensive back court. I mean, damn, right now,
Speaker 2: the defensive back court is out playing the offensive back
Speaker 2: court on both sides.
Speaker 1: Got to get some respect in this in this in
Speaker 1: this series, he's gonna have to he's gonna have to.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have to.
Speaker 1: He have to come with it. How the court is trump.
Speaker 1: You see all the wig he had in Minnesota. It
Speaker 1: ain't all that he got two people on the points.
Speaker 1: He come off the pick, turn at the clock. No,
Speaker 1: he's gonna they're making him get off the ball. He
Speaker 1: had to make the pass right here because he was
Speaker 1: at the elw They need to have one of them,
Speaker 1: the games you talk about for a long time. If
Speaker 1: I was him, I'd come out play make first. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't come out trying to because because because like like
Speaker 1: they say, horseship loan, don't ship horseship fast, don't ship long.
Speaker 1: Sometime you come out the gage. Bro, he he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a fourth quarter, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So coming out first, if that's your rhythm, I'm cool
Speaker 1: because you know you ain't been you know, I get it.
Speaker 1: But Bro, I come out and play make first. You
Speaker 1: know you know they're expecting him to, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, to be on another level. They ain't going
Speaker 1: for no hes he they staying down on all his
Speaker 1: you feel me, Then they long enough to contest. He
Speaker 1: got to play make first come on some screens and
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, get out early. There's some
Speaker 1: layups or something. They listen.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, you're gonna be on one of them dug
Speaker 3: bots with our cigars.
Speaker 1: It's in trouble, bro. Did you feel eighteen? Did you
Speaker 1: feel when you're in the building? Could you feel eighteen?
Speaker 1: Color Man? The energy was unreal.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, just being there and just seeing it
Speaker 2: up close, it was just like I felt the urgency
Speaker 2: from the Celtics.
Speaker 1: It's just the urgency was there. It was just like, damn,
Speaker 1: it gave me chills.
Speaker 2: And seeing how just seeing how much how bad they
Speaker 2: wanted it, and like Jaylen Brown said, they play harder
Speaker 2: than them and you've seen it on every possession. It
Speaker 2: was just like, oh they was they was being dogs.
Speaker 2: I didn't see no dogs on Dallas.
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't know. So we got to anticipated
Speaker 1: at some point Dallas showing up.
Speaker 2: Oh they're gonna fight back. I think they're gonna fight back.
Speaker 2: I don't even think you get this far if you
Speaker 2: ain't got no fight back in you.
Speaker 1: In order for Dallas to win, it's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be a high scoring game.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 1: They can't win with them walking.
Speaker 3: It up fourteen at that pace.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, Bro, you can't win with that that.
Speaker 3: Uh, they don't play at that pace.
Speaker 1: They're gonna play well at this walk it up pace.
Speaker 3: I don't know what pace they can't play it, but
Speaker 3: it ain't gonna they don't play off that pace.
Speaker 1: Bro, they can't play with that slow. They can't play
Speaker 1: with the turtle jumt Bro him walking it up fifteen.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, coming up, setting it up, boom,
Speaker 1: coming off nine eight seven, I hit it, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Bouncing the ball didn't move really, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 2: Man, I can't wait. I'm gonna take a nap. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be a wake up watch this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be it. We're gonna watch it in the
Speaker 1: studio today. Let's do some fan question Let's get the
Speaker 1: fan questions. Joe check out with the fans. Go. Ain't
Speaker 1: no trick shots and no crazy ship Nigga jumped off the.
Speaker 4: Roof, So no, none of that today.
Speaker 1: We don't promote that either. Don't say that she tapes
Speaker 1: if you're doing that, dumb ass.
Speaker 2: All this show, and I watched the post card video
Speaker 2: to do missed hit his face, saw that broke the shoulder.
Speaker 1: See that today, man, he fell in the water. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I'm good, mate, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Shoulders you saw that one today showed us this bro.
Speaker 3: He had a bloody he was it wasn't blood.
Speaker 1: That wasn't blood. What was that? I thought it was?
Speaker 1: His shirt was like, was like that good night, I'm good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My shout was like yeah, disconnected. But he saw that
Speaker 1: not saving me that crazy as ship. He missed the
Speaker 1: cliff that we don't want none of that.
Speaker 4: First question up lists the top five most cracking players
Speaker 4: that weren't All stars in your era.
Speaker 1: Most cracking the cracking list from.
Speaker 4: Your guys is playing era. So didn't make an All Star,
Speaker 4: but you know God Buckets.
Speaker 1: Jama Crawford, Man, Moochie Norris, that didn't make no All Star,
Speaker 1: Mold Taylor, all these niggas I'm naming hitters.
Speaker 2: Goddamn, what's my one guy down there with was in Memphis?
Speaker 2: That was out there, Strom Swift, stro.
Speaker 4: Mile Shot, one of the best thunkers ever.
Speaker 1: Swift, bro that's a good one. Pe Cold cal Hold on, Damn,
Speaker 1: that's that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Who is a crack and it didn't it didn't?
Speaker 1: And oh man? Who was man, it's up? Yeah, Joe
Speaker 1: Joe Smith, Joe Smith, he was cool. Damn. Joe Smith
Speaker 1: was nice, bro. Joe Smith Man he was He was
Speaker 1: the first of the first. Boy.
Speaker 3: He's no all star so Strom male Swift. Who we say,
Speaker 3: Joe Smith, Damn? Jamaal Crawford, all right, well, Lou.
Speaker 1: Williams hell yeah, Lou will Lou will yeah, lout will Uh.
Speaker 2: Stephen Jackson was cool. Stephen Jackson. They gotta throw jacket
Speaker 2: there was crazy Steven Ricky Davis, Yeah, Troy Hudson rig.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I gotta throw Honey Combs in there. Who
Speaker 1: else was nice? Man? That's a crazy list. You know
Speaker 1: who actually? Like? What's the little nigga? Yall to Marcus Banks?
Speaker 1: Shot the shot the Marcus Banks. That's my little that's
Speaker 1: my little man, you hear me? That's my holy boy.
Speaker 1: I shed a lot the way he played d man.
Speaker 1: Peter used to trash little homie man. I used to
Speaker 1: hang out, y'all, treat the little Banks manna he was
Speaker 1: there though, you got your came Listen on defense, Bro,
Speaker 1: you gotta think he thought he was the ship on defense.
Speaker 1: He wanted that, So I used to listen. He used
Speaker 1: to add up like, yeah, nigga, what's up now? Let
Speaker 1: me see it like he was. He wanted that. Then
Speaker 1: when he locked you up, you ain't ship nigga. Yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all just did like he he was into his whole
Speaker 1: little you feel me? So I had the honor that then.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a pretty boy, so he was on there.
Speaker 1: You I'm saying, yeah, I'm in the Yeah, Peter used
Speaker 1: to ship on him because he had so much confidence
Speaker 1: in himself. I like your fellow though, man, young fellows,
Speaker 1: He's asked for it, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I've been around him. I definitely know. I definitely know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. So you definitely got to have
Speaker 1: a palette for that ship and some patience. So oh yeah,
Speaker 1: j r Rder Scott Ryder ship d. I was Finnah
Speaker 1: start naming like mash burning.
Speaker 3: He was all started.
Speaker 1: Man, it's a bunch of motherfuckers, Big Dog and all
Speaker 1: them niggas that fell through though, it was a bunch
Speaker 1: of real niggas that man. Straight up, you guys got
Speaker 1: that's a crazy ass list. It's a bunch of man
Speaker 1: I mean shit, straight up, Bro, you man nigga like
Speaker 1: Robert oriy Bush on motherfucking ass bourn Rob just you
Speaker 1: know played in the system with Dream but man Rob
Speaker 1: played Yeah, he do who he was a bucket? He
Speaker 1: was a bucket.
Speaker 4: Next question, if you could pick one player from today's
Speaker 4: NBA to team up with to play two on two with.
Speaker 4: So you plus one person from today's NBA.
Speaker 1: Who are you picking and we're going to the park
Speaker 1: to play a bunch of other two or two on motherfuckers? Yes, sir, right,
Speaker 1: just tools. We gotta pick a guard.
Speaker 4: It could be anybody, just whoever you think would compliment
Speaker 4: your game most and that.
Speaker 1: You would want most. I'm taking Joel and b to
Speaker 1: the park. Give me me an we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: the ruck and run everybody like that. Let's tell them
Speaker 1: when we catch all the west fourth nigga, let's run it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, right, I mean I just
Speaker 1: wanted to get something beastly at the park, right, throw
Speaker 1: you down? Nah, he a nice guy. I ain't going
Speaker 1: he's a nice guy.
Speaker 4: Let's see some game picks.
Speaker 1: Just get some game picks in the way, all right with.
Speaker 4: The playoffs, He's up one now, damn had Celtics in
Speaker 4: games one and two. So piece up just a little here.
Speaker 4: But let's go to Game four, Celtics at Mavericks.
Speaker 1: Who we got?
Speaker 4: Game four?
Speaker 1: Game four Celtics at Maths. Who you got? Celtics sweep?
Speaker 1: What yep? Sweep? On Friday? Duck boats on Monday. I'll
Speaker 1: be there.
Speaker 3: You're coming on the duck boat. A lord, man, I
Speaker 3: can't even duck boats.
Speaker 1: Look on Friday, Dallas, get a game, man, funk out here,
Speaker 1: set downa's get a game. They fly to Vegas on Saturday. Saturday, Monday,
Speaker 1: duck boat ain't nobody working, and the whole Massachusetts would
Speaker 1: be shutting down for the whole entire day.
Speaker 3: I already got the script. The script came in, Lord,
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 1: That was good a game, bro, that was good a game.
Speaker 1: Fuck that Friday. He fly to Vegas Friday night, hang
Speaker 1: out for two nights, fly home Sunday, duck boats Monday,
Speaker 1: back back to La Tuesday. Yeah, back to l a Bro.
Speaker 3: That's the script.
Speaker 1: Damn basketball, Gosh, damn, that's how it's man. If they
Speaker 1: said boy's Hall doesn't see a feeling. This might be
Speaker 1: a blowout.
Speaker 3: Actually really yeah, blowout.
Speaker 1: Hell no, you tripping.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna blowout. Blowout like I'm talking about
Speaker 2: like at least fifteen.
Speaker 1: No, they're in front of they fans. Bro, they got
Speaker 1: their hem weird. Hell no, man, the drum going, the
Speaker 1: fire brings London. Hell no. No. They getting the gaming.
Speaker 1: They get in the game. They get a game. Broken,
Speaker 1: they get a game. I don't think so I gotta
Speaker 1: see it. I gotta see it. I got I got
Speaker 1: the mask. Yeah, I may have to tune back in.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned with me. You know what I'm saying post
Speaker 1: edit Okay, yeah I know I had on the yah.
Speaker 1: Yeah man, I'm saying, man, they get a game, man,
Speaker 1: they get a game. Mavericks get a game. Man. Those
Speaker 1: are the picture of the games. Let's get it.