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Speaker 2: we'll discuss Clay's return to go to State, the four
Speaker 2: and one road record, fake handshakes, and which team needs
Speaker 2: to be in panic mode clay return. You know, it
Speaker 2: was a big hype around Clay the Warriors game. Everybody attendance,
Speaker 2: a Captain's had for Clay's return. You know, I think
Speaker 2: that was a great tribute, a great tribute video, which
Speaker 2: he well deserved. But y'all got the dub right, Steph
Speaker 2: gout hide the fourth. I know you and Clay and like, man,
Speaker 2: let's let's kick that off.
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 1: Like? Man, Steph was on ten the whole time and
Speaker 1: you knew it right away when they tried to post
Speaker 1: him up.
Speaker 3: Very first play he fouled play. And that's one of
Speaker 3: the ones.
Speaker 1: Where like he knew it right away that it was
Speaker 1: a bad file. He didn't care, he didn't think anything
Speaker 1: of it. He was so rezealous to get to stop
Speaker 1: and so and and and so that play, you know, like,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: It's a little ring, it's a little testy.
Speaker 1: The very next play, they try to run the same
Speaker 1: play again, and my man's in the corner. So I
Speaker 1: try to bump him out the Naji Marshall like, yo, bump,
Speaker 1: bump um here so I can switch and guard the post.
Speaker 1: He totally ignored me.
Speaker 3: So I run all the way over there to he
Speaker 3: didn't get the script. He didn't get the script.
Speaker 1: I have to run all the way back to the
Speaker 1: other side of the paint to guard my man because
Speaker 1: he won't bump out. And sure enough, you know, he
Speaker 1: get the next couple of stops and he dialed in Man,
Speaker 1: and I knew, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I knew he'd be doll in. You know, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna keep a g with you.
Speaker 1: I watched Clay's interview leading up to it, all of them.
Speaker 1: I read all the quotes I watched in the interview
Speaker 1: I could find, and I watched step interviews leading up
Speaker 1: to it. Now, mind you, when they asked me the
Speaker 1: other day, okay, see, I totally ignored the question.
Speaker 3: I'm like, we got it.
Speaker 1: We got an NBA Cup game, and that's that's that's
Speaker 1: what Thursday is about.
Speaker 3: I mean, not Thursday.
Speaker 1: That's what whatever day of the weekend's.
Speaker 3: Ground the next game.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and so I'm like, like, that's that's what it is.
Speaker 3: And I completely ignore it the question.
Speaker 1: And then I saw Steph's answer, and I saw Clay's answer,
Speaker 1: and then I saw steph answer and it was a
Speaker 1: little sentimental.
Speaker 3: And I'm like all right.
Speaker 1: And then I see Steph speak on just somewhere different
Speaker 1: and it was a little more sentimental, and I go
Speaker 1: look at Clay stuff, and I'm like all right. So
Speaker 1: finally yesterday morning, I text Steph and I text him like, hey,
Speaker 1: listen here, big dog. I need you to be locked
Speaker 1: in whatever it is that you do, whatever it is
Speaker 1: that you need to do, if that's watched this tribute
Speaker 1: video m before we actually see it go up on
Speaker 1: the board, whatever it is that you need to do,
Speaker 1: to make sure that your emotions are where they need
Speaker 1: to be. So we dialed in. I said, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do the same, and so I hit double lock
Speaker 1: Raymond Ritter and I and I.
Speaker 3: Said, ray I need to say see that tribute video.
Speaker 3: And Race sent it to me. And I watched the
Speaker 3: tribute video and I was like, so I got it out. Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Steph got so So by the time Steph coming the
Speaker 1: game last night, he pissed.
Speaker 3: I didn't call as soon as I text him.
Speaker 1: He called me right away, so I didn't tried to
Speaker 1: stir the pot a little bit, bab I try, ain't
Speaker 1: you know, Oh my splash brother.
Speaker 3: Hey, So I feel Steph all He like, yeah.
Speaker 1: I talked to Clay last night about He was like,
Speaker 1: because Steph was supposed to speak before the game.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah.
Speaker 1: I called Raymond and told him I'm not speaking, like
Speaker 1: I just need to lock in on the game. So
Speaker 1: I ain't speaking. And I talked to Clay about it,
Speaker 1: trying to check Nelson. Clay ghosted me, so he got pissed.
Speaker 3: There we go. That's why he was on ten. That's
Speaker 3: why at the end of the game.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, bro, that end of the game he was
Speaker 2: that was almost like the Olympic shot. You feel me
Speaker 2: like he was on even after the game, after y'all
Speaker 2: shook hands, it was like, what was that feeling like,
Speaker 2: because you know, it's it's so much emotions, bro, that
Speaker 2: you know, Clay's players is legacy, brother, almighty, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, hall of Famer and that yeah connection,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that's the first time you know,
Speaker 2: we we've able we've been able to see the not connection,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy stuff said to me right away.
Speaker 1: He was like, yo, you know we had Andre when
Speaker 1: he left and he came back, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: Kd's kind of never really materialized, like it was so
Speaker 1: many years in between him playing actually coming back and
Speaker 1: play here from when he left.
Speaker 3: That is kind of never really you know that. He
Speaker 3: was like, but we had nothing like this, Like you're right,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that moment, Bro, it was such an incredible feeling
Speaker 1: because we've done special things together and Clay included, Like
Speaker 1: there's nervous without Clay.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: As I was talking to Travel last night and Travel
Speaker 1: was like, yo, you and Steph was locked in so crazy.
Speaker 1: He was like, but it's nuts because Clay was locked
Speaker 1: in too. Yeah, when I saw how all three of
Speaker 1: y'all were able to lock in on.
Speaker 2: That game, that's how y'all know how y'all won that championship.
Speaker 1: He said, it makes much sense, he said, so much
Speaker 1: to deal with three of y'all like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he said, it makes so much sense.
Speaker 1: When I watched how all three of y'all was locked
Speaker 1: in absolutely and saying that, so knowing at and understanding that,
Speaker 1: like the Knight couldn't have gone better, and they couldn't
Speaker 1: have been a.
Speaker 3: Better feeling for us.
Speaker 1: You know, it's us two still holding it down, You're
Speaker 1: still holding the fort down. And to know, you know,
Speaker 1: like he ain't with us no more. That felt good
Speaker 1: and so, like I said.
Speaker 3: It could not have The Knight could not have gone
Speaker 3: any better.
Speaker 1: When you talk about NBA script writers, as as people
Speaker 1: say on Twitter.
Speaker 3: And that was perfect setup that script.
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson played great, great, incredible, and they lost.
Speaker 3: That's how we needed to night.
Speaker 1: When Steph had those moments though, when he like locked
Speaker 1: into the moment.
Speaker 2: He's gonna start, he ain't gonna start because Steph came
Speaker 2: out talking Shid and Clay hit him with the shimmy.
Speaker 3: Then Clay caught fire. And then you see Steph over
Speaker 3: there he.
Speaker 2: Had you know what I mean, yo, And then I'm
Speaker 2: and and batching the intensity like Clay's intensity up Dallas level.
Speaker 2: I don't even think the Mavericks seen something like that,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And so like watching how
Speaker 2: you and how you and Steph were on this side.
Speaker 2: You know, Uh, Moody got off, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Moody was balling, you know, Buddy was everybody, Melton was balling.
Speaker 2: Every Looney played big you feel Come on, dude, come on, dude,
Speaker 2: that's w U s l A Brewing right there. And
Speaker 2: then my dog, my dog defensive player of the year.
Speaker 2: We we on that, We on that track. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about these stats. Eleven point seven rebounds, six assists, three steals,
Speaker 2: two blocks. Even Steph he talked about it after the game.
Speaker 2: He said, man, you you put on a master class
Speaker 2: on the defensive.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I would agree to that, especially the block on Daniel
Speaker 2: Gafford that saved the big shot.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. He was just he was
Speaker 3: just he was a plug, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: He was the plug all night. Man, just talk about
Speaker 2: I want to. I want to like, what was it?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like you starting to you starting to look you starting
Speaker 2: to look and feel young again?
Speaker 3: Bro? What is it?
Speaker 1: I feel incredible, Bro. I'm in the best shape I've
Speaker 1: been in in years. I'm as focused as I've been
Speaker 1: in years. Like I'm so dialed in on these moments, man,
Speaker 1: Like just enjoying, just enjoying playing the game, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Just enjoy going out.
Speaker 1: There and grind it, knowing that we've been counted out,
Speaker 1: we the underdogs. Like it feel good to be the
Speaker 1: underdog again. My whole life, I was an underdog. Being
Speaker 1: all this high and mighty shit, ain't ain't what I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna come to.
Speaker 1: Like, I've been an underdog my whole life, and so
Speaker 1: just being back in that role, I kind of feel that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, in that space, I feel
Speaker 1: that I'm locked in, and you know, I had to
Speaker 1: have a conversation with myself this summer just you know,
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I've been kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I know the commentating
Speaker 1: stuff is around the corner, Like you know, I want
Speaker 1: to transition into some of that as I'm do, you know,
Speaker 1: you start looking at all and I'm like, I start
Speaker 1: focusing so much on that stuff, yep, to where basketball
Speaker 1: is kind of almost put on the back burner.
Speaker 3: I flipped that, you know.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, And this summer I'm locked in and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: one years, if it's two years, there's three years, if it's.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I actually don't care.
Speaker 1: What I do know is whether it's one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: or five, I will be in tip top shape for
Speaker 1: each and.
Speaker 3: Every last one of them, and it will be dialed
Speaker 3: on the.
Speaker 1: Task at hand and enjoying this game that we've been
Speaker 1: playing since kids. But it's opportunity we wanted since kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where.
Speaker 3: My mind is.
Speaker 1: And so to be like, I got goals, but I
Speaker 1: really want that Defensive Player of the Year, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like CP CP being here last year
Speaker 1: and having ten all defense teams and like eight first
Speaker 1: team I'm like, dang man, I said, I still got
Speaker 1: more to do, you know what, I still got harder
Speaker 1: to get and and and that's how I'm feeling brom
Speaker 1: I'm locked in and so.
Speaker 3: You know, to get that block on gafferd in that moment.
Speaker 1: Hey, it was literally very reminiscent of Kyrie's drive and
Speaker 1: Kyrie had to drop off to him last year, same
Speaker 1: exact play. This time it was Luca got to drop off.
Speaker 1: Come on, like put them the plays where down the
Speaker 1: steph steph making them shots.
Speaker 3: That's what he do me making them plays.
Speaker 1: That's that's why I like, you know, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta do my part on that side so that he
Speaker 1: can do his.
Speaker 3: Part on the other side. Yeah, that's why I'm at
Speaker 3: with it. Bro Man.
Speaker 2: You can just you can just tell this it's a
Speaker 2: different mentality, you know what I mean. And then just
Speaker 2: even just even talking how we talk every day. It's
Speaker 2: like you choosing to make that a moment with Clay
Speaker 2: right that that's what you need. You choosing to make
Speaker 2: that a Boston moment, the Okac moment. Like it's almost
Speaker 2: like you re energize and you playing like ship man.
Speaker 2: If this is my last game, they gonna get Draymond Green,
Speaker 2: they gonna get the best version of Draymond Green that
Speaker 2: the league saying, and.
Speaker 3: That and and that is what the team needs. Bro.
Speaker 3: That is like.
Speaker 2: And the points. You feel what I'm saying. You know
Speaker 2: how I am about these points. I like the eleven.
Speaker 2: You feel that we gotta get them points too, you
Speaker 2: feel me.
Speaker 1: But it was it was a big it's just play
Speaker 1: me a different a totally different way they are. Yeah there,
Speaker 1: I can tell oh by the way they guard me,
Speaker 1: their account for that. Now they're just like, oh he
Speaker 1: make it. They're now like, oh they gotta get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So because you you're getting shots in rhythm, and it's
Speaker 2: an offensive rhythm, is an offensive flow, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. And so them six assists, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, that's another twelve points, you know, eighteen points
Speaker 2: depending on how many threes. So that's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: I like, I like the aggression because now, like, you're
Speaker 2: a playmaker, dog.
Speaker 3: Always facts, you know what I mean. You've always been
Speaker 3: a playmaker. So when you out there and I see you.
Speaker 2: Doing that and looking for your shot and making plays,
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, we we Yeah, we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: good night.
Speaker 3: Were in good company? Yeah, No, for sure. That's and
Speaker 3: that's that's how I feel. That's where we at.
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Speaker 3: And then the in season game.
Speaker 2: That shit, whoa, I feel like, I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is, but whatever this in season thing is, it's
Speaker 2: just like the whole intensity, you know what I mean
Speaker 2: of playing it Like I don't know if it's the
Speaker 2: different court or if it's how they matching up the rivalries,
Speaker 2: but the ship cracking.
Speaker 1: The different the courts make you automatically feel like something's different.
Speaker 1: Like when you walk out there on that court, the course,
Speaker 1: different jerseys there, you automatically like somethings different. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like this, it's like this. Or around him, man, it's
Speaker 1: or in the gym as soon as we walked in
Speaker 1: last night, we walked, we walked out, I should say
Speaker 1: we ran up, lol, said man, they feel like oh,
Speaker 1: I said, oh, it's just a different vibe around them
Speaker 1: in season tournament games or excuse me, NBA Cup, Uh,
Speaker 1: the NBA These NBA Cup games, man and we saw
Speaker 1: it last year, and like, if you had any doubt, they're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, the first you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The first year it was exciting, But if you had
Speaker 1: any doubt, looking no further than last night. The Detroit
Speaker 1: Pistons winning on the last second. That was wild us
Speaker 1: having to come back from down seven with under four
Speaker 1: minutes to go and winning that game in regulation. The
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics losing to a prey young list team in Boston,
Speaker 1: right like Portland destroyed Portland destroyed the Timberwoods beat them
Speaker 1: about four. Like these season tournament games is different, man,
Speaker 1: And it's like an n c A A tournament. Not
Speaker 1: that you want it done, but you feel like that
Speaker 1: because if you lose, once you lose, it's no longer
Speaker 1: in your control right now. If you can win out
Speaker 1: you control everything. But if you lose, you're at the mercy.
Speaker 2: Of everybody else, exactly the system and man.
Speaker 1: And so it's crazy because it started off as like
Speaker 1: this whole thing of life, Yo, we can go win
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand, and it's crazy BD. Nobody even mentions
Speaker 1: the money anymore. It's just all about like, yo, we
Speaker 1: want to go win this thing. Yeah, we want to
Speaker 1: keep of this thing. And I think the NBA has
Speaker 1: done an incredible job of creating this NBA Cup. And
Speaker 1: I think as fans, and when I say as fans,
Speaker 1: I am a fan of this game, as fans, we
Speaker 1: need to embrace this thing for what it is.
Speaker 3: It is an nd season championship, very much so. And
Speaker 3: by the way, it should be celebrated just it's something
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 1: It takes people a little while to come around because
Speaker 1: it's something so new that you like, oh, that don't matter,
Speaker 1: but like the Lakers win in that last year, it
Speaker 1: should be celebrated when hegas, when you watch it, when
Speaker 1: you look at like basketball, the NBA is a global game.
Speaker 3: When you look at La Liga and.
Speaker 1: You know, even your league basketball, all these different cups
Speaker 1: that do they matter?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying that that stuff matters.
Speaker 1: And so I'm hoping to see this continue to grow
Speaker 1: with fans, for fans to celebrate this.
Speaker 3: Is it going to be an NBA championship, No, it
Speaker 3: will never be an NBA championship. He's want to take
Speaker 3: you the whole, but it mattered. But it matters, man,
Speaker 3: It matters.
Speaker 2: It matters so much because like you think, about you
Speaker 2: don't get no rewards from training camp, you don't get
Speaker 2: no rewards from preseason, you don't get no rewards from
Speaker 2: start of the season, and everybody trying to play.
Speaker 3: To be a All Star, you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So this kind of changed a lot of the mentality
Speaker 2: because now you gotta be team oriented. You look at
Speaker 2: a team like Indiana, right they run helped them have
Speaker 2: that run in the playoffs, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: That confidence and so for a young team being able
Speaker 2: to snatch some wins, get up, you know, and maybe
Speaker 2: even make it to the Cup or to the final four. Man,
Speaker 2: you know how, like somebody like a Detroit in a Portland,
Speaker 2: you never know they could get this could It's tricky
Speaker 2: times right now, you feel me.
Speaker 3: Anybody can get hot. I remember.
Speaker 2: When I was playing, Like the Houston Rockets won like
Speaker 2: twenty three in a row and nobody was expecting that.
Speaker 2: But like, dude, if you get you know, you beat
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves, you beat a Miami Heat, as one of
Speaker 2: you know, a Detroit or.
Speaker 3: Portland, you could get hot, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And like especially for where you guys are right now,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like this their dog mentality, just like, man,
Speaker 2: I won't that cup if it's out.
Speaker 3: There, you feel what I'm saying, that it's out there,
Speaker 3: you know, it's an opportunity to go get it, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's how guys are looking at it
Speaker 1: man so and just again the fan in me and
Speaker 1: just watching these NBA Cup games. I love that how
Speaker 1: it is at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: I think in January February or something like that. As
Speaker 1: this NBA Cup continue to become more and more successful, yeah,
Speaker 1: if they do like a like an intraconference cups, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So like these Eastern Conference teams
Speaker 1: are playing in some type of cup for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: Western Conference teams playing against each other in some type
Speaker 1: of cup for a few weeks, Boom, their All.
Speaker 3: Star Break happened.
Speaker 1: Once you come out of All Star Break, as you
Speaker 1: and I both know now, the eyes set.
Speaker 3: On the p Yeah. Yeah, that's January February games. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You can fall exactly, And that's a way, yep, you
Speaker 1: make those games more meaningful.
Speaker 3: That's a way to.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily say compete because it's just such different thing.
Speaker 3: But that's so it's just so many games. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just a lot of games more meaningful at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need you need you need, you need the
Speaker 2: NBA Cup, you need the n Season Tournament. You need
Speaker 2: another cup, right because it's so many games, Like like,
Speaker 2: you gotta have different feeling and different emotions to like,
Speaker 2: you know, up at a level. And and and man,
Speaker 2: the training camp, preseason, first part of the season, like
Speaker 2: we see a lot of guys getting injured, you know,
Speaker 2: and it's like the season has been accelerated so fast
Speaker 2: that when you jump into it, it's like, damn, dude,
Speaker 2: you know, you may be in the best shape or
Speaker 2: you know, it take a while to get in basketball
Speaker 2: NBA shape, game shape, and you gonna have these little knickknacks,
Speaker 2: and so something like this is just so important for
Speaker 2: the right team with the right mentality, who got nothing
Speaker 2: to lose coming into the season, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And that shit can propel you going into All Star
Speaker 2: being like damn, like all we gotta do is win
Speaker 2: twenty out of you know, twenty out of thirty and
Speaker 2: we in you know, And so it makes it a
Speaker 2: big difference. You know, I know y'all had the Mavericks
Speaker 2: for the NBA Cup game. That was the first one.
Speaker 2: The Grizzlies are next, you know, followed by the last
Speaker 2: two teams in the group, the Pelicans who've been injured
Speaker 2: and the Nuggets. But the Grizzlies up next. Obviously there's
Speaker 2: no John Morett. You know, they have been balling. Like
Speaker 2: what is your take on that? Like what like how
Speaker 2: do you adjust? Like talk to us about how do
Speaker 2: you like? Okay, Jo Moran is out right, that means nothing, correct.
Speaker 3: But it should mean nothing.
Speaker 1: But as you know, the only problem with it means
Speaker 1: to nothing is we're human beings, yes, as human being
Speaker 1: as we have natural human reactions.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: And so the natural reaction is John Moran's out. You
Speaker 1: put your guard down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do not do that. If you spend in.
Speaker 1: The boxer ring and you put your guard, you get it.
Speaker 1: And so this, uh, this Grizzlies team. We played them
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago in the NBA playoffs. In
Speaker 1: the game John Moran missed, they beat us by fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they smash up. They beat us. They were up
Speaker 3: fifty points in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like oh, the game got out of hand.
Speaker 1: Later they were fifty nine in the second quarter. Right,
Speaker 1: because you naturally let your guard down. And this is
Speaker 1: the NBA man. Santi All Damas playing great basketball, Scottie
Speaker 1: Pippen Jr. Is playing great basket. Jay Huff is playing
Speaker 1: great basketball. Right Trip just getting back and starting to
Speaker 1: get his feet underneath him, you know, like, but these
Speaker 1: guys are playing great basketball. And so the challenge is, hey,
Speaker 1: you naturally let your guard down. Okay, this is in
Speaker 1: this season NBA Cup game. Gotta lock in and you
Speaker 1: can focus on that, right, you can use that to
Speaker 1: lock in. The challenge is, though Scottie Pippen Jr.
Speaker 3: Has been really.
Speaker 1: Good, he's going to be even better because he's going
Speaker 1: to be even more free. Rightly, santi All Damas been
Speaker 1: really good, He's going to be even better because he's
Speaker 1: going to be more free. And so that three that
Speaker 1: you may be like, let me get this back to
Speaker 1: twelve and see what twelve can create. Now you just
Speaker 1: like it's going up.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a different mentality exactly.
Speaker 1: So you're right, John mort being out means nothing from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of we still need to come in with
Speaker 1: the with the mindset that we know we need to
Speaker 1: come in with, regardless of who they got on the floor,
Speaker 1: jobs our bangs out, smarts out whoever's out. Our mindset
Speaker 1: need to be with. Our mindset has to be And
Speaker 1: so it doesn't mean nothing in that sense. But on
Speaker 1: the flip side, hey, number one, I always love playing
Speaker 1: against John joab bringing.
Speaker 3: When you play against.
Speaker 1: John, bring out a different level that you have to
Speaker 1: get to in order to match his intensely level, in
Speaker 1: order to match the swag that he come a with.
Speaker 3: He's going to bring out a different level and the
Speaker 3: real competitors.
Speaker 1: And so I love playing job and then also just
Speaker 1: seeing him get it get back. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I watched you we all watched him go
Speaker 1: through some stuff, and I know how it is.
Speaker 3: When you go through stuff and everybody want to count
Speaker 3: you out and doubt you.
Speaker 1: So also just from on a personal standpoint, just watch
Speaker 1: him get back, prove everybody wrong, show everybody why he
Speaker 1: got the Nike sneaker, Show everybody why everyone was the
Speaker 1: he was the most exciting young guard that everybody was
Speaker 1: looking forward to. A coach guy, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like and so you also just want to see that
Speaker 1: from that aspect and then playing great games man, like
Speaker 1: you want to play teams at full strength because as
Speaker 1: a competitor, you want to compete at the highest level
Speaker 1: that you lead at.
Speaker 4: And so that's kind of where we're at with it,
Speaker 4: you know. But saying that the court is who you
Speaker 4: got it, Yeah, you gotta be ready because them young boys,
Speaker 4: they like to eat, you know what I mean, They
Speaker 4: like to eat. They don't care who on the floor.
Speaker 4: I like them.
Speaker 2: I think they will coach, you know, And they got
Speaker 2: to held up a lot of talent, you know, and
Speaker 2: surprise talent to a lot of people. But you know
Speaker 2: they got when you're in the league, bro, you just
Speaker 2: need a chance, you know what I mean. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: just need a chance, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 2: thatuation in the right situation back in time your whole
Speaker 2: career around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking of a joh, who was the guy
Speaker 1: like when you were coming through that most reminded you
Speaker 1: of John?
Speaker 2: I say, John is a combination of Alan Iverson and
Speaker 2: Vince Carter.
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying is.
Speaker 2: Crazy, just like like you know, if Alan Iverson jumped
Speaker 2: like John Moran dog and not have been crazy, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Alan Iverson was the dude. When
Speaker 2: you knew you was playing him, it was no matter
Speaker 2: where you were in Philly, Charlie, Cleveland, the gym is hot,
Speaker 2: you know, like when they feels like the fog and
Speaker 2: all that. Man, that's that's how Allan Iverson, you know,
Speaker 2: that's the type of energy that he brought, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 3: Intensity? You know.
Speaker 2: Uh, he never talked shit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: He talked, you know, but he never talked shit. He
Speaker 2: never talked shit to nobody, disrespecting nobody.
Speaker 3: He was just all about his team or you know,
Speaker 3: on the ref.
Speaker 2: So you know, it was just like when I knew
Speaker 2: I was playing against Iverson, it was like, man, fuck that, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm I got I gotta get mine all too, and
Speaker 2: you feel.
Speaker 3: Me like him.
Speaker 2: Malberry was like that, you know, because coming into the league,
Speaker 2: it's like all right, you gotta play defense and you
Speaker 2: gotta pass the ball as a point guard, and they
Speaker 2: just man, they just running up the score, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So it was like Iverson Malberry was
Speaker 2: a lot like that. And then I say, Steve Nash,
Speaker 2: like Steve Nash had a certain type of type of
Speaker 2: swag and type of energy. But the dude you couldn't
Speaker 2: sleep on was Tony Parker. Oh, because he was gonna
Speaker 2: bust your regardless.
Speaker 3: Hey bro, Tony Parker. People don't give him enough credit.
Speaker 2: Hey bro, he he kills everybody.
Speaker 3: He done killed everybody.
Speaker 2: It ain't nobody that can look at Tony Parker and say,
Speaker 2: hey bro, I ate you up?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Or like, you know, I
Speaker 3: destroy you.
Speaker 2: No Tony Parker, no way, baby, he won't all fades.
Speaker 2: Tony Parker was probably one of the most to me,
Speaker 2: one of the most underrated point guards of all time.
Speaker 1: Tony Parker was nice. I actually got a chance to
Speaker 1: play against Tony when he was still moving. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Parker come downhill last year. Hey, he
Speaker 1: moveing fast as hell, didn't hit you with that spin,
Speaker 1: AND's still on balance, still going towards the rim.
Speaker 3: You did.
Speaker 2: Rob watched Tony Parker film all summer when he led
Speaker 2: the league and points in the paint. I was like,
Speaker 2: how the fuck is he doing this? Dog Like, how
Speaker 2: was he getting he getting to the front of the ram?
Speaker 2: He gets layups?
Speaker 1: Hey BD? He leading the league in points of the paint.
Speaker 1: Help these people understand. This is at the time where
Speaker 1: the NBA got real big yeah, like shit, Bill Wallace, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to have a big dude, Jamal mcglure, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And dudes that that will hurt you, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like you ain't going like I wasn't going
Speaker 2: in the in the paint trying to just dunk on people,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I don't know how Tony Parker,
Speaker 2: Tony Parker and what's his name, Tarik Evans, I never knew.
Speaker 3: I would watch them and be like.
Speaker 2: Damn, dude, how are they getting to the front of
Speaker 2: the rim so easy? It's nuts? It was crazy. So
Speaker 2: shout out to Tony Parker. That's he liked that. He
Speaker 2: got that type of intensity that job. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same type of ship jump I got.
Speaker 2: And it's like this chip on you. It's like a
Speaker 2: killer chip on your shoulder where it's like, bro, if
Speaker 2: you don't knock that chip off the shoulder, he gonna
Speaker 2: he gonna keep he gonna keep punching on you.
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Speaker 2: Let's get into this. Uh this form one road trip
Speaker 2: y'all just finished. It was a good winning okay. See uh,
Speaker 2: I don't like to say which win was the best,
Speaker 2: but which win was? Like which one was?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Oh, you know we got this one Boston absolutely, and
Speaker 2: it has to.
Speaker 1: Be Boston because you know we beat them in a
Speaker 1: championship on that floor. When you walk into these arenas
Speaker 1: that you want a.
Speaker 3: Championship at, you automatically go back to that bid. Oh man,
Speaker 3: it's this place. Like it's no good in this place.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You going into that place, you know they playing, they're
Speaker 1: playing great. You know, one loss, they got us coming in,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's the setup, is the cracking,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And we start the road
Speaker 1: trip off too, and oh and they're headed into Boston.
Speaker 1: Everybody like, oh, they start the road trip off to
Speaker 1: and O. But now the road trip get tough. And
Speaker 1: then we go in there like we pretty much controlled
Speaker 1: that game the whole game, like, oh game know, and
Speaker 1: to go in there and do that and obviously that
Speaker 1: without JB you know and kp uh, but you can
Speaker 1: only play who they put on the floor. And so
Speaker 1: to go in and send that message like we're still here,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you it's even a little more
Speaker 1: emphasis on the hairs. Why last year we did the
Speaker 1: whole shooting thing with with Jaylen Brown and I felt
Speaker 1: like we kind of let the wrath off of them,
Speaker 1: like we we I feel like we propelled them a
Speaker 1: bit when we did that. The confidence of that team
Speaker 1: after that just went through the roof, you know. And
Speaker 1: so to then come back and go back in that
Speaker 1: place that we did that and lock up like we
Speaker 1: did and play the game we did that that that
Speaker 1: made that one feel like it was the one you
Speaker 1: know and didn't going to that.
Speaker 2: That was and that's the one to get you know what,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like you're looking at five games, You're like, damn, dude,
Speaker 2: that's that that Boston game. If we could be two
Speaker 2: and oh going into Boston, we got a chance, right
Speaker 2: And the way the way y'all came out, the way
Speaker 2: y'all came out, it was like, yeah, just been focused, man,
Speaker 2: y'all just been so focused, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like the Boston game was great. There was a moment where,
Speaker 2: you know, current Steph kind of got into it, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like we were starting to see
Speaker 2: you know, kind of like the nostalgia of I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say y'all didn't care in the past, but it was
Speaker 2: like it was so much other shit that now, like
Speaker 2: the the intensity is on on on the game talk
Speaker 2: about like that moment with Steph and curR and like
Speaker 2: how you know when ship like that happened, Like how
Speaker 2: do you guys? Or for the fans like talk about reacting,
Speaker 2: you know, the reaction to that.
Speaker 1: So for us, I always, you know, like I pay
Speaker 1: attention to all that stuff, and so for us when
Speaker 1: I saw her, I just go to Steph.
Speaker 3: And reassure him, like yeah, we good, Like fuck that,
Speaker 3: let's move on. Just to make sure his hairs stay
Speaker 3: in the right place.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because people respond to things differently,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and you never know what
Speaker 1: respond you're going to get. And so I immediately go
Speaker 1: to him like, man, fuck that we do, like let's
Speaker 1: keep a pushing.
Speaker 3: And now again.
Speaker 1: And I always try to tell guys, when you are
Speaker 1: one of the top dogs on the team, the job
Speaker 1: goes far beyond just going out there and playing in
Speaker 1: good basketball. So as you know, there's so many more
Speaker 1: things that you have to deal with, you know, when
Speaker 1: when you're going through this stuff. And so I'm immediately
Speaker 1: watching that and not see it, and I'm watching Steph's
Speaker 1: reaction and how he respond to it because if he
Speaker 1: respond negatively, And when I say negatively, I don't mean
Speaker 1: to argue and I don't I mean responding like his play.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, it's the meanor if he
Speaker 1: respond negatively, I'm already I've already told myself, like I
Speaker 1: need to go talk to coach and make sure coach
Speaker 1: understand the reaction. You know what I'm saying, to make
Speaker 1: sure coach understand, Hey, Steph ain't respond great to you
Speaker 1: yelling at him like that, let's just keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. So that's already my mindset, because again, you
Speaker 1: have to keep an eye on all of these things.
Speaker 1: You have to know what make your guys tick and
Speaker 1: what makes and what makes them not.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. So I'm watching that like
Speaker 3: a hawk.
Speaker 1: In turn, I'm then watching the postgame press conferences and
Speaker 1: stuff like, nah, I want to be coach like everybody else.
Speaker 1: That statement lines up with the way you continue to
Speaker 1: play after after you and Steve.
Speaker 3: Have your so cool, I washed my head and I'm
Speaker 3: on to the next thing, you know.
Speaker 1: But it's those types of things that when you're trying
Speaker 1: to compete at a high level, when you're trying to
Speaker 1: win championships, it's those types of things you can let's
Speaker 1: slide by and you look up later on down the
Speaker 1: road and you're.
Speaker 3: Like, man, where did I like, where did? Where did
Speaker 3: we go wrong?
Speaker 1: And you for you, and you don't pay attention to
Speaker 1: those types of moments, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 1: so I pay attention to all of that little stuff,
Speaker 1: because when you're trying to do something special, those little
Speaker 1: things add up.
Speaker 3: It's the little things that matter, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so that moment was huge because what it also
Speaker 1: did was and no one has a problem with that
Speaker 1: on this team. But again, when you see Steph Curry
Speaker 1: get cussed out like that.
Speaker 3: And he just like.
Speaker 1: Like but no real reactions, just like like and then
Speaker 1: Steve come at you, you you gotta shut the hell
Speaker 1: up for sure.
Speaker 3: Like you have no choice but to shut shut it up.
Speaker 1: And and and it sends a message to everyone, and
Speaker 1: more importantly who else is sends a message to which
Speaker 1: I think is even more important than the center mess
Speaker 1: to players. It sends a message to the rest of
Speaker 1: the coaches. Coach, coach, get it up, get your coaching up.
Speaker 1: Like Stack, Hey man, I'm telling you, man, Stackhouse.
Speaker 2: To this man, y'all got stack House stouts over there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: offensive mastermind. Yes, hey, bro, y'all got y'all got some
Speaker 2: y'all got some dogs over there.
Speaker 1: What the additions that they made this Coachal staff stocks stops.
Speaker 1: Like you said, he's an offensive mastermind. It's his offense.
Speaker 1: As you know, I live on that defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. And what Stack has done with his.
Speaker 3: Defense, oh man, it's been crazy. Hey, And what he.
Speaker 1: Has done with his defense. Make me say that ain't
Speaker 1: Dreyvond's defense. That Stacks defense, and I'm going to be
Speaker 1: a part of Stacks defense. What he has done there,
Speaker 1: the point of emphasis he's put on that side of floor,
Speaker 1: the mentality that he's made us have on that side
Speaker 1: of the floor. What he comes, He come every day
Speaker 1: locked in and he like, oh, we watched the fielder
Speaker 1: of the Steph said something yesterday. He was like, oh, Stack,
Speaker 1: you know, well right there I was thinking this, so
Speaker 1: I had to do this. Stack was like, oh, tell
Speaker 1: me next time, tell me that because I definitely ding
Speaker 1: Joe asked on them grace for that next time. Make
Speaker 1: sure you just share that with me, that that's what
Speaker 1: you was thinking. And that's what happened, because I for
Speaker 1: sure ding Joe as I saw it at this time
Speaker 1: on my sheet.
Speaker 3: But it's it's just a different accountability level.
Speaker 1: Like, Man, I get them grades, we get a notification,
Speaker 1: We work on this app with our team and we
Speaker 1: get these notification grades out. Man, as soon as I
Speaker 1: get that notification, I need to see my grade. And
Speaker 1: last night my grade was high as hell.
Speaker 3: They had to be.
Speaker 1: I think I need to go back and check the grades,
Speaker 1: but I'm almost certain it was the highest grade of
Speaker 1: any one of them.
Speaker 2: Come on, I Stack, I need, I need to get
Speaker 2: one of these grade sheets. Add me to the list, stack,
Speaker 2: put me on the text notification. I need to see that.
Speaker 2: It's so great to hear. I mean, you see the results.
Speaker 2: But when you buy in to a defensive philosophy and
Speaker 2: you got to coach back there engineering it, and then
Speaker 2: also you got a grade like that, we live on goals,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like we live on success.
Speaker 2: We are we are fighting and chasing perfection every time
Speaker 2: we come on that court. And so to have that accountability,
Speaker 2: that structure, but also that trust, right you know, like
Speaker 2: you were saying with with with Steph and wanting to
Speaker 2: be coaching coaches, wanting to coach is really you know,
Speaker 2: it's that trust, right. It's being able to nip all
Speaker 2: the little things that can be deterrens right, and every
Speaker 2: time it's nit or every time it's fixing soft, it
Speaker 2: builds greater trust, you know what I mean? Sure, And
Speaker 2: that's you know, that's why I like on the defensive end,
Speaker 2: like you guys are are gritty, you're smart, you know,
Speaker 2: and you're not you're not worried about if there is
Speaker 2: a misassignment like who did something?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like a lot of times like oh shit, I damn,
Speaker 2: I'm switched out on the wrong person.
Speaker 3: Y'all. Don't look at it like that.
Speaker 2: Everybody takes to challenge everybody our support and that's what
Speaker 2: you need, you know, to really be a winning team,
Speaker 2: because like the deflections, like y'all not tall, y'are not
Speaker 2: super athletic, you know what I mean. It's like the deflections,
Speaker 2: the you know, the over the back calls from boxing
Speaker 2: out right, just all the little things that the block shots, right,
Speaker 2: the steals, all those things measure up right, and if
Speaker 2: those are hell that highest steem. I remember it used
Speaker 2: to be deflections or for me, like when I left
Speaker 2: the league, in steals, my coach told me how I
Speaker 2: taught me how to do it. He said, just pick
Speaker 2: the dude up like right before half court. As soon
Speaker 2: as they get to half court, jump they ass because
Speaker 2: they can't go back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I was getting all kind of turnovers and steals
Speaker 2: because soon as somebody come across half court, first thing
Speaker 2: they do, they relax, get ready to call a play.
Speaker 3: And then I was on them, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: And so like.
Speaker 2: Them little goals are like them, little bitty things getting
Speaker 2: fixed like that creates that trust, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Talk about y'all trust. You know, when y'all out there, I.
Speaker 1: Think the trust is coming from you know, the coaching
Speaker 1: staff is being willing.
Speaker 3: To earn that trust. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They ain't even walking in like all right, we the
Speaker 1: coaches and y'all do Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They walking in trying to earn that trust. Like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Stack Again, I keep going back
Speaker 1: to Stack in the defense every time some start going
Speaker 1: wrong and we're like, yo, we need to get out
Speaker 1: this cover Stack, like this is what we're doing, This
Speaker 1: is who we are.
Speaker 3: Do this, and so you stand.
Speaker 1: When you stand on something like that, everyone else has
Speaker 1: no choice but to believe that trust in it because
Speaker 1: you standing on it so tough, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And like I think Stack's also doing a good job
Speaker 1: of like standing so tough on it initially but now
Speaker 1: starting to be like all right, cool, y'all seeing this change,
Speaker 1: Well let's change. Just let's tweak this thing. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, whereas initially he like, Nah, this is
Speaker 1: what we're doing, and then just do it. And I
Speaker 1: actually like that mentality because what it showed is like,
Speaker 1: I believe in this. I think this is what's going
Speaker 1: to give us the best chance to win. Let's try
Speaker 1: to be great at this thing. Now, we can start
Speaker 1: to make adjustments, right you, like, eleven games into the season,
Speaker 1: you're starting to figure out building identity. You can start
Speaker 1: to adjust some things when you need to, when you
Speaker 1: see fit, but first you have to build a base.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, the coaching staff has been
Speaker 1: willing to build that base.
Speaker 3: And in turn, when you see guys who've been through.
Speaker 1: It, who know what it looks like, trusting in it
Speaker 1: and doing all of that, it creates for a different
Speaker 1: opportunity and for a different situation. And I feel like
Speaker 1: that's where we're at right now. Man, Let's move around
Speaker 1: the league a little bit busy. As a Wednesday, Cleveland
Speaker 1: Cavaliers are the only undefeated team in the league. After
Speaker 1: playing against them this past Friday, I personally believe that
Speaker 1: they have a chance.
Speaker 3: To get to the conference finals in the East.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you can get past Boston that's on you, right,
Speaker 1: like get yourself.
Speaker 3: Front runner out the East. Huh, absolutely, no question.
Speaker 1: But I think these Cleveland Cavaliers are serious. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why. I think they're serious.
Speaker 3: That ball humming so crazy.
Speaker 1: Bed My head was on goddamn spinning, and they was
Speaker 1: moving that ball so fast. I was like, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: oh man, I went the hell, oh this dude's just
Speaker 1: replaced three like he just like, I'm like, he relocated,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Like they moving the ball so crazy.
Speaker 1: They got biggs, which in turn allows their guards who's smaller,
Speaker 1: to just funnel you to their bigs.
Speaker 3: Right. So like Donovan Mitchell not a great defender, DG
Speaker 3: not a great defender, But if I can funnel you
Speaker 3: to Evan Mobley and.
Speaker 1: Jared Allen, come, all I gotta do is not be
Speaker 1: a scream magnet and chase over the screen and forced
Speaker 1: him to drive.
Speaker 3: Right, makes the difference.
Speaker 1: Kenny Akison, what he's brought to that team, the mindset
Speaker 1: that he's brought to that team.
Speaker 3: You see it in Darius Garland.
Speaker 1: Darius Garland is playing at an all star level, an
Speaker 1: NBA starter all Star level. Yep, right again, that's you
Speaker 1: see that in Kenny Evan Mobley crazy. The way Evan
Speaker 1: Mobley is playing is what you thought Evan Mobley would
Speaker 1: be coming out of college.
Speaker 3: He has not been that.
Speaker 1: He's shown you he's worthy of being viewed as possible
Speaker 1: to become that. He's now becoming it. Yep, and man,
Speaker 1: them boys playing some basketball. You got o'caro hidden shots
Speaker 1: now if Ocoro is the only guy you can help
Speaker 1: off of, and he hadn't you done?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I think this team they got some there and Struce
Speaker 1: ain't playing. They got depth, right, Like Tadjarone balling off
Speaker 1: the bench Georgia.
Speaker 3: We know he shoots that thing. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like they got Karris LeVert coming off the bench, Max
Speaker 1: strus is out.
Speaker 3: Like they got depth. I'm telling you, man, I like
Speaker 3: I like that team. I like the team. I like
Speaker 3: the fact that they they have energy. You know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Before when they played, it was like depending on Donovan
Speaker 2: Mitchell energy or depending on Darius energy, and there was
Speaker 2: no connective energy. These dudes got. They are like connected
Speaker 2: tissue out there.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Evan Mobley, You know I.
Speaker 2: Say glue right, like a super glue Like he's starting
Speaker 2: to become like their super glue guy obviously, Alan, you know,
Speaker 2: he's super talented and you know just uh, defensively smart,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And the way that the
Speaker 2: way Darius Garland is playing in compliment with Donovan Mitchell, Yes,
Speaker 2: in compliment you know, with Yang and the other dudes
Speaker 2: like they're they're they're playing both like league guards and
Speaker 2: they're taking the challenge to be that, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, together, as opposed to like, oh I got
Speaker 2: it this game, I got it this game. Oh he's
Speaker 2: going that like they they are figuring this, figuring it
Speaker 2: out together, which is very critical, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: for them to be to get to that next level.
Speaker 2: And to your point, when I when I sign a
Speaker 2: game against you guys, I was like, all right, well,
Speaker 2: you know this ain't really a real testament, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean to what the score was, But these
Speaker 2: dudes are really good, you know what I mean, really, yeah,
Speaker 2: in a real game is gonna be a really good
Speaker 2: game because they got so many offensive weapons. They got
Speaker 2: breakdown players, they got shooters, you know, they got guys
Speaker 2: who can play ice on one on one, and so
Speaker 2: I think they are they're dangerous because outside of a
Speaker 2: lot of teams, they have more guys who can if
Speaker 2: they have the ball with five seconds and they got
Speaker 2: the ball in the end, they can get their shot off.
Speaker 2: Like when you look at a lot of different teams.
Speaker 2: You know, you go through New York, you go through Philly,
Speaker 2: you go even Boston, right, you know, like you can't
Speaker 2: throw the ball to anybody on Boston and expected to
Speaker 2: get a shot with five seconds is going back to
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown, is going back to Tatum. But these dudes,
Speaker 2: they got a few dudes who can wiggle and get
Speaker 2: their own money, and.
Speaker 1: It changes things. It changes your defensive your defensive game playing.
Speaker 1: When you've got that many guys that can get to it,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't think Philly can be It's open
Speaker 1: from Philly before it even starts. And by the way,
Speaker 1: when you have the amount of talent that Philly has,
Speaker 1: you can always put some stuff together. But when when
Speaker 1: when the public take over the narrative of your team
Speaker 1: is hard.
Speaker 3: It's super hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard because now it ain't just about the game.
Speaker 1: Now you're dealing with all of these other things that
Speaker 1: you're depressed.
Speaker 3: It's a depressed energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, they they they in a tough spot, man,
Speaker 1: They in a tough spot because now everything Joel do,
Speaker 1: everything he say is going to be picked apart like
Speaker 1: and it just makes everything that much tougher.
Speaker 3: So now you so then you ask yourself to question.
Speaker 1: None of those guys and I repeat, none of them
Speaker 1: except Kyle Laurie, has ever done it. And so if
Speaker 1: you've never done it, and you got to deal with
Speaker 1: these things to try to do it. Yeah, it's one
Speaker 1: thing if you want a championship and you know, like,
Speaker 1: all right, we won a championship, and because we've won
Speaker 1: a championship, because we've won a championship, we now know
Speaker 1: that this is coming with it because of that, right,
Speaker 1: But they got to deal with stuff that and they
Speaker 1: ain't won no championship.
Speaker 3: So you don't know how to win a championship.
Speaker 1: And now you got to deal with all the extra
Speaker 1: curriculums and extra things that ends up coming with a
Speaker 1: team in the spotlight that's won a championship and y'all
Speaker 1: don't even know how to do it, and you got
Speaker 1: to do it with that weight on your shoulder, hard man,
Speaker 1: you know how to do it right, you know what,
Speaker 1: you know how to do it.
Speaker 2: They are the desperate housewives of basketball. They got so
Speaker 2: much drama going on. It's like, yeah, damn, you got
Speaker 2: you know. I mean you look at you know, you
Speaker 2: look at Kyle Lowry. He did it, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. He trying to bring a championship pedigree. He
Speaker 2: probably you know, older. They got young guards. These dudes
Speaker 2: are way different than how Kyle Lowry came into the league.
Speaker 2: The dudes he had to pay, you know what I
Speaker 2: mean to even be a brand and to have a name,
Speaker 2: you know, and so they got it. You know, you
Speaker 2: look at Tyres MAXI, he's out, but he's like, to me,
Speaker 2: he could be a superstar. Paul George in and out
Speaker 2: hurt and be in and out hurt. They got so
Speaker 2: many injuries. But to your point, it ain't even that
Speaker 2: because they could just be off to a slow start.
Speaker 2: It's the energy of the media of what's going on
Speaker 2: with Joel of you know, I don't play back to backs,
Speaker 2: Oh I'm just trolling. All that shit is just unfocused energy.
Speaker 2: They have the most unfocused energy and I would say
Speaker 2: static like cloud around them right to where it's like Okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna turn the Philadelphia seventy six ers into this
Speaker 2: year's Desperate Housewives.
Speaker 3: This is where all the drama is gonna exist.
Speaker 2: We don't know what's going on, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: And so like we're not talking that, we're not talking
Speaker 2: about Philly about hooping.
Speaker 3: Yeah right now. True, you feel there's nothing coming out
Speaker 3: of Philly about hoop.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm gonna tell you something about
Speaker 1: that beat. That's a great point you made. I went
Speaker 1: through that last year, yep, but nothing about me, And
Speaker 1: it became this team was about basketball, it was about
Speaker 1: all the other shit.
Speaker 3: It's impossible to win that way. It is. It's impossible.
Speaker 2: It's a depression, you know what I mean, Because you know,
Speaker 2: like I'm watching y'all last year and I'm watching you
Speaker 2: last year, and it's like y'all trying to get out
Speaker 2: of a funk. But you know, frustration anytime you get
Speaker 2: to the custom doing something like ah shit, I ain't
Speaker 2: not got triggered, you know what I mean, And it's
Speaker 2: like that ain't even you you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: The cloud, it's the cloud.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's those little whispers, those secrets, the same thing you
Speaker 2: said was when Kurt says something to step or somebody
Speaker 2: somebody rolling their eyes, nobody's picking up on that because that.
Speaker 3: Cloud is hanging.
Speaker 2: So they can't they can't huddle and be like come on, guys,
Speaker 2: like forget what everybody else is saying. This is about us.
Speaker 2: Let's be as real and as honest as we can
Speaker 2: so we can go be the best on the court,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But they don't have a message.
Speaker 2: They don't have a message, they don't have a slogan,
Speaker 2: Like what what the.
Speaker 3: Hell is it? Like? What what?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: What's the theme for the season with Philly? You know
Speaker 3: what I mean? We don't know. That's a fact.
Speaker 1: So so you're saying Philly need to press the panic button.
Speaker 3: Correct, Absolutely, New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: Do they need to press the pan But fine, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: And you know the Knicks is my squad, bro, You know,
Speaker 2: the Knicks is my squad. I think the problem with
Speaker 2: the Knicks, here's my issue with the Knicks. You went
Speaker 2: out and got Karl Anthony Towns, right, it's a difference,
Speaker 2: non difference in Julius random You figured out a you
Speaker 2: figured out the best way you played Thibodeau basketball was
Speaker 2: without Julius Randam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, has not been good in Minnesota, by the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who's been trying to figure his space out. So
Speaker 2: I want people to know, like Karl Anthony Towns coming
Speaker 2: to New York does not guarantee anything. Julius Randall going
Speaker 2: to Minnesota's does not guarantee anything. These men have to
Speaker 2: move their families, move into the city, just like you said,
Speaker 2: do all this media and then figure out, like yo,
Speaker 2: where wait what happened to me? And then not only that,
Speaker 2: who am I? Who am I on this team? How
Speaker 2: do I fit into the offense the defense? Like you
Speaker 2: gotta like it's gonna be a learning process for New
Speaker 2: York and Cat. You have some high moments, some love moments,
Speaker 2: but I think he has to adjust, and Thibodeau got
Speaker 2: to adjust in the figuring out, Like the Julius Randall
Speaker 2: shit didn't work.
Speaker 3: That's like, yeah, I got rid of him.
Speaker 2: So if you got Carl Cat over here, like you
Speaker 2: gotta figure out how to play scrappy, playing fast and
Speaker 2: best mobilized Cat because he he had better weapon for
Speaker 2: you than Julius Randall. If you use him right, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Think it's even less about Julius Randall though, and more
Speaker 1: about other guys. Obviously, Mitchell Robinson's out, he's the lost
Speaker 1: Hardenstein hard Stunahoma City. Neither one of those guys can
Speaker 1: walk on the same pavement that cat and walk on
Speaker 1: this basketball player. Get that, but it's everything, and what
Speaker 1: someone brings to a team is everything, And where the
Speaker 1: Knicks is going to struggle more I think with Kat
Speaker 1: than say, last year, Hey, they snuck up on people
Speaker 1: last year, nobody thought, now you're expected to be good.
Speaker 1: That's a different thing. But also where I think with Kat,
Speaker 1: you're worst defensively for sure, you know, and Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: isn't a great defender, you know. So now what ends
Speaker 1: up happening is it's not so much that it's not
Speaker 1: so much that it's like, oh, well, Kat isn't as
Speaker 1: good of a defender as Hartenstein or as Mitchell Robinson.
Speaker 3: We get that, but it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: It's not totally and solely that more so than you
Speaker 1: have one non defender.
Speaker 3: On the court.
Speaker 1: Out of five, Now you've got two non defenders.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When you start adding when you I wouldn't even say
Speaker 1: when you start compiling non defenders into one lineup, it
Speaker 1: makes a difference. It makes a huge difference. When you
Speaker 1: got to hide one guy, it's doable. When you got
Speaker 1: to hide two guys and three.
Speaker 2: Guys and they're your best player and they're your best
Speaker 2: players exactly, it's.
Speaker 3: Difference.
Speaker 1: I think that that's where the biggest struggle will be
Speaker 1: for this New York team is it's.
Speaker 3: Going to require O G.
Speaker 1: Mi Cal and Josh Hart is going to require them
Speaker 1: to be so good and fly around so much and
Speaker 1: try to cover so many things defensively that then you
Speaker 1: also didn't have to once they have to do that,
Speaker 1: you didn't have to make sure that Jalen and Cat's
Speaker 1: attitude towards the.
Speaker 2: Defensive end, yeah, they gotta They gotta take that challenge, bro.
Speaker 1: And not only do they have to take the challenge,
Speaker 1: but their attitude towards it can't be like oh whatever
Speaker 1: on that end, because if it is that way, the
Speaker 1: guys that are doing all of the work on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball gonna be like, man, fuck this guy,
Speaker 1: like you don't want to give me none on this like,
Speaker 1: and then you start to have these clashes and stuff,
Speaker 1: and so those are all just the little games within
Speaker 1: the game that people don't understand that you must know
Speaker 1: all of those things make.
Speaker 2: A difference, all right, j uh, you know, I gotta
Speaker 2: come with a little uh you know social media.
Speaker 3: It's chaining in social media. Uh you know.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown called Yannis and child after Sunday.
Speaker 3: After the Buck Celtics came and.
Speaker 2: Basically Yanni's elbow jail. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 2: it in the face, and then yann inspake the handshake.
Speaker 1: Y'all is a big ass kid for real, man, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it. I mean just by when you look
Speaker 1: at that, when you look at the video and Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard giving them the shoes, like most people that are
Speaker 1: with Nike would be like, I ain't getting to that,
Speaker 1: Like he's a singing sure fleet with that free shoes
Speaker 1: is free shoes, like.
Speaker 3: He's having I say that, I don't.
Speaker 1: Say that in a way like like Jalen was pissed, right,
Speaker 1: so he called him a child like man like I
Speaker 1: say that in a way of like like Bron Bron
Speaker 1: is a big ass kid, like people don't realize he's
Speaker 1: a big ass kid.
Speaker 3: Yannis to me, you know, he always give you this
Speaker 3: super serious and like ah. But like me, it seemed
Speaker 3: like he is a big as kid.
Speaker 1: Honestly, when you are that type of force, you kind
Speaker 1: of need some of that for guys to be cool
Speaker 1: following me because.
Speaker 3: Because they need something to relate to. Yep, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So that's that was my takeaway from it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was hey, bro, that was oh my god.
Speaker 3: But to me, it like a joke. I didn't take
Speaker 3: it as.
Speaker 2: Like, but he just cracked you like dog, what if
Speaker 2: he cracks you int the case with the elbow and
Speaker 2: he was like, all right.
Speaker 3: It's cool right now, it ain't cool. You would have been.
Speaker 1: You would have been, Yeah, I also get my elbows back.
Speaker 3: You would.
Speaker 2: You would have definitely you would have definitely elbowed him
Speaker 2: and did the same thing.
Speaker 3: Held my mom off the ground and do the same.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, it's fun though.
Speaker 2: I like this error, brocause I like what you know,
Speaker 2: like this era is like they hellok, playful, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, But it's also like some seriousness to it,
Speaker 2: and it can start rivalries and beefs. Yeah, the littlest thing,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean like Jalen Brown wasn't playing,
Speaker 2: but Yannis wasn't playing, But Jannis don't care.
Speaker 3: M you know what I mean, because they compete and
Speaker 3: they don't like each other.
Speaker 2: So it shit just raise the intensity level, right you
Speaker 2: hearing dudes talk talk smack over Twitter and social media
Speaker 2: and then interviews. I like the podcast because people be
Speaker 2: maybe getting shut off they chest, but it also be
Speaker 2: setting them up for like, Okay, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: see that dude again. What is it gonna be? You
Speaker 2: feel what I'm saying. So man, shout out to yannest.
Speaker 2: You know, I love y honest man. He's one of
Speaker 2: my son favorite players, and he is like the nicest
Speaker 2: dude in the world, you know what I mean. He's
Speaker 2: like one of the nicest dudes in the world, but
Speaker 2: he is a I like it because it's like, man,
Speaker 2: I elbowed you and I'm about to leave you hanging.
Speaker 2: So my teammates know, I get like like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but I ain't sorry.
Speaker 3: I ain't sorry. I ain't trying to take you out,
Speaker 3: but I ain't really sorry.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: It's really not cool. It's like, are you okay? All right? Cool?
Speaker 3: You straight? All right? Cool.
Speaker 1: I rock with it, Manu. Like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: y'all his personality. I think it's great that he shows
Speaker 1: his personality. That's a part of becoming a superstar, which
Speaker 1: was one of my points about Yills Alexander. You have
Speaker 1: to give people something else other than just being a
Speaker 1: great basketball player that they can connect to and.
Speaker 3: Tell us how you move in the super's how you
Speaker 3: need him shot.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Yannis, man, he better figure it out
Speaker 1: over there because he's coach boy Brown.
Speaker 3: He coming for you, Yonnis.
Speaker 1: He about he about to be on his second coaching
Speaker 1: no matter of six months.
Speaker 3: If they don't figure it out fast, don't buy insurance
Speaker 3: from Doc rivers Bro.
Speaker 1: They better figure it off fast, because I tell you what,
Speaker 1: if they don't win some games here, soon they will
Speaker 1: be paying three coaches four because they still paying but
Speaker 1: you're still paying us.
Speaker 3: Soon they'll be still paying Doc and paying somebody else.
Speaker 3: The fast. They should just bring me in there to
Speaker 3: just sit down and monitor and be like, ah, man,
Speaker 3: this shit ain't gonna work. That ain't gonna right.
Speaker 2: Let me talk to the guys like come on, dude,
Speaker 2: you got players like that and you trying to coach
Speaker 2: him and what I mean, Dre, You know what I mean,
Speaker 2: like you, you coaching is putting your best players in
Speaker 2: the position to be the best players and everyone else
Speaker 2: who has a superpower or to be in a position
Speaker 2: to be a superstar and realize and maximize their superpowers.
Speaker 2: It's not about your coaching. And that's that's what Milwaukee
Speaker 2: is going through. They're just going through an identity crisis.
Speaker 2: It's like, I can't I don't know how to be honest.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to be dame and our damn
Speaker 2: show don't know how to be a Milwaukee Buck right now.
Speaker 1: Man, that is a fact, my brother. That is a
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