WEBVTT - Weekend Preview, Doc Rivers Fired, James Harden Gone? | Ticket & The Truth ft. Tony Allen 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.200 Man, you already know. Man. 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:03.800 Today we got the great Tony Allen win us today 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:05.199 in KG certified. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.240 Yes, get it? Yeah? 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:07.720 What's up? 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:09.479 What what you been doing to kill it? 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.560 Right? First? T first? T kill him? 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.120 Man, tell me your thoughts from Doc Rivers Man? 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.520 Where you shock when they fired him? What's your thoughts 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:19.120 when you saw that? 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:21.200 It was kind of shocking at first? 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.160 You know, we got a winning records. Yeah, one hundred 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.640 and fifty four wins, eighty four lost or something like that. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.240 I just think changed hard pretty much threw him under 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.880 the bus thing. Yeah, when they asked him that one question, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.199 oh yeah, and that interview was kind of shaky. As 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.000 soon as I saw that interview, I was like, yeah, Doc, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.479 Doc probably on his way. But more so than anything, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:41.400 we going on resume. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.240 Man, he'll win her. He's approven winner. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.040 He's been definitely been my inspiration coming into the league. Father, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.720 like one of those coaches slash fathers give you the 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.080 real off the court. He's gonna give you the real 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.680 on the court. And I think he pretty much tough notes. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.560 You know, you tough note. A lot of people can't 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.080 take that, you know what I mean. Guys like us, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.640 we take that and they fire us up. You know 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.600 a lot of guys, you know, it go the other 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.320 way man, And I think that's what that's what position 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:08.800 here in. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.039 Do you think you can get another job somewhere? 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.800 You know what I mean? He said it in his in 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.120 his exit me. You know, I got a winning record. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.039 Let's throw that out that first. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.880 I mean, I got a winning record. So yeah, man, 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.200 I'm pretty sure somebody around but I think in this 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.160 today's league, he probably might have to soften up a 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:25.759 little bit. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.400 You know, be more, be more. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.760 Hey, how you doing? Brother? 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:29.240 You okay? 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.120 Today? You know he might have to be one of 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.080 them type of guys a little floor, yeah, man, because 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.600 being being tough nose on him. Man, you know how 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.200 Doc is, he could he could get frustrated at times. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.679 And you know that's what it is though, ta man. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:43.679 You know the schedule, man. 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.399 First off, I was shocked, Yeah, I was shocked. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.559 You know, I thought Philly out of all teams straight 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.360 up from where we come from, Philly, let's just go 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.520 back ten years. We're making ten years up. Matter of fact, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.320 five years. Nobody wants to think right, Well, man, Philly 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.480 came out of a dark place of losing a bunch 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.000 and then waiting on him beat and then losing some more. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.160 Or the Kawhi shit was a gut punch, you know 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.520 what I'm saying. And culture, man, culture, I don't think 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.959 today's owners, I don't think really understand or or management 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.560 in today's world, especially in sports. No one wants to 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.840 wait on anything. Everybody want instant gratification if it ain't 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.640 one in two years, you know. And I felt like 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.040 what Doctor was trying to at least it appeared to 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.120 be trying to established some culture there, you know, like 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.560 when you think of Philly, you come in there, you 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.320 play the seventy six, and you used to already know 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.280 you play a They was gonna be tough, you know. Coleman, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.080 you had, you know what I'm saying, Tyrone, you know, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.600 you know, Matt Gott you had, you had an idea 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.760 of of what you were stepping into or what kind 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.720 of you know, and he would I felt like, you 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.280 start to shafe with that, you know, and be, you know, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.600 being MVP this year, taking another step, being responsible playing 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.000 I think, having a responsibility to himself, playing a lot more. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:53.600 At least it. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:54.520 Came off like that. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.960 I was, man, Joe, I was mad from the perspective 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.840 of you got to give coach a chance to be 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.280 like something on the stove. Man, it's got a similar 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.400 it's gotta it's gotta turn, it's got to curate. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:05.679 Man. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.000 And I just feel like, man, the management gave just 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.240 gave up too soon. But I sit back and I 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.360 look at you know what the free agency looks like 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.480 for coaches. You got money, Williams out here, you got 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.519 Nick Nurse out here, you got budget. It's a lot 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.800 and two. Phoenix to me is a Doc River style 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:32.600 team ready to Doc is a winning coach. Now, I 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.440 think if you get the right pieces with a guy 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.280 like Doc, who were there with players that like that 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.000 are in Like you got stars like Booker, you got 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.160 stars like Katie. Now you got stars like CP. You 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.600 got eight non that Doc is a great person for eight. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.720 That's what I'm thinking of out of him. I mean, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.640 I think Doc can understand. You know Docs man, You 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.920 know Doc, I had Man, and I see Doc like 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.000 nurture all of us, from yourself to Baby to Me, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.200 to Peed to Perk to Ron to Rondo, like come on, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.280 bron bro, like like you know, like we all had 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.839 our challenges. And I just think that I'm thinking about 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.760 the aiding part and to be able to come out 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.920 of where he's you know, agent's gonna need like some 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.440 experience to come grab him and take him out of 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.120 us and take him into a new part and then 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.760 get real excited then come back into the season. He's 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.160 gonna have to have someone in his life to kind 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.719 of reintroduce the love and the fun of basketball. And 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.719 then I feel like here he'll bring a better product 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.120 to Phoenix next. But I'm in my head thinking about 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.280 what should have, could have, would have. But at the 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.440 same time, I'm also thinking about the free agency of 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.880 all the coaches. Have you ever seen a free agency 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.560 like this of an abundance of really good coaches? 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:43.599 Can you remember? 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.560 No? I mean I thought winning was everything, you know, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.159 and today to today's league is more so, you know, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.919 the players getting the opportunity to be the voice, you know, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.919 and when you got a guys like Nick Nerves, Mighty Williams, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.480 you know, they they they resumes I certified, But how 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.359 they connected to the players. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.559 Right and right and and and it's it's it's the winning. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.320 I don't know how you look at it now, there's 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.160 so much imagtry going on with the fashion and all 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.640 us playing the part of today's game. It's kind of 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.040 it's kind of weird to me. But if I had 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.480 to go with Phoenix and in the Doc fit, I 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.120 would agree to that. Like I like that one as well, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.840 cause you got Kevin Durant. You know, he understands he 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.320 want to ring. You know, g a a coach like 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.640 my I mean coach like Doc who's actually been to 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.400 the Promised Land. He had cats like yourself, you know, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.480 guys that want that love the game. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.159 And yeah Cep as well. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.880 Yeah, yeah, so these guys, these guys are are are 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.359 fuel to win. And I think you buy in with 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.800 the right system, you know, and and Doc do a 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.479 good job of putting guys in places where they could 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.599 they can blossom, you know. And uh with with a 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.200 cat like Booker and and and I just like you said, 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.039 like you said the other day, I think we talked, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.919 and you say, uh, they need a four to six seven. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.000 They need they need a four to six sale mate, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.760 they need a bench, dof they gotta get a benched 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.280 off this Phoenix. There's worst places to live. You can 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:08.760 get a bench. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.520 Man. I did tell you they need a I thought 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:13.320 that was a funny thing. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.440 See shit, you know what I'm saying, But they do. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.479 They need a focing sale mate, straight up. But I 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.920 want to see Doc if anything, you know, shout to 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.560 Doc May. I thought they did a great job of 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.599 getting those guys ready. And yeah, you know, the better 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.240 team won and it is what it is and you 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.080 got to keep on moving and uh, they got to 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.159 live and learn from this. And I'm sure Doctor end 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.080 up somewhere at least, I hope. So with all the opportunity, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.159 with all the opportunities that's out here for all the 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.880 coaches to pick, Like, what is the most attractive job 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:42.360 right now? 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:43.400 You got? 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.200 You got the Phoenix job open, Joannice doesn't. I mean, 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.800 Giannie is a superstar. He doesn't have a coach right now. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.200 Booker doesn't have a coach right now. Katie ain't got 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:52.520 no coach right now, and b he ain't got a 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:57.040 coach right now. Like what's the most what is the 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:02.200 most enticing job comes to having that one superstar? 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.800 You won't obviously if it was me. Honestly, I'm looking 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.520 at the bucks. I'm looking at a guy who's gonna 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:15.720 who's gonna lead by example, I'm looking like I'm looking 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.040 at every guy like gonna hold everyone accountable. I mean, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.480 if you look at this this series, you know, if 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.560 he don't get hurt, I don't think we ain't even 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.000 looking at the Miami, you know what I mean, and 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.720 things of that nature. So if the sexiest job to 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.640 me will definitely be the Bucks. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.360 Man they did not think about Docs in the Bucks, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:34.720 definitely be the Bucks. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:35.440 And you know it too. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.280 Doc loves superstars like gans. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.960 You know what I'm saying, Like he uh, he will, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.559 he will, They will gravitate and connect on the whole 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.080 other level. Has a bit of an old school to 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.080 me when he has an old soul at least at 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.760 least he feels like, at least it seems when he's 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:58.360 around or whatever, very dedicated, very dedicated, and he holds 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:03.400 everybody accountable. Man Milwaukee, you don't see him trying to 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.520 work out in the summer with everybody be cool. He 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.480 got that old school type mentality on him. And I 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.760 think Doc can coached that man. That's that fit right 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.160 up his alley. You could talk to him. I don't 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:16.960 know if do want to be in that cold like that. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:22.320 You know, Doc trying to definitely dog gonna run the 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.800 Phoenix running Milwaukee, man. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.240 I mean, Booker, Booker book ain't bad either. Can you 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.960 curate book book a book of one of those cats 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.000 to who's who seemed who seemed like impressionable? Yeah, like 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.480 he gave you that, he gave you that. I'm here, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.599 I'm here the win. I ain't here for all the 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.400 other stuff. I'm here the win. Now. They ain't even 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.520 get money a whole season with KD. Man and that 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.800 was and I thought that was kind of shady with 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.960 the new management. Got to figure new management coming in, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.160 they cleaning house. You know. I was part of one 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.199 of those situations in Memphis, Orlando Hollins. He came in. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.679 We were a ceed. We beat the one seed, uh, 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.120 the Spurs. They had Mono uh, Tim Duggan, all those 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.160 guys kawhi. You know, we end up beating those guys. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.960 And I thought it was coach Hollins who instilled at 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.880 uh the motto of the grit. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.120 And the grind, you know what I mean. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.360 And before you know it, when new management came in, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.400 they was like, hey, we go in another direction. And 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:33.800 that's how he became you guys, coaching brook coach. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:35.439 It was all him. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.320 Man, I can remember times, you know, he kind of 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.160 reminded me of Doc, you know, to where you know 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.200 it was time. I remember, I remember this one series 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.160 we were down two against the Clippers. It was then 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.240 two against Clippers, this is going to the Western Commerce 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.760 Finals made and he came in the locker room and 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.280 he pretty much got on everybody here, z Bo, you know, 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.760 I need you to get the rebounds that matter, not 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.120 not not the ones to help you that. And TA 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.400 they not guarding you out here? What are you gonna do? 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:10.240 Mike Conley, you got Chris Paul punking? You Mark, You're 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:11.679 not the bonus out here? What are you doing with 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.920 all this passing? I need you down that block. And 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.000 when I tell you guys took that to heart and 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.600 was like, you know what, we're gonna respond. We're not 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.640 gonna shift off and go the other way. And this 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.880 all started from our first ship being together with knowing 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.920 that we could we could actually win in this league, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.360 beating the one seed, you know what I'm saying. And 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.160 when we got to What's com Finals, I just felt 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.080 like Doc was that I mean not Doc Coach Hollas 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.720 was that grint and grand piece to spark us man 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.439 because we fed off of his scolings, we fed off 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.640 of his his energy, and when he wanted it, we 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.439 wanted it just as much as he wanted it. So 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.640 those type of coaches I think, you know, I think 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.240 Doc got that same kind of feel, and he belonged 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.199 in Milwaukee if you ask me, though, that's just me. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:56.880 I don't know. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.600 When you when you look at both dynamics state they 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:05.439 go together. I think Money would be actually good in Philly. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.439 Money has a past in Philly. I actually like Nick 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:09.160 Nurse too. Man. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.040 Actually, you know, I actually like Nick Nurse when he 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.880 had Kawhi because now you see him have a superstar 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.719 and how to I don't want to say how to 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.840 micro manage, but yeah. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:21.240 I was, I was. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.800 I was a bit disappointed in I thought would continue 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.079 to make some major, major majors and he just I 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.600 don't know if he peaked out. I don't know what 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.160 it is, but yeah, yeah, I like Nick Nurse and 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.040 his coaching. I think he's good for the younger generation too. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.640 You know, these younger generation wants to let me cook. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.199 They want to be you know what I'm saying, exhausted 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.000 ball and all that and he's with it, but he 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.200 puts it in the style to where it seems like 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.240 it's fluid throughout. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:50.080 So I don't know. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.800 Yeah, I would like to see all those guys have 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:52.640 a landing spot. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.840 But yes, it should be. It should be good narratives 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:56.480 for the summer. Man. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.520 We should see what you see and then you know, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:02.640 it'd be great to be able to ask him this. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.600 But I wonder how long Doc wants to coach. You know, 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.480 he's bus in the game for well, I think he's 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.200 I think he won another ring, man. I think because 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.080 a lot of a lot of the situations that he 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.360 fell out of, I don't think he really got fast shots, you. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:15.840 Know what I'm saying. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.280 And this this time around, I think that's gonna end 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.520 it out one time with another powerhouse like he had 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:23.440 with us. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:24.079 You know what I mean. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.600 I think that that'll fit him well. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.560 Man, I mean, but man, man's three man, three years? 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.000 Like come on, man, what the fuck? 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:31.360 Man? 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:32.160 Like? Like? 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.800 Man, it's it's this instant gratification. I hate this ship 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.240 man straight up, because you can't because you can't build 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.680 nothing in the instant, you know, like three three years 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:42.120 to kill him? 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.400 Come on, man, no, take your latch Man. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.319 I can remember, like I said, playing with the Celtics, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.679 you know, having that rough season, tearing my knee up, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.000 and Doc looking at all the young guys and then 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.640 you know, throwing away to pick coming to get a 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:55.280 big ticket. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.240 Man I'm talking about. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.199 They actually gave him time and he had a longevity 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.080 in that and that you know in Boston. So I 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.520 mean it's just take. It's gonna take an organization. Like 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.720 they say, trust the process. I don't think they trust 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:11.880 that process coach. They trust the presence big free agency 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.080 for these coaches. Though normally you hear about the big 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.679 free agency for for the players. But this I think 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.880 with these coaches, with these winning records, it's gonna be 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:20.640 a big free agency for them. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.200 Have laying the spots. Fire seller. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.360 If you are James Harden, he has a player option, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.719 you know what I'm saying, And yeah, he got a 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.040 chance to do you know, test the free agent. He 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.120 wants another big deal. If you are, if you are 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.080 advising him, what are you telling them? 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.440 I'm looking at James Harden like this, man, what you 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:43.360 the major market? 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.240 You made your money. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.880 You definitely one of the top fifty players in this game. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:48.920 You can change the game. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:49.760 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.120 Anytime the league have to take out rules for you 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.160 not to elevate. He birthed all the stepping backs left 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.160 and right the reach. Remember he was getting doing that, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.640 We was doing that, but he took it to another 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:06.160 whole other level. So now you look at that and 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.280 like y'all pretty much did everything. I have been All 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.920 Star Game and have been All NBA. I think it's 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.160 really time to trust to stay with stay with that team. Man, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.160 you didn't. You didn't went over there and changed your game, 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.760 led the league and assists and it can't be about 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.520 the money this time. And then I've been here and 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.120 talk to him going to Houston and rebuild with the 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.840 young guys. I don't I don't think if you, if 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.800 you go that we out. I don't think he seees 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:31.680 about renting the ring. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:32.960 I really do. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.440 But if he's stay over there with MB, the dude 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.560 speaks out and saying, you know what, I'm trying to 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.080 do something over where I'm trying to I'm trying to 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.400 put this on my resume. I need that goal plaque 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.960 on my resume. And looking looking at his career, man, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.240 you can't take nothing from him. You can't take nothing 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.160 from He put a lot of work in this league, man. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:53.160 So if it's me, I don't think he gets the backs. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.040 But I think you should be willing enough to say, hey, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.680 y'all get some more pieces in here. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.840 We do something and be get healthy. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.120 I come back, more in shape, more better in my game, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.440 you know, and I think we can get something done here. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.360 But you give him three four year deal. That's the 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:12.240 hard part. You know. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.560 I never want to, you know, take them from nobody's pockets. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:15.760 Man. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.280 But if he about team and winning and he could 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.560 sit down with the organization and you know, get that money, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.520 you know, and put it, put it to the point 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.520 where you know, I deferred, get some more players in here, 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.720 you know, try to you know, try to try to 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.720 do something for the team, to let it be understood 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.760 to the world that you want to go win. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.040 You're trying to win. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.480 And because the perception on you right now, like I say, honestly, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.360 if you go to Houston, it's gonna clear out. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.120 Say you about this money, man, James need to win 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:46.360 a ring to solidify it. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:53.120 Mmm. I believe so, I believe to stamp it. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.920 Yeah, just for him to to him to be as 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.800 one of the greats, to be talking about as one 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.360 of the greats, I believe he need a ring league. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.720 So like I say, you got a. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.680 Lot of cats who've done big things in this league, 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.720 but don't get that conversation, you know what I mean, 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.000 if you want that conversation when he's done playing. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:12.880 I believe that ring of stamp and. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.800 You don't hear too much about James Harden being his 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.160 effect on this generation. And when we go back and 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.720 we break the science up where like the old guys 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.960 start getting mad at the young guys. Is when James 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.800 Harden started putting out footage of him stepping back with 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.720 the lone leg and doing something that stepping over, he 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:33.520 didn't hit me with that. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.360 Lord, he got the Orthodox he brought he is. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.560 He is the father of the Orthodox style, and the 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.600 whole generation of basketball has converted over. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.040 And then Janni's, Janna's has probably had. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.600 The euro since he's been in the league. We forget 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.360 jana Is in the league, like what four years in 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:55.800 the league. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.200 You know what I'm saying. He was in the league 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:58.080 for a minute. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.400 Yeah, I remember remember few good games against saying, then 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.080 all of a sudden we leave the league. This whole 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:05.720 group of people leave the league, and then all of 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.640 a sudden, these players blossom into something else. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:08.840 Bro. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.640 But yeah, you know, you never hear James Harden's name 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.280 in the birth of this style that we're in. But yeah, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.200 he's I want to I want to stand for master, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.920 grandfather of all this or the step backs or the awkward. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.480 I don't even call it awkward. I'm just calling an orthodox. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.280 That's what you know, Because Dirk was Dirk was on 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.119 some of the same some some of the same style 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.440 off the one leg step to the left. You know, 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.719 we've been talking north south so much that when somebody 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.240 goes east west, you're looking like what and the degree 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.920 of difficulty in making these shots, that's what another month 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.680 for go. Don't understand, bro, Bro, you take a step back, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.800 that means you got to get the ball even more 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.840 up and over the rim when you're going backwards. But yeah, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.120 that's that's just a basketball engineer in the science too. 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.000 Like you know, he's getting older too, So I'm saying 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.760 getting older three year deal. He didn't get over a 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.280 three year deal. That's what I'm saying, like a three 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.199 year deal, understand it. See where you're at. You know, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.440 get Joe l some time. Yeah, you know, I ain't 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.200 really good at gym numbers, man, but put your gym 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.080 hat on right now. Put your own hat on that 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.240 with he gotta put your own him take a three 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.040 year deal. But he got to pick up that option. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:20.920 You know, he took a pay cut on that deal, 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:22.919 you know what I mean. But you can decline it, 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.320 so I get it. The option is thirty five. Yeah, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:32.159 talking about this year's option, it's thirty five. I give him. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:36.520 I give him a three years one twenty. But man, 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.359 that'll put him at thirty seven at the end of that. 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:42.120 Yeah, it's raped. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:44.960 That's the window right there. 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.560 That's it. But yeah, I think he gets a deal. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.680 I think he stays in Philly. If you're a smart man, 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.480 he's with probably the best player in our league or 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.679 top two man, and you can rock that bro, and 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.679 he's you know what I'm saying, he's determined that that 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.640 you're your best player is determined, so you can ride 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.720 that and and he can get your ring. Put some 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.680 more pieces around here. He can he can get you 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.639 to a ring. So yeah, I don't know, but I 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.520 can't wait for the summer to get here already, man, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.479 the narratives already set up to be to be what 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.840 they are. So yeah, let's stay let's stay tuned, and 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.520 the Spurs get the number one pig. Were you shocked? No, 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.320 I wasn't shocked. I wasn't shocked. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.359 It wasn't either. You know what's happened. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.200 Look, I got I got one for you, Pete Killer. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.000 You know what we didn't mention that one time last 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:33.800 year the Spurs. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.359 No, I don't want to see it anything, nothing that 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:38.720 they won't play on the Spurs team right now. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:44.280 I'm sorry. I don't even know the uh uh what's tires? 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.120 What's tires? Last night? Jones? 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.320 Jones, he has a brother. I think that place for 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:53.040 the Spur that's my best one. That's apologize and Johnson kid. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.240 he's nice. I like that kid, Right, I apologize to 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.280 the Spurs nation all that shit, right, fuck it right 0:19:57.840 --> 0:19:58.560 At the same. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.800 Time, man, nobody they kept up with that. 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.040 And they started off remember when he started off strong? Yeah, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:06.200 and then they fell. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.960 Off right right right, right strategy. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.520 The Spurs are the sneakiest. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:23.240 Listen, Pops, he slid out, chillis out of that right and. 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.840 Boom when they got the number one pick. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.600 Actually, I thought our therapy and I sat here one 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.879 time and thought, uh, women in Yanna, if I message 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.679 whole name, I apologize Victor. I'm gonna call it as 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.400 Victor hit man, right bro. I thought he was going 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.840 to Charlotte, and then Charlotte got down to two. I 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.960 was like, oh, Ship, what his surprise? What you shocked 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:47.480 that the Spurs got the number one pick. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.000 I definitely was surprised. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.520 But you look at you know, the Spurs history and 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.960 drafting those number one picks. Man, I think I think 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.320 that's a good landing spot for him. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:57.160 I think they're. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.480 Gonna teach him the great part about professionalism, teach them 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.720 good nutrition. I think they gonna teach them how to belong, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.800 the insight of longevity. 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:08.240 I think all that. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.960 Coach over there does is they just groom well pros 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:17.200 like good good pros and couldn't no other place he 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.000 probably want to be in his first year, you know 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:21.879 what I mean. You don't want to go nowhere city 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.320 too big, you know, you get used to the night life. 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:25.439 You want to go nowhere. 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:27.200 You know, you wanna go somewhere where it's all about 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.320 basketball and I think with those championship banners that's in there, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.280 it give him a good ceiling to reach, you know 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:32.600 what I mean. 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.280 Yeah, he's gonna be inspired. Timmy's in the area he 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.600 can pull up. Yeah, Pop is around that. The Spurs 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.639 coaches one of them coaches that you know when you 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.359 talk Celtics, when we always talk about you know, Lakers, 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:46.879 when we talking about you know players, older players. The 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.600 Rockets got a great coach of the Bulls got a 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.600 great culture, but older players coming back. The Spurs, you 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.480 don't really hear too much about their culture, but they 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:59.440 have a very very very deep winning culture in its habits. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.280 And it's similar to how pat Riley kind of grooms 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.200 you when you come to Miami. Miami, pat Rolly grooms 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.159 you a certain way to be able to live and 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:08.439 play in Miami. 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:09.280 Would you agree with that? 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:09.640 Right? 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:11.879 You know, you know right away what you can and 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:12.720 can't do in Miami. 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:13.520 Blah blah blah. 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.040 Right, And that's why players are successful when they go 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:17.800 down and they play hard, they have a culture. 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:19.280 Spurs are no different. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:19.520 Man. 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.480 I think I think this kid, Victor is, like you said, man, 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.320 perfect situation. San Antonio is like a It's like a 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.760 big small city. You know what I'm saying, It closes 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.040 early and ain't too you know, obviously it's it's a 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.120 city and they got great fan base. 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:37.000 Yeah, I think he's gonna learn quick too, man. 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:38.960 And like you said, man, they're so used to the 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.920 having the number one type prospect like this. It helps 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.480 that Tony Parker has continuity with us. I think that's 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:46.720 gonna help a lot. He has a lot to be 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:48.280 able to give to him in the city and now 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.119 and then too, I watch I see TV playing a 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:51.919 big party in all this. 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.840 It let it start getting weird, and you know, cause 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:55.360 you gotta go. 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:57.399 Through some you know, some some battles and ups and 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:00.520 downs in peaks and valleys. You go start seeing that 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:03.479 brotherhood step in and that big brother coming in, you know, 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.680 keeping the motive, keeping them motivating, and then just telling them, hey, 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:08.199 you know what I'm saying, Like you're gonna see some 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.320 of that some of that cognuity come in and help 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:13.800 him with that. But yeah, it's impressive about his game 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:16.439 though he he could, he could put. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:17.040 It on the floor. 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:23.040 Do you start at the point That was my question, like, man, 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:26.720 are you gonna position him at the three the four 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:31.520 or the five. That's the question. That's the new question. 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:34.440 You know, normally then those seven foot guys coming automatically 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.280 put him at the center spot. I don't know if 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.040 he can guard because you gotta turn around. You got 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:38.359 a guard. 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:39.560 Now, can you guard a three? 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:45.440 He long is ship like God damn like look and everything. 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.040 I really got to guard that. You switching on the 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.160 pick of roll all the time. You can't be a three. 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:53.159 And then you're on the right side of the zone. 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:55.160 And we like this and you know what I'm saying, 0:23:55.160 --> 0:24:00.440 he's seven seven playing the three man being man. 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:03.960 I saw him hug Rudy Gobert. He looked, he looked 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:04.480 boying him. 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:10.560 Yeah, but it's skill set is at all time. Yeah, 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:14.840 I'm eager looking. I want to see him in the summer. 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:17.320 I want to pull up on them work out. I 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.080 want to see the workout. You know, to workout, tell 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:21.840 you everything you know, especially in the summer time. Ain't 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:25.520 it ain't it ain't the whistle, It ain't summertime. Summertime. 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.600 One of them, Grover, one of them. I'm not to 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:30.640 call Joe Bullers off. I have to call an impact 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:34.320 Joe right, Joe b got him. 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:34.680 I know you. 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:38.360 I know you're working out. I know he's working out somewhere. Yeah, 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:40.439 you know what certified? Find out where young fell at. Man, 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:42.080 We're gonna pull up on him, check him out. See 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:45.359 what you okay? So the Portland Trail Blazers have the 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:48.360 third pick. The reason why I'm bringing this up out 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:51.400 of anything is because they probably have one of the 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:56.959 biggest assets of the league other than James Harden. And 0:24:57.040 --> 0:25:00.000 I'm not familiar with the free agent list right now, 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:05.560 but if and when this player and Damian Lillard ever 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:08.840 hits the market, he will be the most probably the 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:09.760 most off the player. 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:11.680 Right you agree with that? Yeah? I agree. 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.520 So if you're Portland, you're still trying to build around this, right. 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:18.000 If you're Dang, what do you do? 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:20.840 Man? You out of that? 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:23.879 Killer, I'm definitely out of this. It's about town. They 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:25.920 aim to go and get them some some hardware. 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:26.640 Man. 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:30.040 If I'm him, I'm going to link up with two 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:35.280 stars somewhere like Philly. I try to force my way 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:35.800 in Philly. 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:38.600 Man. So that means you gotta take a pay pay cut. 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:40.640 You gotta dam have made. 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.320 A bag already, man, Like these cats were talking about 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.160 to May over three hundred something menion, Man, I mean 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:47.640 not even talking there endorsment. 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:48.920 We ain't pocket watching or nothing. 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:51.400 But I'm saying, if the ultimate goal is to win 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:53.879 the championship and put that on your resume, man, I 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.960 don't see why not. Man, And I use you as 0:25:56.960 --> 0:26:00.000 an example, big fellaw. I mean you made a bag yourself. 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.800 I mean, just to look at the opportunity for yourself 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:05.240 to be in Boston. I mean you've been on that. 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:06.600 You've been on that. 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:09.439 Man. I looked at it too. Man, it's time for 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:10.840 him to chase. It's time for him. 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.080 To get on because he's gonna look up and three 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:14.200 four years is gonna be going. 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:16.840 It's gonna take you two years to lock in with something. 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:19.400 What years this for Dame? What year is this for Dame? 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:23.360 Let me check. I think this is eleven or twelve, right, 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:28.359 it's getting up there. It's not eleven seasons, eleven next season. 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:30.359 So it's time come on, man, it's time to it's 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:30.840 signing the lead. 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:32.080 It's this contract. Me. 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:34.560 Let me just mention he has one, two, three. 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:37.800 Four years or five more years left because his new 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:40.840 contract kicks in and it's forty five million and forty 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:44.080 eight million, then fifty sixty three million. Y'all know how 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:47.000 today's game is. If you're one of them guys, you 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:49.760 could you can force yourself anywhere. Man, and with this 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:52.160 being the perfect time to do it, while they got 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:52.960 to pick so high. 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:53.680 I mean, it's so. 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:56.520 Many teams that's that's willing to take that pick. And 0:26:56.560 --> 0:26:58.520 with the with the options you got out there, you 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:02.160 got to catch what school h Henderson. You know he's 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:04.920 a he's a hot commodity. You replace that with that. 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:08.080 You know, you got a lot of got Brandon Miller 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:08.800 from Alabama. 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:10.240 It's time for you to start over though. 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:12.400 I mean, Poland need to Poland need to sit down 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:15.000 with Dame and Dame need to get somewhere and well 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:16.880 he can win, man, I want to see him win. 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:19.159 I done had plenty battles with him, so I know 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:21.520 what he capable of doing. I know he capable of 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:22.840 getting fifty at any night. 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:23.800 You know what I mean? 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:26.639 If you are if you are Portland, what do you 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:28.439 do with the pick? Do you trade the pick or 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:31.080 do you actually try to you know, you do you 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:33.520 trade the pick and bring in whatever, see what the 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:35.359 value is of that. Try to bring in something to 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:37.680 help him or do you is it time to move 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:39.000 on just to start fast? 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:39.800 I mean I believe so. 0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:41.760 You look at what they brought with him last year, 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:45.280 you know, and they didn't pretty, they didn't do too 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:47.520 much nothing last year. We don't have to script about 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:50.640 what four or five years now. Yeah, and it's looking like, yeah, 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:53.080 this gonna be the same thing, Dame, if you if 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.560 you stay, who's who's excited to run to Portland? 0:27:57.440 --> 0:27:58.159 Player wise? 0:27:58.520 --> 0:28:00.960 I don't think there's too many plays after that's really 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:03.080 round to do that. So at this point, with the 0:28:03.119 --> 0:28:04.919 w with the way the stars get the chance to, 0:28:04.960 --> 0:28:07.520 you know, push theyself and force they self places and 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:11.120 and Potland old 'em. They're right, poland Portland know he's 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:13.879 been loyal this whole time. I think they are willing 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.080 enough to say, you know what, if you wanna get somewhere, dang, 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:18.720 let us know the place and we'll do anything in 0:28:18.760 --> 0:28:21.240 our power to help. I think he got that much respect. 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:25.080 Think so yeah, I mean, Dame time right, he do 0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:25.680 not want enough? 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:25.840 Right. 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:29.640 I wanna see him go somewhere. I wanna see him 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:32.160 go somewhere and play and play for one and play 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:34.760 for a couple of shit, just because of the work 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:36.399 and his body of work and what he's done for 0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:37.320 the league. 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:37.560 Man. 0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:42.280 So yeah, I hate that we even gotta, you know, 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:45.080 even talk about this, but it ain't there's some big 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:48.960 brother shit man, or what's your uh? If you if 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:52.560 you're pulling up on ja and you seeing what's your 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:54.880 first you know, you know it's crazy, you know that. 0:28:55.160 --> 0:28:56.720 So before we start at this, I'm not hit to 0:28:56.760 --> 0:29:00.520 defend anything. But whenever I hear anything, I always think 0:29:00.600 --> 0:29:03.560 of there's two sides of everything, right, you know what 0:29:03.560 --> 0:29:05.840 I'm saying, where it's always two right. 0:29:05.960 --> 0:29:07.640 Anyways, So the. 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:10.000 First thing I thought was when I saw him with 0:29:10.080 --> 0:29:11.720 the gun, I thought, Man, why. 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:12.480 Is he carrying a gun? 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:16.440 You know, like that's the first thing I thought, Like, Man, 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:20.400 it's something in his personal life got him rideled or something. 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:20.880 You know what I'm saying. 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:25.480 You know, I went there and I'm thinking to myself, like, 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:33.000 there's no one doing this. He's doing this, man, And 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:34.239 I don't know. 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:35.920 I know, I know the culture. 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:38.680 I know, I know I know a lot of young 0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:43.480 boys mindset these days and what the culture is, you 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:48.760 know what I'm saying, and how and how everything is outside. Yeah, 0:29:48.760 --> 0:29:50.920 I just want to know your thoughts on what you 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:53.040 thought when you saw when you saw a young fella 0:29:53.080 --> 0:29:54.840 in the video and stuff, and if you poured up 0:29:54.920 --> 0:29:58.720 on him, what would be the conversation. First thing, First, 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:04.400 I definitely tell them, you know, the guns, and I'm 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:06.760 definitely not you know, one of those things you play 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:11.600 with obviously, you know, I'm assuming you know he's in Memphis, you. 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:14.800 Know, first forty a city, I believe. 0:30:16.040 --> 0:30:18.400 I just I just think if he got that fear 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:21.200 of holding a gun, I think he should be in 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:25.520 much need of security, you know. But it's the new 0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:29.720 millennium thing. I'm assuming, you know, being excited around your 0:30:29.720 --> 0:30:33.280 friends and you know, just just that excitement with the 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:36.000 new contract. You know, I get it, I get all that. 0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:39.880 But more so than anything, you gotta be, uh, you 0:30:40.000 --> 0:30:43.720 gotta be properly playing in your movements and when you 0:30:43.840 --> 0:30:47.600 out and about man. And if you definitely think you 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:50.239 need a gun or you need places to go that 0:30:50.320 --> 0:30:52.560 you need a gun, might not need to be going 0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:55.840 to those places. And I say that from experience. You know, 0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:58.320 I didn't been in the fast shal of things myself 0:30:58.600 --> 0:31:00.640 that I wish I could take back my self, you know, 0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:04.000 So experience is the is the best teacher. And I 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:06.720 think about him going through all this, He's definitely gonna 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:10.240 be able to, you know, have a movement that's in 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:11.720 a better guided situation. 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:16.280 People leave making a xamp out of him. 0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:19.200 Well, I mean it's been it's been broadcast on all 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:22.440 the websites and all the you know TV shows, as 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:27.240 we see they campaigning half a season. Definitely a chunk 0:31:27.280 --> 0:31:29.560 of money being lost. And this is definitely gonna be 0:31:29.560 --> 0:31:33.040 a humbling experience for him. It's his reaction to all 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:37.120 this gotta be more so in action, you know. Obviously, 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:40.080 he gotta get the right people around him. That's I 0:31:40.120 --> 0:31:42.760 know that sound cliche, but more so than anything, you 0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:43.880 need some cats around you. 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:44.960 That's gonna let you know. 0:31:45.120 --> 0:31:47.440 When you when you, when you're wrong, when you bogus, 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:49.960 when you when you pretty much need to, you know, 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:53.000 be a man about certain situations, and a grown man 0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:55.920 at that, you know, and uh, a lot of this 0:31:56.000 --> 0:32:00.160 immature acts, you know, it's just comes from you knowing, 0:32:00.520 --> 0:32:03.760 being wealthy, being being young, not. 0:32:03.640 --> 0:32:04.600 Knowing, not knowing. 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:07.880 Nobody in his family has been here, nobody nobody, I 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:13.120 mean he probably he is the ass paid family members. 0:32:13.160 --> 0:32:15.720 So it's like he's the boss. So a lot of 0:32:15.720 --> 0:32:19.880 people just ain't ain't giving them the right right guidance to, 0:32:20.000 --> 0:32:21.959 you know, tell him about itself. That's something. 0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:24.120 This is when I think the league needs the big 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:27.520 brother Big Sister program right here. 0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:29.160 Mmm feel me. 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:31.120 This is when I think the NBA and the w 0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:34.200 NBA needs the big brother. And this is what I 0:32:34.280 --> 0:32:37.760 think the fraternity and the sororities are for real shit 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:40.880 Like it's nothing like hearing it from the old g 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:43.240 You ought to see when Jordan's sit down. 0:32:43.680 --> 0:32:46.160 He ain't got all us right here and we might talk. 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:49.480 Man might be talking so much. 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:52.640 Man, you you will forget your day or you will 0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:55.560 forget your schedule, and you'll be so locked into what 0:32:56.080 --> 0:32:58.160 what Bro saying that you. 0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:00.240 Just, you know, you forget. 0:33:00.400 --> 0:33:04.640 And I think it needs to be one of those 0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:08.840 situations where I think when young people have more access 0:33:08.960 --> 0:33:12.120 around the big brother or the OG or whatever they 0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:15.640 consider to be their influence, someone that they can listen to, 0:33:15.640 --> 0:33:17.479 someone they can take a script from. Cause a lot 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:19.920 of these kids, I'm just gonna be a one and 0:33:19.960 --> 0:33:20.840 we're hunting about it. 0:33:20.920 --> 0:33:23.320 A lot of these kids that don't have a script. 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:24.960 And what I mean by dad is that this is 0:33:25.000 --> 0:33:27.600 their first time being outside this, they first time having 0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:30.160 something like this and their dad and they mom too, 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:32.400 So they don't know what they doing. They just doing 0:33:32.560 --> 0:33:35.240 whatever the the agent is suggesting, whatever. 0:33:35.000 --> 0:33:35.840 They think is clever. 0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:38.800 And you know, you damn then think you were untouchable 0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:42.360 until you went into situations like this or when the 0:33:42.360 --> 0:33:44.480 og pull up that's been through this and being able 0:33:44.480 --> 0:33:47.800 to sit you down and talk about you know, and 0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:49.600 take you through the whole script, then you look at 0:33:49.640 --> 0:33:53.880 it different cause then everybody wants to take it back 0:33:53.920 --> 0:33:54.480 once it's. 0:33:54.360 --> 0:33:55.400 Done, you know what I'm saying. 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:58.560 And he has a luxury of being able to survive this, 0:33:58.760 --> 0:34:01.960 but more portly, I don't think he's thinking about what 0:34:02.000 --> 0:34:06.200 he is the corporate Joe, uh w what's what he's 0:34:06.240 --> 0:34:10.279 actually his actions is costing him like real shit. I'm 0:34:10.320 --> 0:34:12.319 not saying they gonna do this, but if they wanted to, 0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:15.759 man companies put language in the contract. 0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:16.920 For shit like this. 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:19.120 This is how they I didn't even say leverage you, 0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:21.560 but this is how well. It's one thing John needs 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:23.319 to understand. Bro, you don't get to pick and choose 0:34:23.400 --> 0:34:26.399 when you wanna be a professional, young fellah. You took 0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:28.000 the When you took the hat and you put it on, 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:29.759 and you stamped and and he shook up. 0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:30.319 And he gripped you. 0:34:31.160 --> 0:34:34.319 That was your that was your firm, That was your 0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:36.600 I don't even know what the word is, but y'all 0:34:36.680 --> 0:34:38.879 knowing in my mouth, y'all know what I'm trying to say. 0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:41.719 That was him saying to the world that, yeah, I'm 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:44.080 ready for this step and taking in that step as 0:34:44.080 --> 0:34:47.520 a professional. You gotta do better. You gotta put yourself 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:50.640 around better to do better. But more importantly, I think 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:54.359 the lead needs to take this example and set up 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:59.080 the ambastionionorship around the league universally. And it needs to 0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:01.000 be European player. I can come in here and talk 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:03.040 to other European players and get script. It needs to 0:35:03.080 --> 0:35:05.680 be players that come in here. They used to have 0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:07.400 a great program and then I don't know if the 0:35:07.480 --> 0:35:09.120 league still has it, but we used to have this 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:10.879 two guys who should come in and talk. It used 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:15.960 to be my favorite program used to be Dirk and yeah, 0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:17.920 what's what's up? Why am I going blank on the 0:35:18.040 --> 0:35:19.120 other cat's name? 0:35:19.239 --> 0:35:19.520 Dirkin? 0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:22.239 It's not missed, right, big fella, big father, I'm going 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:25.120 blank on the names. But these two cats, these two 0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:28.080 cats will come in they saying, they saying all type 0:35:28.080 --> 0:35:32.720 of ship they they talking how me and yeah, yeah yeah, 0:35:32.760 --> 0:35:36.400 And you know what, man, it was the most impactful conversation. 0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:37.560 And they weren't superstar. 0:35:37.800 --> 0:35:41.120 The best part of the meat was them, was them 0:35:41.480 --> 0:35:43.000 and everybody's pete. 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:45.120 The league got so smart that they would give us, 0:35:45.200 --> 0:35:47.000 not to call it bullshit, but they would give us 0:35:47.040 --> 0:35:48.360 all the ship that we didn't want to be that 0:35:48.480 --> 0:35:52.320 for in the beginning, and kept them last. And guess 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:55.920 what when they sat there, didn nobody move, did nobody 0:35:55.960 --> 0:35:57.359 get warned, did nobody eat? 0:35:57.600 --> 0:35:58.759 Man? When Dirk and man? 0:35:58.800 --> 0:36:00.879 Why am I going blank on? Now I'm going blank 0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:03.960 on these brothers. Now apologize these brothers. But these brothers 0:36:04.000 --> 0:36:06.120 helped a lot of motherfuckers. And now I was in 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:08.560 the lead for twenty years, and these two did the 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:11.640 program every goddamn time, every mother fucking time. 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:12.040 They did it. 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:14.080 They did it with passion, and they spoke to you 0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:17.080 like this. Now I don't know where they at. I 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:19.279 know they got older twenty years. You know, they was 0:36:19.360 --> 0:36:23.360 already older. They was already there was already knucklehead older. 0:36:23.480 --> 0:36:26.440 But man, they were so much great inspiration from the 0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:29.799 script that you didn't have, So yeah, you was able 0:36:29.840 --> 0:36:30.200 to relate. 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:31.759 You was able to relate to him because they would 0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:34.560 come in and they would tell you straight up how 0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:36.919 you would how you would be the approaching a day off, 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:40.080 how you would be hang coming from being hungover, trying 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:42.600 to come play like they would. They would break it 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:45.200 down and say, were many segments of a pro. And 0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:47.520 it's like, yo, you get all this opportunity as a 0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:50.120 pro and you think you low doing that, but. 0:36:50.239 --> 0:36:52.359 You think he'll know what you're saying. He's speaking right, 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:55.480 but he's speaking right at you like the gospel. But 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:58.040 then he starts they start throwing scripts. Hey yeah, hey, 0:36:58.040 --> 0:37:00.759 do it like this, like this woo and if you 0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:03.759 don't have no big brother, let's just let's just be real. 0:37:04.200 --> 0:37:08.240 Nobody in Josh Camp has ever been here, so everybody 0:37:08.239 --> 0:37:11.919 that's talking is really their first time talking. It sound good, 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:14.480 but ain't nobody had been through none of this, So 0:37:14.719 --> 0:37:16.840 you know what, it's time for some outside influence to 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:18.719 be able to come in and just help. And I 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:21.600 just hope that he seeks some some real help from 0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:24.279 someone that's been here and not so much of the 0:37:24.840 --> 0:37:28.959 generic pharmaceutical help that's been obliged to you. I hope 0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:32.839 actually a TA or an AI or mofucker who's been 0:37:32.880 --> 0:37:36.040 through this, bro. Man, that's why I say AI A man. 0:37:36.080 --> 0:37:39.080 Ain't nobody AI t A. I'm thinking about, you know, 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:41.319 I'm thinking about people that actually been through some shit 0:37:41.400 --> 0:37:43.840 and can actually give real script. That's what I'm talking about. 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:46.239 So excuse me if I'm if I'm getting a little 0:37:46.239 --> 0:37:48.760 passionate shit. But man, I wish, I wish I'm fellow 0:37:48.760 --> 0:37:51.839 all the best man, I hoo adam silva doom. I mean, 0:37:52.120 --> 0:37:54.800 you know it's it's, man, I fucking hate this whole 0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:57.520 kind of the way it's gotta go or the way 0:37:57.560 --> 0:37:58.120 it's looking. 0:37:58.200 --> 0:37:59.920 But yeah, man, it'll be a. 0:38:01.440 --> 0:38:03.920 Hear hearing it, hearing hearing. 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:07.000 It whole season like that's that's that's a lot. 0:38:07.120 --> 0:38:10.080 But I see what they're doing because he's trying to 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:11.840 send a message to the rest of the league this 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:13.880 ain't this ain't the move and we ain't cool with this. 0:38:14.320 --> 0:38:16.840 And then too, Bro, they're trying to they're trying to 0:38:16.840 --> 0:38:17.600 get in to him. 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:20.359 You know, I thought and I thought he the face, Bro, 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:23.840 he was the face, the new face, like he was 0:38:23.920 --> 0:38:26.000 the new face. He was the new face. I see 0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:27.840 these kids, they got you know what I'm saying, They 0:38:27.920 --> 0:38:32.520 got the you I'm sayings going with the color for everybody, everybody, 0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:34.960 and everybody doing this little dance right here. 0:38:37.360 --> 0:38:39.320 Everybody and in the fifty in the yard. You know 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:41.560 what I'm saying, Body in the yard, like. 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:44.680 You know, I'm like, oh, yeah, it's where we at. 0:38:44.960 --> 0:38:46.040 It's where we at. You know. 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:46.960 Steph Curry had. 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:49.719 The light skin, curly ham, pretty eyes in It's the 0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:52.160 job nation now bro until us. 0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:55.040 And I think I think this summer gonna be a 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:56.040 big summer for him. 0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:57.200 The mature watses. 0:38:57.320 --> 0:38:59.560 I think he grow up responsible, you know what I'm saying, 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:01.520 Cause you know what, you're gonna have to have some 0:39:01.560 --> 0:39:04.960 backbone to take this forty real shit. M might up, Joe, 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:07.120 You got to you got to have some real backbone 0:39:07.120 --> 0:39:09.279 and and you it's gonna be a process and you're 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:11.040 gonna have to be you know, you're gonna have to 0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:13.480 be motivated, cause it's gonna be forty games that you 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:16.239 got to sit on inside and just watch. And you 0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:18.399 gotta still be in shaping. You gotta as soon as 0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:20.719 it's forty old day, expecting you to come in here 0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:22.919 and then be able to go. So yeah, your whole 0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:26.000 process gotta be on another level. But I'm wishing your 0:39:26.040 --> 0:39:28.640 fella all the best, man, John. If you need us, man, 0:39:28.719 --> 0:39:30.560 reach out, man, have some money from your camp. 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:30.719 Man. 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:33.400 It ain't nothing, man. We're all in this, bro. So 0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:35.319 you know what I'm saying, wish you and your family well, 0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:36.000 real shit. 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:38.919 My dude, Man, I reach out to his dad every day. Man, 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:41.080 I ain't gonna I tell him. Hey, man, I'm in 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:44.719 y'all corner. I'm around you know here. If you need me, 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:48.320 call me. You know I've been through hey being c 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:51.360 some of everything of what he trying to portray, you 0:39:51.440 --> 0:39:54.440 know what I mean, And it could get rough, man. 0:39:54.320 --> 0:39:56.239 And you know this's ain't it, bro. You know, work 0:39:56.320 --> 0:39:58.120 your ass off and get away from shit like this 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:00.000 prom You know what I'm saying. You supposed to be 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:02.160 Italy somewhere with the finest girl out here. 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:02.879 You know what I'm talking about. 0:40:02.880 --> 0:40:05.359 You're supposed to be, you know, seeing how how long 0:40:05.400 --> 0:40:07.439 you can hold your breath in the Mediterranean and some shit. 0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:08.360 You know you're supposed to be. 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:10.719 You know, you know you're supposed to have the three 0:40:10.840 --> 0:40:12.680 forty of us. You're supposed to have the four hundred 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:14.640 foot out here. You're supposed to be living on the 0:40:14.800 --> 0:40:17.680 Mediterranean for like six days, going to you know, Monaco, 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:20.239 to south of France or something. You're supposed to be 0:40:20.480 --> 0:40:24.279 having a firm crew underwater, like you know, shooting the 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:28.360 you know shit underwater and chasing, fishing and grabbing on 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:29.239 the turtles and ship. 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:29.480 Bro. 0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:31.480 Bro, you need to come home at the ticket. 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:31.640 Bro. 0:40:31.680 --> 0:40:34.040 So I'm gonna show you how to live, show you 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:35.400 how to live straight. I'm gonna show you how to 0:40:35.480 --> 0:40:39.040 do this real shit. They need it. Let's get to 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:39.560 some game. 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:48.160 Picture out the word skinny, goddamn it. Where is your 0:40:48.200 --> 0:40:53.000 take on the Heat and the Celtics game two? 0:40:54.080 --> 0:40:57.200 Mm? I think the Heat got a little banged up 0:40:57.280 --> 0:41:01.239 right now. Obviously, you know, tighter heroes out. But more 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:03.920 so than anything, what concerns me about the series is, 0:41:04.000 --> 0:41:05.759 you know, Jason Tatum and consistency. 0:41:06.320 --> 0:41:08.680 You know, he have games where you know, he go one. 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:11.399 For eight, that one for nine, the first half one 0:41:11.440 --> 0:41:13.640 for eleven, whatever the case may be, and those be 0:41:13.760 --> 0:41:16.839 the times that Jimmy Butler takes advantage of him. He's 0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:21.560 good at understanding the game and putting his foot down 0:41:21.560 --> 0:41:23.920 when they're lacking or they not giving it at all, 0:41:24.440 --> 0:41:27.719 showing that they have performances. And but one thing I 0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:30.239 can say with Marcus Spark got his hands full with 0:41:30.440 --> 0:41:33.200 with Jimmy Butler coming into the series, and one thing 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:35.800 he's gonna have to do from being a defensive player, 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:38.359 I think he got to take away that right hand. 0:41:38.440 --> 0:41:41.680 He gotta have Jimmy doing stuff going left. You know, 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:43.719 you see a lot of those shots Jimmy Butler here 0:41:43.719 --> 0:41:46.160 he going right, getting to the line, you know what 0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:52.200 I mean, and getting offensive rebounds, post just out working everybody, 0:41:52.440 --> 0:41:53.759 you know what I'm saying. And I think this is 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:57.600 gonna be Marcus smart biggest challenge this year. Obviously, you 0:41:57.640 --> 0:41:59.800 know last year, this was last year's matchup, I believe, 0:42:00.320 --> 0:42:02.840 and uh you know that there was one shot away 0:42:02.920 --> 0:42:06.320 from yeah, from from getting to the final different, you 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:07.759 know what I'm saying. So now this is a this 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:10.160 is a new series. But I think that the pressure 0:42:10.239 --> 0:42:12.719 is pretty much on the Celtics. I think it's the 0:42:12.760 --> 0:42:15.799 pressure is just on them and uh, we see how 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:17.560 it go, man. But I like, I like, I like 0:42:17.600 --> 0:42:22.600 how to the other supporting cast of Tatum, Jaylen Brown's. 0:42:22.200 --> 0:42:23.839 Being consistent, you know what I mean? 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:28.000 Everybody they just was was down bad in the Philly 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:31.560 series before they overcame that. And I think they got 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:32.920 the momentum right now going on. 0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:37.319 You think they defend Home. They defend Home both games. Yeah, 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:38.400 most definitely. 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:41.080 Like I said, we could, we could have we could 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:44.560 take away Jason Tatum's inconsistencies, you know, starting out in 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:48.920 these series. I think I think they take care of 0:42:48.920 --> 0:42:50.359 business and go to Miami. 0:42:51.120 --> 0:42:53.160 Out of this whole series. Man, I actually think this 0:42:53.200 --> 0:42:57.520 series is going seven. And I say this because Miami 0:42:58.160 --> 0:43:05.680 is similar to how I'm looking at Denver Strauss, Vincent Kiler, 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:11.240 Williams BAM's playing better, what's my man of Kyle Lowry's 0:43:11.239 --> 0:43:14.759 playing better? And then their effect on defense is like 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:18.239 on another like they like, I actually thought that the 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:24.160 Heat could beat the Knicks without Jimmy Butler. Jimmy remember 0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:26.799 Jimmy Mesrus ain't go. I think it was game two, man, 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:29.239 he had a chance to win that game convincently, you. 0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:29.640 Know what I'm saying. 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.560 But they got they got a tough system. 0:43:32.400 --> 0:43:36.400 I understanding how Eric exposed has them ready, he always 0:43:36.440 --> 0:43:38.719 has them teams ready, they always are able to go 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:41.759 to another level. And yeah, that just concerns me, man. 0:43:41.800 --> 0:43:45.279 I think this is going to be seven games, and 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:49.920 I think the levels. You know, anytime you beat a 0:43:50.000 --> 0:43:53.160 team and you got history of beating the team, or 0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:56.680 you've beaten them last year, Miami just looks different from 0:43:56.760 --> 0:43:58.719 last year. They look a lot more healthy, they look 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:01.560 a lot more confident, and they have a little more 0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:04.360 supporting cast around Jimmy to help Jimmy. Now, Jimmy is 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:06.600 just to me, man, it's been like the MVP of 0:44:06.680 --> 0:44:09.720 the whole fucking playoffs. No player has imposed his will 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:15.239 greater on on serious than he has. And I think 0:44:15.239 --> 0:44:17.279 it's gonna be a collective group. I just don't think 0:44:17.320 --> 0:44:23.400 Marcus Smart is gonna have the responsibility of Gardner. I 0:44:23.400 --> 0:44:25.960 think you put Jay Brown on. I think you throw 0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:29.640 a bunch of different things. Man, Malcolm, you throw Malcolm on, 0:44:29.719 --> 0:44:34.160 You're gonna You're gonna have to because Jimmy is one 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:37.520 of these very smart not just offensive, but he's a 0:44:37.640 --> 0:44:40.719 very smart two way player his i Q and you 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:43.040 know he doesn't mind exhausting the ball, but he don't 0:44:43.040 --> 0:44:46.000 mind giving up the ball too. I'm just I mean, 0:44:46.040 --> 0:44:51.320 I'm gassed. I'm gassed to see how his will is. 0:44:52.040 --> 0:44:55.239 I'm I'm eager to see how the Celtics are or 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:58.160 I'm eager to see how the Celtics deal with Jimmy 0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:01.760 in that, you know, because because right now he's confident, 0:45:01.800 --> 0:45:04.520 and he's confident that he's out here just thinking he 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:05.920 can do anything out here, you know what. 0:45:05.920 --> 0:45:07.800 I'm saying, And he's gardened. He's gardening. 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.440 On another end, I think TAM's going to take it 0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:13.360 to another level. I think the Philly I think the 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:16.920 Philly thing, the Philly series actually put him in positions 0:45:16.960 --> 0:45:19.400 to where he probably had to lock in or he 0:45:19.440 --> 0:45:22.400 probably had to go somewhere else when it came to man, 0:45:22.800 --> 0:45:24.880 the game's haeven fifty one, I'm not expecting him to 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:28.120 have another fifty ball right out the gate, but to 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:30.080 go there and be able to do that said a 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:30.719 lot for him. 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:32.440 I don't think he needs to be giving him a 0:45:32.480 --> 0:45:36.280 fifty neither, But I mean at halftime, you least should 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:38.240 be having fifteen sixteen points. 0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:40.040 I mean, you think that, you know what I'm saying. 0:45:40.120 --> 0:45:43.240 You think that, but double teams, how they guarden you. 0:45:43.239 --> 0:45:46.440 You know that shit ain't going there. How you doing otherwise? 0:45:46.480 --> 0:45:48.360 And what are you doing other You know, I'm more 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:50.480 concerto he do a good job of that. I believe. 0:45:50.480 --> 0:45:53.640 I think he remound well. He gets off the ball when. 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:55.759 He he's going to have to. That's what I'm saying 0:45:55.800 --> 0:45:56.759 in this series. 0:45:56.840 --> 0:46:00.759 Vincent efficiency of his field goal attempts, you gotta get 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:04.080 some buckets. He gotta have that mentality. In no doubt, 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:07.040 he's gotta be seeking and destroying when he get that ball. 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:10.239 You know who's you got? Game two, Game two? Like 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:14.080 you said, I see a seven game series, man on 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:17.399 the simple strengths that Jimmy is a smart player. Man, 0:46:17.400 --> 0:46:19.520 I'm gonna need more out of Bawn, you know what 0:46:19.600 --> 0:46:22.640 I mean? But I think I think Jimmy will is 0:46:22.680 --> 0:46:23.239 way out of one. 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:23.960 Game two. 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:26.080 You got the heat, I got the heat. So I'm 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:28.000 gonna take I'm gonna take this. I'm gonna take the 0:46:28.000 --> 0:46:30.719 seas Game two, and I think the Seeds protect home 0:46:32.520 --> 0:46:36.800 Game three, Nuggets at the Lakers. 0:46:37.760 --> 0:46:45.680 Hm hmm. Hostile environment for real hostile environment. Like I say, man, 0:46:46.200 --> 0:46:49.400 Bron put on Lebron to a whole different animal. But 0:46:49.880 --> 0:46:53.799 in all seriousness, though, I think I think Lebron has 0:46:53.840 --> 0:46:55.680 to beat Lebron when we come back home. 0:46:55.840 --> 0:46:57.480 You got the home crowd going. 0:46:58.440 --> 0:47:03.239 I see him imposing will defensively, you know, rebounding as well, 0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:06.880 one of those twenty point rebounding nights. Just doing whatever 0:47:06.920 --> 0:47:09.799 you gotta do to get the win. Tighten Lebron, you 0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:12.680 know what I mean. And we could he could feed 0:47:12.719 --> 0:47:15.160 off of Russell this time, because when Russell went home, 0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:18.120 you know, he's comfortable. Way different type players like he 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:22.000 don't even like you could tell, like his energy that's fluent. 0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:24.239 Like the way he shoot. You get that they get 0:47:24.239 --> 0:47:24.880 to doing. 0:47:24.680 --> 0:47:29.200 The well, I don't know what they is, something in 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:32.360 the veins. When they get to doing all, let the 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:35.200 crowd behind them. I think that momentum shift them to 0:47:35.320 --> 0:47:37.479 go and pull out the wind. And uh, I think 0:47:38.320 --> 0:47:40.920 the Denver Nuggets have a hard time, you know, just 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:41.760 over the credit. 0:47:42.400 --> 0:47:44.560 So you got Lakers at home. I got Lakers at home. 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:47.600 I got the Lakers at home too. I think, you know, 0:47:47.960 --> 0:47:53.400 I think they set the tone coming home and plus 0:47:54.280 --> 0:47:56.840 I think they get a game in Denver and carry 0:47:56.880 --> 0:48:01.000 that momentum back home. But yeah, at the Lakers winning 0:48:01.000 --> 0:48:03.719 that winning game three, let me ask you this, do 0:48:03.800 --> 0:48:06.719 Denver get a game in Lakers at any point in 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:08.360 the series in l A. 0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:14.000 Hmm, you got it. 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:16.319 I don't know, man, It's just like it's a lot 0:48:16.360 --> 0:48:18.960 of adjustments to be made, and that's. 0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:26.759 I have to say. You're a batman. I had to say, yes, Oh, 0:48:26.960 --> 0:48:28.480 you think Denver gets a game in l A. At 0:48:28.480 --> 0:48:31.359 some point Denver gets a game? You think LA gets 0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:34.400 a game in Denver? What about that point? It'd be 0:48:34.400 --> 0:48:34.799 two too. 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:37.799 I'm just I'm just saying so, I'm just saying, we 0:48:37.840 --> 0:48:38.200 don't know. 0:48:38.280 --> 0:48:40.879 I'm just saying, if you're a batman, do you think 0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:43.200 l A gets a game in Denver at any point 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:43.880 in the series. 0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:46.960 I'm telling you, I'm giving Denver the league going back 0:48:47.000 --> 0:48:47.560 to l A. 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:51.680 That's what I'm saying to say, we three two going 0:48:51.719 --> 0:48:52.279 back to l A. 0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:54.239 Man's game. That's a game. 0:48:54.880 --> 0:48:56.560 I mean, if Bro gonna have to pull out, you 0:48:56.640 --> 0:48:58.839 have to pull it out games, just say yes or no, dude, 0:48:58.840 --> 0:49:00.000 you're gonna have to pull it out game. 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:01.279 We have to assess all that. 0:49:01.640 --> 0:49:02.280 I said. 0:49:02.440 --> 0:49:06.040 You're a bad man, damn it, you're a beat man. 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:10.080 Now you're a bet man. You're a bet man, right, Okay, 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:11.240 do the Lakers at. 0:49:11.080 --> 0:49:14.200 Any point in this series, get a game in Denver, 0:49:14.520 --> 0:49:15.359 yes or no. 0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:19.439 I'm gonna go ahead, go out for my head, man, 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:22.040 I'm gonna say no, Man, I'm gonna have Denver win 0:49:22.120 --> 0:49:22.600 in this series. 0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:23.840 Damn, I'm gonna go ahead. 0:49:24.080 --> 0:49:24.840 You have you heard it? 0:49:24.920 --> 0:49:28.879 I'm going it's going seven but eight. Certify y'all heard 0:49:28.920 --> 0:49:29.640 it first taste. 0:49:30.680 --> 0:49:30.719 No. 0:49:30.840 --> 0:49:33.200 I wanted to ask you. I wanted to ask you 0:49:34.280 --> 0:49:38.640 on the court or in your perspective, how would you 0:49:39.080 --> 0:49:42.480 if you're Russell? How do you guard uh that one? 0:49:42.520 --> 0:49:45.080 Two? How do you guard the one too? Bro? Not 0:49:45.120 --> 0:49:48.520 only that, but how do you guard Murray? That's what 0:49:48.560 --> 0:49:50.080 I'm saying. And that's the thing Russell. 0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:52.920 Russell ain't never been in the position to be a 0:49:52.960 --> 0:49:55.640 defender like that. So you would have to put Stroda 0:49:55.680 --> 0:50:00.160 in that situation. And if I'm if I'm Stroda, I'm 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:03.240 for sure I'm pushing up on all picking rolls. 0:50:03.640 --> 0:50:07.120 You know what I'm saying. When Yokic's coming up, you're 0:50:07.160 --> 0:50:08.760 trapping them, you hards, showing them. 0:50:10.400 --> 0:50:11.080 With the pigs. 0:50:11.120 --> 0:50:14.200 Nowadays, Yeah, you're gonna have to You're gonna have to 0:50:14.280 --> 0:50:17.440 just be crowded space, crowded space because you gotta figure. 0:50:18.600 --> 0:50:21.200 They throwing it back to Yokics right to his left. 0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:27.080 He too dribble pull up, he fucking automatic fifteen seventeen Man, Right. 0:50:27.040 --> 0:50:29.279 Yeah, but I mean, but then you know, you come 0:50:29.280 --> 0:50:31.600 off the pick and roll with Jamal and he pulling 0:50:31.680 --> 0:50:32.200 up for three. 0:50:32.320 --> 0:50:37.439 You in that drop, but you're giving him, you're giving 0:50:37.520 --> 0:50:38.160 him that three. 0:50:38.480 --> 0:50:42.400 I mean, let Yogis keep cooking. Let Yokis keep cooking. Damn, 0:50:42.600 --> 0:50:44.880 I'd rather let Yogis keep cooking before he get to 0:50:45.120 --> 0:50:47.240 see because he gonna hurt you with them assists. 0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:47.920 That's what hurts you. 0:50:48.680 --> 0:50:50.719 Get he get to getting off and being able to 0:50:50.719 --> 0:50:55.240 get fourteen assists for twenty thirty points. 0:50:55.440 --> 0:50:56.920 Man almost had a twenty twenty. 0:50:57.239 --> 0:50:59.360 You know what I'm saying that I think that hurts you. 0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:01.640 I think you just just let let Yogis get off 0:51:02.600 --> 0:51:04.480 and we're gonna show. We're gonna crawd the space on 0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:08.160 the three with with Jamal Murray and hey, throw it 0:51:08.160 --> 0:51:08.760 back to Yogics. 0:51:08.800 --> 0:51:09.359 Let him get off. 0:51:09.360 --> 0:51:11.520 He gonna yoga, So we're gonna trap Jamal, get it 0:51:11.560 --> 0:51:13.120 out of his hands, and Yoki's gonna. 0:51:12.880 --> 0:51:16.120 Cut lights lights. But that little show was that. I 0:51:16.160 --> 0:51:18.520 don't know if they call him that it's like a 0:51:18.840 --> 0:51:19.799 because they ain't up. 0:51:19.840 --> 0:51:22.080 They not up. They're definitely not up, and it's not 0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:22.840 even it's. 0:51:22.680 --> 0:51:25.280 Almost like a safety. So he don't turn the corner exactly. 0:51:25.960 --> 0:51:28.080 But by then he four five steps. That's like a 0:51:28.280 --> 0:51:31.440 that's like a seventeen. That's like a for the yokres 0:51:31.440 --> 0:51:33.239 go ahead. You're gonna have to make forty of them. 0:51:33.360 --> 0:51:37.040 Boy, that's I mean, if I'm if I'm coached, because 0:51:37.520 --> 0:51:39.160 you can't give it, you can't get hurt at all. 0:51:39.200 --> 0:51:39.760 Three angles. 0:51:39.800 --> 0:51:43.120 I'm gonna sag this first, this first pickure, I'm gonna sack. 0:51:43.200 --> 0:51:45.920 Let Jamal Murray popular three. All right, now, I'm finna 0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:47.719 come up a little more. Now for the throw it 0:51:47.760 --> 0:51:51.480 back boom. Okay, now you ain't now you staying with yokis. 0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:53.200 Now you're gonna let me go to the layup. 0:51:54.480 --> 0:51:55.439 One of them. You gotta pick. 0:51:55.480 --> 0:51:57.359 You gotta take two of them away because you can 0:51:57.400 --> 0:52:00.759 take the turn. So don't turn the corner and then 0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:01.359 two man. 0:52:01.400 --> 0:52:01.720 Listen. 0:52:02.320 --> 0:52:06.600 I actually think that if Denver supporting cast, don't. I 0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:09.000 don't think that if Joker has like a fifty sixty, 0:52:10.120 --> 0:52:12.600 he beats you. I think if you get if he 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:16.000 has a super knight like that, and everybody else is 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:17.560 two for twelve. 0:52:18.360 --> 0:52:19.600 They gotta create their own shot. 0:52:19.760 --> 0:52:21.839 You know what I'm saying is, I don't think by 0:52:21.920 --> 0:52:23.040 himself he beats you. 0:52:23.880 --> 0:52:23.920 No. 0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:28.440 I think him and that supporting cast having twelve, fifteen, seventeen, 0:52:28.520 --> 0:52:30.480 twenty two, thirty one like that's too much. 0:52:30.520 --> 0:52:32.000 That's what I'm saying. They ain't got nothing. 0:52:32.200 --> 0:52:33.319 They're getting everything at this. 0:52:33.280 --> 0:52:35.279 Point, and you know where they come from. They come 0:52:35.280 --> 0:52:36.400 from his assists, facts. 0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:39.799 He's getting everyone involved and he can go the whole 0:52:39.840 --> 0:52:43.000 game with and it ain't even just his past that 0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:46.240 makes the play. Sometimes it'd be the past to the past. 0:52:46.520 --> 0:52:50.600 He might come out swing swing, you know what I mean. 0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:54.560 I got both of these series going seven, y'all. I'm 0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:56.640 I'm definitely in agreeance with you on that. 0:52:58.080 --> 0:53:00.359 And those are the picture of the Week eight