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Club 520 - Jeff Teague, Kyle Korver & Paul Millsap on 60-win Atlanta Hawks, NBA playoffs vs. LeBron James · Club 520 Podcast

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Speaker 1: The volume. Oh right at about the nice yeares for us.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Hawks man specially noise for the Hawks.
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Speaker 2: One time.
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Speaker 1: Show two times for y'all. We appreciate y'all pulling up
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Speaker 1: one time for the one time. It's Club five twenty
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Speaker 1: live and the Ato.
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Speaker 2: Man, you're not your back home man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad. I don't see no double zero cherseys.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it so every time of my life. The
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Speaker 1: PTSD jersey for show man. Well listen, this is Club
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Speaker 1: five twenty. I'm the host. My name is DJ Wills.
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Speaker 1: We got some special special guests with us. Man honor
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Speaker 1: the legendary team in the NBA, especially for the Hawks
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Speaker 1: history man to my immediately, if we're gonna introduce my
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Speaker 1: man's last to my farther.
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Speaker 2: Left, my dog BI should be hearing out the pearls.
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Speaker 2: How you wasn't nasty?
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Speaker 3: What's saying that man at l thank you?
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Speaker 2: He don't even sound the same ato. You know what
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Speaker 2: shot he got the zero jersey? Turn me out? Yeah
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Speaker 2: I like that one.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, cool for show for show tomorrow, right,
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Speaker 1: y'all know what it is man, TL's finest young not
1:01
Speaker 1: your young team. I feel to be back in the
1:02
Speaker 1: ay Man, feel great. Man, It's always home, uh, my
1:06
Speaker 1: favorite place to ever play. So I'm glad I can
1:08
Speaker 1: have my guys show up with us today. I'm actually
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Speaker 1: really really happy about this. We've been trying to get
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Speaker 1: Paul on the show. I wanted to get Kyle. Kyle's
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Speaker 1: my guy.
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Speaker 2: So to be able to do this live with y'all,
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Speaker 2: this is great for sure.
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Speaker 1: Man, shouts to the Hawks one more time for making
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Speaker 1: this wonderful situation happen. Man, most definitely shouts y'all as
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Speaker 1: well for pulling up.
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Speaker 2: But last it was most certainly not least meant to
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Speaker 2: my left. Man.
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Speaker 1: We got two Hawks legends in the building, man hoping
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Speaker 1: that already had amazing NBA careers. Man with no further ado, Man,
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Speaker 1: we got Kyle Corn Paul messed up in the building.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate y'all sliding on this man for show.
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Speaker 2: For shures, Like we said, we're gonna highlight that wonderful year. Man.
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Speaker 1: Obviously I had many good years here, but that was
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Speaker 1: a really, really, really special one. But before we get
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Speaker 1: into that year, we got to talk about how y'all
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Speaker 1: all came together because obviously not sho you was already
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Speaker 1: a Hawk all, Kyle, y'all came for different situations.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about how y'all got to being a Hawk.
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Speaker 4: Well, I guess I'll start. Yeah, I was. I was
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Speaker 4: in Utah.
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Speaker 5: You know, I spent seven years in Utah, had some
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Speaker 5: great years in Utah, and then you know, it was
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Speaker 5: time to go. And you know, I was looking for
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Speaker 5: its place to be closer to home in Louisiana. I
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Speaker 5: me and my wife actually were looking at homes, you know,
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Speaker 5: in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas area. So we wanted to move
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Speaker 5: back somewhere, and the Hawks offered me a two year
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Speaker 5: deal and the rest is history.
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Speaker 2: Most definitely, cole Man I would come out.
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 6: I played with Paul in Utah for a couple of years,
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Speaker 6: and then was in Chicago, and then uh it was
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Speaker 6: with Derrick Rose when he was U MVP.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Then you know, things happened, had to get traded. I
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Speaker 6: knew that I was going to be on the move.
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Speaker 6: It's funny. We actually I was driving with my wife.
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Speaker 6: We drove from New Jersey. I don't know why we did,
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Speaker 6: is we drove all the way to Santa Barbara and
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Speaker 6: on the way we knew we are to get traded somewhere,
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Speaker 6: and we were like looking around with teams there was
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Speaker 6: going to be And we got all the way to
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Speaker 6: Santa Barbara and I got a call from Danny Ferry
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Speaker 6: saying I.
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Speaker 2: Had to file it back.
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Speaker 6: We like drove across the country, got there, go went
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Speaker 6: to the airport, and flew all the way back to Atlanta.
3:11
Speaker 6: And it was funny thinking back about it now.
3:15
Speaker 4: We went.
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Speaker 6: We stayed at the Rich Carlton downtown and Danny Ferry
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Speaker 6: came down that morning and asked me come to the
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Speaker 6: table and talk to him.
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Speaker 4: And I thought it was gonna be like a welcome
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Speaker 4: to the Hawks moment.
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Speaker 6: And he was sitting there at debating with the doctor
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Speaker 6: if he was kind of accept my physical and not.
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Speaker 3: Me.
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Speaker 6: He's like, I don't know. This guy's been I had
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Speaker 6: a foot injury the year before. And he's like debating
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Speaker 6: if he was going to accept this thing. And I'm like, man,
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Speaker 6: should I be sitting here?
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Speaker 2: Should I like walk away?
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Speaker 6: And he and he just like decided the last second.
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Speaker 2: He's like, all right, we're.
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Speaker 4: Gonna do it.
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Speaker 6: Welcome to the Hawks. And I was like, okay, So
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Speaker 6: how did.
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Speaker 4: I get to the Hawks. That's how I got to
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Speaker 4: the Hawks.
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Speaker 2: And physicals riding Bay real tricky right now for show,
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Speaker 2: now for you.
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Speaker 1: He was already here with the U a different regime, obviously,
4:01
Speaker 1: new culture, new situation. How was that welcomed them to
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Speaker 1: the team. I probably wasn't the best at welcoming people
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Speaker 1: to the team. I didn't talk much, so when I
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Speaker 1: met Paul, he just came in, what's up.
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Speaker 2: You know, he don't talk a lot either, So it's.
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Speaker 4: Gonna be a great podcast.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's up, Bro? That's all he gave was ahead
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Speaker 1: and what's up?
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Speaker 7: Bro?
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Speaker 1: And Kyle he was y'all see Kyle, he he lights
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Speaker 1: up a room, he comes in, what's up?
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Speaker 4: Brother.
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Speaker 1: I thought he was like a surfer kind of guy,
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, what's up?
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Speaker 2: Cool dude?
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Speaker 1: Like, but he was super cool, super chill, and uh
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Speaker 1: it was easy.
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Speaker 2: It was easy to work with. That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: I mean, before we get past this point, we gotta
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Speaker 1: talk about Kyle Man. You got one of the legendary
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Speaker 1: picks in the NBA. Man, you with the Jordan zone.
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Speaker 1: Has that ever came across your timeline recently? You we
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Speaker 1: got the rookie pick, you got the Jason and everybody's
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Speaker 1: like that, we thought he was a surfer, but you.
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Speaker 2: Had the heat on your feet. Please revisit that pile.
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Speaker 6: Where that's like it's like there's a date on the
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Speaker 6: calendar where that picture has to come back on the
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Speaker 6: internet every single year.
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Speaker 2: It's like two pictures.
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Speaker 4: That's one of them.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, man, you know that was All Star Weekend.
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Speaker 1: You got to come with something, right, for sure, A
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Speaker 1: little bit different All Star Weekend now, for sure, that's true,
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Speaker 1: my pot petty'all, but listen, legendary season start off.
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Speaker 2: Man. First of all, who's coaching the team at the time.
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Speaker 2: Mike Budenhozer. Come coach Bud. You man, that was my guy.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you can clocking up a Bud and.
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Speaker 7: Coach.
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Speaker 2: That's the home for show. Yeah, Coach Budd was cool.
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Speaker 2: When he first got here.
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Speaker 1: I didn't like him, not to say it like that,
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Speaker 1: but we ended up becoming really good friends. But for real, Uh,
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Speaker 1: we played the ice so style. You know, before they
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Speaker 1: got here, we had Joe. Everybody played one on one basketball.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the best brand of basketball,
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Speaker 1: but it was fun. And uh, he came in and
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Speaker 1: changed all that and for me, it was my time
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Speaker 1: to shine. I thought I just had got the team,
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Speaker 1: like it was my first year really about to start.
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Speaker 1: And he was like, no, we don't play that way
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Speaker 1: no more. I was like, he hate And so after
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Speaker 1: that we didn't start off on the best foot.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: No, Me and Budd, you know, we kicked it off
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Speaker 5: pretty pretty good, you know, our first time meeting each other.
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Speaker 5: For me, I was just evolving into, you know, a
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Speaker 5: more high volume player, and Bud kind of brought that
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Speaker 5: out of me. You know, I actually reached out the
6:22
Speaker 5: actually reached out to me a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 5: you know, when I officially decided to retire, and he's say, congratulations,
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Speaker 5: and I was like, you know, I appreciate everything that
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Speaker 5: you've done because he helped bring that, you know, whatever
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Speaker 5: it was that I had, you know, add of me.
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Speaker 4: And you know, definitely appreciative for that.
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Speaker 1: Most definitely man, congratulations as well man in retirement for
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Speaker 1: Shure Man.
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Speaker 2: There we go. Chuse love regulations. Man.
6:48
Speaker 1: Now before we get into the season, Me and be
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Speaker 1: here got a talk because you know, this is our man,
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Speaker 1: this is our man from the day one. So naturally
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Speaker 1: we got to hate and y'all was our favorite team
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Speaker 1: to hate on.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yo, y'all was man fool with y'all like that.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep it real.
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Speaker 3: I was supporting my guy, but I was like, how
7:05
Speaker 3: do they keep winning?
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Speaker 7: Man?
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Speaker 4: Who did you root for? At that time?
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Speaker 8: I was really just a player like Carmelo Anthony was
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Speaker 8: my favorite player.
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Speaker 3: But me and him, it was deeper than y'all, Like
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Speaker 3: he made he made me.
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Speaker 8: Not like him, Like he used to come back to
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Speaker 8: the crib cal corner shoe bear and everybody in the
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Speaker 8: league Cal corner shoe bearing real like, man, I can't
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Speaker 8: say it, don't hear, but y'all know what cor But nah,
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Speaker 8: I just used to be like dang bro really leading
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Speaker 8: the Hawks, like, and I honestly thought that y'all could
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Speaker 8: have made it for real run, but I had to
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Speaker 8: hate because that was just our beat for real.
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Speaker 3: But I just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was always
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Speaker 3: real beef.
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Speaker 1: They call us the little Giants. You ever seen that movie?
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Speaker 1: That's what they called me.
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Speaker 2: Every day. Y'all was the little Giants. Man, y'all had
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Speaker 2: y'all one shot.
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Speaker 8: Y'all went that crazy run, but you know, shout out
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Speaker 8: to y'all. Y'all did y'all thing for sure?
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Speaker 1: For sure, we're gonna get too far here about but
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Speaker 1: starting a season off, y'all started off five hundred and
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Speaker 1: five or five. Initial thoughts on that, like, are y'all
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Speaker 1: trying to figure it out or just get used to
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Speaker 1: new players, new too, leaders with Bud every day, new systems,
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Speaker 1: or did I know we had some special We just
8:10
Speaker 1: got to get there.
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Speaker 6: I don't know that we knew that we were going
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Speaker 6: to end up with the season that we had. And
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Speaker 6: I think that our group was really had been the
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Speaker 6: works for a couple of years, and that's really how
8:22
Speaker 6: these really good teams happened. It never just like all
8:25
Speaker 6: comes again. It was very few instances in the NBA
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Speaker 6: where like a bunch of moves are made and now
8:29
Speaker 6: we have a super team and they're going to take
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Speaker 6: off like that's happened, but it's not very often. And
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Speaker 6: I think what we had all been doing it was
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Speaker 6: just really trusting a process. And you know, Paul been
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Speaker 6: there for a couple of years now, I've been there
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Speaker 6: a couple years, Jeff, you'd been there, But like we
8:43
Speaker 6: didn't really add anything new that was going to like
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Speaker 6: put us over the top, and so as it really
8:50
Speaker 6: we started off like you said, we started off five hundred,
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Speaker 6: but like our style of play, our chemistry kept on building,
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Speaker 6: and then we end up in you know, later on
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Speaker 6: the spring, in a whole month without losing, and we're like, wow,
9:02
Speaker 6: like I think we're good.
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Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna get traded when we started off, like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they got probably at the move. Me I'm not mixing
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Speaker 1: in pretty well. But now we just got in a groove.
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Speaker 1: And like when we got in that groove, it was
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Speaker 1: over with. Our defense was connected, our offense was connected,
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Speaker 1: and it was times out there during that year we
9:21
Speaker 1: didn't even get to play the fourth quarter and it
9:24
Speaker 1: messed up my stats.
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Speaker 2: All start team barely.
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Speaker 3: Who was the vocal leader on that team?
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Speaker 4: Though it wasn't me?
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Speaker 3: It wasn't because though now you're all three of y'all's quiet, So.
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Speaker 5: You know, I mean, that's funny because you know, Bud
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Speaker 5: always tried to get somebody to be super vocal, one
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Speaker 5: of those guys, right, and neither one of us really
9:48
Speaker 5: had it in us. So each one of us will
9:50
Speaker 5: say something every now and then and we'll put our
9:53
Speaker 5: input in.
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Speaker 4: But what was the vocal leader. Okay, you know at
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Speaker 4: that time.
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Speaker 1: All I didn't say a word. Kyle, Kyle talked. He
10:03
Speaker 1: talks a lot, you know, Al you.
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Speaker 8: Al So y'all used to just kill people and not
10:07
Speaker 8: saying that to nobody. Nobody talked crazy to the opponent
10:12
Speaker 8: or nothing, not even nobody on the bench.
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Speaker 2: He used to talk crazy, Dennis, Yeah, most definitely crazy,
10:19
Speaker 2: yoab Get about games, yeah, no, I took that.
10:24
Speaker 1: This is just a sidebar. I took that game and
10:27
Speaker 1: we have them at our house all the time.
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Speaker 8: That cone from you, Oh okay, I didn't know where
10:34
Speaker 8: you got that from.
10:34
Speaker 5: It was more intense in the UNO games than on
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Speaker 5: the court.
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Speaker 3: That's how it is.
10:39
Speaker 1: Now y'all responsible for a lot of random disagreements. Maybe
10:43
Speaker 1: baby Fist fights the club twenty due to us Muno.
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Speaker 2: So thank y'all for that.
10:47
Speaker 1: We appreciate that. Botigh for sure, that's crazy. The fact
10:51
Speaker 1: that y'all have are really that like kind of mono
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Speaker 1: tone was just killing. But you talked about the makeup
10:56
Speaker 1: of that team and stuff. But also shout out to
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Speaker 1: al Al still hooping, ain't that crazy?
11:00
Speaker 2: Super crazy? Still championships He's super good.
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Speaker 8: Still just Alan Dinnis from that teams playing. Yeah, man, damn,
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Speaker 8: we filled it up pretty fast, real quiet. The crown
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Speaker 8: got like a definitely quiet like.
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Speaker 4: For sure.
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Speaker 1: Man, listen, y'all caught you stride January historic month, like
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Speaker 1: basically your entire team, it's a player of the month.
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Speaker 1: How was that feel? Like y'all all killing y'all all
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Speaker 1: getting a recognition from that? I know that has to
11:36
Speaker 1: feel good in the locker room, for sure.
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Speaker 5: I don't think any one of us cared, you know,
11:42
Speaker 5: at that time, I don't think we cared that much. Right,
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Speaker 5: we were so in the zone in the process of
11:46
Speaker 5: a winning that none of the stats and accolade actually mattered.
11:50
Speaker 5: You know, it's after the fact, you know, when the
11:52
Speaker 5: career is over with, I look back and say, this
11:55
Speaker 5: probably will never be done again. You know, it's a
11:58
Speaker 5: it's an amazing accomplishment, especially when you got four you
12:01
Speaker 5: got four teammates, you know it's all stars.
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Speaker 4: Probably would never be done again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's talk about that also here, man, listen,
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Speaker 1: four teammates into the All star situation.
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Speaker 2: How do y'all find out about that?
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Speaker 1: Because I know something made a little bit earlier than
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Speaker 1: those like what's that like when y'all find out that
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Speaker 1: all y'all going to be representing the squad?
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that all of us was gonna make it.
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Speaker 1: I was just worried about me, But I knew Paul
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Speaker 1: had a I knew Paul would make it. He was
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Speaker 1: having a great year most definitely, And I knew I
12:38
Speaker 1: was gonna make it. He had already been making them anyway,
12:40
Speaker 1: so I knew them too were gonna make it. So
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Speaker 1: I didn't know if I would make it, and I
12:44
Speaker 1: didn't know if Kyle was gonna make it, but I
12:46
Speaker 1: was excited for us.
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Speaker 2: Kyle, what's that feeling like when you find out you're
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Speaker 2: gonna be representing squad?
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Speaker 4: That was pretty wild for me.
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Speaker 6: I never saw myself as an All Star player, Like
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Speaker 6: I always wanted to be the piece that like like
13:02
Speaker 6: made a team go and someone that you really wanted
13:04
Speaker 6: to be, you know, if you could count on and
13:06
Speaker 6: depend on, like you like, I wanted to be that
13:09
Speaker 6: that that perfect teammate.
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Speaker 4: So I never really like looked at myself as being
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Speaker 4: like that.
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Speaker 6: So I think with the beauty of that team, man,
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Speaker 6: it's like we all made each other better for sure,
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Speaker 6: Like and That's really the hallmark of like the good
13:22
Speaker 6: teams to me is like when everyone is looking at
13:24
Speaker 6: each other and it's not about me, it's how can
13:26
Speaker 6: I make the guy next to me better? And the
13:28
Speaker 6: beauty of that squad was like we didn't need we
13:31
Speaker 6: were talking about words, like we didn't like we talked
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Speaker 6: on the court. We talked in like nods and winks
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Speaker 6: and looks, and like that's what made us special. It's
13:40
Speaker 6: like we didn't have to like communicate, like yelling at
13:43
Speaker 6: each other. Like we was like I looked at you
13:45
Speaker 6: and looked at out and I knew we were gonna
13:47
Speaker 6: go wide. Yeah, you know, like it was just we
13:49
Speaker 6: We had this kind of sixth sense to us, and
13:52
Speaker 6: that's really what made that team special, was what made
13:54
Speaker 6: it so fun to play on.
13:55
Speaker 2: Definitely that's the problem now would be coaching basketball. I think.
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Speaker 4: They can do that. They look at me like you are.
14:06
Speaker 2: You're about to pass out coach.
14:08
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, cowcovers not walking through that Doorike shout out
14:11
Speaker 1: the bike for sure?
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Speaker 5: No, Yeah, I mean for me, I was, you know,
14:15
Speaker 5: I was happy, you know I had teammates going to
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Speaker 5: the All Star Game, you know, I was. I was
14:20
Speaker 5: I don't mess with I don't. I didn't care about
14:22
Speaker 5: all that, you know, but to have my teammates with me,
14:25
Speaker 5: you know, going to the All Star Games, it definitely
14:27
Speaker 5: meant something. And on top of that, but I was
14:29
Speaker 5: I was angry because Tomorrow didn't make it, you know,
14:33
Speaker 5: and Tomriw was my guy. You know, Tomorrow everybody knows.
14:36
Speaker 5: It's like the engine guy, you know, he he was
14:38
Speaker 5: the glue guy. You know, he did a lot to
14:40
Speaker 5: help us win. And it just sucks, you know, to
14:43
Speaker 5: see that he didn't. He didn't be a part of
14:45
Speaker 5: that that moment, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 4: So you know, for me, it was a.
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Speaker 5: Bittersweet moment, but definitely was good. Glad I had my
14:51
Speaker 5: other guys.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask that question, the topic being if
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Speaker 1: everybody on the start five make that that All Star team, but.
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Speaker 6: You don't he got paid know that next summer? Yeah,
15:04
Speaker 6: lesson at the bank.
15:05
Speaker 8: That's what it's about. Did y'all used to ever run
15:08
Speaker 8: like a special play that cha knew? Couldn't nobody stop?
15:12
Speaker 4: Just proved from.
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Speaker 6: I know, I remember we had we had some go
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Speaker 6: to plays.
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Speaker 3: I would just asking be trying to get his players
15:22
Speaker 3: to Ryan most of them out.
15:24
Speaker 5: You know when when when Kyle Kover came off of screen,
15:27
Speaker 5: he had the whole building looking at him. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 5: and when he made that either he was had an
15:32
Speaker 5: open shot or he made the pass down.
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Speaker 4: I mean we got that every single time, every.
15:37
Speaker 2: Single Yeah, that was easy. I remember it's a video
15:41
Speaker 2: going around.
15:42
Speaker 1: Well, I think you scored eleven points in like a
15:44
Speaker 1: minute or something like that. You're like, it's crazy, he checked.
15:48
Speaker 1: And I just remember like we usuedl to just throw
15:50
Speaker 1: the ball anywhere we would be. You'd be running around
15:53
Speaker 1: like he gonna shoot it. It's good, Like every time.
15:57
Speaker 1: I never really thought you were ever gonna miss Like
16:00
Speaker 1: when you missed, I was more like surprised, like you
16:04
Speaker 1: missed him.
16:06
Speaker 6: But I think, you know, we're sharing the love here,
16:08
Speaker 6: which I think is great. But you know, like I
16:13
Speaker 6: was a product of how we played, right, Like I
16:16
Speaker 6: remember you and Kenny Atkinson watching so many clips of that,
16:22
Speaker 6: like why like when exactlyte is Kyle want to have
16:25
Speaker 6: the ball and where does he want to have? You
16:26
Speaker 6: remember that that back little gym over there like and
16:29
Speaker 6: you would watch it and then we come talk about
16:30
Speaker 6: it and we watch it and come and talk about
16:32
Speaker 6: it and like the screens and all the movement, like.
16:35
Speaker 4: It was just perfectly set up for me. So it
16:38
Speaker 4: was wonderful. Man, I love coming off all those screens.
16:42
Speaker 3: What's the most thudies you hit in the game that season?
16:44
Speaker 4: You remember, it's a whole new world out there.
16:48
Speaker 6: Now many.
16:51
Speaker 2: You would have had to shoot fifteen?
16:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, you think you would have been able to rock
16:56
Speaker 3: out in this league today.
17:03
Speaker 4: For sure?
17:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just like that.
17:12
Speaker 1: Before we go further the season for y'all being his teammates,
17:15
Speaker 1: how it's like to see him now, Like because obviously
17:17
Speaker 1: you know he didn't really talk too much.
17:18
Speaker 2: To see him on this platform, is.
17:20
Speaker 6: That like a man that doesn't talk as a podcast
17:23
Speaker 6: saying I saw Jeff he was a scout for us,
17:27
Speaker 6: and then the next day he had a podcast and
17:29
Speaker 6: it was like nationally and ranked, Like, I'm like, okay, Jeff,
17:33
Speaker 6: tell them stories.
17:37
Speaker 4: I'm definitely not surprised.
17:38
Speaker 5: I mean, Jeff talked when in the right situations, you know,
17:43
Speaker 5: with the right topics either in that and you know
17:46
Speaker 5: he'll spill whatever, so you know, I'm not surprised, but definitely,
17:49
Speaker 5: you know, congratulations, appreciate appreciate it.
17:52
Speaker 4: Love for sure.
17:53
Speaker 2: Like you said, y'all go into the All Star break.
17:55
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
17:56
Speaker 1: Now it's time to all right real say something about
17:59
Speaker 1: All Star game. Y'all Remember how cold it Wasn't it
18:02
Speaker 1: so cold?
18:03
Speaker 4: I was talking to my wife about that this morning.
18:05
Speaker 4: It was awful. It was like negative thirty.
18:09
Speaker 2: It was so bad.
18:10
Speaker 4: It was cold.
18:11
Speaker 1: I just remember my room service we had. I told
18:13
Speaker 1: this story about my nephew. I had this room service
18:16
Speaker 1: bill that was like eight grand.
18:19
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah.
18:20
Speaker 1: I was like, y'all was saying the same thing, and
18:23
Speaker 1: he was. I guess he thought he was on home alone.
18:26
Speaker 1: So he was just ordering everything. And I remember going
18:29
Speaker 1: to the off about to check out, and I seen
18:32
Speaker 1: Bud and we remember we was running kind of late,
18:34
Speaker 1: and but was like.
18:34
Speaker 4: I got it all.
18:35
Speaker 1: I got everything. And I looked at him, I said,
18:39
Speaker 1: good luck. I walked to that bus so fast.
18:45
Speaker 2: Funny think about that.
18:46
Speaker 1: His nephew is now working off his dad at five twenty,
18:48
Speaker 1: so he's still covering that bill for sure. Yeah, shout
18:52
Speaker 1: out tobacle. But like you said, man, have a crazy
18:54
Speaker 1: all start breaking down. It was back to the season
18:56
Speaker 1: at this point, y'all locked in. Yeah, I feel like
18:59
Speaker 1: it's time to contind. What's the process, Like, all right,
19:01
Speaker 1: we got a chance to really make some noise.
19:03
Speaker 4: Now say it again. I couldn't hear it.
19:07
Speaker 1: Oh my father, I said, Okay, so now after All
19:09
Speaker 1: Star break, everything's copoesteadic. Y'are playing good. It's not surprised anymore.
19:13
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, do y'all have championship aspirations? Like
19:15
Speaker 1: what's that locking in? Like, or like all right, we here,
19:17
Speaker 1: we can do it now?
19:18
Speaker 4: Yeah?
19:19
Speaker 6: Absolutely, that was the goal. You know, I think we
19:21
Speaker 6: had a moment. I think I remember looking at the
19:26
Speaker 6: standings a couple of weeks after All Star break, and
19:29
Speaker 6: we were like thirteen games ahead of whoever was in
19:32
Speaker 6: second place.
19:33
Speaker 2: We were so far ahead, and.
19:37
Speaker 6: I think there was this whole mindset of like, okay,
19:39
Speaker 6: how do we prepare ourselves to really get into a
19:41
Speaker 6: playoff run? And a lot that was based on like
19:43
Speaker 6: let's be fresh and let's be healthy and let's have
19:45
Speaker 6: our minds right. And so that's kind of where we
19:48
Speaker 6: were going, right, like trying to prepare ourselves to like
19:51
Speaker 6: to be fresh. I thought that in that stretch, I thought,
19:56
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of how it made us great
19:57
Speaker 6: was just like our edge and how connected we were,
20:00
Speaker 6: and I thought a little bit of Like, in that
20:02
Speaker 6: next month and a half or so, we lost a
20:05
Speaker 6: little bit of that.
20:05
Speaker 4: If I'm being.
20:06
Speaker 6: Honest, We're just like we were just so far ahead
20:08
Speaker 6: of everybody, and you know, we lost a little bit
20:13
Speaker 6: of that with whatever was making us really really tick
20:16
Speaker 6: going into the playoffs.
20:18
Speaker 7: Hmm.
20:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, we started like subbing five in and five out.
20:21
Speaker 1: It was kind of weird. I remember Paul got mad
20:23
Speaker 1: one day. He was like, man, we can't play like this,
20:26
Speaker 1: like I can't catch a rhythm. I just remember that
20:28
Speaker 1: because bub was south and five in, five out. That's
20:32
Speaker 1: when my stat started hurting. No, but I was just
20:38
Speaker 1: like you said, we took our foot off the gas
20:39
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I just remember Lebron at the
20:42
Speaker 1: All Star Game saying to me like, I'm gonna figure
20:45
Speaker 1: y'all out. And I was like, you know, studying we
20:48
Speaker 1: were doing. We don't even know what we're doing, like
20:50
Speaker 1: we're just playing. And he was like, no, y'all got y'all,
20:53
Speaker 1: got y'all got something going. I'm gonna figure it out.
20:55
Speaker 1: When I figure it out, I'm gonna get you. And
20:57
Speaker 1: I was like, we don't know, Bro, I was like,
21:01
Speaker 1: we just be playing and he.
21:02
Speaker 2: Was like, nah, he sure figured it out.
21:07
Speaker 4: He didn't do that.
21:09
Speaker 5: I think that whole that whole stretch, you know, I think,
21:11
Speaker 5: you know, I don't want to speak for Bud, but
21:13
Speaker 5: it was for us to try to We knew who
21:15
Speaker 5: we were going to face at some point, right, we
21:18
Speaker 5: knew exactly who we were going to play, and you know,
21:22
Speaker 5: what was going to be our best lineups, what was
21:25
Speaker 5: going to be our best plays, our best strategy, you know,
21:28
Speaker 5: going up into that moment. So that whole time was
21:31
Speaker 5: pretty much like a figuring out process, and like Jeff said,
21:36
Speaker 5: it didn't work. But I think I think that we
21:38
Speaker 5: had moments, you know, I don't want to get too
21:40
Speaker 5: far ahead, but you know, even during the course of
21:44
Speaker 5: the season where we knew that whether it's one play
21:47
Speaker 5: or two plays that we took our foot off the
21:49
Speaker 5: gas that you know, could have elevated us to the
21:52
Speaker 5: next level, right, And sometimes it'd be like that, you know,
21:54
Speaker 5: especially in this league, is you know, one or two
21:57
Speaker 5: plays can kind of throw your rhythm off in a game,
22:01
Speaker 5: within the season, within the playoff series, and you know,
22:04
Speaker 5: we had a couple of those. We were able to
22:06
Speaker 5: shake back a few times, but you know, someone we had,
22:08
Speaker 5: we just had too many going into that back season.
22:11
Speaker 1: That's interested you say that because I'll take it to
22:13
Speaker 1: a February game I had against Golden State and I remember,
22:16
Speaker 1: you know that kind of a little bit of for
22:17
Speaker 1: shot them, but the way yall played against it was
22:19
Speaker 1: just like, oh they can do this against anybody. Yeah,
22:22
Speaker 1: and like that that after style and not saying this
22:24
Speaker 1: direct cord relation, but how y'all played the free moving
22:26
Speaker 1: basketball like kind of soon where it was like, oh,
22:28
Speaker 1: they can do this against anybody.
22:29
Speaker 2: Now it's up. So to hear you say that there
22:31
Speaker 2: would transpires that that's very interesting for sure.
22:35
Speaker 4: Yeah.
22:35
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, we looked at Golden State and
22:37
Speaker 5: how they how they played, and you know, we wanted
22:39
Speaker 5: to be the Eastern Conference type of you know, Golden
22:41
Speaker 5: State Warriors team.
22:42
Speaker 4: At that time.
22:43
Speaker 5: We had Kyle Korba, who we considered the best shooter
22:45
Speaker 5: in the league, and we ran a lot of stuff
22:49
Speaker 5: you know through Kyle. Cow was a big part of
22:51
Speaker 5: our offense because you know, he's dangerous behind the three
22:54
Speaker 5: point line, you know, And and that opened up a
22:57
Speaker 5: lot of windows for myself. Jeff and everybody else. And
23:03
Speaker 5: but you know when that shut down, you know what
23:04
Speaker 5: were our next options? And I think those are the
23:07
Speaker 5: time kind of the things we struggled with at that time.
23:09
Speaker 5: You know, what else are we going to do? You know,
23:11
Speaker 5: do we have a counter for the counter for the
23:13
Speaker 5: counter and you know, and Lebron figured it out and
23:17
Speaker 5: shut it down, and those type of things took us
23:20
Speaker 5: out of our rhythm for sure.
23:21
Speaker 1: Man. But I want to talk about wait, you know
23:23
Speaker 1: what I'm saying before we get to that part where
23:24
Speaker 1: y'all was still killing. The city was really behind y'all obviously,
23:29
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That has a great fan base.
23:30
Speaker 1: You know, Hawks has some up and down years. Y'all
23:32
Speaker 1: had some good years before with Joe Josha obviously, but
23:35
Speaker 1: the city was really behind y'all. Like the way you
23:37
Speaker 1: even see like you used to go to Hawks the game,
23:39
Speaker 1: the opposing team might have had more in the crowd
23:40
Speaker 1: that time period.
23:41
Speaker 2: Nah, it was up and see what's that like? Feeling
23:43
Speaker 2: that love? And know what I'm saying on off the
23:44
Speaker 2: court yard in the city, y'all still killing on the
23:45
Speaker 2: court too.
23:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was in the city, so I used to
23:48
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't go outside. I was outside, so
23:54
Speaker 1: I got a chance to see that. You know, the
23:56
Speaker 1: people talk to you like when we love what you
23:57
Speaker 1: guys are doing. They was excited about our team. And
24:00
Speaker 1: then the fans, like the arena used to be lit,
24:03
Speaker 1: like every time Kyle hit a three, you hear three
24:07
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. It was lit, even Dennis when
24:10
Speaker 1: they used to say God, Eme and all that stuff.
24:12
Speaker 1: It was just the time was just amazing. That year
24:15
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. And I have been here already for I
24:18
Speaker 1: think six or five or six years by then. The
24:21
Speaker 1: crowd I was like, man, it's just I haven't played
24:23
Speaker 1: in front of the crowd like this shit. And it
24:25
Speaker 1: was lit every game.
24:26
Speaker 3: He represented, weal for y'all outside, okayl.
24:29
Speaker 6: Oh Man Man, I think you know, I think when
24:32
Speaker 6: I first got here there was some criticism of like,
24:35
Speaker 6: you know, what's the atmosphere like at the games? And
24:39
Speaker 6: in the middle of that season when everything turned like
24:42
Speaker 6: like what they said, this place it was. It was
24:44
Speaker 6: so fun games man, and everything that you guys have
24:47
Speaker 6: built now is just added on to that as far
24:49
Speaker 6: as the experience, but like there was a real appreciation.
24:53
Speaker 6: I think what I felt for like how we played
24:56
Speaker 6: the game, and like the intention of like you know,
25:00
Speaker 6: the players trying to make each other better, playing in
25:02
Speaker 6: a certain style, even overachieving to a certain like we
25:07
Speaker 6: we all knew, like you know this, this is a
25:08
Speaker 6: group that needs each other. And there was like the
25:11
Speaker 6: purest in Atlanta that came out. Everybody loved it and
25:15
Speaker 6: enjoyed it, and it's just it's just it's it was
25:17
Speaker 6: a team that I love to play on. It was
25:20
Speaker 6: a team that was fun to root for, just because
25:23
Speaker 6: of the posture that everyone had towards the actual style
25:26
Speaker 6: of play.
25:26
Speaker 4: That was happening out there.
25:29
Speaker 1: Most definitely, so obviously keep killing you get to the playoffs.
25:33
Speaker 1: You talk about that environment. What's that first home playoff
25:36
Speaker 1: game like.
25:37
Speaker 2: A breeze. We knew we was gonna win the first round,
25:41
Speaker 2: Like that was easier game too. It wasn't No, it
25:45
Speaker 2: was Brooklyn, was it? I don't know who we played.
25:48
Speaker 2: People played Brooklyn. It was Brooklyn.
25:50
Speaker 4: It's one of those games.
25:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I knew, like we knew we had, we knew.
25:55
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about them at all. The team I
25:57
Speaker 1: was worried about was like Washington. I think that's what
26:00
Speaker 1: we played next in the second round. I was like, yeah,
26:02
Speaker 1: this might get a little tricky. My defense was never
26:05
Speaker 1: the best, that's problem. I was like, themar you might
26:11
Speaker 1: want the best.
26:14
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, you might have to switch.
26:16
Speaker 3: Washington was good that year.
26:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were really good, really good.
26:19
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think we were good against teams that didn't
26:22
Speaker 4: execute well.
26:24
Speaker 5: You know, we were good against teams who didn't communicate
26:26
Speaker 5: on defense, and we just knew teams that we were
26:30
Speaker 5: going to beat because we were going to right.
26:33
Speaker 4: And that first round was definitely.
26:37
Speaker 1: I had a business for sure. Like you said, I
26:39
Speaker 1: get it to Washington. You know what, I'm saying, different series,
26:41
Speaker 1: but I still prevail. And let's talk about that final matchup.
26:44
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, all chips on the table.
26:46
Speaker 1: What's that environment like preparing to go into that because
26:49
Speaker 1: you're playing against Lebron. I was excited. I was like, yeah,
26:54
Speaker 1: I think we can beat them because in the regular season,
26:56
Speaker 1: Lea we didn't. We beat them pretty good every time.
26:59
Speaker 1: And I was like yeah, and I've seen the first play.
27:02
Speaker 1: He ran a pick and roll with me. I was like, Oh,
27:06
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do the whole game. You're gonna
27:08
Speaker 1: bring me in a pick and roll, like it's over.
27:12
Speaker 3: So you knew that he figured it out.
27:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, why you keep calling me up
27:16
Speaker 2: in a pick and roll? Was trying to get that
27:18
Speaker 2: switch it was over. I was like, I can't go Lebron,
27:22
Speaker 2: I couldn't guard Delly.
27:26
Speaker 3: What you think went wrong?
27:31
Speaker 7: It wasn't.
27:31
Speaker 4: The reason was it was not that.
27:33
Speaker 2: It was not that.
27:34
Speaker 4: It was not that just funny I was.
27:38
Speaker 6: I was thinking like, well, yeah, I ain't throwing my
27:41
Speaker 6: guy a bus like that was not you know what
27:45
Speaker 6: I mean.
27:45
Speaker 2: We got we had some injuries too, right, Yeah, definitely.
27:49
Speaker 6: I mean I feel like I didn't get to compete
27:51
Speaker 6: in that whole series, right, I got the second game,
27:55
Speaker 6: but I mean there, Yeah, the playoff plays as you
28:01
Speaker 6: play and you play in the regular season, and you
28:03
Speaker 6: play in the first couple of rounds and you play
28:05
Speaker 6: in the last couple of rounds. They're all different, right,
28:08
Speaker 6: there's levels. And I think that was a group for
28:11
Speaker 6: them that they had, like Lebron had been through more
28:13
Speaker 6: of those third and fourth rounds, Like third and fourth
28:15
Speaker 6: rounds are different, and that was our first time as
28:19
Speaker 6: a group going through that, and there's not I don't
28:21
Speaker 6: know of any groups that go through it together the
28:23
Speaker 6: first time and get it right right. So I think
28:28
Speaker 6: there's a whole lot of grace in my mind for
28:30
Speaker 6: for that group. Like I thought that I thought that
28:33
Speaker 6: we showed like who we are, and I thought that
28:36
Speaker 6: we showed throughout the regular season especially like like we
28:40
Speaker 6: like a Paul said, like we actually beat them, I
28:42
Speaker 6: think three of the four times, right, But those late
28:45
Speaker 6: rounds are different, and it's it's it's something you have
28:47
Speaker 6: to just keep on experiencing and building on and adding
28:50
Speaker 6: to and like this is this is sport.
28:51
Speaker 2: That's what it is exactly for the fans in here
28:54
Speaker 2: obviously who don't have that feeling.
28:55
Speaker 1: Obviously playing at home, different environment, what's it like playing
28:58
Speaker 1: on a road in the high intensity situation.
29:01
Speaker 2: It's the best, It's the best.
29:03
Speaker 4: It's the best.
29:04
Speaker 6: There's nothing in sport like silencing a home crowd. There's
29:10
Speaker 6: nothing like it.
29:11
Speaker 4: It is the best.
29:12
Speaker 6: And then and then you know, it's a bunch of
29:15
Speaker 6: a bunch of teams in this league that have great
29:16
Speaker 6: home crowds. But when you can sign the team in
29:19
Speaker 6: the playoffs like it is the best.
29:23
Speaker 1: I thought we were gonna win Game three. I remember
29:26
Speaker 1: that plays in my head a lot. I thought we
29:28
Speaker 1: won Game three and Lebron was Lebron.
29:32
Speaker 4: He's good.
29:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's pretty good.
29:34
Speaker 4: It's good.
29:36
Speaker 6: That was up.
29:36
Speaker 1: What happened we went over time that game. Uh, he
29:41
Speaker 1: hit a three in the corner, okay, and tied it up.
29:46
Speaker 1: I thought he kind of cramp magically he came back.
29:48
Speaker 1: I'm like, I like, I'm like, kind of cramp. He's done,
29:52
Speaker 1: he's back.
29:54
Speaker 2: We lost in overtime. I think Shoven might have got
29:56
Speaker 2: a shot to win the game or the tide of
29:58
Speaker 2: game something.
30:01
Speaker 5: And granted, I mean we we felt like we played okay,
30:04
Speaker 5: but they played exceptionally well.
30:07
Speaker 2: They shot the ball historically historically, you know.
30:10
Speaker 5: First I remember the first quarter. I don't think they
30:12
Speaker 5: went on the run where they didn't miss it a shot.
30:14
Speaker 1: I think they went on like our defense was kind
30:16
Speaker 1: of well, who we said was gonna let shoot?
30:18
Speaker 4: I mean j R. Smith was knocking down shots. I
30:20
Speaker 4: mean it was they got in a rhythm that you
30:24
Speaker 4: know in basketball, you get in a rhythm like that, you.
30:26
Speaker 5: Know you have to stop it. You have to stop
30:29
Speaker 5: the rhythm. Yeah, and you know, we just got ourselves
30:32
Speaker 5: dug ourselves too big of a hole. By not getting
30:34
Speaker 5: them out of that rhythm in the first, first or
30:36
Speaker 5: second quarter. And you know, when you're on the road
30:39
Speaker 5: and you're upin it's a good team, you're up against
30:41
Speaker 5: Lebron James. It's tough to come back from me, you know.
30:44
Speaker 5: But I felt like we definitely fought and we had
30:47
Speaker 5: opportunities to change the rhythm and change the dynamic of
30:50
Speaker 5: the series.
30:51
Speaker 1: We just didn't capitalize on it. You don't want to
30:54
Speaker 1: know something funny about that. You remember when Jr. Started
30:56
Speaker 1: hitting those sories. I came to the benches, I got
30:59
Speaker 1: them and I got on here. The next one, I
31:03
Speaker 1: was like, I got him all chasing my gout him
31:05
Speaker 1: cause okay, he came up with screen hit another, but
31:09
Speaker 1: you go back over there.
31:13
Speaker 2: I don't know who I thought was I'm five to
31:18
Speaker 2: the funny funny as you mentioned.
31:20
Speaker 1: That you talk about the Lebron picker ros that was
31:21
Speaker 1: a clipble around, like Lebron demands that pick a roll
31:23
Speaker 1: for like four or.
31:24
Speaker 2: Five times in a row, and then you're just all right, bro, Yeah,
31:26
Speaker 2: he kept doing it.
31:27
Speaker 7: I knew.
31:28
Speaker 2: I was like they figured it out, trying to get
31:29
Speaker 2: the switch. Then we had the double they was gonna
31:31
Speaker 2: kick it out, get a three. I was like, son,
31:33
Speaker 2: we can do.
31:35
Speaker 1: I was definitely obviously, you know, season came up a
31:37
Speaker 1: little bit short of expectations. But you guys had a
31:38
Speaker 1: hell of a season obviously, playing the different situations past that.
31:42
Speaker 2: How does it make like the memory of this team feel.
31:44
Speaker 1: When you go back and like, all right, I played
31:45
Speaker 1: different places after this, but the camaraderie we had this
31:48
Speaker 1: magical season still lives on.
31:54
Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 5: I mean, for me, I went to Devil after that.
32:00
Speaker 5: A lot of young guys, you know, but a lot
32:03
Speaker 5: of young, honky guys. They were hungry, you know, all
32:06
Speaker 5: they needed was a little bit of mentorship to get
32:08
Speaker 5: them over the edge. But as far as locker room presence,
32:12
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think there'll ever be another, you know,
32:16
Speaker 5: situation like we had in Atlanta anywhere else, you know,
32:19
Speaker 5: everywhere else. You know, guys are cool and whatever, but
32:24
Speaker 5: the bond just goes from there, you know. For us,
32:26
Speaker 5: you know, we we knew each other's families, We went
32:28
Speaker 5: out to dinner, you know, on the road, we had
32:30
Speaker 5: team bonding.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 5: We went to the to the to the what is it,
32:35
Speaker 5: the Braves you know stadium and played baseball man. You
32:39
Speaker 5: know as a team, you know, we did things like
32:40
Speaker 5: that that you know, when it gets on the court,
32:43
Speaker 5: it makes it a lot easier to to jail with
32:45
Speaker 5: a team, you know. So you know there's a lot
32:47
Speaker 5: not a lot of teams out there doing that.
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Speaker 3: Sure.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, man, that team lives on in me. I'll
32:55
Speaker 4: just say that.
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Speaker 6: Like for me, it's almost like when there's someone that
32:58
Speaker 6: you admire in life and they pass away or something
33:01
Speaker 6: happens and it's like you take what was good great
33:04
Speaker 6: in that and you want that inside of you.
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Speaker 4: Like that's what that group is for me, Like there
33:10
Speaker 4: was it was so pure, Like.
33:13
Speaker 6: I always tell, like I'm told when I talk to
33:15
Speaker 6: kids about basketball, and it's always younger, it's like enjoyed
33:18
Speaker 6: us because the higher you go it may be more rewarding,
33:21
Speaker 6: but it loses its purity. Yeah, And it's not often
33:25
Speaker 6: that you get to be around and being a group
33:28
Speaker 6: in the NBA where like we were all about the
33:31
Speaker 6: right stuff and like a lot of like were for
33:34
Speaker 6: me now as we're working on building out the.
33:36
Speaker 4: Hawks like that.
33:37
Speaker 6: It's it's not necessarily the blueprint, but it is a
33:39
Speaker 6: north star all the way, and you want to try
33:43
Speaker 6: to you know, continue to add more talent and and
33:46
Speaker 6: all those things. But like how that worked, Like going back,
33:49
Speaker 6: just thinking back about how this team came together. It
33:52
Speaker 6: wasn't necessarily about adding a bunch of superstars and figuring
33:55
Speaker 6: out like you got really good humans who love to work,
33:59
Speaker 6: who were or love their craft, right, you got really
34:03
Speaker 6: really good coaches, like the coaching staff that we had
34:06
Speaker 6: that year, like Coach Bred, it was coach Bud. But
34:09
Speaker 6: then think about all the coaches we had. Quinn Snyder
34:11
Speaker 6: was there the first year and then he left.
34:13
Speaker 4: We had.
34:15
Speaker 6: You had Kenny Akison, you had Nevin who's been a
34:20
Speaker 6: coach in Europe forever. You had Charles Lee, you had
34:23
Speaker 6: Taylor Jenkins, you had those are just head coaches who've
34:26
Speaker 6: been on the league. You got assistant coaches. Ben Sullivan's
34:29
Speaker 6: been a top assistant. You got Pants Pats and Andrews.
34:33
Speaker 6: You got Jordan Ott who was in the video room.
34:35
Speaker 6: Like these guys are all front of the bend coaches,
34:37
Speaker 6: Like that's who was teaching us every day what it
34:40
Speaker 6: meant to play Hawks basketball. Right, So it's like this
34:44
Speaker 6: this is the formula for me, Like I'm pulling from
34:47
Speaker 6: that yere right, Like that to me is like again, yes,
34:51
Speaker 6: you add more talent, you try to find hopefully you
34:53
Speaker 6: get a number one pick and he becomes an amazing player.
34:56
Speaker 6: But like like this is the formula to me, and
34:59
Speaker 6: like it is deep in me, Like I have a
35:02
Speaker 6: like I have a real love of the game of basketball,
35:05
Speaker 6: Like it's what drives me. It's why I want to
35:07
Speaker 6: keep on working in this business. And that again is
35:09
Speaker 6: like a north Star Like it was a wonderful, wonderful experience.
35:14
Speaker 6: Like the bonds and the friendships that we had with
35:16
Speaker 6: these guys is real when we see each other, like
35:19
Speaker 6: it is love. But you go through heartaches and playoff
35:22
Speaker 6: series and you bond and your work like there's things
35:25
Speaker 6: that happen in those moments that you can't get in
35:27
Speaker 6: any other way. And yeah, it's just a it's a
35:32
Speaker 6: group and a team that, like I said, like I
35:34
Speaker 6: will pull from the rest.
35:35
Speaker 4: Of my life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, as far as basketball on the court,
35:40
Speaker 1: I never went to a team that had that same
35:42
Speaker 1: synergy and energy together, you know what I mean. So
35:44
Speaker 1: I went to go play for the Pacers two years later,
35:48
Speaker 1: and like you said, I'm winking at guys and they like, nah, bro,
35:52
Speaker 1: what you got going on, I'm like, cut back doward.
35:57
Speaker 2: So I'm like, it just wasn't the same.
35:59
Speaker 1: I went there and I thought, like everybody else were
36:01
Speaker 1: done basketball players after playing on that team, you know
36:04
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like we just read each other well,
36:07
Speaker 1: we knew everybody's movement, we knew everybody was going to
36:09
Speaker 1: be on the court, and then going to these different teams,
36:11
Speaker 1: it wasn't the same. So I'm used to somebody setting
36:15
Speaker 1: a backscreen so you can get a wide open jump shot, and.
36:17
Speaker 2: They like, nah, beat him, beat your man.
36:20
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all don't like play together at all, Like
36:24
Speaker 1: I gotta run to the corner every time, like nah.
36:27
Speaker 2: So it just was a beautiful way to play basketball.
36:29
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that so much that I even try to,
36:32
Speaker 1: like I'm a coach now, I try to bring that
36:33
Speaker 1: same philosophy when we play move the ball, everybody get
36:36
Speaker 1: a chance to score. No, no go to guy, but
36:39
Speaker 1: everybody can be the guy. And that was just a
36:42
Speaker 1: beautiful way to play.
36:43
Speaker 5: Just to pay back off that, I mean, I don't
36:46
Speaker 5: know if everybody know that, you know an NBA team,
36:49
Speaker 5: you spend more time with your teammates than you do
36:52
Speaker 5: your family. So we see each other every single day, right,
36:57
Speaker 5: and you don't get that feeling, you know, once you
37:00
Speaker 5: get up to the door and say, damn, I go
37:01
Speaker 5: to work again.
37:02
Speaker 4: I gotta go in here again. Right.
37:04
Speaker 5: You had people who you wanted to play with, people
37:05
Speaker 5: who understood you, and that's what made it so special.
37:10
Speaker 1: Definitely, how we talked about the soft camera. Did you
37:12
Speaker 1: know that she was going to be the team statrician?
37:14
Speaker 1: Because you know some of your teammates. You know what
37:15
Speaker 1: I'm saying, they lived a different life. You know what
37:17
Speaker 1: I'm saying in the kitchen.
37:18
Speaker 3: Hey, I mean guys you say didn't drink water, and
37:21
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, man, we had you guys. We had
37:24
Speaker 4: guys that didn't drink water on our team.
37:30
Speaker 2: I'm like, you are an NBA basketball player. Your job
37:33
Speaker 2: is to run on the court. How do you not
37:35
Speaker 2: drink water?
37:36
Speaker 3: And like when did you start paying how taste?
37:38
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't like how it tastes. It tastes
37:40
Speaker 2: like water.
37:43
Speaker 1: Listen, you guys, one of them may or may not
37:47
Speaker 1: be on the stage, wouldn't drink water.
37:50
Speaker 6: They're getting like ivs before the game, like hooked up
37:54
Speaker 6: to an IV so they can play.
37:56
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, just drink this cup of water.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy. I couldn't believe you. It was living like that, Paul.
38:10
Speaker 1: Oh Man, listen, man, legendary team Man, the city remembers
38:14
Speaker 1: you the city and braces your shots to everybody here,
38:15
Speaker 1: all here because of this very reason. Man, you might
38:18
Speaker 1: want to answer that text time tax. Then are we
38:22
Speaker 1: opening up to the crowd by chands? Okay, open up
38:26
Speaker 1: to the crowd. I have a couple of questions, a
38:27
Speaker 1: couple like questions before we get out of here. Anybody
38:29
Speaker 1: braving up? My man's no, yeah, you chans, yeah, go ahead.
38:34
Speaker 7: Oh wow, it's on the way.
38:48
Speaker 2: It's on the way. Man, we're gonna play. We're gonna
38:50
Speaker 2: we're gonna get that game. We're gonna get that game.
38:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're starting to over under right now. Please PLA's
38:54
Speaker 1: your best dracton, gentlemen. And yes, sir, I could start
38:59
Speaker 1: it if you go look at our numbers how many
39:02
Speaker 1: minutes we played. We didn't play hot numbers of minutes
39:05
Speaker 1: like I think we played like twenty six a game
39:07
Speaker 1: I did like around that time. So, uh, Dennis shooter
39:11
Speaker 1: points it was great. Then yeah, I was kept then
39:16
Speaker 1: his shooter was great. Even Shovin mack Ken Baizmore came
39:20
Speaker 1: off that bench. It was a bunch of guys. Mike
39:22
Speaker 1: Scott my guy. They had amazing seasons like that whole year.
39:26
Speaker 1: Everybody played well and we all just wanted everybody to win.
39:29
Speaker 1: It was crazy, Like he said, we'd be on a
39:31
Speaker 1: plane playing, you know, and all that stuff. And those
39:34
Speaker 1: were my guys. I mean, me and Dennis we.
39:36
Speaker 2: Used to go out of it a little bit, but
39:38
Speaker 2: other than that, we love it. I love those guys.
39:43
Speaker 6: Dennis was like, because we were all a pretty steady group, right, Yeah,
39:46
Speaker 6: Like Dennis was like the little brother that you needed
39:50
Speaker 6: to get under your skin, agitate you, yeah, get you going.
39:54
Speaker 4: And it was he was a super important part of
39:57
Speaker 4: We needed it right.
39:58
Speaker 6: We needed guys like that. We need a guy like
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Speaker 6: Elton Brand and Pariantage and Michael Schala and I mean
40:04
Speaker 6: there's so many guys who starting their role for for
40:08
Speaker 6: that group and we're about the team.
40:11
Speaker 4: It's a long list that was. It was a It
40:13
Speaker 4: was a great group.
40:15
Speaker 2: Definitely jump in the back. Yes, sir, I've seen Budd
40:18
Speaker 2: at a concert.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He used to take his kids to all the concerts.
40:22
Speaker 1: Here and I've seen him and uh, they were having
40:24
Speaker 1: a good time. He didn't know any of the songs,
40:27
Speaker 1: but he was viobbing out. I'm scared to ask which
40:30
Speaker 1: artist it iss?
40:33
Speaker 4: We was.
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Speaker 9: We was messing up some comments that Night's go see
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Speaker 9: future shout out, No, sir.
40:49
Speaker 6: I would I love to have known, one hundred percent
40:53
Speaker 6: under there's injuries are part of this whole of this
40:56
Speaker 6: whole equation. It is every year for every team. There's
41:01
Speaker 6: a lot of things that have to go right if
41:02
Speaker 6: you still be playing at the very very end. And uh,
41:05
Speaker 6: you know, I wish we could have had a full squad,
41:08
Speaker 6: but for sure, and last one, bring your ma Ma
41:12
Speaker 6: in front.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that.
41:17
Speaker 3: That's hard. Yeah, I like that very away.
41:19
Speaker 2: I got all you grew up in.
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Speaker 1: Brother Weeds, pull it up or appreciate that for sure.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately are out of time. We want to say thank
41:26
Speaker 1: you all for pulling up. We appreciate y'all. Make a
41:28
Speaker 1: noose for y'rself and push up two times for our
41:34
Speaker 1: wonderful guests up here. We appreciate Paul and Kyle pulling up.
41:37
Speaker 1: The Hawks appreciate the hospitality as well. We'll see y'all
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