March 9, 2023 • 41 mins
Tyrese talks about what it is like to travel as an NBA player, and tells some of his favorite stories from the road, including the flight that terrified Joel Embiid. He also goes into detail about the games on the trip with the Heat, Mavs and Bucks, including what it is like to play a back-to-back in Miami and Dallas, while still finding time to see his family and friends. Tyrese describes the importance of snapping the Bucks winning streak, and how he stays confident when going to the line for clutch free throws.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh, what a shot slip fashe shrug, Fiji score a
pruss Yo, what's up? Y'all's tyres here? Back with MAXI
on the mic. Episode two, A little bit different scenery
this time. We're in a hotel, not at the house.
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We're in the middle of a five games, seven night
road trip Miami, Dallas, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Minnesota, and we're smacked
there in the middle of it. You know, this is
this this is a great time. We're twoing one so far.
We want to get into some cool details of the
NBA life on the road. It's we laugh about the travel.
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We laugh because we're always complaining about getting on and
off the plane. But I don't think we should complain
that much, man. So the travel is a lot, but
it's a lot better than commercial. So we'll talk about
it and then we have a lot of fun talk
about seeing the family in Dallas. And you know, Episode
two is going to be a great new scenery for
you guys. I think the biggest difference traveling with like
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on the NBA plane and with your teammates and with
the organization, then traveling coach and traveling you know, just
by yourself. It's so many different things, honestly, because I
travel a coach all the time, like when I'm when
I do the summertime, if I'm going to la or
if I'm going to who knows, I'm going back to Philly.
And it's even from just flying first classes. It's a
lot different. You gotta get there a little bit earlier
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to travel coach. You're going to security. Everybody knows it.
Now I have pre check and that that's good, so
I take off my shoes. But when you fly on
on on the team plane, it's like you know where
you're going. You're automatically going like it's like different terminals
you go to the same one, climb out of Philly.
As soon as you get there, you flash I D
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They take your bags up so you don't have to
check the bag. They take your bags up and put
them on the plane for you. It's funny. As soon
as you walk up on the plane, the entire players
section is to the left at the front of the plane,
so everybody, all the players sit up there all I
don't know how many of us it is, but the
entire players sit up there, so everybody, you know. I
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think the next section is like the player development coaches.
The section out of that is the you know, the
bench coaches are like coach Dog, coach Sam and all
of them BA. And then the backback you have like
sometimes you have the front office, sometimes you have the
training room, you have the strength and condition coaches, the
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masseuse and they sit back there. But when you make
that left, it's funny because you know who's sitting in
whose spot. You know, the big fellas sits in the
same seat every single time. Everybody knows what he's gonna see,
gonna sit in like the table. Then you have George
Nina sitting next to him, JAG and then I sit
next to JH. And then that's when we sit there
sometimes play cards, have a good time and laugh, and
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that's that's a group right there that doesn't really sleep
a lot on the plane, you know. That's that's a
lot of laughs talking about the game. And we have
a good group of people on this on this team
that talks after the games, Like it's not just get
on the plane, sit down and be quiet. Everybody's up,
everybody's talking, everybody's laughing, And I think that's one thing
that helps us on the court as well. I have
two funny stories that I can talk about, one from
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my rookie year and and one from last year about
from just being on the plane and my rookie year,
you know rookie duties. Me and Big Full have been
cool since my rookie year, Like you know, he brought
me at PS five for Christmas my rookie year, like
he like, we've been cool since like since then. So
I was, I was like his rook so like I was.
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I was carrying his bag. You know, that's what that's
what you do as a rookie. And I just remember
it was on one trip. We was on a trip
like now like a five five games, seven days, but
I think this was like it's during COVID, so it
was like a fourteen day road trick. We was playing
catch up and Joela had this huge bag, the bag
that should really go underneath the plane, which really is
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to irk me. And we was like, you know, this
is like February. So it's like when we're in cities
like in an Soola. We were actually in Indiana. I'm
walking up the stairs at Indiana. It's like it's funny
that it comes for a circle office there. I was
here and he has a huge bag and it's snowing outside.
So I promised you that the bag was heavier like
it was. It probably weighed like three fourths of myself.
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So I'm like, I'm trying to like lift up the
bag and I'm with my leg every step to this
particular city, we got to walk up a steep step
to get onto the plane to the check R and D.
So I'm like, it's snowing outside, I'm trying to carry
this bag that should be underneath the plane like step
by step with my leg and I'm about to slipping
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far back and then I just He's like, hey, don't fall,
young fella. I'm like, man, this bad way more than me, Like,
so that was cool. That's the funny story that I have.
I ended up getting on the plane. I was messing
with drawl that bro, you gotta put that back and
eat the plane. And he just laughed like no, I want.
I want to be at my bag as soon as
I get off. So that's cool. And then another story
is this is another Joel story, because I guess he's
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always evolved, and that's how I sit with at the
little play. So we're sitting there and you know about
to play cards, and I don't know where we were
going at this point. I'm gonna say we was leaving
Phoenix Slasher and the plane is like shake it. It's
like one of the worst turblent Like I'm talking about
dropping like hydraulics, like like if you've seen sole plane,
like that's what it felt like. It's just like we're
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going up and there. Like I'm like, oh my goodness.
But me with planes, I've been on so many planes
my life. You can't do anything about turbulin. So I
just I'll just sit there and like kind of laughing smile.
But like James is holding on to the looking out
the window and screaming, and Joel's like holding on to
the to the top of the plane, you know, huge,
hold onto the pangs. Whoa, oh okay. The servants kind
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of starts with okay, through the courts. It takes I
wish George, you know, when I get George, I'm gonna
get George or here, so and he's gonna talk about
the story. But he's like Joel was like so out
of it. He was like so scary, hold on what
turl stops? Okay? Do the courts a lot of bust
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out laughing, but that that yeah, that's that's pretty cool, man.
But it's fun, man, it's fun being on the plane
with with those guys like you. You really build team
camaraderieon stuff like that plane meetings and just being on
the road in general, because y'all, you guy, you know,
sometimes you have your family, say, we have like sometimes
team dinners and those little meetings before shoot around, those
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little bus rides from shoot around on the way shot around,
on the way back from shoot around, on the way
to the arena, on the way from the game to
the plane to fly wherever you're going home or to
the next city. Those are our times where you talk
to your teammates the most. And I feel like because
Dogs always talked about how when he was playing, they
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didn't have phones, so like you couldn't get on your
phone and have time and check and text blah alat.
You have to talk to people. And I feel like
this team is like we have so many events and
tell men like kind of old school kind of guys
that we don't just get on our phones right away,
you know, we do. You have conversation, We talk about
the game, we talk about how we feel about the game,
and I just really helped us become a better team.
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Being on the road is so much different than being
at home. It's a whole different type of routine that
you have to go through. For myself, I speak for
myself only, it's a whole different type of routine. It's
a whole different type of a vibe that you have
to go through because at home, well, I know that
my chef's gonna come cook the night before the game.
I'm gonna be chilling, sitting on my couch watching basketball games,
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hanging out with my dog, hanging out with beat. That's
a pretty normal home game. But on the road, you
gotta find what you're going to eat. Sometimes sometimes they
do like a little buffet for us, but sometimes a
lot of people, a lot of guys go out to
eat in a different cities. So I gotta find out
if I'm going to go out to eat. So in Miami,
you know, I get there. I was so tired in Miami.
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It's really sad. You know, we only get to go
to Miami one time this season, and normally, you know,
you go out to eago grass some food and enjoy
the warm whether in Miami, I did not leave my
hotel room. That's how tired. I was flying into Miami
from the night before, so I didn't leave my hotel room.
I sat there. I ordered food, set on my couch
that I had at the hotel room, and watched basketball
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all night. Got up kind of around like eleven, watched
the movie, and I went to sleep. So now I'm sleep.
You get up around nine am because shoot around you know,
the bust leaves to shoot around nine forty five. So
I get up nine o'clock, brush my teeth, watch my fete,
do all those things. Head downstairs. It's like we have
his buffet buffets, that's a spread for us, and you
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kind of have whatever you want. You know, you have
a smoothie station on the station. You have pancakes, fish too,
whatever you really want. And I go down there. I know,
me make my breakfast. I make the same smoothie every
single time I go. You know, I kind of got
the recipe from my chef. I got strawberry, banana, pineapple, honey, almond,
milk ice, same thing every single time. It's it's like clockwork.
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And that's the thing about being on the road. It's
it's literally like clockwork. It's like, um, you know exactly,
it's like a routine. You know exactly what you're gonna do.
Is you feel like a robot almost. It's not even
it's it's like it's like work, you know, it's not
even like it doesn't feel like a job, like like
playing in bench. It was like, you know, work like
a routine. I do that, and I got un the
bus to go to shoot around, have shoot around. Come home.
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First thing I do when I get home is I
make myself deposta that they have had like a big
Costa buffet. So I go down there and make them
ends of Aposta to make myself another smoothie. Come upstairs,
and then when I get upstairs, now it's time to
like start locking it on the game. I normally always
watched the film that they send out a while email
Pasta called my mom. While email Pasta, I always is
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it's funny because I always call her and she's like, dude,
why are you always calling me on the road, And
You're like, act like you're starving, And I really do
be extremely hard because I'm coming back in from shooting
around and I just ran off all the energy that
I used that I ate so I do that, take
a shower, and after that, now it's time. I'm a
big nap guy before a game. So as soon as
I get that, I trying to find a way look
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at the bus schedule to give myself a two hour
nap in advance. Take that two hour nap, and I
get up. Now we're on our way to the gym,
and it should go time after that. I'm a big
time nap taker. That's not just strong on game days.
I'm a big time knaptaker every day, no matter what
day is. I think it's because I get up so early.
I'm an early rising and summertime for sure, when I
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get up so early, working out at six and then
going through that whole routine that I go through through
the middle of the day. After you've worked out three
times before eleven o'clock, you gotta find a way to
get some more energy to do some other stuff at
the at the end of the day. So I've always
been a nap taker, Like I think maybe because I
have like this old soul hanging out with my grandmothers
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and they take naps and they kind of just made
me inherit that into my daily lifestyle. The nap is
so crucial for me on game day though, because I
know it's gonna be a long night. I know I'm
gonna neath the energy at the end of the at
the end of the night, and because I take these naps,
my drillin is pumping so much after the game. It's
hard for me to go to sleep after games. But
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that's okay because it gets me through a game where
I have to play, you know, sometimes a lot of minutes.
My rookie year and my second year, I always get
on the first bus because my shooting time, the shooting
the shooting time is a cool thing in the NBA
because like my rookie year, first couple of games I had,
like the early shooting time. You shoot like a group.
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I show it like Paul Read Isaiah Joe, but you
shoot kind of with a group, and then you know,
they kind of just go like every every fifteen minutes,
every fifteen minutes, so the game would be at seven o'clock.
And like my shooting time my rookie year was like
three forty five, Like I'm like, what three fight that's
so early. I didn't you know, as a as a rookie,
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you like, jeez, I gotta get I just had a
shoot around I got I'm not even get a chance
taking nap. So I remember my rookie year I was
I used to rush out of shoot around like and
you know, rookie you have so many different duties like
I had to, Like Danny Green made me go get
donuts every single like shoot around morning and they had
to be there before like he got there. So I
had to get to get up early to get the doughnuts.
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And I had to get to the facility before everybody else,
all the other players to get to make sure the
donuts were there for when they got there. And I
had to get my workout in before all the vest
got on the court that shoot around, because I knew
if the vest got on the court while I was
on the court, I was gonna be the one getting
kicked off. But the first bus on the road I
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was getting on that my first or second year is
because like I said, my first year of my rookie year,
I had that earliest shooting time until like kind of
way midway through the season where I started playing a
little bit more so they kind of backed up my
time a little and I got to shoot by myself.
That was pretty cool. Then my second year, because I
didn't know where, you know, we didn't know like what
the situation was gonna be. I ended up starting, but
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my shooting time was still like two and a half
hours before the game. That's just because I'm young. I
was a young guy. So I was starting, starting the
whole year, but my shooting time was still so early.
So Sam contious to get so mad because he had
to come earlier to like help me work out, and like, man,
he got back up the shooting time. Man, this is ridiculous.
I'm like, what you want me to do? Like I'm young,
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He's like, nah, I don't care about that. Man, you
played thirty five minutes, thirty eight minutes again, you got
back up and shooting time. So it was he used
to say that every single time we got on the car.
I'm like, Sam, I am not the coach. That's I
think that's like more of your area. I just showed up.
We all need me to show up. Well, yeah, so
I was getting on the first bus. Now, like I said,
this is kind of like my first year. I knew
where I was gonna be. I knew what kind of
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role I was gonna have. So they backed up my
shooting time to to ninety on o'clock and I shoot
with Tobias, so I could, like Tobias ross the third
but was I could I have enough time to get
on that bus. But I still feel kind of weird
because that's like when all the events come in, Like
I'm like, that's when PJ. Tucker is here, and Tobias
and Jage and the big fella, and that's even when
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Coach Dock and them come. So I'm like, I'm too
young to be on that bus. I'm just gonna get
right the second bus, and not right the second bus.
I get there, I get the chant and get to eat.
I get to kind of sit there and kind of
get my mind right before I get on the court.
And that's pretty cool too. So those buses, it's funny, man.
It's a lot that goes into that. It's a lot
that goes into a lot of thought. I'm just sitting
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there telling y'all that from from my perspective of it,
Like I could get on the third bus. Nobody probably
saying thing. But it's like I'm gonna get on the
second bus because I'm still young. I'm still I think
I'm still girling. I'm trying to work my way up
in the NBA. But you know, that's it's always It's
also a really cool situation and that a lot of
people don't know about. Yeah, those are all great stories,
but right now we're gonna take a quick break. Coming
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up next, we'll talk about the last four three or
four games that we've had Miami twice playing the same team.
We'll talk about the Miami Dallas back to back, hanging
out in Dallas with the Fam, and then after losing
to Dallas playing against Kyrie and Luca, having to fly
to Milwaukee and play the Bucks who've won sixteen straight games.
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I think they have the best record in the NBA.
So it didn't get much easier for us. So we'll
talk about that, and who know, we have a lot
of fun in this next segment. We played a heat
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on Monday at home, fly on Tuesday to South Beach
and playing the game Wednesday. So we lose on Monday.
Tough game, you know, I think we fight back. We
get into like a one possession game. Um, Joel passes
out to Jage four three, and um, you know James
misses good look very good. Look, you know we'll take that.
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We'll take that ten times out of ten, our two
best players, you know, playing two man game. They trapped
Joe passed out to James shooting. I think this is
best year from three shooting, like forty percent passes out
of it hard. We'll do it tonight, filling. Yeah, so
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you know he missed that. But we move on, you
know what, we move on. So now the NBA does
this thing sometimes where you play the same team, the
same team to two times in a row, and that
gives you, like this playoff field's playoff feel because in
the playoffs you have to play the same team over
and over and over again. It's the first one to four.
So there's so many adjustments made between Monday night Wednesday night,
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and this time we have to make an even bigger
adjustment because you know, Joe well set out because he
was out for some injury. I can't remember. But now
I'm adjusting we make because I'm in the starting lineup
and I replaced Joe and now you got me Melt, James,
p J. Tucker, and Tobias. So now we're small. So
we have to play a whole different type of a
toad type of game. Against Miami, a whole different type
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of mindset playing without the big fella, play without a
big in general. And you know, our biggest players except
Ice Harris and he's on six to eight and PJ.
Tucker is basically playing small wall five without there a performance.
This gotta make them feel awfully good. So we have
to play a lot faster, We have to play with
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a lot more pace and defensively, you know, we switched
work through five that game, something that you know we
try to do when you know, if Joel was on
the court or Joe Wigan guard anybody on the court,
but it's you know, sometimes it's a little bit easier
for us to do it. Like that valuable really to
do with this small lineup because I started this night
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and now so many things changed, so many things changed,
Like I didn't know I was starting. I honestly didn't
know I was starting until like I think it was
like Sam told me around eighty on o'clock, seventy five o'clock.
So now like when I don't, like when I haven't
been starting, I would um when they call out the
starting lineups, I would go grab from gatyain stretch a
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little bit back there, and then I would come out
right before tip off. So that's what I was doing
when I when I don't start, but when I started,
I gotta be out there for you know, the starting lineups,
and didn't like how to be out there, like, you know,
right to start a game to get the first play.
So that that that changed just a little bit, not much,
because I still do all like the same routine as
far as stretching with the bad and phone rolling right
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before the game, because that's just a routine I've always had.
But yeah, the game went well. Though. The game went well.
You know, that was like my first time back in
the starting lineup since we played Sacramento, I think, and
that was a while ago, and I think that was
since January. So it was cool, man, it was cool.
We won the game. I played well. I feel like,
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you know, the adjustments that we made, the coaches that
made really went well for us, and we spent them up.
Me and the Anthony shake. J Mack kind of just
pressures the ball a lot more, trying to trying to
make them start their offense around fifteen fourteen seconds and
then when you had fifteen fourteen six in the NBA
kind of only get two passes. Now you gotta play
like one on one ice football. And that's what we
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really wanted to try to do, playing the heat, you know,
down the stretch of the third quarter. So because you
got to change your rotations, because you know, no Joe, well,
so now you got to find things that work. And
it hopped out on them early in the third quarter.
I think we pushed the lead to maybe I don't know,
twenty twenty five something like that. And because you know,
we did rotate differently. I played the whole first quarter
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and then I played the whole third quarter, and then
like James came and got me at the beginning of
the second, beginning of the fourth, So it was spanning
the third quarter. Late in the third quarter, probably around
three minutes to go. They cut it. They cut the game.
You know, Miami, it's a game of runs. So and
at the end of the day, this is NBA basketball,
and everybody's really good and they're going to go to run.
So they cut they cut the league down to like
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eleven I team, and you know, I know we was
out there and with the group that I was out
there way and we knew that that was gonna be
a big stretch. We had to try to push the
league back up to where we needed to be at
the end by end of quarter, or we could have
let our guard down and let them come to a
single DG game. And that's what that's what team trying
to do. When you're up to like twenty or when
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you're down between, you gotta cut it down slowly. You know,
you can't get it all back in one and one shot,
so you're trying to cut to fifteen. He cut the
ten and HE'SAI, all right, guys, it's cut to five.
And then once you cut the five, that's when the
other team gets tight because they were up and they
were comfortable, but you know they cut into like eleven.
And you know, my thing was and I just wanted
us to go on a run, and I tried to
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be ultra aggressive out there on the court. This time.
I was, you know, out there without James, I was
the playmaker. So I remember getting to getting to the
land a couple of times and scoring get into the
lane and passed the Dania House for three. I do
remember this is a particular play, like a minute thirty left,
we're up around it. Pushed it back up from thirteen
to like from eleven's like around seventeen, and I mean transition,
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I get a rebound or I get an outlet. Paul
Reid is running like he you know, PAULI runs frister
floor and he sets me like a flip step up screen,
which is really good. So I come off to step up.
I think Jimmy's guarding me quick love hesitation, and I
get bumped, and I know, I know, like I've been
working on drawing fouls. Uh, you know, being around James,
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He's helped me so much with that him angel Well,
So as soon as I feel the contact of me
getting bumped, as soon as I feel I picked the
ball up, and now my eyes on the rim and uh,
Chris Johnson and Tim Martin, they've taught me, like as
soon as you picked the ball up, your eyes go,
they have to go. If you're in the scoring position,
they have to go to the rim because now you
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have to find where. My biggest thing is finding what
the spots on the backboard that I need to use
to make these layups. So as soon as I get
the bump, I feel it. I can't shoot it with
my right hand. I want the right side and like
the way my body set up, I can't shoot it.
I can't even give my right hand up. So I
scoop under. Oh what a shot, slip fancy score. It's
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funny because Chris Ki Chris, he saw the video and
he's like, we always talk about the levels of the backboard.
Level one is the lowest level. Level two is like
mid level. Level three is like top above the square.
He's like, man, you you shot that lay under level one?
Like I snuck, like I literally like snuck it in
like it rolled. I don't know how I may like.
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It's just like the English of it. It was pretty cool.
And I make it. I get foul a N one.
I kind of do like a little smirt because I
knew you that was one of the ones that that
a god was written me on that one. But no,
that was great though. We I think we pushed it
back up to twenty point in league, and uh, you
know we finished it out pretty well. What can you say, Philadelphia?
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I played Miami every shouting way. Then after beating Miami,
you know, pretty pretty good. That was a good bounceback
win for us after losing to them. You know, a
couple of nights before you try to move as quick
as possible because you know, you have to fly from
Florida to Texas, which is you know, it's not a
quick flight. You know, it's good that you get an
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hour back. You're going from the Eastern time the Central time.
But we played Miami at seven thirty pm Eastern time,
and then we played Dallas the next day at six
thirty Central time, so that's a quick turnaround, and then
the flight not short. So we try to hustle, you know,
get out of there. Thankfully, Joel, who takes so longest,
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was already dressed because you know he didn't play, so
you know, he got out pretty fast. So we get
on the plane, fly to Dallas. As soon as we
land in Dallas, now it's like, I don't know the
time of days, it's like one thirty two o'clock. So
now you're trying to hustle and bustle and get to
your room and get your bags and you know, do
what you gotta do to fall asleep as quick as
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possible because now you're trying to get your rest. And luckily,
like Coachdkins, really you know, he's a players. You know,
he knew he played before, so he knows how it goes,
and he kind of lets rest on days like that.
So we sleep all the way to Hiry much you
want to sleep, but like there's no meeting, there's no
shoot around, there's no no things like that. You get
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the rest like pretty much your entire day. You had
the whole day off. So me, I don't got to
sleep that much. And I'm an early rising and I'm
still young. So I stud to probably about ten eleven o'clock,
and the bus then't leaves to go to the arena
to like I want to say four or like maybe
like three forty a three thirty. So I went, I
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got up, got dressed, and I went to God in
the Uber and went to my mom's house. I got
to go to their house and laugh for her and
her my dad and my grandmother because my sisters were
at school working and so I got to talk to
them for a little bit. Then we had to go.
I had to go go back and get on the bus,
go to the Madids Arena and play, you know, And
that's honestly less than a twenty four hour turnaround. So
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those are those are difficult games. Those are extremely difficult games.
But that's just what comes with the grooming schedule of
the NBA season, and um, you know, it's it's fun.
That's what makes the NBA fun because a game like that,
high level intensity game like that where you played in
Miami and you fly all the Dallas and now you're
playing against Kyrie and Luca off a back to back
when your legs aren't there, you know, the most fresh
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that conde. That's what makes the NBA tough. But that's
what also makes it fun, and that's what makes it
a streaming competitive every time I play in Dallas, even
since my rookie year when I didn't play. I played
like three minutes probably in the game against Dallas my
rookie year. But ever since then, it's I'm a hometown kid.
So I grew up in Dallas, I grew up in Garland.
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I played there. I didn't transfer to it like a
prep school, so I actually played at a normal public
school that was, you know, real live public school of
South Garlin High School. And so I'm a hometown kid
and everybody wants to come see you play. It was cool, man,
I got to see a lot of family. It's even funnier.
I see the number zero in the Maxe jerseys everywhere. Now,
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you know, that's that's a blessing, But seeing them in Dallas,
it hits a little bit different because the people that
you see in those jerseys, you most likely know them.
And I was just waving to a lot of people
throughout the game and seeing a lot of trying to
put smiles on people's faces because they put smiles in
my faces coming out to support me, you know, you
don't have to. And in the mix of all this,
you're having a tornado. We're literally having tornadoes in Dallas
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at this time. And it's funny because we're in this
arena playing basketball. If the game is sold out, everybody's
having a great time, and on the side of the arena,
it's you know, tornado's going on. I have no clue.
And that's why I said. I was telling everybody who
came out, I really appreciate them for coming because you're risking,
you know, your life at the end of the day,
because tornados are dangerous, and you know, I really appreciate
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them that for that though, even though we lost, I
appreciate them coming that this game was in particular, we
were getting we were getting blown out, We're getting blown out,
are getting be pretty bad, and entering the fourth quarter,
I was in there with a group, you know me
Jay mc pary, I think Shake was in there with us,
I want to say, George, And we went in down
nineteen to go down nineteen to start the fourth and
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my whole thing was, you know, as we were a
really good team, they called us off a back to
back as well, and we called we caught them in
the night where Luca and Kyrie play probably the best
they played since they've been on Dallas as teammates. So
it's like, you know, that's the beauty of the NBA.
You can catch guys, you know, sometimes on their off nights,
which you know, that works, that works out in your favor,
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you know, when you guard them really well and they
miss shots that they only make, and you can catch
guys when they're having historical nights where these two were
both having one of those nights. And you know, my
whole thing was when we went out there in the
fourth quarter, Jade said that he wasn't in the game,
but he said to the group that was going in there,
make them call the first time out, you know, make
them call the first time Oline. I just wanted to
be extremely aggressive and trying to get to the paint
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because you know, the space was that it was a
little bit open, and I just want to try to
get to the paint, create for my teammates, create for myself,
put the pressure back on there and make them call
the first time out no lead it safer. Here comes
Philly show with some life. So I think we went
on a quick maybe in a matter of two minutes,
nine on run ahead of the field. Lexie, what a
swing Nadys for Philly boom and now they call them
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time out trying to regroup. So as soon as we
do that, we come back out and we run a
play to give me like bake like I'm going downhill,
and they do a good job switching and the players
for me to get to my right hand downhill. I
think Tim Harvey cuts me off and I was able
to do like a little step back hit the three
custom lead to and went from nine to six. Then
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we get a stop, we get back down, you know,
getting up pain again. Floater cut the league from six
to four. Maxie films time out taken by Dallas. The
Mavericks back up off the man. So now we've we've
cut the league from nineteen to four on a fifteen
on run the start of four. So now we made
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a game that's the whole objective of when, like I
talked about earlier, you're trying to walk the team down
and go from fifteen to ten, ten to five. Now
you put the pressure back on them, but unfortunately want
ever to port us from now. Like I said Kylee Luka,
that were still having those type of nights. But it
was all in all a great scene. After the game,
I got so many text message from like family and friends,
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and they flashed my dad and my mom on TV
a few times. And you know, George always messed with
me about you know, my parents. He's like, do they
like they ever like get happy when you score anything,
because like it's been two instance to where I've seen
them sitting courtside and you know, you've done some spectacular
things and your dad just kind of just sit there
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like with a straight face, no emotion, no nothing, no clapping,
and he just looking like you know he's supposed to
be doing that. Your mom is doing the same thing.
Like I've never seen them like get happy. And I
was like, well, that's just that's the tough love that
they have. You know, I know that they're happy on
the inside and they're proud of me. But you know
that's that's that's who they are. You know, my dad's
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gonna he wants us to win as bad as I
want us to win, and he expects to see those
things out of me, And you know, I appreciate them
for that. His father and mother are sitting here in
courtside tyrone and Denise his father coached him as he
was growing up. There's no surprise coming off the Mavericks game.
Tough loss, especially when you know you lose like that
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and lose to two really good basketball players who put
up four You and you get to Milwaukee the next
day and we go through shooter around the day of
the game, the last night's game, and he pulls out
the film. It's like, we're gonna just move on from
the Mavericks game because there was not much we could
have done better. You know, it's a hard game for us,
So we're gonna move on right into milwaukee'na start watching
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film and we know it's our third time playing Milwaukee
this year. You know, we played them so many different times,
like three or four times a year, just the minute
of the East. And we know Yannis. You know, everybody
knows Jonas, and he's really good at basketball. At the
end of the day, he's really good. And he's tall,
he's athletic, he's strong. He has a lot of different
like finishing moves around the rim where he's euro and
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spin moving and or going through you. So one not me, thankfully,
I'm not the one guarding Yannis. But we have to
prepare our bodies, you know. PJ. Tucker has to prepare
his body, Joel has to prepare his Paul Re has
to prepare there is because the bumps that they have
to endure it because of Yanna's strength is extremely hard.
So preparing for a guy like Yannis, and it's not
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just one person guarding him, it's a whole five you know,
type of team trying to guard him and trying to
wall up against them. And uh, that's that's that's different
because you don't guard everybody like that in the NBA.
It's only certain people that have to get guarded like that,
and he's one of them, Like he's kind of in
that category with the big fellow that we have. It's
hard now it's hard, but it was great. It was
a great match up, the great game plan. I feel
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like they got up on us early too. In early
in the third quarter they got up I think eighteen.
It's another scenario where you know, we tried to walk
we had to walk them down. Like I feel like
we was out there in the third quarter again and
me and Joel and that group that we had out there,
we're trying to weather the storm because they were going
on the run. And our objective then it just to
weather the storm, make sure that it doesn't get out
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of hand. Two out of hand for the start of
full quarter. And then you know, James Harden went out
there and had a James Harden moment and he had
a big time game and he was that that beginning
of that four quarters. He saved us. Basically Middleton Garden
hard and lost it. They got to go to work quickly. Now.
The shot car Hart he went out there, he created
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for everybody, he created for himself, and that group played
extrictly hard. That was a group of Jade mcdans again,
Paul Reid, George and Yang out there. I think Shake
was out there with James to like the same basically
the same lineup from the Mavericks game, but me and
James flipped that was just the energy that they were bringing.
I was up extreaming hype because we really wanted to
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beat them. You know, that's a team that we, you know,
probably gonna have to go through to get to where
we want to be at the end of the day.
So every single time that you you play a team
like that that you know that you're gonna have to
go through in the playoffs, you want to get miss
League know that you're able to beat that team, and
I think that does something for you come playoff time.
And also to break their little sixteen game wins you
that they were on because they've been playing they've been
playing great basketball, they're playing really great basketball. They got
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Chris Millington back, and now they kind of finding a
group of how they like to play again, and that's
a tough team that's tough out and know they're a
great defensive team. So that was great great Claude went
back and you know that that group that James had
out there to beginning of fourth they kind of set
the table myself. I think Joelle, I want to say,
Jayleen McDaniels stayed in the game because Tobias and PJ
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ended up getting like they got banged up with it
so they couldn't play. So it was a lineup of Me, James, Joe,
Jalen McDaniels, and George Niine got there to close the
game last night, and we end up find our way
to where George hit the three. James hit the three,
and then we gotta stop. So now we're down one
and I remember was Joel gets you at the top
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of the key. He's about to swing it to George
niant Je Holiday rotates extremely hard to Georgian Janka has
already hit four threes, so he'd be drunning and he
fakes it. Ball fakes it. And now Joe ull gets
like a wide open three a top of key and
he drains it. You know, he drains that. It's funny.
I was just messed with him a couple of days ago.
A boy, how he doesn't shoot you know, as many
three as he's been shooting in this game. He shoots
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five and makes three hardy Fred and I think there's
two big ones down the stretch that he made. So
now we're up to we get to stop. We get
to stop and I always mess with our defensive coach
because you know he's don't about rebounding, and I'm able
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to get I boxed out and I'm able to get
a big rebound, you know, late in the game, and
I think Jannis follows me. I fall to the ground
holiday with a missmatch on embattee was the rebound of
these film. And you know, now I gotta go down
here and knock down two free throws because we're only
up to and we're trying to make it no hard
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for him to win this game. Go to the line. Uh.
You always My thing about going to the line of
late game is uh, I worked so hard. I work
so hard with nobody's in the gym, and work so
hard at six am, work out how many free throws?
How I shot my entire life. My dad calling me
about making late game free throws, and it's funny. I don't.
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I should have really good percent from from the free
throw line. Historically there was a time in high school
or I think this is the only time I've missed
big time free throws. Knock on wood is um. I
had a great game a state where I forty six
points broker record and we're up to same scenario. Dan,
They're up to around the same amount of time, and
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I'm like twelve or twelve for the freethrow line. The
whole game at State my junior year. I go up
there and I missed the first one, then I missed
the second one, and they come down and they hit
a three to put them up one. I ended up,
you know, scoring or whatever and getting into overtime. But
I feel like if I made those two pree throws,
you know, we you know, we may have one State
that year, but that's neither hero there. My mind's tide
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is going to the line is I put the work in.
Bottom line, you know I got track there, But bottom
line is you go up there with the confidence to
knock them down every single time. And I made the
first one that puts it as a three one possession game,
still a three point game, and I make this next one,
I for sure can at least put it to a
two possession game. And I go up there with a
confidence knocking down, screaming, booing, you know, doing what they're
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supposed to be doing in the stands as they should
be in That was great, you know, he knocked that
went down got another stop. I think when somebody I
think Jash went up there and made history throws and
you know the Russian history, and that was a big
time win for us. Yeah, we're gonna go to break now,
one more break becoming them next. So I'm gonna talk
about the pressure of these last few games coming down
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the stretch of the NBA seasons. I really say like
the last month. Honestly, it's like a month in a
few days, and right now we're really just trying to
get everybody on our team to step in the right
direction and heading towards playoffs. I'll talk about that, then
I'll talk about what I'm thinkingful for this week, and
I'll talk about how I can get one percent better
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in an upcoming week that we have. So we'll be
right back and we'll finish this episode off on the
right note. Less than twenty games. The mindset now is,
you know, we kind of know we're gonna be in
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the playoffs. You know that now, we kind of know
where we're going to be kind of seated, and the
mindset going into every single game is it's about us.
It's not about what we're playing. It's not about scheming
for them. It's about finding out what best works for
the Philadelphia seventy six ers, what lineups that we like,
what rotation that coach Doc likes, how we want to
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play with one another, How can we incorporate different guys
at different times to maximize our entire roster potential. And
I think, you know the coach that have been doing
a really good job of that. And I think everybody's
buying into what we have to buy in, buy into
our roles, and I think that's the biggest thing that
we're trying to build towards to the playoffs, and everybody's
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trying to play confidently and their best basketball going in
table every week at the end of the show, I
want to take a minute to think about what I'm
thankful for, and also I wanted to tell y'all what
I want to give one percent better at for the
upcoming weeks. So this week, I'm extremely, extremely thankful that
I got to go to Dallas and I got to
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go home. Being able to go home is it's more
than playing the mad There's more than seeing my mom
and dad. It's seeing everybody. I got to see my sisters,
I got to see my twin nieces, you know, as
soon as I see them, they jump into my arms,
happy to see me, love them. I got to see cousins,
old high school coaches. I got to see it, one
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of the managers from Kentucky that that lives in Dallas.
And I'm just so thankful for the support that i
have back at home, because that's not just normal for
everybody to come out and show love, like I said,
due the tornado tornado warning. I appreciate them for that.
I'm extremely thankful for that. And one thing that I
want to give one percent better at for this week
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is take care of my body. Kind of fell off of,
you know, getting somebody worked out. I need to get done.
And you know today in my offic I got I
got some treatment. I have moved on and I've been
trying to like James has been on me, Joe has
been on me, George has been on me about actually
putting my feet in the ice bucket after every single game.
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So I just started that and I'm trying to get
get it to where I'm one hundred percent every single
game for the rest of the year, I'm put my
feet in there. I'm gonna do that. I'm ice my
knees and then I'm gonna get treatment after the game.
You know. That's what that's that's what I'm gonna get
one percent better at it for this upcoming week. And
I got two more chances on the road to do
it and then make sure I do it at home
when we when we get back. So I appreciate y'all
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being here. Appreciate y'all listening to Mexico on the mic.
Uh different setting this time. I am in a hotel
room using my phone with the mic that's on my phone.
That's really cool. Honestly, take the all just crazy nowadays.
But please rate, review and subscribe, and we'll see y'all
next week, and I'll make sure that I have against you.
I have listened to me talk with the entire time
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and appreciate y'all listening though wo
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pruss Yo, what's up? Y'all's tyres here? Back with MAXI
on the mic. Episode two, A little bit different scenery
this time. We're in a hotel, not at the house.
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We're in the middle of a five games, seven night
road trip Miami, Dallas, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Minnesota, and we're smacked
there in the middle of it. You know, this is
this this is a great time. We're twoing one so far.
We want to get into some cool details of the
NBA life on the road. It's we laugh about the travel.
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We laugh because we're always complaining about getting on and
off the plane. But I don't think we should complain
that much, man. So the travel is a lot, but
it's a lot better than commercial. So we'll talk about
it and then we have a lot of fun talk
about seeing the family in Dallas. And you know, Episode
two is going to be a great new scenery for
you guys. I think the biggest difference traveling with like
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on the NBA plane and with your teammates and with
the organization, then traveling coach and traveling you know, just
by yourself. It's so many different things, honestly, because I
travel a coach all the time, like when I'm when
I do the summertime, if I'm going to la or
if I'm going to who knows, I'm going back to Philly.
And it's even from just flying first classes. It's a
lot different. You gotta get there a little bit earlier
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to travel coach. You're going to security. Everybody knows it.
Now I have pre check and that that's good, so
I take off my shoes. But when you fly on
on on the team plane, it's like you know where
you're going. You're automatically going like it's like different terminals
you go to the same one, climb out of Philly.
As soon as you get there, you flash I D
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They take your bags up so you don't have to
check the bag. They take your bags up and put
them on the plane for you. It's funny. As soon
as you walk up on the plane, the entire players
section is to the left at the front of the plane,
so everybody, all the players sit up there all I
don't know how many of us it is, but the
entire players sit up there, so everybody, you know. I
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think the next section is like the player development coaches.
The section out of that is the you know, the
bench coaches are like coach Dog, coach Sam and all
of them BA. And then the backback you have like
sometimes you have the front office, sometimes you have the
training room, you have the strength and condition coaches, the
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masseuse and they sit back there. But when you make
that left, it's funny because you know who's sitting in
whose spot. You know, the big fellas sits in the
same seat every single time. Everybody knows what he's gonna see,
gonna sit in like the table. Then you have George
Nina sitting next to him, JAG and then I sit
next to JH. And then that's when we sit there
sometimes play cards, have a good time and laugh, and
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that's that's a group right there that doesn't really sleep
a lot on the plane, you know. That's that's a
lot of laughs talking about the game. And we have
a good group of people on this on this team
that talks after the games, Like it's not just get
on the plane, sit down and be quiet. Everybody's up,
everybody's talking, everybody's laughing, And I think that's one thing
that helps us on the court as well. I have
two funny stories that I can talk about, one from
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my rookie year and and one from last year about
from just being on the plane and my rookie year,
you know rookie duties. Me and Big Full have been
cool since my rookie year, Like you know, he brought
me at PS five for Christmas my rookie year, like
he like, we've been cool since like since then. So
I was, I was like his rook so like I was.
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I was carrying his bag. You know, that's what that's
what you do as a rookie. And I just remember
it was on one trip. We was on a trip
like now like a five five games, seven days, but
I think this was like it's during COVID, so it
was like a fourteen day road trick. We was playing
catch up and Joela had this huge bag, the bag
that should really go underneath the plane, which really is
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to irk me. And we was like, you know, this
is like February. So it's like when we're in cities
like in an Soola. We were actually in Indiana. I'm
walking up the stairs at Indiana. It's like it's funny
that it comes for a circle office there. I was
here and he has a huge bag and it's snowing outside.
So I promised you that the bag was heavier like
it was. It probably weighed like three fourths of myself.
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So I'm like, I'm trying to like lift up the
bag and I'm with my leg every step to this
particular city, we got to walk up a steep step
to get onto the plane to the check R and D.
So I'm like, it's snowing outside, I'm trying to carry
this bag that should be underneath the plane like step
by step with my leg and I'm about to slipping
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far back and then I just He's like, hey, don't fall,
young fella. I'm like, man, this bad way more than me, Like,
so that was cool. That's the funny story that I have.
I ended up getting on the plane. I was messing
with drawl that bro, you gotta put that back and
eat the plane. And he just laughed like no, I want.
I want to be at my bag as soon as
I get off. So that's cool. And then another story
is this is another Joel story, because I guess he's
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always evolved, and that's how I sit with at the
little play. So we're sitting there and you know about
to play cards, and I don't know where we were
going at this point. I'm gonna say we was leaving
Phoenix Slasher and the plane is like shake it. It's
like one of the worst turblent Like I'm talking about
dropping like hydraulics, like like if you've seen sole plane,
like that's what it felt like. It's just like we're
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going up and there. Like I'm like, oh my goodness.
But me with planes, I've been on so many planes
my life. You can't do anything about turbulin. So I
just I'll just sit there and like kind of laughing smile.
But like James is holding on to the looking out
the window and screaming, and Joel's like holding on to
the to the top of the plane, you know, huge,
hold onto the pangs. Whoa, oh okay. The servants kind
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of starts with okay, through the courts. It takes I
wish George, you know, when I get George, I'm gonna
get George or here, so and he's gonna talk about
the story. But he's like Joel was like so out
of it. He was like so scary, hold on what
turl stops? Okay? Do the courts a lot of bust
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out laughing, but that that yeah, that's that's pretty cool, man.
But it's fun, man, it's fun being on the plane
with with those guys like you. You really build team
camaraderieon stuff like that plane meetings and just being on
the road in general, because y'all, you guy, you know,
sometimes you have your family, say, we have like sometimes
team dinners and those little meetings before shoot around, those
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little bus rides from shoot around on the way shot around,
on the way back from shoot around, on the way
to the arena, on the way from the game to
the plane to fly wherever you're going home or to
the next city. Those are our times where you talk
to your teammates the most. And I feel like because
Dogs always talked about how when he was playing, they
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didn't have phones, so like you couldn't get on your
phone and have time and check and text blah alat.
You have to talk to people. And I feel like
this team is like we have so many events and
tell men like kind of old school kind of guys
that we don't just get on our phones right away,
you know, we do. You have conversation, We talk about
the game, we talk about how we feel about the game,
and I just really helped us become a better team.
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Being on the road is so much different than being
at home. It's a whole different type of routine that
you have to go through. For myself, I speak for
myself only, it's a whole different type of routine. It's
a whole different type of a vibe that you have
to go through because at home, well, I know that
my chef's gonna come cook the night before the game.
I'm gonna be chilling, sitting on my couch watching basketball games,
(07:53):
hanging out with my dog, hanging out with beat. That's
a pretty normal home game. But on the road, you
gotta find what you're going to eat. Sometimes sometimes they
do like a little buffet for us, but sometimes a
lot of people, a lot of guys go out to
eat in a different cities. So I gotta find out
if I'm going to go out to eat. So in Miami,
you know, I get there. I was so tired in Miami.
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It's really sad. You know, we only get to go
to Miami one time this season, and normally, you know,
you go out to eago grass some food and enjoy
the warm whether in Miami, I did not leave my
hotel room. That's how tired. I was flying into Miami
from the night before, so I didn't leave my hotel room.
I sat there. I ordered food, set on my couch
that I had at the hotel room, and watched basketball
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all night. Got up kind of around like eleven, watched
the movie, and I went to sleep. So now I'm sleep.
You get up around nine am because shoot around you know,
the bust leaves to shoot around nine forty five. So
I get up nine o'clock, brush my teeth, watch my fete,
do all those things. Head downstairs. It's like we have
his buffet buffets, that's a spread for us, and you
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kind of have whatever you want. You know, you have
a smoothie station on the station. You have pancakes, fish too,
whatever you really want. And I go down there. I know,
me make my breakfast. I make the same smoothie every
single time I go. You know, I kind of got
the recipe from my chef. I got strawberry, banana, pineapple, honey, almond,
milk ice, same thing every single time. It's it's like clockwork.
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And that's the thing about being on the road. It's
it's literally like clockwork. It's like, um, you know exactly,
it's like a routine. You know exactly what you're gonna do.
Is you feel like a robot almost. It's not even
it's it's like it's like work, you know, it's not
even like it doesn't feel like a job, like like
playing in bench. It was like, you know, work like
a routine. I do that, and I got un the
bus to go to shoot around, have shoot around. Come home.
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First thing I do when I get home is I
make myself deposta that they have had like a big
Costa buffet. So I go down there and make them
ends of Aposta to make myself another smoothie. Come upstairs,
and then when I get upstairs, now it's time to
like start locking it on the game. I normally always
watched the film that they send out a while email
Pasta called my mom. While email Pasta, I always is
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it's funny because I always call her and she's like, dude,
why are you always calling me on the road, And
You're like, act like you're starving, And I really do
be extremely hard because I'm coming back in from shooting
around and I just ran off all the energy that
I used that I ate so I do that, take
a shower, and after that, now it's time. I'm a
big nap guy before a game. So as soon as
I get that, I trying to find a way look
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at the bus schedule to give myself a two hour
nap in advance. Take that two hour nap, and I
get up. Now we're on our way to the gym,
and it should go time after that. I'm a big
time nap taker. That's not just strong on game days.
I'm a big time knaptaker every day, no matter what
day is. I think it's because I get up so early.
I'm an early rising and summertime for sure, when I
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get up so early, working out at six and then
going through that whole routine that I go through through
the middle of the day. After you've worked out three
times before eleven o'clock, you gotta find a way to
get some more energy to do some other stuff at
the at the end of the day. So I've always
been a nap taker, Like I think maybe because I
have like this old soul hanging out with my grandmothers
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and they take naps and they kind of just made
me inherit that into my daily lifestyle. The nap is
so crucial for me on game day though, because I
know it's gonna be a long night. I know I'm
gonna neath the energy at the end of the at
the end of the night, and because I take these naps,
my drillin is pumping so much after the game. It's
hard for me to go to sleep after games. But
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that's okay because it gets me through a game where
I have to play, you know, sometimes a lot of minutes.
My rookie year and my second year, I always get
on the first bus because my shooting time, the shooting
the shooting time is a cool thing in the NBA
because like my rookie year, first couple of games I had,
like the early shooting time. You shoot like a group.
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I show it like Paul Read Isaiah Joe, but you
shoot kind of with a group, and then you know,
they kind of just go like every every fifteen minutes,
every fifteen minutes, so the game would be at seven o'clock.
And like my shooting time my rookie year was like
three forty five, Like I'm like, what three fight that's
so early. I didn't you know, as a as a rookie,
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you like, jeez, I gotta get I just had a
shoot around I got I'm not even get a chance
taking nap. So I remember my rookie year I was
I used to rush out of shoot around like and
you know, rookie you have so many different duties like
I had to, Like Danny Green made me go get
donuts every single like shoot around morning and they had
to be there before like he got there. So I
had to get to get up early to get the doughnuts.
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And I had to get to the facility before everybody else,
all the other players to get to make sure the
donuts were there for when they got there. And I
had to get my workout in before all the vest
got on the court that shoot around, because I knew
if the vest got on the court while I was
on the court, I was gonna be the one getting
kicked off. But the first bus on the road I
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was getting on that my first or second year is
because like I said, my first year of my rookie year,
I had that earliest shooting time until like kind of
way midway through the season where I started playing a
little bit more so they kind of backed up my
time a little and I got to shoot by myself.
That was pretty cool. Then my second year, because I
didn't know where, you know, we didn't know like what
the situation was gonna be. I ended up starting, but
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my shooting time was still like two and a half
hours before the game. That's just because I'm young. I
was a young guy. So I was starting, starting the
whole year, but my shooting time was still so early.
So Sam contious to get so mad because he had
to come earlier to like help me work out, and like, man,
he got back up the shooting time. Man, this is ridiculous.
I'm like, what you want me to do? Like I'm young,
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He's like, nah, I don't care about that. Man, you
played thirty five minutes, thirty eight minutes again, you got
back up and shooting time. So it was he used
to say that every single time we got on the car.
I'm like, Sam, I am not the coach. That's I
think that's like more of your area. I just showed up.
We all need me to show up. Well, yeah, so
I was getting on the first bus. Now, like I said,
this is kind of like my first year. I knew
where I was gonna be. I knew what kind of
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role I was gonna have. So they backed up my
shooting time to to ninety on o'clock and I shoot
with Tobias, so I could, like Tobias ross the third
but was I could I have enough time to get
on that bus. But I still feel kind of weird
because that's like when all the events come in, Like
I'm like, that's when PJ. Tucker is here, and Tobias
and Jage and the big fella, and that's even when
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Coach Dock and them come. So I'm like, I'm too
young to be on that bus. I'm just gonna get
right the second bus, and not right the second bus.
I get there, I get the chant and get to eat.
I get to kind of sit there and kind of
get my mind right before I get on the court.
And that's pretty cool too. So those buses, it's funny, man.
It's a lot that goes into that. It's a lot
that goes into a lot of thought. I'm just sitting
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there telling y'all that from from my perspective of it,
Like I could get on the third bus. Nobody probably
saying thing. But it's like I'm gonna get on the
second bus because I'm still young. I'm still I think
I'm still girling. I'm trying to work my way up
in the NBA. But you know, that's it's always It's
also a really cool situation and that a lot of
people don't know about. Yeah, those are all great stories,
but right now we're gonna take a quick break. Coming
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up next, we'll talk about the last four three or
four games that we've had Miami twice playing the same team.
We'll talk about the Miami Dallas back to back, hanging
out in Dallas with the Fam, and then after losing
to Dallas playing against Kyrie and Luca, having to fly
to Milwaukee and play the Bucks who've won sixteen straight games.
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I think they have the best record in the NBA.
So it didn't get much easier for us. So we'll
talk about that, and who know, we have a lot
of fun in this next segment. We played a heat
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on Monday at home, fly on Tuesday to South Beach
and playing the game Wednesday. So we lose on Monday.
Tough game, you know, I think we fight back. We
get into like a one possession game. Um, Joel passes
out to Jage four three, and um, you know James
misses good look very good. Look, you know we'll take that.
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We'll take that ten times out of ten, our two
best players, you know, playing two man game. They trapped
Joe passed out to James shooting. I think this is
best year from three shooting, like forty percent passes out
of it hard. We'll do it tonight, filling. Yeah, so
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you know he missed that. But we move on, you
know what, we move on. So now the NBA does
this thing sometimes where you play the same team, the
same team to two times in a row, and that
gives you, like this playoff field's playoff feel because in
the playoffs you have to play the same team over
and over and over again. It's the first one to four.
So there's so many adjustments made between Monday night Wednesday night,
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and this time we have to make an even bigger
adjustment because you know, Joe well set out because he
was out for some injury. I can't remember. But now
I'm adjusting we make because I'm in the starting lineup
and I replaced Joe and now you got me Melt, James,
p J. Tucker, and Tobias. So now we're small. So
we have to play a whole different type of a
toad type of game. Against Miami, a whole different type
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of mindset playing without the big fella, play without a
big in general. And you know, our biggest players except
Ice Harris and he's on six to eight and PJ.
Tucker is basically playing small wall five without there a performance.
This gotta make them feel awfully good. So we have
to play a lot faster, We have to play with
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a lot more pace and defensively, you know, we switched
work through five that game, something that you know we
try to do when you know, if Joel was on
the court or Joe Wigan guard anybody on the court,
but it's you know, sometimes it's a little bit easier
for us to do it. Like that valuable really to
do with this small lineup because I started this night
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and now so many things changed, so many things changed,
Like I didn't know I was starting. I honestly didn't
know I was starting until like I think it was
like Sam told me around eighty on o'clock, seventy five o'clock.
So now like when I don't, like when I haven't
been starting, I would um when they call out the
starting lineups, I would go grab from gatyain stretch a
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little bit back there, and then I would come out
right before tip off. So that's what I was doing
when I when I don't start, but when I started,
I gotta be out there for you know, the starting lineups,
and didn't like how to be out there, like, you know,
right to start a game to get the first play.
So that that that changed just a little bit, not much,
because I still do all like the same routine as
far as stretching with the bad and phone rolling right
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before the game, because that's just a routine I've always had.
But yeah, the game went well. Though. The game went well.
You know, that was like my first time back in
the starting lineup since we played Sacramento, I think, and
that was a while ago, and I think that was
since January. So it was cool, man, it was cool.
We won the game. I played well. I feel like,
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you know, the adjustments that we made, the coaches that
made really went well for us, and we spent them up.
Me and the Anthony shake. J Mack kind of just
pressures the ball a lot more, trying to trying to
make them start their offense around fifteen fourteen seconds and
then when you had fifteen fourteen six in the NBA
kind of only get two passes. Now you gotta play
like one on one ice football. And that's what we
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really wanted to try to do, playing the heat, you know,
down the stretch of the third quarter. So because you
got to change your rotations, because you know, no Joe, well,
so now you got to find things that work. And
it hopped out on them early in the third quarter.
I think we pushed the lead to maybe I don't know,
twenty twenty five something like that. And because you know,
we did rotate differently. I played the whole first quarter
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and then I played the whole third quarter, and then
like James came and got me at the beginning of
the second, beginning of the fourth, So it was spanning
the third quarter. Late in the third quarter, probably around
three minutes to go. They cut it. They cut the game.
You know, Miami, it's a game of runs. So and
at the end of the day, this is NBA basketball,
and everybody's really good and they're going to go to run.
So they cut they cut the league down to like
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eleven I team, and you know, I know we was
out there and with the group that I was out
there way and we knew that that was gonna be
a big stretch. We had to try to push the
league back up to where we needed to be at
the end by end of quarter, or we could have
let our guard down and let them come to a
single DG game. And that's what that's what team trying
to do. When you're up to like twenty or when
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you're down between, you gotta cut it down slowly. You know,
you can't get it all back in one and one shot,
so you're trying to cut to fifteen. He cut the
ten and HE'SAI, all right, guys, it's cut to five.
And then once you cut the five, that's when the
other team gets tight because they were up and they
were comfortable, but you know they cut into like eleven.
And you know, my thing was and I just wanted
us to go on a run, and I tried to
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be ultra aggressive out there on the court. This time.
I was, you know, out there without James, I was
the playmaker. So I remember getting to getting to the
land a couple of times and scoring get into the
lane and passed the Dania House for three. I do
remember this is a particular play, like a minute thirty left,
we're up around it. Pushed it back up from thirteen
to like from eleven's like around seventeen, and I mean transition,
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I get a rebound or I get an outlet. Paul
Reid is running like he you know, PAULI runs frister
floor and he sets me like a flip step up screen,
which is really good. So I come off to step up.
I think Jimmy's guarding me quick love hesitation, and I
get bumped, and I know, I know, like I've been
working on drawing fouls. Uh, you know, being around James,
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He's helped me so much with that him angel Well,
So as soon as I feel the contact of me
getting bumped, as soon as I feel I picked the
ball up, and now my eyes on the rim and uh,
Chris Johnson and Tim Martin, they've taught me, like as
soon as you picked the ball up, your eyes go,
they have to go. If you're in the scoring position,
they have to go to the rim because now you
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have to find where. My biggest thing is finding what
the spots on the backboard that I need to use
to make these layups. So as soon as I get
the bump, I feel it. I can't shoot it with
my right hand. I want the right side and like
the way my body set up, I can't shoot it.
I can't even give my right hand up. So I
scoop under. Oh what a shot, slip fancy score. It's
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funny because Chris Ki Chris, he saw the video and
he's like, we always talk about the levels of the backboard.
Level one is the lowest level. Level two is like
mid level. Level three is like top above the square.
He's like, man, you you shot that lay under level one?
Like I snuck, like I literally like snuck it in
like it rolled. I don't know how I may like.
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It's just like the English of it. It was pretty cool.
And I make it. I get foul a N one.
I kind of do like a little smirt because I
knew you that was one of the ones that that
a god was written me on that one. But no,
that was great though. We I think we pushed it
back up to twenty point in league, and uh, you
know we finished it out pretty well. What can you say, Philadelphia?
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I played Miami every shouting way. Then after beating Miami,
you know, pretty pretty good. That was a good bounceback
win for us after losing to them. You know, a
couple of nights before you try to move as quick
as possible because you know, you have to fly from
Florida to Texas, which is you know, it's not a
quick flight. You know, it's good that you get an
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hour back. You're going from the Eastern time the Central time.
But we played Miami at seven thirty pm Eastern time,
and then we played Dallas the next day at six
thirty Central time, so that's a quick turnaround, and then
the flight not short. So we try to hustle, you know,
get out of there. Thankfully, Joel, who takes so longest,
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was already dressed because you know he didn't play, so
you know, he got out pretty fast. So we get
on the plane, fly to Dallas. As soon as we
land in Dallas, now it's like, I don't know the
time of days, it's like one thirty two o'clock. So
now you're trying to hustle and bustle and get to
your room and get your bags and you know, do
what you gotta do to fall asleep as quick as
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possible because now you're trying to get your rest. And luckily,
like Coachdkins, really you know, he's a players. You know,
he knew he played before, so he knows how it goes,
and he kind of lets rest on days like that.
So we sleep all the way to Hiry much you
want to sleep, but like there's no meeting, there's no
shoot around, there's no no things like that. You get
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the rest like pretty much your entire day. You had
the whole day off. So me, I don't got to
sleep that much. And I'm an early rising and I'm
still young. So I stud to probably about ten eleven o'clock,
and the bus then't leaves to go to the arena
to like I want to say four or like maybe
like three forty a three thirty. So I went, I
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got up, got dressed, and I went to God in
the Uber and went to my mom's house. I got
to go to their house and laugh for her and
her my dad and my grandmother because my sisters were
at school working and so I got to talk to
them for a little bit. Then we had to go.
I had to go go back and get on the bus,
go to the Madids Arena and play, you know, And
that's honestly less than a twenty four hour turnaround. So
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those are those are difficult games. Those are extremely difficult games.
But that's just what comes with the grooming schedule of
the NBA season, and um, you know, it's it's fun.
That's what makes the NBA fun because a game like that,
high level intensity game like that where you played in
Miami and you fly all the Dallas and now you're
playing against Kyrie and Luca off a back to back
when your legs aren't there, you know, the most fresh
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that conde. That's what makes the NBA tough. But that's
what also makes it fun, and that's what makes it
a streaming competitive every time I play in Dallas, even
since my rookie year when I didn't play. I played
like three minutes probably in the game against Dallas my
rookie year. But ever since then, it's I'm a hometown kid.
So I grew up in Dallas, I grew up in Garland.
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I played there. I didn't transfer to it like a
prep school, so I actually played at a normal public
school that was, you know, real live public school of
South Garlin High School. And so I'm a hometown kid
and everybody wants to come see you play. It was cool, man,
I got to see a lot of family. It's even funnier.
I see the number zero in the Maxe jerseys everywhere. Now,
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you know, that's that's a blessing, But seeing them in Dallas,
it hits a little bit different because the people that
you see in those jerseys, you most likely know them.
And I was just waving to a lot of people
throughout the game and seeing a lot of trying to
put smiles on people's faces because they put smiles in
my faces coming out to support me, you know, you
don't have to. And in the mix of all this,
you're having a tornado. We're literally having tornadoes in Dallas
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at this time. And it's funny because we're in this
arena playing basketball. If the game is sold out, everybody's
having a great time, and on the side of the arena,
it's you know, tornado's going on. I have no clue.
And that's why I said. I was telling everybody who
came out, I really appreciate them for coming because you're risking,
you know, your life at the end of the day,
because tornados are dangerous, and you know, I really appreciate
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them that for that though, even though we lost, I
appreciate them coming that this game was in particular, we
were getting we were getting blown out, We're getting blown out,
are getting be pretty bad, and entering the fourth quarter,
I was in there with a group, you know me
Jay mc pary, I think Shake was in there with us,
I want to say, George, And we went in down
nineteen to go down nineteen to start the fourth and
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my whole thing was, you know, as we were a
really good team, they called us off a back to
back as well, and we called we caught them in
the night where Luca and Kyrie play probably the best
they played since they've been on Dallas as teammates. So
it's like, you know, that's the beauty of the NBA.
You can catch guys, you know, sometimes on their off nights,
which you know, that works, that works out in your favor,
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you know, when you guard them really well and they
miss shots that they only make, and you can catch
guys when they're having historical nights where these two were
both having one of those nights. And you know, my
whole thing was when we went out there in the
fourth quarter, Jade said that he wasn't in the game,
but he said to the group that was going in there,
make them call the first time out, you know, make
them call the first time Oline. I just wanted to
be extremely aggressive and trying to get to the paint
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because you know, the space was that it was a
little bit open, and I just want to try to
get to the paint, create for my teammates, create for myself,
put the pressure back on there and make them call
the first time out no lead it safer. Here comes
Philly show with some life. So I think we went
on a quick maybe in a matter of two minutes,
nine on run ahead of the field. Lexie, what a
swing Nadys for Philly boom and now they call them
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time out trying to regroup. So as soon as we
do that, we come back out and we run a
play to give me like bake like I'm going downhill,
and they do a good job switching and the players
for me to get to my right hand downhill. I
think Tim Harvey cuts me off and I was able
to do like a little step back hit the three
custom lead to and went from nine to six. Then
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we get a stop, we get back down, you know,
getting up pain again. Floater cut the league from six
to four. Maxie films time out taken by Dallas. The
Mavericks back up off the man. So now we've we've
cut the league from nineteen to four on a fifteen
on run the start of four. So now we made
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a game that's the whole objective of when, like I
talked about earlier, you're trying to walk the team down
and go from fifteen to ten, ten to five. Now
you put the pressure back on them, but unfortunately want
ever to port us from now. Like I said Kylee Luka,
that were still having those type of nights. But it
was all in all a great scene. After the game,
I got so many text message from like family and friends,
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and they flashed my dad and my mom on TV
a few times. And you know, George always messed with
me about you know, my parents. He's like, do they
like they ever like get happy when you score anything,
because like it's been two instance to where I've seen
them sitting courtside and you know, you've done some spectacular
things and your dad just kind of just sit there
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like with a straight face, no emotion, no nothing, no clapping,
and he just looking like you know he's supposed to
be doing that. Your mom is doing the same thing.
Like I've never seen them like get happy. And I
was like, well, that's just that's the tough love that
they have. You know, I know that they're happy on
the inside and they're proud of me. But you know
that's that's that's who they are. You know, my dad's
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gonna he wants us to win as bad as I
want us to win, and he expects to see those
things out of me, And you know, I appreciate them
for that. His father and mother are sitting here in
courtside tyrone and Denise his father coached him as he
was growing up. There's no surprise coming off the Mavericks game.
Tough loss, especially when you know you lose like that
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and lose to two really good basketball players who put
up four You and you get to Milwaukee the next
day and we go through shooter around the day of
the game, the last night's game, and he pulls out
the film. It's like, we're gonna just move on from
the Mavericks game because there was not much we could
have done better. You know, it's a hard game for us,
So we're gonna move on right into milwaukee'na start watching
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film and we know it's our third time playing Milwaukee
this year. You know, we played them so many different times,
like three or four times a year, just the minute
of the East. And we know Yannis. You know, everybody
knows Jonas, and he's really good at basketball. At the
end of the day, he's really good. And he's tall,
he's athletic, he's strong. He has a lot of different
like finishing moves around the rim where he's euro and
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spin moving and or going through you. So one not me, thankfully,
I'm not the one guarding Yannis. But we have to
prepare our bodies, you know. PJ. Tucker has to prepare
his body, Joel has to prepare his Paul Re has
to prepare there is because the bumps that they have
to endure it because of Yanna's strength is extremely hard.
So preparing for a guy like Yannis, and it's not
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just one person guarding him, it's a whole five you know,
type of team trying to guard him and trying to
wall up against them. And uh, that's that's that's different
because you don't guard everybody like that in the NBA.
It's only certain people that have to get guarded like that,
and he's one of them, Like he's kind of in
that category with the big fellow that we have. It's
hard now it's hard, but it was great. It was
a great match up, the great game plan. I feel
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like they got up on us early too. In early
in the third quarter they got up I think eighteen.
It's another scenario where you know, we tried to walk
we had to walk them down. Like I feel like
we was out there in the third quarter again and
me and Joel and that group that we had out there,
we're trying to weather the storm because they were going
on the run. And our objective then it just to
weather the storm, make sure that it doesn't get out
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of hand. Two out of hand for the start of
full quarter. And then you know, James Harden went out
there and had a James Harden moment and he had
a big time game and he was that that beginning
of that four quarters. He saved us. Basically Middleton Garden
hard and lost it. They got to go to work quickly. Now.
The shot car Hart he went out there, he created
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for everybody, he created for himself, and that group played
extrictly hard. That was a group of Jade mcdans again,
Paul Reid, George and Yang out there. I think Shake
was out there with James to like the same basically
the same lineup from the Mavericks game, but me and
James flipped that was just the energy that they were bringing.
I was up extreaming hype because we really wanted to
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beat them. You know, that's a team that we, you know,
probably gonna have to go through to get to where
we want to be at the end of the day.
So every single time that you you play a team
like that that you know that you're gonna have to
go through in the playoffs, you want to get miss
League know that you're able to beat that team, and
I think that does something for you come playoff time.
And also to break their little sixteen game wins you
that they were on because they've been playing they've been
playing great basketball, they're playing really great basketball. They got
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Chris Millington back, and now they kind of finding a
group of how they like to play again, and that's
a tough team that's tough out and know they're a
great defensive team. So that was great great Claude went
back and you know that that group that James had
out there to beginning of fourth they kind of set
the table myself. I think Joelle, I want to say,
Jayleen McDaniels stayed in the game because Tobias and PJ
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ended up getting like they got banged up with it
so they couldn't play. So it was a lineup of Me, James, Joe,
Jalen McDaniels, and George Niine got there to close the
game last night, and we end up find our way
to where George hit the three. James hit the three,
and then we gotta stop. So now we're down one
and I remember was Joel gets you at the top
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of the key. He's about to swing it to George
niant Je Holiday rotates extremely hard to Georgian Janka has
already hit four threes, so he'd be drunning and he
fakes it. Ball fakes it. And now Joe ull gets
like a wide open three a top of key and
he drains it. You know, he drains that. It's funny.
I was just messed with him a couple of days ago.
A boy, how he doesn't shoot you know, as many
three as he's been shooting in this game. He shoots
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five and makes three hardy Fred and I think there's
two big ones down the stretch that he made. So
now we're up to we get to stop. We get
to stop and I always mess with our defensive coach
because you know he's don't about rebounding, and I'm able
(35:17):
to get I boxed out and I'm able to get
a big rebound, you know, late in the game, and
I think Jannis follows me. I fall to the ground
holiday with a missmatch on embattee was the rebound of
these film. And you know, now I gotta go down
here and knock down two free throws because we're only
up to and we're trying to make it no hard
(35:39):
for him to win this game. Go to the line. Uh.
You always My thing about going to the line of
late game is uh, I worked so hard. I work
so hard with nobody's in the gym, and work so
hard at six am, work out how many free throws?
How I shot my entire life. My dad calling me
about making late game free throws, and it's funny. I don't.
(35:59):
I should have really good percent from from the free
throw line. Historically there was a time in high school
or I think this is the only time I've missed
big time free throws. Knock on wood is um. I
had a great game a state where I forty six
points broker record and we're up to same scenario. Dan,
They're up to around the same amount of time, and
(36:20):
I'm like twelve or twelve for the freethrow line. The
whole game at State my junior year. I go up
there and I missed the first one, then I missed
the second one, and they come down and they hit
a three to put them up one. I ended up,
you know, scoring or whatever and getting into overtime. But
I feel like if I made those two pree throws,
you know, we you know, we may have one State
that year, but that's neither hero there. My mind's tide
(36:42):
is going to the line is I put the work in.
Bottom line, you know I got track there, But bottom
line is you go up there with the confidence to
knock them down every single time. And I made the
first one that puts it as a three one possession game,
still a three point game, and I make this next one,
I for sure can at least put it to a
two possession game. And I go up there with a
confidence knocking down, screaming, booing, you know, doing what they're
(37:04):
supposed to be doing in the stands as they should
be in That was great, you know, he knocked that
went down got another stop. I think when somebody I
think Jash went up there and made history throws and
you know the Russian history, and that was a big
time win for us. Yeah, we're gonna go to break now,
one more break becoming them next. So I'm gonna talk
about the pressure of these last few games coming down
(37:25):
the stretch of the NBA seasons. I really say like
the last month. Honestly, it's like a month in a
few days, and right now we're really just trying to
get everybody on our team to step in the right
direction and heading towards playoffs. I'll talk about that, then
I'll talk about what I'm thinkingful for this week, and
I'll talk about how I can get one percent better
(37:45):
in an upcoming week that we have. So we'll be
right back and we'll finish this episode off on the
right note. Less than twenty games. The mindset now is,
you know, we kind of know we're gonna be in
(38:06):
the playoffs. You know that now, we kind of know
where we're going to be kind of seated, and the
mindset going into every single game is it's about us.
It's not about what we're playing. It's not about scheming
for them. It's about finding out what best works for
the Philadelphia seventy six ers, what lineups that we like,
what rotation that coach Doc likes, how we want to
(38:27):
play with one another, How can we incorporate different guys
at different times to maximize our entire roster potential. And
I think, you know the coach that have been doing
a really good job of that. And I think everybody's
buying into what we have to buy in, buy into
our roles, and I think that's the biggest thing that
we're trying to build towards to the playoffs, and everybody's
(38:47):
trying to play confidently and their best basketball going in
table every week at the end of the show, I
want to take a minute to think about what I'm
thankful for, and also I wanted to tell y'all what
I want to give one percent better at for the
upcoming weeks. So this week, I'm extremely, extremely thankful that
I got to go to Dallas and I got to
(39:10):
go home. Being able to go home is it's more
than playing the mad There's more than seeing my mom
and dad. It's seeing everybody. I got to see my sisters,
I got to see my twin nieces, you know, as
soon as I see them, they jump into my arms,
happy to see me, love them. I got to see cousins,
old high school coaches. I got to see it, one
(39:30):
of the managers from Kentucky that that lives in Dallas.
And I'm just so thankful for the support that i
have back at home, because that's not just normal for
everybody to come out and show love, like I said,
due the tornado tornado warning. I appreciate them for that.
I'm extremely thankful for that. And one thing that I
want to give one percent better at for this week
(39:51):
is take care of my body. Kind of fell off of,
you know, getting somebody worked out. I need to get done.
And you know today in my offic I got I
got some treatment. I have moved on and I've been
trying to like James has been on me, Joe has
been on me, George has been on me about actually
putting my feet in the ice bucket after every single game.
(40:14):
So I just started that and I'm trying to get
get it to where I'm one hundred percent every single
game for the rest of the year, I'm put my
feet in there. I'm gonna do that. I'm ice my
knees and then I'm gonna get treatment after the game.
You know. That's what that's that's what I'm gonna get
one percent better at it for this upcoming week. And
I got two more chances on the road to do
it and then make sure I do it at home
when we when we get back. So I appreciate y'all
(40:36):
being here. Appreciate y'all listening to Mexico on the mic.
Uh different setting this time. I am in a hotel
room using my phone with the mic that's on my phone.
That's really cool. Honestly, take the all just crazy nowadays.
But please rate, review and subscribe, and we'll see y'all
next week, and I'll make sure that I have against you.
I have listened to me talk with the entire time
(40:58):
and appreciate y'all listening though wo
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