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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know when I came into the league, it was
you know, it was different for me. Like you know,
I came in with a bunch of older guys. I
came in with or Vita Sabone is Rashee Wallace, Sean Kemp.
I'm just naming the big man the guys. Yeah, Bill Davis,
some type of got older guys. So you know it
was a Sean Kemp. It was a battle every day
(00:27):
for me, my rookie year, bro going to get them guys.
But I got so much better. And what they used
to tell me, what I carried on is what I
tell my kids. I tell my daughter now, in practice
you get better. That's where you get better in practice,
you know what I mean. And you know from all
our practices we had with the with the Grizzlies, how
we used to battle and go each other.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know, me and Mark we used to switch teams you.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Know sometimes definitely that you know, come on, I'm about
to guards you like that's even the South. So you know,
come into the league. You know my rookie years, it
was a bunch of battles.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We battle.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
One thing about it, bro, I tell you I always
stood up bro.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sean on them.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I tell you, you know, the most respectable young guy.
But I stood up, you know what I mean, I
battle and them old guys respected that and showed me
loving and tapped me because I'm I learned every day.
I'm still learning.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm a spunge, so you know I wasn't no rookie life.
You can't tell me shit. I'm like, what's up?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Do what this that you feel me?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm locked in on them up the game?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, And I ain't got a saying man shopping eron anyway. Man,
you know you respect them guys, but just as good
as they is you. You gotta talent yourself and you
got a crab that you work on every day too.
So it's like y'all battling, y'all making each other better
each and every You no practice, so the kind of
kind of you know, feeding off what you said.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Man, I came in, you know, like I said.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Player of the year and you know in college, you know,
went to the four things of that nature and getting there.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
The shock to me was, yo, it's a pagan order.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Uh you a guard?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, Well, Paul Pierce takes the first shot. We're gonna
run this offense through him, and you know this is
what's going on. Funny story man, letting it be known
like this. That and I had the rude awaken it.
I remember one day vividly when the season had started.
Uh well probably later into the season. I had got
(02:33):
a chance to start and uh that started me. And
he drew up a play I remember I never been.
It's called slice three posts and it's for you know, Paul,
to start in the corner, come off the postman and
catch it in the block.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm on the wing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I gotta catch it from up top and throw it
in the in the block. Well, they sacked so damn
fall from me, z Bo. It's like damn, It's like
seventeen eighteen on the clock. A soo, I got a
jack this man. I jacked that moatherfucker. Man.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That motherfucker hit so hard off the let it ring.
I'm talking about listen, clink so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Both listen both We end up losing by a dumb
national TV game.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Were playing Alan averson the we lose back.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So we're going this when I this when I knew
what it was, skate Listen, we were going film.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We're in film session.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So Doc rivers in that motherfucker like, he's like, look
at the first player of the game, fellas. You know
how he talked, rewind that motherfucker, Tony. Where's Tony Allen? Like,
I'm right here, coach, Like, rewind that? He rewinded, like,
t A, don't you think this was a bad shot?
I'm like, yes, sir, He was like, rewind that again.
(03:53):
Who are you supposed to be getting this ball to
out of the out of the first time out? I said,
Paul Pierre, you know, rewind that again. This is a
bad shot. You rewinded again.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
This is a bad shot. Like, yeah, you rewinded again.
This is a bad shot. You know what I said.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Bo. So I'm kind of embarrassed now, but I'm really offering, like,
come on, let's get to the next place.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We lost by damn the twenty five. Come on, this
ain't ain't my fault.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You fee what I'm saying. That's how I'm feeling mentally.
You know what I said, I said, word that, man.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Paul, look back, he said, Tony Allen, stand up. I
stood up.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
He said, now get the fuck out of practice. It
was right then and there I knew it was definitely
not missed the player of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
From Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Man, see your ass now, go catch a charge, die
for a loose ball, get you to assist, get an
offensive rebound.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
This is not happening here, sir. Damn man, I'm talking
about man. Listen, Bro. I was so hurt. Bro, I
ain't gonna even laugh.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Felt like that twenty was all because of you.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Man, I feel like the whole Bro.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Look when I was on National TV, he already hot,
so you know me, I walk out, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I'm like, I'm slick, crying. Then I think I am crying.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Like till then that tia coming out of line, like
my mama took that change. My mama gave me that change.
And some shit I see.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Danny Ain't. Dany Aine's like, what's wrong? Where you going practice?
That's about to start? Where you're going?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I'm like, doctor, put me out. He's like, I'm gonna
get you back in, So shut out. Danny ain't. Danny
Ain't got me back in practice that day. But it
was right there and there, Bow, I knew, like, Yo,
that college shit that you did don't mean nothing. You
gotta earn your name in this league. Bro, it ain't
nothing given to you. I'm talking about every damn practice, bro.
(05:47):
Like you said, I stuck Paul Pierce, every damn practice.
Paul used to have this thing call he used to
call it the g unit runs to where is?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And when I get in here, I want to I
want to play one on one with the like whoever,
whoever got ones? Let's play ones. And I'll be so
ready to amped up to come play this man one
on one.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Man. You're looking forward to them.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'm looking forward to him running down there talking about
who want to play?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Runs?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So, but he upstairs before he come in practic, he
gonna do his jogging on the He's gonna do his
little fifteen sprints on the on the on a treadmill.
Quick little weight workout room in the weight room. Come
down there, who want to play ones? I'm ready, managin
you you know the rookies got to be there already BEFOREHND.
We gotta be there like an hour and a half before.
You know what I'm saying, super Earth and so I
didn't got my weight work work out in. I'd have
(06:37):
ran my sprints and it got my shots up. Now
I'm waiting on him and So it was that right
then and that now knowing that I could stick him
or not even really stick him, to lock him down.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Ain't too many people in the league doing what.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He doing, so that helped me alone the way that
defend just about anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And also, like like you said, truth will tell you too,
like man, Bruk got me better, like you go in truth.
He going out there giving them niggas.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Thirties, ain't nobody like part of the killer effect.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know that you've been on his ass and practice
because you're trying to get better too. So and you know,
shout out the piegan like I said, I know he
got a lot of respect for you too, and and everything.
So man, that's that shit real. That's just like me, man,
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know when I came into the league, it was
you know, it was different for me. Like you know,
I came in with a bunch of older guys. I
came in with or Vita Sabone is Rashee Wallace, Sean Kemp.
I'm just naming the big man the guys. Yeah, Bill Davis,
some type of got older guys. So you know it
was a Sean Kemp. It was a battle every day
(00:27):
for me, my rookie year, bro going to get them guys.
But I got so much better. And what they used
to tell me, what I carried on is what I
tell my kids. I tell my daughter now, in practice
you get better. That's where you get better in practice,
you know what I mean. And you know from all
our practices we had with the with the Grizzlies, how
we used to battle and go each other.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know, me and Mark we used to switch teams you.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Know sometimes definitely that you know, come on, I'm about
to guards you like that's even the South. So you know,
come into the league. You know my rookie years, it
was a bunch of battles.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We battle.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
One thing about it, bro, I tell you I always
stood up bro.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sean on them.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I tell you, you know, the most respectable young guy.
But I stood up, you know what I mean, I
battle and them old guys respected that and showed me
loving and tapped me because I'm I learned every day.
I'm still learning.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm a spunge, so you know I wasn't no rookie life.
You can't tell me shit. I'm like, what's up?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Do what this that you feel me?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm locked in on them up the game?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, And I ain't got a saying man shopping eron anyway. Man,
you know you respect them guys, but just as good
as they is you. You gotta talent yourself and you
got a crab that you work on every day too.
So it's like y'all battling, y'all making each other better
each and every You no practice, so the kind of
kind of you know, feeding off what you said.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Man, I came in, you know, like I said.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Player of the year and you know in college, you know,
went to the four things of that nature and getting there.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
The shock to me was, yo, it's a pagan order.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Uh you a guard?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, Well, Paul Pierce takes the first shot. We're gonna
run this offense through him, and you know this is
what's going on. Funny story man, letting it be known
like this. That and I had the rude awaken it.
I remember one day vividly when the season had started.
Uh well probably later into the season. I had got
(02:33):
a chance to start and uh that started me. And
he drew up a play I remember I never been.
It's called slice three posts and it's for you know, Paul,
to start in the corner, come off the postman and
catch it in the block.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm on the wing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I gotta catch it from up top and throw it
in the in the block. Well, they sacked so damn
fall from me, z Bo. It's like damn, It's like
seventeen eighteen on the clock. A soo, I got a
jack this man. I jacked that moatherfucker. Man.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That motherfucker hit so hard off the let it ring.
I'm talking about listen, clink so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Both listen both We end up losing by a dumb
national TV game.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Were playing Alan averson the we lose back.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So we're going this when I this when I knew
what it was, skate Listen, we were going film.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We're in film session.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So Doc rivers in that motherfucker like, he's like, look
at the first player of the game, fellas. You know
how he talked, rewind that motherfucker, Tony. Where's Tony Allen? Like,
I'm right here, coach, Like, rewind that? He rewinded, like,
t A, don't you think this was a bad shot?
I'm like, yes, sir, He was like, rewind that again.
(03:53):
Who are you supposed to be getting this ball to
out of the out of the first time out? I said,
Paul Pierre, you know, rewind that again. This is a
bad shot. You rewinded again.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
This is a bad shot. Like, yeah, you rewinded again.
This is a bad shot. You know what I said.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Bo. So I'm kind of embarrassed now, but I'm really offering, like,
come on, let's get to the next place.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We lost by damn the twenty five. Come on, this
ain't ain't my fault.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You fee what I'm saying. That's how I'm feeling mentally.
You know what I said, I said, word that, man.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Paul, look back, he said, Tony Allen, stand up. I
stood up.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
He said, now get the fuck out of practice. It
was right then and there I knew it was definitely
not missed the player of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
From Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Man, see your ass now, go catch a charge, die
for a loose ball, get you to assist, get an
offensive rebound.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
This is not happening here, sir. Damn man, I'm talking
about man. Listen, Bro. I was so hurt. Bro, I
ain't gonna even laugh.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Felt like that twenty was all because of you.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Man, I feel like the whole Bro.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Look when I was on National TV, he already hot,
so you know me, I walk out, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I'm like, I'm slick, crying. Then I think I am crying.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Like till then that tia coming out of line, like
my mama took that change. My mama gave me that change.
And some shit I see.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Danny Ain't. Dany Aine's like, what's wrong? Where you going practice?
That's about to start? Where you're going?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I'm like, doctor, put me out. He's like, I'm gonna
get you back in, So shut out. Danny ain't. Danny
Ain't got me back in practice that day. But it
was right there and there, Bow, I knew, like, Yo,
that college shit that you did don't mean nothing. You
gotta earn your name in this league. Bro, it ain't
nothing given to you. I'm talking about every damn practice, bro.
(05:47):
Like you said, I stuck Paul Pierce, every damn practice.
Paul used to have this thing call he used to
call it the g unit runs to where is?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And when I get in here, I want to I
want to play one on one with the like whoever,
whoever got ones? Let's play ones. And I'll be so
ready to amped up to come play this man one
on one.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Man. You're looking forward to them.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'm looking forward to him running down there talking about
who want to play?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Runs?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So, but he upstairs before he come in practic, he
gonna do his jogging on the He's gonna do his
little fifteen sprints on the on the on a treadmill.
Quick little weight workout room in the weight room. Come
down there, who want to play ones? I'm ready, managin
you you know the rookies got to be there already BEFOREHND.
We gotta be there like an hour and a half before.
You know what I'm saying, super Earth and so I
didn't got my weight work work out in. I'd have
(06:37):
ran my sprints and it got my shots up. Now
I'm waiting on him and So it was that right
then and that now knowing that I could stick him
or not even really stick him, to lock him down.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Ain't too many people in the league doing what.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He doing, so that helped me alone the way that
defend just about anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And also, like like you said, truth will tell you too,
like man, Bruk got me better, like you go in truth.
He going out there giving them niggas.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Thirties, ain't nobody like part of the killer effect.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know that you've been on his ass and practice
because you're trying to get better too. So and you know,
shout out the piegan like I said, I know he
got a lot of respect for you too, and and everything.
So man, that's that shit real. That's just like me, man,
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