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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Del Curry, Charlotte Hornet's Legend, Hornet's color analyst on the
fan Duel Sports Network, also on Amazon. My buddy del
Curry back with us on the hotline for a quick
Friday conversation. Is the Hornet's battle the Raptors tonight in Toronto,
seven thirty tips, six thirty pre game here on the
flagship del Curry.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How you been, my man, KB, I'm doing great, man.
Penn State's loss is the Hokies reward. I'm fired up
about G and Tech football.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Let's go. Let's go out to this. Some emergency TV
work here later on myself.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, I love it, dude. I'm sure you and I
follow each other on the Gram. I got to go
up for the introductory press conference a couple of weeks ago,
and I got to shake the hand of the man
Dell who's going to bring us a national championship. Finally,
it felt good.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Like it?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I like it so again, as a couple of guys
who've done their fair share of tailgating outside Lane Stadium,
we got a Homer out for a second, like, how
excited are you about what he's done for the program already?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm super excited, man, I've talked to a lot of
my my buddies, colege buddes that played football there. They're
all excited about Hoky football in the future. He's already
hit the trails recruiting bring in some some top you know,
student athletes there. So it's got a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Of work to do. But I think we got the
right guy.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He knows what he's doing. He's gonna bring He's gonna
bring what you say, He's gonna bring some some wins
in the championship to Blacksburg.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, I can't wait, man, I'm excited about it. Speaking
of Blacksburg real quick. I know, like you, you know, my
head's in the Hornets three four nights a week at least.
I don't know if you get to watch Mike Young's
group very much. But have you seen the kid from Greece,
Nio Kliseev Dallas. I mean, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I've not seen him yet, but my buddy Terrence Oldsby,
who does the pre and post for the Hornets, is
keeping me up with him. He says he is a baller.
Told me before the season started, we got a winner
in Blacksburg, man. So yeah, Mike Young is getting it done.
I'm gonna definitely catch a game before you know. They
getting the acc play big time here. But I'm excited
at the Hochey Athletics. They deserve to have two guys
(01:52):
that know what they're doing. And then I think we
got them.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I do too, I do too.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
All right, let's talk about the home team then, Hornets
six and sixteen, coming off a couple of losses in
New York. Now you go even further north up to Toronto. Well,
I don't think we've gotten the final injury report for
tonight's game yet, but you know that's been the big
problem again, dell As. You well know they've been missing
a lot of Brandon Miller, LaMelo has been in and out,
other guys injured. Like, how much of that do you
attribute to a six and sixteen start? And you know,
(02:17):
do you think this team is at a place where
they can start to climb out of it soon?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Injuries, Like you said, it's always been a problem. It's
a problem for every team. It seems like because we
follow the Hornets that we're passionate about horness basketball, it
seems like it hits us harder than anybody every single season.
But it goes into the territory. I say all the time,
our draft class is the ones that's gonna benefit from this.
We got four good rookies that are benefiting from some
(02:44):
on the court experience. But I do think the record
is a reflection of coach Lee not having his core
guys together to see really how good this team can be.
And then you play so many games so fast, there's
no time to develop the young guys. You kind of
just kind of throw them out there and let them
(03:04):
learn on the fly. So you incorporate all that together.
And then you're playing some tough teams as well. And
we've hit the road pretty hard, especially this week. The
Cup games were really hard and fun. But it's the
life of the NBA. I mean, everybody goes through the
trials and tribulations. You can't make excuses.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You got to go out and play hard.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And you look back at a couple of three or
four close games, you say, yeah, man, if we'd have
just won you know those games, I reckon it would
be a lot different.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But it's trending in the right area.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I get a chance to talk to Charles Lee every
week and talk to him the other day about the
fourth quarter lineup against the Nets, and I asked him
about I said, hey, I looked out there were seven
minutes to go when I saw t Jon Sion, Leah McNeely,
Antonio Reeves, and Colin Sexton, and that's just not a
fourth quarter lineup I'd expect to see out there in
the middle of a tight game trying to grab your
third straight win. And I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but
(03:56):
he basically told me, we have expectations for this team.
I have things I expect these guys to do, and
when they don't do that, sometimes the best way to
send a message is to bring them on over to
the bench to sit with me. And that's how you
end up with those lineups. What have you noticed just
in terms of what he demands from these players both
in game but also in the practice floor, and how
he's continuing to try to build a culture in that
way for.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
A young coach.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He holds every man top to bottom accountable and that's
the way to do it. I mean the old Bobby
Knight saying there's no bigger motivator than the bench. And again,
I think it goes back to just not having the
quality practice time to not being able to practice these
things and put players in situations, and then you get
(04:40):
out there and play. You take it for granted. You
get in the close game and our margin of victory
margin veria is so small to get a victory, you
can't keep making the same mistakes, especially guys that's been
around for a while. You'd rather see the young guys
get out there and make those type mistakes. So kudos
for a young coach to be to be able to
(05:00):
hold his stars and rotational players accountable. I think it
sets a presidence for the entire team that they got
to be locked in from the start of the game
to the finish the game, and if they're not, he's
going to find some guys out there that he trust
in the game.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So you know, I applauded for that. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Conk Nipple, who I know, you've talked about a lot.
I've talked about a ton. You know, I've talked to
a lot of coaches and general managers over the years,
and I've heard a lot of them say things like
you want guys that you know hate losing even more
than they love winning, you know, things like that, And
that's not everybody. Conk Nipple kind of seems like that
sort of dude. I've read the quotes from him in
the last several days. He talked to Rod Boone of
(05:39):
The Observer. He talked about the team not competing hard
enough against the Brooklyn Nets. Some people wouldn't like a
rookie talking like that. What do you think of the rookie,
not even twenty five games into his career, talking like
that publicly about his teammates.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
When you have played like he has in his rookie
year on a young team.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, you deserve that right. And they're going to listen
to you. You know, a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Say, wow, how kind at for now they see why
Peterson and his crew said we like this guy. He's
soft spoken off the floor, he's very articulate, smart. You know,
you can tell he knows the game. But like you said,
I think the hate winning more than hate losing more
(06:22):
than the winning piece fits him perfectly. He's a guy
that competes every single night, knows how to make the
right play. He plays winning basketball regardless of who's on
the floor with him. He's a leader already at this
young age. He's a leader. I think he learned a
lot of that at Duke, playing one year at Duke,
but he's going to be a leader on this team
(06:43):
for a long time, and his voice will become louder
and louder in the locker room as the season goes on.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, you've played against and are even related to, you know,
some of the greatest players of all time. When they
took him at four, a lot of people said, well,
maybe I like to pick but you know, he's a
Kyle Korver type. He's a connector, he's a shooter. He's
turned out already to be more than that. What's been
like the most startling part of his game to you
as you've gotten to know him and maybe ways that
he's exceeded what you thought he could be.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Well, I think if you look back at the draft,
I think Jeff Peterson and his crew in the Hornet's
ownership said we need to change the culture, and they
drafted for culture guys. They changed the culture immediately. Now
can those guys play, Absolutely, they can definitely play. But
the way he his teammates respect him. He just goes
(07:29):
about his business every single day. He's locked in at
shoot around, every practice, every drill. He takes care of
his hisself on and off the floor.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
All those guys do.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So you know, the draft, it's a crapshoot. You you
gotta go with the guys that you think is gonna
help your franchise, your team, and you can't listen to
the noise outside of that once.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You locking on your guy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So I think Jeff Peterson learned that, uh, you know,
just by having experien around the league.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And we got it right.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Del Curry, Hornet's legend FanDuel Sports Network color analysts hanging
out with us here on a Friday. A couple quick
things will let you go. I got a chance to
sit down with LaMelo before opening night. We had a
great chat. I walked away feeling like he loves Charlotte,
wants to be here, wants to be built around. Then
he gets injured again. Then those reports surface a couple
of weeks ago about him being disgruntled and potentially wanted out.
(08:23):
He shot those down. He's been coming back and forth
from injury. The shooting numbers haven't been great for a while,
but it does seem the last couple of nights, maybe
in particular the next game, like he's starting to get
back into a rhythm.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is that what you see.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I see no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
In recass of what kind of player you are.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
When you're in out of the lineup and you're not healthy,
it affects who you are as a player and how
you play on the floor. He's not one hundred percent,
but he's going out and giving it his own now.
Everybody expects for LaMelo to wile the crowd on every
single play and put up the numbers he has when
he's been totally healthy. I think he's got a little
more help around him now. It doesn't require him to
(09:01):
do quite that much. He's doing a lot of other
things on the floor. You see him diving on the floor, Uh,
you know, putting an effort in guarding the ball every
single night. So he's trending in the right right direction.
He still loves to play. There's gonna be trade rumors
for everybody across the board. I mean, look what looks
what's happening in Milwaukee, what Doc Rivers is having to
(09:21):
deal with right now with Giannis so uh, he's he
has the ability in the mindset to put those things
on the back burner and continue to play and do
what he can to help his team. I see him
work every day, trying to get his body right, trying
to to to go on the court and help his team,
and his teammates see that. The organization sees that. Uh,
(09:41):
and we like what we have in LaMelo ball. Again,
he's not going to score forty a night. We like
what he did in New York, especially in that second half,
you know, when Josh Harden got in his ear a
little bit. Uh, that's the guy we were used to seeing.
But we don't have to I only we have to
see that every night from him. He's got more help
around him. He knows it well. Since you mentioned him.
(10:04):
I brought up our Greek freak in Blacksburg a couple
of minutes ago. But the Greek freak is who you
just mentioned a second ago. He apparently wants to finish
his career elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Does that?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
People asked all week, you know, would Charlotte be involved
in that? Could you see that?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I don't know what I see.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's gonna take a lot for Milwaukee to give up
their a franchise player like that, right.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's going to take a lot. I don't even want
to get.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Started what a trade scenario would look like for a Giannis,
and you know he's getting a little.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know, he's up there in his years.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He wants to win another title, so I think he'll
have a lot to say what happens in his future obviously,
but I know Doc River as well. He doesn't want
to see him go anywhere, so I know they're working
hard to see what can happen in that area.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay, real quick, I have been really looking forward to
the return of Grant Williams at some point. I'm hoping
it's sooner rather than later. How much of a spark
can he be for this team when he gets back
out there.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think not only Grant, but but Josh Green as well.
They're they're bettering guys that they're high IQ guys. They're
guys that they're leaders in the locker room, and when
you're on the court you can be even more so.
A later we know that Grant has no problem holding
his teammates accountable and and they're bettering guys. You have
young guys on the floor, h They're going to help
(11:22):
the young guys even be better than they are now.
So I'm really looking forward to Grant coming back. He's
working hard, He's worked hard and trying to get himself ready.
I see him working out. He looks great. So we
can't wait for him to get back and help this team,
you know, try to get some more wins.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right, last thing, I'll let you go. They split
with Toronto so far, really close game the first time,
then they got him last Sunday night. Your thoughts on
Toronto and what it might take to beat him again.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
They had a Toronto a tough game last night. I
watched that game. They played the Lakers and lost them
last second shot. They expended a lot of energy in
that game. And like the Hornets know, back to back
games at home, it's tough. We had a day off yesterday,
ready to go, but you gotta be able to get
back in transition. They've got Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram. Those
(12:08):
two guys can carry a team by themselves. Jacqua Perto
one of the best field goal shooters in the paint
in the history of the game, quick quickly, one of
the best floaters in the league, and their surprise team.
Their fans come out for him every single night. They're
gonna sell it out. Their coach is hungry. He's another
young coach. He has these guys playing together, believing in themselves.
(12:32):
So we're gonna have to get back in transition every
single time on a make or miss, and you gotta
rebound the ball. Those are two things that slipped a
little bit as the season's going along. Twenty third game tonight.
Without a lot of practice, you're gonna have some slippage.
And those two things the Hornets must do on a
nightly basis if they want to win.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Dell, you're the best, brother. Appreciate the time enjoyed Toronto
and go Hokies. We'll see when you get home.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Happy holidays, brother, all right, I'll talk to you
Del Curry, Charlotte Hornet's Legend, Hornet's color analyst on the
fan Duel Sports Network, also on Amazon. My buddy del
Curry back with us on the hotline for a quick
Friday conversation. Is the Hornet's battle the Raptors tonight in Toronto,
seven thirty tips, six thirty pre game here on the
flagship del Curry.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How you been, my man, KB, I'm doing great, man.
Penn State's loss is the Hokies reward. I'm fired up
about G and Tech football.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Let's go. Let's go out to this. Some emergency TV
work here later on myself.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, I love it, dude. I'm sure you and I
follow each other on the Gram. I got to go
up for the introductory press conference a couple of weeks ago,
and I got to shake the hand of the man
Dell who's going to bring us a national championship. Finally,
it felt good.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Like it?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I like it so again, as a couple of guys
who've done their fair share of tailgating outside Lane Stadium,
we got a Homer out for a second, like, how
excited are you about what he's done for the program already?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm super excited, man, I've talked to a lot of
my my buddies, colege buddes that played football there. They're
all excited about Hoky football in the future. He's already
hit the trails recruiting bring in some some top you know,
student athletes there. So it's got a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Of work to do. But I think we got the
right guy.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He knows what he's doing. He's gonna bring He's gonna
bring what you say, He's gonna bring some some wins
in the championship to Blacksburg.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, I can't wait, man, I'm excited about it. Speaking
of Blacksburg real quick. I know, like you, you know, my
head's in the Hornets three four nights a week at least.
I don't know if you get to watch Mike Young's
group very much. But have you seen the kid from Greece,
Nio Kliseev Dallas. I mean, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I've not seen him yet, but my buddy Terrence Oldsby,
who does the pre and post for the Hornets, is
keeping me up with him. He says he is a baller.
Told me before the season started, we got a winner
in Blacksburg, man. So yeah, Mike Young is getting it done.
I'm gonna definitely catch a game before you know. They
getting the acc play big time here. But I'm excited
at the Hochey Athletics. They deserve to have two guys
(01:52):
that know what they're doing. And then I think we
got them.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I do too, I do too.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
All right, let's talk about the home team then, Hornets
six and sixteen, coming off a couple of losses in
New York. Now you go even further north up to Toronto. Well,
I don't think we've gotten the final injury report for
tonight's game yet, but you know that's been the big
problem again, dell As. You well know they've been missing
a lot of Brandon Miller, LaMelo has been in and out,
other guys injured. Like, how much of that do you
attribute to a six and sixteen start? And you know,
(02:17):
do you think this team is at a place where
they can start to climb out of it soon?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Injuries, Like you said, it's always been a problem. It's
a problem for every team. It seems like because we
follow the Hornets that we're passionate about horness basketball, it
seems like it hits us harder than anybody every single season.
But it goes into the territory. I say all the time,
our draft class is the ones that's gonna benefit from this.
We got four good rookies that are benefiting from some
(02:44):
on the court experience. But I do think the record
is a reflection of coach Lee not having his core
guys together to see really how good this team can be.
And then you play so many games so fast, there's
no time to develop the young guys. You kind of
just kind of throw them out there and let them
(03:04):
learn on the fly. So you incorporate all that together.
And then you're playing some tough teams as well. And
we've hit the road pretty hard, especially this week. The
Cup games were really hard and fun. But it's the
life of the NBA. I mean, everybody goes through the
trials and tribulations. You can't make excuses.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You got to go out and play hard.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And you look back at a couple of three or
four close games, you say, yeah, man, if we'd have
just won you know those games, I reckon it would
be a lot different.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But it's trending in the right area.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I get a chance to talk to Charles Lee every
week and talk to him the other day about the
fourth quarter lineup against the Nets, and I asked him
about I said, hey, I looked out there were seven
minutes to go when I saw t Jon Sion, Leah McNeely,
Antonio Reeves, and Colin Sexton, and that's just not a
fourth quarter lineup I'd expect to see out there in
the middle of a tight game trying to grab your
third straight win. And I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but
(03:56):
he basically told me, we have expectations for this team.
I have things I expect these guys to do, and
when they don't do that, sometimes the best way to
send a message is to bring them on over to
the bench to sit with me. And that's how you
end up with those lineups. What have you noticed just
in terms of what he demands from these players both
in game but also in the practice floor, and how
he's continuing to try to build a culture in that
way for.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
A young coach.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He holds every man top to bottom accountable and that's
the way to do it. I mean the old Bobby
Knight saying there's no bigger motivator than the bench. And again,
I think it goes back to just not having the
quality practice time to not being able to practice these
things and put players in situations, and then you get
(04:40):
out there and play. You take it for granted. You
get in the close game and our margin of victory
margin veria is so small to get a victory, you
can't keep making the same mistakes, especially guys that's been
around for a while. You'd rather see the young guys
get out there and make those type mistakes. So kudos
for a young coach to be to be able to
(05:00):
hold his stars and rotational players accountable. I think it
sets a presidence for the entire team that they got
to be locked in from the start of the game
to the finish the game, and if they're not, he's
going to find some guys out there that he trust
in the game.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So you know, I applauded for that. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Conk Nipple, who I know, you've talked about a lot.
I've talked about a ton. You know, I've talked to
a lot of coaches and general managers over the years,
and I've heard a lot of them say things like
you want guys that you know hate losing even more
than they love winning, you know, things like that, And
that's not everybody. Conk Nipple kind of seems like that
sort of dude. I've read the quotes from him in
the last several days. He talked to Rod Boone of
(05:39):
The Observer. He talked about the team not competing hard
enough against the Brooklyn Nets. Some people wouldn't like a
rookie talking like that. What do you think of the rookie,
not even twenty five games into his career, talking like
that publicly about his teammates.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
When you have played like he has in his rookie
year on a young team.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, you deserve that right. And they're going to listen
to you. You know, a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Say, wow, how kind at for now they see why
Peterson and his crew said we like this guy. He's
soft spoken off the floor, he's very articulate, smart. You know,
you can tell he knows the game. But like you said,
I think the hate winning more than hate losing more
(06:22):
than the winning piece fits him perfectly. He's a guy
that competes every single night, knows how to make the
right play. He plays winning basketball regardless of who's on
the floor with him. He's a leader already at this
young age. He's a leader. I think he learned a
lot of that at Duke, playing one year at Duke,
but he's going to be a leader on this team
(06:43):
for a long time, and his voice will become louder
and louder in the locker room as the season goes on.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, you've played against and are even related to, you know,
some of the greatest players of all time. When they
took him at four, a lot of people said, well,
maybe I like to pick but you know, he's a
Kyle Korver type. He's a connector, he's a shooter. He's
turned out already to be more than that. What's been
like the most startling part of his game to you
as you've gotten to know him and maybe ways that
he's exceeded what you thought he could be.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Well, I think if you look back at the draft,
I think Jeff Peterson and his crew in the Hornet's
ownership said we need to change the culture, and they
drafted for culture guys. They changed the culture immediately. Now
can those guys play, Absolutely, they can definitely play. But
the way he his teammates respect him. He just goes
(07:29):
about his business every single day. He's locked in at
shoot around, every practice, every drill. He takes care of
his hisself on and off the floor.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
All those guys do.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So you know, the draft, it's a crapshoot. You you
gotta go with the guys that you think is gonna
help your franchise, your team, and you can't listen to
the noise outside of that once.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You locking on your guy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So I think Jeff Peterson learned that, uh, you know,
just by having experien around the league.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And we got it right.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Del Curry, Hornet's legend FanDuel Sports Network color analysts hanging
out with us here on a Friday. A couple quick
things will let you go. I got a chance to
sit down with LaMelo before opening night. We had a
great chat. I walked away feeling like he loves Charlotte,
wants to be here, wants to be built around. Then
he gets injured again. Then those reports surface a couple
of weeks ago about him being disgruntled and potentially wanted out.
(08:23):
He shot those down. He's been coming back and forth
from injury. The shooting numbers haven't been great for a while,
but it does seem the last couple of nights, maybe
in particular the next game, like he's starting to get
back into a rhythm.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is that what you see.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I see no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
In recass of what kind of player you are.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
When you're in out of the lineup and you're not healthy,
it affects who you are as a player and how
you play on the floor. He's not one hundred percent,
but he's going out and giving it his own now.
Everybody expects for LaMelo to wile the crowd on every
single play and put up the numbers he has when
he's been totally healthy. I think he's got a little
more help around him now. It doesn't require him to
(09:01):
do quite that much. He's doing a lot of other
things on the floor. You see him diving on the floor, Uh,
you know, putting an effort in guarding the ball every
single night. So he's trending in the right right direction.
He still loves to play. There's gonna be trade rumors
for everybody across the board. I mean, look what looks
what's happening in Milwaukee, what Doc Rivers is having to
(09:21):
deal with right now with Giannis so uh, he's he
has the ability in the mindset to put those things
on the back burner and continue to play and do
what he can to help his team. I see him
work every day, trying to get his body right, trying
to to to go on the court and help his team,
and his teammates see that. The organization sees that. Uh,
(09:41):
and we like what we have in LaMelo ball. Again,
he's not going to score forty a night. We like
what he did in New York, especially in that second half,
you know, when Josh Harden got in his ear a
little bit. Uh, that's the guy we were used to seeing.
But we don't have to I only we have to
see that every night from him. He's got more help
around him. He knows it well. Since you mentioned him.
(10:04):
I brought up our Greek freak in Blacksburg a couple
of minutes ago. But the Greek freak is who you
just mentioned a second ago. He apparently wants to finish
his career elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Does that?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
People asked all week, you know, would Charlotte be involved
in that? Could you see that?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I don't know what I see.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's gonna take a lot for Milwaukee to give up
their a franchise player like that, right.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's going to take a lot. I don't even want
to get.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Started what a trade scenario would look like for a Giannis,
and you know he's getting a little.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know, he's up there in his years.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He wants to win another title, so I think he'll
have a lot to say what happens in his future obviously,
but I know Doc River as well. He doesn't want
to see him go anywhere, so I know they're working
hard to see what can happen in that area.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay, real quick, I have been really looking forward to
the return of Grant Williams at some point. I'm hoping
it's sooner rather than later. How much of a spark
can he be for this team when he gets back
out there.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think not only Grant, but but Josh Green as well.
They're they're bettering guys that they're high IQ guys. They're
guys that they're leaders in the locker room, and when
you're on the court you can be even more so.
A later we know that Grant has no problem holding
his teammates accountable and and they're bettering guys. You have
young guys on the floor, h They're going to help
(11:22):
the young guys even be better than they are now.
So I'm really looking forward to Grant coming back. He's
working hard, He's worked hard and trying to get himself ready.
I see him working out. He looks great. So we
can't wait for him to get back and help this team,
you know, try to get some more wins.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right, last thing, I'll let you go. They split
with Toronto so far, really close game the first time,
then they got him last Sunday night. Your thoughts on
Toronto and what it might take to beat him again.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
They had a Toronto a tough game last night. I
watched that game. They played the Lakers and lost them
last second shot. They expended a lot of energy in
that game. And like the Hornets know, back to back
games at home, it's tough. We had a day off yesterday,
ready to go, but you gotta be able to get
back in transition. They've got Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram. Those
(12:08):
two guys can carry a team by themselves. Jacqua Perto
one of the best field goal shooters in the paint
in the history of the game, quick quickly, one of
the best floaters in the league, and their surprise team.
Their fans come out for him every single night. They're
gonna sell it out. Their coach is hungry. He's another
young coach. He has these guys playing together, believing in themselves.
(12:32):
So we're gonna have to get back in transition every
single time on a make or miss, and you gotta
rebound the ball. Those are two things that slipped a
little bit as the season's going along. Twenty third game tonight.
Without a lot of practice, you're gonna have some slippage.
And those two things the Hornets must do on a
nightly basis if they want to win.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Dell, you're the best, brother. Appreciate the time enjoyed Toronto
and go Hokies. We'll see when you get home.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Happy holidays, brother, all right, I'll talk to you
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