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flex alert. It's two o'clock.What do you want to do it.
Let's just go right radical pursuing thisversus you know they would still be talking,
Matt, you knew it twenty yearsago while you were a duke,
Lakers tried to probably just skie awayfrom Cameron Indoor to be here. What
did coach k tell you in regardsto maybe nice job opportunity and just like
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coaching, Yeah, coaches since twothousand and four has had a great relationship
with the Lakers and the Bus family. He was a very complimentary of the
organization, and he really, truthfully, he was very helpful throughout this process.
It started. You know, Ididn't know Coach had like Google alerts
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or that stuff his news, butI guess somebody tipped him off that.
You know, I was potentially interviewingfor Charlotte. So I was literally flying
back from a game and landed atLa Guardia and we talked for thirty minutes
that night. Ultimately did not dothe full interview there and and kind of
put that coaching thing on pause.And then this opened up, and Coach
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throughout the process was very helpful interms of just me navigating the interview process,
you know, robin Ie communication,all of this stuff. Like,
Coach was great. He still is, like, you know, I've told
the young guys this. I've talkedto nearly every player on the phone.
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Some guys are ducking my calls.It's okay, but like Jalen and Maxwell,
they were like, hey, Coach, I'm like, I'm not comfortable
with that. Please call me jj. You know there's one person in my
life that I played for that Icall coach, and that's Coach. K
Like he's still that to me.I think this is bears. It's relevant
to this discussion. You were oneof the first players to have a podcast
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while he was active. What's gonnahappen with mine the game? You're gonna
be the first coach to have apodcast while he's active. Now I am
for the time being, and hopefullyit's a very very long time. I
am excommunicated from the content space,so there would be no podcasts. Will
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we'll do something when I have abreather from what we have coming up.
I'm gonna be drinking out of afire hose for the next month, but
oh yeah, good project. Dosomething for all the people that listened,
and we'll have a small little video. But I'm I'm done with podcasting for
now. So Rob j JJ,Brodect Turner JJ, Rob. You guys
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keep talking about culture. What isthat and how do you go about putting
that in place? It's a goodquestion to be what what becomes immediately impactful
when you get to spend time withJa about winning and then the cult We've
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had players come through here that sharethat mindset. Look at that modified scene.
I think the two things that cometo mind in terms of culture,
is there mixing the service component thatj Jay talked about, and that was
a big thing players to be takea note. As much as it is
to be behind the players supporting themto be great and providing all the resources,
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the coaching, the mentoring for themto be great says a lot.
And just obsessing without place of excellenceand to get to a place of win.
Asked about the analytics combinations, likethose two divergent important to our championship
culture. I'll be very simple inmy answer. Like to me, culture
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is very simply two things. It'sit's how a group interacts with each other,
and it's the things that a groupprioritize. How much the group will
accept mailed by the head coach andas the GM like a lot of fully
accepted Matt. For the culture towork, we have to determine how we're
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going to interact with each other andwhat we prioritize, and it's it's all
those things we talked about. WhatLebron wants is priority want two, three,
four and five. Mitch, werethere a couple of people that didn't
get a chance that we want toI'm more than happy. I know you
guys traveled a long way to getOh, yeah, we have a nice
guy. We're happy to do acouple more. JJ. What are you
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most curious to learn of coaching?I guess you go through this this year
my first challenge. Well, I, uh, you know, it's interesting
because I have, uh, youknow, going back the last year.
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I've always been I've always been avisual person as a player. I relied
on visualization in a workout. Inhigh school, I would at a free
period, and on game days Iwould I would walk through the gym and
I would look at certain spots onthe floor and I would visualize coming off
screens and where the defense would beand the attack the yark on the ball,
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and I've sort of visualized every that'sfrom the water boil for the last
year. That's what I've done interms of coaching. And the fun part
I think for me is just goingto be actually having that nine year olds
and learning. I consider myself tobe someone who has a high level of
curiosity and a love of learning.I'm not a script I know what the
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plays are going to be, andthey don't quite understand them. When I
show it to them. They reallypicked out life. I recognize you're never
going to get there, So givingmyself a little bit of grace is going
to be important. I'm not expectinggrace from any of you. I don't
expect that. Fine, I reallydon't. I don't. But giving myself
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that is going to be important.If there's like a specific thing, I
mean, it's it's very simple.I missed bread. Feeling bulbilized to the
break walking out for your first becausethis would be his moment to start asking
questions. Sitting there and putting yourhand over your heart for the national anthem.
What is that feeling going to be? Like? Hi, coach,
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Yeah, I work for news,Japanese News. Are you so? I
want to ask two questions about more. First we pat brought to you by
how Japanese Green Tea also bringing youthe Patroon Money summer tour. And second
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one has run will be there butplaying for the Japanese national team in the
Paris or in Peak. Oh,he's going to be playing in the Olympics.
What are you going to do aboutMoro? What plans for I'll start
and then hand it off to coach. Being able to have some time with
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Rui. He was in the facility. Is one of the guys that's doc
and co and you know, superexcited to watch jajon coach and he did
share with us. And I'm surehe'll have his own news that he's thinking
through the Olympics, and you know, hopefully they'll be good news there.
But it was great to sit upstairswith him earlier today. And uh,
he's gonna have a great, greatsummer. Yeah. I thought he had
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a fantastic year last year. Oneof the things. And maybe I should
have mentioned this to Ramona's question,But you know, beyond just the Lakers
and Lebron and Anthony Davis, I'mexcited about some of the younger guys on
this roster and helping them. Uh. You know, I had great conversations
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this weekend too. That I hadthat I loved were my conversation with Austin
and my conversation with Brewi, anduh, you know, I think for
him in terms of how I envisionand so I didn't love the Angela Russell.
He's a complete douche Like I wanthim shooting more threes. Uh,
so that's a big, big partof it. I brought up the offensive
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rebounding. I think he can reallybecome an elite offensive rebounder. As we
sort of build out our offensive systemand how we're going to play, they
talking when we start incorporating, we'regoing to build my offense. Cutting roy
can be doesn't it just mean Lebrondribbling around and doing it stuff? Seems
like when on your screening angles,he's going to get against matches. Take
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it from James Harden, I amcan really score at the basket if he
has smaller players on him. Whoselaugh as well? Eric Pigus with Bleach
Report, Thank you Rob for alittle bit of wo The dregs are really
now. You mentioned different questions asthe longest questionails. Have you visualized how
you will build out those chops ofrotation management, end of game management,
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cock management, load management, youknow, like series management and everything that
goes into those little details, Anddo you have a philosophy a plan do
you? Obviously you don't have thefirsthand experience doing it yourself. You've been
around it very same coaches, Andwill that be something you rely on heavily
with support from your bench? Yeah? Again, you know, going back
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to just collaboration, like this isall going to be a really fun part
of this summer. Over the nextcouple of months, like a lot of
fun. JJ is thinking about allthose things, right, la risters,
set rotations, game management, loadmanagement, all that stuff. I think
a big and I told Rob thisin Chicago. This, this is like
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a big thing for me. Isjust my relationship in communication with analytics and
my relationship and communication with performance.Those are as important as anything else that
I can do as a head.How do you communicate with analytics and have
a relationship with that stuff. It'sit's obviously, you know, I think
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it's either I think that's the languageyou communicate with. I'm going to use
math. I'm going to use math, hey, JJ, clearly with the
Guardian. First of all, sorry, Second of all, what misconceptions or
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concerns about you that you've heard inthe last few weeks are you most like
looking forward to dispelling? Oh,the Guardian math cut the racial issue,
look at those two white guys.It's a valid question. And I've certainly
heard everything. You know. It'sit's been a really interesting, uh in
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six weeks or so, just interms of you know, being part of
the engagement farming industry. You know, it's been really interesting. However,
I don't really have a great answerfor your question, because I really don't
give a fuck like, oh geez, I want to coach the Lakers.
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I want to the team. Idon't want to dispel anything. I don't.
I want to become a great coachin the NBA, and I want
to win chances somebody in the background, our players to maximize their careers.
That's all I fucking care about.Bob. Now, we got to dump
out all the way. You can'tdo that to us. JJ Reddick start
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dropping F bombs on the Guardian?How could you do that? When you
say you don't give an F andyou really don't e F and care.
When you're dressed in a suit likethat, it conveys that you really do
care. You've already grown your giantrabbit ears. No, I mean I
don't. Is Channel two care?It's one thing to have it on.
I mean, where are the onesthat have to wear this? This is
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an FCC license, stigged signal ronCBS. Oh, Ronnie got it?
Of course. Did we get amention? We didn't have somebody capable at
the switch. But did we getboth? Yes we did, we got
both. But if he drops anotherone, we're gonna be on equity,
Matty, is it built up yet, Ronnie? Is it built back up
yet? Quite yet? Let's rollthe Let's roll the dice with almost falling
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mean Inger, I know what myweaknesses are. I don't know all my
blind spots is ahead kind of like, let's be honest. I don't.
I don't like, I haven't doneit, no class, I know what
my strengths are, working Blue like, I'm confident in myself and who I
am to have the afternoon be fantastic. I would I mean, I would
love it if I could walk inthe coaches locker room and everybody's just as
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dialed in as I am with justhow compartmentalized the locker is. But it's
okay if it's not that way.Hey, j J. Jim Alexander from
the Southern California News Group, Welcomeback to LA by the way, all
right, with all the experience thatyou've had in various facets of this game,
are you anticipating that there's going tobecome something, There's going to have
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something come up this year that you'regoing to say, and how do you
handle that? Yes, it wasn'tthat question. Was it my expectation which
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challenges on the court off the court, to scrutiny all that I have since
the highest of expectations that things aregoing to be there, and yet I
recognize it's probably going to be worsethan I could imagine in terms of how
I would handle it. Look,I don't know what's the situation, right,
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what's the situation? Rob and Italked during this process about a very
specific thing, and it goes backto one of my earlier answers, like,
some things can't be avoided. Somethings I think can be avoided if
you set those standards and expectations early. And so when you get to game
sixty, somebody asked me about LindaRambis, You've already sort of built in
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the system. The situation is Lebronhis subtweeted, because he's pissed at your
rotations in this four game losing straight. There's your situation. One more,
okay, one more. It isget the Atlantic in there so we can
start swearing. Coach, what's yourpriority as far as developing and evaluating talent
at a G League level? Dumbquestion? We definitely talked about that during
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the process, and I think oneof the things that we discussed we discussed
it. The last question. Oneof the things that we discussed is like
what is the vision for how we'retrying to play and so a big part
of evaluating players in the G leaguesecond picks, undrafted players, whatever guy's
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on the summer league bombs, Matt, can they make that? The last
question that was a softball from theguard Guardian that was a soft ball you
need. I thought they just askedHi about what's it like to be so
championship level team. So there's goingto be an emphasis. Hey really wanted
to anyone that we're looking is nothappy he had a chance last roster shutt
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JJ, all right, that's itpress the So of course we get the
two F bombs and we wore twoF bombs in the chest like two thirty
two bullets. Rob just walked offthe stage, left JJ by himself.
Oh I guarantee he is not happyabout the F bombs. Brother Jim going
in for the hug not happy.Oh yeah, look at him, dropped
the bike and just walk off.He is pissed. He's thinking it's two
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o'clock in the afternoon that the Lakerstwo is carrying it, Channel nine is
carrying it. Oh, look,he goes right up to me kiss his
ass. Looking he put in hisbig face right up to him to kiss
his ass. And there's brother Jimgoing in for the hug. Look at
it, boy, he's back inkissing more. Assi finally turned away.
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There's mcminimon Macon that coming off thetop rope. All right, I thank
god they cut away. Yeah,I guarantee Polenka is not happy with that.
What are you doing? Caesar doesn'tlike that kind of vulgarity. Tom,
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Well, we're hopeful we're flexed backtoday, and we have great hope
that the JJ Reddick regime is asponderous, tedious and words salady as that
great press conference. Although he didcome off as a thoughtful guy. Now,
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look, he communicates for a living. He's very successful in the podcast
world, very successful, not justwith Lebron but his other podcast that he's
done with The Ringer, The OldMan and the Three and all that.
They're very successful. There's a reasonwhy they tapped them to call the NBA
Finals after Doc Rivers took the Milwaukeegig. Because he knows how to you
know, he isn't he knows howto put words together. He's an impressive
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communicator and got a win. That'spart of it. My god, I
guess you could say they won thepress conference if you like the double F
bombs. Now, Rob Polenka saidthat they were going to have high level
strategy and high level attention to detailas opposed to Darvinham Frank Vogel. Not
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high level strategy, not not highlevel attention to detail. JJ grateful wants
to serve, smile, serve everyone, players and the fans. Yeah,
he smiled on more than one occasion. And they wouldn't talk about the process
of hiring anybody else because today JJ'sday's right. Well, no, it's
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our day too, because we're themedian, we're covering this and you hired
a new head coach. It's notabout JJ Reddick. Is about how you
arrived at the decision to hire JJReddick. He wasn't your first choice.
And the three big faces that facedhim right after Polenka's weird cheshire cat smile
of disapproval about the F bombs wereWaki, mouth breathing, Medina, our
friend and brother Jim. I don'tthink I've ever seen Rob Polinka avoid a
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camera as much as he just did. At the end trying to get off
that stage. You've made You've mademe look a fool. JJ, You've
made me a fool. You've mademe have to be a fool. You
take those tie off somewhere right now, like the right you think those two
f bombs? Really? I meanwhen when somebody says, are you concerned
about all the things saying said aboutand then you you really just go on
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a character you drop two F bombslike I don't know. I mean,
I can do whatever they want.It reminds me of the story I always
tell about the Mike Gundy press conferencewhere he came off the stage and looked
at his PR guy and was likeyeah, right, and the PRU was
like no, no, no,Why all these guys in the media,
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I think they need to go upto JJ and like hug him and give
him a high like he's not oneof you guys. I don't say hi
to him. If I don't sayhi to him, then the other guy
will have said hi to him.But they think like, oh, yeah,
one of us got his head coachingjob. He was a media now
he's a head coach. We couldall do this, No they do,
Okay, you know they all wantto try to get the edge. They
want to be the mouthpiece. GetJJ's story out there right. Hey,
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I'll be your guy. Confess tome. I'll be your priest. Confess
to me and I'll convey your message. I've gotten multiple platforms, television and
the written word. Come my direction, JJ. My votes with a lady
from the Guardian. She knows theguy gainnerneath the skin, right, it's
pretty impressive. Yeah, let meget the Guardian back out there. Hey,
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what do you want to dispel?All these things have been said about
you? You know I've read themall, and I was like, okay,
well that's good. He's not theguy that says I don't hear anything
and then goes on to detail everysingle thing it's been said. At least
he's being honest. I've read andI've heard it all. And then,
oh god, no, I don'tgive it, give it, and I
don't give an fing f and fyou. I won't do what you tell
me. I want to tell rightright now, I visualize my mind's eye
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has a has a film of RobPalinka like biting a towel so he doesn't
make any noise, and Jeanie canhear him screaming through the door, and
he's just going, oh like thesacks up in the Addict and Porky's at
the gym exactly right. There's justthat massive vein a bowl jinge from his
forehead below his Caesar cut, sweetierCaesar is going to be even more dissheveled
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next JJ Reddick presser has ended.Carried the back end of it. Rogan
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a fighter. That's right. Anduh Rob Polenka is still on TV right
now being interviewed out at the upLike, honestly, I don't know.
I mean, if someone asks youwhat you make of all the comments about
why you're not going to be ableto do this boo, seems like it
just feels like you do. Iwant to become a great coach in the
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NBA and I want to win championshipsand I want my players to maximize their
careers. That's all I care about. Oh, I don't need to do
that. Well, this is terrible. This is spells. This spells nothing.
Everything was going so well, everythingwas going so well, JJ,
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and you had to make our fortyminute presser about forty seconds and you drop
in two f bombs, saying thatyou don't give an f what other people
say about you and challenge whether ornot you're up for this task. I
want to be a great effort coach. Yeah that was my I guess my,
like, you know, to reallyboil it down. My biggest takeaway
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is how this is something he's alwayswanted to do. He wants to serve
the players, he wants to servethe fans. He's always had that leadership
gene in him, a drive towin, to be a coach. Well,
then why weren't you an assistant coach? Exactly? Matt? Why did
you never do that at an assistantlevel? If this is the drive and
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the career path you always envision taking. You made that point last week,
you know, I mean from LukeWalton to Miles Simon to any other guy
if they want to start coaching,you're like, oh wow, that guy's
an assistant out in Memphis, coach. Look, oh well there's tyas Endy's
on the sideline UCLA. It's like, these guys want to get into coaching,
so they coach. But this wasdifferent. This is a guy who's
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a very good communicator, who becamea podcaster and was high level ESPN because
they fired They're really good analysts thatwere really explosive chemistry wise and had a
great time. They got rid ofthem and they hired Doc Rivers, and
then Doc Rivers left and now JJReddick is on the NBA finals and he
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was friend's f ol friend of LebronAnd what did they say? What was
their answer about whether Lebron was heavilyinvolved in the process or not? Not
at all? Not, you know, and that was deliberate on each of
our part. He wanted nothing todo with this nothing. I never I
talked to him Thursday, thirty minutesafter I was hired. It was our
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first conversation about this. It nevercame up once. And that's fine,
Like, is that believable a littlebit, But that doesn't mean that Lebron
wasn't like, hey, hire JJ. Well, didn't they say already?
They already knew exactly what to do. It's kind of like, if you're
there to do Lebron's bidding, youknow that that's your job. You're gonna
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do it. You don't really needto be told by Lebron. Lebron's Rich
Paul could tell you. I meananybody could change, you know, the
offense that he's going to install.Lebron James is forty one, He's been
in the league for freaking twenty years. He's the system that's he's going to
do whatever the hell he wants.What about the offensive system that JJ Reddick
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has that they're going to install,Like, what is that? How does
that? Has that ever been putinto practice with people with actual players,
with basketball guys out on a court. Is it just on a whiteboard?
Is it? Ai? How doesthat? How does that play into it?
I mean, it's just I mean, most press conferences are just a
lot of a lot of words andgobblygook and just platitudes. But I think
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the most telling thing, like yousaid, was somebody asked him about criticism
and he dropped two F bombs,which kind of sort of validates the criticism
that he's got big rabbit ears ifhe's gonna have a hard question, because
I really don't give it, Likehonestly, oh, senior sincy Thievil,
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and I want to win championships,and I want my players to maximize their
careers. That's all I care about. Okay, Well, all right,
I mean I gotta ask him,mat, I mean, this is not
like the first press conference I've everwatched with Rob Polenka. But he's always
ponderous and a little bit tedious andtells goofy stories and we make fun of
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him over the years. He's proneto exaggeration or just flat out lying.
But did he not make this oneextra awkward? Yeah? He did not
make them all awkward? Is heawkward like this? This was awkward?
He typically, I think, isselling it right. He's got this big
smile. Isn't this great? DarvinHam, We're excited players coach going to
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connect with these players. He's notthat far removed from the game under coach
Popovich and Pudenholzer and an NBA chaand here was just like, you know
he is. As far as abuilding up, Dylan asked him about because
that's a knock that's been on theLakers that they have not built out their
analytics department, that they have oneof that you know that they're cheap on
that front. And his response tothat was, you know, Jiji and
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I were talking about that and andhow how players learn these days, how
different it is from twenty years ago. So we were talking about building an
app for players to watch on theirphones, because that's what JJ's done as
a coach, As a coach ofnine year olds, he's got to he's
got to play him, he's gotto do it visually for nine year olds.
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It's a lot like politics, especiallybecause it's an election here. You
get all these fancy terms for thingsthat are quite simple, Like he could
just say, yeah, I wentinto the sports media, as opposed to
I'm in the engagement industry. Yes, the what like what engagement that prepenced
his f bomb? The engagement farmingindustry? Like what the hell are we
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talking? I mean? And threeto ten times they mentioned about his basketball
like you that it's off the charts, and it's like, okay, I
mean. And I think the onlything we can read into the fact that
Lebron wasn't there is that he's tryingto gently nail us from far away.
He doesn't want to just be rightin our face. Yeah, he can't
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show up with everybody saying you dida podcast with Lebrons and now you're the
head coach, and then Lebron's theregiving you hugs and high fives and smiles
and ask grabbing and all that sothat I get but still likes I started
out. I thought it started outfine, and he was selling it,
and he, like we said,he's a very good communicator. He delivers
his message, he uses big words. He's clearly a smart guy. And
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when somebody's like that, you eitherit's hard to be on one side or
the other. I mean, it'shard to not be on one side or
the other. You either are impressedby it or you just think, Wow,
this guy's an arrogant blowhard, oryou're impressed by it at first and
after a while you say, ohmy god, this guy's an arrogant blowhard.
There's nothing behind all this pros there'snothing behind all this rhetoric. It
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really kind of felt like him andPolinka or the same guy saying the same
stuff. They're kind of similar guys. It feels it's my Like I said,
I think it goes back to whatwe talked about really throughout this whole
process in last week, and it'slike, well, how are we supposed
to believe that all you're concerned aboutis the players and your desire to coach
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and lead When you chose not to, you chose the easy path, You
chose a podcast from the comfort ofyour because you don't. He didn't have
to grind. JJ made a lotof money in his career, which is
fine, but he chose no,I'm not going to do the grind.
I'm not going to be the tapeguy. I'm not going to cut up
film. I'm not going to cutmovie clips into film like Spolsterra did for
pat Riley and work my way upand figure out every freaking assistance job and
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what they're supposed to do, likeSam Cassel for the last fifteen years.
It's an amazing path, right,Matt to one of the most iconic jobs
in basketball. But then you haveto say, is coaching Lebron at forty
one an iconic job? Does anybodywant this job at this point? I
mean that's you know, that's whatI would imagine a lot of the snarky
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Twitter you know posts are going tobe, which is congratulations JJ, you're
you're the number one assistant to thehead coach, or the picture of Lebron
like that's you can't install or instilla culture when that guy is on the
team. It's it's his culture.It's whatever he wants it to be is
what it is. So to havethose I have this vision and this offensive
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system that I'm going to implement,and this culture that I want to establish
of accountability, and that's all.That's fine. If you're taking over,
you know, the Charlotte Hornets,if you're taking over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
This not with forty one year oldLebron James. That doesn't work, That's
not Hey. Lebron and I havea shared vision for how basketball should be
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played and catered to his talents.He's still one of the ten best players
in the league. I believe that, so is Anthony Davis. And my
job is to design a system thathe's been called with these last twenty years,
and Anthony Davis is comfortable with,and I believe I can do that.
Well. It's interesting what people talkabout, you know, well this,
you know, we're going to dothings in a complete There's only so
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many ways you can do things,right, Like even football, which is
more complicated in many ways it hasgot more guys than basketball. There's there's
only so many ways you can dothings, and so often big, new
innovative things in the NFL and collegefootball are just things that somebody used to
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do a long time ago that everybodyforgot about and then they come back around,
you know, like like the wildcat. Like when people talk about implementing
his offensive system, installing the system, it's like, you know, like
you're changing the engine in a caror something, and that's not what these
are. These are the same basketballplayers that were there last year. They're
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going to go out and play basketball. You're gonna roll the ball out and
hand it to Lebron James. We'veseen it, you know, and remember
the triangle was text winner hereaking LongBeach fifty sixty years ago. So that
wasn't the only thing Louis seen that'sreally new was really Mike D'Antoni seven seconds
or last three point heavy offense,you know, not focusing on a big
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man, not focusing on getting doubleteamed in the paint and kicking out,
but just jacking threes. Yeah,which was the air raid. The air
raid of college football that had aCliff Kingsbury shot in the NFL was the
D'Antoni system that was It never wona championship, was fun to watch.
Everybody was riled up because it wassomething different, but it really wasn't that
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different. It was something somebody cameup with forty years ago. How Mummy
the air Raid uh text Winner LongBeach fifty years ago? Like you said,
So when they talk about this highbasketball IQ and installing this system,
like you're gonna be able to talkto your your curtains and they're just going
to open and you know, likeyou know, it's gonna be something like
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like the movie Total Recall when Arnoldhad all that stuff at his fingertips said
the Johnny Cab I don't see that, Matt there, it's just basketball,
know, the like the only personthat I think they like. Look,
you hire Kenny Atkinson, who's beenwith Steve Kerr and the Warriors. You
hire Chris Quinn who's been with Spolsterin the heat and they come in and
say, hey, we need toadjust the culture. Then yeah you can.
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You can buy that from Keny.Yeah, I know what it's like
to have superstars and watch them buyinto the betterment of the team as opposed
to themselves even though they are superstarsin this league. Fine, but JJ
Reddick, who's never coached before,you're going to establish the culture, You're
gonna like that's that rings a littlebit hollow right to me. But you
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know, I thought the Lincoln Rileypress conference, even though he was a
much more accomplished head coach, wasreally awkward with Mike Ball have a lot
of fun with this guy. You'regonna have fun with this guy? Or
what? You don't even know?Here's something wrong with that guy. Then
they had the weird awkward guy runningfor mayor Caruso with a weird speech.
And then it was COVID but peoplewere all there like rubbing up on each
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other, all the all the explayers, and then they had people picking
up the trash in the background.There were two players there right, uh
yeah, Gabe Vincent and Christian Wood, two guys that aren't expected to be
there a long time, maybe maybemoved as soon as a week by this
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help? Does this help? Well, we'll have How is your weekend next?
As we continue to react to theJJ Reddick press conference, I don't
know, Matt, I don't knowhow to feel about it. F and
A, I know how Hey,everybody, what's cragging? Uh? JJ
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Monday, so I'm gonna do whatI do. The weekend is mine.
So how was your weekend? Howwas your weekend? Matt? Well,
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Uh, Friday night was Preston's birthday, So we hit up the Habachi the
Kobe Steakhouse with her friends. Ohdid somebody slang a shrimp in your mouth?
Damn right, they did. Everybodyslang all the scrimps over to my
plate. So I consumed a tonof them. And because we only go
to the haibachi like once every otheryear, I forget it does not I
(37:21):
do not do well with it.I was just like, oh, man,
can we get home. I gotta, I gotta get out of here.
I gotta, I gotta go.Uh, I gotta go get rid
of this. This is not goodfor birthday. Yeah, oil in your
mouth and light your mouth on fire. Basically, Yes, that's basically what
they do. Right. It's there'sso much oil on all that food.
If you're not used to it,it can beat you downs. Were great,
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The whole family was there. Wetook over one whole table and it
was a lot of fun. Uh. Saturday and Saturday Sunday? What happened?
Did you hear what happened? Kate'sNo, I did not hear what
happened? All right, Well,I'm glad that it wasn't that I didn't
just hear, because then I wouldbe gone right and he would still be
talking. Right. We do needto get him back to talk about Saturday
and Sunday. I would imagine thathe served maybe even twice on one or
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not both of those days. It'squite possible. Should we do your weekend?
Timmy? Sure? Back to Matt. Yeah, absolutely, My weekend
was great. Friday and Saturday night, guys. I actually had pre am
post while David Batsey was on TVon Spectrum Sports in La So I was
here late Friday and Saturday. Saturday. During the day, went to Highland
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Park and went to lunch in Felarios, the Italian place right there on Fingeroa
Filarios. Yes, then walked acrossthe street to the Highland Park Bowl and
spent an hour bowling there at theiconic bowling alley that is the Highland Park
Bowl, before going back to Saturdaynight and enjoining still there. It's still
there. It is still there,right by the Lodge Room right, Yeah,
pool, Indie Rock Place and theChicken Man. Yeah. The Highland
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Park Bowl is a place everybody hasto go to at least once. It's
been there over one hundred years.It is fantastic and it looks like it's
still from like the nineteen twenties.It's fantastic. Saturday night I hung out
here, did pre and post withColin Ee on his birthday and that was
a lot of fun to celebrate withColin Yee on Saturday night with a Dodger
win. And then Sunday rare dayoff and went to Santa Barbara for the
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day. It was one hundred degreesby ten am on Sunday morning yesterday,
so my wife and I got thegirls and said, let's go to the
coast. Let's get away from theheat. So we just wrote row to
Carpentie and Santa Barbara, hung out, met some friends at Teddy's by the
Sea and Carpenteria for a late lunchor lead dinner, and then headed back
home. So yeah, just triedto beat the heat. We don't have
a pool. We don't have anin ground or above ground pool this year.
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Well, whose fault is that?Well? And I didn't know that
Teddy Bridgewater had a restaurant out there. Yep, No, it's actually Teddy.
I send his place. Oh God, let's go Teddy Eye. Yeah.
He brings out the food by draggingit out like you drag our dB
for five yards back in nineteen ninetyfive. So I'd tell it brings your
fish out to your table. SoTeddy, I call it the Yeah Kate's
party of four. We're gonna dragyou to your table. So do you
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didn't go to the kuok or Finney's, did not go to Kook's, did
not go to Finney's, went toTeddy's by the Sea in Santa Barbara,
Carpentria. So that was it,right? Is there an update on Matt
Smith? No? Update, No, had a great weekend, Thank you
guys. While we wait for Matt'smoney Smith to reconnect here on the comrades.
Had some family in town for theweekend. So Saturday we took a
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tour of Dodger Stadium. Never beento Dodger Stadium, at least on a
tour, and so that was prettycool. I had never been on a
Dodger Stadium. It was on atour, yes, yeah, the first
time. In geez. I've beengoing to Dodger game since I was since
I was a kid, since iwas a just small a whee lad,
and I've never been on a tourand it was really really cool. They
say, like there's the scoreboard,like, well, no, they start
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by the history of Dodger Stadium.They take you through with you know,
the gold gloves, they show youthe silver Sluggers. They take you down
to the dugout area on the field. So yeah, during the tour,
we happened to see uh Walker Buellerand uh somebody else walked through. I
guess one of the trainers walked inwith him, and Gavin Stone walked in
on his own too, and sothat that was. That was kind of
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cool to say something. No,no, nothing at all. Gavin kind
of looked and kind of kind ofdid one of these little waves here,
like hey, what's up? Thatwas it. We did go to the
Vincecoie press box. We did.We sat there, took pictures. It
was awesome. Uh. Again,the tour guide Ryan was very good,
very h knowledgeable for being a younga younger Dodger guy. But at any
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rate, we all had a greattime. First experience for all of us
never been on the tour. Andso Saturday night we all got together and
went and had a good time anduh at Sydney's backyard. Uh and we
had a great time. Uh cateredfood and on Sunday, Well, we
just hung out by the pool.It was really really hot and so we
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kind of, uh, we're indoorsfor a little while. And then when
once the weather started to cool down, we got back outside and dipped our
feet in the pool for a littlewhile, and then we went out to
Cola Vedas tim the new Mexican restaurantin Burbanx. Yeah, right there on
San Fernando. Right. This islike fifty and they have the they light
(42:10):
up the fiery sparklers for birthdays.And this was the first time I've ever
been in Colavetta since it used tobe fun ruckers. Yeah, they're used
to There's there's still one in there'sone in Redondo in the Riviera that's popular.
There's one in sam Pedro on FifthStreet that's really popular. I'll tell
you what I mean that. Iwas really impressed with the place. The
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food is good. I did enjoythe food. The cocktails were great.
We had a margarita. Flight didn'tinclude a spicy margerita, but they had
a margerita called the chupa Cabra.I drank dead marguerite. I feel like
turning into it chewpa cabra. Afterthat. Anyway, that was my weekend,
Petros, What about you? Well, I didn't do much. I
just did yoga at my sister's yogastudio. There was the union go the
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he was not was breather No No. I did yoga and I did the
Bidding of the Young. Oh.And I went to Cindy Robbie Bogdanovic's mom's
seventieth birthday party at Robbie's house onSaturday, and that was nice and I
met I met some listeners, includinga high level local architect by the name
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of Russ Bartow. Oh his wife. Yeah, it was I believe his
sister in law's birthday. But anyway, yeah, so, but that was
about it. I just hung aroundand didn't do that much yoga. Oh
and I went to a youth baseballgame that my son wasn't playing in because
my cousin's kid was playing in it, Rolling Hills All Stars versus the Palace
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Verdi's All Stars. But I willsay this, the Rolling Hills team,
they had a couple Pedro guys onthere, and I was like, that's
a San Pedro family. Uh ohyeah, and guess who won Pedro Yeah,
well, Rolling Hills Tech gotcha.All right, we'll be back.
We'll try to reconnoiter Matt, andwe'll try to continue the show in great
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flex alert. It's two o'clock.What do you want to do it.
Let's just go right radical pursuing thisversus you know they would still be talking,
Matt, you knew it twenty yearsago while you were a duke,
Lakers tried to probably just skie awayfrom Cameron Indoor to be here. What
did coach k tell you in regardsto maybe nice job opportunity and just like
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coaching, Yeah, coaches since twothousand and four has had a great relationship
with the Lakers and the Bus family. He was a very complimentary of the
organization, and he really, truthfully, he was very helpful throughout this process.
It started. You know, Ididn't know Coach had like Google alerts
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or that stuff his news, butI guess somebody tipped him off that.
You know, I was potentially interviewingfor Charlotte. So I was literally flying
back from a game and landed atLa Guardia and we talked for thirty minutes
that night. Ultimately did not dothe full interview there and and kind of
put that coaching thing on pause.And then this opened up, and Coach
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throughout the process was very helpful interms of just me navigating the interview process,
you know, robin Ie communication,all of this stuff. Like,
Coach was great. He still is, like, you know, I've told
the young guys this. I've talkedto nearly every player on the phone.
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Some guys are ducking my calls.It's okay, but like Jalen and Maxwell,
they were like, hey, Coach, I'm like, I'm not comfortable
with that. Please call me jj. You know there's one person in my
life that I played for that Icall coach, and that's Coach. K
Like he's still that to me.I think this is bears. It's relevant
to this discussion. You were oneof the first players to have a podcast
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while he was active. What's gonnahappen with mine the game? You're gonna
be the first coach to have apodcast while he's active. Now I am
for the time being, and hopefullyit's a very very long time. I
am excommunicated from the content space,so there would be no podcasts. Will
(03:00):
we'll do something when I have abreather from what we have coming up.
I'm gonna be drinking out of afire hose for the next month, but
oh yeah, good project. Dosomething for all the people that listened,
and we'll have a small little video. But I'm I'm done with podcasting for
now. So Rob j JJ,Brodect Turner JJ, Rob. You guys
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keep talking about culture. What isthat and how do you go about putting
that in place? It's a goodquestion to be what what becomes immediately impactful
when you get to spend time withJa about winning and then the cult We've
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had players come through here that sharethat mindset. Look at that modified scene.
I think the two things that cometo mind in terms of culture,
is there mixing the service component thatj Jay talked about, and that was
a big thing players to be takea note. As much as it is
to be behind the players supporting themto be great and providing all the resources,
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the coaching, the mentoring for themto be great says a lot.
And just obsessing without place of excellenceand to get to a place of win.
Asked about the analytics combinations, likethose two divergent important to our championship
culture. I'll be very simple inmy answer. Like to me, culture
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is very simply two things. It'sit's how a group interacts with each other,
and it's the things that a groupprioritize. How much the group will
accept mailed by the head coach andas the GM like a lot of fully
accepted Matt. For the culture towork, we have to determine how we're
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going to interact with each other andwhat we prioritize, and it's it's all
those things we talked about. WhatLebron wants is priority want two, three,
four and five. Mitch, werethere a couple of people that didn't
get a chance that we want toI'm more than happy. I know you
guys traveled a long way to getOh, yeah, we have a nice
guy. We're happy to do acouple more. JJ. What are you
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most curious to learn of coaching?I guess you go through this this year
my first challenge. Well, I, uh, you know, it's interesting
because I have, uh, youknow, going back the last year.
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I've always been I've always been avisual person as a player. I relied
on visualization in a workout. Inhigh school, I would at a free
period, and on game days Iwould I would walk through the gym and
I would look at certain spots onthe floor and I would visualize coming off
screens and where the defense would beand the attack the yark on the ball,
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and I've sort of visualized every that'sfrom the water boil for the last
year. That's what I've done interms of coaching. And the fun part
I think for me is just goingto be actually having that nine year olds
and learning. I consider myself tobe someone who has a high level of
curiosity and a love of learning.I'm not a script I know what the
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plays are going to be, andthey don't quite understand them. When I
show it to them. They reallypicked out life. I recognize you're never
going to get there, So givingmyself a little bit of grace is going
to be important. I'm not expectinggrace from any of you. I don't
expect that. Fine, I reallydon't. I don't. But giving myself
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that is going to be important.If there's like a specific thing, I
mean, it's it's very simple.I missed bread. Feeling bulbilized to the
break walking out for your first becausethis would be his moment to start asking
questions. Sitting there and putting yourhand over your heart for the national anthem.
What is that feeling going to be? Like? Hi, coach,
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Yeah, I work for news,Japanese News. Are you so? I
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one has run will be there butplaying for the Japanese national team in the
Paris or in Peak. Oh,he's going to be playing in the Olympics.
What are you going to do aboutMoro? What plans for I'll start
and then hand it off to coach. Being able to have some time with
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Rui. He was in the facility. Is one of the guys that's doc
and co and you know, superexcited to watch jajon coach and he did
share with us. And I'm surehe'll have his own news that he's thinking
through the Olympics, and you know, hopefully they'll be good news there.
But it was great to sit upstairswith him earlier today. And uh,
he's gonna have a great, greatsummer. Yeah. I thought he had
(08:24):
a fantastic year last year. Oneof the things. And maybe I should
have mentioned this to Ramona's question,But you know, beyond just the Lakers
and Lebron and Anthony Davis, I'mexcited about some of the younger guys on
this roster and helping them. Uh. You know, I had great conversations
(08:48):
this weekend too. That I hadthat I loved were my conversation with Austin
and my conversation with Brewi, anduh, you know, I think for
him in terms of how I envisionand so I didn't love the Angela Russell.
He's a complete douche Like I wanthim shooting more threes. Uh,
so that's a big, big partof it. I brought up the offensive
(09:09):
rebounding. I think he can reallybecome an elite offensive rebounder. As we
sort of build out our offensive systemand how we're going to play, they
talking when we start incorporating, we'regoing to build my offense. Cutting roy
can be doesn't it just mean Lebrondribbling around and doing it stuff? Seems
like when on your screening angles,he's going to get against matches. Take
(09:31):
it from James Harden, I amcan really score at the basket if he
has smaller players on him. Whoselaugh as well? Eric Pigus with Bleach
Report, Thank you Rob for alittle bit of wo The dregs are really
now. You mentioned different questions asthe longest questionails. Have you visualized how
you will build out those chops ofrotation management, end of game management,
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cock management, load management, youknow, like series management and everything that
goes into those little details, Anddo you have a philosophy a plan do
you? Obviously you don't have thefirsthand experience doing it yourself. You've been
around it very same coaches, Andwill that be something you rely on heavily
with support from your bench? Yeah? Again, you know, going back
(10:20):
to just collaboration, like this isall going to be a really fun part
of this summer. Over the nextcouple of months, like a lot of
fun. JJ is thinking about allthose things, right, la risters,
set rotations, game management, loadmanagement, all that stuff. I think
a big and I told Rob thisin Chicago. This, this is like
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a big thing for me. Isjust my relationship in communication with analytics and
my relationship and communication with performance.Those are as important as anything else that
I can do as a head.How do you communicate with analytics and have
a relationship with that stuff. It'sit's obviously, you know, I think
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it's either I think that's the languageyou communicate with. I'm going to use
math. I'm going to use math, hey, JJ, clearly with the
Guardian. First of all, sorry, Second of all, what misconceptions or
(11:22):
concerns about you that you've heard inthe last few weeks are you most like
looking forward to dispelling? Oh,the Guardian math cut the racial issue,
look at those two white guys.It's a valid question. And I've certainly
heard everything. You know. It'sit's been a really interesting, uh in
(11:43):
six weeks or so, just interms of you know, being part of
the engagement farming industry. You know, it's been really interesting. However,
I don't really have a great answerfor your question, because I really don't
give a fuck like, oh geez, I want to coach the Lakers.
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I want to the team. Idon't want to dispel anything. I don't.
I want to become a great coachin the NBA, and I want
to win chances somebody in the background, our players to maximize their careers.
That's all I fucking care about.Bob. Now, we got to dump
out all the way. You can'tdo that to us. JJ Reddick start
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dropping F bombs on the Guardian?How could you do that? When you
say you don't give an F andyou really don't e F and care.
When you're dressed in a suit likethat, it conveys that you really do
care. You've already grown your giantrabbit ears. No, I mean I
don't. Is Channel two care?It's one thing to have it on.
I mean, where are the onesthat have to wear this? This is
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an FCC license, stigged signal ronCBS. Oh, Ronnie got it?
Of course. Did we get amention? We didn't have somebody capable at
the switch. But did we getboth? Yes we did, we got
both. But if he drops anotherone, we're gonna be on equity,
Matty, is it built up yet, Ronnie? Is it built back up
yet? Quite yet? Let's rollthe Let's roll the dice with almost falling
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mean Inger, I know what myweaknesses are. I don't know all my
blind spots is ahead kind of like, let's be honest. I don't.
I don't like, I haven't doneit, no class, I know what
my strengths are, working Blue like, I'm confident in myself and who I
am to have the afternoon be fantastic. I would I mean, I would
love it if I could walk inthe coaches locker room and everybody's just as
(13:41):
dialed in as I am with justhow compartmentalized the locker is. But it's
okay if it's not that way.Hey, j J. Jim Alexander from
the Southern California News Group, Welcomeback to LA by the way, all
right, with all the experience thatyou've had in various facets of this game,
are you anticipating that there's going tobecome something, There's going to have
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something come up this year that you'regoing to say, and how do you
handle that? Yes, it wasn'tthat question. Was it my expectation which
(14:26):
challenges on the court off the court, to scrutiny all that I have since
the highest of expectations that things aregoing to be there, and yet I
recognize it's probably going to be worsethan I could imagine in terms of how
I would handle it. Look,I don't know what's the situation, right,
(14:50):
what's the situation? Rob and Italked during this process about a very
specific thing, and it goes backto one of my earlier answers, like,
some things can't be avoided. Somethings I think can be avoided if
you set those standards and expectations early. And so when you get to game
sixty, somebody asked me about LindaRambis, You've already sort of built in
(15:15):
the system. The situation is Lebronhis subtweeted, because he's pissed at your
rotations in this four game losing straight. There's your situation. One more,
okay, one more. It isget the Atlantic in there so we can
start swearing. Coach, what's yourpriority as far as developing and evaluating talent
at a G League level? Dumbquestion? We definitely talked about that during
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the process, and I think oneof the things that we discussed we discussed
it. The last question. Oneof the things that we discussed is like
what is the vision for how we'retrying to play and so a big part
of evaluating players in the G leaguesecond picks, undrafted players, whatever guy's
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on the summer league bombs, Matt, can they make that? The last
question that was a softball from theguard Guardian that was a soft ball you
need. I thought they just askedHi about what's it like to be so
championship level team. So there's goingto be an emphasis. Hey really wanted
to anyone that we're looking is nothappy he had a chance last roster shutt
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JJ, all right, that's itpress the So of course we get the
two F bombs and we wore twoF bombs in the chest like two thirty
two bullets. Rob just walked offthe stage, left JJ by himself.
Oh I guarantee he is not happyabout the F bombs. Brother Jim going
in for the hug not happy.Oh yeah, look at him, dropped
the bike and just walk off.He is pissed. He's thinking it's two
(16:52):
o'clock in the afternoon that the Lakerstwo is carrying it, Channel nine is
carrying it. Oh, look,he goes right up to me kiss his
ass. Looking he put in hisbig face right up to him to kiss
his ass. And there's brother Jimgoing in for the hug. Look at
it, boy, he's back inkissing more. Assi finally turned away.
(17:14):
There's mcminimon Macon that coming off thetop rope. All right, I thank
god they cut away. Yeah,I guarantee Polenka is not happy with that.
What are you doing? Caesar doesn'tlike that kind of vulgarity. Tom,
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Well, we're hopeful we're flexed backtoday, and we have great hope
that the JJ Reddick regime is asponderous, tedious and words salady as that
great press conference. Although he didcome off as a thoughtful guy. Now,
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look, he communicates for a living. He's very successful in the podcast
world, very successful, not justwith Lebron but his other podcast that he's
done with The Ringer, The OldMan and the Three and all that.
They're very successful. There's a reasonwhy they tapped them to call the NBA
Finals after Doc Rivers took the Milwaukeegig. Because he knows how to you
know, he isn't he knows howto put words together. He's an impressive
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communicator and got a win. That'spart of it. My god, I
guess you could say they won thepress conference if you like the double F
bombs. Now, Rob Polenka saidthat they were going to have high level
strategy and high level attention to detailas opposed to Darvinham Frank Vogel. Not
(18:45):
high level strategy, not not highlevel attention to detail. JJ grateful wants
to serve, smile, serve everyone, players and the fans. Yeah,
he smiled on more than one occasion. And they wouldn't talk about the process
of hiring anybody else because today JJ'sday's right. Well, no, it's
(19:10):
our day too, because we're themedian, we're covering this and you hired
a new head coach. It's notabout JJ Reddick. Is about how you
arrived at the decision to hire JJReddick. He wasn't your first choice.
And the three big faces that facedhim right after Polenka's weird cheshire cat smile
of disapproval about the F bombs wereWaki, mouth breathing, Medina, our
friend and brother Jim. I don'tthink I've ever seen Rob Polinka avoid a
(19:37):
camera as much as he just did. At the end trying to get off
that stage. You've made You've mademe look a fool. JJ, You've
made me a fool. You've mademe have to be a fool. You
take those tie off somewhere right now, like the right you think those two
f bombs? Really? I meanwhen when somebody says, are you concerned
about all the things saying said aboutand then you you really just go on
(20:03):
a character you drop two F bombslike I don't know. I mean,
I can do whatever they want.It reminds me of the story I always
tell about the Mike Gundy press conferencewhere he came off the stage and looked
at his PR guy and was likeyeah, right, and the PRU was
like no, no, no,Why all these guys in the media,
(20:23):
I think they need to go upto JJ and like hug him and give
him a high like he's not oneof you guys. I don't say hi
to him. If I don't sayhi to him, then the other guy
will have said hi to him.But they think like, oh, yeah,
one of us got his head coachingjob. He was a media now
he's a head coach. We couldall do this, No they do,
Okay, you know they all wantto try to get the edge. They
want to be the mouthpiece. GetJJ's story out there right. Hey,
(20:47):
I'll be your guy. Confess tome. I'll be your priest. Confess
to me and I'll convey your message. I've gotten multiple platforms, television and
the written word. Come my direction, JJ. My votes with a lady
from the Guardian. She knows theguy gainnerneath the skin, right, it's
pretty impressive. Yeah, let meget the Guardian back out there. Hey,
(21:07):
what do you want to dispel?All these things have been said about
you? You know I've read themall, and I was like, okay,
well that's good. He's not theguy that says I don't hear anything
and then goes on to detail everysingle thing it's been said. At least
he's being honest. I've read andI've heard it all. And then,
oh god, no, I don'tgive it, give it, and I
don't give an fing f and fyou. I won't do what you tell
me. I want to tell rightright now, I visualize my mind's eye
(21:33):
has a has a film of RobPalinka like biting a towel so he doesn't
make any noise, and Jeanie canhear him screaming through the door, and
he's just going, oh like thesacks up in the Addict and Porky's at
the gym exactly right. There's justthat massive vein a bowl jinge from his
forehead below his Caesar cut, sweetierCaesar is going to be even more dissheveled
(21:56):
modified. All right, well,we're gonna talk more about this the next
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next JJ Reddick presser has ended.Carried the back end of it. Rogan
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a fighter. That's right. Anduh Rob Polenka is still on TV right
now being interviewed out at the upLike, honestly, I don't know.
I mean, if someone asks youwhat you make of all the comments about
why you're not going to be ableto do this boo, seems like it
just feels like you do. Iwant to become a great coach in the
(23:25):
NBA and I want to win championshipsand I want my players to maximize their
careers. That's all I care about. Oh, I don't need to do
that. Well, this is terrible. This is spells. This spells nothing.
Everything was going so well, everythingwas going so well, JJ,
(23:45):
and you had to make our fortyminute presser about forty seconds and you drop
in two f bombs, saying thatyou don't give an f what other people
say about you and challenge whether ornot you're up for this task. I
want to be a great effort coach. Yeah that was my I guess my,
like, you know, to reallyboil it down. My biggest takeaway
(24:08):
is how this is something he's alwayswanted to do. He wants to serve
the players, he wants to servethe fans. He's always had that leadership
gene in him, a drive towin, to be a coach. Well,
then why weren't you an assistant coach? Exactly? Matt? Why did
you never do that at an assistantlevel? If this is the drive and
(24:29):
the career path you always envision taking. You made that point last week,
you know, I mean from LukeWalton to Miles Simon to any other guy
if they want to start coaching,you're like, oh wow, that guy's
an assistant out in Memphis, coach. Look, oh well there's tyas Endy's
on the sideline UCLA. It's like, these guys want to get into coaching,
so they coach. But this wasdifferent. This is a guy who's
(24:51):
a very good communicator, who becamea podcaster and was high level ESPN because
they fired They're really good analysts thatwere really explosive chemistry wise and had a
great time. They got rid ofthem and they hired Doc Rivers, and
then Doc Rivers left and now JJReddick is on the NBA finals and he
(25:11):
was friend's f ol friend of LebronAnd what did they say? What was
their answer about whether Lebron was heavilyinvolved in the process or not? Not
at all? Not, you know, and that was deliberate on each of
our part. He wanted nothing todo with this nothing. I never I
talked to him Thursday, thirty minutesafter I was hired. It was our
(25:33):
first conversation about this. It nevercame up once. And that's fine,
Like, is that believable a littlebit, But that doesn't mean that Lebron
wasn't like, hey, hire JJ. Well, didn't they say already?
They already knew exactly what to do. It's kind of like, if you're
there to do Lebron's bidding, youknow that that's your job. You're gonna
(25:56):
do it. You don't really needto be told by Lebron. Lebron's Rich
Paul could tell you. I meananybody could change, you know, the
offense that he's going to install.Lebron James is forty one, He's been
in the league for freaking twenty years. He's the system that's he's going to
do whatever the hell he wants.What about the offensive system that JJ Reddick
(26:18):
has that they're going to install,Like, what is that? How does
that? Has that ever been putinto practice with people with actual players,
with basketball guys out on a court. Is it just on a whiteboard?
Is it? Ai? How doesthat? How does that play into it?
I mean, it's just I mean, most press conferences are just a
lot of a lot of words andgobblygook and just platitudes. But I think
(26:42):
the most telling thing, like yousaid, was somebody asked him about criticism
and he dropped two F bombs,which kind of sort of validates the criticism
that he's got big rabbit ears ifhe's gonna have a hard question, because
I really don't give it, Likehonestly, oh, senior sincy Thievil,
(27:03):
and I want to win championships,and I want my players to maximize their
careers. That's all I care about. Okay, Well, all right,
I mean I gotta ask him,mat, I mean, this is not
like the first press conference I've everwatched with Rob Polenka. But he's always
ponderous and a little bit tedious andtells goofy stories and we make fun of
(27:26):
him over the years. He's proneto exaggeration or just flat out lying.
But did he not make this oneextra awkward? Yeah? He did not
make them all awkward? Is heawkward like this? This was awkward?
He typically, I think, isselling it right. He's got this big
smile. Isn't this great? DarvinHam, We're excited players coach going to
(27:47):
connect with these players. He's notthat far removed from the game under coach
Popovich and Pudenholzer and an NBA chaand here was just like, you know
he is. As far as abuilding up, Dylan asked him about because
that's a knock that's been on theLakers that they have not built out their
analytics department, that they have oneof that you know that they're cheap on
that front. And his response tothat was, you know, Jiji and
(28:08):
I were talking about that and andhow how players learn these days, how
different it is from twenty years ago. So we were talking about building an
app for players to watch on theirphones, because that's what JJ's done as
a coach, As a coach ofnine year olds, he's got to he's
got to play him, he's gotto do it visually for nine year olds.
(28:30):
It's a lot like politics, especiallybecause it's an election here. You
get all these fancy terms for thingsthat are quite simple, Like he could
just say, yeah, I wentinto the sports media, as opposed to
I'm in the engagement industry. Yes, the what like what engagement that prepenced
his f bomb? The engagement farmingindustry? Like what the hell are we
(28:52):
talking? I mean? And threeto ten times they mentioned about his basketball
like you that it's off the charts, and it's like, okay, I
mean. And I think the onlything we can read into the fact that
Lebron wasn't there is that he's tryingto gently nail us from far away.
He doesn't want to just be rightin our face. Yeah, he can't
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show up with everybody saying you dida podcast with Lebrons and now you're the
head coach, and then Lebron's theregiving you hugs and high fives and smiles
and ask grabbing and all that sothat I get but still likes I started
out. I thought it started outfine, and he was selling it,
and he, like we said,he's a very good communicator. He delivers
his message, he uses big words. He's clearly a smart guy. And
(29:36):
when somebody's like that, you eitherit's hard to be on one side or
the other. I mean, it'shard to not be on one side or
the other. You either are impressedby it or you just think, Wow,
this guy's an arrogant blowhard, oryou're impressed by it at first and
after a while you say, ohmy god, this guy's an arrogant blowhard.
There's nothing behind all this pros there'snothing behind all this rhetoric. It
(29:57):
really kind of felt like him andPolinka or the same guy saying the same
stuff. They're kind of similar guys. It feels it's my Like I said,
I think it goes back to whatwe talked about really throughout this whole
process in last week, and it'slike, well, how are we supposed
to believe that all you're concerned aboutis the players and your desire to coach
(30:18):
and lead When you chose not to, you chose the easy path, You
chose a podcast from the comfort ofyour because you don't. He didn't have
to grind. JJ made a lotof money in his career, which is
fine, but he chose no,I'm not going to do the grind.
I'm not going to be the tapeguy. I'm not going to cut up
film. I'm not going to cutmovie clips into film like Spolsterra did for
pat Riley and work my way upand figure out every freaking assistance job and
(30:41):
what they're supposed to do, likeSam Cassel for the last fifteen years.
It's an amazing path, right,Matt to one of the most iconic jobs
in basketball. But then you haveto say, is coaching Lebron at forty
one an iconic job? Does anybodywant this job at this point? I
mean that's you know, that's whatI would imagine a lot of the snarky
(31:03):
Twitter you know posts are going tobe, which is congratulations JJ, you're
you're the number one assistant to thehead coach, or the picture of Lebron
like that's you can't install or instilla culture when that guy is on the
team. It's it's his culture.It's whatever he wants it to be is
what it is. So to havethose I have this vision and this offensive
(31:26):
system that I'm going to implement,and this culture that I want to establish
of accountability, and that's all.That's fine. If you're taking over,
you know, the Charlotte Hornets,if you're taking over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
This not with forty one year oldLebron James. That doesn't work, That's
not Hey. Lebron and I havea shared vision for how basketball should be
(31:48):
played and catered to his talents.He's still one of the ten best players
in the league. I believe that, so is Anthony Davis. And my
job is to design a system thathe's been called with these last twenty years,
and Anthony Davis is comfortable with,and I believe I can do that.
Well. It's interesting what people talkabout, you know, well this,
you know, we're going to dothings in a complete There's only so
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many ways you can do things,right, Like even football, which is
more complicated in many ways it hasgot more guys than basketball. There's there's
only so many ways you can dothings, and so often big, new
innovative things in the NFL and collegefootball are just things that somebody used to
(32:30):
do a long time ago that everybodyforgot about and then they come back around,
you know, like like the wildcat. Like when people talk about implementing
his offensive system, installing the system, it's like, you know, like
you're changing the engine in a caror something, and that's not what these
are. These are the same basketballplayers that were there last year. They're
(32:50):
going to go out and play basketball. You're gonna roll the ball out and
hand it to Lebron James. We'veseen it, you know, and remember
the triangle was text winner hereaking LongBeach fifty sixty years ago. So that
wasn't the only thing Louis seen that'sreally new was really Mike D'Antoni seven seconds
or last three point heavy offense,you know, not focusing on a big
(33:14):
man, not focusing on getting doubleteamed in the paint and kicking out,
but just jacking threes. Yeah,which was the air raid. The air
raid of college football that had aCliff Kingsbury shot in the NFL was the
D'Antoni system that was It never wona championship, was fun to watch.
Everybody was riled up because it wassomething different, but it really wasn't that
(33:37):
different. It was something somebody cameup with forty years ago. How Mummy
the air Raid uh text Winner LongBeach fifty years ago? Like you said,
So when they talk about this highbasketball IQ and installing this system,
like you're gonna be able to talkto your your curtains and they're just going
to open and you know, likeyou know, it's gonna be something like
(34:00):
like the movie Total Recall when Arnoldhad all that stuff at his fingertips said
the Johnny Cab I don't see that, Matt there, it's just basketball,
know, the like the only personthat I think they like. Look,
you hire Kenny Atkinson, who's beenwith Steve Kerr and the Warriors. You
hire Chris Quinn who's been with Spolsterin the heat and they come in and
say, hey, we need toadjust the culture. Then yeah you can.
(34:22):
You can buy that from Keny.Yeah, I know what it's like
to have superstars and watch them buyinto the betterment of the team as opposed
to themselves even though they are superstarsin this league. Fine, but JJ
Reddick, who's never coached before,you're going to establish the culture, You're
gonna like that's that rings a littlebit hollow right to me. But you
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know, I thought the Lincoln Rileypress conference, even though he was a
much more accomplished head coach, wasreally awkward with Mike Ball have a lot
of fun with this guy. You'regonna have fun with this guy? Or
what? You don't even know?Here's something wrong with that guy. Then
they had the weird awkward guy runningfor mayor Caruso with a weird speech.
And then it was COVID but peoplewere all there like rubbing up on each
(35:05):
other, all the all the explayers, and then they had people picking
up the trash in the background.There were two players there right, uh
yeah, Gabe Vincent and Christian Wood, two guys that aren't expected to be
there a long time, maybe maybemoved as soon as a week by this
(35:25):
help? Does this help? Well, we'll have How is your weekend next?
As we continue to react to theJJ Reddick press conference, I don't
know, Matt, I don't knowhow to feel about it. F and
A, I know how Hey,everybody, what's cragging? Uh? JJ
(35:52):
Reddick just dropped an s bomb onhis interview on Spectrum Sports Net. Says
you can't make me sass up.He's having a good time, man,
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So how was your weekend? Howwas your weekend? Matt? Well,
(37:01):
Uh, Friday night was Preston's birthday, So we hit up the Habachi the
Kobe Steakhouse with her friends. Ohdid somebody slang a shrimp in your mouth?
Damn right, they did. Everybodyslang all the scrimps over to my
plate. So I consumed a tonof them. And because we only go
to the haibachi like once every otheryear, I forget it does not I
(37:21):
do not do well with it.I was just like, oh, man,
can we get home. I gotta, I gotta get out of here.
I gotta, I gotta go.Uh, I gotta go get rid
of this. This is not goodfor birthday. Yeah, oil in your
mouth and light your mouth on fire. Basically, Yes, that's basically what
they do. Right. It's there'sso much oil on all that food.
If you're not used to it,it can beat you downs. Were great,
(37:42):
The whole family was there. Wetook over one whole table and it
was a lot of fun. Uh. Saturday and Saturday Sunday? What happened?
Did you hear what happened? Kate'sNo, I did not hear what
happened? All right, Well,I'm glad that it wasn't that I didn't
just hear, because then I wouldbe gone right and he would still be
talking. Right. We do needto get him back to talk about Saturday
and Sunday. I would imagine thathe served maybe even twice on one or
(38:07):
not both of those days. It'squite possible. Should we do your weekend?
Timmy? Sure? Back to Matt. Yeah, absolutely, My weekend
was great. Friday and Saturday night, guys. I actually had pre am
post while David Batsey was on TVon Spectrum Sports in La So I was
here late Friday and Saturday. Saturday. During the day, went to Highland
(38:27):
Park and went to lunch in Felarios, the Italian place right there on Fingeroa
Filarios. Yes, then walked acrossthe street to the Highland Park Bowl and
spent an hour bowling there at theiconic bowling alley that is the Highland Park
Bowl, before going back to Saturdaynight and enjoining still there. It's still
there. It is still there,right by the Lodge Room right, Yeah,
pool, Indie Rock Place and theChicken Man. Yeah. The Highland
(38:50):
Park Bowl is a place everybody hasto go to at least once. It's
been there over one hundred years.It is fantastic and it looks like it's
still from like the nineteen twenties.It's fantastic. Saturday night I hung out
here, did pre and post withColin Ee on his birthday and that was
a lot of fun to celebrate withColin Yee on Saturday night with a Dodger
win. And then Sunday rare dayoff and went to Santa Barbara for the
(39:12):
day. It was one hundred degreesby ten am on Sunday morning yesterday,
so my wife and I got thegirls and said, let's go to the
coast. Let's get away from theheat. So we just wrote row to
Carpentie and Santa Barbara, hung out, met some friends at Teddy's by the
Sea and Carpenteria for a late lunchor lead dinner, and then headed back
home. So yeah, just triedto beat the heat. We don't have
a pool. We don't have anin ground or above ground pool this year.
(39:34):
Well, whose fault is that?Well? And I didn't know that
Teddy Bridgewater had a restaurant out there. Yep, No, it's actually Teddy.
I send his place. Oh God, let's go Teddy Eye. Yeah.
He brings out the food by draggingit out like you drag our dB
for five yards back in nineteen ninetyfive. So I'd tell it brings your
fish out to your table. SoTeddy, I call it the Yeah Kate's
party of four. We're gonna dragyou to your table. So do you
(39:57):
didn't go to the kuok or Finney's, did not go to Kook's, did
not go to Finney's, went toTeddy's by the Sea in Santa Barbara,
Carpentria. So that was it,right? Is there an update on Matt
Smith? No? Update, No, had a great weekend, Thank you
guys. While we wait for Matt'smoney Smith to reconnect here on the comrades.
Had some family in town for theweekend. So Saturday we took a
(40:20):
tour of Dodger Stadium. Never beento Dodger Stadium, at least on a
tour, and so that was prettycool. I had never been on a
Dodger Stadium. It was on atour, yes, yeah, the first
time. In geez. I've beengoing to Dodger game since I was since
I was a kid, since iwas a just small a whee lad,
and I've never been on a tourand it was really really cool. They
say, like there's the scoreboard,like, well, no, they start
(40:43):
by the history of Dodger Stadium.They take you through with you know,
the gold gloves, they show youthe silver Sluggers. They take you down
to the dugout area on the field. So yeah, during the tour,
we happened to see uh Walker Buellerand uh somebody else walked through. I
guess one of the trainers walked inwith him, and Gavin Stone walked in
on his own too, and sothat that was. That was kind of
(41:04):
cool to say something. No,no, nothing at all. Gavin kind
of looked and kind of kind ofdid one of these little waves here,
like hey, what's up? Thatwas it. We did go to the
Vincecoie press box. We did.We sat there, took pictures. It
was awesome. Uh. Again,the tour guide Ryan was very good,
very h knowledgeable for being a younga younger Dodger guy. But at any
(41:27):
rate, we all had a greattime. First experience for all of us
never been on the tour. Andso Saturday night we all got together and
went and had a good time anduh at Sydney's backyard. Uh and we
had a great time. Uh cateredfood and on Sunday, Well, we
just hung out by the pool.It was really really hot and so we
(41:50):
kind of, uh, we're indoorsfor a little while. And then when
once the weather started to cool down, we got back outside and dipped our
feet in the pool for a littlewhile, and then we went out to
Cola Vedas tim the new Mexican restaurantin Burbanx. Yeah, right there on
San Fernando. Right. This islike fifty and they have the they light
(42:10):
up the fiery sparklers for birthdays.And this was the first time I've ever
been in Colavetta since it used tobe fun ruckers. Yeah, they're used
to There's there's still one in there'sone in Redondo in the Riviera that's popular.
There's one in sam Pedro on FifthStreet that's really popular. I'll tell
you what I mean that. Iwas really impressed with the place. The
(42:31):
food is good. I did enjoythe food. The cocktails were great.
We had a margarita. Flight didn'tinclude a spicy margerita, but they had
a margerita called the chupa Cabra.I drank dead marguerite. I feel like
turning into it chewpa cabra. Afterthat. Anyway, that was my weekend,
Petros, What about you? Well, I didn't do much. I
just did yoga at my sister's yogastudio. There was the union go the
(42:54):
he was not was breather No No. I did yoga and I did the
Bidding of the Young. Oh.And I went to Cindy Robbie Bogdanovic's mom's
seventieth birthday party at Robbie's house onSaturday, and that was nice and I
met I met some listeners, includinga high level local architect by the name
(43:16):
of Russ Bartow. Oh his wife. Yeah, it was I believe his
sister in law's birthday. But anyway, yeah, so, but that was
about it. I just hung aroundand didn't do that much yoga. Oh
and I went to a youth baseballgame that my son wasn't playing in because
my cousin's kid was playing in it, Rolling Hills All Stars versus the Palace
(43:40):
Verdi's All Stars. But I willsay this, the Rolling Hills team,
they had a couple Pedro guys onthere, and I was like, that's
a San Pedro family. Uh ohyeah, and guess who won Pedro Yeah,
well, Rolling Hills Tech gotcha.All right, we'll be back.
We'll try to reconnoiter Matt, andwe'll try to continue the show in great
(44:02):
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