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The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"ray allen" Discussed on The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"This game that I could ever receive. Hooray, you know, I want to thank you again, you know, I've always said this and you and I are looking at each other and I said, there's nobody I connect with more than you because it wasn't a big two. It was a big three with you. It wasn't a big three when I was around. It was a big four. But sometimes you get caught up in the shuffle, but you still and a lot of people still understand your place in your history to the game. So I just want to commend you, thank you and I can't wait until I'm here with you when they're pulling your Jersey up to the rafters for my brand. Well, I appreciate the max you've always been a big brother to me and you've always been an advocate for me and I've always appreciated that and no matter whether we were up or down, you always right there, you understood the game and for me you always felt the landing spot a safe place where I knew I had from you, no judging eyes, just get back on the horse, let's do it again and for that I think you so I appreciate you being on my journey with me and making sure that, you know, my name, you know, my career, everything that I did here was not forgotten. We'll do it like this. Your message to Tatum and brown. And you're looking at this team the way they've turned things around. How do you feel they're going and what's your advice to them? Well, it's interesting because when we had the ceremony there and Kevin was on the screen going crazy. And the first thing I thought was, I wonder what the current guys think about that passion that he had because right now I don't know if we have anybody in the league like that. And so I hope that they drew from that to understand like you almost have to turn into a maniac when you're playing on a daily basis because you got to psych yourself up. You got to scare the opponents and you got to get your home team into the game. And that's the thing most Brown and Tatum were so young. They got a lot of basketball and them they could do so much good here that they just have to keep pushing plugging away and they got to make sure that they bring everybody along with them and understand that you're always going to regret the days that you don't do it if you don't do it. And we sat in the back during the game and we talked about the plane rides, we talked about the music, the food, like all the stuff that we did. And at the end of the day, that's all you're going to have. And so let's do it now. Let's leave everything we can now. Put your families where they need to make sure that they can have a great vantage point, but make sure that you guys are brothers. Always fight for each other with each other. I think they've turned it around significantly from the beginning of the year to where they are now and they look like they have a pretty good rhythm, a rapport with each other. And the thing is, is, you know, toward the end of the season and always, I'd always gets tougher. And it's not about who's doing it, it's just next man up. Next man, if it's smart one game, then that's who it has to be. There's no egos. That's how we play. It didn't matter who led the team as foreign. It was just, you know, let's make it happen. Let's win the game. Paul through the ball to me, numerous times at the end of the game for game winner. And he trusted in me as well as we did him. And as they start to gain and grow that trust even more, that's going to determine how far he wants to play out. You take these. All right, max. All right..
The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"ray allen" Discussed on The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"That aren't connected to our army and arena. And you've had your magnificent feats while you played. And for us to come along and think, oh, that's just max. You know, he's an old old school dude. I think a lot of players tend to look at older players that way. Like, oh, I would have beat him back in my day or he's just some old dude washed up. And I think that we don't pay an homage enough because when I was at all star weekend for 75th anniversary team, the one thing that you have to take notice of is every one of these guys that were in this room were absolutely monsters on the floor. And they did it in their prime. And some of them came in and wheelchairs, some of them had bad knees, but everything they ever did, they gave to the game of basketball, and it helped to grow the game of basketball. And the people who were playing now are only playing because of those gentlemen. Because of all those men, I'm playing basketball, and so it just taught me even more, you know, being now a retired player and understanding that your contributions max get us to our error. And then, you know, Tatum's there and brown's there. They're ushering a new era, but one thing that we know father time is undefeated. And yeah, and gravity will sink in and those grays will start to grow and, you know, those guys that are playing now will be on our team, the retired players team, and all we can do is just say, man, I had a great run. And I left the game, I grabbed a game in great place, and I left it in a great place. And now people love you and support you because of it. Hey, ray, pop 75 players ever to play the game. That to me is just unbelievable. And I think about it. It's so cool for me to know you as a friend, but when I look at a bob mcadoo, when I look at Kareem, I look at magic. And then to say, to throw you in the middle of that man, that just doesn't even seem real when you walked in there introduced Michael Jordan. Here's somebody that's not rake. Yeah, I mean, again, walking into that room and seeing so many great people that they put the game into onto a platform, it was like, they packaged it up for me to see it and appreciate it. And to play this game and be at the top of it, you have to have a level of creativity that sometimes other people can't understand. Being able to do things, you know, there's a systematic approach to the game, running plays and settings and passing the ball, but in those 75 great, there was another level that those guys went to and I experienced it firsthand as a kid growing up and then some of my playing against and I never see as a player. I never thought for myself that, you know, I was this player that was revered on such a level because I was always constantly struggling I was obsessing over, you know, getting my shots, my free throws, working on my conditioning, and it was like, I couldn't just stop. I couldn't, when you stopped to think about if you're good or not, that's when you think that you don't have to work as much. And so I never really compare myself to anybody because I always felt like I wasn't good enough. And. I won't say it's conflict or lack of confidence, but it's just that ability to put the pressure on yourself to just continue to not get comfortable and never sell from mediocrity. Did you have a favorite in that room? I'm a put you on the spot. Did you have a favorite that you walked in 75 and gone, oh, that dude. I can't say that I had a favorite because all of them, when I looked at them, it was almost you so damn politically correct. It's unbelievable. It had to be like, when I walked in, I saw Kareem, I was like, oh, good boy. But that's what I was going to tell you. Everybody had something because I remember the first NBA game I seen was against Kurt was watching Korean play against the pistons back in 1988 when I was living in California. In 1985 and I remember watching him shoot skyhooks and he didn't miss in Lambeau was on the other side and he was shooting and he didn't miss. So that was my first indoctrination into the NBA and then I remember living in California and wanted to be like the Lakers and Michael Cooper and all those guys. So then I seen doctor Jay and I was sitting there having a conversation with worthy and then pat you had walked in the building. I remember one of my teammates and in high school he wore Ewing's on his feet and he was from New York. I've lived in South Carolina and that's what that was his man Patrick Ewing. So each person that walked in, it was almost like that song that took you back to where you were in your childhood. But I'm looking at these guys thinking, man, I remember the shoes, the Ewing's on. You know, I remember the Jordan fours, I remember, you know, when I seen doctor J, I remember his poster on the wall to converse poster. Like all those things were flooding into my mind. Ray, let me ask you this. I wasn't, I wasn't getting ducked on in that poster website. But I know that she feared that pose of me saw it. He's like, them dudes right there. They were causing havoc. This episode of the Cedric Maxwell podcast is brought to you by bed online dot AG. Football might be over for the season, but basketball is in full steam for both pro and college hoops from the latest odds, totals, player performance props to where the next fired coach is going to land, better line is the number one spot for all your sports betting needs. 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On set, because what he gave me, it was able to play him with a great point guard. He just, he did his work, he did a job. We'd be in the middle of a take, and then spike would say, cut, and we would start talking about basketball. Talking about basketball, and he would come up and do a move or something. He was like, yeah, and then my acting coach would be so upset because I'm supposed to end the scene supposed to hate him. Like, I'm supposed to, she was like, don't talk to him. Like, leave him alone. Like, you're supposed to stay. And she didn't know she wasn't in the sports world. So she doesn't know when the ball rolls up in the air, you turn into an animal. So that's like when..
The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"ray allen" Discussed on The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"The big girls love that. The last shot. Give me your mask and start your Wi-Fi. Specials, special guests. This is my main man, Ray Allen, rages how you. How are you feeling right now, man, but first you know, I'm gonna let y'all feel like I'm gonna say, tell me how you have the evasion got you, man, because that was that was surreal. Yeah, it was, you know, it was like when you know you walk into an environment where you feel relaxing at home. Whether it's on a beach, jumping a pool and you feel like you're just, it's just exactly what you need. And I think that's what that moment was like for me because I dreaded it my first game back when I came back and then I would say I got booed and then not knowing how I was going to be received coming back into the building like that. It was just it was a great moment. Not only for me and the people that have been fans of mine for my career, but just for Celtic fans because. As much as we live in the past, you talk about your glory years and the things people remember those days, the games, the heartache, the celebrations that we had, the only thing what joins is what binds us is that we stick together and we always, no matter where we end up going, we always remember who we are and nothing changes. We're always Celtics no matter what. It seems like when Kevin Garnett stopped and recognized you the whole place just helped their breath and then it was just exhale and there was just such a great moment when you went out to him and thereby said, well, they planned that. I said, you know, that was just something that Kevin said and ray gather up and it was so cool. It reminded me when I broke Reggie record there in the garden. And before the game, I was asking Reggie, you know, what am I supposed to do? How is this supposed to go down? There's no template. You guys basically start a narrative, you know, whatever you do, you do. And because this is not something that happens every day. And I believe that was the same case with Kevin, Kevin is so emotional. You don't know where he's going to go with what it is that he's doing what he's saying. And I didn't expect him to say anything to me. I don't even think he knew I was going to be there until he walked out in the floor and he saw us. And I just think that it happened the way it was supposed to happen. It was organic. I think for Celtics, the organization they couldn't have asked for anything better because you can't, when you talk about the organization, you know, players come and go. At the end of the day, when you look up, then you talk about games, they're all past players. And that's kind of where you hang your hat. And for kids that look up to the Celtics and all over the world and when you walk into that building, you see banners. We talk about past games in the past players. And if paramount for us to always be able to walk into that building and just say, man, we had a great run, didn't we? And then see some of the old faces in the crowd that still come to games and just celebrate them as well as celebrate us. And then what he said when he said, ray, you next boy, and it was like so cool because I've been beating these bands beating these drums forever talking about great Allen and where his number was going to be retired. Do you feel that? Do you want that? Well, firstly, Paul is, you know, he's been great this whole time. So the last couple of years, he's been always making sure, hey, you got to do this. You got to talk to this guy because you could tell he's had that sense of this water in the bridge. We got to go ahead and move forward. What's the issue for us? Just thinking about that moment, it only seemed right that he was in it because he had been working tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure that I think he's more and more on Kevin's behalf. And you know, I've seen him a couple of years back in China. We met in fences there. So it was a little comical when Paul ran out there. But I think for the people who, you know, it was emotional for them because, you know, that's like, you know all those videos you see when the soldiers come home and their children see them and you're like, you know, you just think about what you see is you see people as you've kind of traveled through their lives with them on their missions of their ups and downs and then you see them come together and just kind of mend their fences. It is emotional. It's an emotional situation. You know, you feel like, man, I need to go hug my mom or my dad or my kids. And so I think that's what that moment was and I think for the people to see that, you know, it did, it was another moment, I think, in Celtic history to say, hey, I remember that moment when. And that's what makes I think this fan base. So incredible because you're talking about generation after generation of fans grew up in the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and scene basketball at its best and seen great players. And so even the ups and downs through the downs, I should say, and then a moment like that, when you're talking about these great players, these people that are still in the building watch this play. So when you see in your jerseys retired, these people were actually sharing stories of what it was like watching those games and big games, big games that player had or the team had. And so it's a real connection, I think, to the people in Boston town with the Celtics. I saw which actually made me just as happy. You said, well, the players have to connect with the players of the past and present. And I love when I saw players come up to you and dap you up. I saute them come up to you. I saw Brown come up to you and it was such a surreal moment when you said you have to be able to link those things together. Yeah. And I've always had intense amount of respect for you as much as great as you were while you were playing in the game of basketball. You've transcended basketball and now you're in this phase of your life where you've been able to bring the game to people so far away.
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"ray allen" Discussed on Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"I living in? You know? I mean, Jeter sucks, you know, we went through all that, you know? LeBron's a douche. So the haters are out there, Gary. And they're never going to be, they're never going to be satisfied. We have to, we have to just resign ourselves to that. Well, I always found it amazing that even LeBron said this week that he doesn't like to be called a score to your point where he had to become more selfish. But whatever reason he wanted to be known as a complete player and share the ball and it still bothers him to this day and I think it is a tribute to him that he is willing to share the ball and he does have the assists. He's a great passer. He knows he knows how to play the game properly. He was taught to play the game properly. It's clear. And in absorbing lessons and he's always been a team guy. I keep going back to that. That documentary about that was done about his high school team. And someone started taking the picking them up when they were sophomores and they want to sophomores and they lost this juniors and the whole senior season was a vindication redeem team thing that we think that's the same. I mean, they didn't win. But you come away watching that. What's the name of that? When we were kings, is that I'm not sure. And you come away watching that saying, what a teammate. He was always cognizant. Yeah, he knew, obviously, everybody knew who the best player was. But he wanted to be one of the guys all the time. And he's never been a selfish player. If anything, he's been too unselfish. And that's that's the fact. I mean, when you take a look and you know you know both gentlemen, I think very well. Probably as well as anybody in the media. Michael key is not necessarily a friendly guy. And LeBron is very friendly. The reason I would pick Michael over LeBron if push came to shove, I got to win tonight. It's that Michael isn't ruthless prick. Right. And it has no trouble being a ruthless prick. LeBron isn't. And he isn't. He just isn't. You know, he's not as fiercely ruthlessly competitive as Michael. Who is? Well, we're going to talk about one guy coming up who was in that category. And, you know, but not many and not the point is not many, nobody would one guy approached him with that skill set and that competitiveness. And that was kopi. And Kobe is Michael what he wanted to do. And he mirrored Michael as well and every way as much as anyone ever has. And if you had to go to war with Kobe instead of either Michael would LeBron, you'd be doing pretty well. And that went too..
WTOP
"ray allen" Discussed on WTOP
"Number 30 9 for curry well said by the way who grew up trying to shoot like Reggie Miller and Ray Allen This is very special man I've been thinking about this number for a long time I even got it on my shoes I was on his shoes now it's in the record books Warriors debate the next the wizards by the way in Sacramento tonight D.C. United lost Joseph Morris Charlotte FC and they expansion draft Now these united is set to release its schedule later today The capitals on the road are tonight in Chicago Dave Johnson WTP sports and still ahead will tell you about a special celebration tonight at 7 47 Here's colonel Joe o'callaghan a fire support officer at the 18th airborne corps for the U.S. Army on the discussion technology and great power competition Sponsored by Palantir Garlic dragon is a quarterly event that we run here on fort Bragg And really what it's allowing us to do is train on the mission essential tasks associated with the army's global response force component which is known as the 18th airborne corps Listen to the entire discussion on federal news network search Palantir With the threats to our nation evolving and growing in complexity the right technology is essential to the decision making process For over a decade Palantir has proudly partnered with the U.S. government and the private sector to help solve the world's hardest problems from pandemic response to military mission planning to supply chain challenges and beyond decision makers need solutions that meet their needs now and Palantir provides the foundational software of tomorrow delivered today To get started visit Palantir dot com At CDW we get new work environments.
AP News Radio
Curry gets NBA record for 3-pointers, Warriors beat Knicks
"Stephan Stephan curry curry set set the the all all time time NBA NBA record record for for career career three three point point field field goals goals as as the the Golden Golden State State Warriors Warriors defeated defeated the the New New York York next next one one of of five five ninety ninety six six curry curry had had a a three three point point shot shot barely barely a a minute minute into into the the game game to to tie tie ray ray Allen's Allen's mark mark of of two two thousand thousand nine nine hundred hundred seventy seventy three three three three pointers pointers then then broke broke it it with with a a high high arching arching shot shot from from the the right right elbow elbow with with seven seven thirty thirty three three left left in in the the quarter quarter the the game game was was stopped stopped for for nearly nearly four four minutes minutes as as curry curry was was embraced embraced by by Alan Alan his his father father dell dell and and many many others others curry curry finished finished with with five five three three pointers pointers in in a a team team high high total total of of twenty twenty two two points points Tom Tom Mariam Mariam New New York York
AP News Radio
Warriors' Stephen Curry breaks the NBA career 3-point record
"The the NBA NBA has has a a new new all all time time leader leader in in three three pointers pointers warriors warriors guard guard Steph Steph curry curry past past ray ray Allen's Allen's old old mark mark by by nailing nailing to to win win the the first first four four and and a a half half minutes minutes of of Tuesday's Tuesday's game game against against the the Knicks Knicks at at Madison Madison Square Square Garden Garden the the second second was was his his two two thousand thousand nine nine hundred hundred seventy seventy four four three three pointer pointer which which was was punctuated punctuated by by curry curry waving waving his his arms arms toward toward this this guy guy as as he he jogged jogged backward backward down down court court the the warriors warriors then then committed committed a a foul foul and and quickly quickly called called timeout timeout to to let let the the celebration celebration begin begin curry curry exchanged exchanged hugs hugs with with coach coach Steve Steve Kerr Kerr long long time time teammate teammate Draymond Draymond green green family family members members and and Allen Allen who who was was at at the the arena arena I'm I'm D. D. ferry ferry
AP News Radio
Curry falls short of record, but leads Warriors past Pacers
"Golden Golden State State rallied rallied late late for for a a one one oh oh two two one one hundred hundred win win at at Indiana Indiana Stephan Stephan curry curry led led the the warriors warriors with with twenty twenty six six points points and and hit hit five five from from beyond beyond the the line line that that moved moved him him to to within within one one of of tying tying ray ray Allen's Allen's NBA NBA three three point point career career record record that's that's one one thing thing I I learned learned these these last last three three games games is is keep keep playing playing bass bass will will keep keep take take a a shot shot you you then then you'll you'll you'll you'll you'll you'll did did you you make make an an enjoy enjoy the the experience experience of of it it because because is is a a long long time time coming coming Golden Golden State State never never led led by by more more than than three three but but closed closed out out the the game game on on a a seven seven to to nothing nothing run run with with Kavana Kavana loony loony hitting hitting the the winning winning
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Antetokounmpo, Middleton help Bucks defeat Lakers 109-102
"Young the son of a couple delivered its highest scoring game of the season he poured in forty seven and leading the bucs past the Lakers one oh nine one oh two the books have been playing short handed for most of the season but the other three best players out of a couple Khris Middleton Andrew holiday on the court for just the third time this season the Bucks improved to seven eight mills had returned after missing eight games with covert he tied ray Allen's career franchise three point mark with a fourth quarter three pointer finished with sixteen points tailing Horton Tucker had twenty five for the Lakers Chuck Friedman Milwaukee
AP News Radio
Stephen Curry scores 40 points as Warriors beat Bulls 119-93
"The warriors domination continues as they beat the bulls won nineteen ninety three improved to an NBA best eleven and one on the season Stephan curry with a game high forty points right away like that for a games like it's hard to stay locked in you know with the routine kind of monotony of every other day here where you doing the same thing so it is it was it was it was really impressive for me nine three pointers and past ray Allen on the all time was for threes including the playoffs Andrew Wiggins added fifteen points for Golden State which has won seven in a row the bulls were without a clue to rich who tested positive for coated Zach lavine's scored twenty three and the Martin Rosen added eighteen and the loss Riley on San Francisco
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Judge HRs twice, Yankees beat Jays 6-2 to extend WC lead
"New York club five home runs and help solidify their lead in the wildcard spot the only trouble six to what Rogers centre for tourism for the resort Brett Gardner went deep for the Yankees will Aaron judge belted his thirty eight thirty nine home runs of the year off Toronto starter Robbie ray Allen thank you Mister mistake you want the state game you know those anything over the plate and you gotta you gotta put in place had someone they could you know how to get to millions we're disappointed that's all right they ordered for reproducing a career first surrendering four home runs in a start the jays went just one for ten with runners in scoring position the victory gives the Yankees a two game lead over Boston and Seattle atop the wild card tricks June of the total
KTRH
"ray allen" Discussed on KTRH
"Number today or first thing Monday morning, Ray Allen Allen, write it down. Here we go. One Triple eight new grass fun phone number. 21, Triple eight New Grass and King Ranch turfgrass dot com. That's the company. I recommended. Ralph and Katie has got some pictures for me to look at. So everybody say good morning to Ralph, by Ralph saying good morning to us, and then he punch in his email address so we can Pull up these pictures morning, Ralph. Good morning, Randy. Thanks for taking my call. Appreciate you listening. What's up? All right. Well, I've been following your schedule since prior to Covid. And I had sent about five weeks ago. Pictures of the front lawn and you scolded me and told me what I needed to do. As far as, um, calling green pro scold. I'm a lecture here, but I never scold anybody. Well. Okay, I'll go on that your show, But my question to you is I have had been come out and do their, uh, program that you're saying that they will do for the rest of this month. Including the area Haitian and now it's about a month later. And I'm not really seen Much change in that. Stand. I'm curious What else I can do already know you're going to tell me I need to do it another two or three times over the next 18 months, and I'm prepared to do that. But in the interim, other than following your scheduled to achieve and throwing in extra days of my because of the freeze Is there anything else I can do? Yeah. Uh, explain to me the pictures. I'm looking at the top picture. Let me explain to you something I'm seeing in the top picture. Okay, um If you look at that edge between the concrete and the grass that is still clay soil right there that is hardened clay soil that is not enriched soil. Okay, so let's back up even further. Would tell me whether I told you from the schedule. We make one assumption with the schedule you have decent soil to work with. So if you're not 100% happy with what the schedule is done for a year for you, it's because your soil is awful. Even if they varied and compass top dress. That picture alone tells me a lot how hard clay that is right there up next to the concrete. I'm looking at the far Southern end of that picture. You know what I'm talking about? But then I looked at the overall picture and I see plenty of grass to work with. So I'm going to rake out. This is the answer to your question. Alright your specific question. All right. Um If I'm going to a rate and compass top dress again, That's one thing, But I'm going to get out there with with a rake, get all the brown grass out. And after the ranking I'm going to treat with Saul activator. I want to liquid soul activators. Some kind of I want to do that every two weeks for a couple of months. I want to start softening the soil. I got to get away from that hard clay. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll post this picture online and get everybody else to comment on that soil down on the southern part of that picture. That tells me a lot. It's going to take a while to get the soil up to snuff to where the schedules working at top top gear. And you're right. You don't need to stay on. When I look at a yard like this, I'm thinking it's needs compost top dressing every six months for the next year and a half. Okay. And we're prepared to do that. Mandy. Okay. Um And I even, uh, had Daniel come back out two weeks after he did the initial treatment and just do around the variation on the front yard to try and loosen it up since that So hard, Both pictures just so much clay soil and those pictures emerging that it it's kind of worrisome that it was that much clay that even after a compost top dressing, I'm not seeing in the Richmond of the soil. I'm still seeing hard. Clay. The second picture If you look just south of that picture of whatever that irrigation Bay in which you called but where the control valve is for the irrigation system. That whole brownish area there chunks of clay soil in there so until we get the clay soil mitigated over time. It's going to. It's not going to allow the fertilization schedule to work at top level. They assume it's one thing but that that assumes again that the soils decent to start with. Okay, and the liquid products that you'd recommend it. Medina Soul activator. Dakota. Rev. Whatever you can get. That is a liquid that you can put in a dial and spray and really at about 4 to 6 ounces per gallon of water, get out there and do some saturation treatment on those place oil areas. Okay, Fair enough. Hey, I appreciate it. All right? And you bet that is, that is that is tough to look at. See that much place till after a narration, Compost top dressing, but it is a reality of many yards in these parts. 713 to 12 Ktrh 7132125874. I'm getting this out of order because this may help. We were just talking about Medina. Soil Activator. Rich has a question about that rich. Good morning. You're on the air. Good morning, Randy. I have two dogs resulting in brown spots in my backyard. I've been using the regular soil activator as a drench on those spots. I'm able to get the Medina plus Cheaper than I can. The regular soil activator. Is there anything negative? Go for it. Okay, only more positive. There's seaweed extract in there versus just soil activator. That's all. Because the application rates everything where the same, so I just didn't want to know if I was going to mess something up because I follow your skin that Medina Plus is just so all activated without it, eat seaweed extract, and that is only a good thing. In lawn treatments like that. So the question ultimately was. What's the directory in Seoul? Activator Medina selected or Medina? Plus, not much can use both you can use either. If you have access to Medina. Plus cheaper man. I'm all over it. Go by. 713 to 12 Ktrh is our phone number. We got news, weather and traffic.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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"When the olympics start will be the most talented team in tokyo. Hands down no question. Most talented team in tokyo with the roster that they have but this is like a five alarm fire right now howard. This loss to nigeria. I don't care if they win the rest of these pre olympic games which will take place through next sunday. This has to make you nervous if you're a fan of the team because not only is it this. The loss to nigeria. But you go back two years ago at the world championships where you had a us team. That was good. Didn't have probably better team now than they were back in two thousand nineteen but all nba players. They finished seventh. They've been seventh at the world championships. You have the seventh-place finish the loss of nigeria. How concerned are you howard beck about. Usa basketball. It's just an exhibition game. Chris oh no no. It's not just an exhibition game. Stop this team was thrown together over the last however many weeks they had what like three practices. I think i'll ever. Us team is thrown together. What are you talking about. There's no team. There's no no mid season practices for usa basketball. No but the nigerian team has been practicing. What i'm saying is some of the play in the nba though wants win the nba nba. A few of them play in the nba but that team has had time together more so than the team. Sorry brown coaching. that team. That i missed was that a facsimile of mike brown on the bench all season long. What what are we talking about. The warriors have been out for like two months kris k. Okay so two months. that's what matters. That's that's the number three three practices. Also they're still missing. I believe at least three guys because they're playing in the finals right now. Booker middleton chris paul get it. Yes not chris. Ball's not playing a holiday with the the what holland is your holiday. Those those guys will matter especially given that middleton and holiday are to the better perimeter defenders that that team. Usa has and if you look at the rest of team usa's roster. I don't see a ton of great defenders. There there are a few. I think those three guys by the way are going to be exhausted by the time they get to. They may well be. They may will be so. We're going to judge them. Judging when their whole judge when the games matter to strange to me like we don't judge nba teams based on the preseason but we judge team usa based on these exhibition games. That they do going into international competition. I feel like it's thirty. One point favorites. Why why is there betting line on a freaking exhibition better training but a little league baseball. Now country degenerates damn right. I didn't mean chris i'm with. Let's go monday. Nigeria money line. I just. I can't get too excited about this. If they lose the rest of the exhibitions does that mean something. Yeah that might be alarming if they're if they're still struggling to find some cohesion. That could be alarming. But i mean the talent is obviously their talent alone doesn't win on the international stage in style of game is different team ball matters. Shooting matters like yeah. There's a bunch of budget stuff that comes into play. But i i find the panic over this loss or at least the outcry to be a little bit much. So you don't take into account the seventh-place finish in two thousand nineteen. I mean that to me. It's the it's not just as game. The totality of it right. Like and i don't know howard like so in the early two thousands the world kind of caught up to the us ninety to ninety six thousand us. Gold maps then comes the two thousand two world championships in indianapolis and that's seven. The place finish was one of the worst worst outcomes in at least recent usa history. They got it together after that. They hired jerry colangelo. They bringing mike chef ski. They get their act together. Two thousand six two thousand eight then. They run off. Three consecutive years are three consecutive cycles of gold. Medals is argon. Made that like the world's caught up again that somewhere along the way and the last four or five years. The rest of the world has once again caught up usa basketball. I'm trying to understand this. I mean that's close games in those olympics cycles. No question about it. But i can't imagine the oh eight. Twelve or sixteen team losing nigeria. I can't exhibition or otherwise. I can't see it happening. No team and the and the one that followed it were built around like lebron koby. Carmelo enjoying wait. I mean that that groups at another level like as good as this group is that we're seeing right now as talented as they are after k. D. tatum's really good damian. Lillard is great. I mean come arbit- tatum. Bill lillard auto bio levin. Draymond dream ends up there in years but one has won some things. Jeremy grant jeremy grant zach living out of like. These are guys who have done anything in the nba yet. But they're all stars most they're they're also but are they to level of lebron kobe now but do you think is that what you're saying then is that what you're saying to be at the level you need to have like i'm saying the crop to win. I'm saying that if we're going to start comparing the twenty twenty one team to the twenty eight a two thousand eight two thousand twelve teams there is. There is not an equivalent right now. Lebron kobe laurent cobaine weight. And plus what we what. We called olympic. Mellow like carmelo. Didn't have the success in the nba. That some of his teammates did but carmelo in terms of talent level and certainly has resume like that group was at a whole other level. That group is a different level than jason. Tatum bam outta bios. Zach levine. Okay so not saying that you necessarily should have to have that level of time firepower to win an exhibition game against nigeria. Or anybody else. But i am saying comparing usa to itself different iterations of team usa. This one is not that one. This is not as dominant group as the ones we saw in eight and two thousand twelve. It just isn't what do you do like. What's the solution here. Like i mean i jerry. Colangelo deserves an enormous amount of credit for rebuilding that program when it was at. Its nadir mitra chefs. He comes in enormous amount of credit for what they did. But as we sit here in twenty twenty one like it's almost to me howard like the usa basketball rebuilding. The program became cool. Like lebron wanted to do it. Chris paul like dwayne wade. These guys wanted to do it and then they did it. And i think playing for usa basketball didn't become quite as cool as it was fifteen years ago. Like is that what has to happen like does not need to have like a fifth place finish in tokyo for all of a sudden the next generation of a-list stars wherever that may be in two thousand twenty four to come back into the mix and is that the only way this team can win. I mean i think we need to pay attention to the overall context like obviously one. These olympics were supposed to happen a year ago. They're delayed a year because of covid got durant out of it though like that right. It's questionable whether these the olympic should be happening at all still but along the way because of these back to back brutal seasons and everything else like team. Usa doesn't have james harden right now. Doesn't have anthony davis because of the injury doesn't have steph curry doesn't have kyrie irving doesn't have lebron kawai again. If your argument is that the second or third tier it sounds like sounds like insulting. Somehow but if you're saying that the next wave believe after those guys should still be good enough to dominate on the world stage. Maybe but if the point is that the team as best are they still. Are they still able to win. Gold fairly easily. Your probably but a bunch of them aren't on this team right now because of injuries and just the stress of the last year or two so this this is not necessarily representative of the best of the best right now. It just isn't and yes. They should still be good enough to win. Yes the world has caught up to some extent. No the the group that at nigeria's put it put out there last week. Does not leap off the page improbably. Us should've still want it. But again i exhibition game after like three practices. Let's see what happens with the rest of this. This schedule out brought mellow back. I mean he's not what he was four years ago. Eight years ago twelve years ago but the guy knows how to play international basketball. He might have sat. maybe. I guess. I didn't really. I assume that he just want to keep. He didn't kind of like four formerly re retire from the olympics. But it'd be pretty much says like i'm done like lebron kinda did to get talked into it. I feel like. I don't know if i was if i was the usa team would try really hard to get carmelo blake because his style. Whatever it is to the nba is perfect for the national basketball. He's a really good or national basketball player. On this subject damian lillard. He spoke for the first time. Since the hiring of chauncey billips. Only listen to what little had to say about his future in portland. I'm prepared to go in and do my job every year. Like hopefully we make strides over direction and could become a better team a new coach notice. That's where i am. What soured it sounds like. Lillard is at least nominally on board with going back to the blazers. But if i'm a team out there with assets. I don't listen to that response and say well it's over damian. Lillard is back on the same page with the portland trailblazers. If i'm a team with assets i hold onto those assets because it feels to me like the blazers might be one like sixteen to start from blowing that whole thing up with louis mccollum on the way out the door so get the sense now. That seems more likely than not that damian lillard at blazers training camp. He's in ablaze uniform. He starts the season with the portland trailblazers. But if it doesn't work with chauncey billips early and you get close that trade deadline. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see portland decide. Look we've got a. We've got to do something here and opened the door for damian lillard trade. What do you think. I think that nothing has changed. I think that his remarks last week because he sounded a little bit lukewarm. Or just you know you hear one of two things. Well you want to hear one thing if you're a portland trail blazers fan or if you're just looking for any indication that lillard is all in your you want to hear him say listen. I know things are rough right now. But i'm all in you know this is. This is where. I want to be you to repeat all the usual talking points that you hear from players in his position and that we've heard from bradley beal that we used to hear from james harden houston. Which is a win in phil in city fill in the blank with the city. I want to win here. I don't wanna go somewhere else. You know we're going to get this right blah blah. He didn't go down the usual list. And so i think it left open. Some interpretation but getting has changed like the disappointment was clear when the season ended. Some of the things have happened since including obviously the the the train wreck away they went about the the coaching search and lillard. Being caught in the crossfire. There at feeling heat from fans about chauncey billips being selected and so. I don't think we should expect he's going to be rah. Rah right now The trailblazers have a lot of work to do. But we also have not even hit the summer yet. Like there's the draft hasn't happened yet. Free agency hasn't happened yet. There's there's a lot of work to be done. And i think if you're damian lillard which you're probably doing is internally saying here's what i need to see happen externally saying you know what let's let's wait and see i mean you see. He can't he can't say publicly the same things that he's telling say neal o'shea right about what the the state of the roster i i would think that there are some very impassioned debates or discussions being held behind closed doors about what they need to get this thing right and if they can't get it right the he might shift is his stance about staying there long term. But that hasn't happened yet that we know of. What do you think the most interesting potential conversation is amongst players over these next four weeks like i'm kind of curious what jason tatum bradley beal talk about. Tatum and beal close friends dating back to their highschool days both went to the same high school bill with something of a mentor to jason. Tatum actually got him involved with his trainer. Drew hanlin which helped. Tatum elevate his his personal skills and they've talked about how happy they are to be playing together. Played the all star game together for the first time beal last year of his contract. Like you know we've seen these conversations yield real tangible conversation. You'd like to be a fly on the wall on for any of these guys in the next couple of weeks. Yeah i mean look we. We have a history now going back over a decade. If we're to believe that the that the heels were formed in part through team usa activities. You know which is true which is true. That's that's yielded an extra things guy. You know guys who you mentioned. Tatum and bill because they were already friends but guys also become friends through this experience right and then they start getting the ideas about playing together. Like oh hey. This is a lot of fun. Let's do this again in the nba. So there's i'm i'm sure some of that is is happening. It always does. Who else in that group. I mean man. If any of these guys that'd be trying to recruit bam out a bio but he's too early in his in his contract with miami to pry him loose from there And you know the heater still a pretty potent team but you know jimmy butler is up there in miles and outta bios future won't necessarily be there forever. That's the way it goes in the nba. I think tatum has the potential to be like the biggest recruiter. They're like he's about to start the first year of his max level extension. He can recruit bill. But like you can also does damian lillard like. It's great to play in boston. I love it here. Answer some questions of my have a playing on the east coast for the first time. Like i think data might be boston's best asset at this point. Yeah again some of this comes down to bradley. Beal's coming up to that point where he has the leverage to task out because of his contract lillard under contract for several more years and so he's not in that position. So what if it says. Like i need to go like. I don't foresee the blazers being no finish your contract. Just don't see it. i think right. And they would work with him on a deal to sure but directing it is harder so beal can use the leverage of his free agency to say well if you send me to team x. I'm not gonna resign there. Which then blows up that deal and he can direct himself to the team he really wants to be at lillard would have a harder time to doing that. Because he doesn't have free agency looming two to play that card. Yeah well i encourage any reporter. That's in tokyo tatum. Beal and lillard talking to each other. Just take a picture and then let the internet go wild crazy because it will unquestionably last thing for you. Howard the breaking news. This week in the coaching ranks. Is that jamal moseley is headed to orlando moseley of course last with dallas. A really well respected assistant coach there. Who was a candidate for that. Maverick job before. It went to jason kidd my immediate reaction to that higher howard beyond i think being an excellent choice for orlando is that we're gonna look at at moseley and jason kidd on parallel tracks. The next couple of years moseley. There was a strong case to be made that he should have been elevated to that head. Coaching job he'd been considered for other head coaching jobs. Before most recently in new york he had by all accounts a great relationship with luka doncic i understand bringing kit in he's got a history with dallas and as riccar lau said publicly having a player that played the game like kid and having a player that plays the game like don-shik make some sense to pair those two guys together. But there's always going to be as i watched these two situations unfold. I'm gonna wonder you know. Did the mavericks make the right choice. Leading jamaa moseley go and bringing jason kidd in and there's so many variables in this the first being at orlando's in step one or maybe even steps zero of a massive rebuild right there in the negatives right now. I think there's still maybe more fat to trim on that roster before they really bottom out. Yeah and you know you talk about trying to build around. You know markelle foltz. And and jonathan isaac jonathan isaac for so long. They're getting hurt and he's a great player but they've loved writing in a weird way john stays healthy. He's still more of a complementary store right like he's he's a potentially defensive player of the year at some point. He's not a guy who you're building an offense around though and marquel foltz okay. He he got himself back on track in orlando. He has a career now where he didn't have one but he's not a foundational building block. Come on like that's crazy so the roster doesn't have much talent jamal. Moseley's is coming into a situation. Which a lot of first time head coach is committed to which is all right. There's a lot of work to do so You're gonna have to do a lot of development. You're going to have to take a lotta lumps in the win loss column. It's gonna be rough going for the first year or two or maybe three. Let's see how they can get things going. But you know as it has been a certain other like kenny. Atkinson came to look a completely hopeless situation in brooklyn but was known as development coach in atlanta. And sure enough. Everybody who went there. Joe harris spencer. Dinwiddie jared allen versus lower. First round picks. Guys who were you know whether they were reclamation projects whether they were low picks everybody seems to get better the second they went to brooklyn and play kenny atkinson and his staff congenial. Moseley have the kind of effect in orlando can the front office. Get him to kind of guys. That will thrive in that in that kind of environment and carve out careers from cells and carbon identities. Jamal moseley has a lot going for him. And we've heard like many great things about it but we often hear great things about assistant coaches who don't end up panning out so i always. We have to caution ourselves on these things. Because i thought. Brian shaw was gonna be a great head coach and he was. Everybody loved him all the players sung as praises when he was associate head coach under frank. Vogel indiana he goes to denver probably just the wrong guy at the wrong time but he hasn't had another shot since then but that went really badly. Brett brown was really great in in some respects for the for the early years of the process and then suddenly. It seemed like they'd hit some sort of ceiling. Eager kokoschka of had been talked about for years is a great assistant. Coach didn't work out. Swells head coach in phoenix. David dale bumpy ride in memphis and then disastrous in new york. We just don't know like luke walton. Another example like there are plenty of coaches who as their when their assistance. We hear and see the best of them and then you know some of them be go on it and have great success coaches. I mean tyler has been fantastic. Mike malone has been fantastic money williams. Nick nurse dwayne casey a lotta longtime assistance. Get their shot and then you know it. It works out in a dozen. It's all contextual. It's all just the opportunity you have the thing for dallas is. They went with a guy who has experienced jason kit. That experience was not necessarily good experience. Like i think most people around the would look at what he did in milwaukee in brooklyn and say. I'm going to steer clear. Maybe you'd rather have the the unproven. Jamal moseley versus the somewhat proven jason kidd but. I don't think we'll know what the right choice was there for a while yet. Because it's it's gonna take some time before we can evaluate moseley as head coach. I maybe jason kidd learned something in two years as an assistant. I mean that happens. You know working with lebron for entire for two entire seasons working under frank vogel maybe picked up some things that'll be useful to him as a head coach. Moseley to me. The key is giving him time. Like you've got to be committed to moseley for a minimum. I think of three years and more likely five years. And then you see what you have in head coach. You mentioned gore. I mean it's worked out for phoenix. Absolutely but i do think he got hosed out there i mean he only had one year on the job and that year was without deandra aiden chris. Paul had devon booker of course but that was not a good team that he was coaching. There i gotta get moses the because you want to see what the guy can do when you put that team in a position to win a great example to me is james breglio in charlotte. I mean berea. Was one of those guys assistant coach elevated to head coaching position in charlotte. Not great first couple of years there but when he was given players and chance to win he did pretty well. I mean up until lamelo ball went out the horns were really good team and i think they will be a good team. Going forward in part because of the borrego is a pretty good coach. I want to see this magic team. Invest heavily in jamal. The you're the guy developed these guys and we'll keep you around no matter what the won loss record says until you get a chance to win then you judge like brett brown six or seven days since brett brown left but i can see the for letting go of brett brown. I mean they had a talented team and to a degree the underachieved. But you've got to let the coach get a roster on that level before you really make any decisions about whether they can coach. Yeah well and that's the thing about. This is what set up says apart. I think the good organizations from the bad ones is that you you decide when you choose a guy. Especially if he's a longtime assistant not a guy with head coaching experience. And you've said we believe in this guy. This is somebody who's got a great trekker record as an assistant. We're going to first opportunity. It's your obligation to when you say investment. Yeah it's time investment. It's a give them all the tools to succeed. Give him the time to succeed. You've decided you believe in him. So stand behind that have the conviction to stand behind that and take some bumps along the way you know maybe maybe memphis and or the knicks should have stuck with david physed longer. You know we had heard nothing but great things about fiscal coming out of miami. Initially we may yet you know. Find out that he. He can be great head coach in the right situation. Maybe those worth rights situations. He might be one of those guys though. I love physios and assist one of those guys. Though the just the temperament is always important. Like the government like memphis yet. Some battles with market assault didn't work out your plus new york. You just might be one of those guys that doesn't have the right temperament to be is based on what we've seen a memphis in new york might be better suited for these ranks but if he succeeds in l. a. I think he'll get another chance right. Maybe i think the point being though that if you as an organization have identified a guy instead he we believe in him then. Okay then believe in him. Stick with them and make sure you've given them enough tools to succeed Is it a pulling the plug at the first sign of of struggle and that's what happens in the nba. too often. is that seems panic. You know the fans turn. There's some minor flare up. Oh the coach and player got into it. Whatever it may good teams that can happen on as well. And it's it's just. It's the way franchises. React so you have to know whether or not the guy is is is right and then stick with them. And so yeah. Let's jomo's should get a nice long here. She got a ton of latitude in orlando given where they are as an organization given the state of that roster. Yeah i agree. Howard enjoy milwaukee looking forward to hearing the conversation with the lazarus on friday. You can check podcast. Right here on the crossover feet again. Make sure you listen to howard's interview. Spencer dinwiddie from last week. It was really really strong. Enjoy -joy the mid west our. We'll talk when you're back on the northeast always a pleasure. My friend the newest player in the pre nba basketball landscape is overtime. Elite elite will begin playing sometime in the fall. And we'll be headlined by some of the top now. Former high school players in the country players would be paid minimum one hundred thousand dollars with some making north of that and have access to high level facilities training as well as educational programs to help. Get a better grasp on that. I'm joined by brandon williams the head of basketball operations for overtime. Elite and kevin ollie the former. Nba guard uconn. Coach was the head coach and director of player development bread. And i want to start here with you. Just kind of give me the ten thousand foot view overtime elite. What are the objectives. What what what was behind the formation of this league. I think any of us. Chris who've been around for a long time i've actually seen Sort of the downside of young players who entered into professional ranks to this point. It's been the nba Who are not ready. And so what does that mean you know not not ready to form and be stars or is it just not ready to be great teammates or is it not ready to be good partners. is sort of all that you know the idea that the work day is much longer than they know. And that there's more responsibility to be in a professional athlete The responsibilities to families and communities we just have to do a better job preparing them and here was an opportunity to be part of a program that wanted to address all that. It's not just about being a good player. It's like we wanna address the whole athlete. Hope so on. Three levels were hitting basketball. Easiest thing understand. I think businesses in our world is education And then there's brand you know. These young people now are moving at a speed that we aren't as older folks and they want to build things An earlier age particularly off the court so building a brand is important something that can last well beyond their tread on tire so we're hitting it in basketball business brand. That's that's that's really thirty thousand foot view. Kevin what attracted you to this job. Just like his dad is the whole person being able coach them from a mind body and soul Experience and understanding the mindfulness athlete I've seen it from a pro level. Got up tune into play thirteen years with twelve different teams so i understand like the different trials and tribulations you go through with a player not saying that these players are gonna go through that but is getting them more prepared if they do come into some certain situations where it's not typically going the right way. How can they manage that situation. So what they do today can echo into tomorrow and having the ability to kana paint on a black blank. Canvas is what a really attracted to me to to this you know. Ot league program we can take the player really shape the curriculum you not with teaching them about subjects. But we're really teaching them about themselves as well from media training From mental health issues. All the different things that come involved because we all know chris is stress. You know from success is a lot of pressures is a lot of people pulling at you. It's a lot of people won't certain things. But how do you deal with that from a player's standpoint where you can play when you get on the basketball court and half clear and not be caught up in the distractions of off the court issues. Um as desks desks were really kind of vocal. Spirit to give back in it and how these kids you know. Have these players be available at the moment of truth to make the right decisions and that was very important to me. Kevin as you mentioned you played in the nba brand. You played in the nba. As well i wanna ask both of you guys and kevin. I'll start with you like if this was available to you as sixteen. seventeen year. Old looking back. Would you have founded attractive with a definitely founded attractive You know i kind of thought the box anyway. I was from chris. Shaw from from from south central and i chose connecticut. So you places that. I didn't even know nothing about growing up. You always thought out the box and never wanted to go down a path that everybody was going down So i was always curious. And i think that's how my mom especially my mom. My dad raised me. So i definitely been curious of this situation. No no speaking now without you know took it. I'm not sure. But i think it really gave me another option to look at it and this is what we're trying to do not saying that the ncaa is wrong overtime. Leaders wrong or right. It's not about that. It's about if you really care about the student. Athletes you give them as much options as possible. And i think this gives the lee student athlete. Another option and i think you know it's a very Great option for them to have and if they choose overtime league we're going to give our whole heart to make sure they're developed on and off the basketball court chris i- jumping after coach It would have been interesting. Chris but i certainly would not have been a candidate i would. Let's just get that right. What what things that's important. We sit down going through just grassroots community and we spent months just talking to people educating about. You know what we're about who we are. Each of us has a reputation in some other space. Not here The this program isn't for everybody is not the right fit for everybody. We are cherry picking and a lot of ways. These are players that feel like they are destined for professional basketball. There are a lot of sixteen year olds. That don't know that yet and their parents aren't convinced that yet in people that support them. Don't don't feel that confidence yet. They may be another year away or two years away but this is not. This is not the right path for everyone. Twenty four athletes roughly twelve per class. We're looking at juniors and seniors and the truth is at this age. What was really funny about scouting them is everybody's skinny and like a lanky and underdeveloped and still has like a mountain of upside to you know to to get through before you can really see who they're going to be but you know if you have a young player like brand williams who's just dreaming of being an nba player but does not much certainty. That's even realistic We gotta be very careful about this approach In taking because there there are risks but for those that that have already established in this deke. They've established a day of separated from their class. You know jaylen. Lewis has an example the most recent example. He's he's he's elevated in separate. The draft isn't tomorrow though so there's still a lot of work to do but he's already in front running physician and it gives everyone low confidence that this is the kind of investment and the kind of pet that would make a ton of sense for players like that. Let me follow up on that brandon. Because you're you're entering. What suddenly become a fairly crowded space in terms of leagues like this. You know the g. league ignite is one season in but they've had a measure of success. We've seen jalen green probably a top pick. Jonathan kamenga top five or six. Then you have the ncw with this. Recent ruling allowing top players to make money off their name image and likeness. How does how does the elite separate itself from that group. Why think i is. We start a little bit sooner so the g. league zone a great job with what we call it a year the prep year that year. That a recent graduates would be going to college and they've already been hacking the system you know going to italy or china So so there's a market for those players and we want an alternative to college for for for us though. Our players are seeking an alternative to high school so we are a school but we think about the resources that were bringing to the table first of which being an nba like environment You know start coach. Ali coach lehto in a robust set of staff. I mean scouting staff a high performance staff administrative team. Our goal was to simulate an nba organization for for young athletes at sixteen seventeen eighteen. Th there there is no other environment. Like that. And i think the big way that we separate with high school athletes Is that both domestically and internationally. We're able to put twenty four of them together in a building. So what we're selling is the best competition for these guys starts at home. I mean every day in line coaches don't minister drills administer competition aspects of practice and getting ready for games but when you look to the right and left and i noticed as a player. There's no weak link. I mean everywhere you look. There's somebody that's doing what you're doing and possibly doing more. Because they they are not just dreamed about the into the league or to the high level. They're on their way there That's where we've been able to. I think create a little separation from others that have tried or looked at something. Like this kevin. How do you approach this job. Do you do it in a similar mindset and you had at uconn where you have young players you also you know yukon. You had to keep them academically eligible you to follow that pretty closely. I mean is there is it a similar mindset or do you take a different tact. I think you just let it be you know. Similar is not. It's just whatever comes you say yes to it and you cultivate hope from it I never coached high school players. They was always you know graduated from high school. And now they're freshman's This situation is a little different in in was recruiting for two to three years. This situation is a little different. But you know from me. Chris i love the unknown about it. And that's the space i live in. Not just wanna make sure that. I have the space incorporate something in these players that they can just think about it can build from a have a foundation so when they make the transition they have every tool in the toolbox to say okay. Oh that's a problem Assess it let me be able to correct it. Let me obsessed. Let me be aware of it and i think that's the difference between you know coaching a high school kid in in the college. Kid i mean you get able to mold them a little bit better and then you have to understand where they at. Now you know back then. I didn't have social media. We didn't have social media now. These kids these players are building their brand a little bit earlier and now you just meet them where they are. And i can't wait to get them up on campus get them up until atlanta just continue to build a great relationship. Welcome spend time with the one on one in. This situation is going to provide us to do a lot more skill development that i didn't have a really good opportunity and it had not one say good opportunity. I didn't have the best opportunity. Because there's so many things we own a row recruiting You own a row fundraising these different things. Brandon's taken care of in. Dan porter is taken care of. I can just really coach the player and work on his skill development on and off the basketball court. So it's really given me my own lane. So i can really perform my job. Mama job is really breaking down and relationships it starts. Relationship is start with trust. Stars will hold is spending time with the the young student athletes on and off the basketball court and pushed them to greatness and the competition is not on. our side of competition is with him. You know can you beat your previous best bestself. Can you be better than today you know. Can you be better tomorrow than you were date. And that's what i'm coaching. And that's what i love to do. And i think we're going to have some great young man as open as biden has going to be vulnerable going to try to reach for the sky. In the sky is going to be ob- you is not going to be limits. I can't wait to get up to atlanta. We've been having some many camps. Chris has been wonderful to get back on the court with the guys. And i'm looking forward to the next mini camp and dan looking forward to getting them up to atlanta. So we really can go to work. You know when. I was was talking to brian. shaw a couple of months ago. Kevin about how he was coaching. The ignite you know it was a lot of pro stop. He was trying to bring to that team. Are you taking that same. Approach you trying to coach them like their nba players or something different. No it's nothing different is just. I'm building pro. Habits in every situation is going to be different. Chris this is going to be some guys. Come in you know. Say for instance like a. John montero will we got him and he you know is a little bit more advanced than some other players because he's been a pro- already and then it's going to be another situation where we gotta talented guy might not be able to get quick but these opportunities we can go at our own pace we can sit down and talk to them but we're really teaching and building pro habits and those habits is going to translate over to them being great pros when that opportunity come invest in the nba are the euro league so every day you know we are building like a practice plan like more of a college practice plan nba practice bandwidth doing drills. That i got from my numerous stops in the nba. You know we're doing sets in the nba. Then we gotta understand that sixteen years old as well you know and maybe sometimes you gotta you know kinda doubt it down a little bit. But i'm gonna let com. I'm going to let that go. i'm not going to focus on one of it. I'm not gonna say oh. We're doing this process. Each and every day every day is different. And that's what i love about the unknown. And i'm gonna treat it like that and we just gonna continue to bill because i think we got great mas and organization that really want to coach the whole person. And that's what i'm really excited about. You decided to upgrade your outdoor deck. So you ordered the essentials. Power washer said a patio chairs and a shiny new grill. And you use your bank of america. Customized cash rewards credit card choosing to earn three percent cashback online shopping and up to five point. 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Divers inventors patent and unleash economic opportunity. Find out at invent together dot org learn more and take action today brandon not to continue to compare this team to the ignite but when i talked to sharieff abderrahim about that i mean. I had asked him about the sustainability of that team. Given how much. Money was being poured in to pay some of the players. And he bobbed and weaved floyd mayweather trying to answer that question. Because it's it's hard to commit to it without say a television contract more sponsorships and things like that when you can you speak to kind of the sustainability of this because we've seen startups with an influx of cash. Get get in big the first year. But then peter out. I mean what needs to happen. Four overtime elite to become a long term successful program while has got to answers. I think you know a concept. I mean we're we're selling on the ability to develop young players and have a more more pro ready right. So this is. This is the path we are offering basketball development. Call it professional Business development And we are also like leveraging. What is an incredible media platform that again. The things that we like to call a distinguishing factors. That's a huge one. So not to bob and weave one. We gotta be good ass. You know that. That's how have long deputy spurs the spurs. They were good for really long time. And so we've got the that there were good at this note. No pressure on kale right The the the second piece though is you know and this comes from my my time in the nba. It just wasn't that long ago where it out of chicago. Pre-draft combine interview. If i said. I wanna build my brand. Everybody in the room was like smirking and like you know what. What are we talking about like. It's about basketball basketball basketball And you know if you are young team developing and not winning a lot of games truth is you can't sell just basketball because your basketball isn't great you got to sell personalities and stories in that there's something that people can invest in in fall in love with other than like the final score like otherwise. The sixers had no chance right any any development team yet to buy into a story and for us. I think we have a chance to create stories but we get a chance to show those stories because we have a platform. So it's it doesn't take much. I mean i'm not a social media guru. But when i got recruited for this job haven't been around the block a little bit certainly from an nba perspective. I heard a couple of things. I really got my attention. One was fifty million followers That's eyeballs and we all know that that Business follows the eyeballs in whatever in whatever respect. The other was which is unfair. Because i think that number changes month over month but it started at one point four and not set maybe one point eight or one point nine billion with a b. billion views of content a month that overtime in some ways has found a way to the heart. The mind of young people It is being communicated and solid as you know the generation z. sort media and content engine We are doing an amazing thing here which is developing young talent in a pure way that we want to make sure that they are prepared. Top to bottom to do well on the court to do well and communities to do well in business but then there's this other thing which is they want to be known like. No player wants to play in an empty building. Everybody wants to play where it matters. They wanna play. When nick can rock and like the building and just like recognizing their talent. We're just artists. And one thing that is kind of showcase. By one event that that overtime overtime the media company producing s called. You see it on youtube to. Is that over. Hundred million people watched that. I mean that that's not an insignificant number that players that are going to play overtime. Lee will have the opportunity to be known The the opportunity of bring brick big brands to the table and support this platform If not already indicated by the kinds of investors that that have shown interest but the brands that are coming to the table our sustainability is going to be showing value delivering value to not just the athletes but to overtime visibility. I would imagine great for them but can you monetize it. Can you make it so this league is in the black or does it need to be in the black every year. Well my the good news is as a basketball man. No different than a different than the is Get a budget. My job is to be fishing and and spend wisely. I i'm not. I'm not asked to sell tickets or generate revenue that's for a tremendous And in successful a business operations Our job is to make sure that what we are delivering is high is a high level product That you see the growth and development of our young players. What's there recruited. We gotta make them better. They need to be able to perform and probably the best testament of our success is going to be our nba. Gm voting with this pick right but with a coach saying like they did a nice job. This guy was. Well coached testament to takeo and the rest of the coaching staff. That if we're doing that will prove successful. Because guess what the next crop of recruits when we're in the gym like we're not chasing them. There's sort of meeting us at at minimum half way. We need to keep bringing high level taliban and developing talent to prove successful and i have a tremendous set of partners across academics and across content media. That will will do their part to elevate our business. Can you expecting to tap into some of your. nba relationships. I mean as you mentioned thirteen teams in twelve seasons. You've made a lot of friends over the years. We're going to see like san preston sitting in the crowd for your practices as a whole so sam and so many gyms that i know you know Kevin durant and all these guys are destinies in overtime. Just having them be around. We had our first minicamp. Ray allen showed up and not only showed up. He brought his son to work out with guys. Just it was just amazing. does just see how the branches that we can continue to pull up on and they continue to pull on us and be a partnership in. This thing is going to be great. Are you expecting to have kind of drop ins. Durant's involved with the league. You expecting these guys. Just be around. Which i would imagine would be both a resource for you but also an attractive quality to this league definitely. Definitely we going to build a place where it's going to be hopefully a development premier development destination for everybody and you know hopefully katie can come out and work out with guys and russell westbrook and james harden and all these guys that we know and i know i had opportunity to be evolved. Then it's kinda beat a veteran guys We want them to be around. Because it's not. Just me sean. It's also watching tape like these are the different drills and look how k. d. and look how chris paul is using the pick and rolls and now they're showing up that's a that's a big big bang for us with us growing these young talented student athletes To get them inspired to the next level and they're doing a great job done only gonna do. I coached him. Chris a coach me on a day to day basis. I'm open to that and we just really want to have a love affair with guys and and the end of the day chris. We want appease the basketball guys. We wanna play the right way. We want to share a basketball. We wanna run. We wanna have fun. We want how to join the game but it can't just be me me me. It has to be weak. And i'm wanting to teach guys how to be involved in any system they get drafted about. They can be a part of a productive system and be a productive partner in in the community as well no matter what city they when they arrive to the nba brandon. Before let you go. What schedule gonna look like i mean is this team playing. Just walk me through kind of what these kids are getting into. And what kind of schedule you gonna be able to put together so schedule that that is really interesting for everybody. And i wanna try to illuminate. But i've got to be careful we are still contracting with some teams But for the audience the think about it in buckets. We're gonna play independent prep schools. That's going to be a significant part of our schedule. We are a high school so we are looking to schedule. Some of the top independence that you would typically no to have a national schedule can travel that have the ability to be mobile. We're scheduling home and away with with With those folks and it looks like net set as an example It looks like you know. Folks that are playing for a national title Arizona florida california. So it'll be a widespread travel schedule for us. We're also looking at European competition so think about junior euroleague as an example. Some of the best clubs the Insects as an example Where we can get a collection of sixteen to nineteen year old elite talent to compete against us. And then as i mentioned earlier on the show we really feel like the best competition is gonna come internally and that's where our league play Comes into effect so we are looking at our group of twenty four as three teams of eight. There will be standings you'll be able to track will compete against each other. That'll be a significant part of our schedule as well. We don't want to overstep our guys one of the things. We really wanna correct leading science. Guide us here. is is minimized the wear and tear. Nobody's while still developing and preparing for a professional level place so a schedule of maybe thirty five. To forty games is our target. We started september Training camp will will begin Play by mid august. We'll be done by by Late march is how we see our schedule shaping up i'm looking forward to it brennan kevin. It's a really interesting concept and hope you guys have a lot of success with an. I'll certainly be watching a lot of. Nba people will be watching but brandon. Stay out of a set of massachusetts. Kevin has like some basketball. Ptsd from all those bc. Matchups i'm sure would probably were so tough. I don't remember kevin. It's not real like talk about it. But lita past. We'd be six thousand. That's not very nice. That's hovering kevin brand. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate it all right. Thank you chris. Thanks so much.
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"Through the dirt said that coach has that is able coach. Coach nick june. I'm not trying tired. You out of g you. I don't need you to play your basketball now. You just need to peek over the course seen. I wanna know what it was like. You're in boston. You guys achieve that championship. What was that feeling. Because i did it in the first year of coming together and it was expected to be. No i was gonna be this and y'all gonna be dead but like how was that failing to achieve that that goal of championship. You hadn't been a champion before you have been league in a lot of congressmen. How was that to come together in that first year. And like you say. Go from seattle thinking man. We bought gets k. d. We're going to be all right. We're going to be better. And then get thrown into that scenario win a championship. While i was obviously you know sam prestige was gm then. He traded away hours compensation and he was trying to build in any trades me away stylized snake new grass but then i ended up in boston and we win a championship. So i'm line. you know. i can't be pissed off at him. he put me in. A great situation is not something that you ever think. Possible i never worried about when samson because you gotta be fortunate to be on a team with players and with an organization that talk about everybody everybody bought in and even during the year they were trying to get better lie after we aid the initial movement roster wise trade deadline and trying to get better then as you know people got way towards the season we added a sandwich which proves very beneficial in for us know when temperatures so it was like you don't know like we went to the playoffs first round seven games atlanta will we could not beat atlanta in atlanta. At join turned into sunday. We had never seen before net. Demis might be some of the best basketball to the hawks played in that building At eight playoff. Advertising josh mills. Play yo but it was like. Oh crescendo. Said the playoff. Because then we go to cleveland and we win In seven game. they're in. It took us light all of it. The lebron was was doing his thing and then obviously win at six and in detroit in so by the time we get to the lakers. It almost seemed like the hard work was passed us because we had dealt with so much the the game on in east accomplished so much more physical ended. Pick the lakers win. So we came in. We know know tough. Nose hard gritty basketball and it was it was turned up this we we were in a position where as long as we didn't go off and do do too much craziness like we were prime. We ready. I wasn't for you for a note to see the next generation. You on a team. With the way lebron vice. You know what. I'm saying is is the next generation of players. How was it to see them. Young guys gas kinda in their prime trying to do so great special over it was great because they truly respect my voice and verdon me a lot. In london wasted asked my opinion. There's a there's a great appreciation for myself for john howard enright. There's allows you to to have a space where you know you're expected and you come into your job and it was a great work environment. Tell me this. I don't like earlier but when you hit that fucking shot. I need to know in real time what that felt like. 'cause i'm we players we know how go and i know what the fuck i saw. I'm sitting here. They rolled out the sidelines. They bring you know they getting ready like in real time. Reality is setting. I see the time they saw. D wave ula brownish Is like y'all have the realization. Does like it should be over. It could be over like you could see that in everybody's face and i know this is no bullshit. Know put like everybody concede defeat in the u. See defeat for y'all you could see triumph for you. See them rope and shit. I'll get you ready by damn. This is like for you to hit that. Shot in the flip the whole course of history. Tell me what that was like. In real time as it's happening and like demand said you did it like you said you prepare for these moments and everything you got your feed together like aside from that i get. I didn't listen to you. Explain how in the moment you got your feet in practicing after that the huddle like after you may decide in reenergize got your won that game in two notes. You did what you did in. This couldn't have been want without you. What is that feeling light. It was interesting because we you know. We saw the game setting away. Returned the ball over late in the game. San antonio missing free throws lebron his three the first three During the game. Mike miller hit three was with one shoe on the bench. So when you think about the way teams went championships. There's one moment that gets you to the next semi does something gets you over the hump player off the bench star five. Whatever may be s kind of how that went. I remember the next day we had. We had practiced the logan. Just do is going to walk through and media's and there were just you know shoot around little bit we sit there and play some shooting games and we walk. We watch film and but was get treatment in the train rem. I have been there early in. I walked into the locker room. And mike miller goes larry is and i was stunned because i in my mind at thought them i was there. We were there because we all contributed and mike said man bro. Will we here packing that work for you. And yes that we see that. I but you all know every little thing transpires into that final moment you know so miss free. Throw a turnover. A-block shot all. That gets you to that moment. And he is easy to point the or shine a light on that moment. That actually took you over the hump and that's kind of the way i've always been like you know. Everybody did their part to get us here. Obviously that was probably one of the most glaring moments that game that got us to where we go out. Glad i could be a part of it if i missed shot. It wouldn't have been a big deal because everybody would have said there's we way for yeah even union like there's no way you would may that shot edges. You're in a in a difficult situation. Nobody can make that shot but you you know you show the possibilities when you don't give up you know showing the possibilities of how team doesn't give up and continued to believe themselves. If you have five players will you had four players to play with on all the teams that you play with..
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"Because clearly i wasn't a victim victimologists this i really got guard. Neither one out. So i can safely bring this up but it definitely happened. I'm like oh man. Because i remember you sound like the message we send it to. The league is any anybody. Come get forty fifty. Hey you got to create some some better defense momentum's there was back then. I wasn't in that. I want to try to really do all that man. I'll china. he knows stay out of the way. Get buckets ever saw lewis coming from seattle going landau. He still had the momentum latest her to a good player or solid player. What was your what did show routine consists of like you taking all the you know what i'm saying. You was comfortable in every shot like what would show regular like. You know what i'm saying. What was regular routine for you. Well i mean. I started shooting free throws that was always known baseline whenever i felt like i was losing. My release was obstacle to the free throw line like the euro one of three point contest shop. Free throw before the game just to work on their release. The shooting part of just your lift. And that's something that you got to larry's ready for so that's why i would always shoot five from the baseline from the corner from top of key in on the other side and then i would do the same thing from the three point line. I would shoot five. But also our shoot ten altogether but i would run to have corps Back in those spots. And then what i would do. I would run underneath the basket. S- 'cause i wanted to always work on my foot. Were coming from every different angle that run in transition and and then i would get on my knees and jump up and had a guy told me ball shoots because now i had to work on getting lift from a standstill. You had i was trying to learn. She teach my body how to create its own momentum to get lifts is one thing to be running transition. You jump that's easy but to be able to create the momentum as you have no energy or any inertia going forward you gotta just kind create with your body. So that that's what i that was the baseline for what i would do in. Sometimes i would start off at all the way a inline all runaway into my shots. But i had to make five. Every time and then i'll do my pick and roll stuff on elbows. You know coach the garment. I come off. Get into the middle in alabama post-ups everything that i did covered every side of the court. So the thing that i learned and i learned through my injury was says i'm right eye dominant. I'm quicker getting the ball off. You know go on over my right shoulder. Because all i have to do is glance at the basket but on the on the other side got a half blue. I have to turn all the way around. Get back to. My ride is so i had to work. Give footwork in. That is the key. Is your footwork everywhere. Not always showcases like when the ball's come in my lower body already turned into the shot. My body might be open towards the ball. My lower body is facing at a basket so once i go up down. Abolishes being transported up to that spot so is learn. How at teach myself how they're relocate the ball from different positions on my body. No it from here to in here from over here to hear from down here. could you guys guard. You definitely bring the ball here and still get to that spot jump in creed the moon. So those were the things that i was working on every single day. Like china relocate the ball and get comfortable doing it and then being able to shoot freak those and thinking you guys know this free throws are very emotional like when you get aligned you think about it as much as you know when we were not in the league is.
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"Cigna solitaire by start disappear. And then they get on. That's got an hour was and then the last man standing and then Devout routine where one person with me or coach or balk if another team and the thing that always scared me was not being able to perform or do your job so i was my biggest critic than analysts hardest. Strength coach or teacher or coach. Because when i was working out new how needed to push myself. No one i did get into gains. I was so comfortable that all angles sows comfortable everywhere. I i'd never you know. Fatigue makes cowards overall so the minute you get tired you just have dat. You have at much of less list on your jumps. Install alison constant search of trying to keep that lists you know the same every time somebody release point saying coin so i had to make myself as uncomfortable as i could every single time you on the back to backs you know times when i had a week off like it was always an nasty find that that comfort level which i was always uncomfortable so i always tried to push myself and what you would you say. You started the routine of being there me. I would say i saw you. I lettuce had to be year probably toward the end of year. Two but i know definitely my third year and beyond i i remember showing up to the stable centre. Whatever time i got. I was probably before most of my teammates. But you was out there like kind like what these send us already. You don't say using minute workout. When i come walking using seattle the and i'm coming down like damn i. I remember some the crew around doing stuff on the class. Say oh man. I say how long how long rabia they like should. I don't know i've been. I've been doing this for about thirty. Forty five minutes and he was dead before i started doing this. And i'm like ham. And i remember asking Ask you one of the coaches. No not effect wouldn't wanted cut. I remember asking dads mason. Who with you. And then i remember asking. Mishari lewis percentile. My boy i imagine charlotte man. What time right begins lemon. Because you know sometimes. He told me sometimes he would work. Would you be like sometimes you beat down my started coming early right i w up the come as you did it for the rest of my crowd there because i just wanna get for everybody else that shoes so i could get my shit out the way. Nobody's bosnia Now ain't nothing really get through my thing and then be done. I'd be that when you know the dance team they're going to dunk stuff. Some people get out of the way. I'm getting on somebody do my stuff so i could be out of there and then i can kind of relax and do just chill when you tell on sending lagman everybody by the time they get there. But i'm already. I started doing like second. Doing seattle is getting there before the dunk squad cheerleaders. Because i figured out. Licensed same how i needed to be to get to work. I need to put in in You know based on what time i ate. You know whether i was home on the road and then i guess our massage work afterwards and then i can stretch because the whole the whole idea is obviously you don't want to exhaust yourself but put yourself through a workout where you get a sweat that is parallels though when you go into a game your body is your heart is already conditioned and so when i was in seattle Noticed 'cause you know you get traded to a team like you know bras we looking at your sewn inside at on the i to try figure out light who is due like you know 'cause they knew or heard about who i was when my my routine was but my milwaukee trade him so that i'm feeling by watching me in rashar he was star coming in and he starts seeing it and he was like man. I need to start doing this shit. I need to start putting in what. I started noticing. My routine started given other people their routine because understood what it takes to be consistent because consistency is the number one key to be great. You know if you show up somewhere for ten years you know the inner workings of your office your work or whatever. Yeah you know go wrong. Yeah do you. D- mildly mild. Here doing that and what it does is it transforms. Because now it's time to sign those checks they gotta pay who the most valuable unto who make the operation go and who is not expendable and you know for me. I become everybody's routine because now they know like clockwork. I'm gonna be there good game. A bad game always say the number one key to being great as being available and when you think about the the most consistent thing that we as people have in our life most consistent thing thing that we see every single day is the sun. Think about that. The sun comes up every single day. You know depending on a summer to winter it'll change. The time will move but it always comes up. We've never questioned whether sunk of the and some provides so much for us but imagine if one day the sun doesn't come up you know to send a lot of people in the panic and you know a lot of what happened world but we have faith gonna come up every single day. So if you can if you can connect yourself to that consistency. Every single day be similar to that on in your workplace you know whether plant job people started depend on son so plant flowers to do your work to cut the grass to whatever may be you depend on that when they see your consistency a gives them a breadth of of experience of of consistency for themselves it allows them to realize their greatest. Because now see what it looked like. There's nothing there for them early than just kind of off nothing but were shark early. It helped him realize. I always said he could be one of the best players in the nba and rashard. He knew he wasn't and he worked itself into an incredible player and sign that huge contract and had a great career. And i like to think a lot of me. Being around him affected him in such a way that gave him That foundation so he can grow become a an all star player on the. I gotta speak on that. could we. I was in a conference with puzzle. Y'all used to kick is all the time but Just beside lewis man just like how was he played his game and you could tell he was so much better know saying he missed so well would you use absolute came seattle and you gave that spark that knows ep. Didn't leave after they. The they get sport. Y'all start making the playoffs beside the lewis. Big time and like i say go hill. I could see it in his game. How he just his level of play he knew where to be at all times he is spacing was always will like you say never did not not a body that he don't do and he always was a complimentary player. People both the boy ray. Amristar took times on is those japan china and china and all but i was always pain. I on that trip actually had surgery. I had a bone spur. Break off my ankle so i missed the first twenty game to seize rashard. Gave y'all fifty one lose. No it's now. I think i think that was a To he somebody else in the first game hit like thirty some. Because i remember i remember no early. No murray flat let it was sled. That's it was really really bad. He look first game. He led us up for thirty or forty. Dan restart came. That's his philly. One only reason..
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"A boy color or or eight but you keep them based on right. I just remembered when social media became big when when this stuff started. Bible was a thing like i would be. You know wear shoes. And then all they talked about after the game was he. That won't see. And i'll let wow this. This is the real thing like there's a culture out there that exist apart of that you know follows this mrs legit you know that was i generated. We was found in when we got in and he accepted us. We like we potted as bomb squad. Oh so i get asked a lot just like you say when the internet and the social media start i get asked a lot because i'm one of the longtime ally man who got the bet the only person that i really deferred to say you know had a better p game to me is you and i become because of the longevity you had championships. You had the long play. Muzzy had a plan for that for us. Yes oh i missed that in la. I get no play off runs in there. I got it in miami. I mean i got it in phoenix. I got it in miami and did in new york. new york. One of my illustrates because that was like at they peak appease and it was like it was a different color. And that's the main reason. I say that you me. You has some of the ps going because our longevity with the brand and then our team were so far from the original colors that they were used to greens yellows with seattle greens in boston and even with the goal the yellow red and black. And because i had some ignorance of my one year miami too so is life that flavor say bibi was like a close right there. 'cause bibi had the Documental year in atlanta colors and stuff so he was right there but like the longevity like bro when they gave you the rain games only some eleven who knows i say settled dole. I say the ignorant winner last. Shoot around mismatch. I saw them internet in a listen. They created a platform dean with them. Shoes i remember it all the mid match the eleven in the nines. I remember it up. You know the way the way. We're fortunate because we had no to your point we were able to you know have longevity so spanned you know a couple. Different generations plan two decades in heaven. The different colors but then later on playing. You know prime time tv. The christmas games long. Yeah you got all the gains. That are poignant moments it'd be moments from all star games. Use thousand night they had the constructs of the net and i told me when a when i got the three point record in In boston i told them when they stopping at thirteen. Listen it was like the day before. And i was pleased with them. I said i need you to make these thirteen for me. I need you to make him for me. Because i can't just break this record and not have something special my feet who this is gonna always be a moment. That is heidi's the sugar right thirteen. Yeah who so tall it or had them shoes on. Listen how they got to me day. Counter the countered by playing they to me Right before the game move in a they made mock tub on a green which means it was written in arabic. So go george diff- russ. They made sure that we had our player. Exclusively made sure that it was something that was special to us. They wanted us to know the people around us. They supported us. And they'll give gonna buy those shoes. I was at nba. Julius in orlando like urasoe ago. I went to the nba. Join your mom was there. We were sitting there watching the game the championship game and just laughing and she just say so. I know us with jordan. What do y'all do with all shoes like. Where do they go to jadu. He's problem probably got all these shoes. You know where to put him. So what you do with all these shoes dollars you can let listen You know. I think i'd never owned a pair of jordan's when i was growing up my favorites would have buyer rid bores you kid. What their favorite jordan is. You can basically guess their age because how we grow up you know like albert were playing with beasley michael beasley. Yeah visas a my favorite georgia sixteen zero sixteen all day long. Yoga's like like planet in the league sixteen. No.
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"Jesus i would necessarily but now's like is one of those things that cemented in stone. Now it truly is. You know it's like one of those films that you revisit the ninety s. It'll be something that for us. You know athletes. It'll be something that will always kind into the times of which we well. Yeah it's definitely one of those joints for me. 'cause like i feel like anybody who see that movie anybody's top athlete of care whether it's basketball football baseball. Whatever it is. Like jesus shuttleworth that athletes especially today's game with all of this dam social media and these guys getting a million followers. Everyone of them. Kids are geeta shuttleworth. They are being pulled and tugged in a billion different. Directions taunted with money fame or whatever you think before they even get there and that's exactly what like you getting taken today to house and everybody in dealt with that whether it was being sent jewelry dome or being sent money being offered money in by a relative or a friend or teammate or whatever may be we all these brands that that's what made that. I made that movie sold. You know some relatable to everybody because you know earlier like not so much. I can't speak on that. But i know in the nineties and early two thousand. That's when it was like an eighty two. You know like people was like they way was everything was going crazy. We'll be being giving this and that and it was like that shit was just like oh this movie lightly a time and it s it was sold out every by. Is hooper right now. got us feel. This did life of me definitely. I watched it in with a where do as he and as these bike these Once a year in the summer and we always talk about Doing a sequel. Because there's so much a subject madam pertaining to young kids girls Hooper's and like i said earlier like movies. Tell the story of and who better tainted storage. Despite what is going to be a she got game while week. Tussle the down a little bit but again and not stated i haven't said as you guys yet but what you do what you experience in your life you got to write a book one someone i will though what happens is since we played.
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"In. Just what was your feelings when you got the cali. Hey spike lee. When to be a move zil was right. We attended washington. I didn't know any of that. the nuts on started. Because now we were planning guard Early deceiving allies. Houston killer a. Yeah yeah they don't know nobody two hyundai l. Wanna big ninth as well. That's all of our water. Yeah so he's killing me. He may have fourteen of tina hands. And you know spike you've allen night which do as so in the season you know our probably had like eight or nine one doing different forwarded spike rocard sun sentinel ignoring them. Because i thought he go in on me and then he finally got my test. He told me he's a amc movie. When you see whitcomb audition and i was i bet. So i gave my I was just in connecticut. So i'd roles in like snow every week and i started on these auditions and remember the first audition i did. I did with Deco art parter and then we had these lousy I did see salli richardson. Though i was coming i was like. Yeah yeah yeah. Because they're all disney parole alaso. I'm over here for anybody. Is anybody and you just yeah. We wound own. Kissing scenes us doesn't know right array. Third time i come in denzel is there was dead..
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"Hackel and i'll be over there dunking as so. What happened was once we got into seizure. I remember the first game of the year. We laid years the towel state vania and a second game of the year. He played virginia. And howard dean member. Harold e was Was the point. Guard in herald nine had nonni southern years this and acid gang. Were talk we beat them by twenty and i was a lead scored out. The first on monday was on sports at the said and length. Things corn and harold sesame. He said y'all tough. Which all do on. Y'all running impress like that. Like that was the first time i realize all the work that we put in preseason was paying off these dudes couldn't keep up with us and we were so condition that we ran hard. It was drilling running. Run from drilled israel like it was a it was a military mindset in so once i got into a game every time i didn't worry about whether and i could play basketball or one thousand be good enough because i was so prepared ad nauseam like you know working on running and transition like once i got out there took the ball of we were gone long transition around the basket so i'd never ever questioned my skill because i knew i was going to work it. How was it for you in ninety five ninety six in college. You win biggies planned a year. Would all of those different yet kills john wallace. The name of light you win biggies patty you. How was that for you that year. A i think back on it. I truly fortunate to say. Did i wanted with that. Assemblies of talent because right felipe lopez. Yeah yet danya. Abrams airborne was getting buckets. Providence was loaded. you still don't forget you had loans poetry moten own food you know so guys like that like there's so much invisible talent and it made for you know especially for fans of watch. It made for a exciting basketball but that year. Really between ai. Myself like we went ahead ahead uptown you. It was scary but fascinated the same time. I remember coming through Down was treated Is broadway in new york. What a guard is on I remember seeing our names up on the marquee. You know ray. Allen verse allen iverson and i'll sitting there thinking of a name like normally. I would panic. But i know what to do here. I know you know just just play. Basketball like is not like i gotta give a speech on All rocket science. Know how to do what i'm about to do. So sometimes you got block it out because you know. We had carrying on hugh battles. Yeah you blade. we have one game in connecticut. Where big monday. We supposed to play but we had a snowstorm. So i got moved to tuesday. And you know they weren't gonna put another game one air by ones right. Yeah 'cause we were like one to in the country at the time and but they just had a roster in. I appreciate you know cares skill because that's one of the died is not easy. You know my kids this kids when they see another kid on the playground as dope. They go in the other direction because they are afraid of that that they want to go to court would at best way they superior they might go to the dues. Go today new your that you you get there. And i remind everybody about jason kidd. And gary payton how gary used to be in the day wanted to play the buckle up in play ball and so that's how i felt about the big east kerry was there a was there like when i played against them. It wasn't just you know. I want to win but it is this not a matchup between the bolt bus but our teams you know i think we probably have seven seven or eight teams in the dance style. Year bob soup here by law airbus was in brighton. Is you learn like when the team wins. Everybody receives some type of reward or a great benefit from the success of that individual that team. You know we we had the roll. Scheffer got drafted trans ni- drafted dining marsh got drafted honey more. Yeah you know. That's that's it. So i learned early light. Let's win Following a fall a man sat out the kerry kittles man no sites baby me more good. Did i remember when he's the weather one last like no other way like swag back in the day. Real talk by favor drought classes. Ninety six was had a special and look back on it now since you retired to back it and just to see all the hillis had your draft plan house just reported probably the best draft class l. to begin you know arguably you know the argument which Argument is though while. Yeah and i've always looked at eighty four and i thought you know how that crash the class was started. Look at eighty. Four than i looked at it. Ninety six top to bottom. Yeah top to bottom in. But i'll even throw something out there. That needs recognition. Is ben wallace then while as they get drafted as he got acknowledgement in the thing though like he obviously back danny where he went in the picture with none of that. But yeah yeah but ben wallace. He was just the announced hall of fame the fact that he had such an impact in the time that he played based on where he came from speaks volumes to that class. You know those freshman coming into a rookies coming into the nba. That year. You you when you talk top to bottom. Derek fisher has five rings event as to. Vp's has it. You know we have all stars in olympia ins Now hall of famers so it certainly produced a lot in the interesting thing to his alma. If you guys ever done this but just go back and look at your draft class and look at the one before one after you remember all these players guys you look up to and then when she realizes each draft class only has like two or three player that you remember remember. I'd put it word. Some guys you remember their name. You might have remembered them in college or whatever but guys did actually put it in your own. Yes it's only there's only like two to three roots are as per class so when you talk about a class that produces so mini hall of famers light. I don't know you know. I could take credit for it all i want because i was a part of it but i did my part because the thing that drove me crazy told this i wrote this book. I wrote a book. Three years ago is called from outside and I always say this slam magazine own covered at on the inside of that cover it. They had accolades of the most likely to When mvp win championships in my name was nowhere but one spot and it said most likely to fade into obscurity really. Yeah and so you know me being a somewhat. Well read young man as i think i know what security means but let me look it up and for the first four or five years of my career. I did not want to do interviews with slam. me off so much that you know yaw kind of wrote me off all did you said you said but the truth be told.
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"Then all of a sudden you don't hear about no more and we you know somebody like myself that was ranked twenty five nights but in having real like fan bear or cloud behind my name. Because i it didn't matter. Like i'm gonna go where they gonna build me where i can play. Where have fun i want to play in the nba. I was thinking about jumping higher in begin better shooting because now i have a kid on my team now i asked another day what their goals were because i want them to their goals out of the people here so in other people here to help them accomplish those. Go straight from that tab. Somebody's there remind. Remember when you told me this billing how is it coaching. Your kids team is that. How was that for you while you know when you go to watch kids blade and you're sitting up in crowd and stand and i'm watching this year. They were horrible. You know during the season this year it was like no effort. You know just doing everything. That bound must've motion the stand. And i'm wondering like i'm just sitting there be cool and school for the most part. I'm looking at my son. And i'm yelling at him and me as i go. You know 'cause he will come up and he would run like ron we'll get easy bucking saw like come here beat after practice. Not work with kids sometimes for practical step on their coach when she's an were coach ask me. He said he wanna create a resume willing to coach at no said. I thought about nasa. Yeah yeah really would. Because there's so much that they need to learn so my philosophy.
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"ray allen" Discussed on Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
"Member of jordan grant teen g. He got gay into the baby. Wes out precincts you pull them up on this super dope man. Thank you for having me. I've been watching y'all for a long time. You got great. Thanks yes sir. Yes sir. I we got to the league. I think this is the my favorite team to play like we. I got to the league us with the walkie books. Y'all had hit us. Own esquire from sam for sale of big dog to tell thomas like anthony mason like ivy league. I feel like that team was the team that could compete with the lakers in those championship like one year yard beat them. Two games played there. I feel like your team was built to play against the speak on that team so easy to point gays that you sound big dog adler josh shot the ball. He was like man number game. Miss like how that the play with debts had that much firepower and feel like you can win a championship in the early days while it was unfortunate because we should of state gather Long things one of our fatal flaws in you know god rested soul with anthony mason. We had such a great chemistry and when we added into mix. It disrupted that because we were..
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"Some text to speech systems. I mean as far you can understand them. They sound grit. Wavenet sounds sounds cool. Custom voices like the bbc. Sounds pretty good. But what people don't really understand. Is that really to make them sound proper. Natural not robotic and not kind of boring and making you switch off with through. It does require a little bit of you. Know attention requires shaping and moulding is that is that where you see linguists really helping our as far as the snl. Monaco been making things. Sound mall human definitely like like probably for maybe the beginning choosing the voice actually. It's also nice to help To know about the phonetics of voice and the a voice can can foreign by and So that you can really help Explaining why certain some good or Might not be the right fit for. Maybe you're brand custom assistant but also as you said for lulu as l. tuning meaning and so on ready to help haven't earphones and to Now want paul's those can actually do in terms of emphasis and all these Now trend mechanics actually Which are in a voice and the voice paramedics s. I mean that's that's the end part of it. And he can do so many mistakes and so many wrong things at the beginning when you start developing the essence start thinking about how should this t t a sound and whereas the defensive record him on oh and how won't get changed the whole deal in that that's another erkki. Just do without them and if that goes wrong the best estimate on help you to find unit to have occurs matic voice in the end in. Go one step. I suppose before as well and making sure that you've actually you've got the right words in the first place in the right order. So we're getting talkin about covers my voice assistance. We're gonna question from malcolm auckland moment while we're on the concept of voices and you know t t s and all that kind of stuff that you You announced a partnership with vocal ide- relatively recently joined. Tell us a little bit. More about will then tells we're thinking about how could we. Maybe we would try to fit our like persona dine that we create on linguistic character traits and so on that we would actually like most of the cases to also have the voice which exit to that. So i think it's good to Also partner or To communicate with each eds providers Right at the start so that you don't come into project and you have already selected boys and then you then you do the persona. The is i smarts to Yeah start at the beginning and work together where working at the moment is usually have two models. One is very general like it says everything perfectly and house perfect pronunciations and has all the words so it can sound nice but most of the time it's very without a character without charismatic without everything because it's not recorded that way then afterwards he pulled on top the voice like like how should it sound and sounding is not the same as emotions and things like that and we thought and still believing that is historic data at the beginning And to should start at the beginning to have a Voice and that's why we got in contact with them and then start thinking about. How could we developed the first grade a mental models for this voice before even going into how voice sound so. We wanna give it emotions. I was Interest in what are you finding from the work that you do in. We'll we'll get into the the supposed to relate to charisma. It is really commitment. But it's more broader than that. I i would would agree. But i would. I would put charisma as kind of a personality. Trait could be one of many kind of traits. If you like but the concept of having a persona and overarching persona on a brand voice is something that you know some companies have. It's what we talk about quite a lot. You know but the doesn't seem to be a tremendous lord of examples of things. I cost him. Brian voices in in the conversation is based on lord. It's getting there but what you see in from the work. They are doomed. The clients that you're doing. What's the appetite for those those custom voices and costumed personas and things. That is that like a monday thing that you always do or is it something that you kind of need to spend a bit more time selling en and all kinds of stuff well again quite fast. As a matter of fact the courses will once you explained to them that this is. I mean this is the person speaking to your customers in the end was you'll worry so. The persona design is not only the part fall forward voicing auditor that a sound or emotional voice. It's also words. it's It's it's you'll conversational partner so to to have conversation unique to people you need to persons bolsa. Dan own uses story. And if you just go for a use case and i want to fulfil you use case then it's very one sided conversation nobody stat. Even if i'm not interested in a conversation and talk to you and you come on and you bubble bobble you keep on talking. I will have a use. I have my own user story already will have in my act out this conversation. And that's how i speak. That's how i phrase my sentences replies to you and presumably design is more than just. How does voice. It's it's how does it speak. how do i react. What do i want. The i want to try and sell something as well to make that person more comfortable in this situation or Maybe educate that person on something else that i could also do in grand like i'm telling you how to screw in schools somewhere because he just went to a care and bought new bad. It's so much more than just the
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Designing charismatic voice assistants with Marie Kleinert and Ray-Allen Taylor - VUI Agency
"Some text to speech systems. I mean as far you can understand them. They sound grit. Wavenet sounds sounds cool. Custom voices like the bbc. Sounds pretty good. But what people don't really understand. Is that really to make them sound proper. Natural not robotic and not kind of boring and making you switch off with through. It does require a little bit of you. Know attention requires shaping and moulding is that is that where you see linguists really helping our as far as the snl. Monaco been making things. Sound mall human definitely like like probably for maybe the beginning choosing the voice actually. It's also nice to help To know about the phonetics of voice and the a voice can can foreign by and So that you can really help Explaining why certain some good or Might not be the right fit for. Maybe you're brand custom assistant but also as you said for lulu as l. tuning meaning and so on ready to help haven't earphones and to Now want paul's those can actually do in terms of emphasis and all these Now trend mechanics actually Which are in a voice and the voice paramedics s. I mean that's that's the end part of it. And he can do so many mistakes and so many wrong things at the beginning when you start developing the essence start thinking about how should this t t a sound and whereas the defensive record him on oh and how won't get changed the whole deal in that that's another erkki. Just do without them and if that goes wrong the best estimate on help you to find unit to have occurs matic voice in the end in. Go one step. I suppose before as well and making sure that you've actually you've got the right words in the first place in the right order. So we're getting talkin about covers my voice assistance. We're gonna question from malcolm auckland moment while we're on the concept of voices and you know t t s and all that kind of stuff that you You announced a partnership with vocal ide- relatively recently joined. Tell us a little bit. More about will then tells we're thinking about how could we. Maybe we would try to fit our like persona dine that we create on linguistic character traits and so on that we would actually like most of the cases to also have the voice which exit to that. So i think it's good to Also partner or To communicate with each eds providers Right at the start so that you don't come into project and you have already selected boys and then you then you do the persona. The is i smarts to Yeah start at the beginning and work together where working at the moment is usually have two models. One is very general like it says everything perfectly and house perfect pronunciations and has all the words so it can sound nice but most of the time it's very without a character without charismatic without everything because it's not recorded that way then afterwards he pulled on top the voice like like how should it sound and sounding is not the same as emotions and things like that and we thought and still believing that is historic data at the beginning And to should start at the beginning to have a Voice and that's why we got in contact with them and then start thinking about. How could we developed the first grade a mental models for this voice before even going into how voice sound so. We wanna give it emotions. I was Interest in what are you finding from the work that you do in. We'll we'll get into the the supposed to relate to charisma. It is really commitment. But it's more broader than that. I i would would agree. But i would. I would put charisma as kind of a personality. Trait could be one of many kind of traits. If you like but the concept of having a persona and overarching persona on a brand voice is something that you know some companies have. It's what we talk about quite a lot. You know but the doesn't seem to be a tremendous lord of examples of things. I cost him. Brian voices in in the conversation is based on lord. It's getting there but what you see in from the work. They are doomed. The clients that you're doing. What's the appetite for those those custom voices and costumed personas and things. That is that like a monday thing that you always do or is it something that you kind of need to spend a bit more time selling en and all kinds of stuff well again quite fast. As a matter of fact the courses will once you explained to them that this is. I mean this is the person speaking to your customers in the end was you'll worry so. The persona design is not only the part fall forward voicing auditor that a sound or emotional voice. It's also words. it's It's it's you'll conversational partner so to to have conversation unique to people you need to persons bolsa. Dan own uses story. And if you just go for a use case and i want to fulfil you use case then it's very one sided conversation nobody stat. Even if i'm not interested in a conversation and talk to you and you come on and you bubble bobble you keep on talking. I will have a use. I have my own user story already will have in my act out this conversation. And that's how i speak. That's how i phrase my sentences replies to you and presumably design is more than just. How does voice. It's it's how does it speak. how do i react. What do i want. The i want to try and sell something as well to make that person more comfortable in this situation or Maybe educate that person on something else that i could also do in grand like i'm telling you how to screw in schools somewhere because he just went to a care and bought new bad. It's so much more than just the
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"The nba. The nuggets perseverance past the sons one twenty to one twelve and two overtimes. Jamal murray mesmerizing with twenty. Six points. even sticking a three to send it into ot the jazz jackhammer. The warriors won twenty. Seven one eight steph curry passing. Reggie miller to into second all time in career three pointers ray allen rains in i the rockets flick aside the mavericks. One thirty three to one zero eight erik. Gordon revs up a season high. Thirty three points houston is now three and three in the post. James harden era and speaking of the bearded one james harden breaking all five of his three point. Tries goes for twelve points eleven assists and six turnovers as the nets. Nick the heat one twenty eight to one twenty four. The lakers disrespect the bulls won one. Ninety anthony davis thirty seven points. The timberwolves spray down the pelicans one twenty-one ten and after the game a concern zion williamson muttered the t. wolves quote played harder than us honestly throughout the whole game.
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The Return of Playoff Rondo
"So Bill Game One against Houston was Rozan rondos first game nearly six months. Can you break down everything that he went through with injuries? Yeah. It was interesting because this is a guy who has been slowly it feels like kind of breaking down as he's gotten older he had two broken fingers on his right hand last year his first year with the Lakers. This year he had a calf injury. He had an aversion fracture in his right ring finger and this is all before we get to March and the shutdown from the pandemic. So the Lakers are off for four months they go to. ORLANDO. Rajon Rondo is with the team their first practice inside the bubble Lakers guard Rajon Rondo has suffered a broken right thumb in. He's expected to return to full basketball activities in six to eight weeks, he's going to undergo surgery to repair the fact fracture this week. So he leaves the bubble has surgery. He's out for another six weeks or so the Lakers have a first round series against the Blazers Rondo, comes back to the bubble and is actually cleared to play for game three against the Portland Trailblazers, he's on the court getting ready. For that Game Rondo was listed as active tonight for the Lakers but was a late scratch with back spasms that happened. So, by the time, we got to game one of the second round against the rockets. There was kind of this sense of porcelain Rondo forget about it what level, but is he just going to be healthy enough to play and be able to stay healthy to make a contribution to this team? What does he had to say about all of these injuries he basically downplayed the injuries and said that these are the sorts of things that are going to frustrate. Anyone was very frustrating injury and step back I'm my career fourteen years have. Everything happens for a reason. Obsolete man says talks we. Still for the moment but the timing of this latest injury, the broken thumb and the back spasms I think particularly frustrating for him because this is a guy whose entire reputation and career is built on playoff performance on being a guy who really ramps it up in the postseason. Early, in his career uses a second your point guard with the Celtics out of Kentucky playing with Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen and Paul. Pierce and he ended up playing an instrumental role. You remember the two thousand, eight finals against the Lakers decisive blowout game. You know he had twenty one points against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers twenty one point seven rebounds eight assists six steals to give the Celtics a championship for that story franchises nearly ovation barrage. You've seen it win Lebron was in Miami. If you remember game three of these conference semi finals Rondo dislocated his elbow. Oh. Wow. Left arm hyper-extended boy. Didn't see it on that I replay certainly. Saw It there. When back to the locker room pop back in came back onto the court to help the Celtics with game. Time is pad. Rajon Rondo expired the crowd rare Boston. We've seen it time and time again in his career in these big moments, it's not superhuman. But when you take a player who is seen as a high level, but not superstar player can a hitting that superstar switch when the playoffs come then obviously a legend starts to grow. And for him did have another injury right when the Lakers were expecting to get him at his best was extremely frustrating. But the timing actually ended up working out he made it back for the second round series against the rockets and as we've seen was really no worse for the wear the Lakers got blown out by the rockets in game one. They're all going to be in a good mood tonight as the Houston Rockets when it one twelve to ninety seven. But after that, they rattled off four straight wins how much credit do you think Rondo deserves further taking that series. So easily I think you could make an argument that without Rajon Rondo certainly that the Lakers wouldn't have off the next four wins, but he was instrumental in games two and three and four also, but specifically games two and three with his performance in the fourth quarter game too. He knocked down a late jump shot to kind of hold off the rockets and what was a close game Rondo two. Point jump shot that's Rajon Rondo with a bucket right there ten points nine assists for Rondo and then engaged three. He was actually the guy who is Lebron James on the bench to start the fourth quarter in what was a close game at the start of that period he either scored or assisted on Lakers I eight possessions of that quarter to help kind of turn what had been another tight close game into a rout for the Lakers. Rondo. He'll three and Rondo hits another one largest laker lead tonight Rondo has. Been Spectacular and a nice Lee for Kuzma. This is sort of how his reputation has been built. But this also is kind of out of line with the way he's played for the Lakers over his first two years. He hasn't been the guy who has come up in the big moments or been clutch. You've seen the decline of a player who's in his mid thirties and has been in the League for fourteen years, but there has always been this belief from the Lakers that when the playoffs come that he. Would step up and have those sort of vintage Rondo performances and so what you saw was sort of this return to form that the Lakers have always promised would be there and you saw not only offensively. But also defensively when Houston started to make runs, it was Rajon Rondo who was picking up James Harden full court and pestering him into turnovers they double team Arden and get a steal and another round of bucket. That's a ten old laker run hard was trying to go behind the back Rondo was right there. In both game two in game three second-half possessions where rondos picking up James Harden. The former MVP of the league, hounding him into a turnover, taking his pocket and going the other way for layup that completely shifted momentum and those both are Lakers win. So when you look at what Rondo did in those two games, I, think you could easily say that the Lakers could have been down two. Oh, two one in the series instead of kind of romping to a five game series victory.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Experts weigh in on California's ?execution moratorium
"That, California has a complicated history with the death penalty voters have repeatedly upheld. It must recently with two propositions back in two thousand sixteen but the state hasn't executed anyone in more than a decade. Joining us to talk about this is John Donohue. He teaches law at Stanford University where he's an expert on the death penalty. Welcome. Glad to be with you. Okay. So what do you make of the governor's announcement? Well, it was striking. It's not a complete renunciation of the death penalty, of course. But probably an important step in the direction of eliminating the death penalty in the state of California. And potentially more broadly across the United States. Really, you think this might have an effect nationwide. It certainly lends impetus to the growing movement across the US to abolish the death penalty number of states. You know every couple of years abolish the death penalty. And this will be taken as another step in that direction. So it's something that the supreme court will clearly be looking at. Although one might imagine that the Trump appointees. Perhaps have a more aggressive posture on the death penalty than some of the other judges up there who have expressed concerns about the constitutionality of the death penalty. But before it gets to the US supreme court wouldn't have to go to the California Supreme Court because voters passed initiative or two measures actually on the ballot. A few years ago. Upholding the death penalty in effect yet. Yeah. There's no question that there are competing cross crosswinds blowing both at the state and the federal level. So you have the governor moving in one direction you have the voters in the last two referendum moving in a different direction. Although I would submit that the last referendum is a little bit less clear in terms of what the voters really intended. Because there probably was some confusion on the part of the voters what they were actually voting for with many people apparently voting for both the competing referenda. So that enabled the continuation of the death penalty vote to just get over the fifty percent threshold. So the death penalty though, I just want to clarify four listeners that the death penalty propositions in two thousand sixteen one said do you favor getting rid of it and that was defeated by fifty three percent? And the other one said should we speed up the death penalty process and that was approved by just over fifty percent? Both of those propositions indicate that people support the death penalty at least albeit by a very small margin. But still the majority in this particular vote said, yeah, we're in favor of the death penalty here in California. But you think that voters were confused there is certainly evidence of that. Because there were quite a number of people who voted for both of the initiatives with some people saying, yeah, we should get rid of it. But if we're not going to get rid of it, we should speed it up because the last person to be executed was executed for a crime committed thirty five years ago. So it really doesn't serve any sort of penal logical justification. But I think the point is well taken that there. There certainly is support for the death penalty in California and on across the nation. The last person executed here in California was a man named Clarence Ray Allen put to death in two thousand six. It was a very long time ago. Although we have more people on death row than any other state. We haven't executed someone in in such a long time is the death penalty. Here before Gavin Newsom leaders announcement was that effectively not in effect. Yeah. It really hasn't been in effect for a long time. Although that was about to change because there were a number of individuals who had completed the appellate process, and therefore would it moved ahead if the governor had been willing to allow that. But all of these people who would have been executed where where people who are committed crime decades ago, and so the normal notions of swift and speedy punishment. Of course, are are completely undermined by the California death penalty system. California has a very long and contentious history when it comes to the death penalty and I'm thinking back to the eighties. When there was a state supreme court judge named rose Byrd who became infamous in the pro-death penalty circles for being staunchly anti-death penalty and going against the the populace and not refusing to. To enforce the death penalty for several inmates, and she lost her confirmation vote for another term on the bench specifically over that issue that was in the eighties when I guess California. It could be argued was much more pro law and order than it is now how do you think the state has changed with regards to the death penalty? And this whole bigger idea of law and order will. Of course, the support for the death penalty tends to be influenced by the level of crime in any particular jurisdiction and the eighties. Of course was a time of rising crime and therefore much greater apprehension over criminal Justice matters now that crime is much lower today than it was at the time that roseburg was removed from the bench enthusiasm in California. And across the nation is is quite a bit lower. So we we see. Declining. Use of the death penalty everywhere in in the United States today in part because crime is is so much lower today than it was in the late eighties. Did the roseburg scenario what happened to her when she lost her seat on the bench that really send a shockwave through ranks of judges and prosecutors to not tackle this issue for many years. Oh, yeah. No question that it it was quite a jolt to the judicial system. And you know, that has kept the death penalty going in and state ever since. But. You can see the ambulance, of course. Because on the one hand our death row is so large because nobody ever gets removed from death row except by suicide deaths or occasionally an inmate will be killed by another inmate. The execution is only the third leading cause of death on the California death row
San Francisco Chronicle Sports - Spoken Edition
A rare misfire for sharpshooting Stephen Curry this season
"You're listening to the spoken edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. A rare misfire for sharpshooting Steph curry this season by Scots ler. It's hard to know what to believe these days, the nineteen sixty nine moon landing and walk if Steph curry doesn't believe it can it be true look closely at those pictures in the background you'll see Starbucks now. I hear Kevin Durant believes the warriors faked their visit to the Hamptons three summers ago curry in the fellas didn't really fly cross country to court K D. Those were holograms created in one of team cone or Peter Guber movie studios fake love. And now we're supposed to believe that curry shooting fifty percent from beyond the three point arc going into Wednesday's game against the Toronto. Raptors the stats said curry was shooting fifty percent on threes. Ninety one for one hundred eighty two curry came back to earth slightly Wednesday in the warriors one hundred thirteen ninety three loss to the. Raptors he hit two of eight from long range lowering his percentage to forty eight point nine still a good number. This is Curry's tenth season and his previous bass was forty five point five in twenty eleven twelve his career Mark is forty three point nine. So what's up with the fifty? He's maturing said Bruce Fraser, the warriors assistant coach who works with curry daily shooting drills post practice and pre-game. That's it. We're all maturing. Mrs never bothered him before Fraser said, but I think they bother him less now so Curry's chill factor on three point shooting is now below zero his conscience has frozen over it does seem to this casual observer that curry has been even less inhibited with his shooting this season. Kyle Korver has been dubbed threes. So curry is Lord of the letter flies. He just sees the game better Fraser said but fifty percent. That's x Ray vision. Nobody in basketball history has pushed the limits of three point shooting. Like hurry has what he's done with threes in the shooting equivalent. What he's done with threes is the shooting equivalent of a moonwalk but fifty percent for such a high volume shooter is absurd. Take it from a man who knows Steve Kerr. The warriors head coach is number two on the season. Three ball percentage. Chart. Fifty two point four in nineteen ninety four ninety five top dog is Korver. Fifty three point six in two thousand nine ten Kerr shadow over fifty percent in a season three times. But where curry is attempting an average of ten point seven threes per game. Korver incur each shot. Two point one per game in their best seasons in corpus highest volume season. He attended six threes per game and shot forty nine point two percent said curb before the game you would expect fifty percent from a guy who's just going to stand there be wide open and shoot three of them in a game. There have been a couple of guys who've done that pause for laughter. Continue. But in terms of flying around like Steph does shooting off the dribble shooting the volume of threes that he does shooting the half court shots at the end of quarters fearlessly. It's almost impossible to do that over the course of a season. But I don't put anything past staff. That's for sure volume shot. That's where Curry's three balling strange credulity on the list of career three pointers made. Curry is number five with two thousand two hundred twenty two which is seven hundred fifty one behind leader Ray Allen, but Allen played thirteen hundred regular season games. Curry's played less than half that six hundred forty three. Everyone ahead of curry played at least eleven hundred twenty six games on this season's list of most accurate three ball shooters. Nobody among the top eighteen takes even half as many threes per game as curry it's easier to make threes. If you take a lot of them tell that to James harden, the only player in the league who shoots more. Threes than curry hardened shoots eleven point one per game. And makes thirty seven point three percent. If curry hits the fifty percent Mark or even if he has a routinely spectacular season of shooting threes Kurd deserves an assist playing incurs flowing offense. Designed for Cari has allowed him to evolve. As a long ball shooter from crazy. Good to shot up. Not only did Kerr design an offense to maximize Curry's talents. The coach also blended Klay Thompson, and then Kevin Durant into the mix. So seamlessly that defenses can't concentrate on curry crazy stat going into Wednesday curry Thomson and Durant where each taking an average of nineteen point seven shots per game. If curse oh smart in the second half of the season. Let's see him. Get DeMarcus cousins nineteen point seven shots per game. Two as for curry is it possible for him to join his own exclusive fifty ten club fifty percent on threes. For season while attempting ten per game. Sure said Jonas Repco on Wednesday. He could shoot sixty percent, right. And man could walk on the moon.
WBZ Morning News
Ray Allen praises 2008 Boston Celtics, teammates at Hall of Fame ceremony
"Home from the third day of school for students at Bristol Plymouth regional tech in Taunton. A bomb threat forcing the evacuation of the bus as a holdover at the rest. Stop off in Bridgewater around two forty got off the bus without police walking towards us. And we were all confused. We went over to him. And he was like telling us we have to be like three hundred feet away from the bus, and we all went inside freshman, Casey Moran, her mom. Irene nervous wreck listening to it all play out on a police scanner is apparent you. Watch your kids go off to school, and as a normal day, you're hoping that they you
WBZ Morning News
David Price performs well for Red Sox
"Minutes before prepared myself to take the stage. Not with a victory that didn't happen. She beat the ten term incumbent Mike von oh by eighteen points. Prompting more talk about the so-called year of the woman in US politics. There are two hundred and sixty three women who have advanced generals in the house the Senate and governor's races. Is there something afoot here? When we sit on the Boston comments after the sobering
Public Affairs Events
Ray Allen praises 2008 Boston Celtics and teammates at Hall of Fame ceremony
"Gained Basketball Hall of fame. Friday welcomed thirteen new members Ray Allen gave a shout-out to Celtics teammates, given Garnett and Paul Pierce who posted congrats on social media perhaps leading to improve relationships. They have been icy since Allen left for Boston led Boston for Miami two thousand twelve he was the most prolific three point shooter in league history as the NBA's all time leader in three point shots made twenty nine seventy three a ten time all star and recalls, how former uconn coach Jim Calhoun shaped his career as a kid. We moved to Shaw air force base Sumpter South Carolina, while learning to take my game to another level at Hillcrest high school is where I grew my talents under the tutelage of coach Jim James Smith. I play ball every weekend at the base gym with my dad in the men stationed shore from base, and these guys definitely didn't take it easy on me those days for where I made a lot of my groups. I spent the summer a ball which attracted many. Coaches from around the country and one in particular co Jim Calhoun. Under coach home. I really learned how to work I learned how to compete. I learned how to be a better person a learned how to eat breakfast. So many things today to stuck with me. And coach guy who told me a long time ago. I was walking off the floor with a few of my teammates. And we're all like we had a great practice. And I'm thinking that I had agree or disagree job. And he calls me over to him. And he said did you make one hundred percent of your shots? And I say probably about eighty five and I looked at me looked at me. And I knew what he was saying he said if you want to be special you have to do the special things that other players aren't willing to do. And for that example, coach, thank you tremendously. Because I am Ryan today because of you. Granted hill and nineteen year. NBA veteran made seven all star teams as well. As a pair of NCWA championships. While at Duke an Olympic gold medal. Also
CBS Sports Radio
Steph Curry dazzles from deep, Warriors take 2-0 NBA Finals lead
"Of course we'll begin with the nba finals steph curry takes control of game too he lifts the warriors past the cavaliers won twenty two one oh three and now golden state takes it to series lead is far it's curry he scores a game high thirty three sets a new final single game record with nine three pointers and of course afterwards curry credits his teammates i mean we watched the film obviously from game on the brian amazing night but a lot of it was just lack of kind of sense of urgency early and possessions to try to be physical klay jury my katie especially were or you know an transformation all right worthy of mention guys as we said curry sets a finals record for three pointers made in a game with nine he now also has the highest lifetime total for threes made in the finals with ninety if you if you were curious ray allen had to single game record of eight back in two thousand ten and lebron had the highest career total of eighty five so steph setting some marks here again nine in the game ninety for his career how about that amazing stuff all right turning our attention now to baseball we'll start in the american league quite an afternoon for eddie reserve of the twin alan holding now throwing a two one pitch at tolerant zimmer training corey parolee saw.
The Takeaway
'She Got Game' Is the Sequel That Needs to Happen...So We Made It with Women
"You're listening to the takeaway podcast if you like what you're hearing give us a rating and review us on june's it helps us in ways you can't imagine also tell your friends share this podcast on facebook or twitter or wherever you want your followers to get some solid news coverage they'll be smarter and they'll think you're a hero it's a win win all right now back to the show back to the takeaway like and twenty years ago today spike lee's basketball film he got game opened in movie theaters across the country in my might sound a damn again if it don't mean what he's getting came with the game right behind the game the game i got see got game we got the movie star ray allen the now nba legend ray allen as jesus shuttleworth the number one high school basketball prospect in america jesus has fraught relationship with his father recently out of prison played by denzel washington one jeez anyway no kidding played it to understand why i wanna put the ball in your creek i know baby well now twenty years after the release if he got game we have a new trailer that imagines a sequel she got game there has been a second coming of jesus shuttles worth twenty years to the date lincoln high school has once again produced the most sought after basketball prospect coney island known for its high crime rates and rampant drug use mother shed as overcome the odds this is your moment short film commissioned by bleacher report stars jewell loyd as faith mother shed as she decides what to do with her own future play at a top university stay close to home to be with her sick mom or go overseas go pro and make some big money to help out her family i sat down with jewell loyd who in real life is a guard for the seattle storm of the wnba and also vastly cola who directed the short film i think for me he got game plays a special part in my life especially growing up you know loving film loving new york city but you know i'm not.
First Things First
A new Celtics' 'Big Three' of Rozier, Tatum, and Horford emerges
"All right you have to give the celtics players especially their role players and for years since i've been watching the nba which is a long long time boston celtics role players danny aines they play so much better at home this is not just this team look at the role players how well they played last night we know they have significant injuries but this has been a theme for the team we can give yes they weren't prepared for the game yes did they have a counterpunch to philadelphia what they were doing yes but the place rozier tatum you gotta give a lot of credit to what they did all right so you brought up a lot of important points there one is home road celtics in these playoffs they played eight games they are undefeated at home they haven't won yet on the road so don't discount how important that home crowd in boston the other is the guys rozier tatum poor for they combined last night for more points as a trio than paul pierce ray allen and kevin garnett ever did ever in a playoff or regular season game more points combined than those three guys ever did they all scored twenty three points the first celtics trio to do that in a playoff game since perish mikhail bird in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven only the third celtics trill to ever do it in a playoff game like so those guys were great where i will give brad stevens credit and we're much like like cc too donovan mitchell is me brad stevens on the corner early and often trying to alert people how special this player or this coaches brad stevens is in my eyes right now the best in the league at is putting guys in position to do what they do well you have you have gm and danny ainge that is has knows who his coaches and says okay i can take a guy like terry rozier who people thought was a project people thought was a rich reach we picked him out of louisville he will be coached up in order to reach his full maximum potential and then when he gets the opportunity he's going to go out there and all of a sudden give me a poor man's kyrie irving level production on offense in in a critical game.