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Durant scores 31, Suns beat Clippers 112-100 for 3-1 lead
"Kevin Durant and Devin Booker combined for 61 points in the sun's one 12 to 100 win over the clippers durand had 31 of those points. You know, it was a back and forth battle. They throw punches. We throw punches. And luckily we came out with the last one. Booker finished with 30 and Chris Paul had 19 with injured star Kawhi Leonard watching from the bench Russell Westbrook kept the clippers in it with a game high 37. The series now ships back to Phoenix with the sun's leading three games to one. Mark Myers, Los Angeles
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Leonard scores 38 to lead Clippers past Durant, Suns 115-110
"Kawhi Leonard led all scores with 38 points 13 in the final quarter, clippers beat the suns one 15 one ten to capture game one of their Western Conference playoff series. Russell Westbrook only had 9 points, including two free throws in the final seconds, but he also had ten rebounds, 8 assists, two steals in three block shots. I think I'm one of those guys. I can do everything each and every night. Like I've always told you guys whatever it's needed of me. To win the game, I do it. Kevin Durant had 27 points, 9 rebounds at 11 assists to lead the son's Devin Booker added 26. Towards ten Phoenix
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Clippers rally past Suns, secure No. 5 playoff spot in West
"The clippers bounced back in the fourth quarter to defeat the suns one 19 one 14, clinching the 5th seat in the Western Conference playoffs and a first round rematch with the suns, Norman department led the way with 29 points Kawhi Leonard had 25 12 in the final period along with 15 rebounds and 6 assists. I'm happy that, you know, we're back in the playoffs giving you an opportunity to plan a playoffs again with the miss any last year. So it's always a hundred and just be able to extinguish season. Russell Westbrook added 25 points at 8 assists, the sons already had clinched the fourth playoff spot. They sat 7 players, including four starters. George Phoenix
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Poole scores 34, Warriors charge back again, beat Clippers
"The clippers have lost four straight since the addition of Russell Westbrook as the warriors beat LA one 15 to 91. Golden State was down by 12 points, but outscored Los Angeles, 42 to 16 in the third quarter. Jordan Poole had a game high 34 points and Klay Thompson added 19 points and 11 rebounds. We are capable of grace birds that can put teams way early. And when we play with together, it's a beautiful sight to behold and tonight was an example of that. In the lost Kawhi Leonard had 21 points and 7 rebounds, Ryan leong, San Francisco
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"AP sports on time, the top two teams in the AP's college basketball poll were in action Wednesday, both won but in opposite ways. Number one Houston jumped on tulane early and rolled past the green wave easily 89 59. Number two Alabama had to go to overtime to overtake South Carolina for good, 78, 76. Brandon Miller who took the court amid a police report linking him to a fatal shooting year, Alabama's campus scored 41 points, including the basket that tied the game in the final seconds of regulation time. Hockey with trade rumors surrounding him, the Blackhawks Patrick Kane scored two more goals to base a four three win over the stars. The islanders also won by a goal. Russell Westbrook played in Los Angeles with the Lakers until two weeks ago, and now he will play with LA's other team, the clippers signing a deal on Wednesday. Novak Djokovic says he has asked American authorities for special permission to enter the United States to play tennis tournaments in California and Florida despite being unvaccinated against the coronavirus. I'm Tom mariam AP sports.
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"AP sports. It's the all star break in some NBA players around the move. Russell Westbrook will sign with the LA clippers according to an ESPN report, who also reports the Chicago Bulls are finalizing a deal with Patrick Beverly. Myers Leonard will resume his NBA career with the Milwaukee box who signed letter to a ten day contract letter hasn't played in the NBA since he used an anti semitic slur while playing a video game nearly two years ago. Kevin Love will sign with the Miami Heat. Top 25 college basketball. Third ranked Kansas got revenge from an earlier season blew out loss. This time they handled number 23 TCU 63 58, jayhawks coach Bill self on the difference between this game and the 23 point loss last month. At least we started to rebound in 40 minutes for the most part. We did a good job on their guys. We felt I could really have big nights. In the NHL, David pasternak scored twice. He's got 40 for the season and Boston one again, three one over Ottawa, Florida, top ten Anaheim four three and overtime. It was James reimer stopping 26 shots, lady San Jose to a four zero shutout of Seattle, Philadelphia top Calgary four three. New York islanders over Pittsburgh four to two, Bo horvat and Anders Lee scored less than two minutes apart in the third period. Lee says his team played a complete game and didn't fold against the penguins. I'm really proud of our guys tonight. We could have gone another way. And we pushed through and we took control and were able to come out with just a big one. While Winnipeg goalie caught her hella buck had a spectacular night, he made 50 saves, leading the jets past the New York rangers four to one. At this point, we just taken wins anyway to come. We did a lot of good things. We brought some energy. And we definitely kept into the outside and controlled rebounds. So, you know, there was definitely a lot of those good block shots. It could be K, power play goal. So there's a lot of good stuff tonight. I know the shots are flop sided, but it was a good team game. Former San Antonio spurs in Minnesota Vikings owner, red mccombs has died. He was 91. Chuck Friedman, AP sports
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Kansas beats TCU, the Jets goalie has a big night, and a vormer pro sports owner has passed away
"AP sports. It's the all star break and some NBA players around the move. Russell Westbrook will sign with the LA clippers, according to an ESPN report, who also reports the Chicago Bulls are finalizing a deal with Patrick Beverly. Myers Leonard will resume his NBA career with the Milwaukee Bucks, who signed Leonard to attend a contract Leonard, hasn't played in the NBA since he used an anti semitic slur while playing a video game nearly two years ago. Kevin Love will sign with the Miami Heat. Top 25 college basketball, one game, Kansas, got revenge from an earlier season blowout lost. This time the third ranked jayhawks handled number 25 TCU 63 58. In the NHL, David pasternak scored twice. He's got 40 for the season and Boston one again. Three one over Ottawa, New York islanders over Pittsburgh four two. Each scored two minutes apart in the third period. A former professional sports team owner has died. Red mccombs who at one time owned the San Antonio spurs and the Minnesota Vikings passed away at the age of 95. Chuck Friedman, AP sports
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Chiefs' Mahomes says ankle will be ready for Super Bowl
"I'm Bruce Morton. Good news for the chiefs and their fans. Patrick Mahomes says he's, quote, definitely in a better spot when it comes to his ailing right ankle than he was for the AFC championship game as the all pro quarterback proposed to lead Kansas City against Philadelphia in the Super Bowl. Pro basketball, the swapping has begun leading up to Thursday's trading deadline with the Lakers at the center of a three team deal. They sent Russell Westbrook to the jazz and got D'angelo Russell from the Timberwolves. Speaking of Los Angeles, newly acquired Kyrie Irving made his debut with the Mavericks Wednesday night in LA. He scored a team high 24 as
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Beyond, which is something we use a ton. More than just a store, Shopify grows with you. Go to Shopify dot com slash blue wire all lower case for a free 14 day trial and get access to Shopify's entire suite of features. Grow your business today with Shopify go to Shopify dot com slash blue wire right now. You'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Shopify dot com. Slash blue eye. But so far, this has been the easy part. Yeah. Not fair. Not that it is easy, but it's easier than what's to come. The hard part is what's to come. That's nailing trades and free agency. Those two things, if are the Russell Westbrook trade opportunities, if there are, and you're going to go ahead with that, you've got to nail that. Free agency got to nail that, right? We can say right now they're batting a thousand. We don't max Christie. Maybe he doesn't pan out. Sometimes that happens with young players, but based on what we know right now, it seems like the guys they added pretty solid and max Christie pretty good pick, okay? About in a thousand there, darvin ham, that's the coach we all agreed. That would probably be the best fit. They got them. Great. So far, so good. Now the real test though for the front office, who can you get in free agency given that you have just the taxpayer mid level exception? $6 million and better minimums. How are you going to find three point shooting and defense when every team in the NBA is looking for those two things, particularly at the wing position, and better in minimums? How are you going to get that done? With what you've got at your disposal. This is going to be the real test for this front office. And if they're going to be about a thousand, they're going to have to get creative and figure out a way to make things happen over the next couple of weeks. This is screaming Russell Westbrook trade. This is screaming Russell Westbrook trade because again, and I only thought about this because he brought up, yeah, are you going to get enough of guys that can play that can shoot the three and play defense with the roster currently constructed only being able to use your taxpayer and not trading Ross are not potentially trading to each team in another package who knows though. Yeah, and obviously when they say, this is screaming at rough trade, I'm talking about Charlotte, potentially with Gordon Hayward and Kelly potentially. So yeah, man, the giraffe was a lot upon but it's time to get into some of these Lake or trades potential trades and what they do in the off season. Absolutely. Absolutely. Especially Charlotte, I wonder if they're extra concerned now because Detroit, you know, they picked up a big in the draft. And that's got some people wondering, are they still going to target 8? Or are they going to focus more on miles bridges? With all their cap space. And if that's the case, Charlotte, they've got to be prepared to pay miles bridges in order to keep him, and that might require them to move off some salary in order to do that. So we'll see what ultimately happens there. Let's wrap things up though with the three guys so far as of this recording that they have picked up as undrafted free agents. Let's start, let's start with cold sweater. What are your thoughts on bringing him in? We said the Lakers were going to be a prime landing spot for undrafted guys. They had to give him a two way contract, do you like the fit there for the Lakers? Yeah, I love the fit for the Lakers. I mean, you talk about 6 line dude that could just shoot the lights out of the gym. Yeah, I mean, I'm really intrigued by them. One of the best catches shooters in the draft this season, well, this draft. And also a guy that's not bad defender. I think part of the problem was the fact that over at Syracuse they were running a lot of matchup zone and some really wonky stuff that really doesn't bode well for him. But I think he has the size and the versatility to help and contribute defensively. And then obviously, again, the elite three point shooting, which is obviously what a law Lakers fans were intrigued about. Scottie Pippen junior, oh, I've just Twitter is reminding me is a clutch sports client because clutch sports is tweeting out congratulations to him. Scottie Pippen, by the way, Scottie is SCO TTY. Despite his dad being an IE Scotty. Yeah, just interesting in the fact that he's still a junior too. Yeah, well apparently somebody mentioned this on Twitter that apparently Scottie Pippen senior, the legal spelling of his name is with a why. And it everybody just felt that IE for some reason. That was the that was the Twitter. I expected. Don't take my word for it, but that was the Twitter explanation for why senior is an IE and junior is a why. But in any event, let's talk about it as a basketball player. Letters in his name. What are the Lakers getting here? Not the same player as his dad, obviously. Much smaller. 6 one. He's a guard. What do you get in in Scottie Pippen junior? Well, let's Gotti pepper junior getting a guy that can just score the basketball. A guy that averaged 20 points per game on a Vanderbilt team to really need them to when per 40 minutes you're looking close to the 25 points per game has some defensive instinct as well. Obviously it's dabbing Scottie Pippen, the lunch that he is. He just has some great instincts for them on the floor. But some of the problems with sky pippin is some of the shooting inconsistencies. He really struggles coming off of pick and roll so she can jump herself off of it. He shot 34% from three and it's queer, so he's a solid one, but he's not consistent enough with it and just some of his shooting mechanics have to be better, especially coming off screens. But I think Scottie Pippen junior is really going to be a nice prospect for the Lakers and at least in the G league. I don't think he'll play this year. I think Cole's Twitter has a sha two. I don't think guy pepper junior plays. I think that's best for his development so you don't screw anything up. So it's going to be interesting to see him. I can't wait to see him in summer league. That style can't play tends to thrive there in the kind of the chaos that is NBA summer league. So I'm really excited. I'm each day I'm getting more and more excited for a trip out there for summer league. But let's wrap things up with another former star player's son. Sharifa O'Neill, Shaq's son, who revealed the other day that his dad didn't want him to do this. Didn't want him in the draft this year. Should he have not, I mean, went undrafted. Lakers give him a chance here. But Scottie Pippen junior got a two way contract. Right? Cold sweater got a two way contract. There's some, you can pop players in and out of those contracts, but still there's a little bit of commitment there. Sharifa O'Neal got a summer league contract. There's no commitment there behind beyond just you're going to play in Vegas and we'll see how you do. What are your thoughts on him? I really think, well, first off, bought your point about Shaq. I really do think he should have stayed another year. But you know, you know, sometimes you just have to go with your gun and you just roll with these things. I think I talked about this in a previous video with you, Trevor, that shrimp O'Neal just needs to go into Vegas and just prove that he could do the little things. I think that's a good start for his MBA career. Via also dude, show great energy. BF, he still is a tall guy. So just be athletic and just make impact will play his defensively or offensively as well as any great screens, coaches and scouts they really love a guy that can say a hard physical screens. Do the little things like that. And I think he could potentially find a place on the Lakers G league team and then I think we will see this is why Scottie Pippen went G league or cold Twitter, my G league, max Christie league. I think the Lakers are Darby and hammer get a prioritized using that a little bit more as a legit developmental piece. As opposed to sitting them there and not really using them like we saw sometimes with.
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"That sort of thing, if he looks at that, I could see him taking that offer from the Los Angeles Lakers and then hitting free agency the next summer. And then, of course, you would have to hope that you can move THT for a tube that has some size that can be a little bit switchy because you're going to need to do that. Like if you were to take Josh Richardson off of this roster and put THT in, you've kind of got a little bit of a mess because Reeves, lamb, either one of them going to start at the two, maybe Reeves, but can he consistently shoot the three? I think it's going to be absolutely critical that you find somebody who can do that. And Josh Richardson just has more of a history of doing that. I'm not saying Reeves can't. Maybe he will be able to, but the three point shot was not his strong suit last season and shot in the low 30s. And so that's simply not high enough. I know he is working on it this summer. Hopefully he comes into camp ready and he's hitting the threes and he's good to go there. But if not, I think you need somebody else that can do that THT, a big question mark there. Can he improve his three point shooting? I think you need to go get somebody who can. Josh Richardson would be an option there. Again, I mentioned kentavious Caldwell Pope. Even if you go Kyle Kuzma and you have to slide TJ Warren up to the two, at least then you've got some floor spacing there. So that part of this is really important that you can move THD to find somebody who can defend multiple positions and shoot the three. And again, I tried to focus on getting younger while still finding pieces that could fit for the Los Angeles Lakers. If nothing else, I hope this illustrates that rob palika has a tall task ahead of him and it's not going to be easy to put together a competitive roster for the Lakers this season while keeping your future powder relatively dry in terms of your future picks, keeping Russell Westbrook on the roster and maintaining that kind of flexibility moving forward because let's face it, there's going to be a lot of teams around the league that are going to try to fleece the Lakers in a Russell Westbrook trade. So it's very possible. Maybe even likely now that the Lakers find themselves in a situation where rob pelinka has to build a roster with Russell Westbrook on it and figure out a way to make things work even with head coach starman ham wanting to do a four out one in offense. Yeah, it's going to be a very, very interesting balancing act for rob pelinka. But Lakers nation. Give me your thoughts. What do you think about this roster that I've assembled for the purple and gold? Let me know in the comment section down below over on YouTube or let me know in the reviews over on Apple podcasts. Till next time everybody. See ya and stay safe..
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Could certainly do worse as a backup guard. From there, Jeremy lamb, Jeremy lamb right now with the Sacramento Kings, this is a player that the Lakers have been connected to in the past. Again, I'm looking for a little bit of size on the wing, which the Lakers have not had in recent seasons, especially last season at 6 5, he can give you some of that, not necessarily the best career three point shooter. And I know shooting is important for this Lakers team. But again, I need that size on the wings. And so as a backup to, I'm going to go with Jeremy lamb once again a veteran minimum. He was not killing it last season or anything. So that gives me a chance to go get him. And I think the Lakers because of the opportunities that they can offer because they do have such a wide open roster. I think they're going to be able to land some guys on veteran minimum deals that are looking to do essentially what Malik monk did last season. Come in, rehab their value and then maybe hit free agency again. And that would certainly be the case with Jeremy lamb. So bring him in just 30 years old, young enough to where he can still be a contributor for the Los Angeles Lakers and speaking of guys who are going to try to rehab their value. This is my taxpayer mid level. Now, yes, it's TJ Warren. Before anybody throws their screen or anything like that and says, what? This guy hasn't played basketball in two years. Yeah, he hasn't. He hasn't. He looked fantastic in the bubble in Orlando right before he got hurt. He's had a couple of foot injuries, rumor was he was ready to play at the end of last season, but the pacers were tanking, so they figured why even bother why risk bringing him back. And so they chose to just keep him out for the season, but he has been actually healthy for quite some time now. So TJ Warren, the reason why I'm taking the gamble here is because had he been healthy, you're not getting him for the taxpayer mid level. Again, he was phenomenal. Phenomenal. In the bubble for the Indiana Pacers, he's a guy who can score it quite a bit, 6, 8, gives you the size on the wing that you're looking for. And I think the Lakers, if you're keeping Russell Westbrook and you are not moving those future first round picks, which I'm not doing in this roster build. That means you have to take some risk. And that's what I'm doing here because if you don't, we know what LeBron Russ and AD looks like together. If they all stay healthy, are they a playoff team? Yes, I think that they are. I think that injuries prevented them from being at least a playoff team. And that's not saying much. You only have to be in the top ten to get into the playoffs. I think it's fair to say if the Lakers didn't suffer so many injuries last season, they're in the playoffs. So those three together, they can be a playoff team, but if you want to be a contender, if you want to be a contender, you're going to need more..
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Look, Greg Popovich has no love loss for the Los Angeles Lakers working out a deal with the spurs. It will not be easy. But looking at the Lakers roster right now, Taylor Horton Tucker Russell Westbrook does not fit. Now, I think this is a dangerous trade in that there's a pretty decent chance that Taylor Horton Tucker when he gets traded somewhere will look better in that place than he did with the Lakers last season and that will further the narrative that the Lakers aren't great at developing young players. So you've got to be careful here. I think that at 21 years old, it's pretty likely that Taylor Horton Tucker just in terms of development will probably be better next season than he was this season, particularly if he doesn't have to have surgery on the thumb of his shooting hand in pre season. So I would also caution that if the Lakers catch wind that THT is suddenly shooting much better. If he's suddenly shooting league average or something like that, I probably don't do this deal. But if he's not and if we're operating under the assumption that Taylor Horton Tucker continues to be a poor three point shooter, he's just not a fit with Russell Westbrook and all you wind up doing is you wind up devaluing talen Horton Tucker by trying to force him to play alongside Russ. So what I'm going to do in this scenario is I'm going to move him and I'm going to find a three and D style wing player Josh Richardson fits that mold with the San Antonio spurs so you're going to go get him for the upside that Taylor Horton Tucker has to offer again decent potential that a few years down the road you're looking at this and you're thinking, man, I wish we hadn't done that. But again, as of this moment, if you want to want this team to win right now and have a shot to do it with Russell Westbrook on the roster, you need to find some three and D help at the wing. He's 6 5 Richardson is. So he can float a little bit between the two and the three can provide decent.
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"One of these. And what we do is we break down a roster build. So we go through and we build out the Lakers roster through free agency through the draft, trades all of that and we come up with a somewhat realistic roster the Lakers could put together if things tend to break right for them under a very specific set of circumstances. So for example, the last one of these that I did, we pretended that the Lakers were willing to trade anything in order to improve right now. So everything was available 2027 first, 2029 first, young played whatever. Everything was available, what kind of roster do you end up with? That was the last one we did for this one. We are going to have the parameters be Russell Westbrook stays with the Lakers. And that feels like the path that we're actually heading down right now, which is not what we would have said going into the off season. So today, I'm going to build out a roster with Russell Westbrook still on the team and try to make the team as competitive as possible. So that's my goal today and of course I stay grounded in reality as much as possible. Yes, we tilt things as though things are breaking right for the Lakers. But you're not going to see anything crazy in here. Like you're not going to see, I don't know, Taylor Horton Tucker and Kendrick nunn traded for Kevin Durant or something like that. It's not going to be two K style. We're going to try to keep things as grounded in reality as we possibly can as we build out this roster. Before I dive into it, everybody would really appreciate it if you go over to Apple podcasts, give us a 5 star rating over there. Write a little something in the review. It takes about 20 seconds and it's a great way to help out the show. Of course, if you're watching the video version of this on the Lakers nation, YouTube channel, make sure you do subscribe and then turn on notifications, gonna be a busy off season. So stay in the know, make sure you follow me on this over on Apple podcast as well as the Lakers nation YouTube channel..
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"If it goes the other way, if there is some way to make this work, and I'm not saying there is. It's not my expectation. This is going to be fantastic. And this is what this is the story we wanted to tell coming into the season. We wanted to talk about Russell Westbrook coming back to LA with the school at UCLA. We want to talk about Russell Westbrook coming back and being loved by fans and providing the energy on the floor and making winning plays. That's the story that we wanted to tell. That's still possible. I wouldn't say it's likely. It's very unlikely. That's still possible, but a lot of things have got to happen to get there. And the biggest thing is you got to win. Winning cures all. Winning gears all. That's it. If Russell Westbrook and the Lakers win, people are going to forgive him. People are going to be cheering for him. That's basketball. That's the way it works, and that's what happens when you put on the purple and gold. Right. And I agree, again, just like we spoke about with Anthony Davis with Russell Westbrook. It's a mindset thing too. It's a mindset thing. Are you going to go out here and be a dog? Are you going to let the fans get to you? Or are you going to go out here and just do what it takes for this team to win as a collective, not what's good for Russell Westbrook. Maybe what's good for Russell Westbrook isn't good for the entire Lakers. So again, here comes that word. Are you willing to make those sacrifices in order for the Lakers to be a championship contender again? I think all of that goes into it. As far as you know, his mental health aspect, I think Russ is a proud guy. I think he'll be able to battle through people, you know, people talking on Twitter, Instagram, things of that nature. I think it's just all about him, respecting his coach and being comfortable. Again, like I said, last time I was on, you know, some of the things with Russell Westbrook this year obviously won't get fixed overnight. Three point percentage free throw percentage. I got that..
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Again, no matter what. No matter what he does this season, he's not getting that contract. But what is next summer going to look like for Russ if this season doesn't go well? He's actually got a lot riding on this season and his ability to show that he can adjust and adapt. I thought it would take this contract being up and the reality of free agency to hit him for him to truly adjust. I'm hoping that that's not the case and that he's already looking ahead and this season. We're going to see a more adaptable Russell Westbrook and maybe him being there at the presser tonight or this afternoon was a step towards that. That's my optimist. That's my optimistic side of it anyway. Well, I'm just hoping honestly that, you know, especially when it kept talking about how defense falling asleep on defense. You know, that's just focused, man. In my opinion, I'm just hoping that darvin ham is able to reel. If you can cut down just giving teams easy layup, you know, you'll give yourself so much more of a chance towards the end of the game, especially if you're turning the ball over. So just focus, getting these guys focused again, these guys honed in on the defensive end. But also that goes into also roster construction, still got to bring in some more guys who can defend to help Russell Westbrook. We're not saying that Russell Westbrook is going to be this lockdown perimeter defender, but when you got 5 guys on a string as, you know, they like to say in basketball, your team is going to be so much better. Defensively, especially when you have Anthony Davis who coach ham, you know, mentions going to be the foundation of the defense. So I'm just hoping he can get him focused. And I think that'll do wonders for our defense. And then everything else is just icing on top. James bell with a super chat said the stars respect this coach more because his come up and where he is now..
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Things over with fans is to win. Winning cures all. If the Lakers figure out some way to make it work and Russell Westbrook's on the team and they win, everything's going to be just fine. If he's on the team next season and they don't win, that is going to be a big, big, big problem. It was already a problem this season. It didn't work. If he's on the team next season, he's even going to be a bigger lightning rod if the team is continuing to fail. So is it possible? I've been looking at this as a no. Is it possible for the Lakers to find success next season with LeBron, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook on the roster? Possible, yes, I don't like my odds. Possible. I mean, sure, everything's possible, right? Maybe the Lakers hire a great head coach. I don't know, Darwin ham. And he's able to solve the Westbrook issue with the Lakers. Who knows? I'm just putting it out there. It's the NBA. Crazy things happen. Is it likely to happen? I don't think so, but could it? Sure. Why not? I'm just not, I do not have the tolerance to find out, though. Yeah, personally. I would prefer a clean slate. My belief is, in order to get the best version of Russell Westbrook, you've got to do so much damage that it's not worth it. The cure is worse than the disease. In this situation, I think that what used to be okay because Russell Westbrook was an MVP of Russell Westbrook was one of the best players in the NBA. Doing the things you needed to do in order to allow Russell Westbrook to shine. It was worth it because you were going to win more games than you lost because Russell weissberg was that good. This version of Russell Westbrook, the things that you have to do in order to make him comfortable in order to make him fit, ultimately results in losing basketball because you're either devaluing some of the other pieces on your roster, you're playing a style that isn't conducive to winning. It creates issues. And so I don't know if those two things can go hand in hand, keeping Russell Westbrook and getting more production out of him while winning basketball games. I don't know if you can do both those things. And so that's going to be interesting to watch if they do bring in a new head coach, particularly if it's a rookie head coach, how do you manage that situation? Because I feel like scheme wise while I'm sure there's always different things you can try. And of course, different players you can add and things like that to try to unlock things, scheme wise it felt like Frank Vogel tried just about everything you possibly could with Russell Westbrook, and there was no combination that was working..
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"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"It to contract out of it. Rust is still a starting point guard in the NBA, but I think a big thing is, unfortunately, Trevor, I think you can ignore the contract. I think you have to look at Ross and you say, hey Ross, we'll take we'll bring you in, but this is your role. And I don't really think Frank and the Kochi staff, maybe it's because they didn't know what they wanted his role to be at the start of the season, but whatever he goes next, presumably next season, and whatever team wants him or whatever, they have to have a Citadel conversation with Russell Westbrook and say, hey, are you willing to do this this and this? If that's it, if you're willing to do that, and you're willing to contribute to winning, then sure, we'll bring you in. But if not, then no, I'm not going to deal with what the Lakers dealt with for two thirds of the season. It's not worth our time. So, I mean, Russ is again, he's still starting point guard when he does, he does do some good things. When he actually decides to cut, he's a really good cutter. When he decides to screen, he's a good screener for a guard. Russ does not judge the below average point guard. I think we kind of look at him in his contract and then judge appropriately, but he's still a star of caliber point guard. And yeah, so I think he has to have a role, a set role going to next season that is clear. And I think that's part of what the problem was with this Lakers team, is that they didn't really know his role was going to be until January, and that's kind of problematic. Well, and that's the key. And that's what I mean by separating from his contract. Like you can't ignore the contract, but I think that sometimes the perception of the continent. It's a bad contract. There's no getting around it. It's a bad contract. But the contract bleeds into our perception of him as a player. And I think that if we do look at him just as a basketball player, he's got some value, right? He can do some things. But again, the question is, will he play a specific role? So I'm trying to think in terms of landing spots, is there a team out there that we can foresee that perhaps needs a point guard that can need someone like Russell Westbrook with his particular skill set? I mean, that's the thing. Maybe we just need to work backwards here. How would you construct the team around Russell Westbrook in order to get the best out of him? What's the ideal scenario? And then we try to find a team from that. Well, if you're building your team around, Russell Westbrook. That's awesome. But for us, what is the best environment for Russell Westbrook? How do you get the most out of it?.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Well, they just hear the part that doesn't connect with what they already think about him and then that's where I get messages coming in. So it's interesting, but I wanted to make sure that I put out there how I approach this and I think it's a little bit different than modern media. If you haven't guessed, I'm not into hot takes or things like that. Yeah, so that's my long witted soap soap box version of this is my general approach to things and that's why you'll always hear me. Say, these are the pros, these are the cons, this is what we're looking at with this situation because I do believe there's two sides to every story and I want to make sure that I cover all of that. Well, just a couple of things to add on that. One, you've already made a bunch of people angry, so don't check your DMs today. But all seriousness, I think that's how you had to look at sports in general and as look at things from both sides. Again, yeah, like the Russell Westbrook thing, right? Yes. Russ had been bad, but yes, you have to look at that and say, yeah, he's been bad to be in one. But he's at all these things changing around him. How hard is it that he's getting booed in his own city and stuff like that or just sports in general like a trade, okay? Yeah, they did that, but what can be a con of that, for example, that's not even being a pess I should look at it from all sides of it. And that's just how the world is in general and then lastly going all the way back to the prank Vogue thing you mentioned earlier and why he kind of deflects blame from his players. You know, there's the current situation on the east coast that kind of started from a coach blaming his player after a loss. So that's kind of why you don't that's why frankl who doesn't take that style of approach 'cause if that was the case, Russell Westbrook will probably be gone by now. That's definitely a good point. I just think if and there's plenty of debate shows that are out there and debate has merit. I just think if you're going to, if you're going to dig in on one side, what you wind up doing is completely dismissing anything that doesn't fit in with what the side that you chose is. If I were to come on here and say, Russell Westbrook is terrible, the Lakers need to get rid of them. I would be completely dismissive of any stat that looks positive towards him I would be completely dismissive of any of this other stuff that I think has to be factored in when we look at what's going on with them, or in the same thing with the other side. I get people saying, I love Russell Westbrook and nothing's going to change, no matter what he does, well, that's completely dismissive of anything on the negative side..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Was brought up. It's been a rough go for Russell Westbrook in terms of his role. It's constantly shifted and I think that, while that doesn't, again, that doesn't excuse the missed lamps. It doesn't excuse the lack of attention to detail and the defensive end of the floor, it's just something that if we don't mention it, we're not looking at the full picture of what's going on here with Russell Westbrook. People are saying, well, why isn't he the guy that he was? Well part of it is because everything around him is constantly changing and he's constantly trying to adjust, and that's not an easy thing. For a guy like Russ. You can't say that, Trevor. You're making excuses, man. Come on. Gosh. These Lakers nation people, all they do is make excuses. Okay. I wasn't sure if I was even gonna mention this. I guess I might as well get into it because we're halfway there at this point. I have gotten almost every single day over the last month or so. Which, by the way, my DMs are open on Twitter and everything like that on Instagram. So I get people messaging me all the time. I've gotten, I mean, literally hundreds of Russell Westbrook trades sent to me. What do you think about this? What do you think about that? What do you think about this? That's fine. No problem. But I have gotten every just about every day. I get people coming at me saying you're making excuses for Russell Westbrook. I can't even listen to this. Why are you making excuses for us? If I say anything like what I just said, and at the same time, I get people coming to me saying you are, why are you blaming everything on Russ? It's not really Russ. It's this guy's fault. Now, part of that, part of that. And so I've got fans coming at me saying you're being too hard on Russ. I've got kids coming at me saying this is all Russ's fault. How dare you defend him at all? It reminds me honestly when I was teaching. I one of my first years. I got two emails, the same day. One saying that I wasn't going in depth enough for parents. One thing I didn't go in depth enough into the Holocaust, which is a topic that I was covering. Another one saying I was going too far. Too far in depth into the Holocaust and that I allowed too much of the disturbing elements I don't know, well it's the Holocaust. It's disturbing, right?.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"On like the layups and yes, that's very frustrating, but one thing I think Frank is and he's a defensive line coach. I work with one myself as well. They don't really care. I don't think Frank cares for us misses a layup. I don't think he cares. Especially because of the status of Russell Westbrook, what do you say achieved in his career as recent last season? I don't think Frank Vogel cares about the miss layups or the bad jumpers because if he did, Russell Westbrook would not be on the floor at all, right? So I don't think Frank Vogel cares, but Frank does care and it's very apparent is the little things to intensively. The Lake cures outside maybe was daily Johnson, Anthony Davis and Reeves maybe. They don't have a lot of great point of attack on ball defenders, but Malik monk is a smart off ball defender. LeBron is a really smart awful defender. You have guys that are really good off the ball. So you don't have to be this Kawhi Leonard level on ball defender, but you need to be smart with your rotations. When it's time to trap you're talking communication offensively or even like really little stuff, fighting over top of screens so that they don't get it easy, drive to the basket. The little things like that and that's where Russell Westbrook really struggled in the next game and quite frankly for the majority of the season. You know, I think one thing that we need to mention about Russ and Frank Vogel has gone to this a lot. Frank Vogel is a new school coach if we want to look at him in that way. And I'm not talking about X's and O's. I know he's adapted his schemes quite a bit. Frank Vogel is new school in terms of how he handles his players. We've heard quite a bit about the collaborative aspect of any of his film sessions. It is very much not him standing at the front of the room barking at the players saying this is what you did here. This is what you did there. And there's a lot of voices in the room. Players are speaking up. They're involved in the process. Which coming from an education background, I can appreciate that. There's studies and everything that have shown that that creates more buy in. And there's definitely positives to doing something like that. Frank Vogel is also in terms of how he relates to players through the media. He's also a shield. You never hear Frank vocal really criticize his players. At least not publicly not to.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"But if you're the Lakers to throw in a first now and to just say we're done on Russell Westbrook, it looks bad. It could be bad business too. You mentioned putting in THT, I think the Lakers have to be careful with THT. Because most likely, if you trade him now, you've got to be sure you're getting something, I think that can really make a difference. Because most likely, if you trade THT now, let's say you use whatever value he's got and he may not have the same value around the NBA team by team. It's going to vary. Most likely though, THT will look better a year from now than he does right now. Because that's the nature of going from 21 to 22, getting another year of experience in the NBA. Most likely he's going to look better a year from now. And if you trade him now, you could very well be selling low on him. Now maybe the Lakers are in a situation right now, where it's worth it to sell low. They have to. They want to try to maximize their what they're doing at this moment with LeBron James at 37. That's understandable. But I think if the Lakers are going to attach assets to Russell Westbrook just to move him, it can't be a desperation just get this guy off the roster type thing. I don't think you can approach it from that scenario. I think you've got to be careful. You have to get something that it's actually going to help you. And because of that, or in part because of that, I don't see a trade actually happening with Russ. Yeah, again, as you mentioned at THC, 21 to 22, 22 to 23 preferably staying with the same team as well. That's gonna make a big difference. So THC is specially I'm a little more cautious about and then again a Russ and John wall potential trade like you mentioned. That looks really bad because you just need to Westbrook. You're trading him back into giving up a first round pick like he would just take and we don't want him anymore..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"I will put them on the YouTube channel as well. So you get to pick where you want to view or listen to each shows, just know that that's going to be there. Sometimes it takes the form of the postgame show when we have a midweek game or something like that. But in any event, your podcast feed will have a fresh pot on it every day Monday through Friday. All right, we've got a lot to get into today. We're going to talk, of course, a little bit about Russell Westbrook. I do have the mailbag to crack open here. We need to talk about Anthony Davis as well. In fact, that's where we're going to start. Joining me is Sean Davis from Lakers nation dot com. Sean, how are you doing? I'm doing all right, Trevor. How are you doing, actually? Feels like any axe that for once. I am hanging in there right now. It's been, I'm glad the Lakers got the win over the next. That certainly helped lift my spirits. I think it lifted the spirits of Lakers fans a little bit as well. I've been doing a little bit of a the office. I wouldn't want to say a rewatch. I've seen it so many times already, but I'm kind of going through and like picking specific episodes that I know are fantastic. And the last one I watched might be the greatest episode and that was the dinner party one. So I'm feeling pretty good after watching that video. Just a classic episode. So coming into the show, I've got that kind of that vibe still because I just watched it and it was fantastic. And so I'm excited for this. You get the dinner party episode and following up a Lakers one. Hey, that's a win win there. Absolutely. Absolutely. Now, Anthony Davis, we got to talk about him, because here's the thing. I'm getting so much about Russell Westbrook. And that's fine. That's fine. We can definitely and we will talk about him on this show. We've talked about him quite a bit. But I almost feel like the Russ concern or the worries over Russell Westbrook, particularly after that horrific performance against the New York Knicks. Yeah. It's almost eclipsing. It kind of is eclipsing Anthony Davis and what he's done. So I don't want to lose sight of what AD is doing. And not to mention LeBron coming back. That kind of stole some of the spotlight as well. And rightfully so, LeBron was fantastic against the next game time decision and then he just messes around and drops triple double. It don't get me wrong. LeBron deserves plenty of spotlight, but Anthony Davis, let's talk a little bit about him because since he has come back. From his injury..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Did not make sense. Did not make any sense going into this one. Samuel henrique said, Trevor, was super chat. Thank you for what you do. I usually can't watch the games because I'm working, but I'm able to stay updated through the podcast. Oh, well, Samuel, thank you for the kind words. I do appreciate it. This is certainly a labor of love for all of us at Lakers nation. We enjoy getting to do this and feel very privileged to get to do this and it's because of people like all of you who come in here and watch. So appreciate all of you for sure. All right. Let's see here. I want to get into some of the stats as well. So Russ, by the way, 360 award, they can't really have it. It's the zero award because it was only Russ, but if LeBron and AD had played and we still got this version of Russ, there's a decent chance Russo won this award. 12 for 23 shooting, three of 7, 8 from three, 8 of ten from the free throw line, four boards, 5 assists, one turnover. And Russ is usage must have been through the roof in this game and still one turnover 35 points. This was his best performance of the season and he did it in. Some interesting comments here. He did it in a half, 30 of those points came in a half. He was absolutely fantastic. He was fantastic. So that being the case, this was a very clear win for Russell Westbrook in terms of where what he's done so far in the season. This is the guy, right? Well, we just saw in this half. That's the guy that we were hoping to see. This was my main criticism from Russell Westbrook last game. Last game, I said, hey, when LeBron is out, the whole point or a good portion of the point of bringing in Russell Westbrook was he's supposed to run things when LeBron is out. If LeBron's out, Russ can bear that burden, and he can lead you through to the finish line. And we hadn't seen that Russell Westbrook all season. All season.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"For everything. Lakers, if you're watching me over on YouTube to me, it looks like I went a little bit blurry right as we went live here. It's okay, I can fix that in just a second, but oh my goodness, the Lakers just took on the Charlotte hornets, a very short handed Lakers team, almost almost walked away with the wind Russell Westbrook's three pointer to win the game at the buzzer comes up just short, unfortunately the Lakers do not walk out with the W there we go. That's a bit better. We've got a lot to break down here. And I will tell you guys, I went into this night thinking, I'm probably going to be talking trade after the game. I'm going to be talking a lot about trades and things like that. Nobody's going to want to talk about this game. No LeBron James, no Anthony Davis, no Malik monk, Avery Bradley's questionable Westbrook is questionable. This is going to be a blowout. And so I was preparing like we're going to talk a lot of trade stuff. We're going to be talking about a lot of other stuff. We're not going to want to talk about this particular game. As it turned out, this became a really, really good and really fun game. The Lakers battle back in the second half, they were down 20 at one point in the third had a chance to win it on the final shot there by Russell Westbrook tremendous performance from Russ. This is the guy we've been waiting to see and not even in the first half that much. He only had 5 points at halftime and Russ finishes the game with a team high 35, 30 points just in the second half. He really got going. So we've got actually a lot to break down from this one, including what are the pieces that the Lakers need to use moving forward here because there was a clear difference from the beginning of the game to the second half when the Lakers really got going in terms of who was out there and what made things click. So that's something we're going to get into. So if you're joining me live from YouTube from Facebook from Twitter, welcome to be taking your questions and comments throughout the night. I'm already seeing a lot of people asking about Dwight Howard people were asking me my DMs were just blowing up all game. Where's Dwight Howard? Why is Dwight not in? We'll get into that too. I'm curious to see what the postgame comments are. What Frank Vogel says about that one, but we'll get into that as well. If you're listening to the podcast version of this, make sure that you do follow us over on Apple podcast Spotify wherever it is that you listen to podcasts. All right, so all right, let's go into this one. I've already got a super chat here from Bruce Barnes. I do need to get into some of the stats and things. But Trevor, can you tell me why down three? They were down two, final shot, no defense to play Vogel with THT in Stanley over Ellington and bazemore. Westbrook had no room. In terms of the spacing, Bruce, I think that's a fair question..
WFAN Sports Radio_FM Show
LeBron James Reacts to Amassing Zero Votes for NBA's Best Player
"So we see this tweet from NBA Central 10 Scouts and executives voted on the best players heading into the 2021 2022 season. Yanez five votes, Kevin Durant five votes and LeBron James zero votes, and I guess this poll was done. Via ESPN, and LeBron sees it. And LeBron, of course, has to respond to it. Now let me remind you This was a few weeks back. Where the trade did go down with Russell Westbrook. And then the Lakers also acquired Carmelo Anthony LeBron James took to Twitter and you may not remember this tweet because he posted and then quickly deleted it and LeBron James said. Keep talking about my squad. Our age is the way he plays. He stays injured. We're past our time in this league, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Do me one favor, please. And I mean, please keep that same narrative energy. When it begins. That's all I ask. Thank you. I think he meant negative energy, but he he wrote narrative energy. Or maybe they're supposed to be a comma or period somewhere in that place. But you get the point. LeBron James, and I don't have a problem with him using this as motivation, right? Sometimes you use things as motivation. And you go. Yeah, that's not authentic. Like. Does anyone seriously believe that the Lakers don't have a shot to get to the NBA Finals this year? Especially with how I just laid it out. The Lakers just won a championship two years ago. Right? So now I'm going to say after one season later. Headed into them. It would be two seasons later. Oh, yeah. LeBron and Anthony Davis. No shot to win a championship like give me a break. And today LeBron sees this poll done by ESPN and he goes. Thank you. As if I didn't need more fuel if I didn't need more gas to fuel me. And then hashtag. Wash King.
The Lowe Post
Los Angeles Lakers Pair LeBron and Russ. Will It Work?
"I wanted to zoom out and go over the big picture landscape with someone who talks on our airwaves every day about the nba. Dhs is favourite league. I think the one. And only the greatest showman in show business and tv for espn stephen smith. Our you sub man. How you doing man glad to finally be here. I'm thrilled to make it happen. You are out in la. So let's start there you talked. I was listening to you on. I take a few days ago. Talking about russell. Westbrook in the amount of pressure that's on russell westbrook. But tell me about you know how. How do you think he fits. Lebron how what are you looking for him. How does he have to changes game or does he have to change his game. Well listen. I think i think both have to modify to some degree. Lebron can't be as ball dominant as as he has been off making all the decisions. Because that's one of the reasons rusting wanna be in houston anymore as you. Well know Because he didn't want to be you know sitting on the sidelines. Playing the role of spectator being on the plane and roller spectator watching james audit. Well that's not gonna change lebron james. He's happy to be back home. He's happy to be la. He's happy to be on a title contender which he is on. We get all of that But in the end he still russell westbrook in you know credit to him. You know like. I told you we've had to be. We've all had to be critical of him at times. What we know that. He's an electrifying talent. The most athletic point guard we've ever seen in nba history. We know he's a walk in triple double and we also know. He never cheat to game with his effort when he's out on a court it's always one hundred percent and so when you look at the slow. Almost snail like pace that the lakers could could. Could you know what wouldn't prone to plan towards playing at at tom's in the past and now you've got somebody like russell westbrook all of a sudden and lebron having a night off. Ad having a night off isn't as daunting as it was the previous two years. I think that helps them during the regular season. And then i think once the postseason comes whatever it takes to win is what i think the character in russell westbrook and lebron james will do.
WFAN Sports Radio_FM Show
LeBron James Deletes Fiery Tweet Calling out Lakers Haters
"Let's get to LeBron James. So LeBron James has tweeted. All right. Well, then he took it back. So we all know that the Lakers partially out of desperation, They've had to retool the back end of the roster because they've got no money. They've got no financial flexibility with the three guys making the money that they are with LeBron a DNA Russell Westbrook in the mix, so they recently added Carmelo, who is 37 Trevor, reasons 36 Dwight Howard is 35 Wayne Ellington, who's a young buck. He's 33 get baseboards. 32 Westbrook is 32 as well, but he's got the big money. So LeBron wrote, just tweeted this out, and he said Keep talking about my squad. Our personal ages. The way he plays, he stays injured. We're past our time in the league, etcetera, etcetera. Do me one favor, please. And I mean, please. He's going caps and exclamations. LeBron must be serious. Keep that same narrative energy caps when it begins, exclamation. That's all I ask Hashtag. Thank you. Then he deleted it. Yeah, because we will you deleting it for that? We will keep it that way. When it begins. We are fair on this show. We will. But why are they the leading? They play Great. Then go say we're wrong.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"russell westbrook" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Ellington, something like that, maybe a little Williams, I don't know. I need a better Defender and I need to go and look through the list. The centers, that's the challenge. This is where so Rob public, right. I think that, that talent-wise Westbrook is great. Now, the challenge is always going to be. What do you do for the rest of your roster? You've gotta find shooting. You have to find guys that can give you floor. Space with Westbrook on the floor, seems will not defend a behind the three-point line. They're going to camp in Iraq paint, so it's going to be critical that you find shooting from the other positions and that includes the center spot. Whenever you're not running a d at the five, which I do think we're going to see more Anthony Davis at the 5. But anytime you're running somebody else. Yeah position. They pretty much have to be able to shoot. Like if you put in let's say you go get Dwight Howard and you put them on the floor at the same time as Westbrook. That's two guys on the floor. At the same time, the teams are not going to defend find 3.6 in the half-court that can be a problem. So I think that shooting is now far away along with defense the priority for the Lakers. Now that you've got Westbrook to make that kind of playmaking leap that the Lakers need. Now, it's not all on LeBron James to play me. Yeah, exactly. No. Getting getting Shooters is key at this point. I'm sure they had that in mind. I'm sure, you know, I saw an Instagram account that Laker Chapo, they posted a picture of LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook all at Nobu having dinner in La last Sunday. So they've been talking about this. They've been working this, they know what they need to do and then they will they will find Shooters to round out the roster. And then I mean, you saw a Russel Westbrook did kicking it out to a sugar is in 2017. Now, you got LeBron and KD to help create floor space. Just ridiculous stuff. We're going to be seeing, Victor of the superjet said, the next deal is Dennis Schroder to Miami in a double sign-and-trade. For Duncan Robinson again, you can't take on a player in a sign-and-trade, any more money and it would hard cap you and the Lakers just took on salary in the West Brookfield. So I don't think that's realistic for the for even just that reason. Ashwin mungkin from YouTube said, could we sign off? Trade THD for Buddy. Hield and still be under the hard cap. Yeah, look, if you the only way you trigger the hard cap and assign a trade situation..
CBS Sports Radio
Los Angeles Lakers Reach Deal to Acquire Russell Westbrook From Wizards
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
test-debug
"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. 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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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