Club 520 - Jeff Teague, Kyle Korver & Paul Millsap on 60-win Atlanta Hawks, NBA playoffs vs. LeBron James

The volume. Oh right at about the nice yeares for us. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.480 Shout out to the Hawks man specially noise for the Hawks. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:11.160 One time. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.760 Show two times for y'all. We appreciate y'all pulling up 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.280 one time for the one time. It's Club five twenty 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:19.560 live and the Ato. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:20.880 Man, you're not your back home man. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.840 Yeah, I'm glad. I don't see no double zero cherseys. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.680 I appreciate it so every time of my life. The 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.840 PTSD jersey for show man. Well listen, this is Club 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.120 five twenty. I'm the host. My name is DJ Wills. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.920 We got some special special guests with us. Man honor 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.479 the legendary team in the NBA, especially for the Hawks 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.800 history man to my immediately, if we're gonna introduce my 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:42.360 man's last to my farther. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.199 Left, my dog BI should be hearing out the pearls. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:45.120 How you wasn't nasty? 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.680 What's saying that man at l thank you? 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.839 He don't even sound the same ato. You know what 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.440 shot he got the zero jersey? Turn me out? Yeah 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:54.200 I like that one. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.680 All right, all right, cool for show for show tomorrow, right, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.080 y'all know what it is man, TL's finest young not 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:02.800 your young team. I feel to be back in the 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.360 ay Man, feel great. Man, It's always home, uh, my 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.840 favorite place to ever play. So I'm glad I can 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.160 have my guys show up with us today. I'm actually 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.160 really really happy about this. We've been trying to get 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.920 Paul on the show. I wanted to get Kyle. Kyle's 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:17.320 my guy. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.200 So to be able to do this live with y'all, 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:20.360 this is great for sure. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.160 Man, shouts to the Hawks one more time for making 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.320 this wonderful situation happen. Man, most definitely shouts y'all as 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.160 well for pulling up. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.720 But last it was most certainly not least meant to 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:30.360 my left. Man. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.800 We got two Hawks legends in the building, man hoping 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.560 that already had amazing NBA careers. Man with no further ado, Man, 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.839 we got Kyle Corn Paul messed up in the building. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:48.040 Appreciate y'all sliding on this man for show. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.440 For shures, Like we said, we're gonna highlight that wonderful year. Man. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.360 Obviously I had many good years here, but that was 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.800 a really, really, really special one. But before we get 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.240 into that year, we got to talk about how y'all 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.440 all came together because obviously not sho you was already 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.040 a Hawk all, Kyle, y'all came for different situations. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.400 Let's talk about how y'all got to being a Hawk. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.400 Well, I guess I'll start. Yeah, I was. I was 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:06.480 in Utah. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.640 You know, I spent seven years in Utah, had some 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.360 great years in Utah, and then you know, it was 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.400 time to go. And you know, I was looking for 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.400 its place to be closer to home in Louisiana. I 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.200 me and my wife actually were looking at homes, you know, 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.560 in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas area. So we wanted to move 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.600 back somewhere, and the Hawks offered me a two year 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.720 deal and the rest is history. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.480 Most definitely, cole Man I would come out. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:31.760 I was. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.040 I played with Paul in Utah for a couple of years, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.000 and then was in Chicago, and then uh it was 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.440 with Derrick Rose when he was U MVP. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:43.680 Yeah. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.840 Then you know, things happened, had to get traded. I 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.280 knew that I was going to be on the move. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.280 It's funny. We actually I was driving with my wife. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.040 We drove from New Jersey. I don't know why we did, 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.800 is we drove all the way to Santa Barbara and 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.640 on the way we knew we are to get traded somewhere, 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.400 and we were like looking around with teams there was 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.440 going to be And we got all the way to 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.920 Santa Barbara and I got a call from Danny Ferry 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:06.120 saying I. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:06.720 Had to file it back. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.040 We like drove across the country, got there, go went 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.880 to the airport, and flew all the way back to Atlanta. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.480 And it was funny thinking back about it now. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:15.720 We went. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.680 We stayed at the Rich Carlton downtown and Danny Ferry 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.799 came down that morning and asked me come to the 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:23.760 table and talk to him. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.480 And I thought it was gonna be like a welcome 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:26.200 to the Hawks moment. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.200 And he was sitting there at debating with the doctor 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.040 if he was kind of accept my physical and not. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:32.359 Me. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.920 He's like, I don't know. This guy's been I had 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.040 a foot injury the year before. And he's like debating 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.760 if he was going to accept this thing. And I'm like, man, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:41.640 should I be sitting here? 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:42.960 Should I like walk away? 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.480 And he and he just like decided the last second. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.480 He's like, all right, we're. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:47.840 Gonna do it. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.800 Welcome to the Hawks. And I was like, okay, So 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:51.320 how did. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.600 I get to the Hawks. That's how I got to 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:54.280 the Hawks. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.120 And physicals riding Bay real tricky right now for show, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:58.520 now for you. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.280 He was already here with the U a different regime, obviously, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.280 new culture, new situation. How was that welcomed them to 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.840 the team. I probably wasn't the best at welcoming people 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.240 to the team. I didn't talk much, so when I 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.000 met Paul, he just came in, what's up. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.440 You know, he don't talk a lot either, So it's. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:17.320 Gonna be a great podcast. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.320 Yeah, what's up, Bro? That's all he gave was ahead 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:21.960 and what's up? 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:22.080 Bro? 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.680 And Kyle he was y'all see Kyle, he he lights 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.040 up a room, he comes in, what's up? 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:27.320 Brother. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.200 I thought he was like a surfer kind of guy, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:30.640 So I'm like, what's up? 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:31.360 Cool dude? 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.840 Like, but he was super cool, super chill, and uh 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:35.839 it was easy. 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.440 It was easy to work with. That's crazy. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.159 I mean, before we get past this point, we gotta 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.040 talk about Kyle Man. You got one of the legendary 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.360 picks in the NBA. Man, you with the Jordan zone. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.000 Has that ever came across your timeline recently? You we 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.320 got the rookie pick, you got the Jason and everybody's 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.640 like that, we thought he was a surfer, but you. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.400 Had the heat on your feet. Please revisit that pile. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.839 Where that's like it's like there's a date on the 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.520 calendar where that picture has to come back on the 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:58.560 internet every single year. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.000 It's like two pictures. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:00.720 That's one of them. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.239 But yeah, man, you know that was All Star Weekend. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:04.920 You got to come with something, right, for sure, A 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:09.600 little bit different All Star Weekend now, for sure, that's true, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.240 my pot petty'all, but listen, legendary season start off. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.960 Man. First of all, who's coaching the team at the time. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:22.040 Mike Budenhozer. Come coach Bud. You man, that was my guy. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.200 Oh yeah, you can clocking up a Bud and. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:26.120 Coach. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.440 That's the home for show. Yeah, Coach Budd was cool. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:31.240 When he first got here. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:36.520 I didn't like him, not to say it like that, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.799 but we ended up becoming really good friends. But for real, Uh, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.240 we played the ice so style. You know, before they 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.919 got here, we had Joe. Everybody played one on one basketball. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.560 I don't know if it was the best brand of basketball, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.400 but it was fun. And uh, he came in and 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.800 changed all that and for me, it was my time 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.520 to shine. I thought I just had got the team, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.479 like it was my first year really about to start. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.640 And he was like, no, we don't play that way 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.760 no more. I was like, he hate And so after 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.000 that we didn't start off on the best foot. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:06.440 Yeah. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.040 No, Me and Budd, you know, we kicked it off 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.120 pretty pretty good, you know, our first time meeting each other. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.840 For me, I was just evolving into, you know, a 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.400 more high volume player, and Bud kind of brought that 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.560 out of me. You know, I actually reached out the 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.080 actually reached out to me a couple of weeks ago, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:30.039 you know, when I officially decided to retire, and he's say, congratulations, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.599 and I was like, you know, I appreciate everything that 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.760 you've done because he helped bring that, you know, whatever 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.400 it was that I had, you know, add of me. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.480 And you know, definitely appreciative for that. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.720 Most definitely man, congratulations as well man in retirement for 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:43.240 Shure Man. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.000 There we go. Chuse love regulations. Man. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.640 Now before we get into the season, Me and be 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.279 here got a talk because you know, this is our man, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.719 this is our man from the day one. So naturally 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.760 we got to hate and y'all was our favorite team 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:57.120 to hate on. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:57.479 Man. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.920 Yeah, yo, y'all was man fool with y'all like that. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:01.839 I'm gonna keep it real. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.120 I was supporting my guy, but I was like, how 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.240 do they keep winning? 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:06.599 Man? 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:09.520 Who did you root for? At that time? 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.680 I was really just a player like Carmelo Anthony was 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:13.480 my favorite player. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.040 But me and him, it was deeper than y'all, Like 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:17.680 he made he made me. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.960 Not like him, Like he used to come back to 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.000 the crib cal corner shoe bear and everybody in the 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.160 league Cal corner shoe bearing real like, man, I can't 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.400 say it, don't hear, but y'all know what cor But nah, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.760 I just used to be like dang bro really leading 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.280 the Hawks, like, and I honestly thought that y'all could 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.800 have made it for real run, but I had to 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.560 hate because that was just our beat for real. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.360 But I just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was always 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:44.840 real beef. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.000 They call us the little Giants. You ever seen that movie? 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:48.720 That's what they called me. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.560 Every day. Y'all was the little Giants. Man, y'all had 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:52.720 y'all one shot. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.680 Y'all went that crazy run, but you know, shout out 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.400 to y'all. Y'all did y'all thing for sure? 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.240 For sure, we're gonna get too far here about but 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.160 starting a season off, y'all started off five hundred and 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.320 five or five. Initial thoughts on that, like, are y'all 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:05.920 trying to figure it out or just get used to 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.360 new players, new too, leaders with Bud every day, new systems, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.120 or did I know we had some special We just 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:10.680 got to get there. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.920 I don't know that we knew that we were going 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.440 to end up with the season that we had. And 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.480 I think that our group was really had been the 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.720 works for a couple of years, and that's really how 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.280 these really good teams happened. It never just like all 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.160 comes again. It was very few instances in the NBA 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.080 where like a bunch of moves are made and now 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.440 we have a super team and they're going to take 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.280 off like that's happened, but it's not very often. And 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.080 I think what we had all been doing it was 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:40.199 just really trusting a process. And you know, Paul been 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.320 there for a couple of years now, I've been there 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.000 a couple years, Jeff, you'd been there, But like we 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.640 didn't really add anything new that was going to like 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:50.120 put us over the top, and so as it really 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.640 we started off like you said, we started off five hundred, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.920 but like our style of play, our chemistry kept on building, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.120 and then we end up in you know, later on 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.880 the spring, in a whole month without losing, and we're like, wow, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:03.120 like I think we're good. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.680 I thought I was gonna get traded when we started off, like, yeah, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.360 they got probably at the move. Me I'm not mixing 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.520 in pretty well. But now we just got in a groove. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.240 And like when we got in that groove, it was 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.360 over with. Our defense was connected, our offense was connected, 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.640 and it was times out there during that year we 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.719 didn't even get to play the fourth quarter and it 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.280 messed up my stats. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.559 All start team barely. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.079 Who was the vocal leader on that team? 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:37.400 Though it wasn't me? 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.240 It wasn't because though now you're all three of y'all's quiet, So. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.960 You know, I mean, that's funny because you know, Bud 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.760 always tried to get somebody to be super vocal, one 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.520 of those guys, right, and neither one of us really 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.680 had it in us. So each one of us will 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.160 say something every now and then and we'll put our 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:53.680 input in. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.640 But what was the vocal leader. Okay, you know at 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:58.439 that time. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:02.920 All I didn't say a word. Kyle, Kyle talked. He 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.600 talks a lot, you know, Al you. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.679 Al So y'all used to just kill people and not 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.880 saying that to nobody. Nobody talked crazy to the opponent 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.320 or nothing, not even nobody on the bench. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.600 He used to talk crazy, Dennis, Yeah, most definitely crazy, 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.400 yoab Get about games, yeah, no, I took that. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.000 This is just a sidebar. I took that game and 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.760 we have them at our house all the time. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:34.000 That cone from you, Oh okay, I didn't know where 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:34.680 you got that from. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.680 It was more intense in the UNO games than on 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:37.720 the court. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:39.000 That's how it is. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.680 Now y'all responsible for a lot of random disagreements. Maybe 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.560 baby Fist fights the club twenty due to us Muno. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.280 So thank y'all for that. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.600 We appreciate that. Botigh for sure, that's crazy. The fact 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.600 that y'all have are really that like kind of mono 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.000 tone was just killing. But you talked about the makeup 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:57.760 of that team and stuff. But also shout out to 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.839 al Al still hooping, ain't that crazy? 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.280 Super crazy? Still championships He's super good. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:11.000 Still just Alan Dinnis from that teams playing. Yeah, man, damn, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:21.720 we filled it up pretty fast, real quiet. The crown 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.480 got like a definitely quiet like. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:25.840 For sure. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.800 Man, listen, y'all caught you stride January historic month, like 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.120 basically your entire team, it's a player of the month. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.520 How was that feel? Like y'all all killing y'all all 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.199 getting a recognition from that? I know that has to 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:37.520 feel good in the locker room, for sure. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.079 I don't think any one of us cared, you know, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.000 at that time, I don't think we cared that much. Right, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.280 we were so in the zone in the process of 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.280 a winning that none of the stats and accolade actually mattered. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.719 You know, it's after the fact, you know, when the 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.439 career is over with, I look back and say, this 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.000 probably will never be done again. You know, it's a 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.880 it's an amazing accomplishment, especially when you got four you 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.880 got four teammates, you know it's all stars. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.440 Probably would never be done again. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.200 Yeah, let's let's talk about that also here, man, listen, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.720 four teammates into the All star situation. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.520 How do y'all find out about that? 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.120 Because I know something made a little bit earlier than 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.800 those like what's that like when y'all find out that 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.320 all y'all going to be representing the squad? 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.079 I didn't know that all of us was gonna make it. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:34.040 I was just worried about me, But I knew Paul 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.719 had a I knew Paul would make it. He was 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.000 having a great year most definitely, And I knew I 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.199 was gonna make it. He had already been making them anyway, 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:41.800 so I knew them too were gonna make it. So 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.160 I didn't know if I would make it, and I 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.079 didn't know if Kyle was gonna make it, but I 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:47.000 was excited for us. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.360 Kyle, what's that feeling like when you find out you're 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:50.360 gonna be representing squad? 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:53.839 That was pretty wild for me. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.800 I never saw myself as an All Star player, Like 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.920 I always wanted to be the piece that like like 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.199 made a team go and someone that you really wanted 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.599 to be, you know, if you could count on and 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.839 depend on, like you like, I wanted to be that 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.760 that that perfect teammate. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.959 So I never really like looked at myself as being 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:13.160 like that. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.679 So I think with the beauty of that team, man, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.200 it's like we all made each other better for sure, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.440 Like and That's really the hallmark of like the good 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.560 teams to me is like when everyone is looking at 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.560 each other and it's not about me, it's how can 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.800 I make the guy next to me better? And the 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.120 beauty of that squad was like we didn't need we 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.840 were talking about words, like we didn't like we talked 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.520 on the court. We talked in like nods and winks 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.079 and looks, and like that's what made us special. It's 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.960 like we didn't have to like communicate, like yelling at 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.400 each other. Like we was like I looked at you 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.000 and looked at out and I knew we were gonna 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.360 go wide. Yeah, you know, like it was just we 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.480 We had this kind of sixth sense to us, and 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.319 that's really what made that team special, was what made 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.079 it so fun to play on. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.840 Definitely that's the problem now would be coaching basketball. I think. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.080 They can do that. They look at me like you are. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.400 You're about to pass out coach. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.240 Like, yeah, cowcovers not walking through that Doorike shout out 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:11.880 the bike for sure? 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.719 No, Yeah, I mean for me, I was, you know, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.719 I was happy, you know I had teammates going to 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.520 the All Star Game, you know, I was. I was 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.840 I don't mess with I don't. I didn't care about 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.120 all that, you know, but to have my teammates with me, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.720 you know, going to the All Star Games, it definitely 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.840 meant something. And on top of that, but I was 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.000 I was angry because Tomorrow didn't make it, you know, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.680 and Tomriw was my guy. You know, Tomorrow everybody knows. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.800 It's like the engine guy, you know, he he was 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.640 the glue guy. You know, he did a lot to 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.880 help us win. And it just sucks, you know, to 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.640 see that he didn't. He didn't be a part of 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.120 that that moment, you know what I mean. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:48.480 So you know, for me, it was a. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.000 Bittersweet moment, but definitely was good. Glad I had my 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:51.440 other guys. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.440 I was gonna ask that question, the topic being if 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.960 everybody on the start five make that that All Star team, but. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:04.560 You don't he got paid know that next summer? Yeah, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:05.400 lesson at the bank. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.280 That's what it's about. Did y'all used to ever run 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.880 like a special play that cha knew? Couldn't nobody stop? 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:13.440 Just proved from. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.360 I know, I remember we had we had some go 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:18.040 to plays. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.320 I would just asking be trying to get his players 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.480 to Ryan most of them out. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.440 You know when when when Kyle Kover came off of screen, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.640 he had the whole building looking at him. Yeah, you know, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.640 and when he made that either he was had an 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.720 open shot or he made the pass down. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.480 I mean we got that every single time, every. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.200 Single Yeah, that was easy. I remember it's a video 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:41.840 going around. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.200 Well, I think you scored eleven points in like a 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.440 minute or something like that. You're like, it's crazy, he checked. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.520 And I just remember like we usuedl to just throw 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.640 the ball anywhere we would be. You'd be running around 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.320 like he gonna shoot it. It's good, Like every time. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.840 I never really thought you were ever gonna miss Like 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.880 when you missed, I was more like surprised, like you 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.040 missed him. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.440 But I think, you know, we're sharing the love here, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:13.040 which I think is great. But you know, like I 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.800 was a product of how we played, right, Like I 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:22.400 remember you and Kenny Atkinson watching so many clips of that, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.960 like why like when exactlyte is Kyle want to have 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.400 the ball and where does he want to have? You 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.240 remember that that back little gym over there like and 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:30.960 you would watch it and then we come talk about 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.440 it and we watch it and come and talk about 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.520 it and like the screens and all the movement, like. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.800 It was just perfectly set up for me. So it 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.720 was wonderful. Man, I love coming off all those screens. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.480 What's the most thudies you hit in the game that season? 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.600 You remember, it's a whole new world out there. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:49.720 Now many. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:52.880 You would have had to shoot fifteen? 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.880 Yeah, you think you would have been able to rock 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.040 out in this league today. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:03.880 For sure? 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.639 Yeah, I'm just like that. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.400 Before we go further the season for y'all being his teammates, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.320 how it's like to see him now, Like because obviously 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.600 you know he didn't really talk too much. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.439 To see him on this platform, is. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.680 That like a man that doesn't talk as a podcast 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.040 saying I saw Jeff he was a scout for us, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.119 and then the next day he had a podcast and 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.000 it was like nationally and ranked, Like, I'm like, okay, Jeff, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:34.199 tell them stories. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:38.800 I'm definitely not surprised. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.960 I mean, Jeff talked when in the right situations, you know, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.720 with the right topics either in that and you know 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.159 he'll spill whatever, so you know, I'm not surprised, but definitely, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.280 you know, congratulations, appreciate appreciate it. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:53.840 Love for sure. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.480 Like you said, y'all go into the All Star break. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:56.000 You know what I'm saying. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.280 Now it's time to all right real say something about 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.320 All Star game. Y'all Remember how cold it Wasn't it 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:03.320 so cold? 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.200 I was talking to my wife about that this morning. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.520 It was awful. It was like negative thirty. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:10.560 It was so bad. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:11.280 It was cold. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.840 I just remember my room service we had. I told 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.639 this story about my nephew. I had this room service 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.080 bill that was like eight grand. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:20.520 Right, Yeah. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.800 I was like, y'all was saying the same thing, and 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:25.800 he was. I guess he thought he was on home alone. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.840 So he was just ordering everything. And I remember going 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.200 to the off about to check out, and I seen 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:33.959 Bud and we remember we was running kind of late, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:34.879 and but was like. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:35.479 I got it all. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.400 I got everything. And I looked at him, I said, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.520 good luck. I walked to that bus so fast. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:45.960 Funny think about that. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.160 His nephew is now working off his dad at five twenty, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:52.320 so he's still covering that bill for sure. Yeah, shout 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.520 out tobacle. But like you said, man, have a crazy 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.040 all start breaking down. It was back to the season 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.040 at this point, y'all locked in. Yeah, I feel like 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.720 it's time to contind. What's the process, Like, all right, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.160 we got a chance to really make some noise. 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.600 Now say it again. I couldn't hear it. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.719 Oh my father, I said, Okay, so now after All 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.080 Star break, everything's copoesteadic. Y'are playing good. It's not surprised anymore. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.040 It's like, all right, do y'all have championship aspirations? Like 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.080 what's that locking in? Like, or like all right, we here, 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:17.840 we can do it now? 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:19.080 Yeah? 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.080 Absolutely, that was the goal. You know, I think we 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:26.359 had a moment. I think I remember looking at the 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.879 standings a couple of weeks after All Star break, and 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.200 we were like thirteen games ahead of whoever was in 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:32.879 second place. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.240 We were so far ahead, and. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.160 I think there was this whole mindset of like, okay, 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:41.040 how do we prepare ourselves to really get into a 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.399 playoff run? And a lot that was based on like 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.320 let's be fresh and let's be healthy and let's have 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.520 our minds right. And so that's kind of where we 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.119 were going, right, like trying to prepare ourselves to like 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.920 to be fresh. I thought that in that stretch, I thought, 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.440 you know, a lot of how it made us great 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.320 was just like our edge and how connected we were, 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.680 and I thought a little bit of Like, in that 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.000 next month and a half or so, we lost a 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:05.560 little bit of that. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:06.280 If I'm being. 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.920 Honest, We're just like we were just so far ahead 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:13.679 of everybody, and you know, we lost a little bit 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.080 of that with whatever was making us really really tick 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:16.960 going into the playoffs. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:18.240 Hmm. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.120 Yeah, we started like subbing five in and five out. 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.240 It was kind of weird. I remember Paul got mad 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.720 one day. He was like, man, we can't play like this, 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.639 like I can't catch a rhythm. I just remember that 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.040 because bub was south and five in, five out. That's 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:37.840 when my stat started hurting. No, but I was just 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:39.960 like you said, we took our foot off the gas 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.399 a little bit. But I just remember Lebron at the 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.960 All Star Game saying to me like, I'm gonna figure 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.680 y'all out. And I was like, you know, studying we 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.560 were doing. We don't even know what we're doing, like 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.720 we're just playing. And he was like, no, y'all got y'all, 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:55.439 got y'all got something going. I'm gonna figure it out. 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.760 When I figure it out, I'm gonna get you. And 0:20:57.840 --> 0:20:59.920 I was like, we don't know, Bro, I was like, 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:02.320 we just be playing and he. 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.720 Was like, nah, he sure figured it out. 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:07.800 He didn't do that. 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.680 I think that whole that whole stretch, you know, I think, 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.159 you know, I don't want to speak for Bud, but 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:15.800 it was for us to try to We knew who 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.560 we were going to face at some point, right, we 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.359 knew exactly who we were going to play, and you know, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.240 what was going to be our best lineups, what was 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.320 going to be our best plays, our best strategy, you know, 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.280 going up into that moment. So that whole time was 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:36.040 pretty much like a figuring out process, and like Jeff said, 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:38.560 it didn't work. But I think I think that we 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.840 had moments, you know, I don't want to get too 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.119 far ahead, but you know, even during the course of 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.160 the season where we knew that whether it's one play 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:49.680 or two plays that we took our foot off the 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.200 gas that you know, could have elevated us to the 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.840 next level, right, And sometimes it'd be like that, you know, 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.679 especially in this league, is you know, one or two 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.480 plays can kind of throw your rhythm off in a game, 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.560 within the season, within the playoff series, and you know, 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.200 we had a couple of those. We were able to 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.800 shake back a few times, but you know, someone we had, 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.000 we just had too many going into that back season. 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.359 That's interested you say that because I'll take it to 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:15.960 a February game I had against Golden State and I remember, 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:17.560 you know that kind of a little bit of for 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:19.320 shot them, but the way yall played against it was 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.800 just like, oh they can do this against anybody. Yeah, 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.399 and like that that after style and not saying this 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.360 direct cord relation, but how y'all played the free moving 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:28.000 basketball like kind of soon where it was like, oh, 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:29.520 they can do this against anybody. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:31.600 Now it's up. So to hear you say that there 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:33.920 would transpires that that's very interesting for sure. 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:35.600 Yeah. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:37.440 I mean, you know, we looked at Golden State and 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.200 how they how they played, and you know, we wanted 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:41.400 to be the Eastern Conference type of you know, Golden 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:42.160 State Warriors team. 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:42.640 At that time. 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.560 We had Kyle Korba, who we considered the best shooter 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:49.359 in the league, and we ran a lot of stuff 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:51.200 you know through Kyle. Cow was a big part of 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.600 our offense because you know, he's dangerous behind the three 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.240 point line, you know, And and that opened up a 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:01.399 lot of windows for myself. Jeff and everybody else. And 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:04.600 but you know when that shut down, you know what 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:07.480 were our next options? And I think those are the 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.720 time kind of the things we struggled with at that time. 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:11.879 You know, what else are we going to do? You know, 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:13.560 do we have a counter for the counter for the 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:17.520 counter and you know, and Lebron figured it out and 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.159 shut it down, and those type of things took us 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:21.760 out of our rhythm for sure. 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:22.960 Man. But I want to talk about wait, you know 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:24.520 what I'm saying before we get to that part where 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:29.399 y'all was still killing. The city was really behind y'all obviously, 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:30.880 you know what I'm saying. That has a great fan base. 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:32.400 You know, Hawks has some up and down years. Y'all 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:34.440 had some good years before with Joe Josha obviously, but 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:37.080 the city was really behind y'all. Like the way you 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:38.840 even see like you used to go to Hawks the game, 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:40.680 the opposing team might have had more in the crowd 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:41.280 that time period. 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:43.040 Nah, it was up and see what's that like? Feeling 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:44.159 that love? And know what I'm saying on off the 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:45.760 court yard in the city, y'all still killing on the 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:46.159 court too. 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:48.280 Yeah, I was in the city, so I used to 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:53.600 you know, they didn't go outside. I was outside, so 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:56.040 I got a chance to see that. You know, the 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:57.680 people talk to you like when we love what you 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.359 guys are doing. They was excited about our team. And 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:02.840 then the fans, like the arena used to be lit, 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:07.200 like every time Kyle hit a three, you hear three 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:10.480 and all that stuff. It was lit, even Dennis when 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:12.320 they used to say God, Eme and all that stuff. 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.640 It was just the time was just amazing. That year 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.600 was unbelievable. And I have been here already for I 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.240 think six or five or six years by then. The 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:23.359 crowd I was like, man, it's just I haven't played 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:25.440 in front of the crowd like this shit. And it 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:26.400 was lit every game. 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:29.120 He represented, weal for y'all outside, okayl. 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:32.719 Oh Man Man, I think you know, I think when 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:35.240 I first got here there was some criticism of like, 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:38.840 you know, what's the atmosphere like at the games? And 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:41.760 in the middle of that season when everything turned like 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:43.920 like what they said, this place it was. It was 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:47.560 so fun games man, and everything that you guys have 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:49.199 built now is just added on to that as far 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:53.080 as the experience, but like there was a real appreciation. 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:56.399 I think what I felt for like how we played 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:59.560 the game, and like the intention of like you know, 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:02.879 the players trying to make each other better, playing in 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:06.720 a certain style, even overachieving to a certain like we 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:08.720 we all knew, like you know this, this is a 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:11.000 group that needs each other. And there was like the 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.159 purest in Atlanta that came out. Everybody loved it and 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:17.600 enjoyed it, and it's just it's just it's it was 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:20.399 a team that I love to play on. It was 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:23.000 a team that was fun to root for, just because 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.240 of the posture that everyone had towards the actual style 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:26.800 of play. 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:27.719 That was happening out there. 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:33.120 Most definitely, so obviously keep killing you get to the playoffs. 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:35.959 You talk about that environment. What's that first home playoff 0:25:36.040 --> 0:25:36.439 game like. 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:40.560 A breeze. We knew we was gonna win the first round, 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:45.600 Like that was easier game too. It wasn't No, it 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:47.359 was Brooklyn, was it? I don't know who we played. 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:49.680 People played Brooklyn. It was Brooklyn. 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:50.960 It's one of those games. 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:55.160 Yeah, but I knew, like we knew we had, we knew. 0:25:55.440 --> 0:25:57.359 I wasn't worried about them at all. The team I 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:00.320 was worried about was like Washington. I think that's what 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:02.400 we played next in the second round. I was like, yeah, 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:05.000 this might get a little tricky. My defense was never 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:10.760 the best, that's problem. I was like, themar you might 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:12.320 want the best. 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:16.000 Tomorrow, you might have to switch. 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:17.880 Washington was good that year. 0:26:18.119 --> 0:26:19.439 Yeah, they were really good, really good. 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:22.879 Yeah. I think we were good against teams that didn't 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:23.479 execute well. 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:26.560 You know, we were good against teams who didn't communicate 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:30.280 on defense, and we just knew teams that we were 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:33.040 going to beat because we were going to right. 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.960 And that first round was definitely. 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:39.320 I had a business for sure. Like you said, I 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.920 get it to Washington. You know what, I'm saying, different series, 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:44.479 but I still prevail. And let's talk about that final matchup. 0:26:44.480 --> 0:26:45.920 You know what I'm saying, all chips on the table. 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:49.040 What's that environment like preparing to go into that because 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:54.400 you're playing against Lebron. I was excited. I was like, yeah, 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:56.160 I think we can beat them because in the regular season, 0:26:56.240 --> 0:26:58.600 Lea we didn't. We beat them pretty good every time. 0:26:59.359 --> 0:27:01.960 And I was like yeah, and I've seen the first play. 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:06.080 He ran a pick and roll with me. I was like, Oh, 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:08.720 that's what we're gonna do the whole game. You're gonna 0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:11.920 bring me in a pick and roll, like it's over. 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:14.360 So you knew that he figured it out. 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:16.280 Yeah, I was like, why you keep calling me up 0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:18.040 in a pick and roll? Was trying to get that 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.000 switch it was over. I was like, I can't go Lebron, 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:23.120 I couldn't guard Delly. 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:27.200 What you think went wrong? 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:31.920 It wasn't. 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:33.480 The reason was it was not that. 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:34.399 It was not that. 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:37.920 It was not that just funny I was. 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:41.680 I was thinking like, well, yeah, I ain't throwing my 0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:44.000 guy a bus like that was not you know what 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:45.719 I mean. 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:49.520 We got we had some injuries too, right, Yeah, definitely. 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:51.200 I mean I feel like I didn't get to compete 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.480 in that whole series, right, I got the second game, 0:27:55.480 --> 0:28:00.960 but I mean there, Yeah, the playoff plays as you 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:03.280 play and you play in the regular season, and you 0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:04.960 play in the first couple of rounds and you play 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:08.000 in the last couple of rounds. They're all different, right, 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:11.240 there's levels. And I think that was a group for 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:13.360 them that they had, like Lebron had been through more 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:15.240 of those third and fourth rounds, Like third and fourth 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:18.959 rounds are different, and that was our first time as 0:28:19.000 --> 0:28:21.160 a group going through that, and there's not I don't 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:23.720 know of any groups that go through it together the 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:28.600 first time and get it right right. So I think 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:30.440 there's a whole lot of grace in my mind for 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:33.600 for that group. Like I thought that I thought that 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:36.879 we showed like who we are, and I thought that 0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:39.960 we showed throughout the regular season especially like like we 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:42.840 like a Paul said, like we actually beat them, I 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:45.600 think three of the four times, right, But those late 0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:47.640 rounds are different, and it's it's it's something you have 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:50.000 to just keep on experiencing and building on and adding 0:28:50.080 --> 0:28:51.480 to and like this is this is sport. 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:54.080 That's what it is exactly for the fans in here 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:55.520 obviously who don't have that feeling. 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:58.440 Obviously playing at home, different environment, what's it like playing 0:28:58.480 --> 0:29:01.240 on a road in the high intensity situation. 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:03.240 It's the best, It's the best. 0:29:03.400 --> 0:29:04.000 It's the best. 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:10.480 There's nothing in sport like silencing a home crowd. There's 0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:11.160 nothing like it. 0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:12.280 It is the best. 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:14.520 And then and then you know, it's a bunch of 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:16.840 a bunch of teams in this league that have great 0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:19.360 home crowds. But when you can sign the team in 0:29:19.360 --> 0:29:21.200 the playoffs like it is the best. 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:26.200 I thought we were gonna win Game three. I remember 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:28.520 that plays in my head a lot. I thought we 0:29:28.600 --> 0:29:31.719 won Game three and Lebron was Lebron. 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:33.280 He's good. 0:29:33.480 --> 0:29:34.440 Yeah, he's pretty good. 0:29:34.480 --> 0:29:34.840 It's good. 0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:36.760 That was up. 0:29:36.840 --> 0:29:41.600 What happened we went over time that game. Uh, he 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:45.800 hit a three in the corner, okay, and tied it up. 0:29:46.000 --> 0:29:48.360 I thought he kind of cramp magically he came back. 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:51.560 I'm like, I like, I'm like, kind of cramp. He's done, 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:53.440 he's back. 0:29:54.520 --> 0:29:56.920 We lost in overtime. I think Shoven might have got 0:29:56.960 --> 0:29:58.880 a shot to win the game or the tide of 0:29:58.920 --> 0:29:59.480 game something. 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:04.360 And granted, I mean we we felt like we played okay, 0:30:04.600 --> 0:30:06.600 but they played exceptionally well. 0:30:07.160 --> 0:30:10.600 They shot the ball historically historically, you know. 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:12.320 First I remember the first quarter. I don't think they 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.040 went on the run where they didn't miss it a shot. 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:16.520 I think they went on like our defense was kind 0:30:16.560 --> 0:30:18.160 of well, who we said was gonna let shoot? 0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:20.520 I mean j R. Smith was knocking down shots. I 0:30:20.600 --> 0:30:24.040 mean it was they got in a rhythm that you 0:30:24.120 --> 0:30:26.560 know in basketball, you get in a rhythm like that, you. 0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:29.840 Know you have to stop it. You have to stop 0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:32.280 the rhythm. Yeah, and you know, we just got ourselves 0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:34.840 dug ourselves too big of a hole. By not getting 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:36.760 them out of that rhythm in the first, first or 0:30:36.800 --> 0:30:39.160 second quarter. And you know, when you're on the road 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:41.320 and you're upin it's a good team, you're up against 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.880 Lebron James. It's tough to come back from me, you know. 0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:47.120 But I felt like we definitely fought and we had 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:50.400 opportunities to change the rhythm and change the dynamic of 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:51.320 the series. 0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:54.080 We just didn't capitalize on it. You don't want to 0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:56.520 know something funny about that. You remember when Jr. Started 0:30:56.560 --> 0:30:59.320 hitting those sories. I came to the benches, I got 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:03.640 them and I got on here. The next one, I 0:31:03.840 --> 0:31:05.640 was like, I got him all chasing my gout him 0:31:05.960 --> 0:31:08.960 cause okay, he came up with screen hit another, but 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:10.640 you go back over there. 0:31:13.760 --> 0:31:16.680 I don't know who I thought was I'm five to 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:20.560 the funny funny as you mentioned. 0:31:20.360 --> 0:31:21.720 That you talk about the Lebron picker ros that was 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:23.760 a clipble around, like Lebron demands that pick a roll 0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:24.440 for like four or. 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:26.800 Five times in a row, and then you're just all right, bro, Yeah, 0:31:26.920 --> 0:31:27.640 he kept doing it. 0:31:27.720 --> 0:31:28.080 I knew. 0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:29.840 I was like they figured it out, trying to get 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:31.920 the switch. Then we had the double they was gonna 0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:33.800 kick it out, get a three. I was like, son, 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:34.240 we can do. 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:37.000 I was definitely obviously, you know, season came up a 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:38.800 little bit short of expectations. But you guys had a 0:31:38.840 --> 0:31:41.800 hell of a season obviously, playing the different situations past that. 0:31:42.320 --> 0:31:44.840 How does it make like the memory of this team feel. 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:45.760 When you go back and like, all right, I played 0:31:45.760 --> 0:31:48.160 different places after this, but the camaraderie we had this 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:49.520 magical season still lives on. 0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:54.200 Oh. 0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:57.720 I mean, for me, I went to Devil after that. 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:03.239 A lot of young guys, you know, but a lot 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:06.680 of young, honky guys. They were hungry, you know, all 0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:08.920 they needed was a little bit of mentorship to get 0:32:08.960 --> 0:32:12.760 them over the edge. But as far as locker room presence, 0:32:12.880 --> 0:32:15.840 I mean, I don't think there'll ever be another, you know, 0:32:16.360 --> 0:32:18.560 situation like we had in Atlanta anywhere else, you know, 0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:22.400 everywhere else. You know, guys are cool and whatever, but 0:32:24.120 --> 0:32:26.160 the bond just goes from there, you know. For us, 0:32:26.240 --> 0:32:28.160 you know, we we knew each other's families, We went 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:30.560 out to dinner, you know, on the road, we had 0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:31.320 team bonding. 0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:32.000 You know. 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:34.920 We went to the to the to the what is it, 0:32:35.080 --> 0:32:38.960 the Braves you know stadium and played baseball man. You 0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:40.600 know as a team, you know, we did things like 0:32:40.680 --> 0:32:43.520 that that you know, when it gets on the court, 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:45.280 it makes it a lot easier to to jail with 0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:47.000 a team, you know. So you know there's a lot 0:32:47.200 --> 0:32:48.400 not a lot of teams out there doing that. 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:49.200 Sure. 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:55.640 Yeah, yeah, man, that team lives on in me. I'll 0:32:55.720 --> 0:32:56.080 just say that. 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:58.360 Like for me, it's almost like when there's someone that 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:01.680 you admire in life and they pass away or something 0:33:01.760 --> 0:33:04.520 happens and it's like you take what was good great 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:06.360 in that and you want that inside of you. 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:10.719 Like that's what that group is for me, Like there 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:13.000 was it was so pure, Like. 0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:15.200 I always tell, like I'm told when I talk to 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:18.320 kids about basketball, and it's always younger, it's like enjoyed 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:21.520 us because the higher you go it may be more rewarding, 0:33:21.640 --> 0:33:25.840 but it loses its purity. Yeah, And it's not often 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:27.960 that you get to be around and being a group 0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:31.240 in the NBA where like we were all about the 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:34.760 right stuff and like a lot of like were for 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:36.760 me now as we're working on building out the. 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:37.440 Hawks like that. 0:33:37.680 --> 0:33:39.640 It's it's not necessarily the blueprint, but it is a 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:43.400 north star all the way, and you want to try 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:46.280 to you know, continue to add more talent and and 0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:49.520 all those things. But like how that worked, Like going back, 0:33:49.640 --> 0:33:52.360 just thinking back about how this team came together. It 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:55.440 wasn't necessarily about adding a bunch of superstars and figuring 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:59.160 out like you got really good humans who love to work, 0:33:59.600 --> 0:34:03.040 who were or love their craft, right, you got really 0:34:03.160 --> 0:34:05.920 really good coaches, like the coaching staff that we had 0:34:06.000 --> 0:34:08.880 that year, like Coach Bred, it was coach Bud. But 0:34:09.040 --> 0:34:11.520 then think about all the coaches we had. Quinn Snyder 0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:13.080 was there the first year and then he left. 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:13.720 We had. 0:34:15.760 --> 0:34:20.320 You had Kenny Akison, you had Nevin who's been a 0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:23.239 coach in Europe forever. You had Charles Lee, you had 0:34:23.400 --> 0:34:26.120 Taylor Jenkins, you had those are just head coaches who've 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:29.280 been on the league. You got assistant coaches. Ben Sullivan's 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:33.680 been a top assistant. You got Pants Pats and Andrews. 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:35.600 You got Jordan Ott who was in the video room. 0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:37.400 Like these guys are all front of the bend coaches, 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:40.200 Like that's who was teaching us every day what it 0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:43.759 meant to play Hawks basketball. Right, So it's like this 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:47.239 this is the formula for me, Like I'm pulling from 0:34:47.280 --> 0:34:51.080 that yere right, Like that to me is like again, yes, 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:53.480 you add more talent, you try to find hopefully you 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:56.080 get a number one pick and he becomes an amazing player. 0:34:56.160 --> 0:34:59.279 But like like this is the formula to me, and 0:34:59.520 --> 0:35:01.800 like it is deep in me, Like I have a 0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:05.320 like I have a real love of the game of basketball, 0:35:05.480 --> 0:35:07.000 Like it's what drives me. It's why I want to 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:09.680 keep on working in this business. And that again is 0:35:09.760 --> 0:35:14.160 like a north Star Like it was a wonderful, wonderful experience. 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:16.320 Like the bonds and the friendships that we had with 0:35:16.400 --> 0:35:19.000 these guys is real when we see each other, like 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:22.400 it is love. But you go through heartaches and playoff 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:25.640 series and you bond and your work like there's things 0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:27.320 that happen in those moments that you can't get in 0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:32.000 any other way. And yeah, it's just a it's a 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:34.360 group and a team that, like I said, like I 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:35.440 will pull from the rest. 0:35:35.320 --> 0:35:35.759 Of my life. 0:35:36.800 --> 0:35:39.520 Yeah, for me, as far as basketball on the court, 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:42.319 I never went to a team that had that same 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:44.600 synergy and energy together, you know what I mean. So 0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:47.560 I went to go play for the Pacers two years later, 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:51.640 and like you said, I'm winking at guys and they like, nah, bro, 0:35:52.280 --> 0:35:55.040 what you got going on, I'm like, cut back doward. 0:35:57.280 --> 0:35:59.239 So I'm like, it just wasn't the same. 0:35:59.680 --> 0:36:01.560 I went there and I thought, like everybody else were 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:04.440 done basketball players after playing on that team, you know 0:36:04.480 --> 0:36:07.359 what I mean, Like we just read each other well, 0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:09.560 we knew everybody's movement, we knew everybody was going to 0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:11.839 be on the court, and then going to these different teams, 0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:15.600 it wasn't the same. So I'm used to somebody setting 0:36:15.640 --> 0:36:17.840 a backscreen so you can get a wide open jump shot, and. 0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:19.879 They like, nah, beat him, beat your man. 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:23.200 I'm like, y'all don't like play together at all, Like 0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:26.640 I gotta run to the corner every time, like nah. 0:36:27.120 --> 0:36:29.239 So it just was a beautiful way to play basketball. 0:36:29.640 --> 0:36:31.920 I enjoyed that so much that I even try to, 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:33.480 like I'm a coach now, I try to bring that 0:36:33.600 --> 0:36:36.319 same philosophy when we play move the ball, everybody get 0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:39.279 a chance to score. No, no go to guy, but 0:36:39.520 --> 0:36:42.160 everybody can be the guy. And that was just a 0:36:42.160 --> 0:36:43.000 beautiful way to play. 0:36:43.719 --> 0:36:46.160 Just to pay back off that, I mean, I don't 0:36:46.160 --> 0:36:48.959 know if everybody know that, you know an NBA team, 0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:52.600 you spend more time with your teammates than you do 0:36:52.719 --> 0:36:57.680 your family. So we see each other every single day, right, 0:36:57.760 --> 0:36:59.920 and you don't get that feeling, you know, once you 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:01.840 get up to the door and say, damn, I go 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:02.359 to work again. 0:37:02.360 --> 0:37:03.960 I gotta go in here again. Right. 0:37:04.080 --> 0:37:05.879 You had people who you wanted to play with, people 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:09.000 who understood you, and that's what made it so special. 0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:12.719 Definitely, how we talked about the soft camera. Did you 0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:14.480 know that she was going to be the team statrician? 0:37:14.560 --> 0:37:15.920 Because you know some of your teammates. You know what 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:17.160 I'm saying, they lived a different life. You know what 0:37:17.160 --> 0:37:18.000 I'm saying in the kitchen. 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:21.840 Hey, I mean guys you say didn't drink water, and 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:22.560 what I'm saying. 0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.640 Oh my gosh, man, we had you guys. We had 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:26.479 guys that didn't drink water on our team. 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:33.480 I'm like, you are an NBA basketball player. Your job 0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:35.120 is to run on the court. How do you not 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:35.799 drink water? 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:38.560 And like when did you start paying how taste? 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:40.800 I'm like, I don't like how it tastes. It tastes 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:41.359 like water. 0:37:43.760 --> 0:37:47.480 Listen, you guys, one of them may or may not 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:50.279 be on the stage, wouldn't drink water. 0:37:50.280 --> 0:37:54.960 They're getting like ivs before the game, like hooked up 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:56.279 to an IV so they can play. 0:37:56.320 --> 0:37:58.239 I'm like, man, just drink this cup of water. 0:38:00.440 --> 0:38:03.680 That's crazy. I couldn't believe you. It was living like that, Paul. 0:38:10.040 --> 0:38:13.960 Oh Man, listen, man, legendary team Man, the city remembers 0:38:14.000 --> 0:38:15.560 you the city and braces your shots to everybody here, 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:18.719 all here because of this very reason. Man, you might 0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:22.719 want to answer that text time tax. Then are we 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:26.200 opening up to the crowd by chands? Okay, open up 0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:27.560 to the crowd. I have a couple of questions, a 0:38:27.640 --> 0:38:29.640 couple like questions before we get out of here. Anybody 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:34.160 braving up? My man's no, yeah, you chans, yeah, go ahead. 0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:48.759 Oh wow, it's on the way. 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:50.520 It's on the way. Man, we're gonna play. We're gonna 0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:52.200 we're gonna get that game. We're gonna get that game. 0:38:52.280 --> 0:38:54.680 Yeah, we're starting to over under right now. Please PLA's 0:38:54.719 --> 0:38:59.879 your best dracton, gentlemen. And yes, sir, I could start 0:38:59.880 --> 0:39:02.200 it if you go look at our numbers how many 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:04.960 minutes we played. We didn't play hot numbers of minutes 0:39:05.040 --> 0:39:07.080 like I think we played like twenty six a game 0:39:07.680 --> 0:39:11.600 I did like around that time. So, uh, Dennis shooter 0:39:11.719 --> 0:39:16.440 points it was great. Then yeah, I was kept then 0:39:16.520 --> 0:39:20.480 his shooter was great. Even Shovin mack Ken Baizmore came 0:39:20.560 --> 0:39:22.440 off that bench. It was a bunch of guys. Mike 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:25.960 Scott my guy. They had amazing seasons like that whole year. 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:29.799 Everybody played well and we all just wanted everybody to win. 0:39:29.960 --> 0:39:31.640 It was crazy, Like he said, we'd be on a 0:39:31.680 --> 0:39:34.439 plane playing, you know, and all that stuff. And those 0:39:34.480 --> 0:39:36.799 were my guys. I mean, me and Dennis we. 0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:38.080 Used to go out of it a little bit, but 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:41.880 other than that, we love it. I love those guys. 0:39:43.080 --> 0:39:46.640 Dennis was like, because we were all a pretty steady group, right, Yeah, 0:39:46.960 --> 0:39:50.000 Like Dennis was like the little brother that you needed 0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:54.279 to get under your skin, agitate you, yeah, get you going. 0:39:54.560 --> 0:39:57.000 And it was he was a super important part of 0:39:57.320 --> 0:39:58.239 We needed it right. 0:39:58.360 --> 0:40:00.160 We needed guys like that. We need a guy like 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:04.319 Elton Brand and Pariantage and Michael Schala and I mean 0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:08.640 there's so many guys who starting their role for for 0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:10.279 that group and we're about the team. 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:13.600 It's a long list that was. It was a It 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:14.319 was a great group. 0:40:15.960 --> 0:40:18.839 Definitely jump in the back. Yes, sir, I've seen Budd 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:19.440 at a concert. 0:40:20.719 --> 0:40:20.919 Yeah. 0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:22.680 He used to take his kids to all the concerts. 0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:24.799 Here and I've seen him and uh, they were having 0:40:24.800 --> 0:40:27.040 a good time. He didn't know any of the songs, 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:30.600 but he was viobbing out. I'm scared to ask which 0:40:30.680 --> 0:40:32.200 artist it iss? 0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:33.880 We was. 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:38.160 We was messing up some comments that Night's go see 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:46.080 future shout out, No, sir. 0:40:49.480 --> 0:40:52.439 I would I love to have known, one hundred percent 0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:56.120 under there's injuries are part of this whole of this 0:40:56.200 --> 0:41:01.359 whole equation. It is every year for every team. There's 0:41:01.400 --> 0:41:02.640 a lot of things that have to go right if 0:41:02.680 --> 0:41:04.880 you still be playing at the very very end. And uh, 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:07.960 you know, I wish we could have had a full squad, 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:12.160 but for sure, and last one, bring your ma Ma 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:12.560 in front. 0:41:13.920 --> 0:41:16.480 Yeah, I like that. 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:19.120 That's hard. Yeah, I like that very away. 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:21.120 I got all you grew up in. 0:41:21.120 --> 0:41:24.240 Brother Weeds, pull it up or appreciate that for sure. 0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:26.160 Unfortunately are out of time. We want to say thank 0:41:26.200 --> 0:41:28.080 you all for pulling up. We appreciate y'all. Make a 0:41:28.160 --> 0:41:34.759 noose for y'rself and push up two times for our 0:41:34.800 --> 0:41:37.680 wonderful guests up here. We appreciate Paul and Kyle pulling up. 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:40.480 The Hawks appreciate the hospitality as well. We'll see y'all 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:45.040 another Time Club five twenty, the volume