Club 520 - Jeff Teague & Donovan Mitchell on GOING OFF in the NBA bubble, facing Anthony Edwards & James Harden

All right, we back another episode of Club for twenty podcast. 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:10.559 You know what I'm saying. We had a neutral site, 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.000 but we still let the crib with it. We got 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.160 a special guest and a special location introduced to my 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.159 man's last my far left. I got my dog BI 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.240 should be hearing out the privileges. How you what nasty 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.880 cool and nasty list pod baby out the gate, got 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.000 my dog, young young team. What's happening with it? 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:23.319 Man? 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:24.880 I'm back home and y'all know I was a Didas 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:26.840 guy when I was in the league. So Man, back home, 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:28.800 back home with it. Got a special guest on my 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.920 left for me. I don't really get too excited about episodes. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.199 You know what I'm saying. Everybody's normal, But this is 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.200 a guy one of my favorite players, in my opinion, 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.279 one of the best players come out the University of Louisville. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.440 We got Spider to die. Donin Mitchell. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.640 Appreciate you, fucking I appreciate you the Gate. Appreciate it 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.519 for the hospitality and the opportunity. You got a crazy, crazy, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.279 crazy order story about how you even got to Adidas. Man, 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.400 please let's start there, because I know you was rocking 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.479 them at Louisville. You know what I'm saying, and then 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.360 tell us about how you went crazy in the Summer 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.920 League and they all went went together. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.480 So yeah, so I was, uh, I was supposed to 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.800 go to Charlotte. I wanted to get drafted by Charlotte. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.720 You know when Michael was the owner. If you go 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.960 to Charlotte, you know what I'm Jordan Brand, you know 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.120 what I'm saying. So I end up not going there, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.400 get drafted by Utah. We're going through the contract negotiations. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:13.320 I signed with Adidas. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:13.600 Cool. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.120 I played my whole first year, we went it down contest, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.680 and then Adidas ripped my contract up right after that, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.120 said we're gonna give you a new and we're gonna 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.280 give you a shoe. So that went from just being 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:25.800 on the on the roster to next thing, you know, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.760 being a signature shoe within a year. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.520 So, uh, that's crazy, that's love. And you're being honest 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.240 about it because people don't understand this. You killed Summer 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.240 League to get that fact, you had to go crazy 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:36.960 the Summer League. Now, so many people have gotten a 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.959 shoe deal from killing in the summer So you know 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.080 how that that Vaga didn't get that I didn't killing 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.600 no summer league. No, I stayed on the bench and 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.080 od rookie, you didn't play right. So don't worry about 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.800 that obviously, Man with you be in the university, little 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.920 of the legend, I mean, we're gonna take it. How 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.680 is it now that they were your shoe? What was 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:57.600 you rocking in Louisville? 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.280 Though I was wearing the Dames, I was and Dames NonStop. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:01.600 I forgot. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.480 I think it's like the threes of the fours, like 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.559 he was. It was those there was something some low tops, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.960 but it's come the Didas's first of all, Theda has 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.680 come a long way since that time, absolute first and foremost. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.680 But to see them wearing my shoes, honestly, it's crazy 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.040 to me, Like, you know, it's I know, I've been 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.440 in the league seven years. I feel like I've been 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:21.560 in the league for a while, but it's not. I 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.040 don't feel like that far removed from from Louisville, you 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:25.720 know what I'm saying, from where it first started. So 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.360 to come here now to be watching the game seeing 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:29.560 them wear my shoes. Some of the guys on the 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.640 team calling me asked me, like yo, Like can I 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.840 get this? Can I get that? You know? That's to me, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.800 that's just all honestly, it's surreal. You know, you grow 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.040 up as a kid you want that, you know what 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.240 I mean. So now that I'm here, it's a blessing 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:40.639 and not forever Charice that for sure. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.320 I know you're getting a phone calls and let me 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:48.919 get some shoes cause the idea you too, for sure? 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.440 Yeah, what's your uh what's your favorite Adidas shoes? 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.200 Ever? Off the court? Shoes about to be these you 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.120 can wear them on in off the floor, but uh, 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.840 couldn't choose my own shoes. Yeah, we show so kind 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.280 of guy. I was show toes a little bit. I 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.000 got big feet though, so like you know what's ours? 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:11.720 You were fifteen? All you out of pocket? You can't? Yeah, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.799 this life, I probably say those this new Jerry Jerry 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.720 Lenzo Fear of God collection as far he got some, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.000 he got some, he got some ship. So I think 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.440 that's probably probably my favorite. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.359 All right, So what was that moment life for you 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.120 in the creation process side to Camax and my dog 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.400 creating that first one? How was that process because you 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.560 was like finding your way in the league, is still 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.000 doing it at the same time. But how was that 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.120 process making the first one? 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.080 I feel like everybody's different, you know, I've talked to 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.280 different guys who have had different shoots from different brands 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.360 and how they go about it. For me, my process 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.760 is make the shoot, show me the shoot, and I 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.960 say yes or no, Like it's real simple, like I 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.200 ain't got I'm not the one to be like I 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.200 want the webbing on this to look like that. I 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.160 ain't want to be like, as long as long as 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.560 my ankles feel cool and I'm an, I think it 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.640 looks good, like that's fine. So you know, like I said, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.360 for the first one, the first one was kind of 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.480 sped up because everything was so last minute. After it 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.080 was kind of like quick. But the once you got 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.080 the two, three, four, now you're playing a year in advance, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.600 it became it became a whole process. It became like 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.359 we're doing three different segments of it. It's like, you know, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.719 we're doing one in August, then we're doing one in January, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.039 then we're doing one Like you know what I'm saying, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.360 just kind of going over it, making little tweaks here 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.960 and there about what I like and what I don't like. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.880 But it's a it's a process, and it's you get 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.240 as much as you put into it. Though, if you 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:30.480 don't want to, if you don't care, if you don't 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.320 want it, you ain't gonna put out a good product. 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.520 But I notice that gratification when you look on Instagram, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.640 we see that you kids rocking your shoe. Now I 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.320 gotta ask you how I feel with you in the 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.400 league and somebody rocking your shoe and they play against you. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:43.040 I know you got to try to. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:43.720 I would. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.680 I wouldn't be rocking your shoe. I'm playing against you, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:47.840 but you signed me. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:48.240 I'll rock. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.560 I'm playing the Big Three just unless I feel like 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.800 you have to you kind of you have. First of all, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.080 you have to go after. You got to bust the 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.440 ass you gott at least you know what I'm saying 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.520 off rip, But in the second token, I'm like, I'm 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.120 a dude. That's like man, that's love. Like I'm the same. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.760 I'm not one to be like you know how niggas 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:13.919 in the league are, like I could curse, Like you 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.480 get to a point where you so far removed from 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.080 that childhood like you know Jeff, like he was a 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.320 childhood kid dreaming about being on this stage, you know, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.680 so I'll never lose that aspect of it too. So like, yeah, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.080 I want to come at you, I want to drop forty, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.400 but the same token, it's like the fact that you're 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.600 wearing my shoes. I grew up trying to be like this, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.120 trying to be Donovan Mitchell, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.479 So I always forever cherish that, and I always I 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.960 show I appreciate it. But you know, there are few 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.159 guys out there always my former teammates always wear my 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.920 shoes like they always ask me. So I appreciate them, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:43.440 but you know, I definitely have to try to give 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:44.279 them forty at least. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.039 Oh yeah, you gotta gotta kill him one time. Let 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.120 them know to this, and then you can come on 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:48.720 Team down, a team done. You know what I'm saying. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.599 That's a new line popping out. You know what I'm saying. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.520 How that feel? And now you move you know you 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.880 shoe six. Now you got the own brand under shoe six. 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:57.760 It's going crazy. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.719 So we honestly, man, like I said said, I'm gonna 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.800 keep repeating myself, but this it's just crazy to me, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.680 you know what I mean? That's it never feels real 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.760 when I do these interviews, I do these events, I 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.520 see my shoe, I see people talking to me about it, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.599 like it's one thing I never forget. But now you 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.159 become a you become your own boss in the sense 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.080 like you become like a cool like you know, you 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.240 dictating like all, bet I want this, I want that. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.599 I wanted to look like this. This is what people 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.440 are saying. But the biggest thing, like I said to you, 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.320 is how you get what you put into it? You 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.400 know what I mean. So I've called guys, I've asked 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.280 younger kids, like making you stay tapped in with a 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.720 younger generation absolutely, because honestly they would drive all the 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.120 sales like we ain't. We ain't buying whose shoes? No more? 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:33.960 We old? Like you know what I'm saying, like you babies, 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.880 the kids, kids and their parents, I'm still tap thing. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.120 I mean, I was like, you ain't have to buy 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.600 I got, you. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:45.680 Know, shame this plug now to say you know what 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:46.440 I'm saying. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.400 But yeah, man, so it's dope for sure. How is 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:50.760 it to tap me? I know you got to collap 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.960 with the HBCU team. You know, I'm saying shot like 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.760 that's crazy, Like it is not like a part of 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.200 that process of how is it just to see like, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.360 you know what I'm saying, black excellence representing you and 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.200 you help prepare That's what. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:00.760 That's the same. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.000 You know, you never forget where you came from, you 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.680 know what I'm saying, Like, that's that's my biggest thing. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.839 You know, I didn't go to HPCU, but you know 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.400 there's always love there, you know what I mean to 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.720 see you see one of us continuing to do what 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.560 we do, especially not just on the floor, but in 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.360 the community, you know what I'm saying. And I think 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.520 that's one of my my biggest things in understanding that 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.520 we're still trying to find ways and the league's done 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.720 a good job with the PA, We've done a good 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.040 job of putting them on. It all starts showing case 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.600 in the games, but you know, continuing to fund and 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.120 continue to put money into these hpcus and you know 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.800 with shoes, with you know, equipment, with gear like you know, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.679 that's that's really that's really what that's where it starts. 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:34.840 You know, that's the least I feel like that's the 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.400 least we can do as athletes, Like we got that 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.400 free like cool, I'm gonna least do that for y'all. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.040 Now we can do go and build upon that. So 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.320 now that I'm able to do that with Hpcus Man, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:43.960 I love being able to do it. I love to 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.239 seeing the faces on kids that don't that's just happy 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:47.640 with one pair of shoe, Like you know what I'm saying, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.440 Like that to me is is dope. But I want 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.760 to continue to build, you know, through hpcus with my 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.640 shoe and my my stuff. And I'm glad that we 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:56.400 were able to do that. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.720 And that's the thing you said, like being remember who 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.120 you are, Like we were the kid going to That's 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.880 why Cams dogt We was geek to go to whoever 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.000 Cam got the T shirt, if you got some shoes, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.840 it was super lig so for you to be able 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.480 to get that moment to a lot of different kids, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.120 like it don't even matter what happens after that, They're 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.640 gonna remember that for the rest of their life. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.760 Show What's show? What's your favorite Adidas matchup? Like in 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.720 the league? What other opposal player you look at? I 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.400 got to sign with I gotta. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.000 Say and bring it every night and not dog Man 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.320 like I think and sow guy, like he bring the 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.240 best out of you, Like you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.080 he talked, he talks and all that, but like as 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.439 a competitor, like that's what you want, Like you want 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.840 to go against you know, you know a guy like him, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.560 you know what I mean. So I'll say he's probably 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.120 number one for show just because of the energy he brings. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.400 Is James close to James up there? 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:42.679 For sure? 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.360 I been. I played James twice in the playoffs two 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.760 years in a row, so I feel like I played 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.199 him a bunch. We done lost twice too, But. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.079 I remember y'all was going behind him. I called him 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.560 about that, bro, that ain't it? 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.439 I forgot you had, Quinn, That ain't it? Bro? That 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:04.560 that's what that one, that one that we did we needed? 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.559 Uh we did? You've seen me lost for one? 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.760 I said that one. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.800 That one is. I would say James up there too, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.040 for sure. But I think James and are definitely the 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.040 two too. Yeah, definitely dang for sure. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.280 And what's crazy now, Like y'all killing right now, y'all 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.960 going crazy absolutely right now under the radar, which is 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.520 crazyest on the radar, but shopping going crazy large part 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:25.760 because obviously you've been doing your name. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.480 Man. How you feeling about the season, Man. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.240 I'm excited. I think a lot of it under the 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.880 radar has to do with how we you know, we 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.520 didn't really do shit in the playoffs last year, you 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:33.720 know what I mean? You know how that go, Like 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.719 we didn't handle business, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.280 we got we got embarrassed, to be honest with you, you 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:39.520 know what I mean. So that kind of carries with 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.760 you into that next year until you do something about it. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.959 So shit, we can go eighty two and O. I 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:45.760 don't think we get the credit we deserve just because 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.040 that's just all that matters in this is the playoffs, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.360 you know what I'm saying. So for us not getting 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:51.960 too hyped, like understanding like this is what we do, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.360 that's what we expect of ourselves. It's like understanding we're 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.520 trying to build like yes, it's all star break, you 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.040 know what I mean. It's great, like we're playing, well, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.800 we're playing, and we should be happier for that success. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.240 But the same token, we're not surprised at what we do, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.720 like continue to build upon that. Soit then April May 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.000 June comes around you know, un handle business for sure. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.920 Now it's a five twin should be regressive. Planning to 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.000 ask you a couple of questions how we would Obviously 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.120 you know what I'm saying. You came in the league 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.240 going crazy, But who was that first match show? Were 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:16.920 just like, damn, like this is how they do this 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.640 every single night in the league. Like maybe not even 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.400 a marquete name, but at one party he was like, oh, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:21.800 I didn't even know he was like this. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:32.160 Man, I'd probably say Drew Holiday. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:32.840 Damn. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.320 They mentioned a lot through Holiday for the show. I 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.120 was just like, and I never forget my assistant coach 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.719 at the time, Johnny Bryant. He was like and lace 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.600 him up like it's motherfucker like he don't play And 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.080 I'm like, all right, man, whatever, I had forty the 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.760 first time he played them, So I'm thinking that's how 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.840 it's supposed to be. Like digging this sweet he going 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.600 under on screens, you know what I mean. They don't 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.079 know what the you know what I'm saying. And after that, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.319 I think we play in New Orleans, just a New Orleans. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.559 You know who else is up there too? Aby Bradley 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:04.199 when he was in. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.520 Uh Detroit, I'm still having nightmare. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:07.920 Who are you taking though? 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.280 Better defender? Real ship? 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.320 Who you who you got depends on what I'm trying 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:17.120 to what I'm trying to guard your buckets. I ain't 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.920 gonna lie. It's a true story. I probably every every 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.480 retire right, Yeah, he's done. Alright, so I can say this. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.280 We're playing in Detroit and it's probably a film on 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.640 this too. I'm the point guard at the time. I 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.280 don't know how to play it. My ball handling really 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.800 ain't like that. I had to stop bringing the ball 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.600 up the court because he was on the floor understop. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.000 I don't take that ever. I've never I've never felt 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.439 like that with anybody else in the league. So I 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.440 got to get it to Avery, probably because he got 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.360 that saying because once you get the half court, like 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:44.880 you know, the half court line here, get you you 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.160 just you ain't going nowhere. Like he quick. He's strong, 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.079 but I would say probably every Bradley for sure. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.360 What's crazy is him? 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.440 Jordan Crawford and other people said he was like, He's like, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.360 it don't matter how good you dribble, it don't turn 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:56.240 you in every possession. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.720 And I ain't have the confidence in my handle like 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.720 this my first year in the league. It's my handle, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.839 Like I'm like, I'm used to coming off screens, coming 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.640 out different things, but I'm not really like if you 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.120 picked me up full court at this time, it's like, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.600 oh shit, like I don't really know what I'm doing 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.080 doing like this looking at you like yeah he was. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.600 He wouldn't do that now though, you know what it 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:12.959 is now. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.000 I always wanted to ask you about your bubble moment, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:17.640 like I know we don't got that much time, but 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.599 but you did. In the bubble, you and Murray was 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.679 going back and forth. So that that was crazy. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.960 No, that was that for me was really the emergence 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.960 of myself, like taking that step, you know what I mean, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.640 Like I had a great rookie year in the playoffs, 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.079 I would be okay, see whatever, like all that happened 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.520 then the second year whatever. But that year for me, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.720 like yes, scoring outbursts and all that that was It 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.280 was a big part of that. But like it was 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.760 really where I felt in control of myself, like all right, cool, 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.960 now I'm seeing situations. I understand the situation. I'm understanding 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.120 the blitz. You know, I had fifty seven game one, 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.959 but people don't know. I only had like twenty in 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.800 game two we won by thirty, but they were like, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.360 all right, fuck it, he not scoring. And for me 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.440 like to be able to make that adjustment from game 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.880 one in the game too and be like, all right, bet, 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.280 I don't need to score. I can get it off. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.400 And then we went by thirty. The ultimately we lose. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.720 We lose a series, but like that for me really 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.160 unlocked a lot of shit for me mentally. But it game, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.480 it honestly came to a point where mall was scored. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:11.920 I'd be like, I bet, I gotta score, like it 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.079 became one of one and I can't see each other 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.959 out and like everybody else had to figure it out, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.439 like you score, I'm scoring. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.640 I love how you can just say I had fifty seven, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:27.240 like something like, yeah, your over there, fifty seven. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.360 Before we get up out of here, I gotta ask you, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.840 if you can have three people wear your shoe. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.080 Who the three people be? It could be anybody. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:43.640 Ever like in life, hear it, Michael Jordan, m Roco, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.720 three Barack Obama, Okay, I get his address in the 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.760 old office. If you could wear them an old office show, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.600 I probably say Jay Z m hmm. That's the fire 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.760 three three. I swear I thought you about to say 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.400 me what I'm saying. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.080 The wrong day. But on that we're gonna get ab 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.040 out of here. Don appreciate you and you know what 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.240 I'm saying ahead. Hey, that's our ad man right there, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.280 said tell them about people that need to cop them. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.280 Man, cop them everywhere. Man, this is damn the hor 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.360 I might get back on the court. I'm about at 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.280 d M about this. No, for sure, we appreciate you 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.400 coming on the show man for sure. Thank you good people. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.880 This shouts at Don Mitchell Club five twenty. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:36.240 Thank you, appreciate y'all.