Nightcap Hour 1: Pistons EVEN SERIES vs Magic + Lakers GET UPDATES on Luka & Reaves

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Three ninety eight eighty three in Game two.

The Pistons had lost eleven straight home games in the postseason, the drought that started back in two thousand and eight. Game three will be in Orlando on Saturday, Joe. I mean the game was forty six, forty six, forty five at the hell, Joe, I turned the thing back home and that damn. I'm like, hold on, what the hell happened? How you At one point they had outscored Orlando thirty to three in the third quarter, Joe, How was the Pistons able to turn this thing around even the series up?

I think the Pistons were definitely just more desperate. Okay, oh, Joe, knowing and understanding that, man, Listen, Game two, it's a must win situation for us. We can't go to Orlando down O two thinking we're gonna win on their home floor. So I think, you know, they got their morale back. I thought they came out and made a huge emphasis on defense, just to be physical obviously, and just just play a lot harder. I thought, you know, I thought they win, They'll caught out the game Ocho to where

On thirty three percent shooting from the floor, twenty five percent from the three, out reboundling their plus their plus seven plus fifteen.

Excuse me in the rebound of that aspect. You want to say something.

Now, I've been gonna say it was a collective effort on on their behalf on the Pistons, obviously ka to Cunningham doing exactly what he's supposed to do, obviously leading that spad, but going down, oh too. You don't want to have to dig yourself out that kind of hole, Joe and make it a more difficult. So they knew they had to even goddamn series out. And not only that, it was a collective effort from everybody. God damn, Tobias

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be an upset.

Oh jo.

I mean, obviously, you know, Detroit hadn't really been tested, so we don't really know if they're a championship caliber team yet. We just know they number one in the Eastern Conference, you know what I mean. So now if they are championship caliber team, now they got to show it because you gotta go out on the road and you gotta go get you one, you know what I mean. So we'll see if them guys can step up, step on to the challenge, and obviously still want an Orlando.

Yeah, there's the difference between playoff basketball and regular season basketball, and we see that a lot. There's a difference, and there's a difference between regular season and postseason and anything, be it football, basketball, baseball, hockey, whatever whatever team sport is, if you have a postseason, there's a difference the intensity level. There's greater expectations, especially on higher seeds, because you got

Get that done.

So anybody that says they don't, you, oh, you know, you absolutely know what it is.

And Detroit knows.

They basically had the best record in the Eastern Conference, damn near from start to finish. Even when Cade went out, they still found ways to win. And now here they find themselves in a Series one one with Orlando. Now they're gonna need to do a better job. They did a great job on the glass tonight, Joe, they have plus fifteen. Detroit was over Orlando. They're gonna even do better. They're gonna have to shoot the three.

Now.

I don't think, necessarily think they're a great three point shooting team. They can get streaky like most teams can, but some teams are better. The Boston Centers are a good three point shooting team. Not They're not better knock down somebody damn free throws.

Yeah, yeah, I agree, they got they gotta shoot better from the three un Ojoe. Not only that, I think they hang their head on their defense, you know what I mean, Like they pride themselves defensively.

It ain't too many times they gonna get our rebounding.

No, with during It and Big Boy and Steward down there, it ain't many times that they gonna get our rebounding. So you know, they come with a tough mindset, hard hat, you know, outwork you and do whatever it takes to win the game. Now you just hope your stars step up. Obviously Cad has been consistent, but man, if you can get some consistent productivity from Tobias Harris. Every time I'm talking about consistent old I'm saying it ain't gotta be about fifteen twenty points a night, But can we get

Ask can we ask to give us give him? Give us what you gave us in the regular season.

If that asking too much, joke, I don't think it's asking too much but here's the problem.

In a playoff.

Series, bro we we we're gonna try to expose you gotta We're gonna have to play during tough.

We can't give him nothing easy. See. He known for getting them.

Put back to just being kind of like a junk yard dog type of player, to where he kind of, you know, feed off miss of misshots. But it's tough, man, Hey or Letto got some big bodies that they can throw at him, and it's been giving him some problems, you know what I mean. He hadn't been as effective as he's been, you know in the regular season, but I expect his play to continue to get better.

To Joe, if he continues to play like this, they going home. If Jalen dur does not pick up that play, they're going home. You can't have a situation, Joe, your two best player, one of your players that's playing like he's supposed to play. Kay Cunningham has elevated his game thirty nine in the first game twenty seven, Jalen Durden has not. He was as a potend. Joe, He's gonna

I don't give it damn what you do. Yes, oh yes, I understand that.

But see that's see what you said, Joe, you said, Hey, let's make it tough on him. That's how you make your name, That's how you become legendary, that's how you become iconic, because you know they know what you represent and they're gonna do what they can to stop it.

And guess what, you still go out there and busty pauls.

Yeah, yeah, but you're right, that's what the greats do. You already you know what we running. We know what you're running. Still, I don't care you can't stop it. But I think I think we kind of gotta give him a little slack. He's just not an offensive guy like that. He's just been a hard working dude who's put up some great numbers during the regular season, but in the postseason. I'm I'm I'm down in on him.

That ain't his game, Man, that ain't.

I guess what, I want you to be that same hard working guy in the postseason that you were in the regular season, because guess what. You know what's coming this way, don't Joe, Joe, you know that Max contract coming right?

Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, it ain't gonna be Hey.

Hey, the one thing about Orlando, they big, they fighting, Bro, they ain't gonna be easy. If you supposed to be that guy, you're gonna have to show.

Us you that guy for sure.

Yeah, that's and that's that's the way you that's what you But you gotta you gotta want to take it like you know what, Man, they really count on me because you know, Detroit, ever since the bad Boys, what are they known for? You ain't finna outscrap us And if we gotta, if we got a squabble, we gonna squad. But you're not fitning out work because you're not gonna

Yeah yeah, so.

Yeah, that's how they've always been. Fast forward to bass Boy Pistons too, when they had Big Bend she Chauncey Real Tayshaun. This is always who they being. And now that the third edition, the third installment the trilogy. Even though Stu come off the bench, he brings that toughness, K plays tough.

Those got This is what you in Detroit.

It's kind of like if you play for the Steelers, you play for the Ravens, you already.

Know you got this a mind sets.

You don't walk no, no, no, no, ain't no for next football, No Detroit Pistons, they can't play for them. You gotta be physical. This is who y'all are. Y'all ain't got no no free y'all know, hey y'all not y'all not golden, stay at there, heyday. Y'all ain't pretty, y'all dump truck, y'all, truck y'all, pick up trucks, gritty and grind me. Yeah, that's how they gotta play. And I think I thought, I thought today you know, they played like it. But but on another note, I thought,

It's kind of like, you know, they were. It seemed like they were kind of satisfied that we won in there and won one game. Now we'll see what they do in Game three.

But I'm be honest with y'all, I expect the Pistons to obviously come back and take.

Control of this series.

You know what I thought they I thought they I thought they were really really engaged in the first half. If you look at them, the way they played the first half, Joe, especially the second quarter, I thought, I said, damn, I said, Detroit, y'all better be on your best behavior, man, cause look at it. They try They greedy, look like

Really blew the game open from that point on. Yeah, Dan, Orlando ain't getting no contribution from the bench. I like, how.

You know Suggs is being aggressive, But I want once again Uncle Ocho. When I'm watching Orlando Magic Man, I'm watching I'm watching Polo Ben Carrollo. I don't I don't want him out there doing all that dribbling, Uncle Ocho. I'm sorry, Bro, I'm talking about free throw lining. Then is where he should be. I'm talking about it. Shouldn't be a person on the Pistons team who could guard him.

Bro. He he give us flashes because he showed us in Game one he could do it.

And I just think he got back today handling the ball, having a little man set the pick and roll.

Man.

Hey, look, that's part of being great, doing it night in and night out.

Doing it over and over and over again.

So he got to learn to, you know, stick with his bread and butter because them dudes can't guard him in the mid post man.

Everybody nobody shot the ball great to night and and you know Black normally gives him great production off the bench. Carter didn't play a whole lot, but dose, uh, he played twenty. He didn't really give him anything of vox. They didn't, You're right, Joe, they didn't get anything. But you know, it was a game that I don't even know if they were really trying to give him anything because at that point in time, the game was a blowout, right right, But Lindell Carter Junior, you gotta give him

Mm hmm.

Hey, look, but look, considering what they've done to the Hornets for their last play in spot, I think they gonna play pretty good, sure Orlando that I think they're gonna be. They're gonna be a totally different team. So I think typically Ben Carroll gonna play better, even I don't think he played bad, but I think he'll play a lot better. Uh, you'll get more from Whndell Carter. I think these bench guys like Black, I think these guys, they'll be a lot more common and ready.

You know, in Game three, being at.

Home, they jettison the other big Orlando did Isaacs him and the coach out here did we gotta falling out of something?

And yeah I remember that, but I.

Like, I think mostly in that coach name yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah him back down. Now, Ben Carroll was trying to take a few shots in the media. He's like Hey, you right back at it. Yeah, Hey, you gotta be. You gotta be like that man.

You can't. You can't be nervous to challenge your guys. If you want to be great, you gotta be. You gotta want to be challenged.

There you go, despite however they may feel you. You can't be, you know, timid on challenging them guys, because I think more than anything, you'll gain more respect for sure, you know, than anything.

I say you a most hope they respond the right way. You almost hope they respond the right way because most of them don't don't take kind to being challenge because they're sensitive and they don't see it as a challenge. They take it as something else. So as long as they understand, I'm sure they have conversations behind closed doors

I think, and even if you don't gain said players respect you. You gain this teammates respect because they're gone.

Yeah. Sometimes sometimes you can lose a locker.

Room because how you treat they say that man, hold on. All you do is get on us late. Yeah, you get on us. He blowds and assignment you mad at me. You lose the locker room. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no no, say something to him. He might not Hey, he might do everything he can to probably potentially get you up out of there. But at least you got to gain this, make the locker room because if you, hey, what good is a he let you let him do everything,

Guys don't want to be challenged because.

When you're great at a young age, you kind of get coddle because you're great.

And if you and.

Coaches don't want you to take your ball and go home. Yeah, because I think like the NIL program. Now, guess what, you challenge the guy, now he just go somewhere else. He gone in the portal, yell at me you if in the coach, Yeah, I think I think the most important thing as a coach.

Okay, both y'all know this. You have to know your players who yeah, with thing you have to know. You have to know how they'll respond on the same circumstances. So it may be the heat of the game. Coach may already know he can jump down. You know what I'm saying. He can jump on me me a game. You hear what I'm saying. And if he can jump on your best player in front of everybody, it does weigh heavy because now all these other dudes around when he do jump on them, they fall right in line.

I'm gonna treat you all the Bill Davis to tell us all the time, I'm gonna treat you all all fair, but I ain't gonna treat you the same. Now, some guys you can ride, like Joe said, some guys, if you gotta pad him on the back even with a Yeah, some guys you can be factitious with. Damn son, my wife could have made that play. Some guys you gotta be facious with. Some guys you could ride. You just have to know what buttons to push to get what doors to open.

Yeah. Yeah.

That is the biggest thing about coach is to understand your players. I'm telling you. You try to do everybody the same. Okay, yeah, think about it. Okay, look all your YEA coach coach of the players, because I seen it.

Yeah, I seen him. I've seen h squab. I seen him squab. They ain't throw no blow.

I square hold on Joe, hold on Joe. You see who squabbed a coach and the player.

Yeah yeah, coach of the player in the NBA. Yeah yeah, I know.

Hey, listen, without saying those names, can I can I get that story? Don't say no names?

Uh uh.

It was my first year here in Atlanta, making like okay, okay, it was my.

First year here in Atlanta. Not mind you.

They just came off winning nine games the season before, so the environment, you know, wasn't you know, it was shaky.

It wasn't the best.

You feel what I'm saying, so it was probably already tension built up from last season, right, it just kind of carried over. And this was like early in the season, Like I say, we started off here three and twenty nine. Hell boy, way it was almost fighting. Yeah, Hey, that's p J Carblissimo. Can you coach everybody the same?

Hey?

Hold up though, ax, Phil Jackson, Look how he had to coach the Warren knowing that man were gonna get out of line. George let with him, Joe, you got you got some players. But because you know, bro, you know they especially especially the ones that's great. It's certain stuff you're gonna have to deal with and you're gonna have to try and minimize, you know, the punishment to some degree. Because if Dennis Rodman was doing that and he wasn't who he was, like, he'd be out the lead.

As long as production, you're sure as tolerance, Yeah, yeah, tolerance will never be higher than production.

I don't.

Yeah, we talk about in professional sports in job, regular job. Look at the guy that's producing his quota or his or her quota is through the roof that come late, they eating at the dash. They might not have the right of tower on.

Now you.

You show up on time, you do everything right, but your quote where it needs to be the first time you get you get rid of and you got to go.

First time they call your ass down to hr you up out of there.

Yeah yeah, but I aint you gotta be careful how you talk to people because everybody don't respond to the same stimuli. So that yelling and screaming, that's a trigger for somebody and to tear your ass up.

Yeah, you're right, but a trigger from from some uh uh, some trauma that happened early in life.

You never know. That's what I now.

We had a conversation kind of like our first year Joe, and that's like when you date somebody, you're not just dating that person, you dating the trauma that they dealt with before you got there.

Yeah. Yeah, that's what you're dealing with. You don't know. You don't know. Same thing.

You go, you go to the power, you get your like, oh it's a gorgeous dog, but you don't know what led that dog to be there.

Now, you might do something that is.

Previous owner did and trigger it and you will get why he ended up where it ended up, why it was same thing in a relationship you might say something someone has said in their past, his or her I just don't want you.

I'm just not women because I know how y'all are.

Oh you just it's just no. You might say something. He or she might say, something might trigger him or her from a previous situation or previous situations, or even by the fact childhood me, I was a guy. I didn't do well to yelling because I got yelled at a lot when I younger. So I was just like, man, I can't wait to get grown. I don't like being yelling. Tell me what I need to do, and I'm gonna do everything I possibly can to do it right that yelling.

I'm gonna give you a look first. I give you a look first. Yeah, you hear me? Son, You about to feel me, don't. I don't. I don't do well with that. Joe, just terrible.

It seems like I'm trying to mess it up right right A A tell me something that did you raise your kids like that?

Yeah? You know what I mean. You have times you may yell at them, but I'm like, I'm gonna be honest with you.

I ain't you ain't. None of my kids had their ass. Oh no, but but just but just by me raising my voice, that'll be enough for some tears to come down.

You feel what I'm saying?

Yeah, when to the movies, Me and my girl, we're going to see one movie. They going to see another movie.

What you want? You know how kids are? Everybody big slushy on? Come on camp?

Yeah, I said, okay the movie. They're gonna be close in time. I said, don't get y'all. Don't y'all lead this movie.

Y'all.

Let me come back in here and get you okay, damn okay, our movies in I think I was in it my by the bed, like probably like two or three minutes after There's I'm go, I'm gonna go get them because I was down in the hall. We had Fifth Joe the movie. We down the hall on the left, and they like in the front. I see them looking, I hear them, I see them, I see them and I hear them talking. I think they went to see

I told the ass up now, I said that listen, I'm going to work out. Don't y'all lead it. Don't y'all lead these rooms.

I said, if the house on fire and the fireman come get you saying hell no, get out, shut their ass out.

I say.

My daddy said, don't leave this room bad, please, cause you don't you don't know, you don't.

I listen with the kids.

I look, I'm very particular, and I don't want nobody because I don't want to have to hurt somebody behind my kids because I will.

But from and that, and this was the.

First time they I've ever done this. I used to take the kids to the mall and and and and white people would ask me, how do you get them to do that? I'm like, I thought they were doing tricks and turning backflips or something. I said, do what man? She was like, they're so well man, or they're not running off in front of you. They're not yelling at screaming. Oh you must have got me confused with you.

I don't play that.

I wish I would be running around these people, mam, people looking at me like I'm a damn food.

Yeah.

The first thing they gonna say, man, I saw Shannon sharp boy his kids a mess. They was running all through the mall. No, sir, y'all infing to go on this store.

And be all that.

No sir, yeah, she Hey, hey Joe, I don't know about you. You know, I don't really have no problem, especially having as many as I have. Obviously, every every everybody, everybody grown now except three. I'm talking, you know, twenty seven two. I mean, everybody grown now. But I'm trying trying to think of some time when they were little. But their mother's rule was such an iron fist. Unc when they are with me, I never have no problems. And I try to get him to understand is when

And here he go.

He done jumped out the seat and I had to hit the brake and he went flying and flew past me and almost hit his head on the dashboard. Boy, I turned around and grabbed that and grabbed that collar and said, man, if you don't and I lost it a little bit. Now, obviously I had to I had to apologize. I had to apologize later because that's the first time they ever seen me get out of character. Yeah, and that was the only time. I ain't had that

I think the thing is, guys, what I had to learn, o yo, is that they were getting away with stuff. I'll let them get away with stuff because I wasn't there every day, and they started to take advantage of that.

So I had to put my foot down. So I put my foot down.

I said, okay, now what you do at your mom's house as long as you're not disrespectful. Your mom called me and say, well, you said this, and you said that, I'm gonna fly down. I'm gonna tell your ass up. You want to say, if your mom wants you to let you jump on the bed, let you run on the couch, put your feet on the dinner table.

That ain't got nothing to do. I don't run your mom household. But when you hear yeah, I wish I would catch y'all jumping on the bed. I wish I would catch you walking on the couch. I wish I would oh all that said.

You know how women like to sit with their feet crossed up and on the couch, Your damn feet on the Yeah, yeah, it's sitting up on it. You know, sitting up on the counter. Bohy wouldn't even my food that you got your ass up on that counter. Boy, you would get your gun. You would get your ass off that counter. I won't play that.

Hey, Hey, it's like by It's like my grandpa when we were little, he would never let us sit in his bed.

He said, y'all make my bed hot, make my sheets hot. When I go to.

Hey, hey, he and Joe, y'all knew it was a such thing as editutt school.

Yeah, I know school.

Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Man had to have the nerd and hit me, tell about talk about French fries and to go to Edicut school all the way in front. Man, if you don't get if you don't, get off my phone and stop playing with me, stop playing. No, no, don't don't play me. I think maybe maybe it was just to get a reaction, you know, just to see what you got to say.

Yeah, you got it. I don't know what you know, your.

Yay edits we will watch you. Don't worry about it. We're learning about etiquette on YouTube, but a.

Lot of that because that's how it was with us.

And see, people thought I was lying when I said that at the dinner table we didn't talk. And people asked, well, why you eat so fast? Because I wanted to be able to talk. You couldn't talk at the dinner table party. Mary wasn't playing that. It wasn't no, hey, you know, because we only had one TV now a kitchen, I mean slide back from the table to try to see the TV. So you try to ate one to the other, the gold watch TV. You'll eat this damn food. Yeah, damn talking at the table.

But hey, hold on, Hey, hold on, hey, Joe, hold on. The best conversation, especially family oriented conversations.

Happened.

Up. The best ass whipping you would have got, were it at the dinner table. You, I know, I know what I'm talking about. But I know OO talking about some old Thanksgiving Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, But at the table. That's grown people at the table. We on the porch eating out of pop pans. You ain't at no damn table with all the grown folks sitting at the table, eat at the good plate.

You drinking.

They got the good they got the good glasses. You drinking out of jelly jars, mayonnaise jars. That's what you drinking?

Oh what you know about that jelly?

You leave that thing in that song? The order for you straight.

You could scrape the the jelly thangise out of it. Yeah, that's what you not, man, you're not. They weren't playing that. Kids didn't sit at the dinner table. Kids got their plate and they went on the front porch. We could talk in the front ports. All the grown people were in the kitchen talk. They could talk, but you couldn't talk grown people talking like how you see kids pulling on their parents' leg and stuff.

Lord have mercy now this shoot that? Why not that? Ain't us that?

Ain't us doing that? Oden Old m m, well you you bringing back good memories. But hey, Joe, remember cream and wheat?

Yes, we had grits. We didn't eat cream oatmeal?

Oh you ain't had Okay?

What about tang tang ta? What's than? What's tang like?

Uh?

It's it's kind of like it's probably like an orange drink. It was supposed to be like a kind of like an orange juice. Yeah, I know, I know tang Yeah, I don't even know. You probably get you can get anything off the internet.

Yeah, little little drink, Joe. It was powder, but you mix it with water and it turned orange and you put too much water.

You weren't getting. But those were day Those were the days. Man. I'm looking at these kids now, all the how them kids be?

Boy, how the kids be so bad that the den at the go out to the restaurants and you took about sit down public.

Oh Lord, have mercy. Hanging food on the man.

Barney Porter said, the first time under the next time is lightning I've seen it throw itself on the floor the other day.

Oh tantrum at the marb. I'm talking about square face first on the mall.

On the floor, just acting the fool, I said, Joe black Folk, No, no, look here, Hey, hey, grandma favorite line wherever you.

Show out, that's exactly what you get, sir, my greatest shut down down on his ass.

Yeah. Yeah, hey, you already knew, man, you knew not to touch nothing. Don't ask for that.

Yeah, or they let you know before you Joe, there you go. Hey, we had back in the day. I remember on fifty fourth Street. We had a place that's called Theirs. Remember there, Yeah, remember that, man, it is super old. Before we go in here, don't touch nothing, don't ask me for nothing. Before we walk in. She stopped at the door.

Yeah, hey, hey it so soon as you get by something you like, you just staying it so she could see it.

And so she at that one time, see Bartiport, you had to have a remember you have to have you had to be like an Eliphant. People said, well, man, how you remember all that because Bartiporter told you something one time? Forget it if you want to. Yeah, you heavy head. I pushed the bugget. I ain't no, you know, I pushed it. I could barely see over the buget. I pushed the bugget man, I ran that bug on the back of grandy heels.

She reached back, and yeah, I remember that.

I remember them days. You stop. You ain't gonna hey when you that, when you're that young uncle and Joe, you have no cell phone.

You have no cellphone.

That when someone stopping in front of you, obviously you gotta stop the buggy. You ain't even paying attention.

You just.

But we were I don't even know why we're down the hour. We're all gonna get something. You weren't going shopping until Grandy got paid. So you're getting hot. You get some doughnuts, you get some chicken, she gonna get some rice. You ain't but a half of the thing you're gonna get. She gonna go up there. It's gonna she ain't gonna pay for it. She gonna put it on credit, or she might put half of us. So

She's gonna give them the ten dollars she gonna keep.

Asked for some change, cause she's gonna give me a spaking fifty cent because they're gonna pass the plate around twice on Sunday.

And we put a quarter in. What the he burt? Look here, he's I had nothing, so tick percent or nothing would have been nothing.

Hey, hey, you know you know what you always saying.

Now, you know, God don't like no, no, Well, bartie, Mary ain't had no paper.

I know that.

Hey look yeah, hey, Grandma gonna make sure you got some money. Oh yeah, you go to pump faking you want to acting like you put something down up in there and you just keep it in your hand.

Yeah, there's some times I saw some dollars and I want to take something out. I said, lord you.

Hey, you gotta be a savage to do that in church? Yeah, you look at it. But there been times I didn't want to put that fifty set in there. You know what I could have done with back in the day. Milk was a nickel of carton. Remember they had the little milks. They had chocolate, had white milk and chocolate milk. There was a nickel.

Yeah yeah, I got fifty cent. Oh yeah, you bothering man?

Please, well you know how much fifty cent was? Yes, I do for a little kid. As a shorty man, you felt like he was on top.

I remember what a can of coke was a quarter. A twelve ounce can of coat was a quarter. A hondred bun was a quarter. A bag of chips was a quarter. I remember all that.

There was penny candy. You get twenty five piece of candy for twenty five cent, You.

Get twenty five, You get the little cookies for twenty five cent, or you get like ten of those big, those big flywheel cookies.

Yeah. Absolutely remember what it was like.

Hell I remember, I remember when cigarettes was like thirty five forty pack. Now they damned the eight nine dollars a pack. People used to say, bad cigarettes. Ever, go to seventy five cent. I'm done smoking now, I ain't going to seventy five. They went to a dollar?

What they going on? Dollar? Uncle?

I remember the days where the price prices and stuff used to be used to be so so simple. Hey, joe y'all had the Candy Lady House out there where you're from, Joe Man.

Yeah, we had a dude on the corner stove and yeah, oh tell you go in there and get them little Debis snacks.

You going there with a dollar? Come out of there.

Oh at the Candy Lady House, frozen cups were nothing but a quarter. Yeah, great, frozen cup, watermelon, frozen cup, food punch, frozen.

Killing the strawberry cookies.

Sister Tillman, she had two boys. She had two sons, James and John, and she's they sold.

Yeah, oh them some good days.

Yeah, but he but see that's why I ain't got no patience. Now, granted had more patience papa, and Papa had zero patience.

Zero. He just expected. He just ain't teaching nothing. I mean.

And libvit, libvit. Libby was the oldest. He believed Livy hung the moon. If you told him my sister didn't hung hang the moon, you probably had to fight it. Libby wrote the checks, Libby signed his name for the report cards. Libby did anything that needed to be done. Yeah, everything, Libby did it. Because Libby was the old Libby was the oldest girl. I mean he trusted Libby. All my uncles the same way, Furnil, James, h B. J. Furman, all of them. They needed something. Libby read this.

Just tell me what this say because she understand that she had patience.

Me.

I like.

Y'all, but she she she got patients. Libby got all of me us three, She's by far the most patient. Then comes thanking y'all already know I ain't got none. I ain't even gonna hold it if it hold you none. We got some updates, Oh Joe, Joe, Luke and Austin Reed from Cham's. Lakers are not expecting Luca to return

I saw you boy, you saw your boy carside joke, I see, I see you all they're doing you want.

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Yeah, you had a good time. You had a good good time. You know they like what you being. Man, we missed you.

Did they ask you about me?

No?

They said, man, why o your Why old you do Joe like that?

Oh?

Man?

They where? I mean, that's way out there. It's Southern cam asking why you do that?

Man? Whole world, the whole world.

No, you know we're famous now, so you know the word travel.

Hey a hey, I like what I've seen from the Lakers. Oh yeah, I'm gonna tell you who. They giving him credit, but they ain't giving them enough credit if you asked me. And that's uh market smart job doing ok market?

KD?

I think I know, I know they throwing the double teammate KD. But the times that he do get matched up with in one on one, he wins more than absolutely you know what I mean. He is a he is a great defender.

Bro.

He he's he's shorter than KD, but he got long homes, you know what I mean. And he has great anticipation skills and I think you know, I mean even think back through the regular season when when the Lakers played the Rockets, they've got the better of them with this strategic defensive mechanism that they're doing against them, and that's trapping KD, making him a passer, making him a willing passer, because they don't believe none of the other guys and as.

Of right now, they haven't been able to ree Shepherd can't get minutes. The other guys are not great enough shooters. And at some point in time they're gonna have to move the ball because it's like KD had it going, and then everybody else want to get involved with it. Let me get let me get mine, Let me get mine, let me get mine. And it plays right into the Lakers hands because they ain't got nobody cutting. They got nobody dive into the brim. Everybody standing, I mean, hell,

Want to move? I mean, y'all blocking my view?

But I appreciated right here because ain't nobody cutting towards the rim.

And it is that Kate. They got. Katie's so hot, so far out, he's not a threat, but.

Ain't nobody else moving, And so when he turns his back Marcus mart getting the ball, or that's why he has nine turnovers. You go back and look at a lot of his games, he have seven turnovers. Him play the Lakers, he had six turnovers because they're forcing him to be a passer. He he, that's not what he is. He's a scorer, an elite, one of the greatest of all time. Man watching him last night and just watch how the effortless. I'm like, man, that's ridiculous. It don't

Joe, Oh, Joe, he getting that spot. There's a round hey once she go up. Hey.

But when you look at the Lakers game plan, I like that game plan, okay, Ojoe? Meaning they got him thinking so much now because he wanted to get into his bag, but he know as soon as he go to getting into it, it's that nobody come into coming. So now it's kind of got him off rhythm. That's why you see it. What nine turnos because he second guesses himself a lot when he goes into his move, because it's natural for him now because like every time I go into my move, it's another dude. It's another

I remember him. He was at Duke Joe, Oh Joe.

I've never seen this guy put the ball on the floor more and attack like he is right now.

You can run him off the three.

If you won't, he will put the ball on the floor and he'll get all the way to the rim, or he'll stop and pop.

The mid range.

Hey, listen, when I hear him talk, man, it's preparation meeting opportunity.

You know you got you got your too.

You got two of your best scorers out, two of two of your best ball handlers, and now it's an opportunity for somebody on that team to step up and be a big playmaker, scorer, what have you? And bro, he answered the bell both games like he man, I'm talking about they ain't just been the playoffs though he's been.

Since he came boy Atlanta. I don't know what y'all was thinking. Y'all gave us Luke Canardi, y'all took, gave Vinson, Thank you. It wasn't gonna It wasn't gonna work like that over here. Come on, it wasn't gonna work, that's all. I don't give it that high will work. Y'all wanted it. Gave vinc he gonna help, he gonna he gonna playoff game, but.

Got DJ Hey hey, hey, oh Joe, he feeling good about yeah?

Oh yeah, hey listen, he was hey. He had his feet on the wood too, so you know he's feeling goody And also you know what we expect this from him. You know, he's showing how versatility is Lebron Yeah, man, listen, being able to defer and allow all some reason Luca to do what they did all season long and based on circumstance. Now, let me show y'all, I can still lead a team even at forty one years old. Let me show you my IQ where I can always be

Because it's easy. Yeah, it's easier. It's easier. It's much easier to hate to appreciate someone.

They won't appreciate till he going though.

But I just go to show you if Lebron James was on a team and he was the number one option, this is what he'd be doing if he think about it every twenty twenty seven and six as a third option. Imagine if he's the first option or even the second option, because remember last year the second option he gave you twenty four he gave you twenty four, he gave you twenty four, he gave you twenty four point nine, seven and seven or twenty four, eight and seven as the

Yeah, he's he's still consistently. His productivity is great. I think.

I think he really relished in this moment Uncle Ojo. Yeah, you meaning that they were then underdog coming into this series. Everybody's talking about they ain't have a chance like him coming out playing the way he's been playing, you know, asserting himself, taking the initiative to you know, try and sit in that chair and guard and playmake and score. Hey man, I've been in press, bro I've been in press.

Hey Joe, what are you talked about? I don't care now about No. Eight for twenty fourteen free throw a team. Let me know what, he'll grasp it. There you goss it.

There you go, putting putting pressure, putting pressure on the rockets to be able to try and stop him. If not that, it's different when you say Lebron or willing pass. I think passing is a is a great attribute to his and he does it. He does it better than anybody, Uncle Uncle Ojo. And if guys are making shots, then it just makes him look good.

You feel what I'm saying.

It's just when they're not making shots now we're like, all right, man, you gotta score the ball. But I think he does a great job man and figuring those guys out making plays for everybody. And still at this big age forty one bro still being effected the way it is because.

I'm gonna be honest. They don't got nobody who can guard him. He ain't got nobody with no bricks in their back pocket. They got limb but they don't have. They don't have, they don't have, They don't have the size to wait because he gonna back Hey, he gonna back up down and say, okay, y'all gonna come to the double team. I said, take your time, and you watching, hen't coming. He looking around, He studied, going height to

But boy, listen, if they just so happened be able to get up out of this round and Luke and them come back.

Against Okac. Yeah.

What the difference is is that if you notice yesterday Lebron had the ball in his hand, because you want Lebron can control the game. He's not gonna let you get up and down now, sir, it ain't gonna be no quick shots.

He gotta he wanted to control the game. Hey he was.

Ay, even if Marcus Mark or Canard break the ball up, Hey, go ahead, take it up, flow it down. We got Let's not let's not get into an up and down. We don't need to get into a up and down. But yeah, they they I think he do. He do a great job with that basically just playing point guard.

If you listen, if Marcus Smart gonna give you a fishing twenty five points, you ain't got and they probably gonna win every game if he gonna play like that, if.

Luke and Marcus market because you remember Luke Canard had twenty.

Seven mm hmm, yeah, then Marcus twenty three lands, it's because Lebron had twenty eight, I think. But I think the thing is what's most impressive is that the job that Marcus Smart and that defense did on KD in the second half, they only held them to three per three points and he got two of the threat with about a minute and a half to go in the ball game.

Yeah, yeah, I agree. Marcus Smart has been I think one.

Of the biggest keys for the Lakers, especially defensively. But man, their whole team be on a string. Ok ojo. When they go for that double team on KD. You gotta see how guys rotate, because when you rotate just for a split second, somebody got to take two guys for like a split second until you come up out of it. And once you know that bro and you and and the way they're able to make it effective. It's like they making Houston take rough shots, take shots that they

Yea, all that Lakers, all it is is gonna have to speed it. Got to speed up KD in his thinking process. That's all he speed it up. Once you get that ball instead of going into your bag, be able to know what's coming before it even comes, already know who you're outlet is understanding that the trap is coming. I mean, that's the only way to beat him. I could be wrong, Joe.

What you think Man's And that's the problem with not having the lead guard because listen, once he give it up, he know that damn ball ain't coming back to him, right, I'm saying. So, he ain't gonna get many many spot up shots all his shots. Yeah, he got hot early, but you see how hard he got to work to get a shot. You feel what I'm saying, Like he got to go through Marcus Smart who being physical, and then he know when to finess him. You feel what

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