Welcome back to 12 Sports night.
Cameron Cox. Coming to you live
on the road in Los Angeles,
you know the last time I was in this city,
something pretty special happened.
I watched the Suns knock both the Lakers
and the Clippers out of the playoffs.
Yes, it was pretty sweet.
The sons, of course,
began their road back to the NBA Finals this
past week to kick tip off training camp,
or, as Monty Williams puts it,
this is our heart and everything
we want is on the other side of it.
And tonight Sunday conversation.
We are one on one with Suns head coach Monty.
Williams he is all about family,
so it's only fitting this
conversation starts talking about his.
We have a 10 minute rule after every game.
You know I got 10 minutes to talk
about whatever I saw in the game
and be upset in anything like this.
This went right is I can lose it.
I can pat him on the back,
you know, but I got 10 minutes.
And once that 10 minutes is up,
I take him to get something
to eat and we go home.
I had to put that rule in because I
was just too much and my oldest son.
I could see it on his face before
the 10 minute rule I was gonna
lose him 'cause he was gonna either
run away or punch me in the mouth
'cause he was getting tired of it.
You know how come down come down?
Did you ever imagined?
Kind of the spot you're in,
it just seems like a perfect fit.
This franchise needed a leader,
both needed each other in a way,
you're me more so.
Needing that this organization.
Just because I wasn't quite sure I
was gonna get another opportunity
to coach to be apart of. Rebuild.
It's kind of more of a retooling
when you have a guy like book.
You don't rebuild,
you just kind of put people around
him and and then to have DeAndre
sitting right there ready to
blossom to do it with James to
be in a position to be a part of
helping people view Robert the
way that he needs to be viewed.
I take that seriously.
I've needed the organization in this city.
More than it needs me
coach you mentioned took you a
little while to kind of get over the
loss of the finals. I think it kind
of took the city a little while.
It's it's, you know, it's I.
I often think about it, coach.
There was so much fun to go through.
I mean it was so cool to
lookout see the people,
the energy 'cause like those are moments
that people are connected with forever.
The fan base here has wanted a
team to rally around and support
and root for you gave him that.
Well I hope that we have given them
that now that some of the restrictions
have lifted you get to go out a
little bit more and you know even
though you have a mask on people.
And kind of see you know that I
think that's the coach you know.
And those are cool moments when
you're out in the public and.
An older person will walk up
to you or you're at church,
and the older person will talk
about what it means to have a
team that they're proud of.
Move forward to this year.
I mean what? How are you different?
I think when you go through the deep hurt,
whether it's basketball, life in general,
it expands your capacity to grow.
I'm hopeful that that
happened for me and our team.
It's probably helped me to let
my guard down a little bit more,
because when you go that far you
realize it's really not about you.
It's about everybody around you that
allows for you to be the best version.
Love yourself
in a way you have your
own book of sayings now.
Congratulations by the way,
what's this year?
It's nothing like a choreographed.
You know what I mean?
It comes from in here.
I hope so I ask you to help me
with the words that I say because
they're important and I don't want my
words to be a detriment to anybody.
It's something that I pray about
that I'd say the right thing at the
right time for the right person.
But we are going to preach
excellence this year.
When I first got here, we talked about
the conditioning test and and how.
We all needed to condition ourselves to,
you know, improve,
and then last year it was relentless.
And this year it's going to be excellence.
The ability to do common things
uncommonly well for long periods of time.
We flew back.
From game six,
every player that I talked to they just
kept talking about the details book
came to the back of the plane where
the coaches were and and he was just,
you know, he had that look on his face.
It was like mine,
you know we we got so close.
We were so tired.
And you know, I asked him.
I said, young Buck, would you learn he?
I think he said verbatim.
He said the details, coach.
And that stuck with me.
You have to take those things
seriously every day and so to do that,
you have to approach it with a level
of excellence, not perfection,
but excellence.
The next level of who you are as
a player and as a person, and.
You know, that's that's my goal.
This year is to try to help us
get to that next level.