let me make this point about brooklyn uh
that i that i brought up last hour
and i said it sounds like hayden but
it's not
okay you know how i feel about james
harden as a basketball player
i still don't understand them but
people say he's a top three player which
i find very funny
because if i give you two lakers if i
give you two lakers
top three is right that's that's
debatable top three is debatable i think
he's i think he's safely in the top five
to seven
safely i think okay then so you
forgot about kawhi and others that's
that's okay that's right that's all
right
i don't want to get distracted james
harden
31. kevin durant
32 and coming off a an
injury that is devastating to a lot of
people
for a lot of people they're never the
same after rupturing their achilles let
and he said again ruptured achilles
for kevin durant and death sentence
you've got
what once was and then you got cool yeah
then you got kyrie you got kyrie
it's not an age thing it's a sacrifice
it's a sacrifice thing he left cleveland
because he didn't want to do that
now he's being asked to do that his game
kyrie and kevin durant that makes a lot
of sense because
there's no overlap and you have two
ball dominant scores that could work
three
ball dominance scores somebody's got to
sacrifice i'm just saying mike that
this could be if these got the
difference between
championship level in brooklyn and
flopping in round two in brooklyn
is all about perspective and attitude
from those guys that's what number two
you see this is yeah this is great
it's so good
i think perspective and attitude is one
i think two is
will kevin durant be the same i i know
people have said he looks great
will he be the same dominant player as
he was before
this major injury is that hating or is
that is that fair
is that fair analogy no those are all
fair questions those are all fair
questions and maybe
listen uh our our third brother from
another
we might have to make room for a third
star on this team benny goodwill be
holding us down
vinnie text me at 3 21 and he said if
i'm brooklyn i wouldn't take harden
and i hesitate to call vinnie and say
come on the show right now because we
we i don't want to overwork vinny more
than he already is and uh
and and but he's got a day job and he's
coming on the show later this week
uh he didn't explain anything else um
okay he didn't say anything else he just
said he just he didn't
get there here earmark let's let's
bookmark that vinny
yeah here's the thing i want you to
elaborate on that
those are all legit questions but
my answer to that would simply be that
everything you illustrated is why they
need to go get hardened
um so alan's contract
he's got he's on a rookie contract right
allen's contract is
is not going to be as attractive as it's
been
as it as it is for much longer dinwiddie
i believe can be a free agent
after uh next year
um levert and i i forget laverse
contract status
i guess what i'm saying is like setting
aside whether or not it is
i think he's just starting an extension
setting aside
whether or not that's enough for houston
along with draft picks
just set that aside for a second if
you're brooklyn
you absolutely do this because while
yes you know they have two stars but you
just laid out
one of the reasons why they could use a
third and that
that is is durant going to be
what he was pre-injury and
not just is he going to be what he was
pre-injury but what happens if one of
those stars
is injured along the way it just helps
there's depth but if you could have
superstar depth that's even better
and for me man i just i'm again i said
it at the risk of being repetitive
i believe it's a long time i believe
that people can change
i believe that people can change or that
people can adapt when motivated
number one kevin durant is as efficient
a scorer as this game has ever seen
i would not call him ball dominant if
anything
he's almost unselfish to a fault he fits
seamlessly into that golden state
offense
and they never missed the beat which
again that's part of his attraction
and that's part of his attraction to
steve nash incorporating some of those
principles
he doesn't need to pound the rock and
play iso ball he doesn't want to
mention what i understand i forgot about
steve nash but
but go ahead we get him in a second yet
but he doesn't he doesn't need to do
that in order to get his
okay not to mention he's already won
rings rings that he knows
people you talked about him being
sensitive in his burner accounts rings
that he knows
people still assign an asterisk to
because they came with golden state even
though
they don't win it without him they don't
beat lebron they got him to beat them
right and and it's not like he was just
like some little
random passenger on golden state's uh
championship train uh finals mvp a
couple of times
yes they needed him i i don't i think i
this this is where i'm really going to
go on a limb and maybe maybe he'll make
me look foolish and that's fine it won't
be the first time i look foolish
i don't know that kyrie teams up with
kevin durant
or helps recruit james harden or at
least doesn't stand in the way of
recruiting james harden
if he's not intent on sharing you know i
i think
and and james look you listen man and
james last but not least
james you said people can change you did
say people can change okay go ahead
and j and j last but not least james
harden
didn't always play this way
he played this way because this was the
way that the rockets needed to play
this is the way that mike d'antoni
coached him to play but james did not
play this way
early in his career and pre-mike
d'antoni
earlier and he was successful that way
he worked out
and he was successful even preaching
about james harden coming out of the
bench
coming up to this whole time his whole
time in houston he wasn't he didn't play
like this
his whole it got worse as time went on
quote unquote worse
and and his and his power than the rock
got worse his time went all maybe maybe
maybe i revision his history he didn't
always play this way because this isn't
always how their offense
functioned it got progressively more
isolation heavy
as time went on i believe he could
adjust not to mention his skill set
says that he can adjust all they got to
do
all of these and i i believe that
they'll be committed to it
all of these guys can do it yes they can
and it sounds good now will they be able
to do it when
when they all come together and the
other question is
do they want to be coached or was that
just something to say on a podcast
if i'm steve nash i'm very nervous i'm
very nervous about this group
i'm not intimidated by stars i was a
star when i played
i've played i've coached stars before
i've been around stars
that's not the issue the issue is
do they want to be coached i think most
great players
do so they go through a period where
they say they don't
but that usually accompanies a lot of
one and dones
two and dones missing the playoffs just
not achieving the career success that
they
they need and then they crave that i'm
not saying structure
but i'm saying that smart voice that
pushes back that smart voice that says
you're good but you can be even better
if you do this and they listen
kyrie didn't sound like kyrie and kevin
durant didn't sound like they wanted
that
that's a big question i believe you need
that
iron sharpening iron you need somebody
who's gonna say
yeah that's good but you could be better
oh that's all right but i don't think
you made the right call there
if steve nash i think steve nash can't
do that
will they allow him to do it well big
question
she said steve nash they've assembled an
all-star cast
uh as a coach of a coaching staff so i
i'm gonna forget somebody that kept
jacques vaughn oh and the aforementioned
mike d'antoni
is on the staff in brooklyn so i'm sure
that's that's some attraction
for james harden amari stoudemire uh i
believe joined steve nash as a coach so
they got they got some guys
it's like you know like a phoenix they
got a lot of rockets
a lot of credibility yeah they got a lot
of credibility but you're right is there
that one
person that's going to be able to
command
all of these stars respect yeah that
remains to be seen
that remains to be seen man but i guess
it's like you know let's go back to the
the sensitivity they all
they're all they all got rabbit ears to
a certain extent
you know we know directly here's the
good thing about it can i just say real
quick about that
about sensitivity it's it's great
that they're in a small media market and
they don't have to worry about it
they're going to be eating alive they're
going to be eating alive
[Laughter]
come on you can't be sensitive and be
in brooklyn i'm from brooklyn certain
stuff we don't do
okay hey listen so hopefully they're
listening to everything that we're
saying
and people are saying and the skepticism
that's out there
all right and if nothing else man
i'll just appeal to their egos you know
and i'll appeal to the athlete instinct
to want to prove people wrong
so i've been you know i i'm old school
you remember the
1974 black sport
black exploitation classic three to hard
way
jim brown jim kelly fred williamson it's
like look man
y'all watching i don't want to make no
but i've been thinking about it you know
trying to be you know three to hard way
harden you know
um i gotta they nice yeah they
um they wanna do they wanna do something
memorable
they wanna if they wanna be they wanna
get
if harden in particular wants to get
what durant and kyrie have and what's
escaped him to this point got all the
scoring titles all the individual
accolades been an mvp
all right you want to get what they got
what you don't have
you sacrifice you're kevin durant you
coming off an injury
you still think you got something to
prove because
it wasn't your team in golden state you
joined the ready-made team
you were a snake that that's what people
call them
not my words their words twitter's words
you were a snake
you caught you took the easy route to
golden state you haven't done it on your
own
be a leader show them show them the way
kyrie irving you're a knucklehead you're
a flat earther
you're you're a coach killer people
don't think you're a good teammate
you roll lebron's coattails be a leader
they've all been great
individually put it to you this way
michael again i mean they i may be
that's i i tend to be naive sometimes i
look for the best of people put it to
you this way man
if this happens if this goes down if
this goes down and
selfishness stops them from succeeding
then all of them deserve all the slander
from now to the end of time because
there's no reason for it
because what else do you have to do
individually what else do any of you
have to prove individually
your greatness is being is above
reproach so why would you let
your desire to to to hog the ball
and to get in your bag and to show that
you can make making take big
shots kyrie do you really have to take
every every big shot you did it we know
you could do it
kevin durant we know you can do it james
arden well not so much
but right and i say don't nonetheless
no eagles should not get in the way of
this don't be that leader
don't be a leader i don't want anybody
to go in there be organic
don't go in there trying to be a leader
because if
you don't have leadership qualities then
that would be a disaster and the other
thing is
you just lead by example and the other
thing i hate kevin durant
i'm on your side don't never apologize
for winning a championship just because
you got a superstar team
no championship is easy no championship
is given
you didn't jump there knowing you're
going to win two finals
and he didn't apologize for your
arrangement he didn't ride anybody's
coattails
no he was the best team
he was the best player on the team hey
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