Evaluating the Talented Rookie Class

comoming up on this episode of Mind the Game I get some span questions on. Yes dance a lot. Just a few. Forceed. In nineteen ninety six you were drafted fifteen. Do you feel like you should have onone hire Well first was thirty years ago How does LeBron come up with all these handshakes? And how does he remember them all People want to know. Were there times when you thought negatively or had doubts about yourself? And how did you manage those thoughts in order to win? How do you guys go about taking accountability with your teammates and staff while still upholding your confidence and leadership But we haven't talked about Chris Maul. retiring. We are late and apologies. So in the eighth grade, I got a couple stories. So in the eighth grade. This episode is sponsored by American Express. With Amx Platinum, enjoy a range of premium travel, dining, and entertainment benefits all backed by American Express's award winning service. There's nothing like Platinum Well, speaking of cool ones, we're late on this, but we haven't talked about Chris Paul retiring. We are late and apologies. apologies. He one of the very best point guards players to play in our league, play our game Wh Where do you start? CP three? Man, I mean, AU basketball So in the eighth grade, I got a couple stories. So in the eighth grade in Orlando, Florida at the worldwide sports, there was AU national tournament there. My AU ball club was there. And in the final four, it was Our team, Southern Cow All stars, I believe they were It was Chris Paul, it was Chris Paul's team. I think they would have maybe Carolina Hornets maybe. I could be wrong about their name and one other team in the final four. And there would have been a chance that we met them in the finals, but they lost in the semies. We end up losing the Southern California all stars. They were the best team, but I saw him there. D didn't get an opportunity to meet him, whatever case may be, obviously I didn't know him. we were fourteen years old Fast forward to my senior in high school We're playing in Greensboro, North Carolina during HBCU weekend and there's a tournament down there. Our high stam is the same M goes down there and we're playing a team out of North Carolina. And after the game, Chris Paul comes we win we win that game and Chris Paul comes into the locker room and that's the first time I officially met him Um, I was seventeen, I think he was sixteen. He was the best point guard in North Carolina at the time. And I believe he was playing in that tournament. I believe his high school played in that tournament, but he came to the locker room. we met. and from then on It kind of sed like a friendship. too us playing in a McDonald's game together, to me supporting him while he was at Wake Force, to him coming into the league Olympic team Olympic teammates. I mean, it's incredible what he was able to do in all the stops that he was in in New Orleans with the cllippers, obviously, I think his jerseys going to be raised with the cllippers someday. you know, even his short time in Houston you know, making an impact there his finals appearance with Phoenix, you know, and so on and so on and, um He's definitely going to go down as one of the best pointgarders has ever played his game, one of the most fierce competitors ever played his game. And to add ice into the cake His daughter and my daughter happen to be best friends. No way. Really? I didn't know that. And that's pretty cool.. They hang out all the damn time.. So that's pretty cool.. Cameron is a year or two older than my daughter, but they're super close But, um Man, what an unbelievable career. Well, I want to keep talking about Chris B. Yeah. All that means less than the daughter' being I mean like it At the end of the day, you hoop and you do everything you can, you try to get better, you try to compete. Yeah. when you have a competitor, a contemporary family has become friend. Yeah, man, absolutely. It's pretty special, man. You know, I think of like, you know a couple of his stories, like his individual stories, like what he did in high school when his grandfather passed away. sixty sixty sixty three, I believe or sixty two, something like that. You know, that moment, you know, you know, the moments that he had at Wake Fst, the moments that he had in New Orleans, I just think about all his moments, his personal moments you know, I think about the Spur series when he was with the Clippers when he was playing with the hamstring, but he makes the floater over Tim Duncan high off the glass. you know, It's just ye. yeah, I'll be sing here. whole the wholero about Chris B because I have so many stories, but And they shout out, you know, Chris Paul and u And now he gets to sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor and enjoy his career and he could be full time cliff fall. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah the real cliff Yeah, yeah, he can throw that thick mustache. I want to be a full time cliff fall, but in all serious is his incredible career. Incredible career Pint guard to point guard is, you know rightight up there with any of the greats I played played against Stockton, Kid, Payton, I mean, he's amazing. I remember I think it was his rookie year. I didn't know what to expect.. I think you might have had forty and I had thirty six or something went like toe to toe and I can't really remember, but I was like, o, yeah, he can play Yeah Really, really play. And then, you know, just build this career on, you know, combination of IQ, skill, toughness.. And you know, the skill was was elite, right? But like what I respect as much as that is like the toughness. that's the stuff when you finish playing for me remember and appreciate is people's competitive n of toughness moreore than things that they happen to be able to do. Right. And he loved the game. He loved to compete and lo to fight and all that stuff. So fame next,'sameame. And truly truly one of the all time great point cards easy. so shhout out to CP three. 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Taking it back. Just get your thoughts here. I had a little hair. Had a little hair? a little hair But here we go. So they come down, they're going to go high screen and roll, Victtor E the Depot.. You recognize what they're going to and pre switch. So you have a bonus and you can take the match up and take away their advantage and pick and roll. So now Victor isolates you. He actually gets you Yeah But that's why you took the switch. You didnt you close the speed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. mean First of all, shout Victor the Depot because I mean, that year, wow, was he was amazing. He was electric. But yeah, I figured they, you know, they we scouted him a lot. a lot of their late game situation, it was, you know, Victor and Sonus. either if you didn't switch you was able to get S bonus in a pocket, which was really good So I wanted to pre switch it because I didn't want him to bring Kal Colver up into a pick and roll to get that switch or any one of the other guys out there to be completely honest. I feel like, you know, Jeff Green, I would trust on that. Lry Nance is Juli pretty good too, but it's M Mo. It it's your best player versus our best player. and, you know, for me to kind of make that that block was it was a huge huge block Huge block But I think what's interesting about that a little bit is These are the adjustments that happen in the playoffs. Now they need to try to adjust that you're going to pre switch. So now they have to move the potato and say you can't just pre switch Exactly. And these are the things that go on players what makes it really difficult is how can we get it that they can't get LeBron or Larry Nance or whoever their better primitive defendterers are in the pick and roll. So that's playoff basketball you got them that night. the next night they're going to say how do we get our screen are coming out the you manipulate the games? Space move the potatoes so that we've got the worst defender getting in the pig and roll So. But you got them on that one All right, and then off the stop. You read the play, you got the match up, Th seconds left in boundnce In time Series two two. Tide the series two two That's a pivotal at home. Yeah, at home. No went two after that. Otherwise you on the road down. Yeah. Otherwise we go and they have' been playing great basketball. They was confident vers us You know, you have beat us twice already and Listen, that's just a game five you you you definitely don't want to lose game five at home and go to somebody else's building being down three to Indiana is a great place in the postseason to play, you know, play off basketball and they're super loud. but Well this yeah, that's that's important part. But this play basically like you think about two sides. So they try to get Victor in a ball screen so that he could get on the worst defensender Mhm you actually blew it up by switching ont to him making a great defensive play. And then this essentially again, looking for a little rub screen here. They try to keep their match upp. Yeah and even Bogie trying to shadow me, but I made one moveie in and just dipped out. and ye, got And see this is the thing that I think is interesting for fans You can be clever, but you can't have multiple passes late in game. It's too big of a risk. It's can we get the ball to our best player and let them make a play under our conditions, right? So for you in this situation, you got your catch. Now let's get everyone as flat as possible in space and Just wasust hard, hard dribble to get them to separate. I just trusted the word right there right there. In this situation, what why the three ball here? wereere you just thinking, were you feeling good? Were you Yeah. I just feelelt like, you know, that was just a rhyth that's a great I had a great rhythm to that dribble there like. Yeah. Space to explode. And you know, I had a great rhythm and I was able to get that left right down and that ball just popped in my hand. I was like, it's time to rise. It's time to rise and Yeah, that was fun fun time. Nothing like it in the playoffs. That was nothing like it. A walk off, a walk off in the playoffs is insane.'s. Th some fan questions. Yeah, let's get some fan questions on. J damance a lot. Just a few. Brona Game, wow, he hates you clearly. Brona game on X. O X When a defense starts overheling on you, what's the first adjustment you personally make before the coach calls anything? I think this is a simple question for you Yeah, when be it starts overh helping on. justust make the right play. I mean, B best during life experience I've always talk about that. So you I've always being in situations and I kind of know how to react to certain defenses or whatever the case may be And, um A lot of times I am manipulating the defense by either driving towards a defender, knowing that I'm going get someone to step up towards me or eyes going to be on me, knowing I'm to get my guy shot or if I'm running a pic and roll, you know, and I have a great roller, then I know the bottom guy on the defense is going to, you know attract in and I can get my guy on the weak side a shot. So it's just about like You know, knowing the defense the coverages that the defense is in, but also knowing the the magnet that you have. You know, if you have the ability to attract eyes and multiple bodies, you kind of, you know where your outlets are. So I've been fortunate enough to be in those positions. So yeah, the first adjustment the first adjustment that I personally make is literally just Wing a game, you know, it could be from one play. I can one run the play one play, see how they played and come right back to knowing what I'm going to do the next play just on the fact of how they reacted. Sure. You're always great at making adjustments like that. But I think like to the question, I think one been in opposition having played against you, having watchhed you play things clelearly you try to do with your skill level size IQ is try to pull the defense. whether it's driving at them to get too as tight to you as possible or letting them get as close to you as possible, throwing over their ear, shoulder so that now your teammate has as much space as possible, right? So that's a natural innate thing that you do is to try to crereate as much space, not just o they're coming, let me throw it to my teammate. No Let him get all the way to me and then deliver over his shoulder something that you always did that allowed your teammate to have acres of space rather than you know, catching and they recover. right? So I think that's an important thing is like how skillful can you be? How well can you read? How good is your timing to be able to invite as much pressure as possible, but still be able to release the ball and have your teammate have more more time I was great. Great question. Mine is at Hollyside on YouTube for Steve. In nineteen ninety six you were drafted to fifteen. Do you feel like you should have gone higher? And how was your team workouts and what teams did you work out for? man, Well, first of all it was thirty years ago. I worked out for I mean, I think I went to twelve plus teams. I went to almost the half the league like all over the country, you know, still in school, graduating all that stuff, crazy. first question, not necessarily think I should have gone higher. Like I was I always had a growth mindset. like I gott to improve. I got to get better. So for me, I was like I just want to get there and then prove that I can keep going. That was the biggest thing for me. Worouts went well, you know? Obviously. Yeah, workouts went well. I mean workouts went well, did my thing, did some workouts on your own, some workouts with other guys. someome workouts to one on one, some workouts five on five W pretty well Did well in the desert cllassic? They don't have that anymore. It was like desertass. The Desert classic was in Phoenix ironically, but basically it was like the top it was If Portsmouth was like the lowest one Phoenix at the time desesert Classic was like kind of the more elevated one B So That went well. I think I made the all tournament team there kind of cemented myself as a first round pick went fifteenth, but I always was like I'm just getting started.. I'm just getting you started it' up That that was my m. Toy hunter On X How does LeBron come up with all these handshakes? And how does he remember them all U peopleeople want to know. Yeah I have no fucking idea. I have no idea. Some of the handshakes are like I kind of like try to learn my teammates over the course of time, like early on, I'll kind of like what they're into, what they like, you know, things of that nature so like. rightight now like my teammate don't connect. L we have a handshake where we, you know, we kind of dap up and then at the end we kind of throw like a ball and arrow. and I kind of Got that because of how well he shoots the ball. So it was like when, you know, last year when he was a rookie, I think he won game. He had like thirty se in one of our games and I was just like just he fucking flamethrower. Not because of Dominic Solani, Striker for Striker for Sdom? No, no, not Not at all. Not at all. Not at all Um, but also like, um Some of them is just like off the top of the head. like I don't even I've been doing it for so long. I don't even know come me my best friends, we've been together for what since we were eight years old. We've had handshakes since we were young and I got teammates that I was like teammates in like two thousand eight that got hand like It I don't know. I'm so old, I don't even know what're talking about right. It's this just weird that I could remember a lot of these. I mean, I got handshakes with. You still remember once from like two thousand eight? Yeah. Yeah, ye, ye. Yeah it's weird It sl is time consuming Brain cells. It's very time consuming. I need to stop Sandwth. I need to stop. I need to stop. But it's cool. It's cool. I don't know. Good. a question. I have no idea how I remember him. A John on IG With three Y's. Can you watch film after a game? Hey Hey, Joham U when you watch film after a game What is the first theme that you critique about your own performance? That's a great question. question. It's been a long time for me. I think usually when you go into a film session, if you're watching film, you already have an idea. Yeah. So you're already biased about something. But if you're not biased, I think that what's more interesting is like sometimes when you have a good game And you watch film How wasn't as good as you thought. Yeah. I agree U I think for me, I mean, second, second there exactly what you say. I think for me like is some of the games when I'm like like super passive or Super passive in a sense of when it when I've had high turnover games. And it's because it was because I was too passive, you know, Casual. Yeah, just super casual, you know, And those are some of the games that like like a lot of people see when I come to the bench grab I grab a stats sheet, you know, from our one of our sister coaches. the first thing I look at our is my my personal Tovers you know, And then I kind of look at the polls and teams office of rebounds and their fast break pointints. And the reason for that is like those are like effort plays. Like are we boxing out? orre we getting defens of rebounds? then are we getting back in transition? But the first thing I look at is my turnovers. So that's kind of one of the one things that I kind of critique myself on when I'm having non aggressive turnovers. Like if I'm being aggressive, I'm going to the hole, you know, I try to make a skip pass to my teammate get a turnover or if I go to the hole and I get stripped or whatever it's a turnover, I'm okay with those. But it's the ones that's like unforced turnovers or just not just not being aggressive, not reading reacting or decisive Yeah it's not decisive onees. So I would say that be Yeah ye, I think it's sometimes you play so many games. there's nights where you almost fool with the game. Right? You know, like say you get into this mode of like trying stuff or thinking you can get away with stuff and it never really works. works out. N never works. It never works out. Yeah I can of relate to that. All right So let's let's go to playayoff Chris twenty three. Great handle. LeBron, you've always been a selfless guy in your career. Steve, me too. I'tise that third person? Steve too. How do you guys go about taking accountability with your teammates and staff while still upholding your confidence and leadership It just because of the territory being a leader You're a leader and guys look for your leadership, and guys you know run through a wall for you The least thing you can do is be accountable, hold yourself accountable take accountability when you mess up or you not feeling like you've done your job and even more, like when you think you could have done more. And maybe you could have, but you still feel that responsibility. So this thing a responsibility of just being a leader. How do you handle it as far as keeping your teammates accountable? L finding the right balance between their confidence? Y, is you have to Every You have to learn your teammates over the course of time, and I think that's what the regular season is all about, unless you've spent multiple years with one teammate or whatever But you have to know how to talkal and approach each and every teammate differently depending on the outcome that you want to get out of it also, u There's teammates that you can, you know be in their face and, you know, what the fuck are you doing moments, right in their face in the moment. There's teammates you got to pull them to the side and pull them away from the coaches and the players. There's teammates that you could like, you know go all hell storm for and then react to that. So you have to understand and take time to learn your teammates and what and how how to get the best out of them depending on how you say it. because at the end of the day, it' not sometimes it's not what you say, it's how you say it Yeah But you know, you have to you have to have that responsibility too. Yeah, I mean, I think if you're boughtght in, you're authentic, you are your teammates believe in you. they know your motives are pure. you have more leeway. The other part for me was always Like developing relationship to your teammate, that aren't basketball. L getting to know where they're from, what their family's like, all that stuff, that allows you some equity to like have harder conversations, right You're up. Do I want to ask a question directly to you or try to find one that was No, this is a good one at Spirrus Tesemus I hope I said that correctly. That's a kindle of a Sirus TZomus on YouTube This's a good question for both of us. Were there times where you thought negatively or had doubts about yourself? And how did you manage those thoughts in order to win? It's a great question. I don't wantan to say negatively. That's a very strong word, but doubts for sure. Yeah. There's no way the human mind in competitive sports or life in general today, you just don't have doubt And that's okay Yeah. And I think for me, how you manage those thoughts is by one If whatever that you're doing, whatever field that you're in and ours happen to be professional sports, if you know that you're giving the time to the process and you're putting in the work in order to get the results, then You're okay with whatever happens. The win, the loss, the draw, whatever the case may be Uncomfortable nights would happen if you did not put in work and you're not seeing results That is more self doubt than anything. because you were expecting results from things that you haven't put into the work. But yes, I mean, everyone has self doubts. It doesn't matter what field that you're in You could be a stay at home mom, you could be somebody that's working NASDAC, you could be a professional basketball player, you could be a nurse, a doctor. Everyone's gonna have human. You're human But I think the one common goal and everybody I'll just Just mention if they've put in the work and time on their craft, then the self doubt will trickle his way out more often than not. It also helps to have a support system too. I think that's very. That's a good point. That you can kind of when you have that self doubt, if you can have someone to kind of be like Hey, this is what I'm feeling. Hey What's your intent What's your take on it, how would you handle it? So I think that helps too. That's an interesting actually point. L I think your first the bulk of your answer there is amazing about process basically. process over outcome. You gain confidence from your process. And if you stick to your process, you put the work in and you fail, you can live, right It's the times when you don't work like you said. You're like maybe you know Yeah Wh you shouldn't be comp. But I think it's interesting the support system is interesting because that's tricky too. Like you don't want yes men You know, you want people that, but there's also you need a space to vent. Like sometimes you want to just vent and get off your chest and then realize like Okay let's get back to what can I do better my environment or where it is. Now you start looking back yourself, but having a good support system can allow you to be like I'll let you vent But then like You gotta bust your ass. Yeah Yeah you gott a grip black. Okay. Yeah, yeah. heard what you say? You're done. Right? done. All right, so done now. let's get to the like, but yeah, no it's very important. so. Yeah, man. Spyrus Tas on YouTube. Spirus Zemas?. Aimas? I think I've come close to it. It wass very good. 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These guys are playing Cooper Flag, Konconnapple, VJ Adcom, Dylan Harper to name a few. Yeah I'll start this by saying, I still think Cooper Flag has the biggest upside I think Con' my rookie of the yearar. And I think if Dylan Harper wasn't on such a good team, he could be rookie of the year. And I think he's an eight to ten plus time all star. Yeah. let's go r the horn on the rookie class. It's between I mean it's between the two duke boys. I mean rooommates that's an unbelievable talented ruman group. It's between those two. I mean Obviously Cooper, like we talk about the biggest upside, I believe for all of them, you know, and he's had some unbelievable moments this year, obbviously The team is not you know up the par of what he is expecting out of himself expecting of the team, whatever case being up being a team. Yeah. Yeah. but that doesn't take away from what he's doing. I mean, like you look at this right He have forty nine or Charlotte youngest player to score forty six in a game. more any more than any younger player since Brandon Jennings U I mean, broke my record for most points scored by an eighteen year old. I think that might be a misprint. And in Decem December and January, average twenty two five it was a plus four on the court. I mean I mean for a team that's not in the playoffs. You know, you look at the plus four ways on the court for a two month period. That's just good ball But you look at Khn, I mean I mean we can't give him any more great surperatives of what he's doing. He's twenty two points a game. you know, the four assist is even more surprising than a lot of people would think. R. You know, because everybody just think he's just a shooter. a three point shooter. But if you actually watch their games, he's in the lane. he's fishing at the rim, he's bumped fades, he using his pivots, all that Re Yeah, Rees the defense that that obviously that accounts for the four assisted game and I two hundred and fifty seven threes made shattered most streets by a rookie and that was Kingy Murrays rookie year. He's leading the league. Yeah. He's leading leag in Threes made? Thes M, I believe. Not just as a rookie byookie is number one as this gets fact checked in real time by. Well, yeah, I mean, we know I mean, yeah, because I mean, Sth Steph hasn't been able to be available As much Dame asn' played. Buddy Hill hasn't you know, played much since he's went to Atlanta. Those are kind of been our lead leaders in Threes made. Anthony Award C's number one. Anthonywards has been a little hurt So, yeah, that's ye. you know Yeah. Yeah. I mean that's a the lead the league and Threes made as a rookie a rookie that's. I think that's another thing for for fans to understand like That's a hard thing to do. The MBA's line is different. The speed of the game is different. you're not comfortable. You might shoot at Well M Rooker. I think I shot at whilem my Rookkieer, but it's not comfortable. Yeah. and then the opportunity alignine, right? How do you even get the opportunity to even see if you can make enough to be the Lague leader Jre as a Rokie? And Lager and lead Lager League Lager. How does this go? Leager Lager, L Lager. Leag Lager at forty three percent. Right. That's a clip. Oh my goodness. The guys. Yeah. It's a two man race If Like we go back to the NVP race, like the conversation, if one of those two guys were to get rooked here and one didn't, I wouldn't And you and and Cn is making a huge impact on a winning team as well. R you know It's not really it's not really it's just this is a thing like it doesn't matter. It's. It's not It's not fair though in a way, but that's the deal. right is that Kan has affected a team that's played as good a basketball as almost anybody for three months coming into the playoffs here As a rookie, he's changed our culture, his compete, his steadiness, his seriousness, he's brought that team together. I don't want to overstate his impact. Yeah, but I wasn't quite there before he got there. No You you know what I mean? So like in the same pretty much all the same guys are there. Right. And and I don't want to take anything away from his teammates. I don't to take anything away from the coaching staff has been outstanding. But C has made a big impact. a great competitor. He's done his deal. So I give it to him right now However, like when we talk about fairness, Cooper obviously basically got into a noki, the eighty trade, got into a kind of a little bit of a tanking situation in a sense. So that's that's not really necessarily right for him And then Dylan Harper, like I think is Almost as good as so He's so good. so good. but he's on winning team and he comes off the bench behind Darren Fox and stuff Yeah, He can't win work here the year, but damn's so he's damn. 't You can't win a rookie out a year. You know, But he's as good as anyone. But he's as good as anyone. That's my point. Has there ever been an MVP in a rookie of the year on the same team? I know we've had a rookie of the year Have we kind of rookie out a year in NVP by one individual, correct? in NBA No, I didn't win N DP my work a year. No I'm saying in the same year. same year I don't think I think the youngest MVP ever Gerek Rose. I think MB would be the youngest if he woned this year. Have we ever Un on sale. Yeah he won both. Okay. So he won rookie d year and MVP. Has there ever been a team with a MVP and a rookie Edi year on a team Iivid Other than him. And I'm saying Yeah, like individual. And West must have been older because Derek Rose is the youngest MVP four years of college, which was normal back then That's impress. Yeah, but I mean, obviously in my lifetime, I've never seen a team that have a NVP and then a rookieet here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. are I mean, especially Maybe if he started the year, but they they're stacked. Yeah. got But Dylan Dylan's great. Yeah I'm a big fan. Yeah, Dylan's great. I mean, his daddy ain't shit but he's good. I see him when I see him. How cool is it that him and his brother going out of the other night? Oh my goodness. That's so awesome. That's so awesome Oh yeah, that's so awesome. Yeah, anyways, and VJ, we didn't really talk much about him, but another guy. like I think I guess my beyond the rook of the year is fun for the league to have all these guys making a big impact. That's one thing about this league man. It's one thing about this league in a game of basketball. all's great young talent and the fact that we can continue to put great young talent into our league And also great young men.. We we talk about really talent. really good. These four guys are great young men too, you know? And it's a great representation of what our league has to offer. and what's to come. I mean, Cooper Kom, VJ, Dylan, likeike you root for all of them. I root for all four of them, man. Like I love watching those guys play Um And they have my utmost support and loyalty forever. I mean, I just love the game of basketball and I love what these guys do for our game. It's beautiful thing to watch. one hundred percent. And now we got a heck of a class following up this year. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Thanks for watching, Mind the Game. New episodes drop every other Tuesday. Remember to like, subscribe, or follow wherever you're watching