Who are The Fastest Players in the NBA? | Tyrese Haliburton and JJ Redick Discuss

Who are The Fastest Players in the NBA? | Tyrese Haliburton and JJ Redick Discuss

You know what’s interesting as I I figured you would you were as you were talking you were asking that and I was thinking of the coaches that I played for and I think every situation is so different because of who the point guard is yeah do you know what I mean and then

Who the coach is and I remember there was one season where like Stan like Stan was you know he he liked to have control and he liked be able to like call the plays right but then there was one season where he was like I don’t want to

Call the plays jir you called plays you know I I don’t know who our backup point guard was that year in particular maybe it was Jason Williams maybe it was Duhan maybe it was Anthony Johnson I don’t know but he’s like you guys called the plays man that lasted for like a week

Yeah yeah I feel like every coach says that but they don’t really believe that it’s like at the what does every team say at the beginning of the year training camp they’re like we want to play fast this year then they’re like well we don’t have the Personnel to play

Fast you know what I mean it’s like it’s a great question Tommy I think the reality is it takes a unique coach and it takes a unique player to get to that point where there’s complete like I that’s what I fundamentally believe it’s it’s not like a coach can have that

Philosophy I’m gonna give my guard trust and or I’m gonna trust my guard and give him freedom to just call the plays run the offense and I’m not going to be as involved within a game and then I might talk to him during the timeouts like that’s fine to have that philosophy but

It takes a unique coach and a unique player to make it actually happen yeah I’ve been I’ve been lucky to play I mean I played for Luke and Sack who was like like as players coach as a you know he was a player right yeah and then Alvin

Alvin was like free raid you know like offensively like he trust you like go score um and then coming to play for for Carlile I just feel like having him coming from being with Luca that probably that helped a lot too I feel like I love playing for Alvin yeah me

Too just like go score go score to this point we we were talking about this ear today so the top five guards right now in uh according to basketball index and overall shot making are you Luca um Jaylen SGA and Maxi is there a common characteristic you think you guys

All share well outside of Tyrese we all have the ball in our hands the whole game uh tyres just happens to play with the MVP in the league but he and and is like a I think probably no offense probably more so than the four of you

Guys he’s he’s more of a blur in transition oh Maxi he’s unbelievable he’s so fast he the fastest guy in the league uh no Fox is the fastest guy in the league I will never change my stance on that ever that dunk he had the other night was so

Sick he is he’s ridiculous he’s so fast ridic people don’t I don’t know how he dunked that I I’m trying who was it against he was like he had no he had no business dunking it I want to say it was like off his left leg or something yeah

He does that where he’ll jump off the same foot and dunk it it was like oh that’s that’s surprising yeah F Fox Maxi those area those are probably M and ish Smith yeah yeah he’s fast dude you don’t understand is I played with ish Smith in like

2011 like a young ish Smith when he was like 22 23 he started against us the other day he different bro and by the way at that point in time he didn’t know how to change pace so it was just like that all the time it was great it was

Great all right let’s let’s wrap up with this uh mentioned the playoff thing earlier um not without getting into sort of matchups and and whatnot like this stage of your career what would it mean to be in the playoffs you guys before you got hurt last year were in a a good

Position and then you kind of nose dived you’re sitting there and six uh Miami Orlando right behind you like I know you’re motivated by this what what would it mean what what are you like are you already thinking ahead like what’s going through your brain as you’re sort of

Processing the success so far but also looking ahead yeah it it would mean everything I’m not going to lie to you um I feel like this year more more than the years prior I’m like locked into every team like especially in our conference like I’m watching like feels

Like more basketball than I ever have paying attention to standings more than I ever have seeing like where could this match up be who holds our tiebreaker between this team um I’m just super locked into that stuff I just think like think I talked about this like after USA

It was kind of like a wakeup call for me uh like not winning a go like not winning gold that was like the first time I had real expectations to win since I’ve been in the NBA and still didn’t do it you know and so not that I

Necessarily felt like oh that like us not winning gold is strictly on me but like looking at myself in the mirror was like something needs to change like my daily habits something has to happen because I’m I can’t I can’t do this anymore I can’t just like be a loser my

Whole life like I can’t I can’t so uh this year has just been completely locking in on winning and doing doing things to win and I’m so thankful that like we’ve added Pascal because I think that we share that notion like he just wants to win at the same time uh he’s

Won a championship before and I think that he’s trying to continue to you know he he’d like to do that again you know but uh I think for me like I’ve been an All-Star um you I’ve had a lot of individual success I signed the big

Contract like all that’s cool but I just want to be known for like my impact on the game and like you can’t impact the game and be a loser you know what I mean so uh honestly it’s all I think about it’s all I care about uh I figured that’d be

Your yeah yeah just figured that’ be your answer

In this clip, JJ Redick and Tyrese Haliburton (The Indiana Pacers) debate the fastest players in the NBA. Is it Tyrese Maxey (The Philadelphia 76ers) or De’Aaron Fox (The Sacramento Kings) or someone else?

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