Paul George revealed he wants to be traded to the Lakers from the Clippers
so a few weeks ago we had a potential top five pick in Alexander SAR and Reed Shepard on the show to talk to us about the upcoming NBA draft but one of the main stars of this year’s draft for obvious reasons is bronny James and there’s been a lot of talk a lot of speculation on where he could go in the draft whether that he’s a top 10 pick up to number 55 but all things considered P he’s he’s handled the spotlight incredibly well m when you’re looking at his game what what would you say is your favorite thing about bronny james’ skill set how can I answer this I what’s most impressive is just his his basketball savviness like his basketball like you like he can do it all like I don’t I feel like he hasn’t shown that he can really be elite at a lot of things but I think he can be elite at a lot of things like I feel like he he’s like in that Derek white and it was interesting that that’s his comparisons that he wants to be like or coming out look like um but I compare him to like the Drew holiday the the Derek whites like guys that are glue guys that can go do everything on the floor and help you win like that’s kind of how I see him I saw him play uh in aou and he just had an ability to like get by get get guys the ball like he had ability to make guys better like he just played such a controlled play that it was like oh like I I see it like he doesn’t need to be a star for watching him in the combine and hearing the the the the outcome of his different you know drills and stuff in the combine what most important drill that you think is like he gonna get to the league because of that I didn’t really watch his combine to be honest well what you heard about I mean the fact that he’s in the 10 to 55 range says that he’s woking some people up okay there were some people that saw him and was like I would take a swing on his talent cuz if you’re in that range like I know what the draft system is like he was before going into that he was people saying that he might not even get make it right now he’s 10 to 55 range so like there’s some people in that mix is like I’m taking him if he’s around you’re getting a good kid like you’re getting a hard worker you’re getting a good kid and if he hits if he hits like he’s doing this with all that’s LeBron’s son all the tops right now though and making himself look this good is what I’m getting like these are the top players I don’t even want to word it like that because he’s his own person at this point like he’s his own like so I don’t even want to word that he’s LeBron son because he’s he’s shaking at he’s not even LeBron James J Le son he he bronny James he don’t even go by LeBron James Jr he bronny James that’s bronny James that’s bronny James but I think if an organization grabs him and he hits like you’re a genius you drafted LeBron’s son he has all the intangibles you know he’s a good kid you know he’s a hard worker you know he’s a high level IQ player like you you hit like I think I think the it’s just the the the Society of it all is like people don’t want they someone doesn’t want to be that person to say they selected bronnie like speak speaking you just said a GM I’m I’mma put I want you to I want to put you in a GM spot right now go ahead put me put me there I want to put you in a nice GM spot put me there but in this GM spot you can’t pick Luca Anthony Edwards and Wendy and wmy okay I want to know let’s see the who 25 and under would you built your franchise around today that’s they can be 25 and you can pick them too cuz there’s a lot of talent still out there right J still under 25 uh pal banero still 20 under 25 L ball uh lamelo uh if you want to go big and down that route Chad hren is under 25 it’s it’s there a lot of talent that’s under that 25 but I think who shown that they’re ready for that next jump I think was a star for sure Paulo for sure Pao for sure he was that’s the perfect person he was a grown man like so would you who would you put around him you got to put Shooters around him okay and why is that because his game is is such a a transition like he’s a force right so he’s such he’s great in transition he’s great in isolations like he’s great at sizing dudes up and using his strength to get by and blow by so what takes away from that is people that are crowd his driving Lanes like he’s a driver okay you know what I mean he’s he’s he’s gotten better with being a shooter but I think naturally he’s a driver he likes the contact plays physical you got to put people around him that’s going to space um so you it’s Shooters you got to put Shooters around them so who you putting that’s 25 and under damn that’s doing like I want you to put them too I was just ask some extra [ __ ] you got that’s extra [ __ ] I because you said so many Talent talented ones if you was to put you know build around him and that was all 25 I’m not building then I’m not building around said I throwing some extra [ __ ] I I was thr some EXT speaking Orlando so who would you put but uh speaking of Orlando P you had one of your biggest shots of the season with your little Fade Away over Jonathan Isaac uh which was a tough game from start to finish but Orlando uh showed a lot of promise this year and you can just tell kind of like when Oklahoma was taking that step that Orlando is right in the mix in the East um that could potentially be a top three seed in the the East next year with that in mind though who was the most underrated or under the radar team that surprised you the most this year I mean nobody Saw Oklahoma going first in the west initially yeah I think that’s um that that surprised a lot of people like that they were going to be that good this year so they’re for sure up there I think Houston Rock could surprised a lot of people with the talent that they have and how young they are I thought they had a push they made a push in the end of the season I think this young dudes just started to I don’t know what e did but he lit a fire under him and that [ __ ] they they started to get it together um I think they surprised me and uh Orlando I think Orlando surprised me just with uh they’re another young team not a not a lot of expectations but you know I think when you go through it you see a leader like that that when when when the young guys separate themselves and they look promising to to lead the organization that’s that’s one of the best things you can find like it’s the most beautiful thing about this game is when you see the young guys because then like as you get older and I’m speaking from a like from a competitor in vet of the league like when you see that the game is going to be in good hands when these young guys figure out that it’s all right this is my time um I think I think that’s what poo did and that’s what he’s doing in Orlando so Orlando definitely surprised me with I didn’t think you’ve been saying Orlando a lot too yeah I didn’t think I thought poo I believed in poo but you know it they put it all together but you got to you got a lot of Lottery players on your team like they got to start to learn how to play together you the one that got me you the one that got me all like into Pao too cuz I used to just see him at first didn’t know how good he was and I started playing with him on 2K because you kept bringing him up I was like how good is [ __ ] P always talking about him yeah no he’s nice H what what’s his ra I think it’s R in 80 something right now got to be in the 80s 80 say 87 yeah I’m say 87 88 87 88 I want to ask well I’m G ask Pete I don’t know did you see the Jabari Parker when he was got all emotional I saw that and crying I felt for him yeah I [ __ ] I felt for him you got to think he was a number two pick yeah in the draft you supposed to be all this hype in this talk and everything just fell down for because of injuries and and speaking of that P I want to ask you is there anybody else that you know that had an NBA career that was a top pick top draft whatever and we didn’t get to see him like we we wanted to see him more who else had a career almost like Jabari Parker that you that we don’t know about first of all shout out Jabari Parker in that moment man I thought that was a beautiful moment of just him releasing his emotions of the roller coaster that he’s been through um and I love that they caught that and he was being authentic in in that moment um but I would say and he wasn’t a high pick he wasn’t someone that was supposed to be great um but my time in Oklahoma City there was a kid named Deontay Burton bird you probably don’t know who he is yeah but was a like I used to ask like why we don’t play him like I swear like I used to be like give him like cuz he played some games when guys went down like they’ll plug him in in garbage time or they’ll plug him in in spurk moments but I used to see him in practice and I would see him like you know his g-league games or D-League I don’t know what it was at that time and he was just like he was he was like uh Zion before Zion wow like he had that physique little less like more muscular though had that physique physique jump out the gym strong as an ox um and and would lock your ass up like no like no I believe that’s why you if you YouTube him Deontay Burton You’ be like godamn where you go to college do you know Iowa State and he was a guy that I was like man like that’s just how the NBA is like you don’t get a chance like you kind of asked out you know what I mean like it’s hard to to get into this game if you don’t get a chance to get into this game like people just don’t they won’t see how good you are yeah and so this is again no knock to Oklahoma City Thunder um I’m not I’m not I’m not saying that but I just thought he was a huge talent in someone that should have saw the floor and giving an opportunity what is he doing now he’s still playing I think he’s playing overseas I actually talked to him a little bit through Instagram not too long ago um but he’s playing overseas um and and it was when I when I when I saw this segment like initially I was like damn that’s somebody that like I really wish had an opportunity yeah how old is he now he’s probably like he may still be under 30 he may be like 28 he’s 30 30 right at 30 you you use the word opportunity and when we were just speaking about bronny James that’s what I tell he’s going to get an opportunity yeah but if you’re not bronny James son how do you get an opportunity in the NBA like what can guys do that like get them an opportunity I think I think some of it might be controllable but like what advice would you give someone trying to Great navigate in there and make thems an opportunity great question because another person that falls in that line is you guys know him on my team Xavier Moon y I think Xavier moon like his problem is just he’s he’s smaller but like Xavier Moon should play in the NBA somebody should have him on their roster playing but again that opportunity is just tough to come by and he’s done everything from showing up being a good teammate being a great locker room guy playing well showcasing what he can do at the g-league level um I think he’s done everything to have the opportunity um but it’s just sometimes the dice or the the cards fall a different way uh but I think what you can do is is just show up and be professional you know what I mean like if it comes down to like if everything checks the box as far as who you are as a player but the little things of like oh he had a bad attitude or he you know he leaves a mess in his locker or he shows up late to work out or he misses treatment like if like I I get it if guys don’t get an opportunity because they can’t follow or be a professional but if you check in the box like give give him an opportunity like see see like see what he can do like give him a chance and I think he’s another guy that falls into that under that guideline cuz X Ive I’ve been a fan of X like I I like X I found out about him summer league yeah and balling and when you watch him play like when they throw him in Mak [ __ ] happen he hit midies like he getting rebounds he had the jump ball against uh he got bounced ban and won the tip he was really like short quick just hyper there like he was out of a there is a speed bump on the front there is a speed bump on the front for [Music] for for for
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