Doc Rivers breaks down NBA training evolution (Part 4)

Because he could see us laying on the floor. You know, the guy's got. You're getting sleepy. We're like, this is. And strength coaches are important, don't get me wrong. But that was funny. It's just now they do all this loading stuff. All this stuff. But they don't play basketball. And you can't mock basketball. You can't. You gotta play it. I had a whole thing I did on Tuesday about the schedule and because Kurt Goldsberry for us wrote a really good piece about how the league's getting younger. It's getting younger. The old guys and just the shelf life of players. It's now starting younger and it's really ending because of the two way, though. That's why it's getting young. We talked about that. There's a two way. Yeah. It's easier to have a guy making 810,000 versus 4 million bring down to the G League. It's so much easier to run your team financially that way. It's not necessarily good for your team if you're trying to win and suck it for a coach because you have all these young guys you got to take care of. But we were talking about different things with the schedule and how much I think basketball's harder. Our friend Eddie Johnson, furious. I went on their show yesterday, furious at me, thinks it's gotta stay 82 games. It was just as hard when you played in the 80s. Yeah. I don't buy all that stuff. It was just as hard. Travel was even harder. Well, so you had. Travel was harder. The eating habits were terrible. All that stuff. You flew commercial. And the biggest thing that was harder was the floors. No one talks about that. Our floors were. It was laid on cement. The floors are like springboards now. So a lot of things that are better. I think the training was harder, which was better. Yeah. Cause like Bill Fitch would have these famous practices where he'd run these guys three days. I played for Pat Riley. Yeah, okay. Like when I got traded to the Knicks, I was at ucla. But you got hurt playing for Pat Riley. I did well the second year, but when I got traded to the Knicks, I remember Magic, Byron and James. We were at UCLA playing pickup games. Think about it. That's what we did all summer. And they were laughing. It's like, oh, you done? You were done. Your legs are done. That's happened to James Worthy. His career was done in 12 years because browse was at the extreme of it at that point, like a drill center. And they were right. Like I was those practices were. We practice every day. All right, so what's the middle ground of this? Because I agree with you, I think the middle ground is a little bit longer. Preseason, not games, practice.