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Podcast hosts analyze NBA player dynamics

Podcast hosts analyze NBA player dynamics

From The Bill Simmons Podcast

1d ago
NBABasketballPlayer AnalysisRookie PerformanceCoaching
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Because he would break the glass because he was so fired up. Right, Right. He would not make. He's just been headbutting the basketball. Yeah, I learned that one early. And Tibbs and I used to die laughing about it. Like we know who not to run the first place for. I remember those first couple Celtic games. My dad would. We would talk after and he'd be like, KG's just insane. Yeah. I thought, like, I didn't realize he was so crazy. I didn't like Bill. I felt like your dad. I didn't believe it. Yeah. Like when KG came, I thought the world of him. Yeah. But the only thing I wasn't buying was his energy. I was like, there's no way a guy. How does he keep that up every game? That can't be true. And then in Rome, at the three practices, you're like, oh, this is real. And it. And it's still real when you're around like that. Now he is. No. Who, which player now would be. That's a great talk about like that. I think that player exists. Well, I know who it could be. Who? Wilson, the rookie. Oh, you like him? I love him. I told you about how he fouled Hugo from behind. Down 40 with 50 seconds left. Just hard fouled him. I love this kid. Nah, he may have given the greatest rookie interview in sports history when he hadn't played at all. He played the first summer league game. They asked him was he happy to be back and he's just happy. Man, I got a coach fired. Like to say that as a rookie about Hubert Davis is who he's talking about because he got hurt. He got hurt and they hit, you know, they tanked the rest of the season to have that awareness. I'm like, man, this kid is built differently. He can do everything. Compare him to T Mac, your first Orlando year. Now, TMAC was obviously 30 points a game. Yeah. TMAC had played three years in the league though. Right. But he, he, to me, he looks like a slightly taller T. Mac would be his destiny. Yeah. I've been asked a bunch to compare him and I think it's closer to KG than T Mac. Interesting in some ways, you know, that's why you look at errors. What if KG had played in this era, he'd been a three point shooter easy. He would have been a five. Oh, well, that's why I think with Mobley, I still feel like there's another piece of his career where he's just a center, because I don't think what we think of centers now. I think the biggest advantage for him would be to be the five. Well, he actually plays the five. One of the things I think Kenny does a good job of is they start the two guys and then if you look at the game, they don't play again until the third quarter. I.
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