The NBA Is SOFT As Charmin

you guys think the league is soft now I uh the honest soft no I wouldn't necessarily call it what would you call it soft guys are better actors now um the rules have changed the way you play Freedom of movement and so we had discussion before like it's certain aspects of the game that I was still guys use it more strategic now to their advantage as opposed to like really being soft they faking because yeah because make it look like barely like late in the 90s early 2000s like I came in 2000 I got drafted in 2000. we never wanted at no time to let anyone think that you had an advantage I'm saying no matter what it was so it wasn't no flopping like whatever it was like we're gonna hold our ground We're Gonna Knock You down we're gonna stand though like at no point where I want to give or try to think that that they got it it was weak yeah that I was weak you know what I'm saying okay so it was a stand it was more stand up this wide open which in baseball terms and football like you said like chicks dig the long ball okay so offensive play is more attractive to the fans and every sport that you go to a baseball game and it's one nothing or you go to a football game I guess they went to football game it's all field goals who wants to see that they want to see the score for 4 45 48-45 in football see 130 in basketball for 140 like that's what they want to see so that's what they got to get fans so that's what it's about it's about the fans It Ain't About Us and how we want to play the game it's about what the fans want and what the fans are paying and hard-earned money for which I would like to see how they call in the playoffs now and play more like that all the time but it is what it is it's like a little it's like little things they um they take away from those these two right me it looks the same it looks easier for me because there's things that they can't do anymore to someone like me or staff what's the name so like if he's guarding me right intimidate somebody going to the hole and make them fear no no we had if I had a route right I had to post so I was a post-up like people like they see my game as a shooter but I post up small guards so when I'm trying to run through that lane and get positioned I'll get chucked [ __ ] hurt right make you think about it they can't do that anymore right right so he can't you know I'm running it it can't stand me up they got to let me run all the way through before if I decide to take off you can just uh hold on and I gotta get rerouted yeah right off your route yep and then you know now he came he got to let me go down yeah that's a part that was a part of our strategy too defensively like we're like not Gill off his path he's coming off this down screen for a double we want it big man Ken is going to be the last big outfit make sure you hit him so his trailer so now we can catch up right we can shoot the Gap whatever that was a part of the strategy and the game plan was you but we knew who I knew who I could be more physical with and who it got to okay right so when the ball go up first possession like I'm do um all of it yeah I'm saying yeah because I know you're gonna shy away from it yeah yeah like you can be averaging 25. I'm gonna take you right at it again it's all that is holding you grabbing you I'm all kind of listening just a little trick that I'm gonna do that I know you don't like or if they said if I'm playing somebody like Zebo the ref gonna let us play up to a certain point because we both yeah so he told us keep it right there yeah keep it right there which I love and he loved it so we just eat every possession exactly he hit me I hit him ain't no ain't no give it was Alpha yeah so that's what it looked like and that's what it is man some and it's so far in between in the NBA now that guys that played that could have played in our era got they look at him it's dirty they look at him it's too too physical for this and like like no that's the way they grew up playing the game that's the way the game every aspect of the game should be played just because you running around free want to shoot threes and all that I still should be able to grab hold as well you know I'm saying if you call it if it's if it's a file call it yeah that's my thing with the NBA has been tricked by players like me right like players that I have a disadvantage right so I know are they gonna put mechanics on me right he's going to try to use his strength right so now I need to use history and to give them so now like so I'll be told like even though I didn't go offensive rebounds he's been told box out right like oh I know he has to box out oh watch this [ __ ] uh run in knowing he gonna turn around and look I'm gonna just jump knowing then as soon as I jump he's gonna naturally just do this he caught me out of air foul right get him out of there that's what that's what penalized these guys right that's what penalized I I bounced the ball people are uh uh ball Watchers they're gonna naturally grab at it as soon as they grab it throw your arm up I learned that from deadly shrimp wow Bounce Bounce right post up and then put the ball like the old runner test yeah okay just going slow because you know you're gonna try to grow out of that stuff because we we see it and we gonna naturally right and then just pull up so what ended up happening is the offense got so creative and then looking at the behavior and then they're adapting their game around it so it came less than basketball like so I wasn't trying to score like if he had a sports foul and it's the top of the fourth right and I'm driving and he's still in the lane and he's not out of the circle well you know why Adam Silver said what he said though is is continue to how the game would be boring if we all play a good defense like we were in our time we were playing certain Goods certain schemes were played to a certain point where teams couldn't score like it was low scoring games you know the Stars weren't being the stars that were showing the highlights because it was struggle to get shots off and everybody's shooting bad percentages and all that so you free the game up by calling less fouls you let guys go you let it's less physical you I call it soft shell taco mild sauce a little taco they can't even have hot sauce so with comparison to ours I feel like we were like the alphas of the era because there was a lot of different kings that had their own teams that was really setting up shop like all right this is what we gonna do against them they got their Alpha they got their Alpha they got their Alpha now I feel like these guys don't even want to be the the kings of the Court they they don't set up shop long enough to set up a strategy to say this is our [ __ ] and we gonna win so now it's got to be soft because [ __ ] is looking for advantages you know I'm saying you got to make a move to do an advantage you got to get fouls to get an advantage instead of just being an alpha like we play hard we just wanted to kill each other like yeah I'm gonna beat you tonight I'm gonna beat you tonight physicality is down right it's lower but we've never seen injuries higher so what's the what's the issue soft shell taco mild sauce that when I came in the league when you came in the league with 2001 right after you you was doing what in training camp running no but what was how many times a day twice a day we do for two days dog right yeah two days two today so you building like they build you up but they to break they breaking you down yeah so by the time that first game thought like you Soul then went through the rigorous of your body aches pains all this in training camp well by the time the season started you was like I feel good yeah absolutely like because you didn't went through that dude these dudes might might be on the floor for two hours when they in training camp mate they might be on the floor for two hours though um what are they doing are they gonna do a conditioning test when they first get there and these dudes hoop all summer yeah hoop they hoop all Saturday so therefore they go that's easy for me but they ain't learning nothing but they're in shape but they ain't getting that beat down and yeah the lifting of the real weights and yeah like I told KJ last summer all the new training you doing is great dog all the flexibility the bands and the mobility elongating your muscles and that [ __ ] is great but if you're trying to build endurance and strength and this you got to go throw some real iron around thank you thank you you got to throw some stuff you gotta go I'm talking about dumbbells barbells shrugs like real weights yep he played 82 games your muscles your tendons get softer as you get weaker right so if you're not strengthening them during the course of the Season you're going to have knick-knack injuries so like before training camp I'm doing my line drills and running the bleachers and putting my body so when training camp comes and I mean the first two days you know ah hammy you know what I mean that that that's normal right you got the first two days that that that that second day like I gotta get through and you're running through this stuff right they don't have that now right so when they decide to do the things that they body the natural jump up they pull in hammies that had me been tested yet yeah that quad ain't been tested yet that quad's being tested by somebody coming at you you've been doing all this going against your trainer hey man hey NBA combo stop that dumb [ __ ] all right you got your little soft-ass trainers five five five seven sit here playing a little defense he contesting your shot show me five five and five seven in the NBA you wonder why half the people y'all pick is busting out y'all let them go through these token ass workouts five five five seven five eight do this come off the screen then first of all hold on I'm sorry I had to jump free just [ __ ] me up [Music] 99 of you [ __ ] out there that's coming into the draft y'all ain't doing none of that [ __ ] y'all over here working in the pick and roll and you're gonna be a corner dude your ass in the corner pick and roll dive on the ball y'all got these guys doing things that y'all worked on that's not gonna be their game or they can so you guys are getting drafted and wonder why [ __ ] ain't working out for you because you're doing things that just ain't yeah we don't need you to talk about it we got to God for that what's up everybody as you know gilz arena is presented by Underdog fantasy Underdog fantasy is the easiest and best way to play fantasy sports you can pick higher or lower on your favorite players fantasy projections and you have the opportunity to win up to 20 times your money in a single night we're doing five ways the four ways the three ways you know you can do them two ways too but the real bread is at the fireworks who are you rolling with right now oh yeah just 55 away that WNBA WNBA all five let's rock it let's get this bread now Underdog is available in 30 States and Canada except Ontario get your minds right get on with the underdog fantasy crew and if you want to get down use promo code Gill and Underdog 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Length: 13min 21sec (801 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 04 2023