Amin El-Hassan

It's like it only takes one, right?

That's the saying, although the extended saying is a little different.

Same thing with young and dumb.

There's an extended saying that we don't say on air.

Then we just leave it to young and dumb.

But he was decent defensively.

Clearly, when he got with Phil Jackson, he bought into being a better defender.

I think it was, again, choice.

A lot of the stuff that Dan is talking about is that there's an appearance of choice with Shaq.

He chose to be in shape.

He chose to become a better defender.

He chose to take the first couple months of the season off to rehab a toe injury that he could have rehabbed.

during the offseason.

These are all Shaq choices, whereas a lot of these other guys are like, oh, you weren't good enough.

You choked.

We didn't talk about that with Shaq.

We just talked about, man, you could have been so much better.

Yep.

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