Maurice Edu

You know, I feel like, you know, I call it the SGA whistle.

I think he gets a whistle in Oklahoma.

You know what I'm saying?

I think it's just a natural thing.

I think tomorrow night he won't get the same whistle.

The flopping is an issue.

You know, some people might want to call it gaping.

gamesmanship or whatever.

But, you know, I think it's bad for the game, but that's how the refs ref it.

So you got to use everything to your advantage.

And if I can run into a player and fall down and get to the free throw line, and that's going to help my team win, I'm going to do it.

It's frustrating.

We're all frustrated by it.

But once again, like I said, when you think about it, roles reversed, and we were in that situation, and that's going to help me get 25 points a night, I'm going to do it.

I think overall, when you think about older players, we all feel like the game is like...

Not soft, I wanna call it soft because these kids are like uber talented.

I feel like they play extremely hard, but it's just different.

I feel like my era was more of like a gladiator mindset, right?

We all wanted to play all 82 games, right?

When I first came in the league, we practiced every day, two hours a day and shoot arounds were taped.