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Raja Bell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3043 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

They have a game tonight.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

They keep coming, man.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

And you're just, I mean, I can't express, like, try to put myself, like, it's deflation, man.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

When you hear that you're, you know, one of the guys, you know, because role guys, we've talked about this before, role guys can, you can do the next man up mentality.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Now, he might be a little lesser than the previous guy that was holding that down, but

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

There's a version of that that's going to be okay, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

We just got to get him up to speed, get his rust knocked off, and so on and so forth.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

But one of those guys, the Jimmy Butlers, the Staffs, the Draymonts, when you lose them in that way and you know you're not getting them back, that's deflation.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

So then you lean on your culture, you lean on the leaders of the locker room, the coaches, the brain trust, and the โ€“

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

you know, the collective to try to ride that storm out as quickly as possible.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

But you just can't predict it.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

You can't predict the hangover from that and the deflation that comes with getting that news.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Yeah, I mean, that's the point, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

So good call.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

We had way more bullets in the

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

in terms of players that could do multiple things out there and contribute in multiple ways.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

We had them stacked on the bench.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Like,

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Mike was getting criticized at some points for not getting deep enough into his bench in the playoffs.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

It wasn't the lack of people that we had that were capable.