Richard Jefferson
speaker
169 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 25 Jun
Richard Jefferson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, it is a really good story. I'll let you, I'll let your readers, I'll let you read it up. But when you read the story, the award actually carries more weight. And I think they should do a better job of describing what that story is and the origin of it. I think that would actually make the story a little bit bigger. Cause I don't think, I don't think it's so, I didn't know it.
Yeah, I didn't know it. I have it in front of me now. And now Steph is like, he knows, he can feel the energy from me, right? He can feel the energy come from me. I'm like, I'm leaning in. Like, is he going to tell the story or is it basically the same thing I'm doing to your audience at home?
Yeah, and I think that was one of the things that happened. And social media is always so funny, right? Everyone's like, LeBron's legacy, the Lakers suck, Luka's trash. And it's like, or Minnesota's really good. Or Minnesota's really good. And I think it's always a combination of things. You talk about those box outs that Draymond had to do against Shingun and against Steven Adams.
That two big lineup was affecting Golden State because it's just like, well, guess who else has a two big lineup? who guess who else has a very large lineup? Guess who else has big depth? Rudy Gobert, uh, Nas Reed.
Uh, when you look at Julius Randall, when you look at the size and the physicality that all three of them play with, um, when you look at that, you're like, damn, but then you have those defenders. So you have the Jalen Jaden McDaniels. That's very similar to, um, a Thompson. You have, um, you have Nikhil Alexander Walker. You have a guy like it.
Everything they hope and wish Jalen Green can possibly be, and we'll get to that conversation, everything they hope and wish he can be, that's Anthony Edwards. Just dominant, confident, understand the game, IQ level. They have a much better version of the Houston Rockets. That's what they're about to go face, a more mature roster. version, a deeper version with Dante DiVincenzo and Conley.
They have, that's a very good roster. It is understandable why the Lakers lost. We just believe in Luca's greatness and bronze greatness that, Oh, they'll figure it out. And this year that wasn't the case, but looking forward to that series. You never count out Jimmy. You never count out Steph the same way you don't count out Luca, the same way you don't count out Bron until you just see it.
But yeah, Minnesota is a different opponent and they're playing their best basketball of the season.
Well, you were just talking about, I just saw, yeah, I watch his stuff. I come on here and I myself to make ready. So what kind of bullshit Ryan been saying? I think that Jalen green, when you talk about Thompson and kind of the, um, like is, would he be in Thompson's way? Right. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah.
I think basketball is such a unique sport where we can evaluate a guy from 19 to 22 and be like, well, there he is. That's who he is. And it's like, well, let's also look at, he does have growth to be had, Jalen Green. He does have experience. He was a deer in headlights in this series. He was a deer in headlights.
And it happens the same way a guy like Chet Holmgren, who is a confident, arrogant dude, can miss two free throws in a playoff game in a clutch moment, right? These young players, and I've been a part of it. I missed two free throws in a game five against Indiana, and I thought my life was going to be over.
You can be 21 and 22 and be in deer and headlights and have a 38 point game, 36 point game and show and show glimpses, but then be six, eight and nine. I'm not comparing Kobe Bryant, but Kobe Bryant also famously airballed three laps. You know what I'm saying? So there can be a growth that happens. I watched Thompson, and I think of him as a jack of all trades.
He's got a long way to go before he can prove that he is an offensive threat. Not like he's... shooting, the percentages, the technical look on his shot that needs to be improved. There's a big gap there. So he's got the intangibles of all the basketball greatness. Jalen Green's got the skill.
So I think as long as Jalen Green continues to progress, which he's made big jumps year over year, as long as he continues to progress, I think they actually work together because Jalen Green can do things that Thompson can and Thompson can do things that Jalen Green can't.
So I don't quite think that they're in each other's way because both of them got this experience to be against this team and having the number two seed because over the course of the season, they could complement each other and build off of that and be kind of like, quote unquote, a combo good player.
No, I think the series, I think Cleveland coming off a series in which they blew out their opponent. There was no competition, zero resistance, elevation of intensity, but no resistance. So for them to get, excuse me, the Pacers, which are coming off a physical series where they ran, they did similar things, long athletic opponents, Giannis and Brooke.
So for them to come in the series with a punch and a force, not surprised. Boston, I would say Orlando had some physicality to them. Um, but ultimately the Knicks were in a grind out series. They were even, um, um, what's his name? Detroit. No, no, no. Uh, for Knicks. Josh Hart said, we've been hit with bats for six games and we brought our bats to this game. They had to.
That was the only way for them truly to beat the Knicks is to come with the physical and then to persevere for 48 minutes. That's the only way for them to do it. And they did. Right. Then you get you get Brunson and you give me Brunson with 90 seconds in a tie game. I'm feeling confident. I'm feeling very, very confident. You give me Brunson.
So when you look at these series for Boston to, you know, have an easier series, but now to really be tested versus a Nick team. And then on the other side, OK, see younger team cruise through their series. Denver's coming off a game seven where they're fighting for their lives for 48 minutes. And they continue to do that here in this in this situation.
So when you look at the series and where each team came from, that's where it's like, OK, I can see how this would go down this way. Still shocking, but I'm still not changing kind of the idea that the Boston Celtics, if healthy, are the best team in the league. I'm not changing that. But yes, I can see where they've all kind of gotten to these one game situations.
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