Richard Jefferson
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169 appearances
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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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No, but that's what I'm saying. Not with Jake Kidd, not with Pop, not with when I had Steph, not with, you know, when I played with Vince. When you look at this team, that's what makes them unique. They have two more threes, all the things like they are a unique team in NBA history. The Celtics, the way they play at the rate that played the amount of two way players that they have.
There's there's they're a unique team. That's why we always say kind of like the Warriors are the ultimate like fuck around and find out team where it's just like one game. They're just going to throw the ball everywhere and it's going to be you're going to be they're going to have that one game. Well, I think the Celtics oftentimes have a game where they just lay a dud.
They shoot too many threes. They do all this stuff. And you're like, wait, that shouldn't be. But over a course of time, it starts to work.
because they have too many weapons they no one's going to be off for six out of seven games no one's going to be off there collectively because they have eight two-way players that can hit threes that can play defense that can play one-on-one that create shots and then it's just believing in the system so i haven't seen a team like that but
It feels like there's always we always get one or two of these games where now we're questioning the entire system that's worked for them for the last two years. They won 61 games. They have a very, very bad shooting night. But ultimately, they are a team very similar to the old Golden State Warriors, where in 90 seconds, a game can feel like it's over.
No, but I think as the series goes on, you start to, if I'm a player and my teammate is getting doubled, right? Game one, I'm looking and kind of reading. Okay, well, where are the gaps? Where are the lanes? Where's my shot? Where's the help coming from, right? By game two, game three, I'm no longer thinking. It's like boom coming. I know he's not going to leave chat.
So now I'm going to go downhill. Now my outlets are floater kick out to the corner or the big diving. So then it'd be by game three, four, you're really just moving. You're cruising. So it is. And that's where Denver, they have to do it. I think in spots, but if you give any team a steady diet of anything, boy, those boys will figure it out and they will carve you apart. That's what same thing.
You can't just get the ball out of Donovan Mitchell's hands. Cause if it's in there, then they start to see it and they get good at it very quickly. That's the level of a great team. How quickly can we adjust, but also hurt you with it. And so same with Celtics, you can't just double team. You can't double team Jason Tatum and get the ball out of his hands. I got too many shooters.
You got presenting this, you got this. So that's great. I think that's a great system. And it is a good idea to get it out of the MVP, out of the guy that's averaging 30 points a game in every game. Get it out of his hands. But you can't do it for every single game. I'm going to say you can't. It's hard to do it every single game because teams start to pick up on it.
Same with like just face guarding Steph. It works. It worked for, you know, three quarters, two and a half quarters in that game, five without Jimmy. But once they break free, now it's like you're playing four on four. That's a lot of space. If you're playing a whole half-court game four on four, whoo, If you can get past your opponent, the options are easier to hit because there's less crowded.
The finishes are easier to get to because it's less crowded. So doing that defense works, but you're going to have to continue to mix it up because if you give them a steady diet, they'll break you apart quickly.
Oh, Brunson. Brunson. Brunson. I think that, and I'm not, I'm saying, I feel very confident in SGA. I'm not excited. I'm not excited. SGA. I'm not excited. Kobe, Luca, Brown. I'm not excited if any of them have the game, but there has been somebody over the past two and a half seasons that have been in so many clutch crunch games have performed, like have been explosive.
You look at Detroit, how he plays, you look at the lake, you look at some of the big shots against Bob, like this is what he does. Little guy, you know, just figures it out. Team is built around him. He's got the space. He knows his shots. And it's not just big three. It's drive to the basket. I couldn't believe he missed that little left-hand floater from Carl Anthony Towns late.
Like even he was laughing. He's like, of all the shots I missed, that's the easiest shot I had all night. And that's to win the game. So I'm just saying currently right now, Brunson is playing. I think he is the guy that I would look at from an NBA standpoint, still like not expected it, but you're just not like this dude really did it again. Like it's, it's been fun to watch.
Tim Duncan said it to me, Tim, like he said, you know what people, we were just having a bullshit conversation. He was like, people get better at shooting at defense at so many things. The one thing that people don't significantly get better at is like dribbling or ball handling. They don't like a point guard who knows how to handle the ball can get better in pick and roll.
His handle can get sharper because that's kind of the area of, of, of specifications are like specifically what he does, but you don't see a wing player be have an okay handle turn into Paul George that no, no, no, no. That doesn't happen. Like Paul George has a handle as a wing player. He didn't develop that over time, but I will say this.
Playing with Jason Kidd and then playing with Vince Carter. So J Kidd was first where it's like, he would handle both ball most of the time and pick and roll. He was, and I would just see it. He got the rebound. I got the rebound and it was as fast as I can run. Even though my game improved and my ball handling improved, I became a better one-on-one player. Then Vince Carter came.
So now you got to choose between J-Kid, Vince Carter, and Richard. It's like, I'm further down on the depth chart. Shoot, J-Kid went down on the depth chart. We would put the ball in Vince's hands in the last minute or two. Then sometimes we would have J-Kid with both of us scoring options on the wing, whatever.
So it is one of those things where I did not develop that part of my game the way I should. So then when it was like, hey, Richard, there's a new thing in the NBA called three and D. You stand there and you play defense. And it's like- Sounds very similar to what I've been doing my whole fucking life, right? I just got to be accurate from three and play defense.
Yeah, I did that with J-Kid in the Nets back in the day, right? So you're right. Ball handling is not something that you improve over. Like very rarely do like wing players learn how to handle. That's not the way it goes.
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