Richard Jefferson
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169 appearances
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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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It's hard to do that. And that's where I like, I tell people, I'm like, this is why the game becomes even more beautiful in these moments. Cause you're like, you have the best, biggest, most athletic in shape men trying to stop you from putting a ball in a hoop that, that could be anywhere from 25 to 30 feet away. That's where you're starting.
And it becomes like the skill level is so minute, right? Of like, how does Brunson do it? He doesn't even have the size and he just figures out how to use his body to get space, to pick the gaps. He's crafty, he's left-handed. I think-
When you look at, especially now, the game has changed where skill level players like Luka, Luka can go slow and kind of get, but even Luka struggles against Jalen Browns, Luka struggles against McDaniels. When there's a bunch of defenders, when there's three or four, a wall up top and I can get used to one defender. Right. Like there's like Dylan Brooks. You look at Thompson.
OK, you get one of those guys out the game. It's fine. We're Minnesota's different. We're Boston's different. They've got so they got five of those guys. At some point in time, you got Drew Holiday. You got Derek White. You know, you got Jason Taylor, Jalen Brown. You got so many guys that even for a guy like Luka, it's hard to kind of get your rhythm defensively. And it's like pick your spots.
You know, you got the bounce pass against Luka. You know, you got the bounce pass against Jalen Brown's arms aren't as long as Jaden McDaniels. You know, you got the over the top pass over Drew Holiday. You know, you might have that over Derek White, but you can't do it over Jaden McDaniels.
But when you're constantly throwing multiple defenders at a person, it's hard to be like, OK, this is where I can make this this read in this look. So it gets very, very hard. And it also shows how special and gifted these dudes are that over a five, six, seven game period, they start to figure it out. And it's not the easiest thing in the world.
Well, I think there's a want to from all of those guys that you mentioned. There's a want to, but they all have different physical traits that dictate what the defender is looking for and going for. Like I said, I mentioned Jaden McDaniel's length. It's very hard to pass around him. Not only is he quick, he's not the strongest, but it's very hard to pass.
Your angles are different with him because his length and he's six foot 10 and he's got like a seven foot four wingspan. So the angles are different. With OG, he's so physically strong that you can't get him off his defensive path to create space. You hit his wall and he can veer you off of your pass with his strength, right? You can't turn the corner, right?
You can't turn the corner or bump him off. Jay McDaniels, you can. Mikael Bridges, you can. For them, it's less about how they... They're not as good at the physical content. They're great at lengths, at passes, at deflections. So you saw the steal, the throwout. Those are things that a Mikael Bridges can do, a Jaden McDaniels can do. What makes OG special? The want to, the 6'9", the strength.
So for a player like Tatum, he can't get through his body. Bron can, Bron can get through those bodies, bigger, stronger players. And Ant Edwards can get through his body. But even then people forget Ant Edwards is significantly shorter than those guys. He's six, four and a half, six, five. He doesn't have the six, nine Bron.
He doesn't have that, that big athleticism, but he does have the strength. He does have the strength. So when we look at OG, the thing that makes him unique is as you're trying to drive by him, he can veer you off his, off your path. into a lesser percentage shot, right? That's what makes it, that's what makes, you can still shoot up over him, but the crossover in front, he stays there.
Think Ron Artest. Ron Artest, big, strong perimeter. And when he starts to move his body, if you're here, you're not going through him and pushing him. You can go through McDaniels. You can go through Bridges. You can't go through Ron Artest the same way you couldn't go through OG.
I don't think overlooked. I think they're looked at properly. They're a very good team. They're locking down defensively. They have depth. They have shooting. They're another team that depends on their shots and their pace. They depend on that. They're not a team that you would say, if this game goes in the 90s, They have like the Knicks. They got the game if it goes in the 90s.
I would think the Boston Celtics, they are a team that needs to play with more pace and more shots. They need to wear you down over time. But I think the Pacers have been a very good team. They've been building success. They have a superstar. They have depth. They're well coached. They've got a great home court advantage. But you're still looking at where they're slotted.
No one is going to say, I won't say no one. It's hard to say they're better than Cleveland, that they're better than Boston, that with the Knicks. I don't care about what your record in the regular season, because it's different when there's no back-to-backs, there's no travel, there's no four games and five nights. We have the same amount of rest, the same amount of prep.
It's talent versus talent. And so do I think they could? Yes. Would it be surprising? A little shocking, but it wouldn't be like this, oh my God, who is this team? We know who they are. If they do it damn well, they played well. If they do it, they played very, very well. They played to the maximum of their capability where we think Boston and Cleveland can play good and still make it.
this might cause, because making him a passer doesn't work. Making him a score doesn't really work because even when you're making him a score, you're naturally going to have to gravitate him to slow. You can't just, it's not like you're going to go one, let them go one-on-one. It's more, you have to show a wall and he's so great late at passes that even doing that's great. What I would say is,
With Jokic, and he's in amazing condition, I would always have pressure on him at all times. If he inbounds the ball, I would kind of remember how they would guard Shaq, where it's like, you're not meeting Shaq at the free throw line. You're not waiting for Shaq. You have to start touching his body around half court to slow up his momentum, or else he's going to get too deep.
You don't get to meet Shaq. Like, I'm not saying that meet him at half court, but if you're running with Shaq, you have to meet him with force earlier, right? So he doesn't get deep in the paint. I think with Jokic, if you are constantly picking at him, you know, I don't want to say full court press, but if he's bringing the ball up, make him work. Chet, get up there. This is a lot for you.
We know. But Chet, if he's inbounding the ball, we want you to be up at full court pressure. That takes a second and a half off of Jokic moving the ball. Now, you're still going to have to switch up the defenses. You're going to have to still switch up the defenses. But still, let me give you an example with J. Kidd. J kid legend. We played them Dallas versus Spurs.
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