Richard Jefferson
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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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I think it was two versus seven. And I told pop, I'm like, Hey, normally Jason kid takes offense. If a guard tries the full court, press him. He's like, excuse me. And then he will embarrass the guy. Like, don't do this. If you want to do this, we can do this. The Jason quick kid will full court, press you and you won't take the ball.
So if you're going to disrespect me in full court pressure, I'll do it on the other side. Well, when we played against him, Jason Kidd was a little bit older. And I'm like, hey, Jason Kidd, because guards have always been afraid to like press up on him. Understandably, I'm not disrespecting Jay. Jay, this is a compliment.
But when he got a little bit older, I'm like, when you make him turn his back
and throw passes like like if you're in the half court if you pressure him and make him throw passes like this he can still do it but it's very different than when he's looking at you like this making passes and this so we got up in a maybe just made him turn his back we made him turn his back and have to handle it you know magic johnson from the mark jackson but Make him handle it like that.
And so Tony would get up into his body, and Manu would get up into his body. So we cut off half the court of his passing, right? We cut off a portion. So he's still effective. He's still effective downhill, but we cut off a portion of the court instead of letting him do that. With Jokic, it's similar. You just have to get up and pressure him a little bit more before he even gets to half court.
Make him make passes. You know how he sets a three-point line, he's got the pump fake, and he's got all of these whips? Make him, instead of doing that at the three-point line, make him do it a foot and a half. Now that shot's harder. Now that pass is longer. That's harder to do.
But if you make Jokic extend out a little bit more, maybe now his downhill dribble takes more effort, takes one more dribble. But if he's catching it at the three-point line and then picking you apart, shots, pump fakes, drives, make him extend a foot and a half behind the three-point line.
The same way you have to make you deny the ball out and make them have to start their offense further out, make Jokic have to start his offense and his system a little bit further out. And a foot and a half is a big, big, big difference. That's my long-winded answer.
It takes, okay. What we believe to be a hundred percent on purpose is, It has to be 120% obvious for us to say that we can't tell someone's intent. This is not me. Like when you're on a broadcast and there's a different cadence, there's a different skill when you're doing a broadcast. And it's very difficult.
Like people don't understand how hard it is to call a game, to like, to articulate your thoughts and opinions in real time and be graded on that. I say that to say is that in that space, you do give the benefit of the doubt.
Now, sometimes our boys like, I might believe that he's doing this on purpose, but we have, I won't say on purpose, but you have to say something along the lines of he has a history of this to give context. It's like, I'm not saying he should be thrown out of the game. That's terrible. Because you can't do that right out of that. That's just not how you should call a game.
You can say that's not a part of basketball that he has a history. I love that behavior. There's like, there's things that you can say that can give context and that's, and I'm being respectful to all parties involved, right? It's not just Draymond. It's not just, you know, Jokic. It's not just, it's, it's all the people that have had something go on. Like I remember the Jason Tatum,
flagrant foul where he hurt his wrist. Right. I thought there was nothing there. I thought there was not like there was absolutely nothing there to a point of, I know that there was a foul, but I look at some of the other flagrants that have been called and I'm like, that seems like more of a basketball play, nothing intentional.
I think Jason Tatum just fell, got hurt flagrant one, but there's other things. If that's a flagrant one, there's a lot more flagrant twos going on.
right i don't and so when i look at it you have to communicate it in a space with grace probably more so than i would as like a fan more so than i would if i was in studio in studio i would be more hey we can slow it down we can give this like we can listen to different perspectives i can be a little bit more aggressive in studio with my breakdown of the play in the game in the real time you have to more just be like hey
I saw what all of you saw. I'm discussing what my thoughts are, but I'm not giving my full aggressive opinion on it.
Cause like it'd be simple to say, I got you.
I got you. I got you. Jason kid. Number one, right? When I say Mount Rushmore is no particular order. I just put Jason kid. Number one, he meant too much to me from watching his work, seeing his impact on the game of basketball without scoring, like to have that be your veteran, like I'm going to help you score, but also when you're not scoring, I'm showing you all the other shit you can be doing.
Go rebound, go make a right play, go play some defense. Right. jkid number one i put lebron number two i put tim duncan number three um and then oh it's tough because now we're talking we get into the dirt we get into the the staff we get into the yokage um uh you know for me i i would probably it's tough i i wouldn't I'm going to say Steph because Steph broke the three-point record.
I'm looking at the years in which I played you. I think Dirk obviously is legendary, but the year in which I played with Steph, he broke the three-point record and started to establish that That was the first year that the league took notice and he just kept growing and building and putting in work. So I would put Steph up there.
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