Robert Ori

You think about, you know, B. Shaw, Harper, all of those guys.

We'd go to Shaq and Kobe and say, give me the ball.

Are you messing up?

You know, do your role.

You know, you do your role and then I'll do mine.

You know,

You can't be one of those players afraid of the superstars because if you have guys that are smart, they'll listen to you because they know you're the guys that are in the trenches that understand what's really going on.

Wait, you could yell at Kobe?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I even yelled at Dream, and that's something you do not do.

Why not?

Because, you know, Dream was that guy that, you know, a lot of players are afraid of players because they have this mystique about them.

Dream and I are really, really good friends.

And it happened after my rookie year where we had a nice long conversation, just him, he and I one-on-one.

And he got to understand me and he saw how smart I was in saying, okay, I trust your IQ.

I trust what you go do in the court.

And I remember one time I yelled at him on the court, I'm like,

box out, Gene, that's why you lost the championship in college.

And everybody was like, what?