Will Howard
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238 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I'm kind of just sitting here glazing your game, but it's this thing where everyone I notice on these drives against bigger athletic players, they're just so unsure about what it is that you're going to do that now you have this advantage. I think just the way you see the game that other people don't have, and it makes defenders incredibly uncomfortable. So that's how I see it.
Do you notice people trying to figure out, like, because you're wrong foot stuff, you know? Like, I remember the first time I realized it with Nash, and you'd be like, how did he get, how does that look clean? How is the defender late? And it's like, oh, he's going wrong foot all the time now.
So as the defender's trying to time up his movement, he's already a beat ahead because he was kind of wrong footing a lot of this different stuff. Are you noticing guys, I mean, does anybody get frustrated with you being like, I can't believe that shit worked?
Is there a good story?
differently like if you know people get those calls every night another team is furious like constantly I've noticed a couple times like you know Brunson's incredible and all these guys are the same in this like and Trey has it too it's like you get some of the most ridiculous calls. And then when you get called for a foul, you're going to be mad about this.
And I've made the joke that I think cornerbacks would be the worst boyfriends because they would just be like, it wasn't my fault. When I look at some of the basketball guys- Like imagine getting in an argument with Jalen Brunson about something at home. You're like, how come you didn't do this around the house? Like, would he be like, hey, that's fair.
And I've had, you know, you've done some good things. Like sometimes I'll look at guys that just live at the free throw line and their terrific score. So it's not like they're just doing it with free throws. It's like, how do you not have any self-awareness that like you're so far up in the game that you can't maybe lose a 50-50 call with this? Again, that's just sort of my own rant.
Yeah, I don't know that there's a question in there.
Do you notice that as you become more comfortable and start putting up bigger numbers, you're like, maybe I can complain a little bit more?
I know you did. See, that's when I feel like I notice a player's full comfort level. But then again, there'll be a guy who'll be like the fourth center on a team where I have to look up where he went to college again. And he's in the game for two minutes. And then he's talking to the ref as he's getting ready to take the free throw. And I'm like, dude, you never play. And like you're going to.
So anyway, whatever. That's just kind of what the league is now. Let's get to the.
All right. All right. We'll go back because I just I don't want to not get to some of this stuff. It's awesome. I love watching you guys. I love the depth. And I think my favorite part. is, you know, it's funny because sometimes people are like, oh, they don't know who they are yet or they don't know what their rotation is. I love it.
I love that you guys can change who you are, especially with the Hunter part of it, splitting the bigs. You know, the minutes that you've had off the bench, you know, clearly I would have a hard time believing you're closing playoff games with the two guards that you have. But what do you see firsthand being around this team as far as your adaptability to an opponent?
Yeah, I'm surprised you've even pretended you were going to answer this this long, because I figured that would just be like, no way, I'm not giving you that, because if you pick one, then it means the other one's going to be like, all right, they're afraid of us. All right, let's look at it this way. When you were down 25-3 at Boston just a week ago,
What was it like when you're looking up and you're like, it's already 25-3? You come back. I think it says a lot about this group to come back and win that game. Sure, Boston was a couple of main starters and everything, but give me a sense of what it was like for this group being down that big to a team that you have to go through to win the East.
Do you and Sam Merrill, friend of the pod, do you laugh when you're playing the top two positions of a zone and the other team comes down being like, we are about to light this fucking crew up? And Sam's one of our defenders. That's what I'm saying. Even Dean Wade, Jalen got him in a switch, and then Dean held up and made him take a 17-foot fadeaway from the baseline in that game.
I'm not punting him. I'm not asking for the switch. I'm observing. Look, it's a guy who's watched Sam Houser develop over it. I mean, look, but I just noticed. Yeah, it was funny, though, like in the Orlando game,
Like, you were playing at the top with Sam, and I'm thinking, like, okay, are they going to take, like, yeah, are they going to take bad shots because they're like, oh, these two dudes are at the top of the zone? And then they still didn't score. Again, that might be more of an Orlando thing that is about you and Sam being Pippen and Jordan.
All right, all right. Let me ask you this. I think it's the coolest thing ever that you played with Donovan. Oh, you were eight years old? Yeah. Man, I mean, just to be playing with him in the NBA now, like, what's that like? Do you ever have a moment with him? Like, clearly, you probably get each other.
You know, I don't know if he's your closest friend on the team, but, like, that's some crazy, like, sleepover type shit right there.
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