Zach LaVine
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191 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Zach LaVine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's no one like him, man. The demeanor he brings, the intensity, even in practice. Every practice with us, he's 40 years old with a bum knee, and he's running lines as hard as anybody. He's talking mess to guys. He's giving people hard-ass fouls in practice. I'm talking about 10 a.m. early, first scrimmage, hard playoff foul. The intensity he brought, he's one of a kind. You can't fake that.
It was great, man. It was a great experience. You know, I think I think that was for me. It was one of the first times I had like a specific role. You know, I wasn't, you know, the leading scorer of the team. You know, we had Kevin Durant. It was Jason Tatum, me, Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Draymond. Like it was so many guys. Damian Lillard.
I think it was the first year I made the All-Star team, too. So, you know, we're all coming off really big years, but they need specific roles. And that was the year I just told him I was like, look, whatever I need to do to, you know, be on the court and help contribute. So I was picking up guys full court. I was like a catch-and-shoot dude. I was getting steals, getting transition.
It was probably some of the funnest, you know, basketball I ever played because, you know, everyone had a specific goal, didn't care about egos. And we came together and, you know, figured it out.
Yeah. It was right after COVID. Limited fans. And we only had like two weeks of like training camp where, you know, before other, you know, other teams had like a longer, a longer stint. You know, they put us together and we figured it out, man. So it was really cool.
I think we were like when we lost our first like first exhibition game.
It was a lot from like stun. But, you know, I think we needed that because it made it it made everybody closer.
Yeah, I mean, we scrimmaged a lot and guys were going at each other and then we got to play against the select team, which is always fun. Coming up through the USA program where the younger guys get to play against the Olympic team. I did it when they were over in Brazil. So Seeing the guys go at us, I think they won the first two quarters.
We ended up coming back and beating them, but that's what gets everything pretty much rolling in that competitive nature because without that, you're walking into a horn's nest.
Yeah, I wish I shot more. I probably could have hit like 16. It was crazy. Yeah. You could feel it? Yeah. Whenever you're guys that can score the ball and shoot, you try to figure out how to get in that zone. You know, it just happens sometimes. If it might be in the first quarter, it might be in the second, fourth, whatever it is. But you just try to find that zone and stay in it.
You know, I think you can see guys that are good three-point shooters. You know, that's how you get those runs going where, you know, you get three, four, five threes in a row or, you know, over a certain game stretch of, you know, finding a rhythm. You'll see guys hit seven threes for, like, consecutive nights because, you know, it's muscle memory at a certain point and confidence.
So once you get that going, it's easy.
Yeah. Who's also with the Pacers. I'm actually really excited for him. I'm glad that he's doing a good job over there.
You know, so Jim, me and Jim had a funny relationship, but we actually started understanding each other. But it was different because he brought a completely different mentality. He was the assistant coach. He was like the assistant coach and then got moved up to the head. And he just had to try to do something different. Him and Fred Hoiberg had completely different personalities.
So, you know, he literally brought like a like a clock in clock and guys had their name with stamps on it. You had to punch in. And I'm not joking. It was I'm in my fifth year by now. I'm like, is this the NBA? Yeah. But it was something that I think guys needed, man. He had to be authentic to himself.
He was very into it. I remember him always being like, you guys got to have the right spirit. I'm just like, dog, we're down. We got to go out here and fight. Fuck spirit. Jim actually cares so much for his players and for the organization. I think he cared. I've had a bunch of coaches, and he's probably the dude that's cared the most about Him and Billy, I don't want to throw Billy.
Billy was an incredible coach. Me and him had a great relationship. But Jim cared a lot, man. I think he did the best he could.
It was like a legitimate, like if you were at a construction site, it had the time in and time out. If it was 9.05, it said 9.00.
That's what I don't know. We have like a fresh one every day. So I think he just printed out just different like him or one of the assistant guys just printed out fresh ones each and every day.
You got to see if guys are consistent.
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