He had 9 3's against Jazz, (7 in 3Q), Sam Hauser joins #live ! What are Hauser's thoughts on the win and his career night? Sam recounts the championship parade cooler incident! #NBA
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00:00Well, I appreciate you guys having me.
00:01I mean, also, arguably, parade MVP.
00:04Some would say.
00:05Some would say.
00:07Some would say.
00:07I rallied pretty well.
00:08Yeah.
00:10Anybody save that cooler?
00:12The cooler is still around.
00:13I don't know if any of the throw up beers are around yet.
00:17Well, maybe bring it back.
00:18Run it back.
00:20I would love to.
00:20It's a boss move.
00:21Great night for you last night.
00:23It was.
00:23It was a lot of fun.
00:24It was a good win.
00:25It's always fun when you can get a win like that
00:27with guys sitting out.
00:28So yeah, we got a big one tomorrow, that's for sure.
00:32Yeah.
00:32On a night like that, how do you know?
00:34What is the point where you know that you're going to have,
00:37you're going to go off for something like 33?
00:39To be honest, I don't really know half the time.
00:41Like the first half, I couldn't make a shot.
00:43And then it got hot in the third and the fourth.
00:45So sometimes when you see a couple go in,
00:48your confidence goes up.
00:49And you just start letting it fly.
00:51And you get a little more confidence.
00:53And they start falling.
00:54What's that rule like?
00:56Because we were talking about Pete Pritcher earlier.
00:58And you kind of have a similar role
01:00where you could be asked to come off the bench.
01:04And then all of a sudden be, we need
01:07you to hit a couple of threes.
01:08Or you could be sitting for a while.
01:10And then it's like, all right, now it's a big three.
01:12And you're coming off.
01:13You're cold.
01:13You haven't got a shot.
01:14And it's your first shot.
01:15What's that rule like to always having to be,
01:19stay ready so you don't have to get ready type rule?
01:22Well, that's exactly it right there.
01:25Just trying to stay loose on the bench.
01:27Whenever your numbers call, you got to be ready to go in.
01:29Some nights, you might play 10 minutes.
01:31Some nights, you might play 35 like last night.
01:33So you just got to be ready for whatever's asked of.
01:36And we know our roles.
01:38And that's what makes us great is we're all comfortable
01:40in doing what we have to do to help our team win.
01:42Sam, so we've been talking ever since the playoff run
01:45last year where after the title, it was immediately
01:49the Celtics were benefiting from teams being injured
01:53or that they didn't beat anybody at full strength.
01:56There's been a lot of national dialogue
01:58that has been trying to sort of pick holes
02:01in an argument about how this team is potentially dynastic.
02:04How much do you guys use that to fuel your attention to detail
02:09and focus as you go for a back-to-back?
02:11Yeah, I mean, we're just focused on what's ahead of us day
02:16by day.
02:16I mean, last year, we were banged up, too,
02:18through the playoffs.
02:21And we were just playing who was in front of us.
02:23And we can't control what injuries
02:24are on the other side of the floor.
02:25But I mean, it only took us 19 games to get it done last year.
02:31So I don't know if it would have mattered if teams
02:34were fully healthy or not.
02:35More pressure to win it the first time or to repeat?
02:39I feel like repeating is probably more pressure
02:42just because nobody really knows how to do that on our team.
02:46Nobody's experienced that outside of Drew
02:47of being the defending champ.
02:49So it's been a learning curve for all of us this year,
02:52just learning how to deal with the different types
02:54of pressures and expectations.
02:56So it's been good, though.
02:57It's been a lot of fun.
02:58You talk about guys knowing their role.
03:01And I attribute a lot of that to my guy,
03:04Jiu-Jitsu Joe, the best coach in the NBA.
03:08What does he do as a coach?
03:12Because basketball is so unique, it's
03:14so different to get guys to buy in to their roles.
03:20What separates him, in your opinion, from everybody else?
03:25Well, he's unique.
03:28He does things a different way, kind of a,
03:31I don't know if against the grain is the right word,
03:33but it's in a different way.
03:34But if you want to play, you have to buy into a role.
03:37And if you're wanting to go rogue and do
03:39things that aren't asked of you, then
03:41you're probably not going to play.
03:42And once you buy in and he gets your trust,
03:46it usually is good.
03:47But he'll show clips of soccer.
03:50He'll show clips of UFC.
03:52He'll show clips of killer whales attacking a seal.
03:58That type of stuff is interesting,
04:00but he somehow is able to relate it to basketball.
04:02Well, you've got to get him some footage of Wiggy
04:04attacking an appetizer, too.
04:06What's the oddest thing that he has shown you
04:09guys from a motivation standpoint?
04:13Man, I mean, he must love the Nature channel
04:18because we've seen a few videos of a lion attacking a gazelle
04:21or, like I said, the killer whale attacking a seal.
04:24So all that stuff he's able to tie back
04:27into basketball, which kind of keeps you
04:28on the edge of your seat, which I guess it always is fresh.
04:33I guess that's a good way to say it.
04:34Do you attribute a night like you had last night
04:36when you said you started off a bit cold
04:37and then you got things going to him
04:39and his ability to give you confidence maybe
04:42when you need it?
04:43Sure, I mean, yeah.
04:44I mean, I was still playing a lot of minutes
04:48even though I wasn't necessarily making shots.
04:50I was trying to do other things on the floor.
04:53So he has a lot of trust in me when I shoot the ball
04:57on that side of the floor.
04:58And my teammates were fine to me when I was open.
05:01And then guys would just tell me to keep shooting.
05:03And that's what you got to do sometimes when you're working
05:05through a slump like that.
05:07We talk a lot about Jason Tatum getting the recognition
05:10that he deserves around the rest of the league.
05:13Do guys on this team feel like he's undervalued,
05:17underappreciated around the league?
05:19He's definitely not underappreciated on our team.
05:22That's for sure.
05:22But around the league, I think he
05:24gets some unwarranted hate for whatever reason that may be.
05:29I mean, if you look at his resume, it speaks for itself.
05:31He's done a lot in this league.
05:33And it's hard to deny how good he is.
05:37And he makes everyone around him better,
05:39which makes him really good.
05:41Preach, he's the face of the league.
05:43Preach.
05:44Yeah, Wiggy anointed him that years ago.
05:48Nickname-wise, what do you choose?
05:51He talked about nicknames the other day.
05:52What do you call him?
05:54For Jason?
05:55Yeah.
05:56I just call him JT.
05:57OK.
05:58That's it.
05:58I heard, what do you call him?
05:59Taco.
06:00Taco.
06:01What's the taco thing about him?
06:02I think he just likes tacos.
06:04He likes tacos.
06:04I mean, there it is.
06:07So you were on the floor, near the floor,
06:10when a player nearly died.
06:11LeBron James, I mean, how scary was
06:13that to see that shot he took on Saturday night?
06:18Yeah, you know.
06:20It was awful.
06:21Not much to say about it.
06:23Hard foul.
06:24We all saw it.
06:25It is what it is.
06:26It is what it is.
06:28Is it weird growing up and watching somebody
06:30like LeBron play, and I assume, you know, admiring him
06:34and then being on the court with him?
06:37Is that?
06:37Yeah, it's definitely kind of, I think,
06:39more so my first couple of years.
06:41It was kind of like a surreal moment.
06:44And it's obviously, you know, you get out there
06:46and you compete against a guy, it feels different.
06:48But a guy like him has been the face of the league
06:51for 20 years now.
06:53So it's pretty cool to experience that.
06:56But you know, I'm glad we got the win the other night
06:58against them.
06:59Yeah.
06:59For sure.
07:00We're glad too.
07:01All right.