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00:00and no doubt a lot of us have have thought about and talked about some of the overlap we were
00:06mentioning it just about a half hour ago all of the different things where some of these players
00:11and coaches and cities are intertwined even though they've never played against one another
00:18in the playoffs anthony edwards two years ago dreamed he dreamt out loud of the idea of playing
00:25against the warriors in the playoffs and here we are and part of it is is this go back to when the
00:32warriors had the number two pick in the draft anthony edwards was the player who went number
00:37one we all know who went number two it was james wiseman so this is james why you know the warriors
00:42didn't pass on anthony edwards this is james wise but he was right there potentially for the taking
00:49therefore he had a pre-draft workout with the warriors and all we've heard through the years
00:54is it didn't go well so this is from that exact same interview that grandy played earlier when
01:00ant said he wanted the warriors this is from two years ago and from the t wolves team in their social
01:06media so listen to what he recalls from the pre-draft workout with the warriors i was going
01:13through the drills and he kept stopping them like that's all you got that's all you got and i'm like
01:18bro i'm going hard as you want me to go like what you want me to do i'm sweating crazy he like man
01:23you got to see steph and kd and clay workout and um we went to dinner that night and they were they
01:31still was continuously telling me like you you didn't work hard enough like if we had the number
01:35one pick we wouldn't take you and i was just like damn that's crazy so me and my trainer around home
01:41after dinner and we just talking like but we got to pick it up i don't know how i don't know what we
01:45got to do like but we got to pick it up and i think after that man it's just i became a mad man in the
01:51gym and like i just i try to work to him i'm tired i'm exhausted the warriors built this guy
01:58right that that's a stretch but no but there's a piece of it like they they inspired him well his
02:03response right there is incredible it's great because he played one year at georgia and he comes
02:08out and you know you think you're doing all that you can and you know steve kerr keeps stopping it he's
02:14like you should see what these other guys are doing who i don't know if you've heard of these guys but
02:17you know kd clay and staff these guys have won a couple of titles here uh three for two of them
02:23and two for the other guys so yeah the standard that you need to match up to it's gonna have to
02:28be higher than that um and then we had referenced this this is from netflix's court of gold this is
02:34years later when steve kerr actually did coach anthony edwards in the olympics and listen to this exchange
02:41which definitely uh brings about memories of the previous one we were just talking about
02:47you have such a gift like this i mean look at you you're a tail guy just running over people right
02:54when is that going to translate to rebound when is that going to translate to find a body and boom
03:00yeah hit guys see my phobia get on my ass by the side yes yes because that's the next step for you
03:06you know like you took such a leap last year from the beginning of practice to the end of the world
03:11and it translated and you became one of the best players in the league that's the next step
03:16yeah sure watching how hard we want to practice i've never i've never practiced and i've seen
03:21practice i've seen step all focus and it's just the talking all the physicality and then that's the
03:27next step for you but you've got another level you can get to but it's like all the little boring
03:32stuff yeah no i got you got a new lot of game on it use that body yeah so i know that's a little
03:38bit hard to hear maybe in spots but what we're basically getting at is steve says you have just
03:45an unbelievable gift you have all the talent in the world your offensive game has become elite
03:51when are you going to take this perfect nba frame that you have and use it to get a rebound
03:57like what are you going to do you're a tailback in high school exactly he's like you and he's like
04:03man that's what my coach always says to me yeah like yeah because this is the next step for you
04:08you're elite and and he really is like this conversation came up earlier in the year uh when
04:14lebron was talking about you know not wanting to be the face of the nba and they asked anthony edwards
04:21would you want to be the face of the nba and he's like no i don't want that gig because i see
04:25how the face of the league sort of gets treated but i will say this i don't know if he's the face
04:31or not um in the next generation of basketball players but if you offered me a selection of any
04:38any player in the nba currently in his 20s i think that's the guy i'd take i think that's the one
04:49if i had a draft of nba players in their 20s i think that's the number one pick
04:56interesting i really do i'm trying to like i'm just doing this from memory
05:01because this is a yokich is 30 isn't he yokich is 30 just turned just turned in february
05:07janice is 30 we know for sure lebron or 82 years old yep right tatum and brown aren't 30
05:13those guys are not 30 correct where is jaws not 30 i'm taking it
05:18yeah my mind went to wendy would you take it over wendy well that's an interesting one that
05:23still feels a little speculative to me even though i understand his gifts and i understand what he
05:28brings on both ends of the floor um yeah i think i would i think i would and and here's why it's
05:35literally what we just talked about with the rockets when they said what do you need in the playoffs
05:40i need somebody who's not a center i need a ball handler who can go get me a bucket
05:47i still don't i don't know if wendy will ever be that he's so important he's not gonna ever like
05:54crush you over with the haha right and i think like right now if i when i watch wendy play like dude
06:01you're shooting too many threes you're eight feet tall stop shooting 13 threes a game go inside and be
06:10eight feet tall but anyway yeah i like i'm looking at the board right now i think this is the guy i'd
06:16take i think this is him well he won't be 24 until august so which is nuts you're talking about a 23
06:22year old he's so player he's so young he's young but if you look at his his career so far and he's been
06:31in the in the playoffs now four of five years yep this is the fourth time fourth time in a row so
06:36conference finals last year right he's he's a young player by chronological age but he's already
06:43been through it first couple years he didn't advance out of the first round and you mentioned
06:46the nba uh conference finals last year so there already has been a bit of a graduation for he
06:52and his team and now he's got a real good cast around him so it's gonna be a tough series no doubt
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