Stephen Jackson on struggling Sixers, Popovich's relationship with Kawhi | NBA | SPEAK FOR YOURSELF

okay Cowherd has the Celtics taking control of this series in case it's favors yeah I saw Bill Belichick last night every time the Patriots are in a game Jacksonville Seattle Superbowl Atlanta we never feel like they have the best players and It always ends the same way we do. They're like, how did they win? Jacksonville had all the great players and I'm watching that game last night at a time when they're hitting Philly with Shane Larkin, 20-year-old Jason Tatum, Aron Baynes, Terry Rozier, who wouldn't start unless Kyrie Irving. was hurt and Marcus smart with a bad shot, okay and they're hitting Philly with a daytime arrest like this, it's what Belichick does in football.

The two best coaches in American professional sports are now in Boston. One is the football coach and the other. Basketball Coach I'm not ready to leave Philadelphia. I'm going to write this off for a young team that sits reading these press clippings without realizing that the first round of the playoffs is different than the second round. different from the Conference Finals and the finals are different from the NBA Finals, so I don't think the level of intensity I think is catching Philadelphia off guard. Boston was more prepared. I'm going to wait one more game. Boston at home playing well. who lost all of their road games in the previous series against Milwaukee.

I'm going to wait one more game before I abandon Phillip. A couple things. I think the Sixers are still favorites. I think they're still in that privileged position, but what? You got it and this is the broadest point of your point about Boston. I'm a big fan of Silver. We played New England. I always trench this year, first in the game, we take the ball, we go nine yards, but now it's a penalty with first and first. and 20 instead of second in one we beat ourselves New England does it, that's what Boston did Boston beat this Philly team that wasn't ready for the multiple moves, the screen and the activity because when you're Steven, You know it when you're not.

So talented, what happens is that you have to outplay your opponent and you have to think about it. Brad Stevens has been doing this since he was at Butler and made back-to-back Final Fours. It wasn't the most talented team, but executed teams didn't turn the ball over, threw the ball well from the free throw line, all those components, as we saw last night, is what happened in that game, but I still think the Sixers are the favorites, but this Boston team could be. hard to beat I still have this series the same as it would be if it were 0 0 The Phillies have still developed their best talent the two stars two stars and they beat Simmons but it has to be said, they didn't execute, they didn't Follow your game plan and the program he let it show last game Boston came out, they stuck to their game, Penny outplayed them, they played harder and wanted the game more and it showed.

I think next game they will make some adjustments, but I can sit on the next game. they are part of your game plan and they will be ready, ok, different, it was a different result if I had better ingredients, you were the best chef and you would prepare the best food, yes, I have more experience in the kitchen, I mean on that margin. the margin of error is smaller for the boss the chef makes the best food there is also I want to say that I like Philadelphia I said a couple of weeks ago I can't wait to see him play I go to the TV more for the Sixers than for LeBron there are four things about the Sixers though, do we need to pump the brakes a little bit number one and B got hurt again last night marquel Foltz is available on a DNP what is his history?

They got hot against bad teams in the East late and beat Miami Ben Simmons in the last four minutes can shoot a free throw like I really like it, they're still a young team and they have some issues and I think they're all legit. I agree, but I want to ask you two former players who certainly want an NBA championship. I do their levels for the playoffs and there's a different level of intensity that I don't think Philadelphia was prepared for, especially with all the adulation and celebration of what they did in the first round and everyone anointing everything they're going to do. the Eastern Conference, why I don't think they handled success well, adulation.

In fact, I bought there later exactly fine. Making those same threes in the regular season is a totally different shot in that second round, you came, you know, everyone came, make shots in the playoffs. and doing them in the regular season is more difficult, so you write, it is another level of basketball, each possession is stricter and each team and each player is not made for those moments, so we will see how Rosie is showing us that I am made for this moment. Carrie is not there. I can step up and play big, so not everyone is ready for this moment, we'll see in these games, but keep in mind that the Sixers had a chance to break the league a couple of times.

You've lost six points, but could you? get over the hump on defense, they're going to make adjustments, let's go back to your golden safety when you play Dallas, okay, everyone thought Daddles is a more talented team, but you had the better matchup, right?, they couldn't match you . You'll see a little of this in this Boston series. From a matchup perspective, Brad Stevens is going to put Philadelphia's players in situations where they're going to have to think once two three four times multiple times when they're defending the ball, so now that's going to open up an opportunity, you made

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do a JJ Redick Belinelli, you're making one of those guys guard mistakes the Pacers didn't make against that Cleveland kid Korver we talked about, coward, do you think Gregg Popovich can repair this

relationship

, coach?

I've said before Kawhi is different, he's different, he doesn't talk, he hires a guy to do his business. Trust is big in high school coaches and college coaches never gave him any love. This is a young man who doesn't talk and doesn't trust many people. He enters a fish tank in San Antonio and the coach shouts good luck to him, realizing that this is the first star that dad can't control, he's not from Argentina, he's not from France, he's not from St. Croix is ​​from San Diego, here in California, think different, this is the first superstar and I'll say this on TV that Pop has ever had, that has braids, this is a different kind of superstar, now you have power, so pop wants do it. things his way, but dad can't fix this

relationship

, give him the money Super Max, he always fixes things, especially when he wants what he's worth, I think if they don't do it, if they don't improve that team and give him what he wants .

I think he's going to leave, yes, I'm told from the Kauai side looking, they're saying that Pop is so confident in his ability to repair relationships like he did with LaMarcus Aldridge that he thinks he'll just put his arm around Kauai and say Hey, that was just so you know, get these guys excited or get them on the court, give them confidence, whatever doesn't work when on the test, that's what they told me, look, they even told me that if Supermax is offered, it's not a certainty or guarantee that they would accept it I'm with you, I think they would, but that's what they told me, so it has a long way to go to fix it, but Klump is right, if I'm the Spurs, will I ever does it cross my mind? maybe it's a good time to transition to a different coach if we have this young player who we think has another eight years left.

Does Pop have eight more years left with the Spurs? Do you ever consider maybe she's Pop's wife who just passed away? Maybe it was a time when he thought about retiring, well I personally thought he was going to quit once Tim left, that relationship was so close. I thought Sempra Tim retired and pop is quitting but it may be time for that but how can you know? Coach like that, there is time since things, yes, but Kauai, I know Kauai, I spoke with him many times, he loves San Antonio, he loves to be a winner and if he can go somewhere else and continue to be a winner and continue to be a great player. that's a great option, there's this perception and you know, Kauai, you play with him, there's his perception that he's not that smart because he doesn't talk much, but tell us I think he's very smart and that's what they told me: he's not Another player in this game who wants to be one of the best when he retires.

Kauai wants to be one of the best players to ever play this game. He is focused on that and he understands that he doesn't have to say it, he will leave. it's like he talks, he's going to come out and show it in his game that he doesn't have, he's not one of those guys that comes out and talks, he's a great teammate, he's not a negative guy, so when they went into the media and addressed to him from the side of his teammates, Tony Parker and Ginobili, that is unusual for the Spurs and they caught him off guard because this never happens in their organization, so suddenly the team is not good and things are not they are fine. going your way you're not coming to me it's not okay you can't do that with your storm that's for me why okay, let's say you don't move away from pop, but maybe its old school boys, Tony Parker and Manu , maybe they need to do it.

Wow, he can clearly be Kawhi Steam and not pop and his good old boys hold him back, yeah Manu again, he's great, you know he can average eight points at 40 or whatever, but May, time to move on from here, the man told me. This story from the beginning has been fascinating to me, a star player basically disappears from his team and every time I read it between your sources, between Ramona Shelburne, between you know who she was, all the sources say the same thing because the sides are not happy and it can't all be from the same source, these things are coming out and they are coming out because people wanted to come out.

I think Kauai Scamp is deeply hurt and has lost confidence, and I've been told they are like that every time we watch the Spurs. everything good, like to our face, yeah, they're saying, I mean, they have trainers in New York with Kauai, they knew we were getting a second opinion, they said okay, they knew we were going to be in New York during in the playoffs they said which was okay, we see pop, you know, there's text here and there and then we see these anonymous sources coming out of Kauai and they say it's not coming from us, right?

What should come for you, so here are two. Cygnus with a face there and then you have Tony Ginobili, Tim Dave, they all suffered an injury, have any of their injuries ever been a question? This is the first time. This is the defensive player of the year in the Finals. MVP. He's not playing. Things are not going. way Steiner tells you all upset and now you're questioning, you start, that never happens in the organization and that's why Collosum says if you think he wants to be everything like he wants to stay in San Antonio, if he could fix it, yes.

I think he wants to be in Santa Tony. I don't think it's a big problem that he wants to leave, but at the same time some things have to change. Do you know this quote in history that this was a perfect transition No, I don't know if it's been a perfect transition from the Duncan era to this new era because again Manu and Tony Parker are still representatives of an older era, yes, and Now he had a problem with Marcus Aldridge that he had to resolve last offseason with another new guy who is not part of the old era and now on Kauai they need to leave Manoa and Parker behind.