KD and JJ Redick talk all things basketball | The ETCs x The Old Man and the Three (Part 1)

issue that can't necessarily be pinpointed to one thing because whether it's player movement or teams that aren't loyal, everyone is so hungry for a championship, the discourse about what is a successful season and what is a failed season for almost every team now is about a championship or are we bottoming out to build a championship and therefore the life cycle of the teams will be inherently shorter? Yeah, the other

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, I'll say this too is, historically, we haven't seen a guy like Lebron play at this level. you know, and move, yeah, and move, move, but also play this level during this time, yeah, so of course there's going to be a life cycle for every team you're on, you know, and you know there's no It will be in one place. john stockton karl malone duo that already exists there is no loyalty in this like I read something today when I'm taking my notes and there's like dre

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ing about kevin go do what's happy you know uh andre yeah kevin go do what's going on It's for you and that's the mentality of the players now because we recognize what the teams are going to do to us yes, there is no loyalty yes, there is a real turning point, I mean, everyone points to Lebron's decision, but I think even what the celtics did ykg had to go through that and say you know what I have to go for myself and obviously there are other moments in history but there has definitely been a changing of the guard in that sense and I was just curious about how the players play.

I feel and I think it seems like a lot of you sit back and walk away, hey you gotta do what's best for you, I mean, you got on the podium with Kyrie, you did the same thing with the exchange with James, I said the same thing, hey , if he. you have to be happy and we're okay with that and I think it's not just

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, it's genuine, I mean, you have to put yourself in the best situation that you think you can maximize what you're doing, you know and I think everyone understands. Now you think, have you ever had younger guys call you for advice trying to figure this out because you've been in this situation a long time, yeah, yeah, sure, more so about navigating through life as a professional, but you know? knowing that they made that decision that is coming, uh, what they should, what they should be looking for, is what is coming, you know what I was looking for at that time, you know, being in the organization, I was with an expansion team, basically, you know, so it helped build the foundation of that, so my de

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ure was interesting for a lot of young players, you know, since they were drafted by the organization and they hope to stay there, so yeah, they contacted me asking me what it was my thought process.

It was during that whole situation and how I approach games like that so it's good to have it and I think it's better in our league now that we have this open dialogue between us and you know we exchange ideas between us as professionals and me. I'm sure that helps Kevin, how was that? What was that first year like for you knowing you were drafted by Seattle? I think it was like two days before the first game, basically it turns out you're going to try to relocate the team. Yes, it's like playing. that season in Seattle knowing there's a good chance you'll never play in Seattle again without even knowing where you'd play next season, but you're still with the same franchise that has to be super slow.

Look, they told us I'll be there for at least

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or four years, so I settled in like you knew they would. Yes, I bought a house and told my mom that I'm like in the city too. You would have had a great time, Jeff and I. I was like Jeff, I think I'm going to buy a house, he's like, I'm just waiting, I'm going to buy a condo downtown, I was like, you know, that's actually a better idea, my moms are so like me, we should buy a house, I'm like no, I think we could, I don't know, but then the owner said we'd be here for

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or four years, so I settled in a little bit and towards the end of the year I kept listening like wait I think they're doing a change, you know, sooner than we thought and I remember we were in San Antonio, there was probably a week left in the season.

Clay Bennett came out and gave us three options of similar cities they were looking at like San Jose. I think it was San Diego and then, well, we said okay, you're from Okc, like we know what this is. Now you know, around April was when I thought, "Okay, I'll move to Okc, it's got to be a While like this, three years in a row, you moved to Texas, yeah, like it couldn't be a very different dynamic in the that I was prepared to stay in Seattle for four or five years and then I thought we were going to move, but I didn't I don't know, I want to talk about your routines soon I know this is something you've talked about a lot on your show, just. his shooting routine when they're playing and how meticulous he has to be.

You're like a scientist shooting. I've been watching him do his routine for a while and it's like I wonder when that develops and when you're 15 you're just shooting. as you know, but at some point. You're a pro and you start putting together this workout that becomes your daily bread. I loved watching Kevin's pregame routine. I do that one-leg spin that spins the earth. .It's hard training. That's where I stole it from. Yes, honestly. I actually had a routine when I was a kid and I think for me routine is work like always trying to try to get better at something, always trying to master something that you could never master, that's what I loved about

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I always had a routine and then I got to college, then I got to college and I thought I wanted to be a frat boy for a couple of years, so I didn't have much of a routine there, and then my junior year like the summer before my In the third year they gave me a spreadsheet. I still have the spreadsheet. What I was doing day by day, hour by hour, I lost a lot of weight. I got in incredible shape. I won the player of the year award. I won the representative award. for national player of the year and I say, oh, that's how it is for the rest of my life and for the rest of my career it was like that and I mean, you know, our production companies are called 342 because every Sunday in the off-season I'm going to do 342 shots exactly, so I was very obsessed with the routine why that number yes, it's easy, you will understand this there are seven points on the court, I should make two, I make 20 points two, shoot five free throws, 20 points three, shoot five shots free. three one dribble to the right shoot five three free throws three one dribble to the left five three shots that's 342 shots seven splits that's how long it would take you that sounds like a great drill the same guy bounces past yeah, yeah, um and I was like that's what you said, how often do you do that every Sunday off season every Sunday every day and then it's during the season like not so late in my career just because I had to preserve energy but there was times during the season I would do half of that after practice after practice I had a routine yeah after shooting I had a routine after uh after shooting after shooting routine I had a routine like I had a routine in addition to the routines In addition to the routines, my playing days were like the time he loves, yeah, he loves you, how long how long did you do training after practice after practice, yeah, not long, 20 minutes, it's just hits, you know what it was , without movement, yes, especially?

My first 13 years, yeah, I really like all the dho stuff, setting

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, um, you know, running in transition to transition three. I worked on all of that after practice, but this was a big deal. I'm curious if this affected you. all we talked about this the whole time during Cove was a question. I have everything else apart from all the other problems with the right to coffee. It's like everyone's routine is completely thrown out and all these different

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that you have are suddenly thrown out the window. and you're used to doing a certain thing that has worked for you for many years and suddenly it doesn't anymore, some guys can handle it better than others.

Did it feel like your routine? Yeah, did it feel like your routine last year? ruled out at all, especially coming back from a major injury, no no, I mean what do you mean by routine, is what we mean by what I would do on the court, yes, no, why would I change well, but would it Did you have it, did you have it because you had things? like the pregame meal like oh yeah I mean he's talking about how my job is still on my back I'm talking about yeah my day was interrupted by so much TV having lunch if I don't have lunch at 2 15 and it's like I get there, you know, so you had to like it, you couldn't see, I didn't have a routine like that, it was just when I got on the court, I just did it off the court, but the arena, could you? like some days they took naps some days oh no no but when you get there it's but you do it it's all day it's like game days it's like as soon as I wake up it starts to go crazy, that starts until the end of the game 12 Minutes and 25 seconds in the cold bathtub.

I would actually do it like I time it like 12 minutes and 25 seconds because I'm so sick they told me to do it for 12 minutes so I'm fine. I'll do it for 12 minutes, but sometimes I go in and say, oh man, I started my timer a few seconds early, I'm kidding myself, so just to be safe, I'll do 12 to 12 minutes. and 25 seconds, oh, so you're sick, this is yours, that's why you're a sniper, so yeah, I have to say I feel like that's probably the same part of your brain, being obsessed with your shots and being a great shooter, are you?

I think I think to be a great shooter, any skill, to be excellent at any skill that requires hand-eye coordination, like you have to be, there's a level of obsession, yeah, yeah, I feel like when I just walk into any gym. and I pick up any

basketball

and just hit it in the hoop. I can, it's not even an exercise. I just feel like that helps me hone the skill of casting this, even if it's like in an au games and you're just yeah, it's part of it's part of everything part of the work part of the construction yeah, because it's all touch at the end of the day do you have muscles?

Do you feel like you dominate basketball? I'm serious, I have a following. You are the person who should follow up on this question, but yeah, get to this.