Jeff Van Gundy was so mad after Tracy McGrady's 13 points in 33 seconds, he 'went off' | The Jump

What were you thinking in the JVG edition? So Jeff, this is a setup. I can now. What were you thinking? What was going through your mind the first time you sparred against your older brother Stan? I was in Houston and it was Owen six coming into the game, it was Dwayne Wade's rookie year and we hit him, so I felt a little bad, but not that bad, yeah, I guess little brother never feels bad, it's like Serena Williams, she never feels that bad, while Venus always said she does. I felt bad for hitting his youngest son, yes, I think it's a deep psychosis from having been hit when he was young, are your children like that?

No, no, it's okay, you work in our band from time to time. I wanted to know your opinion on what you were thinking. when coach Gregg Popovich hugged you during an interview yes that took me by surprise all the reporters all the sideline reporters what to do how to approach you said to explore your feelings at the end of the third quarter so did you ask him to explore? The feeling he was so happy they were up 20 going to the right fourth can you imagine if I was trying to do an interview with him down seven like Mac played for him?

I don't think he would have turned out well. I think so. He would have hung his head and only asked a one-word question because he would have given a one-word answer. I'm going to have to see, you know, the happiness on his face. What type? Okay, we spread you enough. They said two nice, yeah that's cool, you know what we're getting at, what were you Jeff Van Gundy thinking when you tried to stop LJ from fighting 21 years ago? You know, here he is and you. I'm looking at it and, first of all, Miami was a very dirty team and we were very nice and we competed with honor, but anyway, you know, when criminals declare themselves temporarily insane, that was me.

I have no idea about an unknown memory, but if you had. I saw Oakley and I saw him last night. He was out like he was just smiling at me like this guy, do it, you know? I mean, luckily they're going to kill him. I had guys like him looking out for me so I could act tough, but I didn't really do it. to fight in the morning, can you imagine if they said let's listen to a plan for him for three years? I understand how I mean just a fireball, okay, it's very hard, hard as nails, so what do you guys do as players, who are all particularly big?

Humans, let me tell you something, non-grown humans listen when this man walks into the room or practice, I mean, he is a grown man, he is not afraid, he laughs at his jokes and he just is himself. I've seen it, you walk on eggshells, no. no, no, there are no people that people love like I'm a huggable kind of person like you, be serious last time, what were you thinking, Jeff, what were you thinking when Tracy had maybe one of the most memorable moments of your Hall of Fame career? Down 13 in 33

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after a halftime speech, give them the hat.

I'm not sure what I mean, but not the halftime speech, but the postgame speech. I'm going to postpone that, but first of all, this is not against us playing such a horrible game. game up to this point and the shots you see look like oh yeah okay I remember this is against Bruce Bowen Kevin Duncan the elite of the elite he has four guys not meeting him at the basket it was a joke. It showed off his incredible skill and you know, his shots weren't even the best, like I said, I was telling him on the plane ride in LeBron James, Rick Barry and Mack, they all do something in common, they're all going to score. in this. high high level as a great scorer not even close to his best streak was his passing ability he is one of the elite passers to ever play the game and as you see those things scoring he could have made a tape of the passes incredible Kyle.

Lowry gave Mac his support for that right at two on Wednesday. He wanted to know, though in his postgame speech, Charlie White said, you delivered 13

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like this, it was like one of the greatest comebacks in NBA history and he. I just took him down in the post-game like we played so bad. I'm telling you, don't, you know, don't get high on some guy's forgettable heroics and I just want to say he was just saying oh this. He was like a one-man wrecking crew that we had played so badly like, you know, they say you gotta honor the process, well the process sucked at that guy, basically, he just killed us, I mean, he didn't high-five , it was nothing like that, but I'm sure in the coaches office it's business as usual because he always said don't worry so much about how it happened, we just got a W and he was always my guy who would like it. keep me in line that way, we hope he meets Lee now and now he's older and wiser and not really looking for anyone.