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Right on time. Look at that. We are ninety seven on the Freak.

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We're the home of the Dallas Mavericks
and also inside Sports Medicine with doctor

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TiO. Sorry, Elle and uh. We are these games and we're proud

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to do it. And it also
gives us access to big name guests,

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and we have one right now.
It is time to talk to the head

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coach of the Dallas Mavericks, mister
Jason Kidd. We got your coach my

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birthday brother. Oh you guys are
birthday brothers March twenty third, Me and

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Ja Kid. He's in far better
fitness than you. Okay, thanks,

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what's up, coach? Coming off
a nice victory just last night at the

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AAC one nine over the Orlando Magic. I got to start with one fastball,

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Derek Lively? Is this nose broken? A good? Great question?

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I don't think so. He took
a nice hit to the nose. You

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had to cut shot. Big frea
goes for us. He was a big

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part of our success last night coming
back. So I'm going to go and

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say it's he has a nice bump
on his nose, but not broken,

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Okay, because I saw him with
the free throw line and it looked like

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there was that bump that you mentioned, and I don't know how many how

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those bumps pop up when it's not
broken. But he's seeing a tough,

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tough kid man as he's proven to
be all year. But he goes in

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with the Kleenex up the nose and
kind of gets the alley. You've dunk.

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That sort of ice is the game. How how happy are we with

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the evolution of young Derek Lively.
We're very excited just understanding at the beginning

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of the season, just you know, the unknown nineteen year old kid played

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at Duke, just understanding that could
he pick up things quickly? He's answered

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that question. Could he you know, played with Luca and Kai. He's

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answered that question. So he's been
a big part of our success. And

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again I think we're very fortunate to
be able to get him in the draft.

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He's a stud, no doubt.
It's a great win, great third

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quarter. And I saw you on
the podium last night, and I don't

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want to say a problem with the
team, but it's a roller coaster.

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Man. Some days you guys look
like, you know, you should be

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title contenders, and some days the
defense just isn't there. How hard is

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it? Because you said last night
the defense is determined by effort and energy.

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How hard is it to get the
modern NBA player to maintain the level

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of effort required to, you know, to play great defense in the league,

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which I do think this team is
capable of. Well, I think

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it's it's hard. I think for
any professional athlete, it's hard to be

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consistent. And I think that's what
we all fight for as coaches, as

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players, is to be consistent.
It's there's a human element to sport.

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And right now, with the health
of our team, you know, we've

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been hit with a lot of injuries. We have guys that are playing a

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lot more minutes that they normally would
not be playing, and so we're stretching

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guys and we're asking guys to do
more until we can get healthy. And

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so but again also at age,
we have player a few young players,

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you know, who are trying to
learn what it takes to be consistent.

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And again, the more time they're
going to be on the floor, the

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better chances of learning how to do
that. And right now, with the

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injuries, we've got a lot of
young players playing. Coach Gett the MAVs

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joining us here on a ninety seven
to one coach. Is there a level

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of expectation going into a game like
last night when you're facing a team that

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statistically is the worst three point three
point shooting team in the league and they

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come out and just light it up
from beyond the arc? Is there an

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amount of kind of surprise or shock
that, Oh, my gosh, how

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are these guys doing this? Now
we have to adjust, maybe face them

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up a little bit tighter beyond at
the perimeter. Is that kind of made

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you what got you guys in a
little bit of trouble in the first half?

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Or Am I completely off base?
No? I think one. Orlando

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is a team that doesn't shoot the
three well. But for whatever reason,

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right now, we seem to pick
a player and they're they're shooting thirty seven

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percent, and they seemed to make
make them all when they shoot them.

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And I think last night's game plan
was to make them shoot threes. We

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were in the same situation in Orlando
again. The game plan is to make

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them, you know, shoot threes, and they made them in Orlando in

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the first half, and we asked
the guys to trust the game plan.

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Came out in the second half and
then again took control of it. It's

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kind of the same thing that happened
last night. We believe that the analytics

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will, you know, match our
game plan, and it did in the

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second half. Well, we held
a team to twelve points. They shot

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the ball well in the first half. But there's a thing called not panicking,

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and I thought the group didn't panic. They made shots. We continued

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to keep playing and eventually they came
back to earth in that third quarter where

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they didn't make those shots in the
in the second half, and we did.

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And so again we took full advantage
of that third quarter puts in a

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position to win that game. Maverick's
head coach Jason Kidd joining us on the

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downbeat Coach last night, I was
the celebrity guest for MAVs karaoke cam,

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so and that happened. You know, right after a big run, you

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could really feel the energy rising in
the building. I don't know what should

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get more credit for the big run
in the second half. Would it be

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my karaoke camp performance or your halftime
adjustments and maybe any type of halftime speech

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that you might have given the team. No, I think the players are

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going to say ye're karaoke. What
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big run? So you might have
to do it again on Saturday. I'll

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be there. Yeah, I can
handle that. Sorry, I was Milwaukee.

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I'm in Oh yeah, I'm curious
about that we were talking about because

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Kevin did you know he was on
the jumbo tron last night representing the station.

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Have you read a situation where you're
in the team huddle, you got

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the whiteboard on, you know,
on and trying to draw up a play

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and you see one of your guys
that's you know, rubber neck and around

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looking at the jumbo tron, watching
some feature that he's part of, and

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you have to go, hey,
lively head on the whiteboard. Does that

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ever happen to you? Uh?
Yeah, it happens a lot. You

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know, guys can move, you
know, their focus if something's funny it's

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happening on a jumbo tron. You
just make sure that they understand what the

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play is or they'll ask as they
get up, hey what's the play?

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What am I supposed to do?
So you know then that they were paying

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attention to something on the jumble on
the jump tron. It just shows that

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they're no matter how old they are. They're all just big kids, and

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that's on TV. That's awesome.
All right. Last thing from last night,

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Well I got some fun stuff for
you. But part of the job

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obviously is quick decisions that you do
and don't make, and sometimes they work

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and don't work. Last night,
two timeouts in the pocket, Tim had

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the ball, we didn't call one, and Tim and Luca kind of in

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the heat of battle, obviously pretty
fired up. Do you think is it

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something in hindsight you think a timeout
should have been called there? Yeah,

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you know, this is the beauty
of a game of basketball. I think

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we all we're talked at some point
in Cyo or in high school or in

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college that when you know you have
timeouts, that you can burn one anytime

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that you're in trouble. Unfortunately we
did. We didn't do that last night.

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Again, at the highest level,
we are teaching the rules of the

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game, and unfortunately that happened last
night. But again no one panicked.

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We found a way to come back
from that mistake and won the game.

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But there's always teaching moments. I've
given the guy, especially late in the

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game. You see players get fouled, Orlando gives them credit they didn't foul.

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Timmy traveled, and so yes,
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Yes, the guy who had the
ball could have called a timeout, and

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so it didn't. So we'll learn
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lear in that situation, we'll take
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up on that. In that number
one, in that instance, whose responsibility

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is it ultimately to make the call
for the timeout? And number two even

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since it even though it wasn't called, you were probably pretty thankful to have

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the two considering the difficulty you were
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end of the game. Yeah,
I think to be able to, you

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know, understand lake game. You
know you're going to get fouled, and

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so give Orlando credit. They didn't
foul. Timmy lost balance and the best

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part of it is he ate the
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they can get an easy basket,
so they had to take the ball out

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and then sometimes there is a difficulty
of getting the ball in. But I

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thought we did a good job of
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shooter and he had a rhythm and
that was Luca. But understanding, you

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know, in Atlanta, we had
the same situation. We throw the ball

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into the stands late in the game, we missed layups. You know,

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it happens, and so I think
instead of being a negative, we learn

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from it, and as the season
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bit more important, we'll be better
in those situations. Coach tell us about

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seventy three points, and if you've
ever seen anyone who's gifted offensively as young

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Luka Doncice, Yeah, when you
talk about what he did in Atlanta,

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a lot of us have never seen
anything like that or been a part of

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that, you know, when you
talk about Kobe or you know, players

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like MJ going for fifty to fifty
five or sixty three. To see it

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in person, to be a part
of it look like shoot around it.

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It was very you know, seamless
and easy. There was no stress involved

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in what he was doing, and
you could see early on he was going

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to go. And so for us
it was a matter of how, you

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know, how can we get umrested, How can we use him on the

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floor to get someone else to you
know, carry some of the low But

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he clearly it was a bounce back
game at a very very high level.

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How much of that performance do you
think was Luca hopefully or maybe subconsciously silencing

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all the noise that happened that that
came forth from the Phoenix game and some

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of the negative reaction that he had
by getting the fan thrown out, and

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how much of it was just all
planets aligned in the right way. He

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was absolutely on and and and it
was just one of those crazy wild nights

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that just adds to the resume of
this kid. Yeah, I think any

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time he's questioned or you know,
if there's something that is not positive,

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I think he's always responded in a
positive way. I've said this before and

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I'll say it. You know,
for as long as I'm here, he

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can't take this young man for granted. He's better than Dirk. He's in

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the in the in the atmosphere of
MJ the best to ever do it,

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Lebron Kobe. And so just to
appreciate what this young man is doing adage

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at twenty four is something that Dallas
has never seen. And that said this,

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internally he is he's better than Dirk. He does things that Dirk could

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never do. And now it's you
know, the opportunity of getting the right

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people around him to ultimately win a
championship. But he plays the game the

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right way. He gets double team
the most in the league, and he

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relies on his teammates. He trusts
his teammates, and so again, to

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be able to have the opportunity to
coach one of the best players in the

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world is an honor. And right
now we're just trying to make sure that

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we don't we don't kill him.
I mean we're playing him forty six minutes

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forty three minutes last night. We
got to get healthy, and we got

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to get you know, back to
getting him out of the game so that

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he is strong going into the fourth
quarter. You just said two times that

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Luca is better than Dirk. Dirk
won a title and had been to two

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Do you feel comfortable saying that on
a guy that has not made the even

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made the finals yet? Yeah,
MJ is the same way. MJ didn't

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make it, didn't didn't make it
into his thirties. This young man is

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twenty four and is breaking all the
records that standing in front of him,

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and he's a winner and his ultimate
goal is to win a championship and he

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will get there and not just you
know, win one, but he will

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win multiple when it's all said and
done, And so our job is to

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put him in that position and also
put his teammates in that position to help

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him achieve that goal. He's a
pleasure to watch. I know he racks

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up some teas because he gets worked
up with the refs. But part of

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me thinks, no one touch change
anything about Luca. So I don't even

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think if he's not running hot,
maybe it doesn't lead to these performances that

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are just breaking records every time he
takes the floor. I know you talk

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to him about that managing his emotions, but is that even dangerous to even

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threaten to change anything about you because
he's playing so good? No, I

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think, you know, I agree. You know, sometimes the emotions get

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the best of all of us,
and you know, and I think sometimes

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we can channel our emotions to help
us in the dog days, or we're

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fatigued, we're trying to get us
going, we're trying to draw someone into

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a confrontation. Times he use the
officials. But I think when Lucas playing

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his best is when you see him
smiling. I said it after the seventy

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three points in Atlanta. He was
smiling, and he was having a good

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time he you know, and when
he is smiling, he is at his

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best and he's happy and he's not
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When you talk about the officials,
and sometimes he does, you know,

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get into it with the officials.
He you know, he's one of

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the hardest players too, official because
he has the ball ninety eight percent of

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the time he does get hit.
It's kind of like Lebron and Shack.

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You know, when you have the
ball that much, it's hard for the

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officials to call a foul every every
time. And you look at last night,

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he shoots over twenty three throws and
so I think, you know,

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as he gets to understand the balance
of when calls are going to you know,

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help and when to just let things
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he's going to get even better at
what he's doing. We talk about that

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a lot with Michael Parsons, like
he rushes the pastor every time, and

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a lot of cowboys vans like it. He never gets they never call holding.

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It's like, well, the rats
aren't going to call it every time

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because he's rushing the passer on almost
every play. Last question before we let

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you go and get on with your
day, coach, how close are we

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to getting Kyrie back? That's a
great question. Hopefully soon. You know,

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we traveled to Minnesota this afternoon,
so we'll see where he stands with

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his help. But I think with
the rehab everything, he had a great

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workout last night, so hopefully it's
this week. All right. We appreciate

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the time this morning, and we'll
be at cheering you on obviously all of

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our games there on this station is
where the home of the MAVs. And

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if you ever need me for some
karaoke cam magic, you know, just

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let me know. Happy to make
it happen. We'll come Saturday. Yeah,

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that's you're coming back Saturday. Yeah, that's the plan, you want

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to know. With with Kevin on
karaoke, I'm going to keep this going.

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Who knew? That's all it took. All right, coach, have

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a great day and good luck in
Minnesota tomorrow night. I appreciate it,

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guys. Alright, thanks coach,
Jason Kidd. There he goes