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Speaker 1: Four Sports Talk Seminini matten Ross with you here on

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the program. We are help joined now by a man Thompson.

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You and your brother on that Slam magazine cover.

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Speaker 2: Huh that wasn't bad.

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Speaker 3: That's tough, right.

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Speaker 2: How long did it take you to do that?

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Speaker 3: Like an hour? That's it? Yeah? Yeah, like an hour.

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Speaker 2: Man down in Florida doing your thing? Is that we

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spent a lot of the off season in FLI lader do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go back to my high school workout. You know,

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that's where a lot of my family is. So that's nice.

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That's nice.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the great success.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on every time I look on social media like

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up and coming top twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Star, do you look at that kind of stuff where

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you're like, oh, it's nice. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: When I first got to the league, I would look

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at it. It was exciting. Now it's like, at some point

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you gotta go out there and do something, you know

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what I mean, before you get it. So yeah, it's

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exciting still though, but gotta do something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're doing plenty of my man. I'm so happy

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that your success so far. Everyone's asking me, is a

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man gonna bring the ball up? Who I'm just gonna

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do it. What have you been told?

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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 1: And do you think it's gonna just organically, over the

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course of the year kind of just settle its way

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into who plays in what position?

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Speaker 3: I think organically it's gonna settle, you know, before anything happened,

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I think I was gonna get a little bit more

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on ball reps too, yep, and Reed was too. So

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I think it's just accelerated a little bit now on that.

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Speaker 2: Do you think it's a situation?

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you find yourself want the

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ball more or do you can you do some things

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to position yourself to score better when your ball is

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not directly in your hands.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I can. I'm very effective in both

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aspects with the ball in my hands and then off

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the ball too. So I'm definitely somebody that could play

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with any lineup, you know, whoever's bringing the ball up,

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you know what I mean? Yeah, how many?

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Speaker 1: There are very few guys in this league that can

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play four positions. I mean, you've got Kd's with you now,

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who's done it quite a bit in his life as well,

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But to master it. I love the fact that one

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night you're starting point guard, you've been two guard, you've

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been playing power forward to the dunker spot. Was that

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always something that you dreamed of, to be that kind

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of versatile player because it's trying to turn out that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I never dreamed about that. My first year I

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played center for like offensively for the last twenty something games,

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I never thought I was center. I played center my rookie.

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Speaker 2: Year point center. Let's put center, let's go.

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Speaker 3: I never thought I was. But I feel like it's

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taught me how to, first off, be more versatile and

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how to get myself open and others open to So

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what with Fred of going?

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Speaker 4: Of course, we know that he brought a lot of

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both as kind of a like a coach on the

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court and somebody who had a very good assistant turnover ratio.

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What kind of things you think you can see what

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he did or do you feel like there are things

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that you can borrow kind of what he did to

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to run the offense to try to help things transition

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more smoothly.

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Speaker 3: With him, Yeah, for sure. I mean I got to

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pick his brain even more now, you know, try to

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become that leader extension of coach on the floor. You know,

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we got Katie for that too, and a lot of

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that's it. I still want to get better at that

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and the Sisters turnover thing. Nobody wants to get turned

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over it. So, you know, if I could emulate Fred,

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but freds one is the greatest to ever do it.

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Speaker 2: In that you can't just snap your fingers and do it.

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Speaker 3: I mean you can't just that, but I could be

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conscious of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you also want to stay within yourself.

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Speaker 3: I said with myself. Yeah, for sure, I think.

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Speaker 2: Fred's gonna be screaming at you all year long.

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Speaker 3: You know this, right, you assistant coach. So he did

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the last two years. Yeah, that's all good.

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Speaker 2: I mean there are there are worse guys to be yelling.

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Speaker 1: I mean the guy and that's the thing about him

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and d Dylan was that those were guys that were

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ready to beat their chest, scream at you, yell at you.

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But it was all in love. And now you may

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take some of that role on now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Fred Fred was always like I mean,

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top professional at it, like he's you never feel away

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after Fred yells at you. You know, you know, you

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know what Fred wants to you, and you're ready to

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go to war with Fred. So I mean, it's gonna

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be the same thing. He's just gonna be on the sideline,

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but I know he's gonna still have that that impact

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for sure.

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Speaker 2: What is that like for you?

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Speaker 4: It's part of the Rockets culture with Udoka, with Fred

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and with you being part of that as well. It's

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kind of like, you know, this day and age, you

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don't see a lot of like hard coaching or or

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like you said, yelling and stuff like that, but it

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just seems like it's well embraced by this team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't feel like it's as much yelling as

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people think. It's really good. It's it's stern. You know

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they're gonna get the message across. But it's not. It's

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not like he's just yelling like some college like cursing

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me out, calling names like. It's all respectful and I

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feel like our guys take it really well too.

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Speaker 2: So I just love the blank talking y'all make all

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during the whole year. I just it's it's so inspirational.

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I mean, and you're not bad guys, you just don't

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get in our way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. I mean I feel like you gotta

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be able to turn it on on the court. I

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was telling everybody mutch of nice guys.

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Speaker 2: You know, Oh, y'all are sweet heroes, Like.

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Speaker 3: It's a nice guys. But on the court, you know,

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we want we want to win, obviously, and sometimes that

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shows and different ways.

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Speaker 2: So do you see titter at all during the off

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season anymore?

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Speaker 3: No, I ain't see vacation with him. No, No, we're

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probably in the same place.

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Speaker 4: What was your reaction when you heard Kevin Durant as

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a Houston Rocket.

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Speaker 3: My reaction was like, very excited, you know, getting Katie

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because it's dude, I'll watched my whole life, you know,

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one of the best ever. So yeah, that was my

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original reaction. Reaction.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, any age references, he's you know, he's turning thirty

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seven years old today.

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Speaker 2: You get him a cane or something.

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Speaker 3: Nah, I mean I probably one of the top thirty

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seven year olds whatever. Oh, I would think all maybe

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the number one thirty seven year old probably ever. So

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I think he's good.

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Speaker 1: To me and I don't know at all at this point.

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But it's it's much about basketball. It's very little let's

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get on social media and do a bunch of stuff.

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It's just very much a business for him because I

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think he wants to play into his forties, and you

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have to have that kind of suppl if you're going

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to play as long as he's going wants to play

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at least.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I feel like from the be still here,

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you know, he's obviously super about his crowds, and then

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you hear that, and then you see it, and you

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see how he goes through every rep and he's going

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through it like like he's really trying to get better.

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Still then like how much better can you get at

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that point? You know what I mean? But he's doing

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it so it's like inspirational to watch for.

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Speaker 1: I let your run. You and Austar have a call

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to your mom and dad. First one of the NBA

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finals gets a special gift.

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Speaker 3: Or something my dad is my dad has you know,

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I can't even say this on on the camera. I

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can't give y'all stuff, but I mean, hopefully I get

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to the finals first, that's all I say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to be in our place very early

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in the season.

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Speaker 3: I know. I'm man. I wanted to like he's into

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the season before I kill him, you know what I mean.

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I don't want to just off. That's very nice of you.

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Speaker 2: You know, but you'll hug it out after the game.

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Speaker 3: I'm hugging before. I'm like, I'm sorry, I gotta do this,

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but I like it. You know.

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Speaker 2: How many times have be gone against each other in

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your life?

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Speaker 3: Not much, right, not much? Probably maybe a little over

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ten times.

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Speaker 2: Who has the Who has the advantage at this point?

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Speaker 3: Oh he might have the event. I got the most

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in the league, but he has the most in general.

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Speaker 1: Well, late October, it's gotta change, change, all right. Men

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Thompson with us here on the show. Thank you for

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coming by, my friend. I appreciate it. Men Thompson joining

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us hereous