[JJ Redick] calls out one of his players: “We had a guy the other day, who hasn’t played a lot, who didn’t know what a flood was, in the middle of a game. So when we’re not healthy, we clearly have some room to grow in that area.”
My money is on Dalton, esp with the disappointment in his voice
JJ yelled at him for forgetting a play designed for him last season so that’s also what I’m thinking.
Is Dalton dumb as rocks or something?
Too busy banging thots and doing el pollo loco commercials
Yeah he doesn’t look like a high iq guy with how late he rotates defensively. That or he don’t care
Why not both!
You’re probably right lol
por que no los dos? fits better.
Para el Pollo loco claro que si
I feel like it’s probably more that he just doesn’t wanna be there anymore. It’s pretty rare for a guy as old as him to have plain terrible iq. You would think playing in college so long he’d know how to play within an offensive and defensive system
It’s pretty rare but Dalton was drafted as a senior who couldn’t do anything other than shoot the ball. He genuinely is that terrible at BBIQ.
Every time I read BBIQ I get hungry
I think it’s also BBIQ relative to the greatest minds of basketball. Also, BBIQ as the star of your college team VS BBIQ as a role player is pretty different, you go from having the system around you to becoming one of the small pieces lol.
Yeah, obviously. If you can make it to the NBA at all, you’re way ahead of anyone outside of it. Even Trae Young could probably lock down a lot of really good players ahaha
Hard to blame him after the Mark Williams drama last season showed him how dispensable he is. Probably gone at the deadline again for a veteran who can help to a ranking team who will take a punt on his potential.
I mean he’s a pro player. You’re going to get traded. You’re going to play for different teams. The only person he’s hurting is himself if he’s still sulking 10 months later. There’s a ton of guys in trade rompers year in and out that still have to perform, even tho they know there team is trying to trade them
He’s 25 years old. He’s not a teenager. Most people in the world at that age are working for a company that they know would drop them in a heartbeat with no consideration, and they keep on working and doing their best. 0 sympathy for a pro athlete making millions of dollars who can’t do the same.
Still wonder why Lakers axed that trade. Would much rather have Mark Williams right now than Knecht and the pick/swap that won’t amount to much as long as Luka is here. Mark seems healthy(ish) for me.
but… i thought knecht was a high iq player? a real coach’s kid, gym rat, lunch pail guy?
Only at first glance
You don’t need to make this joke every time someone is white
no im gonna keep doing it
Your body your choice
False
Omg I miss el pollo loco I have not had it in like 20 years since I moved east. Is it still good?
Oh yeah. It still slaps. Never thought it wasn’t a national chain. In a fast-food world where you can get good fried chicken from restaurants/businesses that ONLY sell chicken (Chick-fil-A, Popeyes, Raising Canes), El Pollo Loco serving up flame-grilled chicken is definitely a standout
It’s still delicious as fuck, but the chicken has shrunk tremendously. It’s like The Loco buys emaciated chickens.
Chicken tostada salad with the avocado salsa? 🔥🔥🔥
He did go to Tennessee…sooooo…
Counterpoint, so did Allan Houston and Peyton Manning, two extremely high IQ athletes sooooooo.
Counter counterpoint, so did Jim Bob Cooter. Dude could have 6 doctoral degrees, but with a name like that…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bob_Cooter
He just can’t Knecht the dots
He kinda looks like a dumb jock who skated by with Ds tbh lol
Yes. It’s why he was drafted so low. Around draft time I thought i heard a joke/rumor that he couldn’t read.
Other teams passed on him in the draft and it was mentioned that in his pre-draft interviews he said that he did not like to read. Now, it does not matter if you like to read or not, you don’t tell your potential employer that learning isn’t your thing.
Crazy to see everyone pile on Dalton when it was probably Thiero or Manon
“Can’t trade him, can’t play him. My disappointment is immeasurable in Dalton Pylon.”
Really should be called Dalton DisKnecht
Amazing
Imagine he’s actually sabotaging the Lakers for trying to trade him to charlotte
He’s my favorite Laker I know that much
That’s fucking unacceptable (what is a flood?)
No but for real I don’t know lol and I’m now too afraid to ask
Not a good decision for a coach or anyone in a leadership position to say when someone on the team messes up. Shows poor communication, shifts blame and now creates distrust. Address the problem with the person individually or the team as a whole. Addressing it to the media and then providing clues who messed up is just poor leadership. I know some will say its sports, they make a lot of money so “suck it up” but both can be true
It can be effective to speak through the media, Phil Jackson, Pop, Spoelstra etc have all had instances. Definitely depends from player to player
exactly. at some point, you publicize the laziness to get some reaction from those type of players.
I’m a coach and this is something I struggle with immensely. I tell the player 10 times. We have meetings. It gets to the point where they don’t know, and they don’t care.
So when it gets brought up in team meetings, I think “do you care now?” And many times I see a change after that.
I still question myself because I would be devastated if this happened to me. But I also would have made a change sooner.
Sometimes when players are thick in the head, you need a sledgehammer to break through. Sometimes another might just need a poke privately.
It’s hard
Not basketball of course, but this reminds me of when Liam Coen was saying some critical things about Trevor Lawrence in the media. Not completely disparaging, but definitely commenting about how he’s not playing to his full potential. We had our bye week right after that, and since then, Trevor been playing the best ball of his NFL career.
And he didn’t name names. The only people that will know who he is talking about is the player, the coaching staff and the team…and they all already knew he didn’t know the concept to begin with. He probably felt whoever it was (my money is also on Dalton) is just not paying enough attention and said this to wake him up.
What if he’s tried everything else and this was like a last ditch effort to get players to actually do their homework and treat practice appropriately?
Yah but the standard is the standard.
Maybe he was insinuating that JJ himself needed to make sure top to bottom the guys are on the same page, not just the stars
Yeah I don’t think it’s “calling out one player” when he doesn’t name the player. This is just “not everyone on the team knows the plays, so we need to be better at coaching and being coached.” I’m sure the individual has been called out privately far worse than this.
We shouldn’t assume he hasn’t already repeatedly addressed this with the player personally and then with the team as a whole. I routinely see people make this assumption, and it’s particularly frustrating because I see it made both ways. A coach publicly criticizes a player: “Why doesn’t he address it behind closed doors?” A coach doesn’t publicly criticize a player: “Why isn’t he doing anything about that guy?”
We don’t know most of what happens behind closed doors. But we do know that, like it or not, a lot of guys are actually motivated by not being embarrassed in the media. And we do know that some of the most successful coaches in NBA history have occasionally used this tactic. Phil Jackson most notoriously and directly, but Pop has also done it.
I’m assuming it’s a defensive concept where players flood a certain area of the floor when certain players have the ball.
Load up on gap help, dot the I on the weak side and basically flood the floor to prevent one player from beating you.
Not sure who they were playing so maybe that wouldn’t make sense, but when I hear “flood”, and what I’ve seen from how they want to play defense structurally, that’s my assumption
It can also apply to the offensive side , where you flood a certain part of the court so that the player can isolate or take advantage of a certain mismatch , essentially what those pre- Triangle offense Bulls did with MJ
Think about in football how two routes occupy the same side of the field and reading what the boundary CB or S does
Terminology isn’t universal across all teams but I would assume it refers to some sort of help defense principle
it’s when you overload ballside of the floor on offense.
Crazy it took scrolling this far to find an answer. Everyone on here is so much more concerned with taking the piss out of every news headline than talking actual basketball. What a sub.
This is r/nba, not r/basketball. We’re here for the memes.
Usually r/nbadiscussion is my go to.
I just googled it after reading the headline, idk why everyone needs to wait for somebody to respond when this stuff is super easy to look up. Like type it into the google search bar instead of the reddit comment box…
This is a major issue I had with some Reddit posts and someone hit me with the ‘it promotes discussion’ line. Me simply defining things for you is not promoting any discussion worth having.
Fair gripe.
They’re by upvotes so talk to the people who pushed the other comments higher.
Never thought id thank Adam Silver but thanks g
We legitimately just called it overload.
Like the above poster says, not all terminology is universal. I think the only reason to be disappointed if you are JJ is if this is the concept/term you have been discussing and using in team meetings.
If it is you have big problems with that player, if you haven’t specifically drilled or discussed it I would chalk it up to confusing a person by using non-standard language for them.
It’s when you load up one side of the court to set up a down screen or post up
not defense, it’s overloading a side
A cover 3 beater concept using go, deep out, and flat routes.
I wonder how many people in this sub actually know…
gotta be a lot of madden players in here at least
Lots of water
Remember how happy they were to get Dalton and so surprised he dropped that far
First month of last season everyone in the media were calling the teams that picked before the Lakers stupid for passing on him
First month of the NBA season is always a smorgasbord of hot takes.
So are the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc
Wow, what a good use of the word smorgasbord…I don’t even know if that’s spelled right, but congrats lol
As someone who lived in Lancaster county PA, home of countless Amish Smorgasbord restaurants, yes, it’s correct!
Original spelling must be Smörgåsbord since its Swedish but maybe thats anglicised version.
To be fair, he looked like an absolute sniper with sneaky athleticism.
Now, he’s sneaky athletic ! …. and that’s pretty much it.
Most of this reddit as well
That literally happens for every “good popular team”. I remember when warriors drafted Jordan Bell during the KD Warriors era everyone was complaining on how the they let the Warriors get him lol
I wonder if the early success is just a case of teams not really guarding him “if we get beat by dalton, we’re willing to die on that hill”, and then he has success so they take him more serious and then they cant adapt to the serious defense.
Or maybe the trade and return fiasco really got in his head.
He was able to play to his role last year. This year the Lakers do not need any more offense, so he can’t play his game. Luka shifted the needs of the team around.
Definitely not a scouting report issue. He is still getting WIDE open 3s when he plays.
He just isn’t a consistent 3pt shooter, and his defense and Bball IQ are bad. I am sure that the revoked trade shocked him, but that was close to 1 year ago.
If getting traded out of nowhere as a roleplayer gets you THAT shaken up for so long, then the NBA is just not meant for you, imo.
I remember Bill Simmons ripping the Heat for passing on Daulton and taking a guy named “ Ware” and then said “Jaime looks like a reach”
Did Bill Simmons became worse recently or what? Back then his bad takes were mostly Celtics homerisms, but it seems he also did shit like this that make me wonder if he fell off too.
He got very rich and very busy and stopped watching games aside from his own. His takes are generally terrible now.
Lmfao blazer fans were having a meltdown they traded the 14th pick in that draft for Deni avdija instead of drafting him
“They”
Sure bud, just leave out the part that nearly everyone, Lakers fans or otherwise, thought DK slid to that spot and was a great pick.
I got shit on for pointing out around the draft that 23 year olds who are drafted in the first round almost never pan out.
Nobody should be surprised that he’s not turning out to be a good pro.
told his ass to watch some mind the game podcast
“We had a player the other day and he’d only listened to 2-3 episodes of the pod… And well that’s just unacceptable. I told him you better hit like and subscribe on every episode, or you’re not getting off the bench.”
Haha dead af
I continue to say JJ needs to be less of a hot head. He lets his frustrations ruin his leadership at times.
That means he isn’t a good leader
I dont watch the Lakers enough and can only comment on what I see.
It means he’s an imperfect leader, as leaders tend to be. But yeah, he needs to be better.
He’s definitely the guy you want making the game plan and drawing up plays. It’s still a wait and see as to whether or not he’s going to grow into a coach/leader. He may not be the right messenger for his message. The team has quit in half a dozen games this season.
As long as Luka stays on his side he’ll get some space to grow out of it. If Luka gets fed up is when he has the problem.
i’m a fan of JJ but i have always thought from day 1 it’s a little weird how everyone seems to agree that he does absolutely nothing wrong. the lakers haven’t been doing THAT well since he joined, despite having really quite a great roster. again, they’re doing well, but he sorta gets talked about as this coach who can do nothing wrong, and it doesn’t really line up with how the lakers have been performing plain and simple
Great roster ..? They’re good offensively but they can’t defend for sht
Yup. Exactly how they’d be if the team didn’t have a coach.
They’ve got 3 elite guys and then a whole bunch of one way players. Only like 2 guys are decent on both sides of the floor—Ayton and LeBron. LeBron can only do it in bursts. Ayton is actually sufficient but he’s gotta be part of a strong unit for it to lead to wins. The end of bench guys are glorified g leaguers— bronny, dalton, NSJ, Adou.
Obviously referring to Lebron
Smh he’s gonna be out of the league in a year or two at this rate
LeReDick talking bout LePhony😂
I really liked Redick as a player and later as basketball analyst, both on TV and his podcast. Very genuine knowledgeable takes, did not take shit from anyone. He was a breath of fresh air on ESPN, and his podcast was very innovative. However, I just don’t understand his demeanor as the head coach. He is too reactionary and seems very angry all the time. He got Luka gifted ro him last year and got very confident, Minnesota humbled him quick for playing all starters in the second half and not putting anyone vs Gobert in game 5. This season, Luka and Reaves carried them to impressive clutch wins (+0.2 net rating with 19-9 record is just preposterous), but overall the team just cannot play defense. Calling a player out like this is not cool.
JJ just possesses too much vanity in his intellect. One of those people that thinks he’s the smartest person in every room he’s in, and wants everyone to know so.
So when things are going wrong, it frustrates him, because it threatens that cloak.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing if that energy is used into improving yourself, but yeah definitely annoying to be around for others.
I agree, it definitely has its pros, which is why I think he’s a pretty good coach in ways. But this is the downside of this brand of personality.
Have you ever been good at anything competitive? You’re describing the basic mindset it takes to be successful in practically any sport or hobby that involves competing against others.
Yes he truly believes his basketball philosophy is better than everyone else’s, that’s what it takes to just get your foot in the door as an NBA coach.
I said vanity, not confidence.
“You know, I forget how young you are, Mitch, that you think that you have to be a prick to get things done, and you actually think that that’s a new idea?”
I thought the team was incredibly well prepared to start the season last year. They ran some nice stuff with AD and were generally pretty impressive defensively given some of their talent (even after the AD trade).
But I also agree that he can be far too surly and quick trigger. This just seems to be in bad form. Why would you put a player on blast like that in the media, especially since it wasn’t even that relevant to the question at hand.
Idk what’s surprising about this if you’ve been following him. He was always like this on his podcasts. Very intellectual but also egotistical. Can often go on rants where he’s looking down on guys who don’t follow the game at his level.
Dude talked down at 60s era as if he’d dominate that era despite only became a starter far later in Clippers, and then Bob Cousy proceeded to make a rant against him.
It’s clear at this point that he’s sometimes lacking filter.
Counterpoint: Redick is actually a really good coach but has an inherently flawed roster. Just because he got Luka doesn’t mean the team immediately became great — Luka is a player you can’t just insert into a team, you have to build around him.
He was never gonna beat the TWolves last year, Spoelstra/Pop/Phil couldn’t have beaten the TWolves with the roster the lakers had. This year is a little better but they’ve struggled with injuries to Luka and LeBron can’t carry as much.
yeah, even though Luka is obv a better player than AD, the team became much worse and the defencies were only amplified. As a Lebron fan i was bummed by the Luka trade because i knew it was punting on that season, even if they got to the 3 seed alot of those wins were with AD and there was no way they were winning a title.
Ayton has been a godsend for them but they’ve done nothing since to fill those holes in their roster. They need to figure this shit out and make moves this year like the way they did in 2023 when they got vando, rui, dlo, and Shroeder i can see Lebron retiring out of frustration and yet another year of prime Luka is wasted.
I like jj a lot, and I think he’s a good coach, but he does need to zen out a bit or he’s going to break players.
“Wow I better work hard so JJ doesnt talk shit about me to the media” - no one ever
Yeah 100%. I feel like he’s not the best communicator. Like he’s smart and when the initial plans work it’s all fine
But when things become tough and don’t go how he expected, it feels like he doesn’t handle that well
JJ Redick has a gripe on Dalton Knecht
He’s been mad at Dalton since the trade didnt go through
Idk about that but it was against Mark Williams who played well last night
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It’s essentially just a play designed to give a ball handler and or a big a mismatch in an iso. It’s called flood cause all the shooters off ball screen and run to the corner thus creating a flood
I think it’s an offensive play
About This Play/Drill: Flood is a quick hitter that can produce a jump shot or quick post feed. Flood means that three players will get to one side of the floor; right side, in a quick manner. This will put 2 alone on left side so he can take advantage of 5’s hard down screen. Timing and floor positioning are important. This play will yield a quick basket most of the time.
Basically three guys go hard right as the other two go left
Considering the question was about defense I assume they got cooked by it and when JJ tried to explain how to counter it the player probably asked ‘what’s a flood?’
A player not knowing what a flood is looks bad for the player. That’s some basic level knowledge they should know as a professional NBA player.
The coach and coaching staff not knowing the player doesn’t have this basic knowledge is much much worse. It means they are unaware of their players’ strengths and weaknesses, at least that far down the depth chart, and aren’t practicing those scenarios.
It also means when the team is putting in those players, the coaches aren’t informed enough to effectively coach those players.
This is even ignoring that he’s shitting on one of his players publicly, which looks bad to begin with.
For real. This makes jj look way worse than the player.
If your player doesn’t know something, that’s your fault.
eh, not really. if a wr doesn’t know what a wheel route is, who’s at fault? flood is one of the most basic plays in basketball. it’s taught in HS for fuck’s sake
Its not taught in every high school because I was not taught flood until tonight.
For real. We got taught that play but it wasn’t called flood.
All these guys just pretending they know everything.
Counterpoint: If a coach doesn’t know that his WR doesn’t know what a wheel route is, who is at fault?
A player not knowing a route (or an NBA play) is certainly a deficiency for the player. Maybe they had bad luck of none of their coaches teaching it to them. Or maybe they’re just stupid/lazy and never picked it up despite the coaches trying.
Either way, it’s a deficiency for the player. But the coach not knowing their players don’t have that basic knowledge is a much bigger, systemic problem.
bro it’s flood everyone at that level should know that play. people would definitely take jj’s side if he talked about more basic plays like fist or floppy.
you literally just set screens and flare while the rest of your team go to one side of the court…. it’s the most basic 1-3-1 counter
I remember at the start of the season JJ said he had been learning about how to be a better leader and coach. He said that he learned that you can’t coach everyone the same way because not everyone responds to things the same way. Everyone was falling over themselves to compliment him as a great leader with high EQ.
Then he does things like this which are the complete opposite of what a good leader should do and I just smh. He should know better.
Perhaps he feels Dalton would respond better to getter called out in front of the media.
What is a flood? Ngl i haven’t heard about it before😅
No, this is dumb as shit. I didn’t know what a flood was, looked into it in the comments of this thread, and it turns out I knew what it was all the time, but I called it “overloading”. People have different terms for things. Maybe this player didn’t know what a flood was, but was very familiar with the concept of overloading. Basketball coaching terminology like this changes with different coaching lineages.
Teacher here. This thread is hilarious. Even in AP classes every year we have a term we hit again and again for like 6 months straight. Review before exam there is always a student who is deer in the headlights like “I’ve never heard of this in my life.” The entire class always goes “what the fuck?” when it happens. Every fucking year. 99% chance this has been gone over repeatedly since the pre season and JJ is so fucking over it and I 110% empathize.
Eh maybe you don’t bring that up in a post game press conference
Doc Rivers school of coaching
There is precisely one scenario where this is acceptable: this has been mentioned to the player several times and he remains unmotivated/lackadaisical and still hasn’t picked it up.
Then you hope, as a last resort, that pride and the possibility of public shame will do the trick.
bets on who the player might be ?
It’s either dalton or nick smith JR can’t see it being Rui considering how long he’s been in the NBA same with vando and kleber.
Dalton has also forgotten a play that was specifically designed for him in the past as well lol.
I would guess Nick Smith Jr.? The alternative is the rookie Thiero, and I don’t think JJ would call out a 2nd round rookie like this
knecht -500
rui -300
No way Rui has been on the NBA for like 7 years and doesn’t know what a play is.
And Knecht - you think that he was on the team for all of last year and JJ never called a flood play?
This guy would be the worst handicapper ever
Rui makes 0 sense. Rui plays a lot and is a starter. On top of that, the style of defense he is referring to is that style that the Lakers played post ASB last season and resulted in them having one of the best post-ASB defenses in the NBA at that time. Rui is usually the guy doing the flooding (low man rotates early to low post-ish area on wing touches vs scorer touches as other 3 off-ball defenders zone up on the backside). He 100% knows what it is.
It is either a new guy or Dalton. Dalton was probably in his own world post ASB after the rescinded trade.
Rui has played a ton though, so that doesn’t make sense
A dead man walking, as Charles Barkley said.
I got downvoted a few weeks back because I said JJ is pretentious. I stand by that statement
Condescending and pretentious
If people can’t see that JJ is pretentious they’re not being honest with themselves. That’s been glaringly obvious for awhile lol
This take has not been hot since he was at Duke. Pretentious dbag was his brand.
what a douche
I understand being frustrated but that can’t be good for anyone. If your not happy with him thats fine but your hurting his trade value which hurts you if you wanted to trade him. Idk seems foolish
I think it was lebron
Just give him a few more years in the league
JJ is an asshole
“We have a guy who I haven’t taught anything to.”
Sounds like poor coaching
JJ is such a douche.
JJ isn’t a good enough coach to talk to the press like this. He hasn’t reached Doc River Status.
Doc sucks tho
Great leadership from JJ here /s
Although, no one understood, we were holding back the flood
That’s at least a little on the coaching staff
This comment section shows people hate being held accountable for their performance. An NBA player is in the most elite basketball league in the world - know your job. It’s a hard job, but learn what you need to because you are paid an average American’s lifetime earnings annually if you’re on a league minimum. I believe the message is “This is your fucking job.” which I agree with.
This is what happens when a podcaster is a coach. He is more worried about looking cool and saying shit that can get clipped than he is coaching the team.
Why doesn’t the guy he put in the game know what “flood” means? Probably because he didn’t coach it and he’s a douche who thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.
Ah yes and your coach is certainly never in the media trying to say cool things that make himself look interesting
Mazzulla is the opposite of JJ as a coach, though. Completely goes out of the way to keep everything in house and not throw guys under the bus. Not sure he gives a shit that other people think he’s competent, but he probably does troll a little bit with some of his weird, unorthodox responses/behaviors
Yea. Getting players to understand and buy into whatever it is you’re trying to do is a huge part of being a good coach.
He probably should have mentioned getting a pet bear or something instead
why would you say this in an interview
Yeah the fact that everybody is speculating who it is is not good.
Knecht is catching a lot of strays and I highly doubt its even him. There’s a few players who got minutes last night who have only played a handful of games for the Lakers. Its way way likely to be a guy who’s only played 3 games for the Lakers then Knecht who’s on his 2nd season and JJ still trusts him enough to give him minutes.
Podcast coach
The Lakers should hire someone to coach up that player. Someone at the head of the organization so everyone is getting coached up the same so they can work as a team. We can call them a head coach.
Put a name to it coach
saying this publicly is already enough lol
I would think the Lakers would have a playbook. And the coaches would make sure their players know the plays. Right? At least I would think that’s how that should work.
Seems unfair to call someone out who doesn’t know something when you’re the coach what do you do in practice?
JJ Reddit should’ve made listening to his podcast mandatory for everybody.
Sounds like a coaching problem
Cool. What’s a flood?
A flood is an overflow of a large amount of water beyond its normal limits, especially over what is normally dry land.
Poor Brony but he’s got a great soul
Draft Knecht when you already have Reaves, then you trade for Luka, then you try to trade Knecht but it falls through. Now suddenly Knecht is the problem yeah OK Lakers.
Everyone in here saying this is a bad look on JJ but an overwhelming opinion in this sub is that players today are too coddled. He doesnt even name the player and people are acting like Redick wheeled him out and got everyone to throw tomatoes at him.
If a player doesnt know a simple concept that they have presumably gone over many times in training, it is on that player to speak up and say ‘i dont get this’ or ask a teammate. They are adult men not children that need babied.
Very obviously talking about Bronny and incredible to see Lakerstans in the comments not understand it in unison.
Sounds like a coaching problem in this case.
Yeah idk how this is a good look for JJ.
Seems like he’s trying to show how smart he is and putting the blame on other people. If he didn’t know you didn’t tell him
Yeah dude. Blame some random ass guy.
People really think this reflects poorly on JJ? A flood is an overload. It’s a basic concept that you learn in middle school travel basketball to drag the defense to one side of the floor.
He’s a good coach. Lakers aren’t close to contending. I wouldn’t be so quick to cannibalize another head coach. Fix the roster first.
So I’m curious. Is that supposed to be assumed knowledge at that level or is that a failure of the coaching staff
Pathetic coaching by JJ to call this out in a press conference. I dont know what his problem is
We started running drift action / overloads in like 4th grade travel.
I find it incredibly hard to believe an NBA player doesn’t know what a flood is.