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I used to watch Kobe before the game, right? And how we went to shoot around and pre-game, getting our shots up. They do a little hand and you know, no, no, no. This man in real time, full contact. And you better hit him how he gets hit in the game before the game. So if he's doing, you know, one, two at the elbow, pump fake, you better jump and you better land on me. And I'm like, yo, he, he's getting hit harder in this than the other. Then we are in a game. And if you don't hit them, that's not realistic. That's not what they're gonna do. Raja Bell is not going to play me like that. That. And I'm sitting here and I'm and I'm sitting here like, nobody got a mind, they mind training like that. That's scary. And that's what he's pre, he's practicing in before to get me two hours before the game. He's playing us and he's over here talking about Raja Bell won't play him like that. He ain't that nice. He's he plays me dirty. He's gonna pull me here. And then now he's playing, he's showing, he's showing him how they do it, how he does it. He's gonna go here, he's gonna swipe this way. So let's go. And you're just watching it in real time.
So now it's like, okay, I need to, I need to figure out how to mimic real game situations during my off time. And that's, and that's how I used to approach it. You know what I mean? And that's, that, I said it's crazy, bro. Like, I was like, with you, you get doubled in the game, right? Mm-hmm. I'll be yelling, don't better. You see what I'm doing here? Oh, I told Kevin that that you went that day. I told you. You said they double team. I said, I'm getting double too. The difference because I know that in the game, that's why I'm like, I'm gonna get doubled. Yeah. Like, I'm gonna get trapped in pick and rolls. Double, double means y'all better double me or he getting ate up. So, so now they're on alert. The back line is ready. This and that. Because I want to see in real time what's going on. That was the Devin Booker thing last summer. Yeah. That's, you know, you know.
And that's because you gotta remember, if you really think about the real game, you gotta remember there's real game and then there's everything leading up to it. If we work out here and we have this rule, no doubling, right? Training camp comes, they know doubling. We're just playing, putting in our plays, putting in our defense, getting ready in practice. We're not doubling each other. No one's double them. So the first time they're gonna see a double, it's in the game, in real time. And once you get hit with it, you don't know how to react. Why is that? Oh, half your game is done. Just throwing the ball out of bounds. Don't know. Like, cause it's the first time you've seen it in real time. They double. You know, a lot of people when they in the post, like a big in a post, guarding post, they never been double. They don't know how to get out of a trap, find the white guy. They don't know. So you have to, so you have to be, if you have to be event, you have to understand and realize, I need to, this summer, I need to really challenge myself in this. So if I'm gonna ever be working on one-on-one moves, I need to have two defenders on. [Music]