what's up an um cat gets traded big big trade in the week just what's your kind of overall reaction thinking to what cat meant to you in your career and then the changes that are coming with Julius and Dante coming uh I mean I think everybody know cat my brother um so that definitely hurt um but you know it's a business so I just got to roll with it and um I'm I'm I'm ready to get to they not here yet so I'm ready to get to know them um and try to figure it out
and get it and get it figured out as fast as we can because you know we trying to get back to where we was and go even farther does that come as a surprise to you do they like Tim do they check in with you and like hey I was on the plane so they couldn't really check yeah I was in the air so they couldn't really check in with me what was it like just building that relationship with CAD over these last few years it was incredible uh that's what we talked about once I
landed like we talked on the phone like through messages and um we was just you know talking to each other about everything like how it started and uh he sent me a picture of him in the gym at like three in the morning so that was kind of funny Anthony do you look at it as your job to make Julius feel at home and are you the leader now or you got to be the one that that that brings him in and and works with him and you know I would I would guess yeah I
mean I think I got the most years on the team there as far as in Minnesota besides n i I think I'm right after Nas by a year so I think I'm probably going to have to be the person that gets him you know comfortable what does that mean when you say make him comfortable like for you what will you do uh I mean he's a basketball player so of course he's going to be involved with basketball just let him know like whatever you did over there come through it over here we just want to
win you know same rules apply we just want to win so should be pretty simple for him to you know get in line with everything that we trying to do what part of your game have you worked on to elevate this year uh my catch and shoot Trey Ball a in in regard to Rudy some things that get said about him from whether it's former players in the league current players in the league you've been a teammate of his for a couple years you've been a staunch defender of his when you hear things like that
said a sta a staunch defender of his when you hear things teammate of his uh like you just you've always been like a big Defender like like defended him seriously when you hear things like that said about him what does that make you feel how do you react to something like that when you hear things like that said about him what happened I don't I'm not going to lie I don't know what happened it's just stuff like something like Shaq you know just I haven't been on social media uh okay that's not worri my guy
right here in front of you runs my social media so I don't yeah I don't see any those that's not worries but yeah I don't know why they talk about I mean I don't know what happened but I don't know why they talk about Rudy um four time defensive player of the year um continuously he's going to continuous continue to prove itself um so yeah I don't know why they talk about him he shouldn't worry about it we not worri about it and Tim Conley said just a few minutes ago that uh you have the
potential to be the best player ever uh is is that too much for big expectations or is that right aligned with what the way you think uh I think you you know what I think right yeah all right just get you said I mean yeah I think he right a uh you talk about being the you know a leader of this team now that seems like at the end of last season when Carl got hurt was your first time I mean obviously he came back for the playoffs but those like last 20 games of the
year it was really like ants team ants team what do you what did you take from that time what like grew in you at you know kind of at the end of last season that makes you feel like you can be the number one option kind of on your own uh I don't know man I I feel like it's kind of weird to talk about it cuz he just got traded so that's my dog man it wasn't like a one or two situation it was um we both was the one we just played off of
each other so I mean I'm happy to be whatever the guy that they want me to be now but you know we was just together so it's hard for me to talk what's the guy you want to be now um they got the team needs me to be um whether whether it's scoring passing defending um getting rebounds or just showing everybody that I'm coachable um because you know finchy he coached hard man so just being a leader by example just letting him Coach me and not really you know saying anything stay back just you know
being a good player and uh last season at the end of the season you talked about uh physicality being a little bit more in shape you look a little swollen this year coming in uh how are you approaching it and is the team approached it the same way getting stronger I like that man thank you that showed me I've been in the weight room uh yeah that was my goals man try to get in the weight room as much as I can this summer um to take some fat off and I think everybody like my
whole our whole team ain't been in there man like I came back right after the USA and got in the gym and everybody was here I mean so it was impressive this summer and I think everybody tried to put on weight as far as like muscle T some fat out and I think uh javar did a great job him Scott Jenna the whole team they did a great job of getting us together this summer yes sir and just how did you um how did the the Olympic experience actually get you ready for the season being
around you know LeBron Steph those type of guys did you take any routines to see how they did how they were moving and uh just kind of what what got you going right now uh just being in shape I think that was the best thing about the whole summer um playing basketball for two months playing the best basketball of my life for two months um playing against the greatest players ever in practice you know five on five continuously um I think that was the best thing getting in shape so I came back I played five
on five like my third day here and I was still in shape so I'm I'm in the best shape I've ever been in so I think that was the the best thing I got out it and related to that being around LeBron Steph Katy all these great players as as it pertains to maybe how you handle your day-to-day your routine what did you learn from from those guys that maybe you're incorporating now um about the importance of different aspects of whether it's working out or treatment or whatever uh Lebron got like this little I don't
want to like put him out there he got like this little thing that he do before every game um a great routine that I that I stole and I haven't been able to like implement it yet cuz we haven't played a game but um I told Deans about it so we definitely on it I took that from bur I don't know if he know but he GNA see this so now he know and we're a full full year into your sneaker um you know fast forward now got so many colorways out a lot of the
fans were hitting me up personally asking what was your favorite you know colorway that actually came out that you actually like right now I just got some new ones yeah these my favorite right now that's the timber exclusive man these AE exclusive yeah else I with him and what can we expect from your upcoming Netflix special uh a lot of laughs um especially for me a lot of laughs um a great time behind the scenes um super personal you know it was great man I feel like that was probably one of the best shoots I've
been a part of as far as like they was with me throughout the whole year pretty much and um they was never in a way um always requested like ask ask before they just uh we need you so that was great man I appreciate those guys and you talk about being the best ever you play with some guys this summer who are in that conversation how will you get there um I'm just working I feel like that's the only way man everybody talk about it I mean only way it is is just work and go
out on the court and just believe it um I think a lot of guys got a chance to be really great at this game but I think they just don't believe it they some some guys put the work in and don't believe it some guys believe it and don't put the work in so I believe it and I put the work in so if it don't happen it don't if it do it does which probably will happen
