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Was it Stephen Curry, LeBron James or Joel Embiid, who led Team USA to a victory against Serbia? In this episode preview, Paul George and Trae Young discuss their selections for the game's Most Valuable Player
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00:00Did you guys both watch the game today?
00:02Yeah.
00:02We had a little in the group chat.
00:04I'm just curious on your guys' opinions.
00:06It was a tough, like, basically it was like
00:08who won that game for them today?
00:10They all played great.
00:11But if you're-
00:12Who won that game for them?
00:13Bron.
00:14Bron.
00:15Absolutely.
00:16Okay, okay.
00:17Absolutely, Bron won that game for them.
00:19I'm just-
00:20I'm asking opinion.
00:21And you know what, man?
00:22A little sauce of Steph.
00:23See, I think he's got a different answer.
00:25Yeah, I'm gonna let P go.
00:26No, no, no, listen.
00:27Listen to this.
00:28And I'm not taking no credit away
00:30from what Steph did, right?
00:31They all-
00:32Like, when you talk about the big three,
00:34that's the head of our USA team
00:36and KD, Bron, and Steph, right?
00:38They all played major roles
00:40in every part of that game.
00:42With Steph, his 34, 36,
00:45if he doesn't do that, we lose.
00:46You know what I mean?
00:47So, like, everybody-
00:48I'm not saying Steph wasn't a big factor
00:52in that game either.
00:53Nor was KD.
00:54I'm not saying KD wasn't.
00:55But Bron, like,
00:57I think Bron took it
00:59as the initiative of, like,
01:01we not losing this game.
01:02Like, Steph, I need you to do you.
01:05Right?
01:06I'm gonna get you to rock.
01:07We gonna-
01:08KD had his moments of, like,
01:10all right, like,
01:11I'm gonna put this motherfucker away.
01:13I thought what Bron did
01:14with his downhill attacks late in the game,
01:17him just managing the game, right?
01:19When he was coming back,
01:20game was close.
01:22You saw him getting steam, right?
01:25The downhill attacks in transition,
01:27finishing at the rim.
01:28Like, you saw Bron, like-
01:29Yeah, no.
01:30So, I don't know.
01:31And then the moments of him
01:33wanting to match up with Joker.
01:36Like, he was doing everything he could
01:38to try to get guys to rotate
01:39so he can take Joker.
01:41I don't know.
01:42I just saw Bron-
01:43What should we say, Trey?
01:44What should we say, Trey?
01:45Let's let the guest answer.
01:47What should we say, Trey?
01:49I think you made great points.
01:52But if you look at it,
01:53Steph had 36,
01:55but he also had eight rebounds.
01:57He also had nine assists.
01:58Like, yeah, he did literally everything.
02:00I mean, Bron had a quiet triple-double,
02:02which was-
02:03And he also, like, managed the game at the end.
02:05And he made some loud moments at the end.
02:08But if Steph didn't have 17 in the first quarter,
02:11they would have been down 20-plus.
02:14And I feel like we-
02:16I mean, yeah, we focused at that last part,
02:18that later in the game.
02:19But that four-
02:21It was a four-quarter game,
02:22and Steph started it out.
02:25And I ain't gonna lie.
02:27It wasn't like Bron was just clamping yokes.
02:30I know he took the initiative.
02:33He was Joker, though.
02:34But no, for sure.
02:35You know what I mean?
02:36I know.
02:37I mean, it's not like I'm saying
02:38Bron didn't kill today.
02:39Like, he's a big reason why they came back and won, too.
02:42But I feel like today, Steph-
02:44If they didn't have Steph today-
02:46He was cooking today.
02:47Absolutely, absolutely.
02:48Whether it was Bron, Bees-
02:49And I'm not saying-
02:50And I'm glad you brought Joel up.
02:53I know Aaron's over there like,
02:54why aren't you saying Joel and Bees?
02:56I'm glad you brought Joel up.
02:58Joel quietly was balling today.
03:00When we had this question,
03:01Joel was in that part of my answer, as well.
03:04I'm glad you brought him up,
03:05because I forgot about Joel, as well.
03:06You're welcome, man.
03:07Appreciate that.
03:08Because Joel also-
03:09If Joel didn't go and get some of those baskets
03:11and some of those blocks
03:13and challenging Joker at the rim,
03:16and if his presence wasn't on that floor, either,
03:18we lose.
03:19But that's where I put him and Bron
03:21on that 2A, 2B level.
03:23And Steph, the one?
03:24The one.
03:25Because, obviously, they both had big moments,
03:27Bron and Joel.
03:29But Joel had it later in the game.
03:31He had some big-time defensive plays, like you said.
03:34But Steph was doing it the whole game.
03:36Even when them-
03:37Like, he had 20 or something at the half or something.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Like, they were-
03:42You should have saw how they was just guarding.
03:43There was a possession.
03:44I'm telling my homies,
03:46like, look how they're guarding him.
03:48They just-
03:49He was backdooring.
03:50AD gave him a little-
03:51He got a little floater
03:52and just some easy baskets late.
03:54He kind of did it all.
03:55I ain't gonna lie, man.
03:56Like, watching that-
03:57I didn't know he had eight rebounds, too.
03:58That was what it was.
03:59Yeah, no, that's tough.
04:00I didn't know.
04:01And I was watching the game.
04:02I didn't know he had eight rebounds, either.
04:03Yeah, I was-
04:04You just see his scoring and the big shots that he made.
04:08But, like, watching the game, bro, like,
04:10I don't know.
04:11I felt cheesy,
04:12because I was, like, getting chills and shit.
04:14It was good.
04:15It was awesome.
04:16It was, like, damn.
04:17It was that moment of, like, damn.
04:19Like, this is what-
04:20Like, I'm proud to be an American.
04:22You know what I mean?
04:23I felt cheesy, like-
04:24For sure.
04:25I ain't gonna lie.
04:26I was-
04:27It was a second, man.
04:28My teammate Bogey was hooping, bro.
04:30So, I was like-
04:31Damn.
04:33So, my wife is Serbian, right?
04:35Yeah, oh.
04:36And so, we're watching the game
04:37and she's, like, trash-talking me.
04:38Oh, man.
04:39At this point, I'm trash-talking her.
04:42So, it was a fun moment in the house.
04:45And so, but, like, yeah, bro,
04:47I was watching that shit, like, as a proud American.
04:49It was an American fight right there.
04:51You didn't think.
04:53You didn't have no animosity.
04:55Like, if they lost, like,
04:56y'all didn't have me.
04:58You didn't have none of that.
04:59No, I mean, that's-
05:00Because you're supposed to be on that team, P.
05:02But I did.
05:03But I did.
05:04You know what?
05:05But I did.
05:06I did, like, watching that
05:07and just the spirit of that,
05:08of playing for your country, like,
05:10I ain't gonna lie,
05:11it was, like, a regret of, like,
05:12damn, I should have did more
05:13to try to make this team.
05:14Like, I should have-
05:16Because I got reached out
05:17the second time about, man,
05:19are you sure you don't want to be on this?
05:21Like, I was salty.
05:22I wasn't picked on the first four rounds.
05:24Really?
05:25I'm cool.
05:26Yeah.
05:27And so, I did have regrets of, like,
05:29man, like, I should have been there.
05:31Like, that's what you want to play for,
05:33that moment.
05:34And you would have been even more mad
05:35maybe being over there, like, JT.
05:37That, I don't get.
05:39The way they got JT.
05:41That, I don't get.
05:42What do you think of all the criticism
05:44surrounding Steve Kerr?
05:45You know, I'm big on, like,
05:46the Twitter world and it's-
05:49A lot of people are thinking
05:50today was one of the first, you know,
05:53times where he put the best players
05:55on the floor.
05:56Like, it's not that hard
05:57to create a lineup out here, dude.
05:58Like, you know what I mean?
06:00What do you kind of think
06:01of everything that's surrounding that talk?
06:03No, I mean, I don't-
06:05I probably don't hear it as much as you do,
06:07but, I mean, I do hear that, I mean,
06:10people are killing Steve Kerr.
06:12Today, they saying,
06:13you just let him go out there
06:14and hoop like it was AAU again.
06:16So, I mean, I think that was a good thing
06:19that they were-
06:20He let him do that today
06:21and hopefully, when you coaching
06:23the USA team, you can-
06:25It's a tough job.
06:26I mean-
06:27It's a tough job.
06:28Yes and no, bro.
06:29But in the league,
06:30you playing nine guys.
06:31Yeah, but everybody
06:32on the USA team-
06:33Now you got 12.
06:34Should know.
06:35Like, if you're on the USA team,
06:36you should understand, like,
06:37all right, we all NBA stars.
06:39Like, we get it.
06:40Like, ain't none of us-
06:41Yeah.
06:42If we sit, it ain't like,
06:43you know what I'm saying?
06:44But we just got to sacrifice
06:45to win these games and go.
06:46But JT can't be one of them next year.
06:48But JT-
06:49That's what I-
06:50I don't understand that, but-
06:51Yeah, yeah.
06:52How is JT the odd man?
06:53That's what I don't understand.
06:55Was first team all NBA maybe?
06:57He had to have been.
06:59I think he was first team all NBA.
07:00Yeah, first team-
07:01Do we play good defense?
07:06Yeah.
07:07Do we play better defense
07:08than his boy that's on the team?
07:10That one that's out there?
07:11Listen, I ain't here to-
07:12That's what I'm saying.
07:13I'm not here to-
07:14I'm saying-
07:15Well, to be fair,
07:16he hasn't played the best either.
07:18No.
07:19With his minutes, you know what I mean?
07:20I don't know how much that has to do
07:21with dealing with everything,
07:23because, you know,
07:24that's got to be annoying.
07:25You go out there,
07:26and this is all they're talking about.
07:27You sit out the first game,
07:28but with the minutes he's had,
07:29it's not like he's been-
07:30You talking about JT?
07:31Yeah.
07:32Like, it's not like he's been out there
07:33spectacular.
07:34I think, like,
07:35oh, because you're playing
07:36with the best in the world.
07:37Right.
07:38It's not the easiest season
07:39playing on the Olympic team,
07:40because there's so many good people,
07:42and you don't know
07:43how to catch a rhythm.
07:44It's not as easy as people think,
07:46like, finding rhythm
07:47when you're so used to
07:48having a ball and creating.
07:50You know what I mean?
07:51I don't think people understand
07:52how it is when you can-
07:54when you know how to
07:55get yourself in a zone,
07:56or if you know how to-
07:57And you've got time
07:58to kind of find a rhythm.
07:59And you know how to find
08:00your rhythm within a game.
08:01Yeah.
08:02No, it's-
08:03It's a short time.
08:04Like, y'all with each other,
08:05like, the team's with each other
08:06for a short time.
08:07Exactly.
08:08Serbia, they've been
08:09working with each other
08:10every summer.
08:11Probably 16, 15 years old,
08:12they've been playing with one another.
08:13I want to know
08:14when they win the gold,
08:15what they gonna say.
08:16Who?
08:17Everybody about Steve Kerr.
08:18When he win it.
08:19Same.
08:20Same thing.
08:21Yeah.