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00:00What do you feel comfortable telling us about how what it was like for
00:04you to learn that the coach had been dismissed and your name being linked with
00:10being one of the key tail signs that something was wrong inside the locker room.
00:16I mean, at the end of the day, honestly,
00:20I don't really give a damn about really too much of it.
00:24At the end of the day for me, it's one of those things where at some point enough
00:29was enough just as far as expressing frustrations.
00:34But I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, I found out through ESPN of the firing
00:40first and then receive some phone calls, texts after that.
00:45But I mean, at the end of the day, this is not my first go around.
00:48It's not my first rodeo with firing and things like that.
00:52I mean, at the end of the day, it's a business.
00:55Guys get fired all the time, player, coach, GM, it happens.
00:58So I mean, again, I don't necessarily feel like I was just some major part that
01:03played a role in getting him fired.
01:05I mean, that's not on me.
01:08But I mean, at the end of the day, too, there was frustration.
01:11There was words from myself that I expressed just from my frustrations of losing.
01:17I mean, like I said, in part of what I said after the game is, I mean,
01:20I've been losing for five years.
01:22So I mean, I feel like a high level player like myself after a certain point,
01:27losing games, how we've been losing games, somebody has to express something.
01:31And I mean, for me, it was something that was a spirit of moment thing.
01:35And it went the way it went at the end of the day.
01:38You know, Jalen, we know you enough to know that you believe in communicating
01:41with intention.
01:43And you believe in, I think you believe in the power of positive confrontation.
01:48Is that fair to say?
01:49Like, say stuff.
01:50If stuff needs to get said, say it like men and talk about it.
01:54So, you know, what did you feel needed to be said at that point in the room?
02:01Honest, I can't even give you the details because it was one of those
02:05situations where it just got to that point where you don't really
02:11remember everything I was saying.
02:12I mean, like I said, at the end of the day,
02:14it was just based around frustrations of losing.