It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

Hey there, welcome back to the Lockdown Podcast.

Thank you for making this show part of your routine.

I'm here for you, generally Monday through Friday, but for these next two weeks, it's a special

seven episode deep dive into the Brad Stevens era.

If you missed yesterday's show, that was part one.

Today we're getting into part two, more with Isaiah Thomas and just what was the impact that Isaiah had on

Brad and the perception of him as a coach?

Let's continue the conversation with Mike Dynan and Chuck McKinney.

Is this more Isaiah? Is it more Brad?

I don't know. I kind of want to say it's...

I always skate towards the players, so I do want to say it's mostly Isaiah.

But you cannot deny Chuck that Brad did have an influence.

He was just saying, hey, you know what, we're going to roll with this.

Again, I'm not going to pigeonhole this guy into a role that I think he should continue or be in.

He's going to... I'm going to make it so he's comfortable doing whatever he's doing in.

I'm going to adjust to him.

Yes, but I feel like when you look at the...

I don't want to give students too much credit here because look at the roster.

Look at the other options. He had a young smart, he had a...

The roster was young and it was mismatched because, as Mike said, there were bodies coming in and out.

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