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Pull Up with CJ McCollum

Carmelo Anthony’s Return, Back-to-Backs in the NBA, Luka Doncic’s Dominance

Pull Up with CJ McCollum

CJ McCollum & Cadence13

Basketball, Sports

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Carmelo Anthony is back in the NBA and joins a Portland Trail Blazers team who couldn’t be more excited to have him on the court! CJ talks about how he’s acclimating into the roster and the roles he can fill for the Trail Blazers this season. Plus, back-to-backs in the NBA can be both mentally and physically draining for players in the NBA. CJ breaks down how he manages his schedule during tough stretches and how he recovers after playing such demanding games back-to-back. CJ and Jordan also discuss the skill of Luka Doncic and how a 20-year-old player can already be this good. All that and more on this week’s episode! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The vibes were great. He's a good teammate. He wants to learn. He's willing to help us continue to learn and share some of the knowledge that he's gained over the course of his knowledge and be a career of a basketball career in general.

0:12.0

But it was just cool to play alongside him, haven't watched him, you know, basically all my life.

0:18.0

I think the quality of basketball is better when teams don't have to play back to backs.

0:22.0

And you just naturally sluggish. I think people don't realize is that it's a full day of activities and working like you said before.

0:29.0

It's extremely something on the body. And you have to try to mentally be sharp. So there's just real, no real way around it.

0:35.0

You're going to be mentally and physically tired. It's just about pushing through it.

0:38.0

The real fans respect and understand the impact he's had on the game. And that means a lot to him because he is a Hall of Famer, one of the greatest players of all time.

0:46.0

And he did it his way, dunking, making passes out the post, going to work one on one on the elbow.

0:53.0

And you're right, he doesn't get the credit he deserves.

1:01.0

Welcome to the Randy Moss episode of Pull Up, that's right episode number 84, a legendary episode because we have a new legend joining our team,

1:10.0

which we will get to shortly, currently recording in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of the cheese, home of the green bay packers, home of the cold weather.

1:20.0

And I'm not sure what else, but I guess I'll find out the next few hours as I explore Milwaukee.

1:26.0

The season has almost wrapped up its first month, a few days away from the first month of the season being in the books.

1:34.0

And a lot has happened. There's been a lot of injuries, there's been a lot of players in the outer rotations, there's been accusations, there's been star players rising out of nowhere.

1:42.0

And there's been a lot of controversy about back to backs, which we'll get into a little bit.

1:46.0

But one thing's been consistent and constant since we got on the phone before we start recording Jordan has complained about his schedule, his lack of ability to manage his unimaginable text messages and has requested an assistant.

2:01.0

So if you listen to the pullup pod right now, you may have a chance to potentially work for Mr. Schultz. Mr. Schultz, what are you going through right now?

2:09.0

It can't be more than what Miles Garrett is going through, obviously, but you're going through something.

2:13.0

It's not Miles, but I will say, and I appreciate the shout out of a potential assistance.

2:18.0

I am and I are straight to this point. I don't know how to handle the, it's not the workload per se, CJ, but it's the, it's the text, the emails.

2:29.0

Expense reports. It really makes me sympathize more for your schedule because like at some point you saw, I sent you my emails.

2:40.0

It's 130,000 emails. Now it's impossible to go through all those. And you said that your biggest thing in terms of text is probably group chats.

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