Episode 232: Shaquille O'Neal (Plus a Sue Bird Draft)

The Young Man and the Three

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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The week on The Old Man and the Three we welcome the one and only Shaq. To start, JJ and Tommy preview the second round matchup between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets. Then JJ and Shaq discuss so much, including why Shaq calls out current NBA players like Dwight Howard, and how players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain treated him similarly. He also explains his balance of playfulness and killer mentality as a player, when he understood that he needed to put on a show, his approach to the Finals, and how he looked for slights as motivation. Shaq also reflects about the end of his career when he realized he wasn’t the same type of dominant player, and the grieving process that came with that. He also explains why he doesn’t think he belongs in the GOAT conversation, the burden of free throws, the metal respect that him and Kobe Bryant had for each other on the Lakers, and what he took away from that relationship into playing with Dwyane Wade. Finally, he breaks down the games of his idols in the 90s and current NBA players he’d pick to play with. Then, Sue Bird joins JJ and Tommy for a draft of movie monologues.

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0:14.0	Welcome to the Old Man of the Three with J.J. Reddick and Tommy Altar brought to you by
0:19.8	342 productions. This is episode 232.
0:24.2	Shkilo Deal.
0:25.6	Shack and special guest appearance for the new era draft with Sue Byrd, O.G. O. M. 3 correspondent. I don't know why it's hitting me
0:36.9	this morning. We've done a shit ton of podcast. Yeah, I would say so. 232.
0:45.0	That's not even including 100.
0:48.0	The 100 I did before.
0:50.0	I was going to, I was going to, I've told this to you before and I've said it to Kylie before and I was actually going to submit to this to this week
0:57.8	I've known you for a long time as long as I've known you you've been an extremely hard worker
1:01.9	You've been even an amazing MBA career.
1:04.0	You're working about, you're working more now on this
1:08.0	than you've done playing basketball.
1:12.0	Like, I don't know that everybody at home understands what it takes to basically do two
1:17.5	podcasts to like three three well two and a half the three things
1:22.3	the only minute of the three and a half. There's old man of the three things.
1:23.0	The old man of the three, two and a half to three.
1:25.0	And then we were just talking about what games we're gonna call this week.
1:29.0	It's like, I gotta go to Dallas, I gotta maybe go to Cleveland, maybe go to Boston like it's just a lot you but you know
1:35.6	it's summer's coming and it's fun and these games are good and the games are
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