Can you talk about a player or a moment where you were like,

D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D like and like messed up his head and maybe changed the game

oh no you don't you you you don't really have to talk a lot because the fans see it right and

and that player is over there waving his hands.

And all you doing is saying, you're looking at him like, he going to pass it to you.

Why am I guarding you?

As a matter of fact.

And yeah, you would talk to different players and you would be running down the court and

you'd be like, hey, this time,

I'm not going to even guard you.

You said that to people?

Absolutely.

Let's see if he throw you the ball.

And then I run away and just double team and then I come back to him and go, I guess he didn't pass it to you, huh?

What that does to the opponent psychologically, it definitely like, you know, ruins his feel good about himself. And then, by the way, when he does finally get a chance to shoot it or get

to touch it, and he misses that shot, and then you run back and you go, hey, man, it's, I know, it's hard to make a shot when you ain't touched the ball in the last 10 minutes, huh?

You said that to people.

Oh, absolutely. That was the mental and psychological game that you played out on the floor.

Isaiah Thomas is a two-time NBA champion and NCAA champion. He's one of the greatest point guards in the history of the NBA.

He's one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA. He's one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA,

and he was the short champion, and he ran his team, the Detroit bad boy pistons, with toughness.

They battled in an era when it was Jordan, it was Larry Bird, it was Magic Johnson.

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