Managing (Great) Expectations & Navigating the Sound Bite World with Warriors GM Bob Myers
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🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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In this week's Hoops Adjacent, Warriors GM / President of Basketball Ops Bob Myers joins David and Marcus to talk about the state of the Warriors. Managing success, when success is the expectations. How to stay competitive with an aging, well paid roster. Also, the effects of Klay Thompson's injury. Steph's great success last season, and Draymond's influence. How KD's return from injury gives insight and confidence into Klay return next season, and how he has evolved over the years. Plus handling the press, pandemic work problems and the importance of talking to people in person. Advice for new Mavs GM Nico Harrison, the dark places this game takes people, and maintaining integrity. Finally the fellas get Bob's thought's on the 2021 NBA Finals.
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| 0:53.6 | Are you going to cover |
| 0:54.8 | do you fly to do any of these games and i'm going to milwaukee for for the east games oh good |
| 1:00.3 | bob i can't be on a plane right now with crazy people i just can't i will not handle that i won't handle |
| 1:06.1 | it well yeah that's good no it'd be self-aware like Milwaukee's only an hour and a half flight from here, so that's fine. But four and a half out to Phoenix from here with some Yahoo. Yeah, I'm not doing it. Can't do it. Yeah, it's not going to work. Oh, God. Well, it's good, man. You know, you know your limits. I kind of want you to go now. Yeah, I kind of want there to be an episode. You know what I mean? Like go viral. Aldrich loses it. Like me on a plane just in close quarters trying to, you know. Yeah, no, I hear you. Like Marcus said, I'm interested in that. I mean, that would be a community. |
| 1:45.5 | Exactly. I should make it rethink this. I don't know. |
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