Manu Ginóbili

as Vijay Edgecombe clears out, and this is going to be a play called Hammer.

I don't know if this was a set for them or just sort of a read by Dean Wade here, but popularized by the Spurs, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili.

It would basically be get a player moving with the ball towards the corner, and then you'd have a shooter in the other corner and a screen happening.

So Manu Ginobili or Tony Parker would often throw this pass like a bullet.

So the Sixers kind of have that set up here going.

LeBron's going to the corner.

Niggas really phony like baloney, nigga.

I'ma step back like I'm Kobe, nigga, and shoot it like Ginobili, nigga.

When I'm on that roll, I'm like a coaster, nigga.

And I do my push-ups in the morning like a soldier, nigga.

I don't really know you, niggas.

Niggas really phony like baloney, nigga.

I'ma step back like I'm Kobe, nigga, and shoot it like Ginobili, nigga.

When I'm on that roll, I'm like a coaster, nigga.

No! No!

I also thought Manu Ginobili was Balky Bartokomus.

Don't be ridiculous.

I don't know.

It shifted from the centers kind of dominating to the wings and dominating.

So I guarded Kobe, LeBron, KD, Carmelo Anthony, Tracy McGrady, Paul Pierce, Dwayne Wade, Manu Ginobili, Michael Redd.

I know I'm forgetting people, but I guarded literally the best of the best because that was that time.

So I'd probably say my top five toughest guards, I would put Kobe at one.

And I'd probably say LeBron.

LeBron's obviously physique and speed and skill set are incredible.

But I mean, that leaves guys like Tracy McGrady off the list and Manu Ginobili off the list.

Those guys were... monsters but you know i was uh again i had a football player mentality i love the defensive side of the ball on on on on basketball and really just locked into my role and i think that's why i was able to play as long as i i played so obviously i would have liked to have more 20 or 30 point games and i had my fair share of those but my whole thing was every single night my job is to guard the best players in the world and i felt beyond lucky to be able to do that for a career

This keeps happening, though, and this is...

You know what happened? Like, I was thinking about this, like, Manu Ginobili came in the league, and he made the Eurostep, like, a thing.

And, like, I was cool with that.

I like the Eurostep.

Yeah, that tandem was great.

And then forget it, Ginobili, they added him to the team.

He's one of my favorite players.

And I loved Kawhi for a while, and now I hate him, but that was Spurs.

The one thing I liked about the Spurs is that Ginobili and Parker were kind of like very average regular season stats.

That's right.

But as soon as the playoffs started, it's like all of a sudden you got two of the top six guards in the league.

And it was