The video is a behind‑the‑scenes vlog recorded around a EuroLeague game in Monaco during the Christmas holiday. The team members exchange festive greetings, discuss travel logistics, and note that Monaco’s arena is the smallest in the league. The conversation shifts to broader basketball topics: a critique of NBA analytics that prioritize three‑point shooting and its impact on viewership, frustration with frequent foul calls that slow game flow, and reflections on how limited championship contenders affect fan interest. The players outline a detailed game‑day routine—morning stretches, sunlight, journaling, breakfast, and a shoot‑around—followed by recovery practices such as compression therapy, ice, and a “Rapid Reboot” leg flush. Film study is highlighted, with specific defensive observations (e.g., Jrue Holiday’s footwork) and a focus on rebounding and defensive positioning. Post‑game dialogue emphasizes defensive priorities, the concept of “3 stops” and “7 kills” as a win‑strategy, and the need to play off two feet. Throughout, there are spiritual and motivational remarks about gratitude, faith, and consistency over intensity. The overall tone is informal, team‑oriented, and reflective, blending holiday camaraderie with technical basketball analysis and personal preparation.
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Today's Christmas. I'm headed out on the road. Who's gonna miss Dad? Me! That's what I like to hear. That's what I like to hear.
Oh, Piste!
Merry Christmas, big dog!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Elijah!
Good morning!
Good morning! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!
Yes, Christmas!
How you say Merry Christmas in French? Joyeux Noël!
Hey!
How do you say Merry Christmas in Turkish? We don't celebrate Christmas.
That's crazy. My wife made cookies for Christmas.
Monaco is actually home to one of the craziest Formula 1 races. And when it comes to EuroLeague, it's actually the smallest gym in EuroLeague in terms of capacity.
Let's call Jim and let's set up the chitty pad.
Merry Christmas.
Okay, what bed am I gonna sleep on? Family room, but no family here.
How does that work?
So, Dad, you would come to Abu Dhabi when we go to the Final Four?
Oh yeah. The NBA is losing viewership because they valued— they chose the entertainment. So people like to watch players score, like to watch Curry coming out and shoot threes and do all this stuff, right? So if you base it off analytics as a coach, if you're like, if I shoot 53s and they shoot 52s, I have to make half the, half the threes, you know what I mean? Like, so it becomes a numbers game.
So it's just like everyone to shoot as many threes as they can.
It turns into analytics. Like, if we do this, eventually the odds say that we're going to win more often. And based on the rules, it makes sense. It just comes down to what players make shots today, who has better players. And the unfortunate part about it is, is that there's only 4 to 5 teams competing for a championship every year. So then you have teams that just suck, which creates bad viewership.
Everyone—
too many foul calls too, to be honest with you.
That is true.
Stoppage of the game is so boring. Like, I tried to watch Minnesota yesterday against Hawks. Every other possession down the court is a foul.
It's definitely— I didn't think that. Like, last year I used to watch games like, oh, okay. But now after watching, I only watch 3 teams.
I watch OKC, Dallas, and New York but your old league is way more fun to watch.
This is a part of Christmas, my Christmas childhood. So watching these games overseas kind of makes it feel like you're at home. The Christmas Day games, you know, you open presents and then you're watching the games.
So now it's time to actually go to bed.
Tomorrow will come fast.
Christmas was grateful because we travel in safety, my family's healthy.
So let's get some sleep.
In the morning, I usually like to start with stretches, get the body warmed up, get some natural sunlight, write in my journal, kind of get a slow morning if I have the time to. This is a couch stretch. If you're not doing this, then I don't know what you're doing, but you wanna hold this for like 2 minutes. So after doing my morning stretches, I change into my clothes and get breakfast and we go to shoot around. This is what I'm doing. I'm not trying to get up and look at my phone immediately. We got a big game today. Great opportunity to experiment.
Great opportunity to operate on our systems.
We already said they have one of the smallest gyms in EuroLeague. And actually, I'm about to walk to it, so let's go.
Oh.
Ah yeah, yeah! Damn, shot clock! Hey, oh, come here, come here, come here! How you feel? That's light.
I know it's a high school.
Who won? You were talking crazy last time.
We are back from shootaround. Honestly, when I play in Monaco, it feels like AAU because everything is so close. You're walking, you're at the hotel, everything's super close.
And the ice is just for after practice. I used to do it a lot.
I'm getting back to Doing it. Ice the brakes down after. We're about to watch film as a team because I need to see their offense of how they play now with the new coach, which is totally different how they play with the old coach.
So let's take a shower.
Don't worry about a thing because every little thing is gonna be all right.
So this is called Rapid Reboot, actually a company out of Utah, but it's just compression Just to flush the legs one more time. Got a massage last night. Now I'm just gonna flush the legs one more time to give myself the best chance to have a good experiment. Game's at 7, I'll be at the gym until, what time will I be at the gym? Be at the gym 5:30 and it's freaking 1, so I got time today.
Let's take care of this body.
Watch a little film. We'll do this for 20 minutos.
The nap was solid, but I just— I woke up and I started watching like some defensive clips, man. I got to be better on defense, man. I got to hold myself to a higher standard. Even though I have more offense responsibilities now, I still have to hold myself to a higher standard. But I noticed when Jrue— I looked up some Jrue Holiday highlights— he wedges them and then uses his top foot to get over instead of waiting and being super late. So even sometimes he's late, he gets late contests, but I got to be better at that for Rebound. Rebound the ball. That is a big freaking key tonight. Rebound the ball. Make that a focus. So, okay, rebound the ball, use ball screens, and use screens, play off two feet, eyes out, play assertive. I am perfected in Christ. Nothing this world will change that. That is a fact.
Spit about the city, ask my daughter why she dabbing. Got my name in they mouth, what they stoked in the drought. I know it's hard to get out, you should be closing your mouth. I told them only time would tell, they craving for attention. Guess he didn't know me well. I say nah, don't reply unless it's about a dollar. Oh well, okay, hahaha. All this local, just some local. I'm doing shows overseas, they don't know you. Hey, check the wristwatch, that's a Rolly. Really making mine off Dearly Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for this day.
We thank you for the gospel in our life.
All right, love you.
Love you, Bluey. Monaco is a good team, but they are not 20 points better than us.
We were not playing like ourselves tonight at all.
First of all, forget offense.
I don't care about offense.
We gotta lock in on the defense, and we gotta get 3 stops in a row to get a kill.
Get 7 kills, most teams win games. So that's 21 stops, not in a row, but just in general. But like I said before, I told you guys I need to play off 2 feet. I freaking start the game off not playing off 2 feet. Frustrating for me. I literally said what I need to do, smoked the layup on Tyree Peele one time, and then I have to— don't run into Monta Younis, like, just shoot the pull-up. Like, make or miss, shoot the pull-up. You work on it all summer, shoot the pull-up.
Thoughts of a hooper after a game: you feel like you could play way better and make better decisions.
Not just play better, make better decisions. That's the whole reason of it being an experiment, right, is you got to learn from it because the games come fast. Remember to keep the faith. And it's consistency over intensity.
