I'll Show You by Derrick Rose & Sam Smith

Author:Derrick Rose & Sam Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-24T21:02:44+00:00

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When Tom Thibodeau got in, that’s the first time I’d seen a coach hold players accountable the way he did. He just doesn’t let up. As a player like myself who doesn’t say much—everyone always wanted me talking, that leader stuff, but like this book, I’m someone who is gonna show you—I appreciated it because it keeps me on point. I don’t need anybody on me like a micromanager, but I respect it because he makes it seem like he loves the game more than you.

The funny thing about that is he wouldn’t have to say shit. It was you coming in and he’s there at 5:30 in the morning. Like, “What the fuck are you doing?” Or you have practice, you go home, then you’re like, “I’m going to take some guys over here and shoot.” So you go in and it’s like 9:00 pm and he’s still there. Y’all got a game the next day. Like, “What you doing here? We had practice like seven hours ago.” He brought structure to the team.

You could have an open relationship with him. We talked about everything. He could tell me everything. It was always basketball. He never hid nothing from me about basketball. I just remember it being a hell of a year. I remember smiling a lot. Everybody was enjoying being on the road. That season was one of those things that I’ll cherish, one of those years where you’re number one. You know how it is in the league when you’re having a season like that. You’re gonna get fans following you everywhere. All that type of stuff. You become more of an act instead of a team. It was cool, and we played good basketball.

We won 62 games that first year, the most in the league, and beat Miami all three times we played them in the regular season. Fun playoff games, too. Each one close, tough, right down to the end, held the scores down in the 80s, 90s. LeBron didn’t play in that first regular season game, but D-Wade was great. Me and D-Wade in the last two minutes, back and forth. Kyle made a big shot and we won. Then it was Lu the next time we played them—big shot, after we were down again. Then beat them that third time when I made a few shots at the end. See, I used to be able to shoot. Ha! Were just trying to win games. Fun games. Things seemed to be going right. No problems, and I only missed one game that season, with, I think, a stiff neck.

I loved it. Not only were we good, we were also cool enough that we could have a dialogue with one another: “Alright, you missed me on my guy driving to the hole. That was supposed to be a floppy. Next time, be there.” Jo, he’s gonna come out and curse me and tell me. Or Lu was gonna curse me and tell me. Joakim or myself or anybody could talk to Thibs that way.

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