good interview with uncle al

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And with Rondo, I just simply brought him in and said, ‘OK, this is the deal: I love you as a player, I think you’re a great leader, I’m going to give you every opportunity to do that. There are certain boundaries that I’ve got to set and we’ll get along great.’ And I think the thing that sold him, I said, ‘Sometimes I’ll call a play and you’ll see something on the court and you’ll call a play.’ I said, ‘If you call a play and I’ve called a play, your play will always supersede mine unless it’s the last two minutes of the game.’ And I think that he embraced that and he is such a student of the game. He gets every practice, every game on his computer and he watches them all. Not just watches, I think he studies it. So, to me, I love having him. It’s like having an extension of yourself out on the floor, and it has been really, really good for us.”

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