we hope you enjoy this clip before you watch it please hit that subscribe button I have to follow up something because you just said I'm a dick and I want to tell this brief little conversation I had with Brian ruko so Ryan and RJ and I have worked a ton of games together this year and earlier in the season it was probably after our fifth or sixth game he was like you know I just I'm really vibing with you guys he's like you know RJ you know he's kind of like sarcastic and he's he's kind of a dick and then you're kind of like silly funny and I thought to myself this [ __ ] does not know me no no no no no really really crazy people can spot it it's like they're like because people are like hey what do you think because you get after people on first take right in a great way I love it and that's why I think you know people are starting to see how intelligent you are how prepared you are which I love I hate First Take not and the show is amazing I'm just not good at that I'm good at being a smart ass about the [ __ ] that I'm a smartass about I'm not great at like the debate show Style Like You Stephen a perk you know Ryan and Clark like you guys are great at it but that's not my thing isn't some of it not being a dick as much as just intense and people can't some people can't handle intensity no there's a dickness that comes I'm certainly addicted there's a thickness that comes with a Duke person believing that they're right right that's okay it's like his dick is like oh no no I'm right and I'm gonna prove it and so that's where my intensity comes from I've heard this a lot I've heard this a lot that I think that I'm right all the time there are many things no there are many days on first take or even on the podcast well I'll say something and I'll think about it because I I'm you know I'm self-critical and I'll think about it like man I think I was wrong on that or I think I should have done that a different way I don't always think I'm right I'm just right like 96 97 yeah and we have the same we have the same percentage of being right the difference is is when I process if I'm wrong I don't care I just want to piss people off from not like changing my stance I'm just like ah [ __ ] it yeah I still believe this what are you gonna do about it be an instigator um what was Gil like crazy he's [ __ ] crazy like I'm not a normal person no one looks at me and looks at my behavior says like oh Richard's normal Gilbert was 12 steps further than that at all can you get your up to the mic a little bit there there you go uh I was I wasn't speaking oh no you said yeah I don't think that might caught that we can edit it in post don't worry about it no Gilbert this is the thing about Gilbert he's a [ __ ] sweetheart Gilbert really is like his energy and his Joy it's real but there's also something missing and I don't know what it is and I love him to death and but I don't like Gil lives in La I might see him I might not I can try and get him on the podcast the podcast was two hours late and we were in a studio at Spectrum Sports and it's just it's just Gill and the sooner you accept him for who he is and keep your distance the better off everyone will be yeah I I had him as a teammate forever for uh a year-ish how was that a year-ish I particularly enjoyed as a teammate um we were in transition yeah in terms of uh like Dwight kind of wanting to get out um there were probably guys Gill included who didn't really [ __ ] with Stan um my favorite Gill story is we're like we make the trade I don't know uh 20 games in the season we make the trade for Gill J Rich and then we got Turk back and so Vince is out Richard's out Gortat was out and we're probably like a month to six weeks later and Stan this is still when we're like knee pads and tape for hour and a half shoot arounds and we're going live in the morning the day of a game love it and at some point like Jill we're in the training room and Gill's like talking to Stan he's like listen you can have me for the game or you can have me for shoot around you can't have me for both yeah and Stan's like well if you don't do shoot around you can't play in the game and he's like okay see that so then we would drive by the arena like at night because it was downtown and Gil would be in there at like 10 30 playing one-on-one with the boys yes like that's the one thing about like uh I I saw Mike Tyson was talking about Mayweather right and he was like hey say what you want about Mayweather his addiction is the gym like he might have some other Gilbert was the same way there is never you will never find a single person that would ever question his work ethic like his work ethic was epic like in the gym you know I think there was a he tried to made a million shots during one off season he you know beat the Sean Stevenson shooting one hand College threes if you know like he was like Gilbert was such a student of the game he's hyper intelligent he his work ethic is 10 out of 10. and so it's the other [ __ ] that would always like his his humor and his sarcasm and his inability to process the moment and read a [ __ ] room if you don't tell your coach okay I'm not unless you're Trey young then you can tell your coach like I'm not doing shoot her out why are you looking at me like that no it's funny because uh this is the second time in two days that we've taken a really hard shot at the house I did their game last night we hope you had fun with us today we hope you laugh we hope you had fun with us today if you haven't already please hit that subscribe button