Gresh & Fauria: Grant Hill explains reason to select Derrick White over Jaylen Brown
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00:00with Derek White. I don't have to manage him. I don't have to explain to him his role. I don't
00:06have to say, here's why you only played eight minutes. And I do wonder how much of the managing
00:13of Jalen Brown, because they view him as a superstar. Is Jalen Brown a better basketball
00:21player than Derek White? Yes. Derek White to me is a better defender than Jalen Brown,
00:27as some of the awards show that. But this makes me also think that there was some Steve Kerr
00:33influence on this too. And if I think back on it now, in a weird way, it might be a goofy
00:42backhanded compliment to Jalen Brown of the, we're not going to bring a superstar like you
00:49into this team and then turn you into a role player. Instead, we'll take a guy who knows his
00:55role, who fits it well, who gives us back court pressure, who can do the little things.
01:03Because sometimes you have to ask superstars to do the little things. Whereas with Derek White,
01:09you don't have to ask that. You don't have to be like, hey, I need you to dive on the floor to go
01:14get that ball out of bounds and stuff like that. So in a weird way, I wonder if it's,
01:19we're not going to get a superstar and insult him by saying you're getting eight to 10 minutes
01:25a game or whatever. Weird way of looking at it, but after listening to that.
01:30I can easily see them. I will accept that. I think that's an interesting kind of point of view,
01:37to be honest with you. But I would also say to him, that's a cop out. If Grant Hill was telling
01:43me Jalen Brown, I mean, I'm saving you from this, man. You don't want to deal with it. And I would
01:47say, let me make that decision. Let me make that decision. Let me tell you if I can handle it.
01:53I don't know if they trust him to.
01:55Hey, listen, I come to you. You're an adult. You're accomplished. Hey, we have a spot open,
02:02but this is what that spot, this is what goes into this. You're not going to play a lot.
02:09Okay. I'm going to play when I can. And when you go in, I need you to do this and this.
02:15Okay. And that's just, that's what we're looking for.
02:19And do you think they had to do that with Derek White?
02:21No, I guess is no, no, no. It wasn't. Listen, I would sit there and say the reason that they
02:26got rid of Kawhi Leonard for multiple reasons, I said, listen, let's just see how it works with
02:30the understanding that it probably wouldn't. And then it's okay. Now I can get the guy that I want.