Catching Up with the Raptors Sophomores: Ja’Kobe, Jamal, Ulrich, Jonathan, & Jamison

Catching Up with the Raptors Sophomores: Ja’Kobe, Jamal, Ulrich, Jonathan, & Jamison

Man, if y’all got a name for us, drop it in the comments. Drop it in the comments. Like, how y’all We boo each other. It’s the secret though. It was the pregame stuff with you. Yeah. Our first our first little interactions with each other like real live now. Now you don’t know. Oh yeah. Yeah, he get a year under his belt. Now he forget about smoke. You hang out with each other. We do hang up. Hang up. What? What is the question again? Why is our chemistry so good, right? I think it’s because we hang out with each other a lot. Exactly. We spend time together or buy us food all the time. By the way, I’m buying food. I only show her when it’s free. Pay for my food one time. But yeah, I feel like, you know, we on and off the court. You know what I’m saying? These my little my little bros. See, now you doing real big bros. You know what I’m saying? Like, you know what I’m saying? Like, who’s the oldest? You are JB. JB. Wait, how old are you? 24. It’s JB. Yeah, never mind. The oldest JB. You see how you don’t know your brother’s age and you supposed to get him? Shut up, man. That’s what I’m saying. Shut up. You about to drive yet? So, everybody likes Oh, wait. No. Yeah. Yeah. The big brother just got his driver’s license. 23 years old. You want to play? You want to play? Who’s driving? If we go more and then orange. I like orange. I put orange. I put orange. Yeah. Yeah. Show him some sign. Let’s see if he’s going to know. Definitely just showing up for the camera. Bro, you just got your license a month. Look at JB. JB’s lying. You got your license a month. Yo, matter of fact, you driving over the car. Who controls the music? Probably. Yeah, I can. There’s no t You played T for five songs straight last night. I ain’t lie. What’s up with you, dog? That’s cap, bro. Hold on. Destroy. If I really have to just play music, we already talked about this laser him. Destroy me. Who else? If I really have to play music, I’m not going to play that. We good though. I’m not going interesting. Taste the noodles. Yeah, I got the most variety. variety. You got my variety. It’s variety. We got the most different. We got the most variety. I probably got Oh, yeah. You probably Yeah. Yeah. What about me though? But I got everything on my go. Start with you, J. What? Uh, just being probably being consistent. Just like having a routine, being an everyday guy, just showing up, doing the same things every day, and just having a plan and being consistent. You just been your program. Let’s talk like what do you say? Being a poor doing the right thing even when nobody’s watching. That’s a good one. Rich learned that um you can’t be good in this business without confidence. I say just running your own race every day. You know, some days are better than others, but just keeping the same consistency like D said, just keep the same mindset. Uh I would say being patient. Um be ready when your name’s called and you know, learning. Always having a open mind to learn. And aside from who changed the most from overall overall talking about I was still funny. He uh I say orange like just even just growing up just you know he coming from a whole different place than us you know just getting accustomed to our culture. His English has gotten a lot better. You know what I’m saying? You know what I mean? I mean check that out. Check that out. You know what I mean? That raw way got him. You know what I mean? And basketball wise, he just really took a a big leap from last year when we first saw him. To that learned a lot in the fighting. I’ll say that. Go ahead. What was like too short? Orange. What? J Mo. J to what? To what? To what? To what? To anything. Bro, we was we went to a team um what? Team what was it? The hockey gym. The hockey game. We went to a team hockey game. the score. They be the Giant win. He was Yes. Yes, bro. We went to a team hockey game and it’s and it’s their first and it’s their first round game. Maple Leaf’s game. Maple Leaf’s game. What was the score? We all there. He show third period. They only got three periods, though. What was the score? Only got three periods. You guys learn to score. Who care about the score by Miss Weiss every goal. Who are you supposed to stop? I cap. It’s probably got to be It might be me. I don’t really stop talking. Yeah, it’s probably basketball one. Fouls 101. All right. So, oneonone player, defense is me. Oh, just go. All right. Yeah, y’all got it. We We all be on the same page. We all be on the same page. JD on the same page. Princess he took three. Don’t you dare. Stop better than you. Don’t appreciate. Don’t lie to the Yo one more. I’m trying to tell you what I’m saying though. M. Yeah. Mo probably. What’s the next question? Guard the most. J Mo. Just talk about this. Just talk about right now. It’s me. right now as people who got us call each other’s nicknames and stuff. Oh, you talking about like as a group? Oh, as a group. No, we don’t got nothing. We got a name. We just cool. We all just came in together. We got to start in five though. All four J’s. You know what I’m saying? Was it five of us? Uh, don’t say no dumb. Don’t say nothing stupid. Is it back boys four or five? Hey, but there’s Jackson five. So like Jackson. Who? Michael. This boy. Hey, you play you play too. You play club too. You know they start one for one. Yeah, but they don’t know that though. What? Yeah, they don’t. That’s why. So, what are we? I don’t know. It’s a group of great guys. I like everybody. Everybody Everybody do like this. Everybody want group of great guys. It’s a group of great guys. We got to come with him though. We got to come with a name. If y’all got a name for us, drop some comments. Like, comment, and subscribe. Anyway, what are you guys most looking forward? Winning. Winning. Just winning. For real. Winning. Impact. Winning. Being something part of greater. Being something. Being something. Being part of something that’s greater than ourselves. There you go. There you go. Y seven, baby. just more makes me like more excited just to play just to know that like we all really getting comfortable with each other. We really what we’ve been working on since last year is really starting to show in this summer league. Like we’ve been doing all these practices, practicing, doing all these drills and like now we’re all starting to see everybody start to use it on the court. So I think that’s the best part. I feel like we know our strengths and our weaknesses so we don’t set each other up but we only set each other up for success. Favorite part of summer so far? Favorite part of summer league? Yeah. our very first game. Yeah. Yeah, it was lit. It was lit. Yeah, it was tempo. That was that was that was a great way to start. It was like J had like five dunks. It was all guard. My favorite play though was last game Orange. Yeah. Roll the CL. Man, y’all didn’t even see him. He turned around looked at me like yes got like this when he the cobra no you got start that way the cobra start when he steal the ball he was on the bench put on the camera I’m going Hey man this is T5 taking in with y’all man my little bros and big bros on the chat you know what I’m saying if you guys want to start a podcast or something like that let us know you know drop it in the comments I’m so Yeah, real John the game. Call me what you want. You know what I’m saying? Okay, now hold on. Last words. Last words. Everybody talk about your haircut. Everybody talking about talking about what you’re doing. What you What your hair up. But anyways, you got M, you know, we got Cove in the chat. You know, you got we got Big 77 in the chat, man. Something something. And this big deuce right here, baby. Family.

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