Club Shay Shay - Tristan Thompson Part 2

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. What do you remember?
Game seven. Everybody, and it's kind of been talked about a little bit. Shump mentioned it, about Ty Lue telling LeBron in game seven, I need more from you. And Bron's like, man, I got 15 points, I got, he's like, that isn't enough. He said, I need more. He's like, man, what you want me to do? He said, I want you to do more than what you do with.
You remember that conversation?

**Tristan Thompson** (0:24)
Wait a minute, I stay right beside, my locker's right beside Bron's. So I'm there chilling, I'm there, I got my towel over, he's saying to Bron, I'm like this, I'm like, so Bron, man, he's like, what do you want me to do? I'm like, that's why they pay you the big bucks.
See, I'm making 18, you make it 35, you got to do more. So, but no. But for Bron, he was doing everything, but you got to as a leader, as a coach, right?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:51)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (0:51)
This is what makes T-Lew so great is that he had to trust in the players. But it's like anything, right? You know when you're working out and your trainer is like, you got one more set in you, you don't got one.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:00)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:00)
No, you got one in you.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:01)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:01)
Right? So I think he does that. And also with Bron, he's the type of guy where you got to with him a little bit to get him going. It's almost like you got to poke him.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:09)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:09)
So Klay poked him, got him activated. But T-Lew knew, remember, we're down seven.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:13)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:13)
So we're down seven, we need more.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:16)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:16)
You know what I'm saying? So he poked the bear some more, and then obviously JR come out.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:20)
JR came out on fire because JR came out and made the first three, I mean like two threes.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:24)
He ran up like six, eight points.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:25)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:25)
So we're back in it now. We go from down seven to like down one or up one, and you know how that goes. So we needed that. And that's what you need sometimes in life in general. You need someone to motivate you a little bit.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:36)
Right. The sequence, because it seemed like that game stayed at 89 for ever.

**Tristan Thompson** (1:42)
Five minutes with nobody scored.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:44)
Five minutes.
Everybody was tight. Everybody you see guys missing, I mean, didn't touch the rim, they was hitting the backboard, turning the ball over, and then all of a sudden, I think Kyrie tries to lay it up, and they get a run out. And you see, hey, Steph got the ball, well, I think Iggy has the ball, he passes it to Steph.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:04)
I think it's a back.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:06)
And Steph is dribbling the ball, and LeBron is trailing. And I was like, oh my God, this is a two on one. And I see LeBron, and I'm thinking to myself, I don't think he can get it. And Steph bounces to Iggy.
JR does something that's really, really, he didn't just like, I'm just gonna take the foul.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:29)
Some guys do that.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:29)
They do.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:30)
Take the foul and mess up the whole play.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:31)
Mess up the whole play. But what he did is that he made Iggy clutch.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:35)
Yeah, cause he runs by him.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:36)
By him.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:36)
He does the run by him play.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:37)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:38)
So now Iggy gotta clutch it. That slow you down a second.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:41)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:41)
Now you come blocked by James.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:43)
Yes.

**Tristan Thompson** (2:44)
You know what I'm saying?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:45)
How loud was it when that play happened? Were you on the court at the time?

**Tristan Thompson** (2:50)
Of course I was on the court.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:52)
Okay, yeah. I'm on the court. We like, what, two minutes in the game?

**Tristan Thompson** (2:54)
Yeah, I'm in the game. I'm a closer now. Unless it's free throws, I'm ready to check in for the rebound. But if it's a back and forth, I'm in.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:05)
So the clutch, boom, he blocks the shot.

**Tristan Thompson** (3:09)