Jaylon Johnson opens up about heated exchange with Matt Eberflus

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00:00What do you feel comfortable telling us about how what it was like for

00:04you to learn that the coach had been dismissed and your name being linked with

00:10being one of the key tail signs that something was wrong inside the locker room.

00:16I mean, at the end of the day, honestly,

00:20I don't really give a damn about really too much of it.

00:24At the end of the day for me, it's one of those things where at some point enough

00:29was enough just as far as expressing frustrations.

00:34But I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, I found out through ESPN of the firing

00:40first and then receive some phone calls, texts after that.

00:45But I mean, at the end of the day, this is not my first go around.

00:48It's not my first rodeo with firing and things like that.

00:52I mean, at the end of the day, it's a business.

00:55Guys get fired all the time, player, coach, GM, it happens.

00:58So I mean, again, I don't necessarily feel like I was just some major part that

01:03played a role in getting him fired.

01:05I mean, that's not on me.

01:08But I mean, at the end of the day, too, there was frustration.

01:11There was words from myself that I expressed just from my frustrations of losing.

01:17I mean, like I said, in part of what I said after the game is, I mean,

01:20I've been losing for five years.

01:22So I mean, I feel like a high level player like myself after a certain point,

01:27losing games, how we've been losing games, somebody has to express something.

01:31And I mean, for me, it was something that was a spirit of moment thing.

01:35And it went the way it went at the end of the day.

01:38You know, Jalen, we know you enough to know that you believe in communicating

01:41with intention.

01:43And you believe in, I think you believe in the power of positive confrontation.

01:48Is that fair to say?

01:49Like, say stuff.

01:50If stuff needs to get said, say it like men and talk about it.

01:54So, you know, what did you feel needed to be said at that point in the room?

02:01Honest, I can't even give you the details because it was one of those

02:05situations where it just got to that point where you don't really

02:11remember everything I was saying.

02:12I mean, like I said, at the end of the day,

02:14it was just based around frustrations of losing.