Speaker 1: Is there anything worse when a really awesome party just
Speaker 1: comes to an end way faster than you want, where
Speaker 1: they just cut the lights, they cut the music, and.
Speaker 2: You're like shit.
Speaker 1: I was starting to get into this. I was starting
Speaker 1: to feel like maybe this party could be something. That's
Speaker 1: how I'm feeling right now about the Brooklyn Nets. I
Speaker 1: was just starting to believe. I was just being like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Kd's MVP caliber right now, Kyrie is leading
Speaker 1: for guards, scoring and clutch time. Nets are on fire.
Speaker 1: They're the hottest streak in franchise history eighteen and two.
Speaker 1: In their last twenty they had a little kick to
Speaker 1: the teeth when Jimmy Butler got knocked into Kevin Durant's knee,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, something's bad. Katie went
Speaker 1: to the ground, he gets up gingerly, he leaves the game.
Speaker 1: He does not return Today. The Nets announced that Katie
Speaker 1: is going to miss a minimum of one month, say
Speaker 1: minimum two weeks, but later Adrian Wargzanowski came out with
Speaker 1: another tweet said month isolated mcl sprain in his right knee.
Speaker 1: This is what happened last year as well. If you
Speaker 1: remember that kept Katie out six weeks. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be tough on average, and MCL sprain takes
Speaker 1: six weeks from diagnosis to full healing. Of course, this
Speaker 1: is changing from case to case. Of course, if you've
Speaker 1: sprained your MCL before, they're gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: more cautious, not fun.
Speaker 2: Fun levels on all time.
Speaker 1: Low, though, fun levels on low. More minutes for Nick Claxton,
Speaker 1: more touches for my guy, Seth Curry. It's tough because
Speaker 1: Katie was having this historic season in a year where
Speaker 1: everybody's going off for fifty or more, Katie probably the
Speaker 1: most consistent, dangerous offensive threat in the league. And I
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, it's Luca. It's Lucas, Lucas Luca.
Speaker 1: But listen, hear me out. In terms of how well
Speaker 1: Katie was playing. According to Kurt Goldsbury, Durant is having
Speaker 1: one of the best shooting seasons I've ever seen. He
Speaker 1: leads the NBA in both jumpers attempted and made by
Speaker 1: a wide margin. But that's just the beginning. Among the
Speaker 1: NBA's fifty most active jump shooters this season, Durant has
Speaker 1: the second lowest shot quality. Via Second Spectrum, they estimate
Speaker 1: that an average shooter would produce an effective field goal
Speaker 1: percentage of just forty percent, which is awful on those
Speaker 1: durance jumpers. But Kevin Durant's actual efficient field goal percentage
Speaker 1: is fifty eight point four, which is elite in some
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is taking extremely difficult shots but still producing
Speaker 1: hyper efficient results, and his team is following suits. So
Speaker 1: even when he's being offended nearly perfectly, being draped by
Speaker 1: multiple guys, he's hitting tough, fade away mid range shots,
Speaker 1: he's shooting nearly twenty percent above what is expected. That's crazy,
Speaker 1: that's literally that doesn't make any sense. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that the Nets are eight and two
Speaker 1: under Jaqvaon is in part because one he's obviously a
Speaker 1: better coach than Steve Nash, which we know, but also
Speaker 1: because Kevin Durant is leading the best offensive team in
Speaker 1: the league and they're following his lead. I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's gonna work without him. Very fascinated to see
Speaker 1: how the Nets respond. I need to know. Is Kyrie
Speaker 1: gonna just put up fifty now? Are they going to?
Speaker 1: Are other teams going to double and triple team Kyrie?
Speaker 1: Who's gonna step up offensively? Are we gonna get bucket
Speaker 1: bucket after bucket from TJ? Warren? The bubble God. This
Speaker 1: is gonna absolutely test Shock Vaun's coaching chops. It's gonna
Speaker 1: put a ton of pressure on Kyrie. The Warriors without
Speaker 1: Steph for six and five pretty much, it's better than
Speaker 1: I expected five hundred. I thought they would be like
Speaker 1: three and seven. The Nets without KD. They have the Celtics,
Speaker 1: the Thunder, the Spurs, the Suns, the Jazz and Golden
Speaker 1: State the next two weeks. It's a bummer. It's a
Speaker 1: bumber if you're a Nets fan. But now you're gonna
Speaker 1: get to see what this team is really made of
Speaker 1: without KD. Maybe some more Ben Simmons minutes. Other than
Speaker 1: Miles Turner, is anyone more tired of being rumored to
Speaker 1: be traded than John Collins? John Collins has been in
Speaker 1: trade rumors since before I was born. Really like he's been,
Speaker 1: he's been. It's just the thing. It's death taxes and
Speaker 1: John Collins on the trade blog because John Collins had
Speaker 1: to be asked about it again and he's just like
Speaker 1: so sick of it. You can just tell I'm over this.
Speaker 1: He goes off on this reporter when they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're still on the trade. This team still wants to
Speaker 1: get rid of you. What are your thoughts about being
Speaker 1: traded again? There's just nobody in the NBA who doesn't
Speaker 1: know that John Collins would rather be anywhere than on
Speaker 1: the court watching Trey Young. Like we know that Trey
Speaker 1: Hug's not a fun player. We all know that they
Speaker 1: fucked up when they traded Luca for nothing. This is
Speaker 1: a team that absolutely fumbled the bag worse than Dennis Shruder.
Speaker 1: But you know, we have Collins who doesn't like Trey.
Speaker 1: He was the first to call out Trey back three
Speaker 1: years ago. There was articles written about it, but damn,
Speaker 1: here we go. So Collins finally has had enough. Right
Speaker 1: they ask him about his status. Does he actually know
Speaker 1: his dad? We'd no one knows his status. I don't
Speaker 1: even think the Atlanta Hawks know his stady. So he
Speaker 1: decided to just say, you know what, I'm taking off
Speaker 1: the kid gloves. I'm gonna say what I really think,
Speaker 1: he says. I could say, hey, I want to do this,
Speaker 1: I want to do that, and they can just do
Speaker 1: whatever they feel. It's fair. You saw it with Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant last summer. Right, he's begging for a trade, and like, nah,
Speaker 1: not saying that, I'm Kevin Durant. But that's just the
Speaker 1: mentality of Yeah, you can say whatever you want to
Speaker 1: go wherever, you can make a public see, you can
Speaker 1: do whatever. It does not matter. That's pretty much the
Speaker 1: crux of the issue. Right, you can desire a trade.
Speaker 1: Teams can do whatever they want with you. They can
Speaker 1: decide where you go, what it takes. They can hold
Speaker 1: you hostage. That's the nature of being in a contract,
Speaker 1: right And right up until he resigned, Travis Schlank was
Speaker 1: bound in the termines to keep Collins in Atlanta. Who
Speaker 1: knows why Collins does not want to be there. Schlank
Speaker 1: does not want him there, and Collins opined, how hard
Speaker 1: it's been playing for three different coaches with three different
Speaker 1: systems in Atlanta. Obviously, so much of what happens with
Speaker 1: his destination, what happens with the teams outside of his control.
Speaker 1: But then the reporter, of course, probably the same one
Speaker 1: that pressed trade young uh, pressed him about a possible
Speaker 1: trade again, and he finally had enough. He was, oh God,
Speaker 1: it's best I don't give a damn he says, I
Speaker 1: don't give a damn. I honestly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I play basketball every day. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I play basketball. Come in and I play basketball, and
Speaker 1: whatever happens happens. Because I don't control that side. I
Speaker 1: don't have any control over the decisions that get made.
Speaker 1: Where I am, where I play, I don't have any
Speaker 1: control over that. Is it safe to say John Collins
Speaker 1: is sick of this bullshit? Is it safe to say
Speaker 1: John Collins would like to be anywhere but to be
Speaker 1: asked about, Hey, you're on the trade block again. One
Speaker 1: thing is for certain, like the Hawks are not going
Speaker 1: to allow Trey Young to go. And it is very
Speaker 1: hard to see where John Collins and Trey Young fit
Speaker 1: on a team that is centered on a guy who
Speaker 1: really his first, second, and third option is to score.
Speaker 1: His fourth option is to lob the ball up, really
Speaker 1: to keep the defense honest for option one, two and three,
Speaker 1: that's really it. You're only getting lobs to help Tray Young,
Speaker 1: that's it. And you're not getting play calls for you
Speaker 1: at all. So how bad our thing in Atlanta? Well,
Speaker 1: according to Shams, Nate McMillan strongly considered resigning after the
Speaker 1: whole Trey Young incident that we covered a couple weeks back. Now,
Speaker 1: Nate insists that that was not true. He says, these
Speaker 1: are allies, but come on, we know what Shams does.
Speaker 1: Shams is getting multiple sources. He is not peddling in rumors.
Speaker 1: There is fire behind the smoke, so do not hold
Speaker 1: it against John Collins. Think about how toxic things are there.
Speaker 1: I heard from somebody within NBA circles that reached out
Speaker 1: to me. Hey, they said, players don't like playing with Trey,
Speaker 1: Coaches don't like Trey. There's nothing they can do. He's
Speaker 1: the franchise, that's it and a story. So yeah, retirement
Speaker 1: looks a lot better than dealing with the freaking chucker
Speaker 1: every day who's gotten attitude issue? And I like Trey
Speaker 1: Young ish, But do you want to bet John Collins's
Speaker 1: pro Nate on this little beef? I would bet. I
Speaker 1: would bet so bottom line very safe to say, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that would like Choun Collins on
Speaker 1: their rosterin down. But let's be honest, why why is
Speaker 1: her point? He's why why is this points down?
Speaker 2: Because Trey Young's first, second, third option is scoring for
Speaker 2: himself and he's shooting twenty nine percent from three, but
Speaker 2: he is averaging eight rebounds in a block and a
Speaker 2: half and a steal per game.
Speaker 1: So will John Collins be on the move? I don't know. Again,
Speaker 1: this is well before my time that these rumors started.
Speaker 1: But like Miles Turner, don't bring up the trade number
Speaker 1: the word trade around them if you don't want it
Speaker 1: to be a confrontational situation.