WEBVTT - Luka Doncic has gone completely soft 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.440 On this episode that heat check. Feeling a little better, 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.319 feeling a little more energy. But we've got a real 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.280 you know who's got energy? This budding rivalry, this real 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.319 deal holy field rivalry between two rookies that was on 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.200 full display and needs your attention. We also talk about 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.919 if Luca the sought this superstar in the league right now, 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.720 because I think he might be the Bucks. Do it, folks, 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:40.000 they actually pull the trigger and higher doc dirty mac rivers. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:42.800 We also get in this news from around the league, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.920 another firing, another one bites the dust after the firing 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.360 of Adrian Griffin after a brutal cold spell. It feels 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.240 like spring around here, so's get right into an enemy. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.200 Let's drop that motherfucker mus that. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:55.680 Should be here. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.840 I am fired up to talk about this rivalry. I 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:21.480 was this is something that you only see like once 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.600 every twenty five years. Last time I think we saw 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:29.120 it is probably what magic and Bird like. This level 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:36.600 of two highly sought after, high reputation. Could they be 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.560 transcendent in the league. Yeah, one guy wasn't in college, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.520 came overseas. The other guy was in college and hurt 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:49.280 his foot. But like this is the stuff of the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.520 front cover of two k right like face off. You 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.000 know this is gonna fuel the league. I think for 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.920 the next twenty years. I'm talking about Wemby versus Chet. Things. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.360 Things with them have gotten to a level where everyone 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.600 on Twitter has seen it, has known it, has pointed 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.480 it out. There is there, there is beef, there's something 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.640 something spicy's going on between them. We watched them play 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:21.600 against one another once before and it was the same, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:26.080 and now I get additional confirmation. Wednesday, the Thunder and 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.800 the Spurs squared off for the second time, even though 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.160 it was a blowout. Maybe because it was a blowout, 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.200 I don't know, but I tuned in. I tuned in 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.600 the fourth quarter and that's when the shit got real. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.160 The difference between the Thunder and the Spurs is like 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.760 a golf. The Spurs are probably one of the worst 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.679 teams in the league and the Thunder, or maybe a 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.040 Western Conference finals game, the level of talent between the 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.720 team is a golf. It is possible. I think that 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.000 the Thunder bench could beat the first team of the Spurs. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.880 Aaron Wiggins, Cason Wallace, Isaiah Joe oh Kenrick Williams, Mesich, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.839 Jylen Williams, just off ir At Alexi Pokoschewski. I think 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.680 they beat the starters of the Spurs more than half 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.480 the time. But really, what we're talking about are the 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.320 best two rookies just did Fuck the wards, fuck the press. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.000 It's mono imano. Let's see who can do our seventh 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.520 foot plus thing and take the other one off the 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.880 dribble and embarrass them and stare them down. So I'm 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.440 I'm like, I bet, it's something that I wanted to 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.840 check in on. I needed some blocks from Wemby and Chet. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.320 I needed some rebounds. We were close to coming home. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.320 But I admit when I saw the score, I was 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.240 a little worried. Okay, so he's up a million and 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.320 it's the start of the fourth quarter. I thought I 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.480 lost the bet. I tuned in and guess who's out there? Everyone? 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:54.200 Everyone chets out there. Vic's out there. And I thought 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.720 I tuned in to the Western Conference Finals seventh game 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:04.600 because they was when the intensity ratcheted up. Victor every 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.120 time Chet went to this, every time Chet checked in, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.200 Victor goes to the scorer's table, and in a game 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.080 that was largely over, couldn't tell it to those guys. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.800 They were back and forth and back and forth. I 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.480 think the fourth quarter turned him up. It was ISO 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.039 ball possession after io ball possession. Both teams were like, 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.159 let's just let him go to work. Let's just let 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.599 these guys cook. The game is in hand. Who cares, really, Like, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.359 let's just turn this into an exhibition. We'll call it 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.280 one on one with the other four on both teams 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:40.839 just out on the perimeter. So Wemby gets the ball 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.160 at the top of the key, drives, puts the shoulder 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.159 into Chet's chest, hammers home a dunk, and then smiles, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.240 laughs and stares the man down for like two full seconds. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:56.800 Soon after, Chet gets so frustrated he sets an aggressive 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.120 screen on Wemby and gets called for the offense. It's 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.600 a foul. The next possession, Chet's like, well, I don't care, Ah, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.000 fuck this, this guy up too bodies. Wenby again gets 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.279 in the way, grabs the steel, goes coast to coast, 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:16.760 sweet little up and underlayup just one after the the 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:21.440 next back in the forth, drives in the paint, ball fakes, middies, threes, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.640 step backs, little one foot floaters. These guys did everything. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.080 It made. It made the blowout must see TV. I 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.119 honestly was looking around, like, is anybody else talking about 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.360 this online? Because I feel this is something that something 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.800 is going on here. The end result is we all 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.040 knew and I guess became aware if you didn't know, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.600 that this is a real rivalry. This is not a 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.200 O cute two seven footers. We have to force them 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.520 to not liking each other. I think that they actually don't. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.200 I think that they believe, each one of them that 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.440 they are the best big men new big men in 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.880 the league right now. It is personal. Final stat line 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.920 Chet seven seventeen nine and four, a steal in three 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:06.240 blocks Wemby twenty four, twelve and five. With the steal 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.800 in four blocks, one player had to wor stat line, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.839 but his team blew the other one the fuck out. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.320 A reporter asked Wemby after the game about what he 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.000 likes playing against Chet, and he's and they're like, do 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.520 you like do you like that one on one type environment? 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.039 And he goes, yeah, I don't really ever play one 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.800 on one. It's usually one on two. And truthfully, you 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.520 look at that Twitter, they've got screen grabs where it's 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.880 one on three. There are three thunder Shady Wemby. They've 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:42.680 created a wall around him, and then he said this 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.960 in response to another question about whether he's pissed that 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.440 he didn't win Western Conference Rookie of the Month and 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.039 that he's only seventh in All Star voting, he goes, yeah, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.400 of course, I'm mad. At the end of the day, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.279 I'm gonna get what I deserve. Though, every game is 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.320 a statement game from now on. Okay, okay, Wemby, you 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.120 give us those statement games. Yeah, how come every game 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.400 wasn't a statement game before. Chet, for his part, played 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:12.880 the role of the mature elder statesman. He said, yeah, obviously, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.480 that's the headline that you guys have. That's what ESPN promotes, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.520 that's what the NBA is promoting, and rightfully so. Vic's 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.560 a great player. I think I have a long way 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.040 to go in this league, but I plan to be 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.160 a great player and play a long time. But that 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.960 doesn't take away from what the focus is. The focuses 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:33.800 Thunder versus the Spurs. Could have fooled me, could have 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.360 fooled me. I didn't realize that. I felt it was 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.560 Chet versus Wemby. I like Chet very mature. He's a killer, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.960 Let's be honest. That's not true like he he absolutely 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.360 loves going against Wemby a lot of people thought the 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.720 Rookie of the Year award was Chet's. A lot of 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.520 people thought it was on the line last night, two 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.400 nights ago. If that's true, Victor got the best of Chet. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.080 He's now back in front at minus one fifty. Chet 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.360 has moved back from minus numbers to plus one twenty. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.280 If you like Chet, which is not what I do, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.200 I think you might well put some of the money 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:06.920 on the line for Chet to win Rookie of the Year. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.400 One hundred dollars gets you one hundred and twenty dollars back. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.080 The X factor, though, obviously, is the OKAC is good 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.440 and the Spurs are not good. The Spurs are a 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.920 lottery team. Okay See is second in the West thunder 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.960 fifth rank defense starting players who are aged twenty one, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.840 twenty one, two, twenty four, and twenty five. The Spurs 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.720 have a defensive rating of one nineteen point two. One 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.120 nineteen point two is is right around Trey Young, Like 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.200 that's just that's what that is so not good, Like 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.200 somewhere between Trey Young and Dame Lillard is not good. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.280 It's kind of hard to compare the two teams really 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.240 like Wemby on the Thunder would be very good too. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.840 I promise you one is playing on an elite basketball 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.040 team and the other is facing triple teams every night 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.120 because he doesn't have shake Gilges Alexander. He has Devin Vassel, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:00.840 which very good player, not Shay Gilges Alexander. The good 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.680 news if you didn't check in and watch the game, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.760 they play two more times against each other. I have 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.400 already looked at flights on April tenth. Okay, see never 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.120 been to Oklahoma City. The Thunder play the Spurs again 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.240 if the Rookie of the Year is still in doubt, 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.000 and there's no reason to think that it's not gonna 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.720 be close, folks, April tenth is gonna be a game, 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:33.400 all right? Moving on, What is it about these two teams? 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.080 Fucking weirdos. They're just a weird rivalry, aren't they. I 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.000 don't know where the origin is, but every time these 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:44.200 two teams play, it's weird. It's spicy, it's got drama, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.719 it's got strange interactions with the media after, it's got 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.679 strange interactions with the fans during We're talking about the 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.720 Suns and Mavericks and They're always up to no good. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.960 It's always something with these two. They don't I don't 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.720 think they like each other. Not gonna lie. Devin Booker 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.679 went off for forty six last night. You think he's 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.000 still mad about that Luca meme where Luca was up 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.960 I think fifty in the first half and just just 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.959 staring at Devin Booker's face when he's trying to play defense. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.080 But he beat him forty six points to the tune 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.360 of that in a blowout win, one hundred and thirty 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.040 two to one on nine. So then there was a skirmish. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:30.640 The skirmish originated by Grant Williams, the all time instigator, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.160 the all time irritant. He was supposed to be the 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:37.120 offseason signing and he is pretty much sucked last month. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.920 So he's been trying throughout the court tire course of 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.480 the game to bait Nurkic, but mostly baiting Nurkic through 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.000 fucking with other players on the team, like Kevin Durant. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.720 So he pushes Kevin Durant down on the ground. He's 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.480 trying to stomp towards kd. Nurkic has to push him away. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.000 They get tax It's a whole thing. He gets, he 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.400 gets fouled out. He's a jack did. Afterwards, they asked 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.160 Booker about it, Hey, like, do you think this guy 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.880 has an agenda that has nothing to do with winning 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.960 the game. By the way, this isn't even the main storyline. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.120 This is just the apertif he said, yeah he did, Hell, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.640 yeah he did. It's not necessary. I don't even think 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.720 Grant Williams wanted to play basketball tonight. He wants to 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.959 do the antics. Man, we're out there trying to hoop, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.480 so big props to Nerk for holding that down. If 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:24.760 I would have seen that, I would have done the 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.559 same thing. That's how we get down. By the way, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:32.480 I love Devin Booker's outfit choices. He went full out trollo, 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:38.400 had the one one button and everything else was open. Anyway, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.480 he says, we're not with that nonsense. It was nonsense too. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.120 Grant Williams is the epitome of nonsense. The Mans were 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.319 up by sixteen at one point, but after Grant got tossed, 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.079 it was just pretty much downhill for the rest of 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.480 the night. But this is not even the story, folks. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.920 The real story is the fireworks between Luca and a 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:01.640 media reporter like after the game and Tim McMahon of 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:06.360 the Hoop Collective podcast. His nickname is Banned McMahon because 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.360 he gets banned from arenas, so he's a little spicy. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.480 Luca was having a rough night, we'll call it a 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.000 frustrated night. He had thirty four, which you know, it's 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.040 light work for Luca, but he was eleven for twenty four. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.600 They're obviously losing the game. He had five turnovers, so 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.679 things weren't going great for Luca in the first half. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.160 You know, you might imagine that Dallas fans probably not 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.640 super stoked with their own team in their own arena 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.600 getting blown out by their rival. So he starts getting 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.720 heckled by this guy actually in a Devin Booker jersey. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.560 So okay. With three minutes or so left in the game, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.079 fourth quarter, it was clear, Mavericks, they're losing this game. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.920 They're getting their asses beat. It was all over. But 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.360 the shouting. Luca had had enough of this fan right then. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.040 Not first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, No, No, he 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.760 had had enough. He was jogging back on defense to 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.680 get this guy the fuck out of here, get him out. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.880 He even gave him a little like uugh little wave 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.880 like get him out? What did the fans say? We 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.960 all want to know what could have been so inflammatory, 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:15.000 so egregious, so disparaging that Luca needed right then, not 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.320 to let it go because there's only a few minutes left, 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.960 but to say, get discloy out of here, get him out, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.720 get him out right now. Well, the fan uh called 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.240 Luca fat basically uh in not in those words, but 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.439 what he said. We have multiple people around the league 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.640 because they were that fan was right near the media, 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.679 was Luca, you're tired, get your ass on the treadmill. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.800 Is Luca, you're fat. You need to get in shape. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.760 You are getting beat because you're not in condition, And 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:53.200 just like that, get discloyo coetme out. Fan was probably 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.280 ready to leave anyway the game was over. He probably 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.600 wanted to beat the crowds, grab an uber, get some dinner. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.840 Who knows, but it gets even more hilarious. So Tim McMahon, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.000 who he's got an interesting sense of humor, he tweeted 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.720 something out about Luca and what the fan said, and 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.079 then he asked Luca about it after the game, and 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.680 Luca got chippy with Tim McMahon pretty fast. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.200 I know, I saw you when you said about the fan. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.040 You know that was not a true all that was 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.040 not the only thing he said. But I knew you 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.640 would be the first one to point out something like that, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.400 because I'm not going to say what he said, but 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.080 I knew you were going to be the first one 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:33.400 to put out something like that. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.520 So I just saw that. Man, It's just funny. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.360 He always seemed to be the first one to put 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:38.360 some bad stuff about me. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.560 First of all, ninety nine percent of stuff i've written 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:42.440 that he's been good. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:43.520 I don't know. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.160 I was sitting two rows behind us, all. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.960 Right, So it was the only thing. It was that 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.240 time he said something. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.480 The only thing was what you reacted to. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.280 Yeah, I was hearing the whole first half, right, Oh, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:57.520 you didn't hear anything. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.360 It was definitely all okay, there we go acting. 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.000 You put out something that was just the only thing. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.800 But what was the finale. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:07.200 It's not the issue. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.000 I'm just seeing you seems to be the first one 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.840 to always put something bad about me. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:15.160 It's fine, it's. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.840 All Why did you ask for the fan to be ejected? 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.120 Because he was cursing me the whole first have. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.200 To Why don't you ask for the ejected in the 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:23.880 first half. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.760 Then, because son never would ejected fan. They pay for tickets, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.520 but I had enough. You know, it's a little bit 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.280 of frustration, Pauls. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.680 A little bit of frustration. There we get to the 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.800 heart of the matter, because if what he said didn't matter, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.080 and he was also chirping you the whole first half, 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.080 the whole thing doesn't make any damn sense. Luca, you're 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.680 not making any damn sense. But here, here's where we 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.280 get to the heart of what Luca is his issue with. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.760 You turned your head and looked over at him after 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.280 he said that. That's I mean, that's what we saw. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.480 The guy, the bad guy in the media. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.120 Right, Sorry, you're fairly portrayed of the media. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.440 No, do you think you're fairly portrayed in the media, Luca? No, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.880 Luca the bad guy? Okay, Luca, you're the bad Luca 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.320 the bad guy? You mean, the guy who is essentially 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:21.600 James Harden but gets treated like he's Michael Jordan. Are 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.119 we serious? Luca might be one of the most protected 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.800 NBA players in the last twenty years. We give Luca 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:35.240 a pass on everything. He is our Slovenian brother. The 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.440 media fucking loves Luca. One guy doesn't slurp up on 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.080 everything that Luca does. And he's like, ah, you just 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.680 hate me, You just hate me so much. Oh I 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.440 knew you were gonna be the one. Ah, I knew, Oh, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.840 Luca the bad guy. Y'all just paint me out to 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:55.280 be the bad guy. This is fucking insane. Luca used 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.920 to play in Europe. Europe. Let me if you are 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:03.840 not aware of what basketball is like in Eastern Europe. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:08.560 They carry weapons to the game. People have been stabbed, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.800 hooligan culture in the EPO. You think that's bad, No, no, sir, 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:19.560 there's like fireworks going off in an indoor arena. Google 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.520 this shit. Luca played in that when he was sixteen 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:29.760 years old. Are we like? One little fan chirps him 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.120 about getting on a treadmillon He's like, good, Gloria out 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:38.159 of there, get him out. This man's gotten soft. Luca 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.679 has been become soft really in this country. Some the 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:47.320 creature comforts of Dallas, Texas have gotten to him. He's 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:53.880 a generational talent, no doubt, But villain villain India, I'll 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.040 be the bad guy. You are just soft all around. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.840 You complain to the refs every second you can. Your 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.800 coaches pissed, your second coaches pissed, your gm is pit. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:09.480 Everybody knows you are a whiny bitch. I love Luca, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:14.240 but in that realm whiner whiner. You do not take 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.320 your conditioning seriously. You do not take your diet seriously. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.440 And if if you're gonna get chirped about the thing 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.000 that you don't do, then what are we even talking about? 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.440 Let me just go side road on you. Kevin Love 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.760 used to look like a house. He did. Kevin Love 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:39.159 used to have chipmunk cheeks and tricep fat. And you 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.119 know what he did. What happened to him when he 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.960 came into Macarrena. We call him fat, We call them 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.879 baby fat, We call them all kinds of mean things. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.479 It was so bad that we as a student body, 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:57.000 gotten email about it said do not say this about 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.720 opposing players. We do not want you. They gave out 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.879 pieces of paper to the pit crew about all of 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.560 the mean things we were gonna chant about Kevin Love. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:15.560 Why one, It was very easy, ammo. He was fat too. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.480 He spurned us by not going to Oregon and going 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.679 to UCLA as an Oregon boy. It was so bad. 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.200 We were punished. The pit crew was put to rest 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.040 for like two weeks. Luca candle that in the NBA 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.040 making millions of dollars, if you can't take your conditioning 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.720 seriously and you can't take the heckling, maybe winning isn't 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:41.440 the most important thing to you. Maybe you are closer 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.840 to James Harden than we even thought. Back to him 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.960 and Tim McMahon, what a tremendous exchange. I need more 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.920 of it. I love it. It's not Tim McMahon's job 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.320 to carry water for the Dallas Mavericks or for Luka Doncic. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.639 And it's not hard to write stories about Luca, not 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.760 hard at all. It is hard to ask him. Hey, Luca, 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:09.840 to his face, gotta be just a real grizzly veteran move. Hey, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.520 what did that fans say to you again? They got 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.520 you to kick him out of the game. Luca, by 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.560 the way, did not answer. He never answered, He never confirmed. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.679 It was about my weight that set me off. It 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:28.320 was that was the final straw. I don't know one 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.200 hundred percent not what is bothering Luca. Some of those 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.159 guys don't want criticism, and when they do, they remember 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.120 that criticism sounds like he's remembered Tim McMahon a lot. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.920 Maybe that's the sign of being great, like Lebron remembers 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.959 every single bad thing that anybody's ever said about him. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.639 Or Steph is going to the locker room at halftime 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.680 and hearing this annoying girl say that the Warriors won't 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:50.399 go nine and one, and so he comes back and 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.480 draws fifty on the Atlanta Hawks to go nine to one. 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.159 But maybe, just maybe it's not that. Maybe it's a 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:02.560 sign that you are just all right. Lots popping around 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.440 the league, So let's get into it. So the Wizard said, well, 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.920 if the Bucks can fire a guy who went thirty 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:14.720 and thirteen, how many wins they have seven seven wins, 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.439 we can definitely fire west Unsale Junior. But like, they 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.879 didn't really fire him because they're the Wizards, you know, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.960 they don't just do the right thing. They do the 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:28.080 like weird soft thing. They reassigned them to a front 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.919 office role. So he's fired. It's kind of like what 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.719 happened to Travis Schlenk when he was reassigned when they 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.080 were really firing him for the Atlanta Hawks. They don't 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:37.840 want to buy them out, so they're just putting them 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:42.840 to work in some random office in some strange role. 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:44.919 My mom had a friend who worked for the Forest 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:48.600 Service and he was trying to unionize, and so they 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:53.359 put him on another floor by himself, on the union floor. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.240 It was just him, and they gave him busy work. 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:00.680 And then one day he opened some random closet and 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.760 all of the busy work that they had him to 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.760 do was in there. No one signed off on it, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.399 no one stamped it. So what did he do. He 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.960 ended up finding a couch from some other floor and 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.560 putting it in his office and he just slept there. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:18.080 That's what I That's what I imagine west UNSELLD Junior is 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:22.040 doing right now somewhere in the Wizard's facility. They've given 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.320 him a role that has no meaning. No one's looking 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:27.600 at his work. They just they want to make his 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:31.160 life miserable because they can't really afford because they're cheap. 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.480 They can't just pay him out. Let him do something else, 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:35.680 let him play golf. They're like, no, you're coming into 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.640 work every fucking day. Okay, we're gonna breathe down your 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:43.439 neck on things that are meaningless. Anyway, they are desperately 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:45.840 hanging onto the title of being the second worst team 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.399 in the NBA, behind the Detroit Pistons, who are, by 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.080 the way, breathing down their necks with a two and 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.440 three stretch in their last five, which sounds bad, but 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:55.800 it's pretty good for the Detroit Pistons. Not gonna lie 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:00.199 and now it's out of nowhere, Brian Keith, if his 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.640 lead assistant is going to take over for the remainder 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.120 of the year and in the offseason, they're gonna conduct 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:08.239 a comprehensive search for their next head coach. Didn't they 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.879 just hire this guy? I swear to god, he's been 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.280 there only two years, hasn't he didn't Scott Brooks just 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:17.400 come to my team two years ago when they hired 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.600