Speaker 1: Come Home, Come Home.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check dysfunction function, what's
Speaker 2: your function?
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like we do this every six months.
Speaker 2: Maybe Boston Celtics, it's time for another deep dive.
Speaker 1: You're still We talked about.
Speaker 2: It on Monday briefly, but oh boy, more stuff has
Speaker 2: come out and another embarrassing loss on their record to
Speaker 2: the Minnesota Go Gos.
Speaker 1: So I mean, like that's where we're at. So, yes,
Speaker 1: Boston fans, if you thought that a new coach and
Speaker 1: a new front office was.
Speaker 2: Going to fix things, I mean no, like you're sadly mistaken.
Speaker 2: We also check in with our favorite franchise are how
Speaker 2: would I put it, our friend in need, the Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 2: Like we just want to wellness check them every now
Speaker 2: and again, and like you always know, oh they're not
Speaker 2: doing great. So just another check in on the Sacramento
Speaker 2: Kings with Alvin Gentry, who is now at You're thirty
Speaker 2: five in the league giving zero fox. They are spiraling
Speaker 2: into a complete breakdown.
Speaker 1: Fun stuff. Brockdu is a favor in drop that month.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's happening, It's happening.
Speaker 1: It's finally happening.
Speaker 2: I've been waiting for this moment for a while, because
Speaker 2: I feel like it's just been me and maybe a
Speaker 2: couple of others silently, well not so silently, but in
Speaker 2: a room alone, screaming out into the void. Something's wrong,
Speaker 2: something's wrong, something's wrong. This team's not right, this team's
Speaker 2: not right. That's not gonna fix it. Nope, that doesn't
Speaker 2: make sense. And everybody just hates me for it. They've
Speaker 2: been shit talking me. But now Boston fans, NBA fans,
Speaker 2: and most importantly those with credibility blue check mark brigade,
Speaker 2: they have seen the lights.
Speaker 1: So good. Congratulations, You're a year late, but you're here.
Speaker 1: So we're here. We're all here now, we're on the
Speaker 1: same page.
Speaker 2: I hope this Celtics team, the Celtics team has issues.
Speaker 1: It does. We talked on it Monday, briefly.
Speaker 2: We've talked on it last year multiple times when I
Speaker 2: had lots of things to say that people didn't like,
Speaker 2: breaking down the Christmas game on Monday, you know, you
Speaker 2: know the game where they had a thirteen point lead
Speaker 2: five minutes left, they choked on their own meat, you know,
Speaker 2: like that one they lost by four, that one just
Speaker 2: like clockwork, and so It's not just the coach.
Speaker 1: It's not just the GM that's not working.
Speaker 2: It's not just the delusional fans that have these astronomically
Speaker 2: high expectations that a team could never fulfill year after
Speaker 2: year after year. Hell, when they had a dynasty, they
Speaker 2: could only win one ring?
Speaker 1: How many?
Speaker 2: I mean, I Kevin Garnett, Ray, Jean Rondo, Ray, Allen
Speaker 2: Paul Pierce and still could only squeak out one measly
Speaker 2: ring out of those four insanely talented stars. What do
Speaker 2: you think this little ramshackle team's gonna do? Absolutely nothing?
Speaker 2: It's everything though, it's everything mostly though, truthfully though, it's
Speaker 2: the roster. It's not just Dennis Schreuder it is it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I know we'd blame Dennis Shruter, but he's actually
Speaker 2: the only bright.
Speaker 1: Spot on this team. It's the Jays. Let's be real.
Speaker 2: I hate to say it, and I don't think anybody
Speaker 2: likes this cold truth like it. I don't want to
Speaker 2: say it. I like them, I do. I like Jalen Brown,
Speaker 2: I like Jason Tatum. But sh don't tell anyone it's
Speaker 2: not working. It's not gonna it's never gonna work. No
Speaker 2: amount of players excoriating them publicly is going to make
Speaker 2: it work. No amount of coddling these two team two players,
Speaker 2: telling them how good they could be together if they
Speaker 2: just played like brothers is going to fix it.
Speaker 1: Share your food, guys, like, let Jalen have the ball.
Speaker 2: This happened last year, like Kemba Walker went on record
Speaker 2: and was like, hey, guys don't have chemistry.
Speaker 1: We need to make sure that.
Speaker 2: We don't put our egos in front of the team.
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart went on record earlier this year about chemistry
Speaker 2: and egos playing with pride. He also said earlier this
Speaker 2: year is Jalen Jason, can you guys share a fucking
Speaker 2: ball with anyone other than y'all?
Speaker 1: Like this is stupid?
Speaker 2: He said that, like basically that publicly, he went public
Speaker 2: with his frustration with Jalen Brown Tatum and their inability
Speaker 2: to share the ball, and then add a private meeting,
Speaker 2: players meeting, team meeting in which the only thing out,
Speaker 2: the only thing that came out of that meeting was
Speaker 2: that nobody agreed like that is what That's what the
Speaker 2: reporting says. Jalen Brown came out. Then the next day,
Speaker 2: the very next day after Mark Smart, Who's supposed to
Speaker 2: be the leader, the soul in the heart of this team.
Speaker 2: He's like, Yo, these two dudes love them, but they
Speaker 2: need to actually get their shit together and like be
Speaker 2: a team like Jalen Brown's like, yeah, that was an
Speaker 2: unfortunate comment.
Speaker 1: What an unfortunate comment.
Speaker 2: Then all year, Emai Udoka has brought it up time
Speaker 2: after time after time. Compete, compete, act like you playing basketball,
Speaker 2: Act like you playing football.
Speaker 1: Compete share.
Speaker 2: Come on, boys, move the ball, putball in hoop, move
Speaker 2: without ball, share ball, pootball in hoop. Stop other team
Speaker 2: from putting ball into hoop. Pretty fucking simple. And so
Speaker 2: then what did they do in the game against the
Speaker 2: Wolves just the other night, a game where nobody was playing.
Speaker 1: For the Wolves that I've ever heard of in my life.
Speaker 2: They shot fifty three percent of their shots from behind
Speaker 2: the arc, just chucked the way, no sharing, just coming up,
Speaker 2: just in and out, crosscross, tween tween shoot Shoot Shoot.
Speaker 2: And now one of the all time legends, Al Horford,
Speaker 2: all time Boston legends, beloved within Boston, comes back on
Speaker 2: the team, supposed to be the leader, supposed to be
Speaker 2: the emotional piece of support to bring these young guns
Speaker 2: to some semblance of team, and he had scathing, scathing
Speaker 2: comments as well, why do you ask well after missing,
Speaker 2: Like I said, their entire starting lineup, the Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 2: had no one. They rolled out gregman Rowe from the
Speaker 2: Washington Go Gos.
Speaker 1: I'm not even joking, this is actually true, Nathan.
Speaker 2: Knight from deep into the rotation, Jalen Noel, which literally
Speaker 2: Greg Munroe said, hey, played the great game. Never heard
Speaker 2: this guy in my life, and he's on this team
Speaker 2: a Jake Lahman Portland Trailblazer legend and a bunch of
Speaker 2: plumbers to try to come in some semblance of competition
Speaker 2: against a fully healthy other than Jason Tatum who's in
Speaker 2: COVID protocol for the a million time. Just him was out,
Speaker 2: So it's like, just try to compete. Like, I know
Speaker 2: you guys are no one. I know you guys like
Speaker 2: are just coming from off the street.
Speaker 1: But like this is.
Speaker 2: Jalen Jalen meet Greg, Greg meet blah blah blah, Like
Speaker 2: this is our plays.
Speaker 1: There's two out of balance.
Speaker 2: Plays like just Ramshackle crew and they should have been
Speaker 2: like light work for the seas right, like this is
Speaker 2: an easy win. And the Minnesota Ignite just pounded the Celtics,
Speaker 2: wasn't close, just absolutely embarrassed them. Minnesota Ignite just absolutely
Speaker 2: destroyed the Celtics, like absolutely embarrassed him, to the point
Speaker 2: where I believe this is a turning point.
Speaker 1: This is the moment where all.
Speaker 2: The blue checks and everybody outside the organization, probably inside
Speaker 2: the organizations, like this is not working. Greg Monroe, my man,
Speaker 2: Greg Monroe from the Washington Go Go, who I just
Speaker 2: saw on fourteenth Street with his little girlfriend that had
Speaker 2: the baby fat sweatsuit, just rocking, like literally in a
Speaker 2: volure sweatsuit. Just the other day, Greg Monroe eleven points,
Speaker 2: nine rebound, six assists. Robert Williams had time Lord supposed
Speaker 2: to be top five, top five center.
Speaker 1: In the league.
Speaker 2: Couldn't compete with a man who hasn't been able to
Speaker 2: sniff an NBA roster, a guy who's largely fallen off
Speaker 2: of a cliff and gotten pushed out of the NBA
Speaker 2: because the league has passed him by. That man put
Speaker 2: buckets on Robert Williams. That man, he looked utterly lost.
Speaker 2: Udoka murdered time Lord after the game because he played
Speaker 2: so bad. He was like, this is just ridiculous, Like
Speaker 2: you can't just jump when he jumps like, we're supposed
Speaker 2: to make this guy shoot jump shots, like he doesn't
Speaker 2: know how to do that. He knows how to dunk
Speaker 2: on your head, which is what he did.
Speaker 1: Can't be going up with him.
Speaker 2: Getting five foulsand because of Gregman Rowe, Jalen Noel.
Speaker 1: Okay, honestly, I swear to god, his teammates didn't know
Speaker 1: who he was. I've never heard that name before today.
Speaker 2: He had twenty nine points, had eleven points in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter to.
Speaker 1: Close out probably one of the more shocking upsets in
Speaker 1: all of the NBA this season, and we've seen some doozies.
Speaker 2: So to recap what was going on that night, a
Speaker 2: team missing nine roster players and all five of its
Speaker 2: starters beat the Celtics with a center that just signed
Speaker 2: that morning and with two guys who Combin had played
Speaker 2: less than one hundred total minutes that year. The Wolves
Speaker 2: had thirty assists, forty made baskets, and outscored Boston fifty
Speaker 2: to twenty six in the paint and nineteen to three
Speaker 2: in transition. Romeo Langford was an atrocious minus thirty two
Speaker 2: and thirty six minutes of play. Here's when I remind
Speaker 2: you that my man's from Eugene, Oregon. Trader Danny took
Speaker 2: Romeo Langford number fourteen in the twenty nineteen draft, ahead
Speaker 2: of Nikaile, Alexander Walker, Mattie Thaibold, Jordan Poole, Kelden Johnson,
Speaker 2: Kevin Porter, Junior Taylor, Horton Tucker, and Terrence Mann. Lou
Speaker 2: Dort wasn't even drafted that year, and he is a
Speaker 2: million times.
Speaker 1: The player that Romeo Langford is.
Speaker 2: Danny Inge gift that keeps on giving folks like just
Speaker 2: that's who he is. So anyway, back to al Horper,
Speaker 2: which is where we were that we gave you why
Speaker 2: he said what he said, which was scathing. Here's what
Speaker 2: he said. It all comes from all of us.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Coach does what he has to do, but at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, it has to come from each
Speaker 2: individual player. We need to be held accountable and held
Speaker 2: accountable more individually.
Speaker 1: We need to look in the mirror.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but for whatever reason, things are
Speaker 2: not translating for our group.
Speaker 1: We cannot keep playing like this. We just can't, all right.
Speaker 2: So here's where I tell you, folks said, Hey, Jaylen Brown,
Speaker 2: did you hear what Al Horford I say, and they
Speaker 2: told him, and could you expand on Al Horford's comments,
Speaker 2: like what do you think?
Speaker 1: He goes searching, looking in the mirror.
Speaker 2: No comments, and then he goes on and say, we're
Speaker 2: missing a lot of guys, and you can tell first
Speaker 2: of all, pause, no you're not, but keep going, we're
Speaker 2: missing a lot of guys, and you can tell. Chemistry wise,
Speaker 2: it was just out of sync. A lot of those
Speaker 2: turnovers come from miscommunications, and a lot of those defensive
Speaker 2: lapses came from miscommunications. That's what It just comes down to.
Speaker 1: Chemistry. Excuse me, did jalen? Excuse me?
Speaker 2: Lack of chemistry? You have your entire squad and it's
Speaker 2: missing one.
Speaker 1: Start. These guys, these guys just met, have more chemistry
Speaker 1: than y'all. They've never met before.
Speaker 2: They don't even know each other's names, they don't follow each.
Speaker 1: Other on social media. You think you're lacking chemistry?
Speaker 2: You can't use that is excuse my dog, like my
Speaker 2: g No, you can't do that. These guys never practice together,
Speaker 2: they've never learned the place, they don't know anything. They
Speaker 2: just demolished you, like like clowned you out there, like
Speaker 2: clowned you to the point where it was like when
Speaker 2: you clown Portland and you drug a pretend dead Dennis Shooter.
Speaker 2: That was how they did you. Only it was a
Speaker 2: full NBA roster. It was Greg ban Roe from the
Speaker 2: Washington Go Go. I think it's time. I think it's
Speaker 2: time for the Boston Celtics to say when Jalen Brown
Speaker 2: says chemistry, I think he needs to say.
Speaker 1: The quiet part out loud. This team doesn't like each other.
Speaker 2: Like sometimes the more time you spend with one another,
Speaker 2: the more you realize chemistry is not possible. Like chemistry
Speaker 2: is a thing of a dream and a hope and
Speaker 2: a wish.
Speaker 1: It's not going to exist. It's not possible.
Speaker 2: This is a team so many years to develop chemistry,
Speaker 2: like they've been with each other since they were drafted.
Speaker 2: They've had largely the same core with one another for
Speaker 2: many years, four years.
Speaker 1: It's not coming. If you can't bond during an adversity
Speaker 1: time like this, I don't know, Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Dog. This Celtics roster, to me, I mean just simply
Speaker 2: needs to be blown up, like all the way up
Speaker 2: before we have an entire year of me saying this the.
Speaker 1: World over and over and over and over and over,
Speaker 1: me banging.
Speaker 2: My head against the wall, going viral, getting hate, getting slander,
Speaker 2: telling people, telling me to delete my account.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: We see that they don't make the playoffs, or they
Speaker 2: get in the play in tournament, they get bounced, and
Speaker 2: then it's like, oh, that little Twitter bitch was right.
Speaker 2: Here's what the blue check marks are saying now, folks.
Speaker 2: Best quotes from the media. I felt good compiling them
Speaker 2: because it felt like the thoughts that I've been having
Speaker 2: for the last twelve months came out into the ether.
Speaker 2: Gary Washburn, my man of the Globe, Robert Williams must
Speaker 2: take it real personal that he got out played by
Speaker 2: Nathan Knight and Greg mcmonroe. It wasn't even close. Another
Speaker 2: awful loss for the hashtag Celtics. Oh, Gary Washburn, learn
Speaker 2: how Twitter works.
Speaker 1: Keith Smith.
Speaker 2: I've been fairly hard on the Pacers and the Blazers
Speaker 2: in that I feel like that they've reached their expiration
Speaker 2: date with the cores and it's.
Speaker 1: Time to break them up.
Speaker 2: But I've probably been neglectful in overlooking that the Celtics
Speaker 2: might actually be at that same point. Peter Stringer mind
Speaker 2: you used to work for the Celtics, tweeted about the Celtics.
Speaker 2: I've loved the hashtag Celtics since I was like five
Speaker 2: years old.
Speaker 1: This is not how Twitter works.
Speaker 2: You don't need the hashtag shit anymore. It's just the
Speaker 2: keyword comes up.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: This season has been the most unenjoyable season I remember
Speaker 2: since the awful end of the Patino era.
Speaker 1: This team has been.
Speaker 2: So far below where they should be, so many uninspired performances.
Speaker 4: Esh.
Speaker 2: But of course not everybody is available with reality.
Speaker 1: We've got ball.
Speaker 2: Washers just coming through cannot come to grips with the
Speaker 2: hard truth and the cold reality. And frankly, you guys,
Speaker 2: you guys should be ashamed because you're the reason. Then
Speaker 2: you enabling their bad behavior, are allowing them to continue
Speaker 2: with the status quo because you are making up excuses
Speaker 2: for them. It's just praising them, finding things that they're good,
Speaker 2: and they're actually not. This was the same thing they
Speaker 2: said last year. If the Celtics all had all starting
Speaker 2: five playing together, as if other teams aren't dealing with COVID,
Speaker 2: as if other teams aren't dealing with injuries.
Speaker 1: We've got guys like kawilonard out a cl boombom gone,
Speaker 1: what are you fucking saying?
Speaker 2: Straw Man arguments abound? And then this year and then
Speaker 2: this gem. This is where you know it's like bad
Speaker 2: because Celtics always when they're wounded, come after and they
Speaker 2: and they shift the attention to another dog shit franchise
Speaker 2: and their dumpster fire didn't the basically full strength Sixers
Speaker 2: just lose at home to the depleted fifteen and eighteen Hawks.
Speaker 1: Odd time for Sixers fans to be taking victory laps.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, if the.
Speaker 2: Celtics lost to the depleted Hawks team with all their
Speaker 2: five guys active, my guess is your commentary would be
Speaker 2: different from what you're saying after the Sixers did it pause, Like,
Speaker 2: first of all, I would love nothing more than Sixers
Speaker 2: Twitter and Celtics Twitter to literally eat one another and
Speaker 2: destroy each other's faces, going to war for the end
Speaker 2: of time. But did you really just compare, my man,
Speaker 2: the Celtics losing to Minnesota make a wish foundation with
Speaker 2: the Hawks, who.
Speaker 1: Just went to the Eastern Conference finals less than a
Speaker 1: year ago. Is that true? Is that what you just did?
Speaker 2: The Celtics were at full strength and got gentlemen swept.
Speaker 2: Could barely even get into the playoffs last year. You
Speaker 2: had to do everything that you could. You were in
Speaker 2: the playing tournament last year. This is not a good team.
Speaker 2: You had to fight just to be in the dance.
Speaker 2: What are we even talking about?
Speaker 1: This is what we.
Speaker 2: Have just to encapsulate what's happening. We have a team
Speaker 2: with a lack of urgency, a lack of competitive spirit.
Speaker 2: They're publicly arguing in the marketplace about who's to blame,
Speaker 2: what's to blame, if there is anything to blame, there's
Speaker 2: a lack.
Speaker 1: Of chemistry, lack of success.
Speaker 2: You've got Celtics Twitter turning on one another, Celtics Twitter
Speaker 2: turning on another fan. Basis Celtic's Twitter mad at other
Speaker 2: NBA insiders for pointing out what's true at all.
Speaker 1: At least we're on though sixers. It's like, fuck you.
Speaker 1: It's a mess. Everything about it is a mess. It
Speaker 1: was a mess last year.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then they overhauled the whole front office.
Speaker 2: They overhauled and got a new coach, moved the coach up,
Speaker 2: moved the GM out, and instead of overhauling the whole team,
Speaker 2: it was like, you know, watch these cups I'm gonna
Speaker 2: move this cut that way, this cup that way.
Speaker 1: Where's the ball underneath the cup?
Speaker 2: It's like you didn't change the rock that first, that
Speaker 2: middle cup they needed to go, that's still there.
Speaker 1: I see it. It's the same roster.
Speaker 2: You just added Dennis fucking Shruder, Like that's it. You
Speaker 2: kept Marcus Smart he needed to go.
Speaker 1: You extended him. You extended him gross, you extended Robert Williams.
Speaker 1: You're extending players. No business extending. So what's coming?
Speaker 2: According to former Sons GM Ryan McDonough, Dennis.
Speaker 1: Shooters most likely on the move.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, Underpaying a decent player has its advantages.
Speaker 2: It turns out that's one Peyton Pritcher's This is what
Speaker 2: he said. Peyton Pritchard's strong December makes it more likely
Speaker 2: Dennis Shuoter is traded prior to the deadline. Schudder's productivity
Speaker 2: contract make him easier to trade and attractive to contending teams.
Speaker 2: Prescher's development is important to the Celtics due to his
Speaker 2: age and rookie scale deal. Then that guy Peter Stringer,
Speaker 2: I told you about the one who used to work
Speaker 2: for the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: He said this later on after in that same Twitter thread.
Speaker 1: Jalen to me is overrated.
Speaker 2: Gasp. But you don't say and Tatum is isn't a leader.
Speaker 2: One of them has to go.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid.
Speaker 2: Originally I felt like it had to be Jalen. Now
Speaker 2: I'm starting to think it could be either one yo.
Speaker 2: This roster has been fucked up, and it's finally obvious
Speaker 2: to everyone, thankfully who watches. Maybe, just maybe, Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown aren't meshing. I don't give a fuck if
Speaker 2: they're brothers. I don't care how much they like each other.
Speaker 2: That shit does not matter to me. Like Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 2: and Karl Anthony Towns were like brothers.
Speaker 1: That shit did not work. That's not an excuse. They're
Speaker 1: not in charge. They are the talent. They are not
Speaker 1: in charge.
Speaker 2: I have to say this more and more as we
Speaker 2: become a more player empowered league.
Speaker 1: These dudes don't know what they're doing at all. You
Speaker 1: can't have.
Speaker 2: Duplicate players on the roster that get along and don't
Speaker 2: share the ball. And you've got Jalen Brown having seven
Speaker 2: turnovers a game and blaming everything on time Lord and
Speaker 2: the fans and Al Horford and whoever else.
Speaker 1: Some had a.
Speaker 2: Tweet the day they're like, oh, they should trade so
Speaker 2: and so for Robert Williams, just so Jalen Brown has
Speaker 2: a new person to blame. Like neither are leaders at
Speaker 2: the moment. Neither are dogs at the moment. Neither to me,
Speaker 2: are particularly critical to this team's future. I don't think
Speaker 2: you need either one. I'm starting to believe that maybe
Speaker 2: they're both valuable enough that you can just start again,
Speaker 2: start new, get some If Brad Stevens is worth his
Speaker 2: salt at evaluating players, maybe he can get a new
Speaker 2: guy in the draft. Maybe you can find some young
Speaker 2: up and comer with a shitload of draft picks and
Speaker 2: probably some pieces the match salary. Like I don't know,
Speaker 2: get rid of one, get rid of both. I don't
Speaker 2: care where them needs to go. Of course people won't
Speaker 2: say it, but another thing that needs to happen, in
Speaker 2: my opinion is Marcus Martin cannot be ever your starting
Speaker 2: point guard. And he gets paid so much money and
Speaker 2: that's the role that he wants, and he's like that.
Speaker 2: He's like another version of a Dennis Shruder. Like they
Speaker 2: think that they should start, they think that they deserve
Speaker 2: a lot of money, and they're just inefficient chuckers who
Speaker 2: are undersized and play good defense. Like, I don't care
Speaker 2: that you play good defense. You shoot a million shots
Speaker 2: and everybody gives Pat Beverly's shit for being a pest.
Speaker 2: But like Marcus Smart can be, is so chippy, is
Speaker 2: so annoying that Jannie at Tekompo may be one of
Speaker 2: the nicest human beings I've ever come into contact with.
Speaker 2: On Christmas Day, Jannis got undercut by Smart, and literally
Speaker 2: I had to see it with my own two eyes
Speaker 2: on television. He said, I can't fucking stand that pussy,
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart.
Speaker 1: That's what he said.
Speaker 2: Then after the game, he tweeted at a photo of
Speaker 2: him posterizing Mark Smart and was like, yeah, Christmas was
Speaker 2: a good day. This is not only an unpopular team
Speaker 2: within their own ranks, it's an unpopular team outside of
Speaker 2: the ranks. How do we know that things are at
Speaker 2: a tipping point? You ask other than me doing twenty
Speaker 2: five minutes on it is they're talking about bringing back
Speaker 2: it right now, They're talking about Isaiah Thomas coming back
Speaker 2: onto the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 2: Will they make the difficult decisions that make sense for
Speaker 2: this franchise to be more than a one hit wonder
Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: I don't know, We're gonna have.
Speaker 2: To see, but I think that everything should be on
Speaker 2: the table, not I think there is no untouchable pieces.
Speaker 1: That's hard to say because I love Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2: And Jaylen Brown, but there should be no untouchable pieces
Speaker 2: for the right price for this team to progress, because
Speaker 2: let's let's be serious, Like Jalen Brown kind of plays defense,
Speaker 2: but he turns the ball way too much over and
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum isn't a dog and all he wants to
Speaker 2: do is take thirty five footers like he wants to
Speaker 2: ISO to fucking the logo, and it's like that is
Speaker 2: not working.
Speaker 1: So either that means either Jalen or Jason.
Speaker 2: Need to be flipped and it needs to happen exapt
Speaker 2: rocky before you're waking their prime and you're wasting them
Speaker 2: as assets if they just.
Speaker 1: Keep remember.
Speaker 2: Remember worse behavior last time we checked on the Sacramento
Speaker 2: Kings interim coach Alvin Gentry started out a press conference
Speaker 2: in just his fourth game by apologizing to.
Speaker 1: Everyone, all the fans.
Speaker 2: He started as presser by saying, Hey, Sacramento Kings, you
Speaker 2: deserve better, sorry for this bullshit, which is funny because
Speaker 2: they don't really deserve much better because they've never.
Speaker 1: Really had much better.
Speaker 2: So, how though we're checking in, we're just dropping in
Speaker 2: like a little para shooter. How are things going a
Speaker 2: few weeks later?
Speaker 1: Turns out not great?
Speaker 2: Uh. Currently they have a defensive rating of one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirteen point one. That's atrocious, an offensive rating of
Speaker 2: one hundred eight point nine.
Speaker 1: For those who need to go to math school.
Speaker 2: They are giving up more points than they are putting
Speaker 2: up on the board, which is recipe for losing. Moreover,
Speaker 2: as you might imagine, they are two and seven in
Speaker 2: their last nine, given how that whole math whole thing works.
Speaker 2: The last time this team went two and seven, guess what,
Speaker 2: they fired their head coach, So rut Ro you probably
Speaker 2: you know who probably knows that little factoid, My man
Speaker 2: Alvin Gentry.
Speaker 1: That's who he probably knows.
Speaker 2: And if we go by his press conference after a
Speaker 2: particularly embarrassing one hundred and twenty seven to one hundred
Speaker 2: and two loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, he has now
Speaker 2: reached a new because he was already at I don't
Speaker 2: give a fuck. He's at a new I don't give
Speaker 2: a fuck level. It's like you thought that you were
Speaker 2: in the basement. But then, old man, we've got like
Speaker 2: a nuclear like camp point for you to just hide
Speaker 2: out in. It's lower than that. He cares less than
Speaker 2: you would think.
Speaker 1: This is what he said.
Speaker 4: It's the most disappointing I've been in thirty four years
Speaker 4: in the NBA. I can honestly say that that that
Speaker 4: performance was absolutely ridiculous. You know, we didn't play hard,
Speaker 4: we didn't compete. We gave up nineteen offensive rebounds for
Speaker 4: I don't know, thirty seven points or some astronomical figure.
Speaker 4: We didn't guard the ball, we didn't guard screening rolls,
Speaker 4: we didn't follow the game plan, you know, all of
Speaker 4: those things. And to be honest, which is the most
Speaker 4: disappointing game that I've been involved with, you know, no
Speaker 4: competitiveness whatsoever. And then we got those guys out there
Speaker 4: talking about you know when you have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and he literally just.
Speaker 4: Wait his hand out, Just go ahead ask questions. That's
Speaker 4: fine because I don't want to get into it anymore.
Speaker 4: I think anybody out there that watched the game understand
Speaker 4: that that that performance right there was was it was.
Speaker 4: It was absolutely. It was just ridiculous. I don't know
Speaker 4: any other words to use, because we didn't compete and
Speaker 4: we didn't do anything. We didn't move the basketball, we
Speaker 4: didn't attack them, we didn't stop their drives, we didn't
Speaker 4: stop their screening rolls. We went over a couple of
Speaker 4: simple plays today and we didn't guard them at all.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm totally disappointed, and everybody
Speaker 4: in this building should be disappointed.
Speaker 5: Alvin, were you able to share that same kind of
Speaker 5: message to the to the locker room after the.
Speaker 4: Game, Yes, I did. I made sure that I did.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm telling you, guys, you can't get a
Speaker 4: reputation in this league of being a team where you
Speaker 4: can come into their home gym and do what they
Speaker 4: just did to us. I'm just telling you it will
Speaker 4: stay with you in the NBA if you let teams
Speaker 4: come in and do what they did to us. You know,
Speaker 4: they're basically tard with us, and we're not that team.
Speaker 4: We're not a team that people should come in here
Speaker 4: and be able to toy with. So yes, if you
Speaker 4: ask me if I'm upsetting disappointed, you're damn right, I am.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm not gonna say anything more.
Speaker 2: You can ask questions because I don't want to, and
Speaker 2: then he just continues. We didn't do anything. We didn't
Speaker 2: guard the ball, like, we just let him do whatever
Speaker 2: they want. We were just dummies out there. We just
Speaker 2: crash test dummies, just standing around like cones, like little
Speaker 2: orange basketball training cones in the form of moving human beings.
Speaker 2: It's like when the random guy who played at Wichita
Speaker 2: Steak couldn't get into the league. He's now an assistant
Speaker 2: coach and he has that little foam piece and he
Speaker 2: hits you with it when you're trying to draw contacts.
Speaker 1: That's what they were.
Speaker 2: It is just like kind of like tapping them and
Speaker 2: letting them get the rebound, doing whatever.
Speaker 1: It's unreal. This is unreal.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a bold prediction though, I don't think
Speaker 2: Alvin Gentry is gonna be the head coach for the
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings long term.
Speaker 1: Like I just don't see it happening. I don't see
Speaker 1: it's a fit, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't think he wants to be there, and
Speaker 2: I don't think the team necessarily wants him there either.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if they know what they want.
Speaker 2: So I did a little mass school. Alvin Gentry has
Speaker 2: coached head coached eleven hundred and twenty two games. He
Speaker 2: has been a part of roughly two thousand, eight hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy NBA games. That's thirty five times eighty two,
Speaker 2: not even including any playoff games. I would imagine you
Speaker 2: shouldn't even count play because there's no chance that a
Speaker 2: playoff game was this embarrassing. But he says, with no hyperbole,
Speaker 2: out of two thousand, eight hundred and seventy NBA games,
Speaker 2: this one is the most embarrassing game I have ever
Speaker 2: been a part. It's this one, this one where we
Speaker 2: did nothing. It's bad in Sacramento, man. I feel so
Speaker 2: bad for the King's people. They're like not even sure.
Speaker 2: People are not even sure whether the Kings.
Speaker 1: Are a real team anymore.
Speaker 2: If you google Sacramento Kings, the first thing outside of
Speaker 2: NBA dot Com and Wikipedia, the first thing outside of
Speaker 2: those two, literally the first non official Twitter NBA link
Speaker 2: is the Google question do the Sacramento Kings still exist?
Speaker 3: Swear to God?
Speaker 1: So what is the immediate future hole for the Kings?
Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, oh yeah, so let's let's
Speaker 2: let Tyrese Taliburton.
Speaker 1: He's gonna sum it up. He's gonna sum this up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, disappointing, frustrating obviously to lose, and obviously
Speaker 5: lose in that fashion. You know, it's just in a
Speaker 5: rough spot right now. And you know, coaches, you know,
Speaker 5: let let us hear about that. And you know he's
Speaker 5: he's a part of this too, so you know, definitely
Speaker 5: his frustrations, you know, come out as well. So I mean,
Speaker 5: what can you do except you know, getting here today,
Speaker 5: work hard and practice and be ready to go tomorrow
Speaker 5: because you know, like we always talk about, the league
Speaker 5: just moves so fast, like these these couple losses in
Speaker 5: a row can can turn on you real quick. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm supposed to say to that, honestly.
Speaker 5: You know, he has his feelings, as you know, the
Speaker 5: head coach of our team, rightfully, So that's how he
Speaker 5: feels very frustrated.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I I we lost by fifty last year, so that's
Speaker 5: definitely the worst experience of of of of of my
Speaker 5: basketball career. So I can't say last night was uh
Speaker 5: was number one for me?
Speaker 2: Fam he said, Listen, I know he believes it was
Speaker 2: the most embarrassing loss in thirty five years. But we
Speaker 2: did lose by fifty last year. I mean it's not
Speaker 2: the worst.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: If you're embarrassed by that, let me introduce you to
Speaker 2: October tenth, twenty twenty, when we lost one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty to ninety against the Utah jazz I. Forget what
Speaker 2: the number was, but it was fifty. The number is fifty.
Speaker 2: You know, listen, you've only been here one year, Alvin.
Speaker 2: You don't know how low we can go? How low
Speaker 2: can you listen? The depth of our mediocrity does not
Speaker 2: stop here, like you are in. There's more games. There
Speaker 2: is fifty by more games left. Who knows, maybe we'll
Speaker 2: break a new record. And it's like, we played for
Speaker 2: Luke Walton for three years. What do you think it
Speaker 2: was like? Like what do you think the deficits looked like?
Speaker 2: And the competition and inspiration and fire that came out
Speaker 2: of our soul was like playing for Luke fucking Walton.
Speaker 1: His dad's high on TV all the time.
Speaker 2: That's the only reason he's a round is because his
Speaker 2: dad played for the Portland Trail Basers legend and gets
Speaker 2: high now on National TV as a college basketball broadcaster
Speaker 2: like this is not even a top twenty bad performance
Speaker 2: for the Sacramento Kings. So Alvin Gentry, you are in
Speaker 2: for a very long rod.
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Speaker 3: Remember motherfucking remember, motherfucker. Remember, motherfucker never loved us. I'm
Speaker 3: all my worst behavior. Don't you ever get it fucked up.
Speaker 3: Motherfucker's never loved us, man, motherfucker never loved us. Worst behavior,
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