Speaker 1: Moving on to a bit of old news. This is
Speaker 1: like a week old ish, maybe a little longer, but
Speaker 1: the news of it, the decision of it, the thought
Speaker 1: process of it, is still sticking in my crawl. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I can't get over it. I don't
Speaker 1: think other people are getting over it either. It's like
Speaker 1: just a regular season game, idiot move, but it showcases
Speaker 1: the dysfunction that I have been hearing about from the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets for weeks now, six weeks, eight weeks. All
Speaker 1: of that to say, what the fuck are the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets doing? What are they doing? This team is all
Speaker 1: kinds of fucked up. I can't understand what their philosophy is.
Speaker 1: I can't understand why they're doing the things that they do.
Speaker 1: I said the six weeks ago, people didn't believe me,
Speaker 1: and now thankfully they're showing their ass. Thankfully they're showing
Speaker 1: their ass. Last Wednesday, this is what happened. That's played
Speaker 1: a Bucks team that has been struggling. It was the
Speaker 1: nets fifth game in seven days. But let's be honest,
Speaker 1: this very young team, the Bucks are playing their third
Speaker 1: game in five days, so both team's probably gassed right.
Speaker 1: The Nets, by the way, at home during the Christmas break,
Speaker 1: wanted to sell out the arena, put on a show.
Speaker 2: Yannis, Dame, you know the crew, mchil Bridges, Nick Claxton,
Speaker 2: support them, Brooklyn Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Right right, Like that's the vibe. No, wrong, not this
Speaker 1: NETS team. It's Grinch time, baby only Cole and you're
Speaker 1: fucking stocking. Why because we want to take the last
Speaker 1: little shred of hope and desire and fun and excitement
Speaker 1: that you have for this dog shit team and we're
Speaker 1: going to smell into smithereens. Because why the Nets were
Speaker 1: like everyone that you want to see were not letting
Speaker 1: you see besides Giannis and Dame. So the Nets decide
Speaker 1: to sit Nick Claxton, Spencer, Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney Smith and
Speaker 1: Cam Johnson. None of those dudes were injured at all.
Speaker 1: But by the way, they still have mckail bridges, right,
Speaker 1: they still have Rayce O'Neil, they still have Cam Thomas.
Speaker 1: Maybe Cam Thomas will put up like sixty five right, No,
Speaker 1: also not so fast. Jacque Vaughan decided after the first
Speaker 1: quarter to sit Bridges, Thomas, and O'Neill, and they were
Speaker 1: down by one point one point. They were all getting
Speaker 1: blown out by thirty, was like, okay, let's just send
Speaker 1: in the white flag. No. No, it was a competitive
Speaker 1: game all the way into the middle of the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Fourth quarter comes round, the Scrubs get gassed. Shocker, they
Speaker 1: lose by like a million. They've trailed by seven and
Speaker 1: a half time. This is outrageous. Not only have fans
Speaker 1: gone ballistic, not only did they get eviscerated by the nets.
Speaker 1: In the other NBA media.
Speaker 2: Even the other players.
Speaker 1: The players who got bench were like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on. Don't ask me. I
Speaker 1: have no clue what is happening. MIKEL Bridges was asked
Speaker 1: about why and his thoughts about why he played only
Speaker 1: twelve minutes. Did not like the choice, whatever that was,
Speaker 1: but it's whatever. Definitely was not a fan. How does
Speaker 1: he feel? What do you think that culture's like right now?
Speaker 1: When Mikeel Bridges is like, didn't like that whatever that was? Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever that was. When asked if he needed a rest,
Speaker 1: he said, no, never need a rest. This is a
Speaker 1: dude who just went viral on TikTok for eating Chipotle
Speaker 1: every single day for ten straight years. A man of
Speaker 1: routine started a game every single game for the last
Speaker 1: five years, maybe the more impressive stat you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And guess what and guess what and they were like,
Speaker 1: fuck you, no shot, fuck your Chipotle and your minutes played.
Speaker 1: Roy O'Neil was also asked about getting benched and he said,
Speaker 1: who doesn't want to play out there? I feel like
Speaker 1: if we had the chance, we would say we don't
Speaker 1: want to rest. So let's check in on Jacquvon. Jacques,
Speaker 1: why'd you do it? Why would you do that? Considering
Speaker 1: that it was a home game that coincided with Christmas
Speaker 1: break when tons of kids would be coming home to
Speaker 1: Barclays jacque Von, are you actually the grinch that stole Christmas?
Speaker 1: And he said, I've got to think short term and
Speaker 1: long term and make executive decisions for the betterment of
Speaker 1: the group. It's unfortunate tonight that they got to the
Speaker 1: point where we were putting them in harm's way by
Speaker 1: putting them out there tonight. What the are we going
Speaker 1: to war? Is? This? Is this Vietnam? Like at Barclay Center?
Speaker 1: Were there people in the bamboo with sniper rifles? What
Speaker 1: is happening putting them in harm's way? We are talking basketball,
Speaker 1: We are talking about a game. Are you serious? I
Speaker 1: would like Jock Von to sit there and tell all
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand, one hundred and ninety nine paying customers who
Speaker 1: pack the arena with the capacity of seventeen thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two, when this is one of the
Speaker 1: least sold out arenas in NBA, one of the least
Speaker 1: watched teams in basketball on TV. But hey, right, don't
Speaker 1: blame Jacques, blame what the Nets call their quote unquote
Speaker 1: performance team, which is tasked with figuring things out like
Speaker 1: load management. I would like to say, as as a
Speaker 1: strong believer in logic, that this is one of those
Speaker 1: games where Sean Marks calls Jacques vaugh up and says,
Speaker 1: we need to get some minutes for or Noah Clowney
Speaker 1: what like whoever like these randoms on the team then
Speaker 1: probably need to be traded. Let's get some additional playing
Speaker 1: time for Harry Giles and Dayron Sharp and Dennis Smith Junior.
Speaker 1: Maybe he could be a nice little piece to a
Speaker 1: contender needing a backup point guard. Let's get Trendon Watford
Speaker 1: and Dereek Whitehead. Can you imagine you're ten years old
Speaker 1: right like you? Like Michale Bridges and Nick Claxton, Right,
Speaker 1: maybe hell, you even like Cam Thomas and his chuckin'
Speaker 1: and you go there and you're excited. It's Joannice versus
Speaker 1: your team, Jannis versus Nick Clason, and instead you get
Speaker 1: a steady dose of trendon Watford. Do you know fucking
Speaker 1: pissed I would be as a kid? Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Vaughan's trying to play the good soldier. Sean Marks has
Speaker 1: got his fingers in the mix. He's blaming things on
Speaker 1: the performance team players have no clue. Nobody's obviously communicating
Speaker 1: with them what the story is because they're not playing
Speaker 1: the good soldier either. They're saying we're clueless. And when
Speaker 1: when Toll Bridges and Cam Johnson were upset over the decision,
Speaker 1: guess what jog Vaughan had to say. This is where
Speaker 1: it gets more insane. He says, it's just like my kids.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you have to agree with me. I
Speaker 1: understand I have to make a choice. That's my position
Speaker 1: as the head coach. But it's just like my kids.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you have to agree with my decision. Are
Speaker 1: we serious? These grown men make millions of dollars and
Speaker 1: if they don't win and get the playing time that
Speaker 1: they need that affects their careers. This is not like
Speaker 1: a kid that wants to sleep over at his friend's house.
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. Thankfully, Damon, Giannis and Middleton and Lopez
Speaker 1: all played. All Bucks starters played twenty nine or more minutes,
Speaker 1: even on the road, even in their third game in
Speaker 1: five days. Let me say that if it was the
Speaker 1: other way around, I would have understood it. What does
Speaker 1: Milwaukee care about what Brooklyn fans think? But no, they're
Speaker 1: the ones going out like Kobe Bryant and showing out
Speaker 1: on a random game against a dog shit team. The
Speaker 1: Nets have now lost eight of ten games. They are
Speaker 1: now in danger of what I already saw, which is
Speaker 1: punting on the entire season. They are perilously close to
Speaker 1: losing their entire fan base after the toxicity of the
Speaker 1: last three years. This was supposed to be the year
Speaker 1: where everyone got excited about the rebuild, scrappy players, development, fun,
Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson nets, D'Angelo Russell nets, Jared Allen nets, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Dreek Whitehead nets, Trendon Watford Nets. No one thinks this
Speaker 1: team was ever going to compete for a title, but
Speaker 1: a playoff spot right now in the East, real possibility,
Speaker 1: and that was a game you absolutely could beat the
Speaker 1: Bucks in, and that would have been a huge success,
Speaker 1: even for a franchise that's been a massive disappointment just
Speaker 1: beating the Bucks over Christmas break. Those are the little
Speaker 1: winds that would have been very meaningful. But no, they're
Speaker 1: still gonna do bizarre things. Turn the offense over to
Speaker 1: Cam Johnson or camp Thomas, excuse me when he's a
Speaker 1: liability find a way to make mckail bridges regress bench
Speaker 1: their starters when they're not hurt. And now they're being
Speaker 1: investigated by the league to see if they're in an
Speaker 1: in violation of the new NBA anti tanking roles rules, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, they are, they are in violation I.
Speaker 2: Think we all know.
Speaker 1: Is not like the nets even matter if they're tanking
Speaker 1: because they don't even have their own picks. So what
Speaker 1: the fuck are the nets doing? I have zero idea,
Speaker 1: and from the sound of things, no one else does either.
Speaker 1: Can we also get the hashtag free Spencer Dinwitty trending,
Speaker 1: free mckel bridges trending, free Camp Johnson's trending. Please someone
Speaker 1: fix this now