WEBVTT - Fixing All-Star Weekend, McMillan Fired And Russ Back In LA 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.120 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.600 On this episode of the Heat Check. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.040 All Star Game is over, folks, Yes, sir, it's time 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.560 for us to move forward. We are gonna break down 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:21.080 the good, the bad, the ugly. Speaking of ugly, Nate McMillan. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:26.520 Gets fired another one bites the dust. Atlanta is now 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:27.160 looking for a. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.040 New head coach, and Russ and Kevin Love also changed teams. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.280 Just over twenty games left in the regular season, Nicks, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.200 so do me a favor and drop that generic gass beat. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.120 All right, So this extravaganza in Salt Lake City, Utah 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.400 has come and gone. Everybody's take pretty much from the 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:52.559 game is that's stunk. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.360 I also thought it stunk. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.320 I thought, what are you gonna really ask for when 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.640 there's multiple stars that are out for injuries and the 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.720 injury reserves and all of these things, considering. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.080 That it is just a game. It is not just 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.039 a game. It's an exhibition game. Let's be honest. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.560 I listed players who one hundred percent would phone it in, 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.679 and every single one of them did. Nicole Jokich had 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.080 four points, Luca had four points. Do I hate on 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.080 them for not trying? 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.120 No like Luca sometimes needs a break. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.160 Okay, he wanted to go to Mexico and he went 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.680 to your little event and he played. Okay, he showed 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.160 up better than you can say for Trey Young. It 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.480 is a great opportunity for late nights hanging out with 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:39.640 other superstars. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.840 It is like an NBA convention. That's basically what it is. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.200 It's like a trade show for the NBA and people 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.720 who are around the NBA. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.680 The fact that there's fans there and that there's a 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:56.600 TV event that's basically subsidizing this little party. They do 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.840 not care about the person or people responsible for some 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:00.720 their party. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:01.560 They just want to party. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.600 I do not also buy into the fact that the 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.880 ratings were so bad that they're gonna hurt the league 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.119 in the next round of the media negotiations. That is bullshit. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.400 That is absolute poppycock. The All Star Game is not 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.440 It is not the corner stone of a season, and 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.440 it took a back seat to the trade deadline, which is, 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.720 if we're being honest, what's even more important than the 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:23.359 All Star Game. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.760 So, yeah, the game wasn't fun to watch. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.519 People had ideas about how to fix it. I also 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.160 have ideas, as usual about how to fix things. One 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.280 of my ideas went viral a few days ago. My 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.440 tweet was this the only way to fix the All 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.720 Star Game. You pit the US versus the rest of 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.239 the world and see them duke it out like hunger games. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.880 Think about it. Team USA, who's on that team? 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:50.880 You got Steph Lebron has to start, Kevin Durant, Tatum 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:55.360 ad That's like pretty standard starting five. And then for 0:02:55.400 --> 0:03:00.480 the bench, you've got jaw Jaylen Brown, Damian Lillard, Donovan Mitchell, 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:05.680 Devin Booker, Kyrie At, Daron Fox, Kawhi, Jared Allen. So 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.880 that's my that's my All Star team for the US. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.840 And then Team World. Man, this is a squad. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.680 You got shay Giljes Alexander, you got Luka, Doncic, you 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:20.200 got Jannis Embiid and Jokic my god. Then on the 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:25.120 off the bench, you got Demonic Sabonis, Marknen, Ben Mathern, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:34.120 Pascal Siakam, Andrew Wiggins, Rudy Gobert, Jamal Murray, og Annon, Nobi, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:41.200 Josh Giddy, Franz Wagner, DeAndre Ayton, from the Caribbean, christ 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.000 As Porzingis, Jeremy Sohan, Steven. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.920 Adams come on, now, come on, now. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.600 I think at that point you'd have to put it 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.520 in a city where there was nothing else to do 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.760 but whoop. It would be have to be a separate 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.360 week There is zero chants that Luca and Jokic would 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.200 mail it in if it meant they were fighting for 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.760 their country. They were fighting to say that the world 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.560 was better than America. They've got competitive nature running through 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.560 their veins, and you know what they don't want to 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.600 do is to make it seem like America is the 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.560 only thing that matters. They played internationally. This is an 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:21.760 international fit. Easy fix, Adam easy. I am giving Adam 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:27.000 Silver a multi billion dollar idea for free. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.160 So just do it. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:35.599 Fifteen American All Stars, fifteen non American All Stars. Winning 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.600 team gets bragging. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.200 Rights for the year. Make it a whole thing. This 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.920 is the only chance that you have. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.200 As for the rest of the All Star weekend, it 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.760 was pretty good. What except for the skills competition. That 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.520 shit's gotta go. We gotta have some sort of substitute 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.960 for what that was. It's confusing, it's on the wrong night. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.280 There's no drama. I honestly don't know who thought watching 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:08.280 the Antitukunpo brothers throw bounce passes into a tire would 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.880 make for a great TV. Like, I don't know why 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.880 we wanted to Team Utah other than the fact that 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.480 they were in Utah. There needs to be another replacement 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.960 for this. Also, the Celebrity Basketball Game, I don't know. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:21.679 About that either. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.080 Yeah, I mean, the only reason I'm even slightly optimistic 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.720 is because I am hoping that someday maybe I can 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.560 play in it. That's the only reason is I can 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.240 get on TV just to play basketball. Other than that, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.080 I could take it or leave it. The Rising Stars Game, 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.240 that was probably the best thing that we saw, besides 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.160 maybe the dunk contest. Jose Alvarado is being micd up 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.479 the entire time, which was great. He gets the MVP 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.840 after him and Donovan Mitchell go back and forth. He 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.880 makes a bet with Donovan Mitchell that he was going 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.360 to hit a game winner, and that was pretty fun. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.479 You got to see G leaguers like Scoot come out 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.520 and play some basketball again. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.080 In the All Star Game. You could have had Victor wam. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:09.120 Nyama play right now. Would have been very interesting, wouldn't it. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.440 And like listen, you got to see the G league 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.360 play and realize why they're not. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:14.039 In the league yet. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.279 Let's be honest, these you gotta while to go. You're 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.920 like fresh chicken out of a pack, you know what 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.760 I mean. You're still a little wet behind the ears. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.080 We gotta put a little seasoning on you. We gotta 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.360 put a little uh just marinate. You gotta marinate in 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.599 the bag a little bit more scoot before you play 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.400 in the NBA. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.000 The three point Contest was for me a highlight. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.320 I did predict that Damian Lillard was going to win 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:41.640 it because he went to Weaver State. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.280 That's not why I loved it, even though that was 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:44.640 a nice little piece of vindication. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:50.279 But lots of guys were struggling, and I love to 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.520 see pro struggle in any sport. Tyler hero looked not 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.279 like a hero. Kevin Herder looked like he had no 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.320 business being in that contests. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.279 Randall looked like he snuck in to the tournament. He did. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.320 It was so painful. His son cried and then boot him. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:09.600 It was so bad. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.320 That's not even a joke that happened. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:18.600 Tyrese Halliburton, which his shooting stroke. I understand why scouts 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.640 were like, I'm not sure if this kid can can. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.800 Do it, but he can. He can really shoot. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.480 Tyrese Haliburton set a record with thirty one points in 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.880 the first round, and his little hitch was so ugly. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.080 I don't even know how he makes shots. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.160 Honestly, I don't. I don't know how he does it. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.120 It takes so long to get the ball. It's almost 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.840 like there's a glitch in the system, you know, and 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.080 he's trying to re get the system to work smooth. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:48.920 But it was all daytime. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:49.160 Man. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:50.600 He came out crushed it. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.840 He lit through the final rack to win his first 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:54.840 three point contest. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.160 Then he rolled off on the Sunday. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:56.480 He's done. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.920 He's never probably doing it again. He wanted one for 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.880 the resume. I'll probably never. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:01.360 See him back. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.400 And then a quick little question I have for people 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.320 who make these little cute T shirts and sweatshirts and stuff. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.400 How come there weren't any parody shirts made that I 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:16.800 could have bought that said twenty twenty three NBA All 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:25.080 Star slut like Salt Lake City Utah slut like that 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.080 should have been an easy thing for the people on 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.040 the internet to do, but they didn't. But they didn't, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.040 And Finally, the Dunk Contest was awesome. No one on 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.240 earth wanted to watch the Dunk Contest and it ended 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.000 up being an electric factory. It's been so bad for 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.880 so many years outside of the Zach Lavine and Aaron 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.360 Gordon Contest, that we were just making fun of Mac 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.600 McClung before we even saw Mac McClung. And you know what, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.120 he single handedly saved the Dunk Contest. And now they 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.880 want to know if he'll play in the Dunk Contest 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.320 for his entire life, Like, hey, that's what you do. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:58.600 Now. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.120 You come out and we know your name, we know 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.440 what you look like, we've seen your face. We're happy 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.880 with you in here now, and now you have to 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.320 come back every year, and so I think he will, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.000 but the question remains. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:12.760 Stephen A. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.080 Smith talked about this, which is wild. People are asking 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.320 why the Dunk Contest doesn't have major stars in it anymore. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.560 Stephen A thinks Lebron killed it because Lebron didn't do it. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.640 Now all the other stars are following suit, so he 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.360 ruined it himself. His one decision set the dominoes off. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:35.400 But people are now asking everyone, hey, Dunk Contest is 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.400 kind of fun Are you going to enter it next year? 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.280 They asked Jaw. They asked Aunt Edwards. You can scratch 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.160 Aunt Edward's off of your thoughts about him being in 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.640 the dunk contest? Why well listen to what he had to. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.360 Say now, Reggie Miller, are a lot of guys want 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.480 to know, could you plausibly get in the dunk contest 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:53.040 one of these? 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:53.720 Nope? 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.280 No, come on and stop playing. Nope. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:57.520 I just like dunking ok people. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.000 Man, whoa you heard that? 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.439 Reggie like dunk old? 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.160 Yeah, I think that sounds about right. I just like 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.960 dunking on people. Ditto for Ja Morant. These guys want 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.320 to be dunking in game. They want to fly down 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.320 the lane. They want to stuff the basketball down your throat. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.600 They want to embarrass who's ever standing there. They want 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.800 to posterize you. They want to demolished your ego, put 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.840 it into a little package, wrap it up in a bow, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.520 and take your ego home with them and put it 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:29.520 on another night stand. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:30.640 That's what they want to do. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.800 If there's nobody standing underneath the rim, what fun is 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.480 it really to dunk? If you're someone like Ja Morant 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.880 and Edwards? I actually kind of get that everything else 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.440 is kind of like a fake dunk. A real dunk 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.240 is what you do in a game when you murder somebody. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.640 The rest is kind of pageantry. Frankly, far more interested 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.280 in seeing that than I am watching the dunk contest. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.400 But those McClung dunks were. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:01.600 Sick, and he's probably gonna end up our little poster 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.800 child for the dunk contest for the next fifteen years. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:18.440 So good for him. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.000 The big news this week in the league. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.000 We got some tea. Now, we got some things happening. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.400 We got some butts that are hot, and the butts 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:31.120 that are hot finally, now get the boot. Nate McMillan 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.079 fired in Atlanta. So I have a history with Nate. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.080 He coached the Blazers for a really long time. I 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.839 had to watch those ugly offenses for I don't even 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:42.480 know how many years. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:43.080 It was too many. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.200 They walked the ball up the court like you had 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.880 to walk it to half court. That was his mandate, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.640 and that was just what they did. Had one of 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.280 the slowest paces in the NBA. But what happened to Atlanta, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.320 Let's talk about that, because that's what's important, and it's 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:05.400 not in my opinion, Nate's fault. In fact, I think 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.760 he has adapted much better than new NBA that I 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:08.679 thought he would ever would. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.040 Yeah, the problem is you got stuck with Trey Young. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:14.560 That's what it is. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:15.800 He got stuck in Atlanta. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:21.560 He had a really incredible run based around some luck 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.280 and some help and some skill, and they went to 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.000 the Eastern Conference finals, which they never were ever going 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:28.640 to do again. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.079 And then they hired him. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.240 They hired an interim head coach that maybe was gonna 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:35.720 work with Trey Young, maybe not. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.960 And we talked about this before Atlanta fired. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.200 One of the most respected NBA executives in the league 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.240 in Travis Slank, and they brought in the owner's twenty 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.800 year old son. That's a little, as my mom would say, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.520 little nepatis at work. And so what you thought, what 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.480 you thought they weren't gonna fire Nate McMillan. Come on, now, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.960 this firing is no shock. But what I did think 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.080 was surprising is that they have been trying to push 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.200 Nate McMillan out the door, encouraging him to resign on 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.520 his own for weeks now, and Nate was like, nah, dog, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.400 you're gonna have to You're gonna have to put me 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.720 into the guillotine and show the world that you asked 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.200 me yourself. I am not about to do you the 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.800 pleasure where it's like a mutual parting of ways. I 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.440 am exposing the dysfunction in this franchise. Go ahead, fire 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.920 me after you just fired Lloyd Pierce two years ago. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:28.840 Do it again. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.000 Show the rest of the world what's going on. Show 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.400 the quinn Snyders of the world what kind of organization 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.560 you are. And you kind of get a sense of 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.280 what happened from John Collins because John Collins said, uh, yeah, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.080 Nate would have been a good coach, a great coach 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:50.560 for a quote more mature team. And so people want 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.679 to read that as older, and I don't. I don't 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.199 think that means older. I think that means more mature. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.400 You know, like how there's old souls and youngs. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.000 Like I believe Trey Young is a young soul. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.199 I think he's going to be thirty five doing this bullshit. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.679 I think we can pretty definitively say now that Trey 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.640 Young is a coach killer. He could be considered a 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:18.760 certified coach killer. He has a shift in his back 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.920 pocket at all times, and you know what, he's killed 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.640 more coaches at this stage is in the NBA than 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.720 Hall of Fame coach killers have so far. He is 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.080 now working on his third head coach interim and then 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.240 a new one. And he's going to be a coach 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.640 killer from now and to the end of his career 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.880 unless unless something drastic happens. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.920 I don't know. So look at his track record. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.880 He's now had two coaches fired in three years, both 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.680 that he had personal conflict with. Right his team has 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.240 gotten progressively worse since the surprise run to the Eastern 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.080 Conference Finals. He had beef with Nate this year, and 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.400 everybody knew that. Anonymous sources within the Hawks claim that 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.520 the majority of players actually sided with Nate in their 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.480 season long dispute, and so you usually don't see players 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.960 side with management over a teammate. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.720 So now what does that mean. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.440 That means that uh Trey Young is unpopular with coaches 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.400 and unpopular with teammates. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.600 Not a great combo. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:26.480 So the question is who is the new regime that 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.800 twenty seven year old Nick Wrestler and his best friend 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.920 Landry Fields are tasked with trying to keep this shit 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.320 from sinking? And who are these people. Let's look at 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.520 the crop of candidates. We've got some that we need 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:38.160 to discuss. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:39.640 Quinn Snyder. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:45.080 Quinn Snyder there are working on having discussions as we speak. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.040 And Quinn Snyder, as you know, former coach of the 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.360 Utah Jazz, and so at first glance, this might seem 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.840 like a perfect fit. Trey Young is his new Donovan Mitchell, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:02.400 Cappella and John Collins can play like Rudy Gobert except 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.520 for less lobbs in Utah obviously, because Donovan Mitchell wasn't 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.040 giving any of Rudy Gobert. But where Mike Conley was. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.720 That team was first in the West. That team had 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.160 a historically good offense. I think they were the number 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.320 one overall offense in the league. They had shooters surrounding 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:18.600 their guards. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:24.280 But let's be clear number one, that Utah team was 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:25.440 not a success. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.720 That team style does not benefit in the modern NBA. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.600 This is a wing driven league, not a guard driven 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.440 league anymore. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:35.600 And this is not going. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.800 To work in one of the most dysfunctional places in 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.000 the NBA, which is Atlanta. I do not think that 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.000 Quinn Snyder will want to build a team around Trey 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.640 Young and his bullshit. And I do not think he 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.320 will build a team that cohesively works with Trey Young. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.680 Not because he's a bad coach. He's a good coach. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.600 Not because he can't make the roster work and the 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.200 skill sets on the team work. But this guy, Quinn 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.680 Snyder rumored And you may say, oh. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.080 This is not important, this is not an important fact. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:06.679 I think it is. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.160 Quinn Snyder is rumored to be the type of coach 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.680 that has seating charts on his bus, has a very 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.880 strict style of leadership, close to what Lloyd Pierce and 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:23.920 Nate McMillan had. Do you believe that Trey Young will 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:28.119 like someone who has seating charts on the bus. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.399 I do not think he will respond well to that. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.840 This has rebuild written all over it, And if Quinn 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.480 Snyder is smart, he will stay all the way away. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:43.400 Moving on to Charles Lee. Charles Lee well respected Buck's assistant. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.080 He's gonna get a job soon. This could be it, 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.640 This might be it. It's known as the player's coach. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.200 He's worked really well with superstars, which is very important 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.400 on this Atlanta Hawks team. He's an ego manager, Yannis Drew, 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.119 Chris Middleton, so he knows how to do that. And 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.480 let's be real, like, this is probably the best fit 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.000 for a very thankless job. Is going to be fired 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.600 in two years at best, He's gonna be on the 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.399 payroll at the same time as Nate and Lloyd are 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.879 and probably whoever follows him as a successor. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.640 So why not Charles Lee? 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:17.119 Why not the guest start somewhere? Next up is Jordi Fernandez. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:23.119 Jordy Fernandez shows you how far the Kings have come. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.600 Assistant for the Sacramento Kings. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:28.880 Finally getting some love. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.479 I don't think I've seen a team try to poach 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.399 and assist it off the Kings in my lifetime, So 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.400 that just shows you how good nobody's like, Hey, how 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.720 do I get a little of that juice that the 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:42.840 Sacramento Kings have? 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.720 How do I steal a little piece of what the 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.399 Kings are doing? Now? That is the case. 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.760 That is just another sign the Kings are on the rise. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.320 Other franchises trying to take a little bit of your 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.960 pixie dust and try to reconfigure that magic on their team. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.400 He is a really great coach. All that you need 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.040 to know about him is that when he filled in 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.840 for Mike Brown. The entire team rallied around him. They 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.600 celebrated him. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.600 Like it was Game seven of the Finals. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:18.080 They had champagne, they had goggles, they were spraying them 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.640 like it was the Gatorade. I mean, the whole thing 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:25.760 screams respect. Speaking of respect, Next up on this list 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.560 of candidates as Kenny Ankinson. We know him from his 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.959 brief time as the Nets head coach before Kevin Durant 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:37.119 and Kyrie Irving killed him. Currently a Warriors assistant, he 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.080 took the job for the Charlotte Hornets for like, I 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:41.920 think eleven minutes, maybe twelve. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:43.560 He woke up out of. 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.560 A panic and said, oh no, baby, I can't take 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:50.160 this shop. Oh no, oh no, no, no. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:51.160 I got to go. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.800 I'm going back to the bay. My mom, my family, 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.120 whoever he said was there. Oh, it's a business family decision, 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:02.920 and we love Santa Cruz whatever. He is too smart 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.080 to hitch his wagon to being on the verge of 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.680 a glue factory. Kenny Atkinson knows what it's like to 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.720 be on a team where you could be cut and 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.200 discarded at any given time. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:18.760 Do you think he wants to do that? 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.200 No, I would be shocked if Kenny Atkinson even agrees 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.440 to interview for this dick ass job. This situation could 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.160 be worse than the Hornet's job. At least the Hornets job, 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.680 you know, is a rebuild. They think they're better than 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:32.520 a rebuild. That's the crazy thing. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:34.720 I think there are a lot of other jobs that 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:36.520 Kenny Atkinson would be suited for. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.440 Mitch Johnson, Miles Simon just a couple of randoms that 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.879 you gotta throw in there. Johnson is one of Papovitch's 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.200 assistants to San Antonio, and I think it's like mandated 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.879 anytime you have a new opening, you just have to 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:54.320 interview a San Antonio Spurs assistant because I don't know why, 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.600 that's just how it goes. And then Miles Simons, who 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.280 coaches the South Bay Lakers G League. I'm not even 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.320