Speaker 1: So we talked about how bad the Mavericks were last week.
Speaker 1: I want to say Monday, Tuesday. Maybe I forget it's
Speaker 1: all blurring together. But no, NBA owner right now is
Speaker 1: more unhappy with his team than Dallas Mavericks owner Shark
Speaker 1: Tank Equity squeezer Mark Cuban. So we did talk about
Speaker 1: how the season went off the rails, right. We talked
Speaker 1: about how Luca is very unhappy and how Jason Kidds
Speaker 1: playing is just really coaching above his skis right now.
Speaker 1: He's not handling the lineup great, especially Christian Wood. So
Speaker 1: the question is this, what's pissing off Mark Cuban? No,
Speaker 1: what is chopping Mark Cuban's Shark Tank ass Well, his
Speaker 1: team is awful, awful, awful, awful, one of the worst
Speaker 1: in shooting for they are the second worst team in
Speaker 1: the league. To be exact, they shoot seventy two point
Speaker 1: three percent from the charity stripe. Only the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 1: are worse, which is a whole other thing that we
Speaker 1: can talk about some other day. It is the lowest, though,
Speaker 1: that the Mavericks have ever ranked in free throw shooting
Speaker 1: in their history. They once finished twenty seventh and free
Speaker 1: throw shooting in nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, and
Speaker 1: that team won exactly eleven games. Think about that. In
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, they are twenty seventh
Speaker 1: in the league, better than they are now at free
Speaker 1: throw shooting, and they won eleven games with Tim Legler.
Speaker 1: No shaded Tim Legler like him and Mark Cuban is
Speaker 1: having none of this. He unloaded on the Dallas Morning
Speaker 1: News decided to go full nuclear. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I told Jason Kidd, I told Michael Finley to figure
Speaker 1: it out. They know it's an issue. It's not like
Speaker 1: we don't see the box scores. It's not something we ignore.
Speaker 1: That's for damn sure. It's not like, ah, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna work out in the end. This is something we
Speaker 1: have to work on. He even bitched to Nico Harrison
Speaker 1: as well several times about this. And let's face it,
Speaker 1: Nico has enough on his plate right now. He's got
Speaker 1: to defend the Kemba Walker move. He's got to defend
Speaker 1: the Facundo Composo move. So that's who knows how that's
Speaker 1: gonna be. But all of us to say what NBA
Speaker 1: owner is like in the weeds on your free throw shooting,
Speaker 1: like this is madness, Like Mark Cuban is a maniac,
Speaker 1: and I get it. You're thirty twenty ninth in free
Speaker 1: throw percentage. That's bad. But like Mark Cuban, don't you
Speaker 1: have some like new sham wows to approve? Like I
Speaker 1: don't know what? Who? What are we doing here? You
Speaker 1: think he'd be too busy complaining about why he let
Speaker 1: Lori outmaneuver him for the scrub daddy right, like to
Speaker 1: read through MAVs stats, like what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: It's twenty five games in the season. You have Luka Doncic,
Speaker 1: But here we are anyway, he wasn't done. Cuban also said, literally,
Speaker 1: we would probably have five more wins if we could
Speaker 1: shoot free throws. It's just the way it goes. We
Speaker 1: went through the same things last year, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it's been our achilles heel another season crippling deficiency that
Speaker 1: was not addressed. Looking like things are not very sunny
Speaker 1: for the future of Jason Kidd and Nico Harrison. An
Speaker 1: unhappy Luca A front office that thought Facundo Compazzo and
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker to replace Jalen Brunson, was a good idea.
Speaker 1: Team is shooting five percent worse than they were last
Speaker 1: year when it was their Achilles heel. Changes are coming
Speaker 1: in Dallas and it might happen sooner than later. And
Speaker 1: remember remember they asked Mark Cuban how important Luca was
Speaker 1: to them, and he said, if it was between Luca
Speaker 1: and my wife, I'm going down to the courthouse and
Speaker 1: file for divorce. So you better believe he's going to
Speaker 1: do everything he can to keep Luca Dodges happy and
Speaker 1: so that might mean deuces for everyone else. Speaking of Dallas,
Speaker 1: we need to address the fact that Luca is also
Speaker 1: unhappy without the season is going. Since the MAVs only
Speaker 1: win when he wins thirties points, scores thirty points or more,
Speaker 1: you might think that's why. You might think it's because
Speaker 1: of Jason Kidd putting in someone else besides Christian would
Speaker 1: the fact that they replaced Jalen Brunson with some scrubs. No,
Speaker 1: it's not why you'd think that was why Luca was mad.
Speaker 1: But it's not you'd be wrong. Here's the latest tea.
Speaker 1: According to NBA reporter albrey Wynn, who was sitting courtside
Speaker 1: at the game, Bucks versus MAVs. Awesome game went down
Speaker 1: to the wire. He said, I was sitting court side
Speaker 1: tonight and Luca was visibly upset at the coaching staff
Speaker 1: the entire second half. Anytime he had a chance, he
Speaker 1: looked over to the bench. This play to end the
Speaker 1: game was the final nail. He didn't talk to anyone.
Speaker 1: He stormed off the court. What was his final nail?
Speaker 1: What was the play to end the game? Well, they
Speaker 1: had like five seconds left out of bounds play and
Speaker 1: apparently the bucks knew exactly what they were running. Luca
Speaker 1: knew that the bucks knew the final play, but he's
Speaker 1: trying to alert the coaching staff, and it was like
Speaker 1: they were in a trance. They had no ability to
Speaker 1: see Luca looking at him, trying to give him the hate.
Speaker 1: Hey look at me, Hey, this is bad. We gotta
Speaker 1: scratch this, we gotta do something else. Instead, they sat
Speaker 1: around with their glazed eyes, holding their dicks, doing nothing new,
Speaker 1: And of course the play got blown up. Of course
Speaker 1: the MAVs lost. Of course, it was like Drew Holliday
Speaker 1: had to do nothing just to get switched back onto Luca,
Speaker 1: their best defender on Luca having to take a forty
Speaker 1: foot or to win the game. Yeah, and after the game,
Speaker 1: Lukat thanks to say he said, we gotta work on that.
Speaker 1: They pre switched. I think there was a little miscommunication
Speaker 1: with the players. I just wanted him to slip so
Speaker 1: I didn't have Drew on me. Yeah, no, shit, you
Speaker 1: don't want Drew on you, like that's the worst person
Speaker 1: to have on you. And it happened to be the
Speaker 1: same final play the MAVs had used pretty much in
Speaker 1: previous games. That got sussed out. Why are you running
Speaker 1: the same out of bounds play in multiple games in
Speaker 1: a row? Why why are you doing that? Do you not?
Speaker 1: Do you have like four plays? What's happening? They did
Speaker 1: the same thing against the Raptors. They did the same
Speaker 1: thing against the Rockets. Basically, it ends up with a
Speaker 1: busted play with Lucas shooting and chucking a contested forty
Speaker 1: footer and losing. Luca, of course, doesn't speak to anyone.
Speaker 1: He storms off. Can you blame him? This is bullshit?
Speaker 1: He had Rick Carlisle and now he has Jason Kidd.
Speaker 1: Is this man gonna get anyone who's creative or competent
Speaker 1: or has any idea of what the modern NBA looks
Speaker 1: like this is the slowest pace of play team in
Speaker 1: the NBA. I don't think it's all because of Luca's fatness.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I don't think it's the only reason.
Speaker 1: I have questions like, are we still running this Rick
Speaker 1: Carlisle system in Dallas? Is this Lucas system? I mean,
Speaker 1: this coaching staff has absolutely zero bag, like none. This
Speaker 1: is so bad, This is so so bad. If this
Speaker 1: doesn't get cleaned up fast, Jason Kid's gonna hope upon
Speaker 1: hope that Frank Vogel gets hired again so that he
Speaker 1: can sit on his bench. That's the like, that is
Speaker 1: the absolute best case scenario for Jason Kidd. If this,
Speaker 1: if this team doesn't get figured out fast, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe Charlotte go to Charlotte, Jason Kidd, because if you
Speaker 1: can't win with Jannis and Luca, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're cut out for this coaching thing. I really don't.
Speaker 1: Is Aunt Edwards better without carl Anthony Towns. It's a
Speaker 1: very important question to ask. Remember the first month of
Speaker 1: the season, Aunt hadn't had a single dunk all year,
Speaker 1: and people were like, what's going on with Aunt Edwards?
Speaker 1: Was wrong with Ann Edwards was wrong with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: Turns out, of course, as we know, it's a spacing issue.
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert and Carl Anthony Towns were such a disaster
Speaker 1: together that Ant had no idea where to be, where
Speaker 1: to go, what to do. What has happened Since Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns has headed to the ir Ant has been unleashed.
Speaker 1: He's been absolutely a monster. He is averaging twenty five
Speaker 1: and five with four point four steels per game since
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony town has got hurt. Are you serious? Four
Speaker 1: point four steals per game is absurd? That is absurd.
Speaker 1: The reason why he's going to the rim again, he's dunking,
Speaker 1: He's driving so much. Ask why he's driving so much? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just going I'm not thinking about doing too many moves.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to play off the catch and play faster. Gee.
Speaker 1: I wonder what was the change? I wonder what makes
Speaker 1: him be able to operate faster a more space like
Speaker 1: a free, open wide plane. I don't know, maybe the
Speaker 1: lack of another seven footer known to be slightly soft,
Speaker 1: slightly bitchy. I'm gonna make a bold take care Carl
Speaker 1: Anton Town's gotta go. He's gotta go. It's either Gobart
Speaker 1: or it's Karl Anthony Towns. You can't have both. And
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Aunt Edwards would agree with me. There, boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, did that go Bear trade turn into one
Speaker 1: of the least fun moves in NBA history. There's an
Speaker 1: NBA star that is being sued by literally everyone who
Speaker 1: is it, Probably the nicest guy in the NBA. It's
Speaker 1: raining lawsuits and Steph Curry has absolutely zero umbrella. We
Speaker 1: know he doesn't have an umbrella because he's got like
Speaker 1: six kids too. A huge number of big stars in
Speaker 1: Hollywood and sports being sued over their connection to the
Speaker 1: Ponzi scheme known as FTX. You guys, remember that he
Speaker 1: was like, I don't need to know anything about crypto,
Speaker 1: like literally looking back, probably not a great advertising campaign.
Speaker 1: Remember they're a crypto exchange. They had these nerdy founders,
Speaker 1: and those nerdy founders stole literally billions of dollars from
Speaker 1: their clients and then they lost it all in this
Speaker 1: like nerd term called arbitrage trading. Running point for the
Speaker 1: celebrities promoting this fraud Steph Curry. But he gets worse.
Speaker 1: So the Golden State. Golden Boy not only being sued
Speaker 1: for promoting crypto, but he's also being sued over the
Speaker 1: NFT ponzi scheme known as the board Ape Yacht Club.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that was a thing, did you
Speaker 1: guys know? Google this? People argue that the board Ape
Speaker 1: Yacht Club was founded by racists. This is crazy, intending
Speaker 1: to make gross racial stereotypes and passing him off as cool.
Speaker 1: Who could possibly make someone with the squeaky clean of
Speaker 1: his image of Steph get involved in NFTs and crypto?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Bad advice people also very very probably
Speaker 1: greed as well. Steph Curry's got enough money, he doesn't
Speaker 1: need to get involved with that what's it called again,
Speaker 1: board Ape Yacht Club? This is a great lesson. Sometimes
Speaker 1: not every bag you need to go and grab. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Like this is rough. Don't get
Speaker 1: involved in shit you don't understand, and if you don't
Speaker 1: understand it, don't make commercials about not understanding it. Because
Speaker 1: I can promise you I have about as much knowledge
Speaker 1: of crypto and non fungible tokens as Steph Curry does,
Speaker 1: and I know less than nothing. I don't even know
Speaker 1: why a screenshot can't just double as an NFT I
Speaker 1: have no idea. The difference between me and Steph Curry
Speaker 1: is I haven't lost any money on crypto, and I
Speaker 1: haven't lost anyone else money on crypto, and I'm not
Speaker 1: being sued for losing other people's money on crypto. In
Speaker 1: both suits, they're trying to determine the level of liability
Speaker 1: that is Steph Curry's. But there's billions of dollars missing
Speaker 1: and the courts are they are foaming at the mouth
Speaker 1: to find people to blame in probably one of the
Speaker 1: biggest scam sense since made off right. And I am
Speaker 1: betting Steph Curry wishes he and the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: never got involved in FTX. The Warriors were involved too.
Speaker 1: Remember they were selling FTX bibble knights. They thought it
Speaker 1: was all easy money. Crypto dot Com arena FTX, this
Speaker 1: board ape yacht club that listen. Bad news for Steph.
Speaker 1: There are gonna be people taking him to court and
Speaker 1: they are not gonna stop until they get some of
Speaker 1: his money that he got for who knows what doing,
Speaker 1: who knows what money? They say money and a fool
Speaker 1: and his money are soon parted. Yeah, that's what's about
Speaker 1: to happen. That's all the time that we have for
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