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Speaker 2: This is a segment that you just came up with
Speaker 2: called what the fuck? What the fuck are the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bulls doing? What are they doing? In the Chicago Bulls
Speaker 2: first game in the twenty twenty three season?
Speaker 3: Is it the worst game in NBA history? The worst?
Speaker 3: Not just the worst first game, maybe the worst game period.
Speaker 2: It was so bad the Chicago Bulls already had to
Speaker 2: have a player's meeting, players only meeting where you kick
Speaker 2: out the coach. No staff can be there, the type
Speaker 2: of a meeting you have in like Game fifty seven,
Speaker 2: when you're trying to get the season back on track.
Speaker 3: In Game one, it's gonna be a bumpy It's gonna
Speaker 3: be bumpy ride. We knew this team wasn't doing shit
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 2: We knew that, we talked about that. We knew that
Speaker 2: a playing spot was like the ceiling.
Speaker 3: We knew that they knew that. Everyone knew that right.
Speaker 2: We knew they would probably lose to not just better
Speaker 2: teams than them, but probably more organize worse teams than them.
Speaker 3: So when you have a player's only meeting after game one,
Speaker 3: oh my.
Speaker 2: God, how bad does it have to be? Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: the Thunder. So here's a scoop. Thunder whooped that ass
Speaker 2: right at the crib one twenty four, one oh four.
Speaker 2: This is a team that was also a playing team.
Speaker 3: Last year. Defense was getting.
Speaker 2: Cooked by Shay Shaye. Like I told you, guys thirty
Speaker 2: one points. Towards the end of the game, Nicola Lusevich
Speaker 2: pig Man, he seen fighting with Billy Donovan, the head coach,
Speaker 2: on the sideline after the game. After the beatdown, Billy
Speaker 2: Donovan tries to go to the locker room and lick
Speaker 2: all his boys wounds.
Speaker 3: Pause and they're.
Speaker 2: Already fighting in the fucking locker room, and he's like, ah,
Speaker 2: would you guys prefer me to like not be here,
Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, fucking dip, take a powder, do
Speaker 2: whatever you're gonna go do.
Speaker 3: The best part, though, was Billy.
Speaker 2: Donovan after the fact, is now trying to convince us
Speaker 2: that that little spat was actually.
Speaker 3: Something we should think is a good thing.
Speaker 2: This is like a good thing for us to build on.
Speaker 2: He said this that would have never happened last year.
Speaker 2: It would have been a quiet group. So the confrontation
Speaker 2: piece is a sign that it's important to them and
Speaker 2: they know we've gotta be better.
Speaker 3: Does anyone actually believe that?
Speaker 2: Does anyone actually believe that a player's only meaning after game.
Speaker 3: One is a good sign of things to come. No.
Speaker 2: No one on the score, which is the local radio station.
Speaker 2: No one is like, good job, bulls. Wait to make
Speaker 2: sure that a bad season doesn't happen after one game.
Speaker 3: No after game one.
Speaker 2: Zach Lavine, notorious chucker, don't give a fuck about nobody
Speaker 2: else but myself is like, oh yeah, our guys don't
Speaker 2: have heart.
Speaker 3: I don't think we play with enough heart. That's on us.
Speaker 2: That's unacceptable. I don't think it's a thing people do
Speaker 2: on purpose. We gotta come together, folks. Zack by the way, Zack,
Speaker 2: you be the one saying this wild. This is blow
Speaker 2: up the bridge bad. This is one of those things
Speaker 2: where you say, I'm not sure any of these dudes
Speaker 2: make it the full season, Like, I just don't think
Speaker 2: they will. You Vouch, by the way, spent all off
Speaker 2: season chirping about his role and after one game is
Speaker 2: mad at Billy Donovan.
Speaker 3: For not having the amount of touches he thought he
Speaker 3: was gonna get.
Speaker 2: Zach Lavine in Game three, had fifty one fuck points
Speaker 2: and zero assists.
Speaker 3: Zero asists in a game.
Speaker 2: I kid you not that they lost by sixteen points
Speaker 2: to the Detroit Pistons, a team that, by the way,
Speaker 2: lost or won only twenty three games last year. DeRozan
Speaker 2: and the Bulls currently are in extension talks and they
Speaker 2: are very far apart. Meanwhile, Pat Williams is looking for
Speaker 2: a two hundred million dollar extension and he is currently
Speaker 2: averaging three point seven points per game. Bulls, Bulls, you
Speaker 2: had one job, just one. Like I said, we knew
Speaker 2: you weren't gonna be good. The only job you had
Speaker 2: was to not be an utter and ridiculous embarrassment to
Speaker 2: your fan base, to your city, to the league. And apparently,
Speaker 2: after one game, that is not a goal that you
Speaker 2: can accomplish. So yeah, what the fuck are the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bulls doing? Oh my goodness, let's move forward. We gotta
Speaker 2: get to the top SoundBite from the week. This SoundBite
Speaker 2: was so low key shady, It is so shady, just
Speaker 2: so great. I wish I could give you the video
Speaker 2: of it, but it's funny for a bunch of different reasons.
Speaker 2: It made me, though, want to be like, oh oh damn,
Speaker 2: it was like that.
Speaker 3: Really I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: All right, So the Sixers and the Raptors, right, they
Speaker 2: play this week this weekend, and so it's Nick Nurse
Speaker 2: coaching Philly against his old team Toronto, back in Toronto.
Speaker 3: Old home week. Right, what's up coach?
Speaker 2: Ay?
Speaker 3: Good to see?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you know, it goes like everybody's a
Speaker 2: little nicey nicy, friendly friendly. Usually when a player moves on,
Speaker 2: coach moves on, you know, probably with like Jannis and Bud.
Speaker 3: Whenever you Bud gets a job, it's like, hey, how
Speaker 3: you been, how's your family?
Speaker 2: Do it? Even people you can't fucking stand, it's like
Speaker 2: you good, you good?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: You good? How's the lady?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, good times, good times? Right?
Speaker 2: No, no, not in this case for Nick Nurse and
Speaker 2: his former players and Rookie of the Year, specifically Scottie Barnes.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: For the first time that the two had seen each
Speaker 2: other since Messi U Juri straight clip. Nick Nurse like
Speaker 2: a mob boss after the dog shit season.
Speaker 3: That they had.
Speaker 2: The media, of course, had some things to ask Nick Nurse.
Speaker 2: They wanted to know, Nick, were you unhappy with the.
Speaker 3: Way that things ended? All all getting fired?
Speaker 2: And this is not the clip of the week because
Speaker 2: he answered it like a professional.
Speaker 4: It definitely was no doubt about it. Uh, just weird
Speaker 4: in general being being here the last couple of days
Speaker 4: in the city. But it's good, good, good.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't need to tell everybody in here how great
Speaker 4: the city is. It was fun to walk around a
Speaker 4: little bit and catch the vibe again and and all
Speaker 4: that stuff. So lots of ten great years, lots of
Speaker 4: great memories.
Speaker 2: Coach, Was it disappointing the way that it ended in Toronto?
Speaker 4: No, I'm fine. I think it ended the way it ended.
Speaker 1: It came at that point after I.
Speaker 4: Don't think so. I don't think so. They could have
Speaker 4: win either way, probably play a little better towards the
Speaker 4: playoffs or playing or whatever. Who knows. But I think
Speaker 4: I think, like I said when I left, many times,
Speaker 4: as it was, it felt like it was time, probably
Speaker 4: both sides. And it still feels that way to me
Speaker 4: just looking around. I look at them play and they
Speaker 4: look like they're playing great and I'm really enjoying coaching
Speaker 4: this team, you know, so I think everybody's where they're
Speaker 4: supposed to be.
Speaker 2: I look around and I still see that they're the
Speaker 2: same same motherfuckers I left and when I left at Gronto,
Speaker 2: you know, like I still see them being them. You know,
Speaker 2: He's like kind of glad that I'm gone now. A
Speaker 2: lot there that was not said, that was said. You know,
Speaker 2: we could just deconstruct this all day. But what was
Speaker 2: even funnier, though, was my man was my man, Scottie Barnes.
Speaker 3: Now this this is the shady ship we look for.
Speaker 2: Naturally, A reporter asked Scotty. Scotty, how was it, senior
Speaker 2: former coach.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't. I didn't really look over
Speaker 1: there that much, you know, focus on the game. But
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, good to see him like this?
Speaker 1: Did you change their words or not? Really? Like I
Speaker 1: barely saw him, to be honest, I never really see
Speaker 1: when he walked in. I wasn't really looking over there,
Speaker 1: really just focus on the game, trying to win.
Speaker 2: Goodness see um, I guess goodness see them.
Speaker 3: I don't buck with you.
Speaker 2: This is just sit very shady, shocking though, It's very
Speaker 2: shocking to me that Scottie Barnes would feel this way,
Speaker 2: considering that Nick Nurse played him all five positions, probably
Speaker 2: forty minutes a night, and then publicly bus tossed him
Speaker 2: if he wasn't making threes. So I am just absolutely
Speaker 2: shocked that it wasn't a reunion. I know, though, like
Speaker 2: in all seriousness, that it was like not a great
Speaker 2: relationship between Nick and his players, and that the young
Speaker 2: guys specifically really didn't like Nick. But like, damn, when
Speaker 2: you say I didn't even notice him, I was focusing
Speaker 2: on me and it was good to see him.
Speaker 3: I guess then it was not good to see him.
Speaker 3: It was not.
Speaker 2: It was not anything to see him. By the way,
Speaker 2: go find a clip on Twitter smirk perfect clearly not
Speaker 2: really saying everything he wanted to say, You get what
Speaker 2: he was trying to say. On top of that, the
Speaker 2: babushka look on top was chef's kiss.
Speaker 3: The guy was fully fully.
Speaker 2: Audrey Hepburn getting into the convertible with the silk scarf
Speaker 2: over her head, into the whole ass, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Just all she needed was all he needed was the
Speaker 2: cigarette with the clip on. You know what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to say, God, damn it, what an iconic moment from
Speaker 2: this league.