Speaker 1: So we knew Utah was on shaky ground. Right For
Speaker 1: the last two years, they've been baded. They've been doing
Speaker 1: things all the wrong way, the most fraudulent number one
Speaker 1: seed in the NBA. They've had early exits that Denver,
Speaker 1: they gave up a huge lead to the Clippers, just
Speaker 1: a disastrous fashion. After disastrous fashion, their center from France
Speaker 1: shut down the entire NBA because he wanted a cough
Speaker 1: on every single random mic that he could find making
Speaker 1: fun of I don't know, probably one of the worst
Speaker 1: pandemics we've ever had in history. He didn't know that,
Speaker 1: so that's fine. That leads to tension between him and
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, and that has continued on and spiraled out
Speaker 1: of control to the point where now we have new
Speaker 1: ownership like d Wade coming in trying to assuage things,
Speaker 1: trying to massage things between Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert,
Speaker 1: which is not working because he only passes Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: the ball one time a game. Front office changes. Don't
Speaker 1: know if we can cuss on this, don't know, don't know,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, not sure. Uh, And now it's
Speaker 1: very obvious that things are officially officially off the rails
Speaker 1: in Utah Utah Jazz news. There's news. WOJ bomb boom,
Speaker 1: this is the bomb. This is the sound of the
Speaker 1: WOJ bomb. Quinn Snyder, head coach of the Utah Jazz,
Speaker 1: has decided to step down with two years left on
Speaker 1: his two million dollars a year contract. That's very nice
Speaker 1: of him to do because this is what he had
Speaker 1: to say. I strongly feel that Utah needs a new
Speaker 1: voice to continue to evolve. That's it. No philosophical differences,
Speaker 1: no other reason. Just after eight years, I feel it's
Speaker 1: time to move onward. I needed to take time to
Speaker 1: detach after the season and make sure this was the
Speaker 1: right decision. I don't know about y'all, but uh, it's
Speaker 1: pretty generous of Quinn Snyder to decide to give up
Speaker 1: four million dollars of money into his own bank account
Speaker 1: for the good of the franchise because they need a
Speaker 1: new voice to evolve. Absolute mench move. I've never seen
Speaker 1: that one time before in my life where someone steps
Speaker 1: away from the game, has no other intentions to coach
Speaker 1: or do anything else. They just said, listen, like, I
Speaker 1: think you guys need more than what I can provide
Speaker 1: to you. So I'm gonna step away and let you
Speaker 1: guys blossom alone. It's not you, it's me. It's not you,
Speaker 1: it's me. Oh boy. For those of you who don't
Speaker 1: know this, Donovan Mitchell and Quinn Snyder are very tight,
Speaker 1: extremely tight. Mitchell decided to extend his contract for five
Speaker 1: years because Quinn Snyder was there. That's a very large
Speaker 1: reason that he decided to sign that deal. And now
Speaker 1: he's probably not excited, can't be excited about his leader
Speaker 1: leaving a sinkingly seemingly sinking ship. And then the background
Speaker 1: before this, there was already a ton of speculation that
Speaker 1: Donovan was already on the brink of forcing his way
Speaker 1: out of Utah. So now that Quinn is out, I
Speaker 1: wonder if anyone's checked in on Donovan Mitchell, See how
Speaker 1: he's feeling about all this. See what it's he bitsy
Speaker 1: spider went up the water spout. No, that's rude. Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell is reportedly surprised and disappointed following Quinn Snyder's resignation
Speaker 1: as the head coach of the Utah Jazz, sources told WOJ.
Speaker 1: Sources also describe Mitchell as unsettled, unnerved, and wondering what
Speaker 1: it means for the franchise's future. Have you, guys, ever
Speaker 1: worked at a job where you have a manager who
Speaker 1: may or may not have recruited you, but that's your
Speaker 1: direct manager. And then all of a sudden he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: need you to hop on a zoom call. He sends
Speaker 1: you like a random Saturday afternoon calendar invite and he's
Speaker 1: like and you're like, I wonder what this is. I
Speaker 1: wonder what this is. And then he's this isn't good.
Speaker 1: Either I'm in trouble or something weird's happening. And then
Speaker 1: you get on the call on a random Monday and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, this is my last week and you're like,
Speaker 1: wait hold on, and he's like, yeah, I got this
Speaker 1: really great other opportunity has nothing to do with you, guys.
Speaker 1: What's going on around here didn't play into it all.
Speaker 1: Just feel like, you guys need a new voice, and
Speaker 1: I need some time as well to step away to
Speaker 1: some new things. And then you're like, I'm happy for you,
Speaker 1: but what does this mean for me? I kind of
Speaker 1: came here thinking that it was me and you with this.
Speaker 1: Is there something about the business you don't know or
Speaker 1: do you know that I don't know something that I
Speaker 1: should know. Like, that's Donovan Mitchell right now, Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Everyone when his boss decides to leave two years left
Speaker 1: in his contract. What wait? Why? Because we need a
Speaker 1: new voice. I like this current voice. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I was already thinking about dip setting. So now I'm
Speaker 1: really fun because what if I don't like this new boss,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to evaluate other options. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Things are not going swimmingly in Utah. Obviously, the existing
Speaker 1: tensions between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell apparently were refueled
Speaker 1: during this playoffs when Gobert decided to bust toss Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell at the end of the season. This is what
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert had to say about the quote unquote Utah Jazz,
Speaker 1: which was, let's be honest, a ricochet shot at Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: A quote we all know I wish I had a
Speaker 1: French accent. We all know that when playoffs come, we're
Speaker 1: not going to just flip the switch and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden communicate, all of a sudden be able to
Speaker 1: stay in front of our man, all of a sudden
Speaker 1: be able to rebound. I watched some of these other teams,
Speaker 1: like the Sons of the Warriors, for example. Those guys
Speaker 1: are a step ahead of us in terms of winning habits.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I feel like they take the game personally.
Speaker 1: You can tell Devin Booker is playing his ass off defensively.
Speaker 1: I've been watching him compared to like two years ago.
Speaker 1: Guys like that, they buy in. You can tell they
Speaker 1: take pride in playing defense. They take pride in stopping
Speaker 1: their man, doing whatever they can defensively to stop the
Speaker 1: other team and be a part of a winning culture. Folks,
Speaker 1: you know, Rudy Gobert's not talking about himself because he's
Speaker 1: already run one defensive Player of the Year twice. So
Speaker 1: who must he be talking about. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, who has become more and more a turnstile
Speaker 1: for this Utah Jazz defense. Rudy bitching about Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: not playing defense when actually, in all factual basis of
Speaker 1: the Clipper series that they ended up getting bounced from
Speaker 1: was because of him, Like he wasn't able to rotate
Speaker 1: out into the perimeter. But that's a story for another day.
Speaker 1: All that means is that the tensions aren't getting any cooler,
Speaker 1: things aren't getting any better. Apparently Spider was furious about
Speaker 1: that he has all the power in Utah. His camp
Speaker 1: basically is in charge right below ownership him and Danny Ainge.
Speaker 1: His camp and Danny Age are basically on the same level,
Speaker 1: And sources say Donovan Mitchell was fucking furious. Of course,
Speaker 1: of course he told Tim McMahon that Go Bear violated
Speaker 1: locker room protocols by publicly pointing a finger at his teammate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this isn't Kobe and Shack. Folks like, there's
Speaker 1: no on court success to keep this thing afloat. So
Speaker 1: now Quinn Snyder's probably off to I don't know, like
Speaker 1: Bali to do some eat prey love or something like
Speaker 1: get clean, go at the go to the Hoffmann Institute
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, start doing some inner child work.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's up to. While the Jazz
Speaker 1: are simultaneously imploding. Rumors are Jazz are now going to
Speaker 1: fill their head coaching position fast candidate number one because
Speaker 1: I love this stuff. Candidate number one Terry Starts, former
Speaker 1: Portland Trail Lazers head coach, apparently friends with Quinn Snyder
Speaker 1: actually came in to a practice at Snyder's invite early
Speaker 1: this season to quote unquote observe games and practices for
Speaker 1: a week. It's like when my boss has another person
Speaker 1: who's like in our zoom meeting, I'm like, who's that?
Speaker 1: Who's that? He's like, oh no, this is just Brandon.
Speaker 1: Brandon's just integrating and he's just wanting to learn a
Speaker 1: couple of things. It's like, is Brandon gonna be doing
Speaker 1: your job at some point? What's happening here? Who are you? Interloper?
Speaker 1: What's happy? Seems like seems like a wise excuse me,
Speaker 1: excuse me. I need to know more information. I'm not
Speaker 1: comfortable with all these new people around while there's while
Speaker 1: I'm the little dog engulfed in flames, like everything's gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. Also, also, it seems like a pretty wise
Speaker 1: decision to recruit Terry Stotts to run this franchise and
Speaker 1: this team, considering he was fired for his team not
Speaker 1: playing defense. Uh so to go to a team that
Speaker 1: struggles with playing defense feels like a perfect fit to me.
Speaker 1: But hey, you look at him. Just take a look
Speaker 1: at him. If you're listening on the Odyssey app right now,
Speaker 1: I'll just do a quick little Google search on your
Speaker 1: alternate screen to Terry Stotts if you don't know what
Speaker 1: he looks like. He fix all the boxes for Provo
Speaker 1: Utah like. He just fits it right down to the tee.
Speaker 1: He's the kind of guy one hundred percent. I love
Speaker 1: Terry Stotts. Nice guy, one hundred percent, the kind of
Speaker 1: a guy who thinks. Uh. He's like, yeah, I did
Speaker 1: something crazy tonight and you're like, what'd you do? I
Speaker 1: ordered I ordered medium salsa tonight instead of the mild
Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, really, I thought you were gonna
Speaker 1: say something. Is like, you're sitting in the Uber and
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, that's a Do you see that sign
Speaker 1: on that cab right now? He says that's a Kink
Speaker 1: cab and he goes a what a what? Never forget?
Speaker 1: Never forget this because Portland Trailblazer fans do. The Blazers
Speaker 1: have the worst defense in all of basketball in a
Speaker 1: year that had statistically the worst defensive year in NBA history. So,
Speaker 1: by the power of deduction, Terry starts his team last
Speaker 1: year before he was fired, had the worst defense in
Speaker 1: NBA history, and now he's possibly gonna take over a
Speaker 1: team that already struggles with defensive assignments and schemes like
Speaker 1: he's gonna come in and fix Donovan Mitchell being basically
Speaker 1: what I don't know, Damian Lillard is what if anyone
Speaker 1: is lit from Utah is listening, which I'm sure they're not,
Speaker 1: do not hire Terry Stotts, do not do not. Another
Speaker 1: name being kicked around is David Fizdale, which I actually
Speaker 1: like that idea. He loves defense, that GrITT and grind
Speaker 1: Memphis team that he had. Not only is he tight
Speaker 1: with Donovan Mitchell, but he worked for a long time
Speaker 1: in Miami with Dwayne Wade, minority owner of the Utah Jazz,
Speaker 1: who I think is gonna be pulling a lot more strings.
Speaker 1: Apparently he's been unhappy with the way that Utah has
Speaker 1: done their job. Gonna need that in order for the
Speaker 1: Jazz to free attack track free agents to a place honestly, like,
Speaker 1: this place is so bad, this place is so uptight.
Speaker 1: Utah doesn't even they're limiting the amount of coffee shops
Speaker 1: in Utah because caffeine is such a sin and it's
Speaker 1: a like, well, what do you think free agents are
Speaker 1: gonna do in Utah. If they can't even order a
Speaker 1: medium latte like that's as hot as it gets there,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. Mark Stein is also reporting that
Speaker 1: Danny Ainge get this, guys, get this. Danny Ainge has
Speaker 1: his eyes on drum roll please, drum roll please? Yes, sir, Yes,
Speaker 1: sir Brad Steves what Yes? I love this idea so much.
Speaker 1: Hire a guy who couldn't win with two all stars
Speaker 1: to the point that you had to break them up
Speaker 1: almost that that was getting batted around to running a
Speaker 1: team with two all stars who can't stand each other?
Speaker 1: What could go wrong? What could go wrong in a
Speaker 1: place with almost no venues for those two stars to
Speaker 1: let off steam when the tensions get high With one
Speaker 1: of the worst, most volatile, most hostile fan bases in
Speaker 1: all of the NBA, Trader Danny and Brad, obviously they're
Speaker 1: a match in heaven. Pretty sure, Pretty sure because Danny Ainge,
Speaker 1: for those who don't know, is Mormon, Utah Mormon state.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like where they all go besides a Mesa, Arizona.
Speaker 1: You don't go if you like warm climate and your
Speaker 1: Mormon you go to Mesa if you're okay with Cole
Speaker 1: you go to Utah. So if you did a twenty
Speaker 1: three and meters on Brad Stevens, I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 1: would see that he was genetically a Utah and like
Speaker 1: he's genetically from Utah. As for Donovan Mitchell, like, truthfully,
Speaker 1: I think he's gone. Like I think he's gone. Why
Speaker 1: would he stay? You think about this guy? He's from
Speaker 1: New York, he plays basketball in college at Louisville, which
Speaker 1: I just heard has like four restaurants and no black people.
Speaker 1: And then he ends up going from Louisville to Utah,
Speaker 1: which has like four restaurants and no black people. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to get the hell out of there. I
Speaker 1: want to see some things. I want to see the world.
Speaker 1: I want to be like Jasmine on the Aladdin rug, like,
Speaker 1: somebody show me things. CJ. McCollum actually went on First
Speaker 1: Take today the MVPA president, I want to to get
Speaker 1: the clip for you guys, but ESPN found a way
Speaker 1: to get rid of it because it could have been
Speaker 1: seen as tampering. They asked CJ. McCollum whether he thought
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell would want out of New York, and what
Speaker 1: he answered was, because I've got great memory and I
Speaker 1: just listened to it was basically Donovan Mitchell first and foremost.
Speaker 1: I want to say Utah is a great place to
Speaker 1: play basketball. And I hope that Donovan Mitchell does and
Speaker 1: continues to do whatever makes him happy. And I hope
Speaker 1: that Rudy Gobert continues to do whatever makes him happy
Speaker 1: as well. And that was his entire statement. He was
Speaker 1: not going to say anything more than that. He was
Speaker 1: not going to get caught up, which I think is smart.
Speaker 1: And then First Take deleted it. So Donovan Mitchell has
Speaker 1: been linked to the Knicks and to the Heat, which
Speaker 1: is really interesting considering pat Riley just said something that
Speaker 1: I think really ties things in. This is what pat
Speaker 1: Riley said. I think we're seeing this in the league
Speaker 1: where if you want to win a championship and you
Speaker 1: want to be a starter, you really have to become
Speaker 1: a two way player today. What excuse me, because that
Speaker 1: really shows me something. It shows me something that won.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. Let's be honest. Now, Tyler Heroes not
Speaker 1: going to get the bag. That's the direct shot at
Speaker 1: Tyler hero Like, absolutely not going to be a starter
Speaker 1: for Miami, not gonna get the Max money for Miami
Speaker 1: because this man doesn't play defense to the point where
Speaker 1: he was a liability in the series against Boston, and
Speaker 1: Tyler Herro has said he wants to be a starter
Speaker 1: in Miami. But Nick Fodell noted that Riley's words are
Speaker 1: more important than ever in a broader scope for the league,
Speaker 1: because if you have a team of one way players,
Speaker 1: you aren't going to win. So what does that mean,
Speaker 1: right besides Tyler Herro not getting the max to come
Speaker 1: off the bench and him not probably being in Miami.
Speaker 1: In regards to Spider, well, like we know what Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert said about him, He's not a two way player
Speaker 1: right now. He's basically become a turnstile. So they're either
Speaker 1: not going to go after Donovan Mitchell, which has been
Speaker 1: the rumor, or they somehow think that they're going to
Speaker 1: turn Donovan Mitchell in to Drew Holliday, which I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure about it. I love pat Riley, He's a
Speaker 1: smart guy. I talked to Nick Nurse about Donovan Mitchell's defense.
Speaker 1: He said he does play defense, and I said when
Speaker 1: he did, And he's not responding. He's not responded, He's
Speaker 1: not responded to that message. Lots of things to watch
Speaker 1: for in free agency in Utah, but I think truthfully
Speaker 1: it's headed for a complete teardown and a complete rebuild