Speaker 1: So the Wolves still stink.
Speaker 2: They do three and seven in their last ten. But
Speaker 2: the question is how bad have things gotten in Minnesota
Speaker 2: this year? Well, Austin fucking Rivers is now fielding questions
Speaker 2: about who's to blame for the dumpster fire of the season.
Speaker 1: Austin Rivers, that is what tells you it is a
Speaker 1: big old yikes.
Speaker 2: This is a man who you see a picture of
Speaker 2: when you google journeyman.
Speaker 1: This is the name.
Speaker 2: You see when you google what does it look like
Speaker 2: to not even be a fully guaranteed player?
Speaker 1: Who's a son of a coach. Now he's the go
Speaker 1: to guy to tell you what it's like.
Speaker 2: What like, please diagnose dysfunction for me, Austin Rivers, what
Speaker 2: like we're going to He's the only one that'll speak honestly.
Speaker 1: He's like, can I.
Speaker 2: Just get in the press because I know nobody cares
Speaker 2: about what I'm doing on the floor, Like.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that we want to see tell
Speaker 1: us what's wrong in Minnesota. This is what we want.
Speaker 2: Austin decided, Okay, I'm gonna go and go right into
Speaker 2: pr mode. I'm gonna channel my father, Doc Rivers when
Speaker 2: he says, well, everyone has had an opinion. When Rudy
Speaker 2: was out, it was Rudy's fault, and when then he
Speaker 2: came back, it was this other guy's fault. And now
Speaker 2: it's this guy's fault. You know what, It's nobody's fault.
Speaker 2: It's all of us. Pause, hold on, So let's break
Speaker 2: that down for a second. First of all is the
Speaker 2: admission that everyone has an opinion, which means that there
Speaker 2: are now camps emerging, opining, desserting, who is to blame.
Speaker 2: We've got think pieces coming out about who's fucking up
Speaker 2: this team the most, meaning that there is no one
Speaker 2: possibly responsible from a like A, there's not a consensus
Speaker 2: right now. There's so many problems we don't even know
Speaker 2: where to turn in terms of how to fix it. Rudy, Karl,
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns, Chris Finch, you get the D'Angelo Russell, you.
Speaker 1: Get the picture.
Speaker 2: Second, the stark and very honest admission is that everyone
Speaker 2: sucks on this team, everyone.
Speaker 1: All of us.
Speaker 2: Like that the waterboy sucks, the towel girl sucks, like
Speaker 2: the broadcast team sucks.
Speaker 1: We all suck, all of us.
Speaker 2: This is an organizational disaster. Everyone except for Aunt Edwards.
Speaker 2: Aunt Edwards deserves no blame. He literally is the only
Speaker 2: one you cannot blame it all. I have opinions on
Speaker 2: what's happened in Minnesota. We've talked about him before. I
Speaker 2: will not recover old ground, but things are gonna have
Speaker 2: to change in Minnesota. My guys, I don't know how
Speaker 2: they've lost six in a row. They lost to Detroit
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again.
Speaker 2: They lost to Detroit at home without Cade Cunningham. My god,
Speaker 2: they are two games back for the play in spot.
Speaker 2: They are a worse team this year than they were
Speaker 2: last year or the year before, and they've got a
Speaker 2: guy who won Defensive Player of the Year on it.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people thinking this would be a
Speaker 2: top four team in the West. Myself included shame on me,
Speaker 2: Shame on me. And then the Rudy Gobert trade happened,
Speaker 2: and shit has been awful since they they gave up everyone.
Speaker 2: And the worst thing at all of all is all
Speaker 2: the pieces that they traded in Utah are bawling in Utah.
Speaker 2: Danny Ainge continues to fleece. Doesn't matter where he goes,
Speaker 2: there is always an idiot. It doesn't matter how small
Speaker 2: the room, there is always one idiot. You can fleece
Speaker 2: in the room and now we know who it is.
Speaker 2: Tim Conley. Tim Conley, Utah is still good right now,
Speaker 2: better than Minnesota. You traded Rudy Gobert, got a bunch
Speaker 2: of pieces back plus four draft four first round picks,
Speaker 2: by the way, and they're still better. Walker Kessler more
Speaker 2: blocks this year.
Speaker 1: Than Rudy Gobert is a rookie.
Speaker 2: Ah ah, no say it e'ate so say.
Speaker 1: It eate so Doc. That is what's called going from
Speaker 1: bad to worse. And get this, they might trade Garl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns. The rumors are starting the surface.
Speaker 2: I love seeing Minnesota struggle now. They were a team
Speaker 2: I was rooting for and then they did this. Michael
Speaker 2: Penie at The Ringer wrote to the following, having just
Speaker 2: signed an extension, Towns can't be traded until the summer.
Speaker 1: But if the Wolves.
Speaker 2: Either fail to qualify for the play in or lose
Speaker 2: before the second round, pause lose before the second are
Speaker 2: you thinking this is a team that's going to the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Hold on like that is one hell of an assumption.
Speaker 2: So if that's the qualifier for trade Karl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 2: you might as well just trade him right the fuck now, now, sir,
Speaker 2: there is a expect a deafening chatter around Towns' future.
Speaker 2: There's always a chance Minnesota turns things around by tightening
Speaker 2: up its three point defense because that's easy to do,
Speaker 2: and finding a better way to space the floor because
Speaker 2: that's easy to do with Rudy Gobert. But I'm not
Speaker 2: counting on it. Chris Finch also recently said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna start playing the guys. I actually just think should
Speaker 2: be out on the court no matter who they are.
Speaker 2: So that could be Wendell Moore, the rookie. That's what
Speaker 2: they say, Expect more Wendell more minutes. If you don't
Speaker 2: know who Wendell Moore is, I don't even blame you.
Speaker 1: Honestly. He's a sort of like a.
Speaker 2: Combo wing, undersized wing played for duke rookie Josh may
Speaker 2: not have you heard that name? Awesome guy who came
Speaker 2: off the bench and got about twelve minutes a game
Speaker 2: for Memphis. So like Memphis basketball, like the college team, Well,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna play.
Speaker 1: The young guys development minutes right now.
Speaker 2: And you think this is the team, Michael Pina that's
Speaker 2: going to the second round, sir, so Rudy's been hurt,
Speaker 2: He's been in an out of the lineup. Cat has
Speaker 2: been out as well. D'Angelo Russell, most overpaid best friend,
Speaker 2: probably not.
Speaker 1: Gonna make it. He's gonna take a pay cut.
Speaker 2: And Chris Finch, who not only signed off on the
Speaker 2: go Bear trade but actually endorsed the move, has now
Speaker 2: got the look of a guy with his neck firmly
Speaker 2: inside of the guillotine, waiting for it to drop, looking
Speaker 2: to the sky for it to drop at any time.
Speaker 1: So leave it to Austin.
Speaker 2: Rivers, the Wolve's newest spokesperson, to wrap us up in
Speaker 2: a nice little bow. He said, Yeah, we gotta go
Speaker 2: out and get wins them man ors, you will turn.
Speaker 2: I promise you we win three four in a row
Speaker 2: and the whole dynamic's gonna change.
Speaker 1: I promise you. Just gotta stay with us, man.
Speaker 2: Keep coming to games, Please support us, and we gotta
Speaker 2: stay with us more importantly than anybody else.
Speaker 1: Good old chip off the old block.
Speaker 2: Austin Rivers, just keep staying with us, keep watching us
Speaker 2: bang our heads into the wall. Please stick around, please
Speaker 2: support us no matter what. Austin Rivers could be a
Speaker 2: coach because he might as well have been channeling Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1: The problem is is that this has already.
Speaker 2: Happened, these little wind streaks, these little moments, and that
Speaker 2: did nothing to halt the slide. They beat Okay, see
Speaker 2: the Bulls, the MAVs before they are recent five game
Speaker 2: losing streak.
Speaker 1: So no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Austin.
Speaker 2: I don't think three or four in a row is
Speaker 2: gonna change the dynamic, the spacing issues, the lack of
Speaker 2: the flow on the offense, or or more importantly, the
Speaker 2: lack of options that you have in order to fix it,
Speaker 2: the lack of I think you have two second round
Speaker 2: picks to trade. What are you about to do with that?
Speaker 2: What you're about to do with that? Poor old Chris Finch,
Speaker 2: He's gonna get fired for no reason other than the
Speaker 2: fact that, like this the only move left on the chessboard,
Speaker 2: Like that's.
Speaker 1: Literally the only thing you can do.
Speaker 2: It's a company that's dying and failing, and the only
Speaker 2: thing left is to make a board shake up, to
Speaker 2: fire the CEO.
Speaker 1: Because you are a bad business.
Speaker 2: You have no cash flow, You've got a bunch of
Speaker 2: things in debt, you've got assets that have no ability
Speaker 2: to move. This is the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the only
Speaker 2: move left is to change the leader.
Speaker 1: That is so sad, so so sad, so uh weird
Speaker 1: shit's happening in Boston.
Speaker 2: Not really sure what to make of it, Honestly, reports
Speaker 2: out of Boston last week was that the interim tag
Speaker 2: would not be removed from Joe Missula is not exactly
Speaker 2: sure why that is since up until you know, pretty recently,
Speaker 2: the Celtics were the number one team in the NBA.
Speaker 1: They had the number one defense.
Speaker 2: They were having an historically good offense, and I mean
Speaker 2: by historically, I mean the best statistically in the entire
Speaker 2: history of the NBA.
Speaker 1: So until they weren't.
Speaker 2: Right, like people starting to see some of the limitations
Speaker 2: of our man, our righteous man, our god fearing man,
Speaker 2: Joe Missoula. So what's going on in Boston? They are
Speaker 2: five and five in the last ten. They have lost
Speaker 2: ground so fast to the streaking, streaking nets Nets by
Speaker 2: the way, which we will talk about next episode, because
Speaker 2: I didn't have enough time.
Speaker 1: They have won ten in a row. These motherfuckers have
Speaker 1: won ten in a row.
Speaker 2: And you know who is not apparently not to be
Speaker 2: praised for that Jacquevon, who all of a sudden takes
Speaker 2: over for Steve Nash and they just start winning games.
Speaker 1: I digress.
Speaker 2: Even ever since they blow out the Suns on December seventh,
Speaker 2: who have their own problems, right, things have just been
Speaker 2: really odd blowout losses to the Warriors, which you could
Speaker 2: probably expect is the Warriors have their number, but then
Speaker 2: they get blown out into the Clippers. They get blown out.
Speaker 2: They lose to the Magic twice, no shade to the Magic.
Speaker 2: They lose to the Nuggets, sandwich between a couple of
Speaker 2: showings against the Bucks and the Rockets, just a very
Speaker 2: see saw, very bad, very good team. So last night
Speaker 2: kind of a perfect example of this, so I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about it because the weirdness surrounding this team
Speaker 2: goes everywhere.
Speaker 1: So the Celtics are.
Speaker 2: Like currently trying to claw back at this point from
Speaker 2: a thirteen point hole against the Nuggets in Denver. They've
Speaker 2: got six forty three left in the fourth. They're trying
Speaker 2: to figure it out. Time Lord Dunks try to get
Speaker 2: some energy back into the team.
Speaker 1: He hangs on the rim. No, no, don't do that,
Speaker 1: Rob Williams, don't do that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he bends the rim to the point where
Speaker 2: they had to spend forty.
Speaker 1: Minutes to fix it. I'm like, what's going on here?
Speaker 2: Why are they interviewing Timothy Moskov right now I'm switching
Speaker 2: to the game. I'm like, why is a Why is
Speaker 2: Timothy Mosgov being interviewed? Why are there multiple ladders on
Speaker 2: the court.
Speaker 1: Why is there a random guy with a level?
Speaker 2: Why am I seeing zoomed in like level bubble like
Speaker 2: it's just moving back and forth.
Speaker 1: I'm like fascinated. I don't even know why the forty.
Speaker 2: Minutes of this and you know what, they still didn't
Speaker 2: even fix it. They had to bring a new rim out,
Speaker 2: they had to bring a hand wrench out.
Speaker 1: Eyes are not lies. This is really what happened. I
Speaker 1: watched it.
Speaker 2: They had to find random people in the crowd to interview.
Speaker 2: It's just like players trying to stand stay warm. They're
Speaker 2: doing jumping jacks on the side, They're running back and forth.
Speaker 2: Jokic was doing wind sprints. First time I've ever seen
Speaker 2: Yokic sprint for no reason. So then they finally get
Speaker 2: the game back started up, and it goes from bad
Speaker 2: to worse, like Tatum didn't score another bucket, didn't score
Speaker 2: another bucket what he had twenty five With six minutes
Speaker 2: and forty three seconds left, he finished with twenty five
Speaker 2: rough rough for me. That was the last leg of
Speaker 2: the parlay for me. I needed twenty six and a
Speaker 2: half points for Tatum.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Nuggets were up one ten ninety seven when that long
Speaker 2: break happened. They cruised the rest of the way one
Speaker 2: twenty three to one eleven. But it was actually worse
Speaker 2: than that because the Nuggets brought in their scrubs with
Speaker 2: like two minutes left.
Speaker 1: The Celtics brought in their scrubs.
Speaker 2: Tatum only took two shots in the final six minutes
Speaker 2: and thirty seconds, and one was a twenty seven foot
Speaker 2: like heave with guys draped around him, which was an
Speaker 2: air ball.
Speaker 1: It wasn't air ball.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown after the game, as you might imagine, was pised.
Speaker 2: He and that was their rim. By the way, it
Speaker 2: was their rim that it was bent, not the Nuggets rim.
Speaker 2: They didn't get to switch through because it was only
Speaker 2: six minutes left to go in the quarter. This is
Speaker 2: why he had to say rim never got fixed.
Speaker 3: No, there was no communication.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Obviously the rim got I guess a little bit leveled
Speaker 3: to the left or whatever, and they spent all that
Speaker 3: time to trying to fix it, but when we came back,
Speaker 3: it still looked like it wasn't even level in my opinion,
Speaker 3: so it was like, you know, we just wasted all
Speaker 3: that time. Has an effect on the game, that's how
Speaker 3: injuries and stuff happened, and luckily that didn't. But you know,
Speaker 3: that was that wasn't good. The whole process was handled poorly,
Speaker 3: probably in my opinion, in that you know, had an
Speaker 3: effect on the game as well, but unluckily nobody got hurt.
Speaker 2: Handled poorly in my opinion, no communication, Tatum said, who's
Speaker 2: a nicer guy? The delay was just weird. I've never
Speaker 2: been through anything like that in my career. It wasn't
Speaker 2: like they could tell us how long we were gonna
Speaker 2: have to wait because they didn't know.
Speaker 1: What do you make of these strange things in Boston
Speaker 1: that are happening.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Like it could just be a
Speaker 2: little mid season hiccup.
Speaker 1: Who knows, could be something indicative of something bigger.
Speaker 2: When they lose, Boston loses big, like they did to
Speaker 2: the Magic. When they win, they tend to win big.
Speaker 2: They play good defense, they're unstoppable offensively. We're gonna know more,
Speaker 2: I think probably in the next two to three weeks.
Speaker 2: But remember Boston was five hundred at the All Star
Speaker 2: Break last year. So next two weeks they face the MAVs,
Speaker 2: the Nets, the Pelicans in a seven day stretch, So
Speaker 2: we'll have to keep it in our purview as so
Speaker 2: they say things can get ugly fast. Also, there's rumors
Speaker 2: coming out that the reason Missoula won't get the interim
Speaker 2: tag lifted is because Boston's flirting with the idea of
Speaker 2: bringing back email Udoka.
Speaker 1: You add that into the mix. Now the pressure cooker
Speaker 1: is on for our god fearing, god loving Joe Mazuma