WEBVTT - A Tale of Two Steves 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.240 On this episode of This League, we're doing some coach talk. 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:08.639 Is Steve Kerk committed to the Warriors tanking? Does Steve 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:12.480 Nash know what he's doing in Brooklyn? We also get 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.120 into the NBA's money grab that is the All Star Game, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.480 and we delve in a more listener DM. So, without 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.440 further ado, today is a day and a tale of 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:31.280 two Steves. One homie is super pressed, Yeah to the 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:36.080 fucking max, and the other Steve seems to be not 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.400 pressed at all. One guy is like, holy shit, I'm 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.519 on the chopping block, and the other guy is like, 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:47.440 you know what, we're thinking about contending in twenty twenty nine. 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.280 This is the world that we're living in a tale 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.000 of two Steves, a tale of two sons living in 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.520 two vastly different headspaces. So let's start with the Warriors, right, 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:04.800 because why not? What is going on in Golden State? 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.240 Nothing good? Nothing good, That's all I could say. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.560 I don't understand what's happening. It's like they want to 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:11.880 go to the playoffs, but they don't want to go 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:16.200 to the playoffs. Like I'm upset. I want to see 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.520 Steph Curry do Steph Curry things? This is what we 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.280 are looking for, folks. Will he be batman? And Steph 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.720 is determined to show us that he is, and Steve 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.000 Kurry is determined to keep that man down. They've lost 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.720 five five games because Steve Kerr is fucking around and 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.199 limiting Steph Curry's minutes in crunch time. If they won 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.559 four out of those five games because it was tight, 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.520 it was close, they're in third in the West. That's 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:51.360 the facts. That is the case. He's just sitting them 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.360 just at random times that are very important. Second quarter, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.880 fourth quarter. I don't know that seems that seems like 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.320 those are moments that matter the most. Yeah, pretty important, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.960 pretty important times. And so after an L. So they 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.080 took an L on Monday night against the San Antonio 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.880 Spurs that they should have won, and the media said, hey, Kerr, like, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.080 what's good. Why isn't Curry playing at some of the 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.760 most crucial times in the game. And he was like, yeah, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:24.880 that's part of our plan. We're not chasing this guy's that. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:33.160 We're not chasing wins. We're chasing longevity. What we're focusing 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.240 on keeping Steph fresh for the next not three to 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.480 five months, folks, but three to five years. I've never 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.240 heard that in my entire life. We are not focused 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.400 on winning games this season. Play the clip. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.520 I'm not interested in grinding through this season, which is 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.720 already a very difficult season, given the called, the regulations, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:01.720 and just the nature of the games themselves. Uh, you know, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:08.920 these theory empty stadiums. This is for me, for our organization, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.960 We're not We're not throwing stuff out there for forty minutes, uh, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.920 to to chase wins. We got another game tomorrow. We want, 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:20.960 we want Steph to be playing at a high level 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.839 for many years, so we're gonna stay very disappointed, try 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.560 to keep them at that thirty four to thirty five 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.200 minute mark. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.720 Oh my god, Marty, tell me what you thought about that. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.760 I mean, I've never heard a professional coach of or 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.920 not even just professional. I've never heard a coach of 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.240 any kind say anything remotely close to that. Literally, just 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.120 straight up admitting we're not trying to win games. 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.560 That is the most absurd thing I have ever heard. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:54.120 We're not here to grind out wins. Are you serious? 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.880 You're gonna limit Steph to thirty five minutes? No, man, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:05.840 no matter what, he can't ever play forty minutes. I 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.760 don't under I don't. I am so baffled by that statement. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.880 And you know what, Steph Curry is also baffled by 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.840 that statement because in crunch time against the San Antonio Spurs, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.880 he Ice grilled Steve Kerr for like thirty straight seconds, 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.800 like are you gonna put me into the game or not? 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.720 And it was like or not? This is a problem. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:32.560 Please someone tell Steve Kerr why you play the game? Hello? 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:38.240 No one's playing for longevity here, folks. How bad is it? 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:40.760 You now have a coach that's just given up on 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.240 his team winning games. He's like, this year is an 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.760 l we're taking. We're just gonna lose games on purpose. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.520 That's about as close to saying we're losing on purpose. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.240 You do not say that unless in your heart of 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:00.800 hearts you know that you can't truly compete. Kind of 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.960 entitled shit five finals in a row? Kind of shit? 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.560 Was that? Like, you know what, if we can't win 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.720 at all, we're just not gonna win at all? Like 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.560 what that is? That is absurd? This is a year 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.040 to year sport, folks. We don't know if Klay Thompson's 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.920 gonna come back healthy next year. You are not certain 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.320 that Steph Curry after my conversation with the Light Years 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.800 boys out in the bay, you're not certain that Steph 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.960 Curry is going to re sign to a max contract. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:28.760 You don't know if you have him for the next 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.839 three to five years. He hasn't signed on the dotted 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:37.359 line yet. No one knows what's going to happen. You 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.080 have to I want to see Steph Curry eight seed 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.000 against the Lakers. That's what I want to see. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:42.960 Yeah, I'd love that. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.040 This is all part of their master plan. They are tanking. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.359 I have said it. They are tanking again, either for 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.839 picks or to package picks with James Wiseman and get 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.719 somebody that's on the trade block. Why else would you 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.440 have Kelly Hubray and Andrew Wiggins out there at the 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:07.880 same time If it wasn't to tank. There's no other explanation. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.919 The front office probably thought to themselves, Listen, if we 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.080 have Andrew Wiggins and Ubra, we don't even need to 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.279 try to tank. It'll just happen naturally. It's just gonna happen. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.560 And then Curry decided, you know what, I've heard all 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.680 the slander, I'm gonna put on my best batman cape, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.359 and I'm going to elevate this team to heights that 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.480 no one could have ever foreseen. He started doing Curry 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.440 things and then oh my god, Uber got his mind 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.560 right and he got hot, which he's prone to do. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.640 That boy can get hot. And then all of a sudden, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.359 Andrew Wiggins is playing okay in front office is like, fuck, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.880 what are we gonna do now? Yep, We're not paying 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.560 Uber to drop forty. We're paying him to go two 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.240 for twenty eight from three. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.120 I swear he wasn't this bad in Phoenix. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.000 Him putting up buckets is the last thing we as 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:12.240 the Warriors need. Kurz, like Draymond, I have a brilliant idea. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.960 These guys want to win and we certainly do not. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.520 Despite all of our failed plans, I think we can 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.000 still pull this tanking thing off tonight. So let's break 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.880 down the final eight point seven seconds of Monday Nights 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.640 gave against the Spurs. So the Warriors are down by 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.720 three ball at mid court. The place should be what, Marty, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.320 The place should go to Steph Curry. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.440 That should be the first. That's the first. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.040 But you gotta get Steph Curry free because they're locking 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.560 them down in order to do that, you usually set 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.000 a screen. Draymond decides to set the sloppiest goddamn screen 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:51.679 I've ever seen in my whole life, and Curry can't 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.160 get free, and so Draymond's now got the ball still, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.920 and with six seconds to go, he decides to pull 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.440 his best impression of Logo Lillard and shoot from forty 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.040 with six full seconds left in the game, and of 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.280 course it just barely barely missed. Yeah, it hit the 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:15.520 backboarder slams the backboard. Game over. It's almost like Steve 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.440 Kerr feared overtime because he would have to give Steph 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.720 Curry more minutes than he was planning to. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.120 How funny would it have been if you just drained it? 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.920 I think that would have been incredible. I bet Steve 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.600 Kurr would have been pissed. Yeah, So after the game, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.000 they asked Steve Cerr about Draymond Praymon green shot and 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.560 his response was because they were like, yo, why did 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.160 he shoot that? What was he doing? And then and 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.520 he's like, well, they thought Draymond thought that they he 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.880 would you know, they were gonna foul him, but you know, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.640 the Spurs don't do that. And maybe I should have 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.920 told them that, he said, I maybe should have told 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:57.120 the team that the Spurs never foul when you're down three. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.000 They're not gonna send you to the free throw line. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.640 So him just chucking up the ball didn't make any 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.360 damn sense. Steve Kerr, what do you mean you should 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.679 have told them that, maybe, Yeah, you played for Papovich, 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.280 you coached for Papovich, You knew exactly what he was 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.440 about to do, and you just on purpose decided you 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:19.000 weren't gonna script that out for them. Time out on 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.600 the side, you got the got your little clipboard up, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.480 and you decide what you're not gonna tell him. Kerr 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.440 has now gone from one of my favorite coaches in 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.079 the league to maybe my least favorite coach in the league. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.640 What is he fucking doing? 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.559 Not much, not a whole lot. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.280 He's given up on winning. I've never heard of this 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.000 in my The more I think about it, the more 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.600 outraged I get. Can you imagine him sitting Steph Curry 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.080 in the fourth quarter of a game with the Warriors 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.600 one game out in a play in in the bubble? 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.920 Does he limit to staff to thirty five minutes in 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.320 Game three against the Lakers, like, what the fuck. Here's 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.240 the bottom line. In my opinion, Kerr knows the as 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.560 long as Lebron James is in the West, they're not 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.800 doing a goddamn thing. So he's just like, YI, we're 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.840 not chasing wins as long as Lebron is in LA. 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.600 That's the longevity that he's talking about. We are currently 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:18.360 looking into cryogenic options for Steph Curry and Clay until 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.599 twenty thirty. We're trying to find that, you know, that 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.760 sweet spot between the time that Lebron James retires in 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.880 the time that Bronni James becomes dominant. That period of 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.240 time that's when we're going to start to win again. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.040 Hopefully we've accumulated enough lottery picks that turn into something 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.200 in the next eight years in order for us to 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.560 be able to compete. Until then we out we're here 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.400 to just like stay in the mix, not get blown out, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.520 but not really make the playoffs. So I may have 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.400 to recon consider my statement. With all of this to 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.679 be said, I am going to say this where I 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.120 earlier said, if Curry got to the Western Conference finals, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.800 I would give him a kpe. He would be batman. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:04.920 But if he can single handedly undermine a fully orchestrated 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.960 organizational tank led by Steve Kerr which seems to be happening, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.040 and managed to drag this dog shit team into the 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.240 playoffs all by himself. While you've got Draymond Green throwing 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.600 up bricks from forty feet at the end of games 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.080 and Steve Kerr limiting his minutes, give that man a cape. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:33.160 Eve Nash is pressed. He's so pressed. Listen, it's time 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.720 to talk about Steve Nash, Marty. It's been coming for 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.319 a long time. We are a Brooklyn Nets pod, and 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.440 the Nets have been in the news every single day. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.920 It feels like we've discussed them for nearly every show. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.200 And you know what, credit to me, I haven't said 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:56.120 a peep, not one peep up, you know, I kind 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.600 of saying I haven't said as much of a peep 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:04.160 as I really have wanted to. And that that ends 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.000 right now, Yes it does. When is it time to 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.600 say that the Nets is Steve Nash are in trouble? 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.359 Trouble when. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:15.680 I mean it probably is. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:15.920 Now. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.880 They're losing to some pretty terrible teams. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.559 Yeah, they're pretty much only losing to Terrory. Yeah, they 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:29.240 are four and eight against sub five hundred teams. Think 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:35.040 that again to yourself, four and eight against teams sub 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.959 five hundred. Eight of their twelve losses are against sub 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.520 five hundred teams. They can't win on the road, they 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:48.000 can't win close games. Steve nash Er boy looks lost. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.120 They're yelling at each other during games, and they just 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.440 still majority of the time can't play defense. I don't 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.320 care about that. And then putting the clamps on the 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.440 Indiana Pacers in the third quarter where they only score 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.800 twelve points, I don't care about that. We're talking about 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.720 the majority of the time. They just let you walk 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.000 on through. Everyone is now blaming It's like in Vogue 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:14.400 because James Harden is the target, everyone's blaming him. But 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.560 who was the one going after DeAndre Jordan for missing 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:23.240 his defensive assignments? That was James Harden. Yo, play d 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.080 d up. It's almost like to me, this team as 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.439 a whole really just doesn't give a fuck a lot 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:35.640 of things in flocks, new coach, new players, covid. Maybe 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.640 we'll just chill turn it on when we want, turn 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.440 it off when we want. So that actually makes me 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.840 wonder whether I should actually be worried at all. So 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.120 you flip this stat and then you become optimistic. They're 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:54.240 ten and four against winning teams. Wow, when they want 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.120 to try, they try. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:57.280 Yeah, that one sounds pretty good. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:02.720 That one sounds good. They're not bad, they're apathetic, and 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.320 so they can turn it on against a team like 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.920 the Clippers and then lose to a team like the Pistons. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.160 That's just crazy. So what if they're the one seed, Marty, 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.439 what if they play an eight? Are they gonna give 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.200 up two or three games to an eight seed? Like? 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.200 Would they rather be a four? 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.800 Yeah? They wud play like five and six? 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:21.520 Yeah? 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.360 No, I mean it's definitely interesting. I think this roster 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.520 has just a shit ton of problems. Like, I mean, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.320 I know this is gonna be a Nash segment, but 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.760 there's no depth to this team at all. And there's 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.240 really besides those three guys and Joe Harris, there's really 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.240 no shooters. Well tlcs a shooter, but there's. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.480 No nobody interior presence wise. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:40.440 Oh yeah, that at all. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.560 No, I mean the whole DeAndre Jordan being your starting 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:44.840 center just never was. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:45.960 He's sad to watch now. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:51.520 It really is the ultimate in nepotism for someone who 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.960 is well, it's almost like Steve Nash. Actually, it's somebody 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.360 who just does not belong there. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.440 Can we not compare Steve Nash and beyondre Jordan please, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:00.680 it's so. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.560 A fan DMS KD and the fan, like me, is concerned, 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.360 and the fan says, not gonna lie as a fan, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.920 This shit is embarrassing. He slides into into kd's DMS. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.920 Of course, KD and KD fashion says. He responds, He's 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.680 not like the rest of us, who says block. He responds, 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.840 Shit's gonna be I ye, And it's true. I think 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:26.040 with KD and Kyrie and Harden all deciding to try 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.520 and synchrony no COVID scares and a bubble, shit just 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.440 might be all right for them. But for Steve Nash, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.440 I'm not sure that it is going to be all 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.240 right for him because, as one Twitter fan said it best, 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.240 Steve Nash is currently getting paid. He's currently getting paid 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:50.520 for a courtside seat to nets game. He's just there. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.960 He's just there taking up space during the game. I 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.400 love that you have to just sit through this. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.560 You have to get it's fine, it's fine. You honestly 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.200 haven't said anything. I disagree with too much. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.840 Yet during the game, the camera doesn't even pan to 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.200 him because they know he's not doing shit and is 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:08.760 irrelevant to the broadcast. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.920 Okay, he's just the chief. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.040 Of communications for the Brooklyn Nets. Okay, he's standing up 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.720 there on the podium to discuss why you just lost 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.520 to another sub five hundred team with platitudes about how 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.040 it's up to them. You know, it's manifestured destiny. Who 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:31.080 do you want to be tomorrow? It starts today. It's 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.520 almost like this dude doesn't know what he's doing. Let's 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.280 take a quick peek into the mind of a Hall 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.320 of Famer point guard turn head coach and his assessment 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.720 of what went wrong against the Pistons. My message was, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.400 here we go personal pride, personal pride. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:56.560 Connectivity and coming together makes resistance. We can't start the 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.360 game down ten twenty in the second half. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.400 I'm expecting it to come easy. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.159 You know, this is professional sports. The other team is 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:12.480 talented and capable, and we're shorthanded and we're small. We 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.920 got to come out extremely sharp, extremely competitive, and we're 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.600 a real fire. And it takes us getting down twenty 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:19.720 to find that fire. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.560 Oh man, it's almost like, should someone should have told 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.600 the nets that the Pistons just took the Lakers to 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:32.840 double overtime and then Jeremy Grant is the problem. But hey, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.600 that's on the players, right, It's only them that watches 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:40.200 game film. He was hired because he was a two 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.400 time MVP level point guard with a basketball IQ off 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.520 the charts, and when shit goes wrong, he sounds like 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.720 a high school coach worried about getting fired, talking about 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:56.480 heart and resistance and team identity and pride, try men, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.639 try harder compete. Anyone can say those words. That's just 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:06.600 like a sentence of random you know, leadership buzzwords that 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:10.439 you hear at some convention. You do not need a 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:15.800 nine time All Star to spit buzzwords. What is he doing? 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:20.359 I swear the only words missing were grit and mental toughness. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.960 He's a leader that is not leadership. These are the 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.480 words that you see on an inspirational mini tear tear 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.160 away calendar sitting on your desk. You know the ones 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.879 where it's like the guy like at the edge of 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.800 a cliff and it's a sunset on a big rock 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.200 and then you just see like bravery. That's like where 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:47.600 Steve Nash is getting his postgame inspirational thoughts from that's 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.840 how he speaks. He speaks in those terms instead of 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.960 prepping the nets for I don't know the things that 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.440 you're supposed to be good at. You sound like you're 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.800 taking words from Les Brown's instagram. He wants to be 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.280 basketball's version of Tony Robbins instead of being the next 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.679 Eric Spolstra. And I tell you what that is, A pblum. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.920 I don't know. I don't know if he's watching games, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.439 like maybe he's I don't know what he's doing. He 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.119 should be watching games, but it sounds like maybe his 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.159 league pass. They still stuck in Manhattan Beach and so 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.760 all the Lakers games are blacked out, And so he 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.320 didn't know that Jeremy Grant took Lebron James to two overtimes. 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:34.720 It is just baffling. Here is the sound currently coming 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.000 from Sean Marks's office. I'd like someone finds Jack Bauer 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.040 for Steve Nash. Please. This man's about to get fired. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.040 I said it now, this leekue. We are having an 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:49.000 All Star game in Atlanta, a COVID hot spot in 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.800 the middle of a fucking pandemic with fans not surprisingly, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:58.000 players are not super excited about it. In fact, I 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.480 would say no one is excited about it. Not find 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.919 a single positive statement about it on record. Actually, you 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.719 have multiple players deciding fuck it. I might get fined 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.280 by the NBA, but I'm going to drag them for 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:15.919 this terrible, terrible decision. Dearreon. Fox says, I'm not gonna lie. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.280 I'm gonna be brutally honest. This is this is dumb, 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.879 this is stupid. Lebron said, I have zero energy and 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.600 zero excitement about playing this game. Even Jannis, who we 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:33.160 know isn't exactly controversial, said I have absolutely no enthusiasm 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:37.639 about playing in this game. And of course because we 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.080 have a Yoda in the league who barely ever speaks, 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.000 but when he does, it's always telling truths. The best 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.720 one came from Kawhi, who is now the profit of 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.560 the NBA. Play the clip. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.640 It is what it is at this point. I mean, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.159 we all know why we're playing it. You know, is 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.320 money on the line. It's opportunity to make more money. 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.760 Mean just putting money over health right now so much. 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:09.480 But yeah, I mean, if we're playing games now and 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.359 it's still a pandemic, doing all these protocols and reals, 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.720 so it doesn't really surprise me. 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:25.960 Wow, he said, it's money over health, so it really 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:31.960 doesn't surprise me. Yikes. And you know it's bad when 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.240 even the NBA coaches are jumping in the mix, like 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.800 Mike Mullan's like, personally, I would rather maybe kind of 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.800 sort of want to stay with my family. This NBA 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.720 season is packed as it is, Like, maybe we should 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.840 just have a bye week. This seems like a bad, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:54.000 bad idea. It seems like almost every single person thinks 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:58.800 this is a bad idea, except for one. Chris Paul, 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:04.320 the end BPA president. What did he say about this 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:05.480 growing revolt. 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:08.119 I've got it right here, he said, Uh, I'm sure 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.119 I'm not the only guy in the league that lives 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:10.919 without their family. 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:11.760 Hold on pause. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.480 That is a shot keep going, it is, uh, And 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:19.359 so guys look at that break as an opportunity to 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.080 see their families. It's a lot of different things going 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.720 on right now. But you just hope that guys understand 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.960 that decisions are being made, especially as far as the 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.680 union has always got the full body of players in mind. 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.639 But emotions happen. Guys have feelings, and you've got to 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:34.080 be able to. 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:35.600 Express them, and I respect that. 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:41.040 Yes, the NBPA has the full body of players in mind. 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.919 Oh yes, the All Star Game is the conduit to 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:49.600 feed the blue collar players in the league. Oh yeah, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.600 this is for them. This is for any other reason, 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:56.760 but for them. This is philanthropy in action. How dare 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.800 Yannie try to take the food off the table of 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:05.760 lugent stort. This is how we spread the wealth of 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:09.119 the bench mob. The Mason Plumleys of the world wouldn't 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:10.879 be able to eat if it wasn't for the NBA 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:14.320 All Star Game, if it wasn't for Quavo versus Jimmy Kimmel. 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.440 Thank you Chris Paul for that needed perspective about why 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:21.119 the All Star Game is here in the middle of 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:24.200 an unprecedented pandemic. 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:26.240 I mean, how else is Dennis Smith Junior gonna find 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:28.720 porn stars? I mean without the All Star weekend? Big fat, 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:29.560 Let's think about it. 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:33.080 He should have said that. First of all, what I'd 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.359 like to say is, Chris Paul, is that James Harden 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:37.399 is a personal friend of mine and former teammate, and 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.800 he loves Atlanta, so we're doing this for him. The 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:42.920 NBA is just going to do anything to play this game, 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:48.560