Speaker 1: All right, let's get right into it. It's been a
Speaker 1: hell of a week for our man, Dylan Brooks. The
Speaker 1: last time we talked, the Memphis Grizzlies had been eliminated
Speaker 1: and Dylan Brooks wanted somewhere to be extended, and there
Speaker 1: were talks about whether that would happen. And now we
Speaker 1: know for sure that the Memphis Grizzlies will not be
Speaker 1: extending Dylan Brooks. Why do we know that because according
Speaker 1: to Sham's on Tuesday, under no circumstances would the Grizzlies
Speaker 1: be bringing back Dylan Brooks next year.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Well, So the question though at this point is why
Speaker 1: under no circumstances? And who did Sean's get the information from?
Speaker 1: Because on one side you have the agents getting very upset,
Speaker 1: and then on the other side you've got the Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzlies getting upset. No more Dylan Brooks in Memphis. So
Speaker 1: first of all, we got a whole bunch of out
Speaker 1: that's coming out. The Grizzlies felt that it was very
Speaker 1: unprofessional that the Grizzlies would say that about a current player,
Speaker 1: which his agent fairly believes that it tanked Dylan Brooks's
Speaker 1: market for him.
Speaker 2: Nothing says you are more disposable.
Speaker 1: Than your current team, saying, under no circumstances will we
Speaker 1: bring you back. Uh. It was also reported by Ramona
Speaker 1: Shelburn after that that Brooks was looking for twenty five
Speaker 1: million a year, Bill Simmons, Kendrick Perkins, others. They came
Speaker 1: after the Grizzlies very hard. Perkins tweeted, Yeah, y'all can
Speaker 1: laugh all in joke all you want. I don't see
Speaker 1: a damn thing funny when it comes down to how
Speaker 1: Memphis handled the player that gave his all to that
Speaker 1: organization for three years. Exclamation and exclamation, exclamation, exclamation.
Speaker 2: Is not what you do, it's how you do it.
Speaker 2: Real talk.
Speaker 1: So yeah, everybody's pissed. No one is more pissed than
Speaker 1: Brooks's agent, Mike Georges. He tweeted out this, which I
Speaker 1: thought was wild, Sean Scharanya, the leader of reading false
Speaker 1: news and attacking players. Why any player in the league
Speaker 1: talks to this guy blows my mind. This sounds like
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler's agent that got really mad at Shaw's like
Speaker 1: two years ago. This little tempest in a teapot reached
Speaker 1: its peak when JJ Reddick decided to fill in for
Speaker 1: Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith and give his best Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith impression, making Dylan Brooks the scapegoat. But whoever put
Speaker 3: that language and approve that language in the tweet, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that person wants to make Dylan Brooks the scapegoat. The
Speaker 3: reality is Grizzlies have other problems besides Dylan Brooks, and
Speaker 3: whether they choose to bring them back or don't choose,
Speaker 3: or you know, whatever it may be. I can't remember
Speaker 3: a time in my now seventeen years, either being in
Speaker 3: the NBA or covering the NBA where we're in the
Speaker 3: second round of the playoffs, the day of a game
Speaker 3: where two of the greatest players ever are getting ready
Speaker 3: to square off and we're just tweeting out things for engagement, like,
Speaker 3: is that where we're at? Is that where? Actually? You
Speaker 3: know what? I'd be willing to bet.
Speaker 2: I would be willing to bet that it wasn't the Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: I don't know who was actually because the Grizzlies I
Speaker 1: wasn't from us. We don't like this bringing a lot
Speaker 1: of hit on our organization. The agents like this guy's
Speaker 1: a clown.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: All I know is that Sham's is a highly sourced reporter,
Speaker 1: so he got it from somebody. He does not come
Speaker 1: out with statements without a rock solid, short source.
Speaker 2: So whoever gave him.
Speaker 1: That inside info, I doubt we'll ever find out, But
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick do not come after Sean Sharan is integrity.
Speaker 1: The bigger question, though, is now that this is all
Speaker 1: said and done and the dust has settled, where does
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks end up. It's not Memphis, given that the controversy.
Speaker 1: Is his career actually damaged by this news about the
Speaker 1: Grizz not wanting him back?
Speaker 2: The answer is maybe.
Speaker 1: Short answer, he will one hundred percent sign with the
Speaker 1: team next year. Will it be for the amount that
Speaker 1: he turned down, which was eighteen million dollars per year?
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 1: He might get somewhere closer to eleven or twelve, which
Speaker 1: would be Dylan Brooks doing a Dentis shooter impressionation. Impressionation,
Speaker 1: that's what kind of day we are in impression and
Speaker 1: an impersonation. And I'm sure he's going to likely help
Speaker 1: his next team a lot. I'm hearing Sacramento Portland, you know,
Speaker 1: the team that I haven't heard that I think would
Speaker 1: be an awesome fit for Dylan Brooks, team that needs defense,
Speaker 1: a team that has a plethora of shooters already, well,
Speaker 1: at least a couple of shooters that you can rely
Speaker 1: on in Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncicic.
Speaker 2: Just Dallas.
Speaker 1: I think Dallas would be an interesting spot for him.
Speaker 1: All three of those teams need defense. I think the
Speaker 1: MAVs are the best fit. Also Houston, I think em
Speaker 1: Udoka would love the competitiveness of Dylan Brooks. He would
Speaker 1: take Dylan Brooks and mold him into his Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: and make him the leader in the firebrand of the defense.
Speaker 1: As for Memphis, what are they gonna do? That's a
Speaker 1: big question. So you've already jettisoned him. You've given yourself
Speaker 1: no options in case. You have no other wing to find.
Speaker 1: So you gotta put your eggs in the og An
Speaker 1: Andobie sweepstakes and maybe the Jeremy Grant sweepstakes probably.
Speaker 2: Would help the Grizzlies a lot either one of those guys.
Speaker 1: That is the problem though, with publicly cutting ties with
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks, you have no options. He plays a position
Speaker 1: that's very hard to replace. Are you gonna replace Dylan
Speaker 1: Brooks with Luke Cannart full time. It's a very in
Speaker 1: demand position. You got maybe go after Dorian Finney Smith,
Speaker 1: Maybe go after Cam Johnson, Jeremy Gant Grant. Maybe you
Speaker 1: bring back Jake Crowder as well. Jake Crowder is a
Speaker 1: very good defensive player. He didn't like his role in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Guys who can play two A defense and hit a three.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants a three and D player. I think the
Speaker 1: Grizzlies are gonna have to regret how things worked out
Speaker 1: with them and Dylan Brooks because he was.
Speaker 2: The longest tenured Grizzly there.
Speaker 1: And let's face it, he is not the reason that
Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies flamed out.
Speaker 2: He was one of the reasons. But let's not act
Speaker 2: like the.
Speaker 1: Whole Ja Morant situation didn't happen. The bottom line is
Speaker 1: that Draymond Green is a fucking oracle. What did he say?
Speaker 1: He said two months ago? The dynasty starts after you,
Speaker 1: not with you. Not the last year'll hear of Dylan
Speaker 1: brookstill in the villain. It is the last ye'll hear
Speaker 1: of him in Grizzlies uniform. One of the biggest storylines
Speaker 1: coming out of Game one of the Lakers Warriors series
Speaker 1: besides the fact that the Warriors lost two games in
Speaker 1: a row at Chase is the massive discrepancy in free throws.
Speaker 2: Of course, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Being like, oh, the Lakers getting all the best whistles.
Speaker 2: And they are.
Speaker 1: They led the NBA in free throw attempts this year.
Speaker 1: That should not surprise anyone. Lebron James after that terrible
Speaker 1: call Jason Tatums slashing his arm, and from then on
Speaker 1: they were the had the best whistle in the league.
Speaker 1: But Game one very interesting. Lakers shot twenty nine free
Speaker 1: throws and the Warriors shot six.
Speaker 2: Let's say that again.
Speaker 1: The Lakers shot twenty nine free throws, the Warriors shot six.
Speaker 1: The Lakers went twenty five for twenty nine from the line,
Speaker 1: and that was pretty much what held them to keep
Speaker 1: their lead, which is a hilarious stat in part because
Speaker 1: it is It's absolutely glorious to hear Warriors fans complain.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things are for Warriors fans to
Speaker 1: understand what it means to like play against the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Let's finally finally get it.
Speaker 1: Has anybody seen such a discrepancy before?
Speaker 2: What is this injustice?
Speaker 1: It's like that, that's like what it means to play
Speaker 1: the Warriors every year.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Like you congratulations, Now you know how other people feel.
Speaker 2: Uh. And here's the funny thing, Like the Warriors didn't
Speaker 2: even get that bad of a whistle.
Speaker 1: They just hit all their shots off the perimeter, and
Speaker 1: the Lakers did all their damage in the paint.
Speaker 2: So it's really hard to get to the line when
Speaker 2: you're shooting fifty three threes. Fifty three fifty.
Speaker 1: Percent of the Warrior's shots came from beyond the arc.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry even knows this. Postgame, he took responsibility for
Speaker 1: the disparity, says, yeah, Shooter gets ten free throws.
Speaker 2: That can't happen.
Speaker 1: Whether we think it's a foul or not, we put
Speaker 1: ourselves in that situation. If so facto, he does not
Speaker 1: think that Shrewder deserved ten free dooes. Well, I have
Speaker 1: to talk about playoff Shooter because he's a different beast.
Speaker 1: He's like little baby Rondo out there the second coming.
Speaker 1: But Steph's points very clear. The Lakers are going to
Speaker 1: continue to attack and attack and attack the paint, and
Speaker 1: the Warriors need to be smarter about taking those baits
Speaker 1: and Draymond Green just needs to play better, and he
Speaker 1: needs to play more often.
Speaker 2: Conversely, we won't.
Speaker 1: Get a ton of free throws when you only drive
Speaker 1: to the paint twenty eight times. Warriors average thirty eight
Speaker 1: drives a game in the regular season, and they only
Speaker 1: had twenty eight in Game one. So yeah, even if
Speaker 1: Dubbs fans are irate about it is this happened all year.
Speaker 1: According to Cleaning the Glass, the Lakers led the league
Speaker 1: in frequency of shots at the rim, and of course
Speaker 1: that means they're probably gonna shoot a lot of free throws.
Speaker 1: People point to Austin Reeves his incredible jumping free throws
Speaker 1: this year as the proof that the Lakers get every whistle,
Speaker 1: but he's also doubled the amount number of free throw
Speaker 1: attempts this year, and that does kind of seem a
Speaker 1: little suss until you realize his free throw rate is
Speaker 1: actually lower than his last year at Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: He has always gotten to the line. That is what
Speaker 2: he does. So although we know.
Speaker 1: That referee bias is real, and although I would love
Speaker 1: the Warriors to feel what it means to get a
Speaker 1: bad whistle, this is not the series where the gap
Speaker 1: is gonna change and That does not mean that the
Speaker 1: Warriors are getting fucked over. But if our dubs, I
Speaker 1: tell you what, don't get to the line twelve fifteen
Speaker 1: times a game, it's gonna be hard to beat those Lakers.
Speaker 2: It really is