WEBVTT - The King of Flop 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.600 On this episode of This League, the NBA has a 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:08.680 flopping problem on both sides of the ball, Marcus Smart 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.880 fans are big fucking mad at me in my dms, 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.680 in my comments, pretty much everywhere that they can find me. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.720 They've crossed platforms from TikTok to Twitter to Instagram to 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.520 my dms. I'm surprised they don't have my phone number already. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.279 Uh why the Sixers will never win it all with 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.800 Ben Simmons and Kadie gets petty with the NBA after 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.360 all that COVID drama. I feel like this has been 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:39.760 bubbling for a while now. Coaches don't like it, players 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:44.680 don't like it, no fans like it none, but. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.479 Everyone seems to still be doing it everyone. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.000 The defense says that they're doing it because without that, 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.160 the offense has an unfair advantage. And then the offense 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.480 says that they do it because they're not getting calls 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:04.160 without an exaggerating it unless they flop. So it's that 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.640 famous who's really responsible? 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.800 Chicken or the egg? Is the reps? 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:09.000 Is it? 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.119 The league is at the offense is at the defense? 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.679 I don't know, And nothing really personifies how bad it's gotten. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:21.119 Then our very favorite Jimmy Buckets, one of the hard 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.800 rocks of the league, pretending that he was. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.880 Mauled in the eye. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.200 It became a famous meme on the internet where he 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.119 pokes his eye and looks up to try to draw 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.600 a flagrant foul to get an advantage down the stretch. Right, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.880 that's not a guy that you would expect to lay down, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.319 And I mean this is a guy that was homeless. 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:45.920 This is a guy who's a hard rock and he's 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.160 laying down to try to get an oscar when he 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:48.760 wasn't even. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:49.280 Hitting the eye. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.440 Yeah, it goes against plenty of things you would think 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:52.760 he stands for. Yeah, correct. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.920 So obviously this is now a trend. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.160 This is now the thing that you must do in 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.880 order to have any level of parody as a competitor. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.560 And it all started getting national attention back in the 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.440 beginning of the season in December. I don't know if 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.120 you remember, but the Hawks were playing the nets and 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.519 Trey Young goes around a screen and he stops short 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:22.480 and then boom, foul the defender. Obviously, when someone's just 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.760 like in traffic, when someone slams on the brakes and 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.960 you're expecting to go through a green light. That was 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:30.560 Trey Young. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.400 He slammed on his brakes around a screen. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.280 And the defender was forced to run into him. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.639 Yet, yeah, he didn't know, well obviously what was coming. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.200 And you can't just like be starting and stopping as 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.160 a defender against a guy like Trey Young, because all 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.760 of a sudden he's at the bucket, right, So you're 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.120 in a no win spot. And Steve Nash looks at 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:54.799 the ref and says, that's not basketball. That's just not basketball. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.760 And the problem is, right now, that is basketball. That's 0:02:58.919 --> 0:02:59.760 that's the big problem. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.760 Yeah. No, it really stinks, honestly because there's such judgment calls. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.440 And because it's such a judgment call, that's why I 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.360 think these guys whind so much, because they're doing everything 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.120 they can to get that call, give those revs like 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.040 a reason to make that call. So you're seeing the 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.600 game slow down in so many different ways. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.160 Yeah, it's actually atrocious to watch. Another instance happened with 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.040 Luca against the Warriors. I don't know if you saw that, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.400 but Luca got this phantom lean in call. Literally he 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.920 throws his body against the defender and then goes up 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.960 and Wiggins gets the foul. This is in late in 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.480 the game, and Steve Kerr after the game was pissed, 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.560 really pissed. Even though he doesn't care about winning games, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.080 he still is pissed about it. He says, I don't 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:56.000 fault the officials. I really fault the league. They basically 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.120 are gifting those calls to all of the players. Our 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.280 guys get him too, But to me, this is not 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.360 a basketball play. If you jump three feet forward, I 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.240 don't think you deserve a foul when all you're doing 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.280 is looking for said foul. We've now gotten out of 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.839 control just gifting offensive players the ability to deceive refs. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.919 We have to give the defensive player some benefit of 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.120 the doubt, but the officials have to call it because 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.240 that's the way that the league is dictating that they 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.760 call it. Yeah, no, it's bullshit. It's bullshit. And then 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.600 later later I think this was a couple of days ago, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:40.279 Lebron the Lakers are playing the Grizzlies, and Lebron pretends 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.640 that Dylan Brooks he's under the rim and they're going 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.560 up to get a rebound, and Lebron pretends that Dylan 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.400 Brooks took his arm and hooked him backwards. So Lebron 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:57.080 then flies, He literally explodes into the ground and flies 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.880 backwards like three feet y tough one to try to 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.760 get that loose ball call. Uh, and he got it. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.880 He went to the free throw line. Uh. And this 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.520 is I mean, obviously Twitter went crazy, Yeah, what is this? 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.960 The Memphis Grizzlies broadcasters went and sane, this is out 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.800 of control, blah blah blah. But no, like, this is 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.400 just Lebron doing what everyone else is doing, and the 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.320 spotlight is brighter on Lebron James, right. This is just 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.279 the way that the NBA is right now, which is 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.880 actually very funny that Lebron did it against Dylan Brooks 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.120 because Dylan Brooks, I don't know if you remember, but 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.520 is famous for maybe the most egregious flop in basketball 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.880 history when he was playing at Oreon he flopped against Utah. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.120 He did a double bunny hop flop, like one bounce 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.239 into another, bounce into the ground. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:48.360 No, I don't recall this one. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.159 Well you gotta, yeah, you gotta look that up. It 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.920 is tremendous. And I get it like I get that 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.680 after Kawhi Leonard. Because the rules have changed a lot 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.799 over time, like they slowly surely changed and gotten more. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.080 We'll call it friendly to the offense. You saw what 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.960 happened when Kawhi Leonard got his landing space encroached by 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.279 Zaza Pachulia in the playoffs and then it ended ended 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.960 multiple years of his career in his prime, that sent 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.800 him down into a death spiral of that quad injury, 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:30.360 the foot injury. And now coaches around the league say, yes, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.640 that obviously is necessary these rule changes so that people 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.719 don't get injured. Are stars, Our money isn't messed up with. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.880 But this is out of hand. Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.760 also said the same thing and basically said that the 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:50.680 trend all started with James Harden. He said, he said, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.880 James Harden did that, he gained the system, and now 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.599 the league is protecting it shooters. And it's interesting having 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:06.560 coached internationally in FOEBA because they won't give players those calls. Wow, yep, yes, folks, 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.920 everything is James Harden's fault. Everything. He is the sacrificial 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.040 lamb of everything that's wrong with the NBA. The A 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.760 million dribbles, like the shooting three seconds into the shot 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:26.480 clock from forty, the traveling seven steps like getting to 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.200 the line a million times. But actually this is James 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.280 Harden's fault. This is one hundred percent James Harden's fault. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.920 He is ground zero for these egregious flops. He learned 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.280 to gain the system like any good offensive player would, 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.760 and then every shooter was like, yo, James Harden can 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.400 do that, Like I could do that. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:47.920 Yeah, just move my feet a little bit. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.520 Yeah, I just body into the defender, just ripped through 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.560 into a shock quote unquote phantom shot that you were 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.600 never intending to take, so that you can go to 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.440 the line and like a cancer. Then it's spread of 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.360 the defense. They were like, this is insane. So if 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.240 this is happening on this side of the ball, then 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.240 we have to figure out something on the defensive side 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.400 of the ball. So let's look at Marcus Smart. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.000 Uh oh, that's your boy, that's my guy. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.480 One of the best defenders in the league. So yeah, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.720 he's an elite defender. He doesn't need to flop, but 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.680 he is not we'll call it adverse to flopping. He's 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.880 considered maybe the greatest flopper in the NBA. So he 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.760 gets a five thousand dollars fine for flopping, and he 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.319 just decides like, I am gonna own up to it, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.240 and he laughs about it. He's like, yeah, I deserved 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:43.480 everything that came my way after that. I flop on defense, yes, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.800 but by the way, heads up your favorite players, they 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.280 flop on offense. So I'm just doing what I have 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.160 to do. And especially in a game where the offense 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.960 has nothing but the advantage, the defense has to do 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.360 something to get the advantage back. Wow, that is the 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.880 most truth telling an NBA player has been about these flops. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:07.959 Yeah, buy that completely. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.560 Yeah, it's a flopping arms race. It's like I'm flopping 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.000 and then you're flopping because I'm flopping. The more the 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.319 offense flops, the more the defense feels that they have 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.720 to flop. And that that's how you get Jimmy Buckets 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.600 pretending that he lost an eye. So this is this 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.520 is my stance. This shit is ridiculous and it needs 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:30.880 to stop right this second. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.600 No, no more. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.760 I think it's time that we re evaluate what a 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.960 foul is. Go back to the old school. No more 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:46.600 lean in fouls, No more jumping three feet in the 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.360 air forward to make your landing space like as much 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.320 as a helicopter can come in. Now, I don't like that. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.040 No more stopping short tree young, No more rip through 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.880 fowls where the defenders in your space and you rip 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.240 down and that's a foul just because they're playing good defense. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.920 We say we want to see players d up, get 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.320 all up in your grill, be a lockdown defender. And 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.840 then what does an offensive player do. They just rip 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.520 the ball through and they go to the free throw line. Right, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.680 that's insane, no wonder. Lucas said. Yeah, it's a lot 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.200 easier to score in the NBA than it is in 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:27.600 Europe because these ticki tag fouls get me points, they 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.280 get me buckets. I don't really need to even do much. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.840 Just throw my body into someone and cry and points 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:35.320 for us. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:37.120 He does plenty of that. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.640 He does plenty of that. Just watch watch any game. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.640 For all the folks that say that I don't watch 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:47.199 any games, this happens fifteen times a night at least. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:53.440 It's gross. So the whole point, no more intentionally drawing contact. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.199 Stop doing that. Just go and get yourself a bucket. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.400 And if someone fouls you in the process, so be it. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.840 If you're caught doing it shoving your body, I hate, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.079 that's the one that I hate. The most shoving your 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.960 body forward, creating contact and then shooting offensive foul for you, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.840 every single time rip through, someone's playing good defense. Rip 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.480 through foul, stop short offensive owl. You can't do that. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.000 So the hardened effect is what I call this, and 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.960 I think it's changed the game tremendously to the point 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.000 where it's almost hard to watch now. The three pointer 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:37.520 is king why Because defenders can't close out. They legitimately 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.480 can't even get near you in order to defend because 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.840 if you jump and you're there, if they jump and 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.320 you're there, that's a foul. So now you have to 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.760 like kind of stay three feet away from them, but 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.760 your arms have to be so long that you can 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.200 still put a hand in their face in order for 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.600 you to play good defense. That's why wings are so 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.679 important in this NBA, like Jason Tatum, because his reach 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.719 and his wingspan is so long. Yeah, because no one 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.640 can actually no six foot one guard can actually play 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.120 real defense anymore or they're gonna foul out of the game. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:15.080 It's fucked. Of Course, I want my stars protected. Of 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.920 course I don't want to see people get injured. But 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.040 I think it's time for the NBA to say I 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.559 think this is getting a little out of hand, and 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.720 maybe we need to make some changes. As an aside, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.040 if Okse would have paid Harden to begin with, maybe 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.280 he never would have been this Marquis star, and maybe 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.520 he would have continued to be a six man, and 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.160 maybe this would have never happened to begin with. But 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.280 I digress. Change it, the NBA, change it, this league. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:43.960 What's that? 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.600 How many people are so emotionally invested in Marcus Smart? 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.960 Yeah, people were not too pleased with you. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:59.800 Oh my god, I had no idea how emotionally connected 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.480 that fans are to him. It was like I made 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.840 some comments about Marcus Smart. I didn't even think it 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.800 was a crazy take about how the Celtics should move 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.080 on from him, like it's time two time defensive player. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.520 But I think maybe he's not helping your team get 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.520 to where you need them to be. People acted like 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:25.880 I should on their mom. Like people were coming furiously 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.200 at me, like I was saying their wife was ugly. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.439 The mob. The mob came came for me. I mean, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.280 I'm talking about like you don't deserve to live anymore. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.520 One person told me to put a bullet in my 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.960 head because of this basketball take. This is how bad 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.760 it is? How dare you come at the heart and 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:55.120 the soul of the culture of the Boston Celtics. You 0:13:55.320 --> 0:14:01.240 know nothing, You know nothing about basketball, think that Marcus 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.320 Smart should be moved. That's how you know it's time 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.640 to move on from Marcus Smart. That right there is 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.400 how you know. You're too close. You are too close 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.520 to him. You can't see the forest through the trees. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.680 You you're just in love, I think, dare I say, 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:28.640 Boston Celtics fans, you're blind. Your love has made you blind. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.480 And I get it. I get that because me as 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.800 a Blazer fan, I'm in love too. I've been there. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.880 I have been forced to make really take a hard 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.240 look at myself because I'm in love with the player 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.840 who is is never gonna win us a championship, and 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.760 I stand for him and I protect him. People shit 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.480 talk how we can't win with Damian Lillard and c 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.560 J McCollum, And I block those people who told me 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:06.160 that CJ and Dame or a duo, that they cannot 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.040 be split up. They are best friends. Small market players 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.480 came up from the dirt shooters. They can get a 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.400 bucket at any time. One of the most potent backcourts 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.040 in the league. But where has that gotten us? Really? 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.440 We went to the Western Conference Finals once after we 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.080 barely beat the Denver Nuggets in seven. It was a 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.359 fun run and then we got destroyed by the Warriors, destroyed. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:36.680 It wasn't even competitive. And the truth is, We're never 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:42.360 gonna win this way, never. Never. I hate saying that 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.400 CJ McCollum and Damian Lillard are not They're not a 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:52.160 recipe for a championship, just like Marcus Smart is not 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.120 a recipe for the Boston Celtics to win a championship. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:01.280 Probably Kimba Walker too, and definitely Daniel Tyson Thompson. Not 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.600 a solution, not a recipe for winning. And so I 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.440 feel sad. I feel sad for you guys Celtics fans 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.960 who are so enraged because you can't see how he's 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.040 holding you back and you have a piece that's integral 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:23.680 to your culture, a piece who is very very clearly 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.880 a part of your defensive identity. This Celtics team is 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.240 just not trying anymore without Marcus hard Rock Smart on 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:34.280 the floor to whip the team into shape. But it 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.040 does not solve the problem is of who's gonna guard 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:41.920 Joel Embiid is Marcus Smart? Point to no, It does 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:46.400 not gloss over the fact that Smart will shoot eighteen 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.480 shots in a game and thirteen of them will be 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:54.840 three pointers. He took thirteen shots from three in games 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.720 one and seven against the Miami Heat and the playoffs, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.520 and it is a good time to mind people. Hey people, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.520 Marcus Smart shoots thirty seven percent from the floor in 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.399 his career and thirty two percent from three. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.320 WHOA, I love him so much. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.360 If you're a thirty two percent three point shooter over 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.959 the course of your career, you should never shoot thirteen 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.320 threes in a game, let alone in the playoffs. Never. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.840 Brad Stevens, I tell you what. I'm not a part 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.320 of the Boston Celtics play calling, but I promise you, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:33.159 but Brad Stevens is not drawing up plays for Marcus 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.919 Smart to shoot thirteen threes in a game. That is 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:41.320 not his plan. That is definitely Marcus Smart's plan. There 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.880 are games where it's very clear he's like green light 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.800 on for me, and it doesn't matter if he goes 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.040 two for thirteen, which sometimes he does. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.720 There was that game in the Bubble, though, where he 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:52.440 had like nine. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.040 Yeah, and there was also it was fun that game. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.679 That was a fun game. That's the problem. He is 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.040 feast or famine with a lot of famine. 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:03.760 Yeah, and. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.080 He just should not be doing that. He shouldn't be 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.000 shooting double digit threes in an extended practice, let alone 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.560 in five playoff games against Toronto and Miami when he 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:22.320 shot over nine threes every single game. Let's please stop 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.520 for a second evaluate Celtics fans. In what world should 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.840 Marcus Smart shoot more three pointers than Jason Tatum and 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:35.600 Jalen Brown. None? And he does it a lot. So 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.119 let's just look at Marcus Smart a little closer for 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.520 those who think that I don't have a read on him, 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.720 because I do. He can't hit open threes or catch 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.840 and shoot threes. He's good at setting up Jayleen Brown 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.199 and some of the shooting bigs. Great perimeter defender, but 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:55.000 a terrible interior defender. He's had a negative impact on 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:00.320 the Celtics net rating, especially against good teams, and he 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.280 drags the team's pace down, which when you have two 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.399 running gun guys like Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, that 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.399 is a big time problem. So he probably needs to 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.879 be moved. Sorry, probably would be a better fit on 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:18.520 a team like the Clippers or Milwaukee or Denver or Utah, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.960 not your team. The time has come to move on. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.600 Can we just say to the Boston Celtics fans who 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:31.520 are just dragging me on the internet, who are in love, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:36.000 passionately and thoroughly with Marcus Smart, that maybe you really 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.920 don't want him shooting that many threes on your team 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.320 and he will not ever stop. This is not something 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.160 that's changing. He has gone on the record and said, no, 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.159 I don't care. I mean, you have to see that. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.760 You have to see that Marcus Smart is going to 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.680 continue to shoot even if he shoots ten percent from 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.399 three in a game. If you don't see that, if 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:06.880 you can't get that through your skull, maybe maybe you're 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.480 in love and maybe love is blind for you and 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.560 Marcus Smart. But you know who's not blind. Danny fucking 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.600 Ainge is not blind. He's been trying to make a 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.000 move on Marcus Smart for like two years. Recently, David 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:23.600 Aldridge said, yeah, Marcus Smart is not ungettable. So apparently 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.360 he is not the heart and soul of the Celtics 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:30.520 because he can be moved. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.560 not the only one who doesn't have love blinders on 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.480 the rest of the league seems to have that same 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:41.480 opinion as me, and I get it. I get it, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.119 but the doing the same thing over and over again 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.160 is the definition of insanity when you expect the same 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:51.000 a different result from the exact same move. Like I said, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:57.399 Marcus Smart will never change. He recently said this, Marcus 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.000 Smart doesn't care if you think he shoots too much. 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:06.720 Can you please tell me what he said to CBS four, 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.080 the local Boston affiliate, about the world thinking he shoots 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:11.480 too much? 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:15.320 Yeah, this is a crazy article. Okay, so the quote 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.800 is been doing the same thing I've been doing. I 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.440 just continue to shoot the ball and shoot with confidence 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.840 and not given f what people say. I get crap 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.280 a lot, but who cares. Just go out and continue 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.320 to do it. My teammates trust me, and I know 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:31.000 what I can do. 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:36.200 He literally said, I know that I get shit. I 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.600 know that I get shipped because I shoot too much. 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:40.520 I know that I'm not a good shooter and I 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:44.879 shoot way more than I should. But I don't care. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.840 I'm going to continue to shoot twelve threes whenever I 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.600 fucking feel like it, and you know what, there is 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.640 nothing you motherfuckers can do because I am the heart 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.320 and soul of this team. I am integral to the defense. 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:02.560 I don't like that. I'm sorry, I don't like that. 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.639 And Celtics fans are going to continue to love him, 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.680 and you know what that is why you're going to 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.439 continue to fucking lose. How about that? How about that truth? 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:15.880 Doing the same thing over and over with the same result. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.760 Please trade Marcus Smart, even if it breaks your heart. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:24.480 I have different expectations for my Canada goose jacket that 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.320 I paid twenty four hundred dollars for than I do 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:29.919 for a two hundred and fifty dollars ll bean jacket 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:34.240 that I bought on vacation when it just started snowing randomly. Right, 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.960 If I pay a lot for something, I expect it 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.320 to work exactly how I thought it would work, consistently 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:46.359 every single time. I don't want that coat to only 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:48.480 work in forty degree weather. I want it to work 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.320 in sub zero weather as well. What's that have to 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.359 do with basketball? Has everything to do with my man, 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:59.639 Ben Simmons, what you've paid for him, what you expect 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:01.639 from him, and what he ends up doing. 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:02.800 Right. 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.640 Yeah, he gets paid thirty five million dollars a year. 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:10.560 He is a point guard. Point guard should shoot, he 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:14.280 does not shoot. It is time to have a heart 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:17.199 to heart about Ben Simmons. It's time. It's been brewing, 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:21.600 it's been coming. The world absolutely stands for him, probably 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:25.560 more than they do Marcus Smart. I think, actually that's 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:27.040 the person that said I should put a bullet in 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:29.639 my head when I said that I would take like 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:35.240 fifteen other guards over Ben Simmons. People are big mad. 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:36.240 Yeah. 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:40.439 People are fiercely loyal in Philly. People are fiercely loyal 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:42.760 in Boston. And I get that. That's fine. So it's 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:44.720 been coming. I've been wanting to talk about Ben Simmons 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:47.000 for a while and I have kind of like, sort 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:50.880 of So the Sixers are the best team in the East, right, 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:56.920 and be's legit MVP candidate. Yeah, Tobias Harris coming along right. 0:23:56.920 --> 0:23:58.760