Speaker 1: Let's move on to snoop from around. I've been getting
Speaker 1: cooked for my Zion takes for three years. I've been
Speaker 1: saying this. I've said that it was a crime that
Speaker 1: Zion could not come into camp into shape. I feel
Speaker 1: like maybe I've done this segment ten times, twelve times, fifteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's once, it's a thousand. I will
Speaker 1: think he should be accountable for the fact that he
Speaker 1: is not taking his job very seriously, which clearly hampers
Speaker 1: his ability to do his job and play well for
Speaker 1: an entire season in every meaningful game. And I have
Speaker 1: been murdered for it, from scrubs living to a room
Speaker 1: in a broken down hobo flat to Richard Jefferson, I
Speaker 1: was crucified for saying, Zion, this is your fault that
Speaker 1: he needed to do take an accountability for not being
Speaker 1: prepared to play. Thank God, Stephen A. Smith is on
Speaker 1: the case as well. He goes ham on Zion on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the show for Monday, saying
Speaker 1: that he was fat, he saw his belly bounce. He
Speaker 1: went on every obviously to say on Monday that every
Speaker 1: chef in New Orleans favorite person is Zion because he
Speaker 1: is down to eat the entire table. And guess what,
Speaker 1: just like clockwork, people come for Steven A. Smith, just
Speaker 1: like they came from me, including people in Zion's camp.
Speaker 1: Thankfully they don't have my number. Guess what, though, we
Speaker 1: got Steven A. Smith saying, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: double a double down, and this is what he has
Speaker 1: to say as a rejoinder.
Speaker 2: Okay, his stepdad called me this morning and we had
Speaker 2: a really, really good conversation. So I'm going to reiterate
Speaker 2: what I said over the weekend on my podcast, Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show. Certainly on first take, I said that Zion
Speaker 2: Williamson looked fat. I meant it. I'm not stuttering, Zion Wimson.
Speaker 2: If you listen, you're welcome because you said if somebody
Speaker 2: is saying it to you because they're rooting for you
Speaker 2: and they want it, and it's coming from a good
Speaker 2: place because they want you to succeed, then thank you.
Speaker 2: It's exactly what I was doing. Your talent is great,
Speaker 2: it's not good.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: You are holding the championship aspirations of the New Orleans
Speaker 2: Pelicans in your hands. I'm not absolving them. They could
Speaker 2: do a better job with you. They can do a
Speaker 2: better job with a lot of things as an organization
Speaker 2: in New Orleans. But that does not absolve you from
Speaker 2: looking and being out of shape. When I've talked about
Speaker 2: folks said you eat the table, or chef's looking at you,
Speaker 2: I was not joking, nor was I making it up.
Speaker 2: What I was saying is that's what they're saying about
Speaker 2: you behind your back. That's how those folks, whoever they
Speaker 2: may be, are speaking about you in the city of
Speaker 2: New Orleans. From what we're hearing. You have to do
Speaker 2: something about that. Without you lucky to make it to
Speaker 2: the first round of the playoffs with you and in
Speaker 2: your a game y'all challenge for the title, you're at
Speaker 2: the very least in the Western Conference finals. That's the
Speaker 2: reality of the situation. Everything that Shannon Shaw just said
Speaker 2: about you, Zion, this appears to be on point because
Speaker 2: we've seen no evidence to the contrary. Nobody is rooting
Speaker 2: against you, Nobody wants you to We all want you
Speaker 2: to succeed. If you succeed, it gives us even more
Speaker 2: to talk about.
Speaker 1: Facts, facts, facts. I don't feel like I'm taking crazy
Speaker 1: pills anymore. I don't feel like I'm the only one
Speaker 1: out on these streets being like Zion is fat. Zion's
Speaker 1: not going to live up to his potential if he
Speaker 1: doesn't slim down. People think it's embarrassing. Nobody wants a
Speaker 1: guy who does this, and the conditioning is largely built
Speaker 1: on the food that you eat. Like stephen A said
Speaker 1: me too, I want to be wrong about Zion. I
Speaker 1: want Zion to succeed. I told you I was just
Speaker 1: watching Doke highlights of Zion being like, where is that guy?
Speaker 1: I want to see that guy. I forgot how felt
Speaker 1: Zion was, how explosive he was, his defense, his range
Speaker 1: to block shots, he will, his ability to handle the basketball,
Speaker 1: and just yam on people, Oh my god, where is
Speaker 1: that Zion. No one wants to see him half heartedly
Speaker 1: blow and win, chasing down Torrian prints up the floor
Speaker 1: as he drains the three and then go to the bench,
Speaker 1: suck and win. Nobody wants that. We want to see
Speaker 1: him close out Torrian prints from three and send that
Speaker 1: shit into the fifth row. We want to see thunderous
Speaker 1: dunks followed by him sprinting up the floor. We want
Speaker 1: to see Heasy's in and outs between tweens absolute highlight
Speaker 1: factory stuff. We've seen glimpses in the NBA, but we
Speaker 1: have not seen game after game after game. We want
Speaker 1: to see Zion as the next powerful Lebron James type,
Speaker 1: because that was what he was billed for. We're never
Speaker 1: gonna get that until he gets his build in shape,
Speaker 1: his weight under control. Start counting points, my guy, go
Speaker 1: under weight watchers, I don't know. You're a big boy.
Speaker 1: You're likely have a tendency to gain weight, especially when
Speaker 1: you get injured and you eat your feelings. You need
Speaker 1: a nutritionness, you need a trainer. They do everybody. You
Speaker 1: haven't enough money to do this. I've said this. I'm
Speaker 1: so exhausted. The Pelicans front office is throwing their hands
Speaker 1: in the air. They don't know what to do. Not
Speaker 1: even a rider in Zion's contract about their weight and
Speaker 1: how much money he's gonna get given his weight is
Speaker 1: gonna get him to pay attention right now? Can we
Speaker 1: just shame him until he decides to straighten up? Christian
Speaker 1: Clark I said wrote this week. They've repeatedly stressed that
Speaker 1: his diet and conditioning needs to improve, and multiple team
Speaker 1: sources have told them he doesn't listen. I hate that
Speaker 1: the chatter bothers Zion and that it bothers his family.
Speaker 1: But when you repeatedly ignore people giving you good advice
Speaker 1: and they ask you get your shit together, and you don't,
Speaker 1: you deserve to be roasted on the internet. You deserve
Speaker 1: to be roasted on first take. If we can't get
Speaker 1: you with the carrot, maybe we can. We know we
Speaker 1: can't get you with the carrot. We can't get you
Speaker 1: with the ben yet, maybe we can get you with
Speaker 1: the fucking stick. All right, let's move on. Here we
Speaker 1: are for the four straight episode talking about the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 1: I don't know why these fuckers. They just refuse to win,
Speaker 1: and they refuse to take any accountability. They are staring
Speaker 1: down the barrel of the largest losing streak in NBA history,
Speaker 1: and yet they continue to do and say stupid shit.
Speaker 1: Case in point, my man Money Williams, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the highest paid coach in NBA history. This is just dissing.
Speaker 1: He said this. After that I didn't even know this
Speaker 1: was real. I couldn't believe it was real. He said
Speaker 1: this after the Pistons threw up all over themselves for
Speaker 1: the twentieth consecutive loss quote. I think we're starting to
Speaker 1: figure out that we can score if we space the
Speaker 1: floor properly. I'm learning how to use certain guys on
Speaker 1: the team. So as much as all of this losing
Speaker 1: hurts all of us, I still see a lot of growth,
Speaker 1: and I am encouraged by some of the things I
Speaker 1: saw tonight. What the literal fuck are we talking about?
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I didn't even believe this was
Speaker 1: a real quote. I thought I had it out of context.
Speaker 1: Sam Vessini thought he had it out of context. You're
Speaker 1: just now figuring out that spacing on the floor matters. Really,
Speaker 1: I will let Sam Vessini summed this up as he
Speaker 1: quote tweeted Monni's presser with this, So I actually needed
Speaker 1: to watch this presser to confirm this. But yep, that's
Speaker 1: an actual, in context, real quote for Monni Williams. It
Speaker 1: took him twenty losses in a row, but he's figured
Speaker 1: out that proper spacing helps you score. Oh and by
Speaker 1: the way, Front Office drop this nugget this week as well.
Speaker 1: Fred Katz at The Athletic wrote, the Detroit Pistons have
Speaker 1: expressed that it would take a large offer to acquire
Speaker 1: twenty point scorer Boion Bogdanovich large offer. What do you
Speaker 1: think he's worth? They think this man is worth the game.
Speaker 1: Trade you'll think you can get three first round picks.
Speaker 1: You turned down two first rounders that you got offered
Speaker 1: last year, and somehow Someway did not take it. This
Speaker 1: is getting criminal. This is getting I don't know who's
Speaker 1: more to blame. I know MANI doesn't have the pieces
Speaker 1: in place to make it work, but goddamn he looks incompetent.
Speaker 1: And the front office they don't know what moves to
Speaker 1: make either. No matter who you root for, no matter
Speaker 1: how badly this team plays, you can and your team plays,
Speaker 1: you can sleep soundly at night knowing at least you're
Speaker 1: not a Detroit Pistons fan. Shit that is just disgusting.
Speaker 1: Let's move forward. We will end this episode with a
Speaker 1: little song and dance, this time by former Warriors GM
Speaker 1: Bob Myers, who the powers that be at ESPN and
Speaker 1: ABC have decided will be one of the voices of
Speaker 1: the NBA going forward. He gets a ton of credit
Speaker 1: for building and maintaining the Warriors dynasty, which won four
Speaker 1: championships in the past eight years, but he also did
Speaker 1: a band in his post this year. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: he wanted money and Golden State's kind of a hot mess,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that hot mess comes from the
Speaker 1: fact that Bob Myers drafted very poorly, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that the Dubs had very high draft picks. Fortunately twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: prime example, he decided to take as raw as cookie
Speaker 1: dough center James Wiseman with the number two pick, passing
Speaker 1: up a slam dunk in LaMelo ball, as it turns out,
Speaker 1: the steal of the draft and Tyree's Halliburton. Myers was
Speaker 1: asked about passing up on Halley this weekend. Well, actually
Speaker 1: they asked him multiple times, and the first time he said,
Speaker 1: Halliburton's workout was just a few miles from here, Steve
Speaker 1: Kurajo lacub and he did what he does. He made
Speaker 1: a ton of shots, and we looked at each other
Speaker 1: and said he might be pretty good. Different kind of shot,
Speaker 1: kind of a set shot, but he made them all.
Speaker 1: And then later Bob Meyer said, I screwed up. Okay,
Speaker 1: they pressed him on it some more. I screwed up.
Speaker 1: I screwed up. I wish I could take it back.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you want me to say, stop
Speaker 1: putting the light in my eyes. Guys, I know I
Speaker 1: fucked up, and I know it's like this is my summary,
Speaker 1: but he did say I know I messed up. I
Speaker 1: know I messed up. And if he would have taken Halliburton,
Speaker 1: he probably is not working for ESPN right now. Nope,
Speaker 1: little selling and dance, that's all. He just had a
Speaker 1: weird shot. I know I messed up. I know, stop
Speaker 1: asking me. Quit asking. That's all the time that we
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