WEBVTT - Doc Rivers is the LeBron James of excuses 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.360 On this episode of the Eat Check. It's a Friday, folks, 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.560 Happy Friday. I am heading to Glendale, Arizona tomorrow for 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.400 the Final Four to watch my Yukon Huskies. I don't 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.640 actually have any real allegiance to them except for money, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.080 but to watch my Yukon Huskies go to the national 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.360 title game. Julius Rando, by the way out for the season. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.920 That is fucking terrible. Doc Rivers continues on the blame train. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:44.600 We play the blame game. I love you bucks, obviously 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.159 are thinking. That's why that's happening. We introduce you to 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.040 Evil Dante DiVincenzo aka Malachi Flint, and now we can 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.880 judge whether the league's sixty five game mandate was a 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.880 success or not. So come on, Anthony, do me a favorite, folks, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.000 Let's get right into it and drop that motherfucking beat. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:00.480 They should be. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:14.679 Rihanna all right, as we have no cute stories. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.160 At the end of the season, we got like the 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:21.240 biggest probably development is that probably the Sacramento Kings are 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.880 going to ride this thing out into a play and 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.760 that's the only way they can get into the playoffs. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.480 They had a massive lead tonight or last night. I 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.160 guess because you're listening to this tomorrow on the New 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.240 York Knicks, And guess what they did. They let it 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.679 all slip away, and I think they still lost by 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.760 double digits and a game that they were three and 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.960 a half point dogs too, So terrible, terrible stuff. Kawi 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.400 tweaked his back, he might miss in time. Clippers lose 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.640 to the Nuggets. They are going to try to figure 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.800 out how to get Harden to like be a good 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.560 version of Harden, Like, oh, you don't say, Trista Harden 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.600 is like not good at the end of the season 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.600 or in the postseason. You don't really, you're shocked. Also, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.840 put the stake through the Rocket's heart and they locked 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.680 up a play in tournament spot. And ad finally says 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.080 the quiet power aloud when he admits that he and 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.080 Braun checked themselves back into a game that the Lakers 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:16.000 needed to win without telling to Darvin Ham. Not a 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.840 lot of huge stories, but pretty interesting. I tell you what. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.040 After two months out though, this is the big story. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:28.480 Julius Randall will have season ending shoulder surgery. Why didn't 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.680 he just have surgery earlier? I guess he was hoping 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.360 that at some point he come back. This is just 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.040 a very significant blow to a team that desperately needs 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:43.800 additional wing help. Like Josh Hart is a fine player, right, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.160 Like he's fine, but when we're asking Josh Hart to 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.040 play forty minutes and hey, Josh, give me a triple double. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.720 Josh Hart was like a random bench god off the 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.799 Portland Trailblazers that they got a late first round pick 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.560 for and we got to have Josh Hart be the 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.919 main Dude, that's tough. They are now gonna miss Randall's 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.440 size as well as his offense, I'm sure. To his credit, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.080 Randall's devastated. We are devastated by the news. He tried 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.880 to come back, but the decision was made by him 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.320 and his team and probably the Knicks to undergo surgery. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.680 And that means that the Knicks hope this season falls 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.280 squarely on the return of Ogn and Obi in that elbow, 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.080 Oh the Mows. I talked about Og in the context 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.680 of my question of a question to my co host 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.400 Ryan Horvaught that we asked on the other show, but 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.200 I'm Jim tonight. He asked what players have the most 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.560 to lose and to gain in the playoffs this year 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.800 and for me, it's og and Andobi. Here's a snippet 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:45.640 of our conversation. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.920 So I was thinking about this last night, and I 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.040 also kind of ripped it off of ESPN, which I 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.600 usually don't even look at their website. I don't watch 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.080 espno other than Scott van Pelt. Shout out Scott van 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:57.080 Pelt at night, yep. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:57.920 But they had the. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.560 Topic and it was who has the most to gain 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.560 in the end playoffs? And I was thinking who has 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.520 the most the game? But I'm a negative guy, so 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.720 I was thinking who has the most to lose? And 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.600 I was thinking Jason Tatum, right, because I'm a big 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.320 JT guy. A couple of years ago, I had the 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.560 NBA finals futures when Boston started really slow, and then 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.760 last year I had more Boston futures and they didn't 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.600 even make it to the finals or the conference finals 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.080 because they got beat by the Heat, which nobody expected 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.320 because they were a playing team. And the last couple 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.359 of years, I know he's dealt with some injuries, but 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.000 I don't know, man, Jason Tatum, if he wants to 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.520 be the face of the I'm not even gonna say 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.240 the face of the league because there's so many dudes now, Jokic, Yannis, 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.240 But I mean he's the best player on the best 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.520 team in the Eastern Conference, the best team in the league. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.640 But if they don't get the job done, and if 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.159 he doesn't show up and have the clutch stats, the 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.320 clutch numbers, like I legitimately think he has to. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.880 Average thirty plus the entire playoffs, right. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.000 For Tatum, if he doesn't get the job done and 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.680 they get bounced early, and he averages twenty two to 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.360 twenty three points per game, shoots like forty percent, turns 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.640 the ball over a bunch. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.039 How's he viewed next year? Is he still considered like 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.880 an MVP candidate, a top ten five player in this 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.479 league because it's all about the playoffs, it really is. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:04.480 Yeah, I don't think so. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.320 I'd say he has the most to lose in the 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:07.280 entire playoffs. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.640 I think he's like a top nine or ten player 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.200 right now. Maybe yeah, but definitely nowhere near the top five. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:14.760 No, I don't think so either. I mean, it's so 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.520 tough right now, though it changes like every year. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.400 Jokic, Yannis, em Bead obviously, who else? 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.720 I mean, Steph is still Steph's. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.960 Not better five? Yes, He's not better than Steph. He's 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:25.960 not better than Lebron. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.960 He's say I still got Lebron in my top five. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:28.640 I don't care how old. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:29.800 He's not better than Kawhi. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:31.960 I mean, he's not better than a lot of people. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.479 I would rather have Dame Lollard than Jason Tatum. Really yeah, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.839 I mean Dame Lillard has shown to be very clutch 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.240 in many, many situations, more than Jason Tatum. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.040 Player do you think has the most to gain? I'm 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.120 gonna go with Aunt Edwards. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.800 I think like if Minnesota makes a run, he's so good, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:46.839 and I still. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:47.840 Feel like him and Shay. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.919 I feel like there's still people and now Shay's at 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.200 least on some commercials and if you're watching March Madness, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.960 like he can't get enough Shay and chat. But I'm 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.080 gonna go with Aunt because I still feel like there's 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:57.520 people that don't know about him. And he could go 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.760 off for thirty forty any night. He could put anybody 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.320 out poster and he's still a baby, like he's still 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:02.600 a kid. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.200 He's still got baby fat on him. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.599 He's like the closest thing to Kobe Michael Jordan I 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.200 could remember, and he's a killer. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.880 Is obviously a big one. Carl Anthony Towns is a 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.800 big one. If he can play well, come back in 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.600 the playoffs, end up, I'll say him, but I'll tell 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.120 you why, and then I have one other as well. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.560 But if he can come in and stay out of 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.960 foul trouble, not be the baby cry baby that we've 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.360 known him to be when there's adversity, If him and 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.600 Rudy can play together and keep that defense really solid 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.080 in the half court game, I think the Timberwolves as 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.520 a whole have a lot to gain. But another player 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.120 that has a ton to gain and also a lot 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.760 to lose is og Anobi. Og Anobi is a free 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.440 agent this offseason, and he wants four years, one hundred 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.760 and seventy million dollars. If he's not healthy and he 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.080 can't play in that first round, or if he's not effective, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.599 the Knicks are going to have a hard time giving 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.240 him that money. And I think there are other teams 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:55.560 that probably are less palatable or less savory that will 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.200 be suitors of his and may even offer him less money. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.800 So if he wants to be a Nick and he 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.640 wills his bread, he better show out. And that's maybe 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.400 why he's sitting out right now is to just get 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.599 that inflammation down until it's absolutely critical that he plays, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.840 because he can play right now. I'm telling you he 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.240 could play right now. It would be slightly painful, but 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.080 he would do it and he would be effective. We 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.480 saw in the game against the Kings and then the Warriors, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.080 he basically had like a dead shooting arm. Yeah, he 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.440 couldn't even lift it. He wants to play through pain, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.000 but that's not a good idea. So for him, I 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.600 think he has a lot to gain and lose. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:26.680 Yeah, I was gonna say. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.280 That's the other thing I was gonna do right before 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.760 we got to the playoffs, and I do it every 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.960 single year. Is I'm gonna look at upcoming free agents, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.000 not gonna I'm not gonna like blindly bet their props 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.280 like people do with the NFL incentives. Odell Beckham Junior 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.640 needs thirteen grabs and he's gonna make an extra seventy 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:41.040 five k. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:41.200 Oh. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.320 Yeah, I'm sure Odell Beckham Junior is gonna go out 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.680 there and catch fourteen passes for seventy five K. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.120 But I am gonna look at guys like Jalen Brunson, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.360 a couple of years ago for the Dallas Mavericks that 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.160 are dirt. It's a contract here because you know they're 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:54.920 gonna ball out in the playoffs to get the big 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.360 money deal. So that's a really good point about OG. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.960 I was looking at Pascal siakam, but then they extended 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.880 Indiana because I think I don't think the Pacers could 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.280 win a playoff series, but if they get the right matchup, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.440 like we talked about last night, I would love to 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.280 see them against Milwaukee. I know Milwaukee fans don't want 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.520 to see that, but I really want to see that matchup. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.200 I don't think that they've extended up. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:15.040 They didn't. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.760 I thought that they when they made the trade that 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.640 they signed him up for or signed him up, that 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:19.920 they extended them for three years. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:20.520 No, certainly. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.480 Yeah, I see he's a UFA right now, but I 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:23.360 thought that that was wrong. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.760 Uhh No, Well, then I might be looking at some 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.920 Pascal Siaka props when we get there. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.720 Yeah. I think OG needs to play as well as 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.080 humanly possible in order to get his GWOP. Like I 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.599 think he's trying to get four years, one hundred and 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.600 twenty million dollars, trying to get thirty mili a year. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.920 He could play his way like he's trying to get 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.840 his gwop, or he could play his way out of it. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.800 And as for the Knicks, I like their chances of 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.000 winning a first round matchup, especially if they catch the Cavaliers, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:56.080 but with doubt, Julius Randall and a banged up og Anobi, 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.520 it's gonna be tough sledding in New York for them 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.199 to be the contender that we were hoping for them 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.560 to be, someone that maybe could make some noise and 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.000 shake things up. Give the Boston Celtics or the Milwaukee 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:17.079 Bucks a little scared, and now nobody's scared. Moving forward. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:23.920 In other news, Ah, Doc, Doc, Doc, Why why does 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.720 he do it? Like? What is the deal? You know? 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.640 This is great content, right, we love that. We love 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.000 it when Doc, like an AI generated human being walking 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.560 the earth, blesses us with gold quotes of ignorant gold. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.360 But I just do not understand why he says these 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.600 things out loud. I say a lot of things out 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.680 loud I should not say. But it would take me 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.480 getting aggregated about two times for me to be like, 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.200 I should be more careful with the words that I choose. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:04.000 This means this right, and he, no matter what's going on, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:11.200 won't say hand up, I'm struggling. Hand up, I got 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.320 some things to clean up on my end. So who 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.880 is Doc Rivers blaming? Now? At first, he blamed his 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.520 own team, the players, their heads are not into the game. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.160 He blamed when he came on to the team, and 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.160 like how late in the season it was, and how 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.719 coming in around the All Star Game is just no 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.080 one would know. Let me say, like, this is not 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.240 a job that I would wish on anyone to coach. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:40.240 Damian Lillard and Jannis On Dedakupo the latest man, I 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.200 would not want to be an intern in this office 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:47.280 right now. The latest is the Doc Rivers and the 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.720 Bucks have lost four of the five games last five, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.480 including losses to the Wizards and the Memphis Grizzlies by 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:59.160 double digits on the road, like the Memphis Grizzlies have. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.079 I didn't even know we're on the team. Did you 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.080 know Scottie Pippen Junior was on the Memphis Grizzlies or 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.000 did you think maybe he was still on the LA 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.080 Lakers because I did, No, No, he's getting buckets right now. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.600 They've lost eight of the last fourteen games. The Bucks 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.040 are now fifteen and fifteen in his tenure as the 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.680 head coach. Remember, Adrian Griffin got fired for being thirty 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:27.839 and thirteen, So what could it have been? How could 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.600 he be blaming someone so obscure that he becomes a 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.560 segment on this show. Let's take againder shall we? 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.560 It's funny. I've actually been sitting back and watching everything, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:46.440 not just our players, but our travel crew, everything, and 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.600 I've made a lot of notes. I will say that 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.520 I won't share that, but we don't bring the necessary 0:11:55.480 --> 0:12:00.920 professionalism seriousness on the road, and that's something that we 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.720 can fix. Uh, that's something we're gonna have to fix. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.760 I have a co worker who went to Vegas with 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.160 me and he was out every night till three, four am, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.199 and the boss kept seeing them out. For whatever reason, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.440 they just kept running into each other. The boss was 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.280 just waking up for the day, getting his steps in, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.920 and my co host was just coming back for the night. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.880 Nothing wrong with that. Like poker doesn't start until midnight, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.520 you get on a heater. Who knows that's fine? Right? 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.800 But like when I hear that, I'm like, man, more 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.120 people trying to hold our guys down. Doc Rivers knows 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.440 the players go out on the road. I don't know 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:42.280 what the fuck the travel crew though, Like you're blaming 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.480 what does that even mean? The travel crew? Is there 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.760 a part of this NBA ecosystem that I don't quite 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:55.120 fully comprehend, cause like, the travel crew in my mind, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.560 and I must be ignorant, I must be. The travel 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.080 crew in my mind, is like booking the flights, getting 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.959 the hotels that are preordained destined for you because it's 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.719 the same team hotel in every fucking NBA city. It's 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.280 the same one every time. It's like the Rits or 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.359 the Four Seasons every time, so they get near your hotels. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.440 But you got a flight, but it's a chartered flight, 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.880 so that's taken care of. You got the equipment managers, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.600 you got the guys giving out per diem. What is 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:29.600 the travel crew? I don't under like, can someone explain 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.920 to me what that is? And he's like, I'm making 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.640 notes and a lot of them, but I'm not gonna 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.080 share what those notes are to you. It feels I'm 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.840 gonna say it and it's not gonna sound good, but 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.360 it feels very Trumpian. And I've been making a lot 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.360 of notes, but I will not share what they are. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.160 Like lots of notes. I've got the greatest notes. I've 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.200 got so many notes, books and books and notes. So 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.040 then I'm like, Okay, this clip could not get worse, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.120 and it does. Let's check that out. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.080 As a coaching staff, we have to figure out what 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.320 we need to do different as far as practices and 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:17.319 training as a travel staff, not talking players. We may 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.480 have to do something different there too, because something's missing. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:27.400 And everybody seems happy, you know, but except for me 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.040 after a game. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:38.640 Except for me, everybody seems happy except for me. Oh man, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:40.840 who's happy? 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:46.000 You think Dame's happy, he's getting DMPs, he's literally like injured. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.280 You think Chris Middleton with his inflamed ankles and knees, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.720 You think he's fucking happy. You think Johannis right now 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.840 is happy with you at fifteen and fifteen. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.160 You think that John Horst is happy that he has 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.880 three guys, three different men a on the payroll for 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.320 the exact same job, and none of them are doing 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.760 it well. Two guys are at home and they're doing 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.760 it better than the current guy. No one's happy right now. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.800 No Bucks fan is happy right now, doc more like 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:23.600 nurse Rivers. Holy shit, this man, how does he do? 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.960 How does he find new ways to plat past the 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.360 blame baton? I swear to God, when Milwaukee flames out 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.640 in the first round, I would not want to be 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.200 the cowboy. I promise you that, because you're getting thrown 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.680 under the bus. You better watch out now. Put in 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.760 your resignation in game six when the Bucks are up, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:44.680 cause it's coming. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.360 That melt folks is coming. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.920 All right, let's move forward. So I did a video 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.960 about this on social but it's just so improbable that 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.400 I needed to dig into this deeper. I'm talking about 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:03.480 Malachi Flyn. What's up with Malachi Flynn? Oh? You know, 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.320 just just a role player who made NBA history by 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.560 putting up fifty six and five off the bench, which 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.240 no one in NBA history has ever done ever in life. Ever, 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.520 all the NBA players that have come in come out 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.520 ones that have just been the sixth Man of the Year, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.400 the Jamal Crawfords of the world. Nope, it's Malachi Flynn 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.880 alone on the rock by himself. So we got to 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.960 break it down. In the season of incredible scoring feats, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.000 no more shocking stat line than that if you missed it, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.880 no one blames you. Guess who's putting up fifty points? 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:39.120 The Evil Dante DiVincenzo aka Malachai Flynn. He's a throw in, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.920 So who is he? He was a throw win in 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.200 two trays this season. This season came off the bench 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.120 for the Pistons. He became the third non starting player 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.480 in NBA history with fifty. The thing that's crazy is 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:58.040 like he shot eighteen for twenty five. He went five 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.080 for nine from three, meaning he was shooting every seventy 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.639 five seconds and like in not like game time, in 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.120 real time, and like like set your clock to a time. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:11.760 So where is he from? He spent three and a 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.400 half years with the Raptors, had a decent rookie year, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.560 but of course when you play for Nick Nurse and 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.959 you're not over twenty seven, you're probably not getting any minutes. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.440 He went from twenty minutes a game to thirteen minutes 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.840 a game, and then he was moved, got traded from 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.879 Toronto to New York and then worse situation, right just 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:34.080 been much like probably worse Nick Nurse, Tom Thibodeau. You're 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.560 either playing thirty minutes for Nick nurse or you're playing 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.359 three minutes for Tom Thibodau, which is exactly what he 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.480 was doing. He was so deep on the bench we 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.000 didn't even know he was there except for that he 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.200 looked strangely like the other guy on the team getting 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.640 a lot of minutes. Donte Divinceenzo, and then he gets 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.280 shipped off to Detroit in the Evan Fournier deal, which 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.840 sent Quinton Grimes and Evan Fournier to Detroit in return. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.919 Boy On Bogdanovich and Alec Burks thought it was a 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.360 good trade. In the hindsight, it was not the only problem. 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.560 Monty Williams, third coach for Malachi Flynn, who also hates 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.880 young guys, doesn't want to play him, does not want 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.800 to play him. Dude cannot catch a break. So he 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.320 decided on that night, on that fateful night, he was 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.439 gonna make his own breaks. Yeah, you put me in 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.480 the game, coach, and I am lighting it up. Played 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.760 about fifteen minutes a game until the past week that 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.840 he comes off the bench in the first quarter against 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:39.960 the Hawks and then proceeds to immediately go nuclear nuclear folks, 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.879 twisting diving floaters, mid range jumpers off balance threes for 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.720 three and one. He even had time made time for 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.960 three steals as well, was everywhere all at once like 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.560 the film that won the Oscar, And of course, of 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.959 course the Pistons lost. Still in his incredible game won 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.840 eighteen win twelve. A lot of people, like Malkai Flynn, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.879 I believe outside of going to Wazoo, he went to 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.160 Santio State, but I cannot be sure. And to be fair, 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.400 he did average nineteen five and five the last five 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.560 games of his rookie year. But I don't know that 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.720 anybody saw this coming, except for maybe Dante DiVincenzo, who 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.960 probably shares a brain with him. Let's see how long 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.480 it takes though, because Monty Williams, he's like, hey boy, 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.200 hey man, hey sir, you're. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:24.919 Going back to the bench. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:32.719 Moving on, quick question, how do you think the Leeds 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.840 load management rules have gone this year? New rule, new situation. 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.240 How are we doing? What's up? It was? This major 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:45.560 change impacts things like MVP, all NBA lots of money. 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.240 Of course, so we're starting to get a clearer idea 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.480 of how it's impacted the game. The results actually shockingly 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.960 kind of like the playing tournament pooh poot hated, dismissed positive. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.880 This season, the following players have surpassed it's their previous 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.120 five year average for games played. Zion has played sixty 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:09.159 five games compared to his thirty eight game average. Kawhi 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.400 has played sixty eight games compared to his fifty two 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.840 game average. Paul George sixty nine games nice compared to 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:21.199 his fifty three game average. Lebron sixty seven games compared 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:26.119 to his fifty three game average. Anthony data Day Davis 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.960 seventy one games compared to a fifty game average. Kevin 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.639 Durant has played sixty nine games nice compared to his 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.520 forty five game average. Others who should surpass sixty five 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:38.560 games this year CJ. 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:39.160 McCollum. 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.680 He played sixty games opposed to forty nine in his 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:46.600 five game average, five year game, five year average per 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:48.879 each year. You know what I'm trying to say. You 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.040 know what I'm saying, Brandon Ingram. He's played sixty three 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.560 games before his injury compared to his fifty three game 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.399