Speaker 1: You're tuned into heat Check with a quick on this
Speaker 1: episode of This League. Oh, I mean the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: We have breaking news. Alert Alert, we have breaking news.
Speaker 3: Steve Nash Yoda has been fired by the Brooklyn Nets folks.
Speaker 1: Let that sink in for a little bit. Let that
Speaker 1: sink in for just two minute. Let it news in
Speaker 1: your soul.
Speaker 2: Steve Nash has been given his walking papers.
Speaker 1: Me. I am speechless, I am shocked, befuddled.
Speaker 2: But for a lot of new fans on the Heat Check,
Speaker 2: there's a ton of history you probably don't know about
Speaker 2: why this is such a big deal for the show.
Speaker 1: It's not like this should surprise anyone.
Speaker 2: But let me tell you, I don't know a single
Speaker 2: person who thought that this would happen seven games into
Speaker 2: the season. But what I'm gonna do is take a
Speaker 2: deep breath, relax, and break it all down for you.
Speaker 2: He checks style, Nick Berlansky, you beautiful, thick walked man.
Speaker 2: Drop that motherfucking beat.
Speaker 1: Alright, alright, alright, alright.
Speaker 2: I'm not someone who dances on graves. I'm not a
Speaker 2: person that beats on dead horses.
Speaker 1: I'm not a person who celebrates.
Speaker 2: Someone losing their job, And I'm not talking about the
Speaker 2: scumbags like Matt Lower or Roger Ayles. Those guys I
Speaker 2: do celebrate their demise, but usually this kind of news
Speaker 2: is like, ah, he was so sweet, he gets to
Speaker 2: go back to Manhattan Beach. Now, man, you got a
Speaker 2: raw deal. And to be fair, I do sort of
Speaker 2: feel bad for Steve Nash.
Speaker 1: I'm not celebrating or dancing on his grave.
Speaker 2: Over the fact that he lost his job after two
Speaker 2: years about a cup of coffee, even though.
Speaker 1: I did say it's a bad match, it's a bad decision,
Speaker 1: it's a bad decision.
Speaker 2: This isn't really about Steve Nash though, as it really
Speaker 2: is about Internet culture, in cell culture, douchebag culture, and
Speaker 2: how they basically these in cells and coworkers.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're both.
Speaker 2: I don't know, try to end my fucking career because
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 1: The kahonas the stones to.
Speaker 3: Suggest that maybe, just maybe Brooklyn should not have hired
Speaker 3: Steve Nash. Maybe Brooklyn was not the best fit for
Speaker 3: a guy who had never coached a single game in
Speaker 3: his life or assisted on the bench, even was in
Speaker 3: the second row on the bench in his entire life,
Speaker 3: not one game. And how maybe handing the keys to
Speaker 3: the Castle to the most exciting franchise with to the
Speaker 3: big superstars in the league at the time, to an
Speaker 3: untested candidate when there were numerous qualified coaches with tons
Speaker 3: of experience staying in line waiting in line, many of
Speaker 3: them black coaches, which that's important to note, was maybe
Speaker 3: not a good idea, especially when we're going through a
Speaker 3: national race debate spurred on by George Floyd.
Speaker 2: I know what a fucking maverick eye was to say that,
Speaker 2: what a fucking go out on a limb person. I was,
Speaker 2: how could you be so brave?
Speaker 1: I at the time. People were very bad. At the time.
Speaker 1: It was like, what are you saying? People are like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we all knew that. Now he's fired, and they was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very obvious.
Speaker 2: People were standing for Steve Nash when his dumbass was
Speaker 2: rolling out Blake Griffin in the playoffs last year after
Speaker 2: being down three zero. Maybe experiment a little earlier before
Speaker 2: getting swept.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I even said I like him, he
Speaker 1: could be successful. I don't know. I gave him the
Speaker 1: better for the down, said maybe he'll be successful.
Speaker 2: I mean, these two aren't players are very talented. I
Speaker 2: do know other smart point guards were unqualified and they
Speaker 2: got jogged out much in some past. Those guys did
Speaker 2: coach on the bench before, though it wasn't like they
Speaker 2: came out of the fucking like beach bum like.
Speaker 1: Just like literally, I still have sun blocks still on
Speaker 1: their face.
Speaker 2: This is like still has maple syrup and bottles of
Speaker 2: maple syrup in their pockets.
Speaker 1: Like this dude hasn't done anything.
Speaker 2: He played basketball and then he went into obscurity, had
Speaker 2: a couple of divorces, maybe just one couple of kids,
Speaker 2: and that was that. But I did think it was
Speaker 2: a bad idea, you know what I mean. I thought
Speaker 2: it was a bad bad optics.
Speaker 1: You know what optics. Bad optics is bad look, it's
Speaker 1: a bad look.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter what it is, doesn't matter if he turns
Speaker 2: out okay, does actually matter, But at the time didn't
Speaker 2: really matter.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it would be good.
Speaker 2: So I blogged this, right, I blog this. I was
Speaker 2: trying to be funny too, like I'm trying to be now.
Speaker 1: Maybe won't land today, Maybe you won't land today. We'll
Speaker 1: have to see. I call them the most problematic hiring
Speaker 1: sense Fred Hoiberg and people got very mad.
Speaker 2: Couple of people from the South called me on a
Speaker 2: radio station hours and skewered.
Speaker 1: Me, how could you say this?
Speaker 2: We got into a conversation about white privilege and whether
Speaker 2: it exists.
Speaker 1: Didn't want to talk about that, did not did not Internet.
Speaker 2: Started a blaze Reddit threads calling for my firing.
Speaker 1: Thought I might actually be fired. Ever, wonder why my.
Speaker 2: Podcast is a two point two rating on Apple and
Speaker 2: a four point seven on Spotify.
Speaker 1: Steve Nash, Ben Simmons, that's it. Philly and inceels Philly
Speaker 1: and racist in cels. That's what I mean. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: some overlap there. Who knows?
Speaker 2: Thousands of them thousands left one star?
Speaker 1: Rebuse Do you ever look at the podcast?
Speaker 2: If you listen to this podcast, go on Apple and
Speaker 2: see it's either five stars or one star.
Speaker 1: Wonder why this is? Why?
Speaker 2: So this feels cathartic to me. It feels like the
Speaker 2: chickens coming home to cook. Look, roost, I was right,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: Right about both knowing. Will ever give me respect over it?
Speaker 1: You know? What all that matters is what's in my soul?
Speaker 2: And with the record book says the fact that Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons contributed to getting Steve Nash fired is.
Speaker 1: Gold for me, gold for me.
Speaker 2: Turns out being a woman and being right seems to
Speaker 2: infuriate the Incels.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't just the trolling mob. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was coworkers. They helped whip the mob into a frenzy.
Speaker 2: They gained clout from whipping up the mob, and they
Speaker 2: sold T shirts. They made T shirts calling Trista doesn't
Speaker 2: know basketball. They tried to get my podcast canceled from
Speaker 2: inside the own company. They were literally in my foxhol throwing,
Speaker 2: throwing fucking shells at me, all to garner favor with
Speaker 2: a bunch of trolls that they just wanted to like
Speaker 2: them for who knows why, probably another ten thousand dollars
Speaker 2: on their paycheck for the year, because that's what insecure
Speaker 2: bros do and that's what trolls do. So yeah, had
Speaker 2: to get that off my chest.
Speaker 1: I think it came off well. So it's interesting.
Speaker 2: It's interesting Charms is reporting that the parting was mutual.
Speaker 1: Woach says he was fired. I think he was fired personally.
Speaker 2: Uh, Nash doesn't seem like the kind of guy who's like,
Speaker 2: I'm out, let me go, Please let me go. I
Speaker 2: can never coach this group. These people tried to tell
Speaker 2: me when he was hired that he.
Speaker 1: Was the ultimate consummate communicator. He was the number one
Speaker 1: team builder. Doesn't appeer he built the team. Does not
Speaker 1: appear that worked.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he had plenty of chances to bail already.
Speaker 1: I tell you what. He handled it diplomatically.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He didn't count on though, Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: When Kevin Durant said I want this fucker fired and
Speaker 2: they said no, that Kevin Durant wasn't like, well, let
Speaker 2: me do it my own self like Kevin Durant always does.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's like, let me put the team on my back.
Speaker 2: And get this shit done. And you know what he did.
Speaker 2: That did that for Steve Nash too. You got to go.
Speaker 1: He played zero defense.
Speaker 2: He had the worst plus minus in the entire NBA
Speaker 2: in seven games, shocking to no one.
Speaker 1: Nash, though, here's the thing, he was just never the
Speaker 1: right guy. Even when things were going as good as humanly.
Speaker 2: Possible, when they were one foot step away for making
Speaker 2: it and winning the whole damn thing, because.
Speaker 1: They probably would have beaten the Suns.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, it was still not going well.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 2: Even then, Nash struggled with his rotations, his substitutions, understandings,
Speaker 2: the ebbs, and the flows of the game.
Speaker 1: From a coaching.
Speaker 2: Standpoint, that's hardly indictment on him, since I don't know.
Speaker 3: Check's notes, hasn't coached before ever on any level.
Speaker 1: Does he have a little binder full of plays? Probably not.
Speaker 2: The season ended because Kevin couldn't carry the team another minute,
Speaker 2: because Steve Nash put six players in an ot closeout
Speaker 2: game against Jonnis. There's a reason Kevin Durrant bawled out
Speaker 2: and air bowled his last shot in O T because
Speaker 2: he was exhausted. Playing for Steve Nash meant you had
Speaker 2: to play off the minutes. He was going to let
Speaker 2: these players ball till the wheels fell off.
Speaker 1: That's not coaching, folks, That's called.
Speaker 2: Being vintage Tom Thibodeau. And we probably should have seen
Speaker 2: it coming when Mike D'Antoni, the creator of the offense
Speaker 2: that Steve Nash decided to run, when he won two MVPs,
Speaker 2: when Harden won multiple MVPs, he was like, I am.
Speaker 1: Out of here. After one season, there were multiple rumors.
Speaker 2: Floating around about why and how he wasn't a fan
Speaker 2: of the way that Steve Nash coached last year, absolute clusterfuck.
Speaker 2: Harden was like, yeah, I know I asked to be here,
Speaker 2: but I want to get out of here. Get me
Speaker 2: out of here. The Nets then get Ben Simmons, who
Speaker 2: never suits hip in an entire game season, then get
Speaker 2: swept this offseason. We already know what that was, most
Speaker 2: toxic offseason in their history.
Speaker 1: His legacy, this part I have to say say I'm
Speaker 1: conflicted about because I hate it for Steve Nash, but
Speaker 1: I love it for me.
Speaker 2: His legacy will be remembered as a failure, starting.
Speaker 1: With Kyrie going on walk about not knowing where he was.
Speaker 1: How did he not know where he was? How did
Speaker 1: he not know.
Speaker 2: To call him and say where are you at? Did
Speaker 2: he just not answer? If your star player's not answering
Speaker 2: the head coaches calls or text we got problems? Doesn't
Speaker 2: get vaccinated. You guys already know you already know what
Speaker 2: it was. Was Nash responsible for this calamity? No, but
Speaker 2: he didn't help it either. This team needs a daddy
Speaker 2: and all they got was a substitute teacher trying to
Speaker 2: be their best friend.
Speaker 1: Yoda.
Speaker 2: So Nash has gone now, and I've got questions why now.
Speaker 1: Why they do it now? Why not in the off season?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Jacques Vaughan is now the interim head coach. Back to
Speaker 2: the circle that is Jacques Vaughan. Jacquevond gets done so wrong,
Speaker 2: gets done so dirty in the process. He always has
Speaker 2: to be an interim coach. He's always awesome. They never
Speaker 2: hire him full time. Shams though, now is reporting that
Speaker 2: e may Udoka will be taking over and hired as
Speaker 2: the coach of the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Remember when everyone told me Emai Udoka would never coach again.
Speaker 2: Turns out not only will he coach again, not only
Speaker 2: will he be a head coach again, he might coach
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about that Portland stand up. Portland's back
Speaker 2: on the map. If emay Udoka gets this job, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what I I will feel good for my city.
Speaker 2: The one one or who knows, maybe more indiscretions didn't
Speaker 2: stop this man from doing what he does best, which
Speaker 2: taking a bunch of young men and turned him in
Speaker 2: discipline monsters who played defense and go to the finals.
Speaker 2: Does hiring e may you mean that Kevin Durant will
Speaker 2: stay does it mean that Kyrie will straighten up?
Speaker 1: I don't know. One thing is for certain. If anyone
Speaker 1: can do it, it's emy.
Speaker 2: What happened in Brooklyn was not Steve Nash's fault, but
Speaker 2: that obscures the most important fact.
Speaker 1: Again, I'll say it again. I'll say it again. I'll
Speaker 1: say it again.
Speaker 2: The Brooklyn Nets should have never hired Steve Nash in
Speaker 2: the first place, and even more so. And maybe you
Speaker 2: think this is me making it about me and not
Speaker 2: about the news, but you know what, this is personal.
Speaker 2: I was fucking right, and no amount of cyber bullying,
Speaker 2: no amount of T shirts, no amount of coworker conspiracies
Speaker 2: will ever stop me from planting my flag boom from that.
Speaker 2: They will not chase me away from my truth. Unlike
Speaker 2: Steve Nash, Unlike Ben Simmons, I'm not going to goddamn place.
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