Speaker 1: I'm trying to be better about not criticizing the human
Speaker 1: being and only talking about the player and what they
Speaker 1: do on the court, and then Karl Anthony town speaks,
Speaker 1: and it's really hard for me to not eviscerate him
Speaker 1: for saying dumb shit, which he continues to do. I
Speaker 1: have friends that are from Minnesota. My mom grew up
Speaker 1: in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: She grew up in Duluth.
Speaker 1: She likes the Minnesota Timberwolves. One of my best friends
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolf fan. Karl Anthony Towns as a person has
Speaker 1: suffered greatly COVID family. Mom passed away, multiple family members
Speaker 1: passed away. All accounts, people think he's a nice guy,
Speaker 1: but why does he keep doing this? Why does he
Speaker 1: keep saying things that are so clearly making him look
Speaker 1: like a bozo, like just a complete joker. Exhibit two
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety one. This happened yesterday. Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: goes on former teammate Pat Beverly's podcast, which I personally
Speaker 1: can't stand that podcast because it's a barstool podcast. But
Speaker 1: that's neither here nor there a barstool NBA podcast, to be.
Speaker 2: Specific, and he said this that is going to haunt him.
Speaker 1: He said, when my time's up and I retire, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be people who are gonna say I changed the game.
Speaker 2: Everything's up for stipulation.
Speaker 1: And what I like to say is, when this is
Speaker 1: all over, there's gonna be kids coming up and saying
Speaker 1: they're going to play a different way because I played
Speaker 1: in the NBA and I did it in a different way.
Speaker 2: I'm speechless. I don't know really what to say other than.
Speaker 1: Kat is a fucking idiot, like that is see, this
Speaker 1: is I shouldn't have said that. I should have said that,
Speaker 1: that was mean, that was personal.
Speaker 2: That comment is idiotic.
Speaker 1: That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard him
Speaker 1: personally say, and he has said a lot of dumb things.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: He is not someone who clearly is in control of reality.
Speaker 1: The self awareness aspect of Carl Anthony Towns is lacking.
Speaker 1: He is not aware that he has not won a
Speaker 1: damn thing on the NBA level.
Speaker 2: He's never won a playoff series.
Speaker 1: I think he's won four playoff games, five playoff games.
Speaker 1: All the players, out of all the players in the NBA,
Speaker 1: does anybody say one of the most transformational players in
Speaker 1: the NBA is Karl Anthony Towns like he changed the
Speaker 1: way we play basketball, Carl Anthonys. No, was there seven
Speaker 1: footers who came into the league that shot threes before
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns?
Speaker 2: Yes? Have there been guys I don't know, like like Jokic.
Speaker 1: Have there been guys who played defense better than Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns and still shoot threes. Yes, he's been around
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert too much. He thinks that every player is
Speaker 1: like Rudy Gobert. That's seven feet tall. No, Carl, like
Speaker 1: fucking Yusuf Nurkit shoots threes. Okay, Like, there's plenty guys
Speaker 1: who do what you do, and you're not Steph Curry. Okay,
Speaker 1: people were doing this before you even were alive.
Speaker 2: You're so not transformational.
Speaker 1: You get in foul trouble, you talk too much, You
Speaker 1: say things that get you in trouble. Your teammate, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler one of the best, most clutched fourth quarter guys
Speaker 1: in playoff I don't know in our generation. They're calling
Speaker 1: him the second coming of Michael Jordan in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That's how good he is.
Speaker 1: He wanted to get the fuck away from you. He's
Speaker 1: had a lot of opportunities. He's had a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunities for success. They put guys around him like Aunt
Speaker 1: Edwards and Jimmy Butler, and you know what, this team
Speaker 1: just does not succeed. And you know what, his transformational
Speaker 1: ass will be transforming out of Minnesota Timberwolves jersey and
Speaker 1: into another jersey before this offseason is up. It is
Speaker 1: very concerning to me. And he's getting brutalized obviously by
Speaker 1: everyone from Draymond Green to Tim's Hardaway sor Draymond Green
Speaker 1: tweeted at Pat Bev, Hey, Pat, when people come on
Speaker 1: your show, they change the game, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Then Tim Hardaway or Tim Hardaway Senior decided to just
Speaker 1: absolutely obliterate Karl Anthony Towns pretty much saying what I think,
Speaker 1: which is, who are all these people saying that you
Speaker 1: change the game?
Speaker 2: Who are they?
Speaker 1: Who are these kids that are gonna come up to you?
Speaker 1: Who are these people who are gonna say you changed
Speaker 1: the game with the way you played.
Speaker 2: First of all, you need to win playoff games.
Speaker 1: You got four playoff wins and twelve tries, zero series wins.
Speaker 1: You go out there, you average twenty three points eleven
Speaker 1: rebounds and you're playing well. He's a good NBA player,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't make anybody better.
Speaker 2: It's about him at times.
Speaker 1: He tries to show up the referee and stay instead
Speaker 1: of going out there to play team basketball. He's out
Speaker 1: there and you don't even see him. Sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: even know he's out there. I think he needs to
Speaker 1: have a reality check and he needs to work on
Speaker 1: his game a little bit more and making his teammates
Speaker 1: better and having a better season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And you know what's the crazy thing.
Speaker 1: It's not even remotely the dumbest thing that he said
Speaker 1: on Pat Beev's podcast.
Speaker 2: Listen to this, Jim, I don't care how you said,
Speaker 2: like it was the reason that Denver Nuggets won a
Speaker 2: championship playing in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: They was telling us our players, they were like a
Speaker 2: you know, they just they weren't even talking.
Speaker 1: Well right to area and the person that's just randomly
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: I'm like, how is this possible? But they also, what's
Speaker 2: one of the things that like, you see, it was
Speaker 2: more special what we did in Minnesota because we had pause.
Speaker 1: Did he just say it's more special in Minnesota what
Speaker 1: they did than what the Denver Nuggets did when they
Speaker 1: just won the championship.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on. It was more special what we
Speaker 2: did in Minnesota because we had we have.
Speaker 1: Like what like a month and then we had training
Speaker 1: camp and it was like you better figure it all
Speaker 1: out right now, and we really figured it out quick.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 1: They have what d years?
Speaker 2: If you think about you four years, we gotta done
Speaker 2: it four months? No, you didn't.
Speaker 1: You got to the playoffs in four months. You did
Speaker 1: not get to a championship in four months. This guy,
Speaker 1: this guy, Eh, this guy, this is the gold star,
Speaker 1: aification of our generation where like, you have accomplished something
Speaker 1: because you took the Memphis Grizzlies to six. Congratulations, get
Speaker 1: up on a table. You've made it past the plan.
Speaker 1: What is he talking about? He's gonna get traded, probably
Speaker 1: to a place like New York where the there's a
Speaker 1: fruit flying here. Uh. Probably to a place like New
Speaker 1: York where the local media was going to destroy him
Speaker 1: and on a daily basis, there's no harder rock than
Speaker 1: Julius Randall, and the New York media blender turned him
Speaker 1: into orange Julius. This is all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 1: talking about mental health imagine Karl Anthony Towns. What are
Speaker 1: they going to do with this over ripe tomato that
Speaker 1: is Carl Anthony Towns. They will squish him into the ground.
Speaker 1: We will find out. God help Karl Anthony Towns. I
Speaker 1: can't help him at all.
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