Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on. On this episode of
Speaker 1: the Heat check, another one bites the dust. The Hawks
Speaker 1: joined the Nets on the sidelines after Trey gets clamped
Speaker 1: and fizzles once again. Quick little aside off the side. Adidas,
Speaker 1: his shoe company that he sponsored by, put that one tray,
Speaker 1: young floater up and was like, tray's a bucket, And
Speaker 1: it's like where were all those other buckets? For four games?
Speaker 1: One tray is a one bucket. You're right, he is
Speaker 1: a uh bucket. Anyway, The Memphis Grizzlies scratch and clo
Speaker 1: the way back against the Wolves. This series just might
Speaker 1: go seven and some other news from the playoffs, plus
Speaker 1: little t Draymond Green goes after Bill Simmson says, who
Speaker 1: the fuck does this guy think he is? You know,
Speaker 1: I love the T brock, So go ahead and drop
Speaker 1: that motherfucking beat Sunny, perfect good name, ray Like, quick
Speaker 1: bit of news, quick bit of breaking news, breaking news,
Speaker 1: breaking breaking news. Devin Booker. That's all I need to say, folks.
Speaker 1: According to ninety eight point seven the Sun's broadcast, but
Speaker 1: the guys in Jersey don't know how that works. Assuming
Speaker 1: nothing changes, we are getting Devin Booker back for game
Speaker 1: six in Nola. Quick side off the side they call
Speaker 1: the Smoothie King Center the blender, and I cannot express
Speaker 1: to you how fucking dope that is. Like what it
Speaker 1: was never the blender. It was like at one point
Speaker 1: until this postseason, the Smoothie King Center was more like
Speaker 1: the Bros blender that like was in the corner of
Speaker 1: his kitchen and never got plugged in and it's just
Speaker 1: there for appearances, like it was that kind of blender.
Speaker 1: Now this is like the vitamins turned on full blades.
Speaker 1: Don't want to put your finger inside there, You'll get
Speaker 1: chewed the fuck up. So now that is the Smoothie King.
Speaker 1: I love that. Another side, Jose Alvarado, the guy I
Speaker 1: love and I talked about him on Monday. His nickname,
Speaker 1: didn't know, this is Grand theft.
Speaker 2: Alverrado, Sir, sir, Like just like that's it in Grand
Speaker 2: theft Alverdo Jesus.
Speaker 1: Anyway, let's move on to the real news. Since we
Speaker 1: last talked, two of the most disappointing team this year,
Speaker 1: the Nets and the Hawks, have gone what I like
Speaker 1: to call why is it so hot in here? Is
Speaker 1: turn off? I got to turn on to do this.
Speaker 1: We're good. All right, Eric, Since we last talked to
Speaker 1: of the most disappointing teams this year, the Nets and
Speaker 1: the Hawks have gone night to night sleep mask and
Speaker 1: tonight we will say one, two three cancoon to the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls and possibly the Denver Nuggets as well. Both
Speaker 1: those teams derailed significantly due to injuries, but we don't care.
Speaker 1: Bye bye, fitting. Let the Bulls go down to the
Speaker 1: Bucks without Caruso and Levine, who has now been in
Speaker 1: COVID protocol for the fifteenth time. Not a scientist, don't
Speaker 1: know how it's possible, but it is true. Postseason run,
Speaker 1: Bye bye to COVID. Or maybe he's just on a
Speaker 1: plane to Cancun. We don't even know about it. Before
Speaker 1: we get into the Nets offseason and what comes next
Speaker 1: and some of the developing chatter around Simmons, we must
Speaker 1: talk about last night's game, which was probably the best
Speaker 1: game of the playoffs so far. Memphis Grizzlies versus the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves. Timberwolves continuing to collapse late, Timberwolves continuing to
Speaker 1: choke on their own meats, continuing to talk and talk
Speaker 1: and talk when they're up big and then getting smacked
Speaker 1: down and going home with a big l on their forehead.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ Ja Morant last second bucket and they asked him, Jaw,
Speaker 1: what were you thinking on that last play? And he
Speaker 1: goes get a bucket, Jaw, get a bucket. Jaw who
Speaker 1: key came into the game hobbled, He looked bad. He
Speaker 1: missed the first million shots and I do mean there
Speaker 1: were a million of them. At one point he had
Speaker 1: more turnovers than points. Wait, no, that was Trey Young,
Speaker 1: excuse me, a different game all night. Jaw was bothered,
Speaker 1: not himself. I think he missed the first six or
Speaker 1: seven shots, like I said, missing open jumpers, just generally
Speaker 1: not being Jaw. And then you get Pat Bev saying
Speaker 1: too small to Jaw with a whopping nine points, Pat
Speaker 1: Bev saying too small. You have Karl Anthony Towns trying
Speaker 1: to pull the tray Young going shh, shut your ass up,
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns. And then when the Grizzlies needed their superstar,
Speaker 1: no matter if he has a hip issue or a
Speaker 1: knee issue or whatever it is that he's dealing with,
Speaker 1: which there is a few things I'm sure that is
Speaker 1: ailing Jaw when you go up as often as he does,
Speaker 1: You're bound to take contact everywhere on your body in
Speaker 1: jaw is a little guy, so he showed up. He
Speaker 1: had a huge three to put him up. One he
Speaker 1: bammed on. I don't even know who's he died. The
Speaker 1: guy that he dunked on, he's dead. So and then
Speaker 1: the winning finger roll, which looked like it could be
Speaker 1: a jumper. And then somehow he maneuvered forward in the air,
Speaker 1: defying gravity file with time running out. Amazing. It even
Speaker 1: amazed Eric Spolstra. They told him, Hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: you were watching the Timberwolves game the other game. They're
Speaker 1: like yeah, and he was like yeah. And he's going
Speaker 1: on for his postgame presser to just say bye bye
Speaker 1: to the Tree Young and the Hawks and they're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: job hit that layup with five seconds to go. They
Speaker 1: won that game. And he's like, what, how come the
Speaker 1: TV's not on in here? Uh? Yeah. Another quick tidbit
Speaker 1: that changed thing was changed things was that Jaron Jackson
Speaker 1: continues to be unusable. He fouled out. Uh And when
Speaker 1: he fouled out, Taylor Jenkins did the inexplicable. He put
Speaker 1: in a point guard for his power forward. So it
Speaker 1: was Tys Jones and John Morant mixed with Desmond Bane,
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks and Brandon Clark, which they're calling the the
Speaker 1: ECTENC lineup and aka the a live lineup, the opposite
Speaker 1: of the death lineup or the smaller death lineup. I
Speaker 1: don't know. And you got to give props to Brandon
Speaker 1: Clark had fifteen boards. He had a monster fourth quarter
Speaker 1: twenty one points, fifteen boards. But also a new term.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a term for this, so
Speaker 1: I've made it up. We know what the hockey assist
Speaker 1: is in basketball, so it's like pass and then that
Speaker 1: person passes for the assist. He had a hockey rebound
Speaker 1: many hockey rebounds where he's literally he tips the ball
Speaker 1: purposefully to Jaw for them to get the rebound, purposely
Speaker 1: to Dez to get the rebound. He did that like
Speaker 1: six or seven times in the fourth quarter, So I'm
Speaker 1: calling that the hockey rebound. Brandon Clark was just tremendous.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to continue to come up big
Speaker 1: in this series for them to win. So just to
Speaker 1: recap for folks who want an encapsulation of how the
Speaker 1: Wolves lost, Wolves outshot the Grizzlies from the arc, but
Speaker 1: they had eleven fewer shots, got out rebounded fifty three
Speaker 1: to forty two. They gave up eighteen offensive boards, set
Speaker 1: Memphis to the line thirty nine times to their own
Speaker 1: twenty four, and committed twenty three turnovers. They should talk
Speaker 1: the entire way through that. That is how that went down.
Speaker 1: If the Wolves end up losing the series, they've got
Speaker 1: to be sick. They should have sent the Grizzlies home
Speaker 1: last night based on them being up twenty five points
Speaker 1: in Game three and taking the elk. Things you just
Speaker 1: hate to see. Just we in Minnesota. Now, now we
Speaker 1: go back to Minnesota and maybe they'll just stay in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Well, well, well the brooms came out. People
Speaker 1: thought it wouldn't happen, and here we are. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know really how to describe it. It's
Speaker 1: like you no one anticipates something and then it happens
Speaker 1: and you just kind of look around and you're like,
Speaker 1: well that was underwhelming. I thought this would come with
Speaker 1: more fanfare and and it didn't. I tell you what.
Speaker 1: Nets are headed to Cancun. So many pieces coming out
Speaker 1: about the Nets. One particularly had my attention. One was
Speaker 1: inside the Ben Simmons drama of him opting out to
Speaker 1: play Game four due to new backs horness. Sean Sharanya
Speaker 1: is now reporting that there are, in addition to physical
Speaker 1: hurdles ailing mister Simmons, there are now mental hurdles that
Speaker 1: he is contending with that are now triggering his backs horness.
Speaker 1: They are in the process, They are in the process
Speaker 1: of they are in the process of developing a plan
Speaker 1: for him to mentally and physically become ready to play.
Speaker 1: All of these issues, these mental issues that are triggering
Speaker 1: his back, my neck, my back, my neck, and my back.
Speaker 1: These all stem back to his last game, Game seven
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Hawks, the game where he passed up
Speaker 1: a layup open and afterwards joelmb and Doc Rivers threw
Speaker 1: him under the bus, buried him through the shovel, and
Speaker 1: the dirt on his grave on national television. So clutch
Speaker 1: with a K also now trending on Twitter. Clutch is
Speaker 1: Ben simmons agency, the same one that Lebron James' best
Speaker 1: friend owns. Just to keep you up to speed, So
Speaker 1: let's go through this one quote. I wanted to just
Speaker 1: I set a little bit apparently leave these events. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons telling the world he felt it was reasonable to assume,
Speaker 1: he told us to us on national television, reasonable for
Speaker 1: us to assume that he would be back in the
Speaker 1: fourth game of the playoffs. And then he decided he
Speaker 1: woke up, No, I'm feeling a little tight, didn't even
Speaker 1: put his uniform on to just see. Maybe I'll be ready.
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe it'll work, Maybe I'll put a little
Speaker 1: icy hot on it. We'll see. No. Apparently those events
Speaker 1: quote triggered frustration and disheartenment throughout the organization. You don't say,
Speaker 1: you don't say really quick to recap this thing nets
Speaker 1: good spot trade for James Harden, sent four draft pick
Speaker 1: picks and multiple very usable assets out the door, left
Speaker 1: with the cupboard empty but a James Harden that seemed engaged.
Speaker 1: Then James Harden became less engaged. Uh decided to force
Speaker 1: his way out of another place. And then they got another.
Speaker 1: As I guess you could call Ben Simmons a potential
Speaker 1: asset back in return, you get too new soon to
Speaker 1: be first rounders back. But you're just wondering how did
Speaker 1: we fucking get here? Like how are we in the
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons business at this point? Like why you knew, folks,
Speaker 1: you knew. In hindsight, probably the Nets should have just
Speaker 1: said fuck you to Daryl Moury, like we'll let we'll
Speaker 1: let Harden walk. We'll just see and if he walks
Speaker 1: and goes to you, you're gonna have to trade everyone
Speaker 1: like Tobias Harris and Seth Curry and all the things.
Speaker 1: Maybe Maxy, So just fucking deal with it then, and
Speaker 1: will force James Harden to play with us in the postseason.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Maybe he'll get invigorated when Kyrie Irving gets
Speaker 1: allowed to play full time, which he ended up playing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Kai, the media asked him some questions about
Speaker 1: his status after he was swept. He took a little accountability.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, I was a part of us
Speaker 1: not jelling. I mean, you were the only part of
Speaker 1: you not jelling. But they want to know what he
Speaker 1: didn't do with your contract. In the middle of him
Speaker 1: promising his devotion to Katie and Brooklyn, he said something
Speaker 1: that you know, when you just have a conversation with
Speaker 1: someone and they say something that you're like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: that's fucking crazy. That that's a big red flag here.
Speaker 1: It is when I say I'm here with keV. I
Speaker 1: think that really, I think that it really entails us
Speaker 1: managing this franchise together alongside owner Josi and GM Sean
Speaker 1: Marx and our family members that we have in the
Speaker 1: locker room and in our organization. Kyrie, what the fuck
Speaker 1: are you talking about? You don't even play in the games? Bruh,
Speaker 1: You're you're our asset, Like, you're not the decision maker here.
Speaker 1: Maybe keV is, and maybe you're Kev's right or die,
Speaker 1: but you are not who we are listening to. You're
Speaker 1: burning stage out inside of arenas. We don't trust you.
Speaker 1: You said the world was flat. You're not building a roster. Also, also,
Speaker 1: are you even on our roster? Like mostly you're not
Speaker 1: even here. Also guess who he forgot to mention? Didn't
Speaker 1: hear any mention of Steve Nash in that comment? Still
Speaker 1: the Kyrie irving Steve Nash. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: cold war. I don't know if it's a like a
Speaker 1: warm friendemy situation. But I'll just say this, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much they respect one another in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, Steve Nash's ability to have power on this team.
Speaker 1: This is and if you think Kyrie should be in
Speaker 1: charge of roster building, and Kevin Durant should be in
Speaker 1: charge of roster building. Let's just face it, the roster
Speaker 1: has only gotten worse every single year since Katie and
Speaker 1: Kyrie got there. I know that sounds crazy because you
Speaker 1: have Katie and Kyrie on the team and for me
Speaker 1: to say, oh, this team was better before they got there.
Speaker 1: It was the How do I know it? Because the
Speaker 1: people in Brooklyn loved this team. The people showed up
Speaker 1: for this team. The buzz in the city was there.
Speaker 1: Jared Allen, Karris, Lavert, Spencer, Dinwoodie D'Angelo, Russell, Ice in
Speaker 1: the Veins, TLC all good pieces. Six seed? What were
Speaker 1: the nets again? Didn't they have to play the play
Speaker 1: in twice? Hmmm? Rough. I don't know what they decide
Speaker 1: to do moving forward. I know that they're in cap hell.
Speaker 1: You've got Joe Harris to deal with. You've got like
Speaker 1: nine players that are going into free agency. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you pay them. What do you do? Do
Speaker 1: you just say tell you, just tell Joe Sie, We're
Speaker 1: just gonna go deep, deep, deep into the luxury tax
Speaker 1: to what like be a sixth seed and get bounced
Speaker 1: in the first round, like maybe get swept again. No,
Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting to see what happens this offseason.
Speaker 1: More to come onto the Celtics, the team that beat
Speaker 1: the Nets. They play the Box next. Bucks will not
Speaker 1: have Chris Middleton. The early lines are out. The Celtics
Speaker 1: are minus two hundred favorites to beat the Bucks in
Speaker 1: that series. I think the Celtics are really good man,
Speaker 1: but to be that favored again, he's the hold on
Speaker 1: the defending champs with Giannis Onto Takoumpo. If you think
Speaker 1: that you can clamp Yiannis like you can clamp kd
Speaker 1: like you can build a little shell of a barrier
Speaker 1: around Kevin Durant, he'll pass out like y honest, will
Speaker 1: just drive right through you like he is. He is
Speaker 1: a truck. And I don't know what you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna do. So prisoner of the moment for that. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to see that series go down there really quickly.
Speaker 1: Want to break down the last game between the Miami
Speaker 1: Heat and the Hawks without Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 1: Not a series that was very memorable. I like everybody
Speaker 1: was kind of waiting for it to just be done.
Speaker 1: The one thing I would say that was positive that
Speaker 1: came out of it was I would say DeAndre Hunter's
Speaker 1: thirty five point performance last night, especially when I had
Speaker 1: taken his over fifteen and a half points, didn't feel
Speaker 1: like much of a sweat. He was, also, by the way,
Speaker 1: hurt the entire season three separate injuries, one of which
Speaker 1: of those injuries was a back issue. So word to
Speaker 1: those out there with back issues keeping them on the bench.
Speaker 1: Probably the best performance in his career. I saw way
Speaker 1: more offensive tools in his bag than we thought. Unfortunately, though,
Speaker 1: for Trey Young, the athletics said it broke his spirits.
Speaker 1: That felt like to me, sus journalism. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you can define that, Like there's no way to true.
Speaker 1: I sat back in my couch and I was like,
Speaker 1: how can you say that? Can you say that? Like?
Speaker 1: How can you determine? Is there something that clicks when
Speaker 1: you look into someone's eyes and you're like, yep, their
Speaker 1: soul got snatched, their spirit is broken. He did hit
Speaker 1: off the side of the backboard like a Paul George moment.
Speaker 1: I feel like that could be the moment where we
Speaker 1: all collectively say this person's broken, this person's broken. Russell West,
Speaker 1: first of all Russell Westbrook, Okay, I'm here, I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm with you, athletic. It first started with
Speaker 1: Paul George, then it came out later he was literally
Speaker 1: in the fetal position on the side of his bed
Speaker 1: in the hotel room, in the bubble. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Paul George. Do not want to diminish any mental health.
Speaker 1: That's choose, but we did. These are facts. Secondarily, Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook comes to LA. I mean there's a montage of
Speaker 1: off the side of the backboard. We can all say.
Speaker 1: Dejected is probably a word one could use about his
Speaker 1: experience there emotionally. Trey Young one shot though off the
Speaker 1: side of the backboard, clamped. I think he had. Would
Speaker 1: they say, twenty two baskets in five games? Trey Young again,
Speaker 1: twenty two baskets in five games combined, thirty two turnovers,
Speaker 1: ten more turnovers than baskets. One shot off the side
Speaker 1: of the backboard. People are wondering whether Trey's reputation took
Speaker 1: a hit. Somebody says what they don't know needs to
Speaker 1: be an investigation on whether he's a dog, and that
Speaker 1: card needs to be taken away. The article was about
Speaker 1: as damning as you can find on the athletic not
Speaker 1: related to the Lakers. Obviously that those are the most
Speaker 1: damning tray. Apparently in this article they say was so
Speaker 1: checked out in Game five that he didn't even participate.
Speaker 1: So there was a last minute hurdle, last minute huddle,
Speaker 1: five point six seconds left on the clock. Hawks are
Speaker 1: down three, so they needed three to tie save their
Speaker 1: fucking season. They're calling a play for Trey Young. Apparently
Speaker 1: Treyung not involved and said huddle he's being obstructed by
Speaker 1: I want to say, Danilo Gallinari and some other random
Speaker 1: maybe a kungu, I forget. Anyway, he's not involved in
Speaker 1: the in the huddle, even aware of what's being drawn
Speaker 1: up on the little whiteboard. Then the play you gotta
Speaker 1: go and google it and see it was a shit
Speaker 1: show to not get it shot off. Bizarre for Trey
Speaker 1: Young not to even go for the ball whatsoever. Another
Speaker 1: is a spirit broken moment, I guess. I mean the
Speaker 1: play is just wild, not even because Danilo Gallinari ended
Speaker 1: up getting the ball there like trapped in the corner,
Speaker 1: in the like corner of hell, where he was being
Speaker 1: just collapsed on by he like not even Danilo Gallinari's
Speaker 1: father runs that play for Danilo Gallinari like no shot
Speaker 1: and I don't know who it was. Four. Trey Young
Speaker 1: was zero for five from the three point line that night,
Speaker 1: So presumably Nate McMillan when he says he was running
Speaker 1: it for Trey Young might have been not telling the truth.
Speaker 1: Just on real. Had to just kind of highlight that
Speaker 1: really fast because it was over a long time before
Speaker 1: they clawed back. Many people didn't watch that game, but
Speaker 1: it was It's worth noting. An article also highlights what
Speaker 1: an awful year Trey has had just optically. He told
Speaker 1: folks in the beginning of the year that the regular
Speaker 1: season was boring. Uh, and then he had to issue
Speaker 1: a statement like he's the wee work chick, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need you. Uh. That was that was seen
Speaker 1: as anti competitive. A lot of people in the Atlanta
Speaker 1: area might not want to show up to games if
Speaker 1: you're bored. Uh could you? Could you say you didn't
Speaker 1: mean that? Now people are questioning Trey people are questioning
Speaker 1: the entire franchise. Mind you, this is the team that
Speaker 1: was like seconds away from going to the finals last year.
Speaker 1: If Trey Young doesn't sprain his ankle on a referee,
Speaker 1: Like who knows what ends up happening. I mean, the
Speaker 1: honest was out multiple gay is with the hyper extended
Speaker 1: me like this is how the cookie crumbles, folks. Like
Speaker 1: now you've got questions about John Collins, whether he wants
Speaker 1: to be here. He was hurt most of the year.
Speaker 1: That didn't help. Rumors of him being unhelped happy all
Speaker 1: year and the year prior don't help. Cam Reddish was
Speaker 1: a fucking disaster. He asked for trade and then never
Speaker 1: got one until the deadline. And Nate McMillan's still playing
Speaker 1: him because he thinks there's like that helps the chemistry
Speaker 1: even though they're losing games with Cam redsh in the lineup.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And folks, we are now getting we
Speaker 1: are now getting what is called the scapegoat, which is
Speaker 1: Nate McMillan is now being blamed. Yes he is, Yes
Speaker 1: he is. Sports Illustrated reported the Hawks were walking around
Speaker 1: like Jordan at NBA Media Day in late September, then
Speaker 1: came out so flat. Capella admitted that they were apathetic
Speaker 1: and they say that falls on Nate. After losing six
Speaker 1: of seven to start the new year, GM Travis Schlank
Speaker 1: went ballistic and said, there is no sense of urgency
Speaker 1: on this team to make a stop. There's no sense
Speaker 1: of accountability. I mean, you see when there's words, let
Speaker 1: me just peek behind the curtain. For folks who don't
Speaker 1: understand media speak. When you hear words from a GM
Speaker 1: like leadership, accountability, lack of urgency, these are words directed
Speaker 1: I swear to God, directed for words for the coach.
Speaker 1: Listen here, motherfucker, you better straighten up or you're out.
Speaker 1: Like that is a pr move. Travis Shchlank genius guy.
Speaker 1: By the way he says, it's just not there. It
Speaker 1: doesn't bother them. I hope it's a switch that we
Speaker 1: can flip, but I don't know at this point. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, Travis Schlank Little Side wrote said I
Speaker 1: thought we should bring back all the players on the
Speaker 1: roster to make a a run like we did last year.
Speaker 1: That was probably the wrong move. Yeah, Travis must be
Speaker 1: an oracle, because that was exactly how they looked in
Speaker 1: the Heat series. Just no urgency, can't make a stop,
Speaker 1: no defensive presence, Trey Young, ice tray turns into ice cold,
Speaker 1: and in some ways, the Hawk's probably the most disappointing
Speaker 1: team of the season this year. A lot of high expectations,
Speaker 1: La la lola, I mean, and that's what the Nets
Speaker 1: like we're talking about coming on. Just talked about the
Speaker 1: Nets getting swept by the Boston Celtics. So you have
Speaker 1: to go lower than that, and that's the Hawks. That's
Speaker 1: the chaos, just absolute chaos. Remember I said in the
Speaker 1: preseason Hawks could be a top four team in the East. Boy, boy,
Speaker 1: was I wrong. That's probably the coldest take of the season.
Speaker 1: Will Nate be back? I hope, So, I hope. So
Speaker 1: he was just extended multi year extension. This is why
Speaker 1: you don't extend these interim head coaches until you know
Speaker 1: because when they come back, and they come and they
Speaker 1: take over in the middle of chaos and they overperform
Speaker 1: very different situation than starting from scratch because players are
Speaker 1: ignited in the middle of a season. It's a change.
Speaker 1: You can't change coaches made through the season every single year,
Speaker 1: but there is a like a jump, a little like jolt.
Speaker 1: Spark is the right word. Spark is the right word,
Speaker 1: and that spark did not continue to persist throughout this season.
Speaker 1: When Trey Young's calling the regular season boring. I would say,
Speaker 1: no spark. Somebody called Nate McMillan. They said, Nate McMillan's unimaginative.
Speaker 1: This is an unnamed source, obviously, and when things aren't
Speaker 1: going to plan, it's hard for him to make an adjustment.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine if Trey Young said that to some reporters,
Speaker 1: He like, this motherfucker has no ability to get me opened.
Speaker 1: I'm in prison. He was called the general in Portland.
Speaker 1: He was pretty bad. He's gotten better. He got them
Speaker 1: to the Eastern Conference finals. Now now I must mind,
Speaker 1: I must remind you that the Philadelphia sixty sixers did sixer.
Speaker 1: You know, they did doc rivers themselves out of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and they might just fuck around to do it again.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something? But uh, if the Hawks struggle
Speaker 1: anymore moving forward, if they don't come out with a
Speaker 1: what's that called the little stick with the flare, if
Speaker 1: they don't come out like there's a flare stick in
Speaker 1: their asshole like Nate McMillan might be fired like fast.
Speaker 1: And that's not because he deserves it. That's because that's
Speaker 1: how this business works. So he better take them to
Speaker 1: Hawaii or Cancun go on a little team building trip
Speaker 1: like Jerry busted to Palm Springs, get them whatever they
Speaker 1: need to get themselves focused and back on track, because
Speaker 1: the NBA business is cold down ever, and I love
Speaker 1: it about him, even got in my own little verbal
Speaker 1: quarrel with him on National TV. My man Draymond Green
Speaker 1: does not back down. He is tremendous. We've got some developing.
Speaker 1: I don't want to call it beef. I think. I
Speaker 1: think Draymond himself would say I don't want to call
Speaker 1: it beef because I didn't touch him and he didn't
Speaker 1: touch me. But there's something, there's a there's some friction,
Speaker 1: there's some energy, there's some something some negative feelings between
Speaker 1: Draymond Green and Bill Simmons. Because Bill Simmons is out
Speaker 1: there just sullying people's names with a vote with an
Speaker 1: all rookie vote, which affects contracts, et cetera. So let's
Speaker 1: get into it, he said. Jalen Green, Houston Rockets rookie
Speaker 1: who's actually top three rookie of the top five rookie
Speaker 1: of the year standings, So he didn't deserve a spot
Speaker 1: on his all rookie team. He says, I put herb
Speaker 1: Jones first Team All Rookie I put him over Jalen Green.
Speaker 1: Fuck Jalen Green. I don't care you're scoring forty points
Speaker 1: and your team's nineteen and sixty. Congratulations. Sorry, I like
Speaker 1: winning players. Draymond to say he took offense would be
Speaker 1: slight understatement. Draymond Green posted to Ig Simmons's clip that
Speaker 1: exact audio with the following comment, how is it this
Speaker 1: guy has a voice in deciding if Jalen Green will
Speaker 1: qualify for a super Max deal? Because when you vote
Speaker 1: for All Rookie Team, you also vote for All NBA.
Speaker 1: And if you're you have certain benchmarks as an NBA
Speaker 1: player that gets used to be qualified for a super Max.
Speaker 1: If Bill Simmons cans vote for that award, he can
Speaker 1: vote for that same other award All NBA. And he says,
Speaker 1: he clearly says, f him, fuck Jalen Green, which sounds
Speaker 1: very personal, by the way, But he has a say
Speaker 1: in what someone earns. What work has Bill Simmons done
Speaker 1: in this life that qualifies him to have a say
Speaker 1: in an NBA player's salary. Well, I have a feeling
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a bad week for Bill Simmons because
Speaker 1: anytime you say fuck that play and I have said
Speaker 1: fuck that player, just never that in that way, Like
Speaker 1: you can't do it in regards to like giving out awards,
Speaker 1: they have to do something like force them, force themselves
Speaker 1: out a team, or you know, not play in a
Speaker 1: playoff game due to like some random back sore ones
Speaker 1: or like sister, their sister goes after you on Twitter
Speaker 1: like I don't even know. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I've directly said fuck them. I think it's more like,
Speaker 1: who the fuck do you think you are acting like this? Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be bad. A lot of people are now
Speaker 1: questioning whether Bill Simmons should even be allowed to have
Speaker 1: a vote. That's cancel culture for you or whatever. Accountabil
Speaker 1: culture things greatly, like I said, impact salaries, And now
Speaker 1: others are pointing out that Simmons might be creating a
Speaker 1: narrative about Jalen Green that will negatively impact his ability
Speaker 1: to get paid, which is probably true. That's fair narrative
Speaker 1: shape things. We see people say things about Jokic, he's soft,
Speaker 1: or he's not the real MVP, he's in one dimensional player,
Speaker 1: and then you look at his box score and you
Speaker 1: look at his stats and you're like this guy at
Speaker 1: thirty five against the Warriors, their triple team in him.
Speaker 1: Like the narratives shape how we all feel about players,
Speaker 1: and then that shapes how what we would call the lemmings,
Speaker 1: the gms and the owners think about players because they
Speaker 1: read Bleacher Report or whatever too, like listen to Bill Simmons.
Speaker 1: They're probably in those text message chains and then they're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know about Jalen Green. It might be not
Speaker 1: a winning player. And then that's how that happened. Pretty
Speaker 1: unwarranted personal attack Jalen Green. Here's the thing with people
Speaker 1: are missing because two rookies both Jalen Jalen Suggs Jalen Green.
Speaker 1: Nobody would ever call Jalen Suggs from Gonzaga all like,
Speaker 1: I think he played multiple sports in high school, obviously
Speaker 1: played on a national championship caliber team at Gonzaga, game
Speaker 1: winning shot his fucking team he just went to sucks too,
Speaker 1: and his stats are worse than Jalen Green. So if
Speaker 1: he's not like a losing player, then how do we
Speaker 1: call Jalen Green a losing player? He wasn't even around
Speaker 1: when the Rockets imploded in order for them to suck
Speaker 1: That's the whole reason he's there is because they sucked
Speaker 1: before he got there, or they wouldn't have that pick
Speaker 1: in that spot, right, He had zero choice where he
Speaker 1: ended up in the situation that he was in. He
Speaker 1: has a first time head coach coaching, Steven Silas. I
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of coach Stephen Silas is. All
Speaker 1: I know is that Jalen Green is a bucket. All
Speaker 1: I know is how many times he got thirty at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. From March first until the
Speaker 1: end of the season, he averaged sixteen to four and three.
Speaker 1: He continued to get better as the season progressed. He
Speaker 1: averaged twenty eight four and two in the last ten
Speaker 1: games of the season, including thirty or more in the
Speaker 1: last six of the final seven games. He would hit
Speaker 1: like seven threes in a game. What I guess, why
Speaker 1: would you slander a man who did that? Like I said,
Speaker 1: nobody's calling out Jalen Suggs. No one would allow Bill
Speaker 1: Simmons to call Jalen Suggs not a winning player. But
Speaker 1: because it is Jalen Green, not his clean cut, where's
Speaker 1: the grill, big hair, sort of like wild clothes, Bell
Speaker 1: Bottoms has his Jimmy Hendricks vibe on tattoos on his finger,
Speaker 1: puts up wild shots, like the way that people act
Speaker 1: off the court impacts how we feel about them off
Speaker 1: the court, and I think that's fucked up. Just things
Speaker 1: that make you go why why. Simmons passed off his
Speaker 1: original comments as a joke and said he's leaning towards
Speaker 1: a rookie like Herb Jones who was meaningfully contributing to
Speaker 1: a decent team, over someone putting up stats on a
Speaker 1: bag team. I think Herb Jones should make all rookie.
Speaker 1: But don't say fuck Jalen Green. You don't. You don't
Speaker 1: have to vote for Jalen Green. I'm sure you have
Speaker 1: your own reasons and you can put that a little
Speaker 1: bit better, and you could just highlight what Herb Jones
Speaker 1: does instead of what Jalen Green does not. I'm glad
Speaker 1: I don't get a vote. I'm glad. All I could
Speaker 1: think is like, I'm glad I never want to vote,
Speaker 1: because the level of scrutiny that a vote comes with
Speaker 1: is agents calling you, yo, what the fuck? Why didn't
Speaker 1: you vote Jalen Green on My guy's not gonna get paid? Now?
Speaker 1: Tell me why? Why? Why? Why it's like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'll just sit here in my little studio
Speaker 1: by myself and just just chirp from the rafters. Like
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what you would have
Speaker 1: Jayleen Green do to get this team to win. It's
Speaker 1: a team sport, not shoot, not try and score. I
Speaker 1: don't know yet. Kevin Porter Junr who threw soup at someone,
Speaker 1: is like your co star and no shade Ken Porter Junior.
Speaker 1: I like Kevin Porter, like, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: this team is right now. You got Elprah and Shanghun
Speaker 1: another rookie, Uzman Garuba, I think another like like John
Speaker 1: Wall is just sitting there somewhere. I don't even know
Speaker 1: where he is. They don't even want to play him.
Speaker 1: They don't even want to win. So what are we
Speaker 1: talking about? The establishment doesn't want the Houston Rockets to win?
Speaker 1: So why are we blaming Jalen Green for not putting
Speaker 1: the roster in a situation where they could have made
Speaker 1: a trade or play I don't know, just play drun Wall,
Speaker 1: just play him. I don't know. Not everybody wins the
Speaker 1: right way. I guess. Jordan finish seventh place six games,
Speaker 1: under five hundred his rookie year, not a winning player.
Speaker 1: Bron was twelve games under five hundred his first year,
Speaker 1: not a winning player. I guess Garnett thirty games under
Speaker 1: five hundred when he first played. Dirk Novisky debuted on
Speaker 1: a team with a three to eighty winning percentage Philadelphia
Speaker 1: twenty two to sixty when AI won Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: Ben Bill Simmons, please, please, just you know all this.
Speaker 1: You're a historian, you know all that. I just think
Speaker 1: he has something against him. I think you know the
Speaker 1: answer to whether their stats were meaningless on those teams.
Speaker 1: I think you know. To be fair, I would imagine
Speaker 1: that Bill Simmons would argue AI was not a winning
Speaker 1: player for the same reason that he argues the Jalalen
Speaker 1: Green's not a winning player. So here's the thing. Everybody's
Speaker 1: free their own opinion. Like I said, I love herb Jones.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with him being on the first team.
Speaker 1: All rooky dude's bucket and he can block. He impacts
Speaker 1: a team a lot. But like you can do that
Speaker 1: again without slandering Jalen Green, unless, of course, Draymond is right,
Speaker 1: and it is personal for Bill Simmons and he has
Speaker 1: some vendetta against Jalen Green. I get the feeling though
Speaker 1: this does not go away anytime soon. That's all the
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