WEBVTT - The Mess in Atlanta. The Mess in Brooklyn. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:18.200 Come on, come on, come on. On this episode of 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:23.680 the Heat check, another one bites the dust. The Hawks 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.960 joined the Nets on the sidelines after Trey gets clamped 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:33.400 and fizzles once again. Quick little aside off the side. Adidas, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:39.040 his shoe company that he sponsored by, put that one tray, 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.800 young floater up and was like, tray's a bucket, And 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.640 it's like where were all those other buckets? For four games? 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.440 One tray is a one bucket. You're right, he is 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.520 a uh bucket. Anyway, The Memphis Grizzlies scratch and clo 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.680 the way back against the Wolves. This series just might 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.000 go seven and some other news from the playoffs, plus 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.600 little t Draymond Green goes after Bill Simmson says, who 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.920 the fuck does this guy think he is? You know, 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.400 I love the T brock, So go ahead and drop 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:26.680 that motherfucking beat Sunny, perfect good name, ray Like, quick 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.279 bit of news, quick bit of breaking news, breaking news, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.440 breaking breaking news. Devin Booker. That's all I need to say, folks. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:40.320 According to ninety eight point seven the Sun's broadcast, but 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.080 the guys in Jersey don't know how that works. Assuming 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.039 nothing changes, we are getting Devin Booker back for game 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:52.240 six in Nola. Quick side off the side they call 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:57.400 the Smoothie King Center the blender, and I cannot express 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.120 to you how fucking dope that is. Like what it 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.320 was never the blender. It was like at one point 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.440 until this postseason, the Smoothie King Center was more like 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.200 the Bros blender that like was in the corner of 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.600 his kitchen and never got plugged in and it's just 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.280 there for appearances, like it was that kind of blender. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.000 Now this is like the vitamins turned on full blades. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.120 Don't want to put your finger inside there, You'll get 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.400 chewed the fuck up. So now that is the Smoothie King. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.519 I love that. Another side, Jose Alvarado, the guy I 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.360 love and I talked about him on Monday. His nickname, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.160 didn't know, this is Grand theft. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:50.440 Alverrado, Sir, sir, Like just like that's it in Grand 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.920 theft Alverdo Jesus. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.679 Anyway, let's move on to the real news. Since we 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.639 last talked, two of the most disappointing team this year, 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.760 the Nets and the Hawks, have gone what I like 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.760 to call why is it so hot in here? Is 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.440 turn off? I got to turn on to do this. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:16.239 We're good. All right, Eric, Since we last talked to 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.720 of the most disappointing teams this year, the Nets and 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.560 the Hawks have gone night to night sleep mask and 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.840 tonight we will say one, two three cancoon to the 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:32.040 Chicago Bulls and possibly the Denver Nuggets as well. Both 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.400 those teams derailed significantly due to injuries, but we don't care. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.800 Bye bye, fitting. Let the Bulls go down to the 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.840 Bucks without Caruso and Levine, who has now been in 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.280 COVID protocol for the fifteenth time. Not a scientist, don't 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.800 know how it's possible, but it is true. Postseason run, 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.680 Bye bye to COVID. Or maybe he's just on a 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.120 plane to Cancun. We don't even know about it. Before 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.320 we get into the Nets offseason and what comes next 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.400 and some of the developing chatter around Simmons, we must 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.400 talk about last night's game, which was probably the best 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.240 game of the playoffs so far. Memphis Grizzlies versus the 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:13.680 Minnesota Timberwolves. Timberwolves continuing to collapse late, Timberwolves continuing to 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:19.679 choke on their own meats, continuing to talk and talk 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.799 and talk when they're up big and then getting smacked 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.520 down and going home with a big l on their forehead. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:34.400 Jesus Christ Ja Morant last second bucket and they asked him, Jaw, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.320 what were you thinking on that last play? And he 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:42.520 goes get a bucket, Jaw, get a bucket. Jaw who 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.280 key came into the game hobbled, He looked bad. He 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.040 missed the first million shots and I do mean there 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.960 were a million of them. At one point he had 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.320 more turnovers than points. Wait, no, that was Trey Young, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.400 excuse me, a different game all night. Jaw was bothered, 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.720 not himself. I think he missed the first six or 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.360 seven shots, like I said, missing open jumpers, just generally 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.800 not being Jaw. And then you get Pat Bev saying 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.440 too small to Jaw with a whopping nine points, Pat 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.600 Bev saying too small. You have Karl Anthony Towns trying 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.480 to pull the tray Young going shh, shut your ass up, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:24.840 Karl Anthony Towns. And then when the Grizzlies needed their superstar, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.000 no matter if he has a hip issue or a 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.800 knee issue or whatever it is that he's dealing with, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.840 which there is a few things I'm sure that is 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.760 ailing Jaw when you go up as often as he does, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.520 You're bound to take contact everywhere on your body in 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.800 jaw is a little guy, so he showed up. He 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.760 had a huge three to put him up. One he 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.760 bammed on. I don't even know who's he died. The 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.760 guy that he dunked on, he's dead. So and then 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.240 the winning finger roll, which looked like it could be 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.680 a jumper. And then somehow he maneuvered forward in the air, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:03.320 defying gravity file with time running out. Amazing. It even 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.839 amazed Eric Spolstra. They told him, Hey, by the way, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.880 you were watching the Timberwolves game the other game. They're 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.080 like yeah, and he was like yeah. And he's going 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.400 on for his postgame presser to just say bye bye 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.800 to the Tree Young and the Hawks and they're like, yeah, yeah, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.800 job hit that layup with five seconds to go. They 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.600 won that game. And he's like, what, how come the 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:26.360 TV's not on in here? Uh? Yeah. Another quick tidbit 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.200 that changed thing was changed things was that Jaron Jackson 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.640 continues to be unusable. He fouled out. Uh And when 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.320 he fouled out, Taylor Jenkins did the inexplicable. He put 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.880 in a point guard for his power forward. So it 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.640 was Tys Jones and John Morant mixed with Desmond Bane, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.880 Dylan Brooks and Brandon Clark, which they're calling the the 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:52.000 ECTENC lineup and aka the a live lineup, the opposite 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.320 of the death lineup or the smaller death lineup. I 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.279 don't know. And you got to give props to Brandon 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:02.080 Clark had fifteen boards. He had a monster fourth quarter 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.920 twenty one points, fifteen boards. But also a new term. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.520 I don't know that there's a term for this, so 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.040 I've made it up. We know what the hockey assist 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.280 is in basketball, so it's like pass and then that 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.680 person passes for the assist. He had a hockey rebound 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.560 many hockey rebounds where he's literally he tips the ball 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.200 purposefully to Jaw for them to get the rebound, purposely 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.400 to Dez to get the rebound. He did that like 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.520 six or seven times in the fourth quarter, So I'm 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:33.400 calling that the hockey rebound. Brandon Clark was just tremendous. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.680 I think he's going to continue to come up big 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.160 in this series for them to win. So just to 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.360 recap for folks who want an encapsulation of how the 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.240 Wolves lost, Wolves outshot the Grizzlies from the arc, but 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.040 they had eleven fewer shots, got out rebounded fifty three 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.360 to forty two. They gave up eighteen offensive boards, set 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.640 Memphis to the line thirty nine times to their own 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.880 twenty four, and committed twenty three turnovers. They should talk 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.960 the entire way through that. That is how that went down. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.280 If the Wolves end up losing the series, they've got 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.040 to be sick. They should have sent the Grizzlies home 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.560 last night based on them being up twenty five points 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:18.000 in Game three and taking the elk. Things you just 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.960 hate to see. Just we in Minnesota. Now, now we 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.840 go back to Minnesota and maybe they'll just stay in Minnesota. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:43.640 Oh boy, Well, well, well the brooms came out. People 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.920 thought it wouldn't happen, and here we are. It's like, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.480 I don't even know really how to describe it. It's 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.680 like you no one anticipates something and then it happens 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.319 and you just kind of look around and you're like, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.360 well that was underwhelming. I thought this would come with 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.520 more fanfare and and it didn't. I tell you what. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.280 Nets are headed to Cancun. So many pieces coming out 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:11.040 about the Nets. One particularly had my attention. One was 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:16.280 inside the Ben Simmons drama of him opting out to 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:21.199 play Game four due to new backs horness. Sean Sharanya 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.160 is now reporting that there are, in addition to physical 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:30.280 hurdles ailing mister Simmons, there are now mental hurdles that 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:35.079 he is contending with that are now triggering his backs horness. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.400 They are in the process, They are in the process 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:45.120 of they are in the process of developing a plan 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:50.120 for him to mentally and physically become ready to play. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.840 All of these issues, these mental issues that are triggering 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.480 his back, my neck, my back, my neck, and my back. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.679 These all stem back to his last game, Game seven 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.880 against the Atlanta Hawks, the game where he passed up 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.079 a layup open and afterwards joelmb and Doc Rivers threw 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.319 him under the bus, buried him through the shovel, and 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.520 the dirt on his grave on national television. So clutch 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.000 with a K also now trending on Twitter. Clutch is 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.760 Ben simmons agency, the same one that Lebron James' best 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.880 friend owns. Just to keep you up to speed, So 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.520 let's go through this one quote. I wanted to just 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.959 I set a little bit apparently leave these events. Ben 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.680 Simmons telling the world he felt it was reasonable to assume, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.599 he told us to us on national television, reasonable for 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.360 us to assume that he would be back in the 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.040 fourth game of the playoffs. And then he decided he 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.360 woke up, No, I'm feeling a little tight, didn't even 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.520 put his uniform on to just see. Maybe I'll be ready. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.400 Who knows, maybe it'll work, Maybe I'll put a little 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.720 icy hot on it. We'll see. No. Apparently those events 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:05.960 quote triggered frustration and disheartenment throughout the organization. You don't say, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:14.080 you don't say really quick to recap this thing nets 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.719 good spot trade for James Harden, sent four draft pick 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.640 picks and multiple very usable assets out the door, left 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.360 with the cupboard empty but a James Harden that seemed engaged. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.160 Then James Harden became less engaged. Uh decided to force 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.920 his way out of another place. And then they got another. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.600 As I guess you could call Ben Simmons a potential 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.760 asset back in return, you get too new soon to 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.320 be first rounders back. But you're just wondering how did 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.000 we fucking get here? Like how are we in the 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:52.240 Ben Simmons business at this point? Like why you knew, folks, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.559 you knew. In hindsight, probably the Nets should have just 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.079 said fuck you to Daryl Moury, like we'll let we'll 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.120 let Harden walk. We'll just see and if he walks 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.400 and goes to you, you're gonna have to trade everyone 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.120 like Tobias Harris and Seth Curry and all the things. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:13.480 Maybe Maxy, So just fucking deal with it then, and 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.880 will force James Harden to play with us in the postseason. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.400 We'll see. Maybe he'll get invigorated when Kyrie Irving gets 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.400 allowed to play full time, which he ended up playing. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:29.120 Speaking of Kai, the media asked him some questions about 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.160 his status after he was swept. He took a little accountability. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.320 He said, you know, I was a part of us 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.520 not jelling. I mean, you were the only part of 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.319 you not jelling. But they want to know what he 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.480 didn't do with your contract. In the middle of him 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.880 promising his devotion to Katie and Brooklyn, he said something 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.120 that you know, when you just have a conversation with 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.760 someone and they say something that you're like, oh, oh, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.920 that's fucking crazy. That that's a big red flag here. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.480 It is when I say I'm here with keV. I 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:04.040 think that really, I think that it really entails us 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:14.200 managing this franchise together alongside owner Josi and GM Sean 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.360 Marx and our family members that we have in the 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.920 locker room and in our organization. Kyrie, what the fuck 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.800 are you talking about? You don't even play in the games? Bruh, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:32.719 You're you're our asset, Like, you're not the decision maker here. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.560 Maybe keV is, and maybe you're Kev's right or die, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.040 but you are not who we are listening to. You're 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.040 burning stage out inside of arenas. We don't trust you. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:51.920 You said the world was flat. You're not building a roster. Also, also, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.280 are you even on our roster? Like mostly you're not 0:13:55.480 --> 0:14:00.520 even here. Also guess who he forgot to mention? Didn't 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.440 hear any mention of Steve Nash in that comment? Still 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.920 the Kyrie irving Steve Nash. I don't know if it's 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.760 cold war. I don't know if it's a like a 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:15.400 warm friendemy situation. But I'll just say this, I don't 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.120 know how much they respect one another in terms of, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.360 you know, Steve Nash's ability to have power on this team. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.680 This is and if you think Kyrie should be in 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.920 charge of roster building, and Kevin Durant should be in 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.480 charge of roster building. Let's just face it, the roster 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.640 has only gotten worse every single year since Katie and 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.120 Kyrie got there. I know that sounds crazy because you 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.520 have Katie and Kyrie on the team and for me 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.640 to say, oh, this team was better before they got there. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.120 It was the How do I know it? Because the 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.400 people in Brooklyn loved this team. The people showed up 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.200 for this team. The buzz in the city was there. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.800 Jared Allen, Karris, Lavert, Spencer, Dinwoodie D'Angelo, Russell, Ice in 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.880 the Veins, TLC all good pieces. Six seed? What were 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.680 the nets again? Didn't they have to play the play 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:12.320 in twice? Hmmm? Rough. I don't know what they decide 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.680 to do moving forward. I know that they're in cap hell. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.200 You've got Joe Harris to deal with. You've got like 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.440 nine players that are going into free agency. I don't 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:21.760 know how you pay them. What do you do? Do 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.680 you just say tell you, just tell Joe Sie, We're 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.320 just gonna go deep, deep, deep into the luxury tax 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.160 to what like be a sixth seed and get bounced 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.040 in the first round, like maybe get swept again. No, 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.800 gonna be very interesting to see what happens this offseason. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.640 More to come onto the Celtics, the team that beat 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.360 the Nets. They play the Box next. Bucks will not 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.160 have Chris Middleton. The early lines are out. The Celtics 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.880 are minus two hundred favorites to beat the Bucks in 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.600 that series. I think the Celtics are really good man, 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.120 but to be that favored again, he's the hold on 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:07.200 the defending champs with Giannis Onto Takoumpo. If you think 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.120 that you can clamp Yiannis like you can clamp kd 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.280 like you can build a little shell of a barrier 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:18.240 around Kevin Durant, he'll pass out like y honest, will 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.160 just drive right through you like he is. He is 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.040 a truck. And I don't know what you think you're 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.640 gonna do. So prisoner of the moment for that. Can't 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.520 wait to see that series go down there really quickly. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.480 Want to break down the last game between the Miami 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.440 Heat and the Hawks without Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:42.000 Not a series that was very memorable. I like everybody 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.040 was kind of waiting for it to just be done. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.680 The one thing I would say that was positive that 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.960 came out of it was I would say DeAndre Hunter's 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.560 thirty five point performance last night, especially when I had 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.720 taken his over fifteen and a half points, didn't feel 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.200 like much of a sweat. He was, also, by the way, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.800 hurt the entire season three separate injuries, one of which 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.720 of those injuries was a back issue. So word to 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.800 those out there with back issues keeping them on the bench. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.040 Probably the best performance in his career. I saw way 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:21.240 more offensive tools in his bag than we thought. Unfortunately, though, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:26.359 for Trey Young, the athletics said it broke his spirits. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.040 That felt like to me, sus journalism. I don't know 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.560 how you can define that, Like there's no way to true. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.800 I sat back in my couch and I was like, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.920 how can you say that? Can you say that? Like? 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.760 How can you determine? Is there something that clicks when 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.640 you look into someone's eyes and you're like, yep, their 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.639 soul got snatched, their spirit is broken. He did hit 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.840 off the side of the backboard like a Paul George moment. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.200 I feel like that could be the moment where we 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.960 all collectively say this person's broken, this person's broken. Russell West, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.280 first of all Russell Westbrook, Okay, I'm here, I'm here, 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.680 I'm here. I'm with you, athletic. It first started with 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.159 Paul George, then it came out later he was literally 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.200 in the fetal position on the side of his bed 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.119 in the hotel room, in the bubble. Shout out to 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.960 Paul George. Do not want to diminish any mental health. 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.159 That's choose, but we did. These are facts. Secondarily, Russell 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.680 Westbrook comes to LA. I mean there's a montage of 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.240 off the side of the backboard. We can all say. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.320 Dejected is probably a word one could use about his 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.480 experience there emotionally. Trey Young one shot though off the 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.040 side of the backboard, clamped. I think he had. Would 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:46.000 they say, twenty two baskets in five games? Trey Young again, 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:51.399 twenty two baskets in five games combined, thirty two turnovers, 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.720 ten more turnovers than baskets. One shot off the side 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:02.440 of the backboard. People are wondering whether Trey's reputation took 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.280 a hit. Somebody says what they don't know needs to 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.639 be an investigation on whether he's a dog, and that 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:13.880 card needs to be taken away. The article was about 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.240 as damning as you can find on the athletic not 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.480 related to the Lakers. Obviously that those are the most 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.000 damning tray. Apparently in this article they say was so 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:28.720 checked out in Game five that he didn't even participate. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.800 So there was a last minute hurdle, last minute huddle, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.600 five point six seconds left on the clock. Hawks are 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.400 down three, so they needed three to tie save their 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:45.000 fucking season. They're calling a play for Trey Young. Apparently 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:50.080 Treyung not involved and said huddle he's being obstructed by 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:55.240 I want to say, Danilo Gallinari and some other random 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:00.320 maybe a kungu, I forget. Anyway, he's not involved in 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.720 the in the huddle, even aware of what's being drawn 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.639 up on the little whiteboard. Then the play you gotta 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.920 go and google it and see it was a shit 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.440 show to not get it shot off. Bizarre for Trey 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.879 Young not to even go for the ball whatsoever. Another 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.680 is a spirit broken moment, I guess. I mean the 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:26.959 play is just wild, not even because Danilo Gallinari ended 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.639 up getting the ball there like trapped in the corner, 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.440 in the like corner of hell, where he was being 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.360 just collapsed on by he like not even Danilo Gallinari's 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:41.119 father runs that play for Danilo Gallinari like no shot 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.880 and I don't know who it was. Four. Trey Young 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.640 was zero for five from the three point line that night, 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.200 So presumably Nate McMillan when he says he was running 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.160 it for Trey Young might have been not telling the truth. 0:20:55.960 --> 0:21:00.240 Just on real. Had to just kind of highlight that 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:04.160 really fast because it was over a long time before 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.680 they clawed back. Many people didn't watch that game, but 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:11.720 it was It's worth noting. An article also highlights what 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:16.520 an awful year Trey has had just optically. He told 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.560 folks in the beginning of the year that the regular 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.960 season was boring. Uh, and then he had to issue 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:29.240 a statement like he's the wee work chick, like, hey, 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.800 we're gonna need you. Uh. That was that was seen 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.680 as anti competitive. A lot of people in the Atlanta 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:37.840 area might not want to show up to games if 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.240 you're bored. Uh could you? Could you say you didn't 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:45.000 mean that? Now people are questioning Trey people are questioning 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.720 the entire franchise. Mind you, this is the team that 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.040 was like seconds away from going to the finals last year. 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:54.359 If Trey Young doesn't sprain his ankle on a referee, 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.159 Like who knows what ends up happening. I mean, the 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.760 honest was out multiple gay is with the hyper extended 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:05.040 me like this is how the cookie crumbles, folks. Like 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.720 now you've got questions about John Collins, whether he wants 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:10.760 to be here. He was hurt most of the year. 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.479 That didn't help. Rumors of him being unhelped happy all 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.119 year and the year prior don't help. Cam Reddish was 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.640 a fucking disaster. He asked for trade and then never 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:24.000 got one until the deadline. And Nate McMillan's still playing 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.840 him because he thinks there's like that helps the chemistry 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.359 even though they're losing games with Cam redsh in the lineup. 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:36.119 Oh my god. And folks, we are now getting we 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:39.560 are now getting what is called the scapegoat, which is 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.040 Nate McMillan is now being blamed. Yes he is, Yes 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:49.800 he is. Sports Illustrated reported the Hawks were walking around 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.439 like Jordan at NBA Media Day in late September, then 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.480 came out so flat. Capella admitted that they were apathetic 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.160 and they say that falls on Nate. After losing six 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:04.200 of seven to start the new year, GM Travis Schlank 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:06.920 went ballistic and said, there is no sense of urgency 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:09.200 on this team to make a stop. There's no sense 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:13.359 of accountability. I mean, you see when there's words, let 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.240 me just peek behind the curtain. For folks who don't 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:20.320 understand media speak. When you hear words from a GM 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:29.480 like leadership, accountability, lack of urgency, these are words directed 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:34.640 I swear to God, directed for words for the coach. 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:38.160 Listen here, motherfucker, you better straighten up or you're out. 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:42.360 Like that is a pr move. Travis Shchlank genius guy. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.720 By the way he says, it's just not there. It 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.560 doesn't bother them. I hope it's a switch that we 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:51.960 can flip, but I don't know at this point. Earlier 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:55.560 in the season, Travis Schlank Little Side wrote said I 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:57.680 thought we should bring back all the players on the 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:01.600 roster to make a a run like we did last year. 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:07.720 That was probably the wrong move. Yeah, Travis must be 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:10.159 an oracle, because that was exactly how they looked in 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:12.960 the Heat series. Just no urgency, can't make a stop, 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:17.560 no defensive presence, Trey Young, ice tray turns into ice cold, 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:21.760 and in some ways, the Hawk's probably the most disappointing 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:24.440 team of the season this year. A lot of high expectations, 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:26.600 La la lola, I mean, and that's what the Nets 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:29.080 like we're talking about coming on. Just talked about the 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:31.680 Nets getting swept by the Boston Celtics. So you have 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:34.600 to go lower than that, and that's the Hawks. That's 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:40.119 the chaos, just absolute chaos. Remember I said in the 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:44.520 preseason Hawks could be a top four team in the East. Boy, boy, 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:49.040 was I wrong. That's probably the coldest take of the season. 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:53.000 Will Nate be back? I hope, So, I hope. So 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:56.200 he was just extended multi year extension. This is why 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.000 you don't extend these interim head coaches until you know 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:01.240 because when they come back, and they come and they 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:03.879 take over in the middle of chaos and they overperform 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:08.760 very different situation than starting from scratch because players are 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:11.199 ignited in the middle of a season. It's a change. 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:14.080 You can't change coaches made through the season every single year, 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.480 but there is a like a jump, a little like jolt. 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:20.440 Spark is the right word. Spark is the right word, 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:24.520 and that spark did not continue to persist throughout this season. 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:27.720 When Trey Young's calling the regular season boring. I would say, 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:33.560