Speaker 1: Let's move to the Southeast Division, which is probably the
Speaker 1: worst division in the East. So the Hawks are a
Speaker 1: D plus. There's a lot more drama to unfold for
Speaker 1: them to get an F, and I think it will happen.
Speaker 1: I can't give him an F right now because the
Speaker 1: season's not over. Right. You can't really give an F
Speaker 1: at the halfway point because what if things turn around?
Speaker 1: Make no bones about it. Though this team's in trouble.
Speaker 1: The GM got fired along with everybody else that he
Speaker 1: hired in the front office. The owner turned the team
Speaker 1: over to his twenty seven year old son, who has
Speaker 1: no management experience. He probably didn't even manage a McDonald's,
Speaker 1: let alone a fucking team, so he's running things now.
Speaker 1: Came out of nowhere from the clouds. Had anybody heard
Speaker 1: of him before this year? No, I don't understand why
Speaker 1: people aren't more angry about this right Like, nobody's talking
Speaker 1: about it. I don't see it on NBA today. I
Speaker 1: don't see it on first take. You know why, because
Speaker 1: Atlanta is largely irrelevant as a team. The dumpster fire
Speaker 1: just keeps on burning, and like a bad neighborhood, you
Speaker 1: just walk past it like it's fucking normal. But you
Speaker 1: know what, it's not normal, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: normalize it. The coach wants to resign, the star players
Speaker 1: don't like each other, the I mean all of it.
Speaker 1: Trey Young probably wants to be moved. Trey Young wants
Speaker 1: Nake McMillan to be fired after they fired another coach
Speaker 1: like two years back. And you know what, they stink.
Speaker 1: They stink on the court. They are not a watchable product.
Speaker 1: They're twenty one and twenty two and they play ugly
Speaker 1: ass basketball. Just a bunch of trible handoff you know,
Speaker 1: screen situations, thirty feet jumpers four seconds into the shot clock,
Speaker 1: give a lob only because the floater isn't working at
Speaker 1: the moment. Trey Young with the bad attitude. Is his
Speaker 1: shoulder working? Is it not working? Is he coming to
Speaker 1: the game, is he coming to practice? Nobody knows, people
Speaker 1: ask he gets an attitude. All of it's weird. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to acknowledge it's weird. And the only thing that
Speaker 1: is good about them right now is Kyle Korver. And
Speaker 1: Kyle Korver hasn't played for the Hawks in like fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Is Kyle Korver any good in terms of being him
Speaker 1: being a new assistant GM, which people probably don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just give him the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt because he has a nice smile and he
Speaker 1: seems like a nice guy. The whole front office are
Speaker 1: playing yes man to a guy five years out of college?
Speaker 1: Five years? Does this kid know anything about hoops? Did
Speaker 1: he play college hoops? Did he play in the NBA?
Speaker 1: Did he play high school hoops? Can he fucking make
Speaker 1: a layup with his offhand? What can he do? Does
Speaker 1: he have a mind for basketball? Or he's just a
Speaker 1: kid with a silver boon in his mouth. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is everything that's wrong with America. The Atlanta Hawks
Speaker 1: are everything that's wrong with America. A guy coming out
Speaker 1: of the clouds, just taking something that he's just like
Speaker 1: part of the Lucky Sperm club, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he has real power over a club where there's
Speaker 1: only thirty clubs. Fuck the Atlanta Hawks. They are deep
Speaker 1: plus staring right at en F Charlotte Hornets. I lied,
Speaker 1: I lied, they get an F. They do. I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna give out midtermfs, but I mean, here we are.
Speaker 1: Why Why did the Charlotte Hornets get n F because
Speaker 1: they wanted to bring back a guy who beat the
Speaker 1: shit out of his girlfriend and his kid allegedly, and
Speaker 1: they just pretended that they were never going to do that.
Speaker 1: They were never gonna bring him back and try to
Speaker 1: extend him because I don't know, they thought that they
Speaker 1: could gaslight us and that we would agree or believe them.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan wants to bring Miles Bridges back because they're
Speaker 1: they're in shambles basketball wise, and it's like, oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we were never gonna do that. That was just something
Speaker 1: that we floated out to Wojanowski just to check the temp.
Speaker 1: And it's like, the temp is cold, the temp is
Speaker 1: ice cold. Okay, this is a trash division. This is
Speaker 1: a trash ass franchise. The only bright spot in this
Speaker 1: division right now is the Orlando Magic. Think about that.
Speaker 1: Think about that. The Orlando Magic that's been in the
Speaker 1: dumps for like thirty years, maybe not that long, since
Speaker 1: Dwight Howard was there and Jamiir Nelson. That's the team
Speaker 1: that I'm most excited about in the Southeast might have
Speaker 1: to break out the dreaded f for a bunch of
Speaker 1: teams in this division moving forward to the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: They get a C minus, maybe fringe D plus as well.
Speaker 1: They're old, they're frustrated, they're looking for a change. No
Speaker 1: team has their fingers and more trade opportunities and scenarios
Speaker 1: than Miami. They need to make a move. Who's gonna go?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not gonna be there goes My Tyler. Hero.
Speaker 1: We know that because he's like the son of pat Riley.
Speaker 1: Outside of him, I think everyone's on the table. Sposter
Speaker 1: is a great coach. Pat Riley's a great gym. Again,
Speaker 1: this is like one of those scenarios like the Toronto Raptors,
Speaker 1: where you're like, okay, I kind of gotta give him
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt. They went to the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference Finals. They were a three point shot away from
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler from going to the finals. They went to
Speaker 1: the finals two years back in the bubble. But man,
Speaker 1: does it look bad right now when you gotta get
Speaker 1: meaningful minutes from Victor Ola Depot and Gabe Vincent, no
Speaker 1: shade to gave Vincent like you need big minutes for
Speaker 1: Omar year seven and Max Struce has to put up
Speaker 1: fifteen threes a game. It's brutal. Jimmy Butler's not it
Speaker 1: in terms of what you need from a player to
Speaker 1: carry a franchise, and I like Jimmy Butler. Bam is
Speaker 1: also rumored to be unhappy is Lowry but a worse
Speaker 1: version of himself and probably gonna get traded. I mean,
Speaker 1: a player literally threw a massage gun in the middle
Speaker 1: of the court just the other day, So what are
Speaker 1: we doing? Can they get better? Probably because it's pat Riley.
Speaker 1: They have an injured Duncan Robinson as an asset. They've
Speaker 1: got obviously bam Adebayo who could possibly go, Kyle Lowry
Speaker 1: who could possibly go, maybe Max Struce. But I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna find any value from the undrafted free
Speaker 1: agent pool like they do so often. So Nikola Jovich
Speaker 1: isn't gonna save you. Some random guy is not gonna
Speaker 1: save you. They're gonna need to make a move to
Speaker 1: be anything positive. Orlando Magic. I just I'm just so intrigued.
Speaker 1: B plus for the Orlando Magic. I was not expecting this.
Speaker 1: They may even be a fringe A minus. The Orlando
Speaker 1: Magic are the most fun team to watch in this division.
Speaker 1: They are breaking all expectations. They have one of the
Speaker 1: greatest rookies in recent memory. Pallo Bencaro, who they knocked
Speaker 1: out of the park. He looks like he could be
Speaker 1: the next Lebron James type if he could get his
Speaker 1: handle up. He's big, he's strong, he's a willing passer.
Speaker 1: He can shoot, he can rebound. He's getting twenty two
Speaker 1: points a game as a rookie, which is absolutely bananas.
Speaker 1: Franz Wagner is a beast. He's a wing who can
Speaker 1: handle the rock like a point guard who's six'. Ten
Speaker 1: bow bowl is what you. Know we Want Victor wambanyama
Speaker 1: to be in terms of his. Floor they've had multiple
Speaker 1: injuries and somehow continue to win. Games they're not like
Speaker 1: a great team record, wise but they have beaten really
Speaker 1: good teams like The Boston celtics. Twice Markel foltz is.
Speaker 1: Emerging Cole anthony's, Okay you've got a ton of assets
Speaker 1: that you can. Trade we haven't seen a peete From
Speaker 1: Jonathan isaac. Yet mobamba still needs to get better and.
Speaker 1: Develop they have A Wendel carter has been really. Good
Speaker 1: they have a lot of, dudes a lot of, dudes
Speaker 1: even though they're sixteen and twenty, eight they are only
Speaker 1: four games out of the play In. NOBODY i tell,
Speaker 1: you if they were to sneak into the ten, set
Speaker 1: nobody wants to See, Wendell, Carter Bull, Bull Paolo, Franz
Speaker 1: wagner And folts in a one and done, Situation, nobody.
Speaker 1: Nobody so for, me it's A b plus AND i
Speaker 1: think this team can get even better at the, deadline
Speaker 1: especially considering they have multiple guys who get limited minutes
Speaker 1: who would be really good on other teams that can
Speaker 1: succeed and try to. Win Now Washington, wizards oh, god
Speaker 1: they get A. D they. Do as a resident of THE,
Speaker 1: dmv they are. GROSS i have to say it as
Speaker 1: an unbiased. Fan they're no. Fun they're no fun to.
Speaker 1: Watch eighteen and twenty five staring at the outside looking,
Speaker 1: in probably gonna fire THEIR Gm Tommy, shepherd, which considering
Speaker 1: the Rumors i've heard About Tommy, shepherd WHICH i will not,
Speaker 1: name probably is a year too. Late Brad beal is
Speaker 1: locked down till the end of oblivion with a no trade,
Speaker 1: clause making fifty million dollars a, year and haven't played
Speaker 1: much games this. Year when he does, play he's chucking
Speaker 1: and missing and fourth quarters that you are out. Of
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen With Kyle. Kuzma we already know he
Speaker 1: probably wants to. Leave you're gonna have to trade him
Speaker 1: or give him considerable amounts of money that is way
Speaker 1: over what he is valued. At poor zingis is, Okay
Speaker 1: you've Got Monty morris as your primary ball. Handler that's.
Speaker 1: Bad the guy that you Took Johnny, davis he's not
Speaker 1: developing the one bright. Spot it's Probably Denny. Abdil he
Speaker 1: had twenty rebounds the other, night, twenty so maybe he's
Speaker 1: like your wing of the. Future tough team to root,
Speaker 1: for tough team to. Watch they play ugly ass. Basketball
Speaker 1: they lose all the, time but you know, what they
Speaker 1: are covering. Machines so if you're AN nba better and
Speaker 1: they're at, home that is where stars come to load,
Speaker 1: Manage so keep that in. Mind that's all the time
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