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