Let's move on to snoop from around. I've been getting cooked for my Zion takes for three years. I've been saying this. I've said that it was a crime that Zion could not come into camp into shape. I feel like maybe I've done this segment ten times, twelve times, fifteen. I mean, if it's once, it's a thousand. I will think he should be accountable for the fact that he is not taking his job very seriously, which clearly hampers his ability to do his job and play well for
an entire season in every meaningful game. And I have been murdered for it, from scrubs living to a room in a broken down hobo flat to Richard Jefferson, I was crucified for saying, Zion, this is your fault that he needed to do take an accountability for not being prepared to play. Thank God, Stephen A. Smith is on the case as well. He goes ham on Zion on Sunday. We talked about this on the show for Monday, saying
that he was fat, he saw his belly bounce. He went on every obviously to say on Monday that every chef in New Orleans favorite person is Zion because he is down to eat the entire table. And guess what, just like clockwork, people come for Steven A. Smith, just like they came from me, including people in Zion's camp. Thankfully they don't have my number. Guess what, though, we got Steven A. Smith saying, you know what, I'm gonna double a double down, and this is what he has to say as a rejoinder.
Okay, his stepdad called me this morning and we had a really, really good conversation. So I'm going to reiterate what I said over the weekend on my podcast, Stephen A. Smith Show. Certainly on first take, I said that Zion Williamson looked fat. I meant it. I'm not stuttering, Zion Wimson.
If you listen, you're welcome because you said if somebody is saying it to you because they're rooting for you and they want it, and it's coming from a good place because they want you to succeed, then thank you. It's exactly what I was doing. Your talent is great, it's not good.
It's great.
You are holding the championship aspirations of the New Orleans Pelicans in your hands. I'm not absolving them. They could do a better job with you. They can do a better job with a lot of things as an organization in New Orleans. But that does not absolve you from looking and being out of shape. When I've talked about folks said you eat the table, or chef's looking at you, I was not joking, nor was I making it up. What I was saying is that's what they're saying about
you behind your back. That's how those folks, whoever they may be, are speaking about you in the city of New Orleans. From what we're hearing. You have to do something about that. Without you lucky to make it to the first round of the playoffs with you and in your a game y'all challenge for the title, you're at the very least in the Western Conference finals. That's the reality of the situation. Everything that Shannon Shaw just said about you, Zion, this appears to be on point because
we've seen no evidence to the contrary. Nobody is rooting against you, Nobody wants you to We all want you to succeed. If you succeed, it gives us even more to talk about.
Facts, facts, facts. I don't feel like I'm taking crazy pills anymore. I don't feel like I'm the only one out on these streets being like Zion is fat. Zion's not going to live up to his potential if he doesn't slim down. People think it's embarrassing. Nobody wants a guy who does this, and the conditioning is largely built on the food that you eat. Like stephen A said me too, I want to be wrong about Zion. I
want Zion to succeed. I told you I was just watching Doke highlights of Zion being like, where is that guy? I want to see that guy. I forgot how felt Zion was, how explosive he was, his defense, his range to block shots, he will, his ability to handle the basketball, and just yam on people, Oh my god, where is that Zion. No one wants to see him half heartedly blow and win, chasing down Torrian prints up the floor as he drains the three and then go to the bench,
suck and win. Nobody wants that. We want to see him close out Torrian prints from three and send that shit into the fifth row. We want to see thunderous dunks followed by him sprinting up the floor. We want to see Heasy's in and outs between tweens absolute highlight factory stuff. We've seen glimpses in the NBA, but we have not seen game after game after game. We want to see Zion as the next powerful Lebron James type,
because that was what he was billed for. We're never gonna get that until he gets his build in shape, his weight under control. Start counting points, my guy, go under weight watchers, I don't know. You're a big boy. You're likely have a tendency to gain weight, especially when you get injured and you eat your feelings. You need a nutritionness, you need a trainer. They do everybody. You haven't enough money to do this. I've said this. I'm
so exhausted. The Pelicans front office is throwing their hands in the air. They don't know what to do. Not even a rider in Zion's contract about their weight and how much money he's gonna get given his weight is gonna get him to pay attention right now? Can we just shame him until he decides to straighten up? Christian Clark I said wrote this week. They've repeatedly stressed that his diet and conditioning needs to improve, and multiple team
sources have told them he doesn't listen. I hate that the chatter bothers Zion and that it bothers his family. But when you repeatedly ignore people giving you good advice and they ask you get your shit together, and you don't, you deserve to be roasted on the internet. You deserve to be roasted on first take. If we can't get you with the carrot, maybe we can. We know we can't get you with the carrot. We can't get you with the ben yet, maybe we can get you with
the fucking stick. All right, let's move on. Here we are for the four straight episode talking about the Detroit Pistons. I don't know why these fuckers. They just refuse to win, and they refuse to take any accountability. They are staring down the barrel of the largest losing streak in NBA history, and yet they continue to do and say stupid shit. Case in point, my man Money Williams, Oh my god, the highest paid coach in NBA history. This is just dissing.
He said this. After that I didn't even know this was real. I couldn't believe it was real. He said this after the Pistons threw up all over themselves for the twentieth consecutive loss quote. I think we're starting to figure out that we can score if we space the floor properly. I'm learning how to use certain guys on the team. So as much as all of this losing hurts all of us, I still see a lot of growth, and I am encouraged by some of the things I
saw tonight. What the literal fuck are we talking about? I swear to god, I didn't even believe this was a real quote. I thought I had it out of context. Sam Vessini thought he had it out of context. You're just now figuring out that spacing on the floor matters. Really, I will let Sam Vessini summed this up as he quote tweeted Monni's presser with this, So I actually needed to watch this presser to confirm this. But yep, that's
an actual, in context, real quote for Monni Williams. It took him twenty losses in a row, but he's figured out that proper spacing helps you score. Oh and by the way, Front Office drop this nugget this week as well. Fred Katz at The Athletic wrote, the Detroit Pistons have expressed that it would take a large offer to acquire twenty point scorer Boion Bogdanovich large offer. What do you think he's worth? They think this man is worth the game.
Trade you'll think you can get three first round picks. You turned down two first rounders that you got offered last year, and somehow Someway did not take it. This is getting criminal. This is getting I don't know who's more to blame. I know MANI doesn't have the pieces in place to make it work, but goddamn he looks incompetent. And the front office they don't know what moves to
make either. No matter who you root for, no matter how badly this team plays, you can and your team plays, you can sleep soundly at night knowing at least you're not a Detroit Pistons fan. Shit that is just disgusting. Let's move forward. We will end this episode with a little song and dance, this time by former Warriors GM Bob Myers, who the powers that be at ESPN and ABC have decided will be one of the voices of
the NBA going forward. He gets a ton of credit for building and maintaining the Warriors dynasty, which won four championships in the past eight years, but he also did a band in his post this year. Let's face it, he wanted money and Golden State's kind of a hot mess, and a lot of that hot mess comes from the fact that Bob Myers drafted very poorly, despite the fact
that the Dubs had very high draft picks. Fortunately twenty twenty, prime example, he decided to take as raw as cookie dough center James Wiseman with the number two pick, passing up a slam dunk in LaMelo ball, as it turns out, the steal of the draft and Tyree's Halliburton. Myers was asked about passing up on Halley this weekend. Well, actually they asked him multiple times, and the first time he said, Halliburton's workout was just a few miles from here, Steve
Kurajo lacub and he did what he does. He made a ton of shots, and we looked at each other and said he might be pretty good. Different kind of shot, kind of a set shot, but he made them all. And then later Bob Meyer said, I screwed up. Okay, they pressed him on it some more. I screwed up. I screwed up. I wish I could take it back. I don't know what you want me to say, stop putting the light in my eyes. Guys, I know I fucked up, and I know it's like this is my summary,
but he did say I know I messed up. I know I messed up. And if he would have taken Halliburton, he probably is not working for ESPN right now. Nope, little selling and dance, that's all. He just had a weird shot. I know I messed up. I know, stop asking me. Quit asking. That's all the time that we have for they eat check. Come back tomorrow for an all new episode. Check out the feed for past episodes and many episodes was dropping unexpectedly like snow, fresh snow
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