You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. On this episode of the Heat Check, the play in picture is complete, and boy was it a doozy. On Sunday Guinea, we talk about the drama that is taking place in Minnesota. There's two things that will really shock you. Damian Lillard's comments in his exit interview and what that means for Portland. A couple of coaches that have already been fired. And
some more news around the league. So Nick my Man drop that generic ass beat that should be Rihanna Man. The final day of the season might have been one
of the strangest craziest days in league history. Strange because one game left in the season, we had no idea what the playoff schedule was going to look like, none zero, Crazy because the games themselves were a combination of tanking teams sitting everyone, and other teams fighting like angry hornets to preserve their place in either the play in or the playoffs themselves, and sometimes trying to thread that line between avoiding the suns and avoiding the plan, very very
tenuous line. That is. Day ended with not one but two fights between players on the same team. A forty two year old who scored more points than he has since two thousand and nine. A pair of coaches getting fired, two NBA team records getting broken, a ton of chaos going on in the APT for math and a partridge and a pear tree. The weekend. We had a weekend, folks. Let's quickly recap the play in as it is officially here. Eastern Conference We've got the number eight Hawks versus the
number seven Heat on Tuesday. We've got the number ten Bulls versus the Raptors in Toronto on Wednday. Western Conference we've got the t Wolves taking on the Lakers on Tuesday, and ten seed Oka see Thunder taking on the nine seed Pelicans on Wednesday. If you don't already know, here's the breakdown. Loser of the seven to eight game plays the winner of the nine to ten game on Friday to's determined who is the eight seed and plays the number one seed in each conference. Back to the games.
We are one hundred percent, completely, totally, absolutely have to start with the batshit team, the Minnesota Timberwolves versus the New Orleans Pelicans. Ah wow, I don't even really know what to say. The Pelicans start of the day with an outside chance to make the number five seed. If everything fell their way, the Wolves could have also won and tried to avoid the plan if a disaster hit
where the Lakers, Clippers, and Warriors all lost. This is the only game on Sunday where both teams equally wanted to win a lot. There was a ton on the line, and by god, was it one of the strangest, most dramatic games in memory. Here is what happened the Wolves. The Wolves play Timberwolves, but basketball typical Timberwolves basketball, which means, when you think they're gonna lose, they win. When you think they're gonna win, they lose. And sometimes all of
those emotions happen in one game, super inconsistent. The leader of this erratic play, the leader of what the fuck is going on, is, of course Rudy Gobert. Of course, of course it's him. Why else wouldn't it be? Uh, He's always up to something. What was he up to? Well before the game, Rudy Gobert didn't even want to play.
He was quote suffering from back spasms, and so he was going to sit himself out in an essential, very critical game between two teams trying to make it out of the mud, and Kyle Anderson aka Asloma, was like, no, fuck that noise. I got back spasms. Two. You're playing. You are playing. That's what we're doing. I don't care what you're going through. You're on this court. That's the first sign of problems is Kyle Anderson telling Rudy Gobert
what Rudy Gobert should do. Rudy Gobert did end up playing, if you want to call it playing, because he was on the court in body, but not in mind or spirit. Two points that he made in the middle of the second quarter, completely ineffective, playing absolutely zero defense, just loafing. Peliicans open up a double digit lead. It looks like
Rudy Gobert wants to be any place but there. Valentunas put up seven points and seven rebounds on the first quarter alone on Rudy Gobert, so it is not very good. Things are not going well. So then Rudy Gobert loafed a couple more plays in the second quarter. He was a disgusting minus fourteen in the short amount of time that he played, and Anderson was like, yo, they have a time out. He comes up to Rudy and He's like, yo, you need according to the reporting, yo, you need to
play some fucking defense. You need to try now. And Rudy Gobert responded like, oh bojou, you need to rebound. And then Kyle Anderson's like, verbatim, this is verbatim, this is not my summation. He says, shut the fuck up, bitch, And what did Rudy Gobert do? Erry had a character for Rudy Gobert. He punched his own teammates, full closed fist in the chest, full stop. I believe nas Reed or Torrean Prince got into the middle of it, started bum rushing Rudy Gobert. Kyle Anderson went after him. They
had to be separated. The whole thing was a melee, of course. Then Rudy Gobert had to be removed from the scene. Got to get Rudy Gobert away from all of these men who want to kill him. And that's not the end. Surprisingly halftime, Kyle Anderson, who of course was still furious at Rudy Gobert because he just got punched in the chest by seven footer, went to the locker room where Rudy Beert was finishing changing because he was not gonna play anymore, and proceeded to threaten Rudy
Gobert that he would knock his ass out. According to reporting, Yeah, a recording was leaked which I posted of Kyle Anderson at halftime cussing the rest of his team out for protecting Rudy Gobert because Rudy Gobert according to Kyle Anderson obviously, because that's what the reporting says, that he called him a bitch, So the reporting is probably accurate that he's why are you protecting this bitch? The quote, what the fuck is wrong with y'all? Y'all guys are kissing Rudy's
ass way too much, telling me to focus. Y'all got some decisions to make this summer. What are those decisions? What are the what are those decisions that they gotta make? It a is it a him or me? Scenario? It took GM Tim Connolly and assistant GM Dell Demps coming into the locker room to intervene before we got some sort of Roman Reign's chair on head scenario going down. They had to send Rudy Goberart home, had to remove him away from the arena. It was so bad because
probably he would have gotten knocked out by someone. If you think that that was the end, that on its own right would have been plenty. But there's more and more impactful things actually happened, literally impact before the scuffle that was hundred percent Rudy Gobart's fault. We have wing defender Jaden McDaniel's young stud that Minnesota did not want to trade to Utah, so much so that they added in an additional first round pick to the deal so
they didn't have to move. Jade McDaniels, one of the best perimeter wings in the league, averaging sixteen to four and won in the last fifteen games, picked up two quick fouls in the second quarter and was so mad at himself that he stormed into the tunnel in a fit like Tasmanian devil and let loose a haymaker on a brick wall to no one. What do you think happened? Do you think he was fine? Do you think everything's good?
You think he went out and played the rest of the game like The Wolves ended up winning the game because Jaden McDaniels had a phenomenal second half. No, Jade McDaniel's broke his fucking hand. That's what happened. Jay McDaniels is done, done zero times. Remember that MLB player who was so excited that he broke his own hand after the team made the postseason and he didn't play another postseason game, and I think they got eliminated. I think
the kid was for the Brewers. Yeah, this is Jade McDaniels in the middle of a crucial game to decide playing seating. That's Jade McDill No more time spending playing basketball this year for Jade McDaniels. He fractured a bone in his shooting hand. Night Night Sleep mask for you. Maybe one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Crazy? Uh. Jake Fisher, friend of the show, I think, three days ago, published a piece why the Timberwolves Jaden McDaniels is the
elite defender you need to know more about. Oh. I think we know about him now. I think he's a part of the national zeitgeist. At this point, the loss of Jaden McDaniels cannot be overestimated. He's one of six players in the league to defend a thousand plus minutes against NBA All Stars the season, and now he's gone for the year. I mean, in the history of the world, if you're looking at the battle between Cement and Fist, Cement wins every time two men, I think is undefeated.
And guess what, all of this happened. And we didn't even reach the third quarter yet, so things were happening. And then because the Wolves are the Wolves, they lost their center, they lost their perimeter defender. They're down double digits to the Pelicans who are trying to make it into the sixth seed or better. What do they do? Somehow, Karl Anthony Towns goes crazy. Somehow, Aunt Edwards goes crazy. Aunt Edwards had five blocks and five steals in the game,
most of that was in the second half. The things that happen with the Wolves are just truly unimaginable. They end up winning that game. Remember there's a possibility now that they could end up playing the Grizzlies in the first round if they win their playing game against the Lakers, who they now play in the first round, which is gonna their first playing game, which is gonna be wild. But man, the Grizzlies versus the Wolves would be one hell of a doozy. Also breaking news, of course, Wolves
suspended Rudy Gobert for the playing game. He's suspended. He's done, which is I think a blessing in disguise because they're eight and four when Rudy does not play nine to four if you count yesterday. And then out West, the Clippers were in a dogfight with the s squad of the Phoenix Suns, Saban Lee, Darius Baisley just putting up buckets. It was like an AAU tournament game. Nobody was playing
any defense. They were giving it to the Clippers. At one point they were up ten anyway, Sons at a four point lead at the start of the fourth quarter, and then Plumbley and Bones Island, both newcomers at the trade deadline, had words that ended up also getting physical. What Yeah, it didn't get past shoving, and it immediately intervened. And let's be honest, Plumbley's not probably gonna punch anyone
because it's plumbly. And then they had to be separated where they were sitting at opposite ends of the bench for the rest of the game. So beat Rider Andrew Greff spoke with Plumbley after the game. Apparently he was pissed because Bones was missing assignments, which is not shocking because Bones has been missing assignments since he's been at a VCU, so he missed assignments in Denver and that was one of the reasons that he was traded. As
for the Clippers, it was Kawhi Leonard. It was Russell Westbrook that brought them back to the Promised Land where now they get a date with the Phoenix Suns full a squad Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Chris Paul DeAndre Ayton, who you barely beat without them when they were sitting in street cloths. So we're gonna have to see how that goes. After the game, Tylo says, if you ain't getting it right, fight then. And after that we took off and we played better. Maybe we should do it
AKA fight more often. They worked it out. Everything is good. The rest of the what are we talking about? He said, maybe we should fight more often. The rest of the day. The Lakers held off Utah to win. Golden State, put up fifty five points in the first quarter alone to the Portland Trailblazers, which is an NBA record, and beat the Blazers by fifty which we'll get to in a bit because there's ramifications of all of the losses that the Blazers have had, I think, which we'll get to
as well. I think the Blazers have had seven combined wins in the last two years. After the trade deadline down in Miami, forty two year old eu Donnis HASLM yes that's his real age aka walking dnp CD, had played only sixty four games in the last seven years combined. He put up twenty four points yesterday in a game Ewdonnis HASLM Miami bench as a whole put up one hundred and eleven points, which broke the NBA record held
by Toronto of one hundred and twenty twenty. Eudonis Haslam had thirty two points all last season in thirteen games. Eudonis Haslam last game of his career puts up twenty four. What an end of the season. And we still have the second season left to go, which is the playoffs. Bring in the play in need it, I want it, give it you make you talked about the Blazers getting stomped by the Warriors. Fifty five points they put up on the Blazer's head in the first quarter alone. It
has been rough. It has been. It has been a tough road if you're a Blazers fan or somebody that works for the Blazers organization, or somebody probably who plays for the Blazers. I think that they've had six signings in the last week, guys that were two way players I had never heard of. Like, what was his name again, Spencer Hayes, No, you know who I'm talking about. Mays, Skyler Maze. I feel like I'm living that was Trendon for last year, right, Like, who is Trendon Watford? That's
a real name, right, who is Skyler Mays? I think they're both LSU products, which is crazy. I think they are. I think they are Skylar Mays a bucket. Never have heard of them before. It sucks. These are the things that you have to put up with when your team sucks. Is players who suck playing significant minutes for your team. No shade to Skyler Mays or Kevin Knox, but those guys getting forty minutes in quote end of game or end of season scenarios shows you everything that's going on.
They've had seven wins in the past two combined years after the trade deadline. Let me say that again, there is no team worse than the Portland Trailblazers post trade deadline in the last two years, which is crazy because the Portland Trail Blazers weren't even trying to lose this year the trade deadline. They didn't start tanking until three weeks left end of the season. Portland has managed seven total wins after the break combined, not seven each year combined.
So now what's going on. The Blazers has some decisions to make. Damian Lillard is obviously not stoked. People are calling this the most important off season in Blazers history. The biggest question will Portland be able to surround Damian Lillard with any players who can make this team relevant competitive? Dare I say a contender? Psh? Come on? Come on. Lillard came out and made some very clear comments about what it is he wants and what he does not want.
As we all know, Portland currently has the ten and a half percent chance of getting Victor Wambiyama, which I believe is fifth in the NBA for the lottery. If Portland doesn't somehow get Victor wim Miyama that pick. Damian Lillard did everything short of demanding that they move that pick. You are not getting another nineteen year old kid and putting him next to me, absolutely not think of that.
Portland is now in a quandary. This is supposed to be a historic draft, one of the deepest in memory, and Damian Lillard says, fuck them, kids don't want to see him, don't want him on this team. I want nothing to do with them. Literally, that's what he said. I'm not babysitting anymore nineteen year olds. The Blazers, according to all the reporting, probably going to end up trading out of the lottery to add a star player. Here's
what Dame said. If you want the quote about adding another young player to the team, drafting another young player, I'm just not interested in that. That's not a secret. I want to as to go for it. And if that route is to draft youth, that's not my route. Huhh, Scooby, does that mean? Dame says, hey, that's not my route, meaning if that's your route, then me and you gotta go separate routes. Not my route. Immediately, Joe Cronin was like, yeah, yeah,
Dame's right, We're not doing that. We're gonna get some stars. Yeah, Dame, We're good. He goes out publicly. Him and Chauncey Billupson said, we don't want to go through this anymore either. It's time for us to start winning basketball games. Billups said, yeah, this is very important to me. Billup said, yeah, We've done the tweak thing a few times. We've got to be much more aggressive than the tweak thing. If we want to do right by the best player in the
history of the organization, we have to be aggressive. The million dollar question for a Blazer fan is how do you fix it? How do you fix this team? I don't know. They are among the smallest roster in the NBA. They have only two players taller than six eight thin in terms of depth at talent, they ended the year starting a guy named Genathan Williams. That's not a typo, not Jonathan. His name is Jenathan Williams with two e's. He got forty one minutes along with Skylor Mays. So
what does this mean. It means that the future draft capital means absolutely nothing until you move those for some players who can play right now. The target group is good. We'll just say that because Dame believes that somebody can come here and move the needle and they want to. It's just a matter of whether Portland can get them. Here here's the list that they're reporting. Jalen Brown. God, let's just sit there and imagine for a second. Jalen Brown,
Damian Lillard and Shaden Sharp and Jeremy Grant. That's better than Boston right now, here's another player, Ogannaobi. I'm less intrigued than I am with Jalen Brown. Still very good. Pascal siakam Oh sounds good. Michale Bridges, that's the number one on my list. They're already calling him Brooklyn Bridges, though, So I feel like I feel like the nets are kind of ready to keep them. I feel like the nets are saying he's an untouchable piece. All three, four
of those whatever it is, are difference makers. All are defensive minded players. They can all score. Of course, JB's the first choice. He can do so many things in the court. To me, the perfect scenario is this. So we've got some coaching firings. One of those firings, I don't know if you call it a firing, they're calling it a promotion, is Dwayne Casey. Dwayne Casey out in Detroit. He is done coaching those young kids, Jade and Ivy has drove him officially insane. He is now in a
front office position. Chauncey billups, take your ass back to Detroit. We now have an open spot and we can say, e may U Dooka, It's time to come home, brother, time to come on home to Portland where you grew up. And then Jalen Brown, the guy who sang from the rooftops for you to be the head coach of the Boston Celtics. Now you, I don't know, like you're fired. So maybe Tampa now before you get the head coaching job and bring him to Portland, get him to force
his way there. Another issue that Dame seemed to settle is that one hundred percent, Jeremy Grant is coming back, no matter if it puts us in the poorhouse, because what other options do we have? Dame says he's coming, So I guess he's coming. Problem is Jeremy Grant is represented by Rich Paul, and Rich Paul is the David falk of this modern era. He is going to falk Us for everything that he can. He's going to squeeze
the Blazers for every penny. He did this with nk Nirk is one of the most overpaid, overpaid, overrated centers, overpaid, we'll call him overpaid centers in the league. Grant likes it. He says he's comfortable here. He says he likes the players and the team and the organization and probably the money. Also, there's a bigger issue, which is to bring in a star, you not only have to give up a high draft pick,
you've also give up players. The beat writers for Portland think it's either Shayden Sharp or it's Anthony Simons Ant or Shaden. You have to imagine that it's gonna be It's gonna be Simons, and you can't trade Shaden Sharp. Shade Sharp is the future. One guy makes rookie scale, one game makes twenty five million a year. One guy has one of the worst defensive ratings in the league. One guy has upside in terms of his defense. Sharp is probably the one bright spot on this team right now.
To be honest, he's averaging twenty four to six and four with the Steel per game in his last ten. He is asking for thirty minutes per game. Well, actually, I think that's Chauncey who thinks he can get thirty and then Shandon is asking to start. So what is GM Joe Cronin have to say about picking between Shadon and Simons. He says, well, I think that's something we have to look at. I look at it as a great problem to have, But you have to figure that out.
How does the fit work, how do the minutes work? Are there other holes that you need to fill instead? Paul's woo oo that part, that part, Yes, you know that there are what are you fucking talking about? You know that there are holes other than shooting guard to fill. Anyway, it's an exercise we're going to have to go through and evaluate. No, we're not. You already know what the answer is. But on an individual level, I love both guys. I think they're both omega talented and I'm thrilled that
we have them. By Anthony, see you later, enjoy Boston, have a good time with all of the beans and the racism. Last year, the Blazers acted like they were gonna make money moves and they got Gary Payton and didn't they get a Cody Zeller? Yeah? They did. That was our move. We got Tony Snell and Cody Zeller, Gary Payton, Jeremy Grant. Well, thankfully we get the opportunity to overpay Jeremy Grant now that he wouldn't extend with us for a reasonable salary, So good for us this year.
I don't think Dame's putting up with Cody Zeller. I'm gonna guarantee you that's not the veteran he wants. They must make money moves, and who do I think that they get. I think it depends on the outcome of the lottery. If the Blazers have the number two overall pick and they can move that piece, maybe another young guy like Anthony Simon's for a guy like Pascal. That's good. Look, I think that Toronto is gonna be rebuilding pretty fast. I'm not sure that Bridges is a possibility. I'm not
sure that JB is gettable. It is certainly worth a try. You try and try all you can. All I know is that if you are a Blazer fan and you see the Blazers pick a player in the lottery this year, just no Dame is gone and we are in trouble. Trouble, trouble, trouble. If what was happening in Dallas wasn't hilarious, I would probably be sick of talking about it, but it's actually quite delightful. Feed me all of the Mavericks misfortune, feed me all of the drama going on with Mark Cuban.
I just love it. I love the chaos. I love how completely inept everyone is there, from Mark Cuban to Nico Harrison to Jason Kidd, all the way down to probably the ball boy. The ball boy probably doesn't even know how to inflate the basketballs for the team. That's how bad it is there. It's like watching a slightly overweight European train go off the rails as a more slightly overweight owner tries to fix it, but he can't
and he just has to watch in horror. And if you thought that the last month was entertaining, oh boy, this offseason just got even more spicy, more of a soap opera, because it's probably gonna get worse. So where do we start. Well, we talked last episode about how Dallas punted on the season technically, and then Luca came out and said, no, that's actually not true. We're not doing that, and then more bad things happened. They deemed a future draft pick more important than trying to make
the playoffs, which was Luca's stated goal. They said, we need to not give the pick to the next so we're gonna do whatever we can to keep it ourselves. So they tanked in a way that was even more egregious, even more embarrassing, even more obvious than the Blazers, which is kind of crazy because they said the quiet part
out loud. They told everyone. Jason Kidd came out in front of everyone and said, Hey, my bosses are telling me that no one can play tonight because we need to plan for the future, and losing games right now is how we do that. And the league says, oh no, baby, you can't say that, you can't do that. Luca came out and played for a quarter and some change, got his player prop ching and got a weirdly non standing ovation standing ovation, and then that was the last that
we saw from him. That was the last that we saw from Kyrie, who did not play, did not give an exit interview, and it is just so bad. Why was Luca so mad that he didn't get to play the full game, despite the fact that he wanted to participate in a game that was still meaningful because they
could play in the playoffs. It has everything to do with Slovenia, because the MAVs scheduled Slovenia Day on the second last day of the season, meaning people traveled from Slovenia to watch Luca, and Luca played a quarter in front of his own people. He had to sit in warm ups while people who flew ten thousand miles or whatever it is watched insert player you've never heard of and Reggie Bullok, are we serious? Do you know embarrassing that is for your people? Do you know how much
of a slap in the face that book? And they were like, we do not care about Slovenia. The only Slovenian that we care about is you, and Luca was pissed. So what did they do? They like I said, They said, Kyrie, christian Woods, Hardaway Bullock and it was everybody was clearly healthy. They sat Christian Wood and Jaden Hardy for rest guys who were in their early twenties. And then now what is going on, Like clockwork, the league investigates the MAVs
for tampering. Everybody is thinking about what the outcome is going to be. There's every scenario down from finding the MAVs five million dollars to taking a draft pick from them, which would be hilarious because that was the whole reason that they did it to begin with, is to preserve their draft pick. Everyone now says that Luca is unhappy. There are new reports that Dallas fears that he will ask out. Luca says, I am happy here. I am not asking out anytime soon, but we need to fix
these He sounds a little like Damian Lillard. Folks with less patience and really less rope with the organization. By the way, meanwhile, Kyrie and Luca were five and eleven when they played together this year, and Dallas has just one option. They must sign Kyrie Irving. There's no other maneuvers that you have. The roster is in disarray, and I don't know if you can see the train wreck coming, but I certainly can't, and I don't know that there's
much to do to stop it. And by the way, quick little aside, I did a show on New York Sports radio this weekend on WFAM, and I spent nearly two hours talking with fans nick fans about whether they wanted Luca on the Knicks, and eighty percent of people said no, which is just where we're at on Luca right now insane. I love the end of the season because every time that it ends, we all know who's getting fired. And we've been waiting for months for Steven
Silas to get fired. We've been speculating for months about Dwayne Casey getting fired. We've also been commenting recently about whether Nick Nurse would decide to leave. Two out of those three are now no longer with the team and a coaching capacity. Dwayne Casey stepped down after very rough season. When Caid cutting him went down, it was curtains for them. We knew that they got James Wiseman, and then the
curtain call came down even more. That's what happens when you win a league low seventeen games on top of twenty three wins last year. Just not a team that you can trust whatsoever. Killian Hayes developed into a nice piece. Isaiah Stewart did as well, Like this is a team with talent, there's a team with athleticism, this is a
team with length. But the good news is that Casey has stayed on with the team and some of the other replacements that are possible, potentially Chauncey Billups Piston's legend and moving forward. Down in Houston, the Stephen Silas Eras has also come to an end. He he was fifty nine in one hundred and seventy seven while he was the head coach of the Houston Rockets. He said that it was one of the best times of his life.
But fifty nine and one hundred and seventy seven record would be so painful to watch on a day to day basis, not just watch it like us because I watch it and I'm in pain, but also watch it and be tasked to fix it. It has been rough for him. Things were so broken by the time he got there. When James Harden and Russell Westbrook asked out that you can't really blame them except for that you can. Except for that you can. He was not taking into account what his coaches said to do. He didn't hold
any of his players accountable. He had no ability to fix the defense. He did not develop Jalen Green. No one knew their role. Eric Gordon asked to be a part of the offense, and he told them, I'd love to give you some more responsibility. However, Rafael Stone and the Man with the shrimp Fork Tillman, for Titta, says we can't do all that. We gotta let the young guns develop. The athletics said this to say about him.
The absence of leadership on the floor turned to chaos, with lack of winning habits the only consistent theme in a twenty and sixty two season. Offensively, players deviated from game plans and resorted to their own means. It's bad. Defensively, the effort was largely Nolan void on a nightly basis. It is no surprise that the Rockets, per cleaning Glass, have ranked in the bottom four an offensive and defensive efficiency over the last three seasons. I mean, is there
anything more scathing that you can say than that? The article basically said what we could all see, this guy is in over his head. The Rockets have no identity as a team, and that you add that to a front office with heavy fire and an owner with no patience, and you've got a team that's underperforming on the court, that really does not compete. That is a recipe for disaster, and Silas pretty much was on the chopping block all year. He's a good offensive coach, but he has no business
leading men. As for the Rockets, the latest rumors that they're primed to go big game hunting in the off season for more stars. I don't know who they think they're gonna get. Honestly, they've got a lot of cap space. But would you want to play in that mess right now? No, No one wants to oversee a rebuild again in ahe town. No chance. Moving forward, Tree Young time, when Quinn Snyder was hired to help and helm the ship of the Titanic that is the Atlanta Hawks, I did say that
it was weird timing. But you add that to the notion that there were speculation that the only reason he came on that late in the season was to figure out whether he could live with Tray Young in the mix. It turns out that we have our answer about what that was all about. Rumors are now catching fire saying that the Hawks are one hundred percent going to explore
trading Tray Young in the off season. The rumors, let me say that again, The rumors are the Hawks ownership has given the green light to whoever wants to do it, to trade Tray Young in the off season. Wow, the Tray Young experience may have been coming to a close in Atlanta, according to Kevin O'Connor at The Ringer, who dropped this recent article called the Hawks have changed everything
except for Trey Young. The Hawks could be making some huge moves and make no mistake, the decision will be one hundred percent Quinn Snyder's because, according to O'Connor, league sources say during months of negotiations in the lead up to Quinn Snyder getting hired, and he has demanded and
now wields significant influence over personnel decisions. Though Atlanta's front office dynamic is described as a quote collaborative effort, which is never something that you want, many high level decision makers from opposing teams believe that it's now Snyder who has the final say pause, paus pause. Did Kevin O'Connor
just write months months of negotiations with Quinn Snyder? So they were negotiating with Quinn Snyder while Nate McMillan was still rolling out the ball and coaching the Atlanta Hawks. That is interesting. That is very very interesting. I guess it makes sense given that the most desirable coaching candidate on the market at the time would demand control, and it would make sense that he would want some sort
of conversation prior to the opening. But ge zis christ is that why he has been ten and eleven since taking over? Because Tray Young doesn't want to move without the ball. Basically he is Russell Westbrook. Everybody thought he was gonna be Oklahoma Trey Young, which is some version of Steph Curry with off the ball movement, pinned downs, dribble handoffs, and really what he does when he doesn't have the ball is just stand there. Is that encouraging
to you or not? Because it is not encouraging to me. House Snyder has gotten the kids, Aj Griffin, Sadique bay Jalen Johnson to buy in, and Trey Young hasn't shows you everything you need to know about Trey Young. So would that shock me if Trey Young and or Dejontey Murray got moved this summer, No, it would not. Would I be shocked if they tried to build around Trey
Young next year, I would also not be shocked. All I know is, for the first time in Trey Young's career, people are pointing at Trey Young and saying, listen, motherfucker, you are dead on the chopping block if you don't get that shit Squared Away. They are not putting up with his nonsense. So either he needs to move without the ball and be a little baby Steph Curry, or he is going to somewhere like Houston with Jalen Green and them boys. That's all the time that we have
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