Moving on to a bit of old news. This is like a week old ish, maybe a little longer, but the news of it, the decision of it, the thought process of it, is still sticking in my crawl. I don't know why I can't get over it. I don't think other people are getting over it either. It's like just a regular season game, idiot move, but it showcases the dysfunction that I have been hearing about from the
Brooklyn Nets for weeks now, six weeks, eight weeks. All of that to say, what the fuck are the Brooklyn Nets doing? What are they doing? This team is all kinds of fucked up. I can't understand what their philosophy is. I can't understand why they're doing the things that they do. I said the six weeks ago, people didn't believe me, and now thankfully they're showing their ass. Thankfully they're showing their ass. Last Wednesday, this is what happened. That's played
a Bucks team that has been struggling. It was the nets fifth game in seven days. But let's be honest, this very young team, the Bucks are playing their third game in five days, so both team's probably gassed right. The Nets, by the way, at home during the Christmas break, wanted to sell out the arena, put on a show.
Yannis, Dame, you know the crew, mchil Bridges, Nick Claxton, support them, Brooklyn Brooklyn.
Right right, Like that's the vibe. No, wrong, not this NETS team. It's Grinch time, baby only Cole and you're fucking stocking. Why because we want to take the last little shred of hope and desire and fun and excitement that you have for this dog shit team and we're going to smell into smithereens. Because why the Nets were like everyone that you want to see were not letting you see besides Giannis and Dame. So the Nets decide to sit Nick Claxton, Spencer, Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney Smith and
Cam Johnson. None of those dudes were injured at all. But by the way, they still have mckail bridges, right, they still have Rayce O'Neil, they still have Cam Thomas. Maybe Cam Thomas will put up like sixty five right, No, also not so fast. Jacque Vaughan decided after the first quarter to sit Bridges, Thomas, and O'Neill, and they were down by one point one point. They were all getting blown out by thirty, was like, okay, let's just send
in the white flag. No. No, it was a competitive game all the way into the middle of the third quarter. Fourth quarter comes round, the Scrubs get gassed. Shocker, they lose by like a million. They've trailed by seven and a half time. This is outrageous. Not only have fans gone ballistic, not only did they get eviscerated by the nets. In the other NBA media.
Even the other players.
The players who got bench were like, I don't know what the fuck is going on. Don't ask me. I have no clue what is happening. MIKEL Bridges was asked about why and his thoughts about why he played only twelve minutes. Did not like the choice, whatever that was, but it's whatever. Definitely was not a fan. How does he feel? What do you think that culture's like right now? When Mikeel Bridges is like, didn't like that whatever that was? Yeah, whatever that was. When asked if he needed a rest,
he said, no, never need a rest. This is a dude who just went viral on TikTok for eating Chipotle every single day for ten straight years. A man of routine started a game every single game for the last five years, maybe the more impressive stat you've ever seen. And guess what and guess what and they were like, fuck you, no shot, fuck your Chipotle and your minutes played. Roy O'Neil was also asked about getting benched and he said,
who doesn't want to play out there? I feel like if we had the chance, we would say we don't want to rest. So let's check in on Jacquvon. Jacques, why'd you do it? Why would you do that? Considering that it was a home game that coincided with Christmas break when tons of kids would be coming home to Barclays jacque Von, are you actually the grinch that stole Christmas? And he said, I've got to think short term and long term and make executive decisions for the betterment of
the group. It's unfortunate tonight that they got to the point where we were putting them in harm's way by putting them out there tonight. What the are we going to war? Is? This? Is this Vietnam? Like at Barclay Center? Were there people in the bamboo with sniper rifles? What is happening putting them in harm's way? We are talking basketball,
We are talking about a game. Are you serious? I would like Jock Von to sit there and tell all eighteen thousand, one hundred and ninety nine paying customers who pack the arena with the capacity of seventeen thousand, seven hundred and thirty two, when this is one of the least sold out arenas in NBA, one of the least watched teams in basketball on TV. But hey, right, don't blame Jacques, blame what the Nets call their quote unquote performance team, which is tasked with figuring things out like
load management. I would like to say, as as a strong believer in logic, that this is one of those games where Sean Marks calls Jacques vaugh up and says, we need to get some minutes for or Noah Clowney what like whoever like these randoms on the team then probably need to be traded. Let's get some additional playing time for Harry Giles and Dayron Sharp and Dennis Smith Junior. Maybe he could be a nice little piece to a contender needing a backup point guard. Let's get Trendon Watford
and Dereek Whitehead. Can you imagine you're ten years old right like you? Like Michale Bridges and Nick Claxton, Right, maybe hell, you even like Cam Thomas and his chuckin' and you go there and you're excited. It's Joannice versus your team, Jannis versus Nick Clason, and instead you get a steady dose of trendon Watford. Do you know fucking pissed I would be as a kid? Are you serious? Vaughan's trying to play the good soldier. Sean Marks has got his fingers in the mix. He's blaming things on
the performance team players have no clue. Nobody's obviously communicating with them what the story is because they're not playing the good soldier either. They're saying we're clueless. And when when Toll Bridges and Cam Johnson were upset over the decision, guess what jog Vaughan had to say. This is where it gets more insane. He says, it's just like my kids. That doesn't mean you have to agree with me. I understand I have to make a choice. That's my position
as the head coach. But it's just like my kids. Doesn't mean you have to agree with my decision. Are we serious? These grown men make millions of dollars and if they don't win and get the playing time that they need that affects their careers. This is not like a kid that wants to sleep over at his friend's house. This is ridiculous. Thankfully, Damon, Giannis and Middleton and Lopez all played. All Bucks starters played twenty nine or more minutes, even on the road, even in their third game in
five days. Let me say that if it was the other way around, I would have understood it. What does Milwaukee care about what Brooklyn fans think? But no, they're the ones going out like Kobe Bryant and showing out on a random game against a dog shit team. The Nets have now lost eight of ten games. They are now in danger of what I already saw, which is punting on the entire season. They are perilously close to losing their entire fan base after the toxicity of the
last three years. This was supposed to be the year where everyone got excited about the rebuild, scrappy players, development, fun, Kenny Atkinson nets, D'Angelo Russell nets, Jared Allen nets, no, no, no, no, no,
Dreek Whitehead nets, Trendon Watford Nets. No one thinks this team was ever going to compete for a title, but a playoff spot right now in the East, real possibility, and that was a game you absolutely could beat the Bucks in, and that would have been a huge success, even for a franchise that's been a massive disappointment just beating the Bucks over Christmas break. Those are the little winds that would have been very meaningful. But no, they're
still gonna do bizarre things. Turn the offense over to Cam Johnson or camp Thomas, excuse me when he's a liability find a way to make mckail bridges regress bench their starters when they're not hurt. And now they're being investigated by the league to see if they're in an in violation of the new NBA anti tanking roles rules, which, by the way, they are, they are in violation I.
Think we all know.
Is not like the nets even matter if they're tanking because they don't even have their own picks. So what the fuck are the nets doing? I have zero idea, and from the sound of things, no one else does either. Can we also get the hashtag free Spencer Dinwitty trending, free mckel bridges trending, free Camp Johnson's trending. Please someone fix this now
