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00:00And let me ask you, now let's talk about more serious matters.
00:03They've been unraveling like a spleef, honestly.
00:08They've lost six of seven.
00:09They're playing the night against a team
00:12that's playing good ball.
00:13You got your hands full.
00:15What has happened?
00:16They fired the coach.
00:17What is happening off Beale Street?
00:20Well, you know, they went into the break 36 and 18.
00:23They were right at the top of the West,
00:25obviously behind Oklahoma City,
00:27who everybody's looking up at,
00:28but came out and have not played particularly well since,
00:33especially on the defensive end of the floor.
00:34Too many 35, 36, 40 point quarters
00:39and giving up big runs that you don't have answers for.
00:43It was just, there was just a lot of disconnected play
00:46on the court at times.
00:48The defense has been struggling
00:50with over-committing to help from the wings,
00:53giving up an extra pass for wide open threes
00:56and trying to figure things out.
00:58Sometimes, as we know, things happen in pro sports
01:00and teams hit ruts,
01:02and this is one of those times for this team.
01:04It's been really something that's uncommon to this group.
01:07I think you take last year and throw it out
01:09because of the injuries,
01:10because the guys that were out,
01:12you were playing with essentially 47 different players.
01:15We were handing out hello my name is tags
01:17when we got on road trips
01:18because there was always three or four new guys
01:20on 10 day contracts.
01:23But the years they were healthy, they were a playoff team.
01:26And so this type of struggle was very new to them.
01:30And it just seemed like there was just too many times
01:33that they weren't on the same page.
01:36And at some point,
01:37a front office has to make the decision.
01:38Is this gonna continue?
01:39Are we gonna ride this out?
01:40Or is it time to make a change?
01:41It's a very unprecedented time
01:43to make a change this late in the season,
01:45but they have a guy in the background
01:47that maybe they wanna take a look at before the off season
01:49and decide whether he's their next guy or not.
01:52I can't answer that because again,
01:54I always go to the AMPG above my pay grade
01:57and that's what those guys get paid to do.
01:59And they have to live with the decisions,
02:01but there's a lot of criticism
02:03for moves that were made at the deadline
02:05where they didn't get this or didn't get that.
02:08The bottom line is the five guys on the floor,
02:10when they don't look like they're playing
02:11for the guy next to them, that's a problem.
02:14And jaw was in and out of the lineup.
02:16And so I just think that there was a lot of things
02:19that were weighing down this team
02:21and they just felt like it was time to press a button or two
02:23to see if they could spark some late cohesion
02:27to go into the playoffs.
02:28If not, if you go into the playoffs like this,
02:30it's gonna be a problem.
02:31I mean, Scotty, they didn't win a game
02:32in the state of California.
02:33Every road game, Clippers, Lakers, Kings, Warriors,
02:37they didn't win there.
02:37They haven't beaten the Thunder.
02:38They beat the Boston Celtics once.
02:41And in my opinion on that night, they played well,
02:43but Boston was 18 of 60 from three.
02:46I mean, they shot 30%.
02:47If they make their normal percentage, they win that game.
02:49So they've gotta get better defensively.
02:51That's something they always hung their hat on,
02:53but it just hasn't been there as cleanly this year
02:55as it has in years past.
02:56What about, so they got whacked last night.
02:59And I mean, I thought jaw played well.
03:02We've seen Bane snap on his teammate, Aldama,
03:05and Aldama played well last night, I thought off at a bench,
03:08but I don't think that's Bane's issue with him.
03:10Now tonight you got the Dubs in and they're a problem too.
03:14Yeah, they're playing great basketball.
03:16Since the Butler trade, 18 and five,
03:19have guys that do things that give the Grizzlies problems.
03:22And it's gonna be interesting to see
03:24what the Warriors come out and do defensively.
03:28I would imagine, cause everybody's doing it now
03:30since the offense has been circulated
03:33through a couple of match-ups,
03:34there's a lot of three, two shell zone,
03:37take away the wing and top arc three,
03:40recover to the corners and say, all right,
03:42if you're gonna flash the middle with a baseline cut
03:45or a diagonal cut from the corner,
03:47then go for it and beat us that way.
03:49But they're not gonna let Luke Kinnar get open looks
03:52cause he's too good a shooter.
03:52Desmond Bane, same type thing.