00:00let's uh let's look at the final uh the end stage here of this wonderful tanking season by the
00:06wizards all right mission accomplished they did their thing they absolutely did their thing they're
00:12on an epic uh meteor falling out of the sky losing skid of 23 out of 24 games i mean
00:21i'm looking at
00:22the uh the schedule game by game and results on espn.com and it's a magnificent trail of red
00:29ells but you know what i look at though one win the one win was against utah back on wednesday
00:35march 25th and that's just because utah's is tanking harder than we are yeah and then ll ll ll ll
00:42and we
00:43got four more games to put ells up on starting with the bulls tonight at home and then the bulls
00:47again
00:48at home on thursday i don't get these back-to-back same venue home and home agains but i guess
00:57this
00:57is the rump end of the schedule yeah then they have miami as the final regular season home game
01:02on friday and then at cleveland to close out the year on april 12th it's been a great year michael
01:09winger will dawkins do your thing get somebody great in the draft let's turn this around brian
01:14keith next year no excuses we're gonna have the two star players they traded for healthy we hope
01:19anthony davis and trey young let's win some games next year okay we're done with the wizards now let me
01:24tell you the hell that some teams are in the bucks are trying to figure out how do we deal
01:31with
01:31yannis who is being a bit of a problem right now because he wants to play the last week of
01:35the year
01:36for no reason their season is completely falling apart and he's like i want to play and they're like
01:41yeah shut it down like we need you to be healthy in the offseason because we probably need to trade
01:46you to get whatever we can in return because you got one more year in a deal and he's like
01:50no i want to
01:50play i want to play he's being a hardo doc rivers is under fire even though doc rivers recently inducted
01:55to the basketball hall of fame uh doc rivers is a good coach he has not had good results ever
02:00since
02:01he won the championship in boston here's the thing um shams terrania reports the morning after the bucks
02:08had turned a double digit lead into a blowout road loss in chicago on march 1st rivers called for a
02:13team
02:13meeting the team meeting rivers who won an nba title as the coach of the celtics in 2008
02:21uh started the meeting started the meeting by imploring his players to look up his resume
02:30quote i took teams to the playoffs into the championship that weren't supposed to
02:34i thought this was one of them he told players in an impassioned speech to the locker room either
02:41you're with us or you're against us if you're not playing hard we're not playing you anymore
02:48look up my resume oh my god what a quote that is but here's the real part that is amazing
02:55this is according to shams reporting rivers told him look up my resume according to six people in
03:14tales on doc rivers who they apparently hate oh my god thank god we ain't them right now huh
03:23thank god yeah you have it so good wizards fans a perfectly executed tanking season where they
03:31somehow avoided the wrath of adam silver they're in position to have the best chance statistically for
03:37the number one ping pong ball which i'm in favor of dibansta you may be in favor of somebody else
03:44they got two viable star players by trade with some young guys still in their core that if the
03:51veterans are healthy you got more than a ham sandwich next year it is kind of exciting
03:58what what a good season what i've seen i've seen improvement from a lot of the young guys in
04:03will riley i like that's that dog can play bro it looks like they found a gem in will riley
04:12yeah and
04:13those are the kind of guys that really can accelerate a team in the nba getting good when a late
04:18first or
04:19someone like that that's a through the cracks guy it turns out to be really good you're like damn i
04:23had
04:23no idea he was that good now here's the thing with the wizards though is like yes we're gonna have
04:28a bottom three pick but no one's really talking about this the nba owners are gonna be holding a
04:35vote in may that could kind of teeter the the lottery odds and then wizards could have less odds because
04:43of the tanking this year okay let's confirm this because yesterday this is what nick ashley said that
04:48they could change the rules before they even draw the ping pong balls this spring somebody else
04:53said on twitter to me he's like no nick's wrong they're not doing it this year i've been trying
04:58to look it up online have you really dug in and figured out can they change the rules this year
05:03well i believe actually esbn was talking about this last week they were okay but let me ask you a
05:09question the people that really tanked and they put themselves in position is this nba owners or is
05:17just the nba it would be the commissioner telling the board of directors we want to make this change
05:22yeah and and suppose some of the board directors uh are affiliated with some of the teams that they
05:27know they're gonna have to get bought off they'll say well no we're not doing it this year uncle ted
05:32get your bag of money we'll do that next year make sure make sure this is a next year i
05:37think if they
05:37were to do it this year that'd be no that's that's do something don't just do it you can't do
05:42it like
05:43to me i'm like you can't do it this year no that would have to be a thing you go
05:46really have a
05:47discussion and a vote on and do it next year but here's what it is though it's the wizard's luck
05:52this is what happens every single year would be it would be i'm i'm laying the carpet for the horse
05:58clary there's time to bitch about this after we lose the lottery which is what we do well there's
06:04no need to bitch about it before we lose the lottery okay after when they lose the lottery i'm
06:10pre-mad right i know you're i'm pre-mad i'm like registering my anger like we're so gonna get
06:17screwed again we are because that's the thing it's like you just know that as a wizards fan you
06:21know for a fact you're gonna get like the fifth pick yeah it's just the worst it's the worst feeling
06:26i i agree i still think the league is missing out on a huge television marketing opportunity on how they
06:33do the lottery they do it behind closed doors the giant vat of ping pong balls that have numbers on
06:39them and they have to redraw and redraw because they've got so many combinations on a big spreadsheet of
06:44numbers they have a representative from every team in the room watching it so that they can say
06:48there's no funny business and it's legit but it doesn't lend itself to any drama you know it would
06:55be absolute electric factory drama is a giant
07:12it's a big i've seen a giant plinko disc you get 13 giant plinko discs in a hopper above this
07:22plinko board that's 30 feet tall okay and you got the number one pick in the middle and you got
07:28the rest of the picks splayed out toward the edges and you have those plinko chips
07:36randomly circulating around up top and then the the the gate opens up to chunk and they fall into the
07:43grid of plinko nails and you're watching that as a fan rooting for your plinko chip to fall in the
07:52middle now does it help you wait certain teams who have lost more to have a better chance no it
07:58does not it's purely random but that would be better i would watch that i would watch that in
08:03a million years but also i'm gonna be watching the draft lottery this year just for the wizards get
08:08right right in the gut every single year i watch it every year do we know who we're sending up
08:14to what
08:15i call the deus of shame the people have to sit up there and represent the teams that mean you
08:21know
08:22i don't think it's been announced yet okay do we have anyone lucky that we haven't said i'll go do
08:28it i'm lucky are you lucky i'll get your number one pick
08:34guaranteed says b bitch put some of my louisiana voodoo on them
08:39i thought you said you don't believe in that one people hey what's up hey i i i got people
08:46that
08:46that tell me certain things i'll try and see if it works why you rubbing that chicken foot on me
08:52it might work side we should probably get someone on and do that for the wizards for the lottery
08:57what kind of dust did you just blow at me hey man i'm trying to figure it out we'll get
09:02will
09:03riley in studio trying to get number one yeah uh will riley pick 21st overall see again will
09:08complain though that that is why you know when people are saying this trade for uh anthony davis
09:13like they didn't give up anything you know they gave up you know first round picks that belong to
09:17uh the thunder and the warriors they're gonna be late first round picks i'm like yeah they're
09:22probably not going to be great but don't just say they're nothing because it's late first still a lot
09:28of stars that were not drafted in the top 12 picks in the nba i i know real about that
09:35i know
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