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00:00i'm not gonna freak out no no i'm gonna stay calm today can i freak out you can if you
00:06want to freak
00:06out i just want everybody to know that you are freaking out i am massively disappointed
00:12it uh i have felt a level of frustration yesterday and this morning that i've only really reserved
00:20for sundays and monday mornings in the fall so i don't necessarily know how to handle myself really
00:25other than just hey remind myself it's a 2-2 series it's a 4-5 matchup and stay calm
00:32if you want to lose your mind the floor is all yours i'm not going to lose my mind i'm
00:38staying
00:39calm today so if that ends up me getting ridiculed fine so be it ridiculed not by the fans i'm
00:46talking
00:46about down the hallway i'm staying calm today it was very frustrating last night i don't know what
00:52the hell it was you didn't enjoy your playoff experience yesterday no i did not enjoy it
00:57maybe it's maybe it's sundays at one o'clock for every team in this city i have no idea
01:01oh and did you enjoy your experience no and i'm a little upset with you anthony me because you've
01:07made me believe that it's time to get going so i set my young son down and i said it's
01:13time to be a
01:13basketball fan yesterday and then halfway through the game he goes what am i watching well he's a
01:18why do i have to watch he's a wrestler so he should we spend our time in gyms in a
01:22much different way
01:23he should have recognized that it was an all-out wrestling match for 48 minutes yesterday it was
01:29pitiful shooting by both teams it was i mean now i would say part of our the only wrestling match
01:34that
01:35happened was when we couldn't get the ball over that divider line in eight seconds it's not a lot of
01:40time okay i mean you know there's a lot a lot of real estate to traverse there a lot of
01:45bodies to kind
01:46of have to do a whatever you can to matriculate the ball down the court oh no that's football this
01:53is a very small space and it should only take two two one dribble and two glides to get past
01:58half
01:58court and donovan is still trapped over there by the free throw line uh here's the thing you know
02:03you get mad i'm staying calm you compared it to a a brown sunday and i'm sure for a lot
02:09of you it did
02:10feel that way the difference here is i actually have expectations for my football team i don't really
02:15for the browns so i i've grown accustomed to the brown sundays being that and i try to have fun
02:21with
02:21it uh regardless i try to i do it in good humor and ribbing and and busting stones with buddies
02:28about
02:28the browns when it came to the calves game yesterday and i could tell a lot of people this was
02:33maybe the
02:34first time the calves were front and center the draft was over i told you that on friday morning i
02:39go
02:40they ain't no way to fill to hide behind on sunday there was nothing else people were watching
02:45that come hell or high water and the calves did what they have done what all of you told me
02:51that
02:51the calves were going to do they laid down they did that eight point lead in a in a in
02:57a game where they
02:58were four minutes away from leading three one and i was ready to tweet ho hum up three one and
03:05then
03:06what happened the floodgates opened and they blew an eight point lead and couple two of the baskets
03:11were just embarrassing were they allowed in a playoff context in a game where it was so tough
03:18to dribble move pass we'll talk about the turnovers there were 30 of them combined between the two teams
03:26the three-point shooting calves were 25 the raptors were 13 and somehow you coughed up an eight-point
03:36lead when you you i don't know if anybody disagrees this you have the clear talent advantage how does
03:43that happen and kenny atkinson last year after the indiana series talked about toughness and i don't
03:49know if he just meant physical because i thought mentally they were a little fried last year i am
03:56worried about their mental abilities with three games left in this year hopefully three games yeah i mean
04:04that would that would presume that the calves actually win a game uh at home which they uh they
04:09will have wednesday they will be favorites they're still favorite in the series but uh yeah kenny i'm i
04:15am uh i am shaken if you asked me do i think we'll win the series i'd say well i
04:21i think we should
04:23toronto you say yes toronto don't don't i think we should no no be a man okay i think i
04:29think now i'm
04:29actually gonna get mad i'm mad at you no that's not on me this see this is i saw everybody
04:33was
04:33coming after me yesterday yeah go you're writing checks yeah go after writing great big checks like
04:38your wife won while she ran the race she did and we'll get to that and it shows out that
04:42the check
04:42might be worth than the actual money that it costs to give it to you the check might have been
04:47more
04:47and you're writing checks you need to stand up for yourself and be a man checks though you at least
04:52you wrote yours in pencil yeah well okay okay yeah okay guys i'll take my life see this is the
04:58difference i'll take it i'll take it right on the chin you're not going to do that you're not going
05:02to weasel out of this don't sit there and say well you know i'm not no no no no no
05:05no you you do
05:07almost cussed at you you go after it you sat there you gave nick a bunch of hell all right
05:11you got a lot
05:12of people mad at nick and i got me mad at nick to be honest with that now nick i'll
05:16give him credit
05:17he i thought for sure he would oh i'm sorry no he has gone headlong into it man he has
05:26gone
05:26headlong challenging this team two o'clock today is going to be the raptors pep rally hopefully he
05:31brings his gifts i'm gonna have to i'm gonna i can't help but listen i can't help but listen
05:35you better be wearing the sock nick wilson you own those socks you better be wearing those raptors
05:39i'm not gonna lie i'm gonna i'm gonna have to like choke him out i'm gonna want to choke him
05:43out i'm
05:43gonna have to i'm gonna want to but he here he went headlong into it and he earned it and
05:49you're
05:49not gonna sit there and pussyfoot around the situation you're gonna stand in there and you're
05:52gonna be a man that's what you're gonna do you said a lot of things you called a lot of
05:56people
05:56stupid you said they weren't ball knowers now you have to go back at them it's a 2-2 series
06:01i don't
06:01need you laying down just like they did yesterday when they're up by eight with three and a half minutes
06:06left to go i thought that game was over i thought that game was finito it should have been over
06:11and that
06:11was it and i watched it and what got me upset is that all right you're in a tough atmosphere
06:16see now i'm i'm gonna this is still call me you've heard me get mad so don't even say i'm
06:21freaking out
06:22at the end of the first half you're up i it's a tough atmosphere i mean at one point we
06:29scored 36
06:29points in the first half by the way i'll just tell you guys this so there was a time where
06:33i was going
06:33over i was going over the first quarter oh no no we scored 17 in the first quarter and we're
06:39leading
06:39well i was going over the cheat sheet for my for my uh draft picks right so i knew what
06:43to say during
06:44the uh during the off season and things like that just real quick things blurbs that i had written
06:48some of it like fano and conception and and and in boston and emmanuel mcneil warren honestly all the
06:55way down to really actually except for carson ryan ironed right up on all of them so i had it
07:01there
07:02so there were a couple times i was like taking my eyes off it and i'm listening was it ruko
07:06who was
07:06the play-by-play guy all right for a jay billis who uh had nothing good to say about your
07:11basketball
07:11team no the entirety of the game even when they were up eight when they were up eight you would
07:15have thought we were down 30 so so i thought i'm glad you brought this up i'm listening for a
07:20second
07:21i go oh my god i looked up and they were going to they were going to break and the
07:24calves were still
07:24up like six and i'm going well i as bad as things are we're still up like six and then
07:30the flurry at
07:31the end of the first half where we lost we were down at the end of the first half and
07:36like chuck
07:37calling out the calves and i don't know did you watch a halftime show i did not okay so no
07:42he was
07:42he was calling out the calves like that's the one pre-half post i will watch are those guys there
07:49that's about it anymore i'll watch a little bit i'll watch big noon kickoff if i have time but usually
07:53we got other things to go on so i'm watching that didn't feel much better i'm like all right let's
07:57just
07:57figure it out in the second half i thought they did they're up like eight and i'm like all right
08:03y'all win sloppy i text i texted you and tony fabric i was like i win sloppy that's fine
08:07no big deal
08:08and and and then they lost and they lost in just the most uninspiring soft fashion slack-ass fashion
08:17and i'm just going how do i react to this and i just sat there and i stared at the
08:21wall and i go oh my
08:22god this brown sunday this brown sunday i'm just staring off into the abyss i start texting you
08:28uh i told you not to call me i i was going to proceed to to drink and i don't
08:32like to drink
08:32over sad things so i was like well you know what doesn't like to drink it's a sunday not over
08:36bad
08:36things not over bad things i don't like to drink out of sadness don't drink when you're sad and uh
08:40i decided you know what sunday weather's nice and uh i haven't weren't feeling very good yesterday
08:45morning but you know what the hell with it i'm just gonna we're gonna have a few cocktails we're
08:49gonna power through this because i'm pretty upset so uh and then i thought better about i go you
08:53know what it's a 2-2 series let's not go losing our minds over here all right let me try
08:58to process
08:59this so i'm gonna remain calm but that that's me you have people you need to answer to right now
09:03and you you can't go wheeze a lot of it well i well be a man let's start out the
09:08reason i was
09:08optimistic about this team is the talent advantage and i do think that i still think the calves have
09:16more talent than toronto i think they have put you yeah that's why people are ready to fist fight
09:21each other over this well and you know they're better and you know the next part of this is
09:26you know i i would come into the series say well we have donovan mitchell they don't have anything
09:30like donovan mitchell and the thing is donovan mitchell who has had a very interesting playoff
09:38resume that now has been put under the microscope because he's had these all-time playoff performances
09:44the 50-point games the 40-point games the huge fourth quarters putting teams on his back and
09:51two different cities and yet has never been out of the second round but part of what i've what i've
09:58said about this team all year is hey you can question donovan mitchell once we get further
10:03in the playoffs what you can't question him is early in a playoff setting and early in the uh the
10:09playoff stretch right first round second round he's had these monstrous games he just threw back
10:15to back duds he was six to 24 in that game yesterday and i i can't even think like he's
10:22been a three-level scorer his entire career he looks like he can't get into the paint and when
10:28he does get into the paint he's trying to draw fouls i don't know what that was with 45 seconds
10:32left
10:32he had a pretty clean look and he got off balance because he was trying to draw a foul it
10:37was very
10:37bizarre the heat check threes in a game where no heat checks should be permitted like the amount
10:45of possessions where he just came down and shot a three while toronto had all five guys underneath
10:49the basket like it is a bizarre donovan mitchell and so for anybody that questioned the calves the
10:55one thing i thought you couldn't question was donovan mitchell was going to be able to bring it
11:00and he hasn't and that's i just talked about his offense he's played zero defense in the series
11:06and so donovan mitchell giving you playoff duds in the first quarter i did not have that
11:12as a possibility i didn't so you know come after me whatever i thought the one given was that donovan
11:20mitchell was going to be able to show and he just totally goose egged out in toronto and that is
11:26what
11:27i'm worried about what is going on with donovan i mean take your pick donovan struggled uh i know
11:32that i mean you mentioned the pregame i didn't or a pre-show pregame i didn't see nick's tweet
11:37right's tweet about uh james yeah more turnovers than field goals because i actually i hardin was
11:43on a lower list of problems that i had with the team yesterday because i thought i thought at least
11:48james harden was unafraid i saw a bunch of guys that were afraid i saw i saw donovan passed up
11:54some
11:54open threes i saw max truce you're never allowed to pass an open three because what else are you
11:58giving the team like there was only one guy that didn't look afraid yesterday that's sam merrill
12:04and sam merrill came in and and played well and that's a problem when sam merrill's your tough guy
12:09right your guy with like yeah he got called for that flagrant well i think i wonder i gotta tell
12:14you whatever it's toronto shot 36 free throws in that game i'm starting to wonder in that game
12:20and this might be the i'm hoping it's not true by by the time they play game five
12:27you're coming back home you better figure your life out damn it okay because when you start when
12:34you start losing in a series then i start to wonder and when you're losing to a team that
12:37a lot of us thought that they were better than indiana last year now indiana was certainly not a
12:42lousy team they were a good team and they were better than you last year but going into the series
12:46we thought we were better than indiana going into the series correct they ended up being better so
12:51we were wrong but i i'm going back to this because i'll say this like you i'm wondering if they're
12:56if
12:56they're playing ghosts of the past i wonder if they're playing ghosts of the knicks series i wonder
13:01you know the celtics series was a celtics series i kind of put that you the celtics were supposed to
13:05be a splendid team but man that indiana series even though indiana came about a half away from winning
13:11a championship if tyrese halliburton weren't it got hot or weren't it got hurt but you know this that and
13:15the
13:15other you still were favored you lost uh you're favored in this series it's 2-2 you've been
13:22favored before and it hadn't gone your way and i'm just you start to wonder because you're trying
13:28to find reasons for it why they're so pensive then they're so hesitant uh and and then it's like
13:35many when you're gonna play sloppy basketball and every both teams were sloppy last night it's like
13:40yesterday afternoon it's like who's gonna i hate to be so cliche who wants it more it's like you're
13:45gonna have to sell out you're gonna have to do it because the difference you can hear it the
13:49difference is 3-1 we're talking draft today hey 3-1 you're supposed to beat this team supposed to be
13:55that series that's it 3-1 we're all i'm arguing with you about talon green how to use him in
14:00an
14:00offense how much i want to see him in the preseason and here i am going i can't i can't
14:05believe you sat
14:05here and lost this this is dumb this is a dumb loss is a dumb way to lose a game
14:10slopping it up
14:11you could have been you could have slopped your way to a win we would have talked about it but
14:15i
14:15would have been fine and i hear you are too too and people are freaking out they're absolutely
14:18freaking out and the reason that they're freaking out is because i'm looking at the call screen right
14:22now they don't believe you're mentally tough so i'm going to try to remain calm because it's the
14:27most expensive roster in the nba yes it is it's one of the most experienced rosters in the nba
14:32and i'm gonna tell you right now guys if they can't do it if they somehow lose this series and
14:36what
14:36have i what have i been boiling my guts for and angry for because clearly this is just not the
14:41right mix i'll stand by it and say they did what they had to do at the times they had
14:45to do it but
14:45clearly this would not be the right mix if they go and they lose but i'm not going to say
14:49that yet
14:50it's a 2-2 series for the love of god i'm not going to freak out on everybody here well
14:53i'm going to
14:54try to remain calm i'm not happy but i gotta remain calm pretty big two or three games left in
15:00this
15:00season for donovan mitchell for his legacy as his playoff resume has been under examination
15:07over the last 12 hours and john sent us a tweet young john sent us a text yesterday and said
15:15uh
15:16this be the last home game on wednesday for donovan mitchell last time he played i thought was asinine
15:21and then you said well actually i said yeah it's on the table it 100 is on the table so
15:27if uh for those
15:28that are wondering like what the stakes are and why i love the nba playoffs and why this stuff
15:33actually means something and why i i all weekend i watched so much playoff basketball while there
15:38was an nfl draft going on in the background for me and i've said my uh my life has been
15:43defined
15:44kenny by the playoffs like the stakes are pretty high and i would look at donovan mitchell front and
15:49center you better bring it wednesday because your legacy is 100 at stake 216-474-0092 there's some
15:58people here who want to call you out i hope they stay they want to call the calves out no
16:02they want
16:02to call you out they want to call you out for calling people out about the calves i i should
16:06have got a defensive rebound in the last six minutes they didn't get 120 they didn't get one
16:11720 danny cunningham 822 the dangerous one daryl rider not one well i've never heard of that should you
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