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00:00Tyler, we've got to address something with Luke here.
00:04Uh-oh.
00:05Because I've heard a rumor from Tyler.
00:10Yeah, I was going to say, who's snitching?
00:11I've heard the rumor that, and I wonder how the people feel about this.
00:16Because I think a lot of people, and I personally feel that Udoka is at towards the top, if not
00:25the top,
00:26of why the Rockets are in the position that they're in.
00:31And I have...
00:32Blame game.
00:33What'd you say?
00:33I said the blame game.
00:34He's got to be damn near the top.
00:36He's for me, too.
00:37I think he's 1A or 1B.
00:40He is right, right there at the top.
00:42And I have my reasons for that.
00:44I think there are a lot of people out there that believe, if you're putting a chart of, like,
00:49who is it that you're looking at that have really caused this team, who we thought coming into the year,
00:55would be a championship contender to be down to the L.A. Lakers three games to one.
01:03It was 3-0 without Luka and Reeves.
01:06When you were favored minus 650.
01:08Yes, to start the series.
01:09Son of a bitch!
01:10And that's just to start the playoff series.
01:12We're not even talking, Tyler, what they were thought to be before the season started.
01:17Mm-hmm.
01:18They thought to be that.
01:20But I think Udoka's towards the top.
01:22You don't.
01:23You feel like Udoka's getting too much blame.
01:25And I just really would love to hear your theory on this.
01:31And where you have, like, how many people do you have in front of Udoka?
01:37I would put him...
01:38There's only one acceptable for me.
01:40But anyway, go ahead.
01:41How many do you have?
01:42Well, honestly, I put him last in regards to, like, I would group all the players together.
01:50GM's number one.
01:52That should be deserving of the most blame.
01:54You're blaming all of the players.
01:56So that's 15 guys.
01:57Then I put the players, yep, second.
01:59Emace last.
02:00I give him the least amount of blame.
02:02That's not to say no blame.
02:03The least?
02:04Yeah.
02:04Tyler, you didn't tell me it was this bad.
02:05Yeah, that's right.
02:06No, I was trying to not be hyperbolic, but my man is pretty set in stone in his feelings
02:13on Udoka right now.
02:14I've become the Emei stan around here.
02:17I went through this with Clint like a month ago.
02:19Tyler was texting me last week seeing if I was off the bandwagon yet with Emei.
02:23After the game two loss, yeah.
02:26Now this today.
02:27I've really had to dig in and defend the guy around here.
02:30What about the game three loss?
02:31But anyway, go ahead.
02:31No, see, the game three loss is the perfect, that's the example, good example of why I
02:36put the blame more on the players, of what are you doing with the turnover in the back?
02:39You just need to hold on to the basketball.
02:41It was like, what was that, Duke against UConn, right, in the NCAA tournament.
02:45You don't even need to advance it up the floor.
02:47Hold on to the ball and let them follow you, and then you compound the issue by following
02:51a three-point shooter, and then Reed Shepard turns it over again in the backcourt.
02:55I put more of that onus on those players that are failing to execute in that situation
03:00than the head coach on the sideline.
03:02I think the GM's the biggest problem.
03:04It's the classic, like, Bill Parcells, you know, buy the groceries to make the meal.
03:08You have a team here that doesn't have a point guard, so then you have to move a men
03:12Thompson out of really his strength and make him try to be the point guard.
03:15Shooting was an issue last year.
03:17They didn't do enough to address the shooting.
03:19They were bottom three this year in three-point rate.
03:23They don't have the point guard after the Van Vliet injury.
03:25Nothing was done at the deadline.
03:27They were bottom eight in turnovers this year.
03:28Just wasn't a good offense.
03:30And then you rely on a dream as opposed to reality in that no team has ever won the championship
03:36when being led by a star that is 37 years or older.
03:41This would have been the first time ever.
03:42And then you look at what happened where now Kevin Durant, whether it's because of his
03:46age or not, is injured and unavailable in this series.
03:49And the one time he did play had nine turnovers in a game where I put that more on the
03:53superstar
03:53that you bring in to lead this team than I do the head coach.
03:56I can't have my 37-year-old superstar going out there.
03:59I don't care if you're banged up or not.
04:01You can't turn it over nine times and have me sit here and say, this head coach stinks.
04:06I'm fighting this.
04:07That's on the 37-year-old superstar to take better care of the basketball, especially in
04:11the bigger moments this year.
04:13But Imei, I mean, how can we forget?
04:15You talked about it with C.J. Stroud of the last 50 games instead of the most recent two.
04:19How can we forget what Imei did first in Boston, turning that team around to get to the championship
04:24in his first year?
04:25And then this Rockets team, turning them around and how he did, taking a step each way of the
04:29season or each way of his career until this season where you look at this team.
04:35They don't have a point guard.
04:37Then they were built around this tall lineup that you had to scrap and throw out of the
04:40window like a month into the season when Steven Adams gets injured.
04:43And then nothing's done at the deadline.
04:45And then you're relying on a 37-year-old, which no team has successfully done in the
04:49past to go win a title.
04:50It's just, it's a bad construction of the roster.
04:54And when you turn the ball over and you can't make threes, I can't, I can only blame Imei
04:59so much.
05:00He's not out there taking the shots.
05:01He's not out there trying to break the press in the final seconds of that playoff game
05:05against the Lakers.
05:05He can only do so much.
05:07And in the NBA, I think it's always, I'm always going to lean to blaming the players more
05:10than the coach.
05:11Because I think the coach has the least impact in the NBA of any professional sport.
05:15But with that, the last thing I'll say is, honestly, I don't know how much I trust this
05:21statistic.
05:22But if you look it up, the Rockets are the best team offensively out of timeouts.
05:26And I will credit Imei with that.
05:28That out of timeouts, when he has the chance to draw something up, he's been able to do it.
05:34But when the game's ongoing, and you have to rely on the players to make their own offense,
05:39it's just not a good enough offense or a good enough team.
05:42They don't have the shooters.
05:43The star is too old.
05:44They don't have a point guard.
05:45Say point guard one more time.
05:46Yeah.
05:46I swear to God, if you say point guard one more time, I swear to God, I'm going to throw
05:49this mouse at you in your left shoulder.
05:52That's why the win total in Vegas dropped by like three when Fred VanVleet got injured.
05:57That's a big loss.
05:58And there's only so much you can do.
06:00Okay.
06:01All right.
06:02From the text line.
06:03First time I've ever said this.
06:05I'm 100% with Ron on this one.
06:07That's not true.
06:08It's not the first time you have been 100% with me.
06:11That's a lie.
06:12Who was on the radio smoking crack talking about you, Doke, is last on the list to blame
06:15for the Rockets?
06:16Sonny Steve.
06:18Luke, I love you, but this is terrible.
06:20Luke doesn't smoke crack.
06:21He doesn't.
06:22I don't think.
06:24Correct.
06:25Ron and Clint always like to blame coaches around here.
06:29Yeah, it's our go-to just every time.
06:31Just no matter the sport, the team.
06:33It's the coach, man.
06:34Listen, Ron, he's right.
06:35Stone definitely knowing he had no point guard should have gotten one.
06:40All right.
06:43Even more since you went through that long, long, long passage, I've now taken Yudoka
06:54by himself at the top now.
06:56I had him 1A, 1B with Stone, but I've now taken it to the top.
07:02And here is the biggest reason, because the on-court stuff, because all of a sudden now
07:07here, you will just ignore that this team routinely gets 17, 18, 20 turnovers.
07:12It feels like a night in games.
07:15And at some point, the coach has to be responsible for that.
07:20At some point, if it keeps happening, the coach has to be responsible.
07:23Yes, it was some boneheaded plays, but at some point, the coach has to be, all right,
07:28we'll give you the first one, Jabari.
07:29I don't know what you were doing.
07:31I don't know why you threw that ball over there.
07:32But for some reason, in your mind, it is not ingrained for you at this moment to take
07:41this moment a little bit more serious.
07:42I put some of that on the coaches for preparation.
07:45And then you follow up with Reed, you get the ball turned over as well.
07:48I do that.
07:49Nobody told your dumb ass to go foul them.
07:51But some of that, I put that on the coaches.
07:54Yes, it's on the players.
07:55But when it happens all the time, the Rockets do dumb things all the time.
08:01None of that stuff is really surprising.
08:03A little bit.
08:04With 26 seconds left, you're up six and you do those things.
08:06But they do dumb stuff all the time.
08:09And Kevin Durant, yes, can't turn it over nine times.
08:12But also, a part of that had to do was Kevin Durant was no adjustments made on the double
08:18teams of why he was turning the ball over.
08:21And second, this is my big one, because people like to go to the roster stuff.
08:26And here's my biggest thing with Udoka, that he somehow gets to Harlem shake his way out
08:30of.
08:32If we look at this, let's take it to the Texans.
08:37Let's go in order of power, hierarchy of power, the top three people there.
08:44How would you list them in order?
08:46Tell me if you disagree.
08:47I would say the McNairs, Cal and Hannah, D'Amico, Nick Casario.
08:55I would probably agree.
08:57I don't think Nick Casario can fire D'Amico.
09:01I think D'Amico, if he wanted to, could have Nick Casario move.
09:05Again, Texans, I'm not saying this.
09:07I know you're listening.
09:08I'm not saying this is the case.
09:09I'm just telling you what it is.
09:11He got his head coaching privileges taken from him, hiring privileges taken from him.
09:19They went and got D'Amico.
09:21D'Amico has more power in this organization than him.
09:24I feel like with the Rockets, Tillman Fertitta, Yudoka, Raphael Stone.
09:31Yudoka has more power in this organization than Raphael Stone.
09:36And if Yudoka wanted a point guard, just like if D'Amico Ryans wanted something, it ain't a Raphael Stone
09:46saying, hey, Yudoka, you just go take the groceries that I give you.
09:51No, Yudoka has more power than Stone, which means he's got as much power to make decisions on the roster.
09:58Stone is running stuff by him as opposed to just making decisions.
10:03So when you talk about they don't have a point guard, I got to believe Yudoka has a part in
10:08that.
10:09I got to believe, and tell me shooters, if that shooter on the bench didn't play defense like Bruce Bowen,
10:17he's not going to get on the floor.
10:19Reed Shepard's his best shooter.
10:21He hates playing Reed Shepard.
10:23I know they don't have shooting.
10:24They got some over there.
10:25They won't put their best shooter on the floor.
10:28He said two and a half seconds left in a game, down three.
10:32Reed's hit five threes today.
10:34Sit him on the bench.
10:35That's what he did in a game, down three.
10:37That's what he did once this year.
10:39So I think that we just try to separate, even though Yudoka, to me, is the second most powerful person
10:46in the organization in terms of decision making.
10:49Raphael Stone cannot fire Yudoka.
10:52Tillman fires Yudoka.
10:54He has, just like D'Amico, they working together on this roster.
10:59You think Raphael Stone just said, I'm going to go get Kevin Durant, man.
11:02You just chill on that.
11:04I'll get him.
11:05No.
11:06Yudoka was a part of that because of the relationship they had together.
11:09And I just don't think they're running out.
11:11And by the way, the Fred Van Fleet thing.
11:13Let's just say, what kind of point guard do we believe Fred Van Fleet is?
11:16That he's just, he's going to, he's a miracle worker.
11:19And it's all, it's going to change.
11:20At least he is a point guard.
11:21Yeah, he's better than some of the guys.
11:24This isn't De'Aaron Fox rolling out here.
11:26No.
11:26This is not like, let's calm down.
11:28They'd be sitting right here losing to them, too.
11:30It's, it's, the Rockets have now turned into Kendall Hinton trying to play quarterback for
11:35the Broncos.
11:36They're trying to figure it out on the fly.
11:38Pete Shepard is not Kendall Hinton.
11:40They don't have a point guard.
11:41I am not going to let you do that.
11:43I'm not, no.
11:44He's not Kendall Hinton.
11:46I'm just saying, people like to continue to take Yudoka out of decision making when it
11:53comes to the roster.
11:53There is no chance in hell that he's not doing it.
11:58I don't know.
11:58I can't make that, that assumption.
12:00There's no chance.
12:01There's no, when, as soon as he hired him, we knew he was more powerful.
12:05This was not, as soon as he got hired, you know it.
12:08Well, if E-May's making the decisions, then I put his roster construction number one in
12:13blame, but the coaching is still separate.
12:15Yeah.
12:16It's like Bill Belichick.
12:17Bill Belichick was a bad GM, but a great coach.
12:20Just like people believe Lesney just told, just told that man, hey, hey man, we just
12:27going to bring in this quarterback, man.
12:29We're going to use our 13th pick, man.
12:30We just going to, we just going to bring in this quarterback, man.
12:32We ain't going to run this by you, Sean.
12:33Yeah.
12:34Come on.
12:34Get out of here.
12:34Get out of here, man.
12:35You do know.
12:36Then he admitted to meeting Sean McVay previously.
12:39Get out of here, man.
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