Spoiler Mike be like "He's fine, It'll be fine, Everything is fine." https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ips-nuggets-embarrassing-effort-loss-pelicans "I'm embarrassed," Malone said at his postgame news conference. "That was an embarrassing effort defensively. Gave up 37 fast-break points. You can give all the transition defense rules that you want. To me, transition defense boils down to one thing -- effort. Get back. You can tell them. You can lead a horse to water, whatever analogy you want to use. We did not get back." "I thought our starting group struggled. I thought they were low energy," Malone said. "We were lucky to be down by four at halftime, and they come out and punch us in the mouth to start that third quarter. "I thought tonight was a disappointing, embarrassing effort. I thought guys off the bench played hard, gave effort. We gotta find ways to get our starters to play the same way, because they're not playing like that right now. They're just not." "We're a great talk team. We can talk before the season starts about all the things we want to accomplish, and we want to be a contending team," Malone said. "It's all bulls---. Don't tell me about it, show me. And right now we've got a lot of guys that aren't showing me much."
I think it was Pat Riley who once said these throw-everyone-under-the-bus-in-public speeches don't work often, so you need to keep that card in your pocket for special moments. Is Malone playing his card too early ... or does he really think Jokic is going to put up with that whining his whole career? inb4 -- that's what Pop does. umm, that's what Pop does that lost him Kawhi. And Kerr fostering a b****ing environment lost him cupcake, too, I could argue.
