Emoni Bates and Tristan Thompson suspended – NBA (The Junkyard Pod, Cleveland Cavaliers Podcast)

Emoni Bates and Tristan Thompson suspended – NBA (The Junkyard Pod, Cleveland Cavaliers Podcast)

Mitchell has his head up Takes get that we Stu out of here two different members of the cast have been suspended here recently Tristan Thompson has been suspended by the NBA for 25 games after failing a drug test and you know what it kind of all makes sense now TT was having one

Hell of a comeback season after being on Sports Center for for a year and uh you know the fact that he’s been on Peds I guess isn’t all that shocking All Things Considered but in all seriousness uh I do think it’s unfortunate Not only was Thompson having a good year but I just

Think it’s important to keep you know mental health in mind and understand what would lead a player or an aging athlete like Thompson to go down that path in the first place the fact that he felt like he needed to use that uh it’s unfortunate so I really am wishing him

All the best and I thought it was uh I also thought it was unfortunate that some cast fans on Twitter were kind of taking Victory laps about this but uh Jackson what’s your take on the Tristan Thompson news uh it’s unfortunate especially this time because the Cavs you know when they don’t

Have when they when a mob returns I don’t think Tristan was going to have a spot in the rotation just because you know you don’t need three centers um so kind of the timing of it is unfortunate but it’s also kind of disappointing because Tristan was one of the best

Stories of the year for the Cavs just his Resurgence him you know we thought that when he was signed that like he’s just here to be like this team’s James Jones but no he was here to play basketball and be a really good basketball player like he’s been really

Helpful especially with that second unit we talked a lot about what C Marl is able to do uh a lot of that has has to do with Tristan’s screen setting like his ability to just take away space from the fenders has really opened up Sam Merrill and really that whole second

Unit so he’s just been phenomenal and it is a little disappointing I hope that you know I hope I think it’s a good point that you brought up with the mental health I’m not I don’t think I’m eloquent enough to speak on that topic but I think it’s important to keep that

In mind when you talk about things like this because this is something that I’m sure it was a choice to go down this route and um hopefully he’s okay from that standpoint and you know I think it’s I think these next stretch of games that the Cavs have

Before Evan Moy returns are going to be really interesting because they really need what Tristan provides especially you know Damian Jones hasn’t looked very good this year when when he’s been given real minutes he’s looked good in garbage time and the G have gotten a lot of

Garbage time so it’s given him a lot of time to kind of get some reps in and he’s looked good but it’s different playing against like actual meaningful basketball but he’s going to be the guy that they’re going to be relying on I don’t think I’ve seen people float that

Maybe they play Dean Wade at the five well let me tell you something Dean Wade is Dean Wade is kind of like a 34 he’s not a 45 definitely not a George Nang definitely not a five um like he just can’t he just can’t rebound enough a rebounder like even there were

Some games where the good Cavs teams would try to play Kevin Love at the five and you could kind of get away with it just because he could rebound like he wasn’t protecting a rim or anything but he was rebounding and it’s like George nangas and Dean Wade aren’t that level

Of rebounders so you can’t even like you can’t even entertain that for like a three minute stretch just because if you can’t rebound and you can’t defend the the first action then what choice like yeah you know it’s not gonna go well not only that but like if we

Talking replacing Tristan like Tristan’s value is the offensive rebounding and Nang and Dean Wade are going to be on the three-point line they’re not going to be down there putting pressure on the offensive class so it’s really a big blow never thought I would say that about Tristan Thompson 2023 but losing

Him for 25 games especially with Mo out it’s gonna hurt uh it’s not something that they can’t overcome but it’s definitely not ideal uh the other suspension that we have is ammani baits I believe there’s two games right so he’s already he’s already served one game yeah so he has been

Suspended for really as far as I can tell there was a fan in the opposing team’s crowd that was heckling him sounds like this fan said something very disrespectful Swani and another charged player entered the stands to confront this person there it’s hard to see on

The video and I I haven’t really heard all the details but doesn’t seem like there was any physical altercations or anything like that just seemed like ammani approached him and they had a conversation now immature decision the wrong decision to enter the stands but I’m hoping that this is maybe just a

Small moment that is easy to move on from but what is your take on this whole ordeal I think it’s I think it’s telling that it’s only a two game suspension and we didn’t hear anything about it like two days so I don’t think it’s something to I think there’s like an inclination

To be like oh this is just like Kevin Porter this is just like a Kevin Porter Jr situation where like some of the bad Kevin Porter Jr situations happened off the court in a very like serious way and were much more serious allegations than going into this

Like when you watch the video he’s not running like he mentioning malice in the palace and then you watch the video and he’s just like taking a stroll up to like be like hey what’s up man from the JB had some quotes about it yesterday it it sounds like

This was probably more the fault of the guy who was saying things in the stand and was not saying things that are appropriate at all so I don’t think this is worth making a big fuss about and he was he was actually like if you look at

The video this all took place in about like 25 seconds like it looked like he was dribbling it out the buzzer sounded he started to slowly take steps towards the you know towards the Baseline towards outabounds then it cuts away and then you can see like the coaches in the

Background kind of point to what’s happening but they weren’t like oh no imman’s like punching people in the stands it was just kind of like I don’t think ammani should be like two rows back and that’s where and then it was like by the time they kind of went to

Cut over there he was already back on the on the charge bench so which was on the other side of the court so it’s like I don’t think this isn’t worth making a big deal about or this isn’t like uh I don’t even think this is like uh imman

Needs to show more maturity because if this was an NBA game there’s a lot more security that’s oh yeah he would made well he would have made it up there but I don’t think the fan would have been able to get away with saying the things

That they did yeah he would have been approached so I don’t I don’t think this is like this this isn’t a stain on his resume and I think if you use it as such that’s that’s foolish and that’s you’re doing your own confirmation bias yeah I

Actually agree 100% uh like I said it was it the right decision probably not but to me this sounds like he probably got suspended just as a technicality of like hey you can’t go into the stands it doesn’t seem like anything bad actually happened I don’t think it’s a stain on

His resume and I don’t want to speculate but I have heard that the person in the stands was actually mck Perry asking ammani to come on it Cavalier pod so maybe it wasn’t bad after all but uh no in all seriousness uh I mean like I said with uh Tristan

Thompson it’s like I think sometimes we got to remember the athletes are human and you can’t just say whatever you want because you’re in the stands and expect not to have an effect on someone and clearly ammani felt that a line was crossed and he talked to the fan you

Know people talk about immaturity but like in a way the way he handled it was kind of mature I mean he didn’t rush the stands he didn’t get into a fight we don’t know what was said between the two but not not making too big of a deal out

Of this one I did want to address it though because uh obviously Twitter is Twitter and uh the news broke and everyone went wild So

Emoni Bates and Tristan Thompson were BOTH dealt suspensions for different reasons.

We discuss what happened and any potential implications for both players.

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