Gilbert Arenas Explains The Problem With Monty Williams

Gilbert Arenas Explains The Problem With Monty Williams

surprising news is detroy Pistons celebrated juneth by firing head coach Monty Williams after just one season so according to W this decision was made at the ownership level the same ownership that gave Williams a historic six-year 78.5 million contract last summer after the Suns fired him with the dismissal Williams still has 65 million remaining on his contract and what will now be considered reparations for his emancipation a two-time coach of the year Williams was expected to help the struggling pistons in their rebuilding efforts after several boo Seasons uh Pistons were the worst team in the league this season with a record of 14 and 68 including an NBA record tying 28 game losing streak are you guys surprised that the Pistons gave Mony Williams a boot after just one season yeah and they just gave my money right yeah I mean after one season like that was I don’t know my my thing is this your team was sorry the year before he got there year before that and the year before that and then he gets there what did you expect him to do with the same the same game right you don’t even give them a time to really find out what these players can do what Their potential is to put in his like his recipe right you know this is a year but for the most part you know we know the NBA season half the time you’re not practicing you’re trying to you know what I mean so you only have what what three weeks to really try to to put in your [ __ ] oh no they was practice oh I’m I’m pretty sure you know it wasn’t like any other team they was practice but it’s you you still don’t really get a feel for what you really have it takes time so the fact that they paid him then fired them after one year it says more about them than it does him or it had nothing to do with basketball or that one or that part right I’ll take whatever you’re about to say like I said in this couch and I say what I had to say like money need to throw a few F of words out there we saw the video him him not cursing at one point right gosh darn it I’m not saying it’s the same thing I don’t know this for factual I don’t mean to speak people business but rumor has the reason Mark Jackson hasn’t gotten a job because of some of the religious things that’s that that he’s believes in right and he tries to force those things on other people you can’t do that in certain environments MH I’m not saying this man was doing but his personality is that of cool that’s that’s what you are that’s who you are but you can’t force that on people mhm and you that way in the locker room and certain things it might rub people the wrong way might rub manager the wrong way we didn’t know this this side of don’t know but this is sports man like it’s emotional it’s you gota you can’t you just can’t be here man like below like yo you you can’t not dealing with 19 20 year old 21 year old young men it don’t work I feel the players couldn’t relate to him he couldn’t relate to the guys it’s part of decision man like it’s you got a bunch of 19 20 21 year old kids in there go ask how many of them went to church how many of them go to church how many of them read the Bible is it’s these are the things man like this is real stuff that’s going on and he’s like and I’m question yeah I don’t I’m just no no no is he a church going guy humman M I would yes okay he’s very religious okay compared to the rest of the world we’re just talking about uh sport NBA locker room NBA lock I can’t talk about you know football and stuff NBA locker room NBA locker room how many Church heavy in the church players are there yeah not a step further take it a step further NBA arenas before the game we have a chap they have Chapel yeah we have Chapel we have Chapel how many active your teammates your teammates my teammates went you know the one ones that went mhm because they went every every Arena that they went same two or three guys if that might have been one M it’s the same ones but I don’t mean but it’s you no so is that I’ve never thought about it is that frowned upon like what do we what do we think about those actual players we don’t it’s kind of like depends on who the player is right listen so we had we had turbulence on the plane one time Hubert Davis took his Bible in the bathroom M he came out I said you do know if this [ __ ] go down you going with us just saying you religious I get that you go pray okay cool you take your Bible and there pray cool but it go down I don’t think you’re going to be spared mhm but you very religious I get that but that’s what I’m saying but put a seat Bel on man makes more y got through the turbulence that prayer might have been the reason why y got through the turbulence I know well it could have been the pilot or it could have been weather change I’m just saying is like we he’s right there is Chapel right and yeah but why is it a front upon if guys are no he asked is it he no I asked it cuz no it is though it is I mean I me nobody because how can you so my thing is what do we look what like do we look down on like church the Bible and stuff never I’ve never been in locker room D talk about church no cuz I don’t cuz I don’t think Church players people that’s in the church I don’t think they try to push their religion on the players because there’s only one or two of them and you got a whole bunch of heathens yeah in this [ __ ] and and is that what okay yeah we got a bunch of heathens in is that what it is is because to play in this type of environment Just Sports itself you have to be of a Different Cloth mhm being being nice seems like yo come on man with the N come on man you don’t have to cloth line this [ __ ] man like is it is it that and like that’s what I’m said I’ve never really like the dudes who went to church I’m like I don’t really you know because you they don’t bother nobody but we didn’t really expect [ __ ] from them like hey Bening [ __ ] you might have one guy that you rely on and that’s every now but it’s like I’m thinking about star players yeah who I mean Michael R was Heavy who Michael red was Heavy oh he was see I’m trying kind of start player that but was he Heavy after he got injured was he heavy before well I don’t I mean you say my rookie year he was heavy into it like churching and things like that so but but you knew the team huh so you knew the guys who was going uhuh yeah Him Luke RAR um you know it be a couple other guys so yeah so they kind of got me like in into it too so yeah it was cool though but it wasn’t like we talked about it it was just you know go to Chapel boom boom but it was nothing like you know so you started going to chap when you was there mm yeah sometimes yeah and then we would pray after the game sometimes yeah I pray after the game okay but it wasn’t it wasn’t but it wasn’t nothing like you know just will go play 15 years no guys in I’ve been wait room while guys holding Chapel like they I’m lifting ways and certain go to Portland they do the in the weit room they got the chapel in the weight room and they little group and just it’s just like I’m thinking Mike I think we have Mike James I think Mike he’s he’s very religious to this day he does on Instagram you see if you follow on Instagram Mike does scriptures and stuff now to this day yeah see now now see see now that so he was he sat right next to me right but he never like pushed religion yeah you know you need to yes he never he never like he never did he never did that right you need to go to church and all that it was just you know just regular dude you but I was like I I remember him always but what if he would have done it though what would you have thought that’s at that moment in time yeah yeah can I get a new seat man I ain’t got time to be you ask you wi that mother he would have came in the next day and this Locker would have been moved yeah I’m over here listening [ __ ] you can’t see me brother I can’t you know brother Malcolm over here yeah like we like e time I don’t even know if Eon was a church dude but he was more religion he was more black power type right so we could like we couldn’t say the word like if we like we can we’ll drop in bombs you know just talking and then if he five or eight come out he like can you just say my brother all my brother and soon as he got this [ __ ] man like we we’ll do that but but for the most part you know um that’s the only thing like you know uh he was in the you know you know black black power talk so he was political but he never tried to convince any of us he just like y when we got the saying certain words like hey my can we just say my brother you’ll be more receptive to that yeah than the religion part of it I believe well this this move speaking of religion this move may be a blessing in disguise uh for Monty Williams uh is he ex may have executed one of the greatest bag finessing in NBA coaching history so in a little over a year Williams has secured more than $85 million to not coach here is the timeline so he was fired by the Suns May 2023 got a $20 million plus buyout June 2023 hired by the Pistons got a six-year 78.5 million deal at that point the largest coaching contract in NBA history and now June 2024 Fire by the Pistons after one season getting $65 million plus buyout so you don’t have the coach of pistons and you get 85 M okay look I get like you don’t want to coach there but when when you guys throw The Narrative of salary cap and luxury tax and all this [ __ ] that you use um do y’all do we do no one ever says like I’ve never heard big media ever says anything about these deals right you got you got bucks right they no matter who they trying to get this year how much money do they pay in in coaching that is not there that you could have you could hire a whole another player yes so so let me ask you this so if they put that [ __ ] in the salary cap if it was part of your coach your head coach and salary was part of your [ __ ] salary cap they’ll stop that [ __ ] I guarantee right yeah money ass be that that 65 count of gets your cap y after a season like no we going to P we we going to hit that put that in your luxury yeah put that in luxury I guarantee you won’t fire guarantee you won’t fire because that it just it makes no it makes no sens with the arguments that you have like they going to say oh we’re almost over the luxury tag wait hold on man you got $32 million at home on coaches then you just paid him 10 [ __ ] that’s 42 you you’re spending 42 million on coaches and you telling us we can’t get what again we we ask for [ __ ] all PlayStation 5es of this [ __ ] and you giving us a hard time she like but is am I right you’re sitting at home this man is about to sit at home making $65 million and y’all about to hire another coach to do the same thing that he would have did n [ __ ] you going to play this contract out you going to earn I’m pay I’m paying listen I’m paying for something I don’t give a [ __ ] what it is at this point right you going to give me something but I’m not going to fire you cuz I I still owe you the money you go home $65 million of my dollars going in I got to pay somebody else who’s going to sit there and say what I need 5 years50 5 years so that’s 110 million that I’m paying in coaches in the same time frame so so this is double I’m paying double the money on the same losing ass team [ __ ] Milwaukee paying three coaches three coaches booser Griffin Coes and Doc all get I’m telling you like this hey Doc boiser and Griffin y’all coaching together yep it’s going to be it’s going to be hey every other game goddamn it hey just like starting like a starting picture goddamn it hey first half quarter hey hey [ __ ] come on in you get it yeah you just gonna switch you [ __ ] out this is crazy coach coach hey n hey go hey yo yo go get Doc in the back come on go get your turn all right Griffin get up out of here that [ __ ] like Hey listen listen listen let that fourth quarter come and and then and then the coach come in and everybody start cheering like we got Hope come on man let’s go boy like in Major League what name was coming out you know like when that when that when that final picture comes out oh [ __ ] we got him you got to do that man I be D you I’m paying you as a owner in your ass just sitting at home watching trying to get another job that’s crazy hey hey yo so if you Detroit right and their team is Young would you try to go get St Van Gundy again they got to go somebody they got to get it younger all right so look like okay like look at the talent I have right most of these kids are on the offensive side of it right okay they’re they need they need a player they need a coach who can talk it and walk it a little bit right so you’re talking about somebody who’s young enough to play the ass oneon-one can still outshoot him right and and is going to say and speak the same language that they kind of speak that’s probably what Sam Cel Sam somebody who yeah right that that is the perfect like at this point when you’re looking at Detroit Pistons you’re talking about someone like he had he’s seen all high Lev type of guards right he doesn’t seen them all so when you’re talking about Kade this is the perfect dude for you because he he’s unseen me John Wall right he was with Rondo Stefon he like he played right he done with the Clipper joints he had Chris Paul so he’s done seen every style of Coach I mean of players he doesn’t seen all the high level so that he would be someone that these guards like you talking about yo I need to en heighten your skills these are the things we need to do let’s go would you bring Rondo in with him as an assistant I wouldn’t like I’m not the dude that forces like he has to pick his own lineup right this is right when you talking about guards like this is like your first job right it’s it’s it’s one of those is like I’m I’m this is your job now pick your staff to match right I can’t already prejudge and have someone waiting for you that just it’s not a it’s not it’s not a really good lot of situation these days though if you were a guy like s though like you know trying to get your first head coaching job would this job even be one absolutely the [ __ ] won 14 games last year but my point is [ __ ] they might win 15 next year I I did better I did better now I Ain lose 208 straight yep [ __ ] this is the worst this is the best L 2 y this is the best situation to go into because the Year this last year it’ll be hard you have listen if they didn’t have no coach they can’t you really can’t mimic exactly what they did this year there ain’t no damn way you can go same record with a without a lose 28 straight look the way it looked you lose 24 straight [ __ ] you didn’t lose you didn’t you that’s an improvement y you know what I mean so like whoever gets that job whoever is looking to be that next coach it it it is a upgrade in a sense of you they’re at the they’re at the flow level that it’s all it’s all uphill from here so girl I know you’ve had some situations some issues with Detroit in the past would you consider taking that job commend those fences with with the Detroit faithful come on come on bro huh piss his job we could do Guild Arena Detroit me development we going I’m playing ones every day man they going to have I’m going just be honest with you man they just going to have to put my room in the uh Arena man cuz can’t leave this can’t go anywhere in the city in in on on YouTube and Instagram they said I can’t fly to Detroit I know as it’s usually people in Section 8 hous so they don’t count listen but the fact that they said it I got to take it is you got to take that [ __ ] for the word this ain’t San Francisco people talk like oh yeah don’t come to the city this is Detroit right so you have to like look at the history like yeah I’mma just go man just stay at the MGM I’m just going to take this ass true I mean all he didn’t spell none of the words right right but I know what he’s trying to say and he said you can’t fly here not even connected no Delta fight for guil he said no none no Spirit no nothing all right well let’s if I got to come now not even for charity like not if I give back to charity like nah brother

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