Don Levitard
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418 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Jun
Don Levitard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me ask you this, Amin, because I remember the most common criticism of Shaquille O'Neal was some form of work on your free throws. And all I would see Shaquille O'Neal doing was working on his free throws. It's not that he didn't care about his free throws, it's that he wasn't good at it. When Stugatz demands Karl-Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson be better at defense, I don't think they can be.
I don't think they know how to be. I don't think that they have the footwork and speed and quickness and size, both of them, to be what they have to be on defense. I think they're limited there and no amount of will will make them better at defense. Do I have it wrong?
I have a hard time... It's hard to say he doesn't care. I have a hard time believing that the problems with Carl Anthony Towns aren't matchup problems. When they bring to him matchups meant to exploit the fact that he's very big and...
He is graceful enough offensively for that size, but can be slow-footed on defense and is only good on defense when he's got a Gobert next to him or a Mitchell Robinson because, I mean, it's crazy to say that someone that size had one block in the Indiana series and had one block the last time that they were in the Western Conference Finals.
OK, but let's do it this way, OK? Because you can make the arguments that this is a person that is mentally deficient on defense. They will have more information than us on that. I can say resolutely and flatly, can I not? Carl Anthony Towns is not a good rim protector. Yes or no? You agree with that or you disagree? Karl-Anthony Towns is not a rim protector.
Yes or no? He's a good rim protector. Yes or no?
The Knicks are back.
Tavis Halliburton, six points, fraud. Everybody was like, yo, he's better than Jalen Brunson. The Knicks should have drafted him.
I have in front of me, there is only one player in the entire league to win a game in the conference finals last year and win multiple conference finals games this year. His name is Carl Anthony Towns. Huh. It's the only player in the sport. Hmm. Loser. A loser. How many Larry O'Briens does he have, though?
I don't believe that rim protecting of Karl-Anthony Towns is something that he's deficient at because he doesn't care about being good at it. A loser. Do you understand how insulting it is to say that of somebody? how little it regards what athletes have to do when someone's not good at something and you say, well, they don't care enough to be great at it.
What do you do with Shaq being good at free throws in practice, and then he gets in front of the game and he's not good at free throws? Like, Carl Anthony Towns has never been regarded by anybody as a good defensive player, and it just is wildly insulting to assume that that's so simply because someone doesn't care. care enough about being a professional.
He didn't.
There was a Detroit series where he didn't make any of the ones that needed to count.
Loser. The interesting thing about you saying slow is that his teammates are saying it's mentally slow. Loser. The teammates aren't even saying that it's physically slow. It's that he doesn't understand what his assignments are on defense.
How many times in that series, Stugatz, were you frustrated because the seventh pass that Indiana was making at the end of the shot clock was the one that was wide open in the corner for the most efficient shot? Wide open because they were taking it right before the shot clock because he wasn't doing whatever he had to do on some sort of rotation. Loser.
I will tell you that I think this is what's happening here, Amin, and I think it's what's also happening with his teammates. They're just doing this physically. Jalen's trying hard because look how small he is. Of course. Look at how good Carl Anthony Towns is. I mean, optics factor into it. Yeah, but it's... Perception's not reality. Reality is reality. Like, okay, optics factor into it.
They lost, and therefore you call him a loser. I generally am not willing to say that somebody at the top of their profession doesn't care about their profession.
I'm saying that he's not good at blocked shots. That's cement footage. He was, though.
I would argue at this point, if you're having trouble with the playbook, It might not be caring. It might be some sort of mental deficiencies that make for difficulty with what the playbook is. And perhaps that is also insulting, but I'm simply— Yeah, would you rather be told you don't care or you're dumb?
I mean, your thoughts here on which one's more insulting, because I do believe we can just have the assessment. It's allowed. He's not good at this. Loser.
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