Montrezl Harrell says he threatened to fight Paul George during the Clippers’ 2020 playoff collapse after George blew a defensive assignment against the Nuggets and tried to blame him.
Pandemic P in Game 7 of the 2020 Western Conference Semifinals:
4⁄16 FGM2/11 3FG5 Turnovers38 Minutes
Helped the Nuggets come back from a 3-1 deficit. Top 10 night in NBA Twitter history lol
People always blame Clippers collapse and clown on them, but Nuggets should get a lot of praise for the comeback too. That shit is hard, no matter how bad Clippers collapsed.
They won a championship 3 years later
After losing to the Lakers in the WCF they were their demons for years too. People kind of underrate those Nuggets teams, they lost 2 whole years because of Jamal Murray’s injuries
Especially because that was our second 3-1 comeback that playoff run
Harrell’s dogshit defense against Jokic, (and Doc Rivers’ continuing to play him over Zubac) is as much to blame for the Clippers collapse as anything George or Leonard did or didn’t do.
Zubac played more minutes than Harrell. Yall just make shit up on here
It has become pretty common in most sports subreddits that gossip and rumours have replaced truth and facts.
Had the audacity to blame it on mental health. An insult to every person dealing with legitimate mental health issues.
It’s actually great for someone in his position to admit to struggles with mental health. He wasn’t laying the blame on it, he was being honest and that’s a good thing. Weird to try and spin it the other way
I’m not spinning it. I’m cynical as they come and PG strikes me as someone who will blame anything to get the heat off them. And history has recorded these excuses through all his failures.
Mental health on a choke job is the perfect way out as no one will dare to question it. There was zero mental health issues when they were winning through any of the 7 games they had won. But suddenly after game 7 he has issues? OKAY
I guess you know better than everybody who says something about having mental health issues after something goes wrong or something bad happens.
You know what’s an insult to every person dealing mental health issues? Telling another person he didn’t actually struggle with mental health issues.
Yeah multi millionaire who just choked the series suddenly has a struggle that he had never alluded to previously or AFTER. Sorry to insult his mental state.
Your point of view on this is so childish I don’t even know where to begin. Anyways have a good one bro
“you cant know what anyone else is truly going through” works here as well
maybe he was facing issues
Why is that an insult? Do you not think it’s possible for professional athletes to strugle with mental health issues? He said he wasn’t sleeping at all for the final two weeks of the bubble.
To be fair he did get busted for ketamine or something just a few years later
This sub probably thinks Doc Rivers made him miss those shots
It’s really hard to understand what he’s saying
Full transcript:
“Denver had started to get hot. We literally pick and roll coverage. The next pick and roll coverage with Jokic, we’re trapping it. You literally see it right there, clear as day in that play. They set it, bro goes, and basically throwing the in between switch under it, and then tries to come back late. Soon as he tried to come back late, they threw it right to Joker… floater. Doc call a timeout”
“Bro starts to turn and talk crazy like, ‘Trez, you got to be up.’ I’m like, ‘Bro, we trapping it. Everybody else is locked in and ready to rotate and all that. You the only one who constantly…’ And this is the one thing with P, he really tried to make up his own coverage and shit like that. And he ain’t Kawhi”
“And then you sit here and trying to blame me, which you the only one that just didn’t do it. All you had to do is just accept like, ‘I fucked up.’ But bro tried to start talking to me crazy and then tried to address me like, ‘Hey bro, who you talking to?’ Once he said, ‘Who you talking to?’ All the basketball went out the window. Lou [Williams] had to grab me. Pat [Beverley] came up and grabbed me. I said, ‘Bro, I will beat your ass. Fuck all this basketball shit. I will knock you the fuck out. I’m not even playing with you. You the only dude that continually fucking up on the defensive end and want to keep making excuses. Shut that shit up. It ain’t time for that. Just say my bad and move the fuck on’”
“He was like, ‘I mean, I can bro, but you always bitching.’ I said, ‘Bitching? You the last dude to say anything about bitching and shit. Just stop playing me, bro. I’m not even going to lie to you. Basketball out the window. I will put hands on you bro’”
“You the only dude that continually fucking up on the defensive end and want to keep making excuses” - Harrell was singled out by anyone watching that series as playing horrible defense.
But maybe he didn’t make excuses
Reading this while it plays makes his accent so much more understandable lmao
I’m sitting here like “What accent????” and had to remember where I’m from
Yeah that seems pretty dumb on PG’s part. Whoever blew the coverage, you aren’t a good teammate if “who do you think you’re talking to” comes out your mouth in that situation.
lol
Thought it was only me that struggled lol
It was only you two. Put yalls three brain cells together and give it another shot
Yalls
three brain cells
Hmmmmmmm
I don’t have the energy to make a meme about it but it’s like the Always Sunny episode where Mac and Dennis are listening to the mafiosos
Unless you’re not from the states, I find this hard to believe. it’s not that hard to understand what he’s saying.
Montrezl was a bad defender though
Sure, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that PG didn’t blow a coverage and blame somebody else for it.
Is saying, “Trez, you got to be up” really that egregious?
it’s one of those things that isn’t bad in a vacuum but you can tell it was an accumulation of things before that
It is in a heated environment when you’re the one who fucked up lol
I mean I think it’s weird to threaten to fight somebody over something like that but it’s also weird to try to deflect if everybody besides PG was following a set scheme and PG was the one deviating.
Some people don’t know how to deal with strong emotions. Their instinct is to physically lash out.
Probably a fine reaction 20k years ago. Not good now.
Its not about the missed assignment as much as its about the disrespect of insulting someone’s intelligence and competence to their face in front of all your co workers. People crash out over shit like this in the real world all the time
Out of the league for a reason!
lol I was gonna say, having watched him play a lot of basketball, I’m gonna assume he did in fact blow an assignment.
That’s cool and all but one guy is 32 sitting on a couch talking shit and the other is 36 and hooping
most of the players talking shit on these podcasts now are salty and jealous
It has become pathetic gossip from petty dudes
What are you two doing right now? Are you, perhaps, gossiping about what Paul George did or didn’t do?
What makes you think he’s jealous? He’s literally just telling a story on a podcast. Yall don’t talk to people in real life
Does that mean PG took accountability throughout his stint with the Clippers? Or maybe that the event didn’t happen? Cuz otherwise you didn’t add anything to the convo and just wrote a gotcha for someone who ain’t gonna see this
“You don’t get it bro, Jordan was justified in punching Steve Kerr because he is the better and played longer” /s
If that’s what you took from it
This is all facts. I swear this sub actually hates NBA players. Or at least the black ones
What does that have to do with anything?
It’s the basketball version of I have more money than you
Is nobody allowed to talk shit then? I mean none of us are better than the current active players
It’s a fucking podcast why are you so pressed
You are everywhere on this thread. are you Montrezl Harrell?
Great talents can have as s attitudes too. How many times you see a smart person with no EQ?
This doesn’t change what happened and doesn’t diminish his right to speak on it. Yal weird
Irrelevant to the story lol
I believe Trey but I also watched him with the Lakers and he was horrible on defense. So it’s kind of ironic he’s talking about someone messing up on defense.
He was def a better player on the clippers lol
How is that ironic? It would be hypocritical, maybe.
i dont wanna go down the what is irony vs not because that shits lame but this feels like a not terrible use of the word here to me
I’ve seen PG throw a bad pass & then get mad at the person who he threw the pass to 😂
PG literally says he does that and then apologizes to the teammate after.
How do you think no look passes work? Sometimes guys are supposed to be in a certain spot. If they aren’t and you pass to them, you are the one who looks fucking stupid when they are the ones who fucked up. I don’t know if that’s what PG did, but the scenario you described doesn’t seem black and white to me.
If you’re a leader you take responsibility, uplift your teammate, and move on
Do you want to address what I said instead of moving the goalposts to be about leadership? Thanks. Let’s just stay on topic, it’s easy.
What? You don’t even know what the pass is you’re just making a bunch of assumptions and talking out of your ass. “Idk if that’s what pg did” then why are you even talking?
Every time I hear anything about Montrezl it’s always him talking about PG…
Dumbass, his defence was ironically even worse
He’s got some nerve. Imagine, Trez threatening another player over defense😂
Trez was never the same after his grandma died in the bubble. With that said after years with Doc blaming others and his already brewing disdain for PG, the match was lit.
And now he’s out the league. Guess it worked out for him
He sounds like an addict. I know a benzo slur when I hear one
Remembering this day always brings a smile to my face
How I imagine the conversation went:
“Hey trezz I know I got beat but you gotta be able to rotate over for help defense when you’re playing at the rim”
“Shut the fuck up! I’ll kick your motherfucking ass! Don’t talk shit to me”
PG is literally 5x the defender montrezl ever was. Maybe PG fucked up some reads but no way he was consistently as bad as trez
I guess its better than trying to fight Paul Millsap like Morris did
thats not montrezl, that jeru the damaja
Looks like the old JBP set
@ ml
we just need to ban these types of threads where older players say some shit on a podcast and then the internet is supposed to care about it.
Trez is 32, been out of the league since he was 29…
Can’t wait to see this reposted with the clip of the PnR
Threatening to beat up your own teammate doesn’t sound very conducive to a healthy working environment
Happens on almost every single sports team. I guess it didn’t happen in math Olympiad, huh?
No in math Olympiad we simply gave each other wedgies
Happens on almost every single sports team.
it does, but that doesn’t mean it’s a healthy working environment. And miss me with the angst, I’m not the OP.
lol so I should deal with it? 🤣
No? Laughing at your own jokes has always been considered sad, by the way. And yes, I’m aware a lot of people do it. Think about it.