Dorian Finney-Smith Discussion: Gone To H-Town

Because they're are all independents and gotta make a living. Being on each other podcasts builds their name and followers. These guys don't pay ads, their marketing is being on other guys pods and Twitter posts.

You can actually see how much Irwin craves for attention and forces all the "content creator jargon". I mean wasn't he who was selling the Hurley in LA? I can't remember which signing it was, but a couple years ago max he was harping on something for a long time as a sure thing and we did the complete opposite

But you're free to believe him. As everything else, we'll likely never know

 

you're leaning on him not getting sued; i'm leaning on rob not being fired or investigated. again, you can't do this! you think the players' association is good with such things? if DFS thinks it happened, he should report it to them, and they should investigate it.

and he doesn't have to be a liar. his sources could be lying, and he's just a s***ty journalist with a bias visible from outer space.

he's baselessly speculating to start the clip you mention. the lakers didn't know he might opt out? really? (raj calls him on this and irwin does his "sure hope not" thing) they didn't know someone else might pursue him? just totally shocked, huh? and then he just repeats what he said before as fact when it flies in the face of reason. saying it again doesn't make it true. did teams call rob and ask about DFS's ankle? did he just acknowledge surgery? i'm not sure what you can say, from like an HR perspective here. and if a gm calls me telling me not to sign his guy because he's dead, i'm probably not going to listen to this, anyway.

the claims of his journalistic integrity are hilarious, btw. there's just so little evidence that all he does is report the facts.

he reported some b******* someone told him and keeps suggesting it's real but all he's saying is that he heard it, not that it's true. clever. you can tell raj is uncomfortable there, too. like...i have to let him say this wild stuff so that we can do shows together, but...i'm not joining...

 

reptilian rob aside, i want people to get a bit more perspective on the DFS situation. now that FA has played out some, we're seeing that keeping DFS and signing a center was impossible. the very best outcome we could have hoped for at center was maybe trading for nick richards (still not sure the suns would do this anyway). but capela and brolo went for well over the tpmle. in fact, centers just haven't been available. so we'd have been over a barrel in trade negotiations again, only saddled with a contract that no, we would NOT be able to easily move in two years.

4 year full MLE to DFS was just not something we could reasonably do.