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The Valenti Show

HOUR 1: Troy Weaver Disappoints Yet Again at NBA Trade Deadline

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico spend the first hour of the show recapping all the deals the Pistons made leading up to the NBA Trade Deadline and trying not to get so angry over them. They take your calls on Troy Weaver's incompetency and his inexplicable moves, and then do a Super Bowl "by the numbers" blitz to round out the hour.

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0:00.0

All right, that's enough. I mean, what is this an endless loop?

0:07.0

Hi, everybody. So this is going to be a very unique show open.

0:14.1

I sat here about nine minutes ago with RICO and David and I just

0:18.3

said to both of them.

0:21.1

I have no idea how I'm opening this show none

0:24.1

Generally, I'm a meticulous planner. I have angles things I want to communicate

0:29.0

Some days I'll give RICO to complete deals. Some days I like to keep them in the dark a little bit for an organic

0:34.7

response but overall there's no show that's got more of a plan on a day and day out basis than we do.

0:41.5

Troy Weaver has left me largely speechless. I don't even know what I am

0:48.4

supposed to say because it has for a while it's bordered on parity and today it's become one.

0:55.6

I mean you have a general manager who should not be employed and even if he is he should be riding out a stay of execution that will last roughly until April.

1:07.0

He should not be allowed to make really any moves.

1:10.0

And yet, here we are.

1:12.0

Now, I told you yesterday I couldn't make fun of Fontanecchio.

1:17.0

I'm an NBA nerd. He's actually not a bad bet. 28 years old, RFA, you sign him, you keep him, he's a depth piece who could shoot the three

1:26.3

a little bit and play a couple of spots. Okay, no problem. But what else? What I've witnessed today, it's just a complete lack of planning. I mean, if you had gotten

1:41.7

back Grimes in a couple of seconds for Burks, I wouldn't have blatted an

1:46.4

eyelash.

1:47.4

I go, okay, that's fine.

1:49.7

But the fact that you traded Burks and Bogdanovich to get a collection of players that you

1:55.8

are going to buy out and waive, get no further draft compensation, and trade away your two best shooters, I'm left in largely stunned disbelief.

2:08.5

I don't know why Troy Weaver is allowed to come to the office.

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