Nico Harrison + Rick Welts Season Ending Press Conference

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Wow, reading those Cato and Mcmahons exchanges are just awful. I mean just brutal. Both are simple questions where you should have a planned response. Was no prep done? His only canned response is defense wins championships? Just brutal.

One thing I always found weird was his awkwardness. He was billed as a relationship guy. I wanted him to be good so maybe I thought he just wasn’t use to the media. But it has been 4 years. His interviews seem like he is a high school student going into a big exam and hasn’t studied at all. His interviews when Brunson left were a mess too. No smoothness. You would think he would be at least a little smooth to effectively manage a response and not walk into a pile of poop with each question.


I am starting to think he was doing stuff to Luka behind the scenes but not effectively communicating with Luka and his team. I wonder if it was a sick theory that it was not a super max concern for Nico but we were approaching a point where Luka’s team said it was either him or Nico and Nico made a decision thinking he was bigger than the player and wanted to eliminate that potential problem. Sort of eliminate his perceived threat before it got there.