Philadelphia is trying to pick up the pieces from flaming out in the NBA Playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks this past weekend. Don’t expect 97.5 The Fanatic’s Anthony Gargano to sugarcoat anything he saw on Sunday night. His rant ended up going viral with the help of the Funhouse twitter account.
The midday host went ballistic on the Sixers performance in a 103-96 loss at home. He had his sights set on head coach Doc Rivers and Ben Simmons in particular.
“Absolutely pathetic!!” Gargano exclaimed on Monday. “His [Rivers] body language, ahhhhh. Everything slumping in the chair, can you give off worse body landuage to a team that already lacks confidence? You’re the coach! There’s a reason why Pat Riley is cool and Phil Jackson sits there in a stoic manner because you don’t want your players to see you WITH A LOSERS FACE!!”
Rivers has the 2008 Championship ring that no one can take away but his overall playoff resume has some big misses. According to Mike Prada, Doc Rivers has now blown three 3-1 leads, three 3-2 leads, one 2-0 lead, and lost Game 7 at home four times (five if you count the bubble).
“What was his plan?!” Gargano said about Rivers. “You can’t design one play? not one frickin play? Yo dude, you’ve been in this league for 100 years. You can’t design anything; you can’t draw up a STICK FIGURE TO GET A BUCKET WHEN YOU NEED ONE!!!”
Gargano then turned his sights to Simmons, who attempted zero fourth-quarter field goals betweens Game 4-7.
“Ben Simmons cost them the series,” Gargano said. “That’s it, you’re right, that’s it. You wanna talk about shrinking violet, the oil painting that was him at the freaking rim!!”
Gargano closed by apologizing for all his past defenses of Simmons.
“I apologize to every one of you guys that I’ve ever debated and defended him because how could you pass the ball when you’re at the rim?! You’re 6’11” for Christ’s sake; in that moment, HOW IN THE WORLD COULD YOU DO THAT?!”
Funhouse, or @backaftathis, rose to prominence by sharing clips of some of Mike Francesa’s worst moments. Since the Sports Pope’s retirement, the account has mainly focused on the most outlandish takes and absurd opinions on sports radio.