Skylar Diggins-Smith has MELTDOWN and LOSES IT in POST GAME PRESS CONFERENCE!

[Music] welcome back everyone to another edition of Rudy's rants Power by come on out the podcast I am your host Rudy Rodriguez Shan and I have a rant for you today but before we jump on in let me say thank you again for having jumped on board with us and supported our Channel as we creep closer and closer to 33 300 subscribers get us there today thank you in advance I try not to make this to Caitlyn Clark rant session and this won't be about Caitlyn Clark this is about Skylar Diggin Smith who lost her mind in a postgame press conference against after they lost to the Washington Mystics last night now I don't really have a problem with her postgame situation in fact I would like her to go more hit it harder hit it harder call out what needs to get called out you are the veteran on that team but take a look at what she had to say is it something they were doing defensively like in this league if you you aren't ready to play you'll get beat every [ __ ] night they were ready to play and we weren't on both sides of the basketball like they deserve to win the game if we're gonna play like that we need to be hitting our stride right now we're not there it's unacceptable how we're playing on both sides of the basketball and I [ __ ] it up at the end that's a terrible foul as a that you can't make that play but it shouldn't [ __ ] come down to that we all got to step our game up and this league it only gets harder after the break and that's fine that's fine but if we don't come ready to play from the start we're gonna [ __ ] lose I know you may not have the answers right away um you guys did have some time off and time to practice and stuff do you anything as far as what could have if you don't come ready to play you will [ __ ] lose why weren't you ready to play it just is what it is for whatever reason we weren't that's what happened that's all I got to say there you have it from Skyler digging Smith I don't know what was more interesting about that interview the amount of f bombs she dropped which I have no problem with that I think people should do that more often if that's how you feel let it flow but I think there's other things that are involved in this with this franchise she did commit a foul with one second left that allowed them to win the game by two 7472 so basically she's deflecting her responsibility in the loss while she could sit here and say I'm a vet I can't make that play my dear it was 7272 and you fouled someone with a second left to go in the game with a second to go in the game like you fouled someone with one second to go in the game look in the mirror you can easily say and talk about being not ready that not being ready to play I think that's the most cliche excuse that exists for for sports teams is that they're not ready to play what the hell does that mean I don't I don't believe that I don't believe in that there was never a time and I yeah I didn't play a professional or even a Collegiate level played at a high school level as my highest level there was never a time where I showed up at a game and was not ready to play if you're talking about ready in terms of prepared that is a possibility maybe you were not prepared properly with the proper game plan to play to the best of your ability sometimes that's on the coach sometimes that's on the players not understanding what they're seeing now the Washington Mystics suck and I think there's a bigger problem with Seattle Seattle's now one and three since the All-Star break Seattle was considered a contender a team that could potentially win the championship I think they had a lot of players that were highly overhyped I think primarily the most overhyped player is their is their best player juel Lloyd juul Lloyd was five for 18 you're five for 18 with your best player you're probably not going to win you're probably not going to win and then uh NECA agum was four for 14 so you have nine of 32 between your two best players that's a problem so was it that they're not ready to play or is it they just missed I think that's what you know this such a cliche thing to say if you're not ready to play again I don't know what she means by not being ready to play because she really didn't answer the question why are you not ready to play are you not and she did this little thing where it's like why AR you that goes back to some issues that she seems to I mean she didn't know how to answer she created she created a situation in this press conference that she wasn't truly prepared to answer she thought that she could get away with saying what she said and then not have to actually go more in depth and actually truly answer the question at hand which is why why are you not ready to play is it on your coach is it on the player what is the situation because you just played this exact same team in Washington a couple days ago and beat them and then you came back home and you lost to them but I have no problem with her little TI raade there I like it I think it's I think it shows some level of passion and giving a [ __ ] it looks like she was in tears before she walked into that PR press conference because she was crazy levels of emotional crazy crazy levels of emotional there and Skyler Diggin Smith I mean she does have some past mental health things I I can't speak on them I know what it says managing I've seen managing anxiety and depression um I I I have no idea it's none of my business and that look like some issues going on there that might be bigger than basketball for her so I don't know which way to go on this topic because I don't know really what the problem is because at the end she looked really freaking messed up like here's a quote that I'm seeing about some stuff that she said in the past about her anxiety and mental health journey I was like man am I going to be able to fit in socially with this team am I going to sound like somebody's mom you know because because I'm a stay-at-home mom to come back after 21 months of being a stay-at-home mom can I adapt to this environment again are they going to think I'm weird I think just being real with myself about how I feel and how things make me feel I think I've always struggled with anxiety I just think I didn't know what that was until I talked to someone about it about how I was feeling and like oh that's anxiety I thought it was just sky and it's like you're not the only person feeling this way but sometimes you hesitate to share it I don't know I I I don't know what to truly say about stuff like that because I think everyone suffers from some level of anxiety and stress and all the other things that could potentially be I mean whether it's an ADHD bipolar disorder schizophrenia I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole on this stuff but depression what is you know people that don't have depression don't truly get why people people who are always who have who say who are diagnosed depressed what that really means like it's not it's not about like I'm watching television and I see a show that makes me sad it's not about okay this situation here makes me sad it's about even when things are going great you're still sad so nothing really takes you out of that feeling of sadness um that's how it's been explained to me by people that I know who have it or who've been diagnosed with it but Skyler Di and Smith went off here and I think there's bigger underlying issues within this franchise that are affecting her because that reaction to losing a game and then turning it into we're we're gonna [ __ ] lose if you're not prepared to play but you never thought why you were not prepared I want to know why you're not prepared I want to know what the reason is what would has you unprepared because the reality during a basketball season specifically basketball is that you can't really make a whole lot of adjustments during your season you just go out and play you're not GNA have three days of practice before most games you just played Washington two days ago you're playing them again now at home and you get and you lose by two what makes what makes someone else what makes someone else more ready to play is it that they bring energy is it that they bring a passion is it that they bring like my backs against the wall mentality look here man that backs against the wall mentality is corny to me we watch the NBA Playoffs every single year and we hear the same old rhetoric we hear the same old [ __ ] the Boston sou won the NBA Championship four games to one what happened to Dallas's Back Against The Wall situation what happened to them like that's the thing like Minnesota loses to Dallas four to one what happened to Minnesota's Back Against The Wall situation because in game five they got absolutely they got beaten in a blood bath so what happened to their need to be successful or their need to perform at a high level and not get embarrassed on their home floor because they got smoked in in game four I mean sorry game five they got smoked about 21 points on their home court in a in a game Clincher so I I would love to hear some responses I mean because I played Sports maybe not the highest levels but I played enough sports competitively in my life and I've never understood this concept of I'm not we're not ready to play if you're not ready to play from a you're not prepared by your coach that's one thing but not being ready to play because you just didn't play hard or because you didn't bring Max effort which I find disgusting if you play sports you should always bring Max effort that's one of the things that I've always appreciated about players like Michael Jordan and LeBron James and Kobi Bryant you never had to truly worry about the max effort level from these guys there might be days they don't play well but you never really have to worry about is this guy gonna come and show up I think the only time we ever saw that with LeBron was in the NBA finals in games four and five against Dallas but otherwise you never had to worry about if a guy's if these guys are going to show up they always show up that's what makes them so damn great but the other players yeah sometimes you do have to worry about them showing up and playing hard and the question for Skyler digg and Smith is are you the reason that are you part of the problem because you're the point guard you're the point guard your shooting guard has a terrible night so what did you do to help that shooting guard get better position for better shots did you set up for layups I didn't see the game so I can't speak on it or is she just jacking a whole bunch of bad jump shots I don't know what she's doing are you setting your team up are you getting your team what are you doing you're the point guard the point guard of every basketball team is supposed to be a leader are you leading or are you sitting here crying on a pre at a press conference I don't know you tell me but I don't like the looks of that in terms of the perspective of you don't actually you make a statement and then don't actually answer the question but I do appreciate the passion component because yes I want my players to be pissed when we lose I'm so sick of seeing this Huggy love lovey hugy Huggy Huggy wow lovey doy Huggy [ __ ] that I see in every Sports contest nowadays where people are flip-flopping jerseys after after every single game I haven't seen that really in the WNBA the flipping of the jerseys but they they make them shake hands NBA players when I came up didn't shake hands after games they walked off the floor now everyone wants to have a conversation about how where they're going for dinner tonight so they can go hang out and do whatever they do and then you have the football players that after they just got beat by 30 or sitting there smiling with the person that just kicked the [ __ ] out of them on the field oh I want your jersey I want your Jersey man shut the [ __ ] up what happened to True real competition so that's the one thing I do appreciate about that because I want you to be mad that you lost I can't I I tell you what I'm not a Chicago Sky person but when you heard that th those whatever the [ __ ] was going on in their game when that press conference was going on a couple days ago where you hear stuff being thrown around the locker room whether it was a fight between players or someone just grabbing chairs and whatever the hell else and just chucking it into the wall I want my players to be pissed I can't stand people that walk around smiling after they lose and while I can sit here and say okay you know well I well I can't I can't sit here and say Well they're paid so much money they should just come with effort at all times that's not the case in the WNBA because in the WNBA we know the deal they're not being paid that kind of money but in Prof professional men in the in in the NBA in the NFL you're making a boatload of bread you should be pissed you should be expected to come and bring your best effort every single game I shouldn't see you smiling after you lose so I'm very happy to see that level of passion from her however I want to know if there's something deeper we'll see what happens when they play their next game when when they play their next game we'll get a better idea because that's going to be a Telltale sign of what's going on with that franchise and if they have any shot and [ __ ] of making the they're going to make the playoffs but if they're a contender or not because right now they don't look like a contender they don't look like a team that you should worry about in the playoffs because right now they are fading they're one and three in their last four where are they in the standings right now right now they're still they're fifth so they've now fallen behind the aces they're a game they're three games ahead of Phoenix they're four and a half ahead of Indiana I don't think they'll fall behind the the fifth spot because of how wide of a margin it is with how many few how few games are left but you never know if they have a complete implosion you never know what's going to happen because they came in after the allstar break they were 17 and eight now they're 18 and 11 we shall see but Skyler Diggins look at that dropping the bombs man what do you think of her little postgame tiate do you like seeing stuff like that from players do you find it contrived do you find it fake do you find it real does it make you smile to see someone that actually seems to care at the same time did you do you want do you want to know what I want to know why are you not ready to play you should always be ready to play leave your thoughts and comments in this in down below can't wait to see you guys again come on now [Music] w e e e e e e e for