{"id":437397,"date":"2023-06-06T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437397"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:56:00","slug":"kendrick-perkins-hits-out-at-malone-after-game-2-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kendrick-perkins-hits-out-at-malone-after-game-2-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Perkins hits out at Malone after Game 2 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s pundit and ex-NBA player Kendrick Perkins has hit out at Denver&#8217;s head-coach Michael Malone, who criticized his players for poor showing in their Game 2 loss against Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins believes that there is only one person, who needs to be held accountable and that is Malone himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendrickPerkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KendrickPerkins<\/a> says Michael Malone needs to &quot;hold himself accountable&quot; for the Nuggets Game 2 loss ?<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Michael Malone is calling out his team, but who&#39;s calling out Michael Malone?&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dw02o2CNbo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dw02o2CNbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; First Take (@FirstTake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirstTake\/status\/1665744205992415234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Mike Malone is sitting up there calling out his teammates, he\u2019s got to look himself in the mirror as well,\u201d Perkins said. \u201cEffort was one thing, but I didn\u2019t see too many things Michael Malone did as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pundit also blamed the Nuggets coach for not using Michael Porter Jr. to full effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk about how dangerous the two-man game is with [Nikola] Joki\u0107 and Jamal Murray, but what happens when that\u2019s not going?\u201d Perkins added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow about utilizing [Porter] being 6\u201910\u201d and at times he may have a smaller defender on him and say, \u2018Let\u2019s see how he can do on the low block\u2019? If a guy feels involved offensively, he\u2019s going to give you everything and more on the defensive side of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets will be looking to bounce back in Game 3, which is scheduled for Wednesday in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s pundit and ex-NBA player Kendrick Perkins has hit out at Denver&#8217;s head-coach Michael Malone, who criticized his players for poor showing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":437398,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,19751,19721],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17859,19752,19722],"acf":{"announce":"The Denver coach was unhappy with the team's performance, but the ex-NBA star had other point of view","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437397"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437397"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}