Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we gotta talk
Speaker 2: about three teams heading into the playoffs. One, the Miami Heat,
Speaker 2: do it right, reach this sort of stress point in
Speaker 2: the season where they're ready to throw down on NBA
Speaker 2: TV during a televised timeout where they know they're being televised.
Speaker 2: The other two just absolute rocket ships. The Grizzlies with
Speaker 2: the second youngest team in the NBA, who I think
Speaker 2: probably might have the deepest best roster in the league.
Speaker 2: And the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yes, we are at the inflection
Speaker 2: point of all the things, all the favorite things that
Speaker 2: I love to talk about, and they have tapped in
Speaker 2: to my guy Patrick Beverly's vibe and they are letting
Speaker 2: folks know that they are here to put their boot
Speaker 2: on your neck. We're coming down to stretch, folks. So
Speaker 2: go ahead, Brock and drop that.
Speaker 1: I'm perfect by God name raight my don.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, do we Lucy, we got some splaining to do.
Speaker 2: We gotta talk about the Heat. Yes, the Miami Heat
Speaker 2: have lost two games this week that they had absolutely
Speaker 2: zero business losing. They lost to the Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 2: ers with no MB and no Harden. Yeah that happened,
Speaker 2: and you're like, uh, well, I mean maybe they just
Speaker 2: weren't ready. They were eight and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2: They lost outright. Okay, sometimes you just don't get up
Speaker 2: for a game. I get that. But what happened last
Speaker 2: night Wolf that cannot does not should not happen. Golden
Speaker 2: State came to town and decided, yeah, we know stefs
Speaker 2: out with foot injury, but we're gonna leave out Clay.
Speaker 2: We're gonna leave out Dre, We're gonna leave out the
Speaker 2: second coming of Wilt Chamberlain and Otto Porter. We're gonna
Speaker 2: leave out Andre Iguodala back. We're just gonna leave them.
Speaker 2: Who cares just they're not even gonna show up. And
Speaker 2: the Warriors are a team that is by all intensive
Speaker 2: purposes reeling. They needed a win, and they said, we
Speaker 2: know that they're number one in the East. Four guys,
Speaker 2: we just won't play them, not even were gonna have
Speaker 2: them suit up. And they won that game. They they
Speaker 2: were in danger of losing a spot in the West,
Speaker 2: and they're like, ah, it's okay, we're gonna punk them.
Speaker 2: Let's punk the shit out of these guys. And that
Speaker 2: is what happened the Miami Heat in that game ten
Speaker 2: point favorites, never close. It was already bad, it's already disgusting.
Speaker 2: The Heat trying to make a run in the midst
Speaker 2: of a nineteen oh run to start the quarter, all
Speaker 2: shit hit the fan. Captured in glorious red camera HD
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler and my guy, Eric Spolstra from Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 2: Former video coordinator nice Kid, Nice kid from Portland, Oregon,
Speaker 2: Eric Spolstra. They're at each other's throats, seated seat in
Speaker 2: front of seat, and Eric Sposter looks at him and
Speaker 2: he's like, what, Jimmy, you think I'm gonna fucking fight you?
Speaker 2: Hold on pause. That was Those were words spoken. Those
Speaker 2: aren't words that I just thought he said. Those aren't
Speaker 2: words that I just imagined what he could have said.
Speaker 2: Those are words that were capturing, captured live on video
Speaker 2: that he actually said out loud to his star player
Speaker 2: William A fucking fight you okay, Spolster yelled at Butler
Speaker 2: from across that huddle. Then Jimmy had to be held
Speaker 2: back and then he goes after Spo and then e
Speaker 2: Donnis Haslam, the player coach, enters the chat, who is
Speaker 2: still part of the Miami Heat. He's still part of
Speaker 2: the Miami Heat. Eudas has them want to ring with
Speaker 2: Lebron James and Dwyane Wade. He's still there. He's still
Speaker 2: there as a player, forty something years old, oldest man
Speaker 2: in the NBA. And he threatened to beat Jimmy Butler's
Speaker 2: ass live on TV. He was like, yo, I will
Speaker 2: fuck you up, and he would too, spoe through his clipboard.
Speaker 2: Butler finally retreated. You see Kyle Lowry sort of scurrying
Speaker 2: away in the background, like I want no part of
Speaker 2: this nonsense, absolutely trying to call a time out in
Speaker 2: the middle of a kerfuffle, like, yo, uh, I think
Speaker 2: we all need some extra time. I know there's a
Speaker 2: game going on, but do you see what the fuck
Speaker 2: is happening you? Things are in disarray. Someone tweeted that
Speaker 2: Kyle Lowry's that friend at a bar fight that somehow
Speaker 2: finds his way to the bathroom to wash his hands,
Speaker 2: Like he's like, oh, do do do do do do?
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go ahead and get away from all this.
Speaker 2: And I love Kyle Lowry. He's like a tough guy.
Speaker 2: But he wanted no part of that and bam Adebayo said, this,
Speaker 2: this is us at practice. Pause, why why? Why does this?
Speaker 2: It's like when you see a couple fighting at a
Speaker 2: party or at they have you over for dinner, and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, like, you know, a bottle
Speaker 2: of red wine is it to you know, the lady
Speaker 2: friend's expectations and then she's like, this is just like
Speaker 2: con when we went out and you ordered that shit
Speaker 2: bottle of pino. He's like, you know what, Zoey, I'm
Speaker 2: tired of this shit. I'm fucking done. And you're like,
Speaker 2: everybody's still at dinner and everybody's looking at them and
Speaker 2: they're like, should we leave? What should we do? Uh?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and just keep eating on this bolonnaise, great,
Speaker 2: great bowlonnets. Can I get a little ex sure that
Speaker 2: wine since you're not drinking it? And then the next
Speaker 2: day they're like, oh, you should see us when we're alone,
Speaker 2: and you're like, no, this is not how it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be. This shit is toxic. I know you think
Speaker 2: this is like a good competitive, we get it all
Speaker 2: out environment, but to me, this is bad. This is
Speaker 2: really bad. So anyway, bam ade Bio back to the story.
Speaker 2: Bam Adebio says, this is us at practice. It just
Speaker 2: so happened. It boiled over to the court. No okay,
Speaker 2: But also you do a whole other things in practice
Speaker 2: that are never supposed to make it to game action.
Speaker 2: Bam at a bio. You know this, bam at a Bio.
Speaker 2: It is now to the point where we have news
Speaker 2: and whispers bubbling out, like by the way, hearing whispers
Speaker 2: that teammates actually don't really like playing with Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: hearing whispers that there's a possibility that I don't know,
Speaker 2: the heat might make Bradley Beal a part of their
Speaker 2: offseason plans. And to that, I say, with what fucking
Speaker 2: cap space? You know a guy that would fit that
Speaker 2: cap space match pretty good, Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler matches
Speaker 2: my man Bradley Beal's max contract pretty well. Why why?
Speaker 2: Also whispers coming out that Jimmy not particularly liked in
Speaker 2: the locker room, dating back to his time in Chicago,
Speaker 2: when Jimmy Butler decided he was actually the leader of
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls, not my man d Rose, former MVP
Speaker 2: who is rehabbing to the point where him an enforcer
Speaker 2: aka the Eudonnis Haslam of the Chicago Bulls aka Joe
Speaker 2: Keem Noah had to be separated. Folks, Folks, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay. In their last seven games, the
Speaker 2: Heat have lost two feets Minnesota, Philly, under Man Philly,
Speaker 2: and now Golden State. I'm telling you this squad. As
Speaker 2: much as I love their heart, their teamwork, their intensity,
Speaker 2: the Heat culture, body weights four point eight percent and
Speaker 2: less like as much as I like them, they are
Speaker 2: right for an upset against what now is a full
Speaker 2: time Kyrie Irving. Eric Adams has found a way to
Speaker 2: skeet skirt around the rules the best of his abilities
Speaker 2: and find some sort of loophole for athletes and entertainers
Speaker 2: like Kyrie and the rest of the unvaccinated Yankees that exist,
Speaker 2: which is pretty much all of them. Yankees big Money.
Speaker 2: You're lucky, Kyrie. You're lucky that lockout didn't last into June,
Speaker 2: my guy, because you would not be playing basket ball.
Speaker 2: Why do you ask? Last night underscores? Last night last
Speaker 2: night underscores. The problem with this team. The problem with
Speaker 2: the Heat is that there is nobody on this squad
Speaker 2: that you can count on and rely on to get
Speaker 2: a bucket when you need one with guys draped all
Speaker 2: over them, and that is pretty critical to a title run.
Speaker 2: Let's go through the East and assess how they compare
Speaker 2: to other teams and whether they have those guys sixers.
Speaker 2: Embiid always getting a bucket late in the game. He
Speaker 2: can go use his big body, either turn around, jump
Speaker 2: or floater on you, or just draw contact and make
Speaker 2: his free throws, which he is now really clutch at doing.
Speaker 2: That's easy Nets. Katie and Kyrie bucket getters no matter when. However,
Speaker 2: when against anyone, doesn't matter who's guarding them, they're finding
Speaker 2: space and they're finding a bucket. Bucks Yannis, Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: shooting free throws now. Giannis is using his body like Embiid.
Speaker 2: You've got Chris Middleton. Chris Middleton could get his own
Speaker 2: shot off the dribble, but also around screens, hit very
Speaker 2: clutch shots, which we've seen in the playoffs so far. Also,
Speaker 2: Drew Holliday, do not sleep on him. He can also
Speaker 2: do the same thing. He saw that against the Phoenix
Speaker 2: Suns when they were going back and forth this regular season.
Speaker 2: In that game in Milwaukee where they're trading baskets without
Speaker 2: Chris Paul and Drew Holliday comes up and gets to
Speaker 2: go ahead bucket in traffic with guys all around him.
Speaker 2: Celtics Tatum is known for an iso bucket getter. That's
Speaker 2: all he loves to do. That's what he wants. He's
Speaker 2: like in the Kolbe Kobe Bryant mold Jalen Brown does
Speaker 2: that as well. Let's look out West, Luca. Luca of
Speaker 2: course is going to bully you down the stretch. He's
Speaker 2: going to shoot a step back three in your eyeball.
Speaker 2: Wither point eight seconds left to go night, night sleep Mass,
Speaker 2: Time to go home. Devin Booker, Chris Paul. You think
Speaker 2: they can't get a bucket in the mid range. You
Speaker 2: don't think that they could like almost elevate into space,
Speaker 2: hang in the air for longer than you can even
Speaker 2: spell your first, middle and last name and get a
Speaker 2: last minute bucket. Of course they can. That's what they
Speaker 2: do super well. Come on now out West. Also, Jokis
Speaker 2: Jokich can do that. He's just seven feet tall, long
Speaker 2: ass arms and can shoot from anywhere on the court.
Speaker 2: I don't know what is Miami gonna do in those situations?
Speaker 2: Who are they going to rely on in those situations?
Speaker 2: And we know the answer to that, and the answer
Speaker 2: is that is Jimmy Bricketts. Jimmy Jimminy Bricketts is what
Speaker 2: they should call him. Oh, Jimmy Bricketts. Who should they
Speaker 2: really rely on? Probably Tyler Hero or maybe a guy
Speaker 2: who had a funeral for his knee in Victor Oladipo,
Speaker 2: which is absolutely sad. Or maybe a guy that was
Speaker 2: a two way G League guy who played for Team
Speaker 2: Nigeria and made his little appearance and now is a
Speaker 2: full time player in Gae bril Vincent. Those are all
Speaker 2: guys that get buckets better than Jimmy Bricketts. Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 2: I guess this team has no last minute ISO bucket getters.
Speaker 2: That gives me pause. That is not a good situation there.
Speaker 2: And if you watch him, he clinks on the back
Speaker 2: of the him consistently, You watch him down the stretch
Speaker 2: and you would put your beating heart on him missing
Speaker 2: like he like Chris Crosses. It just looks awkward. It's
Speaker 2: always in the mid range. If he shoots him there,
Speaker 2: you know it's probably getting an airball and you're like, Nope,
Speaker 2: that's not going in and it clanks clank, clank, clank, clank,
Speaker 2: clank out. I don't know why, but it's true. This
Speaker 2: is the exact same problem that the Golden State Warriors have.
Speaker 2: Actually in a different way, is that teams triple Steph.
Speaker 2: They blitz him at the half quarter even earlier than that.
Speaker 2: Steph has to pass out of that triple team, and
Speaker 2: then what does he do. He has to have a
Speaker 2: guy who can get his own shot, and that's Andrew Wiggins.
Speaker 2: And we've talked about this. Andrew Wiggins is just like
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler in the playoffs, like this is bad. He
Speaker 2: is not making any shots. You've got Clay, but Clay's
Speaker 2: a spot up shooter. He's not nearly mobile enough right
Speaker 2: now to go ISO and figure out a way to
Speaker 2: get a late minute bucket. And then you got Jordan Poole.
Speaker 2: He's not the guy. This team very similar in some
Speaker 2: ways than the Heat the path forward all that to say,
Speaker 2: I mean, let's just face it, they are going to
Speaker 2: get probably and I hate Stephen A. Smith for jumping
Speaker 2: the gun just because he gets first take earlier than
Speaker 2: I do. My show is that he are going to
Speaker 2: get upset in the first round. If they play the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets in the first round, with Kyrie playing home
Speaker 2: games and away games, it's an early exit. It's an
Speaker 2: unfortunate event, is what we would call that. And I
Speaker 2: think the truth is, even though the Miami Heat might
Speaker 2: not want to admit it, the best course forward might
Speaker 2: be the trade Jimmy Butler to the Portland Trailblazers. I
Speaker 2: love him, He's a dog. I think he makes his
Speaker 2: teammates better. I'm not quite sure. And you mention it.
Speaker 2: There are certain events that change your perspective on a
Speaker 2: human being. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong. But now
Speaker 2: every decision that they make from now on, after that
Speaker 2: seminal event, that inflection point of history, you then look
Speaker 2: at them with a different opinion. Jimmy Butler, to me,
Speaker 2: at one point, could do no wrong, and now I'm
Speaker 2: wondering if he might just be the promise. One of
Speaker 2: the reasons I wrote or do, what is it? Ride
Speaker 2: or Die? I guess Rod or Dode Road or DoD
Speaker 2: for Jimmy Butler is because he went to the Minnesota
Speaker 2: Timberwolves and he had these punk ass kids on the
Speaker 2: roster that like very clearly just wanted to smoke Weed
Speaker 2: like very clearly just wanted to like fuck around at practice,
Speaker 2: play in the game, didn't have any interest in winning.
Speaker 2: And then he was he was obviously traded to Minnesota
Speaker 2: for Zach Lavine. And like Karl Anthony Towns and Wiggins
Speaker 2: were on the firing line basically always with a one
Speaker 2: man firing squad and Jimmy Butler, and they were lazy,
Speaker 2: they were soft, They were basically bad teammates, is what
Speaker 2: I thought. Like, these kids suck, and like I can't
Speaker 2: blame someone like Jimmy Butler or Kobe or Chris Paul
Speaker 2: for just wanting players with immense ability and athleticism like
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Towns and Wiggins and shit, like everybody that
Speaker 2: Chris Paul's ever played with besides these Phoenix Suns and
Speaker 2: you know, DeAndre Jordans, etc. The list goes on and on,
Speaker 2: all the people that Kobe Bryant wouldn't pass the ball to.
Speaker 2: And I was like, you know what, if you're not
Speaker 2: a dog and you're playing with the ultimate Junkyard Junkyard
Speaker 2: dog and Jimmy Butler or Chris Paul or Kobe, like
Speaker 2: you know what time it is either fall in line
Speaker 2: or get the fuck out. But it turns out that
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly is the key to unlocking the demons, unlocking
Speaker 2: the dog on the Minnesota Timberwolves squad also Aunt Edwards,
Speaker 2: but that those two together bring a different edge. Aunt
Speaker 2: Edwards actually talked about this recently in his presser. So
Speaker 2: let's let's go ahead and check that out real fast.
Speaker 3: I feel like you ain't got swagged, then you're gonna
Speaker 3: lose every game. So I try to come out with
Speaker 3: as much swag as possible, no matter how good I'm playing.
Speaker 3: And Pete b got his own swag, so I think
Speaker 3: that just make the team have all the swag in
Speaker 3: the world. And after we do that, then nobody can
Speaker 3: beat us. I heard they haven't been winning since like
Speaker 3: oh three or something oh four. I was like three
Speaker 3: years old. But yeah, this is not the Timberwolves that
Speaker 3: never that didn't have swag since O four, Like nah,
Speaker 3: And I'm putting that in my teammates and Pat Bay
Speaker 3: have come up with a lot of swag and he
Speaker 3: put that in the teammates, So we're gonna go off that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: cat last year said a word on the court. Now
Speaker 3: he's talking crazy to people, and because he got swagged
Speaker 3: right now, he got swagged.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He killing Drip coming to the game. Yeah, showing off
Speaker 3: the watch, showing off you know what I'm saying, iced
Speaker 3: out chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's swaggy.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: I love that love Cat.
Speaker 4: I feel like, you see the biggest difference, Like last
Speaker 4: year in Miami, he almost like you know, almost maybe
Speaker 4: kind of back down and it doesn't do that anymore.
Speaker 3: Nah, he ain't never back now. It's just we ain't
Speaker 3: had no swag, you know what I'm saying. Like now
Speaker 3: we got two people who got swagging and they and
Speaker 3: PP swag is like he just off the off the charts,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So he gonna make everybody
Speaker 3: have swag. He make my swag go up. And I
Speaker 3: feel like my swag is high as it can get.
Speaker 3: But nah, yeah, Cat swag is definitely rising.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: It can get a lot a lot higher. So people
Speaker 3: in trouble for sure with Cat.
Speaker 2: Wow and it can get a lot higher. And it did.
Speaker 2: It did last night, Yes, sir, against the Phoenix Suns,
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly and and Edwards. I think changed the culture
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves and change the DNA of Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 2: in a way that Butler never could. Because those guys,
Speaker 2: you see them, Yeah, they don't want to back down
Speaker 2: from anything, but they have fun. They laugh right in
Speaker 2: your face. I don't know how much Jimmy Butler's having
Speaker 2: fun out there. He always looks a little mad to me,
Speaker 2: and you look at Aunt Edwards and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're not about to punk me, but I am laughing
Speaker 2: and having a great time. He made hoops fun in
Speaker 2: a way that if you're someone like Carl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 2: a seven footer who's been through the AAU system his
Speaker 2: entire life, where hoops is the only thing, everything that matters.
Speaker 2: You get to the tippy tippy top, you get the money,
Speaker 2: You're like, you know what, I'm kinda good, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of like more life. I'm kind of ready
Speaker 2: for a little more life. My entire life has been basketball,
Speaker 2: and now basketball is fun again like it was when
Speaker 2: I was fifteen sixteen years old. Pat Bell and Edwards
Speaker 2: make basketball fun, and I think that's why he's a
Speaker 2: different a different player this year. Right. And not only
Speaker 2: did he put up sixty which is impressive, he was
Speaker 2: doing it while having the time of his life and
Speaker 2: it shows last night you saw it. Carl Anthony town
Speaker 2: gets in Jay Crowder's face face to face, looks down
Speaker 2: at him like, what what are you about to do?
Speaker 2: And Jae Crowder is a dog to go toe to
Speaker 2: toe face to face, knows the nose or knows the
Speaker 2: chin with Jay Crowder. Impressive. Carl Anthony Towns then wins
Speaker 2: the three point contest, says, yeah, I'm the best big
Speaker 2: big man shooter in history. Just a level of confidence
Speaker 2: and a level of arrogance that you never saw. And
Speaker 2: Edward's even talked about it, like in that clip where
Speaker 2: he's like he never said a goddamn thing on the court.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler called him baby shit soft and he didn't
Speaker 2: say anything bad. Do you think he's gonna do that now? Oo?
Speaker 2: And of course, of course Carl Anthony Town's making fun
Speaker 2: of Russell Westbrook's airball, like where did that ball come from?
Speaker 2: It came from the sky. Where that ball came down?
Speaker 2: Like it was a bird there was shot from the sky.
Speaker 2: I personally love it. Some people don't love it, but
Speaker 2: I personally love it. Stephen A. Smith doesn't exactly like it.
Speaker 2: Didn't like the reaction at all, basically argue that Carl
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns has no right to act with such swagger,
Speaker 2: to do such a thing to Russell Westbrook, who demands respect, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, steven A. Smith has been bagging on
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook from the time that I can remember. So
Speaker 2: very funny that he's trying to like cape for Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook in a situation against one of the worst teams
Speaker 2: in the last two decades. Steven A. Smith clowned the
Speaker 2: Wolves franchise by saying none of them have done anything
Speaker 2: in the last seventeen years, which is true. But Carl
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns is right when he asked why Russell Westbrook
Speaker 2: never got shipped from doing the rock the baby thing
Speaker 2: or doing all the antics that he's done on the
Speaker 2: court for a very very long time, he said in
Speaker 2: response to stephen A. Now, when we have a little
Speaker 2: fun with the game, we're being classless. It's cool, though,
Speaker 2: I understand it's cool when people are doing this, you know,
Speaker 2: the cajone celebrations and people's spaces, right, that was cool,
Speaker 2: That was cool, right, all right? Yeah, yeah, things came
Speaker 2: back to bite for those people. It was all good
Speaker 2: when people were fitting narratives about me and Pat Beverly
Speaker 2: and stuff, Me being soft, Pat Beverly doing nothing but
Speaker 2: yet running around yelling that's cool, right, it was cool?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was cool then right funny ha
Speaker 2: ha ha ha ha. Fuck out of here, stop it.
Speaker 2: I love cat. Now. I've said many years he's never
Speaker 2: gonna be tough. I've said it, he's never gonna be tough.
Speaker 2: He's always gonna be soft, He's always gonna be kitty cat.
Speaker 2: And I am I've pulled a one ad and the
Speaker 2: reason I pulled a one eight is because of Pat
Speaker 2: fucking Beverly. I love him. I love him. I like
Speaker 2: it when teams and it's funny beca because we as
Speaker 2: a collective, not me, but the collective society is all
Speaker 2: four front runners, teams with banners, being loud and audacious, ostentatious,
Speaker 2: just putting their feet on people's throats. Yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: the best. Blah blah blah. Celtics, Lakers, fuck even Knicks
Speaker 2: to a degree. Get out of here with that, get
Speaker 2: out of here. They want to stop the little lowly
Speaker 2: teams in the league. And then when the lowly teams
Speaker 2: try to come up, it's a it's a cast system here,
Speaker 2: and they don't want the surfs of the league to
Speaker 2: come up and rise up like the Timberwolves or the Grizzlies.
Speaker 2: And it somehow just hits us differently. When a team
Speaker 2: punches up straight in the mouth. When a team from
Speaker 2: the bottom of the bottom in the Timberwolves which they were,
Speaker 2: hits the Lakers in the mouth and knocks them the
Speaker 2: fuck out proverbially, that just something hits different people get
Speaker 2: mad about that. And now they have guys that say,
Speaker 2: we're no longer punching bags. We don't care if you're
Speaker 2: the Lakers, we don't care if you're the Celtics, we
Speaker 2: don't care who you are. We are going to play
Speaker 2: in a way that when we win, you note about it.
Speaker 2: In the ways that you guys are allowed to do it.
Speaker 2: That's how we're gonna do. And that's what Pat Bebb did.
Speaker 2: He gave them swag. He gave him a chip, the
Speaker 2: turn cat from kitty cat into a junkyard dog. Aunt
Speaker 2: was of course born with swag, like you can just
Speaker 2: hear it, and everything everything that he does, everything that
Speaker 2: he says, you can just tell he has it. Karl
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns was a nerd. He didn't have it. He's
Speaker 2: dating what Jordan Woods, that was an anomaly, Like she
Speaker 2: probably clowns him all the time. Now he's got a
Speaker 2: little toughness, he's got a little swag, he's got a
Speaker 2: little style. All of that. Aunt Edwards and Pat bebv
Speaker 2: changed that culture for sure, and that is why they're
Speaker 2: going to be a dangerous, dangerous play in or maybe
Speaker 2: even playoff team in the West. So go ahead, Pat Beverley,
Speaker 2: go ahead, But your bagelded.
Speaker 3: Everybody had up hen they stay there.
Speaker 2: Hen they say airt Hen they say that up tended.
Speaker 2: You don't need prediction time that part of the year.
Speaker 2: Prediction time at worst. The Grizzlies are going to the
Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals plus twenty twenty to one to win it,
Speaker 2: all twelve to one to come out the West. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bet them just because the value is there. But
Speaker 2: they're just that good. Maybe the most amazing stat that
Speaker 2: has come out this entire year is at the Memphis
Speaker 2: Grizzlies with John Morant, whose MVP caliber play has lifted
Speaker 2: them to the ceiling, are still fifteen and two without him.
Speaker 2: That is absurd. And they don't beat scrubs They've pounded Toronto,
Speaker 2: Dallas twice, Miami Philly, LA Clippers, Pelicans, and now the
Speaker 2: healthy Brooklyn Nets without one of the best three to
Speaker 2: five players in the NBA. He was just sitting there
Speaker 2: in his little Louis cot just with his grill in,
Speaker 2: enjoying the show, had its popcorn in his hand, just
Speaker 2: loving every second of it. And they destroyed the Nets,
Speaker 2: destroyed them. That said everything about a team that is
Speaker 2: the second youngest in the NBA at twenty four years old.
Speaker 2: The Miami Hurricanes that are playing right now in the
Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament are older than the Memphis Grizzlies. That is
Speaker 2: actually a fact. That is that is crazy. They took
Speaker 2: it to the Nets, pounded them in the first half.
Speaker 2: Then Brooklyn showed up, gave him their best punch. Kyrie
Speaker 2: and Katie cooked in the third quarter to the tune
Speaker 2: of forty two points, outscored him by fifteen in the
Speaker 2: third and took a one point lead into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Were actually favored to win the game by four points.
Speaker 2: The Nets, Memphis youngest, second youngest team in the NBA
Speaker 2: twenty four years old, did not blink. They took the
Speaker 2: best shot from the NBA's two leading, number two leading
Speaker 2: odds team. They're what plus four point fifty to win
Speaker 2: it all, plus six hundred depending on the day, depending
Speaker 2: on the line, and they just took it to them,
Speaker 2: put the clamps on Brooklyn sixteen points they held them
Speaker 2: to in the fourth quarter sixteen. How is it possible
Speaker 2: to hold an entire team when two of those players
Speaker 2: are Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant to sixteen points in
Speaker 2: a quarter, one hundred and thirty two to one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty. Let me just tell you, folks, keep your
Speaker 2: eyes peeled. This team is a fucking problem. They are young,
Speaker 2: and they are composed. For them to be this young
Speaker 2: and this composed is absolutely absurd. They are deep, they
Speaker 2: are athletic, they are unafraid, they are unapologetic. And this
Speaker 2: was without Jahn Morant. Ja Morant, their number one one
Speaker 2: guy wasn't playing and they beat the shit out of
Speaker 2: the nets rough Row. Imagine if you're trying to break
Speaker 2: down film on who you're gonna guard in preparation for
Speaker 2: a playoff game against the Grizzlies, Like who is their
Speaker 2: weak guy You're going after John Moran. Let's just go
Speaker 2: through the roster second in points in the paint, six
Speaker 2: feet tall, averaging twenty eight points, six rebounds, seven assists,
Speaker 2: and he's twenty two. If you take out Jaw out
Speaker 2: of the game, then you look locked down on Desmond Bane.
Speaker 2: He's averaging eighteen five and three, shooting forty two percent
Speaker 2: from three. Dylan Brooks eighteen three and three. He's clamps.
Speaker 2: Some people think the most talented guard next to John
Speaker 2: Moran is actually d Anthony Melton, who's averaging ten two three,
Speaker 2: ten two and three on just twenty two minutes. And
Speaker 2: that's not even taking into account Tias Jones, the overlook
Speaker 2: point guard who turns the ball less than any other
Speaker 2: point guard in the in the NBA and still manages
Speaker 2: eight too and four in twenty minutes a game. Five guards,
Speaker 2: all of them playing twenty minutes or more, all of
Speaker 2: them getting buckets. Guys like Desmond and Dylan lockdown defenders,
Speaker 2: two way scorers, and defensive guys. Then you look at
Speaker 2: their front line. Nobody ever talks about Jaron Jackson. Jaron Jackson,
Speaker 2: one of the most underrated players in the league, probably
Speaker 2: should be a leading candidate for Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: He's averaging sixteen to six and one, making players. Maybe
Speaker 2: people who thought his extension was bad money look like
Speaker 2: absolute idiots. He's I think at one point he was
Speaker 2: a co leader in blocks per game. Brandon Clark. Brandon
Speaker 2: Clark just an unsung hero ten six and one on
Speaker 2: less than twenty minutes. Can play some small five, he
Speaker 2: can play four, he can play three. Kyle Anderson another
Speaker 2: unsung hero, great minutes off the bench. Steven Adams. If
Speaker 2: you know I like Patrick Beverly, then you know I
Speaker 2: like Steven Adams. A an absolute monster, an absolute tough guy,
Speaker 2: averaging ten rebounds a game and nearly two blocks two
Speaker 2: steals per game. Zier Williamson just a rookie averaging nearly
Speaker 2: twenty minutes a game. Nice little spot up three point shooter,
Speaker 2: definitely like an extra spark. Tell me where is this
Speaker 2: roster week? They roll ten deep on any given night.
Speaker 2: They can actually go deeper if necessary. Xavier Tillman KILLI
Speaker 2: and Tilly. Even John conchar is shooting forty percent from three.
Speaker 2: This team is fucking stacked, and it might be a
Speaker 2: hot take. But the more I think about it, with
Speaker 2: their youth, their springiness, their ability to just go toe
Speaker 2: to toe on a night to night basis because of
Speaker 2: how young they are. They can compete for all forty
Speaker 2: eight minutes and they're deep, right, so that seven game
Speaker 2: series is no thing. They're not gonna get worn down.
Speaker 2: You take them seven, they can go another seven with
Speaker 2: the next team. You know, sometimes you go seven in
Speaker 2: the first round and then the next round is where
Speaker 2: you get knocked out because you're so tired. Not these Griz, no, sir.
Speaker 2: I think that they're deeper and more talented as a
Speaker 2: as a total team than the Phoenix Suns. And that
Speaker 2: is saying a lot. I love the Suns, not saying
Speaker 2: that they have veteran leadership. But if you can run
Speaker 2: five guards out there any given day who can give
Speaker 2: you twenty a night, you are a problem. You are
Speaker 2: a problem. And how many teams have two guys that
Speaker 2: are legitimate on ball, lockdown defenders that you are, that
Speaker 2: are not offensive liabilities? Like I like Matisse Steibel, but
Speaker 2: what is he gonna do for you? Like offensively and
Speaker 2: absolutely fucking nothing. The Memphis Grizzlies are the number one
Speaker 2: team to watch. You've got Golden State that's vulnerable, Denver
Speaker 2: that's missing guys, Utah that's very vulnerable from a defensive standpoint, specifically,
Speaker 2: a lot of old guys with acls ready to just pop.
Speaker 2: The Grizzlies are the team to beat other than the
Speaker 2: Phoenix Suns in the West. So don't don't listen to me,
Speaker 2: just no, come back to the tape when the ship
Speaker 2: plays out exactly like I said it was. That's all
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