Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Trystal Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, It's uh, we're
Speaker 2: recording this Sunday night, so anything that happens on Monday
Speaker 2: is not going to be discussed. So it is the
Speaker 2: first round of the playoffs and they are halfway through. Damn.
Speaker 2: Is there a lot popping around the league? And not
Speaker 2: just some incredible things happening with this Kings and Warriors series.
Speaker 2: We got news from all this series, so that you're
Speaker 2: going to be caught up to start the week. My
Speaker 2: last hit from San Francisco. Let's so let's get straight
Speaker 2: to it, Nick and do me a favor then drop
Speaker 2: that same beat that should be Rihanna. Oh okay. I
Speaker 2: am sitting here in my hotel room about a mile
Speaker 2: from Chase Center. I am chilling after Game four of
Speaker 2: the Warriors Kings game, and I have to tell you
Speaker 2: that was one of the wildest, most the rilling games
Speaker 2: that I have seen in a long long time. I
Speaker 2: can't remember an NBA game I've seen in person as
Speaker 2: good as that one recently. It was exactly the opposite
Speaker 2: of Game three, full of drama, big shots, runs by
Speaker 2: both teams, surprises everywhere. My God, that Steph timeout, which
Speaker 2: we'll get to. I'm sure there wasn't a timeout. The
Speaker 2: Fab five moments. You know, our dubs, the champions that
Speaker 2: they are, they pulled it out in the last second.
Speaker 2: Some would say they dodged a bullet. I would say,
Speaker 2: that's just championship DNA coming back to rear its beautiful head.
Speaker 2: Now we head back to Sacramento. We are tied to too.
Speaker 2: The series is everything that everyone wanted it to be.
Speaker 2: A dogfight, a dogfight between the team that the national
Speaker 2: media wants, the darlings of the national media aka the
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings and a veteran in what I think the
Speaker 2: NBA wants to tell us as an aging team, the
Speaker 2: last dance of the dynasty, and a team that knows
Speaker 2: how to win, versus this young, upstart team that's trying
Speaker 2: to rip out their throats. So the overarching story, of course,
Speaker 2: was the return of Draymond Green, and I think after
Speaker 2: Game three, people in the media were whispering and like
Speaker 2: hypothesizing what if Draymond Green came off the bench, like, Hey,
Speaker 2: the elephant in the room right after the game was
Speaker 2: in the elevator, in the media elevator, like Hey, you think, no, No,
Speaker 2: that's crazy, that's crazy. I don't know, man, it kind
Speaker 2: of feels like it's the right thing to do. Like
Speaker 2: they look pretty good out air offensively, it was just
Speaker 2: one non shooter out there. You think maybe like Looney
Speaker 2: or like Draymond come off the bench. And multiple days
Speaker 2: were going by, and that started to get louder and louder.
Speaker 2: And it turns out that Draymond Green saw the same
Speaker 2: thing that we saw. So he comes up to Steve Kerr,
Speaker 2: according to Steve Kerr after the game today, and said, Hey,
Speaker 2: what do you think about me coming off of the bench.
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr was already thinking about that, and he was like, huh,
Speaker 2: that's an interesting thought. I haven't thought about that. He
Speaker 2: was thinking about that, and Draymond said, listen, like I
Speaker 2: didn't want to shake things up just because I came
Speaker 2: back from a suspension. That wasn't right. You know, Jordan
Speaker 2: Poole earned the right to be in the starting line lineup,
Speaker 2: and I am not going to be one of those
Speaker 2: veteran that think that I'm entitled to the starting job.
Speaker 2: I'm back on the Draymond train. By the way, that
Speaker 2: presser his performance today the way that he handles being
Speaker 2: a winner, the way that he handles being selfless, all
Speaker 2: the things that people accusing him of, the opposite of
Speaker 2: I love him, I do. I'm back on me and
Speaker 2: Draymond are back on. Looney, of course was amazing. He
Speaker 2: had four and twenty on four to twenty in game three,
Speaker 2: but we've got not surprisingly, Mike Brown had a plan
Speaker 2: and that was to move some bonus out to the
Speaker 2: top of the arc to open up the spacing for them,
Speaker 2: and it definitely worked. Definitely worked. There's more open space,
Speaker 2: a lot more scoring. Looney was nowhere the force that
Speaker 2: he was on the rebounds, and that was much more
Speaker 2: typical Golden State game right, a lot of big runs, threes,
Speaker 2: Draymond doing Draymond things. So another thing that I thought
Speaker 2: was really funny was the Draymond and this postgame presser
Speaker 2: kind of going backwards here, but Draymond said that Kerr
Speaker 2: called him on Saturday and was like, hey, uh, I
Speaker 2: just want to make sure you're you're good with this decision,
Speaker 2: Like how do you feel about coming off the bench,
Speaker 2: And this is what Draymond said.
Speaker 1: Coming into this game. I came off the bench, I
Speaker 1: went to coach Kerkr after the game. I told him,
Speaker 1: right then, I'm like, yo, coach, if I need to
Speaker 1: come off the bench, like fine, Like, I'll come off
Speaker 1: the bench, no problem. And he's like, oh, I could
Speaker 1: almost call him by surprise, Like he's like, oh, the
Speaker 1: one thing that I didn't want to happen was like
Speaker 1: I come back and everybody's like, oh, this work. Well,
Speaker 1: Loon comes out the star lineup. That's bullshit, Like, that's bullshit.
Speaker 1: You're an awful fucking teammate if that's what you think
Speaker 1: should happen. Looney just had twenty rebounds, nine assists, dominated
Speaker 1: a game. You don't then go to him and say, hey,
Speaker 1: your reward is to come out of start lineup. That's
Speaker 1: as a leader of a team. That's how you lose.
Speaker 1: Coach called me a day later and said, all right,
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing. But you haven't. You haven't
Speaker 1: come off the bench in nine years. How are you
Speaker 1: in a playoff game? How are you gonna feel about that?
Speaker 1: I said, well, coach number one, who fucking cares? Who
Speaker 1: cares how I feel about that doesn't matter. Feelings don't matter.
Speaker 1: You don't have time for feelings in the playoffs. You
Speaker 1: get caught in your feelings, you get caught on the
Speaker 1: boat to can Kun number two. I feel great, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I'll be ready to go when it's time for me
Speaker 1: to go in big question is do you keep coming
Speaker 1: off the bench?
Speaker 2: I don't care. Draymond Green did not care. He was
Speaker 2: a beast. He shot a million times, and you know what,
Speaker 2: he was one of the most impactful dudes. Even though
Speaker 2: he had a tray Young like an efficient performance, not
Speaker 2: today's tra Young, not today's tra tray Young is pretty
Speaker 2: good today twelve, ten and seven, had a steal and
Speaker 2: a block, had some defensive plays in crunch time. He
Speaker 2: had a tech early too, And you know it was funny.
Speaker 2: I couldn't find this part of the presser, but someone
Speaker 2: in the press conference room asked him about that tech,
Speaker 2: and he goes, wasn't that just beautiful? That was just poetic,
Speaker 2: wasn't it. You know what? I love that I got
Speaker 2: a tech. Why because nobody's going to change me. Not
Speaker 2: a suspension, not an ejection. You're not going to move
Speaker 2: me off my spot. I'm going to continue to play
Speaker 2: the type of basketball that I play no matter what,
Speaker 2: which I love it. He got into it with the
Speaker 2: Aaron Fox. Why because A Draymond Green hit Keiki Murray
Speaker 2: in the mouth, and it's like, yeah, Steph Curry didn't
Speaker 2: know that the team was without a time out. Because
Speaker 2: here's what happened. So offensive foul happened, and Draymond implored
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr to call a challenge. It was a moving screen.
Speaker 2: Kevon Looney on, I believe Malik Monk, it was definitely
Speaker 2: a three hundred percent a moving screen. They call a challenge,
Speaker 2: they lose the challenge, they lose their final timeout. Steve
Speaker 2: Curry doesn't tell the team. According to him, forgets to
Speaker 2: tell the team, Hey, we are out of timeouts. Forty
Speaker 2: seven seconds left, Warriors up five, and Steph Curry is
Speaker 2: in the back court all by him, his lonesome, trapped.
Speaker 2: He's got to call the timeout. Oh no, Warriors get
Speaker 2: the technical foul. Malik Monk hits the free throw Sacramento ball.
Speaker 2: Dearon Fox, mister clutch time himself, iso On Draymon hits
Speaker 2: a step back three. Oh my god, King's only down one.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry bricks King's ball. Ten seconds time out. And
Speaker 2: then here's where it gets tricky. They out of bounce
Speaker 2: play Fox takes it in the back court, takes him
Speaker 2: five seconds just to get down to the front court,
Speaker 2: and they trap Fox, Smart Steph and Draymond out the
Speaker 2: Harrison Barnes and Harrison Barnes misses an open three on
Speaker 2: a closeout which would have sent them into winning Game four,
Speaker 2: going up three to one, and would have been probably
Speaker 2: the most epic choke job in Warriors dynastic history. However,
Speaker 2: they do come out unscathed. And I saw this on Twitter,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if it's real, but a lot
Speaker 2: of people said the Harrison Barnes continues to win Golden
Speaker 2: State championships just by being on another team there is
Speaker 2: it's just cold out here on these treats for Harrison
Speaker 2: Bars he wants it so bad. They buried him for
Speaker 2: so long after that twenty sixteen you can tell he's
Speaker 2: talked about it in multiple times in these pressers too.
Speaker 2: But now we get a light, nice long break before
Speaker 2: Game five and Sacramento Wednesday night. Both teams have a
Speaker 2: lot to game plan for. But this is the best
Speaker 2: series in the NBA so far. What Kings fans are scared.
Speaker 2: Kings fans are terrified, as they should be. And our Dubs.
Speaker 2: They feel more and more confident by the minute. The
Speaker 2: only other really good series so far has been the
Speaker 2: Knicks and the Calves. It is now three to one
Speaker 2: New York after another great back and forth game. Our
Speaker 2: man Donovan Mitchell wasn't good. Was not good. Calves came
Speaker 2: roaring back. Nicks blew the lead Nicks bench Julius Randall,
Speaker 2: They bring in Obi Topping and then they put the
Speaker 2: boot on Cleveland's neck. Julius Randall. You heard that right,
Speaker 2: benched for Obi. Ain't no stop in Obi top and
Speaker 2: butt Tom Thibodeau. And you know what, Ari from Manhattan
Speaker 2: on Twitter summed it up for all Knicks fans when
Speaker 2: he said, Thomas Joseph Thibodeau Junior really just benched Julius
Speaker 2: Randle for Obi Topping. In Game four of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: I could literally cry right now. And it worked. They
Speaker 2: scored outscored the Cavs by seven in the fourth in
Speaker 2: a game that they won by nine. Brunton had twenty nine,
Speaker 2: RJ had twenty seven. Cleveland Garland did well on this team.
Speaker 2: He had a bounce back game with twenty three two ten,
Speaker 2: And like I said, Donovan Mitchell was getting strapped eleven points,
Speaker 2: five for eighteen, shooting zero threes. Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2: And also they shut down Seventh Street. It was a
Speaker 2: mass chaos party in the middle of Manhattan. Even one
Speaker 2: of the guys on Twitter said, you have five minutes
Speaker 2: to shelter in place if you are in this area
Speaker 2: because as it is going to be a zoo. And
Speaker 2: it was incredible. It was incredible. Spider said this about
Speaker 2: the game. I played, like, shit, you're right, you did,
Speaker 2: and now we're wondering what's going on with Randall. The
Speaker 2: benching is huge news. He looked pissed on the bench.
Speaker 2: He bolted the stadium, did not talk to the media,
Speaker 2: and Tims and Brunson were out there sounding Julius love.
Speaker 2: After the game, Thibodeau said of this, Julius is our horse, you.
Speaker 3: Know, and he's given us everything that he has. You
Speaker 3: know a lot of guys who probably you know, probably
Speaker 3: wouldn't even be playing. So I knew that with the
Speaker 3: quick turnaround, probably impact him more than than you know,
Speaker 3: most players. You know, he was out in an extended
Speaker 3: amount of time, so uh, you know, we got multiple
Speaker 3: days here before the next game. He'll get a chance
Speaker 3: to to, you know, get some recovery time. But I
Speaker 3: think that's a big part of it.
Speaker 2: So basically he's hurt, he shouldn't be playing. He's a
Speaker 2: hard rock. We had a very quick turnaround. What do
Speaker 2: you expect? His ankles fucked, which kind of changes the perspective.
Speaker 2: Who knows if he's really hurt, then he's just absolutely
Speaker 2: an iron man for even playing at all. Brunton and
Speaker 2: Heart echoed exactly what Tim said.
Speaker 3: Uh, Jrew has.
Speaker 4: Been a leader since the day I came here. What
Speaker 4: he's able to do while he's either on or off
Speaker 4: the floor has been incredible. He's uh, he's been special.
Speaker 4: All he wants to do is win. And when he
Speaker 4: has that mindset, he's just it's very contagious. And so
Speaker 4: he's been a leader and we're just we always got
Speaker 4: his back and he just nothing. He wants nothing else
Speaker 4: but to win.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson winner, Josh Hart winner, Julius Randall obviously a
Speaker 2: winner as well. And what he wants to do this
Speaker 2: is these are three leaders leading the charge. Knicks are back,
Speaker 2: Baby bing Bong. I think the Knicks win at Madison
Speaker 2: Square Garden in six Baby, just a few notes about
Speaker 2: the rest of these series. We'll get into them a
Speaker 2: lot more this week when they reach closeouts Philly. I
Speaker 2: mean it was bing bang boom. The Nets are dead,
Speaker 2: like close them out four games, multiple players now on
Speaker 2: the trade block, insane in, insane shit, PJ. Tucker killed it,
Speaker 2: Daniel House, d' anthony meltin. Listen. This is not a
Speaker 2: pushover team that they've been in the past. The Nets
Speaker 2: aren't great, we know that, but have now lost ten
Speaker 2: straight playoff games dating back to twenty twenty one. But
Speaker 2: a sweep for a team that was missing embiid is
Speaker 2: very impressive. And now they get a full week off
Speaker 2: to get m beat healthy for what will be not
Speaker 2: a walk in the park against Boston in the next round.
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks. Oh they are in trouble, baby, Oh no,
Speaker 2: they you know they're playing the Heat. It's not a
Speaker 2: great matchup for them without Yannis. Not something I would
Speaker 2: have said ten days ago. They are down two to
Speaker 2: one to the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat almost like
Speaker 2: didn't make the playoffs. Yannis missed Game three. We don't
Speaker 2: know when he's gonna be back on the floor, hopefully
Speaker 2: as soon. Because this is not a team that you
Speaker 2: can expect to have any title aspirations without their guy.
Speaker 2: Playoff Jimmy has arrived. He is single handedly carried every
Speaker 2: single substandard player on his team. No one is there now.
Speaker 2: The Tyler hero is gone and the team is still succeeding. Also,
Speaker 2: by the way, really sad news. Victor Oladipo. I believe
Speaker 2: the final answer to his he got injured last game,
Speaker 2: and I believe it was a tendon. Yeah, a torn
Speaker 2: pateeller tendon in his left knee, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: is the other knee that his other knee was the
Speaker 2: one who got injured, and he had a surgery on.
Speaker 2: So bad bad stuff there. Crazy. The Heat lead the
Speaker 2: NBA right now in offensive rating in the playoffs, field
Speaker 2: goal percentage, three point shooting percentage, Just like hew, they
Speaker 2: all drew it up right, just makes sense. Fourth from
Speaker 2: the bottom all year and now they're just they're just
Speaker 2: snipers Without Tyler Herro. Everybody would have predicted that, right,
Speaker 2: That's how it all went. Clippers are also on the ropes.
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard is injured, he's got a nie sprain. Phoenix
Speaker 2: is about to put the Clippers to bed, and Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook is trying his very best to keep them from
Speaker 2: getting Night Night sleep mask no Kuhi no PG. When
Speaker 2: they were healthy, they were going to really make noise
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Now they're down three to one. I
Speaker 2: think they're going to struggle to get a game six
Speaker 2: in the Suns. Good news, bad news, Good news, Katie
Speaker 2: is doing Katie things, just a book, bucket, walking, bucket Booker.
Speaker 2: Booker's been really really good too. The bad news is
Speaker 2: they're not destroying a team that does not have Kawhi,
Speaker 2: Leonard and Paul George. They are, as Doc Rivers would say,
Speaker 2: playing with their meat, and when you play with your meat,
Speaker 2: your meat tends to bite back. Teams like Denver and
Speaker 2: the Lakers are not gonna fuck around in the next round.
Speaker 2: So eight needs to find more consistency. Kdie needs to
Speaker 2: play less minutes. They need to finish this series off
Speaker 2: in five so that they can get more time to
Speaker 2: get their ship in order. Denver thought they were gonna
Speaker 2: sweep the Tea Wolves, and they did not. This is
Speaker 2: going to be the least interesting series of the first round.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Minnesota, I don't want to see another game
Speaker 2: of this. You should just lay down and stay down.
Speaker 2: Barkley doesn't want to even talk about it. He said
Speaker 2: he was watching hockey on TBS. This game is boring
Speaker 2: as hell. I'm gonna be honest with you. After game one,
Speaker 2: in game two, I stop watching, so I don't have
Speaker 2: any insight. I don't have I just know Edwards is
Speaker 2: doing really well. I know he had thirty four, five
Speaker 2: and five. I know he had two steals. We'll watch
Speaker 2: more of the highlights later. This is bad. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't care. Do you care? No, Let's move on.
Speaker 2: Then the Lakers versus the Grizzlies could be very interesting.
Speaker 2: Lakers took it to the grizz in Game three. They
Speaker 2: have a two to one league going to the game
Speaker 2: four the crypt. If they win in LA, now it's problems,
Speaker 2: But there is a glaring seven foot hole in the
Speaker 2: middle of their lineup named Steven Adams and Brandon Clark.
Speaker 2: Without those guys, they are getting manhandled. Dylan Brooks is
Speaker 2: now a comic book villain. He punched Braun in the
Speaker 2: dick that is now the third dick punch in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Who would have said that was gonna happen? So many
Speaker 2: guys kicking dicks and punching dicks. Dylan Brooks is committed
Speaker 2: to now being this character. I think it is hurting
Speaker 2: his team. He was ejected. Difference between Draymond and Dylan
Speaker 2: Brooks is Dylan's not getting suspended next game. So that's
Speaker 2: really interesting. Day after he called braun Old and said, listen,
Speaker 2: like he's washed and I'm not gonna respect him until
Speaker 2: he gives me forty the Lakers ran out to a
Speaker 2: thirty five to nine first quarter lead. So yeah, the
Speaker 2: funny thing, just like Draymond, he was three for thirteen.
Speaker 2: Unlike Draymond, his team got his ass kicked. Dylan said
Speaker 2: now that even though he just had an article calling
Speaker 2: himself Dylan the villain, now somehow it's us that's making
Speaker 2: him out to be a villain. This is what he said.
Speaker 2: The media is making me a villain. The fans are
Speaker 2: making me a villain, and that just creates this different
Speaker 2: persona of me. Sir, pause, you literally did an article
Speaker 2: with the ESPN like three weeks ago about how you
Speaker 2: love to be the villain. You called yourself Dylan the villain. Anyway,
Speaker 2: he says, so you think I intended to hit Lebron
Speaker 2: James and the nuts I'm playing basketball. I'm a basketball player.
Speaker 2: So if I intended and that's whatever it is in
Speaker 2: the flagrant two category, if you think I did that,
Speaker 2: then you that means you think I'm that type of person.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Dylan, You've already hit Donovan Mitchell in
Speaker 2: not so far this year, so it's hard for us
Speaker 2: to just believe you don't mean to do it. This
Speaker 2: is gonna be an awesome series. I hope it goes seven.
Speaker 2: I would not be shocked if it goes seven, but
Speaker 2: the Grizz need to get their shit together or it's
Speaker 2: done after basically next game. That's all the time that
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