Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check, But just a quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, there's trouble. There's
Speaker 2: trouble in Golden State with our Doves.
Speaker 1: And David.
Speaker 2: Does fans just aren't ready to accept the truth about
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole. So we talk about that. I have some
Speaker 2: things I need to say, things I might have over
Speaker 2: over said last night in haste and in pain. As
Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors cost me Golden Well, Jordan Poole
Speaker 2: cost me probably close to five hundred dollars with not winning. No,
Speaker 2: not close to exactly that amount. And so we talk
Speaker 2: about him, and we talk about Draymond Green and the
Speaker 2: lost tapes of his podcast in the wake of punching
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole in said face, which we now know there
Speaker 2: was an episode recorded that he did not publish. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: there is al so an epidemic that is sweeping the NBA,
Speaker 2: and we check in on the official Timberwolve spokesperson, the
Speaker 2: pr REP as it were, Austin Rivers. I also bitch
Speaker 2: about the All Star voting because I mean, I think
Speaker 2: it's terrible. All right, I'm heading out to Sacramento, Nick
Speaker 2: to see the Kings place Lebron James, so drop that
Speaker 2: generic gas beat.
Speaker 3: Oh, Dubs fans, Dubbs fans, We're a fickle bunch, aren't we.
Speaker 3: If you criticize the Warriors even a little, no matter
Speaker 3: how legitimate those criticisms are, you could be in the
Speaker 3: DMS with the most rabid Dubs fan and they know
Speaker 3: what's up.
Speaker 2: They tell you, Yeah, all my, all the homies hate
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole right now, they say that. But if you
Speaker 2: say that on social media, one you're a hater. Two
Speaker 2: you don't want to let this young man develop, and
Speaker 2: three they'll try to kick you off the Warriors fan bus.
Speaker 2: That's that's what makes the Dubs our Dubs. You know,
Speaker 2: you can't say a peep, cannot say one peep in
Speaker 2: the moments when people are legitimately fucking up and losing
Speaker 2: games as a result of those fuck ups. And in
Speaker 2: my case, let's just tell you go back to the kitchen.
Speaker 2: You're not even a true Dubs fan. There was seventy
Speaker 2: one quote tweets. None of them were good on my
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole tweet last night. They were all some version
Speaker 2: of who are you? Why do I see you on
Speaker 2: my timeline? But I think we do need to kind
Speaker 2: of talk about our dubs a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 2: six and without Steph is fine. That's much better than
Speaker 2: I thought I thought it was. This team would go
Speaker 2: three and seven, but our Dubs losing to the Pistons
Speaker 2: twice twice the Pistons. The Pistons has check notes eleven
Speaker 2: wins on the season. Two of those wins are against y'all. Right,
Speaker 2: two of those eleven are again over twenty percent of
Speaker 2: those wins are against y'all. You lost to the Pacers
Speaker 2: twice as well. I like the Pacers, but come on, now,
Speaker 2: you lost to the Magic. I mean, these are the
Speaker 2: doldrums of the NBA that you should be feasting on,
Speaker 2: just stinking your teeth into to get easy wins, fatten
Speaker 2: up so that when you see the Miami Heat away,
Speaker 2: or you see the New York Knicks away, or whoever,
Speaker 2: you could say, look, we're good. We've just been destroying
Speaker 2: teams like the Pacers, the Magic, and the Pistons. So okay,
Speaker 2: I have to admit I had a lot of money
Speaker 2: riding on this Warrior's win. So when I got home,
Speaker 2: I did not go to bed, I did not watch
Speaker 2: the highlights. I did not look on my phone while
Speaker 2: I was watching the game, which may sound inconceivable to some.
Speaker 2: I was locked in to every possession of that Warriors game.
Speaker 2: And I tell you what, there's nothing like the hate
Speaker 2: that you experience for Jordan Poole when your money and
Speaker 2: your livelihood depends on him not making bad decisions, because
Speaker 2: he made a lot of them last night, and he
Speaker 2: made a lot of them against the Hawks. He made
Speaker 2: a lot of them against the Blazers. These are three
Speaker 2: games straight where the decision making quality has been bananas.
Speaker 2: Like bananas zibbit a was last night. Everybody just wants
Speaker 2: to be sunshine and rainbows. They just want me to say, oh,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be. The only thing you can ever say
Speaker 2: about the Doves when they're losing is it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing you can say. It's gonna be fine,
Speaker 2: because it always is fine, and that's what they want
Speaker 2: to hear when things go bad. But here is the
Speaker 2: reality of the situation. And I do think things will
Speaker 2: be fine because it's always fine with the Warriors. But
Speaker 2: we have a Jordan Poole problem, folks. Nobody wants to
Speaker 2: admit it, and yes, will he grow, Will he evolve?
Speaker 2: Will he develop? Did stepf have problems like Jordan Pool
Speaker 2: where he was turning the ball over? Did Clay have
Speaker 2: problems where he was making sure? None of that right
Speaker 2: now is relevant at all. We're talking about criticizing the
Speaker 2: here and the now. Okay, like, what do I see?
Speaker 2: What is happening? What does it mean? What are the
Speaker 2: consequences of what I see? Right We're not We're not
Speaker 2: putting our crystal ball on. That's not what this job is.
Speaker 2: This man has a lot of offensive responsibility, as we know.
Speaker 2: But the issue for my guy, Jordan Poole JP for
Speaker 2: whatever reason that no, what he wants to talk about
Speaker 2: is the turnovers. The turnovers. There's other ones too, I mean,
Speaker 2: chucking just randomly. You know how much I love a
Speaker 2: heat check, Yeah, I mean it's the name of the pot.
Speaker 2: But Jordan Poole will heat check when he's ice cold
Speaker 2: and contested and defenders draped around him early on in
Speaker 2: the shot clock. But right now, what we're talking about
Speaker 2: is turnovers, which, by the way, Jordan Poole does more
Speaker 2: than anyone in the NBA. You didn't think you didn't
Speaker 2: think that was true? Yeah, more than any human being
Speaker 2: playing in the NBA right now. Jordan Poole worse than
Speaker 2: Trey Young. That is insane. I know he's got to
Speaker 2: be aggressive. I know the ball's got to be in
Speaker 2: his hand. I know he has to get into traffic.
Speaker 2: He's got to get you into a place where there's
Speaker 2: lots of bodies around trying to poke the ball loose.
Speaker 2: But sometimes he's just throwing it to the other team
Speaker 2: on his own self, no issues. He's making boneheaded mistakes
Speaker 2: in the crunch time, down the stretch, when you're down
Speaker 2: by one, when you have the Warriors just to win,
Speaker 2: and you watch Jordan Poole, it's like having a heart
Speaker 2: attack every possession. I tell you what, it is, nothing
Speaker 2: like it. And maybe I wouldn't notice these things if
Speaker 2: the last leg of a six leg parlay wasn't on
Speaker 2: the line. But it was. And I'm focused now, and
Speaker 2: it's okay to admit it. It's okay, Draymond, It's okay,
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr, it's okay, Clay, It's okay. Anyone that's rooting
Speaker 2: for the Dubs pool right now is a flamethrower who
Speaker 2: makes some costly mistakes down the stretch. It's okay. It's
Speaker 2: okay to admit that it loses you games. It's okay
Speaker 2: to say, on one hand, he keeps us in games
Speaker 2: because he scores like crazy, but we don't know when
Speaker 2: he's gonna fuck up. And all I want from a
Speaker 2: player is to know what he's gonna be. Anthony Slater
Speaker 2: tweeted this out today. Jordan Poole has committed a dribbling
Speaker 2: turnover in the final minute of regulation in three straight
Speaker 2: tight games. Yeah, it finally costs the Warriors in a
Speaker 2: loss against the Pistons. The only reason that this hasn't
Speaker 2: been written about with the Hawks or the Blazers is
Speaker 2: they won those games. Draymond Green had to make a
Speaker 2: three point shots in order to beat the Hawks. Are
Speaker 2: you are you joking me? What kind of world are
Speaker 2: we living in? And we're just gonna let that'sie. We
Speaker 2: had to have a Draymond Green prayer to get this
Speaker 2: dub folks. Folks, Jordan Poole is averaging five point one
Speaker 2: turnovers per game since Steph left. He had six last
Speaker 2: night alone. Six This man, Jordan Poole had fifty two
Speaker 2: turnovers in the ten games that Steph has missed, and
Speaker 2: that is the most in the league.
Speaker 1: C J.
Speaker 2: Holmes, the Warriors Rider, points this out. This isn't a
Speaker 2: recent issue. Pool had an NBA high one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty five turnovers entering play Wednesday, and was eighth in
Speaker 2: turnovers per game at three point six. This is a
Speaker 2: man who comes off the bench too. We're not talking
Speaker 2: about this stretch where he's playing without Steph. Jordan. Poole
Speaker 2: is committing three point six turnovers per game period off
Speaker 2: the bench. Poole has committed seven turnovers in clutch time,
Speaker 2: defined as the final five minutes of the game in
Speaker 2: which the scoring margin is no more than five points.
Speaker 2: I'd say pretty critical time to take care of the basketball.
Speaker 2: But make that eight now with six seconds left down
Speaker 2: one last night it was I don't even know what
Speaker 2: to say. He gave it to Clay, good job, Clay
Speaker 2: gives it back and he say, oh no, he drives
Speaker 2: right down. I don't even remember against too Alec Burks.
Speaker 2: It was Alec Burks dribbles the ball off his feet,
Speaker 2: trips over himself, throws the ball out of bounds and
Speaker 2: you are now fucked. Thank god, somehow Clay ended up
Speaker 2: making an insane three point shot with almost no seconds
Speaker 2: to go, leaving you with one second and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you don't defend Sadiq Bay. Sidik Bay with
Speaker 2: one second left shoots three in your eyeball night night,
Speaker 2: sleep mask. I looked at my phone to say overtime.
Speaker 2: I was just texting someone to say overtime. Shame on
Speaker 2: me because I looked up and my jaw dropped because
Speaker 2: it said final what This is an issue? And it's
Speaker 2: not just an issue because the Warriors are paying him
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars a year. It's it's an issue because
Speaker 2: this team wants to win now and they don't have
Speaker 2: the patience to wait for him to catch up and
Speaker 2: evolve and develop like Steph did. Do you know the
Speaker 2: difference between Jordan Poole and Steph Curry. There was no
Speaker 2: expectation to win a fucking thing when Steph Cree came
Speaker 2: into the league. None, zero, absolutely none. We had Monte Ellis.
Speaker 2: That's the one. Monte Ellis. Sometimes I want to say
Speaker 2: Monte Morris because he's the one playing right now. He
Speaker 2: was in there. There was multiple guards playing for the
Speaker 2: Warriors at that point in time where you didn't need
Speaker 2: Steph to be the guy at that moment, just like
Speaker 2: they don't need Pool to be the guy at this moment.
Speaker 2: But listen, Steph's not there. You need to win. Joe
Speaker 2: lacub is breathing down your necks saying that he will
Speaker 2: shed salary if this team is not a contender. They
Speaker 2: need to win now. They need to protect the ball,
Speaker 2: especially in crunch time. Every one of these wins is
Speaker 2: gonna be precious. Let's break down a couple of the
Speaker 2: recent games against the Hawks. Jordan Poole was eleven for
Speaker 2: thirty one, two for twelve from three seventeen misses from
Speaker 2: the left side of the court, including three corner threes,
Speaker 2: open ones too, not contested ones, open ones. Oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, really quickly. He shot a corner three last
Speaker 2: night and did the staff thing where he turns before
Speaker 2: it goes in. It did not go in. It barely
Speaker 2: hit the fucking rim. So like, it's okay to be
Speaker 2: eleven for thirty one. If you're the central hub of
Speaker 2: the offense, sometimes you shoot poorly. He did end up
Speaker 2: with twenty eight points, but you can't have six turnovers
Speaker 2: if you're not shooting well. You have to figure out
Speaker 2: a way to do your best. Jalen Brunson impression. That's
Speaker 2: just what it is. Here's what he did in crunch time.
Speaker 2: He turned the ball over with twelve point one seconds
Speaker 2: left down too in regulation. Then he had a three
Speaker 2: pointer blocked by Murray that went straight to Dante, who
Speaker 2: tied the game with the three. So that's the reason
Speaker 2: that they were able to go to overtime. He misses
Speaker 2: a pull up three with forty seconds left in ot
Speaker 2: up one, they end up winning that game. It doesn't
Speaker 2: always work like that, as we saw against the Pistons,
Speaker 2: a critical turnover in the last four seconds of the
Speaker 2: Jazz game cost them a win that also wiped out
Speaker 2: and washed out an elite scoring performance last night. He
Speaker 2: was taking terrible threes early on in the shot clock.
Speaker 2: You've got multiple guys who can you can facilitate it
Speaker 2: to move the ball around. You can't just take a
Speaker 2: thirty foot step back three, just terrible steph was visibly
Speaker 2: mad at that turnover, but then Clay, of course is
Speaker 2: Clay and says some nice things to give Jordan Poole
Speaker 2: an out and make him feel better about himself, because
Speaker 2: what do you get to do if you're his teammate
Speaker 2: right now? You're not gonna make him feel worse, are you?
Speaker 2: You're not gonna make him feel less confident about this
Speaker 2: performance and him as a human being and as a
Speaker 2: basketball player. Of course, not because you want him to
Speaker 2: continue to produce. But this is what he said. I
Speaker 2: told him in the locker room that there's a reason
Speaker 2: that I threw him the ball because he's like that.
Speaker 2: He's a clutch player, he's a shot creator. We would
Speaker 2: have not been on this win streak without him. I
Speaker 2: know that. I mean, shoot, we all go through these
Speaker 2: lapses throughout our career. I remember missing two free throws
Speaker 2: against the Nuggets in my second year and just leaving
Speaker 2: the arena in my uniform. So it's like we all
Speaker 2: got to go through it. Steph went through it. Jordan.
Speaker 2: We're gonna continue to trust him with the ball in
Speaker 2: his hands because he's the engine that makes us go.
Speaker 2: But it's not the misshots. It's not it's the it's
Speaker 2: the turnovers. It's the troubling, troubling turnovers. Are they gonna
Speaker 2: have buyers regret on Jordan Poole and extending him for
Speaker 2: that much money so soon? Probably not, But listen, I
Speaker 2: understand you're gonna have to pay four hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: million dollars next year. If you keep them all, what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? The longer it remains an issue,
Speaker 2: who knows. Maybe a trade happens, Maybe our dubs struggle
Speaker 2: and continue to struggle. At the end of the day,
Speaker 2: we know Steph will pull them out, figure out a
Speaker 2: way to get into the play end of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and make a run. That's what they do. We are
Speaker 2: the evil Empire. But the longer they struggle, the less
Speaker 2: likely Lika will want to continue to carry this enormous,
Speaker 2: enormous peril. So don't hate me. I'm just pointing out
Speaker 2: what I see from Jordan Poole right now. Like him,
Speaker 2: think he's a good player. Please don't call me a hater.
Speaker 2: The end, we finally got a podcast from Draymond Green.
Speaker 2: It's been months by a lot of months, but it
Speaker 2: happens to not be the podcast that everyone was hoping for,
Speaker 2: the one that we've been waiting with baited breath to
Speaker 2: listen to. What we wanted was Draymond Green right after
Speaker 2: he punched Jordan Poole. I want him directly from the
Speaker 2: practice facility to his computer, and I want him to
Speaker 2: record why he did it, what happened, what was the
Speaker 2: circumstances around it, what's going to happen next. He recorded
Speaker 2: it right after the incident, but he decided not to
Speaker 2: release it. So listen to this in terms of why.
Speaker 1: That also coincided with what we all know the incident
Speaker 1: to be. At the beginning of the season, with myself
Speaker 1: and a teammate, Jordan, and quite frankly, if I'm being
Speaker 1: one hundred percent honest, Jackson and I we recorded an
Speaker 1: episode right after, and I know everyone was looking for it.
Speaker 1: Everyone wanted to hear it, and quite frankly, I wanted
Speaker 1: to allow you the chance to hear what I had
Speaker 1: to say. I wanted to allow you the chance to
Speaker 1: kind of take a trip in my mind and just
Speaker 1: maybe understand more. And when we recorded the episode, I
Speaker 1: hated the way I sounded, and so we simply just
Speaker 1: didn't release it. I didn't like my tone, I didn't
Speaker 1: like the things I said. I didn't like the way
Speaker 1: it came out. I didn't like.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 1: Almost if you're not careful, it almost comes off as
Speaker 1: unremorseful and distasteful one hundred percent distasteful, but also fast.
Speaker 1: And what do I mean by fast? Quite frankly, I'm
Speaker 1: not big into sayings or doing things and then run
Speaker 1: into my show because it's going to get more ratings.
Speaker 1: Like I don't really like that game. That's the old media.
Speaker 1: I don't play that game. I don't I'm not very interested.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a time to speak, and you know,
Speaker 1: if the opportunity is there, I'm gonna speak. I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna shy away from a topic. But the thing that
Speaker 1: I had to take into consideration with that is number One,
Speaker 1: someone else was affected. And not only one person was affected,
Speaker 1: but multiple people, tons of I mean, however many you want,
Speaker 1: whatever word you want to use to describe the amount
Speaker 1: of people. People were affected. And so it wasn't something
Speaker 1: that just affected me. And so when you do something
Speaker 1: that affects someone else, you can't just take yourself into consideration,
Speaker 1: how you may feel, how it may benefit you, all
Speaker 1: of those things.
Speaker 2: So backup. So Draymond recorded a podcast right after punching Jordan.
Speaker 2: He was about to put it out, did not like
Speaker 2: the tone of it, didn't like what he said how
Speaker 2: it came off, and felt that it was one hundred
Speaker 2: percent distasteful. I'm not gonna lie y'all. I want to
Speaker 2: hear it even more now. I think this is my
Speaker 2: new white whale of content. I must. One time I
Speaker 2: looked for a record, you know, worked for looked for
Speaker 2: it for months and months and months, finally founded Jazz Record,
Speaker 2: And now I need to find the lost tapes of
Speaker 2: Draymond Green. I must. I have to. I am one
Speaker 2: hundred percent sure that at some point we will get
Speaker 2: a bootleg copy from Jackson, most likely selling it on eBay,
Speaker 2: and there'll probably be an NFT attached to it, and
Speaker 2: we'll be passing him back and forth at Summer League,
Speaker 2: like the mixtapes back in the day, like this is
Speaker 2: the new lost tapes of Draymond Green, Like we need
Speaker 2: we need to know what he said. I can tell
Speaker 2: It's like, listen, I'm not trying to place blame on
Speaker 2: Jordan in any way, because that would be horrible. That's
Speaker 2: not me. I have to take responsibility as the grown
Speaker 2: man that I am. But listen to what he said
Speaker 2: about me, and you tell me whether you would punch him,
Speaker 2: and you're like, wait, hold up, you just did that
Speaker 2: whole preamble to then put us or hey, you know,
Speaker 2: there's just some things you just don't say on a
Speaker 2: practice court to your teammates. And when you step over
Speaker 2: that line, I just felt in that moment I needed
Speaker 2: to knock him the fuck out. And you know what,
Speaker 2: he got knocked the fuck out. And maybe he won't
Speaker 2: say those things anymore. I gotta hear what he said, Like,
Speaker 2: what did he say? How distasteful? Could we get? Like?
Speaker 2: Would we get a like? I would do it again?
Speaker 2: If he said that to me again, I'd do it again.
Speaker 2: Did anyone ever ask him that? Hey, if he said
Speaker 2: those things to you again, would you think you would
Speaker 2: hit him again? Because I need to know. Does anyone
Speaker 2: have a hookup on this podcast tape? I need it, Like,
Speaker 2: drop me a note, you can find me anywhere on
Speaker 2: social find me. I don't know if this is an
Speaker 2: epidemic or if this is a phenomenon. Let's just call
Speaker 2: it what it is. It's a sickness. It's an epidemic,
Speaker 2: and we need to address it. It's infected pretty much
Speaker 2: every team in the NBA, every star player in the NBA,
Speaker 2: even fringe star players in the NBA have caught this.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about COVID? No, we're talking about scoring.
Speaker 2: We're talking about lots and lots of scoring, an epidemic
Speaker 2: in the league, and it's getting out of hand. It
Speaker 2: is getting to the point where I don't even know
Speaker 2: this league anymore. I don't even know this version of
Speaker 2: the NBA anymore. Donovan Mitchell last to catch it. Seventy
Speaker 2: one points for Donovan. He had eleven at halftime, so
Speaker 2: he was free. It was okay, He seemed fine at halftime.
Speaker 2: Everything seemed to be shaping up for a good twenty seven,
Speaker 2: twenty eight point performance, and then, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: one of the highest scoring games of all time, also
Speaker 2: the highest scoring regular season performance in Cavs history, which
Speaker 2: people don't talk about enough, and that came right on
Speaker 2: the heels of Luka Doncic in his insane sixty point game,
Speaker 2: which he followed up with a fifty three point game
Speaker 2: two games later. Joannis last night had fifty five career high.
Speaker 2: No one said a word why Why? Because the scoring
Speaker 2: right now is out of hand. The scoring is so silly,
Speaker 2: the defense is so bad that nobody even when someone
Speaker 2: drops fifty anymore. Do you even remember Do you even
Speaker 2: remember Devin Booker scoring fifty eight? Do you remember it? No,
Speaker 2: you probably don't even remember Devin Booker playing for the
Speaker 2: Phoenix Suns because he's been out with an injury for
Speaker 2: so long this season, since December of this year December, okay,
Speaker 2: not the full season, not the calendar year, December, one month.
Speaker 2: These are the highest scoring games. Donovan Mitchell seventy one,
Speaker 2: Luca sixty, Booker fifty eight, Anthony Davis fifty five, Jannis
Speaker 2: fifty five, Clay fifty four, Embiid fifty three. Pascal Siakam
Speaker 2: scored fifty two points. Say it Ain't so Luca fifty one,
Speaker 2: Luca fifty Lebron forty seven. Garland Darius Garland scored points
Speaker 2: Joannis forty five, Paul George forty five. That's in the
Speaker 2: last five weeks. What are we talking about? That's like
Speaker 2: twenty people. That's insane. Twenty guys have scored forty or
Speaker 2: more this year, eighty nine games in total. This is
Speaker 2: scoring at epidemic proportions. We need these guys to start
Speaker 2: wearing masks like guys are catching it. It's not just superstars.
Speaker 2: My man Dennis Shruder put up thirty two last night.
Speaker 2: I love the NBA, I love scoring, I love buckets.
Speaker 2: Guys are skilled. I'm not trying to say, get off
Speaker 2: my lawn. This isn't it's fun, blah blah blah. But
Speaker 2: if you're in your thirties, which maybe you're in your
Speaker 2: thirties and you don't listen to podcasts, or maybe you
Speaker 2: watch the news, I don't know, But if you're like me,
Speaker 2: you remember when it was hard to drop fifty. Doesn't
Speaker 2: seem hard to drop fifty anymore, just seems inevitable. When
Speaker 2: fifty is inevitable, if you're a superstar, nobody's playing, no
Speaker 2: damn defense. We have nobody out here strapping anymore. We
Speaker 2: expect now forty points nightly from embiid, of course, But
Speaker 2: Jordan Clarkson, I'm getting forty out of Jordan Clarkson. Do
Speaker 2: you guys even know where Jordan Clarkson went to school?
Speaker 2: Do you even know who drafted Jordan Clarkson? Do you
Speaker 2: even know what teams he's played for so far in
Speaker 2: the NBA? Did you know he played for Cleveland? Did
Speaker 2: you know that Jordan Clarkson is dropping forty? Okay, Pascal Siakam,
Speaker 2: who no one knew before Kawhi I got there, and
Speaker 2: he's a fine player. I like Pascal. He's a he's
Speaker 2: a fine player. Fifty two is he that guy? Is
Speaker 2: Pascal that guy to score fifty two on someone's head
Speaker 2: when they're draping the defense around him. No, because they're
Speaker 2: not draping the defense around him. At least Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 2: seventy one. He was the only man out there. Everyone
Speaker 2: knew he was gonna get the ball. Everyone was exhausted,
Speaker 2: and he was just better than every guy on that floor.
Speaker 2: They were double and triple teaming him. That's the kind
Speaker 2: of seventy one I want to see. I don't want
Speaker 2: to see guys just in a layup line. Just lay up, layup, dunk, layup,
Speaker 2: easy mid range layup. What is that? That's that's literally
Speaker 2: just me watching practice. Pascal Siakam is not Yannis, He's
Speaker 2: not Embiid. He should not be putting up half of
Speaker 2: one hundred points against any team, especially the Knicks. Where
Speaker 2: was Isa Hartenstein, Where was Mitchell Robinson? Where was RJ? Barrett?
Speaker 2: Where was anyone? He scored a career high and they
Speaker 2: still lost. The Toronto Raptors still lost. By the way,
Speaker 2: they're in free fall. We'll get to it at some point.
Speaker 2: Someone make it make sense. The defensive schemes have had
Speaker 2: to change so that teams are willing to let guys
Speaker 2: like Giannis or Luca. They're just basically saying, let the
Speaker 2: number one guy go off for fifty and we'll see.
Speaker 2: We'll see, Like, just give him everything he wants, and
Speaker 2: then if he gets fifty, who cares, We'll get one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten. Luca has lost twice so far this year,
Speaker 2: scoring fifty points in a game that strategy apparently is working.
Speaker 2: There's a combination of things that explains this high degree,
Speaker 2: this epidemic of scoring. Guys obviously are more skilled. They
Speaker 2: can score buckets in a bunch of different ways, three
Speaker 2: different styles like and then you have defenses designed not
Speaker 2: to worry about one guy right, concentrating on stopping the
Speaker 2: other players. Is this fun? Do you find this fun?
Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend the other day while
Speaker 2: having a nice little Chai t latte out in La
Speaker 2: and I think he agrees. Is this fun? No, it's
Speaker 2: not that fun. Does it feel meaningful? No, it does
Speaker 2: not feel that meaningful. Is it hard to bet? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you fucking believe it is. I can't tell who's gonna
Speaker 2: score on a night to night Basis I love watching
Speaker 2: Devin Booker go off for fifty eight, but I'm not
Speaker 2: sure when that happens whether it's even good basketball. And
Speaker 2: in that game, the Sun's won one to eighteen one
Speaker 2: fourteen over the Pelicans. We all celebrated his game, but
Speaker 2: he went down four minutes into the next game and
Speaker 2: he hasn't played since. So is that good for his health?
Speaker 2: Is that good for his longevity? That's the issue. Luke's
Speaker 2: gone insane because if mav' aren't gonna win unless he
Speaker 2: scores fifty, how can anyone do that on a night
Speaker 2: to night basis They can't, that's the simple answer. At
Speaker 2: least they probably can't. Maybe Luca can. But all of
Speaker 2: this makes it, at the end of the day impossible
Speaker 2: to decide who's the MVP. We don't know if everyone's
Speaker 2: scoring seventy fifty points, what are we doing here? Like,
Speaker 2: how do we know? How do we choose four players Luca,
Speaker 2: Jannis and b Braun all averaging thirty six points per game?
Speaker 2: What if you look back at the league in like
Speaker 2: two thousand and you look at like the scoring leaders,
Speaker 2: like thirty was a lot, thirty was a lot. There's
Speaker 2: like twenty five guys in the NBA scoring thirty on average.
Speaker 2: Right now. I had a joke all ready to go
Speaker 2: about how Adam Silver is juiced the ball in some
Speaker 2: way to make it go in the hoop. There's a
Speaker 2: magnetic force inside this ball. He just turns it on
Speaker 2: with the remote. He's just like that one's going in.
Speaker 2: He can just push. He can just push buttons to
Speaker 2: decide tonight tonight, Devin Booker's going off. See that will
Speaker 2: go tonight? Giannis is going off because I think he
Speaker 2: was jealous of the World Cup. Really, he wants to
Speaker 2: do anything that he can to make sure that the
Speaker 2: eyeballs didn't change over the World Cup and the EPL.
Speaker 2: Now for the first part of the season. I know
Speaker 2: this isn't like baseball, but I really need to explore
Speaker 2: more whether Adam Silver is good for basketball. Everybody thinks
Speaker 2: he is upon first glance. I don't know, though, We'll
Speaker 2: have to look into it and dig into it more.
Speaker 2: One thing's for sure. For every fifty Burger a star
Speaker 2: and maybe non stars like Anfrety Simons drops. I think
Speaker 2: Adam Silver smiles and the ratings due too quick updates
Speaker 2: on the Timberwolves courtesy of I think he's like now
Speaker 2: the head of PR for the Minnesota Timberwolves. I think
Speaker 2: he's now got that job. He's playing basketball and the
Speaker 2: head of PR, head of communications, Austin rivers, he's not
Speaker 2: really last episode, Austin we talked about it, came out
Speaker 2: and gave his thoughts on why the team sucked, who's responsible?
Speaker 2: Everyone is at fault, but of course it's Rudy Gobert's fault.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 2: As an aside, did you guys see this Minnesota? Is
Speaker 2: anybody worse at social media than the Minnesota Timberwolves because
Speaker 2: they've tried to create like this buzz around Rudy Gobert
Speaker 2: and they've given him a new nickname. What do you
Speaker 2: think his nickname is? What do you think it is?
Speaker 2: I immediately said something French, right, like the like the
Speaker 2: croissant or something. It will probably be better than this
Speaker 2: gob Zilla g ob as in Godzilla with a bee,
Speaker 2: gob like like ghak, like what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: Gob Gobzilla like Gobert? I get it. Shouldn't it be Gobzilla? Then?
Speaker 2: Gobzilla probably the worst nickname of all time. Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: I am I am here for anything that makes Rudy
Speaker 2: Gobert look worse so Rudy Gobzilla. Well they gonna say
Speaker 2: you got gobsmacked by Gobzilla? What are we that's so
Speaker 2: dehumanizing too to call him Godzilla Godzilla? Like, listen, I
Speaker 2: know we don't like Rudy, but if you have to
Speaker 2: think about calling him something and you're using Godzilla as
Speaker 2: his nickname, that'd be like calling Karl Anthony Towns cat squatch.
Speaker 2: That's probably their next one instead a sad squash cat squatch.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably someone like twenty two years old,
Speaker 2: probably making like four fifty an hour. They're like just
Speaker 2: trying to fire off hot tweets. Back to Austin Rivers,
Speaker 2: that was a total aside. This is what he had
Speaker 2: to say. Aunt Edwards is currently six years away from
Speaker 2: his prime and he's already this good. He's a franchise player.
Speaker 2: He's the guy here, no doubt about it. Pause. Hold up,
Speaker 2: Austin Rivers. You just started something. You just started some shit.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this, Austin, but your
Speaker 2: job is to calm things down, not to fire things up.
Speaker 2: Not Karl Anthony Towns. He's not the guy, Not Gobzilla,
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert. He's not the guy, not Di Loo who
Speaker 2: unfollowed the entire Wolves organization on Instagram because he's not
Speaker 2: getting extended aunt Edwards. I agree, by the way, aunt
Speaker 2: Edwards is the man in Minnesota according to Austin Rivers,
Speaker 2: and you know what, he's not wrong and as the star,
Speaker 2: probably the only star that you can count on a
Speaker 2: night tonight basis. Did you see what aunt Edwards did
Speaker 2: to everyone the last three games? He has been insane.
Speaker 2: They need I think he played against Portland and was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: They need to build around him and no one else.
Speaker 2: Only only this is the way for Minnesota to break
Speaker 2: out of its history of underperforming. Only this is the way.
Speaker 2: He is our Joe Burrow. If you like Minnesota. He
Speaker 2: is needing to be protected and surrounded by players that
Speaker 2: bring out the best in him. And everyone else is
Speaker 2: just a distraction and is just a complication and is
Speaker 2: just on their way out. Really. But what's amazing about
Speaker 2: all of this is that Austin Rivers is actually speaking
Speaker 2: about the Wolve's future. Six years from now, not five,
Speaker 2: not seven. Six years from now. Is Austin Rivers lobbying
Speaker 2: to be the head coach or assistant coach of the Wolves.
Speaker 2: Six years from now where he can give Aunt Edwards
Speaker 2: the key, because that would be a very political, very
Speaker 2: doc river Sun kind of thing to do. I cannot
Speaker 2: hear what else he's gonna say. He's gonna be talking
Speaker 2: all year because he's two way, he's not fully guaranteed,
Speaker 2: and he's got the gift of gab. I think he's
Speaker 2: turning into our Olivia Pope from Scandal, like the crisis
Speaker 2: manager pr for Austin Rivers. It's about that time again.
Speaker 2: Happens every year. It's time to time to bust a rhyme.
Speaker 2: No is it time to make fun of Rudy Gobert always?
Speaker 2: But no, it's NBA Fan All Star voting time. So
Speaker 2: it's the beginning of my annual rants on how much
Speaker 2: I absolutely hate fan voting. I hate it. I think
Speaker 2: it's fucking trash. I think it needs to go. Today
Speaker 2: Shaan's dropped the first standings in the NBA fan voting
Speaker 2: and it was as dumb as I've ever seen. It
Speaker 2: was dumber than last year. If it's even possible. Let's
Speaker 2: look at what it currently looks like now depth wise.
Speaker 2: Western Conference. You've got Lebron James in the front court,
Speaker 2: Jokic Front Court a d Zion Wiggins, which isn't as
Speaker 2: crazy as it was last year, honestly, Paul George, Laurie,
Speaker 2: Markinen Fine, Draymond Kawhi, Kevon Looney, The Guards in the West,
Speaker 2: Steph Curry, Luca jaw Shay Clay, Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard, Devin Booker, eighth, Austin Reeves nine. These are
Speaker 2: all by votes. By the way, this is a ranking system.
Speaker 2: Jordan Pool ten. We've got Russell Westbrook over Damian Lillard.
Speaker 2: We've got Russell Westbrook over Devin Booker. Listen. I'm not
Speaker 2: a big fan of Jordan Poole's as you can see,
Speaker 2: but Austin Reeves over Jordan Poole, Austin Reeves for Austar.
Speaker 2: There's one hundred and forty four thousand people that voted
Speaker 2: for Austin Reeves. All of them live in LA, all
Speaker 2: of them are own, all of them are probably a
Speaker 2: bus family member. Let's go to the east. KD number one,
Speaker 2: three million votes, Jannis number two, Joel Embiid three, Tatum four,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler interesting, very interesting, Pascal Siakam six, Come on,
Speaker 2: come on, Kyle Kuzma. I didn't even see this one.
Speaker 2: Kyle Who number seven, Paolo ben Carro finally an honest vote.
Speaker 2: Nick Claxton, Nick Claxton, he's been good, but he's he is?
Speaker 2: He an All Star? And Jared Allen number one. This
Speaker 2: is where it gets funny. Kyrie Irving, number one guard
Speaker 2: in the East. Kyrie Irving, the one that was suspended
Speaker 2: miss time. I know he's going crazy. I know that
Speaker 2: nets are winning games. Two million votes for Kyrie Irving,
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell two Fair, James Harden three, Jalen Brown four,
Speaker 2: Trey Young, Trey Young. Trey Young's five. Listen, let's just
Speaker 2: go down the list. We've got Lamello at seven, Tyrese Haliburn.
Speaker 2: LaMelo hasn't even played any games. Tyres Burton should be
Speaker 2: five on this list. He should be five. He should
Speaker 2: be five. Absolutely, Derek Rose, that's how you know this
Speaker 2: shit is fucked up. You know, I don't want to
Speaker 2: cuss that much because I got old people and babies.
Speaker 2: Listen to pot that's fucked Derek Rose over Darius Garland.
Speaker 2: Didn't I just tell you Darius Garland put up forty
Speaker 2: five forty seven twice like Darius Garland tenth. The disrespect
Speaker 2: to Putray Young, who is largely the most inefficient player
Speaker 2: in the league right now, is absolutely insane. Broun, of
Speaker 2: course running away with this is that utterly predictable. That's
Speaker 2: what he does because he's a global superstar. He's a
Speaker 2: bigger superstar than's Laton. Don't let his Laton fans hear
Speaker 2: that because they get mad. But putting Lebron James over Jokic,
Speaker 2: what are we talking about? What are we saying? I
Speaker 2: like Lebron. He's had a nice, a nice last ten games.
Speaker 2: He's been injured too. Yogic just played every fucking game.
Speaker 2: He's I mean, the most efficient season of his career.
Speaker 2: He's improved his defense at an all NBA level. Five
Speaker 2: thirty eight says he should win the Defensive Player of
Speaker 2: the Year. We got Anthony day to day. Davis is third.
Speaker 2: What are we doing? What are we doing? Why? He's
Speaker 2: missed weeks of time? No one knows when he's coming back.
Speaker 2: Five of the ten forwards in the West have missed
Speaker 2: significant time. Lori Markinen has not missed time. He has
Speaker 2: balled out. He's seventh. The question, though, that I have,
Speaker 2: is where the fuck is Demontis Sabonis? Where is he?
Speaker 2: What has he been doing? U? Y think because you're
Speaker 2: not a Kings fan? What is Demonis Sabonis doing this season? Okay,
Speaker 2: he's averaging nineteen thirteen and seven, nineteen thirteen and seven,
Speaker 2: he's playing with a broken thumb and not missed a game.
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis would never never, guard Wise? Why is Austin
Speaker 2: Reeves on this list? Like I said, Aunt Edwards didn't
Speaker 2: even make the list. Oh my god, this list is trash.
Speaker 2: Fans are terrible. You can just see it. Bat Little
Speaker 2: market teams like Sacramento, Minnesota, no shine, big markets like Atlanta,
Speaker 2: like LA. I don't know why, k I don't even
Speaker 2: know the explanation for Kyle Kuzma. Former Lakers get to
Speaker 2: just make this list now too. I'm not sure. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure Kyle Kuzma. He's had a fine year, but
Speaker 2: let's be honest, he's on a trash team. Wizards. Bradley
Speaker 2: Beale has been out pretty much indefinitely. Just he just
Speaker 2: made had a hamstring strain. What are we doing Kyle
Speaker 2: Kuzma over Paolo No, No, just no, Trey Young over
Speaker 2: Tyrese Halliburton, Trey Young shooting forty one percent from the
Speaker 2: field this year period. Not from three, He's shooting thirty
Speaker 2: one percent from three and that's up since in the
Speaker 2: last month he was at twenty nine percent. That's bottom
Speaker 2: five for high volume shooting in the entire NBA. Dereck
Speaker 2: Rose over Darius Garland. Take this fan vote away. Take
Speaker 2: it away. They don't deserve it. They don't know how
Speaker 2: to use this power. We got randoms coming up playing
Speaker 2: the All Star Game, and it affects their checks, it
Speaker 2: affects their confidence, it affects how people around the league
Speaker 2: see them. This is enough, This is fucked up, this
Speaker 2: is terrible. You're not qualified to have a vote. If
Speaker 2: you're putting Austin Reeves on there, you don't get a vote.
Speaker 2: You don't get one. Derek Rose, you don't get a vote.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and twenty thousand people voted for Dereck Rose.
Speaker 2: Are you serious? And I know it's like MX points.
Speaker 2: They're like today, you win five votes if you vote
Speaker 2: for someone for the All Star Game, which is also crazy,
Speaker 2: one fan, one vote. You don't get extra votes. It's
Speaker 2: not like today's a special day. If you buy gas,
Speaker 2: you get triple the points. You buy a plane ticket
Speaker 2: on American Airlines with MX, you get five x the points. No,
Speaker 2: you vote for Derrick Rose, you get one vote. I
Speaker 2: bet all of his votes came on like triple points day.
Speaker 2: This is insane. Believe me. I will talk about this
Speaker 2: every year going forward. I get more enraged year by year.
Speaker 2: I'm like trying to chill out, but these things they
Speaker 2: do not make it easy to chill out. Speaking of which,
Speaker 2: we got to chill out. That's all the time that
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