WEBVTT - Trysta offers up her All NBA Dawg teams 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.080 On this episode of the Heat Check, let's do something different. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.640 Everybody's thinking about March Madness, everybody's thinking about college basketball. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.959 But I want to talk about. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.800 Some dogs, hungry dogs in the NBA, undrafted guys who 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.159 played their way into the league. I just think it 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.000 makes sense considering that, like, there are gonna be guys 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.720 who play well in this tournaments and they will not 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.279 go drafted, and then they will end up being on 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.040 your favorite team or the irritant against your favorite team. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.440 We'll also cover some news from around the league, and 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.200 we also have an interview with Robin Lumberg of Sports Illustrated. Yes, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.040 that folks got a cash infusion. He's here to fill 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.040 us in on what's popping. Anthony, come on, let's drop 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.440 that motherfucker beat the Shirihana. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.000 Hey that an episode without talking about the Lakers or 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.080 the Warriors. Good for us. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.479 It feels like every single episode starts with like how 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.520 they're doing, and like what is going on with the 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.000 roster or with the coaching staff or something like some 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.720 news peace pops, some sort of reporting pops. Yeah, I 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.440 mean they're fighting for their fucking life. You know who 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.800 else is fuck fighting for their fucking life. These hungry 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.160 dogs are fighting for their life. What do I mean? 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:43.880 So anyway, I did a social clip recently yesterday on 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:48.680 Keon Ellis of the Sacramento Kings. Check it out on Instagram. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.200 He had five blocks off the bench the other night. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.040 He has been bawling for the Kings the past ten games. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:00.320 I like a ton about Ellis Island aka Killer key 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.760 On aka in a falsettle because he's got that good D. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.320 You know what I'm saying, good D? Pause? But what 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:09.880 do I like about Keon? 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.280 He was an undrafted player who is known for his 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.079 defensive intensity at Alabama and he made the All Defensive 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.520 team as a senior. There is a trend here and 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.760 I've seen it with others, and so we got into 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.160 the lab and dissected whether you could find those hungry 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.320 dogs and how well they're doing in the NBA Right now. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.639 Not enough people are talking about these types of players, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.079 the guys that may not get everyone's attention because they 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:44.560 can't score, but what they bring to the table translates 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:45.519 to the next level. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.560 So what is this hungry dog type of a player? 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.480 What are these dogs the NBA? 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:57.280 They're undrafted players, mostly defensive minded pests who has a 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.920 trip on their shoulder and they have earned everything along 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.480 the way, they have been given nothing, and that will 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.560 not leave their shoulder the chip. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:07.720 I was thinking about it today. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.639 I watched a clip I will not share with you, 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.760 but I was like, oh, I am a hungry dog. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:14.880 These other dogs, these. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:20.760 Are Kennel AKC Kennel certified show dogs and me, I'm 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.960 not related to anybody. I don't know anybody that's been 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.080 in the business or played any sport of any kind. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.919 I have to literally take a piece of scrap off 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.280 the kennel and fight other dogs for it, and they 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:34.760 do too. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.000 So I love these guys. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.560 We're talking about guys who hassle opponents, full court press, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.080 ninety four feet, feisty in the paint, causing chaos on 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.320 the court, probably yelling at their coaches, probably yelling at 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.640 their gms, probably yelling at their teammates. Pat Beverly is 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:56.040 the archetype of this player. People forget that Patrick Beverly 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.600 washed out at Arkansas, did not get drafted, had to 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:05.760 play four years overseas, four years before getting a shot 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:10.000 with the Rockets, and using his defensive intensity and his 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.400 strap like defense and annoying behavior to make a career 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.360 that still is alive and well. Today, the Milwaukee Bucks 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:23.040 traded for Pat Beverly simply because they had no dogs 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.640 on that squad. And this is a team that's a 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.520 championship contender. So let's look at the past ten drafts, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.240 this year being excluded, as it takes sometimes for puppies 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.400 to emerge into full junkyard dogs, and I think that 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.080 they become more easy to spot than you think. All right, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.680 undrafted rookies who hustle all game long, who harass and 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.479 hassle other players into making dumb mistakes, who love to 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.320 get into the mud and get their hands dirty. If 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.720 Keon Ellis is the hungry dog of the twenty twenty 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.279 two draft, then the twenty twenty one drafts has two 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.840 of them, Jose Alvarado and Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves h 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.680 so much that he makes Larry Bird look lazy. He 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.760 may not be like the best defender, but he hustles, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:13.360 he tries. Jose Alvarado, he is on another level. Jose 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.600 Alvarado is like a miniature pincher. He'll beat the shit, 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.840 he will bite the shit out of you. Here's what 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.640 Pell's coach Willie Green said. The band they call Grand 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:28.560 Theft Alverado GTA. He said this, he's extremely unique. I 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.200 say this jokingly, but it's kind of true. I don't 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.600 know anyone in the NBA who is six feet and 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.520 under this nice. All those guys are kind of like 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.520 Chihuaha was. They bite you, they bark, They're ready to 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.239 fight at anytime. That way makes That's what makes Jose unique. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:44.400 He's that way. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.360 To make it to this level, you kind of sort 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:47.279 of have to have that. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:53.880 What did I tell you, hungry small bark in chihuah 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.320 was out there fucking shit up, waiting to pick your pocket, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.640 waiting to make you look, waiting to get their shines 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:03.719 that they get paid. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.280 The twenty twenty draft. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.760 Gave us Naji Marshall, who is a dog down of 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.760 New Orleans, playing hard nosed defense, still getting seven four 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.400 and two and nineteen minutes alongside Herb Jones, a second 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.360 round picker. He'd be on the Hungry. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.000 Dog list as well. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:23.279 Alvarado in New Orleans man our man Griff has a type. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.200 He likes those junk yard dogs. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:29.479 They come cheap from the beginning, too good good type 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.160 of assets when you're building a roster full of dudes 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:33.560 that you have to pay a lot of money to, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:34.800 like Brandon Ingram, CJ. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.359 Mccollin, and Zion Williamson. The twenty nineteen draft is a 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.000 huge draft for hungry dogs. We get lou Dort. There 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:43.840 no one wants to play lou Dort. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.880 I saw lou Dort and a T shirt once. I mean, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.320 he's like, he's like if ray Rice, how about this? No, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.880 He's like if ray Lewis decided to play basketball. He's 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.760 like if ray Lewis decided he was going to shooting 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.400 guard and then learn how to shoot a jumper from three. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.480 He's like if Miles Garrett decided he was gonna play basketball. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.120 Twenty nineteen also gives us Caleb Martin. He's made a 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.400 career down in Miami as a dog off the bench. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.000 There's nas Reed, who's a nightmare off the bench. Just 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.000 signed a huge contract with the Wolves. And guess what 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.400 these dogs are getting paid. Twenty eighteen gave us Heywood, 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.440 Heismith and gave Vincent both heat guys. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.120 Do you sense a trend here? Do you sense a 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:31.600 trend here? 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.160 Miami is a breeding ground for the Dogs, Duop Reid 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.080 out in Portland who's quietly becoming a monster. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.360 Lsu All Defense. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.280 Twenty seventeen produced Chris Bouchet, who barked. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.920 All his way to a title in Toronto. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.440 But twenty sixteen, Folks is the biggest year for the 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.840 Hungry Dogs, with a quartet of dudes who define what 0:07:54.960 --> 0:08:00.200 a hungry dog is. Alex Caruso the Goat aka the 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.280 Janitor might be the best armball defender in the NBA. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.240 Derek Jones Junior, who has athleticism oozing out of his. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.920 Pores, found a home in Dallas. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.320 Gary Payton the second, Gary Peyton, the third, Gary Payton 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.000 the second Gary Payton the second, who went healthy as 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.640 a top five defender in the league, really bounced around 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.600 for almost forever, kept that tenacity just like a junkyard 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.600 dog will have. You can't hold them down. It's just 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:32.080 a matter of time before they escape your kennel. And 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.000 then the King of hungry Dogs, Fred van Fleet, who 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.120 parlayed his Chihuahua status to the tune in three years 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.640 and one hundred and twenty eight million dollars and. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.080 He's not even fully healthy. He's a hungry dog with 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:46.800 this way back. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:53.400 Twenty fifteen gives this TJ McConnell, who's set an NBA record. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.240 By the way, he does have back problem, so it's 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:56.440 like a total positive. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.720 I guess a real comparison anyway. Twenty fifteen gives a TJ. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.680 Connell who set an NBA record with nine steals in 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:07.640 one half. Twenty fourteen as Maxi Klaiba, who went undrafted 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.040 and parlayed that into a fifty million dollar career so far. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:16.480 Twenty thirteen had Roco and Matthew della Vedofa. Roco is 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:21.199 the only HPCU alumnus in the league in Deli. I mean, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.880 come on, this guy was a hungry dog in Europe 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.080 and parlayed that to the league into Cleveland to. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.200 Get a championship. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.240 Then he hooked on with Lebron who absolutely loves hungry 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.199 dogs and gets them paid hungry dogs everywhere. No akc 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.520 papers like these purebred dookies and Jayhawks. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.800 Ugh, we don't like those. We don't like those blue 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.400 blood purebread dogs. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:46.760 Eugh. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.760 You push them around a little bit and they squeal. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.160 Don't like that. We like ones that growl at you 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:53.640 a little bit. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.439 These guys have earned everything that they've got, and Lord 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.839 helps the person that tries to take it away from him, 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.200 just like when my dog finds a t bone bone 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.559 underneath some sort of Porterhouse bone underneath the eleven Howard bench, and. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:08.880 All of a sudden you feel like you might not 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.280 get your fingers back. So good for those dogs. Find them? 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.240 Who are they in this draft? That will be part two. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:18.800 We got a lot of news from around the league 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:19.160 to get to. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.160 So let's begin of Minnesota, where the final acquisition of 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.480 the Timberwolves has concluded and Mark Lorie and a Rod 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.400 are now officially the owners of one of the best 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:29.479 teams in the NBA. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.040 What a steel for a Rod. My goodness. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.959 They take over controlling ownership of the Wolves from Glenn Taylor. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.080 I tell you what, Glenn Taylor's gotta be punching air 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.800 right now. Has to give up the team right as 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.640 that they're at the peak of their powers. I tell 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.360 you some Minnesota, Minnesota fans who are absolutely celebrating to 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:51.760 get rid of Glenn Taylor. He was one of the 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.880 cheapest owners in the league. He was very unpopular in Minnesota. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.440 He has been very unpopular for very very long. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.719 So it's great news for the Wolf and all that 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.360 remains is approval from the league and the Glenn Taylor 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:07.520 era is officially could put timon. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:08.360 Couldn't have been better? 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.559 Right, everyone's talking about the Aunt Edwards Show, one of 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:16.280 the best shows on hardwood. Even Michael Jordan came out 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:22.079 and said, yeah, I see myself in AUNT. I mean, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.520 you can't get a better endorsement than MJ himself, who 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.640 hates everyone. By the way, MJ tells everyone that he's 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.400 Kobe's not even like me. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.840 No, this guy Lebron absolutely not Aunt Edwards. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.880 Sure, so Wolves fans have a lot to look forward 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.760 to now with one of the most explosive players in 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.760 the world, the number one defense in the league. Now 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.920 finally owners who aren't trying to squeeze five pennies out of. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.680 A nickel out of every turn. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.440 So congratulations Wolves fans, you got yourself a legit organization 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.200 with a legit star. All right, Moving on, I was 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.520 doing my weekly hit in Sacramento with Damian Barling and 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.520 Kenny Carraway on their Del and Casey show when the 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.319 subject of Malik Monk came up. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:08.679 Let's go to the tape. What think you gets? Tell 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.880 them over market? I know I've posted this on Twitter. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.280 People got very mad because they want everybody to be 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:14.920 very moum on Malik. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.760 But just between me and the lamp post, you know, what. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:19.680 Did what did? What did you? 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.439 What were they saying? What were they saying to you? 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.360 I saw the tweet, but you know, I didn't go 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.040 through the comments. What were other you know, fan bases 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.079 saying about Malik like what he might get? 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.160 It was mostly it was mostly Sacramento fans like, please 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:34.600 don't bring this up right wrong. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.760 I'll tell you we'll be jumping people. 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.880 Man, it just as our own and we just be jumping. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.079 People like what are you doing? D Loo Casey let 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:43.319 her know. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.480 We're not supposed to talk about Malik right now, like 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.000 nobody should know about him. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.640 The first role of Malik Monk free Agency is to 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.439 not discuss Malik Monk free agency. It's hard to imagine 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.080 him not getting an offer in the vicinity of twenty 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.959 million dollars from someone like I feel like if he 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.280 got you know, four offers outside of a Sacramento or 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.440 three offers outside of Sacramento, I feel like they're all 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.720 ranging between nineteen and twenty one million dollars. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:10.640 I think that's the. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.600 Right right as someone who is certainly not a Sacramento 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.760 King's cap expert. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.640 How much do we have to pay him? 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.120 Well, it's not the cap that's the problem. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.560 It's the fact that he signed a two year contract 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.960 right when we signed him a couple of years ago, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.120 and so there's a max that he can be offered 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.120 because of that structure, and we I always I think 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.080 it's like seventeen and a half is where it starts, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.040 and then you you know, you can have the increments 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.520 raised after that. But I don't think Sacramento can start 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.160 above seventeen and a half. Well, and that's why King's 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.959 fans are terrifying. That's why King's fans are terrified. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.520 Didn't want you to shut up, man, I am. I'm 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.360 really hoping things will work out for the Kings in 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:55.920 the league. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.360 Fortunately, so does Malik himself. He said this to Anthony 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.080 Slater the other day. I love to be here, man. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.280 I got comfortable here, made a lot of new friends here, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:05.640 met a lot of great people here. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:06.800 The city loves me. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.720 I loved the city, so yeah, I'd love to come back. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.520 The problem is that the Kings did not structure his 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.880 deal in a way that allows them to be at 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.440 the head of the negotiating table. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.920 Here is what is under the King's control. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.440 The most the Kings can offer because they gave Malik 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.160 a two year deal, is a four year, seventy eight 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.040 point four million dollar contract based on having early bird rights, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.760 which means the Kings can offer him one hundred and 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.920 seventy five percent of this year's salary, with raises. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.440 Eight percent each year. That is rough. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.760 They would keep him comfortably under the salary cap at 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.480 that point, especially since they don't have a twenty twenty 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.880 four first rounder to sign. But there are now estimates 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:01.040 coming out that there are some young and scrappy upcoming 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.800 teams that want Malik and could sign him for anywhere 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.640 between twenty and twenty two million dollars per year for 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.280 teams looking for somebody who maybe the sixth man of 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.760 the year and maybe offering him a starting spots. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.120 Will he stay for. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:24.600 I don't know, twenty thirty million dollars less overall than 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.720 what he could get on the open market. The Aaron Fox, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.080 send that man some flowers or a hooker. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.440 I don't know. He's only twenty five, he's at the 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:35.560 prime of his career. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.120 If he takes a shorter deal in order to get 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.200 to his bird rights, that might work for both sides, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.920 but why would he really Like he tears an acl 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.520 and he's done done. I hope he stays in Sacramento 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.760 with Fox, but it's not a done deal, and that 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.680 makes Kings fans and myself and the Aaron Fox and 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:59.280 Mike Brown extremely extremely nervous. All right, moving on, I 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:05.440 think it's time for us to revisit and start talking 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:11.560 about Jalen Green. We've been quite critical of Jalen Green. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.040 I have said he's not a winning player. He has 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.960 not made winning decisions. Maybe Eme Udoko would make him 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.640 a winning player like he did. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:23.840 The Boston Celtics. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.560 In his game on Tuesday night, though Jalen Green went 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.920 off for forty two and ten rebounds. The forty two, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.200 by the way, was a career high. It was capped 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:39.080 by this Jordanesque dipsy do up and under change reverse 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.400 hands in the middle of a contest that lit up 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.080 social media like a firefly and a dark bathroom. It 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.640 was pretty pretty as him, and more importantly, it led 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.840 to the six consecutive win for a streaking Rockets team. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.480 So We've seen highlight plays from Jalen Green, but we 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.080 have not seen those coincide with wins. In his last 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.880 ten games, Jailing Green has been clutch twenty seven, six 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.480 and three, forty eight, forty and eighty shooting splits better 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.520 yet though. He's a plus eleven net rating in those 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.040 ten games. And like I said, they are streaking, they 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.920 are winning, meaning he's hugely. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.479 Impacting the Rockets during this win streak. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.080 His game against the Lossington Lizards as we call them 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.520 aka Washington Wizards to you, but they don't get many dubs, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.200 so we give him the Lizards title saw him put 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.960 a forty two eleven from thirteen, eleven for thirteen from 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.959 the line, and seven for thirteen from three, ten rebounds, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.000 three assists, a block, and a steel in thirty six 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.359 minutes in a game that the Houston Rockets won by 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:41.920 twenty three. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.120 What was his net rating in that. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:51.520 One checks notes A plus twenty six. Oh my goodness, dude, 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.880 just impacting winning on both sides of the ball. If 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:58.840 only Jalen Green could have gotten Draia Dreya pregnant earlier. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.520 He's on his grown man status, no more fuck boy 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.440 like stat sheets. We're only trying to get plus numbers 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.159 in terms of impact. And the best part, he's got 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.560 his eyes on the prize for the first time in 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.920 his NBA career. He said, I've got a goal now 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:15.160 I'm a dad. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.679 He didn't say that, and that's to get to the playoffs. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.840 That's just to win, stack as many w's as we 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.320 can before the end of the season and pray that 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:22.560 we can get into the play in tournament. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.440 That's the focus. Does anybody remember. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.280 Jalen Green saying anything about stacking wins to get to 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:28.920 the playoffs? 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:35.440 Folks remember Steven Silas God he was bad anyway. He said, 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:36.320 everyone's playing hard. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.200 We're chasing something right now, we've all got the same goal. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:44.359 We've got shit, we've all got the same goal, Anthony, 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.080 and everyone's on board with it. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.960 Please help me out with this edit. There's a reason 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:49.639 that they're eight. 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.960 And one in March, and that reason has a name, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.560 Jalen Green and Ema Udoka. Like I said, it's been 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.320 a huge month. Jalen became a father to be for 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:07.600 the first time with Drea a uh what we call Drea. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.400 I mean, I think you know if you know who 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:10.760 she is, is she. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:17.359 I need I don't know, man, I she's not around 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.480 the way girl. She's more like a every other city, 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.680 week ago, every other video. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:25.159 I don't know. 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.959 She's eighteen years older than him. I don't know if 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.360 that's a good thing or a bad thing. Does that 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.160 mean like she's instilling maturity in him? 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.560 Does that mean that she's pulling some predatory behavior on him? 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.560 I don't know. She's pregnant with Jalen Green's baby. At 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:40.879 least we could put some of those. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.880 Rumors to bed that surfaced on social media last year 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.679 when he old dorm room videos surfaced. If you know 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.200 what I'm saying, his rockets. 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.320 Are two and a half games out of the plan 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:53.959 with a shot at the playoffs. 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.400 Dude is killing it. Great to see for a guy 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.560 that a lot of people started to write off earlier 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.560 this year. People started to say that the G League 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.720 Night wasn't any good just because of him. He was 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.639 also named NBA Player of a Week. That was the 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.040 first such award of his career. 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.679 Good for Jalen Green. I clown around a lot, but 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.440 Jalen Green was considered. 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:20.159 To be one of the most highly touted, highly hyped 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.200 players in his draft class. So it's good to see 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.320 a guy that people were excited to see finally. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.560 Start to produce at that level. It's easy to forget that. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.760 Things don't always come together so easily or come on 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:36.600 the expected timeframe. Zion, for example, It's been many years 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.000 since Zion was supposed to produce, and now many years 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.160 into his career, he's finally doing it. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.159 As emy Udoka said, this has been building for a 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:45.760 long time. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:50.000 The assist numbers, the shooting numbers, the defensive competitiveness, all 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.520 those areas have really improved. It's not just gonna happen overnight. 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:55.520 It's a little slower for some people, but it's really 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.359 been clicking for Jalen even before the All Star break, 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.840 you could see signs the double doubles in a row, 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.919 the five game stretch that he had to put it 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.840 all together. Now it's even more needed with some guys 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.000 going down to injury like alprin Shangoon, and to think, 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.400 like I said before the nets turned down Jalen Green 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:17.160 for four firsts Jalen Green, and four first for mckil bridges. 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.480 The nets are gonna nets, so they're not. 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.879 And the Rockets started this year blisteringly hot, faded and 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.200 now got hot again after their best player went down. 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.959 If the Rockets make the playoffs after getting emay Udoka, 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.680