Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with just a quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we are three
Speaker 2: days into the NBA season, and there's already a lot
Speaker 2: that we can tell. For example, the Lakers were eliminated
Speaker 2: from the playoffs after.
Speaker 1: Their first two games, mathematically eliminated. Sorry to say that
Speaker 1: it is true.
Speaker 2: The Jazz dropped a nasty surprise for the Nuggets. The
Speaker 2: Pels blew the doors off of the Bluff Barclay Center.
Speaker 2: Jaw did a ton of jaw things. We'll get into
Speaker 2: all of that, of course, with along with some news
Speaker 2: from around the league, because guess what, the NBA is back.
Speaker 1: So do me a favor, Nick and drop that beat man.
Speaker 2: So much happened in the first three days of the season,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be impossible to recap it all. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna just pop around league a little bit. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: highlight some of the things that really interested me. First
Speaker 2: and foremost. Twenty seven nine five and two blocks, twenty
Speaker 2: seven points, nine rebounds, five assists, two blocks, and thirty
Speaker 2: five minutes of action. Do you have any idea who
Speaker 2: that stat line belongs to? If you said Embiid or Jokic,
Speaker 2: hell even Zion coming back. No one would probably blink
Speaker 2: a nine. But that, folks, is what Paolo Banko put
Speaker 2: up in his first game as an NBA player. Shsh
Speaker 2: I tried to tell y'all he was much better than
Speaker 2: everybody else. Two things happened in their opener against Detroit.
Speaker 2: One was surprising, the other was not unsurprising. Thing is
Speaker 2: that Detroit was down big thew Orlando Magic blew a
Speaker 2: huge lead, ended up losing the game outright by four,
Speaker 2: the exact line that Vegas said, not shocking in the least.
Speaker 1: They're gonna probably do that a lot.
Speaker 2: They look good, they fade late, they don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of talent. It's going to help them through. That's
Speaker 2: the way it goes. The surprising thing, despite the heightened expectations,
Speaker 2: Paalo somehow exceeded him I don't know, at times the
Speaker 2: most dominant player on the floor, and that included on
Speaker 2: a team with Kay Cunningham and Jaden Ivy and Jalen
Speaker 2: Duran and all the other random lottery picks that the
Speaker 2: Orlando Magic have. He was eleven for eighteen from the floor.
Speaker 1: Eleven for eighteen.
Speaker 2: He was ten for fifteen in the paint, where he
Speaker 2: pretty much did whatever the fuck he wanted. Shockingly good debut,
Speaker 2: shocking even for me who loves some Paalo ban Carrol
Speaker 2: with twenty seven points, nine rebounds, five assists. Ben Carroll
Speaker 2: became just the third number one overall pick since nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty nine, Nice to record twenty five, five and five
Speaker 2: in his debut, the others.
Speaker 1: Lebron James and Kareem Abdorge.
Speaker 2: Bar He finished eleven of eighteen shooting, like I said,
Speaker 2: which is the most made field goals by a rookie
Speaker 2: in his debut since again Lebron James in two thousand
Speaker 2: and three.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, the day of the game, The.
Speaker 2: New York Post dropped an article about Polo's experiences as
Speaker 2: a student athlete at Duke, and it was illuminating.
Speaker 1: This is what he said.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'd feel like, you know, you were a zoo
Speaker 2: animal or something.
Speaker 1: Bro. They would be like, oh God.
Speaker 2: In class, you'd see him over there whispering about you,
Speaker 2: like just straight up staring at you.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, that sucks.
Speaker 2: Secondly, though, how many times have I tried to tell
Speaker 2: you how big Palo bn Caaro is, like unnaturally perfect
Speaker 2: proportioned and six ten, two hundred and something pounds. He
Speaker 2: is the biggest human I've ever seen, like in terms
Speaker 2: of pound for pound, proportionally size wise. I look at
Speaker 2: centers sometimes and I'm like, Nope, that guy's not as
Speaker 2: big as Pala Bin Carrol.
Speaker 1: Nope, that guy's not the biggest pala Goo bing Carol.
Speaker 1: So if I had Powell Ben Carrol in my class, I'd.
Speaker 2: Be a little bit shocked too. I'd be like, Wow,
Speaker 2: how much do you think he can bench press? How
Speaker 2: much do you think he can deadlift? Also, you would
Speaker 2: think that at a certain point though, things would get
Speaker 2: a little bit more normal, you'd get a little bit
Speaker 2: more chill. He's sitting two rows down from you, you know,
Speaker 2: five five days a.
Speaker 1: Week or whatever.
Speaker 2: What class do you go to school three days a
Speaker 2: week when you're in college two days a week.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's been a while, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of like.
Speaker 2: What Zion hinted at about his experience at Duke, where
Speaker 2: you're hyped and you're famous, and you're, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: very different than the the student body.
Speaker 1: How shall I say, at Duke?
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of Yet's at Duke, not a
Speaker 2: lot of Zions, not a lot of powellos just gonna
Speaker 2: be honest, so like, truthfully kind of hard to not
Speaker 2: feel isolated and alone, because, honestly, what do you have
Speaker 2: in common with some prep school kid from Connecticut who
Speaker 2: when you're a six six six eight two hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty five pound athletic freak who's on the cover of
Speaker 2: every magazine or in Palo's case, six' ten and two eighty. Five,
Speaker 2: yeah this is Why Adam silver's, Like, yep you guys can.
Speaker 1: Go one and. Done you don't Need, Duke you don't Need.
Speaker 2: Kentucky you don't need to be meeting some random fraternity
Speaker 2: or sorority girl that has you make in tiktoks and
Speaker 2: shall at your pointing at the sky with random like
Speaker 2: words next to it in order for you to get
Speaker 2: an nil.
Speaker 1: Deal, no you can just go right to the league right.
Speaker 1: Now let's be let's be very very.
Speaker 2: Clear palo's putting up twenty five a, night regardless of
Speaker 2: going To, duke regardless of COACH.
Speaker 1: K no hate on COACH. K that's a. TRUTH a
Speaker 1: lot of college coaches don't really want us to. Know
Speaker 1: palot don't Need.
Speaker 2: Duke duke Needs. Palo moving on To, Brooklyn Brooklyn. Nets, ooh,
Speaker 2: YIKES i was hoping for. More i'll just say THAT
Speaker 2: i was hoping for a competitive. Match what a rough opening.
Speaker 2: Night New Orleans, pelicans a team that started what one in,
Speaker 2: thirteen two and twenty?
Speaker 1: One last?
Speaker 2: Year they went Into barclays and they went To. Poundtown
Speaker 2: they just put the beatdown ON. Kd kyrie and the
Speaker 2: rest of them, boys one thirty to one oh. Eight
Speaker 2: let me say that, again The New Orleans pelicans that
Speaker 2: scraped their way into the plan to be.
Speaker 1: Fair The Brooklyn nets did. Too, uh one thirty to
Speaker 1: one oh.
Speaker 2: Eight this beatdown included being out rebounded sixty one to thirty,
Speaker 2: nine outscored thirty six to four in second chance.
Speaker 1: Points, yeah that'll Get jazz. Beat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, question wasn't that why they brought In Ben? Simmons, defense,
Speaker 2: rebounding playmaking turns out not exactly going as smooth sailing as.
Speaker 2: Possible it's almost like he hasn't played any basketball in a.
Speaker 2: While Steve nash finally decided to tell us the truth
Speaker 2: in a random press, conference Because lord knows we need
Speaker 2: a little truth From Steve.
Speaker 1: Nash here and there he Said ben was, Rusty.
Speaker 2: No, Shit steve he hasn't played a game Since july
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. One, yes it is currently checks Notes october twenty,
Speaker 2: first twenty twenty. Two ben's line four, points five, rebounds five.
Speaker 2: Assists this is like half of What Draymond green average
Speaker 2: is in his, career but also What Draymond green averaged
Speaker 2: in his first game back, too so that's something interesting
Speaker 2: to think. About he was negative twenty six for the
Speaker 2: game in a game that they lost by twenty, two
Speaker 2: so he was actually worse than everyone. ELSE i don't
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be that, bad let's be. HONEST i
Speaker 2: think he will figure things. Out i'm more optimistic About
Speaker 2: ben on this team THAN i am with him With Joel,
Speaker 2: embiid and we'll talk about why a little bit, later
Speaker 2: not just because of the, spacing but because it turns
Speaker 2: out they really don't care.
Speaker 1: About one another.
Speaker 2: Whatsoever but the loss against The pelicans probably had more
Speaker 2: to do with the fact that the shooters are nowhere
Speaker 2: to be Seen Seth curry, Out Joe harris, out both
Speaker 2: coming back from. Injuries ben's gonna have to figure the shit, out,
Speaker 2: though if they want to go. Anywhere there's a little
Speaker 2: bit More ben t though a little bit More ben,
Speaker 2: news So i'll add that into here first and.
Speaker 1: Foremost he, TOLD i Think Nick.
Speaker 2: Fridell i'm not good at remembering which reporters people talk,
Speaker 2: to BUT i think it Was Nick. Fordell he said
Speaker 2: he cannot wait to play a game In. PHILLY i
Speaker 2: don't believe that. Whatsoever didn't he skip out on just
Speaker 2: being on the sidelines for the game when he went
Speaker 2: back To, philly you would Know, nick you're From. Philly Ish, no, No,
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh my, bad my.
Speaker 1: Bad scrap.
Speaker 2: That in a sit down interview With Ben, Ferdell ben
Speaker 2: also asked was asked whether he thought his relationship With
Speaker 2: embiid would ever be good, again and he, said who.
Speaker 1: KNOWS i can't predict the.
Speaker 2: Future don't want to make my mind up and say
Speaker 2: it's not possible for anything to. Change BUT i don't
Speaker 2: talk To. Joe we never really. SPOKE i don't think
Speaker 2: there was really a relationship.
Speaker 1: There like in.
Speaker 2: Terms of our, friendship you can try as hard as
Speaker 2: you want to be close to, somebody be their, friend
Speaker 2: but everybody are different as, People so for, me it's never.
Speaker 2: PERSONAL i don't have any anger or hate towards. Him
Speaker 2: he is who he, IS i am WHO i. Am
Speaker 2: we've got our personal lives and work as. Basketball so
Speaker 2: in that, moment my goal was to, win And i've
Speaker 2: got to win With. Joe he's a great. Player we
Speaker 2: just didn't get it.
Speaker 1: Done paul's what we it ever really, SPOKE i don't
Speaker 1: talk To. Joe to, me it's.
Speaker 2: Very normal for you to not be best friends with your. Coworkers,
Speaker 2: yeah maybe they don't come over for a TWO k
Speaker 2: night or call of, duty you, know maximum point whatever
Speaker 2: they call. It Kyler murray's always staying up to Do but,
Speaker 2: okay maybe you don't get grab beers after. Practice, Fine
Speaker 2: maybe you don't speak with each other when you change
Speaker 2: jobs and you go to a new, organization totally.
Speaker 1: Fine but to be cornerstones of a franchise.
Speaker 2: Where you may be there for the rest of your
Speaker 2: careers if the ownership group gets what they want and
Speaker 2: you not to be on speaking. TERMS i am not
Speaker 2: shocked that this thing didn't work, out because boy oh,
Speaker 2: boy is that. Telling but maybe the most surprising thing
Speaker 2: actually this week that happened To ben Was Kyrie irving
Speaker 2: passing down words of wisdom To ben's words THAT i
Speaker 2: feel are sort of like the pot calling the kettle. Black,
Speaker 2: kyrie when asked about his thoughts On ben fouling out
Speaker 2: in just twenty three, minutes is what he, said as
Speaker 2: we told him in the locker. Room he's a valuable
Speaker 2: piece for us and we need him out there and
Speaker 2: fouling out is not an. Option playing aggressive is something
Speaker 2: we want him to, do but we also wanted to play.
Speaker 2: Smart let's be. Honest that's an interesting take from a guy,
Speaker 2: who lets face, it it's not very reliable or very
Speaker 2: available for very long stretches at a time for his
Speaker 2: entire career From boston to Now. Brooklyn someone also just
Speaker 2: recently said that The nets have a must win game
Speaker 2: tonight In game two against The Toronto. Raptors that, that,
Speaker 2: folks tells Your brooklyn's off to a hot.
Speaker 1: Start oh, boy.
Speaker 2: Let's go over To Los angeles where things are going swimming.
Speaker 1: League they have two games under their. Belt let's be.
Speaker 1: Honest i'm reveling and being, RIGHT i.
Speaker 2: Am reveling in the feeling of soul rightness THAT i
Speaker 2: don't even know what to. Say this is a complete
Speaker 2: and total, meltdown a complete teardown following an opening beatdown
Speaker 2: which we knew was going to happen against The warriors
Speaker 2: On ring. Night the team followed it up with another
Speaker 2: nationally televised game against The. Clippers Kawhi leonard's return and
Speaker 2: let me tell you depending on who you, asked because
Speaker 2: to me it went, great it did not go. Well
Speaker 2: how bad did things go? WELL i tweeted out the
Speaker 2: following after the game, ended a game where they were
Speaker 2: down by, fifteen came back looked like they had won
Speaker 2: THE Nba finals because they went up by one. Point
Speaker 2: THEY i Think Patrick beverley stood on the scorer's table
Speaker 2: and then they proceeded to lose by.
Speaker 1: SIX i.
Speaker 2: Tweeted if there was a book Called Lebron teams For,
Speaker 2: Dummies page one would, say surround him with. Shooters, Somehow
Speaker 2: genie And rob haven't gotten the. Memo went to, bed
Speaker 2: woke up in the, morning five hundred quote tweets and
Speaker 2: retweets and thousands of, likes And Rob polinka started to
Speaker 2: trend On twitter the world wants him gone, because let's face,
Speaker 2: it After game, One lebron, Said, hey we.
Speaker 1: Don't have any.
Speaker 2: Lasers we don't have anybody out here to shoot. Threes
Speaker 2: we don't have any guys that are forty percent career
Speaker 2: three point. Shooters Their laker guards shot one for twenty
Speaker 2: five from. Three that's pretty, bad including an incredible for
Speaker 2: eleven From Russell. Westbrook and All lebron had to say
Speaker 2: and All Russell westbrook had to say is we're not a.
Speaker 1: Team that's constructed of great. Shooting no.
Speaker 2: SHIT i must have forgotten that Watching beverly And westbrook
Speaker 2: miss one, open, wide open look after. Another people are
Speaker 2: Blaming legm for, this saying this is the team That lebron,
Speaker 2: wanted that, hey don't Blame Rob, polinka Blame.
Speaker 1: Legm and SO i thought about.
Speaker 2: This have you ever seen those LIKE svu episodes or
Speaker 2: Like law And order where there's a murder and it's
Speaker 2: just too, Perfect the crime is just too, Perfect like
Speaker 2: the body's there dead with, blood the murder weapons there
Speaker 2: WITH dna and fingerprints on the coffee table is the
Speaker 2: matching fingerprint test result of the. Perpetrator in the corner
Speaker 2: of the bedroom is the perpetrator sitting on the table
Speaker 2: or sitting on the bed with his hands tied up
Speaker 2: and like a, handcuffs sitting there with the note that
Speaker 2: SAYS i did, it and you're like.
Speaker 1: Open, case close. Case that's.
Speaker 2: Right so that's kind of what This lebron thing. Is
Speaker 2: Lebron james having a team full of non, shooters not
Speaker 2: just good shooters versus elite, shooters like very bad, shooters
Speaker 2: all of them led.
Speaker 1: Me to, believe is this something that's too clean of a?
Speaker 1: Case is there a conspiracy a?
Speaker 2: Brewing why Would Lebron, james one of the most powerful
Speaker 2: athletes in the, world sign off on a team of
Speaker 2: full of non shooters that not just don't aren't great.
Speaker 2: Shooters they love to chuck and they look bad doing.
Speaker 2: It he's a smart, guy one of the better IQs
Speaker 2: in the, league so why would he do? That and
Speaker 2: then a conspiracy rolled over my, body like if the
Speaker 2: creator herself was speaking in my ear, directly like the
Speaker 2: beam of energy people talk about when they get abducted by. Aliens,
Speaker 2: FOLKS i now know what's going. On first and, foremost
Speaker 2: we've talked about this. Before Lebron james is a guy
Speaker 2: that we know loves, attention he likes the, spotlight a
Speaker 2: guy we know is never going to win the Undisputed
Speaker 2: Goat debate, title never based on rings. Alone so he
Speaker 2: has to just basically break every individual record.
Speaker 1: Set on Planet.
Speaker 2: Earth in THE, nba he's nipping on the heels of
Speaker 2: the all time scoring record by Who kareem Abdul, jabbar Another,
Speaker 2: Laker So Lebron james in The laker, uniform he's trying
Speaker 2: to beat and break the record Of kareem Abdul jabbar
Speaker 2: in his twentieth. Year who knows how long it's gonna
Speaker 2: be Until Father time takes over start breaking his body.
Speaker 2: Down there's an entire national advertising campaign about. This right,
Speaker 2: Now Lebron james literally Battling Father time as played By Jason.
Speaker 1: Momoa it's on his.
Speaker 2: Mind what's the one thing that slows that possibility down
Speaker 2: and allows maybe an injury catastrophe from stopping. This sharing
Speaker 2: the ball with a bunch of, lasers a bunch of,
Speaker 2: scoreres a bunch of bucket, getters with a team full
Speaker 2: of non, Shooters lebron can blissfully shoot and score thirty
Speaker 2: five forty five points per night and nobody will call
Speaker 2: him a ball. Hog they'll say that he is dastardly under.
Speaker 2: Manned he is trying desperately to get this team to be.
Speaker 2: Competitive no one will even say a word about him
Speaker 2: holding onto the ball like his life has depended on.
Speaker 2: It plus we know he won't have to go deep
Speaker 2: into the. Playoffs his season ends In. April what does that, Mean,
Speaker 2: well we know playoff scoring doesn't matter for the, title
Speaker 2: but more, so LIKE i, said his, Body his body
Speaker 2: now Gets april Through october to, rest rejuvenate and take
Speaker 2: what ever jin blood That Tom brady is taking to
Speaker 2: regenerate himself for the rest of. Time good players increase
Speaker 2: the probability of playoff, appearances which only hurt his goat
Speaker 2: argument because he has a bunch of playoff appearances and no.
Speaker 1: Titles just take the playoff appearances. Out just take that.
Speaker 2: Out he's gonna put more tread on his. Tires what
Speaker 2: are the point of the Playoffs If.
Speaker 1: Lebron james isn't gonna win at? All we've cracked the.
Speaker 1: Code that's gotta be.
Speaker 2: It why else Would Lebron james have the worst shooting
Speaker 2: team IN nba. History what If Rob plinka isn't doing
Speaker 2: his job? Poorly what If Rob plinka is doing his
Speaker 2: job to? Perfection bet you haven't thought about. That think about? That,
Speaker 2: well we talk about.
Speaker 1: The Golden State. Warriors good news and bad news out
Speaker 1: Of Golden.
Speaker 2: State the good news The warriors back to back championship
Speaker 2: off to a hot. Start the team looked absolutely, unstoppable
Speaker 2: and that is with Clay On minute's. Restriction the bad,
Speaker 2: News Draymond greenstille in the. Doghouse he's probably making things
Speaker 2: worse right. Now he's probably got a television crew recording
Speaker 2: part two of his documentary right at this very. Second
Speaker 2: it's not about the punch, ANYMORE i don't think. EITHER
Speaker 2: i think it's just the tone deaf reaction to it,
Speaker 2: all the backlash to the punch and just lay, down
Speaker 2: lay down and take take your punishment a, tone don't clap,
Speaker 2: back don't make, excuses no, content no new.
Speaker 1: Media just be. Quiet sh be quiet for a.
Speaker 2: WHILE i talked about this on the last, part So
Speaker 2: i'm not gonna go through the. Details it was, Terrible
Speaker 2: But Zach lowe has now reported that things are.
Speaker 1: Frosty is fuck in the dubbed. Nation this is what he.
Speaker 2: Said if, ANYTHING i think we may be underplaying the
Speaker 2: level of iciness and tension that they are navigating right.
Speaker 2: Now and that's not to say are they gonna Trade.
Speaker 2: Draymond Everything i've heard is that they're not Trading. Draymond
Speaker 2: they're just not going To they're trying to win The
Speaker 2: chanceampionship and we'll try to write it out unless something drastic.
Speaker 1: Happens But draymond is going to be on the team all.
Speaker 2: Season Locked On warriors Host Cyrus Satsats he also talked about.
Speaker 2: This he said there is zero healing right now going
Speaker 2: on Between draymond And. Pool he, Said i've had sources
Speaker 2: tell me behind the, Scenes Jordan poole has not Forgiven.
Speaker 2: Draymond they haven't. Spoken, wow he's not. HAPPY i don't
Speaker 2: know how you could. Be it's a horrible. Look the
Speaker 2: image of it is us. Awful it's borderline. Emasculating, Yes
Speaker 2: Jordan poole got knocked, out he got knocked, down whatever
Speaker 2: you would.
Speaker 1: Say i'm not sure if he was.
Speaker 2: Unconscious that's only you know Between Jordan poole and his medical.
Speaker 2: Team BUT i am absolutely shocked That Jordan poole hasn't
Speaker 2: Forgiven draymond for just sunning him and punching him in the.
Speaker 2: Face as for The draymond, documentary by the, way it
Speaker 2: was entirely, filmed, conceived finished in the seven days that
Speaker 2: he was away from the.
Speaker 1: Team Steve, Kerr Steve kerr hasn't seen.
Speaker 2: It they didn't even know that it happened UNTIL i don't.
Speaker 2: Know the media asked him about it afterwards they were, like.
Speaker 2: Huh Steph curry said he hadn't seen. It he also said,
Speaker 2: this which was kind of a. Warning he's been in
Speaker 2: production with the new media stuff And i'm sure that's
Speaker 2: not gonna, end but hopefully everything is in light of
Speaker 2: trying to protect the team and make it about what
Speaker 2: we're trying to do on the floor as the. Priority
Speaker 2: let me just let you in and on a little secret.
Speaker 2: Stuff it wasn't about that at. All it Wasn't there
Speaker 2: was no protection for the. Team it was protection For.
Speaker 2: Draymond draymond was about. Himself. Man there's a ton of
Speaker 2: thin pieces out about, this like.
Speaker 1: Why would he do? It what was the? Purpose but
Speaker 1: that's really not the question to.
Speaker 2: Ask the question that we have to ask is should
Speaker 2: we actually Believe draymond that he cares about this interaction
Speaker 2: in any, way that he was appalled by his own?
Speaker 2: Actions was he really? Sorry was he spending his time away?
Speaker 2: Reflecting because if the first thing you do when you
Speaker 2: get pushed.
Speaker 1: Away from a team. Whatever it was, mutual but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Right so the first thing you do is you call
Speaker 2: your agent and you set up a meeting With Omaha,
Speaker 2: productions and then you CALL tnt to, Say, Hey i've
Speaker 2: got a seven minute documentary to put on top of
Speaker 2: the documentary you guys are already making about.
Speaker 1: Me can you have a film.
Speaker 2: Crew come over to my house for the next seven
Speaker 2: days While i'm away UNTIL i come back.
Speaker 1: For a ring.
Speaker 2: Night that doesn't tell me you're like thinking about being very,
Speaker 2: zen you, know it doesn't feel like you're looking. Inward
Speaker 2: it feels like you're kind of trying to push your
Speaker 2: own agenda and using your relationship WITH tnt to push
Speaker 2: said agenda to make you look, better probably to increase
Speaker 2: the value of your contract or increase your, brand or
Speaker 2: who the hell knows.
Speaker 1: What but, listen when you don't tell The.
Speaker 2: Warriors ahead of time you're gonna do, This oh my,
Speaker 2: god that is NIGHT i, Sleep. Matt that's a bad,
Speaker 2: look even to. Me the sole fan On Draymond, island
Speaker 2: we gotta watch this.
Speaker 1: ONE i don't know how it.
Speaker 2: Ends quick update On Jay crowder for those who don't,
Speaker 2: know J crowder is sitting out until he gets traded
Speaker 2: because The sons aren't paying him what he's. Worth they
Speaker 2: won't give him a starting, role and this has created
Speaker 2: yet another locker room issue for The.
Speaker 1: Suns and with the eight and drama, bubbling they do
Speaker 1: not need. This, no, no.
Speaker 2: No even If aton said, oh, yeah, yeah everything's good,
Speaker 2: now we're back to normal, NOW i do not believe
Speaker 2: that normal is not a word that we can use
Speaker 2: to describe anything that's going on In. Phoenix when you
Speaker 2: have a point guard that grinds his teammates down to,
Speaker 2: dust you've got an owner who's currently selling the team
Speaker 2: because of all the, isms when you've got a big
Speaker 2: man who is the number one pick who you couldn't
Speaker 2: even muster up enough enthusiasm to offer him a.
Speaker 1: Contract until he was offered by another.
Speaker 2: Team and now another player who's holding, out actually not
Speaker 2: even holding. Out you've told him just to stay away
Speaker 2: from the, team which is fucking.
Speaker 1: Weird it's fucking.
Speaker 2: WEIRD a new article dropped yesterday from my, Guy Jake,
Speaker 2: fisher exploring how weird the whole situation has gotten Since
Speaker 2: phoenix decided to Replace jay in the starting line up
Speaker 2: With Cam. Johnson we knew he was gonna want a,
Speaker 2: trade not gonna offer him ten million dollars a, year
Speaker 2: which is what he's getting paid now to sit on the.
Speaker 2: Bench so If phoenix doesn't Want crowder And crowder doesn't
Speaker 2: want to be there was the.
Speaker 1: Problem, Well jake, says The suns.
Speaker 2: Rather famously may spend less on resources than any rival draft,
Speaker 2: scouting and. Evaluation phoenix is curiously the only team in
Speaker 2: THE nba that does not owe any outgoing picks from
Speaker 2: previous trades or have any incoming picks on the. Horizon
Speaker 2: This sun's throne office appears to operate on one year's,
Speaker 2: schedules where each campaign is its own trip around the
Speaker 2: monopoly board with its own set of resources to reach
Speaker 2: go once again in. Prosperity that, way you're never assets
Speaker 2: strapped with only distant first round draft picks to upgrade your.
Speaker 1: Roster what does that?
Speaker 2: Mean it means they do not care That Jay crowder's
Speaker 2: sitting there at home on the, bench and they do
Speaker 2: not care about trading. Him and what's very bizarre is
Speaker 2: why The sons have Banned crowder from being around the team.
Speaker 1: PERIOD i don't know what that's. About he'd be very
Speaker 1: helpful at a.
Speaker 2: Time When Cam johnson just goes down with a thumb
Speaker 2: injury all of a, sudden Maybe Jay crowder can increase his.
Speaker 1: Value BUT i don't.
Speaker 2: Know starting some, games where is he gonna end. Up,
Speaker 2: well looks like he's gonna land In miami AS. Pj tucker's.
Speaker 2: Replacement actually it's not really P. J tucker's, replacement is.
Speaker 2: It it's IT'S Pj tucker replaced, him and so he
Speaker 2: is replacing.
Speaker 1: Himself, yes, yeah he.
Speaker 2: Is. So Jay crowder was there when they went to the,
Speaker 2: finals then he left to go To phoenix Because miami
Speaker 2: wouldn't pay.
Speaker 1: Him and then NOW.
Speaker 2: Pj tucker moved on for greener. Pastures so he is
Speaker 2: he is his own. Replacement, yeah that's really. It, yeah
Speaker 2: very strange things though happening In. Phoenix we got a
Speaker 2: little bit of, time very very quick time to.
Speaker 1: Just go through.
Speaker 2: This BUT i didn't want to talk about a couple
Speaker 2: of players who were very. IMPRESSIVE i have to Mention
Speaker 2: john Wall.
Speaker 1: Man he was so out of the. League he was.
Speaker 2: Nowhere houston was keeping him like away from the, team
Speaker 2: Like Jay crowder as.
Speaker 1: Well people were wondering when he was gonna play basketball.
Speaker 2: Again he now has openly talked about how that affected
Speaker 2: his mental. Health it had deteriorated to the point where
Speaker 2: he had thought about. Suicide so the fact that we
Speaker 2: add Some John wall hoopin Vintage John, wall my, lord
Speaker 2: he played so. Well Charles barkley openly speculated why one
Speaker 2: of about a dozen teams didn't find a way to
Speaker 2: make a deal for just him last. Year he looked
Speaker 2: like the Old John, wall except for this. Time he
Speaker 2: plays defense fifteen four and three with the, steal he was.
Speaker 2: Steady he was getting such easy, buckets so, calm so under,
Speaker 2: control coming around, screens getting easy mid, ranges getting very
Speaker 2: fast out into, transition came back into the game after
Speaker 2: The lakers made their huge. Run Reggie jackson was just
Speaker 2: getting cooked that he was with THE b. Team he
Speaker 2: made clutch jumper after clutch, Jumper kawhi gave him the.
Speaker 1: Ball when does that? Happen he played awesome.
Speaker 2: Defense laker, guards LIKE i told you guys, before shot
Speaker 2: four percent from the field for a. Game that wasn't
Speaker 2: just because they're bad, shooters But Wall KAWHI pg looked
Speaker 2: like a.
Speaker 1: Real dominant big three up.
Speaker 2: There if they can all increase their minutes to like
Speaker 2: the high twenties.
Speaker 1: Thirties this team is gonna be.
Speaker 2: Dangerous, lastly another player that was super impressed with Was Herb.
Speaker 2: Jones Love Herb jones so. GOOD a lot of people
Speaker 2: are still learning about. Him if you're a casual fan
Speaker 2: and you need a, reminder six, seven four were who
Speaker 2: can guard one through, five steadily.
Speaker 1: Improving his offense as.
Speaker 2: Well he was drafted number thirty five, overall not this last,
Speaker 2: draft but two drafts, ago and he is becoming maybe
Speaker 2: one of the best defensive.
Speaker 1: Players in the.
Speaker 2: League like he could easily Win Defensive player of The
Speaker 2: year this. Year that's how good he. Is his first
Speaker 2: game In, brooklyn his stat, line you might not think
Speaker 2: is very good six four to three with one steal
Speaker 2: in twenty eight. Minutes but let's look at how The
Speaker 2: pelicans did when he was on the floor Against Brooklyn's big.
Speaker 2: Three he was a plus thirty four for the. Game
Speaker 2: The pelicans outscored The nets by thirty four points in
Speaker 2: his twenty eight, minutes by, far the highest plus minus
Speaker 2: in the. Game because he was locking down every single
Speaker 2: person that he. Defended he helped contribute To Ben simmons
Speaker 2: fouling out in the twenty five, minutes and when he
Speaker 2: was on the, court The pels net rating was one
Speaker 2: point eight to. Two when he was on the, bench
Speaker 2: it was minus one point nine to. Eight The pelicans
Speaker 2: don't need Herb jones to. Score they've Got bi And
Speaker 2: zion And Jose alvarado AND. Cj McCollum and just Player Trey.
Speaker 2: Murphy so many, traits but he can be. Everywhere on,
Speaker 2: defense he can get into the, paint stop a man
Speaker 2: from rolling into the.
Speaker 1: Basket he rotates over.
Speaker 2: Quickly to block the best scorer in the world in the,
Speaker 2: corner three in two seconds.
Speaker 1: Flat he's.
Speaker 2: Special and when he was asked who he models his game,
Speaker 2: after who do you think maybe Khy? No he says
Speaker 2: his defense and how he sees the. Game he is
Speaker 2: trying to emulate safeties in THE. Nfl he, said his
Speaker 2: two guys that he emulates Are Ed reid And Cam.
Speaker 1: Chancellor that was how he covers so much.
Speaker 2: GROUND i look at, them they're, long they cover a
Speaker 2: bunch of. Ground so that's WHAT i do on the basketball.
Speaker 2: COURT i needed to figure out how they were able
Speaker 2: to read react to, plays AND i felt like IF
Speaker 2: i could take pieces from their, mentality THEN i could
Speaker 2: roam around on the basketball court Fairly. EASi holy, Shit,
Speaker 2: Yes Herb, jones he's.
Speaker 1: Not he's Not Paul George.
Speaker 2: Stopper he's not you, know a longer defender of that
Speaker 2: we've seen in THE. Nba he is The Ed reid
Speaker 2: of THE. Nba he is a ballhawking, monster not afraid of,
Speaker 2: contact who can anticipate your next move before you. Do
Speaker 2: he might be my new favorite. Player i've got more to,
Speaker 2: cover BUT i have no. Time so that's all the
Speaker 2: time that we have for The Heat.
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