Speaker 1: Not come home, Come, come home. Come on this episode
Speaker 1: of The Heat check Man.
Speaker 2: Just when you think things can't get worse for the
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Lakers, it does. It just continues to get
Speaker 2: more dysfunctional, more strange, more unacceptable, unacceptable moves. Chaos is
Speaker 2: now fully engorged the Purple and Gold, and I have
Speaker 2: to say, I feel a little bad. I feel a
Speaker 2: little bad for them.
Speaker 1: So we get into that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna dig all the way into what I feel
Speaker 2: is happening there. We talk a little bit about Kyle Kuzma,
Speaker 2: former Laker by the way they could use them six',
Speaker 2: ten how he's kind of developed into a legit player
Speaker 2: now in The Wizard's. Land and we also update you
Speaker 2: on what we talked about, before which Is James wiseman
Speaker 2: and why the fuck isn't he back on the floor.
Speaker 2: Yet let's drop that beat, Perfect.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Man every failing leader needs a, scapegoat.
Speaker 2: And if you're really, failing you probably need a fail,
Speaker 2: safe a scapegoat.
Speaker 1: In case that first scapegoat doesn't.
Speaker 2: Work that's the that's like literally like a you, know
Speaker 2: crash this, glass pull the lever in case of.
Speaker 1: Emergency that's where we're. At right, now and nobody's really
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 2: That they're mostly talking about the, scapegoats right because that's what.
Speaker 1: Is designed to, be.
Speaker 2: Right so that's where we're at right now with The
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Lakers my, guy my, Guy Rob.
Speaker 1: Polinka he's a wily. One he is real.
Speaker 2: Slippery he is exactly who you could basically bet every
Speaker 2: single good looking man In Los angeles that looks Like
Speaker 2: Rob blow would, be like like an aspiring actor who
Speaker 2: moonlights as a waiter at some random high end restaurant
Speaker 2: the middle Of, Brentwood, california just lies about some production
Speaker 2: deal that he's got working on with this with you,
Speaker 2: know some Random James cameron liked it At Soho.
Speaker 1: House you.
Speaker 2: Know that's where we're at with my, Guy Rob, polinka
Speaker 2: just completely.
Speaker 1: Unqualified we've talked about this many times and somehow.
Speaker 2: Consistently employed based around what we know is his time
Speaker 2: With Kobe, bryant and he just keeps going back to the,
Speaker 2: hits hiring his friends.
Speaker 1: And then throwing them under the bus when shit doesn't go.
Speaker 1: Right that's just where we're.
Speaker 2: At Quintessential agent TURN gm just that's what they. Do
Speaker 2: they just will they will sewer anyone to keep and preserve.
Speaker 2: Themselves it's fucked, up, honestly and that is what's. Happening
Speaker 2: and it's kind of sad because he's making it a little,
Speaker 2: obvious you know WHAT i.
Speaker 1: Mean when you've got my man who's not.
Speaker 2: Even plugged, in which we'll talk about a little later
Speaker 2: in this, segment which Is Charles, barkley When chuck is, like,
Speaker 2: YO i think people are being, scapegoated he's using the word.
Speaker 2: Scapegoat you're Being you have now stooped to a level
Speaker 2: of transparency of your little move making that is now
Speaker 2: beyond the.
Speaker 1: Pale so let's just say.
Speaker 2: This Russell westbrook And Frank vogel are currently The lakers,
Speaker 2: scapegoats and they. Are let's just make it. Plain they
Speaker 2: are not the reason that The lakers. Suck let me rephrase,
Speaker 2: that they are not the only reason that The lakers.
Speaker 2: Suck they're not even the major reasons that The lakers.
Speaker 2: Suck but they are who we're talking.
Speaker 1: About they are the, Escapegoats so let's dig.
Speaker 2: In this season has been largely the drama has largely
Speaker 2: been localized to a couple of. Teams you've Got Ben,
Speaker 2: simmons what's happening with. Him that's the big, lead that's
Speaker 2: the one story everyone wants to discuss all the. Time
Speaker 2: but not too far behind that is The Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Lakers we haven't checked in on them in a.
Speaker 1: Bit so here's the. Latest let's say a lot's been going.
Speaker 1: On russ is now currently being benched in late game.
Speaker 2: Situations, yeah and it's been apparently coming for. Weeks for,
Speaker 2: Weeks you've been debating this for. Weeks vogel's, butt as
Speaker 2: per we thought might, happen is now in the not
Speaker 2: just speculation that it's on the hot, seat we are
Speaker 2: actually seeing headlines that it's on the hot, seat that
Speaker 2: he is potentially got a very short, rope and that
Speaker 2: the only thing that kept him from being fired was
Speaker 2: a decent win against The.
Speaker 1: Jazz if he would have ended up, losing and that
Speaker 1: team would have ended up losing against.
Speaker 2: The, Jazz Apparently vogel was going to be, fired Which
Speaker 2: i'm not sure IF i actually think is.
Speaker 1: True and Now braun.
Speaker 2: Is testing as fuck because he has has to explain
Speaker 2: what's going on with the, roster what's going on with
Speaker 2: these late game, benches and how he's got to dig
Speaker 2: into the mind of his.
Speaker 1: Teammate he doesn't even know exactly what he's.
Speaker 2: Feeling that teammate's taken off in the middle of after
Speaker 2: the games and it doesn't even take a. Shower he
Speaker 2: Goes Klay thompson literally drives out in his. UNIFORM i,
Speaker 2: mean and let's be, honest, like we know How Russell westbrook.
Speaker 1: Feels we don't need to ask he doesn't feel. Good
Speaker 1: we know.
Speaker 2: That we know that if you have been AN mvp
Speaker 2: in this league and you make forty six million dollars
Speaker 2: a year and you've been a starter this entire time
Speaker 2: for twelve years or whatever it, is thirteen, years and
Speaker 2: then you get in crunch, time sit your ass. Down
Speaker 2: you're no longer contributing to a winning basketball. Team and
Speaker 2: then the head coach, says BECAUSE i am putting the
Speaker 2: players on the floor THAT i think is gonna win.
Speaker 1: The, game and that's not. Him how el WHAT i,
Speaker 1: mean do we need to ask really how he? Feels
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 2: Good but more importantly than all of this is that
Speaker 2: The lakers just continue to. Lose they are five hundred,
Speaker 2: team but losing isn't really an issue when you're The Detroit, pistons,
Speaker 2: Right we're not expecting them to do. Shit they've never
Speaker 2: told us they were gonna do, shit, Right they're not, saying,
Speaker 2: hey we got Kid now.
Speaker 1: We're a, contender you, know which would be a.
Speaker 2: Lie, uh it's losing when you've given a expectations and
Speaker 2: you've set the expectations for, winning for, contending for not just,
Speaker 2: contending but for winning at.
Speaker 1: All, right that's what we were.
Speaker 2: Promised we were promised that this move would take this
Speaker 2: team over the, top back to at least some situation
Speaker 2: where they could. Contend so when you lose and you've
Speaker 2: told us you were gonna, contend we've got. Questions, hey
Speaker 2: this is not exactly working how you told us it would.
Speaker 2: Work please tell us how you plan to fix. It
Speaker 2: please tell us diagnose why it's not working how you
Speaker 2: promised us it would.
Speaker 1: Work that's Why Penny hardaway.
Speaker 2: His ass is like getting a lot of questions right
Speaker 2: now because he's got the top recruiting.
Speaker 1: Class he's not.
Speaker 2: Winning they promised us, wins and when we were promised, wins,
Speaker 2: boy and we don't get.
Speaker 1: Them we got some.
Speaker 2: Questions we knew already Everyone joshmo sitting on the couch
Speaker 2: Knew russ was a ball dominant player who would probably
Speaker 2: have trouble integrating With braun And Ad but they, said,
Speaker 2: no we know more than you give us. Time this is,
Speaker 2: how this is how we're getting to the. Top we
Speaker 2: promise you it'll be different than you think in your.
Speaker 2: Mind we've got.
Speaker 4: This we Knew.
Speaker 1: Anthony davis was, Soft we Knew Anthony davis.
Speaker 2: Was, gimpy and they were, like, no, No we've Got
Speaker 2: Kobe bryant's trainer like shea took him to the like
Speaker 2: promised land up until the time he was basically. Dust
Speaker 2: he was at eighty one, points and we knew that
Speaker 2: this team needed an emotional leader Like Alex crusoe and
Speaker 2: losing him was a. Problem we knew this team was
Speaker 2: filled with veterans that we're probably not gonna do shit
Speaker 2: and made like the.
Speaker 1: Minimum we knew these, things but they promised us we were.
Speaker 1: Wrong they told.
Speaker 2: Us they guessled us into being. Wrong so now we're
Speaker 2: checking in, Constantly, hey, hey, hey what's. Up and so
Speaker 2: now the folks in charge when the mob comes, out they're,
Speaker 2: like what do we?
Speaker 1: Do we gotta figure out a way to place the.
Speaker 2: Blame somewhere so that then if we get rid of those,
Speaker 2: people or we bench those, people or make a change
Speaker 2: to those, scapegoats Then i'll buy us some.
Speaker 1: Time there's no, move there is no move.
Speaker 2: Happening let me just be very very. Clear this isn't
Speaker 2: there's no. Endgame there's no winning endgame to. This it's
Speaker 2: literally just to buy time from the mob entering the
Speaker 2: gate and like legitimately burning the place, down like they're
Speaker 2: just trying to put up barriers to swash the.
Speaker 1: Mob that's what it. Is the First Russell westbrook bench,
Speaker 1: him that'll buy a at least a month or two at. Least,
Speaker 1: right he's by all.
Speaker 2: Metrics been playing pretty, bad but like he's been doing
Speaker 2: what he's. Told when he played With Anthony davis And Lebron,
Speaker 2: james which they've only played seventeen games together on the,
Speaker 2: floor if you can imagine. It they've never played more
Speaker 2: than three games in a row together this, season which
Speaker 2: is kind of wild when you think about.
Speaker 1: It took a long time to find that stat by the, way.
Speaker 2: So they've not had much time to gel together and
Speaker 2: make it. Work, Right and when the eighty, Plays Russell westbrook's.
Speaker 1: Averaging twenty eight points a, game like playing.
Speaker 2: Very, well he doesn't look himself, Though let's be, Honest
Speaker 2: like you look at the the highlights or the low,
Speaker 2: lights and it looks like it looks like have.
Speaker 1: You ever seen Ant?
Speaker 2: Man and Ant man goes, inside he gets a little very,
Speaker 2: small and then he goes inside of a yellow jacket the,
Speaker 2: villain and he screws with his wiring and he just
Speaker 2: short circuits his arms do weird. Things his head goes one.
Speaker 2: Way That's russ underneath the basket right. Now russ literally
Speaker 2: is having a seizure. Underneath shout out To. Russ he's figuring.
Speaker 1: Away his body controls all.
Speaker 2: Gone it's literally like the Ant man is inside of his,
Speaker 2: body which is a machine and is messed up with
Speaker 2: the way that it.
Speaker 1: Functions because it looks real bad right, now he can't
Speaker 1: shoot a jumper that hits the.
Speaker 2: Rim they all hit the top corner of the, backboard
Speaker 2: like you've seen so many shots where you're, like this
Speaker 2: is not even the realm.
Speaker 1: Of like possibilities That i've seen With. Russ but like
Speaker 1: he's gotta figure it.
Speaker 2: Out there's probably something wrong with him, physically like when
Speaker 2: he played on a torn quad and he didn't tell
Speaker 2: anyone for The, wizards something will.
Speaker 1: Come out because he doesn't look right, right and we know.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: But like to bench.
Speaker 2: Him in crunch time and lose, anyway like you emasculated
Speaker 2: him and humiliated him on a scale.
Speaker 1: That is probably irreparable.
Speaker 2: To the point where now he can just, chill, like
Speaker 2: fuck this. Team i've done everything you've. ASKED i didn't
Speaker 2: tell YOU i would fit like you trade it for,
Speaker 2: me And i'm doing EVERYTHING i can to try to
Speaker 2: make this. Work but like everybody knew it wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: make it. Work and so to like do this To,
Speaker 2: russ to Scapegoat russ into being the number, one the
Speaker 2: only problem is very. Wrong like that's just plain, immoral,
Speaker 2: Right like it's.
Speaker 5: JUST i can't find the words to describe how wrong
Speaker 5: it is to like trade for a, guy let him
Speaker 5: go back, home play With Lebron james And Anthony.
Speaker 1: Davis none of them are healthy Butt.
Speaker 2: Russ we don't even know If russ is, healthy but
Speaker 2: like he's the only one that's been available, consistently and
Speaker 2: let and let him be the rat in the scurrying
Speaker 2: shit that you, squash.
Speaker 1: Who's literally the only thing.
Speaker 2: That's been holding you up while your two stars haven't been, healthy.
Speaker 1: But like that's. Wild and then now.
Speaker 2: The second Scapegoat Frank, vogel who is apparently on a
Speaker 2: serious hot, seat because, again if it's Not russ and
Speaker 2: you bench him and you still, lose who's the next level?
Speaker 2: Up well maybe we can Fire vogel and then you
Speaker 2: get an interim, coach so you basically get the entire
Speaker 2: rest of the season to do nothing and be, like,
Speaker 2: well we got this interim, coach we're integrating. Him we
Speaker 2: gotta figure out who our next big get, Is like
Speaker 2: is it Tylu like maybe we reunite. Them promise listen
Speaker 2: to mark my, words It's january twenty, second twenty first
Speaker 2: if this, happens and just read the headlines from now,
Speaker 2: On like after, that it's.
Speaker 1: Like who will it be coaching?
Speaker 2: Search distract the mob with new information and they will
Speaker 2: lose the, thread which is that this team fucking. Sucks
Speaker 2: it's gonna suck no matter. What the problem Isn't russ,
Speaker 2: is the problem Isn't. VOGEL i mean they're not, great.
Speaker 1: But like that's not the.
Speaker 2: Problem the problem is the other two aren't even around,
Speaker 2: fully like eighty haven't seen him in. Months fully The Big,
Speaker 2: three LIKE i, said played seventeen games. Together they played
Speaker 2: when they played, together they're ten and. Seven that's sixty
Speaker 2: percent winning. Percentage that is a better winning percentage they
Speaker 2: had last. Year they've never played more than three games.
Speaker 2: Together they've had no chance to form some jelling or.
Speaker 2: Continuity LIKE i, Said russ was averaging twenty eight and
Speaker 2: eight since he went down seventeen eight and. Seven so
Speaker 2: we don't know how good this team's gonna. Be we
Speaker 2: know it's not a, contender but we don't know if
Speaker 2: it's like a six' five.
Speaker 1: Four seed we have. No IDEA do i think.
Speaker 2: This is a?
Speaker 1: CHAMPIONSHIP squad i mean. Absolutely not everyone knows that it's
Speaker 1: not a.
Speaker 2: Championship squad but if you're going to try in, the
Speaker 2: middle we'll call this like this is, the, Winter right
Speaker 2: like we're almost a spring where you start to figure
Speaker 2: out what plants you put into, the, Ground right and
Speaker 2: what they're trying to do is pull the plants out
Speaker 2: of the ground and rip the seeds out before they,
Speaker 2: they mature so that you don't don't even know what, you,
Speaker 2: have right and then they're gonna try to putting new
Speaker 2: seeds in and tell you have to wait until next
Speaker 2: spring to figure out what you what. You have, i'm
Speaker 2: sorry you can't change horses in the middle of.
Speaker 1: The stream you have to reap what. You sow you
Speaker 1: have to sit in your shit if that's what.
Speaker 2: You've made you can't try to distract us, with escapegoats
Speaker 2: try to putting new seeds in and try to like tweak.
Speaker 2: Our minds not we don't even know what's what what
Speaker 2: the real, problems are because there's, new problems there's. Whole,
Speaker 2: problems right you need to have this entire squad spend
Speaker 2: the entire year together, fully healthy and then we hold you,
Speaker 2: all accountable keep you.
Speaker 1: All together see what.
Speaker 2: It is let these three men who HAVE been mvp
Speaker 2: caliber players, gel together make it work or not before
Speaker 2: we can fully assess.
Speaker 1: Anything else is just.
Speaker 2: Fucked really and you, can, say, oh well you gotta
Speaker 2: make Moves because bronze.
Speaker 1: Windows closing bron is partially responsible for this.
Speaker 2: As well It was braun's decision to bring in when
Speaker 2: he held meetings with every other superstar in, the league
Speaker 2: and He. Chose russ so if if we close a
Speaker 2: window or a, year passes, fuck it because you know
Speaker 2: what if bron didn't, want, to like wait and see
Speaker 2: what this Was. With russ he didn't have to, choose
Speaker 2: him he didn't have to take this. Overinflated contract then
Speaker 2: he knew wouldn't fit.
Speaker 1: With Him but i'm not the only one.
Speaker 2: Saying THIS like, I Said charles barkley also went off the.
Speaker 2: Other night, let's LISTEN but i really have you not
Speaker 2: heard that? Phrase?
Speaker 3: BEFORE oh, i mean well, Normally right i'd love to pursue.
Speaker 3: THAT first i just want, to say, you KNOW so
Speaker 3: I never i DON'T cause i don't care. WHO wins,
Speaker 3: I mean i just want the season. Be ables we
Speaker 3: can go play golf. And, fish alright LET'S but i
Speaker 3: Root the lakers are such WHISSIES and i want to
Speaker 3: say WHISSLES because i can't say THE word. I want,
Speaker 3: i know the way they have trying To Throw russell
Speaker 3: Westbrook And frank vogel under the bus is just really pissing.
Speaker 3: Me OFF and i got to tell. You, something, no
Speaker 3: hey you know we've got a guest standing. By, it
Speaker 3: Well the lakers. Still suck when we get back from, his, interview,
Speaker 3: WELL campaign i don't know if you've caught, all That,
Speaker 3: but bill welcome.
Speaker 2: To campaign not sure you, Caught, it yes, tell him
Speaker 2: say it with, Your, chest chuck tell him how. You
Speaker 2: feel the way They're throwing Russ And frank vogel under
Speaker 2: the bus is pissing.
Speaker 1: Me off they're blaming him.
Speaker 2: The people this is what he, said later the people
Speaker 2: up top who put that trash together are running and hiding, like, cowards.
Speaker 1: Saying Oh, it's Frank. It's russ you put them old geezers.
Speaker 6: Out.
Speaker 2: There listen the, best game the best guy Other than
Speaker 2: lebron the last month has Been Who?
Speaker 1: Stanley johnson a guy you brought in.
Speaker 2: Off the street for y'all to bring a guy who
Speaker 2: was on, the street and he becomes your second. Best
Speaker 2: player whoever's running that trash out there getting away. With it, it's, Ridiculous,
Speaker 2: man yes this. Is ridiculous all that, being said here's.
Speaker 2: The question not enough people, are asking what is the
Speaker 2: upside to all of, this motion all of this, this
Speaker 2: change getting Rid, of Russ, firing frank, benching him pissing,
Speaker 2: everyone off that's already within, the organization like inside.
Speaker 6: The.
Speaker 2: Roster nothing they lost that Game, With russ frank, Goes in.
Speaker 1: Frank, goes out.
Speaker 2: Same team all this to me Is Just, rob palinka
Speaker 2: by the Way Of, kirk rambis trying to just.
Speaker 1: Do a lot.
Speaker 2: Of things move, the cups move. The balls and the
Speaker 2: truth Is benching russ is not. Gonna Help Firing frank
Speaker 2: vocal is not gonna change a. Goddamn Thing Vintage phil
Speaker 2: jackson could not say, the team, My man not even
Speaker 2: the Ghost of Red hour back is going to say this.
Speaker 1: Fucking season this season is.
Speaker 2: Cooked regardless so all you need to figure out to
Speaker 2: do is like how do we just keep the?
Speaker 1: Peace here like how do we keep?
Speaker 2: Everyone happy so you don't Have Like lebron james basically
Speaker 2: going off on the Media And russell westbrook leaving the
Speaker 2: building before he can even get out the shower or in,
Speaker 2: the Shower like justney ride out. The storm folks like
Speaker 2: Wait For anthony davis to sometime, Get healthy, like wait
Speaker 2: Hope that bron, Stays healthy like make this locker. Room
Speaker 2: healthy go to the, movies together like do something have
Speaker 2: like a. Bowling night you might just like hope you.
Speaker 2: Get lucky maybe you run into, the jazz like maybe
Speaker 2: You're like memphis. Last year you get into, the plane
Speaker 2: you're a, ten seed you win a couple.
Speaker 1: Of games you Play the jazz in the.
Speaker 2: FIRST round, i MEAN like, i said you can never
Speaker 2: know kind of luck you could run into because if
Speaker 2: you blow this, UP now I just i just don't
Speaker 2: think this can be fixed if you switch.
Speaker 1: It again you don't have a. Time machine.
Speaker 2: This thing this is like that part in the chess
Speaker 2: game where the only thing you can do is just
Speaker 2: knock your, King over and in life you can't, do.
Speaker 1: That right you can't just blow the whole team up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season.
Speaker 2: Start again this Is what. Russ says he blew off the,
Speaker 2: postgame pressure as you. Might Imagine let braun take. THE
Speaker 2: flat i don't, blame him but he did come out
Speaker 2: and say this the. Next day i'm.
Speaker 1: Committed to making.
Speaker 2: This, work ultimately you have to be okay when shit doesn't,
Speaker 2: go Well and.
Speaker 1: I'm okay i've done everything that's been asked to.
Speaker 2: Me here i'll continue to, do So and i'll ride
Speaker 2: this out as long as we can towards our, ultimate
Speaker 2: goal and that's to win. A championship we obviously haven't been,
Speaker 2: fully Healthy but i'm committed to making. This work the
Speaker 2: communication is there with everybody in the organization to make
Speaker 2: this work to make this team the way we want
Speaker 2: it to be in. The future i've accepted everything that
Speaker 2: has been asked of me and try to do it
Speaker 2: to the best of. MY ability i am not the
Speaker 2: ultimate decision maker of whether it's working or whether it's.
Speaker 2: Not working i'm okay sacrificing some of the Things that
Speaker 2: i've been able to do in this game, to win
Speaker 2: because that's the most important part of. This game i've
Speaker 2: done everything they've asked me to do at. This, point
Speaker 2: pause do not fucking scape.
Speaker 1: Go me that's what he's saying.
Speaker 2: Right there do not let these fucking idiots try to
Speaker 2: put the blame. ON me i do everything they tell me,
Speaker 2: to Do and i'm the only one in this building that's.
Speaker 2: Been healthy how do you Not? Love russ even A
Speaker 2: broken russ. Is tremendous you KNOW who, I am you
Speaker 2: know who. You got you can't try to change the
Speaker 2: stripes on a fucking, snow leopard which, is dots try
Speaker 2: to make them. A tiger like you can't, do that, and,
Speaker 2: like listen you knew you were supposed to turn it
Speaker 2: into a time when you.
Speaker 1: Got, Here bitch.
Speaker 2: Come, On now when when asked why He benched russ
Speaker 2: vocal said he was looking to put players out there
Speaker 2: that gave him the best chance. Of Winning when russ
Speaker 2: was asked about his reaction, to it, he, SAID yeah i.
Speaker 2: WAS surprised i WAS disappointed i didn't go, back In
Speaker 2: but i'm more disappointed pointed that we lost. THE game
Speaker 2: i want to be on the floor to help my
Speaker 2: teammates and be able to help our team to win
Speaker 2: in games, like that but that was the decision that.
Speaker 2: Was made whatever is asked, OF me i will do
Speaker 2: it to the best of. My ability that Is all
Speaker 2: i've been trying to Do since i've.
Speaker 1: Gotten.
Speaker 2: HERE oh i Hate the lakers, so much but there
Speaker 2: is just something inside of me that roots for a
Speaker 2: forty six million dollar, paid Underdog. RIGHT like i don't
Speaker 2: want them, to WIN but i don't want him To
Speaker 2: do russ dirty. LIKE this I Know frank vogel, is
Speaker 2: MEDIOCRE but i don't want them to do him. Like
Speaker 2: THIS what i want is not For the lakers to win.
Speaker 2: A championship i want them to go down, in FLAMES
Speaker 2: but i want, real ACCOUNTABILITY and i want it to
Speaker 2: start with that.
Speaker 1: Slimy little rob low.
Speaker 2: Looking MOTHERFUCKER and I want i want My man chuck
Speaker 2: to go after HIM on tnt over and over and
Speaker 2: over and over until the masses wake up and they
Speaker 2: realize who is really to blame my.
Speaker 6: Position get complace and want to come places with, star
Speaker 6: girls and they end up on the. Front pages i'm
Speaker 6: just ride. WITH it A moment i stop having fun,
Speaker 6: With it i'll be done. With it i'm the only
Speaker 6: one that's putting shots up and like a pot locking
Speaker 6: me to come.
Speaker 1: With it i'm the only one putting. Shots up i'm
Speaker 1: like a. Pot love we come, with it, My Man
Speaker 1: kyle kuzma putting.
Speaker 2: Shots up, goodness gracious speaking of a man who should
Speaker 2: Be a laker, right now speaking of a man who'd.
Speaker 1: Be a perfect piece to Help the lakers. Right now
Speaker 1: it's about time that.
Speaker 2: We put a little, of sprinkle a, little adoration a
Speaker 2: little a little complimentation to My Man coos Coos cous
Speaker 2: like you forget how good, cous is and you forget
Speaker 2: how tall he is because of how oversized his, sweaters
Speaker 2: are don't you Like he couz looks like the youngest
Speaker 2: brother of four who's like ten and wears his seventeen
Speaker 2: year old brother's sweaters to like, the party and, you're like.
Speaker 1: What tries to like?
Speaker 2: Get, In, like coos what are you doing walking into
Speaker 2: the tunnel with a sweater that's like four inches longer than.
Speaker 2: YOUR hands i don't even know how a sweater can
Speaker 2: be made. That big Knowing that kus is, Six' ten coos,
Speaker 2: is six ten.
Speaker 1: He plays like, he's six' six plays like. He's six,
Speaker 1: 's eight but man. This guy is big he's.
Speaker 2: Got decent hops and he doesn't use his length nearly as.
Speaker 1: Much as he should, BUT when he does, i tell you.
Speaker 2: What it is tremendous he is now only the third
Speaker 2: most dunking player on A very. Non dunking wizard's team so.
Speaker 1: When he put a when he Put His.
Speaker 2: Nuts, on joel embiid's face it was, A shock to,
Speaker 2: Me i would say and then he celebrated After. Color
Speaker 2: ME tickled coos kuz i didn't know you, Had. It
Speaker 2: in you coos there was, a reason for it turns
Speaker 2: Out goes back. To kuzma's rookie year he explained the details,
Speaker 2: In his postgame presser let's.
Speaker 1: LISTEN my rookie year i tried to dunk on him
Speaker 1: and it, didn't go.
Speaker 2: So well. And uh you know he came UP to
Speaker 2: me after, i told him that but HE told me if,
Speaker 2: i did it again he'll punch. Me in the face so,
Speaker 2: hold him, for, Sure, he said nah no joellenb definitely
Speaker 2: told him he would punch him in the face if
Speaker 2: he tried. A DUNK on him and I keep waiting
Speaker 2: for kus to flip the switch and be, this like
Speaker 2: elite scorer But that would require kus, to BE consistently aggressive.
Speaker 1: And i just don't.
Speaker 2: Kuss a sweet boy he doesn't seem like an aggressive
Speaker 2: guy to me on. Or off the floor, but this
Speaker 2: hammer dunk this. Gave me some hope and he. IS
Speaker 2: killing right now. I tell you what he is ballin'
Speaker 2: all phases of the game in. The Last, ten games,
Speaker 2: Kyle Kuzma, my man kyle kuzma who is A Joke.
Speaker 2: On the la lakers he came out said some things
Speaker 2: about what he wanted to accomplish, in a new team
Speaker 2: and now. He is doing, it twenty, four points, twelve
Speaker 2: rebounds one block and three and a half assists on
Speaker 2: average in.
Speaker 1: The last ten games.
Speaker 2: Those. Are all star numbers That is a true he
Speaker 2: has been a hero for Anybody Who is a Washington
Speaker 2: wizards fan. And god bless you So You know what
Speaker 2: kyle kuzman is right. Now in the stretch he has
Speaker 2: hit clutch. Shot after clutch shot he was in the
Speaker 2: d back At Home, against the detroit pistons which we
Speaker 2: won't talk about the fact that you had to have
Speaker 2: a Game Winner, against the detroit. Pistons but he, did
Speaker 2: he came, through got the dub, hit the game, winner, and, everybody's.
Speaker 1: Like coos coos, Fix. Our drinking water Coos.
Speaker 2: This. Man's from, FLINT uh but man, i tell you
Speaker 2: what he has become almost more important late Game Situations
Speaker 2: than Even brad beale because brad bial.
Speaker 1: Gets, So much attention right so let's.
Speaker 2: Just soak It, in for cous like LET'S just give
Speaker 2: cous i get a lot of hate about HOW many,
Speaker 2: negative things i Say but like cous is has a
Speaker 2: special place in my heart even, when he shoots airballs
Speaker 2: like you just.
Speaker 1: Kind of love.
Speaker 2: Him and HE told the world i can, have a
Speaker 2: bigger role. And we all, Laughed we, were like, kho's
Speaker 2: no you can't like just get your eight rebounds and
Speaker 2: you're like thirteen points and like your one, assist or,
Speaker 2: two assists like no like he is that even though
Speaker 2: he's a little bit of a, Chucklehead, like he is
Speaker 2: actually who wouldn't want a six to ten guy who's putting,
Speaker 2: up twenty four twelve one and. THREE and a half
Speaker 2: i don't know a team that can't use a guy
Speaker 2: like that a perimeter score on the, wing at six
Speaker 2: ten he's damn.
Speaker 1: Near seven feet tall he is.
Speaker 2: Maybe one of the more underrated role players that could.
Speaker 2: Be plugged and played That's Probably one of tommy shepherd's
Speaker 2: greatest assets that He Acquired in. THAT russell westbrook trade
Speaker 2: i bet you could get a couple of firsts for
Speaker 2: KOs if you Traded With. Like the portland trailblazers they.
Speaker 1: Might be, in twenty twenty eight twenty twenty nine because we.
Speaker 2: Don't HAVE a lot but, I tell you What I
Speaker 2: bet you joe cronin would try To Swing.
Speaker 1: For some kyle.
Speaker 2: Kuzma so let's look for this year and Next Year.
Speaker 1: To be kyle. Kustmas breakout your life.
Speaker 6: It's like.
Speaker 7: You're really rough guy.
Speaker 6: It just good enough it's. Just always a. Guy i'm
Speaker 6: not bad.
Speaker 1: So after very sweet.
Speaker 2: Full segment, of love and, adoration admiration and positivity pushing p.
Speaker 2: As they call it i'm gonna be pushing, some men
Speaker 2: right now and it's some or some s. Pushing some
Speaker 2: s skepticism we got, some, truth Bombs coming uh and
Speaker 2: i'm gonna be. The bad guy, here so last week
Speaker 2: finally we detailed these Strange News, swirling around james wiseman
Speaker 2: who has, been we'll just say not living up to
Speaker 2: the expectations of being the number two pick two years.
Speaker 1: Ago In The draft when LaMelo ball, was taken after
Speaker 1: him right.
Speaker 2: And recall that we talked about how he had A,
Speaker 2: secret surgery in december a secret one that the, team
Speaker 2: did Not Disclose and literally anthony Slater Had to be
Speaker 2: inspector gadget and also, what was her name, A murder
Speaker 2: she wrote He Had to go angela lansbury had To Go,
Speaker 2: one part Angela Lansbury one part inspector gadget To Find,
Speaker 2: out that james wiseman the number two Overall Pick By,
Speaker 2: the golden state warriors had another setback and another quote
Speaker 2: unquote clean up injury that, they did not disclose and
Speaker 2: he had still not, been cleared for contact even though
Speaker 2: all year they said he would be ready in the
Speaker 2: off season he would be. Ready for training camp it
Speaker 2: is now forty something games and he is. Nowhere to
Speaker 2: be found we have not. Seen him at all and
Speaker 2: so now, week or two later starting To bubble, up
Speaker 2: in warriors media they're, starting to, be.
Speaker 6: Like hey.
Speaker 2: This ah I'm concerned everyone In Warriors media to steve kerr.
Speaker 2: Is now Really Worried our guy Sam Svandiari from the
Speaker 2: light years podcast just put, out a tweet today a
Speaker 2: tweet storm today. To address this issue so you know
Speaker 2: this is about.
Speaker 1: To become a thing this.
Speaker 2: Is what he said warriors are gonna be a frustrating
Speaker 2: Five hundred. Team until draymond returns but the real story
Speaker 2: is About, what's up with wiseman though the entire situation
Speaker 2: has not smelt right since he'll be back by camp
Speaker 2: and then just hiding the, second procedure quote unquote they.
Speaker 1: Did not disclose it slater had.
Speaker 2: TO. Dig FOR it yep Obviously. I feel for wiseman
Speaker 2: setback suck and that's. Out of his control but what
Speaker 2: is in the team's control is the amount of bigs they.
Speaker 2: Carry on a roster and if a big you were
Speaker 2: counting on to at minimum, play second unit minutes has
Speaker 2: no timeline and you're. ENTERING game forty seven i. Mean
Speaker 2: DOT dot dot Obviously i Feel for wiseman and steve's frustration.
Speaker 2: Here says, it too But whatever now drem on has
Speaker 2: a herniated disc And your centers are.
Speaker 1: Loon, and auto porter.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's an issue want to know why that's? Going
Speaker 2: To Blow up even steve kerr has to throw his
Speaker 2: hands up and even calls himself The.
Speaker 1: Boy who cried wolf here's how. He addressed the situation.
Speaker 3: Where are we with james now in terms of his
Speaker 3: progress getting, back to?
Speaker 4: The, COURT anything new, yeah i you know.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 4: That doesn't, LOOK good well yeah, i mean you know
Speaker 4: we haven't had a practice now. In about a week
Speaker 4: we won't have a practice this week because we've got
Speaker 4: a game tomorrow and a day. Off THE following DAY
Speaker 4: so i wish i. Had SOMETHING to report and i
Speaker 4: know this whole process, has been You know frustrating, for
Speaker 4: james above all but also for you guys because, you're
Speaker 4: looking for, answers and for, Me because you know i've
Speaker 4: told YOU three different times i thought he was going
Speaker 4: to have, contact the next week and then each time,
Speaker 4: it was pushed back and so this has just not
Speaker 4: been an easy, one to figure out and so we're still,
Speaker 4: hopeful that you know he's going to be, cleared for
Speaker 4: contact soon but there hasn't been an opportunity for that.
Speaker 4: To happen this.
Speaker 7: Week see, Just, to follow upon james it's you you
Speaker 7: mentioned it's a hard, one to figure out but it's
Speaker 7: also a, matter OF practice time right i mean, you
Speaker 7: made that point and there isn't a lot of. Practice
Speaker 7: time right now it's not as if he's had some
Speaker 7: kind of. A setback or something i.
Speaker 4: Want to MAKE sure the point i was making is
Speaker 4: that over the, Over the last month i'm well aware
Speaker 4: that you guys have Asked and, several, times i've said
Speaker 4: yeah we're hoping that he's going to, have contact next
Speaker 4: week and then he didn't for, one reason or another and,
Speaker 4: he had you know, swelling in his knee and then
Speaker 4: he had the procedure to flush the the swelling out
Speaker 4: and Then you know there so there's just been sort,
Speaker 4: of this you know extended time where he's been out
Speaker 4: that's been again. Most frustrating for him so it's you
Speaker 4: know that. The beat goes on we're still very hopeful
Speaker 4: that this is, all going to happen that he's going to,
Speaker 4: be out, there soon, you know in, contexts circumstances And
Speaker 4: practice and but, I'm at this point, i'm also You
Speaker 4: know aware of i'm the boy who cried. Wolf A
Speaker 4: little bit so i, just when, it happens it happens and.
Speaker 1: We'll let, You know oh. Yep oh my God.
Speaker 2: Guess what the warriors might be in trouble if dre
Speaker 2: is out for. Any length of time this team is
Speaker 2: Four and seven without draymond and twenty eight and.
Speaker 1: Six when he plays so if his lower back.
Speaker 2: Issues, become a real thing which apparently disc problems can,
Speaker 2: be a massive deal and they keep them out, for an,
Speaker 2: extended problem, Extended period, excuse me oh boy they cannot
Speaker 2: afford to be patient.
Speaker 1: With wise men anymore and.
Speaker 2: That has to, mean if you're me, If You're, my
Speaker 2: guy bob myers, at the trade deadline you, have to
Speaker 2: be thinking maybe.
Speaker 1: We need to be swinging for someone.
Speaker 2: Like, a surge, AT baka or yeah i, know it's
Speaker 2: Not great or a christian would maybe you Try to
Speaker 2: get a christian wood at the Deadline if you're the
Speaker 2: warriors and you want to Remain. Favorites IN the, west
Speaker 2: but i repeat. THIS is, not good i repeat this
Speaker 2: is really bad and it is and continues to. Be
Speaker 2: a developing. Situation more to come that is all the
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