Speaker 1: On this episode of The Heat Check, the first week
Speaker 1: of the NBA season is in the books, and we're
Speaker 1: here to break it all down for you. Our big
Speaker 1: story of the week is the Denver Nuggets. We get
Speaker 1: into our what the fuck moment, we break down some
Speaker 1: news from around the league, and we finish it off
Speaker 1: with our Week one. Kenny Association's back William to drop
Speaker 1: that genericast beat break.
Speaker 2: We'll breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines your children.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's start the show with the one big takeaway,
Speaker 1: the one big thing, so to say. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the I don't know exactly what we're gonna call
Speaker 1: it yet, but it's like the one thing that we
Speaker 1: got to talk about at the top of the show.
Speaker 1: All right, the one thing, the big takeaway is that
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets are inevitable, like thanos. They're just an
Speaker 1: immovable force. So many people were like, oh, yeah, Trista,
Speaker 1: they lost Bruce Brown, they lost Jeff Green. They didn't
Speaker 1: do a goddamn thing to replace him. What did the
Speaker 1: Nuggets do to protect the throne. Nothing, not a goddamn thing.
Speaker 1: They are cooked like barbecue chicken. And on paper that
Speaker 1: was true. And then the GM of the Nuggets, Calvin Booth,
Speaker 1: went on the record with the athletic and was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: Brucey b good luck with all that you guys enjoy him,
Speaker 1: Indiana buyer, Beware, he's not as big, he's not as skilled,
Speaker 1: he's not as athletic as our guy Peyton Watson. And
Speaker 1: we all chuckled. We all said, oh, he's being he's
Speaker 1: just being silly. We were making fun of him. Had
Speaker 1: come out and he had to apologize about those comments.
Speaker 1: But guess what. Guess what he didn't say. He didn't
Speaker 1: say he thought that he was wrong. He didn't say
Speaker 1: that he misspoke about Peyton Watson. So everyone was out
Speaker 1: there being like, Okay, the Denver Nuggets are gonna be
Speaker 1: significantly worse. And then the actual basketball started. They rolled
Speaker 1: the ball out and it was like, oh shit, we
Speaker 1: are screwed. Because the Nuggets folks are a goddamn wagon.
Speaker 1: They are unstoppable, doesn't matter who they play. They reeled
Speaker 1: off three straight wins in a shortened first week against
Speaker 1: I don't know, the Los Angeles Lakers went to the
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals. The Grizzlies, top three team in the West,
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma Sydney Thunder consensus most exciting team to take
Speaker 1: the biggest jump in the Western Conference, and it was
Speaker 1: it was disturbing how they did how they did it
Speaker 1: was disturbing, specifically how they handled the Lakers. Lakers were
Speaker 1: talking all that shit, Oh yeah, they fortified the roster,
Speaker 1: we found a Jokic killer, we got healthy. They circled
Speaker 1: a matchup on their calendar. They were a confident boy,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and guess what his game started and it
Speaker 1: was like, oh oh, this is not gonna work for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. They just got trucked by jokicch and them boys.
Speaker 1: Ad had seventeen at the half. We were like, yay, Ad,
Speaker 1: And then he had seventeen at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: He was running around trying to chase the yokicch down.
Speaker 1: He was out of breath, he was tired, he wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: He It was so bad that every morning show the
Speaker 1: next day destroyed. Anthony Davis, steven A was skipped. It
Speaker 1: was Jason Williams. They're like, oh yeah, Ad, can't be
Speaker 1: this version of you. If the Lakers are gonna do
Speaker 1: a goddamn thing. Lebron's complaining. He's like, oh, the only
Speaker 1: reason we lost is because I was on a minute restriction.
Speaker 1: He's yelling at the coaching staff, being like, I could
Speaker 1: play point guard two. Why am I just floating around
Speaker 1: out here against the defending champs. Michael Porter Junior turned
Speaker 1: into Rodman overnight. I think he had twelve rebounds. He's
Speaker 1: now a rebounding machine. The Nuggets made Austin Reeves look
Speaker 1: like some random white boy from Arkansas. They ruined Gabe
Speaker 1: Vincent's career in a span of like that they exposed him.
Speaker 1: He was in negative seventeen, zero for four shooting from three,
Speaker 1: two turnovers, three fouls, and twenty two minutes. He's essentially
Speaker 1: not playable. Same story with the grizz Zero answers for you, Okich,
Speaker 1: Anne Murray, Aaron Gordon, KCP Strap, Desmond Bane. Desmond Baine
Speaker 1: was one for ten from three the game before. Desmond
Speaker 1: was five for ten. The Grizzlies, by the way, had
Speaker 1: to play all their starters thirty plus minutes just to
Speaker 1: stay in the game, and we got twenty minutes of
Speaker 1: who Peyton Watson my God, they were playing with the Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: They didn't care. They had all their little role players
Speaker 1: playing big time starter minutes. I'm like, where is Jokic?
Speaker 1: I think Jokic had twenty two points? Is casual? Okay?
Speaker 1: See we thought that might be a game. Today they
Speaker 1: get their doors absolutely blown off. To the tune of
Speaker 1: Michael Porter, Junior didn't even get his ten rebounds because
Speaker 1: I don't think he played the whole fourth quarter. Jok
Speaker 1: j had a very easy twenty eight, fourteen and five.
Speaker 1: Tad Chet Holmgren, Well, it's like to be a big man.
Speaker 1: Listen here, sir, I've got one hundred pounds on you.
Speaker 1: He went from seven blocks in his previous game to
Speaker 1: zero blocks against the Nuggets. Christian Brown, he's a player
Speaker 1: plus twenty five and twenty one minutes SGA Game one
Speaker 1: and two over thirty points SGA in Game three against
Speaker 1: the Nugs seven points, two for fourteen shooting. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: so okay. To recap, the Nuggets beat three playoff teams
Speaker 1: out of the blocks by an average of sixteen fucking points.
Speaker 1: More than that, they weren't even trying. They weren't even
Speaker 1: trying even when the Grizzlies came back and made it
Speaker 1: a game, or the Lakers got within shouting distance. Eh,
Speaker 1: that's okay, we're all right, We're good with ours. That
Speaker 1: happened with Yokich on the bench, by the way, pretty
Speaker 1: much once he gets on the floor, you might as
Speaker 1: well be up twenty points, because if you're not, it's
Speaker 1: a rap for you. Night night, sleep mask. So I
Speaker 1: would say that the rumors of the Nuggets to demise
Speaker 1: the decline has been greatly exaggerated. This is the team
Speaker 1: to beat. They are the best. Michael Porter Junior now
Speaker 1: embraces his role as the crash the board specialist, board
Speaker 1: man gets paid, Peyton Watson, Christian Brown, Reggie Jackson lighting
Speaker 1: it up off the bench, and the best starting five
Speaker 1: in all of the league. The Nuggets, dare I say,
Speaker 1: might be better than they were last year. And if
Speaker 1: they are, good luck trying to beat these motherfuckers.
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