Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: You remember the school days. You know the snow is
Speaker 2: starting to fall. It's mid terms. The holiday break is
Speaker 2: when you get your report card and oftentimes dictates how
Speaker 2: good or bad your holidays would turn out. It is
Speaker 2: now mid semester break. We've got grades for all thirty teams.
Speaker 2: Lots to get to Anthony drop that beat that should
Speaker 2: be Rehonno, before we discept this mid simon report card
Speaker 2: for all NBA teams, let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 2: Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: Christmas Day was a hit.
Speaker 2: Even as the NFL is trying to encroach on the
Speaker 2: NBA's territory, which I think is fucking bullshit. The NBA
Speaker 2: still had record ratings even up against Beyonce on Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: Why all five games were incredible basketball? The ratings highest
Speaker 2: for the NBA since the twenty nineteen season. I think
Speaker 2: that should probably put a lid on the whole. Like
Speaker 2: NBA stinks, NBA's.
Speaker 1: An unwatchable product. BA da da da da.
Speaker 2: Talk for like maybe a week or two or maybe
Speaker 2: just a week. We've got the first game Spurs versus
Speaker 2: Nicks that started the day mkil Bridges and Victor Weminiana
Speaker 2: both got forty. The Wolves sweated out a close win
Speaker 2: over Dallas despite thirty nine from Kyrie. The Celtics nearly
Speaker 2: came back from fifteen down in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 2: they got held off by the Sixers, which was the Sixers'
Speaker 2: best win of the season. The Sun held off off
Speaker 2: the Nuggets one ten, one hundred behind twenty seven between
Speaker 2: Beale and kd and in the capstone of the day,
Speaker 2: Golden State and the Lakers turned back the clock.
Speaker 1: They put on an all time classic.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry had thirty eight, including two clutch threes in
Speaker 2: the final two minutes. Lebron James had thirty one. They
Speaker 2: asked Lebron after the game what he thought was still
Speaker 2: good about the NBA, and he said, Stephen Lebron is
Speaker 2: what's still good about the NBA. And Austin Reeves is
Speaker 2: who won it for the Lakers in the final seconds.
Speaker 2: He got emotional. He cried on the podium. He said,
Speaker 2: I'm not even supposed to be here. My family's watching,
Speaker 2: my friends are watching, my former coaches and teammates are watching, and.
Speaker 1: I showed up for them. He was literally in tears.
Speaker 1: It was a very special moment.
Speaker 2: How great was the slate of Christmas games, the average
Speaker 2: margin of victory was five points, the closest ever for
Speaker 2: a Christmas Day with five plus games. So the NFL
Speaker 2: did not destroy the NBA on Christmas. Also, we had
Speaker 2: Goofy and we had Mickey and Mini Mouse. So take
Speaker 2: that NFL you want to take. Put put Jamar Chase
Speaker 2: in whatever he was in what was he He was
Speaker 2: like some sort of random character in nbation. We could
Speaker 2: do that too. We got that there's room for everyone
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day. I do agree, though, that Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: should have some games. I think that at least some
Speaker 2: sports might be nights after dinner when you're opening up
Speaker 2: your one Christmas gift all the night before Christmas.
Speaker 1: I've got lots to say about that.
Speaker 2: Anyway, onto the main course, it's the holiday break. Just
Speaker 2: like back in the day when you were a little tight,
Speaker 2: It's time for mid semester grades. I know we're not
Speaker 2: quite halfway through the NBA season, like, but let's take
Speaker 2: out Amber two, pencil mark some shit out of the teams.
Speaker 2: Let's sit back, hand out some grades. Reach for some
Speaker 2: hot cocoa or hot buttered rum or a coke zero.
Speaker 2: If that's what you're down for whatever. You need to
Speaker 2: keep your A little cocaine, that's what you need to
Speaker 2: keep your holiday break going.
Speaker 1: Let's start out out east.
Speaker 2: The East I feel has gotten a bad wrap this season,
Speaker 2: in part because there's a lot more disappointing teams.
Speaker 1: Out east than there were in the West.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if that's actually true anymore. It
Speaker 2: feels like the West is actually the low key trash.
Speaker 2: It was a good narrative for most of the season.
Speaker 2: Let's start at the top. Cleveland Cavaliers sitting there at
Speaker 2: twenty six and four A plus Calves started the year
Speaker 2: on an absolute burner.
Speaker 1: Just go back and listen to the earlier episodes that
Speaker 1: he checked.
Speaker 2: We talked about the Calves more this year than we
Speaker 2: probably have ever, even when Lebron James was playing with
Speaker 2: that team. The truth of the matter is the biggest
Speaker 2: problem that Kenny Atkinson has in Cleveland is just how
Speaker 2: many minutes to play? Everybody the rotation players all need minutes.
Speaker 2: There's so many players bawling out. He had to give
Speaker 2: a press conference earlier last week about George bang bang Niang,
Speaker 2: who's having an incredible start to the year and now
Speaker 2: is gonna lose some playing time because mac Struez is
Speaker 2: off the IR finally off of a sprained ankle. Atkinson
Speaker 2: was kind of like, Yo, it sucks, but you can
Speaker 2: be so effective and have your minutes cut and if
Speaker 2: that's your biggest problem, if they can stay healthy. We've
Speaker 2: talked a lot about the Caves this year, so I
Speaker 2: won't go too much into depth about them. We're gonna
Speaker 2: I'll probably talk about them more in April. You've got
Speaker 2: issues with the Celtics and their injury issues. Kristavs porzingis
Speaker 2: a team in the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have two very strong,
Speaker 2: very big big men.
Speaker 1: This team is solid from top to bottom.
Speaker 2: They're the one of the deepest teams, if not the
Speaker 2: deepest teams in the East. Also, Donovan Mitchell looking like
Speaker 2: he is every bit as important as people thought he
Speaker 2: was going to be when they wanted to trade for
Speaker 2: him when he was having the Donovan Mitchell sweepstakes for
Speaker 2: the Utah Jazz. Darius Garland looking really great. You have
Speaker 2: so many good role players balling out like Ty Jerome.
Speaker 2: This team is a problem A plus mid semester grade.
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2: You would think twenty two and eight would get you
Speaker 2: a better grade than B.
Speaker 1: They get a B. But this is your defending champion.
Speaker 2: All the stars came back, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: playing really good basketball as you might expect. Jew Holliday
Speaker 2: and Derek White have been solid performance as they always are.
Speaker 1: But to be perfectly fair, the.
Speaker 2: Celtics have an injury issue to address over the course
Speaker 2: of the rest of the year, and that is Kristas Porzingis.
Speaker 1: He has now been.
Speaker 2: Pulled for four games this season since his return, which
Speaker 2: is like about three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I think they kind of hit lightning in a bottle
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: Christas Porzingis has never really been the model of health
Speaker 2: he's been in his career has largely been dominated by
Speaker 2: his injuries, from the nixt to the MAVs to I
Speaker 2: think he was pretty healthy on the Wizards, but like,
Speaker 2: let's be honest, there wasn't a lot of impact on
Speaker 2: that body. He's missed twelve of the celtics nineteen playoff
Speaker 2: games last season, and of course, like when he's on
Speaker 2: the floor, the Celtics are a different team, a more
Speaker 2: dynamic team, a team you believe in a lot more.
Speaker 1: They had a very easy path through the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Without him, What's gonna happen when they run into friction
Speaker 2: in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna.
Speaker 2: Count on him going forward and without him up against dynamic, formidable,
Speaker 2: healthy teams, I feel like they are beatable, especially if
Speaker 2: you limit their threes. The Celtics are talented, The Celtics
Speaker 2: are deep. The Celtics are well coached. The Celtics have
Speaker 2: championship experience and championship caliber. But they are no longer
Speaker 2: the odds on favorites to come out of the East. Academically,
Speaker 2: Vegas says they are. There's still I think like minus
Speaker 2: one ten to come out of the East, which is
Speaker 2: absolutely fucking bonkers. Forty percent of the season. You gonna
Speaker 2: be though, Boston because I think there's still room for improvement.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little tweaking here and there.
Speaker 1: Maybe one trade for Rob.
Speaker 2: Williams again, I don't know, that'd be a nice little
Speaker 2: comeback story. Let's go on in New York Knicks twenty
Speaker 2: and ten, they getta be plus.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, I.
Speaker 2: Was not a believer in that Karl Anthony Towns trade.
Speaker 2: I am very surprised that this is going as well
Speaker 2: as it's going. He Karl Anthony Towns has not been
Speaker 2: just everything that they could have hoped for. He has
Speaker 2: been a lot more offensively than they could hope for.
Speaker 2: I think he's top five right now in MVP voting
Speaker 2: if you're talking about a replacement for Julius Randall. I
Speaker 2: expected him to be pretty good. But the truth of
Speaker 2: the matter is he is like all pro right now.
Speaker 2: He's averaging over twenty five points a game. He's leading
Speaker 2: the league in rebounds, and he's kind of like bringing
Speaker 2: the vibes up to his stodgy, sort of stiff Tom
Speaker 2: Thibodeau Villanova situation.
Speaker 1: I did not see it coming.
Speaker 2: I thought losing Dante DiVincenzo would have been a bigger deal.
Speaker 2: Dante DiVincenzo right now is languishing in Minnesota, one of
Speaker 2: the worst shooting splits of his career right now, and
Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Town's is three point shooting is much better
Speaker 2: forty five percent from three versus thirty three percent for Dante.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the system that's getting these guys good looks.
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Towns is spacing the floor and wigs. It
Speaker 2: literally unlocks everyone on the team. Oh Giannanobi is having
Speaker 2: a career year. Mikhale Bridges is finally finding himself. His
Speaker 2: December has been really great. He went for forty one
Speaker 2: points on Christmas Day. He's shooting forty percent from three
Speaker 2: I think forty five percent right now from three for
Speaker 2: mckel Bridges in the month of December. The team needs
Speaker 2: a center. We know that because that's not Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2: When Mitchell Robinson comes back, which we last heard was.
Speaker 1: Sometime in January, their defense is gonna get better.
Speaker 2: They still play at that same slovenly sloth like, not
Speaker 2: slovenly molasses like pace.
Speaker 1: Can't find this synonym.
Speaker 2: It's fine, uh, And they now lead the league though
Speaker 2: in offensive efficiency because of Carl Anthony Towns. This is
Speaker 2: a super fun team. This is a dangerous team. And
Speaker 2: if Tibbs doesn't wear them out, because you know he's
Speaker 2: running mckel Bridges into the ground with forty minutes per
Speaker 2: night like he always does, this next team is gonna
Speaker 2: be around and they are gonna be a problem. Great start, Nicks,
Speaker 2: What a fucking trade that that B plus might.
Speaker 1: Just turn into an A by the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Orlando Magic Grade nineteen and thirteen grade B plus. This
Speaker 2: is kind of like when like one of your best
Speaker 2: students gets like mono, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and like they have to go.
Speaker 2: This happened to me like my junior year in high school.
Speaker 1: I had to like.
Speaker 2: Watch Pride and Prejudice from my basement cause I couldn't
Speaker 2: read it cause I was so sick for like six
Speaker 2: straight weeks. And my Mom's like, hey, like, we know
Speaker 2: you can't read, so we've gotten you the like PBS
Speaker 2: Shakespeare's stories.
Speaker 1: You know, I forget what those.
Speaker 2: Are called, like masterpieces. That's like what's happening with.
Speaker 1: The Orlando Magic.
Speaker 2: You can't really great them. You don't like when you
Speaker 2: were healthy in class, you were good. They've now not
Speaker 2: gone down one player, not two players, but now three
Speaker 2: important players. I almost gave them an eye for incomplete.
Speaker 2: But they're gutting it out.
Speaker 1: This team.
Speaker 2: They get like they're like that kid who gets hit
Speaker 2: by the car and then they're like hobbles into the
Speaker 2: class A week later. You're like, yo, you shouldn't be
Speaker 2: here right now, you're still bleeding. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: bonus points.
Speaker 1: Just for showing up. Someone fix those wounds.
Speaker 2: Paalo, Ben Carrol and Franz Wagner, both playing at elite
Speaker 2: levels before suffering one are of the rarer injuries in
Speaker 2: the league, which is an oblique tear. And then, to
Speaker 2: top it off, Moe Wagner, who is averaging thirteen and
Speaker 2: five on thirty six percent from three, he suffers a
Speaker 2: season ending injury with his knee. This team was like
Speaker 2: destined to cause trouble, especially if KCP can shoot a
Speaker 2: fucking three, cause they are just row from the perimeter.
Speaker 2: But the fact that they are even sticking around at
Speaker 2: this stage is incredible and a testament to Jalen Suggs.
Speaker 2: Poolo's coming back soon. He's having on court workouts. Pallo
Speaker 2: is on his way. If Vo Frogner can come back
Speaker 2: by April, this B plus did grade probably goes.
Speaker 1: To an AA minus.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to the Milwaukee Bucks. They are sixteen
Speaker 2: and thirteen tough to grade. The Milwaukee Bucks. They are
Speaker 2: like they're like the kid that doesn't come to class,
Speaker 2: like the first half of the semester, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, they're in the front row in the
Speaker 2: second half of the semester, are answering every question, They
Speaker 2: got their homework finished.
Speaker 1: That's them. No team has been as big of.
Speaker 2: A disappointment early on as the Bucks, especially when you
Speaker 2: look at their record. They're three games over five hundred.
Speaker 2: But they've been better. They reeled off.
Speaker 1: Nine of their last ten.
Speaker 2: They've now come back to Earth five and four since
Speaker 2: that win streak ended. Damon Jannis have started to learn
Speaker 2: to coexist. Chris Middleton is coming back. Chris Middleton when
Speaker 2: he's healthy, adds another layer to what this team can do.
Speaker 1: They can be dangerous. Jannie is playing at an MVP level.
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers are starting to get a lot more accolades. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to make a doc Rivers, honestly,
Speaker 2: like he's the same guy that gave all those excuses
Speaker 2: last season and all these excuses to the beginning of
Speaker 2: this season. Dame and Giannis getting fouled trouble if they
Speaker 2: have an off game.
Speaker 1: There's no safety net. I'm not sure if this Sea
Speaker 1: grade improves. I don't know if they're any good.
Speaker 2: They don't have much depth and there's not much they
Speaker 2: can do to improve their roster.
Speaker 1: C grade.
Speaker 2: They continue with Miami Heat. They are fifteen and thirteen.
Speaker 2: They get a C minus. They are on the verge
Speaker 2: of crashing out, and this has been coming for a while.
Speaker 2: The split between Jimmy Butler and pat Riley has been
Speaker 2: imminent since pat Riley decided not to give Jimmy Butler
Speaker 2: an extension, which honestly I understand. Like Jimmy Butler's thirty five,
Speaker 2: he's got a player option. Maybe you ride out one
Speaker 2: more year with him and then you move on. Jimmy
Speaker 2: is trying to get up out of there, is signaling
Speaker 2: to Sean Sharanya pretty much directly, Hey, I want out
Speaker 2: of here. The agent is saying all of the opposite things.
Speaker 2: I think the agent might be somewhat in alignment with
Speaker 2: the Miami Heat and not Jimmy Butler, and Jimmy is
Speaker 2: kind of quietly quitting right now. His last game that
Speaker 2: he played was on the twentieth of December. He played
Speaker 2: seven minutes, took zero shots, took himself out of the
Speaker 2: game due to some sort of un unsort of specified illness.
Speaker 2: Has not been on the court ever since, isn't traveling
Speaker 2: with the team. We'll cover more details on Jimmy in
Speaker 2: the next episode, but for now, the team is kind
Speaker 2: of low key trash. Haimi Hawke's production is down nearly
Speaker 2: thirty percent from last year. Terry Rozier is averaging twelve
Speaker 2: points per game and he's making twenty five million dollars
Speaker 2: a year.
Speaker 1: BAM has had.
Speaker 2: His lowest offensive production since twenty nineteen. This team's just
Speaker 2: not very good. If it wasn't for Tyler Hero, who's
Speaker 2: playing awesome right now, this team would have an f
Speaker 2: If they do trade Jimmy, I don't know what they're
Speaker 2: getting back for him because they don't want Bradley Beal.
Speaker 2: Feels like Jimmy Butler and the Heat are going to
Speaker 2: come to a very unceremonious and at some point in
Speaker 2: the next twelve months. I don't see the C minus
Speaker 2: grading proving despite the fact that the Heater kind of
Speaker 2: just hanging around. Atlanta Hawks sixteen and fifteen Vegae to
Speaker 2: b They're one game over five hundred, and I actually
Speaker 2: thought they'd.
Speaker 1: Be a lot worse. This is the team they have
Speaker 1: a number one pick in last year's draft. They are fun.
Speaker 2: Dyson Daniels had eight steals the other day. He is
Speaker 2: a defensive revelation and he is someone who is like
Speaker 2: so unbelievably happy to be out in New Orleans. He's
Speaker 2: like yo that place fucking sucked. Trey Young just got
Speaker 2: his eleven thousandth NBA point and he.
Speaker 1: Doesn't need to score thirty five points a game anymore.
Speaker 1: He's one of the top assist leaders in the NBA.
Speaker 2: He's playing very efficient basketball for Trey Hung And I
Speaker 2: really like Quinn Snyder.
Speaker 1: He's a really good coach.
Speaker 2: He's building a defensive first team, a lot of rangy
Speaker 2: long guys that can play multiple positions. I think in
Speaker 2: a year or two he's when he starts developing more
Speaker 2: guys in the mold that he did with Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 1: This is a very dangerous Hawks team.
Speaker 2: They are one elite fitting player away from being a
Speaker 2: very very good team. And if they finish at five hundred,
Speaker 2: I think that's a huge success. Indiana the Indiana Pacers,
Speaker 2: what the fuck? Fifteen and sixteen they get a D plus.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what's going on, I like, other
Speaker 2: than the fact that Tyreus Halliburton is putting game lines
Speaker 2: up with four, two and eight in thirty seven minutes
Speaker 2: like he did to Okay See the day after Christmas.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: You can't have your star player get four points in
Speaker 2: a full game of work. Tyrese Haliburton is supposed to
Speaker 2: be the dude that you rely on your franchise guy.
Speaker 2: If you're getting lou Dort, Caruso and Casein Wallace thrown
Speaker 2: at you like darts on a water balloon at the.
Speaker 1: State Fair, I don't care you need more.
Speaker 2: Than four points. I just don't know what to make
Speaker 2: of it. And the Pacers are going as far as
Speaker 2: Halliburton takes him. He has to be still injured or
Speaker 2: mentally not there with his hamstring yet. His inconsistent play
Speaker 2: is a massive issue. They'll be probably a playing team,
Speaker 2: but this is a franchise who.
Speaker 1: Is just in the Eastern Conference finals. They have aspirations
Speaker 1: of another deep playoff run.
Speaker 2: Very bad first semester for the Pacers Detroit Pistons fourteen
Speaker 2: and seventeen. They get a beat. I did not see
Speaker 2: the Pistons getting to their win total by Christmas. They
Speaker 2: are in ninth place right now and something that no
Speaker 2: one saw coming. I thought they'd continue to be what
Speaker 2: they've been, which is the lottery team. Cade Cunningham has
Speaker 2: been really really good, putting up twenty four points, seven
Speaker 2: rebounds and ten assists.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of this resurgence is smoking mirrors
Speaker 2: because we've got a bunch of veteran players who are
Speaker 2: not going to be in Detroit for in a couple
Speaker 2: of years. You got like Tobias Harris, you got Malik Beasley, Like, really,
Speaker 2: why do you.
Speaker 1: Want to be good? You know, I don't know. They've
Speaker 1: been the.
Speaker 2: Worst in the league for the last three years. But
Speaker 2: it's fun to see him win some games. Maybe they'll
Speaker 2: get the fifth overall pick again, like they consistently get
Speaker 2: no matter how good whatever, it's that groundhog day, no
Speaker 2: matter matter how good or bad they are. The Atlanta
Speaker 2: Hawks weren't that bad they got them were an overall pick.
Speaker 2: This is a very Pistons like thing for them to
Speaker 2: be too good to make the high lottery in the
Speaker 2: one year and where the lottery is the best it's
Speaker 2: ever been, where there's a bunch of can't miss prospects.
Speaker 2: Good job for those fourteen wins, Detroit, though I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: I respect you for trying Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're thirteen and eighteen. They get a C minus.
Speaker 2: I know the Bulls only have thirteen wins and they're
Speaker 2: five games under five hundred. I want to give them
Speaker 2: a decent grade because we weren't sure what to expect
Speaker 2: for them. They're kind of outperforming someone's expectations, but like
Speaker 2: I had zero expectations.
Speaker 1: For them, and a lot of the reason that they're.
Speaker 2: Winning games is because zach Lavine is born for his life.
Speaker 1: He's like, please get me out of here.
Speaker 2: People want to hate on zach Lavine, and they have
Speaker 2: for the last two years because he's been super injury
Speaker 2: prone and he's got like this I don't give a
Speaker 2: fuck and I don't want to be here attitude, which
Speaker 2: is like, I don't know if that's fair. I think
Speaker 2: it's fair. But this year zach Lavine twenty two, five
Speaker 2: and four, and I think someone's gonna try and scoop him.
Speaker 2: He can fill it up when he's on. He put
Speaker 2: up twenty points in a quarter recently at six May threes.
Speaker 1: He's a bucket. Let's be honest. Zach Lavine's a bucket.
Speaker 2: Okay, even though he's from Seattle and Portland people we
Speaker 2: don't love Seattle people.
Speaker 1: Like overall, he's a bucket.
Speaker 2: This bulls team has been a little more fun to
Speaker 2: watch and a little more competitive than I thought that
Speaker 2: they would be. But still, you're thirteen and eighteen bulls.
Speaker 2: Can you sell off some pieces like Vucevich and zach Lavine,
Speaker 2: because again, the fact that the Detroit Pistons have more
Speaker 2: ways than you is a surprise. I'll move them up
Speaker 2: a half a letter grade if they trade zach Lavine
Speaker 2: and Vucevich Brooklyn Nets. Wow, I don't know how to
Speaker 2: grade it, because are we grading in on how good
Speaker 2: they've been or how successful.
Speaker 1: They've been on accomplishing their goals? Twelve and eighteen B plus.
Speaker 1: It is kind of weird.
Speaker 2: Giving a team winning just forty percent of their games
Speaker 2: a B plus. But this Nets team. I love Jordy Fernandez,
Speaker 2: He's so underrated. He's gotten the Nets.
Speaker 1: How do you do it? How do you consistently beat
Speaker 1: good teams? Those are the only wins they have. It's like, listen,
Speaker 1: when we want to compete, we will. They just beat
Speaker 1: the books. I know, you know, Yannis no dame, but they're.
Speaker 2: Playing tough basketball in the way that I don't think
Speaker 2: anyone expected them too.
Speaker 1: They're kind of playing a little too good.
Speaker 2: And now the Nets are understanding the assignment they traded
Speaker 2: Dennis shredder. That was just the first step. They have
Speaker 2: four first round picks this year. If you're a Brooklyn
Speaker 2: Nets fan, you should be optimistic because you got a
Speaker 2: guy who can coach. You have a team who knows
Speaker 2: the assignment, which is the tank you have. Those things
Speaker 2: can be incompatible at times, but Jordi understands, Yo, this
Speaker 2: is a team in a rebuild. We gotta move Cam Johnson,
Speaker 2: we gotta move Dorian Phinney Smith. They don't fit into
Speaker 2: the timeline. But it's they're a fun team. They really are,
Speaker 2: and it's fun to see Brooklyn play good, high culture,
Speaker 2: ethical basketball again, with the exception of Cam Thomas. Of course,
Speaker 2: moving on to the Philadelphia seventy six ers, this grade
Speaker 2: could change. I'm just gonna say that what we saw
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day gives me a little glimmer that they
Speaker 2: can fix their grade by finals eleven and seventy And
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Mean the NBA finals. I just mean like the finals
Speaker 1: of the grades. They're not going there, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Eleven and seventeen d plus, Wow, they've been a dumpster fire.
Speaker 2: Paul George, Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxi all have missed major
Speaker 2: time dute injury. Jared McCain the only bright spot on
Speaker 2: the team. He is out for the year now with
Speaker 2: a torn meniscus. They signed ancient players who I think
Speaker 2: when they get out of breath, dust comes out, like
Speaker 2: Kyle Lowry, Eric Gordon. They all have been disasters somehow though.
Speaker 2: The part that gives a glimmer of hope Nick Nurse
Speaker 2: has they have won eight of their last eleven games
Speaker 2: and they are just ticking up the standings in a
Speaker 2: very weak East. They have a lot of time to
Speaker 2: turn this around. I mean more time than you have
Speaker 2: in the West. They're only a one and a half
Speaker 2: games behind the last playoff spot playing spot, and honestly,
Speaker 2: if they're fully healthy, all of them except for Jared McCain,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you would feel if you're like
Speaker 2: a team like the Calves playing this or the Knicks
Speaker 2: playing the Sixers. Again, if they're a seven or eight seed,
Speaker 2: there's a team that could bite anybody that obscures the
Speaker 2: fact that the Sixers, though, are the most disappointing team
Speaker 2: at the break this season, but they can improve their
Speaker 2: grade a ton Toronto Raptors seven and twenty four. They
Speaker 2: get a c. Now, this is a team that doesn't
Speaker 2: surprise me, only winning twenty two percent of their games.
Speaker 2: So although they're very, very bad, they don't get a
Speaker 2: failing grade because they have signs of grogs. You got
Speaker 2: Grady Dick, who's getting better. Scottie Barnes is a star.
Speaker 2: I think putting up twenty eight and seven. I don't
Speaker 2: know how many Toronto games I really want to watch, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't think many people want to watch them, but
Speaker 2: like Darko's awesome. He's a madman on the sidelines. There's
Speaker 2: not really a lot to say. Emmanuel Quickly and RJ Barrett,
Speaker 2: that was a good trade.
Speaker 1: O g Ananobi wanted up out of there.
Speaker 2: The Pascal Siakam trade was okay as well. They're rebuilding,
Speaker 2: they're figuring it out. No time to change this grade though.
Speaker 2: Charlotte Hornets seven and twenty three D minus. Wow, they
Speaker 2: are terrible. This is an awful season for them. Lamello
Speaker 2: remains a highlight reel.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how.
Speaker 2: Much LaMelo ball helps a team, but he is fucking fun.
Speaker 1: I really think he's fun.
Speaker 2: I don't think like if I'm the Spurs, I want Lamello.
Speaker 2: But there is no reason to tune in and watch
Speaker 2: a Hornets game at all this year. I think you
Speaker 2: just look for LaMelo highlights on threads. That's what I
Speaker 2: just think you do. No one thought that they would
Speaker 2: be this bad. This is what you get for resigning
Speaker 2: a guy who beat the shit out of his girlfriend
Speaker 2: was Wizards yes five and twenty three. They either get
Speaker 2: an A or an F. I don't know if they
Speaker 2: get Cooper Flagg. The years in A they have five
Speaker 2: wins five and twenty three.
Speaker 1: They need to.
Speaker 2: Get rid of those guys though. They need to get
Speaker 2: rid of Jordan Poole. They need to get rid of
Speaker 2: Kyle Kuzma. When the last two years you thought Kyle
Speaker 2: Kuzma will hit you two first rounders. He's probably not
Speaker 2: getting you even one first rounder. Worst grade in the
Speaker 2: East again or the best grade in the East, because
Speaker 2: they really do understand the assignment. They've got Bub Carrington there.
Speaker 2: I like Bob Carrington.
Speaker 1: He's fun.
Speaker 2: They got Kaishawn George, he's good. They've got Alex Sar
Speaker 2: I like him. They've got some dogs. They got Baalah Kolabali.
Speaker 2: This is a fun young team. I kind of like
Speaker 2: what they're doing with the coaching staff, but they're not
Speaker 2: gonna be good for a while. And that arena fucking
Speaker 2: is terrible. I've said it a million times. Let's focus
Speaker 2: on the good things we're going into the new year.
Speaker 2: Cooper Cooper, white chocolate and DC baby hunting, just capturing
Speaker 2: the flag.
Speaker 1: Let's turn to the west. The thunder and the lightning
Speaker 1: and the thunder, lightning and the thunder.
Speaker 2: I wish I had like a draw Anthony put that
Speaker 2: drop in twenty four and five. He won't. It's an a,
Speaker 2: of course, the Thunder get in a. This is the
Speaker 2: deepest team in the league. They have an incredible defensive
Speaker 2: presence with an MVP in the center of it at
Speaker 2: shake yil just Alexander who is averaging, by the way,
Speaker 2: thirty one six and six, which is ridiculous. They've surrounded
Speaker 2: him with more. Isaiah Hartenstein has fit in great. Alex
Speaker 2: Caruso is a monster. If check was healthy right now,
Speaker 2: holy shit, Like we forget he's not even playing.
Speaker 1: What a fucking team. The one thing I worry about
Speaker 1: is they're shooting.
Speaker 2: Which like if you're relying on lou Dort to shoot
Speaker 2: forty percent from three in the playoffs, I think you're
Speaker 2: gonna have trouble. We saw it in the NBA Cup Finals.
Speaker 2: That was rough for them. So I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: take one more player. Maybe they'll trade a role player
Speaker 2: or one of their young guys is not getting any minutes.
Speaker 2: I love Casen Wallace by the way. Maybe they'll trade
Speaker 2: some guy that's not getting minutes and they'll find a
Speaker 2: shooter like a maybe a Cam Johnson. That might costa
Speaker 2: but they've got a million picks. Go and do something.
Speaker 2: Find another corner of sniper. We need somebody who can
Speaker 2: shoot the rock the leather off the ball, because if
Speaker 2: you go up against the Celtics, it's gonna be night night,
Speaker 2: sleep mask, just like it was with the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 2: Houston Rockets twenty one and nine a minus.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: It's like you see the stats and you're just kind
Speaker 2: of like, how nobody on this team can shoot at all?
Speaker 1: Not a lick. I think the average field goal percentage
Speaker 1: is like thirty eight percent.
Speaker 2: No one expected them to be second in the West
Speaker 2: right now. Emy Udoka is the fucking man Portland, Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1: Stand up. That's my guy.
Speaker 2: E May Udoka from Kenton, one neighborhood, one neighborhood over
Speaker 2: over from me. That's that's that's Jefferson High School right there,
Speaker 2: that's my guy. No other coach throws up the shocker
Speaker 2: for the press conference photos, fresh off one year off
Speaker 2: of a sex scandal. Okay, like, that's my guy right there.
Speaker 2: He's got he's got big coach energy.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Alprin Shank, he'll call you out in the media. He
Speaker 2: does not give a fuck. Alprin Shangun has been awesome
Speaker 2: on both ends. Jabari Smith is quietly improving. He's up
Speaker 2: to thirty from three right now. Tarry Easton has given
Speaker 2: him eleven and six every night. I'm and Thompson is
Speaker 2: really good. He's a defensive monster. Can't shoot a three
Speaker 2: to save their life. But if they can figure that out,
Speaker 2: this is a dangerous team. Dylan Brooks is just an irritant.
Speaker 2: They are a team fred Vanfleet irritant. They are a
Speaker 2: team full of like salt water in your eyes, just
Speaker 2: little paper cuts and salt water, over and over and
Speaker 2: over and over. I don't know how dangerous they are.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what they're gonna do in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But they are super super fun. Memphis Grizzlies twenty one
Speaker 2: to ten.
Speaker 1: They get a grade of a B plus.
Speaker 2: They are dangerous, they are real, they are deep.
Speaker 1: I love Memphis.
Speaker 2: I love Taylor Jenkins, who might be one of the
Speaker 2: more underrated defensive masterminds in the league.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter who's on this team. They're rocking John Conkar
Speaker 1: out here.
Speaker 2: John Conkar is getting trade request love like teams are
Speaker 2: circling for John Kung Car. Sante Aldama is one of
Speaker 2: their best players on this team.
Speaker 1: What is happening?
Speaker 2: You will never hear an ESPN story when Desmond Bane
Speaker 2: gets thirty. Jaw is not breaking scoring records, but he's
Speaker 2: been awesome twenty one points a game.
Speaker 1: He's still recovering from his injuries.
Speaker 2: Zach Edie is nice. The role players nice. Jalen Wells, Wow,
Speaker 2: where did he come from? What a great draft pick?
Speaker 2: Really nice start to the season. They are going to
Speaker 2: fuck a team up in the playoffs. They're gonna punch
Speaker 2: you right in the mouth. Taylor Jenkins might lose his.
Speaker 1: Might on the sidelines. I love the Memphis Grizzlies. Love
Speaker 1: what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Wah Chef's kiss probably should get name minus Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 2: nineteen and eleven.
Speaker 1: Woo.
Speaker 2: I don't know, bame minus lot was expected from this
Speaker 2: team after the finals run. They add Clay to the mix.
Speaker 2: Been very inconsistent despite a long winning streak, and now
Speaker 2: they're staring at a stretch of probably a month and
Speaker 2: change without Luca. They're gonna need to hold it together.
Speaker 2: Derek Lively's been pretty good. Kyrie has been incredible. He
Speaker 2: had forty something points the other night on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: Clay is starting to.
Speaker 2: Heat up a He's a grower, not a shower, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Clay is giving him fourteen four and two.
Speaker 2: His production just slowly ticks up as the months get
Speaker 2: colder and he can't be on a boat anymore. But
Speaker 2: I think this is a team that could make a
Speaker 2: move before the deadline. It's been a strange semester for
Speaker 2: the MAVs, but I expect more going forward.
Speaker 1: I think they'll tick up if.
Speaker 2: Luca gets back healthy. I think they'll tick up. But
Speaker 2: they're dangerous no matter if they're a playing team. Top six,
Speaker 2: top four, doesn't matter. Denver Nugget teen and twelve. They
Speaker 2: get to see I've said it a million times. This
Speaker 2: is a team that is in serious trouble. They don't
Speaker 2: get that much trouble looking at them because they've got Yokic.
Speaker 2: They could have an f if it wasn't for Yokic
Speaker 2: playing at an MVP level again, He's gonna win it again.
Speaker 2: He's kept them in about half of their game single handedly.
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray is averaging the lowest three point percentage in
Speaker 2: the least amount of points per game since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: He has a career high in turnovers. He fucking stinks
Speaker 2: right now, and I love Jamal Murray. The Nuggets, Black Depth,
Speaker 2: Christian Brown, Peyton Watson.
Speaker 1: They are not stars. They are not him.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to address something before the trade deadline
Speaker 2: or its curtains. They need to trade Michael Porter Junior. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Michael Porter Junior coming out and saying, well, the team
Speaker 2: tells me they're not trading me, but if.
Speaker 1: They were, they wouldn't tell me anyway.
Speaker 2: So he knows what time it is. This team is constructed.
Speaker 2: Can't beat anyone, let alone OKC or a dozen teams
Speaker 2: out West LA Lakers.
Speaker 1: Seventeen wins, thirteen losses.
Speaker 2: They get a C considering everything, because like this roster
Speaker 2: still stinks, Like considering everything, the roster should not have
Speaker 2: them four games over five hundred. Brawn and Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: day to day Davis have regressed. They still he's day
Speaker 2: to day right now. Anthony Davis he sprained his ankle
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day, shocking. They don't have any perimeter shooting
Speaker 2: for the fourth consecutive year. They got Ridatorian Prince, who's
Speaker 2: now like the leading three point shooter in the NBA
Speaker 2: right now, and they replaced him with Dalton Connect, who,
Speaker 2: no matter how awesome Dalton Connect was gonna be, he
Speaker 2: was never going to be the best three point shooter
Speaker 2: in the league.
Speaker 1: It's not great.
Speaker 2: The rumor is that they're gonna ship some first outs
Speaker 2: to try to get a game changing star, But who
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 1: Really? Is that? Dearon Fox, you gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 2: You better fucking ship out Anthony Davis then, cause if
Speaker 2: I'm Sacramento, I want Sabonus and Anthony Davis together.
Speaker 1: If you're if I'm giving you my franchise star. This
Speaker 1: is this is a gray that's likely gonna go down.
Speaker 2: This is a ship that just slowly but surely is
Speaker 2: losing pieces of.
Speaker 1: The whole is the whole of Peters of the ship.
Speaker 1: It is right for Clippers.
Speaker 2: Seventeen and thirteen, they getna be probably a B plos
Speaker 2: though they have the same record as the Lakers. They
Speaker 2: they have like no one on this team is Kawhi
Speaker 2: hasn't played a lick yet. He's expected back in a week,
Speaker 2: but like, isn't he always expected in.
Speaker 1: A week back?
Speaker 2: Like I have been pleasantly surprised, Like James Harden has
Speaker 2: been so good. Norm Powell has waited his entire career
Speaker 2: to be an option and he's been really good. Not
Speaker 2: an off court in distraction either. James Harden a mere coffee,
Speaker 2: just a small coffee, has.
Speaker 1: Also been good. He's just been really good.
Speaker 2: Terrence Man, Like who is on this roster really and
Speaker 2: you say yourself, wow, Kai Jones, Chris Dunn, MOBILEBA, Like
Speaker 2: they should not have seventeen wins right now. They really
Speaker 2: should not. Trenton Flowers, Jordan Miller, the ghost of PJ.
Speaker 2: Tucker and all of his shoes, Derek Jones Junior has
Speaker 2: been a big disappointment and yet they persist.
Speaker 1: So far, so good.
Speaker 2: Clippers more room to grow, Phoenix Sun's fifteen and.
Speaker 1: Fourteen they get a D plus.
Speaker 2: This team stinks. Okay, they finessed me. I think we're
Speaker 2: the other media members who are smarter than me.
Speaker 1: They finessed me.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I get tricked, like I don't think this is
Speaker 2: a good team, and then Brian Windhorst comes out. He's like,
Speaker 2: I really like Phoenix, and I'm like, yeah, okay, all
Speaker 2: roll No, this team is garbage without KD and he
Speaker 2: has been injured way more than he should be injured.
Speaker 2: At this point, when the big three is healthy, they're
Speaker 2: probably a B B plus. Maybe that happens so rarely
Speaker 2: that we are talking like the Brooklyn Nets of the
Speaker 2: West with kde Harden and Kyrie, Like we never see
Speaker 2: these three dudes together ever. Ever, Booker's having a bad year.
Speaker 2: His numbers offensively are the worst he's put up since
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. By the way guards in Mike Budenholzer system,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, they don't thrive. They don't thrive.
Speaker 2: They're already looking to move on from use off Nurkic.
Speaker 1: Not a surprise.
Speaker 2: They're trying to get somebody good in return, which they
Speaker 2: will not get.
Speaker 1: What's the solution? In Phoenix.
Speaker 2: I think, I think a time machine, and you go
Speaker 2: back and you say, do not sell this team to
Speaker 2: Matt Ishpia and his two dollars hot dogs.
Speaker 1: This a man tried not to get killed. That's what
Speaker 1: he is. He said, you know what, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not trying to be that United Healthcare ceo hot dogs
Speaker 2: coax everything. Two bucks fifteen and fourteen for Minnesota. They
Speaker 2: get a D minus. Really should be an F, but
Speaker 2: there's room. There's so much talent on this roster, you
Speaker 2: really can't give him an F. They are the single
Speaker 2: most disappointing team in the NBA this year. No one
Speaker 2: seems to have gauged, even me, how important Karl Anthony
Speaker 2: Towns was for this team. Aunt Edwards is almost in
Speaker 2: mourning over the loss of his friend, alternating between sad
Speaker 2: and angry, like a guy who's best friend in grade
Speaker 2: school had moved to Tulsa and he doesn't know what
Speaker 2: to do with it. And they see each other maybe
Speaker 2: during the Christmas holidays, and they hang out every day,
Speaker 2: and they changed trade jerseys and they just pined for
Speaker 2: one another. Yet again, it's clear Karl Anthony Towns was
Speaker 2: the glue we thought it was aunt It is not
Speaker 2: aunt Ant is sending ricochet shots to this team every
Speaker 2: time he gets in front of the media.
Speaker 1: We don't like each other.
Speaker 2: We don't have any chemistry. Things are getting worse. We
Speaker 2: don't have an identity. Like the list goes. We're well coached,
Speaker 2: but we are not executing. We've got players, no one's
Speaker 2: showing up. Julius Randall is.
Speaker 1: Disappearing for long stretches of games.
Speaker 2: It is clear perhaps that he and Chris Finch maybe
Speaker 2: did not get along so well in New Orleans. This
Speaker 2: trades legacy might end up forcing aunt Edwards to leave Minnesota,
Speaker 2: which would be a big yikes. But at least you
Speaker 2: guys got under the second apron. Congratulations to that you
Speaker 2: saved some fucking money. Golden State fifteen and fourteen. If
Speaker 2: we would have done this ten twelve games in the season,
Speaker 2: they would had an A plus.
Speaker 1: But the problem is we gotta play all the damn games.
Speaker 2: They get a D plus, not because they're in tenth
Speaker 2: place at the mid semester break, which honestly was expected,
Speaker 2: but because our dubs once again have had high expectations
Speaker 2: coming into this season. They get Buddy Heal, Buddy Heel
Speaker 2: they're shooting some of the best percentages of his entire career.
Speaker 2: You got slow Mo, you got d Anthony Milton, you
Speaker 2: had Brandon Pajemski, Pods the untouchable hero. You have our man,
Speaker 2: Jonathan Kaminga. Cum Buckets was getting a bigger role on
Speaker 2: this team right before his contract year. Everybody thought this
Speaker 2: was a team that was going to evolve into a
Speaker 2: real contender. And it is just really tough right now.
Speaker 2: You got cum Buckets. Now back to the bench. Pajemski's
Speaker 2: on the trade block. Steph Curry's talking about the end
Speaker 2: of his career is closer than everyone the Steve Kerr
Speaker 2: is pulling out his hair. Where is Moses Mody, Moses Moody,
Speaker 2: Moses Moody, I don't know. Draymond is hooking people down
Speaker 2: like it's WWE raw. If this year were any other year,
Speaker 2: this would be an f If this team was any
Speaker 2: other team, this team would have a C plus grade.
Speaker 2: But it's Golden State and it's Steph Curry and it's
Speaker 2: preserving his legacy, and he says.
Speaker 1: He wants to win.
Speaker 2: Folks, Expectations are a bitch, and so are D plus students.
Speaker 2: San Antonio fifteen and fifteen five hundred. They get a
Speaker 2: Grade B as well. Well, well, well, this.
Speaker 1: Is a team that it took a season and a third.
Speaker 2: But now Victor women Yamatan, he has taken over.
Speaker 1: He might be.
Speaker 2: The best player in the league in twelve months. They
Speaker 2: never have seen anything like this before. My man Victor
Speaker 2: is averaging twenty five ten and four, and he's averaging
Speaker 2: four blocks per game. He's shooting forty percent from three
Speaker 2: on ten attempts per game. As someone who's seven feet four,
Speaker 2: he is a deterrence around the rim at a radius
Speaker 2: about as big as my car, which is an SUV.
Speaker 2: The rebuild is much ahead as schedule. I would go
Speaker 2: out and get a guard, no shade, just Defoncastle because
Speaker 2: I like him a lot. Bitch couldn't get me eight
Speaker 2: points the other night, though, No, he couldn't. This is
Speaker 2: a team that could finish in the top six if
Speaker 2: they keep playing this way. Victor had forty two points
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day. On Christmas Day at the Garden, and
Speaker 2: he's telling people, I'm scared for you, guys. I'm worried
Speaker 2: for you cause I'm only getting better if they get
Speaker 2: a player like Deer and Fox this.
Speaker 1: Is a team that could contend next year like watch out.
Speaker 2: Okay, see this is Victor Womany on the time, Victor
Speaker 2: Womany on the time, Victor Wmeny you on the time.
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings Wolf thirteen and eighteen f minus no other
Speaker 2: way to put it. This is a failing grade for
Speaker 2: a failing team with a good roster. I expected the team,
Speaker 2: the Kings, to win the division. I expected the Kings
Speaker 2: to be top six in the West. I expected Demarta
Speaker 2: Rosen to do anything to out this team. I expected
Speaker 2: Keegan Murray to take a step. I expected Kevin Herder
Speaker 2: to somehow be serviceable. I'm not sure what the Kings
Speaker 2: can do to add to this team to make them
Speaker 2: significantly better, because they.
Speaker 1: Not only need a star, they also need depth. They
Speaker 1: have no depth.
Speaker 2: N I don't know what they could have done, like
Speaker 2: just be better, just be better, really, Kean Ellis, I
Speaker 2: need more minutes from you.
Speaker 1: I I mean Sibonis.
Speaker 2: I feel I love Sabonis, but highly limited in in
Speaker 2: certain ways. It's almost like he would be an awesome
Speaker 2: four needs like a five with him or another really
Speaker 2: good backup.
Speaker 1: Big Isaiah Hartenstein would have been an awesome move. M
Speaker 1: only up for h from here, right.
Speaker 2: That's what F students say, like, can't get much worse
Speaker 2: from the rock bottom. I I'm giving them an F though,
Speaker 2: because GE's not a grade. If you could get worse
Speaker 2: than F minus, then that's what they would get.
Speaker 1: What a sad state of affairs.
Speaker 2: Darren Fox probably gone unless he doesn't care that much
Speaker 2: about winning and he only cares about max money. I
Speaker 2: love you, Sacramento, but this is fucking rough, fucking rough
Speaker 2: my Portland Trailblazers ten and twenty grade C.
Speaker 1: Ten wins at this point.
Speaker 2: Ten T I expected six five wins, enough to make
Speaker 2: you hopeful.
Speaker 1: But not r enough to ruin your chances in a
Speaker 1: historic draft.
Speaker 2: I kind of want Dylan Harper now. I'm a little
Speaker 2: worried about Scoot. I know he hit a game winner
Speaker 2: last night. Congratulations to Scoot.
Speaker 1: I love him.
Speaker 2: Fine line between showing growth and tanking, and I think
Speaker 2: the Blazers are sort of doing a good job. Nate Yorkrin,
Speaker 2: by the way, assistant head coach, took over for Chauncey
Speaker 2: Billups last night, who was off because of a family situation,
Speaker 2: and he did an awesome job of coaching this team.
Speaker 1: I like Nate Yorkrin.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna ditch some salary. Aton might get moved,
Speaker 2: Rob Williams might get moved, and Forne Simons might get moved.
Speaker 1: And that will be clear. Sailing tank away.
Speaker 2: Capture that flag, Portland, capture that flag. We won't get it, though,
Speaker 2: because God hates me. Utah Jazz seven and twenty two
Speaker 2: they get a B plus. Will Hardy knows the command,
Speaker 2: n knows the assignment. He is the tank commander. He
Speaker 2: called a time out on a calling Sexton drive down
Speaker 2: one with four seconds left to keep the Jazz from
Speaker 2: winning a game he was intent to lose.
Speaker 1: That is commitment.
Speaker 2: I always want to reward commitment and execution with a
Speaker 2: solid grade. I love Keyante George. He might be the
Speaker 2: best point guard from this draft class, although some of
Speaker 2: their recent draft picks also have been just kind of
Speaker 2: not that good, Like Kyle Philipowski. They will not get better,
Speaker 2: so this grade should stay where it is. New Orleans they.
Speaker 1: Get a VF, a New gen Z grade.
Speaker 2: A VF is a Vanish fail that you get when
Speaker 2: you just don't show up for class anymore.
Speaker 1: Youse literally are gone off into the ether.
Speaker 2: The Pelicans are so injured and thus so bad, we
Speaker 2: can't even give them a grade. This team isn't even
Speaker 2: an incomplete complete Zion isa Ingram can't be traded. Half
Speaker 2: the squads on injured reserve at any given moment. They
Speaker 2: cannot compete with anyone on the court. And as you know,
Speaker 2: a VF automatically turns into an F if the work
Speaker 2: isn't made up, and so we know that work is
Speaker 2: not going to be made up, so eventually it will
Speaker 2: be an F.
Speaker 1: But right now, at this juncture, VF is all they get.
Speaker 1: Those are the grades, baby, those are the grades. That's
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