WEBVTT - Play-In Tournament Set After Wild Final Day 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.440 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. On this 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.719 episode of the Heat Check, the play in picture is complete, 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.280 and boy was it a doozy. On Sunday Guinea, we 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.959 talk about the drama that is taking place in Minnesota. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:22.680 There's two things that will really shock you. Damian Lillard's 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.600 comments in his exit interview and what that means for Portland. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.840 A couple of coaches that have already been fired. And 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.920 some more news around the league. So Nick my Man 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:42.240 drop that generic ass beat that should be Rihanna Man. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.720 The final day of the season might have been one 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:50.920 of the strangest craziest days in league history. Strange because 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.000 one game left in the season, we had no idea 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.840 what the playoff schedule was going to look like, none zero, 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.480 Crazy because the games themselves were a combination of tanking 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.520 teams sitting everyone, and other teams fighting like angry hornets 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.520 to preserve their place in either the play in or 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.880 the playoffs themselves, and sometimes trying to thread that line 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:15.080 between avoiding the suns and avoiding the plan, very very 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.760 tenuous line. That is. Day ended with not one but 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.840 two fights between players on the same team. A forty 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.959 two year old who scored more points than he has 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.679 since two thousand and nine. A pair of coaches getting fired, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.000 two NBA team records getting broken, a ton of chaos 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.000 going on in the APT for math and a partridge 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:44.360 and a pear tree. The weekend. We had a weekend, folks. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.680 Let's quickly recap the play in as it is officially here. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.200 Eastern Conference We've got the number eight Hawks versus the 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.360 number seven Heat on Tuesday. We've got the number ten 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:01.680 Bulls versus the Raptors in Toronto on Wednday. Western Conference 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.480 we've got the t Wolves taking on the Lakers on Tuesday, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.880 and ten seed Oka see Thunder taking on the nine 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:14.560 seed Pelicans on Wednesday. If you don't already know, here's 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.320 the breakdown. Loser of the seven to eight game plays 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.200 the winner of the nine to ten game on Friday 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.239 to's determined who is the eight seed and plays the 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.600 number one seed in each conference. Back to the games. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.760 We are one hundred percent, completely, totally, absolutely have to 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.560 start with the batshit team, the Minnesota Timberwolves versus the 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:39.800 New Orleans Pelicans. Ah wow, I don't even really know 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.960 what to say. The Pelicans start of the day with 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.000 an outside chance to make the number five seed. If 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.799 everything fell their way, the Wolves could have also won 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.960 and tried to avoid the plan if a disaster hit 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.480 where the Lakers, Clippers, and Warriors all lost. This is 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.280 the only game on Sunday where both teams equally wanted 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.200 to win a lot. There was a ton on the line, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.519 and by god, was it one of the strangest, most 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:11.440 dramatic games in memory. Here is what happened the Wolves. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.600 The Wolves play Timberwolves, but basketball typical Timberwolves basketball, which means, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.200 when you think they're gonna lose, they win. When you 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.720 think they're gonna win, they lose. And sometimes all of 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.160 those emotions happen in one game, super inconsistent. The leader 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.360 of this erratic play, the leader of what the fuck 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.120 is going on, is, of course Rudy Gobert. Of course, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.000 of course it's him. Why else wouldn't it be? Uh, 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.600 He's always up to something. What was he up to? 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.360 Well before the game, Rudy Gobert didn't even want to play. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:47.480 He was quote suffering from back spasms, and so he 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:52.839 was going to sit himself out in an essential, very 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.320 critical game between two teams trying to make it out 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.520 of the mud, and Kyle Anderson aka Asloma, was like, no, 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.560 fuck that noise. I got back spasms. Two. You're playing. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.800 You are playing. That's what we're doing. I don't care 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.080 what you're going through. You're on this court. That's the 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:12.000 first sign of problems is Kyle Anderson telling Rudy Gobert 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.840 what Rudy Gobert should do. Rudy Gobert did end up playing, 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.200 if you want to call it playing, because he was 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.159 on the court in body, but not in mind or spirit. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.440 Two points that he made in the middle of the 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:32.320 second quarter, completely ineffective, playing absolutely zero defense, just loafing. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.640 Peliicans open up a double digit lead. It looks like 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:40.000 Rudy Gobert wants to be any place but there. Valentunas 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.159 put up seven points and seven rebounds on the first 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.320 quarter alone on Rudy Gobert, so it is not very good. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.039 Things are not going well. So then Rudy Gobert loafed 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.400 a couple more plays in the second quarter. He was 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.719 a disgusting minus fourteen in the short amount of time 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.159 that he played, and Anderson was like, yo, they have 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.640 a time out. He comes up to Rudy and He's like, yo, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.400 you need according to the reporting, yo, you need to 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:09.359 play some fucking defense. You need to try now. And 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:15.160 Rudy Gobert responded like, oh bojou, you need to rebound. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.240 And then Kyle Anderson's like, verbatim, this is verbatim, this 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.480 is not my summation. He says, shut the fuck up, bitch, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.880 And what did Rudy Gobert do? Erry had a character 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:31.000 for Rudy Gobert. He punched his own teammates, full closed 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:37.320 fist in the chest, full stop. I believe nas Reed 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.040 or Torrean Prince got into the middle of it, started 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.680 bum rushing Rudy Gobert. Kyle Anderson went after him. They 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.880 had to be separated. The whole thing was a melee, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.920 of course. Then Rudy Gobert had to be removed from 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.600 the scene. Got to get Rudy Gobert away from all 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.599 of these men who want to kill him. And that's 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.760 not the end. Surprisingly halftime, Kyle Anderson, who of course 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.039 was still furious at Rudy Gobert because he just got 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.960 punched in the chest by seven footer, went to the 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.560 locker room where Rudy Beert was finishing changing because he 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.800 was not gonna play anymore, and proceeded to threaten Rudy 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:25.279 Gobert that he would knock his ass out. According to reporting, Yeah, 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:31.120 a recording was leaked which I posted of Kyle Anderson 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.400 at halftime cussing the rest of his team out for 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:39.160 protecting Rudy Gobert because Rudy Gobert according to Kyle Anderson obviously, 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.880 because that's what the reporting says, that he called him 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.200 a bitch, So the reporting is probably accurate that he's 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.600 why are you protecting this bitch? The quote, what the 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.000 fuck is wrong with y'all? Y'all guys are kissing Rudy's 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.520 ass way too much, telling me to focus. Y'all got 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.040 some decisions to make this summer. What are those decisions? 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.000 What are the what are those decisions that they gotta make? 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.360 It a is it a him or me? Scenario? It 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:13.640 took GM Tim Connolly and assistant GM Dell Demps coming 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.720 into the locker room to intervene before we got some 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:24.400 sort of Roman Reign's chair on head scenario going down. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.600 They had to send Rudy Goberart home, had to remove 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:32.600 him away from the arena. It was so bad because 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:37.040 probably he would have gotten knocked out by someone. If 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.720 you think that that was the end, that on its 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.040 own right would have been plenty. But there's more and 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.800 more impactful things actually happened, literally impact before the scuffle 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.680 that was hundred percent Rudy Gobart's fault. We have wing 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.320 defender Jaden McDaniel's young stud that Minnesota did not want 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.000 to trade to Utah, so much so that they added 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.320 in an additional first round pick to the deal so 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.400 they didn't have to move. Jade McDaniels, one of the 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.240 best perimeter wings in the league, averaging sixteen to four 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.840 and won in the last fifteen games, picked up two 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.920 quick fouls in the second quarter and was so mad 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:20.640 at himself that he stormed into the tunnel in a 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:28.240 fit like Tasmanian devil and let loose a haymaker on 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.439 a brick wall to no one. What do you think happened? 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.880 Do you think he was fine? Do you think everything's good? 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.000 You think he went out and played the rest of 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.719 the game like The Wolves ended up winning the game 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.400 because Jaden McDaniels had a phenomenal second half. No, Jade 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.360 McDaniel's broke his fucking hand. That's what happened. Jay McDaniels 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.480 is done, done zero times. Remember that MLB player who 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.000 was so excited that he broke his own hand after 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.280 the team made the postseason and he didn't play another 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.640 postseason game, and I think they got eliminated. I think 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.600 the kid was for the Brewers. Yeah, this is Jade 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.559 McDaniels in the middle of a crucial game to decide 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.400 playing seating. That's Jade McDill No more time spending playing 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.400 basketball this year for Jade McDaniels. He fractured a bone 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.960 in his shooting hand. Night Night Sleep mask for you. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:18.240 Maybe one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Crazy? Uh. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.200 Jake Fisher, friend of the show, I think, three days ago, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.760 published a piece why the Timberwolves Jaden McDaniels is the 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.440 elite defender you need to know more about. Oh. I 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.880 think we know about him now. I think he's a 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:37.880 part of the national zeitgeist. At this point, the loss 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.360 of Jaden McDaniels cannot be overestimated. He's one of six 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.960 players in the league to defend a thousand plus minutes 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.600 against NBA All Stars the season, and now he's gone 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.200 for the year. I mean, in the history of the world, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.160 if you're looking at the battle between Cement and Fist, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.400 Cement wins every time two men, I think is undefeated. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.920 And guess what, all of this happened. And we didn't 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.360 even reach the third quarter yet, so things were happening. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.480 And then because the Wolves are the Wolves, they lost 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.640 their center, they lost their perimeter defender. They're down double 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.040 digits to the Pelicans who are trying to make it 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:25.600 into the sixth seed or better. What do they do? Somehow, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:30.200 Karl Anthony Towns goes crazy. Somehow, Aunt Edwards goes crazy. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.160 Aunt Edwards had five blocks and five steals in the game, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.520 most of that was in the second half. The things 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.360 that happen with the Wolves are just truly unimaginable. They 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:45.320 end up winning that game. Remember there's a possibility now 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.439 that they could end up playing the Grizzlies in the 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.400 first round if they win their playing game against the Lakers, 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.000 who they now play in the first round, which is 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.199 gonna their first playing game, which is gonna be wild. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:59.000 But man, the Grizzlies versus the Wolves would be one 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.040 hell of a doozy. Also breaking news, of course, Wolves 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.160 suspended Rudy Gobert for the playing game. He's suspended. He's done, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.920 which is I think a blessing in disguise because they're 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.120 eight and four when Rudy does not play nine to 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.680 four if you count yesterday. And then out West, the 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.760 Clippers were in a dogfight with the s squad of 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.640 the Phoenix Suns, Saban Lee, Darius Baisley just putting up buckets. 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.040 It was like an AAU tournament game. Nobody was playing 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.000 any defense. They were giving it to the Clippers. At 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.360 one point they were up ten anyway, Sons at a 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.040 four point lead at the start of the fourth quarter, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:37.040 and then Plumbley and Bones Island, both newcomers at the 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.720 trade deadline, had words that ended up also getting physical. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.480 What Yeah, it didn't get past shoving, and it immediately intervened. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.720 And let's be honest, Plumbley's not probably gonna punch anyone 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.679 because it's plumbly. And then they had to be separated 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.360 where they were sitting at opposite ends of the bench 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.040 for the rest of the game. So beat Rider Andrew 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.000 Greff spoke with Plumbley after the game. Apparently he was 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.280 pissed because Bones was missing assignments, which is not shocking 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.560 because Bones has been missing assignments since he's been at 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.840 a VCU, so he missed assignments in Denver and that 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.960 was one of the reasons that he was traded. As 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.560 for the Clippers, it was Kawhi Leonard. It was Russell 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.959 Westbrook that brought them back to the Promised Land where 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.640 now they get a date with the Phoenix Suns full 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:25.440 a squad Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Chris Paul DeAndre Ayton, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.280 who you barely beat without them when they were sitting 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.679 in street cloths. So we're gonna have to see how 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.680 that goes. After the game, Tylo says, if you ain't 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.880 getting it right, fight then. And after that we took 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.199 off and we played better. Maybe we should do it 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:45.920 AKA fight more often. They worked it out. Everything is good. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.559 The rest of the what are we talking about? He said, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.280 maybe we should fight more often. The rest of the day. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.439 The Lakers held off Utah to win. Golden State, put 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.439 up fifty five points in the first quarter alone to 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.120 the Portland Trailblazers, which is an NBA record, and beat 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.680 the Blazers by fifty which we'll get to in a 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.120 bit because there's ramifications of all of the losses that 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.400 the Blazers have had, I think, which we'll get to 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.920 as well. I think the Blazers have had seven combined 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.280 wins in the last two years. After the trade deadline 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.280 down in Miami, forty two year old eu Donnis HASLM 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.400 yes that's his real age aka walking dnp CD, had 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.679 played only sixty four games in the last seven years combined. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.760 He put up twenty four points yesterday in a game 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:34.080 Ewdonnis HASLM Miami bench as a whole put up one 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:38.959 hundred and eleven points, which broke the NBA record held 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:43.720 by Toronto of one hundred and twenty twenty. Eudonis Haslam 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:48.160 had thirty two points all last season in thirteen games. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.880 Eudonis Haslam last game of his career puts up twenty four. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.720 What an end of the season. And we still have 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.000 the second season left to go, which is the playoffs. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.160 Bring in the play in need it, I want it, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:20.320 give it you make you talked about the Blazers getting 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.000 stomped by the Warriors. Fifty five points they put up 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.480 on the Blazer's head in the first quarter alone. It 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.960 has been rough. It has been. It has been a 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.680 tough road if you're a Blazers fan or somebody that 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.720 works for the Blazers organization, or somebody probably who plays 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:42.240 for the Blazers. I think that they've had six signings 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.640 in the last week, guys that were two way players 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.840 I had never heard of. Like, what was his name again, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.840 Spencer Hayes, No, you know who I'm talking about. Mays, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.880 Skyler Maze. I feel like I'm living that was Trendon 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.280 for last year, right, Like, who is Trendon Watford? That's 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.600 a real name, right, who is Skyler Mays? I think 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:14.000 they're both LSU products, which is crazy. I think they are. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.160 I think they are Skylar Mays a bucket. Never have 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:20.640 heard of them before. It sucks. These are the things 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.960 that you have to put up with when your team sucks. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.040 Is players who suck playing significant minutes for your team. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.560 No shade to Skyler Mays or Kevin Knox, but those 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.000 guys getting forty minutes in quote end of game or 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.280 end of season scenarios shows you everything that's going on. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:44.000 They've had seven wins in the past two combined years 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.320 after the trade deadline. Let me say that again, there 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.480 is no team worse than the Portland Trailblazers post trade 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.480 deadline in the last two years, which is crazy because 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.160 the Portland Trail Blazers weren't even trying to lose this 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.320 year the trade deadline. They didn't start tanking until three 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.240 weeks left end of the season. Portland has managed seven 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.880 total wins after the break combined, not seven each year combined. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.880 So now what's going on. The Blazers has some decisions 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.400 to make. Damian Lillard is obviously not stoked. People are 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.600 calling this the most important off season in Blazers history. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:34.680 The biggest question will Portland be able to surround Damian 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:41.120 Lillard with any players who can make this team relevant competitive? 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:48.120 Dare I say a contender? Psh? Come on? Come on. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.040 Lillard came out and made some very clear comments about 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.880 what it is he wants and what he does not want. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.600 As we all know, Portland currently has the ten and 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.080 a half percent chance of getting Victor Wambiyama, which I 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.960 believe is fifth in the NBA for the lottery. If 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.720 Portland doesn't somehow get Victor wim Miyama that pick. Damian 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:16.200 Lillard did everything short of demanding that they move that pick. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.960 You are not getting another nineteen year old kid and 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.600 putting him next to me, absolutely not think of that. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.520 Portland is now in a quandary. This is supposed to 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.080 be a historic draft, one of the deepest in memory, 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.159 and Damian Lillard says, fuck them, kids don't want to 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.160 see him, don't want him on this team. I want 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.320 nothing to do with them. Literally, that's what he said. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.080 I'm not babysitting anymore nineteen year olds. The Blazers, according 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.960 to all the reporting, probably going to end up trading 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.080 out of the lottery to add a star player. Here's 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.000 what Dame said. If you want the quote about adding 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.280 another young player to the team, drafting another young player, 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.160 I'm just not interested in that. That's not a secret. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.440 I want to as to go for it. And if 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:10.520 that route is to draft youth, that's not my route. Huhh, Scooby, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.119 does that mean? Dame says, hey, that's not my route, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.680 meaning if that's your route, then me and you gotta 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:23.520 go separate routes. Not my route. Immediately, Joe Cronin was like, yeah, yeah, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:28.280 Dame's right, We're not doing that. We're gonna get some stars. Yeah, Dame, 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.639 We're good. He goes out publicly. Him and Chauncey Billupson said, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.200 we don't want to go through this anymore either. It's 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.560 time for us to start winning basketball games. Billups said, yeah, 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.440 this is very important to me. Billup said, yeah, We've 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:46.439 done the tweak thing a few times. We've got to 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.679 be much more aggressive than the tweak thing. If we 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.359 want to do right by the best player in the 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:55.560 history of the organization, we have to be aggressive. The 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.080 million dollar question for a Blazer fan is how do 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.159 you fix it? How do you fix this team? I 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.919 don't know. They are among the smallest roster in the NBA. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:09.160 They have only two players taller than six eight thin 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.360 in terms of depth at talent, they ended the year 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:20.080 starting a guy named Genathan Williams. That's not a typo, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.960 not Jonathan. His name is Jenathan Williams with two e's. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:32.239 He got forty one minutes along with Skylor Mays. So 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.600 what does this mean. It means that the future draft 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.439 capital means absolutely nothing until you move those for some 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.760 players who can play right now. The target group is good. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.600 We'll just say that because Dame believes that somebody can 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.719 come here and move the needle and they want to. 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:49.680 It's just a matter of whether Portland can get them. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.959 Here here's the list that they're reporting. Jalen Brown. God, 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.639 let's just sit there and imagine for a second. Jalen Brown, 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:07.120 Damian Lillard and Shaden Sharp and Jeremy Grant. That's better 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:12.800 than Boston right now, here's another player, Ogannaobi. I'm less 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.960 intrigued than I am with Jalen Brown. Still very good. 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:23.920 Pascal siakam Oh sounds good. Michale Bridges, that's the number 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.400 one on my list. They're already calling him Brooklyn Bridges, though, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.919 So I feel like I feel like the nets are 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:31.800 kind of ready to keep them. I feel like the 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.160 nets are saying he's an untouchable piece. All three, four 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.400 of those whatever it is, are difference makers. All are 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:43.960 defensive minded players. They can all score. Of course, JB's 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:45.879 the first choice. He can do so many things in 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.439 the court. To me, the perfect scenario is this. So 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:54.159 we've got some coaching firings. One of those firings, I 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.080 don't know if you call it a firing, they're calling 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:01.560 it a promotion, is Dwayne Casey. Dwayne Casey out in Detroit. 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.359 He is done coaching those young kids, Jade and Ivy 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.119 has drove him officially insane. He is now in a 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:12.440 front office position. Chauncey billups, take your ass back to Detroit. 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.480 We now have an open spot and we can say, 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.080 e may U Dooka, It's time to come home, brother, 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.480 time to come on home to Portland where you grew up. 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.960 And then Jalen Brown, the guy who sang from the 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.159 rooftops for you to be the head coach of the 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.840 Boston Celtics. Now you, I don't know, like you're fired. 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.080 So maybe Tampa now before you get the head coaching 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.560 job and bring him to Portland, get him to force 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.560 his way there. Another issue that Dame seemed to settle 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.240 is that one hundred percent, Jeremy Grant is coming back, 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.640 no matter if it puts us in the poorhouse, because 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.600 what other options do we have? Dame says he's coming, 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:54.119 So I guess he's coming. Problem is Jeremy Grant is 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:56.639 represented by Rich Paul, and Rich Paul is the David 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.359 falk of this modern era. He is going to falk 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:05.000 Us for everything that he can. He's going to squeeze 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.880 the Blazers for every penny. He did this with nk 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:12.040 Nirk is one of the most overpaid, overpaid, overrated centers, overpaid, 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:16.119 we'll call him overpaid centers in the league. Grant likes it. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.040 He says he's comfortable here. He says he likes the 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:24.719 players and the team and the organization and probably the money. Also, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:31.160 there's a bigger issue, which is to bring in a star, 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:33.959 you not only have to give up a high draft pick, 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:39.040 you've also give up players. The beat writers for Portland 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:43.000 think it's either Shayden Sharp or it's Anthony Simons Ant 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.160 or Shaden. You have to imagine that it's gonna be 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.560 It's gonna be Simons, and you can't trade Shaden Sharp. 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.520 Shade Sharp is the future. One guy makes rookie scale, 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.480 one game makes twenty five million a year. One guy 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:57.760 has one of the worst defensive ratings in the league. 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:03.359 One guy has upside in terms of his defense. Sharp 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:05.880 is probably the one bright spot on this team right now. 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:07.760 To be honest, he's averaging twenty four to six and 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:09.560 four with the Steel per game in his last ten. 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:13.320 He is asking for thirty minutes per game. Well, actually, 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:15.280 I think that's Chauncey who thinks he can get thirty 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.840 and then Shandon is asking to start. So what is 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:23.119 GM Joe Cronin have to say about picking between Shadon 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:26.480 and Simons. He says, well, I think that's something we 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:28.600 have to look at. I look at it as a 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:32.160 great problem to have, But you have to figure that out. 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:34.879 How does the fit work, how do the minutes work? 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.360 Are there other holes that you need to fill instead? 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:44.120 Paul's woo oo that part, that part, Yes, you know 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:45.959 that there are what are you fucking talking about? You 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:51.000 know that there are holes other than shooting guard to fill. Anyway, 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:53.480 it's an exercise we're going to have to go through 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:56.000 and evaluate. No, we're not. You already know what the 0:23:56.040 --> 0:24:00.200 answer is. But on an individual level, I love both guys. 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.679 I think they're both omega talented and I'm thrilled that 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:07.000 we have them. By Anthony, see you later, enjoy Boston, 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:09.960 have a good time with all of the beans and 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:14.840 the racism. Last year, the Blazers acted like they were 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:16.960 gonna make money moves and they got Gary Payton and 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:23.080 didn't they get a Cody Zeller? Yeah? They did. That 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:27.000 was our move. We got Tony Snell and Cody Zeller, 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:32.879 Gary Payton, Jeremy Grant. Well, thankfully we get the opportunity 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:35.159 to overpay Jeremy Grant now that he wouldn't extend with 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:38.240 us for a reasonable salary, So good for us this year. 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:40.880 I don't think Dame's putting up with Cody Zeller. I'm 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:44.840 gonna guarantee you that's not the veteran he wants. They 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:48.840 must make money moves, and who do I think that 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:51.240 they get. I think it depends on the outcome of 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:53.800 the lottery. If the Blazers have the number two overall 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:56.639 pick and they can move that piece, maybe another young 0:24:56.720 --> 0:25:00.520 guy like Anthony Simon's for a guy like Pascal. That's good. Look, 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:05.000 I think that Toronto is gonna be rebuilding pretty fast. 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:07.520 I'm not sure that Bridges is a possibility. I'm not 0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:10.320 sure that JB is gettable. It is certainly worth a try. 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:12.639 You try and try all you can. All I know 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:15.600