WEBVTT - 2021/2022 Eastern Conference Season Preview 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:33.760 Come on, so Good, Damn Bad. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.280 Welcome to the very first episode of the Heat Check. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:44.919 We're back. New song feels so Good being Bad, Rihanna. 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:47.240 This song. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.480 This song is in the encapsulation of what this podcast 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.800 is going to be about, which is unfiltered all day, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.400 every day. I want to thank everyone who followed me 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.240 bartol to Odyssey, and while I love doing this league, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.480 I could not be more excited to bring you The 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:07.319 heat Check three times a week. Our podcast is scheduled 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.119 Monday nights, early Wednesday and Friday mornings, probably special episodes 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.560 in between when necessary. Other news. I got myself a 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:24.080 new producer, Brock. Brock is a sports media connoisseur and 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.640 he dresses like a ninja. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.800 Do you want to say a few words, Brock? 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.199 Thank you for letting me say a few words. Yes, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.040 I do dress like a ninja. That's it, just sweats 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.640 those little sandals. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:38.720 With the toe cutout. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.760 But other than that, yes, very excited to be a 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.800 bored and very excited. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.000 For the show. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:44.319 Fun fun stuff. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.640 So first two episodes are going to be as follows. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.960 It's been a while since I've been doing anything for 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.360 NBA Heat Check related podcasts, so what we're going to 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.200 do is we're going to recap this insane off season 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.600 in a way. We're gonna go Eastern Conference today, We're 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.960 gonna go Western Conference Monday. It's coming on Monday, so 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.920 I'm getting all my time. So Monday, Eastern Conference. That's today, Wednesday, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.920 Western Conference. That's what we're doing. So we're gonna preview 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.960 him by most likely to make some noise and which 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.760 ones are headed to the lottery somewhere between the Nets 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.200 and everybody else, basically, so let's get into it. There's 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.040 only one team in this category of the favorites, is 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.520 the Brooklyn Nets. Where do you even begin? If you 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.680 have been living under a rock, you would know this. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.120 The Nets were one shoe length away from going to 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.720 the finals. Well actually they were one shoe length away 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.760 from going to Trey Young, which then would have led 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.920 to the finals. But they are in more turmoil than 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.720 almost any other team, and it doesn't fucking matter. Honestly, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.600 it just doesn't matter. Quick recap. Kyrie won't get the vaccination. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.680 Since that we've last spoken, New York has created a 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.400 manday where Kyrie has to be vaccinated in order to 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:57.640 play in Barclays Arena. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.760 He will not do it because he's fighting for something. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.119 Are now outside of a championship with his team, which 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.680 is what he's obligated to be competing for and focused on. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.960 But all of that to say, the NETS said, fuck 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.120 you until you get vaccinated. You are not with our team. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.639 You are not going to practice with us, you are 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.440 not gonna play halftime. We don't want a part time lover, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.840 we want a full time lover. So listen, I get it. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:23.960 I get it. Steve Nash, I get it. James Harden, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:24.239 I get it. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.200 Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant, James Harden have not spoken to 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.200 Kyrie Irving since this news has come about, which to 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.800 me seems a little odd, like, hey, homie, keep your 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.080 head up, talk to you soon. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:35.600 Nothing. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.040 James is like I haven't spoken to Kyrie. Kevin Durant's like, 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.040 I haven't spoken to Kyrie. And then in the backdrop, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.200 Kyrie has been you know, off doing his Instagram lives 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.160 in the middle of WNBA Finals Wild, James Harden and 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:53.280 Kevin Durant are in Mikonos together vacationing, so we know 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.640 who are friends and who are not friends. Even without Kyrie, though, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.840 Nets are a monster. So what happened this offseason wild turnover. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.600 They lost Jeff Green, Mike James, Tyler Johnson, DeAndre Jordan, Spencer, Dinwiddie, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.520 Landry Schmidt added Patty Mills, thank god, because they need 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.200 another they need a point guard. Obviously, the Nets knew 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.159 that Kyrie was gonna be not available at some points 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.839 during round. This season happens every year for some reason. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.120 The reasons different every year, but the same thing happens 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.839 every year, Kyrie missing time. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.440 They've added They've added Sword of Flamarcus. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.080 Audrich, they brought him back after he had a health scare. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.000 James Johnson, Paul Mills up on a vet minimum, DeAndre 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.040 Bembery on a vet minimum, Javon Carter, and the electric 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.720 Cam Thomas that they got in the fucking draft. He's 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:43.320 gonna make some noise and Dayron Sharp. I mean, it's 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.120 a good thing that they added depth because we know 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.760 Nash is content to let Katie just die out there. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.719 He's just gonna play as many minutes as Steve Nash 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.160 wants him to. He's not getting any breathers. Basically, it's 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.800 halftime and nothing else, and that's why he airballed. On 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.039 the very last play of the game, Katie carried the 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.680 team down the stretch. I think he can stay healthy. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.120 I think also James Harden. James Harden was fat last year. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.720 Can we just say that, like he was fat and 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.280 that fat suit that he had on when he was 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.280 getting himself out of Houston led to a hamstring injury, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.800 which has never happened in the entire course. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.120 Of his career. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.440 He has been an iron man. It's the very first 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.400 year he was in turmoil. Listen, it's covid. I get it. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.800 Like you're eating, everybody's eating. You know, you're not working out. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.200 Everybody's not working out. You know you're netflixing and chilling. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.000 You're on the Squid Game. I get it. It's pre 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.760 pre squid game. You're on Tiger King. I get it. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:35.560 You know what I mean. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:40.240 So now he's back in shape. It's scary hours they 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.839 played together before, they've succeeded before. They also have former 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.320 All Stars and Lamark Saldridge. They have former All Stars 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.680 in Blake Griffin. He played great down the stretch. He 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.240 can still dunk. Surprisingly, he was playing possum to get 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:53.400 himself out of Detroit. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.240 So Joe Harris. We want to know, can Joe Harris 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:57.839 shoot threes? 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.520 Joe Harris is supposed to be pretty boy, Joe, can 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:01.159 you shoot threes? 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.400 Or no? All that to say, really, folks, this team. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.560 If they can stay healthy, they are just going to 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.880 dog walk the rest of the league. Get a chip, 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.719 probably get a few chips, and that's all. So all 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.280 eyes on the nets. If they're healthy, it's pretty much 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:21.400 them stratospheres above everyone else in a category of their own. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.360 A below the nets, right. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.880 Cut, just a little baby cuttle cut below Milwaukee Bucks. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.080 Before I get started on how I feel that the 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.680 Milwaukee Bucks are going to be this season, I just 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.400 want to say I'm sorry for slandering you. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:41.360 I'm sorry for Actually no, I'm not. Actually that's a lie. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.400 I provided quite a bit of motivation for the city 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.960 of Milwaukee, and they got up. They played My Little 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.360 Sons in four clip in Deer Park on the Megatron. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.640 Didn't know that until just the other day. Yes, apparently, Brock, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.039 I am one of the most hated women in Milwaukee, 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.200 which I mean, let's let's just say, let's just I'm 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.200 not gonna slander the city of Milwaukee anymore than I 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.440 already have. Let's just say my energy is. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.240 Unique to Milwaukee. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:16.680 I think without Kyrie, this series goes seven again, winner 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:23.600 goes to the finals. And remember you almost lost to 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.600 the Nets. You were a shoe print away. Bud would 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.120 have gotten fired. Things would have changed, you know, Bey 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.360 honest wouldn't have emerged into who Yannis became. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:37.200 And Yannis was tremendous, and and Yannis also faked an injury. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.520 He was he did not have hyper extended me. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.840 He went to the school, the Lebron James School of 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.320 Narrative Manipulation, and said, I am going to sit out 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:49.800 a few games that I know I don't need to 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.240 really play, get myself right for Phoenix, and then have 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.320 the can Yannis come back, And he came back better 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.440 than ever somehow, shooting free throws like Damien Alert. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.679 Now he's what He's created a new jump shot. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.520 If you looked at the jump shot before, in the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.520 jump shot today, it's like whole other thing. So if 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.200 he can get some step back, Jays continue to play 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.480 out of his mind. Chris Middleton can be more consistent, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.520 Drew Holliday can be continue to be himself, then you 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.920 win the chance to get bounced in six against the Nets. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.560 That's right, that's what you win. That's what you win. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:28.640 Kidding not really. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.520 Actually, if if the Nets did not exist, this team 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.559 would be this team would be exactly what the Nets are. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.840 They would be a powerhouse. They would be the cut above, 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:40.920 the cut above. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.280 Right right. But I mean it's Kevin Durantons, James. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:45.920 Harden's a bunch of other guys like that are taking 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:46.800 minimum contracts. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.400 Like that's that's the way that the that's the way 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:51.360 that the cookie crumbles. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.360 So this team lost PJ Love some PJ Tucker, lost 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.240 Brent Forbes, thank god, lost Jeff t thank god. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.720 One of the things that I did in the middle 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.520 of the playoffs is I was like the news. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.880 I got a little alert on my phone, the news 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.199 that nobody wants. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.280 Nobody asked for, nobody wants to know Jeff Tigue is 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.880 available to start for the Milwaukee Bucks tonight. Like nobody 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.839 gives a fuck about Jeff Tigue. He is trash. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.400 He is literally just has a relationship with Budenholzer and 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:22.319 like that's it. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.200 He played for that Atlanta. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.920 Team that won sixty games, and somehow Budenholzer still has 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.000 these great feelings for him. He's trash. Thank god they 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.040 got rid of him. Thank god they added George Hill. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.160 I'm really sure that makes a difference. Rodney Hood I 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.000 had him on the Blazers. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:36.200 He's okay. He's an okay piece. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.920 Grace and Allen maybe gonna be most most annoying Milwaukee 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.120 Buck like most annoying. He's gonna get He's gonna probably 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.040 take the legs out of James Harden, and James Harden 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.480 might not, but listen, I'm predicting he will do something dirty. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.679 He will do something dirty in the playoffs like you 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.320 did that duke the entire day. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:53.960 Who is there? 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.240 And maybe someone will get injured, and you know what, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.440 it's a game of health, game of inches, as they. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.319 Know, so we'll have to see. So I'm not hating. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.880 They deserve their chip. Fifty piece. Giannis is exactly what 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:06.520 we want to see. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.720 If Giannis can be unstoppable, this team should fly to 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.840 the Eastern Conference finals. The problem is, actually they're gonna 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.360 chase wins and the Nets will not, so they might 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.800 actually meet earlier than the Eastern Conference Finals. So I 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.520 do like them. I like them a lot, and they 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.240 won't even make it to Suns and four. So that 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.640 was a good job. Good job. Prediction time Eastern Conference 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.160 Semifinals against the Nets, losing seven. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.959 Next up the next cut right there? Who are they? 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.760 I don't know. They could be three, four, five, six, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:38.240 I don't know. 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.120 There's the next there is the next tier, the next wave, 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:46.560 the next wave. Atlanta Hawks maybe my favorite team in 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.840 the Eastern Conference from swagger. They've got that oh so 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:54.280 much swagger chips on their shoulder. They're literally dunking on 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.920 Joel Embiid and then the next night showing up with 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.120 a T shirt of himself dunking on Joel like that 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:02.800 is tremendous. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.280 Remember I said Nate McMillan. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.400 Most overrated fucking NBA coach in the league, and I 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:09.480 that was slander. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.760 That was wrong, That was mean that and that was 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.120 a lie. That was a lie. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.000 He found some soul searching, he did some things, and 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.840 now he's like maybe one of the best coaches in 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.760 the NBA. So what a uh, what a mis calculation 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.520 on my part, I would say for him to be come. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.120 I mean, he was a coaching Canada the year this 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.280 is the twelfth seed in the East and then four 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.520 seed when he took over. One of my best memories 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.360 was Trey Young basically telling all of Madison's squear garden 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.720 to fuck off, all of them, like getting spit at him, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.160 just loving every second of being a villain. Like if 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.319 if my personality was inside of a basketball player, that would. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:48.680 Be Trey Young. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.520 Like I am the Tray Young of the NBA space, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.160 Like not nearly as good as Shooter, but definitely someone 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.680 who would like draw foulsand in like a fashion that 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.760 should not actually be a foul, like pissing people off 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.480 for no reason, just enjoying every moment of that. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.240 So all that to say, I love the Hawks. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.600 The Hawks are that that girl that went to high 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.320 school that she was gangly and kind of nobody cared 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:14.839 about her for like many years, and then all of 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:15.520 a sudden, she goes. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.160 A summer camp and then you're like, God, damn, Sharon, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.280 you fucking are a batty Now, how did you? What 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.320 did you do? Did you? What did you do? You 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.360 fucked around and got some dick. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.720 Yeah, you got some makeup and you got some little personality, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.720 and you got some sex, and like you're good. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.320 Now. That's the Atlanta Hawks. That's them. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.920 And if the refs would not have sprayed Trey Young's ankle. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.400 They might have made it to the fucking Eastern Like, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.400 they could have made it to the finals. They could 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.040 have beaten when Yannis was pretending to be hurt. They 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.640 could have beaten the Bucks because Trey Young actually did 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.200 sprain his ankle off of a ref literally undercutting Trey Young. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.480 Yeah, yeah, you remember that, he literally undercut him. And 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.760 then Trey Jung was Night Night sleep mask. They opened 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.800 up the Saints in the offseason. They paid Trey They 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.360 paid John Collins after much anticipation on whether they would. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.480 Clint Capella got paid two years, forty six million. They 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.640 lost Kris Don Tony Snail, No one cares, and they 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.959 added maybe the best backup in the league, Delon Wright 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:24.280 Junior and Jalen Johnson in the draft, sleeper Sharif Cooper 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.679 in the draft just just daytime robbery to get Sharif Cooper, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.240 like Shreif Cooper should have gone much earlier. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:32.800 So I don't even know. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.640 Like this team got better without really losing anything. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.800 They're still probably the most complete roster in the league. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.960 They're deep. They're getting DeAndre Hunter back from injury. He 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.040 didn't play. Cam Reisch took a step once he got healthy, right, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.319 and Travis schlank. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.560 Is like, hey, we got a lot of cap space. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.760 There's a disgruntled free agent or disgruntled player on a 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.960 team like Atlanta's a fun place, and Lemon Pepperloue, Lemon 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.320 Pepperlou is gonna come off the bench probably give you 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.920 some critical minutes when Trey Young hurts himself in the 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.480 middle of the year, and Lemon pepper Loo's gonna step 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.760 in and do Atlanta things because he loves it there. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.160 And let's be real, like Magic City's like very open 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.560 right now, like it's a great place to eat wings. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.840 I've heard culinary masterpiece magic City and the entertainment I 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:25.520 hear tremendous. So no one shocked that this team is good. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.000 How good? I think there's a lot of people wondering 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:30.960 are the Atlanta Hawks going to regress? 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.240 Was this a flash in the pan? 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.680 They just struck Lightning had a grudge match against Embiid 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.120 and Ben Simmons who literally choked on his own dick 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.960 in Game seven, hideous, But yes, But I think the 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.920 Hawks are hungry and if they can stay healthy, they're 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.320 gonna put more than just Embiid on a T shirt. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.640 They're gonna put the league on notice. I think they're 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.200 a three seed. They are so deep they put her 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.920 ass to sleep deep. They're fun, they're talented, they're swaggy, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.800 They've got so much fucking pettiness inside of them. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.520 And you know what, if I didn't have a team 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.840 on my own, I would be a Hawks fan. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.920 Prediction three seed, fifty five wins, team that's gonna be 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:15.440 chasing regular season wins for fucking respect. New York Knicks 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.000 team that played the Hawks, next up on this list. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:20.840 Why are they hard to predict? 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.960 Because I have a hard time figuring them out because 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.040 Kemba is Kemba is hard to predict. Will we see 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.440 Kimba that was all NBA, or will we see Keimba 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.400 that only plays forty games a year gives you twenty. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.440 And then nine and then twenty seven and then. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.320 Four, then fourteen, fourteen, fourteen. He's minus twenty for the 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.320 like ten games straight. He's minus when he's on the floor. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.600 Or maybe he just fucking hated Boston. He continuously was 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.280 on the record saying that the culture was suspect there, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.600 which meant Brad Stevens was checked all the way out. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.800 And that Danny Ainge was a thief and like the fan. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:16:00.720 Base was racist, and like all those things, you know, one, two, three, two. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:01.160 Three four. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.240 Get Kimba off that floor. He's like, I'm fucking out 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.000 of here. Uh. And now he's back home. He's back 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.640 home with Tibbs. Tibbs is evolving. TIBs is like, we're 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.400 gonna shoot forty Three's a game now, and I'm gonna 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.600 allow load management. I'm not gonna run Keimba into the ground. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.720 Kember's already ran into the ground like he needs to. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.160 Just we're an injury prevention mode. Him and Derrick Rose 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.880 in a renaissance. Tibb's first year in New York got 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.480 them a fourth place finish and a borderline superstar and 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:29.320 Julius Randall. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:31.800 They're not as good as the Hawks. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.080 That was a bad matchup for them, but they did 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.680 get slightly better. They got rid of Alfred Payton and 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.240 Frank Nilikina. I mean, Nilo ken is the reason they 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.440 lost game one, right, He's the reason they lost the Hawks. Like, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.880 who knows what happens if Frank Nilakina doesn't turn into 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.280 a s'more right there on national television, Like who knows 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:57.120 like Evan Fournier. Evan Fournier is an Olympic perennial superstar. Yes, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.000 he got the French hope for the New York next 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.080 got the absolute bag at as I would call it. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.280 That's the French bag, the French bagette. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.640 It's bread, it's a bag, it's baguette. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.280 Can he play defense? Can Kevin Evan forty a play defense? 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.520 I don't know. I don't know. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.280 Tibbs is going to make him try, though he will try. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:17.800 The return of Mitchell Robinson. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.840 Mitchell Robinson put on twenty five pounds of muscle since 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.400 his injury. I don't even know how that's possible with that, ehgh. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.280 But I'm not gonna I'm not going to make any accusations. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.800 But d Rose is gonna have another solid season. Shout 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.359 out to de Rose getting engaged. Emmanuel quickly is gonna 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.720 continue to get better and like, actually, there may no 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.159 be no stop in Obi Topin. Like Obie Topping was 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:45.200 the summer League superstar. He I think this team could 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.280 be forty five, forty six wins this season. Not a 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.919 world beater, but I could very easily see them be 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:53.720 a four or a five seed. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.359 It wouldn't shock me if there were six seed, seven seed. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.760 But that's what I think they'll be four top for 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.760 is the absolute max. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.840 That they will be. Yeah, they're not any any better 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:05.119 than that. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.760 Oh what do I say about the Philadelphia seventy six 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.000 ers that I haven't already said? 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:13.080 Ah? 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.040 I can say is I love you really first and foremost, Philly. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.879 I do love you because brought me to this place, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.359 this wonderful place called Odyssey. If it wasn't for you, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.480 Philly and your trash ass point guard who's really a 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:30.040 power forward masquerading as a point guard with significant limitations 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.040 in his mental makeup and arrogance, the size of this 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:37.760 fucking studio, and yet someone who's not great in crunch time. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.159 Without that, without my prediction, that you would be exactly 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:41.840 who you were. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:43.680 Who knows if I'd be to this place? 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.440 Talk about bagattes like they gave the girl the bagette 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.160 to leave. So Ben fucking Simmons technically the Sixers running 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.800 it back again, swapping the Andre Drummond who embiid fucking 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.080 hates uh out and Dwight Howard leaving for those living 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.720 on are under a rock. Ben Simmons is currently with 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.119 the team and not with the team. He's holding in. 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.200 I don't know if he's gonna play any games, if 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:09.440 he's waiting to be traded. 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.800 He's lost a bunch of game checks already. 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.400 I think that's starting to get uncomfortable for him and 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:15.959 Rich Paul, his agent. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.600 Rich Paul wants to get paid. Everybody wants to get paid. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.600 The bottom line is this, Darryl Moury, Daryl Mourray is 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.639 trying to get multiple first round picks for Ben Simmons, 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.520 and everybody knows that he's not worth a bunch of 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.080 first round picks. These are all things that everyone in 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:32.719 the NBA universe knows, But who the fuck knows how 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.199 it's gonna end. I don't know. I do not know 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.800 the best cases that they get brogged in and like 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.440 justin holiday and maybe one first round for Ben Simmons. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.919 So the Sixers won the East last year, which was 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.000 absolute fraudulent, like they were never going to win anything, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.440 Like they are going to be stretched. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.960 To be a four seed. In no way is this 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:53.800 team contending. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.240 Doc Rivers is maybe one of the most overrated coaches 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.640 in NBA. History had multiple Haull famers and only one 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.720 ring to speak of. He's lost multiple series when he's 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.480 been ahead. I don't even know the number. I think 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.760 it's like something ridiculous, like ten six m BID when 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.119 healthy is the league MVP, and I don't think it matters. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.720 Tobias Harris has had one good year. Fible's a great defender, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.879 Danny Green is back, Andrey Drummond is apparently said to 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.879 look less like a statue than he has in past years. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.199 But I don't know, I don't Actually I'm gonna it's 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.280 one of those things where they say, I'm I'm Missouri 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:29.680