Speaker 1: Come on, so Good, Damn Bad.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the very first episode of the Heat Check.
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Speaker 3: in between when necessary. Other news. I got myself a
Speaker 3: new producer, Brock. Brock is a sports media connoisseur and
Speaker 3: he dresses like a ninja.
Speaker 2: Do you want to say a few words, Brock?
Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me say a few words. Yes,
Speaker 4: I do dress like a ninja. That's it, just sweats
Speaker 4: those little sandals.
Speaker 2: With the toe cutout.
Speaker 4: But other than that, yes, very excited to be a
Speaker 4: bored and very excited.
Speaker 1: For the show.
Speaker 2: Fun fun stuff.
Speaker 3: So first two episodes are going to be as follows.
Speaker 3: It's been a while since I've been doing anything for
Speaker 3: NBA Heat Check related podcasts, so what we're going to
Speaker 3: do is we're going to recap this insane off season
Speaker 3: in a way. We're gonna go Eastern Conference today, We're
Speaker 3: gonna go Western Conference Monday. It's coming on Monday, so
Speaker 3: I'm getting all my time. So Monday, Eastern Conference. That's today, Wednesday,
Speaker 3: Western Conference. That's what we're doing. So we're gonna preview
Speaker 3: him by most likely to make some noise and which
Speaker 3: ones are headed to the lottery somewhere between the Nets
Speaker 3: and everybody else, basically, so let's get into it. There's
Speaker 3: only one team in this category of the favorites, is
Speaker 3: the Brooklyn Nets. Where do you even begin? If you
Speaker 3: have been living under a rock, you would know this.
Speaker 3: The Nets were one shoe length away from going to
Speaker 3: the finals. Well actually they were one shoe length away
Speaker 3: from going to Trey Young, which then would have led
Speaker 3: to the finals. But they are in more turmoil than
Speaker 3: almost any other team, and it doesn't fucking matter. Honestly,
Speaker 3: it just doesn't matter. Quick recap. Kyrie won't get the vaccination.
Speaker 3: Since that we've last spoken, New York has created a
Speaker 3: manday where Kyrie has to be vaccinated in order to
Speaker 3: play in Barclays Arena.
Speaker 2: He will not do it because he's fighting for something.
Speaker 3: Are now outside of a championship with his team, which
Speaker 3: is what he's obligated to be competing for and focused on.
Speaker 3: But all of that to say, the NETS said, fuck
Speaker 3: you until you get vaccinated. You are not with our team.
Speaker 3: You are not going to practice with us, you are
Speaker 3: not gonna play halftime. We don't want a part time lover,
Speaker 3: we want a full time lover. So listen, I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it. Steve Nash, I get it. James Harden,
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant, James Harden have not spoken to
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving since this news has come about, which to
Speaker 3: me seems a little odd, like, hey, homie, keep your
Speaker 3: head up, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 3: James is like I haven't spoken to Kyrie. Kevin Durant's like,
Speaker 3: I haven't spoken to Kyrie. And then in the backdrop,
Speaker 3: Kyrie has been you know, off doing his Instagram lives
Speaker 3: in the middle of WNBA Finals Wild, James Harden and
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant are in Mikonos together vacationing, so we know
Speaker 3: who are friends and who are not friends. Even without Kyrie, though,
Speaker 3: Nets are a monster. So what happened this offseason wild turnover.
Speaker 3: They lost Jeff Green, Mike James, Tyler Johnson, DeAndre Jordan, Spencer, Dinwiddie,
Speaker 3: Landry Schmidt added Patty Mills, thank god, because they need
Speaker 3: another they need a point guard. Obviously, the Nets knew
Speaker 3: that Kyrie was gonna be not available at some points
Speaker 3: during round. This season happens every year for some reason.
Speaker 3: The reasons different every year, but the same thing happens
Speaker 3: every year, Kyrie missing time.
Speaker 2: They've added They've added Sword of Flamarcus.
Speaker 3: Audrich, they brought him back after he had a health scare.
Speaker 3: James Johnson, Paul Mills up on a vet minimum, DeAndre
Speaker 3: Bembery on a vet minimum, Javon Carter, and the electric
Speaker 3: Cam Thomas that they got in the fucking draft. He's
Speaker 3: gonna make some noise and Dayron Sharp. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a good thing that they added depth because we know
Speaker 3: Nash is content to let Katie just die out there.
Speaker 3: He's just gonna play as many minutes as Steve Nash
Speaker 3: wants him to. He's not getting any breathers. Basically, it's
Speaker 3: halftime and nothing else, and that's why he airballed. On
Speaker 3: the very last play of the game, Katie carried the
Speaker 3: team down the stretch. I think he can stay healthy.
Speaker 3: I think also James Harden. James Harden was fat last year.
Speaker 3: Can we just say that, like he was fat and
Speaker 3: that fat suit that he had on when he was
Speaker 3: getting himself out of Houston led to a hamstring injury,
Speaker 3: which has never happened in the entire course.
Speaker 2: Of his career.
Speaker 3: He has been an iron man. It's the very first
Speaker 3: year he was in turmoil. Listen, it's covid. I get it.
Speaker 2: Like you're eating, everybody's eating. You know, you're not working out.
Speaker 2: Everybody's not working out. You know you're netflixing and chilling.
Speaker 2: You're on the Squid Game. I get it. It's pre
Speaker 2: pre squid game. You're on Tiger King. I get it.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So now he's back in shape. It's scary hours they
Speaker 3: played together before, they've succeeded before. They also have former
Speaker 3: All Stars and Lamark Saldridge. They have former All Stars
Speaker 3: in Blake Griffin. He played great down the stretch. He
Speaker 3: can still dunk. Surprisingly, he was playing possum to get
Speaker 3: himself out of Detroit.
Speaker 2: So Joe Harris. We want to know, can Joe Harris
Speaker 2: shoot threes?
Speaker 3: Joe Harris is supposed to be pretty boy, Joe, can
Speaker 3: you shoot threes?
Speaker 2: Or no? All that to say, really, folks, this team.
Speaker 3: If they can stay healthy, they are just going to
Speaker 3: dog walk the rest of the league. Get a chip,
Speaker 3: probably get a few chips, and that's all. So all
Speaker 3: eyes on the nets. If they're healthy, it's pretty much
Speaker 3: them stratospheres above everyone else in a category of their own.
Speaker 2: A below the nets, right.
Speaker 3: Cut, just a little baby cuttle cut below Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 3: Before I get started on how I feel that the
Speaker 3: Milwaukee Bucks are going to be this season, I just
Speaker 3: want to say I'm sorry for slandering you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for Actually no, I'm not. Actually that's a lie.
Speaker 3: I provided quite a bit of motivation for the city
Speaker 3: of Milwaukee, and they got up. They played My Little
Speaker 3: Sons in four clip in Deer Park on the Megatron.
Speaker 3: Didn't know that until just the other day. Yes, apparently, Brock,
Speaker 3: I am one of the most hated women in Milwaukee,
Speaker 3: which I mean, let's let's just say, let's just I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna slander the city of Milwaukee anymore than I
Speaker 3: already have. Let's just say my energy is.
Speaker 2: Unique to Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: I think without Kyrie, this series goes seven again, winner
Speaker 3: goes to the finals. And remember you almost lost to
Speaker 3: the Nets. You were a shoe print away. Bud would
Speaker 3: have gotten fired. Things would have changed, you know, Bey
Speaker 3: honest wouldn't have emerged into who Yannis became.
Speaker 2: And Yannis was tremendous, and and Yannis also faked an injury.
Speaker 2: He was he did not have hyper extended me.
Speaker 3: He went to the school, the Lebron James School of
Speaker 3: Narrative Manipulation, and said, I am going to sit out
Speaker 3: a few games that I know I don't need to
Speaker 3: really play, get myself right for Phoenix, and then have
Speaker 3: the can Yannis come back, And he came back better
Speaker 3: than ever somehow, shooting free throws like Damien Alert.
Speaker 2: Now he's what He's created a new jump shot.
Speaker 3: If you looked at the jump shot before, in the
Speaker 3: jump shot today, it's like whole other thing. So if
Speaker 3: he can get some step back, Jays continue to play
Speaker 3: out of his mind. Chris Middleton can be more consistent,
Speaker 3: Drew Holliday can be continue to be himself, then you
Speaker 3: win the chance to get bounced in six against the Nets.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's what you win. That's what you win.
Speaker 2: Kidding not really.
Speaker 3: Actually, if if the Nets did not exist, this team
Speaker 3: would be this team would be exactly what the Nets are.
Speaker 3: They would be a powerhouse. They would be the cut above,
Speaker 3: the cut above.
Speaker 2: Right right. But I mean it's Kevin Durantons, James.
Speaker 3: Harden's a bunch of other guys like that are taking
Speaker 3: minimum contracts.
Speaker 2: Like that's that's the way that the that's the way
Speaker 2: that the cookie crumbles.
Speaker 3: So this team lost PJ Love some PJ Tucker, lost
Speaker 3: Brent Forbes, thank god, lost Jeff t thank god.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I did in the middle
Speaker 2: of the playoffs is I was like the news.
Speaker 3: I got a little alert on my phone, the news
Speaker 3: that nobody wants.
Speaker 2: Nobody asked for, nobody wants to know Jeff Tigue is
Speaker 2: available to start for the Milwaukee Bucks tonight. Like nobody
Speaker 2: gives a fuck about Jeff Tigue. He is trash.
Speaker 3: He is literally just has a relationship with Budenholzer and
Speaker 3: like that's it.
Speaker 2: He played for that Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Team that won sixty games, and somehow Budenholzer still has
Speaker 3: these great feelings for him. He's trash. Thank god they
Speaker 3: got rid of him. Thank god they added George Hill.
Speaker 3: I'm really sure that makes a difference. Rodney Hood I
Speaker 3: had him on the Blazers.
Speaker 2: He's okay. He's an okay piece.
Speaker 3: Grace and Allen maybe gonna be most most annoying Milwaukee
Speaker 3: Buck like most annoying. He's gonna get He's gonna probably
Speaker 3: take the legs out of James Harden, and James Harden
Speaker 3: might not, but listen, I'm predicting he will do something dirty.
Speaker 2: He will do something dirty in the playoffs like you
Speaker 2: did that duke the entire day.
Speaker 1: Who is there?
Speaker 3: And maybe someone will get injured, and you know what,
Speaker 3: it's a game of health, game of inches, as they.
Speaker 2: Know, so we'll have to see. So I'm not hating.
Speaker 2: They deserve their chip. Fifty piece. Giannis is exactly what
Speaker 2: we want to see.
Speaker 3: If Giannis can be unstoppable, this team should fly to
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference finals. The problem is, actually they're gonna
Speaker 3: chase wins and the Nets will not, so they might
Speaker 3: actually meet earlier than the Eastern Conference Finals. So I
Speaker 3: do like them. I like them a lot, and they
Speaker 3: won't even make it to Suns and four. So that
Speaker 3: was a good job. Good job. Prediction time Eastern Conference
Speaker 3: Semifinals against the Nets, losing seven.
Speaker 2: Next up the next cut right there? Who are they?
Speaker 2: I don't know. They could be three, four, five, six,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's the next there is the next tier, the next wave,
Speaker 3: the next wave. Atlanta Hawks maybe my favorite team in
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference from swagger. They've got that oh so
Speaker 3: much swagger chips on their shoulder. They're literally dunking on
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid and then the next night showing up with
Speaker 3: a T shirt of himself dunking on Joel like that
Speaker 3: is tremendous.
Speaker 2: Remember I said Nate McMillan.
Speaker 3: Most overrated fucking NBA coach in the league, and I
Speaker 3: that was slander.
Speaker 2: That was wrong, That was mean that and that was
Speaker 2: a lie. That was a lie.
Speaker 3: He found some soul searching, he did some things, and
Speaker 3: now he's like maybe one of the best coaches in
Speaker 3: the NBA. So what a uh, what a mis calculation
Speaker 3: on my part, I would say for him to be come.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was a coaching Canada the year this
Speaker 3: is the twelfth seed in the East and then four
Speaker 3: seed when he took over. One of my best memories
Speaker 3: was Trey Young basically telling all of Madison's squear garden
Speaker 3: to fuck off, all of them, like getting spit at him,
Speaker 3: just loving every second of being a villain. Like if
Speaker 3: if my personality was inside of a basketball player, that would.
Speaker 2: Be Trey Young.
Speaker 3: Like I am the Tray Young of the NBA space,
Speaker 3: Like not nearly as good as Shooter, but definitely someone
Speaker 3: who would like draw foulsand in like a fashion that
Speaker 3: should not actually be a foul, like pissing people off
Speaker 3: for no reason, just enjoying every moment of that.
Speaker 2: So all that to say, I love the Hawks.
Speaker 3: The Hawks are that that girl that went to high
Speaker 3: school that she was gangly and kind of nobody cared
Speaker 3: about her for like many years, and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, she goes.
Speaker 2: A summer camp and then you're like, God, damn, Sharon,
Speaker 2: you fucking are a batty Now, how did you? What
Speaker 2: did you do? Did you? What did you do? You
Speaker 2: fucked around and got some dick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got some makeup and you got some little personality,
Speaker 3: and you got some sex, and like you're good.
Speaker 2: Now. That's the Atlanta Hawks. That's them.
Speaker 5: And if the refs would not have sprayed Trey Young's ankle.
Speaker 5: They might have made it to the fucking Eastern Like,
Speaker 5: they could have made it to the finals. They could
Speaker 5: have beaten when Yannis was pretending to be hurt. They
Speaker 5: could have beaten the Bucks because Trey Young actually did
Speaker 5: sprain his ankle off of a ref literally undercutting Trey Young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you remember that, he literally undercut him. And
Speaker 3: then Trey Jung was Night Night sleep mask. They opened
Speaker 3: up the Saints in the offseason. They paid Trey They
Speaker 3: paid John Collins after much anticipation on whether they would.
Speaker 3: Clint Capella got paid two years, forty six million. They
Speaker 3: lost Kris Don Tony Snail, No one cares, and they
Speaker 3: added maybe the best backup in the league, Delon Wright
Speaker 3: Junior and Jalen Johnson in the draft, sleeper Sharif Cooper
Speaker 3: in the draft just just daytime robbery to get Sharif Cooper,
Speaker 3: like Shreif Cooper should have gone much earlier.
Speaker 2: So I don't even know.
Speaker 3: Like this team got better without really losing anything.
Speaker 2: They're still probably the most complete roster in the league.
Speaker 3: They're deep. They're getting DeAndre Hunter back from injury. He
Speaker 3: didn't play. Cam Reisch took a step once he got healthy, right,
Speaker 3: and Travis schlank.
Speaker 2: Is like, hey, we got a lot of cap space.
Speaker 3: There's a disgruntled free agent or disgruntled player on a
Speaker 3: team like Atlanta's a fun place, and Lemon Pepperloue, Lemon
Speaker 3: Pepperlou is gonna come off the bench probably give you
Speaker 3: some critical minutes when Trey Young hurts himself in the
Speaker 3: middle of the year, and Lemon pepper Loo's gonna step
Speaker 3: in and do Atlanta things because he loves it there.
Speaker 3: And let's be real, like Magic City's like very open
Speaker 3: right now, like it's a great place to eat wings.
Speaker 3: I've heard culinary masterpiece magic City and the entertainment I
Speaker 3: hear tremendous. So no one shocked that this team is good.
Speaker 3: How good? I think there's a lot of people wondering
Speaker 3: are the Atlanta Hawks going to regress?
Speaker 2: Was this a flash in the pan?
Speaker 3: They just struck Lightning had a grudge match against Embiid
Speaker 3: and Ben Simmons who literally choked on his own dick
Speaker 3: in Game seven, hideous, But yes, But I think the
Speaker 3: Hawks are hungry and if they can stay healthy, they're
Speaker 3: gonna put more than just Embiid on a T shirt.
Speaker 3: They're gonna put the league on notice. I think they're
Speaker 3: a three seed. They are so deep they put her
Speaker 3: ass to sleep deep. They're fun, they're talented, they're swaggy,
Speaker 3: They've got so much fucking pettiness inside of them.
Speaker 2: And you know what, if I didn't have a team
Speaker 2: on my own, I would be a Hawks fan.
Speaker 3: Prediction three seed, fifty five wins, team that's gonna be
Speaker 3: chasing regular season wins for fucking respect. New York Knicks
Speaker 3: team that played the Hawks, next up on this list.
Speaker 2: Why are they hard to predict?
Speaker 3: Because I have a hard time figuring them out because
Speaker 3: Kemba is Kemba is hard to predict. Will we see
Speaker 3: Kimba that was all NBA, or will we see Keimba
Speaker 3: that only plays forty games a year gives you twenty.
Speaker 2: And then nine and then twenty seven and then.
Speaker 3: Four, then fourteen, fourteen, fourteen. He's minus twenty for the
Speaker 3: like ten games straight. He's minus when he's on the floor.
Speaker 3: Or maybe he just fucking hated Boston. He continuously was
Speaker 3: on the record saying that the culture was suspect there,
Speaker 3: which meant Brad Stevens was checked all the way out.
Speaker 2: And that Danny Ainge was a thief and like the fan.
Speaker 3: Base was racist, and like all those things, you know, one, two, three, two.
Speaker 2: Three four.
Speaker 3: Get Kimba off that floor. He's like, I'm fucking out
Speaker 3: of here. Uh. And now he's back home. He's back
Speaker 3: home with Tibbs. Tibbs is evolving. TIBs is like, we're
Speaker 3: gonna shoot forty Three's a game now, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: allow load management. I'm not gonna run Keimba into the ground.
Speaker 3: Kember's already ran into the ground like he needs to.
Speaker 3: Just we're an injury prevention mode. Him and Derrick Rose
Speaker 3: in a renaissance. Tibb's first year in New York got
Speaker 3: them a fourth place finish and a borderline superstar and
Speaker 3: Julius Randall.
Speaker 2: They're not as good as the Hawks.
Speaker 3: That was a bad matchup for them, but they did
Speaker 3: get slightly better. They got rid of Alfred Payton and
Speaker 3: Frank Nilikina. I mean, Nilo ken is the reason they
Speaker 3: lost game one, right, He's the reason they lost the Hawks. Like,
Speaker 3: who knows what happens if Frank Nilakina doesn't turn into
Speaker 3: a s'more right there on national television, Like who knows
Speaker 3: like Evan Fournier. Evan Fournier is an Olympic perennial superstar. Yes,
Speaker 3: he got the French hope for the New York next
Speaker 3: got the absolute bag at as I would call it.
Speaker 2: That's the French bag, the French bagette.
Speaker 3: It's bread, it's a bag, it's baguette.
Speaker 2: Can he play defense? Can Kevin Evan forty a play defense?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Tibbs is going to make him try, though he will try.
Speaker 3: The return of Mitchell Robinson.
Speaker 2: Mitchell Robinson put on twenty five pounds of muscle since
Speaker 2: his injury. I don't even know how that's possible with that, ehgh.
Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna I'm not going to make any accusations.
Speaker 3: But d Rose is gonna have another solid season. Shout
Speaker 3: out to de Rose getting engaged. Emmanuel quickly is gonna
Speaker 3: continue to get better and like, actually, there may no
Speaker 3: be no stop in Obi Topin. Like Obie Topping was
Speaker 3: the summer League superstar. He I think this team could
Speaker 3: be forty five, forty six wins this season. Not a
Speaker 3: world beater, but I could very easily see them be
Speaker 3: a four or a five seed.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't shock me if there were six seed, seven seed.
Speaker 3: But that's what I think they'll be four top for
Speaker 3: is the absolute max.
Speaker 2: That they will be. Yeah, they're not any any better
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 3: Oh what do I say about the Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 3: ers that I haven't already said?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: I can say is I love you really first and foremost, Philly.
Speaker 3: I do love you because brought me to this place,
Speaker 3: this wonderful place called Odyssey. If it wasn't for you,
Speaker 3: Philly and your trash ass point guard who's really a
Speaker 3: power forward masquerading as a point guard with significant limitations
Speaker 3: in his mental makeup and arrogance, the size of this
Speaker 3: fucking studio, and yet someone who's not great in crunch time.
Speaker 3: Without that, without my prediction, that you would be exactly
Speaker 3: who you were.
Speaker 2: Who knows if I'd be to this place?
Speaker 3: Talk about bagattes like they gave the girl the bagette
Speaker 3: to leave. So Ben fucking Simmons technically the Sixers running
Speaker 3: it back again, swapping the Andre Drummond who embiid fucking
Speaker 3: hates uh out and Dwight Howard leaving for those living
Speaker 3: on are under a rock. Ben Simmons is currently with
Speaker 3: the team and not with the team. He's holding in.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's gonna play any games, if
Speaker 3: he's waiting to be traded.
Speaker 2: He's lost a bunch of game checks already.
Speaker 3: I think that's starting to get uncomfortable for him and
Speaker 3: Rich Paul, his agent.
Speaker 2: Rich Paul wants to get paid. Everybody wants to get paid.
Speaker 3: The bottom line is this, Darryl Moury, Daryl Mourray is
Speaker 3: trying to get multiple first round picks for Ben Simmons,
Speaker 3: and everybody knows that he's not worth a bunch of
Speaker 3: first round picks. These are all things that everyone in
Speaker 3: the NBA universe knows, But who the fuck knows how
Speaker 3: it's gonna end. I don't know. I do not know
Speaker 3: the best cases that they get brogged in and like
Speaker 3: justin holiday and maybe one first round for Ben Simmons.
Speaker 3: So the Sixers won the East last year, which was
Speaker 3: absolute fraudulent, like they were never going to win anything,
Speaker 3: Like they are going to be stretched.
Speaker 2: To be a four seed. In no way is this
Speaker 2: team contending.
Speaker 3: Doc Rivers is maybe one of the most overrated coaches
Speaker 3: in NBA. History had multiple Haull famers and only one
Speaker 3: ring to speak of. He's lost multiple series when he's
Speaker 3: been ahead. I don't even know the number. I think
Speaker 3: it's like something ridiculous, like ten six m BID when
Speaker 3: healthy is the league MVP, and I don't think it matters.
Speaker 3: Tobias Harris has had one good year. Fible's a great defender,
Speaker 3: Danny Green is back, Andrey Drummond is apparently said to
Speaker 3: look less like a statue than he has in past years.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, I don't Actually I'm gonna it's
Speaker 3: one of those things where they say, I'm I'm Missouri
Speaker 3: on this.
Speaker 2: Gonna have to show me, Gonna have to show me.
Speaker 3: And Beid also needs to show me he can play
Speaker 3: more than seventy five percent of the games.
Speaker 2: Like you got a big man who's got knee injuries
Speaker 2: and shoulderns.
Speaker 3: He's always on the floor, he's always on his back,
Speaker 3: like IG thought. I don't know, I don't know, I
Speaker 3: don't know. The bench is kind of shaky. Shake Milton
Speaker 3: and Isaiah Joe. I mean you literally, your your back
Speaker 3: cord is shake Milton. No shade to shake Milton, but
Speaker 3: your name is shak your name is Shak. Prediction time
Speaker 3: five seed, five seed at best Mystery teams, God damn,
Speaker 3: there's no mystery teams quite like the Miami Heat. No
Speaker 3: one disappointed me more than the Miami Heat.
Speaker 2: I actually thought they were gonna compete with the Monkey Bucks.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh yeah, I mean, like this thing could
Speaker 2: go seven.
Speaker 3: I know they've had COVID every other day, and I
Speaker 3: know that Jimmy Butler is upset. He's also starting a
Speaker 3: new coffee franchise. But like, listen, I like the Heat,
Speaker 3: I like the culture. Exposure is a good coach, pat
Speaker 3: Riley's a good GM and it's.
Speaker 2: You know, they did just go to the finals.
Speaker 1: So like just what just what?
Speaker 2: Like they just literally, like twelve months ago, just went.
Speaker 3: They were just there, just there, and they disappointed on
Speaker 3: every single level. Everyone underperformed. Nobody can get their own shot.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler was broke as fuck. He could not shoot
Speaker 3: a goddamn thing. Pat Riley was disappointing. Andrea Godalla was
Speaker 3: supposed to be a spark, but Andrea Goodalla is old then,
Speaker 3: like pat Riley wrote him like a thank you note
Speaker 3: and was like, I wish you could have seen us
Speaker 3: when like it wasn't COVID and like Andrea Goodaala is
Speaker 3: like fuck you. I never even bought an apartment anywhere,
Speaker 3: Like I literally got my house next to the facility.
Speaker 2: I rented an apartment a month a month because I
Speaker 2: knew you guys were cold, Us Fax cold blooded. Pat
Speaker 2: Riley could move you at any time.
Speaker 3: I literally didn't even sign a lease. Uh let's look
Speaker 3: at the departures the heat lost. Gordon Draggits, Trevor Ariza,
Speaker 3: Andre Gudala, b A Leicha precire Sechuwia, and Kendrick Nunn
Speaker 3: on paper that sounds better than that. That was honestly,
Speaker 3: like those guys didn't really do much. Gordon Draggage couldn't
Speaker 3: stay healthy, Andre Gudala couldn't be Andre Woodalla, Trevor, Trevor
Speaker 3: Ariza in and out of the lineup. B A.
Speaker 2: Leach is okay, pressure Schechewi, you can't shoot.
Speaker 3: Kendrick Nunn, he's okay, he's okay. Just didn't play. But
Speaker 3: three important pieces that they did add Mark Keith Morris.
Speaker 2: Not as good as Marcus, but he's pretty good. PJ.
Speaker 2: Tucker is a dog.
Speaker 3: And of course they they did everything they possibly could
Speaker 3: do to get Kyle Lowry and they got it. Lowry
Speaker 3: scene is one of the best pickups of the year.
Speaker 3: He was the bell of the ball. Everyone and their
Speaker 3: mother wanted Kyle Lowry, which is crazy for like a
Speaker 3: thirty seven year old kind of chubby point guard.
Speaker 2: But he is a dog. He is a dog. I mean, David.
Speaker 3: Griffin tried to burn down two franchises because he did
Speaker 3: not get Kyle Lowry in free agency. Tried to burn
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bulls down, tried to burn the Miami Heat down.
Speaker 2: I mean, and also you were a part of that trade.
Speaker 3: And like David Griffin and Lowry did a dozen does
Speaker 3: indeed make this team better. But like the Achilles heel
Speaker 3: is that this bench is really bad, Like this is
Speaker 3: paper thin, like literally garbage. Maybe one of the thinnest
Speaker 3: teens in the NBA. Tyler Hero Ever since he had
Speaker 3: a song with Jack Carlow, like, he hasn't been the same.
Speaker 2: That's just the case. He was going on tour with
Speaker 2: Jack Carlow and ever since then he can't get his
Speaker 2: own shot. So he took a huge step back.
Speaker 3: And I don't even mean like his step back, like
Speaker 3: I mean, he was awful pat Riley thinks he's like
Speaker 3: the second coming of pat Riley, so he wants to
Speaker 3: keep them around Kentucky boy, you know, like a smart
Speaker 3: snarl and shit and like the first coming of pat Riley.
Speaker 3: So the Heat, to me, are a wild card. They're
Speaker 3: not really gonna be built for the regular season because
Speaker 3: they're so thin. But when rotations get shorter, five, six,
Speaker 3: seven guys, they're gonna be a nightmare for anyone that
Speaker 3: they play in the first round, coming on like probably
Speaker 3: like a six seed, seven seed.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're playing, maybe they're not.
Speaker 3: But I don't think the Nets want any part of
Speaker 3: PJ on KD Part two, Like I don't think teams
Speaker 3: are going to enjoy the right to play the Heat
Speaker 3: in the first round, well they win anything, of note.
Speaker 3: I mean, your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: Indiana Pacers another mystery team. The roster's good, coach is good.
Speaker 2: I mean they're in Indiana. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: really know. I think they're gonna be better than the Bulls.
Speaker 3: I like Rick Carlisle. Like I said, I like the roster.
Speaker 3: I like their new rookie, christ wal Go. Ducks the
Speaker 3: biggest addition to the roster is a completely new coach.
Speaker 3: I didn't hate Nick bu Orkrim, but he got absolutely
Speaker 3: buried in the media about like things that weren't even true.
Speaker 3: Rick Carlisle isn't upgrade. They've added Tory Craig. Tory Craig
Speaker 3: is a dog like Tory Craig will give them significant minutes.
Speaker 3: They got Chris Dorte in the draft. He's ready to
Speaker 3: step up now. They lost dougm Douggie Buckets, Doug McDermott.
Speaker 3: They lost Aaron Holliday and Edmen Summer Sumner. Edmund Sumner
Speaker 3: hard to say out loud. And the biggest issue for
Speaker 3: them is probably injuries. Kros Lavert not only did he
Speaker 3: suffer a stress fact fracture in his back, he also
Speaker 3: had cancer, like just less than six months ago.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long it's going to be until
Speaker 2: he's back. TJ.
Speaker 3: Warren is in a walking boot after playing four games
Speaker 3: all of last year. Miles Turner is somehow like still
Speaker 3: on the team, even though he wants to be traded.
Speaker 2: PACER's said to be in the Ben Simmons lottery. Like
Speaker 2: all of this to say like things.
Speaker 3: Are in disarray, like franchise is the cheapest franchise in
Speaker 3: the league, like they never want to pay anyone. They
Speaker 3: really are content to just be middle of the road
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference, and that's probably exactly what they'll
Speaker 3: be good. The team did make a push to sign
Speaker 3: re sign a lot of their best players. They've got,
Speaker 3: you know, Sabonis, Sprogden, Laverne, McConnell, Turner.
Speaker 2: They can do some damage.
Speaker 3: They could also look absolutely great one game where you're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a wizard's they're gonna beat gonna go to the
Speaker 3: next first round. Who knows that they could do play this,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, like they lose by fifty,
Speaker 3: like that that is them. They can look amazing one
Speaker 3: night and then I like text the GM and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 3: your boys look good. He's like, yeah, tonight. That's that's all.
Speaker 2: You need to know.
Speaker 3: When your GM is like, tonight, we look good, that's
Speaker 3: all you really need to know. Prediction time Indiana Pacers. Oh,
Speaker 3: gun in my head, Gun to my head, Gun to
Speaker 3: my head. Eight seed, the next best, but they could
Speaker 3: be better. They could be a sixth seed. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but they're they're the biggest mystery. Next best like they
Speaker 3: are a mystery and also have some significant issues.
Speaker 2: Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Toronto. Let's start with Boston.
Speaker 3: I've got some finally, some good news for Boston fans.
Speaker 3: You actually have a coach that can like coach like,
Speaker 3: can motivate his players. He has a dog like Brad
Speaker 3: Stevens was coaching no One. He is absolutely the least
Speaker 3: motivational coach I've ever seen in my entire life. Like
Speaker 3: he is such a butler head coach, like just run
Speaker 3: in the mill, wonderbread fucking college coach. Ugh. The fact
Speaker 3: that he got put into the NBA just made absolutely
Speaker 3: no sense. He's like the Sean the less charismatic version
Speaker 3: of Sean McVeigh, where like you came out of nowhere
Speaker 3: just because you were a boy.
Speaker 2: Wonder.
Speaker 3: Udoka Emai Udoka, new coach of the Boston Celtics, is
Speaker 3: a fucking gamer.
Speaker 2: I like him. He's a Portland boy, so I know him. Well.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna let the Seas go down by ten
Speaker 3: in forty three games this year. Let me just alert alert.
Speaker 3: The Celtics went down by ten points or more in
Speaker 3: forty three games this year. They got turned like butter
Speaker 3: just gross roster changed, Los Fournier, Camba, Moses Walker, Tristan Thompson,
Speaker 3: Chris Dunn. There was some movement with Chris Dunn, Sami Old,
Speaker 3: Julay Carson Edwards, Taco Fall, Luke Cornett, so pretty much
Speaker 3: two thirds of the roster is gone. They added Al Horford,
Speaker 3: Enus Canter, Josh Richardson, Dennis Schreuder, Bruno Fernando and Juancho
Speaker 3: Ernin Gomez, the bad Erning Gomez.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I am not sure.
Speaker 3: If that is an upgrade. I really actually don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I really don't know. You have Tatum
Speaker 3: and Jaylen Brown. That's all you can really say for sure.
Speaker 3: I am here to temper Boston's optimism right now. Well,
Speaker 3: I think I already did based on what I just said.
Speaker 3: But here's more. The two J's were healthy, played together
Speaker 3: last year, and they were twenty eight and twenty three.
Speaker 3: The two J's were healthy and play together only twenty
Speaker 3: eight games last year. Or when the two J's were
Speaker 3: healthy and they played together last year, they played fifty
Speaker 3: one games. They were twenty eight and twenty three. That
Speaker 3: is not exactly what you would expect fielding a starting
Speaker 3: lineup of two All Stars Dennis Shruder cele I mean,
Speaker 3: for folks on TikTok, Who fuck did Dennis Shruder think
Speaker 3: he is? Like? Dennis Shruder thought he was worth twenty
Speaker 3: six million dollars a year and he got five. Horford
Speaker 3: got literally paid last season to not play with Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3: They said, don't even come to practice. He thinks he's
Speaker 3: gonna start this guy zero people know what to expect
Speaker 3: from him.
Speaker 2: I don't trust out Horford. I don't trust Josh Richardson.
Speaker 3: All of the Josh Richardson highlights that you see are
Speaker 3: when he was playing for the Miami Heat, which was
Speaker 3: two teams ago, wasn't.
Speaker 2: Philly, wasn't MAVs, literally two teams ago.
Speaker 3: He has not played well since before the bubble and
Speaker 3: hiss Canter is one of the nicest guys in the NBA.
Speaker 3: He can put up buckets, he can't guard anybody. They
Speaker 3: flipped over half the roster and I don't even know
Speaker 3: if they got better. I don't even know if they
Speaker 3: got worse.
Speaker 2: I can't tell. And even healthy, they're.
Speaker 3: Not competing with the Bucks, They're not competing with the Nets,
Speaker 3: they're not competing with the Hawks.
Speaker 2: I don't even think they compete with the sixers, and
Speaker 2: they're in disarray.
Speaker 3: So I mean, IRV Grousbeck, the owner went on WI
Speaker 3: and declared, Hey, we're not in a real rebuild, We're
Speaker 3: just in like a complete overhaul. He's like, I'm not
Speaker 3: afraid of saying the word rebuild.
Speaker 2: We're just not in a rebuild.
Speaker 3: We're in a complete overhaul, a retool.
Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of any words.
Speaker 3: Listen, IRV grouse Bek, your team doesn't make any goddamn sense.
Speaker 3: I say my prediction seven seed at best, first round
Speaker 3: bounce though they might even get they might even get
Speaker 3: bounced out of the play in. That's how weird this
Speaker 3: team is. And the next offseason you're gonna think you
Speaker 3: think you think you're setting yourself up to get Bradley Beal,
Speaker 3: And let me just be very very clear, you're not
Speaker 3: getting Bradlee Beal. He doesn't want to play for you.
Speaker 3: Never ever going to happen, under no circumstance will brad
Speaker 3: Beil ever be a Celtics.
Speaker 2: I know you signed a bunch of guys, and try
Speaker 2: to make that trade happen. Try to make those trade,
Speaker 2: that roster swap equal.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen, and I know that for a
Speaker 3: goddamn fact. Tough, tough when you have all those banners,
Speaker 3: things you hate to see. Charlotte Hornets a team truthfully
Speaker 3: much better than the Boston Celtics, much more exciting, much
Speaker 3: more complete roster, better management, less ego, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, except for Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3: But like still, I think that they're probably one of
Speaker 3: the most improved teams in the league. Exciting season was
Speaker 3: mostly derailed by injuries. I think they take a huge
Speaker 3: step forward. The Hornets lost a ton of offense. They
Speaker 3: lost Malik Monk, Cody Zeller, Devonte Graham, but they added
Speaker 3: Kelly Rubray, Ishchmith, Mason Plumley, and James Booknight and JT.
Speaker 3: Thor also Kai Jones to the draft. It's an exciting team.
Speaker 3: Miles Bridge is very good. We're gonna see what Kelly
Speaker 3: Lubray can do. Kelly Ubray thinks very highly of himself.
Speaker 3: He said last year he would be able to do
Speaker 3: what Kevin Durant did for the Warriors. Then that was
Speaker 3: a lie. Kelly Ubray. Kelly Ubray can defend. He loves
Speaker 3: to shoot like he loves to chuck it up fifty times,
Speaker 3: everybody's like, oh, Trista, aren't you worried that Kelly Ubre
Speaker 3: is just gonna be inconsistent bring this team down, like
Speaker 3: this team lived through the age of Malik Monk. Like
Speaker 3: Malik Monk sometimes had forty, sometimes had DMPs when he
Speaker 3: was on the floor, like he was on the floor.
Speaker 2: Getting dnps very hard to do. It's very hard to do.
Speaker 3: I know who will be consistent, and his name is PJ.
Speaker 3: Washington because he's going to be playing for his fucking life.
Speaker 3: Because ig thought Britty Renner has taken his child, has
Speaker 3: taken all of his game checks. I think he's actually
Speaker 3: living in an air mattress in Miles Bridge's extra bedroom.
Speaker 3: Like I think that's he to get an extra He
Speaker 3: needs a new contract and he needs some respect. Mason
Speaker 3: Plumley is definitely better than Cody Zeller. Cody Zeller can't
Speaker 3: even stay healthy in training camp. He already broke his nose.
Speaker 3: We haven't even gotten to a game of the season,
Speaker 3: so that's how clumsy Cody Zeller is. Kai Jones and
Speaker 3: book Night I think will be impact players. Like Booknight
Speaker 3: is maybe one of my sleeper rookie of the years,
Speaker 3: So I think they got better, but I think the
Speaker 3: East did too. My prediction, there's a lot of six
Speaker 3: seed predictions in here. Succeed succeed, I don't know succeed
Speaker 3: so many six seed predictions, Oh Brock. I have people
Speaker 3: that I work with that are on my show that
Speaker 3: are sold on the Chicago Bulls. Really they said that
Speaker 3: they might be the most improved team in the NBA.
Speaker 3: I am going to be very honest and say that
Speaker 3: person is on drugs. Well, that person has been taken
Speaker 3: in the Bulls juice and he is very high on
Speaker 3: the Bulls hype train. This team has had massive roster
Speaker 3: changes since last season. They've added Lonzo ball To, Martin Rosen,
Speaker 3: Derek Jones Junior, Alex Caruso, Tony Bradlee, Io De soun
Speaker 3: Mu via the draft. They lost Tom Thomas, Staranski, Garrett Temple,
Speaker 3: Daniel Tice, Thaddeus Young, Alfa Rukamino, and Lori Markinen. God
Speaker 3: that like was hard to say all those names. They
Speaker 3: lost so many, Like I lost my breath saying them
Speaker 3: out loud.
Speaker 1: Quite a roster of name.
Speaker 3: This is probably one of the better starting lineups in
Speaker 3: the league. If big, if they can actually play together,
Speaker 3: Zach Lavine and Lonzo work like a hand in a glove.
Speaker 3: How does Jamarta Rosen fit into this?
Speaker 2: I don't know. How does Derek Jones Junior fit into this?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Patrick Williams coming off of a high ankles brain he'll
Speaker 3: be gone out eight weeks. He's not even in the
Speaker 3: roster right now. He's probably he's not even in the
Speaker 3: lneup right now. He's probably going to be the most
Speaker 3: critical piece to make this team make sense. And he's
Speaker 3: not even gonna be a year. He's gone till December.
Speaker 3: So you can pretty much walk across this roster and say,
Speaker 3: I don't understand it.
Speaker 2: It's weak.
Speaker 3: And it's also the roster that is the starting five
Speaker 3: they can score and they can't defend, and the rotation
Speaker 3: guys they can defend and they can't score. I don't
Speaker 3: know how you make that make sense. The only thing
Speaker 3: that you could say, how do we work that?
Speaker 2: How does that work?
Speaker 3: The only thing you could say is like, oh, a
Speaker 3: great coach could make this work.
Speaker 2: Update.
Speaker 3: Billy Donovan still coaches the Chicago Bulls, and he is
Speaker 3: not a good coach.
Speaker 2: He's not a great coach.
Speaker 3: He deserves to be at Florida still like he's not great.
Speaker 2: It's compounded by.
Speaker 3: The fact that there's high expectations for this team. I
Speaker 3: think they believe they're the top three team in the East,
Speaker 3: and they are not.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: You spent all that money to be a playing team.
Speaker 2: You didn't even have to do that.
Speaker 3: They could have been a playing team last year if
Speaker 3: zachly Vien didn't get COVID at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: They were like a five or six seed.
Speaker 3: And now when that happens, when you get the playing
Speaker 3: tournament and Zach Levine's contract is up and he wants
Speaker 3: max money, ownership doesn't want to pay him that max money,
Speaker 3: then what happens.
Speaker 2: Then you got a Lonzo Ball and an old aster.
Speaker 3: Mar de rozen and Ucevich who literally is like can't
Speaker 3: can't defend, Like he made your team worse when he
Speaker 3: got there from Orlando, and I think he gave up
Speaker 3: four first rounders for him and the goat Alex Crusoe
Speaker 3: but he doesn't like to shoot. And Derek Jones Junior,
Speaker 3: he's just got tree. He's got he's a trampoline and
Speaker 3: that's pretty much it. Like he's a dunker, and I mean,
Speaker 3: what else can you really say so. Do you think
Speaker 3: that Zack Levine is gonna get a max contract after that?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think Zach Lavine leaves right
Speaker 3: prediction time. Nine seed could be a seven, could be
Speaker 3: a nine. Hine could be a ten. Six could be
Speaker 3: a six. Sixes sixes are pretty much my non middle
Speaker 3: Toronto Raptors team of shape shifters.
Speaker 2: They could be a three seed or they could be
Speaker 2: a ten seed.
Speaker 3: This is a five hundred team, probably maybe better.
Speaker 2: They're back in Toronto.
Speaker 3: This team was number two in the Eastern Conference before
Speaker 3: the league shutdown, number two in the Eastern Conference in
Speaker 3: March twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: I love what massai Ugieri does.
Speaker 3: They got rid of Kyle Lowry, who is coming up
Speaker 3: on a contract extension.
Speaker 2: He's way too old. They got Scottie Barnes.
Speaker 3: Somehow they got into the lottery because they just played
Speaker 3: so horribly when they were in Tampa. Now you've got
Speaker 3: Scottie Barnes, Pascal Siakam Bouchet, Gary Trent Junior, precious to Chuwia.
Speaker 3: Every guy is somewhere between sixty five and sixty nine.
Speaker 3: I love that they're gonna be able to get matchups
Speaker 3: that they like, they're gonna be able to switch everything.
Speaker 3: They're gonna be able to play defense, They're gonna be
Speaker 3: able to shoot. They've got Sam Decker.
Speaker 2: Sam Decker in the corner if he ends up making
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 3: They can guard multiple possessions. Like I said, they can
Speaker 3: all handle the rock. Don't sleep on them, sleep on him.
Speaker 3: They can get their chemistry back and Pascal Siaka's not
Speaker 3: cussing out Nick Nurse on the sidelines, then they could
Speaker 3: actually be his three seed. They could actually like sneak
Speaker 3: their way in. I don't I don't sleep on Nick Nurse.
Speaker 3: Probably one of the best coach teams in the league.
Speaker 3: And now that they're home, they are going to be
Speaker 3: a surprise. People think they're gonna be a twelve. I
Speaker 3: think they're closer to a six.
Speaker 2: Bottom of the barrel. Trash ass teams.
Speaker 3: Trash ass teams Cleveland, Detroit, Orlando, Washington. I mean Cleveland
Speaker 3: faces so many issues I don't even know. I mean one,
Speaker 3: Kevin Love doesn't want to play for them. He's not
Speaker 3: going to play games. He is getting paid a lot
Speaker 3: of money, he's not going to accept a buy out,
Speaker 3: and he's finaggled his way into making sixty more million dollars,
Speaker 3: getting kicked off the Olympic team and.
Speaker 2: Hanging out with his girlfriend.
Speaker 3: He's happy to sit out the remainder of the year,
Speaker 3: just yucking it up on the bench or yucking it
Speaker 3: up wherever he's at around the world.
Speaker 2: Second big issue Evan Mobley.
Speaker 3: Not sure why they drafted him. Not sure, still skeptical.
Speaker 3: And they signed Lauri Markanen and they have Jared Allen.
Speaker 3: So you have like three seven footers that are supposed
Speaker 3: to share time, maybe be on the floor at the
Speaker 3: same time. Don't understand that. Not sure?
Speaker 2: JB.
Speaker 3: Bickerstaff, Let's be honest. He doesn't know how to navigate
Speaker 3: three seven footers. He doesn't know how to navigate two
Speaker 3: seven footers. Seems like they should just add Ben Simmons
Speaker 3: start the entire like six' ten. Team all guys that
Speaker 3: can't play the ah guys who just played defense can't.
Speaker 3: Shoot third issue Is Colin. SEXTON i don't know if
Speaker 3: you know, this but like everyone Hates Colin. SEXTON gms
Speaker 3: went on the record today and said he's an. Asshole
Speaker 3: really not only is a backup point, guard he thinks
Speaker 3: he's a starting point. Guard and his entire roster fucking hates.
Speaker 3: Him other teams heckle the rest of The Cleveland cavs
Speaker 3: and they, say, Hey Colin sexton is not gonna like
Speaker 3: share the ball with. You what's it like to play
Speaker 3: on a team where you never talk the? Rock Colin
Speaker 3: sexton just basically takes it to the hoop every single.
Speaker 3: Time this is a wreck.
Speaker 4: That seems like it would be.
Speaker 2: Problematic, yes, yes and now he's the subject Optimal.
Speaker 3: No now he's the subject of trade, rumors which doesn't
Speaker 3: give you the warm and fuzzy feeling when you return
Speaker 3: back to that team and you were shopped all off.
Speaker 2: Season that's not gonna blow up at. All he is a.
Speaker 2: Chucker he is a reckless.
Speaker 3: Chucker Darius garland And sexton do not MATCH cj And
Speaker 3: Damian lillard esque sort of, matchup WHICH i can tell
Speaker 3: you respectfully as A Portland Trail blazer, fan did not
Speaker 3: work out.
Speaker 2: The roster's out of.
Speaker 3: Sorts this team was gonna win how many games they
Speaker 3: won last year twenty two games out of seventy.
Speaker 2: TWO i would have taken the.
Speaker 3: UNDER i say they win twenty again twenty twenty twenty
Speaker 3: to twenty three games right they.
Speaker 2: ARE i, mean we don't even need to say where
Speaker 2: they're on the.
Speaker 3: Standings it doesn't. Matter they're layer a lottery. Team Detroit,
Speaker 3: PISTONS i love.
Speaker 2: IT i love.
Speaker 3: Them for a team that's so, trash they're gonna be super.
Speaker 3: FUN i Like Dwayne, CASEY i Trust Troy. WEAVER i
Speaker 3: really Like Jeremy. Grant The pistons were my league past
Speaker 3: team of The year last.
Speaker 2: YEAR i.
Speaker 3: WATCHED i, mean it's sort of sick how Many Detroit
Speaker 3: pistons GAMES i. Watched. Honestly they Lost Mason, plumley Seku Wayne,
Speaker 3: ellington julil okafor And Dennis smith. Junior but they Added
Speaker 3: kelly O. Linok he's a good veteran. Presidence he can
Speaker 3: pass his ass. Off they Drafted Ked, cunningham they Drafted Luca,
Speaker 3: garza they drafted sleeper Pick Isaiah. Livers Sidiq bay is
Speaker 3: a good. Player he can score. Buckets he's, versatile he
Speaker 3: can play like a big. Guard you can get five
Speaker 3: rebounds a. Game Jeremy grant Got olympic. Experience Ye Sadan
Speaker 3: lee is probably one of those sneaky players you've never
Speaker 3: heard of until they do a whole ringer piece on
Speaker 3: him Like March Sadan lee transforming Motor, city like just
Speaker 3: wait for, it just wait for. IT i don't care
Speaker 3: That Kay cuttingham is a bus. Face he does have
Speaker 3: a bus. Face, YEAH i hope that he becomes a transformational.
Speaker 3: Talent The pistons are a couple of years from, winning
Speaker 3: but they are well on their. Way and for a
Speaker 3: team that's, trash they're still. Fun how many wins they
Speaker 3: had nineteen? WINS i know exactly how many wins they
Speaker 3: had last year BECAUSE i watched every game.
Speaker 2: Nineteen wins last. YEAR i watched every one of.
Speaker 3: THEM i.
Speaker 2: Think there's twenty, three twenty four. Wins Orlando, magic.
Speaker 3: Oh, MAN i. DON'T i never muster up enough energy for. Them,
Speaker 3: honestly they are a, sad sad sack of. Folks, Yes
Speaker 3: markel folks came From philly where they treated him, wrong
Speaker 3: and then he had a nice little beginning of the.
Speaker 3: Season they TOWARDS. Acl now they have a million. Guards
Speaker 3: they've Got Jalen, Suggs they've got, Him they've got who
Speaker 3: else is on that?
Speaker 2: Squad got Call anthony one.
Speaker 3: Guard they've Got Michael, Carter, Williams Markel FOLTZ.
Speaker 2: Rj, Hampton Gary, harris, Obviously Jalen, Suggs Terrence.
Speaker 3: Ross they've Got moe And Franz wagner on the same,
Speaker 3: team which should never. Happen but, literally they have six
Speaker 3: guards on this. Team they're gonna have to move. Some
Speaker 3: they're not gonna win.
Speaker 2: A lot of.
Speaker 3: Games they are plus one hundred thousand to win the,
Speaker 3: title plus thirty thousand to win The. East they are
Speaker 3: one thousand to one long shots to win it. All
Speaker 3: they are three thousand and one to get to the.
Speaker 3: FINALS i feel like, that AND i just don't think
Speaker 3: it's even like long enough. Shots, yeah that seems. Low
Speaker 3: that seems. Low they have a new, Coach jamal Murt.
Speaker 3: MOSELEY i really like. Him he's inheriting in a net
Speaker 3: team that finished twenty second and three point attempts twenty
Speaker 3: six then makes twenty seventh and long ranged accuracy twenty
Speaker 3: ninth in offensive. Rating they are fucking. Trash they are
Speaker 3: going to remain trash from now until. Forever, yes prediction.
Speaker 3: Time literally the last last record in THE. Nba they
Speaker 3: are last. Place they're gross maybe fifteen, wins seventeen wins
Speaker 3: Unless Jalen suggs becomes Just. BATMAN i just don't see.
Speaker 3: IT i do not see. It, yeah Gross Washington. Wizards
Speaker 3: AM i A Washington wizards?
Speaker 2: FAN i THINK i.
Speaker 3: Am i'm living here IN dc. AGAIN i don't know
Speaker 3: how to feel about. It they always break my. Heart
Speaker 3: they executed the biggest trade of the off. Season they
Speaker 3: had like eight or nine teams that was necessary to
Speaker 3: facilitate this. Trade they sound rest to The lakers for
Speaker 3: half their, team which was later expanded to Include Spencer
Speaker 3: dinwitty and five other, teams making it more complicated Than
Speaker 3: Spencer dinwitty trying to get bitcoin to be how he
Speaker 3: ends up getting his contract. Salaries he also wanted like
Speaker 3: he has a new bitcoin. Company he wanted The wizards
Speaker 3: to like make so. Complicated So Wizards Gale Aaron, HOLLIDAY,
Speaker 3: Kcp Kyle, Kuzma Mantres, Harrold Spencer, dinwiddie and signing draft
Speaker 3: Picks Isaiah todd And Corey. Kispert they Lost Russ Alex,
Speaker 3: lenz Thank, God Is, Schmith Chandler, hutchinson Is Isak.
Speaker 2: Banga And Robin.
Speaker 3: Lopez, Also Rui hachimura has not been with the. Team
Speaker 3: he unfollowed all of his teammates On instagram he's finally
Speaker 3: back with the, team and new coach West Unsale junior is, like,
Speaker 3: YEAH i think it'll be difficult For ruie to play
Speaker 3: well given the fact that he hasn't been here in
Speaker 3: like three. Months so, wow not he's A he's a
Speaker 3: key piece of this. ROSTER i don't know how well
Speaker 3: they're going to. Play they do have, guys they, like,
Speaker 3: sneaky have. Guys they're gonna be a team that goes
Speaker 3: up by fifteen or twenty and loses by three in.
Speaker 3: Overtime that's them also again, again and Brad beil is still,
Speaker 3: unvaxed apparently seemingly out of it and probably not going
Speaker 3: to be able to play in some games on the.
Speaker 2: Road and so This wizard's team is a.
Speaker 3: Mystery they could easily be a seven seed or they
Speaker 3: could completely miss the. Plan SO i don't. Know they
Speaker 3: are going to be fun to. Watch Quentin mayo reported
Speaker 3: That Montres harrow has picked up something That Bradley bial
Speaker 3: often says to the, team where The Washington wizards Bro
Speaker 3: we've been overlooked, Forever AND i think.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to say they're going to continue
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: Overlooked, yes because they're going to continue to be irrelevant, forever, forever.
Speaker 3: FOREVER i hope, not BUT i think that's. True And
Speaker 3: Bradley bill apparently doesn't care about winning a. Championship he's
Speaker 3: just going to continue to get his game. Checks he's
Speaker 3: going to continue to get max. Money he's going absolutely.
Speaker 3: Nowhere he loves this. Community he apparently loves this community
Speaker 3: more than he loves.
Speaker 2: Winning and you know, What i'm not here to knock.
Speaker 2: Him that is his.
Speaker 3: Decision that is his, right his, body his. Choice that
Speaker 3: is all the time that we have for this league. Podcast,
Speaker 3: no that is all the time that we have for
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Speaker 3: WEDNESDAY i don't know that It's, wednesday AND i think
Speaker 3: we're Recording. Wednesday, wednesday So, Thursday i'm going.
Speaker 2: To be In New.
Speaker 3: York i'm gonna be In New, york So wednesday night
Speaker 3: with Our Western conference. Preview there you, go so many
Speaker 3: more teams to get, to so little time community.
Speaker 2: Today that's, great all, right all, right what type of.
Speaker 2: Shoot is it for this