Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check, it's time for
Speaker 1: the Rookie Report, your weekly check in on the rookies
Speaker 1: in the league, how they're doing. We got a week
Speaker 1: left until Christmas, people, so let's check in with Eve's Missy.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, who is that exactly? Anthony dropped that
Speaker 1: motherfucking beat That should be Rihanna. The Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year race seemed like it was pretty much solidly for
Speaker 1: one player, and then it was upended when the runaway favorite,
Speaker 1: Jared McCain of the Philadelphia seventy six ers, went down
Speaker 1: with a meniscus tear, had surgery, will miss end of time,
Speaker 1: and now is out indefinitely, putting his campaign in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: So now the race is back to being wide open, folks,
Speaker 1: which is why the second favorite to win right now
Speaker 1: at plus two twenty five is someone that no one
Speaker 1: expected in a place that everyone has lost interest in.
Speaker 1: No one is watching the Big Ease. Uh. To say
Speaker 1: things have not gone swimmingly in New Orleans would be
Speaker 1: probably the understatement of the year. Right. You got Zion,
Speaker 1: you got bi you got CJ. McCollum, you got Trey Murphy,
Speaker 1: you got HERB Jones you got Jose Alvarado's among others,
Speaker 1: among others who have spent significant time on the IR
Speaker 1: often at the same time. Brendan Ingram is on an
Speaker 1: expiring He has proven to be untradeable. Now there is
Speaker 1: not even a timetable for Zion's return. Speculation that the
Speaker 1: Peals might burn down the house is a running rampant
Speaker 1: because New Orleans sits with the worst record in the
Speaker 1: NBA on the cusp of Christmas and are twenty sixth
Speaker 1: in the NBA in attendance and falling. Remember this is
Speaker 1: the same team that close to the end of the
Speaker 1: year last year, you could get courtside tickets for the
Speaker 1: price of a smoothie at the Smoothie King Arena. What
Speaker 1: does a Pelicans fan have going for them to get
Speaker 1: out of the bed in the morning. Not much this year,
Speaker 1: with the exception of Eve's Missy real quick, because I
Speaker 1: forgot to say this joke. Remember also, the Pelicans are
Speaker 1: so bad with injuries. You got Dison Daniels throwing ricochet
Speaker 1: shots from the clouds in Atlanta saying I'm so glad
Speaker 1: I don't work for them anymore. They're cursed. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: a hammy a hip, a knee, an ankle, sheesh. Back
Speaker 1: to Eve's Missy, I will forgive you if you don't
Speaker 1: know who he is. That's why I'm here. Six' eleven
Speaker 1: center out Of, baylor by the, way a camera. Ruin
Speaker 1: he was born In, belgium moved To, Maryland, california and Then.
Speaker 1: Texas he got he's a. Turp, no he's not a,
Speaker 1: turf but that's what people say From. Maryland he got
Speaker 1: drafted twenty first overall by The pels last, year and
Speaker 1: due to the hospital wing that Is New, orleans he
Speaker 1: has gotten off some serious run a lot earlier than people.
Speaker 1: Expected and you know, what he's actually pretty damn. Good
Speaker 1: after somewhat of a slow. Start my Man eves has been.
Speaker 1: Cooking in his last ten. Games he's averaging a double
Speaker 1: double thirteen and, eleven fifty seven percent from the field
Speaker 1: and two point three stocks per, game and a negative
Speaker 1: six point two net, rating which for a team as
Speaker 1: bad as The pelicans is pretty. GOOD a guy playing
Speaker 1: for a team has lost nine of those ten games
Speaker 1: is pretty. Respectable and the crazy thing is the twenty
Speaker 1: year old just started playing hoops just three years. Ago
Speaker 1: he has gone from a raw college recruit to AN nba,
Speaker 1: starter which is fucking insane in two years his. College
Speaker 1: Scott drew said this about him. Recently for someone who's
Speaker 1: only played basketball for two and a half three, years
Speaker 1: his future is really. Bright he deserves all the credit
Speaker 1: for putting in the, work being really. Coachable he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys you only have to show him once
Speaker 1: and he does. It there are so many international centers
Speaker 1: who come into the league with physical skills to, play
Speaker 1: but lack either focus or they like drive and missy
Speaker 1: not that he's the opposite of. That he's hustling on
Speaker 1: both ends of the. Floor he's crashing the, boards he's
Speaker 1: protecting the. Rim Coach Willie green said this After eve's
Speaker 1: put up eighteen and fourteen with three stocks last week
Speaker 1: against Wen Beinyamma, time who he actually held for five
Speaker 1: for twelve from the field in a two point. Loss he,
Speaker 1: said the biggest thing About eve's every single, practice shoot around,
Speaker 1: game he competes at the highest level he. Can he
Speaker 1: gives you everything he, has starting with that allows him
Speaker 1: to step on the floor and play with the best.
Speaker 1: Players perfect example of how hustle and hard work and
Speaker 1: being from six to Eleven. Cameroon trump's, talent not saying
Speaker 1: That eaves isn't, talented but he would tell you that
Speaker 1: he is way behind other people when it comes to
Speaker 1: basketball because of his late. Start how good has he.
Speaker 1: Played he was sixty to one to Win rookie of
Speaker 1: The year when the league's got, going and they have
Speaker 1: now dropped him to plus two twenty, five the second
Speaker 1: favorite to win it. All the biggest knock against him
Speaker 1: is his net rating so far this, season better only
Speaker 1: Than Bub, Carrington ALEX R Kyle philipowski among. Rookies but
Speaker 1: he plays for a trash, team so you have to expect,
Speaker 1: that and that's a STAT i really wouldn't worry about
Speaker 1: for a rookie on a trash. Team the best compliment
Speaker 1: that you can pay him is via our, Guy Jake
Speaker 1: fisher on The, steinline who said that he's being told
Speaker 1: the Entire pelican's roster is for sale except For Herb,
Speaker 1: Jones Trey murphy And Eve's. Missy not bad for a
Speaker 1: guy a third year way through your rookie. Season that's
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