Speaker 1: If you're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, I think Steph
Speaker 2: Curry is God.
Speaker 3: I think he might be God.
Speaker 2: I am here to tell you I have some new
Speaker 2: thoughts about Steph Curry.
Speaker 3: I see him in a completely different light.
Speaker 2: I think churches are gonna start popping up with his
Speaker 2: name on him.
Speaker 3: Is he the best point guard ever in life? In history?
Speaker 3: Over Magic Johnson? I think he might be. We also
Speaker 3: get into that.
Speaker 2: As well as how the regular season does not matter
Speaker 2: at all to championship caliber teams. That is very obvious.
Speaker 2: Now we will also touch on some news from around
Speaker 2: the league. My Lord, the first round is over, and
Speaker 2: boy was it memorable. So do me a favor, Nick
Speaker 2: and drop that beat that should be reON, Lord, have
Speaker 2: mercy wardell Stephan Curry. If you haven't seen Steph's performance
Speaker 2: in Game seven against the Kinks, and you haven't seen
Speaker 2: the highlights, you should probably just stop this podcast right
Speaker 2: now and go watch it. What we saw, what we
Speaker 2: witnessed was the elevation from legend to God to godhood
Speaker 2: or maybe possibly Goathood, as we will get to as well.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry did things that we've only seen in NBA
Speaker 2: jam and we are going to be talking about this
Speaker 2: performance forever. Fifty years from now, people are gonna be
Speaker 2: talking about this Game seven performance. So after the embarrassment
Speaker 2: of Game six where our dubs got blown out at
Speaker 2: the crib in the largest loss of the Steve Kerr.
Speaker 3: Era, Steph was not taking no chances with that whole
Speaker 3: one team one dream bullshit.
Speaker 2: No, it was it is gonna be Steph's show, and
Speaker 2: that happened from the very tip off. If they were
Speaker 2: gonna lose, it was not gonna be because Jordan Poole
Speaker 2: was looking at Baddie's court side and was turning the
Speaker 2: ball over ten times.
Speaker 3: That's just not what was gonna happen.
Speaker 2: And what we got, I think was probably better than
Speaker 2: his teammates could have even anticipated. The best Game seven
Speaker 2: performance in NBA history. Let me say that again, that
Speaker 2: was the best Game seven performance in the history of
Speaker 2: the NBA in existence. Steph put up a fifty piece
Speaker 2: against probably their best foe since the.
Speaker 3: Probably twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Calves, Lebron Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving and a bunch of
Speaker 2: those role players. It was Electricity. Kings led by two
Speaker 2: at half, but you knew what time it was. Steph
Speaker 2: already had twenty in the first half, already had twenty.
Speaker 2: Fox was struggling to get going, and you're like, man,
Speaker 2: it's only a matter of time before they break this
Speaker 2: thing open. It's just we are just waiting for the
Speaker 2: dam to burst. And you would think maybe Mike Brown
Speaker 2: would have made some adjustments because he coached against or
Speaker 2: with Curry for eight years during his time coaching the
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3: But no, he did not.
Speaker 2: He had nothing up his sleeve to stop Steph Curry
Speaker 2: from doing Steph Curry things. And Steph even though in
Speaker 2: the second half the Kings knew that they had to
Speaker 2: put more attention and pressure on Curry, he would think, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe second half he like just puts up eighteen or sixteen.
Speaker 3: No, he's actually better. In the second half with.
Speaker 2: Everyone scheming and game planning to shut him down, he
Speaker 2: put up thirty. It was a better second half than
Speaker 2: it was in the first half, where he just casually
Speaker 2: put up twenty. The most demonic shit that I saw
Speaker 2: from him, This is what I knew it was over.
Speaker 2: Was at the end of the third quarter, Warriors are
Speaker 2: starting to pull away and he had already missed for
Speaker 2: the first time ever in my memory, two consecutive free throws,
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh.
Speaker 3: God, like, what's step up to? Is he frustrated?
Speaker 2: He gets to the line again moments later, because that's
Speaker 2: just the kind of night it was with the Scott
Speaker 2: Foster game, by the way, that was a factor. And
Speaker 2: they panned to his face and he's grinning from ear
Speaker 2: to ear. It was the most diabolical, sick, twisted, sadistic
Speaker 2: smile I have ever seen on anyone's face. It was
Speaker 2: not a normal, I'm happy grin. It's a let me
Speaker 2: make myself happy in the moment, and let me show
Speaker 2: these Kings I'm coming and this is over for them.
Speaker 2: That's when I knew it was inevitable. He is inevitable.
Speaker 2: There was gonna be no comeback. They were only down seven,
Speaker 2: but it could have been seventy. At that point, it
Speaker 2: was over. He shot thirty eight times in thirty eight minutes,
Speaker 2: from everywhere, from deep, from the paint, off balance, runners, floaters,
Speaker 2: everything but a dunk.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: There was one point five seconds left to go on
Speaker 2: the shot clock. Kings had defended this team very mightily.
Speaker 2: One point five seconds left on the shot clock, they
Speaker 2: inbound the pass, Steph mbounds the pass, immediately gets it
Speaker 2: back contested corner three splash. The only thing that was
Speaker 2: surprising was when Steph would miss. I was actually shocked
Speaker 2: when not every single shot that he let fly did
Speaker 2: not go in. He said this about his sadistic smile
Speaker 2: after the game.
Speaker 4: Attitude can manifest a lot of things. And I told
Speaker 4: Q on the sidelines that I missed four or five
Speaker 4: three those the last two games. Not like me, but
Speaker 4: never over overthink it. Just enjoyed the moment. So the
Speaker 4: smile was intentional on trying to just be in the present.
Speaker 4: As simple as it is, is just trying to make a
Speaker 4: free throw, so I like to have fun with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it was more than that.
Speaker 2: And then Draymond, as he said on the podcast today,
Speaker 2: because of course he didn't do in game six, real
Speaker 2: shocking that there was no dream on episode. After Game six,
Speaker 2: which was the most embarrassing loss, he probably would have
Speaker 2: cussed everybody out. So I get it. It all began
Speaker 2: with the pregame speech from Steph Wardell Creek.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie man game six. That was a
Speaker 1: gut punch That night. I sent those two guys a
Speaker 1: text message. I sent that text at three am. The
Speaker 1: first line is, so I can't sleep period. Just finish
Speaker 1: the film again and then I go into some other things.
Speaker 1: Steph text back at six am, like, can't sleep either,
Speaker 1: but let me deliver the message before film say no more.
Speaker 1: And he delivered such a powerful message. Listen, we just
Speaker 1: got embarrassed last night. We got embarrassed on our home floor.
Speaker 1: An opportunity to close out a team, and we never
Speaker 1: showed up. He said, if you getting on this bus,
Speaker 1: you making a commitment to this team. I don't care
Speaker 1: how many minutes you play. I don't care if you
Speaker 1: don't play a single second. I don't care if it's points, rebounds,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But if you getting on this bus,
Speaker 1: you are saying I am going to do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes as far as my preparation goes to win this game.
Speaker 1: We not going out like that. We have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play in game seven.
Speaker 3: They've rare.
Speaker 1: They don't come around. Take advantage of the moment, embrace
Speaker 1: the moment. When he delivered that speech, I just can't
Speaker 1: say I knew he was going to come out and
Speaker 1: get fifty. But I knew he was going to come
Speaker 1: out and do something incredible, and I knew there was
Speaker 1: no way he was going to allow us to lose.
Speaker 2: Oh, I tell you what, Yeah, I don't really know
Speaker 2: what more you can say after that. Hey, Jordan Poole,
Speaker 2: suck it up. Hey Jonathan Kaminga, you're not playing anymore.
Speaker 2: You're not effective enough for us. Don't be whining and.
Speaker 3: Bitching and moping on the sideline.
Speaker 2: Do not bring the vibes down. This is a championship
Speaker 2: caliber team. We have championship DNA and you know what,
Speaker 2: we could have traded your ass for somebody with better attitude,
Speaker 2: but you know what, we have faith in you, So
Speaker 2: sit your little ass down there on the bench and
Speaker 2: play your role. And that was the moment after that game,
Speaker 2: after that Game seven, which let's be honest, I wanted
Speaker 2: the Kings to win because the dynasty I'm hoping will end.
Speaker 3: At some point. I want to see a new piece,
Speaker 3: new blood come to the forefront.
Speaker 2: I came to terms with the reality that Steph Curry
Speaker 2: is the best to ever do.
Speaker 3: It at the point guard position. He just is.
Speaker 2: That was the performance fifty piece Game seven, when you're
Speaker 2: only surprised that he missed. That was point god. As
Speaker 2: John Morant would say, that was point goat performance.
Speaker 3: He puts up fifty.
Speaker 2: After an embarrassing Game six, the worst defeat that they
Speaker 2: ever had in the Steve Kerr era. In Game six,
Speaker 2: stays up all night, watches film, then comes ready to kill.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 2: I always was like, Oh, it's so cute that they
Speaker 2: call him the baby Face Assassin. You know, you're like,
Speaker 2: that's a really cute nickname. No, he really is. He
Speaker 2: really is Liam Neeson. He really is a man with
Speaker 2: some very specific skills. He really does take pleasure in
Speaker 2: telling fifty cent, Hey, why don't you?
Speaker 3: Did you see it?
Speaker 2: He pretended to light the beam on fifty cent, Like
Speaker 2: this beam, bitch, That's what that was. It's sick, it's twisted.
Speaker 2: The look on his face when he's ending you is
Speaker 2: pure sick delight. It's not just joy for joy's sake,
Speaker 2: because I enjoy playing a child's game make sixty million
Speaker 2: dollars a year. No, No, I enjoy ending you. I enjoy
Speaker 2: you thinking you're gonna win, and me silencing your cute
Speaker 2: little crowd at Golden One.
Speaker 3: It's disgusting. It's like a boa constrictor. Around your neck,
Speaker 3: and there's no feeling like it. It's an outer body experience.
Speaker 3: You're sitting there.
Speaker 2: On your couch or wherever you are, and you're like,
Speaker 2: the game's not over, but it's over, and you're watching
Speaker 2: yourself in awe of you dying right there.
Speaker 3: That's what that was. So now the NBA gets what
Speaker 3: they want.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry versus Lebron in the playoffs, first time they've
Speaker 2: ever faced each other in the playoffs, not in the finals,
Speaker 2: which I think is incredible. Lakers, of course, get the
Speaker 2: job done by giving Dylan Brooks exactly what he wanted,
Speaker 2: a forty piece, a forty point loss in a closeout game,
Speaker 2: which gives us a seven seed playing a six seed
Speaker 2: in the second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Warriors now get home advantage. Isn't that a bitch?
Speaker 2: You sit there and you scrap and claw, and you
Speaker 2: think that the Warriors are dead, and now they have
Speaker 2: home court until.
Speaker 3: They play the Nuggets or the Suns.
Speaker 2: Isn't that something The narratives obviously will be out of
Speaker 2: control because these are two out of the five best
Speaker 2: players in NBA history going up one against one another,
Speaker 2: both in the tail end of their careers, but not
Speaker 2: looking a day over twenty seven, and you'd think maybe
Speaker 2: this was the first time. Oh maybe the NBA wished
Speaker 2: it was the Western Conference finals. But I think they
Speaker 2: are going to smash the ratings again for the second round,
Speaker 2: just like they did in the first round.
Speaker 3: The difference. I don't think this goes seven games.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry was asked a question which I've been thinking
Speaker 2: about all day. The question was, Hey, Steph, who can
Speaker 2: stop Steph Curry? And he said he said, hopefully we
Speaker 2: never find out what.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll never find out. He is deadly. I can't.
Speaker 2: This is like the new show Citadel, where is he's
Speaker 2: an assassin who's gonna beat our dubs?
Speaker 3: Nobody that's who.
Speaker 2: This is a championship team and their toughest test they.
Speaker 3: Just finished his seventh I want to talk about something.
Speaker 2: More broad than the individual games themselves. After watching the
Speaker 2: first round of the NBA playoffs, something has become very evident,
Speaker 2: very obvious. Playoff seating doesn't matter anymore at all. There
Speaker 2: was a time where teams would scratch and they would
Speaker 2: claw to try to get home court advantage in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I mean, after all, we've been told for decades that
Speaker 2: having home court is a difference between life and death,
Speaker 2: between cant.
Speaker 3: Coon and a deep run of the playoffs. That's just
Speaker 3: not true anymore.
Speaker 2: That's not the Miami Heat. We're a playing team, not
Speaker 2: just a playing team. They lost their first game in
Speaker 2: the play in tournament. They were down by double digits
Speaker 2: of the Chicago Bulls. Scratched in clawed just to get
Speaker 2: the eight seed. And you know what they did. They
Speaker 2: just beat a team that won two years ago the
Speaker 2: NBA title. Yes, there was no Joannis for two games,
Speaker 2: but it didn't matter.
Speaker 3: They didn't have Tyler Hero.
Speaker 2: Either, one of their best shooters. They made quick work
Speaker 2: of them in five. Everybody thought that the Heat were
Speaker 2: gonna get bounced in four.
Speaker 3: Nope.
Speaker 2: Duncan Robinson has emerged from the crypt. He had fourteen
Speaker 2: threes in four games after the Tyler Hero injury, fourteen.
Speaker 3: Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: His performance, Jimmy Butler's performance was pretty good too, fifty
Speaker 2: six points.
Speaker 3: The Bucks are done.
Speaker 2: Bud might get fired, he might have dismantled the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler an eight seed. The Warriors, the fact that
Speaker 2: they were a six seed joke. Jokeville made no sense.
Speaker 2: They were always we said this all year. The Warriors
Speaker 2: are a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Speaker 3: Do not sleep.
Speaker 2: The only thing that the Warriors are pretending is that
Speaker 2: they're not contending.
Speaker 3: That's it. There was all this talk, Oh, Warriors are old.
Speaker 3: Oh they're done. Their road records trash. How are they
Speaker 3: gonna win in the playoffs that they can't win on
Speaker 3: the road. That was some bullshit. Did you see what
Speaker 3: they just said?
Speaker 2: They got two wins against the Sacramento Kings, one of
Speaker 2: the toughest places to play.
Speaker 3: In the NBA.
Speaker 2: Oh, they don't have youth on their side. But the
Speaker 2: truth is what we now know. This is a fact.
Speaker 2: Fact nobody's talking about. The Warriors don't have a tank
Speaker 2: for the regular season anymore.
Speaker 3: They are old.
Speaker 2: Their tank is twenty eight games, the amount of games
Speaker 2: that the playoffs are.
Speaker 3: We'll give you some good games in January. Maybe we'll
Speaker 3: see you a couple of good games in February. We'll
Speaker 3: get up for our home crowd.
Speaker 2: But where we go on the road, you're not getting
Speaker 2: our A squad, you're not getting our A efforts. And
Speaker 2: if we lose to Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars arena.
Speaker 2: Be thankful that we didn't give you our full force,
Speaker 2: because when we have it, there's no one on the
Speaker 2: planet who can beat us. And that's what Draymond said.
Speaker 2: I can barely get out of bed in February. Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: did you see the performances that he had in the playoffs?
Speaker 2: He had twenty something points, one of the most efficient
Speaker 2: performances in saane defense. Yeah, he did stop someone in
Speaker 2: the chest. Turns out that was pretty effective for them too.
Speaker 2: When he got suspended, unlocked the things that they needed
Speaker 2: to know in order to have better spacing. That's the
Speaker 2: kind of bad luck that the Warriors have, bad luck
Speaker 2: that ultimately turns into good luck. You've got Steph thirty five,
Speaker 2: Clay thirty three, Draymond thirty They're not mustering up the
Speaker 2: energy to play defense against the Detroit Pistons, Are.
Speaker 3: You kidding me?
Speaker 2: No, So the next time the Warriors are in February
Speaker 2: and they're like a borderline fringe playing team, just remember
Speaker 2: they're still a title team.
Speaker 3: They are never dead until one of them leaves, one
Speaker 3: of those core three leave. Maybe that's this offseason. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: And I have Kevon Looney who I think maybe the
Speaker 2: best center we've ever seen, the best rebounding small center.
Speaker 3: He had more What was that tweet? I saw this?
Speaker 2: Kevon Looney has had as many twenty plus rebound games
Speaker 2: in the first round of this playoffs than David Robinson,
Speaker 2: Hakeem Elijauan, Karl Malone, to Kembe Matumbo and Bill Walton
Speaker 2: had in their entire playoff careers, just shy of one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty eight, which is Bill Russell for most
Speaker 2: all time.
Speaker 3: That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: There were people who said it, not me, said so
Speaker 2: the Bonus would eat Kevon Looney for lunch, No, sir,
Speaker 2: So bonus got eaten for lunch from Kvan. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter to Golden State. They just wanted
Speaker 2: to avoid the playing tournament, which honestly, even if they
Speaker 2: made it.
Speaker 3: To the play in tournament, they probably would have stilled.
Speaker 2: They probably would have played the Nuggets and beat the
Speaker 2: Nuggets in six. This is the potency. It is a
Speaker 2: team that is built for the playoffs. Do you want
Speaker 2: to play the Warriors? Ever, the answer is no. The
Speaker 2: answer along your path. That's why I didn't want the
Speaker 2: Kings to play the Warriors in the first round because
Speaker 2: they are at the end of the day inevitable. This
Speaker 2: is the trend though, of the future for me. I
Speaker 2: think you're seeing this with Lebron. Lebron just takes full
Speaker 2: plays off in the middle of the game to conserve
Speaker 2: his energy for winning time, because.
Speaker 3: That's the only we are not allowed. We're not gonna go,
Speaker 3: go go. They're not robots.
Speaker 2: Their tank isn't just completely unlimited where they can be
Speaker 2: their game set evan fourth quarter winning time South in
Speaker 2: the middle of a random Tuesday game against some bottom
Speaker 2: feeder team.
Speaker 3: Absolutely fucking not.
Speaker 2: Remember when Lebron James broke the scoring record and they
Speaker 2: lost to OKC and we thought that that was meaningful
Speaker 2: in any way.
Speaker 3: It was not.
Speaker 2: This was a team given up for dead at the
Speaker 2: trade deadline below five hundred, Lebron James injured, Anthony Davis injured.
Speaker 2: In other words, they were cooked. Rob Polinka pulled something
Speaker 2: out of his hat. I don't know who he has
Speaker 2: pictures on where he was able to make those trades.
Speaker 3: But retooled the roster, reinvigorated.
Speaker 2: The team, and now that they now, they are scary.
Speaker 2: I think this is the trend of the future. It
Speaker 2: is now called the conservation.
Speaker 3: Of star power.
Speaker 2: All of this means the regular season is just not
Speaker 2: very meaningful anymore.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean it's not fun.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean teams can't build on regular season success.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that we should just cancel it all together.
Speaker 2: It means that guys like Lebron and Steph and Draymond
Speaker 2: cannot be judged by their individual performances or team performances
Speaker 2: until playoff time.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: Because if you can go off in for fifty in
Speaker 2: a Game seven, after being embarrassed and straight up flattened
Speaker 2: in Game six on the road.
Speaker 3: Who gives a fuck what you do in February? Who cares?
Speaker 2: That's gonna mean skipping Tuesdays against Utah and not really
Speaker 2: trying that hard till April. That's it. That's that's the takeaway.
Speaker 3: All right. Let's move around some quick updates news from
Speaker 3: Run the League.
Speaker 2: So the Sixers and Celtics played last night, because this
Speaker 2: is coming out Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen the game yet, but I can just
Speaker 3: I can just already know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: The line is Celtics by nine and a half, and
Speaker 2: I would not take.
Speaker 3: The sixers plus nine and a half. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: that no EMBIID indefinitely.
Speaker 2: He hasn't even started doing physical activity, has not done
Speaker 2: any drills, has only been doing light stretching shams. Schams
Speaker 2: said that it was even more severe than initially thought.
Speaker 2: He has gotten PRP. That is platelet rich plasma rich
Speaker 2: plasma rich replacement therapy. I believe it's what it's called.
Speaker 2: It's a big ass needle where they take your blood
Speaker 2: out of you and then they put it back in
Speaker 2: you after they spun it around in some sort of machine.
Speaker 3: Apparently it feels terrible.
Speaker 2: It's one of the thickest needles my friend has ever
Speaker 2: shown me who has gotten.
Speaker 3: Kobe used to go.
Speaker 2: To Germany to get PRP on his old ass knees
Speaker 2: back in the day.
Speaker 3: It's not good. Would you say that in the middle
Speaker 3: of the playoffs? Not good?
Speaker 2: And if there's no EMBIID, then what are we even
Speaker 2: talking about. If there's no EMBIID in this series, what
Speaker 2: are we even saying. We're saying nothing, there's no it's done.
Speaker 3: It's a rap.
Speaker 2: It's a coast for the Boston Celtics. We thought that
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Bucks had the easier path to the Eastern
Speaker 2: Conference Finals. Turns out that was a lie. Turns out
Speaker 2: avoiding Jimmy Butler what you want to do. The only
Speaker 2: possibility for the Sixers to win the series, or at
Speaker 2: least compete in the series, is if James Harden turns
Speaker 2: back time like Chaer and is the Houston Rockets version
Speaker 2: of James Harden when he was an MVP putting up fifty.
Speaker 3: In the ragul.
Speaker 2: He's not just gotta be James Harden in Houston, He's
Speaker 2: gotta be regular season James Harden in Houston, because God
Speaker 2: knows that James Harden has never been a good playoff player,
Speaker 2: and Tyrese Maxi has to be a version of himself
Speaker 2: we have only seen in glimpses just to compete unless
Speaker 2: the question. There's one little factor that could possibly put
Speaker 2: a wrench in Boston's plans, and his name is Bible
Speaker 2: thumping Joe Miszula, one of the worst clutch time play
Speaker 2: callers I've ever seen. Definitely surprised that he's the head
Speaker 2: coach of the Boston Celtics. But honestly, it might not
Speaker 2: even come into play because this thing might be a
Speaker 2: blowout until they figure out a way to put Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid's lifeless body back onto the court. Moving forward, on
Speaker 2: the Knicks Heat series that already looks shaky without Julius Randall.
Speaker 2: Another player that has gone down with an injury. And
Speaker 2: I tell you what, he had played really well against
Speaker 2: the Heat for the regular season.
Speaker 3: He was missed.
Speaker 2: Nicks looked really good in the first half. They were
Speaker 2: blowing out the Heat and then what happened. Heat did
Speaker 2: heat things and it wasn't even close in the second half.
Speaker 2: Heat blew the Knicks out in the Garden Night Night
Speaker 2: Sleep mask. One little wrinkle, Jimmy Butler turned his ankle.
Speaker 2: Apparently it was the size of the baseball. Yeah, not great,
Speaker 2: he'll play. I'm sure he's questionable for Game two. But
Speaker 2: without Jimmy, this is a G League team. No shade
Speaker 2: on Max Struz or Gabe Vincent or fat ass Kyle
Speaker 2: Lowry who's re emerged from the crypt as well. But
Speaker 2: the playoffs reminds us never count out Eric Spolstra as
Speaker 2: for the next Julius Randall.
Speaker 3: Still day to day.
Speaker 2: Tib says that he's not limping, but he hasn't done
Speaker 2: anything on the court other than shooting.
Speaker 3: On Friday.
Speaker 2: That sounds like he's probably not coming back for a
Speaker 2: game or two out West.
Speaker 3: Denver is about.
Speaker 2: To to dethrown the Suns, aren't they It did not
Speaker 2: look good. It did not look like a good fun
Speaker 2: situation for Phoenix. The Hoop Collective, Boys Winhorse and all
Speaker 2: them said that Denver is playing as well as they
Speaker 2: have since midseason, and I think that's right. Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: is playing like bubble Jamal Murray. Jokich is playing like
Speaker 2: a two time MVP. And here's a fun stat. In
Speaker 2: the last seven years, the Nuggets are eighteen and three
Speaker 2: against the Suns. When Jamal Murray plays, they are one
Speaker 2: in eight without him. Remember that with Sons and four
Speaker 2: they were the ones that were the victims of Sons
Speaker 2: and four. The most concerning thing though about the Sons
Speaker 2: is their role players. They just they don't have that
Speaker 2: math to math up with the Nuggets. On top of
Speaker 2: the fact that DeAndre Ayton, my guy who called himself
Speaker 2: Dominatan is complacent as hell, does not look interested in
Speaker 2: playing basketball under the rim at the moment. There's a
Speaker 2: viral clip of him standing around watching Jokic get multiple
Speaker 2: offensive rebounds and putbacks. Just watching just like, hey, shit
Speaker 2: looks fun as hell.
Speaker 3: This is a good game.
Speaker 2: He's got to figure that out. He's got to be
Speaker 2: more involved that they're going to compete. And speaking of
Speaker 2: the Sun's real quick little funny story about Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: Jeff Green dropped they a fascinating factoid following Game one
Speaker 2: at the presser. He said, because Katie and him play
Speaker 2: together in Seattle when there was a team there and
Speaker 2: they became super close. And Green said this, Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: has been lying about his height this whole time. He's
Speaker 2: actually not six' eleven, He's not seven feet He's seven
Speaker 2: foot one. Kevin Durant, he's just been just been underestimating
Speaker 2: his height this whole time. And nobody's ever thought to
Speaker 2: break out a ruler and be like, hey, you look
Speaker 2: taller than six eleven, Like there's just I know you're skinny,
Speaker 2: but you look taller than seven feet to me. And
Speaker 2: if you think about it, that's pretty on brand for Katie, Like, ah, nah,
Speaker 2: I'm like six 't ten. Maybe he's more like Chet
Speaker 2: Holmer and than we thought.
Speaker 3: Uh. And then the Mavericks, we haven't really talked about.
Speaker 2: Them much other than the fact that they got a
Speaker 2: fine for tanking. Tim Cato dropped an article about them.
Speaker 2: They give some insight into what they're going to do
Speaker 2: in the off season. Their number one priority is to
Speaker 2: sign re signed Kyrie, of course, and now the Lakers,
Speaker 2: which is an interesting little nugget of information. The Lakers
Speaker 2: are no longer interested in signing Kyrie Irving, even though
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving has been showing up at every game behind
Speaker 2: the bench doing his best maybe pay me impression that
Speaker 2: you could ask for. He was at the Laker Memphis game,
Speaker 2: he was at the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 3: Game versus the Warriors. Who is he trying to play
Speaker 3: for in that little duo?
Speaker 2: But I think Kyrie's real opportunity to get a Max
Speaker 2: deal's probably Dallas, looks like.
Speaker 3: Also, Dallas is not interested.
Speaker 2: In keeping Christian Wood, so they had to pay a
Speaker 2: first round pick for him to be there for like
Speaker 2: one year. Sources are saying that he's no longer in
Speaker 2: their future plans. Javel McGee no longer in their future plans,
Speaker 2: Maxi Klaiber probably not in their future plans. And Dwight Powell,
Speaker 2: even though they like him a lot, they might not
Speaker 2: keep him they're also looking to move Tim Hardaway. It
Speaker 2: kind of sounds like in Everything Must Go Sale. If
Speaker 2: I'm honest, it's gonna be really hard to move Tim
Speaker 2: Hardaway because he gets paid a lot of money, and
Speaker 2: you know how hard it is to move assets that
Speaker 2: are not as valuable as.
Speaker 3: You're paying them.
Speaker 2: Their focus is DeAndre Dominaton, which I don't know if
Speaker 2: necessarily is gonna be a great situation for them, considering
Speaker 2: I just told you his lack of interest in playing
Speaker 2: defense is quite evident in the playoffs. Chris Middleton, who
Speaker 2: has had a swollen knee since twenty twelve, on and off,
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, the MAVs are cooked. Probably Luke is
Speaker 2: gone if they don't make a move to at least
Speaker 2: show good faith. Luke is probably asking out next year.
Speaker 3: Moving on to Memphis.
Speaker 2: Memphis, Uh boy, was that embarrassing. And both the stars, well,
Speaker 2: both the players who've been popping off at the mouth,
Speaker 2: John Moran and Dylan.
Speaker 3: Brooks both skipping out right after the game ends. The
Speaker 3: miss media availability. That's some punk shit.
Speaker 2: And now we have a slew of offseason interviews to
Speaker 2: fall back on. First, John Morant, they said, hey, that
Speaker 2: you're good in the West comment how about that, and
Speaker 2: he says he didn't regret saying it.
Speaker 3: How do you fix this?
Speaker 2: According to jaw Less trash talking friend of showed to
Speaker 2: Michael Cole reported that jaw has pledged to be more
Speaker 2: humble and do less trash talking. If I do that,
Speaker 2: then the rest of the team will follow. Sounds like
Speaker 2: Jaw knows what we all knew everybody who has a
Speaker 2: target on them, given the fact that they are fucking
Speaker 2: annoying and they have too much shit to say and
Speaker 2: they have accomplished nothing. Are the Grizzlies the Grizzlies if
Speaker 2: they don't have that unabashed swagger, a quiet ja Morant.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that will mean moving forward. I
Speaker 2: think that they should double down and Benba, the NBA's villains,
Speaker 2: don't know if that's gonna make them a better team.
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks and his poked the Bear comments probably got
Speaker 2: him a one way ticket out of Memphis.
Speaker 3: He's probably not going to be re signed.
Speaker 2: Taylor Jenkins and Zach Kleman both said that self created
Speaker 2: distraction hurt the Grizzlies in the playoffs. Looks like Dylan
Speaker 2: Brook's probably out of there one thing's for sure. GM
Speaker 2: Zach Kleman says that the grizz are going to be active,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent active on the trademarket. That means probably
Speaker 2: going after Michel Bridges, probably going after ogn Andobi, probably
Speaker 2: going after Pascal Siakam, all the guys.
Speaker 3: That are available, most likely for the right price. That's
Speaker 3: all the time that we after the heat Check.
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