Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick on this
Speaker 1: end of year episode of the Heat Check. It's our
Speaker 1: special New Year's resolution episode, and I am here to
Speaker 1: give my resolutions for a whole bunch of players teams
Speaker 1: from the Atlanta Hawks and the Brooklyn Nets to Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert and Grayson Allen.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we gotta talk about this too.
Speaker 1: The greatest regular season NBA performance of all time maybe
Speaker 1: from Luka Doncic, probably the second best, but I'll get
Speaker 1: into that. Also almost twenty twenty three, Nick, So do
Speaker 1: me a favor and drop that generic ass beat. So
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two is about to be history. And let's
Speaker 1: just say it's been a year to forget for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Robert Sarver for one, Kyrie Irving another.
Speaker 2: List is probably pretty long for the people who would
Speaker 2: rather forget that twenty two existed. But we're not here
Speaker 2: for all that.
Speaker 1: We're here to do something different, and that is to
Speaker 1: spread positivity and to spread joy, because that is what
Speaker 1: is my resolution personally for twenty twenty three. And with
Speaker 1: the new year comes a whole bunch of new opportunities,
Speaker 1: new opportunities to be better, new opportunities to be nicer,
Speaker 1: and that is why we'll call this episode and end
Speaker 1: this episode with our annual NBA New Year's Resolutions, where
Speaker 1: we peer into the crystal ball and divvy out resolutions
Speaker 1: for players and teams that could, let's face it, use
Speaker 1: a little positivity right now. But before we get into that,
Speaker 1: let's go over some of the recent news that's been
Speaker 1: popping around the league.
Speaker 2: We have to do it. We have to talk about
Speaker 2: this Dallas with Luca Doncic. Oh my god, I folks,
Speaker 2: I was at dinner.
Speaker 1: Did you think like it would have made any sense
Speaker 1: to cancel dinner plans to watch the Dallas Mavericks take
Speaker 1: on the New York Knicks. Did anybody think that they
Speaker 1: needed to stop everything in their life for that game?
Speaker 2: No? I didn't. So I didn't get to see Lucas game.
Speaker 1: It's a confession. I didn't see it live. I had
Speaker 1: to watch it back after the fact. I had to
Speaker 1: see it on Twitter trending. My phone's blowing up, and
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm sad. I'm sad about it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna live to regret it. I'm gonna know It's one
Speaker 1: of those where were you moments?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was at AOC in Los Angeles, California,
Speaker 1: eating dinner with a friend when Luca dropped sixty plus
Speaker 1: twenty one and ten.
Speaker 2: There's you got thoughts.
Speaker 1: You're trying to do some research and you're making that
Speaker 1: all happen, and then you're doing it on the fly,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you look up and someone
Speaker 1: else has already had the same take. There's probably nothing
Speaker 1: worse than that, truthfully, to be a take artist, a flamethrower,
Speaker 1: or an opinionist. You look up, you research, you prep,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're about to talk, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Nick fucking Right, First Things First comes through
Speaker 1: and drops one right down on your head.
Speaker 2: So I'm not written Nick right hater.
Speaker 1: I actually like Nick Wright a lot, but damn I
Speaker 1: did not see Nick Wright coming.
Speaker 2: In and pickpocketing me.
Speaker 1: Like his name is Luka doncic on Luca's take, so
Speaker 1: what he said was exactly what I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: Sixty twenty one to ten was a top five regular
Speaker 1: season performance in the entire history.
Speaker 2: Of the NBA, not just the last generation.
Speaker 1: Since the birth of the NBA, Luca's performance on that
Speaker 1: night when I was at a random restaurant against the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks. Was a one of the greatest top
Speaker 1: five performances ever.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to give you a couple of reasons
Speaker 3: why Luca's game yesterday is the best game any of
Speaker 3: us have ever seen. First of all, the context of it.
Speaker 3: His team's down nine with thirty five seconds left. In
Speaker 3: the last twenty years, thirteen eight hundred and eighty five
Speaker 3: teams have been down nine or more with thirty five
Speaker 3: or less seconds left. You know how many of them won?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: One now it was zero. Now it's one second reason.
Speaker 3: He's the only guy in league history that could have
Speaker 3: done that, that could put up that. That's that line.
Speaker 3: It's not just that he's the only guy that has
Speaker 3: don to sixty twenty ten. He's the only guy that
Speaker 3: Colt so I had.
Speaker 2: Done all the research.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, Nick got that zero for thirteen thousand, eight
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four stat line from Sam Quinn to
Speaker 1: and now I have to give Nick as props and say, yup, Luca.
Speaker 1: Luca's performance was one of the best regular season games
Speaker 1: in nearly twenty years. But before we get deeper into this,
Speaker 1: Welt Chamberlain holds six out of the ten highest scoring
Speaker 1: games in history and fifteen of the top twenty five,
Speaker 1: and he did this mostly before TV, so he is
Speaker 1: we have to put Well Chamberlain in a category of himself.
Speaker 1: Someday I'll probably drop a video about this on what
Speaker 1: everyone gets wrong about his one hundred point game. But
Speaker 1: not today, folks, I got too much time. I got
Speaker 1: a reservation in about forty five minutes. So today is
Speaker 1: about Luca to understand why he did what he did
Speaker 1: was insane. What are the greatest ras ular season game
Speaker 1: performances in NBA history? Well, number one, Denver's David Thompson
Speaker 1: put up seventy three, seven and two on the Pistons
Speaker 1: on April nineteenth, or on April ninth, nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: excuse me, on the day of the NBA season. Thompson
Speaker 1: was once called by Bill Walton the perfect basketball player.
Speaker 1: He was locked in a battle at that point for
Speaker 1: the scoring title with George Gervin, so he needed a
Speaker 1: huge game, and he went out and scored thirty two
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter, thirteen to fourteen, shooting six
Speaker 1: or six.
Speaker 2: From the line. The only problem was that it was.
Speaker 1: The final game ever in Detroit's Cobo Arena, and they
Speaker 1: wanted him to go out a winner, so they legit
Speaker 1: through the kitchen, sink at him and held him only
Speaker 1: twenty in the second half the pit.
Speaker 2: This guy could add hundred points.
Speaker 1: The Pistons even managed to pull out a win, and
Speaker 1: Thompson fell just short of the scoring title despite shooting
Speaker 1: seventy four percent.
Speaker 2: From the floor.
Speaker 1: Why because George Gervin went off for sixty three on
Speaker 1: the same day. Insane, unreal, just really something.
Speaker 2: For the masses there.
Speaker 1: On March twenty eight, nineteen ninety, Michael Jordan mj Airness
Speaker 1: dropped sixty nine nice eighteen and six on the Cavaliers.
Speaker 2: The game's probably the.
Speaker 1: Closest one to Lucas performance because MJ put up eighteen
Speaker 1: rebounds to go with four steals and a block.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: More incredible, he went twenty three for twenty seven from
Speaker 1: the field, and in MJ style, the Bulls ended up
Speaker 1: really outlasting a good Cavs teams one hundred and seventeen,
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirteen. Probably the greatest regular season performance
Speaker 1: of all time, that's what people say. At least I
Speaker 1: was like four. So do did I do? I remember
Speaker 1: it off the top? No?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: David Robinson seventy one, fourteen and five on the last
Speaker 1: day of the nineteen ninety four season. He won the
Speaker 1: scoring title over Shack. In that game, he faced double
Speaker 1: and triple teams all night and he still managed to
Speaker 1: shoot sixty three percent from the field. He scored the
Speaker 1: first eighteen Spurs points of the game, and uh oh yeah.
Speaker 1: He ended up winning the scoring title with twenty nine
Speaker 1: point six points per game because Shaq only had thirty
Speaker 1: two in that game, So that was a sick performance.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous seventy one points.
Speaker 1: Like seventy one points the next day. Very important day.
Speaker 1: Probably one of my favorite. I think this is my
Speaker 1: personal favorite. January twenty second, two thousand and six. Kobe
Speaker 1: drops eighty one.
Speaker 2: Uugh, let me say it again. Kobe drops eighty one,
Speaker 2: six and two in forty two minutes of action. What
Speaker 2: an absurd stat line.
Speaker 1: He was twenty eight for forty six in the field,
Speaker 1: perfect Kobe non efficient type performance, including going seven for
Speaker 1: thirteen from three. The craziest thing about this game, though,
Speaker 1: the Lakers were trailing by eighteen in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and from that point on, Kobe put up fifty one
Speaker 1: points and the Lakers absolutely curb stomped the Raptors, beating
Speaker 1: them by almost twenty. He had fifty five points in
Speaker 1: the second half. That is Kobe, you think you have
Speaker 1: me and you do not have me.
Speaker 2: Bonkers.
Speaker 1: So Luca's crazy stat line twenty one freaking rebounds, I
Speaker 1: don't know what that is about. And he probably could
Speaker 1: have twenty assists as well his as we know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of help out there. Spencer did
Speaker 1: when he hit a couple of huge shots down the stretch.
Speaker 1: But the fact that Luca put up this number sixty
Speaker 1: twenty one to ten and.
Speaker 2: They came back, it wasn't just the stat line. Is
Speaker 2: that they came back.
Speaker 1: And won when they were down nine points with what
Speaker 1: a minute left to go, thirty seconds left to go,
Speaker 1: thirty five seconds left, ended up setting the game to overtime.
Speaker 1: And it's not just that he scored sixty. He had
Speaker 1: fifty last week. But he scored sixty and had ten assists,
Speaker 1: and he probably could have had twenty one. Well, like
Speaker 1: all the Maps, couldn't hit an open shot to save
Speaker 1: their life.
Speaker 2: He was so good in every aspects of the game.
Speaker 2: He had two steals, he had one block. It was
Speaker 2: just disgusting.
Speaker 1: And then the best part about Luca because I love
Speaker 1: him and he's just so fat and just such a
Speaker 1: regular guy. You look at him and he's just the
Speaker 1: most unassuming, insane basketball player. Like all those other players.
Speaker 1: You look at them, all those other top five performances
Speaker 1: in the NBA. You look at those guys and you go, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an athlete.
Speaker 2: Yeah that guy could put that guy could put seventy
Speaker 2: one on my head. Not Luca. Look, you look at
Speaker 2: Luca and you say, uh, is this guy my task rabbit?
Speaker 2: Is he about to help me move?
Speaker 1: That's Luca, Like, Luca looks like he does need a
Speaker 1: recovery beer, because that's what he said, I need a
Speaker 1: recovery beer. And fortunately for all of us, Lasco Brewery
Speaker 1: immediately jumped on the Luca train started launching their recovery
Speaker 1: beer addition. In an IG post, they said, for every
Speaker 1: tired Luca who needs a beer for regeneration, we have.
Speaker 2: Brewed recovery beer. How do they do that so fast?
Speaker 2: I also need a recovery beer.
Speaker 1: From watching the highlights, I can't imagine what Luca felt
Speaker 1: in that game. So those are my top five regular
Speaker 1: season games of all kind of time. Who am I missing?
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm missing someone, but let me know
Speaker 1: who