Speaker 1: Come on on this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: It's time to check in on the most surprising team
Speaker 2: of the NBA season, folks. Yes, r it's the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 2: This has been coming a long time. I've been wanting
Speaker 2: to talk about them since. Really, they've been one of
Speaker 2: the most surprising winning teams since they lost Jaw. Yes,
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies lost Jaw, and they're actually playing better and
Speaker 2: they're not dead. They're not dead by a long shot. Instead,
Speaker 2: they're the hottest fucking team in.
Speaker 3: The league right now. Yes, and I'm going.
Speaker 2: To dissect like a like a doctor. Why so, go ahead,
Speaker 2: Rock and drop that motherfucker. John Morant went down with
Speaker 2: what I think many people thought might be a season
Speaker 2: ending knee injury. Everyone, including every pundit, wrote off the Grizzlies.
Speaker 2: The season might not be over for Job, but the
Speaker 2: season is over for Memphis because at that point they
Speaker 2: were ten and eleven, nine and ten, ten and eleven,
Speaker 2: I think. And if they go on that streak or worse,
Speaker 2: say they go two and ten, If he misses to
Speaker 2: twelve games where they go three and seventeen, you're done.
Speaker 2: That's night night Jaw comes back and he's doing his
Speaker 2: best Derek Rose impersonation in his prime, or Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: He's trying to be Batman. Probably re injures himself, get
Speaker 2: shut down for the year, and then that's that's it.
Speaker 2: I think that's what kind of people thought because Jaw
Speaker 2: was at that point when they were ten and eleven,
Speaker 2: balling twenty four, six and seven, led the team to
Speaker 2: impressive wins. They had a lot of dumb losses, but
Speaker 2: their wins were super impressive. They beat the Calves, they
Speaker 2: beat the Clippers, they beat the Warriors, they beat the Nuggets,
Speaker 2: and they beat the Jazz. And he was impressive in
Speaker 2: ways that we discussed a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: When he got hurt, right.
Speaker 2: Like, he was co leading the league in points in
Speaker 2: the paint sixteen points in the paint per game, tied
Speaker 2: with Anthony Davis, who is six'.
Speaker 3: TEN i guess it's just Like.
Speaker 2: Alan iverson, type fearlessness and, bounciness like a guy who
Speaker 2: everyone said coming out of college wouldn't be big enough
Speaker 2: or bouncy enough to do those things and get to.
Speaker 3: The rim in THE.
Speaker 2: Nba so when he went down with that, injury it
Speaker 2: was just night Night but here's what people didn't, Realize
Speaker 2: like The grizzlies have been building in one of the
Speaker 2: more unique ways in THE, nba in a way that's
Speaker 2: not built pifically For, jaw but to Support. Jaw, YEAH
Speaker 2: i mean it's a unique thing because no other teams really,
Speaker 2: like for, Example Damian.
Speaker 3: Lillard Damian lillard has a team.
Speaker 2: That without him would crumble And Taylor jenkins and this
Speaker 2: franchise knows That jaw can be, special but he can't do.
Speaker 3: Everything and we should have seen this coming Because.
Speaker 2: Grizzlies fans knew it and they talked about it actually
Speaker 2: preseason that The grizzlies are, athletic they are super, deadly super,
Speaker 2: dangerous and they had a couple of players that were very,
Speaker 2: underrated low under the, radar players that were.
Speaker 3: Ready to break.
Speaker 2: Out De Anthony melton And Desmond, bane two guys that
Speaker 2: no one expected jack shit from last year and a
Speaker 2: lot OF nba fans don't even know their name. Now
Speaker 2: so we talked about him last year on this league
Speaker 2: as players to, watch but it seemed like Only grizzly
Speaker 2: fans were really less BECAUSE i was getting a lot of,
Speaker 2: heat like Fuck Desmond baan he's. Bulky he's just a
Speaker 2: spot up. Guy like he's just all. Shoulders he's like
Speaker 2: a Shorter Dwight. Howard he's not even that. Good BUT i,
Speaker 2: mean so this is what The Drew hill at The
Speaker 2: Daily memphis sion what a name of a. Newspaper When
Speaker 2: memphis Traded Grayson allen To milwaukee this, summer it was
Speaker 2: a bet That melton And bain would continue to get better.
Speaker 3: In more expanded.
Speaker 2: Roles, literally the reason that they traded away annoying ass
Speaker 2: but also highly Productive Grayson, allen who is now bawling
Speaker 2: out In, milwaukee by the, way is because they wanted
Speaker 2: to find and free up more touches For melton And,
Speaker 2: bain like guys that are largely role. Players and as
Speaker 2: good as De Anthony melton has, been, Really Desmond baine
Speaker 2: has been electric Memph if this Coach Taylor jenkins was
Speaker 2: clear from the beginning that even Though bain And morant
Speaker 2: complimented each other, Well Desmond bain has been playing spot,
Speaker 2: minutes taking over now That jaw's not there and he
Speaker 2: is has been. Incredible but he also Said Taylor jenkins
Speaker 2: that their developments were not correlated or tied Together Desmond
Speaker 2: bain is his own human. Being he's not here to
Speaker 2: be the outlet pass To. Jaw he is his own,
Speaker 2: guy and he is a. Star Desmond bain was slowly
Speaker 2: evolving into a player in his own right While jaw
Speaker 2: was becoming a.
Speaker 3: Superstar and this is exactly.
Speaker 2: What bain said after game, one after game one of
Speaker 2: this season last, YEAR i didn't want nothing to do
Speaker 2: with the. PAINT i was strictly a catch and shoot,
Speaker 2: guy and THEN i would get into transition every once
Speaker 2: in a. While but coach has given me more, freedom
Speaker 2: and we've worked tirelessly on this all off, season So
Speaker 2: i'm now more comfortable there for. SURE i don't know
Speaker 2: IF i can properly articulate how hard it is for
Speaker 2: a head coach who Has Jah morant to think about
Speaker 2: ways to Develop Desmond, Bane like it's JUST i, mean
Speaker 2: you've Got jaw and the fact that your, head your
Speaker 2: mind has any real estate For Desmond bane and how
Speaker 2: to develop him and how you see him as a
Speaker 2: piece of, clay and you're, like, man he's not just.
Speaker 2: THAT i think he could be this and THIS i
Speaker 2: think is like maybe two coaches in THE nba or that,
Speaker 2: way like most of them are, like, Hey, Gary Trent,
Speaker 2: junior you sit there and stand in the corner For,
Speaker 2: Dame like.
Speaker 3: It's like fucked.
Speaker 2: Up it's literally, like, hey you'd be a statue over.
Speaker 2: There just be someone who can be basically like a,
Speaker 2: robot perfect form catch and shoot guy When dame has
Speaker 2: no other option but to do that because they crowd
Speaker 2: the pain around. Him that's crazy to not just throw
Speaker 2: all the eggs in The Jaw moran, basket but to
Speaker 2: make things like a like a, quilt like in a
Speaker 2: way the patch people's game seamlessly together and squeezed the
Speaker 2: most potential out of every other person that they.
Speaker 3: Have But jenkins didn't just put all the eggs into.
Speaker 2: Jaw jenkins also worked to develop not Just, bame but De'
Speaker 2: Anthony melton and Also Jaron, jackson who's a star sixteen
Speaker 2: four and one right, Now Jaron jackson And Dylan, brooks
Speaker 2: who a most scout Said Dylan brooks had alligator.
Speaker 3: Arms Dylan brooks.
Speaker 2: Was not applauded or lauded going into the, draft LIKE
Speaker 2: i love, HIM i think he's. Gritty even me would
Speaker 2: not have taken him in the first. Round he was
Speaker 2: a second round. PLAYER i think he was taking forty fourth,
Speaker 2: overall and people were, like, OH i think.
Speaker 3: That's a, reach and it's not a.
Speaker 2: Reach and now Rookie Zire williams and Even Tias, jones
Speaker 2: who was filling in At jaw in The jaw at the,
Speaker 2: point is having a.
Speaker 3: Career year as, well eleven four and. Seven so his
Speaker 3: thought process.
Speaker 2: Was to develop a team and not to develop a
Speaker 2: superstar and compliment him with a bunch of statues around
Speaker 2: the perimeter and maybe a rim. Protector like imagine If
Speaker 2: portland Or washington would have done this With John wall
Speaker 2: And Bradley, beal, Like, hey we're gonna give you a
Speaker 2: bunch of. Scrubs just make magic for. Us wizards like
Speaker 2: make magic for, us like. Wizards and so When jaw
Speaker 2: went down with the knee, injury that hard work ended
Speaker 2: up paying off because those guys got additional minutes and
Speaker 2: they got additional roles To it's Like jah can't save.
Speaker 2: You like when it's crunch, Time, desmond it's your time to.
Speaker 2: Shine and that provides you with opportunities to develop.
Speaker 3: Confidence and become your own.
Speaker 2: Player and because of, That grizzlies Went we're nine and
Speaker 2: ten at that, point and they Since jah has gone,
Speaker 2: out they've been nine and, one.
Speaker 3: Only lost one game Since jaw went down nine and.
Speaker 2: One they went from tenth in The west to fourth
Speaker 2: in The west during that. Time that includes wins Over,
Speaker 2: dallas The, Lakers eastern powerhouses Like miami And, philly and
Speaker 2: even a win Against, houston who at that point was
Speaker 2: the hottest team in. Basketball so do not do not
Speaker 2: throw shade at That houston win like that could have
Speaker 2: easily been AN. Ol they Beat Oklahoma city one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty two to seventy.
Speaker 3: Nine if you need to.
Speaker 2: Go to mas school to figure that. Out that's a
Speaker 2: seventy three point. Victory that's an all TIME nba, beatdown
Speaker 2: literally the biggest beat down IN nba. History they're blowing teams,
Speaker 2: out The kings by twenty, seven The heat by, fifteen
Speaker 2: The lakers by, thirteen The sixers by thirty.
Speaker 3: Five are you?
Speaker 2: Serious, like how are we not talking about The Memphis
Speaker 2: grizzlies and only The Memphis grizzlies right? Now like they
Speaker 2: are fucking lit and people are finally figuring out that
Speaker 2: The grizzlies are more than Just John. Morant i've been
Speaker 2: wanting to do this piece for a, while but there's
Speaker 2: been pressing. Items but now just this, week they're a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of article that have come, out all basically
Speaker 2: saying the same, thing The grizzlies are.
Speaker 3: Elite here's another, headline how The grizzlies are playing their
Speaker 3: best ball Without Ja.
Speaker 2: Morant another headline The grizzlies are grinding more than ever Without.
Speaker 2: Jaw three reasons why The Memphis grizzlies are an ELITE
Speaker 2: nba team in twenty twenty. ONE i, MEAN i hate
Speaker 2: the three, reasons LIKE i don't give me this BuzzFeed,
Speaker 2: list like be, better please be? Better so why the
Speaker 2: question is? Why first of, all turnovers are way. Down
Speaker 2: jaw's probably his biggest flaw is that he turns the
Speaker 2: ball over a ton ALMOST i think a little more
Speaker 2: than three point times a. Game and Because jaw's not
Speaker 2: on the, floor The grizzlies haven't been turning the ball
Speaker 2: over at. All no shade To, jaw but that's just the. Case,
Speaker 2: second they're clamps right. Now they're. Clamps grizzlies defensive rating
Speaker 2: in their last nineteen games of the seaton their first
Speaker 2: nineteen games of the season With jaw was dead, last dead,
Speaker 2: last out one to fifteen point, one and the next
Speaker 2: best or next, WORST i guess you could, say wasn't even.
Speaker 2: Close the next closest team was a eleven point.
Speaker 3: Six that's. Gross they were so trash at that.
Speaker 2: Point i'm thinking to, myself why did you even Trade
Speaker 2: Yonis valanciunis if you don't give a fuck about defense at, All,
Speaker 2: like aren't you supposed to be Getting Steven adams for his?
Speaker 2: Defense and they were dead last the last ten. Games
Speaker 2: grizzlies are now check, this that out number one in
Speaker 2: the league with a defensive rating of ninety nine point,
Speaker 2: eight the only team under one hundred in that period of.
Speaker 2: Time they're even better right now in that stretch Than Golden,
Speaker 2: state who is by far the best defensive team in.
Speaker 3: Basketball it's.
Speaker 2: Insane here are two more incredible stats than. That grizzlies
Speaker 2: are currently number one in blocks per game and block,
Speaker 2: percentage number one in steals per game and steals per
Speaker 2: defensive possession from worst place to first place in ten.
Speaker 2: Games and it's not about Jaw like a lot of
Speaker 2: that came Because Dylan brooks came. Back brooks did not
Speaker 2: come back into the lineup Until jaw was already. Injured
Speaker 2: Dylan brooks has been. Grinding Dylan brooks is what makes
Speaker 2: this team go. Offensively The grizzlies are averaging two point
Speaker 2: one more points a game Without, Jaw, like this is
Speaker 2: a guy who is number one co leading points in
Speaker 2: the paint and this team is still Without jaw number
Speaker 2: one points in the.
Speaker 3: Paint that's.
Speaker 2: Incredible here's WHY i think, though that this is something.
Speaker 3: That you can rely on moving. Forward One Jared.
Speaker 2: Jackson people didn't think he deserved his contract one hundred
Speaker 2: and five million.
Speaker 3: DOLLARS i think he. Got they's, like, oh he's got
Speaker 3: an ugly.
Speaker 2: Shot he's two, injured he's coming off of a aniscus.
Speaker 3: Tear he almost MISSED i think over half of last
Speaker 3: season and now this.
Speaker 2: Year he's taking six and a half threes per, game
Speaker 2: making almost forty percent of.
Speaker 3: Them that's.
Speaker 2: Elite he's running off screens like a, wing shooting off
Speaker 2: of movement like He's Anthony.
Speaker 3: Davis he can shoot.
Speaker 2: Outside and because he can shoot, outside then you've got
Speaker 2: defenses that need to close on, him which they can't
Speaker 2: really even contest because he's seven feet. Tall they've got
Speaker 2: to close it on him, quicker which that means cross slash,
Speaker 2: dunk and he's able to attack the. Rimp why because
Speaker 2: he's like probably one of the, best if not the
Speaker 2: best big man that can handle the. Rock memphis is
Speaker 2: plus eleven point nine with him on the. Floor he's
Speaker 2: top five in THE nba right, now elite defense wise
Speaker 2: because he's top five in THE nba and block rate.
Speaker 3: At six and a half.
Speaker 2: Percent so Since jaw went, Down Jaron jackson has put
Speaker 2: up twenty one and five with forty one percent from.
Speaker 2: Three and when people ask, him, like, hey why he's
Speaker 2: so good right, now he was, like, hey, uh when
Speaker 2: you get, home why don't you have yourself some?
Speaker 3: Water it tastes. Good i'm a huge water.
Speaker 1: Guy so.
Speaker 3: The reason Why.
Speaker 2: Jaron jackson is so good is he's just been increasing
Speaker 2: his water. LEVELS i GUESS i just need to drink
Speaker 2: more water and then Maybe i'll be seven feet tall
Speaker 2: and shoot forty percent from. Three number Two Desmond bane
Speaker 2: actually a. Star like guys don't know who he. Is
Speaker 2: people will be talking about. Him Sports center watch out
Speaker 2: for The Desmond baines segment in the next ninety.
Speaker 3: Days off ball three and d. Guard he slipped to
Speaker 3: thirty in the, draft.
Speaker 2: Coaches was, saying, oh nice, kid, big big shoulders out
Speaker 2: OF tcu Horn. Frog he's exploded on both ends of the.
Speaker 2: Court bain's usage has gone up from sixteen point one
Speaker 2: percent to twenty two percent this. Year even with, Jaw
Speaker 2: memphis is letting him attack off the dribble more. Often
Speaker 2: he's also a mid range. Monster he's kind of like
Speaker 2: DeMar derozen If Demartin rosen actually shot threes and was.
Speaker 2: Thicker he's, like he's a thick, Boy like he is
Speaker 2: a big. Kid if you look Up Desmond bain and
Speaker 2: you don't know who he, IS i, mean he looks
Speaker 2: like a football player and he's still shooting forty percent
Speaker 2: from three on nearly seven threes a.
Speaker 3: Game like he just stole. Him they stole. Him why
Speaker 3: Didn't portland get? Him they stole.
Speaker 2: Him Dylan brooks maybe the most underrated player in the.
Speaker 2: League also somebody WHO i think would have been great In.
Speaker 2: Portland he's maybe the best on ball defender Besides Drew
Speaker 2: holliday in THE, nba and he's taller Than drew when
Speaker 2: he's on the floor of the team has a net
Speaker 2: rating of ten point. Four they have one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirteen offensive rating and one hundred and two defensive. Rating
Speaker 2: when he's off the, Court it's fucking. Gross the offensive
Speaker 2: rating goes from one hundred and thirteen to one hundred and,
Speaker 2: nine and their defensive rating goes from one hundred and
Speaker 2: two to one hundred and, eleven which is a net
Speaker 2: rating of negative.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 2: Gross Dylan brooks made that makes this shit. Go, fourthly
Speaker 2: this team is. Deep Xavier tillman super. UNDERRATED i barely
Speaker 2: even spoke about. Him killy And tilly probably the Only
Speaker 2: Gonzaga kai that you could even like say is contributing
Speaker 2: right now outside Of. Sabonis but, like Is sabonis really?
Speaker 2: CONTRIBUTING i, mean, Really, isy if they're not even calling
Speaker 2: him a star in A, INDIANA i, mean, like, really
Speaker 2: what are we?
Speaker 3: Doing Steven. Adams Steven adams.
Speaker 2: Is actually doing what they said he was supposed to,
Speaker 2: do like veteran, presence toughness that valentunis, like Like valentinis will
Speaker 2: give you, Twenty but do you need twenty when you
Speaker 2: Got Desmond baine And Xavier tillman And Dean Anthony melton
Speaker 2: And Killian tilly And jaw And.
Speaker 3: Tias, Jones, like, no you don't need.
Speaker 2: Offense this team needed defense And Steven adams has been
Speaker 2: crucial for. Them, also we Got John conkar who's been
Speaker 2: valuable as.
Speaker 3: Well Tias. Jones Tias jones is maybe one of.
Speaker 2: The most underrated backup point guards in the. League he
Speaker 2: has the best assist to turnover ratio in THE nba
Speaker 2: for the last three years. Running this year he has
Speaker 2: one hundred and nineteen assists to twenty one.
Speaker 3: Turnovers that is.
Speaker 2: Disgusting that's nearly that's that's a ratio of six to. One,
Speaker 2: like that's some. Shit that is like How houseway how
Speaker 2: their number two team in scoring in the. PAINT i
Speaker 2: poo Pooed valenttis, Trade but you know, What Like memphis
Speaker 2: is second in THE nba in points in the paint
Speaker 2: at fifty three point, six just Behind San. ANTONIO i
Speaker 2: thought Losing valentnis would impact them, negatively but it. Hasn't
Speaker 2: Like Steven, adams they're. Better but also you've Got, Jaw
Speaker 2: you've Got Jaron jackson leading in points in the paint as,
Speaker 2: well And Steven. Adams they're Like Steven adams defensive rating
Speaker 2: right now is one oh nine this, year which would
Speaker 2: have put him in the top fifteen in.
Speaker 3: THE nba last. Year so why then aren't we talking about?
Speaker 3: HIM i don't.
Speaker 2: Know you should be, afraid, though you really should be
Speaker 2: afraid Because jaws coming. Back how DO i Know jaw's coming?
Speaker 2: Back because he's speaking In spanish On. Twitter he's literally,
Speaker 2: SAYING i think a couple more Days oonparadas and then
Speaker 2: an hour glass emoji and A ninja emoji with two.
Speaker 2: Swords he's coming and before Skipping shannon are like next On?
Speaker 2: Undisputed are The grizzlies actually better Without Jahn? Moran should
Speaker 2: they pursue a trade With Ja morant For Ben. Simmons,
Speaker 2: no they're not better Without Ja. Morant But jaw is.
Speaker 2: Coming jaws coming, Soon and, that my, friends should scare
Speaker 2: everyone because without, them without, him they're a top four
Speaker 2: team in The west and a top eighteen in the
Speaker 2: league with.
Speaker 3: Him fuck who? Knows who?
Speaker 2: Knows maybe when we Watch Golden state Play memphis in
Speaker 2: the play in last last, year we weren't watching two
Speaker 2: teams struggling just to get into the. Mix we were
Speaker 2: watching two teams emerge as maybe two of the best
Speaker 2: teams in the entire, association and that's cool like going
Speaker 2: from bottom to the top in a matter of twelve.
Speaker 2: Months that's something that All Sad, Orlando Magic Portland trailblazers
Speaker 2: And suns fans can get.
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