Speaker 1: On this episode of The Heat Check, another historic comeback,
Speaker 1: this time in reverse. Flip it and reverse it like
Speaker 1: Missy Elliott. The New York Knicks stun the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: coming back from down twenty and it was just fucking madness.
Speaker 1: I turned it off. I'm sorry I had to go
Speaker 1: back and watch it after the fact. You might want
Speaker 1: to hold off crowning the Okac Thunder as the best
Speaker 1: team ever. They got beaten by forty. A lot of
Speaker 1: news from around the league to get to, well, some
Speaker 1: news from around the league to get to. So it's
Speaker 1: not Donald Wyatt drop that motherfucker beat. That should be Rihanna.
Speaker 1: You're listening to The Hottest, the Hottest. It be a
Speaker 1: podcast out here. I said what I said.
Speaker 2: Off, it's the Heat Chick Check.
Speaker 1: What's happening in the NBA? Another comeback? And I think,
Speaker 1: now that's just come in the norm. Brian Windhorst and
Speaker 1: the Hoop Collective say, the best pace of play is up.
Speaker 1: We've got threes being shot at historic level, and we've
Speaker 1: got coaches using up all their damn timeouts on challenges
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, you can get back
Speaker 1: into the game fucking quick. Now it's the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: They come. I tried to say the Knicks are better
Speaker 1: playing from behind. They really are. It was a game,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. We know that the Knicks were
Speaker 1: just shooketh going down oh two, then another somewhat of
Speaker 1: a collapse in game two, but they really were down
Speaker 1: by ten multiple points in time during Game two, so
Speaker 1: they probably shouldn't have won that game regardless. Right, Knicks
Speaker 1: fans are despondents. They're figuring is the Pacers gonna just
Speaker 1: Nixon seven. We had people just not answering the phone
Speaker 1: when I was on my live stream with Metal Arc.
Speaker 1: They know they have to go to Indy and they're
Speaker 1: hoping upon hope that somehow their road record that was
Speaker 1: stellar all postseason long would be able to carry over.
Speaker 1: It's Indianapolis, five hundred weekend, baby racer, pacer. What do
Speaker 1: you get a rabid town, smelling blood in the water.
Speaker 1: Taking down those Knickerbockers. Three zero is a death sentence.
Speaker 1: We've talked about that many times before. No team is
Speaker 1: ever in the conference finals gone down three zero in one. Ever,
Speaker 1: then it was a funeral maybe for Tom Thibodeau. People
Speaker 1: are crushing Tom Thibodeau for benching Karl Anthony Towns in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, leaving random players in the game. We
Speaker 1: had a little delawn right sighting. We saw more delon
Speaker 1: Wright in Game three, Yes we did. Andy ran out
Speaker 1: to a fifty eight to forty five halftime lead, and
Speaker 1: the only reason it wasn't twenty is because there were
Speaker 1: some key missteps in the first half right at the
Speaker 1: end of the second order for Indy and some crucial
Speaker 1: possessions where Michel Bridges hits a three with five seconds
Speaker 1: left to cut it from sixteen to thirteen. It was
Speaker 1: very important. That was very, very important. Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: with four fouls going into the halftime. You had Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson four fouls going into halftime, the team couldn't score.
Speaker 1: You had TJ McConnell putting buckets on your head like
Speaker 1: it was fucking two thousand and seventeen Indiana Pacers, not
Speaker 1: even the third Yeah, Pascal siakam dunking on your face,
Speaker 1: OPI top and dunking on your face. You're wondering can
Speaker 1: this Knixt team recover? Do we need to trade Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns? Was Michael Bridges worth five first round picks.
Speaker 1: Do we need to fire Tom Thibodeau. That's where we
Speaker 1: were is the Pacers. Are the Pacers actually the best
Speaker 1: team in the league right now? Like could they beat
Speaker 1: the Thunder the nixt Twitter they're throwing dirt on the season.
Speaker 1: Half of them are calling for Tips's head, just like me.
Speaker 1: And the hero comes along with the strength, the carrion
Speaker 1: and your cash, your fears aside, and you know you
Speaker 1: will serve.
Speaker 2: And when you feel like hope is gone, look inside
Speaker 2: you and be strong. You'll finally see the truth that
Speaker 2: the hero lies in carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: Yes, carl Anthony Towns. Giddy Cat we in Indiana and out.
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Town's one of the most hectic, chaotic players,
Speaker 1: a player that literally had his fourth foul based on
Speaker 1: him shoving Tyrese Haliburton on an an one dunk that
Speaker 1: got overturned by Rick Carlisle using a cruise challenge way
Speaker 1: early in the game. But they needed it because they
Speaker 1: didn't want them cutting the lead down ended up being
Speaker 1: an offensive foul, and you're wondering what's going on. They
Speaker 1: can't play Jalen Brunson. He's playing terrible, so they're forced.
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau is forced to stagger Brunson and Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns and guess what, and guess what, guess what? It worked.
Speaker 1: It worked, baby, it worked. We found the ether serum.
Speaker 1: It's called spacing them out. They can't be on the
Speaker 1: floor together. Karl Anthony Towns, with Jalen Brunson sitting his
Speaker 1: ass on the bench, led the Knicks back from twenty
Speaker 1: down to one of the all time great performances. Six
Speaker 1: for nine from the field, three for four from three.
Speaker 1: He's it was very aggressive. He turns into a little
Speaker 1: microwave out there, but he's not no longer doing those
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum things, the step back threes that he likes
Speaker 1: to do, you know, the like jab step three that
Speaker 1: Kitty Can does when he's in full kitting mote. No,
Speaker 1: he was a Maine coon out there. He was a
Speaker 1: grown Maine coon and he was taking him to the
Speaker 1: rack and dunking on people's faces. He's turning the corner
Speaker 1: making Indiana shook, and he was okay defensively. He wasn't
Speaker 1: a silly, wasn't a cone. And that's all that we needed. Really.
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns was the New York Savior. Say what,
Speaker 1: by the way, a Maine coon is a cat cat.
Speaker 1: It's a cat breed. Okay, don't you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: it's a cat. He was so good. Carl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: was so good. I didn't even realize so just now
Speaker 1: that that could have gotten flipped and reversed. It's cat.
Speaker 1: Fifteen of the seven Knicks points in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: went to Karl Anthony Towns. And then when the heater
Speaker 1: was done and the Nixon pacers were tied, then it
Speaker 1: was like, let's bring Brunsen Burner back in and see
Speaker 1: if he can get us one fucking bucket, which he did.
Speaker 1: Which he did, and he took it home sweet Alabama
Speaker 1: took it home one oh six, one hundred, and I
Speaker 1: think we might have a series on our hands. I
Speaker 1: think Tom Thibodeaux might have figured some things out. We
Speaker 1: got some big minutes for Landry Schmitt, we got more
Speaker 1: Don Wright sightings. Mitchell Robinson, he had some big minutes
Speaker 1: and he had some bad minutes as well. He's breathing,
Speaker 1: he's huffing and puffing like he's about to blow the
Speaker 1: house down. His conditioning's not quite there. But when he
Speaker 1: and Karl Anthony Towns on the court at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's working. It's working, folks. And the effort, the defensive effort,
Speaker 1: the intensity in the second half of the Knicks, it
Speaker 1: was just right there. The rotations were right there. They're
Speaker 1: playing with effort, hard, nos focus, things that you want
Speaker 1: to see from these Knicks that they're going to get
Speaker 1: back into the game, into the series. And he did it.
Speaker 1: I should have known. I looked at this after the
Speaker 1: game today this morning, and he did it on Dominican
Speaker 1: Republic Mother's Day should and ONWN As we know, Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony town has lost his mom to COVID. That was
Speaker 1: his heart, that was his heartbeat, that was his soul.
Speaker 1: And he said, it just meant a lot that I
Speaker 1: was able to play on a day like today. I
Speaker 1: didn't know my mom was expecting a game like tonight.
Speaker 1: But I'm just happy that this team is able to
Speaker 1: get a win on her day. Shed a tear for
Speaker 1: Kitty Cat. Also, if you're a Pacers fan, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can be you should be concerned. There
Speaker 1: are things that you can say. This is what turned
Speaker 1: the game around one. There was a lot of laxic
Speaker 1: daysicle taking the game for granted sort of possessions where
Speaker 1: I'm literally tearing my hair. No, keep going kick out.
Speaker 1: Don't just go for a dunk that ends up getting
Speaker 1: back rimmed, getting rim checked, obi Toppin', Like, don't just
Speaker 1: throw up garbage just because you're up seventeen. Continue to
Speaker 1: get good possessions. Nie Smith sprained his ankle on this
Speaker 1: like really weird play. Who was like dragged his toe,
Speaker 1: rolled it over when Jalen Brunton I think was guarding
Speaker 1: him underneath the rim He's kicking out. It was really
Speaker 1: weird and tweaky. And then and then he had to
Speaker 1: leave the game, and like he was out of the
Speaker 1: game for like thirty eight real minutes and that that's
Speaker 1: really when New York made their comeback. And he's questionable
Speaker 1: for game four. So we might have for a series.
Speaker 1: We might have a series here. That's an excuse. The
Speaker 1: Pacers don't want to play the excuse game. But a
Speaker 1: ton of credit has to go to tips. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he altered his lineups, he played guys he never plays.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of duce McBride minutes, and duce
Speaker 1: McBride looked like he was on a short leash. Looked
Speaker 1: like it was Sandman time. Sleep with one open, gripping
Speaker 1: your pillow tight. That was what it was for Duce McBride.
Speaker 1: I had an earl gray tea today. That's caffeine. I
Speaker 1: haven't had caffeine two days in a row, and like
Speaker 1: two years. I'm fucking pumped up, pumped up. The NBA's
Speaker 1: back anyway. Tom Thibodeau, Kenny the Jet Smith, said, wouldn't
Speaker 1: play nine players in a baseball game? And guess what
Speaker 1: Landry Chemet minutes Delon Wright minutes the traditional starting lineup,
Speaker 1: we said, negative twenty nine net rating. In the first
Speaker 1: two games, Thibodeau ran out fifteen different lineups, including eight
Speaker 1: that hadn't played a minute together all year before this game.
Speaker 1: He adjusted. He adjusted like his life was on the line,
Speaker 1: like his beating heart was going to be ripped out
Speaker 1: of his chest if they didn't win a fucking game.
Speaker 1: And it looked ugly. People were crushing him over some
Speaker 1: of the decisions that he made in Game one Game two,
Speaker 1: I think too, tib said. People think I want a
Speaker 1: low scoring game. No, I just want one more point
Speaker 1: that they have. But that's what you're gonna need against
Speaker 1: these pacers, slow methodical plotting. Don't win with the offense
Speaker 1: because you're not You don't have the guns. Okay, you
Speaker 1: don't have the guns to out offense these pacers. What
Speaker 1: you need to do is out defense them. The New
Speaker 1: York Knicks are the first team in the last thirty
Speaker 1: years to win not one, not two, but three games
Speaker 1: in the playoffs where they trailed by twenty or more.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. They pulled in Indiana on Indiana, and that's
Speaker 1: the way that Tom Thibodeaux needs to keep it going.
Speaker 1: Because they asked Rick Carlisle about it. Rick Carlisle said,
Speaker 1: the reason that we had such a hard time scoring
Speaker 1: in the second half is they put better defensive players
Speaker 1: on the floor, meaning taking out Jalen Brunson, who was
Speaker 1: food carl Anthony Towns was out there playing pretty decent
Speaker 1: defensive minutes. Jalen Brunson very mad at the refs, but
Speaker 1: he was fouling his little ass off, okay, and not
Speaker 1: getting the calls he usually gets. Towns ended up with
Speaker 1: twenty four and fifteen. Great great game for him. Brunson
Speaker 1: ended up with twenty three to two and one, had
Speaker 1: ten and for the line now Game four, but he
Speaker 1: was not efficient. Jalen Brunson, it was awful. He's stunk.
Speaker 1: It was the worst game I've seen him play all year.
Speaker 1: He kind of feels now like the momentum has shif
Speaker 1: did and Game four is a must win for the Pacers.
Speaker 1: They tricked off this win, They tricked it off. I
Speaker 1: really want to see Game seven at MSG so much
Speaker 1: so I might have to put a hecks on those
Speaker 1: Pacers just for the Game seven. In the back of
Speaker 1: their minds, Pacer fans all remember this situation. Remember remember
Speaker 1: remember this the Reggie Miller choked job where he came
Speaker 1: back a million points in like eight seconds. Will people forget,
Speaker 1: not Pacer fans, They don't forget. Is it the Knicks
Speaker 1: actually won that series coming back in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of Game seven to win ninety four to ninety That's
Speaker 1: the kind of game Tom Thibodeau wants to win. In
Speaker 1: a game where Reggie Miller shot seven for seventeen. Will
Speaker 1: history repeat itself? Because now the Pacers can't rely on
Speaker 1: the one thing that they thought that they knew. Tom
Speaker 1: Thibodeau is gonna play the same guys. He's gonna play
Speaker 1: the hits, even if the hits aren't hitting. And now
Speaker 1: we know Tom Thibodeau is willing to go nine deep,
Speaker 1: so deep we'll put the masks is to sleep. He's
Speaker 1: throwing curveballs after curveballs, after a career of throwing nothing
Speaker 1: but the same off speed pitch. Oooh, that's dangerous. Wo
Speaker 1: that's dangerous out of Minnesota. Almost lost my whole words.
Speaker 1: We have a series. We have a series on our hands.
Speaker 1: Right after the NBA World even myself, I was like,
Speaker 1: I just don't think that they have it. These Minnesota
Speaker 1: Timberwolves can't score. Their bench stinks. Okay, so he's taking
Speaker 1: the ball away fifteen plus times the game off his
Speaker 1: live ball steals, getting the easy transition dunks, and just
Speaker 1: demoralizing you. Even in the first round sweep of Memphis. Okay,
Speaker 1: see got humbled in games three and four by the
Speaker 1: grizz We don't know what would have happened if John
Speaker 1: Moran wouldn't have gone down. That's exactly what happened in
Speaker 1: the Denver Nugget series as well. They get blown out,
Speaker 1: they make it a series, and now we got the ThunderCats.
Speaker 1: After a scintillating blowout the Wolves understand we know how
Speaker 1: to beat these guys. Well, you gotta get a lot
Speaker 1: of aggression from Aunt. You gotta have buckets put up
Speaker 1: by nas Red. The bench has to be better. You
Speaker 1: have to get more physical with Shay. The Wolves beat
Speaker 1: the breaks off those thunder one one one, seventy two,
Speaker 1: forty one and a half, a thirty one point lead,
Speaker 1: and then the Wolves outscored okay see seventy one to
Speaker 1: sixty in the second half as well. They won every
Speaker 1: single quarter. They win every single quarter against the best
Speaker 1: team in NBA history. Statistically, they won every minute of
Speaker 1: every quarter. Did you see that instagram where that guy
Speaker 1: was like, from six am to noon is one day
Speaker 1: for me, and from noon to six is another day
Speaker 1: for me. From six to midnight, I think it was
Speaker 1: even like more. I think he had four days. He
Speaker 1: called him four days in one day. He doesn't sleep.
Speaker 1: And there was a joke about like every minute of
Speaker 1: mine is one day. Because if you won one six
Speaker 1: am to six oh one pm one day, six one two,
Speaker 1: six two one day, you stack those up, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: beat you. I'm gonna beat you. That's just insane anyway,
Speaker 1: That's basically what the Wolves did to the OKC Thunder.
Speaker 1: They made every minute feel like one day. Four OKC
Speaker 1: Thunder players had a negative thirty or worst net rating
Speaker 1: in the game. Shay JDub Hartenstein, Case and Wallace. Seems impossible.
Speaker 1: Seems impossible for an all like a team full of
Speaker 1: all NBA and all defensive NBA players. It was the
Speaker 1: single worst playoff loss in history for a team that
Speaker 1: won sixty five or more games. There has never been
Speaker 1: a team to win the NBA title to lose by
Speaker 1: forty or more in a game. But as someone who
Speaker 1: met this beautiful Uber driver outside of Barclay Stadium, beautiful
Speaker 1: as a soul. I left at halftime of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one Eastern Conference Finals between the Brooklyn Nets and
Speaker 1: the Bucks because Harden, Kyrie and Kevin Durant and then
Speaker 1: Boys put a smack down on those Bucks. They could
Speaker 1: have won by sixty if they wanted. And guess what,
Speaker 1: then that stat goes away. They end up winning that
Speaker 1: game by thirty nine. And I had a really nice
Speaker 1: conversation with the man from Mollie and I'll never forget it,
Speaker 1: and that Bucks team won the title. That's what happened.
Speaker 1: Kyrie st sprained his ankle, James Harden heard his hamstring.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant had to do it all himself. Foot on
Speaker 1: the line, goes overtime, get him over. Then they make
Speaker 1: light work out of the Phoenix Suns, even with Jannis
Speaker 1: and his knee extension issue. Anyway, Minnesota out. That was
Speaker 1: just a little history for you. Minnesota outshot Oka see
Speaker 1: from two and from three twenty to fourteen out rebound
Speaker 1: him fifty to thirty nine, had more steals, more blocks,
Speaker 1: less turnovers, and less fouls. It was just a drumming, drubbing, drumming, drubbing, drubbing, drumming.
Speaker 1: Aunt had thirty. He was so aggressive, And there was
Speaker 1: a whole article that just came out by Brian Winhorst
Speaker 1: about how Aunt and his positive mindset and attitude and
Speaker 1: upbeat vibe just injected life into these Wolves. He had
Speaker 1: thirty twelve or seventeen. He was five for eight from three.
Speaker 1: Julius Randall had a bounce back game and the Wolves
Speaker 1: used a couple of young bucks, got some Tarret Shannon minutes. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Tarret Shannon had a couple of big buckets. We saw
Speaker 1: a little Leonard Miller haven't seen Leonard Miller in years,
Speaker 1: really since he heard himself. The Wolves had twenty six
Speaker 1: bench points. Chris Finch used everyone except for Joe Ingles, which, like,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, Joe Ingles is just there vibin vibein.
Speaker 1: The Wolves bench outscored the Thunders starters sixty six to
Speaker 1: forty nine. The Wolves bench outscored the starters for the
Speaker 1: Thunder sixty six to forty nine. That's crazy. SGA MVP
Speaker 1: SGA fourteen points. That's the least amount he scored in
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighteen games. That's crazy. What's what do
Speaker 1: we make of this? I don't know. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if you can make anything out of this. Who
Speaker 1: knows if Nasre is gonna come out and shoot two
Speaker 1: two for four from three. His first I think is
Speaker 1: actually better than that hit his first two threes. Who
Speaker 1: knows what Julius Randall version you're getting. Who knows if
Speaker 1: Aunt Edwards's ankle is still like this? What are we
Speaker 1: getting from Rudy Gobert. I don't fucking know. I do
Speaker 1: know that the Thunder will respond. Game four will happen
Speaker 1: after I'm recording, so it will break it down this way.
Speaker 1: If Minnesota wins, it's because they've broken some sort of code,
Speaker 1: They've figured something out. They believe in their hearts that
Speaker 1: they can beat this thunder team in Minnesota. They can
Speaker 1: take so much away from Game three. That was good
Speaker 1: and that's what players who win, that's what they do.
Speaker 1: Bill Momentum, Jave McDaniels. He's still cold, he's still frustrated.
Speaker 1: He's getting called for fouls for just barely grazing. Shay pause.
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert is gonna have to do a lot. Defense
Speaker 1: was really good. Rudy Gobert had his best game since
Speaker 1: the Lakers series. If you're okay See, you're like, this
Speaker 1: game doesn't matter at all. It's happened against the Denver series,
Speaker 1: and guess what, we beat them. We almost got beat
Speaker 1: by the Memphis Guess what we swept them. So when
Speaker 1: Okaysee's bad, they're very bad. When it's ugly, it's very ugly,
Speaker 1: and okay See is still a powerhouse. It's pretty damn
Speaker 1: rare to find five starters that all suck at the
Speaker 1: same time. I cannot remember where they're starting five. Shae Dort, Hartenstein,
Speaker 1: j dub and chet All scored fifty points in total.
Speaker 1: Just doesn't happen. You get thirty from Shay all on
Speaker 1: his own. They can count on Shae having another thirty
Speaker 1: point bounce back game because he was four for thirteen
Speaker 1: from the field, kid four turnovers, he got subbed out
Speaker 1: for good down thirty eight. He's chilling. He's got the
Speaker 1: hyper rice, he's got the norma tex leaves on. He's
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out. He's a mid range machine. Maybe
Speaker 1: Minnesota is changing something defensively. They go back to playing
Speaker 1: a more man style off or defense and not allowing
Speaker 1: Shaye to get easy mid range shots, which is basically
Speaker 1: layups for him. Maybe they get more aggressive, Maybe the
Speaker 1: refs don't allow the disparity of free throws to occur.
Speaker 1: Either way, it's gonna be fascinating. Don't be surprised if
Speaker 1: we're heading for a game seven some quick kitters from
Speaker 1: around the league. Looks like Giannis wants to stay in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Reports are that he had a long meeting with John
Speaker 1: Horst and a pair didn't ask for a trade. Okay,
Speaker 1: Horse apparently pitched Giannis on this season as a pause
Speaker 1: before making another run when Dame is healthy. Jannis has agreed.
Speaker 1: I knew he was gonna get finessed. I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it. Look at the Dallas Mavericks. They went
Speaker 1: to the finals and now they have Cooper Flag this guy, uh,
Speaker 1: this guy Aj DEBANSA. We could have Aj Debanson. Look
Speaker 1: you Aj DEBANTSA Dame Tyle run. That's what that's what
Speaker 1: do I promise you. I wasn't there, but that's that's
Speaker 1: what was said. Podcast p Paul George said on his
Speaker 1: recent podcast that he thinks that Jannis is an old
Speaker 1: school player wants to play in one place's whole career.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think also Yannis sees what happened to Dame when
Speaker 1: you change teams and how bad that can go. You
Speaker 1: lose your legacy, You're no longer the man. Your home
Speaker 1: that you built isn't where you can sleep anymore. Who
Speaker 1: knows what it did to his relationship, all of it bad.
Speaker 1: Just because he hasn't asked out though, doesn't mean he
Speaker 1: won't ask out. It just means right now there's still
Speaker 1: on the Honest to Miami rumors have not died down recently.
Speaker 1: Honest said a bunch of nice things about Stephen Golden State.
Speaker 1: He's been Ruber to go there for a long ass time,
Speaker 1: So hold on to your horses. He's not going anywhere
Speaker 1: until he does. Moving on, Carmelo Anthony took to his
Speaker 1: podcast to hype up white boys. One white boy, Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1: Carmelo said, we've seen everyone in this draft before. We've
Speaker 1: seen Paul George, We've seen Kevin Garnett, we've seen Tracy McGrady,
Speaker 1: we've seen Mellows, we've seen Tatum, we've seen Ace Bailey.
Speaker 1: That doesn't take away anything from him, but visually we've
Speaker 1: seen Ace Bailey. Right, we haven't seen not to make
Speaker 1: this black and white, we haven't seen a white boy
Speaker 1: like this. It's true in a long fucking time. That's right,
Speaker 1: when you know he's really good, that's when you know
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag is really good. Like, we haven't seen that
Speaker 1: in a long time. When is the last time we've
Speaker 1: seen a homegrown American white player as the number one
Speaker 1: overall consensus pick this much hype. At first, I thought
Speaker 1: Larry Legend, No, he didn't go number one. John Stockton
Speaker 1: didn't move the needle like this. Maybe this is the
Speaker 1: most pressure that any number one pick has had in
Speaker 1: recent memory. Because he's white. And some of that pressure
Speaker 1: is just kind of funny. Anyway, a lot of that
Speaker 1: moving on, been a lot of post playoff chatter about
Speaker 1: Jonathan Kaminga, fashally after Steve Kerr said this, Jonathan Kaminga
Speaker 1: is obviously gifted and wants to play a bigger role
Speaker 1: and he wants to play more. And for me, I've
Speaker 1: been asked to win and right now, he's not a
Speaker 1: guy who I can say I'm gonna play thirty eight
Speaker 1: minutes with the roster that we have and put the
Speaker 1: puzzle together that way and expect to win. Ah, that's cringey,
Speaker 1: and now you can see why Kaminga is buried on
Speaker 1: the bench. Kerr also said, like, maybe Kamingo will just
Speaker 1: stick around, Maybe he wants to stay and be a warrior.
Speaker 1: Kaminga and him have a great relationship, but Kaminga might
Speaker 1: want I don't know, some more minutes and probably someone.
Speaker 1: This caused a massive splash in the bay, although it
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have because we know Jonathan Kaminga has been
Speaker 1: like this, very much up and down roller coaster kind
Speaker 1: of player, and that was the rationale explanation why he
Speaker 1: got DMPs in the playoffs. Basically, his coach doesn't trust him,
Speaker 1: and that's the root of what cur said. I can't
Speaker 1: trust that we're gonna win putting him out there for
Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes, just can't. Does that mean he doesn't
Speaker 1: like him? No, doesn't mean it. Schemes that he wants
Speaker 1: to run. Kaminga doesn't fit. Thus his chances are lowered
Speaker 1: for winning when Kaminga is in the game. Kerr also
Speaker 1: had to take the radio to explain this idea further
Speaker 1: and said, I think, man, this is like a real issue.
Speaker 1: I think the number one thing is that JK and
Speaker 1: I have a very good relationship. We talk all the time.
Speaker 1: This is just basketball. This is not a case of
Speaker 1: JK coming in and say, hey, I gotta get out
Speaker 1: of here. This is just trying to make this fit
Speaker 1: and make this work. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: He goes he going anyway, Kurz being brutally honest. It's
Speaker 1: just basketball, and the key to basketball is winning. It's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a sign in trade, That's what I
Speaker 1: imagine is going to have. That'll leave just Moses Moody.
Speaker 1: Moses Moody on the team left from three lottery picks
Speaker 1: and then the two timeline era will be over. That's
Speaker 1: all the time that we have for this episode of
Speaker 1: the Heat Check. Just a quick little hitter. Can't wait
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