Speaker 1: On this episode of The Check, we gotta talk about something, folks.
Speaker 1: I is something I am fired up about. Something we
Speaker 1: must collectively as an NBA group discuss Cam thomas Is
Speaker 1: forty five point performance against Walkie Puffs. I have thoughts
Speaker 1: and there's guns. He probably don't think I'm gonna have,
Speaker 1: so we need to talk about it. Absolutely, it's Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We gotta talk about you're hot, then you're cold and
Speaker 1: next thing. Yo, No, poor Julius Randall out here of
Speaker 1: cold his site. We may need to retire this segment.
Speaker 1: Right after he's done when somebody put up a clock
Speaker 1: and the last time he's made something just soaking wet
Speaker 1: through the net because I haven't seen it, folks, I
Speaker 1: have not seen it. Finally, get into us news from
Speaker 1: around the League, Jam past segment, Baby jamback show, So
Speaker 1: let's get into it. William drop that motherfucker beat and
Speaker 1: should be Rihanna down all the biggest NBA storylines. So
Speaker 1: the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just a cracker,
Speaker 1: the best podcast covering all the drama around the association. Here, Lord,
Speaker 1: help me help me make my point known to my
Speaker 1: listeners without them holding my takes against me, because they
Speaker 1: they do not know what they see. They think they
Speaker 1: see a man that's a bucket. He's a bucket, He's
Speaker 1: a bucket. But what they actually see, folks, is a
Speaker 1: fucking chucker. And that's okay, that's okay, But we got
Speaker 1: to talk about Cam Thomas today. I am fired up
Speaker 1: about Cam Thomas, the man, the myth, the legend. Cam
Speaker 1: Thomas continues to grow. He had forty five points last
Speaker 1: night against the Milwaukee Bucks. And that that is a
Speaker 1: real that is a real problem. That is like we
Speaker 1: are will will it alert alert? It is the end
Speaker 1: of times here when Cam Thomas is scoring forty five
Speaker 1: points in a real NBA game. The man Cam Thomas
Speaker 1: thirty three shots last night, he attempted, he put up
Speaker 1: sixteen threes. So yeah, I'm fired up, not just about Cam,
Speaker 1: but that anyone would think it was a good idea
Speaker 1: to build their entire offense around Cam Thomas. Now you
Speaker 1: may say Trista, Trista, He's a leading scorer in Okill history,
Speaker 1: leading freshman in the SEC at LSU. Give a buck.
Speaker 1: He has the same usage right now, higher usage than
Speaker 1: Damian Logo Lillard. Listen, I'm not trying to hate on
Speaker 1: this man. Cam Thomas. He's a chucker. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: He's gonna, okay, he's gonna do what he does. He's
Speaker 1: not told anyone any different. I'm not passing you the ball,
Speaker 1: so quit asking. I need somebody to take the ball
Speaker 1: away from Cam Thomas. We are too real, like real
Speaker 1: times of like I am legend, like this is now.
Speaker 1: I need someone to tell Jacques Vaughn and Sean Marx
Speaker 1: and the rest of these beta boys on the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets you can't have Cam Thomas be the leader of
Speaker 1: your team. This is now socialism at its finest, where
Speaker 1: we all just get to share the pie. Everybody takes
Speaker 1: what they need, right, Everybody takes the shots that they
Speaker 1: need except for Cam Thomas. Like no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: I'm taking thirty three a game and you're getting the rest.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you have a selfish man in
Speaker 1: a socialistic system. I'll take all the flames. Oh, Trista,
Speaker 1: you're just hating. Ask any fucking basketball player. Ask someone
Speaker 1: ethical about the game of basketball. If what Cam Thomas
Speaker 1: is doing is good for the sport, they're gonna shoot
Speaker 1: every time. They can't chuckers. They shoot every time they
Speaker 1: get the ball twenty seconds in the shot cluck five seconds.
Speaker 1: The show doesn't matter, contested, uncontested, thirty feet, forty feet,
Speaker 1: fifty feet away, doesn't matter. I'm Cam Thomas, I am him,
Speaker 1: and that's what Cam Thomas did last night. The truth
Speaker 1: is Cam Thomas is doing a lot in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 1: for the life of me, I cannot tell why, why
Speaker 1: why he was benched last year He poudered and he
Speaker 1: cried and we all knew he wasn't a starting caliber guard.
Speaker 1: And we've got Spencer Dinwidy on this team and he's
Speaker 1: just being benched in the fourth quarter so that Cam
Speaker 1: Thomas can shoot all the shots down the stretch against
Speaker 1: the contender like the Milwaukee Bucks. Why I have no
Speaker 1: idea Spencer Dinwoodie, most clutch shots, eleven game winners in
Speaker 1: his career, highest plus minus on the team, highest assist
Speaker 1: rate on the team, you know, at the cold basketball.
Speaker 1: But no, he's sitting there on his ass on the
Speaker 1: bench while Cam Thomas is being told green light, green light,
Speaker 1: have it, take it. And you know what Milwaukee says, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we love to see he Cam Thomas with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands. First quarter, second quarter, third quarter, old baby. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course fourth quarter, because eventually when cam Thomas misses,
Speaker 1: it turns into easy little shots for us in transition,
Speaker 1: and oh boy, yes it did. Milwaukee Bucks had the
Speaker 1: highest amount of transition buckets that they had all year,
Speaker 1: and it was no sweat. We don't care if we
Speaker 1: go down ten to Brooklyn. Why because camp Thomas has
Speaker 1: the ball. That's why. If you think I'm hating, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure by now force five minutes into the segment,
Speaker 1: he probably do snack on this little baby. The more
Speaker 1: that cam Thomas scores, the more that the Brooklyn Nets lose.
Speaker 1: The numbers speak for themselves. Cam Thomas when he scores
Speaker 1: thirty or more, his team is three and seven. Cam Thomas.
Speaker 1: When they scores thirty five or more, team is one
Speaker 1: and five cam Thomas when they scores forty or more.
Speaker 1: Very impressive that he has five games where he scored
Speaker 1: forty or more. One and four Camp Thomas when he
Speaker 1: scores forty five or more. Very impressive. Of three games
Speaker 1: he scored forty five, very impressive. Oh for three. The
Speaker 1: more cam Thomas we get, the more sick we get.
Speaker 1: I mean, the team is non functional. Cam right now
Speaker 1: has a twenty eight percent usage rate. That's fifth in
Speaker 1: the entire league at the position. Brooklyn, we have a problem.
Speaker 1: This man Cam Thomas has a higher usage rate than
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard. He's got a usage rate through the fucking roof.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most egregiously unethical players we've
Speaker 1: seen in our life. This is two thousands basketball for you,
Speaker 1: clear on out. It's on me. It's me right now,
Speaker 1: are you open? I don't care. This man Cam Thomas
Speaker 1: is gone to do anything else either. He's gonna shoot
Speaker 1: and shoot and shoot some more. How bad is he
Speaker 1: on defense? The worst, like bottom five percent. I could
Speaker 1: tell you the rating, but you don't care. One hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeen point nine twenty fifth worst in the league
Speaker 1: of over four hundred. That is nearly identical the way
Speaker 1: he had last year, which is one hundred and seventeen
Speaker 1: point seven. Loa loah. Again, not about Cam Thomas, more
Speaker 1: about situation. Opposing teams, like I said, they want to
Speaker 1: see nothing more than Cam Thomas shoot the ball. Do
Speaker 1: you think the deepfense is bending because of Cam Thomas?
Speaker 1: Do you think they're collapsing around Cam Thomas? Do you
Speaker 1: think Cam Thomas is on the fucking scouting report. No,
Speaker 1: except for allow cam Thomas to have the ball as
Speaker 1: much as he can. He is shooting thirty three percent
Speaker 1: from three, which qualifies him as being bottom ten percent
Speaker 1: of a high volume three point shooter. Fam, we can't
Speaker 1: be doing this. We can't put him on Twitter, elevating
Speaker 1: him onto a pedestal like the forty five cam Thomas
Speaker 1: put up was in some way valuable to the team.
Speaker 1: Sixteen threes last night? Sixteen Are you kidding me? Do
Speaker 1: not be putting this man on my Twitter feet. Do
Speaker 1: not be like, oh, he's him, He's a bucket. Jacqu Vaughan.
Speaker 1: Do not be like after the game, we need to
Speaker 1: see the ball in cam Thomas's hand as much as
Speaker 1: possible in the fourth quarter. No, we don't. No, we don't.
Speaker 1: Michel Bridges, don't be like, oh, cam Thomas is a bucket.
Speaker 1: I want the ball in his hands down and crunch time.
Speaker 1: No you don't. And if you do your beta, your beta,
Speaker 1: you don't want the ball in your hands because Cam
Speaker 1: Thomas is gonna take it and Spencer didn when he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to ruffle any feathers because we already know
Speaker 1: what time it was when he was in Wizard's Land.
Speaker 1: They were fucking with his reputation. He built it up
Speaker 1: to as high as it is right now. Well whatever
Speaker 1: that means in Dallas and now he's just trying to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, not make waves because he's an impending free
Speaker 1: agent and he wants to get paid. Shame on Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: Shame on you, Jacque Vond, Shame on you, Michale Bridges,
Speaker 1: Shame on you the rest of the squad for letting
Speaker 1: this man have the ball thirty eight percent of the time.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight percent of the time, doesn't matter. It feels
Speaker 1: like always. How does this happen? Where else? Would this happen? Nowhere? Nowhere, nowhere? Wizards?
Speaker 1: Probably maybe not. Jordan Poole would say, Cam Tomas, Ula, no, sir.
Speaker 1: Doesn't happen in Orlando, doesn't happen in Portland, doesn't happen
Speaker 1: in any dog shit organization. But it's happening on the nets.
Speaker 1: Why I don't know it. He needs an investigation for
Speaker 1: the ages and we will do that deep dive, just
Speaker 1: not today. But it's a mess, so please. The end
Speaker 1: of the line is for me saying despite the nets loss,
Speaker 1: Cam Thomas bawled out, no, that's not correct. What is
Speaker 1: correct is the Nets can't win because they have a
Speaker 1: yanky ass roster that relies on Cam Thomas putting up
Speaker 1: forty five. And remember, only you kids can stop unethical
Speaker 1: basketball from being put onto our Twitter feed. That's enough
Speaker 1: right now, I've got to move on to something more positive.
Speaker 1: I can feel the poison just seeping into my veins.
Speaker 1: Let's move forward. It's Wednesday, so you know what time
Speaker 1: it is is trist is Hot and Cold segment where
Speaker 1: we take the thermometer out and tell you who's got
Speaker 1: a fever and who's got the chills, and my man
Speaker 1: Aunt Edwards, nobody's running hotter than him. Aunt Edwards is
Speaker 1: on fire twenty eight seven and five so far this season,
Speaker 1: which are part of the numbers of the Flames. But listen,
Speaker 1: that's only a part of the He is a focal
Speaker 1: point of the defense, still managing to get off good shots,
Speaker 1: something that he's very much struggled to do in the past.
Speaker 1: He's either a defender or he is a scorer, and
Speaker 1: now he's being able to do both. He's shooting better
Speaker 1: from the free throw line eighty three percent fifty two
Speaker 1: percent from the field this season, incredible considering the fact
Speaker 1: that defenses are zeroing in on him after the FEBA
Speaker 1: performance that he's had. He is got a target on
Speaker 1: his back, shooting forty seven percent from three, which is
Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers for a guy his size. And when he's
Speaker 1: hitting his threes, the Timberwolves win. That's what they do,
Speaker 1: fifty to forty eighty split. He's elite. He right now
Speaker 1: is hotter than Fish Grease. So they say, put the
Speaker 1: work in over the summer with Rudy Gobert and it
Speaker 1: is paid off. Gobert no longer the liability that was
Speaker 1: most last year. The team is gelling. They've done a
Speaker 1: bunch of nerd stuff on defense that makes them more effective.
Speaker 1: Not going to get into it much more switching, less
Speaker 1: drop coverage. If you're looking for X's nose, you're not
Speaker 1: looking for me anyway. Aunt Edwards is hot right now
Speaker 1: and the Wolves are dangerous. They gave the Celtics their
Speaker 1: first loss. They gave the Denver Nuggets their first loss.
Speaker 1: Can they give the Utah Jazz losses? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but we know that they will play to the level
Speaker 1: of their competition and by the time the playoffs come around,
Speaker 1: they're gonna play some stiff ones. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the ice cube of the week. It's
Speaker 1: not Trey Gung, which it could be a pretty much
Speaker 1: every single week. It really could. He's horrible. He's the
Speaker 1: only player in NBA history to average twenty points per
Speaker 1: game on thirty three percent shooting this far into the season.
Speaker 1: It is real ize cool, but our cooler of the
Speaker 1: week comes no further than Madison Square Garden. And his
Speaker 1: name is Julius roller Coaster Randall. How bad is it,
Speaker 1: you may ask? Fans are asking for his head on
Speaker 1: a spike, like his name is Ned Stark. He is
Speaker 1: shooting under thirty percent for the season from the field,
Speaker 1: twenty five percent from three and guess what it feels worse?
Speaker 1: It really does seventeen shots per game. How bad is that?
Speaker 1: Dead last in the NBA. That's how bad goal efficiency
Speaker 1: dead last. Julius Randall and the Knicks are the only
Speaker 1: team in the league that I hate to watch because
Speaker 1: of him. He missed the dunk the other day. Julius
Speaker 1: Randall missed a dunk the other day. He's missing bunnies.
Speaker 1: The man psychologically is not right up there. Something's going on.
Speaker 1: Someone needs to give him a little massage, a little
Speaker 1: something something, you know what I mean? Because confidence is
Speaker 1: lacking sixty seven percent from the free throw line right now,
Speaker 1: which is the worst in his career at one point
Speaker 1: eighty one percent from the free throw line. Something's going on, folks.
Speaker 1: He is ice cold, and we know that's the Julius
Speaker 1: Randall experience. You're one hot, you're two cold, you're three hot,
Speaker 1: you're four. We're in the cold year. We knew that
Speaker 1: it's cold year season, but this is really really bad.
Speaker 1: Twenty five a game last year and currently averaging fifteen
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent decrease in scoring, which is pretty absurd
Speaker 1: for a guy who won Most Improved. Can we have
Speaker 1: a least improved player, a biggest regression player, because that
Speaker 1: would be Julius Randall this year. Then the Knicks, of course,
Speaker 1: are struggling as a result. They're three and four ninth place.
Speaker 1: What do you do? You let him shoot out of
Speaker 1: the slump. I don't fucking know. Somebody get him some help.
Speaker 1: He's gone months in the past. We know this getting cold,
Speaker 1: that's happened last year. He's a vibe guy. The vibes
Speaker 1: are out of whack. That's why I say something needs
Speaker 1: to change, change a little mix up. Jalen Brunton is
Speaker 1: supportive right now, but very realistic. This is part of basketball,
Speaker 1: he said. This dude has a great mindset, a great
Speaker 1: work ethic. The ball's not going through the hoop right
Speaker 1: now for him. No shit, He's still contributing in a
Speaker 1: big way. Is he? Is he? Jalen? How is he
Speaker 1: contributing in a big way? I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: into all that stuff. Oh you mean the things that
Speaker 1: he's positively doing on the floor that you can't really
Speaker 1: name because we don't have any of those things. His
Speaker 1: heart's still there, thank God for that. He just has
Speaker 1: to get over this little hump aka the round basketball
Speaker 1: that's eighteen inches in width. I get it, dude, confidence Waynes,
Speaker 1: you're getting killed on Twitter. People are saying that your
Speaker 1: scum and that you should be traded or going to
Speaker 1: Siberia or China. I get it. Stay off a line,
Speaker 1: change your account, have someone else look at your comments.
Speaker 1: Here's to Aunt Edwards staying hot, and here's Julius Randall.
Speaker 1: Find in the fucking stove, because right now it's ice
Speaker 1: cube season and it is not good in New York.
Speaker 1: Let's move to some news from around the league. We
Speaker 1: start in Portland. It's bad Shad and Sharp has been
Speaker 1: lighting things up, yes he has. He is leading the
Speaker 1: league in minutes as he should be. Jeremy Grant finalists
Speaker 1: for Player of the Week. Great, but all of that
Speaker 1: is overshadowed by the fact that Rob Williams they broke him, folks.
Speaker 1: So they broke him in Boston because he's now headed
Speaker 1: for surgery again on his knee, and who knows how
Speaker 1: long it's going to be until he comes back. We
Speaker 1: know Time Lord has been injury prone. That's been a
Speaker 1: thing for him. We know that probably that's because Boston
Speaker 1: ran him into the ground to get to the finals
Speaker 1: and he probably should have had knee surgery. Then. He
Speaker 1: was a big part of the Dame Willard trade, as
Speaker 1: was Malcolm Brogden, two guys with injury history. Did the
Speaker 1: Boston sell Finesse to Portland Trail Blazers? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it kind of feels like one of those Gary
Speaker 1: Payton scenarios where they suit us try to get their
Speaker 1: draft picks back. Turns out Time Lord needs surgery and
Speaker 1: his right knee and there's no timetable for his return,
Speaker 1: No timetable for his return. Sean's just tweeted this Portland
Speaker 1: Trailblazers Rob Williams is facing potential season ending surgery to
Speaker 1: repair a bone and ligament damage due to right kneecap injury.
Speaker 1: Williams and doctors could also choose cleanup procedure with a
Speaker 1: two to three month timetable. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: so the other one is two to three months? And
Speaker 1: what's the first one is? Is that like shut down season?
Speaker 1: Feels like it? Rob we know is one of the
Speaker 1: best defenders in the league. I could only hope to
Speaker 1: imagine what it would be like with him fully healthy
Speaker 1: and DeAndre Ayton fully healthy. But now I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: it's just dominate in season and that Rob Williams finally
Speaker 1: gets healthy. We let him sit on ice and develop,
Speaker 1: because Lord knows this is a rebuilding team. And here's
Speaker 1: to hoping that Rob Williams gets his kneeback fully fully
Speaker 1: one hundred percent because we know guys like Lonzo Ball
Speaker 1: this thing can last many, many years. Let's move forward.
Speaker 1: Let's get some man his flowers. Joelle Embiid leading the
Speaker 1: new look Sixers No more. James Harden absolutely awesome start
Speaker 1: of the season. He could have been the Hottest player
Speaker 1: of the week. He has been incredible. How good as
Speaker 1: Embiid been? Well, I know this may not sound like
Speaker 1: a lot, but against the shitty ass Wizards, he was
Speaker 1: absolutely elite. In the third quarter alone, Jojo went for
Speaker 1: twenty nine, ten for ten, shooting all of them, almost
Speaker 1: all of them from the mid range, nine for nine
Speaker 1: from the free throw line, added a pair of rebounds
Speaker 1: and assists in a block that was more points than
Speaker 1: anyone in Washington had scored all night. The dude is like,
Speaker 1: not just a microwave. He is one of those campfires.
Speaker 1: So Jojo ends the game with forty eight eleven and
Speaker 1: six on seventeen for twenty five shooting in thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: In thirty minutes, Jojo, I know it's the Wizards, but again,
Speaker 1: forty eight points, eleven rebound, six assists, fourteen for fourteen
Speaker 1: from the free throw Mott line in thirty minutes. What
Speaker 1: a hell of an effort for the big man. These
Speaker 1: sixers look dangerous, they really do. Let's move forward. We
Speaker 1: talked a little bit earlier about Aunt Edwards and what
Speaker 1: he's doing for the Wolves. But I do want to
Speaker 1: remind the people that the Minnesota Timberwolves all is not lost.
Speaker 1: They are the number one defensive rated team in the
Speaker 1: NBA right now. It is not particularly close either. Here
Speaker 1: is a simple way to see how defensive efficiency impacts winning.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. The Wolves have now beaten the
Speaker 1: current number one seed in the Eastern and Western Conferences.
Speaker 1: In their game against the Celtics, they held Boston to
Speaker 1: seventeen points below their season average despite the game going
Speaker 1: to overtime. That's ridiculous. Against the defending champs, the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 1: the Wolves held Denver to twenty six percent, twenty six
Speaker 1: points below the season scoring average as well. Whoa wie
Speaker 1: Chris Finch, supposedly the offensive mastermind doing the Lord's work
Speaker 1: on defense, and it happens. Why because this team is
Speaker 1: filled chockfull swarming with players that are long rangy six'
Speaker 1: ten six, seven six' eleven, positive wingspan Guys Like, Kyle anderson, Jade,
Speaker 1: McDaniels Nikaile. Alexander walker, Of Course, Rudy Gobert carl anthony
Speaker 1: town Just man ke could kind of probably go same
Speaker 1: Situation where rudy was exposed, last year and With The,
Speaker 1: utah jazz they've decided they're going to change. Things up
Speaker 1: the defensive scheme now relies far more this year on switches,
Speaker 1: on screens moving away from the drop coverage and the
Speaker 1: pick and roll That Left rudy. Gobert exposed again, nerd
Speaker 1: stuff but. It matters it's simpler and, in result creates
Speaker 1: more offense, from defense a lot more, transition buckets putting
Speaker 1: pressure on the, other team a lot less Pressure, on
Speaker 1: rudy a lot less Pressure, on cat and has worked.
Speaker 1: Incredibly well rudy was a plus twenty four Against. The
Speaker 1: CELTICS that's, i mean When Has rudy gobert ever been
Speaker 1: a plus twenty four against the? Contending, team really let's.
Speaker 1: Be honest he's now in the Running For defensive player
Speaker 1: Of the. Year Again could Rudy go Bear Win defensive
Speaker 1: player Of the? Year again, come, on sir very. Encouraging
Speaker 1: moves maybe they'll just move On, from Cat keep rudy
Speaker 1: and they'll just keep. It pushing if they can keep
Speaker 1: it up. All year this is the team That gave
Speaker 1: jokic And the, nuggets problems and they might just be
Speaker 1: A team they could go To The Western. Conference finals
Speaker 1: we'll have. To see here's a quick cup Day On Stefan.
Speaker 1: Wardel curry we mentioned last week he's been. Very hot
Speaker 1: he has had a historically, hot start especially, from three
Speaker 1: which is like what he does. Right now we are
Speaker 1: entering the third week of, the season and, Guess What
Speaker 1: steph curry, still hot still, very hot currently averaging, thirty
Speaker 1: one five and four insane shooting splits forty eight percent.
Speaker 1: From three but that's not even telling the. Whole story by,
Speaker 1: The way he's nailing fifty eight percent of his catch and,
Speaker 1: shoot threes thirty nine percent of us pull, up threes
Speaker 1: and has hit four or more threes every single game,
Speaker 1: this season and five or more in six of. Eight
Speaker 1: games what, The? Fuck steph steph IS. Our mvp we
Speaker 1: need to give it to him. Right Now, Like jokic,
Speaker 1: i'm sorry you deserve it, every Year but steph is.
Speaker 1: Winning it, i'm sorry. Case close just put your, ballots
Speaker 1: in put them in, the Mail and steph get ready
Speaker 1: to collect. Your trophy that's all the time that we
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