Speaker 1: On this episode of The Heat Check, it's NBA Cup
Speaker 1: Season two teams, one Cup, and we're underway in Adam
Speaker 1: Silver's Great experiment Lots to cover Clay's return to the Bay.
Speaker 2: Jannis goes insane.
Speaker 1: Almost fucks around and loses to the Detroit Pistons. Wemby
Speaker 1: goes crazy, and the Portland Trail Blazers. My Blazers are
Speaker 1: fun and healthy. Anthony my man dropped that motherfucking beat
Speaker 1: that should be Rihanna. So the NBA keep balls, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of banging. It's kind of banging despite the
Speaker 1: fact that I think we can all get behind how
Speaker 1: much we hate these courts. I hate them. I hate
Speaker 1: the gray, I hate the loud, bright colors. I hate them,
Speaker 1: I hate him. I hate them. But what a bunch
Speaker 1: of wild fun games. Teams are taking this shit seriously.
Speaker 1: They really are more than the normal regular season, and
Speaker 1: I think the value of the I guess like prize
Speaker 1: money for the winners is even more than last year.
Speaker 1: Huge improvement over regular games in November, for sure.
Speaker 2: Some fascinating performance we gotta get to.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to Eric Spolstra booting in a whole
Speaker 1: entire game when he pulled a fab five literally calling
Speaker 1: a timeout in one.
Speaker 2: Second left and a tie game.
Speaker 1: Hey bro, you don't have a timeout. Walst On Free
Speaker 1: Hawks beat the Celtics on their home court one seventeen
Speaker 1: win sixteen because by the way, Dyson Daniels is getting
Speaker 1: like ten steals a game, and the Knicks blew out
Speaker 1: the Sixers by twelve.
Speaker 2: But the one.
Speaker 1: Cup game, I just don't like calling it that. The one,
Speaker 1: the one in season tournament game everyone was tuned into,
Speaker 1: was by far the most interesting one of the year.
Speaker 1: Mavericks and Clay Thompson go back to the Bay visiting
Speaker 1: Golden Steak for the first time since Clay told them
Speaker 1: to kick rocks and did this game have everything? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's tea spilling everywhere, Warriors literally rolling out the red
Speaker 1: carpet giving every fan a captain's head, which the photo
Speaker 1: of Clay looking back at that was pretty insane, an
Speaker 1: Oscar worthy video. Four hundred employees greeting him with cheers
Speaker 1: as he came into the arena, a planned speech at
Speaker 1: half time from his bestie Steph, and things did did
Speaker 1: not turn out like expected. Clay got his video, he did,
Speaker 1: he got teary eyed, crowders reacting roars they love Clay
Speaker 1: Clay and the Bay fans got those Captain hats, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, like Clay just kind of got famous
Speaker 1: because he decided he was gonna be a fucking hipster
Speaker 1: and literally his mode of transportation to the arena every
Speaker 1: day was his boat, which is so rich. You can
Speaker 1: now get your own eBay Clay hat for the low
Speaker 1: price of one hundred and sixty dollars. But Draymond of
Speaker 1: course spill a little tea before the game by letting
Speaker 1: people know that Clay has basically ghost face killed Steph
Speaker 1: Curry since signing with the Maps. No calls, no texts, nothing,
Speaker 1: and you know who took that person, Steph Curry, that's who.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry said, Yeah, I was supposed to speak, called Clay,
Speaker 1: texted Clay nothing and I said, you know what, fuck Clay.
Speaker 2: Basically here the half dis speech canceled.
Speaker 1: Steph waited in the tunnel until Clay's tribute video was over,
Speaker 1: which is cold bloodied, and then the two went to
Speaker 1: war with each other and it was a blood bath.
Speaker 1: Clay had his best season game of the season twenty
Speaker 1: two points six or twelve from deep but Steph did
Speaker 1: Steph things, put on that assassin persona didn't. He took
Speaker 1: down the MAVs, took down his former bestie Clay, took
Speaker 1: him back, out back, put him down like old Yeller.
Speaker 2: Steph had thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Points, single handedly ended the MAVs in clutch time, and
Speaker 1: it peaked with thirty four seconds left, Warriors up one.
Speaker 1: Steph shakes Luca, gets Dereck Lively on the switch, long
Speaker 1: ass arms isol above the three point line, shake bake three,
Speaker 1: night Night sleep Mask literally did the night night celebration
Speaker 1: in the Bay. But it was what Steph did afterwards
Speaker 1: that was the most telling about the incredible game. He
Speaker 1: turned to the cameras and screamed, this is.
Speaker 2: My house, this is my shit.
Speaker 1: And he said that with a full base, full base
Speaker 1: in his voice. You could tell he meant that. That
Speaker 1: felt like Olympic Steph. The amount of I don't want
Speaker 1: to say anger, but passion with like a slight negative
Speaker 1: connotation to it was maniacal. No one was really.
Speaker 2: Quite sure what he said. Some said some.
Speaker 1: Thought Steph screamed, you were supposed to stay here. That's
Speaker 1: what Marcus Thompson thinks, which Marcus Thompson does have like
Speaker 1: a straight line to Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: Clay was pretty quiet after the game, very.
Speaker 1: Moved by the outpouring of the emotions. Not happy to
Speaker 1: be on the other end of curry shooting spree. I
Speaker 1: get the feeling that this is maybe the beginning of not.
Speaker 2: Bad blood, but like a rivalry. I guess Clay left
Speaker 2: Golden State.
Speaker 1: Was very clear that he left because he wants to
Speaker 1: win another chip, right, That's what he wants to do,
Speaker 1: Steph Stay, He's very clear he wants to win a chip.
Speaker 1: He signed an extension because he believes this team is
Speaker 1: capable of for a big run.
Speaker 2: Who is right?
Speaker 1: We'll find out. But I learned a long time ago.
Speaker 1: You cannot bet against Steph Curry. Boy, No, you cannot.
Speaker 1: Just when you think our dubs are down, they picked
Speaker 1: themselves back up and they win a championship. All right,
Speaker 1: Moving on, We gotta get back to the full slate
Speaker 1: of NBA Cup games on Friday. But Wednesday night an
Speaker 1: astounding evening in the association. We gotta start Milwaukee first
Speaker 1: because they've been down bad. They've been really down bad.
Speaker 1: Things have not gone Swimen Dame left the game with
Speaker 1: the concussion. He has been having dizziness, had a blow
Speaker 1: to the head in the third quarter against Boston. He's
Speaker 1: still out, So now the Bucks just have one option, Yannis.
Speaker 1: So they're playing against the pesky Pistons, who have actually
Speaker 1: been kind of like low key fun playing a bunch
Speaker 1: of close games. Jannis was a one man reking crew.
Speaker 1: One man regking crew scored twenty two of the bucks
Speaker 1: first twenty four quarter points, pretty much carried them in
Speaker 1: a game against a Pistons team that's been pretty fun.
Speaker 1: It was a very back and forth game all night long,
Speaker 1: and then this like crazy ass thing happened. They're tied
Speaker 1: one eleven, one eleven with one tenth of a second
Speaker 1: left on the clock. Piston's rookie, who I'm not super
Speaker 1: high on. By the way, Ron Holland, fouled by Yannis
Speaker 1: sending him which was kind of a suspect foul. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie sent him to the line for two shots.
Speaker 1: Either one would have just won the game. There's like
Speaker 1: a second left, and I say, with awe seriousness, I
Speaker 1: have never seen someone who wanted to shoot free throws
Speaker 1: less than Ron Holland. You know how I knew that
Speaker 1: Ron Holland wasn't about this life. Ron Holland was more
Speaker 1: comfortable on a basketball court in swayed bell bottoms. No lie,
Speaker 1: then he was with a full uniform on the very
Speaker 1: next day in summer league. Ron Holland was looking like
Speaker 1: a Harlem globetrotter in the nineteen seventies, in his swayed
Speaker 1: bell bottoms, in his little boots, his little like Chelsea
Speaker 1: boots on. On the basketball court, you put him in
Speaker 1: a jersey, you get him bodied up, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's short arming free throws in clutch time,
Speaker 1: literally almost air ball.
Speaker 2: The first one.
Speaker 1: The second one was also just so bad. He looked
Speaker 1: you could see the veins throbbing in his head, you
Speaker 1: could see the sweat dripping from his forehead. It's like
Speaker 1: he he just looked like he was not ready. He
Speaker 1: was short, marmon, he was bricking. Overtime we got and
Speaker 1: of course you know what it is with the overtime.
Speaker 1: Overtime is where the dogs go to die. Jannis takes over.
Speaker 1: We get one twenty seven, one sixteen for the Bucks.
Speaker 1: As someone on read it said, statement when for the monkey,
Speaker 1: Bucks gave us the worst three point celebration in history
Speaker 1: they're calling it the swinging Dick. That's disgusting. Like I
Speaker 1: there's sometimes where I just I just wish I hadn't
Speaker 1: heard things, you know, like I just wish I'd never
Speaker 1: heard that. I think they should call it the big
Speaker 1: swinging Greek. That's what I think they should call it.
Speaker 1: Jannie's stat line fifty nine points, fourteen rebounds, seven assists,
Speaker 1: five stocks, and by the way, he was the only
Speaker 1: Buck starter with a positive rating, so that's great.
Speaker 2: The Bucks had to play.
Speaker 1: A tight ass playoff rotation to beat the Detroit Pistons,
Speaker 1: so things are going exactly like they were hoping. Cad
Speaker 1: Cunningham was seen saying that Yannis, he's fucking unstoppable. Nike
Speaker 1: Basketball direct shot, because you know how Nike is with
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown. They never miss an opportunity to go after
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown. Nike Basketball tweeted out nothing childish about him
Speaker 1: fifty nine for the Greek freak. Oh boy uh Brown
Speaker 1: tweeting at Nike, y'all got weird energy? How co might
Speaker 1: didn't do a TikTok about this? This is like a
Speaker 1: good one if you recall, by the way, JB and
Speaker 1: Nike they have serious beef dating back to many years
Speaker 1: ago when Jalen Brown basically was like Nike, you guys
Speaker 1: are exploiting children and in Asia to make your shoes. Basically,
Speaker 1: that was basically along on the short of it, back
Speaker 1: to honest, you can't expect them to be Superman every night.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need something. This was also some postgame team
Speaker 1: after the game, the Pistons were just steaming because of
Speaker 1: this stat. Giannis took thirty four shots, ended up with
Speaker 1: seventeen free throws. Cad Cunningham, who probably shouldn't be shooting
Speaker 1: thirty four times in a game, went to the line
Speaker 1: four times. The entire Pistons team shot thirteen free throws
Speaker 1: for the game. I mean, I know what it is
Speaker 1: with Gianness, Like he's just a bulldozer. He's just running
Speaker 1: downhill as fast as he can, bowling people over, and
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna get foul like Zion, but he's gonna
Speaker 1: get more foul calls of course than kid Cunningham. But
Speaker 1: the truth is this has been an issue for the
Speaker 1: Pistons the past couple of years. They are not getting whistles.
Speaker 1: Why are they not getting whistles because they're the Pistons right,
Speaker 1: like they're the Pistons. They had the most consecutive losses
Speaker 1: in NBA history. Is anyone wanting to do anything nice
Speaker 1: for the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 2: Absolutely fucking not.
Speaker 1: You take your flint water and you fucking like it.
Speaker 2: That's basically what the.
Speaker 1: Refs are saying to the Detroit Pistons. And because kid
Speaker 1: rarely gets whistles, his turnover rate is higher than it
Speaker 1: should be. It impacts winning and losing, especially for a
Speaker 1: team that's playing a bunch of close games. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep my eye on these Pistons. The last five games,
Speaker 1: as a fun stat have all come down to the
Speaker 1: final possession at the end of the game. There's just
Speaker 1: like this fascinating little combination of players that I can't
Speaker 1: really figure.
Speaker 2: Out why it works.
Speaker 1: Really, they're like cast offs. You got Toby Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: you got Malik Beasley, you got Paul Reid. Like these
Speaker 1: are not great players, they're not. You got some fascinating
Speaker 1: young players, players like Jalen Duran. You got Marcus Sasser, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, is like short king five to eleven.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Stewart also short king for a center. And then
Speaker 1: they I think.
Speaker 2: They think they have a superstar and kid.
Speaker 1: And maybe je Nighty, but he's got to get a whistle.
Speaker 1: The NBA Cup, by the way, returns tonight. We will
Speaker 1: report on the fun stuff Monday morning. Moving on, we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about Victor women Yama a lot this year.
Speaker 1: He's been kind of like bad from three. He's had
Speaker 1: some couple of stinker games, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of that is just the Spurs haven't been a particularly
Speaker 1: watchable product. Devin vassal Vassel has been out. I never
Speaker 1: really remember how to pronounce his name, and they the
Speaker 1: Spurs faced off against a Wizards team is actually pretty
Speaker 1: shockingly pesky, and so Victor goes bananas against a team
Speaker 1: that had Alex Sar who was the number two overall
Speaker 1: pick last year. Victor had the game of his career,
Speaker 1: the best game that I've seen in a long time
Speaker 1: from a rookie. Fifty points eighteen for twenty nine, and
Speaker 1: he had he shot fifty percent from three, eight for
Speaker 1: sixteen from three. Why is the seven to four dude
Speaker 1: who can dunk literally on his tippy toes taking sixteen threes, Well,
Speaker 1: he's making half of them. Uh?
Speaker 2: And so mas School is why.
Speaker 1: He's averaging eight threes per game, which right now is
Speaker 1: seventeenth in the league. No other center on the planet
Speaker 1: has his top fifty in attempted threes. What a night.
Speaker 1: Fifty points, six rebounds to assist with four stocks. That
Speaker 1: is unfathomable for a guy that's seven feet four tall.
Speaker 2: He's pretty much unstoppable.
Speaker 1: When you lose. One thing you lose when he's beyond
Speaker 1: the perimeter is that he's like, isn't when he's not
Speaker 1: rebounding like he could if he was down low. His
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive rebounds are also down this year, so
Speaker 1: he should probab probably expect like a lot more six
Speaker 1: rebound games and sixteen to three type games in his future. Also,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole. The resurrection of Jordan Poole has been incredible.
Speaker 1: I watched him on opening night play against the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics in person, and I was like, wow, first quarter,
Speaker 1: first quarter, Jordan Poole had seventeen points and he was
Speaker 1: shaken and Bacon slap slap, slap bottoms. So Jordan Poole
Speaker 1: in that game against the Spurs, and I know it
Speaker 1: was against the Spurs, but still forty two two and
Speaker 1: six fifteen for twenty two, shooting six for nine from deep.
Speaker 1: That's silly. He's averaging twenty two points for rebounds and
Speaker 1: two assists right now. This is doing a lot. This
Speaker 1: is doing a lot, a lot to salvage his trade
Speaker 1: value for a team that probably like desperate to trade
Speaker 1: him and move him at some point. If you can
Speaker 1: get forty points out of Jordan Poole off the bench,
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool on a contender, you kind of gotta think
Speaker 1: about doing it. We'll see what happens with the Pool
Speaker 1: and the Wizards. Moving on, we gotta talk about my Blazers.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what, oh my god. Did my Blazers
Speaker 1: as eleven point underdogs beat the shit out of the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves, not once, but twice in two days?
Speaker 2: Yes we did, Yes we did.
Speaker 1: The way they won those games has me so fucking
Speaker 1: fired up. So you saw like this effort for the
Speaker 1: NBA Cup on Tuesday from the Blazers bench, four non starters.
Speaker 1: You had Denny Abdia, you'd Rob Williams, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: Rob Williams, Rob Williams, Delano Banton, and Scoot Henderson combined
Speaker 1: for sixty two points. Non starters twenty three for thirty eight,
Speaker 1: shooting sixty one percent and a combined net rating of
Speaker 1: thirty one. My man, Shade and Sharp, Baby Kobe, He's
Speaker 1: finally like there, he's healthy. I think he's back. I
Speaker 1: think he's back.
Speaker 2: He had his first good game of the season.
Speaker 1: He had seventeen three and three with three steals plus
Speaker 1: three and thirty three minutes. So we won one twenty
Speaker 1: two went away. But then Wednesday night that was the
Speaker 1: game we probably should have lost. Right, you beat a
Speaker 1: really good team that went to the Western Conference finals.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit of fairy dust. Hopefully if you're
Speaker 1: thinking you're the Minnesota timber Wolf, you're like, this is
Speaker 1: an aberration. Okay, this is a bad team. They shot
Speaker 1: five percent from three a couple of days ago. Things
Speaker 1: will find its level. No, no, sir, they did not.
Speaker 1: Shaden Sharp, oh my god, thirty three six and one
Speaker 1: twelve for twenty three, thirty three points. Guys, Shandon Sharp,
Speaker 1: who hasn't been healthy, who was the seventh overall pick
Speaker 1: a few years back, a guy that we're just hoping
Speaker 1: develops into Kobe, Like literally, that's his athleticism is just
Speaker 1: so raw and untapped. You had multiple highlight circus stunks,
Speaker 1: you had layups. He was a walking highlight film. Two
Speaker 1: minutes of shaden sharp basketball porn. The Wolves no ability
Speaker 1: to stop them, went directly out go beer, looked like
Speaker 1: he was gonna throw it down, did a little shimmy
Speaker 1: shimmy in the air in for a layup one nearly
Speaker 1: every one of those battles. But if you can imagine it,
Speaker 1: Shaden trip wasn't even like the most impressive dude. The
Speaker 1: most impressive blazer on the floor was my Man Yukon
Speaker 1: legend national champion, two times national champion, Donovan Klingon, who
Speaker 1: they are now calling cling Kong. I think he's like
Speaker 1: better as Klingon. They are calling him kling Kong. Though,
Speaker 1: Donovan Klingon Commemorative Beer Night, I think there's like gotta
Speaker 1: be some sort of new trend how players do on
Speaker 1: commem of beer night. Because he went crazy seventeen points,
Speaker 1: twelve rebounds, one assist, with eight blocks, eight of them
Speaker 1: eight blocks. He was erasing shots around the room.
Speaker 2: Eight blocks.
Speaker 1: Don't even register how impactful he actually was because he.
Speaker 2: Was shutting down the lane all night long.
Speaker 1: Too. He played thirty one minutes and he was a
Speaker 1: plus fifteen. All the other Blazer starters were net negatives.
Speaker 1: So this is actually like kind of an interesting team.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta kind of keep your eye on them.
Speaker 1: The vibes today, let's just say this, the vibes today
Speaker 1: were starting to feel a little better. The return of Shaden,
Speaker 1: the return of Rob Williams, and the benching of Aton
Speaker 1: and Anthony Simons. I don't know, dog, I don't know, guys,
Speaker 1: kind of feels like we gotta keep doing it. Blazers
Speaker 1: already have five wins, which, by the way, we did
Speaker 1: not have until the seventeenth game last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't even know why anyone would think we're thinking.
Speaker 2: About being a playoff team.
Speaker 1: We are not. But like, you're gonna trade Anthony Simon's,
Speaker 1: You're gonna who does not fit on this team. You're
Speaker 1: gonna trade Jeremy Grant for sure, You're gonna trade Aton.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have some picks, guys, You're gonna have some
Speaker 1: young players. You're gonna have some picks. This team can
Speaker 1: load up on assets and maybe we can get like
Speaker 1: Ace Bailey, maybe we can get like Cooper Flag, maybe
Speaker 1: even get like VJ.
Speaker 2: Edgecomb.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I'm thinking, Yes, the Golden age of Portland
Speaker 1: basketball is on its way. And I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: the WNBA team. I'm talking about the Blazers.
Speaker 2: Rip City.
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