Speaker 1: On this episode of the e Check, it's time for
Speaker 1: the Rookie Report, your weekly check in on the rookies
Speaker 1: in the league and how they're doing. We are past
Speaker 1: the halfway mark of the season officially, so now we're
Speaker 1: getting some clarity on the rookie situation. And you know
Speaker 1: who's here to stay? My man Kalail where that's who
Speaker 1: former Oregon duck who transferred to Indiana because who knows why,
Speaker 1: Probably bad things happening in Oregon.
Speaker 2: We break down the Miami Heat rookie today.
Speaker 1: So Anthony, drop that motherfucking beat that should be Rihannava
Speaker 1: Odyssey to cheat.
Speaker 2: All right, I feel like I'm appalling a lot, but
Speaker 2: just a lots going on.
Speaker 1: And not only did I just uproot my entire life
Speaker 1: and move across the country, you know, just for my mom,
Speaker 1: that's all. Just like I keep hearing, I'm a good daughter.
Speaker 1: You can continue to tell me that I am. I
Speaker 1: was only home five days and then I went to
Speaker 1: the National Championship to cover that for META in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and then I got caught the airport due to some weather.
Speaker 1: I was stuck there for felt like days. So things
Speaker 1: are pretty crazy. There was a blizzard that locked the
Speaker 1: entire South down. My flight was over seven hours late,
Speaker 1: so I did not get back in time to record. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we need to talk about Miami's Rookie Center.
Speaker 2: Not a lot has gone well for the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: We've got issues with Jimmy Butler, bam Adebayo. You have
Speaker 1: pat Riley talking about some crazy shit. You got Eric
Speaker 1: Spoltzer telling people, hey, we don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2: Move on, we got enough. This is just how it
Speaker 2: is in the league.
Speaker 1: You've got Jimmy Butler getting bended now for the second
Speaker 1: time because he missed the team playing. We've got Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler wearing Phoenix suns shoes and changing his hair based
Speaker 1: on where he wants to be traded. We've gotten Haimi Hawks,
Speaker 1: who's taken eleven steps back after a very promising rookie campaign.
Speaker 1: We've got Heywood Heismith's who has the second most starts
Speaker 1: on the team.
Speaker 2: That's gross. The Heat keeps spinning their wheels.
Speaker 1: They're five hundred and let's face it, I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody thinks this is a contender. I don't think this
Speaker 1: is anybody feels confident about what this team is. It's
Speaker 1: been a bad season except for Clei where seven feet
Speaker 1: one center out of Indiana by way of Oregon. Largely
Speaker 1: based around his defensive prowess, he was All Big Ten
Speaker 1: defensive team at Indiana. Miami took him fifteenth in the draft,
Speaker 1: very controversial pick, as it turns out, Jared McCain, who
Speaker 1: would have run away with Rookie of the Year if
Speaker 1: he didn't get hurt. He was selected with the very
Speaker 1: next pick. Ooh, Miami Heat with Jared McCain nasty. The
Speaker 1: pick after that was Dalton Connect, to a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought earlier in this year was a Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year candidate. Eves Missy was taking twenty first, Ryan
Speaker 1: done twenty eighth. All that to say a whoa Anyway,
Speaker 1: there were some very good players available that the Sixers
Speaker 1: ignored to take Khalil Whaere, and for much of the
Speaker 1: half of this season that seemed like a big mistake.
Speaker 1: He played a total of sixty seven minutes in the
Speaker 1: Heat's first twenty five games, not even enough really to
Speaker 1: make any impression at all. He was the Heat's third
Speaker 1: string center behind Bam and Kevin Love, seemed destined to
Speaker 1: have to wait a year to show if he belonged
Speaker 1: at all. He went up and down in the G
Speaker 1: League and then December twenty first rolls around the Solstice
Speaker 1: where got some playing time fourteen minutes to be exact.
Speaker 1: But what stood out? How about his eight points four
Speaker 1: to four shooting in seven rebounds in fourteen minutes, or
Speaker 1: how about his net rating of plus twenty six the
Speaker 1: game which bam was a negative thirty five and the
Speaker 1: team got outscored thirty seven to eight in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter when he wasn't playing, to blow a huge lead.
Speaker 1: Also the fact that bam Adebayo's like six' ten playing. Center,
Speaker 1: anyway Clill ware Opened Eric spolster's eyes and he hasn't
Speaker 1: missed a game. Since in the seventeen games since he
Speaker 1: entered into the, rotation he has averaged eleven six and
Speaker 1: one with one point seven stocks per, game shooting splits
Speaker 1: sixty percent from the, field forty one percent from, three
Speaker 1: seventy percent from the free throw. Line the fact that
Speaker 1: The heat have now a seven footer who is a
Speaker 1: forty percent shooter from three at the back end of
Speaker 1: the lottery incredible and every game he's getting. Better in
Speaker 1: his last five, games he's averaging sixteen eleven and one
Speaker 1: and the last game out Against, portland he got his
Speaker 1: first start and proceeded to do something that no player
Speaker 1: had ever done in THE nba Since David robinson in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2: Nine twenty, points fifteen.
Speaker 1: Rebounds and two blocks in their, start and that is
Speaker 1: only the second time ever that AN nba player has
Speaker 1: had that stat line in their first start in. History,
Speaker 1: insane insane and one of the reasons that he's broken
Speaker 1: into The Kiya Rookie ladder for the first time this.
Speaker 1: Season Eric spostra aka The, spobot who has had a
Speaker 1: very rough, season has nothing but good things to say For,
Speaker 1: clei where he says the, rebounding he did some really
Speaker 1: good things defensively at the. Rim he'll continue to get.
Speaker 1: Better the upside obviously is very, encouraging and that's why
Speaker 1: he's in.
Speaker 2: The starting lineup right. Now we, frankly just need to
Speaker 2: get him.
Speaker 1: In there for more, minutes whether it's off the bench or,
Speaker 1: starting and it's an easier way to make that. Happen
Speaker 1: good Shit clil where improving leaps and bounds while his
Speaker 1: offense is improving a, ton it is the dou that
Speaker 1: is on display two games ago Against San. Antonio he
Speaker 1: was given a very tough task of guarding all the,
Speaker 1: time and he did not shrink at. All he had
Speaker 1: twenty five eight and two plus twenty seven net, rating While,
Speaker 1: victor by his, standards had a good but not great
Speaker 1: game twenty one ten to, three negative ten net, rating
Speaker 1: his sixth worst net rating of the. Year so kind
Speaker 1: of dope for Khalil ware because a lot of people
Speaker 1: thought Cleil ware Outplayed victor in the game that The
Speaker 1: heat ended up winning in a landslide. FASCINATING i think
Speaker 1: what's actually really, interesting, too is that there were people
Speaker 1: who had ME i had questions About cleilware's at work
Speaker 1: ethic At. Oregon he started as freshman year as a
Speaker 1: projected first, rounder and Then Dana altman's selfish ass cut
Speaker 1: his minutes over what he described as an inconsistent work,
Speaker 1: ethic gross.
Speaker 2: He tumbled down the mock draft. Ladder he had to
Speaker 2: have a fresh.
Speaker 1: Start he transferred To, indiana where he got consistent. Minutes
Speaker 1: he showed enough potential to be the last pick in
Speaker 1: the lottery and the.
Speaker 2: Teammates his teammates love.
Speaker 1: Him Tyler hero, SAYS i love, it nah for REAL
Speaker 1: i love it where gives small guys like my self
Speaker 1: protection behind, us And lord knows he needs that definitely
Speaker 1: on defense and at the. Rim it gives a different
Speaker 1: dynamic offensively. Too that seems like a little shade On
Speaker 1: bam out Of bio in terms of him protecting the.
Speaker 1: Rim Haimi hawke has echoed these sentiments as. Well oh,
Speaker 1: man when you have a seven footer that can do
Speaker 1: what he, do it makes your life really really. Easy
Speaker 1: being able to knock down, shots stretch the floor while
Speaker 1: being a tremendous roll threat is an asset for the.
Speaker 1: Team every time he goes. Down biggs got to make
Speaker 1: the decision to stop the layup or stop the lab
Speaker 1: and that is a tough decision to. MAKE i am
Speaker 1: super proud of how he's come. Along, bam who loves
Speaker 1: Having clearwear on the team with, him says he's one
Speaker 1: of the young guys that just wants to soak the
Speaker 1: information and, Learn so just bringing him along and helping
Speaker 1: him figure things, out because as y'all can, see he's
Speaker 1: a talent in this league AND i feel like he's
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 2: Around for a long.
Speaker 1: Time so he fans no matter the fact That Jimmy
Speaker 1: butler's probably, gone And Tyler hero is your number one
Speaker 1: option on, scoring and how much that sucks for, you
Speaker 1: you at least have one major reason to keep. Watching
Speaker 1: and he's a seven foot one shot blocking monster who
Speaker 1: shoots threes at forty percent and those folks do not
Speaker 1: grow on. Trees that's all the time we, have this
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