Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check, But just a quick on
Speaker 1: this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: We've got just so much popping around the league. We've
Speaker 2: got to start taking a tour. We've got our passports ready, Nick.
Speaker 2: We've got Sacramento Kings. We already hit them, gave them
Speaker 2: some shine. We've got some other ones. We've got to
Speaker 2: break down two teams moving in opposite directions. We've got
Speaker 2: the Okay Seat Thunder and we got the Houston Rockets,
Speaker 2: Yes we do. And then we've got to break down
Speaker 2: some news from around the league, including a game I
Speaker 2: was supposed to be at but I decided to go
Speaker 2: to a different worst game instead.
Speaker 1: Joel embiid Historic night, But why does that symbolize trouble?
Speaker 2: Also, let's get into the resurrection of a player, Edmund Sumner,
Speaker 2: a player you probably don't even know.
Speaker 1: You probably don't even know where he went to school.
Speaker 2: You probably don't even know what position he plays, Maybe
Speaker 2: you don't even know what team he's on. But why
Speaker 2: he's impactable. We will get into ad being an absolute
Speaker 2: comedy show drawing inspiration from a very strange ass source,
Speaker 2: and one Laker, one former Laker, being very mad. He's
Speaker 2: not on the top seventy five Lakers list of all time.
Speaker 1: And boy, is that a sketchy, funny comment. A lot
Speaker 1: to get into. Nick, Let's drop that.
Speaker 2: Beat, all right, we gotta talk about two things first up.
Speaker 1: One, I have to say this, and I don't.
Speaker 2: Know if you guys already know this, but if you
Speaker 2: don't live in the DMV, which means DC Maryland, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Has the worst sporting arenas in.
Speaker 2: The entire country, like it's the worst, and we'll discuss that.
Speaker 2: But two, we also need to discuss and talk about
Speaker 2: load management. I think it's time for us people who
Speaker 2: want to see games live to start.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna take it. We need to We need
Speaker 1: to talk about this.
Speaker 2: I hear things about load management, I read things about
Speaker 2: load management, but there is nothing quite like being on
Speaker 2: the wrong side of a game and experiencing load management
Speaker 2: for yourself. Sunday it went what the five fingers say
Speaker 2: to the face? Slap that hit me right in the face.
Speaker 1: I was planning on maybe going to see I don't know, the.
Speaker 2: Utah Jazz, Fun Little Story, Fun Team, Lowry Markenen, Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid don't really want to drive to Philadelphia specifically considering
Speaker 2: that the place I was trying to go to to
Speaker 2: return some clothes only exists in a Bloomingdale's. So I
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna drive up there for no reason, specifically, not
Speaker 2: just for Utah. Was I gonna drive up to see, Okay,
Speaker 2: see versus the Knicks at the Garden Man, that's a
Speaker 2: far drive too.
Speaker 1: And then I was looking at my Ticketmaster. Actually was
Speaker 1: the game time app.
Speaker 2: We're gonna slander game time specifically to you game time.
Speaker 2: And I saw the Wizards play the Memphis Grizzlies at
Speaker 2: the Capitol One Arena.
Speaker 1: What's this? Jaw? What I'm in?
Speaker 2: I am all the way in absolutely Jaw. Never seen
Speaker 2: him live, So he's mussy. He's mussy on TV. He's
Speaker 2: mussy live. Got Desmond Baine he's rocking. You got Bradley Beal,
Speaker 2: he's whatever, right, So you got Jaw and Bain coming
Speaker 2: to Chocolate Sip Day. I'm gonna go watch him dunk
Speaker 2: on everybody's head.
Speaker 1: And I hate Wizards games. They suck.
Speaker 2: They're the worst because well, I mean, the Wizards are
Speaker 2: really not fun at all. They're not a fun team.
Speaker 2: And I knew Bradley Beal has been injured, so it's whatever.
Speaker 2: But like the arena gives gives really like some electronic
Speaker 2: store vibes, do you know what I mean? Like you go,
Speaker 2: you walk in and you're like, holy shit, it's brightened here.
Speaker 1: Oh what is going on?
Speaker 2: And I'm used to like Staples where Staples makes it
Speaker 2: dim in there, it's like everything but the crowd or
Speaker 2: everything but the court is dark. Right, everything but the
Speaker 2: court is dark. Not a capital one. They want you
Speaker 2: to see every pore in your neighbor's face. I swear
Speaker 2: to God, they want you to buy a TV in there.
Speaker 1: I tell you what. It is so bright it gave.
Speaker 2: Me a migraine. It never gets dim except for the pregame.
Speaker 1: Warm up warm up thing right and the vibe.
Speaker 2: Ugh. I swear to you, I put this on my
Speaker 2: mother's life. The loudest it gotten there, promise you, the
Speaker 2: loudest it gotten.
Speaker 1: There was for an infant race.
Speaker 2: Would you say, trista a baby race? There were babies
Speaker 2: crawling on the floor. They had a race, and people
Speaker 2: were louder for that then the basketball game. They paid
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: What is happening here? But for Jaw, I will withstand
Speaker 1: all of this.
Speaker 2: I will come through for Jaw, because Jaw delivers for
Speaker 2: me every time.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting at dinner, waiting, excited.
Speaker 2: Doing a little one game parlay action for this Memphis
Speaker 2: Grizzlies Wizard's game and all of this. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: what do I see, Like, why isn't the Why isn't
Speaker 2: Jaws prop up on the bedmgm app? Why is a
Speaker 2: Desmond Baines prop on the bedmgm app. I'm about forty
Speaker 2: five minutes from the game time too, Like, we bought
Speaker 2: the tickets. They're expensive because Jaw's coming to town. They're
Speaker 2: behind the bench of the visitors. Oh yeah, we were stunting,
Speaker 2: And I see this a little Fantasy Labs update right
Speaker 2: as I'm starting to put the pieces together, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, starting to really struggle to eat the
Speaker 2: rest of my talk because things are starting to come
Speaker 2: clearer into focus about what's about to take place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jaw, late scratch, he was fine.
Speaker 2: He played the rest of the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves,
Speaker 2: which they did cover for me because of Jaw. Desmond
Speaker 2: Bane sprain Toe totally get that, but Jaw, no fucking Jaw.
Speaker 2: So what I knew I was about to see was
Speaker 2: a G League matchup. You had no Jaren Jackson, no
Speaker 2: Desmond Bane, no Zire Williams, no jaw and no Beal.
Speaker 1: What am I seeing? What is this?
Speaker 2: I won't bore you with the details, but it was
Speaker 2: like watching Pink dry.
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: Over under on Airballs was twelve and a half and
Speaker 2: I think it was the over.
Speaker 1: I saw so many David Roddy airballs. I like David Roddy,
Speaker 1: nice player. Got to see a little Kenny lofton Junior
Speaker 1: in there. What am I seeing? I literally, swear to God,
Speaker 1: swear to God, was yelling.
Speaker 2: I was probably six rows from the court and I'm
Speaker 2: yelling at Steven Adams underneath the basket.
Speaker 1: Chris dabs Porzingis' is food? Eat him, eat him, eat him.
Speaker 2: Everybody's so mad at me because obviously I'm the only
Speaker 2: one rooting for the Grizzlies of there, because I've got
Speaker 2: a bet on the Grizzlies, and shit, I want to
Speaker 2: see him win. I hate the Wizards, they are nothing
Speaker 2: but just I soar in the middle of Chinatown messing
Speaker 2: up my traffic. So it got me thinking, you know
Speaker 2: what we need? We need star player insurance.
Speaker 1: That's what we need. We need it. We need load.
Speaker 2: Management insurance for these game time apps. Because I tried
Speaker 2: to get my money back and they were like, ah,
Speaker 2: you're funny.
Speaker 1: No you're not getting your money back.
Speaker 2: What the fuck are you smoking? And I was like,
Speaker 2: that's fine. I'm never going to you again. But if
Speaker 2: you're like a seat geek or a stub Hub and
Speaker 2: you tell me, if you just give me a list,
Speaker 2: just give me a list, jaw Dame, Steph Brawn, Jannis Luca, Like,
Speaker 2: it's probably only fifteen twenty names, right, there's not It's
Speaker 2: not Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler's not on the list, right,
Speaker 2: No shade to Jimmy Butler, but he's not on the list. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's there's a very select few of people that I,
Speaker 2: as a local or someone traveling out of town, are
Speaker 2: coming to watch. Shockingly, Pallow is already on that list.
Speaker 2: And if they are a late scratch and they played
Speaker 2: the game before and they get scratched fucking three hours
Speaker 2: before game time or less, I should get my money back,
Speaker 2: no questions asked.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what, this is a billion dollar idea.
Speaker 2: This is I don't think if you think to yourself,
Speaker 2: if you're going to go see let's just say, Jae,
Speaker 2: you live in Portland, go jaw no, jaw no, Dame,
Speaker 2: what are you thinking? I mean, it's just anthroty Simon,
Speaker 2: and maybe efforty Simon's a scratch too. Maybe it's just
Speaker 2: Shade and sharp on limited minutes and Drew you banks.
Speaker 2: Imagine how pissed you would be spending one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars per ticket. You just saved your little money up,
Speaker 2: your little shekels up, and now you get to watch trash,
Speaker 2: you get to watch Summer League.
Speaker 1: Good job. So I would be as loyal as Dame
Speaker 1: Willard is to the Blazers.
Speaker 2: If I could get that from a secondary market, if
Speaker 2: I could find a ticket broker that would say, listen,
Speaker 2: we got you. We'll get Alliance or some sort of
Speaker 2: under rider to give you insurance, and we will pay
Speaker 2: you out. We won't make you go through all these
Speaker 2: little hoops and whistles, you know, and then just never
Speaker 2: pay you, you know, because that happens too. But like
Speaker 2: it is, without this, I may never do this again.
Speaker 2: Like I'm never gonna go see a game at Capitol
Speaker 2: Win Arena. And also by the way they spent seventy
Speaker 2: I had to look this up in the arena.
Speaker 1: I was like, this place sucks the way that it's constructed.
Speaker 2: And I just got back from Detroit Little Caesars Arena,
Speaker 2: and I won't waste your time with this. We'll move
Speaker 2: on quite shortly. But the way that arena is constructed
Speaker 2: compared to this steep ass, like we need a shallow, nice, little, smooth,
Speaker 2: shallow bull.
Speaker 1: Don't make people sit in the nosebleeds for no reason,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Don't make them be up
Speaker 1: stacked on top of each other. Gross.
Speaker 2: They put seventy million dollars into the Capitol winn Arena
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen. That was right before the pandemic. There's a place,
Speaker 1: piece of shit. Arena. There's no stuff, there's no bar,
Speaker 1: there's no vibe, there's no lighting. I'm out, I'm over it.
Speaker 2: We're about a month into the season now and we've
Speaker 2: got some surprise of teams, teams who have come out
Speaker 2: of nowhere, teams that probably aren't gonna be like amazing
Speaker 2: as well, but they are fun.
Speaker 1: They're not contenders.
Speaker 2: We did a little breakdown on the Kings, and people
Speaker 2: were like, hey, like, break down my team, like that,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 1: Bring that energy for us, and so let's do that.
Speaker 2: Like, if you're some of the lesser talked about teams
Speaker 2: around the league, let's go into them.
Speaker 1: I've got to one good, one bad. I can't get.
Speaker 2: Into all of them, and I'm going to continue to
Speaker 2: rolling them out. Maybe we'll do some more later on
Speaker 2: this week, But the first one that we need to
Speaker 2: start talking about.
Speaker 1: Is the Okay, see Thunder. What's happening there? Holy shit?
Speaker 2: They are absolutely flying. They scored how much they are
Speaker 2: putting up numbers going straight total. They were eleven and
Speaker 2: a half point dogs. That just tells you eleven and
Speaker 2: a half point underdogs to the Boston Celtics, and they
Speaker 2: were ahead the entire game. I was like, these motherfuckers
Speaker 2: are gonna win this game. Holy shit, they're gonna They
Speaker 2: took Boston to the brink. Tatum had a good jillion,
Speaker 2: and they still barely beat the Thunder. They put the
Speaker 2: fear of God into them. Boy, the Thunder can score.
Speaker 2: They can score, and they don't even have their complete roster.
Speaker 2: Like a team that went to the finals and you
Speaker 2: take them. They just hung around and just hung.
Speaker 1: Around and hung around and hung around.
Speaker 2: Shay who is, by the way, I don't know, top
Speaker 2: five favorite player to watch.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not that high, but it's very high. He's now.
Speaker 2: He put a damn near forty on the Celtics. Jalen
Speaker 2: Williams from Santa Clara. He's gonna be a stud. He's
Speaker 2: only played three games this year. He came in, was
Speaker 2: very productive as a starter.
Speaker 1: I think he had fourteen points for them.
Speaker 2: He did his thing, really nice little mid range game
Speaker 2: for Jalen Williams. By the way, they do have two
Speaker 2: Yela Williams. It's the one from Santa Clara. I must
Speaker 2: just give that out. Very balanced effort all the starting five. Poku, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Poku was fucking solid. Yes, Poko's like my guy. He's
Speaker 2: like a little wish Chet, you know, like a little
Speaker 2: more a little more chaotic, a little like more feeling himself.
Speaker 2: He's like if Chet, if you got Chat at the
Speaker 2: dollar store, you know what I mean? Like, I love Chet,
Speaker 2: I love Poco. He's clearly not Chet, but he does
Speaker 2: a lot of the same things that Chet does and
Speaker 2: he is balling. Holy shit, he what he got twenty five?
Speaker 2: We'll talk about him in a second. Mind you, all
Speaker 2: of the starting five were double figures, almost twenty points
Speaker 2: by all of them.
Speaker 1: They had one hundred and twenty two points, and they
Speaker 1: barely got any.
Speaker 2: Production out of their bench because why they don't have one.
Speaker 2: They don't really have a bench. Okay, so Giddy Dort
Speaker 2: Poco all almost scored, all almost scored twenty this coming
Speaker 2: off the heels of gold up into the Garden and
Speaker 2: putting the straight SmackDown on the Knicks.
Speaker 1: To the point, think about this, The Okase.
Speaker 2: Thunder destroyed the New York Knicks so badly there are
Speaker 2: now think pieces being written about Tom Thibodeau being fired.
Speaker 1: That's how much they did.
Speaker 2: That's what they did to them, one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: five points in the garden. The thunder put one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty five points on a team that's supposed to
Speaker 2: be built around their defense. And now Thibodeau is on
Speaker 2: the hot seat.
Speaker 1: Mind you, chet Holmgren, the real chet Hoolmegren is out
Speaker 1: for the year. They don't even have their number.
Speaker 2: Two pick, SGA still picking apart every single defense without
Speaker 2: a secondary score. And he's just he's gonna be an
Speaker 2: All Star this year. He's gonna probably make all NBA.
Speaker 2: He's I mean, he's putting up forty regularly two way player,
Speaker 2: improved three point shot impossible to stop every defense they
Speaker 2: throw at him. He just knows exactly how to read it.
Speaker 2: He's like little plan Like he's like, uh, what is
Speaker 2: that called? That little chess movie?
Speaker 1: God, oh man, he's you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: He was like Google's Chess movie in the middle of it.
Speaker 2: The Queen's gambit where he sees all the defenses on
Speaker 2: the ceiling and he's like, yep, just go this way,
Speaker 2: go that way, slash through him that way. He is
Speaker 2: imagine when he gets his jelly to the peanut butter,
Speaker 2: when he gets chat, it's gonna be curtains. It is
Speaker 2: gonna be absolute curtains for the.
Speaker 1: Rest of the league.
Speaker 2: They put up one hundred and forty five points without
Speaker 2: chet Holmgren. What would they have done with Chet Holmgren? Sheesh,
Speaker 2: think about how good Shay is when he's off the floor.
Speaker 1: They're just trash. They're just horrible.
Speaker 2: Like they are one of the worst offensive teams in
Speaker 2: the league. When Shade does not play. It's just literally
Speaker 2: that simple. That is how much gravity he's bring to
Speaker 2: the team. And we talked about Poku a little earlier
Speaker 2: about the Summer League. He's scoring twenty five percent more
Speaker 2: this year than he had last year, progression.
Speaker 1: What we would call on display.
Speaker 2: Just in the game against the Bucks, he had a
Speaker 2: full stat sheet.
Speaker 1: Blocks, dimes, rebounds.
Speaker 2: Pokus stats, just absolutely through the roof trying to get
Speaker 2: get him full for you because you can't really even
Speaker 2: get Poku stats if you just google it because there's
Speaker 2: a bunch of poku's I guess.
Speaker 1: So game against the Bucks he.
Speaker 2: Had ten rebounds, two blocks, seventeen points and two assists.
Speaker 1: Just ridiculous, just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Lou Dort just got paid, as we know, finding his
Speaker 2: offensive stroke now that they've hired Chip England Josh Giddy
Speaker 2: averaging fifteen seven and six, he's raised his three point
Speaker 2: shooting by seven percent. It's still very early, like this
Speaker 2: is a squad. If you are not watching, okay, see,
Speaker 2: you are missing out. This is a fun ass, fun
Speaker 2: ass team. They're shooting thirty nine percent this season on
Speaker 2: shots over twenty feet, which is three percent improvement over
Speaker 2: last year. That's because, like I said before, Chipping's gonna
Speaker 2: come in here.
Speaker 1: What did he do?
Speaker 2: He comes into a team and every single time, without fail,
Speaker 2: they increase their shooting percentage by three percent every time.
Speaker 1: That's what he does. Shot doctor three point shooting league.
Speaker 2: And even though maybe three percent doesn't seem like a
Speaker 2: lot a lot, but like that's now they're fourteenth in
Speaker 2: the league.
Speaker 1: Where they were they were, where were they at last year?
Speaker 2: They were at the bottom, So that three percent changes everything,
Speaker 2: and that is why they can score. They're averaging. It's
Speaker 2: just it's just been absolutely ridiculous. Back to Shay really quickly.
Speaker 2: He's averaging thirty one, six and five. Shay is averaging
Speaker 2: thirty one points per game, six assists, five rebounds per game.
Speaker 2: He has two steals per game, one and a half
Speaker 2: blocks per game.
Speaker 1: What the fuck? This is what JJ Reddick just said.
Speaker 2: You are missing a show if you're not watching Oklahoma City. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's exactly right. That is exactly right. In any given year,
Speaker 2: those numbers are first team all NBA numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a reason that.
Speaker 2: The shee is the lead target for all these different
Speaker 2: Again literally, now, all these trade rumors about the Knicks
Speaker 2: going after Sha, He's broken them. He has broken them,
Speaker 2: torched them for thirty seven against the Knicks have thirty
Speaker 2: seven against the Celtics.
Speaker 1: And this is like a very unselfish offensive scheme that
Speaker 1: eight players getting double digits a week ago, first time in.
Speaker 2: The team history that they've done that. You add shed
Speaker 2: in there, man, is this team is already a problem.
Speaker 2: They're already covering big numbers.
Speaker 1: I tell you what.
Speaker 2: You add back in chet And they're definitely getting a
Speaker 2: top five pick, right, It's probably gonna be someone good.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna make them even more dangerous SGA though
Speaker 2: my prediction definitely an All Star. Definitely, I'd say second team.
Speaker 2: Tell you what that team is buyer. On the flip
Speaker 2: side of the coin, we just talked about, okay see,
Speaker 2: and how exciting they are, how fun they are, how
Speaker 2: impressive this roster is, how they're just really a piece
Speaker 2: or two away from being really competing, and they're like
Speaker 2: winning games they're not supposed to win. So that's on
Speaker 2: one side. What is happening with the Houston Rockets? Why
Speaker 2: is nobody talking about them? How bad are the Houston
Speaker 2: Rockets right now? They are fucking trash. I'm sorry, there's
Speaker 2: people in my youtubes Oh, you cuss too much, too
Speaker 2: many cuss words, too many F bombs.
Speaker 1: I watch it with my kids. I'm sorry. If you're
Speaker 1: watching the Houston Rockets right now, you'll know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Why are we not holding them accountable? Why?
Speaker 2: Because we want them to just be good? We want
Speaker 2: them to be fun. They're a cute Little League pass team, right.
Speaker 2: I love Jalen Green and listen, I'm kind of a contrarian.
Speaker 2: So when Bill Simmons said all those mean things about
Speaker 2: Jalen Green, I was like.
Speaker 1: No, we love Jalen Green. Jalen Green is a winning player.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, in my heart of hearts, like if
Speaker 2: I was just me and you in the lamppost, is
Speaker 2: he I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't quite know if he is yet. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I want to think he is.
Speaker 2: He shoots a lot, He's a bucket, we know that,
Speaker 2: but does that matter?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like Paul George's bucket too. He hasn't
Speaker 1: won a damn thing.
Speaker 2: They had to get rid of, like pieces on this
Speaker 2: Rockets team because they were also buckets that weren't winning players.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And now things are boiling over all, right, not only
Speaker 2: are they losing games, which is what we've expected that
Speaker 2: they would do. They're two and twelve, so they're one
Speaker 2: of the worst teams in the league. They're going to
Speaker 2: continue to be. We've got teams that are tanking, that
Speaker 2: are five hundred, So what are they They're like, they
Speaker 2: just don't even care at all, but they are. Now
Speaker 2: things are boiling over to the point where frustration is
Speaker 2: leaking out onto the floor. Veteran Eric Gordon, who god
Speaker 2: knows why he's even still there, why a team hasn't
Speaker 2: saved him, He's fed up with his teammates.
Speaker 1: This is what he said postgame. We didn't play our game.
Speaker 2: We didn't have energy, we didn't play with togetherness, and
Speaker 2: we got the result. That happens if you have a
Speaker 2: winning mentality. Moving the ball is something that you should
Speaker 2: do pretty common. Yeah, believing in your teammates and believing
Speaker 2: in what you should do, that's the way it goes
Speaker 2: when you're trying to win.
Speaker 1: We are not doing that.
Speaker 2: It's very tough. It's been the same thing year in
Speaker 2: year out, game to game. It's a long season. When
Speaker 2: we have games like this early on, it's tough. Yes,
Speaker 2: and we've seen this It's like, these guys will not
Speaker 2: pass each other the ball if they're wide open. It's
Speaker 2: it's like when you go to Equinox. It's not exactly
Speaker 2: like this, but you know what I mean. It's like
Speaker 2: when you go to Equinox and you're like the new
Speaker 2: person on the court for the lunchtime run, and it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you've got seven feet of space. They
Speaker 2: are not passing you the ball at all. Not doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what kind of screens you're setting, defense, you're playing,
Speaker 2: how good you looked in the little pregame warm up thing,
Speaker 2: how many shots you've hitting up, you're not getting the ball.
Speaker 2: That's the Houston Rockets, but with all of them, it's
Speaker 2: like every single player on the court is that new
Speaker 2: person at the Equinox run. If that other person has
Speaker 2: the ball, like, nope, not passing? Do you Jabari Smith
Speaker 2: underneath the basket? Wide open?
Speaker 1: Fuck off? I'm gonna shoot this dirty bartter? What is
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 2: Do you know what it means when a veteran has
Speaker 2: been on a losing team and he finally decides he's
Speaker 2: gonna call out that team publicly.
Speaker 1: It means he's been saying it privately for a while.
Speaker 2: Right like they are being and he said it, this
Speaker 2: is a selfish team.
Speaker 1: This is a selfish team. You can feel in his voice,
Speaker 1: what am I doing here?
Speaker 2: What is this? The resignation in his tone is palpable.
Speaker 2: And that is what happens when you're thirty seven, which
Speaker 2: is what he is, on a team that's on track
Speaker 2: for the third straight year to be one of the
Speaker 2: worst teams in basketball. So at what point do we
Speaker 2: start holding them accountable? Houston, Houston, We've got problems on
Speaker 2: this roster. Like I'm not talking about Steven Silas. I'm
Speaker 2: fine with him. I don't even know what to make
Speaker 2: of him yet. I don't know if he's good. I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's bad.
Speaker 1: He's not elite, that's obvious, but he's who knows. Could
Speaker 1: he be Steve Clifford, sure? Could he be Dwayne Casey sure?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Could he be Tips? Maybe? Could he
Speaker 1: be better than that? Is he nick Nurs? Probably not?
Speaker 2: Back to the point, this team doesn't have pieces that
Speaker 2: really make any damn sense.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like.
Speaker 2: He's tasked with babysitting a team who is basically saying
Speaker 2: public on all the blogs, on all their you know
Speaker 2: stuff that they do that one of the cornerstone players
Speaker 2: that they have. And don't kill me on this because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who love him because he's
Speaker 2: a bucket.
Speaker 1: He's a bucket. He's a bucket.
Speaker 2: But the cornerstone on the team is a player that
Speaker 2: was waived by the Cleveland Cavaliers for throwing food at
Speaker 2: his teammate. I know that's not relevant, but he was
Speaker 2: a cast off and you're making him a corner You
Speaker 2: got him for free.
Speaker 1: Okay, you literally.
Speaker 2: Got this piece for free, and now it's the centerpiece of.
Speaker 1: Your room, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Maybe not like great. When I look at this roster,
Speaker 2: there's five guys under twenty five guys on this fifteen
Speaker 2: man roster that can't even drink right now. Many haven't
Speaker 2: even played in college. Not saying that's necessary, but like
Speaker 2: I think four haven't played in college.
Speaker 1: They've come over either through the G League or international.
Speaker 1: It's hard to see an elite team here.
Speaker 2: He got guys that played one year in college who
Speaker 2: are very wild now being sent down to the G League.
Speaker 1: Atari Easton, who I love. What is the upside of
Speaker 1: this team? I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I saw this stat about what Jabari Smith is
Speaker 2: averaging right now, and it's awful. It's god awful compared
Speaker 2: to Powlo, which is what they'll always be compared together.
Speaker 2: And I thought to myself, what would Poolo be on
Speaker 2: this team? Would they be passing Polo the ball?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Jalen Green thinks he's pretty good.
Speaker 2: He is pretty good, but you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Jalen Green wants to be the man you got. Kevin
Speaker 2: Porter Junior wants to be the man you got Josh Christopher.
Speaker 1: He shoots a lot. You got Alpern Shangoon he wants
Speaker 1: the ball? Are they giving the ball to Poolo? They
Speaker 1: have out? Alprin Shangoon. I like him, but he plays
Speaker 1: no defense. He's bad.
Speaker 2: He's really really bad. Does anybody think Jabari Smith is
Speaker 2: better than Pala right now? No?
Speaker 1: But if they switch places, then everybody.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, thank god Orlando didn't take Powell because Powell
Speaker 2: is just languishing in Houston.
Speaker 1: Anyone who was drafted to go to Houston was going
Speaker 1: to be languishing in Houston. Uzman Garuba they took Uzman
Speaker 1: Garuba in the first round.
Speaker 2: Why he's doing absolutely nothing? They could have had Io Desunmu,
Speaker 2: who's ballin'. They could have had Herb Jones ballin'. Like
Speaker 2: they're just passing over good pieces for very irrelevant fringe
Speaker 2: players that are doing absolutely nothing from a production standpoint.
Speaker 1: No Shade, Jayshawn Tate and Dayshawn Nicks.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I don't even think they're a starter for
Speaker 2: a real contender at this point. When you have veterans
Speaker 2: like Gordon and they're calling those guys out, that's not
Speaker 2: a sign good sign. That's not a good sign. They're
Speaker 2: not playing a team game. They will not pass to
Speaker 2: one another. Watching their offenses like watching a competition as
Speaker 2: to who can get theirs.
Speaker 1: It's like watching duct tape, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Just sticks stick stick sticks. Someone's open. Like I said,
Speaker 1: nobody's passing the ball. They're two and twelve. What happens? Though?
Speaker 2: The worst case scenario is this, Hopefully there is some
Speaker 2: sort of conspiracy around the lottery, because if Victor Wamba
Speaker 2: Yama ends up a Houston Rocket, I will lose my shit.
Speaker 2: I don't know what. I don't think he'll fit on
Speaker 2: that team at all. No wonder Christian Wood wanted to
Speaker 2: get out of there. I'm sorry if you're a Houston
Speaker 2: Rockets fan, I really am sorry for you, because it's.
Speaker 1: A fun young team could compete on a night to
Speaker 1: night basis.
Speaker 2: I read a two thousand word think piece article from
Speaker 2: some random local Phoenix newspaper about how dangerous the Houston
Speaker 2: Rockets are seen around the league.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 2: Don't buy one word of that fun team might compete
Speaker 2: for a quarter or two, but leak probably the worst
Speaker 2: team in the league.
Speaker 1: Some news from all around the league. Right, let's start
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. It's kind of a nice story.
Speaker 2: Here's a guy you probably don't know that was a
Speaker 2: Chris Collins Worth line. Here's a guy you probably don't know.
Speaker 2: Probably don't know what he looks like, Probably don't know
Speaker 2: that he went to Xavier. Probably don't know that he
Speaker 2: plays point guard. Probably don't know that he played for
Speaker 2: the Indiana Pacers and blew.
Speaker 1: Out his achilles.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna tell you about him because he's actually impactful.
Speaker 2: Edmund Edmund Sumner probably one of.
Speaker 1: The greatest steals of the offseason. Honestly, and if you.
Speaker 2: Don't know him, six' six point guard out Of, xavier
Speaker 2: he averaged fifteen a game there in college right drafted
Speaker 2: fifty second by The, peals ended up on The pacers
Speaker 2: for four, years increases his minutes year after year after.
Speaker 2: Year finishes the twenty twenty twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 1: Really has a good player off the, bench averaged eight.
Speaker 2: Two and, two including thirteen three and two in the
Speaker 2: games leading up to the to the. Injury the last
Speaker 2: ten games he was actually just really getting better game after.
Speaker 2: Game pops's achilles cost him all of last, year and
Speaker 2: then he gets traded by The pacers because he was
Speaker 2: becoming pretty important to the very like sticky.
Speaker 1: Offense but you, know these things.
Speaker 2: Happen they Have Tyreese, Halliburton they're gonna go get another.
Speaker 1: Guard they've Got Chris, dart so that's. Fine so they
Speaker 1: gets traded in THE.
Speaker 2: Tj warren trade and Then waved immediately, waved but The
Speaker 2: nets decide to take a flyer on him bring him
Speaker 2: back to the team, resigned so they're, like all, right
Speaker 2: what is he doing? Now With kyrie irving out from.
Speaker 2: Suspension he has just been absolutely a glue guy for this.
Speaker 2: Team eleven three and two with shooting forty percent and
Speaker 2: very really, overlooked like you can watch him shoot five
Speaker 2: threes in a, night just some. Nice he's like three for,
Speaker 2: four some, nice two for, four some. Nice you, know
Speaker 2: zero for. Two but, man they need a guy who
Speaker 2: can take care of the. Ball and one of the
Speaker 2: reasons really that The nets are playing well. Defensively And
Speaker 2: i've said this, before they're holding opponents outside of That
Speaker 2: lakers team that put up one sixteen on, them but
Speaker 2: they're holding opponents under one hundred points per. Game And
Speaker 2: Edmund summoner big reason why this is what he said
Speaker 2: in a recent. Interview the schemes are still the, Same
Speaker 2: we're doing the same. STUFF i just feel like we're
Speaker 2: really now covering for one. Another IF i get beat
Speaker 2: off the, BOUNCE i know somebody's right there to pick me.
Speaker 1: Up i'll bounce off and roll to the other. Guy
Speaker 1: SO i feel like we're just really coming.
Speaker 2: Together we're in a lot more, games and if we're
Speaker 2: willing to, sacrifice we're really trusting guys. MORE i know
Speaker 2: they didn't mean anything by that, comment but, like that
Speaker 2: was a, shot Right.
Speaker 1: Kyrie that was a shot At. Kyrie that was a
Speaker 1: shot At Ben.
Speaker 2: SIMMONS i don't, know is like all of a sudden
Speaker 2: they're playing world class defense When kyrie's not on in the,
Speaker 2: lineup and he's coming back maybe sometime, soon maybe.
Speaker 1: TOMORROW i don't. Know other people are, noticing. Though Kevin
Speaker 1: durant is one of.
Speaker 2: Them this is what he said About. Sumner it's a
Speaker 2: tough injury to come back. From you don't know how you'll,
Speaker 2: feel you know how your body will, respond and.
Speaker 1: He's going out there trying some. Stuff that's the best
Speaker 1: way for you to get over an injury is just
Speaker 1: try to test yourself and push yourself to the.
Speaker 2: Limit he's getting into the, paint he's making, threes and
Speaker 2: he's just playing fast and, man he has been. Fun
Speaker 2: he's so big six six six', Eight wingspan he's almost
Speaker 2: as Big As, jeremy Grant And jeremy grant, Plays Four
Speaker 2: edmund sumner plays. Point Guard edmund sumner. IS everywhere i
Speaker 2: love this. FOR him i love this For the nets AND.
Speaker 2: With Tj warren slaty to come, back soon, you know
Speaker 2: they'll kind.
Speaker 1: Of like Peb.
Speaker 2: And jay they have a connection from when they played
Speaker 2: for With the pacers And.
Speaker 1: The nets just taking chances might, actually Help say salva's,
Speaker 1: this season but Good For.
Speaker 2: Edmund Sumner Will kyrie beck, COME back i, don't Know
Speaker 2: But edmund sumner making the most out of, his opportunities
Speaker 2: and you got to feel good. ABOUT that i mentioned
Speaker 2: Earlier That joel embiid balled out Against The, utah JAZZ
Speaker 2: and i did mention that it took everything from him
Speaker 2: in order for them to win.
Speaker 1: This GAME but i.
Speaker 2: Wanted to look at the game a little CLOSER because
Speaker 2: i feel like there were two lessons from the game
Speaker 2: that we can take away.
Speaker 1: From. It one embiid is on.
Speaker 2: Another planet he's one of the most UNIQUE players i
Speaker 2: think we've seen in a long. Long. Time embiid in
Speaker 2: this GAME that i did not go TO because i
Speaker 2: wanted to Watch The memphis grizzlies Play, The wizards embiid
Speaker 2: had an, all timer like literally fifty.
Speaker 1: Nine points that's sick. All alone this man put.
Speaker 2: Up almost, sixty points, eleven rebounds, eight assists and.
Speaker 1: SEVEN blocks i didn't make that stat. Line up that's
Speaker 1: a real.
Speaker 2: Stat line ACCORDING to uh one of these reporters that Covers,
Speaker 2: The sixers embiid is the first player to record at least,
Speaker 2: fifty points, ten rebounds, five assists and five blocks in
Speaker 2: a game since when ever ever is the first man
Speaker 2: to ever, do that since they began tracking blocks in nineteen.
Speaker 2: Seventy three, My god embiid unstoppable in the fourth. Quarter
Speaker 2: too he was seven for eight in the eighth in the,
Speaker 2: fourth quarter he basically barely missed that eighth shot turn
Speaker 2: around step, back three just kind.
Speaker 1: Of rattled in an out of.
Speaker 2: The room he could have been perfect for the, fourth
Speaker 2: quarter had five blocks in the.
Speaker 1: Fourth quarter and the best part about.
Speaker 2: It was he Trash Talk laurie markinen in the. Final
Speaker 2: minute he, Was, Like, hey laurie you gotta miss these
Speaker 2: free THROWS because i gotta put my son. To sleep and,
Speaker 2: HE did i don't, want overtime and after the Game and, bid,
Speaker 2: SAYS yeah i lied. To him arthur's in bed by. That,
Speaker 2: Time anyway he's in bed every damn night at seven.
Speaker 1: THIRTY sharp i. LOVE this I love mbids.
Speaker 2: So much sixty, point game still fucking around talking Shit
Speaker 2: to laurie marketing line about putting his son. To sleep
Speaker 2: and the SECOND thing i think we should really look at,
Speaker 2: is Man the sixers.
Speaker 1: Have no margin, for error?
Speaker 2: Do they they almost lost To The utah jazz and
Speaker 2: he put up a historic performance and they almost. Still
Speaker 2: lost the only reason that they won that game Is
Speaker 2: Because laurie marketing miss some free throws and a couple
Speaker 2: of layups were missed By. The jazz otherwise it was
Speaker 2: gonna be night night like you read about.
Speaker 1: For them this is just not a very.
Speaker 2: Good team like, nobody's talking just like nobody's talking About The.
Speaker 2: Euston rockets nobody's talking about how bad.
Speaker 1: Things are For.
Speaker 2: The, Sixers Yeah james harden's out with them with, an
Speaker 2: injuries out for, a month and you think he's coming
Speaker 2: back to.
Speaker 1: Save you he's.
Speaker 2: Not good things were, bad, Beforehand right this is not a.
Speaker 2: Great team they've had to rely on multiple massive Games
Speaker 2: From joel Embiid And tyrese maxy for, that matter in.
Speaker 1: Order to be even be in games to beat.
Speaker 2: Good Teams the utah game was a one possession game
Speaker 2: with less than two minutes. To go NO way mba
Speaker 2: should have to go off for sixty points and still
Speaker 2: not be blowing out, a team still be having a.
Speaker 2: Shit Talk lori markaen down a stretch and like force
Speaker 2: him to miss a free throw just so you can
Speaker 2: go home with. A w that to me is an
Speaker 2: Indictment On. Doc rivers that's an indictment on My Man.
Speaker 2: Darryl moury the way this roster, is constructed and with
Speaker 2: hard and returning in the next couple.
Speaker 1: Of weeks integrating him back into the offense probably means
Speaker 1: even more. Growing pains more on that. To come, but boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy are the six in a very? Hot Spot Oh.
Speaker 1: Anthony davis oh. My god i'm.
Speaker 2: Going to TikTok About anthony davis the, other DAY and i.
Speaker 2: Get it laker fans and up, In Arms green bay
Speaker 2: fans up. In, arms yes that's where. They intersected ad
Speaker 2: had a, massive game massive game Against The, brooklyn nets.
Speaker 1: And he said he was Inspired By.
Speaker 2: Alan Lazard And aaron rodgers to spark him towards a
Speaker 2: thirty seven. Point, rampage okay we've got questions for. This
Speaker 2: right first, of All if laker fans.
Speaker 1: Can't find anything funny about my.
Speaker 2: Man data davis being inspired by a three and six
Speaker 2: football team widely seen as the most disappointing team of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two with, MASSIVE expectations i.
Speaker 1: DON'T know i. Don't know you just don't have a
Speaker 1: good sense. Of, humor Honestly like.
Speaker 2: It's HILARIOUS that's i, saw THAT and i, was like this,
Speaker 2: Writes itself this.
Speaker 1: WRITES itself a d. SAID this i was Watching The.
Speaker 2: Green bay packers game Against the Cowboys And aaron rodgers
Speaker 2: threw a Slant To alan lazard for. Forty yards kind
Speaker 2: of a, miracle Actually Because alan lazard hasn't been, catching
Speaker 2: balls and he, started screaming he, started flexing and it
Speaker 2: gave me some motivation before, the game knowing we had
Speaker 2: to get, this win knowing that a lot, of guys
Speaker 2: Especially with, lebron out lean on me to get the.
Speaker 2: Job Done alan Lazard And aaron. Rodgers flexing it's not even,
Speaker 2: the move it was the flexing after, the move yelling
Speaker 2: and flexing That Inspired. Anthony davis let that sink in
Speaker 2: just for. A minute this is a grown person paid
Speaker 2: handsomely to win basketball games and, be inspired.
Speaker 1: Not by a. Random game what that game didn't? Take
Speaker 1: place what you had getta? Put up fourteen six? And
Speaker 1: two what the HELL? Am i what an't we? Saying Here?
Speaker 1: What lakers and that Gives the lakers their third win on.
Speaker 2: The season we are now talking about what gave? US
Speaker 2: motivation i Don't Know, anthony davis you might. Be traded how?
Speaker 1: About that?
Speaker 2: For, motivation god he. Is hard he is hard to.
Speaker 2: ROOT for i like him what he is hard to?
Speaker 2: Root for KEEPING, with LA The la times took a
Speaker 2: poll recently and they named The greatest lakers of. All
Speaker 2: time and there is now a hot controversy in the
Speaker 2: streets because there Is a laker legend that.
Speaker 1: Got snubbed let. Me explain so the poll finished in the.
Speaker 2: Following order it's number One, Is, magic obviously no. Controversy
Speaker 2: There Kobe, bean bryant, Number Two Kareem, abdul jabbar, Number
Speaker 2: Three jerry, west four fine, With That elgin, Baylor five.
Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neill then Comes In lebron James And George.
Speaker 1: Miken todd a lot of room.
Speaker 2: For debate my, top four not in, Any Order Probably
Speaker 2: jerry west building the bedrock Of the lakers organization from
Speaker 2: a player perspective and AS A, Gm, Magic, kobe kareem Then.
Speaker 1: Probably shack.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you probably have a Different. Mount rushmart, it's
Speaker 2: fine but there is One former laker that is just
Speaker 2: absolutely steaming that he didn't make.
Speaker 1: The list who could?
Speaker 2: It be rack your brain think? About it who's not
Speaker 2: on the list that deserves to be on. The list,
Speaker 2: the shame the audacity to leave him off.
Speaker 1: This list think? About it who could? It be who could?
Speaker 1: It be Is It? Derek fisher no Is it Robert?
Speaker 1: Or no Is It?
Speaker 2: Brian Shaw brian shaw would never. Do that he's much
Speaker 2: too humble to be pissed. About anything. He's, Awesome, no
Speaker 2: Oh It's, Nick young Swaggy pe are?
Speaker 1: We, serious yes The legend Swaggy.
Speaker 2: P yes the top seventy five list made the Rounds
Speaker 2: And nick young is pissed off that he's not on.
Speaker 1: That list. He was he's been out of the league for,
Speaker 1: four years and.
Speaker 2: He's pissed he wants you to know that was a
Speaker 2: disrespectful list.
Speaker 1: Towards him he said that hate. Is real why y'all,
Speaker 1: hate me but? Love Me? Nick Young Nick Nick? NICK
Speaker 1: young i.
Speaker 2: Love him he's salty. About This Remember D'Angelo russell in the. Snapchat,
Speaker 2: Incident nick you Could Say nick Young And D'Angelo russell Broke.
Speaker 1: The lakers they've.
Speaker 2: Never been the same since they won that little, bubble
Speaker 2: title and they've never been. The Same nick young was
Speaker 2: Never a laker great he won a title With, the
Speaker 2: warriors he ranks outside of the top one hundred in total,
Speaker 2: wind shares while With, the lakers he's not even in,
Speaker 2: the universe not even in.
Speaker 1: The atmosphere he shot forty percent from the field period
Speaker 1: His entire, laker career.
Speaker 2: And of course they never made the playoffs while he,
Speaker 2: was there so that's important to note.
Speaker 1: As, Well However, nick young. Don't worry. Rest easy you.
Speaker 2: Should rest easy knowing that even though you're not a
Speaker 2: top Seventy, five laker you would one hundred percent make
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: Of other top seventy. Five lists so here's here's.
Speaker 2: The list there's a short list of top seventy Fives
Speaker 2: That nick young would.
Speaker 1: Definitely make let's go.
Speaker 2: Through it top seventy five MOST mimeable mba moments for
Speaker 2: the gift of him walking away with his hands up
Speaker 2: celebrating a three that did not.
Speaker 1: Go in that one is an. ALL timer i use
Speaker 1: it all. THE time i use it once.
Speaker 2: A week top seventy FIVE ridiculous nba statements for saying
Speaker 2: he was the greatest three point SHOOTER in nba history
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen and saying he'd have scored forty six
Speaker 2: thousand points by his twentieth season in. The league he
Speaker 2: played twelve years and he scored eight. Thousand points top,
Speaker 2: seventy five probably number one with the bullet fastest engagements
Speaker 2: blown up by having someone secretly record your tales of
Speaker 2: Infidelity When DiAngelo russell taped Him on snapchat bragging about
Speaker 2: all the times that he Cheated On.
Speaker 1: Iggy azalea don't even know how he Got At.
Speaker 2: Iggy azalea top seventy five worst takes on college women's
Speaker 2: college basketball when he called The women's final four jv
Speaker 2: ball because they didn't bring in the big bucks and
Speaker 2: then claimed his ig. Was hacked also probably goes on
Speaker 2: the probably most ridiculous statements. As well top seventy five
Speaker 2: LEAST accountable nba player when he admitted when he was
Speaker 2: a rookie As, a wizard He And andre blatch were
Speaker 2: quote unquote, MESSING around i think with one of the cheerleaders,
Speaker 2: or assistants and then they found out people was, blaming
Speaker 2: us like it was our fault that she.
Speaker 1: Got fired.
Speaker 2: Top seventy five worst responses to The ime udoka controversy
Speaker 2: when he said things.
Speaker 1: Get happened when you. GET bored i mean we could
Speaker 1: go on.
Speaker 2: And on top seventy five most violent plays in a
Speaker 2: church league basketball game when he allegedly grew enraged and
Speaker 2: jumped another player when the ref missed, a call then
Speaker 2: attacked the player and it ended up in.
Speaker 1: A lawsuit.
Speaker 2: Top seventy five worse Reactions when Little nause x came
Speaker 2: out and said he was gay when he tweeted, my
Speaker 2: kids we'll Never Play Old town road again on the speaker.
Speaker 2: Box wow and, of, Course finally top seventy five people
Speaker 2: who love cocaine when he said on a, LIVE stream
Speaker 2: i want people to pass. Me cocaine everybody needs to. Do,
Speaker 2: cocaine swagyp there's no one.
Speaker 1: Like them keep. Doing you top seventy five on, MY.
Speaker 1: List swaggyp you're one of my top seventy.
Speaker 2: Five lakers just none of them are about your ability to.
Speaker 2: Play basketball that's all the time that we have For The.
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