Speaker 1: Come on, come on, Welcome to the heat check. Today
Speaker 1: we talk about dysfunction. What is dysfunction, appears not to
Speaker 1: be dysfunction, People trying to come out of their dysfunctional
Speaker 1: franchise role, maybe becoming functional and honestly to be To
Speaker 1: start off, that's where we go. First, what's happening in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, which might be the worst team in the NBA.
Speaker 1: We check in on the Bulls that were functional and
Speaker 1: then dysfunctional and functional and then dysfunctional and now have
Speaker 1: a three tozer start. We talked about the Charlotte Hornets,
Speaker 1: which we're dysfunctional and now functional. We talked about the
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings, which forever have been dysfunctional. I think they
Speaker 1: still are, but somehow they're functioning. If that makes sense.
Speaker 1: All right, bruh, Let's get into have you ever seen
Speaker 1: a car accident before it happens, and like you are
Speaker 1: driving down the road and it's happening in front of you,
Speaker 1: and you see the car coming over and the car
Speaker 1: that's in the lane just trying to stay in the lane.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like one of those rickety like cars.
Speaker 1: It's just trying to stay The tires are sort of
Speaker 1: shaking on that car and it doesn't even know what's happening.
Speaker 1: And there's another car coming from the right to sideswipe him,
Speaker 1: and you know it's gonna happen, and you're like fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds more aware than everyone else. But it's happening, regardless
Speaker 1: of what you do, regardless of what you say, if
Speaker 1: you try to help, if you don't, it's happening. It's awful.
Speaker 1: It's honestly one of the worst feelings to experience. It's
Speaker 1: worse when it happens to you, of course, but when
Speaker 1: you watch it, it's like your whole body tenses up.
Speaker 1: And in a lot of ways, that's what's happening right
Speaker 1: now with the New Orleans Pelicans. The car that's about
Speaker 1: the swide swipe, that other janky ass car that looks
Speaker 1: like it's a luxury vehicle but really it's not. That's
Speaker 1: the Pelicans, and the yanky ass car is Zion. There
Speaker 1: are drivers that are accident prone, the ones that continue
Speaker 1: to side swipe other cars. That's also the Pelicans. They've
Speaker 1: done this a couple of times before. They don't they
Speaker 1: can't even get insured, like they have to go to
Speaker 1: the general because, like Geico, and State Farm, like no
Speaker 1: one will even cover their ass because they're so dangerous
Speaker 1: to society. This is like a pattern for them. They're
Speaker 1: not watching what's going on, but doing whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: they want to do, regardless of the outcome around them.
Speaker 1: They're just reckless. That's the Pelicans. It's happened before, it's
Speaker 1: happening again. I have to say it's hard to take
Speaker 1: this mantle from the Sacramento Kings, but I think the
Speaker 1: Pelicans are the most dysfunctional franchise right now in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And it's not close. Like this is a franchise if
Speaker 1: I need to remind you, that's already lost Chris Paul once,
Speaker 1: they lost Anthony Davis. He forced his way out, and
Speaker 1: now they're gonna fuck around and they're gonna lose ion
Speaker 1: they've lucked into. Think about that, They've lucked into three
Speaker 1: transcendent players, and I don't think any of them are
Speaker 1: gonna stay their entire careers there. These are idiots that
Speaker 1: just bumble their way into like the greatest players, top
Speaker 1: seventy five players and still find a way to fuck
Speaker 1: it up. And they're just good enough that every single
Speaker 1: mediocre team that plays them feels good about beating them
Speaker 1: right now, That's where they are at. Like I believe
Speaker 1: that the world has not seen this train or car
Speaker 1: crash happen yet. I am just the only one that
Speaker 1: can see it. But there the truth is, they are
Speaker 1: a dogshit team. They are really bad. They may only
Speaker 1: be slightly better than the Pistons, and I don't even
Speaker 1: know if they are. That is a stretch. They have
Speaker 1: more wins, they may they may end up having more
Speaker 1: wins than Oklahoma City, but that's just because Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: wants to lose. Like if Oklahoma City actually desired to
Speaker 1: win games, I think the New Orleans could be the
Speaker 1: worst team in the West. And once again, this dumpster
Speaker 1: fire of an organization is going to chase this generational
Speaker 1: talent out of town. Again. New Orleans has a problem.
Speaker 1: And he's eating beignets and is over three hundred pounds
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna play gone till November March April May.
Speaker 1: Like he is gone. No one knows when he's coming back,
Speaker 1: or if he's gonna be healthy or what. And that
Speaker 1: three hundred pound transcendent star is seething. He's seething at
Speaker 1: his general manager, the way that they are treating him
Speaker 1: the way that they're slowly integrating him back into the
Speaker 1: team after his multitude of injuries. Fair enough, but now
Speaker 1: they seem to be having a fire sale as well.
Speaker 1: They don't seem to be motivated to keeping Zion happy
Speaker 1: or healthy, despite him telling the world everyone, despite him
Speaker 1: telling the world how much he loves playing in Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden, like, they don't seem to realize what is happening.
Speaker 1: Or maybe they do, like maybe they do. Like truthfully,
Speaker 1: Zion should have been drafted to the Knicks and Zion
Speaker 1: knew that and somehow again because they probably made a
Speaker 1: deal with the devil, like they got the number one
Speaker 1: pick again and drafted Zion. So then they made a
Speaker 1: bunch of moves this offseason, right, and Griffin tried to
Speaker 1: tell us, oh, these are the moves that are gonna
Speaker 1: take us over the over the edge. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: We're gonna make the playoffs now because remember, like they
Speaker 1: have not made the playoffs since it's been years. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's been four or five years since they've made the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And look, they none of these moves have mattered. They
Speaker 1: took their only real defensive presence in Steven Adams and
Speaker 1: they moved him out. And that was a team that
Speaker 1: was historically bad at defense. And now a team that
Speaker 1: struggled defensively is still struggling defensively. They're even worse, and
Speaker 1: now they can't score. They they they're giving up one
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen points per game and haven't scored one
Speaker 1: hundred in two out of the three games. I'd say
Speaker 1: that point differential is a problem. Right. That was the
Speaker 1: one thing that they were actually good at last year,
Speaker 1: and now they're fucking trash at that. They are bad
Speaker 1: at every single thing, which is why they haven't won
Speaker 1: a game yet, and they might actually not even win
Speaker 1: a game until they either play Oklahoma City Houston or
Speaker 1: until Zion returns. Can you see the car accident? What
Speaker 1: does all this mean to me? It means trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble.
Speaker 1: And according to the recent news that just came out
Speaker 1: two days ago, New Orleans might be headed for a
Speaker 1: fire sale three games in. There are rumors that Josh
Speaker 1: Hart is already on the trade block. Josh Hart. Josh
Speaker 1: Hart is twenty six years old. Josh Hart just signed
Speaker 1: to a three year deal a team friendly deal like yesterday,
Speaker 1: and yet, according to multiple NBA executives, Hart is now
Speaker 1: on the trade block and the three year deal he
Speaker 1: signed with the Pelicans apparently has made him even more
Speaker 1: valuable to other teams. It's almost like David Griffin planned
Speaker 1: this from the beginning. He had no intention of not
Speaker 1: only keeping Heart but also making the Pelicans a threat
Speaker 1: to any playoff contention. And they're not even a playing team,
Speaker 1: and I think David Griffin knows that. The question is,
Speaker 1: why is David Griffin putting Josh Hart on the trade market.
Speaker 1: What are they looking for? Maybe a young athletic wing
Speaker 1: on a team friendly contract that could shoot. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you mean Josh Hart, Like, that's Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you can't trade Josh Hart for Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: That don't make no sense. There's only one answer. New
Speaker 1: Orleans is desperate. They're looking for draft picks because, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, they too see the car wreck. Zion is
Speaker 1: either going to leave to New York most likely if
Speaker 1: New York will have him, or Zion will stay for
Speaker 1: the long term, be on the books for the long
Speaker 1: term and not be playing for the long term. Look
Speaker 1: at how they performed so far this year without Zion
Speaker 1: zero and three, with losses to Philly, Chicago, and Minnesota
Speaker 1: by an average of over fourteen points. None of these
Speaker 1: games that looks kind of close, but none of these
Speaker 1: games have been particularly close. In their opening loss to
Speaker 1: the Sixers, valentunis their guy that was supposed to come
Speaker 1: in to help them with scoring, which they didn't need.
Speaker 1: Shot three for nineteen, three for nineteen. I could shoot
Speaker 1: three for nineteen if I was seven foot I'd do
Speaker 1: better than three for nineteen. I promise you that. And
Speaker 1: people who wondered how Valentinis would work within this offense,
Speaker 1: they had a right to be concerned. And that is
Speaker 1: without Zion there, and Zion is the one that fucks
Speaker 1: up the spacing. Let's look at it another way. The
Speaker 1: Pelicans went two to nine last season when Zion did
Speaker 1: not play. Their two victories were over Houston. Like I
Speaker 1: told you before, Brock, it was a bad year for Houston.
Speaker 1: They were mailing it in. They lost twenty games in
Speaker 1: a row. It was bad. And that was without John
Speaker 1: Wall and Charlotte, without Mellow or Hayward or Bridges. Okay,
Speaker 1: so dogshit teams without their quote unquote stars. They might
Speaker 1: be the worst team in the NBA without Zion, like
Speaker 1: they could be the worst. And with Zion they weren't
Speaker 1: even anywhere near the playoffs. And he was bawling the
Speaker 1: fuck out. He was averaging almost thirty So what the
Speaker 1: One of the things that I asked last year that
Speaker 1: went bananas was if Zion is so good, then why
Speaker 1: are the Pelicans so trash? This team. I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: say it, but I gotta say it. They're headed for
Speaker 1: a rebuild, whether they like it or not. The crash
Speaker 1: is coming. It's just a matter of time. It's just
Speaker 1: how slow or how fast, whether you react with you don't,
Speaker 1: but like it's a matter of how much damage, but
Speaker 1: not whether there's gonna be damage. The car wreck is coming, folks,
Speaker 1: and the one thing that we know for sure is
Speaker 1: that David Griffin will not be surviving this car wreck.
Speaker 1: Bring out the stretcher and the ambulance. Woo woo, there's
Speaker 1: been there's been a casualty, and his name is David Griffin.
Speaker 1: Move over, Sacramento. There's a new challenger for the crown
Speaker 1: of the shittiest, most dysfunctional, rotten franchise in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Game of throne style. They're coming. The red wedding is here.
Speaker 1: Beignets are a plenty early surprises. Everyone's trying to find someone,
Speaker 1: that new franchise player or a collection of stars to
Speaker 1: put them over the top. Franchises that have never done
Speaker 1: a goddamn thing and many many years are now telling us,
Speaker 1: telling the world they are something. They have found the one,
Speaker 1: the new one. A week end of the season, We've
Speaker 1: already had some I'll call it interesting surprises. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the Golden State Warriors and how Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole is going to be the most improved player and
Speaker 1: they're three and zero start that means absolutely not. I mean,
Speaker 1: nobody except for Golden State knows what the Chicago Bulls
Speaker 1: are feeling right now, which is an undefeated season that
Speaker 1: means absolutely nothing. So no, I'm not gonna walk that
Speaker 1: take back for a month or so. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the Bulls, the Hornets, and the Kings, all of which
Speaker 1: have had fast starts, are lighting up the headlines, Tweets abound, tiktoks, etc.
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about these three teams. There's been a lot
Speaker 1: of doubters, myself included. So let's evaluate these three teams
Speaker 1: and whether what they're doing is meaningful in any way,
Speaker 1: and why let's start with the Bulls, man. I tell
Speaker 1: you what, there there might not be a team that
Speaker 1: people desperately want to be good more than the Chicago Bulls,
Speaker 1: like the world of NBA fans desperately wants them to succeed.
Speaker 1: I get that, Like it's Jordan's team, and when Jordan's
Speaker 1: team is good, all is right in the world. Money
Speaker 1: is a plenty. I mean, people who don't care about
Speaker 1: the NBA at all are like, heyo, Trista, what you
Speaker 1: think Vooch Loronzo Demartrosan, what we are saying? What are
Speaker 1: you fucking talking about right now? They don't even know
Speaker 1: what the NBA is. They don't even know who these
Speaker 1: players are except for that it's on the Chicago Tribune.
Speaker 1: Like they have no clue what's going on. They believe
Speaker 1: these guys are going to save them. I never thought
Speaker 1: anyone would be so excited about Demarta Rosan and Lonzo
Speaker 1: Ball and Alice Caruso in my life, but here we are,
Speaker 1: Like Vooch was the first option for the Orlando Magic,
Speaker 1: like please, and the worst part, they're three and zero
Speaker 1: they're three and zero, and now the world is like, hey,
Speaker 1: are they good? This is an accomplishment, Look at us,
Speaker 1: look at the Bulls. The hype train immens the media.
Speaker 1: The media is culpable in this really truthfully, because they're
Speaker 1: putting out these headlines that they know aren't true. They
Speaker 1: know when they posit Bulls new Era, they know that
Speaker 1: that's a lie, and that's a lie because they watch
Speaker 1: just as much basketball at me. They are part of
Speaker 1: this problem this. It's quite unacceptable to me to I
Speaker 1: guess pedal to the world something that you know is
Speaker 1: going to not work out and get their hopes up
Speaker 1: and then let them fall. This is some of the
Speaker 1: headlines that we're talking about right now. Bulls active defensive
Speaker 1: identity is contagious. I mean, this team can't play defense,
Speaker 1: Like they don't play defense at all. And there's a
Speaker 1: couple of good blocks against some dogshit teams and now
Speaker 1: it's like that defensive identity. Okay, another one quote Dawn
Speaker 1: of a New Era, new look Bulls fire on all
Speaker 1: cylinders and home opener, all the cylinders were firing. I
Speaker 1: hate to burst your bubble, but uh, you just beat
Speaker 1: Detroit that were the worst team in the NBA last year.
Speaker 1: They were the number one pick in this draft, and
Speaker 1: you beat them barely without that player, Kate Cunningham. And
Speaker 1: then the other team that you beat, the most dysfunctional
Speaker 1: team in the league, New Orleans Pelicans, the one the
Speaker 1: team that I just said was the team that people
Speaker 1: get excited about and they hang their head on that win,
Speaker 1: and that win means nothing because nobody knows yet the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans are a fucking disaster. So what's game two?
Speaker 1: You beat the Pelicans and people still think it's the
Speaker 1: Pelicans because of the name, but that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1: Those wins mean nothing. That means And by the way,
Speaker 1: there was no Zion, So Pistons twice with no Kid,
Speaker 1: Pelicans without Zion, the Josh heartless led Pelicans. I mean,
Speaker 1: the people are desperate, Like I get that. The Bulls
Speaker 1: haven't been good since Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose and
Speaker 1: before that Michael Jordan. Both those guys ended up not
Speaker 1: wanting to even be their long term, which I totally understand.
Speaker 1: It's like heartbreak and you need something to give you hope,
Speaker 1: And I get it, like you haven't had hope in
Speaker 1: a while. Things have been bad, like the the gar
Speaker 1: form in age. You know, things have just been real dysfunctional.
Speaker 1: You talk about dysfunctional, they have been dysfunctional. But I
Speaker 1: beg you please don't say that the Bulls are gonna
Speaker 1: be a four seed, Like, please, don't try to peddle
Speaker 1: me some bullshit that they're gonna be able to beat
Speaker 1: the Bucks or the Nets, or the Heat or even
Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets in a seven game series, like, please
Speaker 1: try your very best to not try to say that
Speaker 1: Jannis is in any way concerned about the Chicago Bulls
Speaker 1: because he is not. Take a gander at the schedule, folks, Please,
Speaker 1: after you've played the Nets, the Knicks, the Jazz, the Celtics, Sixers, MAVs,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors, Clippers and the Lakers, please come talk
Speaker 1: to me November fifteenth, after your West Coast road trip
Speaker 1: when you're I don't know, four and twelve. My early
Speaker 1: reaction is that they're fun. Attract them, They're fun, they're attractive.
Speaker 1: We'll call them the makeup gorgeous, not wake up gorgeous
Speaker 1: type of team, right like they are an Iowa seven
Speaker 1: who got their makeup done at Sephora, their hair done.
Speaker 1: They go to the club, you take them home, You're like,
Speaker 1: she's kind of hot. Strip off all those random layers
Speaker 1: of makeup and those fake lashes, and it's like wolf Man.
Speaker 1: Not only is she not attractive, she also lacks depth
Speaker 1: and substance. In other words, the Chicago Bulls are cat
Speaker 1: fishing the entire NBA. Yes, sir, don't worry, folks, I
Speaker 1: have a trained eye for these things. I know what
Speaker 1: a sexy team with substance and depth looks like. The
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls, like I said, they are in Iowa seven
Speaker 1: at best. I'll let you know if things change, but
Speaker 1: don't get your hopes up. Let's talk about the Hornets
Speaker 1: and Michael Jordan for a second. Here's a quick potential
Speaker 1: thought that I don't necessarily know if I believe, But
Speaker 1: maybe mj wasn't actually a bad owner. Maybe he just
Speaker 1: never found the right talent that fit into his maniacal
Speaker 1: style that he needed from a star until now. Maybe
Speaker 1: he never found a guy that he wanted to build
Speaker 1: a team around because all these young guns are soft
Speaker 1: as hell and they're too worried about their ig shit.
Speaker 1: Then getting back into the gym possibility, I don't actually
Speaker 1: know if that's true, but now it's possible. But this
Speaker 1: Hornet's team is fun, it's sexy, and what took them
Speaker 1: over the top and what mj is salivating over now
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent LaMelo Ball. Michael Jordan, the owner,
Speaker 1: potentially has been waiting for a player with like LaMelo
Speaker 1: Ball for his entire career. LaMelo is, He's kind of
Speaker 1: like a throwback in my opinion. Lamello is is just
Speaker 1: cut differently, cut like a guy from the eighties and
Speaker 1: the nineties. And there is nothing that Michael Jordan likes
Speaker 1: more than players that remind him of himself. Like truthfully,
Speaker 1: here here is how we know that Lamello is cut different.
Speaker 1: The Athletic recently discussed how LaMelo took one of the
Speaker 1: most aggressive possible approaches to coming back from his broken
Speaker 1: wrist last year. Why, you may ask, Apparently he saw
Speaker 1: the Hornets drop off of a cliff when he and
Speaker 1: Gordon Hayward went down and knew their postseason chances were
Speaker 1: fading so fast that he sped up his rehab process
Speaker 1: from a year to five weeks. He should have been
Speaker 1: out for the year. They should have shut him down,
Speaker 1: and they were going to shut him down. And by
Speaker 1: the way, if he was playing for the Utah Jazz
Speaker 1: right now, he probably still even wouldn't be playing basketball.
Speaker 1: Asked Donovan Mitchell about that, Like Donovan Mitchell like twisted
Speaker 1: his ankle on a curb and sat out two games
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, like that is the Utah Jazz. But
Speaker 1: LaMelo was like, fuck this bullshit, Like I am going
Speaker 1: to come back early, and instead of being shut down
Speaker 1: for the year, he made a playoff push and on
Speaker 1: top of everything else, his winning mentality. He also which
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan also loves, is loyal. He now says he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to switch teams. He said, I still feel
Speaker 1: like I have that old mentality that they had back
Speaker 1: in the day, even with switching teams and stuff. They
Speaker 1: never used to do that. You go to one team
Speaker 1: and you stay there. Oh my god. If you're Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: you've got to just be like, oh my god, like
Speaker 1: insert Leonardo DiCaprio, like teeth to the fist, oh my,
Speaker 1: oh my god, LaMelo ball. And I have to say,
Speaker 1: as an aside, like the Warriors made a big mistake
Speaker 1: not drafting him. But these are the types of quotes,
Speaker 1: These are the types of actions. This is the kind
Speaker 1: of kid that makes Michael Jordan, you know, in a
Speaker 1: matter of words, we'll say, go from six to twelve
Speaker 1: in like two seconds, right like he wants to hear
Speaker 1: nothing more than I will stay with you forever, and
Speaker 1: I will grind my body down to dust for four
Speaker 1: more wins until I retire like Kobe. And now the
Speaker 1: Hornets threno for the first time in franchise history. They
Speaker 1: came back from twenty three points in the second half
Speaker 1: against Indiana. Guess what LaMelo was the reason? Of course,
Speaker 1: twelve points during a twenty four zero, twenty four to
Speaker 1: zero run in the third quarter. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Taking the game over by yourself when the rest of
Speaker 1: the team is struggling, putting the team on your back
Speaker 1: like a hard rock. Does that sound like anybody to you?
Speaker 1: And now he's getting other players to buy in like
Speaker 1: Michael did too. Remember Michael Jordan was like, listen, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna play with scrubs, like you need to give
Speaker 1: me your one hundred percent or I'm going to fuck
Speaker 1: you up. Miles Bridge is now balling out. James Brago,
Speaker 1: head coach, just said after the win against Brooklyn, Miles
Speaker 1: is playing with tenacity, Kevin guarding Kevin Durant then driving
Speaker 1: to score on the other end. I mean, folks, they
Speaker 1: are all buying in. This is the team, This is
Speaker 1: the mentality, This is the star that Jordan the player,
Speaker 1: Jordan the manager, Jordan the owner has dreamed of his
Speaker 1: entire life. And so yeah, I don't think wins over Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: Cleveland and Indiana necessarily mean this team's gonna be like
Speaker 1: a three seed in the stacked East. Like how far
Speaker 1: could they go? I don't know, man, Like they can
Speaker 1: beat anyone on any given night. I said this last year.
Speaker 1: They were my league past team of the Year last
Speaker 1: year and they're even better now. All of that to say,
Speaker 1: people call me a hater, but I have nice things
Speaker 1: to say too. With Mellow running the team, the future
Speaker 1: is extremely bright, and Charlotte maybe more bright. Another team
Speaker 1: of the teams in the league that actually looks good
Speaker 1: right now, surprisingly good despite all of the twenty five
Speaker 1: years of dysfunction and the trade rumors in the offseason.
Speaker 1: A number two pick who's a boss. They're not even
Speaker 1: playing him very many minutes. He wants to be traded,
Speaker 1: They won't trade him. They're benching him. Terrible coach, cheapest
Speaker 1: hell franchise, like talking about the dysfunctional of dysfunctional, the
Speaker 1: Sacramental Kings, the Sacramento Kings, My golly, look good. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to say. I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 1: see it coming, and it is only three games in,
Speaker 1: so I reserve the right to say it's fluid. It's fluid.
Speaker 1: But Luke Walton right now, I tell you what, Luke
Speaker 1: Walton is in a unique position because he is like
Speaker 1: Luke Walton's kind of like that tenured professor that knows
Speaker 1: his ass can't be fired, so he just doesn't give
Speaker 1: a fuck anymore. Like he's I am going to do
Speaker 1: whatever I want because what it? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? I'm gonna try new things.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna draft an undersized guard out of Baylor, even
Speaker 1: though I have three other guards, Like I might even
Speaker 1: put him on the floor at the same time. You
Speaker 1: know what, let's get crazy. Let's experiment. I mean it's working.
Speaker 1: Having no pressure to be good at your job is liberating.
Speaker 1: I mean I've been doing that for the last five years. Honestly,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Who else are you gonna
Speaker 1: get Honestly, you're gonna find another girl who likes sports. Get.
Speaker 1: I doubt that you've got the freedom to experiment, of course,
Speaker 1: like soberly, maybe you've got fun literally no stress at
Speaker 1: potentially having accountability for doing things under expectations like if
Speaker 1: you what, you try your new innovative approach, If it
Speaker 1: doesn't work right away, who cares? Try something again? Keep
Speaker 1: going with it? I don't know any of it. It's
Speaker 1: like the incubator of the NBA, legitimately like a startup team,
Speaker 1: Like we're just gonna do things that no one's ever
Speaker 1: even conceived of doing before. Because wins don't matter. My
Speaker 1: job is very secure. These players who cares, we can
Speaker 1: trade them, we can keep them, we can keep hostage,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. No one is going to fire me unless
Speaker 1: they want to cut me a check for twenty million dollars,
Speaker 1: which I know that they won't do because I know
Speaker 1: they're cheap as hell. I've got them over the barrel, folks.
Speaker 1: So what are we gonna do. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: whole lot of fun. Let's get crazy, Let's do whatever
Speaker 1: we want out here. No one's even watching us. We
Speaker 1: don't even have nationally televised games, people won't even know
Speaker 1: until forty eight hours later what's going on. Tremendous. Actually,
Speaker 1: if I think about it, more teams should employ this
Speaker 1: method because there's only gonna be two teams in the finals.
Speaker 1: There's only maybe six that are contending twenty four. Let's
Speaker 1: do whatever we want. Let's see what's happening. Let's be fun,
Speaker 1: let's be exciting. And the Kings are exciting. They're one
Speaker 1: and two, but goddamn it, they've been competitive. They beat
Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazer's my team, which I knew they would
Speaker 1: do because that's us, is what we do. They almost
Speaker 1: beat the Jazz, even though the Jazz beat them, but
Speaker 1: I want to say, like twelve, they were winning that
Speaker 1: game for most of the game. They took them to
Speaker 1: the wire. After the game, Donovan Mitchell was like, man,
Speaker 1: that Davion Mitchell kid, this was one of the hardest
Speaker 1: regular season wins I've ever had in my entire life.
Speaker 1: Like they had us in prison clamps. The playoff intensity
Speaker 1: was there in game two. In Game two he said
Speaker 1: it was a playoff atmosphere. This might go down as
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say one of our best wins, but maybe
Speaker 1: one of our biggest because of our perseverance. And now
Speaker 1: Davion Mitchell, they're calling him the new Kyle Lowry. He
Speaker 1: had seventeen points off the bench against the Warriors in
Speaker 1: the first half. This kid is killing the game. And
Speaker 1: I have to say, speaking of Davion Mitchell, my initial
Speaker 1: scouting report on him was uh. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would say wrong, but I would say slightly off,
Speaker 1: like this is what I said, because I have to
Speaker 1: be fair to our listeners. I said Davion Mitchell was
Speaker 1: too small. I said Davion Mitchell was too small to
Speaker 1: be able to get his shot off in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I said Davian Mitchell was probably a G League player.
Speaker 1: I said Sacramento should have never drafted him in that spot.
Speaker 1: There were plenty of other players better than Daveon. Uh.
Speaker 1: Davion's not good enough at defense to make up for
Speaker 1: his lack of shot creation. Uh. Sacramento Kings drafting Davion
Speaker 1: Mitchell was the prime example of how bad Sacramento is
Speaker 1: as a friend franchise. They are a laughing stock. This
Speaker 1: pick was a laughing stock. So was that a bad take?
Speaker 1: I would say three games in it does seem slightly cold,
Speaker 1: not ice cold, but right before freezing cold. I would
Speaker 1: say the ice cube isn't solid, but you know you
Speaker 1: can tap on it and there's some ice at the top. Wrong, wrong, wrong, me,
Speaker 1: just dumb. Take he is putting folks in prison. He
Speaker 1: put Donovan Mitchell in prison. Steph Curry nine for twenty
Speaker 1: three when Daveon guarded him. Davion is holding opponents to
Speaker 1: thirty one percent shooting from the field, and he is
Speaker 1: guarding stars eleven percent below their average as a goddamn rookie.
Speaker 1: And now Davion, because of this three games in has
Speaker 1: now got possibly the greatest dictame in the NBA. They
Speaker 1: are now calling Davion get this, Davion on off night, Mitchell,
Speaker 1: because everyone has an off night when Davion is guarding them,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, CJ. McCollum, Steph Curry, Donovan Mitchell, guys who
Speaker 1: get buckets are ice cold when Davion has got his
Speaker 1: body on him. Oh this is what Davion had to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, So through three games, you've gone up against C
Speaker 2: Jay and Dame, You've gone up against Donovan and Jordan Clarkson,
Speaker 2: and now step who's been the most difficult or which
Speaker 2: one is the biggest learning moment for you.
Speaker 3: I think for me it will probably be Stuff. I mean,
Speaker 3: just because it's kind of more of off ball situation
Speaker 3: where he can really play play the game basketball off
Speaker 3: the ball, like he's always moving, setting great screens, cutting,
Speaker 3: getting layups, getting his teammates open. So I think stuff great.
Speaker 2: And then you get the treat of going up against
Speaker 2: a Booker and game It's like, how do you just
Speaker 2: wrap your head around it? And how much film study
Speaker 2: are you doing?
Speaker 3: You got to know a lot of film study, I mean,
Speaker 3: especially Goose. These guys are really good trick. You got
Speaker 3: to try to take away things that they like to do,
Speaker 3: kind of slow them down a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 3: but it's hard. I mean, the NBA is a really
Speaker 3: good league. You're gonna play everyone someone every night. So
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward.
Speaker 1: To be bid. So yeah, I mean, Davion is getting
Speaker 1: thrown into the Wolves really early. In his first three games,
Speaker 1: He's had to guard Dame CJ. Donovan, Mitchell, Jordan Clarks
Speaker 1: and Steph Curry next up CP three in book. I mean,
Speaker 1: it does not get any tougher than that. Steph Curry
Speaker 1: called Davion a pest, which is probably the best compliment
Speaker 1: you can get from him. But then he said this,
Speaker 1: all of that hype about Davion's offense, all that hype
Speaker 1: about Davion's defense, but this man was an offensive assassin tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Davion had twenty points off the bench that night. Let's
Speaker 1: break it down even more, Dame CJ. Donovan Mitchell, Mike Conley,
Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson when defended by Davion Mitchell seventy five possessions
Speaker 1: twenty points seven for twenty seven, which is twenty five
Speaker 1: point nine percent, three for ten from three thirty percent,
Speaker 1: and three turnovers. Like, this guy has clamps. This guy's
Speaker 1: like Drew Holiday level and he's a rookie. These are
Speaker 1: elite scorers. He is putting in prison. He has a
Speaker 1: more fluid lou dort th can score like he is clamps,
Speaker 1: He can pass. I don't know if you saw the clip,
Speaker 1: but he was guarding Donovan Mitchell, had his body on him,
Speaker 1: had his body on him, had his body on him.
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell went up for a layup and he snatched
Speaker 1: it out of his hands like a bully on the court,
Speaker 1: ran down the other way, threw a lob to his teammate,
Speaker 1: Alli you, I have a new favorite for Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year, brock not Kate, not Jalen Green, not even
Speaker 1: Chris d'orte. It is for me. My bed is now
Speaker 1: on firmly planted. I've turned my thoughts around, I've seen
Speaker 1: the errors of my ways. My Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: vote right now. Wow, Davion off Night Mitchell the stack Killer.
Speaker 1: That's the new one line that I created for him,
Speaker 1: the stat Davion off Night Mitchell the stack Killer. So
Speaker 1: anybody says, anybody ever says Davion off Night Mitchell, then
Speaker 1: you follow that up by saying the stack killer. They
Speaker 1: say about seventy percent of the earth surface is covered
Speaker 1: by water. The rest is covered by Davion Mitchell. That's
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