WEBVTT - Slow Motion Car Wreck In New Orleans 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:23.200 Come on, come on, Welcome to the heat check. Today 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.920 we talk about dysfunction. What is dysfunction, appears not to 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:32.400 be dysfunction, People trying to come out of their dysfunctional 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:40.040 franchise role, maybe becoming functional and honestly to be To 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.239 start off, that's where we go. First, what's happening in 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.680 New Orleans, which might be the worst team in the NBA. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.760 We check in on the Bulls that were functional and 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.760 then dysfunctional and functional and then dysfunctional and now have 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.080 a three tozer start. We talked about the Charlotte Hornets, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.160 which we're dysfunctional and now functional. We talked about the 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:01.440 Sacramento Kings, which forever have been dysfunctional. I think they 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:07.560 still are, but somehow they're functioning. If that makes sense. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:15.280 All right, bruh, Let's get into have you ever seen 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.240 a car accident before it happens, and like you are 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.640 driving down the road and it's happening in front of you, 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.560 and you see the car coming over and the car 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.839 that's in the lane just trying to stay in the lane. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.000 You know, it's like one of those rickety like cars. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.319 It's just trying to stay The tires are sort of 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.760 shaking on that car and it doesn't even know what's happening. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.319 And there's another car coming from the right to sideswipe him, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.320 and you know it's gonna happen, and you're like fifteen 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.440 seconds more aware than everyone else. But it's happening, regardless 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.800 of what you do, regardless of what you say, if 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.960 you try to help, if you don't, it's happening. It's awful. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.600 It's honestly one of the worst feelings to experience. It's 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.880 worse when it happens to you, of course, but when 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.600 you watch it, it's like your whole body tenses up. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.360 And in a lot of ways, that's what's happening right 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.720 now with the New Orleans Pelicans. The car that's about 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.440 the swide swipe, that other janky ass car that looks 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.280 like it's a luxury vehicle but really it's not. That's 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:26.400 the Pelicans, and the yanky ass car is Zion. There 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.760 are drivers that are accident prone, the ones that continue 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.440 to side swipe other cars. That's also the Pelicans. They've 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.520 done this a couple of times before. They don't they 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.880 can't even get insured, like they have to go to 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.280 the general because, like Geico, and State Farm, like no 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.360 one will even cover their ass because they're so dangerous 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.600 to society. This is like a pattern for them. They're 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.720 not watching what's going on, but doing whatever the fuck 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.400 they want to do, regardless of the outcome around them. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.320 They're just reckless. That's the Pelicans. It's happened before, it's 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.600 happening again. I have to say it's hard to take 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.280 this mantle from the Sacramento Kings, but I think the 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:13.040 Pelicans are the most dysfunctional franchise right now in the NBA. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.720 And it's not close. Like this is a franchise if 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.200 I need to remind you, that's already lost Chris Paul once, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.920 they lost Anthony Davis. He forced his way out, and 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.000 now they're gonna fuck around and they're gonna lose ion 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.520 they've lucked into. Think about that, They've lucked into three 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.360 transcendent players, and I don't think any of them are 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.720 gonna stay their entire careers there. These are idiots that 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.960 just bumble their way into like the greatest players, top 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:49.920 seventy five players and still find a way to fuck 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:55.200 it up. And they're just good enough that every single 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.760 mediocre team that plays them feels good about beating them 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.760 right now, That's where they are at. Like I believe 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.160 that the world has not seen this train or car 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.880 crash happen yet. I am just the only one that 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.360 can see it. But there the truth is, they are 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.800 a dogshit team. They are really bad. They may only 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.400 be slightly better than the Pistons, and I don't even 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.240 know if they are. That is a stretch. They have 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.560 more wins, they may they may end up having more 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.719 wins than Oklahoma City, but that's just because Oklahoma City 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.000 wants to lose. Like if Oklahoma City actually desired to 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.360 win games, I think the New Orleans could be the 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.960 worst team in the West. And once again, this dumpster 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.480 fire of an organization is going to chase this generational 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.479 talent out of town. Again. New Orleans has a problem. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.760 And he's eating beignets and is over three hundred pounds 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.760 and he's not gonna play gone till November March April May. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.279 Like he is gone. No one knows when he's coming back, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.880 or if he's gonna be healthy or what. And that 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:08.559 three hundred pound transcendent star is seething. He's seething at 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.400 his general manager, the way that they are treating him 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.839 the way that they're slowly integrating him back into the 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:21.320 team after his multitude of injuries. Fair enough, but now 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.440 they seem to be having a fire sale as well. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:29.520 They don't seem to be motivated to keeping Zion happy 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:34.440 or healthy, despite him telling the world everyone, despite him 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.480 telling the world how much he loves playing in Madison 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.120 Square Garden, like, they don't seem to realize what is happening. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.359 Or maybe they do, like maybe they do. Like truthfully, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.440 Zion should have been drafted to the Knicks and Zion 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.280 knew that and somehow again because they probably made a 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.200 deal with the devil, like they got the number one 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.720 pick again and drafted Zion. So then they made a 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.000 bunch of moves this offseason, right, and Griffin tried to 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.000 tell us, oh, these are the moves that are gonna 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.159 take us over the over the edge. We're gonna be 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.960 We're gonna make the playoffs now because remember, like they 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:12.520 have not made the playoffs since it's been years. Honestly, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.400 it's been four or five years since they've made the playoffs. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.800 And look, they none of these moves have mattered. They 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.560 took their only real defensive presence in Steven Adams and 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.400 they moved him out. And that was a team that 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.880 was historically bad at defense. And now a team that 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.200 struggled defensively is still struggling defensively. They're even worse, and 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:38.600 now they can't score. They they they're giving up one 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:43.280 hundred and fourteen points per game and haven't scored one 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.120 hundred in two out of the three games. I'd say 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.880 that point differential is a problem. Right. That was the 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.920 one thing that they were actually good at last year, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.240 and now they're fucking trash at that. They are bad 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.240 at every single thing, which is why they haven't won 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.640 a game yet, and they might actually not even win 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.280 a game until they either play Oklahoma City Houston or 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.520 until Zion returns. Can you see the car accident? What 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:10.360 does all this mean to me? It means trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.480 And according to the recent news that just came out 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.920 two days ago, New Orleans might be headed for a 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.680 fire sale three games in. There are rumors that Josh 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:29.040 Hart is already on the trade block. Josh Hart. Josh 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.640 Hart is twenty six years old. Josh Hart just signed 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.800 to a three year deal a team friendly deal like yesterday, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.760 and yet, according to multiple NBA executives, Hart is now 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.720 on the trade block and the three year deal he 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.920 signed with the Pelicans apparently has made him even more 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:55.000 valuable to other teams. It's almost like David Griffin planned 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:59.640 this from the beginning. He had no intention of not 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:04.680 only keeping Heart but also making the Pelicans a threat 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:09.080 to any playoff contention. And they're not even a playing team, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.280 and I think David Griffin knows that. The question is, 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.800 why is David Griffin putting Josh Hart on the trade market. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:22.040 What are they looking for? Maybe a young athletic wing 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.120 on a team friendly contract that could shoot. Oh, I 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.880 don't know, you mean Josh Hart, Like, that's Josh Hart. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.600 Excuse me, you can't trade Josh Hart for Josh Hart. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:38.120 That don't make no sense. There's only one answer. New 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.520 Orleans is desperate. They're looking for draft picks because, in 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:49.360 my opinion, they too see the car wreck. Zion is 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:54.000 either going to leave to New York most likely if 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.400 New York will have him, or Zion will stay for 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.480 the long term, be on the books for the long 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:05.840 term and not be playing for the long term. Look 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.240 at how they performed so far this year without Zion 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.400 zero and three, with losses to Philly, Chicago, and Minnesota 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.640 by an average of over fourteen points. None of these 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.360 games that looks kind of close, but none of these 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.960 games have been particularly close. In their opening loss to 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.079 the Sixers, valentunis their guy that was supposed to come 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.240 in to help them with scoring, which they didn't need. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:32.320 Shot three for nineteen, three for nineteen. I could shoot 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.400 three for nineteen if I was seven foot I'd do 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.640 better than three for nineteen. I promise you that. And 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.400 people who wondered how Valentinis would work within this offense, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.320 they had a right to be concerned. And that is 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.280 without Zion there, and Zion is the one that fucks 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:55.320 up the spacing. Let's look at it another way. The 0:09:55.360 --> 0:10:00.000 Pelicans went two to nine last season when Zion did 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.840 not play. Their two victories were over Houston. Like I 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.320 told you before, Brock, it was a bad year for Houston. 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.520 They were mailing it in. They lost twenty games in 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.920 a row. It was bad. And that was without John 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.680 Wall and Charlotte, without Mellow or Hayward or Bridges. Okay, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:21.440 so dogshit teams without their quote unquote stars. They might 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.920 be the worst team in the NBA without Zion, like 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.720 they could be the worst. And with Zion they weren't 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.800 even anywhere near the playoffs. And he was bawling the 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.480 fuck out. He was averaging almost thirty So what the 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.760 One of the things that I asked last year that 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.160 went bananas was if Zion is so good, then why 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:49.400 are the Pelicans so trash? This team. I'm sorry to 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.200 say it, but I gotta say it. They're headed for 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.680 a rebuild, whether they like it or not. The crash 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.400 is coming. It's just a matter of time. It's just 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.559 how slow or how fast, whether you react with you don't, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.600 but like it's a matter of how much damage, but 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:07.400 not whether there's gonna be damage. The car wreck is coming, folks, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.800 and the one thing that we know for sure is 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:16.160 that David Griffin will not be surviving this car wreck. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:21.680 Bring out the stretcher and the ambulance. Woo woo, there's 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:28.720 been there's been a casualty, and his name is David Griffin. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.520 Move over, Sacramento. There's a new challenger for the crown 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.520 of the shittiest, most dysfunctional, rotten franchise in the NBA. 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.960 Game of throne style. They're coming. The red wedding is here. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:51.240 Beignets are a plenty early surprises. Everyone's trying to find someone, 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.480 that new franchise player or a collection of stars to 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.439 put them over the top. Franchises that have never done 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:03.640 a goddamn thing and many many years are now telling us, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.040 telling the world they are something. They have found the one, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.840 the new one. A week end of the season, We've 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:15.360 already had some I'll call it interesting surprises. No, I'm 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.280 not talking about the Golden State Warriors and how Jordan 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.760 Poole is going to be the most improved player and 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.960 they're three and zero start that means absolutely not. I mean, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:29.320 nobody except for Golden State knows what the Chicago Bulls 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.400 are feeling right now, which is an undefeated season that 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.000 means absolutely nothing. So no, I'm not gonna walk that 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.680 take back for a month or so. I'm talking about 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.559 the Bulls, the Hornets, and the Kings, all of which 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:48.840 have had fast starts, are lighting up the headlines, Tweets abound, tiktoks, etc. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.160 Everybody's talking about these three teams. There's been a lot 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.320 of doubters, myself included. So let's evaluate these three teams 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.600 and whether what they're doing is meaningful in any way, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:04.439 and why let's start with the Bulls, man. I tell 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.200 you what, there there might not be a team that 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:12.680 people desperately want to be good more than the Chicago Bulls, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:20.960 like the world of NBA fans desperately wants them to succeed. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.480 I get that, Like it's Jordan's team, and when Jordan's 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.079 team is good, all is right in the world. Money 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.520 is a plenty. I mean, people who don't care about 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.160 the NBA at all are like, heyo, Trista, what you 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:40.160 think Vooch Loronzo Demartrosan, what we are saying? What are 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.240 you fucking talking about right now? They don't even know 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.640 what the NBA is. They don't even know who these 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.280 players are except for that it's on the Chicago Tribune. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.280 Like they have no clue what's going on. They believe 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.520 these guys are going to save them. I never thought 0:13:55.559 --> 0:14:00.559 anyone would be so excited about Demarta Rosan and Lonzo 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.320 Ball and Alice Caruso in my life, but here we are, 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:09.080 Like Vooch was the first option for the Orlando Magic, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.960 like please, and the worst part, they're three and zero 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.480 they're three and zero, and now the world is like, hey, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.280 are they good? This is an accomplishment, Look at us, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:26.280 look at the Bulls. The hype train immens the media. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.680 The media is culpable in this really truthfully, because they're 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.280 putting out these headlines that they know aren't true. They 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:37.600 know when they posit Bulls new Era, they know that 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.680 that's a lie, and that's a lie because they watch 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.400 just as much basketball at me. They are part of 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:48.720 this problem this. It's quite unacceptable to me to I 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.080 guess pedal to the world something that you know is 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.040 going to not work out and get their hopes up 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.560 and then let them fall. This is some of the 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.680 headlines that we're talking about right now. Bulls active defensive 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:06.200 identity is contagious. I mean, this team can't play defense, 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.200 Like they don't play defense at all. And there's a 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.480 couple of good blocks against some dogshit teams and now 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:16.080 it's like that defensive identity. Okay, another one quote Dawn 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.640 of a New Era, new look Bulls fire on all 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:24.640 cylinders and home opener, all the cylinders were firing. I 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.840 hate to burst your bubble, but uh, you just beat 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.320 Detroit that were the worst team in the NBA last year. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.200 They were the number one pick in this draft, and 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.320 you beat them barely without that player, Kate Cunningham. And 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:45.200 then the other team that you beat, the most dysfunctional 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.680 team in the league, New Orleans Pelicans, the one the 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.200 team that I just said was the team that people 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.840 get excited about and they hang their head on that win, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.320 and that win means nothing because nobody knows yet the 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:01.000 New Orleans Pelicans are a fucking disaster. So what's game two? 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.000 You beat the Pelicans and people still think it's the 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.560 Pelicans because of the name, but that doesn't mean anything. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.240 Those wins mean nothing. That means And by the way, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.320 there was no Zion, So Pistons twice with no Kid, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:20.560 Pelicans without Zion, the Josh heartless led Pelicans. I mean, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.440 the people are desperate, Like I get that. The Bulls 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.800 haven't been good since Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose and 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.480 before that Michael Jordan. Both those guys ended up not 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.280 wanting to even be their long term, which I totally understand. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.760 It's like heartbreak and you need something to give you hope, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.360 And I get it, like you haven't had hope in 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.960 a while. Things have been bad, like the the gar 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.160 form in age. You know, things have just been real dysfunctional. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.680 You talk about dysfunctional, they have been dysfunctional. But I 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.560 beg you please don't say that the Bulls are gonna 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.320 be a four seed, Like, please, don't try to peddle 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.960 me some bullshit that they're gonna be able to beat 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.720 the Bucks or the Nets, or the Heat or even 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.400 the Charlotte Hornets in a seven game series, like, please 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.920 try your very best to not try to say that 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.960 Jannis is in any way concerned about the Chicago Bulls 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:14.320 because he is not. Take a gander at the schedule, folks, Please, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.439 after you've played the Nets, the Knicks, the Jazz, the Celtics, Sixers, MAVs, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.800 and the Warriors, Clippers and the Lakers, please come talk 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.960 to me November fifteenth, after your West Coast road trip 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:32.639 when you're I don't know, four and twelve. My early 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:37.480 reaction is that they're fun. Attract them, They're fun, they're attractive. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:43.040 We'll call them the makeup gorgeous, not wake up gorgeous 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.960 type of team, right like they are an Iowa seven 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.040 who got their makeup done at Sephora, their hair done. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.199 They go to the club, you take them home, You're like, 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.439 she's kind of hot. Strip off all those random layers 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.240 of makeup and those fake lashes, and it's like wolf Man. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.320 Not only is she not attractive, she also lacks depth 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:09.240 and substance. In other words, the Chicago Bulls are cat 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:15.320 fishing the entire NBA. Yes, sir, don't worry, folks, I 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.200 have a trained eye for these things. I know what 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.080 a sexy team with substance and depth looks like. The 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.399 Chicago Bulls, like I said, they are in Iowa seven 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:29.840 at best. I'll let you know if things change, but 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.440 don't get your hopes up. Let's talk about the Hornets 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.919 and Michael Jordan for a second. Here's a quick potential 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.480 thought that I don't necessarily know if I believe, But 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.560 maybe mj wasn't actually a bad owner. Maybe he just 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:51.040 never found the right talent that fit into his maniacal 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.840 style that he needed from a star until now. Maybe 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.520 he never found a guy that he wanted to build 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.399 a team around because all these young guns are soft 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.560 as hell and they're too worried about their ig shit. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:08.359 Then getting back into the gym possibility, I don't actually 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:13.600 know if that's true, but now it's possible. But this 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.480 Hornet's team is fun, it's sexy, and what took them 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.320 over the top and what mj is salivating over now 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.920 is one hundred percent LaMelo Ball. Michael Jordan, the owner, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.760 potentially has been waiting for a player with like LaMelo 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.280 Ball for his entire career. LaMelo is, He's kind of 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.199 like a throwback in my opinion. Lamello is is just 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.800 cut differently, cut like a guy from the eighties and 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.680 the nineties. And there is nothing that Michael Jordan likes 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:47.280 more than players that remind him of himself. Like truthfully, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.760 here here is how we know that Lamello is cut different. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.479 The Athletic recently discussed how LaMelo took one of the 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.679 most aggressive possible approaches to coming back from his broken 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:02.480 wrist last year. Why, you may ask, Apparently he saw 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.479 the Hornets drop off of a cliff when he and 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.359 Gordon Hayward went down and knew their postseason chances were 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.320 fading so fast that he sped up his rehab process 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.679 from a year to five weeks. He should have been 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:16.320 out for the year. They should have shut him down, 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.040 and they were going to shut him down. And by 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:19.880 the way, if he was playing for the Utah Jazz 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.120 right now, he probably still even wouldn't be playing basketball. 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.320 Asked Donovan Mitchell about that, Like Donovan Mitchell like twisted 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.359 his ankle on a curb and sat out two games 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.320 of the playoffs, like that is the Utah Jazz. But 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.960 LaMelo was like, fuck this bullshit, Like I am going 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.680 to come back early, and instead of being shut down 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.520 for the year, he made a playoff push and on 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.880 top of everything else, his winning mentality. He also which 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:50.280 Michael Jordan also loves, is loyal. He now says he 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.200 doesn't want to switch teams. He said, I still feel 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.560 like I have that old mentality that they had back 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.000 in the day, even with switching teams and stuff. They 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.560 never used to do that. You go to one team 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.960 and you stay there. Oh my god. If you're Michael Jordan, 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.359 you've got to just be like, oh my god, like 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.560 insert Leonardo DiCaprio, like teeth to the fist, oh my, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:14.400 oh my god, LaMelo ball. And I have to say, 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.000 as an aside, like the Warriors made a big mistake 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.919 not drafting him. But these are the types of quotes, 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.080 These are the types of actions. This is the kind 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:28.320 of kid that makes Michael Jordan, you know, in a 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.960 matter of words, we'll say, go from six to twelve 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.760 in like two seconds, right like he wants to hear 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.520 nothing more than I will stay with you forever, and 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.680 I will grind my body down to dust for four 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:48.320 more wins until I retire like Kobe. And now the 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:52.000 Hornets threno for the first time in franchise history. They 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.040 came back from twenty three points in the second half 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.960 against Indiana. Guess what LaMelo was the reason? Of course, 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.000 twelve points during a twenty four zero, twenty four to 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.160 zero run in the third quarter. What does that mean? 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.720 Taking the game over by yourself when the rest of 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.600 the team is struggling, putting the team on your back 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:13.440 like a hard rock. Does that sound like anybody to you? 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:17.560 And now he's getting other players to buy in like 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.040 Michael did too. Remember Michael Jordan was like, listen, I'm 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.240 not gonna play with scrubs, like you need to give 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.080 me your one hundred percent or I'm going to fuck 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.879 you up. Miles Bridge is now balling out. James Brago, 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.760 head coach, just said after the win against Brooklyn, Miles 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:36.720 is playing with tenacity, Kevin guarding Kevin Durant then driving 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.960 to score on the other end. I mean, folks, they 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.080 are all buying in. This is the team, This is 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:48.880 the mentality, This is the star that Jordan the player, 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:53.959 Jordan the manager, Jordan the owner has dreamed of his 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.440 entire life. And so yeah, I don't think wins over Brooklyn, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:00.919 Cleveland and Indiana necessarily mean this team's gonna be like 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.400 a three seed in the stacked East. Like how far 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:08.919 could they go? I don't know, man, Like they can 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.880 beat anyone on any given night. I said this last year. 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:14.480 They were my league past team of the Year last 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:19.280 year and they're even better now. All of that to say, 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:22.000 people call me a hater, but I have nice things 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:26.720 to say too. With Mellow running the team, the future 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:32.000 is extremely bright, and Charlotte maybe more bright. Another team 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:34.320 of the teams in the league that actually looks good 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:40.359 right now, surprisingly good despite all of the twenty five 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.240 years of dysfunction and the trade rumors in the offseason. 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:47.560 A number two pick who's a boss. They're not even 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:49.720 playing him very many minutes. He wants to be traded, 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:54.680 They won't trade him. They're benching him. Terrible coach, cheapest 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:59.480 hell franchise, like talking about the dysfunctional of dysfunctional, the 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:05.240 Sacramental Kings, the Sacramento Kings, My golly, look good. I 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:07.480 don't know what to say. I don't know. I didn't 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:10.439 see it coming, and it is only three games in, 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:15.360 so I reserve the right to say it's fluid. It's fluid. 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.960 But Luke Walton right now, I tell you what, Luke 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:21.600 Walton is in a unique position because he is like 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:27.639 Luke Walton's kind of like that tenured professor that knows 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:31.040 his ass can't be fired, so he just doesn't give 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:34.480 a fuck anymore. Like he's I am going to do 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:39.439 whatever I want because what it? What are you gonna do? 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:42.320 What are you gonna do? I'm gonna try new things. 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:45.479 I'm gonna draft an undersized guard out of Baylor, even 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.000 though I have three other guards, Like I might even 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:49.520 put him on the floor at the same time. You 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:55.679 know what, let's get crazy. Let's experiment. I mean it's working. 0:24:56.600 --> 0:25:01.280 Having no pressure to be good at your job is liberating. 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:05.240 I mean I've been doing that for the last five years. Honestly, 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:07.840 what are you gonna do? Who else are you gonna 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:10.200 get Honestly, you're gonna find another girl who likes sports. Get. 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:16.200 I doubt that you've got the freedom to experiment, of course, 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:21.760 like soberly, maybe you've got fun literally no stress at 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:30.439 potentially having accountability for doing things under expectations like if 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:33.679 you what, you try your new innovative approach, If it 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:39.560