WEBVTT - DMs, Quadruple Double Laker Trouble & Cavs Looking Good 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.439 On this episode of The Heat Check, we talk about 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 the Lakers meltdown against the Oklahoma City Thunder. What that 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.760 means for the Purple and Gold going forward? Oh, no things. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:31.440 You as a Portland Trailblazer just hate to see the 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.880 most Russell Westbrook game I've ever seen in my whole life. 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.040 We delve into the new look calves, are they real? 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.440 Are they fake? And we also get into some questions 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.400 from the d MS. So let's drop that motherfucker be 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:58.240 Things are going swimmingly in Boston, aren't they first week 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.720 of the season. The more thing change, the more things stay, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.839 the motherfucker saying, get rid of Danny Ains, you fire 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.959 Brad Stevens, you move him up to the top of 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.600 the food chain, you hire a brand new coach. It's 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.760 supposed to be a hard rock basically shit talking as 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.720 players anytime they do anything wrong, and you know what, 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.240 do you get everything the same? 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.440 Celtics are two and three to start the season, and 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.000 other than the fact that their head coach emy Udoka 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.679 can't figure out who's gonna be in the lineup, there 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.640 are two big reasons why things. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.440 Are going so wrong. One, I mean, if you know me, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.240 you know what the number one reason is. It's Marcus Smart. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.160 I've been saying for a very long time, Marcus Smart's 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:48.440 gotta go. Marcus Smart is not a point guard that 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:55.360 any winning franchise should have starting leading or being paid. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:00.840 Marcus Smart should not be paid this much money. I 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.760 say you should trade him, and everybody's like, just a, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.480 you're crazy, You're so mean. He's the life blood, he's 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.320 the culture, he is the heart and soul. He is 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.840 a chucker. He is a bona fide chucker. I don't 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.920 know if you know what that word means, but it 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.040 means he takes a million shots and they don't go 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:23.480 in and he keeps on chucking. What did I fucking 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.160 say is exact same player who's a old Marcus Smart looks 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.840 amazing and training camp, he looks phenomenal. He's shooting well, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:35.000 he's slashing, he's playmaking. Heat is our guy. The dude 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.079 is shooting twenty three percent from three right now, he's 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:43.200 shooting seven threes a game. A guy shooting twenty three 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.760 percent from three that's not in a slump should be 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.560 taking zero. Three's a game, not seven. And it's like 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.600 a good thing that that Marcus Smart is you know, 0:02:55.400 --> 0:03:00.000 balancing out his three point shooting woes with being a leader, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.280 leading from the front, you know, not like missing flights 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.399 or anything like that. After signing his massive contract, having 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.440 to be suspended for a game, like, it's not like 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:13.840 he does that systematically. And then secondarily, the next problem 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.000 is my guy, Jaylen Brown, who I really hate to 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.959 say anything negative about because he's just honestly a consummate pro, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.720 but he is such a roller coaster maybe the most 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.200 inconsistent player in the NBA up and down. His new 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.079 coach Ime Udoka just blew him up in the press 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.720 about how much of a roller coaster ride. Jalen Brown is. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:42.400 Forty six in the opener against the Knicks. That's like, okay. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.200 Everybody was saying Jalen Brown look good in preseason as well. Okay, 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.840 if we're getting forty six and the opener in double overtime, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.840 you got me. Then the next game nine against the Raptors. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.080 Then the next game he sat with niss soreness. That's 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:02.480 not good. Thirty against the Rockets, and then thirteen against 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:08.560 the Washington Wizards. Welcome, folks to the Jayleen Brown experience. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.360 You never know. Betting Jalen Brown is something you don't 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.839 want to do. That prop is a nightmare. Imai Udoka 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:22.279 said this about Brown. He described his inconsistency as kind 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:27.120 of mind boggling that honestly, I had to look back 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.479 to make sure that we were talking about the same thing, like, Oh, no, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.599 you do not want your head coach to describe your 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.600 play as mind boggling when it comes to negative things 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.960 like you want him to be like man, his playmaking 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.719 is mind boggling. Like the things he can do, I 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.800 don't even know how to comprehend or put it together 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.760 into my brain. No, no, no, your inconsistency as a 0:04:54.880 --> 0:05:00.240 pro basketball player is actually makes my brain hurt like 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.720 I had a slurpee from seven to eleven. It's more 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:09.840 mind boggling than that. He said this. It's tough. I 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.599 see his inconsistency as well. Yeah, I bet you do. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.240 I bet you do. I'm trying to ramp them up 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.160 during the game, pump them up to get going. Are 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.880 you kidding? Excuse me? Are you kidding me? Did he 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.800 just say I'm trying to pump him up during this? Guy? 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:32.440 Are you serious when your coach is saying I'm trying 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.039 to find new motivational tactics throughout the game to get 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.200 my star player going. And I'm struggling to find solutions 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.600 to be effective at that thing for him to be 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.479 consistent on the floor. That does not seem to be 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.200 a winning formula to me. The world wanted to know 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.240 whether Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum function well together, and 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.120 I have said for a very long time the answer 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.000 is no. Man, I don't know which one needs to go, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.520 but it does feel like it's en. Jalen is way 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.680 too talented to need to be cheered at, yelled at. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.440 Is it carrot? Is it stick? Is it forty percent carrot? 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.240 Is it sixty percent carrot? Like you're literally trying to 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.520 find You've got Eme Udoka the fucking alchemist over here 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.640 trying to find like a potent cocktail of how to 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:25.320 motivate Jalen Brown. Folks, I'm not even making this up. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.720 This is comedy. This is not a great sign when 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.280 a guy who should score it well will needs sets 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.080 run for him in order to get him going. Udoka 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.479 said he thinks Jalen should get to the line early 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:44.200 to get his mindset going. Are you fucking serious? Name 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:48.440 me another all star that needs that besides Ben Simmons. Well, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.080 actually that's probably the actual antidote for that. I mean 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.240 this is that's the opposite. Like Jalen when he is on, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:02.159 he's unstoppable. But there's something going on now because there's 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.760 no other elite players going from forty to nine to 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.200 twenty seven to four, like that's just not in a 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.800 span of like a week. So this to me means 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.400 yet again things you hate to see, more uncertainty in Boston. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.680 Let's be honest, things aren't and they aren't going to 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.600 be good this season. This is not a team that's 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:32.040 going to contend, truthfully, Like everyone's laughing at them. Everyone's 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.360 laughing at you, Boston, Like you've got Jason Tatum and 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.920 Jaylen Brown and everyone's laughing at you. You are a 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:44.800 fucking joke. You are Jokeville, USA. The roster is strange, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.240 Your GM is a mess. When Dennis shrewd, When Dennis 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:56.240 Dennis fucking Shrewder is your bright spot. You are inrouble. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:02.000 Trouble more news around world. Speaking of teams in trouble, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.760 did you see the Lakers last night? Oh my god? 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.480 Without Lebron, Now we know what the Lakers are they suck? 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.680 I mean I've known that, we've known that. I mean, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.640 you don't want to be like the one standing on 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.400 the rock too early, but you don't want to be 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.880 too late. And we've all sort of known this was coming. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.840 And before the Lakers played the Oklahoma City Thunder, I 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.880 knew something was off because Vegas had the line at five. Okay, 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.520 let me just be very direct. The Rockets beat the 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:43.040 Oklahoma City Thunder. Bye, I want to say over thirty 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.719 points yep, ninety one to one, twenty four. Okay, So 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.520 the Houston Rockets, no one's expecting a goddamn thing from 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.920 They beat them by over thirty points. Okay. So then 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.920 the line for Vegas Los Angeles Lakers five points without Lebron. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:03.000 I'm like, this is sus something is either very disrespectful, 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.880 which I love. I love when Vegas disrespects the Lakers 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.199 because Russ is cooking without brawn and Anthony Davis is 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.640 gonna play. And yeah, they immediately came out swinging up 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.679 almost thirty with a ninety nine percent chance of winning 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.400 at halftime. And and folks, they lost that game. They 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.880 lost that game. The Lakers lost Wi WO Lakers lost 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:31.320 to the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was so embarrassing. You 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.480 had multiple Hall of Famers, former Lakers being like, these 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.080 motherfuckers need to hit the Greyhound, Like we shouldn't even 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.000 let them take the team plane. I didn't make that out. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:45.320 That's a real quote. They blew a twenty six point 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.120 lead against the worst team in the NBA, and it 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.640 was delicious. It was. It was a prototypical, prototypical Russ game. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:59.760 Twenty points, fourteen rebounds, thirteen assists, and oh boy, yes, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:07.200 ten turnovers, a quadruple double. You got it. Do you 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.880 know how embarrassing that is? You are the Los Angeles 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:17.640 Lakers losing to a team actively trying to tank. I 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.720 don't even be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Trista, it's one game. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.120 You can't see it's rock bottom. It's game five. But 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.440 this team has too many problems right now for me 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.679 not to say you are fucked. You can't defend your 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.439 twenty fifth ranked overall. You gave up all your defenders, 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.079 Alice Cruzo, CACP, basically everybody who's now on the Wizards. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.160 They are also You are also a awful shooting team. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:48.400 You cannot shoot at all. Lebron James is your best shooter. Yuck, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:53.080 that's true. You have atrocious spacing. You're pretty tiny outside 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.320 of Trevor Ariza and your little like the cute Dwight 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.360 Howard DeAndre Jordan thing where they don't really even play. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.400 And these issues are not easy to fix. You brought 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.080 in a bunch of twenty twelve all stars on league minimums. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:10.120 Can't defend their prime, so they can't defend Now. You 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.480 can't stop runs from other teams. You're way too streaky. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.760 You cannot shoot. You shot sixty eight percent in the 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.040 first quarter against Okay, see them brick the rest of 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:23.200 the game. My guy Carmelo Anthony had an open three, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.400 wide open three to tie the game and miss that 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.040 motherfucker by three feet. He literally didn't even hit rim, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.960 didn't even hit net Scheck said that that was the 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.360 worst miss in Carmelo Anthony's career. You got a guy 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.000 named Reeves. Have you ever heard of him? I haven't. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:47.240 He's getting twenty minutes a game. Reeves some random generic 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.880 player two k my player white boy that you've never 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.800 seen before. Reeves, Like, that's not a fake, that's not 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:01.400 a real person. Kent Bazemore is starting Baysmore was a 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:07.480 laughing stock of a lottery team in Golden State. Avery Bradley, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.480 who was waived by Golden State, is also getting significant minutes. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.600 This is comical. This is so bad. But no one. 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.840 Everybody's like, la la la la la la la, it's fine, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:24.240 a la la, We got Lebron. You are terrible. Russell Westbrook. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.440 Russell Westbrook wants to run wind sprints for forty eight minutes. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.200 No one can keep up. Literally, like, Russ, can you 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.640 fucking slow down so we can catch these passes from you? No, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.200 you need to catch up with me. He even said 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.920 that they're just learning my speed. No one has ever 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.720 known your speed. Russ, You're a Tasmanian devil. Literally, that'd 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.000 be like you saying Bolt being like, they're just learning 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.120 my speed. They just gotta keep up. No one is 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.880 keeping up. Listen. La has done exactly nothing to assuage 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.720 anyone's doubts. What are they done in the preseason? Are 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.840 in their first five games that gives any Laker fan 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.320 hope that this is gonna work out? Oh Russ picked 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.080 up a technical foul at the end of the game 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.320 because the Lakers were so lazy that with four seconds 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.240 left to go, they just like threw an inbound pass, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:15.160 just wild, so lazy. Darius Baisley intercepted it like a 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.440 dB in open space and dunked no time left. And 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.320 Russ was like, that's fucking garbage. No, no, Russ, let 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:27.199 me tell you what's garbage. You are garbage. This is 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.680 what we said. We're old school. When shit like that happens, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.400 I don't let it slide. I take it on the 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.840 chin and move on. In the game of basketball, there's 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.760 certain things you don't do. Then there's certain things you 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.360 don't do in sports. Games already over and I didn't 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.720 like it, simple as that. You know what I don't like. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:47.840 I don't like unwritten rules. I don't like poor sports. You, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:53.040 Russell Westbrook, are offensive. Not the move that pass was offensive, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:57.280 that fourth quarter was offensive, your second half offensive. All 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.800 of the moves that the Lakers made in the offseason 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:05.360 absolutely disrespectfully offensive. So if you want to get mad, Russ, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.000 get mad at your ten turnovers. I don't know, get 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.680 mad at Carmel Anthony airballing a tying three by three 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.920 feet or Malik wont going one for five from three, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.040 or I don't know, just all of the moves that 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.920 Rob Plink has made. Lebron cannot be happy watching this 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.480 shit show in his little crop top sweater. He cannot 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.360 be happy with that. He's got to be planning out 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.960 a new movie like Space Jam four has gotta be 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:34.960 on the way. He's like, I'm just trying to get 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.880 Brony into the league. Honestly, I could retire right now. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.200 Five games in he's not even playing. His ankle injury 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.200 that he said he would never be one hundred percent 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.760 again is now already giving him fits after he didn't 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.280 play basketball for an entire two months during the offseason, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.400 said he never touched a basketball so that he could 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.400 fully rehab, get back in shape, get back to one 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:03.440 hundred percent, and now he's out with the same fucking injury. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.680 Rot Row buckle up, Blaker fans. It is going to 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.560 be delightfully disastrous in La La Land. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:14.640 Mine is coming. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:19.040 So I'm just like high school. I'm still out there 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:24.440 getting cuter a social networks. Oh boy, we gotta talk 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:29.720 about the Calves. Gotta talk about him. Fool me once, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.960 Shame on me for me once, Shame on you, fool 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.880 me twice. Can't get full again as George Buce says, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.320 it's it's a week into the season and they look good. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:46.040 Calves look good. I was though, duped before, folks, I 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.200 have been duped by the Calves. They I ate the garbage. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.360 Last year they were four and two and I was like, oh, yeah, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:58.440 sex Land, sex Land's fucking amazing. Darius Garland, Colin Sexton, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.720 you put them together, sex That's the best backcourt name 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.480 of all time. I am fucking in, get me season two. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.560 It's the Calves games. No, then they proceeded to go 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.240 out and like win I don't know, twenty five games. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.000 So yeah, that wasn't a great prediction. Not all my 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.520 predictions are. So now that the Calves are three and 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.520 two and on a three game winning streak, they beat 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:25.520 the Clippers, the Nuggets and the Hawks, holy shit, and 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.800 how do you do what they ask? Was it sex Land? 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.640 It was not sex Land. They had held all of 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.680 those teams, all of those high flying teams, under one 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.800 hundred points. The Hawks and Trey Young had ninety five 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.120 points you'll catch and the Nuggets at home scored eighty seven. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.800 Paul George and the Clippers, who scored a measily seventy 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.080 nine points. I mean, the Clippers had that many points 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.600 through the third quarter against the Blazers. So yeah, this 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.880 is a different team, a different style of play. What 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.120 are they doing. They're doing something that I don't know 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:04.080 nobody crazy or brave enough has done. They've rolled out 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.360 three or four seven footers at the same damn time 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.679 on the floor. All of these seven footers though, like 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.480 you would think, Okay, how does this work? I mean 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.200 that's what I thought. All of these seven footers are different. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.560 They all have different skill sets and because of that, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.920 they're spacing the floor really well. And listen, and I 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.000 didn't see it coming. Have you ever seen like a 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:30.240 series of individual decisions that just didn't make sense and 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.520 you're like questioning every single piece of the puzzle until 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.199 they come together and you're like, oh, that was that. Like, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.280 you got Jared Allen into trade, you locked them down 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.239 long term. Nice piece, but you did already have uh, 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.359 Andre Drummond and Larry Nann's junior and Kevin Love getting 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:52.159 paid like thirty million dollars a year. Then okay, you 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.320 get rid of Andre Drummond, you keep Kevin Love's fat ass, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.520 then you draft Evan Mobley. It's like well that I 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.480 don't know. Uh, what are they doing? This is the 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.240 most calves move I've ever seen. You already have Jared Allen. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.159 Why would you need Evan Mobley? Like everybody knows, like 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.639 Southern California players like they don't hold up. And then 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:19.919 and then inexplicably signed Lowry Marketing in free agency, and 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.840 then it was like I am starting to self destruct. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.720 I really do not know how to comprehend what they 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.440 are doing in their heads? What is going through their mind? 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.960 What are you doing Cleveland? How is this spacing gonna be? 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.720 Who is who is gonna be out? What position? You 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:40.679 literally have two spots for five guys? What where are 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.720 you putting Lowry Marketing? He can't defend anybody. Larry Marketing 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.879 is a trash ass defended defender. Well, if he's a 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.040 four or five, he's trash. If you use him at 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.360 the three spot, he's a fucking demon. How is Mobiley 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.760 going to guard bigger fives? Are you really gonna put 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.919 him on the floor at the same time? Like, are 0:18:59.920 --> 0:19:04.199 you playing three big men? What's happening with Kevin Love? Like, 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.280 but somehow, some way, Jared Allen at the five, Evan 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.320 Mobley at the four, and Laurie Markin at the three 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:19.560 is actually somehow maybe unguardable, like maybe unscoring on them able. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.640 People are noticing. So when asked about the all big lineup, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.159 Jared Allen said this in the post game, because they 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.040 are running through teams. Well, we just have a lot 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.920 of versatility that can bring us far. I'm the defensive guy. 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.080 Evans the rookie of the year, gonna be I want 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.200 him to be. And Laurie can shoot the hell out 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.359 of the ball. So you got a rim protector. You 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.680 got a huge athletic wing like Chris Bosh and Evan Mobley, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.399 and he can cause havo. A sharp shooter, he can 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.760 gun over any small ford in the league. And then 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.159 they are meshing. In their three game winning streak. The 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:57.400 trio has combined for twenty blocks and steals. All three 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:02.520 are averaging double digits on offense. Nick Batum was in 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:07.800 prison against Devin Mobley. He's like, Yo, they got marking 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.880 In at the three. I mean that's unusual for sure, 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.199 a seven footer, but you know we gotta face that 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.359 to win a game. Mobley's doing great things for yesterday, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:18.919 He's like, I don't know, what you want me to do? 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.000 Like he's seven feet tall. I'm six' eight And i'm playing. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:29.200 Five he is a three nick batum in the age 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.560 of small, ball is LIKE i don't even know what 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.720 to do with, This like this dude shouldn't even be 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.840 on the floor in small ball, lineups and they are getting. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.000 Mirked hard to get rebounds when three, long athletic seven 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.560 foot monsters are boxing your ass, out and The clippers 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:51.400 did get out rebounded fifty seven to thirty. Six hard 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:53.360 to get your shot off over someone with an eight 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.000 foot winkspan is like a step. Back he puts these 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.880 like steps four, one and you are blocked even. Worse 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.119 trying to get a ball off around the. Rim imagine 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.720 imagine crossing over cooking somebody getting past the seven foot 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.920 Of you're feeling real. Good you get to the lane 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.119 and there's another seven foot right behind, him and then 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:17.919 another seven foot right behind, him an impenetrable. Wall, demons. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.320 Demons then you add In Ricky, rubio who seems to 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.040 have found Some he's The Collin sexton, whisperer apparently like 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:29.520 he's Like, colin pass the, Ball. Colin everyone's making fun of. 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.800 You colin if you want to be, paid you gotta 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.880 play like. This you can't just be chucking from half 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.760 court whenever you. Want we got three other guys, here 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.600 and then you've Got Kevin love shockingly. RESURGING i don't 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.959 know what he's. Doing eleven seven and, Three that is. 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:49.520 ME i am super. CONFUSED i stayed up all night 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:53.920 last night looking For cavaliers podcasts On. Spotify turns out 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.200 there's not many of. Them there's not a lot Of cavaliers. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.600 Breakdown so what do we make of? THEM i don't. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.800 Know they are like the real Life, monstars that's what they. 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:07.399 Are imagine if The monstars came to, life came To 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:12.720 earth and then put ON i think they call it. Wine, Wine, 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:17.679 yeah wine and. Gold because last YEAR i bought in. 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.320 PREDICTABLY i ate the garbage in The. Calves they hurt. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.320 Me they made me look. Ridiculous people still in my 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.240 mention being like when you thought The calves were, Good, 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:30.320 ah you're, stupid you, know like ten year, old who's 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:33.280 here for The? Calves when they win twenty, games like 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.320 you think they've turned the. Corner but it's, like really 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:37.520 they just Have Dan gilbert as their owner and they 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:41.480 go back to their stupid. Ways but you, know even 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.639 Though i'm a child of, TRAUMA i want to BELIEVE 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.159 i have optimism in my. Soul and this feels. DIFFERENT 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:50.639 i feel like they could have turned a. Corner but 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.959 let's wait another couple of weeks and check, back because 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:57.600 it Is cleveland AND i have been fooled. 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.280 BEFORE i got a question. 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:06.080 Five all, right let's get into some. Dms it's been 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:09.960 a while since we've done. This let's do. It who 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:13.720 is the funniest player in THE nba right? Now, well 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:18.360 there's only one player that comes to, mind just provides constant. 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:23.159 Hilarity constant he gives Zero. Fox this guy like he 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:28.320 will cuss right to the. Media it's almost like that pr. 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:32.640 Person they never quite got To, aunt you, know they 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.000 never quite got to, him or they did and he was, like, 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:37.800 YEAH i, know, no baby, GIRL i got, This LIKE 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:43.359 i got. This he's just joyfully blissfully disregarding all the 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.600 like quote unquote suggestions that are really requirements on like 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.359 how to deal with. Us, so, yeah no one gives 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:55.440 funnier quotes Than Aunt. Edwards this is What aunt had 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.159 to say throughout the. Year the most recent one was 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:00.600 about The wolves. Defense how do you feel about The 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:03.840 wolves defense this? Year? Aunt, man we walk we will walk. 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:06.959 UP i don't care what anybody says about. Us we 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:09.159 play the best defense in the. League AND i stamp. 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.639 That he starts. Laughing we gonna have two three people 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.200 on all defense AND i might be one of. THEM i, mean, 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:17.800 yeah we Let giannis get, forty but we still, won 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:23.800 so our game plan kind of worked for. Show so, yeah, Uh, 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.520 aunt what do you think About yannis scoring forty sixteen and. Seven, 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:29.160 well you, know with a guy like, that you can't 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:32.080 stress about him. Scoring that's what he's gonna. Do motherfucker's 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:35.840 like seven to two and eighty. Pounds, shit she and 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:38.520 we put four people on him and they'll still score the. Ball, 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:45.359 like what are you talking? About? Aunt? Edwards, Hey, aunt 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:47.879 we notice that you're always bringing the guys. Up how 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:49.560 do you how do you make sure that the team 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.840 brings the same. Energy, WELL i talk my shit before the. 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.240 GAME i put on, rap put on put on a 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:58.000 little baby. Wrap the lyrics that'll get everybody. Hype we, 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:01.919 up it's time to. Go you read him and you're just, 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:04.080 like this is these are real. Lyrics these are not the. 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:07.960 Onion they asked him About wancho hern And gomez's. Shooting, 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:12.800 Yeah Wan wancho can shoot the piss off the. Ball 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:15.200 he can shoot the hell out the. BALL i Tell, 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:17.879 wanho if you can catch the ball open and don't shoot, 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:21.399 it you losing. Money that's, easy that's. Simple that's what 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:25.960