Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check. The playoffs are
Speaker 1: in full swing. We've got a rivalry, well, we've got
Speaker 1: the rivalry continuing between Damian Willard and Tyrese Halliburton. Yikes,
Speaker 1: the Grizz. Everybody was like, oh the Grizzle. How was
Speaker 1: it gonna be? They lose by fifty one. Okay, see
Speaker 1: what happened to Okay, see not being dangerous. Hope remains
Speaker 1: eternal in Memphis. I then give my final take. I'm done.
Speaker 1: This is the moment. I'm done talking about MVP. But
Speaker 1: I have my final conclusion after game one. I reserve
Speaker 1: my right to change my mind, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: And some news from around the league along with kind
Speaker 1: of what we had happened in some of these game
Speaker 1: ones by your Self segment on how we're feeling about
Speaker 1: some of these underdog teams. They got their ass full
Speaker 1: so much to talk about, Why so drop that motherfucking beat.
Speaker 1: This should be Rihanna. You're listening to The Hottest, The Hottest.
Speaker 1: It'd be a podcast out here. I said what I said.
Speaker 1: It's the segment one is getting spicy, That's what it is,
Speaker 1: cooking up in the kitchen, cooking up in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: You know what's cooking up? Dame versus Halliburton. The Pacers
Speaker 1: one of the sneaky, hottest teams post All Star Break.
Speaker 1: You know what everybody's like, are they for real? We
Speaker 1: got Yannis? No Dame. Dame's on the bench with his DVT.
Speaker 1: He's coming back though he's coming back anyways, was like, oh,
Speaker 1: they got y honest, he's third and he stirred in
Speaker 1: MVP voting. They've got all these other role players. I
Speaker 1: don't even know the role players, honestly, Gary Trent Junior,
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior, What you doing there, baby, Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a second. Anyway, The Pacers,
Speaker 1: who are deeper than the corn bread in my pan,
Speaker 1: they came out blaze. I don't even have an algorithm,
Speaker 1: don't I don't have an analogy for it. Anyway, they
Speaker 1: came out blaze and stop laughing at me. Up twenty
Speaker 1: three at halftime, the Pacers did coasted from there. It
Speaker 1: was really never a game. Pascal Siakam was in his bag.
Speaker 1: He had twenty five, seven and two, Jannis had thirty six,
Speaker 1: twelve and one. But the real star story here, really
Speaker 1: the real story is that the starters torched Milwaukee starter
Speaker 1: starters seventy five or seventy eight to fifty and Kyle Kuzma,
Speaker 1: who you traded for in the deadline, the trade deadline
Speaker 1: to be some sort of I don't know, panacea for
Speaker 1: this fucking terrible trash hazz team. He's on the Bucks now, yes,
Speaker 1: not on the Wizards and not on the Lakers. He
Speaker 1: is a playoff club trillion and if you don't know
Speaker 1: what a club trillion, and it is zero across the board,
Speaker 1: and for somebody who played over twenty minutes, it's hard
Speaker 1: to do. What did Doc Rivers say? Kyle Kuzma just
Speaker 1: needed more touches? That was what it was. Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: always be on some bullshit. So we get to the drama,
Speaker 1: because that's really what this is about. Because the Bucks
Speaker 1: are dead. Can we just say the Bucks, I don't
Speaker 1: care when Dame's coming back, Damon game two, damon game four,
Speaker 1: Dame put up fifty nifty, he'd be thrifty pacers and five.
Speaker 1: That's just what I'm trying to say, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Anyway, So we get to the drama. Because
Speaker 1: the Bucks are dead. They're headed for a full repuild
Speaker 1: in my opinion, late in the fourth quarter, both teams
Speaker 1: including coaches, got into it at half court because they
Speaker 1: don't really like each other at all. There was a
Speaker 1: simmering beef. Remember Tyrese Halliburton was doing the Dame time
Speaker 1: and then Dame was like, oh yeah, it was so flattering,
Speaker 1: and then Dame was like, actually, I'm not cool with this.
Speaker 1: I fucking I don't like it. Pisses me the fuck off.
Speaker 1: I don't like that, and in fact I got something
Speaker 1: for that ass basically. And then remember Jannis Jonas. Remember
Speaker 1: Yannis dropped sixty four on Indiana and the Pacer staffer
Speaker 1: tried to steal the game ball. I think it was
Speaker 1: the ref really, and then they elbowed the GM in
Speaker 1: the ribcage and he had a bruise rib all because
Speaker 1: the Pacers wanted to give the game ball to the
Speaker 1: rookie Oscar to sheb Way for his first in game
Speaker 1: of like bucket. But also I think it was the
Speaker 1: first time he actually played NBA minutes and there's just
Speaker 1: some mini melee. Jannis looked like a fucking madman had
Speaker 1: to be restrained. That was how weird it was. James
Speaker 1: Johnson was like, yo, do I need to kill someone?
Speaker 1: So this is not basketball, it's layered, it's petty, and
Speaker 1: it's on. So any way, back to game one, So
Speaker 1: Dam in street clothes for who knows why, chripping from
Speaker 1: the bench. Haliburton's talking back. At one point the cameras
Speaker 1: caught game saying, keep talking and I'll drop a track
Speaker 1: on your ass. I don't know, Dame, it's getting it's
Speaker 1: getting a little late early on for you. Like the
Speaker 1: credibility for Dames taking a hit. I really have to say,
Speaker 1: the cool factor, of the credibility factor, of the respect factor,
Speaker 1: all of it has taken a big fall off since
Speaker 1: going to Milwaukee, probably because you're just in Milwaukee, you
Speaker 1: know where it's just cheese. Anyway, it would have been
Speaker 1: hit a lot harder if he wasn't in his Louis
Speaker 1: Vuitton yacht rock sweater from the bench, not in a jersey.
Speaker 1: We don't know when he's gonna come back. Halliburton says,
Speaker 1: what we all know, Hey, you guys fucking suck. You
Speaker 1: guys suck, and he and Dame's like, we suck. We'll
Speaker 1: see all beats your ass. It's like, well, we're not
Speaker 1: talking about you. Beating my ass, Dame. We're talking about
Speaker 1: you guys are fucking trash and we're the Pacers and
Speaker 1: we're beating that ass. And Siakam, who I love, is like,
Speaker 1: why is he talking his ass on the bench? Hell ass?
Speaker 1: And how it's time to get them the fuck up
Speaker 1: out of there. Dame gets hit with a tech in
Speaker 1: street clothes, doing more damage to the team than Kyle Kuzma,
Speaker 1: who had the club trillion Dame's back for Game two.
Speaker 1: Bucks are looking very shaky. They need a course correction.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get more out of the honest.
Speaker 1: These guys are bums. These guys on this Bucks team
Speaker 1: are bums. Outside of Dame. I've got thoughts where Dame
Speaker 1: should go. But it's Milwaukee's teetering on the edge of
Speaker 1: a full on rebuild. New coach, gotta have it, aging
Speaker 1: roster that needs to get selected and fixed. Giannis has
Speaker 1: already been talking about leaving for five years now. Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard never wanted to be there in the first place.
Speaker 1: The clock on Dame time is ticking tick tick tick
Speaker 1: tick tick. I don't I don't know. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: we might be headed for a kaboom all right, make
Speaker 1: it make sense. We gotta have a segment where we
Speaker 1: gotta make it make sense, because it's not maken sense.
Speaker 1: What didn't make sense this weekend was Memphis losing by
Speaker 1: fifty five zero to the Oklahoma City thunder. Who would
Speaker 1: have thought? Who would have thought it? Who would have
Speaker 1: saw it coming? Firing your coach nine games left, including
Speaker 1: your entire coaching staff. Also, and the worst who would
Speaker 1: have thought I would have lead led to the one
Speaker 1: of the worst performances in modern memory. And also Brian
Speaker 1: Windhorst said right before the playoffs, he said he's hearing
Speaker 1: teams in the West aren't afraid of Okay, see so
Speaker 1: not afraid. They're like, we'll roll out a guy we've
Speaker 1: never seen coach before. I don't even know who the
Speaker 1: coach is. If if it was a million dollars on
Speaker 1: the line, or actually, more importantly, if someone said, for
Speaker 1: your beating heart, you have to say who the Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzly's interim head coaches. I know, it's like foreign, It's
Speaker 1: like jacquem It's like jamiro Kui or something. But I
Speaker 1: don't know him and I don't know anything about him
Speaker 1: other than he's getting paid a lot of money to
Speaker 1: usurp Taylor Jenkins. Anyway, that's how little they respected Oka, see,
Speaker 1: because they knew they were probably gonna be an eight seed.
Speaker 1: And guess what belt to ass a beatdown one thirty
Speaker 1: one to eighty And I don't even think the game
Speaker 1: was that close. Do you remember when Okase lost by
Speaker 1: a good jillion to Memphis. This is a full circle moment, folks.
Speaker 1: This is what we see the fall of Rome and
Speaker 1: the birth of Rome simultaneously. One of the most comprehensive
Speaker 1: playoff beatdowns in league history comes after the shock firing
Speaker 1: of their coach less than two weeks ago. Memphis is weird.
Speaker 1: They can look great. They're capability of also getting embarrassed
Speaker 1: sometimes in the same game. Can I also be honest?
Speaker 1: Can I be honest? Jaron Jackson fucking sucks? Okay, He's
Speaker 1: not good. And I don't mean like, oh, he can't
Speaker 1: play basketball good because he obviously can. He's a pro
Speaker 1: basketball He's not worth sixty MS a year. What did
Speaker 1: Jaron Jackson have I'll find out. I know it wasn't good.
Speaker 1: He was two for thirteen. This is your god, this
Speaker 1: is your king. Anyway, the numbers were sickening, sickening. Okay.
Speaker 1: Se had nine players with a net rating of plus
Speaker 1: seventeen or better. All five starters were over a plus
Speaker 1: twenty one. These are nerd stats, but they're all really
Speaker 1: good ones. Jalen Williams, he was a plus forty four.
Speaker 1: He's most improved player to me. And they only shot
Speaker 1: fifty percent from the field in thirty five percent from three.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even like they got hot. They just fucking
Speaker 1: beat your ass down, made you hold your ankles and
Speaker 1: take it like you had your first month in jail, smothering,
Speaker 1: unrelenting and making you say thank you Jesus Christ. It
Speaker 1: was that bad. Memphis got locked their ass up. What
Speaker 1: they do to jaw in one three minute stretch Lou
Speaker 1: dort on jaw dorcher chamber. Alex Caruso, who I think
Speaker 1: they've been putting in a hyperbaric chamber just for this moment.
Speaker 1: He had some stretches on jaw. Casein Wallace, very underrated
Speaker 1: defender on jaw, just one after the other, unre unrelenting,
Speaker 1: like prison, unrelenting. Jaw finished with seventeen six for seventeen shooting.
Speaker 1: Ok See, these defensive numbers are sickening eight blocks, twelve
Speaker 1: steals and twenty two turnovers they forced. Yikes, we already
Speaker 1: talked about Jared Jackson's track. Sha has Scottie Pippen Junior, who,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, is playing well for Memphis, but before
Speaker 1: Memphis wasn't a factor. One for nine Desmond Bain, who
Speaker 1: I told you last episode or two episodes ago, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have trouble. He's gonna have trouble with all that length.
Speaker 1: And guess what, three for twelve he was in nearly
Speaker 1: a minus fifty one in a net rating, which is
Speaker 1: a crazy number. Okase held Memphis to thirty percent from
Speaker 1: the field from the field and ten percent from three
Speaker 1: and all of that, and Shae didn't do shit. She
Speaker 1: didn't even do anything. Shaye was four for thirteen, one
Speaker 1: of seven for three, didn't even have a steal for
Speaker 1: the first time in a month. No steal didn't matter. Thunder,
Speaker 1: We're rolling. And that's how you know this is a
Speaker 1: team you don't want to see. Okay, if you see okay,
Speaker 1: see it better be the last team you see in
Speaker 1: the West, otherwise you're having issues. We'll talk about jaw
Speaker 1: laughing real quick, because I don't really care that much
Speaker 1: about it. I like Jaws energy job, by the way,
Speaker 1: real quick fire ass new shoes that he had not
Speaker 1: the time to wear them, probably, but they were great.
Speaker 1: So John Morant was seen laughing down fifty way. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's that bad you have to just laugh steven A.
Speaker 1: Of course he had things to say, y'all down fifty
Speaker 1: and you on the bench laughing in a playoff game. Nah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to see that. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: in Memphis want to see that. People don't want to
Speaker 1: see you laughing. Listen. At least he didn't pull out
Speaker 1: a gun. Shit. I mean, at least he didn't start
Speaker 1: a fight with his dad and his best friend and
Speaker 1: didn't threaten to shoot the other team, because that happened once. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Memphis isn't that bad, but Okaysee is
Speaker 1: that good. Can Memphis play good enough to cut it
Speaker 1: from fifty to ten? Sure? Can they play good enough
Speaker 1: to stop okay See and also score enough to beat
Speaker 1: Oka See and steal a game? I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would even bet on it. And the thing that's
Speaker 1: hilarious is reddit reddit the Delulu from Grizzlies Reddit is
Speaker 1: so intense and so severe that they've completely unplugged from reality.
Speaker 1: The top thread read the game was nothing but psychological warfare.
Speaker 1: The main goal was to humiliate SGA, which was a
Speaker 1: success mentally weakened SGA in an overconfident okase, Memphis and
Speaker 1: six wow wow. Also, half the fan base wants Marvin
Speaker 1: Bagley Junior to start game two because he went for
Speaker 1: eight for eight in garbage time down fifty congratulations. Okase,
Speaker 1: he's a problem and Memphis fans, you guys also have problems, many, many, many.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. Let's do a little speaking
Speaker 1: of the case. We gotta do a little breakdown here.
Speaker 1: I got thoughts. We gotta talk about this MVP race
Speaker 1: after game one. I'm ready to admit it. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of vascillation. There's been a lot of confusion,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of thinking. Can I give it
Speaker 1: to both players? They're both playing phenomenal. So have you
Speaker 1: ever said something out loud that you didn't really your
Speaker 1: heart didn't really like align with? You know where it's like, hey, Tristan,
Speaker 1: what would you like for dinner? And you're like a
Speaker 1: salad And in your heart it's like pizza. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the MVP raice. For me, it's like Tristan, who
Speaker 1: do you think should win MVP? And my my word
Speaker 1: say Sga, and my heart says Jokic. That's what it's
Speaker 1: been because I'm like, you know, you gotta give it
Speaker 1: to SG. I've been wanting to win it for years.
Speaker 1: He's incredible. Okay, Se, he's incredible. They've won sixty eight games.
Speaker 1: But like what we're seeing from Yogic is nuts. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I thought I would say it out loud.
Speaker 1: I thought I was just gonna die with this. You know,
Speaker 1: all season long, I've been torn. Shay's been great. Jokic though,
Speaker 1: it's like Shay is a part of the system. Sha
Speaker 1: is Shae's the pilot on the plane, and Jokic is
Speaker 1: the plane. You know what I mean, yok Like, you
Speaker 1: don't fly without the plane, regardless if you have a
Speaker 1: pilot or not. That's Jokic. I'm starting to feel like
Speaker 1: there is nothing in Denver if this man's not on
Speaker 1: the floor. So let's take talk about the Nuggets Clippers game.
Speaker 1: So Denver comes out horrific, right, Like the Clippers are
Speaker 1: full strength? Why's playing great? Harden's playing great. They're hitting everything.
Speaker 1: They'roughout fifteen early and you kind of know, like this
Speaker 1: is what Denver does, right, They do the ropid ope
Speaker 1: thing where they just kind of like let their asket
Speaker 1: beat until three minutes left in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: then like you can't get anything going, can't get anything going,
Speaker 1: and it can't get they can't make an open shot,
Speaker 1: and then they hit the most contested shots you've ever
Speaker 1: seen in your life. Jokic, of course, unbothered by that.
Speaker 1: By the time the dust settled, Yokic had twenty nine
Speaker 1: twelve assists, nine rebounds eleven for twenty two from the
Speaker 1: field played forty six minutes in ot nuggets were plus
Speaker 1: ten when he was on the floor, negative seven when
Speaker 1: he sat. I mean, when Yokich is not there, there
Speaker 1: is nothing there. Movement stops, team confused, Like Peyton Watson,
Speaker 1: what is he doing? He looks like a kid. And
Speaker 1: when Yokis is there, he's not the star. He's the system.
Speaker 1: He's the plane. He's the reason that Aaron Gordon is
Speaker 1: getting lobs. He's the reason why MPJ is Michael Porter Junior,
Speaker 1: not mid Yoga Porter Junior. He's getting easy three point looks.
Speaker 1: He's the way reason that you can have You can
Speaker 1: get rid of all these role players and still be
Speaker 1: okay and still win. Let's talk about Shay. Shay had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with that Memphis win, like you had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. He had fifteen five and three.
Speaker 1: He chilled, feet were feet were in ice packs by
Speaker 1: the third quarter. He didn't have to do shit. The
Speaker 1: Thunder won by fifty one, and he had fifteen points share.
Speaker 1: Of course, does his thing sets the tone, sets everybody up,
Speaker 1: get them where they need to be. But do you
Speaker 1: think if Shay was benched for the second half, they
Speaker 1: would not have won that game handily? They would have
Speaker 1: That's how good this team is. Jayla Williams, chet Kaseon Wallace,
Speaker 1: loudrt Alice Cruzo, motherfucking all these other role players. I'm
Speaker 1: not remembering the Aaron Wiggins. You know, Shaite is elite.
Speaker 1: He's a top five player in the league. The Thunder
Speaker 1: team of a lot of elite players. They can dominate
Speaker 1: without him doing almost anything at all. But Denver, this
Speaker 1: is a lottery team without Jokic. This this is a
Speaker 1: team that just is unrecognizable when Yogic is not on
Speaker 1: the floor. He solves the Rubik's Cube in real time
Speaker 1: like a master orchestrator and puts everyone in position, has
Speaker 1: eyes on the side of his fucking head, turns Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook into a chaos machine. He makes some game saving
Speaker 1: and game finishing and game ending for them shots, all
Speaker 1: in the last thirty seconds. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's just yoga yoga, yoga jo yoga. And
Speaker 1: also like he's the best. He's also the best period
Speaker 1: maybe in the last decade. I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 1: And he looks like he should be at the YMCA
Speaker 1: behind the desk checking people in. So like the MVP,
Speaker 1: to me, it's about, oh, really, who is the most valuable?
Speaker 1: And Shay should win it. Not this year, but he
Speaker 1: should win it. It's about who holds it together, you know,
Speaker 1: who has to be great for their team to succeed.
Speaker 1: Who's truthfully irreplaceable if they go down with a season
Speaker 1: ending injury. Do you fucking collapse or do you continue?
Speaker 1: Shay's been amazing, But the answer right now is only
Speaker 1: Jokich And he's a two way threat. He really is.
Speaker 1: He's more of a two waight threat than people are
Speaker 1: giving him credit for Denver down fifteen against the legit team,
Speaker 1: and Jokic was dragging their asses all the way back
Speaker 1: and control the entire time. That's fucking my MVP. That's
Speaker 1: fucking my MVP. Let's do a little buy or sell,
Speaker 1: shall we Let's do a little transition sound s. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the Lakers. Hmmm. Lakers hmm had a home
Speaker 1: court advantage against the team no one wanted to win.
Speaker 1: No one was rooting for Minnesota in the national media.
Speaker 1: Am I buying or selling what happened? Am I buying
Speaker 1: here selling the Lakers? Period? I think I'm leaning sell.
Speaker 1: Game one was close for a second and then I
Speaker 1: shut my eyes for two seconds and I opened them up,
Speaker 1: and it was It was a massacre. It was so bad.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, maybe maybe the Lakers get swept
Speaker 1: by everyone. Maybe they don't just get swept by the Nunnets.
Speaker 1: Maybe they get swept by any super physical team with
Speaker 1: a guy who can just take over games like this
Speaker 1: could be a broom situation. Minnesota came in, took out
Speaker 1: the crowd early, and bullied LA on their own floor.
Speaker 1: It got so bad that the fans were heckling Aunt
Speaker 1: Edwards and aunt Edwards not only had to tell him
Speaker 1: how many millions of dollars that Rudy Gobert has in
Speaker 1: his pocket, which apparently is three hundred million, he also said,
Speaker 1: and also, my Dick's bigger than yours. Okay, well, that's
Speaker 1: the kind of energy we had in Game one. They
Speaker 1: survived the Lakers opening push, they dropped thirty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty in the second quarter, and they never look bad.
Speaker 1: Final score one seventeen ninety five. Away from the crib,
Speaker 1: Away from the crib, love nos Reid. We gotta give
Speaker 1: him some some props. I told you guys about those
Speaker 1: two bigs, I said, Lakers so heavy sus hell? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna keep up with these boys? Naz Reid twenty
Speaker 1: three five with two dimes, looked like the most confident
Speaker 1: player on the floor. Off the bench. Defensively, he was everywhere, hedging, recovering,
Speaker 1: bothering shots. If nas Reed is your pro off the pine,
Speaker 1: there's larger issues afoot. And then Luke, of course, he
Speaker 1: got his because that's what he does against the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Timberwolves thirty seven and eight, thirty seven, eight and two steals.
Speaker 1: The rest of the Lakers were no you know who
Speaker 1: got strapped. I told you Austin Reez got strapped. He
Speaker 1: was nowhere, ruey Hachi Mura nowhere. Centers combined for five points.
Speaker 1: Five points. I mean, I think they have one center,
Speaker 1: but they combined for five points. If you if you
Speaker 1: allow to get bullied by a man Mike Conley who's
Speaker 1: basically older than Lebron James in Dog Ears, and you're
Speaker 1: getting less scoring from your entire front court than Mike
Speaker 1: Conley gave the Wolves, you got really fucking bad problems.
Speaker 1: And I knew this was gonna go down when all
Speaker 1: ten ESPN personalities picked the Lakers. This is not the Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: You thought. You knew they're battle tested. They made the
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals, they beat the defending champs. Aunt Edwards's
Speaker 1: building confidence played with Kevin Durant in the offseason in Paris.
Speaker 1: I think he took all of Kevin Durant's powers while
Speaker 1: he was with them, and he didn't even have to
Speaker 1: go nuclear. Two twenty two points, eight rebounds, and nine assists.
Speaker 1: That is what growth looks like. I told you thirty
Speaker 1: seven year old Mike Conley coffin dust, just sprinting back
Speaker 1: on defense to cut off Lebron fast breaks. This is
Speaker 1: Minnesota's warning shot. We're not fucking scared of the Lakers.
Speaker 1: We're not starstruck. We're here to end dynasties. That's what
Speaker 1: we're here to do. And I tried to tell you
Speaker 1: these boys were two damn big two damn long pause.
Speaker 1: Jay McDaniel's six', Nine nasrit six,' Nine julius randall, Sixty
Speaker 1: Nine Nikale alexander walker six five and, sixty five with
Speaker 1: the bounds of. The kangaroo they are fucking. You UP
Speaker 1: so la has to figure this out Quick because minnesota their.
Speaker 1: Best game they just, outworked them, outgrotted them, outsized them and,
Speaker 1: they're deeper they're, more athletic and they're. Fully healthy so
Speaker 1: this series could be over in five or it could
Speaker 1: be over in four if they don't get some production
Speaker 1: real quick from a guy Named. Not Luca so, I'm selling.
Speaker 1: I'm selling let's talk About the rockets And. The warriors
Speaker 1: somebody got Exposed The. Houston rockets so all season you
Speaker 1: know that there's teams that like are good regular, season
Speaker 1: teams and then there's like teams you don't really, believe
Speaker 1: in like they were like They're. Not utah But remember
Speaker 1: utah when they put up sixty game sixty wins and, we're,
Speaker 1: like okay. That's cute. You Know the rockets were winning
Speaker 1: so many games where it's like seventy six to, sixty eight,
Speaker 1: you know and, YOU'RE like i wonder how you can
Speaker 1: do this against the best offenses in the league on
Speaker 1: a night, tonight basis for seven games at a time for.
Speaker 1: Two months you guys. Can't score you Guys are It's
Speaker 1: like saran rap is over the rim and, THEY'RE like
Speaker 1: i wonder What Are Fred van fleet's gonna return back
Speaker 1: to who he Was. In, toronto yeah it was a
Speaker 1: fascinating game. To watch it WAS so i thought this
Speaker 1: game would be, more, FUN right i thought it would
Speaker 1: be more fun. To watch it was fascinating though. It
Speaker 1: Was steve curse said it was like playing in, the nineties,
Speaker 1: low scoring. Super Physical golden state was on Them like White,
Speaker 1: on rice that. Finesse team, they say you want to
Speaker 1: go back to, the, nineties brother we. Got You jimmy
Speaker 1: butler was Like. The bruiser they go up Twenty and, i'm,
Speaker 1: like okay maybe it's time to turn. It off but
Speaker 1: it did get to a one possession game with six minutes,
Speaker 1: to go actually even less than You Had steph, curry
Speaker 1: though and You Had jimmy, Butler Though And steph curry
Speaker 1: he's just. Not real he's just an. Unrealistic player he's a.
Speaker 1: Video game but it wasn't really All About. STEPH curR
Speaker 1: i mean he was gonna. Do that he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: give you. Three points He torches houston in. The Playoffs
Speaker 1: james harden's entire legacy is tainted Because Of steph curry
Speaker 1: playing him in. The playoffs he Slayed Every chris Paul And,
Speaker 1: russell westbrook all that done dead gone because. Of him
Speaker 1: houston's got a, nasty OFFENSE and i don't, MEAN good
Speaker 1: i mean, it's nasty like hard. To watch it was
Speaker 1: their lowest scoring game of, the season and that's hard
Speaker 1: to do for a team that scores like seventy eight points.
Speaker 1: Per game they shot twenty percent, from three and that's
Speaker 1: like close to, their average that had, seventeen turnovers that
Speaker 1: had four. Fast breakpoints they just couldn't get any. Easy
Speaker 1: buckets and for a team that struggles to put the
Speaker 1: ball inside, the hoop you need as many easy buckets
Speaker 1: as you could get and they weren't earning any tough.
Speaker 1: Buckets either let's talk about. The backcourt Fred van fleet,
Speaker 1: was brutal zero rhythm to the point where, you're like
Speaker 1: if this is your if these are your. Starting guards
Speaker 1: we got some conversations To have fred Van fet fleet
Speaker 1: two for thirteen From Deep, jalen Green who i'm not a.
Speaker 1: Believer in he's, a bucket he's. A bucky he's, a
Speaker 1: bucket but he's not a. Winning player and we saw
Speaker 1: it three for fifteen from, the field all for four,
Speaker 1: from three but more so, just brutal brutal possessions where
Speaker 1: you look at them and, you're like That's The. JAYALEN green,
Speaker 1: i know, you know like That's The. Jayalen green i'm
Speaker 1: accustomed to dribble, into traffic chuck it off the backboard
Speaker 1: five seconds into the. Shot clock, Together him Fred van
Speaker 1: fleet shot seven for. Thirty four your guards shot seven for.
Speaker 1: Thirty four it could have, been Worse But alpern shangun
Speaker 1: was electric. Fucking Incredible so steph WAS like, I said steph.
Speaker 1: Was insane he had thirty, one points but they only had,
Speaker 1: ninety five so it was he had thirty percent of
Speaker 1: all the. Team's points And Then jimmy butler had an awesome.
Speaker 1: Game too he had twenty five, seven board, six assists.
Speaker 1: Five steals you're talking he had the game ceiling Strip
Speaker 1: on shangoon. As WELL so, i mean we're talking about
Speaker 1: fifty six points on sixty three percent shooting and the
Speaker 1: Rest Of golden state didn't even need to. Do anything this,
Speaker 1: is why this is why you Traded For. JIMMY butler
Speaker 1: i Appreciate that houston had some fight though momentum. Was
Speaker 1: gone they're, down fifteen they cut the three in the,
Speaker 1: fourth quarter crowd was, going crazy and then, You know
Speaker 1: steph just takes, your, soul steals goes dagger after dagger.
Speaker 1: After DAGGER am i buying or Selling? The rockets it's
Speaker 1: just the. Same problem we knew they were. Horrible offensively
Speaker 1: they just. Cannot shoot this is not a team you
Speaker 1: really want to not shoot. Well, against Honestly The houston
Speaker 1: rockets to Play The Golden state warriors the last time,
Speaker 1: they playoffs they were awesome shooting and they still got
Speaker 1: their ass, fucking home Gone to cantcoon in. Seven GAMES
Speaker 1: so i don't think you figure it out Against The Golden.
Speaker 1: State WARRIORS and i said this. Last Time If golden
Speaker 1: state can Get, past houston now you got the path
Speaker 1: TO play okc In The Western, conference finals and at
Speaker 1: that point all bets. Are off game two is Everything.
Speaker 1: For houston you guys better figure, it out otherwise you're
Speaker 1: headed for a sweep and probably multiple players. Getting traded
Speaker 1: let's talk About the pistons, really quick. Cautiously selling game
Speaker 1: one was theirs for, the taking and they got hit
Speaker 1: with a twenty one to. Zero run the Environment At
Speaker 1: Madison square garden. Was incredible that five minute stretch to
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter was probably one of The worst i've
Speaker 1: ever seen in recent. Playoff memory just, a meltdown but
Speaker 1: they dipped a lot of. Things right cade, was horrible
Speaker 1: and they still were. Right There Tim hardaway junior. Played
Speaker 1: Well dennis shooter had. His Moments mike beasley had, His
Speaker 1: Moments Not. Mike Beasley malik Beasley Had Mike beasley's who's
Speaker 1: playing one on One With. Lance stevenson that's what. That Is.
Speaker 1: Malik beasley he played. Really Well tobias harris played. Really
Speaker 1: well so you had a Lot of pistons that stepped
Speaker 1: up on, the road which. Is huge but they did
Speaker 1: have twenty one turnovers and in the playoff. That's Ballgame
Speaker 1: jalen brunson turned Into, playoff kyrie which is what he
Speaker 1: fucking does because he's. A ballhog campaign hit eleven of
Speaker 1: his fourteen points in the, fourth quarter just swap after swap.
Speaker 1: After swap ever swap so final Calls selling lakers size
Speaker 1: mids matches. Too much rockets they Cannot. Score pistons i'm
Speaker 1: hopeful for. THEIR future i could see this one going
Speaker 1: more of the distance than the. Other two and then,
Speaker 1: moving on let's go some quick news around. The league
Speaker 1: So The warrior still game WENT as, i said but
Speaker 1: for the second time in, A Row JONATHAN kaminga dnp did.
Speaker 1: Not play. Coach's decision if you're Not Playing jonathan kaminga
Speaker 1: against A physical rockets team against the, two seed you're
Speaker 1: probably not playing them. At all According To, mark Stein,
Speaker 1: the nets, oh My the nets are the most likely
Speaker 1: landing spot. This summer they've got forty ms in. Cap
Speaker 1: space otherwise it's going to have to be a multi
Speaker 1: team sign. And trade oh. My god, Bottom line cominga's
Speaker 1: Days In golden state Are probably he probably never suits
Speaker 1: up in a. Game again, all right, moving on can
Speaker 1: we bring BACK THE Ibm? Mvp AWARD The nba award finalists,
Speaker 1: are out will break those down later, this week but,
Speaker 1: for now can we bring BACK The? IBM award i
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys remember that was a. REAL
Speaker 1: thing ibm nineteen, eighty four two thousand. AND two ibm
Speaker 1: gave out a FORMULA based mvp to the most statistically.
Speaker 1: Impactful player guess who you think would win that award?
Speaker 1: This year probably. Every year, you know they Tell like
Speaker 1: jokic would benefit from just a math DRIVEN analytics, Mvp
Speaker 1: network like numbers, don't lie but people lie like That's,
Speaker 1: that's jokic? All right moving on another news little bite that.
Speaker 1: Came out So The dallas mavericks. Are eliminated as, you
Speaker 1: saw they got fucking their asses handed to them in the.
Speaker 1: PLAY in i didn't even mention that because it's happened multiple.
Speaker 1: Days Ago the mavericks are still. Doing gumbshit the owners
Speaker 1: mad AT Their Gm. Nico harrison so some media people
Speaker 1: were wanting to be messy and stir up, the pot which.
Speaker 1: Is crazy it's delicious grown men being messy with other.
Speaker 1: Grown men and, someone, Said, hey clay do you regret Signing.
Speaker 1: In dallas if you would have known how it would,
Speaker 1: have gone do you think you would have still done
Speaker 1: on the? Same Thing and, clay's like don't, do that
Speaker 1: don't do this, to me that's a. RIDICULOUS question i
Speaker 1: don't own a. Time machine i'm looking forward to. The,
Speaker 1: future yeah you're. Being messy don't. Be messy, SO No
Speaker 1: i clay's not looking for. The door he's looking to.
Speaker 1: Get paid he's still gonna Play with Kyrie And. Anthony
Speaker 1: davis what other situation is he gonna? Go to just
Speaker 1: take your tax free state income and get the hell Out.
Speaker 1: Of dodge but you can tell the vibes clearly. Not,
Speaker 1: great also quick Note From. San Antonio greg popovich collapsed
Speaker 1: at a restaurant. Last week we give big prayers out
Speaker 1: Up to i'm not big, prayer person but we give
Speaker 1: Prayers To. Greg popovich he's, now, home. Stable recovering no
Speaker 1: cause has been made, public yet obviously he suffered a
Speaker 1: stroke earlier. This season we're setting pop all the love and,
Speaker 1: full recovery but probably we need to have a conversation
Speaker 1: if someone's gonna. Take Over greg popovic's head coach Of
Speaker 1: The San, antonio spurs because it's kind of a big
Speaker 1: deal considering that, the face maybe the face of, the
Speaker 1: league is playing on his team. All right, and lastly
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a pod Without a. Luca update this week.
Speaker 1: More chaos luca gave his first Interview To maliky andrews
Speaker 1: and said that when he found out he, was traded
Speaker 1: he was so pissy through his phone and, broke it
Speaker 1: showed it. To hers he's still. Using it what. A
Speaker 1: guy tim McMahon HAD an espn piece that said that
Speaker 1: the trade Happened because LUCA And Gm nico harrison's relationship,
Speaker 1: fell apart Mostly over Nico Firing, casey smith who Was
Speaker 1: Also dirk, novitzky's guy and pushed out anyone who disagreed.
Speaker 1: With Him Tim Cato's Dallas morning news Article Said MAVs
Speaker 1: Governor governor PATRICK, dumont akaa the owner is Furious that
Speaker 1: nico didn't warn them how badly the fan base would
Speaker 1: Take the. Luca trade this is how, you Know these
Speaker 1: patsy's haven't watched a lick. Of basketball, they're, like, oh
Speaker 1: yeah this, Like white this white kid with the number
Speaker 1: seventy seven probably won't be. That bad it's Probably and, nico's,
Speaker 1: like nah We're At anthony davis and, they're like, OH
Speaker 1: yeah I Remember. Anthony davis he's like, really, Good right
Speaker 1: and then just to complete the shit, Shit show nico
Speaker 1: gave his exit pressure and, HE said i didn't realize
Speaker 1: how much the fan Base. Loved luca nothing but clowns.
Speaker 1: Around here nothing but clowns. Around. Here Uh rob plink got,
Speaker 1: an extension shout Out To nico harrison and. A promotion
Speaker 1: he's now the President of. Basketball ops nothing keeps you
Speaker 1: alive any anything more than just grifting and stealing a.
Speaker 1: Generational player that's what We call lakers exceptionalism and. Expansion talks,
Speaker 1: He Finally adam silver said the word that we've been,
Speaker 1: waiting on which. Is expansion in an Interview with, pat
Speaker 1: McAfee he said the league is now looking hard, at
Speaker 1: expansion will formally begin exploring it. This summer seattle feels like.
Speaker 1: A lock vegas is my Guest for. Team Two mexico
Speaker 1: city a dark Horse that silver would love. To add
Speaker 1: the league's. Getting bigger it's just a matter, of win
Speaker 1: and the pod is. Getting Bigger The atlanta hawks also
Speaker 1: have fired General Manager landry fields, oh wow and replaced
Speaker 1: Him With. Ensei sala they have comment searching for a
Speaker 1: new president of. Basketball Operations the hawks now move into
Speaker 1: the off seasons with a ton, of questions not the
Speaker 1: least of which weather you can actually build a winning
Speaker 1: Team Around, tree jung who went nuclear In the playoff
Speaker 1: playing game and then came out, AND said i don't
Speaker 1: think the play in. Should exist we will continue to
Speaker 1: give you more updates on. This later that's all the
Speaker 1: time that we have for this episode and. Heat checked
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