WEBVTT - Wolves Howling, Thunder Rolling, and Steph Still Cooking 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.520 On this episode of the Heat Check. The playoffs are 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.440 in full swing. We've got a rivalry, well, we've got 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:15.480 the rivalry continuing between Damian Willard and Tyrese Halliburton. Yikes, 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.319 the Grizz. Everybody was like, oh the Grizzle. How was 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.240 it gonna be? They lose by fifty one. Okay, see 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.080 what happened to Okay, see not being dangerous. Hope remains 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.040 eternal in Memphis. I then give my final take. I'm done. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.159 This is the moment. I'm done talking about MVP. But 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.160 I have my final conclusion after game one. I reserve 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:39.879 my right to change my mind, but I'm not gonna 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.199 And some news from around the league along with kind 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.120 of what we had happened in some of these game 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.640 ones by your Self segment on how we're feeling about 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.959 some of these underdog teams. They got their ass full 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.920 so much to talk about, Why so drop that motherfucking beat. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:03.480 This should be Rihanna. You're listening to The Hottest, The Hottest. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.600 It'd be a podcast out here. I said what I said. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:15.840 It's the segment one is getting spicy, That's what it is, 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.120 cooking up in the kitchen, cooking up in the kitchen. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:25.920 You know what's cooking up? Dame versus Halliburton. The Pacers 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.360 one of the sneaky, hottest teams post All Star Break. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.640 You know what everybody's like, are they for real? We 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.959 got Yannis? No Dame. Dame's on the bench with his DVT. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.920 He's coming back though he's coming back anyways, was like, oh, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.120 they got y honest, he's third and he stirred in 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:47.240 MVP voting. They've got all these other role players. I 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.560 don't even know the role players, honestly, Gary Trent Junior, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.240 Kevin Porter Junior, What you doing there, baby, Kyle Kuzma. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.560 We'll talk about that in a second. Anyway, The Pacers, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.560 who are deeper than the corn bread in my pan, 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.480 they came out blaze. I don't even have an algorithm, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.639 don't I don't have an analogy for it. Anyway, they 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.520 came out blaze and stop laughing at me. Up twenty 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:16.240 three at halftime, the Pacers did coasted from there. It 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.919 was really never a game. Pascal Siakam was in his bag. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.200 He had twenty five, seven and two, Jannis had thirty six, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.000 twelve and one. But the real star story here, really 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.520 the real story is that the starters torched Milwaukee starter 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:37.720 starters seventy five or seventy eight to fifty and Kyle Kuzma, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.480 who you traded for in the deadline, the trade deadline 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.960 to be some sort of I don't know, panacea for 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.400 this fucking terrible trash hazz team. He's on the Bucks now, yes, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.000 not on the Wizards and not on the Lakers. He 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.520 is a playoff club trillion and if you don't know 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.440 what a club trillion, and it is zero across the board, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.360 and for somebody who played over twenty minutes, it's hard 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:05.200 to do. What did Doc Rivers say? Kyle Kuzma just 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.280 needed more touches? That was what it was. Doc Rivers 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.560 always be on some bullshit. So we get to the drama, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.480 because that's really what this is about. Because the Bucks 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.040 are dead. Can we just say the Bucks, I don't 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:22.240 care when Dame's coming back, Damon game two, damon game four, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:29.160 Dame put up fifty nifty, he'd be thrifty pacers and five. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.919 That's just what I'm trying to say, you know what 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.600 I mean. Anyway, So we get to the drama. Because 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.120 the Bucks are dead. They're headed for a full repuild 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.560 in my opinion, late in the fourth quarter, both teams 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.800 including coaches, got into it at half court because they 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.760 don't really like each other at all. There was a 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:50.400 simmering beef. Remember Tyrese Halliburton was doing the Dame time 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.480 and then Dame was like, oh yeah, it was so flattering, 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.760 and then Dame was like, actually, I'm not cool with this. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.640 I fucking I don't like it. Pisses me the fuck off. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.640 I don't like that, and in fact I got something 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:08.360 for that ass basically. And then remember Jannis Jonas. Remember 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.800 Yannis dropped sixty four on Indiana and the Pacer staffer 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.800 tried to steal the game ball. I think it was 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.000 the ref really, and then they elbowed the GM in 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.520 the ribcage and he had a bruise rib all because 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.400 the Pacers wanted to give the game ball to the 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.520 rookie Oscar to sheb Way for his first in game 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.800 of like bucket. But also I think it was the 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.880 first time he actually played NBA minutes and there's just 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.200 some mini melee. Jannis looked like a fucking madman had 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.159 to be restrained. That was how weird it was. James 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.440 Johnson was like, yo, do I need to kill someone? 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.480 So this is not basketball, it's layered, it's petty, and 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.000 it's on. So any way, back to game one, So 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.640 Dam in street clothes for who knows why, chripping from 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.200 the bench. Haliburton's talking back. At one point the cameras 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.559 caught game saying, keep talking and I'll drop a track 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:07.000 on your ass. I don't know, Dame, it's getting it's 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.240 getting a little late early on for you. Like the 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.000 credibility for Dames taking a hit. I really have to say, 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.320 the cool factor, of the credibility factor, of the respect factor, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.880 all of it has taken a big fall off since 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.400 going to Milwaukee, probably because you're just in Milwaukee, you 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.600 know where it's just cheese. Anyway, it would have been 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.320 hit a lot harder if he wasn't in his Louis 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.720 Vuitton yacht rock sweater from the bench, not in a jersey. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.799 We don't know when he's gonna come back. Halliburton says, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.000 what we all know, Hey, you guys fucking suck. You 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.240 guys suck, and he and Dame's like, we suck. We'll 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.960 see all beats your ass. It's like, well, we're not 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.760 talking about you. Beating my ass, Dame. We're talking about 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.080 you guys are fucking trash and we're the Pacers and 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.599 we're beating that ass. And Siakam, who I love, is like, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.559 why is he talking his ass on the bench? Hell ass? 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.840 And how it's time to get them the fuck up 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.400 out of there. Dame gets hit with a tech in 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.680 street clothes, doing more damage to the team than Kyle Kuzma, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.640 who had the club trillion Dame's back for Game two. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.839 Bucks are looking very shaky. They need a course correction. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.719 I don't know how you get more out of the honest. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.760 These guys are bums. These guys on this Bucks team 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.440 are bums. Outside of Dame. I've got thoughts where Dame 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.719 should go. But it's Milwaukee's teetering on the edge of 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.080 a full on rebuild. New coach, gotta have it, aging 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.640 roster that needs to get selected and fixed. Giannis has 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.280 already been talking about leaving for five years now. Damian 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.000 Lillard never wanted to be there in the first place. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.280 The clock on Dame time is ticking tick tick tick 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.599 tick tick. I don't I don't know. I'm just saying 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.800 we might be headed for a kaboom all right, make 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.760 it make sense. We gotta have a segment where we 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.640 gotta make it make sense, because it's not maken sense. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:08.360 What didn't make sense this weekend was Memphis losing by 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:15.960 fifty five zero to the Oklahoma City thunder. Who would 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.680 have thought? Who would have thought it? Who would have 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:22.680 saw it coming? Firing your coach nine games left, including 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.280 your entire coaching staff. Also, and the worst who would 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.840 have thought I would have lead led to the one 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:33.480 of the worst performances in modern memory. And also Brian 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.280 Windhorst said right before the playoffs, he said he's hearing 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.440 teams in the West aren't afraid of Okay, see so 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.640 not afraid. They're like, we'll roll out a guy we've 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.680 never seen coach before. I don't even know who the 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:51.640 coach is. If if it was a million dollars on 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:56.280 the line, or actually, more importantly, if someone said, for 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.000 your beating heart, you have to say who the Memphis 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:05.240 Grizzly's interim head coaches. I know, it's like foreign, It's 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:11.120 like jacquem It's like jamiro Kui or something. But I 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.800 don't know him and I don't know anything about him 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.640 other than he's getting paid a lot of money to 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:20.760 usurp Taylor Jenkins. Anyway, that's how little they respected Oka, see, 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.080 because they knew they were probably gonna be an eight seed. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:28.520 And guess what belt to ass a beatdown one thirty 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.360 one to eighty And I don't even think the game 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:36.760 was that close. Do you remember when Okase lost by 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:42.120 a good jillion to Memphis. This is a full circle moment, folks. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.959 This is what we see the fall of Rome and 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:52.160 the birth of Rome simultaneously. One of the most comprehensive 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.560 playoff beatdowns in league history comes after the shock firing 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.560 of their coach less than two weeks ago. Memphis is weird. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.280 They can look great. They're capability of also getting embarrassed 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.080 sometimes in the same game. Can I also be honest? 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:15.199 Can I be honest? Jaron Jackson fucking sucks? Okay, He's 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.920 not good. And I don't mean like, oh, he can't 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.920 play basketball good because he obviously can. He's a pro 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:25.200 basketball He's not worth sixty MS a year. What did 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.440 Jaron Jackson have I'll find out. I know it wasn't good. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:34.240 He was two for thirteen. This is your god, this 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:39.640 is your king. Anyway, the numbers were sickening, sickening. Okay. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.600 Se had nine players with a net rating of plus 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.040 seventeen or better. All five starters were over a plus 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.080 twenty one. These are nerd stats, but they're all really 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.080 good ones. Jalen Williams, he was a plus forty four. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.640 He's most improved player to me. And they only shot 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.679 fifty percent from the field in thirty five percent from three. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.880 It wasn't even like they got hot. They just fucking 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.600 beat your ass down, made you hold your ankles and 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.360 take it like you had your first month in jail, smothering, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.640 unrelenting and making you say thank you Jesus Christ. It 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.680 was that bad. Memphis got locked their ass up. What 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.280 they do to jaw in one three minute stretch Lou 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.079 dort on jaw dorcher chamber. Alex Caruso, who I think 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.320 they've been putting in a hyperbaric chamber just for this moment. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.640 He had some stretches on jaw. Casein Wallace, very underrated 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:38.400 defender on jaw, just one after the other, unre unrelenting, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:45.040 like prison, unrelenting. Jaw finished with seventeen six for seventeen shooting. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:52.319 Ok See, these defensive numbers are sickening eight blocks, twelve 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:58.400 steals and twenty two turnovers they forced. Yikes, we already 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.160 talked about Jared Jackson's track. Sha has Scottie Pippen Junior, who, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.960 let's be honest, is playing well for Memphis, but before 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.920 Memphis wasn't a factor. One for nine Desmond Bain, who 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.840 I told you last episode or two episodes ago, he's 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.120 gonna have trouble. He's gonna have trouble with all that length. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.040 And guess what, three for twelve he was in nearly 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.840 a minus fifty one in a net rating, which is 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.960 a crazy number. Okase held Memphis to thirty percent from 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:30.319 the field from the field and ten percent from three 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.880 and all of that, and Shae didn't do shit. She 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:38.040 didn't even do anything. Shaye was four for thirteen, one 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.040 of seven for three, didn't even have a steal for 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.640 the first time in a month. No steal didn't matter. Thunder, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.160 We're rolling. And that's how you know this is a 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.839 team you don't want to see. Okay, if you see okay, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.080 see it better be the last team you see in 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:57.800 the West, otherwise you're having issues. We'll talk about jaw 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.840 laughing real quick, because I don't really care that much 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.320 about it. I like Jaws energy job, by the way, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.280 real quick fire ass new shoes that he had not 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.760 the time to wear them, probably, but they were great. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.440 So John Morant was seen laughing down fifty way. Sometimes 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.000 it's that bad you have to just laugh steven A. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.560 Of course he had things to say, y'all down fifty 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.480 and you on the bench laughing in a playoff game. Nah, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.920 I don't want to see that. I don't think anybody 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.079 in Memphis want to see that. People don't want to 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.800 see you laughing. Listen. At least he didn't pull out 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.760 a gun. Shit. I mean, at least he didn't start 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.679 a fight with his dad and his best friend and 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.559 didn't threaten to shoot the other team, because that happened once. Anyway, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.760 here's the thing. Memphis isn't that bad, but Okaysee is 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.560 that good. Can Memphis play good enough to cut it 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:58.240 from fifty to ten? Sure? Can they play good enough 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.160 to stop okay See and also score enough to beat 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.040 Oka See and steal a game? I don't know if 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.000 I would even bet on it. And the thing that's 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:14.520 hilarious is reddit reddit the Delulu from Grizzlies Reddit is 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:21.800 so intense and so severe that they've completely unplugged from reality. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:27.800 The top thread read the game was nothing but psychological warfare. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:33.040 The main goal was to humiliate SGA, which was a 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:40.120 success mentally weakened SGA in an overconfident okase, Memphis and 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.720 six wow wow. Also, half the fan base wants Marvin 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.120 Bagley Junior to start game two because he went for 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.040 eight for eight in garbage time down fifty congratulations. Okase, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.559 he's a problem and Memphis fans, you guys also have problems, many, many, many. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.600 All right, let's move on. Let's do a little speaking 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.199 of the case. We gotta do a little breakdown here. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.720 I got thoughts. We gotta talk about this MVP race 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.000 after game one. I'm ready to admit it. There's been 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.319 a lot of vascillation. There's been a lot of confusion, 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.000 there's been a lot of thinking. Can I give it 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.960 to both players? They're both playing phenomenal. So have you 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.080 ever said something out loud that you didn't really your 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.240 heart didn't really like align with? You know where it's like, hey, Tristan, 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.800 what would you like for dinner? And you're like a 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.800 salad And in your heart it's like pizza. You know, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.520 that's the MVP raice. For me, it's like Tristan, who 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.760 do you think should win MVP? And my my word 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.720 say Sga, and my heart says Jokic. That's what it's 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.200 been because I'm like, you know, you gotta give it 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.720 to SG. I've been wanting to win it for years. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.320 He's incredible. Okay, Se, he's incredible. They've won sixty eight games. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.880 But like what we're seeing from Yogic is nuts. I 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.080 don't know that I thought I would say it out loud. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.600 I thought I was just gonna die with this. You know, 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:07.440 all season long, I've been torn. Shay's been great. Jokic though, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.520 it's like Shay is a part of the system. Sha 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:17.400 is Shae's the pilot on the plane, and Jokic is 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.600 the plane. You know what I mean, yok Like, you 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.920 don't fly without the plane, regardless if you have a 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:30.160 pilot or not. That's Jokic. I'm starting to feel like 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.480 there is nothing in Denver if this man's not on 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.800 the floor. So let's take talk about the Nuggets Clippers game. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.880 So Denver comes out horrific, right, Like the Clippers are 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.040 full strength? Why's playing great? Harden's playing great. They're hitting everything. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.240 They'roughout fifteen early and you kind of know, like this 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.480 is what Denver does, right, They do the ropid ope 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.440 thing where they just kind of like let their asket 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.720 beat until three minutes left in the fourth quarter and 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.680 then like you can't get anything going, can't get anything going, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.880 and it can't get they can't make an open shot, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.640 and then they hit the most contested shots you've ever 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.320 seen in your life. Jokic, of course, unbothered by that. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.480 By the time the dust settled, Yokic had twenty nine 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:20.640 twelve assists, nine rebounds eleven for twenty two from the 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:26.000 field played forty six minutes in ot nuggets were plus 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.360 ten when he was on the floor, negative seven when 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:35.160 he sat. I mean, when Yokich is not there, there 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:41.120 is nothing there. Movement stops, team confused, Like Peyton Watson, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.160 what is he doing? He looks like a kid. And 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.680 when Yokis is there, he's not the star. He's the system. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.960 He's the plane. He's the reason that Aaron Gordon is 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:57.240 getting lobs. He's the reason why MPJ is Michael Porter Junior, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.880 not mid Yoga Porter Junior. He's getting easy three point looks. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.240 He's the way reason that you can have You can 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.919 get rid of all these role players and still be 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.200 okay and still win. Let's talk about Shay. Shay had 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.440 nothing to do with that Memphis win, like you had 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.040 nothing to do with it. He had fifteen five and three. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.240 He chilled, feet were feet were in ice packs by 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.639 the third quarter. He didn't have to do shit. The 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.960 Thunder won by fifty one, and he had fifteen points share. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.879 Of course, does his thing sets the tone, sets everybody up, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.960 get them where they need to be. But do you 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.200 think if Shay was benched for the second half, they 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.159 would not have won that game handily? They would have 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:45.000 That's how good this team is. Jayla Williams, chet Kaseon Wallace, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.600 loudrt Alice Cruzo, motherfucking all these other role players. I'm 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.040 not remembering the Aaron Wiggins. You know, Shaite is elite. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.639 He's a top five player in the league. The Thunder 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.720 team of a lot of elite players. They can dominate 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:06.919 without him doing almost anything at all. But Denver, this 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.720 is a lottery team without Jokic. This this is a 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.080 team that just is unrecognizable when Yogic is not on 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.800 the floor. He solves the Rubik's Cube in real time 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:24.520 like a master orchestrator and puts everyone in position, has 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.280 eyes on the side of his fucking head, turns Russell 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:33.040 Westbrook into a chaos machine. He makes some game saving 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.800 and game finishing and game ending for them shots, all 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.920 in the last thirty seconds. But at the end of 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.159 the day, it's just yoga yoga, yoga jo yoga. And 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:46.120 also like he's the best. He's also the best period 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:51.160 maybe in the last decade. I've never seen anything like it. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.320 And he looks like he should be at the YMCA 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.880 behind the desk checking people in. So like the MVP, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.320 to me, it's about, oh, really, who is the most valuable? 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.399 And Shay should win it. Not this year, but he 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.959 should win it. It's about who holds it together, you know, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.120 who has to be great for their team to succeed. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.399 Who's truthfully irreplaceable if they go down with a season 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.280 ending injury. Do you fucking collapse or do you continue? 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.080 Shay's been amazing, But the answer right now is only 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.760 Jokich And he's a two way threat. He really is. 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.879 He's more of a two waight threat than people are 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:38.399 giving him credit for Denver down fifteen against the legit team, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.639 and Jokic was dragging their asses all the way back 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.920 and control the entire time. That's fucking my MVP. That's 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:51.280 fucking my MVP. Let's do a little buy or sell, 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:57.600 shall we Let's do a little transition sound s. Let's 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:05.240 start with the Lakers. Hmmm. Lakers hmm had a home 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.120 court advantage against the team no one wanted to win. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.679 No one was rooting for Minnesota in the national media. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.000 Am I buying or selling what happened? Am I buying 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.399 here selling the Lakers? Period? I think I'm leaning sell. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:26.560 Game one was close for a second and then I 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.280 shut my eyes for two seconds and I opened them up, 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:35.000 and it was It was a massacre. It was so bad. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:40.720 It was like, oh, maybe maybe the Lakers get swept 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.920 by everyone. Maybe they don't just get swept by the Nunnets. 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.760 Maybe they get swept by any super physical team with 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.479 a guy who can just take over games like this 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.760 could be a broom situation. Minnesota came in, took out 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.119 the crowd early, and bullied LA on their own floor. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.920 It got so bad that the fans were heckling Aunt 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.000 Edwards and aunt Edwards not only had to tell him 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.439 how many millions of dollars that Rudy Gobert has in 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:14.000 his pocket, which apparently is three hundred million, he also said, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.040 and also, my Dick's bigger than yours. Okay, well, that's 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.120 the kind of energy we had in Game one. They 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.080 survived the Lakers opening push, they dropped thirty eight to 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.160 twenty in the second quarter, and they never look bad. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:34.040 Final score one seventeen ninety five. Away from the crib, 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:38.000 Away from the crib, love nos Reid. We gotta give 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.440 him some some props. I told you guys about those 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:45.320 two bigs, I said, Lakers so heavy sus hell? Are 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.600 they gonna keep up with these boys? Naz Reid twenty 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.040 three five with two dimes, looked like the most confident 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:56.919 player on the floor. Off the bench. Defensively, he was everywhere, hedging, recovering, 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:01.879 bothering shots. If nas Reed is your pro off the pine, 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:06.359 there's larger issues afoot. And then Luke, of course, he 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:08.240 got his because that's what he does against the Minnesota 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.960 Timberwolves thirty seven and eight, thirty seven, eight and two steals. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:14.800 The rest of the Lakers were no you know who 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.879 got strapped. I told you Austin Reez got strapped. He 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:25.120 was nowhere, ruey Hachi Mura nowhere. Centers combined for five points. 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.560 Five points. I mean, I think they have one center, 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.320 but they combined for five points. If you if you 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.480 allow to get bullied by a man Mike Conley who's 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.600 basically older than Lebron James in Dog Ears, and you're 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.480 getting less scoring from your entire front court than Mike 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.760 Conley gave the Wolves, you got really fucking bad problems. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:51.640 And I knew this was gonna go down when all 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:58.520 ten ESPN personalities picked the Lakers. This is not the Timberwolves. 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:02.720 You thought. You knew they're battle tested. They made the 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:06.520 Western Conference Finals, they beat the defending champs. Aunt Edwards's 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.520 building confidence played with Kevin Durant in the offseason in Paris. 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:13.240 I think he took all of Kevin Durant's powers while 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:15.280 he was with them, and he didn't even have to 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:19.680 go nuclear. Two twenty two points, eight rebounds, and nine assists. 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.240 That is what growth looks like. I told you thirty 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.920 seven year old Mike Conley coffin dust, just sprinting back 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:30.879 on defense to cut off Lebron fast breaks. This is 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:35.320 Minnesota's warning shot. We're not fucking scared of the Lakers. 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:40.840 We're not starstruck. We're here to end dynasties. That's what 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:42.919 we're here to do. And I tried to tell you 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.960 these boys were two damn big two damn long pause. 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:50.080 Jay McDaniel's six', Nine nasrit six,' Nine julius randall, Sixty 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:53.200 Nine Nikale alexander walker six five and, sixty five with 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:56.920 the bounds of. The kangaroo they are fucking. You UP 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:00.280 so la has to figure this out Quick because minnesota their. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:04.520 Best game they just, outworked them, outgrotted them, outsized them and, 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.479 they're deeper they're, more athletic and they're. Fully healthy so 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:09.160 this series could be over in five or it could 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.400 be over in four if they don't get some production 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.040 real quick from a guy Named. Not Luca so, I'm selling. 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:18.400 I'm selling let's talk About the rockets And. The warriors 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:26.320 somebody got Exposed The. Houston rockets so all season you 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:30.119 know that there's teams that like are good regular, season 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:33.600 teams and then there's like teams you don't really, believe 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:37.840 in like they were like They're. Not utah But remember 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:40.440 utah when they put up sixty game sixty wins and, we're, 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:46.640 like okay. That's cute. You Know the rockets were winning 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:51.440 so many games where it's like seventy six to, sixty eight, 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:54.160 you know and, YOU'RE like i wonder how you can 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:56.720 do this against the best offenses in the league on 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:59.480 a night, tonight basis for seven games at a time for. 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:03.640 Two months you guys. Can't score you Guys are It's 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:07.159 like saran rap is over the rim and, THEY'RE like 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:10.320 i wonder What Are Fred van fleet's gonna return back 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:13.439 to who he Was. In, toronto yeah it was a 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:16.480 fascinating game. To watch it WAS so i thought this 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:19.800 game would be, more, FUN right i thought it would 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:24.199 be more fun. To watch it was fascinating though. It 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.080 Was steve curse said it was like playing in, the nineties, 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:33.480 low scoring. Super Physical golden state was on Them like White, 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:36.480 on rice that. Finesse team, they say you want to 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:39.160 go back to, the, nineties brother we. Got You jimmy 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:43.360