Speaker 1: Going up on a Tuesday. See you know what time
Speaker 1: it is on the Heat Check. It's time for the
Speaker 1: Rookie Report, rookie from around the league. No, we're gonna
Speaker 1: break down if that's Rookie of the week, and like,
Speaker 1: you know what's what? Tell them what timing is? When
Speaker 1: drop that motherfucking meat and should be Rihanna's breaking down
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Speaker 1: two weeks into the season now and it's a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's going up on a Tuesday. It's Rookie Report time,
Speaker 1: Rookie Report. I mean we could do this every week, right.
Speaker 1: We can talk about Victor Wambin Yama. We could talk
Speaker 1: about Wemby aka the Alien Akaa? What the fuck is that?
Speaker 1: I did a whole segment though on him on Monday
Speaker 1: download subscribes. We're not gonna talk about Victor. I can
Speaker 1: tell you who's climbing up through the ranks though, who's
Speaker 1: not getting profiled and probably should get profiled. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'll give you three names that you may not have
Speaker 1: much knowledge on yet. First is Derek Lively from the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks, coming off of a fifteen point fourteen rebound,
Speaker 1: one assist performance. He is currently second in the NBA
Speaker 1: and field goal percentage, which is ridiculous, seventy seven percent
Speaker 1: pretty much just a bunch of layups and floaters and dunks.
Speaker 1: I bet we're gonna be checking on him in a minute. Second.
Speaker 1: Is obviously Austar Thompson. We could do something about him
Speaker 1: every single week. His twin brother. As a quick side note,
Speaker 1: injury to his ankle. We don't know if it's grade
Speaker 1: two or worse. Grade three is probably twelve weeks out
Speaker 1: Grade two, somewhere between three to six. Anyway. Auser has
Speaker 1: been balling, playing lights out fourteen nine and four in
Speaker 1: his last game, four steals, four blocks. Jesus Christ, Auser,
Speaker 1: what are you doing up? Next? Is to Mani Kamara,
Speaker 1: who everybody thought was a throw in piece in the
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard kind of Sun's Element where Nurkic goes to
Speaker 1: the Suns, Portland gets DeAndre Ayton and this guy to
Speaker 1: Mani Kamara, I think a lot of Suns fans are
Speaker 1: gonna be mad that they got rid of too many buckets.
Speaker 1: Is an absolute hound dog on defense, He's gritty, he
Speaker 1: gets under your skin. He's pissing off Marcus smart, so
Speaker 1: you know he's gritty and you know he's about it.
Speaker 1: He put up eight six and two in his last
Speaker 1: game and people on Twitter are very mad, so you
Speaker 1: know he is a dog. But the rookie of the
Speaker 1: week this time around is Marcus Sassor out of Detroit. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: you heard me right. Marcus Sasser twenty fifth pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. He was not expected to contribute a ton
Speaker 1: this season, but man, oh man have though those plans
Speaker 1: gone out the window. Money Williams very high on Marcus Sasser.
Speaker 1: Why because he is a winning player. A winning player.
Speaker 1: You thought maybe there was too many damn guards on
Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons, which there is for Marcus Sasser to
Speaker 1: get any love. But guess what, he is climbing up
Speaker 1: the depth charts. I did some social clips that went
Speaker 1: viral this weekend on Jade and Ivy and why he's
Speaker 1: getting less minutes in the rotation than last year. One
Speaker 1: of those reasons is that Monny Williams hates Jade and Ivy.
Speaker 1: The other reason is that he loves Marcus Sasser. So
Speaker 1: many of Jade and Ivy's minutes have it gone to
Speaker 1: Marcus Sasser. They have increased from six in Game three
Speaker 1: to thirty in his last game. Jay and Ivy did
Speaker 1: not play in that game, by the way, he was sick.
Speaker 1: Moni said after the twenty two point performance that he's
Speaker 1: always ready to play, and he responded to the tune
Speaker 1: of twenty one to three and four in his last
Speaker 1: two games combined. We should probably have expected it because
Speaker 1: he's a Houston Cougar and he's a winning player. He
Speaker 1: played multiple years under Kelvin Samson, and Kelvin Samson is
Speaker 1: that guy. He was the go to dude in the
Speaker 1: tournament down the stretch, in the crunch time, he could
Speaker 1: play defense, he could shoot the three, and yes, sir,
Speaker 1: he is in the NBA. He's hitting sixty percent so
Speaker 1: far this season. That is outrageous. And also he's got
Speaker 1: a little push shot and he's probably under six feet
Speaker 1: tall to begin with, so that is very, very impressive.
Speaker 1: The moment never seems too big for him, and that's
Speaker 1: probably because he played all those minutes for the Houston Cougars.
Speaker 1: And not only is he shooting sixty percent from three.
Speaker 1: He hasn't had a single turnover in his last one
Speaker 1: hundred minutes of play, which is not only incredible for
Speaker 1: any guard, but for a rookie, ridiculous sixteens is zero
Speaker 1: assist a turnover ratio during his stretch. The moment, like
Speaker 1: I said, never seems too big for him. In college,
Speaker 1: he played in so many big time games where he
Speaker 1: was the go to dude down the stretch, and he
Speaker 1: has ball in his DNA. Dad was a college star.
Speaker 1: Both of his uncles were all Americans and they played
Speaker 1: in the league, and even his great grandfather was an
Speaker 1: NBA player, which we got to talk about because he
Speaker 1: has an impressive stat line that rivals even Wilt Chamberlain. No,
Speaker 1: there was no question what field Marcus Sasser was going
Speaker 1: to go into. Hoopin' MANI said this about him. He
Speaker 1: understands when to shoot, when to drive, and he defends.
Speaker 1: There were times tonight when he was outmatched with the
Speaker 1: bigger guy and he just kept fighting. So, in other words,
Speaker 1: Marcus Sasser is a classic Money Williams type player, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna get more and more playing time as the
Speaker 1: season goes on. Detroit found a sleeper in Marcus Sasser,
Speaker 1: and that's all we have for the Rookie Report on
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