WEBVTT - Trade Rumor Drought 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:08.119 No, no, come home, no come home, no, no, no. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:15.280 Come home, come home, come. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.360 Home. On this episode of The Heat Check, I tell 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:20.720 you what. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.280 We get into some trade deadline talk, what is happening 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.320 in Toronto, one of the most interesting teams in the 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.920 league that have some moves to be made. We get 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.720 into exactly what I said we'd go wrong about the 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:39.040 Chicago Bulls and why it actually happened, and is Donald. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.280 Mitchel about to leave Utah? It seems like it might 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.879 be happening. All right, brob, drop that motherfucking beat. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.400 I'm perfectly gone at it, sir. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.440 I don't get on this side exist, don't. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.880 Make by mother bu my same went next like. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:07.759 Man, I'm perfect. We are crawling onto the trade deadline, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.240 just crawling. No moves have been made. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:16.560 Two weeks is left, nothing notable has happened. Fuck you know, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:17.720 I'd like to see some motion. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:23.720 As Drake would say, I guess that's just emotion. Oh 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.280 that's what I was listening to on the way. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.759 But the part the team, for me, that's the hardest 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.600 to dissect, the hardest to predict, the hardest to figure 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.280 out who they are, what their identity is now, what 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:39.520 their identity will be is the Toronto Raptors. They are long, 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.360 they are switchable, they are young. They can compete with 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.640 almost anybody on any given night. They could also lose 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.400 to almost anybody. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.080 On any given night. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.840 Team full of stretch threes and stretch forwards. Everyone on 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.760 this roster basically basically a six seven. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:00.600 We haven't talked about you about. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.080 The Raptors lately because they've been bad, but they have 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.920 resurrected their season after they had COVID on COVID on 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.799 Covid COVID. Team is nine and six in their last fifteen. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.000 They are in the ninth spot currently in the East. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.320 But but but but just four games out of six seeds, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.040 just four games out of not being a play in tournament. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.080 Who you never know? You never know. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.600 When the Atlanta Hawks were a five seed and they 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.919 end up in the Eastern Conference Final, you never know. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:32.640 That's the optimistic side of me. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:40.400 All of that leads me to a fun little hypothetical. So, Okay, 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.160 you're a five hundred team, right, You're playing better now 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.480 than at any point in the season. You're in a 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:50.280 year where there is no real clear cut favorite, like 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.200 the Bucks are there and the Nets of course got 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:53.639 something to say. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.320 But I mean, come on, so. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.200 You know the Bucks are healthy, but they just got 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.239 blown out by the Calves. Right, the Nets are healthy, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.079 but they just lost to the Lakers. Lakers aren't really healthy. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.519 But you're coming up on the trade deadline. So you 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.840 got two options. You make every effort that you can 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.200 to improve the team now, even if it means that 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.520 you move away from the quote unquote plan that you 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.000 might have for the future. Or do you just continue 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.760 to say we're young, we're dumb, and we're having fun, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.519 knowing that you're in injury away from falling back into 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.000 the lottery just like you did last year because you 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.800 play your starters more than any other team in the 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:41.520 entire league. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:42.720 That's fact. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.480 Welcome to the mental pretzel for my man Nick Nurse 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.520 and my man Messi u Jeri. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.600 So not a big deal, kind of a big deal. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.360 I was texting back and forth with Nick Nurse the 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.960 other day and I asked him about his thoughts on 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.040 the team, and he says, this is exactly what he says. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.480 This is tremendous. Just think about this quote. Let it 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:11.280 soak in. We're pretty good. We have no depth, but 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.280 I like my five to six guys. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.640 Does he know the starting five is five players. I 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.640 like my starting five plus one. I like my starting 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.160 five plus one. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.320 So I dug into that. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.680 How much does Nick Nurse love his five to six guys. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:34.000 I'll tell you it is. It is love, love, it is, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.960 it is, Oh my god, holy shit love. Fred van Fleet, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.719 my guy leaves the NBA. In minutes played per game 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:48.719 thirty eight point two. Scottie Barnes, a rookie, is playing 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.359 thirty five point five minutes per game, the most of 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:52.599 any rookie in the NBA. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.880 No surprise Rookie. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.000 Of the Year, Gary Trent Junior plays thirty three point 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.960 eight minutes per game. Pascal Yakam playing thirty six point 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.720 nine minutes per game. Og A Nanobi plays thirty six 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.960 point nine minutes per game. That is ridiculous, folks, That 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.760 is fucking ridiculous. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:12.880 That reads like. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.120 A box score from nineteen thirty six when it was 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.440 the Cleveland Rosenblooms, a real NBA team, by the way, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.800 who had seven roster players, and if someone fouled out 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.040 or got injured, they literally had to pull someone from 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.600 the stands to be like, hey, you you look at 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.400 let it come play basketball. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:31.440 That's what's happening. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.160 It would happen in Toronto if they actually had fans. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.680 They probably just need to grab the actual like Toronto 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.279 mascot because he's the only available bench guy that they have. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.040 They live git play their starters more than anyone. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.360 All those guys top twenty in the league in terms 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.160 of minutes played, which makes comments like these from Nick 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.240 Nurse that he didn't say to me, but he said 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.760 to the media hilarious, laughable, untrue. He's talking about the 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.320 battle between Sam Decker and Esok Bonga, two guys that 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.200 were at the end of the roster, and they were 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.720 trying to make a decision who's gonna play, who's gonna 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.159 get cut, and who's gonna play. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.440 And this is what and this is what Nick Nurse 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:17.400 had to say. Uh, Esak kind of fills the role 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:18.040 that we want. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.960 He's got size, he's a versatil defender, he's on the 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.560 offensive glass. He's kind of a real role playing guy. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.120 We can think we can throw in there. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.040 At any time. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.000 He's good enough to get into games anytime right now. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.360 To be honest with you, but. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.560 We can't play everybody. Excuse me, you don't play anybody. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.960 Excuse me, you're just playing five to six dudes? Five 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.479 really six? Okay, so your five starters are all top 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.200 twenty minutes played and you can't find Esoc Bonga any 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:48.880 playing time. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.080 Excuse me. That's hilarious. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.840 And now Nick Nurse's mind has turned to the trade 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.000 deadline and how he can make this team more competitive, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.880 because he even said it, it's now undisputable they have 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:01.080 zero depth. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.920 Not only do you know that based on who he's playing, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.120 you know that because he said it's a goddamn self. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.960 This is when he said, there's some stark downs. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.920 Man, it's been a battle to pick everybody up or 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:13.920 pick yourself up. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:20.080 But he is optimistic that the Raptors right now can contend. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.360 I told him that's the sort of beautiful optimism that 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.760 you just can't get the delusions of optimism when you're 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.640 not winning any team, not just them because they're actually 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.800 like decent, but a team like the Lakers. To believe 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.760 you can win at any moment, any game, despite being 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:42.480 so very clearly outmatched, out depths, out athleticism, I mean, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.520 it's just I die. I would die for that level 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.920 of optimism about any fucking thing, anything, even about getting 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.360 my toast like perfectly toasted. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.440 I don't have optimism that I could complete anything in 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.280 that manner. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.880 So Michael Grange reports that Nurse has had moiple conversations 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.320 with GM Bobby Webster about trying to evaluate with the Raptor's. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.560 Need coming up to the trade deadline, but it's been hard. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.360 To evaluate given the way that the season has gone. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.440 He says that there's about a six to seven man 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.080 corps that they want to focus on going forward. Yeah, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.600 those are the six to seven guys that are getting. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.040 All the minutes. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.600 Actually it's really five to six. But you can't say 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.800 you only like your starting five. You can't go out 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.040 to the world and say that you said I like 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.520 seven because anything less than seven sounds like you're a psycho. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:32.800 That's a psycho move. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.040 So what do you do right now? 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.319 If you're the Raptors, you got a good corps, all 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.640 of them the same guy, Like all six to seven 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.439 athletic can switch, can handle the rock. Well, it's been 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.360 a while since they've seen some winning hoops right in Toronto. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.079 They literally played in Tampa the entire all last year. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.880 They didn't even see Canada when they were in the 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.120 basketball season last year, So you'd think that the tendency 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.440 might be push your chips in the middle of the 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.920 table and go quote unquote all in. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.720 To me, that is terrible, that's a terrible idea. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.959 Even even still, they did decide to sort of tank 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.400 to get Scottie Barnes last year, right, And it's a 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.480 fact that they have no depth like it's a fact. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.760 So Nick Nurse also told me that there is no 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.040 point in his career he's ever believed he's had a 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:19.680 lost season. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:21.880 He doesn't believe it exists. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.480 He believes as the head coach, there's no moment in 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.360 time that exists where you say, pack it up. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.520 We're just gonna build on this one. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.560 We're just gonna have this be an emotional victory. All 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.880 these things or creative ways to get new guys involved 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.800 and develop develop young talent. No, no, you play to win, 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.440 no matter what he said. You play to win, no 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:48.000 matter what. He's gonna run the legs out of these starters. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.760 Chase wins, which means from a betting perspective, they're never 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.360 out of it. Whatever the line is, just take it 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.600 like I know, you can get burned at a plus 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.560 four and a half to take the Raptors against some 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.160 good team and then all of a sudden, you don't 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:01.360 make it. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:02.520 But like, this is the team. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.400 He's going to put Fred van Fleet out there when 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.200 they're down thirty, Like, think about that. If you lead 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.760 the NBA in minutes played, that's including games you're getting 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.880 blown out. He's like, fuck it, Fred, it's just you, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:21.040 my guy. Go ahead and pag your stats. That's fucking crazy. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.240 Back to the problem. Everyone wants the Raptors to make 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.959 a big trade. You want it, I want it. Toronto 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.199 fans want it. Massai wants it. But I don't think 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.720 it's gonna happen. I'm not sure because there's two words. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:38.000 Goren Draggitch. Goren Dragich is making nineteen point one million 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.559 dollars a year. He's my age, which means he's over 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.520 the hill in basketball terms. And everybody's talking about John Wall. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.120 Why is John Wall playing any basketball? John Wall's making 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.439 a lot of money. The Rockets aren't using him. Nobody's 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.520 asking that about Gordon Dragitch. Nobody's like, why is Goran 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.440 Dragish nowhere around this team? Why is Goreon dragis out 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.800 indefinitely for personal reasons. Why haven't they come to some 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:03.240 resolution about him? Just like wall goran Dragon's sitting on 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.520 his hands, not playing. No one's asking a goddamn thing. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.839 The Raptors don't need an old wash guy. But they 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.920 also traded for that wash guy in order to basically 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.920 game and loophole the cap system in order to trade 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.760 Gorn Dragicic and then receive a twenty million dollar trade 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.160 exception that would allow them to basically get a guy 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.640 that they can't get otherwise with that Kyle Lowry trade. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.680 So in order to trade Goren, we're probably gonna have 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.760 to attach draft picks to get him off the books, 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.720 which means you trying to build for the future, you're 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.120 literally giving up assets that you need. Draft capital is 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.679 very important for a young developing team, but then you 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.640 also want to sign free agents, and so the whole 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.840 Goren Dragach trade capital thing is sort of inextristricably linked. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.199 It's a hard word to say fucked up two days 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.480 in a row on that, But if they let Goren 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.320 Dragag's contract expire, they lose twenty million dollars in that 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.000 trade exception, in that Lowry sign and trade, and then 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.240 that Lowry sign and trade doesn't make no damn sense. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.120 They should have traded him earlier if they can't get 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:20.240 something out of them. It's a very complex scenario, very complex. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.959 Been wrapping my mind around it all day. And we 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.680 know that Massi wants to build around a young court 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.760 and part of that strategy is stockpiling those picks. But 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.760 at five hundred right now, the Raptors probably have a 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.440 valuable mid first round or probably fifteen sixteen in this 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:41.199 first round, basically just below the lottery. And the Sixers 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:46.320 offered multiple draft picks for Kyle Lowry last year. So 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.600 if you turn down multiple suitors in the middle of 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.680 the trade deadline last year, you turn that down, and 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.080 then you do a sign and trade for Precious to 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.400 Chilia in a first round pick and gore and draggag, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.000 and then you got to give up a first round 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:01.960 to get rid of fucking gore and drags. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.800 Then what do you have? You have Precious a Chilia 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:05.439 who's a. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.840 Nice piece, but god damn, you could have had Tyree 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:14.200 maxin two firsts. I understand the concept of fuck Philly, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.520 but not at your own expense, you know what I mean? Like, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.720 don't just don't do that trade because you're cutting off 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.280 your nose to spite your face. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.080 No. 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.880 No, So for me, it's gonna be a very interesting 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.600 thing watching them going forward, because it'll tell you everything 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:32.120 you need to know. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:33.440 If they don't make a. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:38.280 Move and they let Gore and Dragicic's contract just wither away, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.000 that means they have no interest in doing anything right now. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.720 They have no interest in going out and getting free 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.840 agents because they got guys to sign soon, and that's happening. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.760 They will be signed, and the only. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.880 Guys you're gonna be able to get is in the draft, 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.679 not in free agency, which means young young, young youth movement, 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.480 which probably means more five to. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.000 Six man rotation. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.400 Ah well, since Toronto can only get better via trade, 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.600 kind of like the Blazers, it might just mean go 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.880 and get Norm Powell again. I guess, maybe trade Chris Bouchet. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.680 I guess it's a situation that is developing. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:21.720 Keep your eye on it. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.240 But if I had to put my gavel down, I'd 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:30.440 say Toronto will be a player team and and at 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.200 that point, why not just do the watery again. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.840 Seemed to work out last time round. But keep your 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:36.280 eye on it. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:41.280 Keep your eye some she fragrance when you lift discover 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.280 it ain't no complaining. I'm ready to be a ward 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:49.840 a disc one and me I'm telling me called wards off, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.040 can afford the risk drop to a range. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.120 And I'm gonna be nice, but I'm gonna speak the 0:14:54.200 --> 0:15:00.400 truth as usual. Chicago, Chicago, So me in. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:07.960 I was sucked. You know, I said this team very 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.720 short bench. I said it. I was like, Okay, what 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:13.800 are they really gonna do? 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.560 And then all of a sudden, one seed fucking okay, 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.760 well gotta eat crow. At that point, tomart Rozan's playing 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:25.800 an MVP level. You know, Lonzo's a throwback floor general. Okay, Okay, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.640 Levine bawling out so that he could get a huge 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.200 deal from the New York next next year. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.320 Okay, I'm just playing. I'm just playing. Don't get mad, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:33.880 don't get mad. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.520 Booch have been having an interesting year, has some clutch moments. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.000 Not his best year, not particularly any better than his 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:49.320 worst year. But okay, I mean my man, Io, Io Desunma, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.280 he's a nice little piece. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.520 I already got his jersey, retired to Illinois. Tomart Rosen's 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.200 going to Illinois with Io. They're having a good time. Okay, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.400 I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm wrong, I'm wrong. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.160 And then just like the ss, Chicago Bulls sinking faster 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:05.960 than Bitcoin. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.160 Just like that, Just like that. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.680 By the way, read up on Obj getting his contract 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:17.440 in bitcoin, fascinating story. Might wanna just scale your enthusiasm 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.520 for bitcoin for a second. And you would think that 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.240 because I issued an apology already to Bulls fans, that 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.280 I would hold back on saying I fucking told you so. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.960 But no, no, that's not me. I am that petty. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.120 Someone said on TikTok today Trista doesn't fully know the 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.160 alphabet because she knows every other letter but lle. The 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.560 only letter that she's not acquainted with is the word 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.880 is the letter L. Yeah, I don't take any l's 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.400 like I don't take l's. I'm right, you guys are wrong. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.920 I told you so. What did I say earlier on 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.680 the season? What did I say? I said, quote, I 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.960 found my own quote. I'm quoting myself. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.120 This starting five has the ability to play with anyone. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.520 I like how I'm reading the quote like it's not me. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.240 But the bench is so thin, and if the starters 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.280 keep playing as much as they have been someone might 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.800 break down and if they break down. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:13.280 They're gonna be in troubble. Folks. If that's not about 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.639 as accurate as it gets, I don't know what is. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.399 Guess what multiple players now broke broke, broke, broke, broke. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:27.680 Down, bulls sliding down the standings like a fucking water park. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.760 Sh They were number one with a bullet and now 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:34.240 people are wondering, real. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.159 Media people, not me. I didn't say it. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.600 There are people like Brian Winhorst being like, can this 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.720 team even host a play in game? What? What? 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.040 Where did it all begin? Where did the deterioration of 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.960 the foundation start to happen? 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.479 My man Alex Crusoe. Of course, I'm starting to get 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.560 a little worried about Crusoe. They might be a not 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.560 injury prone, but maybe say bitten from injuries. He's missed 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.480 fourteen games last year with the Lakers, this year, banged 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.200 up most of the year, and now he's out four 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.720 to six weeks with rist surgery after he came down 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.240 from that Grayson Allen injury. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.480 And I think, wow, DeRozan is the brains of this team. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.439 I think Cruso is the heart and soul and without 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:24.080 Caruso and his infectious energy and his intensive intensity, intensive 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:25.600 defensive intensity. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:26.560 That's what I meant to say. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.560 This team is just lacking when he's not on the court. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.160 And then the same thing can be said about Lonzo Ball. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.280 He's a defensive monster. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:41.040 He and Caruso make that thing go. They're like the gel. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.879 They're like the connective tissue of the defensive identity of 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:45.400 this team. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.040 And Lonzo Ball is an assist machine. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.520 So without those two guys, rot row and now you 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.200 got Dereck Jones Junior. Nice little role player on a 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.399 team that has no depth. So he doesn't matter unless 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.320 you are already are struggling with depth, and now it 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:02.080 really matters. 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.080 He's having surgery on his wrist. He might miss the 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:05.800 rest of the season. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.400 My man Zach Levine continues to miss games with knee 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.240 sortis on the same leg that he had acl surgery on. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:14.080 Yikes. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.720 And Patrick Williams he's probably out the remainder of the 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.520 season two And we all knew in the beginning of 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.520 the season Patrick Williams had an ankle injury. Now you 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.560 got a torn ligament in his wrist and he's gone. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.640 He was supposed to be there this corps was supposed 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.800 to have something. They have less depth than I thought 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:34.840 that they had in the beginning of the year because 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.720 they haven't even had their main guys, And like clockwork, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.800 they go three and seven in their last ten fall 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:42.800 into second. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.120 Which you're like, oh, Tristy, you're hating on them. You're 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:49.280 a hater. You're a hater. They're in second, You're a hater. No, no, no, no, 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:49.680 no no. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.440 They're just a game up on the calves and one 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.440 and a half games up on the bucks in the nets. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.720 You don't think those guys when they figured out, they're 0:19:58.760 --> 0:19:59.920 not gonna be able to surpass you. 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.240 It's a close race in the east, folks. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.760 In other words, Bulls are a two game losing streak 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.560 away from being in fifth place, and probably another two 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:15.280 to three games away from seventh place. Excuse me, excuse me, 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.920 Just give me my flowers. 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.440 Just tell me, Trista, you're not right all the time. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.680 But you were fucking super right on this. And it's 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.080 not DeRozan's fault, of course. It's not like all the 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.760 things I said about him very wrong. I continue to 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.760 stay wrong on demart Rosen. In the last two losses, 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.399 he scored thirty five and forty one and a single 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.720 handedly keeping this Bulls team in the game. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.960 But without depth, it's just too much to overcome. It's 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.800 a bridge too far. It's a bridge too far, and 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.600 it is exactly what I fear might happen. It is 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.160 why I can't take Toronto. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.639 Seriously, you can't go out there, roll the ball out 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.480 and be like five to six guys, go out there, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:57.280 play hard. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.240 Oh you twour in acl No, No, keep playing, keep playing. 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:02.600 You can't do that. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:04.720 Can't do that. 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.879 Like your starters are playing too many minutes. 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.399 It's just a matter of time. These men aren't robots, right, Like, 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.200 why know we think that they're robots. And because they're 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.840