WEBVTT - NBA New Year's Resolutions 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.800 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick on this 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.040 end of year episode of the Heat Check. It's our 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.119 special New Year's resolution episode, and I am here to 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.440 give my resolutions for a whole bunch of players teams 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.200 from the Atlanta Hawks and the Brooklyn Nets to Rudy 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.479 Gobert and Grayson Allen. Oh yeah, we gotta talk about 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.920 this too. The greatest regular season NBA performance of all 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.440 time maybe from Luka Doncic, probably the second best, but 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.560 I'll get into that. Also almost twenty twenty three, Nick, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.240 So do me a favor and drop that generic ass beat. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.920 So twenty twenty two is about to be history. And 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.120 let's just say it's been a year to forget for 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.160 a lot of people. Robert Sarver for one, Kyrie Irving another. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.160 List is probably pretty long for the people who would 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.680 rather forget that twenty two existed. But we're not here 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.680 for all that. We're here to do something different, and 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.920 that is to spread positivity and to spread joy, because 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.440 that is what is my resolution personally for twenty twenty three. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.280 And with the new year comes a whole bunch of 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.200 new opportunities, new opportunities to be better, new opportunities to 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.720 be nicer, and that is why we'll call this episode 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.440 and end this episode with our annual NBA New Year's Resolutions, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.440 where we peer into the crystal ball and divvy out 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.319 resolutions for players and teams that could, let's face it, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.920 use a little positivity right now. But before we get 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.760 into that, let's go over some of the recent news 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.360 that's been popping around the league. We have to do it. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.480 We have to talk about this Dallas with Luca Doncic. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.120 Oh my god, I folks, I was at dinner. Did 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.760 you think like it would have made any sense to 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.440 cancel dinner plans to watch the Dallas Mavericks take on 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.240 the New York Knicks. Did anybody think that they needed 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.560 to stop everything in their life for that game? No? 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.920 I didn't. So I didn't get to see Lucas game. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.480 It's a confession. I didn't see it live. I had 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:03.880 to watch it back after the fact. I had to 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.840 see it on Twitter trending. My phone's blowing up, and 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.120 you know what, I'm sad. I'm sad about it. I'm 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.080 gonna live to regret it. I'm gonna know It's one 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.200 of those where were you moments? I'm gonna know. Oh yeah, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.360 I was at AOC in Los Angeles, California, eating dinner 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.360 with a friend when Luca dropped sixty plus twenty one 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.080 and ten. There's you got thoughts. You're trying to do 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.040 some research and you're making that all happen, and then 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:31.919 you're doing it on the fly, and all of a 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.359 sudden you look up and someone else has already had 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.200 the same take. There's probably nothing worse than that, truthfully, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.000 to be a take artist, a flamethrower, or an opinionist. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.040 You look up, you research, you prep, you're right, you're 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.119 about to talk, and then all of a sudden, Nick 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.320 fucking Right, First Things First comes through and drops one 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.639 right down on your head. So I'm not written Nick 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.440 right hater. I actually like Nick Wright a lot, but 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.359 damn I did not see Nick Wright coming in and 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.720 pickpocketing me. Like his name is Luka doncic on Luca's take, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.400 so what he said was exactly what I wanted to say. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:12.640 Sixty twenty one to ten was a top five regular 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.280 season performance in the entire history of the NBA, not 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.600 just the last generation. Since the birth of the NBA, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.120 Luca's performance on that night when I was at a 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.400 random restaurant against the New York Knicks. Was a one 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.880 of the greatest top five performances ever. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:34.760 But I'm going to give you a couple of reasons 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.920 why Luca's game yesterday is the best game any of 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.240 us have ever seen. First of all, the context of it. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.520 His team's down nine with thirty five seconds left. In 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.280 the last twenty years, thirteen eight hundred and eighty five 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.720 teams have been down nine or more with thirty five 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.160 or less seconds left. You know how many of them won? 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:52.600 Well? 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.720 One now it was zero. Now it's one second reason. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.120 He's the only guy in league history that could have 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.680 done that, that could put up that. That's that line. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.880 It's not just that he's the only guy that has 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.560 don to sixty twenty ten. He's the only guy that 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:07.920 Colt so I had. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:13.080 Done all the research. Right, Yes, Nick got that zero 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.880 for thirteen thousand, eight hundred and forty four stat line 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.160 from Sam Quinn to and now I have to give 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.440 Nick as props and say, yup, Luca. Luca's performance was 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.000 one of the best regular season games in nearly twenty years. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.480 But before we get deeper into this, Welt Chamberlain holds 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.160 six out of the ten highest scoring games in history 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.200 and fifteen of the top twenty five, and he did 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.159 this mostly before TV, so he is we have to 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.960 put Well Chamberlain in a category of himself. Someday I'll 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.520 probably drop a video about this on what everyone gets 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.520 wrong about his one hundred point game. But not today, folks, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.039 I got too much time. I got a reservation in 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.000 about forty five minutes. So today is about Luca to 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:59.039 understand why he did what he did was insane. What 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.800 are the greatest ras ular season game performances in NBA history? Well, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.680 number one, Denver's David Thompson put up seventy three, seven 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.880 and two on the Pistons on April nineteenth, or on 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.400 April ninth, nineteen seventy eight, excuse me, on the day 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.599 of the NBA season. Thompson was once called by Bill 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.599 Walton the perfect basketball player. He was locked in a 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.240 battle at that point for the scoring title with George Gervin, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.760 so he needed a huge game, and he went out 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.240 and scored thirty two points in the first quarter, thirteen 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.960 to fourteen, shooting six or six from the line. The 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.560 only problem was that it was the final game ever 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.000 in Detroit's Cobo Arena, and they wanted him to go 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.159 out a winner, so they legit through the kitchen, sink 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.760 at him and held him only twenty in the second 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.320 half the pit. This guy could add hundred points. The 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.200 Pistons even managed to pull out a win, and Thompson 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.680 fell just short of the scoring title despite shooting seventy 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.560 four percent from the floor. Why because George Gervin went 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.080 off for sixty three on the same day. Insane, unreal, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:59.200 just really something for the masses there. On March twenty eight, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:07.040 nineteen ninety, Michael Jordan mj Airness dropped sixty nine nice 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.479 eighteen and six on the Cavaliers. The game's probably the 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.440 closest one to Lucas performance because MJ put up eighteen 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.560 rebounds to go with four steals and a block. That's ridiculous. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.120 More incredible, he went twenty three for twenty seven from 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.520 the field, and in MJ style, the Bulls ended up 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.080 really outlasting a good Cavs teams one hundred and seventeen, 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.160 one hundred and thirteen. Probably the greatest regular season performance 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.880 of all time, that's what people say. At least I 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.680 was like four. So do did I do? I remember 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.040 it off the top? No? I don't. David Robinson seventy one, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.080 fourteen and five on the last day of the nineteen 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.640 ninety four season. He won the scoring title over Shack. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.880 In that game, he faced double and triple teams all 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.200 night and he still managed to shoot sixty three percent 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.800 from the field. He scored the first eighteen Spurs points 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.400 of the game, and uh oh yeah. He ended up 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.599 winning the scoring title with twenty nine point six points 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.680 per game because Shaq only had thirty two in that game, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.480 So that was a sick performance. Ridiculous seventy one points 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:15.720 like seventy one points the next day. Very important day. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.240 Probably one of my favorite. I think this is my 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:23.400 personal favorite. January twenty second, two thousand and six. Kobe 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:28.720 drops eighty one. Uugh, let me say it again. Kobe 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:33.480 drops eighty one, six and two in forty two minutes 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.480 of action. What an absurd stat line. He was twenty 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.480 eight for forty six in the field, perfect Kobe non 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:45.520 efficient type performance, including going seven for thirteen from three. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.200 The craziest thing about this game, though, the Lakers were 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.040 trailing by eighteen in the third quarter, and from that 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.120 point on, Kobe put up fifty one points and the 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:02.360 Lakers absolutely curb stomped the Raptors, beating them by almost twenty. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.720 He had fifty five points in the second half. That 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.960 is Kobe, you think you have me and you do 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:16.119 not have me. Bonkers. So Luca's crazy stat line twenty 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.480 one freaking rebounds, I don't know what that is about. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.520 And he probably could have twenty assists as well his 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.640 as we know, he doesn't have a lot of help 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.840 out there. Spencer did when he hit a couple of 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.920 huge shots down the stretch. But the fact that Luca 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.000 put up this number sixty twenty one to ten and 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.040 they came back, it wasn't just the stat line. Is 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.199 that they came back and won when they were down 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.440 nine points with what a minute left to go, thirty 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.120 seconds left to go, thirty five seconds left, ended up 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.760 setting the game to overtime. And it's not just that 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.480 he scored sixty. He had fifty last week. But he 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.360 scored sixty and had ten assists, and he probably could 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.720 have had twenty one. Well, like all the Maps, couldn't 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.760 hit an open shot to save their life. He was 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.160 so good in every aspects of the game. He had 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.319 two steals, he had one block. It was just disgusting. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.800 And then the best part about Luca because I love 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.840 him and he's just so fat and just such a 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.920 regular guy. You look at him and he's just the 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.959 most unassuming, insane basketball player. Like all those other players. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.119 You look at them, all those other top five performances 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.880 in the NBA. You look at those guys and you go, yeah, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.800 that's an athlete. Yeah that guy could put that guy 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.360 could put seventy one on my head. Not Luca. Look, 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.720 you look at Luca and you say, uh, is this 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.480 guy my task rabbit? Is he about to help me move? 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.040 That's Luca, Like, Luca looks like he does need a 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.720 recovery beer, because that's what he said, I need a 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:50.240 recovery beer. And fortunately for all of us, Lasco Brewery 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.840 immediately jumped on the Luca train started launching their recovery 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.160 beer addition. In an IG post, they said, for every 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.320 tired Luca who needs a beer for regeneration, we have 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.240 brewed recovery beer. How do they do that so fast? 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.320 I also need a recovery beer. From watching the highlights, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.960 I can't imagine what Luca felt in that game. So 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.840 those are my top five regular season games of all 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.640 kind of time. Who am I missing? I feel like 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:31.440 I'm missing someone, but let me know who. It's almost 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.160 a new year, so I'm gonna turn over a new leaf. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.319 I've got some resolutions for a number of players and 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.400 teams that I need to give out. So let's start 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.400 in New Orleans where the Pelicans. They have a brief downturn. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.920 Brandon Ingram's been out, we know that, and I don't 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.680 know when he's coming back, but that's an issue, but 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.640 they're back to their winning ways. Zion the other night 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.960 had forty three and people are calling him exactly what 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.160 he is, which is a football player that plays basketball 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.520 on a very talented team. But I haven't New Year's 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.720 resolution concerning Zion, and I'm not. I'm you guys gotta 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.240 help me stay, stay steadfast to this because I don't 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.720 know it's gonna be easy. You know, New Year's resolutions 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.120 are never really gonna be easy. They they take work, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.200 they take dedication, and this one's gonna take a lot 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.520 of dedication and an accountability partner, and that is that is. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.760 I am not gonna talk about Zion's way anymore. I'm 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.480 not gonna I'm not gonna make any more Zion fat jokes. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.839 I'm not gonna say, oh, you know, Zion, where's your 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.480 where's your beignet? Oh Zion, Zion's been eating a little 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.400 extra kreole. I'm not gonna be like ooh Zion, Zion 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.199 had some steak last night, That's why he was a 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.720 little I'm not gonna do any of that. Do I 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.640 regret saying he was out of shape last year? No? 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.040 I do not. I am not going to regret that. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.160 I am not going to apologize for that. Do I 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.760 regret saying that before anyone else that he was gonna 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.280 miss the entire season last year? No? No, I do 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.120 not regret that. We were right on both accounts. But 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.079 that doesn't mean it's nice. So we're gonna try to 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.720 be nice to Zion because listen, do I regret making 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.680 light of his weight issues when he was going through 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:13.559 trials and tribulations with his health, Well, I gotta do, actually, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.080 especially when he said that those kind of comments and 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.079 I never made them to be mean, but he said 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.000 that they really hurt him, not my jokes in particular. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.000 I'm sure he didn't even listen to him, but you 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.920 know the rhetoric of the media just saying that he's fat. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.280 He said, hey, that's he goes hey, that's mean, and 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.920 I was like, damn, damn. I should probably stop talking 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.760 about Zion. Do I think he's gonna still have conditioning issues? Probably, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.520 Like he's he's a big boy. This is like a 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.520 big boy like Shack. Shack has had his own trials 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.800 and tribulations. But I'm not going to say anything about 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.520 Zion being out of shape because he eats too much. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.920 I'm not gonna say anything about Zion getting injured or 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:59.880 twisting his knee because he's eating too much creole or 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.440 I'm not going to anymore. And if he stays on 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.839 the court and he can't stay on the court, we'll 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.079 cross that bridge when we get there. So down in Orlando, 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.080 let's move on. I've also been pretty harsh on the 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.520 Magic franchise, mostly because people don't really care about them 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.280 and they have no fans and they're losing franchise, and 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.000 their ownership group isn't great and they really don't draft 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.400 the right players, and their pr team is maybe the 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.280 worst I've ever seen in all of sports. And that's 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.000 really saying something. But my newly Ears resolution for them 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.040 is to just not say anything mean about them or 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.880 doubt anything about Paolo ban Carol. I'm not doubting anything 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.320 about him again. The guy is special. He's gonna win 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.520 Rookie of the Year. I saw him play live in college. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.640 I've seen him play live in the pros. I've seen 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.400 him play live in the Summer League. And I'm damn 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:53.560 near ready to say that Palo could take the reins 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.120 from Lebron James for the first time. I'm ready to 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.920 say if it's anyone, it will be him. He pad 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.520 turns his game after Lebron. That's what he said. The 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.720 person that I pattered my game off the most is 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.560 Lebron James. And you can see it in his passing. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.240 You can see it in terms of how bald dominant 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.840 he can be, how he can do many things, and 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.480 he's very dynamic on the basketball court. But good lord, 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.000 Powo is balling out just absolutely insane. Only one player 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.760 in NBA history has had more twenty point games before 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:29.640 Christmas their rookieyear. That's and his likeness is on half 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.720 of the shoes in the league. Michael Jordan and Powell, Polo. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.720 That's it, Michael Jordan and Powlo. Powlo probably is gonna 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.920 make the All Star Game. He might make All NBA thirteam. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.040 He probably won't, but he is. He is just a treasure. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.200 And he's turned a team that didn't make any damn sense, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.120 a team with misfit spacing, a team with too many 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.320 players of the same position, and he's helped unlock Bull Bull. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.520 He's unleashed Franz Wagner. I mean, I've spent so much 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.240 time talking about the magic because of Powlo. He has 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.720 transformed this franchise like Lebron James transformed the Cavaliers. Ban 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.280 Carro is actually better than advertised. He should have probably 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.120 gone first when he was seventeen, Like Palo ban Carro 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.360 could have gone first in twenty seventeen, and I think 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.120 it would have been the right call. Like this is 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.200 like when he was when he was fifteen years old, 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.920 eating Captain crunch for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He probably 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.080 could have been a proven So I'm not questioning Palo 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.000 in twenty twenty three at all or beyond, because there's 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.160 frankly nothing that he can do to surprise me. Anymore. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.760 Does Palo need work? Absolutely, does he need to be 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.440 a better ball handler? He's six fucking ten, Okay, Like, yes, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.520 does he need to learn that part of the game. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.240 Does that need to increase in his dynamic ability? Sure? 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.840 But he's six ten, two sixty and just an absolute 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.120 wrecking ball. Lots of shit happening in Atlanta. That that 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.920 leads me to my next resolution. My new year's resolution 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.600 for the Hawks is just really to put my thinking 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.800 cap on and my inspector krik had on and find 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.720 out what the fuck is actually happening down there. Because 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.960 if you think the beef between Trey and coach Nate 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.240 is bad, if you think that was weird, like a 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:19.520 little spooky, things just disintegrated. Because now the Hawks have 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:24.200 taken another incredibly bizarre step of firing their fucking GM 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.120 before Christmas, the same GM that almost won GM of 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.600 the Year like less than eighteen months ago. So yeah, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.480 I am going to sink my teeth thin, make some 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.920 calls and find out for y'all what is happening. The 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.040 Hawks are on the verge of becoming a dumpster fire. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:44.440 To be honest, I didn't see it coming when they 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.960 went went to the Eastern Conference Finals, did you guys? 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.920 I don't know if anyone saw it coming. I don't 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.600 think I'm alone, but it is toxic down there. Has 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.640 a GM ever been fired before Christmas when it didn't 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:59.080 involve like some sort of allegation he didn't do anything wrong. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:04.200 He's just been in that. Like, I can't overestimate how 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.480 rare and unusual move this is. Teams, especially ones just 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.280 eighteen months from an Eastern Conference Finals team does not 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.679 do that. Schlank himself, who's still on staff, but not 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.560 the GM, which is also weird as well, Like they 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.159 just are like, well, we have to pay you no 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.800 matter what, so fucking get our coffee, bitch. That's basically 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.560 what they're doing to travish Lank right now. They're like, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.600 we can't if we fire you, we have to pay 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.320 you and you're unemployed, so we're just gonna keep you 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.200 on staff. We're gonna make you do some bad shit, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.760 put the Yellowstone brand on you so you can never 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.560 fucking leave and tell our secrets anyway. This is what 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.960 Travis Schlank said himself and his exit presser. He said 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.680 throughout the season, Hawk's owner Tony and I had and 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.399 multiple conversations about how I have been feeling in the 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:52.200 new year, Tommy has suggested I take a step back 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:59.280 prioritize my family. WHOA so he's officially an advisor, but listen, yeah, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.399 one of the hottest in the league, a guy who 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.679 signed in a lucrative extension, is now essentially out of 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.679 a job. And the reason is the dysfunction in the 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.520 Atlanta Hawks organization. All the things that they did wrong, 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.000 all of the contracts that they extended, extending John Collins, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.280 going out and giving more money to Clint Capella, making 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.040 that de Jonte Murray trade. The lists over and over 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.520 and over of what he has done has been very suspect. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.480 And of course number one on that list is Trey Young. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.119 And whatever is going on with Treyng and the people 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.840 that Travishlank hired to interact with Treyjung is not good. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.680 It either is Trey Young or it's everyone that Travish 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.680 Flank hired. And you know what, now we're gonna find 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.040 out who it really was. His short career, he's already 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.080 killed one coach, he's threatened to kill another. He's buried 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.280 a GM that we thought might be executive of the year, 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.760 and now the franchise might be shook as well. So 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.800 maybe with a new GM, Treyjung will find someone that 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.320 makes him happy. So yeah, my resolution is to look 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.920 into the Atlanta Hawks, keep my eye open, keep both 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.679 eyes open, and find out what's happening with this dumpster 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:09.040 fire and report back. I really, really seriously pondered whether 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.760 my next New Year's resolution should be to not talk 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.959 about the Lakers again until they break five hundred. But 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.919 then that would mean no Laker talk on the heat check, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.240 wouldn't it. So I realized that would maybe make no 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.720 sense for us, and then it would maybe mean no 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.320 Laker talk until they actually have their first round pick 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.160 of their own and maybe become a team that can 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.000 actually compete, and that's probably twenty twenty nine. So I'm 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.080 not gonna make a commitment to do to not talk 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.480 about the Lakers until you know, I'm damn near forty 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.840 years old. I can't do that. I'm more than forty 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.560 years old. Instead, my New Year's resolution is just simply 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.760 to enjoy the Lake Show, because there's nothing more pornographic 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.200 than to know that the Lakers have let go of 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.560 the rope. Truthfully, like to know that they have given up, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.600 and that new reports rob Polinka coming out and saying, hey, 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.320 you know, we might just stand pat the new reports 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.159 or the Lakers are considering doing absolutely nothing again at 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:03.679 the trade deadline. That is two years in a row. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.479 If you're keeping a track that is just that is 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:12.040 just enough for me to subside on for decades. According 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.359 to The La Times Dan Wolkie, the Lakers are seriously 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.480 considering to just say fuck it and ride out the 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.000 season with the status quo. That means no trades, no 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.080 major deals, no desperate plays at the deadline for a 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.439 player who's going to further burden this team, and no 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.000 trading of their own two first rounders left in this decade. 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.639 I know your first question is the same as mine. 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.240 How do you think Bron's gonna feel about this? Well? 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.400 Not great as it turns out. This is what Broun 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.959 said in the Pressure the other day. I'm a winner. 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.359 I want to win, and I want to win and 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.879 give myself a chance to win and still compete for chips. 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.440 That has always been my passion, That has always been 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.320 my goal since I entered the league as an eighteen 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.960 year old out of Akron, Ohio. I know the steps 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.439 it takes to get there, do you, though, Braun? Do you? 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:58.680 But once you get there and know how to get there, 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.600 playing basketball at this level, just to be playing basketball 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.959 is not in my DNA. Pause. If you don't want 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:09.160 to play basketball anymore, just to play basketball anymore, then 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.880 you have two options. One leave the LA Lakers, two 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.320 retire because it's not happening anymore there. So then he says, 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.840 this is not my DNA, So we'll see what happens 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.480 and see how fresh my mind stays over the next 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.000 couple of years. That seems like a guy who is 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.919 trying to push on the leverage button. Yeah, I could 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.280 possibly just take my ball and go home. I could 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.639 just andrew luck this bitch because he doesn't want to lose. 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:35.840 That's why he deleted a tweet from a year ago 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.199 recently about how he'll never miss the playoffs again in 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:42.639 his career. He knows that was bullshit, bullshit. He knows 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.320 what the future in LA looks like. And folks, it's 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.880 not great. It's not being five hundred, it's not making 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.520 the playing team, and it's certainly not making the fucking 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.880 playoffs and contending for a championship. So I'm not gonna 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:54.560