Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, the New York Knicks,
Speaker 2: the Knickerbockers, if you will, off to another hot start.
Speaker 1: Could this be another year that they go to the playoffs?
Speaker 1: And there is one reason a man who might actually be,
Speaker 1: in hindsight underpaid. We break down the Knicks hot start
Speaker 1: and we get into what's happening in Portland, which, as
Speaker 1: a Blazers fan, I am an absolute shock about Steam's
Speaker 1: four one baby what. Plus we cover some news around
Speaker 1: the league, including the Lakers continuing to stink but now
Speaker 1: being tone deaf. On top of that, Kevin Durant being
Speaker 1: run into the ground again in Brooklyn. I compare the
Speaker 1: NFL and the NBA's handling of the concussion protocol. Uh wi,
Speaker 1: let's just say this NBA handling things a lot better
Speaker 1: than the NFL and Joellen deciding you know what, fuck it,
Speaker 1: I'm not playing defense anymore and the NBA going all
Speaker 1: in on Victor wembin Yama and the hype train. So
Speaker 1: much to talk about, so Nick dropped that motherfucking beat.
Speaker 1: I have a thought, obviously since this is a podcast
Speaker 1: about thoughts, but is Jalen Brunson actually underpaid. Everybody said,
Speaker 1: oh man, the Knicks really fucked up with Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: one hundred and four million. No way he's worth all
Speaker 1: that money. I actually think if you look at this
Speaker 1: first four games and it continues for the rest of
Speaker 1: the duration of the contract, this deal looks like a
Speaker 1: bad deal for Jalen Brunson. Like it looks like he's
Speaker 1: worth Damian Lillard money. I hate to say it, but
Speaker 1: the man is bawling and true point guards are very
Speaker 1: hard to find these days. Jalen Brunson was the first
Speaker 1: of what we're supposed to be two huge moves for
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, right And in fact, you could
Speaker 1: pretty much argue that last season they were committed to
Speaker 1: this being the case. They knew it was bad as
Speaker 1: soon as Dereck Rose got injured. Tibbs didn't have any
Speaker 1: of his guys in there, and things were not looking good,
Speaker 1: and they thought it's gonna be Brunson, and they thought
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Donovan Mitchell. And then a very funny
Speaker 1: thing happened. Danny Ainge did Danny Ainge things, said, you
Speaker 1: know what, Leon Rose deuces I'm done doing business with you.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna deal with Donovan. Mitchell to the Calves
Speaker 1: and left the Knicks scrambling, and at the last minute
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out how to piece together a
Speaker 1: roster that was largely outside of Jalen Brunson unchanged. And
Speaker 1: you have Julius Randall making one hundred and seventeen million
Speaker 1: dollars over four years, and he's looking like an atrocious
Speaker 1: player that you can't get rid of. Sad boy season
Speaker 1: in New York. I know, I was live on Wfan
Speaker 1: for it, and people were calling in like.
Speaker 2: No, no, we didn't want him anyway, No, no, There.
Speaker 1: Was a lot of that. Right But now, after a
Speaker 1: week of basketball, the Knickerbockers stand three and one with
Speaker 1: an OT loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, a team that
Speaker 1: everybody is in absolute love with. On opening night where
Speaker 1: they clawed back like a very gritty team down fifteen,
Speaker 1: take it to OT, they should have won the game,
Speaker 1: but there was a no call goal ten by jaw Morant. Truthfully,
Speaker 1: the Knicks should be could be four and oh right now,
Speaker 1: which they would be the only undefeated team in the NBA.
Speaker 1: So what's the difference. My man, big Booty Brunson, Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: a six to one guard out of Villanova. He's not
Speaker 1: the fastest, he's not the quickest. We know he's not
Speaker 1: the biggest. He's six to one on a good day.
Speaker 1: You look at him. I've seen him up close. I've
Speaker 1: covered him when he played for Villanova. He's five eleven
Speaker 1: and a half. Let's be honest. He's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that doesn't wear that height. Well, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? One of the few true point guards
Speaker 1: left in the league. Right with doubt Donovan Mitchell and
Speaker 1: what was pretty much gonna be a shooter friendly offense. Instead,
Speaker 1: Tims went back to his basics and basically put the
Speaker 1: offense and the next season in the hands of Brunson,
Speaker 1: a guard in which his own dad calls a thick
Speaker 1: rear ended guard. Yep, you think I'm joking. The other
Speaker 1: word that Rick Brunson used for his son's booty was significant.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson has the significant caboose and it runs in
Speaker 1: the family. And that kabooz folks is getting loose, getting
Speaker 1: loose on the court. It's very on the court. I
Speaker 1: don't mean it pause, very much pause. I don't know
Speaker 1: what he's doing outside of that. It's so clear. It's
Speaker 1: so I didn't mean say it like that. It's very
Speaker 1: clear when you watch him. He's running this offense. And
Speaker 1: I saw him at the Garden on Monday night against
Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic, and man, does he have command of
Speaker 1: the Knicks offense in a way that they haven't had.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, since Mama there goes that man Mark Jackson.
Speaker 1: Multiple times I saw Jalen Brunson on the floor pointing
Speaker 1: at the court to different players like stand there be there,
Speaker 1: like in front, yo, go over there, and they did.
Speaker 1: Like little chess pieces, they moved to Jalen Brunson's whim.
Speaker 1: And that is benefiting no one more than our guy,
Speaker 1: Julius Randall. All of a sudden, the player that we
Speaker 1: fell in love with two years ago, that one most
Speaker 1: improved player is back. And not coincidentally, it correlates with
Speaker 1: I don't know, Randal having a true point guard where
Speaker 1: Randall doesn't have to run the fucking offense. This is
Speaker 1: what Julius Randall had to say about what Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: does for him. Bump the audio up, Nick because it's a.
Speaker 3: Little low early games, like, he just makes the game
Speaker 3: so much easier for me, you know, if I, you know,
Speaker 3: just keep moving segua scring is run the floor. You know,
Speaker 3: he's always looking to make the right play. So he
Speaker 3: finds me, He gets me going, gets me easy baskets.
Speaker 1: He just makes the game so much easier for me
Speaker 1: if I just keep moving and setting screens, running the floor.
Speaker 1: He's always looking to make the right play. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: last year Julius Randall was tasked with the Jalen Brunson role,
Speaker 1: and let me just say, this wasn't really working. Wasn't
Speaker 1: really working. Think about this, Julius Randall is scoring more
Speaker 1: points in less minutes than last year and is shooting
Speaker 1: fifty four percent from two, his best in his knixt career,
Speaker 1: because I don't know, he's not taking those god awful
Speaker 1: long twos at the end of shot clocks anymore. According
Speaker 1: to official NBA stats, last year, Randall averaged two point
Speaker 1: two dribbles per touch, had the ball in his hands
Speaker 1: four point one minutes per game, felt like more. This year,
Speaker 1: he's down to one point four eight dribbles per touch
Speaker 1: and two point eight minutes per game. What a difference.
Speaker 1: And if you look at a stat line, it's ridoculous.
Speaker 1: Twenty points per game, nine rebounds per game, three assists,
Speaker 1: and one point two steals. Julius Randall is getting busy,
Speaker 1: and Randal actually has added some things to his game.
Speaker 1: He is shooting floaters now, Julius Randall shooting floaters. He
Speaker 1: had two, count them, two zero dribble floaters against Orlando
Speaker 1: on Monday. When's the last time Julius Randall had two
Speaker 1: zero dribble floaters? He had two combined since the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen season. So he's having two in one game and
Speaker 1: had two in the course of five years. He is
Speaker 1: adding to his bag. This is what Tibbs had to
Speaker 1: say about how differently Julius Randall is playing and why so.
Speaker 4: And Julia's was terrific from start to finish. I love
Speaker 4: the way he's diversifying his game, like running the floor.
Speaker 4: Sometimes he's the pace guy. He'll push it up and
Speaker 4: then he'll create movements. Sometimes he just beats people down
Speaker 4: the floor. I think him getting easy baskets is huge
Speaker 4: for us, huge and uh it puts a lot of
Speaker 4: pressure on the defense. I thought Mitch gave us great
Speaker 4: minutes and you can't say enough about you know, what
Speaker 4: Jalen does for the team. He just he's incomplete control
Speaker 4: at all all times. And the game. You know, you
Speaker 4: hit some tough spots in a game, and he has
Speaker 4: such a strong demeanor and a strong face, and it's
Speaker 4: one of determination you have. It gives your team belief
Speaker 4: that we can do this. We we you know we
Speaker 4: can play well.
Speaker 1: Wow, a strong face gives your team belief. Yep, he does.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson is making this whole thing work because why
Speaker 1: Tibbs's vision works only with a competent point guard, and
Speaker 1: they did not have one last year because Derrick Rose
Speaker 1: was injured for much of that year. He needs a
Speaker 1: very specific roster and outside of Jalen making this team better,
Speaker 1: making his teammates better, being in New York makes him
Speaker 1: better too. In a league where big men are now
Speaker 1: shifting towards the perimeter, Jalen is taking what his dad
Speaker 1: calls a thick booty down into the paint to create
Speaker 1: space and get easy shots. This is what he said
Speaker 1: about his post play. I'm always comfortable in the post.
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable being able to play with my back to
Speaker 1: the basket or just playing out of the mid post
Speaker 1: or playing from the elbow. It gives me a chance
Speaker 1: to kind of slow down. For a guard, it's hard
Speaker 1: to guard. It's unconventional. Let's talk about his stat line
Speaker 1: his first four games with the Knicks. Twenty points per game,
Speaker 1: eight and a half assists per game, one and a
Speaker 1: half turnovers, fifty one percent from the field, forty one
Speaker 1: percent from three, and eighty five percent from the free
Speaker 1: throw line. All of that to say, do you believe
Speaker 1: me now? Jalen Brunson might just be underpaid one hundred
Speaker 1: and four million dollars. Who unlocks the offense. Who makes
Speaker 1: a guy you're paying one hundred and seventeen million dollars
Speaker 1: to actually worth one hundred and seventeen million dollars, slows
Speaker 1: the team down in times of pressure, has poise helps
Speaker 1: you win games cheap at twice the price. I could
Speaker 1: go on this entire podcast about Jalen Brunson. I've loved
Speaker 1: him long before it was sexy two. I loved him
Speaker 1: at Villanova. I thought that he should be a point
Speaker 1: guard that the Mavericks used and paid, long before Lucas
Speaker 1: stepped into that building. But you know what, that's okay
Speaker 1: because he's getting his shine now. And I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised if the Nicks end up in the playoffs
Speaker 1: again this year. What is happening in Portland? Can someone
Speaker 1: tell me? I am stunned, as they say, you can
Speaker 1: knock me over with a feather right now. And I
Speaker 1: say that as a lifelong Blazers fan. I have watched
Speaker 1: them so far this year, and I look at what
Speaker 1: they're doing on the court and I just say, I
Speaker 1: don't get it. Could Could the Portland Trailblazers be for real?
Speaker 1: Could they be actually good? They were the last undefeated
Speaker 1: team in the NBA last night before losing to the
Speaker 1: Miami Heat that I don't know went to the finals
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, into the Eastern Conference finals
Speaker 1: last year, it was very close until Damian Lillard tore
Speaker 1: up his calf muscle, which you know, hopefully Dame's okay
Speaker 1: doesn't appear to be too serious. But I tell you what,
Speaker 1: games like this happened. But this team is just not
Speaker 1: the same when Dame is not on the court. Anfrony
Speaker 1: averaged twelve point six points per game without him last
Speaker 1: year for a reason. But before we get into this
Speaker 1: iteration of the Blazers. I have a very hot take
Speaker 1: that I think is going to not be a very
Speaker 1: popular opinion, especially in Portland. I have to admit it,
Speaker 1: and I've thought this for a long time. It's probably
Speaker 1: gonna get me banned from the city that I grew
Speaker 1: up in. I hated watching Brandon Roy play basketball. I
Speaker 1: hated it. It was fucking disgusting. I hate that brand
Speaker 1: of basketball. I hated the offense of the team when
Speaker 1: he was on it. I hated it. I didn't care
Speaker 1: that he scored fifty on regular occasions. The way he
Speaker 1: did it was disgusting. It was slow, it was a
Speaker 1: lot of mid range. It was a lot of like
Speaker 1: watching molasses drip down from a I don't know, a
Speaker 1: bottle into a cup. It was just not good. I
Speaker 1: hated the fact that Nate McMillan ran that team. And
Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't Brandon Roy's fault, maybe he was all
Speaker 1: Nate McMillan's fault, but he did coach Trey Young and
Speaker 1: the offense looked a little different then. I hated it.
Speaker 1: I want guys that are different than Brandon Roy. I
Speaker 1: want freak athletes. Is that so much to ask, I
Speaker 1: want guys that can jump out of the gym. I
Speaker 1: want guys with long wingspans like Stretch Armstrong. I want dudes.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you put up fifty points. What
Speaker 1: I care about is what does it look like? What
Speaker 1: does it feel like? Am I excited? I watched Brandon
Speaker 1: Roy drop fifty in a playoff game and it was
Speaker 1: boring as fuck. It's true, and I would never go
Speaker 1: in on YouTube and like, go Brandon Roy highlights?
Speaker 4: Do you?
Speaker 1: Does anybody say I want to see Brandon Roy in
Speaker 1: his prime again? I'm sorry. I don't like that style
Speaker 1: of a team. I don't like that style of quote
Speaker 1: unquote athletes. All I always wanted was a team full
Speaker 1: of dudes, guys with positive wingspans, guys with forty five
Speaker 1: injured verticals. Is that too much to add? And then
Speaker 1: Neil o'shak came around and he gave me CJ McCollum.
Speaker 1: No shade to CJ. But he couldn't do a damn
Speaker 1: thing athletically. He was skilled, he was smart. And we
Speaker 1: got Nurk and we got Evan Turner and we got
Speaker 1: Zach Collins and oh we didn't have any fucking athletes none.
Speaker 1: It was just like, this team is gonna be awful
Speaker 1: to watch. And then Terry Stotts had us doing a
Speaker 1: million drouble handoffs and just shooting threes, and you could
Speaker 1: just tell this team does nothing for me. We can
Speaker 1: win a bunch of games, we can be a five seed,
Speaker 1: and Dame Lillard has to just take over anybody who
Speaker 1: is an a Portland Trailblazer fan. You had to tune
Speaker 1: in in the fourth quarter to watch Dame go god mode,
Speaker 1: and you know what, fine, that was okay, But I
Speaker 1: always knew this team is going nowhere because in a
Speaker 1: game that thrives on athletes, they can do athlete things.
Speaker 1: When you don't have enough of them, and you don't
Speaker 1: have guys that are i don't know, six' six the
Speaker 1: seven foot, wingspan and you have a bunch of pigmies
Speaker 1: in the back court and guys who can't defend in
Speaker 1: the front court that are, soft you're not gonna win
Speaker 1: too many, games especially in the, playoffs when everybody else
Speaker 1: can scheme for your. Ass so this is the first
Speaker 1: time in my, life folks THAT i can, say holy,
Speaker 1: shit we have a team full of, freaks freak. ATHLETES
Speaker 1: i did some deep digging, today lean, long, positive, wingspan gritty.
Speaker 1: Freaks they are so fun and that's all that it. Matters,
Speaker 1: right this is a. Game it's not like we're trying
Speaker 1: to win A Nobel Peace. Prize we're trying to entertain, here,
Speaker 1: right that's what. Matters be, fun be. COMPETITIVE i don't
Speaker 1: care what you. WIN i don't care if you go
Speaker 1: to the, finals because you're not. Gonna warriors, exist, right
Speaker 1: The Memphis grizzlies, exist The Phoenix suns. Exist be, young be,
Speaker 1: fun and be, gritty and that's what we. Have Keon.
Speaker 1: Johnson Keon johnson may not even know him if you're a.
Speaker 1: Casual he recorded the highest vertical in the history of
Speaker 1: THE nba combine at forty eight. Inches if that doesn't
Speaker 1: make you, SALIVATE i don't know what. Does he's not
Speaker 1: even the best athlete on a. Team Keon. Johnson Shadon,
Speaker 1: Sharp Shandon sharp is EVERYTHING i want in a. Player
Speaker 1: forty nine inch vertical that is the highest ever recorded
Speaker 1: in AN nba game. Ever Michael jordan forty, Eight Shaden
Speaker 1: sharp forty. Nine that was the first SIGN i saw
Speaker 1: a team committed the trade For keon and then you
Speaker 1: pick up shadon sharp because, why why the fuck not?
Speaker 1: Right AND i was, Like, wow this guy's, head this
Speaker 1: guy's collarbone is in line with the. Rim his head
Speaker 1: is a full head above the. Rim Nsir Littlensir. Little
Speaker 1: you may not know him if you're a casual. Fan Roy.
Speaker 1: Williams Roy, williams the coach OF, unc said That Nair
Speaker 1: little was the best athlete he's ever coached in his entire.
Speaker 1: Life they went through athlete after athlete after, athlete and
Speaker 1: he was, Like, nope doesn't have as much. Explosiveness explosiveness
Speaker 1: is nos doesn't have as much length and quickness and
Speaker 1: speed as. Nas the only player that he could compare
Speaker 1: to Nos little in the history OF unc was who just,
Speaker 1: guess just, guess give it a. Guess does his name
Speaker 1: rhyme With Michael, Morden, yes it. Does Michael jordan is
Speaker 1: the OLD i just made that. Up so if you're
Speaker 1: wondering why that was, weird it's BECAUSE i just came
Speaker 1: up with. It Jabbari walker is six' eight with a six'
Speaker 1: eleven wingspan and an eight foot, nine standing reach which
Speaker 1: means this man can touch the net without getting on.
Speaker 1: His tippy toes add in a, thirty inch vertical which
Speaker 1: is very low considering that this team is. Full of
Speaker 1: freaks and his hands well up over eleven feet. In
Speaker 1: the air and this is a guy who's just the
Speaker 1: tenth guy. On The bench TRENDON watford from lsu six
Speaker 1: eight two forty seven foot two point twenty, five inch,
Speaker 1: wingspan giant hands eight foot, nine standing reach, explosive as
Speaker 1: hell can get, out into. Transition has body he's he can.
Speaker 1: Body smaller players he. Is A dude greg brown, six
Speaker 1: eight forward six, to eleven wingspan eight foot eleven standing
Speaker 1: reach got a ninety rating for his ATHLETICISM On the
Speaker 1: nba draft dot net forty four inch. Vertical and less we.
Speaker 1: Forget My man aunt Simons Won the dunk, contest and
Speaker 1: he's what six three just doing windmills and practice, and,
Speaker 1: they're like hey you should participate in. The dunk, contest
Speaker 1: he's like do you, really Think so because i'm not
Speaker 1: really getting any MINUTES, in the nba, and they're like.
Speaker 1: Just try out, just wins it. Just wins it gary
Speaker 1: pay in the second thirty, nine inch vertical top ten
Speaker 1: in the combine when. He came out he once won
Speaker 1: a jump ball against A Seven. Footer. JONAS valanciunas what
Speaker 1: i can't even Believe This team dame lillard thirty nine
Speaker 1: inch fort and he's the old man of. The crew
Speaker 1: man is? This team. Fun long athletic they have the
Speaker 1: seventh youngest ROSTER in the nba twenty four point four,
Speaker 1: years on average and That Is because dame lillard. Is
Speaker 1: thirty two. Let's be honest you're, Sharing the ball they're moving,
Speaker 1: Off the ball they're, Cutting like crazy they're. Playing HOT potato, Like,
Speaker 1: i said understots it, was look, dribble hand off, drible,
Speaker 1: hand off, dribble, hand, off, iso, iso, dribble dribble dribble step,
Speaker 1: back three brick get out in a transition down twenty
Speaker 1: before you. Can even blink. It was ugly out with
Speaker 1: the old and in. With the, new. Bye bye o'sha
Speaker 1: take your steak and potatoes and nineteen a five mindset
Speaker 1: and get the fuck out with your. TOXIC workplace culture
Speaker 1: i love this. So damn much no one, saw it,
Speaker 1: coming Not Me. Not Zach low zach low called, this
Speaker 1: team meh call. This team blah let me ask you
Speaker 1: all those ATHLETIC dudes, that i mentioned does that give.
Speaker 1: You blah vibes doesn't give. Me blah vibes You Look,
Speaker 1: at josh hart You Look. At justice winslow those are.
Speaker 1: Some dudes too didn't even give, you their. Pedigree Their
Speaker 1: statistics justice winslow sixty. Six playing five do you think
Speaker 1: a non athlete could play five? At Six six jeremy.
Speaker 1: Grant Explosive athletic damian lillard said all kinds of crazy.
Speaker 1: Things about, him he said this dude looks like he
Speaker 1: was built. In a, lab, long arms athletic, can, change directions,
Speaker 1: fast has quickness he has all these things that. Make us,
Speaker 1: better holy shit? Are you serious i'm gonna make. A
Speaker 1: bold statement NOT only do i believe that this is,
Speaker 1: the Most athletic explosive blazer, TEAM in history i think
Speaker 1: that this is the most athletic TEAM in the. Nba
Speaker 1: right now and That includes The Clippers with Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1: And paul george that includes The, Likes of cleveland that,
Speaker 1: includes the length the length of all these Other. Teams
Speaker 1: like milwaukee they've, got some, athletes, but no no go
Speaker 1: all the way to the end. Of the bench who
Speaker 1: else has a forty five inch vertical and is eight foot,
Speaker 1: eleven standing reach who is not even? Cracking the rotation
Speaker 1: just tell me who? Who are they we know It's.
Speaker 1: Not the lakers they are fucking trash combined with they're
Speaker 1: the seventh youngest team. In, THE league man i don't
Speaker 1: even know what to SAY except for i don't care.
Speaker 1: WHAT you win i don't care how many. GAMES you
Speaker 1: win i am, now Locked in like pac, TWELVE after dark.
Speaker 1: I am ready i Watched all the blazer game that started,
Speaker 1: at TEN thirty and i take my. SLEEP very seriously i.
Speaker 1: WATCHED him live i, was Very excited and i'm going
Speaker 1: to continue. To be excited all we need now is
Speaker 1: a seven footer, who can dribble who can, come around
Speaker 1: screens who's like. A freak athlete is there anyone that
Speaker 1: you guys Could think of maybe we could make. A
Speaker 1: crack For maybe a French Guy from North Africa where.
Speaker 1: Adam silver decides we're gonna just watch all of his
Speaker 1: games this year as a, seventeen year old probably The
Speaker 1: only pro france team we're gonna. Get to see look
Speaker 1: OUT when, beyond ba anybody, oh my God. Or. The
Speaker 1: blazers fun don't know IF, we're good tbd but we
Speaker 1: will be entertaining this entire year.
Speaker 4: Quick.
Speaker 1: Around the league if you, want to KNOW and, How
Speaker 1: I know adam, silver, is excited elated just, absolutely beyond
Speaker 1: words trying to get as much MONEY for the nba as.
Speaker 1: He Possibly can For victor wamba YAMA of the nba
Speaker 1: just let us know that they inked a deal to
Speaker 1: Carry all of metropolitan's. Ninety two games? What is that what?
Speaker 1: Is that game what, Did, you Say Oh that's victor
Speaker 1: WAMBANYAMA'S TEAM. On, nba tv yes we are going to
Speaker 1: get every Single one of victor's games FROM The l Mb.
Speaker 1: PRO a league i don't even know, what this. IS
Speaker 1: don't care I just know i Get. To see VICTOR that's.
Speaker 1: All i know this is kind of LIKE if the
Speaker 1: nba had decided to Broadcast All of lebron james's games and,
Speaker 1: in high school except for we're gonna get more of
Speaker 1: them because it is. A, Pro league folks we've never
Speaker 1: seen anything. Like this before this, amount of hype this,
Speaker 1: amount of commitment this. Amount of, dedication Oh boy all
Speaker 1: i'll say as a cynic and as somebody who doesn't
Speaker 1: want to put this out, in THE universe but. I
Speaker 1: have to is, You, better Hope Adam that victor wamyama
Speaker 1: does and. Sprain his ankle you better hope that Nothing.
Speaker 1: Happens To victor are you're gonna be carrying A bunch
Speaker 1: of metropolitan ninety two games and nobody. WANTS to Watch
Speaker 1: i guarantee i'm gonna watch a. Bunch of these victor?
Speaker 1: Is that special moving on? In a MOVE it's about,
Speaker 1: i don't know forty forty. Years TOO Late the la
Speaker 1: lakers Will Be retiring george mikeen's number ninety Nine jersey.
Speaker 1: On october thirtieth who don't feel bad if you, don't
Speaker 1: know him but he is the most important big man
Speaker 1: that you've. Never heard of miken was the first SUPERSTAR in,
Speaker 1: the nba history six' Ten Center. For the minneapolis lakers
Speaker 1: he was lethal with. Both of his hands he redefined
Speaker 1: the big man. Position pretty much forever, he won seven
Speaker 1: chips that's, championships in, nine years, including three count. Them
Speaker 1: three scoring titles if you want To Know how important,
Speaker 1: george miken was goaltending the current width of the foul
Speaker 1: lane and the shot cl we're ALL created by the
Speaker 1: nba To try to stop george micn. From dominating the
Speaker 1: Game That's like When augusta tiger proofed augusta. And it
Speaker 1: didn't work that's what basically they tried. To do against
Speaker 1: him think about being SO good that the nba has
Speaker 1: to come, out and have meetings schedule big hyt press
Speaker 1: conference meetings around a, big, table to say hey we.
Speaker 1: Got to stop this, george mic and guy how? Do
Speaker 1: we fix this he's doing too much like. Nobody has
Speaker 1: a shot what kind of things can we do rule wise? To,
Speaker 1: slow him down so considering he was named the best
Speaker 1: basketball player in the first half, of the twentieth century
Speaker 1: it's pretty fair to say the dude probably deserved for
Speaker 1: his jersey to be retired a. Little earlier than this
Speaker 1: but the interesting thing is this Rumors Are that Both
Speaker 1: Genie buss and rob polinka won't be in public for
Speaker 1: the retirement ceremony because the fan reaction would, be shall?
Speaker 1: We say? NOT good not good a complete, and, utter
Speaker 1: shit show perhaps. And It's well deserved the lakers never
Speaker 1: started zero To Four under doctor jerry buss, in thirty
Speaker 1: four years but now have done it three times In,
Speaker 1: the last Nine yuck and the lakers are losing and the,
Speaker 1: games aren't even close, and worst of all the team
Speaker 1: seems to be just somehow tone. Deaf because of it
Speaker 1: The latest, EXAMPLE the, lakers are i mean they're bringing
Speaker 1: in motivational speakers to get them, up and going, right
Speaker 1: get them, motivated get them passionate figure. Out how to
Speaker 1: score they probably brought into, someone like, really inspirational someone
Speaker 1: eloquent someone unassailable IN terms of should i really be listening?
Speaker 1: To you about this it isn't really unusual for them
Speaker 1: to bring in that guy until you realize the guy
Speaker 1: that They Brought. In, was will, smith yeah uh yeah
Speaker 1: think about. That For a second The Lakers brought in
Speaker 1: will Smith to motivate a lakers team that is in the?
Speaker 1: Bottom of the barrel when? Did they plan that when? Did,
Speaker 1: they schedule that, smith according to reports was honored with,
Speaker 1: his own custom jersey hung out with the, team's seventeen
Speaker 1: championship trophies was autographed With the most of, lake the
Speaker 1: LA's Roster, plus head Coach Darvinham, team Owner Genie. Buss and,
Speaker 1: rob plink so okay he was given. The red carpet
Speaker 1: treatment is anyone else like a little feel in some kind?
Speaker 1: Of way, about, this Come on now i i'm trying
Speaker 1: To stay. Away from lakers propaganda i'm trying to not
Speaker 1: be a part of the old media that just, goes
Speaker 1: and goes and as, my mom would say. Beats, a
Speaker 1: dead horse right. They're already down, Bad. But come on
Speaker 1: lakers you can't make this easy for me because it's
Speaker 1: chum in the water. And it's shark week this, is
Speaker 1: A comedy podcast and i am really tired Of, talking
Speaker 1: ABOUT the lakers but i just can't. Not talk about this.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely ridiculous how is slapping? Together no pun
Speaker 1: intended kind Of Pun intended from will smith gonna help these?
Speaker 1: Guards hit open threes like it was part of what
Speaker 1: they're billing. As, This Genius, series uh rob plinka you
Speaker 1: know he, came, up with that, right which is Like
Speaker 1: There's a. Very rob Polenka Name nothing screams rob polinka
Speaker 1: more than A series of a ted talks from problematic
Speaker 1: Characters Like nothing says rob polink is Out Of touch
Speaker 1: and genie buss? Is out of Touch Like higher ring
Speaker 1: will smith. For your genius series. Tune in Next week,
Speaker 1: we've Got Check's Notes herschel, walker pep Talk Coming followed
Speaker 1: by andrew tait talking about the role of masculinity. In
Speaker 1: the locker room what the? Fuck, are they doing seriously it,
Speaker 1: doesn't even. Feel, real does it anyway. We gotta move
Speaker 1: on if You've Ever wondered why kevin Durant, wanted out
Speaker 1: of brooklyn looked no. Further than this stat for, the first,
Speaker 1: four games excuse me kd has had the lowest plus
Speaker 1: MINUS rating in the nba. At minus fifty eight that
Speaker 1: is a Ridiculous stat considering that kevin duran is, currently
Speaker 1: averaging thirty two five and four with. Two steals per
Speaker 1: game do you know how bad everyone else has to
Speaker 1: be on the floor, when you're on it when you're
Speaker 1: averaging that much to drag? Down your plus minus it's
Speaker 1: so bad he's averaging over thirty six minutes per game,
Speaker 1: Because Just like usual steve nash has no idea. How
Speaker 1: to manage lineup He's going to run, durant into the ground,
Speaker 1: And come playoff time durant will be so exhausted that
Speaker 1: he misses shots in crucial moments or never even gets
Speaker 1: to the point where a crucial shot exists because they're
Speaker 1: getting so blown out by a, team that's much better much.
Speaker 1: More COHESIVE than them because i don't know they've. Been
Speaker 1: a playing team if you think last Season was wild
Speaker 1: In Brooklyn, with no ben simmons wait For This one
Speaker 1: when ben simmons is passing up Wide Open shots while,
Speaker 1: kyrie irving is saying, Shoot, the fucking ball ben shoot, The,
Speaker 1: Ball us too kyrie kyrie, is all of Us except
Speaker 1: for that kyrie believes in Conspiracy Theories. And quotes, Alex
Speaker 1: Jones moving on brandon ingram had a collision with the
Speaker 1: teammate in a Recent win over the pacers that landed.
Speaker 1: Him in concussion protocol with all the Furor OVER Tultug
Speaker 1: of a, I looa's recent concussion i thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting how The league and the pelicans are dealing with.
Speaker 1: A very similar situation, right reports came out not only
Speaker 1: Are they not letting ingram, play for precautionary reasons they're
Speaker 1: not even letting them fly with the team For Their
Speaker 1: Three game west Coast wing two of tugabayloha flew home
Speaker 1: that same. Night he got, concussed, they, were like oh
Speaker 1: yeah we do not care about. Your brain, Swelling whatsoever. You're,
Speaker 1: good he's. Good yep you're good let me. Ask you
Speaker 1: a question if you are a parent or you are
Speaker 1: a kid who, is a star athlete which game would
Speaker 1: you rather play or rather? Have your kid? Play football
Speaker 1: or basketball seemed like a, No Brainer to me but
Speaker 1: i'll let you guys sound off on this in the.
Speaker 1: Comments or on TikTok let's go To philadelphia where the sixers.
Speaker 1: Are a shit show and we've, talked about this before
Speaker 1: but there are new things coming, up day by day
Speaker 1: so let's Update You the terrible the sixers. Haven't been playing.
Speaker 1: Defense We Know that even. Joel embiid says this he
Speaker 1: said after their last Recent. Loss to the raptors are
Speaker 1: offensive is gonna be fine as long, as we get
Speaker 1: stops and. We're not getting stops we're, not playing good
Speaker 1: defense and that is. A recipe for disaster we need
Speaker 1: to get. Better on that end. But Let's be honest
Speaker 1: what joelle isn't saying is what we all can see
Speaker 1: a lot of the bad, Defenses coming from him like.
Speaker 1: He is given up He is a Defensive player of.
Speaker 1: The year caliber player he's one, of the most dynamic
Speaker 1: versatile athletic, players at his, size at his. WEIGHT at
Speaker 1: his versatility i don't. Know what he's doing he doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be. Interested in stopping anyone in the second Half,
Speaker 1: alone against the raptors there were nine plays in The, Paint,
Speaker 1: Where siakam og bouchet barnes all all had uncontested, runs
Speaker 1: AT the basket with mb not even lifting a finger
Speaker 1: an arm, to try to defend not even like, half heartedly,
Speaker 1: like eh you know, you just gotta. Eh not even
Speaker 1: that he, just like backs up puts his hands behind
Speaker 1: his back and lets him. Go to, The, rim i'm,
Speaker 1: like jojo my guy not gonna win. Many games like, That.
Speaker 1: You can't win jojo, if You Don't try, like, eric
Speaker 1: thomas says compete act like, you play in football act like.
Speaker 1: You Play in baseball compete YOU can't be like i.
Speaker 1: Don't give a shit this is a man That Wants to.
Speaker 1: See doc rivers fired it has. TO be the reason
Speaker 1: i don't. Know if they're close it doesn't. Feel that
Speaker 1: they are but WE all know that mb can be
Speaker 1: a rim protector. When he wants to so he either
Speaker 1: is hurt and he's not telling anybody because he has
Speaker 1: a reputation, of always being hurt or he is just
Speaker 1: simply choosing not to defend. Like he. Normally does either way.
Speaker 1: It's a big problem so if it, doesn't get fixed
Speaker 1: soon it's going to be A, long season in philly
Speaker 1: and you can start getting The Loud cheers for doc
Speaker 1: rivers to be on the hot seat for things that
Speaker 1: unfortunately don't have. Anything to do with that's all the
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