WEBVTT - Knicks and Blazers Off to a Roaring Start 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.920 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:12.640 On this episode of the Heat Check, the New York Knicks, 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:18.200 the Knickerbockers, if you will, off to another hot start. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.000 Could this be another year that they go to the playoffs? 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.840 And there is one reason a man who might actually be, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.480 in hindsight underpaid. We break down the Knicks hot start 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.400 and we get into what's happening in Portland, which, as 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.120 a Blazers fan, I am an absolute shock about Steam's 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.800 four one baby what. Plus we cover some news around 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.680 the league, including the Lakers continuing to stink but now 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.279 being tone deaf. On top of that, Kevin Durant being 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.839 run into the ground again in Brooklyn. I compare the 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.080 NFL and the NBA's handling of the concussion protocol. Uh wi, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.080 let's just say this NBA handling things a lot better 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.480 than the NFL and Joellen deciding you know what, fuck it, 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.600 I'm not playing defense anymore and the NBA going all 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.039 in on Victor wembin Yama and the hype train. So 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.880 much to talk about, so Nick dropped that motherfucking beat. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.840 I have a thought, obviously since this is a podcast 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:28.840 about thoughts, but is Jalen Brunson actually underpaid. Everybody said, 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.200 oh man, the Knicks really fucked up with Jalen Brunson 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.039 one hundred and four million. No way he's worth all 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:39.520 that money. I actually think if you look at this 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.440 first four games and it continues for the rest of 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.640 the duration of the contract, this deal looks like a 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.240 bad deal for Jalen Brunson. Like it looks like he's 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.680 worth Damian Lillard money. I hate to say it, but 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.040 the man is bawling and true point guards are very 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.520 hard to find these days. Jalen Brunson was the first 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.760 of what we're supposed to be two huge moves for 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.320 the New York Knicks, right And in fact, you could 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.720 pretty much argue that last season they were committed to 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.520 this being the case. They knew it was bad as 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.440 soon as Dereck Rose got injured. Tibbs didn't have any 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.320 of his guys in there, and things were not looking good, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.000 and they thought it's gonna be Brunson, and they thought 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.160 it's gonna be Donovan Mitchell. And then a very funny 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.280 thing happened. Danny Ainge did Danny Ainge things, said, you 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.040 know what, Leon Rose deuces I'm done doing business with you. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.800 We're just gonna deal with Donovan. Mitchell to the Calves 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.720 and left the Knicks scrambling, and at the last minute 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.800 they're trying to figure out how to piece together a 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.080 roster that was largely outside of Jalen Brunson unchanged. And 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.040 you have Julius Randall making one hundred and seventeen million 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.679 dollars over four years, and he's looking like an atrocious 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.600 player that you can't get rid of. Sad boy season 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.160 in New York. I know, I was live on Wfan 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.040 for it, and people were calling in like. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.440 No, no, we didn't want him anyway, No, no, There. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.720 Was a lot of that. Right But now, after a 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:13.040 week of basketball, the Knickerbockers stand three and one with 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.920 an OT loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, a team that 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.480 everybody is in absolute love with. On opening night where 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.200 they clawed back like a very gritty team down fifteen, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.280 take it to OT, they should have won the game, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:32.400 but there was a no call goal ten by jaw Morant. Truthfully, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.240 the Knicks should be could be four and oh right now, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.640 which they would be the only undefeated team in the NBA. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:44.680 So what's the difference. My man, big Booty Brunson, Jalen Brunson, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.080 a six to one guard out of Villanova. He's not 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.920 the fastest, he's not the quickest. We know he's not 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.640 the biggest. He's six to one on a good day. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.080 You look at him. I've seen him up close. I've 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.080 covered him when he played for Villanova. He's five eleven 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.400 and a half. Let's be honest. He's one of those 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.280 guys that doesn't wear that height. Well, do you know 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.320 what I mean? One of the few true point guards 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.040 left in the league. Right with doubt Donovan Mitchell and 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.240 what was pretty much gonna be a shooter friendly offense. Instead, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.240 Tims went back to his basics and basically put the 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.320 offense and the next season in the hands of Brunson, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.520 a guard in which his own dad calls a thick 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.080 rear ended guard. Yep, you think I'm joking. The other 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.920 word that Rick Brunson used for his son's booty was significant. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.480 Jalen Brunson has the significant caboose and it runs in 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.800 the family. And that kabooz folks is getting loose, getting 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.200 loose on the court. It's very on the court. I 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.320 don't mean it pause, very much pause. I don't know 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:59.080 what he's doing outside of that. It's so clear. It's 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.960 so I didn't mean say it like that. It's very 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:06.599 clear when you watch him. He's running this offense. And 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.200 I saw him at the Garden on Monday night against 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.960 the Orlando Magic, and man, does he have command of 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.400 the Knicks offense in a way that they haven't had. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:22.440 Let's be honest, since Mama there goes that man Mark Jackson. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.839 Multiple times I saw Jalen Brunson on the floor pointing 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.039 at the court to different players like stand there be there, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.320 like in front, yo, go over there, and they did. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.400 Like little chess pieces, they moved to Jalen Brunson's whim. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.840 And that is benefiting no one more than our guy, 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.640 Julius Randall. All of a sudden, the player that we 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.840 fell in love with two years ago, that one most 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:56.560 improved player is back. And not coincidentally, it correlates with 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.040 I don't know, Randal having a true point guard where 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.080 Randall doesn't have to run the fucking offense. This is 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.920 what Julius Randall had to say about what Jalen Brunson 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.280 does for him. Bump the audio up, Nick because it's a. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.440 Little low early games, like, he just makes the game 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.840 so much easier for me, you know, if I, you know, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.919 just keep moving segua scring is run the floor. You know, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.680 he's always looking to make the right play. So he 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.120 finds me, He gets me going, gets me easy baskets. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.120 He just makes the game so much easier for me 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.560 if I just keep moving and setting screens, running the floor. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.240 He's always looking to make the right play. Yeah, because 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.120 last year Julius Randall was tasked with the Jalen Brunson role, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.880 and let me just say, this wasn't really working. Wasn't 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:46.280 really working. Think about this, Julius Randall is scoring more 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.279 points in less minutes than last year and is shooting 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.200 fifty four percent from two, his best in his knixt career, 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.120 because I don't know, he's not taking those god awful 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.880 long twos at the end of shot clocks anymore. According 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.839 to official NBA stats, last year, Randall averaged two point 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.920 two dribbles per touch, had the ball in his hands 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.520 four point one minutes per game, felt like more. This year, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.440 he's down to one point four eight dribbles per touch 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.200 and two point eight minutes per game. What a difference. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.040 And if you look at a stat line, it's ridoculous. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.240 Twenty points per game, nine rebounds per game, three assists, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.400 and one point two steals. Julius Randall is getting busy, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.480 and Randal actually has added some things to his game. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.640 He is shooting floaters now, Julius Randall shooting floaters. He 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:39.480 had two, count them, two zero dribble floaters against Orlando 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.320 on Monday. When's the last time Julius Randall had two 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:47.360 zero dribble floaters? He had two combined since the twenty 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.680 seventeen season. So he's having two in one game and 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.840 had two in the course of five years. He is 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.640 adding to his bag. This is what Tibbs had to 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.480 say about how differently Julius Randall is playing and why so. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:05.440 And Julia's was terrific from start to finish. I love 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:10.000 the way he's diversifying his game, like running the floor. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.200 Sometimes he's the pace guy. He'll push it up and 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.240 then he'll create movements. Sometimes he just beats people down 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.559 the floor. I think him getting easy baskets is huge 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.760 for us, huge and uh it puts a lot of 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.760 pressure on the defense. I thought Mitch gave us great 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.960 minutes and you can't say enough about you know, what 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.280 Jalen does for the team. He just he's incomplete control 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.720 at all all times. And the game. You know, you 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.400 hit some tough spots in a game, and he has 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.440 such a strong demeanor and a strong face, and it's 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.600 one of determination you have. It gives your team belief 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.680 that we can do this. We we you know we 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:51.440 can play well. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.880 Wow, a strong face gives your team belief. Yep, he does. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.680 Jalen Brunson is making this whole thing work because why 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.560 Tibbs's vision works only with a competent point guard, and 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.199 they did not have one last year because Derrick Rose 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.320 was injured for much of that year. He needs a 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.640 very specific roster and outside of Jalen making this team better, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.120 making his teammates better, being in New York makes him 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.480 better too. In a league where big men are now 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.000 shifting towards the perimeter, Jalen is taking what his dad 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.600 calls a thick booty down into the paint to create 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.400 space and get easy shots. This is what he said 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.400 about his post play. I'm always comfortable in the post. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.560 I'm comfortable being able to play with my back to 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.440 the basket or just playing out of the mid post 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.480 or playing from the elbow. It gives me a chance 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.720 to kind of slow down. For a guard, it's hard 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.080 to guard. It's unconventional. Let's talk about his stat line 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.400 his first four games with the Knicks. Twenty points per game, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.079 eight and a half assists per game, one and a 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.880 half turnovers, fifty one percent from the field, forty one 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.600 percent from three, and eighty five percent from the free 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.840 throw line. All of that to say, do you believe 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:07.880 me now? Jalen Brunson might just be underpaid one hundred 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.520 and four million dollars. Who unlocks the offense. Who makes 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.960 a guy you're paying one hundred and seventeen million dollars 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.760 to actually worth one hundred and seventeen million dollars, slows 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.640 the team down in times of pressure, has poise helps 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.840 you win games cheap at twice the price. I could 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.760 go on this entire podcast about Jalen Brunson. I've loved 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.600 him long before it was sexy two. I loved him 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.520 at Villanova. I thought that he should be a point 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.720 guard that the Mavericks used and paid, long before Lucas 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.959 stepped into that building. But you know what, that's okay 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.600 because he's getting his shine now. And I would not 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.800 be surprised if the Nicks end up in the playoffs 0:10:47.880 --> 0:11:08.280 again this year. What is happening in Portland? Can someone 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.920 tell me? I am stunned, as they say, you can 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.840 knock me over with a feather right now. And I 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.600 say that as a lifelong Blazers fan. I have watched 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.560 them so far this year, and I look at what 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.160 they're doing on the court and I just say, I 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:33.360 don't get it. Could Could the Portland Trailblazers be for real? 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:38.400 Could they be actually good? They were the last undefeated 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.520 team in the NBA last night before losing to the 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.280 Miami Heat that I don't know went to the finals 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.520 a couple of years ago, into the Eastern Conference finals 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.440 last year, it was very close until Damian Lillard tore 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.320 up his calf muscle, which you know, hopefully Dame's okay 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.760 doesn't appear to be too serious. But I tell you what, 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.960 games like this happened. But this team is just not 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.160 the same when Dame is not on the court. Anfrony 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.800 averaged twelve point six points per game without him last 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.880 year for a reason. But before we get into this 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.720 iteration of the Blazers. I have a very hot take 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.240 that I think is going to not be a very 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:19.319 popular opinion, especially in Portland. I have to admit it, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.240 and I've thought this for a long time. It's probably 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:23.959 gonna get me banned from the city that I grew 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:29.680 up in. I hated watching Brandon Roy play basketball. I 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.199 hated it. It was fucking disgusting. I hate that brand 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.640 of basketball. I hated the offense of the team when 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.199 he was on it. I hated it. I didn't care 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.160 that he scored fifty on regular occasions. The way he 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.360 did it was disgusting. It was slow, it was a 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.880 lot of mid range. It was a lot of like 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.160 watching molasses drip down from a I don't know, a 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.960 bottle into a cup. It was just not good. I 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.200 hated the fact that Nate McMillan ran that team. And 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.360 maybe it wasn't Brandon Roy's fault, maybe he was all 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.160 Nate McMillan's fault, but he did coach Trey Young and 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.280 the offense looked a little different then. I hated it. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.960 I want guys that are different than Brandon Roy. I 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.920 want freak athletes. Is that so much to ask, I 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.880 want guys that can jump out of the gym. I 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:20.400 want guys with long wingspans like Stretch Armstrong. I want dudes. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.520 I don't care if you put up fifty points. What 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.200 I care about is what does it look like? What 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.520 does it feel like? Am I excited? I watched Brandon 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.480 Roy drop fifty in a playoff game and it was 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:36.079 boring as fuck. It's true, and I would never go 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.080 in on YouTube and like, go Brandon Roy highlights? 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:39.480 Do you? 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.440 Does anybody say I want to see Brandon Roy in 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.720 his prime again? I'm sorry. I don't like that style 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.480 of a team. I don't like that style of quote 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:54.440 unquote athletes. All I always wanted was a team full 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.800 of dudes, guys with positive wingspans, guys with forty five 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.440 injured verticals. Is that too much to add? And then 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.840 Neil o'shak came around and he gave me CJ McCollum. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.120 No shade to CJ. But he couldn't do a damn 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:12.240 thing athletically. He was skilled, he was smart. And we 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:17.920 got Nurk and we got Evan Turner and we got 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.480 Zach Collins and oh we didn't have any fucking athletes none. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.720 It was just like, this team is gonna be awful 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:26.680 to watch. And then Terry Stotts had us doing a 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.760 million drouble handoffs and just shooting threes, and you could 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.400 just tell this team does nothing for me. We can 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.320 win a bunch of games, we can be a five seed, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.240 and Dame Lillard has to just take over anybody who 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.160 is an a Portland Trailblazer fan. You had to tune 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.280 in in the fourth quarter to watch Dame go god mode, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.400 and you know what, fine, that was okay, But I 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.520 always knew this team is going nowhere because in a 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.520 game that thrives on athletes, they can do athlete things. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.560 When you don't have enough of them, and you don't 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.160 have guys that are i don't know, six' six the 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.600 seven foot, wingspan and you have a bunch of pigmies 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.360 in the back court and guys who can't defend in 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.160 the front court that are, soft you're not gonna win 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.440 too many, games especially in the, playoffs when everybody else 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.600 can scheme for your. Ass so this is the first 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.360 time in my, life folks THAT i can, say holy, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:23.440 shit we have a team full of, freaks freak. ATHLETES 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:29.480 i did some deep digging, today lean, long, positive, wingspan gritty. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.480 Freaks they are so fun and that's all that it. Matters, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.400 right this is a. Game it's not like we're trying 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.800 to win A Nobel Peace. Prize we're trying to entertain, here, 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.800 right that's what. Matters be, fun be. COMPETITIVE i don't 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.520 care what you. WIN i don't care if you go 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.680 to the, finals because you're not. Gonna warriors, exist, right 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.320 The Memphis grizzlies, exist The Phoenix suns. Exist be, young be, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.600 fun and be, gritty and that's what we. Have Keon. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.560 Johnson Keon johnson may not even know him if you're a. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.520 Casual he recorded the highest vertical in the history of 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.920 THE nba combine at forty eight. Inches if that doesn't 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.320 make you, SALIVATE i don't know what. Does he's not 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.960 even the best athlete on a. Team Keon. Johnson Shadon, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.520 Sharp Shandon sharp is EVERYTHING i want in a. Player 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:24.320 forty nine inch vertical that is the highest ever recorded 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.840 in AN nba game. Ever Michael jordan forty, Eight Shaden 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.840 sharp forty. Nine that was the first SIGN i saw 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.880 a team committed the trade For keon and then you 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.640 pick up shadon sharp because, why why the fuck not? 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.240 Right AND i was, Like, wow this guy's, head this 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.840 guy's collarbone is in line with the. Rim his head 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.840 is a full head above the. Rim Nsir Littlensir. Little 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.800 you may not know him if you're a casual. Fan Roy. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.120 Williams Roy, williams the coach OF, unc said That Nair 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:03.280 little was the best athlete he's ever coached in his entire. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.480 Life they went through athlete after athlete after, athlete and 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.720 he was, Like, nope doesn't have as much. Explosiveness explosiveness 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.560 is nos doesn't have as much length and quickness and 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:18.120 speed as. Nas the only player that he could compare 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:23.199 to Nos little in the history OF unc was who just, 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.720 guess just, guess give it a. Guess does his name 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:34.199 rhyme With Michael, Morden, yes it. Does Michael jordan is 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:35.920 the OLD i just made that. Up so if you're 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.400 wondering why that was, weird it's BECAUSE i just came 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:43.080 up with. It Jabbari walker is six' eight with a six' 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.520 eleven wingspan and an eight foot, nine standing reach which 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.679 means this man can touch the net without getting on. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:56.040 His tippy toes add in a, thirty inch vertical which 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.560 is very low considering that this team is. Full of 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.080 freaks and his hands well up over eleven feet. In 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.600 the air and this is a guy who's just the 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:09.120 tenth guy. On The bench TRENDON watford from lsu six 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.080 eight two forty seven foot two point twenty, five inch, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:19.119 wingspan giant hands eight foot, nine standing reach, explosive as 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:23.120 hell can get, out into. Transition has body he's he can. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.400 Body smaller players he. Is A dude greg brown, six 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.240 eight forward six, to eleven wingspan eight foot eleven standing 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.720 reach got a ninety rating for his ATHLETICISM On the 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.040 nba draft dot net forty four inch. Vertical and less we. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:44.760 Forget My man aunt Simons Won the dunk, contest and 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:49.320 he's what six three just doing windmills and practice, and, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.920 they're like hey you should participate in. The dunk, contest 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.720 he's like do you, really Think so because i'm not 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.520 really getting any MINUTES, in the nba, and they're like. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.720 Just try out, just wins it. Just wins it gary 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.120 pay in the second thirty, nine inch vertical top ten 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.880 in the combine when. He came out he once won 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.240 a jump ball against A Seven. Footer. JONAS valanciunas what 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:16.200 i can't even Believe This team dame lillard thirty nine 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.359 inch fort and he's the old man of. The crew 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:25.520 man is? This team. Fun long athletic they have the 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.440 seventh youngest ROSTER in the nba twenty four point four, 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.879 years on average and That Is because dame lillard. Is 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:36.520 thirty two. Let's be honest you're, Sharing the ball they're moving, 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.399 Off the ball they're, Cutting like crazy they're. Playing HOT potato, Like, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.879 i said understots it, was look, dribble hand off, drible, 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.800 hand off, dribble, hand, off, iso, iso, dribble dribble dribble step, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.159 back three brick get out in a transition down twenty 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:57.240 before you. Can even blink. It was ugly out with 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.520 the old and in. With the, new. Bye bye o'sha 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.840 take your steak and potatoes and nineteen a five mindset 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.840 and get the fuck out with your. TOXIC workplace culture 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.760 i love this. So damn much no one, saw it, 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.879 coming Not Me. Not Zach low zach low called, this 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:19.720 team meh call. This team blah let me ask you 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.080 all those ATHLETIC dudes, that i mentioned does that give. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.680 You blah vibes doesn't give. Me blah vibes You Look, 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.080 at josh hart You Look. At justice winslow those are. 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.720 Some dudes too didn't even give, you their. Pedigree Their 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:38.520 statistics justice winslow sixty. Six playing five do you think 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.720 a non athlete could play five? At Six six jeremy. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.679 Grant Explosive athletic damian lillard said all kinds of crazy. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.480 Things about, him he said this dude looks like he 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.639 was built. In a, lab, long arms athletic, can, change directions, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.560 fast has quickness he has all these things that. Make us, 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:02.840 better holy shit? Are you serious i'm gonna make. A 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.720 bold statement NOT only do i believe that this is, 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:10.080 the Most athletic explosive blazer, TEAM in history i think 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.440 that this is the most athletic TEAM in the. Nba 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:17.000 right now and That includes The Clippers with Kawhi Leonard. 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.920 And paul george that includes The, Likes of cleveland that, 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.399 includes the length the length of all these Other. Teams 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:29.240 like milwaukee they've, got some, athletes, but no no go 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.120 all the way to the end. Of the bench who 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.159 else has a forty five inch vertical and is eight foot, 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:38.320 eleven standing reach who is not even? Cracking the rotation 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.760 just tell me who? Who are they we know It's. 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.960 Not the lakers they are fucking trash combined with they're 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.640 the seventh youngest team. In, THE league man i don't 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.320 even know what to SAY except for i don't care. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.280 WHAT you win i don't care how many. GAMES you 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.920 win i am, now Locked in like pac, TWELVE after dark. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.560 I am ready i Watched all the blazer game that started, 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.199 at TEN thirty and i take my. SLEEP very seriously i. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:05.920 WATCHED him live i, was Very excited and i'm going 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.119 to continue. To be excited all we need now is 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:13.439 a seven footer, who can dribble who can, come around 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.320 screens who's like. A freak athlete is there anyone that 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.919 you guys Could think of maybe we could make. A 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:24.800 crack For maybe a French Guy from North Africa where. 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:27.639 Adam silver decides we're gonna just watch all of his 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.840 games this year as a, seventeen year old probably The 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:33.400 only pro france team we're gonna. Get to see look 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:36.720 OUT when, beyond ba anybody, oh my God. Or. The 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.919 blazers fun don't know IF, we're good tbd but we 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.200 will be entertaining this entire year. 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:56.040 Quick. 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.600 Around the league if you, want to KNOW and, How 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:05.320 I know adam, silver, is excited elated just, absolutely beyond 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.200 words trying to get as much MONEY for the nba as. 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.840 He Possibly can For victor wamba YAMA of the nba 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:14.359 just let us know that they inked a deal to 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:20.119 Carry all of metropolitan's. Ninety two games? What is that what? 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:22.760 Is that game what, Did, you Say Oh that's victor 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:26.720 WAMBANYAMA'S TEAM. On, nba tv yes we are going to 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:30.880 get every Single one of victor's games FROM The l Mb. 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:32.719 PRO a league i don't even know, what this. IS 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.760 don't care I just know i Get. To see VICTOR that's. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:37.439 All i know this is kind of LIKE if the 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:41.560 nba had decided to Broadcast All of lebron james's games and, 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:45.080 in high school except for we're gonna get more of 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:47.560 them because it is. A, Pro league folks we've never 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:49.919 seen anything. Like this before this, amount of hype this, 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:53.639 amount of commitment this. Amount of, dedication Oh boy all 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:55.640 i'll say as a cynic and as somebody who doesn't 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:56.800 want to put this out, in THE universe but. I 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.800 have to is, You, better Hope Adam that victor wamyama 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:02.800 does and. Sprain his ankle you better hope that Nothing. 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:04.760 Happens To victor are you're gonna be carrying A bunch 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.399 of metropolitan ninety two games and nobody. WANTS to Watch 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.760 i guarantee i'm gonna watch a. Bunch of these victor? 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:15.879 Is that special moving on? In a MOVE it's about, 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:19.840