WEBVTT - What Teams Improved So Far? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.280 Come on, you're listening to Heat Check from Trista Criek, 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.840 Odyssey's official NBA podcast, Find that wherever you get your 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:19.560 podcasts and live all throughout free agency, Summer League, and beyond. Bob. So, 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.680 I'm trying to look at raw I'm trying to look 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.360 at my notes at the same time. It's just not 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:31.360 quite the same situation. Let's start today's show by saying, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.600 today's a good day for Kyrie Irving to be traded 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.520 to the Lakers. Let's start today's show by saying today 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.680 is a great day for Kevin Durant to be traded 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.960 to the Phoenix Suns. Let's start off today by saying 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.920 today is a great day to see Russell Westbrook anywhere 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:53.000 else besides LA. Let's be honest, it's not working, and 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.120 I want to see him suffer. I want us to know. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.560 I don't. I don't, but I do want to know 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.600 what he does if he goes somewhere, and I don't 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.600 think he's gonna spend one moment in a Nets uniform. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.319 I just don't see it. Also, the teardown is complete, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.280 it's happening. Let's get Donovan Mitchell to be the bad 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:16.400 guy and request out now like it's happening. But before 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.320 we get started, a couple of notes around the league. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:22.839 There's a couple of news items happening. Jody Allen, current 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:28.600 owner of the Portland Trailblazers. Uh, what do I say 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.520 that hasn't already been said? Jody's selon, damn team. We 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:37.240 know you don't care about this team. She put this 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.200 tweet out. Let me go look for a real quick 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.920 rock because it is just outrageous, Jody Allen, for you 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.760 to have the goal to say what you said makes 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.480 no sense. This is what she said as chair of 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.960 both the Portland Trailblazers and the Seattle Seahawks. My long 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.120 term focus is building championship teams that our communities are 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.440 proud of. Like my brother Paul, I trust and expect 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.920 our leaders and coaches to build winning teams. That's such 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.760 a shady comment about Seattle and Portland and free Vault. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.840 As we've stated before, and neither of the teams is 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.800 for sale and that there are no sales discussions happening. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.840 A time will come that given changes, given Paul's plans 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.480 to dedicate the vast that's a typo. A time will 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.880 come when that changes, given Paul's plans to dedicate the 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.919 vast majority of his wealth the philanthropy. But the states 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.079 of this size and complexity can take ten to twenty 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:44.160 years to wind down. There is no preordained timeline by 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.200 which the teams must be sold. Until then, My focus 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:53.440 and that of our teams is on winning. That is 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.160 such a lie. That's such a lie. Just sell a 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.360 team to Phill Knight by all means, just get rid 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.200 of this thing. We know you don't care, We know 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.359 you don't know anything about sports, Jody, Paul Ellen. Let's 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:11.160 be honest. Paul Allen never invited one athlete to any 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.920 of his parties. He was all musicians and actors and 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.959 people in the entertainment field. He saw the athletes as 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:23.680 like something else, not to be mixed. Sell the team, Jody, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.560 I don't know what's going on as a Portland Show 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.959 Blazer fan. For her to try to tell me she's 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.920 gonna hold my team hostage for twenty years is something 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.839 I don't know if I can stand for. Like that 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.040 just needs to get fixed asap. Rocky, I don't know. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.520 Just like Brian Windhors would say, what was she saying 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:47.040 that for? Why would she do that? I don't know. Uh. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.720 Moving on, I've been thinking more about the Rudy Gobert 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:55.000 trade I have, and I think while that is a 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.360 tremendous amount of picks that Minnesota had to give up, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.040 I'm starting to understand and that we must trust in 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.000 Tim Connolly. Tim Connolly is the one who identified Rudy 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.360 Gobert who ended up going to Utah and not Denver. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:13.840 Tim Connolly's first order of business is to turn, not turn. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.600 I would say, put Carl Anthony Towns in a situation 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.480 where he doesn't have to be what he isn't right, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.440 Carl Anthony Towns is a four masquerading in a five's body. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.040 He doesn't want to be the rim protector. He doesn't 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.920 want to have to deal with anchoring a defense and 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.599 getting in foul trouble then limiting his offensive weapons re 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:41.159 weapon re. He is kind of soft. So to point 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.400 him in a position where he's supposed to be the 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.719 tough guy and the guy who to protect your team bad. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.400 And it shows me that Tim Connolly is all about 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.520 providing Rudy with the pieces that he needs to be 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.240 successful around. So I actually like the move and we'll 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.640 talk more about what Minnesota did later, because I think 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.840 they might be one of the most underrated teams in 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.560 terms of the moves that they made this offseason, and 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.920 I think that they might be a team as a 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.960 dark horse in the West. I know that's crazy to 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.520 say they could be this year's Dallas. I'm saying it now. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.960 They could be the team that comes out of nowhere 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.000 and makes it to the Western Conference Finals. They're gonna 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.680 be insanely difficult to deal with Minnesota. Now first rounders, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.880 They're like, what do we care? Honestly, we've got first 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.040 rounders in the twenties now, it's not like these are 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.600 lottery picks. There was a new article that came out 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.919 on ESPN Plus. I'll tell you what it said. If 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.479 you don't have it, It's basically like, if you don't 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.479 have picks one through fifteen, what you have is a 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.279 bench guy. So are you willing to give up five 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.640 bench guys for a defensive player two time Defensive Player 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:57.560 of the Year. Yes, overwhelmingly Yes. Minnesota is not a 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.760 lottery team anymore. They're team that's going to the playoffs. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.360 They have a really good coach, they've got a front 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.320 office and new ownership group that's trying to make them 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.719 contend or at least make it to the second round 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.720 of the playoffs. Do you think the second round of 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.920 the playoffs get you picks one through fifteen? Oh, sir 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.640 does not. So who cares? As they would say in 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:21.240 the biz, fuck them picks, That's what Les need said, 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.040 fuck them picks. Let's go out and get Obi j 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.560 Let's go out and get Matthew Stafford, Let's go out 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.400 and get von Miller, and let's go out and get 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.960 something for those fingers. Let's go out and get some 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.520 for those fingers, folks. So that's really interesting to me 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.400 because for every Bones Highland, for every Tyrese Maxi, there 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.560 are five Zeke Nagies, there are five Malachai Flinns. And 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.479 the Golbert trade Gobart trade, really, I call them Gilbert. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.680 The Gobert trade really for me, is all about Kat 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.440 and that is something that we can talk about at 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.560 a different time. Is what if the Lakers were smart, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.560 they would do for Anthony Davis. Little hot take that 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.000 I just thought of right the second. If the Lakers 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:08.400 cared about their team, they'd trade Lebron James. Yes, they would. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.760 They would build around street clothes. They would build around 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:18.000 skin of skin of paper, bones of glass Anthony Davis, 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.800 and they'd find him a big rim protector like DeAndre 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.680 Ayton or Rob Williams or one of those. But they 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.640 won't because they care about money, because they're broke. Like 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:33.320 all family businesses, the next generation more and more cheap, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.720 cheaper than the last. Brock. All right, let's move on underrated. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.600 I can't hear you laugh, which sucks. Underrated free agent 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:45.360 signings and trades. To me, the most under the radar 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:50.800 team is Denver. Like they're not the best free agent 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.720 team or signing team, but they're the most like under 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.000 the radar. How much better we don't know. But they 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.120 did make moves. What they did. Traded Thrill Barton, they 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.560 traded Monte Morris. They got KCP back, who, let's be honest, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.760 KCP is basically going to step in in case MPJ 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.200 isn't fully healthy. A wing who can get threes, who 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.480 can slash, stand in the corner. Not to say that's 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.800 what MPJA does, but you kind of need somebody on 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.400 the perimeter if he's not healthy. They signed DeAndre Jordan, 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.920 low key kind of room protector signing how much legs 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.320 and knees and ankles does he have? Not sure, but 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.040 it doesn't really matter. Just stand there like Hassan white Side. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:38.679 They also picked up Bruce Brown. Interesting, the lack delay amazing. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.160 They picked up Bruce Brown two years, sixteen million dollars, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.600 and I think that helps him. I think that helps 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.280 him play small ball five. He solidifies Denver as having 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.280 done something like if they wouldn't have picked up Bruce Brown, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.680 they're basically saying we're okay with getting worse. Right, Denver's 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.760 done something interesting in getting a guy who's very versatile. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.520 He can rebound, he can get assists. He had two 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.199 games in the first round of the playoff where he 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.880 had twenty plus points and he had like almost ten 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.160 rebounds in those games. And you add him to Jamal 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.040 Murray and Michael Porter Junior and a two time MVP 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:19.080 alongside Aaron Gordon, this team could be really, really interesting. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.000 And they have something now that it's very hard to find. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:27.400 Malle ability, the ability to shape shift your lineup depending 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.120 on your opponent, the ability to go big or small, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.520 or big or small that you can't tell with my hands, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.360 but I did the wrong way. I went small, big Anyway, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.520 I think this team is interesting, and I think that 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.720 it shows that they're thinking about the postseason and they're 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.760 not really thinking about the regular season, because you can 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.520 be a four to five seed and still go a 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.480 long way. We saw that with Dallas. We've seen that 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.920 with teams like Portland. We've seen that with teams like 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.080 Denver in the past. He cuts really well, Bruce, he 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.840 defends really well. He can score. Like I said, he 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.360 averaged fourteen to five three in the Boston series with 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.520 twenty three and twenty six and two games, up from 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.679 eight four to two in the previous playoffs. And Brown, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.000 to me, is one of the few few signings you 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.400 can actually tell your fan base listen, we're actually trying 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.640 to do something. Make no mistake, this is a move 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.160 to say we have to be more versatile on defense. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.000 Bruskins can guard one through five when Joki is not 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.840 on the floor. So that's very interesting to me. Number Two, 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:31.200 Boston Malcolm Brogden is a very interesting trade. It helps 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:37.040 them immensely. I'm gonna say it, if Boston had Malcolm 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.800 Brogden on this team against the Warriors, I think they 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.800 might have won. That's how important someone like Malcolm Brogden is. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.040 He's a real point guard who can truly play make. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.600 He can be consistent in the perimeter as a scorer. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.840 He's a really good deep three point shooter. He's decent 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.199 on on ball defense. He's six', five he's it's like 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.040 what you would Want Peyton pritcher to, do but he's 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.960 gonna get, cooked. Right Peyton pritcher became a liability on. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.880 Defense Malcolm brogden's not a liability on, defense but he 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.600 can do even more offensively Than Peyton pritcher can do 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.040 because he's much bigger and he's just more of a vet. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.520 Right he's very, composed he's very. Safe he's a very 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.920 sure handed late game point, guard which is exactly the 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.520 opposite Of marcus mart who makes wildly crazy. Decisions he 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.440 shoots well from, three really sleeped on slept on forty 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.160 on catch and shoot, threes and he's gonna get a 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.000 huge number of open looks. Too he's six,', five physical 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.120 much more versatile as an option than Somebody Like. Peyton 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.840 pritchard AND like, i said this Team with brogden wins 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.240 it all. LAST year I think i, think so not 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.080 just because, of defense because he has one point eight 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.240 turnovers per game in his career and on a team 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:58.680 that literally was averaging like twenty twenty playoff turnovers Against The. Golden. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.640 State warriors. Need that and he's gonna get a lot 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.520 of three pointers Open With jason Tatum And, jaylen brown 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.439 and he's gonna be able to fill out that kind 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.120 of guard Role Like, derek white but a better three, 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.040 point shooter. Better defender it's. Just interesting it's an. Interesting 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:21.160 move another number three, Underrated Move dante DiVincenzo To, the 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.839 warriors super, low key under. The radar nobody's talking. About 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.520 that very Unhappy. In sacramento they tried to get. Him 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.320 twice it did not work. Either time and now we 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.400 know That the Warriors Want Swiss. Army knis and That's 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.800 what if you look back At What dante DiVincenzo Did 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.040 in Villanova and lenova during his time to Win, the 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:48.080 chip there very underrated, active defender not only on, help 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.600 defense just off the ball, in general and gets his 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.480 hands in the. Passing lanes pesky six, y four but 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.840 with a pretty, long wingspan he, can dunk he. Can 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.440 block we saw that very mark. He blocked HE had 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.560 i think it was in the championship game if not 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.920 in the. Final four he's not as good of a 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.040 Defender As gary, payton junior but you, know What Or 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.280 gary payton the second but you know it doesn't, Really 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.920 matter like this is what you. Could Afford gary, payton's 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.040 gone so how are you going to? Replace him he's 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.880 not as good of a three. Point shooter he shoots 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.240 like thirty three percent, from three but he's much better 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.520 terms in terms of catch and shoot forty two on 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.600 catch and, shoot threes and he's gonna be a good 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.400 THREE and d guy six, to four can block, very 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.160 long really really HIGH basketball iq at a time or 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.960 in a place where you have to have a PRETTY 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.360 good iq to run complex Schemes Which golden state wants. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.360 To run deflects a ton, of balls tracks the ball, 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.400 really well. Insane motor not a Replacement, for PEYTON but 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:52.920 i think very underrated signing Speaking Of, Gary Payton gary 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:57.400 Payton to portland. Love it One Makes golden, state. Sad 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:04.040 awesome Two Makes damian lillard happy. Even better. Oakland Connection 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.360 gary payton grew Up, In oakland dame grew Up, in 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.520 oakland And those oakland roots. RUN deep i think that's. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.200 Very important He's A swiss army knife in WAYS that 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.160 I Think chauncey phillips is going to be able to 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:21.440 use in really. Unique situations he's an insane defender for 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.440 how small. He is he's got a, long wingspan pesky 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.920 definitely someone you don't want to defend you if you're, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.600 a Player, right like that IS something i think is. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.200 Very important you can't understate how good he is as a. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:38.200 Role player he defends one. Through five he's a, very explosive. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.760 Athletic roller he can get out, into transition, get steals. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.520 Extremely explosive AND when i say he gets steals like that's. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:50.200 An understatement he had led the league per thirty six 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.960 in steels two point eight steals per. Thirty six put 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.280 that man in, the game coach on. The BALL like, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.840 i said he's a. Total pest he was one of 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.400 the MAIN reasons i Think that boston lost, that series 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.000 not just because of, his defense because of his, rebounding 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.640 abilities because of his ability to roll to the rim 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.080 and know where things are going. To develop he's in 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.160 the right spots all. The time he hasn't knows for how. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.320 THINGS run i mean it's almost like his dad played 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.600 professional basketball at a very. High level it's almost like 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.080 that exactly the match you would need to Play, besides 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.240 Dame since dame plays no defense and he is going to. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.840 Lock games dame out up. In, PRACTICE boy i can't 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.720 wait to see something. LIKE that i need to know 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.320 what those practices, look like because he's going to be 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:40.280 in game's asshole inside. Of it uh, number five here's. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.960 Another one nobody's. Talking About josha kogi To The. Phoenix 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.360 suns these are like very niche moves right like nobody's 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.440 really interested in. These PLAYERS but i think that they're 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.080 very interesting and we'll be talked about in the season 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.840 as as like a lynchpin for a team that's looking 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.480 to elevate. From post he's in success to getting over, the. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.560 Hump right he had a down year last Year Because 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.000 anthony edwards is taking, his spot taking all of. His 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.080 minutes he can, split defenses he can slash from. The 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.640 perimeter he's a really good. Rim runner he has really. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.200 Good hops he can play above the rim. And dunk 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.680 he can block, really well has a nose for, the 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.560 ball hunts the. Ball down he does some of the 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.360 things that you would hope a Guy like ayton. Would 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.560 do like he's not, A center he's not going to be, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.480 a center but he can do some of the Things 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.960 that ayton. Does well because it Looks like ayton's, Gone 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.560 right he's gonna be really helpful if he's using the. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.800 Right SPOTS and i think the most important thing is 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.680 he's twenty four. Years old he's. Twenty four he reminds 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.600 me kind Of of Isaacacoro. In cleveland plays that like, tweener 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:49.400 role not like exactly a, pure shooter but definitely somebody 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.800 that you want to play An Integral jared vanderbilt type, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.200 of deal which is exactly the kind of thing that 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.240 he likes. To do and. He's long he's six' four 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:03.480 with the, seven feet. Wingspan that's huge and if he 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.440 can get settled, IN the ring i. Mean that's big 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.159 if you can get settled in, THE regular season i 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.120 think he plays important minutes coming. In the playoffs if, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.879 he's six' four he can play like a four spot in, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.920 a SMALL ball lineup and i think he can still play, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:21.320 defense on you know two three fours. Another One pretty 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.440 much the, WOLVES as a whole i, like What They 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:28.119 did but kyle anderson Just ended up departing memphis in 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.760 a way that nobody even is. Speaking about it all 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.000 he's kind Of Like. This year's derek White comes. From 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:39.280 the spurs, system very, boring player very, slow very, light 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:44.000 skinned very fundamental, and you know, what awesome role player 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.200 started a Ton. Of games. For memphis very shifty They 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.400 call him slow mo because he literally looks like, he's 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.320 moving through. Sand and that's fine like guys who play 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.359 fast on defense don't know what to. Do With. My 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.560 man kyle anderson honestly consider. Them The Same Person And. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.320 KYLE anderson derek white i get him confused for each 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.560 other all the time because. Their games are similar they 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.200 Both played for the spurs at, around the same time, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.119 and you know what. They're amazing role players that's what. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.120 He's going to do he's not a, great three point 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.520 shooter but everyone seems to fall. For HIS pump fake and, 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.679 i don't know why but everybody seems. To fall for 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.960 it an, annoying player for defenses he. Gets his shot 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.280 off his, arms are so long he, has great, body 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.720 control great footwork and he's, a really willing passer. GREAT 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.639 at passing lobs i think that's gonna Be Very. INTERESTING 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.040 for rudy gobert i think that's gonna Be. Very Interesting. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.680 For carling anthony towns, really good at passing, pocket passes as, 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.439 well good bounce passer especially in tight windows in. Like 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.359 very packed spaces it's. A solid pickup man he's gonna 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.119 step right in to. A really good role he had 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.080 one hundred and sixty. One steals last year memphis was 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.000 the number one team, in steels last year and he 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.800 was second on. The team at steeles that is something 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.959 that they're going to need because that was one of 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.040 The things that, the wolves. Did really really poorly he 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.040 can handle the ball, a little well uh. And he's got. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.960 Experienced he's very poised he's going to help, THIS roster 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.280 a lot i. Think During The playoffs and, john, moran 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.359 even said. Like that's my dog i'm. Gonna be missing 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.560 him and you have to understand that if jaw thinks 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.880 you're important, to a contending team then he's gonna help 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.639 at a Very. Critical JUNCTURE for Minnesota and i think 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.720 minnesota in general actually is a team that has, Made 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.880 multiple good Moves Like, they got bryn forbes nobody's kind 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.760 Of Nobody, cares, about brin forbes right but he's a. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.720 Good spot up shooter this is like we've. Talked about 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.480 this before this is a league where you need stars, 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:47.240 and you need capable competent role, players that are, versatile 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.239 And That's. HIM that's Bryn forbes i think minnesota has 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.000 a real shot to be a, dark horse Next year 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.119 much like. Dallas was this year loved, these moves, For, 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:00.360 them all right uh let's look at a you free 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.720 agent signings out there that. Have yet to break let's 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.440 look at WHO and explain what i think. Is going, 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.000 on there number one number one free agent signing that 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.320 we need to know What's Happening. Is probably DeAndre right 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.719 he's the white. Whale of this offseason the big prize, 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.959 that's actually out there, not the trade prize but the 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.200 actual prize that you can go, out and get connected 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.879 probably in some way To What's. Happening With kevin durant 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.720 kevin durant looks like He's probably going TO phoenix from 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.800 what I, hear Today on, tuesday ju july fifth probably 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.840 a three Team Trade given That Ben simmons and DeAndre 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.240 ayton cannot be on. The same roster together there's a 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:45.120 Lot of Chatter That. Utah wants DeAndre ayden how they're 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.200 going to get him is. Going to be complex who's? 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.960 Getting Picks for who because utah is Gonna want to 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.600 Give Utah's. Gonna want DeAndre ayton sons are gonna want. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.920 Something For him back kevin durant's. Going to, get, there 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.440 but then okay so what's going to happen with these 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.560 pieces moving? Around LIKE musical chairs so i think this 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:06.760 is going. TO be really interesting i think another one 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.240 that makes a Ton. Of sense is toronto he would 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.080 Be Amazing in, The, nick nurse scheme like that's exactly 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.639 the kind of. Big man they need They Ended up 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.280 getting christian, coloco IN the draft which, i Liked A 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.879 lot but christian collocal is a rookie and that this 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.440 team wants to contend or, Do Anything of note DeAndre 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.880 ayton would definitely help. Them in, that sense Number Two 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.560 where is colin? Sexton? Going? TO go man. Like i 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.760 Don't know When The cavs signed darius, garland to five 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.520 years one hundred and ninety three million dollars a potential 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:42.000 to make two hundred and, thirty one million dollars that 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.119 Was Supposed to. Be Colin sexton's deal colin sexton WANTED to. 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:49.520 Be a max player he ends. UP tearing some ligaments 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.399 i want to SAY, it was a acl but IT 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.680 could HAVE, Been mco and aco and it's an absurd 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.720 contract that no one Thought Two years ago darius garland was, 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:02.119 Going to get right so That Means, most likely colin 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.000 sexton who has The Same Agent As darius garland, clutch 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.080 Sports Of. Course or rich, paul, you're Gonna Say well 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.919 if darius, garland can get that then we must be 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.439 able to get something in. The neighborhood of that maybe, 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.240 not in the thirties but. Maybe In the twenties anthony 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:18.480 simon's got, Something in the twenties so. What's gonna happen 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.679 there he's been on a steady downward trajectory. Since his 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.640 rookie year, he MISSED last, year like i, said due 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.840 to injury but especially since the team was, really good 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.960 without Him And they signed ricky, rubio to three, years 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.119 eighteen million dollars another underrated signing that. FLEW under THE 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.600 radar i guess i don't know how he fits into 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:38.040 the scheme of what they want to do unless he's 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.760 going to take, like EIGHT million dollars and i don't 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.000 Think A guy like colin sexton wants to. Make eight 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.320 million dollars executives seem to value him in, around ten to. 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.560 Twelve which is. Wow that is low. That is Really 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:56.280 low number three carmelo rumor has it he wants to 0:22:56.280 --> 0:23:00.360