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Speaker 2: I said what I said.
Speaker 3: It's the heat Chat Chat Check on this episode of
Speaker 3: the Heat Check that is t is heading into the
Speaker 3: semifinals and there are a couple of teams who I
Speaker 3: think is gonna use this as a launching pad, the
Speaker 3: Pacers and the Pelicans.
Speaker 2: We must talk about them. And by the time you're.
Speaker 1: Listening to this, we also know who won the semifinal
Speaker 1: nine two of the knockout round.
Speaker 2: It is also something I need to talk about.
Speaker 1: What the fuck are these new NBA coaches doing?
Speaker 2: What the fuck are these new NBA coaches up to?
Speaker 1: We also got a lot of news around from the
Speaker 1: lead to get into, so let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: William I got a migraine drop that motherfucker beat that
Speaker 1: should be Rihanna.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. I like the end sing in Tournament
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: I've been on record, I've been talking about it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I just want more games and I love it, but
Speaker 1: I am fired up about the fucking Really the Indiana
Speaker 1: Pacers the most. I like the Pelicans too, but these
Speaker 1: two teams have a chance to really be special, and
Speaker 1: I think The thing that's very intriguing to me, The
Speaker 1: thing that we have to discuss is like this new
Speaker 1: tournament has illuminated what these teams are, what these teams
Speaker 1: can be when the competitive lights and the juices get
Speaker 1: brighter and hotter. I don't know how the juices get hotter, Pauls,
Speaker 1: but Tyrese Haliburton Volks has turned into an absolute superstar
Speaker 1: in front.
Speaker 2: Of our very eyes.
Speaker 1: In front of our very eyes, he was birthed his
Speaker 1: second nationally televised game ever, his first TNT game ever.
Speaker 1: The man in an elimination game where very many good
Speaker 1: players fail, Like a lot of good players that we like,
Speaker 1: they shrink under that type of pressure, under that type
Speaker 1: of spotlight.
Speaker 2: Against the number one team.
Speaker 1: In basket would have been no shame if Tyrese Haliburton
Speaker 1: had an off night. But no, tyler Rese Halliburton against
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics in an elimination game in front of everyone.
Speaker 1: Because we know that Monday night football game was trash.
Speaker 1: Well actually it was okay, but we thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna be trash. Tyler Reeve Halliburton achieved his very first
Speaker 1: triple double, took those motherfuckers to the woodshed.
Speaker 2: By ten fucking points the Celtics. Tatum and Brown must
Speaker 2: have had a bad game.
Speaker 1: No, no, sir, they did not. So that I expedited
Speaker 1: what we already knew. Tyrese Halliburton probably a top ten
Speaker 1: player in the NBA. And that says nothing about Daron Fox,
Speaker 1: who's also top ten player in the NBA. Got a
Speaker 1: lot of leave leave people off the top ten, I know,
Speaker 1: I like to say top ten a lot. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Titum is a top ten player in the
Speaker 1: NBA's there's like a little hot take there. Without the
Speaker 1: elimination game, we'd have no idea knowing what Halle was.
Speaker 1: You got gms and coaches and evaluators now really able
Speaker 1: to fully evaluate what somebody is. Tyre's Halliburton is that dude.
Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburton is the guy that you build your entire
Speaker 1: franchise around.
Speaker 2: For the rest of his fucking life. He is going
Speaker 2: to be yellow and blue.
Speaker 1: He's going to be in Indiana in the mix for
Speaker 1: a long ass time. This is why the n season
Speaker 1: Tournament is important. It helps decision makers understand what they
Speaker 1: actually have. You put the clay into the fire and
Speaker 1: what do you get out, do you get pottery back
Speaker 1: or do you get melted shit? You can get the
Speaker 1: recap of the game somewhere else, but I do have
Speaker 1: a couple of points that I do want to make.
Speaker 1: The n Season tournament is awesome. It's lit. The competitive
Speaker 1: intensity is exactly the same as a playoff game. All
Speaker 1: four teams you could tell they wanted to win. They're screaming,
Speaker 1: their fist pumping, they're gritting their teeth, they're giving you
Speaker 1: their Kobe Look, the crowd's going crazy.
Speaker 2: There's also, by the way, a Tiffany designed trophy for
Speaker 2: the championship game, for the MVP, for the All.
Speaker 1: Tournament team and the winners medals. Goddamnit, people, they look good. Comparison,
Speaker 1: the ist trophy makes Hilario O'Brien look like a lava lamp.
Speaker 2: It really just does. Is it is so swaggy.
Speaker 1: They said we didn't We're gonna like show these motherfuckers
Speaker 1: was up. Maybe though, it's also the money that we
Speaker 1: poo pooed, because there's a lot of young players that
Speaker 1: need it, that are below the average and maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit more than.
Speaker 2: We realize when it got announced. More on that than
Speaker 2: just a second.
Speaker 1: So okay, So the Pacers, it's not really a recap,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like the Pacers go back and forth,
Speaker 1: right and in this game is tight and it's competitive
Speaker 1: until you look up and the Pacers are up ten.
Speaker 2: They shorten their rotation by.
Speaker 1: Running only nine guys out instead of playing like thirteen
Speaker 1: fourteen like they usually do. They use balance scoring to
Speaker 1: smother the Celtics, who would be fair like played without
Speaker 1: Christas Porzingis. But also we know Christas Porzingis. That's a feature,
Speaker 1: not a bug. That's what he is.
Speaker 2: He's injury prone. We don't know when he's coming back.
Speaker 2: Is he gonna be back by the finals?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see calf calf strain. Dude, you
Speaker 1: should be back by now. They had seven guys with
Speaker 1: twelve or more points. Imagine Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown went
Speaker 1: off for thirty two to twelve and thirty to nine
Speaker 1: and they still lost by ten. That is how dangerous
Speaker 1: this Pacers team is. And when Aaron Nesmith laid down
Speaker 1: a late windmill, folks, folks, the entire Pacers bench went
Speaker 1: fucking wild. As we said before the tournament started, there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of players in the league who make
Speaker 1: under the league average, and half a million to them
Speaker 1: or even one hundred thousand just for making the Semis
Speaker 1: is a lot of money. Get to go to Vegas,
Speaker 1: get one hundred k? What's wrong with that? What can
Speaker 1: this Pacers team be?
Speaker 2: Legitimately?
Speaker 1: I think they're an Eastern Conference semifinals team if they're lucky.
Speaker 1: I think that they've got got enough to compete night
Speaker 1: tonight with anyone, even if their defense sometimes looks leaky,
Speaker 1: like my Fawcett pass that sounds really bad.
Speaker 2: They're the Kings in the Thunder of the East.
Speaker 1: Folks, Watch the fuck out Milwaukee, Watch out Boston, Watch
Speaker 1: out Miami.
Speaker 2: The second team that.
Speaker 1: I want to highlight is New Ons Pelicans, who took
Speaker 1: on the Sacramento Kings in a battle between two teams
Speaker 1: that I see making the Western Conference Finals that they could. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves are there as well. Predictably, it was
Speaker 1: a slugfest. Valancunas versus Domanas Sabonis, Dearon Fox versus c J.
Speaker 1: Zion versus Keegan Murray b I versus Barnes. Woh womh
Speaker 1: womh woh for Barnes. Barnes did not look good. B
Speaker 1: I went off for thirty, Barnes went off for four.
Speaker 1: Isn't really going off as it? And Boyle boy was
Speaker 1: he getting roasted after the game too. There may be
Speaker 1: a Harrison Barnes problem.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie to you. After the game, Mike
Speaker 2: Brown was complaining.
Speaker 1: He was lamenting about how the Kings are not running
Speaker 1: as much as they did last year because now their
Speaker 1: wings stand around clapping their hands to get the ball
Speaker 1: instead of just, I don't know, sprending up the floor
Speaker 1: to get open for a corner.
Speaker 2: Three. Who's that? Who do you think he's talking about there?
Speaker 2: Harrison Barnes is who? Sir Harrison.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should be clapping your hands for
Speaker 1: the ball, and sometimes I don't even think you should
Speaker 1: be standing.
Speaker 2: In the corner either. I don't really know what your
Speaker 2: role is right now.
Speaker 1: The Pelicans used a very hot stretch in the second
Speaker 1: quarter to take a.
Speaker 2: Lead, and they never gave it up. In a game
Speaker 2: where the Kings held.
Speaker 1: Zion to just ten points, you had the hot hand
Speaker 1: of Trey Murphy back, Jose Alvarado back keeping the Pels
Speaker 1: in command.
Speaker 2: Herb Jones had twenty three, not even a.
Speaker 1: Steal sad, very dangerous team and they will make a
Speaker 1: very very fun final four squad for the IST.
Speaker 2: Another very deep, very athletic team that could be a
Speaker 2: spoiler team at worst and a real threat to some
Speaker 2: contenders at best.
Speaker 1: So watch out for the Pels and the Pacers coming
Speaker 1: out of the n Season Tournament, because we all know
Speaker 1: this from college.
Speaker 2: Baby teams that learn how to win early, win a.
Speaker 1: Holiday tournament, they get dangerous in March, and I think
Speaker 1: these two teams will springboard off their success in the
Speaker 1: Ncason Tournament and maybe come out as hard rocks in May.
Speaker 2: H