Speaker 1: If you're tuned into Heat Check with Trista Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check my God in
Speaker 2: the NBA Playoffs, Off the rails or what the Milwaukee
Speaker 2: Bucks Alert?
Speaker 3: The Milwaukee Bucks are dead. They are dead.
Speaker 2: They've been hit in the middle of the road on
Speaker 2: a freeway in the middle of Wisconsin by some random
Speaker 2: car left in the middle of the freeway.
Speaker 3: Four dead. They are dead. Jimmy Butler was the driver
Speaker 3: of that car.
Speaker 2: Heat dispatched the favorites in the first round in five games.
Speaker 2: The Knicks also move on as well as underdogs against
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Cavaliers. We cover all the playoff news. Drop
Speaker 2: a little tea, also about the Clippers. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: a little toxicity going on? No time to wastnick drop
Speaker 2: that generic ass beat that should be Rihanna.
Speaker 3: We gotta talk Bucks heat first. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Even though the series hasn't been great, and it hasn't
Speaker 2: it hasn't been particularly high quality, high caliber basketball in spots,
Speaker 2: but the Bucks in Heat just gave us two of
Speaker 2: the most iconic games in NBA history and absolutely the
Speaker 2: most iconic ending I've ever seen for those who were
Speaker 2: asleep on the East Coast because you work in the mornings.
Speaker 2: The Bucks are Milwaukee Bucks, who I had just like
Speaker 2: a few units on to win at all at plus
Speaker 2: three point fifty, which that's down the train. They blew
Speaker 2: a sixteen point fourth quarter lead. They ended up losing
Speaker 2: in overtime to the Miami Heat in Milwaukee, which means
Speaker 2: the heater dead. The Milwaukee Bucks, excuse me, are dead.
Speaker 2: The Heat booted the betting favorites for the entire league
Speaker 2: in five fucking games.
Speaker 3: Are you serious? Did that happen?
Speaker 2: But it is not that it happened that boggle the mind.
Speaker 2: It is how it happened that boggle the mind. Okay,
Speaker 2: so let's start back at game four. So Jimmy Butler
Speaker 2: aka playoff Jimmy went into a berserk level of basketball,
Speaker 2: going off for fifty six nine and two, which is
Speaker 2: an insane stat line that is ridiculously one man gang
Speaker 2: bang slash line single handedly carrying this team where the
Speaker 2: second leading scorer was I think they scored fifteen.
Speaker 3: Points bam Adebayo, third leading scorer ten points.
Speaker 2: So it was just Jimmy all Jimmy all day outplayed
Speaker 2: the entire Bucks team. Jannis before that missed the previous
Speaker 2: games My question is, how do you play four all
Speaker 2: NBA defenders on the court at the same time.
Speaker 3: You've got Drew Holliday.
Speaker 2: Jannis Brook Lopez, all three of those guys could win
Speaker 2: Defensive Player at the year of the year at any
Speaker 2: given time. And then you've got Bobby Portos, who's also
Speaker 2: lockdown to four dudes, and you cannot stop Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler who's never been a particularly great jump shooter.
Speaker 2: That is not only a testament to how good Jimmy
Speaker 2: Butler is, but just how.
Speaker 3: Horrible the Bucks are. Oh my god gross.
Speaker 2: The coaching in these in this game and in these
Speaker 2: two games from Bodhaalzer has been vomit, like trash vomit.
Speaker 2: Then we go to Game five, Bucks down three to one. Hey, Bucks,
Speaker 2: it's an elimination game, heads up. If you lose one, two,
Speaker 2: three can coon. They were as a down three to
Speaker 2: one plus one thirty to win that series, meaning the world,
Speaker 2: the betting world thought there was a possibility they could
Speaker 2: win three in a row. Bucks huge fourth quarter lead,
Speaker 2: I believe at one point they were up seventeen in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, and then in an absolute bottle job,
Speaker 2: blew the lead in the most insane amazing way. Not
Speaker 2: only did they not have any answer for Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: but Budenholzer may I don't even know like some truly
Speaker 2: disheartening bizarre game ending situations. Let's break those down. So
Speaker 2: the heater down seven with four minutes left, Sposer decides
Speaker 2: to make Bam the primary ball handler in order to
Speaker 2: set up this high low action for Jimmy Butler. He
Speaker 2: then proceeds in the paint to torch the Bucks once again.
Speaker 2: Heat come roaring back, but Jimmy misses two shots in
Speaker 2: the final thirty seconds, and now Drew Holliday has the
Speaker 2: opportunity to put the Bucks up three with a half
Speaker 2: second left. He misses the first makes the second, Heat
Speaker 2: called time out. They take the ball out near half court.
Speaker 2: Got me, okay? So what does Budenholzer do? First of all,
Speaker 2: with Bam off the floor for some unknown reason, I
Speaker 2: believe he fouled out. Maybe he decides to take defensive
Speaker 2: player of the Year Lopez off the floor. Didn't have
Speaker 2: a great explanation after the game why he did that. Second,
Speaker 2: he decides to defend Jimmy Butler underneath the basket with
Speaker 2: six to four, Drew Holiday, not Giannis, not not Chris Middleton,
Speaker 2: not someone long. No, No, We'll put Drew on him.
Speaker 3: And I get it. Drew is a great defender.
Speaker 2: Then secondly, uh, Jimmy had to beg Spoe just to
Speaker 2: get the play made for Jimmy in order for the
Speaker 2: ball to go to him so that he could tip
Speaker 2: it in underneath the basket. Yeah, he tells Spoe like, listen,
Speaker 2: Drew's going to front me. I'm gonna get separation. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tip in near the basket. So he draws up
Speaker 2: a lob to Jimmy, who then uses his physicality to
Speaker 2: get separation, catches the ball one handed.
Speaker 3: Falling to the floor, and somehow it goes in.
Speaker 2: Bud, why didn't you call a time out there when
Speaker 2: you saw what the play was gonna be. So not
Speaker 2: only was Lopez off the floor, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: you could have used a seven footer underneath the basket
Speaker 2: to defend a lob into Jimmy, but then you decide
Speaker 2: not to put Giannis on Jimmy.
Speaker 3: And when the.
Speaker 2: Bucks had a chance to see the heat's final play
Speaker 2: and they still had to time out, Bud decided not
Speaker 2: to use it. The outrage that's inside of my soul
Speaker 2: right now is to such a high level I can't
Speaker 2: even muster.
Speaker 3: Up the strength to yell anymore.
Speaker 2: It's just like a very disappointed feeling for Bud because
Speaker 2: everyone on Twitter was showing Bud and showing him doing nothing.
Speaker 3: How dumb was the decision?
Speaker 2: Well, not only were the Heat players themselves stunned by
Speaker 2: the decision, even Eric Spolstra had no idea what was
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 3: He's like, how do we know that?
Speaker 2: Eric Spolstro was like, Hey, what is what is this
Speaker 2: joke show doing?
Speaker 3: What is what is our man?
Speaker 2: Budenholzer saying, because Strews went on The Levatard Show today
Speaker 2: and said everyone was puzzled on the Heat bench. Let's
Speaker 2: go and listen to Max Strews.
Speaker 4: Max, were you also confused that whether or not Milwaukee
Speaker 4: had timeouts? Because there were several points in both of
Speaker 4: your most recent comebacks where a timeout is usually called
Speaker 4: and it wasn't called. And I think it kind of
Speaker 4: led to what you felt, which was just this one
Speaker 4: big hallucination.
Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, we were all questioning it. At the regular
Speaker 5: end of the regular time spoke can in a huddle.
Speaker 5: He was like they didn't call time out, Like what
Speaker 5: are we doing? Like, they didn't call time out and
Speaker 5: we were like, we didn't even know they had a
Speaker 5: time out. We just figured they did it the guys
Speaker 5: in the court. But yeah, we were all kind of
Speaker 5: questioning what was going on. But thankfully they didn't use it.
Speaker 3: Thankfully they didn't use it.
Speaker 2: Budenholzer right now is on heat Reddit as the savior
Speaker 2: of the Miami Heat.
Speaker 3: Even SPO's like, what are we doing? Like what is this?
Speaker 6: Aw?
Speaker 2: What is this bush league bullshit that's happening right now?
Speaker 2: And it of course gets worse. So the Heat run
Speaker 2: out to a lead in ot and the Bucks claw back.
Speaker 2: They're down too with ten seconds to go, and they
Speaker 2: have the entire length.
Speaker 3: Of the court to go.
Speaker 2: So instead of calling one of his two timeouts in
Speaker 2: his pocket to I don't know, advance the ball up
Speaker 2: to half court, he simply lets them waste time getting
Speaker 2: across the half court line, and then when his option
Speaker 2: one and his Option two are locked up, the ball
Speaker 2: ends up in our man Grayson Allen's hands, and what
Speaker 2: do you know, the team simply just runs out of
Speaker 2: time before they can even put up a shot. Is
Speaker 2: that not the most insane shit. They you went home.
Speaker 3: That's it, that's all you have left.
Speaker 6: Three to one.
Speaker 3: You are down. You don't even throw up a shot,
Speaker 3: it just expires. Ugh. The worst part they only needed
Speaker 3: a two. Team only needed a two.
Speaker 2: They could have just planned a play up for Drew
Speaker 2: or Chris or even if he didn't want the ball
Speaker 2: in Giannis's hands because he can't shoot free throws.
Speaker 3: What are we talking about here?
Speaker 2: You had Bam, Kevin Love, and Kyle Lowry all had
Speaker 2: fouled out. You can't even plan a play for two
Speaker 2: fucking points when you have a bunch of undrafted guys
Speaker 2: out there, and Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler is an incredible player.
Speaker 2: He was out there on the floor to end overtime
Speaker 2: with four undrafted players that should be barbecue chicken.
Speaker 3: That should be barbecue chicken.
Speaker 2: Let that sink in game over, season over, could not
Speaker 2: get a shot up. Budenolzer's career maybe over. Meanwhile, her
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse is on Zillo right now looking up some
Speaker 2: homes in Fox Points. See how much it'll cost for
Speaker 2: him to move in at short notice. I promise you dog,
Speaker 2: if that Nick Nurse, there's no chance that would happen.
Speaker 3: His x's and.
Speaker 2: O's skills are far surpassing our man, Bud.
Speaker 3: That would that would never happen.
Speaker 2: Now, maybe all everybody on the team would hate Nick
Speaker 2: Nurse because it seems like he's been calling them out
Speaker 2: in the media to the point where things have gotten
Speaker 2: a little toxic. But I tell you what, at the
Speaker 2: end of a game, he's calling up the right play.
Speaker 2: Never would I ever see Nick Nurse eat three timeouts,
Speaker 2: just keep them in his pocket and lose in an
Speaker 2: elimination game at home. There's a reason you don't see
Speaker 2: memes of Nick Nurse with hands in his pockets.
Speaker 3: Friend of show Keith Smith said, Buck's done. Unreal.
Speaker 2: Giannis Middleton holiday on the floor, ball is in Grace
Speaker 2: and Allen's hands.
Speaker 3: He doesn't even get a shot off.
Speaker 2: Bucks left a timeout on the board at the end
Speaker 2: of regulation and two timeouts on the board at overtime.
Speaker 2: Just unconscionable. The word, the proper word, is unconscionable. So
Speaker 2: they asked Bud, what's up?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 7: Uh, they had five small guys, you know, so you
Speaker 7: know down to you know you can you can go
Speaker 7: for the win with three or you know, they obviously
Speaker 7: got to play at the rim, but uh, you know
Speaker 7: they had five guards or wings, and uh so we
Speaker 7: matched that.
Speaker 8: I believe you had a time out with half a
Speaker 8: second left and you didn't call it. Was the thought process.
Speaker 7: There, Yeah, we need to call the time out there.
Speaker 8: And then in overtime. I know you like to play
Speaker 8: without calling the timeout. Was there any part of that
Speaker 8: possession where you thought, maybe we're not getting something, we
Speaker 8: need to take a time out.
Speaker 7: No, you know, Uh, Janice attacked, Giannics got the ball
Speaker 7: to Chris, Chris attacked. You know, that's how we always play.
Speaker 7: It's been very good for us, and you know we
Speaker 7: weren't able to convert it tonight.
Speaker 3: That is so bad.
Speaker 2: That is so so bad. I think Bud knows he
Speaker 2: fucked up. He's like, yep, gotta call a time out there.
Speaker 2: I think he sees the writing on the wall. This
Speaker 2: kid on Twitter, I don't know how to pronounce his name,
Speaker 2: he said Budenholzer was chilling on the sidelines, like, Damn,
Speaker 2: this game is good as hell.
Speaker 3: Damn, this is a good ass game.
Speaker 2: Dog, Like you're supposed to be doing something, Bud, You're
Speaker 2: a part of this deal. Miami Heat read It posted
Speaker 2: a Mike Budenholzer appreciation post today said we couldn't have
Speaker 2: won this without your masterclass yesterday, Budenholzer.
Speaker 3: So now we're left in Miami.
Speaker 2: We're left to figure out what's happening now that the
Speaker 2: season is done. In Milwaukee, there is no way that
Speaker 2: they should be sitting at home, no way that they
Speaker 2: should lose to a play in team.
Speaker 3: There's a playing team.
Speaker 2: Number one seed loses to a team that was down
Speaker 2: fifteen points to the Chicago Bulls, and probably we're going
Speaker 2: to go home, night night, sleep mask.
Speaker 3: In the playing tournament, they had already lost.
Speaker 6: To Tray Young and the ELMA.
Speaker 2: Since we're speaking about postgame pressers, let's talk about this
Speaker 2: Yannis clip that's gone viral. You've probably seen it. If
Speaker 2: you're not living under a rock, I have thoughts. A
Speaker 2: reporter asked if this season was a failure to Jannis,
Speaker 2: check out this bullshit.
Speaker 8: I just asked the exact same question, but I'm curious
Speaker 8: for you. Do you view this season as a failure?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Okay, because I'm not that up. You
Speaker 1: asked me the same question last year. Eric, Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: do you get do you get the promotion every year
Speaker 1: on your job?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Right, so every year you work it's a failure, yes
Speaker 1: or no. No, Every every year you work, you work
Speaker 1: towards something, towards a goal, right, which is to get
Speaker 1: a promotion, to be able, to take care of your family,
Speaker 1: to be able, I don't know, provide the house for them,
Speaker 1: or take care of your parents. You work towards a goal.
Speaker 1: It's not a failure. It steps to success, you know.
Speaker 1: And if you've never I don't know, I don't want.
Speaker 1: I don't make the personal.
Speaker 3: So he was a hold up. I just realized he
Speaker 3: was about to say to the.
Speaker 2: Reporter, if you've never accomplished anything good in your entire
Speaker 2: fucking life, you won't know what that means. He almost
Speaker 2: said that, that's what he was about to say, and
Speaker 2: then he was like, hold on, let me not make
Speaker 2: that personal.
Speaker 1: There's always steps to it, you know. Michael Jordan played
Speaker 1: fifteen years, one six championship, the other nine years was
Speaker 1: a failure. That's what you're telling me. I'm asking you
Speaker 1: a question, yes or no? Okay, exactly, So why you
Speaker 1: ask me that question. It's a wrong question. There's no
Speaker 1: failure in sports. You know, there's good days, bad days.
Speaker 1: Some days you were able to be successful so that
Speaker 1: you're not Some days it's your turn, some days not
Speaker 1: your turn. And that's what sports about. You don't always win.
Speaker 1: Some other other people's gonna win, and this year somebody
Speaker 1: else is gonna win. Similar as that we're gonna come
Speaker 1: back next year. Try to be better, try to build
Speaker 1: good habits, try to play better, not have ten days
Speaker 1: stretch with playing bad basketball, you know, and hopefully we
Speaker 1: can win a championship. So fifty years from nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: one in twenty twenty one that we didn't win a championship,
Speaker 1: it was fifty years of failures.
Speaker 6: No, it was not.
Speaker 1: It was steps to it, you know, and we were
Speaker 1: able to win one. Hopefully we're give in another one.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: I sorry that I didn't want to make it personal
Speaker 1: because you asked me the same question last year, and
Speaker 1: last year I was in the right mind space to
Speaker 1: answer the question back.
Speaker 3: So everybody was slobbing on your honest is not over this.
Speaker 2: They thought it was like the most insight philosophical comment
Speaker 2: that any athlete has made after losing the first round.
Speaker 2: That's this is insane. This is this is a team.
Speaker 2: Can we just back it up here. This is a
Speaker 2: team that was the number one overall seed that lost
Speaker 2: to an eight seed that had to scrap and caw
Speaker 2: just to get into the playoffs, and you lost to
Speaker 2: them in five games, giving up double digit leads in
Speaker 2: games four and five. That's not a failure of a
Speaker 2: season to you, folks.
Speaker 3: This is exactly what if.
Speaker 2: This isn't shoots in ladders, fam like, this is pro sports.
Speaker 2: There are billions of dollars on the line. That is
Speaker 2: a failure. You got your ass waxed, your coach collapsed,
Speaker 2: you fucked up. You missed thirteen free throws the postseason,
Speaker 2: this season as a whole, what you were trying to achieve,
Speaker 2: you failed. You as a human being obviously not a failure.
Speaker 2: But your goal every year is to win a championship.
Speaker 2: That's actually the only point of this whole thing.
Speaker 3: That's the only goal. It's not like, oh, Eric.
Speaker 2: Nemuh messed up on one article about Yannis and so
Speaker 2: it's a bad season for this this writer who asked
Speaker 2: Yannis about whether.
Speaker 3: This season was a failure.
Speaker 2: No, it would be like if the entire goal for
Speaker 2: Eric Neme was to write a feature on Yannis and
Speaker 2: then he didn't do it.
Speaker 3: It would be like that this is a spin job.
Speaker 2: We are people collectively all going crazy being like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, y honest, he's so grounded. Everybody show this
Speaker 2: to your kids. What kind of participation trophy? Shit?
Speaker 3: Is this?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: There's no failure in sports, there's only growth. No, No
Speaker 2: growth comes from admitting that you failed. That's where we're
Speaker 2: at right now. This is like, there's gonna be consequences.
Speaker 2: Your coach is probably fired, You're not going to be
Speaker 2: able to extend or pay Brook Lopez. You're probably gonna
Speaker 2: let Chris Middleton go jew holidays on and expiring.
Speaker 3: What's he gonna do?
Speaker 2: All of that is a downstream effect of failure. Is
Speaker 2: is it a failure for the Orlando Magic that they
Speaker 2: did not win a championship this year?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Because of Orlando Magic are a lottery team. The Orlando
Speaker 2: Magic have been a lottery team for the last decade.
Speaker 2: They've had the number one pick overall last year. The
Speaker 2: fact that Orlando Magic won like sixty five percent of
Speaker 2: their games after the All Star breaks, that's a success.
Speaker 2: That's something to build on. No, No, Joannis, there's nothing
Speaker 2: to build on for you, except for championships.
Speaker 3: This isn't steps to success. Yes, this is like is
Speaker 3: Yannis trying to be ted Lasso?
Speaker 2: Are we thinking like Jannis is a college football coach
Speaker 2: that decides to go to England and coach an EPL
Speaker 2: team and has no idea what he's doing, because that's
Speaker 2: how he sounds right now?
Speaker 3: The mistakes have been egregious.
Speaker 2: The Bucks should have been at home in five waiting
Speaker 2: for their next opponent, and instead their home in five
Speaker 2: watching their opponent move on and play the Knicks. The
Speaker 2: path was there for you. You got to play the
Speaker 2: Knicks in the next round. How are they gonna defend Giannis?
Speaker 3: Nope?
Speaker 2: No, you failed. You fucking choked to me. This was
Speaker 2: the most telling quote that Yanna said. Hey, they were
Speaker 2: playing to beat us, and we were playing to win
Speaker 2: a championship. We were a bit ahead of ourselves, to
Speaker 2: be honest. Okay, so they were playing to beat you.
Speaker 3: Goal achieved.
Speaker 2: You were planning to win a championship failed. Your goal
Speaker 2: was only to win a championship. That was only the
Speaker 2: thing in your mind. I feel like I'm talking crazy.
Speaker 2: I think I taking crazy pills. You got Emmanuel Acho
Speaker 2: being like show this to your kids. What kind of
Speaker 2: gold star nonsense is this? Like, this is shirking accountability,
Speaker 2: This is trying to spin zone your way into continuing
Speaker 2: to have the same exact thing as you did before.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a storyline for the for the offseason.
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of decisions they're gonna make,
Speaker 2: but they have them to make. And I would not
Speaker 2: be surprised if coach Budenholzer, with two years left on
Speaker 2: his deal, is out. So Nicks close out their series
Speaker 2: in what was a real shock to a lot of people,
Speaker 2: five games. If you wanted to bet Nixon five, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it would have been huge value.
Speaker 3: I'm sure the odds on that would have been crazy.
Speaker 2: Everyone at ESPN picked the Calves or the Knicks in
Speaker 2: like six or seven, and you know what, they were
Speaker 2: all wrong. The Knicks out tough. The Calves, Brunson and
Speaker 2: Heart were incredible. They're probably the best backcourt right now
Speaker 2: in the league, consistently in the East. At least They're
Speaker 2: not only dominated on the court. They were hilarious and
Speaker 2: postgame presser you had Josh Hart eating chicken wings and
Speaker 2: Brunson is being like, yo, stop eating while.
Speaker 3: I'm in the middle of this press conference.
Speaker 2: Hey, and you got Josh Hart turning his back on
Speaker 2: Brunson and still eating his wings. I love that heart
Speaker 2: then calls Brunson undersized, overrated, overpaid. These guys are awesome.
Speaker 2: They did the best. The Calves had zero answer. They
Speaker 2: had no idea what to do. Cleveland Riders are calling
Speaker 2: out JB. Bickers staff, but the Calves got bounced because
Speaker 2: they have roster issues. We knew that two bigs does
Speaker 2: it work well. The two teams that decided to go
Speaker 2: with two seven footers are both sitting at home right now.
Speaker 2: So you tell me Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers,
Speaker 2: so that big lineup thing isn't really working.
Speaker 3: Reality, you have no You have.
Speaker 2: Zero players who are both good shooters and good defenders.
Speaker 2: Isaac Acquorrel really good defender, terrible shooter. At one point
Speaker 2: he was shooting seven percent from three point I'll say
Speaker 2: it again, at one point he was shooting seven percent
Speaker 2: from the three point line. You got Alan and Mobley,
Speaker 2: who at some point, for whatever reason, under the spotlight,
Speaker 2: could not score. You have offensive players like Mitchell and
Speaker 2: Garland who are like tissue paper in the playoffs. Can't
Speaker 2: defend a person. And also Donovan Mitchell just underperformed offensively.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight points in a closeout game not enough. You
Speaker 2: need fifty six, like Jimmy Butler and the Calves we
Speaker 2: know in all year has been this way. They've beaten
Speaker 2: teams under five hundred and teams over five hundred. They
Speaker 2: just didn't. So it was kind of like something that
Speaker 2: we could see coming right. They on their dream list
Speaker 2: have mckel bridges, but let's be real, they're not getting
Speaker 2: mckel bridges.
Speaker 3: They have no draft capital.
Speaker 2: They traded it all for Donovan Mitchell and look where
Speaker 2: they are at home in April again. So yeah, they're
Speaker 2: in a bad spot.
Speaker 3: They need to improve.
Speaker 2: Isaac Accoro and Seti Osman Chetty Osman have both had
Speaker 2: their worst seasons as Cavalier. They're probably gonna need to
Speaker 2: get moved. It's not gonna be easy to find a wing.
Speaker 2: Those are really really hard positions, as you guys know.
Speaker 2: I mean it's like the hardest one. It's the hardest one.
Speaker 2: It's fine a good win as the Portland Showlblazers, So
Speaker 2: they're gonna probably have to trade Jared Allen as well.
Speaker 2: Alan said this about his play. Even for me, the
Speaker 2: lights were brighter than expected. Oh that is as bad
Speaker 2: as telling. Now, the Knicks move on to play the
Speaker 2: Miami Heat in the battle of the underdogs, the scrappy team.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be incredible. The first thought probably is that
Speaker 2: the Knicks should be favorites. Hero is out for the year,
Speaker 2: But all of this depends on Julius Randall. Is his
Speaker 2: ankle okay because he re injured it in Game five?
Speaker 2: Why was he out there? I have no idea. Tim
Speaker 2: said that we're hopeful that it's.
Speaker 3: Not that bad. Uh yeah, I mean everybody is.
Speaker 2: All Knicks fans around the country are worried about that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Without him, I think the series is a toss up.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a reason Jason Tatum said that he
Speaker 2: didn't see the Heat winning as an upset because the
Speaker 2: Knicks are gonna have their hands full. Jimmy Buckets and
Speaker 2: their world defenders could not you know, the Bucks could
Speaker 2: not stop Jimmy Butler. A bunch of all defensive guys
Speaker 2: could not stop him. So I have it on good
Speaker 2: authority that Jimmy Butler called a couple of Knicks executives
Speaker 2: as soon as he had that fifty six point performance
Speaker 2: in Game four and said, I'm coming for that ass.
Speaker 3: I'm coming. You're next.
Speaker 2: Nicks will fucking see you at Madison Square Garden. And
Speaker 2: now we will Sunday at the Guard.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a doozy since the last.
Speaker 2: Time we chatted on Sunday, Dearn Fox was diagnosed with
Speaker 2: an evulsion fracture in his index finger of his shooting hand.
Speaker 3: That is what we.
Speaker 2: Would call, uh, steps to success, as you honest would say,
Speaker 2: steps to success, not a failure, not a disaster, just
Speaker 2: steps to success.
Speaker 3: Predictably. Uh.
Speaker 2: When Dearon Fox ended up playing, he was awesome, by
Speaker 2: the way, until he jammed his finger. And then, like
Speaker 2: you would imagine, a guy who's got a broken finger,
Speaker 2: doesn't really perform in the fourth quarter after he re
Speaker 2: injures it. And without fourth quarter Fox, it was night
Speaker 2: Night's sleep mask.
Speaker 3: Kings were lost.
Speaker 2: Even when it was a three point game with a
Speaker 2: minute left and the Kings had a good look from
Speaker 2: three to tie. Monk misses the twenty five footer and
Speaker 2: we got to see the yin and the yang that
Speaker 2: is Malik Monk. Boy, oh boy, did we see all
Speaker 2: of it on one hand. That man carried the Kings,
Speaker 2: who twenty one points from the four minute mark at
Speaker 2: the third quarter. He had twenty one points from that
Speaker 2: point on, twenty one points at the four minute mark
Speaker 2: in the third quarter, fourteen points in the fourth quarter alone.
Speaker 2: He was cooking boy carving at that defense. He was
Speaker 2: making tough shot after tough shot over Kevon Looney. He
Speaker 2: looked like John Moran out there. He was waiting until
Speaker 2: his feet had almost reached the floor, coming up off
Speaker 2: his elevation, and then put it up, bucket after bucket,
Speaker 2: getting to the free throw line, chasing down what should
Speaker 2: have been a backcourt violation for the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 2: off of an errant pass, but no, he steals that ball,
Speaker 2: gets it, gets the loose ball, and then gets an
Speaker 2: in one. Just incredible, honestly, probably the only reason that
Speaker 2: the Kings were able to dig back. And then on
Speaker 2: the other hand, shooting a nonsense three pointer when you
Speaker 2: don't need to make that or shoot that at that
Speaker 2: given moment. You've got a bunch of seconds left on
Speaker 2: the shot clocking guys open, Why are you taking that shot?
Speaker 2: Malik Monk, Oh my god, that lost you the game.
Speaker 2: On the other side, we got one of the best
Speaker 2: performances of Draymond's career. He was unstoppable on both sides
Speaker 2: of the ball. Offensively, he he cooked all night, my man.
Speaker 2: Draymond Green Day Day eight for ten from the floor,
Speaker 2: eight for ten, twenty one points off the bench, four rebounds,
Speaker 2: seven assists, three steals and a block.
Speaker 3: What are we talking about long in the short is.
Speaker 2: That Draymond's suspension put the series and changed it like
Speaker 2: an inflection point where now they get to see what
Speaker 2: it's like for them to have complete spacing. Draymond knows
Speaker 2: where he needs to be even when he's with Kevon
Speaker 2: Looney on the floor. And now they're cooking these Kings
Speaker 2: up with back cuts and easy looks at the rim,
Speaker 2: and that is a real problem. The Warriors shot seventy
Speaker 2: six percent in the restricted area in Game five.
Speaker 3: That's really bad.
Speaker 2: They had thirty three separate buckets in the restricted area,
Speaker 2: which is five feet.
Speaker 3: From the rim.
Speaker 2: They got fifty points at the rim. That's ridiculous. And
Speaker 2: now they know that they can't the Kings can't stop it.
Speaker 2: They can't stop it with all that cutting, with all
Speaker 2: that ball movement, they're cutting like crazy. They're getting easy
Speaker 2: shots right in the rim and there's just no way
Speaker 2: to adjust out of that. Kings now play Game six
Speaker 2: on Friday, which is today. I guess at Chase in
Speaker 2: an elimination game. Man, it's going to be a tough
Speaker 2: one for Sacramento. But they should have won Game four,
Speaker 2: I guess. And they haven't lost four in a row
Speaker 2: since the first four games of the season, So whatever happens,
Speaker 2: I just want to say King's Nation, I'm incredibly proud
Speaker 2: of you. I think you have a bright future. This
Speaker 2: team is fun as hell to watch. I think they're
Speaker 2: the most fun team of basketball. And if this thing
Speaker 2: goes back to goal and won for Game seven, all
Speaker 2: bets are off. Moving on, Lakers and Grizzlies are locked
Speaker 2: in a series now as well. The Lakers had a
Speaker 2: chance to put Memphis to bed in Memphis, but the
Speaker 2: Grizzlies got off to a hot start and open up
Speaker 2: a fourteen point lead in the first quarter, and other
Speaker 2: than one Laker run that cut the lead to one,
Speaker 2: that was basically a night from the beginning they handled
Speaker 2: the Lakers. Jaw had thirty one and thirty three from
Speaker 2: bain La lost because as we know what they do
Speaker 2: is they just can't shoot. They shot twenty five percent
Speaker 2: from three. Grizzly shot thirty five percent from three, despite
Speaker 2: our man del In the villain shooting twenty percent from deep.
Speaker 3: Now all eyes are on him.
Speaker 2: His Shenanigans Brooks was three for fifteen for eight. He
Speaker 2: had ten boards, seven assists. But he was also the
Speaker 2: only Grizzly starter to be a negative minus seven. They
Speaker 2: are not going to survive many three for fifteen shooting nights.
Speaker 2: So the Grizzlies now facing uphill battle. I still think
Speaker 2: they can win this thing. I still think that they
Speaker 2: can win Game six and it will be raucous in
Speaker 2: Memphis on Sunday. Do not be surprised if Memphis forces
Speaker 2: a Game seven.
Speaker 3: Finally, little tea from.
Speaker 2: Around the league, because we haven't talked much about very
Speaker 2: much news Clippers are eliminated and I did a TikTok,
Speaker 2: but I think you should I should mention to hear
Speaker 2: on the podcast as well. If you don't follow my
Speaker 2: social and you just listen to the podcast, by the way,
Speaker 2: you should check it out.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: There are now hot rumors coming out about the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Clippers, and I don't know if they're true, But
Speaker 2: I tell you what, people who I know who are
Speaker 2: around this team and have friends that are around this
Speaker 2: team tell me that I am spot on.
Speaker 3: So this is what happened.
Speaker 2: An anonymous Clipper media member has an account called Clippers Content,
Speaker 2: and he claims that he's been covering the team all
Speaker 2: year and as soon as they lost their game to
Speaker 2: be eliminated, he posted like a sixteen sixteen post thread
Speaker 2: on Twitter about everything that went wrong with the Clippers
Speaker 2: this year, and my god, was it bad. It was
Speaker 2: like Edward Snowden. It was like releasing all the receipts.
Speaker 2: He's now on the run. He hasn't posted since. Steve
Speaker 2: Bomber must be furius, So this is what it was.
Speaker 2: He starts dropping a tweet storm. It says, first and foremost,
Speaker 2: the Clippers turned down Marcus Morris for Conley trade. They
Speaker 2: had Morris to go to Utah for Mike Conley.
Speaker 3: And they settled for John Wall. We know how that went.
Speaker 2: They couldn't get Wall cheap, so they gave up Isaiah
Speaker 2: Hartenstein for nothing because they couldn't pay them both, and
Speaker 2: they couldn't find a backup center until the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: Then Reggie Jackson. Reggie Jackson was one of the field
Speaker 2: good stories. He was unplayable, he was horrible, and he
Speaker 2: had a bad attitude. So the Clips were so desperate.
Speaker 2: They tried to get Kyrie. They tried to get fred
Speaker 2: van Fleet, they tried to get Lowry and they failed.
Speaker 2: They settled on Eric Gordon. They tried to trade Norm
Speaker 2: Powell to the Grizzlies, but instead got Luke Kennard instead,
Speaker 2: and then they just struggled from three for the rest
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 3: So he's like, hey, I also have a lot.
Speaker 2: More tea on the dysfunction of the team. He lows
Speaker 2: up the bridge. He basically murders Tyleru. Says that Tyleru
Speaker 2: was pissed off at the team that the team hates him.
Speaker 2: He hates them, the roster hates him, the front office
Speaker 2: hates him, and because he doesn't like them, he's just
Speaker 2: basically playing players he knows will not win them games.
Speaker 3: Three four guard lineups out of.
Speaker 2: Spite because he was just so mad at the front
Speaker 2: office and he was just being petty. And then Marcus
Speaker 2: Morris wanted to trade and now is so pissed that
Speaker 2: he didn't get traded that he quit the team for
Speaker 2: two weeks, just went a wall.
Speaker 3: No one knewe he was.
Speaker 2: Tylu covered it up, and then he eventually came back
Speaker 2: and then forced his way back onto the starting lineup
Speaker 2: with Tyleru because they're friends.
Speaker 3: Uh yikes.
Speaker 2: And then he moves on to more tea about individual players.
Speaker 2: Says that Roko and Terrence Mann were publicly complaining and
Speaker 2: posting things on Twitter as a cry for help because
Speaker 2: Tyleru wasted a year of their careers. He was not
Speaker 2: playing ro Co at all, barely playing Terrence Man. Then
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard gets both barrels from this Clippers account. Apparently
Speaker 2: this anonymous Clippers guy alleges that Kawhi Leonard was benching
Speaker 2: himself in the middle of games and just ghosting the
Speaker 2: team even though he was fully.
Speaker 3: Healthy in the regular season. He's not done.
Speaker 2: He also says that the team is paranoid, and that
Speaker 2: it's a very poorly kept secret that they're paranoid, and
Speaker 2: now they ban sports writers for posting anything about the
Speaker 2: team that puts them in any sort of negative light,
Speaker 2: even if it's completely true. He even says one of
Speaker 2: the National Beat reporters was blackballed for posting a video
Speaker 2: about Kawhi and then he says that the social media
Speaker 2: manager of the Clippers was accused of sexual misconduct and
Speaker 2: is still there to this day.
Speaker 3: What's happening?
Speaker 2: What is going on with the Clippers, That's what he's
Speaker 2: I mean, I have nothing to say other than, like,
Speaker 2: a lot of these roster things are true. He did
Speaker 2: play three four guard lineups, and you did see Marcus
Speaker 2: Morris go away from the team. You did see Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard leave in the middle of games and not play
Speaker 2: and no one knew why. You did see Roco not play.
Speaker 2: You did see Terrence Man not play. I mean, all
Speaker 2: those things are fact. I can't speak to the feelings
Speaker 2: around it or why. But if that's true, this is
Speaker 2: wildly specific for it to not be true. I'll just
Speaker 2: say that we're gonna find out, folks. It always comes
Speaker 2: to light. I promise you. Now that the dirty little
Speaker 2: secrets are out in the ether, people are gonna start digging.
Speaker 2: And Bob Myers can't come to this team fast enough. Kenny,
Speaker 2: He's gotta fix this mouthfeastings because the tea is hot.
Speaker 2: That's all the time that we have for the heat
Speaker 2: check will be back Monday with an all new episode
Speaker 2: covering the first round series along with some of the
Speaker 2: second Round series actually actually Trey Young and Boston, John
Speaker 2: Moran and La Kings Warriors and.
Speaker 3: Nicks, of course facing the heat.
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