WEBVTT - Back Stabbing Snakes in LA 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:08.680 No, come on, come on, come on. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.560 On this episode of the Heat Check, it finally happened, folks. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.239 All the things that I predicted, step one of the 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.680 domino has come true. Someone has to pay for the 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.800 sins of those LA Lakers woes. Turns out the first 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:38.160 head rogue, Frank Vocal. We get into that as well. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.040 We had to get into that. I didn't want to. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.320 We had to get into that, and we also break 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.040 down the playoff seedings and the playing games. The first 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.160 two we'll do the rest on Wednesday. Playoffs are here, Brock, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.239 so drop that motherfucker beach Sunday bag. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:01:05.039 I'm perfect, by god right, my goo. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:12.640 Shockingly, a move that nobody could have ever seen coming 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:19.920 is that Frank Vogel, an NBA champion, the head coach, 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:25.040 I mean, the whipping post off the LA Lakers has 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:29.639 been quote unquote relieved. This entire thing has been a mess, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.200 a just a goddamn mess. I keep trying to run 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.320 away from this and not talk about it, but the 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.280 news keeps coming out like a like water out of 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.880 a fire hose as fast, and it's furious to try 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.240 to help a burning building, and there is no burning 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:54.040 building in gulfed in flames more than the purple and 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.960 gold LA Lakers, and so an ocean of water needs 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.200 to put out that fire, and so more new is 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.120 just gonna keep flooding out of that hose. Right at 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.880 the buzzer, folks, literally and right when you as you 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.000 hear the buzzer of the LA Lakers beating the Nuggets, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.360 who were, for all intents and purposes, we're trying to 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.440 lose that game so that they could duck out of 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:24.040 playing the Dallas Mavericks. I mean literally a eighty second game. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.280 Austin Reeves moment, just exciting stuff for him, you know, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.119 Frank Vogel finally gets a win, like literally right then, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.560 boo sh this is the bomb. This is the sound 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.760 of the woch bomb. Here it is, folks. Quote, Frank 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.520 Vogel has coached his final game for the Lakers, a 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.280 decision that's expected to be shared with him as soon 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:54.520 as Monday. Sources down ESPN Lakers search expected to be 0:02:54.680 --> 0:03:02.160 lengthy and expansive, with no clear initial front runner, A 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.760 decision expected to be shared with him as as soon 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.839 as Monday. How about as soon as right fucking now, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.720 excuse me, you just shared that decision with him before 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.360 his players have even wiped the sweat off of their bodies, 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:24.560 before they could even turn the showers on. Also, then, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.160 because of said tweet, Frank then has to answer questions 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:35.200 about his inevitable firing about said wojbam and his response was, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.640 I haven't been told shit. Let's go to it. Let's 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:40.080 find it. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.640 Frank credit. At the end of the game, Adrian Wilsnarowski 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.960 tweeted that the Lakers are going to be firing you 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.080 a decision. They'll let you know tomorrow. Have you communicated 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.640 with the front office at all about your future? And 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.960 I guess what's your reaction to hearing that? 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.760 And I'm gonna enjoy tonight's game, celebrate what these young 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.920 guys did in terms of scratching, scratching claw and again 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.040 back in this game again a w and uh, you 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:07.280 know we'll deal with tomorrow tomorrow. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.920 Did that get back to you before you walked in 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:14.280 this room? 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:14.720 Yes? 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:20.000 Did that affect I'm gonna enjoy tonight's game and what 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.520 our guys did tonight and the way we finished out 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.359 this season. I'm proud of our guys tonight. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:28.560 Any more questions for coach. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.680 So many questions for coach is coming, and then of 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.479 course the exit meetings that were scheduled for today. Frank 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:44.880 Vogel mysteriously was left off that list. Huh huh. Very interesting, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:50.920 very very interesting, even though Rob Polinka later on today 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.240 said that they hadn't made the decision to fire Frank 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.680 until just today. So the fact that he was off 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:02.080 the the exit interview list, that WOES decided to put 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.680 out this bomb, all of that is erroneous. This is 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:10.240 just a decision we made right now. Charles Barkley, one 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.799 of the men the miss the legends of the Game, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.160 had this to say about said Wojban. Let's get to it. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.920 Well, Frank Vogels is getting screwed. You sure is he's 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.120 getting because whoever put these old ass geezers together, they 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:31.280 deserve the line's share. They they've scaped goat at Frank obviously. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.880 And that he's talking about Rob Plinker. Charles Berkley doesn't 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.120 know who Rob Plink is. That's okay, but that's him. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:43.479 You've scapegoat at Frank obviously and Russ all year. But 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.480 this team, I told you from day one, I said, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.640 the only chance this team got a chance to be 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.880 in competitive is Anthony Davis, and clearly he's not doing 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.800 what he's supposed to do. But to blame Frank and 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.200 Russ for putting this old ass team together, I mean, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.320 I told you ain't enough icy Hot, being gay, Azorbine Junior, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:04.360 w D. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:04.880 Fordy. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.760 My grandmother used to put W. D. Foid to her 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.120 knees and ankles to loosen them up. They should try 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:11.440 that for the old ass Geezers. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.839 Only team in the league with an average age over thirty. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.279 Hey, and they not over third. They're not thirty one either. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:22.320 The thirty six thirty seven, seven over thirty, way over. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:30.400 That average age over thirty. Of course GM Rob Polinkavin 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.480 had to speak up about these things today. We all 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.280 wanted to know what he had to say about, I 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:42.960 don't know, leaking information about firing his head coach, humiliating 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.680 him as the buzzer goes off on Game eighty two, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.360 revealing plans he has no need to reveal at this 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.800 point in time. I don't know, even though he's had 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:59.520 Frank Frank's head inside the whole of the guillotine pretty 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.000 much from Game one through eighty two. This is what 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:04.839 he had to say. Let's get to it. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.960 Today's not going to be a day of like finger 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:12.320 pointing or unwinding all the specific reasons. We just felt organizationally, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.800 at the highest level, it was time for a new voice, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.720 and those decisions are made at the very. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.160 Cause why not today is the best day for that. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:27.040 I'd like to know who I should blame for this cacophony. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.320 At the highest level, it was time for a new voice, 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.840 and those decisions are made at the very top level 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:38.200 in a collaborative way by our basketball operations department and 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:43.600 ultimately with Jeanie and Tim and the leaders of our organization. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.200 We just felt like it was time for a new voice. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:52.480 And that's not to say anything against the incredible accomplishments 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.760 that Frank Bogels had. He was a great coach here 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.160 and he's going to go on to be a great 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.680 coach somewhere else. We just felt like it was time 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.560 for an and that's why we made the decision today 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:03.880 that we did. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.400 Anybody else feel like they just need a shower? After 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.360 listening to that, he also went on to say, quote, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:15.760 I have tremendous respect for Frank. You've leaked out multiple 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.920 times that you've wanted to fire him all season that man, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.120 you have tremendous respect for you have a funny fucking 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.320 way of showing it. He also said this quote about 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.800 the WOJ bomb. Of course, we don't respond to unsourced 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.400 media reports, and in terms of the timing of our decision, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.840 I'm gonna keep that internal quote. Hold on, pause, pause, pause. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.959 You are the source. You are the source. You've been 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.480 on Wog's podcast four times this year. We know, Rob, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.200 it was you. We know it was you. I personally 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.640 know for a fact it was you. He also then 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.600 goes on to say he is the one responsible for 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.800 building the Lakers roster, so if it doesn't go well, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.400 we can blame him. Pause, we should blame you. Now, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:14.040 Then the roster decisions ultimately rest on my shoulders, says 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.840 he will take ultimate accountability for how the roster is both, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.680 so that means you are the one that should be fired. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:25.040 Then that means that you are the original sin of 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.920 this whole thing. Anthony Irwin from Screen and Roll, a 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:36.840 Lakers beat podcast network blog Something says this this was 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.360 the least cool slash calm slash collective Rob has looked 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:46.000 in his position his entire time. Also, he's positioned himself 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.920 as the person to hold accountable if things don't go 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:54.439 well from now on. Congratulations, Rob Polinka, you are the 0:09:54.480 --> 0:10:02.840 meat shield now, brother snake snake, I can't fucking stand him. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.680 If for those who don't remember, this all kind of 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.240 goes back my hatred and also confusion because he was 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:11.800 with Kobe a long time, and I'm like, how did 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.960 Kobe stand being around this motherfucking guy. He didn't need him, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.240 He's Kobe Bryant. What does he need to snake around 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.920 him for? Anyway? Magic Johnson the Magic Remember, Magic was 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.120 in charge pretty much de facto in charge while Rob 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.720 had the title. Rob was waiting in the ways for 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:34.319 Magic to step aside. They were basically the dual headed 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.760 like people in charge. So Magic steps down. Nobody knows why. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.080 Steven A asks him why if you don't remember this interview, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.080 let me refresh your memory. Let's let's just get to that, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.880 because it's you're wondering why this narrative continues to persist 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.120 about him being a snake at. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.440 Start For me to take the job as well, she said, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:00.240 you have the power to make the decisions. So I said, okay, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:01.920 let's go do it. She said, I'm gonna put you 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.760 with Rob Polinka because I didn't know Rob, so she 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:10.200 put us both together. First year in it was tremendous. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.160 I wanted the strategies to be, let's get up under 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.840 the salary cap, because we were way over the salary cap. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.559 And I said, let's trade some people, get some draft picks. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:22.240 So on and on. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:28.840 D'Angelo, you know, great guard, but had a problem when 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.960 Shaggy p and the whole nick the whole thing went down, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.240 so I knew I had to get him out. We 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.520 made some moves. That draft pick turned into Kyle Kusma, 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.160 so we felt good about making that deal. Drafted Linzo 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.120 ball number two. I know you're still against it, but yes, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.800 we can debate that because I think he's outstanding all 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:58.680 around point guard. Then Josh Hart, so things got going 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.920 in the right direction. And then I start hearing, you know, Magic, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.880 you're not working hard enough. Magic's not in the office. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.280 So people around the Laker office was telling me Rob 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:13.080 was saying things, and Rob Polenka, Rob Polinka, and I 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.440 didn't like those things being said behind my back, that 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.640 I wasn't in the office enough, and so on and on. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.520 So I started getting calls from my friends outside of 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:29.320 basketball saying those things now were said to them outside 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.400 of basketball now, not just in the Laker office anymore. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.040 Now it's in the media and so on. These are 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.760 people you trust exactly, and people got to remember something. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.680 Being in this business for over forty years, I got allies, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.640 I got friends everywhere, right and so, and then I 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:53.040 had to monitor the brothers because Joey and Jesse wanted 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.880 more involvement, wanted more power, the Bus brother the Bus brothers, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.480 and so I said, I didn't mind doing that because 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.840 they're good guys. But also I sat them down and said, hey, listen, 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.560 I'm gonna really help you guys mature and get better. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.160 And so I took that role as well, because they 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.640 felt they should have been, you know, in powerful positions, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.199 whether that's the general manager or the president, right. And 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:24.280 so then when those things start happening too much, stephen A, 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.120 the straw that broke the camel's back was I wanted 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:34.720 to fire Luke Balton, and we had max three meetings. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.000 I showed her the things he did well and the 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:46.000 things he didn't do well, and I said, listen, we 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.760 got to get a better coach. I like him. He's great. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.320 Former laker, the whole thing. So the first day, well, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.560 let's think about second day. Okay, you can fire him. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.720 Then the next day, no, we should try to work 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.000 it out. So when we went back and forth like that, 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.640 and then she bought Tim Harrison to the meeting. You 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:11.480 know some of the guys and Tim, you know, wanted me. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.120 He wanted to keep him because he was friends with 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.400 Luke's a great guy, great guy. And so when I 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.440 looked up and said, wait a minute, I only really 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:27.240 answer to Genie Buss. Now, I got Tim involved, and 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.320 I said it's time for me to go. I got 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.760 things happening that was being said behind my back. I 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.280 don't have the power that I thought I had to 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.240 make the decisions. And I told them when it's not 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:47.720 fun for me, when I think that I don't have 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.240 the decision making power that I no. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:56.480 Just Rob just the only Rob is the only snake. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:02.000 Good job, snake. It was twenty nineteen. We might have 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.040 forgotten this. But then you continue, what do they do? 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.080 What do snakes do? They continue to slither in the 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:15.200 grass behind the scenes and then snipe with their venomous, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.480 fucking fangs, and then all of a sudden you're poisoned 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.240 and dead off to the side, dead body warm. That's 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:27.120 where Frank Vogel is right now, while Rob Polinka is 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:33.200 still wriggling around in the tall grass, pretending to be 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.840 innocent amongst all of the fucking drama. I cannot wait 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.960 until they fire his ass. I cannot wait for more 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.000 dysfunctional reporting to come out, because you know it will. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.760 I mean, by the way, there's another side story. I 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.960 don't even need to mention it because it's so ridiculous 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.080 and not relevant to this story, which is like Lakers 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.240 in the middle of the season. We're texting on the 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:02.440 bench in the middle of games in their uniforms. Let 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.160 me just back it up, just set the stage. Imagine 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:11.200 Lakers in their uniforms during the game, sweats still on 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.840 their face, waiting to be subbed back in. Are just texting, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:21.800 just fucking on TikTok and Instagram. What delicious Wednesday? Because 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.040 we're not gonna get into all this now because we 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.320 have playoffs and everything too, but we will. There's now 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.440 new surface reports about who is going to take the 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.440 Lakers job or who's in the running. One is Doc Rivers, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.000 two is Nick Nurse, Three is Quinn Snyder. We will 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.120 break all of that down Wednesday, because this is just 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.120 Frank's body is still warm. He literally the reports of 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.840 who would take his job before he was actually told 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.840 he was fired. Just fucking disgusting things that you cannot 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.360 you cannot relish because you just hate to see them. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.560 You just hate from the hood. So these dreams not 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.720 far well from the dope voices the rock side when 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.879 they can't cause without seeing cause, I guess they want 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.280 to all be boss. I know it. And I heard 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:19.879 them saying nothing, Kanye, I do, I really do. I 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:24.720 missed the graduations, Kanye, I do. A regular season has ended. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.760 We finally know who's playing who, sort of, we finally 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.119 know who's playing who three through six, East and West, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.880 number one in Heat and number uh and Sons. Not wait, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.320 that doesn't make sense. Number number one Heat and Sons 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.680 East and West number two Celtics and Grizzlies will have 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.040 to wait the results of the playing tournament. But let's 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:59.600 get into it and then preview Tuesday's playing game. Number 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.560 three Bucks versus Bulls. I mean, this could not be 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:09.479 the better situation for the Bucks at best, gentleman sweep, 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.320 just a delicious matchup the bulls have I'm gonna do 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.320 this whole thing like how the Bulls can win. Don't 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.840 even listen to it because it's just not even relevant 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.320 to you. Honestly, if you have time, if you have 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.400 like a short amount of time to listen to this pocket, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.520 just don't listen to that part. The easiest money that 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.679 you can make is a sweep at plus three hundred 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.720 four to oh that's a betting angle plus three hundred 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.080 three to one for the Bulls to be sweeped. The 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.399 Bulls have no ability to defend Giannis and if they 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.199 triple teamy on it's now Brook Lopez is back and 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.280 he will eat them in the post, eat him in 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.680 the corner threes. It's going to be a nightmare for 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.240 the bulls. Patrick Williams not good enough. And honestly, Voussovich, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:56.639 we already know Lusovich is going to be absolutely burnt 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:01.480 barbecue chicken. Drew and are going to be a very 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.639 fun matchup. But do not think DeRozan is going to 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.240 be able to go off for forty a game against 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:12.320 playoff Drew, Holiday, Middleton on Lavigne, Conaton on Caruso. It 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.879 is going to be absolutely disgusting. I think it's going 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.040 to be a blowout. The Bulls could have competed, I 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.199 think against Boston without time Lord, because he's he's the 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.160 real interior threat. That sort of makes things difficult for 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.640 a team as bad in the paint as the Bulls are. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.840 But this is a quick death. This is literally grab 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.160 you by behind you and slitch your throat like that's it. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.360 I would be surprised, very surprised if the Bulls got 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.879 one game. How do the Bucks win? Just give the 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:45.760 ball to Honest a million times. Let him go to 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.080 the rim, let him go to the line. Just give 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.600 it to the ball, give it every time, every single time, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.960 and then let Giannis pass out of the double or 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.359 triple team. There's no answer, no answer. Here's how I 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.600 think the Bulls can win. They only stand a chance 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:07.400 if DeRozan and Levine literally become gods. They both need 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:12.639 forty a night. Alex Cruser needs twenty a night. We 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.280 need Kobe White to be on an absolute heat check 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:19.439 off the bench. We need Patrick Williams to be like 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:28.200 Charles Oakley. We need Vouch to be in the locker room. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:34.040 We need I don't know, fam, It's not gonna be easy. 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.280 Let's just say it, Box and four Bucks and four 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.360 And I hate to say, because you know I've been 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.000 an absolute hater of the Bucks, but this is going 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.320 to be light work, all right, four number four seventy 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:51.520 six ers versus the five Raptors. Yes, Yes, thank the Lord, 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.600 as Charlie Brown would say, Christ the Lord is born. 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.919 This is it for me, folks, This is it my 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.400 favorite matchup of the Eastern Conference first round. I love 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.840 it just so much. This is a situation where we 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:10.240 have an entire team of men that are long, like 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:15.040 six seven, with like seven feet wing spans, where they 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:20.399 could literally just build a crazy wall and they're just you, 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.639 and then they could all slash to the rim, Pascal, 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:30.480 Gary Trent, Scottie Barnes, all of them. And I wonder 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:35.640 who's gonna stop them? How because the number one perimeter 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.840 defender isn't vaccinated. So most of the like half of 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:41.920 those games, three out of the seven of those games, 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:43.879 he's not able to play. He's not able to travel 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:48.880 with the team at all. How Like Danny Green. I've 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.000 seen a lot of footage of Danny Green getting cooked 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.960 by Scottie Barnes. Cork Mos. I mean, he's gonna be 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:59.000 backpedaling and falling on his feet like he's it's bad nang, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.200 he's a bias. It's not a good matchup for the Sixers. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.560 This might be the single worst matchup for the Sixers 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.720 that they could possibly have, even even Boston with time Lord, 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.960 I think is probably a better matchup because they don't 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.040 have to worry about Matisse Steibel not being able to 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.040 play games. This is nightmare fuel the Raptors. Let's go 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:24.440 into it. The Raptors have the seventh best defensive rating 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:29.160 of the season, and that was including a time where 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.679 they were twentieth, so that he's they're top five in 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:35.880 the last half of the year defensively, they're number two 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:40.920 in the NBA and steals bad news. Raptors have the 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:45.840 sixth best defensive efficiency on the road this year. They've 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.600 played seventy two road games last year, half in Tampa Bay, 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.800 so they know what's up. They're very comfortable playing in 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.359 other people's stadiums. They're very comfortable being booed at home, 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:58.600 and then a lot of games this year at home 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:01.960 they had no fans. They are built for this. The 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:07.080 Raptors three and one against the Sixers this year, Philly's 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:12.640 only win was when Scottie Barnes, Fred Van Fleet, Ogi 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:16.760 Ananobi and Precious that chew you didn't play and it 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:21.080 was a five point game. So here's how the Raptors 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:25.199 win this game. One number one. We've said this before. 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:32.320 Disrupt Joe Elmbid emotionally, get in his head, make him 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:37.280 play with his mind out of it. Make him play 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:42.879 like like turn him into like Danny from Iron Fist, 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.840 where he literally all he does is react from his emotions, 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:51.399 right like Nick Nurse knows how to do that. You 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:53.639 needle him, You say mean things to him. Hey, we 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.800 made you cry last time. Remember that Kawhi shot. You 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:01.639 just literally just get into his dome piece. You find 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:04.560 out a way to make them frustrated, frustrated early, and 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:07.160 then it'll just be a gift that keeps on given 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:11.280 through the course of that series. Make James Harden be athletic, 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:15.800 Make James Harden be MVP. James Harden. We'll see, we'll 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:19.360 see if you can do it. Make Tobias Harris and 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:23.840 Nang and Danny Green and Cork Moss all shoot threes. 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:27.080 They're not gonna be able to do it. How who's 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:29.560 stepping up who are you gonna get it? Twenty seven 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:34.040 from nang on a night tonight basis, No, you are 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:39.000 not raptors. Like I've said, bad, bad matchup. Here's how 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:42.640 the Sixers win. You're gonna need to steal a game 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:49.480 in Toronto somehow, and Bead's gonna need to score sixty. 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:52.520 He's gonna need to do it on his own. Tobias 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:55.360 can't dribble the ball at all. He has to shoot 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:59.119 every single catch and shoot shot he gets. Like, do 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:02.400 not step in like do when you get the ball 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:04.800 in the corner of the three point line. Do not 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:07.320 take two dribbles and shoot a mid range that you 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:09.960 will ultimately miss off the back of the rim, Like, 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:13.080 do not do that. Like Danny Green is gonna need 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:19.639 to be vintage Toronto Danny Green. Cork Moss needs to 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:24.280 be twenty twenty cork Moss, not twenty twenty two cork Moss. 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:29.320 I don't know if it's possible. They need a backup center, 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:31.600 and they need another three point shooter like Seth Curry 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.320 and Andre Drummond. Like, honestly, I think this team is 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:39.000 better against Toronto if they didn't trade Ben Simmons and 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:40.720 he was still on the roster, and he still had 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:45.359 Seth and Andre, Like, I really really do prediction for 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:50.760 two Raptors, which would be a massive, massive upset. All right, 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:57.840 Number three Western Conference, we go Warriors versus Nuggets. Man, 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:03.119 this is a bad situation for the Warriors. You know, 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:05.639 it's bad when a team tanks to play you. The 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:07.919 Nuggets lost on purpose to the Lakers so that they 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:11.479 could play the Warriors. They booted a game so they 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:15.639 could play the Warriors. They are not afraid of you, 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:21.000 they are itching to play you. These Warriors are one 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:24.400 and three against Denver this year. Draymond did not play 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.879 in any of those games. That is meaningful. But also 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:31.320 Steph probably won't play in Game one or two in 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:34.520 Golden State. So if you drop one or two games 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:38.800