Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Tristal Quick. On this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check, Traymond Green gets suspended the
Speaker 1: entire NBA world seems to have lost its damn mind
Speaker 1: and will break down the Kings, Warriors and all the
Speaker 1: drama and detail, touch on some of the other series that,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, are a lot less interesting, and then
Speaker 1: look at the annual NBA players poll hosted by you
Speaker 1: got It, The Athletic. A lot of shit is popping.
Speaker 1: My man, Nick, do me a favor and drop that
Speaker 1: generic ass beat that should be Rihanna. It looks like
Speaker 1: I lucked out. Yes, I found this series that is
Speaker 1: the most important of the first round Warriors Kings. Who
Speaker 1: would have thought probably would have been the same if
Speaker 1: the Warriors played the Pelicans, probably would have been this
Speaker 1: same aim if the Warriors played the Clippers or the Lakers.
Speaker 1: All the drama, all the pundits everybody would be talking about,
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the Kings, right, has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the Kings, all the Warriors. Let's start
Speaker 1: with Draymond Green. We know what a time it is
Speaker 1: with Draymond Green, don't we like? From the punch the
Speaker 1: start of the season to the stomp that is dominating
Speaker 1: the news. Now, Draymond Green moves the needle. He moves
Speaker 1: the needle. I personally like Draymond Green. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say that. I am a Draymond Green fan. My folks,
Speaker 1: my brothers at thirteen twenty ESPN burn me up for this.
Speaker 1: The Chatty House burns me up for this. I like Draymond.
Speaker 1: I think he's really good. I think he's a player
Speaker 1: you want on your team. I think he's a winning player.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best centers of our generation.
Speaker 1: He has basically put seven foot slow feet guys out
Speaker 1: of business, out of the business, made them retire, made
Speaker 1: guys like Dwight Howard ceased to exist in this league.
Speaker 1: But he's his own worst enemy, is he? He really is.
Speaker 1: That passion that he has, the passion that's the core
Speaker 1: the four championships that the Warriors have had, is the
Speaker 1: same passion that gets him in trouble. It's the same
Speaker 1: passion that gets him suspended for Game three of the
Speaker 1: first round of the NBA Playoffs when they're on the
Speaker 1: precipice of losing their entire franchise as we know it.
Speaker 1: Some people believe he's now of control player in these moments.
Speaker 1: I do not personally think that he's unhinged. I believe
Speaker 1: he gets carried away. I believe that he is calculated
Speaker 1: and methodical with his tomfoolery, and I just don't think
Speaker 1: he understands the ramifications of those actions at all. What
Speaker 1: happens next is not anticipated for Draymond Green, and what
Speaker 1: it does is it leaves chaos in his wake. Jordan
Speaker 1: Poole gets kioed. What happens. The team is in disarray
Speaker 1: for the beginning of the season, you got weekly kerfuffles
Speaker 1: with opposing players on opposing teams. You've become the only
Speaker 1: player now in NBA history to be ejected from one,
Speaker 1: not one, but two playoff games. And now the league
Speaker 1: has officially suspended Draymond Green for Game three at Chase,
Speaker 1: which is now two suspensions in Draymond Green's career in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Imagine that. Imagine that, Dubbs fans, dub Nation,
Speaker 1: you're down two oh and you need your heart and
Speaker 1: soul down too oh for the first time in the
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr era, down two oh in the for the
Speaker 1: first time in Steph Curry's career and your guy, the
Speaker 1: number one facilitator outside of Steph that you need running
Speaker 1: the offense. Running the defense will not be not only
Speaker 1: on the court in the actual building itself, the beating
Speaker 1: heart of that offense, the hub which the entire Dubs
Speaker 1: offense runs through, will be on the couch as the
Speaker 1: dynasty fights for its life, its last dying breath, hoping
Speaker 1: and wishing along the way that they could just have
Speaker 1: Draymond Green on the court. We're not going to get
Speaker 1: into the actions. It looked like a stomp to me.
Speaker 1: Depending on your fandom, you've already decided who is to
Speaker 1: blame our Dubs fans, we believe Sabona should have been suspended.
Speaker 1: We believe suspension should have come down all around. Adam
Speaker 1: Silver being in attendance probably didn't help, right, Like, we
Speaker 1: know that played some sort of role. You can see
Speaker 1: photos of him. He did not look amused. Coaches did
Speaker 1: not look amused when Draymond Green crushed Sabonis's sternum and
Speaker 1: then walked to the middle of the court, jumped on
Speaker 1: the bench and said, who likes me? Now? What do
Speaker 1: you think? P's his hand to his ear like he
Speaker 1: just ddt somebody. Dog. That's not good. That's not good
Speaker 1: for your reputation and whether you're gonna get suspended as
Speaker 1: soon as you get teed up, as soon as you
Speaker 1: get a flagrant, you need to sit down and pretend
Speaker 1: like you didn't mean it. That pretty much sums it up. Man.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the stomp, It was just the reaction afterwards.
Speaker 1: Your chest is stumping, Domas is writhing on the ground
Speaker 1: like you just got shot in the chest, and you're like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: who likes me? Now that's right, bitch, I'll stomp on
Speaker 1: your center. Hell y'all do it again in front of
Speaker 1: the commissioner. What take that? What? And then the funniest
Speaker 1: part was like when he heard Sibonis was having X
Speaker 1: rays on his ribs and lungs and all that he
Speaker 1: was diagnosed so bonis with a chest contusion, Draymond was like, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm too having my ankle examined an X rayed. Something
Speaker 1: that I believe happened with Domanta Sabonis tugging on my
Speaker 1: ankle while I was operating at full speed, full speed.
Speaker 1: I was running at top motion in a full sprint
Speaker 1: in your center, pulled my ankle down and left me
Speaker 1: to die? What else was I supposed to do? Joe Dumars,
Speaker 1: who's the EVP of basketball operations, actually a mentor of
Speaker 1: Draymond Greens. Uh, he was the one to make the
Speaker 1: final decision and he said, yeah you got stick go.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And the aftermath has been immense. The ements.
Speaker 1: The Draymon Defense Committee is in full force right now.
Speaker 1: They do not believe that Draymond has done anything wrong.
Speaker 1: In fact, there are people who believe, like I said,
Speaker 1: Sabonis is the one who precipitated and was the catalyst
Speaker 1: for all of the tom foolery. We got the local
Speaker 1: radio station in the Bay going crazy, going straight loco.
Speaker 1: They're defending him to the death, even though alternate camera
Speaker 1: angles clearly showed dre winding up for the death stomp,
Speaker 1: and they defend it. When video from a month ago
Speaker 1: shows Draymond getting tangled up and kicking Herb Jones in
Speaker 1: the head, they're like, oh, well that was different. That
Speaker 1: was that was so much different. Though you see also
Speaker 1: other videos where Draymond Green's pulling other men's ankles. They
Speaker 1: defend it, even though Domas has it's been come out
Speaker 1: that he's questionable for Game three because he has a
Speaker 1: chess contusion. I don't know, because he got stomped by
Speaker 1: a two hundred and sixty pounds man. It's insane. It
Speaker 1: really is insane, and I think I think it's really sad. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think it's uh. Truthfully, between me and you and
Speaker 1: the lamp Post, I think it's pathetic. I think that
Speaker 1: the Warriors media and our fan base is going through
Speaker 1: it right now. We know that the end times are near.
Speaker 1: We've never been up against a wall like this during
Speaker 1: the Steph career era in our lives. Not once. In
Speaker 1: the beginning, it was all cute. Oh, kings are adorable.
Speaker 1: Oh there are little brothers ninety miles away. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they get to they get to fight Big Bro. They
Speaker 1: get to warm up. Big Bro will take it easy
Speaker 1: on them, and then they knock Big Bro in the mouth. Pow,
Speaker 1: knock Big Bro in them out. They get pow and
Speaker 1: it's like listen here, little pip squeak, you're playing dirty.
Speaker 1: And now it's like, oh yeah, By the way, the
Speaker 1: Warriors were minus two seventy five, which, if you're not
Speaker 1: a better that's about as crazy of odds for a
Speaker 1: six seed to beat a three seed i've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Basically what that means is you have to pay two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five dollars just to get one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars back on betting the Warriors to beat the Kings.
Speaker 1: The Kings were third in the West and the Warriors
Speaker 1: six in the West, and yet the Kings are underdogs,
Speaker 1: big underdogs in this series. And now that they're down
Speaker 1: the Warriors two zero, it's like, oh, well, you knew
Speaker 1: nothing's nothing's new. You know, the Kings were gonna always
Speaker 1: always win at home. They were always gonna hold serve up.
Speaker 1: That was not the script, folks. That was not what
Speaker 1: you told me was gonna happen. You told me it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a sweep. You told me, we want
Speaker 1: the Kings. We want the Kings because we want a
Speaker 1: short series. We want to move on and get some rest.
Speaker 1: They were like, Oh, who's gonna stop staph Curry, Who's
Speaker 1: gonna stop staff Curry? Who's Malik Monk He's gonna get
Speaker 1: shut down, he's getting locked up. Kaminga's gonna lock him up,
Speaker 1: click clack. And for for Kings fans, Kings fans don't
Speaker 1: want Draymond Green to be suspended. Why would they want that? Now,
Speaker 1: Warriors fans are just gonna be like, well, the only
Speaker 1: reason you beat us is because Draymond Green was suspended
Speaker 1: in Game three. Nobody wants that shit. Nobody wants that.
Speaker 1: And even Dumars came out and said this on ESPN
Speaker 1: a little bit ago. Here's what it came down to.
Speaker 1: Excessive and over the top actions. Conduct detrimental. Conduct detrimental,
Speaker 1: by the way, means the histrionics out on the court,
Speaker 1: the stone cold Steve Austin moves the rock, the Undertaker bomb.
Speaker 1: It was like if I swear to God, you could
Speaker 1: hear the like the broken glass Dunna. It was like that.
Speaker 1: It was I swear to God in the building. I
Speaker 1: was in the building. It was like that. I thought
Speaker 1: someone was gonna come out and be like, how you
Speaker 1: like him?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: You know it's That's That's what conduct detrimental means, and
Speaker 1: then repeat offender that you already know what time it is.
Speaker 1: That's what separates someone who doesn't get suspended and someone
Speaker 1: who does. Someone who does that a lot, and someone
Speaker 1: who doesn't. Past actions. People don't want to hear that,
Speaker 1: right like they do not want to hear that you
Speaker 1: do not want to hear that somebody else who stomped
Speaker 1: on another man's chest would have been just fine for it.
Speaker 1: I tweeted that Game three was the most important game
Speaker 1: in Golden State in their history, and I was only
Speaker 1: like a quarter joking. This is a very important game
Speaker 1: if if our Dubs have a chance of winning this series,
Speaker 1: and ninety two percent of teams up to zero in
Speaker 1: the playoffs close out their opponents, so the odds are
Speaker 1: ready or not in our dubs favor, they have to
Speaker 1: win Game three or now. I don't think anybody's ever
Speaker 1: won when they've gone down three to zero. So if
Speaker 1: our Dubs lose this game, most likely we are going
Speaker 1: home in Round one, only the fifth such defending champion
Speaker 1: in NBA history to flame out in the first round.
Speaker 1: In the next season, and then we enter this offseason
Speaker 1: where Clay wants a MAX extension, Draymond says he wants
Speaker 1: to get paid. He's got to finish his contract out.
Speaker 1: But you can't extend them both. And right now, as
Speaker 1: it stands, the Warriors are paying five hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in payroll for one of the oldest teams in the
Speaker 1: league that look like they need to be put out
Speaker 1: to pasture dynasty over fam rebuild full on. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what you do. I don't even know how
Speaker 1: you build around that team. Is it kaminga? You're building
Speaker 1: around kaminga? Okay, all right? Did you see him get
Speaker 1: cooked like seventeen times in a row in the four
Speaker 1: minutes he was out there in game two? Anyway, we
Speaker 1: move on, kingson Forest say it ain't so all this
Speaker 1: because Draymond Green can't keep his hands feet to himself.
Speaker 1: The media is they are. I am now inside it
Speaker 1: to a point where I haven't had a dog in
Speaker 1: the fight really for a long time. And now that
Speaker 1: I I'm like an honorary member of the Beam team,
Speaker 1: I am seeing it from a whole new lens. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: The world simply cannot comprehend how the Sacramento Kings are
Speaker 1: able to beat the Warriors two oh without Shenanigan's being
Speaker 1: at play. There are so many legitimate and explainable reasons
Speaker 1: why the Kings are just smothering the Warriors in this series.
Speaker 1: There's smart reasons, there's nerdy reasons. They're explainable reasons in
Speaker 1: the matchups. You're looking at it, you watch film. This
Speaker 1: stuff is not shocking, right, there are people breaking this down.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to know why it's happening, why it's
Speaker 1: something probably likely to continue, you can find that. But then,
Speaker 1: but then there's this alternate universe, and that's what I
Speaker 1: want to talk about really quick. This alternate universe that
Speaker 1: cannot comprehend that Steph Curry could lose, cannot comprehend the
Speaker 1: concept that the Warriors would be beat by a team
Speaker 1: that has not made the playoffs in seventeen years. This
Speaker 1: is a dynasty collapsing at the hands of a team
Speaker 1: that when you google the name, one of the first
Speaker 1: things that you see, like people also search for, is
Speaker 1: do the Sacramento Kinks still reside in Sacramento? And the
Speaker 1: dynasty could come crumbling down to a team that finish
Speaker 1: twenty sixth and Team Defense locking them the fuck up.
Speaker 1: Only Shenanigans to those people can explain this. Ignore these people.
Speaker 1: They are their brains are mush, they have broken brains.
Speaker 1: They're clearly they are clearly self destructing live in front
Speaker 1: of us. No shade to JJ Reddick. He is one
Speaker 1: of those those people who are literally destructing. Just his
Speaker 1: brain is turning into liquid as we speak. Here's what
Speaker 1: is happening that has not been mentioned. It's actually really
Speaker 1: interesting because it highlights, highlights just how much the man
Speaker 1: Mike Brown is. Joe Vire. I think Joe Vire, by
Speaker 1: the way, is one of the smartest guys on Twitter
Speaker 1: breaking down basketball. Find him. I think it's golden state
Speaker 1: of mind. Pretty sure that's what it is. Find him
Speaker 1: on Twitter. He's elite anyway, He's breaking down why Mike
Speaker 1: Brown is able to do this to the Warriors. And
Speaker 1: there is a reason Dante DiVincenzo sat out the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of Game two. There is a reason that Jonathan
Speaker 1: Kaminga played four minutes and was a negative ten on
Speaker 1: the court and did not see the court for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. And there is a reason that
Speaker 1: Mike Brown turned Jordan Poole into the most expensive cheerleader
Speaker 1: in the NBA, considering that he did not see a
Speaker 1: minute in the fourth quarter either. What are those reasons?
Speaker 1: Mike Brown knows how to exploit those men, He knows
Speaker 1: their weaknesses, and not only does he exploit them, he
Speaker 1: did it all night long. All of that is Mike Brown.
Speaker 1: If you don't remember, Mike Brown was in charge of
Speaker 1: the Warriors defense when he was coaching for Golden State
Speaker 1: for like seven years, most importantly running the defense last year,
Speaker 1: because there wasn't a lot of changes from last year
Speaker 1: to this year. So Vira is breaking down what's actually
Speaker 1: happening in this article. Here it is Brown's intimate knowledge
Speaker 1: of the Warriors offense. Where it starts, it's the middleman,
Speaker 1: and where it ends is putting a wrench in Kerr
Speaker 1: and his squad. Pause, you fucking think big wrench. Brown
Speaker 1: knows all too well that the Warriors hubs or where
Speaker 1: the offense starts. His offense itself counts on a full
Speaker 1: crumb such as Demna Sabonis to initiate action and fuel
Speaker 1: the offense to its highest gear. The Warriors do the
Speaker 1: same with someone like Draymond Green, who typically has all
Speaker 1: the vision he needs to whip passes to shooters and
Speaker 1: cutters off the ball because of his nature as a
Speaker 1: non shooting threat on point. That is why Draymond Green's
Speaker 1: absence is very huge for Game three because now you've
Speaker 1: got to make the fulk crum Kevon Looney, and let's
Speaker 1: be honest, Kevon Looney does not have the same basketball
Speaker 1: IQ as Draymond Green, Kevon Looney not the same passer
Speaker 1: as Draymond Green, not the same quick decision maker as
Speaker 1: Draymond Green, and Mike Brown understands this vra continues. What
Speaker 1: Brown knows, however, is that the best way to defend
Speaker 1: Green or Kevon Looney or any hubs stay in the
Speaker 1: low post, high post or at the top of the
Speaker 1: arc is to crowd their space. Putting ball pressure on
Speaker 1: the passing hub not only limits their vision, it bleeds
Speaker 1: the clock, forces a hub to become a shot creator,
Speaker 1: and increases the chance chances of forcing a mistake. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what the Kings did in the second half,
Speaker 1: especially in Game two, constant ball pressure, swarming Curry with
Speaker 1: multiple guards that were fast enough or strong enough to
Speaker 1: fight through screens collapsing on him. Daveon just muscles through
Speaker 1: screens and Fox darts around him as if like and
Speaker 1: Curry can't really get enough separation. And what's the end
Speaker 1: result of that. Curry either has to take a really
Speaker 1: bad shot or he has to get it to the
Speaker 1: folk crum. Curry was zero for five in from three
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and really couldn't get open at all,
Speaker 1: and the miracle wasn't that Steph was three for thirteen
Speaker 1: for three in game two. The miracle is that he's
Speaker 1: made any shots at all. He is that good. He
Speaker 1: was nine for twenty seven in this series, and a
Speaker 1: lot of those makes were circus shots. And Mike Brown
Speaker 1: knows exactly how to contain Steph Curry because he practiced
Speaker 1: this when he was running the defense only with Gary Payton.
Speaker 1: The second hounding Curry. The article and a few others
Speaker 1: by people who actually know what's going on, and it's
Speaker 1: not speculation, right, there's ample video evidence. There's threads is
Speaker 1: a drop in the bucket, though, compared to this raucous
Speaker 1: noise of people trying to grapple with the fact that,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, our does might be cooked like they might.
Speaker 1: It's local ninety five to seven in the game this morning,
Speaker 1: for example, Morning Roast. They're just losing their minds. They're
Speaker 1: losing their minds. After Game two, they're screaming at each
Speaker 1: other so much crosstalk you can't even hear who's who,
Speaker 1: You can't even understand a goddamn word. Badass radio, horrible radio.
Speaker 1: One side saying pulls the problem, another shouting that it's
Speaker 1: Clay blaming the refs, one person being like, why can't
Speaker 1: you blame Steph Curry? No one giving any credit to
Speaker 1: the Kings or Mike Brown, no one daring to say,
Speaker 1: maybe we're just not as athletic or deep as them.
Speaker 1: The desperation is also national. It is also spread like
Speaker 1: wildfire to ESPN. On ESPN, JJ Reddick went on a
Speaker 1: rant which I must play because it is outrageous and
Speaker 1: immediately makes me question pretty much every word that's coming
Speaker 1: out of his mouth from now on. Let's play it.
Speaker 2: They have allowed too much. I have no problem with
Speaker 2: physical play in the playoffs, but if Steph Curry is
Speaker 2: not allowed to move off the ball, if you're preventing
Speaker 2: players from running down the court and you're allowing that
Speaker 2: to happen. There's a play late in Game two where
Speaker 2: Kevon Looney is right underneath the rim ready for a rebound.
Speaker 2: Sibonus crashes in pushes him in the back.
Speaker 3: They don't call the foul.
Speaker 2: That's a foul. The referees have dictated too much in
Speaker 2: the King's favor in this series. I really believe that.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's the home crowd or whatever.
Speaker 2: I rarely complain about the referees. In fact, I don't
Speaker 2: even know if I've ever complained about the referees. I
Speaker 2: think they're great. But if they're gonna come back in
Speaker 2: this series, they've got to call the game the way
Speaker 2: the game is supposed to be called. I really believe.
Speaker 1: And then, oh my, oh my bullshit. Hold up, let
Speaker 1: me repeat. If they're gonna come back in this series,
Speaker 1: the Warriors, they need to call the game the way
Speaker 1: the game is supposed to be called. I thought the
Speaker 1: playoffs were more physical. I thought the reason that the
Speaker 1: Kings were gonna get absolutely obliterated was because the Warriors
Speaker 1: were gonna outphysical the little baby Kings. They don't know
Speaker 1: how to handle all the pressure. How the half court
Speaker 1: changes everything, how much more intense it is, how the
Speaker 1: refs let the boys play. And now we're saying it's
Speaker 1: too physical. Cool w w hell no, miss me with
Speaker 1: that shit, miss me with that? Why are you rooting
Speaker 1: for the Warriors to come back? That's what it sounds
Speaker 1: like if they're gonna come back in this series? Is
Speaker 1: it because everyone in your building forecasted the Warriors to
Speaker 1: win in five except for the lone exception of Kendrick Perkins,
Speaker 1: and you've just been straight playing captain for the Warriors
Speaker 1: so long you can't even fathom. But they're being outworked,
Speaker 1: outplayed out coached because they are, let me say it again, outworked,
Speaker 1: outplayed out coached. This really is some bullshit. Here we go.
Speaker 1: I had to see this tweet from Fox Sports legend
Speaker 1: Colin Coward, and I still don't really know. It's so
Speaker 1: bad that I don't really know if he's controlling and
Speaker 1: it's like an hour dub sort of situation, but I
Speaker 1: think he's being serious, and if he is, we got
Speaker 1: a pause. Here's what he said. The league has always
Speaker 1: given the Kings the whistle, frustrating for those of us
Speaker 1: who just want a fair game. Hashtag weak tea. It's
Speaker 1: something I would write for our dubs. It's honestly something
Speaker 1: that I would write when I was going into the
Speaker 1: mindset of a whiny, entitled, delusional Warriors fan. What are
Speaker 1: we doing here? What is happening here? I've never gotten
Speaker 1: to the This is kind of like the Caitlin Clark
Speaker 1: Angel Rey situation, where you're like, this whole thing is
Speaker 1: fucking crazy, but also kind of dope that national media
Speaker 1: is talking about the Kings for three straight segments. Folks
Speaker 1: on NBA Twitter and national media really saying that the
Speaker 1: Kings are so good that the NBA is conspiring with
Speaker 1: the refs to help them beat and dismantle the defending champs.
Speaker 1: Think about that for a second, and why would they
Speaker 1: do that? Like, the Kings are just this historic franchise
Speaker 1: that everyone wants to see go to the finals. The Kings,
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings that almost were moved for no reason
Speaker 1: to Seattle and to Anaheim. They're the ones getting preferential treatment.
Speaker 1: This is bonkers. This is the same franchise the league
Speaker 1: spent like fifteen years trying to fold up like a
Speaker 1: lawn chair. The Sacramento Monarchs closed up, packed up like
Speaker 1: a suitcase. The NBA did everything possible the strip Sacramento
Speaker 1: of the Kings. And now no, they're the golden child
Speaker 1: once we built Golden one. They're the golden child. They're
Speaker 1: the ones getting the preferential treatment. Get all the way
Speaker 1: fucking out of here. At least we have evidence, concrete
Speaker 1: facts that we can look at. It's called the two
Speaker 1: minute report, last two minute report. And looking at the
Speaker 1: last two minute report, let's just check the notes. It
Speaker 1: appears that the Kings were hurt the second mode out
Speaker 1: of any team this year by bad calls. The only
Speaker 1: team above them, not shockingly, is the Denver Nuggets, the
Speaker 1: team that the NBA cares the least about. How do
Speaker 1: you know, because it doesn't matter if they're playing the Timberwolves,
Speaker 1: the Lakers, they always put them in the worst time
Speaker 1: slot at night. Shocking, I know that the Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 1: the darling of the NBA, would get the second worst
Speaker 1: whistle in the entire league. That's what I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: calling them. The Sacramento Kings, the NBA darlings, historically the
Speaker 1: darlings of the NBA. These are the same Kings that
Speaker 1: the league decided to give every call to so that
Speaker 1: they could eliminate the single biggest cash cow the NBA
Speaker 1: has ever had in the last decade. They want the
Speaker 1: Kings to dismantle Steph Curry, make him go night night.
Speaker 1: This is a team that can't even have its fans
Speaker 1: use cow bells in the Chase Center because cow bells,
Speaker 1: shockingly surprisingly somehow are just banned from Chase. There's just
Speaker 1: not something that you can bring in to cheer with
Speaker 1: the one thing that the Sacramento Kings fan base is
Speaker 1: known for using. Nope, that's banned here at Chase Kevin
Speaker 1: Herder wing for the Sacramento Kings. You probably don't know
Speaker 1: who he is because most casual fans just don't follow
Speaker 1: the Kings. But here we are. He said when he
Speaker 1: went from the Atlanta Hawks to Sacramento that the whistles
Speaker 1: really changed. Did they get better? Kevin Herder, please tell
Speaker 1: me what happened even.
Speaker 3: Without those two plays? Is it palpable to you the
Speaker 3: difference in how Kings games are called versus games in
Speaker 3: the past. Is that something you can feel or is
Speaker 3: it just really the big plays?
Speaker 4: I hurd sway to say this, but yes, honestly, that
Speaker 4: is something within the first six games been noticeable. I
Speaker 4: won't say which teammates, but a couple of teammates that
Speaker 4: have been here said things are different here in Sack.
Speaker 4: We don't get many calls. You're gonna realize every game
Speaker 4: things are different, And honestly, it is. It is something
Speaker 4: I've I've felt so far. I think there's maybe one game.
Speaker 4: I think it was the Charlotte game. I think we
Speaker 4: got a good whistle, and other than that, I think
Speaker 4: it hasn't gotten our favorite a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we talking about. All of this, though,
Speaker 1: has spun dub Nation into cry baby mote. Zach Lowe
Speaker 1: reported today there's anger within the Warriors organization towards the league.
Speaker 1: There is a sense in the organization that Sa Bonus
Speaker 1: is shoving people on offensive rebounds and playing with his
Speaker 1: elbows out and here's where it gets good, and using
Speaker 1: the ball as a weapon on offense, straight out of
Speaker 1: the John Moran playbook. This is hilarious. This is like
Speaker 1: like the ball is a weapon. Is the most twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three thing of the Absolutely nobody swings their elbows
Speaker 1: more than Draymond Green, God Bob, Let's be hon his ear.
Speaker 1: Add this to the winding over the ejection, how they
Speaker 1: think staph is getting fouled every possession by every single
Speaker 1: King's guards. The Kings need karma for kicking out E forty.
Speaker 1: You've got a meltdown on your hands. What we have
Speaker 1: right now is the end of times. This is the
Speaker 1: Swan Song. And now we're facing a Game three with
Speaker 1: all the drama that you could possibly want, with the
Speaker 1: Warriors having a built in excuse not just to lose
Speaker 1: the game, but the series as well. And my guy Kenny,
Speaker 1: Kenny Carraway, who Warriors fans are calling Kenny carried away
Speaker 1: of Dilo and Casey says he does not want Draymond
Speaker 1: to be suspended because he wants the Kings to beat
Speaker 1: the Warriors with no excuses. But now they have one.
Speaker 1: How much dub nation falls back on it remains to
Speaker 1: be seized. Believe it or not. There are other series
Speaker 1: going on, and since the last episode, we've gotten some
Speaker 1: up to state updates to get to out in Boston.
Speaker 1: It's done. I mean it's been done. I told you
Speaker 1: that's that right.
Speaker 4: It just is.
Speaker 1: It's over. It's done. Trey Young was shut down again.
Speaker 1: He hasn't his expected point total, which is a player
Speaker 1: prop number in seven consecutive playoff games. Hawks are good
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, but we knew what time it was.
Speaker 1: The Celtics were gonna shut these boys down. They put
Speaker 1: the hammer down and now the series is halfway done.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a sweep. It's done. That's just what
Speaker 1: it is. Atlanta has no answers. They are grasping at straws.
Speaker 1: This series is complete. Derek White ran through Atlanta's tissue
Speaker 1: paper defense. He put up twenty six in Game two
Speaker 1: after putting up twenty two in Game one. Tatum went
Speaker 1: twenty nine and six. Brown had eighteen three steals. Listen,
Speaker 1: that's enough. That's enough to put the Hawks asleep. How
Speaker 1: bad though, is the question? How bad though? Has Trey
Speaker 1: Young been? Wow? Zach Clow said this, Trey Young is
Speaker 1: doing nothing off ball as usual when Dejane Murray has
Speaker 1: the ball, and of course he's being hunted mercilessly on
Speaker 1: defense in every possible way. Wherever Trey is find him,
Speaker 1: he has got one effort in him and after that
Speaker 1: it just devolves into someone on Boston getting an open shot. Hole. Shit,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Zach Low. Let these boys know
Speaker 1: Trey Young's not good. Um, not a lot of negative
Speaker 1: to say about the Celtics. They're really good. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be an incredible matchup between them and the Sixers because
Speaker 1: the Sixers series is pretty much over as well. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the Sixers, the Nets played a really good game too,
Speaker 1: still lost pretty handily. Maybe they steal one at home.
Speaker 1: I don't see it. I don't see any chance for
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets to win this series. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody does either, and b does he gets hurt and
Speaker 1: there was one oh shit moment. They're all kind of
Speaker 1: always is with Joel, right, But barring that, this is
Speaker 1: this is in early summer for the Nets, it's Celtics
Speaker 1: versus Sixers, and that's what time it is. Heat in
Speaker 1: the Bucks though, moving on towards that series, they are
Speaker 1: locked in a tight one. It depends on who overcomes
Speaker 1: their injuries quicker. So actually, the Heat and the Bucks
Speaker 1: haven't played Game two yet. Giannice is banged up, as
Speaker 1: we know, Tyler Hero out for the season. Milwaukee probably
Speaker 1: a better team than Miami. But here's the deal. How
Speaker 1: healthy is Yiannis? Is he going to play Game two?
Speaker 1: We'll have to see, We'll have to see. I'm favoring Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Gonna be a really interesting series. No real update there though,
Speaker 1: because the last time we talked, there's been no game
Speaker 1: since Wolves and the Nuggets. Jokic's actually got a lingering injury,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it matters much. Go Bear's a
Speaker 1: negative twenty every game. I don't think it's gonna matter.
Speaker 1: You put a fork in the Wolves. They are done.
Speaker 1: Memphis versus Lakers, Game two, is tonight. It's all gonna
Speaker 1: depend on whether Jaw plays tonight. He has a bruised hand.
Speaker 1: We already know what time it is. There will Jaw
Speaker 1: risk for their injury by playing a lot to be seen.
Speaker 1: So no roll update on that either Sons and Clippers
Speaker 1: became a series last night. There looked like there was
Speaker 1: some panic. Kawhi was ballin already stole game one in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: You go up two oh or you're down oh two
Speaker 1: going to LA and you're the Phoenix Suns. That is
Speaker 1: not a good situation for you. But Scott Foster, Scott
Speaker 1: Foster finally gave Chris Paul a game. Fourteen consecutive games
Speaker 1: that Scott Foster has officiated that Chris Paul has lost.
Speaker 1: This is one fIF fifteen now. Russell Westbrook also played
Speaker 1: really well. I think that's deservedly noted. After going three
Speaker 1: for nineteen, Russell Westbrook put up nearly thirty. So congratulations
Speaker 1: to russ. I think the series goes seven. I think
Speaker 1: the series goes seven. Kawhi is really good. Get thirty
Speaker 1: one in game two, thirty eight in game one. I
Speaker 1: think he single handedly keeps the Clippers in it. The
Speaker 1: Suns are in trouble though. Let's be honest, they are
Speaker 1: really a flawed team. They need some depth. Their life
Speaker 1: is gonna come at them fast if they get past
Speaker 1: the Clippers. It is listen, man, I'm just gonna say this.
Speaker 1: The Kings might be the best team in the West.
Speaker 1: That's just fact in terms of depth, in terms of speed,
Speaker 1: in terms of athleticism. Get on the bandwagon wagon while
Speaker 1: you can. Let's move forward out east. Calves. Beat the
Speaker 1: shit out of the Knicks. Game two, beat the shit
Speaker 1: out of them. As good as the Knicks looked in
Speaker 1: game one, they looked so bad in Game two. Julius
Speaker 1: Randall looked boo. Darius Garland came out, he bawled. They
Speaker 1: took a page from the King's notebook. They smothered Brunson
Speaker 1: mostly with Karris Lavert. They made him work hard and
Speaker 1: it paid dividends. This is what Darius Garland said, Listen,
Speaker 1: It's very important for us to have Jalen Brunson play
Speaker 1: both sides of the floor, not just to have him
Speaker 1: sit in the corner, just to put him in a
Speaker 1: couple of actions so to see if he can move
Speaker 1: on his feet on the defensive end, because he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to work really hard on the offensive end against US. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Jalen Brunson's achilles heel is his defense right
Speaker 1: now because of his size, and Karris Lavert is six
Speaker 1: to six, so that's a tough matchup for him. He
Speaker 1: went off for twenty four against Brunson, who only had
Speaker 1: twenty on five for seventeen shooting. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really fun series. I think it's gonna be a really
Speaker 1: really fun series. That was my laptop. I'm sorry. Let's
Speaker 1: move forward outside of these first round matchups to something
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit more evergreen, a little
Speaker 1: bit more of an overview. But it's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things that the Athletic does every single year, which
Speaker 1: is the twenty twenty three anonymous NBA Player Poll, And
Speaker 1: god damn am I loving it. They pull So this
Speaker 1: is what they do. They pull one hundred and two
Speaker 1: NBA players and they ask them the questions that we
Speaker 1: all want to know, right Who who you do not
Speaker 1: want to fight? Who is the most overrated player in
Speaker 1: the league. The big question, of course, is the MVP.
Speaker 1: Half of the players they usually get it wrong. Half
Speaker 1: of the players this time said it's Joel Embiid. I
Speaker 1: think that's good for him. I'm guessing he'll finally get
Speaker 1: that coveted MVP. He wants it. I'm not sure you, NICOLEA.
Speaker 1: Jokic really does. I'm not sure the media particularly wants
Speaker 1: to give Jokic three of them in a row. And
Speaker 1: one player summed it up best definitely Embid because they're
Speaker 1: winning games. They're one of the best teams in the East.
Speaker 1: I think he kind of should have won it last year.
Speaker 1: But I mean, Jokic is also having a phenomenal season.
Speaker 1: But I think this year Embiid is the leading scorer.
Speaker 1: They're about even. Really, they're really in a dead heat.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the choice whatever you like best
Speaker 1: uh in the poll for best defender, this was a
Speaker 1: good one. It was a runaway. And I can say
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. These NBA players they know ball. They
Speaker 1: are they know ball. They one hundred percent right. Twenty
Speaker 1: nine percent of the NBA players picked Drew Holiday. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's the best defender in the league and
Speaker 1: Lou Dort coming in second with eleven percent. Players love
Speaker 1: the versatility that brings on defense, especially since he can
Speaker 1: and has guarded one through five. I am unabashed Drew
Speaker 1: stan It's great to see him getting the respect from
Speaker 1: his peers because goddamn the media won't give it to him.
Speaker 1: He needs Defensive Player of the Year. He does, he
Speaker 1: needs to win one. Drew also won most Underrated Player
Speaker 1: with seventeen and a half percent as well, second place
Speaker 1: with Shae Gell just Alexander love to see it. Both
Speaker 1: those boys are phenomenal on both sides of the court.
Speaker 1: Here's here's an interesting question, pick one player in the
Speaker 1: league to build a roster around. If you were to
Speaker 1: do that, who would you choose. NBA players overwhelmingly responded
Speaker 1: with one, dude, who is it? It's be honest, It's
Speaker 1: fucking yo, honest, not a shock. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It was like overwhelming fifty two point four percent, with
Speaker 1: a distant second being Jokic at eight point seven percent.
Speaker 1: That's the best compliment you can get. That means he's
Speaker 1: the best player in the league. That means that he's
Speaker 1: the only guy that you want to start a franchise around.
Speaker 1: Probably the funniest one, though, the funniest topic on this
Speaker 1: list that the athletic does is most Overrated player.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The most overrated player, of course is Stray Young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it is ah. He is by a fucking
Speaker 1: mile to thirty one point five percent of NBA player
Speaker 1: players poll, Trey Young is the most overrated player in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Number two was Julius Randall and number three
Speaker 1: was Pascal Siakam. They were both tied for second place
Speaker 1: at seven point four percent. I just did a TikTok
Speaker 1: explaining that Trey Young is sort of overrated, and people
Speaker 1: were very mad. Trey Young's stance came out of the woodwork.
Speaker 1: But listen, people who are listening to this poll, people
Speaker 1: who are reading it, they know they destroyed the comment section.
Speaker 1: No question, Trey Young probably one of the most overrated
Speaker 1: players in the league in recent memory, not just right now,
Speaker 1: but in recent memory. Hate to see that, Hate to
Speaker 1: see people bringing facts to the equation when the stands
Speaker 1: come out to play for shits and giggles. Though, I thought,
Speaker 1: what this was also interesting is the goat question. Obviously
Speaker 1: MJ was gonna win it, but what's interesting is that
Speaker 1: the like the distance between Mike and Braun is closing.
Speaker 1: At one point it was huge, and now it's fifty
Speaker 1: eight to thirty three. Hmm, I think if Braun wins
Speaker 1: another one, the gap gets even closer. Other fun polls,
Speaker 1: Who would you like to least like to fight? James Johnson,
Speaker 1: thirteen year old journeyman. He's played for eleven teams. I
Speaker 1: did TikTok on him, check that out. But listen, he's
Speaker 1: he's a tough man. He is apparently twenty to zero
Speaker 1: in kickboxing. Apparently all of his siblings he has eight
Speaker 1: and both of his parents all have black belts in karate.
Speaker 1: And that's nuts. That's like, that's just that's it. That's
Speaker 1: the end. Yeah, of course I don't want to fight
Speaker 1: that guy. Steven Adams probably a close second. What Arena
Speaker 1: has the worst fans? I was surprised by this one.
Speaker 1: Hornet's won with fifteen point two percent, So I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Is it like just the least interested fans. Is it
Speaker 1: the worst fans if you play for the team. Is
Speaker 1: it the worst fans for an opposing team? I don't
Speaker 1: understand it, but I never have considered their fan base
Speaker 1: to be like particular bad. I've just never really thought
Speaker 1: of them at all. Maybe that's why they're the worst.
Speaker 1: I've never once thought what is it like at a
Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets game? Never one time until right now. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is it like? I kind of want
Speaker 1: to know. Now. Detroit was second at eleven percent. That's disrespectful.
Speaker 1: I love watching games in Detroit. I saw the Warriors
Speaker 1: play the Pistons earlier this year. It was a great vibe,
Speaker 1: the arena with the best fans. This one's gonna be
Speaker 1: funny for you. Boston, Boston, I don't know about that, chief, No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: So eighteen here's where it's funny. Eighteen percent of the
Speaker 1: NBA players picked Boston, which is, like, I guess, a
Speaker 1: pretty big coincidence given the NBA. Seventeen percent of the
Speaker 1: NBA is white. So where those one percent come from?
Speaker 1: Where that one percent gap come from? Uh? I don't
Speaker 1: know if this poll was made up exclusively of NBA
Speaker 1: players who played or played in Boston, but Sacramento was
Speaker 1: second at twelve point one percent, which makes more sense.
Speaker 1: Golden One is a great arena. The coach, there's another
Speaker 1: interesting category. The coach you'd least like to play for.
Speaker 1: We have a runaway winner, folks. Think about it. Think
Speaker 1: about it, think about it, think about it. Don't you
Speaker 1: think too hard? Don't you think too hard? It's Thibodeau.
Speaker 1: It is. You knew it was Thibodau, didn't you. You
Speaker 1: mean to tell me that it's not appealing for your
Speaker 1: coach to make you run wind sprints the day after
Speaker 1: an overtime loss. You mean to tell me you don't
Speaker 1: want to do that, that's exam You mean to tell
Speaker 1: me that's not like a fun coach to play for. Ah.
Speaker 1: I remember meeting him and I'm like, yeah, I've never
Speaker 1: met a coach where I can like look at a
Speaker 1: player and say, TIB's guy or no, TIBs guy, Like
Speaker 1: there's no other coach in the leaguehe You're like, Spolstro
Speaker 1: would never let that guy play for him. Uh. Steven Silas,
Speaker 1: who has gone and fired. He made the list at
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half percent, which I think probably reflects
Speaker 1: how many trades Houston has made in the last three years.
Speaker 1: Like I think half the league has played for Steven Silas. Finally,
Speaker 1: current coaches the NBA players would most want to play for?
Speaker 1: The runaway answer here still pretty surprising. Actually, Greg Popovic,
Speaker 1: what nearly a quarter of the league would want to
Speaker 1: play for? Greg Popovic it must be like a like
Speaker 1: a like a legacy thing, like oh yeah, I played
Speaker 1: for Pop, Like oh yeah, I played with Jordan kind
Speaker 1: of a thing. It seems a little weird until you
Speaker 1: dig into his background. You read stories about how he
Speaker 1: changes players' lives. If you look at Demarta Rosen, Demarta
Speaker 1: Rosen has wildly high praise for Greg Popovich, one of
Speaker 1: the true OG player coaches, and he tears up nearly
Speaker 1: every time he talks about what Pop means to him.
Speaker 1: He's a god. Greg Popovich is a god. Even at
Speaker 1: his old age. Most players want to play for him,
Speaker 1: which is crazy amazing. Steve Kerr was second at thirteen
Speaker 1: point seven, which I think also makes some sense as well. Well,
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