Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check, it's time for
Speaker 1: the Rookie Report, your weekly checking, and the rookies are
Speaker 1: on the leak. How they're doing this week? We check
Speaker 1: in on pretty much the only reason to watch basketball
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. His name is Jared McCain. Anthony my man,
Speaker 1: drop that motherfucking beat. It should be real.
Speaker 2: Well, if you watch an NBA covers two days a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, actually you know that things have officially
Speaker 2: hit the band. Before the Philadelphia six we'll get in
Speaker 2: all the drama because we've got Joel mb getting called
Speaker 2: out by his teammates.
Speaker 1: We got him coming out and saying that that leak
Speaker 1: was bullshit. Anyway, Friday, we'll talk about that. The Sixers
Speaker 1: are currently two and twelve. There are articles now being
Speaker 1: put out about the Sixers, asking, positing, hypothesizing should they
Speaker 1: just give up the rest of the way. That's how
Speaker 1: you know it's really bad. Why do I bring this
Speaker 1: up because there's only one reason, really one bright spot
Speaker 1: to watch the Philadelphia seventy six ers and to pay
Speaker 1: attention to what's going on over there, and that's Jared McCain.
Speaker 1: Jared McCain, you could tell when he was at Duke,
Speaker 1: he was that guy. He goes sixteenth in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four draft of the Sixers. It probably is one
Speaker 1: of the only good moves that Daryl Morey has made
Speaker 1: this offseason. The crazy thing, though, is that Philly never
Speaker 1: spoke to Jared McCain, not one time in the pre
Speaker 1: draft process, which I think is very strange. He's a
Speaker 1: six to two guard out of Duke, best known for
Speaker 1: being a free spirited TikTok star that paints his nails
Speaker 1: with three million followers, a guy who does not exactly
Speaker 1: exude the toxic masculinity that Philadelphia is so known for.
Speaker 1: He was poked by Sixers fans pretty much before the
Speaker 1: start of the season. Despite going fourteen six and two
Speaker 1: with the Blue Devils had two thirty point performances in
Speaker 1: March Madness. I fucking love Jared McCain, by the way,
Speaker 1: but I don't hear any negative peeps coming out of
Speaker 1: Philadelphia now. No, I don't, because Jared McCain is balin' ballin'
Speaker 1: I think he's the best thing about the Sixers this season.
Speaker 1: Considering that Tyrese Maxey has a hamstring injury, his production,
Speaker 1: of course hasn't increased because Tyrese Maxie is sitting there
Speaker 1: in street clothes, but also because he's really good. Just
Speaker 1: because somebody gives you an opportunity doesn't mean they're gonna
Speaker 1: do anything with that. Jared McCain, you can't keep him
Speaker 1: off the court. Considering two of the guards that the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six ers signed were a thirty five year
Speaker 1: old Eric Gordon and a thirty eight year old Kyle
Speaker 1: They have both been cheeks buns this year. If you
Speaker 1: go back seven games to win, Jared McCain started getting
Speaker 1: thirty minutes per game. Here are his stats. He is
Speaker 1: averaging twenty four points, two rebounds, four assists, forty eight
Speaker 1: percent from the field, forty four percent from deep on
Speaker 1: ten threes per game. Those aren't just good wrecky numbers.
Speaker 1: Those are borderlined all star numbers. Against the best team
Speaker 1: in the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers, McCain put up thirty
Speaker 1: four and ten, shooting six for thirteen from deep. That
Speaker 1: made him the ninth rookie since the year two thousand
Speaker 1: to have a thirty and ten game in regulation. The
Speaker 1: others Andrew Nemhard pretty good, Luka on Chicks, really good,
Speaker 1: Trey young Ben Simmons. Can't believe that's a Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: stat Blake Griffin, Steph Curry, Russell Westbrook, Lebron James, Jamaal Tinsley, Okay,
Speaker 1: and Steve francis pretty good company considering eight of those
Speaker 1: guys became All Stars, and probably Andrew Demhard might be
Speaker 1: one of them one day. Kyle Lowry said this, who's
Speaker 1: in his eighteen season, by the way, said this about
Speaker 1: Jared McCain. I think the one thing he's been so
Speaker 1: great at is just playing his game and being confident
Speaker 1: in what he's doing. I think we need that right now.
Speaker 1: We need that extra pop, we need that extra energy.
Speaker 1: So it's been really good for us to have a
Speaker 1: guy who's coming in as a young guy giving us
Speaker 1: that energy and that confidence that he's playing with right now.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty good. It's pretty cool to watch. I
Speaker 1: think Jeed McCain has already proven he's one of the
Speaker 1: best four or five rookies in the draft class, and
Speaker 1: if he keeps giving you thirty and ten, he might
Speaker 1: just end up being Rookie of the Year. Considering that
Speaker 1: Paul George Ree hyper extended his knee again and even
Speaker 1: when tyre smacks, he comes back. Jared McCain might just
Speaker 1: be staying on the floor. That's all the time that
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