WEBVTT - Trysta plays reaper with a couple doomed teams 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.280 On this episode of the Heat Check, I kind of 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:19.240 feel like a Rio in Agatha. That's, by the way, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.479 one of the hottest characters in a Marvel movie we've 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:30.200 ever seen in life. Holy shit. Anyway, Agatha, all along, Rio, 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.600 She's death. I am the harbinger of doom today on Halloween, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.519 well the day after Halloween. For NBA franchises, I'm recording 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.120 this on Halloween. But once again I am here to 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:46.000 say Alert, Alert, we you we you, Hey, baby, your 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.559 time has come. Come with Mama. She'll take you to 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.479 the graveyard where your NBA team will reside for the 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.320 rest of the season and maybe longer. We've got two 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:03.520 bodies in the NBA to take Denver and Philadelphia. Why 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.280 just has to be. I also get into the Laters 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.360 Victor versus Chet one sided battle, kind of talk about 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.760 how that game went. It was very anticipated and kind 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.400 of a little bit of a clunker. Yanni's trade rumors 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.600 really Tias Jones fixing the Sun and so much more. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:28.600 Loaded ash show. Whah, It's Halloween, Anthony, my man, drop 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:46.039 that motherfucking beat that should be reaped. Happy Halloween, folks, 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.400 got a little uh. I went around the neighborhood today, 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.160 well last night, and there were so many fucking kids 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.840 dressed up just so cute. They were all just screaming. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:05.080 Then they add their a little plastic pumpkin things. No, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.840 nobody does look like the pillow case anymore, right, Like, 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.360 that's just my era. We were greedy as hell. To 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.800 take a pillowcase with you around a neighborhood and fill 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:21.040 that thing up is crazy. Anyway, I kind of get 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.360 a little overwhelmed. I'm like, Yo, there's way too much 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.000 chaos going on right now. So I'm working through it 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:31.080 on this podcast, which y'all and I have got a 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:36.400 lot to say. Starting in Mile High City. I'm concerned, folks. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.600 The Nuggets start the season to losing two in a row. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.280 I watch those games with a careful eye because what 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.600 I am seeing is not gonna make it into the 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.040 box score. Since then, they've won two in a row, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.760 a two point win over the Raptors in overtime where 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.000 they needed every single one of Yogic's forty points in 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.560 an overtime win, and then another overtime win over the 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.120 Brooklyn Nets where they had twenty two or more points 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:12.400 from Jokic, Gordon Murray, and Russell Westbrook to survive against 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.320 the team who's leading scorer was Dennis Who the fuck 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.639 did Dennis Shruter think he is? Shreoter. So, while I'm 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.959 not I'm not saying that the Milwaukee Bucks trade rumors 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.720 type of trouble because they still have one of the 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.920 best coaches in the game, which, by the way, we 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.560 really should talk about the fact that Michael Malone will 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.000 not play young guys at all, or maybe they're just 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.720 not very good. He also said the funniest thing the 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.480 other night. He said, I'm glad I get to coach 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.160 Nicola because I can't imagine game planning that guy. No shit, dude, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.720 no shit. Anyway, back to the Nuggets, I do think 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.040 that there's some things that should keep Nuggets fans up 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:57.280 at night, like they have always started slow. They don't 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.200 have the ability or runway or the way to just 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:07.119 start a season slow anymore. But most importantly, we got 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.640 ourselves at Jamal Murray problem. Folks. I don't know if 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.880 it's an injury. I don't know if it's an accumulation 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.279 of a bunch of injuries. I'm not sure if he's cooked. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.719 But I've never seen Jamal Murray look this through molasses 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.160 before like ever. And trust me, I'm not the only 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.279 person talking about this either. An anonymous NBA guard said 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.080 Murray is very easy to guard, and let's just say 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.120 that reverberated throughout the league, to the point that Murray 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.440 had to respond to it in his postgame presser and 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.800 he said, who are they and they said they're anonymous, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.520 and he goes, well, that's why they're anonymous, simple as that. 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.600 I'm not sure that makes sense, honestly. But let's see 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.080 the Nuggets lost to OKAC and the Clippers, and I 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.120 don't see the guards on either of those teams talking 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.719 shit like. I don't think James cards like you know, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.360 Jamal Murray's really slow. I don't think that's going on. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.240 The quote came out the day after the Nuggets barely 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.000 beat the Raptors, and my guy Davion Davion put the 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:18.039 clamps on Jamal along the way to a sixteen six 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.600 and two game held Murray on a six for twenty 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.920 night shooting. I'm not saying it was Davion who said it, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.800 but I think it is. I've seen Daveon up close. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:35.279 He will shit talk you no fucking problem. The truth is, though, 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:40.159 regardless of who said it, Jamal Murray is looking slow. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:45.400 He's not shooting well. He hasn't shot well, not only 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.960 this season through four games, where he's shooting a paltry 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.720 thirty seven percent from the field, which is only slightly 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.960 worse than his forty percent from the field in the 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.160 twelve playoff games last year. But folks, this has been 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.520 going on since the playoffs all the way through, considering 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.279 he shaw twenty nine percent from the field in total 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:13.440 in the Olympics in France this summer, net negative thirty 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.480 two in the playoffs, a shocking net minus forty six 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:23.279 against the Wolves. He looks just tuckered. He looks ready 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.279 to put to bed. He looks ready to put the 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:31.239 mouth tape on night Night sleep mask. And that's damning 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.800 for a guy who's supposed to be taking the pressure 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.200 off of Jokis, who, by the way, signed a massive 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.760 four year, two hundred and eight million dollar extension this summer. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.480 He got the bag and he said, my hamstring hurts. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.880 I don't know what the hell is going on, but 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.760 it's not good. He better get right, get fast, because 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.120 this team is gonna get habochied without him. And by 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.279 the way, don't even get me started on Michael Porter Junior, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.159 Like I think he's got it though, But this is 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.839 not the only thing wrong with the Nuggets. The bigger 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.839 issue facing them the bench. Someone said they acted in 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.560 the offseason like losing KCP was no big deal and 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.680 now they're paying the price for it. I think that's right. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.600 Acting the second loss of the game, both Michael Malone 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:20.960 and Jokic just sending strays at GM of the Nuggets, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.880 Calvin Booth, he said. Malone said, going into the season, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.720 shooting was a concern of mine. You lose a guy 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:32.120 like KCP who's a forty three point shooter, and dot 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.000 dot dot basically what you think was gonna happen, what 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.320 you day was gonna happen. And then Jokic said, we're 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.000 just not a good shooting team except for Mike and Jamal, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.800 all of us are kind of streaky, well not streaky, 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:51.040 but really just average shooters. Oh my, Calvin, baby, what 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.520 are you doing? And this made more start by the 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.000 fact that they did not bring in a sniper for 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.000 the bench, but then they decided to bring in a 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.960 guy Russell Westbrook, who literally his wife has been going 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.400 on Instagram fighting the trolls because the kids are having 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.600 His kids are having to literally fight back against other 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.440 kids calling his dad what Russell Westbrook. That's the kind 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.080 of shooter. Okay, that's the kind of shooter that he 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.000 is not, Like there's bullying going on. Okay, let me 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.400 just put this into perspective for you. He is such 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.960 a bad shooter that his kids are getting bullied by 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:38.000 other children because he's so bad, they've given his kid 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.440 the name Westbrook. Do you understand that? Like, think about 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.280 that for a second. The bench is awful. They had 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.880 a decent outing against the Nets, but I cannot express 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:54.200 this strongly enough. This is the Brooklyn Nets and they 0:08:54.200 --> 0:09:00.440 were without Ben Simmons, who, despite being allergic to a layup, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:06.320 he can strap folks. He has he has handcuffs for you. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.800 And they still into ot with the traffic cone like 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.520 Cam Thomas and shake Milton there at the guard spot. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.240 What are we doing? The nuggets they're gonna have to 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:25.960 rely on Julian Strather, Peyton Watson, Dario Sarch Are these 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.320 names you even know? 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:28.280 Like? 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:33.440 Really do you know these guys? We've seen the Russell 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.400 Westbrook experience up close and personal. Five for twenty five 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.360 in the first three games for a net minus thirty 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.720 eight rating twenty two and five against the nets perfect 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.280 ten for ten. From the line, it's like a once 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:51.040 every four games you're gonna get a vintage Russell Westbrook performance, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.040 and the rest of the time it's like, ooh, baby, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.720 put them on the bench. This is a team that 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.600 needs to make a move, although I don't really know 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.360 what they're gonna do from a salary cap standpoint, I'm 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.320 not sure how that's gonna be possible. But the bottom 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.800 line is that this team already saw how it stacked 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.520 up against the thunder boat Race not good enough. They 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.360 play the Wolves next week. I bet you this. Put 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.559 my hand up to God. Boat Race. Just count on it, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.040 and we'll get more insight onto how they fit into 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.520 the stack West after that game. But I promise you 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.640 it's gonna be the same my suspicion. This team is 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.760 a play in team. This is a play in team. Yeah, 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.040 that's what it is. You don't have shooters, you don't 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.200 have a bench, and your lead guard has either a 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.920 bum hamstring or he is a bum. Let's move on. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:53.000 We are the round of the anticipated showdown between the Chetolmgren, 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:59.000 Victor women Yama battle. Chet says, not a rivalry. I 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.600 don't care about this. This is just you guys forcing 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.839 an artificial thing on us. We're not even in the 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.559 same draft class. I got injured, I was a year 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.680 ahead of him. Blah blah blah blah blah. This is 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:16.240 not real. Well, Victor kind of thinks it is, because Victor, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.520 according to reports, won't even save Chet's name. So, I 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.960 don't know, feels like the guy that's getting the best 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.800 out of the other guy is being like, this is 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.080 not that meaningful, and then the other guy that's supposed 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.760 to be like the future goat that's what they say, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.640 is kind of like a little in his feels. When 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.600 I wrote notes down for this episode, my one line 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:41.680 was Victor largely got shut the fuck down, which he did. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.600 I mean, you look at the stat sheet and you're like, yeah, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.239 he was not a good outing for him. Six points, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:52.400 one for five shooting from the field, five shots only. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.440 Devin Vesell's not walking through that door anytime soon. Tony 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.400 Parker is not walking through that door. Chris Paul, there, baby, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.439 you got trade Jones. You don't even got the good Jones. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:09.959 Eight rebounds, three blocks, twenty seven minutes of play and 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.040 ch Chad fifteen at AFT time and he said, let 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.360 me slow up these breaks up here. Nineteen points seven 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:21.360 for ten shooting shot perfect from deep. Ooh. I light 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.040 seeing that from Chet because that was exactly what we 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.040 were hoping to see from him, right, is like, can 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.480 he get his jumper back? Five rebounds, two steals, two blocks. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.640 What a big game for him. But his defense was 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:38.800 really what was most impressive. Again, Victor largely shut the 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:44.800 fuck down. That was why everybody that he defended, where 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.160 he was the primary defender, he held them to four 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.880 for seventeen shooting oh for seven from three. That's not 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.720 all NBA numbers, that's like defensive player at the year numbers. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.960 The six points for Victor was a career low. Chet 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.440 was the primary defender on forty percent of victor miss shots, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.440 well all of his shots, all of which he missed. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:10.520 And today, according to ESPN's Michael Wright, I don't think 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.160 Michael Wright should have reported this, Honestly, it makes Victor 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.520 look bad. He won't even say Chet's name out loud. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:22.080 He said, well, Chet isn't exactly the candy man. By 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.079 the way, if you're young and you haven't seen candy Man. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:32.840 That shit is so scary, so scary. Whatever those bugs are, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.200 they're all over his face. So basically, here's let's just 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.280 go backwards really fast. So basically the premise of the 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:44.000 movie is like it's a kid's parable, Like, oh, like, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.000 don't say you have to say candy Man, candy Man, 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.920 candy Man, candy Man in your bathroom, turn the lights off, 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.480 turn them back on. He's there. That's the premise of 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.360 the movie. Really, and it flickers and he kills you. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.920 Really scary stuff. Anyway, people don't even want to say 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.959 the word candy man. That's basically what Victor's doing to Chet. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.440 Won't even say his name. That has pretty much been 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.920 the theme since Victor Wembanyama arrived in San Antonio. That's 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.360 what he says. Monday night, we specifically asked Victor Wembanyama 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.880 about the matchup with Chet. This is what he said. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.840 I'm getting excited to get back to winning ways. It's 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.440 always a good challenge to play Oklahoma City, and he 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.920 said he's watched every one of Oklahoma City's games. What 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:35.080 you didn't here and haven't heard was him he Chet 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:42.120 Holmgren will not mention the guy's name. Oh boy, I 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.640 need to know, Like I need someone to be like, hey, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.840 do you not say Chet's name? Is that like what 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.280 you do at all? Someone ask him? Grow a pair. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.200 We got ourselves in real fashioned four alarm rivalry on 0:14:55.240 --> 0:15:00.000 our hands, baby, and I love it. Love it so much, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:05.680 deliciously love it. I don't want to I need to 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.960 go to Oklahoma City and watch this matchup, like I 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.080 need to be court sided for this game. There is 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.800 no way Victor doesn't use this as motivation to come 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.960 over the top the next time they play. The best point, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.800 the best part is that we get like twenty more 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:27.640 years of this, twenty Like imagine chat with kids. He's grown, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:33.040 Victor with kids, he's grown. They're thirty and they've been 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:41.000 dueling this out like undersize, like magic and bird, you 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.840 know what I mean, like the the emaciated magic and birds. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.520 That's good for the NBA. I freaking love it. Can't 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.960 wait to see it. All Right, we're moving on. Word 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:57.800 of the daytime Claxon, No, I'm talking about Nick Claxton. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.760 I didn't stutter. It's not a Brooklyn Center. That is 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.320 the word of the day. A claxon is a bell 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.800 used to warn people of impending danger. And I'm telling 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:15.520 you right now, I hate being the claxon for the NBA. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.320 I actually feel like I'm the Canarian the coal mine. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.720 Do you know what I'm saying? I am Rio from 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.280 its Agatha all along. Rio is the original green Witch. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:31.120 She's death. She comes up, shows up in your life 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.000 like the grim Reaper, takes your hand, says come with me, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.000 and then you slip off into a daze, never to 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.040 be seen or heard from again. So it's not just 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.800 the Bucks, It's not just the Nuggets, it's the Sixers 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.840 as well. Speaking of bells, shocker right like we just 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:56.440 kind of nude and wet, like, uh, they just never healthy. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:03.560 Paul George Joe l embiid if it could only be different, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:09.400 if they could only just be not fragile, if they 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:15.120 could only just play in the games. I saw this 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:21.399 happening in like December, not in October. It is way 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.680 too early for this. If I were a Sixers fan, 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.760 after all the fanfare of the off season, they were 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:35.200 supposedly the best off season team when you ask all 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.720 the espn ors, the NBA dot comerce like which team 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.920 had the best offseason. They are like, oh Sixers, Paul George, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:51.320 they did all they got. Caleb Martin Folks I would 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.920 be on the verge of despondency right now because not 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.000 only is Paul George already hurt, but the Sixers revealed 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:06.960 that Joel Embiid has a shocking left knee condition and 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.840 is not close to one hundred percent. It is the 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:17.760 Lord's year. Twenty twenty four, November. First, we are one 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:22.280 week into the league and Joel Embiid we don't know 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:27.320 when he's coming back. The worst part about it is 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.640 the Sixers lied about it to the point where now 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.639 the NBA is launching a full scale investigation. According to 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.600 Sham's the league investigation found that there is a left 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:42.760 knee condition that joelmb is rehabbing and recovering from to 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.760 make sure that he is one hundred percent this season. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.600 The problem, man, I tell you what, if you're Paul George, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.720 you've got to be kind of pissed because like, this 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.840 is exactly what it was with Kawhi, where the team 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.320 lies about his status and his injury and it's like 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.560 healthy health healthy, Oh, done for the season. Anyway, The 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.760 Sixers denied that there was a problem, so the league 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.520 have now find the organization one hundred thousand dollars. This 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.520 comes on top of the fact that the Sixers announced 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.719 that MB will be missing games regularly and that this 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:21.359 will be the new normal. The new normal, according to 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.760 Sham's the new normal is going to include periodic time 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.280 off at different points during the season. It's going to 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.719 include routine checkups on his knee over the course of 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.560 the season, and it is all part of the Sixers 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.040 and then beads new strategy on how to keep him 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.880 healthy when he has never been And that's for the playoffs, folks. 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.159 Forty games, That's what it's gonna be. We'll see you 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.400 at the All Star break. This is the truth. They 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:57.040 are unwatchable without PG and MB. We worried about this, 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.760 and now I feel we should be very, very concerned. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.280 This team has the bottom falling out already. Remember when 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.880 Embiid got hurt last year, they were cooked and they 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.760 had Tobias Harris. What don't we have now? We just 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.840 have Maxi Maxi and I love him. Second I a 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.359 scorer in the league right now, and he cannot save you. 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.800 Nick Nurse now is tired of talking about EMBIID and 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.560 pg's injury updates. Get used to it, Nick, They're not healthy, 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.840 he said, I'm not gonna answer. Go ahead, anybody else 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.760 got anything. They've given you the updates on that, right, 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.399 They've given you the updates on Joel. You think Nick's 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.640 a little pissed and these a little terse got hiss 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.359 panties in a little bit of a bunch woo. The 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.320 Sixers are struggling and with no clarity about EMBIID, this 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:55.199 could be a very, very rocky season. Reo is coming, okay. 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.080 Couple of quick updates the stories that dropped this week. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.680 Number one, if you haven't checked out the interview that 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.119 I had with doctor David Berry about the finances of 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.720 the WNBA, it is up on YouTube. It is wherever 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.600 you get your podcasts. I need you to check it out. 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.520 For me, I feel it's one of the most important 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.359 conversations that I've had on the Heat Check ever. I 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.840 feel it is very important for people who think that 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:25.280 they know about what's happening in NBA and WNBA economics. 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.160 They need to give it a listen. Must second of all, 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:32.800 my rant about the Buck season going off the rails 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.280 starting to gain a little traction for the first time 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:41.280 in a few years. There are now unofficial, official, unofficial 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:46.480 trade rumors surrounding you. Honest, an NBA executive told friend 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:52.040 of show Bill Rider teams are circling and hopeful. I 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:55.639 wouldn't be surprised if it happened by the trade deadline. 0:21:55.960 --> 0:22:01.200 That feels like fougaysy, But like, whoa, even if it is, 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:06.720 just the fact that people are wondering is really really bad. 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:16.840 There's already preferred destinations. Guess where. Guess where? Guess where. 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:22.520 We're doing it again. We're doing it again. It's Miami. 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:28.000 It's Miami. Why why why? They're linked to every single 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:33.280 superstar every year and it's always their preferred destination. Do 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:40.040 you think m like the Miami Heat are close to contention? Like, truthfully, 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.240 if Joannist really wants to go to Miami, what's the 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:48.760 reason I love bad bitches? That's my problem? Yeah, Like, 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:56.080 that's it. It's just Florida, no sales, tax, beaches and babies. Goodness, gracious, 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.760 the Bucks aren't stupid, though they're not gonna want Like, listen, 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.639 the Blazers didn't want Tyler Hero. You think the Milwaukee 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:08.399 Bucks what Tyler Hero and Dame and Duncan Robinson and 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.880 some random first round draft picks in twenty thirty one. 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:17.199 No shot. The other team the Brooklyn Nets, who to 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:22.040 be honest, they've got the cap, they've got the space, 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.040 they've got the assets. But like, why would he want 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:28.560 to go to Brooklyn? That was also where Dame said 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:30.199 he wanted to go, by the way. I remember he 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:33.400 was like, I'll play with McHale, I'll play with Bam. 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:37.399 Why are Brooklyn and Miami even a thing? Why would 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:40.000 Giannis want to play with Cam Thomas. This is the 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:42.919 reason I think it's fougaysy because these like destinations are 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:45.720 really strange. Writer says that there are other teams that 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:47.520 could be in play, like the Thunder who have space, 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:51.440 capital interest. I don't know how he fits with that team. 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:53.600 Are you playing him at the four and Chet at 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.840 the five? Like? Is Chet now just brook Lopez? Maybe 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:00.359 that wouldn't be so bad. The fact that you is 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:06.600 even being mentioned as having a trade destination is crazy. 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:12.760 That is bad bad news in Milwaukee all right? Another update, 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:16.240 Just like Tristan pats herself on the back on on Friday, 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.560 do you know who has the best record? In the 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:23.680 NBA right now. Not the Lakers they've lost to in 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:26.960 a row. Not the Boston Celtics are defending Chance, who 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:29.879 dropped a game to the Pacers in overtime for their 0:24:29.880 --> 0:24:33.880 first loss of the year. Not even my OKC thunder 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:42.680 who are four and Oh no, it's Cleveland, not terrible club, 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:47.080 not great, but actually number one in the East, number 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:51.000 one overall. Last episode, I was like, keep your eye 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.960 on Cleveland and now best record in the NBA five 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:57.040 and zero, and the teams that they've beaten are pretty impressive. 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:01.920 They beat the Lakers like a drum one thirty four, 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:06.840 one ten behind six players with fourteen or more points. Wow, 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:11.120 this team could go ten and zero. Kenny Atkinson has 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:15.679 this team hummon boy. A recent article detailed it. He 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:20.520 said sixty percent of the time seventy percent of the 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:23.800 time I think he said, was spent talking about, Hey, 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:27.320 how do we unlock Evan Mobley when he was interviewed 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:31.359 for this job. Evan Mobley is having a year. He 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:34.439 is shooting fifty seven percent through the first five games, 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:39.200 fifty percent from three, with an average of a net 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:42.800 plus sixteen per game, a total net rating of plus 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:47.600 eighty He's averaging nineteen eight and two with three stocks 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:50.680 per game. These are all NBA numbers, folks. But guess 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:54.400 what what I think is really impressive is that he 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:57.760 is becoming one of the main ball handlers in pick 0:25:57.800 --> 0:26:02.320 and roll. You've got Darius Garland screaming for Evan Mobley, 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:07.239 You've got Donovan Mitchell screaming for Evan Mobley. He is 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:10.720 being used all over the floor. Garland's having a career year. 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:14.399 Donnovan doesn't have to shoulder the burden. Jared Allen's playing well. 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:17.639 This is a team that, if they can stay consistent, 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:23.760 might be better then I think, and you think as well. Okay, 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:26.080 it's time for us to talk about Tias Jones, one 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:27.919 of my favorite players in the NBA. I've been just 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:31.359 stumping for Tias for years. I just the thing that 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:34.760 I've consistently said is best turnover assistant turnover ratio in 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:36.240 the NBA. It's almost like he had one of the 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:40.280 best period ever. Not a lot of people talking about 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.720 Tias Jones was kind of lost in the preseason shuffle. 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:46.920 Phoenix Sun signed him well below market value. I think 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:49.680 he was. His market value was like nine million a year. 0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:51.640 He was getting offers nine to ten million a year. 0:26:52.520 --> 0:26:55.200 Signed a one year, three million dollar deal with Phoenix. 0:26:56.359 --> 0:26:59.080 Jones is one of the best at protecting the ball. 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:02.960