Speaker 1: You're listening to The Hottest The Hottest. It be a
Speaker 1: podcast out here. I said what I said, it's the
Speaker 1: Heat Chick, Heat Check Check. It's just a creaking on
Speaker 1: this episode of the Heat Check. Let's try this again.
Speaker 1: My computer just absolutely crashed in the middle of this episode.
Speaker 1: It was it was very funny. Only only I will
Speaker 1: know though though that only you will not know that
Speaker 1: Jaw is back out here doing Jaw things. I am
Speaker 1: so freaking excited. I could not be happier. It's also Friday.
Speaker 1: Time to check in on the Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: futures market. There is some wild movement and we will
Speaker 1: get into some news from around the league on Joel embiid,
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson, and my favorite rando in the league, blood
Speaker 1: Sport James Johnson. Lots popping here, so let's get right
Speaker 1: into it and drop that motherfucking beat. It should be Rihanna,
Speaker 1: all right. So John Marine returned back to action in
Speaker 1: New Orleans for the first time of the season, and
Speaker 1: he showed everybody why his presence has been missed so
Speaker 1: freaking much so. The Grizzlies played the Pelicans right. They
Speaker 1: fell down big fast, which in all reality has been
Speaker 1: happening all year long, right all year long. There's a
Speaker 1: reason that they were six and twenty five or six
Speaker 1: and nineteen to start the first twenty five games of
Speaker 1: the season, and that's because they stink. I said that
Speaker 1: maybe they were the worst roster in the league without
Speaker 1: Jahn Moran, and I wasn't lying. They're basically a more
Speaker 1: expensive Detroit Pistons without Jahn Moran, swear to God. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they're down. They're down big. I think they're down like
Speaker 1: twenty something point and John only has seven points at halftime,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, ooh, it is John rusty, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: is he not gonna be himself for a little while?
Speaker 1: Are the Memphis Grizzly sunk? Is their season and sunk?
Speaker 1: How long is it gonna take for Jaw to be himself?
Speaker 1: And that is, folks, that right there we have the
Speaker 1: kernel of doubt. Not me. I'm a Jaw fan. I'm
Speaker 1: a John believer, you know what I mean. I've got
Speaker 1: my hand to the jaw God. Anyway, anyway, that's when
Speaker 1: Jaw comes back in the jaw we know, the jaw
Speaker 1: we love and is remarkable. Heroics take over. They return
Speaker 1: and guess what, and guess what, and guess what. A
Speaker 1: twenty four point lead shrivels and just crumbles into Dustoo.
Speaker 1: That's the sound of their lead leaving the building. That
Speaker 1: is their sign of their hope starting to diminish. Because yes,
Speaker 1: by the way, we're gonna have to talk about this too,
Speaker 1: Willie Green. At some point, we got to talk about him.
Speaker 1: Eighth double digit lead that the Pels have blown in
Speaker 1: the second half of games this year. Who does Willy
Speaker 1: Green think he is? He thinks he's Brad Stevens. In
Speaker 1: a quick side note, I don't know if that's for
Speaker 1: the real ones, Like if you don't remember Brad Stevens.
Speaker 1: At one point I had a white board just for
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens, just for Brad Stevens blown leads, swear on
Speaker 1: my mom's life. And at one point I think it
Speaker 1: was eighteen leads that had been ten points or more
Speaker 1: that had ended up into losses. There's incredible Brad Stevens
Speaker 1: won a run to end his coaching career. Anyway, back
Speaker 1: to Jaw. Jaw went ballistic, no pun intended, firing from
Speaker 1: all over the court, no pun intended, and at one
Speaker 1: point he even used a massage gun. No Pun intended
Speaker 1: on his calves during a time out. Three gun references
Speaker 1: in a sentence that's not about guns and it's about Jaw, Trista,
Speaker 1: how do you do it? Anyway? With the game tied
Speaker 1: one thirteen, one thirteen, nine point six seconds left, the
Speaker 1: Grizz call a timeout. Taylor Jenkins on a missed basket
Speaker 1: for the Pelicans. Jaw gets the rebound. He's ready to
Speaker 1: cruise up like a thoroughbread, but no, Taylor Jenkins must
Speaker 1: call a time out to rain Jaw in from doing
Speaker 1: something stupid and firing away. No Pun intended. It's almost
Speaker 1: like he doesn't trust Jaw in crucial situations. But I
Speaker 1: mean that makes sense, right. Jaw's made some questionable decisions
Speaker 1: over the last year. I thought he probably should allow
Speaker 1: let Jaw cook or whatever. Anyway, Jaw had some ideas
Speaker 1: and he wanted to run him past Desmond Bane. What
Speaker 1: were those ideas on how to win the game? Jah
Speaker 1: came up to me and asked me. It was like,
Speaker 1: you want to run a postuff for Jaren And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, Like we go to get to the ball.
Speaker 1: He told me, no, you getting the ball? So at
Speaker 1: that point. It's just you know, I pretty much just
Speaker 1: had to you know, lock in and go delive and delivery.
Speaker 1: He did also imagine a world where Jaren Jackson, with
Speaker 1: nine point six seconds left, gets the ball. Just don't know,
Speaker 1: like Ja Morant is here, Jaw is Superman. We don't
Speaker 1: need to give the ball to Is there a Superman refers,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, do we need to give the
Speaker 1: ball to Catwoman when we have Superman? No, we do not.
Speaker 1: So just like that, Jaw with five seconds left in
Speaker 1: the game down the lane, Herb Jones on him isolation
Speaker 1: on an island, one of the best defenders on ball
Speaker 1: in the league. And you know what Jaw did say,
Speaker 1: I don't care who you put on me, sir, I
Speaker 1: am going to create space on you and put a
Speaker 1: bucket on your dome piece. That is what he did.
Speaker 1: Hit him on the island. Tween spin, body contortion, not
Speaker 1: an easy uh nothing but net kind of a shot. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Ja Morant doesn't roll like that, waiting until he almost
Speaker 1: is touching Earth back from the sky, puts the ball up,
Speaker 1: rattles around the rim, ball goes through the net and
Speaker 1: just like that, just like the ball going through the net,
Speaker 1: the soul leaves every fan at Smoothie King Center, Because yes, Sir,
Speaker 1: Jaw Moran is back. Your division rivals are here, and
Speaker 1: Jaw game blouses one fifteen, one thirteen. Jaw finished the
Speaker 1: game thirty one points, six rebounds, eight assists and a
Speaker 1: game winner over one of the best defenders in the
Speaker 1: league period period. My lord, Just like that, folks, Grizzlies
Speaker 1: back in the action. Grizzlies are gonna be nationally televised again.
Speaker 1: Jaw goes through the tunnel. I kept receipts. I kept
Speaker 1: the receipts too. Who was saying this, Who was saying
Speaker 1: Jahn Moran's not gonna be any good when he comes back?
Speaker 1: What he didn't tear his achilles? He got suspended for
Speaker 1: brandishing a gun. Brandish my new favorite word, brandish. Brandishing
Speaker 1: a gun that may or may not been the lighter
Speaker 1: for his handles. John Morant with a chip on his
Speaker 1: shoulder is all the league needs. Yes, Sir, I cannot
Speaker 1: tell you how exciting that was for me. Just proven
Speaker 1: the Jaw doubters wrong, all of the naysayers, all the
Speaker 1: people who want to wish upon that man's downfall, not me,
Speaker 1: even after the game, Team Rant's like, yo, you thought
Speaker 1: it changed. The inner circle is still the same. Just
Speaker 1: because DeVante Pack is not allowed to come to Grizzlies games,
Speaker 1: He's still up in our circle, folks. We also now,
Speaker 1: for now get to enjoy one of the greatest players
Speaker 1: in the world winning a game on a last minute shot.
Speaker 1: All is right in the NBA world. This is why
Speaker 1: I said jaw on a Tuesday in December, which is
Speaker 1: what that was, is the most exciting player on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: And now he's showing everyone why that exactly