Speaker 1: No not, come on, come on, come.
Speaker 2: On, come on on this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: The play ins are over. We are into the real
Speaker 2: deal coke Keel the playoffs. Most of you guys don't
Speaker 2: know what the Coquel River is, but that's it's an
Speaker 2: inside joke.
Speaker 3: But real deal co Keel. Baby. We talk about some.
Speaker 2: Of the major storylines and outcomes of the first games
Speaker 2: of the first round of playoffs, and we already have
Speaker 2: major t and major drama.
Speaker 3: We have scuffles, we have the birds flipping the birds
Speaker 3: at the garden.
Speaker 2: It's officially playoff time, like real playoffs, real deal co
Speaker 2: Keel playoffs.
Speaker 3: So do me a favor and drop that beat, my
Speaker 3: big I'm perfect, good man drilling excites. Okay, the playings
Speaker 3: are done.
Speaker 2: Though they are done, that means we've got one and
Speaker 2: eight's perfectly set up. We've got the Pelicans playing the
Speaker 2: Suns and we got the Hawks playing the heat both
Speaker 2: of them probably gonna be light work, unfortunately for the Clippers,
Speaker 2: because the Clippers should be in this spot, which would
Speaker 2: have set up for an elite eight to one matchup,
Speaker 2: a battleground from the Western Conference finals last year.
Speaker 3: But of course, my man playoff P is the gift
Speaker 3: that keeps on giving.
Speaker 2: And can't even get to the playoffs. Playoff P is
Speaker 2: now playing p fos around.
Speaker 3: It gets COVID. COVID. How do you get COVID.
Speaker 2: Between game one of the playing game and game two?
Speaker 2: You lose in Minnesota? What were you doing there? There's
Speaker 2: not even any good strip clubs in Minnesota. In Minneapolis
Speaker 2: for you to go in Shenanigan. You know, he's married,
Speaker 2: he's married to his former stripper. He's married, he has
Speaker 2: kids with her, So there's not even any of that
Speaker 2: in order to like entice you, and then they would
Speaker 2: he would have gone back to LA to play his
Speaker 2: own home playoff game against the Pelicans and no COVID.
Speaker 2: And as a quick aside, the win that the Pelicans
Speaker 2: eked out of the Clippers was was actually personal to me,
Speaker 2: very personal, extremely personal to me. All Right, So now
Speaker 2: that the Pelicans go to the first round, they are
Speaker 2: now not lottery eligible, so they get no lottery balls,
Speaker 2: which means that the Blazers do not get their lottery
Speaker 2: pick from pick five to fourteen, Pick do you think
Speaker 2: we get?
Speaker 3: You might ask? Probably next year? Right, like a next
Speaker 3: year's first.
Speaker 2: For the pals, I'll still be bad, No, sir, we
Speaker 2: get the twenty twenty five first round pick. We have
Speaker 2: to wait till twenty twenty five first round pick, but
Speaker 2: not the Pelicans first round pick. It's the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 2: first round pick. So it's probably gonna be pick thirty.
Speaker 3: Fuck that.
Speaker 2: The defending champs pick. That's the one that we get.
Speaker 2: And of course, which made it equally this is a
Speaker 2: total aside which made it equally painful for me, was there,
Speaker 2: how how many former Blazers were on those two teams.
Speaker 3: It was sickening. You had on the Clippers.
Speaker 2: You had Robert Covington, you had my man Norm Powell,
Speaker 2: you had Nick Batum all way back Blazer Dan up
Speaker 2: literally like do something, Nick Batoom. And of course Club
Speaker 2: Trillion Tony Snell on that team. Four former players on
Speaker 2: the Clippers, also CJ McCollum on the PILs, Larry Nance
Speaker 2: Junior on the Pels both eating Fuck that gross gross.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we'll get back to that. We've got some storylines.
Speaker 2: But the matchup that I care the most about, well,
Speaker 2: the matchups that I care the most about two sevens.
Speaker 2: The two sevens are elite number two Celtics versus the
Speaker 2: seven nets, And damn did that not disappoint That was
Speaker 2: everything that we could have asked for and more. Kyrie
Speaker 2: nuclear Celtics escape on everything that you want them.
Speaker 3: To do right.
Speaker 2: All the while they've been succeeding through isoball, but no,
Speaker 2: not this time.
Speaker 3: They made extra pass extra after extra pass. They were
Speaker 3: pump faking. We had Marcus Smart pump fake out of
Speaker 3: a three, which he loves three, so he took ten
Speaker 3: that night.
Speaker 2: By the way, uh took a pump fake and found
Speaker 2: a Jason Tatum cutting to al horpor come on now
Speaker 2: with like literally zero seconds on the clock, Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: strap KD held him to more turnovers than points in
Speaker 2: the first half. What on Easter first and foremost also
Speaker 2: we already know because that wasn't even close. It wasn't
Speaker 2: even close to that being the only thing that was
Speaker 2: at hand.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about Kyrie.
Speaker 2: And the Boston Celtics fans, because he would like to
Speaker 2: tell us that there is no hostility. He said it
Speaker 2: to Nick Fodell. It's not hostility, bro. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what it is, but it's something kai At one point,
Speaker 2: just for those who are listening to the podcast, aren't
Speaker 2: fully up to speed on history. They're not like it's
Speaker 2: not fully in the forefront of their mind. Kyrie Irving
Speaker 2: was supposed to play the remainder of his career out
Speaker 2: in Boston. He was traded from the Cavs, and he
Speaker 2: wanted to go to a place with multiple banners, which
Speaker 2: the Nets have have none. But he wanted to go
Speaker 2: somewhere with multiple banners for a chance to make his
Speaker 2: own route. And things got toxic fast. He said, if
Speaker 2: you guys will have me, I'm planning to sign the extension.
Speaker 2: It was on like one of the first games of
Speaker 2: the season. He announced it in front of the crowd. Kyrie, Kyrie,
Speaker 2: we love you, and then all of a sudden, him
Speaker 2: and Terry Rosier fucking around and beef you've got issues
Speaker 2: with everything, like he's mailing it in after an injury
Speaker 2: plagued year of the year before. Kyrie then ends up
Speaker 2: leaving on his own accord, as we know, not staying
Speaker 2: the remainder of his career as the Boston Celtics. Celtics
Speaker 2: fans big mad, big big mad, because did you see him?
Speaker 3: Because did you see him? Imagine putting Kyrie Irving in
Speaker 3: that lineup what excuse me? Mark Smart off the bench,
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving starting point guard, Derek White in the mix
Speaker 3: Al Horford, Ugh.
Speaker 2: What so, Yeah, they're salty, they're salty balls. So he
Speaker 2: comes back to the garden. He's always burning Palo Santo
Speaker 2: or whatever before he comes and plays there, just to
Speaker 2: get the bad juju out.
Speaker 3: So he comes and plays in the first round last year,
Speaker 3: stomps on Lucky.
Speaker 2: The Boston logo puts everybody in a big baby.
Speaker 3: Davis then gets involved. Look it up.
Speaker 2: It was just a lot of fanfare and he gets
Speaker 2: a lot of hate. Now obviously a fan.
Speaker 3: Also later threw a bottle at Kyrie in Game four
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 2: Thinks highly charged. We'll say not hostile, highly charged. It's
Speaker 2: probably the best best way of putting it. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: you knew this playoff was gonna be intense. They've got
Speaker 2: the winner go home mentality. They were playing team pretty
Speaker 2: much most of the year because Kyrie Irving doesn't want
Speaker 2: to get vaccinated, and holy shit, was it ever intense.
Speaker 2: Seventeen lead changes in the game, back and forth all day.
Speaker 3: Who is gonna win?
Speaker 2: Kai Historic thirty nine points six for ten from three,
Speaker 2: five rebounds, six assists, four steals one block, and boy
Speaker 2: was he not quiet about it. He was not quiet
Speaker 2: about it. Fans were heckling him all night. Kyrie flipped
Speaker 2: them off at minimum four times. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you want to count the double the double flip as
Speaker 2: one or two.
Speaker 3: Hard to do. Maskool on that folks.
Speaker 2: Then at halftime a fan was like, Kyrie, you suck
Speaker 2: and he said what he said?
Speaker 3: What did he say?
Speaker 2: He said, thank you so much for your support. No,
Speaker 2: he said, suck my dick, bitch.
Speaker 3: That's what he said. Jesus what he said. I didn't
Speaker 3: make that up. That's not like my synopsis. That's a
Speaker 3: direct quote.
Speaker 2: Also, come to find out, it was probably five flipoffs
Speaker 2: because there was a legendary behind.
Speaker 3: The head double Bird. The double Bird.
Speaker 2: Best part though between in terms of the drama was
Speaker 2: the post game. Ask about the drama that Kyrie Irving
Speaker 2: simply didn't want any part of.
Speaker 3: Let's hit that clip.
Speaker 4: It looked like there were a couple of times where
Speaker 4: you gave the fans a finger. I'm curious was there
Speaker 4: anything that you thought cross the line today? And are
Speaker 4: you the kind of guy that gets motivated by kind
Speaker 4: of going back and forth with the fans. You kind
Speaker 4: of use that internally as something to fire you up.
Speaker 5: Look, i mean, I'm just where I'm from. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm used to all these antics and people being close nearby.
Speaker 5: You know, it's nothing new when I come into this
Speaker 5: building what it's going to be like. But it's the
Speaker 5: same energy they have for me, and I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: the same energy for them. And it's not every fan.
Speaker 5: I don't want to attack every fan, every Boston fan,
Speaker 5: but you know when people start yelling pussy and bitch
Speaker 5: and fuck you and all this stuff, it's bus so
Speaker 5: much you can take as a competitor, and you know
Speaker 5: where the ones expected to be docile and be humble
Speaker 5: and take a humble approach. Now, fuck, that's the playoffs.
Speaker 5: This is what it is. You know, I know what
Speaker 5: to expect in here, and it's the same energy I'm
Speaker 5: giving back to them. It is what it is. I'm
Speaker 5: not really focused on. It's fun, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And like, like again, is where I'm from. I've dealt
Speaker 5: with so much, so coming in here, you reliship as
Speaker 5: a competitor and this is you know, I'm gonna keep
Speaker 5: repeating myself when I say again, but this isn't my
Speaker 5: first time in TD garden. So what you guys saw
Speaker 5: and what you guys think is as entertainment, or the
Speaker 5: fans think is entertainment. All is fair and competition, you know.
Speaker 5: So if somebody's gonna call me out of my name,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna look at them straight in the eye and
Speaker 5: see if they really about it. Most of the time
Speaker 5: they're not.
Speaker 1: Got read to that point, do you feel like the
Speaker 1: hostility that you get.
Speaker 5: Still, let's not let's not focus on this, like ask
Speaker 5: me questions about the game, like it's not about the fans,
Speaker 5: the fans aren't playing.
Speaker 1: From a basketball standpoint, you feel like the hostility you get.
Speaker 5: There's no hostility, bro, it's basketball.
Speaker 1: When you were flicking some people off, I say that some.
Speaker 5: Hostility from what what point are you guessing that that's
Speaker 5: hostility or like hostility for me is like growing up, Well.
Speaker 1: We've never seen that from you. This season where you
Speaker 1: are running down the floor flaking people.
Speaker 5: Off, is the first time you actually caught it. Because
Speaker 5: it's a big time game. I respond in different ways,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, I'm not trying to focus
Speaker 5: on that. If you want to ask me a questions
Speaker 5: about the fans. Go ask them, go on the street
Speaker 5: and ask them questions.
Speaker 1: But I'm asking from your perspective, from basketball perspective. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like the hostility that you get is not hostility? Bro?
Speaker 1: Do you feel like the energy you get from fans
Speaker 1: in this building or embrace it best from you?
Speaker 5: Embrace it. Embrace it. It's the dark side, embrace it.
Speaker 2: No one's talking enough about the fact that Kyrie Irving's
Speaker 2: definition of hostility is wrong, that what's going on. Let's
Speaker 2: quickly do a little, just a little like Google search
Speaker 2: on the word because unfriendliness, opposition, conflict, hostility, all those
Speaker 2: three things true. Also, did you notice Kyrie Irving tried
Speaker 2: this isn't even a part of what we were planning
Speaker 2: on talking about, but he tried to bring it back
Speaker 2: around to his struggle again his life, his I don't know,
Speaker 2: we've all gone through things, We've all seen things.
Speaker 3: That maybe aren't on Wikipedia.
Speaker 2: But listen, what I can google about Kyrie Irving is
Speaker 2: that he lived in Melbourne, Australia, a suburb of Q
Speaker 2: before relocating when he was two years old because his
Speaker 2: dad played basketball. Folks he had I'm not even gonna
Speaker 2: go into it because I don't know enough. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna say, upon first glance that seems upon first glance.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that everyone knows I'm not.
Speaker 2: I didn't dig into this and say it was a lie.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it's suspect to me. That's all. It's
Speaker 2: just a little suspect to me. No hostility incorrects her anyway.
Speaker 2: This shit is gonna be lit every game, especially at
Speaker 2: the Garden. I hope we get four games at the
Speaker 2: Garden and we will get four forty point performances from
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving, and they're gonna need everyone for them to
Speaker 2: win this series.
Speaker 3: My god, has it been fun already? Let's move forward.
Speaker 2: The other series that has gotten everyone else's attention is
Speaker 2: in the West. I try to tell y'all it's the
Speaker 2: best series. Memphis somehow gets out grizzlied by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 2: Wolves Grizzlies. Who can be more fierce? Who would I take?
Speaker 2: Probably a Grizzly. They're bigger. They're a much bigger creature
Speaker 2: than a wolf. One on one matchup tough power ranking,
Speaker 2: Grizzly goes up to the top more than a sun.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: When you get too close to a sun, they burn
Speaker 2: the shit out of you, though the sun is supreme.
Speaker 2: And by the way, a buck gets hit by car
Speaker 2: all the time, like that's it. Anyway, Who would have
Speaker 2: thought that there was a exactly what is a net like?
Speaker 2: Was this little fucking net on a rim?
Speaker 3: Was this flimsy ass? Was this flute jazz? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Who would have thought there was a tougher, deeper team
Speaker 2: than the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 3: Not me.
Speaker 2: For those who haven't been properly introduced, allow me to
Speaker 2: introduce you to not your daddy's or your uncle's Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 2: They are young, they are owned by a rod, they
Speaker 2: are hungry, and they have.
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan on the team.
Speaker 2: Apparently to the shock of everyone, they are hard as
Speaker 2: coffin nails. I said this series was gonna be my favorite,
Speaker 2: and Game one was not a disappointment, but it.
Speaker 3: Was a surprise.
Speaker 2: I mean, the fact that they were in basically had
Speaker 2: the game in hand the Wolves the entire time was shocking.
Speaker 3: I for one did not see Kitty.
Speaker 2: Cat coming out like a junkyard dog abusing Jaren Jackson,
Speaker 2: but also abusing More importantly, Steven Adams, the toughest guy
Speaker 2: in the NBA that people say is like that could
Speaker 2: win a strong man competition, to the point where they
Speaker 2: had to sit Adams ass down on the bench because
Speaker 2: he was becoming a liability out there. He couldn't do
Speaker 2: shit against on either end. Against Karl Anthony Towns, Towns
Speaker 2: had twenty nine thirteen to three. After his horrible game
Speaker 2: in the play in Karl Anthony Towns and Adams twisted
Speaker 2: he He ended the game with zero points in twenty
Speaker 2: four minutes. Jaron Jackson managed twelve points in the other
Speaker 2: twenty four I would call that not a particularly effective
Speaker 2: performance from the front court of Memphis.
Speaker 3: Also, I don't.
Speaker 2: Think anybody saw how much Jaw was going to get
Speaker 2: into the paint in a playoff game.
Speaker 3: He went bananas.
Speaker 2: This game was about them Jaw and at Jaw of
Speaker 2: course held up his end of the bargain thirty two,
Speaker 2: four and eight and in the beginning of the first
Speaker 2: half nineteen In the first half, Ant low Aunt stole
Speaker 2: the show. And let me tell you it is never
Speaker 2: I've never seen jog It upstaged by someone. Ant was
Speaker 2: everywhere like the ant man him and the wasp, just
Speaker 2: doing things, especially in the second half, thirty six two
Speaker 2: and six and only two turnovers. I'm I'm pretty convinced.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty convinced now Aunt Edwards, who has grown three
Speaker 2: inches since his rookie year. He's now six five sixty six.
Speaker 2: He was sixty three when he got into the league.
Speaker 2: I am convinced now that he might be Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: I am he was unstoppable. I don't know how you
Speaker 2: guard that. He's like a thicker football version, like a
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two Michael Jordan. I saw him hit shots
Speaker 2: after one after the other, clut shot, big bucket off
Speaker 2: the dribble, euro step in, pull ups, put backs, catching
Speaker 2: shoe weight shifts, huge threes, growls. Just wanted it every
Speaker 2: step of the way. We came for jaw, and our
Speaker 2: jaws were on the floor for Aunt Edwards. He is
Speaker 2: the third youngest player to score thirty five in a
Speaker 2: playoff game, and it was his first ever playoff game.
Speaker 2: He told the world just wait till you see me
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. I'm gonna be something else, and he
Speaker 2: is something else. I think he's unguardable. He's just so big,
Speaker 2: he's so he's just thick and big and strong.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna win an MVP or two.
Speaker 2: I am so in on the ant train, mostly also
Speaker 2: because of his personality.
Speaker 3: He said this after the game.
Speaker 2: I think it's very important to play out my best
Speaker 2: because they hide me during the regular season. There's no
Speaker 2: national TV games for us, so people don't really get.
Speaker 3: To see me play.
Speaker 2: I have an unless I have an enormous game where
Speaker 2: I score forty something, or I hit a game winning shot,
Speaker 2: or I have a huge.
Speaker 3: Dunk and they see it all on Twitter.
Speaker 2: I feel like games like this I have to take
Speaker 2: advantage because it's the only time I get to be
Speaker 2: on TV, so I get to showcase my talent and
Speaker 2: everything I do.
Speaker 3: I promise you, Aunt, you'll be on TV more next year.
Speaker 2: And then he said, which might be my favorite quote
Speaker 2: of the year, I want the world to know I'm
Speaker 2: a great person. I'm always smiling, trying to light up
Speaker 2: the room, and I want to see everyone be successful.
Speaker 2: Tip of the cap to Aunt, because as great as
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan was, that quote would never be uttered out
Speaker 2: of his mouth. I don't care if you think I'm
Speaker 2: a good person or not. I'm the best player on
Speaker 2: the fucking planet ever. All right, so those are the
Speaker 2: two series we're gonna get the most in depth in.
Speaker 2: Let's just kind of quickly skim over because the other
Speaker 2: ones were not nearly as good.
Speaker 3: Let's go more tea.
Speaker 2: In the Bucks series with Chicago got shockingly close down
Speaker 2: the stretch. Bucks ended up pulling it out. Yannis probably
Speaker 2: deserved to be fouled out. There were some very suspect
Speaker 2: no calls, and for those who remember the OT game
Speaker 2: last year between the Miami Heat in the Milwaukee Bucks,
Speaker 2: it felt like, oh boy, Miami could win this series.
Speaker 3: Like man, it came all the way down the wire.
Speaker 2: Miami lost in OT and they gave him their best
Speaker 2: shot and then it was night night, sleep mask the
Speaker 2: rest of the way, get your broom out, And that,
Speaker 2: to me is kind of how this series feels right now.
Speaker 2: The Heat just like now, the Chicago Bulls have shot
Speaker 2: every bullet and.
Speaker 3: Ultimately will fall short.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, they did only shoot thirty six percent
Speaker 2: the Bulls. They probably will shoot better, but boy did
Speaker 2: it feel like the Heat series to me. Speaking of
Speaker 2: the Heat one eight matchup between Miami and Atlanta, Wow,
Speaker 2: a shlacking like never was close. Things also got chippy
Speaker 2: between my Man, Trey Young and Jimmy Butler. Trey Young
Speaker 2: acted like he was gonna beat Jimmy's ass, which was
Speaker 2: like super funny a kerfuffle.
Speaker 3: They had to be separated.
Speaker 2: He held Tray to one for twelve zero for seven
Speaker 2: from three, his worst game of the year by far
Speaker 2: eight points. My man Kevin Knox. Kevin Knox, do you
Speaker 2: remember that name? Probably not. The only reason you might
Speaker 2: know him is because he went viral because NBA scouts
Speaker 2: were asking him if he had babies that he didn't
Speaker 2: know about pre draft. It's not a joke. He outscored
Speaker 2: Trey in this game. He was the one that was
Speaker 2: part of the Cam Reddish trade. The Knicks just threw
Speaker 2: him in. No, he had more points than Trey Young
Speaker 2: ten points. Trey, as usual, though, remains confident in the
Speaker 2: Warrior series with the Nuggets. I mean it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It's not the plan anymore. Trey, Like, you guys aren't
Speaker 2: good right now. You've got no Clint Compell. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just it's a rap for you.
Speaker 3: Anyway. Warrior Series, we move on versus the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: We got to see a Jordan pool, elevating to a
Speaker 2: place that we have not seen him. We got to
Speaker 2: see in Andrew Wiggins that was how are I put
Speaker 2: it better than him? Him his normal performances in the
Speaker 2: playoffs playing off ball, catch and shooting. Steph Curry largely
Speaker 2: neutralized due to his injury, and Jordan Poole came to
Speaker 2: the pool party. So that's gonna be an interesting one.
Speaker 2: We got to see how Joki responds. Draymond expects a
Speaker 2: huge performance out of him because I don't think he's
Speaker 2: gonna go down without a fight. Also, like I said, possible,
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray siding, they're gonna need to get him shaped
Speaker 2: up mentally because he's ready to go. Apparently he's physically
Speaker 2: able to go. As soon as his mental is ready,
Speaker 2: he can play. Yeah, that's new news. That's new news.
Speaker 2: Also moving forward between the Sixers and the Rafters, Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid dirty play. I think I'm pretty sure Scotty Barnes
Speaker 2: twisted his ankle and what happened. Joel Embiid then put
Speaker 2: his and stumped it on.
Speaker 3: Top of the twist. I watched it.
Speaker 2: I mean, seven feet tall, three hundred pounds on a twist.
Speaker 2: They say uncertain timetable, but you gotta feel like he's
Speaker 2: in a boot right now.
Speaker 3: Boot life is not good.
Speaker 2: Gary Trent also sick tonight probably means a tough game
Speaker 2: too for Toronto. They got to get back to Canada
Speaker 2: quick because this thing has gotten out of fan a
Speaker 2: lot faster than I possibly thought. They're still at home,
Speaker 2: Sixers still have a chance to blow it. James Harden
Speaker 2: didn't look that great tyrees Maxy did. There's now think
Speaker 2: pieces being written about him, so you can tell he
Speaker 2: went off Jazz Versus Maverick series. The thing that was
Speaker 2: interesting to me, Donovan Mitchell decided he's no longer shooting threes.
Speaker 2: He's only slashed into the basket. I saw him pass
Speaker 2: up ten threes because he's just when he goes cold, boy,
Speaker 2: it really does erode his confidence when he doesn't shoot well. Also,
Speaker 2: he is remaining committed to the bit, remaining committed to
Speaker 2: the bit, regardless of where, when, how playoff moments high leverage.
Speaker 2: He's not passing to Rudy Gobert. One passed to Rudy
Speaker 2: Gobert in thirty seven passes that he had that game,
Speaker 2: So fuck Rudy Gobert. Operation Fuck Rudy Goobert is still
Speaker 2: fully in effect. He even said some very shady things
Speaker 2: about him when they asked him about DPO.
Speaker 3: Why let me find that really fast for you.
Speaker 2: They asked him, Hey, what do you think about him
Speaker 2: being a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year. He goes,
Speaker 2: this is something he's been doing since I got here.
Speaker 2: Nice little comment. He's a guy that protects the rim
Speaker 2: great defensively. I think he's gonna win it. I think
Speaker 2: we all believe that. I think he believes that. I
Speaker 2: think that's the biggest.
Speaker 3: Thing is he's showing it. Like last game, I think
Speaker 3: he was the epitome of who he is. What did
Speaker 3: he have like one two shots last game? You don't
Speaker 3: passing the ball. You're the point guard, shooting guard. You
Speaker 3: don't passing the ball.
Speaker 2: What do you mean he only gets one two shots?
Speaker 2: He's probably getting put backs.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: He was one of the most impactful players in the
Speaker 2: game for us defensively, Oh my god. Remaining committed to
Speaker 2: the bit. It's gonna be a very interesting series. Luca's
Speaker 2: gonna need to come back, and and Jalen Brunts and
Speaker 2: my lord, if you're not watching his footwork, if you're
Speaker 2: not watching him get to the rim, spin around on
Speaker 2: his pivot foot, make plays to Reggie Bluck in the
Speaker 2: corner like Maxi klay By hitting.
Speaker 3: That game was low key very good.
Speaker 2: And what does it say that it's a great game
Speaker 2: when the top seven player in the NBA is not
Speaker 2: in it and it comes.
Speaker 3: Down to the wire, it says the Jazz aren't that good.
Speaker 3: That's what it says to me.
Speaker 2: Suns made light work of the Pels. But man was
Speaker 2: Chris Paul everything that we want from him? He said
Speaker 2: the craziest thing he said at halftime he ran into
Speaker 2: Jamal Crawford, who was just there with the game. He's
Speaker 2: retired now, by the way, Jay Crossover, he's retired. Sad
Speaker 2: and Joel said, shoot the ball, Chris, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Like you're playmaking, you're defending, but like, can you just
Speaker 2: shoot the ball?
Speaker 3: Fourth quarter?
Speaker 2: He has how many points? Seventeen points in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 2: He hit the first fifteen points of that quarter.
Speaker 3: Pep talk. That little pep talk did him well.
Speaker 2: And I think it also shows how impactful he can
Speaker 2: be everywhere when he wants to be. Man Eighten was
Speaker 2: electric that that's gonna be an easy, little light work
Speaker 2: Pelican series. There the Pelicans look shook from moment.
Speaker 3: One moment one. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 2: Finally, it's our Monday winning time recap.
Speaker 3: God, that show's good. This has got spoiler alerts.
Speaker 2: If you haven't watched the show, watch it, or if
Speaker 2: you don't want to watch the show because you you're
Speaker 2: too broke to have HBO, we're just gonna give it
Speaker 2: to you now. First and foremost, imagine amazing cinematography. Amazing
Speaker 2: sort of a gritty, a gritty background.
Speaker 3: Like not quite Sepia at times. What would I call it?
Speaker 3: It's definitely like more dull.
Speaker 2: Like the way that the camera is showing the footage,
Speaker 2: it's like feels.
Speaker 3: Like old film.
Speaker 2: The way they kind of go back between like documentary
Speaker 2: style like shooting and like really like a movie shooting
Speaker 2: is phenomenal.
Speaker 3: The sound, the music tremendous.
Speaker 2: The acting, of course, some of these guys have never
Speaker 2: seen before play any of these roles. One guy, the
Speaker 2: guy that's playing Kareem, was like a professor and had
Speaker 2: never acted before.
Speaker 3: But he's just like Kareem Heights.
Speaker 2: So they picked him out because I found him that
Speaker 2: just your Kaream height you play basketball like come so,
Speaker 2: I mean he's been the star of the show.
Speaker 3: He's stealing scenes too. The show gets better every week.
Speaker 2: This week entered the antagonist for the season, Mister Hick
Speaker 2: Larry Joe Byrd, Mister I chew tobacco while I hoop
Speaker 2: mister the Hick from French. He makes his appearance as
Speaker 2: Magic gets to the Garden in Boston for his very
Speaker 2: first professional game ever against Larry and the Celtics. Wasn't
Speaker 2: exactly true to history, but the matchup was. It did
Speaker 2: not disappoint. This episode background drama centered around Jack McKinney,
Speaker 2: who we talked about bike accident a night night sleep
Speaker 2: mask for a while. I think he was out for
Speaker 2: weeks in the coma. I don't mean to make light
Speaker 2: of it, but that's what happened.
Speaker 3: It's in the past. It was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: He's fine now I think he's dead actually, but he
Speaker 3: he was fine. He was fine. He ended up being fine.
Speaker 3: He lived a very long life.
Speaker 2: Lakers turned the team over to former Shakespeare teacher and
Speaker 2: assistant coach Paul west Head, who was his assistant coach.
Speaker 2: He brought over and he immediately hires Pat Riley, who
Speaker 2: was an announcer for the Lakers, and he pulls him
Speaker 2: off the broadcast. They make check her and look like
Speaker 2: a total asshole, like they make him look like a racist,
Speaker 2: a misogynist. They make him look I mean, isn't he revered?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure like chick Hern has a street outside
Speaker 2: of crypto chick.
Speaker 3: Hern way beloved man, and they make him out. I
Speaker 3: think he's dead too, right, is he dead? I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he's dead. But they did not do
Speaker 2: him any favors. They should have only done the dead
Speaker 2: people dirty like they do.
Speaker 3: Jerry west so wrong in here, and he's very much alive,
Speaker 3: I can tell you very much alive.
Speaker 2: So anyway, others whispering in Jerry Buss's ear to fire McKinney,
Speaker 2: who's hospitalized at that moment. There's a cute little game
Speaker 2: that they played a Monopoly where McKinney kicked Jerry Buss's
Speaker 2: ass and monopoly coming fresh out of a stroke, and
Speaker 2: that was the reason he was like reticent about firing him,
Speaker 2: which is crazy. McKinney's job though in this episode depends
Speaker 2: on west Fall winning a game in Boston. He was
Speaker 2: like that's the barometer of weather. We're a good team.
Speaker 2: And wow, did they ever capture the essence of the
Speaker 2: Garden rats, Like great, the Garden just a shithole, like creepy,
Speaker 2: spooky tone. They even had Norm Nixon describe it like
Speaker 2: while they were at Magic's house before the game, like
Speaker 2: they spent Christmas at Magic's and he was like, you
Speaker 2: can hear the sound of leprechauns in the back. And
Speaker 2: and it's actually true. They actually did shit. Fans did
Speaker 2: shit on Bill Russell's bed after he was drafted. That's
Speaker 2: a real story. He was theirs, he was their player,
Speaker 2: and they shit on his bed. And just like the
Speaker 2: home cooking, the Riders did play fast and loose. Magic
Speaker 2: in real life beat Bird in the Forum in the
Speaker 2: Forum earlier in that season. But the first game in
Speaker 2: the Garden actually was pretty factually true. A lot of physicality,
Speaker 2: the Lakers pulling off the last second win, Rafts just
Speaker 2: calling nothing. And then the interesting storyline, which I'm not
Speaker 2: sure how much of it was true, was how Magic
Speaker 2: was affected by white fans and the white, largely white
Speaker 2: media favoring Larry Bird over him because he was used
Speaker 2: to listen I beat his ass in college, like we're
Speaker 2: both here, I am me, he is this hic, Like
Speaker 2: why are you guys treating him like Jesus?
Speaker 3: And that became the.
Speaker 2: Moment in the Cornerstone that got Kareem and Magic like
Speaker 2: immeshed and bonded where he was like yes, like, they're
Speaker 2: not going to treat you like Larry Bird. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if you know this, but racism is a thing,
Speaker 2: and just continue to beat his ass, beat his ass more,
Speaker 2: and I promise you they still will speak highly of him.
Speaker 2: But when they're not speaking of you, they know that
Speaker 2: you're better. So that was really really interesting. And this
Speaker 2: show too creates tension in a way.
Speaker 3: I mean, we know how it ends. They got a
Speaker 3: title that year. We know.
Speaker 2: You can just go on Wikipedia look and see nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy nine, nineteen eighty title.
Speaker 3: You can see which games they won. You can see
Speaker 3: who won Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: You can see all that sheeks, see the MVPs. But no,
Speaker 2: the tension, you would think Jerry Buss was gonna lose
Speaker 2: the team. I know the Bus family still owns it
Speaker 2: right to this day. I talk about it on the
Speaker 2: show all the time, way more than I want to,
Speaker 2: but you would be thinking that he was going to.
Speaker 3: He was saddled in debt.
Speaker 2: He's trying to pull accounting maneuvers to find a way
Speaker 2: to depreciate his own players so that the value of
Speaker 2: the team all kinds of tricky little accounting math school
Speaker 2: in order for him to not lose the Lakers. And
Speaker 2: yet I was on the edge of my seat. The tension,
Speaker 2: the drama, the intensity. How can you create so much
Speaker 2: intensity when I already know the result.
Speaker 3: It's tremendous. Go watch the show. Don't be broke.
Speaker 2: I think like a You can find a crackstream of
Speaker 2: HBO Max winning time.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Fine, hit up a friend, text your friend, see if
Speaker 2: anybody has HBO Max.
Speaker 3: Hit me up with the DMS. I'll give you my login. Actually,
Speaker 3: I'll give you the person's life who gave me the login.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 2: Just make sure you click my profile and not theirs.
Speaker 2: Good stuff maybe the best drama on TV right now.
Speaker 2: You need to go watch it, and we will be
Speaker 2: back soon. We have more playoff stuff to preview, but
Speaker 2: that is all the time that we have right now
Speaker 2: for the heat check.
Speaker 3: We'll be back on Wednesday, most.
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