Speaker 1: Break was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines, so
Speaker 1: the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just a crack
Speaker 1: the best podcast covering all the drama around the association.
Speaker 1: Up next is My Team, My Squad the Oklahoma Seat Thunder.
Speaker 1: Key editions, Well, it's more an addition from coming back
Speaker 1: from injury. But Chet Holmgren is now there, Vasilly Machich,
Speaker 1: Davis Bertons comes in through trade, Victor Oladipo leaves now
Speaker 1: right the second I think now right the second caseon
Speaker 1: Wallace through the draft, key subtractions, there were none that
Speaker 1: were significant. We saw the Thunder explode on the scene
Speaker 1: last year. They've seemed to be on the verge of
Speaker 1: something really, really fun, playing team that was even better
Speaker 1: than probably the record suggested. Why, Well, you got a
Speaker 1: first team All in guy in Shay Gilgess Alexander. You
Speaker 1: got a guard whose first team All NBA and is
Speaker 1: not a great three point shooter. He is the best
Speaker 1: player in the NBA with the most mediocre gym shot
Speaker 1: in the last decade. He belongs in the nineteen seventy so,
Speaker 1: honestly like he would have been awesome on the Lakers
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one, but listen. He's near the bottom
Speaker 1: in high volume three point shooters, but it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. He does everything else so great. He
Speaker 1: made an All Star team and he hasn't even reached
Speaker 1: his ceiling yet. He is valuable beyond belief. His defense
Speaker 1: is very underrated. He adds so much value to a
Speaker 1: team that already has a ton of value, starting with
Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren, who looks really really good in preseason. He
Speaker 1: looks really good. Josh Giddy, I don't know how he
Speaker 1: fits on this team, but he is maturing into a
Speaker 1: really great point guard. Jalen Williams was the best rookie
Speaker 1: in the NBA the final third of last season. Lou
Speaker 1: Dort continues to be a person that you don't even
Speaker 1: realize is a person because they are so huge. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a non football player look as big as
Speaker 1: lou Dort does in real life. He is a lockdown defender,
Speaker 1: shoots pretty good threes. He's it's just an exceptional starting five.
Speaker 1: But where Oklahoma City excels is their bench because they've
Speaker 1: just had first rounders on first rounders on first rounders
Speaker 1: for like I don't even know how long. Uzman Jang
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams with a y Alexi Pokoshewsky Akaa Poku Isaiah Joe.
Speaker 1: They end up getting Cason Wallace and Mike Chitch, who
Speaker 1: brings over a EuroLeague MVP alongside of him, So it
Speaker 1: is loaded. This team fun twelve deep. I have no
Speaker 1: idea how many games they're gonna win, but I tell
Speaker 1: you what, they could be a top six team in
Speaker 1: the West. They play off ball defense better than almost anyone.
Speaker 1: Chet fills the biggest hole that they had last year,
Speaker 1: which was rim protection, and listen, I think check could
Speaker 1: be very impactful, very very impactful. So watch these Thunder.
Speaker 1: Watch these thunder because Sam Presty, despite what he said,
Speaker 1: he thinks that we need to pump the brakes on
Speaker 1: the hype. And guess what, though hype is here, the
Speaker 1: hype is here for the Okay see Thunder. Stop downpulling shit, Sam,
Speaker 1: I know what you're up to. Let's move forward, oh man, Okay,
Speaker 1: So we know the Portland trel Lasers lost Damian Liller.
Speaker 1: That's the key subtraction. They lose use of Nurkic. Sure
Speaker 1: they lose this here little and Keon Johnson, but they
Speaker 1: add they add a plethora of young, fun talent DeAndre Aight,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to talk about his time in Phoenix. No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't. Don't ask him, Do not ask him what
Speaker 1: it was like. It's very clear that he was he
Speaker 1: was essentially being held hostage there because he doesn't even
Speaker 1: want to say at all what his time was like
Speaker 1: when he played for the Suns. They end up getting
Speaker 1: Toumani kamar Aka too many buckets and guess what Suns
Speaker 1: fans on Reddit are despondent about losing too many buckets.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brogden, They add Rob Williams, They add Scoot Henderson
Speaker 1: in the draft, add Chris Murray, ad loaded, loaded, loaded loaded.
Speaker 1: No team has changed their roster up more than the Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: We cover all the drama all the off season. We
Speaker 1: won't get into a year, but it is safe to
Speaker 1: say it is. Papa's got a brand new bag in Portland, baby,
Speaker 1: and it is called It is called no shooting and
Speaker 1: more defense, more athleticism, and more length. So this should
Speaker 1: be fun. I don't know a team like this. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a team like this. The change, obviously, all
Speaker 1: belongs and begins with Scoot Henderson. And Shaden Sharp, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, Shaden Sharp was voted number six by
Speaker 1: anonymous GMS to have a breakout season this year, and
Speaker 1: Scoot was voted I think top three in terms of
Speaker 1: sneaky draft picks, which as a third spot, that's pretty insane.
Speaker 1: This is the pair that caused Portland to say, Dame,
Speaker 1: you can't come back, can't come back home. You gotta
Speaker 1: move on. So you gotta spread your wings and learn
Speaker 1: to fly, fly away. That's that's what they said to him.
Speaker 1: Because of those two, right, they are now the nucleus
Speaker 1: of this team. Do not forget Anthony Simons. In five years,
Speaker 1: will Anthony Simons be on this team? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but those two I think will be all stars. Aside
Speaker 1: from those two, a lot is in flux. The Drew
Speaker 1: Holiday trade netted them a pair of Celtics Malcolm Brogden
Speaker 1: Rob Williams. Are those two players healthy? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Haven't seen Rob Williams in even one minute of preseason myself.
Speaker 1: Is he has he played? I don't know, have not
Speaker 1: seen him. Jeremy Grant gets five years, one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty million dollars. That's a lot of money to pay
Speaker 1: a guy that's on a team that's rebuilding. I like
Speaker 1: him very good. Can you afford him? Sure? Do you
Speaker 1: want them on that team? Not sure? A Matista Stiebel,
Speaker 1: Latisse Steibel is an Aaron Goodwin guy. So Aaron Goodwin
Speaker 1: agent of Dame Lueller. Does he stay? Does he go?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Feels like there's a little bad blood there.
Speaker 1: I like Matisse, very high character guy, good perimeter defense,
Speaker 1: three years, three to three million dollar contract. I feel
Speaker 1: he might get traded. He is an asset that the
Speaker 1: Blazers could very easily move. There's even talk of Anthony
Speaker 1: Simons getting moved. Seems that no one is safe except
Speaker 1: for Scoot, Shaden and Aiden Aton Aton. Seems no one
Speaker 1: is safe. Why and what this team is going to
Speaker 1: do is build around At and Scoot and Shadon. That
Speaker 1: is a core that you can feel good about. Add
Speaker 1: In Anthony Simons is the lead point guard. There are
Speaker 1: four players twenty five and unders that you can build
Speaker 1: a team around. Add In Chris Murray, who already looks
Speaker 1: very good. Twin brother of King Starr, Keegan Murray too,
Speaker 1: Moni Kamara, like I said, too many buckets, very impressive,
Speaker 1: A lot of players, A lot of people in the
Speaker 1: league that are fans of the league love him. Is
Speaker 1: this team gonna win a lot of games? No, we
Speaker 1: know that they're gonna win a lot of games. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna be fun? Are they gonna get up and down?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna shoot a lot? Are they gonna play defense? Yes,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be probably one of the most athletic teams
Speaker 1: in the league. Bright future. Although I am sad that
Speaker 1: we do not get to see Dame shoot logo shot
Speaker 1: after logo shot and then play zero defense and be
Speaker 1: the greatest player in Blazer's history. I am sad about that,
Speaker 1: but I do take solace in the fact that Dame
Speaker 1: said today he thinks he'll be playing at thirty eight
Speaker 1: at an elite level, which is where and when he'll
Speaker 1: be a free agent again. So do I think Dame
Speaker 1: Bullard might come back to the Womb, might come back
Speaker 1: to the Nest when we're a better team. Yes, when
Speaker 1: Dame comes back to Portland, I think we're gonna be
Speaker 1: a wagon, Baby, Wagon Wagon. That's when we contend. When
Speaker 1: Dame's thirty eight, Let's move forward. Utah jazz Key additions
Speaker 1: Omar Yer at seven Miami Heat legend. They get John
Speaker 1: Collins from the Atlanta Hawks, and the trade they get
Speaker 1: Taylor Hendricks in the draft, Kyante Joe in the draft,
Speaker 1: bright sense of ball in the draft. My lord. Then
Speaker 1: they lose Damien Jones and Rudy Gaye. But does anybody care? No,
Speaker 1: they don't. It's a strange feeling to see a Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz team that you're like, h kind of excited. See
Speaker 1: Janny Ainge on the sidelines with his little jazz polo
Speaker 1: and his little jazz hat. He's ready to probably tee
Speaker 1: it up right after he watches these young guns play
Speaker 1: in a preseason game. This is a team that I
Speaker 1: am excited about. Even when they were undeniably good under
Speaker 1: Quinn Snyder, that was not a team that you enjoyed
Speaker 1: playing basketball. They were not very likable. They didn't the
Speaker 1: vibes were low. Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, yikes. They
Speaker 1: were not exciting even when they were the league's best offense.
Speaker 1: How could it be? How sway? How could they be
Speaker 1: the league's best offense and not be fun? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but they weren't. They weren't even her winning team. They
Speaker 1: were a paper Tiger. Now this team with Danny Ainge,
Speaker 1: who everyone hated in his days in Boston, has joined
Speaker 1: this team and just like a Mormon in Utah, it
Speaker 1: is a match made in heaven. I can fuck with
Speaker 1: this Jazz team. I tell you what, Osha ak Baji
Speaker 1: I love love John Collins, who was badly misused and
Speaker 1: abused in Atlanta. As with Walker Kessler, they turned into
Speaker 1: a serious defensive presence two point three blocks per game.
Speaker 1: Lowry Lowry Markenen comes off a twenty six point per
Speaker 1: game season, wins Most Improved Player of the Year. This
Speaker 1: is a no joke. Front. Three. You add Jordan Clarkson,
Speaker 1: who his hair is getting long, boy, I tell you what,
Speaker 1: those braids are, down to his teeth, down to his chin. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he's bawling. Three years, fifty five million dollars detention, averaging
Speaker 1: twenty one a game. Last year filling in for Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell Colin Sexton. I don't know what's going on with him,
Speaker 1: but he's there. He averaged fifth Tina game Still Taylor
Speaker 1: Horton Tucker average eleven three and four off the bench.
Speaker 1: Oh shayok Boji, who I absolutely love, is a young
Speaker 1: player ball to the tune of fifteen points per game
Speaker 1: after coming over in that big trade. What am I
Speaker 1: excited about the draft? Kyante Keyante Kyante, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: he is so fun. Also, Bryce Sensible, haven't seen enough
Speaker 1: of him and Taylor Hendrix. That is a haul three
Speaker 1: players that could help immediately. I think Kante George could
Speaker 1: win Rookie of the Year. I really do. If they
Speaker 1: give him the minutes and that team is top six,
Speaker 1: I think he could win it. Hendrix went ninth due
Speaker 1: to this pre draft workouts, Sensible has been called the
Speaker 1: best peer shooter in the draft. I think this team
Speaker 1: is going to be fun. Are they going to blow
Speaker 1: people out of the water. No, No, this is a
Speaker 1: team that's gonna be kind of like they were last year,
Speaker 1: where they just kind of in the first four weeks
Speaker 1: of the season, they're at the top of the standings
Speaker 1: and you're like, is this real? Is this real? Because
Speaker 1: they're like the best offense in basketball and they're number
Speaker 1: one in the West, but you kind of know that
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen long term. That's them again, folks.
Speaker 1: Trader Danny, though, has stalked the cupboard with so many
Speaker 1: picks he can make a serious addition as the deadline
Speaker 1: if he wants to. This is a team that I
Speaker 1: think is a year away from being a year away.
Speaker 1: But I bet you though, this might be the most
Speaker 1: talented team in the West in terms of young talent
Speaker 1: from top to bottom. Think of OKC and who they
Speaker 1: were last year or the year before that, and that
Speaker 1: is the Jazz This year. They will be fun And
Speaker 1: that is not something I ever thought I'd be saying
Speaker 1: about the Utah Jazz.