Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Trystal Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we give you
Speaker 2: a very special treat on Casey and Di Lo in
Speaker 2: thirteen twenty, Sacramento. This week, me and the guys came
Speaker 2: up with the theory about why.
Speaker 3: Rob Polinka continues to be the GM of.
Speaker 2: The biggest dumpster fire in the entire NBA, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Lakers. Do you ever wonder why Genie
Speaker 2: Buss keeps Polink around us too?
Speaker 3: I think we crack the code.
Speaker 2: Very funny conversation, So do me a favor, Nick and
Speaker 2: drop that beat. All right, guys, this was a very
Speaker 2: rare conversation between three people who love to laugh and
Speaker 2: also are deep into the weeds in the NBA. I
Speaker 2: could never replicate this conversation or the hypothesis that came
Speaker 2: kind of supernaturally out of thin air, but I figured
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Speaker 4: Proper introduction. Trista Crick, the newest to sacrament the newest
Speaker 4: member of the Sacramento Kings Fan Club, and apparently the
Speaker 4: president of the KEG and Murray for Rookie of the.
Speaker 3: Year coming, Thank you, Thank you. Wasn't a hard call.
Speaker 2: Some people, some haters will say that there's too many
Speaker 2: bucket getters on this Sacramento Kings team. And you know what,
Speaker 2: I say, that's a good problem to have. I agree
Speaker 2: that's a good problem to have if you're a Sacramento
Speaker 2: Kings fan.
Speaker 5: Now you to the Kegan over over your guy, our guy.
Speaker 5: I like him too, our guy Pollo, Like, what's the
Speaker 5: tell the people? Like, what's your thought behind that?
Speaker 2: How many national Not to say that the Kings are
Speaker 2: going to get that many national televised games, but I
Speaker 2: think Orlando is less intriguing nationally, less intriguing to the
Speaker 2: overall media landscape. Come January February, I think they will
Speaker 2: be completely out of the mix. I think Sacramento, considering
Speaker 2: it's going to be a lot of these, you know,
Speaker 2: teams that are tanking for Victor, and we talked about
Speaker 2: this a million times where the Kings aren't doing that.
Speaker 3: They're They're not like Portland.
Speaker 2: Josh Hart put something out very cute the other day
Speaker 2: and he was like, Oh, yeah, we're not tanking for Victor.
Speaker 3: What's his name? First of all, you know what his
Speaker 3: name is? You know what his name. Don't do him
Speaker 3: like that. Don't do him like that. He is going
Speaker 3: to smother you when he comes in the league. He
Speaker 3: will remember you know his name. Second of all, who
Speaker 3: are you, Josh Hart? Are you? Are you Rgia? Do
Speaker 3: you know what we're planning planning on doing. We're tanking
Speaker 3: for Victor Womian. We just don't know it yet. So anyway,
Speaker 3: I think Shadon Shark's a good one as a like
Speaker 3: a low.
Speaker 2: Key value pick, but I think he gets much more
Speaker 2: intriguing to the national fan base because there'll be a plan.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be in the play in mixed later.
Speaker 2: Orlando's not going to be in the plan mixed. Contrary
Speaker 2: to what Markel FORLTS has to.
Speaker 4: Say, Oh Markel, you said something interesting on on your
Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year candidate's podcast that that got my attention.
Speaker 4: It wasn't about Kegan though, it was about Palo And
Speaker 4: I don't know you you may have mentioned this on
Speaker 4: the show from from the Summer League time, but you
Speaker 4: said Palo is one of the most physically imposing players
Speaker 4: you've ever seen, including Lebron.
Speaker 2: When you see him in person, there's just something it's
Speaker 2: just like you can't even physically fathom how big he
Speaker 2: is in real life because he's so perfectly proportioned that
Speaker 2: he looks like just a normal human and he's not six'
Speaker 2: ten and just as physically dominating in terms of like
Speaker 2: the girth and muscles pause that he has, everywhere and
Speaker 2: you just see him and you're, like, man he has
Speaker 2: to literally like lean over to go through a, doorway
Speaker 2: but then he's all of the proportions of like a six'
Speaker 2: five dude that's a Little. Like beefy it's something that
Speaker 2: people who see him for the first time all remark
Speaker 2: Because it's i've never seen.
Speaker 3: It before i've never seen it in.
Speaker 5: My life now you're you're spot on, with that because
Speaker 5: Our guy bonte hill uh talks about that when They
Speaker 5: saw duke when they Were In, san francisco and, he,
Speaker 5: said OH when I. SAW paolo i, WAS like i
Speaker 5: didn't know he was, This big like there's he has
Speaker 5: a presence, to, Him right and not only does he,
Speaker 5: have that but to, Your, point trista then you see
Speaker 5: him play and he's Moving Like. Donovan mitchell, you know it's,
Speaker 5: like wait what at that's all?
Speaker 1: You're?
Speaker 3: Doing that they shouldn't.
Speaker 2: BE possible i think the thing that makes him so
Speaker 2: remarkable is how good of a passer he is and
Speaker 2: how much touch he has for being that.
Speaker 3: Big too his hands should be like rocks and they.
Speaker 3: Are not Is?
Speaker 4: There god Kings, AND yeah I like i like him.
Speaker 4: A lot Kings and lakers tonight At The golden center Here.
Speaker 4: In sacramento, oh yeah it's it's final preseason game before
Speaker 4: the regular season. Gets underway what do you think about
Speaker 4: the all of this stuff With, The Lakers russell westbrook's
Speaker 4: coming off the, bench tonight all of the different videos
Speaker 4: that circulated from the, other day Like the lakers aren't, Good, Right,
Speaker 4: no no.
Speaker 3: One of the BEST things.
Speaker 2: I saw first, OF all i loved it As a
Speaker 2: blazer FAN since i was for any time You get,
Speaker 2: lakers chaos it's. The best it literally is just like
Speaker 2: a wet Dream for blazers fans will. Never compete so
Speaker 2: this is just. As good like, it's honestly our our
Speaker 2: championship title run is the demise Of. The lakers that's
Speaker 2: about as close as.
Speaker 3: IT gets i think.
Speaker 2: IT'S amazing. I love i don't know if You Saw
Speaker 2: anthony davis HIM With nba Radio ON. Sirius xm he
Speaker 2: Said that, he's, like yeah everyone's counting.
Speaker 3: Us out because, you know we were we weren't so
Speaker 3: good the last.
Speaker 2: Two years and, it's, like pause not only were you not,
Speaker 2: like good you didn't make it to the playoffs, last
Speaker 2: year like you were a playing team that happened to
Speaker 2: Beat the warriors to get to the playoffs and the year.
Speaker 3: Before that the levels that you've.
Speaker 6: Gone below championship caliber are so far below where your expectations.
Speaker 3: Should be with TWO all nba players and your nickname is.
Speaker 2: Day two, davis like oh, Why though and THAT'S why
Speaker 2: i Know what i've been, holstering that that's why no
Speaker 2: one counts and believes. In you and, he's, like yeah we,
Speaker 2: like that but we also. Don't care do you.
Speaker 3: Care or do you?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: It yeah you KNOW what, i was, you know giving
Speaker 5: them a little bit of pass, and look if, they're
Speaker 5: healthy they're a.
Speaker 1: Playoff team.
Speaker 5: Number One anthony davis probably gonna, be healthy as MUCH
Speaker 5: as i hate, to SAY and i don't want to,
Speaker 5: see him but.
Speaker 3: He's not Traveling to sacramento for.
Speaker 6: Precautionary Reasons, It's friday, october fourteenth the, season starts.
Speaker 1: Win and it's.
Speaker 3: A fight you won't even let him get on. The
Speaker 3: plane what does, he have like? A collapselung like why
Speaker 3: can't he get up in? The air what are you not?
Speaker 3: Telling us, like literally you can, drive.
Speaker 1: There sure so so like that's not going.
Speaker 5: To happen but even outside, of THAT like i talk,
Speaker 5: About this we talk about this because, You know Dame's Guy,
Speaker 5: russell westbrook and everybody likes to Say It's russell, westbrook's
Speaker 5: fault but it's not like he's holding back some super
Speaker 5: o shooting guard That's behind, I'm like i'm sorry if
Speaker 5: You Benched, Russell westbrook kendrick not ain't getting you to?
Speaker 1: The playoffs LIKE the us is just not really. Good, Enough,
Speaker 1: NO no.
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: THEY'RE doing i don't besides like just creating the most.
Speaker 2: Chaotic scenario why have They signed, Dennis shooter like why
Speaker 2: because they look at him for more and they're, just,
Speaker 2: like yeah we'll just take. Another one we'll just have a.
Speaker 2: MILLION guards i don't. GET it i DON'T get, I
Speaker 2: mean i kind of Understand That patrick, beverley signing but
Speaker 2: you you have. Another guard he doesn't shoot, Jumpers, Either
Speaker 2: right he's not the. Best shooter he tried to say
Speaker 2: he was as good As step curry at catch and.
Speaker 3: Shoot, threes, sir sir please please stop, With.
Speaker 4: This dennis why why.
Speaker 3: Does Also rob plinkett continue to? Get?
Speaker 1: Extended, now see that's the. CRAZY thing i don't know
Speaker 1: how he's.
Speaker 4: Still around it's gotta be it's Gotta be genies Tied,
Speaker 4: to KOBE like i like we've Always he genie is
Speaker 4: like she surrounds herself with people that she like knows.
Speaker 4: And trusts it doesn't matter if they're.
Speaker 1: Good at what.
Speaker 4: They do if she knows them and, trust them she's
Speaker 4: gonna keep. Them AROUND and i feel like that's her Tie,
Speaker 4: to kobe and that's why she's keeping.
Speaker 3: Him around there's these there's. This, BOOK yeah i stay
Speaker 3: with me because it's kind. Of convoluted there's this Book
Speaker 3: that i'm really. Into reading.
Speaker 2: Right now it's Called The Stardust, Thief right and it's
Speaker 2: about these magical creatures Called the gin and when, jin
Speaker 2: dye they, put themselves their soul and all of their
Speaker 2: magic into a relic could be like, a compass could
Speaker 2: be like, a shadow and like the ghost of this
Speaker 2: magical creature speaks through. This RELIC and i, just Imagine
Speaker 2: Like genie buss Believes That rob polink Is Like kobe,
Speaker 2: bryant's relic And Like kobe bryant Speaks Through. Rob polinka
Speaker 2: he shows her, the Way like kobe tell me what
Speaker 2: the NEXT move i need to, make is And Like rob,
Speaker 2: plink's like we Gotta Get.
Speaker 3: Russell westbrook She's Like, kobe bryant you Should Get. RUSSELL
Speaker 3: westbrook i.
Speaker 4: DON'T know I think trista is the second woman to
Speaker 4: have an edible before her appearance on.
Speaker 1: THIS show.
Speaker 4: I can't confirm, either ONE but i feel like this
Speaker 4: might be. The second, is guys.
Speaker 3: This came out of a, sober mind you, know MIND
Speaker 3: like i am never under The.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 4: I'm sober i'm Just picturing genie Looking At, rob, Polenka
Speaker 4: going kobe tell.
Speaker 1: Me tell ME what i.
Speaker 2: Should do kobe tell Me And rob blake is somehow
Speaker 2: convinced her that she's He Is kobe. Bryant's relative He's
Speaker 2: Like kobe bryant's most prized POSSESSION because i was an
Speaker 2: agent for.
Speaker 1: So long so that's the thing.
Speaker 5: About it rob is probably, sitting, THERE like i think
Speaker 5: she Really Believes, kobe's, Yeah, yeah genie that's exactly what's.
Speaker 1: Going on What would, Kobe.
Speaker 3: DO rob i know what he. Would do he would
Speaker 3: go out and get.
Speaker 2: A playmaker like, he's like, Hold, on jeannie, Hold on
Speaker 2: i'm getting.
Speaker 3: A vision, hold on. Hold on.
Speaker 4: This is awful for so, many reasons not the least
Speaker 4: of which is there's at least a small bit of this.
Speaker 6: Is real she's On Like phil, jackson's paote like she's
Speaker 6: trying to like summon.
Speaker 3: Up the ghosts.
Speaker 2: Of me.
Speaker 3: Tell me which way do?
Speaker 1: We go, Oh, man well he got like.
Speaker 3: A coin and it like tells him true. Or false
Speaker 3: got to read. The book it's an. Awesome book it's
Speaker 3: what it was what spurred this. Little COMBO so i want.
Speaker 1: To Read the lakers version of. That, book yeah That's
Speaker 1: what i'm. WAITING for.
Speaker 4: I can't WAIT for i can't Wait For rob. Polenka's
Speaker 4: autobiography you'll never. Believe, this yeah.
Speaker 3: This.
Speaker 2: CRAZY WOMAN i i Was the RELIC where I Held kobe.
Speaker 3: BRYANT soul A.
Speaker 4: Ten parts Special On rob polenka coming home.
Speaker 1: Next year, oh man did? YOU watch.
Speaker 3: I haven't. SEEN it i. Haven't seen.
Speaker 4: It's good it's it's it's. A lot it's, a lot
Speaker 4: even for. Ten parts it's. A lot, BUT yeah i,
Speaker 4: mean sure. It's good it's it's it's a look at, the,
Speaker 4: family like there's, a lot there's a there's a lot
Speaker 4: of family dynamics. In there they're all a part.
Speaker 3: Of it that the brothers are back in.
Speaker 1: The, MIX now i didn't know they. Were back, they're back.
Speaker 2: Going on they're back in the mix voting on whether
Speaker 2: they Should Keep russell westbrook.
Speaker 1: Or not oh, for god that's not a good Look for.
Speaker 1: Laker fans that's CALLED.
Speaker 2: C ya we're bringing in new stakeholders to get their
Speaker 2: opinions so that if things, go sideways.
Speaker 3: We have we have some, some cover some. Deep cover
Speaker 3: so did you guys?
Speaker 6: LIKE that i recorded a new episode just just were just.
Speaker 1: Not go i'm not gonna pull lebron. On you i'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie, TO you i didn't hear, it YET
Speaker 1: so I gotta i.
Speaker 4: HEARD it i absolutely listened, to it and there was
Speaker 4: a whole reference in the first in the first, few
Speaker 4: seconds which which. Was wonderful even a clip of the show.
Speaker 4: Made IT but i just for, THE record i did
Speaker 4: love the locked. On preview it was just it was
Speaker 4: just so different than the woman who joins us Every
Speaker 4: every Friday.
Speaker 1: AT tuner i don't.
Speaker 2: Think, THIS version i don't think me talking About the
Speaker 2: Lakers Having rob plinkez the Relic Of Kobe bean bryant
Speaker 2: would have landed. The same maybe for absolutely clipped this
Speaker 2: and put this on, heat check because this is this is.
Speaker 1: Getting, clipped absolutely this is some great stuff. Right here.
Speaker 2: He's mad ad, Gone VANILLA.
Speaker 4: And i, was, like never, oh, no no you're just a.
Speaker 4: Gone court every once in, A while every once in,
Speaker 4: a while you gotta put on.
Speaker 5: A suit you got.
Speaker 1: To it if you got to, got it, you know secure,
Speaker 1: the bag.
Speaker 4: GO corporate i envisioned you doing it in a like
Speaker 4: a business suit or something like a blue.
Speaker 1: Power suit, corporate. Corporate, trista yeah.
Speaker 3: Just let me put on let me put on this bow.
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