Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. On this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check, we got some breaking news
Speaker 1: out of Golden State, Baby and our dubs. Our dubs
Speaker 1: have received a blow. It's not good Steph Curry with
Speaker 1: a labrum injury to his shoulder. I get into some
Speaker 1: soccer and the NBA as well. You'll have to listen
Speaker 1: because it's kind of hard to describe. I talk about
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook's resurrection and how pretty much everyone is avoiding
Speaker 1: talking about it because it doesn't fit the narrative that
Speaker 1: they thought about him. We go into the Charlotte Hornets
Speaker 1: and head coach Steve Clifford blowing the team pretty much up,
Speaker 1: throwing them under the bus because I don't know they
Speaker 1: stink at defense. And then we remember one of the
Speaker 1: old school OG's Hall of Fame player coach Paul Silas
Speaker 1: rest in peace hold out to Covernick. So drop that
Speaker 1: beat before we start the podcast, just to quick alert
Speaker 1: and FYI a PSA if you will. My dnnis says
Speaker 1: I'm not wearing my visilin enough tisk tisk, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wear it on the episode because when I take
Speaker 1: it off, I forget to put it back in. Then
Speaker 1: my teeth move. So if I say anything out of pocket,
Speaker 1: or if I sound like I've got a lisp like
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old boy, forgive me. So let's move forward.
Speaker 1: Things are going from bad to worse in Golden State.
Speaker 1: Our Dubs just keep taking blow after blow. Hate to
Speaker 1: see that. I'm not talking about their horrible road record either.
Speaker 1: They are two and thirteen currently on the road this year,
Speaker 1: second worst in the NBA. Actually, if you can believe it,
Speaker 1: never fear our Dubs. They will come. Road defensive efficiency
Speaker 1: a shocking one eighteen point eight that is bottom three
Speaker 1: in the league as well. These Dubs, our Dubs can't
Speaker 1: seem to win outside of the Chase Center. And now
Speaker 1: another blow. Steph Curry, the man who has been pulling
Speaker 1: this team together on his back MVP campaign level numbers
Speaker 1: out at least at least is the critical component three
Speaker 1: weeks according to THEO this is the bomb. This is
Speaker 1: the sound of the wosh bomb Golden State. Steph Curry
Speaker 1: is expected to miss a few weeks with his left
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Sources tell that was one of those invisiline moments.
Speaker 1: Sources tell ESPN Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Let's just say
Speaker 1: he is out three weeks. That's the number that would
Speaker 1: put him on target for a Thursday Night TNT game
Speaker 1: against the Phoenix Suns on jail Anuary tenth. Between now
Speaker 1: and the earliest expected time, Let's go through their next
Speaker 1: ten games, shall we. The Warriors start with at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: at Toronto, at New York, at Brooklyn, Memphis, Charlotte, Utah, Portland,
Speaker 1: Atlanta and Detroit. Boy, that is a tough slog without
Speaker 1: your primary score, and with Jordan Poole in a slump
Speaker 1: and Andrew Wiggins facing his own set of injuries. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: that team could be three and seven in its next
Speaker 1: ten and that would not be a surprise. Three is seven.
Speaker 1: That is a tough spot. Golden State fourteen and fifteen
Speaker 1: right now at the moment, could be looking at a
Speaker 1: two and eight stretch without staff. That will put them
Speaker 1: squarely at sixteen and twenty three, which would be at
Speaker 1: that particular moment on life support. Not saying that's forever,
Speaker 1: but that is at least three weeks. There could be
Speaker 1: more issues coming Labram issues if he needs to get surgery,
Speaker 1: for example, on a torn labrum. That would be bad.
Speaker 1: That would be one of those Steph breaks his hand,
Speaker 1: Put yourself in a suitcase and go home kind of moment.
Speaker 1: It's hard out here for us Dubs fans, just when
Speaker 1: we think we're back, just when we think the dominance
Speaker 1: continues and the dynasty just persists, sometimes it just happens
Speaker 1: like that. But we will persevere, will we not? Remember?
Speaker 1: The only time we go blooded or out is when
Speaker 1: we're out, and when there is a cold, dead body.
Speaker 1: Last time I checked, the Dubs are still alive and kicking.
Speaker 1: Check back in in April. But if Steph is out
Speaker 1: any longer, even I lifelong Dubs fan will start to
Speaker 1: feel a little weary. People were slandering Russell Westbrook, weren't they.
Speaker 1: They were saying some mean things. They were saying he
Speaker 1: was gonna be waved. They were saying he was never
Speaker 1: gonna play basketball ever again. They were saying so many jokes,
Speaker 1: angry comments, slander libel. People said he would never come
Speaker 1: off the bench. Everyone said, oh, if he does come
Speaker 1: off the bench, he's not gonna be happy. He's gonna
Speaker 1: fake an injury. Everyone said, oh, yeah, if he continues
Speaker 1: to be off the bench, comes off the bench and
Speaker 1: he's happy. He'll suck fair fair warning. What do they
Speaker 1: say like a just for full disclosure? That was me
Speaker 1: as well. I said that as well. Those comments, those predictions,
Speaker 1: they were wrong, wrong and wrong, and I think that
Speaker 1: needs to be discussed the media, NBA fans, we have
Speaker 1: a narrative and no matter what happens, we stick to
Speaker 1: that narrative. Right, we have struck out on Russ, and honestly,
Speaker 1: like I liked Peak Russ, I did. I'm stoked that
Speaker 1: Russ is having this re emergence. I am as he
Speaker 1: as someone who gets considered to be a hater. I
Speaker 1: like this version of Russ and it made me think,
Speaker 1: why do we treat Russ like he's been posting things
Speaker 1: that are anti Semitic on the internet. Why do we
Speaker 1: treat Russ like he coughed on a microphone, gave the
Speaker 1: entire NBA COVID and then started liking tweets from Elon
Speaker 1: Musk about prosecuting Fauci being his name designation. Russ has
Speaker 1: done nothing but ball. Even when he's stunk, all he
Speaker 1: did was ball. He's coming off the bench for twenty
Speaker 1: three games now, averaging twenty eight, fifteen, six and eight
Speaker 1: twenty eight minutes, fifteen points, six rebounds, eight assists with
Speaker 1: one and a half steals and blocks per game. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: He had a seven game stretch where he shot fifty
Speaker 1: percent or better from three from three people. He was
Speaker 1: a brick layer, and all of a sudden, he's Steph
Speaker 1: Curry when he comes off the bench. He's come back
Speaker 1: to Earth, of course, because he's not really a great
Speaker 1: three point shooter thirty one percent, but he's shooting better
Speaker 1: than Trey Yung. How about that? Way ahead of where
Speaker 1: he was as a starter. And guess what the best
Speaker 1: thing is. He's happy, he's smiling, he's living in his hometown.
Speaker 1: His family is in his hometown, his friends are there.
Speaker 1: And that coincides, folks, with the Lakers actually being five
Speaker 1: hundred with the real shot to make the play in tournament.
Speaker 1: And who saw that coming? Who did you see it coming?
Speaker 1: Because I didn't see that coming. And now Sam Ammick
Speaker 1: is saying, but because of this very good play off
Speaker 1: the bench, he's the leader in the clubhouse plus one
Speaker 1: ninety to win six Man of the Year. Wait, excuse me.
Speaker 1: The John Havlicek Award which quickly. They already gave the
Speaker 1: MVP with Michael Jordan's face and body on it to
Speaker 1: Jokic today. They made it, created it, shoved it down
Speaker 1: our throats, and then gave it to him. Amazing. Darvin Haam,
Speaker 1: of course, deserves credit for this Russell Westbrook adjustment. But
Speaker 1: what's interesting is the Amex article sort of says, the
Speaker 1: insiders believe that Russ is going to improve from here
Speaker 1: moving forward, and we all love a redemption story unless
Speaker 1: it's somebody that we already hated. Let's face facts, that's
Speaker 1: what it is, right Like, you can't redeem yourself if
Speaker 1: we've always hated you. And that's what's happening to Rust
Speaker 1: right now. I don't understand it because I was never
Speaker 1: a Russ hater, and then I was like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: stinks right now he's making forty seven million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: but like we treat him like villain, We treat him
Speaker 1: like one of the worst humans on earth. We won't
Speaker 1: give Russ any credit. Have you seen NBA today or
Speaker 1: for take or NBA radio be like, hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: Russ is on an absolute heater right now, responsible for
Speaker 1: the Lakers winning No No because why we're treating him
Speaker 1: like he went one hundred and fifty five miles per
Speaker 1: hour in a thirty in a school zone on Mollie.
Speaker 1: That's how we treat him. All he was doing was
Speaker 1: playing hoops and wasn't in making bricking a lot of
Speaker 1: shots hitting the side of the backboard. That's all he's
Speaker 1: been doing. Damn. It's like the narratives. Once. Once those
Speaker 1: narratives are over, we just pretend that they never existed,
Speaker 1: and then we wait in the shadows and we hide
Speaker 1: in the weeds until Russ starts playing bad again, and
Speaker 1: then we're like, yop, we said it. Russ stinks. You
Speaker 1: see it. Four games in a row, Oh for seventeen
Speaker 1: fifteen turnovers like yo yo yo, yo yo. Twenty five
Speaker 1: games now Russ has been balling. You wait to talk
Speaker 1: about Russ for those five games. Media is fucked up, man,
Speaker 1: The media is fucked up. I am happy for us.
Speaker 1: He went from one of the biggest names MVP in
Speaker 1: the NBA on a team that was sixth in the West,
Speaker 1: first time ever that he wins the MVP. He's getting
Speaker 1: triple double after triple double, just every damn night, he's
Speaker 1: getting one and people are saying he's unemployable. Unemployable. We've
Speaker 1: got people out here that you don't even know their
Speaker 1: name with jobs in the NBA. We got Drew U
Speaker 1: Banks out here getting minutes, no shade, Drew U Banks
Speaker 1: ten day God, but like, are you serious? And now
Speaker 1: he's a lock for the sixth Man of the Year.
Speaker 1: It's a cold game out here. It's a cold game.
Speaker 1: It's a redemption arc. I am getting behind and if
Speaker 1: you don't get behind it, it's because you never liked
Speaker 1: Russ in the first place.