Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check. It's another preview time, Baby.
Speaker 2: We finish it up. We finish it up.
Speaker 1: The Western Conference with what the division of champions, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Northwest.
Speaker 2: We will dig in to the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3: Okay, see Thunder, Portland Trailblazers, the Utah Jazz, and of
Speaker 3: course you're defending champions, the Denvers.
Speaker 2: Let's get right to it.
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Speaker 2: Breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. You're chilled in
Speaker 2: the heat Check.
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Speaker 2: Covering all the drama around the association. All right, let's
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: Let's continue down the road down with what we're supposed
Speaker 1: to do, which is getting you ready for the NBA season.
Speaker 1: We get the loaded Western Conference, the final Division, the Northwest.
Speaker 2: We talked about the Pacific.
Speaker 1: The Pacific is the Cadillac, the Southwest Division, the upscale Honda,
Speaker 1: the Southwest airlines of the NBA, the Northwest outside of
Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazers, because we have to have the NBA
Speaker 1: champions in here.
Speaker 2: It's like the black Car Baby, because.
Speaker 1: It is produced the NBA Champions aka the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: It also has the best young team in the league
Speaker 1: and the OKCS Thunder, a fully sleeper team in Utah,
Speaker 1: a team that I think is going to be a
Speaker 1: very successful rebuild in Portland, and the team that I
Speaker 1: think might be the most disappointing this season. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves right now.
Speaker 2: Key additions, let's go into it.
Speaker 1: Shake Milton, Yeah, that's the key edition for the Minnesota
Speaker 1: timber Wolves. Day Shan Knicks, Dayshon Knicks. What the fuck
Speaker 1: is going on? Torreon Prince is a key subtractions. We
Speaker 1: am Minnesota, now we in Minnesota?
Speaker 2: What is happening with them? Guys? I love Anthony Edwards
Speaker 2: so much. I do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: He's probably one of my favorite players, if not my
Speaker 1: favorite player in the whole entire league.
Speaker 2: This roster, this roster don't make no sense, right.
Speaker 1: This is a team that has largely been like, let's
Speaker 1: be disappointing and do nothing about it. Right. They largely
Speaker 1: stood pat in the offseason. They add shake Milton, Shake Milton,
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Shake.
Speaker 1: Mostly this team was all focused on locking down Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards to a five year extension. Congratulations to Bill Duff,
Speaker 1: get that man paid, Get him his money. Then they
Speaker 1: re signed Nikile, Alexander Walker, Troy Brown, a guy's name
Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce Vit, Kretci and noz Reid.
Speaker 2: Why is noz red here? I like naz Reid?
Speaker 1: Why is noz Reid on this team in any real capacity?
Speaker 1: When you have Rudy Gobert and you have Karl Anthony Towns?
Speaker 1: Why why?
Speaker 2: Someone tell me coming into the season the Wolves can
Speaker 2: hang their hat on one thing and one thing alone.
Speaker 1: The Denver Nuggets will pitied them and said that they
Speaker 1: were the toughest out that they had and the entire
Speaker 1: buzz saw that was them running through the playoffs like
Speaker 1: it was a train, and the rest of the teams
Speaker 1: that they encountered were the girls that were on the
Speaker 1: No Jumper podcast.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, you know so Other than that, the
Speaker 2: questions are looming.
Speaker 1: Can Rudy Gobert and Karl Anthony Towns play on the
Speaker 1: floor at the same time.
Speaker 2: That has yet to be settled.
Speaker 1: The jury still out, largely because now we've got rumors
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns is going to the Knicks. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if these rumors are true, but they are circling.
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns is hurt most of last year. He
Speaker 1: is healthy.
Speaker 2: Now they say, what is this Minnesota team? What are they?
Speaker 1: Well, it starts with the folcrum of the offense and Edwards, who,
Speaker 1: as we know, is Elite twenty five, six and five.
Speaker 1: He's gonna look to be a top five player this year.
Speaker 1: He worked all summer to get to the peak of
Speaker 1: his game. He was insane the foeba and he's now
Speaker 1: going to France. Most likely he went to France to.
Speaker 2: Work with Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1: Carried the team, like I said, through the World Cup
Speaker 1: for the entire tournament. The only reason they did as
Speaker 1: much as they did is because of him. There's not
Speaker 1: any real weaknesses to his game.
Speaker 2: It's all about improving for him.
Speaker 1: He is a star on a roster. He is the
Speaker 1: steak at the Applebee's, you know what I mean. He
Speaker 1: is the Fois Gras sitting inside. I have a red
Speaker 1: robin and you're like, fam, you don't belong here. You know.
Speaker 1: The roster construction is so bad. It's so much more
Speaker 1: important too than people realize. It's like just a collection
Speaker 1: of items on the menu. It's like tacos and fuh
Speaker 1: no shade to that combo.
Speaker 2: I've had that myself many times.
Speaker 1: And then you add like cheesecake, and it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: What the Wolves have is random collection, collections of assets
Speaker 1: and redundancy. It's not clear who Anthony Edwards prefers to
Speaker 1: play with, Rudy Gobert Carl Anthony Towns. We have more
Speaker 1: evidence of how he and Cat played together, but again
Speaker 1: that was a lesser version of for most of that
Speaker 1: time with Rudy, He's led lots of things, lots of nice.
Speaker 2: Things about Gobzilla. They call him go. I don't know
Speaker 2: how this tandem works.
Speaker 1: I don't know either of those guys. I'd rather have
Speaker 1: nas Red trade them both. Why not both all three
Speaker 1: on the floor at the same time. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The bigger issue is that you can't trade Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: even if you wanted to. He paid a million first
Speaker 1: rounders for him. It was the most historically bad trade
Speaker 1: we've seen in a long ass time. Now, Carl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns is healthy. He's drawing interest from a lot of teams,
Speaker 1: including the Knicks, and that is where I think he
Speaker 1: probably works out the best, probably not for the Knicks,
Speaker 1: but for him and maybe Carl Anthony Towns does get
Speaker 1: traded and they reconfigure this lineup based on Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: and Rudy As for the rest of the team, Mike Conley,
Speaker 1: Mike Conley's a fine veteran okay, as is Shlomo, Kyle Anderson.
Speaker 1: I like Naz Reed, I like Jade McDaniels. He's on
Speaker 1: his way to becoming his own little star let your
Speaker 1: star shine bright, Jade McDaniels. Don't punch any walls while
Speaker 1: you're at it. Luca Gard's an average seven points and
Speaker 1: nine minutes of play last season. Leonard Miller comes in
Speaker 1: courtesy of the draft and the G League ignit. He's
Speaker 1: very athletic, six', ten a lot of, player a player
Speaker 1: that a lot of teams, like so we know there's,
Speaker 1: Talent but, like do those Guys Mesh shlomo almost?
Speaker 2: Punched was It?
Speaker 1: RUDY i think it. WAS i don't like their mix at.
Speaker 1: All they won forty two games last. Year With Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony towons missing half a, season they could win fifty
Speaker 1: games and still be. Disappointing can this roster win when
Speaker 1: it counts that remains to be.
Speaker 2: Seen