Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of fans of the NBA
Speaker 1: who believe that there are players out there who are
Speaker 1: playing in the NBA who are not very good. I
Speaker 1: think that there are casual fans and hardcore fans who
Speaker 1: think to themselves, I guess it possible that there are
Speaker 1: like a group, a pretty large group of players who
Speaker 1: just don't actually like the game that they're paid millions
Speaker 1: of dollars to play. And we don't really have any
Speaker 1: evidence for that. We don't have anything to substantiate our claims,
Speaker 1: our beliefs, our anecdotal evidence of just lackadaisical complacency that
Speaker 1: we see on a night to night basis. Well, DeMar
Speaker 1: DeRozan is cooking a quarter of the NBA and is
Speaker 1: substantiating the things that we have.
Speaker 2: Been thinking for a very long time. What did he say,
Speaker 2: brace yourself.
Speaker 1: A quarter of the players in the NBA they absolutely stink.
Speaker 2: That's like one hundred players.
Speaker 1: That's literally like a hundred out of the four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty players. DeMar Derozen has put a stamp on it.
Speaker 1: They fucking are trash, They stink, They shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Even be here.
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many times I've seen media
Speaker 1: members included myself, just get cooked by fans saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I say, oh.
Speaker 2: This player stinks, X Y or Z stinks.
Speaker 1: They are not very good, and they're like, you don't
Speaker 1: know these players are professionals.
Speaker 2: You don't know they're in the NBA.
Speaker 1: How can you say that they're elite guys or elite athletes.
Speaker 2: You're just some caring out there.
Speaker 1: No comparatively to the other guys who don't stink, these
Speaker 1: guys stink. There are guys who cannot play at an
Speaker 1: elite level, which is what we're talking about. Do not
Speaker 1: take my word for it, take Paul George and DeMar
Speaker 1: DeRozan's word for it.
Speaker 2: Did you feel about the tweet that lebron sent out
Speaker 2: Bronny was better than some current NBA guys.
Speaker 3: We do guys a lot of Sorry, man, leave, I'm running,
Speaker 3: no cap. I'm the type of dude I keep my
Speaker 3: opinions myself. I chill, I play the backseat. But being
Speaker 3: in the league so long, you realize how many mock
Speaker 3: don't love the game of basketball, who take it for granted,
Speaker 3: who feels so entitled, who just won't everything that come
Speaker 3: with it, but don't want to put the work in.
Speaker 3: It's so frustrating, you know what I mean. Like we
Speaker 3: played in an era where you had to like earn everything,
Speaker 3: so you got so many guys coming in and thinking
Speaker 3: like they just should be playing because they homeboy told
Speaker 3: them they nice, and it's like, bro, you're not good.
Speaker 3: So I definitely got Brian standpoint of that, because you'll
Speaker 3: be surprised it's a good was it four or fifty
Speaker 3: of us, it's a good Seventy five to one hundred stinks. Stinks.
Speaker 1: Good dudes though, Good dudes though, but they stink like
Speaker 1: they fucking suck. I can't tell you how much I
Speaker 1: love this clip. Anytime somebody gets into my mentions and
Speaker 1: tells me that these players don't stink, I'm sending that
Speaker 1: clip right back to them.
Speaker 2: Seventy five to one hundred players in the.
Speaker 1: NBA absolutely stink after a long time in this league.
Speaker 1: So what do you do when everybody on the floor
Speaker 1: was a number one option for most of their lives?
Speaker 1: You either adapt or you're fucking gone, or I guess
Speaker 1: you sit on the bench and throw soup at your
Speaker 1: colleagues and get dropped like Kevin Porter.
Speaker 2: Junior, the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1: He would probably be one of those seventy five guys.
Speaker 2: That's just what it is. I want to smoke weed.
Speaker 1: They want to go to the club, they want to
Speaker 1: hang out, they want to get paid, and you know what,
Speaker 1: God bless them.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to playing actual basketball.
Speaker 1: They stink. And I'm going to tell you they stink.
Speaker 1: What do you do when you get life changing money?
Speaker 2: Do you continue to grind.
Speaker 1: Or do you chill? That's really the deal. A lot
Speaker 1: of guys are gonna get the message. That message is
Speaker 1: eleven for twenty five from the field, and a plus
Speaker 1: minus of negative eighteen is not going to get you
Speaker 1: to the place at the table for a long line
Speaker 1: for a long time in this league. So what do
Speaker 1: you do when everybody on the floor was a number
Speaker 1: one option for most of their lives. You either adapt
Speaker 1: or you're fucking gone, or I guess you sit on
Speaker 1: the bench and throw soup at your colleagues and get
Speaker 1: dropped like Kevin Porter Junior. So I've thought this a
Speaker 1: lot about the NBA because it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: little office setting.
Speaker 2: You know, you got guys all put together. They didn't
Speaker 2: ask to be with one another.
Speaker 1: A lot of different personalities, a lot of different types
Speaker 1: of play. You've got coaches that come and go, They've
Speaker 1: got different systems that they want to run.
Speaker 2: Some of those systems.
Speaker 1: Deprioritize you and prioritize others other guys. You get traded
Speaker 1: and they come to your team, they change the dynamics.
Speaker 1: So what do you do? How do you try to
Speaker 1: fix things when they go sideways? And I think that's
Speaker 1: a question that teams probably have been asking for years,
Speaker 1: and I have been asking it very specifically about how
Speaker 1: does anybody patch things up with Rudy Gobert? How does
Speaker 1: anybody patch things up when this is a player that
Speaker 1: like is universally disliked. Oftentimes, over and over again, there's infighting.
Speaker 1: Nobody tells each other what the problem is. They get
Speaker 1: blown up, they start again, they don't communicate.
Speaker 2: Things go bad.
Speaker 1: Guys get traded, they blow it up again, They fire
Speaker 1: the coach again, they trade a.
Speaker 2: Player again, over and over and over.
Speaker 1: Until they just have no picks, no capital, and a
Speaker 1: bunch of fucking dismal results.
Speaker 2: That's like the Charlotte Hornets. That's what I'm thinking about
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: So the Minnesota Timberwolves face that same issue right in
Speaker 1: the offseason. They lost in five to the Nuggets. And
Speaker 1: the difference between the Wolves and the team like the
Speaker 1: Sixers is They've got a star, a transcendent star, Aunt Edwards,
Speaker 1: who is willing to put in the work. Aunt Edwards,
Speaker 1: who has relentless I strive to be as relentlessly positive
Speaker 1: as Aunt Edwards. He's twenty one years old and he
Speaker 1: is maybe the greatest dude in the league. He might
Speaker 1: save this franchise from themselves, as he could potentially save
Speaker 1: this franchise from maybe the worst trade in NBA history.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm talking about Rudy Gobert, Like I said,
Speaker 1: universally disliked, came to this team, universally disliked, punched his
Speaker 1: own teammate in the playoffs to the point where that
Speaker 1: other player is now gonna maybe leave the team. And
Speaker 1: instead of Aunt Edwards being like, yeah, we agree, this
Speaker 1: guy fucking sucks, terrible trade, we gotta move him, or
Speaker 1: whatever the case might be, he decides what's he gonna do.
Speaker 1: He's going to fix things with Rudy Gobert. He's gonna
Speaker 1: patch things up mentor Rudy Gobert. He is going to
Speaker 1: get their relationship as tight as it can be. It
Speaker 1: may seem like a tall order. Rudy is notoriously surly,
Speaker 1: but if anyone can do it, it is Aunt Edwards,
Speaker 1: the twenty one year old player. Mind you, Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: is thirty, so that mentorship relationship is already fucking wild. So,
Speaker 1: according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Aunt Edwards is headed
Speaker 1: to France this off seat just to train all summer
Speaker 1: with Rudy Gobert all summer. Yes, you read that right.
Speaker 1: According to Wolves Beat writer Chris Hine, Aunt Edwards is
Speaker 1: planning on heading to France to work with Gobert. From
Speaker 1: the outside, Edwards and Gobert didn't always seem to be
Speaker 1: on the same page. Edward always seemed reluctant to pass
Speaker 1: when working with him with the screen and roll game,
Speaker 1: and Edwards says that wasn't the case.
Speaker 2: I am stunned.
Speaker 1: I thought that there would be no way that this
Speaker 1: trade could get salvage, But holy moly, Aunt said this.
Speaker 2: I love Rudy. ME and Rudy got a great understanding.
Speaker 2: We talk all the time.
Speaker 1: I think he can get a lot better as far
Speaker 1: as catching the ball, jump hooking, and I tell him
Speaker 1: all the time, like, Rudy, I'm gonna throw you the
Speaker 1: ball every time I want you to jump hook or
Speaker 1: money dunk on someone. And he's like, I got you.
Speaker 1: So this summer we're gonna get together to work on
Speaker 1: it in France. He's gonna go to Aunt Edwards in France.
Speaker 1: I need this reality show. I need it, Not like, hey, Rudy,
Speaker 1: you French fuck, you've ruined our team. You come to
Speaker 1: my city and you train with me. No more begets
Speaker 1: for you, bitch. You're coming to me. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: He's like courissant bojieu, I'm coming to you.
Speaker 2: Rudy Avoir.
Speaker 1: Like if anybody can make Rudy Gobert likable, it's Aunt Edwards.
Speaker 2: And you know who.
Speaker 1: Aunt Edwards never said anything like this about never heaped
Speaker 1: praise on, never went and traded with him in the
Speaker 1: off season, never said how much he likes him.
Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: This is just further evidence that Karl Anthony Towns probably
Speaker 1: is on his way out because this team cannot work
Speaker 1: with two seven footers, gotta choose one.
Speaker 2: One can't defend one who can't score.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that the rumor mill is full of
Speaker 1: the talk about Carl Anthony Towns to the Knicks involving
Speaker 1: either r. J. Barrett or Julius Randall. Aunt is gonna
Speaker 1: be first team All NBA. He is the Steak and
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns also has main character syndrome, so he
Speaker 1: might be on his way out. And Aunt Edwards is
Speaker 1: going to fully salvage the Rudy go Bear trade and
Speaker 1: maybe even Rudy Gobert's career as a result. If you
Speaker 1: are a Wolves fan, Aunt Edwards Croissant a Bogies like
Speaker 1: that is the best news that you could possibly ever get.
Speaker 2: All right. Finally, a quick note on our dubs.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, they need to figure out what's going
Speaker 1: on with Bob Myers. The rumors around Bob Myers is
Speaker 1: that he's getting twenty million dollars offer a year to
Speaker 1: go to a venture capital firm. He might just leave
Speaker 1: the NBA altogether in order for him to stay with
Speaker 1: the Warriors. It's going to take a huge bag. So
Speaker 1: that's point number one, which I have no updates on.
Speaker 1: I do have an update though on the Big Three
Speaker 1: and whether they're going to continue with the pool party thing.
Speaker 2: I wanted to illustrate something before the season.
Speaker 1: Started that I said it was in the immediate aftermath
Speaker 1: when Draymond Green turned Jordan Poole into Glass show from
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson's knockout that I said this here on the show.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are in turmoil and how a lot of
Speaker 1: things progress in Golden State will revolve around whether they
Speaker 1: can put this behind them. It turns out they did
Speaker 1: not put that behind them. And now we don't just
Speaker 1: have anecdotal evidence, we have proof. Early reports out of
Speaker 1: the Warriors camp is that no are dubs. Our dubs
Speaker 1: did not put this behind them. According to ESPN's Ramona Shelbourne,
Speaker 1: she interviewed a ton of Warriors staff and a ton
Speaker 1: of Warriors players and this is what she had to say.
Speaker 1: Tension between veterans and younger players on Warriors never went
Speaker 1: away after Draymond Green's punch. Draymond Green's punch didn't just
Speaker 1: knock out Jordan Poole. It laid bare the tension between
Speaker 1: the older Championship corps and the younger players on the
Speaker 1: organization hoped would supersede them one day. It has never
Speaker 1: gone away. Despite Pool's relative silence on the matter this season.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it turns out hiring a whole new staff to
Speaker 1: replace the current staff and actually branding it with a
Speaker 1: name called two Timelines, implying that one timeline would eventually
Speaker 1: be laid out to pasture.
Speaker 2: Probably not great.
Speaker 1: And in the second timeline thing thinking that they're the
Speaker 1: second coming of some sort of dynasty.
Speaker 2: Probably also not great.
Speaker 1: We've heard grumblings from Pool and Kaminga about playing time
Speaker 1: Cominga is said to be so angry that he thinks
Speaker 1: he's going to be traded if he doesn't get a
Speaker 1: full time role next season. You've got Clay that ends
Speaker 1: up affecting him, where Clay now is putting his foot
Speaker 1: down and he's saying, well, fuck it. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: give Jordan Pool thirty million, you better give me forty million.
Speaker 2: And that's just not gonna happen either.
Speaker 1: So now there's even more traction to a Jordan Pool
Speaker 1: trade on the horizon, most recently as part of a
Speaker 1: package to Toronto for Ogn Andobi. Don't hate that, just
Speaker 1: like Ognnobi and Andrew Wiggins together.
Speaker 2: Wooh.
Speaker 1: Pool has been somehow not silent anymore, even though he's
Speaker 1: been ducking the media up until now. He has not
Speaker 1: said really anything substantive about the punch, but he did
Speaker 1: say this to the ringer when they were asking him
Speaker 1: about his relationship with Draymond. It pretty much says everything
Speaker 1: that you need to know. He said, we were just
Speaker 1: on the court, teammates. It's just been business.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like they've ever patched things up or ever
Speaker 1: will patch things up. This season is going to be
Speaker 1: written about. There's going to be a documentary about the
Speaker 1: death of the of our Dubs, the death of our Duves,
Speaker 1: call it that right now. And the main storyline is
Speaker 1: going to be the punch that took them down, the
Speaker 1: one punch heard all around the world. But whether Draymond,
Speaker 1: Cole Cocking Jordan Poole actually ended the Dubs dynasty itself, that.
Speaker 2: Remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: That is all the time that we after the heat
Speaker 1: check we'll be back Friday for all new episodes. We
Speaker 1: are here with the conference finals. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: on the ground for the finals for the Boston element.
Speaker 1: And we're not even gonna add the heat into this,
Speaker 1: like they're not come on right like we know that
Speaker 1: it's Boston. Check out the for past episodes and many
Speaker 1: episodes which drop every day, pretty much every day, and
Speaker 1: now follow the heat Check. As a twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three NBA Conference Finals are in full swing,
Speaker 1: do not forget to download, subscribe, Tell all your friends,
Speaker 1: every single one of them, and follow us on socialid
Speaker 1: at this heat Check and Trista Crick on TikTok, Twitter
Speaker 1: and Instagram. We will see you Friday, my friends,