Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Tristal Quick. On this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check, really really sad news out
Speaker 1: of LA and for once, it does not involve the
Speaker 1: LA Lakers. Paul George hurt his knee and might have
Speaker 1: just screwed up the chances for the LA Clippers and
Speaker 1: their title hopes. We break down the weirdest play of
Speaker 1: the year in the Mavericks Warriors game from last night,
Speaker 1: which is now under protest. Didn't even know that was
Speaker 1: a thing, really, Jalen Brown is finally speaking, and damn
Speaker 1: does he have some shit to say, Plus some more
Speaker 1: news from around the league less than three weeks to
Speaker 1: go Nick before we get into the play in so
Speaker 1: do me a favor and drop that generic gas beat.
Speaker 1: Thank God, when we're talking about LA it's not about
Speaker 1: the Lakers. We do have something to talk about the
Speaker 1: Lakers later on the show. It's good stuff, though. Paul Torch,
Speaker 1: who was having himself a big time redemption arc story,
Speaker 1: playing really well, actually a likable person so far this year,
Speaker 1: was awkwardly hitting the knee in a game on Wednesday
Speaker 1: and now most likely out for the year. That is rough.
Speaker 1: He left the arena in crutches. He left the arena
Speaker 1: on a cart. Sham's immediately noted that the franchisees had
Speaker 1: very big concerns that the injury was quote unquote serious.
Speaker 1: If you watch the video of him and getting injured,
Speaker 1: don't according to the WOJE bomb. Boo, this is the bomb.
Speaker 1: This is the sound of the woj bomb. PG got
Speaker 1: imaging on his knee. It revealed that he just has
Speaker 1: a right knee sprain. He will be evaluated in two
Speaker 1: to three weeks. That is a relief. That is a
Speaker 1: big time relief because hey torn something or other. Meniscus, ACL,
Speaker 1: MCL PCL put what have been a really bad situation.
Speaker 1: But it still is not a good scenario because that
Speaker 1: puts PG perilously close to missing the first round of
Speaker 1: the playoffs considering that evaluation, if everything goes perfect, requires
Speaker 1: a week of ramp up just to start playing again,
Speaker 1: probably then on a minute's restriction. I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: done for good, but the timing on the injury could
Speaker 1: not have been worse. Clippers currently just trying to stay
Speaker 1: out of the play in tournament. That's it. They're currently
Speaker 1: in fifth place, but they're two games out of tenth place.
Speaker 1: So losing, Paul George will say, is not really great.
Speaker 1: That's how tight the West is. Kawhi is already on
Speaker 1: load management on back to back games. You might have
Speaker 1: multiple games now with no PG and no Kawhi and
Speaker 1: just bones Island. Worse worst case scenario for a team
Speaker 1: that I thought could be a sleeper in the West. PG,
Speaker 1: like I said, having himself a little bit of a
Speaker 1: redemption year, playing really well on the court, averaging twenty
Speaker 1: four six and five, almost forty percent from three and
Speaker 1: started a podcast. That's usually you become less likable when
Speaker 1: you start a podcast. PG actually did the opposite. He
Speaker 1: leaned into the whole like pandemic pee thing. He started
Speaker 1: the podcast called Podcast P and he's actually been really
Speaker 1: insightful on there. He had this one clip earlier this
Speaker 1: week where he talked about how everyone was leaving him
Speaker 1: open when he first started playing for the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: and he would just shoot and his teammates would get
Speaker 1: so mad at him because he was a But I'm
Speaker 1: open though, and he said, you know what really sunk
Speaker 1: in when Danny Granger told me, why do you think
Speaker 1: they're leaving who wide open? And I thought that was
Speaker 1: just such a such a really likable, endearing story, and
Speaker 1: he talks about how he went from being one of
Speaker 1: the worst shooters in the league to being one of
Speaker 1: the best two way wings in the league, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I've kind of come around. Fun fact, my very first
Speaker 1: episode of what was first called This League was starting
Speaker 1: out talking about how much I hated Paul George, how
Speaker 1: much of a bitch I thought Paul George was. I
Speaker 1: take it all back, Paul George, I like you now.
Speaker 1: So the Clips were already five and five in their
Speaker 1: last ten games, and now they face the Thunder again,
Speaker 1: who they just lost to when he went down, the
Speaker 1: Grizzlies twice with Jaw, the Suns probably not with Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: but still the Bulls who are playing really good basketball
Speaker 1: with Patrick Beverley, and the Pelicans twice, which I don't
Speaker 1: even know what you're gonna get from that, because maybe
Speaker 1: Zion's back. I'm hearing some whispers. Who knows. Then the Lakers,
Speaker 1: that's a scenario potentially where they might not even make
Speaker 1: the playing game. If you're talking about worst case scenarios.
Speaker 1: Have the Lakers had the most fluky, weird bad luck
Speaker 1: that we've seen in terms of injuries since Kawhi got
Speaker 1: to this place. Ever since Kawhi's got there, things have
Speaker 1: been weird. I hope the Clippers last long enough for
Speaker 1: Paul George to play again, because I think this team
Speaker 1: could be really great. They're really deep, but only if
Speaker 1: he's on the floor. Bomber, the owner, who I don't
Speaker 1: think likes me very much because he moved away from
Speaker 1: me when we sat next to each other watching Summer Leak.
Speaker 1: He thought he was slick. He wasn't slick, but he
Speaker 1: moved away from me. I think he's gonna need to
Speaker 1: use some sort of like some sort of like voodoo
Speaker 1: magic or tarot card reader or spend the money on
Speaker 1: whatever it's gonna do to get the juju bad juju
Speaker 1: out of that building and get that franchise uncursed. Because
Speaker 1: it's just been one thing after another with this team
Speaker 1: and it doesn't make no sense moving on. Another thing
Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense was this bizarre situation that happened
Speaker 1: in last night's Warriors Mavericks game. So I missed it
Speaker 1: live and then I saw the hubbub on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: then I had to do some digging. This might lead
Speaker 1: to being one of only three successful team protests now
Speaker 1: in league history. What is a team protest, you might ask, No,
Speaker 1: it's not what you think it is. It's where the
Speaker 1: NBA steps in and finds a call so egregious that
Speaker 1: it makes the teams replay the game from the point
Speaker 1: of the egregious thing that happened. So this happened twice
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty two. The last time in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, Shack was wrongly called for a sixth foul
Speaker 1: in the final two minutes of a game when he
Speaker 1: only had five. The game was replayed from the point
Speaker 1: of the foul on four months later, after the game
Speaker 1: was originally scheduled. Weird. So what happened in this game, Well,
Speaker 1: it depends on who you talk to. The Mavericks are
Speaker 1: very certain that they were fucked over, very certain. The
Speaker 1: Mavericks lost the game by just two points, which really
Speaker 1: felt like more. The end of the game was I
Speaker 1: think five or six points. That was the deficit. But
Speaker 1: they are currently in free fall right we know that
Speaker 1: they are sitting tied for tenth They're a half game
Speaker 1: from being out of the play and altogether, which would
Speaker 1: be an absolute disaster considering that they went all in
Speaker 1: for Kyrie Irving and it has not worked. But the
Speaker 1: winning margin came in part because of this very strange call.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened. Five Warriors standing underneath their own basket,
Speaker 1: and Looney gets the inbounds pass, uncontested dunk. Where was
Speaker 1: the Mavericks defense on this play? Why were they not involved?
Speaker 1: Why were they seemingly on the other side of the
Speaker 1: court doing nothing? Well, because Dallas thought that they had
Speaker 1: the ball. Dallas didn't know why the Warriors were being
Speaker 1: given the ball, but the ref allegedly signaled that the
Speaker 1: ball below belonged to Dallas before I guess correcting the
Speaker 1: call during a timeout that was also called by Dallas.
Speaker 1: The MAVs are adamant that no one told them that
Speaker 1: there was any change. You look at the spacing on
Speaker 1: the floor. Even one of the officials, Michael Smith, was
Speaker 1: on the offensive end, which Jason Kidd says is evidence
Speaker 1: that there was mass confusion, not just among players but
Speaker 1: even other officials. So now the Warriors get two free
Speaker 1: points and that was the winning margin of a tight game.
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban, as you might imagine, owner of the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks Shark Tank enthusiast was pissed. He took to Twitter,
Speaker 1: went put his Twitter fingers to work and said this
Speaker 1: for those wondering about the play. With one minute and
Speaker 1: fifty four seconds to go in the third let me
Speaker 1: explain what happened. The ref called MAVs ball, the announcer
Speaker 1: announced it, then there was a time out. During the timeout,
Speaker 1: the official changed the call and never told us. Then
Speaker 1: when they saw us lineup as if it were our ball,
Speaker 1: he just gave the ball to the Warriors, never said
Speaker 1: a word to us. They get an easy basket. Crazy
Speaker 1: that it would matter in a two point game. Worst
Speaker 1: officiating non call mistake, possibly in the history of the NBA.
Speaker 1: All they had to do was tell us, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: Have you ever read something and said to yourself, like
Speaker 1: this is a tweet that would be written by Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: Like that is one of these situations where it's like
Speaker 1: worst officiating non call mistake, possibly in the history of
Speaker 1: the NBA. These superlatives, they just don't stop. So you
Speaker 1: have two refs that were on that side of the court,
Speaker 1: and we had two guys at half court going to inbound.
Speaker 1: The other ref obviously thought it was our ball as well,
Speaker 1: the NBA believes no mistake was made. Shock her that
Speaker 1: the refs think that they've done nothing wrong. When asked
Speaker 1: after the game about the call, Officiating crew Chief Sean
Speaker 1: Wright said, initially on the floor, the original signal was,
Speaker 1: in fact Golden State ball. This can be seen on video.
Speaker 1: They are bringing receipts. The second there's a second signal,
Speaker 1: but that is a signal for the mandatory timeout that
Speaker 1: was due to the mass. So we said, yes, we
Speaker 1: pointed to the mask, but that was just because they
Speaker 1: fucking called the timeout. What are these guys idiots? Were
Speaker 1: they roops? Did they not know? So that's basically what
Speaker 1: they say. I don't understand what's going on. It feels
Speaker 1: like a mass, chaos, confusion. I don't think the protest
Speaker 1: is going to be upheld. But I tell you what,
Speaker 1: I think the PA announcer is to blame because he's
Speaker 1: the one who announced it was Mavericks ball and the
Speaker 1: officiating crew declares that was never the case. But I
Speaker 1: would say this, if you hear the announcer say Mavericks ball,
Speaker 1: you should probably go over there and say no, it's
Speaker 1: not you know what I mean, Like, no, it's not
Speaker 1: Warriors ball. If the game has to be replayed from
Speaker 1: the point of the mistake, you will wipe out all
Speaker 1: the scoring that happened after, and potentially that will alter
Speaker 1: both team's futures and fortunes going forward into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And you can see from how contentious this gets where
Speaker 1: you have the owner writing a full memo on Twitter
Speaker 1: that the Mavericks are so desperate right now because they
Speaker 1: are in free fall. One little mistake can send you
Speaker 1: from sixth place to tenth place and potentially out of
Speaker 1: the play in tournament all together. Right they are seven
Speaker 1: and eleven right now since the Kyrie trade. Luca's banged up,
Speaker 1: and Kyrie's injured too. He's missing games, the team as
Speaker 1: zero bench. There's no chemistry between Kyrie and Luca. They're
Speaker 1: in serious danger of a full collapse, a full rebuild,
Speaker 1: Luca asking out. You know, Mark Cuban knows how close
Speaker 1: they are to Luca saying get me the hell out
Speaker 1: of here. He is clinging to every single thing he
Speaker 1: can to keep them in some sort of contention just
Speaker 1: to get into the playoff and let Luca cook. Fortunately
Speaker 1: for the MAVs, the last few games of the season
Speaker 1: are pretty easy. They have the Hornets twice, the Pacers,
Speaker 1: the Bulls, who are by the way, playing pretty well
Speaker 1: with Pat Beverley, Hawks and Spurs pretty winnable games if
Speaker 1: Luca plays. But they do have the Heat, the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and the Kings all on the schedule as well. Another
Speaker 1: thing I think that this game showed me is that
Speaker 1: this is the third straight Warrior game that they've won
Speaker 1: now on the road, and I think the Warriors, the Warriors.
Speaker 1: The Warriors could be back. They could be back. Don't
Speaker 1: sell your Warriors tickets yet. This West is a disaster.
Speaker 1: Who is going to take the West? My guess is
Speaker 1: as good as yours. But I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 1: The Dubs have championship pedigree in their blood, and they
Speaker 1: know that these these other teams are weak links. They
Speaker 1: know that these teams have it, done it like they've
Speaker 1: done it. I went on the light Years podcast last
Speaker 1: night after the game. By the way, Kamingo was incredible,
Speaker 1: twenty two points, three, two threes, two steals, just a
Speaker 1: gritty win, probably his best game in his career. So
Speaker 1: I hop on the Warriors podcast called the light Years Podcast,
Speaker 1: and we talked about it. Here's what we said. You
Speaker 1: look at the Denver defensive efficiency and rating over the
Speaker 1: last like since the All Star Break, and I think
Speaker 1: they're twenty six. They're giving up a ton of offensive rebounds.
Speaker 1: What does that mean for guys like Kevon Looney? Like,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Like, so that matchup favors the
Speaker 1: Warriors in my opinion, it does. Still you look at
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies, if the Grizzlies are a two seed in
Speaker 1: your seven seed, and you say to yourself, Okay, well
Speaker 1: we've seen this game, Like we know what it's like
Speaker 1: to have three three point shooter assassins on the team
Speaker 1: against the half court offense that has no shooters. They
Speaker 1: have Desmond Baine and that's it, right, That's why I'm
Speaker 1: he's gonna get some shot. He's gonna get some shots
Speaker 1: of So Jaw's not a three point shooter, Dylan Brooks
Speaker 1: is not a three point shooter. Jaron Jackson's very mid
Speaker 1: from three, and it gets extremely physical. You kind of
Speaker 1: have to give the edge and the history history against
Speaker 1: the Warriors there and then the Kings as much as
Speaker 1: you know, I've been a King's backer pretty much all season,
Speaker 1: You say to yourself, Okay, are we gonna make this
Speaker 1: just like an up tempo offensive game like are the
Speaker 1: If you trust one team in a fourth quarter to
Speaker 1: get stops, which out of those two teams do you
Speaker 1: trust to get stops? I trust the Warriors to get stops,
Speaker 1: especially if you can get some version of Andrew Wians back.
Speaker 1: So one, two, three seeds, I still say Vegas makes
Speaker 1: the Warriors a favorite. So if it's a wide open
Speaker 1: West and there's a team that's been going to finals
Speaker 1: and finals and finals, you think to yourself, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. And that's honestly, like nothing
Speaker 1: about this team inspires hope other than the fact that
Speaker 1: everyone else inspires zero amount of hope. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: they really just need to get to like two thirds
Speaker 1: of who they are and they might just run the
Speaker 1: table because they're all mediocre. Yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty much it. Everyone stinks the Warriors
Speaker 1: have been doing this since some of these kids were
Speaker 1: in diapers, and that's really it. This is probably Bob
Speaker 1: Myers last year. They're most likely going to change their
Speaker 1: roster around. Do I think that they beat the Kings
Speaker 1: in the seven game series? I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: tell you what. They made some good points on that
Speaker 1: pot about if you get one game in Golden One,
Speaker 1: especially if you get game one and those those Kings
Speaker 1: fans are already worried about the shoe dropping at any
Speaker 1: moment and them reverting back to King's behavior. You can
Speaker 1: steal their soul. You can steal their soul in forty
Speaker 1: eight and at that point anything's possible. The West is
Speaker 1: so chaotic, I think that they it's also possible the
Speaker 1: MAVs could drop five straight and drop out of the
Speaker 1: playing tournament. So that's why Cuban is so adamant about
Speaker 1: protesting this game, and it underscores how important every game is.
Speaker 1: When a single playoff loss for Dallas because of a
Speaker 1: referee era could put them out of the playoffs all twogether.
Speaker 1: Fun stuff in the West. What a game? What a game?
Speaker 1: So you know how you can sometimes hear certain players
Speaker 1: not at all. They don't say a peek for years
Speaker 1: at a time, and then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: floodgates just open up and they just never stopped talking.
Speaker 1: It's like, Wow, you had a lot on your mind
Speaker 1: for a while. You've been wanting to spill the tea
Speaker 1: for years and you've just been playing the good soldier.
Speaker 1: That folks is Jaylen Brown. Right now, Jalen Brown has
Speaker 1: had enough. There are multiple articles now being written about
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown. He's decided to address literally everything everywhere, all
Speaker 1: at once with the Ringer. There was so much tea spilled.
Speaker 1: They talked about Boston Celtics getting Kyrie and having Kyrie leave.
Speaker 1: You had the e May Udoka stuff. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was massive, It was sweeping. Logan Murdoch did a great job.
Speaker 1: They even talked about Kanye West and his relationship to
Speaker 1: Donda Sports. I mean, it was full on. Brown was
Speaker 1: completely unapologetic, direct as pretty much as much as you
Speaker 1: might expect him to be. He's never really spoken like
Speaker 1: this at length before. But the big takeaway is really
Speaker 1: just how much the Celtics and Jason Tatum flirting with
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant fuck with Jalen Brown's head. He's already someone
Speaker 1: who said in this article, I do not trust people,
Speaker 1: I do not trust organizations, I do not trust teams.
Speaker 1: And they they were shopping me, and then they said
Speaker 1: they weren't shopping me, and we all got quote unquote
Speaker 1: on the same page. But did we But did we? Though? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe them. When asked about
Speaker 1: his relationship with Jason Tatum, he was pretty blunt. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna please Celtics fans because apparently being dangled as
Speaker 1: trade bait for Kevin Rant would do that for you.
Speaker 1: He said, well, Katie and jt are friends, they were
Speaker 1: working out together and whatnot, So I wasn't sure what
Speaker 1: the energy was there. I wasn't sure what the direction
Speaker 1: of the organization was. You add that to the fact
Speaker 1: that Ema Udoka, the guy that he promoted to get
Speaker 1: hired in the first place because they were on Team
Speaker 1: USA together, and he gets fired, and they're like, boy,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with this organization. So
Speaker 1: he jumps on this three way call with Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: and Brad Stevens like I said, They're like, hey, Jalen,
Speaker 1: you're part of our future. No, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty suspicious of this. And Tatum was interviewed for
Speaker 1: the piece and he has this to say about Brown, well,
Speaker 1: a lot of people fans are fascinated with our relationship
Speaker 1: and how that's developing grown over time. He's got fans
Speaker 1: within the Celtics fan base I've got fans within the
Speaker 1: Celtics fan base, and I think our fans have more
Speaker 1: of a hard time coexisting than me and him do.
Speaker 1: We've never had an argument. I don't think we've ever
Speaker 1: had a real argument or a fight, nothing crazy like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of weird. I think that people are either team
Speaker 1: Tatum or team Brown. Kind of reminds me of a
Speaker 1: relationship between a passive, aggressive couple who just keeps everything
Speaker 1: inside until one day one of them wakes up this
Speaker 1: morning and is like, you know what, you never take
Speaker 1: out the fucking garbage, you know what? That really And
Speaker 1: then you're just like, wait, what is this about the
Speaker 1: garbage or is this about something else? It's healthy to
Speaker 1: let things out a little bit more than they have,
Speaker 1: I think. And it turns out it's not just the
Speaker 1: personal relationship with Jason Tatum that's damaged. It's his feelings
Speaker 1: for the entire organization that might not surprise anyone based
Speaker 1: on who the Celtics are known to be and who
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown is known to be. Don't need to say
Speaker 1: more on that, but you know what I'm saying. The
Speaker 1: Celtics operate on different principles. He said, they look at
Speaker 1: it as a business where they tell you one thing
Speaker 1: and then behind closed doors they say another and they'll
Speaker 1: trade you off. They'll tell you we love you, and
Speaker 1: they'll be having like, yeah, we're gonna trade him next week.
Speaker 1: Like where I'm from in the South, if you don't
Speaker 1: come through the front door, it's considered disrespectful. I feel
Speaker 1: a lot of times when you deal in these corporate spaces,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to come through the back door or come
Speaker 1: through at an angle. Yeah, Jalen Brown, I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: say that. When you are dealing with trade negotiations, if
Speaker 1: the trade falls through, they need to tell you they
Speaker 1: love you. Like that's just how it goes. Otherwise, what
Speaker 1: is this relationship left? Very tenuous situation, so much to unpack,
Speaker 1: so much damage to undo. I think Jalen Brown might
Speaker 1: be gucci on the Boston Celtics as a whole. I
Speaker 1: think he's sort of ready to move on. It feels
Speaker 1: like it doesn't sound like he wants to be a
Speaker 1: Celtics anymore. He's a free agent after next season. If
Speaker 1: you can read the energy, JB kind of feels like
Speaker 1: he has already broken up with the Celtics unless something changes,
Speaker 1: Unless he gets a Supermax contract, he's probably gone. This
Speaker 1: is what he said. I just enjoy the time that
Speaker 1: you have now. If it's your whole career with Boston,
Speaker 1: it's your whole career. If it's not, it's not. Some
Speaker 1: of the greatest players of all time haven't finished with
Speaker 1: their organization. Michael Jordan retired a wizard. As much as
Speaker 1: we feel like it, we like it here and enjoy
Speaker 1: being here. You see where life takes you, You see
Speaker 1: where the process goes. All you do is really focus
Speaker 1: on what's in front of you. To be honest, I'll
Speaker 1: just say we'll get there when we get there. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: He also said this to Logan, which I thought was
Speaker 1: even more interesting. Brown was asked if he wants to
Speaker 1: stay in Boston long term. Brown says, I don't know.
Speaker 1: As long as I'm needed, it's not really up to me.
Speaker 1: We'll see how they feel about me over time and
Speaker 1: I feel about them over time. Hopefully whatever it is
Speaker 1: makes sense. But I'll stay where I'm wanted. I will
Speaker 1: stay where I'm needed, and this is the most important line,
Speaker 1: and I will stay where I'm treated. Correct. Wooh boy.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Hey girl, I'm not saying we're breaking up,
Speaker 1: but you might want to get your own Netflix account.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying we're breaking up, but you might
Speaker 1: want to look at some new crock pots for yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we're breaking up, but you need to
Speaker 1: decide whether you're getting the couch or the mattress cuz
Speaker 1: we're breaking up. So I don't know. Boston and Jaylen
Speaker 1: Brown are in a real predicament. If you know, he's
Speaker 1: not happy and he doesn't want to sign an extension,
Speaker 1: which by the way, he's not gonna sign an extension
Speaker 1: because he's only eligible for one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: percent raise. If he makes all NBA, he's he's eligible
Speaker 1: for a much higher extension. But if he doesn't make
Speaker 1: all NBA, that's all you can offer him, and you
Speaker 1: have to wait until he hits free agency. And if
Speaker 1: you hits free agency, anything can happen. Then you add
Speaker 1: into the fact that the Boston Celtics right now don't
Speaker 1: look great with Joe Mizzula if they get bounced early.
Speaker 1: Now you've got whispers uh that Atlanta is keeping an
Speaker 1: iron monitoring the Jalen Brown situation, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown as you notice is from Atlanta. This thing
Speaker 1: could go sideways fast. Yes. The latest news, like I said,
Speaker 1: is the Atlanta Hawks are working to clear cap space
Speaker 1: aka John Collins with the clear intent of making a
Speaker 1: run at Jalen Brown. Things could change fast in Boston.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Austin Reeves because it's I think it's
Speaker 1: well passed when we should have mentioned him. It really
Speaker 1: has been coming since last This is the guy that's
Speaker 1: made Laker fans stop crying about losing Alex screw So
Speaker 1: pretty much overnight. He's been on a tear ever since
Speaker 1: returning from injury. Laker Austin Reeves, undrafted free agent Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1: They call him what I call him, like the the Hicck,
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant or something like that. It's crazy. In his
Speaker 1: last nine games, Austin Reeves is averaging twenty four and
Speaker 1: six thirty eight percent from three and an average plus
Speaker 1: minus of ten point eight. That is sick. To just
Speaker 1: get him off the street and for him to contribute
Speaker 1: like this is insane. Better yet, though the Lakers are
Speaker 1: eleven and eight since Reeves came back from injury, they
Speaker 1: are eight and ten in games he's missed so far
Speaker 1: this year doesn't feel like a lot until you realize
Speaker 1: that a fifty eight percent winning percentage would with him,
Speaker 1: which is where they're playing with him in the lineup,
Speaker 1: would put them squarely in fourth place in the West.
Speaker 1: Right now, looking at a home series in the playoffs
Speaker 1: at Crypto dot com arena, I don't know. Could Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves be the new player to build around on the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers? Could he be the lakers most important piece?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not saying he's is. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's not. But he is getting he is scoring
Speaker 1: like a superscore star, and he is getting superstar calls.
Speaker 1: In the last last four games, Austin Reeves has gone
Speaker 1: to the line fifty three times. Is this man Lebron James?
Speaker 1: Is this man Kevin Durant? Who who in their right
Speaker 1: mind would make that script up where the undrafted free
Speaker 1: agent is getting more superstar calls? Then? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Let's look at Steph Curry all right, So
Speaker 1: last four games, Austin Reeves has gone to line fifty
Speaker 1: three times. Steph Curry twelve times in his last four games.
Speaker 1: For comparison, our Guy Samsbandiori from The Light Years podcast
Speaker 1: tweeted this out. Curry forty five drives, two free throw attempts,
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves fifty drives, sixteen free throw attempts. Curry passed
Speaker 1: sixteen times on those drives. Reeves passed seventeen times out
Speaker 1: of those drives. So, in other words, Austin Reeves right
Speaker 1: now is getting superstar calls from the refs. As an
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent, he is going to align an average
Speaker 1: of thirteen times per game. Joe l Embiid currently leads
Speaker 1: the league in free throw attempts at ten per game.
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is getting better calls, a better whistle than
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. That is, in the sane. Yes, he gets
Speaker 1: more offensive calls, plays call for him when Lebron is out.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's averaging nine and a half points per
Speaker 1: game when Lebron is playing and sixteen points per game
Speaker 1: when Lebron is out. But that does not diminish what
Speaker 1: our hill Billy Kobe has been up to this season.
Speaker 1: He has got been nearly the same winning percentage as
Speaker 1: Lebron has when he plays the season five h nine
Speaker 1: winning percentage versus Broun's five eleven winning percentage. The Lakers
Speaker 1: win pretty much in every scenario with Austin Reeves. Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves in total is twenty eight and twenty seven. Reeves
Speaker 1: without braun Is twelve and eleven. Reeves without a d
Speaker 1: is seven and six, Reeves with d lo Is seven
Speaker 1: and four, Reeves with Vanderbilt eleven and six. If you
Speaker 1: look at Austin Reeves completely for the year, he has
Speaker 1: a plus one oh seven for the season. That's top fifty.
Speaker 1: This man, this man is called the hill Billy Koby.
Speaker 1: That's top fifty. If we redrafted. I thought about this.
Speaker 1: I went to the twenty twenty one draft, which is
Speaker 1: the year that Austin Reeves was eligibly drafted but not
Speaker 1: drafted if you look at it, which was a loaded draft.
Speaker 1: By the way, he probably is a mid first rounder
Speaker 1: in one of the most stack drafts in history, where
Speaker 1: you're going over. He probably gets drafted over Jalen Suggs,
Speaker 1: probably gets drafted over is z Air Williams, James Bookknight,
Speaker 1: Josh Primo, Chris Darte, Moses Moody, Moses Mody, Corey, Kisbert,
Speaker 1: maybe Davion Mitchell, that's crazy. So the Lakers live or
Speaker 1: die not with ad or Lebron, but rather a twenty
Speaker 1: four year old undrafted kid from the Haulers of Arkansas,
Speaker 1: the NBA's Western Conference. It's just very weird right now.
Speaker 1: It's very strange in the West. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Scriptwriters are on drugs. Let's move on. Kitty Cat.
Speaker 1: Kitty Cat is back. Karl Anthony Towns makes his return
Speaker 1: last night after missing a total fifty two games. Fifty
Speaker 1: two games is how long ago he went down. Time
Speaker 1: goes fast in the NBA. So there was a lot
Speaker 1: of drama about how bad the injury was. As you
Speaker 1: guys know, it was a Grade three calf strain, but
Speaker 1: the Wolves tried to downplay it. They said it was
Speaker 1: a Grade two calf strain. But he's finally back. Chris
Speaker 1: Finch put the ball in Karl Anthony's Towns hands against
Speaker 1: the Hawks with three point one seconds left, and I'll
Speaker 1: be damned, it worked. Karl Anthony Towns ends up going
Speaker 1: to the free throw line, pulling off at one twenty
Speaker 1: five four victory over Atlanta, which I thought that they
Speaker 1: would lose. He had twenty two four and three. He
Speaker 1: had two steals, played very well within himself for a
Speaker 1: first game back. But more importantly, the Wolves need somebody
Speaker 1: that they can rely on at the end of games,
Speaker 1: because boy oh boy, they are teeter tottering looking from
Speaker 1: the outside. In eight games left more than enough time
Speaker 1: for Karl Anthony Towns to shake off the rest. But
Speaker 1: with Anthony Edwards out with an ankle injury, man, the
Speaker 1: Wolves are not healthy. If they could get aunt Man
Speaker 1: back in time, maybe they're dangerous in the playoffs. Remember,
Speaker 1: they did take the Memphis Grizzlies into a very, very
Speaker 1: tough series. Gonna be fun to watch. Not a lot
Speaker 1: of father all about Karl Anthony Towns back. I'm happy
Speaker 1: to see him on the court again until the offseason, when,
Speaker 1: of course you'll see trade rumors heating up where he'll
Speaker 1: play in twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, because most
Speaker 1: likely the Wolves I think will move him. But shout
Speaker 1: out to Karl Anthony Towns coming back into the lineup.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Karl Anthony Towns doing something in a
Speaker 1: late game scenario, even if it is the regular season,
Speaker 1: and the regular season doesn't matter whatsoever. Moving on Shaden Sharp.
Speaker 1: So I think people downplay this man. People are slandering
Speaker 1: Shaden Sharpe's name for no reason. Yes he is not
Speaker 1: a Rookie of the Year candidate. Yes he's not as
Speaker 1: good right now as Pawell, Ben Caro or Benedict Matherin
Speaker 1: or even Aalen Williams. But man, last night best game
Speaker 1: of his young career. Six start, forty minutes, he was
Speaker 1: a plus twenty eight. But here's the thing that was
Speaker 1: more exciting. Twenty four to nine and three nine rebounds.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. Twenty four nine rebounds, three assists and four
Speaker 1: steals for Shaden Sharp. That's a nineteen year old kid
Speaker 1: just putting up buckets, beating a Utah Jazz team. That
Speaker 1: is very tough, very tough. I think right now, this
Speaker 1: Shaden Sharp performance, to me, he's only know trade list
Speaker 1: Blazers are a tanking team. They are not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: They need another star, and you know what in order
Speaker 1: to get another star or not trading Shaydon. That's it.
Speaker 1: Not for ogn Andobi, not for Pascal s Yakam, not
Speaker 1: for Andrew Wiggins, no one. I think right now, you're
Speaker 1: looking at a kid. I'm gonna predict it. Shadon Sharp
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the most talented people
Speaker 1: in the NBA period, hands down six'. Six his selling
Speaker 1: is the. Roof as they, say with only ten games
Speaker 1: left in the, season there's not going to be a
Speaker 1: play in for. US i know THAT i want him
Speaker 1: to start every single. GAME i want to see More
Speaker 1: shade and sharp. Development he's. Strapping his defense looks really.
Speaker 1: GOOD i want to see what he will do with
Speaker 1: thirty five minutes a. Game DARE i say numbers like
Speaker 1: that will be the. Norm do not stunt this kid's,
Speaker 1: Development allow him to, grow allow him to. FLOURISH i
Speaker 1: Know Damian lillard looks more impatient THAN i am about The.
Speaker 1: Blazers he's starting to get frustrated. Again BUT i haven't
Speaker 1: been this excited about A blazers player Since, dame, unless of,
Speaker 1: course we Get Victor wombiama and then everything. Changes that's
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