Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Tristal Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we got a
Speaker 2: new team on the rise. They're called the Okac Thunder
Speaker 2: and they have a rod. Let me tell you, folks,
Speaker 2: they are a probably for the rest of the league.
Speaker 2: So we talk about that, we get into this new
Speaker 2: Yokic versus them bead controversy, little propaganda regime coming through
Speaker 2: little news from around the league, ranging from Charles Barkley's
Speaker 2: old unique way that he was apparently forced to clean
Speaker 2: his jersey back in the day to an unexpected voice
Speaker 2: on the league referee woes. Three weeks left until the
Speaker 2: play in, Nick, drop that motherfucking generic gas beat. Before
Speaker 2: I start out on the Okac Thunder, let me just
Speaker 2: get a couple of things off my chest. One number one,
Speaker 2: if you're watching on you thank you and you're wondering
Speaker 2: what's up with my lip? How do I say this
Speaker 2: in a way that doesn't make me seem like either
Speaker 2: negligent or a victim. My dog bit me in the mouth.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. Really, it was unprovoked, sort of.
Speaker 2: She's a rescue made me bleed. So there's a little
Speaker 2: piece of skin on my lip. That's still sort of
Speaker 2: halfway still on. I can't pull it off or it'll
Speaker 2: just start bleeding again. So if you're wondering, I've had
Speaker 2: multiple people ask me, what's going on with your lip.
Speaker 2: That's what's going on with my lip. If you're listening
Speaker 2: on the podcast, you probably didn't need this information, but
Speaker 2: we're gonna keep it where it is, So let's start
Speaker 2: out with the pod. NBA fans this morning woke up
Speaker 2: to a crazy, crazy sight. No, not Austin Reeves going
Speaker 2: off for thirty five. I'm talking about the Oklahoma City Thunder,
Speaker 2: who were down one hundred and ninety two to the
Speaker 2: Suns with a couple of minutes left to play in
Speaker 2: Okay See. They go proceed and have an eighteen to
Speaker 2: two run against Phoenix. They walk away with a one
Speaker 2: to twenty, four to one to twenty win over a
Speaker 2: team that had given up sixty nine points nice in
Speaker 2: the first half. It was their seventh win in nine games.
Speaker 2: That includes wins over the Nets, Warriors and the Jazz twice.
Speaker 2: But that win was significant. You look at the standings,
Speaker 2: which I pretty much have to do every single day
Speaker 2: to figure out what's going on, and the freaking OKC
Speaker 2: Thunder are now in eighth place. They are thirty five
Speaker 2: and thirty six, one game out of sixth place. The
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder is one game out of not being
Speaker 2: in the play in tournament and actually being in the
Speaker 2: actual playoffs. And guess what, folks, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: This is stunning. I think many people thought this team
Speaker 2: was gonna pack it up at the All Star break.
Speaker 2: Shut shay Gilgess, Alexander down. Shut Josh Giddy down, shot
Speaker 2: both Jalen Williams down. I have loved the Thunder for
Speaker 2: two years now, and even I am like, this is
Speaker 2: not part of the playing guys, Uh, you're supposed to
Speaker 2: be trying to get Scoot Henderson, Victor Wantbiyama, one of
Speaker 2: the Thompson twins, whose whoever else? That? Brandon Miller one
Speaker 2: of my favorite league past teams. But I did not
Speaker 2: expect them to be in the playoffs. I think though
Speaker 2: people are sleeping on this Okay see Thunder team. I
Speaker 2: was talking to the mainstream media a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago on Amazon. They didn't even know who Shay Gojess.
Speaker 2: Alexander was no shade to them, but they said, who
Speaker 2: who is Shay Gilgess what who is Sga? Is that
Speaker 2: the same guy? Yes, I don't know, just the top
Speaker 2: at one point, top five in scoring in the NBA,
Speaker 2: just an absolute bucket leading. This team has been stolen
Speaker 2: for Okasee stole him, which we'll get to in a bit.
Speaker 2: So let's break down how they got here, because it's
Speaker 2: very clear that they've taken a lot of people by surprise.
Speaker 2: You're just waking up to the thunder or you're still
Speaker 2: sleep on the thunder. Let's get you there because okay,
Speaker 2: so he's a problem. So it all begins with one
Speaker 2: of the most mysterious, secretive, cryptic, elusive men on the
Speaker 2: planet Earth. And I'm not talking about world Wide West.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about Sam Presty right now. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: some flowing right now, the myth, the man, the legend.
Speaker 2: You know hear his name much you don't, but behind
Speaker 2: closed doors people talk about him in whispers. You talk
Speaker 2: about him too loud, you might not even be allowed
Speaker 2: into the building. There's some mainstream media talk too much
Speaker 2: about what the Okac Thunder do, spilling a little too
Speaker 2: much tea, and now they're black bolt and most people
Speaker 2: are pretty that are in the know, in awe of
Speaker 2: what he's been able to do in the smallest market
Speaker 2: in the NBA. So if you don't know about Sam Presty,
Speaker 2: he's been the GM of the franchise since two thousand
Speaker 2: and back when they were actually still in Seattle. And
Speaker 2: at that point, Sam Presty was just twenty nine years old.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine years old, wept behind the ears, no one
Speaker 2: expected much. He was one of the first uh like
Speaker 2: young guns that come into the league in this spot.
Speaker 2: He was right after theo Epstein was named GM of
Speaker 2: the Red Sox at twenty eight broad end. Is this
Speaker 2: new era, smart, analytically driven executives later coaches that would
Speaker 2: get their shot way earlier than ever. Right, He was
Speaker 2: one of the pioneers in that era. And because of
Speaker 2: his age, and because the SuperSonics were a mess, and
Speaker 2: because the SuperSonics were seen as maybe a team that
Speaker 2: would leave the area, everyone thought Sam Presty doomed to fail.
Speaker 2: Bad scenario, Night Night Sleep mask for you. First shot
Speaker 2: out of the box, first moves he makes, He gets
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant in the in the draft and Number two
Speaker 2: has not looked back since. He then goes on to
Speaker 2: draft Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Serge Ibaka, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Changes the way that the league works. Because
Speaker 2: he was so crafty in how he makes deals. They
Speaker 2: actually created a whole new league protocol to thwart him,
Speaker 2: you know how, like Augusta tigerproofed Augusta and it did
Speaker 2: not work. That's what they did with this thing called
Speaker 2: the Steppian Rule. It really should be called the Presti rule.
Speaker 2: But you know why they didn't call it that because
Speaker 2: you can't even say his name without you getting into trouble.
Speaker 2: So they had to come up with a new name
Speaker 2: that was really about him. And that keeps teams from
Speaker 2: trading multiple first rounders in consecutive years. So say you
Speaker 2: have only your own first rounders, you can't trade a
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two and a twenty twenty three first rounder
Speaker 2: boom boom. You can't be left with no first rounders
Speaker 2: in two consecutive years. It also prohibits which is also
Speaker 2: very much him. He was trading players to get a
Speaker 2: draft picks in like thirty years from now, Like you can't, Sam,
Speaker 2: you can't that only seven years down the line can
Speaker 2: you get a draft pick for you can't trade some
Speaker 2: random player right now for a twenty thirty two first
Speaker 2: round pick. This kid's not even in elementary school yet. Okay,
Speaker 2: you can't do that. Back to his success, Sam Presty,
Speaker 2: within five years of getting the top gig, has the
Speaker 2: Thunder in the NBA Finals in twenty twelve. Pretty good,
Speaker 2: pretty impressive, very big deal maker. Nobody's had more blockbuster
Speaker 2: trades than Sam Presty, and nobody's managed to keep up
Speaker 2: with the times more either. So the Thunder built around
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook Kevin Durant, that hits a wall, Kevin leaves,
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook starts to stall, then he starts his first
Speaker 2: real rebuild since the franchise moved from Seattle in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: So they had Paul George and they had Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 2: and they moved them both for a boat logan of
Speaker 2: draft picks that is the genesis of today's Okay, see
Speaker 2: Thunder team. In essence, here's what Presty did four years ago.
Speaker 2: He turned Sergebacca into Shay Jalen Williams and three future
Speaker 2: first round picks through three trades. Here it is as follows.
Speaker 2: Serge Ibaka for Victor Oladipo and Demona Sabonas. First of all,
Speaker 2: that's a fucking theft. No shade to Sergeabacca, but that
Speaker 2: is theft robbery. Then takes Oladipo and Sibonis and flips
Speaker 2: them almost immediately for Paul George, turns Paul George into
Speaker 2: Shay Gilgess, Alexander Danilo Gallinari and five future first round picks.
Speaker 2: One of those first round picks has already turned into
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams. Now you have three first round picks coming
Speaker 2: up in the next two years. That's how it's done.
Speaker 2: That is how it's done, folks. The team was supposed
Speaker 2: to be probably a contender either next year or the
Speaker 2: year after. After Chet Holmgren goes down with the Liz
Speaker 2: Franken when he was playing in that proem right, You're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you're over. Chet's done. This is another development year. Maybe
Speaker 2: try to get Victor Wombayama or Scoot Henderson or something. Compete,
Speaker 2: build on it, but you're not a playoff team. But
Speaker 2: now you've got three healthy twenty twenty two draft picks
Speaker 2: that are Jalen Williams with a n E. Jalen Wallings
Speaker 2: with an eye, Uzman Jangs all finding a way to
Speaker 2: play valuable minutes, and one of them, Jalen with a knee,
Speaker 2: might be the best rookie in the league not named
Speaker 2: Palo Ban Carol. Right now. In his last ten games,
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams is averaging twenty point four, six and five
Speaker 2: and two steals per game. I mind you stole him?
Speaker 2: Stole him. Jalen with an I is averaging seven to
Speaker 2: five and one in his last ten and Uzman Jang
Speaker 2: is coming around as well, eight four and one in
Speaker 2: his last ten games. Quick trip to Mas School, let's
Speaker 2: do that for a second, shows that the thunder have
Speaker 2: three rookies on this team, contributing thirty five, fifteen and seven.
Speaker 2: Did I mention again chet Holmgren sitting on the bench,
Speaker 2: Liz Frankentry, he was the one who was supposed to
Speaker 2: be bringing it home. He hasn't played one NBA minute
Speaker 2: yet and also taking Jumper's pregame, he's currently back in
Speaker 2: the gym. Come on, this is ridiculous. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Most teams would hope that just one rookie can get
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes without destroying the team chemistry and turning the
Speaker 2: ball over a million times and not being in winning
Speaker 2: basketball situations. All three of the rookies averaging anywhere from
Speaker 2: eighteen to twenty seven minutes per game and winning and
Speaker 2: in the playoff hunt. This is scary. Here is something
Speaker 2: that should scare everyone who is not a fan of
Speaker 2: the Thunder. The average age of the Thunder is not
Speaker 2: even twenty four years old. Wow, there's no one on
Speaker 2: this roster over the age of twenty eight. Dario Sarich,
Speaker 2: who was, let's be honest, came in on a salary dump.
Speaker 2: He was born in ninety four and he's three years
Speaker 2: older than the next oldest player, which is Lyndy Walters,
Speaker 2: who is ancient for this team at twenty five. For
Speaker 2: this team to be this good, with this many players
Speaker 2: who can contribute on a night to night basis, with
Speaker 2: no chet this fast, oh my god, it is scary.
Speaker 2: Ours be afraid. If your favorite team is in the
Speaker 2: Western Conference, be afraid. Look at these numbers of the
Speaker 2: last ten games. Josh Giddy seventeen nine and eight with
Speaker 2: a steel per game, Shay thirty five, five and five
Speaker 2: with two steals per game. Those are the as a
Speaker 2: laughable stat line Lou Dort fourteen to four to two
Speaker 2: with the steel per game. They all are averaging steel.
Speaker 2: They also mind, you have deep bench guys like Aaron Wiggins,
Speaker 2: Isaiah Joe trey Mann, Kenrick Williams, guys that if the
Speaker 2: mainstream media doesn't know who Shay is, I promise you
Speaker 2: they don't know who Kenrick Williams is, all contributing at
Speaker 2: various times. These kids don't even care that they get
Speaker 2: DMP coaches decisions, dmpcds. They're like, they will sit out
Speaker 2: three straight games for no reason whatsoever, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, get twenty eight minutes and put twenty
Speaker 2: five up on your head. That's how ready they are.
Speaker 2: They stay ready. And then they've got this Poku kid,
Speaker 2: who I've talked about before, Alexi Pokashevsky, who's been on
Speaker 2: rehab in the G League. Be afraid of him as well.
Speaker 2: He could be ready by playoff time. He is giving
Speaker 2: buckets up. He is blowing the doors off people in
Speaker 2: the G League. Quick question, if you're a top four
Speaker 2: seeds West, are you afraid because I would do you
Speaker 2: want any part of the OKAC thunder in the playoffs?
Speaker 2: I would not. I would not. The Kings and the
Speaker 2: Thunder would be an amazing match. I would love to
Speaker 2: see a two A two seven Kings Thunder matchup. The
Speaker 2: Suns obviously don't want any part of the okay seet
Speaker 2: Thunder because they were up how much with two minutes
Speaker 2: left to go, and then all of a sudden, they
Speaker 2: look up. They're like, this dude's has scored twenty straight
Speaker 2: points on us and we have scored zero in the
Speaker 2: span of three minutes. We looked like we had a
Speaker 2: comfortable lead to all of a sudden we were like,
Speaker 2: uh oh, this is not good. They can score fast.
Speaker 2: The runs are largely based off of deflections, steals, block shots.
Speaker 2: Quick little fact for you, okay see is third in
Speaker 2: the NBA in steals per game. What this little ramshackle
Speaker 2: team third in the league in steals per game. So
Speaker 2: this little baby team, they are a problem. They're growing
Speaker 2: up right before our eyes. This team actually reminds me
Speaker 2: of the Memphis Grizzlies the year that they knocked off
Speaker 2: the Warriors in the play in tournament and then they
Speaker 2: played the Utah Jazz and they beat the Utah Jazz
Speaker 2: in the first game of the playoffs and everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 2: oh my god, what is going on. Dylan Brooks just
Speaker 2: put up I think twenty five in that game, and
Speaker 2: Jaw was looking crazy and Utah looks scared in their boots.
Speaker 2: Utah ends up winning that series pretty comfortably. But you
Speaker 2: think to yourself, oh, yeah, this team's pretty good. This
Speaker 2: team could be really really good fast. That's the okay,
Speaker 2: see thunder right now? So will they win it all
Speaker 2: this year? Of course not. But when you add Chet
Speaker 2: Holmer into this team, and they have two first rounders
Speaker 2: in the coming draft, one of which will surely be
Speaker 2: a lottery pick, Sky's the limit. Sky's the limit. The
Speaker 2: thunder I'm calling it now, could be a new power
Speaker 2: in the West before you know it. So, speaking of
Speaker 2: the thunder, I thought I would update everyone on this
Speaker 2: NBA reffing situation. We talked about this what last week
Speaker 2: with Fred van Fleet. So you remember Fred van Fleet.
Speaker 2: He lit up Ben Taylor, who had called text on
Speaker 2: him a grotesque, inappropriate disc proportionate levels, right. Fred van
Speaker 2: Fleet said Taylor was fucking terrible. I think on most nights,
Speaker 2: you know, out of the three officials, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: one or two they just fucked the game up. That
Speaker 2: was Ben Taylor, right, tell me how you would really
Speaker 2: feel Fred predictively things. A couple of things happened. First,
Speaker 2: the league, of course, find Fred van Fleet. You knew
Speaker 2: that would happen. Second, multiple players that we discussed, like
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart, came out and were like, yes, Fred is
Speaker 2: the man, he is right, listen to him. So it
Speaker 2: got worse it did. It's now getting at a boiling point.
Speaker 2: Mark Dagnio, the OKAC thunderhead coach that nobody knows, uh who. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we did a peace on him a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago because nobody knows who he is. He said this,
Speaker 2: I didn't get any technicals in my first two years.
Speaker 2: I'm prioritizing getting my point across at the expense of
Speaker 2: getting a technical, fairness and consistency. We need those things
Speaker 2: from the league and from the refs. So I have
Speaker 2: a theory about Mark Dagnol that I'm gonna run by
Speaker 2: you guys, which is that Mark Dagnol his name is
Speaker 2: really Tony from Long Island. He's in witness protection program
Speaker 2: and he's now the head coach of the OKC Thunder
Speaker 2: Because he's laying low and no one knows who he is.
Speaker 2: But now Tony from Long Island's coming out and straight
Speaker 2: up yelling at refs. Did you see what he said?
Speaker 2: He said, if you're not talking to me, I'm not
Speaker 2: talking to you. What I think he is now putting
Speaker 2: himself squarely on the radar of Jimmy Baxter and them boys.
Speaker 2: He is now enemy number Well, they're like, yo, Tony
Speaker 2: Is that is that Tony from Long Island? No? No,
Speaker 2: that's Mark Dagno. No, you see how he just said,
Speaker 2: are you talking to me? If you're not talking to me,
Speaker 2: I'm talking to you. That's Mark Dagnol. What a better
Speaker 2: way to hide in plainsight than to become the head
Speaker 2: coach of the OKAC Thunder where Sam Presty protects that's all.
Speaker 2: Sam Presty takes players in and rehabs them, takes people
Speaker 2: who are running from the mob and rehabs them. This
Speaker 2: is the perfect place to become someone else. So when
Speaker 2: the NBA's only coaching the Witness Protection program, risks glowing
Speaker 2: his cover and becomes a target. You know that you
Speaker 2: fucked up. If you're not talking to me, I'm not
Speaker 2: talking to you. Turns us back on points straight into
Speaker 2: his face. You know we got a referee problem, folks.
Speaker 2: Memo to Adam Silver, you need to fix the ship
Speaker 2: with the refs, and fix it fast, because you can't
Speaker 2: have another Scott Foster situation in the playoffs. And you
Speaker 2: can't have our son Mark Dagno aka Tony from Lyng
Speaker 2: Island getting put back onto the radar of those he's
Speaker 2: running from. Folks, we now have a full blown controversy
Speaker 2: on our hands. Up until this week, it was all
Speaker 2: fun and games right last week, maybe two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: it was Yoki Yoki, Joki, Joki, Jokis Jokic is the MVP,
Speaker 2: undisputed MVP. Anyone you ask, it's Jokic, no matter who
Speaker 2: you asked. Is it MBT No? Is it Yannis No?
Speaker 2: Is it Dame No, It's only Jokic, Every single person Jokic.
Speaker 2: They're the number one seed in the West. Yokis finally
Speaker 2: has his help. Look how much good, how much better
Speaker 2: they are with with Jamal Murray on the team now
Speaker 2: healthy and Michael Porter Junior on the team healthy. Watch this,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's better than he was last year.
Speaker 2: And then you know what they all wanted to give him,
Speaker 2: Three of them in a row right, that was the
Speaker 2: whole historic thing, and even me, I was sucked into it,
Speaker 2: sucked into the propaganda machine of the Jokic. The Jokic
Speaker 2: deep state is what I'm calling it. The Jokic deep
Speaker 2: state is what I'm calling calling it. And I'm not
Speaker 2: here at slander Yokic. I like I like him. I
Speaker 2: think he could definitely deserve MVP. There is no shade
Speaker 2: to him. But what happened at the trade deadline changed everything.
Speaker 2: They got Reggie Jackson, who I said was terrible, and
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets have not been the same since. Yokic
Speaker 2: has been good. He's been incredible at times. And the
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets have been losing. They're really bad defensively, and
Speaker 2: they just are losing to terrible teams. And all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you look up and Joel Embiid is the
Speaker 2: leader in the clubhouse for MVP minus one seventy five.
Speaker 2: He's been awesome. Sixers have been awesome. He's the leading
Speaker 2: scorer in the NBA right now and there are like
Speaker 2: six guys averaging over thirty. He has been clutch, he
Speaker 2: has been incredible. They have the same record as the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: They stand in second in the East. Things have shifted
Speaker 2: twenty games left. Embiid appears ready to steal the MVP,
Speaker 2: just like Yokic did from MB last year. So if
Speaker 2: you're a Yokic fan, if you're a part of the
Speaker 2: deep state, what do you do? What do you do?
Speaker 2: You call your friends up at Sirius Radio and you
Speaker 2: bring on some guests that you have in your pocket
Speaker 2: to say some shit, to say some crazy ass shit
Speaker 2: to bring the narrative back to Jokic. What do you say?
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid is lazy. No, no, no, not not just
Speaker 2: that he's lazy. He takes plays off at the end
Speaker 2: of games. Doesn't matter that he's regularly one of the
Speaker 2: most clutch players in the NBA, that he's only behind
Speaker 2: Aaron Fox's most clutch scorer in the NBA in fourth quarters.
Speaker 2: According to those guys, it's not just that he's lazy.
Speaker 2: It's not just that he takes plays off. It's that
Speaker 2: his mannerisms are lazy. His body language is lazy. Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid most points per minute in NBA history. That's the
Speaker 2: lazy guy. Him him, This is crazy. George Carl Agent
Speaker 2: Zero both went on serious XMNBA and what do they say,
Speaker 2: can't be Joel Embiid for the MVP because he takes
Speaker 2: too and he plays off at the end of games,
Speaker 2: and he's just generally slovenly. He's just a out there
Speaker 2: You just watch him and you're like, yeah, he doesn't
Speaker 2: want to move that fast. This is against Yokic. Yokich
Speaker 2: is an exactly wiley coyote out there. Are we serious?
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid averaging thirty seven points per game, eight and
Speaker 2: a half rebounds in forrests, and two point one blocks
Speaker 2: in the month of March. Lazy guy, that's him. How
Speaker 2: do you average over a steal and over a block
Speaker 2: per game and be lazy? This is outrageous. I can't
Speaker 2: even it took me. It was such an outrageous take.
Speaker 2: It took me a while to get outraged because it
Speaker 2: didn't exactly hit my brain, hit my cerebellum and start
Speaker 2: to like sink in, like, let's be honest, Yokic is
Speaker 2: kind kind of lazy sometimes. On defense, you got Joel Embiid,
Speaker 2: one of the best defenders in the league, one of
Speaker 2: the most clutch players in the league, averaging more points
Speaker 2: in the league than anyone else for the entire season,
Speaker 2: most in March highest pee our player Efficiency rating in
Speaker 2: the league, which by the way, has won eight years
Speaker 2: in a row for MVP. But no, no, The only
Speaker 2: thing we can say about him be in terms of
Speaker 2: why Jokich is the MVP and not him, is that
Speaker 2: he's lazy. Here. If you don't believe me this, you
Speaker 2: might think I'm just trolling, because I could understand why
Speaker 2: you would think that. Let's just listen to George carl Our,
Speaker 2: resident NBA former head coach.
Speaker 1: Why don't you think MBAT is in the race?
Speaker 2: Coach?
Speaker 3: To me, I don't want to bad mouv MBID because
Speaker 3: I think he's really really good. I mean, a lot
Speaker 3: of my sequent coaches were in Philadelphia when he was
Speaker 3: a young player, and they kept telling me he's gonna
Speaker 3: be the best guy ever to play the game. That's
Speaker 3: the big guy ever to play the game. I see
Speaker 3: him moving in that direction, but he takes I don't know,
Speaker 3: he takes too many possessions off. He has lazy body language.
Speaker 3: He's just angry at things that we don't understand why.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if he is that that NBA
Speaker 3: NBA proo, that we all love because he's a competitive
Speaker 3: soob and he but you know, from what I know
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia, everybody says he's playing great. The games i've
Speaker 3: seen here, has played really really well, and he's played
Speaker 3: great in the fourth quarters coup with a lot of
Speaker 3: comeback wins. I just think it might be my You know,
Speaker 3: I can only like one big guy, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take yogib What in.
Speaker 2: The literal fuck are you saying? Also, really quick side
Speaker 2: note because this is how it started. Uh, George Carl
Speaker 2: isn't he the same guy who, when Doc Rivers became
Speaker 2: the head coach of the Orlando Magic, said that he
Speaker 2: didn't like all of these Afro American head coaches being anointed.
Speaker 2: He said, Doc does a great job. Now there's gonna
Speaker 2: be four or five more anointed of the Afro American coach,
Speaker 2: which is fine because I think they've been screwed deep
Speaker 2: down inside, they have been screwed. But I have a
Speaker 2: great assistant coach that can't even get an interview. Wait, okay,
Speaker 2: George Kyle, isn't this the same guy George Carl who
Speaker 2: said that Kenyon Martin and Carmelo Anthony were entitled and
Speaker 2: also lazy because they had two big burdens, all that money,
Speaker 2: and no father to show them how to act like
Speaker 2: a man. He wrote that in his book, George Carl.
Speaker 2: He said, George Carl in his book, I'm reading the
Speaker 2: excerpt right now as you've read. I grew up in
Speaker 2: a safe suburban neighborhood. Pause. Oh my god, George Carl,
Speaker 2: uh with both my parents. I had a second father,
Speaker 2: the most moral, decent man. I knew I never made
Speaker 2: enough money as a player to get confused about who
Speaker 2: I was. When I compare my background to Kenyons and Carmelos,
Speaker 2: it's no wonder we had a few prom Yep, same dude,
Speaker 2: same dude calling Joel mb lazy with lazy mannerisms and
Speaker 2: lazy body language. And you know who I really like,
Speaker 2: That hard working serbian dude Jokic, the one who is
Speaker 2: legitimately a sieve on defense. And everybody's trying to find
Speaker 2: advanced analytics, even me, try and find advanced analytics to
Speaker 2: show that Yogic is a better defender than what we
Speaker 2: see with our own two eyes, because sometimes he takes
Speaker 2: multiple plays off in a row and just passes the way. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: that guy is a harder worker than Joel Embiid. Let's
Speaker 2: look at the stats. MB's defensive stats this year include
Speaker 2: ten point two rebounds ninth in the NBA, one point
Speaker 2: seven block sixth in the NBA, one point one steals
Speaker 2: per game. Do you know how many players in the
Speaker 2: NBA have over one block and one steal per game? Three?
Speaker 2: Exactly three? One of them is not Nikoloa Yoki, Jaron Jackson,
Speaker 2: the leader in the clubhouse for Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 2: Shay Goldis Alexander maybe the most underrated defensive guard in
Speaker 2: the league. And Joel Embiid. I can't believe you guys
Speaker 2: got me fucking standing for the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
Speaker 2: You got me coming in and doing this because of
Speaker 2: the deep state? Did I mention? Embiid has been named
Speaker 2: with three All NBA Defensive Teams already in his career.
Speaker 2: Pretty good for a lazy guy with lazy mannerisms. Just lazy.
Speaker 2: He just walks, lazy, just walks from the tunnel, walks
Speaker 2: from the bus to the tunnel. He's lazy. The way
Speaker 2: he walks around his house is lazy. His offense is
Speaker 2: the best in the NBA. That is a statistical fact
Speaker 2: his defense all NBA. His defense is even more incredible
Speaker 2: when you consider that now his role has changed on
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia seventy six ers to being a roamer on
Speaker 2: the back side of the of the defense, more active
Speaker 2: role that allows him to hunt blocks and defend the perimeter.
Speaker 2: Do I even need to find out how many miles
Speaker 2: he runs per game? Do I need to do that?
Speaker 2: Do we need to get a whoop on Joel Embid?
Speaker 2: Do we need to put an ORR ring on Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid in order to refute these racist dads' claims. People
Speaker 2: are out of their minds. They're either being used or
Speaker 2: they're part of the deep state. George Carl for sure
Speaker 2: in the deep state. Gilberterena is just trying to be relevant.
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid says this about his new role. I think
Speaker 2: it makes sense with our team, just someone that can
Speaker 2: protect the rim. We got a lot of guys that
Speaker 2: like to be aggressive, and then we have a lot
Speaker 2: of breakdowns defensively, So if you're gonna have your best
Speaker 2: rim protector on his stretch five, probably doesn't make a
Speaker 2: lot of sense. Or they're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 2: wide open layups. It makes sense for the team for
Speaker 2: me to roam. Gilberterena says this, I don't see the
Speaker 2: quantum leap from Joel embiid it. He takes a lot
Speaker 2: of possessions off. He usually dies out in the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter when he gets tired. These people aren't watching games.
Speaker 2: Dies in the fourth quarter Asian zero. If emb died
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, how could he be the second
Speaker 2: most colection book scorer in the NBA. How he's shooting
Speaker 2: fifth and eighty five percent from the free throw throw
Speaker 2: line in the fourth quarter this year he has a
Speaker 2: plus one twelve for the year in the fourth quarter alone.
Speaker 2: Get the fuck out of here with this bullshit, and
Speaker 2: beat might just mess around and still get the MVP.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be one hell of a race. And I
Speaker 2: tell you what, the machine is gonna get louder and
Speaker 2: louder and louder because they want that boy Jokic to
Speaker 2: win three straight MVPs. Now, Chris Paynes dropped some tea
Speaker 2: from Lakerland. Apparently the Lakers are talking like they always do,
Speaker 2: and they are very interested in playing the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 2: or the Denver Nuggets in the first round. And they
Speaker 2: believe those matchups are preferable for them. They believe they
Speaker 2: can win. Imagine the Lakers being over confident. This never
Speaker 2: happens for them, right never. Haines reports this. They believe
Speaker 2: they have a legitimate shot to take down Denver. They
Speaker 2: believe they have a legitimate shot to take down Memphis.
Speaker 2: I don't know about Phoenix when KD is healthy. You
Speaker 2: haven't asked about that. But there's no fear at all.
Speaker 2: Lakers are filling themselves right now. They are fascinating for
Speaker 2: a team that is thirty five and thirty seven, clinging
Speaker 2: to the ten spot that they're like, yeah, give us
Speaker 2: that one seed. We'll play that one seed. We'll take
Speaker 2: that one seed down with that two time, probably gonna
Speaker 2: be three times MVP on it. Don't worry about it. Well,
Speaker 2: we just want them give us. That's like when Oregon
Speaker 2: that's my team in football. That's when we always say
Speaker 2: we want Alabama and then you get Ohio State and
Speaker 2: you get pounced by straight fifty points. You don't want
Speaker 2: the Nuggets. Lakers. I do think they have a legitimate point,
Speaker 2: though a lot of it's gonna depend on brawn. He
Speaker 2: was asked the other day if he's gonna come back
Speaker 2: for the playoffs. He said he's gonna be back before
Speaker 2: the playoffs. That remains to be seen. He's gonna be
Speaker 2: evaluated later on this week how he's gonna look. Remember
Speaker 2: he hurt himself a couple of years ago when he
Speaker 2: had that high ankle sprain. He was not himself. They
Speaker 2: got bounced early. But the new lineup is fun, di
Speaker 2: Lo Beasley, Ruey Vanderbilt, Fun, fun, health definitely the big concern.
Speaker 2: Twelve games left for the Lakers to flame out and
Speaker 2: miss the playoffs all together, which is what I want,
Speaker 2: or they could go on a roll avoiding the playing
Speaker 2: all together. It is tight up there in the West.
Speaker 2: I bet they finish ninth, tenth. They get the final eight,
Speaker 2: eight seed before the playoffs start. I gotta love the continent,
Speaker 2: so be careful what you wish for, Yo, kichen Jaw.
Speaker 2: I think it's all these comments. They are ten thousand
Speaker 2: percent not afraid of playing the Lakers in a seven
Speaker 2: game series. It would be fun, though. I want to
Speaker 2: see him play the Kings, just for posterity's sake. Charles Barkley,
Speaker 2: Charles Barkley is the best man. He really is. He
Speaker 2: is outrageous. I think we can all agree he's the
Speaker 2: best in the business for just talking. It's him and
Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith in terms of just ridiculousness. He comes
Speaker 2: out talks about March Madness, which I think he's completely
Speaker 2: unprepared for. I don't think he even reads what's going
Speaker 2: on with these teams, doesn't know player names. I listened
Speaker 2: to him talk after a game the other night and
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, this is what happens with me
Speaker 2: when I go on the radio and I haven't had
Speaker 2: time to research these matchups. He's like, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 2: know that Tiger Campbell kid, really good, Heimi Hawkes, great coach,
Speaker 2: Mick Cronin Tough Team UCLA. Like there's no information there.
Speaker 2: That's That's Charles Barkley throughout the entire tournament of March Madness.
Speaker 2: But what he does is electric and right now he's
Speaker 2: in talks with CNN to do a weekly show with
Speaker 2: Gail King. Barkley doesn't want to be on TV anymore
Speaker 2: unless he goes on with Gail King. No idea why,
Speaker 2: but he says this, I'm not looking to get on
Speaker 2: TV anymore. I just have so much love and respect
Speaker 2: for Gail she's the reason I'm even considering it. But
Speaker 2: that's not really the point of the story. The point
Speaker 2: of the story is to say Charles Barkley had one
Speaker 2: of the most random, underrated rants on the old school
Speaker 2: NBA and college I've ever seen. He stole the pregame
Speaker 2: NC DOAA show when he said this, I mean.
Speaker 1: It's so much stuff that goes into this, and you
Speaker 1: shout out to all the trainers also to have and
Speaker 1: the guys who do all the uniforms, to get these
Speaker 1: uniforms cleaned up and everything, because I mean, I'm so old.
Speaker 1: We used to take a shower on our uniforms because
Speaker 1: you know, because we flew commercial my first three time out.
Speaker 1: There's no era where you get Yesterday's not you're making
Speaker 1: this now. There's no way that you were supposed to
Speaker 1: watch your uniform when I am making this making up.
Speaker 1: I didn't finish, never heard.
Speaker 2: No one in the right minded is never done. Let
Speaker 2: him finished.
Speaker 1: When I had soap, they give you something, no, no, no, Kenny.
Speaker 1: When I first got to the NBA, we flew commercial,
Speaker 1: Yes exactly, I'm not disagreeing with you. So when you
Speaker 1: were late tonight before and flew the next morning, When
Speaker 1: was you exactly gonna get your uniform clean? You had
Speaker 1: to wash your uniform yourself. So after the game, when
Speaker 1: you got to your room, you took a shower in
Speaker 1: your uniform and dried and dropped on on the commercial
Speaker 1: outline the next year clamp it.
Speaker 2: That's why you had to let him. If you ever
Speaker 2: heard of this in your life?
Speaker 1: Club, Well, how are y'all cleaning y'all uniform? Y'all playing
Speaker 1: in somebody lost in the dryer or when you're when
Speaker 1: you're flying the next morning, you can clean your uniform
Speaker 1: without showering in it? Well that is that is that
Speaker 1: is possible after naturally clean it with without showering in it.
Speaker 2: You don't have to have it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no no, but it's easy to do it
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 2: This man, Charles Barkley said, it's easier than that way.
Speaker 2: Does he not know that hotels have washing machines? Has
Speaker 2: he ever hand washed anything in the sink? Does he
Speaker 2: if he's ever hand washed his draws? Does he hand
Speaker 2: wash his draws in the shower with them on his ass,
Speaker 2: with his streaks on it? Does he wash his body
Speaker 2: with the uniform hangover? This is outrageous. I don't think
Speaker 2: I've ever heard anything more outrageous in my life from
Speaker 2: Chuck than that. It was the most purely down home
Speaker 2: country ass shit I have ever heard in my life.
Speaker 2: So much I need to ask him about if I
Speaker 2: ever see him. I need a TV depiction of this scene,
Speaker 2: A set Rocky. I have been telling people for years,
Speaker 2: not years, but a year. I saw him live. The
Speaker 2: Palo Bancaro is not a real human being. He's not
Speaker 2: a real human. He is like if you took a
Speaker 2: perfectly proportioned human and you put him in the honey
Speaker 2: I enlarged the kid's machine. You remember when they did that.
Speaker 2: It's like that. It's like Paalo got into that and
Speaker 2: now he's six' ten two, fifty perfectly. Purported he's not
Speaker 2: a real. Person it's like if you saw a grizzly
Speaker 2: bear on A Disney channel. Documentary you see, that and
Speaker 2: then you run into the one in the wild and you're,
Speaker 2: like oh my, god this thing is eight hundred, pounds
Speaker 2: this thing is nine feet. Tall he's a, monster. RIGHT
Speaker 2: i texted my friend this WHEN i saw him. LIVE i,
Speaker 2: SAID i was. STUNNED i couldn't believe. It he's bigger
Speaker 2: Than Lebron. James that's WHAT i always, Say Imagine Lebron.
Speaker 2: James pallo is bigger than. Him SO i texted my.
Speaker 2: FRIEND i found the. TEXT i, said he's, massive he's,
Speaker 2: strong he's got ball scales and touch around the. RIM
Speaker 2: i am very high On pakro right. NOW i am
Speaker 2: pretty Convinced coach k is not using him. Right turns
Speaker 2: OUT i was. Right But Rui hachimura got a glimpse
Speaker 2: up close this weekend Of Paolo, bankara and it turns
Speaker 2: out he feels exactly HOW i feel about. Him, this
Speaker 2: this is Exactly Ruey hachimura is. Me Only Ruey, hachimura
Speaker 2: keep in, mind is six,' eight two hundred and. Thirty
Speaker 2: pounds he's not a. Small kid. He's grown he's a.
Speaker 2: Big boy After guarding palo all Night when orlando Played
Speaker 2: The la Lakers, On sunday poalo put up twenty one on.
Speaker 2: His head this Is what, rui SAID which i found to.
Speaker 2: Be hilarious, HE said i don't think he's nineteen. YEARS
Speaker 2: old i. Don't know i'm. NOT sure i don't think he's.
Speaker 2: Nineteen though that's another story for another day About How
Speaker 2: ryan iliyasova has been hiding his age and has a whole,
Speaker 2: new name which we'll talk about at, another time where
Speaker 2: he's like three years older than he TOLD. The nba
Speaker 2: but keep, in Mind really hachimer Plays With lebron james
Speaker 2: on a day to, day basis scrimmaging, with him and, he's, like,
Speaker 2: no No this, powell guy he's. Not real he's, not
Speaker 2: nineteen he's not a. Real person there's. No chance this
Speaker 2: is this is how big you have to be when
Speaker 2: you stun other. Big players this is LIKE the nba
Speaker 2: Version Of, wandi rodriguez that thirteen year veteran pitcher who
Speaker 2: actually signed As, any cabrea a. Fake person wandi claim
Speaker 2: was two years younger than he. Actually was he's seventeen,
Speaker 2: year old throwing ninety miles an hour like as, a
Speaker 2: penom but we use. Twenty one it's actually not really.
Speaker 2: That Impressive. That's powell pala's probably, twenty five twenty six.
Speaker 2: Years Old if palo was, twenty eight would that? Surprised?
Speaker 2: Anyone like and his name is so, Fake too like
Speaker 2: his Name is Paolo. Ban carrol he's He's. From seattle
Speaker 2: do you Know what? I'm saying He's? From seattle and
Speaker 2: his Name is Polo. Ban carol he's. TWENTY eight i
Speaker 2: don't even care how old. HE is i don't care
Speaker 2: if he's lying about. His age he is. A baller
Speaker 2: he is so fun in. All seriousness you gotta watch.
Speaker 2: Him play you gotta see him. IN person i watched HIM.
Speaker 2: AT msg i told, my friend you gotta see. HIM
Speaker 2: live i don't. Even care It's see. Orlando magic we
Speaker 2: gotta get as close to the floor as possible because
Speaker 2: you're not gonna. Believe it Next To wendell Carter And.
Speaker 2: Bull bull he looks like a man Next To Bull
Speaker 2: bow bull seven. To two do, yourself favorite Go see Palo.
Speaker 2: Ban carrol there's nothing more to the story other than
Speaker 2: the fact, That Yes palo bancarro is very big and
Speaker 2: probably not. Actually nineteen that's all the time that we
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