Speaker 1: Break was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. Lord
Speaker 1: did so the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just
Speaker 1: a cracker, the best podcast covering all the drama around
Speaker 1: the association. Let's move forward San Antonio's birth. They were
Speaker 1: twenty two and sixty last year they add City Big
Speaker 1: Booty Sousoko. I mean, seriously, you've got to see him
Speaker 1: in person. It's like the biggest booty of a rookie
Speaker 1: you've ever seen. No, I mean, I'm serious, it is
Speaker 1: something to behold. I don't mean to objectify him in
Speaker 1: any real way. I mean it's that it's that stark
Speaker 1: that that's the first thing I think about City Susco
Speaker 1: as Wow, that boy's got a caboose. And then of
Speaker 1: course the man with no caboose, Victor Wan Binyama that
Speaker 1: they add, who's added twenty pounds of muscle. But I
Speaker 1: can't really tell, but he does look fucking good. Not
Speaker 1: since the days of Lebron James's rookie year there been
Speaker 1: this much buzz about a rookie. It just hasn't been,
Speaker 1: and the hype is getting louder and larger. I am
Speaker 1: talking about Wemby the Machine Victor when Beyama time, and
Speaker 1: guess what he in preseason is currently exceeding the hype
Speaker 1: in three preseason games. Think it is just outrageous. The
Speaker 1: other night, National audience twenty three four and four on
Speaker 1: ten for fifteen shooting with three blocks in twenty three minutes,
Speaker 1: numerous highlight real plays dunking over Thomas Bryant. Where Thomas
Speaker 1: Bryant was, he literally was outside of the restricted area
Speaker 1: and dunked on Thomas Robert Thomas Bryant's face to the
Speaker 1: point where Thomas Bryant looked to the camera that was
Speaker 1: like fifty feet away. Room was like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: was that? Bro? What he called for a lob at
Speaker 1: the three point line? Are you serious? He grabbed up
Speaker 1: pass just inside the three point line and never took
Speaker 1: a dribble and dunked it. I swear to god, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't. I've never seen anything like this guy in
Speaker 1: my life. After the game, Greg Popovich was like, I
Speaker 1: only call one play for him all night and he
Speaker 1: still got over twenty. He did that because he's that
Speaker 1: boy Good. That's basically what he said, that boy Good.
Speaker 1: He knows how to play one play. All you called
Speaker 1: is what play for which one wasn't, which one imagine
Speaker 1: when they install an entire offense around like the you know,
Speaker 1: like the Tim Duncan era, like the David Robinson era.
Speaker 1: We got Victor H. Wemby over here freestyling and putting
Speaker 1: up twenty twenty three points on people. This man most
Speaker 1: of his points came off a transition, but at one
Speaker 1: point he euro step from three, caught the ball, passed
Speaker 1: the three point line, took two steps in dunk the
Speaker 1: ball never touched the floor. This man's stride is he
Speaker 1: could probably go from the entire length of the court
Speaker 1: in like five steps, maybe less, maybe four. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: What is going on here? How are they making human
Speaker 1: beings that can do this? I was rolling through some
Speaker 1: Spurs sites. If you're ever sad, you're in a bad day,
Speaker 1: just go on Reddit for the Spurs because it's the
Speaker 1: happiest place on Earth. Boy. They are they are elated.
Speaker 1: They can't even believe that this is real life. They're
Speaker 1: posting memes of Lebron from his pool, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I cannot believe this is my life. So much joy.
Speaker 1: It's like they've never had a center before, but they've
Speaker 1: had them over and over and over again. It'd be
Speaker 1: like if Green Bay the Green Bay Packers just Brett
Speaker 1: Farr Aaron Rodgers, and then all of a sudden, now
Speaker 1: they get Caleb Williams and they're like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, that's that's what you guys. Do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That's just like insane. Wemby made
Speaker 1: so many believers last night. I think he could start
Speaker 1: his own religion. I think he could. I think he
Speaker 1: could solve world hunger. Of course there's jealousy Portland getting
Speaker 1: the third overall pick. It's like, I think we were one.
Speaker 1: I think we're one, ping pong ball off a couple
Speaker 1: of times. Who's counting? Though, Really so much potential. The
Speaker 1: hype is so great, the money come into the team
Speaker 1: so great. Also, Dame wouldn't have had to ask for
Speaker 1: a trade. He would have been fine to stay. It
Speaker 1: would have been all great. A Reddit user named stoblow
Speaker 1: it's a real name posted this. I think it describes
Speaker 1: the hate from other fan bases towards Wen't be better
Speaker 1: than anything I've seen. The amount of hate VIC is
Speaker 1: already getting is insane. I've watched the NBA's YouTube channels
Speaker 1: highlights and like forty percent of the comments are people
Speaker 1: saying that his legs are going to break and he's
Speaker 1: never going to play a full season. Before the Summer League,
Speaker 1: he was over hyped. During the Summer League, he was
Speaker 1: a bust and now he's going to die in his
Speaker 1: first regular season game. Yes, bingo ding ding ding, you
Speaker 1: got it. You got it. Spurs fans. Get used to
Speaker 1: the hate. You are like the person that won the
Speaker 1: one point six billion dollar lottery. You show up to
Speaker 1: your high school reunion and a goal played at Bentley
Speaker 1: and you're like, don't you guys love me, love me? No,
Speaker 1: we fucking hate people like you. We want the Bentley,
Speaker 1: we want the billions, don't you get it? Spurs fans?
Speaker 1: I actually am happy for them, though, because it's been rough.
Speaker 1: You know, like you've had the thing that people don't
Speaker 1: understand on it Link is like they've had these riches, right,
Speaker 1: They've had the David Robinson's, they've had the Tim Duncans,
Speaker 1: they've had the Kawhi's and the Manus. But let's be honest,
Speaker 1: were those guys like that exciting? No, those guys were
Speaker 1: fucking boring. Kawhi plays like the most AI generated version
Speaker 1: of Michael Jordan you've ever seen Like, if Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: could be boring, that guy would be Kawhi Leonard, David Robinson,
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan, the big fundamental No, no, no, baby, Spurs fans,
Speaker 1: You've earned this. This is all the flash, all the
Speaker 1: fucking pizzazz, all the dunk on your eyeballs. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. Spurs fans, I tell you what, congratulations,
Speaker 1: You've earned it. I have no idea what to think
Speaker 1: of him, though, I mean, this has not been just
Speaker 1: like a slob fest for Wembiyama. Like Devin Vassal signed
Speaker 1: a long term extension. He's ready to take the next step.
Speaker 1: I like him as a player a lot. Jeremy Sohan
Speaker 1: is now the quote unquote that is what Pop said,
Speaker 1: quote unquote point guard for this team. I think he
Speaker 1: was a four at Baylor. That's scary. There's some nice
Speaker 1: pieces on the team. Davonte Graham, Trey Jones, Kelton Johnson,
Speaker 1: Kelvin Johnson's like very underrated, Malachi Branham, Zach Collins, c
Speaker 1: d Osman, Doug McDermott. There's somebody else that I'm forgetting,
Speaker 1: but he's there's a lot of good players on this team.
Speaker 1: What's the upside? I don't know. I don't know. Do
Speaker 1: we even who care? Really? Like, no, we don't care.
Speaker 1: Play in playoffs? Who gives a fuck. It's a generational
Speaker 1: player and we just have to be along for the ride.
Speaker 1: Who are they bumping for the playoffs and the loaded
Speaker 1: Western Conference? Probably no one? Probably No one. The perimeter
Speaker 1: defense and rebounding. Very suspect they're gonna be exploited by
Speaker 1: other teams. But there's gonna be so many highlights, probably
Speaker 1: twenty two wins. Again, who knows. They'll probably get another
Speaker 1: generational player, while we'll probably get Cooper Flagg, you know,
Speaker 1: because that's who they are. No matter where they finish,
Speaker 1: all eyes are gonna be on San Antonio in the
Speaker 1: future is so bright you need fucking some sunshades. Let's
Speaker 1: go with the Dallas Mavericks. Oh God, I'm so tired
Speaker 1: of them, so tired. Thirty eight and forty four, they
Speaker 1: intentionally missed the playing tournament because they wanted their tenth
Speaker 1: overall pick that was going to be owed to the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of hoopla was made about that.
Speaker 1: Grant Williams. They add nice piece Derek Lively, Olivier, Max
Speaker 1: and prosper Rashaun Holmes, subtract, Reggie Bullock, who knows why
Speaker 1: I think they cut him, Christian Wood, JaVale McGee, and
Speaker 1: Davis Berton's all of last episode with the interview was
Speaker 1: talking to Grant Asseth about the future of the MAVs.
Speaker 1: So I really don't want to go over it again.
Speaker 1: This is a team that does not inspire a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence or excitement, so you should probably learn from him.
Speaker 1: You learn a lot about what the Cavs positives are
Speaker 1: their weaknesses. We talked about a lot of the questions
Speaker 1: going to the season with the MAVs. I'll give you
Speaker 1: the three pressing ones in terms of what he said overall,
Speaker 1: Luca and Kyrie already banged up. Their health is paramount.
Speaker 1: They are top ten players. I am not sure, entirely
Speaker 1: sure that they are going to be healthy, and I
Speaker 1: am not entirely sure, nor is he that they can
Speaker 1: work together in the long run. Will this team have
Speaker 1: enough defensive athleticism to be good teams? That is very
Speaker 1: up in the air as well. They added some pieces
Speaker 1: that could be great rookies, and Grant Williams and they
Speaker 1: other have other teams that have turnstiles like Luca, Kyrie,
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway, Rashawn Holmes, Seth Curry. Who knows how in
Speaker 1: the world will they move up in the standings is
Speaker 1: a bunch of other teams get better cause, uh, who
Speaker 1: are they going to displace? Are they better than the Nuggets?
Speaker 1: No Sons, no Grizzlies, no Lakers, No, definitely, no Golden State,
Speaker 1: no Sacramento. No, that's pretty much locked that one through six.
Speaker 1: So if they're a planing team and they're gonna lose
Speaker 1: their pig, then aren't they like a thirteen seed. I
Speaker 1: hate to say it. I hate to say it, but
Speaker 1: I talk to Grant and I asked them, like, Hey,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna do that shit again, are they? And
Speaker 1: He's like, I think they might. So, yeah, Dallas is
Speaker 1: a troubled team who might just present us the next
Speaker 1: Dame Willard aka Luca asking out for a trade and
Speaker 1: that would be a damn shame. That's all the time
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