Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Trystal Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, the NBA Draft
Speaker 2: lottery has come and gone, and we finally know where
Speaker 2: Wemby is.
Speaker 1: Going to land and where everyone for now is going
Speaker 1: to pick.
Speaker 2: That will obviously change. The Conference finals are under way, folks.
Speaker 2: In surprise, surprise, Joe Mizula still hasn't been calling time outs.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really know when to use him, how to.
Speaker 2: Use him, or if to use him. La, you're seem
Speaker 2: happy with the three point loss to Denver, And yes,
Speaker 2: we get into even more on the Jamarant incident and
Speaker 2: some more on news from.
Speaker 1: Around the league.
Speaker 2: Nick, let's get right into it and drop that generic
Speaker 2: ass beat that should be Rihana.
Speaker 1: So we talked about this before.
Speaker 2: I did some things on social media about it, but
Speaker 2: it's worth mentioning again. Is Joe Missoula, apparently the head
Speaker 2: coach of the Bubble and Celtics, loves the movie The
Speaker 2: Town so much that he watches The Town four times
Speaker 2: a week, that's every other day, actually more than every
Speaker 2: other day.
Speaker 1: Just to get into the mood.
Speaker 2: And in the inspiration of getting in that Boston mindset,
Speaker 2: he has used one of the movie's catchphrases, apparently to
Speaker 2: motivate the team this season this postseason. It's who's car
Speaker 2: we gonna take? Who's time out we're gonna call? But
Speaker 2: this is not about quirks. It's kind of about his quirks,
Speaker 2: which is a basketball coaching quirk, which is like not coaching. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're talking about timeouts, or better put, Joe Miszula's inexplicable
Speaker 2: decisions about not taking them. Last night, the Celtics lost
Speaker 2: home court advantage and they dominated three out of the
Speaker 2: four quarters of that game to the Miami Heat. They
Speaker 2: got cooked so bad in the third third quarter that
Speaker 2: they couldn't come back from it. They were the better
Speaker 2: team pretty much the entire game. They were up eleven
Speaker 2: at halftime, The Heat were a ten and a half
Speaker 2: point underdog. Coming into the third quarter. The Heat were
Speaker 2: getting you better than four to one. OF's just to
Speaker 2: take them to win the game. And you know what,
Speaker 2: the Miami Heat scored forty six points that third quarter.
Speaker 2: And during that time, when the Heat erased an eleven
Speaker 2: point deficit and actually, I don't know, took the lead,
Speaker 2: Joe Mazula didn't call a single timeout, not one, not
Speaker 2: one when the heat pulled within six seems like a
Speaker 2: good time to take a time out, bam Adebayo and
Speaker 2: one no timeout, a heat three to pull within one position?
Speaker 1: Uh No, not a timeout.
Speaker 2: Not even at the tie ball game, would get Joe
Speaker 2: Mizula to say, I must stop the bleeding.
Speaker 1: We must have a conversation, get your asses back in
Speaker 1: the game. Nothing.
Speaker 2: The entire third quarter, Miami ripped apart, his defense outscored
Speaker 2: the Celtics by twenty And what did Joe Mizzula do
Speaker 2: Not a goddamn dame nothing. He sat on his hands,
Speaker 2: leaving the players to flounder and wonder and try to
Speaker 2: figure it out.
Speaker 1: On their own.
Speaker 2: What do we even have a coach for if you're
Speaker 2: gonna make them figure it out? Like, huh, what's happening?
Speaker 1: That's what? What are these timeouts even for?
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart said this in the following of the game,
Speaker 2: Joe's real big on not bailing us out when we
Speaker 2: play like shit, We've got to look at ourselves in
Speaker 2: the mirror. Joe can call a timeout and then what
Speaker 2: we do the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's on us.
Speaker 2: Joan is coaching staff putting a lot of work to
Speaker 2: come up with a game plan.
Speaker 1: Does Like, I'm confused. Does that do.
Speaker 2: We just not like need someone in the game to
Speaker 2: kind of like recalibrate the troops, Like is that not
Speaker 2: what we're doing anymore or what? Like I don't I
Speaker 2: don't quite get that. Like Marcus Smart when he calls
Speaker 2: a time out and then what he tells you, Hey,
Speaker 2: go over there, Hey, when this person does.
Speaker 1: This, you go over there. Hey, Like this man is.
Speaker 2: Open, he's pointing out things that he can see from
Speaker 2: the bench because he's not playing and you are.
Speaker 1: He can make adjustments, he can make.
Speaker 2: Substitutions, so many options at his disposal other than doing nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm so upset with him. Joe.
Speaker 2: It's actually kind of adorable, you know, because you know
Speaker 2: it when it's happening. You know, before it even happens,
Speaker 2: it's going to happen. You're like, all right, they're up
Speaker 2: by eleven, it's halftime.
Speaker 1: How are they gonna fuck this one up?
Speaker 2: It's like wow, So they ask him, They asked Joe
Speaker 2: Missoula the presser. The media is like, hey, they'd asked
Speaker 2: it in a very funny way too, Like how do
Speaker 2: you feel about the concept of like taking timeouts and.
Speaker 3: Going up against spolshow, who's constantly making adjustments on the fly,
Speaker 3: willing to kind of call timeouts and change things up
Speaker 3: so quickly.
Speaker 2: How did you.
Speaker 1: Balance like trying to let things play out in the
Speaker 1: ways you usually do, versus like having to seize control.
Speaker 1: I called to in the first quarter, thinking more like
Speaker 1: the third quarter.
Speaker 2: I don't call too in the first quarter, save it
Speaker 2: for the third quarter.
Speaker 3: Run.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I have a question.
Speaker 2: Does he not know that he gets more like that,
Speaker 2: his little bag of timeouts replenishes throughout the game.
Speaker 1: Does Joe Mazzula know how this part.
Speaker 2: Of the game works, because when he asks, let's just
Speaker 2: really quickly, let's just go back to it just because
Speaker 2: I'm lost, don't call too in the first quarter.
Speaker 3: Save it for the third quarter.
Speaker 2: Run. I don't call two in the first quarter to
Speaker 2: save it for the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Right, No, you had other ones like you called.
Speaker 2: Two in the first quarter, and there are more to
Speaker 2: be used in the third quarter. Joe Mizzoula, what are
Speaker 2: you talking about? I've listened to this clip twenty plus
Speaker 2: times today. I swear to God or swear to whatever,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what's happening. I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: he knows that he has extra timeouts. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he thinks that he has four of them for
Speaker 2: the whole game and he used them all. I don't
Speaker 2: know if he understands that, like you can actually call
Speaker 2: timeouts every quarter, Like you can call him in every situation,
Speaker 2: as long as you have them, you can call him.
Speaker 2: And I know that everyone is killing him for it,
Speaker 2: and you know what, writers, NBA, TV people, especially fans.
Speaker 2: As for the game, the twitter account Bucks film Room
Speaker 2: described it best friend of Shoho Bucks film Room.
Speaker 1: A Twitter account fucking hates me.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The stages of losing to the Heat in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Denial, they can't keep playing like this, disbelief, how do
Speaker 2: they keep playing like this? Anger, There's no fucking way
Speaker 2: the Heat should be playing like this, bargaining God.
Speaker 1: They must have made a deal with the devil or something.
Speaker 1: And then depression. Damn we lost to the Heat. We're
Speaker 1: going home. That pretty much sums it up, folks.
Speaker 2: The Heat got thirty from Jimmy. They shot really well
Speaker 2: again from three. I don't know how they're doing that
Speaker 2: because they were one of the worst in the league
Speaker 2: at three point percentage in the regular season. Now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, gave Vincent Steph Curry. Now, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, Caleb Martin.
Speaker 1: Is Andrew Wiggins in his prime.
Speaker 2: Now, all of a sudden, These Heat are like a
Speaker 2: full team of the Splash Bros.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, seven players hit two or more threes in
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again.
Speaker 2: Seven Heat players hit two or more threes in the game.
Speaker 2: Boston looked really great in the first quarter first half.
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart had ten assists in the first half. Celtics
Speaker 2: ended up with six players with eleven points or more
Speaker 2: and the team shot fifty two percent from the field.
Speaker 2: The Boston Celtics shot fifty two percent from the field,
Speaker 2: and you know what, they are still lost at home.
Speaker 1: So confusing.
Speaker 2: I think Boston fans are perplexed as well. This is
Speaker 2: not Philadelphia. No, you can't count on Doc Rivers going
Speaker 2: Spider Man mean with you and also doing nothing.
Speaker 1: When bad things happen.
Speaker 2: Eric Spolstra, as is well documented, will call a time
Speaker 2: out two minutes into the game if he thinks that
Speaker 2: shit is gone awry.
Speaker 1: Hey, he will throw something at Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2: He will threaten one of his players to beat his
Speaker 2: ass in the middle of the game, like Eric Spostra.
Speaker 2: Say a lot of things about Eric Sposter all you want,
Speaker 2: but him not doing what he's supposed to do on
Speaker 2: the floor with the x's and o's and the adjustments,
Speaker 2: that is not one of them. When Boston went on
Speaker 2: a baby run to start the fourth quarter, what you
Speaker 2: think he happened?
Speaker 1: What happened? Would you think he did? If you had
Speaker 1: to guess?
Speaker 2: If I gave you options, what do you think he did?
Speaker 2: If I put it on a multiple choice sheet and
Speaker 2: I said a nothing. B yelled at his players from
Speaker 2: across the room, see.
Speaker 1: Call the time out. What would you say he did?
Speaker 2: Ninety four seconds in to the quarter, Eric Spolster calls
Speaker 2: a timeout. Boom, run stops. Is Joe Mizula taking notes,
Speaker 2: young padawan? This is how you coach a fucking playoff game.
Speaker 2: What a fascinating series. Boston's going home, right, They're gonna
Speaker 2: go home. I don't get to go to the finals.
Speaker 2: I get to watch the ship from Washington, DC with
Speaker 2: four TVs and my co host like, that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen, right, that's yep. I think that
Speaker 1: is Laker fans.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a group of people feeling so confident
Speaker 2: in a loss.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it.
Speaker 2: I have never seen an entire group on Twitter say
Speaker 2: after a team at home wins that game that that
Speaker 2: team that just won the game is cooked.
Speaker 1: I've never seen that before. But that's where we're at.
Speaker 2: Nuggets are up one zero, but apparently the Lakers have
Speaker 2: figured some shit out. Apparently this this like the Kobe stopper.
Speaker 1: You know, remember when Ruben.
Speaker 2: Patterson was the Kobe stopper back in the day. Like,
Speaker 2: apparently the Lakers have a Joker stopper and they just
Speaker 2: he's just been waiting in the wings, just sitting on
Speaker 2: the bench, waiting to showcase his superhuman talents of stopping Jokic.
Speaker 2: Stopping not just Yokic, but the entire Denver Nuggets offense
Speaker 2: comes to a screeching halt when Rui Hachi Mura is
Speaker 2: on Jokic. Apparently that's where we're at, because for the
Speaker 2: let's check the notes, it was ten trips down the
Speaker 2: floor ruey Hachi Mura pretty large, like very large sample size.
Speaker 2: According to NBA Twitter, ten trips down the floor where
Speaker 2: Rui was on Jokic and the Nuggets only scored six points.
Speaker 2: Apparently they figured something out. Now, La fans, you know
Speaker 2: how they are gold Stars participation trophies going to the
Speaker 2: beach surfboards. That is what they're doing with the game
Speaker 2: one loss, which is weird because Michael Malone noted in
Speaker 2: his postgame presser that Denver ended up winning the game
Speaker 2: when Jokic put up just a measily stat sheet of
Speaker 2: thirty four points, twenty one rebounds, and fourteen assists with
Speaker 2: two blocks. He missed five shots. They figured him out.
Speaker 2: It's over. It's over for the Denver Nuggets. At one point,
Speaker 2: the Nuggets had a twenty point lead. So, like I said,
Speaker 2: they feel that the Ruy Hachimura adjustment is what changed
Speaker 2: the dynamic of the game.
Speaker 1: The game got tight.
Speaker 2: They were free safetying Anthony Davis not letting anybody go
Speaker 2: into the paint made it look crowded. Anthony Davis was
Speaker 2: a block monster. But let's be honest, can we just
Speaker 2: be Let's put the jokes aside for a second. Ruey
Speaker 2: Hachimura went away from the Washington Wizards for an indefinite
Speaker 2: period of time because he wasn't full kissed. There were
Speaker 2: things happening inside of him and inside of his life
Speaker 2: and inside of his brain where basketball.
Speaker 1: Was not front of mine.
Speaker 2: Ryachimur is not the most locked in human being for
Speaker 2: a full forty eight minutes, Riachimura, you're not gonna be
Speaker 2: able to put him on Jokich for the entire game
Speaker 2: for the next presumably four what'd you say you went
Speaker 2: win four games? The next four that the Lakers win.
Speaker 2: We'll just say, I'm very optimistically You're not gonna be
Speaker 2: able to put ruyachimurro on Yogish that entire time.
Speaker 1: He will be in Trebu trabu. He put ruly in
Speaker 1: pick and roll.
Speaker 2: See what happens right at the beginning of the game.
Speaker 2: Rui's might start tonight. We'll see what happens. Jamal Murray, Jokic,
Speaker 2: pick and roll, barbecue chicken on a hibachi gro like,
Speaker 2: what's going to happen. Yokich will pick him apart. It's
Speaker 2: really just a matter to me of whether Denver.
Speaker 1: Can play defense for the full game.
Speaker 2: When they play defense, they get stops, they create turnovers,
Speaker 2: they go out into transition. They look very fast, they
Speaker 2: look very athletic. When they don't do that, they look
Speaker 2: very slow because the Lakers are defensive. I mean it's
Speaker 2: very simple defense set very hard to score defense, not
Speaker 2: set very easy to score. I know this sounds like
Speaker 2: very simple game, but in a lot of ways it is.
Speaker 2: There's no way that the Lakers should feel that Game
Speaker 2: one was a victory at all. In fact, you might
Speaker 2: feel that it was a demoralizing loss because you could
Speaker 2: have stolen one. You had the opportunity, you were down
Speaker 2: three in the fourth quarter. But don't take my word
Speaker 2: for it. Take it from coach Malone. See what he
Speaker 2: had to say.
Speaker 3: Is this kind of discussion being based set Like even
Speaker 3: though the Lakers lost, you know, they're walking out of
Speaker 3: here last night like they think they've got something. I'll
Speaker 3: bet you every red penny I have that Darvin ham
Speaker 3: would rather be up one zero than down one zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what does that even mean? Like what
Speaker 2: are we even talking about? Michael Malone is having none
Speaker 2: of this. You guys figured some things out. You guys
Speaker 2: have won something like we'll see how the Lakers respawn tonight.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe the Lakers are one game too.
Speaker 2: Maybe Ruy is the Joki Stopper, two time MVP getting
Speaker 2: stopped by our man Ruey hatchimur.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move forward. It was fun while it lasted.
Speaker 2: The hope, the dreams, the imagination, all the like the
Speaker 2: season tickets I was gonna buy. Uh, I was moving.
Speaker 2: I was gonna move to Portland. Cover Wemba Yama full time.
Speaker 1: What is it? Ten ten eighty the fan, It's an
Speaker 1: Odyssey station. They'd have me.
Speaker 2: I'm sure cook maybe get transferred cover wemby'all. I was
Speaker 2: ready to party like it was two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: All over again.
Speaker 2: Brandon Roy was the good luck mascot the last time
Speaker 2: he was the good luck mascot.
Speaker 1: We got the number one overall pick.
Speaker 2: When I think we had like a four percent chance
Speaker 2: of getting it, we had a ten and a half
Speaker 2: percent chance. As Blazers and things look good. We rolled
Speaker 2: into the top four.
Speaker 1: My heart was fluttering.
Speaker 2: Houston got the number four spot, and I said, this
Speaker 2: is fucking it. Yes, Detroit, Houston four. We've moved up
Speaker 2: at least two spots, why not one? Why not move
Speaker 2: up another one?
Speaker 1: Why not move up?
Speaker 2: And then we got the three spot and I knew
Speaker 2: it was over. My soul immediately left my body and
Speaker 2: looked at me from above, and I realized Portland's.
Speaker 1: Trading this pick. That's what's happening.
Speaker 2: This pick is not even an Don't even look at Athletic,
Speaker 2: don't look at the scouting reports of any of these
Speaker 2: young kids.
Speaker 1: They do not concern you.
Speaker 2: You are married to Damian Lillard, and what Damian Lillard
Speaker 2: wants is outside of Victor Wamiyama. You do not get
Speaker 2: any more young kids. They do not exist in your mind.
Speaker 2: In fact, start looking at your own roster. Say what
Speaker 2: kids can go. There's more kids on the current roster,
Speaker 2: they can go. I thought it was funny though, when
Speaker 2: Victor wamba Yama saw first and foremost, he saw Houston
Speaker 2: get the four spot, and they cut to him immediately.
Speaker 2: Apparently Victor wam Mayama also did not want to go
Speaker 2: to Houston. Shocking, shocking. I know that he would not
Speaker 2: want to go to a team with a bunch of
Speaker 2: chuckers on it, a bunch of lottery picks, and when
Speaker 2: they won like what twenty two games or whatever it was,
Speaker 2: and a new head coach that's got all kinds of
Speaker 2: misconduct allegations in a city full of temptations, and he's
Speaker 2: by the way, French.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was a great fit.
Speaker 2: So Jabari Smith quote tweeted it and with the little
Speaker 2: emoji of taking notes. Okay, Jabari, you go ahead take
Speaker 2: those notes, baby boy. Here, what you need to do
Speaker 2: is take notes and give them to your teammates so
Speaker 2: they can get you the fucking ball when you're open
Speaker 2: underneath the rim.
Speaker 1: So poor Charlotte.
Speaker 2: They end up with the second overall pick, and now
Speaker 2: they've got to worry about what they're gonna do, because
Speaker 2: are they gonna take Scoot Henderson, who would probably not
Speaker 2: pair great with their other point guard of the future,
Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball. Are they going to take Brandon Miller, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, Brandon Miller, according to Zaklo, today looks horrible.
Speaker 2: He's out of shape, like I thought it was, like,
Speaker 2: oh like Brandon Miller not in good shape, meaning like
Speaker 2: mentally like yeah, no, shit, he's been going through a lot.
Speaker 1: No like he's physically.
Speaker 2: Not been working out, like, just not in shape, been
Speaker 2: drinking SODA's and eating bond bonds and Cheetos and chilling
Speaker 2: on his couch well playing call of duty. According to
Speaker 2: Zach Lowe, also, Brandon Miller not been doing great in
Speaker 2: the interview process either, which does not shock me, uh,
Speaker 2: considering all the things that have gone down recently.
Speaker 1: So that's bad.
Speaker 2: What Charlotte is going to do is a big off
Speaker 2: season story. We know Victor will be a Spur. Pop
Speaker 2: is probably gonna be continuing to coach until he gets
Speaker 2: his Joe Paterno on, like straight from the court to
Speaker 2: the grave type stuff for him. I know that's morbid,
Speaker 2: but literally like they're gonna have to drag him up
Speaker 2: out of there. And now we've got to figure out
Speaker 2: the biggest story for the next generation of the NBA.
Speaker 2: The hype is that big for Victor. Been talking about
Speaker 2: him for it feels like two years now. His hype
Speaker 2: is so big that you have Chris Brussard saying if
Speaker 2: he's if he turns into Hakeem, he's a bust.
Speaker 1: That's where we're at. That's how big guy. That's an
Speaker 1: insane statement.
Speaker 2: Uh, Hakeem fucking Elijah One, NBA Champion twice, twelve time
Speaker 2: All NBA, twelve time All Star, that guy, if he
Speaker 2: turns into that guy, he will be a bust.
Speaker 1: Get out of here.
Speaker 2: So let's just credit the Spurs for being the luckiest
Speaker 2: organization like in the NBA, they were so lucky they
Speaker 2: would have won it, like four times.
Speaker 1: They win the lottery multiple times. Fred Katz was.
Speaker 2: In the lottery draw room and tweeted that the Spurs
Speaker 2: didn't just win the number one overall pick, their number
Speaker 2: got drawn twice more. It was written, the script had
Speaker 2: been determined. It was always the Spurs. It was never
Speaker 2: anyone else. In fact, that the Blazers somehow would have
Speaker 2: gotten quote unquote lucky. They wouldn't have gotten lucky. Victor
Speaker 2: Waumiyama wouldn't have gotten lucky. US NBA fans wouldn't got
Speaker 2: lucky because Victor Wambiama would have been some version some
Speaker 2: combination between Sam Buie and Greg Godin, probably multiple micro
Speaker 2: fractures in his shins, probably never seen after forty three games,
Speaker 2: and Scoot Henderson would be the next Michael Jordan. That
Speaker 2: would be what would happen, Of course, if Blazer's got
Speaker 2: the number one overall pick. So Spurs last time they
Speaker 2: had the number one overall pick in both years they
Speaker 2: won fifty six games the next year. That's the best
Speaker 2: record in the lottery era for a team with the
Speaker 2: number one pick. They're gonna be a lot better, probably
Speaker 2: not winning fifty six games, but man, this could not
Speaker 2: have worked out better for the NBA, for the Spurs.
Speaker 2: For yeah, I mean, like listen, San Antonio and France
Speaker 2: go together like Joe Mizula and never calling timeouts Like
Speaker 2: that's just it's just written. Like you got Boris diaw,
Speaker 2: You've got Tony Parker, Like the entire country of France
Speaker 2: was rooting for Victor to go to San Antonio. This
Speaker 2: is what he said, Victor, there's a special relationship between
Speaker 2: France and the Spurs because of Tony Parker and Boris dial.
Speaker 2: I know half the country maybe, if not the whole
Speaker 2: country wanted the Spurs to have the number one overall pick.
Speaker 2: And before you say, well, Trista, there's a Patrick Ewing situation.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it just happens for a reason. Like I said,
Speaker 2: if it wasn't Portland, I wanted him to be in
Speaker 2: San Antonio. Another big man, transcendent big man going to
Speaker 2: the Spurs, playing underneath Pop and probably playing the most
Speaker 2: boring brand of basketball you've ever seen. So the lottery
Speaker 2: is over, the draft order is set. Here's what it
Speaker 2: looks like. Spurs number one, they get Victor two Charlotte Hornets,
Speaker 2: three Portland Trailblazers, four Houston Rockets, five Detroit Pistons, six
Speaker 2: Orlando Magic, seven Indiana Pacers, eight Washington Wizards, nine Utah Jazz,
Speaker 2: ten Dallas Mavericks, eleven Orlando Magic, twelve OKC thunder thirteen
Speaker 2: Toronto Raptors, and fourteen New Orleans Pelicans. So, after all
Speaker 2: those shenanigans of Dallas losing games on purpose, like I recommended,
Speaker 2: they do get their tenth pick. They do get to
Speaker 2: keep their own pick, and now they have the only
Speaker 2: trade asset that they could possibly think of. Otherwise the
Speaker 2: Knicks would have gotten their pick. And we saw how
Speaker 2: much chalk it was. The lottery basically lined up almost
Speaker 2: exactly with the odds, So if they would have gotten eleven,
Speaker 2: the Knicks would have gotten their pick.
Speaker 1: Now the Knicks have no first round pick.
Speaker 2: Other than Victor Am y'am at number one, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, the books have him met minus twenty thousand
Speaker 2: to go number one, which is like the craziest odds
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. That means one hundred dollars bet would
Speaker 2: get you fifty cents, which like still is free money,
Speaker 2: I mean still free whatever you can put up on
Speaker 2: that like I could probably still I could be talked
Speaker 2: into it. For nearly two years, everyone was talking about
Speaker 2: how vic if it wasn't around, it's scoot scoot this,
Speaker 2: scoot that, scoot here, scoot there. And now very smart
Speaker 2: people are saying that it is not Scoots number two
Speaker 2: overall pick for sure, that Charlotte could take Brandon Miller.
Speaker 2: They could take Amen Thompson. They could take him at three,
Speaker 2: They could take him at two, which means Scoot could
Speaker 2: fall all the way.
Speaker 1: Down to four.
Speaker 2: And if scoots at four, maybe there's chaos because you
Speaker 2: know who's got fours? Those chuckers over there in Houston,
Speaker 2: they don't need another guard, So what happens do they
Speaker 2: move it?
Speaker 1: So much chaos?
Speaker 2: There are rumblings that Charlotte might even take Amen Thompson,
Speaker 2: who is mocked between three and six. They might be
Speaker 2: willing to trade down their pick. Mitch Kupcheck seems to
Speaker 2: love Brandon Miller, but like I said, Brandon Miller apparently
Speaker 2: has a dad bod. Now, so there are rumors that
Speaker 2: Houston may want to trade up. Rumors that the MAVs
Speaker 2: and the Blazers want to trade their picks.
Speaker 1: Altogether. So what are we gonna get? Who knows. We
Speaker 1: look at the bottom half of the draft.
Speaker 2: Atlanta, Utah, La, Miami, Golden State, Houston.
Speaker 1: Again, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Portland.
Speaker 2: From New York, Sacramento, Memphis, Indiana, Charlotte, Utah, Indiana, and
Speaker 2: the Clippers. There's just a lot of intriguing options here.
Speaker 2: Brooklyn has a pair of first rounders here, they could
Speaker 2: bundle those, they could move up. Houston could package four
Speaker 2: and twenty to get to three, which then means Portland
Speaker 2: probably package four and twenty for somebody like Ognanobi, or
Speaker 2: maybe even two if they fall in love with one
Speaker 2: of the top candidates. So yeah, I think what's interesting
Speaker 2: is that how many trades are being floated out there
Speaker 2: and what that means about this draft. We see last
Speaker 2: year not many trades at all. Why, Because the traft
Speaker 2: was seen is very good. Don't want to trade your
Speaker 2: pick if you have one. Everyone interested in their pick.
Speaker 2: Apparently this is supposedly a very deep draft, So why
Speaker 2: has everybody wanted to trade back? Maybe this draft class
Speaker 2: isn't as good as we thought it was, Like, maybe
Speaker 2: it is just like two three, maybe top tier talents.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just one. Maybe it's just Vic Maybe.
Speaker 2: Like Osar Thompson is a top tier talent, but we
Speaker 2: don't know because he's not being ranked there. So a
Speaker 2: lot of people think that there's not much left outside
Speaker 2: of Victor Wambaiama. Brandon Miller has character issues in addition
Speaker 2: to the holes in his game that.
Speaker 1: I see, Scoot can't shoot threes.
Speaker 2: The closest comp that I can see to Aman Thompson
Speaker 2: could be John Morant, that's six seven, But he also
Speaker 2: could be Cam Reddish, who's been bounced around like a
Speaker 2: ping pong ball. So Cam Whitmore has a horrible assist rate,
Speaker 2: which means he's used to being a number one option,
Speaker 2: and a lot of these teams that could draft him
Speaker 2: have already up are elite scorers on the team, So
Speaker 2: what does that mean for him? Taylor Hendrix, Oustar Thompson,
Speaker 2: Jarris Walker, Anthony Black, Derek Lively. Are any of those
Speaker 2: guys all pro players?
Speaker 1: I'm asking? Are they? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: So I think you're gonna see a ton of movement
Speaker 2: on draft nights, and that means what we're likely to
Speaker 2: see is lots and lots of chaos. This draft is
Speaker 2: gonna be incredible, incredible for betters. We'll definitely have some
Speaker 2: friends of the shows to break this down because this
Speaker 2: year the draft is make or break for a number
Speaker 2: of teams like Portland, and I am excited to see
Speaker 2: how it all shakes out. All right, So we've got
Speaker 2: a Ja Morant update. Will multiple updates, but we'll keep
Speaker 2: it to the pertinent updates. First, Adam Silver responded to
Speaker 2: Jaw getting caught once again waving a gun around on
Speaker 2: IG Live a quote unquote brandishing a weapon. What a
Speaker 2: word brandishing? I kind of love it, right, Like, what
Speaker 2: do I brandish a diet coke as sometimes a coke?
Speaker 1: Zero?
Speaker 2: Ourman, Adam and Amsterdam had this to say, I at
Speaker 2: least was left with the sense that he was taking
Speaker 2: this incredibly seriously. Honestly, I was shocked what I saw
Speaker 2: this weekend. Yeah, I was shocked as well. How long
Speaker 2: Jaw will get for the suspension is not known, but
Speaker 2: it is gotta be I think a minimum of twenty games.
Speaker 1: Jaw fought the law and the law. One. Jaw fought
Speaker 1: the law and the law. One. That's the song, right,
Speaker 1: that's uh.
Speaker 2: He's put in the in the sights of the League
Speaker 2: Disciplinary Office. And that's what the song says. The penalties
Speaker 2: are coming fast and furious. The latest penalty is from Nike.
Speaker 1: Row Row.
Speaker 2: Numerous reports are saying that the Nike and Finish line
Speaker 2: have removed Jaws Hunger Jaw one sneakers.
Speaker 1: What a name.
Speaker 2: This is especially concerning if you are in jail camp
Speaker 2: or group because they were supposed to drop on May
Speaker 2: twenty fifth, which is in seven days. The new colorways
Speaker 2: were listed as recently as Tuesday. But now if you
Speaker 2: look for the Jaw Hunger one Sneakers four h four error,
Speaker 2: this page does not exist. That is not good. Why
Speaker 2: does this matter, Well, because the last time that Nike
Speaker 2: deleted the shoe line on their app was Kyrie Irving
Speaker 2: and he was never to return again. He has been
Speaker 2: taping up his shoes with masking tape, writing little messages
Speaker 2: on them ever since it is a cool world out there.
Speaker 2: Nike does not play when it comes to the brand
Speaker 2: of their athletes and the brand of their shoes.
Speaker 1: That is not what they are playing around with. A tiny, tiny.
Speaker 2: Percentage of NBA players get a signature shoe from Nike,
Speaker 2: and now Jaw might have just fucked it all up
Speaker 2: for the rest of his career.
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