Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check, the Final Four
Speaker 1: is set in college hoops and we'll be breaking down
Speaker 1: the NBA quality players on all four teams.
Speaker 2: Lucky you.
Speaker 1: We get into some news from around the league, including
Speaker 1: more on the Timberwolves drama, the Sun's latest meltdown, and
Speaker 1: an injury.
Speaker 2: Report from around the league. A lot to get to,
Speaker 2: So come on, Anthony, let's talk that motherfucker beast, that
Speaker 2: shoulbute beyond.
Speaker 1: All Right, So I'm recording from Boston, where I got
Speaker 1: to see a ton of quality NBA players in person,
Speaker 1: the ukumber of.
Speaker 2: The Illinois game.
Speaker 1: And so now that the Final Four is set with
Speaker 1: Yukon and Alabama on one side of the bracket, which
Speaker 1: is just an absolute nightmare fun matchup, and NC State
Speaker 1: versus Purdue on the other side, which is absolutely crazy
Speaker 1: for NC State to be there, I've.
Speaker 2: Got some thoughts.
Speaker 1: We'll be getting deep into the draft prospects soon, but
Speaker 1: I thought we would take a quick look at some
Speaker 1: of the players in the Final four who have a
Speaker 1: chance to be playing at the next level in the
Speaker 1: NBA next year. So let's start with Yukon, right, who
Speaker 1: might be the best college basketball team in modern memory?
Speaker 1: Like the most dominant. I kept asking people, have you
Speaker 1: ever seen a team like this before? Old heads, young guns, historians?
Speaker 1: Nobody has?
Speaker 2: They have now.
Speaker 1: For Reference covered the spread in ten consecutive NCAA Tournament
Speaker 1: games by an average of thirteen points nuts. According to
Speaker 1: Keith Smith French Show, who puts together this really cool
Speaker 1: spreadsheet every year about what players in the tournament are
Speaker 1: on draft boards. Here's how the remaining team stack up
Speaker 1: for NBA prospects. Connecticuette Huskies. The ESPN's Big board has
Speaker 1: six current Huskies as NBA players. Wow, only four right
Speaker 1: now are considering the draft. They are Stefan Castle, top
Speaker 1: fifteen player most likely. He's sixty six stefan freshman shooting guard.
Speaker 1: He's averaging ten six and three with one and a
Speaker 1: half stocks per game. But mostly what I like about
Speaker 1: Castle is you can put him on the other team's
Speaker 1: best scoring guard and he's gonna lock him the fuck down.
Speaker 1: He is a big body, he can shoot, he can
Speaker 1: make things very difficult for you, and on top of that,
Speaker 1: his athleticism was on full display against Illinois, where he
Speaker 1: had this spin move, turnaround, up and under reverse dunk
Speaker 1: which absolutely lit my eyes up. And let me know,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this guy's an NBA talent, like a
Speaker 1: real deal. And we have seen that all year, but
Speaker 1: that was just another moment that popped off the page.
Speaker 1: Donovan Klingon is scene as a top ten talent. It's
Speaker 1: probably somewhere between ten and twenty. He's a six eleven center.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's true. Actually, he looks taller than
Speaker 1: six eleven. I think he's probably over seven feet now.
Speaker 1: I saw him in person. He looks like he's seven
Speaker 1: to one. He's averaging thirteen eight and two sixty four
Speaker 1: percent from the field. He had ten blocks in one game.
Speaker 1: They only credited him for eight. He had five blocks against.
Speaker 2: Illinois, but I think he had more than that.
Speaker 1: He held opponents against Illinois for zero for nineteen on
Speaker 1: possessions that he defended, which is absolutely nuts. Alex Caraban's
Speaker 1: an interesting one. He's seen as like a second round
Speaker 1: guy six eight forward. He's averaging fourteen to five and two.
Speaker 1: He's like the third option. But he's just steady Eddy.
Speaker 1: He's exactly what you want from a guy that's big.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see him on probably Grant Nelson, so he
Speaker 1: can defend Biggs as well, especially ones that want to
Speaker 1: stretch out the floor and keep Donovan clinging away from
Speaker 1: the rim, and they're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: do that with Alex Caraban down there. He's shooting fifty
Speaker 1: percent from the field right now. Samson Johnson is a
Speaker 1: backup center who I absolutely love. And when Donovan Klingon
Speaker 1: is either in foul trouble or is it playing well,
Speaker 1: Samson steps in. He's slated to go undrafted, but he
Speaker 1: might want to test whether he can get into the league.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's a six to ten backup center. He's
Speaker 1: averaging five to three and one, not a lot, seventy
Speaker 1: two percent from the field, but he's playing really well.
Speaker 2: In this tournament.
Speaker 1: In the minutes that he's kidding Alabama my man Grant
Speaker 1: Nelson second round pick. Now they're saying he was not
Speaker 1: on draft boards until Alabama's just rip through the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1: He's a six to eleven transfer from North Dakota State.
Speaker 1: The thing that I like about him is he can
Speaker 1: shoot the three. He's shooting thirty six percent from three,
Speaker 1: but hitting some big time shots in clutch crucial moments.
Speaker 1: Forty nine sent shooting from the total field, averaging twelve
Speaker 1: six and two, but it feels so much more impactful
Speaker 1: than that, especially considering in the tournament what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do hitting free throws.
Speaker 2: Down the steps stretch at NC State.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about DJ Burns, who I circled
Speaker 1: on my list of players that I was most excited
Speaker 1: about watching in this tournament. Six', nine two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five pound. Load he might have played his way
Speaker 1: in the. LEAGUE i don't know what he, is BUT
Speaker 1: i tell you, what when he has the ball in his,
Speaker 1: hands magical things. Happen just the court vision outrageous and
Speaker 1: it was on full display Against duke, again and he.
Speaker 2: Was laughing because they couldn't guard.
Speaker 1: Him not the best defender, himself but he's averaging fifteen
Speaker 1: three and four in THE acc, tournament eighteen five and
Speaker 1: four in this four tournament game so, far including twenty
Speaker 1: nine in a game Against.
Speaker 2: Duke how About Zach edy For.
Speaker 1: Purdue he's now slated to be a lottery pick after
Speaker 1: not being able to be drafted last year and having
Speaker 1: to come back to college. Basketball he's seven, four two
Speaker 1: Times National player of The. Year he's had an excellent
Speaker 1: tournament he's averaging thirty sixteen and. Two the thing THAT
Speaker 1: i think is really, impressive, though to note About Zach
Speaker 1: eaty is he's averaged only two turnovers on over thirty
Speaker 1: four minutes per.
Speaker 2: Game that's just.
Speaker 1: Ridiculous so by, CONSENSUS i think this is maybe the
Speaker 1: weakest draft in recent. Memory and that's WHAT i think
Speaker 1: makes it so. Interesting there's a lot of jump balls out.
Speaker 1: There there is a massive difference in opinion of nearly
Speaker 1: all the top players in the, draft unlike what we
Speaker 1: saw last year or even in the last few drafts
Speaker 1: where the top ten was pretty much set in, stone
Speaker 1: not even like the colibally would, notwithstanding so you could
Speaker 1: argue all you, want Like Donald clington can go top,
Speaker 1: ten you could also say.
Speaker 2: Why he might go?
Speaker 1: Twentieth donovan klingon a defensive first center who really can't get?
Speaker 1: Buckets why WOULD i take a guy like that in
Speaker 1: the top ten when he's basically a backup big who. Knows,
Speaker 1: also on top of, THAT i Watched Terrence. Shannon he's
Speaker 1: obviously not in the final, four but he's. Big he's
Speaker 1: six six sixty seven and he's a terrible. Shooter but
Speaker 1: we saw him throughout the, tournament be able to fill it,
Speaker 1: up be able to hit crucial, buckets but more, importantly
Speaker 1: get after the, ball, defensively hit free, throws steal the, ball.
Speaker 2: And put the game.
Speaker 1: Away For illinois that were not supposed to Be Iowa,
Speaker 1: state and there they were in The elite. Eight So
Speaker 1: i'm really excited to see what happens with some of
Speaker 1: these guys that we were maybe not expecting to go
Speaker 1: drafted or not expecting to be this highly sought after
Speaker 1: after they've had these great tournament, runs which is something
Speaker 1: that we see every year in THE ncaa. Tournament guys
Speaker 1: that surprise you and guys that fly up the draft.
Speaker 1: Board one thing is for, sure having FUTURE nba players
Speaker 1: on these final four teams is good for both college
Speaker 1: and pro.
Speaker 2: Basketball so let's steps moving. On we've been.
Speaker 1: Covering this shit show that is The, minute so the
Speaker 1: Tim wolves ownership drama between on one, hand current owner
Speaker 1: and world class dick Asshole Glen, taylor and on the other,
Speaker 1: hand modern THINKING nba owners in Wait Alex rodriguez And Mark.
Speaker 1: GLORY i would recommend you go back and listening to
Speaker 1: the last couple of episodes to fill yourself in on
Speaker 1: what's going on in terms of like how we got,
Speaker 1: here where we're, at what's to say happens? Next but
Speaker 1: it's safe to say that the great fear is that
Speaker 1: this toxicity would impact the. Team all of, this all this,
Speaker 1: fighting all of this drama would impact a team that's
Speaker 1: trying to fight tooth and nail for the number one
Speaker 1: seed in The. West so guess, What Glenn, taylor you fucking.
Speaker 1: Google it appears that it is already distracting the team
Speaker 1: trying to keep in your, grasp and it should have
Speaker 1: only one.
Speaker 2: Thing on its, mind and that's winning The.
Speaker 1: West current standings are wild right, now there's a three
Speaker 1: way tie atop The west for the first. Place but,
Speaker 1: anybody this was not going to be a distraction That
Speaker 1: all The timberwolves don't care who owns the. Team all
Speaker 1: The timberwolves don't care that their name is in the.
Speaker 1: News all The timberwolves don't. Care Think Glenn taylor said
Speaker 1: he was going to sell the team and now he's.
Speaker 2: Not you're. Wrong Take Mike.
Speaker 1: Conley Mike colley is like widely considered to be one
Speaker 1: of the nicest player to ever step foot on the basketball.
Speaker 2: Court so who is he even.
Speaker 1: KEELED i, mean he's so even, keeled and he's never
Speaker 1: once gotten a technical in eighteen. Seasons so this is
Speaker 1: what he had to say about the bullshit that is
Speaker 1: dominating the news in The Twin. CITIES i don't think
Speaker 1: it affects the players as. Much maybe it affects the
Speaker 1: image of the, team the aura of the team around
Speaker 1: a little, Bit but as far as the players are,
Speaker 1: CONCERNED i think we're just, like, damn that's, crazy and
Speaker 1: then we go back to watching film and worry About Yo,
Speaker 1: Kisch Jamal murray And Michael porter and those. Guys it's
Speaker 1: a unique situation and it's something we don't have any control.
Speaker 1: Over we're just trying to do our. Job note that
Speaker 1: after saying it doesn't impact the players, much he uses
Speaker 1: the qualifying term where trying to do the job meaning
Speaker 1: like not. Nothing the last thing this team needs is
Speaker 1: to be thinking about anything. Else the five game, series
Speaker 1: by the, way with The nuggets last, year hinged on
Speaker 1: like a couple of, plays a couple of possessions per
Speaker 1: game in those five games that it took The nuggets
Speaker 1: to get through the difference between winning and losing against
Speaker 1: The nuggets is going to be a single. Shot being
Speaker 1: distracted at all is going to get you, Absolutely mrked
Speaker 1: is very, dangerous especially dangerous considering that you've got very
Speaker 1: little room for error in a very Stacked, west which
Speaker 1: is what makes this entire thing incredibly, stupid and the
Speaker 1: timing of it almost. Criminal If Glenn taylor had any
Speaker 1: support left In, minnesota and what from my friends say
Speaker 1: he does, not it's long gone now after his latest.
Speaker 1: Shenanigans we're going to be watching The wolves extra extra
Speaker 1: close in the coming weeks out In. Phoenix oh, no
Speaker 1: we've got a full blow melt on our.
Speaker 2: Hands yeah we.
Speaker 1: Do The suns are now just ten and nine in
Speaker 1: the last nineteen and are now squarely in the plan
Speaker 1: at seventh, place one and a half games behind the Surging,
Speaker 1: mavericks by the, way and facing the toughest schedule down
Speaker 1: stretch of any team in THE.
Speaker 2: Nba nerves are rattled and.
Speaker 1: Frazzled frustration is, everywhere and guess what when that, happens
Speaker 1: someone's got to be, blamed and fingers right now are being.
Speaker 1: Pointed and the head, Coach Frank, vogel has found his,
Speaker 1: scapegoat and his name Is Lou.
Speaker 2: Dort Lou. Dort, wow what the?
Speaker 1: Fuck, Yeah vogel has snapped and done something almost no
Speaker 1: head coach has, done which is to single out a
Speaker 1: one individual opposing, player and good, God vogel dig just.
Speaker 1: That here's what he had to say about Lou.
Speaker 3: DORT i really liked the offensive game that we. Played
Speaker 3: we had several possessions where we have. Speed, WELL i
Speaker 3: didn't make the. Shot it wasn't, perfect and we did
Speaker 3: have fourteen, turnovers even if seven of them were whistle,
Speaker 3: turnovers you know, which the leagues got to look at
Speaker 3: all the flopping that Lou dort. Does it's ridiculous how
Speaker 3: he gets, called and then you know they're gonna get
Speaker 3: calls like. That then they're they're gonna have an. Advantage
Speaker 3: you can't just fall down every time there's contact and
Speaker 3: get a, whistle you. Know, SO i, MEAN i hope
Speaker 3: the big looks at.
Speaker 1: That let me repeat, that you can't just fall down
Speaker 1: every time there's contact and get a. Whistle this is
Speaker 1: what Made frank vogelsnan, this, dude you just got beat
Speaker 1: down by twenty five points at the hands of The
Speaker 1: thunder with Outshake Gojess.
Speaker 2: Alexander you lost every quarter to the. Thunder do you
Speaker 2: know how hard it is to?
Speaker 1: Win to lose every single quarter of AN nba, game
Speaker 1: it happens like ten percent of the, time and you're
Speaker 1: gonna blame all of that on little old Lou, Dort,
Speaker 1: well big Lou dort. Flopping you, KNOW i think it
Speaker 1: Was Eric gordon going two for ten on more shots
Speaker 1: taken Than Devin, booger who got outscored by a Rookie
Speaker 1: Caseen wallace who's coming off the. Bench you don't think
Speaker 1: that might be the. Issue the kicker? Though is this
Speaker 1: the call that set Off vogel occurred in the second
Speaker 1: quarter When dort got called for a flopping, foul and
Speaker 1: the next day THE nba front office overturned it determined that,
Speaker 1: yes Lou dort had been, fouled it was an incorrect flopping.
Speaker 1: Foul by the, way if you want to see how
Speaker 1: often Lou dort has been called for flopping, Fouls he's
Speaker 1: been called flop flopping three times this. Year two of
Speaker 1: them have been, overturned so one time he has one flopping,
Speaker 1: foul which is as many flopping fouls As Josha kogie
Speaker 1: of The suns. Has, boy it's getting rough out.
Speaker 2: Here for The.
Speaker 1: Suns what, happens like there's a decent chance that The
Speaker 1: suns don't make it out of the. Plan it's an
Speaker 1: absolute rock fight right now in the seven to ten.
Speaker 1: Spots Imat ishbia is gonna have a lot to answer
Speaker 1: for in this, offseason considering how much money he has
Speaker 1: stuffed in the payroll and how little moves he has to,
Speaker 1: make and now he's got to Pay Grayson allen and
Speaker 1: go well over the luxury tax.
Speaker 2: Team let's be, honest is kind.
Speaker 1: Of finally we've got some injury news that will affect
Speaker 1: playoff races down the. Stretch, first The Sacramento kings man
Speaker 1: suffered a massive. Loss Six man of The Year Malik
Speaker 1: monk has suffered a spring mco probably out for the
Speaker 1: year UNLESS i don't, know like The kings go to
Speaker 1: The Western Conference, finals But i'm not sure that's gonna
Speaker 1: happen Without Malik. Monk what a massive loss for The,
Speaker 1: kings who have been like pretty inconsistent most of the
Speaker 1: season is probably second half of the season at, least
Speaker 1: And Malik monk might be the most consistent part of
Speaker 1: that besides the Earon fox And Demonisa. Bonus he's been
Speaker 1: super fun to watch. Too he has been an absolute
Speaker 1: delight and is in a contract year and is a.
Speaker 2: Microwave his value has never been.
Speaker 1: Higher The, kings as we discussed in the last, episode
Speaker 1: can only offer him seventeen million dollars a. Year now
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to hope that that's gonna be. Enough
Speaker 1: hopefully it will. Be With Kevin herder now ruled out
Speaker 1: for the, season The kings are now a play in
Speaker 1: team down two of their most important bench. Guys around the,
Speaker 1: league a lot of players are getting shut down for
Speaker 1: the year on non playoff teams by the.
Speaker 2: Way Laurie markinen is done In.
Speaker 1: Utah chamezzi meant to just a wild player to be,
Speaker 1: mentioned got shut down by The. Pistons Quentin grimes is
Speaker 1: done up In, Toronto Kita Bates dop is done In,
Speaker 1: brooklyn And everybody's done In, brooklyn And LaMelo ball is
Speaker 1: officially done In. Charlotte on the bright, side despite reports
Speaker 1: that The lakers are saying they both Gave vincent And
Speaker 1: Jerry vanderbilt should be back by the end of the,
Speaker 1: Season tyler hero is ramping up down In, miami And
Speaker 1: Pat beverly is skipping season ending resurgery to thug it
Speaker 1: out In. Milwaukee but more, Importantly Jojo Joe El embiid
Speaker 1: is ramping up and for video that's been released over the,
Speaker 1: weekend he is looking absolutely like a. Monster you do
Speaker 1: not want to See Joel embiid like, this AND i
Speaker 1: promise you no one wants to play him in the first, round.
Speaker 2: Especially like The. Celtics can you imagine having like an.
Speaker 1: Eighty percent one percentage and then the first thing that
Speaker 1: you see Is Joel embiid in the first. Round these
Speaker 1: playoffs cannot get here fast. Enough that's all the time
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