Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Trista Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, it is the
Speaker 2: final division previews Babe for this year in the NBA.
Speaker 2: I break down the Atlantic, the Central, and the Pacific
Speaker 2: divisions with my favorites, my dark horses, and those who
Speaker 2: have their own chance back absolutely none, looking at you, Lakers.
Speaker 2: I recorded this on a recent episode of beut MGM tonight,
Speaker 2: and the odds might have changed since then, and I
Speaker 2: am happy to share it all with you.
Speaker 3: All right, Nick, let's do me a favor and drop
Speaker 3: that beat.
Speaker 4: All right, Trista, it is NBA futures time. Let's talk
Speaker 4: about the Atlantic. So first, let's just get out of
Speaker 4: the way. Are the Knicks winning this division? Do they
Speaker 4: have any chance?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Is there any reason to take any kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I think the only way you would say that that
Speaker 2: was possible if they did get Shay this year, and
Speaker 2: I don't think that's happened.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's they're not winning the division.
Speaker 4: No, I would agree, all right, So cross the Knicks
Speaker 4: out of there. Yeah, then it gets real interesting. I mean,
Speaker 4: you can't take the Celtics and minus three hundred undred,
Speaker 4: you can't do that. So if you're not taking the
Speaker 4: Celtics right now, what do you think is the best
Speaker 4: player on the board the Sixers at plus six fifty,
Speaker 4: the Raptors at plus seven fifty, or the Nets at
Speaker 4: plus eight fIF.
Speaker 3: That's such a great point.
Speaker 2: And they all have their own problems, right the seventy
Speaker 2: six Ers, yes, like they found their defense. What are
Speaker 2: they They're the fifth best defensive team in all of
Speaker 2: basketball one hundred and nine point four defensive rating. But
Speaker 2: you look at them, they're twenty eighth and scoring like
Speaker 2: they really struggle to score the basketball. It's just Tyree
Speaker 2: s Maxi and Joel Embiids. So in terms of that,
Speaker 2: like they're literally giving up more points than their scoring.
Speaker 3: So I don't think that.
Speaker 2: There's a possibility for the Sixers to regain the hopes
Speaker 2: that they had coming into the season.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna have to make a move. I
Speaker 3: think they're gonna have to.
Speaker 2: Probably make a trade, probably have to change a coach
Speaker 2: in order for this to sort of turn around. And plus,
Speaker 2: we don't really know what James Harden is going to
Speaker 2: look like when he comes back.
Speaker 3: He looks he looks good.
Speaker 2: He did, But now when you have another setback for
Speaker 2: a whole month. What do you do, PJ when you're
Speaker 2: sick eat? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What do you do when you're injured? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And we know James Harden has had a how should
Speaker 2: we say, predilection for yeah, for for eating a lot
Speaker 2: of food. Anyway, he started a steakhouse in the middle
Speaker 2: of Houston that had, like I did a whole thing
Speaker 2: on it. It's like lobster inside of a steak, like
Speaker 2: dressed in butter with Fois Gras on top, wrapped in bacon,
Speaker 2: wrapped in something else, and it's like, Yeah, James Harden
Speaker 2: likes to eat. He likes to eat all the time.
Speaker 2: But now he's not burning off any calories. So no
Speaker 2: to me for the six, I guess the one that
Speaker 2: I would have to take is Unfortunately theors at plus
Speaker 2: seven fifty, we've got a Pascal Siakam who has been injured.
Speaker 3: Before Pascal was it was got hurt.
Speaker 2: He's averaging highs in every statistical category for his career.
Speaker 2: You look at him, he was averaging twenty five nine
Speaker 2: and eight with a steal and a block per game.
Speaker 2: So like that, coupled with OG, couple with Gary Trent,
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's beating Boston, but they are an
Speaker 2: ankle injury away, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: If something happened to Tatum, sure.
Speaker 2: Then you know anything could happen. And that's kind of
Speaker 2: what you're vetting on, is that something is going to change.
Speaker 2: Maybe Malcolm Brogden gets hurt as well, and who knows,
Speaker 2: right like, maybe the setback to Robert Williams is there.
Speaker 2: But I could not in good conscience take the seventy
Speaker 2: six ers. I could not, in good conscience take the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets, even though they are playing really good defense.
Speaker 3: I think that they are going to bring back Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Irving and that's.
Speaker 3: What makes me very leary about taking that.
Speaker 1: That's what makes this so interesting.
Speaker 4: Kyrie's the whole wild card because right now they're at
Speaker 4: plus eight fifty. If Kyrie comes back, do you think
Speaker 4: the odds stay the same? Do you think they go higher?
Speaker 3: I go higher?
Speaker 1: You think they go higher like plus one thousand?
Speaker 3: Oh No, I think it's lower or.
Speaker 1: Something like that plus six fifty, Because that's what I
Speaker 1: was going to ask you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if Kyrie comes back, I don't know how you
Speaker 4: can touch the Nets. I think they're almost better off without.
Speaker 2: I think They honestly are a better defensive basketball team,
Speaker 2: no doubt. And here's another thing that you could say
Speaker 2: to yourself, all right, why why would I want.
Speaker 3: To maybe bet on the nets? You still have yet
Speaker 3: to get back TJ. Warren.
Speaker 2: He hasn't come back from injury yet. Yes, Kyrie is out,
Speaker 2: and maybe that's a good thing. Edmund Sumner I just
Speaker 2: did a piece on him today for the heat Check,
Speaker 2: and he's been actually really good as a starting point
Speaker 2: guard for them instead of Kyrie Irving, really good defender,
Speaker 2: shooting forty percent from three, getting you know, has one
Speaker 2: of the lowest turnover assistant turnover ratio in the NBA,
Speaker 2: and everybody's just sort of playing together as a team. Now, well,
Speaker 2: you still have to incorporate Joe Harris back into the offense.
Speaker 2: He's got to get into rhythm. Seth Curry has got
Speaker 2: to get into rhythm. Nick Claxton he has to kind
Speaker 2: of find his identity. And who knows, maybe you're kind
Speaker 2: of like betting on Maybe's right.
Speaker 3: You can't bet on the knowns.
Speaker 2: So maybe you're thinking to yourself, something happens with Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons and he comes back in. But I've been burned
Speaker 2: by Ben Simmons enough times for me to really put
Speaker 2: my hard earned dollars on that team that he is on.
Speaker 4: We were obviously a little down on the Celtics to
Speaker 4: start the year with not having e May and just
Speaker 4: regression from making the finals and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: And you know, what are the best the league right now?
Speaker 1: Or is it Milwaukee?
Speaker 3: I think it's Milwaukee by a lot. By a lot.
Speaker 2: I think Milwaukee fully healthy. We haven't even seen them
Speaker 2: fully healthy all year. They've like lost twice, three times maybe,
Speaker 2: and those games there were players missing from all of them.
Speaker 3: We have not seen Middleton at all.
Speaker 2: Jannie has set out some games, Drew has set out
Speaker 2: some games. Pat Conington has not played, Joe Ingles has
Speaker 2: not played.
Speaker 3: Like you don't even have half of the roster that
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 2: Now there's whispers that they're gonna go get Jay Crowder.
Speaker 2: So I think that the Bucks are by far and
Speaker 2: away the best team in the league right now.
Speaker 4: Do you think it's the right time now to jump
Speaker 4: in on the Raptors? Do you think you can get
Speaker 4: better value on them at some point? Do you forego
Speaker 4: this great question? Seeing the Celtics continue to win games
Speaker 4: they go to like sixteen and five or something like that,
Speaker 4: and then the plus seven to fifty becomes like a
Speaker 4: plus twelve hundred or would you jump on the seven
Speaker 4: to fifty right now with Toronto?
Speaker 2: You know, I think probably waiting throughout Pascal Siakam's injury
Speaker 2: is important. Let's go ahead and look at the Raptors
Speaker 2: schedule because that actually matters.
Speaker 3: And you look at maybe like.
Speaker 2: After a big long road trip out west or something,
Speaker 2: and you're like, all right.
Speaker 1: They believe we just got ruffed up by that.
Speaker 2: Yep, Cleveland just got roughed up. So they're at home
Speaker 2: for a while, out home until basically, you know, Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: is over.
Speaker 1: Tough schedule coming up, and.
Speaker 2: Then after that they have to play the Pelicans, the Celtics. No,
Speaker 2: I mean they have some like games, right, they get
Speaker 2: some games. Maybe you hold off, You hold off until
Speaker 2: maybe they're a stretch against the Suns, the Bucks, the Knicks,
Speaker 2: a couple of games against the Hawks and the Bucks.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you gotta wait till January.
Speaker 2: I think January is probably a really good look because
Speaker 2: then they end up going west.
Speaker 3: To go play the Blazers. The Sun's the Jazz.
Speaker 2: February fifth, when they lose to the Grizzlies, and Boston
Speaker 2: has been just cool, chilling. Maybe you wait till the
Speaker 2: All Star break, but if I had to do anything,
Speaker 2: I would play I would play them.
Speaker 4: We talked about the Atlantic Division last hour. Now we're
Speaker 4: going to talk about the Central Division, and we have
Speaker 4: another heavy favorite, the Milwaukee Bucks minus two to seventy
Speaker 4: five to win the division. They are ten and three
Speaker 4: on the season. The Cleveland Cavaliers eight and five. They
Speaker 4: are plus two hundred, Chicago Bulls six and eight, they
Speaker 4: are twenty to one, and then the Pacers and the
Speaker 4: Pistons they are both two fifty to one to win
Speaker 4: the division. First off, are you worried at all about
Speaker 4: Cleveland losing four games in a row? Obviously never a
Speaker 4: good thing.
Speaker 2: Weak division, very weak division. Pacers stink, Piston stink, bull
Speaker 2: stink like. So yeah, I mean it's a two horse race.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's.
Speaker 3: Beating the Bucks. I don't think anybody's beating them period,
Speaker 3: let alone in the division.
Speaker 2: It is a little odd though, don't you think that
Speaker 2: the Celtics are minus three hundred and the Bucks probably
Speaker 2: the best team in the league's only minus two to seventy.
Speaker 1: So respect they have for Cleveland.
Speaker 2: That's respect that they have for Cleveland, that's respect that
Speaker 2: they have for Boston. Right the Boston obviously is getting
Speaker 2: a lot of respect from the market. I do think
Speaker 2: that there are some issues with the Cavs because if
Speaker 2: you look at Darius Garland with Donovan Mitchell, he just
Speaker 2: really and he got hit in the eye and he
Speaker 2: broke his orbital bone and his eyes still very swollen
Speaker 2: and doesn't look like he's functioning well.
Speaker 3: He had a huge game.
Speaker 2: The other night, but it was without Donovan Mitchell, right, Like,
Speaker 2: I think he had fifty one, two and six, but
Speaker 2: before that fifteen points, six points, sort of all over
Speaker 2: the place.
Speaker 3: Couple of good games twenty nine and twenty four.
Speaker 2: But he's turned the ball over a lot, and Donovan
Speaker 2: Mitchell obviously has sort of taken over in terms of
Speaker 2: what he's been doing. And I said this before, like
Speaker 2: when you watch the end of Cavs games, the offense
Speaker 2: just does not run smooth. They just don't know how
Speaker 2: to get it to not turn the ball over.
Speaker 3: They bring it up, two guards bring it up. They're
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 2: Both like sort of running in synchrony. One has the ball,
Speaker 2: doesn't really matter who. They wait for a high screen
Speaker 2: from either Jared Allen or Evan Mobley that usually draws
Speaker 2: a double team and not a switch that that other
Speaker 2: you know, big man that is on Jared Allen or
Speaker 2: Evan Mobley sort of shades over to the other guard
Speaker 2: that does not have the ball, and they basically play
Speaker 2: dB and they pick off that pass and they get
Speaker 2: out in transition. It's like clockwork, and they're making errant
Speaker 2: passes and they're making passes to guys that shouldn't be shooting,
Speaker 2: like Karris Lavert. And I love Kevin Love, but sometimes
Speaker 2: he needs to sort of stay in his place. Isaac
Speaker 2: Accorro is not a great shooter. There's a good team,
Speaker 2: but I am concerned about this team down the stretch
Speaker 2: of games. And that's in critical games. That's a non
Speaker 2: critical games. Yeah, if you look at what the Cavs
Speaker 2: have done in their schedule, they lost to the Kings
Speaker 2: in this fashion, Warriors they lost to the Warriors in
Speaker 2: this fashion. They lost to the Clippers in this fashion.
Speaker 2: So that was three games in a row that they
Speaker 2: did that. They lost to the Timberwolves in that fashion
Speaker 2: as well, they sort of came back at the end
Speaker 2: with no Donovan Mitchell. But listen, like they beat the
Speaker 2: Lakers as they should, they beat the Pistons as they should.
Speaker 2: Ye had two huge wins against the Celtics.
Speaker 4: Trist that's a great point. They have one win this
Speaker 4: season that hasn't been Every other win has been nine
Speaker 4: points or more. Yeap, They're kind of like the Bills.
Speaker 4: They either win by double digits, so they can't win
Speaker 4: one score games, right like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they have literally one good win and that
Speaker 2: was against the Celtics.
Speaker 1: I never really in ot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if.
Speaker 2: It come down to it, and they're allowing leads to
Speaker 2: just evaporate as well, Cavaliers were up.
Speaker 3: Going into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: I think they were up thirteen points, well four minutes
Speaker 2: to go, and it was a seventeen to one run.
Speaker 4: Why do you think that is that Cleveland just can't
Speaker 4: close out this game. Do you think just Garland and
Speaker 4: Mitchell are these players yet?
Speaker 3: I guess you think.
Speaker 2: I think there's some guys that are getting a little
Speaker 2: bit too. You know, they're watching the lead slip away
Speaker 2: and then they're starting to feel the pressure of it
Speaker 2: and they're pressing a little bit instead of just getting
Speaker 2: into their actions. They're not making the extra pass, they're
Speaker 2: not getting their bigs involved, right, which they should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know you've got a lot of hero ball.
Speaker 2: Darius Garland has always played hero ball and Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 2: has always played hero ball. And I think that sort
Speaker 2: of at the end of games does not bode well,
Speaker 2: especially against good teams.
Speaker 4: If so, if you weren't to take the Bucks or
Speaker 4: the Calves, you would take you would take the Bulls.
Speaker 4: If you couldn't take the top two, would you.
Speaker 2: I don't even think there's any conversation. I mean, they
Speaker 2: could make a they could make a move for someone not.
Speaker 4: Even a flyer, because even if you throw, you know
Speaker 4: who are going to get three dollars on the Pacers
Speaker 4: that can win you seven hundred.
Speaker 1: No shot fifty.
Speaker 2: Well, I know what the Pacers want to do. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you do, but I know, And Jake
Speaker 2: Fisher alluded to this. You know, the Pacers want to
Speaker 2: be a top five draft pick team. Like they're going
Speaker 2: to compete down the first you know, half of the season,
Speaker 2: two thirds of the season, and at the All Star break,
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline, they will move their expiring pieces
Speaker 2: and then they will fall to the end of the
Speaker 2: earth like they will just pew. There is absolutely no
Speaker 2: shot that the Pacers would win this division, especially considering
Speaker 2: that the Bucks have multiple guys that are really good
Speaker 2: and guys that are coming back from injury as well.
Speaker 2: So I know that the Pacers don't want to win
Speaker 2: this division. That would be an epic failure. I think
Speaker 2: for them Pistons, they are another team that I think
Speaker 2: is fun. They're trying, but they're definitely not in the
Speaker 2: mix for it either. I think Dwayne Casey is sort
Speaker 2: of more on the mix for the hot seat and
Speaker 2: the Bulls. They just don't have enough pieces. Like Vooch
Speaker 2: isn't playing defense, he never really has. We've got basically
Speaker 2: Alex Crusoe and no Lonzo, who knows when he's coming back.
Speaker 2: There's just no reason to bet anybody else be that
Speaker 2: besides those two, in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Are you surprised that the Pistons have been this bad
Speaker 4: to start the season?
Speaker 3: I am. At the end of the day. Jade and
Speaker 3: Ivy's very reckless player.
Speaker 2: He's like a Jah Morant, but not as good his
Speaker 2: decision making qualities like Jamorant but he can't do the
Speaker 2: thing the potential.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see there's flashes.
Speaker 2: He's a very up and down kid versus say of
Speaker 2: Keegan Murray, who's more of an emotionally stable kid. Like
Speaker 2: not to say, I mean just on the basketball court,
Speaker 2: I don't need to say about anything else, like more
Speaker 2: steady in terms of like the highs and lows of
Speaker 2: the game we saw against Saint Peter's and that same
Speaker 2: kid exists. Now.
Speaker 4: The Bulls, you know, they're kind of just stuck where
Speaker 4: like the Wizards are. They They're like not bad enough
Speaker 4: to tank and like be in complete rebuild, but they're
Speaker 4: not like great enough to contend and win a championship. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're just they're stuck in a really better they need.
Speaker 3: They should really make a move, you know, for more.
Speaker 2: Picks or pieces, try to get some boy that can
Speaker 2: help them, like a Yaka Pearl prediction time, Yaka Purl
Speaker 2: will be the bell of the ball. If the Spurs
Speaker 2: are looking to move him, which you know you've heard
Speaker 2: that they are, Yaka Purl will have a lot of
Speaker 2: team shooters going after him because he's double digit rebound guy.
Speaker 2: He can do a bunch of things offensively, defensively, very versatile,
Speaker 2: you know, very long able to do that type of stuff.
Speaker 4: Would you feel more confident about Boston winning the Atlantic
Speaker 4: or Milwaukee winning the Central Milwaukee?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody else is going to win, all right, Trista.
Speaker 4: Let's go to the Pacific Division though. This one I
Speaker 4: think is the most intriguing because you have some heavyweights
Speaker 4: in this one, the Suns, the Warriors, the Clippers, the Kings,
Speaker 4: and the Lakers. Sons are the favorite. They're eight and
Speaker 4: five on the season, minus one forty five to win
Speaker 4: the division. Warriors they are six and eight on the year,
Speaker 4: they're plus three hundred twin. Clippers are eight and six,
Speaker 4: they are also plus three hundred twin. The Kings six
Speaker 4: and six plus sixty six hundred to win the division.
Speaker 4: And then oh, the Lakers three and ten. They are
Speaker 4: eighty to one to win the Pacific. Just go ahead
Speaker 4: and take the Lakers and thank me later.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's maybe the grossest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: Well, we're obviously not doing that. This is an interesting
Speaker 4: division though, because the Suns, I'm not laying minus one
Speaker 4: forty five with them. The Warriors, you know they're gonna
Speaker 4: turn it around. But you know they can't win a
Speaker 4: road game.
Speaker 1: That's true. You're gonna lay the one forty five at the.
Speaker 3: Sun No, I'm not. I okay, I sixty six to what?
Speaker 1: You're just all right?
Speaker 4: Look, Ryan Horvat has the Packers, you have the Kings. Okay,
Speaker 4: you need to go easy.
Speaker 3: On the sixty six to one.
Speaker 1: They're not winning the division?
Speaker 3: Sixties.
Speaker 4: Do you see all the teams ahead of them, they're
Speaker 4: not winning the division?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand that. Let's not standings.
Speaker 2: Let's just know neither of the Clippers and then and
Speaker 2: the Clippers are three to one.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, it's the Warriors of the Suns.
Speaker 3: The Warriors right now are gonna be fine. We know this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna continue to say it because the more I
Speaker 2: say it, the more they lose.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's been tremendous.
Speaker 2: The Suns are eight and five, the Kings are six
Speaker 2: and six, the Warriors six and eight, Lakers obviously three
Speaker 2: and ten. They're completely out of it. But the Kings
Speaker 2: aren't that far behind. They just need to win the
Speaker 2: conference to win the division. Literally, they just doesn't. They
Speaker 2: don't even need to do anything, just win games. Just
Speaker 2: Kings win the games, so.
Speaker 1: Much easier said than done, though.
Speaker 2: Clippers are going to continue to fall. I can't believe
Speaker 2: the Clippers are eight and six. Actually, that doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense.
Speaker 1: Much worse than that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's probably this, it's probably the Son.
Speaker 4: It probably is to figure it out.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win road games eventually.
Speaker 2: But the Sons won the Pacific Division last year and
Speaker 2: the year before that, so I mean, I don't the
Speaker 2: Warriors can still be a you're right, yeah, you're the
Speaker 2: Pacific Division. That's probably why the Suns. The Suns are
Speaker 2: more well equipped to get out in front, in a lead.
Speaker 2: The problem with the Warriors is that, you know, by
Speaker 2: the time I think they figure it out, there's not
Speaker 2: gonna be that many games left. Right, And that's fine
Speaker 2: in the playoffs because you start fresh and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter as long as the Warriors are a
Speaker 2: six seed or better, it doesn't really change a thing
Speaker 2: for them.
Speaker 1: But they're not.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna win this division. I just
Speaker 2: it's gonna take too long for the role players to
Speaker 2: show up. We've got a full on panic mode on
Speaker 2: Warriors Twitter because the role players aren't very good. They
Speaker 2: just sent James Wiseman down to the G League. PJ
Speaker 2: just sent him down to the G League. Patrick Baldman
Speaker 2: Junior is in the G League.
Speaker 1: Is it too early to call Wiseman a bus Not
Speaker 1: to me?
Speaker 3: You, I mean, it's not.
Speaker 1: What a skilled seven footer he is. He's been injured.
Speaker 3: I go on Memphis every week and they were saying that.
Speaker 2: It's the Warrior's fault because they put all this pressure
Speaker 2: on him to compete right away and he's been injured
Speaker 2: and he only played three games in college. But like, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Warriors probably shouldn't probab shouldn't dress someone who played
Speaker 2: three games in college probably should And who has you know,
Speaker 2: who's a big man? Because big man we know this.
Speaker 2: They develop in a different way than guards. They take
Speaker 2: too long. They take not too long, but they are
Speaker 2: slower to develop. Yeah, you kind of want to get
Speaker 2: a big man that's like been in college for a
Speaker 2: few years, not a guy who played three games and
Speaker 2: then got suspended. But the Warriors, with all the role
Speaker 2: player issues that they have, they lost Gary Payton, they
Speaker 2: lost Otto Porter, they lost b A. Leecha, they lost
Speaker 2: Damian Lee, they lost a host of want to scount
Speaker 2: on Anderson. They lost like six or seven guys that
Speaker 2: really got rotation minutes.
Speaker 3: It would all hasn't played yet.
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson will be fine, but you just need other
Speaker 2: guys off the bench to do things. And by the
Speaker 2: time they figure out who that is, Moses Moody hasn't
Speaker 2: been very good. Kaminga hasn't been very good. I don't
Speaker 2: know that there's gonna be enough games left for them
Speaker 2: to catch up.
Speaker 4: You've sold me on the Warriors. I agree with you.
Speaker 4: I think they're out of the hunt. They you know,
Speaker 4: regular season games. When you've won as many championships as
Speaker 4: they do, you know how to kind of save your
Speaker 4: energy a little bit, navigate the regular seasons.
Speaker 3: More of an exploring day, not a scoring day.
Speaker 4: He saw that too throughout Lebron's career, like when he
Speaker 4: was young in Cleveland. Always wanted to get that one seed.
Speaker 4: I'm with you the Warriors. You sold me there, Clippers,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, Kawhi is just you can't trust
Speaker 4: them to stay healthy. No, they're not going to win
Speaker 4: enough games.
Speaker 1: I guess outside of the Suns, if there was a
Speaker 1: bet to be made, I guess the King. I guess.
Speaker 1: So just for pure value.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, no, you're right see six to one.
Speaker 1: Because they have depth. So if guys are out, like
Speaker 1: they can plug and plays.
Speaker 2: Paul's been injured, DeAndre Ayton is it has been up
Speaker 2: and down. Jay Crowder wants to be traded. Cam Johnson
Speaker 2: out for a couple of months. Like why not the
Speaker 2: Kings at sixty six to one?
Speaker 1: The Kings that call right King?
Speaker 3: Why not my Kings?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I like that?
Speaker 2: All right, they're balling sixty six to one, PJ. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine dollars? I might do that when I that
Speaker 2: they're cooking?
Speaker 1: You really like the Kings?
Speaker 3: I didn't score?
Speaker 1: Can they defend it all?
Speaker 2: Yeah? In crunch time they put Steph in prison. Really
Speaker 2: like they blocked Steph. Steph in the fourth quarter the
Speaker 2: last game against the Kings.
Speaker 3: He he was sitting there.
Speaker 2: With twenty seven points and I needed him to get thirty.
Speaker 2: He came in with like seven minutes left. He did
Speaker 2: not score another point.
Speaker 3: PJ. It was out of this world.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really really good. I mean so when
Speaker 2: they when they need to, the Kings can lock down.
Speaker 2: They're not like a defensive powerhouse for all forty eight,
Speaker 2: But when they need to, they can.
Speaker 4: So if you had to make a play, would you
Speaker 4: play the Raptors plus seven to fifty to win the
Speaker 4: Atlantic or the Kings sixty six to one win the Pacific?
Speaker 3: Why not both? Why not both?
Speaker 2: It's true?
Speaker 3: Probably the Kings, probably the King you sold.
Speaker 1: You know they're six and six, the Suns are eight
Speaker 1: and five. Yeah, I mean it was strange.
Speaker 2: Things back, Strange things they get go on a run,
Speaker 2: strange he get Murray gets into scoring twenty five, twenty
Speaker 2: seven a night, he had deer in fire, scoring thirty,
Speaker 2: got Malik off the bench, and Malik Monk off the bench,
Speaker 2: scoring sixteen seventeen. Davion Mitchell's locking guys down, Kevin Herder's coming,
Speaker 2: He's in the rotation, can score twenty. You've got like
Speaker 2: just multiple guys that can shoot, multiple guys.
Speaker 3: That can do things.
Speaker 2: I love it. I didn't even mention him on a
Speaker 2: Sabonis he assist Powerhouse, getting twenty down in the block,
Speaker 2: starting to shoot threes again. If he becomes the sniper
Speaker 2: Sabonis that we know who knew him to be in Indiana, watchout.
Speaker 1: They almost have like too many guys.
Speaker 3: They have a lot of guys.
Speaker 2: Really, I just said a bunch of names, and then
Speaker 2: guys that you don't even know, like Chimezi Metu and
Speaker 2: Trey Lyles, like a bunch of dudes off the bench
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