WEBVTT - Winning Time was then. Losing Time is now. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:17.560 Come on, come on, come on. This episode of the 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:22.080 heat Check, we talk about the latest episode of Winning Time, 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.880 how it is connected to the train wreck that is 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.400 the twenty twenty two Lakers, and breakdown what in the 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.840 sam Hill is happening in Brooklyn, and we marvel at 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.239 the fact that with one week left, we still know 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.159 almost nothing about who's going to be in the playoffs 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.080 and where they're going to be. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:39.599 We've got eight days before the. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.280 Playing game, folks, So go ahead, drop that motherfucking beat 0:00:45.080 --> 0:01:01.279 perfect good quite quick note, folks, So sorry, last week. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:02.320 Was a rough one period girl. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.119 Apologies, no episode, it was rough. He wouldn't have wanted 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.840 to hear me, see me enjoy my energy. I was 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.640 laid all the way out on my floor sleeping like 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:18.000 a little baby in the was a fetal position, they say, yeah, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.920 it was bad. Congestion lost voice migrains for about seven 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.640 straight days. So I am sorry, but too much is poppin'. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.320 So we have to get to this first and foremost, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.200 like every Monday until this show is over, and probably 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.039 season two as well, because they can do this. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.039 For over and over and over. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:42.440 We've got our heat Check Winning Time recap, and good lord, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.559 have you seen it? Still waiting? 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:46.199 Good lord? 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:52.760 Last night's episode of Winning Time was amazing. I was 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.000 talking about it with some friends the other day, and 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:00.200 I believe that we are experiencing a television renaissance. Like 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.040 I think we're in the Golden Age of television, and 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.440 that includes the time period where you see The Wire 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.520 and The Sopranos, and I like those two shows, and 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.840 I like that period of time for TV. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.919 But this is on another level. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:18.800 The cinematography, like I've said, the music is just so 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.240 good right now for TV. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:22.880 Just do not get me wrong. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.920 We are getting gems dropped on us for Winning Time 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.040 every single week. I can't even I'm watching it, and 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.280 as I'm watching it, I'm saying, holy shit, this is good, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.520 Like this is so good what I said that last 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.240 night three times in the middle of the show, Like 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.400 this is fucking awesome. I love this show. And I 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.680 know not all of it's true. I don't care. The 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.840 acting's great, I mean all of it. And they don't 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.200 even have that make up a fucking thing. The storyline 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.200 has written itself. The history books are crazy as it is. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.240 So here's the thing. I'm not even gonna there's no 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.840 spoiler alerts really, because this is something that you can 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.799 just go ahead. It's like if I did a recap 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.280 on a movie about JFK. You know what's coming, like 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.560 you know where it's going, Like I don't. Oh my god, 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.840 Tristy just spoiled the jfknning folks, it's like that, you 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.359 know what I'm saying, we know how it ends up. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.800 So two things happened last night with the seventy nine 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:22.720 eighty Lakers. One centers around brilliant coach Jack McKinney. No 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.959 one remembers this guy, but he was one of the 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.440 most innovative head coaches to face the league at that 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.680 point in time, that free motion offense. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.040 He was such a salty ass guy too. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.560 He was like, do it over and over and over 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.560 again until it's right close, practices, pushing Jerry West out 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.400 of the room, making him go and try to get 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.920 pat Riley to find him film in the back so 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.320 that he could sneak in and see what was happening. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.840 The players trying to institute a coup because they weren't 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.800 used to running that much and that fast, pretty much 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.840 at full pace. You've got an old Kareem basically lazy 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.920 as hell because he already has five MVPs and he's 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.840 thinking about retiring from basketball all together. And Jack McKinney's like, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.080 what the fuck? It came in here to change the league, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.880 came in here to change basketball, and these guys won't 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.520 even do what I want. Got guys trying to get contracts, extensions. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.400 They're snitching on Jack McKinney. To Jerry West, He's like, Yo, 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.480 I'm not here anymore. It's all of this so great, 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:24.840 so great. They were a revelation, constant sprinting stuff that 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.080 actually makes you think to yourself, could this particular show 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:33.039 create a new version, a new renaissance in the point 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.160 guard because it makes you really love the role that 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.560 they have in the offense. So why hasn't anyone but 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.120 old heads heard of Jack McKinney before, Really, Because fourteen 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.920 games into the season of the show, beginning of the 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.000 Showtime Lakers, where the Lakers are in first place, he 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:56.560 got into a bike accident and nearly died. The breakpads 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.400 somehow seized up on him and he just he hit 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.839 the brakes, fell off of his bike, no helmet, just 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.039 what they called raw dog, no chaser head to the 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:13.920 cement splat stroke, and they replaced him with his assistant 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.560 coach who was working for Loyal and Merrymount, who then 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.000 ended up taking the Lakers to the Promised Land. They 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.760 fucking fired Jack McKinney. No is cole world out here. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:24.640 Ain't no love in the heart of the city. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.160 Are what are we talking? You cannot make this up. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.480 And like last episode we talked about how Jerry Tarkanian 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.359 was quote unquote dissuaded from joining as the head coach 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.640 of the Lakers. I was talking to a friend who 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.760 loves hoops and he was like, I didn't even know that. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:47.760 The things that went on with this Lakers team absolutely insane. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:54.760 And this episode five revolves around Kareem, completely around the man, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.040 the myth, the legend who's still yapp into the same 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.440 still running with this beat of his own drum to 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.960 this very day, the same drum too, which is like, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:10.000 comport yourself like a professional and an activist and anything 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.680 less is disrespectful to the culture and that includes you, 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.840 Lebron James, which we'll get to right after this. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.200 So it delves into the fact that. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.599 Kareem became a Muslim in college and his relationship with 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.240 his working class father, right, And then it digs into 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.440 the relationship between Kareem and Magic as well. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.039 Magic's coming in. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:36.480 He's loud, he's boisterous, he's smiling, he's dancing, he's bringing 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:37.400 music in there. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.800 And Cream does not like that because that makes them. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.760 Look like how he does not want the culture to 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:45.640 be perceived. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:46.120 Right. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.080 But Magic's trying to inject some life into this group, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.480 get them to win games, which is what they're supposed 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.120 to be doing. And you circle back to the fact 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.960 that Cream doesn't even really want to be there in 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.719 the first place. He wants to get enough money where 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.800 he can ride out in the sunset and be the activist, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:01.760 is right, And he's thinking about he's at the end 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.719 of his contract, is even gonna play? 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.040 And you got Magic being like, what's up, cap? He 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.560 needs orange juice. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.240 He's like, get this, get this rookie out of my face, right, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.480 and he's bringing He's bringing Kareem the paper every day, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.920 with each section spaced out. He orders it in Cream's 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.600 order that he wants I want news first, I want 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.640 sports last, I want science. In the middle, I want 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.640 fresh press orange juice brought to me every morning before 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.720 six Am, and Magic just wants to be near Kaream. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.840 He just wants to be near all that greatness. So 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.520 he does all that like a puppy, excited like a 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.000 golden retriever. And the more he does, the more he 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.840 tries to take the lead, the more he tries to 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.320 get with Kareem, the more Cream hates him. But they're 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.640 running this new Showtime thing, right, And Cream's, like I said, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.640 not interested in running, not interested in doing what Jack 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.080 McKinney wants to do. He's already succeeded the way that 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.880 he wants to get in his thirty and ten every 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.880 single night, doing it in the low post lef hook, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.920 right hook, simultaneous, just killing. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:06.880 In the get. But I don't want to run. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.040 No, I'm not doing all that. And Magic's like, listen, yeah, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.280 let's run this thing. Let's be the Showtime Lakers. So 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.520 it all comes to a head where Kareem gets into 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.800 the training room, pulls him aside, and he's like listen. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.640 Magic's been trying to gain his respect in his friendship 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.840 this whole time, and Kareem says, like listen, I like 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.400 your enthusiasm, but the way that you comport yourself this 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.960 is the quote from the show, and probably something like 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.319 this was sort of said, right, how you comport yourself 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.640 and the public eye reflects poorly on us? 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.640 And he's like, what are you saying? Like I don't 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:44.120 act right? 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.840 And he goes, no, if you want to respect, what 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.160 I'm saying is if you want respect on this team, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.040 then young brother, you have to show some And you're 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.240 thinking to yourself, well, what is Magic, who's been like 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.360 this lapdog? How is he going to respond? And Kareem 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.920 is the captain of this team and he goes, I 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:08.560 have to show some respect for this team, the team 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.080 that you don't even run for. I've been working my 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.679 ass off to bring and try to bring together that team. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.480 We all call in you, cap, but. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:23.240 You're not leading shit around here. You're stopping it. We're 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.640 out here running like Ferraris while your old ass is 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.440 moving like a cutlass on two flats. Everybody else is 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.559 too scared to say something, but I'm saying something. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.600 And that was the defining moment. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.959 That was the defining moment where Kareem had to look 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.000 inside his own self and say what do I want 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.240 for my career? And that was the moment that Magic 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.840 became captain, and that is facts rookie with the guy 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.040 who five time MVP already won a ring about to 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.480 get his six MVP in Magic became the captain. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.440 You are you kidding me? 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.160 Twenty year old rookies like I do not care that 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.840 you have five MVPs. You are not a good teammate 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.960 and you are not a good leader. And we're trying 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.640 to build something here. We're number one, and we could 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.400 be number one in the league, and you're just holding 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.080 us back. Could not have been more timely. And I 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.360 thought to myself, this is two men that are doing 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.640 things in two different ways. A stoic and a guy 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.320 who wants to lead with joy, a guy that's leading 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.800 with piss and vinegar and the very bare minimum and 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.960 just going off of his abilities, and a guy who's 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.520 working his ass off to get to the top. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.200 And Kareem is still that guy. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.199 Kareem is still calling people out for not being politically 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:41.280 active enough. Like literally yesterday, Kareem said this about Lebron, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.160 and he's done it multiple times to Lebron. By the way, 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.400 some of the things Lebron has done and said are 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.640 really beneath him. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.000 He has not changed a bit. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.480 Some of the great things that he's done, he's standing 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.680 on both sides of the fence. It makes it hard 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.319 for me to accept that. When he's committed himself to 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.680 a different take on everything, it's hard to figure out 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:01.640 where he stands. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.079 You've got to check him out every time. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.520 He's basically saying, young brother, you are not consistent. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.240 Either you're for us or you're not. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.560 He loves the fact that Lebron built the school and 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.040 sent kids to college, but he doesn't like that Lebron 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.920 James says cold flu covid feels all the same to me, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.560 especially when you've got vaccine hesitancy. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.160 And then earlier he said this about Lebron. For me, 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:29.440 winning is enough. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.560 This was after Lebron James grabbed his fake grabbed his balls, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.400 and he said, for me, winning is enough. Why do 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.079 you need to do a stupid, childish dance and disrespect 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.600 the other team on the court. It doesn't make sense. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:46.840 Goats don't dance. Not everybody is you, Kareem. Not everybody 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.200 is a stoic like you. Let him have some joy 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.960 out there. Not only if Kareem would turn that sharp 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.760 tongue on the Lakers as a whole maybe we would 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.319 get somewhere, Like maybe if he turned that on Jerry 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.440 Buss's daughter Jeanie and Rob Palinka and that whole crew, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:09.320 maybe we would get somewhere. Because the Lakers are in shambles. Rock, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.880 I am going to play this clip I made on 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.679 October twenty sixth. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.800 Let's give it a listen. Huh, the Lakers aren't good. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:23.960 I just need to get that out. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:29.960 They're not gonna work Russ and Brown and Rondo and 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:31.439 Ab on the floor. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.480 At the same time. Not a good idea. The team 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:37.679 has no defense. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.600 Lebron is the best shooter on the floor, which is 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.960 we'll call that a problem since he needs to be 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.800 surrounded by shooters and. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:49.160 It looks ugly. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.320 Truthfully, this team might mess around and not even make 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.840 the playoffs, which you would just hate to see. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.720 Hate to see. You would just hate to see that. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:05.600 My lord. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.439 It was uh October twenty six the Lakers were two 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.960 and two, four games into the season, and uh, come on, now, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.760 could I be any more correct? That video could have 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.719 been shot today. No one likes to be right more 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.600 than me. No one what an evergreen take, take is 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:29.160 still exactly correct now, except for that Rondo is basically gone. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.160 Nobody wants you. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.760 To know I'm right more than me, but I'm gonna 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.720 just keep playing these hits. You did not have to 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.680 be a rocket scientist to see that this wouldn't work. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.720 Like it was like a plane crash. He's like falling, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.840 and you're like, I think that plane's gonna crash, and 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:43.200 it did. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.320 But everybody else is like. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:45.640 No, no, I think it's good. I think it's gonna 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.240 straighten itself out. The pilots look good. I predicted this 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.200 team might not even make the playoffs. People were in 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.280 my comments. Boy, I tell you what. They were saying 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.840 some wild stuff. And when I get some time. When 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:01.600 I get some time, would they say, what are some 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.720 of the hits. Let's play some of the hits. I'm 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.360 not worried hit us up at the end of the season. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.920 Let's revisit this in a month. It's only four games in. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.000 Keep that same angry energy when they win the championship 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.840 due at this video apologizing, Oh my lord, I can't 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.040 wait to go back and get into the comment section. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.560 When it's all said and done and the dirt is 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.320 on their graves. They are two games out of the 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.480 ten spot right now, two games out of the ten 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.640 spot in the West and a playing game. We've got 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.560 Anthony Davis saying, well, if we had Kendrick Nunn. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.320 We don't even know what we could have been. Excuse me, folks, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.280 that is a troll. That's what I say. As a troll. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.920 You can't really assess this Laker team until Kendrick Nunn is. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:53.480 On the floor. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.880 You can't actually use that as a real logical argument. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.720 Kendrick Nuns is a mid level exception. You're basing your 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.920 championship run on a mid level exception. We got fucking 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:09.360 huge problems here. So yeah, the season went exactly pretty 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.320 much how I thought four games in, and also when 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.000 they made this trade to begin with, I cannot wait 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.480 to go back to the old comments and reply I 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.720 cannot wait. I will spend as much time as I 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:26.640 need taking a victory. Lap Man, kareem help those boys. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:38.720 Help those boys out there, because it's the TikTok troll 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.600 music every time, it's the one that I play. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.400 And the Lakers are not the only team that is 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.680 in this place. The Lakers aren't. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.320 The only team that we felt like could be on 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.640 a knife edge right here. We are a team that 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.440 everyone deemed, even Vegas, as having one of the best chances. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.640 Lakers also were plus four fifth to win it all, 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.000 which was fucking obscene. But at five point fifty were 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:08.360 the Nets five and a half to one. This Nets 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.400 team is also in the play in right now. My god, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:17.160 those Brooklyn Nets just just real danger of missing the 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:21.840 playoffs all together, which again you would hate to see me, 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.400 particularly since I have sweets to the playoff games. But 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.920 I actually would hate to see that. Uh, but that's 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.280 with Katie and Kyrie playing every game. They just lost 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.160 to the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta, and Kevin Durant put 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:39.920 up fifty five Kyrie had thirty one. They're not good. 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.520 This team has no defense. What were they? What were 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.280 they thinking getting rid of Jared Allen and getting James 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.040 Harden who then left less than a year after that. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:50.640 They lost one. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.560 Hundred and twenty two one hundred and fifteen to the Hawks. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.640 Kad had fifty five and Kyrie had thirty one points. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.960 They are the first team in history, folks, the first 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.200 team in history to lose a game where one guy 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.679 had over fifty and the other guy had over thirty. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:06.840 That's never happened before. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.879 Eighty points combined, more than eighty points combined between two guys, 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.840 and you can't beat the Hawks, who are another playing 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:18.800 fucking trash garbage squad. And right now, if the Nets 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.200 can beat the Hornets on the road, and the Hornets 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.880 won two to three from the Nets this year, they're 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.479 staring at a one and done showdown again. With the 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.600 loser of the Cleveland Atlanta game. You might have to 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.840 go back to Atlanta and run that shit back. What 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.679 Cleveland split the season with the Nets. They could have 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.120 Jared Allen back. The Hawks just beat the breaks off 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.680 the Nets, despite Katie and Kyrie going him odds. Don't 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:47.040 look great, folks. And guess what they just got worse. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.320 Steve Nash came out and said, oh oh yeah, Ben Simmons, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.320 he's not gonna be back until at least after the play. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.720 In I get I bet he's not even back for 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:56.639 the first round. 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.520 He's not ramped up yet, herniated disk in his back, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.199 he's getting epidurals like he's pregnant. What are we talking 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.800 about right now? No Ben to the rescue for the 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.280 defensive woes. It's just Andre Drummond and an old Blake 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.440 Griffin and LaMarcus Audridge and Peote Nick Claxton out there 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:17.520 trying to make something work. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.560 What are we talking about? And Okay, so then. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.000 Best case, best case NETS win two play in games 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:28.000 eight seed is the best scenario. Then you face off 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.560 against the Heat. Bam Adebayo is gonna give you fits, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.520 Tyler Hero is gonna give you fits. Duncan Robinson, Victor 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:41.400 Oladipo is back looking like himself. You got Max Struce, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.320 You got a lot of sharp shooters making buckets here. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.119 Jimmy Buckets is not who you need to worry about. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.359 You got even Dwayne Dedman's gonna give Andre Drummond fits 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.919 and he's like forty seven years old. Okay, So I 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.440 don't know what they're gonna do because they cant very 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.240 easily get bounced. They could, first and foremost, they could 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:04.879 very easily miss the playoffs all together. 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.080 They could also very easily make the. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.320 Playoffs, get bounced out the first round of the Heat, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.000 and somehow they're still the third best as to win 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.840 it all. So apparently they also could win it all, 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.720 and we wouldn't be surprised. This is maybe the craziest team, 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.120 the most wildly composed situation, And like, I didn't even 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.120 mention that this team doesn't even listen to Steve Nash 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:27.000 anymore when he speaks. 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.080 They don't even look at him when he's talking in 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:29.520 the huddle. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.119 You've got Kyrie walking away, Katie's looking probably down at 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:37.800 his phone on Twitter commenting back and shit, I hope 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.760 for my benefit that we get to see one series 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.440 because I want I want those fucking sweets. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:42.640 I want those sweet tickets. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.879 But my lord, is that another situation where you have 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.040 two teams on two different coasts with wildly high expectations, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:56.440 underperforming at an extreme rate, with owners that have championship aspirations, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.040 and we just with stars on it, and we just 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:07.880 keep saying, like, why why can't you win? Why brothers 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.600 get this cash? I, in my mind jumped the bag 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:20.240 off on no bag. All right, Let's look at the 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:25.159 playoff picture and see where everyone is today, because I 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.600 tell you what is I don't remember a season that 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:36.960 has been so opaque, so strange and murky, because nothing 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.840 has been decided at this point. There's only two things 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.360 that we know for sure. One Phoenix has the one 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.360 seed locked up. There's seven games ahead of the next 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:48.400 person below them. We've known that's pretty much two months ago, 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.560 once the Warriors began their death Stye spiral, as soon 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.000 as Draymond Green got hurt, as soon as Steph Curry 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.959 started trying to win the all time three point hitting 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.240 a record that is pretty much a wrap. Sons have 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.040 the number one seed no matter what it's laid out 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.240 for them, and now Memphis came out of nowhere and 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:06.880 has the number two seeds in the West and doesn't 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:08.480 look like anybody's gonna be able to catch up with 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:08.920 them either. 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.199 Some people are probably surprised by this. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.560 Not us. We've been discussing it for months now. Desmond Baine, 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.359 Savior Tillman, just and on and on, Steven Adams and 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.600 Jaron Jackson and Danthony. I mean, just so many good kids. 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.680 Dylan Brooks, John Mriy obviously young explosives, still winning without job. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.760 They beat the Suns last week and they and the 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:34.560 Sons were fully loaded, completely healthy, and they rested, They 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:39.800 rested Steven Adams, they rested Dylan No, they rested Jaron Jackson, 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:44.800 they rested Desmond Bane and they beat the brakes off 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:48.000 the Suns like it was just It's absolutely unreal. This 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.760 is a team nobody wants to see. Nobody wants to see. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.480 Other than that, we have no idea what's going to happen. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.359 The Heat are the number one seed right now in 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:56.840 the East, but there is a chance that they could 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.880 lose that to the Bucks or the Sixers. Like there's 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.240 like maybe two or three games between them. The Celtics, 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.840 Bucks and Sixers are currently two, three, four and one 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:11.159