Speaker 1: Break was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines.
Speaker 2: So the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just crack
Speaker 2: the best podcast.
Speaker 1: Covering all the drama around the association.
Speaker 2: Let's move to some news from around the league. We
Speaker 2: start in Portland. It's bad Shade and Sharp has been
Speaker 2: lighting things up. Yes he has.
Speaker 1: He is leading the league in minutes as he should be.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Grant finalists for Player of the Week. Great, but
Speaker 1: all of that is overshadowed by the fact that Rob Williams.
Speaker 2: They broke him, folks. So they broke him in Boston.
Speaker 1: Because he's now headed for surgery again on his knee,
Speaker 1: and who knows how long it's going to be until
Speaker 1: he comes back.
Speaker 2: We know time Lord has been injury prone. That's been
Speaker 2: a thing for him.
Speaker 1: We know that probably that's because Boston ran him into
Speaker 1: the ground to get to the finals and he probably
Speaker 1: should have had knee surgery. Then. He was a big
Speaker 1: part of the Dame Willard trade, as was Malcolm Brogden,
Speaker 1: two guys with injury history.
Speaker 2: Did the Boston Celtics finesse the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it kind of feels like one
Speaker 1: of those Gary Payton scenarios where they suit us try
Speaker 1: to get their draft picks back. Turns out time Lord
Speaker 1: needs surgery and his right knee and there's no timetable
Speaker 1: for his return, no timetable for his return.
Speaker 2: Sean's just tweeted this.
Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers Rob Williams is facing potential season ending surgery
Speaker 1: to repair a bone and ligament damage due to right
Speaker 1: kneecap injury. Williams and doctors could also choose cleanup procedure
Speaker 1: with a two to three month timetable. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: so the other one is two to three months, and
Speaker 1: what's the first one? Is that like shut down season?
Speaker 2: Feels like it? Rob we know is one of the
Speaker 2: best defenders in the league.
Speaker 1: I could only hope to imagine what it would be
Speaker 1: like with him fully healthy and DeAndre Ayton fully healthy.
Speaker 2: But now I'm.
Speaker 1: Hoping that it's just dominate in season and that Rob
Speaker 1: Williams finally gets healthy. We let him sit on ice
Speaker 1: and develop because Lord knows this is a rebuilding team.
Speaker 1: And here's to hoping that Rob Williams gets his knee
Speaker 1: back fully fully one hundred percent Because we know, like
Speaker 1: guys like Lonzo ball.
Speaker 2: This thing can last many, many years. Let's move forward.
Speaker 1: Let's get some man his flowers. Joelle Embiid leading the
Speaker 1: new look Sixers no more James Harden absolutely awesome start
Speaker 1: of the season. He could have been the Hottest player
Speaker 1: of the week. He has been incredible. How good as
Speaker 1: Embiid been? Well, I know this may not sound like
Speaker 1: a lot, but against the shitty ass Wizards, he was
Speaker 1: absolutely elite. In the third quarter alone, Jojo went for
Speaker 1: twenty nine, ten for ten, shooting all of them, almost
Speaker 1: all of them from the mid range, nine for nine
Speaker 1: from the free throw line, added a pair of rebounds
Speaker 1: and assists in a block that was more points than
Speaker 1: anyone in Washington had scored all night. The dude is
Speaker 1: like not just a microwave. He is one of those campfires.
Speaker 1: So Jojo ends the game with forty eight eleven and
Speaker 1: six on seventeen for twenty five shooting in thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: In thirty minutes, Jojo, I know it's the whiz, but again,
Speaker 1: forty eight points, eleven rebound, six assists, fourteen for fourteen
Speaker 1: from the free throw Mott line in thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: What a hell of an effort for the big man.
Speaker 2: These sixers look dangerous. They really do. Let's move forward.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit earlier about Aunt Edwards and
Speaker 1: what he's doing for the Wolves, but I do want
Speaker 1: to remind the people that the Minnesota Timberwolves all is
Speaker 1: not lost. They are the number one defensive rated team
Speaker 1: in the NBA right now. It is not particularly close either.
Speaker 1: Here is a simple way to see how defensive efficiency
Speaker 1: impacts winning.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal.
Speaker 1: The Wolves have now beaten the current number one seed
Speaker 1: in the Eastern and Western Conferences. In their game against
Speaker 1: the Celtics, they held Boston to seventeen points below their
Speaker 1: season average despite the game going to overtime.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. Against the defending champs, the Denver Nuggets, the Wolves.
Speaker 1: Held Denver to twenty six percent, twenty six points below
Speaker 1: their season scoring average as well. Whoa wait.
Speaker 2: Chris Finch's supposedly.
Speaker 1: The offensive mastermind doing the Lord's work on defense and
Speaker 1: it happens.
Speaker 2: Why Because this.
Speaker 1: Team is filled chockfull, swarming with players that are long
Speaker 1: rangey six' ten six, seven six' eleven, positive wingspan Guys Like,
Speaker 1: Kyle anderson, Jade McDaniels Nikaile, alexander walker, Of.
Speaker 2: Course, Rudy Gobert carl.
Speaker 1: Anthony town, just man he could kind of probably go
Speaker 1: same Situation where rudy was exposed, last year and With The,
Speaker 1: utah jazz they've decided they're going to change. Things up
Speaker 1: the defensive scheme now relies far more this year on switches,
Speaker 1: on screens moving away from the drop coverage and the pick.
Speaker 2: And roll That Left rudy. Gobert, exposed again, nerd stuff but.
Speaker 1: It matters it's simpler and, in result creates more offense,
Speaker 1: from defense a lot more, transition buckets putting pressure on the,
Speaker 1: other team a lot less Pressure, on rudy a lot
Speaker 1: less Pressure on cat and has worked. Incredibly well rudy
Speaker 1: was a plus twenty four Against. The CELTICS that's, i
Speaker 1: mean When Has rudy bart ever been a plus twenty
Speaker 1: four against the? Contending, team really let's. Be honest he's
Speaker 1: now in the Running For defensive player Of the. Year
Speaker 1: Again could Rudy go Bear Win defensive player Of the?
Speaker 1: Year again, come, on sir very. Encouraging moves maybe they'll
Speaker 1: just move On, from Cat keep rudy and they'll just
Speaker 1: keep it pushing.
Speaker 2: If they can keep it up. All year this is the.
Speaker 1: Team That gave jokic And the, nuggets problems and they
Speaker 1: might just be.
Speaker 2: A team they could go To The Western. Conference finals
Speaker 2: we'll have. To see here's a quick cup Day On Stephan.
Speaker 2: Wardel curry we mentioned last week he's been.
Speaker 1: Very hot he has had a historically, hot start especially,
Speaker 1: from three.
Speaker 2: Which is like what he does.
Speaker 1: Right now we are entering the third week of, the
Speaker 1: season and, Guess What steph curry, still hot still, very
Speaker 1: hot currently averaging, thirty one five and four insane shooting
Speaker 1: splits forty eight percent.
Speaker 2: From three but that's not even telling the. Whole story by,
Speaker 2: The way.
Speaker 1: He's nailing fifty eight percent of his catch and, shoot
Speaker 1: threes thirty nine percent of his pull, up threes and
Speaker 1: has hit four or more threes every single game, this
Speaker 1: season and five or more in six of.
Speaker 2: Eight games what, The? Fuck steph steph IS. Our mvp
Speaker 2: we need to give it to him.
Speaker 1: Right Now, Like jokic, i'm sorry you deserve it, every
Speaker 1: Year but steph is.
Speaker 2: Winning it, i'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Case close just put your, ballots in put them in,
Speaker 1: the Mail and steph get ready to collect.
Speaker 2: Your trophy that's all the time that we have for
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