Speaker 1: Break with breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. So
Speaker 1: the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just a craker,
Speaker 1: the best podcast covering all the drama around the association.
Speaker 1: You're hot, then y'all cold. The next thing. Y'all know,
Speaker 1: I can't use the music because they tell me it's illegal.
Speaker 1: So we're just gonna do that this week on Hot
Speaker 1: and Cold. It's your NBA thermometer, it's the weather report.
Speaker 1: We were gonna start with hot, We're gonna start with
Speaker 1: Russ Russell Westbrook is now Brooke and not Brick. Somehow,
Speaker 1: some way, he has started the season shooting sixty percent
Speaker 1: from the field. Could have gone with Tobias Harris shooting
Speaker 1: so well sixty seven percent from the field. The nick
Speaker 1: Nurse legit said in his presser that he needs to
Speaker 1: run more plays for Tobias Harris. The huck Rivers would
Speaker 1: be rolling in his broadcasting grave right now. Could have
Speaker 1: gone with Derek Lively started his career just basically making
Speaker 1: every shot that he takes eighty six percent from the field.
Speaker 1: But no, we gotta talk about a guy that moves
Speaker 1: the needle. God, it's absolutely cooking. The older he gets,
Speaker 1: the better he is I'm not talking about Lebron either.
Speaker 1: We've got a guy who's just cooking up in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Mister Chef Curry, himself a literal Hall of Famer, never
Speaker 1: at a start like this in his entire career, single
Speaker 1: handedly carrying his team. That is kind of struggling in
Speaker 1: other places of the game. Steph, Steph night night, sleep mask,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Oh yes, baby, the chef is cooking. So
Speaker 1: he had a bit of like a mid start to
Speaker 1: the season opener, our Dubs coughed up a late lead
Speaker 1: to the Suns. He still had twenty seven, but like
Speaker 1: you know, you expect more from chef eight for eighteen,
Speaker 1: shooting only four for fourteen from three. He wasn't the
Speaker 1: reason they lost, of course, he never is. Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 1: was four for twelve, Chris Paul four for fifteen, Clay
Speaker 1: for eighteen. Pretty mediocre performance from the team. And let's
Speaker 1: be real, they rolled out I'm pretty sure they rolled
Speaker 1: out Devin Booker and they rolled out Kevin Durant. So
Speaker 1: I mean it is what it was. Steph though must
Speaker 1: have been here, and he loves to hear people chirp
Speaker 1: because he has gone absolutely nuclear. He is hot Hot.
Speaker 1: He put up forty one, twenty four and forty two
Speaker 1: and three straight Warriors wins. Tough Kings team. One of
Speaker 1: those you know Game seven performances for staph he was
Speaker 1: fourteen for nineteen, seventy percent from three in a game
Speaker 1: where nobody else had more than eighteen points. The Rockets,
Speaker 1: he legitimately clowned. Dylan Brooks crossed him up so bad,
Speaker 1: so many times, reproducing the iconic Luca smiling meme it
Speaker 1: was ugly, folks. His twenty four of that game led
Speaker 1: all the Warriors, and again nobody else had twenty Our
Speaker 1: dubs were at the pels. Chef Curry cooked it up again,
Speaker 1: cook it up in the kitchen forty two on fifteen
Speaker 1: for twenty two, seven for thirteen from three. No other
Speaker 1: Warrior had more than thirteen points. My man is carrying
Speaker 1: this team. We're gonna talk about MVP voting, MVP awards
Speaker 1: on Friday. I tell you what, you might want to
Speaker 1: sprinkle a little money on it now, because it might
Speaker 1: not be there by Friday. This is supposed to be
Speaker 1: a team loaded with scorers, yet not one other player
Speaker 1: other than Steph is scoring over twenty. He's averaging thirty four,
Speaker 1: five and four. This is the best start to Steph's career.
Speaker 1: He is thirty five right now, thirty five. Someone posted this,
Speaker 1: Steph is demonstrably better at thirty five than he was
Speaker 1: at thirty. Was Lebron better at thirty five than he
Speaker 1: was at thirty? Because I don't think anyone would say
Speaker 1: that that is no shade against Lebron, who is incredible,
Speaker 1: but he did not get better as he aged through
Speaker 1: his thirties, and Steph is getting better. So he is
Speaker 1: what is hot? Hot? Hot like fish grease? Right now?
Speaker 1: On the other side, who's cold? Ice cold? Who's colder
Speaker 1: than being cold? There's so many damn candidates. You got
Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard. He signed a four year, thirty million dollar
Speaker 1: extension and he's rewarded the Celtics by shooting fifteen percent
Speaker 1: from the field ten percent from three. Oh baby, oh baby,
Speaker 1: that's not good. LaMelo ball has it made more than
Speaker 1: four field goals in a game this year? Could be him,
Speaker 1: It's not him. Julius Randall seems to have further regressed,
Speaker 1: shooting twenty eight percent from the field so far this season.
Speaker 1: But you know who's who's called them being cold? Eyes cold.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't give the award to anyone else
Speaker 1: but iceray Istray Young. Trey Young is cold. Boy. He
Speaker 1: is shooting on average eighteen times a game. How many
Speaker 1: shots do you think he's making? Guess it's not ten.
Speaker 1: It's not ten. That wouldn't be that cool with it.
Speaker 1: Five shots a game for Tray Young. Over four games,
Speaker 1: Trey Young averaging five shots five for eighteen. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: the Hawks are still two and two. How is it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. De Jon Tay Murray's
Speaker 1: going crazy. Trey Young is bad right now. I'm sorry, Trey. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. No, I'm not. He's also averaging four turnovers
Speaker 1: a game that magnifies the bad shooting. How bad has
Speaker 1: he been? Sports Illustrated ran an article entitled No, It's
Speaker 1: not time to panic about Trey Young, which is maybe
Speaker 1: the most I think it's time to panic about Trey
Speaker 1: Young article that you can get if you're a Hawks fan.
Speaker 1: So they asked Trey, Hey, treyell us about your struggles.
Speaker 1: Tell us about your struggles, Trey, and he goes, Sometimes
Speaker 1: when guys are tired, you can forget things. Your mind
Speaker 1: can go different places. We got to learn how to
Speaker 1: play with certain movements and certain signals that we have,
Speaker 1: voice calling. There's a lot of things we have, but
Speaker 1: is just going to take time in reps and reps
Speaker 1: and reps of us doing it for where it needs
Speaker 1: to be for us to win. What is he saying there?
Speaker 1: Does anybody know I don't understand that quote? Are you
Speaker 1: saying that the team is fucking up and you're doing
Speaker 1: everything fine? That would be very on brand, but also
Speaker 1: that was a convoluted ask quote. The question though, is Trey,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Though? Well, I'm getting assists, but
Speaker 1: I mean I am turning the ball over and some
Speaker 1: of that is playing through contact and the ref's not
Speaker 1: calling that, and that is leading the bad shots that
Speaker 1: are going off the glass that I'm getting fouled on
Speaker 1: but not getting the call. So I guess I just
Speaker 1: have to play through that. Oh, I get it. You
Speaker 1: doing everything right as on schedule, but your teammates are
Speaker 1: sucking up and you're not getting the calls. So that's
Speaker 1: why it looks like you're playing worse than you actually are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's more than just Trey Young as cold.
Speaker 1: I think all of Atlanta is cold and one thing
Speaker 1: we know, Trey Young is going to try to chuck
Speaker 1: his way out of the cold streak.