Speaker 1: On this episode that Heat Check.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about some centers, y'all, a position that is
Speaker 2: just being almost exterminated. We talked about how the haters
Speaker 2: are wrong about DeAndre Ayton. Stop talking about my man Aton,
Speaker 2: stop talking about him a D. We gotta talk about
Speaker 2: a D as well. He's a problem, like not in
Speaker 2: a good way. Sorry, man, Anthony, I know you know
Speaker 2: this and how Shaq thinks Rudy Gobert is overrated, but
Speaker 2: really this is just about American versus euro centers.
Speaker 1: Lots to talk about in terms of the center game.
Speaker 2: So Anthony, let's move on. Let's drop that motherfucker beat
Speaker 2: should beat. Okay, today, I'm fired up about centers, centers
Speaker 2: getting unfairly maligned, even the centers that I don't particularly
Speaker 2: like getting unfairly discriminated and hated on against. Welcome to
Speaker 2: our Centers episode of the Heat Check. Let's start by
Speaker 2: taking at a look at a center who is just
Speaker 2: for no reason being killed by social media this year.
Speaker 1: People just hop on. I know that he's a Portland trailblazer.
Speaker 2: I know that nobody's watching our games, but like I'm
Speaker 2: talking about DeAndre eight and y'all, people are trying to
Speaker 2: act like he is scum on some sort of swamp land.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh no, DeAndre, I can pull up so
Speaker 2: many anti eight in tweets right now, don't.
Speaker 1: Make me do it.
Speaker 2: Don't make me do it right off the top of
Speaker 2: my head, because in general, people want to say bad
Speaker 2: things about him. Really, I don't understand it. I don't
Speaker 2: understand it. People are saying he's a bust. Imagine finding
Speaker 2: out eighton sucks and it's not because the city that
Speaker 2: he plays it. It's because he's bad at basketball. They
Speaker 2: could have ended with Dame staying a Blazer forever, but
Speaker 2: that guy Blazer fans praised yesterday wiped eleven years away
Speaker 2: for DeAndre Ayton. It's one after the other or after
Speaker 2: the other. Nobody has gotten more slandered, more libeled this
Speaker 2: season than DeAndre aiden number one overall pick out of Arizona,
Speaker 2: and the shit has got to stop.
Speaker 1: It's gotta stop, really.
Speaker 2: And I'm not like over here caping for Ayton because
Speaker 2: he's a Blazer and that's my hometown team. I'm not
Speaker 2: caping for Ayton because he was the first player really
Speaker 2: that I ended up covering.
Speaker 1: When I first got into media, was getting paid in media.
Speaker 2: He was like fifteen years old playing in Adida's Nations. No,
Speaker 2: what I'm doing is I'm pushing back on the narrative
Speaker 2: surrounding him, and I am here to say it is
Speaker 2: pure bullshit. I am calling bullshit on the anti Ayton slant.
Speaker 2: Find a new slant because the fact of the matter is,
Speaker 2: not only is Ayton not suck, not only is Ayton
Speaker 2: not ass Ayten is actually quite good. Aten is bawling
Speaker 2: the fuck out right now and you're not seeing it.
Speaker 2: You're not opening your eyes to it because it's Portland
Speaker 2: and they're boo boo and they're boom boom, and he's
Speaker 2: had some injury issues.
Speaker 1: Let's break it down for the Aton haters.
Speaker 2: Okay Aiitten, if you recall, was one of the centerpieces
Speaker 2: of the Damian Lillard deal, allowing Portland to get out
Speaker 2: from underneath a toxic contract of Yusuf Nurkic albatross of
Speaker 2: a deal move Dame to the Celtics. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 2: trade also brought too.
Speaker 1: Many kamara to the Blazers.
Speaker 2: Too many buckets, So we ended up getting two starters
Speaker 2: for an overpriced, underperforming center in Nurkic, and it was
Speaker 2: a win win.
Speaker 1: Nurkic is playing fine basketball in Phoenix. Great dude only.
Speaker 2: Works in a small number of offenses. And that was
Speaker 2: just not going to be Portland with this young team
Speaker 2: he wanted to move on to. He was aligned at
Speaker 2: the hip, attached at the hip with Dame.
Speaker 1: As soon as Ayton got.
Speaker 2: To Portland, the haters, the haters got louder, the haters
Speaker 2: got meaner. His first twenty games didn't really give much
Speaker 2: of a defense either. He was thirteen eleven and two
Speaker 2: at two stocks in just thirty one minutes per game.
Speaker 2: Not bad, but like, that's not what you want from
Speaker 2: a number one overall pick. Like, that's not what you
Speaker 2: want for someone who got max money, right, And that's
Speaker 2: the issue.
Speaker 1: The issue is people were dumb.
Speaker 2: And the issue is that the Phoenix Suns were so
Speaker 2: scarred by all the dog shit Euros that they had
Speaker 2: chosen over the last decade that they could not see
Speaker 2: what was right in front of their face, which was Luca.
Speaker 2: And like, let's just go over Luca's accolades for a second,
Speaker 2: because he won the EuroLeague title, the EuroLeague MVP, the
Speaker 2: EuroLeague Final four MVP, and the Spanish ACB title and
Speaker 2: MVP before being drafted at nineteen, and people were like, ah, but.
Speaker 1: What about DeAndre Ayton? Right, like, what about.
Speaker 2: That Caribbean kid that plays at Arizona Because Phoenix continue
Speaker 2: to take these euros that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: They saw those accolades accolades, and they're like, but.
Speaker 2: I already likes the party, you know, So do not
Speaker 2: compare Ayton and what he's done as a player based
Speaker 2: on somebody not choosing Luca. Since Ayton was picked over
Speaker 2: Luca Trey and Shaye Gilgess Alexander, everybody just wants to
Speaker 2: say the eight and sucks unlike any of those teams.
Speaker 2: Though he has played some I don't know, like played some
Speaker 2: pretty important games, went to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: All those other guys have not just saying valley oop?
Speaker 2: Could I for fresher memory with the valley oop one
Speaker 2: of the most clutch plays I've ever seen in my
Speaker 2: goddamn life. Anyway, tripping gets loud right eight and suffers
Speaker 2: a few injuries, He misses some games, then he missed
Speaker 2: a dozen games about halfway through the season. And then remember, oh,
Speaker 2: the haters got so loud when DeAndre Ayton got a
Speaker 2: DNP for ice remember that one DeAndre Ayton couldn't leave
Speaker 2: his house and couldn't go to the game because of
Speaker 2: a weather event, and everyone was.
Speaker 1: Like, Oh, he's lazy.
Speaker 2: Oh you can't get out of his house and his
Speaker 2: eyes he's got this much money. Like that was where
Speaker 2: we were at on DeAndre Ayton, and people started being like, Oh,
Speaker 2: this trade sucks. The Blazers should have traded Dame to
Speaker 2: Miami for Nikola Jovic, who, by the way, is doing
Speaker 2: nothing right now. So I've got some words for those people.
Speaker 2: I've got some words for DeAndre ayton haters. And the
Speaker 2: words are too and they're very loud, and they're all
Speaker 2: in caps, and it's fuck you.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Once DeAndre Ayton got healthy, he's been happy. Once he
Speaker 2: got a healthy he has shown us exactly who he is.
Speaker 2: I think fringe top ten center. Past ten games, DeAndre
Speaker 2: ayten averaging twenty one thirteen to two with two stocks
Speaker 2: and thirty three minutes on average. Those are not good numbers.
Speaker 2: Those are not solid numbers. Those are great numbers. Those
Speaker 2: are very very good numbers on a very bad and
Speaker 2: an injured team. Ayighten's net rating has been a minus
Speaker 2: one point six for a team that is negative eleven
Speaker 2: point seven during that same stretch. Also, I would like
Speaker 2: to say that there was quite a lot of anti
Speaker 2: eighten reputational slander as well. Ayton is lazy, He's got
Speaker 2: a bad attitude. I think it was Casey Holdall who
Speaker 2: came out and wrote a venomous piece on DeAndre Ayton
Speaker 2: on whose behalf?
Speaker 1: Who the fuck knows? But that didn't help.
Speaker 2: One of the things I love about him, though, is
Speaker 2: he's actually a very pure guy and people want to
Speaker 2: paint him as this like sullen asshole, and he's not.
Speaker 2: When asked about the perception of him nationally, he said,
Speaker 2: I just be trying to bust my ass. That's about it.
Speaker 2: Whether I look like the bad guy or not. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to be great. I'm trying to be a winner
Speaker 2: in this league. I'm trying to be known as that guy.
Speaker 2: If you're around me, you're gonna learn how to win.
Speaker 2: Woo aiden will oh Chris Paul in them, huh, some
Speaker 2: of that Chris Paul is rubbed off on Aton. These
Speaker 2: Blazers are young, these Blazers are athletic, and Ayton will
Speaker 2: serve as the most mature veteran in the locker room
Speaker 2: outside of I don't know Malcolm Brockton. As they mature
Speaker 2: into being one of the newest the Pacific Northwest version
Speaker 2: of the Pacific Northwest Division known as.
Speaker 1: The Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 2: There was the artist formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics,
Speaker 2: and of course he hears the haters, Ayton.
Speaker 1: He told NBA dot Com this, I listen, I hear it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I thank these haters for it because it's making me
Speaker 2: approach the game in the right way and carry the
Speaker 2: PDX on my back all the way. So I thank them.
Speaker 2: I'm wearing the cape all the way. Let them know, Ayton,
Speaker 2: Let him know. Let's not act like eight and some
Speaker 2: sort of like Nikola Vucevic out there either, like some
Speaker 2: sort of stiff can only do one thing like offensive minded.
Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton is averaging twenty eleven and two and thirteen
Speaker 2: games against Yokitch. By the way, Sabonus averages sixteen, ten
Speaker 2: and six and seventeen games against NICOLEA for comparison, and.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty five years old. He should be hitting
Speaker 1: his prime.
Speaker 2: He hits elbow jumpers, he can go face up I've
Speaker 2: said this before, I'll say it again. His upside is
Speaker 2: a leaner, healthier Joel embiid. That's what his upside is.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's gonna be that. He's only twenty
Speaker 2: five years old. He's just ready to hit his prime.
Speaker 2: Enough games like the other night where he had thirty
Speaker 2: three nineteen. I bet you he has the most nineteen
Speaker 2: rebound games of the season. I think he has five
Speaker 2: of them and a plus sixteen and a four point
Speaker 2: went over Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Tell click Appella and go on home. Tell him it's time.
Speaker 1: Even the worst haters's.
Speaker 2: Gonna have to shut up. Let's move on to another center.
Speaker 2: It's also maligned, but might be fairly malign. Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: Anthony Anthony A. D. One of my first big videos
Speaker 2: ever did was a very simple question.
Speaker 1: It's a question I'm a little afraid to ask again.
Speaker 2: People called me all kinds of names back then, when
Speaker 2: TikTok was a different place. I said, is Anthony Davis soft?
Speaker 2: And the answer continues to swirl upon my brain. It's
Speaker 2: to hiss twenty twenty one, first time I said it
Speaker 2: aloud on a microphone.
Speaker 1: Haven't come to an answer yet.
Speaker 2: I think, folks, we may beginning to our answer.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it.
Speaker 2: He's a perennial defensive team candidate, one of the players
Speaker 2: that's consistently mentioned in the MVP race before every season,
Speaker 2: almost every season, though we hype.
Speaker 1: Them up, even me.
Speaker 2: I look at my little fucking note sheet that I
Speaker 2: have with my friends, and you know what I did.
Speaker 1: You know what I did? You know what I did?
Speaker 2: I put Anthony Davis as my MVP and Defensive Player
Speaker 2: of the Year vote, and he's nowhere close to either one.
Speaker 2: And normally it's derailed by injuries. And this year that
Speaker 2: is just not where we're at, folks, And that, to
Speaker 2: me is.
Speaker 1: Where we're hitting the rubber on the road.
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis has already played more games this season since
Speaker 2: he has than he has in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: and the Lakers how fifteen games left.
Speaker 1: So it's not injuries. Why are we talking about ad
Speaker 1: the whole.
Speaker 2: Bones of paper, no bones of bones of glass, skin
Speaker 2: of paper.
Speaker 1: It's not a thing anymore.
Speaker 2: But this is the following stat and why we need
Speaker 2: to have a talk. Anthony Davis is oh in ten
Speaker 2: against Demonis Sabonis the other night was the tenth one
Speaker 2: in seven against Joel Embiid and ohen seven against Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 1: So let's do a little Mas school.
Speaker 2: He's two and fourteen, two and fourteen in twenty four,
Speaker 2: two and twenty four against the top centers in this league.
Speaker 2: And when I say two and twenty four, I don't
Speaker 2: mean they outplayed him. I mean his team is two
Speaker 2: and twenty four when those other centers are the centers
Speaker 2: that are eating him alive and spitting out his bones
Speaker 2: of glass in it.
Speaker 1: In other words, since the twenty twenty one twenty.
Speaker 2: Twenty two season, Ad is one in twenty four against
Speaker 2: elite centers and is getting bodied, just getting absolutely marked.
Speaker 2: He's played Jokic three times, given up twenty.
Speaker 1: Eight, twelve and nine with two stocks a game.
Speaker 2: He's played one game against mb this year, given up
Speaker 2: thirty eleven and one with four stocks. He's played Domos
Speaker 2: four times this year. The rebound numbers for Domos are
Speaker 2: really ugly.
Speaker 1: He's given up nineteen, eighteen and nine. And Domas is
Speaker 1: not a guy that's that big either. He's not a.
Speaker 2: Chunk alunk a d baby. What you're doing, these are
Speaker 2: not all defensive numbers, folks. But more troubling really is
Speaker 2: the mentality. So they ask him, a d you're oh
Speaker 2: and nine, this is before the game. You're oh and
Speaker 2: nine against a bonus.
Speaker 1: And he says, I don't really care about that. I'm
Speaker 1: all about the team. It's not a one on one thing.
Speaker 1: Doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, a mister Davis, mister Davis, Uh, do you
Speaker 2: know what the can we repeat the question? I'm not
Speaker 2: sure you you hurd us correctly because your team is
Speaker 2: losing games when you're on the floor versus those other guys,
Speaker 2: and your answer is I'm not about individual matchups. Here's
Speaker 2: what friend of show Jovon Buja had to say about
Speaker 2: how badly Sabonis beat that ass the other night.
Speaker 1: He says it's gonna be rough once again.
Speaker 2: Sabonis's success against Davis was a key difference in the outcome.
Speaker 2: Sabonis improved a ten to zero against Davis in their
Speaker 2: head to head matchups, a revealing record that underscores Davis's
Speaker 2: struggles against bruising centers who can push him around in
Speaker 2: the paint yet also drag him away from the basket
Speaker 2: with the combination of shooting and passing. Sabonus posted his
Speaker 2: second triple double seventeen points, nineteen rebounds, ten assists against
Speaker 2: the Lakers in the past week, and his lead leaguing
Speaker 2: twenty third of the season, which many of his stats
Speaker 2: accumulated directly on Davis's.
Speaker 1: This is my part. Don't peace this, folks, is not
Speaker 1: just day problem, but the problem.
Speaker 2: I uh, it makes it hard when you see these
Speaker 2: stats to not.
Speaker 1: Say, is Anthony Davis like a one B, one C player.
Speaker 2: I know what he can be. We all know what
Speaker 2: ad his potential is. AD could score thirty fifteen seven,
Speaker 2: four blocks, five blocks, two steals.
Speaker 1: But the problem is that he doesn't. Right.
Speaker 2: The problem is that somehow, some way, you look up
Speaker 2: and Anthony Davis. You're looking at his stat sheet and
Speaker 2: you're saying, twenty two ten and three. I'm sorry, what
Speaker 2: that's not fucking good enough against the Kings, against the Bucks,
Speaker 2: twenty two.
Speaker 1: Thirteen and five. No, sir, can't have that.
Speaker 2: We need you putting up forty, which you did, by
Speaker 2: the way, against Check's notes the Washington Lizard. I'm sorry, dog,
Speaker 2: you can't average twenty five to twelve and four when
Speaker 2: you fade like a newspaper in the sun facing physical
Speaker 2: centers Lebron. Excuse me, mister James, I think you've got
Speaker 2: a co star problem.
Speaker 1: I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Speaker 2: If you're a Genie Buss, you need to take a
Speaker 2: hard look in the mirror and decide. Lebron's at the
Speaker 2: twilight of his career. We don't have shooters. Can we
Speaker 2: count on Anthony Davis if he is the lynchpin of.
Speaker 1: How far we can go in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: If that is the case, it's gonna be another long, cold,
Speaker 2: rough offseason in my.
Speaker 1: Tough That was a tough one.
Speaker 2: Tough to say all those things, but the truth had
Speaker 2: to be said.
Speaker 1: Let's move on out turn.
Speaker 2: To a couple of centers who always find the limelight,
Speaker 2: and I think they hate each other. I really, I
Speaker 2: really do, Shaquille O'Neil and Rudy Gobert. It centers on literally,
Speaker 2: but it centers I'm the most tired of all basketball
Speaker 2: subjects next to Lebron versus MJ. It's kind of another
Speaker 2: version of there's no more defense in this league.
Speaker 1: It's so soft.
Speaker 2: Now listen, first up, let me preface it by saying
Speaker 2: I love me some Shack folks, great dude, tons of
Speaker 2: self awareness. Knows he's lazy, right, but he is coming
Speaker 2: perilously close to being old man yelling at clouds. He
Speaker 2: said this about Rudy Gobert the other day on his
Speaker 2: Big podcast to his guest Mario Chalmers, former Miami Heat
Speaker 2: player who's out there just going crazy for bam Adebayo
Speaker 2: for Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Shack agreed.
Speaker 2: They've been fighting for bam to get Defensive Player of
Speaker 2: the Year for like ten years now. Anyway, Shack agree
Speaker 2: and said, I never thought Rudy was a great defensive
Speaker 2: player either. What it is, there's not a great a
Speaker 2: lot of great centers that are making him play defense.
Speaker 2: He's not doing it against Yoker because he has to
Speaker 2: be engaged. But when he's going against another guy, he's
Speaker 2: seven to six. By the way, that's not true. By
Speaker 2: the way, that's not true. Let me correct the record.
Speaker 2: I think he's just seven feet just flat. If you
Speaker 2: lay it up, he's gonna block it. Defense to me
Speaker 2: is guard that motherfucker shut him down. You want to
Speaker 2: impress me, hold Yokich under fifteen points. Now, you plan
Speaker 2: all that week side blocking shots. That's cool, but it
Speaker 2: ain't gonna work against guys like me and Yoke Joker
Speaker 2: and embiid OUI Oohie Shack.
Speaker 1: He didn't have to do all that. He didn't have
Speaker 1: to say all that.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily agree with Shack, because you guys know
Speaker 2: how I feel about Rudy A bonge Rudi. As much
Speaker 2: as I can't stand his ass, the people that play
Speaker 2: against him and with them kind of think he's the
Speaker 2: best defensive center in the league right now. That's kind
Speaker 2: of the way it is.
Speaker 1: He's been awesome this year.
Speaker 2: The Wolves are the number one defensive team in the NBA,
Speaker 2: and they were not before he got there, when you
Speaker 2: had Kitty Kat out there playing five, getting in found
Speaker 2: in trouble.
Speaker 1: And it's probably not the time to get this takeoff.
Speaker 2: Really could have been maybe last year that was maybe
Speaker 2: the best time in defensive Rudy. The subject of centers
Speaker 2: not playing defense was on the mind of some of
Speaker 2: Gobert's fellow Euros. Nikola Vusovich said this in response to
Speaker 2: No Chill Gil saying Euros were soft and that they
Speaker 2: were to blame for the lack of defense in the NBA.
Speaker 2: By the way, we didn't even talk about that. What
Speaker 2: the fuck is Gilbert Arenus even saying, honestly, I think
Speaker 2: he's I think he's not him. I think it's weekend
Speaker 2: at Bernie's where no chill, gild just says whatever. Anyway
Speaker 2: he says this, I have nothing to say about that.
Speaker 2: But I think it's very hard to play defense in
Speaker 2: the NBA. This is Nicola Vusovich. Part of it is
Speaker 2: the change of rules, where a lot of it was
Speaker 2: favored offensive players.
Speaker 1: With the three point line now and.
Speaker 2: Everybody's just shooting so many threes and you have at
Speaker 2: least three or four guys that can just shoot threes
Speaker 2: and get.
Speaker 1: Hot at any time.
Speaker 2: Senator Dario Sariz decided to elaborate as well about the
Speaker 2: real difference between hoops and the US versus Europe. The
Speaker 2: gap between the US and Europe is closing because you learn.
Speaker 1: To play five on five in Europe.
Speaker 2: Here in the US, they actually learned to play one
Speaker 2: on one in basketball. That's kind of the difference between
Speaker 2: NBA and Europe. They are probably a lot more skilled
Speaker 2: in one on one. I think this is applying to
Speaker 2: defense as much as it does to offense.
Speaker 1: Shack incredible one on one defender, but.
Speaker 2: The way he like poop poo's the weak side block Like,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that's that's how rotations work.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's that's okay, we can have that. That's
Speaker 1: an American thing.
Speaker 2: Oh me me versus you Mono E mono. Everyone clear out.
Speaker 2: Let me block that shit. Dude, you don't have to
Speaker 2: do that. You don't have to go one on one
Speaker 2: with Jokic. They're putting you in a switch.
Speaker 1: Okay. The system is designed to limit what he does.
Speaker 2: Well, that doesn't always work, not because he sucks at defense, Rudy,
Speaker 2: but rather because Jokic one is unstoppable and cannot be
Speaker 2: contained by any person or any team on Earth. He
Speaker 2: breaks every system like a stick in a machine. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, things just start going haywire. Besides, there's
Speaker 2: a reason, though, like the Jokic is like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: the Wolves are.
Speaker 1: The toughest team in the NBA to play. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's because of Karl Anthony Town. You think that's
Speaker 1: that's the person he's talking about.
Speaker 2: No, he's talking about Rudy Gobert, and Karl Anthony Town's
Speaker 2: platooning him like it's a fucking gang bang okay, and
Speaker 2: they're just they're just going weak side, backside, all the sides.
Speaker 2: And there's a reason Denver's defensive scheme is led by
Speaker 2: a euro and they're the defending champs. There's a reason
Speaker 2: that all the good centers in the NBA are non American. Jokic, Porzingis,
Speaker 2: Shane goun Yo, honest, if you can call him the center,
Speaker 2: Rudy Dolmas, Wemby, Lusevich, Valanchunis. The best American center is
Speaker 2: bam Adebayo and my man DeAndre Ayton, and he's.
Speaker 1: Even him, He's even Cribbin.
Speaker 2: Born in Newark, New Jersey, bam Adebaio to Nigerian Paris.
Speaker 2: So we're starting to get real fuzzy on American right,
Speaker 2: Like Aiden bam planned.
Speaker 1: For non American teams.
Speaker 2: Could bam Adebaio had the invite to play for Team Nigeria.
Speaker 2: I know he was on Team USC Tmusa, Jared Allen, Mitchell, Robinson,
Speaker 2: Chet Holmgren. Not like the most convincing list of American
Speaker 2: centers if you're honest, The game has changed since Shack
Speaker 2: dominated the paint. Even Wemby the latest center out of
Speaker 2: Europe to take the league by storm, he knows. Even
Speaker 2: he knows Rudy's good, even he knows Rudy has defensive prowess.
Speaker 2: But with the proviso. When he asked whether he Rudy
Speaker 2: should be Defensive Player of the Year, he said this,
Speaker 2: I know that Rudy Gobert has a very good chance
Speaker 2: of winning it this year and it would be deserved.
Speaker 2: Let him win it now, because after that, oh av
Speaker 2: la av la, Rudy, that is no longer his turn, Victor.
Speaker 2: Victor's like, yo, this, Let this old head get his
Speaker 2: last one because after that, I'm getting ten in a row. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna average eight blocks a game and five steals.
Speaker 1: Nice to see.
Speaker 2: Wemby allows someone to have the crown before he decides
Speaker 2: to go out and take it for the rest of
Speaker 2: his career. Since we're talking centers, here's my top ten
Speaker 2: current centers.
Speaker 1: In the NBA.
Speaker 2: Jokich number one, Joel Embiid number two, Domas three, Wemby four,
Speaker 2: bam Adebayo five. BAM fans will not like that. BAM
Speaker 2: fans will not the band fans. They will not like that.
Speaker 2: I didn't put him above I didn't put Porzincis above you.
Speaker 2: Bam and I thought about it real hard. Rudy Shane Goon,
Speaker 2: I put you above Rudy Okay Bam, Rudy Shang, Goon,
Speaker 2: Chet and Jared Allen. I think in terms of the
Speaker 2: future of the American center, I think it's Chet. I
Speaker 2: think he takes over and I can see a day
Speaker 2: where he and Wemby are the two best centers.
Speaker 1: In the league.
Speaker 2: Finally, this final Center news serves as Trista's Dopez Superstat
Speaker 2: of the Week aka the stat of the week that only.
Speaker 1: Comes every three weeks.
Speaker 2: Daniel Gafford, the center for the Mavericks, had his streak
Speaker 2: of thirty three straight made basket snapped in the first
Speaker 2: quarter against OKC. That's crazy. That is an absurd stat.
Speaker 2: I had to read that again to fully process what
Speaker 2: it meant.
Speaker 1: Let's say it again so that we all know.
Speaker 2: Daniel Gafford had a streak of thirty three straight made
Speaker 2: basst and that was snapped the other night against Oka.
Speaker 1: See in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: There's only other one other person that's ever made more.
Speaker 2: Let me let you guess this pause for a second.
Speaker 2: Let's just put this Spotify or the Apple on pause,
Speaker 2: and just dude, it was Will right like it's Will
Speaker 2: Will fucking Chamberlain, who was also Center thirty five straight
Speaker 2: made baskets in nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 1: What an alien?
Speaker 2: You can't convince me otherwise, Wimby's gonna be the new Wilt. God,
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