Speaker 1: You're listening to the Hottest the Hottest India podcast out here.
Speaker 1: I said what I.
Speaker 2: Said, it's the Heat Chick, Heat Check Check. It's on
Speaker 2: this episode of the Heat Check. I am all fired
Speaker 2: up about what the hell is going on in you
Speaker 2: saw Baby. It's Friday. So let's get into the NBA
Speaker 2: futures market.
Speaker 3: This time Defensive Player.
Speaker 2: Of the Year.
Speaker 3: And we also got a lot of news.
Speaker 2: Popping from around the league with updates on Chris Paul
Speaker 2: and Scott Foster's beat, two more dysfunction in Detroit to
Speaker 2: Marcus Morris, ricochet shot at a dozen Hall of Famers,
Speaker 2: and one sentence, Oh boy, so much to get into.
Speaker 3: Also, watch that is t.
Speaker 2: Baby, It's a lit tomorrow. Let's go William Let's drop
Speaker 2: that generic ass beat that should be Rihanna. I've been
Speaker 2: wanting to talk about this. I just didn't have the
Speaker 2: right data. I didn't have as much time, I didn't
Speaker 2: bed injuries.
Speaker 3: We had young guys coming in and out of the lineup.
Speaker 2: But last year one of the funnest stories at one
Speaker 2: point this team was number one in the West. People
Speaker 2: forget one of the fun stories in the NBA was
Speaker 2: the Utah Jazz everybody was pumping their tires. Ooh, Danny Ainge,
Speaker 2: trader and trader, Danny, Oh, just fleecing Tim Connolly, Oh,
Speaker 2: Minnesota Termorwolves.
Speaker 3: You guys are fucking idiots.
Speaker 2: I was one of those people. I was one of
Speaker 2: those ones.
Speaker 3: Everybody was like, Oh, they fleece them.
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert, four picks, all these players, all these guys
Speaker 2: that are gonna be all stars, Walker Kessler.
Speaker 3: YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 2: Everyone on earth was certain that this was the worst trade,
Speaker 2: not just in history of the NBA, but maybe in
Speaker 2: all sports. The Jazz played out the season as one
Speaker 2: of the most exciting teams in the NBA, while the
Speaker 2: t Wolves tanked to the point where most people thought
Speaker 2: that they were gonna have to blow up the ship.
Speaker 2: A lot of people thought that Karl Anthony Towns had
Speaker 2: to go. There's no way that Rudy Gobert and Karl
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns would work. How was the spacing gonna work
Speaker 2: where they Anthony Edwards back? Oh my god, what a
Speaker 2: difference a year makes, Really a quarter of a year. Really,
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves are now the best team in the NBA.
Speaker 2: They have the number one ranked defense, Rudy Gobert is
Speaker 2: miles ahead of anyone in the league for defensive Player
Speaker 2: of the Year. Chris Finch said this about Rudy. He said,
Speaker 2: this is the best I've ever seen him play. This
Speaker 2: is the best I've seen him play on both ends
Speaker 2: of the ball. Rudy dominated of it. Oh Monfrey boj
Speaker 2: in another win over the San Antonio Spurs the other night,
Speaker 2: and now people are looking at like the trade may
Speaker 2: be a win for not the Utah Jazz, but for
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves out in Utah has checking on them for
Speaker 2: a second. This year has been not so fun, not
Speaker 2: a fun story. They are awful seven and fourteen, one
Speaker 2: game out of fourteenth place in the West. No one
Speaker 2: expected the Jazz to be a contender this year. Of
Speaker 2: course we know that, but a lot of people thought, oh,
Speaker 2: this might take a step forward, maybe they're in team right.
Speaker 2: They had an a plus draft keyante George Bryce sensibon
Speaker 2: number nine pick Taylor Hendricks, who I haven't seen one
Speaker 2: minute of yet. The Jazz who started four and eleven
Speaker 2: before their star player Lori Markt went down.
Speaker 3: And the puzzling thing is.
Speaker 2: That they've gotten worse as the season has gone along.
Speaker 2: They lost by fifty to the MAVs the other night,
Speaker 2: who are also struggling themselves this season, and after which
Speaker 2: Will Hardy had this.
Speaker 1: To say that that was an absolutely horrendous performance from
Speaker 1: start to finish. That was a masterpiece of dog shit.
Speaker 1: I really don't know how to describe that game.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think you did it pretty well. A masterpiece
Speaker 2: of dog shit from start to finish. Wow. I these
Speaker 2: new coaches, we brought it up last episode too, this
Speaker 2: new DNA of coach. They're not holding back.
Speaker 3: So what's happening?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be.
Speaker 2: Believer, of course in roster construction. That's the key to
Speaker 2: success in my opinion, and to me, this roster is confusing.
Speaker 2: First of all, they're breaking in a rookie point guard
Speaker 2: in Kiante George. I like rookie Kyante George.
Speaker 3: He's one of my favorite young kids in the league.
Speaker 2: They've been successful so far, really good assistant turnover ratio,
Speaker 2: long athletic, can get to his spots. The problem is
Speaker 2: Kante George right now, at least right now, cannot shoot.
Speaker 2: They have three other guards who can shoot but can't pass,
Speaker 2: especially Colin Sexton. He does not like to pass at all.
Speaker 2: He keeps getting minutes over oshayok Baji. Why I don't know.
Speaker 2: They have forwards and Markingen and Olenik who can hit
Speaker 2: a three, but they struggle to defend. John Collins and
Speaker 2: Walker Kessler is the front line of this team, both
Speaker 2: solid but right now unspectacular players. And the bench has
Speaker 2: no replacements when they're hurt in foul trouble or off
Speaker 2: the court. So I mean, not great. Obviously not great.
Speaker 2: The biggest problem is that they have young, talented players
Speaker 2: who who can't find time on the court. Why, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Here's an astounding fact. Well, I actually kind
Speaker 2: of do know. Here's an astounding fact. Two players selected
Speaker 2: in the first round of the twenty twenty three draft
Speaker 2: average two minutes or less per game this year, and
Speaker 2: they both play for the Jazz. Two two players selected
Speaker 2: in the first round of the twenty twenty three draft
Speaker 2: only average two minutes or less, and they're both Jazz players.
Speaker 2: Taylor Hendricks was drafted ninth top ten player. He has
Speaker 2: eighteen DMPs. He averages two minutes per game. Bryce sens
Speaker 2: the ball twenty eighth overall twenty DMPs, played two minutes
Speaker 2: in one game that is bizarre. Why are they on
Speaker 2: milk cartons? Where are they makes no damn sense considering
Speaker 2: that if they had played the kids this year, their
Speaker 2: record would probably be no different than it is right now.
Speaker 2: You should be developing these young guys and not playing
Speaker 2: dudes who clearly are not.
Speaker 3: The future of this team.
Speaker 2: We are at quarter of the way through the season
Speaker 2: and it looks like the Jazz are going to have
Speaker 2: to go into tank mode again, which is not where
Speaker 2: Danny saw them going and not where I, to be honest,
Speaker 2: saw them going either at the start of the year.
Speaker 2: But since they suck and it doesn't look like things
Speaker 2: will get better this season, here's what I would do
Speaker 2: if I was part of the Danny Ainge cabal. Trade trade, trade,
Speaker 2: trade them all garage sale. All the young guys stay,
Speaker 2: all the non young guys go. And I don't mean
Speaker 2: young like Colin Sexton. I mean young like Keyontay George.
Speaker 2: You start with the players who are in the way.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, we don't have space for you. Aka THHT
Speaker 2: Taylor Horton Tucker one of the great developer blockers of
Speaker 2: all time. He just gets in the way wherever he goes.
Speaker 2: The Lakers considered him untouchable. At one point, he stopped
Speaker 2: trades from happening that they probably needed to make. And
Speaker 2: now he's flamed out in two cities. And you know what,
Speaker 2: He's only twenty three, but for some reason, it feels
Speaker 2: like he's been in the league a decade. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: Someone's gonna take a flyer on him.
Speaker 2: I promise you when he's good, like he was against Phoenix,
Speaker 2: he put up twenty five points in twenty nine minutes.
Speaker 2: He's very good, but mostly THHT not so good.
Speaker 3: He is a thirty eight percent shooter.
Speaker 2: From the floor in general, and a twenty eight point
Speaker 2: seven percent lifetime shooter from three. Can play some defense,
Speaker 2: but let's be honest, THHT is kind of chubby.
Speaker 3: He can play a.
Speaker 2: Little defense, but that's just because he's He's gonna be's
Speaker 2: in thick body. He can evolve into a role player somewhere,
Speaker 2: but in Utah, I'm sorry, you have to go number
Speaker 2: two player. We gotta get rid of Colin fucking Sexton,
Speaker 2: the young bowl, the baby bull in a China shop.
Speaker 2: They said when he was in Cleveland, this was gonna
Speaker 2: be a max contract kind of guy. And now what
Speaker 2: are you. You are a roadblock, stealing minutes from players
Speaker 2: who helped this team in the future while not helping
Speaker 2: them win in the present. His minutes and his points
Speaker 2: per game have fallen for four consecutive years, and that
Speaker 2: is for a reason he is now getting eighteen minutes
Speaker 2: a game off the bed. Those minutes should be going
Speaker 2: to Bryce Sensible, or maybe to Josh Christopher or maybe
Speaker 2: even to Johnny Jaza. Since he can score, I'm sure
Speaker 2: he could help a contending team. I don't know. Worst case,
Speaker 2: you can send him to Washington. Put his one hundred
Speaker 2: because obviously he is great for that team. Because he's
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty two point four, defensive rating is
Speaker 2: so bad it's going to keep him from getting real
Speaker 2: minutes anywhere else. Number three, I'm sorry Kelly Olinock, but
Speaker 2: you have to go to I like him.
Speaker 3: I like Kelly Olinock.
Speaker 2: He's a tough, gretty kid. He can help a lot
Speaker 2: of teams like Boston. He helped them already, maybe he
Speaker 2: can help them again. He can shoot a three, he
Speaker 2: can defend, he can rebound. But you know what, he's
Speaker 2: a fine locker room guy, but not a locker room
Speaker 2: guy for this locker room.
Speaker 3: He's not going to disrupt a contender.
Speaker 2: He is one hundred percent of vibes, dude for a
Speaker 2: young team like Orlando. But I'm sorry, Kelly Olinic, Well,
Speaker 2: they already have one of those. His name is Joe Ingles.
Speaker 2: I suspect that Kelly Olynic's trade value is greater than
Speaker 2: people know, But I'm sorry, dude, you have to go.
Speaker 3: Those are the three trades that would open this team.
Speaker 2: Up a lot.
Speaker 3: In the short term, it might be worse.
Speaker 2: I still do not care.
Speaker 3: Then in the off season, you want to see what
Speaker 3: the trade value.
Speaker 2: Is for John Collins. If you don't get what you want,
Speaker 2: hold on him for another year, especially since the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four draft is stacking up to be not so great,
Speaker 2: which is why the fact that they only have one
Speaker 2: first round of this year is fine.
Speaker 3: It's awesome. It should be a high one because it's
Speaker 3: their own pick.
Speaker 2: They have three in twenty twenty five, two in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, and four in twenty twenty seven, and then
Speaker 2: should have.
Speaker 3: More after trading thht Sex than an Olympics.
Speaker 2: To me, this is the only way forward in Utah.
Speaker 2: It has to be you have to embrace the tank.
Speaker 2: We know that's not what Danny Ainge likes to do.
Speaker 2: He likes to retool. I'm sorry it doesn't feel like
Speaker 2: retooling is a possibility here. There's people on Reddit who
Speaker 2: are worried that Lori Markening could be on the draft,
Speaker 2: on the chopping block. That's how bad things are right now.
Speaker 2: This rebuild could take a couple of years, longer than
Speaker 2: Trader Danny would like to But the future is still
Speaker 2: looking bright ish in Utah, even if the present is
Speaker 2: what did he say, a masterpiece of dog Shiit