WEBVTT - 2022-23 A to Z NBA Breakdown 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.320 You're tuned into Heat Check, but just a quick on 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.200 this episode of the Heat Check. Everybody right now is 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:20.840 doing an NBA season preview episode. Not everyone, though, is 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:26.560 doing and redoing their preview episode, because that is exactly 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.160 what we are doing today. This is the real shit 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.800 right here, just for you Heat Checkers. No Locked On collaboration, 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:40.040 no corporate crick. This is the real shit right here. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.960 Hose Apparently there was request for the word hose in 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.800 the episode, So we will be talking about your favorite 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.360 your favorite team, and mine why they probably won't win 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.360 the championship. I'm no sellout, folks, just remember that, so 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:07.080 do me a favor, Nick and drop that motherfucking beat. So, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.080 followers of the Heat Check, no, if you have this 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.240 subscribed on your feed, which you know, surprisingly people do, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.640 and you should as well. I recorded a special crossover 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:24.120 episode with the folks from Locked On dun nunchdn don 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:29.720 dun nunch uh and now regular listeners may have noticed 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:35.000 that something was a little different than the normal Heat 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:40.080 Check episodes. How would I put the difference? What's the 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:46.680 best way to describe it? I was, well, I'll let 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.680 my two favorite guys, Dlo and Casey let you know 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.960 what they thought, courtesy of their awesome DL and Casey 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.120 show on thirteen twenty ESPN in Sacramento, where I have 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.520 the honor of being their guest every Friday at five 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.440 pm Eastern Standard Time. Here is what they had to 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.800 say on the show. I love the new podcast, by 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.840 the way, the preview of the NBA season hold On, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.920 hold On, I mean, I don't know what's going on 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.640 here with Corporate the corporate champion. I knew that was corporate. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.480 You went, you turned heeled just like The Rock did 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.679 back in ninety ninety eight and aligned himself with Vince McMahon. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.640 You didn't call no one a hoe. You didn't cuss 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.160 one single time in that podcast. Oh yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.240 yeah yeah yeah yah. Hold on, godden up, Trista crick. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.519 So they found out, but it was pretty obvious, apparently, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.760 and a commenter in the Chatty House Delo in Casey's 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.920 YouTube said it best. Tristan was like when your parents 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.240 get on a phone call from work and you're looking 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.720 at him like, who is that? Who is that person 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.800 that I'm listening to on the phone. So I figured 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.680 because a ton of the teams that I was planning 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.160 on talking about with Donna. Didn't end up get getting 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.520 talked about that we should do it again, And in hindsight, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.400 I think I was a little bit too corporate for 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.880 the lockdown folks. So I figured, let's do a more 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.560 comprehensive preview of the teams, including the teams that I missed. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:17.000 So let's get into it, hose the big question everyone 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.079 wants to know, of course, who's gonna win it all? 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.840 Who who is it gonna be? Let's go through the 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.680 contenders according to what Vegas has to say. Golden State 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.959 plus six hundred, That means six to one odds, Boston 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.000 plus five hundred. Kind of crazy considering everything that's going 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.960 on with them. Milwaukee plus six fifty, Brooklyn plus seven hundred, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.560 and the Clippers plus seven hundred the two top favorites. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.320 How would I put this? They're going through some shit 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:51.080 right now, aren't they. They are having some internal struggles. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.920 We already know what was going on with Boston. And 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.120 the last time that we discussed the Draymond versus Pool incident, 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.720 we didn't have no video, And now I've got the 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:04.920 video and looking at it, it looks like looks like 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:12.920 something close to a scuffle and probably borderline assault. And 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.080 so now we do have the videos, We've got all 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.520 kinds of think pieces Bitten being written by Tim Kawakami 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:24.120 of The Athletic, probably from probably pushed from Jordan Poole's 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.280 PR team, because it's very pro Jordan Poole about oh, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.760 I don't know, Draymond's now potentially the odd man out 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.239 and oh, Draymond's possibly gonna get traded because they can't 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.880 possibly pay everyone. That Jordan Poole now has all of 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.640 the power, and that, oh, if Jordan Poole is uncomfortable 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.000 playing basketball with Draymond Green, it might just mean that 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.400 Draymond Green has to go. And that would be a 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:53.359 totally fair perspective of Jordan Poole, considering that he was assaulted. Folks, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.080 it's a cool it's a cold game out there. It's 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.599 a cold game, cold game. I've seen some things on 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.560 instag Yes, I have some rumors, rumors about what Jordan 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.279 Poole said. Did Draymond Green talked around, have asked around 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:12.240 a little. One person said, you know what, there's only 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.880 a couple people in the league. I dislike Jordan Poole 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.400 is one of them. And you know what kind of 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.040 happy to see Draymond Green hit him in the face. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.680 I think the term was stole on him. I was 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.000 glad to see Draymond Green stole on him. So so 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.719 that is an interesting little element. The things I saw 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.400 on the internet are true dirty game, some dirty triple 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:42.400 single accusations, some things. Does it mean, though, that they're 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.840 gonna really trade Draymond Green? Does it mean that they 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:49.160 shouldn't be considered the top or at least the second top. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.000 They should be the top, Let's be honest. They want 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.200 it all. Whoever wins it all should always be the 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.000 top unless they lost half their team or all their team. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.120 Is it a bad look? Yeah, it is a bad luck. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.240 Does it make the Warriors part of this new a 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.080 nobody messing with? M click click of the dysfunctional teams 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.279 around the NBA? Yes, yes, they're all in a little 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.200 lunch table together somehow a lot of them are contending. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.360 I've been to the finals in the last two years, 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.760 but here they are. Here they are. Does it give 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.880 other teams hope, you damn right it does. But to me, 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.920 it's Golden State that should be the title favorite. Steph 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.120 is dominant He's a cyborg somehow, more and more dominant 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.279 by the year. He's gonna get another MVP before it's 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.360 time for his time to come to a close. What 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.960 in the hell did Steph learn how to play elite defense? 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.640 By the way, he used to be a sieve like 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:48.039 Damian Lillard. No shade to Damian Lillard, you are a sieve. Though, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.400 Clay has mental block right now about playing pick up 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.520 basketball because he spent the summer driving his boat around 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.839 the bay because he tore his achilles three offseasons ago. Right, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.880 but let me ask you, this is there such thing 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:09.039 as an NBA playoff scrimmage. They don't exist, right, we're 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.040 talking about scrimmage, We're talking about pick up miss me. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.680 I am not worried about Klay Thompson. He looked just 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.840 fine in those playoffs. He looked just fine. And I 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.760 think there's a ton of more opportunities for this team 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.640 to get better. There's a lot of people being like, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.840 but Trista, they lost Bilichia, they lost on a porter. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.400 No one's saying that, But people who cover the Beat 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.040 are saying that the Warriors beat. I don't care. I 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.560 don't care about I don't care that he went back 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.400 to Europe. I don't care that Latto Porter went back 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.760 to Toronto. I don't care that well. I do care 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.480 that we got Gary Payton. I do because of me, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.360 like I care for the for the Blazers taking something 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.080 from the Warriors. But I don't think this is going 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.080 to be meaningful for the Warriors. They have guys that 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.360 are gonna step up. Moses Moody's gonna step up. He 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.320 looked really good, Javan Kaminga. If he becomes less of 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:59.800 a chucklehead, he'll be good. You've got my man PBJ 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.720 Pat Baldwin Junior hitting threes very high IQ. Probably if 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.160 he would have gone to Douke, he wouldn't even be 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.160 there at that point in time that they were. They 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:12.280 drafted him. So this is a very very sneaky team. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.640 Plus they have Dante DiVincenzo coming in to try to 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.840 basically be Gary Payton the second. He's six', four he's, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:22.400 bouncy he's got That Vanilla Villanova Vanilla villanova. Pedigree he 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.920 is a little vanilla except for that he got caught 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.480 for those, tweets so you can't really call him vanilla. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.400 Anymore remember when when my guy FROM Usa, today dug 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.720 up all the tweets after they won the national, title 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.960 like four minutes, later and then he had answer. Questions 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.719 that was. Crazy, Anyway moving on other teams that need 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.360 to be, Considered i'm, Sorry. BOSTON i think it's pretty 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.360 clear if That milwaukee was fully, healthy they would have 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.480 beaten your. ASS i think they would. HAVE i don't 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.360 think it would have gone. SEVEN i think it would 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.360 have gone five or. Six Pat connaton was a big. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.560 Loss middleton was a big. LOSS i think The bucks 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.720 are still very much for. Real if you Have, giannis 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.160 you're for. Real that's. It Drew, middleton jo, honest for. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.920 Real My manianis is hitting, threes My manianis is hitting 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:09.280 his free. Throws he's coming out with. Documentaries, yeah they're for. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.000 Real Los Angeles. Clippers this is a very deep. Team 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.600 they should be considered as, well deeper than probably any 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.240 other team in THE. Nba John wall did you see? 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.520 Him did you see those? CLIPS i know they've been 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.559 circulating the. TWITTERS i know people have been seeing it 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.920 around the. Back lay didn't look the, layup didn't look, 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.679 clean hit a lot of, rim but it went. In 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.920 he looks. Fast he's got another layer of playmaking for this. Team, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.800 Kawhi John, Wall Paul. George IF Paula george can stop 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.800 being so mentally weak at the most critical, moments that's 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.560 a big three on its. Own you Add Norm powell 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.680 to that. Team you Add Rob covington to that, Team 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.080 you add all the. Squad Regg, jackson mister what they call, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.400 him Mister. October, yeah they call him Mister. October nick 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.320 Batoum garden people ninety four feet getting his Little french 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.680 body up into. Him this team is a, squad very. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:07.240 Dangerous but the next team is The Brooklyn. Nets what are? 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.480 They are they a? Contender are they a team that's 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.320 gonna get bounced out of the first round and get? 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.520 SWEPT i don't, know, DOG i don't think anyone, knows 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.040 AND i don't think they. KNOW i know That Kevin 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.240 durant is very. GOOD i know THAT i Know kyrie 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.880 is very. GOOD i know That Ben simmons can pass 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.640 his the last off as long as his back is fully. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:31.000 HEALTHY i know that this team's very. Deep and one 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.160 thing right now that we know is That Steve nash 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.680 got booed In brooklyn by his own fan. Base fascinating, 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.520 stuff fascinating, stuff things you hate to. See couldn't happen 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:46.720 to a more qualified. Coach. Shit this, team, though is stupid, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.480 deep so deep with Ice cube they put her ass to. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.960 SLEEP i don't know who they're gonna put to, sleep 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.560 but it could be Maybe chicago in the first. Round 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.840 this team has. Guys Now Steve nash can incorporate them 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.480 into the rotation if he even knows what a rotation 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:06.959 is in very important. Moments we're not sure What Ben simmons' 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.160 role is gonna. Be we talked about that last episode 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.920 on the. Pod some players to WATCH Tj. Warren he 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.040 was very good in the. Bubble is he gonna be? 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.800 HEALTHY i don't, Know Nick, claxton will he get free? 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.000 Throws he's gonna get a lot of. Lobs you better 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.000 make those lobs because those free. THROWS i think he 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.400 was like a sixty percent free throw. Shooter and then 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.800 you know they're defensively a. Mess but if they, TRY 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.720 i guess they'll be. BETTER i was more optimistic last 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.200 week Before Steve nash got. Booed i'm not gonna. LIE 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.520 i want him to be. BAD i. DO i Want 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.760 kyrie And kevin durant to be, good BUT i Want 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.400 Steve nash to. Fail it's true he didn't deserve that. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.800 Job he never will have deserved, it and he's not 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.920 very good at his. Job and the people who actually evaluate, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.760 players evaluate, teams people that we, trust they also think 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:08.640 he's not very. Good so it's not just. Me let's 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.040 go through, though the next tier of teams that are 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:16.400 one level below quote Obvious vegas, Contender teams that are 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.320 Like stella trying to get their. Groovebacks teams that have 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.120 gone to the finals recently and are trying to find 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.840 their way back. There, Phoenix, Miami denver went to The 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.040 Western conference, Finals philly went to The Eastern. Conference semis 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.840 And dallas who made their way to The Western conference 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.520 finals last. Year let's talk about, Them, Miami. Miami it's an, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.880 ugly ugly path for. Them it is always. Gross it 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.360 never looks like they're gonna be able to do, it 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.240 and then they do Somehow Someway Jimmy butler makes life, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.000 hard even when he's making your forty two points per. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.760 Game it's, like, man it looked hard for. You they've 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.480 been in the mix, though. Too out of the last three, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.160 years right they've always adding. Guy they're always adding guys 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.480 you've never heard. Of they get him, Undrafted they come 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.600 out of. Nowhere they fill roles that you did not. Expect, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.640 so for, example they get rid OF Pj. Tucker, Right 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.240 so who's going to REPLACE Pj? Tucker they get this, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.800 Kid Darius days AT. Lsu darius Day days is who 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.040 is his? Player? Cop, well just ask. Him he says 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.880 IT'S Pj. Tucker so it's not a shocker that they 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.679 REPLACE Pj tucker with a, younger up and COMING Pj. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.880 Tucker Jerry west one of his favorite young. Players he 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.120 didn't get. Drafted If Kyle lowry is backed to being, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.640 available he missed a lot of time for personal issues 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.000 And i'm not even sure what those issues. Are then 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.559 he missed time due to. Health so if he's healthy 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.280 and engage and those personal issues are cleaned up and 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:48.000 he's playing seventy five, games let's just be more, realistic 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.680 sixty five seventy, games they could be a problem for 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.760 a lot of. Teams are they good enough to be 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.800 a Healthy becks? Team? No does it? Matter they might 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.680 not even face. Him so just play your best, Basketball 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.720 miami and we'll see for the, heat, though to be 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.960 able to truly get, there to truly be able to 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.680 compete for a, TITLE i Think bam out Of baio 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.640 needs to be that. Guy he needs to be so. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.200 Dominant he needs to make life hard on whoever is guarding. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.280 Him he needs to bam and not lay. Up he 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.280 needs to hit his free. Throws he needs to be 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.600 a problem night in and night. Out so many times 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.960 he Goes David copperfield and just all of a, sudden 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.320 you don't know where bam About adebayo? Is is he 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.000 even on the. Floor oh, yeah he's got four points 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:34.400 in thirty eight. Minutes that's. Unacceptable so two years, now 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.840 by the, way we've had role players not show up 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.760 for their. Teams you Had Kevin durant and The, nets 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.080 and you Had Jimmy butler in the. Heat they were 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.200 just putting the team on their back so much that 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.720 when it came down the closing, time closing, time they 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.200 were so exhausted that they couldn't hit the final shot 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.840 in order to seal it. Out so role players got 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.320 to show. Up moving, Forward Denver nuggets man easy to 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.560 forget how good The Denver nuggets. Were the bubble Of Denver, nuggets, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:08.080 unstoppable just the, kids the comeback cardiac. Kids they played 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.440 The warriors, close and it was just just checks, Notes 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:17.320 Doc rivers's son off the couch And jokic and Rookie Bowlan's, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.200 highland and it was a sweat for The. Warriors it 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.320 looked like his see a five, Game oh, gentlemen. Sweep. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.800 NO i watched every single one of those. Games it 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:31.320 came down to the, wire down to the. Wire When 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:35.160 Doc rivers's son is your second option and you win 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.760 any games against the team that ended up winning it, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.880 all like that's a. Wow you add back In Jamal, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.320 murray who's a. Bucket you add back in Hopefully Michael 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.280 Porter junior from, injury, which, like by the, way this 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.440 has been a concern since he was drafted From. Missouri 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.720 that's why he slipped in the draft because he had back. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.600 Issues so if he's healthy and back to being one 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.360 of the best three point shooters in the, league but 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.480 one of the best two way wings in the, league 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.400 then oh. Boy then you add in ksep who's a 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.560 very good versatile. Defender you add In Bruce, brown who 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.160 again can do a lot of. Things he was a rebound. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.360 King he was a nice little small ball five for 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.680 The Brooklyn, nets and Before Joe harris just went into 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.440 a milk, carton they were gonna beat The. Bucks everyone's 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.960 gotta stay, healthy. MAN i think that they can really 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.880 make some. Noise If Jamal murray is himself AND mpj is, 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.160 Himself Phoenix. Suns you move forward and, say how Could 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:34.680 phoenix really? Compete how tell me how are they going 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.520 to get back to being an actual team, team a 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.360 team that likes each other and is around each other 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:47.400 and has chemistry and can overcome adversity when things get. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.120 Bright we have seen them when they do like each 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.640 other and they get. DERAILED i think that they are 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.000 gonna have a real hard time getting over that drama 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.560 of the, offseason the issues With DeAndre, ayton the issues 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.320 with you, KNOW, covid let's be, HONEST covid ravaging their, 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.760 team the issues With Monty williams not speaking To DeAndre 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.200 ayton for the entire, offseason which is fucking, weird And 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.879 DeAndre ayton not reaching out to, him which is fucking. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.480 Weird him wanting to go To indiana and still being 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.080 In phoenix because they have no other, Options Robert sarver 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.840 being forced to sell a. Team you know the whole, 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.119 thing you know the whole. List how are they going 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.560 to get back to the. Finals they are, Not they 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.040 are not what needs to. Happen, Well DeAndre ayton has 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.000 to be. Happy otherwise it's The Bismack biambo. Show AND 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.479 i tell you, What i've seen a lot Of Bismack 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.639 biambo when he played For. CHARLOTTE i saw him In 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.679 phoenix as. WELL i don't know that you want him 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.919 being your starting. FIVE i just don't think. So booker 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.720 gotta be AN mvp and this team might just might 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:52.199 go to the second. Round philadelphia very intriguing. Team so to, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.440 contend they kind of need to be uh Like, Jedis 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.720 embiid And harden have to know what each other is 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.560 thinking at all. Times they need to be able to 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.280 look into each other's eyes and know who wants the 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.479 rock where they want. It how? Much how do you 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.639 Feed embiid? First how do you Feed embiid and not 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:15.520 Castraight James? Harden that's the question because When james is, 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.480 aggressive he's not looking for anyone, else and when he's a, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.160 distributor he's not nearly as aggressive with his. Shot can 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.560 we see The Houston rockets version Of harden mixed with 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.399 early nets Hardened that would be an absolute. Problem are 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:28.879 they going to be good in the? Post are they 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.280 going to be able to? Rebound they were one of 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.480 the worst rebounding teams in THE nba last. Year Doc, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.880 rivers who's a, liar said On woja's podcast that they 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.680 look very good right now in. PRACTICE i also saw 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.040 some footage where they said. That he said they didn't look, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.840 good but that was a week, ago SO i don't. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.520 Know they both need to be in, shape they both 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.520 need to be. Healthy they're usually, neither both of. Them 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.640 so we'll, see we will. SEE i am. Intrigued let's 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.760 just say THAT i Love tyree S. Maxey he's the 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.199 most likable player on this. TEAM i think when you 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.000 add nobody's talking about it that. Much after the SIGNING. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.160 Pj tucker as a whole new. Element they said after 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.159 they lost to The, heat they need some, dogs and 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.320 they found. ONE. Pj tucker is that. Guy he absolutely 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.320 is that. Guy you Added Daniel House, junior Which i'm 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.840 not sure why they picked him up other than the 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.639 fact that he can literally game up any woman in any. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.960 Setting remember he got kicked out of the bubble for 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.439 bringing down THE covid. Tester he took her to his 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.520 room later, later right. Down so maybe he's Like James harten's. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.280 WINGMAN i don't know why he's on the, team but 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.520 it's not to be a, dog it's to be something. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.720 Else all, right let's move Forward. Dallas in order For 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.560 dallas to, contend what do they need to? Do they 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.399 need to acquire. Someone let's be. Honest they need to 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.919 figure out another backcourt teammate With. Luca this is a no. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.000 Brainer nobody is in more dire need of someone to 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.760 acquire Than. Luca he needs a backcourt. Mate losing jyleb 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:04.000 bro was a really big. Deal they were fifteenth in 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.080 offense last, year, fifteenth and then they lose the guy 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.639 who can put up buckets at any moment With. Luca 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.480 he was a very key. Piece When luca was out 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.920 against The, jazz he put up forty. One do you 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.240 trust anyone else on that team to put up forty 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.000 one If luca's not in, There, no you. Don't who 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.280 can they? Get Maybe Mike, conley he can give you 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.560 twenty five. Minutes he can give you some, shots a little. 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.880 Lefty he's got a three point. Game he's not gonna 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.240 be a starter or. Anything he's not Gonna maybe he, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.400 starts but he doesn't play huge. Minutes even for twenty 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.119 two minutes a, game he's gonna. HELP i don't trust In. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.760 Woodie i've said, That javal, McGee Christian, wood they need 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.960 to be. Better they need to be an absolute. Bucket 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.840 Christian wood needs to hit. Threes he needs to be completely. 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.520 Engaged we can't have any more of those those reputational 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.320 things and question marks That Christian wood has had. Before 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.159 are they? True are they not? TRUE i don't, know 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.080 BUT i know that they're out, there so they need 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.399 to figure that. Out, Also Jayden, hardy If Jayden hardy 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.920 becomes Like Aunt edwards mid, season then yeah they can. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.000 Compete but that's you, know obviously a big if deeper 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.080 teams are coming and they do not care If luca 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.679 puts forty five up on them at. All this is 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.800 a potentially a play and team barring a. Trade, yeah it's. 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.639 True the next tier of teams on the, rise getting, 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.200 better doing the work in the, gym looking, good looking 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:24.680 to take some heads Off Cleveland, Memphis, Minnesota New, Orleans. 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.959 Toronto all of these teams make me more excited Than. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.399 Dallas and that's. That AND i Love. Luca that is 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.600 a sexy ass. Group woo Wooh Hey, Memphis, Woo, Minnesota, 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:43.240 Woo New, Orleans Woo. Toronto hell, Yeah, minnesota let's talk about. 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:48.199 Them first biggest money move of the offseason swang for 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.280 the fences For Rudy. GOBERT i think it's a fascinating. 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:53.600 Move how is it gonna work With Carl Anthony? TOWNS 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.200 i have no. Idea ALL i know is it means 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:58.520 That Carl Anthony towns isn't going to be a defensive, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.560 liability isn't going to be caught on film talking all 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.159 kinds of trash and people be, like we Have, minnesota, 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:08.040 now we Have. Minnesota. Now ALL i know is that 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.399 it means That Carl Anthony towns can lock. In and 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.639 if anybody needs the shoulders of the blame for, anything 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:14.840 we already know who it. Is It's. Rudy rudy always 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:16.800 shoulders the. Blame he's good at, That he's good at 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:20.840 being an. Escapegoat Hopefully aunt and De lo are gonna 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.439 feature him more Offensively Rudy. GOBERT i think you can 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.199 get him a ton of. Lobs the question is our 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.760 team's gonna try to run him off, four try to 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:30.800 go small on him like The clippers, did Like dallas 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.439