Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick on this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check. Oh, Dear, Old Dear, the
Speaker 1: Mavericks are in big time, doodoe and I am here
Speaker 1: to break down how deep in the shit they are.
Speaker 1: But first let's get into some other news around the league.
Speaker 1: Starting with dearon Fox and why he hates college basketball.
Speaker 1: We then talk about Lebron hiring the Lebron James of
Speaker 1: foot doctors, Pat Bev being Pat Bev. M Moore playing
Speaker 1: is just around the corner, folks, So Nick, do me
Speaker 1: a favor and drop that generic aass beat the should
Speaker 1: be Rihanna. So a little story time. Just got back
Speaker 1: from Cincinnati. I had an event where I am seed
Speaker 1: the opening of the bed MGM Sportsbook at the Great
Speaker 1: American Ballpark in Cincinnati. Legendary first base and Sean Casey
Speaker 1: was there. Cool hero Ikey Woods was there from the Bengals,
Speaker 1: and Kenyon Martin akak mart Uc Bearcat, legend nets all
Speaker 1: pro power forward, just number one overall pick beast. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna actually get Kenyan Martin on the pod soon.
Speaker 1: He actually asked to be on, which is amazing, so
Speaker 1: look out for that. Also, Father of kJ Martin, who
Speaker 1: is in prison aka playing for the Houston Rockets. But
Speaker 1: I did want to talk about some college hoops because
Speaker 1: I went to Louisville, which is just a short hop
Speaker 1: down the road from Cincinnati, and I went over to
Speaker 1: the Young Center, which is actually, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this, but youm Center is KFC, Taco Bell
Speaker 1: and Pizza Hut. Yeah, did not know that. Watched the
Speaker 1: Elite eight game between San Diego State and Creighton, which
Speaker 1: was an absolute rock fight. Found some cheap ass tickets
Speaker 1: like five minutes before game time, a second row half
Speaker 1: court on the more right behind Iron Eagle, which was amazing.
Speaker 1: Turned out to be an all time game. This is
Speaker 1: all just a roundabout way to talk about Deer and
Speaker 1: Fox hating college basketball and March Madness. They asked him
Speaker 1: if he's watching any of the games. This is what
Speaker 1: he had to say, watch March, I kind of flip
Speaker 1: through college games. I can't watch a full college game, really, no,
Speaker 1: I can't. It's hard. It's hard. Just the shot making
Speaker 1: is not at obviously the pro level. The refs are bad.
Speaker 1: A lot of coaching is really bad. Yeah, it's I
Speaker 1: can't stand it. A lot of coaching is really bad.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind this is a man who was coached
Speaker 1: by checks notes Luke Walton. He said, the coaching is
Speaker 1: really bad, the refereeing is really bad. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's a fair assessment. I think it's definitely different.
Speaker 1: Is it as pretty for sure? Not a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought that the San Diego State game was a disaster.
Speaker 1: I personally loved it. I watched it up close and personal.
Speaker 1: It felt like if you were up by four points
Speaker 1: in that game, you were up by fifty. That's how
Speaker 1: hard a basket was to come by. Miami versus Texas.
Speaker 1: You had Miami come back from thirteen down with no threes.
Speaker 1: If Creighton or San Diego State would have been up
Speaker 1: by thirteen points, you might as well just call it
Speaker 1: game over. There's no chance one one bucket between either
Speaker 1: one of them combined might have taken two or three minutes.
Speaker 1: Not because they were just horrible. The defense was that good.
Speaker 1: You had a San Diego State asset team playing man
Speaker 1: to man full court press from second one in the
Speaker 1: game all the way through literally the first possession Creighton
Speaker 1: got the ball. You had our man Trommel playing full
Speaker 1: court press on him, locking him down, making Andrew Nemhard's
Speaker 1: little brother, making his life just a pain in the ass,
Speaker 1: tiring him out. You add Calkin Brenner seven footer for
Speaker 1: a Creighton. You add him setting screens for Nemart in
Speaker 1: the back court. This is the thing about the NBA.
Speaker 1: It just can't. You can't match the intensity of it
Speaker 1: of college basketball, at least until the playoffs. You just can't.
Speaker 1: The NBA nobody cares this much. Every rebound is a fight.
Speaker 1: Players don't take plays off. An entire quarter is unheard
Speaker 1: of to take off like it is in the NBA. Yes,
Speaker 1: the NCAA schedule half the amount, less than half the amount,
Speaker 1: like we'll call it a quarter of the amount of
Speaker 1: the NBA. But the desire should be the same. It's
Speaker 1: just it just isn't. If you look at like a
Speaker 1: random Pistons Spurs game in January versus San Diego State
Speaker 1: versus Creighton in the Elite eight, I guarantee you'd rather
Speaker 1: watch San Diego State versus Creighton watching Jade and Ivy
Speaker 1: chuck from thirty five feet while every single Spur except
Speaker 1: for Trey Jones is sitting on the bench for load management.
Speaker 1: Get out of here, Get out of here. I know
Speaker 1: the beat NBA is the best basketball in the world,
Speaker 1: but that's not the point. Different strokes for different folks,
Speaker 1: and the college game is beautiful in its own way.
Speaker 1: Side note on college hoops. If you haven't seen Caitlyn
Speaker 1: Clark and her performance two nights ago, forty one point
Speaker 1: triple double, first in NCAA history, never been in thirty
Speaker 1: point triple double in women's college tournament history before, and
Speaker 1: she had forty one. Go find that shit on YouTube.
Speaker 1: My lord. I think Caitlyn Clark might be I think
Speaker 1: she might be the best college player, men's or woman's
Speaker 1: in history. I'm not even joking, not even joking. The
Speaker 1: MAVs are so fucked they are. I mean, they are
Speaker 1: absolutely toast. The more you think about it and break
Speaker 1: down what's happening with this team roster, assets, draft situation,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And also just like play right now, just performances, period,
Speaker 1: the more you realize this team is just so screwed
Speaker 1: they are absolutely done. How bad is it that the
Speaker 1: only option that the MAVs have right now, the only
Speaker 1: like slight way out to salvage the disaster that is
Speaker 1: this season is to lose every single game for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. I'm not joking. Seven games left.
Speaker 1: The only thing that the MAVs can do to fix it,
Speaker 1: even a little bit, which is not going to fix
Speaker 1: the whole thing, is to tank, lose it, shut Luca down,
Speaker 1: lose every single game. Let me explain why that will be.
Speaker 1: So we talked last week about the Mavericks Warriors game
Speaker 1: and that ended in the protest. Dallas said that it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be their ball and the Warriors ended
Speaker 1: up getting an easy dunk and then that ended up
Speaker 1: them losing the game and falling from six to like tenth. Right,
Speaker 1: And we said that the last few games were pretty easy, right,
Speaker 1: We said, oh, fortunately, they have two games against the Hornets,
Speaker 1: the Pacers, the Bulls, the Hawks, and the Spurs, all
Speaker 1: winnable games. Since then, the MAVs got their doors blown
Speaker 1: off to the Charlott Hornets twice without LaMelo, without Terry
Speaker 1: rose Ear and without one other player as well. It
Speaker 1: was just Gordon Hayward doing Gordon Hayward things. By the way,
Speaker 1: did I mention that that was the largest underdog win
Speaker 1: of the season. The Hornets were sixteen and a half
Speaker 1: point dogs and one outright and the MAVs in those
Speaker 1: two games that they both lost against the Hornets, they
Speaker 1: only led in those two games for ninety one seconds
Speaker 1: combined out of ninety two minutes or ninety six minutes.
Speaker 1: Did I mention Charlotte has the second worst record in
Speaker 1: the East. Those are not just bad losses. Those are
Speaker 1: changed the entire philosophy and direction for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season kind of losses. Tim McMahon called them maybe
Speaker 1: the two worst performances, not just of the year, but
Speaker 1: in recent memory. The second game in Charlotte, Tim McMahon
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks I would call him on the beat for ESPN.
Speaker 1: He called Luca's performance the single worst forty twelve and
Speaker 1: eight game in NBA history. Luca argued with the refs
Speaker 1: pretty much all night about everything, to the point where
Speaker 1: he got technicled teed up in his sixteenth of the year,
Speaker 1: which would have made him ineligible to play Monday night,
Speaker 1: which is tonight against the Pacers. And the Pacers are
Speaker 1: better than the Hornets except for Adam Silver. Put his
Speaker 1: knee pads on and went to work and found a
Speaker 1: way somehow to rescind Lucas technical which the refs the
Speaker 1: next day came out and said, no, that technical was legit.
Speaker 1: We are not played on rescinding it. We're all NBA
Speaker 1: podcasts today predicted no, that will not be removed or changed.
Speaker 1: That call will not be and it was changed. Any
Speaker 1: possibility that Silver is a little scared about the potential
Speaker 1: of having not just Luca missed the playoffs, but Lebron
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs in the same year. Either way, it's
Speaker 1: a disaster. So how bad are things for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks right now? They are currently a full game behind
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder for the ten seed and last
Speaker 1: place in the play in tournament. Five of their next
Speaker 1: seven games Dallas are against playoff teams. So remember we
Speaker 1: said schedules kind of eat It's not easy anymore. Sixers,
Speaker 1: King's Hawks, Bulls Heat. This is a team that, even
Speaker 1: if they were trying, could easily go from Western Conference
Speaker 1: Finals last year to Cancun on three. This all sort
Speaker 1: of seems impossible considering the fact that they were so
Speaker 1: successful last year. Luca has been largely healthy pretty much
Speaker 1: all year, and the Mavericks made the biggest deal at
Speaker 1: the trade deadline, which was getting Kyrie Irving, and do
Speaker 1: not say that was Kevin Durant that was the biggest trade,
Speaker 1: because the only reason that Kevin Durant trade happened was
Speaker 1: because Kyrie asked out. The MAVs are currently six and
Speaker 1: nine in games that Kyrie has played. But here's the part,
Speaker 1: the little kicker that people are not talking enough about.
Speaker 1: The MAVs are three and eight in games that Luca
Speaker 1: and Kyrie both play. Anyone see that coming. That is shocking.
Speaker 1: So in summation, the MAVs mortgaged their future to get
Speaker 1: not just Christian Wood but Kyrie Irving, giving up multiple
Speaker 1: picks and multiple assets, and now the only hope is
Speaker 1: to maybe re sign Kyrie, which means they gave up
Speaker 1: their lockdown defender and they're probably not gonna keep Kyrie.
Speaker 1: They gave up their lockdown defender Dorian Phinney Smith, their
Speaker 1: number two scoring option in Spencer Dinwoodie, who's averaging seventeen
Speaker 1: to four and eight as an d an unprotected twenty
Speaker 1: twenty nine first round draft pick and two future second
Speaker 1: round picks. Four potentially two months of Kyrie Irving, who
Speaker 1: has given you a thirty seven and a half winning percentage.
Speaker 1: Now it's so bad that Kyrie Irving is getting booed
Speaker 1: in the stands, getting hackled by Mavericks fans, booted from
Speaker 1: the game. Things are obviously going according to plan. According
Speaker 1: to plan, it's not working. Look in his recent pressor speechless,
Speaker 1: he's not playing with any choy, He's saying that he
Speaker 1: has issues with his personal life. All of that is
Speaker 1: the nightmare scenario. But here's like, I guess the cherry
Speaker 1: on top of how bad it is, do you know
Speaker 1: how bad it is in Dallas right now? How bad
Speaker 1: is it Trista. It's so toxic that the Orlando Magic
Speaker 1: think that they can lure Luka doncic away and bring
Speaker 1: him there. Yes, recent reports are that the Orlando Magic
Speaker 1: are quote monitoring the Luca situation and they believe they
Speaker 1: believe that Luca would look at the Orlando Magic franchise,
Speaker 1: which has been in the lottery for every year for
Speaker 1: about a decade, and be like, yes, I think Orlando
Speaker 1: is in a better spot to win in the or
Speaker 1: an intermediate term then my current team, the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: that just went to the Western Conference finals. They believe
Speaker 1: in their head that that's a possibility. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Europeans don't really care about these dogshit cities that they
Speaker 1: play them. Look at Dirk Noovisky, look at Joannie, look
Speaker 1: at Nicole Ocic. They don't care that they're in small markets.
Speaker 1: They don't leave, They stick around. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I tend to agree. I tend to agree things have
Speaker 1: gone I actually do believe the Orlando Magic has have
Speaker 1: more pieces, more draft picks, better cap space flexibility than
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks in the next decade. I believe that
Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic right now are in a better spot
Speaker 1: to win than the Mavericks, which is fucking crazy. Things
Speaker 1: have gone sideways. You gotta put blame all over the place.
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison is terrible. Jason Kid's not making decisions correctly
Speaker 1: at the end of situations. Rumors are that the MAVs
Speaker 1: locker room is tuning out Jason Kidd. All of these
Speaker 1: are segments all on their own. They're probably gonna fire
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd. He's gonna probably be the scapegoat of the
Speaker 1: NBA and this team, even though he's like the last
Speaker 1: thing that's the problem for the team. Yeah, he's not good,
Speaker 1: but let's be honest, there's not much really to rock with.
Speaker 1: And if you look at next year, you add in
Speaker 1: how little cap space this team has. So if you
Speaker 1: look at twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, without signing
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, this team has twenty twenty five million dollars
Speaker 1: to spend, right, that seems like quite a bit of
Speaker 1: cap space. Oh, twenty five million dollars in free cat
Speaker 1: space this year. Then you look at how many guys
Speaker 1: they have locked up and it's eight eight of fifteen spots.
Speaker 1: That means you have twenty five million dollars to spend
Speaker 1: on seven players. What can you get for twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars across seven human beings in the NBA? My guy
Speaker 1: Alan Krab was getting eighteen million. One man, what are
Speaker 1: we talking about? And here's the kicker you. Oh, if
Speaker 1: you're the Dallas Mavericks, this year's first round pick to
Speaker 1: the Knicks unless you fall and get a top ten
Speaker 1: pick in the lottery. It's a top ten protected first
Speaker 1: round pick. So what does that mean? You gotta figure
Speaker 1: out a way to get that top ten pick. Baby,
Speaker 1: you gotta lose out. So the only way you have
Speaker 1: an ability to get some young emerging star for cheap
Speaker 1: in a very loaded draft is that they must lose
Speaker 1: shut Luca down, lose seven games in a row, which
Speaker 1: puts you record rise right on the brink. You still
Speaker 1: might be fucked thirty six and forty six, which is
Speaker 1: the ninth worst record in the which gives you like
Speaker 1: a little bit of hope of giving a top ten pick. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: which would be a disaster as you lose out and
Speaker 1: then get the eleventh pick, which you have to give
Speaker 1: it in the next But otherwise, who are you? You're
Speaker 1: the La Lakers two years ago with Lebron James, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook and a bunch of guys on vet minimum contracts,
Speaker 1: except for you don't have Anthony Davis, and you don't
Speaker 1: have Russell Westbrook, and you just have a young girl
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Ask Lebron how much that worked for him?
Speaker 1: Think of that. The Mavericks are the twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: Lakers with just Lebron James. I'm calling it now. The
Speaker 1: Mavericks are losing Luca. It's happening. If you look at
Speaker 1: the situation, it's not a matter of if. It's only
Speaker 1: a matter of win. Speaking of Lebron James, so he's
Speaker 1: back baby, after missing thirteen games with that foot injury,
Speaker 1: Planter Fasciu tear something so they lost to the Bulls,
Speaker 1: which I think is hilarious. Won eighteen, went to eight.
Speaker 1: Bron had a pretty good game nineteen eight and three
Speaker 1: thirty minutes to play, came off the bench actually, which
Speaker 1: was the first time that he's came off the bench
Speaker 1: since two thousand and seven, which is wild. What's funny, though,
Speaker 1: was how Lebron described what it took to get him
Speaker 1: back on the court. Did you see this he said?
Speaker 1: According to Bron himself, the first two doctors that Lebron
Speaker 1: met with told him that he needed to have season
Speaker 1: endings surgery, but he didn't believe him. He went to
Speaker 1: a third doctor, whom he called the Lebron James of
Speaker 1: foot doctors, and told him. This doctor told him if
Speaker 1: he did round the clock rehabit training, he could return
Speaker 1: in time to play out this year. Four weeks later,
Speaker 1: he's back on the court. But the Lebron James the
Speaker 1: foot doctors comment is really getting me. It's really I
Speaker 1: have there's so much to peel back on it, and
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, Oh, the Lebron James of Foot doctors.
Speaker 1: He must mean the most obvious, disprovable liar of foot doctors,
Speaker 1: because that's to me what Lebron James is. He says
Speaker 1: such meaningless, small lies. If he reinjures his planter fascy
Speaker 1: itis or whatever it is, his little foot, little tendon
Speaker 1: on the bottom of his foot, and he misses the
Speaker 1: playoffs and has to have surgery in the off season,
Speaker 1: which he said he might have to have, and he's
Speaker 1: not gonna tell us that means that is exactly right.
Speaker 1: The Lebron James the foot doctors, is the type of
Speaker 1: doctor who would just lie about things that they know
Speaker 1: nothing about. Remember when he said, oh yeah, I knew
Speaker 1: that shake Gilges Alexander was gonna be an all NBA
Speaker 1: caliber player. I just saw him. I knew it. I
Speaker 1: saw the Mighos one time, and I knew they were
Speaker 1: gonna be as big as they were. That's this guy,
Speaker 1: only he is taking Lebron James's health into his hands.
Speaker 1: Or also, like the fact that Lebron James is not
Speaker 1: just saying things in third person. He's not calling, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Lebron James is tired today. Lebron James went through a
Speaker 1: workout today, he's he's calling someone else and referring to
Speaker 1: someone else in the third person of himself. I guess
Speaker 1: he's gonna be like, oh yeah, I went and saw
Speaker 1: Creed three. I love that Michael B. Jordan, guy Lebron
Speaker 1: James of Actors, love that guy. He's really good. It's like, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he does it. I really was
Speaker 1: thinking about this because I think now it's on purpose,
Speaker 1: because he's not had one scandal in twenty plus years
Speaker 1: in the league, right, not one, Not one thing with
Speaker 1: his like, not one thing with infidelity, not one thing
Speaker 1: with I don't know, like going on ig live with
Speaker 1: a gun, like, not one time that he's been ultra
Speaker 1: inebriated in public or drunk or high. Nothing zero, not
Speaker 1: in the off season, not in season. Nothing. But then
Speaker 1: he sets these little banana peals out for himself to
Speaker 1: slip on, like these very weird things that get us
Speaker 1: to roast him for being one of the corniest people
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, the dumbest liar I've ever seen. Remember
Speaker 1: he was running around with uh I think it was
Speaker 1: Alcolm X's book, and he was on the front page
Speaker 1: for like the entire time. He was in the bubble,
Speaker 1: said he loved the godfather Washington a million times, couldn't
Speaker 1: find one quote. These are calculated pr moves to make
Speaker 1: him seem more human, because otherwise he'd be infallible. I
Speaker 1: don't understand it, small comical errors that do nothing really
Speaker 1: to change his reputation except for to just make him
Speaker 1: less likable. I don't understand it. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Let's move on away from Lebron. I think it's time.
Speaker 1: When we talked about the Bulls in Pat Beverley, I
Speaker 1: do didn't want to do it, didn't think it would
Speaker 1: amount to much, And over time we're seeing that the
Speaker 1: Bulls are better with Pat BEV. So we talked about
Speaker 1: him last the season. The only reason we talked about
Speaker 1: him is because he was the worst player in the
Speaker 1: NBA in terms of plus minus. I think he had
Speaker 1: the lowest offensive rating in the league. So he talked
Speaker 1: about that. We made fun of it. He barely played
Speaker 1: after that. The Lakers moved on from him. You know
Speaker 1: how that went. We knew that he was getting traded
Speaker 1: at the deadline. That meant he was probably gonna get
Speaker 1: bought out because he's making like ten million dollars from
Speaker 1: whoever was going to take his contract on, so Orlando
Speaker 1: Magic full Circle said, no, Patrick Beverley is not a
Speaker 1: player that we won on our roster with this young
Speaker 1: developing team. They buy him out. So then he signed
Speaker 1: with the Bulls. But it didn't happen right away. Took
Speaker 1: a little time. I think it took like ten days.
Speaker 1: A lot of people thought the Bulls were going to
Speaker 1: dismantle their roster. Get rid of Vooch, get rid of
Speaker 1: de Rozen, get rid of Little Bean, get rid of Gruso. Potentially.
Speaker 1: There were multiple rumors about them just shutting it all down.
Speaker 1: So then the deadline came, The deadline went, and what
Speaker 1: do they do? They acquired Pat Bev. Everyone was climbing
Speaker 1: the move. Why'd they do it? This doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And now Patrick Beverley continuing just to show us why
Speaker 1: we're all wrong. In fifteen games that Pat Bev has
Speaker 1: played as a Bull this year, here are his stats.
Speaker 1: They're not great. Let me just preface it by saying
Speaker 1: they're not some sort of all you're not going to
Speaker 1: see like he's averaging seventeen seven and five. That's not
Speaker 1: where we're going. But he's been impactful six six and
Speaker 1: four with one and a half steals in blocks per
Speaker 1: game in thirty minutes of playing time plus sixty nine.
Speaker 1: In his time with the Bulls, the Bulls were ten
Speaker 1: and five when he's played in those fifteen games, they're
Speaker 1: ten and five. They were seven to nine leading up
Speaker 1: to the trade deadline. That is so impactful. They're currently
Speaker 1: in tenth place, three games ahead of the Pacers for
Speaker 1: the final playing spot, one half game out of the
Speaker 1: eighth place, which would give them two chances to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. This could be the biggest turnaround in the
Speaker 1: NBA since the trade deadline, which makes Pat Bev potentially
Speaker 1: the most impactful player at said trade deadline, which is
Speaker 1: absurd to say, but it actually could be true. A
Speaker 1: lot of it is about Pat Beverly. All of his
Speaker 1: teammates have embraced him. People are now reevaluating Pat Bev's
Speaker 1: time with the Lakers, and they're saying, maybe it wasn't
Speaker 1: Pat Bev, maybe it was the Lakers. So they asked
Speaker 1: Pat Bev what happened, what was going on with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and he said, well, yeah, if I'm a spoon, Billy
Speaker 1: Donovan is using me as a spoon the Lakers. You know,
Speaker 1: I was a spoon and they used me as a fork.
Speaker 1: So basically, Darvin Ham is trash. That's basically if you
Speaker 1: don't know how to use Pat Beverly. When every place
Speaker 1: that Pat Beverly has gone has made the playoffs and
Speaker 1: he's been impactful in some way, then it's you, sir,
Speaker 1: You are the problem. Pat Beverly did the same thing
Speaker 1: to the Wolves. Every team that he's been playing for
Speaker 1: he's brought defensive intensity, Clippers, Houston Rockets, confidence, swag, a
Speaker 1: level of annoyance that gets opposing star talent to I
Speaker 1: don't know, just get technicals, be irritated, get into fights.
Speaker 1: Case in point, his revenge game against the Lakers. Did
Speaker 1: you see this? He had ten point five assists, easy
Speaker 1: bulls win, which was very important. He wanted to knock
Speaker 1: the Lakers out of the playoffs. He said that he
Speaker 1: had an IG post. He said, I am coming to
Speaker 1: La get your cameras out, and then ad a full
Speaker 1: Sharman packet of Sharman in his car, meaning the Lakers
Speaker 1: are Sharman soft. The shit talking unbelievable scored on Lebron
Speaker 1: James in this gave the game and gave him the
Speaker 1: too small gesture. He gave the too small gesture to
Speaker 1: Lebron James Beverly said, yeah, yeah, I do it to everybody.
Speaker 1: This is just what I do. I have fun. I
Speaker 1: was getting lost in the game. I was just getting
Speaker 1: lost in the game. I'm having fun. Man. We're not
Speaker 1: construction workers. We're not guys that have to give up
Speaker 1: four in the morning or professional basketball players. It's about
Speaker 1: having fun. That's what we try to do tonight. That's
Speaker 1: what I try to do tonight. And also, he tried
Speaker 1: to knock the Lakers out of the fucking playoffs because
Speaker 1: they did him wrong. And that, folks, is Pat Bevan
Speaker 1: a nutshell. He lightens the mood, he brings the intensity.
Speaker 1: He gets soft players to be tough players. Him and
Speaker 1: Alex Crucier together are tremendous. And you know what he
Speaker 1: always does every single time. He always makes the playoffs
Speaker 1: every time. This bulls team, to me, is a sneaky,
Speaker 1: dangerous team. They're not going anywhere in the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: they will be very annoying they play the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: The Boston Celtics are gonna get their hands full of
Speaker 1: Pat bev in Jason Tatum's face in Jalen Brown's face,
Speaker 1: and remember Jalen Brown has that mask, so who knows
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen there. Remember he broke Devin Booker's nose
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I'm just saying, watch your face, watch
Speaker 1: your butt around Pat Beverly, because Boston's already lost twice
Speaker 1: to the Bulls this year by fourteen and eighteen points,
Speaker 1: and that was before Pat Beverly got there. I love
Speaker 1: that he saved the season for Chicago, that's his hometown,
Speaker 1: which I think is impactful. If he manages to win
Speaker 1: a first round series, you will You saw what he
Speaker 1: did with the Timberwolves when they want to play in game,
Speaker 1: to imagine what he will do if he wins a
Speaker 1: playoff series, and that to me, is good for the NBA.
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