WEBVTT - The Dallas Mavericks Are Done 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.560 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick on this 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:12.360 episode of the Heat Check. Oh, Dear, Old Dear, the 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.200 Mavericks are in big time, doodoe and I am here 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.599 to break down how deep in the shit they are. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.440 But first let's get into some other news around the league. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.280 Starting with dearon Fox and why he hates college basketball. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:30.280 We then talk about Lebron hiring the Lebron James of 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.240 foot doctors, Pat Bev being Pat Bev. M Moore playing 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.720 is just around the corner, folks, So Nick, do me 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.000 a favor and drop that generic aass beat the should 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:49.319 be Rihanna. So a little story time. Just got back 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.840 from Cincinnati. I had an event where I am seed 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.400 the opening of the bed MGM Sportsbook at the Great 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.840 American Ballpark in Cincinnati. Legendary first base and Sean Casey 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:05.280 was there. Cool hero Ikey Woods was there from the Bengals, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.160 and Kenyon Martin akak mart Uc Bearcat, legend nets all 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.040 pro power forward, just number one overall pick beast. So 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.520 we're gonna actually get Kenyan Martin on the pod soon. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.160 He actually asked to be on, which is amazing, so 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.040 look out for that. Also, Father of kJ Martin, who 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.640 is in prison aka playing for the Houston Rockets. But 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.640 I did want to talk about some college hoops because 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.000 I went to Louisville, which is just a short hop 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.720 down the road from Cincinnati, and I went over to 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.520 the Young Center, which is actually, I don't know if 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.400 you know this, but youm Center is KFC, Taco Bell 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.200 and Pizza Hut. Yeah, did not know that. Watched the 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.880 Elite eight game between San Diego State and Creighton, which 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:55.400 was an absolute rock fight. Found some cheap ass tickets 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.200 like five minutes before game time, a second row half 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:03.640 court on the more right behind Iron Eagle, which was amazing. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.200 Turned out to be an all time game. This is 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.400 all just a roundabout way to talk about Deer and 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.600 Fox hating college basketball and March Madness. They asked him 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.680 if he's watching any of the games. This is what 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.120 he had to say, watch March, I kind of flip 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.600 through college games. I can't watch a full college game, really, no, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:24.360 I can't. It's hard. It's hard. Just the shot making 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.160 is not at obviously the pro level. The refs are bad. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.280 A lot of coaching is really bad. Yeah, it's I 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.400 can't stand it. A lot of coaching is really bad. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.200 Keep in mind this is a man who was coached 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:45.120 by checks notes Luke Walton. He said, the coaching is 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.720 really bad, the refereeing is really bad. I don't know 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.480 if that's a fair assessment. I think it's definitely different. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.919 Is it as pretty for sure? Not a lot of 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.760 people thought that the San Diego State game was a disaster. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.440 I personally loved it. I watched it up close and personal. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.400 It felt like if you were up by four points 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.120 in that game, you were up by fifty. That's how 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:17.000 hard a basket was to come by. Miami versus Texas. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.760 You had Miami come back from thirteen down with no threes. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.720 If Creighton or San Diego State would have been up 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.120 by thirteen points, you might as well just call it 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:32.840 game over. There's no chance one one bucket between either 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.400 one of them combined might have taken two or three minutes. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.320 Not because they were just horrible. The defense was that good. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.560 You had a San Diego State asset team playing man 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.400 to man full court press from second one in the 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.840 game all the way through literally the first possession Creighton 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.120 got the ball. You had our man Trommel playing full 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:04.200 court press on him, locking him down, making Andrew Nemhard's 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.240 little brother, making his life just a pain in the ass, 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.240 tiring him out. You add Calkin Brenner seven footer for 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.440 a Creighton. You add him setting screens for Nemart in 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.960 the back court. This is the thing about the NBA. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.200 It just can't. You can't match the intensity of it 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.559 of college basketball, at least until the playoffs. You just can't. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:35.799 The NBA nobody cares this much. Every rebound is a fight. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:41.640 Players don't take plays off. An entire quarter is unheard 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.120 of to take off like it is in the NBA. Yes, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.200 the NCAA schedule half the amount, less than half the amount, 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.320 like we'll call it a quarter of the amount of 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.440 the NBA. But the desire should be the same. It's 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.480 just it just isn't. If you look at like a 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.200 random Pistons Spurs game in January versus San Diego State 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.039 versus Creighton in the Elite eight, I guarantee you'd rather 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.799 watch San Diego State versus Creighton watching Jade and Ivy 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:18.200 chuck from thirty five feet while every single Spur except 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.440 for Trey Jones is sitting on the bench for load management. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.680 Get out of here, Get out of here. I know 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.159 the beat NBA is the best basketball in the world, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:32.040 but that's not the point. Different strokes for different folks, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.440 and the college game is beautiful in its own way. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.080 Side note on college hoops. If you haven't seen Caitlyn 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:43.839 Clark and her performance two nights ago, forty one point 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:48.200 triple double, first in NCAA history, never been in thirty 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.039 point triple double in women's college tournament history before, and 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.680 she had forty one. Go find that shit on YouTube. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.240 My lord. I think Caitlyn Clark might be I think 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.360 she might be the best college player, men's or woman's 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:20.080 in history. I'm not even joking, not even joking. The 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.320 MAVs are so fucked they are. I mean, they are 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.960 absolutely toast. The more you think about it and break 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.400 down what's happening with this team roster, assets, draft situation, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.599 et cetera. And also just like play right now, just performances, period, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.360 the more you realize this team is just so screwed 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:51.080 they are absolutely done. How bad is it that the 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.360 only option that the MAVs have right now, the only 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:00.880 like slight way out to salvage the disaster that is 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.720 this season is to lose every single game for the 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.279 rest of the season. I'm not joking. Seven games left. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.360 The only thing that the MAVs can do to fix it, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.360 even a little bit, which is not going to fix 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.640 the whole thing, is to tank, lose it, shut Luca down, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.520 lose every single game. Let me explain why that will be. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.160 So we talked last week about the Mavericks Warriors game 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.760 and that ended in the protest. Dallas said that it 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.160 was supposed to be their ball and the Warriors ended 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.160 up getting an easy dunk and then that ended up 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.840 them losing the game and falling from six to like tenth. Right, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.800 And we said that the last few games were pretty easy, right, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.840 We said, oh, fortunately, they have two games against the Hornets, 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.320 the Pacers, the Bulls, the Hawks, and the Spurs, all 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:57.920 winnable games. Since then, the MAVs got their doors blown 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:04.480 off to the Charlott Hornets twice without LaMelo, without Terry 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:11.400 rose Ear and without one other player as well. It 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:17.280 was just Gordon Hayward doing Gordon Hayward things. By the way, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.880 did I mention that that was the largest underdog win 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.440 of the season. The Hornets were sixteen and a half 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.040 point dogs and one outright and the MAVs in those 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.800 two games that they both lost against the Hornets, they 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:35.240 only led in those two games for ninety one seconds 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:40.360 combined out of ninety two minutes or ninety six minutes. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.640 Did I mention Charlotte has the second worst record in 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:49.000 the East. Those are not just bad losses. Those are 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.560 changed the entire philosophy and direction for the rest of 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.840 the season kind of losses. Tim McMahon called them maybe 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.760 the two worst performances, not just of the year, but 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:08.920 in recent memory. The second game in Charlotte, Tim McMahon 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.920 Dallas Mavericks I would call him on the beat for ESPN. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:18.480 He called Luca's performance the single worst forty twelve and 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.120 eight game in NBA history. Luca argued with the refs 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.840 pretty much all night about everything, to the point where 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.560 he got technicled teed up in his sixteenth of the year, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:35.240 which would have made him ineligible to play Monday night, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.679 which is tonight against the Pacers. And the Pacers are 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.080 better than the Hornets except for Adam Silver. Put his 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:49.640 knee pads on and went to work and found a 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:55.199 way somehow to rescind Lucas technical which the refs the 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.880 next day came out and said, no, that technical was legit. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.559 We are not played on rescinding it. We're all NBA 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.320 podcasts today predicted no, that will not be removed or changed. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.160 That call will not be and it was changed. Any 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.000 possibility that Silver is a little scared about the potential 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.000 of having not just Luca missed the playoffs, but Lebron 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.760 missed the playoffs in the same year. Either way, it's 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.600 a disaster. So how bad are things for the Dallas 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.960 Mavericks right now? They are currently a full game behind 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:37.520 the Oklahoma City Thunder for the ten seed and last 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.440 place in the play in tournament. Five of their next 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:47.080 seven games Dallas are against playoff teams. So remember we 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.319 said schedules kind of eat It's not easy anymore. Sixers, 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:57.000 King's Hawks, Bulls Heat. This is a team that, even 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:02.120 if they were trying, could easily go from Western Conference 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:08.640 Finals last year to Cancun on three. This all sort 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.800 of seems impossible considering the fact that they were so 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.960 successful last year. Luca has been largely healthy pretty much 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:21.360 all year, and the Mavericks made the biggest deal at 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.960 the trade deadline, which was getting Kyrie Irving, and do 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.080 not say that was Kevin Durant that was the biggest trade, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.120 because the only reason that Kevin Durant trade happened was 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:33.719 because Kyrie asked out. The MAVs are currently six and 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:39.600 nine in games that Kyrie has played. But here's the part, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.559 the little kicker that people are not talking enough about. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.440 The MAVs are three and eight in games that Luca 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:52.800 and Kyrie both play. Anyone see that coming. That is shocking. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:58.640 So in summation, the MAVs mortgaged their future to get 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.040 not just Christian Wood but Kyrie Irving, giving up multiple 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:07.280 picks and multiple assets, and now the only hope is 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.959 to maybe re sign Kyrie, which means they gave up 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.920 their lockdown defender and they're probably not gonna keep Kyrie. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.120 They gave up their lockdown defender Dorian Phinney Smith, their 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.720 number two scoring option in Spencer Dinwoodie, who's averaging seventeen 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.240 to four and eight as an d an unprotected twenty 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.679 twenty nine first round draft pick and two future second 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:34.800 round picks. Four potentially two months of Kyrie Irving, who 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.679 has given you a thirty seven and a half winning percentage. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.120 Now it's so bad that Kyrie Irving is getting booed 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.079 in the stands, getting hackled by Mavericks fans, booted from 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:51.480 the game. Things are obviously going according to plan. According 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.360 to plan, it's not working. Look in his recent pressor speechless, 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.840 he's not playing with any choy, He's saying that he 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.480 has issues with his personal life. All of that is 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:09.120 the nightmare scenario. But here's like, I guess the cherry 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.440 on top of how bad it is, do you know 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.560 how bad it is in Dallas right now? How bad 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:24.239 is it Trista. It's so toxic that the Orlando Magic 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.720 think that they can lure Luka doncic away and bring 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:37.040 him there. Yes, recent reports are that the Orlando Magic 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.880 are quote monitoring the Luca situation and they believe they 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.800 believe that Luca would look at the Orlando Magic franchise, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.559 which has been in the lottery for every year for 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:55.839 about a decade, and be like, yes, I think Orlando 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.160 is in a better spot to win in the or 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:04.040 an intermediate term then my current team, the Dallas Mavericks 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.319 that just went to the Western Conference finals. They believe 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:12.320 in their head that that's a possibility. They're like, yeah, 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.920 Europeans don't really care about these dogshit cities that they 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:19.680 play them. Look at Dirk Noovisky, look at Joannie, look 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.400 at Nicole Ocic. They don't care that they're in small markets. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.880 They don't leave, They stick around. And you know what, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.120 I tend to agree. I tend to agree things have 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.640 gone I actually do believe the Orlando Magic has have 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:37.040 more pieces, more draft picks, better cap space flexibility than 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.480 the Dallas Mavericks in the next decade. I believe that 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.840 the Orlando Magic right now are in a better spot 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.760 to win than the Mavericks, which is fucking crazy. Things 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:51.280 have gone sideways. You gotta put blame all over the place. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.440 Nico Harrison is terrible. Jason Kid's not making decisions correctly 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:00.960 at the end of situations. Rumors are that the MAVs 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.680 locker room is tuning out Jason Kidd. All of these 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.880 are segments all on their own. They're probably gonna fire 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.800 Jason Kidd. He's gonna probably be the scapegoat of the 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.840 NBA and this team, even though he's like the last 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.680 thing that's the problem for the team. Yeah, he's not good, 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.640 but let's be honest, there's not much really to rock with. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.560 And if you look at next year, you add in 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.880 how little cap space this team has. So if you 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.960 look at twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, without signing 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.800 Kyrie Irving, this team has twenty twenty five million dollars 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:46.280 to spend, right, that seems like quite a bit of 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.360 cap space. Oh, twenty five million dollars in free cat 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.680 space this year. Then you look at how many guys 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.360 they have locked up and it's eight eight of fifteen spots. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.960 That means you have twenty five million dollars to spend 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.800 on seven players. What can you get for twenty million 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:09.520 dollars across seven human beings in the NBA? My guy 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:14.760 Alan Krab was getting eighteen million. One man, what are 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:20.360 we talking about? And here's the kicker you. Oh, if 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:24.600 you're the Dallas Mavericks, this year's first round pick to 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.320 the Knicks unless you fall and get a top ten 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.000 pick in the lottery. It's a top ten protected first 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.360 round pick. So what does that mean? You gotta figure 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.440 out a way to get that top ten pick. Baby, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.960 you gotta lose out. So the only way you have 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.200 an ability to get some young emerging star for cheap 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.360 in a very loaded draft is that they must lose 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.040 shut Luca down, lose seven games in a row, which 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.560 puts you record rise right on the brink. You still 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.480 might be fucked thirty six and forty six, which is 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:03.000 the ninth worst record in the which gives you like 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.200 a little bit of hope of giving a top ten pick. Otherwise, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.720 which would be a disaster as you lose out and 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.000 then get the eleventh pick, which you have to give 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:18.080 it in the next But otherwise, who are you? You're 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:23.560 the La Lakers two years ago with Lebron James, Anthony Davis, 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.879 Russell Westbrook and a bunch of guys on vet minimum contracts, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.800 except for you don't have Anthony Davis, and you don't 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.000 have Russell Westbrook, and you just have a young girl 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.120 Lebron James. Ask Lebron how much that worked for him? 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.840 Think of that. The Mavericks are the twenty twenty one 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:49.479 Lakers with just Lebron James. I'm calling it now. The 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:54.280 Mavericks are losing Luca. It's happening. If you look at 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.959 the situation, it's not a matter of if. It's only 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:16.320 a matter of win. Speaking of Lebron James, so he's 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.600 back baby, after missing thirteen games with that foot injury, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:26.880 Planter Fasciu tear something so they lost to the Bulls, 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.280 which I think is hilarious. Won eighteen, went to eight. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.680 Bron had a pretty good game nineteen eight and three 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.240 thirty minutes to play, came off the bench actually, which 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.240 was the first time that he's came off the bench 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:41.040 since two thousand and seven, which is wild. What's funny, though, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:46.920 was how Lebron described what it took to get him 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.840 back on the court. Did you see this he said? 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:56.320 According to Bron himself, the first two doctors that Lebron 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.440 met with told him that he needed to have season 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:04.240 endings surgery, but he didn't believe him. He went to 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:09.320 a third doctor, whom he called the Lebron James of 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:14.320 foot doctors, and told him. This doctor told him if 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.679 he did round the clock rehabit training, he could return 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.760 in time to play out this year. Four weeks later, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:25.080 he's back on the court. But the Lebron James the 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.159 foot doctors comment is really getting me. It's really I 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:35.399 have there's so much to peel back on it, and 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.840 I thought to myself, Oh, the Lebron James of Foot doctors. 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:45.840 He must mean the most obvious, disprovable liar of foot doctors, 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.600 because that's to me what Lebron James is. He says 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:55.719 such meaningless, small lies. If he reinjures his planter fascy 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.879 itis or whatever it is, his little foot, little tendon 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.119 on the bottom of his foot, and he misses the 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.720 playoffs and has to have surgery in the off season, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.400 which he said he might have to have, and he's 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:09.800 not gonna tell us that means that is exactly right. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.840 The Lebron James the foot doctors, is the type of 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.280 doctor who would just lie about things that they know 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.520 nothing about. Remember when he said, oh yeah, I knew 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.160 that shake Gilges Alexander was gonna be an all NBA 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.080 caliber player. I just saw him. I knew it. I 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.680 saw the Mighos one time, and I knew they were 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.080 gonna be as big as they were. That's this guy, 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:35.199 only he is taking Lebron James's health into his hands. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.960 Or also, like the fact that Lebron James is not 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.359 just saying things in third person. He's not calling, oh yeah, 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.600 Lebron James is tired today. Lebron James went through a 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:53.280 workout today, he's he's calling someone else and referring to 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:58.120 someone else in the third person of himself. I guess 0:20:58.119 --> 0:20:59.440 he's gonna be like, oh yeah, I went and saw 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:03.199 Creed three. I love that Michael B. Jordan, guy Lebron 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:09.000 James of Actors, love that guy. He's really good. It's like, yep, yep. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.080 I don't know why he does it. I really was 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.920 thinking about this because I think now it's on purpose, 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.400 because he's not had one scandal in twenty plus years 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.960 in the league, right, not one, Not one thing with 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.200 his like, not one thing with infidelity, not one thing 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.199 with I don't know, like going on ig live with 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.919 a gun, like, not one time that he's been ultra 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.600 inebriated in public or drunk or high. Nothing zero, not 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.800 in the off season, not in season. Nothing. But then 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.080 he sets these little banana peals out for himself to 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:50.959 slip on, like these very weird things that get us 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.119 to roast him for being one of the corniest people 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.480 I've ever seen, the dumbest liar I've ever seen. Remember 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.840 he was running around with uh I think it was 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.479 Alcolm X's book, and he was on the front page 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:04.600 for like the entire time. He was in the bubble, 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.800 said he loved the godfather Washington a million times, couldn't 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.320 find one quote. These are calculated pr moves to make 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:15.280 him seem more human, because otherwise he'd be infallible. I 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:19.000 don't understand it, small comical errors that do nothing really 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:22.440 to change his reputation except for to just make him 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:26.280 less likable. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.120 Let's move on away from Lebron. I think it's time. 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:32.280 When we talked about the Bulls in Pat Beverley, I 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:36.000 do didn't want to do it, didn't think it would 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:40.720 amount to much, And over time we're seeing that the 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:44.240 Bulls are better with Pat BEV. So we talked about 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.800 him last the season. The only reason we talked about 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:48.879 him is because he was the worst player in the 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.119 NBA in terms of plus minus. I think he had 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.040 the lowest offensive rating in the league. So he talked 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.359 about that. We made fun of it. He barely played 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.639 after that. The Lakers moved on from him. You know 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.600 how that went. We knew that he was getting traded 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.640 at the deadline. That meant he was probably gonna get 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:06.720 bought out because he's making like ten million dollars from 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.560 whoever was going to take his contract on, so Orlando 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:13.720 Magic full Circle said, no, Patrick Beverley is not a 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:15.760 player that we won on our roster with this young 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:20.680 developing team. They buy him out. So then he signed 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.360 with the Bulls. But it didn't happen right away. Took 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.440 a little time. I think it took like ten days. 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:28.520 A lot of people thought the Bulls were going to 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:30.800 dismantle their roster. Get rid of Vooch, get rid of 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.080 de Rozen, get rid of Little Bean, get rid of Gruso. Potentially. 0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:36.920 There were multiple rumors about them just shutting it all down. 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:39.639 So then the deadline came, The deadline went, and what 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:43.560 do they do? They acquired Pat Bev. Everyone was climbing 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.119 the move. Why'd they do it? This doesn't make any sense. 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:51.720 And now Patrick Beverley continuing just to show us why 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.320 we're all wrong. In fifteen games that Pat Bev has 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:56.840 played as a Bull this year, here are his stats. 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:00.400 They're not great. Let me just preface it by saying 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:01.920 they're not some sort of all you're not going to 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:05.000 see like he's averaging seventeen seven and five. That's not 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.919 where we're going. But he's been impactful six six and 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:10.520 four with one and a half steals in blocks per 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:13.880 game in thirty minutes of playing time plus sixty nine. 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.560 In his time with the Bulls, the Bulls were ten 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:21.000 and five when he's played in those fifteen games, they're 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:23.720 ten and five. They were seven to nine leading up 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:29.440 to the trade deadline. That is so impactful. They're currently 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:31.960 in tenth place, three games ahead of the Pacers for 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:34.240 the final playing spot, one half game out of the 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:36.920 eighth place, which would give them two chances to make 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:40.520 the playoffs. This could be the biggest turnaround in the 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:44.960 NBA since the trade deadline, which makes Pat Bev potentially 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:48.600 the most impactful player at said trade deadline, which is 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:53.080 absurd to say, but it actually could be true. A 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:55.560 lot of it is about Pat Beverly. All of his 0:24:55.600 --> 0:25:00.600 teammates have embraced him. People are now reevaluating Pat Bev's 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:02.120 time with the Lakers, and they're saying, maybe it wasn't 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:05.119 Pat Bev, maybe it was the Lakers. So they asked 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:08.760 Pat Bev what happened, what was going on with the Lakers, 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:14.800 and he said, well, yeah, if I'm a spoon, Billy 0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:19.760 Donovan is using me as a spoon the Lakers. You know, 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:22.680 I was a spoon and they used me as a fork. 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:28.320 So basically, Darvin Ham is trash. That's basically if you 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:30.680 don't know how to use Pat Beverly. When every place 0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:32.960 that Pat Beverly has gone has made the playoffs and 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:36.000 he's been impactful in some way, then it's you, sir, 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:38.880 You are the problem. Pat Beverly did the same thing 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:42.080 to the Wolves. Every team that he's been playing for 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:47.119 he's brought defensive intensity, Clippers, Houston Rockets, confidence, swag, a 0:25:47.200 --> 0:25:52.879 level of annoyance that gets opposing star talent to I 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:55.800 don't know, just get technicals, be irritated, get into fights. 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:58.760 Case in point, his revenge game against the Lakers. Did 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:01.800 you see this? He had ten point five assists, easy 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:05.160 bulls win, which was very important. He wanted to knock 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:06.800 the Lakers out of the playoffs. He said that he 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:09.760 had an IG post. He said, I am coming to 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:12.840 La get your cameras out, and then ad a full 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:18.639 Sharman packet of Sharman in his car, meaning the Lakers 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:22.919 are Sharman soft. The shit talking unbelievable scored on Lebron 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.159 James in this gave the game and gave him the 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:30.480 too small gesture. He gave the too small gesture to 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:35.320 Lebron James Beverly said, yeah, yeah, I do it to everybody. 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:36.879 This is just what I do. I have fun. I 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:38.960 was getting lost in the game. I was just getting 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:40.600 lost in the game. I'm having fun. Man. We're not 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:43.199