Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we got a
Speaker 2: lot popping around the league. We discussed the latest news,
Speaker 2: including Dame Dalla going out for sixty one, player taking
Speaker 2: a shot so bad that he gets his teammates ejected,
Speaker 2: Ruey Hachimurra breaking the Internet in Japan, and we get
Speaker 2: into some other news around the league, including some tea
Speaker 2: on the Jamess, Lebron James Junior and Lebron James Senior.
Speaker 2: Trade deadline approaching. So do me a favor, Nick, and
Speaker 2: drop that generic ass beat.
Speaker 3: All right, let's start with the little.
Speaker 2: News from around the league while you were sleeping.
Speaker 3: Dame Time, Lillard, Damian.
Speaker 2: LaMonte, Allie Lillard Senior, if you please put on a tray,
Speaker 2: a sixty piece extra crispy wing tray platter on Utah
Speaker 2: Jazz and their heads, just ridiculous readonculous, stupid flames. I'm
Speaker 2: getting text messages with the clock. That's the only thing
Speaker 2: I'm getting in the text message. Just easy, efficient, one
Speaker 2: of the best performances I've ever seen. And we talk
Speaker 2: about Dame Time, right, we talk about that it's the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Usually late in the fourth this Wednesday.
Speaker 2: It started late in the third where Dame made the
Speaker 2: final twenty consecutive points for the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 3: He had fifty.
Speaker 2: Points a fifty piece after three quarters of play, one
Speaker 2: of the very few to ever do that, and the
Speaker 2: entire game was kind of like just a little kid's
Speaker 2: fantasy in his backyard. Dame shot what twenty for twenty
Speaker 2: nine from the field, which is the fourth player in
Speaker 2: NBA history to get sixty and shoot seventy percent along
Speaker 2: the way. I will, of course, because he's right underneath
Speaker 2: the bucket and he's big, and he probably dunked eighty
Speaker 2: percent of his shots. Karl Malone, who we hate for
Speaker 2: obvious reasons, David Thompson, who we've talked about recently.
Speaker 3: And that's just the beginning.
Speaker 2: According to the NBA, it was the most efficient sixty
Speaker 2: point game of all time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, when he was told about this, hey, uh, this
Speaker 2: was a crazy game.
Speaker 3: Did you know that this was historic? This is what
Speaker 3: he said.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't. I mean, I don't. I usually when
Speaker 1: I leave here, that's when I check my phone and
Speaker 1: I have, you know, messages, and people send me stuff
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I mean, I didn't know that it's
Speaker 1: a sixty. It's the most efficient sixty point game ever.
Speaker 2: For real.
Speaker 4: That's my wife felt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty same. Maybe let's see, So does
Speaker 1: this sixty hit you different? That's crazy because I ain't nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just sitting here thinking like I had
Speaker 1: a shot at the end of the shot clock from
Speaker 1: half court toward the end that I shot, it probably
Speaker 1: would have been a little bit better. I had a
Speaker 1: couple that I missed a free throw. Damn. You also
Speaker 1: tied Jordan.
Speaker 4: With four, which is the third most behind Kobe six
Speaker 4: and Will thirty two.
Speaker 1: So Kobe's wither, we ain't catching Will. That's up, that's out.
Speaker 4: Dang, that's cool.
Speaker 3: We're not catching Will. No, you're not.
Speaker 2: So he was absolutely stunned, right, and this is what
Speaker 2: he had to say, pretty much exactly what you would think.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that it was easy because
Speaker 2: they had big bodies and some long defenders out there.
Speaker 2: But I think usually I get into a groove where
Speaker 2: I'm just going without making those simple plays and teams
Speaker 2: start to come after me sooner. But I was kicking
Speaker 2: it ahead, I was swinging it, so it didn't feel
Speaker 2: like they actually came after me until the very end.
Speaker 2: That's why it seemed like the most simple one of
Speaker 2: all of them, just the most simple sixty point performance
Speaker 2: of all of them that.
Speaker 3: Dame has ever had.
Speaker 2: So I think the thing that's interesting about this performance
Speaker 2: is a jumping off point into what Dame has a
Speaker 2: new name for this type of Dame performance. We've got
Speaker 2: Dame time, right, but this is something different. Dame refers
Speaker 2: to this as Dame Space, like space and time. Dame
Speaker 2: Time is scoring fifty time, Dame Space is scoring sixty
Speaker 2: on twenty nine shot attempts. Dame Space is something that
Speaker 2: he must do and is unattainable to do and live
Speaker 2: there for an entire NBA season because, as he said,
Speaker 2: you would go crazy. If you were to do that,
Speaker 2: you would have no life. You would only be preparing
Speaker 2: for the game.
Speaker 3: Sounds like me. Sound was like, well, my life is
Speaker 3: like the Dame Space.
Speaker 2: But Portland is gonna need Dame Space because they are
Speaker 2: in the thirteenth seed. They are two games under five hundred,
Speaker 2: they have been blowing leads, they're not winning close games,
Speaker 2: and ultimately players that they should rely on, could rely
Speaker 2: on have relied on, are no longer reliable, I e
Speaker 2: use of Nurkic. So in the last ten games, Dame
Speaker 2: has been an astronaut. He's averaging in the last ten
Speaker 2: thirty eight points per game, eight point five assists, four
Speaker 2: point one rebounds with one steal, and he's also limited
Speaker 2: his turnovers from turnovers.
Speaker 3: Per game to three turnovers per game.
Speaker 2: So his play, even when Portland loses, has been incredible,
Speaker 2: has been something fun to watch, even in a sad
Speaker 2: l And you know what I thought about it, long
Speaker 2: and hard.
Speaker 3: I said it on Twitter last night. I don't care anymore.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't care about Portland winning or losing, because
Speaker 2: ultimately that makes me sad. What I do care about
Speaker 2: is watching Dame Space. And if I can get Dame Space,
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with Portland being the
Speaker 2: thirteenth seed and Dame feeling like he has to be
Speaker 2: Superman and he has to score sixty.
Speaker 3: I am as a better just elated to.
Speaker 2: Know that as long as they're in the dull drums,
Speaker 2: he's probably gonna be safe to go off for forty
Speaker 2: pretty much every single night, and they'll set the line
Speaker 2: at like thirty four and a half. I am just
Speaker 2: purely happy really to see Dame be Dame again. He remember,
Speaker 2: he missed almost all of last year with an abdominal
Speaker 2: injury and surgery. We weren't sure if we were gonna
Speaker 2: get to see this version of Dame ever again. And
Speaker 2: now we're getting not just Dame time, but Dame space
Speaker 2: a whole new level. He came back from that injury
Speaker 2: and had the ability to, I don't know, defy time, space, gravity.
Speaker 3: When is Dame.
Speaker 2: There's another level coming, Dame Monster, Dame Dinosaur.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's just something that we all need to
Speaker 2: appreciate the way that teams are blazing out West anyway,
Speaker 2: we're not doing anything.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest. The Blazers, they're not gonna compete for anything.
Speaker 3: Of note.
Speaker 2: You think this team can beat the Nuggets? You think
Speaker 2: this team can beat the Memphis Grizzlies. No, you think
Speaker 2: this team could even beat the fully healthy Who's guarding
Speaker 2: Zion on this team? It's certainly not Irks, not in
Speaker 2: a sire little no one. No one is stopping Zion
Speaker 2: on this team. So you have some fun young pieces.
Speaker 2: You got Jeremy Grant, You're gonna sign him to a
Speaker 2: long term deal. You're gonna figure out what's going on
Speaker 2: with anthrety Simons because he may not work long term.
Speaker 3: You've got to figure out how to get Nirk.
Speaker 2: Off the books and then, honestly and then develop the
Speaker 2: hell out of Keon Johnson and Shade and Sharp and
Speaker 2: maybe get yourself a lottery pick, because this lottery is
Speaker 2: gonna be nice. All I care about from now on,
Speaker 2: and all I think Plazer fans should care about now
Speaker 2: is Dame space. As long as he's healthy, as long
Speaker 2: as he's putting up monster games.
Speaker 3: No more negative peeps from me, and honestly, the media
Speaker 3: should be the same.
Speaker 2: Stop asking Dame when he's gonna grow tired of this organization.
Speaker 2: Stop asking him that that makes him sad, that makes
Speaker 2: him question whether he wants to be on this team.
Speaker 2: Why are you guys pushing Dame to want out? You
Speaker 2: cover this god forsaken team. You want to see no
Speaker 2: Dame on this team. You want to get him so
Speaker 2: mad that he remembers that he almost asked out. Fuck
Speaker 2: those people, Honestly, you are you are not worth the
Speaker 2: pen that is in your hand that you write those
Speaker 2: notes with.
Speaker 3: All right, let's move on. Oh we gotta talk about
Speaker 3: this Warriors game.
Speaker 2: Imagine, imagine taking a shot so bad it gets your
Speaker 2: own teammate ejected. Think about that that happened in an
Speaker 2: NBA game last night, and not just any teammate, your
Speaker 2: star player, one of the greatest shooters, if not the
Speaker 2: greatest shooter of our generation, Stephan Curry. Stephan Curry was
Speaker 2: so mad at Jordan Poole last night that he got
Speaker 2: kicked out of the game automatically. He was so frustrated
Speaker 2: that he put on these historyonics. He was so bombastic,
Speaker 2: so showy in his frustration, tossed his mouthpiece across the
Speaker 2: stadium floor and immediately got sent away.
Speaker 3: And I honestly believe that's something that we need to
Speaker 3: look at Jordan Poole about. Right.
Speaker 2: I watched Jordan Poole shoot such an egregiously bad shot.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry was visibly done with him. He was done
Speaker 2: with the game. He knows that it's an automatic eject
Speaker 2: and he was like, I'm fucking done.
Speaker 3: I'm done with this kid.
Speaker 2: He kicked out of a rivalry game, right, like a
Speaker 2: rivalry game that was razor close with a minute to go,
Speaker 2: a minute to go, Warriors up to and it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Do you know how bad your shot selection has to
Speaker 2: be for Stephan Curry to get ejected one out of
Speaker 2: the only three times that he's been ejected in his career.
Speaker 2: In eight hundred and fifty nine games, Steph Curry has
Speaker 2: only been ejected three times, and one of those times
Speaker 2: was because of you and your poor decision making, which
Speaker 2: is exactly what happened, right Pool, This is what happened.
Speaker 2: Pool took a pass with Steph standing on the logo
Speaker 2: waiting for the ball. Steph's clapping for the ball. Yo,
Speaker 2: give me the ball, Give me the ball. And what
Speaker 2: does Jordan Poole do. He chucks a twenty eight footer
Speaker 2: that had absolutely no prayer of going in. That's Jordan Poolet.
Speaker 2: Then runs up the court with a look of rage,
Speaker 2: takes out the mouthpiece and rifles it into the stands.
Speaker 2: This is not a Steph indictment. This is about Jordan Poole.
Speaker 2: We need to have a serious discussion about Jordan Poole.
Speaker 2: And I think for those who have known him since
Speaker 2: he played at Michigan, he has a nice kid, but
Speaker 2: he is one of the most infuriating players to ever
Speaker 2: step on a court.
Speaker 3: This was the perfect example. Fucks up, comes.
Speaker 2: Close to losing the game for you, and then redeems
Speaker 2: himself with the last minute lay up in order to
Speaker 2: get you the win. Where you you basically he's the
Speaker 2: puppy who shit around the house and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden comes up to you with his toy late
Speaker 2: at night and you're like, oh, God, Like, okay, Jordan,
Speaker 2: I still love you. Yeah, I get into bed. You
Speaker 2: know that's he wouldn't even glance Steph's way because he
Speaker 2: just shit in Steph's corner of his bedroom.
Speaker 3: God, Steph ejected, and I like the confidence to Jordan Poole.
Speaker 2: I want to swag swaggy player, but damn you gotta
Speaker 2: have some situational awareness. Steph is thinking at this point,
Speaker 2: all right, we've got a Grizzlies team that's tough. They've
Speaker 2: come back from a fifteen point deficit. We gotta be smart.
Speaker 2: We got to hit timely shots. We've got to protect
Speaker 2: the ball because we've lost four games in a row.
Speaker 2: The season's on the line, and he's thinking all of this.
Speaker 2: And you know what Jordan Poole is thinking at that
Speaker 2: point in time, I'm a gunna heat check. That's all
Speaker 2: he's thinking. I'm gonna shoot this fucking ball right now, Steph.
Speaker 2: Of course, gracious, this is what he had to say
Speaker 2: after the game, crucial.
Speaker 4: Time in the game, and the way that our season
Speaker 4: is going is, you know those questions about the height
Speaker 4: and says, the urgency of every detail matters, and when
Speaker 4: you want something really bad, you know, like just getting
Speaker 4: to win, and then fourth quarter execution, clutch time type situation,
Speaker 4: you know, all that stuff does matter. So I reacted
Speaker 4: in a way that obviously put myself out of the
Speaker 4: game and put the team in a tough place. But
Speaker 4: the attentions and the energy around what matters in the
Speaker 4: sense of winning, that's that's what it's about. Thankfully, we
Speaker 4: all responded, or my teammates responded extremely well. Clay with
Speaker 4: a big shot, JP with you know, the game winner
Speaker 4: at the end. The execution was great. We needed that one.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of there's a sense of urgency
Speaker 4: for sure, and kind of let my emotions get in the.
Speaker 2: Way of it, no shit, but let's not get in
Speaker 2: the way of knowing that JP got in the way
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I loved Jordan Poole. I met him when he was
Speaker 2: a freshman, he went to the Final four. He was alert,
Speaker 2: he was fun. He's well mannered, he's well meaning. There's
Speaker 2: not a bad bone in his body. I don't think
Speaker 2: he has any ill intent when he's taking twenty eight footers.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's spiting Steph Curry. But you gotta know, dude,
Speaker 2: you are not Steph Curry. You will never be Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: You gotta be more aware that this team is our
Speaker 2: dubs are in trouble, and you are a big part
Speaker 2: of why they are in trouble.