WEBVTT - Not What We Thought Christmas Would Be 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.800 No, no, no, come home, no come. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:16.320 No, no, no, come home, come home, come home. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.400 On this episode of the Heat Check, it's Christmas Day 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.360 NBA marqueat matchups. We are going to use that as 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.520 a jump off for the state of the league based 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.840 on those teams right now. And let me tell you, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.440 it's fascinating to look at what we all in the league, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.600 of course, because they are the ones that created the matchups, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.080 what they thought would be good on Christmas and then 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:47.600 what we got instead, like so fast things can change. Uh, 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.640 And that was only in two months time. So we're 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.960 breaking down Christmas for you, So Brock, do me a 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.200 favor and drop that. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:14.560 Min amazing because some people are out of it anyway. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.480 It is our breakdown of the biggest NBA day of 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:22.920 the year outside of the playoffs. NBA Christmas Day Spectacular. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.520 Five games, folks. You're opening your presence early, squirrely, and 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.040 then you got five games running from noon to midnight, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:37.000 showcasing the best of the best of Yeah, is it 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.640 the best of the best of the league in front 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.440 of millions and millions of fans outside of areas of 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.880 China where the NBA is banned. So what we're gonna 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.120 do uh today is not just break down those games 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.920 because that's kind of boring. We're gonna evaluate how well 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.200 Adam Silver and the league, how well they did at 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.760 deciding what to schedule, how lit the games were, the 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.360 state of the teams in that matchup, because this is 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.200 supposed to be the best of the best. No scrubs. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.840 We don't want to know scrubs. A scrub is a 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.600 team that can't get no love from me right sitting 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.079 outside of the path, you know what I'm saying. Anyway, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.320 probably people on TikTok don't. So we're gonna use Christmas 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.120 NBA as a way to not just gauge the state 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.040 of the league, but to also see what might come 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.040 for these ten teams. So let's start with what I 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:35.239 call the disappointment bull Hawks Knicks. When when the NBA 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.959 so Hawks lost a lot to the next one eight seven, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.720 who cares pillow fight in the garden When the NBA 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:48.239 scheduled this game for Christmas Day, they imagined a rematch 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:53.480 of Trey Young Blie cold shushing the garden, maybe some 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.160 spit being thrown out of them expletives, racist words, who knows, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.119 maybe referees falling down on their ass like excitement. You've 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:07.080 got a rematch, You've got new tension, a new I 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:12.000 would call it a new rivalry. And they imagine Kevin 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.880 Hurder turning into Cavon Herder, Trey Trey to Collins, lob, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:22.160 Trey fake lob to Collins floater, three after three, after three, 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:26.040 offense after offense, pick and roll, just nasty. You've got 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:31.960 probably you're imagining Julius Randall, Derrick Rose. And then they 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:36.680 got a Hawks team with no Trey Young, ravaged by 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:41.440 COVID and injuries. Hawks offense scored what we were expecting 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.320 to score, what thirty five forty in a quarter? They 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.280 scored fifteen in one quarter against the Knicks team without 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.000 Derrick Rose, with Kemba Walker being forced into use after 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.360 being benched by Tips. But we had no other options. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.520 Julius Randall, who's been largely terrible all year, just chucking 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.640 and chucking and chucking some more, to the point where 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.600 I'm getting texts from friends being like, Hey, do you 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.160 think Julius Randall shoots too much? Just randomly Christmas Day texts, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.400 That's what I'm getting. So what the NBA got were 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.520 two below five hundred teams, two below five hundred teams 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.400 instead of the two top seeds what we thought maybe 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.480 were the four and the five seed. Again, I mean, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.520 these are gross teams. These are gross teams. This is 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.479 probably the worst matchup in hindsight, Like if we were 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.480 to reschedule, this would not be on the Christmas late. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.599 You're talking about a ten seed and twelve seed. No, 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:38.159 thank you, p U, p U yuck. Disappointing, underachieving, injury riddled, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:43.400 COVID ravage, terrible, And I guess I'm wondering after I 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.760 watched that, Like Ken, these teams really turn it around. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.440 Knicks were a four seed last year and the Hawks 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.120 were a couple of games and a referee conspiracy injury 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.360 away from Trey going to the NBA Finals. And now 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.800 we saw a battle between teams that like, I don't 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.880 know what they are or when they're gonna get back, 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.039 and it's weird. It's like safe to say, that's not 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.320 the way that the NBA envisioned it getting kicked off. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.400 And then Kith, this is how you know, it was 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.320 a whole thing. Kith, the fashion brand had a whole 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:22.000 nixt Kith collaboration rollout that came out an hour before tip, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.160 so you know it was supposed to be a thing. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.080 And it's like you've got Kith who normally sells out. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.840 They can't get rid of those fucking sweatshirts. They're still 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.599 there on the website right now and they're usually selling fast. 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.520 They're on stock x before you know it. No, Like, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.080 I think a lot of people thought this game would 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.880 be dope and it was not dope at all. Uh. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.000 And then remember that Christmas under theory, the NBA always 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.200 goes under because people don't play as hard on Christmas 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.360 Day because they miss their family and they'll be grudgingly there. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.880 This was the only game on the slate that went under. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.480 So going forward, I'm pretty optimistic about the Hawks compared 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.560 to the next because I mean, they have everybody there, 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.040 the same guys. If they're capable of doing what they 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.800 did last year, they're capable of doing it again. It's 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.760 just a matter of chemistry. It's a matter of injuries, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.599 it's a matter of COVID. Hopefully they get COVID enough 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.080 that they buy the playoffs are fine, Like, I just 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.200 want him to get COVID two three times so that 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.640 by April were good to go. Uh and then the Knicks, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.160 I mean they're mostly healthy. They had almost everybody there 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.880 except for e Manuel Quickly and maybe one other guy 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.200 that I don't even remember, so he's not that significant. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.440 They have significantly regressed. RJ. Barrett is not He was 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.120 supposed to take steps up past where he was last year, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.960 which was pretty good, and now he's taken another step back. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.640 Not great. His three pointers are down. You know, Julius 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:51.680 Randall act the big extension. His numbers are down. Quentin Grimes, 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.640 he's a nice find like he's probably the bright spot. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.600 He's a wing that can defend, he can put up points, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.040 he can assist. He had I want to say, five steals, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.440 five rebounds, five assists off the bench up. But I 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.920 don't know if he's gonna make this team significantly better. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.000 They signed Evan Fournier, I mean, what do you want. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.160 Can they find a way to make Kemba fit and 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.160 play defense? Probably not. I mean without a major move 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.800 of the deadline. The Knicks are a flash in the pan. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.800 Nice little story that I had to say to my 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.800 friend when they said, Hey, do you think Tibbs is 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.080 gonna get fired after the season. I had to say please, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.320 don't say that. No, don't don't, cause it's a possibility, 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.160 and that breaks my heart for Tips. This is supposed 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.480 to be his last up. You know, he was supposed 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.800 to get the Boston Celtics job because he largely built 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.640 the house that was the dynasty of the Celtics that 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.080 got ravaged by Lebron. But like, that's him, you know, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.840 he was supposed to get that job and not Brad Stevens. Right, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.360 and no, like he doesn't get the job and so 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.680 and maybe he would have gotten the job again if 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.480 it wasn't for the success that he had on the 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.240 Knicks when they hired emy Udoka. It just hasn't been 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.239 great for Tibbs. The timing for him has been awful, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.200 and now it's unclear as to whether his longevity will 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.200 be there. I mean, but it's really not his fault, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.320 like because Leon Rose and Worldwide West are the ones 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.760 that got rid of Reggie Block and broad In Evan Fournier. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.640 Evan Fournier is not very good. Evan four no is 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.360 basically more of how I would describe him. At least 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.520 we knew one thing was certain that disappointment Boll did 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.680 deliver the only under and more disappointment, and you've got 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.400 the Knicks winning one of their first games out of 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:42.160 the last ten. So congratulations to you. Nick's congratulations. As 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.760 you can tell, I'm not excited about that matchup whatsoever. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.800 Celtics won thirteen to Bucks one seventeen. I mean, the 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.920 Celtics are trash if they probably shouldn't have even been 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.080 considered in this day. Like if out of the ten 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.680 teams playing on Christmas Day, the only one not deserving 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.480 to eat even be in the conversation is the Celtics. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.560 It should have absolutely been and beat in the sixers 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.439 versus the Bucks instead of a sub five hundred nine 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.080 seed in Boston. I think Adam Silver was kidding himself 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.280 to think that the Celtics would turn things around with 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:24.080 an eme Udoka and Dennis Shrewder and who else did 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.760 they Josh Richardson, I don't know, not anybody that I 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.240 can think that was gonna move the needle. They got 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.280 rid of their only fun piece in tackle fall like 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.120 he's gone. He was a nice little thing to look 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.719 forward to seeing here and there and splashes and spurts 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.000 like he's now in the starting rotation in Cleveland, And 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.640 I tell you what props to tackle fall. You know, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.839 I don't know what he was thinking. Basically, Adam Silver 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.040 could not have actually believe this is gonna be a 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.559 three or four seed in the East, but I mean 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.520 he had to have if that's why he put him there. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.679 A lot of star power, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Robert Williams, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.960 no one else, and like Boston fans are probably so 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:08.199 delusional that they'll be the ones that will watch actively. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.040 It was in TD Garden as well, which made it 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:16.560 even more sus to me, Like there's even more sus So, yeah, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.880 more of the same. As it turns out, typical Boston game. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.920 Like they got out early, You're thinking, oh my god, 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.280 is this a good team? And then they just choked 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.600 on their meat like late they did, that's what they did. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.880 It's fifteen point first half lead, Bucks forty seven points 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.840 and then they pissed away the entire lead, ending up 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.800 scoring nineteen points only in the fourth quarter and they 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.280 lose by four. And it was like sort of dramatic 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.720 at the end, but not really. They had one hundred 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.720 and thirteen one to eleven lead with a minute left 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.600 and then they just didn't score again. They just didn't 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.840 score again that said as them, it's the Bucks, though 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.480 they should get credit for this gritty win. With the 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.200 possible exception of KD. I don't know that anyone plays 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.920 in bigger games and gets up more for them than 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.800 you're honest, Like what you saw from Gianness in the finals, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.479 and that tran it was nothing short of a transformation, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.120 Like that's what it was. He turned himself into a 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.520 ninety percent free throw shooter with an with some knee 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.400 injury that I don't know if it was real or not, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.920 but anyway, like he transformed him into a point guard 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.200 free throw shooter overnight, and that's him. He's got ice 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.760 water in his veins. He put up thirty six, twelve 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.640 and five. He had a huge block on Robert Williams 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.440 with twelve seconds left on the clock, putting the entire 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.400 team on his back, showing that, Okay, we are still 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.880 very very good when we need to be, which is 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.400 on nationally televised games that everyone is watching and in 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.079 the playoffs outside of that. Not really sure what you're 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.040 gonna get from them, but that's what the NBA wanted, 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.760 so not like a horrible game to schedule when it 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.040 goes down to the wire. But even Adam Silver had 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.800 to have known that the Boston were gonna puke on 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.080 their own shoes like they had to with giving it 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.600 given enough like advanced notice, Hey, this is what you do, Boston, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.720 just like look great and then puke. Now they choked 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.000 it away. If folks in that are fans of the 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.719 Boston Celtics don't know this by now, well, this was 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.280 an opportunity in front of millions upon millions upon millions 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:30.160 of fans nationally audienced, like everyone's watching. There's nothing else open. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.560 You can't even get coffee anywhere. It's just you and 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.320 your family on a little like cold afternoon day watching 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.920 the Celtics choke on their own meat. Like that's it. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.320 What am I gonna do to predict the Celtics? Nothing 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.320 like I'm not going to It's gonna be the same 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.800 unless they trade Jalen Brown. This team is garbage. I 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.040 don't know, Like, you gotta trade Marcus Smart. Can't have 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.360 him be the point guard. This team is not good. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.840 They've never been good. That one little nice run in 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.360 which other teams so this year is a wash. As 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.880 for the Bucks, they're going to the finals is that's 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.120 what I know. Dante DiVincenzo is coming back. Brook Lopez. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.280 The new news is that brook Lopez will be back 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.720 well before the playoffs. So Brook Lopez coming back from 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.560 already had back surgery, He's coming back well before the playoffs. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.040 You got Dante de Vincenzo back, he didn't even play 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.320 outside of the first round last year. You've got a 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.240 dog and Grayson Allen he's there. You've got multiple new pieces. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.559 Wes Matthews contributing. This team is easily the best in 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.679 the East. I don't think it's close. I don't care 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.559 what you say about the nets. That's just what it is. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.520 And like they're gonna skate through, this is gonna go 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.080 be a skate skate through. And with the Hawks being 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.520 a disappointment, I think the only team that really will 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:48.720 give him fits is the Caves. I think the team 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.400 that's gonna really give him fits is the Caves. No, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.920 I know this team is one hundred percent Finals bound, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:59.640 unless me saying it MUSHes them. Warriors one sixteen sons 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.040 one of I mean, we got lucky. We got lucky. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.320 I don't know that Adam Silver knew that this was 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.920 gonna be as good as it was, because there's just 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.080 no chance that he thought that the Warriors would be 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.880 a one or a two seed in the West and 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.800 that without Klay Thompson that they would be just just 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.680 demolishing everyone just like a buzzaw through the rest of 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.920 the league. Like this is the matchup everyone wants, wanted 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.520 and didn't even know that they wanted. Like we all 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.440 now on Twitter, hey need seven to this seven and 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.120 the seven of this, Like I needed this to be 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.120 the Western Conference Finals. That's what it is. He pulled 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.680 Adam Silver pulled this matchup out of his ass. Let's 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.640 be honest, it's Steph and at that point, Plumbers right, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.840 at that point, it's Steph Draymond And like Otto, Porter, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.760 you think that's a good idea, You think that's a 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.120 good move? Was our part? Porter fucking bald, Like this 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.720 isn't even wasn't even a rivalry game. These two teams 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.040 didn't even play in at all in the playoffs last year. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.520 Like it would have made more sense if it was 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.880 Laker Warriors, which is what they did in the opening game, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:08.080 or if it was Warriors Grizzlies. I mean, you'd have 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.440 to put the Suns in there. Somewhere, but like maybe 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.360 it's maybe it's Suns Bucks and then you've got Warriors 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.280 Grizzlies instead, as like a little like up and comer thing. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:23.160 But this made sense, even though at the time when 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.840 the matchup was scheduled it didn't make no damn sense. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.120 And boy was it a home run, I tell you what. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.360 Like these teams have played three times in the span 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.120 of a month, and none of them were disappointments. Like 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.840 they're getting up for all of them. It has the 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.960 intensity of a playoff game. The first game probably the 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.680 best regular season game I've seen in a very long time. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.040 I literally brought bags and bags of popcorn to watch it. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.880 Coaches making changes, alterations, chess match happening in game. You've 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.400 got literally guys going to zone in the middle of 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.680 the game, like you just don't see this. So and 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.880 then also, by the way, probably the reason that the 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.880 Warriors ended up destroying the Suns on Christmas Day was 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.840 because they were low key, actually high key pissed that 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.280 they didn't get to play at home. They're like, this 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.640 is the second game in a row now that we've 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.440 played Christmas Day on the road, and this is our 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.360 ninth Christmas Day game in a row. Can we get 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.600 a home game or no? And they're like, yeah, you know, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.800 but the Suns were in the finals and you were not. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.680 You were not in the playoffs, so fuck off. Like 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.400 the last two years, you guys have been blipped like 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.720 you guys like in the Marvel Land you Thanos snapped 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.800 his fingers, did the rock thing, and you guys were 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.600 just nowhere, like you were not a team that existed 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.960 in the standings. And so you come back, prove yourself. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.520 Maybe we'll give you a home game next year. And 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.520 that's what happened. This is what Churs said. It's an 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.840 honor to play on Christmas. It's a showcase and everybody's watching. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.600 But I do think there should be a rule that 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.760 you can't be on the road two years in a row. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.200 Just making it clear. Last year we were in Milwaukee 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:00.600 and this year we're in Phoenix. Doesn't seem right. I 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.160 would imagine Draymond said, well, hey, I have a five 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:04.479 year old and a seven year old and a one 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.360 year old. I'd like to spend some time at home 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.640 with my kids too. We're not playing against the defending champion. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.680 Oh my god, Shade, they did go to the playoffs 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.639 or they did go to the finals. If we're playing 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.240 against the defending champion, you understand it, but we're not 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.280 who It's a but bit frustrating. I have to go 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.199 on the road a second year in a row. So 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.960 now I miss my daughter's first Christmas and I miss 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:31.040 her second one. It's kinda fucked up, but that's the reality. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.760 That's what we're faced with. You have to do your job. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.000 But we're human beings. So like I said, I missed 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.840 her first one, I'll miss her second one. I can't 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.080 that explain that to her, So it sucks. We're not robots, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.840 we're not machines. We're actual human beings with actual feelings 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.359 and with actual families. Draymon Green was hot, hot, and 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.200 so with even without Jordan Poole, Andrew Wiggins, Damian Lee, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.919 Andrea Gudala, Moses mood who cares? And of course Clay 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:07.280 I wrote down on my notes Moses Moody parentheses who cares? 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.640 I just wanted everyone to know for the record, who cares? 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.199 Honestly that's he was out. But no, but that is 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.920 not meaningful. And then they were six point dogs, six 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:22.680 point dogs on the road and they blew the Suns 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:27.040 out in Phoenix without anyone. Auto Porter, folks who I 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:31.840 called a non factor lovingly, had nineteen point six rebounds, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.800 three assists, and a steal Jesus Christ. Auto Porter on 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:39.439 a minimum deal, playing like a fucking all star like 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.399 he used to be before he got hurt when he 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.280 was a Washington Wizard. I had people in my mentions, 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.439 this is so funny, this is how well the Warriors played. 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.560 I had people in my mentions that cover the Warriors 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.439 that said, this isn't really much of a rivalry in 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.959 the playoffs, it will be Golden State and four like 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:02.520 that's how bad the Warriors destroyed the Suns on Christmas Day. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.440 Is now they don't even think it's a real rivalry. 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.919 They don't even think they should bless the Phoenix Suns 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.600 with a seven game series like legendary. How could you 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.679 even say this was legendary. We didn't have anyone and 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.680 we fucking pounded them with all their stars playing. That's 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.399 what they're your high at. Fuck Warriors fans, Like, if 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.679 you don't think many Williams is gonna go in and 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.600 play chess. And also and also it begs like the 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.280 it begs the question, like did the Suns just say 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.080 we're only gonna put all of our vanilla stuff out 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.719 we know we're gonna play them in the playoffs. Why 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.960 would we blitz Steph? Why would we show what we 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:43.840 want to do to Steph when we play them in 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.720 the playoffs? Why would we want to give them anything 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.080 other than just normal go out and play scrimmage regular 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.359 season hoop. We've already beat him once and they beat 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.760 us without book. We beat him with without book in 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.800 the first game. They beat us without books. I can 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:03.880 get third game. That is where it is, like, why 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.440 roll out all of the stops if you know you're 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.560 gonna play this game? This team seven games otherwise none. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.359 Steve Curry just knows what you're up to. So that's 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.840 so much fun. Two of the best three teams in 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.720 the league outside of the box. And I think it 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.439 showed that the Warriors are a fucking wagon truthfully without 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.080 all their guys. It doesn't matter what you showed, what 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.159 you didn't show. You got your ass handed to you 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:30.880 at home with a bunch of scrubs like Otto Porter, 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.760 Like that's it is what it is, Like I can 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.720 make excuses out for them but they just couldn't get 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.600 it done. And something tells me that this is not 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.200 the last time we're gonna see this game in primetime 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.199 on Christmas Day. I think this is gonna be a 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:49.320 year after year after year thing. Nets one twenty two 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.840 Lakers one fifteen. It seems close, doesn't it. But it wasn't. 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.080 This Lakers team, as you know, as I've said, as 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.760 I continue to say and will continue to say, is garbage. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:05.320 Like it's so garbage. Lebron is just out here lying 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.280 at press conferences, which I'll get to the game that 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.879 everybody was dead certain should be the last game of 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.280 the night, Like this is the two teams that should 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.320 go to the finals. YadA YadA. Lakers are so good, 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.199 the Nets now have Kyrie Harden and KD. It's like 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.119 meant to be. This is what we would call the 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.840 chalk matchup. Like I fucking hate chalk teams like Kansas. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.800 They always underperform. And that's what this was. It's like, 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:34.440 oh my god, Brooklyn Nets pick three LA Lakers Lebron James, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.440 and then they like no no no no no no 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.840 no no no no no, and then they're like Lebron 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.400 KD matchup on Christmas ks like, this is garbage. KD 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.720 didn't even play. It did not work out like they thought. 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.200 Let's just say that like Adam Silver when he booked this, 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:53.520 he was like, yo, I killed this matchup and no Kyrie, 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:58.600 no KD, fat James Harden, Lebron out here doing everything, dude, 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:06.879 here was starting five of the nets Paoti Claxton, Bruce Brown, 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:16.120 Patty Mills, James Harden, and DeAndre Brembrie. DeAndre fucking Bembrie 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:21.680 starting on Christmas Day in primetime. Should not be? Should 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:23.600 not be? And then on the other side of the court, 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:29.280 it was Lebron, James Russell Westbrook, Dwight Howard, Wayne Ellington, 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:33.400 and Taylor Horton Tucker. Yeah. And then there's the same 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.240 Lakers team that is sub five hundred playing in primetime 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:42.320 against a fat James Harden with a few stray milkmen 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.560 that decided to show up in nets uniforms, like what 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.879 are we doing? And shockingly, shockingly, the Lakers got the 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:52.080 doors blown off like nets work twenty going to the 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:56.439 fourth this game sucked like I did not watch. I left. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.919 I left in the middle of it, and the Lakers rallied, 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.320 but like, I see that they lost what by seven? No, 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:03.800 they didn't, Like that's just not the case, Like that's 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.080 what it says. But you got your doors blown off 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:09.840