Speaker 1: Cure. You're listening to The Hottest The Hottest.
Speaker 2: It be a podcast out here. I said what I said,
Speaker 2: it's the.
Speaker 1: Check. It's just.
Speaker 2: On this episode of The Heat Check. Oh holy hell.
Speaker 1: We got a loaded show today, had an entire episode done,
Speaker 1: and then you know what happened. Draymond Green decided he
Speaker 1: was gonna function it up, give somebody in the show calls,
Speaker 1: made it all about himself again, So we pushed it
Speaker 1: until today vain is popping in the middle of the head.
Speaker 1: Just wait, folks, until we get our social clips up.
Speaker 1: I also have things to say about a team that
Speaker 1: I think just might be destined for disaster, a team
Speaker 1: that's very similar to the star Players last team. We
Speaker 1: gotta talk about the Phoenix Suns. I get also into
Speaker 1: who is hot and who is cold right now in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Can't, in terms of cold, an entire team
Speaker 1: minus one guy who's actually just in a pajamas sitting
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 2: Sidelines currently living in a freezer.
Speaker 1: I asked, sincerely, what's the fucking happening with the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 2: Can we touched on some news from around the league.
Speaker 2: Let's get right into a Williams drop That motherfuck Okay,
Speaker 2: before we get into the real show.
Speaker 1: Let's break down a little breaking news coming out of
Speaker 1: the alcohol speed. Yes, it's got an apronym. That's what
Speaker 1: Adam Silver wanted, so that's what we give him. The
Speaker 1: end season tournament, folks. For those who don't know, Steph
Speaker 1: Curry was ruled out of the Minnesota Timberwolves game, which
Speaker 1: meant that the Warriors would be playing their ist game
Speaker 1: without the guy who has led the team in literally
Speaker 1: every way this year. And shit hit the fan fact,
Speaker 1: oh boy, just after tip off, this is what happened.
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Got into a down the court scuffle, little little something something.
Speaker 1: It wasn't quite a fight, but it was not quite
Speaker 1: not a fight. And then Wolves center Rudy.
Speaker 2: Gobert comes up and he's like yo yo, yo, yo yo.
Speaker 1: So he tries to pull Klay Thompson off of Jaden McDaniels.
Speaker 1: And at this point, what would you do if you
Speaker 1: were Draymond Green, the most predictable thing on.
Speaker 2: The planet right? Watch this?
Speaker 1: By god, that Raymond Greens. Oh man, Yes, Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: like the WWE superstar that he is, Royal rumble. He
Speaker 1: decided he was going to put Rudy Gobert in a
Speaker 1: choke hold for many seconds.
Speaker 2: That was the part he did not let up.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like as soon as things got a little
Speaker 1: more cool down that he decided he would.
Speaker 2: Let him go.
Speaker 1: No, no, he did what he thought was right, which
Speaker 1: was to just drag him across the floor. All hell broke, loose,
Speaker 1: benches cleared, refs went crazy. Adam Silver cackled, knowing the
Speaker 1: intensity is additional for the ist.
Speaker 2: That's what we want. A little passion, a little stuff
Speaker 2: never hurt nobody.
Speaker 1: And eventually they got Draymond to relax, and then of
Speaker 1: course he gets booted from the game. Klay Thompson gets
Speaker 1: booted from the game, and then the Warriors went crazy
Speaker 1: as they do.
Speaker 2: You know, it's one of those dead.
Speaker 1: Cat bounced type of moments where you're like, oh god,
Speaker 1: this is the time where the Warriors actually beat Wolves,
Speaker 1: the third number one in defensive rating. And no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the Wolves that we have been knowing were wet paper tissues,
Speaker 1: they actually have turned into some hard rocks. Why because
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards exists and the defense is really good. So
Speaker 1: the Wolves come from behind and they leave the Warriors
Speaker 1: at five hundred from the year nine to one.
Speaker 2: You will not be after the game though. Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
Speaker 1: He said the following He did two things, he said,
Speaker 1: which is why he has a reputation for being a
Speaker 1: little bit. He said, Draymond was grabbing me. He's grabbing me.
Speaker 1: Oh ma, Frey, he's grabbing me. The choke wasn't good enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't enough for me to really have to go
Speaker 1: to sleep. But he tried, He tried really hard, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't good enough where I felt like I was
Speaker 1: really in danger of falling asleep. It was a long time,
Speaker 1: and if he knew how to choke, it could have
Speaker 1: been way worse. Rudy shut the fuck up, and I
Speaker 1: kept my hands up the entire time to show the
Speaker 1: officials I WI and trying to escalate the situation.
Speaker 2: Why how does Rudy do this?
Speaker 1: How does he make something so one sided feel like, actually,
Speaker 1: maybe you deserved it, Rudy. I don't know how it's possible,
Speaker 1: but there may be no more unlikable man on the
Speaker 1: planet than Rudy Gobert, which is why, when given the
Speaker 1: opportunity Draymond said, let's do it for everyone in the pandemic.
Speaker 1: Let's do it for everyone who had to sit in
Speaker 1: their house and not get access to a court because
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert gave the NBA COVID. But then Rudy Redeems
Speaker 1: himself says something that kind of made me sort of
Speaker 1: kind of like him again.
Speaker 2: He said, it's.
Speaker 1: Kind of funny because before the game, I was telling myself, well,
Speaker 1: Steph's not planned, and I know Draymond's gonna try and
Speaker 1: get himself ejected because every time Steph doesn't play, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to play, Sir perfect, He called them an
Speaker 1: expensive backpack for thirty to his face, you should have
Speaker 1: just stuck with that, my guy, because that's along the
Speaker 1: same lines as Jordan Poole, who got him off Knock
Speaker 1: the fuck out for saying something quite similar. Rudy ended
Speaker 1: it by saying it was clown behavior. Of course, it
Speaker 1: was clown behavior. I am sure that we.
Speaker 2: All have opinions about Draymond Green again. He's getting suspended.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, he really is.
Speaker 1: He can't stay out of his own way. Joe Dumars
Speaker 1: came out, and Silver came out, there's gonna be an investigation,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be inarbows. What else do you need to
Speaker 1: interview anyone about?
Speaker 2: We all saw it.
Speaker 1: That's the end, Draymond Green, probably three game suspension, and
Speaker 1: once again the Warriors, who are struggling badly will have
Speaker 1: to play as many as ten games without a key
Speaker 1: piece Draymond and maybe Steph at a time when they.
Speaker 2: Look fucking terrible.
Speaker 1: Yet again, Draymond Green might just fuck up another year
Speaker 1: of Steph's prime with his Shenanigans.
Speaker 2: Let's move forward. We all talked about these Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 2: I am fired up.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to make of them. Honestly,
Speaker 1: deep down in the recesses where I put those thoughts
Speaker 1: that maybe kind of shouldn't be said out loud. All
Speaker 1: I've been thinking is are the Phoenix Suns the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets of the West? Are they Brooklyn Nets two point zero?
Speaker 1: Are they the Brooklyn Nets with better roads? Just three
Speaker 1: years ago, I was stumping for the Suns Sons in
Speaker 1: for everybody remembers, everybody remembers, and I regret it. Look
Speaker 1: at this mess in Phoenix and I'm like, yeah, been there,
Speaker 1: done that.
Speaker 2: This team's not a contender.
Speaker 1: The Suns are currently four and six, but that is
Speaker 1: not telling the whole story. What we might be witnessing
Speaker 1: is the circle of history coming back like Ora Boris
Speaker 1: the snake that eats its own tail.
Speaker 2: And the question that I have is, how did anyone
Speaker 2: not see this coming? How did they not see it?
Speaker 1: Big three comes together in spectacular unlikely fashion, and guess what,
Speaker 1: and guess what and guess what. They can't stay healthy,
Speaker 1: they can't play games together. Let's take a look at
Speaker 1: how the first ten.
Speaker 2: Games of the season have gone.
Speaker 1: In the preseason preview, I talked about with the Suns
Speaker 1: what I liked about them, which is, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that they traded away pretty much all their assets, you know,
Speaker 1: they got some depth, They did add some They ended
Speaker 1: up getting Utah Watt Nabe, Eric Gordon. They were in
Speaker 1: the lynchpin of the Damian Lillard trade. They landed them
Speaker 1: miss your little use of Nurkic and Grayson Allen. But
Speaker 1: I said it and I meant it. This whole thing
Speaker 1: only works if Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, and Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: are all healthy playing basketball games at critical moment. And
Speaker 1: here we are, like clockwork, they are banged up again.
Speaker 1: We are not even ten games through this thing. Bradley
Speaker 1: Beal has missed seven of the ten games. Devin Booker
Speaker 1: surprisingly has missed eight of the ten games, which leaves
Speaker 1: thirty six year old, injury prone Kevin Durant to shoulder
Speaker 1: the burden thirty six minutes per game, oftentimes single handedly
Speaker 1: carrying the offense against double and triple teams.
Speaker 2: Folks, we should be concerned.
Speaker 1: Also, we should also pause and just give a little
Speaker 1: moment for Kevin Durant, at thirty six years old, still balling,
Speaker 1: and people are slandering.
Speaker 2: His name saying he's washed. He is not.
Speaker 1: Everyone has talked about Steph, everyone has talked about Lebron,
Speaker 1: how they are defying their age and how amazing it
Speaker 1: is and impressive it is. But neither are facing what
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, a thirty six year old, thirty five year.
Speaker 2: Old is doing on a ninth to night basis.
Speaker 1: And all he's done so far is average thirty seven
Speaker 1: and five on fifty percent from the field and forty
Speaker 1: three percent from three and not a goddamn person wants
Speaker 1: to talk about Kevin Durant. The problem, though, of course,
Speaker 1: is he just can't put that much load on his
Speaker 1: little legs. Eventually, sat is not a matter of if.
Speaker 1: It's a matter of when his body breaks down. Ankle issues,
Speaker 1: foot issues, achilles issues issues, kneat issues. All of those
Speaker 1: are injuries Kevin Durant has.
Speaker 2: Already at Here's what else is going wrong with the
Speaker 2: Suns if you wanted more.
Speaker 1: The defense not good, not consistently good enough whatsoever. They
Speaker 1: rank fourteenth in defensive rating and that sounds probably better
Speaker 1: than it actually is. It doesn't tell the whole story either.
Speaker 1: While they do block a bunch of shots, that's a
Speaker 1: testament really to how unafraid teams are of going to
Speaker 1: the rim against them. You know why, because use of
Speaker 1: Nurkic fucking sucks. He is terrible, absolutely horrible in the paint.
Speaker 1: I know this as a Blazer fan. Enjoy them, enjoy
Speaker 1: them great, big, great culture guy can't protect the room
Speaker 1: for shit. Offsetting that is that only three teams get
Speaker 1: more shots blocked than the Suns do.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 1: Another important stat is that the Suns are twentieth and
Speaker 1: steals per game, which means not a lot of opportunities
Speaker 1: for free baskets for our guys. Secondly, they turn the
Speaker 1: ball over way too much, allowing a lot of steals
Speaker 1: sixteen point eight turnovers per game that is third worst
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Killing them in transition, so many easy buckets.
Speaker 2: Eric Gordon, Grayson, Allen kd Nurkic. None of them are fast.
Speaker 1: Let's be real, none of them are getting back into transition,
Speaker 1: and they.
Speaker 2: Lack a true point guard. I would be happy with
Speaker 2: campaign if I was them. And now you know what's happening.
Speaker 1: We've got Kevin Durant being like, hey, Alex Cruise is
Speaker 1: one hell of a talent.
Speaker 2: He's not just a role player. He'd fit on any team.
Speaker 1: You know. That's how it's going. Also, they should probably
Speaker 1: get like a Tias Shones. They are twenty seventh in
Speaker 1: the league at assist to turnover ratio, which is where
Speaker 1: they probably miss Chris Paul the most. Finally, there's so
Speaker 1: many things wrong. It's like a laundry list. It's a
Speaker 1: CBS receipt list of how many things are wrong with
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. They are so bad on the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: They are fucking terrible. How bad they're worse.
Speaker 2: In the NBA. They are worse than the Knicks.
Speaker 1: They are worse than the Warriors. They are worse. They
Speaker 1: are worse in the They're worse than the Blazers. They
Speaker 1: are worse than the Pistons. They are near the bottom.
Speaker 1: Phoenix has been outscored by an average of six point
Speaker 1: one points in the fourth quarter this season, and they
Speaker 1: rank at or near the bottom in nearly every way
Speaker 1: that you can measure it. Defensively, offensively, It's just bad.
Speaker 1: They have no one that they can reliably go to
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter to set the offense up and
Speaker 1: get a buckhead. Here's what Kevin Hicks from Sports Illustrated said,
Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head. The new look Suns
Speaker 1: are way too undisciplined with the basketball. For the relative
Speaker 1: amount of talent and basketball IQ, the roster possesses far
Speaker 1: too many lazy reads, possessions with little off ball movement,
Speaker 1: and far too many good.
Speaker 2: Opportunities that do not get converted.
Speaker 1: In their last game against the OKC Thunder, they entered
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter up eighty six eighty What do you think, heaven?
Speaker 1: The only Sons to score a bucket in the entire
Speaker 1: fourth quarter were Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal, and the
Speaker 1: Sons got outscored thirty one thirteen and lost by twelve
Speaker 1: to the OKC thunder. This is not a bug, this
Speaker 1: is a feature. This is not an anomaly.
Speaker 2: It's a pattern.
Speaker 1: On October twenty six, the Lakers outscored the Suns twenty
Speaker 1: eight to eleven in the last twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: The Lakers aren't so great in fourth quarters either, baby.
Speaker 1: And then on October thirty first, Wemby and the Spurs
Speaker 1: outscored them in the fourth quarter thirty three to nineteen.
Speaker 1: Their fourth quarter scoring is abysmal. Boy, both games, the
Speaker 1: Sun's lost. Frank Vogel, Oh man, I've got things to
Speaker 1: say about Frank Vogel.
Speaker 2: Just not today. He's preaching patients. When isn't he? When
Speaker 2: isn't he? He's got a five year deal?
Speaker 1: And I get it, But didn't we hear this for
Speaker 1: nearly two goddamn years in Brooklyn?
Speaker 2: Just wait, it's gotta gel. Everything's God come together. I
Speaker 2: go wanna wait.
Speaker 1: We waited and we waited, and we waited in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and guess what, Guess what, guess what? It never fucking happened.
Speaker 1: And then we have one star. Ask out, we have
Speaker 1: another star, ask out? We have another Star, Star, ask out,
Speaker 1: and now it's bad times in Brooklyn. Brooklyn got exactly
Speaker 1: sixteen games where Harden, Kyrie, and Katie played.
Speaker 2: At the same time.
Speaker 1: I hope history is not repeating itself in Phoenix, but
Speaker 1: I suspect it's just my way.