January 28, 2025 • 25 mins
Trysta takes a quick tour around the league to find her favorite stories, starting, obviously, with Jimmy Butler's Miami's days being numbered.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
On this episode of the Heat Check. There is so
much popping around the league, not a lot of news.
We are so close to the trade deadline, though we're
chugging along, chew chew all aboard the Jimmy Butler Trade Express.
I will cover Victor women Yama's week in Paris. I
(00:31):
go over the mystery of Trey Young in Atlanta. Also
that kid who posted that he should be MVP as Ridonculous.
I take four teams to task for not sucking anywhere
nearly bad enough at a time where Cooper Flag is balling.
What's a little news from around the league? Anthony, do
me a little favor. Drop that motherfucker beat and that
should be Rihanna, but obnestly's too cheap to pay for anything. Okay.
(01:08):
Big news this week was the NBA's annual a for
wah uh A Bonjo. But voyage was it? Voyage into
Europe where the Indiana Pacers played, not surprisingly the San
Antonio Spurs because of Victor Webbin Yama question if the
(01:32):
ping pong balls would have changed one number, literally just one,
and Victor would have been a Portland Trailblazer and not Scoot, which,
of course I love Scoot, but you know, I'm so
happy with Scoot. But would Portland be going to France
instead of San Antonio? Would? Is it just wherever Victor goes,
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whatever team he's on, that's just what team goes to France?
I don't know. Anyway, he played twice. The games in
Paris were prefaced by a lot of Victor photo ops,
and to be perfectly honest, I was intrigued by all
of it. The French obviously are fascinated and in love
with Victor. How could you not be. He's awesome, he's
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so fun, he's so likable, he's so tall, just so tall.
And this is the people not really known for being
that friendly to even their own countrymen, and they love them.
But France, France loves himself some wemby and he was
so happy to show his teammates his home country. The
team landed in Patti on Monday, and it was like
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it literally looked on Instagram, not just the San Antonio Spurs,
but it was almost like Victor wembin Yama was the
school teacher chaperone and all of the NBA were his students.
It was like a high school trip or a middle
school trip. To Washington, DC. He took him on a
(02:59):
never ending series of sightseeing photo op trips. A small
list of what Victor did. Monday team dinner and then
a group shopping trip at the legendary Hosmon Opera Saint
Lazarre Quarter. I think I butchered that. Definitely butchered that
Tuesday trip back to his hometown. I'm definitely gonna butcher
(03:20):
this La les Chesney, where he dedicated not one, but
two basketball courts in his name, before heading back to
past Paris for Why Fashion Week, good shit, Adam Sover,
great Collabo, no wonder he has custom sweatsuits that I
have no idea how they fit him. He probably has
a tailor for sweatsuits. Wednesday, Paris Saint Germain's soccer game
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against Man City PSG one four two. Thursday first game
versus Pacers. Friday tour of the Eiffel Tower, which I
thought only tours from Toledo went to. But I guess
when Keldon Johnson gotta take them to the Eiffel Tower
as well. Saturday second game against the Pacers. Sunday coss
(04:07):
sauce with the Crodies, bagets with the boys, then get
on the jet plane and fly back to San Antonio.
What a fucking week, people, And also Opie Topping and
his chick looking fucking bad, looking so good, all of
the photo ops from the Pacers and the Spurs chef's kiss.
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I am jealous. I love how much this trip happened.
I want a team, an NBA team, to be in Paris.
I love how much Wemby embraces his celebrity both in
Europe and the United States. Just a super nice kid.
I love this trip. I also thought it was interesting
that they played twice because I was tripping when the
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NBA was putting out highlights, I was like, it's just me.
I swear to God, this game already occurred. Are we
getting highlights from three days ago or three minutes ago? Anyway,
this is what he said. This week was amazing, just
seeing my family. I'm not trying to get emotional, but
everyone did their job making this week incredible. And guess what.
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On the court, Wemby was tremendous in the first game,
thirty point blowout win, which is insane. Victor put up
thirty eleven and six five blocks five five blocks plus
all eighteen net rating. Rick Carlile made it a point
to stop him in the second game, and indeed the
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Pacers split the two game series with a thirty eight
point win. I think jet lag had something to do
with it. They held Wemby to twenty twelve and two,
but after the game, Carlile said he was shocked when
he looked at the box score. You don't stop that guy,
he said, he still had twenty to twelve, and it
was our sole mission to eliminate him from the game.
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The entire week had not gone better, and as the
Spurs point guard said, Victor responded despite the enormous pressure
on him. He said, I can't imagine what it was
like for Victor come back home and play. He was
so excited. But it's a lot of responsibility that comes
with that. Every media outlet, every event, trying to see
your family that you don't get to see to that often.
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And Vic is one of those guys who tries to
sign every autograph. I just love it for him. I
love him so much. I hope this becomes an annual tradition,
the San Antonio Spurs bag Get annual bag Get Classic,
you know what I mean. I hope they. I would
love him to play four times a year. Fuck it,
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let them go multiple times. This NBA Cup, let's have
that shit in Paris. Victor's already a star. He's on
the cusp of becoming a top ten player in the league,
if he's not already there, And it was just cool
to have basketball on at two pm here in America.
I was getting mad. It was like it was the
pandemic all over again. Baby. I was like, Wow, two
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pm on the West Coast getting a game. With the
announcement that the NBA is looking to open a league
affiliated EuroLeague, events like this take on in even greater importance,
and Victor's announcement at the end of the week that
he's gonna be playing for Team France and EuroBasket twenty
twenty five seem like the final thank you from one
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of the more grateful dudes in the world of basketball
to his country. Well done, Adam Silver. That was one
of the best well planned situations that you could ever
have expected. Do that more, all right, Moving on, Moving on,
Trey Young. Gotta talk about him. As you guys know,
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I'm not a huge Tray fan. You know, as far
as ethical basketball goes, Trey Young's not at the top
of that list. He's been the subject of a lot
of discourse as of late, in large part because of
the weird nature of the Atlanta Hawks, who really cannot
decide what they are. Are they good? Are they dog shit?
(08:07):
Are they maybeocre? We don't know. They're twenty two and
twenty three, largely because they've been four and six in
the last ten games. They're sitting in ninth four games
at a fourth place as the East decks up like
Cordwood after the top three in the East. And also
they've beaten every good team in the East. They've lost
to all the bad ones. So we don't know. And
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since Trey Young is at the center of this team,
you can consider them the lighting rod. And whether Trey
being at the center of the Hawks is a good
thing or a bad thing is kind of what this
is about. Jared Weiss from The Athletic tried to think
peace how Tray Young has taken a step back so
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the Hawks can take a step forward kind of remind
me of a Paul Abdul song, actually, and it resummarized
the way Trey has been talked about as of late. Tilly.
What the article is about is how Hawks coach Quinn
Snyder is trying to get everyone on the Hawks to
embrace this defensive first basketball and that includes Trey Young,
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who has, let's face it, ben Akne for most of
his career to date, despite the fact that he's one
of the best stealers in the league west thiefs in
the league. In addition, I actually love Quinn Snyder, by
the way. In addition, Snyder envisioned in offense with Trey
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having the ball a lot less often in his hands.
As Trey noted, Snyder put it out in front of
me and showed me how we can do it. And
I can still get the same amount of touches because
it helps our offense. But maybe it's getting off the
ball early and getting a pick and roll later into
the shot clock that can help too. The ball's in
my hands, but I'm getting it in different ways. Allah,
Steph Curry, That's what we've been trying to say for
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many years now. But Steph, but Steph coming into the
Trey Young experience hasn't really worked with the Jonte Murray experience.
That's why he had to get a bat of there.
The shift happened in the offseason with that trade for
de Jontay Murray for Dyson Daniels in the offseason, because
Dyson Daniels has been a revelation on track to set
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an NBA record for steals. This guy was sitting at
the end of the bench for the New Orleans Pelicans
last year, I might remind you, and that has been
setting the tone for a team that is now five
points better in defensive ratings than they were last year.
And Trey has responded. He is averaging twenty three game
which is almost seven points worse than his career high,
but he's also getting eleven and a half assists per game,
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which leads the league and is a career high for him.
His twenty one potential assists per game is four and
a half higher than Nikola Jokic. That is nuts. That
is nuts. The change in numbers come with some pain.
Young is averaging a career low forty percent from the field.
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Part of that is because his percentage of isolation is
nearly half of what it is last year, and his
pick and roll plays have soared astronomically to twenty six
per game. And let's be honest, like Trey Young made
his bones at Oklahoma and even Atlanta as an IO
player as an IO god. That's what he does. By
the way, pick and Roll plays five more than Damian Lillard,
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who is the only other player in the twenties also
ISO god. That is also worth noting. The new look
Atlanta Hawks have a ton going for them. Jalen Johnson's
on the cusp of being a superstar. DeAndre Hunter has
found his groove as a six man. Tyson Daniels, like
I said, has been a revelation defensively. But the team
is still struggling because they don't have any shooters. As
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Lebron James has said many times many years, we don't
have no snipers. They're currently twenty seventh in the league.
From Deep Paiging Buddy Healed, Paijing Buddy Healed. The Hawks
are on the cusp good enough to beat some top
teams in the league. They won over Boston twice, New
York twice, Cleveland twice, the Lakers Milwaukee, and then they're
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bad enough to lose to the Drags, losses to the
Wizards twice, Chicago twice, Toronto twice, Portland wolf So you
never really know what they're gonna get. What are they
gonna do with the deadline Are they gonna sell, are
they gonna buy? Trade for another shooter? Ditch some contracts
put themselves in a better position. When are they gonna
get rid of clink Appella? Who knows? But no matter
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what happens, Trey Young will be at the center of
the Hawks moving forward. And I think for all of
us who have been praying for more ethical basketball, we
can at least give Trey Young a golf clap for
more of what he's been doing than he's been doing
this season. All right, Moving on, It's around this time
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of year. Did NBA teams loser? Goddamn mindes? We're talking
about tanking or in this case, capturing the flags watery
and there are teams that don't feel like they really
am getting the picture so far? Have they not been
watching Cooper Flag? Have they not been seeing the clips?
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Are you guys not on X or fucking threads or
on what's the one red note, blue sky whatever? Yellow bird?
Who knows? Okay? Cooper Flag setting records, Dylan Harper, Ace
Bailey putting up monster games at records. VJ edgecomb killing it, Portland,
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New Orleans, Toronto, Charlotte not getting the memo, all four
teams in the bottom flour of their respective conferences, all
of a sudden have decided hoopin, hoopin' hoopin. Here's what
they've done. Blazers four and one in their last five,
Pelicans five and three in their last eight, Raptors five
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and one in their last six, Hornets four and two
in their last four. Of the eight worst teams in
the NBA are all of a sudden, four of the
hottest teams in the league. What are you doing? Portland? Portland, Portland.
You've got Aton, You've got Rob Williams. You've got Jeremy
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Grant that you must trade. You need to trade them.
New Orleans, Why why are you even trying to win
when you could maybe, just maybe pair Cooper Flagg Wizion
Williamson in the greatest duke connection of all time. Charlotte,
your season is over. Brandon nort it's a rap for him.
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You should be shedding salary. And worst of all, Toronto
in the six you got no business winning five of six,
no business. You stink you're gross, But a top pick
in this draft could set you up for years. Baby,
what are you doing? Who? You guys need to be
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taking notes from who you guys should just pull up
some YouTube clips. On the fourth quarter, Will Hardy of
Utah Jazz aka the Master Commander of Tanking Utah Jazz,
chugging along baby, doing what he's supposed to do, supposed
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to do. Two and eight in their last ten, Brooklyn Nets,
who turned a five hundred team into a deep sea submersible.
One and nine down the stretch. Oh yeah, baby, and
they called it. And they you know, when you make
a bank shot, you gotta go. That's a bank. That's
what they said. We're losing. We're not gonna lose, you
know what I'm saying. We're not fielding the winning team
no more. Shoot. Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Washington Wizards with Kyle Kuzma Oh in ten in their
last ten, Kyle Kuzman says, I'm now trying to win
cause I don't wanna fit into what we're trying to
do here.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Demand the ball never change kus. He said, I'm not
gonna let these guys develop. He said, I don't wanna
let them develop. I want to shoot. I don't want
to fit in to what the Wizards do. I'm tired
of that. I am gonna be me cous cous Maybe
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he will ruin their chances as a punishment for not
trading him two years ago. I don't understand all that
to say this is one of the top drafts in
recent memory. Okay, tanking is crucial. Take it from me.
Pallo ban Cao, Chet Holmgren, Victor Wembin Yama, Brandon Miller,
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any of those players could have been my team's players.
But guess what. We had to roll the ball out
on a random February night and say we're gonna beat
New Orleans tonight. Do you think we give up anybody?
Anybody gives a fuck about that game three years ago? Now, No,
we don't. We don't care at all. Do you think
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Paolo ban Caro would have been a nice consolation prize
to a dismal season? Absolutely? Ask Orlando when your future
is on the line. A draft like this comes once
every I don't know, decade or so. Do not fuck
this up Portland. Those wins in February and January, those
will mess up your lottery odds, and guess what, they
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will come back and haunt you. Okay, little news from
around the league. ESPN's Mark Jones has reported it around
three weeks ago. Anthony Edwards reached out to Michael Jordan
about how to deal with double teams. Oh shit, oh shit.
I was told by someone in his circle that three
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weeks ago. Aunt reached out to Michael Jordan on advice
on how to handle some of the double teams and
traps that he's seeing. He's been extremely frustrated up until late.
I don't know, if you see in the clips. He
fucking hates it. He says, I can't stay in the game.
I don't know what to do. They said, Aunt, do
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you get rattled? Do you feel like you can stay focused?
He's like, I don't enjoy this. I don't enjoy just
passing the ball to my teammates at all. I do
not want that. I want to score. Aunt. Let's talk
about this season up and down. Since getting that advice
from Michael Jordan, he's averaging thirty two, six and six
forty seven percent from deep in his last twelve games.
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That is up from twenty one to six and five
and thirty eight percent from deep in the last twelve
games before. That would have been nice to know, probably
would have been him. Not sure what Jordan told Aunt,
but it seems to have worked. I know what. They
probably told him. Shoot from the lolo, motherfucker, shoot just
further back. I know there are a lot of jokes
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about Michael Jordan being Anthony Edwards's dad, But let me
tell you, if Aunt Edwards keeps playing like this, those comparisons,
those DNA tests, the asks are gonna keep coming out
in Phoenix. Moving on, we apparently have some beef between
Yusuf Nurkic, the fourth string center, and Mike budenholds her
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what huh? Nirk told the Arizona Republic that the two
haven't spoken a couple of days, right, we can couple
of leaks three weeks two months. NRK said this, We
don't have a relationship, so it's fine. Don't let you're
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on that back. We don't have a relationship, so it's
fine for me. Just be a pro, do the best
I can work and stay ready for whatever it might be.
But there is no chaos or bringing that to this team.
They already have plenty of it. Oh my god, Nirk
with grenades. Oh boy. Bud was stoic about Nirk's comments,
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considering he basically has demoted him to dnp's AKA do
not Play, saying it's never easy in the league. He
hasn't played. Why I did a video about this, he
hasn't played. I'm sure he's frustrated. I respect that this
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story's tremendous, the story the Suns. They really want to
get the last year of the nrks contract off their books.
I tried to tell folks, the best part of the
Dame trade was getting rid of NRK. The best part
of the Dame trade was getting rid of Nirk. This
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guy is not good. Four years seventy million dollars to
NRK nineteen point four million on the books. You want
to talk about fanasasu tokupos of the world, you know,
just there because the superstar wants them there. That was
Nurk and Damian Lillard. Send that motherfucker to Milwaukee. Phoenix
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is a mess. Things like this will not make them
any more attractive for free agents who might be tempted
to head out to the desert. Oh boy, what a
tremendous story. And I'm sure it's only gonna get more
calm as the free as the trade deadline approaches. Finally,
out in Indiana, where the Pacers have been scorching hot
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nine of eleven, there are whispers yes they are. These
are the good ones. There are whispers of the most
familiar kind. Miles Turner is on the trade block again.
Oh man, I've been talking about Miles Turner on the
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trade block for the Indiana Pacers since twenty twenty. Since
twenty twenty, death taxes and Miles Turner on the trade block.
Say it ain't so. Literally, one of the trade machine
Hall of famers just cannot be quit. This time from
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friend to show Yovan Bouja, who reports I've heard a
little bit of chatter about that, about some uncertainty and
not Lakers specific, but just kind of league chatter in
terms of Turner. If he's available, it would be more
so because Indiana and the contract situation, and not as
much about them because Indiana is not really a team
that tanks or looks to sell off players. But that
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could be an exception just based off of his contract situation.
If Miles Turner is available, I think if you're the Lakers,
you have to go get him because he just fits
perfectly next to ad on both sides of the floor.
He spaces the floor, and he's a rim protector. That
would be the ideal. Even over Walker Kessler. This is
what we call no shade to Yovon Bouja. Really, no shade.
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Just throwing shit against the wall, that's what that I mean. Really,
that's not reporting. That's just like, hey, you see that
girl over there, I would fuck that girl, you know
what I mean? Like, that's just the Lakers being like,
if he was available, man, we would trade for him. Okay,
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Like there's no side of interest from Indiana's perspective that
they are willing to trade Miles Turner. And I don't
think he's that back of a contract either. Can we
just stop these Miles turn trade rumors? The dude has
been through enough. He's been so good in Indiana. The
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Pacers are red hot. They are now in fifth, They're
a game out of the fourth for slot, I sincerely
doubt that they make a move like trading him for
contract reasons. That is, throw shit against the wall for
Miles's sake, For for Miles's sake, Can we just him live?
Can we just have one year without a Miles Turner
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trade rumor? Please? Please Yo Yo Vaughn, make it stop.
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On this episode of the Heat Check. There is so
much popping around the league, not a lot of news.
We are so close to the trade deadline, though we're
chugging along, chew chew all aboard the Jimmy Butler Trade Express.
I will cover Victor women Yama's week in Paris. I
(00:31):
go over the mystery of Trey Young in Atlanta. Also
that kid who posted that he should be MVP as Ridonculous.
I take four teams to task for not sucking anywhere
nearly bad enough at a time where Cooper Flag is balling.
What's a little news from around the league? Anthony, do
me a little favor. Drop that motherfucker beat and that
should be Rihanna, but obnestly's too cheap to pay for anything. Okay.
(01:08):
Big news this week was the NBA's annual a for
wah uh A Bonjo. But voyage was it? Voyage into
Europe where the Indiana Pacers played, not surprisingly the San
Antonio Spurs because of Victor Webbin Yama question if the
(01:32):
ping pong balls would have changed one number, literally just one,
and Victor would have been a Portland Trailblazer and not Scoot, which,
of course I love Scoot, but you know, I'm so
happy with Scoot. But would Portland be going to France
instead of San Antonio? Would? Is it just wherever Victor goes,
(01:52):
whatever team he's on, that's just what team goes to France?
I don't know. Anyway, he played twice. The games in
Paris were prefaced by a lot of Victor photo ops,
and to be perfectly honest, I was intrigued by all
of it. The French obviously are fascinated and in love
with Victor. How could you not be. He's awesome, he's
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so fun, he's so likable, he's so tall, just so tall.
And this is the people not really known for being
that friendly to even their own countrymen, and they love them.
But France, France loves himself some wemby and he was
so happy to show his teammates his home country. The
team landed in Patti on Monday, and it was like
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it literally looked on Instagram, not just the San Antonio Spurs,
but it was almost like Victor wembin Yama was the
school teacher chaperone and all of the NBA were his students.
It was like a high school trip or a middle
school trip. To Washington, DC. He took him on a
(02:59):
never ending series of sightseeing photo op trips. A small
list of what Victor did. Monday team dinner and then
a group shopping trip at the legendary Hosmon Opera Saint
Lazarre Quarter. I think I butchered that. Definitely butchered that
Tuesday trip back to his hometown. I'm definitely gonna butcher
(03:20):
this La les Chesney, where he dedicated not one, but
two basketball courts in his name, before heading back to
past Paris for Why Fashion Week, good shit, Adam Sover,
great Collabo, no wonder he has custom sweatsuits that I
have no idea how they fit him. He probably has
a tailor for sweatsuits. Wednesday, Paris Saint Germain's soccer game
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against Man City PSG one four two. Thursday first game
versus Pacers. Friday tour of the Eiffel Tower, which I
thought only tours from Toledo went to. But I guess
when Keldon Johnson gotta take them to the Eiffel Tower
as well. Saturday second game against the Pacers. Sunday coss
(04:07):
sauce with the Crodies, bagets with the boys, then get
on the jet plane and fly back to San Antonio.
What a fucking week, people, And also Opie Topping and
his chick looking fucking bad, looking so good, all of
the photo ops from the Pacers and the Spurs chef's kiss.
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I am jealous. I love how much this trip happened.
I want a team, an NBA team, to be in Paris.
I love how much Wemby embraces his celebrity both in
Europe and the United States. Just a super nice kid.
I love this trip. I also thought it was interesting
that they played twice because I was tripping when the
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NBA was putting out highlights, I was like, it's just me.
I swear to God, this game already occurred. Are we
getting highlights from three days ago or three minutes ago? Anyway,
this is what he said. This week was amazing, just
seeing my family. I'm not trying to get emotional, but
everyone did their job making this week incredible. And guess what.
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On the court, Wemby was tremendous in the first game,
thirty point blowout win, which is insane. Victor put up
thirty eleven and six five blocks five five blocks plus
all eighteen net rating. Rick Carlile made it a point
to stop him in the second game, and indeed the
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Pacers split the two game series with a thirty eight
point win. I think jet lag had something to do
with it. They held Wemby to twenty twelve and two,
but after the game, Carlile said he was shocked when
he looked at the box score. You don't stop that guy,
he said, he still had twenty to twelve, and it
was our sole mission to eliminate him from the game.
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The entire week had not gone better, and as the
Spurs point guard said, Victor responded despite the enormous pressure
on him. He said, I can't imagine what it was
like for Victor come back home and play. He was
so excited. But it's a lot of responsibility that comes
with that. Every media outlet, every event, trying to see
your family that you don't get to see to that often.
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And Vic is one of those guys who tries to
sign every autograph. I just love it for him. I
love him so much. I hope this becomes an annual tradition,
the San Antonio Spurs bag Get annual bag Get Classic,
you know what I mean. I hope they. I would
love him to play four times a year. Fuck it,
(06:39):
let them go multiple times. This NBA Cup, let's have
that shit in Paris. Victor's already a star. He's on
the cusp of becoming a top ten player in the league,
if he's not already there, And it was just cool
to have basketball on at two pm here in America.
I was getting mad. It was like it was the
pandemic all over again. Baby. I was like, Wow, two
(07:02):
pm on the West Coast getting a game. With the
announcement that the NBA is looking to open a league
affiliated EuroLeague, events like this take on in even greater importance,
and Victor's announcement at the end of the week that
he's gonna be playing for Team France and EuroBasket twenty
twenty five seem like the final thank you from one
(07:24):
of the more grateful dudes in the world of basketball
to his country. Well done, Adam Silver. That was one
of the best well planned situations that you could ever
have expected. Do that more, all right, Moving on, Moving on,
Trey Young. Gotta talk about him. As you guys know,
(07:47):
I'm not a huge Tray fan. You know, as far
as ethical basketball goes, Trey Young's not at the top
of that list. He's been the subject of a lot
of discourse as of late, in large part because of
the weird nature of the Atlanta Hawks, who really cannot
decide what they are. Are they good? Are they dog shit?
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Are they maybeocre? We don't know. They're twenty two and
twenty three, largely because they've been four and six in
the last ten games. They're sitting in ninth four games
at a fourth place as the East decks up like
Cordwood after the top three in the East. And also
they've beaten every good team in the East. They've lost
to all the bad ones. So we don't know. And
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since Trey Young is at the center of this team,
you can consider them the lighting rod. And whether Trey
being at the center of the Hawks is a good
thing or a bad thing is kind of what this
is about. Jared Weiss from The Athletic tried to think
peace how Tray Young has taken a step back so
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the Hawks can take a step forward kind of remind
me of a Paul Abdul song, actually, and it resummarized
the way Trey has been talked about as of late. Tilly.
What the article is about is how Hawks coach Quinn
Snyder is trying to get everyone on the Hawks to
embrace this defensive first basketball and that includes Trey Young,
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who has, let's face it, ben Akne for most of
his career to date, despite the fact that he's one
of the best stealers in the league west thiefs in
the league. In addition, I actually love Quinn Snyder, by
the way. In addition, Snyder envisioned in offense with Trey
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having the ball a lot less often in his hands.
As Trey noted, Snyder put it out in front of
me and showed me how we can do it. And
I can still get the same amount of touches because
it helps our offense. But maybe it's getting off the
ball early and getting a pick and roll later into
the shot clock that can help too. The ball's in
my hands, but I'm getting it in different ways. Allah,
Steph Curry, That's what we've been trying to say for
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many years now. But Steph, but Steph coming into the
Trey Young experience hasn't really worked with the Jonte Murray experience.
That's why he had to get a bat of there.
The shift happened in the offseason with that trade for
de Jontay Murray for Dyson Daniels in the offseason, because
Dyson Daniels has been a revelation on track to set
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an NBA record for steals. This guy was sitting at
the end of the bench for the New Orleans Pelicans
last year, I might remind you, and that has been
setting the tone for a team that is now five
points better in defensive ratings than they were last year.
And Trey has responded. He is averaging twenty three game
which is almost seven points worse than his career high,
but he's also getting eleven and a half assists per game,
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which leads the league and is a career high for him.
His twenty one potential assists per game is four and
a half higher than Nikola Jokic. That is nuts. That
is nuts. The change in numbers come with some pain.
Young is averaging a career low forty percent from the field.
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Part of that is because his percentage of isolation is
nearly half of what it is last year, and his
pick and roll plays have soared astronomically to twenty six
per game. And let's be honest, like Trey Young made
his bones at Oklahoma and even Atlanta as an IO
player as an IO god. That's what he does. By
the way, pick and Roll plays five more than Damian Lillard,
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who is the only other player in the twenties also
ISO god. That is also worth noting. The new look
Atlanta Hawks have a ton going for them. Jalen Johnson's
on the cusp of being a superstar. DeAndre Hunter has
found his groove as a six man. Tyson Daniels, like
I said, has been a revelation defensively. But the team
is still struggling because they don't have any shooters. As
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Lebron James has said many times many years, we don't
have no snipers. They're currently twenty seventh in the league.
From Deep Paiging Buddy Healed, Paijing Buddy Healed. The Hawks
are on the cusp good enough to beat some top
teams in the league. They won over Boston twice, New
York twice, Cleveland twice, the Lakers Milwaukee, and then they're
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bad enough to lose to the Drags, losses to the
Wizards twice, Chicago twice, Toronto twice, Portland wolf So you
never really know what they're gonna get. What are they
gonna do with the deadline Are they gonna sell, are
they gonna buy? Trade for another shooter? Ditch some contracts
put themselves in a better position. When are they gonna
get rid of clink Appella? Who knows? But no matter
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what happens, Trey Young will be at the center of
the Hawks moving forward. And I think for all of
us who have been praying for more ethical basketball, we
can at least give Trey Young a golf clap for
more of what he's been doing than he's been doing
this season. All right, Moving on, It's around this time
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of year. Did NBA teams loser? Goddamn mindes? We're talking
about tanking or in this case, capturing the flags watery
and there are teams that don't feel like they really
am getting the picture so far? Have they not been
watching Cooper Flag? Have they not been seeing the clips?
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Are you guys not on X or fucking threads or
on what's the one red note, blue sky whatever? Yellow bird?
Who knows? Okay? Cooper Flag setting records, Dylan Harper, Ace
Bailey putting up monster games at records. VJ edgecomb killing it, Portland,
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New Orleans, Toronto, Charlotte not getting the memo, all four
teams in the bottom flour of their respective conferences, all
of a sudden have decided hoopin, hoopin' hoopin. Here's what
they've done. Blazers four and one in their last five,
Pelicans five and three in their last eight, Raptors five
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and one in their last six, Hornets four and two
in their last four. Of the eight worst teams in
the NBA are all of a sudden, four of the
hottest teams in the league. What are you doing? Portland? Portland, Portland.
You've got Aton, You've got Rob Williams. You've got Jeremy
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Grant that you must trade. You need to trade them.
New Orleans, Why why are you even trying to win
when you could maybe, just maybe pair Cooper Flagg Wizion
Williamson in the greatest duke connection of all time. Charlotte,
your season is over. Brandon nort it's a rap for him.
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You should be shedding salary. And worst of all, Toronto
in the six you got no business winning five of six,
no business. You stink you're gross, But a top pick
in this draft could set you up for years. Baby,
what are you doing? Who? You guys need to be
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taking notes from who you guys should just pull up
some YouTube clips. On the fourth quarter, Will Hardy of
Utah Jazz aka the Master Commander of Tanking Utah Jazz,
chugging along baby, doing what he's supposed to do, supposed
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to do. Two and eight in their last ten, Brooklyn Nets,
who turned a five hundred team into a deep sea submersible.
One and nine down the stretch. Oh yeah, baby, and
they called it. And they you know, when you make
a bank shot, you gotta go. That's a bank. That's
what they said. We're losing. We're not gonna lose, you
know what I'm saying. We're not fielding the winning team
no more. Shoot. Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Washington Wizards with Kyle Kuzma Oh in ten in their
last ten, Kyle Kuzman says, I'm now trying to win
cause I don't wanna fit into what we're trying to
do here.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Demand the ball never change kus. He said, I'm not
gonna let these guys develop. He said, I don't wanna
let them develop. I want to shoot. I don't want
to fit in to what the Wizards do. I'm tired
of that. I am gonna be me cous cous Maybe
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he will ruin their chances as a punishment for not
trading him two years ago. I don't understand all that
to say this is one of the top drafts in
recent memory. Okay, tanking is crucial. Take it from me.
Pallo ban Cao, Chet Holmgren, Victor Wembin Yama, Brandon Miller,
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any of those players could have been my team's players.
But guess what. We had to roll the ball out
on a random February night and say we're gonna beat
New Orleans tonight. Do you think we give up anybody?
Anybody gives a fuck about that game three years ago? Now, No,
we don't. We don't care at all. Do you think
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Paolo ban Caro would have been a nice consolation prize
to a dismal season? Absolutely? Ask Orlando when your future
is on the line. A draft like this comes once
every I don't know, decade or so. Do not fuck
this up Portland. Those wins in February and January, those
will mess up your lottery odds, and guess what, they
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will come back and haunt you. Okay, little news from
around the league. ESPN's Mark Jones has reported it around
three weeks ago. Anthony Edwards reached out to Michael Jordan
about how to deal with double teams. Oh shit, oh shit.
I was told by someone in his circle that three
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weeks ago. Aunt reached out to Michael Jordan on advice
on how to handle some of the double teams and
traps that he's seeing. He's been extremely frustrated up until late.
I don't know, if you see in the clips. He
fucking hates it. He says, I can't stay in the game.
I don't know what to do. They said, Aunt, do
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you get rattled? Do you feel like you can stay focused?
He's like, I don't enjoy this. I don't enjoy just
passing the ball to my teammates at all. I do
not want that. I want to score. Aunt. Let's talk
about this season up and down. Since getting that advice
from Michael Jordan, he's averaging thirty two, six and six
forty seven percent from deep in his last twelve games.
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That is up from twenty one to six and five
and thirty eight percent from deep in the last twelve
games before. That would have been nice to know, probably
would have been him. Not sure what Jordan told Aunt,
but it seems to have worked. I know what. They
probably told him. Shoot from the lolo, motherfucker, shoot just
further back. I know there are a lot of jokes
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about Michael Jordan being Anthony Edwards's dad, But let me
tell you, if Aunt Edwards keeps playing like this, those comparisons,
those DNA tests, the asks are gonna keep coming out
in Phoenix. Moving on, we apparently have some beef between
Yusuf Nurkic, the fourth string center, and Mike budenholds her
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what huh? Nirk told the Arizona Republic that the two
haven't spoken a couple of days, right, we can couple
of leaks three weeks two months. NRK said this, We
don't have a relationship, so it's fine. Don't let you're
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on that back. We don't have a relationship, so it's
fine for me. Just be a pro, do the best
I can work and stay ready for whatever it might be.
But there is no chaos or bringing that to this team.
They already have plenty of it. Oh my god, Nirk
with grenades. Oh boy. Bud was stoic about Nirk's comments,
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considering he basically has demoted him to dnp's AKA do
not Play, saying it's never easy in the league. He
hasn't played. Why I did a video about this, he
hasn't played. I'm sure he's frustrated. I respect that this
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story's tremendous, the story the Suns. They really want to
get the last year of the nrks contract off their books.
I tried to tell folks, the best part of the
Dame trade was getting rid of NRK. The best part
of the Dame trade was getting rid of Nirk. This
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guy is not good. Four years seventy million dollars to
NRK nineteen point four million on the books. You want
to talk about fanasasu tokupos of the world, you know,
just there because the superstar wants them there. That was
Nurk and Damian Lillard. Send that motherfucker to Milwaukee. Phoenix
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is a mess. Things like this will not make them
any more attractive for free agents who might be tempted
to head out to the desert. Oh boy, what a
tremendous story. And I'm sure it's only gonna get more
calm as the free as the trade deadline approaches. Finally,
out in Indiana, where the Pacers have been scorching hot
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nine of eleven, there are whispers yes they are. These
are the good ones. There are whispers of the most
familiar kind. Miles Turner is on the trade block again.
Oh man, I've been talking about Miles Turner on the
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trade block for the Indiana Pacers since twenty twenty. Since
twenty twenty, death taxes and Miles Turner on the trade block.
Say it ain't so. Literally, one of the trade machine
Hall of famers just cannot be quit. This time from
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friend to show Yovan Bouja, who reports I've heard a
little bit of chatter about that, about some uncertainty and
not Lakers specific, but just kind of league chatter in
terms of Turner. If he's available, it would be more
so because Indiana and the contract situation, and not as
much about them because Indiana is not really a team
that tanks or looks to sell off players. But that
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could be an exception just based off of his contract situation.
If Miles Turner is available, I think if you're the Lakers,
you have to go get him because he just fits
perfectly next to ad on both sides of the floor.
He spaces the floor, and he's a rim protector. That
would be the ideal. Even over Walker Kessler. This is
what we call no shade to Yovon Bouja. Really, no shade.
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Just throwing shit against the wall, that's what that I mean. Really,
that's not reporting. That's just like, hey, you see that
girl over there, I would fuck that girl, you know
what I mean? Like, that's just the Lakers being like,
if he was available, man, we would trade for him. Okay,
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Like there's no side of interest from Indiana's perspective that
they are willing to trade Miles Turner. And I don't
think he's that back of a contract either. Can we
just stop these Miles turn trade rumors? The dude has
been through enough. He's been so good in Indiana. The
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Pacers are red hot. They are now in fifth, They're
a game out of the fourth for slot, I sincerely
doubt that they make a move like trading him for
contract reasons. That is, throw shit against the wall for
Miles's sake, For for Miles's sake, Can we just him live?
Can we just have one year without a Miles Turner
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trade rumor? Please? Please Yo Yo Vaughn, make it stop.
That's all the time that we have for this episode
of The Heat Check. Tune in Wednesday for an only
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I enjoy watching the Buffalo Bills and the Washington Commanders,
(24:24):
I am heartbroken. Fuck the Bills, I mean, fuck the
Chief excuse me, fuck the Eagles, Fuck this super Bowl.
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