April 25, 2025 • 23 mins
Happy Friday! Trysta has the latest from last nights slate including the Thunder's ferocious rally to go up 3-0 against the Grizzlies, the Clippers dominating win and the Knicks Pistons rock fight of a series.
Trysta also has an apology for Jalen Green after Houston evened the series against Golden State, what Jimmy Butler's injury means for the Warriors and Tyler Herro got COOKED by the Cavs. Plus, news and updates from around the league!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of the Heat Check, Welcome Back. It's
hotter than a Miami sidewalk in July. Right now, here's
what we're gonna talk about, John Morant. Every time something
good goes down in Memphis, Ja Mare gets hurt o
case he comes back down twenty nine. They were down
twenty six at halftime. Oh, the Rockets and the Warriors
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are in a full blown rock fight. I have to
maybe just maybe recamp my take on Jalen Green, but
I don't think I'm ready yet. Also, Jimmy Butler's got
a deep gluten bruise pause. He's questionable for Game three.
Calves carved up the heat like a Sunday roast. Nick
sneak past the Pistons to take a two to one
series lead. Detroit ain't going down easy. Clippers now up
to to one on the Nuggets, and it's getting very
(00:43):
spicy in the West. Plus we've got some League White
updates that'll make your head spin. So much to unpack.
It's twelve forty am on the East Coast, lots of
narratives to dissect. Wyatt Amanda Combo producer day, you know
what time it is? That motherfucker beat the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Ship Hereriana your you're listening to the Hottest, the Hottest.
It'd be a podcast out here. I said what I said,
it's the check.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's just a quitting Oh my goodness. So the Clipper
Nugget game was on simultaneously as the OKAC and Memphis game.
And I don't know if you guys saw game one
of the OKAC game where they smacked the Memphis Grizzlies
by fifty or a game two where we thought maybe
(01:36):
Memphis would get a little razzley dazzly but they lost
by twenty. Okay, so I saw, Oh, it looks like
a little bit of a Memphis bounce back game. Who knows.
But the real game that we're all trying to watch
is the Clippers versus the Nuggets. That's the best one
pretty much of the entire first round. So I tuned
(01:57):
over there and it was back to back to it
was Nick's baby, and then it was Okay, see baby,
and then it was and there was some overlap. Right,
So I'm watching I'm watching the Clips game in LA which,
by the way, Steve Bamber's a wild boy. He gave
everyone in the local section in the in the like
local fan section that they took the wall that they
(02:20):
call it. He gave them all horses. He gave them
all horses for their head. They were full. I don't
even know how you like anyway it worked, But I
get a text and it's like, hey, what happened to Jaw?
And I was like, oh man, let me go see
what this is about Jahn Morant. At this point, Grizzlies
(02:41):
up twenty four points. Ja Morant takes it out in transition,
which we know he loves to do. Loud dort the
dorture chamber, slightly slipping, tries to go up to contest,
undercuts Jaw in the legs. Jaw puts his hands down
to try to catch his fall, direct shot to the
hip pop Night Night Sleep Mask. And at that point,
(03:04):
like I said, I was like, Okay, well I'm gonna
I'm gonna turn back to this Clipper game again. But
then the Clippers now were up twenty and so I'm like,
all right, well, Grizzlies are now up nine. Team's obviously
not very good without Jaw, despite what the critics say.
And I'm like, I think the thunder my fuck around
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and win this game, and boy, oh boy, won't you
know it, won't you know it? It was the Alex
Carusoe game. Man was putting them in their seat belts
and then in their basinet and putting the pacifier in
their mouth. Grizzlies just a heartbreaker in Memphis. Okase outscored
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Memphis sixty three to thirty one in the second half.
Shay had thirty j Dubb had twenty four, Chet Holmgren
had five threes. Swap swat sweat when he needed it.
Sky Pippen junior ball a little bit twenty three points.
Jum Ran at only fifteen. So yeah, it looks like
(04:07):
it's night night. I just don't know how you really
emotionally come back from being up twenty nine points, your star,
your franchise player going down in the playoffs with a
big injury again for like the fifth straight time, and
they rally back and beat you when you think you
can maybe still a game at the crib tough scene. Okay,
(04:29):
see probably now gets the sweep, if not a gentleman's sweep,
and they have a whole week to recover, lick their
wounds from that fighting performance in Game three, and they
get to see the winner of this Minnesota Lakers series
and probably beat the shit out of them as well.
(04:49):
Moving on, Moving on, that was a spicy one where
the it really got spicy. We have to dive in
to this chapter of this heated playoff sagabi between the
Rockets and the Warriors. So I was kind of rude
to Jalen Green last episode. I said he made so
he did make some boneheaded fucking plays. I'm standing ten
(05:11):
toes down on that. But I said he wasn't a
winning player, and I still don't think he is. But boy,
oh boy, after a fucking shaky ass game where he
had seven points three for fifteen shooting, Jalen Green thirty
eight points eight for eighteen from three, I said, these
boys don't have any offensive engines and he was room roomen.
(05:35):
He was rooming. He had fifteen in the third quarter alone.
I gotta give him his props. He's the youngest guard
in NBA history to have eight or more threes in
a playoff game. So he bawled shng Goon did his
goddamn thing. But really, what was the main storyline besides
the Warriors losing to the Rockets in a way that
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made the Warriors look very pedestrian, which they do tend
to do without Jimmy Butler is the Jimmy Butler suffered
what was originally considered a pelvic contusion, had a mid
air collision with Arman Thompson. A lot of people said
that it was dirty. A lot of people said that
Arman Thompson was dirty. A lot of people said Draymond
Green was dirty by pushing Amen Thompson. A lot of
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accusations going on out there. Jimmy played just under eight minutes,
had three points before leaving the game. And now we
know it is a deep glute bruise, deep glute contusion. Anyway,
he may not play Game three, which is I'm going
to say, a major setback for the Warriors. Also, Brandon Pajemski,
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he was dealing with the stomach ailment. He had no
points in fourteen minutes after scoring fourteen points in game one.
Kind of a full circle moment and with Jimmy Butler out.
DMPCD is his nickname, Jonathan Kaminga. He came into the game,
got some minutes and he struggled. He looks like remember
(07:00):
Jonathan Minga said he was gonna get paid max money.
He made no significant impact. Steph Curry was getting locked up.
He had twenty. He had relentless defense. They were putting
bodies on them, bodies on the bodies on him. Rockets
forced fifteen turnovers. Tarry Easton was nasty. He had fourteen
points off the bench and it was chippy. Let's just
(07:22):
be honest. These two teams kind of don't like each other.
There were a bunch of physical confrontations and nine of them.
Jalen Green had a flagrant one for elbowing and Draymond
in the face Tarry Easton through a towel at Pat Spencer.
Does anyone know who Spencers? Okay? Following a Fred van Fleet,
Steele and a Jalen Green layup, Van Fleet and Draymond
(07:44):
had a heated exchange leading to a scuffle Draymond Green.
These are all separate incidents. Draymond Green received a tech
for shoving Opera and Shangoon during the game. In total,
the game had six technical fouls, one frank flagrant foul,
very tense atmosphere. They both just want a foul, foul foul.
Rockets head coach Ime Udoka was pumped. He was like,
(08:07):
that's fucking what we do. He said, that's who we are,
that's our identity. For the most part. We understand that
they let us play both teams. It's in our favorite Yeah.
When you're allowed to just punch and just elbow and
just like do anything you want out there. Yeah, it's
like the Warriors are really built for that anyway. Saturday
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Game three, Chase Center, Jimmy Butler probably not available. Are
the Warriors gonna be able to adjust to this physical
defense without their co star who's pretty much the only
reason the Warriors are in the playoffs right now? And
can the Rockets get a game at Chase? Very fucking interesting?
All right, moving forward, we gotta do some roasting. We
(08:48):
gotta put a man on the hubachi. I didn't put
him on the hubachi. I didn't. I didn't put him
on the hubachi. Do you know who are about to
put on the hibachi? It's a great question. We'll tell
you right after this break and a little word from
our sponsors. Hey, and we're back. We're talking about putting
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somebody on the hibachi, on the hot plate, putting him
on the gas foreman grill. That's Tyler Hero, Tyler Hero,
He's not looking good right now. Sometimes you wonder whether
the Portland Trailblazers should have put Tyler Hero in the
trade and taken him back because he's such a bucket,
and sometimes the offense looks so anemic. Then sometimes you
(09:31):
see this and you say, goodness, gracious, I'm glad we
don't have him on our team. Calves taking belt to
ass on the Miami Heat. A lot of people were
surprised at game two was even as close as it was.
Calves won by nine, but at one point it was
a two point game, round four four minutes left. You know,
there's always like a random, random team and it just
(09:53):
jumps up and gets a game against the team that
they are far outmatched against. Donovan Mitchell, though, decides he's
gonna go crazy. He's gonna put the Cape on his back.
He gets ten points in the last two minutes. Oh
ten points in two minutes. That's Reggie Miller right there.
But after the game, this is when, well, Tyler heroes
kind of on the hibachi all night, and this is why.
(10:14):
So they asked Darius Garland, the other garf for the
Cleveland Cavaliers, hey, how do you finish the heat off?
And he said, playing his day, you pick on Tyler Hero.
You take care of the ball, don't play in tight
spaces and pick on their weak defenders. Yikes, that is
such a brutal thing to say, calling a grown man
out by name. We pick on Tyler Hero, That's what
(10:35):
we do. But here's the thing. Tyler Hero was already
getting cooked all game long. He was already getting put
He had grill marks on him because the calves were
killing him. Hero's always been a defensive liability and they've
done nothing to fix it. He's not gonna be anybody else.
And let's be honest, every time there's a star in play,
Miami's like, hey you want Tyler Hero. Hey we got
(10:57):
Tyler huro Kentucky Guard Tyler he pat Rileyes do you want?
Do you want? Do you want me to pep? Were like, no, no,
I don't make it make sense, Miami. Let's talk about
his stats. Tyler Hero dead last in the NBA in
defensive wind shares this season. He's literally statistically the worst
defensive starting player in the league. Statline offensive league game
(11:19):
two solid thirty three, six' five plus one net, rating no,
blocks no, steals getting straight. Cooked and then you look
At Duncan, robinson who is probably just happy to be getting.
Paid he was A d three, player goes To, michigan
finds his way out of the, heat shoots some nice,
threes gets him to the. Finals all of a, sudden
he gets a huge bag and he disappears. Anyway duncan's
(11:43):
ranked one hundred and seventy seventh in defensive wind, shares
just above guys Like Kyle, Kuzma Trey, Young DeAngelo, russell
but Below Zach lavine And Kelly Oubre game two three
point zero boards won a six in twelve. Minutes SO
i just don't think you can really. DO i, mean
the fact That cleveland's up to two zero is not a.
(12:05):
Surprise the fact that the heater in the playoffs is a.
Surprise And Darius garland exposed what we all know is
that the easiest game plan in THE nba is target
those weak gas perimeter, defenders those little last. Guards Even Davion,
mitchell who's not known to be a flame thrower but
is also supposed to be a lockdown, defender ranked one
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hundred and thirty fifth in defensive win. Shares the stat
breakdown backs it. Up cleveland had nearly twice as many
blocks and steals As. Miami they forced thirteen, turnovers And
miami shot fifty two percent from the, field thirty six
percent from, three seventy five percent from the free throw,
line and they still. Lost and, meanwhile is this stat?
(12:48):
Real cleveland shot forty for eighty eight from three because
The guards are just chilling over two games and The
guards just simply will not close, out AND i think
the game is just a little two fast for, Them
and Even zachlow said. It, listen they're passing the ball too.
Faster they don't even know where the ball is the
three steps. Behind So miami might steal a game, maybe
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but in, general this team is in. Trouble, trouble, Trouble,
Okay so we gotta talk about This knick, series The
Rock fight. Series final Score nicks one to, Eighteen pistons one,
sixteen and like the last two, minutes, drunk drunk as fucking,
hell there Were there was a free throw shot because
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of a clock. ERROR i don't EVEN i was watching
AND i couldn't figure out how the math was adding.
Up how did they scop right? THERE i literally didn't
see anyone change. Possessions what? Happened knicks lead to one
this series is officially hot and. Bothered they get a
massive road win In. Detroit The, pistons of, course had their.
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Chances Karl Anthony towns finally did. Something game Three nicks,
Early game Three nicks. Late SO i do want to
talk a little bit About Tobias harris talking, shit because
this playoffs does feel like there's a lot of off
the court extracurriculars going. On So detroit goes INTO msg
and they steal a, game which we did not expect
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them to. Do but the real, ones no Right game
one probably should have been there. Too if it wasn't
for that twenty one to zero, run that explosion, pause
The pistons probably up to one right. Now and just
Before game, three they're, like, Hey Tobias, harris what's different
about this Year's knicks team from last? Year and he, said,
well it's a different, dynamic that's for. Sure that's All
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i'm gonna. Say it's part of our game. Plan oh what's? Different,
Oh Karl Anthony towns is? There Damn Michael bridges is.
There damn No Julius, randall No Dante. DiVincenzo i Think
Tobias harris is calling This knicks team. Soft but in
(15:04):
game three they did not look that. Soft cat was.
Cooking he had thirty. One he had the game saving
block ON. Cad cad was. Electric by the, Way Jalen
brunson had thirty nine. Assists is that?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
True is that?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
True he must have scored a. Lot, yeah thirty thirty
nine and. Seven those points came. Late those points came
in the last three. Minutes four of the Five knick
starters had twenty plus. Points pistons hit forty three percent
from three and they still. Lost, Man Tobias, harris and
you said The knicks were, soft and then you go
(15:39):
out and you melt in the, sun you drop casual
two of nine shooting with a, five six and zero stat.
Line oh, baby that is The philadelphia seventy six, Ers Tobias,
harris not The Detroit, Pistons Tobias. Harris. Man just Like,
houston this team is a lot Like. Houston they want
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to make it a rock. Fight they want to fight.
Everybody and speaking of, which there was a melee in
the middle of the game Where Carl Anthony towns is
fighting With Paul, reid WHO i didn't even know was
on The, knicks And Carl Anthony towns is getting a
little puff in his chest out And i'm, LIKE i
forgot what's going on With Isaiah, stewart the guy WHO
i don't know was ready to Kill Lebron james bleeding
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down his. Face turns Out Isaiah stewart's not playing in the.
Game Isaiah stewart is his street. Clothes and the cameraman
smart must have been a real BIG nba fan because
he immediately panned To Isaiah, stewart And Isiah stewart was,
like he looks so. Sad he just wanted to be
in the. Mix he just wanted to be In Karl
(16:42):
Anthony towns's, face letting him just shrink tail between his
legs and going back to his. Bench, goodness. Gracious, ALSO
i just want to, SAY i have no idea who's
gonna win the series Classic game seven, energy but if
The knicks do not win this, series we are looking
at a coaching shake. UP i could see A Michael malone.
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THERE i could see, no probably No Taylor, jenkins but
definitely A Michael. Malone that's you don't want to deal with. This.
Tips this has Got Mark Jackson warriors, Right, like let's
find ourselves At Steve carr to take us to a new.
Level it's, physical it's, emotional it's, personal AND i Think
Tobias harris probably wants to keep those soft talk conversations
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to himself next. Time, otherwise baby, boy you better. Produce all,
Right we got to get into a little news from
around the. League Number one horrible news out of La Elijah,
arenas who is the son OF nba Legend Gilbert. Arenas
he got into an awful accident last, night well actually
four forty five Am thursday. Morning he was driving one
(17:47):
of them damned cyber, trucks damn hopped a, curb hit
a tree head, on rushed to the hospital in critical.
Condition he was put into a medically induced. Coma there's
a lot of info we don't. Know the reports are
is he inhaled? Smoke he had no other, Injuries that's
why they induced the. COMA i was recently at The
Nike Hoop, summit, though and everybody was talking About elijah
(18:08):
Goh arenas and how much of a bucket he, is
and how weird it was that he wasn't at The Hoop.
Summit i've seen him in person. Before he was the
number one ranked shooting guard in the country and he
did not get. Invited we're gonna obviously update. This the
photos showed the entire front end of The tesla cyber
truck crushed in tough look for The. Tesla so if
(18:30):
initial reports are, correct somebody's looking out for. Him all,
Right moving, on this news is gonna get widespread. Attention
But Will, barton will The, thrill announced his. Retirement he
doesn't get enough. Shine he played eleven years in THE.
Nba he was In, portland starting In, denver came To
portland on a trade no started In, portland went To,
(18:51):
denver actually in the use of nurkic. Trade he finished
top five and Six man of The year voting, twice
went To washington In, toronto and his good by post was,
awesome he, Says, man what a. TIME i. Promise it
was EVERYTHING i dreamed, of plus way. MORE i PRAY
i give others hope and inspired some ups and, Downs
it was all worth it AND i look forward to
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the next chapter in my. LIFE i know that because of,
You i'll be. Okay you told me to never give
up and quit. Fighting this is just a long ass, Post.
WILBARTON i thought he was one of the more underrated
players in the. League Damian lillard loved playing with. Them
i'm happy you got to go out on his own
terms and his good, Spirits but, HONESTLY i Thought wilbarton
was already. Retired another piece of. News i'm a little
(19:33):
perplexed about The. Bucks they are now down to zero
on a team that has made many bad roster, decisions
but they just locked up THEIR gm to a multi
year contract. Extension i'm not saying he should have been
fired or should be, fired BUT i am saying right,
now probably not the best time to extend. Him you
know What i'm, Saying because if you can't win With
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jannis And, dame and you traded away the guy who
wanted to stay his entire career there And Drew, holliday
who was the reason you got the first, ring All
i'm gonna say is probably shouldn't be. Extended probably shouldn't be.
Extended this team's just not good. Enough trading For Kyle
kuzma didn't make no damn. Sense Aj green doesn't make.
Sense Torrian prince doesn't really make. Sense Kevin Porter junior
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doesn't make. Sense this is not a championship. Roster this
is just barely a six seed, roster just a very weird.
Decision Scott, perry LIKE i, said is the NEW gm
of The Sacramento. Kings he has identified the biggest issue
facing The kings in the. Offseason you're gonna love this.
One it's finding a point. Guard despite the fact that
this team has drafted six guards in the past seven
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years and had two franchise caliber point guards in Diarreon
fox And Tyrese, haliburton he, says it's no secret we
need a true point guard with the current mixture of,
players and in my, opinion we need more length than
athleticism along the front line if we want to elevate this. Group,
wolf you know what that, means probably some bonus is
(20:59):
gonna be. Traded he's not a true, center he doesn't
protect the. Room the man won't shoot threes anymore nearly
as much as he did in the beginning of his.
Career he's gotten better in the last season or. So
but he is not long and he is not. Athletic
he is, great but he is neither of those. Things
so maybe they give the bag To Kyrie. Irving maybe
(21:21):
they give the bag To. Harden maybe they. LANGUISH i don't,
know maybe they get Tyas jones Or Malcolm. Brock something
has to change, here because that's just a wild fucking,
segment a wild fucking. Statement late breaking. News we've got
a huge upset in The Defensive player of The year
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Race Draymond. Green after all of the finaggling and, lobbying
he was minus four fifty to win this. Award he
was minus won sixty the morning the award was, announced
which means he was the. Favorite and then guess what he?
Lost he?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Lost do you believe?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It he? Lost Evan mobley. Won he was plus three point.
Fifty he deserves. It it was a major shock in
the betting. Markets draymond probably will go him on his
segment at some, point probably. DENY i don't know That
draymond didn't deserve, it AND i don't mean to say
That Evan mobley didn't deserve. It But Evan mobley nung
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gets a forty five million dollar bonus for a winner
of the. Year the award paid out over the next five.
Years even more, shocking, though Is draymond didn't even finish
second in. Voting he finished third Behind Dyson, Daniels Evan
mobley first two hundred and twenty five, Points daniels, second
one hundred and ninety seven, points, which by the, Way
Dyson daniels is awesome this. Year Draymond green, third Lou dort,
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Fourth i'm And thompson fifth good thing good for. Him
draymond's pot is going to be a meltdown must watch this.
Week and that's the. News and that's a wrap for
this episode that he checked will Back tuesday with the
brand new, show so don't miss. It in the, meantime
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On this episode of the Heat Check, Welcome Back. It's
hotter than a Miami sidewalk in July. Right now, here's
what we're gonna talk about, John Morant. Every time something
good goes down in Memphis, Ja Mare gets hurt o
case he comes back down twenty nine. They were down
twenty six at halftime. Oh, the Rockets and the Warriors
(00:21):
are in a full blown rock fight. I have to
maybe just maybe recamp my take on Jalen Green, but
I don't think I'm ready yet. Also, Jimmy Butler's got
a deep gluten bruise pause. He's questionable for Game three.
Calves carved up the heat like a Sunday roast. Nick
sneak past the Pistons to take a two to one
series lead. Detroit ain't going down easy. Clippers now up
to to one on the Nuggets, and it's getting very
(00:43):
spicy in the West. Plus we've got some League White
updates that'll make your head spin. So much to unpack.
It's twelve forty am on the East Coast, lots of
narratives to dissect. Wyatt Amanda Combo producer day, you know
what time it is? That motherfucker beat the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Ship Hereriana your you're listening to the Hottest, the Hottest.
It'd be a podcast out here. I said what I said,
it's the check.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's just a quitting Oh my goodness. So the Clipper
Nugget game was on simultaneously as the OKAC and Memphis game.
And I don't know if you guys saw game one
of the OKAC game where they smacked the Memphis Grizzlies
by fifty or a game two where we thought maybe
(01:36):
Memphis would get a little razzley dazzly but they lost
by twenty. Okay, so I saw, Oh, it looks like
a little bit of a Memphis bounce back game. Who knows.
But the real game that we're all trying to watch
is the Clippers versus the Nuggets. That's the best one
pretty much of the entire first round. So I tuned
(01:57):
over there and it was back to back to it
was Nick's baby, and then it was Okay, see baby,
and then it was and there was some overlap. Right,
So I'm watching I'm watching the Clips game in LA which,
by the way, Steve Bamber's a wild boy. He gave
everyone in the local section in the in the like
local fan section that they took the wall that they
(02:20):
call it. He gave them all horses. He gave them
all horses for their head. They were full. I don't
even know how you like anyway it worked, But I
get a text and it's like, hey, what happened to Jaw?
And I was like, oh man, let me go see
what this is about Jahn Morant. At this point, Grizzlies
(02:41):
up twenty four points. Ja Morant takes it out in transition,
which we know he loves to do. Loud dort the
dorture chamber, slightly slipping, tries to go up to contest,
undercuts Jaw in the legs. Jaw puts his hands down
to try to catch his fall, direct shot to the
hip pop Night Night Sleep Mask. And at that point,
(03:04):
like I said, I was like, Okay, well I'm gonna
I'm gonna turn back to this Clipper game again. But
then the Clippers now were up twenty and so I'm like,
all right, well, Grizzlies are now up nine. Team's obviously
not very good without Jaw, despite what the critics say.
And I'm like, I think the thunder my fuck around
(03:25):
and win this game, and boy, oh boy, won't you
know it, won't you know it? It was the Alex
Carusoe game. Man was putting them in their seat belts
and then in their basinet and putting the pacifier in
their mouth. Grizzlies just a heartbreaker in Memphis. Okase outscored
(03:47):
Memphis sixty three to thirty one in the second half.
Shay had thirty j Dubb had twenty four, Chet Holmgren
had five threes. Swap swat sweat when he needed it.
Sky Pippen junior ball a little bit twenty three points.
Jum Ran at only fifteen. So yeah, it looks like
(04:07):
it's night night. I just don't know how you really
emotionally come back from being up twenty nine points, your star,
your franchise player going down in the playoffs with a
big injury again for like the fifth straight time, and
they rally back and beat you when you think you
can maybe still a game at the crib tough scene. Okay,
(04:29):
see probably now gets the sweep, if not a gentleman's sweep,
and they have a whole week to recover, lick their
wounds from that fighting performance in Game three, and they
get to see the winner of this Minnesota Lakers series
and probably beat the shit out of them as well.
(04:49):
Moving on, Moving on, that was a spicy one where
the it really got spicy. We have to dive in
to this chapter of this heated playoff sagabi between the
Rockets and the Warriors. So I was kind of rude
to Jalen Green last episode. I said he made so
he did make some boneheaded fucking plays. I'm standing ten
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toes down on that. But I said he wasn't a
winning player, and I still don't think he is. But boy,
oh boy, after a fucking shaky ass game where he
had seven points three for fifteen shooting, Jalen Green thirty
eight points eight for eighteen from three, I said, these
boys don't have any offensive engines and he was room roomen.
(05:35):
He was rooming. He had fifteen in the third quarter alone.
I gotta give him his props. He's the youngest guard
in NBA history to have eight or more threes in
a playoff game. So he bawled shng Goon did his
goddamn thing. But really, what was the main storyline besides
the Warriors losing to the Rockets in a way that
(05:56):
made the Warriors look very pedestrian, which they do tend
to do without Jimmy Butler is the Jimmy Butler suffered
what was originally considered a pelvic contusion, had a mid
air collision with Arman Thompson. A lot of people said
that it was dirty. A lot of people said that
Arman Thompson was dirty. A lot of people said Draymond
Green was dirty by pushing Amen Thompson. A lot of
(06:16):
accusations going on out there. Jimmy played just under eight minutes,
had three points before leaving the game. And now we
know it is a deep glute bruise, deep glute contusion. Anyway,
he may not play Game three, which is I'm going
to say, a major setback for the Warriors. Also, Brandon Pajemski,
(06:39):
he was dealing with the stomach ailment. He had no
points in fourteen minutes after scoring fourteen points in game one.
Kind of a full circle moment and with Jimmy Butler out.
DMPCD is his nickname, Jonathan Kaminga. He came into the game,
got some minutes and he struggled. He looks like remember
(07:00):
Jonathan Minga said he was gonna get paid max money.
He made no significant impact. Steph Curry was getting locked up.
He had twenty. He had relentless defense. They were putting
bodies on them, bodies on the bodies on him. Rockets
forced fifteen turnovers. Tarry Easton was nasty. He had fourteen
points off the bench and it was chippy. Let's just
(07:22):
be honest. These two teams kind of don't like each other.
There were a bunch of physical confrontations and nine of them.
Jalen Green had a flagrant one for elbowing and Draymond
in the face Tarry Easton through a towel at Pat Spencer.
Does anyone know who Spencers? Okay? Following a Fred van Fleet,
Steele and a Jalen Green layup, Van Fleet and Draymond
(07:44):
had a heated exchange leading to a scuffle Draymond Green.
These are all separate incidents. Draymond Green received a tech
for shoving Opera and Shangoon during the game. In total,
the game had six technical fouls, one frank flagrant foul,
very tense atmosphere. They both just want a foul, foul foul.
Rockets head coach Ime Udoka was pumped. He was like,
(08:07):
that's fucking what we do. He said, that's who we are,
that's our identity. For the most part. We understand that
they let us play both teams. It's in our favorite Yeah.
When you're allowed to just punch and just elbow and
just like do anything you want out there. Yeah, it's
like the Warriors are really built for that anyway. Saturday
(08:28):
Game three, Chase Center, Jimmy Butler probably not available. Are
the Warriors gonna be able to adjust to this physical
defense without their co star who's pretty much the only
reason the Warriors are in the playoffs right now? And
can the Rockets get a game at Chase? Very fucking interesting?
All right, moving forward, we gotta do some roasting. We
(08:48):
gotta put a man on the hubachi. I didn't put
him on the hubachi. I didn't. I didn't put him
on the hubachi. Do you know who are about to
put on the hibachi? It's a great question. We'll tell
you right after this break and a little word from
our sponsors. Hey, and we're back. We're talking about putting
(09:11):
somebody on the hibachi, on the hot plate, putting him
on the gas foreman grill. That's Tyler Hero, Tyler Hero,
He's not looking good right now. Sometimes you wonder whether
the Portland Trailblazers should have put Tyler Hero in the
trade and taken him back because he's such a bucket,
and sometimes the offense looks so anemic. Then sometimes you
(09:31):
see this and you say, goodness, gracious, I'm glad we
don't have him on our team. Calves taking belt to
ass on the Miami Heat. A lot of people were
surprised at game two was even as close as it was.
Calves won by nine, but at one point it was
a two point game, round four four minutes left. You know,
there's always like a random, random team and it just
(09:53):
jumps up and gets a game against the team that
they are far outmatched against. Donovan Mitchell, though, decides he's
gonna go crazy. He's gonna put the Cape on his back.
He gets ten points in the last two minutes. Oh
ten points in two minutes. That's Reggie Miller right there.
But after the game, this is when, well, Tyler heroes
kind of on the hibachi all night, and this is why.
(10:14):
So they asked Darius Garland, the other garf for the
Cleveland Cavaliers, hey, how do you finish the heat off?
And he said, playing his day, you pick on Tyler Hero.
You take care of the ball, don't play in tight
spaces and pick on their weak defenders. Yikes, that is
such a brutal thing to say, calling a grown man
out by name. We pick on Tyler Hero, That's what
(10:35):
we do. But here's the thing. Tyler Hero was already
getting cooked all game long. He was already getting put
He had grill marks on him because the calves were
killing him. Hero's always been a defensive liability and they've
done nothing to fix it. He's not gonna be anybody else.
And let's be honest, every time there's a star in play,
Miami's like, hey you want Tyler Hero. Hey we got
(10:57):
Tyler huro Kentucky Guard Tyler he pat Rileyes do you want?
Do you want? Do you want me to pep? Were like, no, no,
I don't make it make sense, Miami. Let's talk about
his stats. Tyler Hero dead last in the NBA in
defensive wind shares this season. He's literally statistically the worst
defensive starting player in the league. Statline offensive league game
(11:19):
two solid thirty three, six' five plus one net, rating no,
blocks no, steals getting straight. Cooked and then you look
At Duncan, robinson who is probably just happy to be getting.
Paid he was A d three, player goes To, michigan
finds his way out of the, heat shoots some nice,
threes gets him to the. Finals all of a, sudden
he gets a huge bag and he disappears. Anyway duncan's
(11:43):
ranked one hundred and seventy seventh in defensive wind, shares
just above guys Like Kyle, Kuzma Trey, Young DeAngelo, russell
but Below Zach lavine And Kelly Oubre game two three
point zero boards won a six in twelve. Minutes SO
i just don't think you can really. DO i, mean
the fact That cleveland's up to two zero is not a.
(12:05):
Surprise the fact that the heater in the playoffs is a.
Surprise And Darius garland exposed what we all know is
that the easiest game plan in THE nba is target
those weak gas perimeter, defenders those little last. Guards Even Davion,
mitchell who's not known to be a flame thrower but
is also supposed to be a lockdown, defender ranked one
(12:26):
hundred and thirty fifth in defensive win. Shares the stat
breakdown backs it. Up cleveland had nearly twice as many
blocks and steals As. Miami they forced thirteen, turnovers And
miami shot fifty two percent from the, field thirty six
percent from, three seventy five percent from the free throw,
line and they still. Lost and, meanwhile is this stat?
(12:48):
Real cleveland shot forty for eighty eight from three because
The guards are just chilling over two games and The
guards just simply will not close, out AND i think
the game is just a little two fast for, Them
and Even zachlow said. It, listen they're passing the ball too.
Faster they don't even know where the ball is the
three steps. Behind So miami might steal a game, maybe
(13:10):
but in, general this team is in. Trouble, trouble, Trouble,
Okay so we gotta talk about This knick, series The
Rock fight. Series final Score nicks one to, Eighteen pistons one,
sixteen and like the last two, minutes, drunk drunk as fucking,
hell there Were there was a free throw shot because
(13:33):
of a clock. ERROR i don't EVEN i was watching
AND i couldn't figure out how the math was adding.
Up how did they scop right? THERE i literally didn't
see anyone change. Possessions what? Happened knicks lead to one
this series is officially hot and. Bothered they get a
massive road win In. Detroit The, pistons of, course had their.
(13:56):
Chances Karl Anthony towns finally did. Something game Three nicks,
Early game Three nicks. Late SO i do want to
talk a little bit About Tobias harris talking, shit because
this playoffs does feel like there's a lot of off
the court extracurriculars going. On So detroit goes INTO msg
and they steal a, game which we did not expect
(14:17):
them to. Do but the real, ones no Right game
one probably should have been there. Too if it wasn't
for that twenty one to zero, run that explosion, pause
The pistons probably up to one right. Now and just
Before game, three they're, like, Hey Tobias, harris what's different
about this Year's knicks team from last? Year and he, said,
well it's a different, dynamic that's for. Sure that's All
(14:41):
i'm gonna. Say it's part of our game. Plan oh what's? Different,
Oh Karl Anthony towns is? There Damn Michael bridges is.
There damn No Julius, randall No Dante. DiVincenzo i Think
Tobias harris is calling This knicks team. Soft but in
(15:04):
game three they did not look that. Soft cat was.
Cooking he had thirty. One he had the game saving
block ON. Cad cad was. Electric by the, Way Jalen
brunson had thirty nine. Assists is that?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
True is that?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
True he must have scored a. Lot, yeah thirty thirty
nine and. Seven those points came. Late those points came
in the last three. Minutes four of the Five knick
starters had twenty plus. Points pistons hit forty three percent
from three and they still. Lost, Man Tobias, harris and
you said The knicks were, soft and then you go
(15:39):
out and you melt in the, sun you drop casual
two of nine shooting with a, five six and zero stat.
Line oh, baby that is The philadelphia seventy six, Ers Tobias,
harris not The Detroit, Pistons Tobias. Harris. Man just Like,
houston this team is a lot Like. Houston they want
(15:59):
to make it a rock. Fight they want to fight.
Everybody and speaking of, which there was a melee in
the middle of the game Where Carl Anthony towns is
fighting With Paul, reid WHO i didn't even know was
on The, knicks And Carl Anthony towns is getting a
little puff in his chest out And i'm, LIKE i
forgot what's going on With Isaiah, stewart the guy WHO
i don't know was ready to Kill Lebron james bleeding
(16:22):
down his. Face turns Out Isaiah stewart's not playing in the.
Game Isaiah stewart is his street. Clothes and the cameraman
smart must have been a real BIG nba fan because
he immediately panned To Isaiah, stewart And Isiah stewart was,
like he looks so. Sad he just wanted to be
in the. Mix he just wanted to be In Karl
(16:42):
Anthony towns's, face letting him just shrink tail between his
legs and going back to his. Bench, goodness. Gracious, ALSO
i just want to, SAY i have no idea who's
gonna win the series Classic game seven, energy but if
The knicks do not win this, series we are looking
at a coaching shake. UP i could see A Michael malone.
(17:03):
THERE i could see, no probably No Taylor, jenkins but
definitely A Michael. Malone that's you don't want to deal with. This.
Tips this has Got Mark Jackson warriors, Right, like let's
find ourselves At Steve carr to take us to a new.
Level it's, physical it's, emotional it's, personal AND i Think
Tobias harris probably wants to keep those soft talk conversations
(17:24):
to himself next. Time, otherwise baby, boy you better. Produce all,
Right we got to get into a little news from
around the. League Number one horrible news out of La Elijah,
arenas who is the son OF nba Legend Gilbert. Arenas
he got into an awful accident last, night well actually
four forty five Am thursday. Morning he was driving one
(17:47):
of them damned cyber, trucks damn hopped a, curb hit
a tree head, on rushed to the hospital in critical.
Condition he was put into a medically induced. Coma there's
a lot of info we don't. Know the reports are
is he inhaled? Smoke he had no other, Injuries that's
why they induced the. COMA i was recently at The
Nike Hoop, summit, though and everybody was talking About elijah
(18:08):
Goh arenas and how much of a bucket he, is
and how weird it was that he wasn't at The Hoop.
Summit i've seen him in person. Before he was the
number one ranked shooting guard in the country and he
did not get. Invited we're gonna obviously update. This the
photos showed the entire front end of The tesla cyber
truck crushed in tough look for The. Tesla so if
(18:30):
initial reports are, correct somebody's looking out for. Him all,
Right moving, on this news is gonna get widespread. Attention
But Will, barton will The, thrill announced his. Retirement he
doesn't get enough. Shine he played eleven years in THE.
Nba he was In, portland starting In, denver came To
portland on a trade no started In, portland went To,
(18:51):
denver actually in the use of nurkic. Trade he finished
top five and Six man of The year voting, twice
went To washington In, toronto and his good by post was,
awesome he, Says, man what a. TIME i. Promise it
was EVERYTHING i dreamed, of plus way. MORE i PRAY
i give others hope and inspired some ups and, Downs
it was all worth it AND i look forward to
(19:12):
the next chapter in my. LIFE i know that because of,
You i'll be. Okay you told me to never give
up and quit. Fighting this is just a long ass, Post.
WILBARTON i thought he was one of the more underrated
players in the. League Damian lillard loved playing with. Them
i'm happy you got to go out on his own
terms and his good, Spirits but, HONESTLY i Thought wilbarton
was already. Retired another piece of. News i'm a little
(19:33):
perplexed about The. Bucks they are now down to zero
on a team that has made many bad roster, decisions
but they just locked up THEIR gm to a multi
year contract. Extension i'm not saying he should have been
fired or should be, fired BUT i am saying right,
now probably not the best time to extend. Him you
know What i'm, Saying because if you can't win With
(19:53):
jannis And, dame and you traded away the guy who
wanted to stay his entire career there And Drew, holliday
who was the reason you got the first, ring All
i'm gonna say is probably shouldn't be. Extended probably shouldn't be.
Extended this team's just not good. Enough trading For Kyle
kuzma didn't make no damn. Sense Aj green doesn't make.
Sense Torrian prince doesn't really make. Sense Kevin Porter junior
(20:14):
doesn't make. Sense this is not a championship. Roster this
is just barely a six seed, roster just a very weird.
Decision Scott, perry LIKE i, said is the NEW gm
of The Sacramento. Kings he has identified the biggest issue
facing The kings in the. Offseason you're gonna love this.
One it's finding a point. Guard despite the fact that
this team has drafted six guards in the past seven
(20:38):
years and had two franchise caliber point guards in Diarreon
fox And Tyrese, haliburton he, says it's no secret we
need a true point guard with the current mixture of,
players and in my, opinion we need more length than
athleticism along the front line if we want to elevate this. Group,
wolf you know what that, means probably some bonus is
(20:59):
gonna be. Traded he's not a true, center he doesn't
protect the. Room the man won't shoot threes anymore nearly
as much as he did in the beginning of his.
Career he's gotten better in the last season or. So
but he is not long and he is not. Athletic
he is, great but he is neither of those. Things
so maybe they give the bag To Kyrie. Irving maybe
(21:21):
they give the bag To. Harden maybe they. LANGUISH i don't,
know maybe they get Tyas jones Or Malcolm. Brock something
has to change, here because that's just a wild fucking,
segment a wild fucking. Statement late breaking. News we've got
a huge upset in The Defensive player of The year
(21:41):
Race Draymond. Green after all of the finaggling and, lobbying
he was minus four fifty to win this. Award he
was minus won sixty the morning the award was, announced
which means he was the. Favorite and then guess what he?
Lost he?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Lost do you believe?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It he? Lost Evan mobley. Won he was plus three point.
Fifty he deserves. It it was a major shock in
the betting. Markets draymond probably will go him on his
segment at some, point probably. DENY i don't know That
draymond didn't deserve, it AND i don't mean to say
That Evan mobley didn't deserve. It But Evan mobley nung
(22:23):
gets a forty five million dollar bonus for a winner
of the. Year the award paid out over the next five.
Years even more, shocking, though Is draymond didn't even finish
second in. Voting he finished third Behind Dyson, Daniels Evan
mobley first two hundred and twenty five, Points daniels, second
one hundred and ninety seven, points, which by the, Way
Dyson daniels is awesome this. Year Draymond green, third Lou dort,
(22:44):
Fourth i'm And thompson fifth good thing good for. Him
draymond's pot is going to be a meltdown must watch this.
Week and that's the. News and that's a wrap for
this episode that he checked will Back tuesday with the
brand new, show so don't miss. It in the, meantime
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