May 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Trysta breaks down the beginning of round 2 of the playoffs, with the Knicks bullying the offensively challenged Celtics and a scathing take on Tatum's first two games. The Pacers head into must win home games, and the Nuggets rest their starters. Trysta also talks about the endearing Odd Couple in Golden State starring Jimmy Butler and Buddy Hield.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of the Heat Check are the second
round of the playoffs better than the first round of
the playoffs? And remember, the first round of the playoffs
already broke all these records in terms of ratings. All
four high seeds lost their game ones at the Crib.
We had two high seeds lose their second game at
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the crib. Pandemonium. So much to talk about, So drop
that motherfucking beat. That should be Rihanna. You're listening to
the Hottest, the Hottest. It'd be a podcast out here.
I said what I said, it's the Heat Check Check.
It's just up crib man. I don't even know how
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to how to begin, Honestly. The last time we recorded
that was Monday afternoon. What happened on Monday, Well, I
don't know. Oh, the New York Knicks overcame a twenty
point deficit against the Boston Celtics, and everybody's like, Trista,
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you didn't say anything about it. It's like, well, I
recorded on Monday afternoon. There are things that have happened
never before in the history of the NBA, and they've
happened now twice. Where do we begin for the first
time ever? All four high Seeds lose their first games
at home, not in just a good old fashioned ass
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whooping kind of way, either in the like blundery kind
of way where you're up twenty and you lose that
game still, or you're up ten with a minute left.
Sixty win teams, both of them, the sixty win teams,
the defending champ Celtics and the Calves not only lose
their game ones, they lose their game twos as well. Thirdly,
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those road dogs won in historic fashion. You've got the
Pacers coming back from seven down thirty eight seconds left.
Then they win for the second time in the playoffs.
The only other playoff team in history to do this
is the Reggie Miller one that I remember that is
what was that comment that she made in indelible in
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my frontal cortex or something, you know what I mean.
That was from the Brett Kavanaugh trial. Indelible in my
hippo campus. That's what that was, indelible in my hippo campus.
That's what that Reggie Miller was. That was when my
mom told me listen, the game's never over, and I
told her it's over. It's over eight points and twenty
seconds or whatever. It was. They're still making documentaries about that.
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By the way, the Knicks came back from twenty down
to the Celtics in the fourth court, not once, but twice.
Not to be denied. The Nuggets came back and beat
the Thunder on a last second Aaron Gordon three in
Game one. That was also on Monday. And it top
it off, the Golden State Warriors beat the Timberwolves in Minnesota.
But they did it without Steph Curry hamstring injury. He's
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not gonna be back for the rest of the game,
and now we don't know what he's gonna be back
because Buddy healed buttered turned into a defensive stopper and
prime Klay Thompson. Let's start with the New York series.
If things keep going the way they are, they're gonna
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the New York Knicks are going to give Kate Cunningham
and Tobias Harris and even Isaiah Stewart championship ring because
that was the game, that was the tune up game.
If the Knicks would have played the Celtics in the
first round, we wouldn't know what this Knicks team was.
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That turn does a turn the Boys to men kind
of a series every smart basketball mind I know is
saying that this Knicks team now is playing a style
of basketball that they did not play it all year
or even in the first round. They got relentlessly bullied
by bigger and stronger teams. Remember it was like that
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that stat that graphic kept coming up. Oh the Knicks
are ozho to twelve against top three seed teams. What
are they? Are they paper tigers? Ever since the Pistons
punched them in the mouth and stole their lunch money,
the Knicks just have transformed themselves. They are bullying the Celtics.
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We've got We've got Karl Anthony Towns terrifying Jason Tatum.
We've got Josh Hart six', Six Josh hart beating up
On Jalen. Brown we've Got Mikhale bridges flat out mantling
man Handling Jaylen brown And Jason. Tatum it's why campaign
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said in the locker room After game, one Thank god For,
Detroit AND i do want to shout out out Og
A nanobi for a second because he made a brilliant
comment that deserves to be expanded, on which is like
some media member was, Like, hey you guys don't have
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any experience, like you guys are just doing. This what
do you guys think about your like quote unquote CHAMPIONSHIP?
Dna and he made a good point without mentioning. Himself
along the, Way Jalen brunson has gone to A Western
conference finals campaign And Michael bridges have gone to the
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finals against The bucks when they played for The. Suns
you've got multiple players including. Himself by the, way Og
ananobi Og ananoby is a champion beat The. Warriors in,
fact in twenty, Nineteen Karl Anthony towns was just in
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The Western Conference. FINALS i think they've got a lot
OF dna of going deep into the. Playoffs, now part
of this is on The, knicks and part of this
is On. BOSTON i think they are partially responsible for these.
Collapses Zach lowe said it best when he, said the
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playoffs expose. You it exposes any weaknesses that you have
that you were able to gloss over in the regular.
Season and we, knew all of us have. Known this
is kind of like what it is for ANY nba,
Team and there's no PERFECT nba. Team you have to
play up to the best of your abilities when it matters.
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Most you can transform yourself from who you were in
the regular, season for good or for. Bad injury bug
is always something you have to look out for and
you gotta get. Lucky but we knew even in the
year that The celtics won the, championship this is a flawed.
Team they're as good as they can be when they're,
really really. Good there may be are as close to
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perfect when they're playing like an orchestra or a. Symphony
but when they're playing like a bunch of, guys they're
just as dumb as anybody. Else AND i watched that
game two, live was watching with the Friend celtics up,
fourteen was seven minutes left to, go and he, said
let me look down on my. Phone this game is.
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Over AND i thought to, myself that's an absurd thing
to say with what we've already seen this. Week and
what we started to see was. Disgusting it was. Gross
what was that? Offense the most glaring thing THAT i,
noticed and we've been noticed about The celtics. Team, man
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they just hate. Twos they really are afraid of a two.
Pointer they don't like if it's not a dunk or a.
Three they are allergic to. It and you have open
lanes right in front of, you and it's, like, No
i'm up, seventeen SO i want to make it. TWENTY
i want to kill. Them so they, go oh and
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thirteen down the. Stretch oh for thirteen down the. Stretch
they're just shooting threes for no fucking reason at. All
it's their default and it's right in the early part
of the shot clock they get their own. Rebound guess,
what they do it. Again they do it. Again This
c's team shot twenty five for a hundred from three
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in the last two. Games they shot sixty fucking threes
in game. One they're averaging fifty threes per game at
a twenty five percent, clip when in, reality all you
have to do is put your head. Down you're, big you're,
broad you're, strong you're, fast and get into these boys's.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Chest drove, out get to the free row, line don't
get to the.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Rim do something other than be soft and shoot. Threes it's.
Gross it's fucking, gross so. Bad it was so bad to.
Watch And i'm not rooting for The, celtics SO i
was loving, it but it was. Disgusting during The knicks
twenty three to six run that began with eight minutes
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and forty seconds left in the fourth prior to my
friends saying the game was, over The celtics took and
missed seven straight. Threes and then we're not talking about
just like, like, oh it's high school women's, basketball and
we passed the ball thirty times before we get up
a good. Shot we got to get an open. Look,
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no we're talking about zero pass, possessions seven, possessions any
of which could have ended with a foul shot or a,
two and that could have been the. Game this is
WHY i don't Like Joe. Missoula and at some point
you have to just, say all, right we're not going
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to do that. Anymore it was clearly not working for.
Us there has to be a PLAN. B and like
things that were working in the first, half he just.
Abandoned and then at the end of the game real
quick BECAUSE i were On Joe, MAZULA i don't Know
i'll go back to, him because why WOULD. I the
goal that he has in these postgame press conferences is,
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like well they just made open. Shots it's, like, WHAT
i will kill. You that's WHO i want to. Say
If i'm in that press. Conference he, said somebody, said
well they made fifty percent of their, threes and he's, like,
yeah what a novel. Concept they're making. BUCKETS i will kill.
You are you? Serious, Anyway boston went over eight minutes
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without a field goal in the fourth. Quarter thirteen consecutive,
shots they missed thirteen of. Them they went five for nineteen.
Shooting that Was Jason. Tatum Jason tatum went five for
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nineteen in the game and he had just thirteen. Points
let me say that, Again Jason, tatum your, GOD a
lot of people's top five player in THE, nba in
a must win game at, home had thirteen points and
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went five for nineteen from the. Field now that is
egregious and. Unacceptable that's. Insane Jason tatum's never going to
beat the. Allegations never These why Did Steve kerr bencham
in The. Olympics now we've got people in the comments section,
saying this is why they Benched Jason tatum in The.
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Olympics the allegations That Jason tatum is More, schamar more
Than Kobe, bryant Baboris kojo. Allegations you know WHAT i,
mean the pretty boy. Allegations i'd rather take a step
back contested three four seconds in the shot. Clock then
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get my head down and get to the line threes
Before dunk's that. Guy he's never beating those. Allegations what
are you, Doing Jason? Tatum this is your. Guy you
can't do that in a crucial have to win a.
Game let's talk about. It game, Two LIKE i, said
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thirteen points five for, nineteen game, one seven for twenty.
Three he's just twelve for forty two in the. Series
they're strapping, him BUT i still think he's gotta do.
More at the end of the, Game tatum did something.
Wild he actually went to the room and he scored
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on a, dunk AND i, said, oh holy, Shit tatum
might actually win this game for The celtics by being
a cane corso versus a kitty, cat no shade a kitty.
Cat but then he decides to go baseline with eleven
seconds down one with the, ball drove into traffic trying
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to fade away in the most gross possible way against mckel,
bridges and mckelbridge snuffed that shot and said, no thank.
You swat that shit game over. Again he shook. MAN
i Saw tatum have multiple lanes open lanes to the.
Rim he Sees Karl anthony towns come in and he
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completely abandons his. Path he Completely he's like, afraid he's
afraid of These. Nicks AND i don't get. It Jayson tatum, Said,
OH i made the wrong. READ i went to a crowded. Area. No,
no you are completely thrown off guard by a team
that everybody said was not built to beat. You and
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it looks like everything That Worldwide west did And Leon
rose did in the, offseason re Signing Og, andnobi Getting
mikal bridges designed to Stop Jaylen brown And Jason tatum is.
Working The knicks are just a better. Team they're just
a mentally stronger. Team and here's the issue from my
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point of, view AND i obviously keep in mind The
celtics are defending. CHAMPS i didn't like this team all.
Year there were a lot of allegations about this team
playing a lot of injured teams last year and outmatched
teams last year like The Dallas mavericks on the road to.
Victory so they wanted to solidify that with the back
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to back and it was, like, okay if you do it,
AGAIN i trust. You but here's what they always. Do
they always GO iso when they're, nervous they always just
forget to play team. BASKETBALL jb AND jt had thirty
TWO iso and thirty points scored in those two, games
eighty one offensive. Raiding can you can you win like? That,
no you cannot win like. That here's another thing they always,
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Do Like i've already said, it obsession with threes twenty
five for one, hundred one hundred threes taken the last two. Games.
Disgusting they don't exploit matchups that work earlier on in the.
Game they literally abandon game plans when they're working. Midgame
blown double digit. Leads this is what they. Do twenty
point lead doesn't, Matter no lead too big for The
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Boston celtics to give. Away tatum disappearing into a. Pumpkin
these are. Trends the fact that they don't have a
real center that they can rely on to be there
on a night to night basis when they Had Rob.
Williams oh, yeah he was always. Hurt christasporzingis he's been.
Hurt Luke, cornett where did he come? From and now he's.
Hurt Al horford he's my, age he's forty years, old
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AND i know the team's banged. UP i don't care
everybody's banged. Up everybody's banged. Up brunston has a lingering ankle,
Issue Mikail bridges is banged. Up campaign can't shoot because
he's banged. Up, Jesus but guess, What Jalen brunson continues
to deliver forty one clutch points in the. Playoffs that
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is almost twice as any other, player and twice as
many as the number two player on the, list which
Is kat twenty one And Tyrese haliburton. Eighteen shout out To.
Kat we Thought kat would be taken out of this
series and he has not. Been and we need to
talk about mckel. BRIDGES i don't actually care if mckel
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bridges is cold and doesn't shoot threes anymore in a playoff.
Setting if what we get from him is this level
of defensive, toughness this level of game changing, plays that's
all you. Need he had fourteen of his, points all
fourteen of his points in the final, quarter and he
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got the game winning block On tatum in the last
few seconds of the. Game andy dominated the end Of
game one in, overtime where he had one, block two,
steals and two. Threes ALL i gotta say for those
who want to. Know fuck those draft. Picks draft picks
can't snatch a. Chain draft picks can't snatch a. Soul
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mostly those are gonna be trash. Picks, Anyway The knicks are.
Good the shortest of the series can go if through
The celtics is now six games at. Best at, BEST
i don't know what you. Do best case scenario For
boston probably seven, games but there's also a chance they
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lose in. FOUR i don't think they, will but that could.
Happen and if it does, Happen Brian winhorst was on
the record today saying The celtics are the most expensive
team in history at five hundred, million and that new
ownership group is probably gonna look to spend a little less.
Money so it is now or never For. Boston if
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you're The New York knicks, dog this is what we.
Wanted how does a team get tougher With Karl Anthony?
Towns how did that? Happen how did you Lose? Julius
random Of god to give a chance to when you
Add Kitty kat and you get. Tougher now you've got
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this bad boy. Attitude it was like they injected some
of that flint water into their, system and they just
got fucking. Gritty you can be looking at An Eastern
conference finals matchup between them and The. PACERS i don't.
Know is it nineteen ninety nine? Again are? We are
we here to See Reggie miller comment on a game
that he put up iconic performances against that, Team and,
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now by the, way he's fanboying for The, knicks which
is absolutely. Insane this time, though with a trick to
the finals on the, Line let's, go, baby let's fucking.
Go moving, on speaking of The, pacers what's. Happening baby's
happening in The. CLEVELAND i don't think you could script
the worst case scenario if you. Tried for, them that
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was just a magical. Season their head coach Gets coach
of The, year sixty, wins best record in all of The,
east Blew miami off the court in the first. Round
they were so ahead of anybody else in The. East
they were resting guys down to stretch of the regular
season to keep them healthy and, fresh and then all
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of a sudden Against, Miami Darius garland did something to
his toe and it's, like, oh that's no, Worries he'll be.
Back they're, like guess, nothing he'll be, back and he
hasn't been. Back he hasn't been back in quite a.
While now four. Games he got a full week off to.
Rest they got a full week off the. Rest but
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life comes at you. Fast game, One indiana was right
for an Upset game. One that's just what it. Was
nobody's thinking about, them nobody's preparing for, him nobody's talking about.
Him the, calves maybe they've got a little rust from
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sitting out a whole. Week pacers are on a high
from the way that they beat The. Bucks pacers win by.
Nine that's what you know The pacers. Do, Anyway game one,
Comes pacers handle business and you think to, yourself maybe
the calves are just rusty from the week. Off but
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During game, one here's where it gets really. Bad DeAndre
hunter dislocates his, Thumb Evan mobley tweaks his, ankle and
then for game, two No, garland NO mobilei No. Hunter
and now you're down oh, one and you really need this,
win and you're without three of your best, players three
of your six top. Players and then that set the
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stage for one of the wildest Finishes i've ever. SEEN
i was watching this with the friend and we turned
it out off because it's like one of those bounce back. Games,
Okay calves don't have their, starters team doesn't prepare for.
Them you don't know who's gonna be, There the game plans,
different and betters know all about. This stars are. Out
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it's huge spread for The, pacers and all of a,
sudden The cavs come out and do the. Unexpected so
they're up twenty in the first, half mostly because Of
Donovan mitchell forty eight, points five, boards nine, assists four,
steals a. Block The pacers seem to have no answer
for him at. All he carried the, team but, man
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he was. Cooked he was so. Cooked in the fourth,
quarter he's still out there driving to the. Paint. Boy oh,
yeah he's banging into his, defenders trying to get to the,
line just throwing his body into whoever to try to
stop the. Comeback and you knew he was cooked because
he missed two free, throws even though he's an eighty
five percent free throw. Shooter but even with all of,
them like The pacers doing what they, Do cleveland looked
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like they were still gonna, survive and even the series
won one up seven forty eight seconds, left and Then
Pascal siakam gets fouled if he got it the foul.
Line missus the. First if you're a cav, fan you're, like, okay.
Missus the, second out of, Nowhere Aaron neiesmith flies in
crazy put back. Dunk probably should have been a flagrant
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Foul Donavan mitchell probably shouldn't have the free throw. Line
but guess, What, no just that one. Stands they call
it an offensive basket, interference but, no they look back
at it and they, say, no it's it was right
there out of the. Cylinder and then the last two
minute report comes out and they, say Oh Nie smith
actually left the three point line, early two steps, early
and that dunk should have been waived and it should
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have Been cavs ball. Instead point. Stands Then mitchell gets
called for an offensive. Foul Aaron neismith again right, there
gets an elbow to the. Face, again should have been
a flagrant, probably but no rest review it just to
reg a offensive. Foul pacers. Ball haliburton, drives gets blocked
By Jared, allen ball goes To, siakam he puts it
back in ah three point, game twenty seven seconds, Left
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cavs trying to. Inbound what are they? DOING i have no.
Idea Max strews throws, it and Then nemar like a
fucking D b picks it. Off that's. Mine halliburton gets
felt on the other, end hits the first two point
game twelve seconds to, go and then and then he
intentionally breaks the second free, throw but in the perfect,
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way not in the like throw it as hard as
you can and it goes wherever. Away it's a, No
i'm gonna hit the front of the, iron so it
goes exactly WHERE i wanted. To he grabs the, rebound
pulls it back behind the, arc and then pretends to
drive step back twenty eight foot three pointer point one
seconds left to. Go game, Baby oh to you we
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go back To, india. Sirs that's. Brutal that was a brutal.
Sequence that was so. Tough, god to be a sixty
win team and be down oh two and your players
are not healthy to try to recover from, that and
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Like Donovan mitchell didn't want to be the guy on
a team by. Himself it's even worse than it was In.
Utah that's. Tough that's really. Bad you're missing three your
top six guys in a swing. Game now you go To.
Indiana talk about a must. Win you need you need
both of. These you need both of. These and that's
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What Donovan mitchell. Said our goal go back to go
To indy and win them. Both but the thing about
must win games is they slip away, sometimes just like
this calf season might if they're not careful out In.
Denver we gotta get, it got it? Again, okay see
up twenty turn the game. Off it was a turn
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the game off night until it. Wasn't not only did
The nuggets beat The, thunder but they came back on
a team that lives to step on your. Neck So i'm, like,
Okay i'm. Done, okay see up double. Digits late in the,
fourth crowd's going, nuts and Then yokic. Hits he hits
two free throws with two forty, left trims it to. Seven,
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Hartenstein hartenstein bricks a. Jumper rus gets back at the.
Line now it's. Six then you Got chet. Missing jokic
does his flip shot, boom four point game one on the,
clock four point Game, okay, okay, okay go To, Shay
go To. Shay he steps into a nineteen foot step.
Back oh, No Shay shae, misses and Then jokic pulls
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up from, Three bang one point, game one minutes left to.
Go shae gets to the, line hits. Two yolkic hits
two his own since now one seventeen one sixteen Thunder
shae throws down a dunk and it's, Like, okay that's.
It one nineteen, one, sixteen ten seconds, Left, okay that's the.
End that's the. End Aaron gordon then gets, foul quick
hits both free. Throws now he's one nineteen one. Eighteen,
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okase he's got the, ball, Though check gets fouled nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Left chet's pretty good free throw. Shooter all he's gotta
do is hit. One all he's gotta do is hit.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
One but he looks. Shaky he misses. Both denver grabs the,
Board Christian brown comes down with, it gets it To.
Rus now you're thinking he's about to put his head
down and, drive but, no he gets it To Aaron.
Gordon chet tries to close out too, Late bang nuggets
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still one one twenty one one. Nineteen, wow what a?
Game what a? Game, also Give Aaron gordon his. Flowers
that man is an important piece to This nuggets. Roster
that's two playoff game winners in a. Row jokic called
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them the greatest teammate, well two in crunch time in a.
Row they beat the shit out of The. Clippers in
that last, Game yokic called them the greatest teammate he's
ever played. With he's also a great. GUY a story
that has not gotten. Covered last Year drew his Brother
drew got passed away in a tragic car crash at
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just thirty three years, old and he left behind two.
Sons So aaron moved to the family To denver so
that he could help raise the, kids and he's even
Raising drew's, son who's older out In New. Mexico he
brought the kids to the postgame presser after the win
and got a Little Go nuggets out of. Them so
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that was just a very heart melting. Stuff solid guy
back to the series, though, okay so he came back.
Angry In game, two they Smacked denver by a, million
dropped AN nba playoff record eighty seven points in the first,
half but it just kind of felt like The nuggets
knew was an. Now they started arresting their starters in
the second Quarter, Shay, Giljess, alexander he knew what was going.
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On he went. Crazy yorgach only played thirty two. Minutes
gordon played twenty seven minutes thirty one For. Murray you
had a seven game series with The. Clippers you already
stole one game on the. Road it's just kind of,
like maybe it's time for our old ass legs to
take it down the dusty road a little, bit put
our ice packs. On but we did get that Efficient shay.
GAME i didn't see much of, it admittedly because that
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game was. Trash but he had thirty, four he was
eleven for thirteen from the, field had eight dimes and
by the, way had the highest plus minus IN nba playoff.
History BUT i don't Think denver was pushing their chips
in for that. One they're now headed home back To.
Denver fifty, three seventy or whatever it is above. Elevation,
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okay see he looks shaky on the road Against, memphis
so who? Knows For game, three couldn't call. IT i
want to, Say, okay see he's got the upper, hand
but listen the. Thunder if you can almost lose twice
to The Memphis, grizzlies anything can fucking. Happen and then moving.
On This Warriors timberwolf series has only had one game
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by the TIME i recorded, this SO i don't have
a lot to go, on BUT i will say. This
here's what we. Know Steph curry out at least a
week do this hamstring. Injury apparently he was in tears
at halftime and afterwards said he'd never felt like anything
in his entire careers like. This so just an insane
bumber for Our. Dubs, Two you've Got Buddy held who
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is now a defensive stopper and Prime Klay thompson and
has Become batman When steph is. Out him And Jimmy
butler are now this odd couple in THE nba who
has provided some levity in a place where there is no,
levity which Is Jimmy. Butler and guess, what and guess,
what and guess. WHAT i Think i'm rooting for Our.
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DUBS i THINK i like this. TEAM i know it seems,
strange like what is there to? Like Kevon looney he's,
Meh Brandon pajemski he's. Meh but, like let's be, HONEST
i Like Jimmy butler AND i like that everyone Hates Jimmy.
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BUTLER i like that every fan base has hated him
so much that he's been slandered and his name has been.
Vilified he was a. Malcontent he was held responsible for
Destroying Miami heat. Culture he's burned every fan base's heart.
Down but guess, What maybe it wasn't. Him maybe he
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just wanted an organization that had some semblance of. Normalcy
Buddy healed is one of the most laughed. At Remember
Jerry west told me he's dumb as a, stump like
he's been butt of all jokes since the time he
got into the. League but somehow, together like a weird stone,
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soup it. Works This Jimmy buddy duo works Because Jimmy,
butler when he got, traded he's a big. Personality he's
an intense. Guy remember what he did To Andrew wiggins
and the fact that they got traded for one another is.
Incredible by the, way we don't talk about that. Enough
remember what he did To Carl Anthony. Towns he's just
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an intense, guy has. Standards but there's something About Buddy
healed and His bahamian accent and his wild antics and
his dumb shit that he, does that just makes This
Jimmy butler vibe becomes something fun and they have become
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the best of, friends foils to each. Other we talked
About Buddy heel torching The rockets thirty three points In game,
seven nine for. Eleven that's not a stat. Line that's
a flamethrower in human, form and that was something that
Even Jimmy butler had to remark. ON i think he's
Made jimmy, likable, lighter and now he's. Smiling they're joking.
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Around did you see did you see the press? Conference jimmy,
Says i'm Still, Robbin steph's Still, batman And buddy is
still who he Is. Alfred, Actually buddy's Not. Alfred he's
the Joker. Jimmy jimmy's got terrible advice on the. BENCH
i tune him out the whole. TIME i Hate. JIMMY
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i hate to Give buddy, compliments So i'm not going To.
Buddy how did how Did buddy play? Tonight he gets
paid a lot of money at a high. Level good for, You,
JIMMY i can't score the. Ball when you cut into my.
Space you're not even a, Cutter you're a. SHOOTER i
remember he was, Like, buddy, heel shouldn't even be like
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dribbling the. Basket don't, Dribble. Buddy and remember he was,
like good game everybody except For. Buddy and Then buddy
came to the game and it had Excluding buddy on his.
Sweatshirt remember when he was, like oh, Fine buddy's, like,
Oh jimmy found his joy. Again he found his joy
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in air quotes And jimmy, goes do you even know
what those are? Called and he goes two. Fingers he's
talking To smack About Gary. Payton buddy heeled this and he's,
like how are you gonna Talk smack About Gary? Payton
you had to change shorts midway through the. Game it's
a comedy. Act Raymond, ritterer who's the head of The
warriors pr considered the best communications guy in all of THE,
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nba said he's never seen chemistry like these two in his.
Life even Without, steph The warriors are proving to be a.
Problem they should have gotten blown out against The Minnesota.
Timberwolves The timberwolves just beat the shit out of The
lakers With luca And. Braun Chris finch said it when he,
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said we gotta treat buddy like He's. STEPH i don't
think you can pay a higher compliment than. That we'll
see What finch can, do because, boy oh, boy if
they do hold down the fort by the Time steph comes,
back this is a team that could go to the.
Finals all, right moving on round the league really. Fast
not a lot, popping Just, braun Just braun doing his,
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thing just hijacking the postseason when he's home on his
couch SAYING i haven't had the conversation with the family
yet as far as me moving forward or whatever the
case may. Be but we'll see what. Happens is there
a chance That lebron. Retires, no he's got another son
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on the way into THE nba that he's gonna fucking
make play for The. Lakers he has a chance also
to play with the Healthy luca for a whole. Year
but he's not taking a, discount so he's always got
the calves in his back pocket if he wants to return.
Home quick side, note also check in On Paul. Pierce
Paul pierce has to walk twenty miles today barefooted in
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his robe because he said if The celtics go down
two to The, knicks he will walk from wherever the
fuck he lives into studio or to the studio Of,
fox so he's still walking probably right. Now that's all
the time that we have for this episode that heat.
Check come Back tuesday for an new, episode and check
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we'll see you next. Time these playoffs have been fire
On this episode of the Heat Check are the second
round of the playoffs better than the first round of
the playoffs? And remember, the first round of the playoffs
already broke all these records in terms of ratings. All
four high seeds lost their game ones at the Crib.
We had two high seeds lose their second game at
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the crib. Pandemonium. So much to talk about, So drop
that motherfucking beat. That should be Rihanna. You're listening to
the Hottest, the Hottest. It'd be a podcast out here.
I said what I said, it's the Heat Check Check.
It's just up crib man. I don't even know how
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to how to begin, Honestly. The last time we recorded
that was Monday afternoon. What happened on Monday, Well, I
don't know. Oh, the New York Knicks overcame a twenty
point deficit against the Boston Celtics, and everybody's like, Trista,
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you didn't say anything about it. It's like, well, I
recorded on Monday afternoon. There are things that have happened
never before in the history of the NBA, and they've
happened now twice. Where do we begin for the first
time ever? All four high Seeds lose their first games
at home, not in just a good old fashioned ass
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whooping kind of way, either in the like blundery kind
of way where you're up twenty and you lose that
game still, or you're up ten with a minute left.
Sixty win teams, both of them, the sixty win teams,
the defending champ Celtics and the Calves not only lose
their game ones, they lose their game twos as well. Thirdly,
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those road dogs won in historic fashion. You've got the
Pacers coming back from seven down thirty eight seconds left.
Then they win for the second time in the playoffs.
The only other playoff team in history to do this
is the Reggie Miller one that I remember that is
what was that comment that she made in indelible in
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my frontal cortex or something, you know what I mean.
That was from the Brett Kavanaugh trial. Indelible in my
hippo campus. That's what that was, indelible in my hippo campus.
That's what that Reggie Miller was. That was when my
mom told me listen, the game's never over, and I
told her it's over. It's over eight points and twenty
seconds or whatever. It was. They're still making documentaries about that.
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By the way, the Knicks came back from twenty down
to the Celtics in the fourth court, not once, but twice.
Not to be denied. The Nuggets came back and beat
the Thunder on a last second Aaron Gordon three in
Game one. That was also on Monday. And it top
it off, the Golden State Warriors beat the Timberwolves in Minnesota.
But they did it without Steph Curry hamstring injury. He's
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not gonna be back for the rest of the game,
and now we don't know what he's gonna be back
because Buddy healed buttered turned into a defensive stopper and
prime Klay Thompson. Let's start with the New York series.
If things keep going the way they are, they're gonna
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the New York Knicks are going to give Kate Cunningham
and Tobias Harris and even Isaiah Stewart championship ring because
that was the game, that was the tune up game.
If the Knicks would have played the Celtics in the
first round, we wouldn't know what this Knicks team was.
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That turn does a turn the Boys to men kind
of a series every smart basketball mind I know is
saying that this Knicks team now is playing a style
of basketball that they did not play it all year
or even in the first round. They got relentlessly bullied
by bigger and stronger teams. Remember it was like that
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that stat that graphic kept coming up. Oh the Knicks
are ozho to twelve against top three seed teams. What
are they? Are they paper tigers? Ever since the Pistons
punched them in the mouth and stole their lunch money,
the Knicks just have transformed themselves. They are bullying the Celtics.
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We've got We've got Karl Anthony Towns terrifying Jason Tatum.
We've got Josh Hart six', Six Josh hart beating up
On Jalen. Brown we've Got Mikhale bridges flat out mantling
man Handling Jaylen brown And Jason. Tatum it's why campaign
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said in the locker room After game, one Thank god For,
Detroit AND i do want to shout out out Og
A nanobi for a second because he made a brilliant
comment that deserves to be expanded, on which is like
some media member was, Like, hey you guys don't have
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any experience, like you guys are just doing. This what
do you guys think about your like quote unquote CHAMPIONSHIP?
Dna and he made a good point without mentioning. Himself
along the, Way Jalen brunson has gone to A Western
conference finals campaign And Michael bridges have gone to the
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finals against The bucks when they played for The. Suns
you've got multiple players including. Himself by the, way Og
ananobi Og ananoby is a champion beat The. Warriors in,
fact in twenty, Nineteen Karl Anthony towns was just in
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The Western Conference. FINALS i think they've got a lot
OF dna of going deep into the. Playoffs, now part
of this is on The, knicks and part of this
is On. BOSTON i think they are partially responsible for these.
Collapses Zach lowe said it best when he, said the
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playoffs expose. You it exposes any weaknesses that you have
that you were able to gloss over in the regular.
Season and we, knew all of us have. Known this
is kind of like what it is for ANY nba,
Team and there's no PERFECT nba. Team you have to
play up to the best of your abilities when it matters.
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Most you can transform yourself from who you were in
the regular, season for good or for. Bad injury bug
is always something you have to look out for and
you gotta get. Lucky but we knew even in the
year that The celtics won the, championship this is a flawed.
Team they're as good as they can be when they're,
really really. Good there may be are as close to
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perfect when they're playing like an orchestra or a. Symphony
but when they're playing like a bunch of, guys they're
just as dumb as anybody. Else AND i watched that
game two, live was watching with the Friend celtics up,
fourteen was seven minutes left to, go and he, said
let me look down on my. Phone this game is.
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Over AND i thought to, myself that's an absurd thing
to say with what we've already seen this. Week and
what we started to see was. Disgusting it was. Gross
what was that? Offense the most glaring thing THAT i,
noticed and we've been noticed about The celtics. Team, man
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they just hate. Twos they really are afraid of a two.
Pointer they don't like if it's not a dunk or a.
Three they are allergic to. It and you have open
lanes right in front of, you and it's, like, No
i'm up, seventeen SO i want to make it. TWENTY
i want to kill. Them so they, go oh and
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thirteen down the. Stretch oh for thirteen down the. Stretch
they're just shooting threes for no fucking reason at. All
it's their default and it's right in the early part
of the shot clock they get their own. Rebound guess,
what they do it. Again they do it. Again This
c's team shot twenty five for a hundred from three
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in the last two. Games they shot sixty fucking threes
in game. One they're averaging fifty threes per game at
a twenty five percent, clip when in, reality all you
have to do is put your head. Down you're, big you're,
broad you're, strong you're, fast and get into these boys's.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Chest drove, out get to the free row, line don't
get to the.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Rim do something other than be soft and shoot. Threes it's.
Gross it's fucking, gross so. Bad it was so bad to.
Watch And i'm not rooting for The, celtics SO i
was loving, it but it was. Disgusting during The knicks
twenty three to six run that began with eight minutes
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and forty seconds left in the fourth prior to my
friends saying the game was, over The celtics took and
missed seven straight. Threes and then we're not talking about
just like, like, oh it's high school women's, basketball and
we passed the ball thirty times before we get up
a good. Shot we got to get an open. Look,
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no we're talking about zero pass, possessions seven, possessions any
of which could have ended with a foul shot or a,
two and that could have been the. Game this is
WHY i don't Like Joe. Missoula and at some point
you have to just, say all, right we're not going
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to do that. Anymore it was clearly not working for.
Us there has to be a PLAN. B and like
things that were working in the first, half he just.
Abandoned and then at the end of the game real
quick BECAUSE i were On Joe, MAZULA i don't Know
i'll go back to, him because why WOULD. I the
goal that he has in these postgame press conferences is,
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like well they just made open. Shots it's, like, WHAT
i will kill. You that's WHO i want to. Say
If i'm in that press. Conference he, said somebody, said
well they made fifty percent of their, threes and he's, like,
yeah what a novel. Concept they're making. BUCKETS i will kill.
You are you? Serious, Anyway boston went over eight minutes
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without a field goal in the fourth. Quarter thirteen consecutive,
shots they missed thirteen of. Them they went five for nineteen.
Shooting that Was Jason. Tatum Jason tatum went five for
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nineteen in the game and he had just thirteen. Points
let me say that, Again Jason, tatum your, GOD a
lot of people's top five player in THE, nba in
a must win game at, home had thirteen points and
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went five for nineteen from the. Field now that is
egregious and. Unacceptable that's. Insane Jason tatum's never going to
beat the. Allegations never These why Did Steve kerr bencham
in The. Olympics now we've got people in the comments section,
saying this is why they Benched Jason tatum in The.
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Olympics the allegations That Jason tatum is More, schamar more
Than Kobe, bryant Baboris kojo. Allegations you know WHAT i,
mean the pretty boy. Allegations i'd rather take a step
back contested three four seconds in the shot. Clock then
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get my head down and get to the line threes
Before dunk's that. Guy he's never beating those. Allegations what
are you, Doing Jason? Tatum this is your. Guy you
can't do that in a crucial have to win a.
Game let's talk about. It game, Two LIKE i, said
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thirteen points five for, nineteen game, one seven for twenty.
Three he's just twelve for forty two in the. Series
they're strapping, him BUT i still think he's gotta do.
More at the end of the, Game tatum did something.
Wild he actually went to the room and he scored
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on a, dunk AND i, said, oh holy, Shit tatum
might actually win this game for The celtics by being
a cane corso versus a kitty, cat no shade a kitty.
Cat but then he decides to go baseline with eleven
seconds down one with the, ball drove into traffic trying
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to fade away in the most gross possible way against mckel,
bridges and mckelbridge snuffed that shot and said, no thank.
You swat that shit game over. Again he shook. MAN
i Saw tatum have multiple lanes open lanes to the.
Rim he Sees Karl anthony towns come in and he
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completely abandons his. Path he Completely he's like, afraid he's
afraid of These. Nicks AND i don't get. It Jayson tatum, Said,
OH i made the wrong. READ i went to a crowded. Area. No,
no you are completely thrown off guard by a team
that everybody said was not built to beat. You and
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it looks like everything That Worldwide west did And Leon
rose did in the, offseason re Signing Og, andnobi Getting
mikal bridges designed to Stop Jaylen brown And Jason tatum is.
Working The knicks are just a better. Team they're just
a mentally stronger. Team and here's the issue from my
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point of, view AND i obviously keep in mind The
celtics are defending. CHAMPS i didn't like this team all.
Year there were a lot of allegations about this team
playing a lot of injured teams last year and outmatched
teams last year like The Dallas mavericks on the road to.
Victory so they wanted to solidify that with the back
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to back and it was, like, okay if you do it,
AGAIN i trust. You but here's what they always. Do
they always GO iso when they're, nervous they always just
forget to play team. BASKETBALL jb AND jt had thirty
TWO iso and thirty points scored in those two, games
eighty one offensive. Raiding can you can you win like? That,
no you cannot win like. That here's another thing they always,
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Do Like i've already said, it obsession with threes twenty
five for one, hundred one hundred threes taken the last two. Games.
Disgusting they don't exploit matchups that work earlier on in the.
Game they literally abandon game plans when they're working. Midgame
blown double digit. Leads this is what they. Do twenty
point lead doesn't, Matter no lead too big for The
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Boston celtics to give. Away tatum disappearing into a. Pumpkin
these are. Trends the fact that they don't have a
real center that they can rely on to be there
on a night to night basis when they Had Rob.
Williams oh, yeah he was always. Hurt christasporzingis he's been.
Hurt Luke, cornett where did he come? From and now he's.
Hurt Al horford he's my, age he's forty years, old
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AND i know the team's banged. UP i don't care
everybody's banged. Up everybody's banged. Up brunston has a lingering ankle,
Issue Mikail bridges is banged. Up campaign can't shoot because
he's banged. Up, Jesus but guess, What Jalen brunson continues
to deliver forty one clutch points in the. Playoffs that
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is almost twice as any other, player and twice as
many as the number two player on the, list which
Is kat twenty one And Tyrese haliburton. Eighteen shout out To.
Kat we Thought kat would be taken out of this
series and he has not. Been and we need to
talk about mckel. BRIDGES i don't actually care if mckel
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bridges is cold and doesn't shoot threes anymore in a playoff.
Setting if what we get from him is this level
of defensive, toughness this level of game changing, plays that's
all you. Need he had fourteen of his, points all
fourteen of his points in the final, quarter and he
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got the game winning block On tatum in the last
few seconds of the. Game andy dominated the end Of
game one in, overtime where he had one, block two,
steals and two. Threes ALL i gotta say for those
who want to. Know fuck those draft. Picks draft picks
can't snatch a. Chain draft picks can't snatch a. Soul
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mostly those are gonna be trash. Picks, Anyway The knicks are.
Good the shortest of the series can go if through
The celtics is now six games at. Best at, BEST
i don't know what you. Do best case scenario For
boston probably seven, games but there's also a chance they
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lose in. FOUR i don't think they, will but that could.
Happen and if it does, Happen Brian winhorst was on
the record today saying The celtics are the most expensive
team in history at five hundred, million and that new
ownership group is probably gonna look to spend a little less.
Money so it is now or never For. Boston if
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you're The New York knicks, dog this is what we.
Wanted how does a team get tougher With Karl Anthony?
Towns how did that? Happen how did you Lose? Julius
random Of god to give a chance to when you
Add Kitty kat and you get. Tougher now you've got
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this bad boy. Attitude it was like they injected some
of that flint water into their, system and they just
got fucking. Gritty you can be looking at An Eastern
conference finals matchup between them and The. PACERS i don't.
Know is it nineteen ninety nine? Again are? We are
we here to See Reggie miller comment on a game
that he put up iconic performances against that, Team and,
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now by the, way he's fanboying for The, knicks which
is absolutely. Insane this time, though with a trick to
the finals on the, Line let's, go, baby let's fucking.
Go moving, on speaking of The, pacers what's. Happening baby's
happening in The. CLEVELAND i don't think you could script
the worst case scenario if you. Tried for, them that
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was just a magical. Season their head coach Gets coach
of The, year sixty, wins best record in all of The,
east Blew miami off the court in the first. Round
they were so ahead of anybody else in The. East
they were resting guys down to stretch of the regular
season to keep them healthy and, fresh and then all
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of a sudden Against, Miami Darius garland did something to
his toe and it's, like, oh that's no, Worries he'll be.
Back they're, like guess, nothing he'll be, back and he
hasn't been. Back he hasn't been back in quite a.
While now four. Games he got a full week off to.
Rest they got a full week off the. Rest but
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life comes at you. Fast game, One indiana was right
for an Upset game. One that's just what it. Was
nobody's thinking about, them nobody's preparing for, him nobody's talking about.
Him the, calves maybe they've got a little rust from
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sitting out a whole. Week pacers are on a high
from the way that they beat The. Bucks pacers win by.
Nine that's what you know The pacers. Do, Anyway game one,
Comes pacers handle business and you think to, yourself maybe
the calves are just rusty from the week. Off but
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During game, one here's where it gets really. Bad DeAndre
hunter dislocates his, Thumb Evan mobley tweaks his, ankle and
then for game, two No, garland NO mobilei No. Hunter
and now you're down oh, one and you really need this,
win and you're without three of your best, players three
of your six top. Players and then that set the
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stage for one of the wildest Finishes i've ever. SEEN
i was watching this with the friend and we turned
it out off because it's like one of those bounce back. Games,
Okay calves don't have their, starters team doesn't prepare for.
Them you don't know who's gonna be, There the game plans,
different and betters know all about. This stars are. Out
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it's huge spread for The, pacers and all of a,
sudden The cavs come out and do the. Unexpected so
they're up twenty in the first, half mostly because Of
Donovan mitchell forty eight, points five, boards nine, assists four,
steals a. Block The pacers seem to have no answer
for him at. All he carried the, team but, man
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he was. Cooked he was so. Cooked in the fourth,
quarter he's still out there driving to the. Paint. Boy oh,
yeah he's banging into his, defenders trying to get to the,
line just throwing his body into whoever to try to
stop the. Comeback and you knew he was cooked because
he missed two free, throws even though he's an eighty
five percent free throw. Shooter but even with all of,
them like The pacers doing what they, Do cleveland looked
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like they were still gonna, survive and even the series
won one up seven forty eight seconds, left and Then
Pascal siakam gets fouled if he got it the foul.
Line missus the. First if you're a cav, fan you're, like, okay.
Missus the, second out of, Nowhere Aaron neiesmith flies in
crazy put back. Dunk probably should have been a flagrant
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Foul Donavan mitchell probably shouldn't have the free throw. Line
but guess, What, no just that one. Stands they call
it an offensive basket, interference but, no they look back
at it and they, say, no it's it was right
there out of the. Cylinder and then the last two
minute report comes out and they, say Oh Nie smith
actually left the three point line, early two steps, early
and that dunk should have been waived and it should
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have Been cavs ball. Instead point. Stands Then mitchell gets
called for an offensive. Foul Aaron neismith again right, there
gets an elbow to the. Face, again should have been
a flagrant, probably but no rest review it just to
reg a offensive. Foul pacers. Ball haliburton, drives gets blocked
By Jared, allen ball goes To, siakam he puts it
back in ah three point, game twenty seven seconds, Left
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cavs trying to. Inbound what are they? DOING i have no.
Idea Max strews throws, it and Then nemar like a
fucking D b picks it. Off that's. Mine halliburton gets
felt on the other, end hits the first two point
game twelve seconds to, go and then and then he
intentionally breaks the second free, throw but in the perfect,
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way not in the like throw it as hard as
you can and it goes wherever. Away it's a, No
i'm gonna hit the front of the, iron so it
goes exactly WHERE i wanted. To he grabs the, rebound
pulls it back behind the, arc and then pretends to
drive step back twenty eight foot three pointer point one
seconds left to. Go game, Baby oh to you we
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go back To, india. Sirs that's. Brutal that was a brutal.
Sequence that was so. Tough, god to be a sixty
win team and be down oh two and your players
are not healthy to try to recover from, that and
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Like Donovan mitchell didn't want to be the guy on
a team by. Himself it's even worse than it was In.
Utah that's. Tough that's really. Bad you're missing three your
top six guys in a swing. Game now you go To.
Indiana talk about a must. Win you need you need
both of. These you need both of. These and that's
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What Donovan mitchell. Said our goal go back to go
To indy and win them. Both but the thing about
must win games is they slip away, sometimes just like
this calf season might if they're not careful out In.
Denver we gotta get, it got it? Again, okay see
up twenty turn the game. Off it was a turn
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the game off night until it. Wasn't not only did
The nuggets beat The, thunder but they came back on
a team that lives to step on your. Neck So i'm, like,
Okay i'm. Done, okay see up double. Digits late in the,
fourth crowd's going, nuts and Then yokic. Hits he hits
two free throws with two forty, left trims it to. Seven,
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Hartenstein hartenstein bricks a. Jumper rus gets back at the.
Line now it's. Six then you Got chet. Missing jokic
does his flip shot, boom four point game one on the,
clock four point Game, okay, okay, okay go To, Shay
go To. Shay he steps into a nineteen foot step.
Back oh, No Shay shae, misses and Then jokic pulls
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up from, Three bang one point, game one minutes left to.
Go shae gets to the, line hits. Two yolkic hits
two his own since now one seventeen one sixteen Thunder
shae throws down a dunk and it's, Like, okay that's.
It one nineteen, one, sixteen ten seconds, Left, okay that's the.
End that's the. End Aaron gordon then gets, foul quick
hits both free. Throws now he's one nineteen one. Eighteen,
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okase he's got the, ball, Though check gets fouled nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Left chet's pretty good free throw. Shooter all he's gotta
do is hit. One all he's gotta do is hit.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
One but he looks. Shaky he misses. Both denver grabs the,
Board Christian brown comes down with, it gets it To.
Rus now you're thinking he's about to put his head
down and, drive but, no he gets it To Aaron.
Gordon chet tries to close out too, Late bang nuggets
(26:39):
still one one twenty one one. Nineteen, wow what a?
Game what a? Game, also Give Aaron gordon his. Flowers
that man is an important piece to This nuggets. Roster
that's two playoff game winners in a. Row jokic called
(27:02):
them the greatest teammate, well two in crunch time in a.
Row they beat the shit out of The. Clippers in
that last, Game yokic called them the greatest teammate he's
ever played. With he's also a great. GUY a story
that has not gotten. Covered last Year drew his Brother
drew got passed away in a tragic car crash at
(27:23):
just thirty three years, old and he left behind two.
Sons So aaron moved to the family To denver so
that he could help raise the, kids and he's even
Raising drew's, son who's older out In New. Mexico he
brought the kids to the postgame presser after the win
and got a Little Go nuggets out of. Them so
(27:44):
that was just a very heart melting. Stuff solid guy
back to the series, though, okay so he came back.
Angry In game, two they Smacked denver by a, million
dropped AN nba playoff record eighty seven points in the first,
half but it just kind of felt like The nuggets
knew was an. Now they started arresting their starters in
the second Quarter, Shay, Giljess, alexander he knew what was going.
(28:06):
On he went. Crazy yorgach only played thirty two. Minutes
gordon played twenty seven minutes thirty one For. Murray you
had a seven game series with The. Clippers you already
stole one game on the. Road it's just kind of,
like maybe it's time for our old ass legs to
take it down the dusty road a little, bit put
our ice packs. On but we did get that Efficient shay.
GAME i didn't see much of, it admittedly because that
(28:29):
game was. Trash but he had thirty, four he was
eleven for thirteen from the, field had eight dimes and
by the, way had the highest plus minus IN nba playoff.
History BUT i don't Think denver was pushing their chips
in for that. One they're now headed home back To.
Denver fifty, three seventy or whatever it is above. Elevation,
(28:52):
okay see he looks shaky on the road Against, memphis
so who? Knows For game, three couldn't call. IT i
want to, Say, okay see he's got the upper, hand
but listen the. Thunder if you can almost lose twice
to The Memphis, grizzlies anything can fucking. Happen and then moving.
On This Warriors timberwolf series has only had one game
(29:13):
by the TIME i recorded, this SO i don't have
a lot to go, on BUT i will say. This
here's what we. Know Steph curry out at least a
week do this hamstring. Injury apparently he was in tears
at halftime and afterwards said he'd never felt like anything
in his entire careers like. This so just an insane
bumber for Our. Dubs, Two you've Got Buddy held who
(29:37):
is now a defensive stopper and Prime Klay thompson and
has Become batman When steph is. Out him And Jimmy
butler are now this odd couple in THE nba who
has provided some levity in a place where there is no,
levity which Is Jimmy. Butler and guess, what and guess,
what and guess. WHAT i Think i'm rooting for Our.
(30:00):
DUBS i THINK i like this. TEAM i know it seems,
strange like what is there to? Like Kevon looney he's,
Meh Brandon pajemski he's. Meh but, like let's be, HONEST
i Like Jimmy butler AND i like that everyone Hates Jimmy.
(30:21):
BUTLER i like that every fan base has hated him
so much that he's been slandered and his name has been.
Vilified he was a. Malcontent he was held responsible for
Destroying Miami heat. Culture he's burned every fan base's heart.
Down but guess, What maybe it wasn't. Him maybe he
(30:45):
just wanted an organization that had some semblance of. Normalcy
Buddy healed is one of the most laughed. At Remember
Jerry west told me he's dumb as a, stump like
he's been butt of all jokes since the time he
got into the. League but somehow, together like a weird stone,
(31:09):
soup it. Works This Jimmy buddy duo works Because Jimmy,
butler when he got, traded he's a big. Personality he's
an intense. Guy remember what he did To Andrew wiggins
and the fact that they got traded for one another is.
Incredible by the, way we don't talk about that. Enough
remember what he did To Carl Anthony. Towns he's just
(31:31):
an intense, guy has. Standards but there's something About Buddy
healed and His bahamian accent and his wild antics and
his dumb shit that he, does that just makes This
Jimmy butler vibe becomes something fun and they have become
(31:51):
the best of, friends foils to each. Other we talked
About Buddy heel torching The rockets thirty three points In game,
seven nine for. Eleven that's not a stat. Line that's
a flamethrower in human, form and that was something that
Even Jimmy butler had to remark. ON i think he's
Made jimmy, likable, lighter and now he's. Smiling they're joking.
(32:16):
Around did you see did you see the press? Conference jimmy,
Says i'm Still, Robbin steph's Still, batman And buddy is
still who he Is. Alfred, Actually buddy's Not. Alfred he's
the Joker. Jimmy jimmy's got terrible advice on the. BENCH
i tune him out the whole. TIME i Hate. JIMMY
(32:37):
i hate to Give buddy, compliments So i'm not going To.
Buddy how did how Did buddy play? Tonight he gets
paid a lot of money at a high. Level good for, You,
JIMMY i can't score the. Ball when you cut into my.
Space you're not even a, Cutter you're a. SHOOTER i
remember he was, Like, buddy, heel shouldn't even be like
(32:59):
dribbling the. Basket don't, Dribble. Buddy and remember he was,
like good game everybody except For. Buddy and Then buddy
came to the game and it had Excluding buddy on his.
Sweatshirt remember when he was, like oh, Fine buddy's, like,
Oh jimmy found his joy. Again he found his joy
(33:20):
in air quotes And jimmy, goes do you even know
what those are? Called and he goes two. Fingers he's
talking To smack About Gary. Payton buddy heeled this and he's,
like how are you gonna Talk smack About Gary? Payton
you had to change shorts midway through the. Game it's
a comedy. Act Raymond, ritterer who's the head of The
warriors pr considered the best communications guy in all of THE,
(33:41):
nba said he's never seen chemistry like these two in his.
Life even Without, steph The warriors are proving to be a.
Problem they should have gotten blown out against The Minnesota.
Timberwolves The timberwolves just beat the shit out of The
lakers With luca And. Braun Chris finch said it when he,
(34:02):
said we gotta treat buddy like He's. STEPH i don't
think you can pay a higher compliment than. That we'll
see What finch can, do because, boy oh, boy if
they do hold down the fort by the Time steph comes,
back this is a team that could go to the.
Finals all, right moving on round the league really. Fast
not a lot, popping Just, braun Just braun doing his,
(34:24):
thing just hijacking the postseason when he's home on his
couch SAYING i haven't had the conversation with the family
yet as far as me moving forward or whatever the
case may. Be but we'll see what. Happens is there
a chance That lebron. Retires, no he's got another son
(34:44):
on the way into THE nba that he's gonna fucking
make play for The. Lakers he has a chance also
to play with the Healthy luca for a whole. Year
but he's not taking a, discount so he's always got
the calves in his back pocket if he wants to return.
Home quick side, note also check in On Paul. Pierce
Paul pierce has to walk twenty miles today barefooted in
(35:05):
his robe because he said if The celtics go down
two to The, knicks he will walk from wherever the
fuck he lives into studio or to the studio Of,
fox so he's still walking probably right. Now that's all
the time that we have for this episode that heat.
Check come Back tuesday for an new, episode and check
out the feed for past episodes and occasional mini episodes
which might come at you Like Buddy healed in the.
(35:27):
Playoffs do not forget to follow the heat check all playoffs.
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