January 17, 2025 • 15 mins
Trysta recaps a fun week of hoops from the airport and what a week it was. The Thunder more than made up for losing in Cleveland. The Kings are now 8-2 with Doug Christie after a great win over Houston. Jimmy Butler is slated to return to the Heat... maybe.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
On this episode of the Heat Check with Checking from
the Road folks. Okay, see in Cleveland we get Part
DWA battle of the Heavyweights, and I'm just gonna say
this right now, I did not meet expectations. It was
not like the ethical back and forth basketball we saw
in Part Ooh No Sacramento in Houston in a battle
of some of the hottest teams in the West. Chicago
(00:33):
continues to be a mediocre shit show. Tell us how
you really feel and we'll get into the latest Jimmy
Butler drama. Anthony dropped that motherfucking beat for should be
(00:56):
all right? Coming to you from Atlanta. I am here
for the College Football Championship Ohio State versus notre game.
Meta brought me big shout out to Meta. We're getting
some awesome Lower Bowl tickets media passes, so keep an
eye on media day. Gonna be asking some funny questions
that the players and coaches. But I have to give
(01:18):
you a podcast. I'm trying my very best in the
middle of a very tumultuous time. I promise it will
get easier. But the much bally ho match rematch between
the Okac Thunder and the Cleveland Cavaliers who are the
top two teams in the NBA was pretty much the
exact opposite of the recent game between the two, which
(01:40):
was one of the best games probably for the year.
It was okay, see with no Isaiah Hartenstein, it was
okayc taking belt to ass beating them up. The score
doesn't even show you how much of an ass whooping.
It was. One thirty four, one fourteen. It was never close.
Uh and the Thunder at one point were up seventy
(02:02):
five to forty nine at halftime on pace for one
hundred and fifty point game. Had a fifty point lead
at one point. That's insane, Shay, how'd he do? Just
typical MVP stuff forty points seventeen for twenty one ethical
efficient hoops not counting three pointers. He was unstoppable. In
(02:24):
other words, he was like Lebron when he was sixteen
years old playing up against MJ If you know, you
know Shay had two steals, Jalen Williams with know why
had three, and as a team they had twelve steals.
So what changed? Okay, So he did not have Isaiah Hartenstein,
which I thought was actually gonna be a bad thing,
(02:46):
and he said to miss several games with the soliest injury,
especially considering the fact that Jared Allen and Evan Mobley
both played and they were largely shut down. Who was
in the game that was not in the game in
part one Alex Cruz, so that's too plus nineteen in
fourteen minutes. He didn't play in game one. But the
(03:08):
story of the game was of the fact that the
Cavs had twenty one turnovers and the Thunder only had six.
What do we take away from this? I don't know.
I'd like a finals match between these two. For seven games.
A lot of Calves fans have hit the near panic button. Again,
that's a shame. I think that's a shame. This team's
really fucking good. They just beat the Thunder last week. Okay,
(03:30):
Kenny Atkinson was not pressed, even though he took a
tech early to try and rally the troops. Sometimes you
just get your ass what folks, That's just the way
it goes, you know, And that's they got to put.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
And that is what happened here. Calves rolled into OKAC
and got bundled up. Simple as that. Lick your wounds
(03:52):
and try try again. Moving on, Houston is hottest fish
grease right now, seven and three in their previous ten
before playing Sacramento, who's also seven to three in their
last ten. Rockets right now twenty seven to twelve, probably
about as big of a surprise as any team in
the West. They're definitely less surprising than Detroit, but the
(04:16):
fact that they're atop the West is more surprising than
Detroit being five hundred basketball team. They're holding down the
two seed. That's shocking. They have a two game cushion
over Memphis. What is this Western Conference standings? Eme Udoka
has done the same thing that he did in Boston,
bringing out a very very good defense. They have the
(04:36):
third best defensive rating in the NBA at one oh
seven point five, which is shocking considering that Jalen Green
plays a lot of minutes on this team and he
is a cone. While they have had trouble shooting for
pretty much most of the season, can't knock down a
damn shot, especially from three, I think they might have
solved the issue in house because Jalen Green has arrived.
(05:00):
He is averaging twenty eight four and three in his
last ten games. Think about that for a second. Twenty eight,
four and three. And then let's go into the shooting
splits fifty percent from the field, forty six percent from
three that is scorching hot, and ninety one percent from
(05:20):
the free throw line. He's shooting nearly fifty percent from three,
and he's taking almost ten attempts per game, which is
what the Rockets need. They need some shooting. They could
use ten threes a game shooting at fifty percent clip
from anyone. The best thing, the coolest thing is that
(05:43):
Jalen Green only has one and a half turnovers per game.
I think Jalen Green is putting up all star numbers.
Got a little spice in him too. I don't know
if he saw this, but it was hilarious. So he
went back and forth. Jalen Green did with Russell Westbrook
after a hard foul uh the other day when they
played Denver and uh Russ was so stunned. He turned
(06:08):
to e may Udoka and was like, why is he
talking to me like that? That kid played on my
AAU team. And the entire Rockets coaching staff just erupted
into laughter. They lost it. Making e may Udoka laugh
is one of the toughest things to do probably in
the league, like not exactly the most haha kind of guy.
(06:30):
If you talk to him ever, you're just like, whoa,
why so serious? But the fascinating thing is that they
ran into another hot team in the West, Sacramento Kings.
And we talked about the Kings last week, so I
look back and listen at that. But this was a
serious test for Doug Christy, and they came out of
the blocks fast. They took a lead sixty one to
(06:52):
fifty two at halftime, and they ended up after allowing
the Houston Rockets to come back and actually take the lead,
didn't let them score again, one thirty two, one twenty
seven win over Houston. It was an outstanding game. Houston
roared back in the fourth quarter and this resilient Kings
(07:15):
team just closed him out late. All the King starters
had eighteen or more points. DeRozan at thirty two, Malik
Monk at twenty eight, Domos dominated Alpura and Shngoon who
was a negative twenty one net rating, and Sibot this
was a plus sixteen, and Fox he had a bad
shooting night six or seventeen, but he made up for
(07:36):
it four steals against the team that's top ten in
giving up the least amount of steals per game. Houston
once again led by Jalen Green, who put up twenty
eight five and four four turnovers for him. So the
Kings defensively are starting to turn up the heat. Just
a fun game. Warm me up on that beam, baby,
(07:56):
It's nice to see Sacramento back at five hundred. Is
insane after after twelve games? Do you think that we
would have believed the first twelve games of the season
that the Sacramento Kings would have a better record than
the Golden State Warriors. Say it ain't so, Say it
ain't so. Doug Christy is now eight and two this
(08:20):
year as the King's coach, and things are finally looking
sunny in Sacramento all right. Time to checking on a
little news from around the league. Out in Chicago, I
posted something on Threads that I didn't want to do,
but I had to do to this full Bulls fan base.
This year, the Bulls are eighteen and twenty two right now.
(08:40):
Last year, at the exact same point, the Bulls were
eighteen and twenty two. In twenty two twenty three forty
games in the Bulls were nineteen and twenty one consistent
at least very very consistent. Folks. I have said this
shit a million times. You can't be a five hundred
(09:00):
team and sustain that without being in the purgatory of
the NBA franchise you are. This is not good enough
to get seating in the playoffs. You're in the playing tournament,
too good to get a good draft pick in a
historic draft. You cannot rebuild a franchise like that, drafting
fifteenth every year. You can't. And the Bulls are now
(09:23):
three years overdue for blowing up the whole fucking ship.
And I keep telling them, you fucking stink okay, and
your fans aren't happy and your players aren't happy, so
you need to fucking let it go. Let it go,
Let it go, like everyone's gotta go, Zach Colvine's gotta go,
Lucivic's gotta go. Let Josh Giddy's ass go to some
other team. Don't give him his money. Build around Matas Bozellis.
(09:47):
I don't give a fuck. Stop being mediocre. And now
the Bulls insane to not tank like Brooklyn in Utah.
This draft is too deep, too stacked not to take
a run a top three pick. I mean, Utah is
running out some of the most egregious lineups. We've got
Sean Marx and Bobby Marx being like, hey, no relation. Hey,
(10:10):
We're probably not gonna win many games. We're probably not
gonna put out the best rosters. The rosters we're putting
out are rosters that are gonna lose. We want Cooper Flag, Bulls.
You should be won in Cooper Flag. They have Matas
Boselli's nice piece, slowly acclimating to the league. Don't even
need to give you a stat line. Lonzo ball nice
(10:31):
story this season, but these wins, these wins are not
even using players you want around Trade Zach. One player
that nobody can figure out Patrick Williams averaging nine to
four and two. He's a lottery pick, very disappointing season.
He's shooting thirty eight percent from the field, which is
(10:53):
one of the worst marks in the entire league. Can't
figure out why he's been so bad, As a Tribune said,
they said, admit another losing season for the Bulls. Wow.
The wing often fades out of focus by the final buzzer.
Patrick Williams often struggles to score in double digits, often
gets out rebounded by guards, given the fact that he's
(11:14):
sixty to seven with a seven feet wingspan, never leaves
the team in any meaningful statistic night in and night out.
His minutes on the court only stir up increasingly frantic questions.
How does it take five years for the number four
pick to record double doubles? How can a six to
seven wing finish a game without a single rebound? What
is it going to take to find his confidence again?
(11:35):
What the hell is going on with him? This is
not my quote. Williams meets most questions this season with
mirrored confusion. I don't really have an answer for it.
Jesus Christ, move that man to some place like Okac
where they can develop him and he will become Jalen Williams.
I think they still have time to sink the ship.
(11:57):
Think about it. Best case scenario of forty wins. Best
case another ten to fifteen pick in the draft. That
is unacceptable. I think they owe their draft pick to
somebody too, depending on where it's lottery protected. Ooh, anyway,
they stink. They are doomed for basketball purgatory. Even if
(12:19):
they were to draft in the top five, do we
think really they would do anything good with it? Not
me quick check. Though. We're moving on on Miami, where
shit has gotten really bad. The Heat are thinking about
changing the designation of the suspension for Jimmy Butler too,
refusing to provide services. Why because it means they can
(12:41):
ream the pull up Jimmy's asshole even further by doubling
the fines. Yes, that's the way to calm Jimmy Butler down.
That's the way to get him to come back to work.
The wildest thing is Jimmy's fighting back, well, at least
his agent is. A few days ago, his camp said
that his displeasure in Miami occurred when they signed Thomas
(13:04):
Bryant and Josh Richardson in State of Dame or Beale.
Then on Wednesday, it was leaked that the real frustration
with the Heat came when, according to Chris Haynes, when
Jimmy and his camp were informed of a clerical or
excuse me, an accounting error towards the end of last summer,
he didn't get his paycheck on that period. It took
the team about ten days to fix it. This man's
(13:26):
waiting on millions and they're like, yeah, we don't know
what happened. You've got all that going on. On top
of it an accounting era that delayed his paycheck. Things
started to feel off a bit at that point. You know, shit,
I've never heard of an NBA team missing a payment
like they're a tech startup headed for bankruptcy. Apparently, Jimmy
(13:47):
is meeting with Heat owner Mickey Arrison of Carnival Cruise Lines,
hopefully to settle things down so he can get back
on the court, but he has been very clear he
will not sign an ext in Miami. The whole thing
is actually like a carnival and a cruise a shit show.
It's like a carnival cruise in COVID. Miami. Heater is
(14:10):
starting to look a little like a Mickey Mouse organization,
and I think people are starting to point the finger
at pat Riley. But I doubt Jimmy's reputation will survive
this either. That is all the time that we have
for the Heat. Check tune in every week as we
break down the happenings of the NBA and soon the
women's game as well. Come back throughout the twenty five season.
(14:30):
Check out the feed for past episodes, and many episodes
would drop unexpectedly, like the Oregon Ducks and the College
Football Championship. Do not forget to follow the heat check.
That means download, that means subscribe, That means tell your friends.
Tell even the friends that are subscribing to my ig
for four ninety nine a month. Seriously, go join. You're
gonna get feet photos, You're gonna get hand photos. You
(14:52):
can get thirst traps in the summertime. You can also
talk about the heat check with me. Maybe I'll start
a channel like Jade n ivy Is would just buy
follow us on TikTok and at this heat check and
at Trister Cook on Twitter, I G and Threads. Threads
is Meta's new social platform where I posted every single day.
We will see you next time. H
On this episode of the Heat Check with Checking from
the Road folks. Okay, see in Cleveland we get Part
DWA battle of the Heavyweights, and I'm just gonna say
this right now, I did not meet expectations. It was
not like the ethical back and forth basketball we saw
in Part Ooh No Sacramento in Houston in a battle
of some of the hottest teams in the West. Chicago
(00:33):
continues to be a mediocre shit show. Tell us how
you really feel and we'll get into the latest Jimmy
Butler drama. Anthony dropped that motherfucking beat for should be
(00:56):
all right? Coming to you from Atlanta. I am here
for the College Football Championship Ohio State versus notre game.
Meta brought me big shout out to Meta. We're getting
some awesome Lower Bowl tickets media passes, so keep an
eye on media day. Gonna be asking some funny questions
that the players and coaches. But I have to give
(01:18):
you a podcast. I'm trying my very best in the
middle of a very tumultuous time. I promise it will
get easier. But the much bally ho match rematch between
the Okac Thunder and the Cleveland Cavaliers who are the
top two teams in the NBA was pretty much the
exact opposite of the recent game between the two, which
(01:40):
was one of the best games probably for the year.
It was okay, see with no Isaiah Hartenstein, it was
okayc taking belt to ass beating them up. The score
doesn't even show you how much of an ass whooping.
It was. One thirty four, one fourteen. It was never close.
Uh and the Thunder at one point were up seventy
(02:02):
five to forty nine at halftime on pace for one
hundred and fifty point game. Had a fifty point lead
at one point. That's insane, Shay, how'd he do? Just
typical MVP stuff forty points seventeen for twenty one ethical
efficient hoops not counting three pointers. He was unstoppable. In
(02:24):
other words, he was like Lebron when he was sixteen
years old playing up against MJ If you know, you
know Shay had two steals, Jalen Williams with know why
had three, and as a team they had twelve steals.
So what changed? Okay, So he did not have Isaiah Hartenstein,
which I thought was actually gonna be a bad thing,
(02:46):
and he said to miss several games with the soliest injury,
especially considering the fact that Jared Allen and Evan Mobley
both played and they were largely shut down. Who was
in the game that was not in the game in
part one Alex Cruz, so that's too plus nineteen in
fourteen minutes. He didn't play in game one. But the
(03:08):
story of the game was of the fact that the
Cavs had twenty one turnovers and the Thunder only had six.
What do we take away from this? I don't know.
I'd like a finals match between these two. For seven games.
A lot of Calves fans have hit the near panic button. Again,
that's a shame. I think that's a shame. This team's
really fucking good. They just beat the Thunder last week. Okay,
(03:30):
Kenny Atkinson was not pressed, even though he took a
tech early to try and rally the troops. Sometimes you
just get your ass what folks, That's just the way
it goes, you know, And that's they got to put.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
And that is what happened here. Calves rolled into OKAC
and got bundled up. Simple as that. Lick your wounds
(03:52):
and try try again. Moving on, Houston is hottest fish
grease right now, seven and three in their previous ten
before playing Sacramento, who's also seven to three in their
last ten. Rockets right now twenty seven to twelve, probably
about as big of a surprise as any team in
the West. They're definitely less surprising than Detroit, but the
(04:16):
fact that they're atop the West is more surprising than
Detroit being five hundred basketball team. They're holding down the
two seed. That's shocking. They have a two game cushion
over Memphis. What is this Western Conference standings? Eme Udoka
has done the same thing that he did in Boston,
bringing out a very very good defense. They have the
(04:36):
third best defensive rating in the NBA at one oh
seven point five, which is shocking considering that Jalen Green
plays a lot of minutes on this team and he
is a cone. While they have had trouble shooting for
pretty much most of the season, can't knock down a
damn shot, especially from three, I think they might have
solved the issue in house because Jalen Green has arrived.
(05:00):
He is averaging twenty eight four and three in his
last ten games. Think about that for a second. Twenty eight,
four and three. And then let's go into the shooting
splits fifty percent from the field, forty six percent from
three that is scorching hot, and ninety one percent from
(05:20):
the free throw line. He's shooting nearly fifty percent from three,
and he's taking almost ten attempts per game, which is
what the Rockets need. They need some shooting. They could
use ten threes a game shooting at fifty percent clip
from anyone. The best thing, the coolest thing is that
(05:43):
Jalen Green only has one and a half turnovers per game.
I think Jalen Green is putting up all star numbers.
Got a little spice in him too. I don't know
if he saw this, but it was hilarious. So he
went back and forth. Jalen Green did with Russell Westbrook
after a hard foul uh the other day when they
played Denver and uh Russ was so stunned. He turned
(06:08):
to e may Udoka and was like, why is he
talking to me like that? That kid played on my
AAU team. And the entire Rockets coaching staff just erupted
into laughter. They lost it. Making e may Udoka laugh
is one of the toughest things to do probably in
the league, like not exactly the most haha kind of guy.
(06:30):
If you talk to him ever, you're just like, whoa,
why so serious? But the fascinating thing is that they
ran into another hot team in the West, Sacramento Kings.
And we talked about the Kings last week, so I
look back and listen at that. But this was a
serious test for Doug Christy, and they came out of
the blocks fast. They took a lead sixty one to
(06:52):
fifty two at halftime, and they ended up after allowing
the Houston Rockets to come back and actually take the lead,
didn't let them score again, one thirty two, one twenty
seven win over Houston. It was an outstanding game. Houston
roared back in the fourth quarter and this resilient Kings
(07:15):
team just closed him out late. All the King starters
had eighteen or more points. DeRozan at thirty two, Malik
Monk at twenty eight, Domos dominated Alpura and Shngoon who
was a negative twenty one net rating, and Sibot this
was a plus sixteen, and Fox he had a bad
shooting night six or seventeen, but he made up for
(07:36):
it four steals against the team that's top ten in
giving up the least amount of steals per game. Houston
once again led by Jalen Green, who put up twenty
eight five and four four turnovers for him. So the
Kings defensively are starting to turn up the heat. Just
a fun game. Warm me up on that beam, baby,
(07:56):
It's nice to see Sacramento back at five hundred. Is
insane after after twelve games? Do you think that we
would have believed the first twelve games of the season
that the Sacramento Kings would have a better record than
the Golden State Warriors. Say it ain't so, Say it
ain't so. Doug Christy is now eight and two this
(08:20):
year as the King's coach, and things are finally looking
sunny in Sacramento all right. Time to checking on a
little news from around the league. Out in Chicago, I
posted something on Threads that I didn't want to do,
but I had to do to this full Bulls fan base.
This year, the Bulls are eighteen and twenty two right now.
(08:40):
Last year, at the exact same point, the Bulls were
eighteen and twenty two. In twenty two twenty three forty
games in the Bulls were nineteen and twenty one consistent
at least very very consistent. Folks. I have said this
shit a million times. You can't be a five hundred
(09:00):
team and sustain that without being in the purgatory of
the NBA franchise you are. This is not good enough
to get seating in the playoffs. You're in the playing tournament,
too good to get a good draft pick in a
historic draft. You cannot rebuild a franchise like that, drafting
fifteenth every year. You can't. And the Bulls are now
(09:23):
three years overdue for blowing up the whole fucking ship.
And I keep telling them, you fucking stink okay, and
your fans aren't happy and your players aren't happy, so
you need to fucking let it go. Let it go,
Let it go, like everyone's gotta go, Zach Colvine's gotta go,
Lucivic's gotta go. Let Josh Giddy's ass go to some
other team. Don't give him his money. Build around Matas Bozellis.
(09:47):
I don't give a fuck. Stop being mediocre. And now
the Bulls insane to not tank like Brooklyn in Utah.
This draft is too deep, too stacked not to take
a run a top three pick. I mean, Utah is
running out some of the most egregious lineups. We've got
Sean Marx and Bobby Marx being like, hey, no relation. Hey,
(10:10):
We're probably not gonna win many games. We're probably not
gonna put out the best rosters. The rosters we're putting
out are rosters that are gonna lose. We want Cooper Flag, Bulls.
You should be won in Cooper Flag. They have Matas
Boselli's nice piece, slowly acclimating to the league. Don't even
need to give you a stat line. Lonzo ball nice
(10:31):
story this season, but these wins, these wins are not
even using players you want around Trade Zach. One player
that nobody can figure out Patrick Williams averaging nine to
four and two. He's a lottery pick, very disappointing season.
He's shooting thirty eight percent from the field, which is
(10:53):
one of the worst marks in the entire league. Can't
figure out why he's been so bad, As a Tribune said,
they said, admit another losing season for the Bulls. Wow.
The wing often fades out of focus by the final buzzer.
Patrick Williams often struggles to score in double digits, often
gets out rebounded by guards, given the fact that he's
(11:14):
sixty to seven with a seven feet wingspan, never leaves
the team in any meaningful statistic night in and night out.
His minutes on the court only stir up increasingly frantic questions.
How does it take five years for the number four
pick to record double doubles? How can a six to
seven wing finish a game without a single rebound? What
is it going to take to find his confidence again?
(11:35):
What the hell is going on with him? This is
not my quote. Williams meets most questions this season with
mirrored confusion. I don't really have an answer for it.
Jesus Christ, move that man to some place like Okac
where they can develop him and he will become Jalen Williams.
I think they still have time to sink the ship.
(11:57):
Think about it. Best case scenario of forty wins. Best
case another ten to fifteen pick in the draft. That
is unacceptable. I think they owe their draft pick to
somebody too, depending on where it's lottery protected. Ooh, anyway,
they stink. They are doomed for basketball purgatory. Even if
(12:19):
they were to draft in the top five, do we
think really they would do anything good with it? Not
me quick check. Though. We're moving on on Miami, where
shit has gotten really bad. The Heat are thinking about
changing the designation of the suspension for Jimmy Butler too,
refusing to provide services. Why because it means they can
(12:41):
ream the pull up Jimmy's asshole even further by doubling
the fines. Yes, that's the way to calm Jimmy Butler down.
That's the way to get him to come back to work.
The wildest thing is Jimmy's fighting back, well, at least
his agent is. A few days ago, his camp said
that his displeasure in Miami occurred when they signed Thomas
(13:04):
Bryant and Josh Richardson in State of Dame or Beale.
Then on Wednesday, it was leaked that the real frustration
with the Heat came when, according to Chris Haynes, when
Jimmy and his camp were informed of a clerical or
excuse me, an accounting error towards the end of last summer,
he didn't get his paycheck on that period. It took
the team about ten days to fix it. This man's
(13:26):
waiting on millions and they're like, yeah, we don't know
what happened. You've got all that going on. On top
of it an accounting era that delayed his paycheck. Things
started to feel off a bit at that point. You know, shit,
I've never heard of an NBA team missing a payment
like they're a tech startup headed for bankruptcy. Apparently, Jimmy
(13:47):
is meeting with Heat owner Mickey Arrison of Carnival Cruise Lines,
hopefully to settle things down so he can get back
on the court, but he has been very clear he
will not sign an ext in Miami. The whole thing
is actually like a carnival and a cruise a shit show.
It's like a carnival cruise in COVID. Miami. Heater is
(14:10):
starting to look a little like a Mickey Mouse organization,
and I think people are starting to point the finger
at pat Riley. But I doubt Jimmy's reputation will survive
this either. That is all the time that we have
for the Heat. Check tune in every week as we
break down the happenings of the NBA and soon the
women's game as well. Come back throughout the twenty five season.
(14:30):
Check out the feed for past episodes, and many episodes
would drop unexpectedly, like the Oregon Ducks and the College
Football Championship. Do not forget to follow the heat check.
That means download, that means subscribe, That means tell your friends.
Tell even the friends that are subscribing to my ig
for four ninety nine a month. Seriously, go join. You're
gonna get feet photos, You're gonna get hand photos. You
(14:52):
can get thirst traps in the summertime. You can also
talk about the heat check with me. Maybe I'll start
a channel like Jade n ivy Is would just buy
follow us on TikTok and at this heat check and
at Trister Cook on Twitter, I G and Threads. Threads
is Meta's new social platform where I posted every single day.
We will see you next time. H
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