You're tuned into Heat Check, but just a quick on this episode of the Heat Check. Everybody right now is doing an NBA season preview episode. Not everyone, though, is doing and redoing their preview episode, because that is exactly what we are doing today. This is the real shit right here, just for you Heat Checkers. No Locked On collaboration, no corporate crick. This is the real shit right here.
Hose Apparently there was request for the word hose in the episode, So we will be talking about your favorite your favorite team, and mine why they probably won't win the championship. I'm no sellout, folks, just remember that, so do me a favor, Nick and drop that motherfucking beat. So, followers of the Heat Check, no, if you have this subscribed on your feed, which you know, surprisingly people do,
and you should as well. I recorded a special crossover episode with the folks from Locked On dun nunchdn don dun nunch uh and now regular listeners may have noticed that something was a little different than the normal Heat Check episodes. How would I put the difference? What's the
best way to describe it? I was, well, I'll let my two favorite guys, Dlo and Casey let you know what they thought, courtesy of their awesome DL and Casey show on thirteen twenty ESPN in Sacramento, where I have the honor of being their guest every Friday at five pm Eastern Standard Time. Here is what they had to say on the show. I love the new podcast, by the way, the preview of the NBA season hold On, hold On, I mean, I don't know what's going on
here with Corporate the corporate champion. I knew that was corporate. You went, you turned heeled just like The Rock did back in ninety ninety eight and aligned himself with Vince McMahon. You didn't call no one a hoe. You didn't cuss one single time in that podcast. Oh yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yah. Hold on, godden up, Trista crick. So they found out, but it was pretty obvious, apparently, and a commenter in the Chatty House Delo in Casey's
YouTube said it best. Tristan was like when your parents get on a phone call from work and you're looking at him like, who is that? Who is that person that I'm listening to on the phone. So I figured because a ton of the teams that I was planning on talking about with Donna. Didn't end up get getting talked about that we should do it again, And in hindsight, I think I was a little bit too corporate for
the lockdown folks. So I figured, let's do a more comprehensive preview of the teams, including the teams that I missed. So let's get into it, hose the big question everyone wants to know, of course, who's gonna win it all? Who who is it gonna be? Let's go through the contenders according to what Vegas has to say. Golden State plus six hundred, That means six to one odds, Boston plus five hundred. Kind of crazy considering everything that's going
on with them. Milwaukee plus six fifty, Brooklyn plus seven hundred, and the Clippers plus seven hundred the two top favorites. How would I put this? They're going through some shit right now, aren't they. They are having some internal struggles. We already know what was going on with Boston. And the last time that we discussed the Draymond versus Pool incident, we didn't have no video, And now I've got the video and looking at it, it looks like looks like
something close to a scuffle and probably borderline assault. And so now we do have the videos, We've got all kinds of think pieces Bitten being written by Tim Kawakami of The Athletic, probably from probably pushed from Jordan Poole's PR team, because it's very pro Jordan Poole about oh, I don't know, Draymond's now potentially the odd man out and oh, Draymond's possibly gonna get traded because they can't
possibly pay everyone. That Jordan Poole now has all of the power, and that, oh, if Jordan Poole is uncomfortable playing basketball with Draymond Green, it might just mean that Draymond Green has to go. And that would be a totally fair perspective of Jordan Poole, considering that he was assaulted. Folks, it's a cool it's a cold game out there. It's a cold game, cold game. I've seen some things on instag Yes, I have some rumors, rumors about what Jordan
Poole said. Did Draymond Green talked around, have asked around a little. One person said, you know what, there's only a couple people in the league. I dislike Jordan Poole is one of them. And you know what kind of happy to see Draymond Green hit him in the face. I think the term was stole on him. I was glad to see Draymond Green stole on him. So so that is an interesting little element. The things I saw on the internet are true dirty game, some dirty triple
single accusations, some things. Does it mean, though, that they're gonna really trade Draymond Green? Does it mean that they shouldn't be considered the top or at least the second top. They should be the top, Let's be honest. They want it all. Whoever wins it all should always be the top unless they lost half their team or all their team. Is it a bad look? Yeah, it is a bad luck. Does it make the Warriors part of this new a nobody messing with? M click click of the dysfunctional teams
around the NBA? Yes, yes, they're all in a little lunch table together somehow a lot of them are contending. I've been to the finals in the last two years, but here they are. Here they are. Does it give other teams hope, you damn right it does. But to me, it's Golden State that should be the title favorite. Steph is dominant He's a cyborg somehow, more and more dominant by the year. He's gonna get another MVP before it's
time for his time to come to a close. What in the hell did Steph learn how to play elite defense? By the way, he used to be a sieve like Damian Lillard. No shade to Damian Lillard, you are a sieve. Though, Clay has mental block right now about playing pick up basketball because he spent the summer driving his boat around the bay because he tore his achilles three offseasons ago. Right, but let me ask you, this is there such thing
as an NBA playoff scrimmage. They don't exist, right, we're talking about scrimmage, We're talking about pick up miss me. I am not worried about Klay Thompson. He looked just fine in those playoffs. He looked just fine. And I think there's a ton of more opportunities for this team to get better. There's a lot of people being like, but Trista, they lost Bilichia, they lost on a porter. No one's saying that, But people who cover the Beat
are saying that the Warriors beat. I don't care. I don't care about I don't care that he went back to Europe. I don't care that Latto Porter went back to Toronto. I don't care that well. I do care that we got Gary Payton. I do because of me, like I care for the for the Blazers taking something from the Warriors. But I don't think this is going to be meaningful for the Warriors. They have guys that are gonna step up. Moses Moody's gonna step up. He
looked really good, Javan Kaminga. If he becomes less of a chucklehead, he'll be good. You've got my man PBJ Pat Baldwin Junior hitting threes very high IQ. Probably if he would have gone to Douke, he wouldn't even be there at that point in time that they were. They drafted him. So this is a very very sneaky team. Plus they have Dante DiVincenzo coming in to try to basically be Gary Payton the second. He's six', four he's,
bouncy he's got That Vanilla Villanova Vanilla villanova. Pedigree he is a little vanilla except for that he got caught for those, tweets so you can't really call him vanilla. Anymore remember when when my guy FROM Usa, today dug up all the tweets after they won the national, title like four minutes, later and then he had answer. Questions that was. Crazy, Anyway moving on other teams that need
to be, Considered i'm, Sorry. BOSTON i think it's pretty clear if That milwaukee was fully, healthy they would have beaten your. ASS i think they would. HAVE i don't think it would have gone. SEVEN i think it would have gone five or. Six Pat connaton was a big. Loss middleton was a big. LOSS i think The bucks are still very much for. Real if you Have, giannis you're for. Real that's. It Drew, middleton jo, honest for. Real My manianis is hitting, threes My manianis is hitting
his free. Throws he's coming out with. Documentaries, yeah they're for. Real Los Angeles. Clippers this is a very deep. Team they should be considered as, well deeper than probably any other team in THE. Nba John wall did you see? Him did you see those? CLIPS i know they've been circulating the. TWITTERS i know people have been seeing it around the. Back lay didn't look the, layup didn't look, clean hit a lot of, rim but it went. In
he looks. Fast he's got another layer of playmaking for this. Team, Kawhi John, Wall Paul. George IF Paula george can stop being so mentally weak at the most critical, moments that's a big three on its. Own you Add Norm powell to that. Team you Add Rob covington to that, Team you add all the. Squad Regg, jackson mister what they call, him Mister. October, yeah they call him Mister. October nick Batoum garden people ninety four feet getting his Little french
body up into. Him this team is a, squad very. Dangerous but the next team is The Brooklyn. Nets what are? They are they a? Contender are they a team that's gonna get bounced out of the first round and get? SWEPT i don't, know, DOG i don't think anyone, knows AND i don't think they. KNOW i know That Kevin durant is very. GOOD i know THAT i Know kyrie is very. GOOD i know That Ben simmons can pass his the last off as long as his back is fully.
HEALTHY i know that this team's very. Deep and one thing right now that we know is That Steve nash got booed In brooklyn by his own fan. Base fascinating, stuff fascinating, stuff things you hate to. See couldn't happen to a more qualified. Coach. Shit this, team, though is stupid, deep so deep with Ice cube they put her ass to. SLEEP i don't know who they're gonna put to, sleep but it could be Maybe chicago in the first. Round
this team has. Guys Now Steve nash can incorporate them into the rotation if he even knows what a rotation is in very important. Moments we're not sure What Ben simmons' role is gonna. Be we talked about that last episode on the. Pod some players to WATCH Tj. Warren he was very good in the. Bubble is he gonna be? HEALTHY i don't, Know Nick, claxton will he get free? Throws he's gonna get a lot of. Lobs you better make those lobs because those free. THROWS i think he
was like a sixty percent free throw. Shooter and then you know they're defensively a. Mess but if they, TRY i guess they'll be. BETTER i was more optimistic last week Before Steve nash got. Booed i'm not gonna. LIE i want him to be. BAD i. DO i Want kyrie And kevin durant to be, good BUT i Want Steve nash to. Fail it's true he didn't deserve that. Job he never will have deserved, it and he's not
very good at his. Job and the people who actually evaluate, players evaluate, teams people that we, trust they also think he's not very. Good so it's not just. Me let's go through, though the next tier of teams that are one level below quote Obvious vegas, Contender teams that are Like stella trying to get their. Groovebacks teams that have gone to the finals recently and are trying to find their way back. There, Phoenix, Miami denver went to The
Western conference, Finals philly went to The Eastern. Conference semis And dallas who made their way to The Western conference finals last. Year let's talk about, Them, Miami. Miami it's an, ugly ugly path for. Them it is always. Gross it never looks like they're gonna be able to do, it and then they do Somehow Someway Jimmy butler makes life, hard even when he's making your forty two points per. Game it's, like, man it looked hard for. You they've
been in the mix, though. Too out of the last three, years right they've always adding. Guy they're always adding guys you've never heard. Of they get him, Undrafted they come out of. Nowhere they fill roles that you did not. Expect, so for, example they get rid OF Pj. Tucker, Right so who's going to REPLACE Pj? Tucker they get this, Kid Darius days AT. Lsu darius Day days is who is his? Player? Cop, well just ask. Him he says
IT'S Pj. Tucker so it's not a shocker that they REPLACE Pj tucker with a, younger up and COMING Pj. Tucker Jerry west one of his favorite young. Players he didn't get. Drafted If Kyle lowry is backed to being, available he missed a lot of time for personal issues And i'm not even sure what those issues. Are then
he missed time due to. Health so if he's healthy and engage and those personal issues are cleaned up and he's playing seventy five, games let's just be more, realistic sixty five seventy, games they could be a problem for a lot of. Teams are they good enough to be a Healthy becks? Team? No does it? Matter they might
not even face. Him so just play your best, Basketball miami and we'll see for the, heat, though to be able to truly get, there to truly be able to compete for a, TITLE i Think bam out Of baio needs to be that. Guy he needs to be so. Dominant he needs to make life hard on whoever is guarding. Him he needs to bam and not lay. Up he needs to hit his free. Throws he needs to be a problem night in and night. Out so many times he Goes David copperfield and just all of a, sudden
you don't know where bam About adebayo? Is is he even on the. Floor oh, yeah he's got four points in thirty eight. Minutes that's. Unacceptable so two years, now by the, way we've had role players not show up for their. Teams you Had Kevin durant and The, nets and you Had Jimmy butler in the. Heat they were just putting the team on their back so much that when it came down the closing, time closing, time they were so exhausted that they couldn't hit the final shot
in order to seal it. Out so role players got to show. Up moving, Forward Denver nuggets man easy to forget how good The Denver nuggets. Were the bubble Of Denver, nuggets, unstoppable just the, kids the comeback cardiac. Kids they played The warriors, close and it was just just checks, Notes Doc rivers's son off the couch And jokic and Rookie Bowlan's, highland and it was a sweat for The. Warriors it looked like his see a five, Game oh, gentlemen. Sweep.
NO i watched every single one of those. Games it came down to the, wire down to the. Wire When Doc rivers's son is your second option and you win any games against the team that ended up winning it, all like that's a. Wow you add back In Jamal, murray who's a. Bucket you add back in Hopefully Michael Porter junior from, injury, which, like by the, way this has been a concern since he was drafted From. Missouri that's why he slipped in the draft because he had back.
Issues so if he's healthy and back to being one of the best three point shooters in the, league but one of the best two way wings in the, league then oh. Boy then you add in ksep who's a very good versatile. Defender you add In Bruce, brown who again can do a lot of. Things he was a rebound. King he was a nice little small ball five for The Brooklyn, nets and Before Joe harris just went into a milk, carton they were gonna beat The. Bucks everyone's
gotta stay, healthy. MAN i think that they can really make some. Noise If Jamal murray is himself AND mpj is, Himself Phoenix. Suns you move forward and, say how Could phoenix really? Compete how tell me how are they going to get back to being an actual team, team a team that likes each other and is around each other and has chemistry and can overcome adversity when things get. Bright we have seen them when they do like each
other and they get. DERAILED i think that they are gonna have a real hard time getting over that drama of the, offseason the issues With DeAndre, ayton the issues with you, KNOW, covid let's be, HONEST covid ravaging their, team the issues With Monty williams not speaking To DeAndre ayton for the entire, offseason which is fucking, weird And DeAndre ayton not reaching out to, him which is fucking.
Weird him wanting to go To indiana and still being In phoenix because they have no other, Options Robert sarver being forced to sell a. Team you know the whole, thing you know the whole. List how are they going to get back to the. Finals they are, Not they are not what needs to. Happen, Well DeAndre ayton has to be. Happy otherwise it's The Bismack biambo. Show AND i tell you, What i've seen a lot Of Bismack biambo when he played For. CHARLOTTE i saw him In
phoenix as. WELL i don't know that you want him being your starting. FIVE i just don't think. So booker gotta be AN mvp and this team might just might go to the second. Round philadelphia very intriguing. Team so to, contend they kind of need to be uh Like, Jedis embiid And harden have to know what each other is thinking at all. Times they need to be able to look into each other's eyes and know who wants the rock where they want. It how? Much how do you
Feed embiid? First how do you Feed embiid and not Castraight James? Harden that's the question because When james is, aggressive he's not looking for anyone, else and when he's a, distributor he's not nearly as aggressive with his. Shot can we see The Houston rockets version Of harden mixed with early nets Hardened that would be an absolute. Problem are they going to be good in the? Post are they going to be able to? Rebound they were one of
the worst rebounding teams in THE nba last. Year Doc, rivers who's a, liar said On woja's podcast that they look very good right now in. PRACTICE i also saw some footage where they said. That he said they didn't look, good but that was a week, ago SO i don't. Know they both need to be in, shape they both need to be. Healthy they're usually, neither both of. Them so we'll, see we will. SEE i am. Intrigued let's just say THAT i Love tyree S. Maxey he's the
most likable player on this. TEAM i think when you add nobody's talking about it that. Much after the SIGNING. Pj tucker as a whole new. Element they said after they lost to The, heat they need some, dogs and they found. ONE. Pj tucker is that. Guy he absolutely is that. Guy you Added Daniel House, junior Which i'm not sure why they picked him up other than the fact that he can literally game up any woman in any. Setting remember he got kicked out of the bubble for
bringing down THE covid. Tester he took her to his room later, later right. Down so maybe he's Like James harten's. WINGMAN i don't know why he's on the, team but it's not to be a, dog it's to be something. Else all, right let's move Forward. Dallas in order For dallas to, contend what do they need to? Do they need to acquire. Someone let's be. Honest they need to figure out another backcourt teammate With. Luca this is a no. Brainer nobody is in more dire need of someone to
acquire Than. Luca he needs a backcourt. Mate losing jyleb bro was a really big. Deal they were fifteenth in offense last, year, fifteenth and then they lose the guy who can put up buckets at any moment With. Luca he was a very key. Piece When luca was out against The, jazz he put up forty. One do you trust anyone else on that team to put up forty one If luca's not in, There, no you. Don't who can they? Get Maybe Mike, conley he can give you
twenty five. Minutes he can give you some, shots a little. Lefty he's got a three point. Game he's not gonna be a starter or. Anything he's not Gonna maybe he, starts but he doesn't play huge. Minutes even for twenty two minutes a, game he's gonna. HELP i don't trust In. Woodie i've said, That javal, McGee Christian, wood they need to be. Better they need to be an absolute. Bucket Christian wood needs to hit. Threes he needs to be completely.
Engaged we can't have any more of those those reputational things and question marks That Christian wood has had. Before are they? True are they not? TRUE i don't, know BUT i know that they're out, there so they need to figure that. Out, Also Jayden, hardy If Jayden hardy becomes Like Aunt edwards mid, season then yeah they can. Compete but that's you, know obviously a big if deeper teams are coming and they do not care If luca
puts forty five up on them at. All this is a potentially a play and team barring a. Trade, yeah it's. True the next tier of teams on the, rise getting, better doing the work in the, gym looking, good looking to take some heads Off Cleveland, Memphis, Minnesota New, Orleans. Toronto all of these teams make me more excited Than. Dallas and that's. That AND i Love. Luca that is a sexy ass. Group woo Wooh Hey, Memphis, Woo, Minnesota,
Woo New, Orleans Woo. Toronto hell, Yeah, minnesota let's talk about. Them first biggest money move of the offseason swang for the fences For Rudy. GOBERT i think it's a fascinating. Move how is it gonna work With Carl Anthony? TOWNS i have no. Idea ALL i know is it means That Carl Anthony towns isn't going to be a defensive, liability isn't going to be caught on film talking all kinds of trash and people be, like we Have, minnesota, now we Have. Minnesota. Now ALL i know is that
it means That Carl Anthony towns can lock. In and if anybody needs the shoulders of the blame for, anything we already know who it. Is It's. Rudy rudy always shoulders the. Blame he's good at, That he's good at being an. Escapegoat Hopefully aunt and De lo are gonna feature him more Offensively Rudy. GOBERT i think you can get him a ton of. Lobs the question is our team's gonna try to run him off, four try to go small on him like The clippers, did Like dallas
did last. YEAR i don't, Know we'll have to. See ALL i know is That Aunt edwards is gonna be. COMING i think he takes another. STEP i think he becomes someone who's Like, jaw doesn't win THE, mvp but is very much in the mix of THE mvp, conversation and they're gonna win a lot of. Games they're gonna be a top six team in The. West moving, forward another TEAM i absolutely love salivate over The New Orleans. PELICANS i am so excited about. Them may be my
favorite team to even imagine how good they could. Be, Yes, zion of course is, Interesting But i'm actually less concerned or interested In zion BECAUSE i know what he. Is how is this team going to continue to? Improve you Have Dyson. Daniels, now you Have Dyson. Daniels you Have Brandon, ingram you HAVE. Cj, McCollum you Have Jose, Alvarado you've got man just so many. Dudes yonus valencunas the. Question, also big question mark is How zion and bi are
going to. Coexist they've had issues with that. Before how does this change the identity of The New orleans team that they built Without? Zion big question marks. There he has a fifty million reasons to make it, work to stay in, shape to run back on. Defense BUT i tell you, what this is a train that's. Moving how DO i not even Say Herb? Jones Herb. Jones they're gonna move with or Without, zion and it's gonna be very interesting to. WATCH i think they could be a
two seed this. YEAR i think they could literally be the biggest surprise in The. West or they could be a dumpster fire If zion doesn't play any. Defense, memphis, man they were so, Good they're so. Deep they Took Golden state to the. Brink there were so many moments that were fifty to fifty. Jaw of, course getting injured really. Hurt Jaron jackson being god awful from three Point land was. Awful and they still have a ton of. PICKS i think that they're a team that's very up and, Coming
BUT i do they think they take a step. Back their wing positions very thin right. NOW i think they're going to try to Develop Zire. WILLIAMS i like the, grizz but they're not gonna be sneaking up on. ANYBODY i think they are now the hunted and they're the loudest mouth team in THE, nba so a lot of teams are going to be coming for them and they're going to be looking to embarrass. Them Losing Jaron jackson also.
Hurts AND i think The Anthony, melton WHO i didn't, mention is now a. SIXER i think he helps a. Lot cleveland super interesting. Team they have so much. Versatility they could be kind of Who cleveland was last year for uh my man got hurt with THE Aclu Ricky. RUBIO i need to, see, though How donovan meshes into the, team. Right can he buy into the defensive scheme he's telling US i can, DEFEND i can. DEFEND i. Promise it's, like, well we haven't seen it Since, Louisville, like were you
just not doing it on purpose when you're At? Utah was it just the. ASSIGNMENTS i don't know what was happening with, it BUT i know that two small guard lineups where you've got two, six one sixty two guys with negative. Wingspans i've seen. That i've seen that up and close With portland and it did not. Work we went to The Western Conference finals and we got. Swept that's what. HAPPENED i tell you, what it's. Pain it's a lot of. Pain they're gonna Miss Lori. MARKETING i
tell you. WHAT i never thought i'd say, that but they're gonna miss. Him they have a lot more interior help Than. Portland they Have mobiley, obviously they've Got Jared. Allen Even Kevin love can play some, four even though they'll probably have him on the. Perimeter BUT i tell you, what this team will be very. FUN i think they are going to be an actual playoff team this year
and not a play in team moving forward With. Toronto toronto is one of those teams that if someone takes a leap or they add, someone they could be a. Problem like if Og ananobi turns into An All, star this could be a real nightmare matchup for. Everyone like we've said, before it's a bunch of six seven to six nine guys who can play every single position on the floor and can do. Everything in the era of positionalists.
Basketball Nick nurse loves his. Lineup they add in obviously on top Of Scottie barnes on the cusp of being An All. STAR i think you add In Otto, porter you add In Christian, colloco that helps a lot with the. Defense and they took a flyer On Josh jackson who went To kansas. Busted just an absolute nightmare of a. Bust but he has, height he has, length and he could potentially thrive as a role player In Nick nurse's.
System moving, forward on the fourth tier of teams that are all big name teams with big name question, Marks, Lakers, Hawks, Bulls, knicks And. Blazers, well you know HOW i feel about The. Lakers we don't even need to go into. It ALL i know is the top question is did they really just run it back With Dennis, Shrewder, like did this? Happen did he really just get back into the. Country his visa issue was a big hurdle for him to
be able to play basketball. Games did he really just turn down that much money and then go back to the team that he turned down for the veteran? Minimum did that really? Happen that is. Sad they're probably looking at him visa departments, like, hey you turned down four years for eighty seven million. Dollars you're an. Idiot you can't come in. Here you gotta stay In, germany, Sir i'm. Sorry you know what's up with The. Lakers they don't
have enough. Shooters they're old a bunch of point guard issues point guard In Russell westbrook who probably doesn't really mess with the, system and they're actively looking to trade, him even though they're telling the world that they're not looking to trade him Because darvinham loves. Him but we're not really sure what the truth. Is and we're not really sure Whether Russell westbrook can adapt because he never, has he's never had two AM i high on, Them absolutely.
Not you add In anthony Data davis into the, mix who's now gonna be taking on the number one role as, scorer And Lebron james actively looking to get his ass into ownership. Mode this, team this team is a play in. Team at the best case, scenario they might not even make. That they might not even make. That atlanta big question with, Them John collins De Jontay. Murray murray comes home in the trade with The. Spurs how do he And Trey young work? Together Is Trey young coming off a. Ball
is he gonna move around Like Steph? Curry because that could be. Interesting Trey young loves to have a ball in his. Hand what's gonna happen with De Jontay murray If Trey young? Does what's up With John? Collins does he want to be? There this is like giving me big Big DeAndre ayton Slash Myles turner? Vibes Like John collins has been shopped for three years. Now people have been, SAYING i was in my first year At Barstool sports the first TIME i ever heard Of John collins trade.
Rumor that's, Insane LIKE i am many years out of That John? Collins does he want to be? THERE i don't know which version of him will we? See are we gonna see the version of him in twenty nineteen twenty twenty when he averaged like twenty two points a game or last year when he was Like David? Blaine are they gonna be balanced offensively and? Defensively because defensively last year they were in. NIGHTMARE i really like my Guy DeAndre, hunter but he doesn't seem to stay. Healthy
he's the only defensive wing player that they really. Have what's gonna happen With Kaevon herdery being. Gone, now who's gonna be that like last minute bucket, getter you, know sort of tweet or two to three guy outside Of dejonte And, Trey Trey young took a big step last. Year he was on a milk carton in the. Playoffs he literally was an under machine in terms of his player. Pop if he could be used Like Steph, CURRY i think that makes things. Interesting but this is a team
that again gives me play in. Vibes we move on to my, Team tisk, tisk The Portland. Trailblazers gotta be careful WHAT i say here because uh a lot of people From portland still listen to this pod and they get mad IF i say anything too slanderous Because i'm a fan and they Say i'm too much of a. Fan the question is. Defense this has been a historically bad defensive team for the last four years. NOW i think they had one good year in and three historically bad.
Years they were thirtieth in the league out of thirtieth in a year that had the worst defensive rating in, history so they were historically the worst defensive team in the. League, ever, so how Does Jeremy grant and a sire little help THAT i don't? Know Can Josh hart help the? Defense and his grittiness and his? Intensity these are all very legit. QUESTIONS i just just saw last night they got their doors blown off By Sacramento. Sacramento AND i know that
it's the, preseason but that, offense it looks. Discombobulated it looks like it looks Like Scott brooks is running. It oh, wait check's. Notes he is running. It he is maybe one of the worst offensive. Minds and we kind of give him, credit AND i hate to say it because he's a very nice, man we kind of give him too much credit because he had he Had Russell westbrook in his, Prime Kevin, Durant James, Harden, like who couldn't make that? Work Besides Steve, nash that's the only one who.
COULDN'T i, mean it is just like gonna be. Bad it feels Like portland has a lot of work to. Do this team is a ways away from. Me i'm very, intrigued of, course By Shaden. Sharp Shaden sharp is a. Bucket Shaden sharp can get any shot he. Wants Shaden sharp is six six with a seven feet, wingspan can, block he can, shoot he can get to the, rim he can steal the. Ball he is butter smooth like he could be the. Guy he could be the franchise. Guy there are people texting me right now saying we are.
Ready this is not even the full season. Yet, hey, uh you guys might need to move on From. Dame what, sir it's the. Preseason but there's. Hope Hopefully dame will be. Healthy Hopefully Anthony simons will still be. GOOD i don't know who's gonna be when he's With dame And Jeremy grant is, here And nurkic is getting paid And clutch got him a nice new, contract so he should be feeling. Good he needs to stop being A european bitch and said it sometimes sometimes he can be a little too.
SOFT i know it's so. Bad people are already Saying Chauncey billets might need to step. Down that's kind of where we're. At i'm not. THERE i don't believe. THAT i still, hope hold out hope because this team couldn't even lose games on purpose at. Points last, year those young guys were so. Fun but this team is not making the play in. Tournament to, me they're a thirty win. Team, UNFORTUNATELY i hope to be. Wrong big question In chicago
is can this team play any? Defense they have and have been one of the worst defensive teams for much of the season outside Of. Portland they have to stay. Healthy the season's already looking like a dumpster. Fire Lonzo ball nowhere near playing. Basketball Kobe, white who knows what he. Is it's a huge loss for a team that lacks. DEPTH i cannot see that this season being better than the last season when they made the sixth seed in the. Playoffs they will Have Pat williams for the entire, year
so that's. Good on the other, hand, uh he's currently being benched For Javonte, Green so everything that you thought that he was with the fourth overall, pick we're not actually. Sure keep in, mind this guy actually volunteered For Leonard hamilton to come off the bench when he was in. College they didn't win a bunch of. Games but that's not exactly the kind of like dog mentality that you think of from an alpha like number, two number three.
Score he's a nice, guy maybe a little too. Nice damar is still gonna get, buckets But he's not gonna shock. Anyone Alex caruso has to be. Healthy he missed a ton of time last. Year are they gonna be better than sixth? Place? NO i don't think. So they had a bunch of time With Lonzo ball last year and he bawled. Out so, no, NO i think that this is another team that could take a huge step. Back sorry to, say, Wow no one looking better in preseason
than The New York. Knicks what hardly, surprising, though because this is, like this is Like tibbs a Super. Bowl it's like when everyone else is not, TRYING i am going to, try and we're gonna look. Amazing like he has him running wind sprints From, august hopefully for his sake to in his mind To, june but By, December, January, february like the windsprint energy is starting to wane and questions.
Remain what Will Julius randall look like this? Season is he the most improved type player that we saw two years ago or is it the same version that we saw of him last year where he was just clearly wanting to play point guard but just so inept at that just, dribble, dribble, dribble step back brick at the end of a shot. Clock they had no one to get a, bucket and now they. Do now they Got Jalen, brunson And Jalen brunson's gonna be the initiator. Now so
how Does Julius randall fit in with? That is he a guy that you're just gonna be able to dump the ball down low to and he's just gonna play. Bullyball he likes to play on the. Premater, NOW i don't know how that's gonna. WORK i don't. Know and he's always been the best with the ball in his. Hands is gonna be a spot up shooter on the? Wing very curious about. This Obi toppen, though looks. Amazing Obi toppin might just Take Julius randol's job. Now he was.
Electric he played off the, bench had twenty something, points had, steals had, blocks had four, threes had A tomahawk looking dunk that made every highlight reel On twitter and On instagram and on. TikTok so that should be something that you should be excited. About emmanuel quickly looked. Good all the young kids look. Good Will tibbs play? Them that's the main. Question will he played. Them and the biggest question also, too is what role Will Evan foignier. Play
they paid a lot of money to. Him what is his best role on the bench or on another. TEAM i think so we're starting to get to the bottom of the glass teams hoping to make the play In, Sacramento, Washington, Charlotte, Detroit, indiana a lot of gross. Teams. OBVIOUSLY i Like. SACRAMENTO i said this last, PODCAST i think they're gonna break. Through they smacked the shit out of The blazers With Damian. Lillard they played a bunch of team. Defense they moved
the ball like. Crazy someone called it basketball, porn and that was AGAINST Us Keegan murray looking like A rookie of The. Year Mike brown has got them at least somewhat interested in defense right. NOW i like. THAT i like The Sabonis deer In Fox Keegan murray. Connection this team's gonna be able to score a lot of. POINTS i think they put up one hundred and thirty or something On. Portland and then you've Got, daveyon and you've
Got Kavon, herder and you've Got Malik. Monk they have some very very fun guys that may come off the. Bench for them to, succeed they just need to play. Defense, really they need to play good team, defense and they need to do it night, in night out and be. Consistent this is a team that can go on. Runs we've seen that pretty much year after, year where they are sitting there right around the eight, seed and then all of a sudden they go on a ten game losing.
Streak that can't. Happen can they take a step forward like The? Pelicans they sure? Can will They we're gonna See Charlotte. Hornets they are a dumpster fire of a. TEAM i don't. Know DO i Like Steve? CLIFFORD i don't. KNOW i don't think. SO i don't think. So people say nice things about, THEM i know. That are they founded in evidence or? Facts you know how it. Is it's a nepotistic. Business people say nice things about just human beings that might be, nice but not be very
good at their. Job The hornets need to be able to protect the. RIM i don't know how they're going to be able to do. That they Have Mark williams, now but he's a. Rookie now you've got you, Know Miles plumbly as the. Backup he's not doing Much Miles, bridges whereas he maybe heading for. JAIL i don't, know how do you replace his twenty points per? Game probably going to be. Hard LaMelo And jello, together very fun. Story he. Made jello finally made LaVar ball's prophecy come.
True all three of his kids in THE. Nba none at the same time Because lonzo is still not. Playing but you, know can't have it. All can't have it. All who are they replacing as top ten in The? East probably, none probably no. One, honestly Getting hayward off the books is going to be very. Important bringing someone in with some defensive intensity is going to be very important as. Well to make sure that they don't lose like one forty four forty, games because that's what it
was last. Year A ton one thirty, eight one thirty, Seven charlotte loses in. Overtime but you still Have LaMelo, ball you still HAVE. Pj. Washington so you're a fun young. Team probably not going anywhere anytime. Soon sorry to. Say when you hear the Words Washington, wizards don't you just immediately, Repulse, like don't you immediately just GO i live here AND i don't like this. Team there's nothing fun about this team. Whatsoever Bradley, beal he's a bucket, getter but it's just
him out on an island all by. Himself there is no one. There he tried to pedal to us that him And porzingis are gonna be some sort of like magical. Duo never played With porzingis, Before we've never shared the floor. Together who knows what that could? Be me And Montey, Morris what the fuck are you talking? About this team. Sucks not only do they, suck they don't even like The pacers suck where it's. Fun, like there's nobody on this.
TEAM i am excited. About who else do they Get will the Thrill barton Like portland got rid of, him And portland doesn't get rid of anyone good because they can't get anyone. Good so Is Delon, Wright Monte, Morris Will, Barton Ruey Hachi, mura Poor zingis ugh good. Luck bradley be will enjoy all that? Money oh, Yeah Johnny davis Ough Maker, Maker no, sir no. SIR i hate to be so, negative but it's the. Truth Detroit, pistons, man they're. Fun they are still getting, better but they are ways,
away ways Away jade And. Ivy in order for them to, compete he needs to get better at decision. Making he needs to get better at a lot of. Things Caid cunningham With jade And. Ivy If ivy was to develop the way That caid did late in the, season they could be fun, together could be really scary. Together Jalen, duran he needs to be a dynamic player like he was in THE Ncaa tournament For. Memphis it feels like this team's like a year or two. AWAY i really
Like Sadik bay as. WELL i don't think that they're a playing. TEAM i don't think they're a playoff. TEAM i do feel like they will be one of those league past teams that you go out and watch and they always cover the spread because it spread's always nine and a, half and like they just always lose by. Seven AND i think For jayde And, ivy he needs to. Mature and that's really. It he's a young. Kid he's so, explosive he's an elite. Finisher his decision making as a
whole just needs to. Improve his mid range shooting needs to. Improve he needs to add this level of poise that you have seen from you, know real floor generals like Say Jalen brunson Or Tias. Jones he needs to figure out when to go full speed and when to slow. Down Even John morant needs to learn. That and he's a kid who could win AN. Mvp so, like being out of control is his biggest downfall and he needs to be able to fix that in order for them to be able to win. Games Indiana, pacers they, know
they know what time it. Is they're not. Winning they're not winning anything this. Year they're not winning like many. Games they're not going to the, playoffs but they are. Fun Ben, mathern what a great. Pickup he's gonna be a. Star he is so. Good he can do. Everything he's, Big he's the kind of guy everyone. Wants six five six' six, long wingspin can get his hands and arms into the, passing lanes, can shoot, can dribble can just. Be intense has that dog in him to be able to hit
crucial shots down the stretch when. He's down when he Was at arizona AND they i remember watching Them, versus illinois, and man every time they, went down he pulled them out the out of the bottom and got him. Back Up miles turner is probably gonna. Get moved let's. Be honest he's been on the chopping block for a, while now and let's, be real the team hasn't like him. Very much how is he gonna look with Him And. Tyrese haliburton maybe it, looks good maybe he turns into a,
Better player but it feels like they're gonna. Move him they. REALLY do i does really feel like they're gonna. MOVE him i think for them, to compete they need To Get. DeAndre Ayton DeAndre ayton is Available. In january he wanted to. Go there he was open to Go. To indiana just go and. Get him he'll a good and Yellow Trade myles turner There to phoenix and let them deal with
him on. Their own the final teams of groups who are in the greatest game in, thirty years which is Tanking For victor wanmbanyama Brickin For Vican, San, ANTONIO, orlando Ok see Utah. In, houston yeah we talked about. Tanking working. It works the lottery system has made, it tougher but. It works, You know shack was, number one but let's, face it the team That got, alonso morning they were pretty, Happy too so that's what's gonna Happen with Scoot And
victor wanmbiyama. As well as Long as victor's on. THE board i don't think there's any path out, of THERE and I think Utah And san antonio are fully fully invested in. Tank mode let's talk about just. These teams orlando is gonna be very fun to WATCH from i would say game One through game, twenty five until they are no longer in any. Way relevant palo's gonna be a, highlight Machine but suggs is already. Banged Up franz wagner's
very fun, to watch but that's pretty. Much it other Than hoping Mark el foltz can, Be healthy i'm not sure that there's much, To watch Like maybe mobamba just to see if we can play that, song again but not a team that is going anywhere or going. To compete they're a team. To fade rocket's always a good team to keep things. Close Always jalen green's. Gonna try he's gonna put up like thirty five points, a night mostly. On threes you're GONNA, have kpj who's, a bucket gonna
be a highlight machine. As. Well alprin shengon's gonna continue. To improve you've got the Emergence Of, jabari smith the. Rookie there he's gonna be a nice addition and a Replacement For christian Wood And. TARI easton i think is. A sleeper he's a very like young player who should be able to make an impact. Right Away josh christopher also, very good. Very bouncy but they are also a. Tanking team this team is winning, twenty games twenty, Five Games
Max san antonio fifteen win. Team purposefully they play very. Fast though they are gonna be a very unusual Team For greg popovich, to manage but it seems to. Be working you're Gonna Have josh. Primo there he's a fun young Player from alabama that is kind of snuck up. On everyone you have, My Guy malachi Brandham And, Jeremy sohan You've Got. Blake wesley all those guys are very, brand new, you know rookies or second. Year players and then you throw that on Top Of keldon johnson who
played In, the olympics You Know. Devin vassel they are. ANY fun i don't win, many games but they are gonna be fun, to watch especially just for the individual, player play not for the team. Player play and they Even Have josh richardson for some un, o reason not. Sure Why. Only okay, see though has in this group has any real hope of, getting out and that really depends on if they, want to if they want to
be a team, to compete or whether they are committed. To, Tanking Still josh Giddy and Shay, and dort they are improving in terms of their, jump shots all three. Of them they've hired the shot doctor that we've. Talked about and You, know presty we'll see how committed he is to continuing to try to CONTINUE to i, don't know accumulate first round pick after first. Round pick the last question that folks unlocked on asked me was who was the one PLAYER that i wanted to watch and? This
year my answer was the birthday. Boy Himself. Josh giddy he dazzled. Last year he got hurt due. To TANKING but i think he's. A star he's going to be. Very fun let's throw some other names in there that we didn't talk about. LAST week I Like. PAALO benkaro i think he's going to be surprising a lot of people in just in terms of, how big, how dominant how good of a passer. He is he's gonna be. Really Fun tarry easton will. BE fun i can't wait to.
Watch him we've got a. Whole list we'll coming out next week with the top ten players to, watch list but those are my, first off top off the top of, my mind players that you're gonna want to see, night in. Night out that's all the, time though that we have For The. Heat check hope that there was enough curse words and hoes. In there we'll Be back thursday with a. New episode check out the feed for. Past episodes, WE'RE also, i believe going to try to drop a more bonus
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