Going up on a Tuesday. See you know what time it is on the Heat Check. It's time for the Rookie Report, rookie from around the league. No, we're gonna break down if that's Rookie of the week, and like, you know what's what? Tell them what timing is? When drop that motherfucking meat and should be Rihanna's breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. You're children, So the Heat Check, the Heat Check, it's just a cracky it's the best
podcast covering all the drama around the Association day. We're two weeks into the season now and it's a Tuesday. It's going up on a Tuesday. It's Rookie Report time, Rookie Report. I mean we could do this every week, right. We can talk about Victor Wambin Yama. We could talk about Wemby aka the Alien Akaa? What the fuck is that? I did a whole segment though on him on Monday download subscribes. We're not gonna talk about Victor. I can tell you who's climbing up through the ranks though, who's
not getting profiled and probably should get profiled. In fact, I'll give you three names that you may not have much knowledge on yet. First is Derek Lively from the Dallas Mavericks, coming off of a fifteen point fourteen rebound, one assist performance. He is currently second in the NBA and field goal percentage, which is ridiculous, seventy seven percent pretty much just a bunch of layups and floaters and dunks. I bet we're gonna be checking on him in a minute. Second.
Is obviously Austar Thompson. We could do something about him every single week. His twin brother. As a quick side note, injury to his ankle. We don't know if it's grade two or worse. Grade three is probably twelve weeks out Grade two, somewhere between three to six. Anyway. Auser has been balling, playing lights out fourteen nine and four in his last game, four steals, four blocks. Jesus Christ, Auser,
what are you doing up? Next? Is to Mani Kamara, who everybody thought was a throw in piece in the Damian Lillard kind of Sun's Element where Nurkic goes to the Suns, Portland gets DeAndre Ayton and this guy to Mani Kamara, I think a lot of Suns fans are gonna be mad that they got rid of too many buckets. Is an absolute hound dog on defense, He's gritty, he gets under your skin. He's pissing off Marcus smart, so you know he's gritty and you know he's about it.
He put up eight six and two in his last game and people on Twitter are very mad, so you know he is a dog. But the rookie of the week this time around is Marcus Sassor out of Detroit. Yes, sir, you heard me right. Marcus Sasser twenty fifth pick in the draft. He was not expected to contribute a ton this season, but man, oh man have though those plans gone out the window. Money Williams very high on Marcus Sasser. Why because he is a winning player. A winning player.
You thought maybe there was too many damn guards on the Detroit Pistons, which there is for Marcus Sasser to get any love. But guess what, he is climbing up the depth charts. I did some social clips that went viral this weekend on Jade and Ivy and why he's getting less minutes in the rotation than last year. One of those reasons is that Monny Williams hates Jade and Ivy. The other reason is that he loves Marcus Sasser. So many of Jade and Ivy's minutes have it gone to
Marcus Sasser. They have increased from six in Game three to thirty in his last game. Jay and Ivy did not play in that game, by the way, he was sick. Moni said after the twenty two point performance that he's always ready to play, and he responded to the tune of twenty one to three and four in his last two games combined. We should probably have expected it because he's a Houston Cougar and he's a winning player. He played multiple years under Kelvin Samson, and Kelvin Samson is
that guy. He was the go to dude in the tournament down the stretch, in the crunch time, he could play defense, he could shoot the three, and yes, sir, he is in the NBA. He's hitting sixty percent so far this season. That is outrageous. And also he's got a little push shot and he's probably under six feet tall to begin with, so that is very, very impressive. The moment never seems too big for him, and that's probably because he played all those minutes for the Houston Cougars.
And not only is he shooting sixty percent from three. He hasn't had a single turnover in his last one hundred minutes of play, which is not only incredible for any guard, but for a rookie, ridiculous sixteens is zero assist a turnover ratio during his stretch. The moment, like I said, never seems too big for him. In college, he played in so many big time games where he was the go to dude down the stretch, and he has ball in his DNA. Dad was a college star.
Both of his uncles were all Americans and they played in the league, and even his great grandfather was an NBA player, which we got to talk about because he has an impressive stat line that rivals even Wilt Chamberlain. No, there was no question what field Marcus Sasser was going to go into. Hoopin' MANI said this about him. He understands when to shoot, when to drive, and he defends. There were times tonight when he was outmatched with the
bigger guy and he just kept fighting. So, in other words, Marcus Sasser is a classic Money Williams type player, and he's gonna get more and more playing time as the season goes on. Detroit found a sleeper in Marcus Sasser, and that's all we have for the Rookie Report on a Tuesday. Tune back in for an all new episode of The He Checked tomorrow and check out the feed for past episodes of many episodes which drop unexpectedly whenever I feel like it. Do not forget to follow the
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