|FULL POD| The Problem With Cam Thomas Scoring 45, Ant is HOT, Randle is COLD, & The League is BUZZING!

cold his site. We may need to retire this segment. Right after he's done when somebody put up a clock and the last time he's made something just soaking wet through the net because I haven't seen it, folks, I have not seen it. Finally, get into us news from around the League, Jam past segment, Baby jamback show, So let's get into it. William drop that motherfucker beat and should be Rihanna down all the biggest NBA storylines. So the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just a cracker,

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help me help me make my point known to my listeners without them holding my takes against me, because they they do not know what they see. They think they see a man that's a bucket. He's a bucket, He's a bucket. But what they actually see, folks, is a fucking chucker. And that's okay, that's okay, But we got to talk about Cam Thomas today. I am fired up about Cam Thomas, the man, the myth, the legend. Cam Thomas continues to grow. He had forty five points last

night against the Milwaukee Bucks. And that that is a real that is a real problem. That is like we are will will it alert alert? It is the end of times here when Cam Thomas is scoring forty five points in a real NBA game. The man Cam Thomas thirty three shots last night, he attempted, he put up sixteen threes. So yeah, I'm fired up, not just about Cam, but that anyone would think it was a good idea

to build their entire offense around Cam Thomas. Now you may say Trista, Trista, He's a leading scorer in Okill history, leading freshman in the SEC at LSU. Give a buck. He has the same usage right now, higher usage than Damian Logo Lillard. Listen, I'm not trying to hate on this man. Cam Thomas. He's a chucker. That's what he does. He's gonna, okay, he's gonna do what he does. He's not told anyone any different. I'm not passing you the ball, so quit asking. I need somebody to take the ball

away from Cam Thomas. We are too real, like real times of like I am legend, like this is now. I need someone to tell Jacques Vaughn and Sean Marx and the rest of these beta boys on the Brooklyn Nets you can't have Cam Thomas be the leader of your team. This is now socialism at its finest, where we all just get to share the pie. Everybody takes what they need, right, Everybody takes the shots that they

need except for Cam Thomas. Like no, no, no, no no, I'm taking thirty three a game and you're getting the rest. That's what happens when you have a selfish man in a socialistic system. I'll take all the flames. Oh, Trista, you're just hating. Ask any fucking basketball player. Ask someone ethical about the game of basketball. If what Cam Thomas is doing is good for the sport, they're gonna shoot

every time. They can't chuckers. They shoot every time they get the ball twenty seconds in the shot cluck five seconds. The show doesn't matter, contested, uncontested, thirty feet, forty feet, fifty feet away, doesn't matter. I'm Cam Thomas, I am him, and that's what Cam Thomas did last night. The truth is Cam Thomas is doing a lot in Brooklyn, and for the life of me, I cannot tell why, why why he was benched last year He poudered and he cried and we all knew he wasn't a starting caliber guard.

And we've got Spencer Dinwidy on this team and he's just being benched in the fourth quarter so that Cam Thomas can shoot all the shots down the stretch against the contender like the Milwaukee Bucks. Why I have no idea Spencer Dinwoodie, most clutch shots, eleven game winners in his career, highest plus minus on the team, highest assist rate on the team, you know, at the cold basketball. But no, he's sitting there on his ass on the bench while Cam Thomas is being told green light, green light,

have it, take it. And you know what Milwaukee says, Yes, yes, we love to see he Cam Thomas with the ball in his hands. First quarter, second quarter, third quarter, old baby. Yes, of course fourth quarter, because eventually when cam Thomas misses, it turns into easy little shots for us in transition, and oh boy, yes it did. Milwaukee Bucks had the highest amount of transition buckets that they had all year, and it was no sweat. We don't care if we

go down ten to Brooklyn. Why because camp Thomas has the ball. That's why. If you think I'm hating, which I'm sure by now force five minutes into the segment, he probably do snack on this little baby. The more that cam Thomas scores, the more that the Brooklyn Nets lose. The numbers speak for themselves. Cam Thomas when he scores thirty or more, his team is three and seven. Cam Thomas. When they scores thirty five or more, team is one and five cam Thomas when they scores forty or more.

Very impressive that he has five games where he scored forty or more. One and four Camp Thomas when he scores forty five or more. Very impressive. Of three games he scored forty five, very impressive. Oh for three. The more cam Thomas we get, the more sick we get. I mean, the team is non functional. Cam right now has a twenty eight percent usage rate. That's fifth in the entire league at the position. Brooklyn, we have a problem. This man Cam Thomas has a higher usage rate than

Damian Lillard. He's got a usage rate through the fucking roof. This is one of the most egregiously unethical players we've seen in our life. This is two thousands basketball for you, clear on out. It's on me. It's me right now, are you open? I don't care. This man Cam Thomas is gone to do anything else either. He's gonna shoot and shoot and shoot some more. How bad is he on defense? The worst, like bottom five percent. I could

tell you the rating, but you don't care. One hundred and seventeen point nine twenty fifth worst in the league of over four hundred. That is nearly identical the way he had last year, which is one hundred and seventeen point seven. Loa loah. Again, not about Cam Thomas, more about situation. Opposing teams, like I said, they want to see nothing more than Cam Thomas shoot the ball. Do you think the deepfense is bending because of Cam Thomas?

Do you think they're collapsing around Cam Thomas? Do you think Cam Thomas is on the fucking scouting report. No, except for allow cam Thomas to have the ball as much as he can. He is shooting thirty three percent from three, which qualifies him as being bottom ten percent of a high volume three point shooter. Fam, we can't be doing this. We can't put him on Twitter, elevating him onto a pedestal like the forty five cam Thomas put up was in some way valuable to the team.

Sixteen threes last night? Sixteen Are you kidding me? Do not be putting this man on my Twitter feet. Do not be like, oh, he's him, He's a bucket. Jacqu Vaughan. Do not be like after the game, we need to see the ball in cam Thomas's hand as much as possible in the fourth quarter. No, we don't. No, we don't. Michel Bridges, don't be like, oh, cam Thomas is a bucket. I want the ball in his hands down and crunch time.

No you don't. And if you do your beta, your beta, you don't want the ball in your hands because Cam Thomas is gonna take it and Spencer didn when he doesn't want to ruffle any feathers because we already know what time it was when he was in Wizard's Land. They were fucking with his reputation. He built it up to as high as it is right now. Well whatever that means in Dallas and now he's just trying to, like, you know, not make waves because he's an impending free

agent and he wants to get paid. Shame on Brooklyn, Shame on you, Jacque Vond, Shame on you, Michale Bridges, Shame on you the rest of the squad for letting this man have the ball thirty eight percent of the time. Twenty eight percent of the time, doesn't matter. It feels like always. How does this happen? Where else? Would this happen? Nowhere? Nowhere, nowhere? Wizards? Probably maybe not. Jordan Poole would say, Cam Tomas, Ula, no, sir.

Doesn't happen in Orlando, doesn't happen in Portland, doesn't happen in any dog shit organization. But it's happening on the nets. Why I don't know it. He needs an investigation for the ages and we will do that deep dive, just not today. But it's a mess, so please. The end of the line is for me saying despite the nets loss, Cam Thomas bawled out, no, that's not correct. What is correct is the Nets can't win because they have a yanky ass roster that relies on Cam Thomas putting up

forty five. And remember, only you kids can stop unethical basketball from being put onto our Twitter feed. That's enough right now, I've got to move on to something more positive. I can feel the poison just seeping into my veins.

Let's move forward. It's Wednesday, so you know what time it is is trist is Hot and Cold segment where we take the thermometer out and tell you who's got a fever and who's got the chills, and my man Aunt Edwards, nobody's running hotter than him. Aunt Edwards is on fire twenty eight seven and five so far this season,

which are part of the numbers of the Flames. But listen, that's only a part of the He is a focal point of the defense, still managing to get off good shots, something that he's very much struggled to do in the past. He's either a defender or he is a scorer, and now he's being able to do both. He's shooting better from the free throw line eighty three percent fifty two percent from the field this season, incredible considering the fact that defenses are zeroing in on him after the FEBA

performance that he's had. He is got a target on his back, shooting forty seven percent from three, which is absolutely bonkers for a guy his size. And when he's hitting his threes, the Timberwolves win. That's what they do, fifty to forty eighty split. He's elite. He right now is hotter than Fish Grease. So they say, put the work in over the summer with Rudy Gobert and it is paid off. Gobert no longer the liability that was

most last year. The team is gelling. They've done a bunch of nerd stuff on defense that makes them more effective. Not going to get into it much more switching, less drop coverage. If you're looking for X's nose, you're not looking for me anyway. Aunt Edwards is hot right now and the Wolves are dangerous. They gave the Celtics their first loss. They gave the Denver Nuggets their first loss.

Can they give the Utah Jazz losses? I don't know, but we know that they will play to the level of their competition and by the time the playoffs come around, they're gonna play some stiff ones. On the other hand, let's talk about the ice cube of the week. It's not Trey Gung, which it could be a pretty much every single week. It really could. He's horrible. He's the only player in NBA history to average twenty points per game on thirty three percent shooting this far into the season.

It is real ize cool, but our cooler of the week comes no further than Madison Square Garden. And his name is Julius roller Coaster Randall. How bad is it, you may ask? Fans are asking for his head on a spike, like his name is Ned Stark. He is shooting under thirty percent for the season from the field, twenty five percent from three and guess what it feels worse? It really does seventeen shots per game. How bad is that? Dead last in the NBA. That's how bad goal efficiency

dead last. Julius Randall and the Knicks are the only team in the league that I hate to watch because of him. He missed the dunk the other day. Julius Randall missed a dunk the other day. He's missing bunnies. The man psychologically is not right up there. Something's going on. Someone needs to give him a little massage, a little

something something, you know what I mean? Because confidence is lacking sixty seven percent from the free throw line right now, which is the worst in his career at one point eighty one percent from the free throw line. Something's going on, folks. He is ice cold, and we know that's the Julius Randall experience. You're one hot, you're two cold, you're three hot, you're four. We're in the cold year. We knew that it's cold year season, but this is really really bad.

Twenty five a game last year and currently averaging fifteen thirty nine percent decrease in scoring, which is pretty absurd for a guy who won Most Improved. Can we have a least improved player, a biggest regression player, because that would be Julius Randall this year. Then the Knicks, of course, are struggling as a result. They're three and four ninth place. What do you do? You let him shoot out of the slump. I don't fucking know. Somebody get him some help.

He's gone months in the past. We know this getting cold, that's happened last year. He's a vibe guy. The vibes are out of whack. That's why I say something needs to change, change a little mix up. Jalen Brunton is supportive right now, but very realistic. This is part of basketball, he said. This dude has a great mindset, a great work ethic. The ball's not going through the hoop right now for him. No shit, He's still contributing in a big way. Is he? Is he? Jalen? How is he

contributing in a big way? I'm not going to get into all that stuff. Oh you mean the things that he's positively doing on the floor that you can't really name because we don't have any of those things. His heart's still there, thank God for that. He just has to get over this little hump aka the round basketball that's eighteen inches in width. I get it, dude, confidence Waynes, you're getting killed on Twitter. People are saying that your scum and that you should be traded or going to

Siberia or China. I get it. Stay off a line, change your account, have someone else look at your comments. Here's to Aunt Edwards staying hot, and here's Julius Randall. Find in the fucking stove, because right now it's ice cube season and it is not good in New York.

Let's move to some news from around the league. We start in Portland. It's bad Shad and Sharp has been lighting things up, yes he has. He is leading the league in minutes as he should be. Jeremy Grant finalists for Player of the Week. Great, but all of that is overshadowed by the fact that Rob Williams they broke him, folks. So they broke him in Boston because he's now headed for surgery again on his knee, and who knows how long it's going to be until he comes back. We

know Time Lord has been injury prone. That's been a thing for him. We know that probably that's because Boston ran him into the ground to get to the finals and he probably should have had knee surgery. Then. He was a big part of the Dame Willard trade, as was Malcolm Brogden, two guys with injury history. Did the Boston sell Finesse to Portland Trail Blazers? I don't know, but it kind of feels like one of those Gary Payton scenarios where they suit us try to get their

draft picks back. Turns out Time Lord needs surgery and his right knee and there's no timetable for his return, No timetable for his return. Sean's just tweeted this Portland Trailblazers Rob Williams is facing potential season ending surgery to repair a bone and ligament damage due to right kneecap injury. Williams and doctors could also choose cleanup procedure with a two to three month timetable. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, so the other one is two to three months? And

what's the first one is? Is that like shut down season? Feels like it? Rob we know is one of the best defenders in the league. I could only hope to imagine what it would be like with him fully healthy and DeAndre Ayton fully healthy. But now I'm hoping that it's just dominate in season and that Rob Williams finally gets healthy. We let him sit on ice and develop,

because Lord knows this is a rebuilding team. And here's to hoping that Rob Williams gets his kneeback fully fully one hundred percent because we know guys like Lonzo Ball this thing can last many, many years. Let's move forward. Let's get some man his flowers. Joelle Embiid leading the new look Sixers No more. James Harden absolutely awesome start of the season. He could have been the Hottest player of the week. He has been incredible. How good as

Embiid been? Well, I know this may not sound like a lot, but against the shitty ass Wizards, he was absolutely elite. In the third quarter alone, Jojo went for twenty nine, ten for ten, shooting all of them, almost all of them from the mid range, nine for nine from the free throw line, added a pair of rebounds and assists in a block that was more points than anyone in Washington had scored all night. The dude is like, not just a microwave. He is one of those campfires.

So Jojo ends the game with forty eight eleven and six on seventeen for twenty five shooting in thirty minutes. In thirty minutes, Jojo, I know it's the Wizards, but again, forty eight points, eleven rebound, six assists, fourteen for fourteen from the free throw Mott line in thirty minutes. What a hell of an effort for the big man. These sixers look dangerous, they really do. Let's move forward. We talked a little bit earlier about Aunt Edwards and what

he's doing for the Wolves. But I do want to remind the people that the Minnesota Timberwolves all is not lost. They are the number one defensive rated team in the NBA right now. It is not particularly close either. Here is a simple way to see how defensive efficiency impacts winning. So here's the deal. The Wolves have now beaten the current number one seed in the Eastern and Western Conferences.

In their game against the Celtics, they held Boston to seventeen points below their season average despite the game going to overtime. That's ridiculous. Against the defending champs, the Denver Nuggets, the Wolves held Denver to twenty six percent, twenty six points below the season scoring average as well. Whoa wie Chris Finch, supposedly the offensive mastermind doing the Lord's work

on defense, and it happens. Why because this team is filled chockfull swarming with players that are long rangy six' ten six, seven six' eleven, positive wingspan Guys Like, Kyle anderson, Jade, McDaniels Nikaile. Alexander walker, Of Course, Rudy Gobert carl anthony town Just man ke could kind of probably go same Situation where rudy was exposed, last year and With The,

utah jazz they've decided they're going to change. Things up the defensive scheme now relies far more this year on switches, on screens moving away from the drop coverage and the pick and roll That Left rudy. Gobert exposed again, nerd stuff but. It matters it's simpler and, in result creates more offense, from defense a lot more, transition buckets putting pressure on the, other team a lot less Pressure, on rudy a lot less Pressure, on cat and has worked.

Incredibly well rudy was a plus twenty four Against. The CELTICS that's, i mean When Has rudy gobert ever been a plus twenty four against the? Contending, team really let's. Be honest he's now in the Running For defensive player Of the. Year Again could Rudy go Bear Win defensive player Of the? Year again, come, on sir very. Encouraging moves maybe they'll just move On, from Cat keep rudy and they'll just keep. It pushing if they can keep

it up. All year this is the team That gave jokic And the, nuggets problems and they might just be A team they could go To The Western. Conference finals we'll have. To see here's a quick cup Day On Stefan. Wardel curry we mentioned last week he's been. Very hot he has had a historically, hot start especially, from three

which is like what he does. Right now we are entering the third week of, the season and, Guess What steph curry, still hot still, very hot currently averaging, thirty one five and four insane shooting splits forty eight percent. From three but that's not even telling the. Whole story by, The way he's nailing fifty eight percent of his catch and, shoot threes thirty nine percent of us pull, up threes and has hit four or more threes every single game, this season and five or more in six of. Eight

games what, The? Fuck steph steph IS. Our mvp we need to give it to him. Right Now, Like jokic, i'm sorry you deserve it, every Year but steph is. Winning it, i'm sorry. Case close just put your, ballots in put them in, the Mail and steph get ready to collect. Your trophy that's all the time that we have for this Episode Of The heat check come back tomorrow for an all, new episode and check out the feed for. Past episodes and many episodes which drop unexpectedly

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