Southeast Division Preview: Hawks and Heat

and the Washington Wizards. We also have a great interview with Kurt Healing from NBC Sports to prepare you for all the things about the new season. It is a loaded show. Welcome, let's get into it. William drop that generic gas beat that should be reh honest breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines heat Check. The Heat Check was just a CRA's the best podcast covering all the drama around the association. Our final preview Southeast Division. I'd like to say last, but not least. We saved the

best for last, but we didn't. I waited as long as I possibly could to talk about this shitty ass division. The yellow starburst of NBA divisions is the Southeast. It's like the candy corn in the Halloween Bowl, whereas like nobody wants this shit. It's sticking to everything else. You can't get rid of it. They put it on sale for nine to nine cents for an entire pound at your local Fred Myers. But we're gonna get into it anyway because there's still NBA teams here that we have

to cover. That's how much I love you. I want to talk about other things the tea, like the Chicago Bulls players meeting only first game of the season has to get waxed by the Okase thunder. But no, no, sir, we must fulfill our commitments, and we start with the Atlanta Hawks. Key additions. They get Kobe Buffin in the draft out of Michigan. They get Patty Mills from free agency. What is Patty Mills doing there? By the way, what the fuck? Why? First of all, aren't you ready to retire?

And second of all, why do you want to be with that dog shit organization? Subtractions. John Collins Finally, he's been in the news trade rumors so long. Finally happened. He gets himself into a better situation. Congratulations to John Collins. Anyway, we move forward about the Hawks. So though last year the Hawks imploded, they fired their coach of the deadline, they went out and hired a coach midway through the

season in Quinn Snyder for so much money, all the money. Spectacularly, also fired their GM, hired a whole new front office. Remember then they tried to say the GM wasn't really fired, he was just in an advisory role. Now I mean they fired him and he just kept him on site on step. Yeah, Travis Schlank. Now he's working for the Washington Wizards, part of the same same sort of umbrella,

yellow starburst. But we'll move forward. The explanation of hiring Quinn Snyder and then not waiting out the year was just so that Snyder could assess, he could wait and see what he had. He could get a head start for this season. And he found out pretty early that this old John Collins Trey Young thing it's not working. It's never gonna work. John Collins doesn't like Trey Young. So this summer they sent out John Collins the Utah

Jazz for Rudy Gay and his second round pick. Remember they were at one point I refusing to trade John Collins unless they got multiple first round picks for him back That was a real article. Those were the real news rumors. Sounds like they couldn't get that first round pick for him, and now they got a dirty muffin which was Rudy Gay and his second round pick. They turned down much better packages for him in the past. I like where John Collins landed for a team that

was pretty trash. Last year, the Hawks didn't really do much. They're still trying to roll out this whole Dejontey Murray and Trey Young experiments. I preferred to Jontay Murray. They add Patty Mills and Kobe Buffkin. Neither are going to be very much factors. This team is going to fall again on whether Dejonte and Trey could play together. And I don't know, honestly. I like DeAndre Hunter a lot. I am not sure honestly if this roster makes any sense.

They refused to extend Sidik Bay, which they traded for, which means he's probably getting moved at the deadline or they'll lose him for nothing. We're looking at a starting five of Clint Capella, who looked horrible in their opening game. He's been rumored to be traded for the last sixteen months, Trey Young, de Jontey Murray just signed an extension, DeAndre hurt Hunter, and bog Don Bogdanovic. Does anybody think that this team is gonna win their division? No, this is

a team that went to the Eastern Conference finals. Does anyone actually like this team? The Washington Wizards circle Atlanta on their calendars, like, yep, that's the game. That's the game we low manage stars for. That's the game we low manage Jordan Pool for. They're gonna probably win forty forty two games. They're gonna be a playing team as like a twelve seed? Was it seven, eight, nine, ten? So it's a ten seed? Ten seed? It feels like

so many damn teams get in. This is the kind of team really is like wins the NBA in season tournament and they just call that season his success because the owner's son is now running the team, and you know how that whole thing goes. And then we're gonna have another mediocres to season and Quinn Snyder will have to decide whether Trey Young can be on this team any longer in order for them to move on and succeed, and I think he'll get to the point where he

realizes maybe he's been the problem the whole time. We move forward another team in this division. My vote for the team that had the absolutely worst off season by far, by far was the Miami Heat. How do you go to the finals and still have the worst off season of anyone? Love their draft picks, Haimi Hawkez love him, you end up getting Thomas Bryant. Don't hate it, Josh Richardson, you pick him up. That's terrible, John. I might be the leader of the Josh Richardson dis fan club, like

the non fan club like. I don't hate him as a person. He is not a piece. Though he is not a piece. I would have rather they got Kelly than Josh Richardson. That's not a lie. They lose Max Struz, who by the way, had seven threes for the Caves the other night, just loading up buckets after buckets. They lose Gabe Vincent. They lose Victor Oladipa. They were just waiting. They knew they were getting Damian Lillar, didn't they. They just knew they were getting Dame. They thought they were

getting Bradley Beal for a song. This team could have had Dame brad Beal, Jimmy Butler, bam Adebayo. Jesus, what are they doing? Pat Riley? Pat Riley, I don't know what to say other than he just doesn't want to spend money. He's done, he's decided, like the Chicago Bulls, We're gonna put together a good product and in the playoffs we'll see. But I'm not gonna go into the luxury tags for a thirty something star who's gonna make

like sixty five million dollars next year. They lost out on Bradley Beal, who was his first choice, was going to Miami. Even this week. Something came out where he was like, I thought it was a done deal, and for whatever reason, they did not want to make a move. It's the no trade clause, Bradley, It's the no trade clause, and they dragged their feet. No clue what happened. I know what happened. You know what happened, pat Riley. Happened.

He wanted to basically get another star for free and have Bradley Beal wave his no trade clause, and instead Bradley Burele goes to Phoenix for basically nothing. Literally, I think it was like what how many? Like a handful of second round picks? And Beale is still like, how did I end up in Phoenix? I don't know how this happened. It wasn't even on my board. It didn't even register as a team for me to go to. Then, of course they lose Dame because they didn't want to

make a real offer. What did that leave them thinking maybe they could get into the Drew Holiday Sweepstakes? But by then it was like Portland's I don't call us lose our number. Then now they're thinking maybe they can get into the Heart and Sweep steaks because Harden is now opening up the possibilities of trade partners for Philadelphia. He just wants to compete, doesn't matter if he's in La. It's a disaster. Their backup plan, Kelly Oubre went to

the Sixers. Then Jannis, who was their backup, backup, backup plan, just signed a massive three year extension. All they can hope for now is Joel Embiid. That's it. I'd say pat Riley is coming to a close of what he's willing to do in terms of his aggressiveness. They find these guys out of the bottom of the barrel. They want these role players who can contribute with very little money attached to them, and that helps them, you know,

with their financial situation. That's fine, but ultimately that's not what you want to do when you are a championship caliber franchise. He's a junk ball pitcher now, pat Riley, his command has failed. The Heat were three minutes from getting bounced last year in the player and then what

do they do? They said, well, well, just instead of using that data to make our decision, we're going to use the data that's less likely, which is the fact that we went to the finals and then you lose two guys that were on the team that were key contributors. What do I like about this team? Obviously Jimmy Butler, He's fucking beast. He's one of my favorite players in the league. I love bam Adebayo. Those two are enough to do a lot for you in a postseason. Tyler

hero is an absolute bucket. He's like the white Anthony Simons. He's going to be able to get your buckets from the perimeter. He's going to probably have a chip on his shoulder and Chuck I don't know eighteen times a game. He's been rumored to be in every trade Miami's ever had. Recently, he deleted Miami from his Instagram. Remember, at one point this beach could probably revenge season for Tyler Hero. Duncan

Robinson I think is back into the rotation. I think they hate him less because he proved himself when Tyler Hero was out. In the playoffs, they're starting guards though, are Kyle Lowry and Caleb Martin. This is a bad team, folks. This is a bad team. This is the same team as last year, only worse. If Heimi Hawkaz doesn't produce or Nikola Yovich, who was a healthy scratch last night doesn't produce ah and they don't make the playoffs, I would not be shocked if they don't make the playoffs.

Everyone else except for Atlanta got better in their division and they got worse. It's Mas school, folks. They are taking a downturn. The biggest asset that the Heat have is obviously Eric Spolstra. He continues to make gold out of garbage, so I would be also not shocked if they made the finals again. Best case scenario is playing, but you never know what's gonna happen when you get Jimmy Butler in the postseason, the heat though, or a

team in decline. I am not ruining for them. I do not feel like they are a team that you can believe in, and pat Riley must take the blame.