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Weather Report: Who’s Hot and Who’s Cold?

Nov 01, 20238 min
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In this portion of the Heat Check, Trysta gives you the weather report after week one of the 2023-24 season. She tells you who’s hot, discussing Russell Westbrook and Stephen Curry, and who’s cold, sharing stats and stories from Peyton Pritchard, Lamelo Ball, Julius Randle, and, of course, Trae Young. 


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Break with breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. So the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just a craker, the best podcast covering all the drama around the association. You're hot, then y'all cold. The next thing. Y'all know, I can't use the music because they tell me it's illegal. So we're just gonna do that this week on Hot and Cold. It's your NBA thermometer, it's the weather report. We were gonna start with hot, We're gonna start with

Russ Russell Westbrook is now Brooke and not Brick. Somehow, some way, he has started the season shooting sixty percent from the field. Could have gone with Tobias Harris shooting so well sixty seven percent from the field. The nick Nurse legit said in his presser that he needs to run more plays for Tobias Harris. The huck Rivers would

be rolling in his broadcasting grave right now. Could have gone with Derek Lively started his career just basically making every shot that he takes eighty six percent from the field. But no, we gotta talk about a guy that moves the needle. God, it's absolutely cooking. The older he gets, the better he is I'm not talking about Lebron either. We've got a guy who's just cooking up in the kitchen.

Mister Chef Curry, himself a literal Hall of Famer, never at a start like this in his entire career, single handedly carrying his team. That is kind of struggling in other places of the game. Steph, Steph night night, sleep mask, Steph Curry. Oh yes, baby, the chef is cooking. So he had a bit of like a mid start to the season opener, our Dubs coughed up a late lead to the Suns. He still had twenty seven, but like you know, you expect more from chef eight for eighteen,

shooting only four for fourteen from three. He wasn't the reason they lost, of course, he never is. Andrew Wiggins was four for twelve, Chris Paul four for fifteen, Clay for eighteen. Pretty mediocre performance from the team. And let's be real, they rolled out I'm pretty sure they rolled out Devin Booker and they rolled out Kevin Durant. So I mean it is what it was. Steph though must have been here, and he loves to hear people chirp because he has gone absolutely nuclear. He is hot Hot.

He put up forty one, twenty four and forty two and three straight Warriors wins. Tough Kings team. One of those you know Game seven performances for staph he was fourteen for nineteen, seventy percent from three in a game where nobody else had more than eighteen points. The Rockets, he legitimately clowned. Dylan Brooks crossed him up so bad, so many times, reproducing the iconic Luca smiling meme it

was ugly, folks. His twenty four of that game led all the Warriors, and again nobody else had twenty Our dubs were at the pels. Chef Curry cooked it up again, cook it up in the kitchen forty two on fifteen for twenty two, seven for thirteen from three. No other Warrior had more than thirteen points. My man is carrying this team. We're gonna talk about MVP voting, MVP awards on Friday. I tell you what, you might want to sprinkle a little money on it now, because it might

not be there by Friday. This is supposed to be a team loaded with scorers, yet not one other player other than Steph is scoring over twenty. He's averaging thirty four, five and four. This is the best start to Steph's career. He is thirty five right now, thirty five. Someone posted this, Steph is demonstrably better at thirty five than he was at thirty. Was Lebron better at thirty five than he

was at thirty? Because I don't think anyone would say that that is no shade against Lebron, who is incredible, but he did not get better as he aged through his thirties, and Steph is getting better. So he is what is hot? Hot? Hot like fish grease? Right now? On the other side, who's cold? Ice cold? Who's colder than being cold? There's so many damn candidates. You got

Peyton Pritchard. He signed a four year, thirty million dollar extension and he's rewarded the Celtics by shooting fifteen percent from the field ten percent from three. Oh baby, oh baby, that's not good. LaMelo ball has it made more than four field goals in a game this year? Could be him, It's not him. Julius Randall seems to have further regressed, shooting twenty eight percent from the field so far this season. But you know who's who's called them being cold? Eyes cold.

You know, you can't give the award to anyone else but iceray Istray Young. Trey Young is cold. Boy. He is shooting on average eighteen times a game. How many shots do you think he's making? Guess it's not ten. It's not ten. That wouldn't be that cool with it. Five shots a game for Tray Young. Over four games, Trey Young averaging five shots five for eighteen. Oh my goodness, the Hawks are still two and two. How is it? I don't know, I don't know. De Jon Tay Murray's

going crazy. Trey Young is bad right now. I'm sorry, Trey. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. He's also averaging four turnovers a game that magnifies the bad shooting. How bad has he been? Sports Illustrated ran an article entitled No, It's not time to panic about Trey Young, which is maybe the most I think it's time to panic about Trey Young article that you can get if you're a Hawks fan. So they asked Trey, Hey, treyell us about your struggles.

Tell us about your struggles, Trey, and he goes, Sometimes when guys are tired, you can forget things. Your mind can go different places. We got to learn how to play with certain movements and certain signals that we have, voice calling. There's a lot of things we have, but is just going to take time in reps and reps and reps of us doing it for where it needs to be for us to win. What is he saying there?

Does anybody know I don't understand that quote? Are you saying that the team is fucking up and you're doing everything fine? That would be very on brand, but also that was a convoluted ask quote. The question though, is Trey, how are you doing? Though? Well, I'm getting assists, but I mean I am turning the ball over and some of that is playing through contact and the ref's not calling that, and that is leading the bad shots that are going off the glass that I'm getting fouled on

but not getting the call. So I guess I just have to play through that. Oh, I get it. You doing everything right as on schedule, but your teammates are sucking up and you're not getting the calls. So that's why it looks like you're playing worse than you actually are. Yeah, I think it's more than just Trey Young as cold. I think all of Atlanta is cold and one thing we know, Trey Young is going to try to chuck his way out of the cold streak.

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