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The Miami Heat Are 0-4... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: The Miami Heat have started off the season 0-4. 0-4. Like,
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Speaker 1: it's so hard to even think about that they're 0-4. Now,
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Speaker 1: some of y'all are like, Kenny, I saw this coming
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Speaker 1: from a mile away when they traded for Giannis. I
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Speaker 1: knew it wasn't going to work. And that's different. That's different,
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Speaker 1: damn it. Maybe you thought that they weren't going to work,
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Speaker 1: that they weren't going to be a championship team, or
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Speaker 1: they weren't going to be a 55-win team. Cool. you
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Speaker 1: didn't expect them to start off this bad though. Even
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Speaker 1: if you were the biggest, he skipped it. You probably
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Speaker 1: didn't expect them to start off this bad. So we
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Speaker 1: got to talk about all things Miami Heat because it
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Speaker 1: is very confusing because the problems are somewhat changing on
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Speaker 1: a night-to-night basis. We're going to talk about that. But
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Speaker 1: before we do that, I do want to give my
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Speaker 1: flowers a tip the cap to the Dallas Mavericks because
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Speaker 1: first of all, Cooper Flagg, we all knew Cooper Flagg
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Speaker 1: was going to be a stud, right? He was labeled
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Speaker 1: generational coming out of his draft. And somehow I feel
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Speaker 1: like he's way ahead of schedule. Like, Like, the way
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Speaker 1: he's performing right now, obviously, it depends on how successful
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks are as a team. But he's performing
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Speaker 1: like an all-NBA caliber player already. The defensive playmaking, the
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Speaker 1: shot making, tough shot finishing to win the game. Like,
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Speaker 1: he is ahead of schedule, which, again, is super crazy
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Speaker 1: to say. They have a few reclamation projects that I
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Speaker 1: really like. Like, Zachary Chassé was not great today, but
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Speaker 1: Dusty trusted him enough in a game where he shot
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Speaker 1: two of 13. He basically played the entirety of the
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Speaker 1: second half. Walter Clayton Jr., I swear to you, two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, right before he was waived by the Grizzlies,
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Speaker 1: I had Grizzly fans on my timeline praying that he
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Speaker 1: was going to get waived. And in this game, he
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Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Six of seven from the field, 15 points.
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Speaker 1: He didn't make many bad decisions. So they have those
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Speaker 1: two guys as reclamation projects. They still got some other
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Speaker 1: interesting guys. Sergio went down after Tim Ardua Jr. kind
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Speaker 1: of ran into him. He had a sprained knee. I
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Speaker 1: was hoping he was going to get some more burn
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Speaker 1: because the previous game he had 21. And I'm like, oh, snap.
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Speaker 1: First of all, I was a fan based off summer
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Speaker 1: league and based on preseason. But he didn't get a
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Speaker 1: lot of burn because of the injuries and stuff. And
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Speaker 1: like the last couple games, P.J. Washington looks like the
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Speaker 1: player that they paid. So like really interesting, fun team.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the ceiling of this team is.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a playing team or less
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Speaker 1: than that or more than that. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, I love watching Cooper Flagg. And they got
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Speaker 1: a bunch of other players that are super interesting as well.
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Speaker 1: But this video mostly is focused on the Miami Heat
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Speaker 1: because my oh my. So let's go through these four games.
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Speaker 1: First game of the season, they lose against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Speaker 1: No harm in that. The Minnesota Timberwolves are a really
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Speaker 1: good to great team so far this season. Actually, not
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Speaker 1: really good. They are a great team. I know they
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Speaker 1: lost tonight. Second half of back-to-back with travel in Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: and they almost stole that game. Shout out to Anthony
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Speaker 1: Edwards and the ridiculous shot making. I made this tweet
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Speaker 1: that it makes no sense that Anthony Edwards is this
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Speaker 1: great of a shooter already. I mean, I can't say
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Speaker 1: already because he's been in the league for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying. He shot like 28%
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Speaker 1: from three in college. And if you look at his
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Speaker 1: scouting report, because I had to go back and look
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Speaker 1: at this, his scouting report coming out of college, again,
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Speaker 1: I didn't watch him much at Georgia. It was like,
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Speaker 1: if the jump shot comes around and he's legitimately one
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Speaker 1: of the, what, five best shooters in all of basketball
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Speaker 1: right now, maybe even higher than that. Like, he is
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Speaker 1: so disgustingly ridiculous. And actually, I enjoyed Yohan Baranjay today
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Speaker 1: over the last couple games. I thought in game number one,
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Speaker 1: Yohan Baranjay really didn't look like he was ready to
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Speaker 1: be back up center. Now I feel like I take
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Speaker 1: that back after them playing three to four games. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: they lose to Minnesota. Not anything to be super mad about,
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Speaker 1: even though they got blown out. Game number two, they
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Speaker 1: lose to Detroit. Remember, Detroit won 60 games last season.
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Speaker 1: I remember that Sir Thompson also got injured in this
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Speaker 1: game and Jalen Duren, and they still didn't stand a chance. Regardless,
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Speaker 1: they lost to a 61 team, whatever. Game three is
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Speaker 1: the one that hurts the most, in my personal opinion.
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Speaker 1: They lost to the Charlotte Hornets. Now, the Hornets had
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Speaker 1: a good win today versus the Washington Wizards. Brandon Miller,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you can't pass or if you
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Speaker 1: can't make it to the free throw line, if you're
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Speaker 1: going to score 38 a night. Shout out to Brandon Miller.
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Speaker 1: But the Hornets the night before that had just lost
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Speaker 1: by 46 points. And they were on the second night
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Speaker 1: of a back-to-back, as were the Miami Heat. But they
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Speaker 1: lose that game as well. That's a terrible, terrible loss.
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Speaker 1: And then tonight, they lose to the Dallas Mavericks. It's
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Speaker 1: a really tough, tough time. And like I said in
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the video, it kind of varies what
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Speaker 1: the problems have been. There's like this overarching umbrella you
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Speaker 1: could put on and say, hey, Bam and Giannis have
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Speaker 1: not figured out a way to fit together. Actually, let's
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Speaker 1: start off there because that is probably one of the
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Speaker 1: main problems here. When all four of their games... the
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Speaker 1: Miami Heat have lost the minutes where Bam and Giannis
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Speaker 1: were on the court together. Even in their post-game interviews. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I think the post-game interviews after this game told a lot.
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Speaker 1: The first one being that Davion Mitchell kind of said that,
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Speaker 1: you know, he has to do a better job as
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Speaker 1: a point guard to make sure that Bam doesn't get
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Speaker 1: into his own head. And then he says publicly that
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Speaker 1: Bam and Giannis play in the same spots and they
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Speaker 1: have to figure out a way to get Bam to
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Speaker 1: be effective when he's on the court with Giannis. Which is, again,
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Speaker 1: something we know, and we've even said this before, you know,
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Speaker 1: the season started, that these guys do play similar roles
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Speaker 1: in similar places. And, well, Bam has struggled. Bam has
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Speaker 1: truly struggled to find himself not just in the Giannis
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Speaker 1: minutes but outside of those as well. And then after
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Speaker 1: the game, Bam Adebayo goes to the podium. He says
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Speaker 1: something along the lines of, like, keep that same energy.
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Speaker 1: He's getting scapegoated. And one of my least favorite things
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Speaker 1: I've ever heard Bam say. And the reason is I
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Speaker 1: don't think Bam is being scapegoated. I think that we're
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Speaker 1: holding Bam to Bam's standards. Nobody's asking Bam to now
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Speaker 1: turn into a 30-point per game score. It's unrealistic. What
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Speaker 1: people are asking for, Bam, is for you to play
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Speaker 1: your normal game, which your normal game is an all
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Speaker 1: defensive player and a guy that can average 20. So
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Speaker 1: far through four games, he's averaging 12 points per game
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Speaker 1: on 40% shooting and 16% from three. That's not normally Bam.
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Speaker 1: So the people that are being critical, they're not, they're
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Speaker 1: not scapegoating. They just want Bam that we've seen. And again,
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Speaker 1: I'm not acting like that's going to be easy because
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Speaker 1: we recognize that the relationship on court with Giannis is
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Speaker 1: going to be clunky and we're only four games in.
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Speaker 1: Like I know a lot of people are saying this
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Speaker 1: is the end of the world, yada, yada, yada. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if I'm there just yet. I wasn't the
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Speaker 1: guy that saw them as contender in the first place,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think I'm, I'm not here to say
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Speaker 1: that they're about to be a seven seed because they
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Speaker 1: started off on four. I think it's going to take
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Speaker 1: some time, but I don't think anybody scapegoated Bam. He
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Speaker 1: has legitimately not been the second best player on the
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Speaker 1: team so far this season when he's paid like the
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Speaker 1: second best player. So that's not a scapegoat. We're just
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Speaker 1: holding you accountable. Just holding you accountable. So far, like tonight,
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Speaker 1: Giannis was phenomenal. I thought in their last game versus Charlotte,
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Speaker 1: it felt like Giannis was trying to play in different
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Speaker 1: spaces so that Bam can find himself. And he had
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Speaker 1: a better game in game number three. For sure, I
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Speaker 1: think he ended up with 20 points and so on
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Speaker 1: and so forth. But also, they ended up losing. And
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Speaker 1: this one, Giannis was like, hey, bro, we need a
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Speaker 1: win and we need one now. And he goes out there,
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Speaker 1: get a triple W, yada, yada, yada. So far, I
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Speaker 1: would say that Giannis has been the best player, for sure.
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Speaker 1: And they're like, Davion Mitchell has been the second best player.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think many people have expected that. I
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Speaker 1: think people would have probably said, of course, Bam and
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Speaker 1: then Wiggins to be a better fit and a better
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Speaker 1: player on this team than Davion Mitchell. And that hasn't
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Speaker 1: been the case. We're four games in and not a
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Speaker 1: single one of these games have the Miami Heat won
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Speaker 1: the minutes where Giannis and Bam are on the court together.
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Speaker 1: That is bad. That is really, really bad. I thought
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Speaker 1: that their transition defense at parts through the first four
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Speaker 1: games was awful. People tell you that throughout Bam's career
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Speaker 1: of him being this good of a player, the Miami
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Speaker 1: Heat have always won the defensive glass battle. Through the
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Speaker 1: first four games, that has not been the case. They've
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Speaker 1: been out-rebounded, I think, in every one except for tonight.
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Speaker 1: I haven't checked the box score, but I didn't feel
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Speaker 1: as though they got out-rebounded to the same extent that
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Speaker 1: they did in that Minnesota or Detroit or Charlotte game.
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Speaker 1: But maybe they did. They struggled with cleaning that glass.
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Speaker 1: They struggled with the defense. And that's probably the biggest
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Speaker 1: thing for me. Because, again, the offense is going to
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Speaker 1: be clunky. I made this point when they traded for Giannis,
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Speaker 1: and some Heat fans were in my throat when I
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Speaker 1: said this. But, like, there's a difference between being a
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Speaker 1: good three-point shooter and being a respected three-point shooter. And
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Speaker 1: as long as Giannis is on your team, even if
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Speaker 1: Davion or Wiggins or Klay, oh, Klay's always going to
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Speaker 1: be respected, Davion, Wiggins, or some of the other guys
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Speaker 1: on the court with Giannis, it doesn't matter if they're
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Speaker 1: 40% third-person shooters. The opposing coach and the opposing schemes
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Speaker 1: are always going to leave them open. So Wiggins, what
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Speaker 1: is Wiggins shooting on the season? 12% from three. He's
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Speaker 1: been way better than that throughout his career. But he's
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Speaker 1: not respected. So those looks are completely open right now.
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Speaker 1: There's just a difference there. So the jump shoot, the
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Speaker 1: three-point shooting, the creation, like at some point in the
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Speaker 1: last game versus Charlotte, I saw Clay Thompson with the
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Speaker 1: ball on the floor and take a mid-range jump shot.
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Speaker 1: And while he has done that in points of his career,
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Speaker 1: he's 36 and he doesn't look great. I don't want
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Speaker 1: that happening anymore. You feel what I'm saying? Tonight, I
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Speaker 1: feel like they played their most complete game and they
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Speaker 1: still ended up losing. Right? Like, the swing factor in
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Speaker 1: this one, they didn't hit free throws. Like, sometimes it
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Speaker 1: can boil down to the simplest of things. Of course,
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Speaker 1: there's many small things that's going to accumulate to the
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Speaker 1: point where they lose to a team like the Dallas Mavericks.
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Speaker 1: But if you just have a normal free throw shooting night,
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Speaker 1: you win this game. But instead, they shot, let me see,
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Speaker 1: let me see. They shot 56% from the free throw
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Speaker 1: line on 25 attempts. This is never, ever going to
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Speaker 1: really cut it. People tell you that through the first
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Speaker 1: three games, while they did end up losing these games,
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Speaker 1: the Heat had also got extremely unlucky with opposing team shooting.
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Speaker 1: Teams were shooting 60-something percent on twos and so on
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Speaker 1: and so forth. But some of that you think of variance, right? Eventually,
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Speaker 1: teams are going to shoot close to league average against you.
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Speaker 1: And if they shoot league average and you keep doing
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Speaker 1: what you're doing, it's going to bounce itself out and
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Speaker 1: you're going to win some of those games. Today was
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Speaker 1: one of those days where the Dallas Mavericks didn't shoot
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Speaker 1: it great. They shot 30% from three, and they shot
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Speaker 1: 45% from the field. But they finished their possessions with
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Speaker 1: made free throws, and they ended up with 15 extra
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Speaker 1: opportunities with offensive. So it's a lot. In this game,
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Speaker 1: it felt like more of the smaller stuff, these overarching
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Speaker 1: umbrella doom and gloom things, but it still resulted in
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Speaker 1: a loss. So the next couple games is Atlanta in
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Speaker 1: a couple days. Then they got Indiana. Then they got
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Speaker 1: the Lakers and the Clippers and the Warriors. They're going
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Speaker 1: on a nice low. The road trip where they got
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Speaker 1: all of the West Coast teams, Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Kings, Jazz.
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Speaker 1: And then they got one, two, three, four, five, six
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Speaker 1: games at home before an East Coast road trip. I
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Speaker 1: think it just. It's going to take some time. And
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Speaker 1: they're still trying to figure it out. They are trying
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Speaker 1: to get out and transition as much as they can
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Speaker 1: because they recognize that their half-court O is just not
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Speaker 1: going to cut it in this current state. Where right now,
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Speaker 1: they're dead last in frequency of their shots coming into half-court.
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Speaker 1: They're number one in early offense, which means that they
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Speaker 1: are getting the ball even off makes and going and
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Speaker 1: trying to get an early shot before the defense is set.
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Speaker 1: which is a recipe that can be successful, but it
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Speaker 1: also showcases that they don't trust themselves in the half
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Speaker 1: court to be able to create and generate an open
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Speaker 1: and good look. Their eighth in transition makes sense. They
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Speaker 1: have Giannis on the team. Giannis is the gazelle. Again,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say this for the hundredth time since
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Speaker 1: we talked about the Heat this season. I trust Eric
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Speaker 1: Spolstra and his coaching staff to figure it out to
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Speaker 1: an extent where we're not acting like this is the
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Speaker 1: worst team of all time. Again, I never saw them
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Speaker 1: as a contender. I did see them as a top
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Speaker 1: six seed in the Eastern Conference, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's dead just yet. I don't think that's dead just yet.
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Speaker 1: Let me quickly see if this site has improved or
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Speaker 1: updated since their last game on their defensive rating, because
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Speaker 1: last time, before this game, so they're 25th in defense.
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Speaker 1: And again, some of that, like I said earlier, is
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Speaker 1: shooting variants where opposing teams were just making every single
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Speaker 1: shot against them. But the teams that are worse than
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Speaker 1: them defensively right now, the Chicago Bulls, Which, yeah, they suck.
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Speaker 1: The Sacramento Kings, the Utah Jazz, the Golden State Warriors,
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Speaker 1: and the Phoenix Suns. You don't want to be in
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Speaker 1: their territory. In my mind, when this trade was going down,
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Speaker 1: the one thing that they were going to be able
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Speaker 1: to attach themselves to is having a really good defensive team.
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Speaker 1: And that has not been the case because they don't
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Speaker 1: look like they're even close to being on the string. And, like,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe that Giannis has played some of his
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Speaker 1: best offensive ball, which I don't even know if I
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Speaker 1: can really blame him because right now he has so
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Speaker 1: much of a burden offensively that, like, I can't expect
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Speaker 1: DPOY type of Giannis things, right? And I don't know, maybe,
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Speaker 1: I guess I didn't expect that because it's been a
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Speaker 1: while since he's done that, but I just expected better
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Speaker 1: defense on a night-to-night basis for Giannis, you know? Tim
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Speaker 1: Hardaway Jr., one of my favorite signers of the offseason,
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Speaker 1: has yet to have a game that Klay Thompson, my
12:06
Speaker 1: boy hit the group chat. I don't remember if it
12:08
Speaker 1: was Derek or Mike. One of my boys hit the
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Speaker 1: group chat saying, a Klay Thompson three-pointer right now might
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Speaker 1: as well count as a turnover. That's tough, bro. Because
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Speaker 1: you watch and you say, yeah. Even though his 33%
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Speaker 1: somehow is one of the best three-point shooters. So that's
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Speaker 1: why I can't, I don't know, that's why I can't
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Speaker 1: be acting like my panic meter is on 1,000 because
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Speaker 1: they just, even the guys, again, like I mentioned, that
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Speaker 1: are good three-point shooters, maybe not respect three-point shooters, They
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Speaker 1: haven't been able to hit the threes. So far, Davion
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Speaker 1: is shooting 45% from three. He's having a phenomenal year
12:39
Speaker 1: so far. But, like, Klay Thompson should shoot better than 33%.
12:44
Speaker 1: Wiggins is going to shoot better than 12%. Tim Hardaway Jr.
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Speaker 1: is going to shoot better than 19% from three. You know,
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Speaker 1: Nikoli Ove is basically out of the rotation. I had
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Speaker 1: some hope that he was going to replenish based on
12:56
Speaker 1: what he did in preseason. He's already out of the rotation.
12:59
Speaker 1: I'm fake waiting to see Simone Fontecchio get some burns.
13:02
Speaker 1: He only played like garbage time so far this season,
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Speaker 1: and he hasn't scored just yet. But at this point,
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Speaker 1: I feel like they got to try, right? They got
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Speaker 1: to try. On the defensive side, they've given up really
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Speaker 1: a lot of putbacks. They're 29th in putbacks, and then
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Speaker 1: they're 29th in transition defense, which is, I think, something
13:18
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier. So what's next for the Miami Heat?
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Speaker 1: I mean, they need to get that first win under
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Speaker 1: their belt, bro. Before the game started, Mike and the
13:26
Speaker 1: group said, no way they lose tonight, right? I was like, nah,
13:28
Speaker 1: this is the win. This is the one. This is
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Speaker 1: the gutsy win. versus a solid Dallas Mavericks team. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's going to put the train on
13:35
Speaker 1: the tracks and they're going to go in the right direction,
13:38
Speaker 1: but they can't be one of the last win teams. Well,
13:41
Speaker 1: they'd rather be one of the last win teams. Their
13:43
Speaker 1: starting unit right now have a net rating of minus 28. Ugh.
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Speaker 1: And then when you substitute Bam for Portis, they win
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Speaker 1: those minutes. Ah, it's tough. It's tough. All right, quickly
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Speaker 1: around the association for some of these other games. Brennan Mill,
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Speaker 1: like I said, I was skeptical about his contract, mostly
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Speaker 1: because he doesn't get to the foul line and because
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Speaker 1: he doesn't pass. But I guess it doesn't matter if
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Speaker 1: you can pass or not if you're going to drop 40.
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Speaker 1: And he dropped 39 tonight. And that was a big
14:10
Speaker 1: win against the Washington Wizards. And, like, obviously there's a
14:13
Speaker 1: lot of conversation about the LaMelo ball trade. And so
14:17
Speaker 1: far through four games for both teams, it seems like
14:19
Speaker 1: both teams feel pretty good about the trade. Because some
14:22
Speaker 1: of the guys that have been acquired because of that,
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Speaker 1: whether it be Nas Reed, who had a ridiculous fourth
14:27
Speaker 1: quarter in this one, I think he had three points
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Speaker 1: going into the fourth and then, oh my God, NBA.com
14:32
Speaker 1: got to fix their stuff. I think he had three
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Speaker 1: points going into the fourth quarter, hit 15 points in
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Speaker 1: the fourth to help close it out. So like Nas
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Speaker 1: Reed being that, and then they brought in Grayson Allen
14:40
Speaker 1: and Royce O'Neal based on them saving a little bit
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Speaker 1: of money and doing their Miles Bridges trade. And while
14:45
Speaker 1: Royce may not have played a lot today, but like
14:47
Speaker 1: Grayson Allen becomes a really good player for them. So like,
14:51
Speaker 1: I think Charles Lee is just a really good coach
14:54
Speaker 1: because even without Kobe and without Khan, They're thugging out
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Speaker 1: some of these wins, even when, like, I think last
15:01
Speaker 1: time I checked, they had the worst offense in the league. Yeah,
15:03
Speaker 1: they have the worst offense in the league right now.
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Speaker 1: And it's like, we're going to win. And it's not
15:07
Speaker 1: even like they got the number one offense or number
15:09
Speaker 1: one defense. They got the 20th ranked defense, and they're
15:11
Speaker 1: still closing out games and winning games. So, like, I
15:13
Speaker 1: don't know. If you can hold it down while having
15:15
Speaker 1: a 30th ranked O and you can still have an
15:17
Speaker 1: above 500 record, congratulations. You know? Congratulations. So, shout out
15:22
Speaker 1: to them for that's a good win. And then... Did
15:25
Speaker 1: I mention any of these other games? Yeah, the Cavaliers
15:27
Speaker 1: got a good win. Second half of the back-to-back for
15:28
Speaker 1: the Minnesota team was really a treat with some of
15:29
Speaker 1: their stuff. I thought early in this game, Minnesota was
15:32
Speaker 1: just running away with it. And I was so disappointed
15:35
Speaker 1: because at one point, Minnesota was 13 of 16 in
15:37
Speaker 1: the restricted area, which is just ridiculous when you think
15:40
Speaker 1: about the Cavs running basically two seven-footers, even though Jared
15:43
Speaker 1: Allen's listed as 6'9, seven-foot type of guy. Peyton Watson
15:47
Speaker 1: all over the place. Great defensive possessions down the stretch.
15:50
Speaker 1: I think Anthony Harris did get fouled on one of
15:52
Speaker 1: them last shots before regulation. Whatever. Malik Thomas gets his
15:55
Speaker 1: first NBA appearance and legitimately was like the third best
15:58
Speaker 1: player on the team. So like shout outs to Malik.
16:00
Speaker 1: We knew Malik can score. We knew that. He dropped
16:02
Speaker 1: 16 in his NBA debut, which is really huge. So
16:05
Speaker 1: big win for the Cavs because if they would have
16:06
Speaker 1: lost this one, I would have had a bunch of
16:07
Speaker 1: bars from them. But they won't. So it doesn't matter.
16:09
Speaker 1: I didn't get to watch Pacers versus Bucks. I did see,
16:12
Speaker 1: you know, Halliburton and Ryan Rollins still chirping at each other.
16:14
Speaker 1: I'm going to drop a video tomorrow morning about the Thunder.
16:18
Speaker 1: They're 4-0 after their win against the Suns. But I
16:19
Speaker 1: think the Thunder deserved a whole video after what happened
16:21
Speaker 1: to them last night. the Houston Rockets continue to be phenomenal.
16:25
Speaker 1: They got two wins so far this season against the
16:27
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks. But like Alprinch and Goon, dare I say,
16:30
Speaker 1: kind of like leveling up in real time. And I
16:33
Speaker 1: think a lot of it has to do with them
16:34
Speaker 1: just having guys that can, like he doesn't have to
16:37
Speaker 1: create his own shot every single time. It's what it
16:38
Speaker 1: felt like he had to do last season. I don't
16:41
Speaker 1: want to stop him right now, but like he's efficient
16:43
Speaker 1: from behind the arc and he's only attempted one or
16:45
Speaker 1: two a game. And we haven't needed a true Kevin
16:49
Speaker 1: Durant game to win just yet. Everything is working perfectly
16:52
Speaker 1: right now. Reese Sheppard had a relocation three. And he did.
16:57
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to say he did
16:58
Speaker 1: the big balls like Sam Cassell, but it looked like
17:01
Speaker 1: he was kind of doing the big ball Sam Cassell celebration,
17:03
Speaker 1: which is funny because Sam Cassell also played in Houston.
17:06
Speaker 1: And like three possessions before that, Tari Eason had a
17:08
Speaker 1: ridiculous drive to the basket and a ferocious dunk. And
17:10
Speaker 1: they cut over to Ime. Ime's like this. He didn't
17:13
Speaker 1: say nothing. He didn't react. Cool. Reese Sheppard had a
17:15
Speaker 1: relocation three, and E-Mate was acting like he just hit
17:18
Speaker 1: a game-winning shot. And I'm like, I wonder why. What's
17:21
Speaker 1: the difference? Is it because Tari does this all the time,
17:23
Speaker 1: and we're still waiting for Reese Sheppard to continue to
17:25
Speaker 1: be great? I don't know. And then lastly, the Grizzlies
17:27
Speaker 1: end up starting their season 4-0. It was not the
17:31
Speaker 1: Ty Jerome explosion like it had been through the first
17:33
Speaker 1: three games, but a good team win overall. I think
17:36
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz fought well, too, man, because Larry Marketing
17:39
Speaker 1: went out with a hand. Jared Jackson went out with
17:41
Speaker 1: a knee. They was already without Jackson Hayes and Yusuf Nurkic.
17:45
Speaker 1: That's four seven-footers just gone off the roster. So now
17:49
Speaker 1: Tony Bradley has to play. Mo Bamba caught a body,
17:51
Speaker 1: and he had a really good game. They're just now
17:53
Speaker 1: counting on other guys. I hate that Kyle Filipowski basically
17:56
Speaker 1: can't play in a game like this with four centers
17:58
Speaker 1: being down. I actually thought Kyle Filipowski was a good
18:01
Speaker 1: ball player. So far through four games, haven't really been
18:04
Speaker 1: able to find a rotation. I talked about before, whether
18:07
Speaker 1: it be here on small ball or Kenny Beecham or
18:09
Speaker 1: even numbers on the board, I'm doing a hell of shows.
18:10
Speaker 1: I remember how I was a bit disappointed so far
18:13
Speaker 1: through the first couple games that every single one of
18:15
Speaker 1: Darren Peterson minutes had been with Keontae or Isaiah Collier.
18:18
Speaker 1: In this game, Darren Peterson got to run a unit
18:20
Speaker 1: by himself. I have to go back and rewatch those
18:22
Speaker 1: minutes to really see how efficient and how effective it was.
18:25
Speaker 1: But I'm happy that they are experimenting a little bit.
18:28
Speaker 1: And I will say it for the thousandth time this season,
18:30
Speaker 1: Ace Bailey is a really, really good basketball player. And
18:32
Speaker 1: I'm happy that it only took him one game to
18:34
Speaker 1: submit himself in that starting unit. His defense continues to evolve.
18:37
Speaker 1: He had a really great pass down the stretch to
18:40
Speaker 1: bring the score down to like the lead down to three.
18:43
Speaker 1: And he's just a really good decision maker already. And
18:47
Speaker 1: he's getting to be a better decision maker than he
18:49
Speaker 1: was in his rookie season. I'll take that as a win.
18:51
Speaker 1: And then he just, I don't know, he makes shots.
18:53
Speaker 1: I think that between Ace Bailey and Darren Peterson ramping
18:55
Speaker 1: himself into taking more than seven shots a night, that
18:59
Speaker 1: they still got some things working, even if this was
19:02
Speaker 1: supposed to be the year where they take the jump
19:03
Speaker 1: and that jump may not be happening. Also, I'm not
19:06
Speaker 1: watching Warriors versus Nuggets right now. But it seems like
19:09
Speaker 1: the Nuggets might end up losing to the Warriors. Which is,
19:12
Speaker 1: if that's the case, ooh. Because they lost the first
19:15
Speaker 1: game of the season to OKC. And they scored 84 points.
19:18
Speaker 1: And they won the second game of the season. Thank
19:20
Speaker 1: God that the Pelicans are the Pelicans. But if they
19:25
Speaker 1: lose this one, I don't know. Is it too early
19:28
Speaker 1: to have conversations? I don't know. The Heat are on four.
19:32
Speaker 1: You let me know what you think. I know there's
19:33
Speaker 1: hella Heat fans out there. It's going to be in
19:35
Speaker 1: the comment section because it's one of the biggest fan bases.
19:36
Speaker 1: Let me know what you think about your favorite team.