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OKC's Wild Comeback, Ja and Jimmy Go Down, Is It a Wrap for the Nuggets?

Published Apr 25, 2025, 3:46 PM

Happy Friday! Trysta has the latest from last nights slate including the Thunder's ferocious rally to go up 3-0 against the Grizzlies, the Clippers dominating win and the Knicks Pistons rock fight of a series. 

Trysta also has an apology for Jalen Green after Houston evened the series against Golden State, what Jimmy Butler's injury means for the Warriors and Tyler Herro got COOKED by the Cavs. Plus, news and updates from around the league!

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On this episode of the Heat Check, Welcome Back. It's hotter than a Miami sidewalk in July. Right now, here's what we're gonna talk about, John Morant. Every time something good goes down in Memphis, Ja Mare gets hurt o case he comes back down twenty nine. They were down twenty six at halftime. Oh, the Rockets and the Warriors are in a full blown rock fight. I have to maybe just maybe recamp my take on Jalen Green, but I don't think I'm ready yet. Also, Jimmy Butler's got a deep gluten bruise pause. He's questionable for Game three. Calves carved up the heat like a Sunday roast. Nick sneak past the Pistons to take a two to one series lead. Detroit ain't going down easy. Clippers now up to to one on the Nuggets, and it's getting very spicy in the West. Plus we've got some League White updates that'll make your head spin. So much to unpack. It's twelve forty am on the East Coast, lots of narratives to dissect. Wyatt Amanda Combo producer day, you know what time it is? That motherfucker beat the.

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It's just a quitting Oh my goodness. So the Clipper Nugget game was on simultaneously as the OKAC and Memphis game. And I don't know if you guys saw game one of the OKAC game where they smacked the Memphis Grizzlies by fifty or a game two where we thought maybe Memphis would get a little razzley dazzly but they lost by twenty. Okay, so I saw, Oh, it looks like a little bit of a Memphis bounce back game. Who knows. But the real game that we're all trying to watch is the Clippers versus the Nuggets. That's the best one pretty much of the entire first round. So I tuned over there and it was back to back to it was Nick's baby, and then it was Okay, see baby, and then it was and there was some overlap. Right, So I'm watching I'm watching the Clips game in LA which, by the way, Steve Bamber's a wild boy. He gave everyone in the local section in the in the like local fan section that they took the wall that they call it. He gave them all horses. He gave them all horses for their head. They were full. I don't even know how you like anyway it worked, But I get a text and it's like, hey, what happened to Jaw? And I was like, oh man, let me go see what this is about Jahn Morant. At this point, Grizzlies up twenty four points. Ja Morant takes it out in transition, which we know he loves to do. Loud dort the dorture chamber, slightly slipping, tries to go up to contest, undercuts Jaw in the legs. Jaw puts his hands down to try to catch his fall, direct shot to the hip pop Night Night Sleep Mask. And at that point, like I said, I was like, Okay, well I'm gonna I'm gonna turn back to this Clipper game again. But then the Clippers now were up twenty and so I'm like, all right, well, Grizzlies are now up nine. Team's obviously not very good without Jaw, despite what the critics say. And I'm like, I think the thunder my fuck around and win this game, and boy, oh boy, won't you know it, won't you know it? It was the Alex Carusoe game. Man was putting them in their seat belts and then in their basinet and putting the pacifier in their mouth. Grizzlies just a heartbreaker in Memphis. Okase outscored Memphis sixty three to thirty one in the second half. Shay had thirty j Dubb had twenty four, Chet Holmgren had five threes. Swap swat sweat when he needed it. Sky Pippen junior ball a little bit twenty three points. Jum Ran at only fifteen. So yeah, it looks like it's night night. I just don't know how you really emotionally come back from being up twenty nine points, your star, your franchise player going down in the playoffs with a big injury again for like the fifth straight time, and they rally back and beat you when you think you can maybe still a game at the crib tough scene. Okay, see probably now gets the sweep, if not a gentleman's sweep, and they have a whole week to recover, lick their wounds from that fighting performance in Game three, and they get to see the winner of this Minnesota Lakers series and probably beat the shit out of them as well. Moving on, Moving on, that was a spicy one where the it really got spicy. We have to dive in to this chapter of this heated playoff sagabi between the Rockets and the Warriors. So I was kind of rude to Jalen Green last episode. I said he made so he did make some boneheaded fucking plays. I'm standing ten toes down on that. But I said he wasn't a winning player, and I still don't think he is. But boy, oh boy, after a fucking shaky ass game where he had seven points three for fifteen shooting, Jalen Green thirty eight points eight for eighteen from three, I said, these boys don't have any offensive engines and he was room roomen. He was rooming. He had fifteen in the third quarter alone. I gotta give him his props. He's the youngest guard in NBA history to have eight or more threes in a playoff game. So he bawled shng Goon did his goddamn thing. But really, what was the main storyline besides the Warriors losing to the Rockets in a way that made the Warriors look very pedestrian, which they do tend to do without Jimmy Butler is the Jimmy Butler suffered what was originally considered a pelvic contusion, had a mid air collision with Arman Thompson. A lot of people said that it was dirty. A lot of people said that Arman Thompson was dirty. A lot of people said Draymond Green was dirty by pushing Amen Thompson. A lot of accusations going on out there. Jimmy played just under eight minutes, had three points before leaving the game. And now we know it is a deep glute bruise, deep glute contusion. Anyway, he may not play Game three, which is I'm going to say, a major setback for the Warriors. Also, Brandon Pajemski, he was dealing with the stomach ailment. He had no points in fourteen minutes after scoring fourteen points in game one. Kind of a full circle moment and with Jimmy Butler out. DMPCD is his nickname, Jonathan Kaminga. He came into the game, got some minutes and he struggled. He looks like remember Jonathan Minga said he was gonna get paid max money. He made no significant impact. Steph Curry was getting locked up. He had twenty. He had relentless defense. They were putting bodies on them, bodies on the bodies on him. Rockets forced fifteen turnovers. Tarry Easton was nasty. He had fourteen points off the bench and it was chippy. Let's just be honest. These two teams kind of don't like each other. There were a bunch of physical confrontations and nine of them. Jalen Green had a flagrant one for elbowing and Draymond in the face Tarry Easton through a towel at Pat Spencer. Does anyone know who Spencers? Okay? Following a Fred van Fleet, Steele and a Jalen Green layup, Van Fleet and Draymond had a heated exchange leading to a scuffle Draymond Green. These are all separate incidents. Draymond Green received a tech for shoving Opera and Shangoon during the game. In total, the game had six technical fouls, one frank flagrant foul, very tense atmosphere. They both just want a foul, foul foul. Rockets head coach Ime Udoka was pumped. He was like, that's fucking what we do. He said, that's who we are, that's our identity. For the most part. We understand that they let us play both teams. It's in our favorite Yeah. When you're allowed to just punch and just elbow and just like do anything you want out there. Yeah, it's like the Warriors are really built for that anyway. Saturday Game three, Chase Center, Jimmy Butler probably not available. Are the Warriors gonna be able to adjust to this physical defense without their co star who's pretty much the only reason the Warriors are in the playoffs right now? And can the Rockets get a game at Chase? Very fucking interesting? All right, moving forward, we gotta do some roasting. We gotta put a man on the hubachi. I didn't put him on the hubachi. I didn't. I didn't put him on the hubachi. Do you know who are about to put on the hibachi? It's a great question. We'll tell you right after this break and a little word from our sponsors. Hey, and we're back. We're talking about putting somebody on the hibachi, on the hot plate, putting him on the gas foreman grill. That's Tyler Hero, Tyler Hero, He's not looking good right now. Sometimes you wonder whether the Portland Trailblazers should have put Tyler Hero in the trade and taken him back because he's such a bucket, and sometimes the offense looks so anemic. Then sometimes you see this and you say, goodness, gracious, I'm glad we don't have him on our team. Calves taking belt to ass on the Miami Heat. A lot of people were surprised at game two was even as close as it was. Calves won by nine, but at one point it was a two point game, round four four minutes left. You know, there's always like a random, random team and it just jumps up and gets a game against the team that they are far outmatched against. Donovan Mitchell, though, decides he's gonna go crazy. He's gonna put the Cape on his back. He gets ten points in the last two minutes. Oh ten points in two minutes. That's Reggie Miller right there. But after the game, this is when, well, Tyler heroes kind of on the hibachi all night, and this is why. So they asked Darius Garland, the other garf for the Cleveland Cavaliers, hey, how do you finish the heat off? And he said, playing his day, you pick on Tyler Hero. You take care of the ball, don't play in tight spaces and pick on their weak defenders. Yikes, that is such a brutal thing to say, calling a grown man out by name. We pick on Tyler Hero, That's what we do. But here's the thing. Tyler Hero was already getting cooked all game long. He was already getting put He had grill marks on him because the calves were killing him. Hero's always been a defensive liability and they've done nothing to fix it. He's not gonna be anybody else. And let's be honest, every time there's a star in play, Miami's like, hey you want Tyler Hero. Hey we got Tyler huro Kentucky Guard Tyler he pat Rileyes do you want? Do you want? Do you want me to pep? Were like, no, no, I don't make it make sense, Miami. Let's talk about his stats. Tyler Hero dead last in the NBA in defensive wind shares this season. He's literally statistically the worst defensive starting player in the league. Statline offensive league game two solid thirty three, six' five plus one net, rating no, blocks no, steals getting straight. Cooked and then you look At Duncan, robinson who is probably just happy to be getting. Paid he was A d three, player goes To, michigan finds his way out of the, heat shoots some nice, threes gets him to the. Finals all of a, sudden he gets a huge bag and he disappears. Anyway duncan's ranked one hundred and seventy seventh in defensive wind, shares just above guys Like Kyle, Kuzma Trey, Young DeAngelo, russell but Below Zach lavine And Kelly Oubre game two three point zero boards won a six in twelve. Minutes SO i just don't think you can really. DO i, mean the fact That cleveland's up to two zero is not a. Surprise the fact that the heater in the playoffs is a. Surprise And Darius garland exposed what we all know is that the easiest game plan in THE nba is target those weak gas perimeter, defenders those little last. Guards Even Davion, mitchell who's not known to be a flame thrower but is also supposed to be a lockdown, defender ranked one hundred and thirty fifth in defensive win. Shares the stat breakdown backs it. Up cleveland had nearly twice as many blocks and steals As. Miami they forced thirteen, turnovers And miami shot fifty two percent from the, field thirty six percent from, three seventy five percent from the free throw, line and they still. Lost and, meanwhile is this stat? Real cleveland shot forty for eighty eight from three because The guards are just chilling over two games and The guards just simply will not close, out AND i think the game is just a little two fast for, Them and Even zachlow said. It, listen they're passing the ball too. Faster they don't even know where the ball is the three steps. Behind So miami might steal a game, maybe but in, general this team is in. Trouble, trouble, Trouble, Okay so we gotta talk about This knick, series The Rock fight. Series final Score nicks one to, Eighteen pistons one, sixteen and like the last two, minutes, drunk drunk as fucking, hell there Were there was a free throw shot because of a clock. ERROR i don't EVEN i was watching AND i couldn't figure out how the math was adding. Up how did they scop right? THERE i literally didn't see anyone change. Possessions what? Happened knicks lead to one this series is officially hot and. Bothered they get a massive road win In. Detroit The, pistons of, course had their. Chances Karl Anthony towns finally did. Something game Three nicks, Early game Three nicks. Late SO i do want to talk a little bit About Tobias harris talking, shit because this playoffs does feel like there's a lot of off the court extracurriculars going. On So detroit goes INTO msg and they steal a, game which we did not expect them to. Do but the real, ones no Right game one probably should have been there. Too if it wasn't for that twenty one to zero, run that explosion, pause The pistons probably up to one right. Now and just Before game, three they're, like, Hey Tobias, harris what's different about this Year's knicks team from last? Year and he, said, well it's a different, dynamic that's for. Sure that's All i'm gonna. Say it's part of our game. Plan oh what's? Different, Oh Karl Anthony towns is? There Damn Michael bridges is. There damn No Julius, randall No Dante. DiVincenzo i Think Tobias harris is calling This knicks team. Soft but in game three they did not look that. Soft cat was. Cooking he had thirty. One he had the game saving block ON. Cad cad was. Electric by the, Way Jalen brunson had thirty nine. Assists is that?

True is that?

True he must have scored a. Lot, yeah thirty thirty nine and. Seven those points came. Late those points came in the last three. Minutes four of the Five knick starters had twenty plus. Points pistons hit forty three percent from three and they still. Lost, Man Tobias, harris and you said The knicks were, soft and then you go out and you melt in the, sun you drop casual two of nine shooting with a, five six and zero stat. Line oh, baby that is The philadelphia seventy six, Ers Tobias, harris not The Detroit, Pistons Tobias. Harris. Man just Like, houston this team is a lot Like. Houston they want to make it a rock. Fight they want to fight. Everybody and speaking of, which there was a melee in the middle of the game Where Carl Anthony towns is fighting With Paul, reid WHO i didn't even know was on The, knicks And Carl Anthony towns is getting a little puff in his chest out And i'm, LIKE i forgot what's going on With Isaiah, stewart the guy WHO i don't know was ready to Kill Lebron james bleeding down his. Face turns Out Isaiah stewart's not playing in the. Game Isaiah stewart is his street. Clothes and the cameraman smart must have been a real BIG nba fan because he immediately panned To Isaiah, stewart And Isiah stewart was, like he looks so. Sad he just wanted to be in the. Mix he just wanted to be In Karl Anthony towns's, face letting him just shrink tail between his legs and going back to his. Bench, goodness. Gracious, ALSO i just want to, SAY i have no idea who's gonna win the series Classic game seven, energy but if The knicks do not win this, series we are looking at a coaching shake. UP i could see A Michael malone. THERE i could see, no probably No Taylor, jenkins but definitely A Michael. Malone that's you don't want to deal with. This. Tips this has Got Mark Jackson warriors, Right, like let's find ourselves At Steve carr to take us to a new. Level it's, physical it's, emotional it's, personal AND i Think Tobias harris probably wants to keep those soft talk conversations to himself next. Time, otherwise baby, boy you better. Produce all, Right we got to get into a little news from around the. League Number one horrible news out of La Elijah, arenas who is the son OF nba Legend Gilbert. Arenas he got into an awful accident last, night well actually four forty five Am thursday. Morning he was driving one of them damned cyber, trucks damn hopped a, curb hit a tree head, on rushed to the hospital in critical. Condition he was put into a medically induced. Coma there's a lot of info we don't. Know the reports are is he inhaled? Smoke he had no other, Injuries that's why they induced the. COMA i was recently at The Nike Hoop, summit, though and everybody was talking About elijah Goh arenas and how much of a bucket he, is and how weird it was that he wasn't at The Hoop. Summit i've seen him in person. Before he was the number one ranked shooting guard in the country and he did not get. Invited we're gonna obviously update. This the photos showed the entire front end of The tesla cyber truck crushed in tough look for The. Tesla so if initial reports are, correct somebody's looking out for. Him all, Right moving, on this news is gonna get widespread. Attention But Will, barton will The, thrill announced his. Retirement he doesn't get enough. Shine he played eleven years in THE. Nba he was In, portland starting In, denver came To portland on a trade no started In, portland went To, denver actually in the use of nurkic. Trade he finished top five and Six man of The year voting, twice went To washington In, toronto and his good by post was, awesome he, Says, man what a. TIME i. Promise it was EVERYTHING i dreamed, of plus way. MORE i PRAY i give others hope and inspired some ups and, Downs it was all worth it AND i look forward to the next chapter in my. LIFE i know that because of, You i'll be. Okay you told me to never give up and quit. Fighting this is just a long ass, Post. WILBARTON i thought he was one of the more underrated players in the. League Damian lillard loved playing with. Them i'm happy you got to go out on his own terms and his good, Spirits but, HONESTLY i Thought wilbarton was already. Retired another piece of. News i'm a little perplexed about The. Bucks they are now down to zero on a team that has made many bad roster, decisions but they just locked up THEIR gm to a multi year contract. Extension i'm not saying he should have been fired or should be, fired BUT i am saying right, now probably not the best time to extend. Him you know What i'm, Saying because if you can't win With jannis And, dame and you traded away the guy who wanted to stay his entire career there And Drew, holliday who was the reason you got the first, ring All i'm gonna say is probably shouldn't be. Extended probably shouldn't be. Extended this team's just not good. Enough trading For Kyle kuzma didn't make no damn. Sense Aj green doesn't make. Sense Torrian prince doesn't really make. Sense Kevin Porter junior doesn't make. Sense this is not a championship. Roster this is just barely a six seed, roster just a very weird. Decision Scott, perry LIKE i, said is the NEW gm of The Sacramento. Kings he has identified the biggest issue facing The kings in the. Offseason you're gonna love this. One it's finding a point. Guard despite the fact that this team has drafted six guards in the past seven years and had two franchise caliber point guards in Diarreon fox And Tyrese, haliburton he, says it's no secret we need a true point guard with the current mixture of, players and in my, opinion we need more length than athleticism along the front line if we want to elevate this. Group, wolf you know what that, means probably some bonus is gonna be. Traded he's not a true, center he doesn't protect the. Room the man won't shoot threes anymore nearly as much as he did in the beginning of his. Career he's gotten better in the last season or. So but he is not long and he is not. Athletic he is, great but he is neither of those. Things so maybe they give the bag To Kyrie. Irving maybe they give the bag To. Harden maybe they. LANGUISH i don't, know maybe they get Tyas jones Or Malcolm. Brock something has to change, here because that's just a wild fucking, segment a wild fucking. Statement late breaking. News we've got a huge upset in The Defensive player of The year Race Draymond. Green after all of the finaggling and, lobbying he was minus four fifty to win this. Award he was minus won sixty the morning the award was, announced which means he was the. Favorite and then guess what he? Lost he?

Lost do you believe?

It he? Lost Evan mobley. Won he was plus three point. Fifty he deserves. It it was a major shock in the betting. Markets draymond probably will go him on his segment at some, point probably. DENY i don't know That draymond didn't deserve, it AND i don't mean to say That Evan mobley didn't deserve. It But Evan mobley nung gets a forty five million dollar bonus for a winner of the. Year the award paid out over the next five. Years even more, shocking, though Is draymond didn't even finish second in. Voting he finished third Behind Dyson, Daniels Evan mobley first two hundred and twenty five, Points daniels, second one hundred and ninety seven, points, which by the, Way Dyson daniels is awesome this. Year Draymond green, third Lou dort, Fourth i'm And thompson fifth good thing good for. Him draymond's pot is going to be a meltdown must watch this. Week and that's the. News and that's a wrap for this episode that he checked will Back tuesday with the brand new, show so don't miss. It in the, meantime follow the heat check all playoff. Long that means, download that means, subscribe that means tell your, friends even the ones you haven't talked to since elementary, school and stay connected with. Us follow us on tiktak it at this heat, check follow us On, Twitter, instagram and threads At Trista Underscore. Criick threads is WHERE i post the most on my text based stuff And. Instagram lots of shit popping. There we will catch you next time and thank you again for, listening and watch it