'Heat Check' — Silver Medalists, the Draymond Green Award, and LeBron vs. New York (Ep. 161)

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🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and John Gonzalez deliberate on who the second-best team in the league is (0:17), analyze the implications of the Rudy Gobert injury for the Utah Jazz (10:08), and debate the most essential players for each team (13:36). Then, they play "Real or Not Real?" with LeBron James’s comments on Dennis Smith Jr. (17:06), Lonzo Ball’s apathy toward his triple-double (19:43), and Rick Carlisle’s apparent dislike of Nerlens Noel (21:33). After, they heat-check Jordan Clarkson and the new-look Milwaukee Bucks (24:14) before running through the most intriguing games of the week (28:27). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:11.0	Welcome to the Monday morning heat check. I'm Juliet Littman.
0:13.5	I'm John Gonzalez.
0:14.7	Let's talk basketball.
0:16.1	I love to talk basketball.
0:17.5	Let's start with the team we tend to ignore.
0:19.6	Frequently and get yelled at about it.
0:21.2	Yeah, thanks Dream Shake.
0:22.6	Rockets face.
0:23.4	Houston Rockets.
0:24.5	They are now 11 and three.
0:26.2	They're half a game up on Golden State.
0:27.7	And they beat the Pacers who are actually good.
0:29.6	Yeah, the Pacers are pretty good.
0:31.2	They didn't play well against the Rockets.
0:33.3	The Rockets continue to play well.
0:34.7	They're 11 and three now.
0:36.4	And it turns out James Hardin is really good.
0:39.2	James Hardin, good at basketball.
0:40.6	Good at basketball continues to be good at basketball.
0:42.6	He's pretty high up on the MVP rankings on NBA.com.
0:46.0	They actually have Hardin first.
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