‘Heat Check’ — To Dame or Not to Dame (Ep. 156)

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🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and John Gonzalez review the weekend’s exciting Thunder-Blazers matchup (1:30), laud the Celtics’ dominant winning streak (6:50), gauge their concerns about the precarious Cavaliers (11:55), and analyze D’Angelo Russell’s first return to Los Angeles as a Brooklyn Net (16:05). Then they play Real or Not Real with the Eastern Conference 2-seed Detroit Pistons (20:00), sensational Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell (21:35), and stats-stuffing savant DeMarcus Cousins (22:05). Finally, they heat-check the New York Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis (23:40) and look forward to the week’s most intriguing games (27:45). 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 Heat Check on the Ringer NBA Show. I'm Juliet Littman.
0:14.8	I'm John Gonzalez.
0:15.7	A lot of talk about it from the weekend.
0:17.5	So many things to talk about from the weekend.
0:19.2	A lot of fun, close games.
0:20.8	Specifically with two teams that we frequently pay attention to.
0:24.8	Captop last night with the Sonder and the Blazers, with the Blazers holding on.
0:28.4	It was a crazy game, Juliet.
0:30.0	And the reason why I wanted to talk about this one is because I love the Blazers and you love the Thunder.
0:34.4	Why do you love the Blazers?
0:35.7	There's so many reasons. I like Weird Hips,
0:38.1	or Portland things in general.
0:39.8	But also Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum.
0:42.8	And Nerk is now making a heel turn.
0:45.3	Love Nerk. He's my favorite. He's probably the only good Blazer.
0:48.3	It's not true. I just, I love Nerk though.
0:50.2	He T is on that team.
0:51.6	That's true. He's running around like the villain.
0:53.2	He's saying crazy things and shooting three pointers.
0:55.7	But the Blazers up ended OKC.
0:58.1	And I need to know how you feel about OKC because all of a sudden,
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