John Wall's Return
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
The NBA season is now fully underway and Trysta was surprised by a couple performances over the first couple of days. One of which was the return of John Wall to the hardcourt for the first time in almost two seasons. Wall's first action back proved that he is far from finished. Trysta also took notice of Herb Jones' performance for the New Orleans Pelicans. Tune In!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | We have a little bit of time, very, very quick time to just go through this, |
| 0:17.6 | but I did want to talk about a couple of players who were very impressive. |
| 0:20.4 | I have to mention John Wall. Man, he was so out of the league. He was nowhere. |
| 0:28.9 | Houston was keeping him, like, away from the team like Jay Crowder as well. People were wondering |
| 0:34.9 | when he was going to play basketball again. He now has openly talked about how that affected his mental health. |
| 0:40.4 | It had deteriorated to the point where he had thought about suicide. |
| 0:43.3 | So the fact that we had some John Wall hooping, vintage John Wall, my Lord. |
| 0:51.2 | He played so well, Charles Barkley openly speculated why one of about a dozen teams |
| 0:57.4 | didn't find a way to make a deal for just him last year. He looked like the old John Wall, |
| 1:03.3 | except for this time he plays defense. 15, 4 and 3 with the steel. He was steady. He was getting such easy buckets, so calm, so under control, coming around screens, |
| 1:15.8 | getting easy mid-ranges, getting very fast out into transition, |
| 1:20.7 | came back into the game after the Lakers made their huge run. |
| 1:24.9 | Reggie Jackson was just getting cooked. |
| 1:27.1 | He was with the B team. |
| 1:28.5 | He made clutch jumper after clutch jumper. |
| 1:31.7 | Kauai gave him the ball. |
| 1:33.7 | When does that happen? |
| 1:34.9 | He played awesome defense. |
| 1:36.4 | Laker guards, like I told you guys before, |
| 1:38.2 | shot 4% from the field for a game that wasn't just because they're bad shooters, |
| 1:41.4 | but Waw, Kauai, PG look like a real dominant big three up there. |
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