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On this episode of the heat check, what is happening with my Portland Trailblazers?

Something's wrong.

Something's also wrong with James Hardin.

Things are going weirdly positive in the right direction for DeAndre Aiton, not as worried there.

And we also get into some tea about LeBron.

So do me a favor, Brock.

Let's drop that motherfucking beat.

I don't want to sound like Chicken Little,

because I'm a child of trauma.

You know what I mean?

Like, I'm predisposed to think about the worst case scenarios.

You know, you are learned and actually hardwired to

sense danger before it actually comes about. So, and I feel these things intensely for my own

tribe, aka the Portland Trailblazers. So I'm going to dial back my pessimism because it's very high right now. It's what we would call on 10. And I'm going to dial back my pessimism because it's very high right now.

It's what we would call on 10.

And I'm going to dial it back to a reasonable level for folks to give you the ideas and the insight into what's happening with Portland.

Never in my life have I ever seen a coach call a team out in the third game of the season

for lack of effort.

Like I've never seen that.

It's game three and you have a brand new coach.

Who's never coached before, by the way, talking shit about work ethic in the team that he is raising.

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