Wizards, Hornets, Blazers & Kings NEED to Improve
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Some teams are already good. Some teams were so trash last year that the expectations are low. But some teams in the lottery need to use it to be better by the playoffs.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | All of these teams we're going to talk about are teams that have draft capital. |
| 0:09.3 | We're not talking about teams like the Lakers or the Nets that are at Crossroads as well. |
| 0:13.5 | We're talking about teams with lottery picks. |
| 0:15.8 | Who's going to be able to maximize their lottery picks with the situation that they're in. |
| 0:22.3 | Number one for me, and this is in no particular order because I don't want to be biased, right? |
| 0:27.3 | So I'm going to say one team before the team that I think is number one needs to kill the |
| 0:31.8 | draft. |
| 0:32.9 | Number one on this list, not most important team, but teams whom for this is a very important |
| 0:40.0 | draft, Charlotte Hornets, number one, this team needs a good draft, even more now, given that |
| 0:48.1 | Kenny Atkinson was supposed to take the job as head coach, one of the best talent developers |
| 0:53.0 | in the league, and he abandoned ship |
| 0:55.1 | at the very last moment. You know that there's a franchise and disarray when you had a coach, |
| 1:00.7 | and he backed out and said it was for family reasons. Like, he's staying in Golden State, |
| 1:07.3 | and rumors are it's because he wasn't allowed to bring his own assistance. |
| 1:19.0 | I even heard some little side jokes from other NBA insiders where they're like, yeah, some owners in certain NBA teams, |
| 1:22.7 | some won't even let their coaches choose their own assistants. |
| 1:25.3 | They didn't say who it was, but I already heard that rumor. |
| 1:31.5 | And I was like, that's obviously what they're talking about. So what does this mean for a team with two first rounders this year? |
| 1:38.1 | If MJ can't keep his hands out of the cookie jar, man, I don't know, right? Is he going to get involved again? Are 13 and 15 going to be MJ's picks? Or are they going to be Mitch |
| 1:43.4 | Cupcheck's pitch? |
| 1:44.9 | They chose James Booknight last year. |
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