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“And he can. It's who he is. Yeah, you almost feel like he's like a heat check guy. Yeah, all game. Yeah. And in the last game, you know, the 45, I mean, come on, he scored half the team's points. Like, he willed a game for the New York Knicks to win a world championship. Yeah, so I did a pot on…”

“…stupid he sounds. I don't know how they did it. And I think you can become self-aware with this stuff. And eventually he became self-aware, but I think in 1990, he wasn't 100% self-aware yet. So it's a little bit of a heat check because Reitman and Schwarzenegger, they do twins and it works. Yeah. And he doesn't have a giant machine gun and stuff. Like, holy shit, maybe we can do this. Now, he's going to get a deeper heat check with Junior…”

“So you're right. And no heat check guy. There's no guy who's like, hey, for four minutes, can you get us some buckets here? No. And the other thing, 12 of their next 14 games are on the road. And the other thing, they're in the West, which has some…”

“Yeah. He claimed my own lines. I don't know if I believe that. Dion Waiters Award. I think that has to go to Ben Tramer for one of the funniest 45-second kid and was a lot of that. Legitimately a heat check.”

“in Norm Powell, not a playmaker like hero. The playmaking quotient is getting pretty low. By the way, Norm Powell is more like a heat check. Finisher, straight line, finisher, shoot some threes. Just like gets hot for five minutes. He's not like, let's run a week of plays for Norm Powell. That was the idea with Terry Rozier. I don't know what in the hell…”

“…going to start using him. And then he actually, you know, he had the sixth man. But there was a moment there with Pritchard where we were like, what is this guy? Is he, do we just like him because he comes in and is a heat check guy? Or is there really something here? Maybe we'll find out with Shepard. I don't know. The other thing with Houston that I haven't heard a lot of people talk about is just,”

“Yeah. Dion Waiters Award for the best heat check in the movie. Our nominees are Ethel Merman. Yeah. Kareem, the Jive guys, Lloyd Bridges, or Stephen Stucker. I think Stephen Stucker is just... I think he wins it. And Stephen Stucker wins it because he comes out of…”

“And you look at this, this is why I was talking back before about like, I don't know if the Celtics are gonna be that bad. You've Pritchard and Simons out there, those are like two of the better heat check guards in the league. You have Jalen, who's still a top 20 guy. You might have rebound and you're gonna have a good coach.”

“…three, I think it was game three, whatever game, game four, the game they won, so game three. Caliber had made back-to-back threes, I think, and the ball swung to him. And 90% of the league would have taken the shot. Heat check, heat check.”

“True. How do you mean? Just like super kind of heat checky, pompous. I use my sex appeal. I'm just lying in bed in lingerie with 10 people in a hospital bed around me. In general, the lingerie in this movie is of a time. You know? No question. They're all really, really…”

“Siakam misses two free throws in a row. Lane violation gets one. SGA makes two free throws. Neesmith hits the three you mentioned. JDubb misses. Nemhart, Heat Check, hesitation,itation, Hesy Step Back 3. I got nothing going on. I'm just going to make something happen and make a 3.”

“…all these references where I think he thinks this is the next version of those films. So this could be an interesting rewatchables category. Most insulting homage to better movies. Most unearned homage. Yeah, homage heat check.”

“Eight threes out of what? Nine? Something crazy. Well, that's what's different now is these heat check guys don't have to be Reggie Miller anymore. They can be Niesma just going bonkers for a half hour. Didn't you have Niesma? Wasn't he your guy? We traded him in the, we trade him in the Brogdon trade”

“Jules a gym? Yeah. 400 blows? Yeah. Well, this was his only role in an English language film and his only acting role in a film that he did not direct. And Spielberg, one of the great heat checks of all time, who's barely done anything. It's like, I'm going to get this.”

“but it recommended a Dan Levitard clip to me, and I went right in there, and I said, I'm not interested. Next one, subway platform shooting. Cursey's a little, he's heat checking in at this point. Well, because also the really interesting part of this movie is whether or not Cursey's getting addicted to the game. Oh, no question.”

“Yeah, 10 points. Pretty rough. And then Isaiah Joe came in to give them some heat check threes and went over three, but the Yocage thing, he spins, he spins around and there's another guy waiting for him. When he does the thing where he tries to back down and he backs down and he can either throw it out…”

“can get a little heat checking. You know, because if you catch the Rockets on the wrong day when it just looks like a rock fight for them for the last seven minutes, you're like, what's going on with this team? They're in a little bit of the…”

“can get a little heat checking. You know, because if you catch the Rockets on the wrong day when it just looks like a rock fight for them for the last seven minutes, you're like, what's going on with this team? They're in a little bit of the…”

“…Those days are over because everybody can shoot threes down and we're just not gonna have a team like the 2014 Spurs again. But I would urge people to go back, even Miami who had LeBron during this incredible MVP heat check run and Wade and Bosch,”

“and Harrison Barnes and Pauls, they have some good vets, they have a couple heat check dudes, and they have a lot of picks, they have a shitload of picks, and I wonder, is that a Cam Johnson team? Probably not a Jimmy Butler team, but could it be like a C.J. McCollum team? I'm watching them to see, are…”

“Yeah, it's like, you know what, he's a little overpaid, but he's a heat check guy coming off the bench for us. 22 minutes a game. Oh, you're not happy? Too bad. No? I don't know. I'm just trying to figure out outs for them. Because I think they know, the team I saw tonight is the team they…”

“…of wanted to see what he had. I'm almost treated like a college team. The big thing for them is the buddy healed in the clay spot has been amazing. He's 22 a game in 25.5 minutes making five threes a game for all time heat check seasons, like the Pantheon all time heat check season ever was John Drew in 1983, averaging 21.2 points a game in 27 minutes. One of my favorites. Freeman Williams in 1980, 18.6 points a game in 25.8 minutes. But he's…”

“Bogdanovich is a heat check guy. And the East sucks. There's six terrible teams in the East. They're going to win 39 games. You guys might be right. I'm not doing it. You don't have to. We tried.”

“And then round three, it went backwards. And then in the Olympics, you know, he's basically a heat check guy in the Olympic team. But now I think it's kind of been forgotten how awesome he was. And I wonder, does it go up a level? Does it actually as good as last year was, was the playoffs the start of something else?…”

“…Is Zelda Rubinstein, Zelda Rubinstein, or is she just the lady from this movie? She's a lady from this movie. That's so she wins. Dion Waiters Award. I can't give it to Tangina. I don't know if it's like a heat check performance.”

“So you have that stuff. So then Dillingham coming off the bench just as this crazy kind of heat check ball running through him. I can carry the offense for 15 minutes. There's just a lot of stuff going on, and I'm really interested to see how it works. What happens to Gobert coming out of the Olympics where he was…”

“Go on. Whenever people show up midway through a funeral, the funeral is already a half hour in, and they drop off flowers and look at the grave or the coffin, and they just walk off. Like, what a heat check? Have you ever been in a funeral? funeral ever where somebody did that? Nobody's ever done that in a real funeral ever. It's a great call. And it's not even at the church. It's fucking gravesty in the cemetery.”

“Was your mind as blown as it was when you saw the six cents? I was like, man, I am bummed out. The Dion Waiters Award for biggest heat check. Donnie Walberg. Oh, yeah. Misha Barton. M. Knight's Shyamalan as Dr. Hill. That is a heat check of casting.”

“But like, you know, I think COVID took a lot from us. And one of them was like the Billy Blaze, like, wow, heat check guy in the office. Yeah. I mean, Billy, well, I have some Billie. Billy's cushions for later. Next one, his second scene, he tells a story about counting cards. And then the tuna fish,”

“terrible owner or a reviled owner, it actually makes things way worse for them, like somebody like Daniel Snyder. So with Bezos, it's a little bit of a heat check where it's like, if I own the Celtics and I spend money and we do a great job and we pop in and”

“and it seemed like at the very least he's this kind of rich man's version of what a six man is where he can come in and get heat checky, but he can also kind of run the team and be out there and crunch time and guard bigger guards. And I still feel like there's a place for him on a good team. I just don't know what the team is. There has to be a…”

“If anybody calls, then just tell them that I died or that I'm going, I'm asleep, all right? Just the heat check of showing up at your friend's house and being like, I've got a limit outside. Take this fur coat and the limo outside. Now I'm naked in your hallway. Take my fur coat. Yeah, if there was any ambiguity, we're…”

“…had a run. Gary Coleman had a run for a while. Hervey Villages in the late 70s. Before my time. And then it was kind of dormant. And then Vern Schroger came flying and he took the belt. It's like a five-year-long heat check, too. He was on this real life.”

“…Jay Fox was a slasher. So Chubby had some couple big shots. He goes, remember that Brad on the dragon goes, shoot it, fat boy. He just shrews and thrilled in his face. He had a PJ Washington against Minnesota kind of heat check. He did. Started making corner threes.”

“…Dillingham especially. I feel like he's going to be gettable in the 10 to 14 range. And Rossella said this when we were doing the pod the other day about stuff OKC needed. It would be fun for them to have just some heat check guard off the bench like Dillingham, right? Like they just coming off the bench with Dillingham and Wallace. And they're like, watch this. And then they're just, you know, just building the offense around four…”

“…because I don't even know what that guy's name is, and he's super creepy. If you saw him in anything, he'd be like, hey, that's hunger. A harder category is the Dion Waiters Award. Dion Waiters, for the biggest heat check. Bernardette Peters, two scenes. Shockner, I think, qualifies.”

“be a heat check guy. And those guys are out there. There's a few of those in the league. I feel like they could get one of those dudes. It was the thing their roster was missing this year. Paul George, I said this on Thursday's pod.…”

“yeah, I'm going to talk about it on your show right now. But it's a workshop. Yeah. It's a little heat check here, but yeah, that's kind of just a little thinking I've had kind of with sports”

“and he's bringing the ball up he crosses half court phoenix is like let's send two to him and he had every right to take an absolute heat check of a three that's what kind of like he just was on fire like trey murphy shooting that 30 footer today trey had a couple today i was like uh and ant just did the right thing he's like all right you know i i could…”

“And I really feel like he put himself in the movie because he was a big star. Yeah. And he was like, I'm going to just, he kind of heat checked it. I have him elsewhere. I do too. And I went back and forth on the framing device. At the beginning, I was like, oh, what are you doing? And why are we hearing about your sinuses and this is going on and on?”

“He's my vote. So, Dion Waiters Award, which is for Best Heat Check, where somebody just comes in and steals a couple scenes. You could go, Michael T. Williamson is Bubba, the horny principle you could do. You could do cunning Carla and long legs Lenore. Yeah. Oh, that's a great one.”

“…really tough cuts. And I thought about going to a top 80, but 80 is ridiculous. So we just, you know what? Maybe this will put a chip on their shoulders. Colin Sexton on Utah, who has turned into an absolutely awesome heat check guy. He's actually like better than a heat check guy.”

“…part of Philadelphia. I feel like Victoria Seeker was in more places. I think it was probably at the Springfield Mall. I think it was probably at the Granite Run Mall. I think that 40 minutes on 76 is like a heat check. and it's a very sad end”

“…he's worse this year than he was last year. Maybe it's the injury, but like you said, it wasn't on the report, and I can't account for that in the rankings if we didn't know about it. Yeah, he's turned in kind of heat checky with the passing.”

“Affleck's really funny. We should almost have like some sort of cameo category because a heat check is a little different from a cameo. Like, Affleck isn't it like that? Yeah. Coolidge is important to the movie. But Affleck is also very crucial to the story. You know, he presents him with that sort of Raiders of the…”

“…i just i'm still i'm by again i'm buying everyone's scoot stock. Just quickly racing through the rest. You had Sasser at 11. Jesus Christ, where did this guy come from? He's like, came out of NBA Central casting as a heat check third guard off the bench. He's a mix of 20 guys that we've seen succeed, right?”

“I'm very, very interested to see the results of this game, even like win-loss, how it affects the playoffs, what have you. There's a big heat check for Texans-offense, Bengals-defense. Bengals-defense have been lights out last few weeks. Texans-offense, obviously, bad game against Carolina, but generally really impressive unit. Going to learn a lot”

“but I still believe in that guy. Like he's only 23. I like that. He rebounds. Yeah. I think he's a really good heat check score. Um, I think it's a bad sign for them that they, that they played better without him after he got hurt in the playoffs. That would be the one way you would really ding them. But as an asset, like I had him in my…”

“I don't know how, if this can be treated like Tocon. I think it's hard to say things like most rewatchable scene. Yeah. I do think they... I've got some nominees. But I have thought a lot about heat checks as I have thought about this movie. So there are some, maybe some opportunities for us to return to the structure.”

“Yeah. She's going to still keep going. The Grower? The Eddie character. I mean, it's going to be no surprise when he wins Dion Waiters. It's almost like we could name Dion Waiters after Cousinetti. It is an all-time heat check. It's amazing.”

“It's a heat check from Rob Reiner. Yeah. He's like, I'm Rob Ryaner. I'm put my location scout in. They come to him and they're like, Rob, we got an extra mill, because Debbie dropped her asking price. You can have anybody. And he's…”

“…him to do this. Harlan Williams. Okay, so the Dion Waiters Award we give out. This is, Dion Waiters was a basketball player who would just come in for like five minutes and make a bunch of shots. And we, they call it a heat check. Cool. So from a heat check standpoint, somebody who just comes in only has a couple scenes, but they crush it.”

“So what's Le Schiff doing? He's got $40 million in front of him, and he's playing down to the end of this hand with action with three other players? It was a heat check shot. It was a he check. Yeah, he's fucked up. Le Schiff fucked up. So the Asian guy has king-queen spades. So that gives him basically a high straight.”

“…you this fancy stove, all these things. And I know restaurateurs that are like. him. So, you know, he was very good, very convincing for me, for sure. What was the most artsy-fartsy thing you cooked where you had a heat check? You had a Jordan Pool 28-footer on a menu one day.”

“And some heat check guy who would be their ninth guy. That's a good one. I like that. Trey Young today, nine points, four for 15, six assists, five turnovers, minus 14. And this is against the San Antonio Spurs, who started Branham and…”

“…And I think they overreacted to last year and his ability to play on big stages. I really worry about this contract if I'm then. This is too much money for somebody who's a defensive liability, who just seems really heat checky, and I don't know if there's a next year and I like him. I've been a huge defender of him the last couple of years, but I have not liked what I've seen this year house.”

“…than maybe people think. They're not going to, they're, they're so deep, they're never going to throw away a game. You're always going to have to go at them and beat them for four quarters. They have these random heat check guys. I just kind of like the team. You seem disgusted.”

“…playmaking and ball handling responsibilities will for sure fall on Kawhi and PG's shoulders. I don't know if Bones Highland is ready for that level of competition at all i'm pretty skeptical of that no he's a he's a heat check guy yeah you want him to come in and get like 12 points in five minutes in the second quarter yeah that's that's his destiny he's not gonna be a crunch time guy for that i don't think i did like in you know the game…”

“What do you think of Bones? Not really your kind of guy, Rob, but on the right team i could see him moving into like a jordan clarkson type of heat check kind of guy i think that's like his destiny right yeah i was kind of hoping he would end up on a defense heavy team that needs some juice sometimes like that yeah that is the dream role for him and the clippers…”

“that's like a heat check. No one else does that. I think Brady will, could talk himself into winning in Vegas. Sally feels going to carry that movie. I think it's too far away from the fam. I don't think Kevin McDaniels are nearly as close as…”

“Leon's pretty great. I rarely do this, but I think these guys might be co-winters. They're both like completely heat checking the shit out of those parts. They weren't like nothing parts. Yeah, those are brother's sister scenes. It's basically they just meet up one of the guys and talk shit. Could I, do we still do the category of the…”

“but just in general like those heat check guys like that anyway that's a whole different discussion Dallas I think is pretty limited with what they can do it's wood they have all these contracts that nobody really wants the Kyrie piece if Brooklyn ever It's…”

“…than i think people might be expecting they don't know they don't know kev yeah he's been in. He was in Atlanta now. So yeah, we got a little season from there. Well, you also have I mean, I think you're better than a heat check guy at this point, but you're you know, you're a classic heat check guy. But Davis is another heat check guy. Yeah, TD, man. He can he can like do like the 15 point”

“million a year. If you're talking about heat check guys off the bench, and you're looking at Jordan Clarkson, Jordan Poole, and Hero, all these dudes, Monk at a discount is a pretty good deal. Any of those guys on that list, other than Randall, you think has a case?”

“He might have the most Dion Waiters. Walker is also in this particular era is just out of control in the Dion Waiters. He was like getting signed, you know. He was like a permanent heat check guy. He's like Jordan Clarkson. Yeah. Just come in and put up your shots. Should we change this to the Jordan Clarkson Award so it's more current?”

“I like Metu. Always in the right place in the stands up. Terrence Davis, a little bit of a heat check guy. But it's interesting because they can win different ways because they can win. Like Malik could just get hot one game, right?”

“actual shooting video, which I guess is a separate scene from that, but those two together kind of like You mentioned the spinning shot when the tapes are erased. Just a heat check back to... I'm levitating when I watch it. He's taking threes from 36 feet. And all of the reels are going around and around and around in the room”

“That'll be up to you how long you're in. Sexton's good. He's like a good heat check guy. I would have wanted him 36 minutes a night, but I'm down the line with all the picks they have. Verno. I don't know, man. I don't see them tanking.”

“…bit as far as that spot. But I think he has a good place for this team with the bench. I think his playmaking in terms of activating all of these other guys is still really important for them. Yeah, even if he's a heat check guy, second unit. in terms of activating all of these other guys is still really important for them. Yeah, even if he's a heat check guy, second unit.”

“as the heat check drug, like he's the guy ratting them out. And I kind of, in a way, I've wondered if that might be, if Rogan as the straight guy was necessarily going to be the best. I think Franco is, like, pulls off one of the…”

“…a guy pinch hit in the third inning. I mean, this speech comes so early in the movie. I mean, we don't have to spoil it, but like you can rename Dion Waiters for this character and for this performance. It is the most heat check off the bench, never to be seen again. This guy was out of his mind for 16 minutes and then just left the arena. It's, it's, it is the reason that this category exists is this part. Yeah.”

“You're doing these heat check baseball parlays. You're winning those. I don't understand it. Yeah, I don't even watch college football. I'm just reading the market and I'm like hitting. Like I had UNC. I had UNC. I had TCU second half. I'm…”

“…times. I'm going with Todd Luiso, who's the other... The third kid. Yeah, and he's in Jerry McGuire. He's in the Rock. he's in Apollo 13. He was just like, he was in high fidelity. Dion Waiters Award for the biggest heat check.”

“…for her because she just became Frenchy. You couldn't see her in anything else. She's just, oh, that's Frenchy. There's no way to break out of that. It's a good one. Who do you have for Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check? I like Blanche, but it's a lot. Blanche calm down.”

“fucking wingman. Stay with the herd. You have your team. Don't ride off by yourself. Only bad things can happen. They're looking for all you anyway. I get it what he's doing, but it is a heat-checky move”

“second ball handler that's heat checky guy some pressure off Luka the secondary ball handling stuff is really key because we talk about”

“but I think if we're just going heat checks, Polly's in it too much, clubbers in it too much. So it's probably like Duke by default. I had Wally Taylor get up. That was it. The one line. Like, get up!”

“Heat checky, third guard off the bench guy. So the other part of this that I guess I just didn't really figure out, because Porzingis is still talented. Um, I think that's allowed. You can, you know,”

“but at least when he feels kind of heat checky you know like you could see him making a couple threes in five minutes totally I mean you know he basically was like 17 minutes a game in April and then just kind of beyond that wasn't even a factor yeah but I mean…”

“…are. And as you point out, the Celtics have, other than Pritchard having these little spells, but he's not missing any shots, even if you think you want to hunt him. Although shots are wide open. It's not like he's heat checking.”

“You're not getting momentum. But we saw it was 79-54 with three minutes left in third quarter. And Memphis goes on a 50-13 run. They make six threes. Pat Beverly is like heat checking it, trying to save Minnesota down the stretch. It's like, clear out, guys. I got this.”

“spoken. In print, it's liable. I love every single time. Gotcha. You love that. That's pretty good. It's a impression. It's Will & Defoe. All right, so the Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check. Only one person. Octavia Spencer comes in, heats it up.”

“…year. I think you might be the only person I know who likes him more than I do. I do see a scenario where he just rips off a month straight of games like the one we saw yesterday. I don't like, to me, he's beyond a heat check guy. He just might be really good.”

“…his resume for the Ewing Theory, and it was accepted immediately. It was the breakout game for the Ant-Man, who I think the diehards love, but maybe the casual fans hadn't really seen him in action. It was a classic heat check D'Angelo Russell game. You saw good D'Angelo tonight.”

“…and held the gun to her head and then to his head and was like cocking it when he knew there were no... So he could get the draft. That was stupid. I didn't like that. It was just crazy. The Sam Levinson season two heat check award”

“…the kid with the pale on his head just bagging the wall. We got Grandma and Hailing Helium. And we get the same. talking about blowing Rick Moranus on the highway. It's just, just. Don't forget, we get a real, real heat check moment from the stripper where she was like, yo, cop with dad showed up in the lodge and they beat him severely.”

“Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check is obviously Deborah Winger. I think she's in three scenes. Yeah. Shout out to Sebastian Stan, though, for just being the crazy guy at the beginning for a minute and a half. Yep. Now he's Tommy Lee. All right.”

“This is the Dan Campbell weekend. Did we not bet on our crazy over with Houston and San Francisco and all those guys? We didn't do that one. I forgot to get that one in there too. Get that one in. My bad. Davis Mills heat check game. Yeah, the last one we have is the Davis Mills heat check game.”

“…when they traded Gary Trent for him. And then I really didn't understand when they gave him a five-year $90 million extension. Norm Powell. He's on my board. Yes. I like Norm Powell. Good guy to have on the team. Good heat check guy. Fun guy. We know he can play”

“I agree. Dion Waiters Award. Mm-hmm. For best heat check. Okay. I'm not giving it a Martin short. No. Because I think both of us are kind of annoyed by that performance.”

“guy who could have the ball and you could run a play for them. And especially like even the last three minutes of a game where... Burks a little bit can get it going. He's a little heat checky, but not... Fournier can create a shot for himself. You might not always like the shot, but”

“prostitutes and stuff. And I have a theory on that, too. I think that these robots and that montage are Stallone's. heat check robots because he's coming off Pauley's robot in 85 and robots are everywhere in droids. He's like, we need to find robots in this movie and just that Brigitte, like, dance with them or something. It's laughably out…”

“…It's just weird because it's a movie that she would have never even thought of doing like a year and a half after that because after unfaithful comes out. Yeah, she's turning this down. Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check. Is Keanu's gambling buddy eligible, John Hawks? Or was he in the movie too much?”

“…You could even see it in, even when he had COVID last year in the Celtics, but he's, he's easy to play with. I think he's on the right team. You can initiate offense with him sometimes. He's a, he's a little bit heat checky, but he's the type right team. You can initiate offense with him sometimes. He's a little bit heat checky, but he's the type of guy they just didn't have last year. And I don't know.”

“…the NBA, he's one of those four guys that has shot over 40% from three on over seven attempts per game. Heald, Robinsonal Robinson Curry Thompson. So ridiculous company for him to be in. And has the ability to just heat check win a playoff game. Russell, you know what he reminds me of? This analogy is just for you.”

“I have some guys. Who are guys that you're warming up to here? Oh, there's not a warmup there. It's a full on, it's a full on heat check with me and Book Knight.”

“I've never been to a game that had more heat checks because Mitchell had a heat check. Clarkson had 21 in eight minutes in the first half. Mann and Reggie Jackson both had a heat check. Then Beverly had like a mini heat check where he made all these threes in a row. And it was, it was one of the weirdest games I've ever been to. And you know, is why the NBA is so random now. And I don't, I'm not alive better, but if you're alive better and…”

“I think that's you think they'll probably end up like in the 90s they don't have that one heat check guy they don't even have like not like in the 90s. They don't have that one heat check guy. They don't even have like, not just like the Lou Williams type. They don't have that anybody type who can just come in and score. It was two minutes.”

“it's going in when he's shooting it. I didn't always feel that way. I always felt like he was more of a heat check three guy. But now, man, if he adds this, that inside-outside game and the power and the athleticism he has, the Clippers basically had to play Beverly in the second half, even though he's a zero, offensively, just to…”

“Durant's the best scoring forward. Harden's the best creator. Kyrie is the best heat check guy in either conference, right? Gobert's the best defensive player. Like there's just all of these dudes that are really good at something. And then you look at Chris Paul. I know you loved, I know you probably fell…”

“the great heat check point guards we've ever had, where it's like, if he gets hot, you have to ride him because he's going to make everything. How do you see the dynamic of those three guys? What happens when they get to Milwaukee next…”

“And that's why the Lowry stuff. No, but they do have Hero. If they wanted to basically upgrade from Hero, if they felt like Hero is who he is, he's like this awesome heat check guy, but could he be a top three guy on a title team? Probably not. So we'll see.”

“They don't have enough talent. They were doing a Beaubon-KP-Twin Towers thing in the fourth quarter, which I was kind of digging, by the way. But it was like, that's how desperate they were. It's not like they had some heat check to come. It's little similar to the celtics where it's like all right you look down the bench it's like there's grant williams there's semi ojale there's trey burke you know at some point you're built around one guy…”

“I liked all the shots he took. I didn't feel like there was a heat check i just thought it was all flow of the offense really good stuff and then you know the announcer who was the announcer for that game was it van gundy can't remember whoever the announcer was was saying chris paul can't…”

“I like that they all seem to kind of know exactly who they're supposed to be, right? All their roles. Grace and Alan. Not always Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks. I thought you liked Dylan Brooks. He's a little heat checky sometimes. Yeah.”

“…Lillard and McCollum and Trent together at the end of the games. We're just too small. Even if Trent's a good defender, we need more scoring, a little, a little bit more size, maybe a little, a little bit more of a heat check. And they nail Powell hood. Who cares?”

“who recognizes Albanian. His heat check performance is the fucking best. He's one of the best Spike Lee, you know, players ever. I have to say this is this is going to be like a UFC fight of Dion Waiters. It's the longest list I think we've had in at least…”

“like just like she dunked in doubt, you know, her heat check, like she had this great moment at the end of Antoine Fisher. And, you know, I've heard Denzel talk about it, but I'll never get tired of people singing the praises of that performance”

“…be a playoff series where you're going to get in the mano a mano thing like he was in with Murray last year. I think all the experience he's gotten with that has really helped him. And then they have like these weird heat check guys. Like the Clarkson thing like he was in with Murray last year. I think all the experience he's gotten with that has really helped him. Then they have these weird heat check guys. The Clarkson thing, does he…”

“I never gave up. I was wondering why the Celtics weren't trying to trade Semi Ogilvy for him a month and a half ago. He's exactly what they needed, a heat check guy who made some threes. You were the only person on planet Earth who, no, who even me, I can't imagine sitting there and having the thought of the Celtics really urgently need to trade Semmy Ogilvy for Malik Monk…”

“Patrick Bergen. Yeah. He dials it up a thousand different times. The Dion Waiters a word for Best Heat Check. I couldn't find one. So I'm doing something we've never done in the Ruehachos before, giving it to the casting director. Interesting. Who somehow thought it was a smart idea and a good idea to not have a single black…”

“…um and dame him and dame the stats are pretty close. There's something with Steph that will always be a little bit different. First of all, he was first. He invented a lot of this. The joy, especially when he has a heat check, is just different. It's inclusive. I'm not a Warriors”

“…who dialed it up, brought it up a notch. And then the Dion Waiters Award for biggest heat check. He's in this movie for five minutes. It's an indelible scene. I think it's a heat check performance. Is there a bigger heat check in this movie, Bill? Like someone who just pops it in and it just is like... Some comes in and hits some threes. Yeah, it's like three threes, grabs a couple rebounds. Can we talk about... Can we talk about... Because…”

“Dennis Farina, Catherine Keener, Isaiah Washington, and the guy who played White Boy Bob, who had the best heat check in this movie Rissillo. I actually think Cheatel should be, maybe he's in it too much. He's in it too much?”

“For sure. For one scene, like I think this is probably going to come up as. like a heat check, but I think John Ham seems, seems far. We got a, so funny. I mean, we can jump ahead to that. All three of them are crying, laughing. All three of them are incredible. What's that fuck, buddy?”

“Anthony's had some moments as like a heat check guy off the bench. He sucked tonight. I had him as a top I had it initially as a top five, but he sucked tonight. So I downgraded him. Maxie on the Sixers has had moments. Avdija on the Wizards. I like how comfortable…”

“The Jordan Clarkson 4 for 52 to Utah was just stupefying. I've never gotten the fascination with Jordan Clarkson, but that's all right. I just feel like you can find heat check guards who can't defend anyone every year during the season. There's two available. You could go get Lou Williams right now. He's going to basically be what Jordan Clarkson is. I'd rather have Lou Williams. I'd could…”

“Like as an embarrassing uncle goes. Is Marley not eligible for Dion Waiters? You know, he's good. But I didn't think that he was like a heat check, you know, kind of performance. I think he was more of like a solid role player. But I'll allow you. We can nominate him. Okay.”

“Mr. Spell was elite. Good heat check from Spell. Great work by the Etchusketch also in this movie. Got to say. Good call. That was hardcore when he drew it. Yeah. That was rough.”

“Go to Jane Fonda. Hey, Jane, any interest? She turned the film off and the quote was, it's a piece of capitalist rip-off bullshit. She was in a permanent heat check at that point of her. And then Shirley McLean said, no thanks. And has talked about how she really regrets it. And they finally ended up settling on Ellen Burstyn. And then the director, Arthur Penn, said no.”

“Call it the Kendrick Nunn Award then. Oh, he doesn't deserve an award. Yeah. Dion Waiters was actually a good heat check guy once upon a time. Yeah, but he just, what Dion Waiters stood for, what this award means, he just did the absolute opposite of. And you need to talk to the, I think you need to talk to the academy about what you…”

“Oh, man. What heat check actor who's like, I can do this, I'll be the Martian, and it just goes wrong. I don't think this is a good vehicle for Jim Carrey. Yeah. I think you, because the whole movie, right, is that, and I think what Van is…”

“…either take over a quarter in the case of that one Boston playoff game the entire game why do you think that hasn't happened yet in any of these five games how did they lose that that kind of irrational confidence heat check factor do you think that hasn't happened yet in any of these five games? How did they lose that kind of irrational confidence heat check factor? Do you think it's nerves or is it something the Lakers are doing? I…”

“…Who would you believe? Who would you believe? Who? It's a very fine line between being Vince and Hannah and being Dion Waiters. Because I also could, I think you could make the argument that she has just a great heat check in this movie.”

“and he was hitting every, he was doing that deal where he was like, not just heat check, but he was like, what can I, what can I get to go in tonight? Yeah, can I make this 29-footer? Oh, shit, I shit, I can. All right. I'm going to go to the left side”

“it was when Boston was up by a lot, but it was the first half. Jalen took a heat check three that was just abominable. It was like coming out of a fast break. His feet weren't set and he air balled. It went out of bounds. And the camera showed them walking back and Kemba's giving him shit about it…”

“It's goosebumps. Tomorrow is like, whatever. That's great. That's great. Dion Waiters, this is a tough one because everybody's in the movie too much to count as a heat check person. So you're really stuck on like parents and waiters and stuff like that. I almost feel like it's, you know, we almost have to shift it around to like who stole the movie, which Chris Ryan suggested last time…”

“It's like, no, no, no. What are you doing? Um, I don't know what the answer is for them unless it's like a Jordan Clarkson heat check, which they were kind of hoping for tonight. He couldn't give it to him. So when they won all the games, when it looked like this thing was over, they were playing like the highest level of basketball. I think I've…”

“before they started filming, he canceled, and they had to grab the dude they grabbed. Huh. That's definitely a heat check. I was just trying to look at what that is in the timeline of his marriage to Natalie Wood, just to get... Natalie Wood's still alive. She hasn't mysteriously died yet. Got it, got it. Yeah, she has done heart to…”

“…such a pivotal role this late into the season when they really hadn't played at all before. put up minutes so um i think they need him because of the way he clicks with yokage and the athleticism and just kind of the heat check factor him i don't trust anyone else offensively on that team well you trust yokage right yeah oh by the way i accidentally omitted yokage i had yokage 12 i forgot to mention him sorry sorry yokage 12 in case you were…”

“Just for the bow that he does, the little curtsied it to him. Yeah. I'll give it to you. Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check. I think Magua is ineligible. I think he's in too much in the movie. Okay.”

“…English Mastiff. That was the dog. Apparently, this kind of merges with half-ass internet research, but five, five of them playing her because of the heat while they were filming. Dion Waiters Award for the best heat check.”

“…which astonished everyone, you know, just blew everybody away. We do on the rewatchables. One of the awards is the Dion Waiters award for somebody who's not in the movie that much, but when they're in it, it's a huge heat check and they make a bunch of threes. He's in that movie for, I don't know, 11 minutes. Would you say 10 minutes? Did you ever see any of those running totals for the Academy Awards?”

“Great job, Doyle. He could be a symbol of America, according to some people. Yeah, up to nine and a half. Nine and a half, too, he's out of ten. The Dion Waiters Award, best heat check performance. I can't say Anna Pacquin because I didn't like her performance. I can't give it to Clay Davis because he's Clay Davis. I got to say, I had guy who looked like Patrice O'Neill,”

“from this draft. Anthony Randolph. Still waiting for him to become a heat check guy off the bench. Kyle Weaver. A lot of length there. Love him.”

“Good heat check guy, good spacer, and looked like Sly Stallone. So all things I loved. Yeah, what else? I am on the clock. Is this 11th or 13th? 11. Wow, we got to make four more picks? Good Lord.”

“…the way is what would you say it's 80% compliment 20% insulting Chris for this award a little bit because we like when people dial it up but we also have to commemorate it um and then the Dion Waiters award for best heat check so this is somebody who's not in the movie that much but when they're in it's a complete heat check i don't just FY, Lily Taylor, not eligible. I think she's in too many scenes.”

“Why are we swerving across four lanes of traffic to do a drive-by on Godzilla? Godzilla was LeBradford Smith. Can we talk about the heat check of all heat checks in your second, like, major film, to just be like, fuck it, I'm going to take a shot at Godzilla. What? It's incredible. Chris, Michael Bayes, this is, we're going to do Apex Mountain later, but is this still his best”

“Is there any other Dion Waiters, Heat Check people? I think it's Rob Lowe. Yeah, it could be Rob Lowe. Is he in the movie too much, though, is my question. He's basically only got four scenes. And he's, you know, he's really funny in the cow tipping scene. Does…”

“I think he had probably too many things going on. The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check. So our nominees here, Tony Jha, again, Rousie, who's only in one scene, Ronda Rousey, or the guy from the raid. I thought about putting Tyrese in there because he's really not in this that much, but he has huge…”

“…once. Where are you at on Roadies? How many times have you run that series back? I'm just waiting for it to get really real outside and then I get into the Roadies rewatch. The Dion Waiters Award for the biggest heat check. I've written down one name and one name only and that name is Gleason.”

“I mean, it goes on for so long. I loved it. The Dion Waiters Award. Best heat check. Easily, Carl, the janitor. You guys think I'm just some untouchable peasant, sir? Pion? Yeah?”

“…and they're running plays for him in crunch time and he's creating shots for other guys. He's doing all his stuff. Brogdon is really good at running their team. They have a bunch of McDermott, Jeremy Lamb, kind of heat-checky guys.”

“Miles is always a little... And they have heat check guys in the red spots. But, like, watching them last night, thinking they were going to get that win against Toronto, and Toronto goes an 11-0 run to close the game, I'm thinking this is a nice win from this group, man.”

“I know this is absurd, but I think I'm as good as this guy. And he just heat checks him. Yeah. And does the, Michael, what do you think? And he does the look away. He blinks a hundred times. And then he just gets it real, he gets the engine going. He's just like, oh, you know, for me, the action is…”

“The Dion Waiters Award for the biggest heat check. Is this the hardest one we've ever done? It's up there. I'm going to go from what I perceive to be least to greatest. Okay. Bo Dietl is Bo Dietl. Are you fucking high? I can't have.”

“But the fact that they're both on 11, neither is over. overacting. Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check. Skatman. Right? Can I make the case for Lloyd the bartender? Yeah, you absolutely can. Okay.”

“…Kemba was open, and now you have a 6'8 guy closing out on him. It confirmed what we thought. I still feel like they're a guy short. I think they have a trade to make. I'd like to see them get some sort of borderline heat check guy off the bench so Thibel could play more and stuff like that.”

“He's cheap, and I'm not a Moutier guy, but the way it was explained to me was... Heat check guy? Third guard. Heat check guy. Why don't you relax, guys? Yeah.”

“…and that means it was bad, then I just want to... It doesn't mean it's bad. For the record, I think he was down and up. I think he was perfect. Down and up. He's exactly what I wanted. The Deany's Award for the Heat Check. Ooh.”

“Needed an editor. Remember the Titans. Boom. That's it. That's all you have to do. That's all you have to do. Come on. Dion Waiters a word for best heat check in this movie.”

“Dion Waiters Award for the best heat check. Who do you have for this, Chris? I don't know if he qualifies because he's essentially a starting player, but I'm going to go Clancy Brown. I'm going to go Hadley. I'd have to look at his usage rate. I think he's…”

“…reconnect and get married. To their third husband. This is horrible, but I don't remember Sam Elliott. he's he's like one of the he's like a like a card player Oh okay Alright The Dion Waiters a word for the biggest heat check in the movie Okay”

“…that person just infiltrated. But that's the same sequence as the phone call where she's like, bitch, come for me. And I got something for you. And she thinks that's actually going to work? She believes it. It's a heat check for-Ballagher is a warrior.”

“…Kirk's sister, too, from girls. And who did you have? I mean, Scoot McNary is Tommy O'Hara, the boyfriend who Ben Affleck goes to visit and he tells the whole story of their encounter. That one scene. Literally a heat check.”

“Dion Waiters Award. Best heat check. I think Jada Pinkett's in this movie just a tiny bit too much. Barry Shabaka Henley's in there, but I think the winner's Javier Bardem. If I am being Santa Claus and you are Pedro,”

“…between whites and blacks. And then they would recede into their ranch after it started, wait for everyone to kill each other, and then emerge as the new leaders of this whole revolution. It was the single craziest heat check theory I think anyone's ever had and awful for 19 different reasons. But this was actually what carried the day in court. Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor,”

“…say the previous cult hero the Celtics have ever had off the bench ever. I mean, I would say the previous guy was probably Terry Dourad, who when I was a kid, they had this guy. He's from Detroit. He was just this heat check, garbage time guy.”

“It would not change him. Garrett Dillahunt was in the running for Llewellyn. He auditioned five times. Yeah. but instead became Ed Tom Bell's deputy. So there you go. Dion Waiters Award for the biggest heat check in the movie. We already said it.”

“…he still has the room to get better. The free throw rate isn't great, but for what the Warriors do, I think they can maximize all the stuff he does, which is he's a fantastic kind of one-on-one perimeter dude. He's a heat check guy. He is somebody that I think could eventually be a 40% three-point shooter and somebody that could really work nicely with Steph and with Clay and can create his own offense and play off other guys.”

“and you and I both love Carson Edwards I love Carson Edwards he'll be a fun heat check guy potentially we never pick a guy like that you and I always say other teams come in the garden, they have a Carson Edwards kind of heat check guy that we can't stop shooting jump shots.”

“jam there might be a way to make it back to him with the space jam where he oh you think i was on heat check with john gonzalez on monday yeah and we talked about this trade kicker and i was like i bet uh lebron james and anthony davis in los angeles will figure out a way for anthony davis to get back that four million bucks…”

“…basically thrown away a decade of lottery picks potentially or high draft picks or just unprotected picks for these two guys. So now it has to work. If it doesn't work, we'll remember this as like the all-time just heat check trade anybody's made. And I still don't know who they're bidding against.”

“I mean, he didn't miss any shots. He was a heat check. That's what he was last year. Yeah, I think it's kind of what this series is going to be. Like Giannis had to be at another level for him to get past the fact that everyone around him was pretty inconsistent. And…”

“it's absolutely easier to win a major. He laid out all the ratios, kind of incredible Brooks having a heat check. And then he goes out and he shoots what a 63, 64 to the 64. Oh, 63. I'm sorry. brooks having a heat check and then he goes out and he shoots what a 63 64 today 64 oh 63 i'm sorry 63 you're right seven under 63 on beth page black which is not easy well that the the the over under prop for the week on best score of the week…”

“and how nobody else was willing to create a play really except for Kawhi. I just don't think that can make the finals. Whereas Milwaukee has, they have some heat check guys, obviously they have some up and down guys, but they've also proven they can survive when Bledsoe's not good. Their three-point shooting can go away for a game, but”

“Yeah. He makes me laugh. He says funny things. In my heart, it's polar, but I'm not going to pick that because you guys. The internet rejects that. You guys made me feel bad. Dion Waiters Award. Best heat check in the movie.”

“That's interesting. Do you feel like it was like a heat check by her? That's pretty good. I kind of like that. Every moment is a heat check. She's great. Every moment. She's really good in this.”

“…and it's just I have no recollection of really any moments from it. It's a pretty forgettable stretch for the Lakers. Goes to the Rockets and then ends up in this Clippers thing. And he'd always been one of those heat check guys. I had always thought of him as kind of in that Jamal Crawford camp, but maybe not as fun to play with as Crawford. What's really changed, and I don't really remember him having this to this degree”

“orlando game could have gone either way. I'm not yet worried about, like I'm not doing the same old Toronto thing again here yet. It was a DJ Augustine heat check. Yeah, it was. And a terrible Larry game”

“eight series I think Houston Clips would be the most fun I think the Clips are a really hard team to play they have multiple heat check guys they're going to have guys”

“So there you go. The Dion Waiters Award for Biggest Heat Check in this movie. Who would you give it to? Oh, you know who it is? It's the guy in the police department that Roman Pierce goes in to try to talk to when he wants to put the box in the vault. Yeah. It's that guy. It's…”

“…signed Ryan Fitzpatrick. The tank is on in Miami. Yeah. The Giants are just sort of, they've lost their minds. I don't even, there's not an adjective to describe what's happening to the Giants. Dave Gettleman, it's a heat check performance from Dave Gettleman.”

“It just drives me nuts. I agree. Redford's too old to be in the first 20 minutes. Casting what ifs, couldn't find any. I had none. None. Dion Waiters Award for the best heat check in the movie. I want to give it to Mattson, but I don't think”

“Yeah. We went to the Clippers Celtic game last night and the Clippers, the entire team had a heat check. It was really incredible. Lou Williams and Gallinari were like 23 for 32 or something combined. They play really well.”

“He was through those turnovers inside the last three minutes. All his doing, all his vision. They didn't even have that much Livingston out there, did they? He was bad in this game. The other heat check candidate is Curry's parents. Great performance by them. Really good. Cut to them.”

“…you throw five guys out there and they just might not click. You might, you need the glue guy. You need the guy who doesn't care if he shoots. You need kind of the alpha dog guy. You need the guy who could be the heat check guy. You need the guy who could be the best defender against, you know, some overwhelming low post guy. Everybody's just got to click.”

“…I think LeBron has now become a hard guy to figure out who is the right team to put with him. And the more I watch the Kyrie debacle in Boston, it's like Kyrie is kind of perfect for him. Kyrie is like the greatest heat check guy of all time right he can be”

“…energy, the music in this movie is incredible. You know, it's a classic like Robbie Robertson just pulling from 50 years of rock and roll and hip-hop history and just inserting it into the movie. Great Kyle Chandler heat check in this movie. I don't know. I really like-”

“Grodin's in it. Ving Rames, it's not really a heat check, but I just wanted to mention him. And then I think my choice is Oliver Stone. He's in the movie for 20 seconds and he makes like seven threes. I have another nominee. Let's hear it. Bonnie Hunt. Oh, yeah.”

“Or Leon. Yeah, we're going to get to that. Okay. The Dion Waiters Award for Biggest Heat Check. This is tough because it has to be somebody who wasn't in the movie that much. Oh, this is an easy category. Who do you have? But you have a list?”

“…it again. I want to do proof of life. Chris Ryan and I, that's going to be a 20 for them, one for us, movie for us. Okay, cool. I don't approve. Proof of life. Fair enough. Incredible ending. Yeah. Great Caruso. Great heat check for Caruso.”

“a water man yeah bro it was kind of a heat check we got nice chocolates on the table where are those no back to my question”

“…But you just don't know with health, bad luck, lucky breaks. And the reality is if you have two of the best 15 guys in the league, you have to go for the title. There is no more process. This is the process. I said on Heat Check on Sunday, it's the right trade, it's the wrong guy.”

“and one other expiring they have. And they could add Hardaway. I actually think he would play crunch time for them. And I think he has shown the ability to be a heat check guy in certain games, but he can stretch the floor, he can create his own shot. He brings some stuff to”

“…sides of working in that collaborative process that's so intoxicating. That scene is great. And I like scenes where it's clearly, like, even in the script, the writer is like, I'm going to put these two guys in a nice heat check position here.”

“…show yeah interesting yeah sunday sunday morning or you know there's no time so i think that the thing we're going to operate in is that sunday monday tuesday window i like that spot how many shows before you go full heat check and do a king's episode dude one of the big things i want to go full heat check and do a Kings episode dude one of the big things I want to do is I want to do”

“Like she got a little cocky right there. That was my problem with her attack. Everything else was brilliant. She got a little cocky. It was a heat check. You know, like in Silence of the Lambs, Clarice, when she was about to kill Buffalo Bill, didn't be like, time's up, Buffalo Bill. Yeah, exactly. She just shot him.”

“rain down. And maybe it's 12 one game or maybe it's eight or whatever it is. But Mahomes, it's all fantasy stats, right? For kids. Mahomes, there's a heat check element that he has that Curry has. And then there's also just that kind of wow factor. Like when Curry pulls up from 32 and just makes the three and you're like,”

“for the biggest heat check. Here's some of the nominees. you might have more. The good luck guy, Marco. Marco. Love Marco. Jean-Claude. Jean-Claude's wife.”

“But then the last two years, as he passed 40, he realized that much like Clint, it was time for him. to make the leap. Yeah. And I don't know. The fucking heat check of just immediately entering yourself in the Quinn Eastwood conversation. I loved it.”

“…means it's going to be a good game, or whether I make the tunnel shot, if that means it's going to be a good game or not. What's the hottest you've been during a game? What stands out the most? What's your all-time heat check? New York.”

“Nobody plays defense at Summer League. It's going to be awesome for him. He's going to love it. He could shoot his ass off too. That's why I'm excited to see him. Summer League is the place where you want to see heat check really elite three-point shooters who aren't being”

“I'm no. I mean, yeah, I don't know. KCP needs like a, a, a, a heat check every now and then.”

“It's got to be a heat check. Unless you want to go with the guy who sleeps with Sally Field to let forest and the public schools. How about Dick Cabot aging himself back 20 years? Oh, that was the real dick cabin? That's the real dick cabin. Oh,…”

“…certain to get fair value come trade deadline, I would just sit tight for the time being. Hey, we're going to take a quick break. The Ringer NBA show, a podcast that you've been on, House. I've been on the NBA show, Heat Check. What other shows are there? Yeah, all that stuff. So Ringer NBA show, tomorrow night after the draft and maybe”

“…a pretty notable and interesting jockeying, especially only, I guess, one of two black actors in the film too. And so his fight for sort of a recognizability and credibility there is interesting. Let's talk about best heat check performance by our role player, aka the Dion Waiters Award. This, you could go in a thousand different directions. I'm going to consider Clooney, Pitt, and Damon really as the quote-unquote stars.”

“…slash rewatch. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash rewatch. ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. Ah, man, we are way behind schedule. Let's bang out Dion Waiters really quick. The Dion Waiters Award for the biggest heat check in the movie. Nominees, Justiner Lake, Runei Mara, Army Hammer,”

“it's not heat check, it's group chat. Group chat, Wednesday night. They are going to be live on our Twitter feed at Ringer, and you can send them questions coming off of the playoff games tonight. Don't forget me on the Masterman Show,…”

“week. Did one last night, Sunday night, Heat Check with John Gonzalez. That went up late night. Tonight, Kevin O'Connor, Chris Vernon, they're taping Monday night. We'll be in your, wherever you get your pods, early Tuesday morning. You can listen in bed, at the gym,”

“…10 hours god knows what happened here um house do you think teams will tank to try to play the cics to get to the seven seed? I would be upset at your wizards if they tank to get to the seven seed. I observed this on heat check.”

“…of the movie are just in the trailer. If you ever just want to be like, oh, it's the best part of Siriana, it's the trailer. The best line is at the very end, though. You're the Canadian. All right, let's do best heat check performance by our role player,”

“I was like, yo, shoot every time you touch the ball. Because I know that's going to give you confidence. I know that's going to make you feel good about playing for us. That was the heat check guy you kind of needed on your team. Yeah. Yeah. And when he making shots, when Nick making”

“role and say I mean Hoffman's a good example Sam Elliott's obviously playing just like San Alliant. You know, Terturo and Thule is the two that just like, that sort of meet the heat check definition for me. But another of those performances are particularly my favorite ones in the film. So it's, I'm sort of all over the place with it. I almost put Terturo in the like, he's actually just like a…”

“I agree. It's like, it's kind of a heat check performance. That moment where he goes under and I remember people writing it off as being a stunt and the look on the”

“…on this in a recent column, there's a leadership vacuum that is tied to me to the fact that there aren't any winners on the basketball team. I went on the Heat Check. What's John Gonzalez's show? Heat Check, Mondays. Heat Check. I went on it. Yeah. And we were telling, it was before the trade deadline, and I was scouring the league for an available winner to come and help this young team. The very best time here in Washington that Wall and…”

“are catching on to that. And then we're revamping the Heat Check show a little bit too, to pull in people like Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion, just so we can hear from them every once in a while in that feed, keep an eye on that feed, subscribe now. It's really good. And if you…”

“…I like about Colin Farrell is he's... David Caruso never makes eye contact with anybody in that movie when he's acting with them. It's so amazing. He comes in the hottest. Nobody's ever been hotter in a movie. It's a heat check.”

“…open shots last night that he makes. Even with 13 seconds left, they ran a great play to get him a wide open three to try to cut it from four to one. He just missed it. But the spacing that he provides, the level of heat check that he can go to”

“…do your own thing, you know? Does that make sense or am I overthinking it? Well, I thought you were overthinking it in the first couple games of the season because I was this close to doing one of those victory laps heat checks where I was like, Kyrie Irving, 4-15 without LeBron. Nah. I'm so glad I did it.”

“Yeah, anyway. And all that water. Yeah. Really good point. Thank you. Dion Waiters Award, the best heat check performance by our role player, Billy Zane. Yeah. BZ.”

“The Dion Waiters, best heat check performance by a role player. Now, does Dennis Hopper a role player in this movie or see a star? If he is, he gets it. Star, right? I think he's a star.”

“Let's get into the Dion Waiters Award. Best heat check performance by our role player. There are so many contenders. Let's just run down some of the people who appear in this movie. We've already mentioned Dave Chappelle. Yes. In 1998. So it's sort of like, even before,…”

“All right. Best heat check performance by a role player. Here are the nominees. John C. McGinley, a stereotypical, loud, angry police chief. I love him. James LaGroess One of the surfer guys Which one?”

“We always talked about heat check movie performances where like, you know, Jamal Crawford plays 17 minutes and scores 28 points and hits 10 threes. James Woods in this movie, he plays like nine minutes and he goes like nine for 10. He gets the line…”

“And they show him on an outdoor playground with nobody there playing basketball in jeans. It was like a real like Cameron Crow's like heat check about how much he knows about sports. It was like somebody could have just been like, hey Cameron, we got to throw this kid in shorts or track pants or something. There's some other mistakes Cameron Crow made in this…”

“So it's kind of like the Kyrie heat check happens like it did in Game 4 in the Boston series. And all of a sudden it's like, oh, watch out, here's Kyrie. But if it doesn't happen, it's not like it's going to murder his team. So the pressure of that, I think,…”

“A little bit of a heat check guy. He's supposed to be. Yeah. You make shots, I want you to heat check. Yeah. He can do that, man. He can do it all on the offensive end. So I'm excited to be able to, you know, go alongside him.”

“…and take two flyers on two guys that aren't in the top 10. Yes. Or you could just take the guy Malik Monk, who scored 47 points in a college game and made a bunch of big shots and has a chance to be one of the best heat check guys. And already has a year under his belt playing with the point guard he just drafted, right? Yeah, and has 25-foot range in a sport”

“Yep. He's the evolutionary version of when Isaiah was in heat check mode because Isaiah didn't shoot threes like Kyrie does. And there's a couple things that he does that I've just never seen at this high level from a point guard before. One is, you know, the terrible threes that he…”

“It should be like guy I wouldn't fuck with. Yes. Sad award. The all goon squad. Heat check award. Yeah. Yeah.”

“…Steph Curry's MVP campaign was last year? The man averaged 30 points a game while making five threes a game and creating your WTF club, another club I created, while toying with opponents, entering a new level of heat check and putting up historically great advanced metrics. If Steph had the season he had last year this year, where would he rank in the MVP race?”

“And then on top of it, you know, mock too, I think is somebody that, you know, UCLA doesn't really, they don't really have anybody to shut him down and he hasn't had a heat check yet. Been waiting for the mock heat check. He didn't really have it in the first two games. So if this game starts kind of climbing the ladder from an intensity excitement standpoint,”

“…after getting Lou Williams. Yeah, we didn't talk about that i love that trade so they have shooters all over the place they have two creators when harden's out of the lineup and two just irrational confidence uh heat check guys gordon and williams i mean gordon's like rational and irrational but lou williams could win a playoff game when is the last time a team had like the top two sixth minute of the year candidates two guys that can…”

“…And it's funny you mentioned the crazy threes because in the last two games, the Utah game and the Dallas game on Monday night, he's taken them very early in the shot. It was almost like the ultimate league-wide heat check where he's taken them for the first time out of the rhythm of the game. You don't take it with 20 on the shot clock when you're up by eight with a minute 40 to go on the road.”

“…i'm pro i'm pro this whole thing i think it's fascinating it's fascinating to watch them but i don't know i my favorite thing about that team and i think that what everybody really responded to with that team, was the heat check potential of Steph and Klay at all times. And now it's that same potential, but it's just with Steph and KD.”

“I believe in that guy though I think at some point he's gonna have a moment yeah he's got he's a little bit of a heat check guy he's got that weird foreign like just kind of knows where to go and makes weird things happen but um but yeah your team just never really made sense well we'll find out it's a big summer for us Obviously Are you…”

“fallaways, heat check shots. And that's just where we're going. What do you think? Well, here's the question, and I don't know enough about basketball or kind of human physiology to know the answer, but what we're going to discover in the…”

“I don't even think he's playing that great from like, it's not like he's having heat check moments. It's not like, you know, this isn't like LeBron versus Detroit in 2007 where the 48 point game. We're not having those type of moments, although I think they might”

“…the difference, though, is that with LeBron, he's always had to just play that way for four quarters, and there was a consistency to it. He'd get streaky from the outside sometimes, but there wasn't the same type of heat check”