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Who’s Cookin Who? · Front Runner Podcast Collective

• 0:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Houston's offense running on some Chopped and Cruise stuff in the second half, and Fred Van Vliet in the cast of characters in the Rockets are trying to get it together so they don't relive what they had last year.
• 0:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then there's an alien who fixed himself a plate, threw up the deuces, and dipped 40 coins in 25 minutes.
• 0:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll explain.
• 0:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cooper Flag ate a sandwich on the bench and then went back out and cooked for 43.
• 0:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Uncle Jimmy took over the grill in Golden State while Miami said quiet part out loud.
• 0:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then there's a kid in Sacramento who's serving up main character energy.
• 1:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca in Austin are handling the grill while all the rest of the characters in La La are handling the side dishes carrying the cookout.
• 1:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What does all this mean?
• 1:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, first of all, one thing we know for sure, this podcast is gonna be cooking and we got a lot to get to, so we need to go ahead and get this started.
• 1:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So let's go.
• 1:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What's good everybody?
• 1:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Welcome to Front Runner Podcast Collective, where we talk as friends, we argue like cousins, and we still walk out smarter than we came in.
• 1:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I am your host, Vince, your occasional coop therapist, your absolute favorite bad influence when it comes to completely reckless NBA overreactions that low-key make perfect sense.
• 2:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are sitting here setting the table for sure, because there was a bunch of people cooking in this last week.
• 2:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're going to give you our observations, grown conversations about players, coaches, what the front offices are doing, and who's writing those blank checks, and who's cooking up rumors in the locker room.
• 2:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're going to bring the jokes, the advanced math, and the exact barbershop ammo that you need to take straight into your group chats and completely nuke the argument.
• 2:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you're an NBA sicko like me, who are enjoying watching those Orlando Brooklyn games, you will come to the right place.
• 2:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You are here.
• 2:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you want contacts with your numbers and a point of view, this is the spot for you.
• 3:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is FRPC.
• 3:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's go.
• 3:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So what we need you to do right now is pull up a chair, get your favorite drink, because we are headed to Houston.
• 3:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's the thing that we need to get out of the way right now.
• 3:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, one of the things that we found out last year is that Fred Van Vliet meant a lot to the Houston Rockets, so much so that they could not really run half court offense in the second half of the year.
• 3:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, mind you, they have one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history.
• 3:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His name is Kevin Durant, and if he can't get you a good shot, there is not a good shot to be had.
• 3:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Rockets last season severely compromised in the half court offense and in second halves primarily.
• 3:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, when opposing teams stepped up the pressure on their guards and Kevin Durant, again, one of the best offensive creators that this world has ever seen, it is truly difficult to stop a damn near seven-footer with guard skills in a devastating mid-range game.
• 4:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the defenses were forced last-second shots.
• 4:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we're talking about grenade shots up there, and even someone who is as great as Kevin Durant can't generate a quality shot when it comes to those type of situations.
• 4:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So now happening, it's happening again.
• 4:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Fred Van Bleet is back to stabilize the offense.
• 4:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, let's give you some context.
• 4:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Van Bleet is 32 years old.
• 4:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's coming off a torn ACL.
• 4:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was out for a whole year last year, and it's a lot to ask for Van Bleet to fix all of what L's the Rockets in their half-court offense and stabilize the offense as we thought he could.
• 4:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is cleaned up a lot, but he has not cleaned up everything.
• 5:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And even though the Rockets off to a good start this year, we see in certain games when the pressure point is applied, that team kind of reverts back to what we saw last year.
• 5:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a little concerning to me.
• 5:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's talk a little bit more about it.
• 5:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There was a tremendous article in the Athletic by William Gillary.
• 5:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um I would suggest that anybody go and uh look at that.
• 5:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the Rockets lost to the Phoenix Suns a couple nights ago on uh November 8th, and it basically had them in a situation 102.99, and they didn't they didn't do anything last five minutes of that game.
• 5:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not one thing.
• 5:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Booker scored nine straight points for the rock for the Phoenix Suns in the last five minutes, and the Houston Rockets went one of six from the field with a with a turnover.
• 6:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Gillary says that the ball movement wasn't concise and some of the shot selection decisions were questionable.
• 6:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kevin Durant was four of thirteen in those minutes this season and has not recorded an assist while Fred Van Vliet was four of seven.
• 6:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Nobody else has taken it taking more than three shots.
• 6:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Alper and Shangun, who usually is a cog to the offense, is only two in three or three in those type of crunch time situations.
• 6:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Durant told Gillary that late game execution is the most important thing, and that it's good to get these reps early in the season.
• 6:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Van Vliet pointed out to the other end of the floor, we need to get some stops, man.
• 6:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Last season the Houston Rockets tied the Dallas Mavericks for the most clutch games in the league with 45, and they went an astounding 22 and 23 in games that were considered crunch time games.
• 7:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, against teams that are 500 or better, they were 12-16.
• 7:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The four West teams that reached the second round went 89 and 44 in those same type of environments.
• 7:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Gillary lists the reasons for last year's, including Van Bleed's absence, which we have just discussed, and Durant's first season.
• 7:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Said those are now excuses that are gone.
• 7:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now I will tell you this.
• 7:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can tell me that right now that I am farming for clicks.
• 7:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can tell me right now that Vince, this is watered under the bridge, people have gotten over this and all of that.
• 7:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: but I will tell you the rockets have been significantly different ever since those those DMs from Kevin Durant's burner Showed up right after the All-Star Break.
• 8:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, you can say that time heals all wounds, you can tell me that Van Blee is such a veteran that these things don't matter anymore.
• 8:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can tell me a lot of things.
• 8:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can tell me that I mean Doca has got his full roster and his full array of players out there doing big things.
• 8:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can tell me all of that.
• 8:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The one thing that you can't tell me is Cohesion.
• 8:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The other thing that you can't tell me is that these dudes really play for one another.
• 8:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cause as we see, and if if you look at the shot uh distribution in those crunch time uh areas, Kevin Durant is four of thirteen, Van Vliet is four of seven, and Alcrum Shingoon is two of three, and no one else is taking more than three shots.
• 9:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, granted, that's why they paid Kevin Durant the big dollars, that is why they were hoping to get Van Vliet back off this ACL.
• 9:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I'm trying to tell you that this team has to do some soul searching, and we gotta start trusting the other guys on this team.
• 9:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I do not know for the life of me why they do not run crunch time offense through Alper and Shangun.
• 9:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because the one thing that Alper and Shangoon can get you is a good shot.
• 9:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Whether he's taking it or somebody else on that team is taking it, when he's at the nail and he's basically running the offense from being a hub, they get good offensive flow, they get good cuts.
• 10:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: People cut harder because they think they're getting the ball.
• 10:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Check Tari Eason, check Jabari uh Smith Jr.
• 10:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: in the earlier parts of the game.
• 10:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now you can tell me, hey, in crunch time, these young guys are going to kind of turtle and it's going to be a shit show.
• 10:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can tell me that.
• 10:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But how are they ever gonna learn if they don't ever get the ball?
• 10:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Evidence with 210 left to go, and about 120 of you, the exact figures that we need to get to is this they're 26 in pace, 26.
• 10:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, if you think about who's on that roster, Alcran Shengoon is on that roster, you got Tari Eason, you got Jabari Smith, you got a lot of people on that roster who would like to get out and run, cut, move, you know, without the basketball and things of that nature.
• 10:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But when you have Kevin Durant and you have Fred Van Vliet, you know what they're gonna want to do in the half court offense, they are going to want to kind of stabilize, shrink the game a little bit.
• 11:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They want to be able to take a couple pictures mentally before they start their move, calculate their situation.
• 11:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Durant takes about eight free throws a game, roughly six for every 10 shots that he takes on the floor.
• 11:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's about 65% in true shooting, so that tells you all you need to know.
• 11:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's still generating good looks.
• 11:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Van Vliet in eight games, he's averaging 13 points, six assists in 30 minutes.
• 11:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is he turns it over about 10% of the time of his possessions, and he takes nearly eight threes a game.
• 11:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's what you want in the modern era.
• 11:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's shooting at a 36% uh level, but he's hitting 40% overall, so he's doing what he needs to do.
• 12:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Shingoon, on the other hand, has the ball a lot too.
• 12:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His usage rate is about 26, his assist rate is 30 is 36.
• 12:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now his turnover rate is about 15 at this point in time.
• 12:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Between him and Durant, they account for a little over a third of the team's turnovers.
• 12:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: My mouth projects that per game numbers will tell you that will get you a lot of L's.
• 12:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, they are very talented.
• 12:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Amen Thompson is still struggling with the three ball.
• 12:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh he's he's making he's shooting 22%.
• 12:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Tari Eason is still at 25%.
• 12:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Jaguari Smith Jr.
• 12:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: is shooting is at 46% at about six attempts a game.
• 12:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, do I expect Jaguar Smith Jr.
• 12:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: to continue his hot shooting um from three?
• 13:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Probably not.
• 13:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the thing that you want to know what you what you want to do is you want to continue to feed that confidence.
• 13:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're gonna need this kid in the playoffs.
• 13:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's not about whether the Rockets are going to be a playoff team.
• 13:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're stamped, they're certified.
• 13:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: In my book, this is a really good team.
• 13:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's in the margins that I have my my concerns.
• 13:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And when you look at the margins and you look at what is going on right now, and you have people like Reed Shepard, whose true shooting percentage is only uh 50.9% over seven games.
• 13:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We don't know what we don't know, and until we get a better sample size or we get um more trust in the guys that are in an eight to nine man rotation, we're gonna continue to look at this team and go, This team is very talented, we expect a lot of them, and you have Kevin Durant, so therefore we expect you to win, and then we're gonna be terribly disappointed towards the end of this.
• 14:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We've talked about Van Vliet's injury, but the thing that we are going to talk about is that he's the best creator by assist rate, and that's Shangun.
• 14:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Van Vliet is their whatever you want to call him, their emotional leader, their stabilizer.
• 14:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But as far as best creator, as far as assist rate is concerned, that's Alcra and Shangoon.
• 14:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Which then brings me to the point: why is Alcra and Shangoon only taking three shots in crutch time um situations at this point?
• 14:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sometimes so you gotta ask the question.
• 15:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then here's the other thing.
• 15:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is it fair to think that a 32-year-old coin guard who's basically six foot nothing, who just came off a torn ACL, sat out for a whole entire year, expected to just could just bounce back and run the offense at this such an efficient manner.
• 15:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 15:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Marcus Smart was brought in for veteran leadership.
• 15:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He left LA to come over and give you toughness and give you kind of a backup point guard type situation.
• 15:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um right now, he is sitting there playing seven games, his defensive box plus minus is a positive 1.1, so he's doing his thing.
• 15:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His turnover rate, however, is 19.2%.
• 15:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now I'm gonna tell you right now, Marcus Smart is a lot of things.
• 16:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you're asking him to be the best decision maker when it comes to being a point guard or a league guard, that's not his forte.
• 16:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His forte is shooting standalone three-point shots, get getting in there and doing like the the gritty work, you know, diving in for rebounds that he has no business getting at six foot three, stealing the ball, and initiating the break from there, hitting a timely three once the ball has been swung well two or three times.
• 16:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's what Marcus Smart is about.
• 16:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now leading your second unit, hopefully you're leaving one of the stabilizing influences on your offense in with him.
• 16:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That which should be like a Shingoon time or even a KD time, where you know that if for some reason you get yourself caught up, you can always give it to Kevin Kevin Durant, he can get you into some good offense and get off a pretty good shot.
• 17:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the guys that are in question, I mean Thompson and Reed Shepard right now, the it's kind of like the polar opposite, correct?
• 17:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You want Reed Shepard to shoot threes, but his defense is terrible.
• 17:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Amin Thompson is one of the most gifted defenders that we've ever seen, and one of the most athletic dudes we've ever seen.
• 17:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he couldn't hit the ocean with a P at this point, and then Shangun, who's 24, is the guy who should have the ball, but for some reason E Man Delka won't give it to him.
• 17:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I'm at a loss at this point about what the Rockets should be doing.
• 18:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Houston's margins, margin of plus nine points per game is about seven, is about seven and a half wins in ten games.
• 18:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, so they're right now looking at a situation where they're plus nine when it called talks about point differential, they're gonna need all that cushion because their half court offense in the second half, if the game is close, teams can pressure them into bad shots.
• 18:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That is not great.
• 18:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I think it will come back and bite them at some point in this season.
• 18:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you believe not, if you believe that I'm just yelling at the sky, yelling at clout, I understand that.
• 18:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you're a Houston Rockets fan, I definitely understand that you probably don't want to hear these things.
• 18:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we didn't think they were gonna lose to a Lucas Lucas Lakers team last year in the playoffs, right?
• 19:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I didn't have it on my bingo card, and I'm a Lakers fan.
• 19:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna get to a segment that I am excited about.
• 19:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We call it off the bounce, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna shoot about eight stories at you, quick fire type situations, but it gives us a taste of what's going on around the league, and you know where we need to start.
• 19:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We start at the the most viral dude on the face of the planet right now, Victor Wambayama.
• 19:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Monday night in Phoenix, it's the same old Victor doing the same old things when we scored 40 points, had 11 rebounds in nine blocks, but check the check the stat line, baby.
• 19:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He did it in 25 minutes.
• 19:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's efficient as shit.
• 19:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay?
• 19:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 40 points, 11 rebounds, 9 blocks in 25 minutes.
• 20:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now I'm gonna go chill.
• 20:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna go take a nap.
• 20:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna do what I need to do.
• 20:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot 15 of 19.
• 20:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had 22 at the half, and then he sat most of the fourth quarter.
• 20:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's a number.
• 20:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: ESPN says that he's the second player since they started tracking minutes in 1951 and 1952 to score 40 points in under 26 minutes.
• 20:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The other one is Sleeky Floyd.
• 20:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Anyone remember Sleeky Floyd from Golden State?
• 20:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Go go check the YouTubes.
• 20:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sleepy Floyd was a bad boy.
• 20:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He scored 40 points in 24 minutes back in 1991.
• 20:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Booker, Devin Booker had this to say.
• 20:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He said it's something like we've never seen before.
• 20:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Suns coach Jordan Ott said this.
• 20:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He says he does this from all three levels right now.
• 21:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the scary part.
• 21:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the scary part right there.
• 21:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Wingby himself said he should keep the physically amazing things for the amazingly difficult situations.
• 21:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's not the day-to-day.
• 21:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Read that again.
• 21:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's telling you that this is the easy version.
• 21:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This kid is going.
• 21:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This kid is amazing.
• 21:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It wasn't only him, Dylan Harper, who we absolutely love, and we always advocate that he should have the ball in his hands mostly, have 14 points in the third quarter.
• 21:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: After Mitch Johnson called a timeout to get him going.
• 21:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Devin Vassell was out with a tight left abductor.
• 21:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And this is nine straight wins for the San Antonio Spurs.
• 21:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So guess what?
• 21:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're back again.
• 21:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're nine and two.
• 21:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And they are just rolling right now.
• 21:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, here's the best part about the Wimby thing.
• 22:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Last Wednesday, he scored 52 points and had 24 rebounds against the Dallas Mavericks.
• 22:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's just doing what he needs to be doing.
• 22:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When we shot out the fourth quarter of this game against the Suns, but Cooper Flagg, he was eating a sandwich.
• 22:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And you want to know why, right?
• 22:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I got you.
• 22:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So in Sunday's game, the Mavericks was just kicking ass.
• 22:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They scored 130 points and beat the woeful Brooklyn Nets.
• 22:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And our guy Cooper Flag had 25 points by rebounds and a career high 12 assists.
• 22:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Early in the fourth quarter, he's on the bench in warm-ups, and a camera catches him eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich out of a little plastic bag.
• 22:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it was the second game in a row.
• 22:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He did it on Friday against Utah as well.
• 22:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His answer is he's trying to gain weight and muscle.
• 23:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So those are the requirements.
• 23:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I gotta meet smooth peanut butter grape jelly for my man Cooper Flag.
• 23:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now Daniel Gafford chimed in with uh sitting next to him and said that he gets the honey version, but not the banana alone.
• 23:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Then Monday, our boy Cooper Flag had himself a game.
• 23:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He beat the Pacers 125 to 122.
• 23:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had 43 points, he had 10 rebounds, he had six assists, three steals, and he was as efficient as he's needed to be.
• 23:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was 16 of 25 from the field.
• 23:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's his fifth 40-point game.
• 23:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He and Kevin Durant are the only teenagers in NBA history to have 40 and 10 uh 40-point games.
• 23:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cooper Flag is now averaging 25.9 points a game.
• 24:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's grabbing nearly seven rebounds a game at 6.9, 6.9 assists, and two steals.
• 24:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The only other player averaging that in all four is Luka Doncic.
• 24:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Hmm.
• 24:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Very interesting.
• 24:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Luca replacement is one that's chasing Luca with those type of numbers.
• 24:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Mavs are 7-4.
• 24:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Dusty May, who came over from the national championship winning Michigan Wolverine, says this.
• 24:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's unbelievable that he's 19 years of age and doing this.
• 24:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Nagy Marshall says that he breaks the standard for what we what he thought Flagg would be every day.
• 24:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Flag had 12 assists on Sunday.
• 24:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Warriors had 37 as a team on Monday.
• 25:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This Warrior situation is getting out of control.
• 25:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know what's going on up in San Francisco, but they absolutely destroyed the New Orleans Pelicans.
• 25:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 138 to 87.
• 25:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Folks, do the math.
• 25:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's 51 points that they beat the Pelicans by.
• 25:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's the biggest margin of any team this season.
• 25:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Warriors, fourth biggest ever, and the worst loss in Pelicans history.
• 25:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's 8 straight after a zero a 0-3 start.
• 25:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're 8-3 right now.
• 25:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the second longest streak after 0-3 or worse to start the season in NBA history.
• 25:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Mavericks of 2006 and 2007 won 12 in a row after starting 0-4.
• 25:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 37 assists.
• 26:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Three straight games of 30 assists or more.
• 26:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're 6-0 when they do this.
• 26:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Brandon Kazinski had 25 himself.
• 26:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Our guy, he's doing it again.
• 26:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's absolutely doing it again.
• 26:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yaxa Lundenberg had 23.
• 26:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Curry had 25 in a while 20 minutes.
• 26:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Curry then passed DeMar DeRozan for 16th in the all-time scoring list with 26,803 points.
• 26:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had 41 in an overtime win over Orlando on Saturday.
• 26:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Jimmy Butler, who is hurt, who is who's rehabbing a knee, showed up dressed as a coach with a clipboard and said, Pass the Steph.
• 26:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That was his intake as far as being a coach.
• 27:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Laundrieborg said that Butler told told them that he's going to get a tech for them tonight and didn't.
• 27:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Shame on him.
• 27:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you're going to step up for the fellas, then step up for the fellas, Jimmy.
• 27:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: By the way, you owe all of those dudes a cup of that$50 coffee that you're trying to pass off on everybody.
• 27:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I hope those guys are getting the coffee for free.
• 27:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Don't be selling Steph no$50 cup of coffee, my dog.
• 27:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the Warriors are 8-3.
• 27:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's amazing.
• 27:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's amazing that remember when they told they told us that the East was going to be stacked and that they this was the best conference.
• 27:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Lord and behold, the West is still the best conference, man.
• 27:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's still the best conference.
• 27:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Everybody who is in the playoff situation, and that is including the play-in teams, are over 500.
• 28:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We cannot say that about the East.
• 28:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And speaking of the East, we need to get to this heat and Giannis situation right now.
• 28:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Doc Rivers, who is now no longer a coach in the NBA, started with some noise.
• 28:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was on the Bill Simmons podcast, and this is what he had to say.
• 28:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He said Giannis doesn't necessarily have a super IQ.
• 28:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And that that had he had he has one way, downhill force.
• 28:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Force.
• 28:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And that is not easy to coach.
• 28:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Then he told Anscape he meant feel for the game.
• 28:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He texted Giannis and said he apologized.
• 28:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Rivers called it more of a compliment.
• 28:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Giannis after the Heat beat the Kings.
• 29:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: First of all, he's not my coach.
• 29:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then I'm speak I'm speechless.
• 29:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Fair to say that Rivers has walked it back.
• 29:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the real story.
• 29:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Giannis is still scoring a bunch of points.
• 29:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 29.
• 29:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, 14 in the win on Sunday.
• 29:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He said it plainly.
• 29:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Right now, we don't trust one another.
• 29:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's what it looks like in the numbers.
• 29:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Miami is 25th in defense.
• 29:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: With a team of Bam Autobayo, Giannis Anti Tecumpo, Davion Mitchell, and Andrew Wiggins.
• 29:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This team is 25th in defense.
• 29:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're 20th in offense.
• 29:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They've been outscored by 53 points through 10 games.
• 30:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They've allowed a league worse 20.5 open threes a game.
• 30:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the opponent is shooting 39.4% of those threes, which is third highest in the league.
• 30:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They gave up 138 points and 125 points.
• 30:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 138 points to the Lakers and then 125 and or more in four of their last seven.
• 30:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Giannis ties it to the closeouts and late closeouts when guys don't feel backed up.
• 30:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's an open step back three.
• 30:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The offense has a trust problem too.
• 30:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's the funny part.
• 30:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Heat run the fewest on-ball screens in the NBA at 22.3 a game.
• 30:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This was a problem when Dame Lillard was in Milwaukee.
• 30:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Everybody was talking about that Dame Giannis pick and roll is going to be lethal.
• 31:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because you got one of the most vicious guys going to the rim in Giannis Anthony Tacumpo, and you have one of the most shiftiest guards in Damian Lillard before, obviously, the Achilles injury.
• 31:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it didn't, and you it never materialized in Milwaukee.
• 31:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it doesn't surprise me that they have the fewest on-ball screens in the league right now.
• 31:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But when they do run them, they're the most efficient offense in the league.
• 31:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Hmm.
• 31:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Go figure.
• 31:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: In their 0-4 start, they averaged 23.5 against Atlanta.
• 31:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Spokester called 57 and they won.
• 31:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pat Riley, Dwayne Wade, Udannis Howsham has come out on the Los Angeles trip, has them talk to the team.
• 31:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Nobody says what he said.
• 32:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Spoker had to say.
• 32:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: the league is not waiting.
• 32:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's the thing the background to all of this is Giannis came over in the June trade, and ESPN said his free agency is looming and the pressure builds this season and next.
• 32:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They are playing tonight against Utah.
• 32:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I cannot wait to see what goes on in Utah.
• 32:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Utah is struggling.
• 32:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if there was a time to get right for the Miami Heat, is there was a time to go ahead and run some ball screens?
• 32:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is there was a time to get Clay Thompson out of the starting lineup and put somebody else in?
• 32:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is the time to do it.
• 32:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because the great thing about the East is that nobody's running away with it.
• 32:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The top of the East is absolutely stacked.
• 32:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like you got Philadelphia and you got Boston doing their things and what have you.
• 33:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the defending champions is only 5-4.
• 33:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And we'll get to them a little bit later.
• 33:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But before we get to them, we got to get to the Lakers.
• 33:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sunday night at Detroit.
• 33:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Without Luca, the Lakers win 121 to 116.
• 33:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Austin Reeves, who was given a very nice contract, and everybody was skeptical of what that contract meant.
• 33:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like, this is a lot of money to give Austin Reeves to be the number two.
• 33:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, we don't think, we don't know if he can be the number two.
• 33:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We can put all that noise to rest.
• 33:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not just because he had 43 against Detroit.
• 33:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's the thing.
• 33:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: My man is averaging 24 points a game.
• 33:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca and Austin make up the best 1-2 combo in the league.
• 33:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They get buckets no matter who they go up against.
• 34:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But when Luca was out, Austin stepped up and did his best Luca impersonation by scoring 43.
• 34:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Walker Kessler, who was brought over from Utah, had 12 points, 16 rebounds, three blocks.
• 34:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now our guy Dennis Jenkins, now I'm going to tell you right now.
• 34:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Every time he sees the Lakers, it's just a great day for him.
• 34:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The last time he saw the Lakers, he scored 30.
• 34:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This time he scored 31.
• 34:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Both are career highs.
• 34:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He hit eight threes in that game.
• 34:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now they held Cade.
• 34:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, Cade only had 14.
• 34:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So they were asking somebody to beat them other than Cade Cunningham.
• 34:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Dennis Jenkins decided that, yo, that must be, they must be talking about me.
• 34:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I'm going to go ahead and try to do what I need to do.
• 34:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, they fell five, they fell five points short.
• 35:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers prevailed, 121 to 116.
• 35:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then here's the thing.
• 35:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: On a back-to-back, going to Atlanta, mind you.
• 35:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This wasn't them going to Milwaukee or them going to Chicago.
• 35:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They went from Detroit, Michigan to Atlanta, Georgia.
• 35:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Played Monday night.
• 35:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Austin swaps out for Luca.
• 35:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Austin sits down.
• 35:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca plays in the game.
• 35:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers said, it don't matter to us.
• 35:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 124 to 114.
• 35:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca scores 32, which is actually an off-night for our guy.
• 35:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then here's the thing.
• 35:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers are 10-2.
• 35:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They have the best record in the league.
• 35:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And by the way, Luca has scored 50 points twice.
• 35:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He scored 52 earlier in the year, and then he had 53 on Friday.
• 36:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if you missed it, he hit a 61 footer at the halftime buzzer for three of those 53.
• 36:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This ties back to what I said in supporting Cass segment.
• 36:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Reeves going for 43, Kessler doing what he needs to do on the glass, and also providing ring protection.
• 36:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're seeing all the pieces.
• 36:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, here's the thing.
• 36:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: we're gonna talk about this a little bit later, don't worry, But Reeves is a credible number two.
• 36:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And what you always want from your number two is the capacity.
• 36:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When your number one goes down, that then he can go ahead and step up and be that number one for you.
• 36:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Austin Reeves is doing all of that.
• 36:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So shouts out to Rob Palinka.
• 36:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Shouts out to Austin Reeves for earning this contract.
• 36:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then shouts out for Austin Reeves showing everybody that they can shut their mouth on how his game is.
• 37:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do not be disrespectful to our guy Austin Reeves.
• 37:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if you want to call him the Snowtime Lakers, you want to call it the White Walkers of LA, whatever it is that you want to call us, call us also a very, very good team.
• 37:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, speaking of Los Angeles, let's talk about a guy who got his exit out of Los Angeles, shall we?
• 37:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kawhi Leonard.
• 37:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now pinch me if you've not heard this before.
• 37:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the Raptors say Kawhi Leonard will miss at least one more week with swelling in his left knee.
• 37:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This all started back in October 27th when he was scratched against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
• 38:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Test show, no acute injury, and the team put him in a treatment and rehabilitation program to address the swelling.
• 38:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Before that, he played in two games, scored 19 points, 19.5 points, on 32% shooting.
• 38:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's a long knee history.
• 38:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It is the second week, which is part that we need to watch this.
• 38:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And now here's the thing that we need to talk about.
• 38:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: These are the type of things that he did in Los Angeles with the Clippers.
• 38:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There would be, and I'm not saying he's faking it.
• 38:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm not saying anything like that.
• 38:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: All I'm saying is that when you hear the word, there's no acute injury.
• 38:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Right?
• 38:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So what they're saying is that we don't know where the swelling's coming from.
• 38:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We have no idea.
• 39:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Could be water, could be whatever it could be.
• 39:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the one thing that we do know about Kawhi Leonard is that he does not want to play unless he's 100% healthy.
• 39:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Unless he feels very, very good.
• 39:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the only time he really wants to play.
• 39:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, is it Shay?
• 39:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, you could call it that.
• 39:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm just saying that if you're paying that dude that type of money, and you know for a fact that he longs for extensions and things of that nature, and you know what the Clickers went through to keep him happy, in Los Angeles, I'm not saying Toronto is doing those things.
• 39:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they're doing everything above board at this point in time.
• 39:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But Kawhi is a guy that his talent is so tantalizing, and you want to be able to just extract every bit of it out of him.
• 39:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The problem is that he won't let you enjoy it.
• 40:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He will not let you enjoy it at all.
• 40:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Kawhi Leonard still killing teams out here, unfortunately, still tantalizing the fan bases with incredible performances when he's when he's not hurt.
• 40:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But it's always a problem, it's always a situation.
• 40:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, one team who has benefited from Kawhi Leonard is the Oklahoma City Thunder.
• 40:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Remember all the picks they got for Paul George in the Clipper trade?
• 40:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm talking about, but why was Carl George needing to be a Clipper?
• 40:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because Kawhi Leonard said, I'll sign if you get Paul George.
• 40:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the Thunder has seen a bunch of injuries themselves, and Sean Sharania has reported, and they have picked up Nick Clifford from the Sacramento Kings, and the Sacramento Kings get a 2028 second-round pick via Utah and a 2030 second-round pick via Minnesota.
• 41:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the Thunder, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, they go down from 22 second-round picks to 20 now over the next six years.
• 41:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Neat Clifford was the 24th overall pick in last year's draft.
• 41:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not this last year, but the year before, the 2025 draft.
• 41:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: As a rookie, he played in 75 games.
• 41:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He showed some promise.
• 41:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was 8.6 points a game.
• 41:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He only shot at 41, 8, 41.8%.
• 41:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh for some reason this season he has fallen out of favor out of the Kings rotations.
• 41:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's played in eight games.
• 41:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's only scored 1.6 points, but he's only averaging 6.2 minutes.
• 41:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the why Oklahoma City got him, I can tell you exactly why.
• 42:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is an Oklahoma City type of player.
• 42:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And given long-term injuries of Jalen Williams, Kasen Wallace, and Chet Hungren, here is a cheap alternative to turn to.
• 42:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a small deal.
• 42:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But small deals seemed to work out for Sam Presti.
• 42:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Clifford, like I said, fell out of rotation with the Kings, but the Kings have somebody who's taking all the shots right now.
• 42:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay?
• 42:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Neat Clifford wasn't going to get no shots anyway.
• 42:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not with rookie Darius A.
• 42:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cuff Jr.
• 42:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: over there.
• 42:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Kings rookie point guard, Darius A.
• 42:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cuff, is uh on Sunday against the Miami.
• 42:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had 32 points.
• 42:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had five rebounds.
• 42:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had 10 assists in a 114-108 loss.
• 43:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: On Wednesday against the Lakers, he had 22 points and 12 assists.
• 43:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, in 10 games, he's had about 26 points, 7.4 assists, and 3.8 rebounds a night in 37 minutes.
• 43:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's how fast he got here.
• 43:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His fifth game against the Pelicans, he scored 34 points and had 14 assists.
• 43:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That made him the fourth player in NBA history with 30 points and 10 assists in his first five games.
• 43:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The other three guys to do it are Oscar Robinson, Isaiah Thomas, and we're talking about Detroit Piston, Isaiah Thomas, and Trey Young.
• 43:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Kings are were 0 5 at that point.
• 43:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: On Monday, November 2nd, the Kings beat the Dallas Mavericks 115 to 100.
• 44:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it was their first win.
• 44:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Acuff had 25 points, six assists, five rebounds.
• 44:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was the first rookie since Luka Doncic to put up with 25, 5, and 5 in three straight games.
• 44:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And when we look at the points that he's getting and the assists that he's getting, he's the usage level is off the charts.
• 44:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the other thing.
• 44:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: My man is taking shots.
• 44:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, there was a point where Demonis Abonis, a longtime Sacramento King, was kind of grumbling about, hey, uh, am I going to get shots?
• 44:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Darius Aka is going to tell you straight up, no, dog.
• 44:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No, you're not.
• 44:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know why?
• 44:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because I'm here now.
• 44:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if I'm here and I got the ball in my hand, you know what's going to happen?
• 44:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're not going to shoot the ball very much.
• 45:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because I'm the future and you're the past.
• 45:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You couldn't get it done, but I'm going to do it and I'm going to learn on the job training style.
• 45:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So shout out to Darius A.
• 45:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cuff Jr.
• 45:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: for putting up buckets.
• 45:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is really the must-see situation in Sacramento at this point in time.
• 45:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is fun to watch.
• 45:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Listen, he might be a bit of a gunner.
• 45:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But now that he's getting up into those double-digit assists, and you know, the little situation with Demonisabonis has kind of blown itself over, and it's a little bit better, and he's getting uh demonic subonis involved in the pick and roll.
• 45:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, it seems like it's all love.
• 45:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But my boy is getting buckets.
• 45:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, Darius A.
• 45:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cup Jr.
• 45:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: is a bucket getter, and he is he is going to prove it to you every single night.
• 45:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Sacramento is going to be a bleak season as far as the wins are concerned.
• 46:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But just enjoy the development of Darius A.
• 46:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cup Jr.
• 46:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then hopefully you can get a good pick next year as well.
• 46:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: To start to build on this particular talent in Darius A.
• 46:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cup Jr.
• 46:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then hopefully you can start forming a young nucleus that can bring you back to some respectability sometime in the near future.
• 46:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the Lakers 10-2.
• 46:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Luca and Reeves are the engine.
• 46:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The others have been holding it down on their end as well.
• 46:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Monday night, we talked to you a little bit about what happened.
• 46:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Austin Reeves was out sick, and they were also without Quentin Grimes with a spraying finger.
• 46:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca said, No problem.
• 46:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I got you.
• 47:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's 32 for the Atlanta Hawks, and we're going to get out of here with a 124-114 win.
• 47:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, here's the thing that I want to kind of talk about when it comes to the Lakers.
• 47:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're 10-2.
• 47:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca is on another level now as far as his production is concerned.
• 47:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Austin seems to be the perfect complement to Luca Doncic as his robbing to Lucas Batman.
• 47:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I have one critique.
• 47:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's the turnovers for the both of them.
• 47:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They are both turnover prone this season.
• 47:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Some of that I can explain that they have nine new players through trades, through the draft, and free agency.
• 47:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So continuity comes with time, and we're only 12 games into it, and that's not enough time for a team to uh jail.
• 47:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sorry about that.
• 47:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The rebounding and the defensive issues are also still there and they're still real.
• 48:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Even with Walker Kessler being there.
• 48:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are going to talk about that soon.
• 48:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the thing that I do want to discuss is this.
• 48:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: As much shit as I've given Rob Palenka over the years, I must give him his flowers this year.
• 48:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because we're going to talk about the others.
• 48:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now we're going to talk about, you know, maybe something that concerns me, but we are going to talk about the others and what they're doing and how the Lakers are now 10 and 2.
• 48:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So when I ask what the team needs, and I'm asking about them and what do they do well, and where are they thin?
• 48:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's get into it a little bit.
• 48:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll start with the Sunday game against Detroit.
• 49:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca was out.
• 49:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had back tightness.
• 49:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So it's when you're scoring as many points as Luca scoring, you're going to have back tightness too.
• 49:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 49:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But again, Austin held it down like a real G.
• 49:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He spent time on the other guys, Kessler in the fourth quarter, a block dunk on one end, and then a and one plug back on the other end.
• 49:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Listen, Walker Kessler is a double-double machine, and also we gave a stat in our last podcast that he is 43.1% uh at the rim when shots are coming at him, and that's a crazy stat.
• 49:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Zaire Williamson and Zaire Williams and Matisse Steible are the defensive wings that the Lakers needed.
• 49:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Both are on minimum contracts, and they produced beyond their paychecks.
• 50:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One of those examples is harassing Kay Cunningham.
• 50:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kate Cunningham has zero points in the first half of that game.
• 50:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I will say that again.
• 50:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kate Cunningham, who's been averaging like 28 a game, has zero points in the first half against the Lakers.
• 50:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, after the game, Austin didn't sound like a guy who had dropped 43.
• 50:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He said a lot of the a lot of the wins this year having been having been clean.
• 50:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He said if they clean up the offensive rebounding and the turnovers, they will get more shots.
• 50:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Those are his words.
• 50:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I will say this about Austin.
• 50:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is really growing into that leadership role.
• 50:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he says what needs to be said.
• 50:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So even in a win, he's talking about not, oh, we we accomplished this, and this is great, and we're doing great and what have you.
• 51:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's talking about where we can get better.
• 51:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Where are the deficiencies at and what we need to tighten up?
• 51:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's somebody that seems to have like JJ Redick on speed dial, or they have Zoom calls, or they're FaceTiming each other, and saying, hey, shit, we gotta get some more rebounding, we gotta get some more on ball pressure and what have you.
• 51:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we get easy early looks so we're not getting these turnovers as we've been getting them.
• 51:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Monday happens, right?
• 51:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We got into this.
• 51:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No Austin, no Grimes, and then Luca comes out and scores 32.
• 51:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Our guy Cameron Carr, who hasn't had a lot of run as a rookie, had a dunk, which was awesome.
• 51:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Colin Sexton was running the offense as Luca was coming down pin downs and then getting the ball up at the top of the key and doing what Luca does, which is Luca Magic.
• 52:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now they had they went up by 20.
• 52:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There was a point where that team was up real big against um Detroit, but they got up on uh they got up on Atlanta by 20.
• 52:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Atlanta continued to come back because the turnover situation kept on rearing its ugly head.
• 52:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now Sexton gave them some juice attacking the paint.
• 52:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had 18 points and six assists.
• 52:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Our guy, Sandro Mamu Kilashvili, scored 23 points, just doing it real big, eight rebounds.
• 52:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was plus 20, which is great.
• 52:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, anytime you can be productive like that, it's always a good thing.
• 53:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The bench score 49, which is a season high.
• 53:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It wasn't easy though.
• 53:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Atlanta continued to cut into that lead and got it to five in the fourth quarter, and then Thai will hit a three late to put it away.
• 53:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That makes three wins in three games where Luca or Austin sat.
• 53:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Both of the Lakers, both of the Lakers losses came with both of them in the lineup.
• 53:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, if you go back to last Wednesday in Sacramento, the Lakers were down 16-8, and then Luca scored 11 straight in the second quarter.
• 53:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Reddick said the teams feeds off of him.
• 53:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They believe in him.
• 53:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When Luca is making three in a row, everybody looks good.
• 53:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What I want to know is what the other guys are doing on those nights that those do not come.
• 54:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's face it, Luca's been on an incredible run.
• 54:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Incredible run.
• 54:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Up until last night, he was averaging 40 points a game.
• 54:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He dropped he because he scored only 32 last night, he dropped to 39.3 points a game.
• 54:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay.
• 54:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca is still damn near averaging 40.
• 54:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, what does it look like when Luca doesn't score 40 or 50?
• 54:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because that's where that's kind of the era that he's been in.
• 54:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now Luca's usage rate is 40%.
• 54:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Austin's usage rate is 27.
• 54:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The next highest guy on the team is Colin Sexton at 25, and sometimes we wonder about some of his decision making.
• 54:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now for the good news about the other guys.
• 54:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Five of them are shooting six 60% or better in their true shooting while using less than 18% of the possessions.
• 55:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kessler is at 6 69.2.
• 55:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Zaire Williams is at a astonishing 70.8.
• 55:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Thibal and Mamu, Kikishvili, and La Ravier are all between uh 60.4 and 64.2 when it comes to their true shooting percentage.
• 55:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Those guys are getting them up.
• 55:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When they are pass the ball, they are making quick decisions, and they're being very decisive with their reads, whether they're just hoisting it up from three or pump faking and then moving towards the basket.
• 55:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kessler is the cleanest example.
• 55:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's scoring 14.9 points a game on nine shot.
• 55:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: All twos, by the way, which is dunks, putbacks, layups, reverse jams, all of that.
• 56:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's rebounding the ball at a respectable level.
• 56:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's at 10.8 uh rebounds a game, and he's averaging 2.3 blocks a game as well.
• 56:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His box plus minus is a 3.3.
• 56:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's third on the team behind Luca and Zaire Williams.
• 56:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: A caution of on Zaire Williams.
• 56:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is uh 70.8 in 9 games in 221 minutes.
• 56:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Thaible is shooting 39.2% from three on four attempts a game.
• 56:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now it's a small sample size, but these would be these are high watermark levels for these type of dudes.
• 56:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're playing above their pay grade right now, for sure.
• 56:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The two guys on the other side of it, Sexton, is averaging 10.3 points a game with a usage rate of 25.5.
• 57:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His true shooting percentage is 53.3%.
• 57:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's only hitting 29.7% from three in his box plus minus right now, is at a negative 3.5, which is the lowest in the rotation.
• 57:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he moves it, he protects it, he assists rate is at 20%.
• 57:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His turnover rate, even though you would think it'd be higher, is only at 11.7.
• 57:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now Grimes is shooting the ball at 24.2% from three on three attempts.
• 57:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We needed more from him.
• 57:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His box plus minus is a negative 2.3, but he gets it to the line, and his free throw rate is at 52.3%.
• 57:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They both have made big plays uh in the Detroit game.
• 57:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sexton, like I said, he had 18 points uh that game as well.
• 58:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So what is it that the Lakers are lacking?
• 58:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers are averaging 40.3 rebounds a game.
• 58:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's 29th in the league.
• 58:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Opponents are averaging 41, and on the offensive glass, the Lakers are getting 10.7, and opponents are getting 13.5, and the opponents are they'll recover, they're recovered 31% of their own misses.
• 58:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers recover 28% of their own misses.
• 58:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kessler and Luca together are about 43% of the team's rebounds on about a quarter of the minutes.
• 58:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the defensive rebounding has been atrocious, even with Kessler and Luca.
• 58:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Mamu Kilishvili is doing what he can do as far as that's concerned, but he's not the shot blocker, and he's not a really big body.
• 59:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's 6'9, he's 230, which you know he's a decently well-built dude, but the Lakers are lacking another big wing.
• 59:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love the contributions from Zaire Williams.
• 59:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think he's been phenomenal.
• 59:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Quinn Grimes has obviously been a little disappointing, but when it comes to rebounding, the Lakers are gonna have to get better at it.
• 59:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The other issue with the Lakers is the turnovers.
• 59:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They commit 16.8 game and they force 18.6.
• 59:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Luca and Austin commit 44% of the turnovers.
• 59:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's my critique from the top.
• 59:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And that counts.
• 59:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That counts.
• 1:00:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You gotta have if you got the two guys with the biggest usage have the most turnovers, there's a problem.
• 1:00:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, again, I will sit here and defend that a little bit and go, the the roster turnover for the Lakers has been astounding.
• 1:00:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And you gotta get time to commit to one another, know exactly where everybody's gonna be, pretty much on a nightly basis.
• 1:00:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now you can scheme that up, and JJ Redick is one of the best at doing that.
• 1:00:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But until you really trust, completely have that trust in one another, and say, okay, my assignment is to be in this corner.
• 1:00:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, no matter what Luca does, until I'm given the go-ahead to sprint towards the rim or make a cut towards the rim, I need to be disciplined and stand in this corner.
• 1:00:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because Luca is a great passing guard.
• 1:01:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He can find you when he's not looking at you, he can find you when he's looking up at the stars, he can find you when he's arguing with uh with fans in the stand.
• 1:01:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It doesn't matter.
• 1:01:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is and he'll put it right on you.
• 1:01:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the problem is that you gotta be in the area that you're supposed to be in.
• 1:01:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the rule.
• 1:01:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Them's the breaks.
• 1:01:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So again, the Lakers need to stop turning the ball over as much as they are, and it will be a better product for sure.
• 1:01:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Defense.
• 1:01:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers are second in the league in steals at 10.8, they're third in blocks at 6.4, and their defensive rating is still at an atrocious 114.7, which is 18th in the NBA.
• 1:01:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Opponents are taking 40.8 threes a game, and they make 37.6% of them.
• 1:02:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Thibal is the only wing that shows up defense in those numbers.
• 1:02:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has a steal rate of 4.1, he has a block rate of 3.6, Kessler's block rate is 8 because he's on another level right now.
• 1:02:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh again, Kessler's defense has been sterling.
• 1:02:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love what he's doing, but he's one guy.
• 1:02:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You need to get more buy-in, and you get need to get more like on ball pressure.
• 1:02:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: These are things that have always plagued the Lakers, and when you have Luca Doncic and you have Austin Reeves, the other guys matter when it comes to this.
• 1:02:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we talked about the rebounding, we talked about the turnovers.
• 1:03:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, where do you get better?
• 1:03:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How do you get better?
• 1:03:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What happens?
• 1:03:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, you can say that with growth of Sexton and Grimes and getting more comfortable with like right now, Grimes might be actually trying too hard.
• 1:03:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: JJ Redick even told Colin Sexton that he needed to slow down a little bit.
• 1:03:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he can become the connector and that like emotional leader off the bench and provide the juice that the Lakers need.
• 1:03:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I'm gonna give you a couple examples of what the Lakers might be looking for, but this these are not these are not guys that I am provocating for them to get.
• 1:03:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, these are just examples of types of dudes that will help them.
• 1:03:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If the Lakers could get like an Anthony Black type or Dyson Daniels type, provided if Dyson Daniels could shoot the basketball because he can't, but that type of on ball hound dog that just absolutely wrecks offensive timing and getting into your set, then Lakers would be a better defense.
• 1:04:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um having guys like that around Luca and Austin would only help.
• 1:04:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Would only help.
• 1:04:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I'm not saying that you need to replace Grimes or anything like that.
• 1:04:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You gotta give this time.
• 1:04:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if I had my brothers, that would be the type of composite type of guy that I'll be looking for.
• 1:04:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, could they get Anthony Black from Orlando?
• 1:04:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't think that the Lakers have the assets to get that.
• 1:05:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um now Dyson Daniels continues to struggle with what the Lakers have, they might be able to get him, but the problem is is that does he become a uh does he become a Vanderbilt issue where Vanderbilt cannot hit an open shot to save his life?
• 1:05:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if the last uh Atlanta game I saw, which was last night, there's points in the game where Dyson Daniels not even looking at the at the realm, and he's wide ass open.
• 1:05:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, again, it's not the exact dudes that I'm saying that they need to go get, but that's the prototype that I'm asking them to go get.
• 1:05:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Being second in steals and third and block in third and blocks is great, but being 18th in defensive rating is terrible.
• 1:05:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the gap that tells the story.
• 1:05:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, how do you help that situation?
• 1:05:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You need to get Help on the defensive rebounding thing.
• 1:06:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now you can sit there and do this two ways.
• 1:06:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can go and try to get yourself a backup big.
• 1:06:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay?
• 1:06:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, good luck with that.
• 1:06:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're they're hard to come by.
• 1:06:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Or you can go get you a big wing.
• 1:06:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, a guy who can do maybe play the 3-4 position, but it has a good rebounding rate.
• 1:06:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, that's a that's a um PJ Washington type of guy.
• 1:06:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That would be a what's my guy from Chicago's name?
• 1:06:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Plays backup center for them.
• 1:06:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm trying to think of guys that would fit this role.
• 1:06:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: PJ Washington really is that type of guy.
• 1:06:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Tari Eason would be that type of guy.
• 1:06:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Tari Eason would really be somebody that would benefit that type of role for the Lakers.
• 1:07:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now I'm not saying that you can get them.
• 1:07:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I am saying that it's a prototype that you can look for.
• 1:07:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And see, sometimes things aren't just going to be available the way you want to, either because you are out of um picks or or things that and you know ammunition to get these guys from other people, or they're just not available because they're so tied to the team that they're with.
• 1:07:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like I don't think Houston's ready to give up on Tari Easton unless they get something that bowls them over.
• 1:07:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And what would bowl Houston Houston over would be Austin Reeves?
• 1:07:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, Laker fans, would you be willing to give up Austin Reeves right now?
• 1:07:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Austin Reeves is playing like an all-star.
• 1:07:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Contract whatever you might have said in the beginning.
• 1:08:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Whatever you might have said when the con when he got the contract, oh, he's not worth all this money.
• 1:08:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's a lot of conjecture in Los Angeles about what Austin was worth when he got his contract.
• 1:08:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I bet you that quiets down a little bit.
• 1:08:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like I listen to Yoban Buha and I listen to his podcast, and I hear some of these trades that Laker fans are are putting out there and and talking about Austin and what have you, and I just I'm dumbfounded by any of that.
• 1:08:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm like, are you watching the game?
• 1:08:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, I understand the turnovers are not not cool.
• 1:08:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I get it.
• 1:08:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But again, this is this is not in VA2K where you put the team together and you go, okay, I got the perfect team, and they automatically have chemistry, they automatically have continuity.
• 1:09:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: These are real people who are moving in Los Angeles, understanding the layout of Los Angeles, understanding the fan base of Los Angeles, understanding like where they need to be on the court.
• 1:09:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: These are regular human beings, and it's not gonna always go smoothly.
• 1:09:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, yes, right now there's turnover issues.
• 1:09:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Will that dissipate with time?
• 1:09:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I would think most likely, yeah.
• 1:09:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I can't guarantee it, but I can sit here and tell you that I would think because Luke is very smart, Austin's very smart, they're not trying to turn the ball over.
• 1:09:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think that will get better with time.
• 1:09:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Just saying.
• 1:09:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But yeah, the Lakers could use a little help here and there.
• 1:10:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 100%.
• 1:10:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love what LaRavia is doing, even though he's not providing a bunch of points, but he's just one of those junkyard dogs that you absolutely need.
• 1:10:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he's been a tremendous offensive rebounder for the Lakers.
• 1:10:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he's giving them exactly what they need right now, even though, again, the production is not where exactly where we want it.
• 1:10:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's you know, he he's very, very particular about the shots he takes.
• 1:10:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, but as far as the hustle, the defense, the grunt work, he does, he definitely does that.
• 1:10:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So as far as what the Lakers are going to be able to do, I would tell Lakers fans, do not be disappointed if the Lakers don't go out and make a big move during the trade deadline because they just don't have a bunch of ammunition to go out and get it.
• 1:10:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think what we need to do is give Rob Polinka a very good grade for what he did in the offseason.
• 1:11:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Walker Castler is a home run.
• 1:11:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Zaire Williams is a home run.
• 1:11:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Mammoose Killis Vili is a is a is a double or triple.
• 1:11:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:11:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The the rebirth of Zach of Jake La Ravia is awesome.
• 1:11:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude is shooting the three-ball at a high level.
• 1:11:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, we've been really blessed by what he's been able to give us.
• 1:11:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Matisse Thibel is shooting is shooting the hell out the basketball.
• 1:11:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love what he's doing.
• 1:11:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then what he's doing on the defensive end is great.
• 1:11:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Colin Sexton has been up and down, but I would say that he has been more of a contributor than a detriment.
• 1:11:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Quentin Grimes, yeah.
• 1:11:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They all don't go right.
• 1:11:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:11:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They all, and again, I think that Grimes is putting a lot of pressure on himself.
• 1:11:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think he has got to the LA market.
• 1:12:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He wants to produce for the Lakers fans out there, and I think with time, if he's given the time, he will come around.
• 1:12:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But Polinka did a really good job in the offseason, and this is coming from a guy who's been one of his harshest critics since he got the role.
• 1:12:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: My verdict is this Luca is absolutely freaking elite, and he deserves to be the front runner for the MVP.
• 1:12:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Austin Reeves is a bona fide all-star.
• 1:12:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if the efficiency stays exactly where it is, and he's gonna average what he's gonna average, this dude is going to flirt with third team all NBA for sure.
• 1:12:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do they need more rebounding?
• 1:12:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do they need maybe one more ball handler?
• 1:13:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, they do.
• 1:13:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Would it be nice to have a more credible on ball defender that just is an absolute pest and wrecks offensive sets?
• 1:13:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 1:13:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Would it be great to have a really solid solid backup big that can take pressure off of Walker Kessler?
• 1:13:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 100%.
• 1:13:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But Rome was not built in a day, and all the pieces that Rob did get us, we need to go ahead and be like, hey man, that dude did a really good job in the offseason with what he had to work with and what was out there.
• 1:13:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Just saying.
• 1:13:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm not sure that Jonathan Kaminga would have been the the type of guy to fall in place here.
• 1:13:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think the type of guy that works here is not just gonna be predicated on talent and your athletic ability, it's gonna be predicated on a lot of factors.
• 1:14:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think the Lakers now finally are looking for a specific type of dude.
• 1:14:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're looking for real grinders, guys with chips on their shoulder, but chips on their shoulder to say, hey, you know, I belong.
• 1:14:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I belong, I deserve minutes, and this is why I deserve minutes because I am going to be an absolute productive member of this squad once I get the opportunity to do so.
• 1:14:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I will tell you this: the Lakers did great, they have a lot of bench pieces that we absolutely love, and as a Lakers fan, I can't be more uh uh pleased with what is going on.
• 1:14:54
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• 1:16:10
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• 1:16:15
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• 1:16:19
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• 1:16:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Appreciate those people out loud and do not wait for later that is not promised to you.
• 1:17:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're a hoop family here.
• 1:17:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are going to get loud.
• 1:17:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sometimes we're going to be wrong, but we're always going to come back and own when we are wrong.
• 1:17:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will always respect your brain because anybody can yell a take.
• 1:17:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Very few actually can defend a thought.
• 1:17:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Until the next episode, keep your mind sharp, your heart open, and keep your circle tight.
• 1:17:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now protect your peace like Cal Space and never waste it on bad basketball or bad energy.
• 1:17:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: On Vince, this is FRPC, and we're out.
• 1:17:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Deuces.