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Southeast Division Win Totals · Front Runner Podcast Collective

• 0:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Five teams, one playlist, let's dance.
• 0:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are going to be talking about the Southeast Division.
• 0:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you know, you know, last uh podcast we talked about the Central Division.
• 0:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're working our way through all the divisions and their win totals and will they go above or below?
• 0:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This, like I said, this week or this Tuesday, we will be going and talking about the uh the Southeast, which includes the Wizards who have Trey Young.
• 0:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And a couple questions there with Trey Young and also Anthony Davis.
• 0:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is how young, wild, and free will Trey Young be on the offensive end?
• 1:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then also, they had 17 wins last year, so they are starting from the bottom close to and no as we go along in this uh podcast.
• 1:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We also are gonna talk about the Charlotte Hornets, and you know, they traded LaMelo ball.
• 1:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That means that front and center is Brandon Miller, and what is he gonna do with his 8.2 threes a game that he shot at a 38% clip?
• 1:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, I know one thing, they're never getting back together, LaMelo and the Charlotte Hornets.
• 1:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we move along to the Orlando Magic, and Orlando, you got a lot of stuff to clear up.
• 1:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, you have a very talented team, coach change, Sweeney in, uh, Jamal Mosley out, and can he get the secret sauce going to the Orlando Magic?
• 2:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They have a lot of talent.
• 2:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We just gotta see them put it together.
• 2:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That leads us to then the Miami Heat and the Atlanta Hawks as well.
• 2:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When it comes to Atlanta, a lot of talent on this team.
• 2:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Very excited about what they're going to be, and they are looking to D some people up.
• 2:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And we'll get into all of that, but you know who stirs the drink in Atlanta right now.
• 2:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That is Jalen Johnson, who is damn near a triple-double on his own.
• 2:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, buckle up.
• 2:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will be talking about that, and then we kind of say the best for last.
• 2:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Giannis Antecumpo has moved on to Miami.
• 2:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What does that team look like?
• 2:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How many victories will they get?
• 2:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are they going to be a shoe-in for the playoffs?
• 2:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are they going to be a shoe-in for the play-in again?
• 2:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I will give you the answers, and we will rock like that.
• 2:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 3:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, with all that being said, you know what we gotta do.
• 3:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We gotta also get into some other things.
• 3:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We gotta talk about um these win totals.
• 3:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Who is going to be on the top of the block?
• 3:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Who is going to be the team that stands above everybody else at the end of the day?
• 3:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because right now, there's a lot of questions, and hopefully, we'll have all of the answers for you.
• 3:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So let's get into it.
• 3:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know where y'all rocking with is FRPC, which is Front Runner Podcast Collective, and let's go.
• 3:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what we're talking about.
• 4:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's the Southeastern Division.
• 4:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we craked open the film rooms, we got observations, we're gonna have grown conversations about the players, the coaches, and the front offices that are actually moving in the southeast.
• 4:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what we're talking about, the people who wrote the blank checks, what's the scuttle bud in the locker room, and who's putting the PR spin on everything.
• 4:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we ain't giving you nothing but we're not giving you fluff.
• 4:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No, no, it's gonna be the straight dookie, you know what that means, and we're bringing the jokes, we're gonna bring the advanced math and also the exact barbershop ammo that you need to go straight into your G your group chat and completely nuke the argument.
• 5:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if you're an NBA sicko like myself, who wants more than the highlight talk, and you want a little more context, you want some more some more numbers to kind of solidify your your take or your thought.
• 5:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You want a point of view, this is the spot for you.
• 5:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are FRPC, and let's go.
• 5:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Alright, so got a lot to talk about.
• 5:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna be moving fast, and we're gonna be getting into it.
• 5:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are going to start with the Washington Wizards.
• 5:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm excited to talk about them.
• 5:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Listen, DC, above all, you know what I'm saying?
• 5:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm here with you for the first time in a while.
• 5:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Washington Wizards have a lot to look forward to, and it started last year, it started at the trade deadline when they got Trey Young and they also got Anthony Davis, and we'll be discussing them a little a little bit.
• 6:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, Anthony Davis, you know what he brings.
• 6:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He brings a lot of talent, but he also brings a lot of days off, and then we got Trey Young, but we did not bury the lead, the Washington Wizards got the number one draft pick last this last draft, and that's AJ DeBanster.
• 6:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, our guys at DraftKings have them at 35.5 wins.
• 6:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: MGM Bet has them at 34.
• 6:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna go with DraftKings 35.5, and we're gonna talk about their over-under and how that looks.
• 6:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So as we go along, we'll let you know where they stand.
• 6:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, talk to a couple people in the league.
• 7:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One rival team exec said he studied this roster, and they paid for talent, doesn't mean they paid for availability.
• 7:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Little you know, kind of cute line there, but he's not wrong.
• 7:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because here's the thing you got a lot of dudes, but you're paying uh Anthony Davis right now 50 point 58.5.
• 7:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Trey Young just got a brand new contract, he's getting paid 49.5, so they're 107.9 million dollars of the cap all to themselves.
• 7:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, great that the rest of the team is very young, starting with the number one overall draft pick, AJ DeBanksta.
• 7:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's also coming in with our guy Alex Sarr, who was also in that mix as far as sound, he was the number two overall draft pick a couple years ago, and we'll be talking about him.
• 8:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They have an array of talent.
• 8:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, you know, is Bilal Kulubale gonna come around?
• 8:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What about our guy Trey Johnson?
• 8:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They drafted last year, they made a trade and got DeAndre Ayton.
• 8:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, and then also the the low-key guy that I love to talk about is Keyshawn George.
• 8:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Keyshawn, yo, man, he is he's a brilliant basketball player.
• 8:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I am excited to talk about the wealth, the talent that is coming on this team.
• 8:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's very, very young.
• 8:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It has a couple vets to kind of steady the ship.
• 8:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But will those vets be available?
• 8:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One in particular.
• 8:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: P teams that evaluate this team, they you know, they're just looking around.
• 8:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They say, Hey, you got Trey Young, and offense is real, but defensively wise, he's a he's a door that you can just go right through.
• 8:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know saying turnstile for real.
• 9:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, last year he played 15 games for the year he had 17.9 points, eight assists on 61.2% true shooting percentage, which is great.
• 9:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His uh free throw rate was fit was uh 0.548, which is pretty good.
• 9:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, in his time at Washington, he only played five games, it was a little taste, 15.2 points a game, 6.2 sit assists.
• 9:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now his true shooting percentage shot up to 72.3 percent, which is great, and his three-point shooting was at a almost alarming 43%.
• 9:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you get that kind of production out of Trey Young this year, it's gonna be a good good season, and he's capable, he's he's very capable.
• 9:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, as far as what he does and what he brings, when you have Anthony Davis and you have guys like Alex Sarr and all the other athletes on your team, you're looking at a situation where, as far as the lob threat is concerned, you're gonna be ready to go.
• 10:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Trey Young is one of the best lob throwers in the NBA, and he will have a plethora of guys that he can go ahead and throw lobs to.
• 10:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not even just the bigs, the wings out here, AJ De Banster.
• 10:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are you kidding me?
• 10:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: A pick and roll with AJ DeBanster and Trey Young.
• 10:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What's that gonna look like?
• 10:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How scary is that?
• 10:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, we can't talk about the cream being sweet without talking about the rocky road that is also lies in front of us.
• 10:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Trey Young is small, there's no way around that.
• 10:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One of the ways to help Trey Young is to have a bunch of long wings that get after it defensively, and you know, will he be a guy who will be able to get off the ball?
• 11:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Those are the two things that we always talked about when he was in Atlanta.
• 11:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I don't want to sound like a broken record, so I'll just hit you with some some numbers.
• 11:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Defense is always going to be the problem.
• 11:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Defensive box plus minus over the last three years, negative 2.3, negative 2.7, and negative 1.4.
• 11:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But remember that last one, he only played in very minimal games last year.
• 11:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the offense is going to be real, he's going to draw fouls, defensive ground cover is a door, is a door trait.
• 11:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He fails at the door, the rest of the lineup has to hide him, and that came from a scout.
• 11:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Two things can be true.
• 11:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The offense can be absolutely spectacular, and the defense you're just gonna shake your head and go, Oh my god, what are we doing?
• 11:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because here is the other thing with it.
• 12:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is the quiet part that people don't want to say out loud.
• 12:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, regular season, great, lobs, points, shooting from the logo, all of that, great.
• 12:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I'm not saying they're going to the playoffs this year, but you know what happens in the playoffs.
• 12:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We hunt mismatches in the playoffs, and Trey Young is like a little like baby deer that's just waiting to get eaten.
• 12:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pause on that, you know saying, but you know what I'm talking about.
• 12:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's get to the other guy that it brought in, Anthony Davis.
• 12:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's really the swing factor here.
• 12:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Everything on this roster is easier with one man on the floor, and that's Anthony Davis.
• 12:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now he is in his age 33 season.
• 12:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The games played in the last two seasons is atrocious.
• 12:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's played 71 games over the last two years.
• 13:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 51 and then 20 last year.
• 13:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He only played 20 games for the Dallas Mavericks last year.
• 13:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He did not play any games for the Washington Wizards.
• 13:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: People can say whatever they want.
• 13:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, we have had uh crazy nicknames thrown out at this guy, street clothes, all kinds of stuff.
• 13:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So he is going to have to be on the court for this team to be successful.
• 13:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now he shot uh just a little bit over 50% from the field last year.
• 13:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot uh 72.8 from the free throw line, and he still is not hitting the three at the level he did when they won the championship for the Los Angeles Lakers in the bubble.
• 13:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's only shooting 27% from three.
• 13:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, two years earlier, when he was healthy and played in 76 games, this is the numbers.
• 13:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 24.7 points a game, 12.6 rebounds, and he was basically a uh fourth in defense defensive player of the year, and he was on the all-defensive team.
• 14:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Anthony Davis still hasn't in him to play exemplary stellar basketball.
• 14:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It is, are you going to be available?
• 14:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are you going he is yet to suit up for Washington?
• 14:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Remember, he was traded during the trade deadline, did not shoot up, did not suit up at all.
• 14:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So now, you know, he's had many lower limb surgeries, he's had lower limb injuries that have dogged him over the last let's say five to six years.
• 14:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And as a Lakers fan, knowing that I had Anthony Davis on the team, every time that dude was about to fall or fallen down, I just held my breath.
• 15:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I was like, Oh my god, is he gonna is he gonna get up?
• 15:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is he gonna be okay?
• 15:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had a lingering calf issue with the Lakers that you know never seemed to get better, and he when he fell down, you just held your breath.
• 15:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You just like oh did the Achilles pop?
• 15:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What happened?
• 15:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Then he get up, he'd run down the court, but for like five seconds you were holding your breath.
• 15:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: A source familiar with the the this team says, if he plays sixty games, the defense that he can anger, and the offense that he can bring, the vertical law threat that he can be, he is going to be very, very effective for them.
• 15:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he has to play more than sixty games.
• 15:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if this is what a scout is saying for the Washington Wizards to be uh have a significant jump in wins from last year, I buy it.
• 16:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I buy it a lot.
• 16:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now let's get into a guy who we expect a lot uh out of this year.
• 16:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He made a leap last year, and let's see if he can make another leap this year, and that's Alex Sarr, who's ending uh coming into his third season.
• 16:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He took for fewer threes last year and he got better.
• 16:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is that the whole story?
• 16:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, you know, you guys be the you guys be the judge.
• 16:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So from year one to year two, these are the numbers.
• 16:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His PER, which I absolutely can't stand this number, but it's here, and I just want to show you the drastic uh improvement.
• 16:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 12.9 to 19.4.
• 16:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His true shooting percentage went from uh 48.2 to 54.4, his box plus minus went from a negative 3.3 to a to a positive point seven, which you know you sit there and go, that's not great, but you know, he went came from three negative 3.3, his coins per game, 13 points his rookie year, 16.3 his second year, his blocks 1.1 and a half a game to two.
• 17:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His shot die got smarter, his three-point rate went from uh 412 to 0.229, his two-point percentage went from 52.6.
• 17:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love it.
• 17:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The rebounding is real with this kid, he had a 20.9 defensive rebound percentage and a total of 14.6 total rebound percentage, and his block uh block percentage was 6.4.
• 18:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So he is legitimately a guy who is going to be active on the glass and also active around the rim when it comes to defensive pressure that he puts on suspecting dudes coming down the lane.
• 18:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now he only played 48 games, but I'll tell you that um not like this year, but last year it was it was actually okay for him not to play, let's just put it that way.
• 18:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The improvement is real, uh, the kind that sticks because it came from shot selection.
• 18:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It wasn't a hot streak.
• 18:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The open question is the three-point shot.
• 18:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, he shot 33.3% on just 3.1 attempts last year.
• 18:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is there a way for him to bump now?
• 18:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is there a way for him to bump it up and continue to improve the three-point shot?
• 18:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I actually think there is because the one thing that we also have to understand is that Alex Sarr came into the league at 19 and he was skinny and he wasn't as strong.
• 19:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What is he gonna do over the next two or three years?
• 19:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Those legs are going to get stronger, they're gonna get thicker, and then you're gonna be able to shoot your jump shot with relatively ease instead of like launching it up there.
• 19:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I believe that Alexar will gain some percentages on his three-point shot.
• 19:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't think the shot is absolutely broken or anything like that.
• 19:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just think that he has the capability of doing some uh pretty good things when it comes to that.
• 19:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we'll we'll see how it all works out with him.
• 19:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's move on to what you guys came to talk about, the main event, and that is the number one overall draft pick, and that's AJ DeBonster.
• 19:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I have a couple questions, and I don't want to be Debbie Downer here, but the kid can score.
• 20:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The question is everything else, and here's the other thing with everybody who is on this squad, right?
• 20:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, if you're telling me the mandate is coming from the front office and also the coach Brian Keith, who we will get to a little bit later, then great.
• 20:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if you're telling me that Trey Young and Anthony Davis and other players are going to kind of acquiesce to AJ DePosta, I find that hard to believe.
• 20:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But let's let's crack over the numbers and show you how spectacular this kid was in his one season of college basketball.
• 20:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He he shot 51% from the field, he only shot 33% from three, uh, he shot 148 of them and hitting uh 49.
• 21:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now he shot 77.4 percent from the free throw line.
• 21:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You would hope a little bit better.
• 21:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the most important thing in college, he averaged 8.5 attempts a game.
• 21:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's crazy work.
• 21:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He also had eight games of 30 plus, two games of 40, and he broke uh Kevin Durant's Big 12 tournament freshman record by dropping 40.
• 21:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kid is legit score.
• 21:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, a couple things that he needs to work on.
• 21:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is a little loose with the basketball, okay.
• 21:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 3.1 turnovers a game in his only season at BYU.
• 21:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He averaged 3.7 assists, so he was a willing passer.
• 21:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He just wasn't making uh excellent reads.
• 22:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because here's the thing.
• 22:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When he was at high school, it was about him.
• 22:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was getting buckets.
• 22:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And that's what he was doing at BYU as well.
• 22:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm going to get buckets.
• 22:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because that's what I do.
• 22:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His rounding out his game was basically him working on it.
• 22:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the 3.1 turnovers, I'm kind of going like, well, I'm not too worried about it because it's him going, hey, when I get to the next level, I'm not going to be able to take all the shots I want.
• 22:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm going to have to be a little more selective, and I need to get better with my angles, my vision, and what kind of passes I need to throw to my teammates.
• 22:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So for him to be able to kind of understand that at the college level for the one season and then come out and you know have 3.7 assists.
• 22:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't have a lot of questions when it comes to that.
• 22:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, in the summer league, he gave us a test.
• 23:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He gave us a taste.
• 23:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 27 points, tying a record for a number one overall pick.
• 23:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now he's 19.
• 23:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the rookie of the year race is going to be awesome.
• 23:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We got a lot of star power out here.
• 23:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I talked about Caleb Williams, uh Caleb Wilson last uh podcast.
• 23:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if you have not heard the Central Division podcast, go back and listen to it.
• 23:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's the last podcast before this one.
• 23:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I highly recommend it.
• 23:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We talk about the win totals and what have you.
• 23:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But including Caleb Wilson, you got Derek Peterson, you got Cam Boozer, and you got also AJ DeBronstein.
• 23:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the problem.
• 23:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know if AJ is going to win the rookie of the year, and it doesn't have anything to do whether he's talented enough or whatever.
• 23:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just don't know if he's going to get the opportunities when you got Trey Young on the squad, Anthony Davis, and you got Alex Sr.
• 24:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: also coming into his own.
• 24:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now they make a fucking big front line.
• 24:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I mean, this front line is huge.
• 24:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If AJ DeBanster and Alexar and Anthony Davis are on the court together, AJ DeBonster is literally 6'10.
• 24:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then you got Alex Saur, who is a seven-footer legitimately, and even though Anthony Davis wants to call himself 6'10, that dude is also seven feet tall.
• 24:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So a lot of length on that front court, kind of the thing to kind of hide Trey Young when we talked about his uh lackluster defense, but you know, it all has to come together.
• 24:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The scouts said basically his free throw um attempts are the best of his shot selection.
• 24:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now they wonder if it's gonna hold up in the pro game.
• 25:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think it will absolutely do this.
• 25:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He did it in international play a couple years back when I saw him in the uh under 19 like World Championships.
• 25:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He did it in college.
• 25:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just think this is he knows how to get fouled, he knows how to go to the basket and go to get to the free throw line.
• 25:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just think he can get there.
• 25:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the defensive ground cover is open for question.
• 25:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, here's the thing when you have a true scorer like him, it's one of those deals.
• 25:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is it gonna is the defense ever gonna come around?
• 25:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, you hope so.
• 25:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You just hope for his case.
• 25:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, if you want to talk about how hyped everybody is about this team, let's look no further than Brian Keith's comments during uh Media Day.
• 26:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Says, I'm not going to put a limit on where we go.
• 26:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's just happy that he's gonna be able to coach competitive basketball.
• 26:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he's right, he has no idea where they can go because he doesn't know who's gonna be on the court and who's not gonna be on the court.
• 26:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Anthony Davis gonna play 65 plus games?
• 26:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Trey Young gonna not shoot four uh logo threes a game?
• 26:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are they gonna share the sugar with the number one overall draft pick and also the up-and-coming star in Alex Sarr?
• 26:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's a lot to work out in Washington, and this is one of the reasons why you know we do these win total over-unders because there's there's a lot of questions that we gotta ask.
• 26:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Anthony Davis on staying healthy.
• 26:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He says, My job is is is to not break.
• 27:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm also old.
• 27:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, translation, guess what?
• 27:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Dude, I'm probably gonna miss some games.
• 27:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm probably gonna miss some games.
• 27:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now let's talk about the supporting cast a little bit.
• 27:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We we talked a little bit about Keyshawn George, but the numbers were fantastic.
• 27:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 14.8 points a game on 38.1 three-point shooting on five and a half attempts a game.
• 27:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He also had an uh assist percentage of 22.4, which as a wing, that's amazing.
• 27:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's amazing.
• 27:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He went from 13.3 to 22.4 in two years.
• 27:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the rookie out of Texas kind of struggled a little bit, but then it caught on towards the end.
• 27:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He averaged 12.2 points a game, and we're talking about Trey Johnson.
• 27:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm sorry.
• 27:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the rookie last year, Trey Johnson, 12.2 points a game.
• 28:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot a little below league average, which was 35.8 from the land of three.
• 28:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the thing that you you put your hat on.
• 28:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is why I never think for one minute will Trey Johnson ever be nothing but a lethal weapon from downtown.
• 28:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude shot 87.4% from the free throw line.
• 28:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, was the defense non-existent?
• 28:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, you you were you are absolutely right.
• 28:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Was his box plus or minus terrible?
• 28:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes, it was, but he was playing on a team that won 17 games, so I don't really care.
• 28:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I really don't.
• 28:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the Washington Wizards, because now they are starting to be serious about winning games and putting a competitive product on the on the uh court, they traded for Trey Man who gives buckets, they traded away Cam Whitmore who could not find a role on the Wizards.
• 29:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he's on Denver now, and I hope that because I think Cam Whitmore is extremely talented.
• 29:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, this might be one of my whiffs.
• 29:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I've had some I have have have had a lot of makes, you know, see Desmond Dane, seeing Con Kanipple, or what have you, but I was sure that Cam Whitmore was going to be able to carve out a solid career in the NBA, and it's it's not happening.
• 29:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And for some reason, it comes down to finding a role, understanding that you're not gonna get all the shots that you know you're supposed you think you're supposed to get.
• 29:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it literally comes down to that.
• 29:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Another guy that I'm very interested in is uh uh Chris Middleton.
• 29:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Chris Middleton left Washington but also came back um during free agency.
• 30:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So do I expect a lot out of Chris Middleton?
• 30:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No.
• 30:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I do expect the veteran leadership that he can provide where Trey Young is a vet, don't get me wrong, but if I wanted a steady vet, this is the guy I'm looking at.
• 30:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Chris Middleton can still ball, but at 35, we ain't asking you to ball a lot, my guy.
• 30:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are asking you to talk to the youngins, keep them in line, let them know what it is to be a pro in this league, and then come in and hit the occasional three and be six foot six and and do your thing.
• 30:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I am going to also thank the Washington Wizards for being uh just an upright citizen and taking DeAndre Aiden off our hands.
• 30:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I appreciate you for that because this dude man, it was hard dealing with this cat.
• 31:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It was hard dealing with this cat.
• 31:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the thing: what I want to say is this is that I am uh he is a good backup for what they have.
• 31:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I will get to the keys of why Washington should or should not be winning more than 35 games or 35 and a half games.
• 31:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Anthony Davis gonna play enough games?
• 31:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Trey Young's shooting for s uh efficiency gonna hold up?
• 31:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We know he can pass, we know he can shoot the three, but will he be more selective with his shots?
• 31:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Also, will you get off ball and not just stand out way out at like the uh like the 35-foot area of the court?
• 32:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Does Shar's development continue to take a leap?
• 32:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And does DeBancer get the developmental work uh runway that he actually deserves as an absolute just killer on the offensive end?
• 32:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Washington is is sneaky deep.
• 32:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We talked about Keyshawn George, Keyshawn is probably not gonna start for this team, you know what I'm saying?
• 32:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Unless he's starting at the two guard.
• 32:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 32:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because the front line looks like it's gonna be Davis, it's gonna be Saar, and it's gonna be Da Bosta, and we hope that that's what it's gonna look like.
• 32:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So does Keyshawn John uh does Keyshawn George come off the bench and trade Johnson is going to be the starter at the two-guard position?
• 32:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will have to see once the season starts.
• 32:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I can't wait.
• 32:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Why they wouldn't hit it, obviously the same thing that we just talked about in reverse.
• 33:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Trey Young going to shoot ridiculous shots?
• 33:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Anthony Davis gonna fall over and never give back up?
• 33:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then we're just left with a bunch of youngins out there just running around.
• 33:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because that's the problem.
• 33:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you allow the youngsters to run around without any direction, so to speak, could be a problem.
• 33:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Perimeter defense needs to be uh adhered to.
• 33:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now you're not gonna get it from Trey Young, but you got a lot of long active wings, they're gonna have to keep their defense together.
• 33:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: De Bonster is gonna be one of them, and then we also have the the usage collisions that I thought about.
• 33:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's only one basketball, and people say, Well, you can't say that that's so old school thinking.
• 34:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the thing you got five players who want the ball, and nobody is a clear connector, except for Trey Young, and if he decides that I want to take 25 shots a game, that's gonna be a problem because you got a lot of miles to feed.
• 34:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are the wizards gonna be able to space the floor as well as they need to with the monster shots still needing work?
• 34:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And obviously, um Davis doesn't shoot the three.
• 34:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Will our guy Star continue to make that leap up?
• 34:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Will he keep his attempts the way they were, or can he kind of jump up to five again?
• 34:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I will put it this way the what the fans should be looking for is this how eager is Trey to get the young man from BYU acclimated?
• 35:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is he going to defer a little bit?
• 35:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because for the Wizards to go where they want to go, DeBonston needs to be developed.
• 35:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I know the front office knows that.
• 35:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I hope they are able to relay that message to Brian Keith.
• 35:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Brian Keith has lost a lot of games in Washington, and I wonder if they get off to a slow start, will he feel the pressure and then put more on his veterans to get the productivity up and kind of push DeBronster to the side?
• 35:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Scary thoughts, I know.
• 35:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Scary thoughts, because we do not want that.
• 35:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We want DeBonster to have a wide berth as far as develop developmental uh pathway.
• 35:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We want Trey Young to shoot the ball maybe about 16 times a game.
• 36:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna we're gonna want Anthony Davis to play, but we're also gonna want him to take a couple less shots a game and give our guy DeBonster enough.
• 36:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a lot, it's a lot to take in.
• 36:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a lot to take in.
• 36:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, where do I see the Washington Wizards being?
• 36:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they're gonna end up being like 33 and 49.
• 36:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a big jump up.
• 36:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a 16-game turnaround.
• 36:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But for them to win 36 games and beat their over-under by you know, that's a 19 uh game jump.
• 36:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I th I think you will still be happy or still be pleased if you're a Washington Wizard fan and your team won 33 games this next year.
• 36:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You still got a lot of young talent that's developing, you have a lot of young talent that's learning how to play defense.
• 37:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh the Wonsa hasn't played one lick of basketball in the NBA yet, so it's great to see this group of young talent come together.
• 37:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just hope they are not overshadowed by the vets on this team looking for that that hold on to that one last piece of glory to make their legacy or what have you.
• 37:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we'll see how it all goes.
• 37:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, we move on to Charlotte.
• 37:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Hornets made a big trade in the offseason, they traded LaMelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves, they got back Nas Reed and a couple other pieces, but Nas Reed was the centerpiece of that deal.
• 37:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, their over-under is when it comes to uh Graft Kings, it was 38.5 over under.
• 38:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Far cry from what they did last year, right?
• 38:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But let's get into it, let's talk about what's going on.
• 38:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Ball was traded, Miles Bridges was traded, and the books only shaved off four and a half wins.
• 38:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Either Vegas is asleep or the Hornets just won the offseason.
• 38:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm telling you right now, I think there are gonna be some growing pains.
• 38:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But let's get into it.
• 38:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Last year they were 44 and 38, they were ninth in the East, they beat the Miami Heat in the play-in for their first postseason win since 2016.
• 38:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They still missed the playoffs, though, because they weren't able to finish the job with the other play-in game and what have you.
• 38:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But it was a successful year for the Charlotte Hornets and Coach Charles Lee, who really is starting to put his stamp and his mark on this team.
• 38:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Rival Executive said uh the price for the departures, yeah, it might be you know good in the long run, but it might not be good for this year.
• 39:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I kind of I want to lean towards that, but let's make the case either way.
• 39:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: June 25th, Lamella Blah, Josh Green, and Isaiah Evans go and the number 33 overall pick go out to Minnesota.
• 39:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Nas Reed comes to the Charlotte Hornets.
• 39:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Moe Gee also in a 30 uh 2033 first round draft pick also comes over to the Charlotte Hornets.
• 39:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Miles Bridges also left, he went to Phoenix for Grayson Allen and Royce O'Neill.
• 39:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You lose you lose some points here.
• 39:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the thing you take a step back to take a step forward.
• 40:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I am excited for LaMelo Ball to be in Minnesota, but I think there were people in that organization who were like we we kind of need to do better at point.
• 40:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We need the shot selection to be better, we need I hate to say this because I think he's very talented, I think he's a really good player, but sometimes I Lomelo gives the gives the um perception of now that he's gone out of Charlotte, that they needed an an adult in the room.
• 40:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, I'm not trying to be harsh, or just trying to be real with you about what they saw.
• 40:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's the other thing.
• 40:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I know as people who watch Charlotte on a daily basis, y'all saw it too.
• 40:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There was a lot of times during the fourth quarter where the game was in the balance, Lamelo wasn't in the game.
• 41:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There'd be long stretches of time in the fourth quarter that Lomelo was not in that game.
• 41:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Khan Knipple was on the court, Brandon Miller was on that court, uh Kobe White was in that court, but it was not Lamelo ball.
• 41:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we can sit here and talk about how, yes, will you miss Lamello's 22, 23 points a game?
• 41:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes, you will.
• 41:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Will you miss the assists that he brought because they were spectacular?
• 41:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes, you will.
• 41:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But will you miss the shot selection?
• 41:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Probably not.
• 41:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Will you miss the kind of blasé faire towards defense?
• 41:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Probably not.
• 41:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we will see.
• 42:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So here's the deal.
• 42:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's get into what they do have.
• 42:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Brandon Miller right now, he's the franchise guy.
• 42:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh 65 games last year, 20.2 points a game, 4.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and a steal, and damn near a block a game.
• 42:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So overall, great when it comes to that.
• 42:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the shooting numbers uh leave a little bit to be desired, I think, for somebody as athletic and as big as uh Brandon Miller is his uh overall shooting, which was 43.5%, that needs to be a little bit better.
• 42:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the three-point shooting was great.
• 42:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 38.3 on 8.2 attempts, and then he shot 89.2% from the free throw line, and he had a true shooting percentage of 57.4% on usage, which is uh about 28.1.
• 43:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, that's pretty good.
• 43:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like that.
• 43:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, all of that is very uh you're starting to get on the budgeting of you know star status when you get to those numbers.
• 43:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the three-year climb has also been impressive.
• 43:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's gone from true shooting percentage first year 55.2, second year 54 even, and last year 57.4, box plus minus negative 0.26.
• 43:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His first year, he was straight up even his second year 0.0, and his third year was a positive 1.6.
• 43:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His win shares kind of kind of gone up and down, but he made a real huge spike last year.
• 43:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So win shares 0.8 first year, 0.4, second year.
• 43:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 4.5.
• 44:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Nas Reed is coming to the Charlotte Hornets.
• 44:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And what you're getting is efficiency is real.
• 44:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The free throw line is the tail.
• 44:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's 20, he's about 28% usage player with 3.3 assists average.
• 44:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's not a creator.
• 44:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a bucket getter.
• 44:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That is what he is.
• 44:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he's gonna stay humble.
• 44:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 44:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's gonna be out here and do his thing and then provide leadership.
• 44:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He played with Anthony Edwards, he played with a uh a Randux superstar there.
• 44:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is going to love it in Charlotte.
• 44:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because I don't know if Brandon Miller has ever said a word in Charlotte.
• 44:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Has he ever said anything?
• 44:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 44:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Brandon Miller's free throw percentage is gone up and up and up.
• 44:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: First year 82.7%.
• 45:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Second year 86.1%, and last year he was damn near deadeye at 89.2.
• 45:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude is going to be awesome.
• 45:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's just gonna be awesome.
• 45:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now let's get to our guy Khan Knipple.
• 45:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Khan Knipple, he shocked the world last year.
• 45:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He didn't shock me.
• 45:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I thought this dude was gonna be awesome.
• 45:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But 81 games, 18.5 uh coins a game, 5.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists.
• 45:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot the ball overall at 47.5, which as a rookie, you can't you can't ask for better than that.
• 45:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot 42.5% from three on damn near eight attempts.
• 45:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He also shot 86.3% from the free throw line with a gaudy 63.3% true shooting percentage.
• 45:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are you kidding me?
• 45:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude hit 273 threes his rookie year to lead the NBA.
• 46:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not just rookies, the entire NBA.
• 46:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Was he first team all rookie?
• 46:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You bet your ass he was.
• 46:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Was he second in rookie of the year voting?
• 46:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was my rookie of the year.
• 46:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love Cooper Flag.
• 46:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Make hey, listen.
• 46:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The great white basketball player is back, baby.
• 46:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We got Con Kanipple, and we also got Cooper Flag.
• 46:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Man, we gonna have a bunch of dudes out here playing some basketball.
• 46:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's gonna be great.
• 46:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now his bet his best advanced line was the 8.0 win shares that he had.
• 46:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 46:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had a plus box point box plus minus of 2.8.
• 46:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are you kidding me?
• 47:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh, by the way, on 22.3% usage percentage.
• 47:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the only bummer is that our guy got hurt a little bit earlier in the uh before the preseason.
• 47:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has a left hamstring pull.
• 47:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh he's gonna be re-evaluated the first week of the season.
• 47:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we'll see how that looks.
• 47:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It doesn't look like he will be available for the opener, which is a bummer.
• 47:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So maybe by the second or third week, our guy Khan Knipple will hit the court.
• 47:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we are looking forward to it.
• 47:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We are looking forward to it.
• 47:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because he is he was all that was promised, damn it.
• 47:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: All that was promised.
• 47:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love I love I love Meeson Khan Kanipple.
• 47:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And this is the thing.
• 47:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You'll take the step back, yeah, right, because you know, you need a point guard.
• 47:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kobe White will kind of man the ship this year, don't get me wrong.
• 47:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love it.
• 47:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is going to be box office, 17.5 points a game, 3.4 rebounds, four assists, almost 60% true shooting percentage with a usage rate, which was 28.8.
• 48:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He played uh 50 games overall.
• 48:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He because he had a backup role, he only averaged like 19.3 minutes a game in Charlotte, 15.6 points a game, and he shot 39.1% from three.
• 48:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I am looking forward to seeing what they do.
• 48:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What he's what Kobe White is replacing is the 7.1 assists that ball had last year.
• 48:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's gonna be point guard by committee in Charlotte for sure.
• 48:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And this is why I think they'll take the step back.
• 48:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now is Nas Reed gonna start as he's gonna or is he gonna be a six man?
• 49:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's definitely gonna start.
• 49:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't think you trade for him and then expect him to come off the bench.
• 49:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think you're gonna want that production to even grow, and I think because of your lack of big right now, because the rookie Han Steinback is going to be as far as a rebounder, gonna be great.
• 49:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Block shots is where I worry.
• 49:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How does it work?
• 49:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But they got some studs coming.
• 49:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like what they're doing.
• 49:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I really do.
• 49:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Jeff Peterson is doing a fantastic job down there in Charlotte.
• 49:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I I love it.
• 49:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Christian Anderson Jr., he is he's not big, but he can get buckets.
• 49:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 18 and a half points a game and 7.4 assists to lead the Big 12, which is an excellent conference.
• 50:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a basketball powerhouse if you don't watch a lot of college basketball.
• 50:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I expect great things coming out of Charlotte.
• 50:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're just young, it's gonna take a second.
• 50:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 50:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So you might have a couple struggles.
• 50:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Don't get disconcerned in Charlotte.
• 50:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I understand last year you made the plan.
• 50:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You expect to kind of make a leap this year, you're probably not going to do it.
• 50:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But don't worry.
• 50:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're gonna be back.
• 50:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's gonna take some time.
• 50:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not a lot of time, but it's gonna take some time.
• 50:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love that Steinbach is just a rebounder.
• 50:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And my whole thing is that if you rebound in college, you're gonna rebound in the NBA.
• 50:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He averaged 18.5 points a game and damn near 12 rebounds a game to lead the NCAA last season.
• 50:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh he also averaged 1.6 assists and 1.2 blocks.
• 51:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot the ball pretty well from three, 34%.
• 51:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, obviously the three-point shot is different in college than it is in the NBA, but we shall see.
• 51:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the note to keep them above their goal of what was it, 39 and a half, is close games.
• 51:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are they gonna regress to the norm?
• 51:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The coin differentials was 53 in three 53 wins.
• 51:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The record said was 44.
• 51:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna have to learn.
• 51:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We gotta see if they're gonna be able to do that with the young team.
• 51:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How how long will it take for Kanipple to get back?
• 51:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because here's the thing with the hamstring, you want to make sure that thing is completely healed.
• 52:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You want to make sure that thing is ready to go.
• 52:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But as soon as he's ready to go, the green light is open because again, 63.3% true shooting and 273 threes in his first year.
• 52:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I can't wait to see what this kid does for Encore.
• 52:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Can Brandon Miller stay on the court?
• 52:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: First year 74 games, second year 27, last year 65.
• 52:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I would hope that that number goes a little bit further up.
• 52:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I hope he would get to a point where he's starting average anywhere between 72 to 75 games a year.
• 52:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's my hope.
• 52:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And now, if they don't make it, if they don't make the uh 39 and a half wins, the reason why is that it took a lot longer for Con Knipple to get healthy with that hamstring.
• 52:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The playmaker role that Kobe White is taking over, obviously he would not do as good a job as Lamello Ball, and we will see how that works.
• 53:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Nas Reed, as a starter, we got questions.
• 53:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's made three starts over last year, and listen, he averaged 27.5 minutes a game, but it's a difference coming off the bench than coming in and being a starter.
• 53:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, you are probably on the whiteboard a little bit higher than you were you were when you were on the bench coming in, but now age on the wings, Grayson Allen is 30, Royce O'Neill is 33, Dennis Schroeder's 33.
• 53:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They got a lot of experience, but is it good enough to get them where they need to go?
• 53:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What Hornets fans should be watching out for, your main concern this year is to see the continued development of Brandon Miller, Khan Kenical, and then the two rookies, Hans Steinbach and Christian Anderson Jr.
• 54:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That is what you should be paying attention to.
• 54:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, do you want some fun games?
• 54:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here, do I do I think for one second you guys are gonna drop back and only win like 20 games?
• 54:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No.
• 54:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we'll get to what I think you're at you guys are actually gonna hit.
• 54:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Will Nas Riggy continue to put up the numbers that he was putting up in Minnesota in a starting role?
• 54:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll see.
• 54:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: These are all questions that gotta be answered.
• 54:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm looking for the Charlotte Hornets to be a little light under that 39 and a half.
• 54:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm looking for them to be, let's say, 38 and 44, so slightly under.
• 54:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just think it matters having a guy like Lomelo, even though I thought that sometimes he showed some immaturity on the court.
• 55:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think Charles Lee really managed that situation well last year.
• 55:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, I again I expect and I think there is a bright future in Charlotte.
• 55:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I do not think of this team like okay, they had the little year where they got into the plan and now they're gonna kind of fall back to the pack.
• 55:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No, I think this is like a dip to the ascent uh to the extension.
• 55:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So you dip this year, and then you start going up from there.
• 55:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because here's the other thing another draft pick, we'll see.
• 55:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll see what you get.
• 55:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we're gonna move on to the Orlando Magic, and here's a bewildering team, you know what I'm saying?
• 55:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like all the talent in the world, but still haven't been able to put it together.
• 56:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They got a new coach.
• 56:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He he's got the same problem.
• 56:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the Magic led Detroit three games to one and then blew a 24-point lead at home in game six and then lost game seven.
• 56:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Their fix was to get a brand new coach and a 35-year-old center.
• 56:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll see how it works.
• 56:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Orlando was 45-37, which was eighth in the East.
• 56:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They lost in the first round to the Detroit Pistons, three games to four.
• 56:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The one seed, obviously the Pistons.
• 56:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, well, can't we talked about uh our guy Jalen Dorn in the last pod.
• 56:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Go back and and and listen to that pod, it's great.
• 56:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um we had a lot of information on him.
• 56:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, with that being said, let's get into our our people in Orlando.
• 56:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're gonna play the Atlanta Hawks first game of the season, and then the Sweeney era is going to begin officially.
• 57:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Jamal Mosley was fired May 4th, and the defense that he brought to this team, no doubt, the offense sucked.
• 57:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They couldn't get it get outside that they couldn't get out their own way.
• 57:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Sean Sweeney comes from San Antonio.
• 57:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is a good hire.
• 57:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, where he helped good one of the third-ranked off defenses in all the land, and he worked with Wingby, he's worked with Giannis, and he's worked with Luca.
• 57:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like in Dallas.
• 57:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, so this is Dallas Luca.
• 57:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: People can say what they want about Luca's defense, it's not great, but you know who was on his ass the whole time?
• 57:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sean Sweeney.
• 58:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What's the situation in Orlando?
• 58:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's the same thing.
• 58:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Paulo Gwincarrol, Franz Wagner, and Desmond Bank.
• 58:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: All I know is that what they're gonna have to do is get these guys to be on the same page.
• 58:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Paulo Gwincarrol, as far as a player, a man in this league, he's still not the efficiency darling that the analytics community wants.
• 58:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he's a man you need.
• 58:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 72 games last year, 22.2 points a game, eight and a half rebounds, 5.2 assists.
• 58:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He averaged basically almost a steal a game and 0.0 uh 0.6 blocks per game over 35 minutes.
• 58:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, he shot 46% from the field, which should be better.
• 58:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He only shot 30 30 and a half percent from three on 3.8 attempts, and he only shot 77.5% from the free throw line.
• 59:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So his true shooting percentage was 56.6, and his free throw rate was fifty-one point two percent.
• 59:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Can he run offense for you?
• 59:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 59:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Can he needs to shoot it better?
• 59:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Point blank, simple.
• 59:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is a career 31.7% from three and 74.3% from the free throw line.
• 59:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: For a guy who's averaging 20 points a game a year, it's gotta be better, it's gotta be better.
• 59:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Production, shot selection has to be better.
• 59:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has to find what it is that he's good at and then just do it because this is ridiculous now.
• 1:00:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And for him to be really completely unlocked, he's gotta shoot the three or just abandon it altogether and then allow somebody else to take that role.
• 1:00:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not helping him, but helping him is Franz Wagner.
• 1:00:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Franz got hurt last year, he only played in 34 games in the regular season.
• 1:00:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot the ball a little bit better from three, but still not good enough.
• 1:00:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 34.5%.
• 1:00:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, his free throw percentage is is promising.
• 1:00:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 82.3%.
• 1:00:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So his uh true shooting percentage was just a tad under 59%, so it was 58.8.
• 1:00:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He had a box plus minus of positive 2.5, but they were a shell of themselves without Wagner, and I don't know if he was gonna shoot the ball any better than the 34.5%, but he was plagued with ankle and calf issues all last year, and a right calf issue in the playoffs that kept him out of game five and seven.
• 1:01:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the shooting percentage for career from three is 32.4%, but from the line it's 85, it's 85%.
• 1:01:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I will say this.
• 1:01:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is a shot of being a good three-point shooter, and I hope that that's what is gonna come along.
• 1:01:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He gives them real production, he also gives them um just a real steadying presence for some reason on the court, and he just whatever he does, he makes Paulo Bancaro better.
• 1:01:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I thought it'd be the other way around, to be completely honest with you.
• 1:01:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But this is what we're looking at.
• 1:02:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, if we're gonna talk about shot selection and what have you, Desmond Bain, we need to talk about.
• 1:02:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He played in 82 games last year, uh, 20 points a game, four rebounds, four point one assists.
• 1:02:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He averages still in a little bit under 34 minutes.
• 1:02:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Desmond Bane was Desmond Bain last year.
• 1:02:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It was 48.4% from the field, uh 39% from three, and a 90.8% from the free throw line, true shooting percentage above 60, it was 60.7, but it wasn't Desmond Bain, because Desmond Bain usually shoots about 42% from three.
• 1:02:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I don't know if it was just new squad, whatever, but he only shot 5.2 threes a game last year, which was the lowest since his rookie year.
• 1:03:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His career three-point shooting average was 40.7% on six point one attempts a game.
• 1:03:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So three-point shot was not as good.
• 1:03:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot less of them, which was weird, and he he he shot eight point six perhaps of three in the twenty twenty-three-2024 season.
• 1:03:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, another guy who needs to stay healthy is Jalen Suggs.
• 1:03:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Jalen Suggs is an absolute demon on defense, and somehow he's like the low-key leader of that squad, and when he's not playing, it just shows up.
• 1:03:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They listen discombobulated as a group without um my guy Jalen Suggs, and also you need to be on the court because you need to get your three-point stroke down, my guy.
• 1:04:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, here's the best part about the Orlando Magic.
• 1:04:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They have an expiration date because you know what's coming for 'em.
• 1:04:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's that it's that damn salary cap.
• 1:04:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Their payroll is 220.8 million.
• 1:04:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got Wagner, Bancaro, Bain, and Suggs that take up $155.1 million dollars of the salary cap, which is is 70%.
• 1:04:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So guess what?
• 1:04:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If they don't figure it out this year, then they're gonna need to get some flexibility back and also reacquire some of the draft picks that they lost in the Desmond Bain trade.
• 1:04:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because remember, Orlando traded Memphis for first round picks.
• 1:04:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the the thought was that they were gonna be drafting like 28th, 29th, 27th overall.
• 1:05:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I that obviously wasn't the case.
• 1:05:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So they're gonna need to get some shit done in quick and in a hurry.
• 1:05:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Who's gonna step up in the backcourt?
• 1:05:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We talked about Jalen Suggs, we talked about what he is getting as far as money is concerned, which is 32.4 million.
• 1:05:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You gotta play more, Jalen.
• 1:05:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 57 games is not good enough.
• 1:05:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You gotta get up into that 68 to 72 range.
• 1:05:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The 13.8 points a game, the 5.5 assists is awesome, the dare near two steals a game is great, but you need to be on the court to shoot more threes, hit more threes, and be in that stabilizer stabilizer influence.
• 1:05:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That you need to be because the other guy that they're still looking for is Anthony Black.
• 1:06:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, people will say that Anthony Black has been held back a little bit.
• 1:06:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But listen, he made 40 starts last year.
• 1:06:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He he scored 15 points a game, almost four rerounds a game, and 3.7 assists, and one and a half steals a game.
• 1:06:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the three-point shot is still not where it kind of needs to be.
• 1:06:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a little bit below league average at 33.3%.
• 1:06:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Need to get that up.
• 1:06:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he's a 6'6, 6'7 wing who just absolutely hunts the passing lanes, gets a bunch of deflections, and wants to play defense.
• 1:06:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if he can shoot the ball a little bit better, he can stay on the court.
• 1:06:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He can stay on the court.
• 1:06:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They brought back uh Vucevic from Chicago, and I don't know if he's gonna start or he's gonna come off the bench.
• 1:07:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I would think that he would come off the bench and uh back up Wendell Carter Jr.
• 1:07:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now Vusevich last year was uh 15.1 points a game, eight and a half rebounds, 3.3 assists.
• 1:07:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot the ball basically almost at 50%, 49.3, and he shot the three ball very well at 36.9%.
• 1:07:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So that's awesome, right?
• 1:07:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 1:07:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is that what you want out of your backup big?
• 1:07:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 1:07:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do you want more from Wendell Carter Jr.
• 1:07:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You goddamn right?
• 1:07:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're damn right we do.
• 1:07:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The 11.8 points a game is not that big of a deal, the 7.4 rebounds is not that big of a deal.
• 1:07:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's the 51% field goal percentage that's a big deal.
• 1:07:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And listen, are you a three-point shooter or not?
• 1:08:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because the 32% on the three attempts that you're taking, I'd rather you just go ahead and shoot the ball from the inside, my guy.
• 1:08:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're a good rebounder, you're you know, we love it, but we need more.
• 1:08:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We need more from you.
• 1:08:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, maybe with Vusevich backing him up, takes a little bit more pressure off him, frees his mind a little bit, and therefore maybe we see him flourish this year, but the time is ticking.
• 1:08:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The time is ticking.
• 1:08:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, a bright spot for the Orlando Magic is Tristian DeSilva.
• 1:08:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He played in 77 games last year, he made 34 stars.
• 1:08:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's not the points and stuff, and I'll get to that in a second.
• 1:08:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's just like when he played, he just there was a difference.
• 1:08:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He just made things happen on the defensive end.
• 1:08:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm not saying he's the greatest defender of all times, but he just seemed to be able to hold his own.
• 1:09:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He averaged almost damn near 10 points a game, three and 3.7 rebounds.
• 1:09:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: She shot the ball at a 45% clip, shot the three ball extremely well for somebody, you know, who hasn't been in the league long 37.4%.
• 1:09:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just like this kid.
• 1:09:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like this kid a lot.
• 1:09:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know what it is about him, but he's able to get it done.
• 1:09:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, what is the keys for the magic to do their thing?
• 1:09:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sean Sweeney needs to do whatever voodoo magic, whatever uh, whatever witchcraft that he needs to do to figure out what the hell is going on with Wagner and Paolo Gancaro.
• 1:09:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One of those guys gotta shoot over 36%.
• 1:09:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One of them gotta do it.
• 1:09:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Or we are going to continue the the the the rival teams are gonna continue to just stand in the paint.
• 1:10:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Just stand there and just allow you to shoot threes and brick them.
• 1:10:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Desmond Gaines needs to get back to his, you know, at least like averaging seven attempts a game and shooting above forty percent from three.
• 1:10:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He needed to get back to who who he was, and we need Jalen Suggs to stay on the court.
• 1:10:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the way they don't get it is they don't figure none of these things out.
• 1:10:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Wagner or Ben Carroll misses games again, Suggs misses chunks of games again, nobody shooting over 36% again, and Sean Sweeney is just standing there scratching his head.
• 1:10:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Does Vucevic fall off the cliff?
• 1:10:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Who knows?
• 1:11:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What fans should be looking for early to see if this is going to be uh a magic season, or is it gonna be another season to forget?
• 1:11:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Does Bain shoot the three ball and provide the spacing that we thought that he was gonna provide?
• 1:11:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Jalen Suggs playing games or is he coming up with like crazy ass injuries because he played so damn hard?
• 1:11:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is the Franz Wagner Palo Bancaro Tandem is it viable or not?
• 1:11:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We gotta get an answer to this this year.
• 1:11:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If we do, and it's all gravy, it works out.
• 1:11:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If not, this team who's over under is 43 and a half, I am looking for them to go under a little bit.
• 1:12:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 42 and 40 sounds good to me.
• 1:12:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's not that I don't believe.
• 1:12:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just you gotta show it to me.
• 1:12:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You gotta show it to me.
• 1:12:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I need I love Jalen Suggs.
• 1:12:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Think he's an absolute dog, I think he's an absolute winner.
• 1:12:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just need you on the court.
• 1:12:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love Paulo Guncarol.
• 1:12:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't care what the analytics say.
• 1:12:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But you gotta be more efficient for me to like continue to bang the drum for you, my guy.
• 1:12:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Franz, you need to do Franz things.
• 1:12:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But you need to shoot the ball better.
• 1:12:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One of you gotta shoot the ball better.
• 1:12:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Either Glen Carroll or Franz Wagner.
• 1:12:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Somebody needs to get to 37-38%.
• 1:12:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I hope that both of these guys was in the lab shooting a bunch of threes over the offseason and they figured this shit out.
• 1:13:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because if they don't, this is another season that the Orlando Magic are spinning their wills, and here's the thing: there is no help on the horizon.
• 1:13:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Your cap situation is about to get real murky, and you don't have draft picks to be able to infuse new talent into this lineup.
• 1:13:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, there will be a trade of one of the weak boys, either Ron Carroll or Wagner.
• 1:13:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Take my word for it.
• 1:13:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If this shit don't look sweet by the all-star break, or before, a little week before, we don't start to see what this team is supposed to look like by the middle of January, this is gonna be a tough situation in Orlando.
• 1:13:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Tough.
• 1:13:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So that's what I'm looking for.
• 1:13:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I think that you don't hit your mark because I don't know if you figured it out.
• 1:14:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm skeptical because I haven't seen it yet.
• 1:14:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Doesn't mean that I don't think it can necessarily happen.
• 1:14:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It just means you gotta prove it to me.
• 1:14:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Alright.
• 1:14:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, we are going to get to the Miami Heat.
• 1:14:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know why?
• 1:14:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because the Miami Heat got a lot of stuff going on.
• 1:14:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: First and foremost, obviously Giannis Antecumpo has entered the chat.
• 1:14:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:14:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: God God bless him.
• 1:14:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Boy, did Miami give up a lot to get him.
• 1:14:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now they went 43 and 39 last year.
• 1:14:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Their over-under for win total is 46 and a half.
• 1:14:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will see where they get to.
• 1:14:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They went out and got their guy.
• 1:14:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Listen, they lost in the playoff game again.
• 1:14:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pat Riley said, I'm sick of this shit.
• 1:14:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We've been bribes made on all these other like superstars, but this year we will pay the toll and we'll get our guy.
• 1:15:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And that guy was Giannis Ante Tacumpo.
• 1:15:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm gonna tell you right now.
• 1:15:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is the fit great?
• 1:15:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No.
• 1:15:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But is Giannis great?
• 1:15:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Absolutely.
• 1:15:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is he gonna help this team win?
• 1:15:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: For sure.
• 1:15:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We got some questions around him, but we're gonna get to those in a second.
• 1:15:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's talk about the trade.
• 1:15:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They gave up a lot to get him.
• 1:15:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's be really honest about that.
• 1:15:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They gave up Tyler Hero, Khalil Ware, Jaime Hawkes Jr., Cascaris Yakatunis, and the 13 overall pick.
• 1:15:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, picks out unprotected, 2031, 2033.
• 1:15:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They have a quick swap in 2030.
• 1:15:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They got Bobby Cortis as well.
• 1:16:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Clay Thompson, his uh is now in South Beach, so his boat can be out in the water.
• 1:16:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think Klay on his boat is better than Clay landlocked.
• 1:16:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll see how that go.
• 1:16:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Timmy Hardaway Jr.
• 1:16:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: is now a Miami Heat.
• 1:16:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's gonna be wearing his daddy's number.
• 1:16:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's gonna be great.
• 1:16:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I can't wait to see it.
• 1:16:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, do they have things in their arsenal?
• 1:16:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 1:16:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Can they trade them?
• 1:16:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 1:16:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They got picks 2028, 2029, and 2030.
• 1:16:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, there's a swap tangle in and 2032, so they're thin as far as picks are concerned, but Pat Riley can you know he can work some magic.
• 1:17:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Godfather is out here going to make deals.
• 1:17:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's the other thing Pat Riley is what?
• 1:17:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like 81, 81 years of age.
• 1:17:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So he has a expiration date, and I'm not trying to be very morbid here, but I'm saying if somebody is willing to go all in, it's gonna be the godfather, Pat Riley.
• 1:17:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay?
• 1:17:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The slick back silver haired devil is gonna try to get it done.
• 1:17:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, for sure.
• 1:17:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He got Giannis.
• 1:17:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes, he got Clay.
• 1:17:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Clay's a little bit longer in the tooth.
• 1:17:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You need some three-point shooting that you can depend on, that you can rely on.
• 1:17:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will see what also can shake out.
• 1:17:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Maybe it's not this year coming up, but maybe it's in the next offseason.
• 1:17:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 1:17:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we will see.
• 1:17:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's talk about the team in question.
• 1:17:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Giannis is a MVP walking around.
• 1:17:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not just back in the day, but the numbers are still there.
• 1:18:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now he didn't play in a bunch of games last year, but here's the thing 27.6 points a game, damn near 10 rebounds a game at 9.8, 5.4 assists a game, true shooting percentage of 62.4%.
• 1:18:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude is a killer.
• 1:18:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: His efficiency is a uh is awesome.
• 1:18:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 65.8% true shooting percentage.
• 1:18:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are you kidding me?
• 1:18:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has a free throw rate of 59.7%.
• 1:18:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude is listen, they got a dude.
• 1:18:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now here's the problem.
• 1:18:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's been injured lately.
• 1:18:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Games played over the last three seasons, 73, three years ago, 67, 2 years ago, last year, 36.
• 1:18:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay.
• 1:18:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Gotta keep him healthy.
• 1:18:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're hoping that the the Miami area has good orthopaedic people as far as that's concerned, and there's just healing park properties in the water down there to keep our guy on the court.
• 1:19:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The one thing that Giannis is gonna do is charge down the middle of the lane and try to get buckets.
• 1:19:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is like a bull in a China shop, and he is going to get his 10 uh free throw temps a game.
• 1:19:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, is he gonna shoot threes?
• 1:19:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Absolutely freaking not.
• 1:19:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shoots 33%, he only shoots 1.3 threes a game.
• 1:19:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, no, no, no, no.
• 1:19:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, when he played in a real year where he played like over 65 games, his usage was uh 35.4 percent, and he had a net rating of positive 12.3 that's MVP numbers right there.
• 1:19:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: MVP numbers now he says during his media day availability, he said the goal is to win a championship.
• 1:20:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the goal.
• 1:20:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know who also believes in that pat Riley.
• 1:20:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pat Riley is you are winning a championship, or the season is an absolute failure.
• 1:20:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We don't give out participation medals here in Miami.
• 1:20:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We seen the fan base down there.
• 1:20:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That fan base is about glitz and glam.
• 1:20:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know how you get glitz and glam?
• 1:20:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You put a bunch of W's in the marker every single year.
• 1:20:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's not good enough to have cool ass uniforms that are like pastel blue and pink, and you have Miami Vice Knight on the court.
• 1:20:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's great, man.
• 1:20:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's awesome.
• 1:20:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Winning games is awesome too.
• 1:20:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Mean to win some fucking games out here, and Giannis is about that life.
• 1:21:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, how they gonna do this?
• 1:21:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How are they gonna do this?
• 1:21:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, that's a good question.
• 1:21:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Starting off, bam out of bio.
• 1:21:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Bam out of bio, put up 83 points, we think fraudulently, uh, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:21:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Listen, no, I don't I respect the hustle or whatever, but we know you Jerry rigged that 83 points, my guy.
• 1:21:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Taking down Kobe's number 81 to be the second best uh scoring game of all time.
• 1:21:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But as far as being out of a player is concerned, got a couple questions.
• 1:21:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I think it's getting because of shot selection, but the past three years of his field goal percentage has gone steadily down.
• 1:21:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 52.1% three years ago.
• 1:21:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Or two years, yeah, three years ago, two years ago, 48.5 percent last year, 44.2 percent, true shooting percentage, also steadily down, 57.6 percent, 56.1, and then 55.1.
• 1:22:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The scoring and the production numbers still lead 20 and 10 a game, positive 22 box plus minus, second team all defense, all those things are great, but somebody gonna have to shoot the three.
• 1:22:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know if it's gonna be him, no clue, but you're gonna have to do something to provide space for what Bam Alabio and um Giannis Antecupo do.
• 1:22:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Klay Thompson and Davion Mitchell and Andrew Wiggins.
• 1:23:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I hope y'all shoot nothing but threes and hit him.
• 1:23:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Andrew Wiggins has been doing work.
• 1:23:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers tried to get him.
• 1:23:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They wanted him so bad last year, they could taste it.
• 1:23:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They couldn't get him.
• 1:23:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude has turned his whole career around.
• 1:23:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Remember when we was like sitting there thinking to ourselves, like, man, is Andrew Wiggins ever gonna pan out?
• 1:23:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then he went to Golden State and put up that monster year when Golden State won the championship back in 2022.
• 1:23:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now this dude is shooting 41.4% from three on five attempts.
• 1:23:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is a positive defensive box class minus a one.
• 1:23:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And now you also pair him with Bobby Cortis, who shoots a bunch of threes.
• 1:23:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:23:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 45% on 4.4 attempts.
• 1:24:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's gonna have to up that a little bit this year.
• 1:24:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You might lose a little bit of the percentage.
• 1:24:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If he went down to 42 and he shot six threes a game, I think Miami would take that trade-off.
• 1:24:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Bobby Cardis lost 20 pounds in the offseason.
• 1:24:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They take their strength and conditioning very serious in Miami.
• 1:24:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you have a uh body mass or BMI that's too high, or your um, if you have a body fat percentage of more than six, Pat Riley's gonna come down from his office and whoop your ass.
• 1:24:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Just let you know.
• 1:24:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we'll see how that all goes.
• 1:24:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's no question whether the Miami Heat is gonna be able to play defense.
• 1:24:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is can they create enough space for Giannis and Bam to do their thing?
• 1:25:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the Pell Larsons of the world, the Davion Mitchell's of the world who shoot the three ball, well, we're gonna need more volume.
• 1:25:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: More.
• 1:25:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, more volume.
• 1:25:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Jovich a real player?
• 1:25:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna have to find out.
• 1:25:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, what are the keys to the Miami Heat going over their number, which is 46 and a half?
• 1:25:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, very easy.
• 1:25:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Giannis and Bam Iobio play 65 plus games.
• 1:25:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You that's more of an issue on the Giannis side than it is on the Autobio side, but we will see how it all goes.
• 1:25:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, once those dudes do that, is the three-point shooting continuing to three-point itself?
• 1:25:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Clay Thompson, can you get back to 40%?
• 1:25:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Or are you too old to not do that anymore?
• 1:26:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Can Wiggins continue to sustain his level of excellence beyond the three-point line at 41.4%?
• 1:26:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Davion Mitchell really almost a 40% three-point shooter?
• 1:26:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is that what he is now?
• 1:26:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because if that's the case, they got a real shot at doing this.
• 1:26:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's the thing.
• 1:26:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I do not ever bet against Eric Spostra.
• 1:26:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't bet against this dude at all.
• 1:26:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So those are the keys for them to do it.
• 1:26:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, if they don't do it, the lower leg injuries of Giannis continue.
• 1:26:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The depth that they lost with the four players becomes a real thing and it's and it absolutely debilitates that team.
• 1:26:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Giannis doesn't get to the free throw line nearly as much because they don't respect the three-point shooting of the rest of the Miami Heat.
• 1:27:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Can Clay turn back the clock one more time?
• 1:27:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And can we get more efficiency from Bam out of bio?
• 1:27:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I understand that you had a lot of things on your shoulders the last couple years, and maybe this has kind of affected your efficiency, but we're gonna need to for you to be a lot more efficient this year.
• 1:27:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I think they will be battling the Hawks for the best uh record in their division, and they'll be battling for a playoff spot for sure.
• 1:27:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, as far as actually what they're looking at, as far as what they're gonna do, what the fans should be focused on, Yiannis playing games.
• 1:27:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's it.
• 1:28:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pat Riley sitting there in his seat along with Alonzo Morning looking stoic and Giannis playing a bunch of games.
• 1:28:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If he does that, they have a really good shot of getting over the 46 and a half games.
• 1:28:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If not, they're not going to get over 46 and a half games.
• 1:28:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They're just not going to do it.
• 1:28:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So it really comes down to Giannis.
• 1:28:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now do I have faith that Giannis is going to be able to do this?
• 1:28:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, I do.
• 1:28:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I do.
• 1:28:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they just sneak in under the buzzer and they get to 40.
• 1:28:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They get to 48 wins.
• 1:28:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they get to 48.
• 1:28:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They get there.
• 1:28:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then we'll see what they look like in the playoffs.
• 1:28:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And that's what it really comes down to it.
• 1:29:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I don't know if they need one more guy.
• 1:29:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I am thinking that they do for them to be like a legitimate like title contender.
• 1:29:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But as long as you got Giannis Andrew DeCupo on the team, you get him into a playoff series, he's going to scare the holy shit out about any competitor that he plays.
• 1:29:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because that dude is an MVP candidate just walking around.
• 1:29:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Just walking amongst us, MVP candidate.
• 1:29:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That dude wakes up, rolls out of bed, and pisses excellence every single day.
• 1:29:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We seen that dude.
• 1:29:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You seen his body.
• 1:29:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You seen what this man puts himself through every single day to be the best he can possibly be.
• 1:29:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't doubt Miami.
• 1:29:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't doubt Eric Spulstra.
• 1:29:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm damn sure not going to doubt Giannis and Titacumpo.
• 1:29:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they get the 48 wins.
• 1:29:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They get over 46 and a half wins.
• 1:30:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they're like a four or five seed.
• 1:30:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And let the let the fun begin when it comes to the playoffs.
• 1:30:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The last thing that we need to talk about is the Atlanta Hawks.
• 1:30:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We went over today.
• 1:30:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't care.
• 1:30:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We just this was a fun uh this is a fun division to talk about.
• 1:30:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we're gonna talk about the Atlanta Hawks real right now.
• 1:30:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They have what is what is the their uh what are they looking at?
• 1:30:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They got a lot going on here.
• 1:30:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Their line is 43 and a half.
• 1:30:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's their line.
• 1:30:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's fine.
• 1:30:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What do the Hawks have?
• 1:30:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, they got rid of Trey Young, so Jalen Johnson is the whole offense at this point.
• 1:30:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Listen, 22, 10, and 8 is nothing to be uh over here be mad about.
• 1:31:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Y'all can sit here and talk about oh man, we got rid of Trey.
• 1:31:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Terrible.
• 1:31:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: CJ McCullough was cool coming off the bench, but man, we're gonna miss Trey.
• 1:31:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think there are certain levels you are gonna miss them, and I think there are certain levels that you're not gonna miss them.
• 1:31:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's the other thing.
• 1:31:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Quinn Snyder has been have begged and begged Trey Young to get off ball.
• 1:31:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know how they got Trey Young off ball?
• 1:31:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They shipped his ass to Washington.
• 1:31:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's how they got him off ball.
• 1:31:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Again, Jalen Johnson, 72 games, 22 and a half points, 10.3 rebounds, and 7.9 assists.
• 1:31:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh, he also chipped in 1.2 steals as well.
• 1:31:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: My man was an absolute menace.
• 1:31:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot almost 50% last year at 48.9.
• 1:31:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot a little bit less than league average on the three ball, which is 35.2.
• 1:32:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: League average is 36, or almost 5 attempts.
• 1:32:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He I think like this dude is another jump is coming.
• 1:32:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Another jump is coming.
• 1:32:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I can't wait to see it.
• 1:32:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think he's probably like a 24, 10 and a half rebound.
• 1:32:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think the eight assists is probably kind of steady, keep it steady right there.
• 1:32:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, now here's the thing.
• 1:32:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Without Trey being the ball handler, the turnover rate was a little bit high.
• 1:32:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's gonna have to fix that 14.9% uh turnover percentage.
• 1:32:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I think now that he knows it's his team, we know what we're working with, we're gonna be alright.
• 1:32:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Atlanta got some dogs with them.
• 1:32:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They traded for Nikhil Alexander Walker, and nobody could have expected what you got out of Nikhil Alexander Walker.
• 1:33:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He started 71 games, he averaged damn near 21 points a game, 3.4 rebounds, 3 assists, the steals 1.3.
• 1:33:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot the ball very well, shot 46% from the field, 40% from 3 on 8.1 attempts.
• 1:33:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he also shot 90% from the free throw line.
• 1:33:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: True shooting percentage was 61%.
• 1:33:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude had a stellar year.
• 1:33:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: A stellar year.
• 1:33:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was coming off the bench in Minnesota.
• 1:33:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They were starting Dante D.
• 1:33:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Vincenzo over him.
• 1:33:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No shade.
• 1:33:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No shade whatsoever.
• 1:33:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's kind of like one of those things.
• 1:33:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The last time I saw this, um, do you guys remember Jermaine O'Neal?
• 1:33:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Jermaine O'Neill was a little bit different situation in Portland.
• 1:34:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, we going in the way back machine.
• 1:34:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So for all my kids out there, start YouTube and Jermaine O'Neal.
• 1:34:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So he starts his career off in Portland.
• 1:34:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He can't get any burn because he got a bunch of people in front of him.
• 1:34:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a big, okay.
• 1:34:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They trade him to Indiana.
• 1:34:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He blows up, dude, averaging like 20-something points a game, almost 10 rebounds, the whole dime, and then it goes from there.
• 1:34:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the kill Alexander Walker just reminds me of that.
• 1:34:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's a guy who was coming off the bench, being pretty productive, also played hella defense for the Minnesota Timberwolves, but the plus 11.4 points a game, we did not see none of this coming.
• 1:34:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Most include player, you right, for sure.
• 1:34:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude shot 8.13 a game at 40%.
• 1:35:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is one of those things where you sit there and you go, You gotta cultivate it.
• 1:35:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You gotta cultivate it.
• 1:35:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One of one of the scouts says that uh the shooting is real, he moves well without the ball, he doesn't need many dribbles.
• 1:35:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh what I watch is whether the threes can stay near 40% when the defense starts running him off the line.
• 1:35:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't I listen, I think you got enough dudes that can get into the paint and what have you.
• 1:35:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think Nikhil Alexander Walker going from 9.4 points a game to 20.8 is a freaking miracle.
• 1:35:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not because the game I didn't believe in the game, it's just one of those things, it's just one of those crazy anomalies that pop up and you go, What the hell happened?
• 1:35:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What is he doing?
• 1:35:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh shit, that's crazy.
• 1:36:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it was it was crazy.
• 1:36:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, what else do they have?
• 1:36:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Dyson Daniels, who's a defensive crazy man.
• 1:36:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They also picked up Lou Dort.
• 1:36:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are you scoring on this team at all?
• 1:36:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You you got Nikhil Alexander Walker, Lou Dort, and you got Dyson Daniels on the squad.
• 1:36:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Dyson Daniels gets out of bed and has two steals.
• 1:36:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay?
• 1:36:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now you can say what you want about Lou Dort that maybe starting, you know, like OKC pull the plug at like the exact right moment or whatever.
• 1:36:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if Lou Dort is, I don't know if he's gonna start, I don't know if he's coming off the bench, I don't know what they're gonna do with him.
• 1:36:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I know this, there are gonna be some situations where Nikhil Alexander Walker, Dyson Daniels, and Lou Dort are gonna be on the court at the same exact time.
• 1:37:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm gonna say to all the wings and the guards out there, good freaking luck dealing with that.
• 1:37:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Good luck.
• 1:37:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Have fun playing Atlanta.
• 1:37:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh, by the way, you no longer can road teams go to Atlanta, go to Magic City, and then the next night play the Hawks.
• 1:37:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can't do that anymore.
• 1:37:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cause you will have your lunch stolen.
• 1:37:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, by all of these dudes that are on this team.
• 1:37:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then they got the steadying influence of CJ McCullum, who played 76 games across two teams last year, had 19 points a game, almost four assists a game.
• 1:38:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like CJ McCullum found his role, boy.
• 1:38:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I tell you.
• 1:38:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's gonna be great.
• 1:38:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love it.
• 1:38:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love all of it.
• 1:38:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now Atlanta made a shrewd trade last year.
• 1:38:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They somehow fleeced New Orleans.
• 1:38:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It ended up with the eighth overall pick, which turns out to be Kingston Flemings out of Houston.
• 1:38:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's 19 years of age.
• 1:38:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He put up buckets in Houston, 6.4 points a game, almost four rebounds, five and a half assists.
• 1:38:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh, he's also a steel merchant at 1.6.
• 1:38:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So and he shoots a three-ball at about 40%, and he shot 48% from the field.
• 1:38:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's not very big, he's six foot two and a half, he doesn't have a long work wingspan.
• 1:39:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if you know anything about guards playing in Houston, guess what you have to do?
• 1:39:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You have to pick up full court, you gotta get a bunch of deflections, and your chest needs to be in the middle of the player that you are defending.
• 1:39:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is like young De'Aaron Fox.
• 1:39:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And when I say young De'Ren Fox, I'm talking about the Kentucky year and the first couple years when he was in Sacramento, when he was D'ing fools up left and right.
• 1:39:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love this kid.
• 1:39:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They didn't stop there, they got Zubi uh Ojafor from St.
• 1:39:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: John's.
• 1:39:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh he's a six, he's a six foot seven and a half wing with a seven uh seven point seven foot two inch wingspan.
• 1:39:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's one of those connector type dudes, another defender, loves to rebound, all those type of things.
• 1:40:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, are the threes real?
• 1:40:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 1:40:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 1:40:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's another guy who plays defense.
• 1:40:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now I feel bad about uh Henry Vasort.
• 1:40:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was uh gonna be the stretch big that a lot of people wanted uh Atlanta to have, but he tore his uh right ACL on September 15th during a workout, so uh my man is not gonna be playing this year, but I'm gonna tell you right now, it is bright in Atlanta.
• 1:40:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The ATL is gonna be popping for show.
• 1:40:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, if Flemings is who I think he is, now I don't know if it'll it'll bear fruit this year to the point where he takes over that role.
• 1:41:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I'm gonna tell you right now, things are looking on the up up for the Atlanta Hawks.
• 1:41:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love this team, I love what they've been able to do.
• 1:41:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think that um a congu is a smallish center.
• 1:41:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think if they had a little bit bigger dude, I would be even more bullish on the Atlanta Hawks, but they have enough uh perimeter defense to keep him clean.
• 1:41:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cause here's the thing 15.2 points a game, he blocks a shot, he gets a steal every single game, he just doesn't rebound the basketball the the way I would like.
• 1:41:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, I wish they had just a little bit more there.
• 1:41:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But their perimeter defense is absolutely wild.
• 1:41:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, they are supposed to they're uh 43 their numbers 43 and a half.
• 1:42:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do they get a whole year out of out of Jalen Johnson?
• 1:42:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is the is the Nikhil Alexander Walker career year now what we expect every single year?
• 1:42:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Can we get another season of CJ McCollum playing out of his freaking mind?
• 1:42:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And does Fleming step up and earn minutes as a legitimate like floor leader for the Atlanta Hawks?
• 1:42:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If all those things hit, they're gonna go way over their number.
• 1:42:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Way over their number.
• 1:42:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now why why they don't hit their number is this Does Jalen Johnson play enough games?
• 1:42:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is Dyson Daniels gonna play enough games?
• 1:42:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um It's gonna be injury.
• 1:42:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can say that for every team, but for this team, it's the sum of their parts that make them special.
• 1:43:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I believe that.
• 1:43:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know?
• 1:43:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, is there gonna be regression off the three-point shot from Alexander Walker?
• 1:43:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cause that 39.9% he shot last year was his career high.
• 1:43:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're in a really competitive division in a real competitive Eastern conference now.
• 1:43:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So there's a lot of things that can hold you down from hitting that number, but they they're just they're stacked.
• 1:43:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if they can get what they can get out of it, I I I love their chances.
• 1:43:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love their chances.
• 1:43:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, do I think they're going over their 43 and a half?
• 1:43:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, for sure.
• 1:43:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I do.
• 1:43:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I believe in this team.
• 1:43:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think that they will battle the Miami Heat for the division title.
• 1:44:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, they will also it whoever wins their division is also gonna, I mean, this is seems stupid for me to say this now, but it's gonna be key because I think that the Miami Heat and the Atlanta Rap Atlanta Hawks are going to be basically in that 4-5 range, and whoever wins the division is gonna host that playoff series.
• 1:44:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I, by a slight margin, slight, slight margin, I think Atlanta gets him.
• 1:44:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think Atlanta gets him.
• 1:44:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't think they can go 50 and 32, but I think they can go 49 and 33.
• 1:44:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they're gonna go over their win total.
• 1:44:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think this this team is uh only going to get better.
• 1:44:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think, you know, another year of Jalen Johnson being able to run that situation, and again, defense is everywhere on that team.
• 1:45:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Everywhere.
• 1:45:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So even if they don't shoot it well enough, they're not gonna allow you to shoot it well enough.
• 1:45:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So there's that.
• 1:45:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh man, we gotta talk about some other stuff, but the thing that we need to go ahead and do is uh let y'all know two things.
• 1:45:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I gotta give a shout out to to all you guys.
• 1:45:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love y'all, y'all getting really um honey down on social media for us.
• 1:45:38
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• 1:45:42
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• 1:45:45
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• 1:45:46
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• 1:45:49
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• 1:45:53
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• 1:45:59
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• 1:46:03
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• 1:46:11
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• 1:46:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Tickety talks.
• 1:46:35
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• 1:46:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So those are the socials.
• 1:46:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the last thing we say here is the best part of you is still you, not your win-loss record, not your timeline, not your algorithm.
• 1:46:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Just you.
• 1:46:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You are enough all by your damn self.
• 1:46:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Surround yourself with people who actually give you light and don't and don't try to lead you into the darkness.
• 1:47:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The ones who bring you insight and the joy and real accountability, those are your max deal.
• 1:47:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Appreciate them out loud and do not wait for a later date that nobody has promised you.
• 1:47:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I am a big believer on appreciating people the moment, in the moment.
• 1:47:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Lost my mother a couple years ago, and it was one of the rattling cries of her death.
• 1:47:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Was like, not that she said anything, which is something that hit me.
• 1:47:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When you see something that you appreciate or somebody does something for you, show love right right then and there.
• 1:47:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now we're your hoop family here at Front Runner Podcast Collective.
• 1:47:50
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• 1:47:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're probably gonna get some things wrong from time to time, but we're gonna come back and we're gonna own it.
• 1:47:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And we will always respect your brain because anybody can yell a take, but very few can actually defend a thought.
• 1:48:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Until next episode, keep your mind sharp, your heart open, your circle tight, and protect your peace like cap space, and never waste it on bad basketball or bad energy.
• 1:48:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm Vince, this is FRPC, and we are out.
• 1:48:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Deuces.