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Does Lebron surpassing 40k make him the undisputed GOAT? · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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  Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, Welcome back to another episode of the
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  so called Sports Analyst, Episode number thirty six. Josh, how you doing
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  doing good? Man? Spurs went back to back games this week, so
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  you know we're on the come up. What did I say last week?
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  We're gonna go on a run. We had a little hiccup against the Rockets,
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  so that's gonna happen sometimes. But you know, it's been a good
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  week. I hope everyone's doing good. Can't wait to get into this pod.
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  Yes, sir, not to mention the bulls, they've been doing that
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  too. They're on the first first back to back win and over a month.
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  Look at it, but look at us. Yeah, but you guys
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  three, whatever, listen to it on Spreaker, Spotify, our radio,
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  or any other platform we appreciate and make sure you share it to anybody who
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  likes sports. But all right, we're gonna go ahead and get into it
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  like we always do. We're gonna go over the standings, and first we're
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  gonna start with the Eastern Conference. And in the Eastern Conference, the one
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  seed still the Boston Celtics. The two seed is now the Milwaukee Bucks,
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  three is Cleveland, four is Orlando. Magic went all the way from seven
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  to four. Nixt are five, Heat, six six or seven Pacers,
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  eight Bulls, nine Hawks, ten. And then in the Western Conference we
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  have the Timberwolves as a one seed, still Thunder as a two seed.
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  Denver jumped to the three seed, Clippers to the four Pelicans moved to the
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  five seed. Sons they moved to the sixth seed. Kings are the seventh
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  seed, Maps are the eight seed Warriors are the nine seed. Lakers are
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  the ten seeds. So not much movement in the Western Conference. But was
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  there any surprise as far as in the Eastern Conference because the Bucks they jumped,
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  the Magic they jumped up, the Pacers they fell, the Sixers they
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  fell, the Heat went up. Was there a big surprise? I know
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  it's just a week, but was there a big surprise to you? It's
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  just weird still seeing the Magic at number four. I think that could be
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  probably the biggest surprise because the Heat are gonna turn it up once the playoffs
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  come around, and we're getting closer to the playoffs. So this is about
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  the time where they start putting it down for real, and they're not gonna
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  they don't. I appreciate they don't want to be a playing team again this
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  year. And then as for the Sixers, they're just waiting for Joel and
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  Be to get back, get back and get back into the fold so they
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  can go back to winning basketball. We just started the pot. I'm not
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  I'm not gonna make no dirty jokes. Just to start off, I was
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  like, how you doing, how you're doing? Mo? Yeah, okay,
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  okay, let's get to serious business here. So we're gonna give so
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  like we always go over our our top games of the week that we went
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  over. But I'm pretty sure there's a game that you want to bring up,
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  So you go ahead. I know which game you're already gonna talk about.
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  We're gonna talk about the Warriors absolutely getting clapped by the Boston Celtics gang
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  bang style, getting it beat by nearly by fifty two points in this game.
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  Sorry, I had to put it out there. How to say it?
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  The freaking the war you just went? Sorry? How to do it?
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  How to do it? The Warriors shot seven for forty one from the
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  three, while the Celtics went twenty five for forty nine on fifty one percent
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  shooting from the three point line. The Warriors for the longest time where the
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  team were like, you live by the three, you died by the three.
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  Well they died to that this day. They died in this game to
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  the three. And Stephen Curry had went zero for nine from three point from
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  from the three pointer, and that's zero percent. That's I think that's the
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  first time in his career he ever went zero percent from three or like first
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  time in I forgot and how many years that they said, Yeah, I
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  don't know what's going on with this Warriors team. I get they're still in
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  the race for that little playing area, but losing a game like this,
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  I get you. You can bounce back. It's only a regular season game.
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  But Guinea be by fifty two points when you're when you have Stephen Curry,
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  Klay Thompson still, Draymond Green, you have Steve Kerr as your coach,
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  kitting be by fifty two points something that should not happen. Yeah,
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  no, I agree with you. And it's again the Warriors game plan.
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  Before Steve Kerr and Draymond Green they talked about it. They said, we're
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  gonna sag off of Jalen Brown and we're gonna let him shoot. If this
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  was any other year, that would have been perfectly fine. But Jylen Brown,
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  he's having the best year of his career by far. So that's just
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  that that just makes no sense to me. And it showed with Jaylen Brown
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  having eighteen first quarter points. And one thing that I liked about this is
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  that Jason Tatum, the biggest thing that I've been talking about is as far
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  as Ken Jason Tatum, Ken Jalen Brown, I know they're gonna still their
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  jump shots. They don't want to drive to the rack, but can they
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  at least get close get the high percentage mid range shots. And that's what
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  they started doing. And if they can continue this into the postseason where okay,
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  we're gonna just get those easy mid range shots and try to get to
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  the basket, then that's going to be a formula for success. It's not
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  a matter of their defense. Their defense has been there ever since they made
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  it to the finals that year. It's just a matter of their offense.
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  And their offense if it could click like this, nobody's gonna stop them.
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  And another stat is that so the Celtics. When they were on their eleven
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  game win streak, their average win was by twenty two points. So that
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  just shows how dominant they really have been during this stretch. And I know
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  the Warriors, you kind of mentioned it a little bit. They still had
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  Step, they still had played, they still had Draymond, And we're not
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  gonna to talk about tonight's game much. But do you think this is gonna
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  be a good step for them? Because every once in a while a team
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  they needs this. So do you think this is good or this is gonna
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  be the demise of the Warriors? I feel like, honestly, I think
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  it could lead to the demise. Honestly because Stephen Curry over the laste literally
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  probably since they lost to the Toronto Raptors and the championship has been everything about
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  this team has been completely on his shoulders, and I think they're just doing
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  too much. They know they have probably the greatest point guard to ever live,
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  and they're just throwing everything on his shoulders and hoping he can carry them
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  all the way to the Promised Land. But that's just not how it's gonna
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  work. They haven't surrounded him with the real pieces that he needs. Because
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  if you go back to those championship teams, even before Katie, they still
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  have strong bench lineups. They had Sean Livingston coming off, David West coming
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  off, Andrew boguet Win healthy like they had squads coming off that bench.
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  Yeah, and then that let alone, the starters were with Clay and his
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  prime, Draymond and his prime, so they surrounded him with pieces. Right
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  now, these pieces just don't feel the same. I understanding. You have
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  a young squad with Jonathan Kamena leading the way, but they're just not matching
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  the energy night in a night out that Steph needs for this team to be
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  really to really compete in when playoffs come around. So I know this is
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  kind of off topic here, but where do you think the Warriors that go
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  this offseason? Do you think they should Obviously you still have a top five
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  player in the league and Steph Curry top five, top ten. I'm not
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  trying to argue right now, but do you still keep trying to go all
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  in or do you just say, hey, this sounds crazy, but trading
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  away Steph Curry where you could get plenty of first round picks, you get
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  yourself a future ship off Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, and you could restart.
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  You already have young pieces in Jonathan Kaminga and Moses move Moody who do
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  look like bright spots now, So what do you think they should do exactly
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  here? I honestly believe that you kind of have to blow it up.
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  Like the time, the run that they had all together was great, it
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  was cool. But unless you can keep replenishing pieces, which I don't think
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  they have in my opinion, yeah, you can't keep it going. You're
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  gonna have to sacrifice something, whether that's Draymond, whether it's Clay, whether
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  it's Steph. Because you just resigned Steve Kirk to that massive contract to be
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  your head coach foreseeable future, so you're already locked in with him. It's
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  just a matter of who do you want to be there next year? And
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  I'm pretty sure Steph. They're gonna try their hardest in any way or shape
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  or form to have Stephan Curry as a Golden State Warrior for the rest of
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  his career. But as far as the other two, Draymond and Clay,
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  I think they might be on different teams next season. Man, well,
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  all right, let's go ahead and get onto this next game, in which
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  I'll let you bring it up because this is the second game he wanted to
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  talk about. I'm ready to talk about. Cheeks did not get clapped in
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  this game. It was defense battle all the way, Clippers versus the Timberwolves.
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  Clippers beat the Timberwolves eighty nine to eighty eight to improve to thirty nine
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  and twenty and dropping the Timberwolves to forty two and nineteen. Well that's the
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  records now, my bad. I don't know why I'm saying that, but
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  all in all, it was just really a great showing from Kawhi Leonard for
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  the Clippers with thirty two points and Anthony Edwards on the other side with twenty
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  seven, and the rest was just everyone filling in and playing defense. It
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  was you don't get We don't get games like this often in the NBA anymore,
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  so I thought it was just something cool to bring up where the low
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  scoring was happening. It almost felt like mid early two thousands, late nineties
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  basketball. So h that's cool. But what I like to see see is
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  Kawhi Leonard taking I understand that he only went twelve for twenty six. This
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  is a clear cut the guy that they're going to no matter what, and
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  that's Kawhi Leonard because he took if you take twenty six shots in this game,
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  he still scored thirty two and they were able to eke out the win.
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  I think it just shows that if he's healthy and he's on that this
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  team can do quite a bit, because, like we were saying earlier,
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  they do have some of the better perimeter defenders in the NBA, if not
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  the best primiter defenders in the NBA win on the court. The only thing
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  that sucks is they lose Russell Westbrook, which is a great boost to your
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  second team when you need him to come off the bench. Yeah, if
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  Kawhi Leonard can continue to stay healthy and Paul George can pick it up a
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  little bit, this team, this Clippers team, is going to be a
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  little bit scary, especially taking out the number one team in the West at
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  in a defensive battle, who is also the number one team defensively this season.
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  Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. It just shows that the
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  Clippers they have different ways to play basketball games. They don't have to score
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  over one hundred and fifty ten points a game and rely on the threes and
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  and just elite perimeter well, obviously this is elite perimeter defense, but as
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  far as elite offensive play. But one thing that I like from this game
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  is that James Harden, even though he did not I believe he didn't score
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  at all. I believe he had zero points, but he had ten assists
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  here. It just showed that he's actually willing to be the point guard here.
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  Compared to in Brooklyn or Philadelphia, He's he's really embraced his full role.
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  Not saying he didn't in there, but he's even to a better extent
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  because he has Paul George, he has Kawhi there and if he can do
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  that this, this is where there's gonna be open looks for James Harden in
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  this playoff run. And like you said, he's really gonna need to step
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  up because with Russell Westbrook out that that's a spark, that's a six man
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  right there. So the far as the point guard duties, it's really going
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  to be on his back. But as far as with the Temberwolves here,
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  a thing that I harped on last game is that or last week, is
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  that their late game offense and their half court offense is terrible. And in
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  the playoffs. That's all it is. It's just half court offense. Can
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  you get your best It's not necessarily as far as as far as okay,
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  if he makes a shot, if he makes a shot, whatever, whatever,
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  it's as far as can you get your best, best look and your
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  best play in the best situations or the most important situations. And the Timberwolves
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  they can't do that, So, Josh. As far as clutch offense,
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  the Timberwolves, they ranked twenty first in the league, so that's very disgusting.
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  And they had a fifteen point lead in this game. I don't know
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  if you knew that well. And this is they obviously blew a fifteen point
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  lead. Now they're tied in the league for the most fifteen fifteen point blown
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  leads up there with the Birds. Sorry, sorry right there, Hey number
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  one is something, baby, let's go. But yeah, it's just their
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  offense. It just becomes stagnant. And I know we harp on Jason Tatum.
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  I gotta I gotta keep the same energy. So I keep saying,
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  as far as Jason Tatum, he needs to get to the rack because he's
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  so physically and gifted as far as getting to the rack and Anthony Edwards is
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  exactly the same, but all he does is rely on jump shots. He's
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  a jump shooter and he shouldn't be doing that. He should be able to
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  get to the rack at ease. So it's just something can they figure this
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  out? Because if not one of those the eight seed, if they go
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  from the one, two, three, that looks most likely right there.
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  But if they fall in between there, it's gonna look really scary for them.
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  And as far as I'm trying, I'm trying to put this the right
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  way. So as far as with the Clippers, Paul George, he just
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  got back and they were kind of on a rough stretch for a little bit.
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  So do you think now after the All Star break, because the Clippers
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  they're always an up and down team even throughout this regular season. Here before
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  the All Star break, do you think that do you think that they're starting
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  to rise up now? I think so. I think with a veteran team
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  like this, you tend the risk guys to start the season so they don't
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  get burnt out, and then towards the season you start really upping up.
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  Why do I say it, start ramping up the return to play, start
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  ramping up the actual like in game practices. I mean, they're not practicing
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  their in game, real live games. But for players like they have,
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  all the veterans they have, these are players that are just winding up for
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  the playoffs, knowing that they're about to play their best basketball when it matters
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  the most. And I think that's what they're doing that where we see Paul
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  George and Kawhi and James Harden kind of accept their roles and then and execute
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  them to the best of their ability. And I know they would love it
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  more if they had Russell Westbrook, I bet, because they were doing probably
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  they were doing the same thing Russ Westbrook coming off the bench. They were
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  ramping him up. But as far as those three, that's enough to win
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  a lot of games. And so yeah, I think I think the Clippers
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  are going to start hitting their stride pretty well going into the playoffs. And
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  if they can, and we're always gonna say this with these three you go
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  with, especially the team Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, if they can stay
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  healthy, they're gonna be a problem for a lot of teams to match up
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  against. And then they just need some help. I think coming off the
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  bench Norman Powell really stepped up with that twenty four points off the bench in
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  this game. He was the second leading scorer for this team. If they
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  can get production like that for their bench, then they're gonna be a pretty
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  a pretty tough team to out. Yeah, I agree with you, but
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  let's move on to this next game right here. The next game we're gonna
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  have because the Denver Nuggets for the Los Angeles Lakers Lakers, where the Denver
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  Nuggets won one four to one fourteen. The main reason I wanted to talk
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  about this game is because the Lakers have lost eight straight games to the Denver
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  Nuggets. I don't know, like this is a team that we see the
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  Lakers with Lebron ad and we expect them to be there when it matters.
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  A lot of us do. But if they can't beat the team that matters
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  the most most seasons for the last couple of years, then are they really
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  a team that we should take serious? Because obviously the Nuggets do not fear
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  the Lakers up to this point, they have their number at always about it.
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  In this game, Michael Porter Junior step up with twenty five points and
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  ten rebounds, got along with four assists. He passed the rock a little
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  bit. Michael Porter never slung the rock rock. He swung the rock in
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  this game a little bit. Then you're gonna have Nikola Yogas doing Nicola Jokics
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  thing thirty five points with along with ten rebounds and seven assists. And then
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  Jamal Murray, even though he's up and down with injury, had a really
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  good game in this one with twenty four points. But the biggest part is
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  eleven assists and six rebounds. We don't see a lot of a lot of
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  that sometimes from Jamal Murray, but when he's a dishing the rock like this,
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  and especially to Michael Porter Junior when he gets hot, the Snuggets team's
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  super scary to play. Yeah, And it's so weird to me because before
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  this game, where they brought it up during this broadcast, is that the
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  Lakers are Before that game, they were eighteen and six in clutch time situations.
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  So it's not like they've been a bad clutch time team. It's just
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  against the Denver Nuggets every single time, they outplay them in the moments that
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  matter the most. And these well, majority of these games. I can't
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  go back to all eight games, but I can go back to the Western
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  Conference Finals in the first game this season, They've all been close. It's
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  just when there's four or three to four minutes left, Jamal Murray and Nikola
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  Jokics, they just outplay Lebron and AD. And I don't know what it
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  is Lebron and AD against any other team in crunch time, they take over.
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  It's just the Nuggets. The Nuggets. They are their kryptonite. And
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  this sounds crazy, but I have more confidence in the Lakers now after this,
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  after this game and after this stretch that they kind of had as far
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  as we're not going to talk about it, but as far as against the
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  Clippers and against the Wizards the next night, as far as they're able to
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  beat all of these other teams in clutch time situations, it's just the Nuggets.
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  And so the Nuggets are the three seeds. So even if the Lakers
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  they make it all the way into the play in, they'd be eight seed,
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  so they wouldn't have to go through them till the Western Conference Finals.
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  So it it's honestly a good thing that I for me because the Lakers there,
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  they're able to step up. It's not a situation where they don't at
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  least show up. They're at least showing up in the games. It's just
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  they just can't beat the Nuggets. That's what it is. It's just their
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  kryptonite, that's it. And one thing I wanted to ask you about this
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  is that so Cam Reddish he got left in the game over D'Angelo Russell,
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  and which D'Angel Russell he was cooking? So what did you feel about that?
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  Because Cam Reddish is quote unquote the better defender and d loo is a
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  better offensive player, but Cam reddis still got cooked in this game. So
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  what do you feel about that? Right there? I don't know what it
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  is. I think I alluded to it a couple of pods ago. Also
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  about D'Angelo Russell, ever since the Brooklyn Nets All Star year he had,
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  he has no one has trusted him. I don't know what it is,
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  or I don't know if he's snitching on Swaggy p. But everyone else,
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  every team that he's been on has gotten rid of him or they trying to
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  try reasons to keep him off the court. And I honestly, I think
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  the Cam Reddish experiment that people still hold on to because they what kind of
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  high school player he was, and then with the kind of player he was
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  at Duke, I think a lot of people still expect him to live up
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  to that hype and he just hasn't. While d'angela Russell, I understand,
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  defensively has never been that consistent, but offensively, besides the rough stretch he
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  had at the beginning and the end of last year, he's been a pretty
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  good twenty point guaranteed player in the NBA throughout his career. It's just I
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  just feel like some teams just I just feel like he's not he shouldn't be
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  in the first option, but he should. I don't know how to put
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  it. I just don't know what was wrong with D'Angel Russell that teams don't
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  trust him, and putting Cam Reddish who Also when you take D'Angel Russell all,
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  you're also losing points. And in games like this when the other team
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  is hot, you need players like that that can actually that can kind of
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  get their own shots sometimes, and Cameron just hasn't proven that in the NBA
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  that he can do that. M Yeah, yeah, I agree with you,
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  and and de'angel Russell, if I'm not mistaken, he had eighteen anywhere
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  or seventeen or twenty points in this game. If I'm not mistaken, I
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  can't think of it seventeen. So yeah, that that just makes no sense
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  to me. I feel like Darvin Ham sometimes he just tries to outthink himself,
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  tries to make the too good of a move if that makes He has
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  Spencer Dinwiddie on the court for twenty minutes and he only has scored three points.
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  Yeah, okay, yeah, it just just proves that point in Mike
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  Malone, he's one of the best coaches or oh is that it? Do
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  you think Mike Mike Malone's the best coach in the league right now? No?
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  You don't think so? Okay, now, okay, take out Greg,
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  take out Greg Popovich. Who's the best coach in the league? I
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  kind of I guess we'd have to say Mike Malone. Based off consistency,
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  you're and you're out, he's the second best coach in the NBA. So
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  yeah, I'll give that to him. You know, he just won a
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  championship. Cool one is awesome. Tell me when you do five? All
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  right, and we're back. We had major technical difficulties his his wife I
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  started as the my marks Mike started messing up. But we're jamming out to
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  Drake where I was mostly singing, So we're good. Don't worry. We
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  had some we had some elevated music gone. But yeah, last week talking
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  about Mike Malone as far as coaching, no disrespect to any Nuggets fans,
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  But all right, we're gonna just move on to this next next game right
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  here, in which it was the three games that I wanted to talk about.
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  First one, it was a Thunder versus the Lakers, and which the
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  Thunder they lost one oh four to one to sixteen after being up eighteen to
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  six. It was a back to back, so kind of tough. But
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  Josh, anything you wanted to take away from this one, we kind of
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  touched on it in the last In the last game, we were talking about
• 23:18
  with the Lakers and how certain teams that they can play better against. They
• 23:23
  played better against every team except for the Nuggets, and in this game it
• 23:26
  showed they played well against a very strong Thunder team. But what hurts the
• 23:30
  Thunder is inside is an inside presence most of the time, and Anthony Davis
• 23:37
  pretty much took advantage of that. And then what we were talking about D'Angel
• 23:41
  Russell being a scorer. Well, in this game he had twenty six points
• 23:44
  and I think that made the difference. Yeah, it definitely did. And
• 23:48
  this is where it's going to really depend for the Thunder as far as how
• 23:53
  far they could go into the playoffs, because it's not necessarily they're not a
• 23:57
  physical team, but as just teams are mostly bigger than them, and they're
• 24:02
  only seven footer is chet Holmgren. He's and he's a very thin player that
• 24:07
  he could get bodied pretty easily. Yeah, and he's a good shot blocker,
• 24:11
  but when people go into him is when he struggles. Yeah, I'm
• 24:18
  gonna just leave it at that. But two stats. I'm going over two
• 24:25
  stats, two stats that I want to bring up. So the Lakers had
• 24:30
  fifty five rebounds compared to the Thunder having thirty eight. And then the Thunder
• 24:34
  they had sixty two jump shots compared to the Lakers thirty seven. So that
• 24:38
  just shows the Lakers they're really a physical team against anybody besides the Denver Nuggets.
• 24:45
  It's just and you can't say, well, I know I brought up
• 24:49
  the back to back for the Thunder, but the Thunder off of back to
• 24:53
  back, say average over one hundred and twenty nine points a game, and
• 24:56
  they're the youngest team. They're one of the youngest teams in the league,
• 25:00
  the youngest starting lineup in the league. So there's not really any any excuses.
• 25:07
  So yeah, this just shows that the Lakers against any other team besides
• 25:11
  the Denver Nuggets, I guess that kind of carries on to what I was
• 25:15
  talking about earlier, is that is that the Lakers, they could be anybody
• 25:19
  else in the league except the Denver Nuggets. And that's that's a pretty damn
• 25:23
  good thing. And then this next game that I wanted to bring up,
• 25:27
  it was between the Clippers and the Bucks in which the Bucks that won one
• 25:32
  thirteen to one oh six, and Giannis he didn't even play and Dame he
• 25:36
  ended up dropping forty one points. Josh, anything you took away from this
• 25:41
  one, let's not also talk just about Dame. Bobby Porters off the bench
• 25:47
  scores twenty eight points. And the thing is that I have harped on about
• 25:52
  what would hurt the Clippers also is inside defense, because their perimeter defense,
• 25:59
  we said best one of the probably the best, if not top three,
• 26:03
  in the NBA. But when it comes to teams attacking them on, attacking
• 26:07
  them in the paint. That's where they struggled. And I think that's what
• 26:08
  Bobby Porters really took advantage of in this game when he was on the court,
• 26:12
  was really getting inside and creating a presence in there. And then I
• 26:18
  think it goes to show really good for the Bucks that even with out Giannis,
• 26:23
  they can rely upon someone like a Damian Lillard to take over when they
• 26:27
  need to when they need it to win, to win a meaningful basketball game.
• 26:33
  Yeah, and like you talked about what Bobby port is, So from
• 26:37
  when the Clippers they led seventy four to fifty nine to thirty seconds left,
• 26:42
  Damian Little and Bobby port Is by themselves outscored the Clippers thirty thirty two to
• 26:48
  twenty six. And Kawhi he was one for nine from that time and the
• 26:53
  Clippers they missed twelve threes in a row, so they just went I And
• 27:02
  one thing that I want to harp on from this game right here is that
• 27:06
  the Bucks defense. How how I kept bringing up as far as their biggest
• 27:11
  thing is going to be perimeter defense. Can they actually guard on the outside,
• 27:15
  and they've been stepping up to the challenge. Damian Lillard, he's more
• 27:18
  willing now, Patrick Beverley, he's always at scrappy, hard nos defender,
• 27:23
  and it's finally showing. And for about fifteen games that Doc Rivers has been
• 27:30
  there, they've been the ninth best defense in the league. And that's not
• 27:33
  a small sample size. It's about a quarter of the season that's or yeah,
• 27:40
  it's about a quarter of the season that's been played. So it's shown
• 27:44
  that Doc Rivers being there defensively helps. And another thing is I know I
• 27:52
  said at first what two weeks ago as far as the Clippers. As far
• 27:55
  as the Clippers, they have everything to make the championship. But this could
• 28:00
  be another reason why you say you don't trust the Clippers. It's because situations
• 28:04
  like this where they have the lead, and this has been their biggest downfall
• 28:10
  on years previous where they have leads in the playoffs, besides last year against
• 28:14
  Phoenix when they were overmatched. But they have leads and then their offense just
• 28:18
  goes stagnant. That's that's all it really is. But even to then,
• 28:25
  I think what hurts them also is the bench production. Like without that spark
• 28:30
  of Russell Westbrook, you're really getting nothing unless Norman Norman Powell can step up
• 28:34
  like he did in the previous game that we talked about, but seven,
• 28:41
  five, four, and six points all from each player, that this is
• 28:44
  not going to get done. You need someone that's gonna come off the bench
• 28:47
  and get into the double digit scoring that can that can keep the team afloat
• 28:49
  because I understand that they clutch wise, they got outscored, but it's a
• 28:56
  forty eight minute basketball game, and so if the bench player can step up
• 29:00
  even a little bit throughout this time, then then it would help this team
• 29:03
  out tremendously because no more pal going to for eight that that that and I
• 29:10
  think he may be their best bench player right now. It's not going to
• 29:14
  help them out. And he only scored six points in thirty four minutes.
• 29:18
  Yeah, that's gonna be the biggest thing. And I'm I don't know about
• 29:22
  you, but as far as PJ. Tucker, I'm surprised he's not being
• 29:26
  used at all. Really well, even Mason Plumbley. I think it's weird
• 29:30
  that Mason Plumbley is not even getting used because I understand he's not a great
• 29:33
  defender, but he can get rebounds and he's a and he's a usable scorer
• 29:37
  in the paint, I believe, especially watching him when he was playing for
• 29:41
  Charlotte, I think he was pretty good with the Charlotte Hornets. Don't understand
• 29:44
  why they're not utilizing him more when it comes off the bench production. Well,
• 29:48
  that's for them to figure out. And let's go ahead and move on
• 29:52
  to this next game right here, and which is one of the last games
• 29:56
  that we want to talk about. It was a Cleveland Cloud cavil Leers versus
• 30:00
  the Boston Celtics in which this the Celtics. They had a big lead to
• 30:04
  twenty two points to be exact, and the man Dean Wade Dean Wade if
• 30:11
  you don't know that name, now he's a household name. He scores twenty
• 30:15
  points in the fourth quarter and they come back and win one oh five to
• 30:19
  one oh four. Josh, do you think this is this show's more good
• 30:26
  about the Calves or more bad about the Celtics. More good about the Caves
• 30:32
  because Donovan Mitchell did not play in this game and they were still able to
• 30:34
  win this basketball game against the Boston Celtics. So you're playing the best team
• 30:41
  arguably in the NBA with the Boston Celtics record wise, they are, and
• 30:45
  you beat them without your top scorer and you have this production coming off the
• 30:49
  bench from Dean Wade and especially in the fourth quarter and clutch time, in
• 30:53
  a crunch time moment, I think that that has to do nothing would improve
• 30:57
  your confidence confidence as the Cleveland Layers. The only thing that sucks is they
• 31:00
  did lose Evan Mobley as of right now. So yeah, that's gonna be
• 31:06
  something to monitor because that's a big inside presence. He's good offensively, and
• 31:11
  yeah, that's really they're gonna mess out on two big things that they need.
• 31:15
  And as far as the Boston Celtics side, they're usually a pretty solid
• 31:21
  team all the way around. But in this game, the bench just did
• 31:23
  not match I believe the starters production. And then Derek White only scoring three
• 31:27
  points in this game in thirty five minutes, just not help this team out.
• 31:30
  Because he's really that I'm not gonna say, when Jason Tatum and Jalen
• 31:37
  Brown is out, is not really scoring the ball. And Derek White's kind
• 31:41
  of running with that second team as the point guard, they need him to
• 31:44
  really step up quite a bit. And going only scoring three points in thirty
• 31:48
  five minutes. It does not help out, especially when you lose by one
• 31:52
  that could have been a difference. Yeah, and I know you said it's
• 31:56
  about the Cavs right here, but I'm gonna actually go on the opposite sit
• 32:00
  in right here. As far as with the Celtics, especially after, it
• 32:05
  doesn't seem as if it would be an emotional win versus the Warriors, but
• 32:07
  I believe it is in which the Warriors, in which they blew them out
• 32:14
  the water, so they're just rising high and then next thing you know,
• 32:19
  they go up against the Cavs where it's like, all right, Donovan Mitchell's
• 32:22
  not there, we should be able to win this game. We've won eleven
• 32:24
  games in a row. And they got off to a hot start. They
• 32:29
  were up twenty two points. They were up twenty two points with nine minutes
• 32:31
  remaining, so they should have sealed the deal here, but they didn't.
• 32:36
  And kind of like with the Timberwolves, it's not as bad. But as
• 32:39
  far as with their offense laid in the game, can you get an easy
• 32:44
  basket? And through this eleven game win streak, they were getting those easy
• 32:47
  baskets. It's just can they consistently do it and you have to consistently do
• 32:52
  it in order to win a championship, and there's been positive strides, just
• 33:00
  things like this where it just makes you just second guess about the Celtics word
• 33:05
  take. Should we really trust the Celtics here? Should we really? Or
• 33:09
  is just this just the same old team with the same or having the best
• 33:14
  record in the league and end up underperforming in the playoffs. So yeah,
• 33:21
  and is there anything else or no? We have our honorable mention games here,
• 33:24
  So did you want to bring up yours first here? Yeah? I
• 33:35
  understand that we're supposed to be a non bias basketball sports podcast, but that's
• 33:38
  just not who we are with bands first team games. So we're gonna take
• 33:40
  a minute to talk about our teams for a second. I won't go too
• 33:45
  deep into the Pacers game, I understand, guys, I won't do it,
• 33:49
  but I will talk about this Thunder and Spurs game because Chet is basically
• 33:53
  a Victorium Migyama's bitch every time they play. I'm just gonna say that.
• 33:58
  But that's besides the point. That's really all I wanted to say. You
• 34:00
  know, Whomy just shows up game in game out does his job. If
• 34:05
  we can get pieces around him. You know, it's gonna be pretty scary.
• 34:07
  Uh. He had twenty eight points, seven assists, five blocks,
• 34:13
  ten rebounds, thirteen rebounds, and he when Chet thought he could get a
• 34:17
  little a little shaky, a little dancy on that boy, Wimby, Wimby
• 34:22
  just put his hands up to the heavens, grabbed that basketball and said,
• 34:23
  fuck out of here, bitch asz dude. You know. So, Yeah,
• 34:28
  that's really all I wanted to say. I understand we chat may never
• 34:30
  come on this podcast, but I don't care. I really don't care.
• 34:35
  So, you know, Victor Wimben Yama Dog And then I just think it
• 34:40
  shows pretty good what this team can be as far as the San Antonio Spurs,
• 34:45
  because in this game, we didn't turn over the basketball that much,
• 34:47
  and then Devin Facel stepped up this seam. This team is the youngest team
• 34:52
  in the NBA, the San Antonio Spurs, and things like this show put
• 34:57
  the potential they have. They just have to be able to put it on
• 34:58
  a night a night in night out bases. And one of the biggest things
• 35:01
  they struggle with his turnovers and they really limited that in this game. Yeah,
• 35:07
  and I really like what Devin Vassell did in this game. He actually
• 35:09
  looked like a viable number two option here. And do you think do you
• 35:15
  think that's something that they could trust down down the road here or not down
• 35:20
  the roads, but into next season. I think it is something they can
• 35:23
  trust because when I watched Devin Vessell play, he's if you look at the
• 35:28
  stats, he's one of the most efficient players in the NBA when it comes
• 35:30
  to shooting hit the It's really hard for put teams for the finish to block
• 35:35
  his shot because of the art how high he shoots the ball in the air,
• 35:38
  and he's a really good ISO player. It's just sometimes I feel like
• 35:43
  he takes too much of a step back when other players are on the court.
• 35:45
  And I really thinking when he really established himself as like the scorer when
• 35:50
  Wimby's off the corey or even when Wimby's on the court and he's hot,
• 35:53
  Devin Vessel is a pretty good tough player to stop. And I think if
• 35:57
  he can do that consistently going into next season, it's going to be pretty
• 36:00
  good for the Spurs. It's even as a going for the Spurs as a
• 36:04
  number two option or even maybe a three yeah, okay, so kind of
• 36:09
  off off topic here, but who's who's the number Who's the number one guy
• 36:15
  you'd want to get in the offseason. As far as for the Spurs,
• 36:19
  would it would you want to put a wing defender right by Wimby or would
• 36:23
  you want to put a point guard next to Wimby? I think we do
• 36:30
  need a I love Trey Jones honestly, Okay, I don't hate Trey Jones
• 36:37
  as a main point guard. And honestly, even in this game, he
• 36:40
  has seventeen eight a, seventeen eight assists, and six rebounds. That's pretty
• 36:45
  good production from your starting point guard whose role is to only play point guard.
• 36:49
  But the thing that's limits Tray Jones is he's limited as a scorer due
• 36:52
  to his size. He's not a very big player, a very big guy,
• 36:55
  so he it's hard for him to get to his spots consistently. And
• 37:00
  I think that's where we struggle a lot, especially when we had Dejonte.
• 37:02
  Who de Jonte is is I'm not gonna say a super crazy tall dude,
• 37:07
  but he's around the six to four area, longer arm, so he can
• 37:10
  really create separation with his body. And I think we really need that,
• 37:15
  But in my honest opinion, I think what would be more important would be
• 37:21
  another interior defender, because once Winby comes off the court, we are screwed,
• 37:25
  Like we are absolutely cooked. Zach Collins, I don't know what happened
• 37:30
  to him, just he started the season off good and then like he just
• 37:32
  decided to stop playing basketball for most of this And I also think we have
• 37:37
  a guy in Dominic Barlow who they keep put sitting down to the G league,
• 37:39
  and every time he's on the court with us in real NBA action,
• 37:42
  he's actually really productive a lot more than Zach Collins in my opinion. But
• 37:47
  yeah, I think I'd rather have an interior defender to also help win be
• 37:51
  out defensively. That's that's a different approach. Most people now always go with
• 37:57
  the point guard or Trey Young or something like that, but it was because
• 38:00
  those people don't watch the actual Spurs night in the night out. I'm okay
• 38:05
  with Trey Young and Devin Vesel handling the rock, but I am annoyed when
• 38:08
  when he comes off the court and Joel Embiid attacks and Alfred Sangun attack,
• 38:13
  are freaking interior defense and score thirty points or in Joel E. Bead's case,
• 38:20
  saying like fifty eight something points on us. You know, so I'd
• 38:25
  rather have an interior defender whoa that can shoot threes or mid range? That
• 38:34
  that's very who's the center? Realistically, that's not many you're you're talking.
• 38:43
  I would want a Miles Turner next to Victor wimbin Yama in my opinion,
• 38:49
  have or have Womby playing the four. Oh that that would be nice right
• 38:52
  there. No, but all right, as far as with my team here,
• 38:58
  the Chicago Bulls. First off, I want to say, coming back
• 39:02
  from twenty two points, if this is the best, this is the highlight
• 39:07
  of my Chicago Bulls season. Here, my Chicago Bulls fan year, it's
• 39:14
  Kobe White dropping his career high thirty seven points, seven assists, five rebounds,
• 39:19
  Debo doing Deebo things, thirty three points and then man shout out to
• 39:22
  him, man Io Desumu. This has been one of my one of those
• 39:28
  role players that I like, that's just that's just real gritty, real tough,
• 39:32
  doesn't really score the basketball real easy. But it looks like he's finally
• 39:36
  starting to develop his game. And I'm gonna stick with this. I'm gonna
• 39:42
  I'm gonna ride this way for probably like the next two weeks or so,
• 39:45
  so after the Kings and then this Jazz game right here, man, it's
• 39:49
  like I'm just walking on water right now. But as far as with this
• 39:53
  team where they should go, honestly, just rebuild this damn team here,
• 40:00
  I'm ready for it officially. I'm ready for the I'm ready for the rebuild.
• 40:04
  Just Deebo he's on his last year, Zach Lavine, just get rid
• 40:07
  of him. And Patrick Williams he's out for a while. So just let
• 40:12
  Kobe White just for this next year or so, just give him the full
• 40:15
  keys to the offense, because he actually looks like I wouldn't say all star,
• 40:21
  but he's on that brink, if that makes sense. He reminds me
• 40:23
  of what like Tyree Tyree s MAXI was last year, if that makes sense.
• 40:30
  So maybe he could end up being an All Star and we get trade
• 40:35
  value or something for him. But yeah, no, just just shout out
• 40:38
  to the bulls man, first time I get to say that on the podcast.
• 40:43
  Shout out to the bulls. Heck, yeah, but DeMar DeRos and
• 40:50
  ghostpurs go. But anything else you want to bring up before we go on
• 40:54
  to our next topic. No, because we might cover it later. So
• 41:01
  okay, let's keep moving. Yeah, all right, well you know what
• 41:07
  time it is. We always do this every single or probably for the last
• 41:12
  five six weeks or so, going back to the NFL A fantasy draft.
• 41:16
  And the criteria for this is players under thirty. That's that's the criteria for
• 41:23
  it. So no Lebron, no Steph, no KD no, none of
• 41:30
  those players. It's players under thirty, players that are going to be in
• 41:32
  the NBA for a while. So all right, Josh heads or tells heads?
• 41:43
  Okay, sirih flip a coin. It's tells shoes who you taking?
• 41:52
  Who you taking? Number one? Overall, give me a second, give
• 41:54
  me a second, man, Okay, I didn't. Okay, So I
• 42:00
  know great options out here. There is a lot of great options. Gary
• 42:06
  Harris, Kenrich Williams, Julius Randall, Ryan Arciacano, a bunch of good
• 42:14
  options. But let me let me write down. Let me write down all
• 42:20
  of this first. I forgot to write it down. Bro. Just take
• 42:23
  Kobe Waite and keep it moving, bro, I should. And then eight
• 42:28
  man rotation. I don't think I mentioned that, but eight man rotation.
• 42:31
  Deep. Okay, we could go we could go into bad rotation. We
• 42:38
  could go bad rotation. I'm telling you, I try. I try to
• 42:45
  have this this nice, clean mind. But this guy over here to my
• 42:52
  right, or if you're not listen, or if you're not watching this,
• 42:57
  this other guy talking always makes dirty jokes and I can't. I don't even
• 43:01
  do it intentionally. You're the one that, just like your mind is infested
• 43:06
  with this generation lustful thoughts. And okay, okay, let's get down to
• 43:14
  business here. I think I'm gonna have to do this. Give me,
• 43:17
  give me the color. Yokic at the five. I like it. I
• 43:24
  like it. Okay, I'm gonna go with Luca. Luca, where are
• 43:30
  you gonna put him at your point? The one? Okay? Okay,
• 43:38
  you're putting Yogage at the five? Correct? Yeah, I'm putting Yokic at
• 43:42
  the five. Okay. Then after that, I think I'm gonna have to
• 43:50
  I'm I'm gonna go Yiannis here nice or the four or the three? I'm
• 43:54
  gonna put him. I'm gonna put him at my four, all right,
• 44:00
  I'm gonna go Joel Embiid at my four. No, put him at my
• 44:07
  five at your five. Okay, yeah, okay, I need somebody that
• 44:14
  can guard Luca and can give buckets. So no, give me s g
• 44:21
  A here. I'm not gonna say you can guard him, but it's gonna
• 44:24
  be a good battle. Yeah okay, yeah, no, I'm not saying
• 44:29
  he's gonna all right him up. But now for my four. Everyone knew
• 44:31
  where this was going. Give me Victor woman Yama's Oh my gosh, you
• 44:37
  really did do it. I didn't think you're gonna do it. Boy,
• 44:42
  he's the best player in the NBA. Don't come at me, Cuh,
• 44:46
  I'm gonna be able to follow me. I knew he was gonna follow me.
• 44:51
  I'm torn right now. Chamezi Metsu or Matis stiebele mm tough choice.
• 44:57
  Is a defender, Bro, he's a defender. Don't say on the defense?
• 45:00
  Are you know you know what? Give me? Give me Jason Tatum
• 45:06
  here on my three? Good ship? Good ship? No, Bro,
• 45:12
  you're getting cooked, You're getting cooked. I'm gonna put his freaking I'm gonna
• 45:16
  put his his little kryptonite. Bro, I'm putting Scotty Barnes at the three
• 45:21
  cut. Really, Stardi Barnes, if you having Jason Tatum's number. Bro,
• 45:25
  Scottie Barnes is on. I'm gonna say it's on that ass every time
• 45:29
  they play bro. See you see like if you really watch ball, Scotti
• 45:37
  bars be taking it to Jason Tatum. Bro, maybe guard don't even let
• 45:42
  him score. Bro. All right, for my two right here, I
• 45:51
  feel like this is obvious. Give me Devin Booker here. Fuck dang,
• 45:55
  give me Bro. You're getting I thought he was slipped. Huh, you're
• 46:00
  getting cooked. Bro. It's all right. I'll put someone to stop that.
• 46:04
  I'll put Jalen Brown right there at my two bros getting cooked. To
• 46:07
  quit playing with me, man, quit playing with me. Okay, this
• 46:15
  this is where the real draft starts right here, this is where obviously the
• 46:19
  high profile names. Well, they're still gonna be high profile. Let me
• 46:22
  mark off where we're at my bad Yeah, I know we're and then you
• 46:29
  yeah, starting five? Okay, you got it? Yeah, Okay,
• 46:37
  So I'm thinking about right here. Give me give me Donovan Mitchell right here
• 46:47
  for my six man. That's a good pick. That's a good pick.
• 46:52
  It's gonna put Spider as my six man. H I need I need to
• 47:07
  spark off the bench. Give me Anthony Edwards is my sixth man. That's
• 47:10
  a nice pick. I was deciding between him and Anthony Edwards. Okay,
• 47:20
  okay, okay, okay, I need that dog coming off my bench.
• 47:24
  Wait Jojjah bull dog man. Imagine if you if you would have played football,
• 47:35
  that that would have been totally different. Well he said he could have
• 47:37
  played football. Well, pleas need a quarterback, right he was a quarterback?
• 47:42
  Yeah, I think so. Okay, I'm looking right now. Shout
• 47:50
  out to Basketball Reference, even though they won't ever probably hear this for a
• 47:53
  little bit, but you know what, give me, give me Jalen Brunson.
• 47:58
  I know it's a smaller backcourt, but yeah, gimme Jaylen Bronson could
• 48:00
  pick. I think I'm gonna keep like off the bench, and it's gonna
• 48:10
  be my tube, my one coming off the bench. Yeah, be Tyre's
• 48:14
  Halliburton Bro. It's gonna be Tyrese Bro. That's a nice pick. I
• 48:17
  completely forgot about Tyrese so for right here, I just I'm gonna just have
• 48:30
  somebody who's just a defender and who could just shoot threes here. Whoa he
• 48:37
  He's had spurts where he's scored forty point games. Give me Miles Bridges here,
• 48:45
  Miles Bridges. Oh wait, Michel Bridges. No, no, no,
• 48:49
  Michael Bridge. Michel like I knew you, like I knew you hated
• 48:52
  women. I knew you hated women. Okay, well, don't give me
• 48:57
  canceled out manh McHale breright. So michalere Brooklyn nets to be going to take
• 49:07
  Carl Anthony Towns and put him on my bench. That's a nice pick right
• 49:15
  there. Okay, So I basically got my one through three on the bench.
• 49:21
  I'm looking for my big men here, and you know what I think.
• 49:32
  I think I'm gonna just have to do it just based off of just
• 49:36
  pure talent. Give me, give me Zion here, Zion Williamson. Nice.
• 49:42
  Nice, And then I think I know who my last pick is gonna
• 49:46
  be here. I'm pretty no. I know I need a defender off the
• 49:52
  bench to guarantee lockdowns. So I'm gonna take Jaron Jackson Junior and put him
• 49:57
  at my nine, my nine spot. That's nice, just so I can
• 50:00
  have that defender. Okay. So I'm looking for a center here. I'm
• 50:10
  I'm looking for a center, somebody who's just just do it all type of
• 50:15
  guy, somebody who could just clamp up and good thing. I look through
• 50:21
  this part, give me bam out of bio. Here from my final spinte
• 50:24
  nice, My guy, my last guy coming off the bench at my tent
• 50:30
  spot is gonna do nothing but score buckets. And that's his only job on
• 50:34
  this team is to score buckets at will. It's gonna be Cam Thomas.
• 50:38
  Cam Thomas is gonna come on my tenth spot and all I need is a
• 50:42
  bucket. It's all I need is a bucket. And we know Cam Thomas
• 50:45
  is gonna get a bucket when he wants a bucket, and he's gonna he's
• 50:49
  gonna stop, look around, shrug your shoulders, just run back to defense
• 50:54
  like it don't matter. Cam Thomas is my It's like it's like when I
• 50:59
  need that big shot and they call big shot Rob, they called Steve Kerr,
• 51:04
  they call Derek Fisher, they call all the all the all the role
• 51:09
  players. That one job was hit, that hit that shot. I'm calling
• 51:13
  Cam Thomas on tap court just for that one shot. All right, we're
• 51:20
  gonna go ahead and list our teams here. So for my team, for
• 51:23
  the winning team right here, we have obviously s G A at the one.
• 51:30
  We have Devin Booker at the two, Jason Tatum at the three.
• 51:32
  You have let me change my last Let me change my last pick. Let
• 51:37
  me change my last pick. I was hoping you would have noticed, but
• 51:39
  all right, go ahead and change it. Give me Jamal Murray. Okay,
• 51:47
  see, I thought you're gonna take him or Darin n. Camp Thomas
• 51:53
  was like the emotional pick. But then I looked at my list, like,
• 51:57
  oh ship, Jamal Murray is still there. Honestly, I should have
• 52:00
  just paired them up because that's the one too. But yeah, I know,
• 52:02
  all right, as she had the one, Devin Booker at the two,
• 52:06
  Jason Tatum at the three, Giannis at the four, Jokic at the
• 52:09
  five, and then for your my bench is Jalen Brunson, Donovan Mitchell,
• 52:14
  McHale, Bridges, Zion Williamson and bam Adebayo. That sounds like, akay,
• 52:19
  that's winning team, all right. For my team, my team knows
• 52:22
  their roles. They play defense and they get the job done. My one,
• 52:29
  Luca, no way you can start with they play defense. I have
• 52:34
  one guy on this team that can't play defense. I have one guy on
• 52:37
  this team that can't play defense. Okay, I'm sorry, you just get
• 52:42
  you just get say this team plays bench is destroying your bench. Hell,
• 52:49
  okay, go ahead and listen your team, Go ahead, the listener team
• 52:52
  Luca, Jalen Brown, Scottie Barnes, Victor Winbin Yamas, Joel Embiid,
• 52:59
  Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Halliburton, Karl Anthony Towns, Jaron Jackson Junior, and
• 53:05
  Jamal Murray. Nah, Bro, you're getting rocked, bro. My team
• 53:10
  is easily Okay. Who stopped fucking Wimby Bro? Wimby Bro? Last time?
• 53:19
  They every time, the last two times they played. I think Jokic
• 53:22
  has only scored like six points on Wimby Bro. Okay, If Wimby is
• 53:28
  guarding Jokic, who's stopping Jannis Embiid Joel Embiid? Bro? All right,
• 53:36
  all right, this is a good Those are good matchups, bro. And
• 53:37
  you know, no, those are good matchups right there. That's why I
• 53:40
  had to get That's why I had to get Embiid on my team so he
• 53:44
  didn't have to play against Victor Wimben Yama. I knew what I was doing.
• 53:49
  No, I feel like Jogiciannis. That's no, that's o P and
• 53:53
  then okay, okay, say if Scottie Barnes, he does. We've seen
• 53:58
  Jannis and we've seen Giannis and we play against each other, and Wimby,
• 54:01
  I don't know, kind of kind of shut him down down low. I
• 54:07
  don't know. I'll have to look up that game right there? How many
• 54:09
  points he ends up scoring. I know that doesn't tell all the story.
• 54:13
  But no, but okay, okay, Luca, I'll give you Booker over
• 54:17
  Brown. I'll give you Booker over Brown, but Brown, Booker isn't guarding
• 54:22
  Jalen Brown. I mean, yeah, okay, it's like a yeah,
• 54:27
  it's a it's a yeah. That's a wash. That's a wash pairing.
• 54:30
  But Luca and Sga I get Ka don't play defense. But as point as
• 54:35
  he lets up, he's gonna make up for it. Yeah, you know
• 54:38
  you're right about that. No, it's just okay, I feel like the
• 54:43
  separation here is a bench. That's what I think it is for me,
• 54:45
  dude, My bench is better than yours. Bro, Nah ain't no way.
• 54:50
  Tyree's facilitating and scoring threes, Bro and being a defender. Tyrese haliburns
• 54:57
  like like the res ster of the second unit. And then Anthony Dog.
• 55:04
  Yeah have you seen Tyre's Halliburn play this year? Half? Who has a
• 55:07
  better record? That's who tyrusliber is a dog? BRO? And Anthony Edwards.
• 55:16
  Bro, who's guarding Anthony Edwards on the bench. Bro, who's guarding
• 55:19
  Anthony Edwards? Michael Bridges mickil Bridges is not guarding Anthony Edwards. Bro.
• 55:24
  And then Jamal Murray just being the sniper that he is. I don't even
• 55:28
  need Jamal Murray to do anything. I just seen him run around and catch
• 55:30
  and shoot Bro. That's all I need from Jamal Murray. No, I'm
• 55:34
  telling you just that. I feel like mine's just don't let us into the
• 55:37
  playoffs. Don't let us get into the playoffs. So Jamal Murray, I'm
• 55:40
  starting him, Okay, Okay, Then Conny Towns Loki might be the best
• 55:51
  player on both our benches. No, no, yeah, I don't know
• 56:00
  about you better, I said, I don't know. I'm talking about like,
• 56:07
  oh, you're right, Tyre is better than both of all those guys.
• 56:12
  Okay, I'll say this, you have the better you have the better
• 56:15
  bench, which slightly, but I feel like the starting lineup that's clear.
• 56:22
  That's where it clears yeah me, No, No, my team is better,
• 56:30
  bro, my off I have no weakness as far as on my starting
• 56:35
  lineup offense, defense, no matter what. If you have a weakness,
• 56:40
  yes, you're Luca, Luca. He cannot guard for ship. I don't
• 56:45
  trust Scottie Barnes locking down JT. So those are your perimeters. I've seen
• 56:52
  it, all right, Well, well we'll let everybody else decide, because
• 56:58
  I don't know. I feel like this is clear, but Winby versus embiid
• 57:01
  versus Giannis and Jokis would go crazy in no life, Bro, No,
• 57:05
  that would man, I would. I'd rather them do one on ones in
• 57:10
  the All Star I know that's off topic, but one on ones are an
• 57:13
  All Star games. Imagine Wimby against against it. Well, I don't know,
• 57:17
  Yanni's bless you, bless you. I don't feel like Giannis and kids
• 57:22
  they're not They're not much one on one players compared to Wimby. He's a
• 57:28
  one on one player if that, yeah, I don't know. But all
• 57:36
  right, let's let's go ahead and move on with easily the best defender on
• 57:39
  both on all our team. Mmmm over Shay. I'm not saying he's not
• 57:51
  up there. But well, I think Shae couldn't guard what Winmby could guard,
• 58:00
  what Windy could guard. Is shake guard fair? That that makes sense?
• 58:04
  Yeah, I say Shae couer guard about one through three, but that's
• 58:07
  only really that's really due to Wimby's just sized, like yeah, like he
• 58:12
  he's just a long defender. No, but yeah, let's go. Let's
• 58:17
  go to move on to this next topic right here, which it kind of
• 58:22
  goes into what we're we're talking about just a while ago, in which it's
• 58:27
  the top ten player. We kind of mentioned it last week, but as
• 58:30
  far as the top ten players in the league right now, we're not talking
• 58:34
  about as far as accolades or nothing, just as far as on their play
• 58:39
  this year. The top ten players in the league. And I think number
• 58:44
  one here it's consensus, So I'll go ahead and let you say number one
• 58:50
  here. Number one for me is going to be Luka Doncics. I understand
• 58:55
  his team is eight seed, thirty four and twenty eight, but what Luca
• 58:59
  is doing is just insane. This year. If they even somehow, I
• 59:02
  think honestly he might be the MVP, but won't win it, but he's
• 59:07
  gonna have He's averaging thirty four point six points per game, which is number
• 59:09
  one in the NBA, almost ten assists per game, and eight point two
• 59:14
  rebounds along with one point four Still, so when they say he can't guard,
• 59:15
  at least he's getting the ball at least one point four times a game.
• 59:20
  So you know, I think he's clearly the number one player in my
• 59:23
  opinion this season, and he's only he's just going crazier. He's scored seventy
• 59:28
  three this season, Like, come on, yeah, I don't disagree with
• 59:32
  that. And then for number two right here, I'm gonna have to put
• 59:37
  Sga just the way Sga he's been playing this entire year. Thirty one points,
• 59:42
  five and a half rebounds, six and a half assists, shooting fifty
• 59:45
  five percent from the field. This dude, he has no real weakness to
• 59:49
  his game. It used to be several years ago as far as his three
• 59:52
  point shot, but now he's knocking his threes down, and just the other
• 59:55
  day against the Suns he blocked Kevin Durant shot. It just shows he can
• 1:00:00
  guard. He can guard one through three, like I said, and still
• 1:00:04
  drop crazy amount of points on you every single time. It's almost a given
• 1:00:08
  now that he's going to drop thirty thirty points. There's a stat that I
• 1:00:13
  saw as far as what SGA he's doing. There's only been three players in
• 1:00:19
  NBA history to have thirty points a game, five assists, five rebounds,
• 1:00:24
  two stills a game on fifty percent shooting, and it's SGA this season.
• 1:00:30
  The other two people that have done it is twenty sixteen Stephen Curry, who
• 1:00:34
  is unanimous MVP, and then Michael Jordan. If you're in that company right
• 1:00:39
  there, then you're definitely a top two player in the league. So Josh,
• 1:00:45
  who's number two? For you? Honestly, this top three for me
• 1:00:51
  is interchangeable. There's not really a clear top three to me, but I'm
• 1:00:54
  gonna have to, I guess disagree, but not disagree number two on putting.
• 1:01:00
  I just think the consistency night in and night out for him, year
• 1:01:02
  in and year out. I understand it's not a year in year out ranking,
• 1:01:06
  but he just continues to do the same shit he always does. Twenty
• 1:01:09
  five points, twelve point three bounds, nine point two assists, along with
• 1:01:14
  third in the West, leading his team, and especially this goes to with
• 1:01:16
  Jamal Murray missing time and his team's being a little bit off, maybe a
• 1:01:20
  little fatigue, He's still stepping up night in and night out, and I
• 1:01:23
  it's crazy that this is that I guess with this not his ceiling, it
• 1:01:28
  would be his like floor. This is his floor year and in, year
• 1:01:30
  out. And if this is his floor, this is why he's arguably the
• 1:01:32
  best player in the NBA. Yeah, it's again, it's hard to disagree
• 1:01:37
  as far as with this top three because I have Lukash Jokic and then you
• 1:01:44
  have Shaye third, I believe if I'm correct, right, Yeah, I
• 1:01:49
  have SGA three a lot of for the same reasons you have. I just
• 1:01:52
  think his defense is really propelling him up my list quite a bit, especially
• 1:01:57
  that what was it he is He's guaranteed thirty points every single game, it
• 1:02:01
  seems like, and he's just doing great things, especially with the team he
• 1:02:06
  has around him. He's really leading those young group of guys to places that
• 1:02:10
  none a lot of us didn't think they would be able to make, and
• 1:02:13
  he's mainly the sole reason for it. Yeah, exactly. And again I'm
• 1:02:17
  not going to get too much as far as into Jokic, but it looks
• 1:02:21
  like Jokic he's going to win the MVP this year. He's my third best
• 1:02:24
  player in the league right now. Just offensively, he's ad it all type
• 1:02:30
  of guy. There's talk about somebody with no real weakness in their offense.
• 1:02:34
  That's Nicola Jokic. But as far as for four here, this is where
• 1:02:37
  we might start disagreeing. I have Gianni Sanetokumpo, and I know this may
• 1:02:44
  not be his MVP year or something like that, but this is the most
• 1:02:49
  offensive output he's put throughout his entire career. Thirty almost thirty one points a
• 1:02:53
  game, eleven rebounds, six assists, and then sixty two percent from the
• 1:02:58
  field. And he started to develop It's not something that could be like relied
• 1:03:04
  upon like SGA or Devin Booker, but somewhat of a mid range pull up
• 1:03:07
  shot. And that makes it scary because now you can't just just go up
• 1:03:12
  in the lane and just pray that you get a charge call. Now Gianni's
• 1:03:15
  he's starting to expand his game even more, and it's shown how so much
• 1:03:20
  he's gone offensively and defensively. Why do you know the challenge he presents as
• 1:03:23
  far as interior defense. That's why the Bucks are always year in and year
• 1:03:29
  out, one of the best defenses in the league, and that's why he's
• 1:03:31
  number four for me. Who's your fourth guy, Johannis? Also, uh,
• 1:03:37
  every reason you said the scoring this year, people may not be paying
• 1:03:43
  as much attention, but we are. And he's probably his best offensive season
• 1:03:45
  he's ever had in his career. And that's a little scary because he's only
• 1:03:49
  getting better as he's getting older. And he's not even that old, so
• 1:03:52
  it's it's pretty cool to see. He's pretty cool to see Janni's taking steps
• 1:03:57
  in his game and leading this Bucks team even when a lot of people were
• 1:03:59
  doubting little bit to start the season, but now they're Hey, they're second
• 1:04:01
  in the East now forty one and twenty one. Yeah, and so who's
• 1:04:05
  your who's your fifth player? I'm gonna go with Spider Mitchell in this one.
• 1:04:11
  I think he's beating the Cavs to a pretty good a pretty good,
• 1:04:14
  pretty good season so far. They're third in the West. They're gonna need
• 1:04:17
  a third in the East. They're gonna need him to step up a little
• 1:04:19
  bit more. Losing Evan Mobley and he and they're gonna stay a little bit
• 1:04:23
  more healthier. But he has he's averaging twenty eight points, five point four
• 1:04:27
  rebounds per game, and six point two assist, which is which is pretty
• 1:04:32
  good for Spider. The way that he plays. He he likes to throw
• 1:04:35
  up a lot of shots, but when he's making, when he's knocking them
• 1:04:38
  down, he's helping this Cavs team out tremendously. Yeah, so number five,
• 1:04:43
  I'm gonna have to disagree with you right here. I'm gonna have to
• 1:04:45
  go with Steph Curry and just Steph Curry. I know they may not have
• 1:04:49
  as many wins, and just what he's doing twenty seven points a game,
• 1:04:56
  five assists, forty five percent from the field, and forty from three.
• 1:05:00
  It's just something that you don't get used to seeing as far as Steph Curry
• 1:05:05
  shooting this much volume from the three and still scoring this many or still doing
• 1:05:12
  it so efficiently. And again, he may not be the best defensive player,
• 1:05:17
  but at least he's a willing defender. It's kind of like Luca,
• 1:05:21
  but not as much as far as he's gonna give up points, but he's
• 1:05:26
  gonna make up for that from how much he's scoring. And now more than
• 1:05:30
  ever this year, the Warriors team in general is just based upon Steph Curry.
• 1:05:35
  Steph Curry has a bad night, then the Warriors team isn't gonna do
• 1:05:40
  good. But if he has a good to great knight, nine times out
• 1:05:43
  of ten, they're gonna win the ballgame. So who's number six for you?
• 1:05:48
  Number six for me? I'm gonna go with Jayalen Brunson right here.
• 1:05:50
  I really love what he's doing with the New York Knicks. I think he's
• 1:05:55
  he's one of those onsung heroes in the NBA, like people don't really talk
• 1:05:58
  about just because he's not that big of a household name, but to a
• 1:06:00
  lot of people, they love watching him play basketball. And I'm one of
• 1:06:03
  the ones that love watching him play basketball. And this season he's averaging twenty
• 1:06:06
  seven point two points along with six points almost seven assists per game, and
• 1:06:12
  he's leading and he has his next team with the fifth best record in the
• 1:06:14
  East at thirty six and twenty six doesn't sound too great, but which you
• 1:06:16
  if you look at what he really has to deal with, Julius Randall being
• 1:06:20
  as inconsistent as he is, Mitchell Robinson being in and out of the lineup,
• 1:06:25
  and then trading away RJ. Barrett. It's really just been a Jalen
• 1:06:29
  Brunch and so leading this team to where they to where they're where they're at,
• 1:06:31
  and I'm gonna commend him on that. I'm gonna give him the six
• 1:06:34
  spot on my list. So I have Jalen Brunston in this in this list,
• 1:06:40
  but not as high. But I'm gonna go with Donovan Mitchell here again
• 1:06:45
  for the same reason that you pointed out, and I feel like he's really
• 1:06:48
  underappreciated and that whole trade that happened, everybody really looks it over because when
• 1:06:56
  the Cavaliers, when they didn't have Donovan Mitchell, they were a team that
• 1:07:00
  was struggling to make the playoffs. And now Donovan Mitchell he's just changed his
• 1:07:04
  culture around and now this is just a team that you expect to at least
• 1:07:09
  be a top four team in the East, and he's done that the past
• 1:07:12
  two years. We'll see as far as playoffs success wise, but yeah,
• 1:07:17
  Donovan Mitchell, he's definitely had one of the best best seasons this year.
• 1:07:21
  And as far as him just being a pure scorer, that's one of the
• 1:07:25
  guys that you could just count on. Who's your seventh best player here,
• 1:07:29
  Josh My seventh best player is gonna be Jason Tatum. He's averaged twenty seven
• 1:07:34
  points per game, eight point five rebounds, and four point in assists.
• 1:07:38
  I sure, I get, I get a lot of people may want the
• 1:07:41
  some of the numbers to be a little higher, but this his team's first
• 1:07:44
  in the Eastern Conference. I don't think we can be mad at his production
• 1:07:46
  because his production is obviously working. And then he also has Galen Brown who's
• 1:07:50
  also doing considerably well this season. The thing is they're they're doing great.
• 1:07:56
  He's consistent in in and now. I just want to see him get over
• 1:07:58
  that hump. So for me to be a real Jason Tatum believer, but
• 1:08:00
  this season, he's doing nothing but proving that he can lead a team.
• 1:08:05
  Yeah, so number seven I have right here. It's got to be KD
• 1:08:11
  And kind of for similar reasons to Steph. You kind of just start to
• 1:08:15
  expect it from from these type of players, and averaging twenty eight, seven
• 1:08:19
  and five is something that not many people do. It's kind of been warped
• 1:08:27
  as far as the perception of older players as far as they should be able
• 1:08:30
  to do this, But a thirty five year old should not be able to
• 1:08:33
  do this on a night to night basis, and either Devin Booker's been out
• 1:08:40
  or Bradley Bill has been out. So Kevin Durant, he's been the constant
• 1:08:43
  here and there's still a top five seed in the West in which it's very
• 1:08:48
  crowded, and that's mostly because Kevin Durant and how you could lean up on
• 1:08:53
  or lean up or depend on him on a night to night basis. And
• 1:08:58
  yeah, so far he's had He's had the seventh best season in the league
• 1:09:01
  so far. Who's eight for you? It for me is gonna be Anthony
• 1:09:06
  Edwards. Twenty six point one points, five point two rebounds, five point
• 1:09:11
  one assist. He's leading his team to the best record in the Western Conference
• 1:09:14
  for you three at nineteen and I don't think it goes it goes unnoticed.
• 1:09:18
  But his defensive numbers don't don't pop out a lot, but when you really
• 1:09:25
  watch the games, he's really one of the players that guards that perimeter very
• 1:09:28
  well for this Timberwolves team, which is leading them to the number one defense
• 1:09:30
  in the NBA behind Rudy Gobert. Also, but Anthony Edwards does his part
• 1:09:34
  on defense, but offensively he's he's one of the best. He's one of
• 1:09:38
  the better offensive players for me in the NBA, especially to watch. I
• 1:09:41
  think he does a very I think he's a very fun player to watch,
• 1:09:44
  and this season he's proving why he's taken that next step. I'm not saying
• 1:09:47
  to superstart him, but he's definitely turning himself into a star and a household
• 1:09:51
  name after this season. Yeah. So I'm gonna mention one of the guys
• 1:09:56
  that you brought up earlier, and it's Jason Tatum for me, Jason Tatum.
• 1:10:00
  I still don't know how this dude isn't in the MVP conversation. Twenty
• 1:10:05
  seven points a game, eight and a half rebounds, almost five assists,
• 1:10:10
  and having the number one seed in the East. Still, I know there's
• 1:10:15
  a lot of criticisms as far as the Celtics offense, but he still leads
• 1:10:21
  this offense to be the best offense in the league. And they may be
• 1:10:25
  jump shooting, but he could knock down those damn jump shots. So whether
• 1:10:30
  or not we like it or not, if it's olticol basketball or not,
• 1:10:33
  he's still making those shots. And again, just a two way defender,
• 1:10:39
  and it's just something that can't go unnoticed because this dude he's having a damn
• 1:10:44
  good year and he keeps getting better year in and year out, and he's
• 1:10:47
  definitely up there. And I feel like Jason Tatum, he could be argued
• 1:10:51
  as far as being in the five range in my opinion. So, Josh
• 1:10:57
  Or, who's the ninth player for you? Number nine for me is gonna
• 1:11:00
  be Kevin Durant. Twenty eight points, five point four rebounds, six point
• 1:11:04
  two assists. They're six in the Western Conference. I expect them to be
• 1:11:08
  a little bit higher thirty six and twenty six. But he's doing his job.
• 1:11:12
  And what's really good about Kevin Durant this year is that he's been available.
• 1:11:16
  He hasn't been hurt, yeah so far, and he's been playing,
• 1:11:19
  and he's been leading this team especially. I'm gonna give him the benefit of
• 1:11:23
  the doubt. Him and Devin Booker have really been carrying a team around them
• 1:11:26
  that, honestly, I don't believe it's fit to win the best NBA championship,
• 1:11:30
  but they're they're holding their own with the team, with the teammates they
• 1:11:32
  have around them, and and that's all behind the leadership of Kevin Durant.
• 1:11:38
  Yeah. So number nine right here, I have Jalen Brunson, and I
• 1:11:44
  know you have Jalen Brunson higher. It's just the biggest thing. Dam a
• 1:11:46
  little biased. At least you're honest about it. But no, Jalen Brunson,
• 1:11:54
  he's definitely had one of the better years this year. It's just as
• 1:11:57
  far as how he's been heard as of late. So I guess it's kind
• 1:12:00
  of recency bias. I haven't been able to or I haven't been able to
• 1:12:04
  see him play at full strength lately. I haven't been able to see Jaylen
• 1:12:09
  Brunton take over a game in a little bit, if that makes sense,
• 1:12:12
  because first you had Cleveland, then he had a next strain, now he
• 1:12:15
  has a knee contusion. So it's just it's just as far as he could
• 1:12:20
  be up there as far as top five, it's just more recency bias for
• 1:12:25
  me compared to all of these other guys right here. But no, he's
• 1:12:28
  definitely had a good year. And I'll say this there isn't compared to these
• 1:12:32
  other guys. There isn't as much of an offensive threat besides them, as
• 1:12:39
  far as there's not gonna be a go be a guy. Oh they're gonna
• 1:12:42
  kill you, uh, Whenever at least Luca. He has Kyrie Shay,
• 1:12:46
  Jaln Williams, Joki, Jamal Murray, Joannis, Damian Lillard, Steph used
• 1:12:51
  to have Clay who could get hot out of nowhere. Kaminga's Risen Donovan,
• 1:12:56
  Mitchell, Darius Garland. So all of these guys they have have a good
• 1:13:01
  around him. Yeah, and compared to Jalen Brunson, it's all of the
• 1:13:05
  workload. It's all dependent on him as far as offensively, and he's definitely
• 1:13:10
  lived up to the bill in this year. So who's number ten for you?
• 1:13:15
  Number ten, I'm gonna have to go with the goat Lebron James twenty
• 1:13:17
  five points seven point one is his seven point nine rebounds. I understand people
• 1:13:23
  may maybe laugh at that ranking a little bit, just considering there's a lot
• 1:13:26
  of good players playing this year, but Lebron's doing what he can. You
• 1:13:30
  know, he's doing the consistent consistency, the most consistent player we've ever seen.
• 1:13:35
  He's continuing to do it night and night out this year. And I
• 1:13:39
  think you've got to give him his props because as he's getting older, I
• 1:13:42
  don't think he's really he's losing a step, but losing a step for him
• 1:13:45
  is still top ten in the NBA, So yeah, I believe they're gonna
• 1:13:49
  end up making the playoffs. But it's all gonna be It's really only gonna
• 1:13:53
  be predicated off how Lebron plays, and that's why I think he's number ten
• 1:13:56
  for me. Yeah, so I have him number ten too, but I
• 1:14:00
  don't know if you know this. So Steph Curry, well, I mention
• 1:14:03
  it forty seven percent from the field, Lebron James forty point seven percent from
• 1:14:10
  the field as far as from three, So this dude may not be driving
• 1:14:13
  to the rack as well, but he's shooting more threes than he than he
• 1:14:17
  has in previous seasons and he's just as effishent as Steph Curry. So if
• 1:14:25
  anything, that should just show that it may not be the same old Lebron
• 1:14:30
  James. As far as him, well, I know he had a duncton
• 1:14:32
  night against Sacramento where he postered I think it was Alex Lamn But it may
• 1:14:38
  not be that Lebron, but it's it's a different version of Lebron where he's
• 1:14:44
  taken over a game by by shooting the ball, which we wouldn't have thought
• 1:14:47
  that that would become the case, and yeah, Lebron, he's number ten
• 1:14:53
  for me, and just an honorable mention that I'm going to give real quick.
• 1:15:00
  It's gonna have to be Darn Fox for me. I don't know about
• 1:15:02
  you. I don't know who's gonna be. Well, I kind of already
• 1:15:06
  know. You have his shirt on you have, so do you have an
• 1:15:14
  honorable mention here? I won't name him, even though I believe it,
• 1:15:18
  but so I won't name Wimby, but y'all know it's Wimby. So I'm
• 1:15:23
  gonna go. It's gonna be Stephen Curry for me. I understand that it
• 1:15:27
  was hard for It was really hard to make this list for me. I
• 1:15:30
  didn't have Stephan Curry in my top ten. But as to them being the
• 1:15:31
  ten seed, really and honestly, I think he's doing a lot. I
• 1:15:36
  get it, but he has to do a lot. He has to do
• 1:15:40
  all this crazy stuff, even and shooting at the insane rate that he's shooting
• 1:15:45
  at right now, and it's gonna be him and honestly for me, if
• 1:15:48
  it wasn't for injury, Joel Embiid would be top three in this list,
• 1:15:50
  top two in this list, yeah, maybe even one and if he wasn't
• 1:15:55
  injured, he would be on this list. I know. So I was
• 1:15:58
  really close to putting him at ten. But the way that Joel Embiid where
• 1:16:01
  he was more likely to score forty than thirty, you know, so I
• 1:16:05
  yeah, that that that says enough of why Joel Embiid deserves to be on
• 1:16:10
  this list. Yeah. Yeah, no, you're right, I agree with
• 1:16:14
  you. But okay, so if you have Steph off the list, then
• 1:16:20
  how come you have Luca Luca one? Because there is a lot of urging
• 1:16:27
  pretty much a triple double with thirty four points? Okay, okay, fair,
• 1:16:31
  fair, Okay, So you had Luca, Jokic, Shay Who,
• 1:16:38
  Jannis Donovan, Mitchell, everyone else? Yeah, everyone else on my list.
• 1:16:43
  They're pretty up there and standing except for Jalen Brunts and Kevin Durant.
• 1:16:46
  But those guys are leading teams that I think are just as bad as the
• 1:16:51
  Warriors teams surrounding. Do you think the Warriors team is worse compared to those
• 1:16:56
  situations? Though? I no, I think those sons have a pretty bad
• 1:17:01
  situation. I think they do. I really do. Okay, wait,
• 1:17:05
  I think so, so you would rather have Okay, so say, say
• 1:17:12
  if you're a player, say if you're say, if you're a free Okay,
• 1:17:15
  I would okay, okay, I think I would rather sign with the
• 1:17:20
  Sons. But I don't think the Sons. I think honestly, the thing
• 1:17:25
  that keeps them alive is that they have both Devin Booker and Katie that can
• 1:17:30
  get shots at will. If you look at this at the points, they're
• 1:17:32
  literally right next to each other. I think, as far as the warrior
• 1:17:35
  side, if it's not Steph, it's nobody usually. Yeah, that that's
• 1:17:41
  what I'm saying. It's like it's harder for Steph at least. Yeah,
• 1:17:44
  I get you. I get what you're saying. Now. I kind of
• 1:17:45
  have it myself, But I don't think. I don't think it's as far
• 1:17:48
  as part I think because the benches for both teams are just so bad,
• 1:17:51
  like the like the role players I don't like. I don't really like mess
• 1:17:55
  with either of them. Jackson Tyson Davis. You don't like him, well,
• 1:18:00
  no, he has two first names. No, But anything else you
• 1:18:08
  want to talk about before we want to our last topic? Nah, I
• 1:18:13
  think we're good off this all right, So this next topic right here,
• 1:18:18
  there is nothing really in particular but it's just as hard as the side stories
• 1:18:23
  that have happened in the NBA so far and just our reaction to it.
• 1:18:28
  So the first thing that we wanted to get over. It wasn't one of
• 1:18:30
  the games that we talked about. We didn't mention it because we're going to
• 1:18:32
  talk about it right now. Is Lebron James becoming the first player to hit
• 1:18:39
  forty thousand career points. So, Josh, do you think this ends any
• 1:18:45
  type of debate here or do you think there's still a debate. I think
• 1:18:49
  there's always going to be a debate because people refuse to realize that they're watching
• 1:18:55
  the greatest player to ever play basketball, which is Lebron James scoring forty thousand
• 1:19:00
  points and being as consistent as he has for how long, eighteen years,
• 1:19:08
  as consistent as he has win and doing this and doing this at the age
• 1:19:14
  of thirty nine, right, thirty nine years old, he's still doing this.
• 1:19:17
  Yeah, twenty five points, seven rebounds, seven assists. I'd like
• 1:19:20
  to see Wizards Michael Jordan do this, you know, so Lebron Lebron.
• 1:19:28
  I think a lot of people will not agree with us based off of who
• 1:19:32
  we think the greatest player of all time is But people need to all come
• 1:19:34
  into agreement that they're watching greatness, and they need to accept and really appreciate
• 1:19:40
  what they're watching because one day he's gonna be gone and you're gonna be like,
• 1:19:43
  damn, I didn't watch enough Lebron. I didn't appreciate Lebron when he
• 1:19:45
  was playing. I let my bias opinions on him as a person take over
• 1:19:51
  what he really did on the court. Yeah. So, and the thing
• 1:19:57
  is their bias opinions are retarded because they really go buy their kids John Morant
• 1:20:02
  jerseys, but they won't buy their kid a Lebron jersey. Make it makes
• 1:20:04
  sense? So, Okay, that threw me up right there. I didn't
• 1:20:13
  expect that last part. But I was trying to find these two stats here.
• 1:20:16
  So Lebron James, now that he has over forty thousand career points,
• 1:20:20
  he has more points than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson combined. Combined, those
• 1:20:27
  are two guys who are in most people's top five. He's like, oh,
• 1:20:30
  put their points together. If they have Larry Bird in their top five,
• 1:20:33
  I do not want to speak to that person like like, hey,
• 1:20:39
  you'll be surprised, You'll be surprised, and then okay, then then another
• 1:20:45
  stat or not another stat but something Okay, this was from twenty twenty two,
• 1:20:50
  But Lebron James passes Kareem Abdul Jabbar in fewer games, shot attempts,
• 1:20:57
  and minutes. Lebron James has played in thirteen of the twenty twenty season slow
• 1:21:02
  pace years since nineteen seventy four, while Kareem played in fifth and all fifteen,
• 1:21:09
  the fastest pace in NBA as far as offensive wise, and if you
• 1:21:14
  turn all of Lebron's threes into twos, he'll still pass Kareem in fewer games,
• 1:21:20
  shot attempts, and minutes. So as far as the holding right there,
• 1:21:27
  as far as the whole exactly, he's the greatest score to ever live
• 1:21:32
  and he's not even a pure scorer. It's that's where as far as okay,
• 1:21:39
  I guess we're going top five and three point three pointers made and I
• 1:21:44
  think the top ten rebounds, so it's like he's, yeah, he's about
• 1:21:47
  to be top he's about to be top five, he's about to be top
• 1:21:53
  five and rebounds if I'm if I'm not mistaken. But as far as people
• 1:21:57
  say, oh, this is a longevity Award. It's like even Lebron James.
• 1:22:01
  They act like Lebron James. This dude was Steph Curry and just a
• 1:22:06
  volume three point shooter. No, he was never that. It's Lebron James.
• 1:22:14
  In my opinion, he could guard one through four. The best offensive
• 1:22:17
  player around as far as we talk about nicolea. Joki is no weakness in
• 1:22:23
  the offensive game. Lebron James is literally that to a tee, and he
• 1:22:29
  changed He changed the way that people draft now because you never heard of this
• 1:22:35
  term three and D defenders or wing players really before Lebron James was put into
• 1:22:45
  the league and rose to start him. So yeah, I just feel like
• 1:22:48
  this is a clear cut now that Lebron James he is the goat. But
• 1:22:53
  all right, next one that we kind of wanted to talk about was Zion
• 1:22:58
  Williamson. He says he'll do the dunk contest if he is an All Star.
• 1:23:03
  So I know you talked about oh weeks prior, as far as the
• 1:23:09
  dunk contest, it's broken. So do you think this would fix a dunk
• 1:23:13
  contest here with Zon Wimson being in it. I mean it would fix it
• 1:23:17
  a little bit. I don't think to the extent because his stardom isn't.
• 1:23:21
  I mean, I would say maybe it fixes it, dude him. But
• 1:23:27
  the thing is, I don't see Zion making an All Start because I don't
• 1:23:29
  see him playing it the enough amount of games to make it as an All
• 1:23:31
  Star, and for certain reasons that I said last week, I can't repeat
• 1:23:35
  on this pot. But you know you made a pledge and stood by it.
• 1:23:41
  I did make a pledge, so it would it will help it out
• 1:23:44
  if a player like Zion with the with the stardom he has as a dunker
• 1:23:47
  does it. Yeah, but I also think it would have to take another
• 1:23:49
  player being along with him. It can't be Zion him and then three G
• 1:23:53
  League, three G leaguers. You know, it has to be Zion and
• 1:23:56
  three NBA players who are known. Yeah, but you don't think as far
• 1:24:00
  as if Zion he joins a dunk contest, there will be other guys like,
• 1:24:04
  Hey, I'll be willing to do the dunk contests and Zion's gonna do
• 1:24:08
  it. You don't think that will happen. I mean there, I think
• 1:24:12
  theyre. I think there will be. I think there will be at least
• 1:24:14
  one, at least one or two that want to do it because Zion does
• 1:24:16
  it. Yeah. No, but maybe Aaron Gordon comes back, he tries
• 1:24:21
  one more time. No, I feel like Aaron Gordon. He's an old
• 1:24:25
  head. Now he's a word about winning them chips. Now, I know
• 1:24:30
  somebody else is worried about chips. Okay, Okay, I'm not trying to
• 1:24:34
  I'm not trying to bait you to say nothing. All right, let's just
• 1:24:41
  move on to the next thing. So you you kind of mentioned it earlier
• 1:24:45
  as far as well, I'll kind of do these two together as far as
• 1:24:49
  no, you're good what okay? Yeah, yeah, you're like that.
• 1:24:57
  Yeah, yeah, let's not have this disconnect when we're we're getting close to
• 1:25:02
  Yeah, So I'm gonna kind of put these two together. So Russell Westbrook
• 1:25:06
  and Scottie Barnes, they both had hand surgery in which Russell Westbrook broke his
• 1:25:12
  hand and Scotty Barnes he it was some type of thumb and index finger injury.
• 1:25:18
  So we kind of talked about it with the with the Clippers here already.
• 1:25:25
  But as far as with the with Scottie Barnes here, do you think
• 1:25:30
  that they should just shut him down for the season or they should just let
• 1:25:34
  him come back when whenever he's healthy. I think they should shut him down
• 1:25:40
  because what's there by the time he comes back, this season is pretty much
• 1:25:44
  gonna be coming to an end unless they make the playoffs, which I I
• 1:25:46
  don't know. I needed to check where they're at in the standings. Were
• 1:25:49
  they exactly in the standings? Uh? The Toronto Raptors, I could pull
• 1:25:55
  it up right here, they're right now, they're twelfth. They are five
• 1:26:00
  and a half games back of the ten scene. Yeah, I don't think
• 1:26:04
  they'll even make the playoffs this year. So what's the point of bringing your
• 1:26:08
  star player back for him just to reaggravate or rehurt that hand when he could
• 1:26:13
  just rest up and get ready for next season and y'all can build a team
• 1:26:15
  around him or trade burst one of the two. But all right, next
• 1:26:24
  thing right here we'll move on to is Lebron James and Jylen Brown. They
• 1:26:29
  were both named players of the week here. Obviously we kind of know why
• 1:26:32
  Lebron he was named player of the week, but as far as Jaylen Brown
• 1:26:38
  here was that was as far as discussions here, as far as him not
• 1:26:44
  being worth worth all the money that he received the Supermax. Do you think
• 1:26:48
  that it's he's living up to that super Max? Do you think that it's
• 1:26:54
  it's worth it or no? I think the super Max should only be given
• 1:26:59
  to players who win championships. And has he won a championship? I don't
• 1:27:01
  think so so, and he doesn't really have that many accolades to go around.
• 1:27:08
  So I really feel like contracts in the NBA. I understand contacts and
• 1:27:12
  the NBA are fully guaranteed. I'm cool with that. But then in the
• 1:27:16
  NFL contracts there has to be I feel like NBA contract has to have at
• 1:27:20
  least some incentive base because if you're the Celtics, give this contract to a
• 1:27:27
  player that the belief can help them win a championship and as a star player
• 1:27:30
  if you get the supermacs, But he has yet to do that, so
• 1:27:32
  I'm not really gonna say he's worth it unless they win. That's fair.
• 1:27:38
  So okay, I have a question. Then, so if Wimby he makes
• 1:27:42
  some All NBA Teams Defensive Player of the Years, but he doesn't, but
• 1:27:46
  if he doesn't win a championship or have playoff success just because his team around
• 1:27:54
  him, because your team matters, so does he deserve the super Max then
• 1:27:58
  if you're going by that logic, well, I said that Jaylen Brown doesn't
• 1:28:02
  have the accolades either, so you know what I'm saying. So like,
• 1:28:05
  let's say Joel Embiid is I mean Joel Ebiid freaking with Victor Wombin Yama is
• 1:28:11
  a two time Defensive Player of the Year and runner up an MVP and multiple
• 1:28:15
  time All Star. I think he gets a Supermax. But as far as
• 1:28:20
  Jayalen Brown, he hasn't done those things either. So I feel like you
• 1:28:24
  have to have the accolades or win championships to be given these contracts. Well,
• 1:28:29
  you still have to be an all NBA type player. You Yeah,
• 1:28:33
  it's not like it's given out to anybody. But I just feel like I
• 1:28:36
  know, but I don't know. I just hate the Max contract Supermax contract.
• 1:28:41
  It's like, why can't we just negotiate a contract? You know what
• 1:28:44
  I'm saying, Like, it's like, well, based off for what was
• 1:28:48
  the original reason, it was to get players to stay in their original team
• 1:28:54
  where they were drafted, but more in the NBA. Yeah, now they
• 1:28:59
  just trade him. They're like, Okay, I'm getting my Max money and
• 1:29:01
  I'm going to the team that I want to go to. But all right,
• 1:29:06
  next one right here. This one's kind of just a quick topic.
• 1:29:11
  But the Suns, Bucks, and Lakers all have a top five hardest schedule
• 1:29:15
  remaining. So out of those three teams right there, which one would be
• 1:29:19
  falling, I'm gonna go with the Suns and this, ah, I think
• 1:29:28
  it's between the Suns or the Lakers. I think the Bucks are gonna be
• 1:29:31
  all right there, even if they drop down, I say, maybe to
• 1:29:33
  the three, like to the three spot they drop one, yeah, you
• 1:29:36
  know. But as far as the Suns and Lakers being at sixth and the
• 1:29:42
  ninth seat, I think the sixth of the ninth seat, oh that.
• 1:29:46
  I think they they have a lot to lose if they go on a losing
• 1:29:49
  streak. So between those two, I think, honestly, it'd have to
• 1:29:54
  be the Lakers. If the Lakers start losing a couple of games, they're
• 1:29:56
  gonna be on the outside looking in, and it's gonna it's gonna do a
• 1:30:00
  lot because they're gonna have to blow it up, I believe. If that's
• 1:30:01
  the case at the end of the season, you think so they would have
• 1:30:06
  to blow it up. They're getting older, Bro, there are Do you
• 1:30:11
  think the Lakers are just gonna keep on paying players that are injury prone?
• 1:30:15
  And they're they've been bringing all these players every single year, but nothing happens
• 1:30:18
  from it. They you know, they do this every year. They get
• 1:30:21
  halfway to the trade deadline, realize the team wasn't worth it. But you
• 1:30:26
  still have Lebron James and Anthony Davis, you do. But Lebron's career is
• 1:30:30
  also getting shorter. At Lebron himself want to thuck it out with the team
• 1:30:34
  and not go compete for a championship. You know that's fair. Well,
• 1:30:41
  he's talked about how he just wants to play with play with bronni Well,
• 1:30:45
  now we don't even at this point, we don't even know if is going
• 1:30:48
  to declare for this this year's draft. Might as well just wait for Bryce
• 1:30:54
  might as well. But all right, next one we'll get into is your
• 1:31:00
  guy Wimby. Now, he was named Rookie of the Month second time throughout
• 1:31:04
  this season, and thoughts about that. Yeah, he should be Rookie of
• 1:31:11
  the Month every year because he's leading the rookies in points, rebounds, blocks,
• 1:31:15
  and stills. And then he's top five and assists, and then this
• 1:31:18
  month alone, he's just going berserk. In the last nine games he's had
• 1:31:21
  fifty blocks, and then he's almost averaging five and five five by five,
• 1:31:27
  and then he did have a five by five game, and then he's he's
• 1:31:30
  guaranteed almost a triple double every single game with blocks. So, you know,
• 1:31:38
  I'm not surprised he should really be in the MVP conversation, but since
• 1:31:41
  the team around him is felling him, you know, that's just not gonna
• 1:31:45
  happen that way. And he should be Defensive Player of the Year. So
• 1:31:47
  I'm really not surprised about all this at all. I think he's honestly,
• 1:31:51
  two time Rookie of the Month is a little disrespectful to me. You know,
• 1:31:55
  it should be how many months have they been playing? Should I say?
• 1:31:58
  November? October, November de seper January February, So he should be
• 1:32:03
  a five time Rookie of the Month, not a two time. Well it's
• 1:32:10
  still still half them out, but all right, then this next one right
• 1:32:14
  here, the Miami He. I don't have much to say you you say
• 1:32:18
  pretty much everything about Winby here, so, uh, the Miami He.
• 1:32:24
  They're in a familiar spot they're in the sixth seed. Jimmy, he says,
• 1:32:28
  it's playoff Jimmy time. Do you are you buying into it? We've
• 1:32:31
  seen in these past two years or past few years. Actually, I want
• 1:32:36
  one hundred percent buying into I think that's how Eric Sposer sets it up.
• 1:32:40
  And I think that's how Jimmy Butler plays, like when it matters the most,
• 1:32:43
  he's gonna show up, and Eric Sposer is gonna start game planning when
• 1:32:45
  it matters. That's why I think he's really the second best coach in the
• 1:32:48
  NBA then thirds Mike Malone, but Eric Spostra, legend, future Hall of
• 1:32:54
  Famer. I think they know what it takes to win games, and I
• 1:32:58
  think that's being rested and when they when it comes around, I think they're
• 1:33:00
  really going to pick up, pick it up. And we said that earlier
• 1:33:02
  when we were talking about them. So yeah, I think that's going to
• 1:33:04
  be the case now. So Jimmy Butler doesn't play for regular season awards.
• 1:33:08
  He plays to get to the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, no, you're
• 1:33:11
  right, And so I kind of did a deep dive on it. And
• 1:33:15
  so they heat their ten and three in their past thirteen games and have the
• 1:33:18
  second best defense in that span. And Jimmy Butler during that time, he's
• 1:33:23
  averaging twenty five points a game, six rebounds, five assists, fifty seven
• 1:33:28
  percent from the field and fifty six percent from three. So when he says
• 1:33:32
  it's go time, let's go time, and this dude, he's not playing
• 1:33:35
  around. So now I'm buying into it again. And what the three seed
• 1:33:40
  right now would be the cavil Okay Calves Heat right now, as of right
• 1:33:43
  now, nothing else. Who's winning Calves, Heat, Caves and Heat.
• 1:33:48
  Yeah, well right now, I say the Heat because Evan Mobley is injured.
• 1:33:55
  M man the Calves being another exit man. No, but all right,
• 1:34:04
  I mean, is a big piece broke, Like that's just not something
• 1:34:08
  you can replace. But you still have, Oh you still have your Scarland
• 1:34:13
  dmaged Jared Allen, Max Drews. I understand, Yeah, yeah, but
• 1:34:21
  I don't know. I just think I just think Evan Mobley is a really
• 1:34:25
  big part of this team. Like I think it's gonna matter quite a bit,
• 1:34:28
  especially when it comes down defensively, rebounding and points, Like that's just
• 1:34:32
  one player that can do it all and you're you're gonna miss that. Mm
• 1:34:35
  hmm. Yeah, all right, So next thing right here, Nicola Jokic,
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  he's closing in on his third MVP. Where does this put him as
• 1:34:46
  far as all time wise? I think he needs a little bit more ships,
• 1:34:54
  But I think sinners wise, like as the greatest centers of all time,
• 1:34:59
  he's up there, dude, like he's up there with Hakeem Shack.
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  I think he's I think he deserves to be in those conversations. Oh oh
• 1:35:09
  okay, So the thing is, the thing is what hurts him a lot
• 1:35:12
  is defensively. Yeah, I think that's gonna be a big old thing brought
• 1:35:15
  up in his career. But then also, we're gonna say that if we
• 1:35:18
  look back at Luca's career, a we're gonna be like it was he wasn't
• 1:35:21
  a good defender, but he dropped, but he was able to score and
• 1:35:24
  pass the ball at will, you know. So yeah, that's also a
• 1:35:28
  pick and choose, you know what I'm saying. So three times, three
• 1:35:30
  time MVP, if you're not in the conversation with some of the greatest players
• 1:35:32
  of all time, then that's not a wild thing to say. You're a
• 1:35:35
  three time MVP for a reason. You know, you just need I just
• 1:35:39
  think the championships need to follow. Also, at least two or three.
• 1:35:42
  I understand you're not gonna win one every year, but give me two or
• 1:35:44
  three and you have a legit conversation. Is he already in the top five
• 1:35:50
  centers if he wins MVP because Kareem Hackema Shack, Kareem Shack. Who else
• 1:36:01
  you putting in there? He's better than Patrick Ewing, He's better than David
• 1:36:05
  Robinson. And I'm say that right here. He's better than David Robinson.
• 1:36:12
  Is he already the fourth best sinner? No? Are we well? Bill
• 1:36:16
  Russell? I don't know if you're considering Bill Rosse. I don't count.
• 1:36:19
  Don't talk to me about that guy. I'm just okaying, all right.
• 1:36:27
  I guess we have to put Bill Russell in the conversation. He's right there.
• 1:36:29
  I think four or five. I'll put him at five. Bill Russell
• 1:36:33
  goes above them, I think because some people they have Kareem Bill will Shaq
• 1:36:41
  Hakeem. But he's better, better than Wild Robinson, He's better than Will
• 1:36:45
  Will. I think I think he's I think he goes above Will. Okay
• 1:36:49
  with Will Chamberlain, How was there all this other footage of him running at
• 1:36:54
  forty cash didn't playing volleyball, and some of the other games. I'll come
• 1:37:00
  there's not the footage for the one hundred point game because it didn't happen.
• 1:37:05
  I agree, we're not gonna get into that, but I agree all right
• 1:37:11
  now some of these next two right here. So so as far as the
• 1:37:17
  New York Knicks and the Clippers, ever since the All Star Break, they've
• 1:37:20
  kind of been falling. Are they starting to prove themselves to be frauds?
• 1:37:32
  The Knicks and the Clippers. Yeah, as far as the Clippers were,
• 1:37:38
  it's the same thing we say about them all the time injury. They're just
• 1:37:41
  constantly in and out. I think they're all gonna be there when playoff time
• 1:37:45
  because around and ready to play as barring if they do get injured there.
• 1:37:47
  But losing Russell Westbrook is gonna hurt. I think. I think a lot
• 1:37:50
  of people hate on Russell, don't believe in Rustbrooke, but I think Westbrook
• 1:37:54
  is a big part to have on any team. I don't care. Anything
• 1:37:57
  that he's on has only gotten better in his career, go look it up.
• 1:38:00
  But as far as that, I'll say that from that point. But
• 1:38:04
  as far as the Knicks, we talked about it. If Jalen Brunson is
• 1:38:08
  not on, this team is not on, and you know, so it's
• 1:38:10
  really on the president of if Jalen Brunton is gonna have a big night if
• 1:38:15
  he's playing bad, because who's gonna be the next guy to step up?
• 1:38:17
  Julius Randall was inconsistent enough in my opinion to step up and take over a
• 1:38:20
  role. So if it's not Jalen Brunson, it's nobody for the Knicks.
• 1:38:24
  So I'm not I'm not pretty. I'm not surprised by that. So I'm
• 1:38:29
  gonna go out on I'm gonna go out on a limb here. So not
• 1:38:33
  as far as with the Knicks, I have more faith in the Knicks,
• 1:38:35
  just because Ogi Aenobi isn't back yet and nor is Julius Randall. But I
• 1:38:44
  know two weeks ago, I was saying that the Clippers out of the West,
• 1:38:48
  they have the best chance to make the championship. But I'm changing my
• 1:38:53
  mind. I think that I'm not buying to the Clippers no more. I'm
• 1:38:57
  not. I know it's only been two weeks. I know it's it's only
• 1:39:00
  been two weeks. But just from what I've seen and now that it is
• 1:39:04
  important basketball, it doesn't seem like winning basketball to me. It doesn't seem
• 1:39:11
  like championship quality basketball. And all, right, next thing right here.
• 1:39:17
  As far as the Bucks, they're now after this game against the Warriors,
• 1:39:23
  which they lost, which will kind of put into the next episode, but
• 1:39:29
  the Bucks are now six and one since the All Star Break. Was the
• 1:39:34
  Bucks demise or as far as people saying the Bucks are not the same team
• 1:39:39
  no more with Damian Lillard over drew holiday, it wasn't an upgrade, it
• 1:39:43
  was a downgrade. Do you think it was exaggerated? Do you think that
• 1:39:47
  people just overreacted just because the slow start. I don't think they overreacted because
• 1:39:58
  they fired their coach, but bring and then Doc Rivers gave them a fresh
• 1:40:00
  new look going into the going out of the like going into the All Star
• 1:40:04
  Break and coming out. So I don't think the demise was exaggerated because you
• 1:40:10
  did get rid of the guy that was running your team. But I also
• 1:40:14
  do think you need to put more faith in stars sometimes, and that's Giannis
• 1:40:17
  and Damian Lillard thinking that they'll figure it out. And we also got to
• 1:40:21
  think once Chris Middleton starts getting healthier, and yeah, it gets back to
• 1:40:26
  a little bit of not the same Chris Middleton he was, but to a
• 1:40:30
  little of fractured, like a little less percentage of that version. This team's
• 1:40:34
  going to be a really scary team to play. Yeah, especially feel like
• 1:40:38
  I said that for a lot of teams, but we're in an era of
• 1:40:40
  basketball where there's so many good players and so many good teams. Yeah,
• 1:40:45
  where the skill gap is way better. Don't mean old heads, but kind
• 1:40:48
  of do no, But yeah, no, I feel like it was just
• 1:40:54
  an overreaction to the Bucks and they're they're gonna figure it out. When you
• 1:40:58
  have superstar players, they're gonna find a way to get it done. But
• 1:41:01
  all right, let's go ahead and get into our last thing, which we
• 1:41:05
  do it every single week. It's the so called MVPs. Other week,
• 1:41:12
  Josh, who's your MVP? You go first? I have to think about
• 1:41:23
  mine, So mine. It's it's pretty simple here throughout the week, it's
• 1:41:30
  got to go to Lebron James. Lebron James. During these four games,
• 1:41:33
  they went three and one during the stretch, twenty seven and a half points
• 1:41:36
  a game. Six rebounds, eight and a half assists, and then at
• 1:41:43
  least one still a game, almost a block a game, forty three from
• 1:41:46
  three and and in three out of those four games he took over. First
• 1:41:53
  one being up against the Clippers where he just absolutely took over the fourth quarter
• 1:41:58
  where he had eighteen points and made seem like a gazillion threes. Next one
• 1:42:03
  against the Wizards, he took over again in crunch time. And I know
• 1:42:09
  that they lost to the Nuggets the next one, but still had a good
• 1:42:11
  night. But yeah, Lebron James, especially after this week, Brady breaking
• 1:42:17
  forty thousand points, first person in NBA history, he deserves it. He's
• 1:42:23
  my so called MVP of the week. And I think it's pretty obvious.
• 1:42:27
  Do you have yours yet, Joshua? Are you still thinking? Honest he
• 1:42:31
  didn't pick mine. Let me look, I was gonna go I can always
• 1:42:39
  go with one guy, but you know I can't do that every week,
• 1:42:41
  So I think, honestly, and the Clippers and Bucks game, I'm giving
• 1:42:45
  it to Bobby Porter's coming off the bench and scoring twenty eight points and then
• 1:42:48
  showing up how he did in the fourth quarter. I'm gonna give it to
• 1:42:50
  Bobby Porters, as my soul called Himp of the week based off that game
• 1:42:54
  alone, not after getting killed by the Warriors last night this or yeah tonight
• 1:43:00
  the Bucks did, but just for that game of love, Bobby Porters is
• 1:43:02
  my so called MVP of the week. Shout out to Bobby p Man.
• 1:43:05
  You know former, how what is that from? That's uh sweet life?
• 1:43:17
  From Victorious? Really? I thought I was from Zach and Zack and Cody.
• 1:43:23
  No, it's it's Victorious when her Trina does her little like whoa Okay,
• 1:43:30
  okay, okay, okay, I don't know why I thought. I
• 1:43:35
  don't know. It's yeah, they we're gonna lose. We're gonna lose some
• 1:43:39
  people right there. But yeah, for those that grew up in the in
• 1:43:43
  the twenty ten's and you were a twelve like a ten to fourteen year old,
• 1:43:47
  eight to fourteen year old, you know what we're talking about. Yeah,
• 1:43:50
  we're young and is compared to everybody else we're you know, we're barely
• 1:43:56
  we're barely over the twenty mark now. But before we start yapping on,
• 1:44:00
  let's go in an end this episode here, Josh, you got anything else
• 1:44:03
  to say? No, I've said my piece for this episode, Well all
• 1:44:13
  right on next week or shop to you on next week. Well all right,
• 1:44:18
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• 1:44:43
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• 1:44:45
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