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Takeaways from the NBA season and giving our NBA award predictions plus more! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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  Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to another episode, episode
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  number forty of the so called sports analysts. Josh, how you doing,
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  I'm doing good. We saw Cody Rains beat Roman Cody Rains. We watched
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  Cody Rhodes beat Roman Reigns to win the undisputed World Championship in WWE. I
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  saw the Spurs go to double overtiming a good gamers the seventy six years.
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  I understand we lost, but it was still a great game to go too.
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  And then me and Fonso had a crazy experience at Hooters. It was
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  it was weird. You know, a lot happened, kind of Yeah,
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  I got free food though, so I'm good. Well, but you know,
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  other than that, we'll get into that game here in a second.
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  So yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get into it in a second.
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  But just shout out to John Cena, being the goat of ww just shout
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  bro. We know it's it's the legend killer dude, it's the viper.
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  other platforms, we appreciate it and make sure you share it to anybody who
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  likes sports. But let's go in and get into this game in which it's
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  the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, which it featured Yukon and Purdue. Yukon won
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  seventy five to sixty and they're the first team to win back to back since
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  two thousand and six two thousand and seven seven floor to team. So,
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  Josh, anything you took away from this game right here, this was just
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  a good Honestly, this was just mainly they just played their starters pretty much
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  the entire basketball game and this one, and it was just good team basketball
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  all the way around. Between the five of them. It really showed that
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  they came in with the plan and they they were the more experienced team when
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  it came to championship basketball, and then it's came in with more of aggressiveness
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  and that's why they won. Yeah, and they just have one of the
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  most prolific offenses out there. I think this is the closest we've seen to
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  NBA offense in a while in college basketball, not as far as talent wise,
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  just as far as how the offense is run. It looks very similar.
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  And that's why I think it's just it's so hard to stop. And
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  a quick start I want to give to you here, Josh, is so
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  since the NCAA Championship last year, before they won the championship, from the
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  start of that till now till they won this championship, they've been beating a
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  team by an average of twenty two points per game. That's how dominant they've
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  been. And just a question for you, Josh, do you think it's
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  up there as far as some of the most historic dominant college basketball runs in
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  a while, because the last one was Florida would have to be. I
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  think you went back to back championships in the NAA. That's kind of a
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  hard thing to do. We see so many teams win one and don't win
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  one for a while. Hell, even John Caliperry, he only has one
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  national title I think in his whole and now he's in Arkansas. So and
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  you look at the amount of great players he's had on his teams. Look
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  at the amount of great players Duke has had on their teams North Carolina,
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  then Zaga, Villanova, and Yukon's been able to do it back to back.
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  So I think it just shows the real dominance. And honestly, I
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  think college basketball for men's is changing a little bit more. It's going back
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  to a team oriented basketball instead of star led teams, because we're starting to
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  see a team like Yukon and Purdue even who had players that stayed multiple years,
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  and they're the team that are in the championships. Yeah, and I
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  think it's good it kind of I know there's nil deals, so it helps
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  players stay in college, but as far as just winning the championship that that's
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  what helps the most. You keep these players back, is it. Zach
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  Edy? Yeah, Zach Dy is a senior. No, but he's not
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  getting any nil money, really, I think so. I thought I think
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  I saw something about let me search it up real quick, don't quote me.
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  Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah no. But speaking of Zach Edy,
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  he did have a damn good game thirty seven points, ten rebounds, fifteen
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  for twenty five from the field. But just just in my opinion here,
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  Josh, even though it looks great on the box score, as far as
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  I know a lot of people they're not going to agree with this. But
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  he's not gonna make this or he's not gonna make it in the NBA.
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  He's not. He's very he's a very limited player. Go ahead, Josh,
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  did you find it before I go in and on and agree with you?
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  Here it says zach Edy is a Canadian and attending Purdue on an F
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  one visas, so he isn't legally allowed to capitalize on any on nio.
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  Oh well, in soil, he says he hopes that he can change for
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  future international college athletes. Damn so, he's not getting any inn I owe
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  money from this. Damn well, hopefully he gets drapped to the Raptors,
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  no sharks, Oh my bad. But speaking of that, let's stay on
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  that. As far as zach Edy, as far as it's very mixed,
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  as far as people they think, like Colin Coward he should be a top
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  fifteen pick, or there's people on my stance where I don't think he's going
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  to be that good. Where do you stand on that? Josh? Uh?
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  When I was got done with my swim this morning and I was getting
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  ready take after I got out the shower getting ready, I heard Colin Coward
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  over my head over on the TV above my head talking about Zach Edie's the
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  top fifteen pick, that how this draft is the worst of all time.
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  I don't know how when there was an Anthony Bennett leg draft, but it's
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  gonna be. Yeah, this is gonna be the worst draft. So there's
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  no reason why Zach dy shouldn't be a top fifteen pick when he's dominating.
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  And his whole stance was that every team is the same, that they use
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  all the same an analytics, that's why all teams play the same, that
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  there's no true big men in the NBA anymore. That it's just that if
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  Zach edy were to come in, he would be a great player, and
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  that he's shown it, but it's just not the case when you watch him
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  play basketball. I don't know what games Colin Cowherd is watching, but sure
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  he's dominating college basketball. We've seen many great players in college basketball not make
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  it in the NBA, and this is I think this will be the same
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  case with Zach Edie because when you watch him play, he goes to the
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  same hook shot in the middle of the paint every single time. He's not
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  very great defensively, he's not a good perimeter defender. He doesn't move fast
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  enough. And then he just he doesn't have no left hand. Like we
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  will harp on Jaylen Brown not having a left hand. No, this is
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  a real not having a left hand. He shoots with two hands, going
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  with his left. I just don't see it happening while making NBA. And
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  lets think he's gonna have to play more athletic, better oriented defenders and offensive
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  players and Nikola Jokics, Victory and Binyama Joel Embiid, even Karl Anthony Towns
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  when healthy, he's gonna have to play these guys who have been in the
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  NBA longer and who have a who have much higher skill sets than him.
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  So I just don't think. I just don't see him making it in the
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  NBA. Like, not not to be disrespectful here, but he get cooked
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  by DeAndre Aiden and DeAndre Aiden he is he's not viewed as one of the
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  better. Way he's a solid player. Yeah, he's a solid player.
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  Like, okay, I'm trying to think of that. He just don't got
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  that dog in him. He's just I think he's a solid player. Yeah,
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  no, okay, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
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  Like if you were put DeAndre and I think next to another a big
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  that's more dominant than him, I think he would have a better role right
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  there. Do you think so? Yeah, Like, I just don't.
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  I don't think he's what he was planned to be as the main guy.
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  He's not that. Like he's a he's a fourth guy on it. I
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  mean, the Suns made it to a championship with him as the fourth option,
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  so he's a third option. So you know, he's a solid player
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  in the NBA. He's not this dominating big. And I don't think Zach
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  he's even close to the level of DeAndre aiden, Yeah, exactly. But
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  let's go ahead and move on to women's basketball right here. The Women's Basketball
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  Championship, in which it featured South Carolina and Iowa, in which South Carolina
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  they won eighty seven to seventy five, and they're the tenth team and women's
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  NCAA Division One basketball to go undefeated. Six of those times were Yukon,
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  which is crazy, then Baylor, Tennessee, Texas, and obviously South Carolina.
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  Now, but Josh, was there anything that you specifically took away from
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  this game? This was just South Carolina having more of a dominating paint presence,
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  dominating the boards. They had fifty one rebounds compared to Iowa's twenty nine.
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  And then it really comes down to Camilla Cordoso just really dominating the paint.
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  She didn't allow anyone to do anything. She had seventeen rebounds and three
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  blocks along with fifteen points. It really and then the defense was just stifling
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  the entire game. They switched bodies on and off of Kaitlyn Clark this entire
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  game, going from Malaysia for Wili, then putting on Johnson onto her,
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  just following or shadowing her the entire game and not letting her breathe. And
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  we saw that strategy with Yukon. It worked to an extent, it didn't
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  work completely, but South Carolina just has better, I believe, just better
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  players, pure basketball players than Yukon, and it just showed in this game.
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  They Iowa couldn't get to their spots when it came to the mid age
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  or even the paint. They had to settle for a lot of terrible threes.
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  Going down for twenty three came the Clark went ten for twenty eight in
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  this game. They were they were just flustered the entire game, forcing a
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  lot of shots. Gabby Marshall couldn't even get to her spot, Kate Martin
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  couldn't even work the paint like or work the mid range to the paint like
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  she usually does. So South Carolina really just dominated this game defensively and that
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  was the difference, I believe, and also having great offense coming off the
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  bench with Tessa Johnson and Long with their starting five. Yeah, they're freshmen
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  for South Carolina. That's what really stood out there because if I'm not mistaken,
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  Iowa, they got up to thirteen to two lead and it looked like
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  Kayla Clark was about to start cooking everybody with eighteen points in the first quarter.
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  So it didn't look at as good for a South Carolina at first.
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  But that's just a good adjustment by Don Staley. But speaking of her the
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  past three years, she has one hundred and nine and three record and two
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  championships, so she's reaching. I can't think of his name from Yukon the
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  basket women's basketball coach from Yukon, Gino. I can't think of his in
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  Gena Arima. Yeah, Arioma's she's not at that level. But she's definitely
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  reaching that status right there with this crazy three year stretch. And it was
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  Kaitlyn Clark that took her out last year, so maybe it would be it
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  would be three championships in a row, that's how dominant she's been. But
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  speaking of Kaitlyn Clark, as far as just how much of a pool she's
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  brought to women's basketball just in general, and what she's going to bring to
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  the WNBA. So just some quick things right here, in the championship game,
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  eighteen point seven million viewers mark the biggest TV TV churnout for women's basketball
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  and the biggest just basketball churnout since twenty nineteen. So that's just crazy right
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  there, how much she has a pool. And also another thing I want
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  to ask her, as far as there's been some people talking, some WNBA
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  players talking about Kaitlyn Clark, as far as Adana Start, Diana Old is
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  she just retired, yeah, Diana Tarassi, yeah, or whatever? But
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  how do you feel about that? Do you feel that it's a mixture of
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  hating or or reality for her, it's a reality, it's a mixture of
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  both. Because I think these w NBA players are realizing she's bringing in.
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  I'm gonna be honest, I didn't watch the last person I watched play basketball
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  for real. That was a woman, was my More. And that was
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  ten years ago, twelve years ago, not even probably fourteen years ago that
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  I watched a women's basketball game. You're in it. Yeah, I was
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  like eight years old when I watched Maya More play basketball. And because she
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  was the last person I believe since Kaylyn Clark who really like captivated audiences to
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  go watch a women's basketball game. And now we're looking at Kaylyn Clark,
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  who's just a media sensation. She plays like a Stephan Curry, if a
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  Stephan Curry in women form in and like that's gonna gravitate people who love to
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  see people just shoot threes and at efficient rate. I understand she had any
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  fishing game in this one, but I just think it's really coming out of
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  pure jealousy from those players because they're just not bringing in the attention. She's
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  immediately going to be the most polarizing player in the w NBA the second she
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  steps onto the court, and I think they're intimidated by that. Yeah,
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  they definitely are, but it's also bringing attention. I feel like this draft
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  class. It's gonna change a lot for the w NBA because obviously you have
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  Kayla rees on the flip Kling Clark, Angel Reese, and then you have
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  Camala Cardoso Awestily also Rakia Jackson from Tennessee. So you have these game changing
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  people going into the w NBA, and I feel like all of them,
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  let alone Kaylin Clark, who's the biggest star of them all, are all
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  getting are getting hate. So it's just it just sucks to see. But
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  I'm not gonna lie. I want to tune into the first w NBA game
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  of Kayln Clark and I would I just don't want to get Clark Jersey.
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  I'm not even gonna lie from that. Good. Well, So the Indiana
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  Fever, they have the number one overall pick. So dude, why is
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  this like a Larry Bird reincarnated going to go play. He's going to Indiana
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  and from She's just this is funny. No, but she's just I just
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  think it comes out of pure jealousy from these stars that they're like, what
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  did Brianna Stewart say? And your dad says he's gonna hate on it when
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  he hears this. Yes, Stat's don't make you the go. Stat's don't
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  make you the got, well damn it. If Kaitlyn Clark stats don't make
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  her the go, I don't know what it doesn't make her go. When
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  it comes to women's college basketball. The only person I'm arguing with her is
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  Maya Moore. That's the only person I'm arguing against her, because anyone else
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  they just didn't dominate the way that she dominated college basketball. And she,
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  like like I mentioned, and like you kind of mentioned, she has a
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  pool to the game where people want to watch. So the highest So the
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  three highest women's college basketball games ever watch, So this championship game eighteen point
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  seven million views. Then the next one is fourteen point two million views Yukon
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  versus Iowa. The third highest is twelve point three million views LSU and Iowa.
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  And that should just show you right there, all of those feature Iowa
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  and let alone Kaitlin Clark. So she's she's gonna bring a lot more fans
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  to the WNBA. And if anything, like I'm not trying to say Lebron
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  Jordan, but people they say Jordan he made everybody watch or he had this
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  influence on everybody. That's the same way Kaitlin Clark's doing. Am I trying
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  to compare the two? Hell, no, I'm not. But as far
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  as for WNBA, that's exactly what she's doing. And I don't know if
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  you agree, No, I agree. I agree that WNBA is about to
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  make a spike in money once once she steps on the court, even when
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  Angel resteps on the court, it's about to be it's about to be a
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  different a different league after that. Oh yeah, be grateful. But anything
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  else you want to talk about before we get into NBA news right here?
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  Now we can. We can shake it and bake it and keep it moving,
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  all right, Yes, sir, let's keep it moving. Or actually,
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  so this this is technically NBA news, but I guess we could kind
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  of consider it college. So the first thing right here that happened over the
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  week is lebron James Junior or Bronnie. He entered the transfer portal and declared
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  for the draft to keep his options open so he could return back to college
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  or go to the NBA. How do you feel about this one right here,
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  Josh? Do you think it's smart? I don't. I think it's
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  probably smart due to the fact that USC team USC's team had a lot of
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  hype coming into the season. They just didn't move up to it, especially
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  injuries caught up to them. But also so I do think him probably switching
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  to a different environment to kind of get his feedback underneath him would help him
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  out tremendously. I don't know where he has I don't know who still has
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  interest in Bronnie James and if there's any really big schools of blue blood or
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  even like just a major power five school that still has interest in him based
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  off his season. He showed great signs defensively, I will say that he
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  did show great signs playing defense. His offensive game has a lot to be
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  has. He has a lot left on the bone. I'm gonna say,
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  if we're gonna like nitpick his offensive game, we saw flashes, but other
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  than that, he really didn't show a lot. And I don't know if
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  it was him missing training due to his do to the heart condition he developed,
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  the developed in the offseason and he really kind of rushed his way back
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  into the to the fold to play this his his freshman season at USC,
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  but declaring for the draft, I don't know, it's it's just kind of
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  it's just kind of too soon. For me, I think you have to
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  do a little bit more time. I don't think he's ready for the NBA.
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  I don't think he's anywhere close to being ready for the NBA. These
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  are and he's gonna have a target on his back once he stepped onto an
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  NBA court because of who he is, and I think he has to develop
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  a little bit more before he makes that jump. Okay, So I'm gonna
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  say this. I feel like, I don't know if you kind of heard
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  alf Alfred and I talking about it yesterday at at Hooters. But as far
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  as Brownie James, he doesn't have a college game, he has the NBA
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  game. He fits the NBA game. And as far as him being a
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  defender, he's already up there. I say, offensively, no, no
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  way. Like you said, I agree with you one hundred percent. But
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  I think I'm not saying he's going to be a PJ. Tucker. Oh
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  he's a good passer too. Yeah he's a good passer. Yeah he's he's
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  a good pastor. And I feel like that that could be a good role
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  player here. I'm not over here trying to say this dude is gonna average
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  twenty eight points a game or whatever. I don't think that it's hard to
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  surpass what your father is doing, who's arguably one of the greatest, or
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  actually the greatest. I'm standing on business here. He won't live up to
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  that. There's no comparison. Okay, I know this is kind of off
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  topic, but do you think or have you thought about this? Has there
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  ever been a son that's outlived their father as far as athlete wise, not
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  even including NBA, like football, baseball, Kim Griffy. That's that's only
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  two Patrick Mahomes. But I'm talking about the same same sport, same sport.
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  Yeah, King Griffy, Stephen Curry or Kobe Kobe Oh yeah, Kobe
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  uh Britton Berry never Rick Berry is still probably better than Thompson, his dad,
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  Michael Thompson. Clay Thompson over Michael Thompson. Yeah, that's a good
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  one. I don't think there's any Manning, Eli Manning. Oh, yeah,
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  that that's true. That's true. I don't think there's that many else.
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  Clay Matthews, Oh yeah, Clay Matthews. But his unchaele was Bruce
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  Matthews. So I don't know if that mm hmmm. I don't know if
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  that counts because Bruce Matthews, but Clay Matthews was a dog also, So
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  there's not very many. It's what we're doing. There's not very many.
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  Yeah, no, there's there's not many. So it's gonna be hard to
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  overcome. But next thing right here is Kyrie Irving and Chris stops Porzingis were
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  named players Players till the Weeks to Mahomes. No, that was good.
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  That was that was good right there? That was good. No, But
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  yeah, Kyrie and Chris stops Porzingis were named Players of the Week here.
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  So these are two teams that they're obviously in the playoffs, and both of
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  these their role players in their own way, maybe more than others, they're
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  more important. But how important do you think it is for both of these
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  guys to be playing playing this well going into the playoffs stretch for the for
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  the Boston Celtics, it's extremely important. I believe christophs Persingas will be playing
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  this well going into the playoffs only because they've never really had well. I
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  guess Al Horford, but Al Horford is not the same offensive player that christolphs
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  Persingis is. He may be a little bit better of a defender, but
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  he's not the same pure offensive player that christophs Persingis is. And if christolphs
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  Persingis is playing at this level going into the playoffs, I think the Celtics
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  are going to be really scary going going through the playoffs, because sure they
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  have the they have the defense, they have the stars with Jason Tatum and
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  Jeland Brown, with any of that extra guy that could make shots, and
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  I think christophs Persinas can be that guy for them, so he keeps this
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  up. I think that's gonna be bigger than Kyrie being for the MAVs in
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  my opinion. Mm hmm. Oh well that's interesting right there. But all
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  right, that's on. I just think because Luca can make up ground on
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  his own, like we've seen it before, it's gonna be difficult because he's
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  gonna overdo it for sure. Yeah, but Kyrie can have an I don't
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  know, because the Resultics don't really have an interior presence outside of Christoptin.
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  He's not that greatue interior wise, what do you mean they have Xavier Tillman.
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  Man, my bad. Now, but let's go to move on to
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  this next one, in which Julius Randall is officially going undergoing season anding surgery
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  injury and his torn labrum, so I know he hasn't played in a long
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  time, But how big is this loss for the Knicks. I believe that
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  they've kind of adjusted to what they wanted to do so far for the rest
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  of the season without him, so I do think they've made up ground.
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  I think the biggest thing is getting og back healthy and the Mitchell Robinson back
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  healthy, because that those would go a long way for them going in.
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  And the way that Jallen Brunston's playing right now at an MVP level. I'm
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  not saying he's gonna win MVP, but he's at an MVP level right now.
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  He can if they keep this up. I still have my doubts.
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  We've wait. Last episode we went on Nicks possibly won't win. So I
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  really think that if you want to answer to this question, just go listen
• 23:07
  to the Yeah, go listen to the next pot. Yeah. But I
• 23:10
  do think it's a big hit, but they it's enough times where they should
• 23:12
  have adjusted already, and they look they probably have. Yeah. I think
• 23:17
  it just affects the Knicks long term or not long term as far as championship
• 23:22
  aspirations. That's where it affects them because not that they had this great chance,
• 23:27
  but the little chance they had is Julius Reynald coming back. And because
• 23:32
  that's twenty points per game, that takes some pressure off of Jalen Brunson.
• 23:37
  But obviously he's not coming back. But they could still be a good playoff
• 23:40
  team. But all right, next topic here, Malachi Flynn from the Detroit
• 23:45
  Pistons goes for fifty points. Only there's only been three players in NBA history
• 23:52
  to score fifty points as a reserve nineteen ninety three Nick Anderson. Oh,
• 23:56
  and then the last one. Can you guess the last Ross with the Terrence
• 24:00
  Ross. No, he will start in that game. Dang, I thought
• 24:04
  it was there's one more Okay, I'll give you one more hit twenty nineteen.
• 24:14
  He was a reserve. He was he was a reserve guard two guard.
• 24:19
  Oh, Arre Rose, No, he'll start in that game. He
• 24:23
  was starting, Okay, go Jamal Crawford Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 24:30
  that's cool. Yeah. I had two good guesses though, Derek Rose
• 24:33
  educated guesses. Yeah, No, those were good guesses right there. But
• 24:38
  yeah, so obviously you have people late in the year they start going for
• 24:44
  a crazy amount of points. But we're not going to get into Malachi Flynn
• 24:48
  debate here, but just shout out to Malachi Flynn for dropping fifty points.
• 24:52
  But all right, next one right here is Steve Clifford, the head or
• 24:56
  the head coach for the Hornets, is expected to step down and go into
• 25:00
  the front office, which means the Hornets are going to be looking for a
• 25:03
  head coach. Do you have any suggestions they think they should go for a
• 25:08
  head coach? Or why is he going to the front office for they suck?
• 25:12
  Like what what? What is he going to offer to them to make
• 25:15
  them better? They've already brought fired him and brought him back because they couldn't
• 25:19
  get a replacement. Why is he going to the front This is why the
• 25:22
  Hornets are the Hornets. They just don't want to get rid of people that
• 25:25
  that bring them down. You know, I wonder who owns the team?
• 25:29
  Well, yeah, you're right. He's trying to sell them too so he
• 25:33
  can get his name out of it. Yeah. You know they always say
• 25:36
  the shoes that helps is kind of kind of living good. Huh. Lebron
• 25:41
  as a team a sports owner is doing pretty well for himself. I'd say
• 25:45
  so. Yeah, I would say so with Liverpool. Yeah. But all
• 25:49
  right, but who and the Red Sox. He owns a part of the
• 25:53
  Red Sox? Yeah, I think he does. Really, I did not
• 25:59
  know that. Oh shoot, oh okay, well I don't. I don't
• 26:04
  know many head coach hirings or people that are gonna be on the market this
• 26:08
  year. I don't know if you have any Alvin Gentry. All right,
• 26:18
  yeah, let's let's move on to the Let's move on to the next topic
• 26:22
  here, let's move on to the next topic. But all right, so
• 26:27
  if y'all, if y'all, if y'are avid listeners, y'all know what we're
• 26:30
  talking about. But all right, so just a side story. I don't
• 26:37
  want to get much into this because it goes into the games of the week,
• 26:40
  But both the Clippers and MAVs come back in their victories, one by
• 26:44
  twenty six and one by twenty two. So the Clippers, they had their
• 26:48
  largest comeback in Clippers history twenty six points against the Calves. So do you
• 26:55
  do you have Okay, I'm I'm gonna throw this suggestion at you for this.
• 27:00
  I wanted to bring this up for a specific reason. I feel like,
• 27:03
  no lead is safe now because the way people are able to shoot the
• 27:07
  three compared to back then in the nineties and two thousands, you could be
• 27:12
  up ten and people will be like, oh, that's a blowout, that's
• 27:15
  game over. So it just shows how much it's changed, and no lead
• 27:22
  it's safe because of Steph Curry. Yeah, I've seen the Spurs give up
• 27:27
  like probably twenty plus fifteen point leads this year, so I truly understand where
• 27:32
  this is coming from. But all right, this next one right here,
• 27:41
  this is kind of important here. So three teams within one spot in the
• 27:47
  West that hasn't happened in the final week in either conference in sixteen years,
• 27:52
  and this has only happened eight times. So does this show to how good
• 27:57
  the lead league is becoming? Or do you think this is just a rare
• 28:03
  circumstance here. No, I think it's showing how good the league is actually
• 28:07
  becoming. Like outside the made super teams, all these other teams are pretty
• 28:11
  much built from the ground up. It's showing that the just showing the the
• 28:18
  talent there is in the NBA today. There's just stars everywhere you look,
• 28:21
  even on the bad teams. There's a super there's someone brewing that's either on
• 28:23
  their way or who is a superstar just needing players around them. And that's
• 28:29
  pretty cool to see because it just leads. It's just gonna when the old
• 28:33
  guys go out like like the like pretty much the whole Clippers team, or
• 28:37
  when Steph and Clay decide are their days are past them? I don't know
• 28:41
  about Steph, but Clay his days are looking behind them. Draymond a little
• 28:44
  bit. We're gonna see, We're gonna see some of we're gonna see some
• 28:48
  of these younger guys take over. And it's good to see that the league
• 28:51
  is in good hands moving forward because with these teams that we're talking about,
• 28:53
  you have Anthony Edwards, you have Yeah, you have Anthony Edwards, you
• 28:57
  have kids, Jamalmore. Even the whole Thunder team is an average of like
• 29:04
  twenty two years old. So it just shows that even the Mavericks who are
• 29:11
  two games behind the Clippers, and the Clippers have fifty wins, it's Luca,
• 29:15
  It's yeah, Luka. Dawnchis on that team. So the league is
• 29:18
  in great hands moving forward, and I think it's cool that we're going to
• 29:22
  be in this era of basketball yeah, no, definitely, And so we
• 29:26
  talked about the West a little bit here, but in the Eastern Conference,
• 29:30
  just one and a half games separate the two seed from the five seed,
• 29:34
  and the last time this happened going into the last week of the season,
• 29:37
  it was nineteen seventy nine. So I know we talked about the West as
• 29:41
  far as they're the talent gap there, it's getting close. What do you
• 29:48
  think this says about the East here? Does it say the exact same thing
• 29:51
  or does it say it's the much weaker conference here? It definitely is weaker
• 29:59
  on the standpoint of how these teams play. I think with the Cavs,
• 30:03
  the Pacers, and the Magic, it's more team oriented basketball instead of leaning
• 30:07
  on your stars and your role players filling the gaps outside of them. The
• 30:11
  only team within there is the Knicks, who rely on Jalen Brunson completely and
• 30:17
  the Bucks who rely pretty much on Damon Joannis for everything. So I do
• 30:22
  think there's a difference in the style of play, but it's still great teams
• 30:25
  with good players on that are able to push these teams forward. I do
• 30:30
  think the West is tougher, but it's kind of the same on the flip
• 30:33
  side that we're just in great hands right now. You look at the players
• 30:37
  on this team, Evian Mobiley, Darius Garland, Franz Wagner, Paulo Bnchero,
• 30:41
  Jalen Suggs, Tyrese Halliburn with the Pacers, it's just yeah, it's
• 30:45
  just the same thing moving forward along in the east. Also yeah, okay,
• 30:51
  and then next thing right here, there's been reports that Kawhi has Nie
• 30:56
  Swellen. He has at the past three to four games. I'm not exactly
• 31:02
  sure if well, if we include tonight's game, it's going to be four
• 31:06
  games that he's missed. But he's missed the past four games. But they
• 31:10
  said it's nothing too serious. If the playoffs would have started today, he
• 31:14
  would be playing. So how big is this for the Clippers. I've heard
• 31:18
  it's not too serious since like twenty sixteen, So I'm so it's pretty big.
• 31:27
  He's bound to get injured. No, he's he ruined. Well,
• 31:30
  no, we have wouldn't be Now I'm not angry anymore, So thank you
• 31:36
  for a sacrifice. He was a sacrifice, but he was being a little
• 31:40
  I'm not even going to get into my emotions right now, not being into
• 31:44
  my emotions right now over if there is a purge, just know who my
• 31:48
  first target is. Just know who my first target is. That's crazy.
• 31:55
  But for as far as I think that's a big law, it's gonna be
• 32:00
  if he if his knee doesn't get better, which history tells it's probably not
• 32:05
  gonna get better no matter what they say. It's a big loss for the
• 32:07
  Clippers, and they won't move advanced. They won't there's another year where the
• 32:10
  Clippers have high hopes, high aspirations. They don't make the Eastern the Western
• 32:14
  Conference finals. I think that's gonna be another year and it's gonna have to
• 32:17
  be a rebuild. It's gonna have I don't know how you keep moving on
• 32:20
  with these older players and trading away draft capital and and even trading away stars
• 32:24
  that you have on your bench to keep bringing older veterans to keep pushing forward.
• 32:30
  You're gonna have to, and especially going into a new stadium, you're
• 32:32
  gonna have to have new faces, new stars, people to keep it moving,
• 32:37
  keep the ticket sales up. And that's what the Clippers are just gonna
• 32:39
  have to do. They're gonna have to, I think, honestly, if
• 32:42
  this is not the year or we're gonna wait another year for these guys to
• 32:45
  keep getting injured and finishing the same spot they were the year before. It's
• 32:49
  just that's just that for me. Yeah, no, it's true. But
• 32:52
  if Kawai you want to come back to the Spurs and play alongside people,
• 32:55
  I will gladly accept you back. Oh you'll you'll return him open arms,
• 33:00
  But yes I will. But we're not going to talk about this game tonight.
• 33:05
  But the Clippers and Sons they're playing each other right now and the score
• 33:07
  is thirty seven to seven at the end of the first quarter, so it
• 33:12
  looks like they're not missing Kawhi that much. And then off top right here,
• 33:16
  off topic, do you like the Clippers jerseys and the new logo that
• 33:21
  they have? Is it the one with the boat? Yeah? Yeah,
• 33:27
  yeah, yeah yeah yeah No, it makes no sense to me. I
• 33:32
  still don't even know why they're Clippers, Like why, what? What's a
• 33:36
  Clipper? I don't know what's the Laker? What is it? What is
• 33:42
  it los Angeles? Team names have to do with Los Angeles, like the
• 33:45
  Lakers. There's no lakes in Los Angeles. I know that they came from
• 33:50
  Indianapolis and the Great Lakes, like, yeah, they didn't have the better
• 33:52
  marketing strategy, like like, well, like the Lakers. Oh no,
• 33:58
  they weren't iconic yet. No no, no, yeah, no, they
• 34:00
  weren't iconic yet. I have the Clippers. Why did they keep the name
• 34:04
  from San Diego? Like they didn't want to change their name when they went
• 34:07
  to Los Angeles? Like it seems like very lazy marketing to me. Even
• 34:13
  the Lakers are like probably one of the most famous. I'd say that's one
• 34:15
  of the most iconic teams. But yeah, all right, next thing right
• 34:20
  here, the Philadelphia seventy six Ers has has the easiest remaining schedule of all
• 34:25
  the playoff teams left with the teams they they're playing with an average of thirty
• 34:31
  eight percent winning percentage compared to the Bucks, who have the most difficult schedule
• 34:37
  remaining, with the average winning percentage of sixty seven percent. So how big
• 34:43
  do you think this is for the Sixers here? Would you allenbid coming back?
• 34:47
  I think it's extremely big, especially escaping the Spurs that like they did
• 34:52
  on the other night on Sunday. So I think they went a couple in
• 34:57
  either the Pacers, Cavaliers, Nick's Magic or Bucks lose two or one.
• 35:00
  I think they're gonna be right back in the where they don't even have to
• 35:01
  play in the plane. And Joelnbie came in right at the right time.
• 35:07
  Yeah, and we're not gonna get into standings that much, but just this
• 35:10
  last thing right here, So we're not gonna go over Tuesday's games, but
• 35:15
  there's some marquee games that are coming up throughout this week since it's the last
• 35:19
  week of the season. So on Wednesday you have the Maths versus the Heat,
• 35:22
  the Magic versus the Bucks, Wolves versus Nuggets, Suns versus Clippers.
• 35:28
  Then Thursday you have Kings versus Celtics and Pelicans. Wait I wrote the Kings
• 35:32
  twice, and then on Friday the Pelicans and Kings. So there's some marquee
• 35:37
  matchups coming up. So okay, Magic and Bucks. As far as this
• 35:44
  one right here, just I know we don't do predictions for NBA. We
• 35:47
  probably should start doing it, but I think this is gonna be real interesting
• 35:52
  right here, Like how you were talking about, it's so close, so
• 35:55
  the Magic they could make a real good push for that second seed right there,
• 36:00
  and all of these games they are important coming down the stretch, So
• 36:02
  do you want the second seed? I don't think so yo, or maybe
• 36:07
  I don't know. Well, all right, well yeah you would probably you
• 36:12
  would probably want the second seed because if the Sixers somehow jump up to the
• 36:15
  sixth, to the sixth seed, then they played the third seed. Yeah
• 36:20
  right, they're only Yeah, yeah, if the Sixers stay, stay in
• 36:24
  the play in and you have to play the Sixers at the seventh and you're
• 36:29
  either the Bucks or the Magic, that's just something I wouldn't want to do.
• 36:31
  Yeah, that's true. Well, since since we're kind of mentioning it,
• 36:35
  let's go ahead and get into the NBA standings here in which every single
• 36:40
  team it's official as far as with the play in and playoffs. It's just
• 36:45
  all about seeding now. And we're gonna go over this Eastern Conference first,
• 36:49
  which the Boston Celtics they clinched to one seed, the Bucks and and you
• 36:58
  didn't make the playoffs. How was that? The Bucks have the two seeds,
• 37:04
  the Magic have the three seed, Nicks, four seed, Calves,
• 37:07
  five seed, Pacers, six seed, seventy six or seven seed Heat eight
• 37:13
  seed. The Bulls are the nine seed and the Hawks are the ten seed
• 37:15
  to play it out. So the play in as far as between the Bulls
• 37:19
  and Hawks, they're officially clinched right there. But let's go over as far
• 37:23
  as where it gets really interesting, all the way from three to eight here.
• 37:29
  So where do you see this falling? Right here? Josh? Do
• 37:31
  you have any predictions where you think this is going to go? All right?
• 37:36
  Based off my expertise, boys, put this in your bets right now.
• 37:40
  Knicks will be the third seed, Matt Calves will be the fourth seed,
• 37:47
  the Magic will be the fifth seed, the seventy six Ers will be
• 37:52
  the sixth seed, and the Pacers will be the seventh seed, and the
• 37:55
  Heat will stay the eighth seed. That's my prediction right there. Okay,
• 38:00
  okay, I like that prediction. And man, as far as from the
• 38:07
  play in and then this and the six and five right here, there's only
• 38:12
  a game game and a half difference right here between the Cavs Pacers, So
• 38:16
  it's I think that the pace or not the Pacers the Sixers could get all
• 38:22
  the way up to the five seed now, and that's not even crazy,
• 38:25
  it's not But okay, I want to ask this question. So Joel Ebi,
• 38:30
  he hasn't played. It was over three months don't you think it's better
• 38:36
  that they should be in the play in so we could get more rust off
• 38:38
  instead of getting more rest. No, I think a guarantee playoff spot is
• 38:44
  better than no guarantee playoffs. But mm hmm, I think, okay,
• 38:49
  say, if it stays how it is, the Sixers play the heat,
• 38:52
  I feel really looking good. He's looking good, like he really like.
• 38:54
  He hasn't looked like he lost a step or anything. So yeah, I
• 38:59
  really do. It doesn't matter for a guy like Joel Embii, but I
• 39:02
  think the biggest thing is just conditioning. That's the biggest thing. He's he's
• 39:07
  getting his buckets. I think before this game tonight versus the Grizzlies, he
• 39:12
  had eighty four points and eighty three minutes, which is ridiculous. He's still
• 39:19
  on that or MVP trajectory. But I don't know. I just feel like
• 39:23
  he needs to be playing instead of resting. Because yes, I know he's
• 39:30
  still coming back from that injury. It's not one hundred percent. But I
• 39:35
  think that if he gets some more that rust off, whenever you get into
• 39:37
  that playoff series against a potential Milwaukee or say the Magic go up to the
• 39:43
  two seed, then I'd prefer that better than him getting even more time off,
• 39:49
  if that makes sense. But okay, now we have to really talk
• 39:54
  about it the Boston Celtics. If say, if the seven and eight seed
• 40:00
  they won their playing games, the Boston Celtics would be playing the Miami Heat.
• 40:06
  How would you feel about it this year? The Miami Heat. They're
• 40:08
  always a tough team. So how do you feel about it this year?
• 40:14
  I feel like the Celtics will win this one this year. I just don't
• 40:16
  feel the same. We talked about it last week. Also, no,
• 40:21
  Tyler Harrow looking not looking like he's gonna come back. No came. Yeah,
• 40:27
  but how I don't know, Like, like you're saying the rust point,
• 40:30
  Joel Embiat is Joel Embiid. Tyler Harrow is not Joel Embiid. He's
• 40:35
  not. He's not that type of guy, you know. So I don't
• 40:37
  know he's gonna get acclib Yeah, he's that guy, but he's not that
• 40:42
  guy. You know what I'm saying, Like he's that guy, but not
• 40:45
  that guy, you know. So I don't know how fast is he gonna
• 40:50
  ge acclimated. But even outside, if you have Tyler Harrow coming back,
• 40:52
  you don't have a game, Vincent, you don't have a Max Strews.
• 40:55
  You lost these key pieces that that were on your team last year who really
• 41:00
  held it down for you. It's not the same. It's just not the
• 41:02
  same team. You know. Even Kyle Lowry isn't on this team anymore either.
• 41:07
  Yeah, So you don't have that that backup point guard, that veteran
• 41:10
  leadership coming off the bench to keep the things moving forward that you would have
• 41:15
  last year. So I just didn't this team, this heat team isn't the
• 41:17
  same team as it was last year. I get you and Nikola topic coming
• 41:22
  alright, right, Nikola Jovic Jovic, They're all Nikola Jovich. He's coming
• 41:32
  into a little bit of his own. But it's just not the same effect
• 41:35
  that it has for me as it did last year. Yeah, Nicola Jovich
• 41:39
  Jokic. That's and I gotta say this, Josh, I think that the
• 41:46
  Celtics are somewhat becoming underrated here as far as from some or not some majority
• 41:53
  of the NBA media. So, Josh, you know, they have the
• 41:57
  third best net rating in NBA history history. And let me give you this.
• 42:02
  Let me give you this. Okay, didn't we hear the same thing
• 42:07
  about the Baltimore Ravens this year. Didn't we hear the same thing about the
• 42:09
  Baltimore Ravens this year? How'd that turnout? How'd that turn out? That's
• 42:15
  football. That's different. Different, it's the same. It's the same parallel.
• 42:21
  You have Sometimes the analytics go out the window when you have to play
• 42:27
  the goats and the Celtics are gonna run into one of the Goats in the
• 42:30
  championship. They do make it, it's not gonna have it. Well,
• 42:35
  that's not till the championship. Yeah, Bro, is a Celtics? Is
• 42:39
  it Celtics? Okay? With winning a conference championship? Fair? Fair,
• 42:44
  that's fair. I just feel like there's the only one that poses a threat
• 42:50
  is the Knicks here. But again, they're not healthy. They don't have
• 42:52
  Julius Rondo og up like a Bucks team at the top of their game.
• 42:57
  Isn't well tonight. Yeah, well, we're not gonna get into that.
• 43:02
  But ebid Tyres Maxie the way Tyres Maxi has been playing, I don't think
• 43:08
  the series. Kelly Ubray, they have Key playing nice this year. Bro,
• 43:14
  don't don't cap great defensive player this year? Yeah, he's playing good.
• 43:17
  Offensively good looking while doing it, you know he he's gonna get job.
• 43:22
  I was waited, I was I was waiting. I was waited.
• 43:25
  That's why I was already laughing. All was waiting for that putch slide.
• 43:30
  But no, I just don't think in a seven game series this year,
• 43:35
  outside of the Knicks or potentially the Sixers, it depends whenever the Sixers.
• 43:40
  If the Sixers play them in the conference finals, when Joel Embiid has no
• 43:45
  Russ left, then okay, I would say probably Sixers. But every other
• 43:50
  team I feel comfort with Boston in the seven game series. I don't think
• 43:53
  they want to see Joel Embiid because who's gonna guard him. Who's guarding Joel
• 44:00
  on the on the Boston Celtics. No, I get you, I get
• 44:05
  you. I understand that you're not gonna stop great players. But just the
• 44:08
  talent this year that they have is ridiculous. You have Drew Holliday, Derek
• 44:14
  White, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Christops Porzingis. That's the best starting
• 44:19
  five in the NBA right now. Maybe not the best fit, but as
• 44:23
  far as talent wise, didn't they have Drew Holiday, Jaylen Brown, Jason
• 44:30
  Tatum, Al Horford, Marcus mart and all these guys before. They had
• 44:37
  talent. They've always had talent. They had Derek White too, they had
• 44:39
  all this talent. They didn't get the job done well. And he wasn't
• 44:44
  super saying yet he had to go bald. Yeah, but they still had
• 44:47
  Defensive Player of the Year on the other side. So no, no,
• 44:51
  no, no, I get you, I get you. I just it's
• 44:54
  just hard for me. I think that the Celtics they're just they're just too
• 45:00
  damn good of a team like the Bucks. I've already told you about the
• 45:04
  Bucks how I feel about them. And in a seven game series, it's
• 45:07
  usually the better team that wins. And I've seen some stuff from the Boston
• 45:13
  Celtics. If I'm wrong, you could completely call me out. I'm perfectly
• 45:16
  fine with that. I've had plenty of bad takes in our forty episodes of
• 45:21
  doing this. But if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But it's just I'm
• 45:28
  I would say this. I feel a nine out of ten as far as
• 45:30
  the Boston Celtics coming out of the East. That's how confident I am.
• 45:37
  So if you had to pick a conference championship representative, who would it be
• 45:42
  the Hawks. No, oh, you're right, I forgot that. Now
• 45:47
  the Hawks they give some week or they they do well against the Celtics.
• 45:53
  So maybe if we're not picking Kobe White here, then who are what are
• 45:59
  we doing? What are we doing? I'm you're right, honestly for me,
• 46:04
  for me, for me, I'm gonna trust the process with this one.
• 46:10
  I trust. I'm not mad with this. I'm not mad at that.
• 46:13
  I'm I'm not gonna lie. I'm not mad at that. I'm not
• 46:16
  mad at that. That's that's interesting, I would say. So for those
• 46:21
  that don't know to trust the process, it's Philadelphia self. Yeah, I'm
• 46:23
  thinking the Philadelphia seventy six ers. They've been trusting the process for eleven years
• 46:29
  already, but this year is gonna come through. I'd say Celtics one.
• 46:36
  The way the Sixers are have been playing two nixt three and the Bucks fourth,
• 46:44
  and those are the only ones I feel have a legitimate shot. You
• 46:46
  have the Knicks above the Bucks. Yeah, Jalen br he's the best guard
• 46:54
  the Eastern Conference. Jalen. I hate it on the contract. He deserves
• 46:59
  it, he's that guy, but he looks the only guy that they have
• 47:04
  he's the only guy that they have, the only guy. Tune into the
• 47:08
  last episode, like we're talking about talking about the only guy. Yeah,
• 47:16
  No, I was gonna say something outlandish right now that every old head was
• 47:21
  gonna go crazy about. But I'll keep it to myself. I'll keep it
• 47:25
  to myself right now. So what would you have the bucks? Would you
• 47:32
  have him to? Okay, i'll say it. You pulled my you pulled
• 47:37
  my hand right there, I'll say it, say it, say it.
• 47:40
  Who do I want leading my team with no other stars? Jalen Brunson or
• 47:46
  Alan Iverson. I'm taking Jalen Brunson over Alan Iverson. That's just me though.
• 47:54
  That's just me though. That's just me though. No, let's talk
• 47:59
  about it. Let's talk, but I'm talking about it. I'm talking about
• 48:02
  it outside that one year, another year where Alanson made his team better that
• 48:07
  year, made it to the finals and won an m v P. Yeah,
• 48:12
  cake walk, who was he playing the new Jersey nets? He freaking
• 48:15
  the nets? Made the finals the next year and then the Raptors. I
• 48:21
  just want to bring who won that f who won that finals? Gods take
• 48:25
  it always goes back to the Damn's first no, I don't know, and
• 48:36
  I'm just kidding that was atlandish. I still stand on business with it because
• 48:39
  I'm I think I'm gonna get so canceled saying this stuff, bro like this
• 48:45
  part. One of the most the most over high players of all time.
• 48:50
  You know, he's he wears number three. He wears number three, and
• 48:53
  he has he has A, an, A, and and I in his
• 48:58
  names. So you know that's just me most over. But okay, so
• 49:04
  he won an m v P, went MVP, never made it back.
• 49:08
  Yeah, was a cancer to his team. Went to the Pistons. They
• 49:13
  didn't make the championship after he made it. They after going back to back
• 49:15
  years. Yeah, okay, the Nuggets. He couldn't get along, couldn't
• 49:21
  get Medal of the Rock, couldn't be the understudy, couldn't do it.
• 49:24
  And after that, what happened, I don't know. I don't know what
• 49:28
  happened after that. He just fanished. He went to the Grizzlies. That's
• 49:31
  where he went to the Grizzlies. They got Mike Conley for over him.
• 49:37
  You know. So it's kind of like pick or choose. I don't know.
• 49:40
  He had He's a great players, overrated who that's a very great player,
• 49:46
  but overrated over I understand offensive game, masterpiece all right, defensively,
• 49:53
  but did he make his teams better after that one year? He did not.
• 50:00
  If if we're going down that route, isn't Carmelo the most overrated player,
• 50:04
  then I didn't even rate Mellow. So I'm just I'm just saying,
• 50:07
  like, he's a good he's a good post, he's a good ISO player,
• 50:12
  greatest probably Team USA basketball player of all time. I'll give him that,
• 50:16
  just yeah. But but he's a Hall of famer. Mellow is a
• 50:21
  Hall of Famer. But I don't I don't think people consider them in the
• 50:25
  same level that they consider an Alan Iverson. Allen Iverson is such an icon
• 50:30
  when it comes to off the court stuff that puts a level brandow people's eyes.
• 50:35
  Yeah, okay, dude, we just want to Okay, let's get
• 50:38
  back onto the motion of the podcast right now. Yeah, yeah, let's
• 50:43
  get back on and let's just go to this Western Conference right here. So
• 50:46
  okay, we're gonna we're gonna just start off with these top three seeds right
• 50:52
  now. So as of right now, there's still games going on. But
• 50:54
  as of right now, nine three p m. April ninth, Minnesota Timberwolves
• 51:00
  have the one seed fifty four and twenty four. The Denver Nuggets are the
• 51:04
  two seed fifty four and twenty four as well. Minnesota has a tiebreaker and
• 51:08
  the Oklahoma City Thunder are one game back of them with the fifty three and
• 51:13
  twenty five record. So I asked you this last week, Josh, but
• 51:16
  I'm gonna ask you this again. Who's gonna have the one seed? And
• 51:20
  how is this going to play out? It's tough. I don't know.
• 51:35
  It's tough. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's between
• 51:37
  the tim Over Nuggets though they've been better over the last ten games. Yeah,
• 51:42
  didn't say that under or five and five in the last ten games.
• 51:45
  Well, to be fair, Shay and j Dubb, Jaylen Williams, he
• 51:47
  hasn't been they haven't been playing. They've been resting, kat ain't playing for
• 51:52
  the Timberwolves, and Jamal Murray and playing for the Nuggets. So yeah,
• 51:57
  but they're not They're not going to different scare. Yes, player is the
• 52:00
  best player and then Williams is the second best player on their team. So
• 52:07
  Chet Holmgren is like their fifth best player. Is what you're trying to say
• 52:12
  right now, Okay, Shay j dub Giddy. Nah, he's better than
• 52:23
  Lou Dort. Nah, he's better than You're the best player on your team,
• 52:29
  better than Victor Win. He can't all right. Other than that,
• 52:32
  I think I'm gonna go with the I don't know. I don't know who's
• 52:37
  gonna finish top. Okay, Okay, here, I'm I'm gonna help you
• 52:42
  out here. I'm gonna help you out here. I'm a yeah. Okay.
• 52:47
  So on Wednesday, the Timbolves and Denver Nuggets play each other. Then
• 52:53
  the Nuggets play the Spurs and Grizzlies, and that's how they finish out.
• 52:59
  And that's how they finish out, and they're playing the Jazz tonight. The
• 53:01
  Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Wizards tonight obviously play the Nuggets, but then they have
• 53:07
  the Hawks and Sons. So if if the Timberwolves beat the Nuggets and they
• 53:13
  win one of their last two remaining games, they get the one seed umber
• 53:15
  one seed, and then the Thunder let me just read the Thunder. They
• 53:20
  play the Spurs, then they play the Bucks and Mavericks. Oh that nah,
• 53:25
  I don't see them winning. I don't know, I think it's gonna
• 53:29
  be Timberwolves. Okay, so you have so you have it the way it
• 53:34
  is right now, Timberwolves, Nuggets, thunderd I think this. Okay,
• 53:38
  So I think that the Nuggets they're gonna win. They're gonna win against the
• 53:43
  Timberwolves, and I think they're gonna get the one seed. And I do
• 53:47
  agree that the thunder they're gonna have the well, I don't know they're only
• 53:52
  okay, I'm gonna say this, Denver gets the one seed, Oklahoma City
• 53:58
  gets the two seed, Minnesota gets it a three seed. I feel like,
• 54:02
  okay, see, they'll win against the Bucks or Mavericks, one of
• 54:05
  those two teams they're because the Mavericks they basically got this five seed lot up.
• 54:13
  I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that that you did not not
• 54:15
  say that they're gonna go to in one in these last three games. Is
• 54:20
  that better? I guess I get so. Yeah, So no, I
• 54:28
  say, Denver, okay, see than Minnesota. Then for this four or
• 54:32
  five it's pretty much locked up right here. The Clippers are fifty and twenty
• 54:37
  eight. The Mavericks are forty nine and thirty. The only thing they are
• 54:40
  battling here for realistically is who's gonna have the home court advantage? So kind
• 54:46
  of going into early We're not gonna talk playoff matchups yet, but just a
• 54:52
  quick prediction. Who wins? Clippers are Mavericks Mavericks? Do you think it's
• 55:00
  going all seven? Things going six and the Mavericks are gonna win? And
• 55:06
  now with Kawhi with that Nie Swollen, I'm not sure about that now.
• 55:12
  I am not sure about that. But the way the Mavericks are playing right
• 55:15
  now, the way Luca and Currie are playing right now, it's gonna be
• 55:20
  the Mavericks. Yeah. No, I would say the Mavericks, and I
• 55:23
  think they may get up to that four seed right there, which is gonna
• 55:27
  be big for the MAVs getting that home court advantage here. But as far
• 55:31
  as where the real interesting topic starts is all the way from the sixth seed
• 55:37
  to the ten seed. So let me go over the standings first. So
• 55:40
  the sixth seed is the Phoenix Suns who are forty six and thirty two,
• 55:45
  and then the New Orleans Pelicans are the seventh seed forty six and thirty two
• 55:50
  as well, and then the eight seed is a Sacramento Kings forty five and
• 55:53
  thirty three, the Lakers nine seed forty five and thirty four. In the
• 55:58
  ten seed, Golden State Warriors are forty three and thirty five. So where
• 56:02
  does this Where is this going to match up? Who's gonna get this last
• 56:06
  six seed? Who's going to be the seven eight, who's gonna be the
• 56:08
  nine? Ten seed? Right here? Well, with the Warriors beating the
• 56:14
  Lakers right now sixty one to forty eight, I believe that will probably.
• 56:20
  I don't know. Kings have been falling down, Pelicans have been falling down.
• 56:28
  I just it's tough. I believe Suns stay where they're at. I
• 56:34
  do believe the Sons will stay where they're at. I think the other seven
• 56:37
  through ten is subject to change. I think the Warriors they can't really move
• 56:40
  up much. I think they the highest. They maybe end up with nine
• 56:44
  or eight. But as far as these other I don't think. I don't
• 56:46
  see much change. I just think there's a little there's gonna be like one
• 56:50
  one going up and up and down one or so. I can see what
• 56:52
  happening. For me, I don't see much changing. So with the Suns
• 56:59
  losing sixty sixty two to twenty seven versus the Clippers right now, are they
• 57:05
  are playing? Is Devin Booker playing, everybody's playing, Josh, everybody's playing.
• 57:13
  Everybody's playing based off that the Phoenix Sounds are gonna drop all the way
• 57:16
  to the ten seed. No, no, okay, hey, some days
• 57:22
  people can't miss. Some day people can't. Yeah, yeah, no,
• 57:25
  that's true. But also scoring twenty seven points with almost it being people miss
• 57:30
  some day people, I guess they miss a lot. Damn No. But
• 57:36
  I say Pelicans they get the they get the sixth seed, and I say
• 57:42
  that Phoenix, Phoenix, they have the seventh seed. And I think the
• 57:47
  Lakers are still gonna jump up to the eighth seed even if they lose to
• 57:51
  the Warriors. And then I'm gonna say the Kings them all to the tenth
• 57:55
  seed. Technically, yes, your dream may not be dead here, but
• 58:04
  okay, as far as this question right here, so as of right now,
• 58:09
  let's just leave the standings how they are right now. Minnesota is a
• 58:13
  one seed. Who would Minnesota not want to play out of all of these
• 58:17
  four teams from a seven to ten c I know we're I know we're gonna
• 58:24
  go into some games. But the Temples. They just beat the Lakers.
• 58:30
  I know I saw that, But Lebron playoff basketball, ad playoff basketball,
• 58:37
  d Lo D'Angelo Russell gave NZA coming back. I think it's gonna be a
• 58:42
  lot. I don't think the lawyers have enough anymore to keep up. I
• 58:45
  get Stephen Curry, Grays point guard of all time, is there, but
• 58:50
  I just I don't know. This thing is different. When the lights come
• 58:52
  on and Lebron has Lebron needs to go to a championship and play the Nuggets
• 58:58
  one more time. I think that's I think it's just gonna different when the
• 59:00
  playoffs roll around. Who Okay, Well, I get we always talk about
• 59:04
  I always tell you probably experience don't matter too much, but in this case,
• 59:08
  I think I think the experience outweighs quite a bit. Yeah yeah,
• 59:15
  okay, okay, yeah, I can see that. But I guess just
• 59:21
  me thinking that the Lakers they're gonna I'm confident that they're gonna get this seventh
• 59:25
  seed right here. I'm just really confident in it. So I would say
• 59:30
  that the Timberwolves, out of the Pelicans, Kings and the Warriors, they
• 59:36
  wouldn't want to play. I'd probably I'd probably say the Warriors. I'm not
• 59:42
  gonna lie, just just due to Stephan Steph Curry and playoff experience. The
• 59:49
  Pelicans they have no rem protection. The Kings, although they have a great
• 59:54
  offense, they have no defense. Really, I just think that the Warriors
• 1:00:00
  they cannot be slept on. And the Warriors they've been playing damn good basketball
• 1:00:04
  as of late, so they haven't been so I'm gonna I'm gonna have to
• 1:00:08
  say with the Warriors here, I'm gonna have to just say that. But
• 1:00:10
  when the Lakers are eight and two in the last ten games, yeah,
• 1:00:15
  again, that's just me going based off the premise that they're gonna get the
• 1:00:19
  seventh seed. That's that's just what I'm thinking. Oh, true, true,
• 1:00:22
  Yeah, that's just what I'm thinking. But anything else you want to
• 1:00:25
  take away? Oh, he was going crazy the last three possessions. No,
• 1:00:34
  But is there anything else you want to take away before we move into
• 1:00:37
  the games of the week. We kind of elaborated a little too much on
• 1:00:42
  the standings and yeah, yeah, get into some of these games and keep
• 1:00:45
  it moving. Yeah, no, it's gonna be a quick recap, but
• 1:00:50
  yeah, quickly. Okay, So this first one it was between the Cleveland
• 1:00:54
  Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers, in which the Lakers won one team the
• 1:01:00
  ninety seven and it was a dominant performance that featured a nineteen oh run in
• 1:01:07
  the third quarter by the Lakers. Did you take anything away from this one?
• 1:01:12
  I think this is the difference between the squads and the West compared to
• 1:01:15
  the East and the experience that it comes with it. I understand that Garius
• 1:01:22
  Garland had a big day, but there's But the thing is with Donovan Mitchell,
• 1:01:25
  some nights he's just off, and tonight this was just one of those
• 1:01:30
  nights. Four for thirteen, two of nine from the three and ten points.
• 1:01:32
  That's what you're gonna get with the player like Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell
• 1:01:35
  will chuck up shots and this one I'm surprised to get to shoot more.
• 1:01:38
  That's just my opinion. You played thirty eight minutes, the most minutes on
• 1:01:42
  the team, and the only shot thirteen shots. You need to shoot more
• 1:01:45
  than that. I understand you went two from nine from three, but your
• 1:01:47
  team needs to keep pulling that thing. On the other side, when we're
• 1:01:52
  like the Los Angeles Lakers having twenty two from Anthony Davis, twenty four from
• 1:01:57
  Lebron and twenty eight for D'Angelo Russell. That's big your that's three guys on
• 1:02:01
  your team getting the job done and everyone that's filling in, especially with Torren
• 1:02:05
  Prince coming off the bench with eighteen points. That's his production all the way
• 1:02:08
  around, and that that that plays into good basketball and that's what's going to
• 1:02:12
  allow them to move forward. And I think it does show the difference between
• 1:02:15
  the West and the East. Yeah, and the biggest thing that I've kind
• 1:02:20
  of been talking about and you kind of mentioned as the Lakers ever since January
• 1:02:24
  first, they've been shooting over forty percent from three in these games and they're
• 1:02:30
  becoming a real three point shooting team. And we always say this around Lebron
• 1:02:35
  James, if you have three point shooters, it's gonna be really scary and
• 1:02:38
  hard to guard. And if De'anzeo, Russell or Austin Reeves could put up
• 1:02:44
  performances like this every other night, then you're not gonna be able to beat
• 1:02:47
  this team. And with the Calves here, with the Calves there, they're
• 1:02:53
  starting to fall down. I know, Donovan Mitchell, he just got back.
• 1:02:57
  Evan Mobley's been back probably for about six games. But they're not looking
• 1:03:01
  too good. They're not and I don't know if Donovan Mitchell's contract situation that's
• 1:03:07
  kind of looming where he's not committed to the future, if that's kind of
• 1:03:10
  weighing them down. But it's not looking good and I think they could kind
• 1:03:15
  of fall here. But let's go in and get into this next game right
• 1:03:19
  here, Josh, in which it was one of your games that you want
• 1:03:22
  to talk about. It was it features the Dallas Mavericks and the Houston Rockets
• 1:03:28
  in which this was an exciting game in which it went its overtime to one
• 1:03:34
  thirty six. Josh, anything you took away from this one, Yeah,
• 1:03:39
  the Houston Rockets were eliminated from playoff contention after this basketball game. So it
• 1:03:44
  was amazing to see now they don't have a lottery pick or a play in
• 1:03:46
  spot. So yeah, that's all I really wanted to talk about on the
• 1:03:51
  pod today. It was just that and it made my day, made my
• 1:03:54
  my week, made my year. But no, okay, in all seriousness,
• 1:03:58
  the Rockets were up very big in this game. I believe, what
• 1:04:00
  was it, twenty twenty two points. They were up by twenty two points
• 1:04:04
  at one point in his game. And this just shows the firepower that that
• 1:04:09
  Luka Daunchets and Kyrie Irving carried with each other. With Kyrie going for forty
• 1:04:13
  eight points. But look at this efficiency fifteen for seventeen from the free throw
• 1:04:16
  line, fifteen from twenty five from the field, and three for eight from
• 1:04:19
  the three point line. That it doesn't get no better than that. It
• 1:04:24
  doesn't get no better than that when it comes to Kyrie Irving shoot in the
• 1:04:26
  basketball. And we're looking at Luka Daancics thirty seven points, twelve assists and
• 1:04:30
  nine rebounds of walking almost triple double every single night. This, this Mavericks
• 1:04:35
  team is just playing at a different level right now. And honestly, it's
• 1:04:40
  a little scary because if they can be down by twenty two and you just
• 1:04:43
  get with the ball on these two guys' hands, no lead is safe.
• 1:04:46
  It's just not safe with these two type of players. On the flip side,
• 1:04:49
  I get Dylan Brooks somehow played good offensively. It was crazy. He
• 1:04:55
  had twenty nine four random nine or fourteen my p six from three eight.
• 1:05:00
  That just doesn't happen every night, Ladies, gentlemen. So, but no,
• 1:05:06
  as far as the Mavericks, having those two guys really separated them,
• 1:05:12
  I believe from a lot of teams in the NBA because there's no there's hardly
• 1:05:15
  any other players in AYBA that can score at will like these two guys do.
• 1:05:20
  Yeah, and just one thing I want to mention from the Mavericks because
• 1:05:25
  you kind of hit every point. But as far as PJ. Washington after
• 1:05:29
  he came back, he's been playing really damn good and in this game,
• 1:05:32
  he stood out and he's something that the Mavericks that were missing years prior,
• 1:05:38
  where you have a lockdown perimeter defender and also somebody who's a viable offensive threat.
• 1:05:45
  In this game, fourteen points, thirteen rebounds, and you had two
• 1:05:48
  assists but two blocks, and just defensively in this comeback right here, it
• 1:05:53
  was it was really crucial. And if you could have PJ. Washington playing
• 1:05:58
  like this, then I I feel like it's gonna be it's gonna be real
• 1:06:01
  scary because you could have him going up against the Kawhi Leonards and Kevin Durant,
• 1:06:06
  s Lebron James, somebody who could guard the big wing offensive players.
• 1:06:13
  But as far as from this Rocket side. You shoot forty one percent from
• 1:06:16
  three, you get twenty nine points out of Dylan Brooks here, and you
• 1:06:20
  still don't get the job done. Again, I didn't expect the Rockets to
• 1:06:28
  eventually make the playoffs. They just had this amazing eleven game win streak.
• 1:06:31
  But losing five in a row, that's unacceptable right there to close the season
• 1:06:35
  if you, if you really try to make that push right there, But
• 1:06:40
  again, you don't have albren Sengoon, so you just flip the page and
• 1:06:44
  move on to next year. But anything else you want to take away from
• 1:06:47
  this one, now, let's keep move, keep move, all right?
• 1:06:51
  Yeah, I like this pace right here. Next one we have the Philadelphia
• 1:06:56
  seventy six ers versus the Miami Heat, in which the six is they won
• 1:07:00
  one on nine to one oh five, And this was Jolanbiid's second game back.
• 1:07:05
  So, Josh, anything you took away from this one in particular in
• 1:07:12
  this one, I just think it's showing, uh kind of where Tyrese Maxi
• 1:07:18
  is at in this so far into this late season push that he's having right
• 1:07:23
  now, especially scoring thirty seven in this one and then fifty two against the
• 1:07:28
  Spurs. He's really showing his offensive capabilities that he's able to do, especially
• 1:07:32
  with or without Joel Ebiid. There's some people that made hip might have believe
• 1:07:36
  he might have taken a step back when Jolob Embiid return. And understand,
• 1:07:40
  joln Bid only played thirty three points in thirty three minutes in this game,
• 1:07:43
  but he still had twenty nine points. He still got his own. Jolanbiad's
• 1:07:45
  gonna get his own no matter what. But the fact that Tyrese Maxi can
• 1:07:49
  score thirty seven and along with eleven assists and nine rebounds in this game,
• 1:07:54
  that's just crazy efficiency from your second best player on the team. And that's
• 1:07:57
  what the seventy seiers need going into the playoffs. And not only that,
• 1:08:00
  like I mentioned earlier, Kelly Uber is playing great basketball right now and he
• 1:08:04
  had eighteen also in this game along with eight rebounds, and he had twenty
• 1:08:09
  seven the other night. So mm hm. So I think that's big for
• 1:08:14
  the Seven Sisters, seeing that from your kind of three main offensive players that
• 1:08:16
  they if they can do this, I think do think they're going to be
• 1:08:19
  a scary team. As far as the Miami Heat, this is where I
• 1:08:25
  think the Heat struggled. I do know. I do think they have players
• 1:08:28
  that can score. They have a Terry rose Yer, Terry Rogier can go
• 1:08:32
  can kind of, he can make it shot on some nights. But some
• 1:08:35
  of these guys are a little inconsistent. Jimmy Butler just doesn't have that same
• 1:08:40
  that he's had. I don't know why I made that elaboration, but he
• 1:08:44
  doesn't have that same that he usually has going into the playoffs. He's just
• 1:08:47
  not that same guy that he doesn't have that un You don't have that,
• 1:08:58
  y'all know what I mean. I don't know. He's just not striking the
• 1:09:00
  fear that he usually does late into the season. Right now, twenty points
• 1:09:04
  isn't gonna cut it. They need that more. They need more out offensive
• 1:09:08
  output from him. He's gonna get his defensive output gaming in game out,
• 1:09:11
  but they need their stars to step up big time for the Mimi heat to
• 1:09:14
  make some noise. Yeah, no, they definitely do. But this is
• 1:09:17
  what separates them from yours past. They don't They're not scoring as much as
• 1:09:23
  they usually do. The defense is always gonna be there with Eric Sposa,
• 1:09:27
  Jimmy Butler, bam Adebayo. It's gonna be there, but can you score
• 1:09:30
  enough points? And with this being Joel Embiid's second game back, it's not
• 1:09:36
  looking good for the Heat. It's not because Joel Embiid. He's only gonna
• 1:09:41
  get better, and he's been looking better, and he's in these games that
• 1:09:45
  he's played against the Grizzlies against I forgot who they played tonight, but yeah,
• 1:09:51
  he's looking better. So this is the worst that they're gonna see Joel
• 1:09:56
  Embiid if they happen to meet him in the play in so and even Tobias
• 1:10:00
  Harris, he didn't play for the Sixers. So I think this shows more
• 1:10:04
  the potential of the Sixers and how flawed the Heat they are this year.
• 1:10:11
  But let's go ahead and move on to this next game right here, and
• 1:10:15
  or one last stat, Tyree s Maaxy and Joel Embiid combining for sixty six
• 1:10:19
  points. That's a recipe for success. That is when you have when you
• 1:10:25
  have your duo combining for that much, you're gonna win plenty of basketball games.
• 1:10:30
  Next one we have is the Minnesota Timberwolves versus the Los Angeles Lakers,
• 1:10:34
  in which the Timberwolves won one twenty seven to one. Seventeen where Lebron did
• 1:10:40
  not play an ad he went out it was late late first quarter, early
• 1:10:45
  second quarter with the eye, or he got poked in the heights, something
• 1:10:49
  like that. But anything that you took away from this one right here,
• 1:10:56
  I'm sorry, I just zoned out when we were talking about which game?
• 1:10:58
  Which game? Are we talking about? The Temples and the Lakers? Okay,
• 1:11:02
  I'll freaking like someone said something and I was like, I got distracted.
• 1:11:06
  That's on me, boys, all right, tim Wolves and the Lakers.
• 1:11:12
  I think this is where I've kind of been harping on if the Timberwolves
• 1:11:15
  can put on the output out the offensive output, enough to keep up with
• 1:11:18
  some of the teams. And I think that's where a lot of people kind
• 1:11:21
  of kind of doubt them too, because they're not great offensively or great from
• 1:11:26
  the three. But in this one, Ethne Edwards showed up. Nas Reid
• 1:11:30
  is starting to come into his own in the NBA. I understand he had
• 1:11:32
  he's had a lot of love coming out of high school and he's had with
• 1:11:35
  the Jelly fam and all that, but with I forgot about with with with
• 1:11:45
  with this year, he showed up in a big way. He's on his
• 1:11:46
  way to I saw maybe becoming six Men of the Year and all that,
• 1:11:51
  but in the starting role in this night, he had thirty one points with
• 1:11:56
  eleven rebounds. If you can get this type of production from a player outside
• 1:12:00
  of Anthony Edwards and understand that these other guys aren't very good offensively, but
• 1:12:03
  we had Neil Alexander Walker go for fifteen and j McDaniel's go for eleven,
• 1:12:11
  Jayleen McDaniel's go for eleven. It's gonna go a long way for the Severer
• 1:12:15
  Bowls team to keep up with some of these offenses that they have to play
• 1:12:17
  in the Western Conference, because I do know, I do understand the game
• 1:12:23
  kind of slows down when the playoffs comes around. That's more of a half
• 1:12:26
  court and more half court offensive play. But if they can do this along
• 1:12:30
  with their defense, they're gonna be a major problem. Yeah, And it
• 1:12:35
  just shows how good offensively they could be. With Carl Anthony Towns coming back
• 1:12:41
  in the mix. As far as his status, it's unknown as far as
• 1:12:45
  him coming back in the first round or second round, it all depends.
• 1:12:48
  But like you said, nas Reed, he stepped up in a very big
• 1:12:53
  way and just defensively they're just amazing. I know Lebron and Ad they didn't
• 1:12:58
  play, but the defense, it's been the consistent thing all year, with
• 1:13:01
  Jada McDaniels potentially being First Team All Defense, Rudy Gobert on his way to
• 1:13:08
  have another Defensive Player of the Year Nikila Alexandra Walker, him being a nice
• 1:13:13
  perimeter defender. So they have the pieces there. It's all going to depend
• 1:13:16
  on if Anthony Edwards he could do what he did this night, in which
• 1:13:20
  he had twenty six points and what stood out to me the most age assists.
• 1:13:25
  He's becoming a facilitator and being able to get open looks for these guys,
• 1:13:30
  and that's why Nas reed he had a great game. But yeah,
• 1:13:32
  but as far on the Lakers side, we do have to point out that
• 1:13:36
  Lebron did not play in this game. That's a big thing. If Lebron
• 1:13:40
  doesn't play, I think that's a big loss. I think that might be
• 1:13:43
  a big no question. Yeah, if D'Angelo Russell and Austin Reeves aren't shooting
• 1:13:48
  with great efficiency, it's going to be a problem for the Lakers because they
• 1:13:51
  need to output outside of a D and Lebron. He's the Russell who went
• 1:13:55
  five for nineteen and Austin Reeves went four for fourteen. That's nine for like
• 1:14:00
  twenty twenty three. That's or that's no. Nine for thirty three. That's
• 1:14:03
  nine for thirty three from the field. So they need, they need,
• 1:14:06
  they need more efficiency from from their from their player, from those two guys
• 1:14:12
  for them to really be relevant when it comes to playing playoff basketball. Yeah,
• 1:14:15
  it, I understand that one hundred percent. And again, if you
• 1:14:19
  don't have Lebron in there, who could it open? Say? And he's
• 1:14:24
  yeah, it it opens up the game and you're not getting the same coverage
• 1:14:27
  that you are compared to if it's just them. But anything else you want
• 1:14:31
  to take away from this one? Uh nah, excuse moved. We got
• 1:14:36
  a lot of talk about. Yeah. Then this next one right here,
• 1:14:41
  it features the Denver Nuggets versus the Los Angeles Clippers, in which the Clippers
• 1:14:46
  won one oh two to one hundred after being down I believe the score was
• 1:14:51
  nineteen to four. Yeah, nineteen to four and they came all the way
• 1:14:56
  back in one. So, Josh, is there anything that you took away
• 1:15:00
  from this one right here? Okay, Well, maybe Kawhi Leonard being hurt
• 1:15:05
  might be a good thing for the Clippers. I don't know, but I'm
• 1:15:10
  just kidding. It's kind of hard to gauge these two teams without a Jamal
• 1:15:15
  Murray and with a Kawhi Leonard. It's just showing Joel Embiid goes insane thirty
• 1:15:21
  six points, Tennis's seventeen rebounds, that he does what he does. Outside
• 1:15:27
  of that, there wasn't very much production. And then on the flip side,
• 1:15:32
  you have Paul George taking over the reins once it, Hawhi goes down
• 1:15:35
  go and score in twenty eight, then James Harden going twenty four eight and
• 1:15:40
  six rebounds. I just think all these teams just played, just did what
• 1:15:44
  they were supposed to do in this one. I don't think there's much to
• 1:15:45
  gauge off of. Really, it was a two point decided game. I
• 1:15:48
  get the Storm back from that nineteen to four lead, but these are two
• 1:15:54
  veteran teams that know how to get the job done. I don't think there's
• 1:15:57
  really much that you can base this game off of that can kind of change
• 1:16:00
  minds going into the playoffs. So I know it may not change your mind
• 1:16:06
  or first thing I'm gonna address this Joel Embiid. He didn't play in this
• 1:16:10
  game. It was actually Jokic who you're talking about. You said, Joel
• 1:16:14
  een Biid, No, you're not good. But what I took away from
• 1:16:18
  this one, obviously Paul George did good. James Harden he struggled a lot
• 1:16:24
  in the first half, but in the second half he was making winning plays.
• 1:16:29
  And one thing that you've been harping on a lot is Russell Westbrook.
• 1:16:32
  How much of a factor he's been or he is to the Clippers. And
• 1:16:36
  in this game he showed out the most. I know it's not going to
• 1:16:40
  show on the box score, twelve points, five assist, six rebounds,
• 1:16:44
  but he's the one that led the spark. Him and Norman Powell there,
• 1:16:46
  they're the ones that led the comeback to happen and even have them in the
• 1:16:51
  ballgame. And I don't care if Jamal Murray isn't playing because Kawhi Leonard he's
• 1:16:57
  not playing either. So if anything, it's kind of evenly matched right here.
• 1:17:00
  And I feel like Kawhi he brings more, he brings more value to
• 1:17:04
  a team compared to Jamal Murray. I know it opens up Denver's offense,
• 1:17:09
  but Kawhi he's the better player. So the Clippers winning this game right here,
• 1:17:15
  it it proves to me that they may not be the favorites, but
• 1:17:19
  they have spurts and moments where they can be championship contenders. And that's what
• 1:17:26
  I took away from it. I don't think anyone looks up the Clippers and
• 1:17:30
  says, look at James Harden, Paul George Kawhi, Russell Westbrook and like,
• 1:17:33
  oh, those guys are all future Hall of Famers. I don't think
• 1:17:38
  they cannot get the job done. So that they haven't got the job done,
• 1:17:42
  when are they going to do it? They're going to need that production
• 1:17:45
  from James Harden and Russell Westbrook. They can't be on the court together,
• 1:17:47
  but when they're separate, they both need to search this offense to a different
• 1:17:53
  level. Yeah, no question. And one more thing is them, actually
• 1:17:59
  you in PJ. Tucker here. That's a big thing. Now. I
• 1:18:02
  don't know why they didn't use PJ. Tucker, but actually having him in
• 1:18:05
  the lineup now where he's he may not score points and he not he may
• 1:18:12
  not show up on the box score, but he's one of the most important
• 1:18:15
  players in the league in my opinion. But let's go ahead and move on
• 1:18:19
  to this last game right here, which it featured the Boston Celtics versus the
• 1:18:24
  Oklahoma City Thunder, and what's the Celtics. They kicked the thunders ass one
• 1:18:30
  thirty five to one hundred. So what did you take away from this one?
• 1:18:33
  Josh? I do think we can't take much away just based off the
• 1:18:41
  SGA and no Jalen Williams. But I just do think that the do you
• 1:18:50
  with Jason Tatum, Christops and Jalen Brown all scoring over twenty just shows that
• 1:18:56
  this team, if these three guys play play like this, like coincide,
• 1:19:01
  coinciding with each other, that they are going to be a problem. Because
• 1:19:04
  I do think, I still do think that this Thunder team could be It's
• 1:19:11
  comparable to teams in the East, even without SGA. In my opinion,
• 1:19:15
  I just do think defensively, and the fact that the Celtics were able to
• 1:19:17
  score one thirty five shows a lot for them going into the playoffs. Yeah,
• 1:19:23
  yeah, no, it it does. And it shows the firepower.
• 1:19:29
  It shows what they're really capable of. And I know people they're going to
• 1:19:32
  say, oh, well, they shot forty three percent from three, but
• 1:19:36
  they've been doing that the entire season. It's not an outlier here. It's
• 1:19:41
  something they've been doing pretty good. Yeah, it's yeah, but they've been
• 1:19:45
  doing it the entire season, so it's something it may be unprecedented, but
• 1:19:49
  this is why they have the third highest net rating in NBA history. So
• 1:19:55
  again, when their jump shots are falling, they're going to be impossible to
• 1:19:59
  be I don't care if Shay or Jalen Williams were out there, There's no
• 1:20:03
  way in hell that they would have been able to beat this team here.
• 1:20:08
  And that's the biggest thing I can take away because again no SGA, no
• 1:20:14
  j dub. But all right, let's go ahead and move into this next
• 1:20:16
  topic right here, in which again after or the next time you hear us
• 1:20:23
  is gonna be playing tournament time, so we're not gonna really be talking awards
• 1:20:28
  after that. So we're gonna give our award predictions right now, and we're
• 1:20:32
  gonna start with the most important one right here, MVP. And there's been
• 1:20:38
  a bunch of debate as far as who is the MVP, but Josh,
• 1:20:42
  who is your MVP? For me? I think it has to be Luka
• 1:20:46
  don JITs. I do think what he is doing the way. The Mavericks
• 1:20:49
  have surged all the way to the fifth best record in the West after being
• 1:20:54
  basically in the ninth spot for most of the season, eighth spot for most
• 1:20:57
  of the season. They storm their way into the playoffs, and he had
• 1:21:00
  there. He's averaging near almost nearly a triple double thirty three point nine points,
• 1:21:05
  nine point two rebounds, and nine point eight assist per game. But
• 1:21:10
  not to mention, his defense has gotten a lot better this year. It's
• 1:21:13
  really an underrated part of his game, I believe this year and a lot
• 1:21:15
  of player people still underlook it. He's averaging one point five stills per game,
• 1:21:20
  well, guarding the well, guarding the opposing teams, point guard throughout
• 1:21:25
  quite well throughout throughout the games that he is playing. So for me,
• 1:21:30
  the MVP clear cut is Luka don just based off the way he's been playing.
• 1:21:33
  So I'm gonna say this, I don't mind if you have Nicola Jokic
• 1:21:41
  as your MVP. I understand I don't either, And again, best best
• 1:21:47
  player in the world walking triple double makes it look easy Jamal Murray, But
• 1:21:54
  Luka Doncic, I feel like he's been so good throughout his career, expect
• 1:22:00
  this. He's been averaging a triple double ever since then all Star Break.
• 1:22:04
  That is insane, and especially how like you mentioned, defensively, there's no
• 1:22:11
  real flaws in his game. There's not. And I think if there's any
• 1:22:15
  year for Luca to win the MVP, it has to be this year.
• 1:22:19
  And you can't say oh because the standings. If anything, Nicola Jokic,
• 1:22:26
  he won the MVP his first MVP when he was a sixth seed against the
• 1:22:30
  Warriors, so seedings shouldn't matter here. Westbrooky won it when he was a
• 1:22:36
  four seed, So Luka Danciic, he deserves this MVP, and then I'd
• 1:22:41
  have Jokic too, and then I'd have a big gap shake gilgis Alexander number
• 1:22:46
  three. I know we didn't say who we'd have two and three, but
• 1:22:49
  who would you have two and three? Yogicchin Sga Okay, I agree.
• 1:22:56
  I think we both agree with MVP like completely, yeah, okay. Next
• 1:23:00
  one right here we have is Rookie of the Year, in which we're not
• 1:23:05
  even gonna bring up number two, three, four. There's no debate,
• 1:23:10
  there's no debate, there's no debate. I'll let you, I'll let you
• 1:23:12
  handle this one. This is your guy. Go ahead, Wimby first in
• 1:23:15
  points, blocks, rebounds, steals, top five and assists twenty one point
• 1:23:20
  three points, ten point seven rebounds, three point eight assists, three point
• 1:23:24
  six blocks per game, one point three steals per game on twenty nine on
• 1:23:28
  only twenty nine minutes to play. Most of my cases is gonna be made
• 1:23:31
  here in a minute, So I'm not gonna elaborate too much. But yeah,
• 1:23:36
  Dog University forty and twenty thirty eight, eighteen seven nine blocks, almost
• 1:23:43
  getting a quadruple double in three straight games, five y five game. Well,
• 1:23:47
  this is on president shit, bro, this is on precidented ship that
• 1:23:51
  we have never seen before, and we're seeing it from Victor wibin Yam and
• 1:23:57
  that's why he's the Rookie of the Year for me. Yeah, no,
• 1:23:59
  this is this is no question scoot handed skip no. But all right,
• 1:24:06
  let's go in and let's go and get into the most improved player of the
• 1:24:10
  year. So I know there's debate as far as what does most improved player
• 1:24:15
  actually mean? Does it mean somebody who was a role player turn into a
• 1:24:20
  star or somebody who was not even a role player turned into a great role
• 1:24:26
  player. It's really undefined here. Well, all these words are undefined here.
• 1:24:30
  So who is your most improved player? I do think that it's going
• 1:24:35
  to come down to two players. I think for me and you also,
• 1:24:39
  it's going to be Tyres Maxey or Kobe White. But I'll give you why
• 1:24:42
  Kobe White is the most improved player in the NBA. Okay, I'll give
• 1:24:45
  you exactly why. No one expected Kobe White to make this jump. Did
• 1:24:49
  you expect Kobe White to make this jump? Fondo, being a Bulls fan,
• 1:24:54
  No, I did not. I'm not exactly. So he scored last
• 1:24:59
  season nine point seven points per game, two point nine rebounds from two point
• 1:25:02
  eight steals per game or assists per game. This season eighteen point nine points
• 1:25:10
  per game, a whole ten point jump, four point six rebounds, nearly
• 1:25:14
  doubling his rebound output, and five point one assists, nearly doubling his assist
• 1:25:19
  account. But not only this, he's keeping the bulls afloat. He's not
• 1:25:24
  keeping the Bulls out of the play, and he's he's he's leading the charge
• 1:25:28
  and keeping them there. And I do think that that's why he should be
• 1:25:30
  the most improved player. I get Tyrese Maxi is balling right now. But
• 1:25:33
  I don't think anyone. I think a lot of people expected this jump.
• 1:25:36
  I don't think a lot of people were like, oh, I don't think
• 1:25:38
  tyres Maxi. I don't think Tyrese Maxi is gonna stay the same player.
• 1:25:44
  No one thought that he was. He was always making this a sin.
• 1:25:47
  He's only averaging six more points than last year, only averaging point eight rebounds
• 1:25:53
  for last year, and sure he doubled assists, but that's just because he's
• 1:25:55
  the main guy for most of the season without Joel Embiid. A lot of
• 1:25:59
  this. No one expected Kobe White to do these things. That's why for
• 1:26:01
  me, he's the most improved player, especially coming off being a bench player
• 1:26:04
  for most of his career to turning into this. This is why he would
• 1:26:09
  be that for me. Well, to be fair, late last year,
• 1:26:13
  Kobe White, he started to have performances like this, But I wouldn't have
• 1:26:15
  expected this for a whole season. And as much as I would want to
• 1:26:20
  say Kobe White, his last month here has kind of been a little bit
• 1:26:25
  underwhelming. If he kept the same pace, then I would say, okay,
• 1:26:29
  I would be on the Kobe White train. Yeah. Mid season Awards,
• 1:26:34
  I said Kobe White was the most improved player. I said that firmly.
• 1:26:39
  But I'm gonna have to go back to Tyree smacks year. I think
• 1:26:42
  Tyree Smacksy he's he's the most improved player of the year. And I know
• 1:26:45
  everybody expected this jump, but still nobody expected this much of a jump,
• 1:26:51
  an All Star, an All Star almost starter level jump. And Kobe White
• 1:26:58
  keeping the bulls afloat. He kept the sixers the float while Joel Embiid he
• 1:27:01
  was out, and I know fourteen or fifteen to twenty seven when Joel Embiid
• 1:27:09
  was out is not that impressive, but it was as far as with the
• 1:27:14
  trade that happened, getting used to all of these players around and ever since
• 1:27:17
  the All Star break, they did become a better team. And a six
• 1:27:21
  point jump that's still a damn good jump. But again, I'm not mad
• 1:27:27
  with either of these two. Obviously I prefer Kobe White, but I think
• 1:27:30
  it's going to be Tyree Smaxy all right, defensive player of the Year.
• 1:27:36
  Oh buddy, okay, let me go first. Let me go first.
• 1:27:42
  So number two I have Victor Winmbanyama. So number one, Rudy Gobert the
• 1:27:53
  best defensive rating defensive team in the league, and I think the biggest thing
• 1:27:59
  that can Hills Wimby Winby. Yes he has the stats, don't get me
• 1:28:02
  wrong. But as far as the record, the record, yeah, nineteen
• 1:28:10
  or twenty wins compared to being the number one seed in the West, and
• 1:28:15
  not to mention that he has the edge over Victor winbin Yama because he's won
• 1:28:20
  two to three. Well, this is gonna be his fourth defensive Player of
• 1:28:24
  the Year, and even going off of even going off of odds right here,
• 1:28:30
  probably, but again just compared to right here, Rudy Gobert has minus
• 1:28:36
  thirty five hundred odds compared to Victor winbin Yama plus eleven hundred odds. So
• 1:28:42
  it's pretty clear cut and dry that Rudy Gobert is gonna win Defensive Player of
• 1:28:46
  the Year. Josh, I don't know why I'm asking you this question.
• 1:28:51
  Who's your defensive player of the year? The clear cut best defensive player to
• 1:28:57
  ever exists. Victor winbin Yama is the defensive player of the Year, and
• 1:29:00
  they're gonna have to change the name of the Defensive Player of the Year award
• 1:29:03
  to the Victor Wimbinyama Award. When it's all said and done, they're gonna
• 1:29:06
  have to turn first team All NBA to just a spot reserved for Victor winbin
• 1:29:11
  Yama when it's all said and done, because this year, no one's even
• 1:29:14
  close. No one is even close in the same stratosphere defensively than Victor Winbinyama.
• 1:29:20
  And I'm gonna give you why, And your defensive Player of the Year,
• 1:29:24
  Rudy Gobert, I gave you this stat last night. In the years
• 1:29:29
  of twenty twenty two all the way to twenty twenty four, two whole,
• 1:29:33
  two whole seasons combined. This is not taking account tonight's stats or nothing like
• 1:29:41
  that. Is this is before tonight Rudy Gobert played four five hundred and fifty
• 1:29:47
  eight minutes in one hundred and forty one games. How many blocks did he
• 1:29:51
  have? Two hundred and forty five? Victor Wombinyama in his rookie season playing
• 1:29:58
  two thousand and thirty six and it's the sixty nine games, how many blocks
• 1:30:01
  did he have? Two hundred and forty five? Damn? And then we're
• 1:30:06
  gonna look at the steels per game along with the rest of the defensive of
• 1:30:10
  the Year candidates Rudy Gobert point six, Bam Abadiah one point one, Jared
• 1:30:15
  Allen's zero point seven, Anthony Davis one point two, Victor Wi Minyama one
• 1:30:20
  point three. More than all of them. Blocks per game Rudy Gobert two
• 1:30:25
  point one, bam Abadiah one point one block, Jared Allen one point two,
• 1:30:30
  Anthony Davis two point four, Victor and Banyama three point five. The
• 1:30:35
  ring that defensive rating when the player is off the court or when they're on
• 1:30:43
  the court. The Victor and Minyama they in point to a negative. They
• 1:30:47
  improve to a negative twelve point defensive rating when he's off. No, they
• 1:30:51
  have a negative twelve point defensive rating when he's off the court. Rudy Gobert
• 1:30:56
  negative four point one, Bam Abbadio negative six point four, Jared Allen negative
• 1:31:01
  point one. And as far as I think Davis, they get better when
• 1:31:04
  he's off the court with plus one point five. So he's not even in
• 1:31:08
  the same stratosphere. And then we're gonna look at this other stuff right here,
• 1:31:13
  he's averaging four point eight blocks per game over the last twenty one games
• 1:31:16
  of the season. He's leading the NBA in stocks with four point eight stocks,
• 1:31:20
  and over the last fifteen Defensive Player of the Years winners, he has
• 1:31:26
  more than all of them, and he's the only player to clear four over
• 1:31:29
  four of those per game. It's not even close who the best defensive player
• 1:31:31
  of the year. Who the best defensive player in the league is, and
• 1:31:34
  he should be Defensive Player of the Year based off all of this well,
• 1:31:39
  and like Draymond Green said, when a guy drives, when people drive into
• 1:31:44
  the paint and see wimpy, they go the other direction, that counts as
• 1:31:47
  a block. Also, Draymond Green said it himself. He said, when
• 1:31:53
  they change their defense when he's in the middle of the when they change their
• 1:31:56
  offensive the middle paint, when they change their sense of direction, when they
• 1:31:58
  throw ball out of bounds, when when they turn over the ball, when
• 1:32:00
  they get in without winby even touching the ball, that count. That should
• 1:32:03
  count towards who he is as defensive Player of the year. He does.
• 1:32:06
  No one strikes the same amount of fear as he does in the NBA.
• 1:32:11
  Again, I get you one hundred percent, has damn good He has a
• 1:32:16
  damn good case of winning it. But still two blocks a game and having
• 1:32:23
  the best defensive rating. That's still it's not Wimby stats, but it is
• 1:32:28
  very damn impressive what Rudy Gobert is doing, because you saw a big difference
• 1:32:32
  between not that impressive, it's not that impressive. It's not that impressive.
• 1:32:38
  Again, again, it's not Wimby numbers, but it's damn impressive. And
• 1:32:43
  records do matter. I know I talked about MVP, but at least make
• 1:32:46
  the goddamn playoffs here. If if Weiby, if Winby made the playoffs,
• 1:32:51
  then it would be something different here. I would be on the side of
• 1:32:55
  of Wimby too, don't get me wrong, but yeah, it is between
• 1:33:00
  those two. And again I'm not mad if you pick Wimby, but Rudy
• 1:33:03
  Gobert, in my opinion, he's gonna win Defensive Player of the Year.
• 1:33:06
  But I just think the stats. I understand the stats. Yeah, player,
• 1:33:11
  that's crazy, way too much. It's just way too much. Yeah,
• 1:33:16
  no, I get that one hundred percent. The next between year two
• 1:33:23
  of Wimby to year year twelve, we're gonna like we talked about yesterday,
• 1:33:30
  it's gonna be Victor, Wimbin and Yama versus the rest of the field.
• 1:33:34
  As far as Defensive Player of the Year favorites, that's how it's gonna be
• 1:33:39
  from this point forward. I'm pretty sure if there's early odds for Defensive Player
• 1:33:43
  of the Year next year, Wimby he's minus nine hundred or whatever. They
• 1:33:48
  just better not do him like they did my boy Tim Duncan. How many
• 1:33:51
  Defensive Player of the years did he win? Zero? And he has the
• 1:33:56
  most all defensive teams in the NBA history. That's crazy, that's crazy.
• 1:34:00
  I did not know that he finished second. He finished second like ten times
• 1:34:04
  or something like that. That's crazy, that's crazy. But no, he
• 1:34:10
  Wimby is definitely gonna win one. He's definitely gonna win. It's gonna win
• 1:34:14
  like they're gonna name it after him. If we'redy go, Bear is getting
• 1:34:15
  four and Wemby doubled everything he's done in one season. He's gonna win more
• 1:34:20
  than four. Oh, I don't Wemby will win seven Defensive Player of the
• 1:34:29
  Years when it's all said and done and right, that's a bold take.
• 1:34:32
  Holy crap, that's a that's a very bold call me right here. And
• 1:34:36
  he's gonna be the greatest defensive player that ever lived in any generation. Remember
• 1:34:41
  we talked about the all time blocks record that team holds. It's three thousand,
• 1:34:46
  eight hundred and thirty something like that. I think has a crazy rookie
• 1:34:50
  year. Yeah, I think that Wimby has a damn good chance of breaking
• 1:34:55
  that record. He has a damn good chance. But you heard him here
• 1:34:59
  first, he will win as many defensive Player of the Year as Tom Brady
• 1:35:02
  has rings. My goodness, I just need to bookmark this just so,
• 1:35:10
  just so I could go back on this. But let's go in and get
• 1:35:15
  into six Man of the Year. I feel like this is just a two
• 1:35:17
  man race right here. Well most of these are two man races right here.
• 1:35:23
  So in my opinion, this goes down to Malik Monk and nas Reed.
• 1:35:28
  And I was gonna give it to Malik Monk, but after he got
• 1:35:31
  hurt and how nas Red He's really stepped up in Carl Anthony Town's absence,
• 1:35:38
  I have to give it to nas Reed here him being the sixth Man of
• 1:35:41
  the Year. And like we mentioned against the Lakers thirty one points there's offensively,
• 1:35:47
  he's up there with any center not named Joki Jambid Karl Anthony Towns like
• 1:35:53
  the great centers, any other center. He's right there. He could be.
• 1:35:56
  Arguably if it wasn't for Rudy gober Aaron Karl Anthony Towns being on his
• 1:36:00
  team, he'd be a starter anywhere else for a majority of the league.
• 1:36:05
  About twenty five. I would argue nas Reed played better against Wimby than Rudy
• 1:36:10
  Gobert and Crone Towns played against Wimby. I really would. I watched,
• 1:36:15
  I watch every game. Yeah, Like, I really would argue he played
• 1:36:16
  better against him than those two other guys. Did. I don't know.
• 1:36:21
  I didn't turn on a Timble Woolves and Spurs game, so so yeah,
• 1:36:26
  I know, I'll just have to take your word for that. But you're
• 1:36:29
  agreeing with me nas Reed six Man of the Year. I couldn't pick between
• 1:36:32
  the two, to be honest. It's like I don't really have an answer
• 1:36:36
  just because nas Reed has been so good. He really has. But Malik
• 1:36:40
  Munk, what he was doing before he got hurt was also just really great,
• 1:36:44
  Like he was a great great when Darren Fox need break, Malik Monk
• 1:36:48
  really took the reins and played that two man game with dumont Ce Sabonis very
• 1:36:53
  well. But he also let the second unit very well also, especially having
• 1:36:56
  the efficiency he had kind of from the three point range. I believe thirty
• 1:37:00
  eight percent from the three Yeah, and then and then just what he was
• 1:37:04
  able to do throughout the whole year. I do think he should still get
• 1:37:08
  some love and be the sixth Men of the Year. But Nasreed also deserves
• 1:37:11
  the case also because he is healthy and he's on the number one seed and
• 1:37:15
  leading and being deficient while doing it. Yeah, no question. But this
• 1:37:23
  last award that we're going to get into before we get into the All NBA
• 1:37:26
  teams is Coach of the Year. So I'll let you go first on this
• 1:37:32
  right here, Who do you think the coach of the Year is? Mine
• 1:37:35
  hasn't changed from what it was in the offseason. It's gonna be Mark Dognall
• 1:37:40
  from the Oklahoma City Thunder, their third in the West fifty three and twenty
• 1:37:45
  five along with the second youngest team in the NBA. And then he's fourth
• 1:37:48
  their fourth offensive rating, their fourth and the offensive rating is sixth in the
• 1:37:53
  in defensive rating. What he has done with the Thunder is very great.
• 1:37:57
  He has to start in SGA and he's allowing him to run and he's letting
• 1:38:00
  all these guys find their roles and really be I don't know how, and
• 1:38:04
  they're all productive in their roles within this team. They all know what they
• 1:38:08
  need to do. Especially I don't know, I hate on him, he's
• 1:38:11
  just chick home. Grin very well to allow the open space for the rest
• 1:38:14
  of the players. On the rest of the players on the team, they
• 1:38:16
  Jalen Williams is really coming into his own. He could be most improved player
• 1:38:19
  if we really wanted to argue that also, So it's it's just they're all
• 1:38:25
  they're all gravitating towards what he's putting together in Oklahoma City, and that's why
• 1:38:30
  for me, he's the coach of the year. Yeah, so we're not
• 1:38:33
  going to talk about my coach of the year and Adrian Griffin. I thought
• 1:38:40
  it was a smart pick, but I have to agree with you right here,
• 1:38:43
  Mark Dagnall, he is the coach of the year. But a close
• 1:38:45
  second is Chris Finch from the Minnesota tim Wolves. Here again, these are
• 1:38:50
  the two teams in the West. You're battling against the Nuggets, but I
• 1:38:56
  think age it plays a factor here the Timbwolves, there are a much older
• 1:38:59
  team, mores experienced team, compared to the thunder and even Mark Dagnall,
• 1:39:02
  He's not who Adrian Griffin, that's gonna be one of my worst. That's
• 1:39:14
  gonna go down as one of my worst. Takes hey to be fair,
• 1:39:18
  Adrian Griffin, he was on pace because Doc Rivers had that All Star got
• 1:39:24
  the All Star head coach, which was a bunch of bs. That was
• 1:39:28
  a bunch of bs. Even Dwayne Casey wanted to Coach of the Year and
• 1:39:31
  got fired. I'm just saying, yeah, that's true, that's true.
• 1:39:35
  But let's go in and get into the first Team All NBA here and which
• 1:39:45
  it's positionless. They just changed this last year and you have to have a
• 1:39:48
  sixty five game criteria. Well for all these awards in general, but especially
• 1:39:54
  All NBA where it becomes more important. So I think we should have the
• 1:39:59
  same list for first Team All NBA. But who's your first Team All NBA?
• 1:40:04
  Luka, Dantic, Shake Godess, Alexander Joannis, Nikola, Jokic and
• 1:40:12
  Jalen Brunson. Is my first Team All NBA this year? Okay, So
• 1:40:17
  the only one I don't agree with you on is Jalen Brunson. I have
• 1:40:20
  Jason Tatum there Okay, I believe. I believe he was the next option,
• 1:40:26
  any option. Yeah, it was. It was damn it was damn
• 1:40:30
  closed. I was very tempted to do that, but I just feel like,
• 1:40:34
  HM, go ahead, look at what Jason Tatum's working with, and
• 1:40:38
  look at what Chilean Brunton is working with and what he's able to do for
• 1:40:42
  me. That's why what gave him the edge as first team All NBA and
• 1:40:45
  Jason Tatum will be second team All NBA for me, like it was literally
• 1:40:48
  the cusp, but it was just Jilen Brunson. What he's having to do
• 1:40:53
  as compared to Jason Tatum is just not the same. Yeah, I agree
• 1:40:57
  with you here and all right, next we're gonna get into All Defensive Team,
• 1:41:03
  first team All Defense. Little harder, a little harder. This this
• 1:41:08
  one is was a lot tougher here. So Josh, I'll let you list
• 1:41:11
  yours first. I put s g A. I think that's kind of a
• 1:41:16
  given. He let the NBA and still is a great, great perimeter defender.
• 1:41:20
  Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis, I get they get better without him off
• 1:41:25
  the court. I said that earlier, but he's still pretty dominant paint wise
• 1:41:29
  when he is on the court. Yeah, with the blocks and and altering
• 1:41:33
  shots and really changing offensive focus when he is on there. Yeah, we
• 1:41:40
  got ready Gobert the second, the second greatest, the second Frenchman to ever,
• 1:41:45
  greatest Frenchman ever come from France. I guess would he be Nope,
• 1:41:50
  No, he's third, He's third, He's definitely he's fourth. He's fourth.
• 1:41:57
  Oh yeah, fifth, he's actually fifth now he said Joel and b
• 1:42:01
  he's fifth. He's moving down my list quite well. He moves all the
• 1:42:05
  way from two to five. He's not better than Boris d l that's for
• 1:42:10
  sure, So for me, stop it. But yeah, Rudy Gobert,
• 1:42:16
  I'm gonna go with Herb Jones. You kind of talked me into it.
• 1:42:18
  He has a great defender. He's kind of like the next Tony Allen.
• 1:42:21
  I think I want to make that comparison. I think that's a great comparison,
• 1:42:25
  like very feisty. They're not a role player, like can be a
• 1:42:29
  star just based off defensive output alone. And I think that's what Herb Jones
• 1:42:32
  brings to the tape. He can guard any team's best player and really put
• 1:42:34
  up his own. But as far as for me, I'm gonna go with
• 1:42:39
  Victor Winbinyama as my last pick as All Defensive Player of the Year. And
• 1:42:43
  y'all know why. Y'all heard why earlier. So that's that's my five SGA
• 1:42:46
  Herb Jones eighty, Victor Win Binyama, and Rudy Gobert. So for mine
• 1:42:53
  right here, as far as so I have, I have three guards right
• 1:42:56
  here, I have three guards. So first one, Shay, I definitely
• 1:43:00
  do agree with that. Then I'm gonna have Jalen Suggs and Derek White.
• 1:43:05
  Both of those guys have been guarding the best defense or best offensive player and
• 1:43:13
  they're both on damn good teams and lead one of the best defenses in the
• 1:43:17
  league. And it starts with them. Jalen Suggs, He's made an incredible
• 1:43:21
  comeback from looking like he wasn't gonna be anything and now becoming an All defensive
• 1:43:27
  player and a role and a role player. But then this is where I
• 1:43:31
  have. I think I'd rather have Gobert at the five and Wimby at the
• 1:43:36
  four in this situation. Yeah, that's what I have. Yeah, so
• 1:43:41
  I have Wimby and Rudy Gobert. But yeah, Herb Jones, he barely
• 1:43:46
  missed my list. And Jaden McDaniels. That's a guy that that I was
• 1:43:51
  tempted to put on this list. But I just couldn't over these guards right
• 1:43:56
  here. I felt like they deserved more recognition. But okay, I I
• 1:44:01
  know we didn't discuss this. I kind of want to do this second team
• 1:44:05
  all NBA. I don't have this prepared either, Okay, but just off
• 1:44:10
  the top of your head, I think so I didn't have j T i'd
• 1:44:15
  probably have Okay, oh, you go first, you go first. I'd
• 1:44:19
  probably say Brunson, Jalen Brunson, Anthony Anthony Edwards, KD DEMONTA Sabonis he's
• 1:44:31
  had a damn good year. I'd say Sabonis. Oh, Lebron, Lebron
• 1:44:38
  or a D. Victor Lebron or a D. I'm gonna have to say
• 1:44:45
  Lebron. I'd say Lebron would be on the second team, but they're still
• 1:44:50
  staph Bam. That's tough. I have to write it down. Yeah,
• 1:44:56
  that that's the Jason Tatum and ay D. Yeah, I'll go Katie.
• 1:45:12
  It's tough. Second team. That's where it starts to get really tough there.
• 1:45:17
  Yeah, I'd have to, I'd have to agree with the bonus.
• 1:45:24
  And then lebron ad Lebron, Lebron A D. Who you picking a D
• 1:45:32
  this year? A D? Okay, I'm not mad at that. I'm
• 1:45:36
  not mad at that. I'm not mad at thirteen. Though Whimby's on my
• 1:45:42
  third team. I'm trying to think Devin Booker. Yeah, Steph, that's
• 1:45:53
  for sure, Bam bam, Jalen Brown, Jaylen Brown. Yeah, ooh,
• 1:46:03
  that's maybe maybe Wimby because who's going over him? Evan? Are you
• 1:46:10
  putting Evan Mobley above him? I'm I'm not putting Evan Mobley above him.
• 1:46:15
  I just feel like I just feel like I'm missing a name. People,
• 1:46:17
  they're probably screaming, it's this guy. You're completely forgetting about this guy.
• 1:46:23
  Well, people, Joelnbiid cannot make it is that's who you are. Joel
• 1:46:26
  Embiid, he can't make it. I'm looking right now. Maybe no way.
• 1:46:31
  Does Zion fit the criteria. He's missed a lot, He's played sixty
• 1:46:39
  six games. Zion would fit the criteria. Kawhi, there's Kawhi too,
• 1:46:45
  Yeah, Kawhi, Kyrie Tyree Smaxy. Yeah, No, he don't make
• 1:46:49
  it. It's close though, there's only four or five guys that that fit
• 1:46:56
  above Wimby realistically. But do you want to go ahead and move on to
• 1:47:01
  one of our last things right here? Yep, we can do it,
• 1:47:05
  okay. So one of this last things with the NBA season ending is things
• 1:47:12
  we learned throughout the NBA season, And the first thing that we learn is
• 1:47:15
  that the Thunder the Thunders rebuild slash revamp after the Westbrook KD Paul George era.
• 1:47:23
  It didn't take long and they won the against or they won the trade
• 1:47:28
  against the Clippers, so obviously that massive trade for Paul George. Then they
• 1:47:35
  traded away Russ to Houston. But I feel like this stood out the most
• 1:47:42
  right here. I don't know about you, Josh, because nobody expected this
• 1:47:45
  turnaround from the Thunder. I didn't expect it this year, at least I
• 1:47:51
  expected it maybe next year or the year after sure, just only through their
• 1:47:56
  age. But I do think they have a good set of players who really
• 1:48:00
  what's the wory I'm looking for again? I don't know why I'm getting lost
• 1:48:03
  with my words today, but they they really make each other. I'm just
• 1:48:10
  gonna say they make each other better at what they do. I don't know,
• 1:48:12
  like SGA leading the charging defensively, and they do have like the perfect
• 1:48:16
  defensive setup for a team for their age, like where they're able to play
• 1:48:21
  fast, they have great link when it comes to their arms and all that,
• 1:48:26
  so they're able. They're able to guard the paint and then Check does
• 1:48:31
  his own. Check gets his own defensively when it comes to protecting the paint
• 1:48:35
  a little bit, he's not. He kind of fell off a little bit
• 1:48:38
  to what he was at the beginning of the season. But they are all
• 1:48:42
  able to coincide with each other very well. I do, so I do.
• 1:48:45
  Everything was just set up perfectly for them, and they still have plenty
• 1:48:47
  of draft picks to go, so they're not done. And one thing about
• 1:48:54
  them is that they have sixteen You see them making a move for another star
• 1:48:58
  this offseason with how they're at right now. This is what sucks about the
• 1:49:03
  Thunder in my opinion, is that they're so young and they're growing together.
• 1:49:09
  Why would you want to put a star around them and kind of mess up
• 1:49:12
  the dynamics there because he could be a star. He could be a star
• 1:49:17
  in his own role. You see what I'm saying. I don't know,
• 1:49:24
  I just feel like this team is so young, and Jalen Williams he's becoming
• 1:49:28
  that number two. It could kind of just hurt them more. It's kind
• 1:49:31
  of too much of a good thing. Does that make sense? There's too
• 1:49:38
  there's too much talent on one team. But all right, next thing right
• 1:49:42
  here is at least, at least for me, I'm gonna say it,
• 1:49:46
  this is very clear cut and dry. Anthony Edwards he's a bona fide superstar
• 1:49:51
  and he's barely twenty two dead ass. That's how the guy float in the
• 1:49:55
  air for four seconds in San Antonio. The ball he's definitely a superstar.
• 1:50:00
  Yeah, and twenty six points a game, five assists, five rebounds,
• 1:50:03
  forty six percent from the field, thirty six percent from three, eighty three
• 1:50:09
  percent from the free throw line. I don't think nobody expected this much of
• 1:50:14
  a jump. And this is the reason why the Timberwolves they're the one seed
• 1:50:17
  right now, is because this massive jump that Anthony Edwards took. And no,
• 1:50:24
  okay, I agree, Oh, keep going, I keep moving.
• 1:50:28
  Okay, the next one, I'll let you talk about this. This this
• 1:50:31
  at least how I feel the Warriors dynasty is officially over. It is sad
• 1:50:41
  to say it, but it is. But I will say they have I
• 1:50:46
  get you said it before and I didn't completely agree, but not because of
• 1:50:50
  Jonathan Camina. Why like and like these other players that you said before.
• 1:50:55
  It's really because what's his name, number thirty two, the big man dumb
• 1:50:59
  with me, Jackson Davis him. Yeah, he's gonna be a star.
• 1:51:04
  I will say right now, I think he's gonna be a good player in
• 1:51:06
  this league. I think he has the analyticism, he plays very great defense,
• 1:51:11
  he can run the court. I do think because of him, Steph's
• 1:51:14
  gonna play a little bit longer for the Warriors. Right, So the dynasty's
• 1:51:17
  over, but they can transition into a younger team for sure. Now,
• 1:51:21
  Yeah, I definitely see that. But as far as them being you're and
• 1:51:27
  you're out title contender, yeah, not that no more. Yeah. I
• 1:51:30
  feel like even if they do make the playoffs this year, if they survive
• 1:51:33
  the play in, nobody's gonna be like the Warriors are definitely winning the championship.
• 1:51:39
  Now, nobody's gonna expect that. They're not maybe second round at best,
• 1:51:44
  but still nobody's gonna expect that. And next one right here, I
• 1:51:49
  know this one's a little bit controversial. Josh, I don't know if you're
• 1:51:53
  gonna agree with this one. If Zion is healthy, the Pelicans are contenders
• 1:51:59
  for years to come to be determined. Are you basing that based off of
• 1:52:12
  you need to see this playoff run by Zion? Mm hmm, yeah,
• 1:52:15
  I need to see what it looks like. We've never seen it, so
• 1:52:19
  I don't know. I can't really tell you mm hmm, like whether I
• 1:52:24
  do think that they're going to be a title contender or not, because we're
• 1:52:26
  not going to see how And then plus is Brandon Ingram healthy? You know?
• 1:52:31
  So yeah, that that plays a lot into it also for me.
• 1:52:34
  Okay, I got a scenario for you, say, if the Pelicans they
• 1:52:39
  make it to the Western Conference finals this year with Brandon and Ingram barely coming
• 1:52:44
  back, they're contenders. Yeah, they would be have to. They would
• 1:52:46
  have to because they're great defensively, they are, Yeah, I do think
• 1:52:49
  on the perimeter wise, So it's just it's just kind of one extra piece
• 1:52:56
  I do because of aging. Jonahs Valanciunis probably could be a little you could
• 1:53:00
  grade right there, just a little bit just based off youth, but other
• 1:53:03
  than that I can see that. I can see them being a title contender.
• 1:53:09
  Okay, the next one right here, Jalen Brown was worth every penny
• 1:53:20
  if they win a championship. Okay, now now let me give you give
• 1:53:27
  you my reasoning here. Jalen Brown, he's gotten better year after year after
• 1:53:30
  year, and there's been stretches ever since this All Star break where yeah,
• 1:53:36
  no, no question, dud, you get paid that much of super Max.
• 1:53:40
  But there's been times after this All Star break where Jalen Brown has looked
• 1:53:45
  like the best player on the Celtics, who have been the most team in
• 1:53:48
  the league. No again, I get you, he is. The thing
• 1:53:55
  is, you pay people big money to win championship, so the contracts aren't
• 1:53:59
  worth it unless they give you one. That's just me. M hm.
• 1:54:01
  The contract can't work it unless they give you one. Okay, So this
• 1:54:05
  is to be determined then for you. Huh yeah, another one to be
• 1:54:09
  determined Okay, So they can still blow it up. They could still be
• 1:54:13
  like, you know what, this isn't working. These two guys aren't working
• 1:54:16
  together for us. So yeah you know, m hm, yeah, okay,
• 1:54:20
  I get your point. I get your point. Next one, I'm
• 1:54:25
  pretty sure you're gonna agree with this one. For sure. Wimby might be
• 1:54:30
  better than any rookie we've ever seen. Defensively, it's because Hackeen had a
• 1:54:39
  great rookie year. I'm not counting, to be honest, Duncan or David
• 1:54:44
  Robinson as rookies. Why not? They were both like twenty four years old,
• 1:54:50
  like twenty three years old when they were rookies. So you're you're taking
• 1:54:55
  out a lot of rookies then, like Michael Jordan's rookie year because he was
• 1:55:00
  like twenty three I period, No, he he probably, but Duncan I
• 1:55:15
  think his rookie year. Mm hmm. Okay, okay, I'm saying as
• 1:55:20
  far as just in the individual individual yeah, individually, as far as not
• 1:55:28
  team success wise, just individually the player, I feel like Wimby just as
• 1:55:31
  a rookie. Yeah, okay, well, okay, I completely forgot about
• 1:55:40
  Kareem Kareem winning MVP is rookie year. I completely forgot about that. K
• 1:55:44
  I have to be Kareem. I'll be humble when I have to be humble.
• 1:55:49
  I think it's Kareem Kareem definitely him or Duncan Kareem or Duncan would have
• 1:55:54
  to be for me. Tim Duncan did make first Team All NBA his rookie
• 1:55:57
  year. Yes, okay, okay, the next one right here, The
• 1:56:01
  sixty five game criteria worked out perfectly, and the reason why hold on,
• 1:56:09
  hold on, hold on. But going back to that point, Wimby is
• 1:56:12
  everything they said he was gonna be exactly, That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
• 1:56:17
  everything, But Korean played in an era where he was able to win
• 1:56:20
  MVP, and then Tim Duncan came in already polished to a good team,
• 1:56:27
  to a great team, so he was also able to establish himself easier than
• 1:56:31
  Wimby. But Winby lived up to everything. So let's put that right there.
• 1:56:35
  Wimby lived up to everything they said he was going to be. Yeah,
• 1:56:39
  okay, that I guess that's the point that I was trying to get
• 1:56:42
  across. But yeah, this next point that I just said, the sixty
• 1:56:46
  five game criteria worked out perfect And here's here's two reasons. For me.
• 1:56:51
  We saw more key matchups and we saw stars play more games due to the
• 1:56:59
  incentives. No, I believe that it should have been a thing a long
• 1:57:04
  time ago for me, I do think. I don't I don't agree with
• 1:57:08
  players. I don't know. There was just a lot of times where I
• 1:57:11
  feel like players shouldn't have won awards just because they didn't play enough. I
• 1:57:13
  do think it worked. It worked out because on the flip side, I
• 1:57:18
  know it's a different sport, but if we look at the NFL, if
• 1:57:21
  a player misses half the season, they're not winning an award. Yeah exactly.
• 1:57:26
  Yeah, Justin Jefferson statistically might be Offensive Player of the Year, but
• 1:57:30
  he's not. He didn't win the award this year, you know, So
• 1:57:32
  it's just, yeah, it's got to be fair. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:57:38
  durability. It's only fair for the NBA to do the same thing because a
• 1:57:42
  player just can't sit out and hope to win an award, because it's just
• 1:57:45
  not fair to the other guys who played the whole season and averaged the same
• 1:57:48
  amount. But since you had a couple more better games than them within a
• 1:57:54
  sixty two a fifty eight game stretch, yeah you get award for a guy
• 1:57:59
  that played seventy five games. It's just not fair. Yeah exactly. But
• 1:58:03
  all right, this next one right here, I don't know if you're gonna
• 1:58:06
  agree with this one. You're not the biggest Rudy Gobert fan. But after
• 1:58:11
  this year, I'm officially saying that the Rudy Gobert trade was actually a great
• 1:58:16
  move by the Minnesota Temple Wolves. Okay, I'm not saying I'm not a
• 1:58:23
  Rudy Gobert fan, but when it comes to defending my guy, no one,
• 1:58:27
  I'm not a fan of no one else. That's just me. But
• 1:58:30
  like Chet, no, I never liked Check. But as far as Rudy
• 1:58:34
  Gobert, I like Rudy Gobert. I do like Rudy Gobert. Let's not
• 1:58:39
  get that right, because if the US goes out, you know who I'm
• 1:58:42
  going for, all right, the US is out, you know who I'm
• 1:58:45
  going for. Or I don't know. Maybe if the US does play my
• 1:58:47
  guy, you know who I'm going for. So but argument we had,
• 1:58:56
  yeah, we argued, Wait wait wait, you can go for friends?
• 1:59:00
  Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not gonna talk about them on air.
• 1:59:02
  But yeah, you're contradicted, your contradicted. But but if USA ain't
• 1:59:13
  in there, you know who I'm going for. But if Rudy Gobert has
• 1:59:17
  to set out another playoff series, then it's not worth it. But don't
• 1:59:25
  you think this is turned the Tembolves into an actual contender for these next two
• 1:59:30
  three years. I mean last year. Okay, I get it is different
• 1:59:34
  this year that they are more efficient defensively, that they figured out how it
• 1:59:39
  works. So it could be the thing is, yeah, you just gave
• 1:59:44
  up so much. It's it's it's worth it. I do think he's living
• 1:59:46
  up to what you build him out to be, this great defensive player,
• 1:59:49
  and that's what he is doing and that's what they wanted. So I will
• 1:59:51
  say the trade did work out for them. Okay, they are the number
• 1:59:56
  one seed. They got better. It helped, it helps Anthony edwar Words
• 2:00:00
  not do too much. So yeah, okay, then I got three three
• 2:00:06
  more things. So this next one's kind of funny. Draymond Green knocked the
• 2:00:14
  talent out of Jordan Poole. Yes, we're gonna we're gonna just move on
• 2:00:20
  to the next one I had. I had. It's something like that,
• 2:00:25
  all right, this next one. As far as things learned from the season,
• 2:00:30
  the best players in the league are foreign players and it's okay, and
• 2:00:34
  we have to come to realization about it. Well, did you see that
• 2:00:39
  Adam Silver is gonna switch to us versus International. He's gonna bring it up.
• 2:00:44
  They're gonna vote on it. Really. Yeah, for the All Star
• 2:00:47
  Game, o Man International would wax the floor with Team USA. Yeah,
• 2:00:58
  you're bringing the best players all together from every Yeah, probably Luca Shay,
• 2:01:03
  Luka Jokic, Giannie Embiid Wimby. That's already six. Jamal Murray Instagram.
• 2:01:17
  All right, we're gonna just move past that, keep moving. Who's who's
• 2:01:23
  another foreign player that's that's already seven. There's a lot we're just not Yeah,
• 2:01:30
  we we just can't. We just can't think right now. But yeah,
• 2:01:33
  so so you agree on that premise, right, Chris stops there's Chris
• 2:01:39
  Stops two. But yeah, it's just clear cut now that the foreign the
• 2:01:46
  best players are the foreign players in America. There's a there's a big gap
• 2:01:51
  now and this last one right here, it's just things I learned throughout the
• 2:01:59
  season, appreciating greatness. Lebron James at thirty nine years old, what he's
• 2:02:04
  doing is unprecedented. But one thing that's going right now, and okay,
• 2:02:11
  perfect example of this game right here. So two other people that are thirty
• 2:02:16
  six years old and older, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry. We've kind of
• 2:02:21
  gotten numb to the fact that we're seeing Lebron do some stuff like this,
• 2:02:27
  that when we see Kdan KD and Steph Curry doing this, we're kind of
• 2:02:30
  immune to this. It's like, oh, well, they should be doing
• 2:02:33
  this. Most players when they get to thirty six, thirty seven years old,
• 2:02:39
  they're not all NBA type of players. Let's be real. And that's
• 2:02:46
  the last takeaway that I have from the NBA season. I don't know if
• 2:02:50
  you have one, Josh, that you want to wanted to throw out there
• 2:02:53
  real quick. Now we covered pretty much everything, like, I don't know
• 2:03:02
  what more we could talk about. Yeah, all right, well, before
• 2:03:08
  we end this episode, we're gonna just do a quick game. So no
• 2:03:12
  fantasy draft this week, but we're gonna do blind rankings as far as players
• 2:03:15
  one through five and we both have to agree on this. So first one
• 2:03:21
  we have right here is Steph Curry one one. Okay, well, okay,
• 2:03:36
  I kind of already put it. Yeah, I already put it at
• 2:03:40
  one. All right, Well, keep it moving. We will keep it
• 2:03:42
  moving. Next next one is Jalen Brown. I kind of want to yeah,
• 2:03:47
  I'll say I like four, right, here. Next one is Trey
• 2:03:53
  Young. This has to be five, right, yeah, five. This
• 2:04:00
  next one is Jared Jackson Junior. Three. We have to put him at
• 2:04:04
  three, and number two is Nicola Jokic two. So we have Steph Curry,
• 2:04:14
  Jaron Jackson Junior, Jalen Brown trade all time. This could be all
• 2:04:17
  time, It could wait. You would have Jaron Jackson Junior over Jalen Brown.
• 2:04:25
  Defensive Player of the Year is Jalen Brown. That's true. Okay,
• 2:04:30
  next one we have, we're starting a brand new one. Bradley Bill.
• 2:04:35
  I feel like four at this point three or four three or at this point
• 2:04:40
  in his career. Yeah, it's we're going off right now. Yeah,
• 2:04:44
  four, Joel Embiid, I kind of feel like I kind of feel like
• 2:04:50
  two right here. I feel like Jokice or Luca or somebody's I don't mind
• 2:04:57
  one. We could argue one. He's an MVP. Yeah, okay,
• 2:05:02
  we'll put one two or next one is Jalen Brown two or three he's above
• 2:05:11
  Bradley Bill. So yeah, it's either two way three, three, three.
• 2:05:15
  Okay. That's saving the space for like if someone does come through,
• 2:05:20
  we put him at. So next one is the mar De Rozan. I
• 2:05:25
  feel like we have to put him at five here. Two. You have
• 2:05:29
  them better than Ja Michael Jordan. I forgot he's a He's a modern day
• 2:05:36
  version of m J. He's five, he'd be five five. Next one
• 2:05:44
  is Luka Doncic. Two. That works out. I think that works out.
• 2:05:47
  It kind of does work out. It does it does? It does
• 2:05:51
  work out? All right? Next one we have right here, Sga two.
• 2:06:00
  I feel comfortable at two here the Aaron Fox. I feel like four
• 2:06:05
  four four Lucas weird putting them at four. Yeah, Luca is one one.
• 2:06:14
  I feel comfortable one. Devin Booker. I feel like this is three
• 2:06:18
  is perfect? Number five is okay? This is our best one. Five
• 2:06:25
  this this is our best one. Yeah, this, this was our best
• 2:06:28
  one. Right here? This is our best one. Luca one s J.
• 2:06:30
  Devin Booker, dearon Fox, Joahn Moran. Do you remember when they
• 2:06:35
  put Roger and Rondo underneath John Morant for all time point guards? Yes?
• 2:06:41
  I remember that. That was ridiculous. That was that was ridiculous. All
• 2:06:46
  right, well we'll do a couple more so this one right here Jannis at
• 2:06:56
  one one, Okay, I feel like somebody else. I feel like Joki
• 2:07:01
  is gonna pop out. Zion Williamson three, three, three, James High,
• 2:07:12
  James Harden five, five or four four for for the whole body of
• 2:07:20
  work. He's two yeah, no, but this is right now, Yeah,
• 2:07:25
  this is right now. Four four John Morant five. Five. Number
• 2:07:32
  two is Jaron Jackson Jr. Okay, that kind that that kind of messed
• 2:07:40
  it up, that kind of messed it up, right there. Yeah,
• 2:07:43
  all right, last one. We gotta make this one count. Okay,
• 2:07:46
  Okay, this this first one's tough. Paul George. I'm feeling like,
• 2:07:53
  yeah, okay, put him in the middle. Three. Jalen Brown is
• 2:07:59
  Jalen Jalen Brown is better than Paul George, though, right I think so?
• 2:08:03
  Yes, I have to say Jayleen, ooh yeah, Jalen Brown.
• 2:08:09
  I think Paul George is better than Jalen Brown to this day. Okay,
• 2:08:15
  we could go Jalen Brown four, but we have that one and two spot
• 2:08:18
  open, so we really need somebody good next week. James Harden, we
• 2:08:24
  have to put him five. Five, We have five. We have to
• 2:08:28
  get a look. Chris Paul two. One, we have to let's just
• 2:08:35
  let's just put him one. Number two is Giannis damn it, damn it.
• 2:08:41
  Okay, okay, okay, okay, I can't go like that.
• 2:08:46
  Yeah, yeah, we can't go on like that. Okay, LaMelo ball.
• 2:08:50
  This has to be far or five? Right? Yeah? Five?
• 2:08:54
  Did Jonce Moore Murray? Four? Right? Four? Yeah? Kevin Durant,
• 2:09:01
  Oh, I'm thinking. I'm thinking too, Yeah, I'm thinking too.
• 2:09:05
  Right here, Lebron James one. I feel like we need that one
• 2:09:16
  spot open right now. I think he's better than KD. Okay, we'll
• 2:09:24
  put Lebron in one, but this three needs to be like a Paul George,
• 2:09:28
  Jalen Brown, Jaron Jackson Jr. Or somebody like that. Okay,
• 2:09:33
  it's gonna be Please shake Geogis Alexander. Damn it, it was Shay how
• 2:09:43
  you look at it all time? Yes? All right, all right,
• 2:09:50
  yeah, no, let's go ahead and wrap up this episode. Josh,
• 2:09:54
  do you have anything else you want to say before we end it? Are
• 2:09:58
  we gonna do so called sports analysts? Real quick? So called sports Oh,
• 2:10:01
  so called I completely forgot about it. I'm not gonna lie to you,
• 2:10:07
  but all right, yeah, again we do our so called MVPs of
• 2:10:11
  the week. So, Josh, who's your so called MVP of the week.
• 2:10:15
  It's gonna be Tyrese Maxi. For me, I watched him score fifty
• 2:10:18
  two home my favorite team, and he scored thirty seven the other night.
• 2:10:20
  So I'm gonna go with Tyrese Maxey as my so called MVP of the week.
• 2:10:24
  So who my so called MVP is gonna be is Kyrie Irving? And
• 2:10:30
  especially after yesterday what he did against the Rockets. This dude, he was
• 2:10:35
  just cooking in the fourth quarter forty eight points. Dude was just bawling.
• 2:10:39
  And the Rockets they have some of the best primitive defenders, but obviously that
• 2:10:43
  didn't matter. Yeah, they got Kyrie. Yeah, But anything else you
• 2:10:48
  want to say before we wrap it up. No, we said everything we
• 2:10:54
  needed to say in this part. Yeah, no, we definitely did.
• 2:10:58
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