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1 Big Question for Every NBA Team Right Now… · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Bleach Report puts together an article, one big question for
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Speaker 1: every NBA team at training camp. It's that time, media day,
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Speaker 1: All right, so I'm taking a suggestion from the comment section.
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Speaker 1: I'm always down there reading and trying to make the
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Speaker 1: content better. I saw Wizards fans saying Kenny loved the videos,
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Speaker 1: but because these articles are always in alphabetical order, we
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Speaker 1: get the short end of the stick. You only spent
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Speaker 1: a couple seconds on us because you just wiped out
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Speaker 1: after going through 29 other teams. So I'm going right
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Speaker 1: to the bottom of this article, and we're starting with
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Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards, and we're going to work our way
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Speaker 1: up to the Atlanta Hawks. How about that? Washington Wizards.
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Speaker 1: Is Anthony Davis a long-term keeper? So I was just
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Speaker 1: in Washington a few days ago for their media day.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Wizards and their fam. Because they
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Speaker 1: showed us nothing but love. A.D., Trey Young, Bub Carrington, A.J. DeBont,
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Speaker 1: Alex R., even Brian Keefe. Like, the whole team just
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Speaker 1: showed so much love to us, so shout out to them.
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Speaker 1: I say that to say when we talked to Anthony Davis,
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Speaker 1: he felt like he was going to be back on
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Speaker 1: his bully. We also talked to Will Dawkins, who is
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Speaker 1: the guy making all the decisions. And when we were
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Speaker 1: talking about the expectation for this team, this is off cam,
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Speaker 1: he looked up and said that guy up there, and
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Speaker 1: he was pointing to Anthony Davis who was doing an
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Speaker 1: interview in the 200 section, that guy we're happy to have.
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Speaker 1: And again, he said that to us, right? He said
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Speaker 1: that to us podcasters who didn't have a camera on.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know how much you can really believe it.
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Speaker 1: But based on what I just saw yesterday or two
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Speaker 1: days ago when I was in Washington, I The answer
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Speaker 1: to this is yes. Now, I don't know what that
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Speaker 1: means with the contract extension, right? But right now, they
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Speaker 1: are completely dedicated to a team of Trae Young, Anthony Davis, AJ,
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Speaker 1: Alex Saar, and George or Bilal or whoever that fifth
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Speaker 1: starter is going to end up being. Trae Johnson, who
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Speaker 1: also showed us a lot of love. Next, we got...
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Speaker 1: The Utah Jazz, which Darren Peterson are the Jazz getting?
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Speaker 1: The 2026 NBA draft class was among the most celebrated
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Speaker 1: in recent memory. They're talking about the time in Kansas
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Speaker 1: where they say most people saw him as the best prospect.
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Speaker 1: But when he was in Kansas, he's had the severe
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Speaker 1: cramping issues and less idea offensive conditions around him. So
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Speaker 1: they're trying to say like, hey, is he? Okay. Next,
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Speaker 1: we got the Toronto Raptors. Are the Raptors contenders again?
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Speaker 1: Now the Kawhi Leonard is back. On paper, absolutely. I
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Speaker 1: think that they, and I'm talking about the Raptors, showed
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Speaker 1: us a lot in that seven-game series that they lost
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Speaker 1: last year. Scottie Barnes looked like a true superstar. Kyler
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Speaker 1: Murray-Boyles in his first season looked like a real NBA player,
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Speaker 1: and you project him to only get better. And then
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Speaker 1: you look at it and say, oh, yeah, Brandon Ingram
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Speaker 1: was dealing with injuries, and he also didn't play well. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it made you quickly then play in the series. And now...
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Speaker 1: They shipped off Brandon Ingram, who again was really bad
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Speaker 1: and going through injury, and they shipped off Grady Dick,
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Speaker 1: a guy who was in the rotation, to get Kawhi Leonard,
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Speaker 1: one of the best small forwards in all of basketball.
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Speaker 1: So on paper, you say yes. The only bit of
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Speaker 1: hesitancy that I have about that is Kawhi Leonard being
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Speaker 1: healthy for an entire postseason run. That's really what it's
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Speaker 1: going to boil down to. Can Kawhi Leonard be healthy?
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Speaker 1: And also what that center rotation looks like. Yaka Perto
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Speaker 1: had an interesting, maybe not so great season last year.
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Speaker 1: Is there a world where Calamari Boyles is the full-time
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Speaker 1: five come playoff time? I don't really know. But all
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Speaker 1: of this is going to hinge on whether or not
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is healthy. And because... It's been a long
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Speaker 1: time since we've seen Kawhi Leonard be healthy for an
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Speaker 1: entire regular season and a postseason. I'm going to say
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Speaker 1: no to this today, but fingers crossed because Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs is terminated. We want to see him
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But as of today, because of his
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Speaker 1: injury history, I can't say for sure. Next, we have
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Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. Have they figured out how to
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Speaker 1: navigate major moments? Yeah. I mean, obviously, this postseason was
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Speaker 1: a great one and maybe not have ended as the
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Speaker 1: way they wanted to, especially blowing all those double-digit leads
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Speaker 1: they've had in the NBA Finals. But I think this
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Speaker 1: is a team that's going to grow through circumstance. They're
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Speaker 1: going to grow through adversity. And there's no bigger adversity
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Speaker 1: than blowing a 20-whatever point lead in the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 1: So this will be a team that I think will
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Speaker 1: be able to navigate these moments is when Miyama gets better,
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Speaker 1: Stephon Castle gets better, Dylan Harper gets better. The list
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Speaker 1: goes on and on. And then they brought in a
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Speaker 1: vet like Tobias Harris who can have some leadership, if
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Speaker 1: you will. And they already got Black Falcon on the roster.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to say absolutely. Have they figured out
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Speaker 1: how to navigate major moments? I'm going to say yes.
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Speaker 1: And it's a day... It's no real, like, hot take
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Speaker 1: to say that, you know, you think the Spurs are
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Speaker 1: going to come out of the West again because they're
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Speaker 1: that talented and they should only be getting better. Next,
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Speaker 1: we got the Sacramento Kings. Do the veterans need to
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Speaker 1: go regardless of their return? This is an interesting thing.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about it a million times on this channel.
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Speaker 1: These new elevated odds or change of the odds put
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Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings in a more interesting position while DeMontis
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Speaker 1: Abonis or Zach Levine or some of these other veterans
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Speaker 1: on the team may not have a lot of value
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Speaker 1: on the open market. They may have internal value. Because
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Speaker 1: they are good enough, Demonte Sabonis is a good enough
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Speaker 1: floor rager, especially in the regular season when he's healthy,
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, we won't be the worst team in
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Speaker 1: the league. And not being the worst team in the
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Speaker 1: league is actually really beneficial nowadays. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: say no. I know there are some rumors that Sabonis
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Speaker 1: is ready to move on to his next team because
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Speaker 1: he wants to compete in playoff series and stuff. But
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Speaker 1: there's a benefit to having Sabonis on this team because
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Speaker 1: he will help you win X amount of more games
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Speaker 1: than before. Now, you may argue, can you even win
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Speaker 1: Sabonis in the worst team in the league? So go
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Speaker 1: get what you can for him. And I can't even
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Speaker 1: say you're wrong on that. Can't even say you're wrong
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Speaker 1: on that. Zach Levine's not going to have a lot
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Speaker 1: of value because he's making 40-something million dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: But Sabonis might, but maybe not. I don't know. Next
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Speaker 1: we have the Portland Trail Blazers. Will Denny get lost
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Speaker 1: in the guard heavy shuffle? A video I've been working
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Speaker 1: on for now weeks because I keep getting... flown out
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Speaker 1: to do different trips. Shout out to the NBA teams.
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Speaker 1: We keep flying a brother out, but they'd be hitting
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Speaker 1: me up 48 hours before and say, hey, we need
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Speaker 1: you in Washington. Hey, we need you in Atlanta. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. I'm just telling you what it is.
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Speaker 1: I've been working on a video of me putting together
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Speaker 1: the players I think are the most interesting for this
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Speaker 1: upcoming season. Danny's like the top of the list. Danny's
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Speaker 1: just had an all-star year where the ball was in
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Speaker 1: his hands more than almost any other player in the
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Speaker 1: entire NBA. The best thing he had was the ability
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Speaker 1: to get to the basket and draw fouls. And now
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Speaker 1: that they have Dame coming into the lineup and they
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Speaker 1: have Ja Morant coming into the lineup, Denny's usage, the
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Speaker 1: time on ball is going to drop. And I would
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Speaker 1: guess significantly. So how would Denny adjust to that? People
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Speaker 1: tell you that Denny shot like 37% on catch and
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Speaker 1: shoot three. So he looked pretty good there last season,
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Speaker 1: but you kind of turn it down his value if
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have the ball, but you'd also don't want
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Speaker 1: to take it away from Damian Lillard. You know, so
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Speaker 1: like he is one of the most interesting players of
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Speaker 1: the entire season. And it's all about adaptability and, It's
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Speaker 1: all about what Michael Norrie and his staff decide to
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Speaker 1: do with the Denny minutes. I'm assuming that we're going
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Speaker 1: to get Linus where it's just Denny. But then again,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Again,
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Speaker 1: he's one of those interesting players in the entire league
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Speaker 1: into the season. Next, we're going to have the Phoenix Suns.
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Speaker 1: Is there another level Jalen Green can reach? I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: Jalen Green had been Iron Man guy for the first
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Speaker 1: however many years of his career. Then he gets to Houston.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he gets to Phoenix, and now he can't
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Speaker 1: stay healthy. So I'm hoping that that is just an anomaly.
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Speaker 1: But I don't really know, man. I'd be looking at
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Speaker 1: the Suns and their projected lineups and seeing like Book
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Speaker 1: and Green and Brooks and Bridges and I guess Osei
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Speaker 1: Gadoro or Mal Uwais out of Mark Williams' injury. And
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Speaker 1: I'd be thinking like, damn, does Jalen Green fit more
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Speaker 1: as an off-the-bench guy so he can get some extra–
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Speaker 1: Shooting and Colin Gillespie, some extra playmaking and Colin Gillespie.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's what my head be at when
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Speaker 1: I look at that projected lineup. Maybe I'm heavily underrating
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Speaker 1: Jalen Green, but he is one of those players that
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Speaker 1: like wants to have the ball a little bit more
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Speaker 1: than maybe he should have the ball. And he's not
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Speaker 1: as efficient as you want a guy that's taken that
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Speaker 1: many type of shots. I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Is there another level? I hope so. But if I
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Speaker 1: had to guess, probably not. And he's a good player now,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know if there's an all-star in there somewhere.
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Speaker 1: You know, I guess that's the way I would describe it. Next,
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Speaker 1: we got the Philadelphia 76ers. How does the offensive hierarchy
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Speaker 1: take shape? Yeah, it's one of the best questions you
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Speaker 1: can ask for them. They got four players that had
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Speaker 1: heavy uses last season, something you probably heard a thousand
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Speaker 1: times since LeBron James and Jay LeBron joined the team. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: how will they figure out the hierarchy? The reality is
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Speaker 1: it's going to be many games that they don't have
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Speaker 1: all four of their all-star superstar players, right? So the
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Speaker 1: hierarchy may turn its way around just because, yeah, you're
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Speaker 1: going to have 20 games miss, at minimum, of Joel Embiid.
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Speaker 1: I mean, only 20 games miss for Joel Embiid. We like, hey,
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Speaker 1: lock him in for all NBA. But you're going to
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Speaker 1: have those. Braun is also 42 years old. How many
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Speaker 1: games will he miss? The list goes on and on. So, like,
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Speaker 1: the hierarchy may just find its way just because they
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Speaker 1: won't spend a ton of time. They're not going to
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Speaker 1: spend 60 of 82 games playing collectively at that four-man unit.
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Speaker 1: But if I had to guess, I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to process. Maxie, Brown, Braun. and the offensive hierarchy. And
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Speaker 1: even that feels weird because Jalen Brown said a season
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Speaker 1: where he averaged almost 30. But, like, that's the way
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Speaker 1: I see it in my mind offensively. But, you know, again,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be ever-changing. Next we have the Orlando Magic.
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Speaker 1: Will coaching change remove this club's first-round ceiling? It's really tough.
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Speaker 1: I love a first-year coaching boost. People tell you that
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Speaker 1: Coach Sweetney, he hangs his hat on the defensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball. Last year, the Orlando Magic fell off
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Speaker 1: defensively from that team that we saw be a top
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Speaker 1: 10 defense previous seasons. So it would help them to
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Speaker 1: get back to where they are because we know what
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Speaker 1: their ceiling is defensively. But they also just had Jamal Mosley,
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Speaker 1: who was maybe the least creative offensive coach in the
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Speaker 1: entirety of the league. And because we haven't seen Sweetney
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Speaker 1: take control of any offensive system in his coaching career,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect his system to look like.
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Speaker 1: And this is such a pivotal season for the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Magic because everybody will tell you how expensive this team
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Speaker 1: is for, as we talk about right now, a first-round ceiling. So, like,
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Speaker 1: this is a do-or-die season for this core four. And
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Speaker 1: I add Wendell Carter, who's our frame here. This core
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Speaker 1: five guys is like, hey, if things don't go well,
10:32
Speaker 1: then maybe Franz, maybe Paolo gets traded. Maybe Jalen Suss
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Speaker 1: gets traded because his contract is big. And you also
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Speaker 1: got to pay Anthony Black. You also got to pay
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Speaker 1: this guy. So I'm hoping that Coach Sweeney can come
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Speaker 1: in and do some things because I got a lot
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Speaker 1: of stock in this team. But every day passes and
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Speaker 1: I feel like a little bit more crazy for buying
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Speaker 1: a lot of stock in them. But the stock is bought.
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Speaker 1: So what am I going to do? Return it? No, baby.
10:52
Speaker 1: I'll put them orders in. Okay, see Thunder. Who's ready
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Speaker 1: to join the rotation? Yeah, without Wiggins, without Doerr, without Joe,
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Speaker 1: you will need some other people to step up. I'm
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Speaker 1: assuming it's going to be Bennett Sturtz. If I had
11:05
Speaker 1: to guess, if we're looking at this picture right here.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's Nikola Topic, right, who's coming off all of
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Speaker 1: the stuff that he's dealt with personally. But, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: is a year where, especially in the regular season, postseason
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Speaker 1: come around, I mean, depending on how good they are,
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Speaker 1: they may not get a ton of PT, but you
11:19
Speaker 1: will have to play. And that's pretty interesting for an
11:22
Speaker 1: OKC team that could win 60 games. How much can
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Speaker 1: a rookie like Bennett Sturridge really get or a Dymar
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Speaker 1: or could get on the court? I don't know. But
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Speaker 1: some of these young guys are going to have to play-play,
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Speaker 1: like 15 to 20 minutes a night, in my opinion. Knicks.
11:36
Speaker 1: What is the right number on the Carleton Towns extension?
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Speaker 1: I have no idea, though. Given Towns' impact on New
11:42
Speaker 1: York title run, you might think it would have cemented
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Speaker 1: him into an organization's long-term plans, but he could hit
11:48
Speaker 1: free agency as soon as next summer, $ 61 million player option,
11:52
Speaker 1: recent talks in the season. So Carleton Towns' regular season
11:55
Speaker 1: was pretty wishy-washy, right? I remember at one point we
11:57
Speaker 1: did a video on here where you're talking about how
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Speaker 1: the Knicks were struggling right after, I think it was
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Speaker 1: like in January or February or so, And we were
12:02
Speaker 1: talking about how Carleton and Towns were struggling himself. He
12:04
Speaker 1: wasn't looking like the big per did we know. He
12:06
Speaker 1: wasn't the best three-point shooting center in basketball. I was like, man,
12:09
Speaker 1: what's going on? And then we get to the postseason.
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Speaker 1: We get to the Atlanta series. It's like, oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: This guy is baby Oak. They put him in the
12:15
Speaker 1: high post, put him in the elbow and said, go
12:17
Speaker 1: to work. Go to work. He had like eight assists
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Speaker 1: per game that series. In the next series, it was
12:21
Speaker 1: six assists. In the next series, it was four. Once
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Speaker 1: he got to the finals, he had games where Wimby
12:25
Speaker 1: was kind of doing his thing. But he also had
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Speaker 1: his moments in the finals. Game one of the NBA finals,
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Speaker 1: he had his moments. So I have no idea what
12:31
Speaker 1: that money looks like. And I hate that because of
12:33
Speaker 1: the way the league is going, a team that just
12:35
Speaker 1: came off a championship has to question these type of
12:38
Speaker 1: things from him, have to question these type of things
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Speaker 1: from Josh Hart and so on. But that's just the
12:42
Speaker 1: reality of the league that we live in right now.
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Speaker 1: A guy can win a championship and be very pivotal
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Speaker 1: of it and be like, yeah, we can't even give
12:47
Speaker 1: you the money that you probably deserve. Next, we go
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Speaker 1: to the Pelicans. Can Jamal Mosey make sense of this roster?
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Speaker 1: I'm like, call me crazy. I'm like fake convincing myself
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Speaker 1: that the Pelicans will be better than maybe people anticipate.
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Speaker 1: Not saying that they're about to jump into a playoff team. Hell,
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Speaker 1: I don't even know if they're going to jump into
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Speaker 1: a playing team. But last year was such an ugly season.
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Speaker 1: When the entire time we were talking about Joe Dumars
13:10
Speaker 1: trading that pick that ended up being Kingston Fleming's to
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Speaker 1: Atlanta for Derek Queen. D. Queen has an up and
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Speaker 1: down rookie season, but expect it for a big fella
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Speaker 1: that's 18 years old. Jeremiah Fierce has his moments and
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Speaker 1: it's like, Man, this team is at the bottom. Zion
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Speaker 1: has a healthy season. They're still helping win. What's going on?
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Speaker 1: DeJounte Murray shoots into the lineup for his 12 of
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Speaker 1: 15 games. It's like they were a 500 team. For
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Speaker 1: the last 30 games of the season, they had a
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Speaker 1: net rating of zero. So they were a pretty okay team.
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Speaker 1: Even if they, I think in their last 30 games,
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Speaker 1: they were like 13 and 17 or something like that.
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Speaker 1: But like a net rating, like a neutral net rating,
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Speaker 1: you say, hmm, how much can we believe in that?
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Speaker 1: And though it don't make sense on paper, sometimes the
13:50
Speaker 1: talent has to mean something. And we can all agree
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Speaker 1: that they at least got seven talented NBA players, eight
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Speaker 1: talented NBA players, even if Zion and D. Queen couldn't
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Speaker 1: play together last season. I don't know, but I'm like
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Speaker 1: kind of convincing myself that they're just going to be
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Speaker 1: more competitive than we anticipated. And you see the numbers
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Speaker 1: are like, oh, Jeremiah Fierce put on more muscle. Him,
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Speaker 1: somehow DeJounte Murray, Trey Murphy, Quentin Grimes, I'm sorry, Quentin Grimes,
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Speaker 1: Derrick Queen. And Carlo are all one inch taller all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden. I don't know what the hell is
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Speaker 1: going on in New Orleans, but maybe Jamal Mosley, who
14:22
Speaker 1: had been a good floor raising coach, can come in
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Speaker 1: and raise this floor. Next, we have the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Speaker 1: How did the Wolves form their identity? Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: know what to really expect as far as identity goes.
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Speaker 1: I think that they're going to be a top 10
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Speaker 1: defense because of the big fella in the back end
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Speaker 1: and Jaden McDaniels and obviously Anthony Edwards can lock in
14:41
Speaker 1: when he needs to. But outside of that, I don't
14:44
Speaker 1: really know where they're going to hang their hat. And
14:45
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see exactly how they do that. Next,
14:47
Speaker 1: we have the Milky Bucks. Is Tyler Herro a building
14:49
Speaker 1: block or a trade ship? I would guess the latter
14:52
Speaker 1: of the two. I think he can play his value up.
14:55
Speaker 1: There are going to be teams that could use some
14:56
Speaker 1: secondary ball handling. I don't think he's ever going to
14:58
Speaker 1: be a guy that's going to net you two to
14:59
Speaker 1: three first round picks. But I think he is good
15:02
Speaker 1: enough to net you something. And I think that's where
15:04
Speaker 1: your head should be at if you're the Milky Bucks.
15:07
Speaker 1: If you're not one of the, you know, if you're
15:09
Speaker 1: not Kasparis, Kal-El Ware, Nate Ament, Braden Burries, and hopefully
15:14
Speaker 1: I'm not forgetting anybody. I think everybody else should be
15:16
Speaker 1: up for grabs. You know, if there's a team calling
15:18
Speaker 1: that's willing to give you an okay first-round pick for
15:20
Speaker 1: a Tyler Hero and maybe some different type of building blocks,
15:23
Speaker 1: you got to make that decision. You got to make
15:26
Speaker 1: that trade, in my opinion. Now we get to the
15:28
Speaker 1: Miami Heat. Is there enough perimeter punch to complement their frontcourt?
15:33
Speaker 1: It's tough to say, right? Is there enough perimeter punch?
15:38
Speaker 1: I think they've done a solid enough job finding... especially
15:42
Speaker 1: regular season jump shooting from Clay to Tim Hardaway to
15:46
Speaker 1: what Wiggins has been over the last couple seasons. Davey,
15:49
Speaker 1: I met you. This goes on and on. Hope Pele
15:50
Speaker 1: Larson can shoot, let's say, 36% from three. What a
15:53
Speaker 1: season that would be if he can jump up four
15:55
Speaker 1: percentage points. But I guess if I'm thinking about their
15:58
Speaker 1: offense outside of them and Giannis, I do question the
16:00
Speaker 1: creation part a little bit. But I don't know if
16:03
Speaker 1: that's going to matter so much because of what Giannis is.
16:06
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea how to answer
16:08
Speaker 1: this question. I have no idea. Next, we got the
16:10
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies. How much, if any, star power is present?
16:14
Speaker 1: I think when I watch Cam Boozer, I see a star.
16:17
Speaker 1: I don't know if I see top 10 player in
16:18
Speaker 1: the league type of star, but I do see a
16:20
Speaker 1: guy that's going to do everything in his power. He
16:24
Speaker 1: reminds me of a super high floor-raising type of player.
16:27
Speaker 1: And we're talking about a rookie here. And I do
16:30
Speaker 1: see Cedric Howard as a guy. And maybe that's just
16:32
Speaker 1: because he's one of my dogs, but I see him
16:34
Speaker 1: as a guy, as a foundational building block player. Does
16:36
Speaker 1: that mean star power? I don't know. Hell, Zach Eadie. Bro,
16:40
Speaker 1: I did this little thing and he's another one of
16:42
Speaker 1: the most interesting players. So I'm kind of spoiling my
16:44
Speaker 1: own video that hopefully comes out next week. But Zach
16:46
Speaker 1: Eadie is also one of the most interesting players coming
16:48
Speaker 1: into next season. When he played. Everything was perfect for
16:51
Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies. They were a great defensive rebounding team.
16:53
Speaker 1: They had a really good defensive team. They funneled everything
16:55
Speaker 1: to him. You know, the offense was flowing so much better. So, like,
16:59
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if I can use
17:00
Speaker 1: the word star for Zach Eady, but the building blocks
17:03
Speaker 1: are the building blocks. And if you can say Cam
17:05
Speaker 1: is going to be a multiple-time all-star, I think that's
17:07
Speaker 1: a win. I feel like he's going to be a
17:08
Speaker 1: multiple-time all-star at minimum. Lakers, will Walker Kessler, was Walker
17:13
Speaker 1: Kessler worth it? If Luka's happy, absolutely. That's all that matters.
17:18
Speaker 1: Was it an overpaying contract? Yeah. Was it an overpaying
17:20
Speaker 1: draft capital? Probably, yeah. But at the end of the day,
17:23
Speaker 1: if you can get seven to seven to be really happy,
17:26
Speaker 1: I don't care about the rest. Even if it's, he's
17:30
Speaker 1: not going to be happy for the longest. But I mean,
17:31
Speaker 1: he don't take me as a type that's going to
17:32
Speaker 1: get really upset. Next, we got the Clippers. What are
17:35
Speaker 1: the organizational goals now? Very good question. Media Day, here's
17:41
Speaker 1: Garland said, the thing that every team in this position
17:44
Speaker 1: says is like, we're going to surprise the people. I
17:47
Speaker 1: don't know how realistic that is. But if you look
17:48
Speaker 1: at their roster, they do have NBA players between DG
17:50
Speaker 1: and I guess Brandon Ingram won't be ready to start
17:52
Speaker 1: the season, unfortunately. But DG, Brandon Ingram, Rui Hachimor, Chris Dunn,
17:56
Speaker 1: even Brooke Lopez still, Max Strews, Derrick Jones Jr. Like
18:00
Speaker 1: that's some, those are real NBA players. And I think
18:03
Speaker 1: that if there's a world where the Clippers say, man,
18:06
Speaker 1: we already laugh at Stock of the League. Let's go
18:08
Speaker 1: out and surprise the people and win 36 games, right?
18:10
Speaker 1: I think that's not unrealistic for this Clippers roster. But
18:13
Speaker 1: I also wonder how much Would they want to put
18:16
Speaker 1: their eggs in those young guys' baskets? Like, let Keaton
18:19
Speaker 1: Wagler learn what it means to be an NBA player.
18:22
Speaker 1: Let Yannick Nienenkoderhauser go out there and start 40 games
18:26
Speaker 1: because he looked really good before he had his foot injury.
18:30
Speaker 1: Kobe Sanders, who's a young NBA player, but not a
18:32
Speaker 1: young NBA player because I think he's 26 years old. Like,
18:34
Speaker 1: there's two different paths to Clippers and go. We could
18:36
Speaker 1: try to be ultra-competitive today. I said 36. They even
18:40
Speaker 1: feel like a stretch, especially if Brandon Ingram's going to
18:41
Speaker 1: miss time. We could be ultra-competitive today and be a
18:44
Speaker 1: 32-win team. Or we can put our eggs in these
18:47
Speaker 1: young guy baskets and be one of the worst teams
18:48
Speaker 1: in the league. But, hey, at least Keaton is getting reps.
18:50
Speaker 1: At least Yannick is getting reps. At least all these
18:52
Speaker 1: other guys are getting reps. I don't know. The Pacers.
18:56
Speaker 1: Will Tyrese Halliburton hit the ground running? He said in
18:58
Speaker 1: his media day he is 100% ready. No ifs, ands,
19:01
Speaker 1: or buts about it. So I'm going to say yes.
19:04
Speaker 1: I'm also pretty biased. That's my dog. The Houston Rockets.
19:07
Speaker 1: Can anyone organize this offense? I'm really looking forward to
19:10
Speaker 1: Freddie being back. even if he gave us maybe some
19:13
Speaker 1: scary moments in media day with some of the quotes
19:15
Speaker 1: he was having. But they don't just call him Steady
19:18
Speaker 1: Freddy because it rhymes. They call him Steady Freddy because
19:21
Speaker 1: he's an organizer of things, even if he's going to
19:23
Speaker 1: shoot 30-whatever-percent from the field. That's just what he is.
19:25
Speaker 1: He's an organizer of things. And I don't think it's
19:27
Speaker 1: coincidence that the public perception of Shingun dropped last season
19:30
Speaker 1: because he had to do things that we don't normally
19:32
Speaker 1: see him have to do because he didn't have a
19:34
Speaker 1: guy like Fred VanVleet. And they were relying on Ahmed
19:37
Speaker 1: Thompson playing out of position. Or Reese Shepard who's still
19:39
Speaker 1: trying to find himself as an NBA player. And now
19:41
Speaker 1: Freddie can really set some things up. So I'm going
19:44
Speaker 1: to say yes. I'm going to say yes. Freddie's going
19:47
Speaker 1: to come in and help. At the bare minimum, he's
19:49
Speaker 1: going to help organize. How effective will he be as
19:51
Speaker 1: an NBA player? I don't know coming off the injury,
19:53
Speaker 1: but organization is something you don't need athleticism for. So
19:56
Speaker 1: I think he can do that. Next, we got the
19:58
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. Will they ever be healthy enough to matter? No,
20:02
Speaker 1: probably not. We just found out Porzingis is going to
20:04
Speaker 1: be out. Moses Moody, Jimmy Butler, all of these guys,
20:06
Speaker 1: both of those guys are going to be out for
20:07
Speaker 1: a significant amount of time. I would just probably not,
20:10
Speaker 1: and Steph Curry is going to do Steph Curry things,
20:13
Speaker 1: which we'll watch, we'll be really happy to watch, but man,
20:15
Speaker 1: I just don't see a world where they're winning a
20:16
Speaker 1: ton of games that's currently constructed, bro, it's like, Quinn
20:20
Speaker 1: Post is going, not that Quinn Post is like this
20:21
Speaker 1: crazy thing, but no, Porzingis, now 41-year-old Al Horford is
20:24
Speaker 1: now running, they ever talk about, oh, the Anthony Melton
20:29
Speaker 1: being injury-prone, at least he healthy right now, as far
20:31
Speaker 1: as I know, Porzingis is already out, this article came
20:33
Speaker 1: out before the Porzingis news, so like, I don't think
20:36
Speaker 1: they'll be healthy enough to matter. And honestly speaking, if
20:38
Speaker 1: they were healthy, they probably... No, Jimmy Butler would have
20:41
Speaker 1: helped them be interesting enough. But no, I don't think so. Pistons,
20:45
Speaker 1: what's happening with Jalen Dern? I'm so tired of talking
20:47
Speaker 1: about it. I'm going to skip that one. Go watch
20:48
Speaker 1: the podcast. Denver Nuggets, is the defense fatally flawed? Nuggets
20:53
Speaker 1: fans will tell you when Aaron Gordon played, we had
20:55
Speaker 1: a good defensive rating. But collectively, we were number 21.
21:00
Speaker 1: How much can we rely on Mr. 32 to play
21:01
Speaker 1: a full season in the postseason? I don't know. And
21:03
Speaker 1: because of that, I'm going to say, yeah, it is
21:05
Speaker 1: fatally flawed. They can be the number one offense in
21:07
Speaker 1: the league, but I don't know if I'm going to
21:09
Speaker 1: trust that if, yeah, they are bottom third defense, man,
21:12
Speaker 1: history of what it is, bro, bro, you don't, you
21:14
Speaker 1: don't go and be a bottom third defense and win championships.
21:17
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen. So, you know, next we got
21:22
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. How did, how does Kyrie Irving impact
21:25
Speaker 1: Cooper flag positively? I think he's going to get some
21:27
Speaker 1: good takes off. Um, And I think that Cooper Flagg
21:31
Speaker 1: had this, you know, the typical Jason Kidd rookie season
21:35
Speaker 1: where it's like, we're going to have you running one
21:36
Speaker 1: guard for the majority of the season. We just want
21:38
Speaker 1: you to get your ball handling up. We want you
21:40
Speaker 1: to get your decision making up. And then we're going
21:42
Speaker 1: to put you back in the position we know you
21:43
Speaker 1: can be in. But now you've got that stuff in
21:45
Speaker 1: the back of mind. You can create offense for yourself
21:47
Speaker 1: and for others. And Kyrie Irving going to set some
21:48
Speaker 1: things up. I think this is a great fit. I
21:50
Speaker 1: don't know how long they're going to play together, but
21:51
Speaker 1: I think it's a great fit. Next, we've got the
21:53
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers. Can Peyton Watts respond? solve the small four puzzle.
21:57
Speaker 1: This is so reminiscent, and I don't mean this in
21:59
Speaker 1: like play style by any means, but in the 2010s,
22:03
Speaker 1: one of my favorite teams because of my GOAT, oh,
22:05
Speaker 1: you can't see, my GOAT Chris Paul played for the Clippers.
22:08
Speaker 1: Clippers had Chris Paul, JJ Redick, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan
22:13
Speaker 1: as a core four. And they always was wondering who
22:17
Speaker 1: is going to be that small four. We had like
22:19
Speaker 1: Haram Butler. We had goddamn Paul Pierce. We had like
22:24
Speaker 1: Wesley Matthew. They was just a turnstile of small forwards
22:28
Speaker 1: hoping and praying that one of them was going to
22:30
Speaker 1: be the one to put the team together. And that's
22:32
Speaker 1: what I feel like the Cavs are doing right now.
22:34
Speaker 1: Where we know what their core four is going to
22:35
Speaker 1: be between Mobe and Jared Allen and Evan Mobley. And
22:39
Speaker 1: James Hart is like, who's going to run our three?
22:42
Speaker 1: Max Drews was really good. Wasn't healthy last season. Sarah
22:45
Speaker 1: Merrill and Donovan Mitchell played very well together, but maybe
22:48
Speaker 1: it's just too small. They needed a guy. And Peyton
22:49
Speaker 1: Watson comes in and says, hey, I can be that guy.
22:52
Speaker 1: It's really a matter of how he hits those threes
22:55
Speaker 1: and if they allow him to have some of that
22:57
Speaker 1: on-ball juice that he had in, what, January of this
22:59
Speaker 1: season where it was no yo-kits and he was averaging
23:01
Speaker 1: 20-plus points per game. They invested a lot in him.
23:04
Speaker 1: And they invested a lot in this core. So they
23:06
Speaker 1: need this answer to be yes. I don't know if
23:08
Speaker 1: I'm saying yes completely just yet. I need a couple
23:10
Speaker 1: games to see. Next, we got the Bulls. Why do
23:13
Speaker 1: they got him in a Cubs jersey? Over here, the
23:15
Speaker 1: Cubs getting their ass spanked in a wild card. My
23:17
Speaker 1: White Sox. Ooh, I only got the White Sox hat today.
23:20
Speaker 1: My White Sox went into Houston and took care of business.
23:22
Speaker 1: They got him in the Cubs. I don't like that.
23:24
Speaker 1: Can the young forwards form a viable foundation? I hope so. No,
23:30
Speaker 1: this guy's a dog. Full stop. I don't know. He
23:35
Speaker 1: already got an elite. You know how, like, Kyrie Irving
23:38
Speaker 1: got this to the 30th degree, where there's so many
23:42
Speaker 1: edits of other people talking about Kyrie Irving. People say, man,
23:44
Speaker 1: if Kyrie Irving was two inches tall, he'd be the
23:45
Speaker 1: greatest player of all time. Who's the hardest person to
23:47
Speaker 1: guard in your NBA career? Boy, y'all don't know Kyrie Irving. Like,
23:50
Speaker 1: you know those clips? Caleb Wilson already got 30 clips
23:54
Speaker 1: like that. He ain't even played a real NBA game yet.
23:56
Speaker 1: A real NBA player saying this is the guy. Now,
23:59
Speaker 1: he got to live up to it. He got to
24:00
Speaker 1: actually come out there and do the work. But, like,
24:02
Speaker 1: he already got edit material before he even played a
24:05
Speaker 1: real game. He's him. And if he's not, I'm going
24:08
Speaker 1: to be so fucking sad. Next, we got the Charlotte Hornets.
24:14
Speaker 1: How does life after LaMelo look? If I had to
24:17
Speaker 1: put money on it, I think it's going to be questionable.
24:21
Speaker 1: It's a lot of belief in these two guys, which
24:23
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at because they both had really good seasons.
24:26
Speaker 1: Khan had an all-time rookie shooting season, as we all know.
24:29
Speaker 1: Brandon Miller looked really good. But, I don't know, bro.
24:35
Speaker 1: When LaMelo was on the court last season, they were
24:38
Speaker 1: a top-level offense. When he wasn't, they just weren't. And
24:41
Speaker 1: they got rid of that guy and replaced him with
24:43
Speaker 1: a guy that we all love here, Kobe White. Shout
24:45
Speaker 1: out to my dog, Kobe White. But just totally different
24:47
Speaker 1: kind of players. You think about the creation that LaMelo,
24:51
Speaker 1: the creativity offensively LaMelo brings. Kobe's more of a score-first
24:55
Speaker 1: type of league guard. I've seen him play for eight
24:59
Speaker 1: years in the NBA here in Chicago. I know too
25:02
Speaker 1: much about that. So this is going to be a
25:03
Speaker 1: team that's going to rely heavily on these two guys
25:05
Speaker 1: to take steps offensively when it comes to playmaking. I
25:08
Speaker 1: hope that, you know, Race O'Neal and Grayson Allen, what
25:12
Speaker 1: they did last season on ball, it was real and
25:14
Speaker 1: they can do it again. But I just, it's a
25:16
Speaker 1: lot of pieces here. And I understand what you're going for.
25:19
Speaker 1: While LaMelo had value, go get something. I got to
25:24
Speaker 1: see it. I got to see it. Next, we got
25:26
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets. How good are the young guards? I
25:29
Speaker 1: said it. I'm buying all my Jaeger, Jaeger, Joman stock.
25:32
Speaker 1: Everybody else, Mikel Brown. I got stock of you too,
25:34
Speaker 1: my boy. Everybody else. I'm Nolan Triore's of the world.
25:37
Speaker 1: Drake Powell's of the world. We got to wait. We
25:39
Speaker 1: got to wait and see. Number two, what is the
25:42
Speaker 1: expectation now? I think their own personal expectation is still
25:45
Speaker 1: to be as competitive as they always are. But I
25:48
Speaker 1: don't know if there's any, but I mean, they're never
25:49
Speaker 1: going to say this publicly, but I don't think people
25:52
Speaker 1: on the staff is like, this is a championship season
25:54
Speaker 1: for us. You know what I mean? They're retooling right
25:57
Speaker 1: now and hoping that they could get back there. And
26:00
Speaker 1: then lastly, the Atlanta Hawks. Is there enough offense to contend?
26:04
Speaker 1: To contend? Probably not. It's also one of the most
26:07
Speaker 1: interesting teams because they had the second half of the
26:09
Speaker 1: year where they were just killing everybody. Some people tell
26:12
Speaker 1: you that was a circumstance. It's a schedule because they
26:14
Speaker 1: played as one playoff team out of 15 games. I
26:18
Speaker 1: struggle to see that their offense is going to maintain
26:21
Speaker 1: the type of fire that they had in that second
26:22
Speaker 1: half of the season. Does that mean it's going to
26:24
Speaker 1: be bad? Absolutely not. But I think it's more realistic
26:26
Speaker 1: that they're like offensively 12 through 16 than them being
26:30
Speaker 1: 1 through 11. If that makes sense. All right. Hey,
26:33
Speaker 1: that's one major question according to Bleach Report. And Zach Buckley,
26:37
Speaker 1: shout out to Zach for the article. Let me know
26:38
Speaker 1: what you think. What is your major question, your favorite team?
26:40
Speaker 1: I'll see y'all tomorrow.