WEBVTT - Can Somebody Get Luka Some Help? 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:16.840 Have you ever had someone do something that caused you 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:22.960 to rethink everything that you thought about them and everything 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.840 that you thought you knew about them, Like, there are 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.840 decisions I think that you can make. And I was 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.440 talking about this with a friend the other night, Like, 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.280 there's decisions I think you can make that are so 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:43.680 egregious and makes so little rational sense that it shakes 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:50.040 other people's belief in your decision making capabilities. Like I 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:54.280 see things and I'm like, you did that. Oh well, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:59.040 I mean that makes so little sense that very clearly 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.040 a wire is loose or there is some sort of 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:08.760 flaw in your pattern of thinking that now moving forward, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.000 I have to put inside of my brain and how 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:16.840 I think about what you're doing insane. Nico Harrison and 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:22.400 the Mavericks just signed Kemba Walker as there I don't 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:28.760 even know, like as a point guard. I am Shooketh honestly, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.880 and I have questions. I like Nico Harrison a lot. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.399 I've met him a few times, been around athletes for 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.120 twenty years with Nike. We've talked about that. We've talked 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.080 about that a lot, But there are now questions that 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:47.320 must be answered. This doesn't make any fucking sense. There 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:53.240 is as an me seen Kemba Walker anytime Kemba Walker. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.440 Last time I saw him, he was infuriating Tom Thibodeau 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.560 with his I think he had the worst defensive rating 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.960 in the entire NBA. This just defies logic, this move. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.160 It's caused me to now turn the laser beam on 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.639 you know what I mean, Like someone's been flying under 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.079 the radar, flying under radar, and then something happens and 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.560 you're like, all hands on deck, every we need to 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.680 bring all the books out in and we need to 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:25.160 start pouring over every page because I don't trust you anymore. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.359 It's like turning a spotlight on a room that has 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.400 had bad lighting and then you're like, oh my god, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.640 Like this place looks like shit, Oh my god, there's 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.239 dirt everywhere. Is that a cockroach? But for whatever reason, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.000 nobody's talking about it. Nobody's talking about what's going on 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.680 with the Mavericks. Nobody except for like Reddit Mavericks, Like 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.680 that's a whole other thing, right, but no national media 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.760 is discussing this. So I think we need to do 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:56.079 a deep dive into the Mavericks, a team that I've 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.560 been keeping my eye on and last season as you 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.359 guys know, they made it all the way to the 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.520 Western Conference Finals, surprised everyone pretty much a lot of 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.720 steam heading into this offseason, but then a lot of 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.720 just to kind of play catch up for people who 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.200 might not be paying attention all the way Like then, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.040 a couple interesting things happened. First, Jalen Brunson did not 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.280 come back. He signed with the Knicks, even though Mark 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.400 Cuban told the world that the MAVs could pay Jalen 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.440 Brunson more than anyone and that Jalen Brunson wanted to 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.360 come back, which turned out to be false. Jalen Brunson 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.280 did not want to come back, and they could not 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:39.480 pay Jalen Brunson more than anyone, because they didn't, and 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.040 that turns out to be probably a bigger loss than 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.240 anyone could ever have anticipated. This may have sunk this 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:49.400 team to levels that we are just yet starting to see. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.520 Brunson was awesome. We know that when Luca was out 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.720 with the ankle injury, he gave him a secondary scoring option. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.720 He could drive into the lane, he could kick, he 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.000 was a really good decision maker, he could play good defense. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.720 And then when he bolted to the Knicks, after basically 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.840 begging the Mavericks to pay him properly. Underpay me, please, 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.240 underpay me. Just give me fourteen million dollars a year. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.920 That's all I ask. Do it now, please, And they 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.240 were like nope. So after that move, I thought, I 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.080 don't know, maybe they'd get Callin Sexton. Maybe they get 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.680 Tias Jones, another primary scorer like Malik Monk, who can 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.719 fill it up from three, who can drive, he can kick, 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.960 He's like a little microwave. I don't know. Or maybe 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.680 they just get somebody steady, veteran role player like Mike Conley. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.719 But when they didn't do a goddamn thing, I was like, oh, no, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.880 Spencer Dinwiddie that this can't be the plan, can it. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.400 Spencer Dinwidy can't be the plan. He is not that 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.120 You're not that guy. Peal like you're not. So then 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.080 they did another thing. They went out surprised everyone else 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.480 by adding another concern center forward, grab Christian Wood from 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.200 the rockets right underneath the rockets, nose savvy move. I 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.279 was like, Okay, that's a nice upgrade. We'll see what 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.720 they do. We'll see, all right, they'll make this move, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.880 They'll find another guard they'll fix some things. They were 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:15.000 supposed to get Draggis, friend of Lucas from the Slovenian team. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.400 Then he came out. It was like came out that 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.200 he was going to be a mascot. He was not 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.839 gonna play any minutes. He's just gonna be Luca's friend 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.400 on the team. And Dragas was like, no, I'm not, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:29.480 I'm not just somebody's fucking cheerleader. He's serious. So he bolts, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.880 he goes to Chicago. He's getting twenty minutes a night, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.320 by the way, Chicago eighteen minutes per game or something 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.839 like that. And so then then they did get a guard, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:47.720 like right when the season started, Facundo Campozo from Denver. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.840 No shade to Camposo. He gave the Blazers some good 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.719 some good minutes when he was with Denver, like he 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.320 puts some buckets up on our head. He played twenty 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.120 minutes for the Nuggets. But like, come on, he was 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.080 a former teammate of Lucas as well. This is like 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:07.080 a friend of Lucas show and great glue guy. So 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.640 I don't know, maybe it was like we appease Luca 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.240 for not signing Dragicic. Okay, well, that's something. They didn't 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.080 do it. They didn't do a lot of things, but 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.599 at least you did something. And then Nico Harrison came 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.240 out and said he was very happy with the way 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.440 that the roster was constructed. And I said to myself, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:33.200 that's something that's alarming. Either that's a lie or that's alarming. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.560 And then Christian Wood comes out and puts up twenty five, 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.320 twenty five, and twenty three in the first three games, 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:46.440 and I'm like, oh, okay, Nico Harrison, Okay, I see 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.200 what you're doing. You're gonna acclimate Christian Wood into the team, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.880 play him off the bench, acclimate him into a scoring 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:58.400 starting player role. Okay, So the secondary score is not 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.640 gonna be a guard. Secondary Score is gonna be a 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.760 big man, all right, got it. Luca can throw lobst him, 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.520 he can create on his own, he can shoot threes. Great, great, great. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.800 And that lasted about two weeks. Two weeks before the 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:15.000 chatter got kind of loud. Within MAV's world. There was 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.480 a starting center who is I think one of the 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.840 worst in the league, Javal McGee. He's not played well. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.000 And if I didn't have friends who I know trained 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.000 Javal McGee. You're probably listening to this podcast. I would 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.119 say something mean, but I'm not going to. I will 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.680 not say Javal McGee is playing like Booty Cheeks. I 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:39.040 will not say it. And when Dwight Powell then gets 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.120 the start over Javal McGee, when mcguil McGee proved that 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.240 he doesn't have his legs yet, or he's not conditioned yet, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.640 or whatever Nico Harrison says is going on, they wondered 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.360 what was going on? Hey, when are we gonna see 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:57.480 Christian Wood start? We got Dwight Powell, we got Javal McGee, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:03.680 we got all these boom and crickets from Jason Kidd. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.160 Then the losses continue to mount up. Triple doubles now 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:13.120 become the norm for Luca in El's Big El's and 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.080 then all right, what do we do? Then you see 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.920 some drama. Christian Wood comes in the third quarter, they 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.960 lose that game. Lucas like, I like that starting that 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.080 starting group coming in the third quarter. I like Christian Wood. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.600 Jason Kidd says, that's when we lost the game. Christian 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.560 Wood's the reason we lost the game. That that was like, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.199 it's because it's defense, the lineups that he is or 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.880 are the lineups and the times that he is in 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.360 are pivotal moments when the MAVs fall apart. So that 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.240 I started playing little unsolved mysteries. What's going on here 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.679 deep dive style is what is happening? And I went 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.679 down a rabbit hole. I ended up with four major 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.760 questions that I think are in desperate need of answers. First, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.720 is there a secret society inside of Dallas? I'm dead 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.199 serious run by Jason Kidd? Is there a cupball? Shall 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.360 I say a cup ball ran by Jason Kidd that 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:14.480 is secretly black balling Christian Wood because I cannot figure out, 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.360 for the life of me, why he's being treated this 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.760 way in Dallas. A radio station just the other day 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.400 after the Mavericks barely beat the Warriors, which is just 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.240 a shame, like they should be smashing the Warriors right now, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.400 but it came down in the final second. So they 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.959 asked him after that win, asked Nico Harrison, what is 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:37.080 it gonna take, Niko for Christian Wood to start games 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:42.240 and or close out games? His response was, you know, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.240 starting games doesn't really matter. Being started doesn't matter at all. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.600 It's really just all a matter of how many minutes 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.600 you play. And then in terms of like closing out games, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.000 it all really just has to do with who's playing 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.600 well that particular night. So maybe just Christian's not playing 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.520 well that particular night and so he's not closing. Oh 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.800 my god, is that not bullshit? Okay, all right, okay, Nico, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.520 to stay with you. Let's just bring Luke off the bench. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.240 How about that? What do you think about that? If 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.280 it doesn't matter, if it doesn't matter how many times 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.600 people are starting, or let's just bring Luke off the bench, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.680 will give him thirty five minutes. And I started thinking 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.400 about this about a month ago when my Twitter timeline 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.480 had a sort of chatter about this cabal, a shadowy 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.920 organization led by Jason Kidd that has decided to deep 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.480 six christian Wood for what reason I don't know, but 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.600 for an example, Jason Kidd decided to take a shot 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.160 at christian Wood after blowing a sixteen point lead to 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.360 the Thunder and he said that the only reason that 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.400 they lost, only reason is that christian Wood couldn't play defense. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.240 Kid went out of his way to say, I left 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.240 christian Wood in the game, and you see, see this 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.040 is what happens when I leave him in the game. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.720 That's why he can't be in the game and pivot moments. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.480 He singled him out directly for the poor play that 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.800 the team had when he was on the floor, and 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.480 that's why he's on a milk carton. And there was 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.760 another game earlier this year. I think I even talked 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:16.800 about it. Christian Wood scored sixteen consecutive points to end 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.280 the third quarter and to start the fourth quarter against 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:24.800 the Suns, gets benched, never returns to the game in 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.440 a game where the MAVs blew a twenty two point 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.640 lead to the Suns and lost. I think that might 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.320 have been Game one. He didn't play the final six 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.880 minutes and the league was just evaporating, So it's not 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.079 like he had Jason Kidds trust and then lost it. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.440 I think that was Game one of the NBA season. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.320 Things have started to get kind of weird a month 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.359 ago and they haven't changed since. And then they asked 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.200 in the postgame presser what it was like watching them 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.120 piss away a lead from the bench, Christian Wood says this, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.320 I'm just happy to be a part of this team. Yeah, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.560 it's just a trust thing. I have to build trust 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.440 with this team. I'm on a new team. Once I 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.360 do that, I think will be good. I don't think 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:13.280 they're gonna be good. I don't. And like, maybe Christian 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.800 was not the best defender. That's true, he's not. He's 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:20.640 had defensive liability reputation stuff for his entire career. But like, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.559 have you seen these guys that are supposed to be 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.360 putting out buckets next to Luca? Have you seen them? 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:31.760 Like Dwight Powell? Who, who, Who's gonna do that? Reggie 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:37.840 buck who? This shit is weird? Is super weird, like dude, 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.200 like that kind of weird. And basically what Jason Kidd 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.120 has said out loud is like I don't trust Christian 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.280 would enough on defense to close out games. I don't 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.440 trust them enough to start games. And you know what, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.800 people on Twitter fans are getting tired of this shit. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.640 When the MAVs have Luca, Wood and Green on the floor, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.880 they have the best net rating in the NBA, Yes, 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:03.120 with those playing together, and then ninety seven point six 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:08.520 rating defensively with those three that is absurd. Let me 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.640 get you the full stat terms of offense ratings and 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.439 defense ratings. When they're three on the floor, they have 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.080 a one hundred and twenty seven point one offensive rating 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.520 when it's Luca christian Wood and Josh Green, ninety seven 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.280 point six defensive rating, and a twenty nine point five 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.200 net rating when they're on the floor. That is the 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:34.920 best offensive and defensive and net rating with any of 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.760 their seventy nine three man combos that have played twenty 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:44.200 minutes or more. What is happening in Dallas? Insert those? 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.800 What is happening in Dallas leads me into my second question, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.680 who's actually running this team? Who is running the MAVs? 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.640 Is it Nico Harrison? Because if it's Nico Harrison and 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.560 he's getting Kemba Walker, he can't be there like you're 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.040 you should sell shoes, you know. And I don't think 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.280 it's him anymore. I think it might be Mark Cuban. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.720 Last year, there was a bunch of think pieces that 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.679 came out about the dumpster fire in Dallas. You had 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.920 Donnie Nelson Junior getting fired, and then another analytics executive, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.880 heralbos Vulgaris, he got forced out they can and then 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.120 Vulgaris compared the franchise's dysfunction to a high school drama. 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:31.320 Jason Kidd's first year. As we know he likes water parks, 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.880 so kind of like a water park or a roller coaster. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.640 A lot of dysfunction was buried because winning cures everything 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:43.440 right and the MAVs get hot. But that was last year, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.960 and it's clear that maybe Nico doesn't have as much 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.960 control over things as we thought. Right, things went well 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.280 last year, and if Cuban still doesn't trust you and 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.920 he's got his fingers in the pie, that's a problem. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.160 Cuban even admitted this, he said, I micro manage you 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.040 until I trust you. I don't Mark Cuban micromanaging Dick 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.760 not a thing. He's terrible if he's still calling the shots. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.840 How much power does Nico Harrison really have? How much 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.040 agency over the roster does Jason Kidd even have? He 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.080 clearly has power over who plays and who doesn't put. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.520 Does he have say over personnel decisions? Is the reason 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.000 that he's blackballing Christian would because he never really wanted 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.200 him there in the first place and got forced Christian 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.440 Wood on him. Third question, probably the thing that most 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:34.600 people refuse to talk about the most. This roster is dogshit. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.200 They are horrible. This is a horrible roster, barring a trade. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.640 I don't think it just gets better. It is basically 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.240 Luca and a bunch of role players. That's what they 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.760 said last year, but they had Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.200 can put up thirty any single night. He's putting up 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.920 thirty for the Knicks. They if you didn't think Luca 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.240 had helped last year with Jalen Brunson, what do you 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:03.640 think he has now? There is no second option. I'm sorry, Spencer, 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.240 You're You're not that. You're not Jalen Brunson. You're a 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.680 guy that can give you thirty on one night and 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:15.160 then like two for the next four games combined, and 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.720 then like you sit out with a sword thumb for 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.800 the next six games. Like that's you. You are unreliable 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.360 as a scoring option that this team misses Brunson. But 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.320 even Brunson liked the tweet, stating how important he was 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.160 as a second option last year in Dallas, where they 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.400 were like, oh yeah, remember when you guys said Jalen 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.320 Brunson that Luke didn't have any help and just showed 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.960 Jalen Brunson's stats. Yeah, Jalen Brunson balling now and Jalen 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.800 Brunson liked that tweet. Yeah. I mean, remember Nico and 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.120 Cuban thought that Campazzo was a reliable replacement to Jalen Brunson, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.040 and then when that didn't work, and immediately he never 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.040 got any playing time. I think he'd played like four 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.400 minutes a game, like, so that was never gonna be 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.000 a thing. Now he's got Kemba Walker. Do we actually 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.600 think Kemba Walker is gonna get any minutes? If you 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.679 don't like Christian Wood's defense, let me introduce you to 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:13.080 Kemba Walker, the Washed Kemba Walker. It's it's just bad. 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.560 It's just bad. The team is currently twenty ninth in 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.320 assist per game, twenty one point two per game, and 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.800 assist percentage. They are a terrible three point shooting team. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.120 They rank nineteenth in the league shooting thirty four point 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.080 four percent. Luke is a part of that too, by 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.080 the way, He's only shooting thirty one percent from three 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.760 right now. Combine with the fact that they don't shoot 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.760 free throws well. Also, Luca is a big part of 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.679 that as well, twenty sixth in the league shooting seventy 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.600 two point seven percent. Like, this team can't buy a 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:48.439 fucking bucket none. They need somebody to help them. I 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.560 don't know, make a good decision. Shoot, find someone who's open. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.640 We talked about Christian Wood, but when you break down 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.320 how their center play has been without Christian Wood, JaVale 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.159 McGee started the first couple of weeks of the season. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.160 He was so bad. In fifty one minutes he played 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.680 with Luca, he was allowing fifty points in the paint 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.800 per thirty six. That was the worst in the NBA. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.760 Then he gets bench for Dwight Powell, who started for 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.840 center at center ever since. The maps are five and eight. 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.760 When Powell starts, he's averaging five and three in seventeen minutes. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.040 He's probably one of the worst starting players in the 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.200 NBA right now. No shaded DWIGHTE. Powell. Nice guy, he's 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.320 a glue guy. He's a hustler, great locker room person. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.160 But like in an eight game stretch where the MAVs 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.959 went three and five, he was a net negative twelve 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:44.200 Christian Wood plus twelve. This is so bad. This roster stinks. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.280 McGee and Powell have been terrible. This team is thirtieth 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.840 right now in rebounds per game with thirty eight Milwaukee 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.520 is number one with forty nine per game. They're also 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.919 twenty ninth in blocks, meaning they have no rim protection 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.600 the center, center and point guard. I don't know, that's 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.760 pretty important to have, right, Like, I don't know, just 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.960 maybe that's just me. Their only consistent play out of 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.239 the position has been from christian Wood. He doesn't even 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.639 play more than twenty five minutes a game. Keep in mind, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.560 Dallas is plus eight point seven points per one hundred 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.879 possession when Luca plays with christian Wood and negative point 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.680 two when Luca plays without christian Wood. Are these stats 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.719 available to Jason Kidd? Like? Does he know these things? 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.879 Is it just me that I just only get access 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:39.679 to this? Someone tell him The MAVs, like I said, 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.760 with Luca, christian Wood and Josh Green have the highest 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.359 net rating of all their three man combos. The secret 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:53.439 cabal is real, folks. But you have a roster full 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.680 of role players in glue guys. Let's talk about him, 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:01.399 JaVale McGee, Tim Hardaway, Reggie Bullock, Pazzo at one point, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:06.879 Maxi Kleaba, Davis Berton's Frank Nilikina, Like some of these 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:12.639 guys wouldn't even sniff a roster on good teams, Like 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:20.280 do you think Maxi Klaba is getting time for anyone? 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.560 He's a good player, he has some good moments. He'd 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:28.600 probably probably play on the Lakers. All good role players, 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.840 all good guys, all very limited, like a lot of 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.560 spot up shooting. No one can put put the ball 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.720 on the ground at all. This is probably the least 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.639 talented roster of any potential playoff team in the NBA. Like, 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.800 where is that secondary score when Lucas having an off night? 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.560 Where is the big man like Draymond Green who can 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.480 read and react, making the right play, forcing defenders into 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.480 making a decision so that they can drive and kick. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.119 They do not exist. They do not exist when you 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.560 have Luca and glue guys loss that is horrible. He 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:02.520 could put up fifty every night, it wouldn't even matter. 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.359 Fourth and finally, pretty much the final point that I 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.479 will make is that this team obviously can't survive with 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.200 just Luca. Luca has one of the highest usage rates 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.399 in the NBA, because you could use His rate is 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.240 thirty seven point nine, which is in the ninety nine percentile, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.840 playing like the most amount of minutes of anyone in 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.240 the NBA. Right now we're talking about like Steve Nash 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.960 running KD into the ground type of minutes. He's playing 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.560 more than thirty eight minutes per game, Like I said, 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.480 leads the NBA. Not a recipe for success with the 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.520 guy who's like kind of always been out of shape, 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.640 kind of always had some soft tissue, is injury issues? Right? 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.240 Has hurt his ankle, didn't even play the first two 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:44.360 games of the playoffs. Like, what is you can't do this? 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:48.160 This is not do you feel what I'm feeling here? 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.840 This is something is wrong. You guys are failing, Luca, 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.359 How is this happening? You can't have this kind of imbalance, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.719 putting this much pressure on one guy's shoulders and expect 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.240 this team to win games and expect him to stay 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.439 healthy if you even get into the playoffs. All of 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.640 these questions and no answers. Honestly, I don't know him. 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:10.360 I don't know him, and you know who won't give 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:14.240 me him? Nico Harrison. He did a fifteen minute interview. 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.040 They were asked real questions. He's asked them, Hey, what's 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.160 gonna take for a Christian Wood to start? What's gonna 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.119 take for Christian Wood to close? Hey? Do you think 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.600 Jason Kidd's playing mind games, and like, he didn't say 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.160 a damn thing in that fifteen minutes. The only thing 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.600 I got from him is, yeah, shit got fixed last year, 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.600 so I'm excited that it's gonna get fixed this year. 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.720 What that was his greatest piece of excitement of this year? 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.720 They asked him, what are you most excited about about 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.760 this team? And he said, well, we were in this 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:50.119 exact same spot last year ten and nine and we 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.119 turned it around, So I'm excited that we're going to 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:55.000 turn it around this year. You're the thing you're most 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.639 excited about hasn't even happened yet. We don't even know 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.160 if it will happen. If you're not even talking about 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.360 Luca putting up a triple double, that's not what you're 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:05.879 excited about. This is coming from a guy who signed 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.840 Kemba Walker. You don't have any slack left in your rope. 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:14.320 We need accountability. Forgive me if I'm skeptical of a 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:17.199 guy who thought Composo was the answer, who said he 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:19.440 was happy with the roster when he got rid of 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:24.000 Jalen Brunson and brought in No One, bringing in Composo 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:31.960 and Kemba to replace Jalen Brunson is like replacing like 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:38.560 a dope ass Triumph motorcycle with a limescooter you found 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:42.520 on the side of a fucking sidewalk and you don't 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.359 even know if it's got a battery in it or 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.360 if it's just been left there. And then when that 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.159 didn't work, you just went and got like an e 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:55.840 bike that you can rent per minute. Like Kemba's the 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:58.280 kind of thing you rent per minute because you don't 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:04.280 know how long it's gonna really give you. Nico's interview 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:08.480 generated the following nuggets. I'm really excited. We didn't start 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:10.880