WEBVTT - The All All-Star Show 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.000 On this episode of This League, we talk about my 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.520 new self defense toy, so one part Flashlight, one part's 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.360 done Gun, the All Star quote unquote weekend in Atlanta, 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.600 including the drama between Troel Embiid and mister balloon Hands 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.480 aka Ben Simmons, and I, of course, as per usual, 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.400 take a victory lap regarding my very very early scoop 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.440 about Blake Griffin. They said we wouldn't do it. They 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:32.880 said we couldn't do it. The haters are devastated. They 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.080 dared us. They said, I defy you to do an 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.800 episode about just the All Star weekend and only the 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.400 All Star weekend. You can't do it. There's not enough information. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.519 I challenge you. And they were wrong. That was the 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:55.320 haters in my comments. They were like, you're not watching 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:00.920 Megan Markle and Oprah. There are more important things going 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.400 on than the All Star Game. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:02.920 No there's not. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.759 When you have an NBA podcast, No there's not. This 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.319 was the deal. This is the first annual all NBA 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.600 All Star episode of this league, and I feel like 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:22.400 Rocky going up the steps. Marty. The Philly fans will 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.560 love me as Rocky. You know I'm up the Stepski. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:33.240 This is not smarty, take it over, Philly. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.640 Don't be a like, clear it up. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.679 And like all good all Star weekends. We had Adrian 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:49.680 Borganowski hit us with the fucking nuclear WOJE bomb dropping. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.920 Can you tell I was delirious last night? 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.520 What was the news? 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:04.080 Uh? 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.880 Blake Griffin to the Brooklyn nets, Say it. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.880 Again, Say it with some verves, Say it with some dramatic, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.440 slow and deep like I like it, Marty, it was 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:18.600 Blake Griffins. That's right, Scoop City, Trista Creek, NBA insider, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.880 coming for the others, coming for the sham Sharonya is 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.640 coming for the ward Zanowskis. Yes, I am my sources. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.960 They told me my sources were wrong, and now all 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.400 of a sudden, it's like there were no other places 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:37.120 to go but Brooklyn lies lies. The haters just want 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.239 to discredit me. My sources are solid as a rock. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.920 I don't have many. I don't have many sources. I'm 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.359 not plugged in like they are. But when I have them, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.000 God damn Tillman for Titda Harden was gonna be a 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:58.800 sixer Scoop City, population one t Crick. I tell you 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.720 what I was right. I love to be right, and 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.960 yet for some reason, it doesn't matter how right I am. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.520 Everybody has to discredit it. So anyway, here we go. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.760 We're gonna talk about the All Star game. Marty. Did 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.480 you enjoy All Star Weekend? 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.519 I actually did, as unquote weekend as much as I thought, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.000 as much as I like wasn't thinking about it all day, 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.680 I actually really enjoyed watching it. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:24.200 Yeah. I thought it was better than I was expecting 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.639 it to be. Why because it was all on one day. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:28.839 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.639 I don't think we should ever go back to the 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.520 quote unquote weekend. Players don't want it. I don't know 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:35.320 that fans want it. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.640 I'm actually okay with that, yeah, because I usually just 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.560 watch All Star Saturday and then kind of like snooze 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.120 through the game, not really caring that much. But it 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.080 actually was kind of fun. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.000 Imagine like two PM, Rising Stars, a little quick break, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.760 maybe some documentary action, some some fluff piece. By the way, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:58.720 by the way, ESPN did a Rudy go Bear. We'll 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.640 call it like, we'll call it like a PR stunt 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.800 called inside the Big Man or Inside the Center, all 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.040 about like how Rudy Gobert didn't mean to make fun 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:10.520 of COVID. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.760 Oh, it was like a SOB story on him. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.320 It was like, you know, everyone thought Rudy was just 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.680 joking around and being Rudy, and it's like his brothers 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.479 on it and some random Utah Jazz reporters on it. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.039 This is what they played before All Star weekend, was like, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.359 let's find a way to make Rudy Gobert more likable. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:28.440 Uh. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.080 First thing I want to talk about, of course, is 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.120 the news that came down pre All Star Ben Simmons, 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.960 mister balloon Hands, and Joel Embiid, who turned his Twitter 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:40.720 into troll. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:40.920 Well. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.520 Embiid, which is amazing, could not make the All Star 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.360 Game could not play in the All Star Game because 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:53.440 they had a close contact with a barber YEP who 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:58.120 tested positive for COVID. Right, everyone is saying, we don't 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.000 want to play in this All Star game. This is dumb. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.080 We're in a pandemic, We're not trying to get COVID. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.320 And you got mister blue hands out here being like 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.480 I'm about to be on national TV in front of 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.920 a hundred million people, Yo, Joel, what up? Yo? Let's 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.280 go get a lineup. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.880 Let's get a lineup. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.960 And you know tk's coming through guillotining fools for that. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:29.440 Come on, everybody's like, oh, I mean that's not such 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.680 a bad stick. Stick stick, that's me accountability partner time. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.640 You cannot go with Joel Mbat if you're gonna go 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.120 get your haircut. First of all, let me say this, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.520 these guys make millions of dollars. They don't have a 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.839 personal barber that can come over to them. I would 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.000 you don't have someone who tests negative regularly? Can't you 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.040 get the little swap swapswap PICR quick rapid test then 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.880 get lined up? No, you have to go to like 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.480 a random corner barber. I don't know the d details, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.200 but I know it's not on the up and up. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.840 So irresponsible. The Chiefs almost missed twenty guys out of 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.960 the super Bowl because of this exact same thing. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.600 Oh it wait, same guy or just. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.919 The same situation that would have been Yeah, this is 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.039 just like the COVID. This is the COVID barber. Well, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.440 I mean, what are we doing? Ben Simmons, Like, you 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.080 had to know this was a bad idea. You had 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.840 to know. You guys couldn't have gone to separate barbers, Like, 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.840 couldn't Damian Lillard said it best when he's like, I 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.800 haven't had a haircut in a while, I haven't gotten 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.680 a barber gone to a barber shop in forever. And 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.840 in fact, I'm gonna leave home right after this All 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.599 Star game. I'm not sticking around. I don't want to 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.039 mess around with getting COVID. I've got a couple of 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.640 babies at home, and instead what you have is Joel 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.039 Embi who apparently also has a baby at home. I 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.160 tweeted about this because remember Joel and b we talked 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.279 about this last episode. He was like feeling good headed 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.040 into All Star break and underneath the tweet was his 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.800 video of him getting Donovan Mitchell ejected, getting him teed up, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:16.520 trolling him. Troel MBIID, right right, how you feeling now, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.680 Joel EMBIID? How are you feeling now? You and Ben 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.600 Simmons missing the next three games because you guys are 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.840 fucking idiots? And instead of what happened right, instead of 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.920 me being the voice of reason and accountability, telling the 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.880 truth on Twitter and also poking a little fun, everybody's 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:41.720 like these you're joking about an infectious disease. How dare you? 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.400 This man has a baby at home? How dare if 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.560 you have a baby at home? I didn't tell you 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:54.000 to go get a haircut? Did I? Did? I? I mean, yet, 0:07:55.200 --> 0:08:00.640 did I tell them to go and risk their their lives, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.200 to risk their health, to risk the health and safety 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.120 of the entire league because all of the superstars are 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.280 gonna be in one place and they decided that that 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.680 was when they needed to get a haircut. Did me, 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.560 Tristan Craik, tell them to do that? 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.800 Marty? You did not. You did not tell them. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.400 I did not. But what I did was how you're 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.360 feeling now? Headed out All Star break? You're gonna miss 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.320 the next three games. You'll probably drop all three because 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:33.160 your two stars had to get a fresh lineup. Wow. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.200 Lebron James said it best. He said, I'm not a 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:40.200 COVID ghostbuster. I just am really careful. Yeah, were these 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:45.959 I don't understand. I don't understand. And of course, another 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.280 little news story, the NBA had to send out roughly 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.160 two hundred cease and desist letters to promoters in Atlanta 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.120 for using the NBA logo to promote in person parties 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:00.679 during All Star are a weekend. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:01.760 That sounds so right. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.079 You knew that was gonna happen. But if you're gonna 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.000 do it, if you're gonna be in a club promoter 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:13.080 in Atlanta promoting exactly what the NBA has told you 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.960 not to do, maybe don't use their logo, Maybe just say. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.400 But at the same time, if you don't not really 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.439 doing your job, you don't think so. I mean, I 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.600 just know how these people operate. It doesn't surprise me, 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:25.920 I guess. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.079 Is my point all of this to say, Philly fans, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.400 don't come at me. Don't come at me for your 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.920 two stars being idiots. Why is me? Why is it 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.280 my fault that your two marquee players can't get their 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.680 shit together before an All Star game? It's not here 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.320 we are though. An All Star game that nobody wanted 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.360 now probably gonna cost teams games. I mean, the Sixers 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.480 might even lose out on the number one spot in 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.680 the East because of this little Shenanigan. And you know 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.199 what I would have to say, is you hate to 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.000 see that. You hate to see that. It would be 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.400 such a shame if the Brooklyn Nets had the number 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.319 one seed and the Sixers had the number two seed 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.000 because of a haircut. That would be a very expensive haircut. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.560 If it was like two games or so different and they. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.920 Had to catch someone like the Miami Heat coming back 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.360 from a finals appearance, Jimmy Butler finally healthy, it would 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.360 be a shame if that's what got them bounced out 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.080 of the first round. A haircut, and you know, I 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.079 will be coming all along the way laughing my ass 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.559 off about that fade that cost you potentially a title. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.800 But that's okay, one costly haircut. By the way, that 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:43.640 tweet that I put out over two hundred and fifty 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:48.319 quote tweets, over two hundred and seventy five comments and 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:58.360 fifty likes, so esh, God, how do you get I 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.120 call them? Oh, so I have a name for them, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:05.839 these new Ben Simmons fans, the crazy ones. I call 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:12.920 them the Balloonatics. Okay, the Balloonatics. The Ballunatics came from 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:17.120 my head. So yeah, I'm not making fun of people 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.080 with COVID. I am making fun of the people who 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.600 do not seem to understand how serious COVID is. And yeah, 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.280 it's ballooney tunes. It's just the whole thing is just 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.680 ballooney tunes. Anyway, let's move on to the actual festivities. Marty, 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.160 what were your takeaways? 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.079 Uh love the game. It was actually the first time 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.360 I watched the actual game, I think in a while, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.600 and it was actually really fine. I mean, Steph put 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.920 on a show, Jannis you know, didn't miss Dane put 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.439 on a show. Skills competition was a snooze fest. None 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.080 of them cared. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.600 I mean, if you're gonna if I want to see 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.560 Demona Sibonis walk the ball up, I mean I would 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.199 watch the twenty nineteen Nate McMillan coach fucking. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.319 I feel like the used to be more shit involved 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.880 in that other than this was like you dribble through 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.840 like four things. You're just going through a pass, make 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:09.360 a layup, and then make it three. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.840 I thought there was like a bounce pass. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.679 There definitely used to be a bounce pass. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.280 I mean, this is getting sad. This is what kind 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.240 of skills are these? 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.560 Yeah, I mean I already thought it was kind of stupid, 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.000 and now it's just like full on. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:21.520 And at one point it used to have to be 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.240 a dunk and now you can just hit a layup. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.240 Chris Paul missing the layup was really sad, Like that 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:31.560 was like, ooh washed you wash? Yeah, And I like Demanasabonis. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.720 Here's a little side road. People were talking about Demonis 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.040 and I like him, but he cannot hold a candle 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.640 to our Vetas Sibonis, his father in terms of just 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.640 how good ar Vetas was. Every aspect of our Vita 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.720 Sibonas is better than Demonta Sibonis. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.760 I would have liked to see a young, young Arvetas 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:53.839 in the league. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.560 By the time Portland brought ar Vita Sibonis to the team, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.120 So people forget like we drafted him and we didn't 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.839 get him for another decade, right, Yeah, so he had 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.640 been playing for fourteen years in Lithuania behind the iron curtain. Yeah, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.120 before he could even sniff an NBA game. His knees 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.920 were like disintegrated by that time. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.959 And his neck was just getting thicker and thicker, thicker. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.880 He was drinking more and more. Sorry, Harve, he was 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.280 really I mean, he had big time alcohol issues by 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.240 that time. I don't know what was going on. We 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:30.280 won't even pain probably probably like just replacing opioids instead. Yeah, 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.360 he also had some anger issues. We won't get into that. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.839 I mean, I think with Demantsis' mom, not gonna get 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.720 into it, not gonna get into it. Athleticism was just 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.560 out the window. But shoot still shooting fifty five percent 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.679 from the field. They had I forget if it was 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.640 Clyde Drexler, they asked. They asked Clyde Drexler, like, how 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.240 good would the Blazers have been if our Vetus a 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.280 bonus would have came in when he was drafted or 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.800 early on. And he said, we would have taken like 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.640 four or five titles from Jordan. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.320 Ooh, you would have been. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.600 The top three center, top five center in history. So 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.720 we all are getting all excited about Deus Simonis. But oh, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.520 my god, our Vetus, even when our Vetus was old, 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.920 we were really really good with him. No answer, They 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.840 would have had no answer in Chicago. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.720 Yeah, no, it would have taken up all of Rodman's energy. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.440 And yeah, that would have been That would have been crazy. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.760 But it would have been like Luke Longley versus Sibonis. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:31.160 Sabonis was a truck, oh cherruck seven to three, two 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:36.400 hundred a million pounds, like not ready, he's not really 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.720 was like a little Lithuanian shack out there with moves 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.520 like like the body of shack, a young shack with 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:44.720 the moves of Mark Gasol. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.560 Yeah, and a bigger head somehow and in. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.600 A bigger neck and hen and ego probably three point contest. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.160 How has Steph Curry only won twice out of seven 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:55.720 appearances in the three point contest? 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.440 See this is why I didn't bet on him, because 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.720 it's usually a young man's game, these competitions. Because I 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.080 like picking people that you think want to put on 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.120 a show. That's why I threw Zach Lavine in there. Yeah. Uh, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.480 that's really kind of it. And he's in it a lot. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:10.840 It's not like he doesn't participate. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:16.320 So yeah, yeah, seven times greatest shooter of all time. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.680 I would have thought he would have won every single one. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.400 I thought. She said seven four seven, and she said 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.600 the second of seven, and I was like, pull up 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:26.760 the Google machine and I was like. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.640 Wow, if it was like a five million dollar prize, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.000 I feel like he'd have won more. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.120 Absolutely. Also, Devin Booker won that, and I think it 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.280 shows that this is this is a set shooters game too. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.800 Like Steph cur is very very good off the balance 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.960 and he said he gets nervous with the rack because 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.160 he's like the balls right there. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:45.680 Yeah, yeah, I could see that. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.440 I mean, Steph is a cyborg. Though it showed it 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.800 almost looked like, uh, he missed some on purpose to 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.960 create drama in the final round. Yeah, so that he 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.280 would be down by one and could hit that three 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.960 and win the whole thing on the last fucking ball. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.720 I mean when he gets like three in a row, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.040 like going in a rhythm, you just it just doesn't 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:09.560 feel like he's ever gonna miss effortless. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.920 Ever, that first round, it was just like, oh, well 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.080 he missed any I don't know. Uh, let's talk about 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.480 the actual game itself. Oh wait, dunk contest. Let's talk 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.680 about dunk contests. Three people, Jokeville. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.680 Yeah, I mean that was lamb, although I guess they 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.880 needed three, probably for time because it still went a 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.040 little long. I still can't believe Simons won on a 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.040 failed attempt? 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.520 Can we? Okay, is it a failed attempt? Why? Why 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:36.360 do you say it's failed? 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.720 He made the dunk, Yeah, but the whole gimmick behind 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.360 what he was trying to do, he didn't pull. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.600 Off the ball went into the hoop, did it not. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.040 I'm not saying it shouldn't have counted and shouldn't have been. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.560 So you what you're saying is what you wanted to 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:49.240 not have. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:50.960 Been scored higher than the guy who did what he 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:51.560 was trying to do. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.720 So what I'm asking you is this, if Simons completed 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.480 the dunk and and basically destroyed his entire her mouth, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.560 all of his teeth fell out, and the ball did 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.720 not go in the hoop, but he kissed the rim, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:09.920 that's a that's not a failed attempt. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.040 No, I mean, you still need to make the dunk. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.840 And like, look, if I understand, I understand if you 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.840 go like teeth first into the rim, that's probably not 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.960 going to end well for you. Then maybe come up 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:21.480 with a different gimmick one that you can. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.520 Obie top and missed her his first dunk in the 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:26.160 second round. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:26.719 I know. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.320 So they both had failed attempts. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.000 Yeah, but Obi that didn't his failed attempt didn't count. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.240 But it still goes against you when you missed the 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.439 first one. Yeah, he's he basically wanted to show that 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.400 he could if he wanted to go up and his 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.359 he was eye level or lip level with the rim. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.640 He didn't even really get that close though, be. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.720 Was pretty close. You can't be a hater about this. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.320 It fell flat. Live admit that, I like you saw 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:58.480 I mean, when we saw the replay, was like, wow, 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.560 that was that's insane how high that got can jump? 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.399 But live it kind of fell a little flat. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.560 A little bit. I think some dunks look better live 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.520 than they look when you do, like, for example, Casha 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.440 Stanley's dunk. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.840 Oh, the first one looked good. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.159 Live, and then you see it same thing actually with 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.119 Anfonty Simon's when Anfrety Simons put on the Tracy McGrady jersey, right, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.639 so he does the famous iconic Tracy McGrady dunk, and 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.880 then they show the McGrady dunk next to the Simon's dunk, 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:32.119 and you're like, don't that was a little clunky for 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:36.200 my taste, looks better live. Some dunks, like Zach Lavine's 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.800 dunks when he has gone in prior dunk contest, When 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.040 you show that in slow mo, you're like, how did he? 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.520 How did he do all of those things in one second? 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:49.040 Yeah, Stanley's first dunk getting scored forty four. That was 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:50.960 the most ridiculous thing of the whole contest. That was 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.399 a hard dunk. He went between the leg that he 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:54.280 like took off on. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.080 But yeah, but that's like a very dot I think 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.239 you miss with creativity being lacking there, Like that's a 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.720 very common dunk, Like you can't do that and expect 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.560 like I would prefer the Kobe. Lebron replicated, like try 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.840 to do that dunk. If you're gonna do a dunk, 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.480 it's quote unquote iconic. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.199 Yeah. No, I just think when you when you go 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.840 through the leg that you like elevated off of that's yeah. 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.639 I mean that's sick. But whatever, whatever actual game highlights. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.840 So let's just recap and say Lebron's team won. This 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.960 is a four straight year Lebron's team has won, which means, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.520 dude is gonna be a sick talent of value and 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.520 like GM when he leaves the league, like that man 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.080 can pull together a squad. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.679 Yeah, I'm not really and I'm not really quick to 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.760 give him those ones where he was drafting against Giannis 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.760 because Jannis had to take Chris Middleton as early as. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.080 That's true, same thing obviously, but with Durant, but Durant 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.560 had hardened and Kyrie to chie like they're fine, they're okay. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:00.200 But I like Lebron's his technique. He just wants bucket. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.000 I just want guys that can shoot from everywhere. Yeah, uh, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:09.440 Yannis winning the MVP. Let's talk about it. Yeah, I 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.399 think that was robbery. I I this is not an 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:19.640 efficiency contest. Sixteen for sixteen, I don't care. 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:22.639 I mean it should have been Steph. I mean Steph 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:23.960 owned the game absolutely. 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.000 I think for the I think for the MVP of 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.840 the All Star Game, it has to be people who 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:34.119 show out that control the storyline of the game, that 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.560 they're doing incredible things where you're tweeting about it, you're 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.800 talking to your friends about it. Like, there was nothing 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:43.520 that Yannis did that was remarkable except for Wow, his 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.840 three point shot is so off that it went in. Yeah, 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.919 it was so far away from the rim that he 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:52.280 has to go Bank City. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.240 It had like a bad spin too, It was like 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.000 spinning like toward the basket. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.720 He just was on one that night, like it's when 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.080 the basketball got in your favor and you just can't miss. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.639 That was Giannis, but Steph was Steph was like stealing 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.639 the ball. He was doing the threes and then turning 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.479 three hundred and sixty degrees. Look it over, doing the 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:18.080 shimmy hitting from half court. It should have been Steph's especially. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:22.080 I think also, if you win another contest three point 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.560 dunk and you're in the All Star Game. I think 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.440 you got a little extra verve. Like if you win 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.800 the three point contest and then you show out in 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:35.159 the actual game, I think it's like my brain says Steph, Steph, 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.080 Steph dominant, dominant. No, I mean I just thought it 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.399 was jokevil I thought Dame taking the last shot and 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.080 hitting the game winner from half court, that's that's Dame time. 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.320