WEBVTT - Quick Note About All 11 Games (Giannis Dominates AD! Suns Win 10th Straight! Dort!) 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.200 Oh mate, tonight it's gonna be so much fun. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:06.760 Yeah. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:08.559 I think we'll get like a few beers for later. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:08.959 Yeah. 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:10.840 I think I might just grab some ale or something. 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:16.200 What's that like? Beer? Okay, I'm just gonna get some 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.680 bud light. Yeah, of course you are. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.440 Good morning. Welcome to the No Dunks Podcast on the 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:36.200 Athletic Network, Thursday, November eighteenth. Skeets and alongside me, as always, 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:37.159 we got Tasmellis. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:38.239 What's up everybody? 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.400 What's up? Task? 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Maybe it was 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.560 sounding like anytime I said audio like auto, I had 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.720 the wrong setting on my record. So that's my bat, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:42.919 my bat my bat whoops? 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:43.920 What you get in? 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.600 Ah? Yeah, fix it. I guess have the right setting. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.120 I got all excited talking to Dan Grenfell. That's what happened, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.280 So I don't think I did it right. Finally, later 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:59.760 today new No Buffs. Yes, that's right. Join Jason Conceptional, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.640 Trey JD, and myself to recap last night's crazy episode 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.000 of Survivor. Oh my goodness, So search for No Buffs 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.799 on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts. We're 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.440 gonna go live right here on YouTube at five pm Eastern, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.400 Well not right here, but over on the nod No 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.160 Buffs feed, So make sure you join us there if 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.600 you're a Survivor fan. Okay, great start by me today, stumbling, 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.120 tumbling all over these words. I'm already upset with the 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.160 lee because I think there's a delay. Maybe there's not. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.440 Maybe it's me. Oh my god. Guys, quick note about 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.320 all eleven games. That's what we're gonna try and do today. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.520 Will this be a four hour long podcast? Yeah, probably, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.840 but we'll do it our best to give it a 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.000 quick little pace lee get us started. Yiannis and Middleton 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.760 helped the Bucks defeat the Lakers one o nine, one 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:47.079 oh two. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.760 What do you got Yeah, I haven't got a quick 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.640 hit it for you guys, because honestly, this. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.800 Was the don't you fucking do play by play? 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.359 I'm not gonna do play by play, but honestly, watching 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.480 Yannis last night, I mean this sends a message to 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.919 the rest of the No. Middleton came back. He looked okay, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:03.840 didn't look his best, but he was okay, shot the 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.959 ball and just added another layer there. But this is 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.960 all about Yannis. Forty seven points on only twenty three shots, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.440 three for four from the free three point line and 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.920 eight for eleven from the free throw line. And the 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.480 Lakers were like, I don't want to defend this guy. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.400 No one wanted to defend him. Anthony Davis is like, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.640 I'm not doing all the scoring and having to defend 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.200 this guy because Jannas. This is what Yannas when he 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.040 saw Anthony Davis, he drove at him, he bodied him, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.880 he dirked him, and at one point Yannas was coming 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.880 down in transition and Dwight was on the court, and 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.040 so was Anthony Davis, and they both did the old 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.560 yeah you get him, you get him. Yannas just stepped 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.839 into a three. Now, his three is still a part 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.240 of his game that he's working on, but when he 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.840 steps into it with confidence in the rhythm like that 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.600 he can take that shot and knock it down early 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.360 in the game, fine, but oh my god, Like if 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.680 you're the Lakers last night, this was one of those 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:56.280 games where the Lakers theoretically were in this game. They 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.160 led in the fourth quarter, but they never really felt 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:59.680 like they were going to win this game because they 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.280 just did not have an answer for a guy who 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.000 just was doing what he wanted. If you look at 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.520 the box score, Jannis only had nine rebounds and three 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.560 assists by his standard, quite moderate game, but he just 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.160 had such control and domination of this game that it 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.160 was never really in doubt. And that's the problem here 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.559 for the Lakers. It was just like, we're fighting hard, 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.240 we're doing what we can, but we don't have Yarnas. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.000 Our best player is Anthony Davis. He was fine, but 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.799 Yannis was just incredible. And as I say, Chris Middleton 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.240 coming back hit a couple of threes. They certainly could 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.600 use his extra offense out there. But it's just it's 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.400 such an incredible difference when you have Yannis in control 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.080 like that, and the Lakers and Frank Vogel and everyone 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.920 was just like, we have literally no idea how to 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.919 stop this guy. No, no team is like, oh we 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.800 can stop Yannis. I mean when he's like that. But 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.479 what I love about the evolution of his game is, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.880 you know, taking what the defense gives him. Okay, Anthony Davis, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.800 you're going to come up. They set a screen and 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.000 there is literally no help defense whatsoever. He just takes 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.920 those gigantic steps in and then just drops the ball 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.600 into the basket a couple of times. Okay, Anthony Davis 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.480 is going to face him one on one, boom, get 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.200 out the way. I'm just going to go inside and 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.400 have either a dunk or a layup. And then again 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.560 when Davis did sort of push him back a little 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.880 bit in the paint, as I say, he dirked him. So, 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.320 I mean, Yannis was just on his game last night. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.920 Incredible performance. Closer in the final score than I felt 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.720 the game was, but really just a fun fun watch. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.720 A little bit of shack in there, a little bit 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.400 of Steph Curry, a little bit of Kevin Durant, a 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.800 little bit of Dirk, a little bit of James Harden 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:31.280 all rolled into. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:38.320 A but really number, there really was number. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.480 I mean, can you imagine if prime shack was just 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.119 pulling up in transition for threes? I mean, that's kind 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.960 of what it was. And then again, like I say, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.000 Janna says, point Yanna's and it's like set a screen 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.760 and Davis is like, there's no way on fighting around 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.600 the screen. Someone else can deal with him, And Yannis 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.000 just said, okay, there's a layup, so beautiful game to watch, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:00.000 fun game to watch. Yannas incredible. The Bucks slow stuf 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.880 haven't been playing all that well, but no need to 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.160 really worry when you say performance like that last night. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.760 Yeah, and they have their big three sort of back 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.960 here now with Middleton, Drew Holiday and you honest where 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:15.520 you called Anthony Davis fine? I want more slander. I 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.719 want more hate for ad. He's dropping the ball here 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.840 with Noel Lebron. Where the hell is he? He has 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.760 like one game? Yeah, it feels like every four or 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.080 five games at this point, and a lot of the 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.080 other time task seems a little like checked out Lollygagon. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.279 If we're being honest, I thought this guy's top seventy 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:34.760 five all the time. He does not look like a 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.480 superstar on most nights right now, again with no Lebron, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:39.159 that's my opinion. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.760 I guess he's a little bit like me. According to 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.039 Charlie Tuesley in the stream, Charlie says Task is falling asleep. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.080 Oh geez, maybe AD. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.200 Is the difference between Ad and Yannis. It's quite a 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.000 parent you know, watching this game. Yannis is a regular 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.919 season monster, and there's always the debate in the playoffs 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.520 since Ye's the best player in the game, is he 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.320 the best player of the game. That's when Anthony Davis 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.440 and Lebron, who has taught him very well, turn it on. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:12.920 But regular season Jannis is indestructible. He's just a different 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.200 guy in the regular season. So Anthony Davis is not 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.720 stepping up while Lebron is out. I honestly think Lebron 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.360 has just taught him to bide his time during the 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.720 regular season and be ready for the playoffs. Anthony Davis 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.600 is coming off a postseason where he was not right 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.880 when they lost to Phoenix in the first round. That's 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.840 probably part of it, and he's a little bit in 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.160 chill mode. And I'm sure he's not entirely thrilled with 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.200 the Lakers construction roster construction where he has to guard 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.200 Yanis one on one, but Jannis is ready for every 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.640 single possession out there. There was the GQ article we 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.160 touched on yesterday where Yanni said, listen, I just need 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.960 a challenge every single season. I think he's just telling 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.040 the front office I don't take regular season games off. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.080 You see me, I'm a different animal out there. I 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.160 will not chill, and you as a front office can't 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.120 chill either, which is what the Lakers are doing. I guess, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:05.520 you know, kind of like the Bucks are getting it 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.440 together with all their healthy guys. If the Lakers do that, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.000 I think they you know, they'll be fine. They just 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.440 want to finish top four, and they're definitely within that range. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.480 I think a good sign for them is that they're 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.360 such a top heavy team. Their fourth highest player, Taylor 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.760 Horton Tucker, had a team high twenty five and twelve. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.760 So if you're such a top heavy team, your your 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.160 next guy's got to play pretty well, and they gave 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.120 him an extension. The guy hasn't even played eighty two 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.480 regular season games in his career, but he's playing pretty 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.600 damn good since he's come back from injury twenty three 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.800 and seven and shooting forty nine percent from the floor 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.320 and hitting three so he could be a starter in 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.680 the playoffs. So yes, Anthony Davis is disappointing for sure, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.160 just like me, Charlie Tuesday falling asleep over here. But 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.640 I get it. I get Lakers fans worrying. But isn't 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.760 it just chill mode. I mean, that's what Lebron does. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.280 And then I think his taught his guy very well. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.600 Lee, you got the trifecta time I swift. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.319 These leaf blowers do not stop until ten oh five, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:02.760 whenever we stopped the show. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.160 That's been light YEP shows on. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.559 It's unbelievable. 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:12.679 On the ground. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.560 Yeah, at least we know they're actually just blowing something. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.719 At least though, all right, let's keep it going. We 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.800 got too many games, Trey, You're up next, book or 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.760 scored twenty four. Sons beat the MAVs for their tenth 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.520 straight victory. Phoenix Suns on fire. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.480 Yeah, I saw a hater in the stream team earlier 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.120 pre complaining that we were only going to be talking 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.920 about the Bucks and the Bulls, and that we were 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.160 going to ignore the Sun's ten game winning streak. And 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.600 let me tell you, complaining two hours before a show 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.120 starts really makes me not want to talk about the 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.520 Suns winning ten straight games. But here's a bone throw 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.600 for you. No Dantis for the MAVs. So it only 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.560 took one quarter of real basketball for the Sons to 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.480 get their tenth straight win. Six Sons scored five or 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.920 more points in the fourth quarter to pull this one out. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.680 Chris Paul had six points and seven assists in the quarter, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.320 DeAndre eight and didn't miss a shot. He went four 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.920 for four in the fourth got a sweet dish from 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.280 Chris Paul for one of those assists. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:05.880 That was nice. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.600 And Devin Booker hit a three under a minute to 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.320 ice things for Phoenix. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:10.960 This was a. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.840 Quality, professional win for the Suns. They didn't play great, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.280 but they executed down the stretch to get the win. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:22.080 I hope you're happy, Rexamus Prime. That one's for you, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.480 Rexamus Prime. Ten straight wins, you had to play one 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.480 quarter against the team missing their best player. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:28.760 Congratulations. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.959 Moving on, Yeah, I mean we had Booker in the thumbnail. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.280 It was in the title of the show coming up, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.679 Like he said, two hours later, there you go, Suns 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.720 though incredible ten straight that is wild task your up 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.800 next year. Lillard rallies the Blazers to the one twelve 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.880 one oh seven victory over Trey Kirby's Chicago Bulls. I 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.920 think the Blazers are back to five hundred. They are 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:50.200 they not? 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:50.520 Are? 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.280 Yeah? A weird season for them, seven to one at home, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.520 one and seven on the road. I talked to Jason 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.920 Quick yesterday on the Athletic app. He's been covering the 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.800 team for twenty four years. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.960 You think about that. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:08.040 That's older than probably Rexhimus Prime or are these people 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.640 listening to our show at twenty four freaking years? Anyways, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.920 he painted a pretty bleak picture when I talked to him. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.920 He said, Nurkic isn't mentally tough enough. He's not that 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.439 building block that Portland thought he was. Robert Covington is disappointing. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.199 He's probably gonna go to the bench eventually for this 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.280 here little it's time to break up the CJ Dame backcourt. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.200 According to him, like people have been saying, he went 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.120 deeper to say that some positives. Chauncey Billps is the 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.480 guy that should be leading them moving forward as their 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.520 head coach. He's playing well. And Damian Lillard, even though 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.920 he's coming on recently, he was questionable going into last 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.480 night against the Bulls. Well, he did play and it 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.040 looked bad, very bad for the Blazers in the first half. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.640 They're down twenty points, and then things changed when Nurkish 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.720 went to the bench in the third quarter, Larry Nance 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.640 came in. And Larry Nance was their big offseason signing. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.120 I know, not a huge offseason signing for a lot 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.320 of people, but he did a little of everything because 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.600 this team just needs everything. He's sixteen to nine, three assists, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.120 three steels, played defense, initiated things, and then he went 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.800 to the free throw line with sixteen seconds left. The 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:14.600 Blazers fans were chanting Larry Larry, and I'm not sure 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.840 that's been done before in his NBA career, So that's 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.400 pretty cool for Larry Nance to have that happen. It 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.520 is still a strange team where Larry Nance kind of 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.080 has to be the savior and Nurkic played well when 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.040 he came back into the game, but they don't get 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.680 performances from enough guys on a regular basis, But Dame, 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.880 you playing not a great game for him to Dame 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.000 playing and being himself is good enough to get this 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.360 team to five hundred, and that's what they're going to be. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.760 They may not be a top five team, but I 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.920 don't know if Chauncey Bilbs pushed the right button with 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.600 Larry Nance, and I don't know if he can push 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.040 another button with niciir Little coming into the lineup. It's 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.840 still a team that's in flux while this investigation into 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.839 the front office is going on. But you know, when 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.920 you got Dame Lillard top seventy five, I heard he's 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.360 one of the top seventy five best, he's seventy six. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.120 I was corrected on here Ad and him. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.440 How horrendous a situation where you got a top seventy 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.360 six in year seventy five here, But they're going to 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.520 be fine, and that's I wasn't overwhelmed by this team. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.000 But they've got enough guys to be a playoff team 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.640 in the West, which shows you how great Dame is. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.840 We know Trey was staying up late to watch some 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.680 Blazers bulls. Would you see just quickly there Trey from Chicago, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.520 ultimately giving up that big lead. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.840 I haven't seen every Blazers game, but that felt to 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.160 me like the best defensive quarter they'd played. In the 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.840 third quarter, basically, when Larry Nance Junior checked in, it 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.600 was almost like what the Bulls have been doing to 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.880 other teams. Their bench has really brought the energy and 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.440 that has flipped the script in a lot of Chicago's wins. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.160 Didn't happen last night. The Blazers played a lot harder 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.760 in the third quarter. They looked completely disinterested in the 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.200 first half. Like Lillard looked terrible in the first half. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.679 He looked like he did not want to be out there. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.120 Turned it on a little bit in the second, but 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.240 it was really Larry Nance Junior, like tass Is saying, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.040 the Bulls were just playing sloppy, playing lack of daisical. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.120 I think they had ten turnovers in the third quarter. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.280 That gave the Blazers a ton of confidence, so that 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.880 when Nurkic came back in, the Balls didn't have an answer. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.240 They were missing Booch big time last night. Still had 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.200 a chance to win it down the stretch, just not 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.400 quite good enough execution. DeRozan slipped and fell again. I 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.280 know he likes to wear old Kobe's, but yeah, gotta 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.760 check the treads on those, I think beforehand. And Zach 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.960 Lavine had a wide open three that could have tied 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.920 the game, and he missed it pretty badly. He was 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.960 kind of off in the fourth quarter as well. Balls 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.640 just didn't play good enough in the second half to win. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.400 All right. Our next game here, lou Dort dropped your 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.680 Dort's in the stream team all Caplocks. He scored thirty 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.720 four as the Thunder beat the Rockets one to one 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.000 eighty nine, his fifth straight game here scoring twenty points 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.800 at least, and in the final five minutes he took over, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.520 he scored nine down the stretch. I saw Andrew Schlecht 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.680 tweet this morning. Dort ranks fifth overall in scoring for 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.440 the twenty nineteen draft class. For this season, lou Dort 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.960 was undrafted. It's John Moran, It's Tayling Horton. Tucker's only 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.800 played in three games, Tyler Hero, Darius Garland, and then 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.680 lud Dort, which is pretty wild. I needed to apologize 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.680 to OKAC fans because back on October twenty fourth, I 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.120 wondered on Twitter is okay, see going to win ten 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.560 games now? The answer to that is absolutely yes. They 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.400 started ozh to four, which had me tweeting that, and 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.160 now they're six and eight, so they've turned it around. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.960 They beat the Lakers twice, it's like the Magic playing 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.600 the Necks for whatever reason. They beat the Spurs, they 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.000 beat the Pelicans, they beat the Kings and now the 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.640 shitty Rockets. So I think they have proved provenly that 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.320 the Thunder have that they are not in the bottom 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.200 tier of the NBA. They are one step above a 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.720 lot of these other teams. And you know, I know 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.080 Thunder fans are pretty happy with that, especially with the 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.080 way Dort was playing last night, and he's on a 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:46.040 nice little run right now. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.960 Yeah, and Josh Giddy had another double double as well. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.880 He did He's been playing really well. And that's the thing. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.080 All those teams you mentioned there, like they should beat 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.800 the Rockets, and they did and the Kings as well. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.920 So you know, the Lakers though, they were two good wins, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.600 two quality wins, no doubt about that. So good on 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.560 the Thunder. Because I was with you there, I was like, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.520 I'm not sure where they're going to get their ten 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.080 victories from But right now, I guess they're on pace 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.760 for closer to probably twenty and that's good for them, 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.920 So they are fine to watch. When you see Doughty 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.000 out there, he's got Does he bring you back the 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.440 Kung Fu headband? Am I seeing that? I'm not sure? 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.920 But yeah, he's all energy, all hustle and uh again 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.040 for a guy undrafted and he's on that tiny contract too, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.080 he is really giving way more value than he's getting 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.520 for his for his in return. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.120 Yeah, I'm heading down to the Fortress on Monday night 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:40.000 here in Atlanta to watch Sga and Dort the human 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.480 cinder block kick on the Hawks. Yeah. I want to 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.640 go see them play in person and getting as well. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:49.000 Like you said at a beautiful yeah, left handed fling 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.720 passed dame to what grell That guy with the three 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:58.080 names name Jeremiah. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:16:59.520 Robinson. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.600 Yeah, I always want to say Earl first too. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.000 Yeah, yeah, it's cool. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:03.720 Call him Earl. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:04.240 I think. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.120 Yeah, they're on pace for thirty five wins though, yeah, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:09.080 I thought they'd be. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:09.439 Uh. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.000 I also thought they'd definitely be the worst team in 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.240 the league. Good four to them. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.040 Yeah, uh, it's instead the Rockets or the Pelicans. I 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.800 guess Rockets have lost thirteen straight. Should John Wall maybe 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:26.240 be playing? I mean at this point, like it's pretty embarrassing, 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.359 Like they're getting hammered by some of the teams that 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.000 they should at least be in games with. Now they 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.880 beat the Thunder, there's the one win about a month ago, 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.680 but uh, this is this is really really bad and uh, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.800 you know John Wall could technically be playing and he's not. Okay, 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.720 a good dork game there Lee Magic. It rallied late 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.240 to beat the Knicks one O four ninety eight to 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.560 stop a three game slide. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.440 Well, if you only to see the Magic play the 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.640 Nicks in Madison Square, God in this season, you think 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.160 the Magic are a pretty good team. They're a weird team. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.640 You look at their front court starting lineup. They got 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.360 from Wagner at six ten, They've got Barmber at what's 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.879 seven to two, and then they've got Wendell Carter about 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.439 seven foot as well. Like that's a weird front court. 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.760 And then you've got Cole Anthony and Jalen Suggs in 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.960 the back court. But really the story of this is 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.840 the same problems are there for the next in that 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.320 their starting unit and their bench unit are just playing 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.720 completely different basketball. We've talked a lot about Evan forty eight. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.280 This stat came from Tommy Beer this morning. Evan Fournier 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.040 has been benched for the entire fourth quarter in six 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:31.359 of the last seven Knicks games. He's played five out 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.240 of a possible eighty four minutes during that seven game stretch. 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.760 So it's all Marlos Boozer stint right there. Yeah, you 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.920 get to start, you get to play through three quarters, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:41.960 and I do not want to see you try to 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:43.040 guard anybody in the four. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:43.480 That's it. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.920 Yeah, and the Knicks, you know, Derrick Rose has probably 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.560 been their most consistent player again this season, and he 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.520 had a couple of errors late last night. Jalen Suggs, 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.600