Speaker 1: Well, well, well, there are no more undefeated teams than
Speaker 1: the any but the Nugget Celtic Sixers, am MAVs have
Speaker 1: each scotten off the blinding starts, and we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into some of those teams and the state of the
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers with podcaster and host Chris Barnett on today's episode.
Speaker 2: I'm Miles Break and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is.
Speaker 3: Check there you can be driving spinning.
Speaker 4: Curry, a three stop curry from the hotel again.
Speaker 2: Ben time.
Speaker 1: All right, here we are another episode, great, great developments
Speaker 1: all around the league.
Speaker 2: No more undefeated team hate you hate it?
Speaker 5: I really it hurt me to see Anthony Edwards. Do
Speaker 5: the Celtics like that?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: I'm like any other team Anthony, but not my Celtics
Speaker 5: Economy love them. So that was that was wonderful. What
Speaker 5: a fun What a fun game for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're joined today Chris Barnett hoopspaces dot com,
Speaker 1: uh and the host for Playback TV.
Speaker 2: Welcome Chris, Welcome, Welcome back, Chris.
Speaker 6: I appreciate being back. Guys. You guys are the best.
Speaker 6: Miles in Jack got mad b The NBA Podcast Not
Speaker 6: So True.
Speaker 5: The only one that matters.
Speaker 6: Can tell you what. Watching Anthony Edwards do that to
Speaker 6: the Celtics brought a smile to my.
Speaker 5: Face, A smile you sick man.
Speaker 6: Day for a Boston Celtics self.
Speaker 5: Oh come on, wow, they're so good this year that
Speaker 5: it's it is like, it's fun. It'll be fun every time.
Speaker 5: Like I think we should like have an unofficial holiday
Speaker 5: every time they lose anybody who's a Celtics hater, because
Speaker 5: they're gonna be few and far between. Yeah, if they
Speaker 5: stay healthy, they're they're really really good.
Speaker 2: They just get better and better. It's frustrating and you
Speaker 2: look at the ins and outs and you're like, how
Speaker 2: they get away with all this?
Speaker 5: It's like what, Yes, we were on text this week.
Speaker 5: I was like how I'm still just like how why
Speaker 5: do bad things happen too good basketball fans? How did
Speaker 5: anybody let that Drew holiday trade happen to be? Like
Speaker 5: from this day and age, knowing how most people feel
Speaker 5: about the Celtics. Sorry, Celtics fans, you guys know how
Speaker 5: I feel about you. I respect you.
Speaker 2: It's just it's a lot of pain. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of pain.
Speaker 1: I get it, and look there wouldn't be this much,
Speaker 1: you know, ribbing, if there wasn't actual pain, So you
Speaker 1: do have that.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 5: This is the most fun NBA season yet Webby Yama.
Speaker 5: We'll get to it, but I am watching every game. Uh,
Speaker 5: the Pacers one not as much fun for Wemby watchers, no,
Speaker 5: but the one before that was the moment where everyone
Speaker 5: kind of turned to each other and we're like, whoa,
Speaker 5: that's that's wild.
Speaker 2: Is that him?
Speaker 5: Is he really him? Though?
Speaker 6: Oh I was. I was pretty wild on Wimby too.
Speaker 6: Like I'd actually made the comparison not to Koreem coming
Speaker 6: out of UCLA because he was a twenty two year
Speaker 6: old already kind of solid product. But what would Kareem
Speaker 6: average in today's NBA as a nineteen year old whose
Speaker 6: greatest competition was under seventeens?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, watching greatness being born in front of us,
Speaker 6: it's just amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really cool.
Speaker 1: It's so wild and p or like, well, first, it's
Speaker 1: like it's the preseason. Oh, it's just still early. Still,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what's point of the season. You are, wrinkles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on that. We'll keep an eye Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's anomalous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he ran into a buzzsaw in Indianapolis. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Pacers are off to a four and three start plus
Speaker 5: three point two differential so far. That's skewed a little
Speaker 5: bit because they beat the Spurs by one hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty two points. I believe they've already been the Cavs twice.
Speaker 5: But yeah, they just hung one hundred and fifty two
Speaker 5: on the Spurs. I think the Spurs did end up
Speaker 5: scoring in that game, but it was not a very
Speaker 5: close game the Pacers. I mean that's the second time
Speaker 5: I think opening Night, Like, just watching the scores, I
Speaker 5: was like, wait, the Pacers have like all the points there.
Speaker 5: The Pacers going to score two hundred tonight.
Speaker 6: They whacked the Washington in the opening. It was not
Speaker 6: a fun game if you were Wizard Sam.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Caliburton looks great. What do you Yeah, how
Speaker 5: are you feeling as a as a Pacers fan? And
Speaker 5: you are wearing the new the new indie hat, which yeah,
Speaker 5: stay repping.
Speaker 6: Yeah, stay, I've been pretty high a Tyrese Haliburt. You know,
Speaker 6: you have to fight next Twitter sometimes and you have to,
Speaker 6: you know, fight the advanced analytics guys sometimes just he
Speaker 6: just gets it. Yeah, yeah, because they want to put
Speaker 6: him in a specific box, right, Like he's hyper efficient,
Speaker 6: he's great with pace, but like you kind of take
Speaker 6: away the aspect of how he can create offensively and
Speaker 6: you put him in this idea of like he's really
Speaker 6: just exposing the rules as well as the pace of play.
Speaker 6: I actually think he's kind of discounted with his basketball acumen.
Speaker 6: And I think what we'll see this year is he'll
Speaker 6: start actually taking the mental leap as opposed to just
Speaker 6: the productive leap that he did as a starter. Like,
Speaker 6: I think this guy is really the limit. You're talking
Speaker 6: assist leader multiple years. He shores up that one on
Speaker 6: one defense, and he'll be a complete two way player.
Speaker 6: And we're talking literally season after season of a potential
Speaker 6: fifty forty ninety, right, averaging twenty four eleven maybe twelve assists,
Speaker 6: almost two steals, four boards. Like, the sky's really the limit.
Speaker 6: For That's why the Pacers signed to the Max despite
Speaker 6: only really having one year of a trapper, Right.
Speaker 1: I was watching a couple of highlight reels. Sadly even
Speaker 1: in that in that game where y'all put one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty two on the Spurs, I only saw Webbin
Speaker 1: Yama highlights for it, Like I was like, wait, but
Speaker 1: they scored one hundred and fifty two points. Obviously there's
Speaker 1: that Isaiah Jackson block that I was I was almost
Speaker 1: like it. I couldn't believe what I saw. I thought
Speaker 1: I was like watching Avengers or something, and.
Speaker 2: Like, how do you do that? How do you do that?
Speaker 1: What I mean, how are you Obviously, like going into
Speaker 1: the game, weren't you guys like the worst in terms
Speaker 1: of defense, like like going into that game or near
Speaker 1: the bottom.
Speaker 6: Still still pretty much near the bottom, Like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: the points for getting fool you. They are a young
Speaker 6: and richy team right now. They overhelp, they overrotate leads
Speaker 6: to easy buckets for the opposing offense. I think that
Speaker 6: shores up a little bit with Rick Carlisle, like he's
Speaker 6: just too experienced as a coach to not get a
Speaker 6: handle on the defense. And then I think one of
Speaker 6: the major issues is they don't really have an actual
Speaker 6: pain protected Like Miles is great an elite help defendant,
Speaker 6: but he's not necessarily going to be that big body. Hey,
Speaker 6: you're not going to, you know, come in here and
Speaker 6: score on us, because you're going to get foul or hurt,
Speaker 6: and I think the defense really lacks for that. But
Speaker 6: once you get that everybody on here is athletic enough
Speaker 6: to recover. Then it's just basic defensive principles. And I
Speaker 6: like Rick Carlisle, you know, around this young team, getting
Speaker 6: them set up right, and like, if you look at
Speaker 6: it this way, they can only get better. You're giving up,
Speaker 6: you know, over one hundred and twenty one points per game.
Speaker 6: If you get that down to one sixteen and you're
Speaker 6: putting out one twenty one, then you're talking to like
Speaker 6: the Atlanta Hawks run to the e cl right, they
Speaker 6: maybe catch fire and and after catching fire offensively, they
Speaker 6: just shoot up.
Speaker 5: This is a great fan logic, like you listen to
Speaker 5: a true fan, it's like and then you're talking Atlanta
Speaker 5: Hawks for a few years ago, and.
Speaker 1: Those numbers add up to Yeah, yeah, I got to
Speaker 1: push the prop again.
Speaker 2: And now that was what that was, Rick Carlisle. This
Speaker 2: is nine hundred game, right, I think that that last.
Speaker 6: Nine or nine on one?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's my calculator. Yeah, I do track
Speaker 5: his wins and I think that's right. Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 5: should be up to nine on one right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is yep, yep, back then. Very interesting, dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, other people as a Lakers fan, always checking out Buddy, healed,
Speaker 1: he's looking pretty pretty good too for y'all.
Speaker 2: Uh, what's how you as a Lakers fan? What does
Speaker 2: that mean?
Speaker 5: Miles? What does that mean? As I'm always checking out Buddy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I look at the NBA like a cheesecake
Speaker 1: factory menu, and I look at all the items available
Speaker 1: to me, and it doesn't matter what is possible, what
Speaker 1: is even allowed within the rules of the game or
Speaker 1: economics there.
Speaker 2: Mentally, that's how this, this is how it works.
Speaker 1: I never said it makes sense, but again, like I
Speaker 1: always say, I am ill because.
Speaker 5: I was noticing that Jabari was like, yeah, they re
Speaker 5: upped with Turner after years of trade rumors, mostly sending
Speaker 5: him to the Lakers. But he is still waiting to
Speaker 5: be waiting to be moved, is somebody? So that's the
Speaker 5: description that we have for somebody who has not yet
Speaker 5: been traded to the Lakers. They're waiting to be moved.
Speaker 6: That is that is still the truth. He requested it
Speaker 6: in the off season. Part of it. Part of it,
Speaker 6: I think is actually fallout from from not landing DeAndre Ayton,
Speaker 6: like there's a connection there. They wanted to play with
Speaker 6: each other. Ayton had expressed his wanting to go to
Speaker 6: Indianapolis Sondi al rashif Phoenix mashed it. But part of
Speaker 6: the problem also is like when you look around this team,
Speaker 6: they have the same problem with t J. Connell, who
Speaker 6: is a fantastic backup point guard. They have young players
Speaker 6: ready to come up and take those minutes. And when
Speaker 6: you look at Benedict Mather and starting, you got Ben
Speaker 6: Sheppard coming, you know you've got to get these young
Speaker 6: players minutes. You got Drace Walker who can play the
Speaker 6: three or the four, and that cuts into somebody who's
Speaker 6: ready to compete now. And like, I totally understand and
Speaker 6: back it. There are several teams too who have interest.
Speaker 6: They just didn't want to probably pay the first round
Speaker 6: pick in the offseason. But when you start looking and
Speaker 6: projecting towards the trade deadline, and we'll start doing that
Speaker 6: next month, you know, after twenty five games, all of
Speaker 6: us are going to be like, you know, we need
Speaker 6: to fix this team. They're in a great position like
Speaker 6: they'd be able to trade Healed and TJ McConnell to
Speaker 6: a contender, likely get a good unprotected first round pick.
Speaker 6: Here's looking at you, Philadelphia, right, they could be moving
Speaker 6: off of Miles Turner if they think Isaiah Jackson is
Speaker 6: more than just the athlete that he's been able to flash.
Speaker 6: So like, if you're looking at that, maybe the Lakers
Speaker 6: get the person that they actually want next to Anthony Davis,
Speaker 6: who's making you know, a contract the next two years
Speaker 6: under thirty mili. Like, it's a lot of different avenues
Speaker 6: they can go. But if they compete and like they
Speaker 6: hit that sixth seed, they can add a major piece.
Speaker 6: And that's something that I don't think a lot of
Speaker 6: people are expecting. And it could be something as simple
Speaker 6: as maybe Gordon Hayward going home to Indianapolis getting an
Speaker 6: expiring contract, who will be a swing forward and maybe
Speaker 6: because you can actually afford it because their cap is
Speaker 6: flexible with how they trade, you can get another by
Speaker 6: low cell high vet with the one of the Martin twins,
Speaker 6: not Caleb who's in Charlotte, but his twin brother, I
Speaker 6: mean sorry in Miami, his twin brother and Charlotte, and
Speaker 6: then you shore up the wing depth as well. So
Speaker 6: like there's many things that they can do and they
Speaker 6: sitting in a pretty advantageous position.
Speaker 5: I love it, Hope Springs Eternal, I love I love
Speaker 5: where you're coming from. I think you should be the GM.
Speaker 5: This team is super fun. Haliburton is super fun. They're
Speaker 5: leading the league in points per game, so and I
Speaker 5: think leading the league in points against. So you're always
Speaker 5: you're always going to see a lot of buckets. Yeah,
Speaker 5: should we move over to Wemby? Because yes, he got
Speaker 5: he got blocked. When he got blocked, I was like,
Speaker 5: this is what I was expecting to happen, like one
Speaker 5: or two times a game. He's so big, He's entering
Speaker 5: a league with like the fastest, strongest human beings on
Speaker 5: the planet. Like, why he's going to get blocked all
Speaker 5: the time? He got blocked in the Indiana game. It's
Speaker 5: the main headline, the main highlight that came out of
Speaker 5: that game, that came out of that night.
Speaker 2: I feel like, but.
Speaker 5: You know it happened earlier this week, Wemby went against
Speaker 5: the Suns, put up twenty in the first half, thirty
Speaker 5: eight for the game, ten boards, two blocks, and really,
Speaker 5: like we talked, I think of the last episode about
Speaker 5: how his fourth quarter stats are crazy, like really really
Speaker 5: good and we were like, maybe it's because he's kind
Speaker 5: of used sparingly so he can like pick his spot.
Speaker 5: But no, I think like he really took over, Like
Speaker 5: he really seemed to just be like, all right, I'm
Speaker 5: taking the game over right now. This is like it
Speaker 5: was a very close game and he was kind of
Speaker 5: scoring at will on the suns.
Speaker 2: He's like, what do you want?
Speaker 1: You want to three? Okay, you want a mid range? Okay,
Speaker 1: you want to just drop it in? Like right, I'll
Speaker 1: do it all, baby, I'll do it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think like what a lot of people didn't
Speaker 6: really understand was when the's ability to control his body right,
Speaker 6: Like he's dunked on people who are legit six eleven
Speaker 6: seven foot from outside the restricted zone. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 6: not doing it pushing any athleticism, like he's literally just
Speaker 6: that long. But if you look at how he does it,
Speaker 6: he's able to manipulate and and comport his body. And
Speaker 6: he also does it on the defensive end too, Like
Speaker 6: it is really like playing basketball against slender Man, because
Speaker 6: he keeps you in his body, and he keeps you
Speaker 6: in his wingspan without touching you, and several of his
Speaker 6: blocks are completely without jumping. It's the same on offense,
Speaker 6: and like Greg Popovich is purposely playing him out on
Speaker 6: the perimeter, you know, to save the contact on the
Speaker 6: knees in the back. But because if you end up
Speaker 6: playing him out on the perimeter and you're able to
Speaker 6: start a driving kick game or Kelton Johnson or doesn't,
Speaker 6: the cell gets hot, the defense tends to shift and
Speaker 6: you get those wide open wing matchups and he's just unstoppable,
Speaker 6: like you literally saw Kevin Durant try to jump up
Speaker 6: with him. Kevin Durant is an awesome athlete and a
Speaker 6: phenomenal basketball player. He made him look six inches shorter. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: So when we look at that aspect, we have to
Speaker 6: land credence to the ability to naturally understand his physiology.
Speaker 6: And I think he doesn't get credit for that because
Speaker 6: we see seven foot seven guys come in the league
Speaker 6: and fail right role, Don Bradley, George Mirason. You know,
Speaker 6: Boban is just like he's an afterthought. He's just a
Speaker 6: big dude, and he's funny. He's really funny and.
Speaker 5: With right right.
Speaker 6: When he's a guard, it's applying seven to four with
Speaker 6: a foot wingspan. I've seen in nut made you know,
Speaker 6: Reggie Bullock a hundred times now, it's amazing, So we
Speaker 6: should just enjoy it and like that's gonna be more
Speaker 6: of the norm. Yeah, right, Like you don't just do
Speaker 6: that against the best players in the world once and disappear.
Speaker 2: Right, just right, Yeah, because it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, like to look at that and think that
Speaker 1: there's somehow going to be like a regression, I think
Speaker 1: is just odd because you're like, you know, this this
Speaker 1: is I see only upward, Like this is only going
Speaker 1: up from here.
Speaker 5: So yeah, especially in his rookie year, Yeah, exactly, Like
Speaker 5: he's yeah, and he seems to have like I don't know,
Speaker 5: you're seeing like a little bit of personality. I don't
Speaker 5: want to like read too much into personality, but like
Speaker 5: he seems to have like some of the cockiness that
Speaker 5: you would kind of need to continue to ascend upwards.
Speaker 5: Like he and like kind of seems to get pissed
Speaker 5: off when he's in a moment and like gets scored on.
Speaker 5: He did the thing that all Superstars did and got
Speaker 5: mad at Dylan Brooks for talking trash.
Speaker 2: And like when he scored on him, like pointed.
Speaker 5: At his face. So like he has he has passed
Speaker 5: that signpost on the on the road to being a
Speaker 5: great player. But I don't know. This is like I'm
Speaker 5: so so excited about when biamo, Like it's truly a
Speaker 5: distraction from every other NBA storyline for me, Like it's
Speaker 5: the first thing I'm checking for every night, Like I'm like,
Speaker 5: all right, first of all, are the Spurs playing? Is
Speaker 5: it on TV? Can I check it out? And then
Speaker 5: that's then everything else follows from there.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, it's it's it's like I said,
Speaker 4: my my very first NBA memory is Isaiah Thomas scoring
Speaker 4: a layup right off of the tip against the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 6: My grandmother was a die hard Pistons there. That's my
Speaker 6: first memory. Yeah, I track my NBA history and like
Speaker 6: I literally was watching Lebron his debut on ESPN in
Speaker 6: a tent. I saw Kobe Bryant and like, I'm sitting here,
Speaker 6: there's nothing we've ever seen like this now, Like there's
Speaker 6: nothing we're ever gonna see like this again, And like
Speaker 6: the fact that he's able to go at it with
Speaker 6: these guys who are pros, like Dylan Brooks, and like,
Speaker 6: if you ever see him courtside you'll hear him. He
Speaker 6: gets chatty with everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is dope.
Speaker 6: Like this is personification of what the NBA has always wanted,
Speaker 6: you know, a real wive two K player.
Speaker 5: Like it's it's hard to imagine, all right, So a
Speaker 5: seven foot four guard who can shoot, like has a
Speaker 5: great looking shot and like a shot that when he
Speaker 5: gets it going goes in does like has all the
Speaker 5: right instincts on defense. Like what it like we would
Speaker 5: need somebody like like with mutant superpowers at this point
Speaker 5: to be like the next evolution because he is like
Speaker 5: kind of every everything that you would design in a player,
Speaker 5: Like yeah, seven seven five, You're like, is that too tall?
Speaker 5: The seven foot four seems to be working out real
Speaker 5: nice for him with an eight foot wingspan, Like that
Speaker 5: seems to work out pretty nicely.
Speaker 6: Yeah. See. The thing, the thing that I love the
Speaker 6: most is he made the Wilt Chamberlain post score. Like
Speaker 6: it's it's like a half jump shot, half layup. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he does it to sustain health and not hurt his knees.
Speaker 6: But like he that's unstoppable.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: In today's game, with the way they have to call
Speaker 6: how you how the players need the space for landing.
Speaker 6: That's unstoppable. If he's out on the three, you can't
Speaker 6: you can't even get a foot in because you're gonna
Speaker 6: encroach on his landing. That's unstoppable. So then he's gonna
Speaker 6: start going to the line, guys. Yeah, he's not even
Speaker 6: getting to the line yet. Just wait until he's getting
Speaker 6: to the line eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen times a game,
Speaker 6: you know, maybe six seven games a month, and then
Speaker 6: still gets to the line seven eight every other game.
Speaker 6: Like we could be talking by the time he's in
Speaker 6: a sophomore year, like thirty point season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's wild.
Speaker 1: We're all Thomas Bryant basically, Yeah, we.
Speaker 5: A Ryan.
Speaker 2: That's what I love about That's what I love about
Speaker 2: it that moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, just confused Pikachu, Like what do I do now,
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 5: But they would already make a great thirty for thirty
Speaker 5: about his NBA career so far, Like that's for me.
Speaker 5: I watch the hell out of that. He He's averaging
Speaker 5: six point eight points, two point two rebounds, in one
Speaker 5: block in six games in the fourth quarter this season,
Speaker 5: shooting seventy two percent from the floor and forty three
Speaker 5: percent from three, So it's yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: They do it with Jeremy Sohana at his point guard too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean he's like a generational defensive force and they
Speaker 5: are giving up the most points in the league right now.
Speaker 5: It's actually not the Pacers. The Pacers are second to them. Granted,
Speaker 5: I think the fact that they played the Pacers probably
Speaker 5: hurts them in one of those six games. But yeah,
Speaker 5: the surrounding cast could use some work, but I think
Speaker 5: I think they're they just in general, are going to
Speaker 5: be better than people expect.
Speaker 2: All right, so we take a break. Yeah, let's take
Speaker 2: a break. We'll be right back, and we're back as
Speaker 2: we are. Let's check in with the best team in
Speaker 2: the NBA, the Denver Nuggets. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: As recording seven and one to start, jo Kic has
Speaker 1: no off switch. He's doing his own press conferences. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw that clip of him just
Speaker 1: asking himself the questions and answering them before the press
Speaker 1: could even as he's.
Speaker 5: Firing on all what was the nature of the questions
Speaker 5: he was asking It was just like.
Speaker 1: It was basically highlighting the fact he's like already know
Speaker 1: you're going to ask me about triple doubles, like he
Speaker 1: just it was like one of those things where he's like, y'all,
Speaker 1: this feels like it's on a like it. I'm I
Speaker 1: already asked myself the questions. Here's my prepared statement, and
Speaker 1: then if you have other questions, we can do that too.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling I know what you're gonna ask.
Speaker 5: That one where the reporter from the playoffs or the
Speaker 5: reporter was like, so you're up to on the suns, like,
Speaker 5: do you expect them to come back having figured out
Speaker 5: some new things? He's like, no, my friend, I expect
Speaker 5: them to let us win and forfeit such a just
Speaker 5: complete like dead pan.
Speaker 6: He did carry the whole This is just a job
Speaker 6: thing for like five years, you know. Then he wins
Speaker 6: the chip and then we see the personality all the
Speaker 6: it's it's dope. I love him. It doesn't change.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think. I don't see that happening. It
Speaker 1: seems like the outfits are changing a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, he's got to be a bit funny if
Speaker 5: he went Hollywood, like was.
Speaker 6: Right, that's what in l A right, yeah, right, horse
Speaker 6: is disgusting.
Speaker 1: No, touch no horse, not with these hands, no Nikola.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think at this point it's
Speaker 1: theirs to lose.
Speaker 2: It feels like, but yeah.
Speaker 5: I talked about horses. How about the four hundred horses
Speaker 5: that this baby gets. And he slaps a super rou
Speaker 5: that around because.
Speaker 1: He saw he has like a dealership too. He's got like, hey,
Speaker 1: come on down, you know what I mean. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: they're they're looking great. Celtics again, they're five.
Speaker 2: To one as of this recording.
Speaker 1: They Yeah, I mean we talked about aunt already just
Speaker 1: just doing helping us the people who live in perpetual
Speaker 1: fear of the Celtics being great helped us out.
Speaker 2: And I know for you a great no they are.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, that's there's no I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not out here hating on a team because it's
Speaker 1: it's because they're good.
Speaker 5: It's because Tatum got stronger and better. He got a
Speaker 5: lot strong, like he in that in that one clip
Speaker 5: where like ant out wrestles him for the ball, like
Speaker 5: he's still like that. That was one of the moments
Speaker 5: where I was like, yeah, but he's like just as
Speaker 5: fast and Tatum like put on a lot of muscle
Speaker 5: in the off season and he's still like great in
Speaker 5: all the ways he was great before. They are terrifying. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they just got better, Like they just keep getting better.
Speaker 6: I've heard I've heard like that defensive backcourt, Like are
Speaker 6: we really going to be looking at that the entirety
Speaker 6: of the season, like with Derek White and Shrew Holliday.
Speaker 6: Like if we look at what Milwaukee's doing, they're big
Speaker 6: new three, put up seventy two, but their defense isn't good.
Speaker 6: Miami looks like they're taking a step back and having
Speaker 6: to retool. Philadelphia might be interesting, but Philadelphia would also
Speaker 6: have to be relying on the Anthony Melton and Kelly
Speaker 6: ou Bray And I just don't know if that's what
Speaker 6: you're going to go into when you're Boston and like
Speaker 6: you go to Boston in the Garden and you gotta
Speaker 6: deal with Derek White and then like you gotta deal
Speaker 6: with Drew Holliday. Yeah, and it's just thirty four minutes
Speaker 6: of pure grind, and that is what is their superpower
Speaker 6: come playoffs. That they're healthy, Like it's like playing Pat
Speaker 6: Bev thirty six minutes, but like they're gonna score fifteen
Speaker 6: to sixteen points in dish out sevens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we should have known it was
Speaker 1: trouble when Derek White shaved his head.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, he's serious listening. Yeah, yeah, he knows,
Speaker 1: he knows, and this is this is this means business,
Speaker 1: that's business witnesses.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the Anthony Meltain but uh that Yeah, there
Speaker 5: are some other things that make me worry about that
Speaker 5: matchup for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is Dame actually playing defense? You're talking about the Bucks.
Speaker 2: He's not a great defensive player. Yeah. I've seen some criticisms.
Speaker 2: I felt a little bit.
Speaker 6: I've seen some screens that he's he's still.
Speaker 2: Feeling yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I have enjoyed the return of damn time and some
Speaker 5: of his clutch clutch performances that that teams fun. The
Speaker 5: league is so fun this year. Just even your sixers,
Speaker 5: even speaking of keeps getting better. Just when you think,
Speaker 5: all right, well, that's gotta be the peak. Joel Embiid,
Speaker 5: what's going on with him? Averaging over thirty two points?
Speaker 5: His splits are incredible. He's yeah, he's playing incredible. We've
Speaker 5: added you know, terrees Max he was on the team,
Speaker 5: but he wasn't an MVP candidate like he is now
Speaker 5: last season. I'm trying to get that started. So please
Speaker 5: just let me y, Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, you know,
Speaker 5: putting out twenty five point five points, seven point three assists,
Speaker 5: four point five rebounds on fifty forty four ninety three splits,
Speaker 5: I don't know. Pretty good.
Speaker 1: The third quarter Embiid had against the Wizards twenty nine
Speaker 1: points on ten to ten shooting, like hit on nine
Speaker 1: free throws? Was it like two rebounds and assists in
Speaker 1: a block?
Speaker 2: I was like, what what what? I'm like, Jack, You're
Speaker 2: you're back in? Are you back in?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Man, I mean I'm back in.
Speaker 6: We got to shut out by his hairs too, Like
Speaker 6: Nick Nurse is letting him pick his spot. He had
Speaker 6: a couple of ISOs on Eric Gordon during the Phoenix game,
Speaker 6: and they're going to allow him to do that. If
Speaker 6: he gives two or three of those a game, plus
Speaker 6: his step in threes in transition, like you could be
Speaker 6: getting sixteen eighteen points just off of ten shots for
Speaker 6: him too. So it's a very good look in Philly
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 6: Not so much in Washington.
Speaker 5: But I was just gonna say, I'm noticing a pattern
Speaker 5: that we talked about how the pacers like hung one
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty points on Somebody Opening Night. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: I was watching him talking about how Embiid went ten
Speaker 5: of ten and put up.
Speaker 2: Thirty almost thirty points in a quarter.
Speaker 5: In a quarter again, I think.
Speaker 6: Tyler Hero went off that was like nineteen and the
Speaker 6: third too. Yeah it's Washington.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Do you see the real of him getting blocked like
Speaker 5: fifteen times in a single game here?
Speaker 2: I felt like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like over like of course of like
Speaker 1: three games, and it was like every time he got
Speaker 1: near the basket, He's like, yeah, this is this is
Speaker 1: an easy one.
Speaker 2: Stuffed if you put me out there, that's what that
Speaker 2: would any kind Yeah, just that kind of confidence, that.
Speaker 5: Kind and getting black every single time.
Speaker 2: The rock chasing me down. I don't know watching them though,
Speaker 2: he's working with the black pastic white two tier here
Speaker 2: was snuffed in Oh chase down. First seen that before
Speaker 2: here in Miami. I'll tell you what I got. I
Speaker 2: did hear him a lot of credit that because on
Speaker 2: this turnover.
Speaker 6: He didn't pout, He got back into the play and able.
Speaker 1: To come out with an incredible block shot.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 6: I've got a team we haven't talked about, and I
Speaker 6: want to know what you guys thoughts on Orlando.
Speaker 5: Yeah there, I mean they've gotten better in the way
Speaker 5: that you would expect them to, but like maybe a
Speaker 5: little bit you and faster they're they're putting it together faster.
Speaker 6: Scary that pollow, that pollow and two man games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so European in France.
Speaker 5: Get that together. Now you know you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: I've we've always had a bit, a bit of a
Speaker 1: special place in our hearts for Orlando, like we saw
Speaker 1: coming together. But I don't, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've actually only seen like a couple
Speaker 1: of games. I mean I saw the game against the Lakers, uh,
Speaker 1: and just kind of kept up with box scores.
Speaker 2: But am I am? I really like where?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: What do I need to have my eye on?
Speaker 6: Chris? Uh? You got to watch the development of that
Speaker 6: two man game. But yeah, if Jonathan Isaac's is coming
Speaker 6: back and starting to be actually healthy, Uh, they literally
Speaker 6: could run a line up where Markel Folks would be
Speaker 6: the smallest guy, but everybody else is six eleven, right,
Speaker 6: and it would work like you'd put Mo Wagner at
Speaker 6: the five, Jonathan Isaac at the four, and then you
Speaker 6: have Poulo at the three and Frands at the two,
Speaker 6: and you'd literally have a mispatch everywhere you go. And
Speaker 6: then on top of that, they've got a lot of
Speaker 6: contracts that could easily be moved as well. Gary has
Speaker 6: markel Fols himself. They just resigned to Anthony, but they
Speaker 6: drafted Anthony Black. They really could be trying to create
Speaker 6: a Swiss Army knife style team where everybody is, you know, vertical.
Speaker 6: Toronto tried it with the idea of the six nine Raptors.
Speaker 6: Well they're going like six eleven magic.
Speaker 5: And right, Wagner is, yeah, why did I think he
Speaker 5: was shortened that?
Speaker 6: Because because in Michigan he was he was actually listed
Speaker 6: at his correct height. He's grown opposed to the traditional
Speaker 6: Hey he's six and then you find out he's six's eight, right,
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's it's literally they can run a lineup
Speaker 6: and when Anthony Black gets in there, he's he's probably
Speaker 6: grown to a legit six eight as well. You'd be
Speaker 6: talking to six eight point guard with damn near seventh
Speaker 6: foot wing span. Frands at the Apollo and like what
Speaker 6: are you gonna do? They could literally run his zone
Speaker 6: and and you couldn't even pass it inside, so they'll
Speaker 6: force you to shoot, you know, form to jump shot
Speaker 6: and then just rebound runt like it's it's gonna be
Speaker 6: real tough man.
Speaker 2: Yeah because what yeah?
Speaker 1: Because what they just lost to the Mavericks, right I think?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: Derek likely going off. Yeah that's good combo.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah almost. You could do it there for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Luca looks incredible. The league is as fun as
Speaker 5: it's been. Zion has looked fun. Zion getting blocked and
Speaker 5: then reacting by coming down and wind milling on the
Speaker 5: world was.
Speaker 1: Just going flat footed, just a flat footed jump windmill
Speaker 1: because like, yeah, watch this.
Speaker 3: The lookout so competitive, defended it well and it wasn't
Speaker 3: been for Jana Johnson.
Speaker 2: Take your time.
Speaker 6: On the window.
Speaker 2: Last time down got that chet block. So that's why
Speaker 2: he's just wide open. Here's your energy power play. Should
Speaker 2: we actually pick anything else?
Speaker 3: I got?
Speaker 2: Joe? This is off a vertical. This is off a vertical.
Speaker 5: What Jalen Brown did to go Bear was disgusting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, batpoor business decision. Yeah, you know on that one,
Speaker 1: you should have known better, sir, you should have known.
Speaker 7: Brown obligers on the blow by stuff. Climbed the stifle tower. Wow,
Speaker 7: my goodness. Oh that is one of the best print
Speaker 7: protectors in NBA history.
Speaker 2: Take that on the ground. Step over, po, Do we
Speaker 2: want to talk about that heat? It's my favorite court,
Speaker 2: coolest thing.
Speaker 5: You have something else to talk about?
Speaker 2: Perfect? No notes, Uh, that's it, I have nothing. I
Speaker 2: only have positive things to say about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. They did a really good job with the seats
Speaker 6: to go with the court. That's what really set it off.
Speaker 6: If you notice, like they did the skyline tough.
Speaker 5: My head is like a sharks fins. If anybody hasn't
Speaker 5: seen it, it says just written out like a text
Speaker 5: under the under the basket, left the line.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of weird. Yeah, all left the line.
Speaker 5: Hardest working, best conditioned, most professional, unselfish, new line, touchest
Speaker 5: or toughest, meanest, nastiest team in the NBA. They're very nasty.
Speaker 2: They've done it all, they've all Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyways, you know, the Heat culture jerseys were already catching
Speaker 5: some strays and then they were like, oh yeah, it.
Speaker 6: Was a little bit more than straight man.
Speaker 2: Some were directly aimed and fired.
Speaker 1: But hey, they can't be winners every year, you know,
Speaker 1: they can't be winners. And then oh, we got to
Speaker 1: see the James Harden debut this week too.
Speaker 5: That was we're talking the shoes, the sho shoes, the shoes,
Speaker 5: the shoes. The shoes were trying something different. They reminded
Speaker 5: me of the Remember when, uh that that Simpsons episode
Speaker 5: where Homer designs a car that's like tries to reimagine
Speaker 5: the concept of a car and it's like the Homer
Speaker 5: and uh, it's just a mess. Like these look like
Speaker 5: they're trying to redesign, reintroduce the concept of basketball shoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're They're geometrically very interesting, I will say, like
Speaker 1: to the point.
Speaker 2: Where I'm like, are those stable?
Speaker 6: I don't know. But it's also about Julius Randall's signature sketchers.
Speaker 2: Is he sketchers?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And beats and Beat doesn't wear sketchers on the court,
Speaker 5: does he? I think, Wow, that is crazy?
Speaker 2: Has changed anything for you?
Speaker 5: And I'm out again, my man?
Speaker 2: Is it sketchers? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Anthony Edwards would be the other big I mean, we
Speaker 5: talked about his game against the Celtics. But his d
Speaker 5: has been really like dominant this season, and in that game,
Speaker 5: he looks like he's like kind of controlling it at
Speaker 5: both ends of the court, and he's.
Speaker 6: He's usurped Karl Anthony Towns role like that started at
Speaker 6: the end of last year, but he's really turned it
Speaker 6: on as this is his team. You see it like
Speaker 6: they all just respond to him. He can do literally
Speaker 6: anything on the court. If you want him to shoot,
Speaker 6: he'll he'll get hot and hit six or eight. If
Speaker 6: you d up on him, he'll just pass it, he'll
Speaker 6: get it back and then he'll just win along. It's
Speaker 6: just nasty intentions. But then the defense, like you just said,
Speaker 6: it's it's like ingrained in him to not lose on defense.
Speaker 6: Yet watching Dwayne Wade again and I just I give
Speaker 6: I mean, that's to me, the ultimate respect I can
Speaker 6: give a shooting guard playing defense, because he was arguably
Speaker 6: the best that I ever saw live in person. And
Speaker 6: Anthony Edwards is just getting nasty on that end, like
Speaker 6: just getting in your chest, making sure that the hand
Speaker 6: is always visible to your face, making sure that you
Speaker 6: can feel his breath, and nobody ate for the pregame meal.
Speaker 6: You know, you know what type of peanut buddy he's
Speaker 6: using the time you're done at halftime and like you
Speaker 6: have to brush your nose because it's just all up
Speaker 6: in there. It's phenomenal, Like I can't. And then he's
Speaker 6: next to McDaniels, who's also you know, defensively a starboard
Speaker 6: and that's a great tandem. And he got Kyle Anderson
Speaker 6: off the bench. So you know, I'm not a bad team, you.
Speaker 2: Know, like I said, you know, you know we'll take them.
Speaker 2: You know, we'll take them.
Speaker 6: We'll take just like that.
Speaker 2: But you know, I got it's a wild though. I
Speaker 2: mean he did that defense is playing on five vowels too,
Speaker 2: is awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's yeah. You gotta give it up, you gotta
Speaker 1: give it up. Just yeah right, it's uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you love to see it. You love to see it.
Speaker 2: And he's he's and again he's a great actor too.
Speaker 2: You know we saw a bit of his acting chops
Speaker 2: in that Netflix movie without him.
Speaker 6: Stanmor You know who else is a great actor? Who
Speaker 6: Austin Reeves?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh really.
Speaker 6: He has like great deadpan interviews, like if you you
Speaker 6: got to watch this off at feb he is he
Speaker 6: is eating up the limelight in a way, negative attention
Speaker 6: because like this whole off him Reeves campaign, right he is,
Speaker 6: he's taking it in stride and like lately he's been
Speaker 6: heating up, but like he's he's gonna be good for
Speaker 6: the Lakers. And I'm wondering, you know how you feel
Speaker 6: with a d now with the hip, like you're going
Speaker 6: back to kind of what it was where it was
Speaker 6: last season and you had Dennis shrewder. You think you
Speaker 6: can pull it off again? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder what's Austin Reeves shoot again.
Speaker 5: Missus Reeves, we regret to inform you your son has
Speaker 5: tested positive for the rids.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's got rigor.
Speaker 1: That is that the company that's a that's a mouthful,
Speaker 1: but hey look.
Speaker 5: Wait that's the company that's the shoe company.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that might be one of the this is.
Speaker 5: This that we're doing, Like we it's like forget about
Speaker 5: Nike and Reebok and Converse. Now you can have all Bird.
Speaker 2: And lee Ning.
Speaker 6: You know, you gotta go where the money's at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, yeah, because they're they're backing up just
Speaker 1: brinks trucks in front of them to be like I
Speaker 1: know there's only two brands that exist. But hear me out,
Speaker 1: look at this brink struck full of cash.
Speaker 5: What do you think Like the Puma thing was cool
Speaker 5: when it started a little while back, Like those shoes
Speaker 5: I thought have always looked cool and obviously like New
Speaker 5: Balance got uh Kawhi and then under Armour with Steph.
Speaker 5: But I I have usually heard of the brand when
Speaker 5: they you know, like.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but that just shows you know, the popularity
Speaker 1: of the sport in China, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, yeah, when you have now they're like.
Speaker 2: Man, they're wearing our shoes. It's synergistic, man, It's synergistic.
Speaker 5: Do you hear Breknstock just signed that kid who went
Speaker 5: to Who's going to do?
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1: Crocs just sign you know what I'm saying, the thing
Speaker 1: of yeah right, yeah, he got you just signed to
Speaker 1: deal with Sperry.
Speaker 6: Siders listening walk Shoes.
Speaker 5: She's just out there cooking people and all right, we're
Speaker 5: gonna take a quick break. We'll come back with the
Speaker 5: fastest segment in podcasting. It is the fourth quarter rapid fire.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 8: We're back, Chris, Chris Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris stepped in
Speaker 8: it this time, my friends, onto the hot seat. You know,
Speaker 8: rapid fire hot seats. There is both fire and hot seats.
Speaker 2: Yep, I know and look this and you already know.
Speaker 1: This is the fastest segment in sports podcasting history.
Speaker 2: So yeah, just answer, Yeah, that just happened.
Speaker 1: I hope you can handle that and say cool stuff
Speaker 1: like that, cool stuff, slick stuff stuff.
Speaker 2: If you want to kick us off, let's kick us off.
Speaker 2: Is a rapi fire round of questioning.
Speaker 6: Bryan start the clock, damp.
Speaker 1: Chris Barnett, give us your hottest take of the NBA season,
Speaker 1: not like a traditional hot take. Say something completely reckless
Speaker 1: and out of balance right now that you there's even
Speaker 1: a chance that it could happen.
Speaker 2: I'm taking a hip real quick.
Speaker 6: Uhlet needs to go ahead and trade Donovan Mitchell. It's over?
Speaker 6: What Yeah, it's it's over?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow Cleveland.
Speaker 6: If Cleveland can't learn to play through Evan Mobley and
Speaker 6: the high post consistently this year like they're just they
Speaker 6: just don't have it, they're gonna end up relying and
Speaker 6: be isoled out by Donnovan Mitchell on the right wing
Speaker 6: with the swing reversal to Darius Garland, who's gonna run
Speaker 6: into the teeth of the defense. And then they're just
Speaker 6: gonna go ahead and hamper in and say, if Max
Speaker 6: Drews can go seven for fourteen and George d a
Speaker 6: can go four for eight, you're gonna beat us. But
Speaker 6: it's it's done in Cleveland. If they can't figure out
Speaker 6: how to get Evan Mobley to be a better facilitated,
Speaker 6: more consistently.
Speaker 2: All right, time, that's hot.
Speaker 5: Okay, you have the opportunity to watch a movie with
Speaker 5: either Anthony Moreau, Jalen Brunson, Robert Covington, or Danny Green.
Speaker 5: They're choosing the movie. I have combed NBA film tweets
Speaker 5: for some film recommendations. Who are you choosing to watch
Speaker 5: a movie with?
Speaker 6: Whoever doesn't watch Batman?
Speaker 5: Okay, well none of them are picking Batman, so okay,
Speaker 5: so we're good there.
Speaker 2: None of them picked Backman.
Speaker 6: Would I would probably go with Anthony Morrow.
Speaker 5: Anthony Morrow, All.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, what are we watching?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: Anthony Anthony morreu has been on here as an option
Speaker 5: for the past two weeks. He I think of this
Speaker 5: group has the best taste of movies. You have chosen correctly.
Speaker 5: Anthony Moreau watching A League of their Own one of
Speaker 5: my favorite movies ever Bang from Way Downtown. Wow, not expected,
Speaker 5: but like, yeah, A League of their Own is a
Speaker 5: great sports movie that I appreciate. Yeah, I appreciate his.
Speaker 2: Willingness to be like, yeah, that's that's great. That's a
Speaker 2: very millennial. That's a good, solid millennial pick with.
Speaker 6: Millennial out the Batman comment, Yeah you don't want to
Speaker 6: go there, I promise you.
Speaker 1: Man at Lead of their Own I always love that
Speaker 1: line from John Love. It's where she won't get on
Speaker 1: the train and.
Speaker 2: He's like, the way it works is the train moves,
Speaker 2: not the station. I remember as a kid being like, yo,
Speaker 2: he got cooked right there by John Love.
Speaker 5: It's I love it in it God bought up ba
Speaker 5: ba ba Love.
Speaker 1: I even came up with the jingle before pusha T
Speaker 1: did because that was that's how early that.
Speaker 2: Was, Like, bop, I'm loving it. Can someone write that down?
Speaker 2: It's nineteen ninety three?
Speaker 5: All right, wait you hate Batman though?
Speaker 6: Oh? Overrated without question?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, just the entire like the we're talking about
Speaker 1: the Chris.
Speaker 6: Nolan rebooted ones, all of it.
Speaker 2: All the way back to with from Tim Burton the og.
Speaker 6: Yes, like if you if you really think about it,
Speaker 6: like Batman is just nothing but the manifestation of each
Speaker 6: ind Jules like maladies in life. Right, they take what
Speaker 6: was wrong and they're like, oh, we're gonna make this
Speaker 6: like a positive trait like the original Fatman was a
Speaker 6: dancing guy in tights. Like what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Next one, Chris, you can go back in time and
Speaker 1: you can either bring three one Reggie Miller or Jermaine
Speaker 1: O'Neill to make a run with this current squad.
Speaker 2: Which one are you choosing to take that ride with
Speaker 2: the Indiana Pacers?
Speaker 6: Oh, Regie without a doubt?
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, now it's it's well, what is it about Reggie.
Speaker 6: Bond the competition that he has, Like he would have
Speaker 6: made he would make everybody on this Pacers team a
Speaker 6: better player in practice, right, Like he couldn't he couldn't
Speaker 6: summit the hip of Michael Jordan's go find me the
Speaker 6: people who did, because like I still I'm still looking.
Speaker 6: But he was one of the only dudes who Mike
Speaker 6: understood like every game, every game, he's gonna give it,
Speaker 6: and and like he respected that, and I don't think
Speaker 6: necessarily that we have that same mentality. Uh in the league,
Speaker 6: you know widespread there are some players who get it right,
Speaker 6: but then there are some players who don't. And they're
Speaker 6: infantly talented, but they could get it with the vet
Speaker 6: you know, white Reggie Miller, I still have O'Neil though,
Speaker 6: shout out to Jail.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how many threes did Reggie attempt per game in
Speaker 5: his career?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 6: Not as many? Not as many as people think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like he was yeah, completely different era. I feel
Speaker 5: like his scoring goes way up if he is in
Speaker 5: the modern era. He averaged Guess how many threes per
Speaker 5: game he averaged in his career?
Speaker 6: Say what made or took? Because I probably say he
Speaker 6: only made two because he only probably took maybe five
Speaker 6: and a half at the most per game.
Speaker 2: He was a three point shooter. That's wild.
Speaker 5: Like he would have been an unbelievably like better player
Speaker 5: in the modern Remember who only took like five a game?
Speaker 2: That's wild all right? At the time.
Speaker 5: A great pick. Best player you've ever witnessed in person?
Speaker 6: Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Okay, now what is he?
Speaker 5: The person you feel like you have to see in
Speaker 5: person to fully appreciate the most.
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, like because like especially now as he's older,
Speaker 6: you see a lot of him, you know, manning up
Speaker 6: high and he just goes downhill. Now he doesn't have
Speaker 6: necessarily the same type of drive to be in the
Speaker 6: mid range like thirty two year old Lebron, who just
Speaker 6: realized he had his total game. That was something to watch.
Speaker 6: You literally couldn't stop. Like he would bully you and
Speaker 6: dunk on you. He would post on you and dunk
Speaker 6: on you. He would post on you and fade away.
Speaker 6: He would run from half court you know and dunky
Speaker 6: in less than two seconds, it seemed like, and you
Speaker 6: just couldn't stop them. That that that Miami heat. Lebron
Speaker 6: was just something else. Number two Kobe Bryant, uh, Number
Speaker 6: three Alan Iverson, Yeah, like you just you just you
Speaker 6: just never knew how fast he was. I saw him
Speaker 6: at the Running Shoot and at Capitol Heights in d C.
Speaker 6: And he played in Thames and he was racking people
Speaker 6: in times like literally he was wearing man jean, you know,
Speaker 6: sagging down. Yeah. Of course he took off the puffy
Speaker 6: vest because it was like November, so like it's just
Speaker 6: a puffy vest and he was out there ball. It's
Speaker 6: like eleven thirty at night. If you know DC the
Speaker 6: running shoot, I was a twenty four hour gym, just unbelievable,
Speaker 6: Like and he was crossing people going slow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's gonna say he's like you would because remember
Speaker 1: what we saying, like when we were joking about like
Speaker 1: if we could do a rule change in the NBA,
Speaker 1: it would be like, yo, at any point, you can
Speaker 1: make the other team have to wear tims.
Speaker 5: One quarter one player has to wear tims.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just to kind of.
Speaker 6: Slow down the man rough on the ankles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which NBA player most appropriate signing for the timberlind
Speaker 5: first signing Stewart?
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, Isaiah Stewart is the correct answer, that is
Speaker 6: you are looking for. There you go, the dude who
Speaker 6: took eight dudes to stop him from going after Lebron.
Speaker 1: Like I think Isiah Stewart actually wearing blackout black on
Speaker 1: black air forces were gonna be real?
Speaker 2: Probably that's like, you know, it's more of a goon shoe.
Speaker 1: You know, you're like, oh, no, no, no, not him. Yeah, ye,
Speaker 1: steer clear of him. Okay, Chase, you can take two
Speaker 1: players from all NBA history to create your mad Boosti's
Speaker 1: edition NBA Jam Team.
Speaker 2: Who are the two players you're taking to make it unstoppable?
Speaker 6: Oscar Robinson jabbar Uh. If Green wasn't available, it'd be
Speaker 6: Oscar Robertson and Will Chamberlain. And I say it when
Speaker 6: we have this discussion of like greatest players of all time,
Speaker 6: we don't really ever add Wilt Chamberlain. But like here's
Speaker 6: the story. Top fifty NBA announcement is there, like everybody's there,
Speaker 6: they're gathered, they're in this back room. Two people are arguing.
Speaker 6: The league is trying to get everybody mustled up to
Speaker 6: go through this processon because they're about to go out,
Speaker 6: and there's still two people arguing. It's Michael Jordans Will Chamberlain.
Speaker 6: Michael Jordan's like, I got these rings, I did this right.
Speaker 6: Will never he'd never let you get the last word.
Speaker 6: So they get up and they're walking out, and he said,
Speaker 6: but they changed the rule book for me oo and
Speaker 6: then walked out and now he had no he didn't
Speaker 6: have he didn't have a reply. Yeah, So so like yeah,
Speaker 6: it would probably be him, but like we don't really
Speaker 6: give him enough credit. But I'd add Kareem because they
Speaker 6: were teammates, so the synergy's already there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I also changed the book for him in college.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, in college, and I think they actually added
Speaker 6: like a couple of rules in the pros as well.
Speaker 5: All Right, finally, most important question, Jack or Miles.
Speaker 6: That's an interesting question because when you listen to the podcast,
Speaker 6: the Best NBA Podcast, not just in, you can't listen
Speaker 6: to it without both of you, So it's hard. I
Speaker 6: will say this, there's somebody who's funnier. There is somebody
Speaker 6: who's funnier. Oh, but I'll tell you in the next
Speaker 6: episode that I'm.
Speaker 1: What, wow, wow, guarantee a return to the show.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 2: That's how you guarantee her a season renewal.
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna say, Jack, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get my funny up. Though, I'm gonna get my funny up.
Speaker 1: You'll see, you'll see, and then they're gonna go back.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, and I took that personally, I'm
Speaker 1: just like stepping all over Jack's words. The next episode,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, what about this joke?
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on.
Speaker 5: Trying to predict what I'm about to say, actually.
Speaker 2: Not funny because this is actually the funnier version.
Speaker 1: But let me say that, Chris tooth or wow, I
Speaker 1: could be legend, absolute legend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you doing it. Yeah, we appreciate you. Where
Speaker 2: can people? And after you? After you the funnier one.
Speaker 5: Chris, where can people?
Speaker 2: You've taken that as so I took that as disrespect.
Speaker 6: Chris, where I could see it?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's gonna show up at your house?
Speaker 1: Just mad anger sweat right now.
Speaker 2: You don't even know I'm hot right now? This great
Speaker 2: T shirt has big black sweat stains all over. Go on,
Speaker 2: go on, you're saying that, Chris, where can people find?
Speaker 2: Follow you?
Speaker 6: So you can find me? Whose faces on all socials?
Speaker 6: Obviously nine am on X spaces now because they changed
Speaker 6: it from Twitter to X.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But this season I partnered with playback TV. It's a
Speaker 6: phenomenal app that you're able to actually host a watch parties,
Speaker 6: watching live games, to do film breakdown. I actually do
Speaker 6: the morning shows called the Daily Playback. It's on at
Speaker 6: ten am. You download playback for free. You hop in
Speaker 6: you get rotating content creators that will be adding some
Speaker 6: you know, journalists out there to go ahead and break
Speaker 6: down and get like that. One on one fan to
Speaker 6: content creator and journalists. You know, engagement every day Monday
Speaker 6: through Friday, ten am on Watch Playback.
Speaker 2: Let them know people tune in checking out.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: You can also follow the show on hashtag mat Boosty's
Speaker 1: on Twitter, or you can give us a follow on Tweter.
Speaker 2: You can find me at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 5: I'm at Jack Underscore. O'Brien, we were not taking Boosti's
Speaker 5: on Twitter, but you can just like find things hashtag.
Speaker 5: You know how Twitter works work. Come on, guys, you
Speaker 5: understand this. You know this. Why Why am I having
Speaker 5: to explain it?
Speaker 1: Why are us the elders trying to educate the youth
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: You already know hashtag m A D B W O
Speaker 2: S T I E s uh. And that's going to
Speaker 2: do it for us this week. All right. I'll be
Speaker 2: back next week with sweet sweet memories of NBA play
Speaker 2: all right, Bye bye