WEBVTT - Ranking All 5 NBA Christmas Day Games 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:11.120 Good mornings, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:16.120 Podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Friday, December twenty sixth, twenty 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.360 twenty five. Happy Boxing Day to all the boxes out there, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.720 the moving boxes, the shoe boxes, the whole lot of you. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.440 I'm Jay Skeetz here in the yard and in the 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.840 background helping me out thanks to the power of technology. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.280 It is Eshua Kid. But this guy, he's got so 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.680 many kids. It's a madhouse over there, as you can imagine, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:39.600 as I'm sure a lot of you with kids. The 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.320 day after Christmas, there's a whole lot of new toys 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.360 being played with. So he's gonna lay low and push 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.599 the buttons and we'll make this work because I am 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.880 here to recap all five of the Christmas Day games. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:56.920 Not bad, some incredible games, some duds. Will actually rank 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:01.280 all five games from most entertaining to least entertaining. But hey, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.440 because it's Solo Skeets, Santas Skeets, whatever you want to 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.160 call me today, hit the like button, subscribe, comment away 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.560 in the stream team on YouTube podcast listeners, five star 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:15.119 ratings and reviews do it for me. I will note too, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.679 before we get into the games. We did have a 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.480 trio of wedgies on Tuesday Night. We're gonna wait to 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.240 show you those next week. We'll show you on Monday 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.360 Show as long as I don't forget to put them 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.480 in the dock for Monday's podcast. When task we'll be 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.240 back and Esh will be there in the Classic Factory 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:39.679 with myself. But we have thirteen hours plus of hoops 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.240 on Christmas Day to talk about. I had a blast. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.880 I watched a whole lot of it. I'll admit I 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.640 fell asleep somewhere in the first second quarter of the 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:57.080 last game. Watch that classic this morning, and that'll be 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.960 the one we start with. Because Yo, kicch not bad. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.680 Not a bad Christmas Day for this guy. Jokic recorded 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.919 a fifty six point triple double. He set an NBA 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.080 record with eighteen points in overtime. He led the Denver 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.440 Nuggets to a wild one two, one thirty eight win 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.519 over the Timberwolves to cap that busy Christmas Day slate. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.200 When I was coming up with how I was going 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:23.919 to tackle today show, I was like, Okay, I'll rank 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.360 them in order most entertaining the least entertaining. An incredibly 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.800 original idea, and I was like, there's no way that 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.160 Nicks Cavs is not going to be the number one game. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.320 That was awesome. What a way to start the day. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.480 And then obviously the Spurs having the Thunders number ones again, 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.440 I was like, oh, that might be, that might be 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.440 one at least two. And then here comes Jokic and 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:49.680 the Nuggets down three starters doing this because of injury, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.840 and take another victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves. So Yokic 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.920 did a whole bunch of first last night, first fifty 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.600 five fifteen to fifteen game NBA history. We'll get to 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.799 wo boy, we have a sponsor. That was an obvious 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.600 woe boy. There he broke his own record. Jokic did 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.880 for the highest scoring triple double in NBA Christmas history. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.519 Only two other players Bernard King in nineteen eighty four 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.320 Wilt Chamberlain in nineteen sixty one, have ever scored more 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.680 points on Christmas. You might remember last week I was 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.840 hoping as we were getting ready, wait, not last week, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.399 earlier this week, Oh man, I'm all out of whack. Here. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.480 We were doing our Christmas wish list and I was like, 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.440 I want somebody to go for fifty. I thought it 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.840 might be Brunson. In the end, it's Yokich and then Jokic. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.640 Like I said there in the intro, he broke Steph 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:45.880 Curry's record of seventeen overtime points from twenty sixteen. This 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.400 guy scored eighteen points in overtime, making that the highest 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.160 by any player in a regular season game, NBA playoff game, hell, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.400 NBA Cup game, if you want so. Just incredible, just 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.040 like those threes in the overtime period. Obviously got a 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.200 lot of free throws. There was some intentional felling at 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.480 the end, so he was racking them up at the line, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.720 but next to unstoppable, especially when Rudy Gobert is not 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.040 on the floor. Good luck, And I just love and 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.240 I think I saw CBS Sports sort of tackle it 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.120 this way, or maybe it was the Athletics, so excuse me, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.120 but I love that the Christmas Day games like they 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.560 showcased sort of the past, present and future of NBA greats. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.960 Right the past, we had the old Guard, we had 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.320 Steph Curry playing, we had Lebron, we had Kevin Durant. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.800 The present. Your shake guilt is Alexander, your Anthony Edwards, 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.679 You're Jalen Brunson, maybe your Luca, and then the future 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.200 is like your Cooper Flags, your Webbin Yama's i'm in 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.200 Thompson maybe, But from all of those guys, the past, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.440 the president, the future, Jokic remains the best is the 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.839 best period. Like this is going to sound stupid, but 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.560 it felt like he won MVP on Christmas yesterday, like 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.960 his fourth Shay I v for Shay in the first 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.839 drop hoole. This was before obviously racking up some losses 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.440 to the Spurs. But come on, who am I kidding myself? 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.880 I did that knowing full well. It's like, well, yo, Kich, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.359 just gonna win another one of these unbelievable game. Kudos 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:17.720 to Anto for fighting through that early shoulder injury. He 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.359 came alive in the fourth quarter. He scored thirteen points, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:25.600 hit the ridiculous turnaround three pointer in the corner over 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.279 Jamal Murray with like one point one seconds remaining in 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.480 regulation that forced overtime. Then he was on fire in overtime, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.320 got the Wolves the nine point lead. I mean, how 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.240 many times do we see a team that's down nine 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.719 in the extra frame come back to win. That can't 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.400 have happened often, So Ant was awesome. I love that 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.200 Aunt called a shot too, like I'm gonna go for 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.719 thirty and maybe forty here on Christmas Day. He backed 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.440 that up. But then his night ended with that second 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:00.680 technical foul in overtime prompted the ejection. Look what he 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.640 did there to warrant it, like obviously slapping or trying 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.560 to slow down Yokic, who wisely knew. I think that 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.679 Aunt was going to try and do that after the dunk, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.080 trying to get the ball in quick, and then he really, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.200 you know, like oh, demonstrably showed that he got hit. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.480 It's the right call, but it's just a bummer that 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.919 Scott Foster had to like decide I'm the superstar here everybody. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.120 But it all added up, it was a cumulative and 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.080 he was gone. There was frustration from Ant I think, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.080 especially in that overtime period. There was a couple of plays. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.799 There was that one late call, like very late whistle 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.640 where Scott Foster was on the other end of the 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.880 floor and it looked like they maybe had created a 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.760 turnover from Yokich. The one up time it was like 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.360 a round half court who's sort of fumbling and stumbling 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.440 and maybe there was contact, but like again, the whistle 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.920 came late, and that like sort of led or was 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.320 a part of Ant's frustration. But man, what a game? 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.440 What away again? Christmas Day? Slate started it with a banger, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:59.240 ended it with a classic. And the Nuggets again have 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.679 the Wolves number like the Spurs have the Thunders number 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.119 this year, at least, the Nuggets have the Wolve's number 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.599 going three and zero. My only concern here with the 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.000 Wolves because that was the hell of a fight. They 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.880 probably should have put the game away in regulation. They 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.840 should have had this victory. But another one of these 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.800 games where they got very little from the bench. I'm 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.840 looking at the box score. Nazri thirteen. Okay, that's a 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.400 usually you can put that in pen. But everybody else 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.000 he's just like Finches, like he's sort of giving up 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.960 on a lot of the young guys. Doesn't have a 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.040 lot of faith in them. I mean bones Hyland. Okay, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.080 he needs to learn how to miss a free throw 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.880 on purpose. Did you see that, dude? You gotta hit 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.360 the rim man. He wasn't even close, But you're just 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.040 like you're not obviously, Rob Dillingham, he's buried. Karen Shannon 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.480 Junior ten minutes he did nothing. Jaleen Clark limited minutes, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.440 Conlee or o G guy not the young guy, but 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.760 he barely plays. They need a bench, they need a 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.880 bench man. A little concern because you're losing to a 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.000 team with the Nuggets, like I said, missing three starters, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.080 and they seem to show more depth than you did. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.160 Don't love that, but holy crap to have four guys 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.880 go for thirty plus, in Ant going for forty plus, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.680 Julius Raynold going for thirty plus, Jamal Murray he was 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.040 hitting out huge three in overtime and he finished with 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.520 thirty five. And then Yokich with a fifty six point 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:25.800 triple double bang. What a game. What a game? Even 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.480 if I had to watch it this morning, it was 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.000 still good. Even if I knew the actual result, which 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.120 I did, still amazing. So that one was weird knowing 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.080 the result, knowing Yokich's stat line and like seeing how 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.720 many points he had, like in the fourth corner, like, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.760 what the hell, How the hell does he get to 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.640 fifty six? What's going on here? It didn't. It was 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.480 like the math was not mathing for me. It's like 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.000 that seems impossible. Maybe it's an error by the associated 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.000 press that he had fifty six point trible double. No 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.200 he got there, so great game and the yo kitch, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.200 excuse me. The Nuggets, you know they're on the short 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:05.559 for championship contenders. We had one probably add their name 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.720 to the list in the San Antonio Spurs if they 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.440 weren't already on your list. But the Nuggets remain there, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.600 especially with You'll kiit ching Jamal Murray at the end 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.600 of game situations. Still the most unstoppable duo in the 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.480 clutch in my opinion, I don't know what you do 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.440 with those guys. All right, next game. The second most 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.680 entertaining game of the day was what I thought was 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.920 going to be the best, and that was Jalen Brunson 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.680 scoring thirty four points, the Knicks bench leading the way 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.360 as New York came from seventeen down in the fourth 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.520 quarter to beat the Cavaliers one twenty six, one four. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.679 Such a great game, so much fun. Again, that's how 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.920 you start five days on Christmas is five games too many? Probably, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.680 Now that's coming from someone that's trying to watch them all. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.559 I'd love to pull the average person out there. How 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.920 many minutes of NBA basketball are you actually watching? On Christmas. 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.320 You know, are you watching just one game? Maybe two? 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.800 Can't imagine the percentages high for sikos like us. A 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.800 lot of you in the stream team trying to take 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:11.000 down all of them, most of them. It's a lot five, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.680 maybe three, let's go to three. I wouldn't mind. Here's 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.640 the thing. I wouldn't mind a gap between the games. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.480 Give me a twelve o'clock, give me a five o'clock, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.920 give me a ten thirty. I don't even want a 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.199 ten thirty. But I understand for the West Coast, right, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.720 that's not late for them. So I think we do 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.800 that because that'd be good. That'd be good. Maybe I'm 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.880 saying that because two of these were duds. But back 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.600 to the Knicks. I wrote first thing in my notes 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.320 from this game. Jalen Brunson and Donovan Mitchell are the 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.000 definition of big game players. Both those guys feels like 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.559 they show up in big games, you know, Christmas Day 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.960 being a marquee game, and they both were fantastic. But 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.800 the reserves is what won the game for the Knicks. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.280 Got the comeback. Jordan Clarkson in the custom red SHADESE 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.520 there he was great, right, he had that stretch where 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.840 he just splashed a bunch of three pointers. He got 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.920 the Knicks sort of going Tyler Klick. He had the 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:12.160 garden fricking rocking sixteen points, nine assists. Maybe this guy 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.440 is Steve Nash. Maybe I was wrong. He had the 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.240 fans channing his name. After that late block on Donovan 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.160 Mitchell originally called a foul, They reviewed it and correctly 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.120 overturned it. I think it was in part because maybe 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.199 Mitchell was trying to put on a show in MSG. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.320 There was gonna get a little windmill action going. Could 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.000 have just probably laid it up with his left hand 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.400 and those are two points. But goes to put down 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.760 the big dunk and Colick slapped it out perfectly. I 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.120 think that was enough ball or all ball, and they 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.600 got that one right on the overturn. But man Clarkson 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.720 and Colick I called him a law firm. They had 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.800 MSG gole win nuts. But none of it happens without 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:54.480 Mitchell Robinson, who did his thing again, hustling for offensive rebounds, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.520 keeping possessions alive. It felt like at times the Knicks 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.800 offensive game plan is shoot the ball, miss the ball, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.280 Mitchell Robinson offensive rebound, kick it out for a score 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.679 because Mitchell Robinson's impact was unreal in this game. He 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.800 entered with like seven forty three left in the fourth quarter, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.640 Knicks her down by thirteen, and by the four to 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.640 nine mark, so three and a half minutes, let's call it. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.760 New York is down by one. And what happened basically 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:32.320 what I just said, shoot miss Mitchell Robinson offensive rebound 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.160 leading to a Knicks basket. I think he had five 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.920 offensive rebounds in that little three minute window stretch to 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.960 get the Knicks right back in the game. And they're 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.640 not even competing in this one without him. It's amazing. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.679 This guy has just one incredible skill and it's won 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.760 New York so many games, it feels like this year 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.600 and the more I look at Mitchell Robinson, I'm like, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.760 is this guy can just remain healthy? Becaus always a 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.839 question mark with them. They obviously use them in limited 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.240 and it's now it's working perfectly. Mike Brown pressing all 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.280 the right buttons there, Like, can Mitchell Robinson decide whether 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.199 or not the Knicks actually win a championship? I think 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.160 they're that close talent wise, and these other guys contributing that, 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.640 he's like the thing that pushes them over the edge 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.520 to maybe at least get there to the finals. So 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.040 those guys were awesome all through. Of those guys, like 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.080 I said, Clarkson Colek and Mitchell Robinson and then Jalen 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.120 Brunson was special too. It wasn't the fifty I wanted, 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.760 but he gave me thirty four. I love when he 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.360 just goes to his little baseline spot, that little pull 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.400 up baseline jumper, that's his go to move. Try and 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.199 take that away. He was hitting threes and a really 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.040 fun game, so fun. Evan Mobley back that was out 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.360 of nowhere for me. For the Calves, he had fourteen 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.839 and nine after he missed just five games with that 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.880 strained left calf. We thought it was going to be 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.800 much longer, I think, I said on the show, will 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.319 even see this guy until twenty twenty six. No, he's 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.640 back for Christmas and look okay for a guy coming 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.160 back from injury. More than anything, the Kazum been playing 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.120 better recently. The threes had been falling. They obviously had 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.200 a solid lead in this one. They should have won 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.360 this game, just like the Wolves over Denver, and they're 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.320 probably feeling not too bad, you know. They want this victory. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.520 But they showed they can hang. They showed they've maybe 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.000 got things going. Garland looking better. I don't love Jared 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:27.200 Allen getting absolutely bullied by Mitchell Robson. Again, that's a 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.520 recurring theme. Remember obviously the postseason matchup between these two 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.080 teams a couple of years ago. He got cooked. The 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.280 lights were too bright, the Christmas lights were too bright. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.560 I guess yesterday for him, he just gets thrown around 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.400 by Mitchell Romson. Not great, not great. That's the one 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.760 guy they should look to trade if they are making moves. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.720 But they're getting their guys in their squad back. So 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.040 Kas are looking a little bit more like the Kas 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.160 we anticipated coming into the season. Few other random notes 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.200 from this game, and this is in general about the 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:01.640 ESPN production yesterday. Give me some Christmas flare, Like, what 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.680 the hell? Why is the score bug vanilla? Like it 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.960 is so boring? Yeah, it says NBA Christmas. I guess 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.960 it changes to like Seasons of Giving or whatever. Give 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:19.360 me something, guys, A little snowflake, a little light, Christmas 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:24.400 lights like a wreath, like colors like nothing like the 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.240 only thing you would have known that it was Christmas 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.920 yesterday from the production and the teams and the jerseys. Like, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.480 what the snowflake on the back of the jersey. Okay, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.600 that's cool. Let's put those in tops cards and you know, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.560 sell boxes for an insane price that even no kid 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.200 could possibly buy it. Okay, that's fine. I like the snowflake. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.480 And then there's like I think on the stanchion the 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.280 NBA logo, there's like Christmas lights and maybe some like 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.800 light snowflakes. Like that's it. Ah, come on, I need 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.680 a little bit more, a little bit more. I know 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.200 you don't want to put lights on the stanchion or 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.520 the backboard because you're worried they're gonna break. That's fine, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.040 But something with the production ESPN. I guess ESPN hadn't 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.800 done it game in like a month. Maybe they forgot. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:09.800 They were like, oh crap, we're up on Christmas. We 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.760 did have a Ernie Jack Kenny Chuck had them all day. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.360 I watched a little bit of it. I mean I 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.080 was slick with it yesterday. I was doing a lot 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.240 of like bank in time, I'm not sitting here for 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.000 thirteen plus hours. I got a bank a game and 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.840 then be able to fly through free throws fly through 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:31.480 commercial breaks, fly through halftimes, but Shack did run through 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.920 the big screen. That was their big bit of the 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.560 day that they then replayed a million times. And okay, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.360 that was funny because they're usually doing Shack gets body 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.960 checked into the Christmas tree and they set it up 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.280 where you couldn't really tell it was that one part 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.080 of the screen was fake. So well played is my point. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.560 But yeah, back to the production, come on, just lame, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.160 just lame. Now. It's unfortunately I can't talk to Esh here, 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.320 but I watched a little bit of Dunk the Halls, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.359 the alternate casts with all the cartoon characters and the 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.040 animations and all that. Apparently that had a rough go 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.480 of it too. There were some technical difficulties. I saw 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.600 a clip where a gingerbread ref was suddenly playing. I 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.320 saw like a Calves guy scoring the Calves guy was 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.280 It was off the rails at times. But the highlights 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:24.920 are worth checking out just any time, like Mickey Mouse 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.960 going down the lane throwing down a dunk, or Minie 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:31.880 Mouse or goofy as Cat. It's pretty funny. But yeah, 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.480 I guess even they were struggling. And then those obnoxious 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:40.280 Marty Supreme Digital ads on the court. Oh, guys, change 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.600 the color, make it blend in more with the floor. 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.680 I know they're digital ads. I know there are other 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.240 ones booking dot com. Okay, yeah, sure, you gotta do 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.960 a better job. They look brutal. But the Marty Supreme. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.439 Maybe it is the color or whatever. Although the orange 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.320 should work well in Madison Square Garden, it was too bright. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.680 It was too obnoxious what I wrote down. So those 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:07.480 are my production notes. Moving on to our third most 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.920 entertaining game of the day. That's saying something. That's how 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:14.400 good Christmas was, You could suck it NFL. It is 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.439 Darren Fox scoring twenty nine points as the Spurs defeated 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.320 the Thunder one seventeen one oh two for their third 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:26.200 win over the defending NBA champs in the past two weeks, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.520 less than two weeks. Incredible. The Spurs defeated the Thunder 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:35.639 in the NBA Cup semifinal game on December thirteenth. I wondered, 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.959 on No dunks, did the Spurs just save the regular 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.040 season for everybody by beating them there, showing that the 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.560 Thunder were vulnerable. Then they followed it up on Tuesday 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.400 this week. Yeah, that was this week where they beat 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.960 them in San Antonio, really solid win. Okay, back to 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.400 back situation for Okace, but great win. And then they 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.800 did it again on Christmas. And this was pretty damn impressive. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.080 And I tweeted last night I am loving how the 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:10.760 Spurs are seemingly the Thunder's kryptonite. People are wondering, is 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.959 Victor webbergnon Alex Luthor. I'll let you decide that I 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.840 don't know Superman well enough to speak on that. Sure, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.040 sure we'll lask JD when he's back from Mexico. But 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.040 the Spurs took a double digit lead with four and 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.600 a half minutes left in the second quarter, and the 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.240 Thunder never got closer than seven points the rest of 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:34.119 the way. A team that is notorious for their little 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.800 avalanche runs right where they just the turnovers lead to 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.280 easy fast break points and before you know it, oh damn, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.120 that's an eight oh run because they added a three 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.119 in there and maybe an an one and they turned 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.280 you over and they're suddenly, you know, on that eight 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.280 h nine H ten O run but never really happened. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.080 And that's impressive stuff from the Spurs here. Man. So 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.560 the Thunder, after opening their season with twenty four wins, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.240 and their first twenty five games have now lost four 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.320 to six, including three he defeats to the Spurs, And 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.879 oh my god, am I here for it. I really 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.680 believe they've saved the regular season. I truly believe that 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.119 because now there's like they saved the season period, because 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:16.080 now there is doubt of obviously OKAC just storming through 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.879 the league and repeating because they're maybe gonna have to 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.560 go through San Antonio, who have their number, and it 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.359 just like gives it a little more intrigue. They'll play. 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.480 They'll play twice more, right because they played in the 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.560 NBA Cup semifinals. I don't think they play again for 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.000 a couple of weeks January thirteenth. I think they meet 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:35.960 in okay See. But they have two more on the docket, 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.040 and it's like what they just did playing in short 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.520 amount of time, it's sort of replicates a little bit 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.159 of a playoff series with the quicker turnaround or at 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.320 least seeing each other again. So that's really fun. San 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.639 Antonio shot really well on Christmas fifty four percent from 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.439 the field. The thunder did not thirty nine percent. The 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.000 game plan is pretty simple here against Okac at least 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.120 from the Spurs side of things. When Wemby is out there, 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.720 let him roam, let him hold down the paint, let 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.080 him get in everybody's heads. He can just cover so 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.359 much court and he can just leave Alex Caruso and 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.879 see if Alex Caruso can beat you. And he couldn't. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.040 On Christmas, they were generating their clean looks from the 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.080 corners and nobody could hit them, specially Caruso. I think 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.879 he missed his first nine. In fact, he missed his 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.120 first nine. It was eight or nine. And then there 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:31.880 was a play where maybe Shay got fouled, and if 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.879 you noticed it, Caruso grabbed the ball like right away 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:39.480 and started like doing like super quick little layups to 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.199 see the ball go through the rim, to try and 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.000 like sneak in a little layup practice to get going 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.560 a little bit. And I made note of it because 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:50.600 I was like, hmm, could be a short there if 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:52.640 he hits his next one and suddenly like breaks free 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:54.960 in this game. But he missed, he missed, so he 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:56.560 must have been like, oh for seven, oh for eight 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.840 at that point. He missed again. He had a couple 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.640 as the game went on, but they just Caruso could 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:07.240 not make the Spurs pay for leaving when min Yama 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.640