WEBVTT - NBA Opening Night Takeaways, Babysitting Ben Simmons & Issues With NBA 75 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:06.800 Here comes the boy. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:08.640 Boy. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.040 Welcome here he comes. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:17.520 Say welcome there there. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:29.880 Good mornings we were, and welcome to the Noduks podcast 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.160 on the Athletic Network. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:36.040 It's Wednesday, October twentieth. J skeets alongside me as always 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:37.200 there he is tas Melis. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.239 At the NBA season Everybody. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.920 Hey, Tasy, We've got a top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Hey, hey, 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.640 the international man of mystery taking it to the max 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:53.040 Leyellis friend and last, but not least, making the magic happen. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.000 It's JD. Hello, there he is, and here we are. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.160 Where the hell are you? JD? You in Nashville? 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:03.040 Hey, yeah, I'm in Nashville at my little getaway, my 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:08.400 second my second studio, you know, living large, enjoying the 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:09.200 fireplace here. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:15.119 Oh excellent. Shout out to the stream team for joining 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.680 us live right now on YouTube. Make sure you take 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.400 a second to subscribe and like and comment and share 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.959 the show. Your boys here are trying to get to 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:29.880 fifty thousand subs by Halloween. That's in eleven days, so 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.080 we got some work to do. I think we're about 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.000 seven k away. We're nearing forty three thousand. Last I checked, Ray. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.440 Said, come on, October is full of magic. Now that 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:39.399 would be magical. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.600 We got fifty K by Halloween. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:42.760 You're right, we can do it. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.520 We can do it really special, all right, we can 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.680 do it. I believe in us. On today's show, we 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.240 got so much to talk about. Obviously, the season has started. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.440 We'll get to the games, but we also have the 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:59.400 latest indie Ben Simmons drama. Wow, things popped off yesterday's show. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.480 I'll get into Marvin Bagley's agent all about the Kings. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.520 That was something that happened. It was actually started yesterday 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.560 and last night. We also had the first twenty five 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:14.040 members of the NBA's seventy fifth anniversary team announced. I've 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.000 got some problems, some issues with how they're doing this, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.600 but we'll get to that later in the show. We 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.080 start with a little game recap task. You can get 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.480 us going here. The Bucks begin their title defense with 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.920 the one twenty seven one oh four victory over the 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.880 Brooklyn Nets. I know we'll talk about the Rings a 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.080 little bit later, but for the game, you know, pretty 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.600 dominant performance there from Milwaukee. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.520 I thought, fantastic stuff from the Bucks to come out 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:41.240 like that. The Nets, they've got a major Yanni Stetokumpo problem. Now, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.160 you might say, of course everybody does. Twenty nine teams 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.720 have a Yannis problem. But it's not just Yanni's being 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.359 able to score, it's being able to get his second 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.120 shot opportunities. It's almost shack like. The Nets don't really 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.919 have a body to stop him. They tried with Blake Griffin, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.959 Yanni's just plowing through him. They tried with James Johnson 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.320 and the MMA fighter wasn't able to body Yanni's. That's 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.760 the reason why they brought him in. But Yany's just 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.519 pushed him under the rim. It's the ability for Yanni's 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.440 and the rest of the Bucks to get on the 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:15.280 boards against the Brooklyn Nets. They just don't have the 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.680 size to deal with the Bucks. The Bucks shot twenty 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.600 more times. How do you win when you do that? 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:20.840 Now? 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.200 I think I think the Brooklyn Nets, if they play 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.360 anybody else other than Yannis, they probably win. It's just 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.440 that this one issue with this one team, and that's 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.560 the reason why they won the title. The Bucks repeated 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.800 what they did against the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Finals. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.760 They got more shots than the Suns because not only 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.960 are they able to grab offensive rebounds, but they don't 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.960 lose defensive rebounds. They secure every defensive boards. They took 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.760 twenty more shots, a little of that turnovers, mostly rebounds, 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.160 And I think part of it is the Nets continuity 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.360 from last year. Their bottom five in terms of returning minutes, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.480 which is kind of surprising when you think about it. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.720 Their big three is back, They've got you know, Blake 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.200 gets back, LaMarcus Aldridge's back, but a lot of the 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.200 guys who played a lot of minutes aren't. And their 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.800 bottom five according to NBA dot com and John Schuman 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.120 got to mention where I got that stat don't want 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.160 John Schuman mad at me after Day one of the 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.320 NBA season. So a lot of returning parts. And Nick 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.840 Claxton is one of them. He was on the roster 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.880 last year, but he didn't play. He was a starter yesterday. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.120 He started one game last year. And although he is 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.400 a talented center taking the spot of DeAndre Jordan Marcus Aldrich, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.640 he's thin and he just wasn't getting after it on 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.200 the boards. So they got pushed around. Frankly is what happened. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.000 The Nets have to figure out their rotations. They're big, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.840 so I don't know if Marcus Aldridge starts, I know 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.279 he looks slow, but he's a bigger body. And if 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.240 you're going to try and just go around the Marcus Aldrich, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.160 I think that may take away from what Ghanis does. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.480 So I'm not so worried about the Nets. I think 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.080 they got pushed around. And even at the beginning of 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.360 the game, I did predict the Nets were going to 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.040 win this game. I thought it was coming true because 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.440 Yanni's looked bad. He was clunking shots for a few 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.719 star a few shots. He hadn't won a title before, 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.320 having gone through a ring ceremony. I think that was 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:02.920 part of it, some nerves. Then he calmed down and 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.200 they slammed the Brooklyn Nets and they looked like the 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.920 team that had played together for a long time. Jordan Wara, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.440 who everybody hitting shots for the Milwaukee Bucks yesterday, Yeah, it. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.480 Was a big night for a guy's named Jordan witha 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.360 there and then pull later on in the Warriors game. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.599 But yeah, Yannis with I thought it pretty pretty easy 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.080 looking thirty two, fourteen and seven le but I won 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.400 a good five minutes on Yanni at the free throw line. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.560 He's got the new routine, the one dribble, he sped 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.119 it up and he shot seven to nine at the line. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:35.440 So have about it. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.800 Free throw master, practice of free throws kids. I mean, 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.600 that's really really what it comes down to. But I 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.760 think Yannis, what he did in Game six of the 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.240 Finals last season has probably really given him that championship 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.799 swaggering confidence to go, hey, I can hit free throws 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.160 in the regulous season and opening not. I mean, I've 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.440 done it in the biggest pressure of my career and 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.200 I've knocked him down. So on opening night in front 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.320 of my fans, Yeah, this is easy, and I think, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.520 you know, task kind of hit on it. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:00.800 They're really like the nets. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.440 As long as Kevin Durant's out there, there are a 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.680 chance to beat anybody. But they've got the same problem 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.839 they had last year. They just don't have a big 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:08.680 who can stop Yannis. But what do you do? 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:09.400 Do you get a big? 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.680 They had DeAndre Jordan that just obviously didn't work out. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.440 He's no longer on the team there, so do you 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.160 have a center or do you have sort of like 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.039 an oversized forward or someone Because Yannas are just so versatile, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.280 and what I really liked about him last night was 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.440 his decision making a couple of times, like when they 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.159 would go down and there would be an extra body 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.159 coming at him, he would fire it out to someone 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.240 and they would most of the time knock down the shop. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.080 Pat Connorden hit four threes last night holiday before he 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.160 went out hit a couple, Chris Middleton only hit one, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.920 felt like he hit a few more. Grace and Allen 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.040 hit three. So the Bucks offense, to me, is just 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.000 so intimidating for everybody else because Jannis just walks into 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.159 the paint whenever he wants. If he's hitting these free throws, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.640 you can't foul him. He hit one three himself there 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.600 last night, but everyone else is kind of like a 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.520 threat if they played the way they did last night. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.960 So that's really got to be a concern for everybody 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.480 else in the Eastern Conference. Very important. I think the 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.240 fact that you know they got off to a good start. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.280 We knew the Nets were going to make a run 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.480 thanks to Paddy Mills coming off the bench just absolutely 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.000 lighting them up. But then again, you saw a team 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.320 that wins a championship and I think you can just 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.240 tell they were like, hey, we're better than these guys. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.760 We can go out there and really assert our dominance. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.520 And that's what they did, so a super impressive first 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.200 up performance. And for the Nets, who knows, of course, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:22.840 they're missing one of their players who could come back 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.600 and give their offense a bit of a pop, because 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.000 what Paddy did last night was great. But I don't 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.560 think they can rely on him hitting seven threes every 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:30.120 single night. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.800 But they just don't think he's not going to miss 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:33.520 the three all season. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.520 Look he might, he might, but you know, the Nets, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.080 for me, they've got to look at this. If I'm 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:40.920 sure Mark's can go, We've got a problem in the 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.920 middle here. We need to address that because LaMarcus didn't 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.880 look good, Paul Millsap gave them nothing, and Blake you know, yeah, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.960 he's physical, but he simply isn't as athletic as he 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.360 used to be. But this is not just the Nets problem. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.640 This is basically everyone in the league problem. How do 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:55.680 you slow down Yannas? 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.440 Yeah, Trey, what'd you think of this Milwaukee team to 0:07:58.440 --> 0:07:59.960 get their rings here? I thought they pleaded with great 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.320 tempo and they just they did appear loose. They did 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.920 have that sort of championship swagger to them, starting with 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.440 their leader and Giannis, and I think it trickled down 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:07.160 to everybody else on the. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.480 Roster one hundred percent. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.000 Giannis said afterwards that he's happy, and he's not just 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.280 happy that he's happy, he's happy that everybody else is happy. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.040 There's a lot of happy going around to Milwaukee. And 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.640 you could one hundred percent tell, like you're saying, Skeets, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.720 they just look like a team that had just won 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.360 a championship and is playing loose in free right now. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.080 They have the continuity that the Nets don't have. The 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.920 Nets look like they're still in preseason. Like y'all have said, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.199 they're going to have to figure out all of their rotations. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.520 Give me some more Bruce Brown. He will help in 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.360 the future. Surely Blake Griffin will be better than he. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:41.280 Was last night. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.320 But it was more so that the Bucks had more physicality, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.400 they had more intensity, and they had more chemistry. They 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.680 look like a team that's been playing together for four seasons. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.959 I mean, I know Drew Holliday wasn't out there for 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.360 a long time. Jordan Nwara was a big random piece 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.679 of the game last night, But this is a core 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.520 that's been together playing the same time style for a 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.079 few seasons now, and you can see why teams that 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.000 win the championship just continue to improve because they know 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.880 what they're doing works, they know how to do what 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.200 they want to do, and the margins just get bigger 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.640 and bigger for a team like that, like Pat Connaton, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:15.800 the four threes was awesome. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.480 He was also making plays off the dribble. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.600 This is really impressive driving down the lane and throwing 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.080 down dunks. So it looks like his game has grown 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.439 a little bit. It looks like Noora's game has grown 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.240 a little bit. The Bucks are still going to be 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.240 adding players. They look like a team that said, hey, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.280 everybody thinks the Nets are the favorites. Here, we're the 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.719 reigning champions and we brought basically everybody back. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.880 They proved their point last night. Super impressive from Milwaukee. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.040 And they have that to go on too. Everybody is 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.040 disrespecting them, myself included. The talk out there is Nets 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.160 Lakers or the field. There's so many polls out there 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:55.520 not including the Bucks in the championship selection. Isn't that 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.800 a little nuhing? So they have that disrespect going for 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.480 them they do. I think they could look at that 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.400 and they can use that as fuel and they can 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.600 be happy. And sticking with that happy comment that Yanni said, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.320 as Trey said, he's happy about everything. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:08.360 I'm happy. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.000 Watching the League Pass broadcast, there was a nice happy 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.160 moment where he hugged Jim Pashke, the play by play 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.320 commentator forever for the Milwaukee Bucks. He retired this year, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.319 but he came back for the ring ceremony and he 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.880 had a sweet, sweet hug and then the in game. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.240 The in arena promos by the Milwaukee Bucks are so good. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.000 That's why the Leap Pass feed. Especially if the team 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.679 is good at those in arena promos, you gotta watch it, man, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.920 It's so much better than the commercials. I'm just plugging that. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.320 On day one here I saw a great hug from 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.880 Yannis and Jim Pashk. Then I saw great promo. Jim 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.960 Pashke was reading rap lyrics in front of like JD's background. Essentially, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.880 it wasn't that, it was more like a library Jim 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.559 Paske reading lyrics. It was funny. They had a lot 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.400 of face morphs with guys commenting on it like they've 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.559 got good promos, way better than commercials. Just plugging that 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.360 right now. Not an ad, but it was a good time. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.680 Definitely not an ad when you're saying this was better 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.360 than commercials. The opposite of it that. I just thought 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.880 it was a really impressive win because they went up huge, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.920 right they went on the twenty one to four I 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.720 think it was run in the first quarter. They're up 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.680 thirty one to twelve. You said it lead. You watched 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.440 a million games. You know the Nets are coming back 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.000 and Patty Mills did catch fire and couldn't miss. But 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.480 even though the Nets got back in the game, Bucks 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.679 push it back to nineteen. The second quarter, you know 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.800 they're up, but seven out a half time, You're like, okay, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.640 this is still a game. You know, Nets haven't played 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.920 all that well. But the lead never dropped below seven 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.920 the rest of the way. And that was with the 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.680 addition of Drew Holiday leaving this one with I guess 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.439 what they're calling, right, heel contusion. That's that's tough to 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.640 do in the NBA, especially against a good team. Yeah, 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.440 they're missing Kyrie, but a good team in the Nets 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.000 with Katie and Harden just to sort of like, you know, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.319 a little stiff farm there, like Dereck Henry, like just 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.360 keeping them at bay. That's tough to do in this league. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.079 I don't care what game it is, Game one or 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.439 Game eighty two. It usually gets a little closer than that. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.120 But that's that was awesome from the bucks A site. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:04.840 Yes, it was. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.800 Trying to figure out what you meant by Derek Henry. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.320 No, I'm guessing he's a football I would have said 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.200 Derek kick at former Ozzi rules football player. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.880 He was very he was asked. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.840 But no. The thing is, again, like Kevin Durant can 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.840 easily get that shot. You heard Iron Eagle on the broadcast. Basically, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.319 you know James Harden played okay, wasn't his best game there, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.480 but other than Patty, they didn't really have anyone else 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.480 who was actually consistently hitting those shots for them. But 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.880 Kevin Durant just gets into the middle of the lane 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.240 there and he actually struggled to shoot his free throws 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:38.920 last night. He missed a couple, which is very rare 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.880 for him. Maybe it's the Wilson ball, even though it's 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.360 the same leathers, just basically Wilson instead of Spaulding. It 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.800 says on there. Anyway, The point is, you know Kevin Durant, 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.400 he knows that there's the same sort of problem that 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.880 the Nets have with Yannis. No one can really stop 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.640 Kevin Drant, no one can even really challenge him. But 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.040 it almost seemed like the workload for him last night 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.760 was just a little bit too much because he wasn't 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.000 really able to sort of get any flow going because 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.079 if he wasn't scoring or Patty wasn't scoring, they just 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.480 didn't have all that much else. But a good sign 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.040 for a team like Milwaukee is to be able to, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.880 you know, withstand that surge that came and then really 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.319 accelerate again. And that to me stands out and I 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.559 think those things are really important, the continuity there with 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.280 the Bucks because apart from Drew Holiday, as Trey said, there, 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.520 you know, Milton has been there for a while and 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.800 Budenholz are now in his fourth season. He's also not 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.760 playing for or coaching for his contract or is his 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:28.600 career right now. He knows there's a little bit more 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.880 freedom then, a little bit more flexibility, and I think 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.640 he just felt that with the way the Bucks played, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.559 the ball did move around and they got it felt 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.480 like they got so many open shots. Everybody contributed, and 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.720 a guy who they brought back, George hill I don't 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.679 think he was fantastic at all in the playoffs, but 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.800 I think as a veteran coming off the bench, another 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.200 steady ball handler and he can also hit the three. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.840 So the Bucks look pretty deep right now. They've still 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:51.920 got some players to come back too. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.560 Yeah, Devin Chanzl, Bobby Portus, both of these guys don't 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.360 play in the scheme. And those guys are you know, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.600 part of the rotation. For sure, They're getting minutes when 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.160 they come back to Milwaukee. Yeah, they've got a lot 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:05.120 of a lot of relief pitchers, I guess to give 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.360 you another sports Yeah, exactly, they can eat up some innings. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.319 And we talked about this with the with the honest 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.079 like his chances of MVP and whether the narrative is 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.240 there and all that, and is he being overlooked tass, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.800 But it was mentioned like when he is out there, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.840 he goes full tilt, like he plays his ass off. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.000 We saw it there with the huge block on Claxton, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.200 like early in this game, you know, game one of 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.560 the season. Just denying him obviously fills up the box score. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:36.080 But but he only plays what thirty one minutes in 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.280 this and I think that's just going to continue to happen, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.520 especially in the regular season. Like that's the perfect case 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.160 for Boonholzer in the box. It's like, build these leads enough, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.760 have a deep enough team that we just don't have 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.080 to like rely on of course the honest to play 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.520 like heavy, heavy minutes in the regular season. And I again, 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.040 I mean, he might play a bunch of regular season games, 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.320 but they'll sort of like just you can. You're almost 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:57.680 like resting him in a little bit in a way 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.400 by not having to go forty minutes with this guy, 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.000 you know, every second night, and that adds up I 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.280 think at some point when you get to the playoffs. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:04.520 Oh. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.880 Also, he's twenty six years old, which I think we 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.920 also forget, like he just feels like an older player. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.800 He's been around forever. He's gone through so many sort 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.520 of losses, like devastating losses in the playoffs. He's just 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.720 entering his prime. And it's scary that, Yeah, there were 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.320 a couple of clankers there, but he's got confidence in 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.200 the jump shot and he looks better at the line 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.880 getting rid of all those dumb dribbles and everybody counting 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.440 to fifteen, I know they're at home. So that's gonna 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.520 happen there. But that's the smarter I remember you talked 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.080 about that Lee like, that's fine, do your whole little 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.960 fake routine first, but when you get the ball, boom 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.240 and shoot it, so they stop overthinking of it. Because 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:38.200 he took forever last year. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.680 And look, he's a two time MVP Defensive Player of 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.640 the Year. He just won a championship. And what did 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.800 you do in the offseason? Worked harder at his game. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.040 He knows that that like, people are disrespecting him and 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.120 the team. You know, shortened season. No, you got lucky 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.920 in the playoffs. Okay, well, I'm going to go out 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.040 this year and show that we are the best team 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.440 and I am the best player. And I think that's 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.080 what I admire and respect about him. The people are 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.720 always going to try to pick a part his game 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.760 and say, you know, he can't shoot. James Harden said, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.320 he's only you know, he's only good because he's tall 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.800 and athletic. Okay, well, if he starts developing that shot 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.040 and hitting those free throws, he is virtually a lock 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.080 for the MVP. Because again, I think the Bucks will 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.000 win those sixty odd games. But I'm not going to 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.840 take Trey Young off the board until I've at least 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.680 seen him in Actually, tre Young, I'm not going to 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.360 give up until at least a month into the season. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.800 Then we'll get a bit of an idea. But yeah, yeah, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.520 I think that's the true sign of a legit star 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.480 is do you get complacent? You know? Pat Riley talks 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.960 about it the the disease of more once you win 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.160 a championship, instead, your best player, your leader comes back 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.720 and shows, hey, I've worked on my game, I've improved. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.680 That sets the tone for the rest of the team. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.000 I thought it was disease of me. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.320 I thought it was. Well, it's the same sort of thing. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.560 Yeah, I thought it was because it rhymed better. But okay, maybe. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.200 He just never gets into that. He never gets into 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.120 the disease of me or the disease of more. He 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.600 just he sticks to the plan. He missed his first 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.560 three shots last night, and his effort, obviously on the 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.399 defensive end, gets him going. He's obviously a two way player. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.320 That's how they won the championship. With the monstrous block 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.639 on the alleyupe attempt to DeAndre, and even if he 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.320 is clunking a couple on the offensive, end, he gets 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.119 his guys going because he never stops giving efforts. So 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.280 even if it's thirty one minutes, Yeah, the guys you 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.160 have to ride his back. I think that's how Drew 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.080 Holliday found, you know, his way in the postseason, just 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.800 watching Yanni's go and yeah, he is obviously an incredible 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.720 leader and they're going to win so many games because 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.200 Yanni's isn't going to take days off, games off, or 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.680 minutes off when he's in there. And I think James 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.560 Harden is the same kind of guy. Not defensively, but 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.000 in terms of that. He plays a lot of games, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.400 He plays a lot of minutes, and that's something which 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.439 you know, we probably don't think about with James Harden, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.800 but the guy's a workhorse. And his touch with Nick 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.680 Laston as the one to the five, you know, James 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.280 Harden playing the one trying to set up Nick Claxton, 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.119 this this young guy who they're trying to push Kyle 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.719 Korver as a developmental coach, trying to work with him 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:12.720 on the shot. Their touch was off a lot and 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.320 it was bad and James Arng just couldn't find the 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.200 pass to him. And then when he found one, in 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.040 the fourth he looked up to this guy and said, yes, 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.760 I can pass the basketball, but I think that's something 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.520 that's got to come slowly if Claxton's going to be 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.600 that starting center. Yeah, it's back to Nash trying to 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:33.280 figure out Claxton, Aldridge, Blake, Jeff Green is gone, DeAndre 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.240 Jordan gone, Jared Allen was there at the beginning of 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.320 the year. There's a lot of turnover there, especially with 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.760 the Biggs. They're looking and there could sign somebody, or 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.720 could trade for somebody to try and get in Yiannis's way. Again, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.080 that's their number one focus is figuring out how to 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:48.840 stop that dude. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.600 Yeah, Trey said it. It felt like an extension of 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.680 preseason here with the experimentation, at least from the nets. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.480 When it came to the rotations, like the no Bruce 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.919 Brown is it was odd. It was a little on definitely. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.639 I mean, like, you know you're getting killed out there. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.800 You know he's a hustle guy. Yeah, he's undersize, but 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:06.879 why wouldn't you get some spot minutes. I was a 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.600 little perplexed by that. So I assume we're going to 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.320 see him here, Trey in the next couple of games. 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.960 Well, you would assume so, But the Nets also brought 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:17.560 in a lot of guys who played the same position 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.879 as Bruce Brown. So maybe it's just the case of 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.359 Steve Nash wants to see what a Paul Millsap can do, 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.919 what LaMarcus Aldridge can do after taking a little bit 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.040 of time off, he looks slow. Paul Millsap. I had 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:28.679 to check the box score. Yeah, I guess he did 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.240 play last night. But Bruce Brown will be a part 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.680 of this team eventually because it's gonna make the most 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.160 sense with Kevin Durant basically playing the five and Bruce 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.240 Brown guarding the other big guy who's actually out there. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.080 That will be the eventual formulation for this team, I 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:45.840 would have to imagine, just because they're going to be 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.760 offensively based and playing small ball is what they do best. 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.720 That's why Jeff Green was so solid for him last year. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:53.919 But you also don't need to reveal all of your 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:55.679 cards early in the season. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:56.560 This is game one. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.520 The Nets probably won't end up with the number one 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.600 seed this They probably don't even care about it. They 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.480 just want to get their guys healthy, especially considering the 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.800 way things went down for them in the playoffs last year. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:08.600 Did a quick google over here. 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:09.560 Yeah, what is it? 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:15.280 Apparently pat Riley's phrase is disease of more? 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:17.440 Oh okay, how Riley? 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:19.800 Oh that has nine. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.840 Million Google results. Pat Riley disease of me has nineteen. 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.879 Million, Yeah Google results. It's a real Berenstein Bears. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:35.080 Yeah situation right here, classic classic stuff before we. 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:36.840 Get to the rings, because I want to show everybody 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.040 here on YouTube if you didn't get a chance to 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.720 catch these last night and all that they can do. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.600 We almost had a weggie. Well, in fact, we did 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.240 have a weggie, but it came well after the whistle task. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.399 I know a lot of people on Twitter were very excited. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.760 People on Instagram. We'd love to see it every time 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.440 there's a weggie tweet at us. Hit us up on 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:57.679 ig and the comments wherever you want to get at 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.320 us on social media at no dunk sync. But but 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.680 but everybody was just a little too excited tasks, you know, 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:05.840 I think was it and Wara had maybe stepped out 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.680 of bounds. Whistles called, then he attacks and then it 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:10.440 gets like blocked in there. It was a nice one, 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.760 but we're not counting weggies that are well after the whistle. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:14.680 I just want to make that clear. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:18.040 Yeah, I would have loved a war a widget widget, 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:22.560 a war a Wedgie called it a war widget. I 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.159 would have loved a weggie from a new player. I 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.840 can assure you Jordan Warre has never had a weggie. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.920 That would have been amazing. Jordan Wara with the Wilson 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.080 Jet to start the season. Yeah it was. It was 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.280 way after the whistle. It can't just be thrown in there. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:39.720 No, no, no, it can't be Actually have some rules 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:40.640 that will usually break. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.920 But yeah, there's the continuation rule that is very ambiguous. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.359 Who knows, but yeah, we play by that rule. If 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.359 it's guy driving hacked throws it up and it's a weggie, 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:51.040 sure count it. 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:52.120 Yeah. 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.440 I mean Eagle didn't even mention it. So that's why 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.159 I felt really confident, Like, of course he heard the whistle. 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.560 He's out of balance. This play is well dead. But hey, 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:01.600 be a good sign of things to come, you know, 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.600 at least we at least see one lee on opening night, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.639 even Wigie. Yeah, a war of Wilson Wedgie say that 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:11.320 three times fast. Throw widget in there if you want to. Okay, 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:15.440 let's show everybody these rings because they are wild. Here 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.680 they are for everybody joining us on YouTube. Bucks Championship 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:20.760 rings three hundred and sixty diamonds on the top to 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.680 represent the bucks total wins under current ownership. I thought 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.040 that was really weird. It's a bit of a stretch. 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.800 All the wins under this ownership. Let's get a diamond 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:33.080 for each one. And then I guess we have sixteen 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.119 emerald shaped diamonds on each side that are symbolizing their 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:41.200 sixteen playoff wins last season and their sixteen division titles franchises. 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:45.400 Oh my god, but but but that you know, normal. 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.240 Look at NBA Championship ring. I would say for the 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.639 most part, I think it looks beautiful there. It's what 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:53.600 it can do tasks. That's a little wild. You can 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:57.920 take off the top, and I would recommend you don't 0:22:58.000 --> 0:22:59.920 try and take off the top when you're holding a mic. 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:04.560 You're on live television. Ready just dropped the top part 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:05.880 because she had so many things in her hands. 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:08.159 She played it off well though she rolled well. 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.880 Yeah, she didn't mention that she dropped it. I guess 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.480 that is playing it off cool. Uh, you can turn 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:15.760 it into a necklace there. That's that top part. And 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:18.440 then there's a bunch of stuff in the inside of 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.960 a task and there's a QR code, and it's pretty wild. 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:23.600 What do you think. Are you a fan of these? 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.440 Yeah, it's the gen Z ring. It's not just a ring, 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.800 it's a necklace. So it creates a whole new piece 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:34.240 of jewelry. I would say, I'm not young anymore. I'm 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:36.439 on the top end of a millennial, but I think 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.879 gen zs like necklaces or pendants, whatever you call it, 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:40.200 more than rinks. 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:40.560 Right. 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:42.680 They want to throw it on a chain. You gotta chain. 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:45.040 My only issue is okay, so creates a new piece 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.000 of jewelry. You pop it off, you gotta have a 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.000 necklace ready to go. It doesn't come with a necklace. 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:54.520 If I'm a mistake that chain, I don't know. I 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:56.600 don't know, but I love it because of that. I 0:23:56.680 --> 0:24:01.560 think it it increases, you know, your converse with somebody Holton. 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:03.520 First of all, look what it does. Second of all, 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:06.320 can you put this on me? It increases the touching, 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:10.400 It increases your companionship with somebody. And third I think 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:13.000 it it lengthens the chat. Because you said there's a 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:15.480 QR code in there. Everybody wants to be on the phone, 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:17.399 so you scan it. QR codes are so hot right now, 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:21.360 and it shows a video of the Bucks Championship run 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.240 as soon as you scan it, so it just creates. 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.600 It's it's far more than a ring. It's a far 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:31.840 more important piece of jewelry. It's a conversation starter and 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:34.680 an extender. You know, it's not just it's not just 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:37.480 a hey, here's my ring. It's it's way more than that. 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:39.480 And no one gives a crap about rings anymore, is 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:42.960 what I'm feeling from this. Uh, people people care more 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:44.800 about necklaces, am I right? They want to show off 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:47.720 some bling bling on the necklace rather than now, who's 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:49.600 going to lose it as the issue because it's. 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.359 Yeah, I saw a network tweeting that, like, who's going 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:54.919 to be the first Bucks player to lose the bottom 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:57.359 part of the ring? Lely, you got any guesses? Because 0:24:57.359 --> 0:25:00.440 that's that is one issue there. I love the Steff 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:02.160 just turning it into the necklace. I think that's really 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:04.840 cool into the pendant. But where you're putting that bottom 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:05.800 part with QR. 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:07.960 Cod I think Robin Lopez is going to steal it 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:09.840 off Brook and then just pretend he didn't and just 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:11.760 say you lost it. You lost it, so it doesn't 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:14.200 really count. Whoever did design that as a big James 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:17.359 Bond fan clearly because that looks like Q saying to 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:19.399 James Bond, like, Okay, it's a ring, but then you 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:21.159 can do all this funky stuff with it. It's not 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:22.800 actually a ring. It can you know, blow up a 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:25.159 building or something like that. It turns into a car, 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:26.919 you can drive off, you can fly around, you can 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:29.679 do all that stuff because you know James Bond's had 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:31.320 a pen where you can activate it by just like 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:34.560 doing the like that. So I think it's the same thing. 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:37.160 In fact, the latest Bond movie, what's It, No Time 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:38.840 to Die? I think that's out now as well. So 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:39.800 good timing here. 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:41.440 Maybe not an ab not an ad. 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:46.159 What do you think, Trey? I mean, I know you 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:50.240 like to wear a necklace. You wear wedding rings, but 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:52.719 you like your necklaces more than rings. I think tasses, right, 0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:53.840 So what do you think of this idea? 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:57.200 Well, I'll tell you a necklace breaks a lot easier 0:25:57.240 --> 0:25:59.800 than a ring. Despite what Stephanie Ready might have you believe. 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:03.600 I broke my necklace recently. Still haven't got it. Fixed, 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:06.200 but my ring is feeling fine. I'm a little disappointed 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.000 they covered up cream City on the bottom part of 0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:11.399 the ring there, all it says is em City. 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.440 Come on, I thought y'all were proud of your cool 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:15.680 tiles there. 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:17.360 But ah, yeah, I see you're saying. 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:20.440 I mean, these are in literally incredible, Like that's a 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:24.400 full size rap pendant that you're getting, but it's also 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:27.240 a championship ring. I will say I'm a little worried 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:29.840 about the QR codes. Gonna have to pay for those 0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:32.520 hosting fees until the end of time because I mean, 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:33.840 you know these. 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:36.320 Rings are gonna last. Are you gonna keep those highlights 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.560 updated on the same website? Now? You got to? 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:41.920 Is that why they blurred out the QR code here 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:44.359 for these official photos from the Bucks so we wouldn't 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:48.240 use too much bandwidth on their website out the highlights. 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:50.520 I do have a question tasked. Do you know whether 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:54.879 or not the QR code is specific for each player 0:26:55.640 --> 0:26:58.760 or is it just like you know, a Bucks championship run. 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:00.760 That would be pretty damn Yeah. 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:03.320 If you could show somebody, hey, you want to see 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:06.040 my highlights if specifically I won the ship and these 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:06.679 are my highlights. 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:07.880 Sure, I don't. 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:10.560 I don't know. I wasn't Stephan you ready for this question. 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:11.320 I think. 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:17.840 I think it's just a generic Bucks Championship runs. That's 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:18.520 my thinking. 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:20.520 But but what they I was trying to find a 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.480 copy of it last night on Twitter, you know, like 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:24.720 a zoomed in version to see what they actually got. 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:28.120 They're really keeping it under wraps and under the top 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:28.479 of the ring. 0:27:29.320 --> 0:27:32.200 But but what they did here is they created something 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:35.200 that people will wear. The biggest problem with the rings 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:38.000 is nobody wants to wear them all the time. 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:41.359 They're obnoxiously large. Yeah, but people are, even for a 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.960 giant guy that's an NBA player. We've seen them on 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:48.320 these guys when we worked at NBA TV. Even they 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:50.879 even Shack admits like this is sort of ridiculous, Like 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:52.040 you can't really wear this. 0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:54.280 All the time, and they don't, but they'll wear a 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:56.800 pendant all the time. 0:27:57.359 --> 0:27:57.520 Yeah. 0:27:57.560 --> 0:27:57.760 Yeah. 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.600 I saw Horace Grant and can't cune Apple airing. He's 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:03.560 like nineteen ninety two Championship ring. I'm just I'm just 0:28:03.600 --> 0:28:05.719 gonna throw it out there because Horace Grant stood out. 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:07.359 I looked down and the first thing I noticed is 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:10.000 like Wow, he's got his second championship ring on. I 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:11.000 wonder why he's got that one on. 0:28:11.119 --> 0:28:13.120 Okay, but is it fair to say in the nineties 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.359 there was a little more class to these rings. They 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:17.760 were a little meeby a little more normal size than 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:19.360 they are now because they just got larger and larger. 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:22.800 Honestly, it looked huge still on his gigantic hands there, 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:24.640 so you know there's only a few years ago. Still 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:25.639 in good shape too, Horace. 0:28:25.960 --> 0:28:26.160 Great. 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:29.159 You sure it wasn't Hervey. I guess it wasn't. If 0:28:29.160 --> 0:28:31.119 he's wearing a ring, yeah exactly. I mean that's why 0:28:31.160 --> 0:28:34.760 he wears it so they don't confuse him. No, I'm 0:28:34.800 --> 0:28:35.240 horras not. 0:28:35.520 --> 0:28:37.080 I think he had some bulls gear on as well. 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:40.160 So all right, he really wanted you to know. 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:44.840 Okay, he was rebounding the whole time. 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:45.520 It was crazy. 0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:50.000 I will say every ring in the history of rings 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:51.800 is a convertible to a necklace. Though. 0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:53.560 By the way, yeah, well you gotta do. It's just 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:58.600 it doesn't sit maybe his nice Yeah, I guess that's true. 0:29:00.360 --> 0:29:01.960 Shut out, my guy, frodo though. 0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:03.360 What do you what do you got? 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:04.240 Tasks? What do you got? 0:29:04.600 --> 0:29:04.640 No? 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:05.600 No, No, that's something. 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:09.080 Oh, I mean, I am sure. I'll show you me 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:14.640 wearing this. This is me wearing Channing Fry's ring a 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:17.880 while back if you're watching on YouTube. Yeah, it's obviously 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:21.240 like covers four of my It's like it's like a 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:27.360 knuckle rat. It's way too big, but depended. That'd be nice, all. 0:29:27.320 --> 0:29:30.160 Right, next game here, that's enough on the rings. Curry 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:32.800 and the Warriors stun Lebron and the Lakers one twenty one, 0:29:33.360 --> 0:29:37.960 one fourteen in the nightcap, second game of the TNT doubleheader. 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:39.400 Tray get it started. What does it takeaways from this? 0:29:39.760 --> 0:29:43.000 Well, it's just one game, but the Warriors are going 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:45.800 to the finals and Jordan Poole is gonna win finals. 0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:46.240 MVP. 0:29:46.440 --> 0:29:50.239 Yeah, buddy, great day for the hot takes. Last night, 0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:51.920 fun game out West. 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:54.760 Lakers looked like they were doing all right through three quarters, 0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:57.480 built a nice lead, got it to double digits, but 0:29:57.600 --> 0:30:01.040 then they gave up thirty eight points in the fourth quarter. 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.560 And it wasn't just Steph Curry lighting up the Lakers. 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:07.920 There was a big time run key by Jordan Poole 0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:10.080 and the Manya b Elitza there in the fourth quarter. 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:13.000 Three minutes in in the fourth quarter Jordan Poole had 0:30:13.040 --> 0:30:15.960 assisted or scored on twelve points during a fifteen to 0:30:16.080 --> 0:30:18.760 five run, and he just looked awesome, Like he looked 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:20.920 like he is living up to all of the hype 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:24.280 that he had in the preseason. You know, Steph Curry postgame, 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:26.720 he said he had a trash game despite the fact 0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:29.000 that he had a twenty one point triple double. That's 0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:30.680 not good enough for him, but it was okay because 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:33.400 he actually had somebody alongside him who could run the 0:30:33.480 --> 0:30:37.440 offense in Jordan Poole, who could get his own shots 0:30:37.480 --> 0:30:39.320 off the dribble, who could do some of stuff with 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:40.920 the ball in his hands, and when he didn't have 0:30:41.000 --> 0:30:43.840 the ball in his hands, Namania Bilitza looked great. Looked 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:46.200 like the second coming of David Lee out there attacking 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:49.520 the gaps, moving the ball and making plays off the 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:51.960 dribble as well, kind of serving a little bit in 0:30:52.000 --> 0:30:53.680 the Draymond role where you know it would be a 0:30:53.760 --> 0:30:56.440 four on three. Maybe Curry was getting trapped by the Lakers, 0:30:57.160 --> 0:30:59.040 Somebody's got to make a play. It ended up being 0:30:59.160 --> 0:31:01.760 Namanya b elitz or Jordan Poole. This is a great 0:31:01.800 --> 0:31:05.080 game for the Warriors. Depth wise, You know, because, like 0:31:05.120 --> 0:31:07.960 I said, Curry didn't shoot the ball incredibly well, he 0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:10.040 was still Curry out there drawing a ton of attention. 0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:13.080 But the Warriors got a lot of contributions from their 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:15.680 role players, and when you compare it to what the 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:18.640 Lakers did and how well they're big two played and 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:22.160 the middling contributions they got from their role players, you 0:31:22.200 --> 0:31:23.000 could see the difference. 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:26.440 Last night. Warriors looked like they had figured some things 0:31:26.480 --> 0:31:28.280 out and the Lakers looked like they'd got a long 0:31:28.320 --> 0:31:28.680 way to go. 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:32.920 Yeah, lee rough game for Russell Westbrook. Nightmare start if 0:31:32.920 --> 0:31:34.600 you want to call it that, maybe one of his 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:37.160 least effective games of his career. I don't even think 0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:39.680 that's a stretch to say. Eight five and four was 0:31:39.720 --> 0:31:43.160 his box score, four turnovers, four thirteen shooting, and zero 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:46.880 free throw attempts. We thought this might take a while. 0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:49.959 Russ has done this before. We've seen it with Washington, 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:53.200 we saw it with Houston. Slow starts and then he 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:55.040 turns it on like a month or two in is 0:31:55.440 --> 0:31:57.160 do you see that happening here or is this going 0:31:57.200 --> 0:32:00.360 to be different? Because Westbrook really has to figure out 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:02.800 how to play with Lebron James, who has to have 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:05.640 the ball all the time and should and Westbrooks of course. 0:32:05.680 --> 0:32:07.480 Then after ball, what did you think of this first game? 0:32:07.760 --> 0:32:11.080 Well, that lineup at the end there was Baysmore, Bradley, Westbrook, Davis, 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:13.240 and Lebron. And it's like, okay, if Lebron is going 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:14.920 to play the point, then you may as well take 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:16.800 Westbrook out and just put Mellow out there as a 0:32:16.800 --> 0:32:19.480 shooter because Westbrook is not a shooter. Other than that, 0:32:19.920 --> 0:32:21.800 give the ball to Westbrook and have Lebron as a 0:32:21.800 --> 0:32:23.920 shooter and have Westbrook try to create and go inside it. 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:26.320 I just thought their offense looked really stagnant. They've got 0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:28.840 good games out of Lebron and Anthony Davis, both scoring 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:29.720 more than thirty. 0:32:29.480 --> 0:32:30.760 Points, but that was it. 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:32.960 They just didn't have anyone else who was able to 0:32:33.000 --> 0:32:34.760 really get any flow gone. They've got this, you know, 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:37.480 supposed shooters out there, Baysmore and Mellow and those guys 0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:39.920 as I mentioned, and in fact, Avery Bradley, who they 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:42.200 picked up off the scrap heap just before the game 0:32:42.320 --> 0:32:44.680 hit two three is late for them. So to me, 0:32:45.200 --> 0:32:48.080 it's like you can either say, Okay, Lebron, you're going 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:49.400 to just sort of do what you want to do 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:51.680 and take over, or you're going to have to like 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:53.719 spread the floor out and put the shooters around him. 0:32:53.720 --> 0:32:55.440 That's when he's at his most effective because then he 0:32:55.480 --> 0:32:57.560 can take on his defender one on one. But if 0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:00.800 those other guys are out there aren't really there, then 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:03.120 it sort of just bogs down their offense a little bit. 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:05.040 So I think Frank Fogel's got something to work out. 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:08.400 But you mentioned there the Russell Westbrook thing. It has 0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:11.480 taken him time to adjust and that I think we 0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:13.680 have to give him at least that credit that he 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.200 will take some time here. I mean, he's already trending 0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:18.280 on Twitter with Buddy Hill. The Kings are already trying 0:33:18.320 --> 0:33:19.760 to look at that deal to spread the floor a 0:33:19.840 --> 0:33:23.200 little bit more there, But not a very convincing performance 0:33:23.960 --> 0:33:27.520 from the Lakers bench and their depth. Because as good 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:29.600 as Lebron is and he can still put up those 0:33:29.680 --> 0:33:32.240 nights quite easily, I just don't think at this stage 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:33.960 of his career you want him having to do all that. 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:35.920 He hit some shots late, but he also felt to 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:38.080 me a couple of times he came down and is like, 0:33:38.600 --> 0:33:40.800 there's just not really anything move I didn't think Anthony 0:33:40.920 --> 0:33:43.520 Davis was even moving all that well last night, despite 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:45.800 the decent line that he put up. So Lakers have 0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:48.120 got some things to figure out here. But they're an 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:50.760 experienced team of veteran team that have got some time. 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:55.240 But certainly those early season concerns that I had showed 0:33:55.240 --> 0:33:57.760 themselves there last night. So we'll see what happens from here. 0:33:57.960 --> 0:34:00.479 Because if you can have Steph Curry go five twenty one, 0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:03.080 he did have that triple double, but he certainly didn't 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:06.440 dominate at all. And you know, the Lakers, we're in 0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:08.480 control for most of this game, was just that sort 0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:11.600 of fourth quarter run where their offense fell apart task. 0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:12.399 What'd you think of this one? 0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:16.560 Well, it's telling that through three plus quarters, Avery Bradley, 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:21.080 the guy that they didn't have for entire training camp, 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:23.560 just comes in and plays in the fourth quarter because 0:34:23.600 --> 0:34:27.280 they were so desperate for a guy to play defense 0:34:27.480 --> 0:34:30.040 on the perimeter. Frank Vogel is a defensive minded coach, 0:34:30.040 --> 0:34:31.480 that's where he comes from from the Pacers, so he 0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:34.480 was desperate. And it's telling that we saw Lebron James 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:37.439 four minutes left, he throws up a three and he's 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:39.600 the only one to get back on defense, he gets 0:34:39.680 --> 0:34:41.520 hit with a two on one, a three buried in 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:43.279 his eye and he slams the ball to the floor 0:34:43.320 --> 0:34:46.239 because no one's playing defense around him. And that's the 0:34:46.280 --> 0:34:49.120 biggest worry to me. Lebron and Ad go for thirty 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:51.840 four and thirty three. Yes, Russell Westbrook, he has to 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:54.840 get acclimated to these guys. But he also just plays 0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:57.320 badly to start the season. The last year he was 0:34:57.360 --> 0:34:59.120 bouncing the ball off his leg and out of bounds 0:34:59.440 --> 0:35:01.360 with the washing to Wizards to start the season. And 0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:04.399 he gets better, but it's the defensive end where Lebron 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:07.800 is going to demand some things. That's gonna be the issue. 0:35:08.320 --> 0:35:12.920 If KCP ain't there and Alex Caruso isn't there, then 0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:16.000 that's that's really what it comes down to. It's it's 0:35:16.280 --> 0:35:17.680 they're going to figure it out on the on the 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:20.920 offensive end, I think they'll score enough, but Frank Vogel's 0:35:21.160 --> 0:35:25.120 trying guys playing beside Russell Westbrook, Malik Monk just doesn't 0:35:25.160 --> 0:35:27.440 know where to go defensively. He was just lost out there, 0:35:27.640 --> 0:35:29.680 and so Avery Bradley comes in as the savior, as 0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:33.320 the guy. Yeah, the Warriors just cut to try and 0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:36.720 help out. So that's the biggest issue for the Lakers, 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.560 is a little bit of defensive mindedness. And on the 0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:45.120 other side, maybe you can just relax and keep Clay 0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:47.000 out of the lineup if you've got Jordan Poole playing 0:35:47.040 --> 0:35:48.960 this way and and them and your be elites are 0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:51.440 coming in playing this way and Andre Goodala looking as 0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:54.400 young as he has in a couple of years. So 0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:58.040 that's good for for the the Golden State Warriors, because yeah, 0:35:58.120 --> 0:35:59.359 you're your m VP. 0:36:00.160 --> 0:36:02.120 Pick their skeets for Jordan Poole. 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:03.440 M I P what was it? 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:10.520 Well, well, no, I mean I wanted everybody to slow 0:36:10.600 --> 0:36:13.440 down on the preseason hype for Jordan Poole because I 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:15.319 said it was getting out of control where people were 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:17.759 saying he should be in the MVP conversation, let alone 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:19.880 the MP, which hell, he might have the case at that. 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:25.800 But then we did this weird little athletic TikTok video yesterday. 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:27.320 You know, they reached out to us, Hey, can you 0:36:27.360 --> 0:36:30.280 guys do hot takes. I guess there's this TikTok challenge 0:36:30.320 --> 0:36:33.680 going around called like past the Phone, and you know 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:35.239 I checked it out. I'm not on TikTok, but I 0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:37.200 checked it out, and I'm like, oh, and from what 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:39.359 I could tell, I thought I was supposed to come 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:42.920 up with a really dumb, out there hot take that 0:36:43.120 --> 0:36:46.480 then would be attached randomly to somebody else within this 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:48.719 fun little thing the athletic was doing. So mine that 0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:53.359 I sent in was Jordan Poole is going to win 0:36:53.719 --> 0:36:54.600 finals MVP. 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:55.319 Good pick. 0:36:55.920 --> 0:36:58.719 Yeah, I'm looking like a genius. Now you nearly outscored Curry. 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:02.680 You're right, but it was attached to me. I forget 0:37:02.719 --> 0:37:04.440 who threw it to me. Zach Harper was like, I'm 0:37:04.480 --> 0:37:06.200 going to pass the phone to Jay Skeets, who thinks 0:37:06.280 --> 0:37:09.720 Jordan Poole's gonna win finals MVP. I'm like, no, I don't. 0:37:10.600 --> 0:37:12.680 I wanted you to think that looked like the fool. 0:37:12.760 --> 0:37:14.839 But yeah, maybe after one game, maybe it's working out 0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:15.319 for me, Trey. 0:37:16.160 --> 0:37:19.319 I think it's looking great right now, at the very least, 0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:22.319 if you're talking about the MVP conversation after one night, 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:24.880 it's Yiannis number one, and I think it's gotta be 0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:26.120 Jordan's little number two. 0:37:26.840 --> 0:37:28.080 Welcome to the table, buddy. 0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:30.920 He's got crazy confidence. 0:37:31.000 --> 0:37:31.120 Man. 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:32.680 Oh yeah, he thinks he is. 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:36.280 Curry and Clay I mean, he had some brutal misses. 0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:39.960 Somebody like had a twelve footer backed it out for 0:37:40.080 --> 0:37:42.759 three air ball that had him pull up from the 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:47.479 right wing probably thirty feet out. All glass didn't stop 0:37:47.560 --> 0:37:49.560 him from shooting though, I swear to god it had 0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:52.759 the rare airball that like went over the rim and 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.359 like somehow dropped that. It was not good once. 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:57.480 Yeah, but you know then you hit four, Lee, what 0:37:57.560 --> 0:37:57.920 do you think of it? 0:37:58.040 --> 0:38:00.279 Yeah, well, I lot Reggie Miller's cool on that because 0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:02.120 he hit a three just before that, and then he 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:04.000 clunked that one on and just went no. 0:38:08.680 --> 0:38:10.920 But you know, he's got a little playmaking to him, 0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:14.080 like he's he's got some similarities of course to a Clay, 0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:16.120 but he does a lot of different things too. I mean, 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:19.000 you know, Clay's never a concern off the dribble by 0:38:19.040 --> 0:38:20.120 any means he's an attacker. 0:38:20.520 --> 0:38:22.279 Yeah, we should put a quick poll up who was 0:38:22.280 --> 0:38:27.800 the better Jordan last night? Wara was pretty good. Certainly 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:28.760 wasn't DeAndre anyway? 0:38:28.800 --> 0:38:33.480 Dere Why is DeAndre Jordan starting? 0:38:33.560 --> 0:38:38.520 We all thought Anthony Davis, Yeah, because Looney was I 0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:43.040 don't know, Anthony Davis can't guard Kevon Looney No, here's 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:44.040 here's the rest man. 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:46.080 I think that's what it is. Here's grey. Jordan is 0:38:46.160 --> 0:38:49.719 just he's friendly, like you don't want to sit him 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:50.120 on the bench. 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:54.040 It's just like the Nets. It's these coaches in Game 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:56.399 one especially, it's like, yah, play the old guys, play 0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:58.960 the vets. They deserve it. They put in the years. 0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:00.440 Start up happens. 0:39:00.440 --> 0:39:00.600 You know. 0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:04.000 That's why you're getting more millsap in Aldridge and Blake. 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:06.160 Then you're getting Bruce Brown, I think with the Brooklyn Nets, 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:08.080 and I think that's why DeAndre Jordan is sort of starting. 0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:10.879 He's he's he's buddies with the guys there, and he's 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:12.680 the older guy and he's got a ring from the 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:15.759 Olympics and all that stuff, so ring he's gonna the other. 0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:19.799 The other thing that's right now is that red flag emoji. Yeah, 0:39:20.400 --> 0:39:22.760 you could just put that for DeAndre Jordan. Red flags 0:39:22.800 --> 0:39:25.719 everywhere because I mean, you know, but seriously, because the 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:29.880 Nets right desperately need some sort of interior veteran presence, 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:32.440 and DeAndre Jordan they had him and they're like just 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:34.560 get out of here. So there should have been those 0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:38.120 red flags every Lakers that sometimes to go former defensive 0:39:38.120 --> 0:39:42.799 player of former star, formerle NBA first team But at 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:44.480 points you're just like, you know what, he's just done. 0:39:44.640 --> 0:39:46.920 And I think that's the case with DeAndre Jordan right now. 0:39:46.960 --> 0:39:49.239 He just doesn't seem to look like he just doesn't 0:39:49.239 --> 0:39:51.000 seem to have any real energy out there. He's just 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:52.680 kind of like, I'm just out here because they've got 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:54.000 no one else apart from d White. 0:39:54.440 --> 0:39:56.640 Well, it's different. If you're signing him as a minimum 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:58.400 player like the Lakers are than what the Nets did 0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:01.040 for ten milli a year, then that's desperately needed some 0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:03.840 financial room. That sort of made sense. But if DeAndre 0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:05.840 Jordan is in the Lakers locker room like he's the 0:40:05.920 --> 0:40:09.920 third string center, given high fives, like like Lebron has 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:12.280 always wanted in his career, you know with the Cavs, 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:14.399 he said, Kendrick Perkins, get in here, not because you're 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:17.160 playing man, but because we want you to be a 0:40:17.239 --> 0:40:19.719 Dante Jones. We want you to high five everybody, you know, 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:22.759 be that great locker room presence. But to get him 0:40:22.800 --> 0:40:25.200 starting after Anthony Davis said he was going to be 0:40:25.280 --> 0:40:28.320 the starting center, maybe maybe it's this start of the 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:30.200 year to have the Vets out there. But it just 0:40:30.360 --> 0:40:34.080 screams to me what every team has done with Anthony Davis. 0:40:34.160 --> 0:40:37.399 It's play a guy beside him at the five, keep 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:40.560 him fresh for fourth quarter minutes. And that's fine. 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:41.920 But it's. 0:40:43.680 --> 0:40:45.040 It's not it's not great. 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:48.000 You know, Anthony Davis is he's so good, he can 0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:50.280 play both positions. I think it's just keeping him fresh. 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:52.719 And you have Dwight Howard on the bench too, So 0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:55.040 I don't know when Anthony Davis is going to start 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:56.719 at center. I thought Dwyight was in mid season. 0:40:56.520 --> 0:41:00.759 For him though, with his fail that he got, I 0:41:00.800 --> 0:41:03.239 think it was he just whacked him, and dwy he's 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:04.680 just looking around, like what what? 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:06.120 What wants? 0:41:06.200 --> 0:41:06.239 That? 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:10.800 I actually loving leaning into this his career, he just 0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:13.919 was a gill of ship. Now he just hacks guys 0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:14.520 left and right. 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:17.360 I'll say, I thought screens were a problem when he 0:41:17.440 --> 0:41:19.480 played forty minutes a game, but now that he only 0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:22.120 plays like twenty five minutes, He's like, who cares? 0:41:24.160 --> 0:41:26.799 I've got in both games. The refereeing was good last night. 0:41:26.840 --> 0:41:29.120 That there was a lot more contact aloud, and that 0:41:29.239 --> 0:41:32.680 I think is really really important. But I just thought Dwight, 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:35.680 like it seems to not understand that you can't just 0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:38.120 swing your arms around. You just can't do that Dwight 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:39.560 and clop a guy in the head. 0:41:39.719 --> 0:41:45.640 But yeah, wow, back, I do have a question, Lee, 0:41:46.000 --> 0:41:47.680 uh for you. I don't know if you saw the 0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:50.880 quotes from Lebron. He's not too worried about Westbrook's poor debut. 0:41:50.960 --> 0:41:53.279 He said, quote, he's so hard on himself. I told him, 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:56.080 don't be so hard on yourself. It's one game. He's 0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:59.600 sounded like Bob Duka there Lebron is. But he also said, 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:03.480 hold them to go home and watch a comedy. Lee, 0:42:04.200 --> 0:42:07.799 What comedy are you suggesting Westbrook watch after that rough 0:42:07.880 --> 0:42:09.920 game one? What are you telling him to watch? The chirrup? 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:16.359 There's a classic classic movie from the eighties. Yeah, Val 0:42:16.480 --> 0:42:20.359 Kilmer stars in it called Top Secret, and it's by 0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:24.200 the same guys who did Hot Shots and The Naked Gun. 0:42:24.239 --> 0:42:27.359 I think it is the Zuckers, is it? I think? 0:42:27.480 --> 0:42:27.680 Yeah? 0:42:28.000 --> 0:42:31.640 Anyway, absolute classic, Probably the first comedy where I was 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:35.719 just like on the ground rolling in laughter. It's hilarious 0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:38.240 and yeah, I think Russ. 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:41.160 Would enjoy that. I think I really think top Secret, 0:42:41.360 --> 0:42:42.920 top Secret. Check it out. 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:45.080 Val Kilmer is the star and it's probably his first 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:48.640 like feature film. He plays this American singer called Nick 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:51.439 Rivers and he goes to Russia to Germany to play 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:54.200 back in the old time. So it's it's hilarious. 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:54.719 Check it out. 0:42:55.800 --> 0:42:59.759 But I will say Russ pretty pretty intense there. He 0:42:59.840 --> 0:43:02.480 got the tea there last night, and he didn't look 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:05.719 like he was enjoying himself on the bench, and understandably so, 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:08.480 but yeah, yeah, it was it was a bit of 0:43:08.480 --> 0:43:11.759 a rough knife for him there. But yeah, I again, 0:43:11.960 --> 0:43:15.000 Anthony Davis, the numbers tell you that he had a 0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:17.280 good game. I didn't think he was all that impressive 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:20.720 last night. I didn't think he really flexed his muscles 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:21.400 as he should have. 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:24.040 So anyway, I thought he was awesome in the first half. 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:26.040 It looked like in the first half he was trying 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:28.520 to get layups and dunks the entire time. And then 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:31.239 the second half, you know, the Warriors kind of made 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:34.280 it a point to have ad not be as readily 0:43:34.320 --> 0:43:37.160 available in the paint. Inn he wasn't in the paint 0:43:37.320 --> 0:43:39.279 nearly as much, so you know, shout out to the 0:43:39.320 --> 0:43:41.840 Warriors for taking that away. But that's also going to 0:43:41.880 --> 0:43:44.960 be a problem for the Lakers. If they have a 0:43:45.160 --> 0:43:49.319 center out there outside of Davis alongside Westbrook, there's gonna 0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:51.919 be people just waiting in the lane, and Davis needs 0:43:51.960 --> 0:43:53.880 to be in the lane. That's the secret to the 0:43:54.440 --> 0:43:57.080 to the Lakers. They get shots at the rim between 0:43:57.160 --> 0:43:59.000 Lebron and Ad They're gonna have a chance as long 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:00.000 as those two guys are out there. 0:44:00.320 --> 0:44:02.200 But they got to find a way to get easy 0:44:02.280 --> 0:44:02.960 buckets for him. 0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:05.279 I have one more note from this game. I don't 0:44:05.280 --> 0:44:07.160 know if you guys have any anything else, but Reggie 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:09.080 Miller on the call for this second game, he said 0:44:09.120 --> 0:44:11.600 something that like made me perk up a little bit, 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:14.480 and I was like, huh really. It was when Mello 0:44:14.640 --> 0:44:17.520 and Rondo were checking in, and he said something along 0:44:17.560 --> 0:44:20.480 the lines of like, you know how nice it must 0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:23.360 be for Vogel to have two future Hall of famers 0:44:23.560 --> 0:44:28.840 checking in here. Mello Okay, yeah, Locke put him in 0:44:28.880 --> 0:44:30.239 the Hall of Fame. You know what, He's top ten 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:33.320 already in scoring. That makes sense. I'm there is Rondo 0:44:33.960 --> 0:44:38.200 an automatic Hall of Fame player in your mind? Like 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:41.799 like Reggie was alluding to, I was like, I don't 0:44:41.840 --> 0:44:44.320 know if I guess what I'm saying. Is If Rondo 0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:45.880 is a lock for the Hall of Fame, then our 0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:48.239 debate about whether Kyle Lowry was eventually going to get 0:44:48.239 --> 0:44:50.440 in means he's in. And I'm just like not so 0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:53.440 sure of either of them tasks. Is Rondo in your opinion? 0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:56.440 You know, when he's done? Is he in the right way? 0:44:56.480 --> 0:44:58.960 Two rings? Four All Star selections, one All NBA, a 0:44:59.040 --> 0:45:01.160 couple All Defensive team? Is that enough in your mind? 0:45:02.440 --> 0:45:05.000 It's not enough in my mind? No, a lot, right, Yeah, 0:45:05.239 --> 0:45:08.320 it's you know, you got a factor in the player 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:14.040 and everything alongside the the accomplishments, and so yeah, it's 0:45:14.200 --> 0:45:16.920 it's definitely one of those if you just look at 0:45:16.960 --> 0:45:20.439 the accomplishments, it lines up with other guys, there's no doubt. 0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:23.360 So that's why he can be inserted into the debate. 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:28.560 But for me, I would say no. I would say no. 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:32.960 But yeah, boosted obviously by what he did with the Celtics. 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:37.480 So you know, if really you're putting in Rondo, you're 0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:41.279 putting in four. You got four Celtics there that are 0:45:41.320 --> 0:45:44.839 going in there based on that championship to some degree. 0:45:44.840 --> 0:45:46.680 I mean Ray was going to get in kgusing again, Okay, 0:45:46.719 --> 0:45:48.239 it's not based on that championship. Pierce is going to 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:52.840 get any but Rondo's strictly. It's strictly because of what 0:45:53.000 --> 0:45:55.560 he did with those guys. Essentially, you know, the second 0:45:55.640 --> 0:45:58.640 ring with the Lakers is it's gravy. But the All 0:45:58.719 --> 0:46:03.880 Star appearances and the the championship, Yeah, it's just he 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:06.279 was He was there. He was great. He was very 0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:09.600 good for that team with guys that could hit, but 0:46:09.800 --> 0:46:13.360 everything that came along with it, guys who you know, 0:46:13.719 --> 0:46:17.239 really couldn't stand him with the Dallas Mavericks, you know, 0:46:17.360 --> 0:46:19.640 he essentially left the team. He went to the Kings, 0:46:19.719 --> 0:46:22.279 and it's hard. It's it's hard for me to put 0:46:22.320 --> 0:46:25.359 him in after watching all that stuff, after watching him 0:46:25.400 --> 0:46:28.440 not be a great teammate with a bunch of teams. 0:46:28.520 --> 0:46:33.160 Is where I struggle, because the accomplishments again they line up. 0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:36.319 We know Lee's opinion on this. I won't even ask him, 0:46:36.640 --> 0:46:38.439 but that's a poll. I want to know what people 0:46:38.520 --> 0:46:41.319 think overall, is run to a lock for the Hall 0:46:41.360 --> 0:46:43.160 of Fame. I think it might be closer than I 0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:45.239 even think. We will see, all right, we got lots 0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:47.200 still to get here. Oh my goodness, we're running real 0:46:47.200 --> 0:46:49.520 along here with our first show. But first a quick 0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:53.120 break to hear from our sponsors. All right, back with 0:46:53.200 --> 0:46:55.479 no dunks here, Lee, lock it in. We're going ninety 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:58.800 minutes here for our first real official show of the 0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:01.879 twenty twenty two NBA season, because we got lots more 0:47:01.960 --> 0:47:04.120 still to talk about. We just did fifty plus minutes 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:09.440 there on the games alone. All right, let's start speaking 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:12.160 up as we go on here. But my goodness, Ben 0:47:12.239 --> 0:47:16.520 Simmons has received a one game suspension for conduct detrimental 0:47:16.560 --> 0:47:18.760 to the team, and he will miss the season opener 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:23.360 against the Pelicans tonight. According to reports, Ben Simmons was 0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:25.919 kicked out of practice on Tuesday due to a lack 0:47:26.000 --> 0:47:30.120 of engagement. Sixers head coach Doc Rivers asked Simmons to 0:47:30.320 --> 0:47:33.480 join a defensive drill at practice, and the point guard refused. 0:47:34.040 --> 0:47:38.799 The actual quote going around is no, So Doc said, 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:40.600 get the hell out of here, then drop the ball, 0:47:40.640 --> 0:47:43.560 and off he went. The seventy six Ers have suspended 0:47:43.600 --> 0:47:46.360 Ben Simmons. Herely, I guess the question is, I know 0:47:46.480 --> 0:47:49.920 you're probably tired of talking about this, but where. 0:47:49.840 --> 0:47:50.480 Do we go now? 0:47:50.640 --> 0:47:54.840 And is trading Simmons the only possible option? I mean it, 0:47:55.080 --> 0:47:57.560 can they salvage this. Can he actually come and play 0:47:57.600 --> 0:47:59.359 for this team, or he's like is it just send 0:47:59.440 --> 0:48:01.960 him home, have them away from the team because he's 0:48:01.960 --> 0:48:03.799 causing this disruption and just try and treat them get 0:48:03.800 --> 0:48:04.200 whatever you can. 0:48:04.239 --> 0:48:06.000 What do you think, well, if he wants to get traded, 0:48:06.000 --> 0:48:07.759 I don't think he's handling this the right way at all, 0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:11.480 because nobody's going to sympathize with petulant behavior. And to me, 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:15.960 all he's doing is making his situation way tougher for himself, 0:48:16.040 --> 0:48:17.960 because I think this is going to give other teams 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:20.759 reason to sort of hesitate a little bit, saying like, Okay, 0:48:20.960 --> 0:48:23.399 I understand he's pissed off at the franchise, but he's 0:48:23.480 --> 0:48:25.919 now just acting like a child. I think the best 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:28.040 thing Ben Simmons should do right now is say, you 0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:30.080 know what, I'm going to go out there and Russell 0:48:30.120 --> 0:48:32.680 Westbrook my way out of Philadelphia. And by that, I 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:35.239 mean just go out there and stuff the stat sheet 0:48:35.400 --> 0:48:37.880 every single night, regardless of winning or losing, because if 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:39.400 they win, he can say, look how good I am. 0:48:39.560 --> 0:48:42.200 I'm putting up nearly triple double figures and we're not winning, 0:48:42.280 --> 0:48:44.279 and if they lose, he's still putting up those near 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:46.320 triple double numbs thing to say, see, it's not my fault. 0:48:46.400 --> 0:48:47.160 I'm doing my part. 0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:49.640 No one else is contributing. So whether you want to 0:48:49.640 --> 0:48:51.799 blame him or the franchise, and there's enough of both 0:48:51.880 --> 0:48:55.080 there him behaving like this and just saying no, I'm 0:48:55.120 --> 0:48:57.239 not doing that, I'm not doing this. I just think 0:48:57.320 --> 0:48:59.359 it makes him look like a dick. And if you're 0:48:59.400 --> 0:49:02.239 another team him and you're like going, this guy just 0:49:02.360 --> 0:49:04.920 really can't sort of get himself back on track here 0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:07.719 and say I'm gonna play my way out of Philadelphia, 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:10.960 so that teams really really start falling over themselves to 0:49:11.040 --> 0:49:13.120 trade for him. I think that's the biggest problem. I've 0:49:13.160 --> 0:49:15.439 mentioned this before. I think teams are more like going, 0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:17.839 we'll take him on the cheap, but we're not giving 0:49:17.920 --> 0:49:21.640 up like a significant player or a huge draft compensation 0:49:21.719 --> 0:49:23.440 to get hold of him right now, because I just 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:25.600 think he comes with a huge risk, and if he's 0:49:25.640 --> 0:49:28.040 going to keep behaving like this, I think Doc Rivers 0:49:28.080 --> 0:49:29.920 is right to say just okay, just go home. Then, 0:49:30.000 --> 0:49:32.480 I mean, you're only making your own situation worse here. 0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:37.279 So it's a stupid, ugly, dumb whole thing. I thought 0:49:37.320 --> 0:49:39.160 when the suspension first came out, I thought it was 0:49:39.200 --> 0:49:41.400 more just like this is for the whole summer of 0:49:41.840 --> 0:49:42.760 you know the way. 0:49:42.800 --> 0:49:46.520 I thought a lifetime achievement. That's exactly that's. 0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:46.960 What I thought. 0:49:47.200 --> 0:49:49.719 Maybe he's not quite ready to go there same we're 0:49:49.719 --> 0:49:51.360 just going to suspend you. We're actually just doing this 0:49:51.400 --> 0:49:52.759 because we've got to show the other players that you 0:49:52.840 --> 0:49:55.359 can't behave like that. And then it all came out 0:49:55.400 --> 0:49:57.480 and he was just like, I'm not trying, I'm not playing, 0:49:57.520 --> 0:49:59.480 I'm not going to do defense and do that. Well, 0:49:59.520 --> 0:50:01.040 if you're not go to do anything like that, And 0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:03.319 then Doc Rivers, I think was one hundred percent right 0:50:03.360 --> 0:50:05.879 to say fuck off, then just go don't even boy 0:50:05.920 --> 0:50:06.360 the turning up. 0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:08.719 Yeah, but wasn't it foolish for the Sixers to think 0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:12.040 that he wouldn't be a distraction by really sort of 0:50:12.080 --> 0:50:12.880 forcing him to come back. 0:50:12.920 --> 0:50:15.799 Listen, you're a professional. Okay, you're a professional getting paid 0:50:15.840 --> 0:50:18.080 one hundred and fifty million dollars. Still they owe you, 0:50:18.280 --> 0:50:21.120 like you can put these things behind. This is not 0:50:21.200 --> 0:50:23.400 the first time a franchise and a star player has 0:50:23.520 --> 0:50:25.520 fallen out and not been not a go on. Remember 0:50:25.520 --> 0:50:28.080 when Jimmy Butler. The report was he came back and said, 0:50:28.239 --> 0:50:30.120 come here, third stringers, I'm going to go and kick 0:50:30.160 --> 0:50:33.600 the ass of the first stringers. Well, that, in some way, 0:50:33.880 --> 0:50:37.080 I think appeal to some teams, you know, like Philadelphia 0:50:37.280 --> 0:50:39.160 and like Miami, whether like we just want to ball, 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:40.400 we want to go. Who's going to go at that 0:50:40.680 --> 0:50:42.840 and play his way out? Not a guy who's just 0:50:42.880 --> 0:50:44.520 going to be like, I'm not doing anything. 0:50:44.640 --> 0:50:46.080 He's killed exactly. 0:50:46.239 --> 0:50:49.120 I still expect a quality team to come in with 0:50:49.280 --> 0:50:52.239 a big offer and have me plunk straight into their team, 0:50:52.320 --> 0:50:54.400 starting straight away on a championship contender. 0:50:54.520 --> 0:50:55.080 And I'll say this. 0:50:55.160 --> 0:50:57.480 One last time before I move on. You've got to 0:50:57.520 --> 0:51:00.480 look around that locker room and say, Joel embiid runner 0:51:00.560 --> 0:51:02.840 up MVP last season, You're on a team with a 0:51:02.880 --> 0:51:07.000 roster that's basically been built to cover up your offensive 0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:10.319 deficiency and deficiencies. You want to just walk away from 0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:11.719 that to go to a team where it's like we're 0:51:11.719 --> 0:51:13.560 gonna have to start all over again and maybe not 0:51:13.680 --> 0:51:16.600 even make the playoffs. Be careful what you wish for here, Benny, 0:51:16.640 --> 0:51:18.839 because you might just get it. And I really think 0:51:23.440 --> 0:51:28.920 that's got deadly horrible, horrible advice around him. He's inner circle. 0:51:29.040 --> 0:51:31.399 Someone is giving him terrible advice. I think someone needs. 0:51:32.840 --> 0:51:35.200 I think you need to go and say listen, you 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:37.839 just you're you're if you're Rich Paul right now as well, 0:51:37.880 --> 0:51:40.520 I'm saying listen, rich Rich is going I'm not getting 0:51:40.560 --> 0:51:42.600 paid either, by the way, and you're making things worse 0:51:42.680 --> 0:51:44.960 for everybody. Just get out there and show them that 0:51:45.040 --> 0:51:48.200 you are so good that this team can't win without you. 0:51:48.280 --> 0:51:50.719 Like Jimmy Butler said, you motherfuckers can't win without. 0:51:50.920 --> 0:51:52.360 Well say that instead. 0:51:52.440 --> 0:51:55.320 It's like, oh my god, this is a terrible situation. 0:51:55.719 --> 0:51:58.560 Yeah, but isn't it next level thinking to really really 0:51:58.880 --> 0:52:00.680 stink it up so that the team that trades for 0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:02.840 you doesn't have to trade a lot air you go 0:52:03.040 --> 0:52:06.200 to a better team. The worse he plays, the lower 0:52:06.280 --> 0:52:09.759 the package gets. But I mean, the seventy six ers 0:52:09.840 --> 0:52:12.080 absolutely have to trade him because skeets. When I saw 0:52:12.160 --> 0:52:15.200 the document, the document today for what we're going to 0:52:15.239 --> 0:52:18.080 be talking about, I saw that Ben Simmons was suspended 0:52:18.160 --> 0:52:21.160 after he spat in practice, and I didn't blink at all. 0:52:21.200 --> 0:52:25.400 I was like, oh, Ben Simmons spat doc rivers, No 0:52:25.640 --> 0:52:29.279 that's not what happened, but it seems believable at this point, 0:52:29.400 --> 0:52:33.200 like any sort of drama between the Sixers and Ben Simmons, 0:52:33.920 --> 0:52:34.799 Like I will believe it. 0:52:34.880 --> 0:52:35.479 At this point. 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:37.319 And I mean, this is not an ad but kind 0:52:37.360 --> 0:52:40.600 of an ad. Shout out to the Athletics social media department. 0:52:40.680 --> 0:52:43.880 Subscribe at the Athletic dot com slash no dunks and 0:52:44.040 --> 0:52:46.000 subscribe to their Twitter feeds because they put up some 0:52:46.120 --> 0:52:51.480 hilarious graphics yesterday, like this recreation of what actually went 0:52:51.560 --> 0:52:54.759 down in practice not spitting doc rivers, Ben, get in 0:52:54.840 --> 0:52:58.360 and take the spot. No, all right, go home, or 0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:01.040 this quote board that they made a little bit later, 0:53:01.120 --> 0:53:02.440 which I do believe. 0:53:02.239 --> 0:53:07.120 Is going to become a useful meme around the NBA 0:53:07.239 --> 0:53:07.960 twitter sphere. 0:53:08.320 --> 0:53:14.720 Just a straight up no from Ben Simmons's. 0:53:13.440 --> 0:53:16.520 Me about the new not today. I don't think so 0:53:16.680 --> 0:53:17.520 you know that old guy? 0:53:17.840 --> 0:53:17.880 No? 0:53:18.640 --> 0:53:23.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, Like unsolved mystery? 0:53:23.680 --> 0:53:24.160 Is that what it is? 0:53:24.280 --> 0:53:24.400 Yet? 0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:24.560 Wait? 0:53:24.640 --> 0:53:25.840 Do I know what you're talking about? 0:53:25.960 --> 0:53:26.080 Lee? 0:53:26.640 --> 0:53:26.680 No? 0:53:30.800 --> 0:53:33.600 Yeah, tasks. I don't know. If you saw Sham's article 0:53:33.640 --> 0:53:36.080 at The Athletic, he had some more details on what 0:53:36.239 --> 0:53:39.840 went down. I guess Ben Simmons has been entering the 0:53:39.920 --> 0:53:43.840 facility and just ignores most of the seventy six staffers. 0:53:44.160 --> 0:53:46.440 And also this is a quote from Shams. Each day 0:53:46.800 --> 0:53:49.239 Simmons trains by himself on his own side of the 0:53:49.280 --> 0:53:52.920 basketball court, shooting jumpers and free throws with rebounders, so 0:53:52.960 --> 0:53:55.080 he gets a sweat, just as if he's like just 0:53:55.160 --> 0:53:56.520 going one on one in the gym, even though it's 0:53:56.520 --> 0:53:59.600 a team practice going on. But anything to add to 0:53:59.640 --> 0:54:01.960 this to I mean, what is the move? What's the 0:54:02.040 --> 0:54:06.160 move from the Sixers here now? Because in Sham's article 0:54:06.280 --> 0:54:09.520 they say he says they're not trading them for nothing, 0:54:09.680 --> 0:54:13.359 so they're going to wait until teams start the season. Uh, 0:54:13.400 --> 0:54:15.719 oh they disappoint, Oh there's a big injury to some 0:54:15.880 --> 0:54:17.600 team that want to make the playoffs or something, and 0:54:17.640 --> 0:54:19.680 then they're a little more desperate to maybe call the 0:54:19.680 --> 0:54:21.480 Sixers and make a move for Ben Simmons, and that 0:54:21.520 --> 0:54:23.440 they're just gonna wait until a month or so in here, 0:54:23.480 --> 0:54:25.560 possibly maybe even the deadline for all we know. So 0:54:25.640 --> 0:54:27.680 what do you do? Do you try and have them 0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:30.359 around the team, you continue to do this Sharat or Chara, 0:54:30.400 --> 0:54:31.759 excuse me? Or do you just send them home? 0:54:32.480 --> 0:54:35.440 Well, the first thing you do is keep things internal. 0:54:35.880 --> 0:54:38.560 The fact that everything is getting out to Sham's and 0:54:38.640 --> 0:54:44.040 to everyone else is horrendous because one great line, this 0:54:44.200 --> 0:54:47.479 is funny, but it's unfunny. But it's funny from Sham's articles, 0:54:47.480 --> 0:54:50.000 it's not funny for the Sixers quote on Sunday and Monday, 0:54:50.040 --> 0:54:53.560 he completed less than a handful of total defensive drills 0:54:53.600 --> 0:54:56.520 at practice. Nothing more, nothing less. 0:54:56.640 --> 0:54:58.880 Less than a handful. How dare he? 0:54:59.320 --> 0:55:02.000 If he completed a full handful, he'd be cool, but 0:55:02.200 --> 0:55:05.920 less than a handful. I think why it's hilarious that 0:55:05.960 --> 0:55:08.320 everything is coming out is that to me, it reminds 0:55:08.360 --> 0:55:12.160 me of Anthony Davis in twenty nineteen. There was a 0:55:12.280 --> 0:55:15.480 lot of cringeworthy moments before he got traded from the Pelicans. 0:55:16.239 --> 0:55:18.960 Adam Silver had to step in and say, this guy's 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:21.440 got a play. You can't just sit him out because 0:55:21.440 --> 0:55:23.440 he doesn't want to play. So they were sitting him 0:55:23.440 --> 0:55:26.520 out again. Commissioner comes in and then he played, and 0:55:26.600 --> 0:55:29.120 he was playing twenty minutes a game. And if you 0:55:29.200 --> 0:55:31.719 thought he wasn't going after it last night, go back 0:55:31.760 --> 0:55:34.240 to that tape in twenty nineteen. It was a month 0:55:34.880 --> 0:55:38.960 of him half asking it during games and sitting out 0:55:39.000 --> 0:55:40.759 a lot of them. Actually, he'd play a few games 0:55:40.920 --> 0:55:44.520 twenty minutes per a superstar. They were just putting him 0:55:44.520 --> 0:55:46.680 out there because they had to. They he'd sit a game, 0:55:46.760 --> 0:55:48.839 they'd put him out. So this was a month full 0:55:48.880 --> 0:55:52.520 of cringeworthy moments, But there wasn't all this practice reporting 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:56.000 and all that happening. Now, if Ben Simmons had come 0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:58.239 there and half asked it in practice and we weren't 0:55:58.280 --> 0:56:02.720 hearing about it, then it would be far more palatable 0:56:02.760 --> 0:56:05.840 to us. We wouldn't be up in arms over this 0:56:05.920 --> 0:56:08.480 whole thing. It would just be waiting until Ben Simmons 0:56:09.000 --> 0:56:12.759 was traded. But at this point it's cringe worthy reading 0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:16.279 about it, and I think somebody is still going to 0:56:16.320 --> 0:56:18.879 give up a good package for him because he's twenty five. 0:56:19.200 --> 0:56:22.640 He's not Anthony Davis level type superstar. But you know 0:56:22.719 --> 0:56:25.120 Anthony Davis in the package that he got, or the 0:56:25.480 --> 0:56:28.799 Lakers were able to or I'm sorry, the Pelicans were 0:56:28.840 --> 0:56:32.720 able to attain with a monster package there of Ingram 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:36.160 and Ball and Hart and picks. Yeah, that's not what 0:56:36.280 --> 0:56:38.040 the Sixers are going to get. But at the same time, 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:42.200 Simmons is twenty five and I think they still will 0:56:43.440 --> 0:56:45.759 get a good package, and I think the advice is 0:56:46.320 --> 0:56:48.320 keep it in how Bence Simmons will play in the games. 0:56:48.360 --> 0:56:51.080 He'll play it at least as hard as Anthony Davis did. 0:56:51.120 --> 0:56:52.880 I don't think you could play less hard than Anthony 0:56:52.960 --> 0:56:56.120 Davis did for our role fricking month, and the Lakers 0:56:56.160 --> 0:56:58.440 were still willing to give up. 0:56:58.600 --> 0:57:01.000 Here's the problem with that, though. The Pelicans were not 0:57:01.040 --> 0:57:03.320 trying to win a championship and had you know, no, 0:57:04.200 --> 0:57:05.640 no one was picking them to go that far in 0:57:05.680 --> 0:57:08.359 a Western conference. The Sixers with Embiid playing at an 0:57:08.400 --> 0:57:12.160 MVP level with a good team around him, and obviously 0:57:12.360 --> 0:57:13.920 you know, a somewhat new coach in Doc Rivers there 0:57:14.000 --> 0:57:16.000 being in the second year, like they have plans to 0:57:16.160 --> 0:57:20.000 challenge for a championship. So it's that situation is different. 0:57:20.040 --> 0:57:21.400 It's like, who really cares when you were in New 0:57:21.440 --> 0:57:24.200 Orleans back there in twenty nineteen. But this is my 0:57:24.400 --> 0:57:26.360 this is what I get to like, you got to 0:57:26.400 --> 0:57:27.960 send this home, you got to get this out of here, 0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:30.120 Like this is ridiculous. This will have an impact on 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:31.760 the rest of the team. How can it not? So 0:57:32.440 --> 0:57:34.240 if he's going to continue to do this and sulk 0:57:34.920 --> 0:57:37.600 and be a baby about it. Then you know, get 0:57:37.680 --> 0:57:39.960 up then, don't be the babysitter like Dwell and Bizza 0:57:40.000 --> 0:57:42.240 and just say go home. Man, we don't want you here. 0:57:42.320 --> 0:57:46.000 We'll try and trade you, we'll keep kicking calls everybody, Like, Also, 0:57:46.080 --> 0:57:47.840 what's Ben Simmons going to show us in these next 0:57:47.840 --> 0:57:49.479 couple of games where we're gonna be like, oh wow, 0:57:49.640 --> 0:57:51.840 oh he's really gotten better, Like he's we know what 0:57:51.960 --> 0:57:54.200 type of player he is, we know his limitations and that, 0:57:54.320 --> 0:57:56.040 and a team knows that. Every team knows that in 0:57:56.080 --> 0:57:58.760 the league. And he's not helping his case here by 0:57:58.840 --> 0:58:01.320 being this little pet little child with the whole thing. 0:58:01.360 --> 0:58:03.240 But I don't think the Sixers are helping themselves either 0:58:03.320 --> 0:58:06.160 here with trying to like force him to be around 0:58:06.200 --> 0:58:08.160 when he doesn't want to be there. But I think 0:58:08.240 --> 0:58:10.440 that's he's under contract, You're right, I mean, so they 0:58:10.520 --> 0:58:12.480 can say, well, you know, we want. 0:58:12.400 --> 0:58:14.240 You know, the old saying winning souls everything. You know, 0:58:14.280 --> 0:58:15.920 they want him out there because he can be a 0:58:15.960 --> 0:58:18.280 good player and affect their winning. And if they start winning, 0:58:18.320 --> 0:58:20.440 then all of a sudden, maybe the mood start to improve, 0:58:20.520 --> 0:58:22.720 but also his value improves and I think that's the 0:58:22.760 --> 0:58:25.440 big difference here with Anthony Davis. He was frustrated that 0:58:25.520 --> 0:58:28.040 he wasn't being able to be surrounded by talent that 0:58:28.120 --> 0:58:31.120 could take the Pelicans far into the playoffs. Well, the 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:33.959 Sixers should have made the Eastern Conference Finals last season. 0:58:34.000 --> 0:58:36.040 We were down there for Game three. Simmons was awesome 0:58:36.080 --> 0:58:37.800 in that game. He didn't have a huge stat line, 0:58:38.080 --> 0:58:40.640 but it looked like the Sixers were going to get 0:58:40.640 --> 0:58:43.000 past the old Hawks in there, the old douchebag sweep. 0:58:43.280 --> 0:58:45.400 But it didn't happen. So, you know, this is the 0:58:45.400 --> 0:58:47.800 big difference to Anthony Davis. After what seven years in 0:58:47.880 --> 0:58:49.840 New Orleans. I think he made the playoffs once and 0:58:49.920 --> 0:58:51.880 he was like, I just don't think this team is 0:58:51.960 --> 0:58:53.680 being built to contend. 0:58:53.920 --> 0:58:54.040 Well. 0:58:54.080 --> 0:58:56.720 Simmons is on a contender. He's got the talent. He's 0:58:56.760 --> 0:58:58.760 been there, they've given him the contract, they've done everything 0:58:58.800 --> 0:59:01.200 they can to try to get him close. So yeah, 0:59:01.360 --> 0:59:03.440 you know, and I understand again. You know, he got 0:59:03.520 --> 0:59:05.600 pissed off that he felt that Rivers and embiid threw 0:59:05.640 --> 0:59:08.560 him under the bus. Okay, move on, though you didn't 0:59:08.600 --> 0:59:11.160 put you didn't perform in the fourth quarters, you haven't 0:59:11.160 --> 0:59:12.960 done that at all. In your career so far, in 0:59:13.080 --> 0:59:15.640 terms of shooting the ball, you haven't shown that development 0:59:15.640 --> 0:59:18.680 and improvement. So some blame on them, but you've also 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:20.200 got to look at yourself in the mirror and say 0:59:20.560 --> 0:59:22.240 I need to be better, and he said he was 0:59:22.280 --> 0:59:23.919 going to be. Let's say it out on the court. 0:59:24.200 --> 0:59:27.600 I guess this is where I disagree with Aj Santiago 0:59:27.640 --> 0:59:29.320 here in the stream team they want Ben Simmons to 0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:31.360 play to remind teams of his value. My point is 0:59:31.480 --> 0:59:34.320 they don't need to. I really don't think they need to. 0:59:34.560 --> 0:59:36.680 I think all Darryl Moury is hoping and waiting for 0:59:37.120 --> 0:59:40.080 is the start of the season when everybody's oh and oh, 0:59:40.320 --> 0:59:43.040 and everybody has plans to make the playoffs, and then 0:59:43.200 --> 0:59:46.360 shit goes wrong for teams and suddenly they start to 0:59:46.440 --> 0:59:50.120 panic and say, uh, oh, okay, let's go get Ben Simmons, 0:59:50.200 --> 0:59:52.320 let's shake things up. Let's get more start you know, 0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:54.480 talent in here and maybe make a run for it 0:59:55.080 --> 0:59:56.680 and build for the future with a young guy that's 0:59:56.720 --> 0:59:58.680 under contract. That's the other part, that's the other difference 0:59:58.680 --> 1:00:01.280 from Anthony Davis. Actually the situation two that he's locked 1:00:01.320 --> 1:00:03.480 up for so long so I just don't think they 1:00:03.520 --> 1:00:05.840 need to do that. And if he's gonna sulk like this, 1:00:06.000 --> 1:00:08.200 I think it's more of a detriment than just not 1:00:08.320 --> 1:00:10.920 having him out there personally well and just waiting for 1:00:11.000 --> 1:00:12.720 teams to start like garbage. Yeah, go ahead. 1:00:12.880 --> 1:00:13.320 That's the thing. 1:00:13.360 --> 1:00:13.520 Though. 1:00:13.520 --> 1:00:15.720 It's such a huge bet for the seventy six ers too, 1:00:15.800 --> 1:00:18.000 that like, not only do they have to hope that 1:00:18.400 --> 1:00:20.520 things go poorly for other teams, they have to go 1:00:20.640 --> 1:00:22.520 worse for other teams than they are for the Sixers 1:00:22.600 --> 1:00:25.000 right now. And that's like, are you sure that that's 1:00:25.080 --> 1:00:27.560 gonna happen? Like we're seeing what's happening with Ben Simmons here. 1:00:27.560 --> 1:00:30.200 They're gonna be asked about what's going on with Ben 1:00:30.240 --> 1:00:32.920 Simmons all the time until he's either traded or takes 1:00:32.960 --> 1:00:34.760 the court, And it definitely doesn't feel like he's gonna 1:00:34.760 --> 1:00:37.200 take the court. But task I got bad news. It 1:00:37.280 --> 1:00:39.840 feels like we're never gonna get away from leaks of 1:00:39.920 --> 1:00:44.520 the Ben Simmons situation, cause video of Doc asking Ben 1:00:44.680 --> 1:00:47.480 to go on to the court actually just came out 1:00:47.720 --> 1:01:02.720 and we attend it. He said, you got to work throws. 1:01:03.280 --> 1:01:06.040 He's trying guys, he's out here getting those shots up. 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:07.520 He can't go in and play defense. 1:01:07.520 --> 1:01:08.320 He's already good at that. 1:01:09.800 --> 1:01:15.080 Are a faucet, everything can All. 1:01:15.040 --> 1:01:18.400 Right, let's move on from Ben here. In other NBA drama, 1:01:19.000 --> 1:01:21.840 high powered agent who represents the Kings forward Marvin Bagley 1:01:21.880 --> 1:01:24.760 blasted the team on Twitter yesterday. All right, buckle up 1:01:24.800 --> 1:01:27.640 for this one. Didn't want to do a Twitter thread, 1:01:27.760 --> 1:01:29.440 just wanted to do an image with all the words 1:01:29.480 --> 1:01:34.120 on it. Okay, it reads Sacramento has informed Marvin Bagley 1:01:34.240 --> 1:01:37.480 he is not in the opening night rotation, which is 1:01:37.600 --> 1:01:42.240 completely baffling. This is Jeff Schwartz, Begley's agent, and he 1:01:42.280 --> 1:01:45.040 said this in a statement. It's clear they have no 1:01:45.200 --> 1:01:47.680 plans for him in the future, and yet passed on 1:01:47.840 --> 1:01:51.040 potential deals at last year's deadline and this summer based 1:01:51.080 --> 1:01:53.760 on value. Instead, they chose to bring them back but 1:01:53.880 --> 1:01:57.640 not play them, a move completely contradictory to their value argument. 1:01:57.960 --> 1:02:01.160 This is a case study in miss management by the 1:02:01.320 --> 1:02:06.160 King's organization. Yeah, you know, I just I thought that 1:02:06.280 --> 1:02:07.640 was going up while I was reading it, But there 1:02:07.680 --> 1:02:10.200 it is. I won't read it again for everybody on YouTube. 1:02:10.200 --> 1:02:12.320 I think is taking a shit somewhere I saw it. 1:02:12.320 --> 1:02:16.320 He was suddenly gone. But anyway, Marvin Bagley's agent blasting 1:02:16.640 --> 1:02:20.240 the Kings after he's gonna be left out of the rotation. 1:02:21.080 --> 1:02:23.880 Does Bagley's agent have a point here, Tray, what's what's 1:02:23.920 --> 1:02:24.280 your take? 1:02:25.200 --> 1:02:27.440 Well, his agent does have a point. 1:02:27.680 --> 1:02:31.720 Marvin Bagley's tenure on the Sacramento Kings is going to 1:02:31.800 --> 1:02:34.760 be a long chapter in the long history of mismanagement 1:02:34.800 --> 1:02:37.120 by the King's franchise. But honestly, it starts on draft 1:02:37.200 --> 1:02:40.720 night when they had an international Hall of Famer as 1:02:40.800 --> 1:02:44.320 their GM and an international once in the generation talent 1:02:44.640 --> 1:02:45.320 ready to. 1:02:45.360 --> 1:02:47.080 Be drafted right there. And I do think that this 1:02:47.240 --> 1:02:47.720 is part of it. 1:02:47.880 --> 1:02:51.560 Like the Luca and Trey success, it puts a weird 1:02:51.640 --> 1:02:55.680 light on guys like DeAndre Ayton and Marvin Bagley, Like 1:02:56.480 --> 1:02:58.920 maybe it feels weird to these teams, the Kings and 1:02:59.040 --> 1:03:01.360 the Sons, to want to give a MAX extension to 1:03:02.480 --> 1:03:04.840 a not MAX player like those guys are that they 1:03:04.840 --> 1:03:08.440 could have had. Nonetheless, it is very strange. Marvin Bagley 1:03:08.480 --> 1:03:11.480 has played three thousand minutes in his NBA career. That's 1:03:11.560 --> 1:03:15.960 like one season for the top players out there, So yeah, 1:03:16.080 --> 1:03:18.200 he should get more minutes. A lot of it was 1:03:18.280 --> 1:03:20.200 he only played a few, you know, a handful of 1:03:20.240 --> 1:03:22.360 games his second season, didn't get a ton of minutes. 1:03:22.400 --> 1:03:27.120 But he's not doing things to earn more minutes. He's 1:03:27.160 --> 1:03:30.200 not a defensive presence out there, and the King's defense 1:03:30.360 --> 1:03:34.160 is the league's worst, and his offense on the other 1:03:34.280 --> 1:03:36.360 end of the court isn't good enough to make you 1:03:36.440 --> 1:03:39.160 want to play him extra minutes there as you're four 1:03:39.400 --> 1:03:41.760 or you're five, So he's kind of caught in a 1:03:41.840 --> 1:03:43.880 weird spot. It's like, if you're seven feet tall and 1:03:43.960 --> 1:03:47.000 a plus athlete, which Marvin Bagley is, you shouldn't shoot 1:03:47.080 --> 1:03:50.600 fifty percent. If you're shooting every single shot inside eight feet, 1:03:50.760 --> 1:03:52.840 you should probably shoot sixty percent. You should have some 1:03:53.000 --> 1:03:57.000 sort of physical presence at the rim or out on 1:03:57.080 --> 1:04:00.800 the perimeter defending. But he's just kind of drift through games. 1:04:00.840 --> 1:04:03.600 So yeah, maybe the King should give him more minutes, 1:04:03.640 --> 1:04:06.680 but also Marvin Bagley should earn more minutes. That being said, 1:04:07.040 --> 1:04:10.760 I love an angry agent email coming through like this. 1:04:11.440 --> 1:04:13.960 The last one I can remember was Matist Thibel's agents 1:04:14.600 --> 1:04:17.640 getting very mad that the assistant coaches left him off the. 1:04:17.720 --> 1:04:20.280 Rookie sophomore game. This is similar to that. 1:04:20.560 --> 1:04:23.720 But you never want to hear that number two draft 1:04:23.800 --> 1:04:26.280 pick is out of the rotation before the season even starts. 1:04:26.360 --> 1:04:29.240 What a bad start to the King season. 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:32.240 Yeah, tess, what do you think about Jeff Schwartz here? 1:04:32.280 --> 1:04:34.920 And is the way he's handling this by just putting 1:04:34.960 --> 1:04:37.800 the kings on full blasts and you could have traded him, 1:04:38.280 --> 1:04:39.680 but you wanted value. And now you're not even go 1:04:39.760 --> 1:04:41.880 to play him in the rotation. What's going on? Make 1:04:41.960 --> 1:04:43.400 up your mind? I think is what he's. 1:04:43.200 --> 1:04:48.240 Saying right, And I agree from a practical standpoint, How 1:04:48.320 --> 1:04:51.760 the heck is Marvin Bagley not playing in this rotation? 1:04:52.080 --> 1:04:54.320 Who is playing over him? I get that he is 1:04:54.360 --> 1:04:57.280 not a defensive presence. They were by far the thirtieth 1:04:57.360 --> 1:05:00.920 best defense in the league last year. Did a problem 1:05:01.000 --> 1:05:03.360 for him and getting minutes. But at the same time, 1:05:03.600 --> 1:05:06.520 this is his contract year. He is going to play 1:05:07.200 --> 1:05:09.040 as best as he has ever played. And last year 1:05:09.080 --> 1:05:11.840 he was decent enough to come off the bench. And 1:05:11.960 --> 1:05:15.560 I go back to the rotation, who's taking his minutes 1:05:15.680 --> 1:05:19.720 even as a bench player. I don't know their bigs 1:05:19.760 --> 1:05:24.120 are Alex Len, Damian Jones, Rashaun Holmes starting Chimezi Metu. 1:05:24.960 --> 1:05:29.520 Tristan Thompson is there. You know, he's way past his prime, 1:05:29.560 --> 1:05:31.400 and those are the bigs more heartless. 1:05:31.160 --> 1:05:32.720 I guess could be taking his minutes. 1:05:34.080 --> 1:05:36.400 That it's totally I get it from a Bractale's standpoint. 1:05:36.440 --> 1:05:40.520 Jess Swartz is right mismanagement. I think Marvin Bagley should 1:05:40.560 --> 1:05:44.080 be playing and seeing if he could add something defensively 1:05:44.200 --> 1:05:47.480 to his game. Again, because this is this is Bagley's 1:05:47.520 --> 1:05:49.640 career right here. Of course he's going to play past 1:05:49.720 --> 1:05:52.040 this season, but this is a contract year for him. 1:05:52.280 --> 1:05:54.480 I don't think Josh Schwartz expected him to be a 1:05:54.560 --> 1:05:58.040 MAX guy by any means. They didn't extend him. But 1:05:58.320 --> 1:06:01.640 Josh Schwartz expects some minutes. But is this the right 1:06:01.680 --> 1:06:05.320 way to go about it. I don't think so. I mean, 1:06:05.400 --> 1:06:09.040 maybe he's been wrong timing time again and again and again. 1:06:09.080 --> 1:06:09.720 I guess by the. 1:06:09.800 --> 1:06:13.200 Kings front office, we've had Marvin Bagley this second, Marvin 1:06:13.200 --> 1:06:16.600 Bagley's dad speak out about Marvin Bagley's minutes before. 1:06:17.080 --> 1:06:19.880 But it doesn't seem right to me. 1:06:20.080 --> 1:06:22.520 It feels like even the Matisse s Thaibel incident that 1:06:22.640 --> 1:06:26.720 Trey brought up, that was a tweet and that wasn't 1:06:26.760 --> 1:06:32.800 a formal letter written by an agent. It seems like 1:06:32.920 --> 1:06:34.880 bad form to me. I mean, that's just it's not 1:06:35.000 --> 1:06:37.080 my game. I don't really understand it. I don't really 1:06:37.160 --> 1:06:39.680 get it. I can understand him being pissed, but I 1:06:39.720 --> 1:06:44.000 would expect a one to one conversation with Luke Walton 1:06:44.120 --> 1:06:46.160 or whoever to try and get him in the rotation 1:06:46.440 --> 1:06:48.560 or trying to understand it would be more important. But 1:06:48.600 --> 1:06:50.640 maybe he's past that point. I don't get I don't 1:06:50.720 --> 1:06:52.480 know why he's not playing really when it comes down 1:06:52.520 --> 1:06:54.840 to it, even if he's not a good defensive player, 1:06:54.840 --> 1:06:56.600 even if he struggles on that end. 1:06:57.240 --> 1:06:59.280 Lay anything to add here to the Bagman situation. 1:07:00.080 --> 1:07:04.640 Actually, no, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, 1:07:05.200 --> 1:07:05.440 hold on. 1:07:05.680 --> 1:07:12.440 No year, he's not I know, I still have I 1:07:12.560 --> 1:07:14.920 still have faith in Marvin Bagley gonna be a decent 1:07:15.040 --> 1:07:16.200 enough player in this league. 1:07:16.840 --> 1:07:17.840 Uh, he must have. 1:07:17.960 --> 1:07:21.240 Like Jeff Schwartz, his agent was told from the Kings 1:07:21.840 --> 1:07:25.280 he's not playing right. Otherwise you don't send this, uh 1:07:25.440 --> 1:07:27.840 you know, pretty scathing tweet here, or at least a 1:07:28.040 --> 1:07:29.560 photo of all the words that you want to say 1:07:29.560 --> 1:07:31.320 in your tweet that you don't want to do a 1:07:31.360 --> 1:07:34.480 thread with Lee. So he's been told like we're going small. 1:07:34.640 --> 1:07:37.280 We got the bigs that we like, I guess Holmes 1:07:37.320 --> 1:07:39.560 and Tristan Thompson and Mitto. Like he said, it's like 1:07:40.040 --> 1:07:43.160 it's a little weird. Uh, seems a strange way to 1:07:43.200 --> 1:07:45.560 go about maybe trying to build the value of a 1:07:45.600 --> 1:07:49.240 guy like Trey said that barely has ever played. But 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:51.280 you got nothing to add Lelely, you think he's just 1:07:51.400 --> 1:07:52.720 what eventually will be moved here. 1:07:52.920 --> 1:07:56.160 He must be, Yeah, yeah, he has to be. But 1:07:56.280 --> 1:07:59.000 the Kings, I remember, took the safe option. Don't try, 1:07:59.120 --> 1:08:02.160 don't drop Luca just in case it doesn't work out. 1:08:02.280 --> 1:08:03.720 Take bag. He's a sure bit. 1:08:05.520 --> 1:08:05.720 Yeah. 1:08:07.880 --> 1:08:10.840 Rough, Look, I think I definitely think a new situation. 1:08:11.000 --> 1:08:13.280 You coach all those sort of cliche things. Get him 1:08:13.280 --> 1:08:15.000 into the right system, and I think he can be 1:08:15.040 --> 1:08:16.840 effective play because he can stretch the floor. Is a 1:08:16.840 --> 1:08:19.280 big guy, but it's just not there in Sacramento. So 1:08:19.320 --> 1:08:21.120 the quicker he gets out of there, the better for him. 1:08:21.560 --> 1:08:24.600 Smooth move by Jeff Schwartz, though, to not demand a 1:08:24.720 --> 1:08:26.839 trade like he did. Stop short there. 1:08:27.040 --> 1:08:29.160 So tell me you're demanding a trade. 1:08:29.200 --> 1:08:32.479 Yeah, he may not get fired. I don't know we'll 1:08:32.560 --> 1:08:35.800 still get fired for that. I don't think he doesn't 1:08:35.880 --> 1:08:38.360 see me. He's just like, why aren't you playing me? 1:08:38.520 --> 1:08:40.120 And why didn't you trade me? If you're not going 1:08:40.200 --> 1:08:44.840 to play me? We'll see final little thing here. We 1:08:44.960 --> 1:08:46.800 still have tweet of the night and we got pick 1:08:46.880 --> 1:08:50.040 them and all that. The first twenty five members of 1:08:50.120 --> 1:08:54.839 the NBA's seventy fifth anniversary team have officially been revealed. 1:08:54.920 --> 1:08:57.000 I am not going to read all twenty five names. 1:08:57.040 --> 1:08:59.240 If you're on YouTube, you're seeing them here in a 1:08:59.520 --> 1:09:04.000 very very slick graphic from the NBA and NBA dot 1:09:04.080 --> 1:09:07.920 Com the day one reveal twenty five names there. I 1:09:08.080 --> 1:09:11.519 just have some thoughts on how they're going about rolling 1:09:11.600 --> 1:09:14.519 this out. I find it very weird. So we got 1:09:14.560 --> 1:09:16.720 twenty five last night. There's gonna be twenty five more 1:09:16.800 --> 1:09:20.200 this afternoon on ESPN at three o'clock, I believe on 1:09:20.520 --> 1:09:22.840 Melika Andrews New Show If I'm a Guessing Man, and 1:09:22.920 --> 1:09:25.479 then twenty five more on Thursday night before the doubleheader 1:09:25.560 --> 1:09:30.360 on TNT. But even last night Tasks, they're listing five 1:09:30.560 --> 1:09:34.439 names at a time over the length of the ninety 1:09:34.479 --> 1:09:38.519 minute broadcast. It was so weird. It was like here's 1:09:38.560 --> 1:09:41.560 a graphic with five names on it. There's absolutely no 1:09:41.760 --> 1:09:44.080 rhyme or reason of the names, like the order that 1:09:44.120 --> 1:09:46.519 we're getting these from what I could tell, you know, 1:09:46.600 --> 1:09:50.280 it's not alphabetical. It's not like broken into different eras. 1:09:50.720 --> 1:09:53.360 It's not by night, it's not by jersey numbers. It's 1:09:53.439 --> 1:09:56.439 like just they just are like, here you go, here's five. 1:09:56.720 --> 1:09:58.880 Gonna hit you with a Hal Grier right off the top. 1:09:59.040 --> 1:10:02.439 Yeah, out of their face right number one. He's the goat. 1:10:03.760 --> 1:10:07.160 I just don't get how they're going about this. The 1:10:07.240 --> 1:10:09.640 only thing I can think of is that T and 1:10:09.720 --> 1:10:12.040 T and ESPN were like fighting over who was going 1:10:12.080 --> 1:10:14.200 to get to announce these and then they were like, 1:10:14.280 --> 1:10:16.519 well drop both got to get a part of it. Yeah, 1:10:17.240 --> 1:10:20.000 And so they came up with this because the last 1:10:20.040 --> 1:10:23.160 thing we need on opening night of the NBA season 1:10:24.120 --> 1:10:24.360 is this. 1:10:24.640 --> 1:10:24.760 Now. 1:10:24.760 --> 1:10:26.280 I get it's the seventy fifth season. I get that 1:10:26.439 --> 1:10:29.479 ties in nicely, but like, to me, this screams lee 1:10:30.240 --> 1:10:33.640 like a ninety minute special where we can actually like 1:10:33.800 --> 1:10:35.640 show some love to some of these guys. That was 1:10:35.680 --> 1:10:39.639 the other thing. They're photos there, you know, no video 1:10:39.920 --> 1:10:42.600 of any of these guys. No like accolades, like you 1:10:42.680 --> 1:10:45.360 know x amount of All Star selections and all this, 1:10:45.640 --> 1:10:47.880 like that's all on their website and that's fine and Danny, 1:10:47.920 --> 1:10:50.160 but like, come on, like we're trying to celebrate the 1:10:50.240 --> 1:10:52.840 game here to especially maybe a younger audience, and it 1:10:52.960 --> 1:10:55.560 was like it was like a who cares. It was 1:10:55.680 --> 1:10:57.559 sort of it's really weird to me how they went 1:10:57.600 --> 1:10:59.639 about this. I was a little disappointed, if I'm being honest. 1:11:00.000 --> 1:11:02.360 Actually think they watch our show and thought, you know, 1:11:02.400 --> 1:11:04.519 what's one of the best segments they do, Hey, what 1:11:04.640 --> 1:11:07.040 about this guy? I think that's the sort of a hart, 1:11:08.360 --> 1:11:10.200 you know, because they didn't want to name you know, 1:11:10.360 --> 1:11:12.479 this is the number one, this is number ten or whatever, 1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:14.960 and so instead it was like, let's just name some 1:11:15.080 --> 1:11:17.799 guys and they're all top seventy five, and it actually 1:11:17.920 --> 1:11:19.960 is like then people can't say, oh, you should have 1:11:19.960 --> 1:11:21.040 been higher, you should have been lower. 1:11:21.280 --> 1:11:24.120 Okay, that's fine, but like, mai name them all at once, 1:11:24.880 --> 1:11:28.160 or at least named the first twenty five once. If 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:30.080 you watch the broadcast, I swear to got it was like, 1:11:30.320 --> 1:11:33.320 here's five guys, and then you know, Chuck and Ernie 1:11:33.360 --> 1:11:35.679 in the gang are talking about something else and then hey, 1:11:35.840 --> 1:11:38.200 back from cords will break. Here's another five guys, and 1:11:38.360 --> 1:11:40.800 like then we went to the Bucks ceremony, which took 1:11:40.920 --> 1:11:41.719 like thirty minutes. 1:11:41.880 --> 1:11:43.600 I'm looking at Nora like she's like, how many have 1:11:43.680 --> 1:11:45.640 they named? I'm like, I think there's ten to go. 1:11:46.400 --> 1:11:48.520 And it was like five minutes left on the podcast, 1:11:48.960 --> 1:11:50.000 like they just snuck. 1:11:49.760 --> 1:11:50.160 Them in there. 1:11:50.720 --> 1:11:54.080 I just feels it feels so lame to me, this 1:11:54.479 --> 1:11:57.120 the rollout, the decision to do this this way. In fact, 1:11:57.160 --> 1:11:59.479 I would almost prefer they just saved it to All 1:11:59.520 --> 1:12:00.120 Star week. 1:12:00.600 --> 1:12:03.639 See, aren't they gonna have guys come out on All 1:12:03.680 --> 1:12:04.280 Star Weekend? 1:12:04.520 --> 1:12:04.720 Yeah? 1:12:05.080 --> 1:12:07.240 I think so, but maybe try and kept it a 1:12:07.320 --> 1:12:10.160 surprise and do it that way, Like this is this 1:12:10.360 --> 1:12:12.479 is weird, And I know, I guess by the end 1:12:12.560 --> 1:12:15.960 of Thursday night, maybe on Friday morning we're debating, like, oh, 1:12:16.080 --> 1:12:17.720 can you believe so and so is left off the 1:12:17.760 --> 1:12:20.479 list and that's when the debates kick off. But yeah, 1:12:20.600 --> 1:12:22.800 I just thought it was I think it's disrespectful in 1:12:22.840 --> 1:12:26.080 a weird way that they get no shine, they get 1:12:26.200 --> 1:12:29.680 no like to again someone that doesn't know how greer, Well, 1:12:29.680 --> 1:12:31.320 why don't you tell us about them a little bit? 1:12:31.800 --> 1:12:33.200 Like a tiny, tiny bit. 1:12:33.400 --> 1:12:35.640 Well, I don't know if this is accurate information, but 1:12:35.680 --> 1:12:37.840 I'll give you something about how Greer from the stream 1:12:37.920 --> 1:12:39.559 team perfect timing for how grew. 1:12:39.600 --> 1:12:41.919 They just unveiled his statue at Marshall University. 1:12:42.120 --> 1:12:43.200 I didn't know that nugget. 1:12:43.280 --> 1:12:46.200 Yeah, thanks mint Prozac. Well, I'll say a few things. 1:12:46.280 --> 1:12:49.240 I guess they believe All Star Weekend is their celebration 1:12:49.360 --> 1:12:51.639 of the seventy five names. So maybe they're just waiting 1:12:51.720 --> 1:12:55.519 until the Okay, so yes, and maybe maybe you'll see 1:12:56.040 --> 1:12:58.759 you know exactly what you said, celebrating the game, celebrating 1:12:58.800 --> 1:13:00.760 these guys will understand them a little bit more. But 1:13:01.360 --> 1:13:04.640 I am surprised that they're doing this this way, that 1:13:04.760 --> 1:13:08.200 they're waiting three days. Are you listening, Jeremy Levin? Are 1:13:08.240 --> 1:13:11.960 you listening? Why they're waiting three days to make this happen? 1:13:12.040 --> 1:13:16.280 Because they lean into not the rankings. I agree that 1:13:16.320 --> 1:13:18.720 they shouldn't be ranking them, but they lean into the 1:13:18.840 --> 1:13:22.200 debate the NBA. I think is okay with unveiling the 1:13:22.280 --> 1:13:26.160 seventy five names and having the debates happen. You don't 1:13:26.400 --> 1:13:28.240 listen the alphabetically, as you said, and then let the 1:13:28.280 --> 1:13:31.240 debates roll. But over doing it over three days. The 1:13:31.360 --> 1:13:34.360 other the debates are absolutely eliminated. They're gone, So it 1:13:34.439 --> 1:13:38.760 doesn't really make sense why you would, Yeah, take the 1:13:38.840 --> 1:13:41.400 steam out of it, as you're saying, Skeets, I agree 1:13:41.439 --> 1:13:44.240 that you can. If the celebration is later on, I 1:13:44.320 --> 1:13:47.439 get it. But yeah, you know, make it a fifteen 1:13:47.479 --> 1:13:50.800 minute part of the show and make it happen. I 1:13:50.920 --> 1:13:51.679 agree with that part. 1:13:52.160 --> 1:13:54.160 Yeah. I mean they want debate because if you go 1:13:54.240 --> 1:13:56.559 to NBA dot com slash seventy five, where you can 1:13:56.640 --> 1:13:59.120 see the first twenty five names and again you can 1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:00.960 click on each name and it takes you to their 1:14:01.000 --> 1:14:03.920 individual page and there's photos, and there's their accolades and 1:14:03.960 --> 1:14:07.000 a write up. That's great. It says right there on 1:14:07.080 --> 1:14:10.439 that page task agree, disagree, let's hear it. And then 1:14:10.479 --> 1:14:13.280 it's got like all the NBA like social media channels. 1:14:13.320 --> 1:14:16.040 So of course they want us to eventually be debating 1:14:16.479 --> 1:14:18.560 player X, making it overplayer Y. 1:14:19.680 --> 1:14:20.280 It's just this. 1:14:20.520 --> 1:14:26.600 Strange, slow, just deflating rollout in my opinion, Trey, I 1:14:26.600 --> 1:14:27.759 don't know if you agree or disagree. 1:14:28.600 --> 1:14:30.800 I mean, it's I don't know, it's just weird. 1:14:30.960 --> 1:14:33.080 It's just weird to do twenty five at a time, 1:14:33.160 --> 1:14:35.760 and then you'll be like, I'm gonna get angry in 1:14:35.800 --> 1:14:36.240 two days. 1:14:36.400 --> 1:14:39.000 Yeah, basically, right, that's exactly what it is. 1:14:39.200 --> 1:14:41.200 Or I'm gonna look at the name on the list 1:14:41.280 --> 1:14:43.280 of twenty five and pick that out as the one 1:14:43.320 --> 1:14:45.000 I want to debate, despite the fact that I have 1:14:45.080 --> 1:14:47.479 no idea what Jerry Lucas was doing way back when. 1:14:48.439 --> 1:14:50.000 So I don't know. I guess. 1:14:50.400 --> 1:14:52.560 I guess it gives us three days to talk about it. 1:14:52.680 --> 1:14:54.920 That's probably the difference, right, that's what they want to 1:14:54.960 --> 1:14:56.960 do is talk about it for three days rather than 1:14:57.520 --> 1:15:01.360 seventy five minutes on one day. I don't know, it's weird, 1:15:01.840 --> 1:15:04.599 it's I don't know. I would have liked to see 1:15:04.640 --> 1:15:06.800 it at a halftime of the All Star Game too. 1:15:06.920 --> 1:15:08.640 That would have been the most exciting way to do it, 1:15:08.720 --> 1:15:11.640 bring everybody out, but that's also probably not realistic to 1:15:11.960 --> 1:15:15.360 introduce seventy five or sixty five. However, you're still living 1:15:15.479 --> 1:15:18.320 players at halftime of an All Star Game, so I 1:15:18.360 --> 1:15:20.640 don't know. Once you've got that much history, there's a 1:15:20.720 --> 1:15:23.679 lot of history to it, so it takes a little 1:15:23.720 --> 1:15:24.120 bit of time. 1:15:24.160 --> 1:15:25.240 I suppose you got to. 1:15:25.240 --> 1:15:27.360 Take it the rings off the Stanley Cup. You just 1:15:27.720 --> 1:15:29.439 you can't have all the teams on there. 1:15:31.479 --> 1:15:33.840 As for the actual first twenty five names, you know, 1:15:33.920 --> 1:15:36.479 you said, Jerry Lucas, Dave Collins is there as well. 1:15:37.040 --> 1:15:39.760 Some people are a little surprised maybe by them still 1:15:39.840 --> 1:15:43.000 being in the mix, which I think means there are 1:15:43.120 --> 1:15:44.880 going to be a lot of current snubs, if you 1:15:44.920 --> 1:15:46.800 want to call them current snubs, you know, a more 1:15:46.880 --> 1:15:49.120 recent sort of a hall of famers lea. And that 1:15:49.320 --> 1:15:51.519 just goes back to our debate about how they decided 1:15:51.560 --> 1:15:54.120 to do this list too, Like it wasn't we got 1:15:54.160 --> 1:15:56.599 the fifty greatest players of all time, let's add twenty 1:15:56.640 --> 1:15:59.759 five more. They told people that were actually voting on this, Nope, 1:16:00.040 --> 1:16:02.560 pretend that list doesn't exist and just go with the 1:16:02.600 --> 1:16:05.439 streets seventy five. But if you heard Chuck and Ernie, 1:16:05.479 --> 1:16:07.559 who had votes and are part of this panel last 1:16:07.640 --> 1:16:10.720 night on the broadcast, they were like, that's weird to them, 1:16:11.080 --> 1:16:13.120 and we talked about it like that is a little strange, 1:16:13.200 --> 1:16:15.640 Like you got to like start removing guys, And I 1:16:15.760 --> 1:16:18.000 think there's just going to be so many that were 1:16:18.040 --> 1:16:20.040 on the original fifty that are going to be on 1:16:20.080 --> 1:16:21.719 a lot of people seventy five because I think people 1:16:21.760 --> 1:16:23.720 also feel bad when they went to making their list, 1:16:23.840 --> 1:16:26.000 so that means there's gonna be a ton of snubs. 1:16:26.040 --> 1:16:28.320 I think, Yeah, I think you can only insult those 1:16:28.400 --> 1:16:31.040 players who no longer make the top seventy five. And 1:16:31.160 --> 1:16:32.960 I think you just didn't need to do that because 1:16:33.200 --> 1:16:35.760 you always want to remember that the players that came 1:16:35.800 --> 1:16:37.679 before you. And that's the thing. I don't think anyone 1:16:37.720 --> 1:16:40.000 who makes that next list would say, oh, yeah, I 1:16:40.080 --> 1:16:41.719 was way better than a guy I never saw before. 1:16:41.800 --> 1:16:43.360 You always want to show respect and say, oh, that 1:16:43.520 --> 1:16:45.519 guy was first and he earned his spot, and now 1:16:45.600 --> 1:16:48.560 I've earned my spot. So yeah, that definitely was a 1:16:48.640 --> 1:16:51.639 weird thing to do. And yeah, I'm interested to see 1:16:51.640 --> 1:16:53.920 who the biggest guy, not the biggest snub, but who 1:16:54.040 --> 1:16:56.759 the biggest guy who just gets cut from that top fifty, 1:16:56.880 --> 1:16:59.640 because it's gonna be it's Yeah, that's probably going to 1:16:59.680 --> 1:17:02.840 generate more talking points than you know, the guys who 1:17:02.920 --> 1:17:05.400 didn't make it from the current crop, because they've figured 1:17:05.439 --> 1:17:07.280 they've still got time to make it. Although I guess 1:17:07.320 --> 1:17:09.880 in twenty five years they'll probably say, right, throw that 1:17:10.000 --> 1:17:11.679 seventy five with a brand. 1:17:11.640 --> 1:17:13.720 On top one hundred. Yeah, I can't wait for that. 1:17:14.800 --> 1:17:16.920 I hope there's a clerical error and like they forget 1:17:16.960 --> 1:17:21.519 Michael Jordan. That will cause some debate. 1:17:21.800 --> 1:17:22.040 Sorry. 1:17:22.360 --> 1:17:24.639 Yeah, it's like going when going to the All Star 1:17:24.720 --> 1:17:27.280 of Voting ballot when you vote and you screw up 1:17:27.320 --> 1:17:28.400 and you vote for Seth. 1:17:28.280 --> 1:17:31.720 Curry, Jordan, Poole's gonna be Yeah, Michael B. 1:17:31.960 --> 1:17:34.880 Jordan will be on there. It's uh, it's one of 1:17:34.920 --> 1:17:38.360 those things I know that they're putting it on the website, like, hey, 1:17:38.439 --> 1:17:42.280 let's debate this. But maybe they are trying to limit 1:17:42.400 --> 1:17:47.599 the the hate at Jerry Lucas and and Hal Greer 1:17:47.800 --> 1:17:49.880 and the Gut and Bob Pettitt and and those guys 1:17:49.920 --> 1:17:54.559 who who deservedly were on the top fifty and even 1:17:54.640 --> 1:17:57.599 Dave Cowens, as you said, they're skeets. So maybe maybe 1:17:57.760 --> 1:18:00.320 that's how they're kind of diffusing it here, because yeah, 1:18:00.560 --> 1:18:04.360 it's gonna die out, the hate and the vitriol and 1:18:04.479 --> 1:18:07.080 the even just the debate period over three days, it's 1:18:07.120 --> 1:18:09.439 gonna die out. It's gonna fizzle out. And so maybe 1:18:09.520 --> 1:18:12.040 they just don't want it that way. But then why 1:18:12.120 --> 1:18:15.760 not just add twenty five entirely? You guys, yeah, and 1:18:15.920 --> 1:18:18.360 you did a great job. If people haven't watched go Back, 1:18:18.600 --> 1:18:21.479 Skeets dropped his Top seventy five in the offseason not 1:18:21.800 --> 1:18:24.360 long ago, a couple of weeks ago, and you should 1:18:24.360 --> 1:18:27.320 go check out that show, because I do think you know, 1:18:27.439 --> 1:18:32.280 you dropped a couple of these legends to make your 1:18:32.360 --> 1:18:33.120 new seventy five. 1:18:33.400 --> 1:18:35.680 No, no, no, no, I didn't. I was I was 1:18:35.800 --> 1:18:37.559 just adding twenty five new locks. 1:18:37.640 --> 1:18:38.400 Oh right, right right. 1:18:38.439 --> 1:18:40.960 I thought some of these guys that are on the 1:18:41.000 --> 1:18:44.800 top fifty will ultimately not be on the top seventy five. 1:18:44.840 --> 1:18:46.120 I do agree with that. I think there will be 1:18:46.120 --> 1:18:48.680 a few emissions as well as guys that didn't make 1:18:48.680 --> 1:18:50.479 the top fifty, like Dominique Wilkins. I think for sure 1:18:50.479 --> 1:18:52.280 he's going to be included over the next couple of days. 1:18:52.600 --> 1:18:54.840 But yeah, my whole thing was like twenty five like 1:18:55.240 --> 1:18:57.759 quote unquote current players that are gonna be new locks 1:18:57.760 --> 1:18:59.200 that weren't on the top. But go check that out. 1:18:59.200 --> 1:19:02.080 A few you guys who made it. I think I 1:19:02.160 --> 1:19:02.840 think this is right. 1:19:02.920 --> 1:19:06.519 Only five on the first list Jannis, Kevin Durant, James Harden, 1:19:06.680 --> 1:19:11.880 Steve Nash, and Dirk Novitski. So I mean that's five. Yeah, 1:19:12.360 --> 1:19:14.440 if you math it out, that's going to be fifteen, 1:19:15.320 --> 1:19:18.759 you know, new players for a lack of a better word. 1:19:19.040 --> 1:19:21.240 So is that what they're gonna do? You think it's 1:19:21.240 --> 1:19:23.640 going to be this low? I mean, fifteen sort of 1:19:23.960 --> 1:19:28.479 modern players than maybe another ten Dominique Wilkins, Bob McAdoo 1:19:28.520 --> 1:19:30.800 sorts who should have maybe made the list the first time. 1:19:31.720 --> 1:19:34.160 We'll see can't wait to find out the next twenty 1:19:34.240 --> 1:19:37.640 five today at three pm ESPN. 1:19:37.880 --> 1:19:40.599 I love how they kept some black and white photos, 1:19:40.640 --> 1:19:42.280 though they didn't try and modernize. 1:19:43.040 --> 1:19:45.160 I still think they had colored photos for some of 1:19:45.200 --> 1:19:48.880 these guys. George is that Lee Ellis or George Biken. 1:19:50.040 --> 1:19:53.080 We saw some call of three D foot or HD 1:19:53.200 --> 1:19:55.760 footage of Will Changlin the other day, Gone Around. 1:19:57.240 --> 1:20:03.280 Shot George mil I was showing Lee doing his best Jordan. 1:20:05.200 --> 1:20:13.519 I think that's what he's doing. This looks like the 1:20:13.640 --> 1:20:18.080 loading screen for the worst video game of all Okay, 1:20:18.400 --> 1:20:20.640 awesome stuff. Well, uh, you know, let me know if 1:20:20.640 --> 1:20:22.519 you agree or disagree with my thoughts on how they're 1:20:22.560 --> 1:20:24.760 doing this. Maybe you were a fan of it five 1:20:24.840 --> 1:20:27.080 at a time, so you could sort of like take 1:20:27.160 --> 1:20:29.120 it in and uh, you know, digest it a little 1:20:29.160 --> 1:20:34.240 bit better than seventy five names coming at you. I 1:20:36.160 --> 1:20:38.759 just think it's weird. I thought it was very strange 1:20:38.760 --> 1:20:41.320 because I'm I'm I get that, I'm way in. I'm 1:20:41.360 --> 1:20:43.479 into this way more than probably most people. Is the 1:20:43.560 --> 1:20:46.240 other part. They're probably looking at it. The producers like 1:20:46.360 --> 1:20:49.920 nobody cares. There's like eight people out there that care, 1:20:50.240 --> 1:20:51.639 and them are on the same show. 1:20:51.760 --> 1:20:56.320 So yeah, well you got Nora, you wrote Nora into it. 1:20:56.400 --> 1:20:58.960 How many have they reveal like I thought it. 1:20:59.040 --> 1:21:01.040 Was gonna be I have. I thought it was going 1:21:01.080 --> 1:21:03.400 to be a little bit more of a like, hey, 1:21:03.680 --> 1:21:07.000 this is pretty cool seventy fifth anniversary here, at least 1:21:07.040 --> 1:21:09.960 the first twenty five names, and I thought they were 1:21:09.960 --> 1:21:12.160 gonna be an alphabetical and all that. So maybe it 1:21:12.240 --> 1:21:13.639 was just naive of me to think. I just thought 1:21:13.680 --> 1:21:15.400 it was gonna be more of like an event task 1:21:15.439 --> 1:21:17.240 and I was like, I'll tell Lenor, like, this could 1:21:17.280 --> 1:21:19.280 be pretty cool, and it was not cool. 1:21:19.520 --> 1:21:21.479 Well that's why that's why I think they are saving 1:21:21.520 --> 1:21:25.600 it for a cool evening in Cleveland in February. 1:21:26.080 --> 1:21:27.880 We'll be seeing I wish they just saved it then 1:21:27.960 --> 1:21:28.719 at that point. 1:21:28.720 --> 1:21:30.320 Right right, Well, maybe you'll be there. 1:21:30.920 --> 1:21:32.759 Maybe maybe you can read. 1:21:32.640 --> 1:21:36.680 That I'll be in the top seventy five. Amazing. All right, 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:38.600 we got still tweeted the night. We got pick the 1:21:38.720 --> 1:21:41.760 results and our new picks for tonight. But first a 1:21:41.840 --> 1:21:46.280 quick break to hear from much sponsors a few things 1:21:46.600 --> 1:21:48.920 CLB certified lover boys. Howere you're going? 1:21:49.040 --> 1:21:49.200 Yeah? 1:21:49.360 --> 1:21:49.599 Okay? 1:21:50.640 --> 1:21:55.439 Dave also wanted to hear Dave in the stream Team 1:21:55.520 --> 1:21:59.839 Halloween Party. Time for Lead to break the slash melody 1:22:00.120 --> 1:22:04.240 for the guests. Oh yeah, okay, get out of here. 1:22:06.240 --> 1:22:11.200 Oh yeah's call back deav fantastic. Okay, we are riding 1:22:11.360 --> 1:22:14.320 real long here. We were having a blast. Let's get 1:22:14.400 --> 1:22:15.639 to tweet of the night. 1:22:17.720 --> 1:22:24.679 Tweet of the night. Wow, Twitter, Come. 1:22:24.760 --> 1:22:25.120 Where do you go? 1:22:25.360 --> 1:22:28.920 Yeah? Yeah? So I thought it was probably going to 1:22:28.960 --> 1:22:31.080 be a fair bit to choose from last night, but 1:22:31.160 --> 1:22:33.160 this one actually came in fairly early, and it was 1:22:33.200 --> 1:22:36.439 from Dane Moore NBA, who covers the Wolves for Blue 1:22:36.479 --> 1:22:39.479 Wire Pods there, and he just tweeted out something pretty simple. 1:22:39.560 --> 1:22:43.040 Karl Anthony Towns said his pregame ritual to pump him 1:22:43.160 --> 1:22:51.040 up this season is watching two Gorillas death. Now you 1:22:51.120 --> 1:22:53.120 know it's it's a bit of a weird tweet. There's 1:22:53.120 --> 1:22:54.920 a little bit more contact from our own John Kay 1:22:55.040 --> 1:22:56.960 here as well, who says, like, you know, Towns are 1:22:57.000 --> 1:22:59.320 sort of talking about how when you know Gorilla's going 1:22:59.360 --> 1:23:01.360 to the jungle, you know they've got to fight it out. 1:23:01.400 --> 1:23:03.320 One of us has got to leave. And so I 1:23:03.439 --> 1:23:05.479 think that's more what Karl Anthony Towns are saying. He 1:23:05.600 --> 1:23:08.320 knows he's going up against like big strong guys and 1:23:08.880 --> 1:23:10.840 he wants to sort of take that mentality in there. 1:23:10.960 --> 1:23:14.360 So no one's dying on the court. I don't think so. 1:23:14.439 --> 1:23:17.360 I don't think so. But good stuff, good stuff for 1:23:17.400 --> 1:23:18.479 our first tweet of the night. 1:23:19.040 --> 1:23:23.000 Do you have a pregame, a pre show ritual? Lea, 1:23:23.040 --> 1:23:25.240 are you firing up missus del fire before we jump 1:23:25.280 --> 1:23:29.479 on here? What are you doing frendo Chino shirts around that? 1:23:30.400 --> 1:23:31.960 Actually, you know what, I have been doing a little 1:23:32.000 --> 1:23:33.680 bit this week. Here's a little this is what they 1:23:33.760 --> 1:23:36.439 call him the bees Teas. I've been doing a little 1:23:36.439 --> 1:23:43.519 bit of reading. Oh yeah, I've got a book by 1:23:43.680 --> 1:23:48.160 Scottie Pippen. Now look, this book is the Advanced Reader's Edition, 1:23:48.360 --> 1:23:50.080 not for sale or quotations, so I'm not going to 1:23:50.160 --> 1:23:53.840 spoil it, but I will say, ooh, it's a space here, 1:23:56.120 --> 1:23:58.639 and I might have some more news about this book 1:23:59.360 --> 1:24:01.960 in a week or so. Stay tune, go, stay tuned. 1:24:02.840 --> 1:24:10.880 We we are an animal lover, Yes, who likes to 1:24:10.960 --> 1:24:12.160 watch a video of an animal? 1:24:12.400 --> 1:24:12.600 I do? 1:24:13.040 --> 1:24:14.879 Do you watch animal fate videos? 1:24:16.280 --> 1:24:21.800 Yes? Because I like to see like things that are unusual, like, 1:24:21.920 --> 1:24:26.439 for example, crocodiles don't have any predators, but if the 1:24:26.479 --> 1:24:30.000 crocodile's in the wrong place at the wrong time, you know, 1:24:30.400 --> 1:24:34.160 he faces some opponent, Like hippos aren't afraid of crocodiles. 1:24:34.720 --> 1:24:37.880 Crocodiles try to attack those hippos babies. And oh man, 1:24:37.920 --> 1:24:39.559 there's a couple of videos out there of a crock 1:24:39.720 --> 1:24:43.400 just getting destroyed. There's also some videos going round of 1:24:43.520 --> 1:24:46.320 like a cayman, which is a smaller crocodile. 1:24:46.560 --> 1:24:47.160 Chris and a. 1:24:47.320 --> 1:24:53.120 Jaguar jumps into the water. Steve Irwin style lands on 1:24:53.200 --> 1:24:55.240 the cayman with his teeth in his neck to kill 1:24:55.320 --> 1:24:56.760 him and then has to pull him up this like 1:24:57.160 --> 1:24:59.680 muddy slippery slope there to get him out there to 1:24:59.720 --> 1:25:03.240 feed to his kids. Now, funny thing is, I'm just 1:25:03.400 --> 1:25:06.800 not sure, like a you know, reptilian like that a crocodilian, 1:25:06.800 --> 1:25:08.680 I should say, would be all that could eating. I 1:25:08.720 --> 1:25:13.840 think they'd be pretty tough, you know. Yeah, I have 1:25:14.000 --> 1:25:15.920 eaten crocodile. Yeah, I haven't caught it myself and then 1:25:16.000 --> 1:25:16.439 had to like. 1:25:17.040 --> 1:25:18.639 You know, tender raise. 1:25:19.240 --> 1:25:22.000 Yeah yeah, yeah. But I just thinking, if you're the 1:25:22.040 --> 1:25:25.559 baby jagguers, you're like on the teeth are still really formed? 1:25:25.600 --> 1:25:27.160 It can't you just bring us back a zebra or 1:25:27.200 --> 1:25:28.800 something like that a little bit easier eating. 1:25:28.880 --> 1:25:31.479 But anyway, you're not like that tough hide. 1:25:31.640 --> 1:25:34.360 Ah, you don't think that. You don't eat the outside 1:25:34.360 --> 1:25:35.840 of a banana. You don't eat a banana. 1:25:35.840 --> 1:25:36.439 I don't eat that. 1:25:36.560 --> 1:25:36.600 No. 1:25:36.840 --> 1:25:38.280 I know you're supposed to it. You're supposed to be 1:25:38.320 --> 1:25:42.839 full of vitamins, but supposed well, they say that's healthier 1:25:42.920 --> 1:25:44.240 part post. 1:25:44.800 --> 1:25:49.720 So can we, starting tomorrow, have you over the next 1:25:49.760 --> 1:25:52.599 three days unless you're a top twenty five most dangerous 1:25:52.640 --> 1:25:56.280 animals in order, just share five at a time. We'll 1:25:56.320 --> 1:25:57.200 get to seventy five. 1:25:57.680 --> 1:25:57.880 Bye. 1:25:57.920 --> 1:26:01.200 I guess really all right, that was a great tweet 1:26:01.640 --> 1:26:04.360 that had a lot of people laughing and sharing videos 1:26:04.439 --> 1:26:08.040 of animals fighting, which I guess, yeah, for some can 1:26:08.240 --> 1:26:10.840 can pump you up. And Karl Anthony Towns is gonna 1:26:11.080 --> 1:26:15.000 He's gonna try it this season. We're all rooting for him. 1:26:15.040 --> 1:26:18.599 I hope it works. Trey. Speaking of tweets, you had 1:26:18.640 --> 1:26:21.280 something for us about something we got into on yesterday's 1:26:21.280 --> 1:26:24.400 show that the people were commenting on. 1:26:24.800 --> 1:26:26.920 I did, I did skeets, but then we went an 1:26:27.040 --> 1:26:30.560 hour and forty minutes talking about two basketball games, and 1:26:30.720 --> 1:26:33.920 I was like, should this just be a big tea zone. Nonetheless, 1:26:34.160 --> 1:26:38.040 we got a great tweet from John Horn after yesterday's 1:26:38.080 --> 1:26:42.280 Beach Step in episode where we got talking about whether 1:26:42.320 --> 1:26:44.479 you would like to see the Knicks play in Madison 1:26:44.520 --> 1:26:48.080 Square Garden or the Nets play in Barclays Center, and 1:26:48.280 --> 1:26:52.479 how that relates to musical acts playing at different venues. 1:26:52.600 --> 1:26:55.400 John tweeted in to us. He said the No Dunks 1:26:55.479 --> 1:26:59.559 team over complicating Nick's MSG versus Nets Barclays was wild. 1:27:00.160 --> 1:27:04.639 Metaphors within metaphors. Tom Petty called Madison Square Garden probably 1:27:04.720 --> 1:27:05.800 the greatest. 1:27:05.439 --> 1:27:06.960 House of rock and roll around. 1:27:07.439 --> 1:27:11.160 Why add other venues to the comparison? He continued to 1:27:11.479 --> 1:27:15.200 Petty at MSG Better outcast at MSG Better, a live 1:27:15.320 --> 1:27:19.840 No Dunks podcast that MSG sold out guaranteed is better. 1:27:20.479 --> 1:27:22.360 So I guess that's your answer. I think it was 1:27:22.479 --> 1:27:26.519 Danny who emailed in asking what he should do. I 1:27:26.640 --> 1:27:29.439 think this is a Valentine's Day game. It was what 1:27:30.120 --> 1:27:34.679 Nicks versus Thunder. That's John's recommendation is to go there. 1:27:34.880 --> 1:27:38.680 Okay, But I did respond to John on Twitter and 1:27:39.080 --> 1:27:41.439 I get what he's saying. Look, no one loves Madison Square, 1:27:41.479 --> 1:27:43.559 Gordon Martin, I do. I've talked about it for years 1:27:43.600 --> 1:27:46.160 on the show. But I said this, and I think 1:27:46.280 --> 1:27:49.200 this was the metaphor the comparison I should have went with. 1:27:50.160 --> 1:27:53.880 Would you rather go see the WOJE pod, a live 1:27:54.240 --> 1:27:58.040 WOJE pod at Madison Square Garden, or come see a 1:27:58.120 --> 1:28:03.120 live No Dunks pod at the Barclay Center. One is 1:28:03.200 --> 1:28:07.320 the superior venue, but no offense to who you're not 1:28:07.439 --> 1:28:10.840 No Dunk's live Baby. Nothing beats that. So that's the 1:28:10.920 --> 1:28:13.720 better comparison. That's what I was trying to get at with. 1:28:14.040 --> 1:28:15.400 I think that's a perfect comparison. 1:28:15.520 --> 1:28:18.439 Yeah, yeah, and well John said his answer was to 1:28:18.479 --> 1:28:22.519 see WOSHSG. That's the wrong answer. 1:28:23.080 --> 1:28:27.200 On Barclays is designed for audio outfit. It's all about 1:28:27.200 --> 1:28:30.000 the it's not about sidelines. It's about sound lines there. 1:28:30.280 --> 1:28:34.240 But it doesn't stop with John's tweet because I mentioned 1:28:34.280 --> 1:28:36.320 on yesterday's show that I was having a laugh thinking 1:28:36.360 --> 1:28:40.080 about a tribe called Quest performing at Red Rocks with skeets. 1:28:40.080 --> 1:28:43.320 I think was your analogy for the Knicks playing at 1:28:43.360 --> 1:28:46.240 Madison Square Garden. Well, my buddy and college roommate who 1:28:46.280 --> 1:28:49.400 lives in Denver, Big Smooth, texted me immediately after the 1:28:49.439 --> 1:28:53.519 show to say, FYI, I've seen Tribe and Outcast at 1:28:53.600 --> 1:28:54.240 red Rocks. 1:28:54.439 --> 1:28:54.679 Wow. 1:28:55.120 --> 1:28:55.840 I said, how was it? 1:28:56.160 --> 1:28:57.599 He said, fucking awesome. 1:28:58.200 --> 1:29:01.200 Tribe was his wife's first show at Red Rocks, So yeah, 1:29:01.600 --> 1:29:03.600 I guess that's a good place to say it. And 1:29:03.680 --> 1:29:06.880 then I kept looking at the Internet and various things 1:29:06.960 --> 1:29:10.439 on Instagram, only to discover that Dead and Company is 1:29:10.520 --> 1:29:13.519 playing a two night stand at Red Rocks last night 1:29:13.800 --> 1:29:17.600 and tonight let's go fly out. Yeah, trust me, I 1:29:17.760 --> 1:29:20.080 was a messaging with Larry not too long ago. If 1:29:20.120 --> 1:29:22.599 it hadn't been on the night of the NBA season 1:29:22.800 --> 1:29:25.200 starting and then the second night of the NBA season, 1:29:25.640 --> 1:29:28.040 that would be a great place. And honestly, a band 1:29:28.120 --> 1:29:29.840 that's a little bit past their prime playing at a 1:29:29.840 --> 1:29:32.439 prime location that might be your perfect analogy. 1:29:32.560 --> 1:29:35.040 Yeah, yeah, okay, I knew we would get there. It 1:29:35.120 --> 1:29:37.760 just took us two shows at an hour forty of 1:29:37.800 --> 1:29:39.719 this one. But that's okay. 1:29:40.200 --> 1:29:40.600 I love it. 1:29:40.720 --> 1:29:42.640 I love we love that engagement. Guy, So tweet at 1:29:42.680 --> 1:29:45.040 us at No Dunk saying, okay, before we go test 1:29:45.120 --> 1:29:46.800 pick them results, you were the only one to take 1:29:46.800 --> 1:29:49.400 the nets last night. Unfortunately, got that wrong because the 1:29:49.439 --> 1:29:51.400 Bucks sort of smacked them around. So that's a win 1:29:51.560 --> 1:29:54.640 for Trey, Lee and myself. You're down one early. But 1:29:54.680 --> 1:29:55.400 what's our game tonight? 1:29:55.439 --> 1:29:55.559 Here? 1:29:57.000 --> 1:30:00.640 Well, another one that's a very close line to toss up. 1:30:00.800 --> 1:30:03.600 The Celtics going to visit the New York Knicks. The 1:30:03.720 --> 1:30:05.680 next are favorite by one and a half. We met 1:30:05.720 --> 1:30:09.960 our picks before the show. Three of us skeets, myself 1:30:10.040 --> 1:30:12.040 and Trey are going with the Boston Celtics. 1:30:12.880 --> 1:30:14.080 Lee, who wasn't too. 1:30:14.080 --> 1:30:16.439 High on the New York Knicks in our previews, he's 1:30:16.479 --> 1:30:19.040 taken the New York Knicks at home. He's gone to 1:30:19.120 --> 1:30:22.599 see the Knicks to Nate, why did you take the next? 1:30:22.680 --> 1:30:26.320 Lee? Ah? Well, Tibbs talked about their preseason and just 1:30:26.400 --> 1:30:28.639 said how every single thing is important and they were 1:30:28.680 --> 1:30:31.439 playing pretty well in that preseason, so maybe there's some 1:30:31.600 --> 1:30:34.800 momentum there, maybe there's some preseason bump. Kember back in 1:30:34.840 --> 1:30:37.439 New York as well, making his debut for the Knicks. 1:30:38.200 --> 1:30:41.160 Don't think they've got any significant injury concerns coming into tonight, 1:30:41.280 --> 1:30:43.439 so I think that crowd's going to be pretty packed, 1:30:43.439 --> 1:30:46.160 pretty hyped up. I can see the Knicks getting the 1:30:46.320 --> 1:30:48.320 W tonight, hopefully it's by at least two points. 1:30:48.880 --> 1:30:52.400 I find these first couple of Pickham's every year difficult 1:30:52.479 --> 1:30:55.120 because what happens, at least with me, is like, I'm 1:30:55.200 --> 1:30:57.559 convinced the Celtics are going to be a pretty good 1:30:57.560 --> 1:30:59.160 team this year. I think they're being slept on a 1:30:59.200 --> 1:31:01.800 little bit. So then this being the first pick them game, 1:31:01.840 --> 1:31:03.840 I'm like, well, if I think the Celtics are going 1:31:03.920 --> 1:31:05.800 to surprise people and be like a top five pick, 1:31:05.920 --> 1:31:07.840 that means I have to have them winning games like this, 1:31:08.000 --> 1:31:09.920 you know what I mean. But it's like that's not 1:31:10.040 --> 1:31:12.000 necessarily true. They could lose to the Knicks and still 1:31:12.040 --> 1:31:12.800 have a really good record. 1:31:12.880 --> 1:31:15.400 But yeah, and the home court juice is real. What 1:31:15.560 --> 1:31:18.400 Lee's saying about the Knicks, just your first game at home. 1:31:18.840 --> 1:31:21.120 The Raptors started three and zero once upon a time 1:31:21.160 --> 1:31:23.800 with Lauren Woods and Chris Bosh lining up and they 1:31:23.840 --> 1:31:26.280 were just bad team. But you get some juice gone 1:31:26.400 --> 1:31:27.920 from the preseason. It happens. 1:31:28.479 --> 1:31:30.559 I think Kimba would like to maybe send a little 1:31:30.560 --> 1:31:33.080 message to the Celtics tonight as well, if he could matter. 1:31:33.160 --> 1:31:36.360 That's why I kind of picked well, yeah, oh yeah. 1:31:37.320 --> 1:31:40.519 Revenge backcourt from the Knicks versus the Celtics. Eleven games 1:31:40.560 --> 1:31:43.000 on tonight, my goodness. Everybody get your league pass ready. 1:31:43.400 --> 1:31:46.320 Raptors are one of those teams playing tonight at home 1:31:46.479 --> 1:31:49.880 back in Canada, hosting the Wizards. But we'll be back 1:31:49.920 --> 1:31:52.000 here tomorrow to try and break down as many games 1:31:52.040 --> 1:31:56.040 as possible. There is a new episode of Survivor tonight too. Yeah, 1:31:56.080 --> 1:31:57.840 we're definitely not going to Red Rocks Tray. There's just 1:31:57.880 --> 1:32:00.799 too many games on and a Survivor episode. My goodness. 1:32:01.280 --> 1:32:04.240 So if you are a fan of Survivor, join us 1:32:04.320 --> 1:32:07.120 live over at No Buffs, our separate YouTube feed, our 1:32:07.160 --> 1:32:11.120 separate podcast feed No Buffs. 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