Speaker 1: You're killer.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Hottest the Hottest India podcast out here.
Speaker 3: I said what I said, it's the heat Check, the
Speaker 3: heat Check check. On this episode of the Heat Check,
Speaker 3: is the NBA turning into Major League Baseball unwritten rule
Speaker 3: getting salty at running up the score? That's some bullshit.
Speaker 3: Who are some sleepers for the most improved player of
Speaker 3: the ward? We get into some mostly good news from
Speaker 3: around the league, and we even have a nice interview
Speaker 3: with K and T and NBA TVs Jared Greenberg. Nice
Speaker 3: little additional bonus interview. Lots popping around the league. So
Speaker 3: let's get right into it. William drop that motherfucker beat
Speaker 3: that should be Rihanna. So I do another radio show,
Speaker 3: uh and I have talked Major League Baseball on New
Speaker 3: York Sports wfa N and I am acutely aware of
Speaker 3: how old school baseball fans are. They have these unwritten
Speaker 3: rules that like never pimping when you do have when
Speaker 3: you have a home run, which I would always do.
Speaker 3: I would pimp a home run every time, I would
Speaker 3: twist and flip that bat every single time I went yard,
Speaker 3: don't crowd the plate, and never ever ever run up
Speaker 3: the score. All this, all of it, every single piece
Speaker 3: of it is bullshit, by the way, absolute garbage. It
Speaker 3: is designed to make bad teams and bad players look mad, yoker,
Speaker 3: just like not as bad as they probably are. And now, folks,
Speaker 3: we are dealing with the same damn thing in the
Speaker 3: league that I thought was progressive, in a league where
Speaker 3: I thought they led the charge in being ahead of
Speaker 3: the curve. We are now dealing with something I didn't
Speaker 3: even really think exact unwritten rules of basketball, and I
Speaker 3: have some thoughts. I am fired up about it. Let's
Speaker 3: start by looking at the shining example of how a
Speaker 3: league should function as it relates to fandom, the NFL.
Speaker 3: One of the reasons that people all love the NFL,
Speaker 3: not all of them, but the people who love the
Speaker 3: NFL love the NFL is because the games are meaningful.
Speaker 3: We know that every single week teams are going to
Speaker 3: compete to the best of their ability. Every single seventeenth
Speaker 3: games are exactly unless you're I guess in the seventeenth
Speaker 3: game and you're already made it in But no, every
Speaker 3: week is a meaningful game. When you're down twenty one
Speaker 3: points with three minutes to go, everyone is trying to
Speaker 3: win and anything can happen. There is a level of
Speaker 3: competitive spirit that you can feel. And did you see
Speaker 3: what Miami did not too long ago? Did the Denver
Speaker 3: Broncos put up? Put up seventy points on their dome piece?
Speaker 3: The MPa. Largely, I feel many fans have become a
Speaker 3: little less enthused by the regular season because we don't
Speaker 3: know who's in. We don't know who's out. We don't
Speaker 3: know how long they're gonna be in all. Khizon like,
Speaker 3: is he playing twenty minutes? Is he playing thirty minutes?
Speaker 3: Is he playing at all? We had Jokic get late
Speaker 3: scratched last game, we had mb get late scratched. You're
Speaker 3: kind of just like, why should I care? Why do
Speaker 3: I care about the regular season? The Playing Tournament came
Speaker 3: along and they made the end of the season more meaningful,
Speaker 3: But it actually made probably the beginning in the middle
Speaker 3: of the season less meaningful because teams are like, oh,
Speaker 3: I have to do is get to the ten steam.
Speaker 3: But the problem remains regular season doesn't matter, and with
Speaker 3: low management, we don't even know what players are their
Speaker 3: their competitive spirit is going to be when they do play.
Speaker 3: Does this game matter to them? Are the bulls gonna
Speaker 3: cover against Milwaukee because they're crosstown rivals. I don't fucking know.
Speaker 3: And the truth of the matter is, outside the TNT games,
Speaker 3: which we know players get up for because they love
Speaker 3: the national TV shine and largely they know that they're
Speaker 3: gonna get straight clowned by Shaq Kenny Charles Barkley if
Speaker 3: they don't show up and act right. And that, Folks,
Speaker 3: is what we have now with the ND Season Tournament.
Speaker 3: I didn't expect it when the N Season Tournament was created,
Speaker 3: but this point differential thing has brought back the intensity
Speaker 3: the competitive fire where we know on a Tuesday, on
Speaker 3: a Tuesday and on a Friday, everybody is looking to
Speaker 3: embarrass the other opponent. I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 3: If you're a team that we should beat by fifteen
Speaker 3: in a regular night, we're beating you by thirty tonight.
Speaker 3: Why because we need to beat you by twenty six
Speaker 3: to get into the next stage, into the knockout round.
Speaker 3: And in real regular season games, if you're a team
Speaker 3: that's dog shit and you're like the Wizards, you should
Speaker 3: lose by forty every night. Because the truth of the
Speaker 3: matter is, we should be we should be aware of
Speaker 3: how bad you are, and it should be completely illuminated
Speaker 3: to the point where things happen and accountability takes place,
Speaker 3: like we've talked about with the Detroit Pistons recently. But
Speaker 3: in the spirit of the game in the third quarter,
Speaker 3: the other team that's beating the shit out of the Wizards,
Speaker 3: they might rest their starters. We might get guys that
Speaker 3: you've not even heard of that are on two way
Speaker 3: G league type contracts that are getting ten, fifteen to
Speaker 3: twenty minutes because we don't want our guys to get
Speaker 3: injured and we don't want to embarrass the poor old
Speaker 3: Washington Wizards. Fuck that, seriously, Fuck that. This was now
Speaker 3: on full view in the n season tournament between the
Speaker 3: Celtics and the Hawks right this point differential Celtics and
Speaker 3: the Bulls. Due to the point differential that the Celtics
Speaker 3: needed where they had to win by twenty six points
Speaker 3: with five minutes left in the game and up more
Speaker 3: than twenty Joe Mizula decided he would make a substitution,
Speaker 3: and instead of substituting his starters out, he substituted his
Speaker 3: starters back in. In goes Tatum, in goes White, in
Speaker 3: goes Horford, in, goes Jalen Brown and Drew Holiday. Why
Speaker 3: because we need to win by as many points as
Speaker 3: humanly possible. We don't know what other teams are gonna do.
Speaker 3: They not only played their starters. They say, you know what,
Speaker 3: it's the playoffs, baby, We're hacking Andre Drummond. We know
Speaker 3: he's a forty five percent lifetime free throw shooter. Let's
Speaker 3: go to hack a shack on Andre Drummond every time
Speaker 3: that motherfucker touches the ball. And Billy Donovan, head coach
Speaker 3: of the Chicago Bulls, was irate. He came up to
Speaker 3: Joe Mazuli. He's like, what are we doing here? What
Speaker 3: is this? And Joe's like, why, I need to beat
Speaker 3: you guys by twenty six points or more in order
Speaker 3: for me to go to the next round. So I'm
Speaker 3: not taking chances. And this is what Joe explained. And
Speaker 3: and actually Billy Donovan came out and said some things
Speaker 3: after the game as well.
Speaker 2: No, I just you know, Andre is a veteran guy,
Speaker 2: and I you know, tonight I told him, I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are we doing here? You know, Like I'm totally fine,
Speaker 2: Like I get it on keeping.
Speaker 3: Your guys in wanting to.
Speaker 2: Get in the leagues, made a big deal, but they
Speaker 2: also in fantasy to them, they got to deal with
Speaker 2: the rules too, you know, if they're trying to get
Speaker 2: into you know, Vegas, there's.
Speaker 3: Things that they do do, you know.
Speaker 2: And for me, it was just the fouling.
Speaker 3: And Joe was Greatman talked to him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he understood, you know, he didn't want to
Speaker 2: he wasn't trying to do anything. But I also understand
Speaker 2: the situation he's in in terms of they're trying to
Speaker 2: get to Vegas. So like, it's just a tough situation, right,
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna I said this before, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna you know, necessarily, he's got to coach his team
Speaker 2: and do what he feels, right, you know. I just
Speaker 2: thought like, okay, great, keep Tatum and keep moment. I've
Speaker 2: never ever play all the way to the end. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I got no problem to you know. But I just
Speaker 2: thought it was putting Andre in a tough spot in
Speaker 2: a thirty point game. I just I didn't I didn't
Speaker 2: like that, you know, but he was great when we talked.
Speaker 2: There's no I understand what they were trying to do
Speaker 2: and trying to get there. And listen, the league is
Speaker 2: this is for the league, right, you know, so like
Speaker 2: I understand this, but this is what the league's done.
Speaker 2: You know that they've made this point differential thing, and
Speaker 2: I feel bad for them from this standpoint. God, the
Speaker 2: bid in a game like that, Yeah, that's that that
Speaker 2: you know. And again, you know, as a coach, are
Speaker 2: always up against that gear. You're up by ten points,
Speaker 2: it's two minutes to go, do you start stubborn? You
Speaker 2: not because you've seen you know, leads, but when you're
Speaker 2: up thirty and there's five minutes to go in a
Speaker 2: game and you have all your main guys in there,
Speaker 2: and potentially someone gets hurt over you know, the playing tournament,
Speaker 2: I mean, excuse me, the in season tournament because of
Speaker 2: points man, you know, And but I also understand, like
Speaker 2: the league's been a big deal of it. Everybody's trying
Speaker 2: to take it serious and for them to get to Vegas,
Speaker 2: there's a point difference. And I understand the situation. Joe's in,
Speaker 2: you know, so there was no hard feelings and he's
Speaker 2: the coaches teamn do it best. I just felt bad
Speaker 2: for Andrea in that situation is how I felt.
Speaker 3: You can tell Billy Donovan is old school. He doesn't
Speaker 3: believe in keeping your starters in. He doesn't believe in
Speaker 3: Andre Drummond getting hacked because oh it's embarrassing for Andre.
Speaker 3: They're up thirty and they put Andre in a tough spot. Honestly,
Speaker 3: it's not Joe Missoula's job to protect Andre Drummond. It's
Speaker 3: not Joe Miszula's job to protect Billy Donovan in the
Speaker 3: Chicago Bulls. It's Joe Miszula's job. And I've never been
Speaker 3: a huge Joe Missoula fan, but his mindset in terms
Speaker 3: of staying competitive and finding out ways to win games
Speaker 3: and figuring out what the rules are and playing in
Speaker 3: the gray areas, this is this. This comment that he
Speaker 3: made put me firmly feeling a little bit more respect
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 4: Though it was the right thing to do, actually reminded
Speaker 4: me of a story. My dad played in Chile for
Speaker 4: five years and they played the same aggregate best of
Speaker 4: best of two scored differential. My dad's team was up
Speaker 4: two seconds and the other team thought they needed to
Speaker 4: win by six. My dad's team was winning, so they
Speaker 4: purposely scored on their own basket so they could force
Speaker 4: it into overtime and try and win by six. And
Speaker 4: so to me, it's like you by any means necessary
Speaker 4: within the rules.
Speaker 3: That's what I say you do. Just tell you what
Speaker 3: the rules are and.
Speaker 4: You will play within that structure and trying gray areas.
Speaker 3: Along the way and find gray areas along the way. Yes,
Speaker 3: Joe Missoula and if coaches were split on this, so
Speaker 3: were the players. Josh Hart of The Knick says, I
Speaker 3: don't really like it. Kind of messes with the integrity
Speaker 3: of the game. Donovan Mitchell says it's different, but at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, you're playing to win. You're
Speaker 3: trying to get to Vegas, get to the tournament. But
Speaker 3: it's definitely a little weird. Jalen Brown says it's tough
Speaker 3: because that's not how the game is supposed to be played.
Speaker 3: You've got to respect your opponents. But Devin Booker my man.
Speaker 3: If Kobe was alive for the n Season tournament, he
Speaker 3: was in his heyday, he would be basically saying what
Speaker 3: Devin Booker said, which is this, I've seen teams upset
Speaker 3: about it. I don't know why. I've seen players upset
Speaker 3: about it. I don't know why. I mean honestly, I
Speaker 3: wish every game was like that, where you could play
Speaker 3: to then and you know it wasn't few.
Speaker 2: That's disrespectful, just.
Speaker 3: High competition, Just high competition. Unwritten rules are in place
Speaker 3: largely to make mediocre teams and mediocre players look better
Speaker 3: than they are. I am against that. I am against
Speaker 3: finding ways to not embarrass the players or teams that
Speaker 3: you're going up against. I'm sorry, I'm here to win.
Speaker 3: This isn't gold stars and participation trophies. I'm not here
Speaker 3: to make you feel better about yourself. You don't want
Speaker 3: to lose by third, then fucking stop me, stop me
Speaker 3: from scoring. Who cares if a power hitter pimps a
Speaker 3: five hundred foot dinger against the scrub. Who gives a
Speaker 3: shit if Tyreek Hill gives you the bye bye or
Speaker 3: flips the deuces as he runs away from a DV
Speaker 3: who is like blown coverage? Who cares that the Timberwolves
Speaker 3: run the Pistols off the floor by thirty six instead
Speaker 3: of sitting their starters and winning by fourteen? Who cares?
Speaker 3: Losers care? That's who you know? Who cares? People who
Speaker 3: were afraid to get exposed, That's who cares. The ist
Speaker 3: I fucking love it. Why because it tells you exactly
Speaker 3: who's who in the NBA, who's with it and who's
Speaker 3: not with it. And you know what, I am not
Speaker 3: shocked that Jalen Brown is respecting opponents out here. He
Speaker 3: respected the Golden State Warriors a little bit too much
Speaker 3: when he decided he didn't know how to dribble a
Speaker 3: damn basketball in the finals two years ago. Maybe you
Speaker 3: should focus on that, Jalen Brown, instead of the unwritten
Speaker 3: rules of the game. I want more knockout. I want
Speaker 3: more group play. I want an entire season of group play.
Speaker 3: I want four group play tournaments, last two standing like
Speaker 3: hunger games play in the finals. I don't give a
Speaker 3: fuck about the conference. I don't care about the history.
Speaker 3: I don't care about how it used to be. I
Speaker 3: want the best, most competitive basketball on every single night.
Speaker 3: And I am like, inject the n season tournament into
Speaker 3: my fucking veins. And I think there's really something to
Speaker 3: be said for not just the five hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: which I think a lot of us overlooked that it
Speaker 3: was going to be meaningful. A lot of players make
Speaker 3: less than four million dollars, and not five hundred thousand.
Speaker 3: If you could get twenty five percent of your salary
Speaker 3: as a bonus for a couple of extra things that
Speaker 3: you're already doing in your job, you would want to
Speaker 3: do them. But the thing that I think people are
Speaker 3: really overlooking, or they did overlook. The NBA didn't overlook it.
Speaker 3: That's why they did it is the fact that everybody
Speaker 3: says they're not saying I want to win the Cup.
Speaker 3: Through that. Have you heard anyone say I want to
Speaker 3: win the Cup? No, they're saying, we're just trying to
Speaker 3: get to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, you don't think they want to break
Speaker 1: up the monotony of going to Memphis and Minneapolis to
Speaker 1: go to Sin City at a time where all.
Speaker 3: The other fledgling teams have to play their regular season
Speaker 3: gross ass games. They want to go to Vegas. They
Speaker 3: want to see Michael from the Sopranos. They want to
Speaker 3: play craps. They want to go to Tao, they want
Speaker 3: to parlay, they want to enjoy Sin City. Give me
Speaker 3: more n season tournament, give me more months of playing
Speaker 3: hard and entertaining games and embarrassing your opponents. I personally
Speaker 3: am all for it. Let's move forward, Let's talk about
Speaker 3: the most improved market in the NBA. It is for
Speaker 3: you know what time, it is time to check in
Speaker 3: on the NBA futures market. Today we are looking at
Speaker 3: the most Improved Award, which is kind of a sleeper
Speaker 3: future bet. I love the Most Improved Player Award because
Speaker 3: it tells you that there are players on the come
Speaker 3: up that you need to keep an eye on. In
Speaker 3: some ways, the Most Improved Player Award is the best
Speaker 3: predictor of NBA success. Here are the last ten winners
Speaker 3: in a row. Paul George twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen,
Speaker 3: Goran Dragicch twenty fourteen, Jimmy Butler hell Ya twenty fifteen. CJ.
Speaker 3: McCollum twenty sixteen, Yannis Who twenty seventeen, Victor Oladipo rip
Speaker 3: that knee twenty eighteen, Pascal Siakam twenty nineteen, Brandon Ingram
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, Julius Randall twenty twenty one, John Morant twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, Lorie Markinen not a dud in the bunch.
Speaker 3: Very impressive list. Even Oladipo was a bucket before he
Speaker 3: got hurt. Goran Dragicch not sleep on Goreon Dragitic and
Speaker 3: how he used to be just Gordon Dragic in the bubble,
Speaker 3: how he was before you were in so that man
Speaker 3: could give you forty on your dome piece, especially in
Speaker 3: international play. Do not sleep on Goron Drogas this year, though.
Speaker 3: The market is absolutely crowded. But here's who I'm looking
Speaker 3: at right now. I've got two favorites that I like,
Speaker 3: and i like two long shots. Let's talk about the
Speaker 3: favorites first. I will start with the rocket Ship, the
Speaker 3: presumable favorite in the all of the markets, plus one
Speaker 3: hundred Philly Tyrese Maxi. Tyrese Maxi was about eleven to
Speaker 3: one until the moment James Harden got traded and he
Speaker 3: went from eleven to one to plus one ninety five overnight.
Speaker 3: He is currently sitting at plus one hundred, which means
Speaker 3: you're just barely getting even money to bet somebody who
Speaker 3: you get your money back in six months from now.
Speaker 3: That tells you how they're feeling about Tyrese Maxey. If
Speaker 3: he continues to play as well as he has, which
Speaker 3: he's been balling, putting up thirty night to night basis,
Speaker 3: shooting like eight threes a game, getting his teammates involved
Speaker 3: Philadelphia's winning. He will continue to be the favorite and
Speaker 3: probably will win this award. My other favorite that is
Speaker 3: no longer really a sleeper that is just incredible. I
Speaker 3: would prefer him to win this award over Tyrese Maxey
Speaker 3: is Alpern Shangoon because why shang Goon. As much as
Speaker 3: I like Tyrese Maxey was just absolutely slept on, disrespected,
Speaker 3: left for dead in Houston. Not only did he go
Speaker 3: to a terrible situation for multiple years, they were ready
Speaker 3: to discard this man. He's now plus three hundred, by
Speaker 3: the way, he went from plus twenty five hundred to
Speaker 3: plus three hundred. But Maxi last offseason was off limits
Speaker 3: to any trade. You couldn't even trade him for Damian Lillard.
Speaker 3: Do you think you could have gotten Alpern Shangoon for
Speaker 3: Damian Lillard. I'm saying yes, I think yes. I think
Speaker 3: em Udoka would be like deal, Fine, you can have him.
Speaker 3: Shang Goon was seen as a potential trade piece from
Speaker 3: the moment he got to Houston. Just Steven Salas didn't
Speaker 3: know what he was doing. Bless his heart, he didn't
Speaker 3: want to use him. There was this quote from the
Speaker 3: Houston chronicle where he said, I'm not gonna run plays
Speaker 3: for albern Shangun. He's getting the first play of the half,
Speaker 3: in the first play of the second half, We're not
Speaker 3: running anything for him. If he can't stay engaged without
Speaker 3: the basketball, then that's on him. And by the way,
Speaker 3: that man can't play a wick of defense, so we
Speaker 3: don't even know if he fits. That same Houston Chronicle article,
Speaker 3: we're like, hey, maybe Albrin Shangoon should just come off
Speaker 3: the bench for who for Bruno Fernando. Okay, this man
Speaker 3: is now plus three hundred doing most improved. What is
Speaker 3: Alprin Shangun doing. He currently joins Jokic, Lebron James Joel
Speaker 3: Embiid as the lone players, averaging twenty points, eight rebounds
Speaker 3: and five assists per k this season. He went from
Speaker 3: We're not even sure what you are, how you fit,
Speaker 3: whether we should keep you here too. He's the number
Speaker 3: one player on a team that as the best defensive
Speaker 3: rating a bunch of guys that are veterans and buckets,
Speaker 3: lottery picks, etc. Etc. And not only that, he's much
Speaker 3: fucking must fucking watch. He is Jokic, baby Jokic, and
Speaker 3: don't ask me, asked Nikola Jokich himself, who says he
Speaker 3: kind of looks like me out there, which is why
Speaker 3: it is no surprise that Albern shanghu aka alpi aka
Speaker 3: just the yur. He's not doing Dirk moves. By the way,
Speaker 3: it's over for the league. It's over. The league is
Speaker 3: in such a good spot. It is the golden era
Speaker 3: of the big man that can do everything that a
Speaker 3: guard can do, but much taller onto the long shots.
Speaker 3: Someone that I like, someone that I feel like probably
Speaker 3: won't win this award, but definitely could win this award
Speaker 3: is Tyrese Halliburton. Tyre's Halliburton gets traded in Indiana. He
Speaker 3: has a good year last year. I think they kind
Speaker 3: of just like pity put him into the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: He was good enough to be in there, for sure,
Speaker 3: but like I feel he was more of like a
Speaker 3: last second deal. Yeah, he was not at the top
Speaker 3: of the All Star He was a reserve. So the
Speaker 3: fact that he was an All Star doesn't really bug
Speaker 3: me a lot. Some people think the All Stars shouldn't
Speaker 3: win Most Improved, but man, is he a lot better
Speaker 3: than he was last year. He's averaging twenty six points,
Speaker 3: four rebounds, and twelve assists. The man is averaging twelve
Speaker 3: assists and he's shooting forty five percent from three. And
Speaker 3: remember this man had his three point shot critiqued by
Speaker 3: every scout in the league. They were like, he can't
Speaker 3: make it in this league with that push shot. And
Speaker 3: he's putting up forty five percent from deep. He is
Speaker 3: lifting the Pacers in a way where they are now
Speaker 3: the number one scoring offense in the league. He has
Speaker 3: found a way to Mike Miles Turner not only usable,
Speaker 3: but valuable to the Indiana Pacers. He's gone from plus
Speaker 3: seventy five hundred, which is seventy five to one, to
Speaker 3: thirty five to one in the last month due to
Speaker 3: these ridiculous stat lines where he is putting up thirty
Speaker 3: on your dome piece, thirty five on your dome piece,
Speaker 3: and like seventeen assists. He is the offense and he's
Speaker 3: not like remember when James Harden just the other day
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I'm not a system player. I'm a
Speaker 3: system player. No, Like Tyrese Haliburton is the Indiana Pacers offense.
Speaker 3: Everything runs through him, every bucket. He's the Caitlin Clark
Speaker 3: of the NBA, and they're the number one offense in
Speaker 3: the league. Give that man the damn Award, which is
Speaker 3: already true. Also this like, oh, you're too good to
Speaker 3: win Most Improved, but you probably should win Most Improved.
Speaker 3: This other player I think could win it too, but
Speaker 3: I don't think. I think he's more likely to win
Speaker 3: an MVP in the future than Most Improved now because
Speaker 3: everybody already is on the hype train. However, he's sneakily,
Speaker 3: very consistent, not missing games, and really really good. Zion
Speaker 3: is a beast. We know that if he stays healthy
Speaker 3: this year he's only missed four games, he could potentially
Speaker 3: steal this award. No one's talking about the Pelties yet,
Speaker 3: no one's talking about him. They just got CJ. McCollum back.
Speaker 3: I'll talk to you about this in a bit. They're
Speaker 3: about to get Trey Murphy back. Dyson Daniels has emerged.
Speaker 3: Heard Jones is a defensive specialist. I tell you what.
Speaker 3: The New Orleans Pelicans, they're just hanging in the grass
Speaker 3: like a lion waiting for their prey, and all the
Speaker 3: other teams are just gazelle's and Zion is a big
Speaker 3: piece of that. He went from off the board. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can't even bet on Zion. Most improve to sixty
Speaker 3: to one in the past two weeks twenty five points,
Speaker 3: six rebounds, five assists, shooting fifty percent from three. And
Speaker 3: on Wednesday against the Sixers, I know there was no MBS.
Speaker 3: Do not give me a hard time about it, thirty
Speaker 3: three points, eight rebounds, six assists, three steals. Oh Zion, baby,
Speaker 3: you're active out there on defense. Remember, Zion largely has
Speaker 3: been known as a defensive cone. A cone, that's what
Speaker 3: we call guys that don't play any damn defense. And
Speaker 3: now Zion's getting three steals in a game. So if
Speaker 3: you want to fly or put your money on Zion,
Speaker 3: put your money on some on some Pelicans futures because,
Speaker 3: oh my god, if he stays healthy, he could actually
Speaker 3: win this award.