WEBVTT - End of Season Retrospective 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.120 On this episode weed Check trying to put a little 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:08.119 pretty little bow on the NBA season, talking about our 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:13.520 biggest surprises, the least surprising moments and things that ended 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:18.440 up coming to fruition, biggest disappointments, things we saw coming, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.080 and of course our favorite moments from the past. NBA 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.479 season always one of my favorite shows to look forward to, 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:30.480 just recapping kind of getting the overarching sort of bow 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.519 on it. That makes sense, all right, Brock, do me 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.559 a favor and get me out of this word vomits 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:47.400 and drop that beat. Welcome to the busy season of 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.800 the NBA. There is no busier time where more shoe 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:57.840 is constantly popping than right now. Nothing nothing more popping 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.880 than the week of the draft. Free agency kicks off 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.240 on June thirtieth. We rolled directly into Summer League where 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.640 we get to see all of those rookies and has 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:11.200 been trying to show themselves to the world. Also betting 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:16.160 the Summer League second year gonna be electric. Let's just 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.679 say that me up in Thomas and Mack Center on 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:25.160 my little bet mgm app Degeneracy. All games of the 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:30.120 Summer League are televised this year, every single one. I 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.920 don't even know how that's possible. But TNT and ESPN 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.920 made that, or NBA TV and t N ESPN made 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.600 that shit happen. TNT would have been wild. I will 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.120 be on the ground from Summer League the entire time. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:43.760 We'll be doing some live shows. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.039 So let's talk about it. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:51.520 Let's talk about first and foremost, the biggest surprise for 0:01:51.720 --> 0:02:00.920 me this NBA season. Boston got good out of nowhere. Addition, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.560 by subtraction, they got rid of Fournier, they got rid 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.680 of Kemba, and we said, yeah, that makes sense. Those 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.480 pieces didn't really work there. They didn't really add anyone 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:16.560 of note until you know the trade deadline, but it 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.240 was Derek White. So they did everything that they did 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.400 with the same core that they've had for many years, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.240 and they got to the finals and it looked like 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.520 they could have had an opportunity to become NBA champs. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.959 Emay Udoka finally got his team to buy into defense 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.760 after ditching the guys who didn't want to play defense, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.280 and Josh Richardson and Dennis Shrewder and Nnis cant time. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.880 Lord was a massive surprise with how good he ended 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.040 up being very important piece to this team. He was 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.679 leading blocks, lead the leader in blocks in every location 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.960 on the court this season, every single location, threes, every part. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:56.600 Rob Williams held it down. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.639 The two J's showed the world that they could play together. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.919 Marcus Smart found his way into the bedroom of an 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.120 NBA reporter so that he could so that he could 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:13.280 propagandize himself into a DPOY Defensive Player of the Year trophy. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.960 Good for Marcus Smart. So that's probably the biggest, one 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.040 of the biggest surprises. Another one, the Nets went from 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:26.000 I went back and listened to me and your first episode, Brock, 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:33.440 and I said something crazy. I said, if the Nets 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:38.240 can be healthy, fully healthy, they will be stratospheres above 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.520 everyone else. And I was like, yee. I listened back, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:46.320 and I go, yee, that's me. Three minutes into our 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.440 Eastern Conference preview. We did also say that the Nets 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.040 were in more turmoil than any other team in the NBA, 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.920 and that ended up being the case. But scary hours 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.720 never happened. Hard never ended up being in shape. Kyrie 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.480 never ended up being there full time. Blake Griffin regressed 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:09.360 to Detroit Blake Griffin, LaMarcus regressed to San Antonio LaMarcus. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:15.600 All eyes were on the Nets and all eyes said, God, no, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.080 please let me get this off my television. Turns out 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.239 we never really got to see the Nets fully healthy. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:29.720 Katie Hard and Kyrie only played sixteen games together. Sixteen 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.760 games they were a seven seed, not a one seed 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.279 like we thought that they should be got swept. Now 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.920 that there are rumors that the Nets and Kyrie are 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.680 at an impasse with their contract negotiations and so he 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:48.080 might be looking for another destination as well, which means, folks, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.880 if Kyrie goes, then you have to imagine that Kevin 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.120 Durant will go, and then you have to imagine that 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.279 Ben Simmons will go and we'll go fully into rebuild 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.960 mode again. So you're talking about a team that had Kyrie, Kady, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.960 had Harden at one point, had Jared Allen before Harden 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.720 had Karris Lavert, had Joe Harris. This team is now 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.600 it's like a radioactive nuclear warhead went off into this 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.880 franchise because you look around and it's just it's just everything, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.040 all signs of life are gone. So that is that 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.400 is wild because everyone thought that this team was going 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.440 to be the leader in the clubhouse to win it 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.640 off for the next three to five years with these 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.120 these three talents on the same squad. Crazy least surprising 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:46.239 thing Philly not being a contender truthfully, and beide, I said, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:47.680 is going to have to show me he can play 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.880 more than seventy five percent of the game. The bench 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.560 is shaky. I do not think this team is contending. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.440 And yes, that all came to fruition. Except for that 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.360 they ended up finding a way to get James Harden. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.599 Wild turn of events that did not help them in 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.520 any actually probably hurt them. Daryl Morey told the world 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.359 he was gonna get multiple first rounders for Ben Simmons. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.919 It turns out he had to give up multiple first 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.359 rounders to get rid of Ben Simmons and acquire James Harden. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.520 So there was that. Now there's a lot of speculation 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.839 about James Harden, how long his extension would be for 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.719 Some people are saying it's only going to be three 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:25.280 year deal instead of a max five year deal. Philly, 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.320 as you know, is now looking to trade everyone. Two 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.880 franchises with high hopes, two franchises that are now literally 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.640 decimating their roster to do what I have no idea. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:42.440 Probably the Warriors winning a title is the most the 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:48.000 most surprising thing for me, but that was that was 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:54.440 wild biggest disappointment. Lakers and the Nets. Lakers we knew 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.280 weren't gonna be much. The Lakers we knew were gonna 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:03.599 have spacing issues with Russell Westbrook. The Nets were disappointment, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.520 as I've said, but they're kind of tied. They're kind 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.760 of tied, and the Lakers now have gotten rid of 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.720 Frank Vogel. They've got a new head coach, Russell Westbrook, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.520 showing up to his press conferences standing in the room 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.880 like a mob boss waiting to collect the money that 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.440 you owe. And I'm not sure that they get any 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:30.480 better moving forward. Worst prediction of the year two two 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.640 of them Golden State being a seven seed and getting 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.560 bounced out of the first round of the playoffs. They 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.000 are a champion. They are champions. Nothing that needs to 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.920 be said. I watched all of the Warriors parade today 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.560 and I ingested it all and I was like, they're 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.600 talking about me. Draymond was like, shut the fuck up, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.480 shut up, shut up. We hate all y'all except for 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:57.360 Warriors fans. It's like yo, yikes. Also Bucks versus Suns, 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.240 I thought they would go to the finals again, I 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.920 lost a smooth one hundred and fifty dollars on that prediction. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:08.680 So wild, not exactly something. They looked both good and 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.560 let's just be honest, the Suns all had COVID. They 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.320 all had COVID for Game seven. That's now been widely reported. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.760 I've known this for months. I've been keeping it to 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.160 myself like a little canary, wanting to share, wanting to share, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.000 wanting to share. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:25.560 But they all had COVID. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.760 They did hard to play basketball when you can barely 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.440 breathe and keep your head on straight. And the Bucks 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.840 lost Chris Middleton, So I mean, what are you gonna do? 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.000 One team has COVID, the other one loses their second 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.960 option on offense. So that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes, folks. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.920 That's why it's a hard and arduous path to get 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:49.600 to a championship. Things I could not see coming Eighten 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.679 and the turmoil with the Suns. What this guy was 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.880 a key piece. Chris Paul's been simping and standing for 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.520 DeAndre Ayton for since he got there. DA needs to 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.959 get paid. It's only a matter of time. Be patient, DA, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.280 Your time will come. Everything's happening, No he's just gonna 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.600 walk now. The writing is now on the wall. I 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.560 never thought it would get to the point where the 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.760 sons were like, we will take h We'll take Rudy 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.560 Gobert and a first round pick for Adon. Like. I 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.160 never thought it would get to the point where it's like, hmm, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.760 what do we need? What do we need? Just give 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.440 us a couple of Give us a random Jeff Green, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.120 Give us a Joe Harris. We just want to get 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.760 rid of him for something. Give us a couple of 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:41.000 first round picks. We'll use JaVale McGee. It's like what 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.320 I thought. You guys loved DA number one overall pick 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.240 good had Luca, but you didn't you have Da. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.600 What's happening? And then the whole quitting on his. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:54.040 Team thing, YadA, YadA, various. A shocker situation for me 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.640 from a team that has said nothing but positives. If 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.079 you look back at their finals run last year, all 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.840 they talked about is how DA was the guy that 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.800 did all the dirty work. DA doesn't want any credit. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.520 DA doesn't want any praise. He just goes out there 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.920 and he does his job. He plays his role. He 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.240 could have a bigger role other places. But he knows 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.600 what it takes to win a championship. And now it's like, no, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.760 he's lazy, he's lazy, he's not that good. Like WHOA, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:23.600 what a turn of events. He's now the number one 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.040 free agent name in all the NBA teams like Utah, Toronto, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.760 Atlanta just frothing at the mouth, Portland frothing at the 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:35.319 mouth to get da do it, Portland do it. Another thing, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.559 speaking of Portland, I did not see this happening is 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.040 Dame having season ending surgery on his abdomen. The man 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.720 couldn't even stand up without being in pain, couldn't sit 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:51.160 down without being in pain. Portland then actively tanking. Team's 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.640 never done that in the history of the team. When 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:58.280 you're sitting guys like Calgan Blevins, you're sitting on because 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:04.160 he's too good. Trend in Watford, our guy, our cleaning 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.560 lady at five point fifteen PM as as she normally does. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:10.760 And Drew and. 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.880 Drew not blood celt Drew U Banks. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.880 That's it, Yes, Drew U Banks and this team with 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.400 a new GM INTERIMGM just clearing the entire decks, getting. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.200 Rid of you know, they're like, this is the house 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:26.079 that Neil built. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.000 It's like, no, let's take a bulldozer to everything that 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.680 Neil ever did except for Damian Lillard. All things must go. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.680 Let's try to get the number one pick. That was 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:39.920 a shocker to me New Orleans Pelicans. Was it a 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.280 shocker they went one in thirteen? No? Was it a 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:49.040 shocker that Zion set out in the full season? No, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.920 not to me. But after one in thirteen, they made 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.760 the playoffs and they gave the Suns the business. They 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.719 gave him hell and I did also not see this. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.680 HEJ McCollum would be the centerpiece of that team. CJ 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:08.840 and Brandon Ingram, so many Portland connections upon these surprises. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.480 But oh my god, another thing, Atlanta becoming a dumpster fire. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.920 I thought they build on their Eastern Conference finals run. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.880 I thought, listen, they got a lot of long guys 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.960 that can defend and shoot threes. Trey Young is out there, 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.560 you know, he's like a little baby Steph Curry out there. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.280 Let me just say this really fast because it just 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.040 came to my mind, so why not blurt it out. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.839 Trey Young's not even close to Steph Curry like this, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.360 not even at all the same thing. You can't get 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.199 the ball out of Trey Young's hand, like you can't. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:39.880 He's not passing the ball. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.800 Steph Curry will pass the ball in one possession like 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.240 ten fifteen times. He's really good passer and he's a 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.240 willing passer. Trey Young. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.439 No one's ever said he's a willing passer, No one 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:52.880 that I just. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.520 Thought of that. Demartin Rosen two weeks to Martin Rosen 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.560 was like maybe the best player on planet Earth. He 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.800 was a forty. He's hitting game winners from three. It 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.720 was just amazing moment after amazing moment when everybody slandered 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:09.640 him and said he was the worst free agent signing 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.640 in all of the NBA, And oh my god, was 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.800 that a terrible take. I'm glad I never wrote that. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:21.200 I'm glad I never said that. Another thing, Cavaliers, Cavaliers 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.320 making the playoffs, ish Cavaliers making the play in at 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.280 least Ricky Rubio injury definitely helped or hurt them. But 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.240 like no telling, they were a one seed at one point. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:37.200 What nobody saw that? A one seed? They were atop 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.920 the East for most of the year. Another thing, this 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.599 draft class was deep. I don't think anyone really realized 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.360 how good some of these guys like Herb Jones would 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.680 have been. A lot of people thought this drop wasn't 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.000 even gonna be very good at all, and it may 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.320 go down as one of the better draft classes in 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:00.679 a decade. Things that we saw coming. Like I said, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.840 Sixers being a disappointment, no brainer, not a roster bill 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.160 for a title run. But we knew that last year 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.920 they had hardened at the deadline. Like we said, it lasted, 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.640 all the fanfare lasted about a week. Ben Simmons not 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.280 playing a single game of basketball, we saw that no way. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.400 Like his talk last summer about never playing for the 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.200 Sixers again, What are we talking about If he says 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.560 that I'm never playing for this team again, he doesn't 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.400 ever get to another team until the trade deadline. Do 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.280 you think he's just gonna snap back into action. No, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.760 all of those grueling practices he had with Kyle Korver, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.000 you didn't think those were gonna get him ready for 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.240 an NBA season. Like all those corner threes he was 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:49.320 hitting uncontested, taking videos of probably the only makes. He 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.040 only took fun videos of the makes. So yeah, like 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.440 you gotta listen to these people when They're like, listen, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.320 I'm willing to I'm willing to risk whatever. I don't 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.160 need to get paid. Come find me, garnish my game. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.680 I'll see you for mental health in fractions like it 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.400 is what it is. The only question really now is 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.520 if he'll play a game next year and where, because, 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.400 like we said, if the Nets are a dumpster fire, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.360 do we think they're keeping Ben Ben see a therapist? 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.280 Simmons like no, I don't think so. Maybe he'll end 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.840 up in Sacramento, like where he belongs. That would be 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.600 a great place for Ben Simmons. If you could trade 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:31.280 Ben Simmons for the number four overall pick, would you 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:36.040 do it? Would you do it like Ben Simmons for 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:44.480 the number four pick and maybe Rashaun Holmes and Harrison Barnes. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.200 Would you do it? That's a good trade for both sides. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.840 The Knicks returning to Earth, we had to have seen coming. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.120 I know, Brock, you're a Knicks fan. You knew, you 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.200 knew while it was Nicks Mania, was it real? We 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.280 knew I was slandering the Knicks two seasons ago, like 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.640 you guys are fake fake. People were so mad then 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.160 when they had the four seed, I had to eat 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.560 crow and it was like, no, it was that was 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.920 the case. You weren't real. You are shopping, Julius Randall, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.000 you are shopping, Mitchell Robinson, you are shopping. Tom Tibodeau, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.840 you are shopping Obie Tompin. Like all of these things. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.880 They were an awesome story. Tims had him whipped into shape. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.800 They were running like they were the National Guard and 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.880 getting ready for battle. Trey cut their throats and it 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.560 was like the Red Wedding all over again. No one 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.640 has ever been seen or heard from again. Then they 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.160 decided to sign Kemba and Fourgnier like that was a 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.120 good idea. That was like an arranged marriage and it 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.560 made no damn sense. Now Rose was out for most 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.000 of the year. No point guard. Pretty inevitable that the 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.360 Knicks and Tom Tibdau wouldn't want to play any of 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.360 the young guys to get him some juice. Now Tims 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:56.920 is probably on the shore leash. We don't know how 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.200 this ends. They're gonna say he's not gonna be fired, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.720 and we know most likely he's gonna be fired. Kenny Atkinson, 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.359 backing out of the Hornets shop, did not see that coming. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.639 I don't know why. I don't know why. I still 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.640 need to know why. I know it's Michael Jordan related. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.560 I'm pretty sure there's some whispers that Steve Kerr is 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.600 gonna retire, that Kenny Atkinson's gonna take over the Warriors. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.159 I don't see that happening. This is a team I 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.080 know they don't have ego, but they're established stars. So 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.840 Kenny Atkinson's windsprint method, I don't think it's gonna work 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:30.680 out for me. Dog. 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:32.760 That's a sidebar though. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:38.280 Grizzlies. We saw the Grizzlies making a deepish run right. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.320 We saw them being probably a top three team in 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.560 the West even in the offseason. Just how well they 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.040 played against Utah, how they bounced Golden stayed out in 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.200 the playing game. Barring bad injuries, they could have gone 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.120 to the finals if it wasn't for Jaw going down 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.160 with a knee injury. They came very close even without Jaw. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.000 They've got a bunch of guys with Sharon Jackson and 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.000 Desmond Baine and Tias Jones. Like this team should be 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.440 good next year. They should be good for a lot 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.680 of time. Utah not hard to see them being a disappointment. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.080 Was it not rock and science. When you get smoked 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.840 by the Clippers, and before that's the year before smoked 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.640 by the Nuggets, when you were up three to one 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:25.679 in both of those series, and you've done nothing to 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:31.240 add to your defensive wing presence, to your three point shooting. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:33.159 What else is gonna have? 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.720 Other teams get better, you regress, teams figure you out 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.200 thenevitability as you get bounced. That's it. Like you didn't 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.280 even weren't even able to be a number one seed 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.160 like you were last year to get your home court. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.320 So yeah, now you got Quinn Snyder quitting for what 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.800 we don't even know, just to step away get some sleep. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.640 He's got severe sleep deficit. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.040 We already know that. You can see it in his 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.560 under his eyes. And now it's like don Mitchell and 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.879 Rudy Gobert, are they gonna split up? Are? The best 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.119 thing is like, will they still force him to play together? 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.560 Because that's gonna be a nightmare if that happens. So 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.040 everybody's gonna be asking about it all season long. Hey, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.680 what's up with you and Rudy? Hey at that, Rudy, 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.760 I thought you wanted a trade out of Utah. Hey, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.360 Donovan did you know that you were going to Did 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.880 you know that we counted how many New York Sports 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.320 games you went to this summer. It's up to thirty seven. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.879 It's not thirty seven. Do you know that Donovan Mitchell's 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.200 dad works for the Mets. That's an interesting, interesting little 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:37.040 nugget to file away. Another one that we saw coming 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.720 is Zion Zion being so injury prone he couldn't even 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.199 play a game, not one, not one NBA game. I 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.760 told the world. It's one of the very first things 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.600 I shared with you, Brock in Octoberion is it's a 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.840 rap for Zion. Sorry Richard Jefferson, but like he hasn't 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.119 played eighty two full games. 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.359 He did not play overweight. We knew that was the case. 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.000 We knew the whole emotional eating through injury was the case. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:08.119 And like that has become a stain on his reputation. 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:13.040 But not only that it people killed me for it 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.960 and turned out to be one hundred percent true. Turned 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.960 out to be one hundred percent true. People killed me. 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:22.919 And all of this brings up the question, are the 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:28.120 Pels actually better off trading Zion than playing him? Could 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.120 be an interesting thing with him on the roster, but. 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:31.280 It also could be a disaster. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.639 I remember brandon Ingram and his happiness level when Zion 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.359 was on the court, and it was lower than it 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.960 is right now. I remember brandon Ingram's efficacy on the 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.359 court when Zion was there, and it was lower than 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.520 it is right now. I'm not so sure that Zion 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.879 and brandon Ingram. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:50.080 Work well together. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.440 I'm not so sure that Zion contributes to a good 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.639 defensive team. Doesn't like to run back on defense because 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:01.879 you know, he doesn't like to run. Russell Westbrook not 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.320 working that. Speaking of guys who don't like to run 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.280 when they don't have the ball, like this guy, this guy. 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.240 We've known this for years now, but for some reason, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.280 they always try it. There's always one trade where they 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.840 try to finesse you. They try to make you feel 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.720 they try to Martha Mitchell, you like they beat you 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.760 up in the hotel room, they lock you back, and 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.200 when you come out, they're like, yeah, that didn't happen. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.800 We always knew Russell Westbrook wouldn't work. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.560 Wait hold on here, No, I. 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.480 Said he would, And you're like, yeah, no, we said 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.639 that too, Yeah, yeah, no. It was a total experiment. 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.240 We also knew, So why'd you do the trade? 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:45.040 Why'd you get well, things were working with KPJ and 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:51.159 Kyle Kuzma Casey p excuse me, No, they were working. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.040 What are you saying? So we knew a d Russ 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.639 and Lebron weren't gonna be able to coexist. The truth 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:58.240 of the matter is, why are they still trying to 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.760 make it exist now? It's like it's like a mean girls. 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:05.359 Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen. 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:11.120 Russell Westbrook will never move without the ball. Never. Lebron 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:15.119 James needs the ball in his hands surrounded by shooters. 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.879 That's it. Those two things don't go together. Russell. 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:20.280 Oh yeah. 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:24.800 Thirdly, Russell Westbrook can't shoot threes. He's a horrible jump shot. 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:29.640 He has a horrible, horrible jump shot. There's and lamps. Now, 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:34.600 the montages that we've seen of Russell Westbrook hitting the 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:38.440 ball on the side, it's a skill hitting the ball 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.440 on the side of the backboard. 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:42.440 It's almost impossible. 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.760 It's like when you miss, like when you hit a 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:50.240 golf shot and it goes through all of the branches 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.480 of the tree and it through the air unscathed. It's 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:57.120 like that, but the opposite, like there's air everywhere except 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:00.680 for this little tiny sliver of the side of a backboard, 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:04.720 and somehow he's hit it hundreds of times. I don't 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:09.600 understand it. Frank Vogel fired. Now we have Darvin Ham. 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:13.040 We'll see how this goes. Some of the favorite moments 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:16.920 one my favorite number one moment. This is gonna be 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:22.160 chronological mostly. Do you guys remember when Ben Simmons reported 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:26.200 back to the Sixers and he actually went to practice 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:30.720 and they filmed it, and they filmed him looking at 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.560 his cell phone while the practice was going on, stoic 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.280