Speaker 1: We're about a month into this season now, and we've
Speaker 1: got some surprise of teams, teams who have come out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, teams that probably aren't gonna be like amazing
Speaker 1: as well, but they are fun. They're not contenders. We
Speaker 1: did a little breakdown on the Kings, and people were like, hey,
Speaker 1: like break down my team. Like that, come on, bring
Speaker 1: that energy for us, and so let's do that. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're some of the lesser talked about teams around
Speaker 1: the league, let's go into them. I've got to one good,
Speaker 1: one bad. I can't get into all of them, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to rolling them out. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: do some more later on this week, But the first
Speaker 1: one that we need to start talking about is the Okay,
Speaker 1: see Thunder, what's happening there? Holy shit, they are absolutely flying.
Speaker 1: They how much they are putting up numbers going straight total.
Speaker 1: They were eleven and a half point dogs. That just
Speaker 1: tells you eleven and a half point underdogs to the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics, and they were ahead the entire game. I
Speaker 1: was like, these motherfuckers are gonna win this game. Holy shit,
Speaker 1: they're gonna They took Boston to the brink. Tatum had
Speaker 1: a good jillion and they still barely beat the Thunder.
Speaker 1: They put the fear of God into them. Boy, the
Speaker 1: Thunder can score. They can score, and they don't even
Speaker 1: have their complete roster, like a team that went to
Speaker 1: the finals and you take them. They just hung around
Speaker 1: and just hung around and hung around and hung around.
Speaker 1: Shay who is, by the way, I don't know, top
Speaker 1: five favorite player to watch. Maybe maybe not that high,
Speaker 1: but it's very high. He's now. He put a damn
Speaker 1: near forty on the Celtics. Jalen Williams from Santa Clara.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a stud. He's only played three games
Speaker 1: this year. He came in, was very productive as a starter.
Speaker 1: I think he had fourteen points for them. He did
Speaker 1: his thing, really nice little mid range game for Jalen Williams.
Speaker 1: By the way, they do have two Jalen Williams. It's
Speaker 1: the one from Santa Clara. I must just give that out.
Speaker 1: Very balanced effort all the starting five. Poku, Yeah, Poku
Speaker 1: was fucking solid. Yes, Poco's like my guy. He's like
Speaker 1: a little wish Chet, you know, like a little more
Speaker 1: a little more chaotic, a little like more feeling himself.
Speaker 1: He's like if Chet, if you got Chat at the
Speaker 1: dollar store, you know what I mean? Like, I love Chet,
Speaker 1: I love Pocu. He's clearly not Chet, but he does
Speaker 1: a lot of the same things that Chet does and
Speaker 1: he is balling. Holy shit, he what he got twenty five.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about him in a second. Mind you, all
Speaker 1: of us starting five were double figures, almost twenty points
Speaker 1: by all of them. They had one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two points. And they barely got any production out of
Speaker 1: their bench because why they don't have one. They don't
Speaker 1: really have a bench. Okay, so Giddy, Dort, Poku, all
Speaker 1: almost scored, all almost scored twenty this coming off the
Speaker 1: heels of going up into the garden and putting the
Speaker 1: straight SmackDown on the Knicks. To the point, think about this,
Speaker 1: The Okac Thunder destroyed the New York Knicks so badly
Speaker 1: there are now think pieces being written about Tom Thibodeau
Speaker 1: being fired. That's how much they did. That's what they
Speaker 1: did to them, one hundred and forty five points in
Speaker 1: the garden. The thunder put one hundred and forty five
Speaker 1: points on a team that's supposed to be built around
Speaker 1: their defense. And now Thibodeau is on the hot seat.
Speaker 1: Mind you chat Hoolmgren, The real chet Hoolmegren is out
Speaker 1: for the year.
Speaker 2: They don't even have their number two pick SGA still
Speaker 2: pick apart every single defense without a secondary score, and
Speaker 2: he's just he's gonna be an All Star this year.
Speaker 1: He's gonna probably make all NBA. He's I mean, he's
Speaker 1: putting up forty regularly two way player, improved three point shot,
Speaker 1: impossible to stop every defense they throw at him. He
Speaker 1: just knows exactly how to read it. He's like a
Speaker 1: little plan Like he's like, uh, what is that called?
Speaker 1: That little chess movie? God, oh man, he's you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. He was like Google's Chess movie
Speaker 1: in the middle of it, the Queen's gambit where he
Speaker 1: sees all the defenses on the ceiling and he's like, yep,
Speaker 1: just go this way, go that way, slash through him
Speaker 1: that way. He is imagine when he gets his jelly
Speaker 1: to the peanut butter, when he gets Chat, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be curtains. It is gonna be absolute curtains. For the
Speaker 1: rest of the league, they put up one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five points without Chet Holmgren. What would they have
Speaker 1: done with chet Holmgren. Sheesh, think about how good Shay
Speaker 1: is when he's off the floor. They're just trash. They're
Speaker 1: just horrible, Like they are one of the worst offensive
Speaker 1: teams in the league when Shade does not play. It's
Speaker 1: just literally that simple. That is how much gravity he's
Speaker 1: bringing to the team. And we talked about Poku a
Speaker 1: little earlier about the Summer League. He's scoring twenty five
Speaker 1: percent more this year than he had last year, progression
Speaker 1: what we would call on display. Just in the game
Speaker 1: against the Bucks, he had a full stat sheet, blocks, dimes, rebounds,
Speaker 1: Pokus stats, just absolutely through the roof trying to get
Speaker 1: get them full for you because you can't really even
Speaker 1: get Poku stats if you just google it because there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of poku's I guess. So game against the
Speaker 1: Bucks he had ten rebounds, two blocks, seventeen points and
Speaker 1: two assists. Just ridiculous, just absolutely ridiculous. Lou Dort just
Speaker 1: got paid, as we know, finding his offensive stroke. Now
Speaker 1: that they've hired Chip England, Josh Giddy averaging fifteen, seven
Speaker 1: and six, He's raised his three point shooting by seven percent.
Speaker 1: It's still very early. Like this is a squad. If
Speaker 1: you are not watching Okay see, you are missing out.
Speaker 1: This is a fun ass, fun ass team. They're shooting
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent this season on shots over twenty feet,
Speaker 1: which is three percent improvement over last year. That's because,
Speaker 1: like I said before, Chip England's gonna come in here.
Speaker 1: What did he do? He comes into a team and
Speaker 1: every single time, without fail, they increase their shooting percentage
Speaker 1: by three percent every time. That's what he does. Shot
Speaker 1: doctor three point shooting league. And even though maybe three
Speaker 1: percent doesn't seem like a lot a lot, but like
Speaker 1: that's now they're fourteenth in the league. Where they were
Speaker 1: they were, where were they at last year? They were
Speaker 1: at the bottom, So that three percent changes everything, and
Speaker 1: that is why they can score. They're averaging. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just been absolutely ridiculous. Back to Shay really quickly.
Speaker 1: He's averaging thirty one and five. Shay is averaging thirty
Speaker 1: one points per game, six assists, five rebounds per game.
Speaker 1: He has two steals per game, one and a half
Speaker 1: blocks per game. What the fuck? This is what JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick just said. You are missing a show if you're
Speaker 1: not watching Oklahoma City Yeah, that's exactly right. That is
Speaker 1: exactly right. In any given year, those numbers are first
Speaker 1: team All NBA numbers. Yeah, there's a reason that the
Speaker 1: Sheae is the lead target for all these different Again literally, now,
Speaker 1: all these trade rumors about the Knicks going after Shay,
Speaker 1: that's he's broken them. He has broken them, torched them
Speaker 1: for thirty seven against The Knicks have thirty seven against
Speaker 1: the Celtics. And this is like a very unselfish offensive
Speaker 1: scheme that eight players getting double digits a week ago,
Speaker 1: first time in the team history that they've done that.
Speaker 1: You add Shedd in there, man, this is this team's
Speaker 1: already a problem. They're already covering big numbers. I tell
Speaker 1: you what. You add back in, and they're definitely getting
Speaker 1: a top five pick, right, It's probably gonna be someone good.
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna make them even more dangerous SGA though
Speaker 1: my prediction definitely an All Star. Definitely, I'd say second
Speaker 1: team All NBA. Tell you what that team is buyer
Speaker 1: On the flip side of the coin, we just talked about, okay,
Speaker 1: see and how exciting they are, how fun they are,
Speaker 1: how impressive this roster is, how they're just really a
Speaker 1: piece or two away from being really competing, and they're
Speaker 1: like winning games they're not supposed to win. So that's
Speaker 1: on one side. What is happening with the Houston Rockets?
Speaker 1: Why is nobody talking about them? How bad are the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets right now? They are fucking trash. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: There's people in my youtubes. Oh, you cuss too much,
Speaker 1: too many cuss words, too many f bombs. I watch
Speaker 1: it with my kids. I'm sorry. If you're watching the
Speaker 1: Uston Rockets right now, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Why are we not holding them accountable? Why? Because we
Speaker 1: want them to just be good? We want them to
Speaker 1: be fun. They're a cute little League past team, right.
Speaker 1: I love Jalen Green, and listen, I'm kind of a contrarian.
Speaker 1: So when Bill Simmons said all those mean things about
Speaker 1: Jalen Green, I was like, no, we love Jalen Green.
Speaker 1: Jalen Green is a winning player. And I'm like, in
Speaker 1: my heart of hearts, like if I was just me
Speaker 1: and you in the lamp post, is he I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't quite know if he is yet. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I want to think he is. He shoots a lot,
Speaker 1: he's a bucket. We know that, what does that matter?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like Paul George's bucket too. He hasn't
Speaker 1: won a damn thing. They had to get rid of,
Speaker 1: like pieces on this Rockets team because they were also
Speaker 1: buckets that weren't winning players. I don't know. And now
Speaker 1: things are boiling over all. Right, not only are losing games,
Speaker 1: which is what we've expected that they would do. They're
Speaker 1: two to twelve, so they're one of the worst teams
Speaker 1: in the league. They're gonna continue to be. We've got
Speaker 1: teams that are tanking, that are five hundreds. So what
Speaker 1: are they They're like, they just don't even care at all,
Speaker 1: but they are. Now things are boiling over to the
Speaker 1: point where frustration is leaking out onto the floor. Veteran
Speaker 1: Eric Gordon, who God knows why he's even still there,
Speaker 1: why a team hasn't saved him, He's fed up with
Speaker 1: his teammates. This is what he said postgame. We didn't
Speaker 1: play our game. We didn't have energy, we didn't play
Speaker 1: with togetherness, and we got the result. That happens if
Speaker 1: you have a winning mentality, moving the ball is something
Speaker 1: that you should do. Pretty common. Yeah, believing in your
Speaker 1: teammates and believing in what you should do. That's the
Speaker 1: way it goes when you're trying to win. We are
Speaker 1: not doing that. It's very tough. It's been the same
Speaker 1: thing year in year out, game to game. It's a
Speaker 1: long season. When we have games like this early on,
Speaker 1: it's tough. Yes, and we've seen this. It's like these
Speaker 1: guys will not pass each other the ball if they're
Speaker 1: wide open. It's it's like when you go to Equinox.
Speaker 1: It's not exactly like this, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like when you go to Equinox and you're like
Speaker 1: the new person on the court for the lunchtime run,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter if you've got seven feet of space.
Speaker 1: They are not passing you the ball at all. Not
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what kind of screens you're setting, defense, you're playing,
Speaker 1: how good you looked in the little pregame warm up thing,
Speaker 1: how many shots you've hitt in it, you're not getting
Speaker 1: the ball. That's the Houston Rockets, but with all of them,
Speaker 1: it's like every single player on the court is that
Speaker 1: new person at the Equinox run. If that other person
Speaker 1: has the ball, like nope, not passing. Do you Jabari
Speaker 1: Smith underneath the basket wide open. Fuck off, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shoot this, thirty Bartter, what is going on? Do you
Speaker 1: know what it means when a veteran has been on
Speaker 1: a losing team and he finally decides he's gonna all
Speaker 1: out that team publicly. It means he's been saying it
Speaker 1: privately for a while right like they are being and
Speaker 1: he said it. This is selfish team. This is a
Speaker 1: selfish team. You can feel in his voice, what am
Speaker 1: I doing here? What is this? This? The resignation in
Speaker 1: his tone is palpable. And that is what happens when
Speaker 1: you're thirty seven, which is what he is, on a
Speaker 1: team that's on track for the third straight year to
Speaker 1: be one of the worst teams in basketball. So at
Speaker 1: what point do we start holding them accountable? Houston, Houston,
Speaker 1: We've got problems on this roster. Like I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about Steven Silas. I'm fine with him. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to make of him yet. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's good. I don't know if he's bad. He's
Speaker 1: not elite, that's obvious, but he's who knows. Could he
Speaker 1: be Steve Clifford, Sure? Could he be Dwayne Casey. Sure,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Could he be TIBs maybe? Could he
Speaker 1: be better than that? Is he nick nursed? Probably not.
Speaker 1: Back to the point, this team doesn't have pieces that
Speaker 1: really make any damn sense. You know. It's like he's
Speaker 1: tasked with babysitting a team who is basically saying publicly
Speaker 1: on all the blogs, on all their you know stuff
Speaker 1: that they do that one of the cornerstone players that
Speaker 1: they have, And don't kill me on this because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people who love him because he's a bucket.
Speaker 1: He's a bucket. He's a bucket. But the cornerstone on
Speaker 1: the team is a player that was waived by the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers for throwing food at his teammate. I know
Speaker 1: that's not relevant, but he was a cast off and
Speaker 1: you're making him a corner You got him for free. Okay,
Speaker 1: you literally got this piece for free, and now it's
Speaker 1: the centerpiece of your room, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Maybe not like great. When I look at this roster,
Speaker 1: there's five guys under twenty five guys on this fifteen
Speaker 1: man roster that can't even drink right now, many have
Speaker 1: even played in college. Not saying that's necessary. But like
Speaker 1: I think, four haven't played in college. They've come over
Speaker 1: either through the G League or international. It's hard seeing
Speaker 1: an elite team here. He got guys that played one
Speaker 1: year in college who are very wild now being sent
Speaker 1: down to the G League. Intari Easton, who I love.
Speaker 1: What is the upside of this team? I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I saw this stat about what Jabari Smith is
Speaker 1: averaging right now, and it's awful, It's god awful compared
Speaker 1: to Powlo, which is what they'll always be compared together.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, what would Poolo be on
Speaker 1: this team? Would they be passing Poolo the ball? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Jalen Green thinks he's pretty good. He is
Speaker 1: pretty good, but you know what I'm saying, Jalen Green
Speaker 1: wants to be the man you got. Kevin Porter Junior
Speaker 1: wants to be the man you got Josh Christopher. He
Speaker 1: shoots a lot. You got Alpera and Shangoon. He wants
Speaker 1: the ball? Are they giving the ball to Poolo? They
Speaker 1: have out Alprin Shingun. I like him, but he plays
Speaker 1: no defense. He's bad. He's really really bad. Does anybody
Speaker 1: think Jabari Smith is better than Pawa right now. No,
Speaker 1: but if they switch places, then everybody like, oh, thank
Speaker 1: god Orlando didn't take Powello because Powell is just languishing
Speaker 1: in Houston. Anyone who was drafted to go to Houston
Speaker 1: was going to be languishing in Houston. Uzman Garuba, they
Speaker 1: took Uzman Garuba in the first round. Why he's doing
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. They could have had Io de Sunmu, who's ballin'.
Speaker 1: They could have had Herb Jones ballin'. Like they're just
Speaker 1: passing over good pieces for very irrelevant fringe players that
Speaker 1: are doing absolutely nothing from a production standpoint. No Shade,
Speaker 1: Jayshawn Tates and Dayshawn Nicks. I'm sorry, I don't even
Speaker 1: think they're a starter for a real contender at this point.
Speaker 1: When you have veterans like Gordon and they're calling those
Speaker 1: guys out, that's not a sign good sign. That's not
Speaker 1: a good sign. They're not playing a team game. They
Speaker 1: will not pass to one another. Watching their offenses like
Speaker 1: watching a competition as to who can get theirs. It's
Speaker 1: like watching duct tape, you know what I mean? Just
Speaker 1: sticks stick stick sticks. Someone's open. Like I said, nobody's
Speaker 1: passing the ball. They're two and twelve. What happens, though,
Speaker 1: The worst case scenario is this, Hopefully there is some
Speaker 1: sort of conspiracy around the lottery, because if Victor Wambaanyama
Speaker 1: ends up a Houston Rocket, I will lose my shit.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't think he'll fit on
Speaker 1: that team at all. No wonder Christian Wood wanted to
Speaker 1: get out of there. I'm sorry if you're a Houston
Speaker 1: Rockets fan, I really am sorry for you, because it's
Speaker 1: a fun, young team could compete on a night tonight basis.
Speaker 1: I read a two thousand word think piece article from
Speaker 1: some random local Phoenix newspaper about how dangerous the Houston
Speaker 1: Rockets are seen around the league. I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 1: buy one word of that fun team might compete for
Speaker 1: a quarter or two, but ultimately probably the worst team
Speaker 1: in the league.