WEBVTT - The Drop | Joel Embiid Back To Trolling, Draymond's Temper & Surprising Records 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.120 Good good morning, Swirl, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast, 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.880 presented by Fan Duel. It's Friday, January twenty third, twenty 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.920 twenty six. This is the Drop. I'm Jay Skis here 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.639 in the Classic Factory and alongside me as always Task. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.520 Mellis Podcast listeners, this is for you. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.919 Next to him, it's my top shot hot boy Trey 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.000 Kirby heh a oh, and overyonder making the magic happen. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.080 Super producer Jade there is here. We are. Hello to 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.400 everybody joining us on YouTube. Hit the like button, subscribe 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.680 podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews. Fun drop today 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.720 some worst of the week nominees. Oh yeah, we got 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.880 whoa boy, we got pick them, we got a rabbit fire. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:50.240 But we start with what you got? What you got? 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.200 Oh man, I twisted myself into a pretzel to make 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.480 these what you've got this morning for the guy. These 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:05.080 are pretty wide. Oh I got creative. Let's start with this. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.479 The Philadelphia seventy six ers defeated the Rockets one eight 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.920 two in overtime last night, but we probably should have 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.360 never seen the extra period. JD. If you've got it, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.480 go ahead and roll it, because in the final seconds 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:21.960 of regulation. Maxi attempted a layup that's going to get 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.760 swatted here off the backboard by Durant, but the ball 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.000 hit the glass before Katie touched it, which should have 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.720 resulted in a goaltending call. Of course, because goaltending was 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.000 not called on the play, I don't know why it 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.880 could not be reviewed. And then the refs like immediately 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.240 followed this up with another botched, you know, inadvertent whistle. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.959 It was a mess at the end of this game. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.680 So just sit on that for one second, because we 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.320 also had the Mavericks beating the Warriors, winning their fourth 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.920 consecutive game. Good stuff from them. But the Dubs were 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.559 up one midway through the fourth quarter when Draymond Green 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.520 he went crazy. He was called for a flag and foul. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.560 Less than a minute later, another fowl by Green that 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.480 was reviewed. It wasn't called a flagrant, but he sort 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.720 of just went crazy, got a lot of fouls, fouled 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.120 out of the game. He had four points, three turnovers, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.680 and what was a close game suddenly you know, ballooned 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.440 into the Mavericks going on an eleven o'er run and 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.560 the Warriors loose. So what was the worst performance from 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:25.000 last night the Rockets seventy six ers refereeing or Draymond 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:26.679 Green tasmoos what you got. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.760 I got Draymond Green. I'm not going to start by 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.919 defending the referees. I'll do that in a few minutes 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:34.800 because I don't want to start with that. Let's just 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.880 talk about Draymond Green hitting people because he's too slow now, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:40.880 I mean, that's what he came down to. He was 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.880 He's literally just unable to keep up with the foot 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.160 speed have anybody around him. So he's hitting people and 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.320 you could see it in Steph's face. I am sad. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.480 He's literally he's literally not feeling good. Maybe it's because 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.120 of the Brown Town jerseys they're wearing. No, it's just 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.760 because there's no Jimmy Butler. They're trying to start Brandon 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:06.320 Pajemski in Jimmy's place since he went down, and Brandon Pajemski, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.000 I mean you could be sad about that. He missed 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.000 so many layups. I think it's three little literal layups. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.720 Just put the Anthony Melton into that starting lineup already. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.639 That guy is keing to it. He is so good 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.519 right now. And then we'll get to a Jonathan kaminga injury. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.920 So I just think that whole thing, that whole thing 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.080 is far worse than what the referees did or didn't 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.679 do by not calling that goaltend. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:28.080 Yeah, maybe true. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.120 The Sixers went on to win, like I said, so 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.000 there was that, yes, karma justice. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.560 It's just weird because they always call that a goaltend, 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:36.480 so they can go and look at it. Yes, and 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.560 suddenly they decide John Goebel and his team like, nah, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.240 we didn't think it was a goaltend, so play on. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.800 Let me defend it. Let me defend it one second, okay, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.160 because tyres Max and MAXI takes it to the glass 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.000 and you know that he is literally trying to get 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.240 it to the glass as fast as possible or for 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.680 sure he doesn't let go of the ball. It's one 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.880 of those I'm getting it to the glass. Literally his 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.280 hand hits the glass. And to defend the referee, I 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.640 don't know how they don't call it, but you don't 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.160 see him release the ball. Is that part of it 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.360 where it's literally he doesn't come out of his hand, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.200 he's literally his hand. Yeah, and then but it is quick. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.800 They just they always call it. They changed the rule 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.680 for this call it. Yeah, they change. They change it 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:18.400 so they could take it. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.320 Back, right, so they so they can look at it. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.760 Yeah, exactly, this was like an obvious goaltend in real time. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:23.960 It wasn't even close. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:24.719 Yeah, for sure. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.240 There's a guy standing behind he's videotaping it. I'm sure 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.920 he saw that it was clearly a goaltend. So they 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.360 blew it. And like you're saying, they usually just call 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.080 it so that they can go and take a look 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:34.320 at it. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.599 So where that they didn't. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.760 But uh, like we said, good stuff for the seventy 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.680 six ers to come out and play really well in 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.599 over time and say, hey, we had the momentum. Anyways, 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.640 we carried it over so you can easily get the 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.360 railed in a scenario like that. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:48.159 They didn't. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.840 That was nice, Yeah, it was nice. It was so 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.440 funny because the end of it was hilarious. I watched 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.440 it live. And then they go and they allow a 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.000 jump ball. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.800 They made a jump. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.520 Ball, and and then the sixers had point one seconds 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.279 after the jump ball they get they stopped the clock 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.839 to say you get point one seconds because if the 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.560 buzzer went off. Anyways, I can't explain it because it's 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.640 so freaking complicated. It was odd. It was odd. The 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.599 whole thing was odd. But the Warriors thing is that's tough, man, 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.600 It's tough everything going on around. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.080 That and a sad season. Yeah, so which one would 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.960 you pick here? If I would pick the refs, Okay, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.640 I hate the refs. If they got it right, I'd 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.159 kind of be mad at them. Why you stop the game. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.920 But Draymond, Like, I don't know, I think Draymon's fall off. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.560 He's still a great, at the very least playoff defender. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.320 Like put him in a postseason scenario where you're game 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.240 planning against whoever. He can frustrate people and can still 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.560 be a really effective guy. But like over the course 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.880 of an eighty two game season, he's hurting you on offense. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.200 At this point, the Warriors almost have to build their 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.200 offense around Draymond's weaknesses more so than Steph Curry. And 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.800 that's before even Jimmy got hurt. Now they're going to 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.640 need even more from him. Three turnovers last night, they 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.880 were brew not even close to like being completed. He 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.120 did get five assists, but it really should have been 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:05.839 three because Stepp did all the work on a couple 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.640 of these, he's not gonna shoot. Like he took three 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.880 shots maybe in the first three minutes, and it's like, Okay, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.719 I didn't make any of them, so I'm. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.360 Tapped out from here on out. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.680 He's just kind of become a negative player for the Warriors, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:22.800 and from all accounts, like they will never trade him, understandably, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.720 like he's a franchise legend. He put four titles up 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.920 in the yeah, up in the rafters, so I get it. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.720 But but like. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.920 He's holding them back as a team and they need 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.279 even more from him now now that Jimmy went down, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.320 now that Kminge even got hurt, and he's just not 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.720 reliable somehow, the Warriors are better on offense and on 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.000 defense when Draymond sits this year, that's bad. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:46.920 Yeah. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.280 Has there ever been a guy in NBA history who 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.799 has won his team more games but maybe also lost 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.279 his team board games than Draymond Green. And I'm going 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.040 back obviously to some previous playoff runs too where he 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.359 really hurt his team because of his antics here, but 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.880 this one where he's like tagging Dwight Powell like on 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.280 his rim run but pops, So I'm like, he throws 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.720 an ellboy, he throws a little chicken wing Powell got 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.760 took a shot to the gut. Did he sell it 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.400 Maybe a little bit, but he sold it because it's Draymond. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:13.960 I think, of course, are going to go look at it. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.760 That was the flagrant. Then he obviously had a harder 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.720 foul right after that. Now he's trying to prevent a 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.720 basket on that one. I don't think it was anything malicious, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.560 but then but he just like it's spirals. He just 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.080 cannot stop and let it go. And I think at 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.960 times like this is not the first time we've talked 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.440 about this with Draymond, like it affects his team negatively, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:31.760 and it did in this game. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.000 It did so it did. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.160 I don't know if it was the main only reason 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.840 they lost, but he sure didn't help their chances down 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:38.240 the stretch. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.200 He needs to be consistently good now with Jimmy Butler out, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.160 and that ain't gonna happen. That's the problem. And he 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.440 does have games where those threes go down. He even 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.640 had a reverse layup. I thought, WHOA last night, that 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.560 might be pretty, but he missed. Uh, And yeah, it 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.400 does spiral. I don't think he deserved a flagrant foul 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.320 for the tagging. Dwight Palell sold really well, and I 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.840 don't think there was a flagrant on the other one either, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.040 underneath because he he held the player after he hit him. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.800 But it's spirals. Then he starts getting in fights with everybody. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.320 It's amazing he isn't tossed from these games half the 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.320 time too. We talked about this, Oh my god, and 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.840 maybe now they can't even hear him because I got 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.160 a Britney Spears head piece on it. I don't hear 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.240 him out of one ear. That's why they're wearing the 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.120 noise canceling. John Goebels tell the other they turned up 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.920 my Spotify playlist. Man, I don't want to hear this 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:31.320 guy yell. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.400 You think John Goebel listens to well, we could find 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.280 out really quick. Does Gobel listen to he like Hall 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.400 and Oates or something like that. I think, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.160 this is actually a bit of a surprise to me. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:48.280 Favorite movie The Godfather, I mean, okay, classic favorite app amazon, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.160 but favorite musician, says John Goebel, enjoys hip hop, salsa 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:54.679 and reggaeton. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:08:59.120 Rhythm. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.240 I could not picture. I'm listening to that all right, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:03.640 it's so hilarious. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:08.320 When there was the in arena interviews of players that 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.760 they do, you know, constantly they hear these videos. They 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.120 did it with Cam Whitmore for the Wizards last night. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.520 What's the first app you check in the morning? I 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.400 message it's weird. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.360 Okay, yeah, we get it. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.640 It's just the app. The app question is a weird question. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:24.960 Is your favorite app? 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:26.280 Mail? 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:32.240 I'm one of those with checks mail every second. My 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.640 favorite my favorite real app? It's a really good Yeah. 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.640 What is your favorite real app or the one you 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.679 use the most often? Favorite spin off app? Not a 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.160 not a built into your phone app? 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.440 Oh, not a native app phone? 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:46.000 Oh? 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.839 Maybe my any Dot do list? 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:48.120 Yeah? 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.800 You do love any loyal to your Tony Parker's loyal 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.560 though with Sandwich, you're loyal to any Dot do. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.960 What do I have to do today? Still, I didn't 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.680 take my pills this morning. I need to drink thirty 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.480 two ounces of water and I need to look into 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:07.960 Valentine's Day decorations for the studio. At least you can 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.240 get two of those done at the same time. Pills 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.800 in the water. I usually do take a pill chug 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:19.240 a bunch of water. That's the way drink water anyway. Yeah, anyway, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.400 Jonathan Kaminga, you did allude to it, you pointed out, Okay, 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:28.120 that's all right. Johnathan Minga left the game early after 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.679 he injured his ankle. Maybe I guess part of the 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.520 knee as well. On a fast break there and stepped 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.480 on somebody and then like went to the baseline, told 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:37.960 a little girl to get out of her seat. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:39.959 Didn't tell her to get out of seat. I was 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.480 sitting in her seat, that's for sure, and he told her. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.760 I didn't either used words or basically like move, but. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.960 She got up because she didn't want to get hit because. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.440 No, no, he went over pretty slow because then he's like, oh, oh, something's. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.760 Wrong because parents were taking photos of it. Yeah, this 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:55.200 is cool. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.840 Maybe so maybe maybe a mother or father said Candy, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:10:59.679 get out of your seat. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:00.520 Yeah, yeah, can't. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:01.959 I don't know why. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.679 I probably requested it. Probably anyway, not good. No, No, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.079 the fact that he left the game. Now, he did 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.960 get up and walk and he looked fine, and it 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.680 was an ankle turned. The replay showed, yeah, he turned 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.920 his ankle, but they called it a knee injury. I 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.400 guess they're just being cautious. I think it's the simplest. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.600 The team is or he is, or both. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.319 Yeah's a good question. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.920 It's probably all combined, just like the injury because it 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.079 was a turned ankle, but his knee bends weird too, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.240 so just unstable when he landed, and then you just 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.160 got to sit in the stands for a little bit. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.680 They were loving it though, Candy and her mom Sandy. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.280 Yeah, that'd be cool. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:43.600 Jump. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:45.880 Well do you think they come and tell it down 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.079 after he leaves and tobbles off? I would want it 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.600 tell it that, I think, yeah. Prettys Otherwise, Uh, just 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.120 related Warriors news here, got some Jake Fisher slop yesterday. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.120 He says the Warriors plan to target Lebron James and 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.800 Giannis Ante Compo in the off season. Like one idea 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.000 goodly crap, a good idea strong idea by the Warriors. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.680 Any chance at all you think this happens here? Maybe 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:13.600 one or the other, but both. It's pretty far fetched. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.920 I think Golden State it feels like has been chasing 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.400 Jannis for seven years. We know that they had at 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.600 least discussions, maybe not at last trade deadline, but at 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.880 twenty twenty four deadline for a Lebron to Golden State trade, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.040 and it was kind of like, what does Lebron and 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.800 Rich Paul think, because well, let them decide at that 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.400 time they said no. But a lot of reporting is 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.679 coming out, like kind of included in this bus family 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.240 stuff that it's seeming like this is going to be 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.360 Lebron's last year in Los Angeles. There's not a lot 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.679 of places you can imagine him playing out the last 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.360 season maybe two of his career, like La is one 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.800 of them, Cleveland is one of them. I think New 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.520 York has to be in the mix, just because he's 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.000 always been linked to there, back when he was like 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.400 holding up the hat, remember those days, Remember those days 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.520 when he came out with like a New York Knicks 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.760 colored chi when they're like he's gone, he's leaving in 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:02.640 twenty ten, He's going. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:02.920 To New York. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.080 Never happened, but you could see Lebron playing there, and 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.319 I think you could see him playing with Steph. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.080 Curry on the Warriors. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.080 It would require Lebron taking like a massive pay cut, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.800 which maybe he would do since he's this far into 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.079 his career. I think maybe Lebron is even more realistic 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.680 than Giannis going to Golden State. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.360 Okay, I think Lebron is more realistic because the Yannis 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.439 one would take a trade and that's a lot of 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.280 money to get together to accumulate for Jiannis's fifty eight. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:32.439 I think he's making next year. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.120 Well not, I mean, if it's a Jimmy contract, Jimmy Butler, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.880 send him home to the Mill to Wisconsin. Yeah, but 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.040 a bunch of draft picks. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.280 But if you believe in any of the slop and 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:42.959 any of these rumors, I think they do want to 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.960 keep Jimmy Butler for one more year because they're trying 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.840 to get Steph to the top, to the championship. Now, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.240 it would sort of make sense. I think Lebron would 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.720 want to play with anybody in the NBA. If it 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.120 is anybody, it's Steph. I mean, it is the guy, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.000 the two guys that have been the play of this era. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.439 He played with them in the Olympics. Doesn't have to 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.280 go too far to Golden State, you know, instead of 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.559 flying across the country, flying to another city. And he's 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.120 a free agent, so he can sign for what he wants. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.080 You know, usually he signs for the Macs. So that 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:15.920 is a problem. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:16.160 Here. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.000 That being said, I think that one makes more most sense. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.400 Okay, let's go back to Embiid before we move on 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:23.760 to the right next. What you got because he did 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.280 have a monster game. Yeah, incredible game in that overtime 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.080 win against the Rockets. Maxi great as well. Kelly Ubri 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.120 had a good game. But is dwell Embiid back baby 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.520 like he's putting together a string here in January or 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.720 the last fifteen games or so, scoring on a pretty 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.720 decent clip. He rebounded a lot last night, defense a 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.760 little more engaged. What do you think about Embiid how 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.360 he's played recently. He's having an impact, I think, And 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.040 is he fully backed? No, I don't think he'll ever 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.200 be like point a minute Embiid like he was right 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.480 before he suffered these last few injuries that really kind 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.280 of put him in another phase of his career. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.640 But he's played more games already than last season. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:03.640 He is sick. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.480 The Sixers are six points per one hundred possessions better 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.880 when he's on the court. I think he really helps MAXI. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.560 You saw a lot of two man game from those 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.240 two last night, and beat is like bought into setting screens. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.760 Not that he wasn't a screener during his MVP years. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.360 That was a huge part of how he got into 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.240 his offense. But I like to see him inside banging 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.560 like he's throwing down dunks and near dunks out of 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.680 the post. And early in the season it was like 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.840 all they could do with him is getting the ball 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.120 at the free throw line and see him do a 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.200 couple of jab steps and knock down the mid range jumper. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.400 He's a good shooter from there, so that was an 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:36.800 easy way for him to score. But you can tell 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.920 he's feeling better about his body if he's gonna be 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.440 banging with these big dudes like a Clint Capella down inside. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.000 He's also not dragging down their defense anymore. I think 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:47.720 that's the bigger issue for him be because it does 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.160 not look like he can move very well side to side, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.920 but at least he's massive, at least he rebounds. So 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.280 they've done a really good job the Sixers have of 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.600 figuring out how to play with Maxie as their number 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.680 one guy, Edgecombe coming along, Paul George has just become 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.840 a dirty work guy. Like I hate to say it, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.600 but I'm starting to like Paul George right now. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.720 Is he like the to me cool. Now he's turning 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.160 into like a cooler maybe better still like Nick Batoum 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.480 sure right, Like he's actually doing all the dirty little 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.360 work and defense and can hit threes at times. Yeah, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:16.760 I'm with you. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:17.160 Yeah. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.480 Starting the year, it felt like there was the team 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.000 when Embiid was on the court and they had to 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.440 figure out a way to fit him in, And there 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.360 was a team when Embiid was off the court and 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.160 they would play faster and everything was more perimeter oriented. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.520 Now they feel like a full team together. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.920 So I'm impressed with Embiid and what the Sixers have 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:32.760 done and tasks. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.080 There is no better sign that Jowell Embiid is feeling 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.600 like Joel Embiid than when he starts trolling online. And 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.840 that's what he did in this game, because I gotta 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.840 tell everyone the story here. Back at EuroBasket over the summer, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.000 former Sixer Frikain cork Maz said that dwell Embiid was 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.320 no longer the best center he'd ever played with. That 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.760 honor now went to his countryman in Elprince sheng Gun. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.480 I don't think it was like an embid dis as 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.560 much as it was like I'm playing with Elprin. She 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.360 gun he's really awesome right now. He's helping Turkey here, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.159 so that's what he said. Of course, em Bete filed 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.400 that one away, took it as a slight to some extent. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.120 Let it simmer for months, and then battles Elprin. Schengun 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.679 has this monster triple double. Game gets the victory and 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.400 JD you have the photo here after the game, posted 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.200 this Instagram photo of him staring back at Schengun had 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.919 it stumbled and he was fallen down and he just 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.440 wrote furk. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.600 So again, that's a good sign when embat is doing 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:33.960 this exactly right right. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.520 He was playing it pretty cool at the beginning of 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:37.960 the season as he was trying to get his legs 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.200 underneath him. He was not a trash talker at all. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.320 He was just trying to fit in. And as he's gotten. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.720 More comfortable this season, he's gotten more comfortable online as well. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.280 Do you think furk and CORKMZ follows Joel and Bete 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.360 on Instagram. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:51.720 I don't know. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.160 I mean he might have maybe, yeah, However he stuck 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.040 it out yea. What did he find out about this? 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.159 Was he tagged in it? Or did somebody send it 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.400 to him. I don't even know where Furk and Quirk 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:01.160 Mas is right now. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.600