WEBVTT - The Two Top Guards in the NBA Are Obvious 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.520 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick on this 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:12.360 episode of the Heat Check, so much to discuss. I 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.040 had one of the best weekends sports weekends of my 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:21.600 life and it included watching the Detroit Pistons whoop our 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:29.640 doves ass very disgusting performance for our Doves, the team 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:34.120 that is slated to win it all, and it was rocking, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.600 full report on deck, so much fun. I also am 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.200 breaking down two the best guards in the league right now, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:45.320 starting with Donovan Mitchell, and only one guard really that's 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.879 playing better than Donovan, So we'll get into who that is. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.040 And of course we have to get into the drama 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.320 surrounding who else? Who else? Could it be? Kyrie Irving? 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.560 Lots popin Nick to do me a favor, drop that 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:09.000 beat all right, before we get into the news, let's 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.160 talk about damn. Detroit is a great sports city. I 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:19.560 tell you what, it was absolutely electric. I went and 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.280 saw Detroit Pistons play the Golden State Warriors at Little 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.600 Caesars Arena, and let me tell you I've got some thoughts. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.160 Things started out first and foremost, bet MGM shout out 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.880 to BEDMGM. They wind us, they dined us, they took 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.759 us to the Michigan Michigan State game on Saturday night. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.720 They took us to the Detroit Lions playing the Miami 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.800 Dolphins on Sunday afternoon, and then I got up in 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.600 there watched the Pistons game as a credential media member 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.800 on Sunday night. It was action packed. The only other 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.520 people out there that did the same thing as me 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:58.800 were Jalen and Jacoby, which was fucking awesome. And I 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:04.720 tell you what, the Pistons playing the Golden State Warriors, 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.359 coming off of an embarrassing loss to the Hornets, You're 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.160 thinking to yourself, the Warriors should bounce back, right, The 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.440 Warriors should get together and say, listen, we can't let 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.160 these scrub teams on a road trip fucking beat us. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.840 Let's get our shit together, let's lock in, and let's 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.799 tell the Detroit Pistons what's up. And you know what, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.519 I even took the Golden State Warriors minus nine and 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.720 a half to beat the Pistons on an alternate line. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.359 That's how confident I was that the Golden State Warriors 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.440 were gonna come in there and put the whooping on 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.960 these boys. And you know what, No, this team event 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.040 early on. The Warriors came out on a rule Steph 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.400 put out thirty seven. They put up as a team 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.239 thirty seven. Excuse me. In the first quarter, it felt 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.840 like it was gonna be a blowout. We know what 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.840 it does, we know the script. We've seen it a 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.799 zillion times. And then all of a sudden, you look 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.040 up and the Pistons are up twenty and you're like, hmm, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.280 that's odd outscoring them by sixteen to take an eight 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.639 point lead at half. And here's what I saw at 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.200 this point. It was a team that was despite being young, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.480 they are very committed to their starters. Right, You've got Bogdanovich, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.560 You've got as they call them, they call them a 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.400 they call them beef Stewie, Beef Stewie, Isaiah Stewart, they 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.280 call them something crazy. In Detroit, Cade Cunningham, Sadiq, Bay 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.040 and Jade and Ivy all played thirty one minutes or more. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.920 Four of them ended with twenty one or more points. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.640 These guys are balling as the Warriors, we know are 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.200 the greatest third quarter team probably in history. And that's 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.960 what started to happen. The leads started to shrink. You 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.760 look up, the Warriors are only down seven or something. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.120 The crowd starts to lose their feeling of excitement. They're like, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.720 oh no, what's gonna happen. E forty's in there getting 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.320 exc You got roys to five nine legend they're playing 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.680 eminem It was just starting to get tents in there. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:14.480 Jalen's on the sideline screaming, standing up, Come on, don't 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.159 let the Warriors beat you. Pool had an insane third quarter. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.760 I think get eighteen points in the third quarter alone. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:27.080 Pistons did not flinch, folks. It was bucket after bucket, 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.560 tough lay by Jaden Ivy and one making things uncomfortable 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.520 for the Warriors, bodying them up, making Draymond make the 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.440 tough pass. All of a sudden, they're shooting forty three 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.720 percent from three against one of the best perimeter defenses 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.800 in the entire league, Golden State Warriors. The Pistons came 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:49.760 to play, and they they slayed the dragon. They slayed 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.160 the dragon despite all of the third quarter antics, they 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.840 still figured out a way to do it. And they 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.800 didn't play afraid. And they were in games last year 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.279 they lost a ton late, and I expect them to 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.400 start winning some of those games this year. Another thing 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.880 that was interesting really quick as an aside, is that 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.280 the Warriors played all their starters all the way until 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.039 like a minute and twenty seconds left in the game, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.200 and they were down big. They thought that they could 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.320 still come back no matter what. They were pushing the pace, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.200 Steph Curry's coming off off ball, shooting threes. They're trying 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.000 to figure it out, and I'm like, dude, give it up. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.080 You're down sixteen with ninety seconds left to play, but 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.279 they don't care. That's how fast they score. What's different 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.679 this year a veteran, a veteran Bogdanovich. And I wondered, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.040 why'd you guys get him? Why'd you trade for Bogdanovic? 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:43.159 That don't make no sense. But every as I forget 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:48.680 his name, what's his name, Henry hank Royce, my lift 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.400 driver today was like, every young team needs a veteran presence, 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.120 and he's right, and that's what Bogdanovich is. And all 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.960 he is is a three point shooting bucket. And you 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.200 know what, the Detroit Pistons also believe even Bogdanovich, because 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.080 this weekend he signed a two year, thirty nine million 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.240 dollar extension twenty million dollars a year for Bogdanovich. Can 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:13.920 you believe who? He's averaging twenty three points per game? Bogdanovich? 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.400 How good has he been from three? My man is 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.880 shooting fifty two percent from three right now. He is 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.039 a prop king. His three point point prop right now 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:30.040 has been automatic. Kate Cunningham, I've said some mean things 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.200 about him in his bus face, but man, was he 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.919 so good. It started out slow, but he had twenty 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.599 three ten to nine, one assist short of a triple 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.279 double against the Warriors, against the real defense. KD was 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.760 given it to him, giving him buckets after buckets, getting 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:53.080 rebound after rebound. So yeah, I mean, I'm kind of 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.560 a Detroit Pistons fan. Now, I'm kind of like Detroit now. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.800 Also met these amazing chefs in the elevator sus chef 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.039 executive chef in the media elevator. I'm like, what are 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.080 you guys cooking up? And they're like, just the best 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.520 food in Little Caesars Arena, And I'm like, really, what's 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.760 up with it? And they're like, come by, And I 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.600 did come by, and you know what, they got me 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.080 a nice little flatbread. They got me a nice beat salad. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.200 And then when I asked for the bill, they laughed. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.320 They laughed at me. There was no bill, there was 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.680 no check. They told me, thank you for coming in 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.680 and gracing them with my presence, like I was somebody 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.640 so Detroit. Thank you very much for being as hospitable 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.720 and the weather held up. It could not have been better. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.560 I think we have a new face to replace Lebron 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.240 James on the billboard of Cleveland. Folks. I think we 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:55.920 have it. I think we know who it is. I 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:01.440 know it's early, but boy, oh boy, legit. Right now, 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.680 Cleveland fans are cheering this man's name every time he 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:11.840 touches the ball, and they're screaming, MVP, MVP. We are 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:16.680 talking Donovan Mitchell because damn, if he keeps playing like this, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.760 everyone's gonna be talking about Donovan Mitchell for MVP. Just 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.160 remember on this podcast we said it first. And you 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.080 know what I think, if Cleveland keeps winning, I think 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.080 if they sit atop the east, I think Donald Mitchell 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.920 does win MVP. I don't know what the odds are 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.000 right now, but I tell you what it might be 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.400 worth a sprinkle. It might be worth a little Pepperoni money, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.720 as they say, think about that Rookie of the Year 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.400 stolen from him from Ben Simmons to MVP. I did 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.000 not see that coming. I did not see that coming 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.040 because and I think this is probably one of the 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.120 worst things about donnal. I mean, there's a lot of 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.560 bad things about Donovan Mitchell going to Utah, Like for him, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.240 there's a lot of bad things. The fan base is terrible, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.840 like they're very yet they're low he ist in every way, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.240 you know what I mean, not a lot to do. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.920 They don't even allow coffee shops and most of that place. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.880 He went from New York to Louisville, Kentucky to Utah. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.280 Could there be more of a juxtaposition? I digress. But 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.000 on top of playing for Utah, he's also got to 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.400 play with Rudy Gobert. And Rudy Gobert, we don't know. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.160 We don't know how these two are meshing together. Is 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.280 Donovan Mitchell worse or is Donald Mitchell better with Rudy Gobert, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.360 I don't know. He's a dynamic two guard, and we 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.600 now see that dynamic two guards like Anthony Edwards are 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.160 saying very shady things about what it's like to play 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.000 with Rudy Gobert already six games in the season, saying, Hey, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.800 I actually like smaller lineups. It's better for me when 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.320 this motherfucker's not here. As an aside to the aside. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.920 Turns out Tim Connelly, new GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.280 told absolutely no one consulted, absolutely no one within the 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.120 organization the player's side about bringing in Rudy Gobert did 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.640 not ask for any gold stars, did not ask for 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.560 any approval or hey, do you have any thoughts on 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:14.560 this matter? Aunt Edwards Dicey his numbers are down, but 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:20.000 we couldn't tell Donovan Mitchell for years what he was. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.600 Would he be better or would he be worse without Rudy. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.959 You have a team now full of players at that point, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.040 actually at that point they didn't make sense together, right, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.160 And Donovan Mitchell's averaging twenty six four and five, and 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.000 you're saying, is he going to excel or is he 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.679 going to decline? He goes to the Cavs and you're like, man, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.520 there's a lot of young guys that need the ball 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.680 on that team. You've got Darius Garland, he's gonna have 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.120 the rock. You've got Jared Allen, he's gonna need the rock. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.320 Evan Mobley, Caris Levert's a bucket. All these guys are 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.880 gonna demand the ball. What is Donovan Mitchell gonna do. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.320 It's not like he's been this assist monster, but you 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:03.320 know what, shockingly, surprisingly happily, I'm very happy because I 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.160 like Donod Mitchell as a person. He's he's really fucking good, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.200 like much better than we even knew he's. He was 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.920 held back in Utah. Let me just say that very clearly, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.440 Donovan Mitchell was held back on the Jazz, not just 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.800 from a scoring perspective, but in every facet of the 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.840 game as well. We know that Donovan Mitchell is really good. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.160 He's been really good for a long time, been an 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.720 All Star for a long time. But now he's on 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.600 a whole other level. He's on another planet right now, 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.440 and he could probably, just like Jaw last year, be 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.400 in the conversation for most improved Player. But that's kind 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.080 of shady. I think when you're a star, winning most 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.200 improved player is shady. He's improved in every area though 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.920 career highs in everything from points to steals to rebounds 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:57.120 to assists. Let's look what's happening his scoring, specifically from 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.480 deep range, has jumped like crazy from thirty five to 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.480 forty five percent from last year to this year. He's 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.600 already hit in six games twenty five threes. What the 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:12.040 fuck is that? Including eight in one game? What is that? 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.600 What is that? He's a shooting guard, as we know, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.120 But now that Darius Garland has been out, he's been 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.040 playing part point guarden with ease at an elite level. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.839 His career numbers for assists like four or five. What 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.480 is the averaging now? Checks note seven and a half, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.600 seven and a half. And they're not just like swing swing, 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.520 drive kick to a corner shooter. These are legit fucking dimes. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.880 These are bounced passes through a passing lane between defenders, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:44.000 threading the needle lay. And on top of that, because 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.360 I've killed him on this, diam Midche's playing some defense. Now, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.200 all of a sudden, he leaves you. He's playing some defense. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.560 He has ten steals in six games, ten count them, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.520 ten steals. He had two blocks against the Knicks, two blocks, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.240 Oh my god, god in Utah. His defensive rating was 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.480 one twelve, which is abysmal this year one oh five. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.480 Drew Holiday is probably the best on ball defender for 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.800 a guard, his is one oh one, so like not 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.760 that far off, truthfully, very big difference between one twelve 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.480 and one oh five. His points per game, like I said, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.640 is up despite being on a better team. I don't 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.760 understand it. He's averaging almost thirty three points per game, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.000 which is the fourth best in the NBA, and his 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.160 career numbers are at twenty four. The dude is just 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.079 out of his mind right now. One hundred and ninety 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.560 three points total in six games. How does that happen? 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.360 How is it possible? Then you add in he has 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.960 forty four assist during that time, He's recorded ten steals, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:47.280 hit twenty five three pointers, and most importantly, the calves 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:52.480 are five and one. That's kingshit right there. That's MVP. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.800 Put my face and my body on a billboard next 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.280 to the queue and add some chalk in the air 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.360 dust like Lebron James kind of shit. And if he 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.240 keeps us up, people are gonna be replacing Lebron jerseys 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.800 with Donovan Mitchell once because he's only twenty six years 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.680 old and his ceiling apparently can get much much higher. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.640 We gotta move on because the only other guard right 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.640 now this is crazy. You look at the numbers, is crazy. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.160 The only other guard right now that's on and Jaw's great. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.440 I love Jaw. Jaw's playing great, so I'm not gonna 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.320 shade Jaw. And he's up there in stats as well, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.400 so don't get in my mentions and be like you 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:41.920 didn't mention Jaw. But the only other surprising jump besides 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:47.280 Donovan Mitchell is Luka Doncic. I knew he was playing well. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.520 I've watched the games. Obviously, you see him putting up numbers. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.000 You see him giving people the business. But then you 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.280 look at the stats and you're like, that's not It 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.640 can't be right. That cannot be right. If he does 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.920 this continuously for the rest of the year, and we'll 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:06.800 get into what will happen to the maps if he does, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.720 because it's not good. But if he does this for 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.840 the rest of the year and keeps this up, he 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:16.480 will have the best numbers in history we've ever seen 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.040 from a guard. And that is including Michael James Jordan, 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:28.000 Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Jeffrey Jordan is Jeffrey. It's not close either, Luca. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.080 You might not even realize it is averaging thirty seven, 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:38.560 thirty seven, ten and nine. That would be the best 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:43.600 statistical season in the history of guard play. James Harden 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.240 at one point, averaged thirty six, seven and eight in 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:52.480 twenty nineteen. In Jordan's career, he never averaged ten rebounds 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:57.400 a game. Never Like this is Michael Jordan level and 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.520 above type. Shit, Who the fuck? What the fuck is Luca? 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.880 What's going on? What is he doing? His worst statistical 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.080 game this year was thirty one, sixteen and ten. Let 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.200 me just say that again. Luca's worst statistical game this 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:19.640 year is thirty one, sixteen and ten against Oklahoma City. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.560 He has scored over thirty one in every single game 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.080 with a higher forty four points. He had thirty points 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.880 in the first half against Magic the other night. Oh yeah, 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.120 and he's doing it shooting twenty one percent from three. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.920 When he shoots thirty five percent for his career from three, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.080 he could legit be scoring forty points per game by now. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.480 That is so insane. That's like only as shocking this 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.600 year as Yiannis from like a total player perspective, and 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.480 then only as shocking from a guard perspectives. Donovan Mitchell, 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.320 I don't understand it. I don't understand it, and as 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.920 good as Luca has been, the problem is really just 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.880 that other teams don't care. Other teams don't actually mind. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:08.440 Other teams would prefer that Luca goes crazy, because as 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.120 long as other Mavericks don't do anything, this Mavericks team 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.520 is gonna lose a lot of games. This makes for 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.240 a very simple defense when it's just like, let Luca 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.399 go off and we'll just guard everybody else. And the 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:26.240 issue is it's quite simply JaVale McGee. Unfortunately, hate say it. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.520 JaVale McGee is getting starting minutes and Javal McGee is 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.840 not very good right now. He's the starting center on 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.920 a team with two other centers that are much much better. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.120 I want to say that Javal McGee has a negative 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.280 thirty five so far this year when he's on the 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.639 floor in every single game. Combined Christian Wood, Javal McGee, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.399 Dwight Powell, all three centers right the team has the 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.400 highest plus minus with Power, second highest with Wood, and 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.520 behind them the team is committed to a negative plus minus. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:03.520 Guy JaVale McGee, he stinks. He stinks right now. I 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.720 hate to say it. I love juve Al McGhee. Good player, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.119 really fun guy, nice guy. He stinks right now, He's terrible. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.600 You have Christian Wood right there, Christian Wood out one point, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.520 had sixteen points in a row, and Jason Kid put 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.439 him on a bench. I do not know what's going on. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.040 I am not sure. Wood is bawling his per thirty 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.560 six Christian Wood twenty three, eleven and one. But he's 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.560 getting twenty five minutes per game with the second unit. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.600 He's not out there in the fourth quarter either. He's 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.000 not closing games. I don't care if you don't start, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.600 but you're closing games. You're kind of a starter, you 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.479 know what I mean? They are now. The MAVs are 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.160 now one of only a handful of teams right now 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.280 to blow a sixteen point or greater lead with under 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.919 four minutes to go against Okac and in game Wood 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.400 Game one, when Christian Wood, like I said, had sixteen 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.000 straight points against the Suns in the second half, Kid 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.000 just took him out and never played again. Why? Well, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.560 house way? How? And then they asked Jason Kidd, how 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.280 committed to you? How committed are you to continuing to 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:07.040 start JaVale McGee? How strong is your commitment to him? 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.720 And he said extremely strong, and I said, you're gonna 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.840 lose a lot of games like that, so you can 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.200 all love and I'm gonna love watching Luca ball out. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.639 He can put up video game numbers this year. But 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.359 if he does, Mavericks fans need to be very scared. 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.160 That's so bad. He had thirty in the first half 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:31.040 against Orlando and the game was tied at halftime. So 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.360 if he has to score forty every night, folks, Dallas 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.359 just might be a play and team. And that is 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:54.040 a scary, scary thought. It only took a couple of 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:58.760 weeks in the league for Kyrie Irving to show me 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.480 why he's a fucking buffoon again. I don't know, he's 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:07.199 showing his ass again, folks. He's wilding out. It is 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:14.920 time for him to support a very offensive anti Semitic documentary. 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.240 That's what he's done this time, called Hebrews to Negroes, 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:24.920 Wake Up Black America. As you can tell, that's probably 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:29.080 not a great film to endorse, probably not an ideal one. 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:33.359 He retweeted it to his four million followers. The film 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.640 apparently is supposed to quote unquote uncover the true identity 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:43.560 of the children of Israel. Oh Boy, which apparently Quote 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:48.639 espouses ideas in line with more extreme factions of the 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:53.160 Black Hebrew Israelites, which have a long history of all 0:20:53.200 --> 0:21:00.600 the isms misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia and especially anti Semitism, 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:07.680 according to the Manchester Guardian, So when he was called 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.119 out for it, do you think he deleted the tweet 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:14.399 right away? Do you think apologized right away? Hey, I 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.480 didn't know what I was saying. I just watched the movie. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.600 I was high. I was just I was just looking 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.240 my name up on the internets and stumbled across this film. 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.159 I didn't know what I was doing. Guys, I'm sorry. 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:29.320 That was dumb of me. No, of course not. He 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.240 dug in his heels. He tried his damnedest to defend 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:36.720 being an asshole. He told Nick Fredell, you can't control me. 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.639 I'm not your puppet. Well shot, We'll play the clip 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:44.520 in a bit. Joe Si condemned the post, The Brooklyn 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:51.560 Nets followed suit, the actual league disavout it, and eventually, 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:55.840 after this very awkward presser today, he deleted his post. 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.960 But he was very defensive about the whole thing. Here 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:03.800 is what he had to say when he asked about 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:06.800 some of the support of these bullshit conspiracy theories like 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:11.760 Alex Jones and really just Nick Fridell and his exchange 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.320 together something you have to listen to. 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.960 Okay, read what we're on the topic of promotion. Why 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:23.359 did you decide to promote something that Alex Jones said 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.000 that was a few weeks ago. I do not stand 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:32.800 with Alex jones position narrative court case that he had 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:35.440 with Sandy Hook or any of the kids that felt 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.719 like they had to relive trauma or parents that had 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.320 to relive trauma, or to be dismissive to all the 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:46.639 lives that were lost during that tragic event. My post 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:48.720 was a post from Alex Jones that he did in 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.399 the early nineties or late nineties about secret societies in 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.640 America of occults, and it's true. 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.320 All right, So this Alex Jones, I wasn't planning on 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:03.400 going into this, but the New World Order a conspiracy 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:09.960 theory about the government putting chips like micro chips inside 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:16.359 of our skin and tracking us and creating fake viruses, 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:19.639 well real ones, but creating them in the lab to 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:25.160 control the world, a plague designed to control the world. 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:30.239 He just decided to randomly casually throw it in the 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.280 a cults, which is colts. If you just throw an 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:38.440 oh in front of him, still makes the cults are true, Folks, 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:39.879 stop it. 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:44.160 So I wasn't identifying with anything of being a campaigning 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.240 a campaignerst for Alex Jones or anything. 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:51.640 Anytime you retweet someone and say things that they said 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.800 were true, that you are endorsing them. That's what you 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:57.680 are doing. You are agreeing and amplifying their voice. 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:00.919 Keep going, I'm just there to post and it's funny. 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:02.919 I'm just there to post. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.280 That's it's actually hilarious because out of all the things 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:07.919 I posted that day, that was the one post that 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:11.360 everyone chose to chose to see. It just goes back 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:13.760 to the way our world is and works. I'm not 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.760 here to complain about it. I just exist. And to 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:21.200 follow up on the promotion of the movie in the book, 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.280 you please stop calling her promotion. What am I promoting? 0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:27.000 Put it out on your platform, but. 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:29.199 I'm promoting it. Do you see me doing? Do you 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:30.960 sign in front of you out there that people are 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:32.800 going to say that you are put it out there 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:35.440 just like you put things out there, right? Yeah, but okay, 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:37.520 you put things out there for a living right right, 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:41.400 but my stuff, Let's move on. Let's move on. Let's 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.960 move on. Don't dehumanize me up here. I'm not I'm 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:46.600 not doing another human thing. I post whatever I want, 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:48.720 so say that and shut it down and move on 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:50.800 to the next question. Kyrie, you have to understand that. 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:54.040 I don't have to understand anything from you. It's not me, nothing, 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:56.199