WEBVTT - NBA Weekend Winners & Losers | Booker In MSG, Magic Happens & Wemby's Jersey Name Error 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:09.080 You make me sick, you make me strong, You make 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:14.600 me love, You make me love, you frow. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:22.680 You, you make me, You make me dine, You make 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:29.840 me laugh, You make me You make me blu. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.000 Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the Nodunks podcast 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.519 on the Athletic Network. It's Monday, November twenty seventh, twenty 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.680 twenty three. I'm jay E Skeets here in the Classic 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.160 Factory and alongside me, as always tas. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.120 Millis podcast listeners says. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.840 Is for you and over yonder the man making the 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.600 magic happen. Super producer JD. Hello, there he is and 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.440 here we are. What an ex cold open to start 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.880 the week had me giggling away there got funnier and 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:05.760 funnier as it went on. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:06.200 That's good. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.720 Shout out to the stream team joining us live right 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.559 now on YouTube. Smash that like button and subscribe. Just tassing. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.000 I here today at the desk talking about the NBA 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.920 Weekend TK. He is in Disney World. It is the 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.680 world here in Orlando, right. The Land is in l A. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.880 I always mix that up. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:27.920 Yeah, I've been there multiple times in it. I also 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.800 mixed that up. Yeah, you've been to the world to 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.760 the Land is never never to the land. Okay, I 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.320 hope to go there and Pebble Beach one day. 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All you podcast listeners, 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.639 all you YouTubers. Okay, we have some wedgies to tell 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.839 you about. They both involved the bulls one way back 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.399 on Wednesday night because we didn't have a show there 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.240 for a couple of days. At the end of the week, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.200 Josh Giddy who had a well, he had an interesting weekend, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.040 didn't he, But he had a weggie. And then we 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.640 had Javon Carter with a wedgie as well. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.160 So our first weekend with two weggies. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.360 Yeah. Again, this was a very long It was a 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:04.800 long weekend. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:05.960 It wasn't much of a weekend. Yeah. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.240 Those were Wednesday and Friday nights, and we're up to six. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.480 It's up to six paces thirty four. I think players 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:12.680 are just too good these days. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.359 Oh that's what's happened, is it? Yeah? 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.480 I think so, because this would be the lowest rate 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.800 in the modern era. Yeah, well, the modern era is 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.679 totally subjective. We don't really know we tracked it, since 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.919 we tracked it a decade ago. It would be by 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.600 far the lowest rate. I think players are used to 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.520 shooting shots. But at the same time, we could get 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:32.959 a hot week. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.560 Well we had a lot. Yeah, that's right. They come 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.200 in bunches, so we could definitely have three or four 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.520 and you know over a two night span. And you know, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.320 we had the new ball last year. That was our 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.160 working theory, right, A stickier ball was resulting in more wedgies. Yeah, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.040 maybe they have gotten a little more accustomed to the ball. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.280 I don't know. We're just throwing it out there. Let's 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.440 just pray for more wedgies. Okay, but we're up to six. Okay, 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.360 let's get into weekend winners play along. If you're joining 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.640 us live on YouTube, let's hear your winners task. Get 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:00.480 to start where you going. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.080 We had a lot of great shots this weekend. We're 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.840 going to get to a lot of them. The Magic 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.320 are great, as you said, the Wolves are great. We'll 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.640 get to so many. But let's start with the hot 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.120 Phoenix Suns because it was just about one shot for 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.120 me watching them in Madison Square Garden with the big 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.040 one because they haven't played with their big three once 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.480 this year and Durant was out again for the second 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.560 straight game, so it was all about Devin Booker The 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.200 Knicks played him pretty tough throughout the entire game, throwing 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.600 guys at him. But when it was tied time ticking down, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.880 Devin Booker had the ball and he was way beyond 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.760 three point line. He gave it up to Jordan Goodwin, 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.520 and it looked like for the Suns, who could get 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.839 a two shot and win the game. They could fly 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.880 into the lane, but Jordan Goodwin, also beyond the three 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.520 point line, threw it back to Devin Booker, and Devin 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.640 Booker used Goodwin as a screen a little bit went 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.839 up to the three point line and hit a shot 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.440 where he was fading to his right, a very tough 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.640 shot he had random he had Barrett sort of in 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.720 his face, and as he was fading away from the arc, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.840 he banged home that three to hit the game winner. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.440 And I said, they have won seven games in a row, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.200 and without their big three playing together, Booker could just 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.479 be incredible and he could be their best point guard 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.640 as he was in this game. Had eleven assists in 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.160 this game, and no Bradley Beal, who's going to be 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.080 the shooting guard. I suppose when he comes back and 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:20.960 plays with Booker. They got to figure that thing out 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.719 because here we are, it's not quite quarter of a 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.080 season yet, but we're getting close to that. And the 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.880 Suns just relying on a bunch of deep guys with 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.919 Devin Booker and Eric Gordon, who had twenty five in 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.839 this game. I wonder with Kevin Durant, the whole Kevin 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.680 Durant thing. He did practice pretty hard before this game. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.279 He warmed up on that foot that is hurt. Unlike 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.600 Bradley Beal, who's going to be out weeks, you expect 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.600 Kevin Durant to come back. But again, they're gonna be 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.479 at the quarter mark, getting close to Christmas and having 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.920 not played a game, but they looked so fricking good. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.719 They go into Madison Square Garden with Booker doing this 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.920 thing kind of look like playoff Booker again, and they 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.520 win the road record of seven to two, which I'm 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.360 shocked by. That's yeah, damn damn good. But I'm starting 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.400 to see playoff Suns, you know, without having played altogether. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.839 But they do have enough depth around these guys, and 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.520 that's why I bring it up. And they could board 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.800 against these Knicks, who are so freaking good on that end. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.000 They can play big enough. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.680 Booker shot absolutely deserving of the Father Stretched My Hands 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.960 Part one treatment. You know the Kanye song where builds 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.320 and builds and builds. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.440 Yes, yes, yes, yes, felt. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.480 Like it because you're right, he has it. They did 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.480 do a great job of like taking the ball out 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.719 of his hands throughout the entire game. But he's okay 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:34.960 with that. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:35.839 Yeah, point book. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.520 I think he's averaging like nine as sis per game. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.720 He's like one of the leaders in the league. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.120 But yeah, then got it back a little too easily. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.640 But man, when you hit a shot like that, like 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.400 you can't play it much better. The guy's fading in 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.000 front of the opponent's bench there, you know, Randall's there, 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.760 our J's there, Like the hand is up and he 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.640 just rises up and yeah, fades away, hits it. Almost 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.799 no reaction from him at all. What he does against 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.000 the Knicks, he like scores like thirty points per game 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.240 against him. I know there was a screen grab going 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.440 around of like, you know, it's Wilt and it's Jordan 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.320 and Durant and like Kobe and Booker, guys that have 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.800 scored over thirty points per game against the Knicks, like average, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.200 but an incredible shot and close to falling and tying 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.240 the game Brunson with like two seconds to go. He's 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.360 sort of like it was a weird shot where he 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.160 sort of spun and just threw it up and that 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.360 thing almost dropped. But yeah, what a run here from 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.560 from Booker obviously from the Suns without having their big three, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.920 and you slipped it in there. Your guy that you 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.480 love Eric Gordon. I mean you loved him way back 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.920 in the Clippers days twenty five points. He's had a 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.680 couple of these games where he's obviously just hitting threes 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.400 and contributing enough offensively for them. He was great in Listen. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.240 Yeah, and on our Thanksgiving show it called him the 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:54.239 Cranberry Sauce because he's all reliable. You have Cranberry sauce 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.240 on every table. You may not love it, you may 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.320 not love Eric Gordon, but he knows how to hit shots, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.200 talking about players that don't have wedgies. Over the years, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.920 like he has learned. We've gone through the numbers. He's 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.400 just grown into a three point shooter over and over 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.400 and over again. He's incredible here subbing in. He was 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.800 six of nine from three point land in this game. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.080 I think the thing that the Knicks could have done 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.960 is gotten the ball out of Booker's hands like he 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:20.960 was well beyond three point line. But I guess they 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.960 were scared, as I brought up of anybody getting in 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:24.640 two point lane. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.640 Yeah, it was a high gee. Yeah, So it wasn't 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.520 like they were just trying to take away three. Yeah, 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.680 otherwise he maybe play it differently. I mean, look, they 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.800 got it out of his hands and then he was like, Okay, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:33.480 I'm just gonna. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:34.360 Go get it right back. You just went and got 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.360 it right back. Yeah. Yeah. And you brought up teams 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.920 that are doing so well. Durant hasn't lost in New 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.480 York in over a decade, which is a weird set. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.880 How many teams he's played for. Good teams, but different teams. Okay, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:54.560 see and Golden State and he played for one. So yeah, 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.680 the Sounds has just got it together. They do have 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.880 a good and the fact that the Knicks they play 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.640 real slow, that's what they do, but they play it 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.480 real big. They're a great defensive rebounding team, and they're 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.120 a great offensive rebounding team. And that's where I wonder 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.880 with the Suns and their starter of Nurkic and who 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.599 their backup is with Drew Eubanks, like, do they have 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.440 enough size in this one? That impressed me that they 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.120 were able to board with the Knicks and Durant is 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.120 a four who wants to play real, real big in 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.360 the playoffs. So I'm thinking of this team in the postseason. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.600 We'll talk about great teams here, but at this postseason 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.600 collection of guys, if they get some reps together, they 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:33.480 need to play together. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.280 Yeah, that's gonna be Like. On one hand, you're like, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.760 oh my god, they're eleven and six, they're near the 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.480 top of the Western Conference standings despite their big three 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.240 not playing all at the same time, that's good. The 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.520 flip side of that is, they got to get some 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.400 reps together. They have to play together at some point, right, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.480 at some point in this season. And when they all 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.280 three do play, will there be growing paints in terms 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.440 of like, yeah, you know, obviously Booker is their point guard, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.360 but let's just get into the flow of things getting 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.240 their shots, and it sort of trickles down to all 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.240 the other guys too that are contributing. You know, their 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.120 minutes are reduced, their roles are probably reduced, and you 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:07.760 got to figure that out. But I guess, look, I 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.400 think most Suns fans, if you had said that big 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.280 three you got during the summer, they haven't played at all, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.200 and you're gonna be an eleven and six, like, you know, 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.400 winning seven in a row. I think you're gonna be 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.400 okay with that, right, You're gonna be happy with that. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.120 Yeah? Yeah, I just had some flashbacks to the Nets 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.880 big three. They look great when they had n't played together, right, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.640 But then Kyrie gets hurt and Harden gets hurt, and 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.880 Durant's toes are too big against the Milwaukee boxes. He 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.600 hits a shot that could have been a three pointer, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.680 but it was a two pointer because his shoes are large, 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.400 because they're so skinny, he goes large. Anyway. Will Bradley 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.800 bealill be able to able to stay healthy in the post? 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.679 That's the question, because he hasn't been. No, and that 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:50.400 was that was some sort of a big story coming 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.400 into this season. Oh, Bradley Beal hasn't played the last 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.280 two years, which I thought I shot down. I thought, Okay, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.360 he has taken some games off because the Washington Wizards 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.800 aren't an incredible team. But the back is a back. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.920 The back is the back. Ye, that's not why to 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.760 go back. That's right, Okay, let's keep it going here. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.559 I want to give the Houston Rockets a winner of 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.840 the weekend. They only played one game over the weekend. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.320 You know, we're not really counting here Wednesday and Thursday 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.800 and all that, but they played on Friday night, got 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.960 a big win thanks to Jalen Green twenty five points, 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.560 Alprin Shenggun Awesome twenty one and fourteen. This guy is 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.080 on a run, and they helped lead Houston to the one, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.920 five eighty six win over the Denver Nuggets. This was 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.520 an nd season tournament game. Udoka said. The game plan 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.480 was to try and make Jokic beat them. Guard everybody else, right, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.280 Just don't send double and triple teams at Jokic, play 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.000 them one on one as much as you can with 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.280 your with your schng Gun and whoever got matched up 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.840 on them, and keep everybody else in check. And it 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.920 did work. I mean, Yokich on a monster line, but 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.800 no one else really, you know, popped off for the Nuggets. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.439 Houston improved to two and one in the tournament. Denver 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.839 eliminated from even advancing to the quarterfinals, and so the 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.440 Rockets now play in Dallas on Tuesday night. And here's 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.120 why they really get bumped up to a winner to me, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.240 not just because of the victory, really nice victory. You 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.760 know they're stringing together wins here. But over the weekend, 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.160 Luka Doncic banged his left hand in like the opening 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.600 minute against the Clippers, like on a steal. I think 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.920 he banged it off Harden's knee or something. He's grabbing 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.120 at it right away. He kept playing in the game, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.960 but he underwent X rays at halftime. They were negative. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.160 But I don't know. I don't know if he's gonna 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.400 play in this Tuesday night game, like his hand was 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.200 heavily bandaged. They're gonna like do it again, take another 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.640 look at it, and you know they're not playing to 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.440 advance either in the ist. So my point is the 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.400 Rockets are set up pretty nicely here. They're on the 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.640 road where they stink. They're in Dallas, like I said, 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.680 But if there's no Luca and they win that game Houston, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.400 does they advance and move on from the being the 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.160 winners of their group play. If they lose, the Pelicans advance. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.240 So it's a huge game and they're helped out here 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.240 because like you'll wait and see if Luca plays on 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.360 Tuesday night. But Mike cut would say he wouldn't fair right. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.960 I mean again, they're not playing to move on the 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.559 Mavericks because they started so slowly in group play. And 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.800 you know, it's your superstar player and it's a it's 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.400 a badly hurt hand. You're gonna give him a little 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:11.800 bit of time to rest here. So it could be 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.840 a very very good you know, it was a winner 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.439 of the weekend of the Rockets, but that could continue 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:15.880 this week. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:21.079 Yeah, that Dallas Clippers matchup was fun to watch because 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.960 Luka Doncrich was doing his thing and fighting through the injury. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.400 But also he had that one run down the lane 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.960 where he was trying to guard Russell Westbrook and Westbrook 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.520 went right through him. And then Westbrook had an and 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.480 one and basically said, go at him. You could you could, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.920 you could read the mouth, go at him, go at 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:42.120 him because he loves that. That what they've had there 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.120 with with the Clippers and the Mavericks and the Rockets 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.800 and the Mavericks he has a relationship with Luca. He 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.720 likes to go at him. So that was super fun 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.280 to watch. And let's give these Rockets some respect because 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.400 they are a winless team on the road. Yeah, they 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.640 have not won a game. They had that win streak, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.680 you know, at the beginning of the season, six in 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.000 a row. They're eight to one if I'm not mistake, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.960 and yeah at home and one five on the road. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.679 But that one to five on the road that they 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.320 went on after that six game win streak to a 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.400 few of those games, it was a tough loss to 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.920 the Clippers, a tough loss to the Lakers, and a 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.160 tough loss to the Warriors six point loss, one point loss, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:14.760 and a five point. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:15.360 Yeah, they're in them. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.600 Yeah, they're in them all the way down to the stretch. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.400 So you should consider this game up against the Mavericks 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.400 for them to be the favorite. I know the MAVs 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.360 are playing fairly well and they play extremely fast, but 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.160 they don't play defense. I'm buying the Rockets. I'm buying 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.080 the Rockets. Here. You broke it down on your Saturday 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.280 pod with this D season tournament and how it's all 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.200 going to shape or shick down in terms of the 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.240 you know, the head to head and all that. I 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.120 like the Rockets. I do believe in them. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.080 I like their chances a lot more now if if 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.600 Lucas banged up or doesn't even play, and I guess 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.120 we'll wait to see either today or maybe tomorrow what 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.000 the status is with him. All right, let's get to 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.880 the Orlando Magic. Yes, I know you got them on 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.280 your list. They're just as hot as the Phoenix Suns. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.240 Seven in a row for them too. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.520 Trey better get to a game because at home, this 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.480 team is it's tough to beat. This team just brings 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.280 it with their deep, deep, deep team. And you may 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.560 not go there and think, oh, this team is good offense, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.280 because they're bad offensively at times, but they are such 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.720 a good defensive team. They're so hard to play against. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.520 A couple games this weekend, Game one against the Celtics, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.360 they made it through and they had some wicked plays 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.080 as I brought up earlier Franz Wagner to Cole Anthony 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.160 and for an alley Cole Anthony got up with a 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.360 great throwdown. And then in the third quarter, Jalen Suggs 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.120 hit a couple threes as Orlando pulled away and he 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.640 waved goodbye to the Celtics. With one minute left, he 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.240 hit a three and there's a lot of Celtics fans 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.240 in Orlando, Yes, and so travel Yeah. He turned around 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.800 to the audience. He gave a bye bye, which was 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.440 he only had ten points but a thirty nine twenty 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.600 two fourth quarter for the Orlando Magic. And I like 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.640 that he only had ten points and only played twenty 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.920 eight minutes in this game, because I like how they 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.520 get deep. Cole Anthony is great playing Anthony Blacks minutes. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.040 Anthony Black is starting, mikel Foltz is out, so they 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.840 had Cole Anthony playing as on the minutes. Moo Wagner 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.160 came off the bench and score twenty seven. What a 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.720 huge game. So there's that game and then game two 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:14.320 Sunday they're playing Charlotte. Another great play this is Cole 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.960 Anthony pick and roll with Franz Wagner. It looks like 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:19.840 he's going to Franz Vagner, but he throws it into 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.920 the corner and that's where Jalen Sucks catches it and 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.600 his toes are almost on the baseline as he jumps 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.320 and catches it, and it looks like if his heels 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.120 go down, he's out of bounds, but he stays on 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.480 his toes. He jumps straight up and hits a three. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.480 A ridiculous shot that was a lot of fun to watch. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.480 And then just overall again Cole Anthony. Although he's coming 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.360 off the bench for Anthony Black, Anthony Black only played 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.000 twenty minutes in those two games. Cole Anthony at thirty points, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.520 he was Montros. Franz Wagner. I think he's starting to 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.440 feel it a little bit. Although he's had a good season, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.560 he started, he started slow. He's getting a little bit better. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.800 This team has won seven games in a row. They 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:02.240 beat Charlotte, they beat Boston, and overall they yeah, as 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:06.320 I said, Boston, Denver, Milwaukee, They've beaten so some good, 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.040 good wins and you know, just just to throw it 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:11.920 in there. Throw it in the timber Wolves as well. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:17.199 They are two teams that wouldn't have been expected to 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.560 be up in the standings this early. I know we 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.320 talked about on our Wednesday Thanksgiving show, but to be 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.240 this good this early is a little surprising. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.080 Do you think Cole Anthony is the early, very early 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.520 leader for a sixth Man of the Year. He's got 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.920 to be on the short list. Here be on the list, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.040 And you're right, he gets a lot of minutes. It's 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.280 like almost sort of the jenoble situation there where he 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:39.919 still comes off the bench but plays a lot, but 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.120 he really is contributing. That was a monster game, yeah, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.240 that second one, and he's picking his spots, like even 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.200 in that Celtics wins and the Wagner brothers. Somebody fact 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.159 checked me, Like, when's the last time two brothers on 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.680 the same team had like back to back games where 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.200 one went for twenty five and then the other guy 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:55.960 went for twenty five. Can you imagine that's happened a 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:01.040 ton in NBA history, right, brothers like brothers on the 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.600 same team, back to bad games one twenty five plus 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:04.879 the other twenty five plus. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:09.320 The Lopezes didn't do it playing milwaukee'sos didn't do it. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.000 The Holidays maybe. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.560 Maybe maybe, but probably not. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.960 Yeah, and then I'm sure there's some other brothers I'm 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.880 forgetting forgotten brothers out there. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.080 Yeah, back to the fifties, sixties, what was your they 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:23.919 play together. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.040 The Twins, Yeah, the Van Arsdales must have done it, 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.879