WEBVTT - Potential Trade Packages For O.G. Anunoby, Feat. Knicks, Pelicans, Suns & More 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.080 Hey, I'm gonna teach you about one of my favorite 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.520 guitar cordes, known as the James Bond chord, very famous 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.400 for being in most, if not all, of the Games 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:21.080 Bond films, and it usually happens after he says one 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:21.360 of his. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:22.640 Infamous lines like. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.720 Oh, mister Goldfinger, Yeah, come in, we've got space field wabber, 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:31.360 come on, sit down here. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.200 Fucking joking dickhead, I'm not really a barber. I'm fucking 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:48.400 James Bond. Shot back and blow your fucking head off. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.960 Good morning, swel and welcome to the Now Dunks podcast 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:57.320 on the Athletic Network. It's Thursday, February second, twenty twenty three. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.520 Happy Groundhog Day to all the Phil's and the Willies out. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:02.080 There of J. E. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.520 Skeed's here in the Classic Factory and alongside me as 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.039 always as tas Melis. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:12.000 Kids are still learning about that to this day, stills 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.399 kicking it next. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:14.920 To Tassie as the beer Woman, touched a hot boy, 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.119 Trey Kirby, Hey oh, hey yoh, and last but not least, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.080 making the magic happen over yonder. If he sees his shadow, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:23.959 it means six more weeks of classics. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:25.039 JD. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:26.920 Hello, there is He. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.360 Didn't see my shadows, so I guess indefinite classics. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.000 Oh wow, very nice. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.080 Wow wow wow wow. Shout out to the stream team 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.120 joining us live right now on YouTube. Take a second 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.800 hit that thumbs up. Subscribe to No Dunks as well, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.039 share the show. Get your tickets to our No Dunks 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.319 Live show in Salt Lake City Friday, February seventeenth. That 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.880 is right around the corner. That's basically two weeks from tomorrow. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.440 But yeah, tickets in the link in the show notes, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.320 So go grab a ticket if you are in the 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.120 Salt Lake City area, if you're making your way to 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.320 All Star weekend, come hang with us at the Urban 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.080 Lounge on Friday night. Yep, getting hyped for that one. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:11.119 On today's pod, we're gonna slap it up and run 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.840 through five teams who could put together some fairly enticing 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.560 trade packages for Raptors wing Ojiannaobi. That's coming up in 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.760 a little bit, and JD has an amazing tweet of 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.400 the night, so stick around for that as well. But 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.079 but but let's start with the games. We're gonna play 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.400 what you got, But I want to just start with 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.720 Damian Lillard going off as the Blazers beat the Grizzlies 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.920 one two, one twelve. Uh, just sort of money there, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.519 hitting some clotch threes, great steal, late kick ahead to 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.320 U Banks for the huge jail entertaining game here with 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.160 the Blazers really needed this one. Grizzlies reeling a little bit. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.880 What'd you think of a dame specially his performance. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.960 Yeah, at the end of the fourth quarter, there one 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.800 team executing the other one not Drew U. Banks able 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.680 to get a fast break dunk like that. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:04.880 That was huge. Man, was the perfect Jordan dunk. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.200 And I guess you know I said it was on 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.000 Jaron Jackson Junior. He just hustled into the play to 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.480 pick up a foul for basically no reason. But still, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.720 that was cool to see that. The name is Drew Eubanks. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.520 We say that name more than any other show in 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.120 the history of podcasting. I guarantee that that was It 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.160 was a big dunk, big win for the Blazers. As 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.840 you said, they hadn't won on the road since December seventeenth, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.240 that's a long time. That's six weeks. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:30.919 Six weeks. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.320 Did they see a shadow? It meant they were gonna 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:36.560 win on the road for six weeks. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.160 They had a lot of home games in there, so 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.240 it's a tiny bit of uh, you know, e skewed 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.120 stat but they had some road games. They needed this one, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.480 and again Dame executed down the stretch. My worry is 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.040 for these this Grizzlies team. I know a lot of 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.320 people are worrying about or thinking about, are they a 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.640 real contender here in the second seed in the Western Conference? 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.400 And you see their end of game execution, and that's 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.280 the worrisome part. It's a lot like last year. They 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.760 don't have a great half court offense when it comes 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.600 down to it, and that gets even more magnified in 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:11.400 playoff basketball. They're twenty third in half court offense. That's 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.440 freaking low. The teams that are below them are all 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.760 non playoff teams. And so when it gets even tougher 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.119 in the postseason, when teams are ready to buckle down, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.160 that's a problem obviously. And then you got to win 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.840 all those other categories like fast break, points, points off, turnovers, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.479 more free throws, and they lost a couple of those 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.160 in this game, but they were up five to ten 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.960 points throughout the entire game, and then it just came 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.240 down to execution at the end. And they're just a 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.000 little too predictable. I think it's jaw, pick and roll. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.120 Just get in the lane and figure it out. They 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.720 need somebody else to score more, and I think it's 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.960 not gonna be Jered Jackson Junior. As much as you 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.360 know we want to throw them on the All Star team, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.640 he's not a go get a bucket type guy. And 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.839 I know we'll talk about them as the trade deadline approaches. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.159 To get somebody else, I think it's got to be 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.960 Desmond Bane a little bit more. But I think also 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.360 just they've got to get a little bit more creative 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.960 and moving the ball a little bit more. Danny Green 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.680 debuted out there, hit a shot, and I know they 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.359 think that he can help a little bit, but I 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.680 think it's more they're just too freaking predictable and that's 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.560 the problem here, and if they're going to be a contender, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.279 they got to be better than that. That Literally, it's 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.560 bad teams below them in half courts, Hettings and them. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.719 So that's all I want to point out. But yeah, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.520 the Blazer's obviously executing like crazy. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:33.040 Yeah, Damian Lillard forty two points tennisist, eight boards, and 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.159 he is on an unbelievable heater right now. And Dame 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.280 does this every season, Like for the most part, there's 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.440 a chunk of like call it three to six weeks 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.760 where it's just like, holy crap, Damian Lillard another forty 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.240 point game, a fifty point game, whatever, and he's in 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.279 that stretch right now. But he was special those Some 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.400 of those threes he made in this one were just like, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.800 there's a there's like a handful of guys that can 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:54.839 hit those, and he's one of them. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.839 What you got skates, which is the better Dame time 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.760 moment in this game, Lillard himself had a seven point 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.800 possession in the third quarter, hit a three pointer, was 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.000 called a flagrant foul, made the flagrant free throw, they 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.120 get the possession back, made a three pointer on the 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.200 same possession. You don't see that very often. Then he 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.200 had back to back threes with about three minutes left 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.960 in the fourth quarter, both of them gave the Blazers 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.360 the lead at the time. And he also made a 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.360 shot from like eighty feet out that didn't count barely 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.279 just barely didn't count. So I don't know. All three 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.280 of those moments to me are like very much tap 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.720 on your wrist kind of moments from Dame Lillard last night. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.760 Also fifteen for sixteen free throws. That's big time. Went 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.159 seventeen for seventeen against the Hawks in his last game out. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.400 In his last eleven games, he's taken ten or more 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.839 free throws nine times. A lot of teams complain about 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.800 the refs. You don't hear it much from the Blazers, though. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:45.400 That's a lot for a game. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.240 I'd say a lot of free throws for Dame Loward. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.960 Yeah, he's averaging basically thirty nine points per game and 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.599 eight assists per game over that eleven game stretch where 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.400 he's shooting fifty three from the field, forty point five 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.680 percent from deep, and then ninety five percent at the 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:01.640 free throw line. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.880 And they're sending in there all the time. Yeah, and 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:05.480 you know, I mean, the Grizzlies are a rough and 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.600 tumble team inside, so he's earning the free throws and 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.320 he's just putting his head down and saying, I'm gonna 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:10.920 get the calls if I go in there, because I'm 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.720 usually the highest named player on the court and it's 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.280 working out. I also thought it was weird in this 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.560 game that it felt like everybody was getting hurt all 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.440 the time. Nurkic left early with calf's drain, Jeremy Grant 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.880 had to lead the game. He's in concussion protocols at 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.920 the end. Uh, this is a completely different game that 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:32.200 I'm looking at nowt injuries that game. I'm like nas 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.800 Reed was grabbing his hip late, Jalen McDaniels was crampy. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:36.720 Kyle and that. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.040 I don't know how these crossed over for me here. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.600 I think it was it was the Kyle Anderson that 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.920 threw me off. Maybe it used to be a Grizzly 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:45.400 but people were getting hurt last night. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:51.400 They absolutely are. Despite uh, despite John Morant saying not 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.600 that long ago that no one in the West was 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.200 a problem for Memphis, the Grizzlies are fifteen and sixteen 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.640 against the Western Conference teams and seventeen and three the East, 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.520 So it's the East that's not a problem. Maybe that's 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.520 what he meant. He just misspoke. We get there, no 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.600 one's a problem in the East because we're amazing against them, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.680 But yeah, this is not great. And got a lot 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.040 of skilled games left against your Western Conference sponents, but 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.720 a lot of them. Yeah, over twenty probably. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.360 And I will say specifically problem wise is three point 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.960 shooting for the Grizzlers. Just look at the fourth quarter. Here, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.800 the Blazers hit five threes, the Grizzlies hit one, and 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.440 then you look around the Western Conference. Nuggets are a 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.840 great three point shooting team. The Warriors are the Warriors. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.959 The Kings are hot from three at basically all times. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.440 The Clippers can have a twenty three point game any 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.000 single night. We just saw Lebron have his career high 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.760 in three point shooting. They're going to run into teams 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.480 that make a lot of threes, and then you got 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.200 to be able to beat up the offensive glass. You 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:48.920 got to go to the free throw line and make 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.280 all your free throws to kind of counteract that sort 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.960 of stuff. So that's who the Grizzlies need to be targeting. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.720 Is somebody who's just chucking threes. Maybe it is Malik Beasley, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.640 maybe it is Ojan Andobi as we'll see, but they 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.880 need somebody else out there who shooting and make it. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.760 Yeah, midway through the fourth quarter, they're up, John Morant 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.160 comes back into the game. It's a job versus Dame thing. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.480 A lot of injuries, the entire NBA was injured last night. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.080 They weren't believe nas Red went down. That was crazy. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.440 There were a lot of injuries, and uh, yeah, you're 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.880 you're right about the three point shooting. That's that's a problem. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.080 This happened in that big game against the Warriors recently. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.520 They were up ten late in this in the fourth 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.480 quarter and they gave it away because of end of 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.640 game execution. And they need to find somebody else. It's 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.280 just a little too predictable, as I said. And yeah, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.720 the three point shooting on top of that is a problem. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.840 Desmond Bane might have to fire. Twenty three is a game. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.440 It's it is a lacking and that's why the Danny 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.720 Green thing is a positive for them. They may turn 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.280 him into another asset, into a three point shooter. They 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.920 also didn't have Steven Adams in this game, if we 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.880 want to talk about injuries, which was a bit of 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.480 a problem. But yeah that the Grizzlies are, yeah, reeling 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.800 seven and eight. Since John Moran actually said that when 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.240 he said, who are you worried about? Milik Andrews asked him, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.000 and he's the Celtics. Anybody in the East, No seven 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.240 and eight Since then, so, uh, they are second in 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:11.720 the in the West, it's a good problem to have. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.520 But yeah, the three point shooting is something that it's 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.600 it's it's trade deadline season, baby, it's exciting times here. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.480 So we from today. All right, let's get to a 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.719 little what you got, what you get? 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:24.440 What's your good? 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.120 That says, this is what's your good? Sort of like 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:34.520 Sam Crenshaw Special the Canadian viewers and listeners. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.880 Okay, go ahead, you want to. I'm not gonna I 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:38.640 wasn't gonna give. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.439 My freeze like Jeff Jeff. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:46.160 Yeah, that's yeah. I was gonna ask who I. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:47.680 Was even with you on Sam Crenshaw. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.880 Ye ye, the mannequin Man to life had to do 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:57.600 with the half all right, once you got first one here, okay, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.800 we had him beat and hardened. They both had double 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.480 double lifted the Sixers past the Magic little revenge there 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.480 one of five ninety four because they had just lost 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.880 to Orlando. We had Sabonis and darreon Fox, both big, 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.080 big games. They helped the Kings power past the Spurs 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.720 one nineteen one o nine. There are a few injuries 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:14.160 in that game. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:15.640 That one. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.679 Yeah, and he went down, he came, don't worry. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:23.320 And D'Angelo Russell and Anthony Edwards were great as the 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.400 Wolves got a really quality win against the Warriors. That 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.480 one went to overtime. They pulled it off in the end, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.480 but the Q off all of that. You know, I 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.160 slipped in a Harden, I slipped in a Fox, I 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.760 slipped in Edwards. There in those headlines who is most 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:40.240 likely gonna be a twenty twenty three NBA All Star 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:45.079 Reserve tonight when we find out on TNT Harden, Fox 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:50.720 or Edwards? What you got, who you got, why you 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:50.959 got it? 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.839 I got you? I got James Harden. I know that 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.000 Chad has been about oh darreon Fox and Anthony Edwards, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.640 but Harden plays at a far easy your position to 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.480 get in in the Eastern Conference, the guards, he might 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.760 just tick him. If you're a coach, well, in the West, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.439 there's just so many guards, and I know you can 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.040 manipulate the reserves to what you want, but you know 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.800 you might get Fox get losing some votes to Sabonis. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.800 Anthony Edwards, as much as we've been talking about him, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.800 is on a team that's lower in the standings. Harden 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.800 is up there. You might get the coaches just say, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:26.400 oh old James. The guy. We know, he's just steady. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.120 He's got the name recognition. Coaches like that. Yeah, the 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.240 expectations are a little bit lower for James Harden this 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.959 year when he's clearly the number two taking that pay cut. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.440 So he's kind of meeting those while it's just it's 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.280 just tough in the West. This is a tough queue. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.800 But you think, but the surprise, the surprise tonight for 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:47.959 some could be James Harden. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.160 Okay, well, where are you going with this one? Most 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.960 likely to be announced tonight? Harden, Fox or Anthony Edwards. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.400 Hardens a lock. I don't even think it's really a 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.760 questions at this point. Yeah, he's showing up in all 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.840 kinds of play. Hey, you know media sort of lists 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.680 as a player to be tabbed. He hear it on 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.880 Zach Low's podcast. That guy's pretty influential. I think Harden's 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.199 a handful of games from qualifying from all these leader boards. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.000 Like if he plays in the next four games, I 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.320 think he's then at seventy percent of the games, which 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.120 gets you on all the leader boards, which then he'll 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.560 be leading the league in assists. He's put on twenty 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.280 two points a game, eleven assists, shooting forty five, forty 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.640 and eighty six. That's really good. The Sixers have been 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.199 the best team in the Eastern Conference for a month, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.800 and he's going to be competing against guys who have 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.600 outside stats on kind of middling teams a Trey Young, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.480 a DeRozan, a Siakam. Sixers are winning and it's a 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.320 large part because Harden is setting up Embiid so nicely. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.640 I think maybe it'll also be a nice bone throw, 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.000 you know, for Joel Embiid having an MVP season coming 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.760 off the bench in the All Star Game again, but 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.679 what if you have two Sixers. So I definitely think 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.040 Harden is getting in the game. And I actually think 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.240 whoever doesn't make it between Fox and Edwards gonna be 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.000 the biggest snub because both of these guys are deserving. Yes, certainly, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.320 they're both making a case every single night. It feels 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.719 like that they go out there and play. It's just 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.360 kind of the timing of their seasons is a little 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.000 bit different. Like Edwards had a slow start Timberwolves took 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:10.520 a little bit to get figured out, but he's peeking 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.959 at the right time. Fox, on the other hand, brilliant start, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.800 lost his jumper in December, but now it's he's balling again. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.200 So I don't know. I had Fox when we did 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.440 our picks, but it's hard to be mad at somebody 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:22.320 picking Edwards, that's for sure. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you're right that of those 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.120 two Western Conference cards, Fox and Edwards, one of them 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.040 will not be selected tonight, and that will be probably 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.040 the leading snub on tomorrow's Drop podcast. But we'll wait 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.000 and find out. But great great games from all three 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.440 of those in their teams getting victories. Any thoughts on 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.280 maybe that Wolves Warriors game down the stretch. I don't 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.000 know if you caught that one and into overtime. I 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:46.360 thought the Warriors played sloppy. They looked like are you know? 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.880 I have practice tonight with our our seven year old team, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.640 and the number one thing I swear that we're always 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.840 trying to work on is like catch the ball, hold 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:59.560 on to the ball, like what it's I mean, it's 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.880 really the the simplest part here of basketball. Then we'll 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.360 talk about shooting and dribbling and playing defense. But it's 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.280 like the Warriors, like three or four times Wiggins just 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.880 completely botched the dunk that he just like just slipped 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.600 out of his hands. Curry had one too. It's like 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.960 the hell was going on with them last night. But 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.120 the but the Warrior, excuse me, the Wolves Russell again 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.000 awesome in the fourth, then he fouls out on some 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.080 pretty questionable calls. Ant stepped up though. He would attacked 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.760 Wiggins there in overtime, even when they got switched like 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.760 the best defender on him. He didn't care. I was like, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.160 I'll take him and put him in the back in 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.640 the bucket, and then Nas reed he was getting a 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.040 little too shot happy. Oh yeah, he was turning into Carlin. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.920 Then he towns there a little much. He was open, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.200 I think by designs and he was sort of breaking 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.480 three after three after three did hit one that was 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.120 pretty pretty important. But yeah, you know, played hard still. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.280 Then he got that rebound off the corner miss and 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:47.640 threw it down and that was sort of the nail 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.440 in the coffin good Win. But I thought the Warriors 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.600 played so, I thought they played the crap. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.040 There's turnovers in the fourth corner, three more in overtime. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.080 That is the Warriors at the worst, just sloppy, ridiculous turnovers, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.360 like you know, not wanting to bring up the ball 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.080 up the court, so he throws it to Wiggans, who's like, 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.520 oh stuff, he's bringing the ball at the court. Ridiculous 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.320 turnovers and that's how the Warriors get beat. They get 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.280 a little bit too sloppy and don't make enough shots. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.200 But yeah, Nazried, it was hilarious because he was hitting 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.800 big shots and then I'm with you. I was like, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:15.760 he's gonna shoot him out of. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.320 The game, I know, and it wasn't going to Edwards. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.760 At all, no, just standing in the corner. Edwards disappeared 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.560 in the fourth quarter a little bit over two no points, 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.400 but it was Dangela Russell thankfully was cooking fourteen points, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.240 four threes, mostly tough ones, but it was hilarious. Reid 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.480 hit a bunch of big shots, went down with the injury. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.640 I was like, this is kind of perfect right now 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.520 because he was just taking him out of it and 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.080 he came back at the perfect time. The dagger dunk 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.720 was big time from Nasried, So I thought he was great. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.360 D'angela Russell obviously, and then Kyle Anderson as well. I 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.160 thought that was just a really nice win for the 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.120 Minnesota Timberwolves in their game. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.120 Yeah, they were down eleven going into the fourth and 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.280 then the Warriors just gave this game away. That was 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.640 a big part of it. Although the Wolves were second 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.920 in the defense, second in defense in January, which is surprising, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.680 that's a great mark for them. That's why they're climbing 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.280 the standings, which are still ridiculously tight. There's gonna be 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.199 a lot of disappointed teams at the end, just like 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.399 there'll be some disappointed All Stars tonight. And just just 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.000 to add one more thought about James Harden and the 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.560 games played thing. Coaches tonight are not going to care 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.760 about how many games played. We sit here and throw 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.160 a line in the sand here, and I do think 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.400 him projected to play fifty six games of eighty two. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.840 When you look at it like that, that's a low number. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.239 It's not a lot of games played at the end 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.480 of the season. So for us, yeah, that's to me, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.040 that's the breaker that he just hasn't played enough. But 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.960 coaches are gonna say, I don't care, I don't know, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:43.240 they don't look at that well. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.359 And I believe that then we're gonna see Harden on 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:46.920 the team. We're gonna see a D on the team. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.600 We're gonna see Kawhi on the team, like, yeah, they're 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.160 not different. I mean they've all played the same amount 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:53.240 of games. Yeah, pretty close. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.560 Yeah, So I don't think you're right, there's I think 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.320 there is a difference though, just conceptually, just the way 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.760 Anthony Davis missed so many games for a long stretch. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:05.560 I don't know, and maybe because he's got that reputation 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.280 while Harden doesn't have that reputation. Harden plays all the time. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.040 But yeah, I don't know. You gotta draw a line 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:12.440 in the sand. I think coaches are going to say, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.520 as Trey said, but they're so high in the standings 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.760 too that well it helps the Bucks don't have a 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.560 lock of a second pick as well. You know that, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.080 those those top teams. Anyways, it's gonna be fun. It's 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:22.560 gonna be fun. 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.760 Wait, can't wait? All right? Moving on here we had. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.560 Shall we see? Shall we see coaches? Like a live 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.880 room of coaches making their picks. We get to see 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.720 the live draft. I want to see coaches talk it out. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.840 I want to see Doc Rivers. He'll never do this, obviously, 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:42.159 but talk out. I'm voting for Chris Bosh. Oh he's not. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.680 He's not in the league anymore. Just like pick a guy. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:45.560 I just want to see it. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.200