1 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:20,160 What is up, fellow Thermo nuclear a effort, I and Damn Valley coming 2 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:26,000 at you with one of the first reaction podcasts or clips that we've had in 3 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,559 a minute over here very quickly, before we get started on Every NBA Team's 4 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,000 Biggest disappointment so far, just want to remind implore Bag plead with you. 5 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:38,320 Continue to subscribing to us wherever you're consuming us Spotify, Apple, all the 6 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,799 podcast players. If you're on YouTube watch right now, please hit the sub 7 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:44,520 button like comment on the videos to help the algorithm love us back. We're 8 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,039 really trying to grow the community. Join our discord as well. Twitter's imploding 9 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:52,479 apparently, so head over to our ig TikTok and our discord. The links 10 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,640 to all those things are in the podcast and YouTube descriptions. Let's dig into 11 00:00:56,679 --> 00:01:00,200 this. I have not looked at it yet. The Bleacher Bleacher reports Every 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,320 NBA Team's Biggest Appoinment so Far, written by one of my co workers, 13 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:07,400 Zach Zach Buckley reacting to it in real time, giving my off the cuff 14 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:10,920 stuff because I don't really want this to last longer than fifteen twenty minutes. 15 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,560 So we'll just see. Let's just see how my guy did. Let's just 16 00:01:12,599 --> 00:01:17,760 see one month into this season, what the disappointments are Trey Young. Trey 17 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,200 Young shooting for the Atlanta Hawks. Yeah, he's definitely adjusting to a new 18 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,480 role, so I get it. I think the Hawks shooting in general has 19 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,879 been a disappointment. I know they haven't had by Danovich there just yet. 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,879 And Jon Murray's actually be hitting a higher clipped in his catch and shoot threes 21 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,439 and I think many people expected, but they're just not taking or making enough 22 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,879 threes in general. Trey's playing off the ball a little bit more. It's 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:41,400 definitely a little bit disappointing though that he is as efficient relative to what he 24 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,000 normally does. Boston Celtics defense is decline. Yeah, I would say that's 25 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,280 probably been a disappointment just because you look at their shot profile defensively and it's 26 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:52,200 fine, but teams are hitting a lot of those looks. They don't have 27 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:56,560 rw RW three though, excuse me, so I don't believe that that would 28 00:01:56,599 --> 00:02:00,599 be sustainable. They'll get better. Also, their offense is really good. 29 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:05,640 Jason Tatum's the top five of the MVP ladder right now. So definitely disappointing, 30 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,639 but I don't know how concerning, to be honest with you, Brooklyn 31 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,800 has bends him is his lack of impact. I'm actually recording this immediately after 32 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:17,360 watching him have a pretty big impact on their Thursday night game against the Oh 33 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,719 my god, why am I blanking on the Blazers? Wow? Who they 34 00:02:20,759 --> 00:02:23,719 just played? He looked really good before he fouled out. I think he's 35 00:02:23,759 --> 00:02:25,360 gonna end up being a defensive difference maker. I think you really need to 36 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,960 look for It's not even the scoring. It's not even necessarily better foul shooting 37 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,080 or even being is itty aggression level for sure, It's just like, don't 38 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:36,199 get rid of the ball before you're getting the free flow line so much it 39 00:02:36,199 --> 00:02:38,560 feels like he's trying to get rid of it too early in transition too. 40 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,520 I have hope for him, but yeah, that's been the biggest disappotment unless 41 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,879 you count Kyrie Irving just sucking as a human being. But why give Kyrie 42 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,479 Irving the benefit of the doubt at this point. Charlotte Hornet's scoring shortage, 43 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:53,080 that's probably fair. I think there was the expectation that this team they're twenty 44 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,080 eighth and points points scored per possession, which is not good twenty ninth and 45 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,120 affective field goal percentage. Lamellos missed time, Rosier has missed a bunch of 46 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,560 time. They're running a lot of stuff through PJ. Washington. Gordon Hayward's 47 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:07,919 injured already, So I understand this disappointment is probably spot on. Their defense 48 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,240 has been bottom ten now, it started off a little bit frisky. They 49 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,479 just don't have the personnel to be any better than this. They're a team 50 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:17,080 that I think should absolutely tank. I have no qualms there unless you count 51 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,479 you know, Lamello having missed so much time before coming back, that's fine, 52 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,080 and now he's dealing with ankle stuff again. Chicago Bulls and Nie mcattack. 53 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:25,919 Yeah, you look at this team and they're like, oh, they're 54 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:30,280 twenty fourth in points score per possession. They've dealt with some injuries. I 55 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:35,039 think when you look at Zach Lavine's body availability to start the year, but 56 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,680 at the same time, like you kind of look at the personnel and it's, 57 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:38,719 oh, they're not going to be good. The fact that they are 58 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,719 still eleventh in defense, that's actually surprised me when you look at the personnel. 59 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,319 Patrick Williams felt like he was trying to figure some stuff out offensively, 60 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,879 but when you kind of look at you know, they don't have Lonzo ball 61 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,479 right now. I think that's a big deal when it comes to there they're 62 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:54,520 shooting, and also just like their shot location, because you know you're gonna 63 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,319 take a lot of mid rangers with jamardros in there. But this is their 64 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,360 offense is definitely been a disappointment and it certainly contributed to them being a few 65 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,280 games under five hundred at the moment. And I don't know if you're trying 66 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,960 to single out like a player who's been the most disappointing, Like, I 67 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,080 don't know that you can necessarily target one unless you were expecting a monster leap 68 00:04:13,159 --> 00:04:15,759 from a Kobe White or Patrick Williams, then I think it's fair to look 69 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,959 at one player moving on to the Cleveland Cavaliers crunch time collapses. Yeah, 70 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,920 that's probably pretty fair too. I think I would still go with Isaaca Coro 71 00:04:26,079 --> 00:04:30,079 here, just not even really a part of the short term picture anymore. 72 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,199 That was someone who he still can be really good defensively, but it's just 73 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,480 so much of an offensive nonentity it puts their three spot in a bind. 74 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:40,839 Even though you have Dean Wade, who's played good minutes for them, Carras 75 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:44,079 Lavert at the three. It's works for stretches as well. The crunch time 76 00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:46,000 collapses, they'll certainly matter, and those are spot on. They were. 77 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,519 I think they start off the season eight and one or whatever it was, 78 00:04:48,879 --> 00:04:53,040 So I think you look at this team and yeah, that's a little bit 79 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,240 disappointing, But the three spot in general could be build a disappointment that they 80 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,839 haven't been more aggressive and trying to fix it. But it's early, so 81 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:01,120 I would just say Isaaca a kind of just fading from the picture. Bigger 82 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,879 deal to me Dallas Maverick support shooters, Yeah, I get it. You 83 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,399 know Spencer din when he's been a better shooter than I thought basically since he 84 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,000 arrived in Dallas last season to Martawick Junior off to a really slow start. 85 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,920 I think the MAVs have missed like the largest share of wide open threes in 86 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,079 the league. I actually don't. I don't know. I should have checked 87 00:05:18,079 --> 00:05:21,000 that before I hopped on here. But again reacting live, so I totally 88 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:26,600 get this disappointment. What I would say is the bigger disappointment to me is 89 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,720 them not figuring out a way to use Luca differently or diversify their offense more. 90 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:31,600 I know a lot of people think he can't play a different way, 91 00:05:31,639 --> 00:05:33,720 and a lot of people think that the MAVs aren't built to let him play 92 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,720 a different way. I agree with the ladder, but try and lean into 93 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:42,040 more of wood Dinwoodie and Dontege together and sort of say fuck the defense because 94 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,519 you're over taxing Dontech right now before the playoffs and like you're only two games 95 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:48,360 under five hundred. It's cool that you're top ten in both offense and defense, 96 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:53,480 but there's like a level of unsustainability here, so you want the support 97 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,319 shooters. I guess to do more bullocks. Seems like he's coming on a 98 00:05:56,319 --> 00:05:59,279 little bit. He can't not play Maxi Kleeboff. He's not hitting his threes 99 00:05:59,319 --> 00:06:00,680 because of how to port is to you, how important is to see you 100 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,439 defensively. I think it's more so we're not being able to diversify the offense, 101 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,319 even relative to their personnel, dever nuggets, leaky defense. I mostly 102 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,600 agree here. There's been some wonky bench stuff, but seeing Michael Porter Junior 103 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,360 cook with a lot of bench units is a big deal. Bone Thailand and 104 00:06:15,399 --> 00:06:17,240 him have had some nice minutes together. If you can tread water even a 105 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,000 little bit without Nakole Yokitch and Jamal Murray on the floor, that's a huge 106 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,040 win. Specifically the rim protection, though in Denver a lot of people are 107 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:27,680 gonna put that on Yokitch that they're allowing like seventy percent shooting at the rim 108 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,959 and a lot of it. More, it comes back to ball containment when 109 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:31,560 you're sort of looking at okay, Jamal Murray isn't all the way back here. 110 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,839 When it is the bench you see Bone Thailand getting blown by Michael Porter 111 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,839 Junior not making the right or consistent reads on the back line. It goes 112 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,439 beyond Nikola Yokich. If you're gonna bring him up to the level of the 113 00:06:42,439 --> 00:06:45,480 screen, you need to have trustworthy people behind him. A lot of people 114 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,279 thought maybe one that could be Michael Porter Junior just because of his physical capabilities. 115 00:06:48,519 --> 00:06:51,240 Maybe it can. We haven't seen Aaron Gordon a lot in that role 116 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,240 because he still fends a bunch from point of attack. I think KCP has 117 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,800 been good for this team mostly on offense. Bruce Brown's injected some life and 118 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,879 you look at their top end line ups They've been good defensively. The starting 119 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,959 unit has been pretty good. Replaced Michael Porter Junior with Bruce Brown. That 120 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:08,000 line has been pretty good. Pull Jamal Murray for Bruce Brown and just go 121 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,680 with that lineup. It's been pretty good defensively. You do I think you 122 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:14,959 want more better ball containment. I would say, just looking at that percentage 123 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,800 at the rim, how they've defended drives. They're written moments where it's looked 124 00:07:17,839 --> 00:07:20,920 okay, I just wonder if it's gonna hold up against playoff defenses. The 125 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,399 Nuggets were in my title pick FYS, so I'm just of the mind that 126 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:29,240 they will be Detroit Piston's offensive inconsistency. This is fair. I think I'd 127 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,519 probably go with, hey, can we see more inventive lineups from Dwayne Casey 128 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:36,439 that don't include eight jillion bigs. I get the you know, I kind 129 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,199 of get not staggering Jay and Ivy and Kid cunning him more. Because you 130 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,560 want them to play together long term. You need to figure out whether they 131 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,600 can co exist at the same time. Like, let's explore that a little 132 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,720 bit more, and like build lineups around Kid that have more shooting. It's 133 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:54,279 almost like you're going into every lineup, and because of who's like the big 134 00:07:54,319 --> 00:07:57,360 and his chemistry with John durn Is good, you're just saying we're gonna have 135 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,079 at least two non shooters on the court. You can get the four if 136 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,519 you want to play Bay Livers Boyobardanovitch with Kaide and then a big. Maybe 137 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:07,879 it's Stewart who's been chucking threes or during That would be my biggest disappointment. 138 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:13,639 Maybe that lends itself to offensive inconsistency, but I would go with lineups more 139 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,879 than more than anything here, and maybe some of their defensive coverages. They've 140 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,000 had a lot of switching, and James Edward the third wrote a great article 141 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,120 about this for the Athletics, So maybe you're that's there. The offensive consistency. 142 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,639 It's like it's just a bunch of young guys, so you would almost 143 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:31,120 expect it. But to not see more inventiveness from them, that's a little 144 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,080 bit or a lot of it disappointing. Golden State Clay Thompson's tough start. 145 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:39,159 Yeah, I'm just this dude is still working his way back from two major 146 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:41,519 injuries, sort of didn't play a lot last year. I'm more disappointed in 147 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,639 Jordan Pool, I think because you even I guess, go with the bench 148 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,120 cold James Wiseman if you want to not even the rotation right now he's in 149 00:08:48,159 --> 00:08:50,000 the G League. Maybe even go with cominga a little bit because he hasn't 150 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,519 played more minutes. But it's really, you know what, the bench you 151 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,840 knew was always going to be hit or missed. They invested so much of 152 00:08:56,879 --> 00:09:01,039 the even if you don't expect them to play. You have Kaminga, Moody 153 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,039 and Wiseman taking up roster spots, so that limited the amount of depth that 154 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:05,799 you could acquire. So I think looking at the bench, you understood even 155 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:09,679 with Igodala on the payroll, I'm Dante DiVincenzo getting injured to start, you 156 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,399 could see like how the bench minutes would be dicey. But Jordan Pool has 157 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:16,600 just been mattingly inconsistent, and he had like a really good stretch and then 158 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,679 cools all the way off in the latest Warriors road loss to the Suns, 159 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,840 and it's just a waste of Steph Curry playing like a top three player once 160 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:28,600 again. Houston rockets Jabar Smith's junior sluggish start. I can't call this the 161 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,480 biggest disappointment for them. He's just a rookie. I think they've tried to 162 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:33,919 let him do too much on offense. I'd rather see him. He's done 163 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,840 a lot of play finishing. I want to see even more of that. 164 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:41,200 Though. My biggest disappointments for the Rockets is maybe it's Steven Silas as the 165 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,440 head coach. This is someone who I don't know that he's overseen enough development. 166 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,279 Why aren't they running more stuff through Alpah and Shanegun. Why isn't there 167 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:50,559 more off ball movement when Shangun has the ball? Why is this team still 168 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,759 not acquired? Just sort of like an offensive stewart of floor general so that 169 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:58,519 Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Junior aren't the guys you're tasking to creating offense for 170 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:03,240 others at every single turn. So that would be an disappointment in the front 171 00:10:03,279 --> 00:10:05,320 office. But looking at the personnel they have, I would like to see 172 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,919 them. I liked it. We've seen a little bit more Usman Grubo looks 173 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,559 like a defensive monster. Hit a couple threes the other night too. That 174 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,639 jumper not pretty looking and it takes a while, but it was falling. 175 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,559 My whole thing is just you have alpren Janoon, he's probably your best player 176 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,919 at this point. Run more stuff through him, because that's sort of the 177 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,759 way to counteract the lack of a conventional floor general. And he had a 178 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:28,919 pacers kristin war Day's Rocky Road. Yeah, this is maybe a good one 179 00:10:28,279 --> 00:10:31,840 for me. It might be my favorite. Dusoce Brisette has just been so 180 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:35,440 inconsistently in the rotation. But yeah, I think this is fair and it's 181 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:39,240 kind of hard. He just might end up being the odd man out when 182 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:41,279 you're looking at how well some of these guys are playing. Buddy Heeled, 183 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:46,320 Ben Nick Mathin Tyrese Haliburton of course looks like a looks like an All Star 184 00:10:46,399 --> 00:10:50,080 basically right now, where does he fit long term? We saw some struggles 185 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,519 from him even over you know when he was playing over the summer. Did 186 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,480 he fade after last year's Hot Stars of Rookie? Still a faith is him, 187 00:10:56,519 --> 00:11:00,720 especially if you're going to view him as someone who is kind of like 188 00:11:00,759 --> 00:11:05,080 your fourth option in general or fifth option like in your rotation. But you 189 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,759 wanted to see a little bit more diversive talents from him on offense this year, 190 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,240 So like, yeah, he's had like some moments, but shooting thirty 191 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,120 four point two percent on three is not great. I would I think that's 192 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,600 fair, But it's also like a little bit expected. Was this an unexpected 193 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:24,639 disappointment? I think the degree to which it has been on offense Los Angeles 194 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,080 Clippers atrocious attack. Yeah, it's the offense a quiet Leonard's injury that's obviously 195 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,440 just came back. That's obviously disappointing. The three point shooting has been a 196 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,840 big wolf. It's peaked up a little bit, but you know, if 197 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,360 we had to identify one player, Reggie Jackson's kind of perked up too, 198 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:43,600 at least from beyond the arc. Norman Powell has been a borderline disaster though, 199 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,679 like not really playing great defense. His shot has been coming and going, 200 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,200 and if he's not going to give you rim pressure in threes, his 201 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,960 value to this team becomes really weird. I'm starting to wonder whether the Clippers 202 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,879 need to almost make a consolidation trade because they're they're too deep with not the 203 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,600 right amount of players, and it does feel like the need though when you 204 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,919 look at their offense, another change of pace initiator. Maybe Kauai takes care 205 00:12:03,919 --> 00:12:07,120 of some of that with Paul George. I think John Wall has given them 206 00:12:07,159 --> 00:12:09,639 a little bit of that that's never ablitly been Reggie Jackson's style from sort of 207 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,080 that stand still facilitation position, set things up, go through the motions. 208 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:16,600 It'd be cool to see them acquire like a Mike Conley at the Tradeline or 209 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:20,720 Monte Morris if he becomes available in Phoenix. I think someone like that would 210 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:24,840 go a long way for this team. Los Angeles Lakers Lebron James showing his 211 00:12:24,879 --> 00:12:28,240 age. Yeah, I mean that's probably just more important, important than his 212 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:31,000 than their situation with Russ, who's been better since he's coming off the bench, 213 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:35,720 but the Lakers have not really been so much better overall. I think 214 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:39,399 you could have gone with Anthony Davis. He's sort of really come on over 215 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,440 the past couple of games. But I thought he or I was hoping he 216 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,559 was going to have a monster season, but he's sort of just falling out 217 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,759 of the top fifteen player conversation. And that's if he's done that. Lebron 218 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:52,200 is about to turn thirty nine, thirty eight, whatever it is like, 219 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:56,120 this is just yeah, he turns thirty eight in December. That's it's it's 220 00:12:56,159 --> 00:12:58,879 a disappointment, but it's oh, Lebron's human dealing with an injury. Didn't 221 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,159 you look really good to start the season before the injury. Kind of felt 222 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:07,360 like he was a little bit mortal. I just it's Anthony Davis for me. 223 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:09,279 But he's been he's been good on defense for points. You could just 224 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,159 go with the Lakers. I look, actually, look, the disappointment here 225 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,879 is the front office, just the fact that they didn't do more of the 226 00:13:15,919 --> 00:13:20,480 off season to deepen the rotation with non guards. You don't have to acquire 227 00:13:20,519 --> 00:13:22,440 all these guards. Yeah, it's cool that you've seen some nice moments from 228 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,200 Lonnie Walker the fourth this year, But if you were going to get him 229 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,720 and then go ahead and trade for Patrick Beverley and you kept Kendrick Not on 230 00:13:28,759 --> 00:13:31,480 the roster, you still have Russell Westbrook, You go and sign Dennis Shrewder. 231 00:13:31,639 --> 00:13:35,399 Come on, can we get some wings on this team? Where are 232 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,759 all the wings? You weren't flexible, but you could have done a better 233 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,519 job. And the fact that they didn't try to address the Russ situation better 234 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,080 over the off season. If you didn't want to make the trade, I 235 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,840 kind of understand it, but you were then committing to okay, another gap 236 00:13:48,879 --> 00:13:52,320 year when the Bron's about the turn thirty eight. So my biggest disappointment is 237 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:58,799 just management continuing to be incompetent Memphis Grizzlies no defensive playmaking. Is that a 238 00:13:58,799 --> 00:14:01,320 disappointment when Jared Jackson Junior missed so much time? Yeah, I mean their 239 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:07,120 defense has been rockier than I expected. He's come back and they already look, 240 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,519 he didn't look great on offense, but he was already showing signs of 241 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,519 life up for defense. Seeing sort of that their their defense has shrunk though. 242 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,200 You know, they were one of the best defensive teams in the league 243 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:20,519 last year, down to eighteenth and points allowed possession this year. A lot 244 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:24,000 of that just has to do without Jarren Jacksons. You're being there. But 245 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:26,440 Zach Buckley makes a good point here. They forced turnovers at a very high 246 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,440 clip. They're now in the bottom ten in forcing turnovers this year. No 247 00:14:30,559 --> 00:14:35,639 Danthe Melton, no Kyle Anderson. Those were guys were very important in addition 248 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:39,879 to Jared Jackson Junior being injured. Maybe that picks up now that Triple J 249 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:43,360 is back, though Miami Heat Kyle Lowry's lost step. Yeah, I think 250 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,799 you could just push it further that they didn't do enough over the offseason either. 251 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:48,600 They were kind of receiving a pass because the Lakers and the Nets just 252 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,759 just suck. But like you know, I don't really know how to tell 253 00:14:52,799 --> 00:14:58,759 you here. Like they they're old, and so maybe you expect some regression. 254 00:14:58,879 --> 00:15:01,519 Lowry's been definitely up in down this year, and maybe mostly down. 255 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,960 The four spots been tough to lock down. That's not really Cale Martin's role, 256 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:09,679 even though like when he had to fill in as a starter that you 257 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,840 get it, it can work, but some of those lineups have gotten killed. 258 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:15,919 You can't rely on Bam. I think to be more aggressive on offense, 259 00:15:15,919 --> 00:15:18,320 we're sort of that ship is sailed. Is him becoming like this top 260 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,600 ten player, top fifteen Byron offense? He might win Defensive Player of the 261 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:26,200 Year just given how well he's defended this season and overall, but offensively, 262 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,159 I don't know what else you're gonna expect from him. We've seen some like 263 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,519 weirdly human knights from Jimmy Butler. Why did it? Wasn't this team more 264 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:37,080 aggressive on the trademarkt They have picks that they can move, they have salary 265 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,960 and Duncan Robinson. It seems like they're probably on the verge for a trade 266 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,799 for Jay Crowder maybe, but that would help. I still think their half 267 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,159 court offense needs some extra jet fuel. Tyler Hero has actually been really good, 268 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:50,600 and even when Jimmy Butler's on, I don't know that you can expect 269 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:52,279 Kyle Lowry to be sort of an All Star at his age, even though 270 00:15:52,279 --> 00:15:56,039 that's the contract you signed him to. Certainly Duncan Robinson's declining role in three 271 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,320 point percentage stings as well. But the half court offense, in je role, 272 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,639 I think you could see the potential for issues cropping up, especially when 273 00:16:03,639 --> 00:16:06,799 PJ. Tucker left and you just lost that element of his not just what 274 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,240 he does on defense, but him being a little bit of a you know, 275 00:16:08,759 --> 00:16:12,960 a motherfucker on the offensive glass and helping you get those boards. That's 276 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,120 been big for them. And so it's just the point that they just weren't 277 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,320 a little bit more aggressive over the offseason. I know they had financial constraints, 278 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:22,000 but again they were like tangentially involved in the Kevin Durant sweepstakes that then 279 00:16:22,399 --> 00:16:26,919 were you know, flipped over turned over, But I don't, you know, 280 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:30,080 I think that you still could have gone other ways there. And I 281 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,960 know, look you keV Kayleb Martin, so I understand the spending limitations on 282 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,879 Miami, but I would have liked to have seen them just done anything to 283 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:42,440 deepen, strengthen, augment their half court offense. Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee Bricks, 284 00:16:42,639 --> 00:16:45,360 Well, that's fucked up. That's good, but that's fucked up. 285 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,240 Look, they still don't have Chris Middleton, they don't have Pat Connaughton. 286 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:52,759 Their offense has been rough. Their defense has been the best in the league. 287 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:56,320 They're not just preventing looks at the rim, but they're also like really 288 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,679 chasing guys off the three point line and going after threes. That's helped. 289 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,919 But they're not shooting the three ball well, and they also have not They've 290 00:17:03,919 --> 00:17:08,680 been uncharacteristically not great in transition. Just something to watch for, and I 291 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,240 still think that they probably should be the favorite in the East. But that's 292 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:17,960 definitely something that you want to keep in mind. Minnesota Timberwolves below average defense. 293 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,119 Yeah, I just they're like average in defense, and they're really good 294 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,400 and Rudy Goberts on the floor defensively, for the most part, it's the 295 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:27,880 offense for me, it feels like there's no rhyme or reason what they're doing. 296 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,279 And as I record this and I'm looking at it now, they're thirteenth, 297 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:33,400 and both offense and defense a lot of early season noise, and there 298 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,279 I just thought that the Rudy Gobert conty Town's parent would be more natural. 299 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:41,000 But together the Wolves, when they're on the court together, the Wolves have 300 00:17:41,039 --> 00:17:45,039 an offensive rating in the eighth percentile, which is really bad. When you 301 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,799 take Rudy Gobert off the court, the offensive efficiency goes up, but then 302 00:17:48,839 --> 00:17:52,759 your defense implodes. So there's a lot of just warts here. I don't 303 00:17:52,759 --> 00:17:56,319 think they surrounded those two with enough shooting. Anthy Edwards has always been like 304 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:00,920 a work in progress there. Delo has always been around average or below average. 305 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,759 He certainly blow average this season. Jane McDaniels is not shooting enough threes. 306 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,680 Jalen Nowell is not shot that well on the three ball, even though 307 00:18:07,759 --> 00:18:11,480 he had He's had some explosive moments this season. It's the offense for me 308 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,359 more than the defense. I think I feel like they'll figure it out on 309 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:15,960 defense, and Town has been bad on defense this year, and I've even 310 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,359 seen some just weird moments from Matthy Edwards and Jane McDaniels as well. The 311 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,240 team in general is just disappointing. I would be more disappointed that there doesn't 312 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:27,680 feel to be like an offensive rhyme or reason New Orleans Pelicans. CJ McCombs 313 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,880 shooting Funk. My biggest disappointed to be that Zion Williamson isn't running more pick 314 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,799 and rolls. I just feel like it took him. He's run like one 315 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:37,960 pick and rolling game. I think he's averaging basically, and that's just substantially 316 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,359 down from where he was in twenty twenty twenty one, his last full season. 317 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,960 I know you have more mouths to feed with CJ and brand Ingram in 318 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,359 the Fold, but like when you've seen a lot of his own defenses, 319 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,960 like just give Zion on the ball up top and run some stuff down the 320 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:55,519 throat to the defense. And CJ McCombs shooting funk is definitely disappointing because he 321 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,640 is traditionally such a good score. I think he will find his way. 322 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,200 Like getting Zion is the Fold, it's or of an adjustment for him than 323 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,799 it will be for brandon Ingram. That being said, I would still go 324 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,359 with I think they probably put like a little too much on CJ. McComb 325 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,440 as a point guard to times, which is why my biggest disappointment is, 326 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,920 why can't we do more zion with that stuff New York Knicks. RJ. 327 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,160 Barrett's stagnation. I might go with Tom Thibodeaux being Tom Thibodeau. I might 328 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,039 even go with the front office doing a piss poor job of opening runway for 329 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:26,400 playing Obi Toppin. It's Obie Toppin's minutes for me, it's still there. 330 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,319 That's the biggest disappointment. RJ. Barrett. Before the past couple of games, 331 00:19:29,319 --> 00:19:30,720 get like the seven game stretcher, he was on fire from three. 332 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,279 I still think he will be a good set shooter. I think he can 333 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:36,759 be a better finisher. I think he can have less tunnel vision on his 334 00:19:36,839 --> 00:19:40,640 drives. His defense has been like actually fairly concerning this year, up and 335 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,440 down, but mostly down. And given what you just invested in him, 336 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,559 how important he is to your future. I get it it's him, but 337 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:51,599 it also could be I think the fact that the way TIBs runs his lineups 338 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,960 also like being unable to create more minutes for Obi top We've seen more of 339 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,480 the Randall top in front court, but not nearly enough to draw conclusions. 340 00:19:57,519 --> 00:20:02,799 I think RJ's an acceptan answer here, Okloma stay founder, lou Dort's offensive 341 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:07,160 skid probably fair, but they're just I guess, because the team is exceeding 342 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,920 expectations, it's tough for me to look at them and say, all right, 343 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:11,960 like, yeah, that's killer. You know she's playing the top ten 344 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:18,559 guy right now, who cares the thunder R nineteenth and offensive efficiency overall, 345 00:20:18,559 --> 00:20:21,000 I probably would like to see more from them on offense. The disappointment that 346 00:20:21,039 --> 00:20:23,359 they haven't done more to sort of flesh out the shooting on this team, 347 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,920 supporting shooting, to flesh out the secondary creation. Yeah, you still have 348 00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:30,799 you'll get some of that from John Williams, and you have Josh Giddy, 349 00:20:30,839 --> 00:20:34,480 but the minutes without Shay Gilja Axander have been an unmitigated disaster. And I 350 00:20:34,519 --> 00:20:37,960 know that you weren't necessarily trying to win any titles this year. I would 351 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,799 have liked to have seen them do more, to maybe add another veteran to 352 00:20:41,799 --> 00:20:42,480 the fool who might have been able to do that. I don't think you 353 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,000 were counting on chet Holm to do that, even when he was healthy. 354 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,519 I've been very impressed with Alexei Polkashevski and sort of the secondary stuff that he's 355 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:52,599 done always super complimentary. So I think if you're just expecting lou Dort, 356 00:20:52,839 --> 00:20:56,200 who you know, it's not even just the three pointer, Like, he's 357 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,680 just not shooting as well on his drives either compared to last season. That's 358 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,759 been part of his appeals that he's able to get going downhill and finish some 359 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:07,240 tough shots. So, and I do think he's an underrated passer, but 360 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:11,640 I think that's fair to go with that Lando Magic attacks from the injury bugs, 361 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,200 Yeah, because I would like to go with guard play, but they've 362 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,680 just been so injured that how do you go with guard play. Some the 363 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,200 lineups they've had to run out are truly funky as hell, and I love 364 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,880 it. And I think you look at the players on this team and it's 365 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,599 no one. No one's like underachieving. I think Joe and Suggs has had 366 00:21:25,599 --> 00:21:27,359 some really big moments when he's been healthy and people are too down on him. 367 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,920 I'm certainly not knowing when Jonathan Isaac is gonna come back still after all 368 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,920 this time as a bummer Klante being banged up, mark El folks being banged 369 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 up. It just really sucks. So like there's the absence of guard play. 370 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,240 I could you be disappointed in that? Like mo Bamba it feels like 371 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:45,200 bull balls come on. So now Mobamba just doesn't exist a lot of the 372 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:51,359 time. So there's that. I just yeah, it's probably injuries. It's 373 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,160 just picking injuries is disappointment. That could be why don't we pick that for 374 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,119 Kawhi Leonard with the Clippers. But if you're gonna say guard play, a 375 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,480 lot of it could be traced back to injuries. So I'll step at four 376 00:22:00,559 --> 00:22:03,119 Orlando this time. Even look, palaban Caro missing time like that really sucks. 377 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,640 You want to see palle ban Caro in in every single game. I 378 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,279 guess I've just been like the Magic had been fun watched for me overall, 379 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,279 Them and the Rockets are two teams that I've actually watched more of early on 380 00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:17,680 in the season than I thought I was going to. So you know, 381 00:22:17,839 --> 00:22:19,839 I guess, like, yeah, and everyone's been been banged up. So 382 00:22:21,079 --> 00:22:23,079 he mentioned Zach mentions Movaner. So yeah, I mean, if we're getting 383 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,640 that deep, it's it's actually guard play. But guard play can be traced 384 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,960 back to the injuries. Philadphis twenty six ers middling offense. You mean to 385 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,440 tell me a Doc Rivers coach to offense that had James Harden until he got 386 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:40,519 injured and Joel Embiid is running at a sloth space. That does not shock 387 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:44,160 me. Sixteenth and points per possession, Yeah, that's not great. They've 388 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,359 shouldered a lot with Tyrese Maxie and Joel Embiide and Harden's up absence. I 389 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:52,160 think Tobias Harris has been fine for the most Like he's Tobias Harris if you 390 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,680 watched him on ball this season compared to or decision making on the ball compared 391 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,440 like two seasons ago. He's a lot quicker there. But they still like 392 00:22:59,759 --> 00:23:00,640 the and she's just sort of blot. I don't know if that has a 393 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,599 lot to do with the James Harden injury and that's thinned them out a little 394 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:07,880 bit. But this is this is a team that you would expect to rank 395 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,279 higher than sixteenth on the offensive, and they are. I'm looking now, 396 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:12,440 they're fifth on defense. I want to see if they'd come up. But 397 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:15,880 I actually think that their biggest disappointment. I know it's picked up the transition 398 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,720 defense is just still not great. Guys, Like this is a team that's 399 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,279 still sometimes it was with Joe James Harden on the court, but like this 400 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:27,240 is still a team that wasn't consistently getting back in transition. And as we 401 00:23:27,279 --> 00:23:33,079 record this, let's just see their transition defense still ranks twenty fifth in the 402 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,920 league, so or twenty second. Let's say twenty fifth twenty second, still 403 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:37,799 not great. You would like them to be better after you know, they 404 00:23:37,839 --> 00:23:41,400 signed the Ampy Mount and Daniel House junior Phoenix Suns. No resolution the Jay 405 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,400 Crowder situation. Yeah, that's fair, sort of no trade here. Their 406 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,680 bench has been a lot better than I would have predicted. I thought they 407 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,440 were gonna be much shallower, but they've gotten some good minutes from Cameron Payne 408 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,240 this year and Chris Paul's absence, Tory Craig Joyne, Washington juniors giving them 409 00:23:55,279 --> 00:23:59,720 a good minutes. Jack Landale looks really good. I couldn't the biggest disappointment 410 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,799 be Drayton. Is it time to just readjust the expectation, think, Okay, 411 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:03,720 he's a really good center, but that's all he's ever gonna be. 412 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,160 There are going to be nice where he just doesn't play with that force or 413 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,599 thrust and sort of disappears. I don't think that's unfair to go with him, 414 00:24:10,839 --> 00:24:14,440 but you're dealing with the Cam Johnson injury, a CP three injury, 415 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,079 and now all of a sudden, it's okay, Jay Crowder is not there. 416 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,920 That's one of your six best players in theory, and that's just an 417 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,960 empty roster spot now. So not having a resolution, it sounds like we're 418 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,640 getting close. But yeah, that that definitely blows Portland Trailblazer was free throw 419 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,559 shooting. It's hard to find disappointments about this team when they've done everything from 420 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:33,079 just like they can score the hell out of the ball still, even though 421 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:37,000 you know, I think when you look at their early season offense and that 422 00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:40,880 they're eighteenth, yeah that's a little bit disappointing, but I think they'll I 423 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,559 think they'll be fine. The fact that they have at the eighth ranked defense 424 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,839 offsets that maybe a big part of the offense is they're getting to the line 425 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,799 at the second highest clip in the league. But when you're not shooting that 426 00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:53,519 well from the charity stripe, it's are we just gonna nit pick here? 427 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,720 So I think you could go with the offense overall, but that is going 428 00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:00,759 to normalize. We've seen them like pull out some you know, good crunch 429 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:07,119 time offensive sets as well. But I guess free throw shooting is fine for 430 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,640 them. Like, but seventy six point two ranks twenty third. It's like, 431 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,359 how like how many points you're actually leaving on the table there. I 432 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,319 think, if anything, you could be just the offense overall. They committing 433 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,000 maybe a few too many turnovers here. They've actually been a better offensive rebounding 434 00:25:23,039 --> 00:25:26,799 team that I would think when you're running out certain guys, like we've seen 435 00:25:26,839 --> 00:25:30,000 some smaller lineups from them. So I did with free thom because it's so 436 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,720 hard to pick Zacomando. Kings, Harrison Barnes is sagging shooting rates. Yeah, 437 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:34,920 that's fair. Someone asked me if I thought the Kings were going to 438 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,279 tank this year and trade Harrison Barnes, And I actually think trading Harrison Barnes 439 00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:41,799 at this point might be an anti tanking move. Also, the Kings have 440 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,119 just won five in a row, so no, they were never going to 441 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,920 tank, But that shouldn't have been a question in the first place, or 442 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,119 at this time. Anyway. The Aaron Fox have been a monster, so 443 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,359 a bonus coming on Monk's been good for them. They've gotten a lot of 444 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,200 good minutes from Terence Davis. Keegan Murray has had some rookie struggles, but 445 00:25:56,279 --> 00:26:00,680 he still looked solid getting all the great minutes from Commencing too, like he's 446 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,680 been a nice above the rim threat for him. My actual biggest disappointment might 447 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,279 be that Rashaun Holmes just doesn't exist anymore. He went from one of the 448 00:26:06,279 --> 00:26:10,160 most underrated centers in the league to just sort of outside Sacramental's rotation. Having 449 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,359 Sabonis didn't mitigate him always, But I might be more disappointed than him and 450 00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:18,039 in him than Harrison Barnes. So I think eventually rebounds san Antonio spurs disastrous 451 00:26:18,079 --> 00:26:22,880 defense. Sure, look, they're just so young. I can't I almost 452 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,359 can't bring myself to care about that. Their bottom there, they ring twenty 453 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,160 fifth, they're worst in most offense and defense, and they're dead thirtieth in 454 00:26:30,599 --> 00:26:33,839 defense, and they're also dead dead last in opponent affective field goal percentage. 455 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,480 They don't force turnovers a ton sixteenth in there there, and they suck at 456 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,599 defensive rebounding, which I guess when you look at their rotation after Yaka Peartle 457 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,279 at the five, you kind of understand why they get there. This is 458 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,119 a team that's in full on experimental mode, So I don't really take this 459 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,039 as too much of a criticism if I'm them, I do think they've played 460 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:55,960 with a lot of energy. I think Jeremy Sowans specifically has looked really good 461 00:26:56,319 --> 00:26:59,799 on defense, and yeah, could they could they be better getting back Yes, 462 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,920 dead last and points allowed per possession after they miss a shot, so 463 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,000 you need to work on things there. But they're just they're so young on 464 00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:10,240 a lot of this team that it's tough to just look at any players like 465 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,400 like they've been really disappointing, Kelly Johnson, Denvassell, They've all been really 466 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,799 good. Like I said, I like Jeremy sowing before Blake Wesley got injured, 467 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,960 he looked really good for this team. So yeah, the disastrous defense 468 00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:22,599 is fine. I would like to see a team that is this youthful and 469 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,960 can get up the floor. I would expect to have a better transition defense. 470 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:32,279 So let's go with that. Toronto Raptor Scotty Barnes's offensive woes. Yeah, 471 00:27:32,319 --> 00:27:33,799 I almost want to go with health for this team too, they're beyond 472 00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:40,160 shorthanded. Yes, it looks like he's making everything's happening quicker for him, 473 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,119 at least to start the season. It did. His attacks on the ball 474 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,319 sort of like those spins and throwing up some hook shots, and even his 475 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,400 jumper a little bit set jumper, but he dribbles into some truly junkie twos 476 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,680 and layups. So I get that. The defense is also like, is 477 00:27:53,720 --> 00:28:00,359 he one of the players now where he's first team His reputation on defense seeds 478 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,039 what it actually is in practice, he could be there. He's only a 479 00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:07,200 sophomore though, so but then the Raptors are also going to trial by fire 480 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,519 for a lot of this, and give how much time we've seen Fred van 481 00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:12,279 Fleet miss some time, Pascal Siaka miss sometime. They're putting a lot on 482 00:28:12,319 --> 00:28:17,039 his shoulders. But I think overall, if you are the Raptors, like, 483 00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:19,880 hey, maybe you would have hoped that you weren't as reliant on your 484 00:28:21,279 --> 00:28:23,480 transition offense as you were last season, and yet here we are, your 485 00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:26,880 twenty eighth and half court offense. Why was not like you didn't do anything 486 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,839 to try and address that over the off season. So I think that would 487 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,880 Probably my biggest disappointment is sort of the larger context of the half court offense. 488 00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:37,160 This team really could have used another creator, and I don't think it 489 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,839 was realistic to expect Scottie Barnes to be on the same level as a Pascal 490 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:45,240 Siakam or a fred van Fleet. There the Utah Jazz turnover trouble, I 491 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:48,680 just I can't bring myself to be disappointed about anything on the Jazz. I 492 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,200 can't. Their offense has been great. I actually think that they've done a 493 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,160 better job crash than the glass than a lot of people thought. The fact 494 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,359 that they're not the worst defensive team in the league is like a minor accomplishment 495 00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:59,799 to me when you look at their personnel and how many five out of lineups 496 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,799 that they run. So if you want to go with turnovers, yeah, 497 00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:06,839 about twenty third in turnover rate, I'm like kind of disappointed. We haven't 498 00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:08,599 seen the five guard line up yet, just because you have three that you 499 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:15,119 get to so easily with Jordan Clarkson, Mike Conley and Colin Sexton. That's 500 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:18,039 just you've already downsized. Let's go with Bulder Tallenthorton Tucker out there, doesn't 501 00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:22,319 he kill Alexander Walker really warrant that much playing time. I think that's really 502 00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:26,519 a fair look at it. But and so we've yeah, but like I 503 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:27,880 just can't bring myself is that bad? You can let me know when the 504 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,440 comments is that bad that I just can't bring myself to be worried about anything 505 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,119 of the Jazz. I guess the real biggest disappointment is, oh, this 506 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,839 team isn't tanking from wemben Yama. But I'm just I've surpassed that disappointment because 507 00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:42,000 they're so fun to watch, even in some of their their losses. I 508 00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:45,400 just like a turnover, like the turn rate might be a function of the 509 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,559 way they play, how reliant they are on a Jordan Clarkson, how much 510 00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:52,519 stuff they're asking Lowry Marketing and Kelly Olynnock to do. So, if anything, 511 00:29:52,599 --> 00:29:56,559 I wonder with this team and how they play, should there free Like 512 00:29:56,599 --> 00:29:59,240 why don't they get to the line a little bit more? That's a little 513 00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:03,319 bit disappoint pointing. But again I don't have a disappointment for the Jazz. 514 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,519 The Wizards no perimeter punch, uh, Bradley Bo's missed some time too. 515 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,839 That has to hurt. But sitting in they're now. You know, their 516 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,559 half court offense is seventeenth, which is actually higher than I thought, but 517 00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:18,720 they're twenty second overall and point score per possession. They just I don't know 518 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,079 too much. Chris stops in the post at points. Some really good moments 519 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:26,160 from Kyle Kuzma this year. I just I thought they were gonna use Denny 520 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,839 av a little bit more, but he also looks like he's afraid, excuse 521 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,599 me to shoot threes. I think we've seen a little bit like too much 522 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,079 of a license Ruy hatch Moore, but then he's had some standout games too. 523 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,240 My biggest disappointment, I actually think for the Wizards, who will probably 524 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,400 overachieved defensively once again to start the season. The fact they're above average team. 525 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,480 When you look at some of the lineups they have, I'm just like, 526 00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:51,880 why, why are they so blah? That's I guess, like, 527 00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:55,160 is that a fair disappointment. I just look at them, it's sort of 528 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,279 like they're almost in this Charlotte Hornet's tier where it doesn't feel like they have 529 00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:03,960 like any aspirations to be more than chasing the ten or eleven seed. They 530 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,839 are over five hundred as I record this. My biggest disappointment personally would be 531 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,319 Denny Aftia, though if we're I'm just I'm trolling here. My biggest disappointment 532 00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:12,839 has just been him. He had I think he dropped twenty one the other 533 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,119 night, so that was a career high. But he is just someone who 534 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,440 should be able to be a really good secondary playmaker, be more physical attacking 535 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,279 the basket, and shouldn't be at least afraid to look at the basket when 536 00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:25,559 he has the ball on the perimeter. I hope you enjoy this exercise. 537 00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:29,200 Let me know if you have any thoughts disagreements about the list. Please remember 538 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,720 to subscribe on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast. Until next time and 539 00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:34,559 has always one, I employ you to join our discord channel link in the 540 00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:38,119 podcast YouTube description and give a shout out to the one, the only, 541 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,839 the indelible, could never disappoint us, Frank Nila Keena