WEBVTT 1 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:55.200 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, cats and dogs. Welcome to the 2 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:59.759 first episode of the season for the ninety four feet podcast. We are back 3 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:07.400 in the building. Uh, we are here, three two thirds of us. 4 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.879 We are we are live. In effect, I am wasting time as 5 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:18.799 we wait for for our people to come back from whatever he do it because 6 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.879 he just walked off. But I'm sure it's important, Loki. I don't 7 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.599 think it is. But anyways, are you doing doing? Drey? What's 8 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.319 good man? What is this? Is this season four or is this season 9 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:37.200 three? I was just thinking about this season four or five? Season four? 10 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:42.159 Off season four of the podcast. Nice to be back in the building 11 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:47.239 with my brothers, you know, excited, excited, look forward to this 12 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:51.799 time together. Let's go. Uh So, like I was saying before, 13 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:53.799 it is your boy big Zeke, I'm hearing my brother Dre Dre and the 14 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:59.519 building was good everybody season four on deck. I'm also here finally when brother 15 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:05.959 Keasey, what's good? Good people? It's another season the season day? 16 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:15.759 Well yeah, new levels, new devils. Yeah. But before we do 17 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.199 anything as usual, well, you know what if you're new to this, 18 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.879 first thing we do is start off with injury report uh dre injury report. 19 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:30.919 The Memphis Grizzlies are without big man Steven Adams. Still, he's done for 20 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.039 the season. He's done for the season with his right He didn't played last 21 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.400 year though, for the season, and it actually might be time for him 22 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.479 to call the career because injuries like this back to back. I don't know, 23 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:45.759 like he was just out all the last he didn't so he didn't play 24 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:50.240 like the last I know he was out for like majority of the second half 25 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.960 of the season and then I don't know if I don't know exactly what happened, 26 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.840 I just know he has he's having knee surgery. What's going to keep 27 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.400 him out for the rest of the year. Yep. The Portland Trail Blazers 28 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:05.639 are without Anthony Simmons. He is out with a thumb injury for four to 29 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.800 six weeks. Yeah, so that is the injury report to kick off season 30 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:14.759 four. Season four, he's also having like some surgery on his thumb. 31 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:19.400 I didn't really catch the details. Like I said before, if you're new 32 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.759 to the newt apod, we do a shoot around where we talk about hot 33 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:31.639 topics and stuff going on around in the NBA. To start off ESPN dropped 34 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:38.439 their top one hundred players in the league. Did you guys get an opportunity 35 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:43.840 to take a look at this list? I looked at the top ten because 36 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:49.120 in retrospect we never get to talk about anything beyond the top ten, all 37 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:52.319 right, so I did skim it. But in retrospect, I looked at 38 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.680 the top ten and quite a few missing faces. But if I could think 39 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.879 about their rationale behind the why, I can see why people like James Harden 40 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:05.520 aren't on the list, people like on top ten. Yeah, people why 41 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:10.719 Kawhi Leonard isn't on the list? So I can I can. I can 42 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:15.280 pretty much tell why that is. People like Kyrie Irvin's not in the top 43 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.519 ten. So if you look at their list and their top ten, it's 44 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:26.040 not it's not a bad list, but it's certainly debatable having certain people where 45 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:29.399 they are on that list. And when you're ready, I'm ready to go 46 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:33.639 in on number four. No, I was just gonna say just to I 47 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.439 wasn't you know what I just what I'll do. I'll go over the top 48 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:41.079 ten. Really do me a favorite, do top twenty because I need to 49 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:45.160 see something here. I need to see. I need to see if ESPN 50 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:49.279 politically made this list, or if they did it on scale left, and 51 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.600 there's two names specifically, but I'm looking for I'm gonna tell you right now, 52 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.160 just looking at the top fifty, this is political. It's political. 53 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.240 It's political, And I'm gonna tell you are you gonna do is think about 54 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:04.240 I'm gonna just say one number forty seven, who is it? Forty seven? 55 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:12.879 Is forty seven? Is forty seven is Victor Wings fan? There's no 56 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.120 way he's top fifty in the league and he hasn't even played five games yet. 57 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.680 Well, have you seen the three? This is because he can't. 58 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:25.319 My thing is like you look at the three people behind him, There's no 59 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:30.120 way he is better than them right now at this moment, just looking at 60 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:34.720 the three, Well, I'm gonna tell you like this, To not have 61 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:41.560 James Harden in your top ten is questionable right now, it's questionable. I 62 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:45.199 don't think it is ahead. To not have Kyrie Irvin in your top ten. 63 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:48.240 It's questionable. No, no, no, no, no, no 64 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:55.199 no no. To not have Devin Booker in your top ten is questionable. 65 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:00.959 To not have let's see here, dude just signed the richest contract in the 66 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.680 league for that kind of money, he's top ten somewhere. J Yeah, 67 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:09.399 you know what I'm saying. So when you think about the top twenty, 68 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:16.839 I'm okay with the latter. But Kyrie didn't make top twenty, James Hardening 69 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:25.240 make top twenty, John Morant didn't make top twenty. You know what I'm 70 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:30.160 saying. Harden him make top twenty. A man said that already. Halli 71 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:34.199 Leonard didn't make top twenty. Aaron Fox didn't make top twenty. So I 72 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:39.319 have an issue that the way they made this list, what was the criteria 73 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:46.800 and what bothers me about ESPN they just spit off people like there's no criteria 74 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.879 in how they picked their top ten. So I don't necessarily have a problem 75 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:55.040 with it. I just think their ranking is all wrong. There's no way 76 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:59.040 that Kyrie Irvan is not a top fifteen player. And there's no way Tyree's 77 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.879 Halliburd is better than Kyrie Irving. There's no way that James Harden is not 78 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.519 better than Luca, that he's not better than Shay, that he's not better 79 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.399 than Jason Tatum. And I'm not a James Harden thing, but skill is 80 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.319 skilled. Come on, now, come on this this is why I want 81 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:15.639 you'all take it to fact there. That's why I want y'all taking in fact 82 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:19.000 there. There's a lot of politics in this. I can see that because 83 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:23.600 John Moran is top ten for sure. The only reason he's not top ten 84 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:30.480 is because of his Chtcht Bank bank incidents. Only reason I don't think. 85 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.040 Here's my thing, Number one, I don't think. I don't think Moran's 86 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.560 top ten. Be honest with you, I don't think John Moran's top ten 87 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.879 if he not top ten, at least top ten, at least top twenty, 88 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:46.439 top fifteen, top twenty four, top fifteen, because you're telling me 89 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:51.800 you're gonna take Anthony Edwards over John Moran is thirty five. This is this 90 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:55.680 is why I'm looking at this list like this. He's number thirty five. 91 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:00.279 I'm looking at this list like this thirty So I'm looking at this besides kill 92 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:05.680 your availability, what kind of person you like, what you have done in 93 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.680 your career, whatever, for whatever reason, this is what you've done in 94 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.040 your career. So my thing about when I look at that, I think 95 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.600 you shouldn't he miss talking about if you're talking about what he's done in his 96 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.439 career, if he missed. I missed a lot of time. He missed 97 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:28.439 one year, year and a half, which was significant. So I think 98 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:33.639 you're wrong in the sense of how they voted because it didn't say it doesn't. 99 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.440 I'm just I think this is what I'm I'm you know, I'm guessing. 100 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.440 I'm not saying this is what they did. I'm guessing it says the 101 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:45.960 twenty twenty three NBA rank according to experts. So going into the season, 102 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.679 this is who they're saying the best players. Are wrong Because here's the thing. 103 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:56.480 If you're voting on something for a upcoming season, you're basing it off 104 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:03.120 the facts and the stats from the previous Here and James Harden, John Moran, 105 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:09.240 Kyrie Irvin, although questionable with their off the court antics, stop right 106 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.679 there. That's the point. That's the point though, Like, if you 107 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:20.000 are a GM or a so called expert, can you count on James Harden, 108 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.960 Kyrie Irvin, John Moran in the game, Yes, in the game. 109 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:30.240 But I'm talking about on your team. I'm talking about on your team 110 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.039 as a GM, because I can't count on three of those I can't count 111 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.159 on none of those guys. You got John Moran with his chitty chitty bang 112 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.519 bang, you got you got Kyrie Irvan. I don't know if he gonna 113 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.600 think the moon is flat and then all of a sudden, you know what 114 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:45.639 I think? I think it takes me to talk about it. I don't 115 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.559 know. Yeah, he did, you got a big contract rewarded, didn't 116 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.919 he He didn't? He did. He ain't get the contract he wanted, 117 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.759 but he got a contract. He got a contract cash. He got a 118 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.879 contract, but he didn't get the contract he wanted. I guess my thing 119 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.759 about it is, can you depend on these people? Even and even Jimmy 120 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.879 Butler is not even in the top ten, and he took all Jimmy Butler 121 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.399 well, first of all to the finals. You see the pick that he 122 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:16.879 should what number was he? Number twelve? Yeah, but again I don't 123 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.080 know. Other than Luca, I don't. I don't think Anthony David should 124 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:26.759 be top ten. Lebron should be a number eleven. Lebron I would agree, 125 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:37.279 Lebron. So I'm gonna tell you like this, if you look at 126 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.399 one and two, if we're being fair, Jokers should have been one. 127 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.000 I don't think. Let me finish, Jokers should have been one. Arguably 128 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:54.799 a three time MVP, arguably back to back NBA Finals MVP. They lost 129 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.919 two games in all of the playoffs. That's just one year, though, 130 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:03.919 does we're talking about current about We're not talking about We're looking we're looking at 131 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:07.360 ze No. No, hold second, you're speaking of I'm fine, I'm 132 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.600 speaking year. I'm talking about what your career. At the end of the 133 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.799 day, is the best player in the league. I don't care what you 134 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:20.519 say about Josistently every year is the best player and the best player. I'm 135 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:24.679 not disagreeing, but I'm saying the ranking is based off how we ended the 136 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:31.279 season, and you have to respect the fact that Joker is the reigning MVP, 137 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:37.159 the Finals MVP and the NBA RAN. He should get number one based 138 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.919 off that. I don't think. Come on, there's not a better player 139 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.399 in the Eastern Conference than Yannis. Murray put them on his back in the 140 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:48.000 finals. He got number sevent teams. I don't know about that. I 141 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.559 mean, Joker did his thing, but but Murray put them on his back. 142 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:52.360 If you look at the top three players, right, we know Joe 143 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:58.720 LMB got that MVP because he was kddle, Right, he was kddle. 144 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.799 That should have been Joker should have been joking O. Jianna should have four. 145 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:05.200 Lebron should have like eight or nine. Right, we get that, 146 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.159 So then point of talking about it then if because if if it was a 147 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.480 fifth, we'll all be drunk. Not me, I'll get some water, 148 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.720 you know. I pass. I'm looking at this top ten list. I 149 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.519 am okay with it. I think Lucas too high. I think if it 150 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.240 were me to change it based on last season, and I'm a Giannis guy, 151 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.879 but Joker would be one, Gianni's would be two, and b would 152 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:39.039 be three, Steph would be four, k D would be five, Tatum 153 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:46.080 would be six, Shae would be eight, Luca would be seven, Anthony 154 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:50.080 Davis would be nine, Lebron would be ten based off that list right there. 155 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.759 So okay, So Lebron's not the best player of these ten. So 156 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.799 you mean to tell me Lucas Shaye's not better than Lucas. Shay's a baller, 157 00:12:56.840 --> 00:13:01.159 but I admit he's not better than Luca last years. I'm going off 158 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.320 of the ten players you put right here going into the season. If you 159 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:11.519 are a true analyst in this sport, and you are rewarding players based on 160 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:16.919 performance, based on winning Okay, based on what they meant to their team, 161 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.480 then this top ten has to be rearranged. That's all I'm saying. 162 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.440 It's not way off, but based on what they meant to their team. 163 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:31.960 Lebron shouldn't be above ad based on what they meant to their team this past 164 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:37.279 season because that took them to the fight Conference Fight Lebron agreer disagree. Lebron 165 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:43.799 numbers. Lebron numbers shows that he should be in at least the top six. 166 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.159 I'm not the I'm not denying that Lebron is a top ten player. 167 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.240 But will we agree that Anthony Davis put the Lakers on his back in the 168 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:58.840 playoff? Not because if that'd have won, didn't put them on his back 169 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.559 like the other night he had, another night were Lebron had to take over 170 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.120 the end of the game because he didn't even score a point in the second 171 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:09.960 half. And Lebron's all minute restrictions too. He was not no more he 172 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.639 was. If they want to win games, he gotta play, he gotta 173 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.000 play, he gotta play thirty five minutes in order for him to win. 174 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.879 That's too much. I think about too much. I think about this is 175 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:24.440 you with your logic, Dre, is that you got Shay at number eight. 176 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:30.679 Besides Shae being what number two in scoring last year? Number three? 177 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:33.679 He was top five in scoring last year. Besides that, he made his 178 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:39.519 team relevant. Nobody besides that, nobody, no, besides that? What 179 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:46.159 has he done? What is Lucas Lucas? Luca? Luca has done some 180 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:50.120 things. He's got what he did to Phoenix Lucas. What's talking about last 181 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:54.159 season? Okay, in my last season, like two seasons before that, 182 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.879 when he's done to the Clipper, like Luca has carried the Dallas Mavericks by 183 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:05.279 himself to substantial What about you like that? I like Shane one and done. 184 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.159 He's not He's not top, He's not. He's a great score. 185 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:15.320 He was his top fifteen, top twenty fifteen, he was. I said, 186 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.919 based on this list, I said, based on this list, I'm 187 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:22.000 taking I'm taking Jimmy over him. Any day. I'll take Jimmy. I'll 188 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.000 take Jimmy, if take James, I'll take Devin Booker. Off take Devin 189 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.679 Booker. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying that ESPN even take I'll 190 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.039 even take Dame. And Anthony was over here. Dame was so Dre just 191 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:35.240 kicked his He kind of rearranged it, but he kicked his top ten. 192 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.720 Kesey, do you have a top ten based on this list? You keep 193 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:46.720 it or do you change it? How do you rearrange it? I put 194 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:52.519 Tatum three D four let's go through this. I'm saying I'm keeping one and 195 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.799 two. You keep it one to Joker and Janna's nis is just there and 196 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:07.360 a change they're in a change like that, Tatum three KD four. Mm. 197 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:19.919 I'm keeping step five in B six, Lebron eight a D nine and 198 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:25.960 Shay ten, so we're not far off. I mean if I'm keeping this 199 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:29.519 same ten, yeah, because if it technically I would even have Shade in 200 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.559 my top ten, I would. I would put Jimmy Butler at number ten 201 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:37.200 or Devin Booker number ten, and Shaye would move to like number twelve thirteen. 202 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.759 I'll put James Harden in the top ten and take out Shait. James 203 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.440 Harden would be in my top fifteen, top twenty, but he's not my 204 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.279 top so for me, so for me, it's I'll put Devin Booker at 205 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:59.399 ten. I'll put I'm putting Devin Booker at ten. I put Lebron at 206 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:10.480 nine. Uh, I put uh Jason Tatum at eight KDS seven, number 207 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:25.039 six, I'm going to B five. I'm going Staph for Luca yeh three. 208 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.720 No, you know what, give me a bad at four. I'll 209 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:37.720 take Luca at three. Jokerrad to be said one. Oh, I didn't 210 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:42.039 even to put Luke in there. And you know, I think we all 211 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:48.079 can agree, like this list does seem a little political, but I guess 212 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.960 I would have to be like, like you said before, they didn't say 213 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:55.000 why with the criteria for this list, And I think bias comes in the 214 00:17:55.160 --> 00:18:00.400 in the play here well, because I even seen the list. I don't 215 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.319 think it was ESPN, but I even seen the listeners. Somebody has Zion 216 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.759 as a top twenty player, some of these guys, some of these guys 217 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.359 that made top fifty. I'm like, really based on what That's what I'm 218 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.160 saying, Like, if it was bored, you know, quarter up to 219 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.519 the quateria, I'd be like, oh, that be interesting. Moving on, 220 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.960 the n b A will return to the East versus West format for this 221 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.519 year's All Star Game, which I thought was interesting. I thought it was 222 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.960 interesting. But to when I when I first thought about it. I'm like, 223 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.160 ain't they kind of a it's a I don't want to say. It's 224 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.079 not fair. It's not fair, not fair, you know, it's not 225 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:40.319 fair. I was thinking out not fair, but I really thought about it. 226 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:41.759 I was like, Okay, who's a game. Son, who's on 227 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.079 the East, was in the West. Okay, It's nothing bad because I'm 228 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:52.279 thinking I'm thinking like Staph lebron kd Devin Booker, like hold on, hold 229 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:57.240 on, Victor Kawhi, Paul George Clay Thoms. But I could go to 230 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:02.799 the other side, Mark No, no, don Murray Joker, I can 231 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.160 go. I can I can go the other way. Wait, and I'm 232 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:10.920 not done. Anthony Edwards. People all Star game, but they should based 233 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.079 on their top player in their top ten. Yes they should. Well, 234 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:18.200 we're not based on off on the East, my East. Well, my 235 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.000 question is for the y'all, this is my question. Give me your all 236 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:30.200 Star line up from what the Eastern West. I will start off. I'll 237 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.319 start off just the starting fiber, starting five, not doing whole. You 238 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:37.880 just named off twenty people. So I got five, I got the East, 239 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.160 can get the West? Can pick from? Well, that's true, 240 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:45.319 That's what I'm saying, but the East just because you didn't mention the Jannis 241 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:53.240 embiid Jason Tatum. Uh Now, now Leonnard, I mean that leonn uh 242 00:19:53.519 --> 00:20:00.880 Damion Dame and uh oh Mitchell, So you got Leonard not Leonard? Why 243 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:10.319 keep saying got Dame? Dollar, got Mitchell, Jason Tatum, Johannis and 244 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:18.319 the bat. That's a solid starting vibe on the west. Joker, Lebron, 245 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:22.960 Lebron, Well Lebron. Yeah, I'm going four four you go KD, 246 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:26.000 three you go Lebron, to you go Devin Booker and one you go 247 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:32.039 Steph. Now, as you can see, we have an issue. I 248 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.240 don't think Devin book are gonna make. It's probably gonna be Stephen Lucas. 249 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:40.640 I mean Stephen Luca uh lebron k D because now we have to go popposition 250 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:42.880 it kind of you know, now, some people gonna miss the All Star 251 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:47.480 Game, A lot of people gonna miss the All Star so this could be 252 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:52.559 very interesting. And remember how the n b A is awarding their season awards 253 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.359 this year. Yeah, it's based on our star selections, is based on 254 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.880 a number of games, so it should be very is in Jurassic So my 255 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.680 my question of yards I start to five for the All Star Game, you 256 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:11.319 got which one you did first? I did East and then you do East 257 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:15.880 versus West. So you're five on your East, five on the West. 258 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:23.240 So on the Eastern conference I have at center Joel mb It's like, how 259 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:30.680 can you not power forward? Yannis? Clearly you got your other boy, 260 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:45.519 Jared. You know, small forward? Small forward? Uh, small forward? 261 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.759 I mean it's Tatum. Well, the way that I was gonna say, 262 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:51.799 the way they do it in the East. The last Streek can be 263 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:55.079 a forward or guard, but I'm gonna it has to be Jason Tatum. 264 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:00.680 Your point guard has to be dang and you're shooting guard has to be to 265 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.920 your point. It has to be Donovan Mitchell. Or it has to be 266 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.359 see what I'm seeing, what I'm doing here. There's not many to pick 267 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:15.839 from him, even though it is exactly James Harden if he shows up to 268 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:18.839 work, Philly just told him to stop showing up to work. About Chris 269 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.839 Middleton. He's not a guard, is it? He can't be. He's 270 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:26.599 he's listened as a small forward. He's a two guard. Text. I'm 271 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:29.799 not picking Middleton for any of my All Star You got Mitchell, you could 272 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:34.039 get he needs to not anything extra. You can get three hundred dollar man, 273 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:40.119 you can get him. I'm good. We're gonna go with We're gonna 274 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:41.720 go with Tatum. We're gonna go with Dame Dollar. We're gonna go with 275 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:47.720 James Harden. Assuming he's in the East. Oh, you get your West. 276 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.160 The West it's identical to yours. I mean, it's the Joker, 277 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:57.440 it's k D, it's Lebron. I'm not picking Luca, but it's going 278 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:00.680 to be Luca and and Steph. So if you don't have Luca, who 279 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.799 you got, let me see. If I don't have let me tell you 280 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.319 something. The West is stacked. If I don't have Luca, I got, 281 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:11.599 I'm taking Devin Booker. I'm taking Devin Booker. I like Booker more 282 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.920 than Luca. I'm not taking away Luca's talent because he's very talented. But 283 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:22.359 to me, Devin Booker fun to watch. Luca is. Now see what 284 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:30.119 I said, it'll be a clip. That's cool clip East. I mean 285 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:36.839 about my beard man. So he said it's gonna be a clip, So 286 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:52.559 I said clipped. So yeah, I'm gonna say for the for the East, 287 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:56.000 my center is going to be like he said, it gotta be Joel. 288 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:00.279 Ain't nobody else over there in the East right now? Yep? My 289 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.200 four. You know, it's gotta be honest because there's not a person better 290 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:08.960 than Giannis over there. My three, it's gotta be Tatum because who else 291 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:15.039 is it that the three besides Tatum? I'm not picking Brown, Definitely not 292 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:22.400 Jimmy. Jimmy starter in the East, jim My. Two guards gonna be 293 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:30.079 Jimmy mm hmm. And my one is gonna be Dame for the West Jokers. 294 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:34.599 The five, Anthony Davis is the four. It won't happen that way, 295 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:41.000 but that's a good try. What It won't happen that way because they'll 296 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:45.599 only pick, well, they'll pick two, that's true. They'll pick a 297 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.359 center and forward, and then they'll pick three three guards. Yeah that's true. 298 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:52.920 That's okay. Wait, but they don't list Anthony as a four though 299 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:56.920 they do. That's his natal positions four, that's his natural what They list 300 00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:02.240 him on the All Star ballot as a center, Yes they do. That's 301 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:06.400 why he didn't start last year over Joker. He made a reserve, but 302 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:11.720 he still was He made the reserves, but he still is a four at 303 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:15.359 the end of the day, he's a four, but he's listed at seventh 304 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.960 foot four and seven foot and you can't be so then KD is not a 305 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:25.400 small foward then because he's seven ft as a power forward. That is so 306 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:30.359 dirty. That is so dirty him been step jumping the ball. That was 307 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:38.400 hilarious. Ahead, Steph, wipe it jump watch jump right, like just 308 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:41.599 to see what happens. Just see what happened, right if he won that 309 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:47.680 that had been on ESPN, like five day straight NBA heard of. If 310 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.319 he the one that Steph got some plaining, dude, you got some cleaning 311 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:53.359 dude, how you do that? But go ahead, you got your four. 312 00:25:55.480 --> 00:26:07.480 Anthony Davis got joker, Anthony Davis lebron booker. Mm hmm and Steph 313 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:12.680 good. H'm glad that Steph is getting respect around this table for change. 314 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.559 But I don't know if you consider him a point guard or shooting guard. 315 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.920 He's a shooting He's a he's a she's a shooting guard. He's a shooting 316 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:29.920 guy his whole career. Three. That's why he's number because I'm only confused 317 00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:33.920 now because a lot of teams are going with this three guard rotation and nobody 318 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:41.119 is taking nobody doing except for Phoenix that it was a joke and has been 319 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:48.319 injured to so already already already play, already already hilarious Bookers, Yeah, 320 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:55.920 he got her first game again. It's just again holding down was D against 321 00:26:55.960 --> 00:27:03.720 Lebron. It's a good game too. I can't believe Lebron got a little 322 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.880 bit more in the tank than KD when it came to closing that game up. 323 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.640 Did you see that game? I'm serious, though, Fine, let's 324 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:14.960 go off the topic. Uh, yeah, I've seen the game. I 325 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:18.240 did see that, But it was just KD though, and that game Lebron 326 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:22.640 was doing. That's when he was getting the time restriction twenty five minutes, 327 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:26.079 you know what I'm saying. So if you do them like that and you 328 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:29.960 got KD working, he's still he played forty minutes. He played forty minutes. 329 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.960 Though Lebron paid thirty six against Phoenix. He did he didn't get it 330 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:36.079 Denver, he thought, Okay, yeah, that's true, that's true. 331 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.759 That's true. And then Anthony Davids was doing what Anthony Davis do. But 332 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:45.000 that's a whole other topic. But the latest of the James Harden drama, 333 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:52.279 James Harden had missed ten days due to personal reasons. Returning to the team 334 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:56.279 for the home opener, James was denied entry into the seventh onto the seventy 335 00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:00.519 six ers plane seventy six years airplane. The NBA has got involved, wanting 336 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:07.240 to know the valid explanation why the seventy six ers are not playing in healthy 337 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.359 James Harden. What are your thoughts they are doing to James Harden, what 338 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.720 he's done to teams for the last four years. I don't think so you 339 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.200 can get a taste of your own medicine. How well, number one, 340 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:23.000 you leave the team for personal reasons, stole. Don't say that he literally 341 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.880 taking care of his mama. How can you prove that he said it. 342 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.000 That's what they said. He was taking care of his mama. Okay, 343 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:34.599 so James was he at the club? Probably James Harden. Starting the season, 344 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:40.640 he started off in a full blown interview jogging the GM who is still 345 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:44.720 the leader of the seventy six ers. He refused to show up to work 346 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:47.200 and said he didn't want to play the seventy sixs. You know what that's 347 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:52.319 like. That's like me talking trash about you and Casey knowing that I'm not 348 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.279 coming back to the podcast. But you know, say we were paid for 349 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.640 this right under contrast, say we were under contract and we were paid for 350 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:02.319 this. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm not coming back. I'm about 351 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:06.000 to dog y'all. But then in a final hour, I gotta come back 352 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.799 here. You know what I'm saying. I gotta come back here now and 353 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.079 try to act like I didn't say bad things about y'all. I have to 354 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:15.160 act like I didn't want to play for this team. I called Tone a 355 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.720 liar, and I'm supposed to come back in his studio after calling him a 356 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.400 liar. You hear this, Tone, You know what I'm saying, Like, 357 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:25.200 am I supposed to do that? You know what I'm saying. That's 358 00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:29.759 what James Harden did to Phoenix. Okay, and more importantly, Philly, 359 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:30.720 thank you? And he did well. He would have did it. Didn't 360 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:34.599 he play with Hynix. Okay, he wanted to Phoenix. He would have 361 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:38.839 did it the Phoenix. But anyway, you come back to my team now 362 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:44.440 after being gone ten days. You have a practice. There's no chemistry. 363 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:48.599 We all know that basketball is a game of chemistry. Okay, you gotta 364 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.240 practice. You have to go to training camps and you didn't do none of 365 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:57.000 that practice. We're talking about practice. James Harden need all practice. Get 366 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:03.200 okay. He's in the top ten based on his stats and his ability to 367 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.480 play the game. Let's not get it twisted. When James Harden shows up 368 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.720 to work, he is a player you want on your team for basketball skill 369 00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:15.480 only. Same with Kyrie. I'm not picking too many point guards after Steph 370 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:19.559 Curry and Kyrie Irvin, right, Drew Holliday. Of course Dame Dollim is 371 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:25.039 in there too, but let's go let's be serious. Handle wise basketball IQ. 372 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:29.400 It don't get much better than the Kyrie Irvin. But back to James 373 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.839 Harden. Philly did the right thing because he is a chemistry killer. He 374 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.119 is a chemistry killer. Because here's a problem. What Philly has to do. 375 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.599 I worry about is protecting Joel and B because he's a follower. He 376 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.680 doesn't listen. He'll get on TV and say, you know, it's James 377 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:51.599 Harden. Thing is just driving me crazy, and he'll be asking for his 378 00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:56.799 tray next. He'll be out of there. Next Joe Ellen B he's definitely 379 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.119 on f he makes it to All Star Break, I won't I won't even 380 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.480 give him past Game twenty. The thing with cancers, the thing with people 381 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:10.480 that have poor judgment, you keep them away from your team to protect your 382 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:12.920 team. So Philly, in my opinion, did the right thing. You 383 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:19.000 want to get out and I'll figure it out. First of all, horrible 384 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.640 impression. It was pretty bad. But he does talk a little slower, 385 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.039 a little bit he does. My think about this. Have you ever seen 386 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.359 him cry? Please? That is the ugliest Joe LMB. Every grown man 387 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.599 looks horrible when he cries. So having cameras in on face is just horrendous. 388 00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.440 But that was a pretty bad impression. But I stand by what I 389 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.240 said about that is this. I don't think he's a follower. I don't 390 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.000 think he beat as a follower. They've asked and beat about this. He's 391 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:47.240 you know, he's dumbed it down, just like he dumbed it down with 392 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.039 Ben Simmons. I mean, what can he say? These people are ain't 393 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:52.200 gonna say nutcases, but they're I don't I don't know what they do in 394 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.079 their personal time. I don't know how they're thinking. I don't know what 395 00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:57.640 they thought. Pattern is. I'm just here to play for the seventy six 396 00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:01.480 ers do I think in beating is gone. I don't think he's gone this 397 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:04.759 year. I think next year probably get out a lot of here. But 398 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.400 I think has two years on his contract. I think they're going to force 399 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:12.680 his hand because you're When I say force his hand, I mean because this 400 00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:17.839 James Harden situation has gotten very ugly. And this isn't new for me, 401 00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.359 I mean new for us for James Harden. But my thing about this is 402 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:28.559 when a team stop you from getting on the plane, they tied and when 403 00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:31.839 they get when they get tya, it's it's only so much longer that you're 404 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:35.839 going to be out the door. How long is it? I think? 405 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.559 I think the thing is nobody wants People want him, but they don't want 406 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:44.359 to pay the price that Wane left. But they don't want to pay the 407 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:47.680 price that Mary wants. So because with the Clippers, he can go to 408 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:52.200 the Clippers, but they not, we want that young point guard to go 409 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:53.640 over there, like y'all not taking my young point guard for him. Y'all 410 00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:57.960 get these draft picks and he like he asks them for the kitchen sink. 411 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.480 He asks me for everything, and the kitchen sink for James Harden, like, 412 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:04.880 James Harden not that good, no more and so and then he becomes 413 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:07.079 an issue. So my thing about it is that I think the seventy seasons 414 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:15.119 did them bogus. I think they did them bogus. Also because I'm telling 415 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:19.599 you how if I talk to you, if me and Keasey have a conversation, 416 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.680 Hey, Kesey, I'm gonna do you this favor, but just hook 417 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.920 me up later. He like, yeah, I got you. And then 418 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:30.000 when it comes time for them to hook me up, he like, nah, 419 00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:37.599 listen, now, hold on loos, like you turned the season on. 420 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.799 I don't know if you turned on like this? What hell? We 421 00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:46.400 don't we talk about man. So anyway, my thing about that is like 422 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:54.799 when you so James so James Harden, I don't. I don't feel necessarily 423 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:58.839 bad for him. And I see where the seventy seasons are coming from. 424 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:01.119 Is just one of them things where it's just like you said, I mean, 425 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:06.279 this might be a situation where you know, you get hit. Hey, 426 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:09.440 hey, is what it is at this point. So I'll tell you 427 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:14.519 like this, do you think James Harden will how do you think he'll last? 428 00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:17.400 All Star Breaking with sixers? It's hard to say, man, because 429 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:21.000 he shouldn't have made it through the summer, but he did. That's what 430 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.800 I'm saying. I think he. I think he and then Daniel Maurray, 431 00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:29.079 whoever he is, he waits till the last minute, if he'll wait to 432 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:30.840 the last movie, like, all right, I gotta get you. If 433 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:37.039 anything, it's gonna cost Philly more money. I mean, they'll buy him 434 00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:38.320 out. I don't think they're gonna buy Hi out. They're gonna trade him, 435 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:42.800 but he's not gonna Neither side is gonna be happy with it. No, 436 00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:47.639 because he wants to go to the Clippers, and the Clippers obviously are 437 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:53.079 interested in him, especially since the Drew Holiday trade fell apart. But unless 438 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:59.000 you're giving up young talent and drafting, the Clippers don't have much to offer 439 00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:02.079 in the first place. They they traded everything, but to get you think, 440 00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:05.960 to get Paul George. I don't think they have I want to say 441 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:07.639 that. I just think they, like, we're not gonna give you everything 442 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:14.239 for this guy who is aging and he's not he used to be who he 443 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:17.360 used to be. I don't know, man, Uh, Larry don't deal 444 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:23.239 well with foolishness. We're here real quick. Kendrick Perkins said, the Lakers 445 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:30.039 are looking to get James Harden to do what for what him? Anthony Davis, 446 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.679 Lebron, James Lebron ain't going. You show up to the Lakers talking 447 00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:37.719 about you ain't coming to practice. Nah, Lebron ain't going. Lebron. 448 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:45.039 We're talking about on the court. The three Lebron has done with that breaking 449 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:50.360 in another superstar experiment. You rather have a hundred role players now, Lebron 450 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.199 is it ain't work? Lebron does not have time to babysit over Paige. 451 00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:59.719 You mean tell me James r Anthony Davis, James h Lebron, ain't James 452 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:01.599 gonna do what it do? James Harden likes the ball in his hand, 453 00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:05.840 and Lebron does to that. That's not gonna work. Kad didn't need the 454 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.639 ball in his hands, Joel and b never has the balls in his hands. 455 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:13.800 He never has it in his hands. Lebron and James Harden won't function 456 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:17.599 well on the same team together. He is not Dwyane Wade by long shot. 457 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.639 Mm hmm. I mean everybody's Wayne Wade. And you want who said 458 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.800 James Hart was better than say that? I saw that was him. That 459 00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:34.280 was fool I said that. I stuck by Oh yeah, that's stupid. 460 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:38.880 I stick by that. He said, James here on top ten, James 461 00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:45.760 not top ten? Pretty close? Look then why he wouldn't for this season? 462 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:52.840 For this season, but this season so last pretty close? Lebron James 463 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:54.639 ads pretty close. No, it doesn't mean they need to be on the 464 00:36:54.639 --> 00:37:00.760 same team, all right. Would you want Giannison Joker on the same team? 465 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:06.440 Absolutely, we have. That's two unselfish players. So who's gonna take 466 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:08.000 who's gonna take less of a role? Then if they're on the same team, 467 00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:12.280 do you think Joe do you think Joker wouldn't be cool with ten? 468 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.000 Fifteen and ten? I don't know. Man, Jokers created his own thing 469 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:21.679 over Joker is the stand which Joker will Joker? Joker? Hey, Joker, 470 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:23.599 Uh, what you sit on half the season? You can go play 471 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:28.920 with your horses. Okay, it's look, I think what we should what 472 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:35.159 we've learned from the Lebron experience, the Steph Curry experience to Steph Perry, 473 00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:40.239 top top players don't always work on the same team and it shouldn't work. 474 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.320 Well, we're gonna find out in Milwaukee. Well, you see who had 475 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:49.840 the ball in his hand with hey, eighteen seconds last under five minutes. 476 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.079 Well you're what you heard what Yanni said? And I need to ask, 477 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.840 how do y'all feel about we'll get to that, We'll get we'll get there 478 00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:59.639 in a minute. Let me just me we'll get there and say, we'll 479 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:04.159 get there minute. Look at in a minute really quickly before we get the 480 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:13.960 Bucks. Star's sorry, it's right, it's so Anyways, what did you 481 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.880 guys learn from the first in the NBA? And Kesey's words, it's too 482 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:23.440 early to tell, really what I listened to, You learned anything? If 483 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:29.599 you learned nothing, nothing, No, it's too early to tell. I 484 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:35.920 learned from one game that the Bucks appear to have a really good roster. 485 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:42.280 I learned from one game that without Bradley Beal, Phoenix can still be very 486 00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:51.000 dangerous. I learned from one game that Victor Wingspan will not be a bust. 487 00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:55.239 Can I get there? You said it? You said it. I 488 00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:00.039 did say, got to get the game more. You are for me. 489 00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:07.079 You have this season. You have to get to NBA Cup, okay, 490 00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:13.079 which coming up in three weeks. You know what I'm saying. You gotta 491 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:16.119 get the NBA Cup. Because here's the thing. People think the players don't 492 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:22.239 care about this. Yes they do, Yes they do, Yes they do, 493 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.920 because for some of them, this NBA Cup might be the closest thing 494 00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:30.679 to a championship that they get because they call it the championship. It's the 495 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.599 end season championship. I don't like it either, but it's the closest thing 496 00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:40.559 that some of them might get to a title. So around NBA Cup time, 497 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:44.480 let's start talking about it. I think it's too soon to tell, 498 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:50.320 because again I think what we've seen. Bucks are resting Middleton tonight, Miami's 499 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:59.320 resting their whole roster tomorrow night. Whatever. But in the beginning, you 500 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:04.360 can get highlights, but I don't think you can really assess a team like 501 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.880 Detroit. They had a great first game, they lost, so the period 502 00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:09.719 of coaching is helping a little bit. They scored one hundred plus points. 503 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:13.360 But you can't make a decision off of three games. I mean, I'm 504 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.039 not saying making the decisions. There's something that just kind of caught your eye, 505 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:17.960 was like, the Bucks are gonna be fun to watch, all right? 506 00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:23.599 What do you got something that caught either caught your eye as something that 507 00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:28.480 you was like that you learned that going like, oh okay, all right, 508 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:37.119 if it's nothing, it's nothing. You want to save yours for the 509 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:42.239 twenty games. That's fine, I've learned. Mm hmmm. Then we're gonna 510 00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.519 be just because they was last year or if not better, if not better, 511 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:51.039 if not better, because watching that laquer game in Denver stroy it looks 512 00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:57.400 like the same type of atmosphere when they beat them in the playoffs. Really, 513 00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:00.840 they're going to be tough, and they were, and they were like 514 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:06.519 putting people on the bench early, like Portland wasn't even playing it a lot 515 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:09.599 yet a good game. Well, I'll say this. Let me let me 516 00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:14.559 say this what I learned in the first week. Victor Wing Spanish not trash. 517 00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:20.719 I'm gonna get his name right now. He's not trashed. What Victor 518 00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.559 when you nambi, well, I said he wasn't trash. Let's let's take 519 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:29.880 let's take us one step by the time. He's not trash. As matter 520 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.239 of fact, he's a he's an issue. I've seen him problem. He's 521 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:35.679 an issue. Like even on the defense, how do you guard that? 522 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:38.880 Put your hand up? No, I know what you're going I know where 523 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:45.880 you're going. It's just like, I don't when you talk about you know 524 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.599 what I'm saying, how do you guard that? Like step trying to shoot 525 00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:51.760 over him, Play trying to shoot over him, Kyrie trying to shoot over 526 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.639 him. It's like, I don't care what your handles is. When somebody 527 00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:59.119 is that long, you can't shoot over this person. That's crazy, man, 528 00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:00.159 I'm gonna tell you. Like this, and he's shooting up three, 529 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:05.840 okay, may he takeing three? The reason san Antonio lost that first game 530 00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:07.840 because he was a foul trouble or he would have had twenty five to thirty. 531 00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:12.679 But my thing is, go ahead. It's the first three games. 532 00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:15.559 Like you said, right, that's true. It's a rookie vifty women. 533 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:20.199 No, me ain't hit game twenty of an NBA season yet. I mean 534 00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:22.800 we can always. That's that movie. That's when everybody. That's when most 535 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:29.199 rookies hit that wall game twenty to twenty five, maybe thirty sometimes where they 536 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:32.840 start to slow down because now it's like, dang, I gotta do this 537 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:37.519 all over again. And I ain't even face the Clippers. I ain't even 538 00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:42.639 face the Lakers. I ain't even face the Bucks. I ain't. You 539 00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.519 know what I'm saying, Brook Lopez. Brook Lopez is going to be a 540 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:51.599 problem for somebody like him because Brook Lopez, because Brook can bring him out 541 00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:54.800 to the perimeter and Brook can post him up. And Brook is seven foot 542 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:58.519 two. You know what I'm saying. He ain't face nobody like Brook. 543 00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:01.800 He ain't facing the b yet, work cat or cat. You know what 544 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:12.719 I'm saying. He ain't face Joker yet. He ain't even face Anthony Davis 545 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.840 yet. I think also to uh, to add to your point, what 546 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:22.119 else surprises me? And I'm a you all know me. I'm a huge, 547 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:23.880 s true Holiday fan. Shout out to Drew and Lauren Holiday. Great 548 00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:30.880 people from Milwaukee. Boston might have a chemistry problem. They don't have a 549 00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:36.400 leader. Boston have a chemistry problem. I watched them play. I watch 550 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:43.000 Holiday have not so good stat line in that first game. Very concerning second 551 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:45.719 game. He did look better. But I don't know. Boston might have 552 00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:47.880 a chemistry issue. You know what, I think it is on some real 553 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.760 stuff. I don't think you want to play there. You can tell his 554 00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:55.840 body language. I feel and I see that I feel sad. It makes 555 00:43:55.840 --> 00:44:00.440 me feel sad like you don't want you want to be here, that you 556 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:01.280 don't want to be there, you don't want to be there. It just 557 00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:06.679 feels sad. But they have a leader you can just tell, like from 558 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:12.360 the coach to Jason Tatum to Jalen Brown, Like there is like taking away 559 00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:17.159 Marcus Smart. I even finished my list, but taking away Marcus Smart from 560 00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:22.960 that team got these guys just playing, not playing together, just playing. 561 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:29.199 Now, this is game what everybody's played about at least two games. Just 562 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.719 it just looks like, of course you would say that, but it just 563 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:37.159 looks like they just playing have a bigger payroll than the Golden State Warriors. 564 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.159 Now what do you mean just playing? What does just playing mean? Like 565 00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:45.360 there's no like you said, there's no chemistry there, There's no like when 566 00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:47.440 it comes down to it, because I think that you don't know who's gonna 567 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:51.400 be the person who's gonna be taking a shot. Yeah, because because white 568 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:52.960 White looks like he want to be the person who take the shot. I 569 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:57.119 think White trying to see it's slowly but surely stepping into that. But I 570 00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.920 think that like when you come down, I pay three hundred million dollars for 571 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:07.320 Jaylen Brown, say my thing about that is when we've talked about this, 572 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:13.480 Jason Tatum gonna want at least three fifty, He'll be Jason's gonna work want 573 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:17.039 four. Now he's gonna want the Supermax. You gonna want this four? 574 00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:22.280 Is it? It's super max? You can get three eighty five. I 575 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:30.199 think it's like four something like fourteen saying and Jason Tate besides that, besides 576 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:34.280 that, it just doesn't look It just looks a lack of chemistry, like 577 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.400 like Drake said, I just and it's easy to say that they only play 578 00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:40.559 like two games together and after they won both of them, but it just 579 00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:45.679 does it just doesn't look good. Per se. I think the Bucks do 580 00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:50.239 look good. They probably looked the most. And the way Dame don't say 581 00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:52.800 that the way I don't be a fan because we barely beat them. We 582 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:58.360 better, Hey, no, no good. I don't say they look the 583 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:00.840 best. We better. I said that. I said it looked the best 584 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:07.559 because because we are we have two superstars who are humble enough to be like, 585 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:09.360 oh I picked the last shot, Oh you could take the last shot. 586 00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:14.000 I'm not tripping the way Yannis is, like, I know Dame is 587 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:20.800 a closer real quick what's the what's the number? Boston payroll is actually the 588 00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:24.320 sixth highest, but going into next season, it's the second highest, next 589 00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:31.280 to the Phoenix Suns at one hundred and ninety five million dollars. So I'm 590 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:36.559 just correct. Tatum is three eighteen, so he can get three eighteen next 591 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:38.599 year. Yeah, his next max this next match of three eighteen. Okay, 592 00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:43.159 so that's not that's not crazy. But that's like four years though, 593 00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:47.280 But still it's not crazy. Three eighteen and four years, four hundred four 594 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:52.880 hundred million, four years. Whoa, because what was brown? Three hundred 595 00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:59.199 three hundred and so you said how much three eighteen for four years? That's 596 00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:04.519 seventy nine ain't five million dollars a year? Yes, Now, if they 597 00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:07.960 throw that fifth year option in there, which they probably will for that kind 598 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:10.760 of money, Okay, if they throw that fifth year option in there, 599 00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.679 that's sixty three million, that's Yanni's money right now. He'll deserve it. 600 00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:20.159 He'll deserve it. But I just don't like the way that So so then 601 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:25.760 you're sitting there letting Holliday walk away. Oh, y I don't think so. 602 00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:30.079 My thing about that is, uh, I think the Bucks do honestly 603 00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:31.840 I think the Bucks look good. I think What's it gonna look good too? 604 00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:36.360 Though, Oh Golden State. Golden State look good even without even without 605 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:39.760 Draymond, they look good. And so Steph is coming for that title, 606 00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:45.760 y'all. A couple of things real quick. The Lakers. The Lakers are 607 00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:49.440 not who we thought they were. I'm sorry they're well, no, they 608 00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:52.280 are not. I don't care about all these people they added everybody. Some 609 00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:54.119 of the Lakers had the best off season. They look like they're gonna be 610 00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:58.480 in the same position they were in last year. They went, they went 611 00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:00.000 to the conference finals. They won't this year, but they did it. 612 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:02.840 You can't say that they went to the conference won the game because remember they 613 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:06.519 lost their first They lost their first ten, so they already ahead of the 614 00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:08.920 game already. So we are we we're gonna go there with them. This 615 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:13.880 year, they lost, No, they lost their first twelve or thirteen. 616 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.559 They first they first ten games, it was like three and seven or something 617 00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:21.000 like that. They lost more. They lost their first ten game. They 618 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:22.719 couldn't even know they at thirteen. It was something crazy. It was low. 619 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:27.000 But then they didn't lose ten straight. It was something crazy. Darvin 620 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.400 Ham wouldn't have made it. No, it was it was like ten games 621 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:31.840 under five hundred or something like that. I don't want to know what the 622 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.320 Zach record was, but they lost their first ten. It wasn't their first 623 00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:39.039 team. But my think about it, I think the Lakers are who we 624 00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:44.199 they're not who we thought they were. Uh. The Nuggets did look as 625 00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:47.239 good as they did last year. They picked up right where they left off. 626 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:53.239 Unless the seventy six ers get this James Harden situation together, they're gonna 627 00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:59.880 be at the bottom of the barrel the sequel. Appreciate this a quick segue, 628 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:06.039 just just quick. The green Bay Packers are rebuilding. You know, 629 00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:09.239 we normally start to show off with anecdotes. The green Bay pactors are rebuilding, 630 00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:15.400 so that should make you happy. They don't have a choice. There's 631 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:21.480 no love in green Bay. Literally, he is not the answer. But 632 00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:24.760 you know what I gotta say this, You've been actually tolerable this season. 633 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:29.039 You mean, I may y'all gonna be garbage. Who you want to talk, 634 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:32.199 what you want to rub it In'll come in track Cowboys, we would 635 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:37.440 suck on. We would have rubbed it in. I'm not like our boys. 636 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:43.760 We have class. Hey, yeah, but y'all the back of the 637 00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:46.400 class y'all. Y'all, y'all coming into the season, we're gonna make the 638 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:53.119 playoffs. Y'all won't be making nothing. Y'all are trash. We are bad. 639 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:58.000 Listen. I have not watched the Packer game since I've been to Atlanta. 640 00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:02.199 I watched them all, I watched them all. I can't do it. 641 00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:07.239 It's hard to watch. Man. Now sucked all right. They lost 642 00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:12.960 their first six games last year, really yeah, but they didn't go So 643 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.800 let me tell you something about the Lakers. The Lakers real quick. They 644 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:17.639 played the Warriors first. Remember remember the Warriors put the palls on them. 645 00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:22.719 Clippers put the palls on them. Remember right after that, Portland won't beat 646 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:27.360 them. The Nuggets beat them. Minnesota beat them this last year. Yeah, 647 00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:30.599 they lost all Western Conference team. They in fact, they couldn't beat 648 00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:34.559 a team in the Western Conference. And then they came on and beat the 649 00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.119 Nuggets to get over their home. They had lost their first six and then 650 00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.320 they played the Nuggets beat them, and they beat the Pelicans back, and 651 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:45.239 then the Jazz put the palls on them. Then the Cavaliers put the palls 652 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.719 on them real quick. Another thing. I think it was. So another 653 00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:52.039 quick takeaway from this season. Memphis is gonna be bad for until John Marine 654 00:50:52.159 --> 00:51:00.320 back. I don't see. I think, what's the Marcus Smart? Mars 655 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:05.480 Smart is going to be taking more shots than he should be. And it's 656 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:07.639 nothing think about Marcus Smart is when he came out of college, he was 657 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:13.039 a score and as time went by, he became a defensive player. But 658 00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:16.760 it's hard, I honestly believe it's hard to go back to that score where 659 00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:21.239 you used to be a defensive player. And so he's gonna feel like he 660 00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.239 needs to take four shots and so on and so forth. Dereck Rose is 661 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:27.840 older, so he took quite a few shots. He was he wouldn't he 662 00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.559 was shooting, but one am I paying attention to him? Like so when 663 00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:34.480 Morant come back, then it's like I'm not really paying me. You can 664 00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.760 kind of fall in the background, get them open threes. Now, I'm 665 00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:40.599 here, I'm here you at half, I'm being you up at half. 666 00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:45.480 I just don't understand why Dereck Rose don't get enough minutes. I know he's 667 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.360 older, but he's not horrible. He's not horrible, but he's older, 668 00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.360 and and I gave him. If he played thirty thirty five minutes, you 669 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:57.920 would see it. By the time that thirty fifth minute, thirty thirty minute 670 00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:00.800 come by, you would see But you old, No, he gets spurtsed. 671 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:04.760 He gets about thirteen to fourteen minutes a game. He should be getting 672 00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:07.599 like twenty two. I would play him a little. I would play right 673 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:10.159 now. He should be getting about twenty two to twenty five minutes a game 674 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:14.760 game when I got market smart, you know they got markets. You're not 675 00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:19.559 playing d Rose over Marcus Smart, are you? Yeah? Well d Rose 676 00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.119 is kind of a defensive liability, wouldn't you say? So? Oh real 677 00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:25.079 quick? Well, I'll say for Bucks Talk. But yeah, so that's 678 00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:29.000 what those are my takeaways from the beginning, just beginning of the season, 679 00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:36.199 just im just looking at the teams playing and stuff like that. But anyway, 680 00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:42.440 to close the first episode of season four out seven, little Bucks Talk. 681 00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:46.440 They first home opener looked, they look good, but I was was 682 00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:50.480 it man? Well, first of all, because this is what we do 683 00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:53.480 on ninety four feet listen, Zeke did something that none of us have done 684 00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:58.599 yet. He did the standing room whoa, whoa, whoa, Why would 685 00:52:58.639 --> 00:53:02.039 you that's not bad. We just want to know how it was experienceable you're 686 00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:07.119 talking about that's not for your business out there. It's not sugarcoat this. 687 00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:09.719 I'm not trying to be funny. I just want you to share the people. 688 00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:14.519 How was the standing room only? Is that like beyond nose bleed? 689 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:20.639 Is it bad? Is that? I'm I'm sorry? What happened? Is 690 00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:25.559 it a I'm being for real that you ask me that though? How is 691 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:29.920 it right? How is it? No? No, no, kis? 692 00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:35.519 How is it riding the track? Is it smooth? Is it? I 693 00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:38.000 mean? When you gotta you gotta really yank that ship here, you gotta 694 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:42.599 re you gotta really shake. How's the feel? How to go over? 695 00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:46.320 Being in alecxis to going to a pinto How's the feel? How does the 696 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:51.400 feel? Make those really make forty on the highway you're sposta be going sixty? 697 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.519 Make those far back Jockey club tickets look real good, don't they? 698 00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:59.199 You know? This is this is this is just like, man, I'm 699 00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:00.920 trying to figure out what we'll talk about. Mike, no want to know 700 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.079 Zeke went to the opening game? How was opening game? Energies? Forget 701 00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:08.480 the standing room? That's how you should have started it off. That's how 702 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:10.880 you should have started it off. You know what, we finna wrapped this 703 00:54:12.039 --> 00:54:19.199 up. We are wrapping this episode up because I don't have brands, you 704 00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:23.239 know, I don't have them. I don't have them. I don't have 705 00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:27.239 friends. And that's what I'm talking about. This is the type of stuff 706 00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:30.280 we talking about. Why would you ask me that? It's not you said, 707 00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:32.480 hey man, how was the game? We didn't get a chance to 708 00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:35.920 go. What did you who did you have fun? I was saying this 709 00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:37.960 start? No, why did you start it off? How was it sitting 710 00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:42.480 up there? How was it? What do you mean? How was it? 711 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:46.480 Dude? What do you mean? How did I mis that? How 712 00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:52.239 do you go? How was it? From driving Alexis to driving that ninety 713 00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:55.880 eight No, no, that ninety eight Toyota Corona going sixty? This was 714 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:00.239 with the speedling a seventies stand wasn't the standing room only experience? Okay, 715 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:07.880 we didn't like it. What was the energy like in opening game? It 716 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:12.079 was good? The energy was good. It was it was packed out, 717 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:16.960 it was packed out. It was good. And I think I think Dane 718 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:22.639 gave us. I think he had the best intro out of anybody who it 719 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:27.119 has a new team this year. Do you see Yanni's playing because I couldn't 720 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:30.000 watch it, man, I was so underweather. Is Yiannis and it's only 721 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:34.519 been one game? Is he embracing? And Kesey went to a game of 722 00:55:34.599 --> 00:55:38.559 preseason? Is he a batman? I don't want to say your batman. 723 00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:43.840 I think he's uh, he's European. I think European guys just want to 724 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.519 win. They don't care how it gets done and be out of to be 725 00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:51.360 really one hundred with you. If Dame didn't play, would have lost that 726 00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:55.800 game because Dame, like Dame, I hate to be. I hate this 727 00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:00.639 like this too, Dame. And the reason we got that because he's a 728 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:07.920 closer and he closed out the seventy six ers. He and I think Drew 729 00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:10.480 was missing the element of his game. I don't think we really brought him 730 00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:15.119 for that. Every guy we really bought brought here was for Giannie to elevate 731 00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.760 Gianni's game. And I think Dame is on an island by hisself, like, 732 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:23.360 hey, I don't need to elevate his game. He could just kick 733 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:28.159 me the ball and watch me work. And so, with the injury to 734 00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:30.599 Chris Middleton, he's on minish restriction right now. He started the game and 735 00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:36.800 he didn't finished it. I don't even know what he's laughing at. You 736 00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:39.400 know exactly what he's laughing at. And I'm low key trying not to laugh 737 00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:44.679 at it myself. But it's just one of them things where it's one of 738 00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:50.119 them things where it was a good experience besides sitting up there. I'm being 739 00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:53.280 honest because it looks like, why did you frame the question? It looks 740 00:56:53.320 --> 00:57:01.360 like it was a party. So was Dame t shirts, Dame hoodies all 741 00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:05.960 over the place. Was good you want No, I ain't like them. 742 00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:09.440 Ye, what it was? They was some real you will see him fam 743 00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:16.320 reunion shirts, a little bit you make in school in print shop. Yeah, 744 00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:20.199 something like that. It wasn't like it wasn't like it wasn't a smooth 745 00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.760 jersey and it wasn't a smooth hoodie like that. Yeah, And I was 746 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:29.760 like, what's happened to you? Questions? But I was just gonna say, 747 00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:31.719 Yanna signed a three year extension. Uh. He said he didn't a 748 00:57:31.719 --> 00:57:34.840 look at the contract, he just signed it right away. I was like, 749 00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:42.760 okay, love, yeah, right, what you think I think? 750 00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:45.679 He when he said I think he was like, the money didn't matter. 751 00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:51.239 I think that's real cool. I think he said that real cool. Uh. 752 00:57:51.360 --> 00:58:00.480 My question for y'all is for the table estimated wins this year. So 753 00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:12.880 yeah, the Bucks estimate estimated wins is God bless us for having Dane fifty 754 00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:17.400 or fifty. Let me say this, The Bucks win lost column also depends 755 00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:22.719 on Chris Middleton's health. We cannot underestimate what Chris Middleton brings. So that 756 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:29.760 Bucks team a healthy Chris Middleton and I'm talking all. I'm talking no more 757 00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:35.119 than twenty games missed. The Bucks can be in the high fifties, low 758 00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:38.159 sixties. We've done it before. Oh, high fifties, low seat. 759 00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:42.000 Yeah, so you've done it before. So you're staying between fifty two I 760 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:44.280 mean, I'm sorry, fifty five. No, I'm gonna answer it this 761 00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:47.119 way. Bucks are a number one or number two seeds with a healthy Chris 762 00:58:47.119 --> 00:58:51.320 Middleton a number one or a number two. So that's fifty five or more. 763 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:55.440 I say, I say this, Dame trade can have middle I can 764 00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:01.880 no, I'm saying this. I'm saying sixty plus. But I also think 765 00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:10.840 that Dan. I think having Danne, I see, I see Middleton with 766 00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:16.000 that second unit. This is what I hate about the Bucks that I've seen, 767 00:59:16.280 --> 00:59:21.159 just from the home opener. What's his name? PC? The second 768 00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:25.800 year guy who scored eighty? He scored bow Champ? Bro every time bow 769 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:30.920 Champ always looking like a great sixth man of the year or most improved player, 770 00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:35.559 because it's he's six or is Bobby six? I can I even't watched. 771 00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:38.719 He's like seven seven and he put six and he put up eighteen and 772 00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:44.079 like eight off the bench in the first game. Bow Champ. Yes he 773 00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.320 did. He had eighteen first game. Yes he did, Yes, he 774 00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:52.679 did, Yes, he did. What was I to say? I didn't 775 00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:57.159 like the fact that I was just gonna say. I didn't like the fact 776 00:59:57.159 --> 01:00:00.679 he wouldn't getting a clock like that Chap bow Champ. He didn't really need 777 01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:04.039 it, though he did. I think he does need it. What about 778 01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:07.599 Adrian Griffin? Is he proving to be a good coach so far? Hold 779 01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:13.480 on, say who champion four? Okay, man, I'm confusing him with 780 01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:16.719 the preseason the Memphis game bad You're right, No, he had four points 781 01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:21.639 and he had I'm like, well, he had sixteen minutes four points, 782 01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:24.960 so he haven't shot the ball that much. My thing about that is real 783 01:00:25.079 --> 01:00:30.679 quick. James Harden is expected to attend the seventy six US home opener tonight 784 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:37.400 against the Trailblazers and joined the team on the Bitch. Harden completed the team's 785 01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:44.440 pregame walkthroughs as well. That's according to Shams from the Athletic. But it 786 01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:46.840 doesn't sound like he's gonna play. But go ahead, I can see that. 787 01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:52.880 But my James hard My thing about that is that I want him to 788 01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:57.760 do better and have a better opportunity, But I don't see how he can 789 01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:02.519 with this roster. Champ quite frankly, you really believe the Bucks roster? 790 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.679 Take out the fandom? Mm hmm, take out day. Do we really 791 01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:14.199 believe this Bucks roster is that deep? I think so. I like the 792 01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:16.599 Bucks roster. I say, if you liked it because I like the roster, 793 01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:20.559 I said, do we believe this is a deep roster? Take away 794 01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:22.920 to the fan take do we need a deep roster? Yes? We do? 795 01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:25.760 I don't think. Let me tell you like this, this is how 796 01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:29.440 this is how gonna take from from what I've seen from the game, I 797 01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:36.599 went to the Bucks can be as deep as ten and they can be as 798 01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:40.760 deep as six. Break that down for a ball. And how I break 799 01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:46.320 that down is because Dame can go out there and put on enough show with 800 01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:51.719 five bench with four other bench players, it still look good. So we 801 01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:54.760 could be Portland two point. Oh. Then Jannis can also do the same 802 01:01:54.880 --> 01:02:06.559 thing. So if you look as how their dynamics can be, and you 803 01:02:06.599 --> 01:02:08.280 can inter change the two of them, and at least one of them is 804 01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:13.599 on the floor at all times, we're deep if you look at it that 805 01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:15.559 way. So answer this question, then how you do you like the second 806 01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:22.119 unit? Who's taking me to the second unit? Because we don't know Bobby 807 01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:30.880 is Marjam I like Payton, Pain, Michael Beasley, and he starts, 808 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:37.800 starts, starts, starts us he does since when when he starts with shooting 809 01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:45.599 guard, we know we run Dame Beasley, Middleton Brook Yeah, okay, 810 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:52.000 Prowder, Crowder, Bobby. I thought Crowder was skintting the no because he's 811 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:58.920 a small forward. Crowder, Crowder, Bobby Bow, Champ Pain and Countington. 812 01:02:59.199 --> 01:03:06.280 Okay, it's not bad. Who's the point guard? Fame? You 813 01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:09.639 know what, We'll we'll talk about this next week a little bit because a 814 01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:13.719 couple more that's what I'm saying a couple more tonight. We're going to the 815 01:03:13.800 --> 01:03:16.440 game tonight. Surprise, surprise, I won't be sitting in the standing room, 816 01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:21.960 but uh, we we're going to the game. Man, We're gonna 817 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.000 want you to take a good look at the the second Unit. I don't 818 01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:27.880 think you're gonna like it. You know what time, I don't think you're 819 01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.360 gonna like it, to be honest. With the same time, you don't 820 01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:35.360 think I'm like the Second Union. Also, he's been he ain't been looking 821 01:03:35.360 --> 01:03:38.119 good this year. Its taco time. It is taco time. Although I 822 01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:40.920 heard they were closed, why'll win? The first game I went to, 823 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:45.079 they was closed. They wasn't open. I wasted. Yeah, I was 824 01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:50.719 in the last preseason game and they wasn't open. That was a little disappointed. 825 01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:53.119 My feelings, my philis was hurt. To be honest, I ain't 826 01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:59.159 gonna lie so I have to have some Chick fil A. God, I'm 827 01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:05.199 sorry for our sandwich. Anyways, this has been another episode of ninety four 828 01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:15.639 feet podcast and predictions. Yeah, yeah, uh, thank my brother is 829 01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:19.840 Ray clown, my brother Keysy coming through. Appreciate it. My brother Dre 830 01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:24.400 even though he clown. It was great. Season four kickoff, folks. 831 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:27.800 So before we move on, I have to say this because you know, 832 01:04:27.880 --> 01:04:32.360 we have to educate people on our stuff. So real quick, our podcast, 833 01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:36.679 now we have reached I don't know if Tony is listening. Tone, 834 01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:43.360 can you come in the studio. We have reached. I believe this is 835 01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:50.159 like our ninety fifth episode. I think well, I mean because obviously I 836 01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:53.960 didn't want to. I don't want to. You go ruin my intro again. 837 01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:59.440 I didn't want I didn't want to. It wasn't on my mind, 838 01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:04.039 but I wanted to see. Here we are for our episodes, we are 839 01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:11.960 at number let's see it. So this is number eighty nine. So next 840 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:15.639 week will be our ninetieth episode. Folks. We are ten episodes away from 841 01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:19.599 one hundred, so our hot one hundred, we gotta do something big. 842 01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:26.880 Let's do a giveaway whatever that is. Whatever that is, we'll talk about 843 01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:31.199 maybe some in studio audience interaction. But for our hundredth episode, we gotta 844 01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:34.920 do something big. So we got about three months to think about what episode 845 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:39.599 one hundred looks like. But this is season five, y'all. Our ratings 846 01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:45.000 are five point zero on Apple podcasts, so make sure you go like us 847 01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:47.159 and rate us so you can keep you know, keep these numbers up for 848 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:50.719 us. I just want to put that out there. One hundred episodes, 849 01:05:51.360 --> 01:05:55.719 so we're gonna deal with your for one hundred episodes, man, back to 850 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:58.840 back, and then you got the nerve to fix your face when we say 851 01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:15.800 let's do a give on that note, I'll have to think no one anyways. 852 01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:19.719 So you can reach us on all social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, 853 01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:25.199 Twitter, and TikTok. You can also listen to us on all streaming platforms 854 01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:29.880 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google podcast S, Freaker, SoundCloud. Agree with 855 01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:32.800 us, probably not. This is ninety four feet Podcast Peace