 What's the word y'all? Over time in the last game of the day is definitely not good for my word slash sleep schedule but I'm here to talk about basketball because today might have been the best individual day of the NBA season. Hear me out. We had a 50 piece from Steph Curry. We saw some fights slash ejections from one of the best players in the league. The Bulls went. I mean, when the Bulls went, everybody went, right? Then we saw close to a 20 point comeback in Memphis. So just so much to talk about. Leave a like, let's get into it. I think we can all agree that Steph Curry is in the driver's seat for the MVP award right now. Now I understand this is a revolving door to come to these awards. Because just last week, I'm on basketball referees, their MVP ladder head Rudy Goberto, number one. And then Jimmy Butler and the Heat went on a run and then he became the favorite for MVP. So it is always changing, but the Warriors are 9-1 and he just put up a 50 piece. Kind of crazy. Now the Atlanta Hawks for the most part have been super disappointed, I would say the start of the season, but they had a plan. They had a plan going into this and it was like we gonna use our really good defenders which are like Cam Reddish, DeAndre Hunter who've done really good jobs clamping up individual players even like Kevin Herter is a positive defensive player at least in the 1-0-1. They were like, we're gonna go 1-0-1 and let our size, our length at these wing positions be the determining factor to stop Steph Curry. And for a little bit it was working. You know what I'm saying? A little double digit lead from them. And then it snapped. And it doesn't matter. Like if you didn't watch this game, I highly recommend you go watch this, the footage of just Steph Curry. You ain't gotta watch the whole game. Just go look at every possession from Steph Curry. A lot of the possessions from the Lena Hawks were like solid defense. But when Steph Curry is on, there's no better, there's gotta be an F. That's like the Steph Curry tracker. When he hits two shots in a row, you get a notification just in case you ain't already watched. You can tune in because that man is ridiculous. Legit, must see TV. And the Warriors as a whole are nine and one to start the season. I definitely did not see that coming then. Definitely did not see that coming. So let me give the roses to everybody. Of course Steph Curry, like I said, he's the MVP favorite of my mind right now. Drake McGrace, still the great vocal leader, great defender. All of the players that are on this team going into the season, I saw his question marks. I knew that Jordan Poo had lit it up in a preseason, but I wasn't sure how much of that would translate to the actual game. And though he's been up and down, he's had more ups than downs. Wiggas, Wiggas be on the court and then you realize that he got 15 points. You don't even really be thinking about it. They just got so many good role players that fit what they do. This team's chemistry is like no other. And I want to give a lot of credit to Steve Kerr because Steve Kerr definitely began drag through the mud the last couple of years. Oh, how good of a coach can he actually be? He's got the greatest shooter of all time, two of the greatest shooters of all time. And then he's got one of the best players of all time in Kevin DeRent coming into his team. How hard is it to really coach a team like that? And a lot of that might have been warranted, honestly. But this year he showcased like, man, the system that I have implemented for these players is the best in the league. So given him credit, and I'm giving Bob Myers credit and here's what, he decided to not always just go with the best individual player. He went with the players that he knew understood the system and were selfless enough to fit with the words. What do you mean by this, kiddie? Eric Paskew's a good NBA player. They traded him away for nothing because then the year he was there, or what was it, two years he was there, he never really got a full grasp of whatever the heck the Warriors are running over there. So they gave him away for practically nothing because he deserves to play somewhere. It just didn't really work there. Avery Bradley was pretty decent for them in the preseason and everything. The Steph Kirby even wanted him to come back. But Bob Myers is like, you know what? Even though Avery Bradley sees himself as the best perimeter defender in the league and he's still a solid NBA player, he don't fit with what we're doing here. Maybe he don't understand the system to the same way that Gary Paton II does. So even though Avery Bradley might be the better player, we'd rather take GP2. Like it is amazing team building to find a team with the chemistry slash synergy that this team plays with because even though I'm saying Steph Curry is the favorite for MVP, it ain't like this man been dropping 30s all season long. He had his fair share of duds for Steph Curry standards, but the rest of the team is there to pick them up. Like today, though Steph Curry ended up with 50, Juan Toscano Anderson hit some huge shots in this one. He hit some huge shots in this one. You know, and Juan T, he's a good NBA player, but he ain't blowing you out of the water, but he fits with what the Warriors want to do. He understands the system more than a lot of people. I've said this before, but everybody that is getting rotational, or majority of the people that are getting rotational minutes for this team have been here for at least a year or two years to really learn this system and understand how to cut, when to cut, when to hand off, when to just give the ball to Steph and let him do his thing. And though this team does turn the ball over quite a bit, and a lot of that is due to the free flowiness of it, they understand everything. And to think that there's a dude on his boat to practice every day that's getting the workouts in on the bike when the team is playing and he's gonna be coming back soon, it's crazy. This team is scary. This team is real scary, but super fun to watch. That's what Steph Curry and his 50 piece. All right, let's talk about the other big thing. A Nicole Yocas versus Marquise Morris. If you don't know a late in this game, Denver Nuggets pulled away with it. First of all, very big win for them. It's very unfortunate that this happened at the end of the game, because if it wasn't for that, we'd be talking about how good of a performance individually in the Nicole Yocat. But we gonna talk about the actual game, but let's get to the last part. So the Denver Nuggets are about to win this game. It's like two, three minutes left in it. They're all about double digits. Bayon misses a shot that Yocas can test. He get a rebound, he bring it up court. And Marquise Morris is trying to do one of those take fouls that we see pretty often in the NBA, but instead of wrapping them up or reaching in to get the referee to call a foul, he threw one of these, boom! Right into the ribs, the knees hit each other, and Nicole Yocas did like that. So Marquise Morris turned around to walk away, boom! Big shove, Marquise Morris is on the floor for 10 minutes, they bring out the stretcher, but he ends up walking off the court on his own accord. You can decide yourself if he deserves an Oscar. That's not what this is about. My point in all of this is to Nicole Yocas, he cannot lose his cool in this situation. I understand the Morris brothers have the reputation and they have the reputation because they actually do the dirty slash cheap things when the refs aren't looking. This is a very physical game between two of the best centers in the league between Bayon Manabayo and Nicole Yocas. Nicole Yocas is a player that gets beat up a ton because he is a bruiser type player. And I understand it paled up for three and a half quarters and oh, he's just gonna take it no more. But he has to be able to hold his cool. This is not the first time we saw Nicole Yocas lose his cool. And the reason why he needs to keep his cool here is because yeah, maybe Marquise was selling there quite a bit, but there's a world where things are a lot worse than that. He pushed the man that wasn't looking and maybe, okay. He is a start player on one of the better teams in the league that's already missing their second best player. Maybe the third best player, you can argue Michael Porter Jr. is even that at this point. It's out for a couple of weeks because he heard his back on that mislayup that we laughed at a couple of days ago. My fault, I didn't know he was actually injured. You cannot afford to put yourself in a situation where you are suspended from multiple games. And I don't know, maybe by the time this video is out we know if it's a one game, two game, four game or even if he might not get suspended at all. But you have to be able to keep your cool. I mean, I've had times where I've lost my cool. Like we all have had these, we're human, right? We are emotional beings, but in a situation like this your team needs you in a crowded Western conference to be on the court. Because if you don't have Jamal, you don't have Michael Porter Jr. And you don't have Yolkich, how many games are you winning? Now, yeah, even if the suspicion is just two games it is still significant enough, right? And I pray and I pray that the Markief thing was just me selling, him selling it a little bit. But is this bad optics overall for the NBA? Because even if you are an NBA fan seeing something like this is just not good that you got Jimmy Butler talking about let's meet up, meet me in the back. When in reality, I love Jimmy Butler, man. I got a post of this man right next to me. You don't want no smoke with Yolkich, bro. I'm just being honest with you. You don't want no smoke with Yolkich in a real tussle. So it's just bad. You know what I'm saying? Markief Morris is in the bad and Yolkich is in the bad. You know, but when it comes to on court in the actual game, if we didn't have this push slash ejection slash suspension type thing we would have been able to come here and talk about how Yolkich had his first triple double of the year against Bama DeBio. Kenny, what's the significance of that? I watched this season. Bama DeBio clamp up the best bigs in the entire league. Wait, let me go through their schedule because I wanna showcase some of these numbers. I think we've all seen on Twitter those things that like, hey, when players guarded by Bama DeBio he is doing this and that. Those things are actually real, y'all, for show. So so far this season Bama's put up really good individual statistics against Rudy Governe. Barrett held him to eight points. Jaren Jackson Jr. ended up with eight points. Yanis had 15 points. He individually has been clamping up some of the better bigs in the league. And today he couldn't do a thing against Yolkich. Yolkich was eating that man alive. And that is a testament to how good of a player Nicola Yolkich was and is. This team on paper should not be as good as how they've been playing, right? Offense has still not really come around completely for this team, but they held the heat to less than a hundred points. Hi, Larry, a struggle of a game. Pretty much everybody other than Jimmy Butler really, really struggled out there. But man, Nicola Yolkich, bro, if it wasn't for the push and everything, we would be focusing on the fact that you had a triple double against the best defensive center league maybe this season. But instead, everybody wants to talk about the push and everything. I mean, which makes sense. The Bulls won a game against the Brooklyn Nets, ladies and gentlemen, 73 Bulls. That's a good one for us. Now, the Brooklyn Nets were on the, I think five game win streak coming into this. And then they were on the second half of a back-to-back. So they shouldn't be overreacting. Of course, the fact that they lost this game, James Harden, they look good. Nobody looked good other than Lamarca Sgt. and Kevin Arrant. But I just want to say some light on my fourth quarter Bulls, bro. We've come a long way, man. There were years in a row where I dreaded being in the fourth quarter in a close game. Because I just assumed that it was less than a 10-point game and we were up. We were going to blow that game. You know, if it was a tie game going to the fourth, we're going to blow that game. But this year, the fourth quarter Bulls are disgusting. Oh no, Nikola Vucevich, his struggles are well documented. In the fourth quarter today, he looked like the best version of himself again. DeMar DeRose continues to impress me. I mean, you can't look at that man, Zach Lavine, and say that the Bulls don't have two All-Stars this season so far. Boom. I.O. DeSumo, second round pick. He was drafted during a Jimmy, oh no, no, no, during a Papa John's commercial. They didn't even call his name on TV. Papa John's commercial was on. It was just across the bottom. That's fuel to be great. And he has been, man. Even Billy Donovan said, like, listen, we didn't expect I.O. to be getting rotational minutes early into the season, but his presence, his energy is infectious. So that's why this man gets minutes. Yeah, that one heat check late in the fourth quarter that I wanted to see go in so bad, but nah, he missed it. Offensively, defensively, the Bulls look really solid today. Super excited about that one, man, because the last two losses against Philly had me in the gutter. So I'm back on cloud nine, y'all. Not realistically, I don't take two wins too hard. I don't take no losses too tough. And that's how you don't go insane when watching basketball. I'm telling you. All right, we got two more games to talk about, at least from games that I've watched. The Timberwolves blew, what was it, an 18-point lead with seven minutes to go or something like that? Ah, man, listen, I think majority of NBA fans are rooting for the Minnesota Timberwolves to be successful. Carthony Towns is one of the most likable players in the league, and I think he even got more people on his side this year more than any other. Anthony Edwards is one of the most entertaining players on and off the court. They got, you know what I'm saying, they ain't been good recently, so it ain't like they got no rivals in the NBA. It's legitimately everybody wants to see them be great and they disappoint us every single time. This team has D'Angelo Russell, Carthony Towns, and Anthony Edwards, all three of them had 25 or more. And they do stuff like this kind of consistently, maybe not D'Angelo Russell getting 30, but they have three really solid scores. There's no reason for their offense to be as bad as it is. Is that Chris Finch? At some point we have to stop looking at the coaches and be like, ah, it's his fault, because this is how you get seven coaches in, I don't know how many years. They just get coaches like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, since Saunders. It's just not a good look, bro. It's not a good look. There's a play in the fourth quarter. There's a sideline at a bounce play and nobody came to the ball and they got a five second violation. How many times have you actually seen a five second violation called an NBA game? Not many. It happened in this one because nobody wanted to come to the ball. And the worst thing that I see in the NBA, and oh my God, it was on full display in this game, is when things start to get, this team was up again, 16, 17, 18.2, like seven minutes ago. When things started to get real tough, how did the offense go, y'all? Did you think it was free flowing and as good as it was to get them up by that much? Or did they result to isolation ball and chucking up contested threes? Which one do you think it was? Yeah, it was the latter of the two, y'all. And it's frustrating. Carthony Towns is one of the most gifted bigs I have ever seen with my own two eyes, offensively. Even though he be turned the ball away too much for a guy of his position, whatever. I don't know if that dude got a touch in the fourth quarter other than him chucking up like a half court shot and it going in. It was all D'Angelo Russell. Listen, I'm mess with D'Lo for sure. And he was having a good game to this point. So maybe you ride in the high hand. But after three contested jump shots, my boy, we gotta give it to somebody else. Can we give it to Kat? Can we give it to Kat? Shout out to Jiren. Shout out to Brandon Clark because his minutes have been up and down for the last two seasons. He had a 20 piece today out of nowhere. He almost had more points than he had minutes. It's so frustrating to watch because I wanna see them be successful. The team is a good defensive team right now but the offense ain't caught up. What the heck? So I just got my bedtime reminder on my phone. So I should wrap this up with the last game of the day which was the Charlotte Hornets losing another game. Another loss for the Charlotte Hornets to the Lakers and the Staples Center. I think this makes what, four five straight losses for the Charlotte Hornets and they started off so high and now five straight losses. And before this one, this was only a three point loss. So better, I guess. They had lost their last four games by a margin of 22 points. They had been getting the dog beat out of them. You know what I'm saying? And today they could have won this game, man. A lot of it boiled down to like that one possession where Lamello ball got five free throws because the Lakers wouldn't shut up and they kept getting technical foul. Technical foul, Russell Westberg, technical foul. Frank Vogel, I think it might have been Carmelo Anthony. He was just getting technical foul after the technical foul and that led the door open for the Charlotte Hornets to make some noise. Terry Rozier hit some big shots down the stretch. Lamello's really good in this game but they can't put together a win and their defense has been just really, really bad recently. And a lot of them, you're playing Mason Plumlee and Nick Richards at your center positions. You're just not gonna be able to, you're not gonna be able to hang against good teams or any teams for that matter. So they gotta figure that out. They have a breakout player in Miles Bridges who's slowly cooling down, you know what I'm saying? Today, 33%, 27% from three and they got Terry Rozier back and you would expect them to find their way. They haven't even done that. But the Lakers get a win. Congratulations to them. It wasn't pretty. It definitely was not pretty. They almost did it again. 26 point lead against OKC, 19 point lead against OKC. And I think in this one they led by like 16 and they almost blew it again. It went all the way to overtime. But thanks to their best player, Carmelo Anthony. They were able to pull this one out, bro. Mello is legitimately shooting 50% from three on the season. He had 29, like, and it's not even like, oh, he's taking two a game on like crazy value. Carmelo Anthony is doing three to the dome more than I've ever seen in his life. So what a pickup for them. Because without him, hey, this is rough in this one, bro. This is real, real rough in this one. I can't even talk negatively because he ended up with the win. But the offense down the stretch is just the same thing. I just talked about the Minnesota Timberwolves. Oh, we going dribble, dribble, dribble. Maybe do a little pick and roll with Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis. But Anthony Davis loved to pop. It's not really a roll. Or it's like, hm, isolation of Russell Westbrook, isolation of Anthony Davis. And those players are talented enough to hit some shots every once in a while. But it ain't nothing that I would rely on long term. They were able to sneak out of this one by the skin of their teeth. And that was mellow, legitimately. It was Carmelo. I guess Anthony Davis had scored like seven straight points in overtime. So yeah, he deserved love, too. But that was it. I mean, a win is a win, but man, it was ugly. All right, that's all, man. Wow, what a day for the NBA world. Leave it like, I know we missed a lot of games, but you know.