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Yeah, we say in the Sundays are no longer for football But instead it's for the Kenny Beachham Ramble about basketball and other stuff because there will be other stuff in this one I just remember I'm wearing a home of Simpson shirt And I know there's a percentage of people that clicked on this video saw my shirt and was like nah I can't take him seriously today, and I respect it But but the Simpsons have been such a big part of my life that I Collect vented Simpson shirts So today's video this ramble is gonna be about some of the teams that I don't talk about as Much as others because as you know as the season goes on some teams get little light Whether it be because they're tanking or because they're not playing great basketball They we just don't talk about certain teams after maybe the first couple days of basketball And I want I want to circle back and talk about some of those scenes because right now as a youtuber I'm speaking for only myself, but I'm assuming that other NBA youtubers are going through this We don't really have a formula this season and I think that's partially due to the fact that there's parody and basketball The only formula that guarantees you a high performing video is when you talk about the Lakers And if you look through the channel on this season I think I've talked about the Lakers twice as far as thumbnails go Maybe he was even once because like yesterday I dropped the video about the bosses Celtics They are 15 and for they have one of the biggest most loyal fan bases and basketball And yet that video is a 10 out of 10 and for people that aren't in tune with YouTube That means out of the last 10 videos I published on this channel. That's the one y'all cared about the least Again, there's no formula So let's talk about the weaker teams or the teams that I thought nobody cared about because maybe that is the real formula And I want to start off with the Houston Rockets I made it a goal with today only having a four game slate so I see entirety of the Houston Rockets game They played yesterday against the Atlanta Hawks and that one got chippy even today on Instagram and Twitter people are throwing shots players throwing shots at each other and I love it Which have important junior put something to his Instagram story about Trey Yung and Trey Yung put out a Jay-Z quote That blew my mind because I mean I've watched that video and from my Interpretation of the scuffle and the antics to happen in that game Trey Yung and Ajante Murray started it So the fact that Trey Yung goes and go on to Twitter and put out this tweet from Jay-Z This quote from Jay-Z is just funny because a y'all seem like y'all started it and B You lost to the second youngest team in basketball who at that point had what three wins on the season I don't know bro. I think you just got to take that on the chin and just go to the next game You got to hope you see them again later in the season You bust they asked because they just made you look foolish being up by 16 points and you losing to them Um, so I watched that game yesterday But again, it was one of those days where like eight games started at the same time So though I watched it didn't have my full attention But today they played against the okc thunder and it was like an even playing field We had the youngest team basketball the okc thunder versus the second youngest team of basketball And the only reason the houston rockets are the second youngest team And not the youngest team is because they have boba on the roster was 30 plus boba don't goddamn play So, I mean they're pretty similar when it comes to these ages You know what i'm saying and both of them are coming off a back to or going into a back to back Both of them coming off wins. It felt like the perfect game to watch And you know what? It was interesting. Um the last couple games jabar smith jr I said on twitter. He turned the corner. I should have said he's turning the corner because I don't want to say that Off three games, but in the last three games He's been phenomenal in the first six or so minutes of this one He was being pretty dominant in a sense when it came to the defensive side of the ball Which is great and his jump shot was falling and he was getting my rebound shout out to him because he made me some Money tonight. It was a seven and a half rebounds. He ended with 13. Thank you for that. Um, but but early on our podcast today One of the questions that we got asked by oh space cadet houston space cadets houston I don't know if you watch these videos too, but I remember your name. He asked about Building culture in a play style because again, he is a houston rockets fan And he he was a little bit worried about the lack of culture in play style With this roster and you know, i'm on the podcast three other people So like I be having thoughts but I like temper them because i'm sharing the platform with other people And I don't want to talk for 15 minutes about my personal opinion when I got other people They also want to give their so I gave an answer But i've also been thinking about this quite a bit recently because the houston rockets are one of those teams that like if i'm looking at The tanking teams, they don't really have an identity just yet. They're still building that and they got me thinking about how do you implement and be grow culture On a team um because by all accounts from anybody i've asked about culture any any podcast I've listened to where mba player was asked about culture They talk about it being if not the most important thing in the locker room The the one of the most important things like taris on jay jay's show said that it has been the most important thing to the Indiana Pacer success He said that in the last couple seasons when he played in sacramento There was a lack of culture and you felt that and now he's in india boom They build they're building it and they got it So the houston rockets have been towards the bottom of the standings for two years and running And they haven't really figured out who exactly they are going to be soon With some of the other teams that are considered tanking you kind of have an idea again the pistons don't necessarily have a culture I mean they went in five games or let no magic don't necessarily have a culture But like they have what seems like the crumbs of what could turn into it And the houston rockets kind of lack that in this moment The rockets are going to go into the third year in a row where they're going to be towards the bottom of the standings Third year in a row they're going to end up with like a top five pick which is cool But i'm trying to think about teams that were on the same path and the first team that came to mind was the phoenix Sons the phoenix sons went through year after year if after year of lottery team High lottery pick josh jackson dragan bender marquise christ same draft class But so on and so forth they continued to be searched the bottom of the lottery They ended up getting the first overall pick indian tree aiden and you can argue that at that point Is they continue to lose and lose and lose and lose they had no culture at all And then something changed They got to the bubble a place that a lot of people included myself thought they had no business being They went undefeated And they traded for a guy That brings culture Now i'm not saying that everything that the phoenix sons have built over the last couple of seasons because chris paul i'm not gonna go on even though chris paul is my guy, but obviously Bringing in those veterans into the locker room played a huge huge part in them building and starting their culture And with the houston rock as we mentioned they're the second youngest team of basketball because boby's 30 They have no vets that play basketball other than Eric gordon and every houston rock and fan that i follow not they don't hate eric gordon But they're tired of the eric gordon minutes And i'm not saying that he should be playing just because he is a vet I mean if you if you ain't really that guy you ain't really that guy But they are lacking that and i would hope for the sake of their organization with this being the third year Of them being towards the bottom of the conference That they go out there and start to sign people or find people that can implement This because it's hard i'm trying to figure out exactly exactly what i want to say It's it's hard for jaylen green to teach himself It's hard For kevin porter jr All of these dudes who have only been in the league for a few seasons that don't really know the ropes to teach themselves What it means to be a winning basketball player in the mba and i don't know eric gordon personally I don't think i've ever heard eric gordon speak of words. I don't know exactly what he's like in the locker room But basically right now the only veteran voice they have is him and boby giving out hugs to the teammates But i believe this is a very very important draft for them Obviously they would love to have vic but i think if they don't end up with vic This is is so so goddamn goddamn crucial Jaylen green looks like an absolute stud and today i saw some playmaking vision that i haven't really seen in him And you would hope that that starts to progress more and more every single year that he's playing the game of basketball Like i mentioned jabar smith jr started to turn that corner out prince and goon They have a lot of young talented intriguing pieces But they need to figure it all out together And i think this is that draft class where you could potentially get that last piece to now We start to care about not just not just being in games and losing But turning it over to the point where we're winning games I don't think based on who they draft this season They're gonna immediately be a playoff team But they should start to really go out there and start to to to win more basketball games at the end of the day And one thing i lacked him i didn't mention when i was referencing the phoenix suns when it came to building culture Was the coaching job Was the coaching job they went into this bubble right they went into the bubble And i i vividly remember a A Monty williams speech Okay, maybe it's not vividly because vividly makes it seem like i wouldn't know the words to it I don't but i remember him having a speech that i watched I watched at the crib we're in the bubble So everybody's at the crib and i'm like there i would run through a wall for this man. Monty He cried after they went eight no y'all Like he's he is a guy that came in and changed things because the year before he got there They won 19 games the year before that they won 21 they won 24 they won 23 And then they got to the bubble 134 and then the season after that they were the number one seed in basketball They got to the finals then they the numbers one seed in basketball got it got you know embarrassing against having to look In the guys but you get what i'm saying and even right now The guy that i talked about is being the guy that they traded for that mattered a bunch Chris paul hasn't played months this season and here they are they're still winning a bunch of basketball games I i i failed to mention devin booker as well because he was on a lot of these bad teams But he didn't hang his head He knew eventually there will be a brighter time and i think and i'm only doing i'm not saying based on play styles or yeah i'm just saying This Could be jaylen green could be their devin booker He could be He's need more pieces that's all so um and i don't know much about steven silas I do know he's a passionate ass coach Where he's crying at the podium because of kevin porta jr. Is doing some things and stuff So he's a passionate passionate coach But i think a coach's voice can only go so far without a secondary coach Somebody else that can that can relay that message to the players as a player and they need to get that So i think the houston ruckus future is still extremely bright even though again They're they're failing to win a bunch of games, but what i saw today Was intriguing It was very intriguing. Now last year they did go on a nine game when streaking the middle of the season Y'all remember that um so that was that was interesting time. Maybe they about to do that again I know i'm gonna talk about the lakers i said earlier i might talk about the lakers But i this is weird because i wanted to talk about anthony davis and then he didn't play tonight So it's not extremely topical But the play that we've got recently from anthony davis brings me so much joy When he played with the neurons pelicans, bro. He was legitimately one of my favorite individual players to watch um the series they had against the Portland trailblazers were drew holiday and rejan rondo put the Clamson dame and cj was magnificent when anthony davis doing his thing It seemed like no matter what you could turn on a pelicans game anthony davis was doing something spectacular And though he's not back to that because he's doing it differently I ain't got the numbers or the proof to to say this But the stretch that he recently was on before he set out only a second game He's missed so far on the season which is great numbers for anthony davis Um, he's doing it differently again. I don't have the numbers But when I watched him play with the pelicans, he was inside and out meaning that he had the mid-range jump shot You know, he was doing a lot of that But now with the lakers it's been extremely inside at least in the games that the lebron wasn't there And I was I was excited about that because he had been the guy over the last couple cities with the lakers Where he felt like he didn't want to take a lot of contact. He didn't want to go down low and be with the Big dogs. He didn't want to play center. He told the world I would rather play four because I don't know he ain't say the because part But I would rather play four. Uh, they know I'd rather play four But I'm gonna do whatever the team takes and in these last I don't know how many games it was But he is down there with the big dogs 2020 games 38 points 20 rebounds like This is the ad we knew and we wanted This is the version of ad that everybody was saying lebron's gonna give the keys to he's maybe here He's maybe here now the rest of the roster is still dog, but like he's he's here And this if we could get this version obviously I need to see them do this together But the first game lebron jays back lebron to look as great, but Anthony They would still look good ad has to figure out how he can still be the dominant force that he was And the x amount of games of lebron missed while lebron is on the court because that puts them in a position To win almost any game even if the the rest of the supporting cast ain't very good And man, he's he made though that lakers stretch very watchable Um and and like I was watching lakers not because I wanted to but because they're the talking basketball But when he was doing his thing, it was like oh snap ad and he wasn't doing nothing Spectacular when it came to like visually. I'ma give me a rebound. I'll dunk. I'll do a layup I'll do a spin hook like it wasn't aesthetically pleasing by any means But he got that work done And if ad could turn into that player You love to see remember this is a guy that people voted on one of the 75 76 best players in the history of basketball, man And in the last season so it was hard to back that up But if we could get that stretch again boy, oh boy, is it gonna be exciting the utah jazz are three and seven in their last 10 um, I made a video on this channel that was like this video will not Um, what did I say this video would not jinx the utah jazz I'm be honest with you. I made that video Knowing damn well that the utah jazz are not about to be the number one seed in basketball spoiler. I knew you probably knew that too Um, but they are down to the hc at 12 and 10 And you know what blows my mind the most about this is a very selfish what i'm about to say In my fantasy league, I tried my damnedest to sell larry marketing Why he was at the peak of his powers. Oh, I tried to finesse There was a trade that I had drew up that was uh, oh, it was julius randall It was julius randall larry marketing for carinthony towns and another wing that was like it was a starter wing That's okay. I don't remember who it was And bro was very close to accepting that trade didn't He was a little bit afraid of larry But I he was close bro. He was so close to get at carinthony towns in my roster right now Either way, yeah, they they come back down to earth and today the game against the suns May have showed that they're they're doing it by design Or maybe it was just complete brain far by rookie coach. We're hard. Yeah, I don't really know But it was a what one point game or so a shot clock difference and a game clock difference like two seconds But instead of fouling with 10 seconds to go They they tried to play it out Which means that if they if the suns missed the shot and the the jazz guy to rebound at the most They would have had two seconds to figure something out. That's at the most That's that's if the the rebound was perfectly put in kelly olynix hands It wasn't tipped around or nothing. Guess what balls tipped around the andrean got aboard and it was over instead of fouling And so it was talking like Is will hardy a fraud 12 22 games into his nba coaching career or They pull the plug And that That doesn't seem like that mix up doesn't seem like something that happens with a real nba coach by accident Maybe i'm mistaken. I'm giving will hardy the benefit of the doubt and saying That this is the turn right now My colony is out. It's the perfect time for the turn to happen And me and the guys talked about this and and we were talking about them In the indiana pacers um Them in the indiana pacers for the similar reasons why i talked about my video that the indian pacers had an A difficult decision to make and in that video. I said, hey, you got tarry's hallowburn Who was the building stone was going to be a i don't know how many time all star he damned him out to make it this season You got benedict mackerel who looks like a stud who eventually that will be your back court of the future You have a couple building pieces So you don't need to tank to the bottom for wimby Because you have those two pieces and as long as you draft the whale that might be good enough now I got some pushback on that from indiana pacers fans that That think that they should go deeper into the tank, which i completely understand because the indiana pacers have been Good to solid for the entirety of my lifetime They never did the tank into the absolute bottom in my life And they've always been good enough to make the playoffs but never good enough to make the finals And they're saying hey if we don't get one of those top superstar players We'll never be that team and i understand um, but i was hesitant to say that the utah jazz to take a similar approach because Looking at their 15 man ross is some intriguing pieces over there for sure But who do you think on that roster would you consider a building block? It's not many larry's been playing really good this season He not i don't think What he's doing right now gets him to constitute as a building block for the future So in their eyes at least i think in their eyes they're like man, we got we kind of got to We kind of got to do we got to do and yeah We're way ahead of the houston rockets the denver nope not that there is the detroit pisses in your lendo Imagine way ahead of them But we still need to do something to get towards this bottom because boy Oh boy having a seven percent chance a lot better than having a 1.2 percent chance or having no chance at all If we keep our playoff hopes alive, so i don't know if exactly that's what they thinking But that's that's gonna be my guess just because there's no way we'll hardly to not tell his boys to foul There's no way whatsoever But the crazy thing about all of this in the nba season so far is that the parody is actually real And it's it's fun because every single night you can get any kind of result Like i love that as a as a guy that watches basketball every single night for a living But it does Again as a youtuber Selfishly speaking make it just a little bit tougher to figure out who the hell to talk about and why I mean a difference between the one seed And the 11th seed and the west is three and a half games The difference between the three seed and the 11th seed is one and a half games y'all Like we're a quarter of the way through the season and nobody's running away with nothing Nothing at all and last season it felt like there was definitely people run I mean the the suns won what 60 something games last season So we had teams at the top last season that were like if they were playing that night You were pretty confident they were going to win and you don't have that I mean you can make an argument that the bosses Celsius are that be a nine and one in their last 10 And only four losses on the season But other than that every single team feels beatable and that makes me think that this playoffs Should be really really good I'm still in the back of my head just thinking about the idea that that people are saying before the season That there's going to be a lot of teams that are willing to sell This this deadline because they want to get them any sweepstakes But i'm looking like Other teams that will be selling the husa rockers don't have anything to sell because like I mentioned They're the second youngest team of basketball you can sell eric gordon I guess this has to be the year he gets created, but maybe not the spurs I can see the spurs selling off yacob or Josh ritcherson Or doug mcdermin, but they lose the hella games with those dudes So I mean whatever the lakers aren't selling Okay, c is not selling because they're the youngest team of basketball The dallas mavericks aren't going to be a seller even though they're the dallas mavericks in a very interesting spot I'm going to keep that in the back of my mind because I want to talk about mavericks really really quick after I talk about this The the warriors aren't selling the timbles just trade us five first round picks. They aren't selling the jazz Again could legitimately be sellers So right now based on what we said we got two teams that I think could be selling right now And that's going to be the spurs and that's going to be the jazz the clippers aren't selling They got kawaii and paul george eventually hopefully maybe I don't fucking nobody knows nobody knows The kings are not going to sell because this is the best they've looked in 16 years. The trailblazers probably will not sell Their pick is lottery protected to the bulls But that's not enough to go deeper to the tank because when damien lilor has played they live competent The the grizzlies the pelicans the nuggets and the sons those teams are not selling out east I could see boyan bagdad was getting traded again So i'll add three your lendo magic could technically be sellers to guys like I don't know co-anthony could be on a different team or Um john isaac if some team wants to take a flyer on a 17 million dollar contract of a guy that has not played basketball in three Goddamn seasons So i'll add them to my list maybe just because they have a lot of depth, but none of the depth is like elite I truly truly believe that the charlotte hornets need to be selling like hell more than any team in basketball right now The charlotte hornets need to sell sell sell The the ceiling for this roster even with the mellow ball is playing and we've seen that Gordon hey, we're not getting you nothing because he he Fired his original barber and now he can't stay healthy, which has been the consistency throughout his career Actually, I think his wife Made comments about his injuries over the the recent years and blamed the charlotte hornets for not Taking care of their players, which is interesting this interesting part of injuries that I never really thought about I just kind of thought about Gordon. Hey, what is the most unlucky player in the history of basketball, but what what? What about the charlotte hornets staff? But like does anybody else on their team go through crazy injuries? It's literally just Gordon like lamello has had injuries, but there are freak accidents He stepped on the man's Foot that was sitting courtside. Those are like freak accidents not like he's consistently been injured I I mean gordon hay was dealing with injuries before he got so no they ain't a charlotte hornet sting Um, it's not a charlotte hornet sting. I don't know. I don't know you can't blame them Maybe you can blame him for a little bit, but no he's been there The bulls have a chance to potentially be sellers, but I'm not going to put that out in the air just yet What the hell is going on with the bulls? Nobody knows um the heat not selling the brooklyn nets Could you see it? I'll be surprised, but I'm not calling it counting it out completely Um as they just continue to just be I know ben simons look better and better every single game and there's they're one of them teams where you want to give them more time before you make a dramatic decision and luckily for them Um, luckily for them they have until february, but unluckily they don't have their own pick decisions So like if they do sell everything whether I mean you're not getting your pick back that goes to Houston if i'm not mistaken a part of the james hearton trade the nicks The nicks are one of those teams that I I would like for the sake of their organization to be sellers Is that harsh nicks fans you you tell me if I'm in the wrong here, but when I watch nicks basketball It's kind of uninspiring. I really like how jaylon brunson was playing recently Um, he's he's been a revelation. Obviously you gave him that money and he's lived up to it at least in my opinion I tweeted that I didn't think he was overpaid and people are like kenny you bugging But like he's getting paid with like the 16th highest paid point guard in basketball I feel pretty confident seeing that jaylon brunson is around there in production could be wrong I don't know who ahead of I don't know beneath them But based on that I feel pretty good about saying that he's one of the 16th most productive point guards in basketball But everything else is so uninspiring I don't like to make like talk bad about individual players because obviously a lot of things go deeper than basketball rj barrett has been oh boy, um He's not even doing it on the offensive side of the ball to make up for I mean, I saw a stat this morning that he's missed like 70 of the last 100 and like 10 shots 70 something out of last 110 shots And it's just hasn't been good And I you want to give him the benefit of the doubt because he is only 22 if i'm not mistaken around that age, but For a guy that just got paid the money that he did This is the slowest slash worst start he could have potentially asked for Where no jump shot is falling where he's getting to the basket and he's not finishing And if you remember my video, I don't remember what exact what video we were we were talking about But I said the next step in his development is a finishing at the rim And be finding out how the hell to pass out of drives because once he puts his head down There's no stopping him and right now i'm going to look his accuracy at the rim Is um still 55 5 percent of the rim, which has been the same way for the entirety of his playoffs He's wondering wondering if that's really good or really bad That isn't your 28th percentile that same percentage was in the 15th percentile last season So, uh, not very good when it comes to his mid-range jump shot. He's at 35 percent mid-range shooter That's a 41th percentile little less than league average still not very good three pointers in general 27 6 percentile Obviously, I ain't got to tell you that's god awful Only people that are shooting worse from three right now Is isca coral matisse stable james book night That's you don't want to be in the company with these dudes not when it comes to shooting basketballs You don't want to be in the company with those dudes. I'm sorry. That's just not those are not the dudes You want to be messing around with and when it comes to frequency again He gets to the basket better than a lot of people at basketball But he doesn't convert when he's there and his lack of vision hurts him a ton because if i'm guarding rj Barrett or i'm teach or i'm coaching a team that that we're going to get rj barrett I know if he's getting to the basket he has one thing in mind as to put it in the hole and not think otherwise So i'm gonna tell my team that That let's just let's just pack it in a little bit once we see him get that first step I mean if you look at his numbers The defensive numbers are are awful It's actually the one percentile The one percentile y'all I mean that's not all him. I'm looking at how bad the team is defensively when he's on the court There's no there's nobody and basketball That's worse for their team defensively when it comes to points given up per 100 possession Then rj barrett right now I i'm i'm getting all of the stats that i look at to some extent you have to Not take him with a grain of salt, but you have to take him and and Interpret him as you may I don't think he's the worst defensive player in basketball like that That status said hey get his ass off the court because we can't defend a god Actually, I'm sorry. It's not just him The worst when it came comes to these numbers is thais jones It then is julius randall rj, but they share the court together more than almost any duo Possible so when they're on the court together And we ain't getting we ain't getting no stops ladies and we ain't getting no stops That's not who's not supposed to be a tangent about rj barrett But i'm a little bit I would be upset if i'm a nix fan because this off season you had a A opportunity to make a big time decision to go one way or another and you didn't do either of those two things Um, I mean, I know that the cleven the cavaliers came from underneath and swept donovan michu from underneath y'all feet But it was there It was there and you wouldn't had to be thinking about this rj barrett contractor You would have donovan michu who is helping the cleven the cavaliers be one of the best teams of basketball So, um Yeah, that's I mean, I think this off season could be looked at it's like a turning point in their organization depending on what the hell They do this season I mean, they said they want a first round pick for emmanuel quickly. They're trying to sell a 23 year old guard So I don't know exactly what what the cards hold for the nix Um, even though a lot of people want to see tom thibodeau's head on a steak Um, the washington was our team that I think could be sellers But their ownership is so okay with being average that maybe they don't They've been so okay for the history of me being a fan of basketball would just be an eye Have they had a 51 season in the history of their organization? I don't think the answer is yes And if it is yes, it was in the 60s Before them boys determined that bullets was a not a good name for a team You know what I'm saying? So it's been a long time and the ownership is like hell A lot of people buy bradley bill jerseys We still in the playoff and we chilling But in reality, I think that the best thing for their organization is to finally take that that plunge Because their history with drafting when we talk about the seventh to 11th overall pick has been It's been it's been a You know they haven't if I look at the washington wizards There's there's not a name on there that I think that in three years should be on the roster still As in like a building piece You see flash from denny shout out to him the defense is always there, but he doesn't shoot the basketball ever That's why he got his spot taken by was the anthony gale. He doesn't shoot. He's afraid to shoot the basketball He's been Simmons light, but like not paid max money. So who cares Rihachi more of gives you flashes, but it's it's you know They got a lot of weird stuff. They got a lot of weird stuff over there Port Shingis has been good But a lot of weird stuff I mean I'm thinking about their roster if they are going to be sellers. Who's buying what they got I would be hesitant if i'm any of the 29 teams out there to buy brally bale With that contract Like what team would be in the market for brally bale because the nicks say hey, we missed out on dawn of eventually Let's get brally bale that wouldn't satisfy the satisfied the fan base because they're smart nba fans They know the gap between what don't eventually could potentially get you and what brally bale could get you was Big gap No disrespect brally. It's a big gap. That's what I think Um, so what other team will even be interested in something like that? You know the mind and heat is always linked to star players But do they want that when they already gave jimmy bulla's big old contract duck and robber sister from the books They still got tally here on the books. They still got bam out of buy on the books What team would look at brally bale and say yep, we're buying that right now It's not a tongue The dallas mavericks have a case just because they might just want to pair luka with somebody because right now Like today perfect example of this play against to rana rap. So rana rap is missing pasquale ciaca They're missing scotty barns. They're missing Hella people a delano band is still out, which is like the x-factor for every mba team They're missing a lot of people and the Mavericks come in if i'm not mistaken completely healthy. Maybe not but completely healthy is what I want to say and they lost because The raptors decided to throw a double team at luka anytime it's just a ball half court throw a double team We think spencer didn't was a good player, but haven't beat us We think christian was a good player haven't beat us. We'll we'll we'll live Would would anybody else be nuts and not luka? And they just don't have it luka tonight played 30 or 43 minutes of basketball Guess what y'all his ass plays again in less than 24 hours He plays today is y'all watching this video He played 43 minutes against ojana. No being that he is young His goddamn joints are and are inflamed And now he got to go play against yannison company on tv You know, that's that's that's not good, bro. It's just not good and and People always tell me kenny were better than our record shows And I you're probably right. You're probably right the team that was in the conference finals last season But there's a lot to be desired if luka ain't Able in this case. He wasn't able to give you his normal 30 Somebody else got to step up and they haven't had a ton of that this season And and can you with their contracts? Could they convince themselves that the Bradley Beal is the dude maybe And ain't like they got a lot of draft capital to throw washed it But maybe was it don't even give a damn about draft capital. They just want to wash they I don't know I don't know I'm always looking for fake trades though fake trades always for never in the history of my life Have I seen a fake trade that everybody agreed on? This just doesn't happen But bradley, I mean luka deserves a secondary guys. I don't know if it's bradley Actually, I would say that no, it's not bradley if you were to ask me right now But he will be an upgrade from a lot of the other stuff that they got right now Upgrade man because boy. Oh boy um And me and the guys talking about this as well in the podcast Um about the luka dancers problem And it's not because of him because he's just too damn good Where where luka immediately comes into basketball and he is so good as a player That you don't have an opportunity To build through the draft, right? Let me go to the dallas mavericks record by year um record By year, this is what the ramble is by the way. Um, it was supposed to be no cuts But I had to I had to hiccups earlier. So whatever. So um at one point Oh my god Wait, no way. Wait. It's luka on this ross. I'm sorry. We rambling whatever whatever just give me the okay So this is ricky luka the year that that luka was a rookie by the way Um, do I pow let them in and win shares? I'm just saying if you look at the 12 greatest I'm sorry. I got I got to show y'all this I got to show y'all this because this is crazy the 12 greatest The 12 greatest dallas mavericks player of all time. It's dork. It's black man. Whatever Do I pow is number 11 because for two years and then last year He led the team and in win shares This is why I say stats. Don't tell you the whole story Um, but that's absolutely insane. I'm sorry. Okay. It's absolutely the same but So luka donchage the dallas mavericks win 24 games end up getting luka donchage tray with the elana hawks tray y'all go So yada yada yada and then immediately, um, they go up to 33 wins You're like, okay, that's not that big of a jump But they jumped up nine total wins on a season and then you get to the point where they make the playoffs I make the playoffs and they make the conference finals They basically had one year post luka where they were in the lottery Just one year y'all Just one year since he was in the in the league and with the draft pick that they use They drafted. I don't I don't know who Right, so they didn't have the opportunity to do the traditional To do the traditional rebuild where it's like, okay We got a young player palo ben caro for just using them because he was the first overall pick this season palo's an absolute stud But we still gonna lose hella games this year So we got the opportunity to pair him up with another Absolute stud but luka is in the league of his own with him and lebron and maybe some other people in history I can't think about where he in himself is automatically a playoff team As a rook or as a sophomore year player So we don't have the season where we get palo ben caro another top five draft pick and and I think Because the year is previously the year pre luka when they were in the lottery They didn't take advantage of the lottery picks that they had They drafted denise mcjunior who in his rookie season was pretty solid But they found out very early on that they didn't really like the idea of him on the roster and they shipped them off And shout out to him for being back. Um, and they they just Haven't been able to build through the draft post or pre him And now it's going to be hard to do it post him and we were trying to figure out How how do you do it now then? How do you do it now then because you look at the top teams in basketball? Let's let's get a good example The bosses celtics, you know, they had some down years They had some years where they finessed other organizations and that's how you get jaylon brown and jason tatum Um, but they built through the draft marcus smart is through the draft the jays are through the draft Robert Williams is through the draft the bucks drafting yannis 15, but it took 14 15 whatever It took the bucks a few years post drafting yannis And they had those other moves But those other moves weren't necessarily through the draft Yeah, the bucks team isn't built through the draft necessarily it's through Buying in on players buying low on players. They bought low on brick Lopez They bought low on chris middleton They paid for drew and it worked out. They won a championship But that's one of the teams that they didn't do it through the draft, but instead They uh, that's that's very interesting. Okay. Um, but like the phoenix sons Did it through the draft draft the devil booker had a couple other bad years and I say end up with mckelbridge You get you end up with the andre and then you do the trade. We talk about that already the different nuggets did it through the dry like They don't have an opportunity to talk about the dallas malvis again to do it through the draft So the guys are like, hey morgue is the entire future. Just do it luka signed an extension so you know you got him on the contract for the next couple seasons But we're in the we're in the era of player empowerment ladies and gentlemen we're luka sat in this extension next season he could say uh I'm done with dallas. We doubt it. I'm not I'm not putting that out there knocking on wool for them They got a generation player. You don't want him to ever be upset But crazier things have happened. You know what I'm saying player empowerment is a crazy crazy thing The the league offices are high five in each other because we locked this player up for a long time. Nope kevin arant had four years left on his deal. He said train me or fire steve nash They listen to him eventually. You know what I'm saying player empowerment is a crazy thing So you so the guys like hey morgue is the entire future Because we want to just make sure that we get the because luka right now is playing some elite level basketball Let's be reasonable. He's average at 30 plus points per game is nvp candidate every single season He's an all nba first team or he's 24 if that like he's been that goddamn good morgue is the future because the picks that we have as long as luka stays healthy And he doesn't have no crazy history and no injuries as long as he stays healthy That was picks at 24 25 26 though the business to somewhere else Let's go buy in on somebody that we believe is the perfect fit from luka and they try to do the very early in luka's career They went to go get poor ziggas and I thought in the moment the poor ziggas trade looked like a dub They gave up some pieces. They gave up some draft capital poor ziggas little stretch the floor allow luka to get down He if he wanted to boom It didn't work They sold poor ziggas for practically nothing at last year's trade online not practically nothing special then we Damn it a second best player this season So they they sold him for something that seemed like nothing in the moment because special then we was having a bad season They watched him and that's how bad the experiment of poor ziggas and luka was I don't know what it was like in the locker room, but on the court. It was a lot to be desired so so I also do believe that luka is one of those players and his young a so like You he might be how do I say this without seeming like a jackass. He might be one of those players That's that you need the perfect co-star around him You know how like some players are so good or so not just good But play style is so There that you can pair them with almost any other song basketball and you think that they're going to be good Kevin Durant is the perfect portable star He's the perfect portable star Where it don't matter if he got me and edmund sumner Or stef curry and clay thompson He gonna get his and he gonna help that team be elite I don't know if lukas on that level, especially not in this in this young age I don't know if it's portability if we talking about crafty nba.com statistics or um, yes a statistic, right? I don't know if his portability is as high as what a kevin durant might be so It's a very interesting place for The dallas mavericks to be they should definitely definitely be buyers Whatever they end up doing be buyers and just let things fall into place Um, I don't know if I talked about anything right now and I there's honestly three other topics I'm looking at that I should get to But we're 40 minutes in and this is basically turned into a podcast It wasn't the intention, but that's what the rem was about