 What's the word y'all welcome back to the call game recap We are just a few days away from the official called game show launching on this channel So do not be surprised when this channel is rebranded from Kenny for real to call games a project We're working on for a long time. We'll talk about that later because we had a lot of basketball today I love these days where the game started off very early We can just sit down and just watch hoops all day long and well though We didn't have a lot of like super incredible super great games I do have a lot to talk about be sure to leave a like subscribe if you are new I had a hard time trying to figure out if the top of this show should we should be talking about the trailblazers? Or should we talk about the Washington Wizards? We will get to both But I think everyone start off with the Portland trailblazers because well, they are struggling They lose tonight to the Memphis Grizzlies who I got to give a lot of love to I've mentioned There's plenty of times with to be on this channel or any of my other channels with my podcast I'm a big fan of what the Memphis Grizzlies are building over there. I mean, it's good to see Jaren Jackson back I know he didn't play tonight But good to see him back on the court the other day putting up 20 points and that one Jamma rant has been shooting 52% from three this month, which is insane If he can somehow obviously he's not gonna shoot He's not gonna shoot 52 for an entire season But if he becomes a a respectable three-point shooter, oh the league is in a lot of trouble Just one of the deepest teams in the league Jonas Valentino suit super crazy good game for him as well And well, let's now transition to the Portland trailblazers Go win for the Memphis Grizz a big one for their playoff hopes their playoff chances But a bad loss for the Portland trailblazers, man They are they are really in a hole right now as in the last 10 games They are two and eight and currently on a five game losing streak It's hard to watch this game today And I think about Damian Lillard playing through some injuries and is at the point now Because he's in this slump since he's come back from his injuries probably better off that he sits the next couple games out To get completely healthy or get closer to completely healthy because out there. He's just not the Damian Lillard We know I did a video on the main channel I was ranking NBA teams and how fun and how enjoyable they are Well, the reason why the Portland trailblazers were relatively high on that list is because of Damian Lillard now Damian Lillard It's not the Damian Lillard from first half of the season There's no reason to watch this team because they are super underwhelming going into the season I was so high on them because they made the trade for Robert Covington I'm like man Robert Covington could really help them out Dear Jones Jr. was a great defensive player for the Miami Heat and the one thing that they really lack was his wing depth His wing defense especially since Moe Harkless and Alfred Camino were gone. So they added these two players I'm like, yes now Damian CJ can do what they do. They have reliable defenders. You some knurkets will be back And hopefully he's healthy for a complete season and they have been extremely underwhelming I understand a part of this is because CJ missed a bulk of the season but even since CJ has been back when they've been back and I guess if you're really paying attention to the events analytics and things you can you could have saw this coming Because even when they were 10 games over 500 I remember looking because we were doing the show and they had a negative plus minus or negative net rating And the reason they were winning a lot of those games is because Damian Lillard had been so incredible in the currents time They were just not losing close games Well that has changed and they're starting to lose close games and now they're back to earth the team that they were Projected to be even when they were really good and you gotta really think about some of the moves The team has made recently Norma Powell, of course, Norma Powell is a good NBA player I am not disputing that but his fit alongside CJ and Damian Lillard is a bit iffy You're starting three players that are 6-3 and smaller and though Norman Powell is not a terrible defender He's 6-3 playing a small forward position This is a team not thought was gonna be better defensively and they've been one of the worst offensive teams in the entire The entire league it doesn't help that Carmelo Anthony is coming off the bench And this is no mellow slander, but we know in his old age He's not a good defender They brought in Ronnie Hollis-Jefferson to play a couple minutes because they just need defenders and he just can't do that They're back up center. It's been a negative on defense his entire career They just can't defend anything Damian Lillard is not the MVP player He had been the entire season because he's coming back from an injury and those are recipes for disaster I haven't even got to the coach Today was so weird and I know they're the bulk of of Portland Trailblazer fandom is very pro fire Terry Stotz And I understand it, but I'm not deep into what the trailblazers are doing every day Of course, I watch games, but I'm not analyzing every single game Especially when there's four on at the same time, but I completely understand it today when I was watching this Memphis Grizzly game There's a situation when they had to end bound the ball They have two timeouts late in this game and it is a closed game They had low key starting to make a little bit of comeback the Grizzlies were kind of Blowing a lead like they kind of did the last a couple games in the last couple weeks So they're starting to do this little comeback from the trailblazers Norman Powell hits a shot they get the ball back They need to get the ball in and with two timeouts left in the late game situation that is close Terry Stotz allows his player who was inbound in the ball to turn the ball over when he's getting close to the five-second count instead of using a timeout I Honestly Couldn't believe it and I was waiting for the post game interview for somebody to ask him the question and and from what I saw Nobody asked him the question. Why the hell didn't you use a timeout in that situation? I don't know and and when I do watch his his post game interviews. It just feels like This is a this is a coach whose job has been secure strictly based off his star player loving him The only reason Terry Stotz has a job right now in 2021 is because Damien Lillard a couple years ago was like no we ride him with Terry And how are you gonna tell your superstar player your MVP caliber player? They were firing his coach the coach that he loved so dearly I think the Damien Lillard needs to come to the realization that yeah We've hit a ceiling with the way this team has performed and with this guy as our coach and And if things continue to go like this because if we take a look at the standings well think they're they're falling Dramatically, they were the fourth seed not too long ago. They are down to the seventh seed They're in the play-in at the moment and if they go or they don't make the playoffs or then the playoffs They get destroyed by the one see yada yada yada They have to come to the realization that Terry Stotz is not the guy and they may have to come to a deeper Realization that maybe the backcourt of CJ and Dame has reached the ceiling the conference finals run for a few years ago Might have been the ceiling of this team because there are things wrong with it Now I could see them going into the offseason be like hey We're firing Terry We're gonna run it back with the same roster and then we'll decide whether we make some roster changes But the idea of trading CJ for for a wing just makes the most sense for a lot of teams or for a lot of people And I'm in that camp too You know I'm saying it is it is hard to be a successful NBA team when you have a small backcourt It just is it just is so I'm super curious about with their future holds I want to take a look at the rest of their schedule because right now like I mentioned there the seventh See that there's some teams beneath them. That's creeping on up. They got the Indiana Pacers the Memphis Grizzlies again Oh my god, how many times they gonna play against the Grizzlies um Brooklyn Boston Atlanta than Cleveland They have a tough stretch now Of course Damien Lillard can turn it on if he's back healthy and win a bunch of these games But it feels unlikely because when I watched them the boys play today He was really really out there struggling again shout to Memphis Grizzlies big time went for them They're three games over 500 and they are I'm excited to see how they play in the playoffs man As of right now, they are the eight seed against the little play in but these last couple positions for the Western Conference I'm pretty sure the Western Conference playoffs are set. These are the 10 teams You're gonna get it's just about the seeding right now because the Lakers are just a game and a half over the Mavericks, which is crazy But LeBron will come back eventually and then the 7 through 10 are all within two games And as I'm recording this video the Warriors just officially won a game So maybe the stands a little bit differently, but those last couple plays Really matter because at the current state of the trailblazers They only have to win one game to secure their spot in the playoffs But if they drop a little bit more they have to get to two wins and two wins is super hard on the win now Situation so I'm curious to how things work and hopefully by the playoffs They've been losing completely healthy then everything I'm sending this video don't really matter Let's transition to the next game And I know I will get to everything I talked about or I watched today But I need to talk about the Washington Wizards because they are the hottest team of basketball right now Or one of the hottest teams of basketball because the Knicks are still going They're in a game win streak the Knicks are on the nine and they win another game with the Cleveland Cavaliers before I talk about the Wizards Let me give my roses to the Cleveland Cavaliers Because their backcourt has been really good recently. There was no there's no college sexes So there's a lot of there's garland play and in this month There is garland shooting like 50% from the field 50% from three and he's averaging like 24 points per game It is crazy how much he has improved from year number one year number two and somebody on Twitter put this in perspective for me And this is why I love everybody on Twitter that be replying to my tweets because y'all be having Observations that I don't even really think about the man play just a handful of college basketball games It was less than five from not mistaken. There's no summer league play for him He just get thrown into the NBA and he's bad and in all my podcast we talked about it a bunch last season He was the worst defensive player in the league according to advanced analytics and it doesn't help that he's super small Right that the worst defensive backcourt in the entire NBA this season things have changed dramatically and a lot of that's probably Do because of the timetable. He's finally healthy for the first time in his career And that's something I didn't really think about when I'm watching this team play He has been amazing and I think it was coach JB bicker staff that was like bro You're good at shooting threes Darius shoot him more And this year he's getting to the basket way more than it did last year He's actually shooting less threes this year than he was last year even though he's way more efficient this year I understand what JB is saying shoot those threes a little bit more because he had a bunch of big-time shots in this game Now he did show his age late into it and that's probably why they lost He had a couple crucial turnovers bad shots here and there but overall There is Garland's game when it comes to transitioning from year one to year two He's got to be one of the most improved rookie to sophomore players in this entire draft for sure So shout to them. I'm still a bit concerned about their size when it comes to three years down in line with Colin section The Dearest Garland are both really great. They could they could be the same thing the Portland Trailblazers are right now We're like, yes, these two these two guards are amazing and they play well together But it's probably a ceiling with these guys in your front in your backcourt because they are so small But they are counteracting that with good defensive players outside of that Jared Allen had an amazing game. Only thing is He's super young. He's got to get better at recognizing things that are Around him that's not just going straight up and ducking the ball You know what I'm saying? Sometimes he gets the ball and he's trying to figure out what to do when he takes so long It's a turnover or he telegraphs his passes a turnover, but he's got a lot of time and of course He's a great defensive player and um and okoro projects to be very very good He's already good now There's a lot of possesses in this game where he switched on the Russell Westbrook and he prevented Russell Westbrook from getting to the Basket, so he's already a good defender and that's a lot of Cavaliers love and the other day in the video I was wearing my sex land shirt. So y'all know I'm watching these games But we do have to talk about the Washington Wizards this season now I saw I heard the statistic on on the mismatch with Kevin O'Connor and Chris Verna shout out to the homies Can I count them as homies? I don't know But they both follow me on Twitter. So technically, yeah, they're homies They were talking about the watch the Wizards and they're up and down season because you do not remember early in the season They're ass Bradley bill is on the bench. She's showing bad body language. He's on the bench She's he couldn't believe that he's on his team and I'm I'm here talking about Bradley bill free yourself free yourself My guy things have changed dramatically and and right now they're in a game win streak And a part of that is because they have the easier schedule in the league But you also still have to win those games. They don't matter who you're going against It's a little NBA roster at the end of the day We just saw the Milwaukee Bucks almost pretty much fully healthy lose to a tray young list Atlanta Hawks The NBA is silly NBA and though you have an easy schedule you still have to put together those wins So I'm listening to the mismatch And I talk about how for the first half of the season before the trade that line the Washington was just one of the worst Defensive teams in the league. I think they were 26 27th since the trade that line. They are second Do you hear that? They are second in the league defensively Who what a thought a team that is playing Davis Bertin's heavy minutes a second They're starting raw NATO in the backcourt because they just don't have enough bodies. They are second What is the determinant factor? It is Daniel Gafford now He doesn't get all the love for this because Russell Westwood Bradley bill I decided to turn it up to but Daniel Gafford at the center position has been Dramatically like when they lost Thomas Bryant a lot of things were lost You know what I'm saying because then you were lying or Robin Lopez you signed Alex Lane Yeah, like you're missing a lot when you lose Thomas Bryant and they make the trade at the trade that line Every Bulls fan that watched Daniel Gafford for the first year and a half of his career Knew that Daniel Gafford was going to be a good NBA player. The only problem is in Chicago He was never going to be given the full lease or the he was gonna he was on a leash He was on a very short lease and the way he plays a game of basketball He's very dependent on his point guard being able to throw him lobs He is very dependent on his point guards to find him on the roll. He's playing a Russell Westwood now Russell Westwood got Stephen Adams paid set a hard screen Play some defense and you're gonna get paid if you're playing a Russell Westbrook and it's Daniel Gafford Now I'm not giving all of Daniel Gafford success to Russell Westbrook because he does still have to set the hard screens He does have to give all the energy that he always does But Russell Westbrook dramatically makes the Daniel Gafford that we saw in spurts in Chicago is being on full display With the Washington Wizards and they're winning a bunch of games I've been seeing a lot of people try to think about the long-term future for the Washington Wizards because they can't trade Any draft picks they got Russell Westbrook as contract. They got Bradley Beale here They don't have a ton of young pieces other than Daniel Gafford And then of course, we're really high she bore when he's back from his injury. I don't really want to project about their future I just think that the fans should be excited about them being a playoff team They're the 10 C right now and honestly, I think the bulls added as race The Raptors may not be out of it They're finally starting to get a little bit healthy But it feels like the watch the Wizards with their scouts are going forward We'll probably be guaranteed the 10 seed is a 10 seed enough for them to end up in the actual playoffs I don't really know but it'll be hard to bet against Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beale in a one game elimination situation So we'll see how they go. So it's out to the for them. It's out to them for continuing to go The Bucks lost the game against the Trey Youngless Atlanta Hawks I don't know what to make about the Bucks this season I know this is a back-to-back game where they had to fly into Atlanta I completely understand that sometimes you get those scheduled losses But even then losing to the Hawks without Trey Young is not it's not great I don't know what to make of them. You know I'm saying because I understand that this team is is a contender type team I don't know if I trust them to be that, you know, I'm saying maybe they're in my mind They might be a pretender and it's not because of this game I don't want people taking this out of context, but this is this entire season They they still haven't figured it out and a lot of that's probably coach But I don't know how you have as many great defensive players that they have on this team And they still allow boat allow bogey to just go out there destroy Still allow Lou Williams to turn up in a fourth quarter fourth quarter Lou They have too many great defenders for things like that to happen as often as it does So given love to Atlanta Hawks I mean Nate McMillan when you when you talk about coaches and their imprint on teams This is insane like that's one of the biggest questions How much the coaching really matter when you look at a team like the Atlanta Hawks It matters a lot because this is not a game that that Lloyd Pierce wins It's just not it's not a game Lloyd Pierce wins bogey goes insane Lou Williams didn't score until the fourth quarter where he put a 15 and they win the game. It's just a beautiful thing. I'm looking at the mix. I'm looking at the Wizards I'm looking at the Atlanta Hawks I'm looking at all these teams that are having runs or playing very good right now as a Bulls fan Everybody else is great and we're just sitting there like what's this the squint were mean when he's looking out the window That's how I feel right now I'm watching the rest of the league Next we have the the Charlotte Hornets win in the game against the Celtics I knew the first two minutes into this game that the Hornets were taking this game The body language from the cap the Celtics were terrible from the very first couple possesses I think it was Jason Tatum who turned the ball over on like the first minute or so And it was just like dad in the water from that moment on but shout out to the Charlotte Hornets for making as many shots as they did I love to see Miles Bridges mic'd up because he's becoming one of my favorite role players in the entire league Terrell's year I've given them a lot of roses so far this season the this team is really good man I can't wait to they're completely healthy because I don't think people want to see them in a seven-game series I wouldn't expect them to get out of the first round But they're not gonna lose in four like a lower C typically does in the playoff series So set out to them. I don't know what to say about the next versus sons I watch this entire game I don't have a single thing to take away other than Stephen Curry Oh, no, we'll talk about Steph Curry other than Kyrie Irvin is great and Kevin Arrant is Unguardable what else can I say about that game? And then lastly we have the Warriors versus the Kings I waited for the end of this game to record this video So that's my boy Reese for the big-time game, but he healed from with the bag Literally when they had a possession where Steph Curry turned the ball over on the double team He's need of the basket the win the game and he missed it Steph Curry missing three free throws and why he's shooting 90% for his career is kind of weird But he did there's a lot of times I'm watching the Warriors play and it just feels like Steph Curry and a bunch of like And I guess that's what this team is Just a lot of possesses bro set out to Dreymon. I think he had it like a 19 assist game They're the night he backs it up with an 8.13 assists 14 rebound game and Kelly Ubrace been a lot better recently than compared to the beginning of the season Still love wants to Scott. Oh Anderson the energy that he gives and that is all the gay is for today Yeah, it was great. It was it was good. It was a good slate of games. Have we been talking for 17 minutes? It's the longest recap video ever, but I guess I had a lot to talk about Call game Wednesday, I don't know exactly what time I've meeting in the morning to determine the time But I'm a super excited for y'all to see this. I just hope that y'all enjoy it I think I'm gonna do a Q&A on like twitch on Twitter and sort of bunch of questions I know I've been very vague about what this project is and to answer this simple question It is an interview based show where I'm having NBA players and people in the media and yada yada on the show Just talk about hoops talk about players careers But even deeper than that, I don't know what this show looks like in a month You know what I'm saying like I I want to continue to evolve the show as I learn how to interview and how I learn How to talk to new people that makes sense So episode one is a banger I tell you that was episode one was a banger and I'm excited for y'all to see that We actually dropping a teaser tomorrow so follow the call game on Twitter. That's pretty much it I'll see y'all some call game. I can't believe this went 18 minutes