 What's the word y'all welcome back to me rambling about basketball with absolutely no notes We have to stress that absolutely no notes We're in the last day of the regular season and everything matters y'all look at today's later game starting at the very early boom Noon my time to the very late 9 o'clock. We have nothing but NBA basketball It's a beautiful day for the Sunday man and every single game matters whether it be for playoff seating or lottery odds And my team is in the lottery for what the fifth year in a row fourth year in a row We're down bad every single game matters We only have three out of the 20 potential playoff seedings secured Three out of 20 and that's exactly what Adam Silver and the team of NBA people Wanted when they thought about this play in last year or I guess technically this year for the first time for full season That every game would matter and here we are here. We are going through that So you're looking at me like can you are you making this video now and I'm waiting until after these games complete You can talk about the play you can talk about the playoffs We're gonna do that, too But I want to take a step back and look at this season as a whole without any notes I feel like this video will be amazing if the host of this video cared enough to do research and write notes and write a script Hey other youtubers 2k youtubers Oh, I guess NBA youtubers if you want a good video idea take a look at this regular season as a whole and write a Script and grade it about how fun I guess how fun or how enjoyable it was because that's what I'm doing Without any notes. I think this season started off with the bank Start off an absolute bang With the James Harden trade, you know James Harden one of the greatest players of our era teams up with two of the other greatest players of our era and Well, they put form this super team in Brooklyn and I'm gonna say this now And I could be eating these words or whatever in a month or two. I Feel like there's parody in the NBA Can you how I was at parody if Katie Kyrie and James Harden all play for the same team because we haven't seen a play What is it nine games technically today is going to be the tenth game they've ever played together as a whole And maybe if they played a whole season or a majority of the season there would be no parody But I'm gonna say it there is multiple teams out there that I believe can win a championship other than the Brooklyn Nets So that's amazing as far as playoffs go But that trade happened and well it set a lot of things into gear The Brooklyn Nets became a legitimate a this team is super super serious Even though they were playing really well before the trade and then the Houston Rockets got set into A major major tank and they are sitting at are they the worst team in the league? They are the worst team in the league by a few games. So shout out to them because They're winning for their own standards And that that trade just matters so much. It's going to be one of the biggest trades in NBA history I was watching or listening to Jackie McMullen. I think it was on bill Simmons podcast a couple weeks ago and she had said This year has a lower injury rate than any of the previous couple seasons And I'm on the plane when I'm listening to this I don't have wi-fi so I can't look it up for myself and I still haven't looked it up And I thought to myself There's no way Every single team a majority of teams out here suffered from a major injury Or health and safety protocol and that's what I'm thinking about now And when she said those statistics, there's no way they could have been incorporated health and safety protocols Because every team got hit dramatically this season and when you think about that That's what's probably preventing this season from being a really really good regular season because so many players Miss time. I'm just looking at the standings in front of me. The 76ers miss Joel and B Joel and B was the MVP favorite through the first couple months of the season He gets injured and boom yokas continues to blossom and now yokas is going to win an MVP award this year The brooklyn nets makes a make a trade for james harden. Uh, oh Kevin arant gets injured a bunch Cary Irvin is getting injured a bunch and now james harden misses a significant amount of time the bucks In the next they have been relatively relatively healthy this season The hawks miss click a pellet for a good chunk of the season same thing with john collins The Celtics the paces and the raptors are three teams We thought were staples to be competitive teams this season All three of them got decimated from health and safety protocols and injury their best player The Celtics best player jays to say to miss two weeks and they had to come back with an inhaler after never having breathe the problems Because they held to save the protocols. So every single team the the wizards miss a whole two weeks as an organization So jacky mcmullet, there's no way that statistic is counting how to save the protocol Which is even more impactful than injury if you ask me like injury and all these things have been so big Because the Lakers went on the win a championship last year in the bubble and they get even better They get matres hero didn't shrewd or mark us all they get an even deeper team than a team that just won a championship And they should be on this victory sweet victory run And they're the seventh seed right now. They might be into playing because of what? Because of injuries because lebron missed significant time because anthony davis missed significant time And and I and I think a lot of that has to do with them trying to fit a 72 game season Into such a small amount of time the second half of the season Was three games and four nights four games and five nights I think it might be the spurs right there a team right now towards the bottom of the west That I was I was listening they were like man, this team is on four games in five nights Just three years ago the nba was doing everything they could to try to get rid of as many back-to-back as possible And they were like no this year. We need we need them back. We need back to back to back We need all the travel imaginable and it took a toll Man, one of my favorite teams this nba season the the different nuggets It's and though they stay extremely competitive extremely competitive at the jamal murray injury Probably won't win a championship or really be considered contenders because they had a Significant injury this could have been the year for them. They legitimately could have been to the year for them But because of injury they won't have that Next year though the way migraport adjunct is playing in jamal murray. Come on. Whatever whatever This is a whole um hasn't had that many Significant moments that I could think of off the top of my head We have the oscar robertson in pass by russell westbrook, which is beautiful. That's an all-time all-time moment Um, we have jokers doing everything he can do steve curries run, but other than that It feels like the games that should matter haven't lived up to the hype and that goes into my next point Which is the highest margin of victory in nba history was this season The highest margin of victory in nba history was this season. I think it's like 12.8 Is a margin of victory, which is insane I think it's for the last couple years has stayed around a 10 to 11 So it's not that much of an increase for many other season But it is higher and that that has to be in adam silvers head because yeah Maybe this could be an anomaly season or maybe this is the way the nba is going because every single team is running the same exact Do I sound like an old head yet same exact system are we going to shoot as many throws as possible, bro Some days we're going to hit some days we're going to miss Oh, we're going to miss today that other team that we're going against running the same system and they're hitting So now we're losing by 20 even though we might have been the favor going into this game We just didn't have it tonight We didn't have it tonight And I don't know if that's a problem for adam silver in the league as a whole or maybe it wasn't anomaly But listen the last couple weeks remember the video I made Said that hey the playoffs are officially here because we're fighting for this you miss this game And you drop down from the fourth seat to the seventh seat I made a video just telling the world that the playoffs have unofficially started because every game matters and it did matter But it did it because I was having trouble It really enjoying a lot of the games of the last week or so because yes, there's extreme playoff implications here But oh, it's a 20 point game in the act going into half. Oh Okay margin of victory is great and and I guess that plays to a part that the NBA is such a talent to league We have more people averaging 20 than any time before that could go into pace That could go into of course the three-point shooting We have so many people averaging 20 points per game and that's here's a shameless plug to my show called game That's when I had Richard jefferson on on the podcast I was like telling the world like this man averaged 20 points per game in an error where there were not 40 people Averaging 20 points per game now in today's I'm going to points per game right now I I legitimately have to see how many players in the NBA are averaging over 20 points per game because it's it's the highest It's ever been um, and I'm bad at looking at statistics. There are 31 players in the NBA Averaging 20 or more points per game and a lot of people on the borderline forever I believe is very close to buy his hairs is very close But so many people are averaging over 20 points per game. So that's I was like man rj bro. You average 20 when it was maybe only 15 to 17 people averaging 20, you know what I'm saying? How many times in these ramble videos have you seen a cut in the edit? Literally zero. This is the first time it's ever happened. Um, but I just want to get back to my initial thing I want to ask y'all how much have you enjoyed this NBA season? Because I can see it a couple different ways, you know what I'm saying because of course we're super happy to even be um To have the NBA, you know what I'm saying to have the NBA right now But I can also see Fans being like bro It wasn't that fun And and the playoffs can save all the like I said, there might be parity the western conference playoffs I I feel like it's going to be hard not to pick six and seven for every Single round starting from the beginning That's how stacked the western conference and in the eastern commons Maybe maybe a little bit less than that. Um, and the playoffs can really save this season and really do something I'm excited to see what the Ratings of today's games are and what the ratings of the playing games are because at the end of the day That's all it's about. It's getting NBA fans engaged for this little moment. Um So I'm excited to see what that's about And yeah, did I did I make any good points in today's video? Oh, you know what a point that I saw or that I looked up myself. So yes, I was I was my own source This is the first time since 2015 That james harden Hasn't had a legendary performance And when I say legendary performance, I mean a top 100 performance of all time The first time since 2015 that he didn't do it at all And of course that's because he was injured for majority this season, but the first time And like half a decade where he didn't have a game that would go down in history as one of the top 100 games of all time That is insane that shows you how good james harden is by the way That's that's that's and how much of an iron man He has been for his entire career because he could just come out every single game Whether he was in the club the night before and drop a 50 point triple double hasn't really happened Will it happen in the playoffs? Maybe he's back man. He's back. Um So, yeah, we'll talk about the play in and all those things and I'll get y'all questions for that tomorrow Leave a like go watch call game shameless plug again. It helps the channel out a lot We had matt barnes on the previous episode and thaddeus youngers on the next one if i'm not mistaken So go watch that um and leave a like on this video. Thanks. Bye