 What's the word y'all welcome back to the called game recap. Yes, that is what we are calling it right now because I'm Terrible with names, and I'm very literal this this is called game, and this is a recap you give me Okay, you get me leave it like subscribe. Let's talk about some basketball Um, there are a lot of games today, and obviously when there are six games going on at the same time I have to compromise so there will be games today they get zero seconds of conversation today because I gave them Zero seconds of watch time. Okay. I'm gonna start off talking about LeBron James and the LA Lakers um yesterday's episode we were talking about um, Joe Ellen B and his loss with against the Portland Trailblazer How how good of a player he is and why he's one of my top two MVP candidates as of right now 25 games in though I think LeBron gets my MVP vote You know, there's still 50 games left for the season so anything can change in those 50 games But I think as of right now LeBron probably gets my MVP vote and and here's why LeBron has always put up the pretty much the same stat line It's entire career right you can expect 25 7 7 on average if he does to give you that it's a bad game for LeBron James But correct me if I'm wrong here And maybe this is because just recently by us because last year feels so long ago Because Yannis was my MVP last year Then I had LeBron number two this year the reason he is number one because the first 20 so Games I feel like there are so many more moments for LeBron Where they'd be a great defensive play in an overtime game or a great shot in a double overtime game Or like today where a team come out struggling out the gate Going into the third quarter. He comes out and scores like 12 points by himself Those are like the individual moments. I'm not saying he didn't have that last year But just 20 or so games into this season it feels like they are They are more more frequent And this is another year other than I mean because they've been in so many overtime games over the last week or so His his minutes per game has gone up But before that he was having a historically low minutes per game season He's been able to incorporate that three point shot And if he could continue to shoot at this this caliber as a three pointer at about 40 percent I mean him at 36 There's no there's no saying how good he can still be at 39 40 if he can really take he's shooting seven three point attempts A game this year and he's shooting 40 percent on that seven. He's never been able to do something like that in his career So his moments seem bigger at the moment Maybe I'm wrong here. Let me know in the comment section Um, this is a big game for them, especially when national tv They come out getting they ass is spanked at one point I looked over and it was 22 to 2 and again, like I said, there's so many games going on at the same time When I see 2022 they kind of lose my interest a little bit So I focus in on utah versus milwauki a little bit and and there are there was a moment because I love watching these games with The homies, uh, we be in a discord chat and my boy, uh, my boy, um derrick was like Anthony davis, what are you doing? I look up because his his tv's is a little bit ahead of mine And I see anthony davis has tyus jones on his back But instead of, you know, scoring on tyus jones, he kicks it out to alice caruso And then anthony davis cranked it up Which is a good thing because for the most part anthony davis has had a very quiet season I'm offensively at least he's had his big games here and there today was a big game when it's 35 He's had his big games here and there. I remember one in chicago, of course Um, but for the most part he's been very very quiet today He got to the free throw line four times that is unheard of for god Like anthony davis But the in this game especially later on, um, I think richard jeffison did a great job Of pointing it out where like taylor jinkins and the the miffus grizzers went to the zone that For some reason had jammer ran in the zone guarding the space of anthony davis And they were just they were taking advantage of that taking advantage of that calcuzmo 2010 game Very good game for them very good game for them I'm still I'm still a huge fan of everything miffus is doing man I understand this is another loss for them, but jammer ran is still super fun to watch Um grace and now they have so many players on the team that Like you would think of players that maybe other teams wouldn't have given the chance, right? Like similar to like the miami heat, but maybe not to that caliber where they have players like um grace and now there's avia tilman john conchar Desmond bane fell in the draft even though he didn't play today And I think it was because of injury and not because there's no reason for him not to play as desmond bane He's been lighting it up. They have so many players um of that like Chip on the shoulder Nobody wanted me players and I like rooting it rooting for those dudes, you know what I'm saying grace and now He's six threes today. They just couldn't put it together completely The lakers have this switch that they've turned on every single night where they won't play basketball for the first half And then they're like y'all ready? All right, let's go Who and then they'll they'll clap up and start putting putting shots in the basket. So um and in the long term It's probably not the best idea because for lebron to be putting up 40 minutes a game Of the pad the past week or so going to double over times against teams that are far inferior to you Maybe not the best strategy, but again, it leads to those great lebron jane's moments Maybe that's what lebron is saying to his teammates. Hey, let's keep this close bro So I can hit this shot I need this MVP award because I think he was really upset about not winning last year But that's why I want to say about that one. We had the timbers going against these charlin hornets I'll spend a couple seconds here I love NBA players that are able to change the narrative about them similar to what we've had for andrew wiggins Right andrew wiggins for his entire career. He was nothing on defense and this season He has changed that narrative He is a plus defender if you ask me another guy that has changed his narrative is terry roger When terry roger was leaving boston and he got that contract with the charlin hornets Everybody's like charlie just paid for a shot chucker guy who will never be able to contribute to like winning basketball Again, I think I think overall nba meter is so bad So so bad at those type of things is writing the player off because of something they did in the past But terry roger over the last couple games has been ridiculous 41 points today one shy of his career high The other game he had like 34. So he had six threes Like he continues to just be more than what the label was strong on him when he got to charlin And it's changing things up a little bit. I remember charlin hornets fans I follow a few on twitter They were more talking about like the future backcourt for this team. Is it davante gramma lamella ball? Is it tearos here lamella ball? And a lot of them made the two that I follow came to the realization that um tearos just powered the i-man out But he's making it hard man This this three-guard lineup has been looking pretty solid in the few games they have played together And um, and they they get the win the thing I have to say though Not the about the minnesota timbles, bro The card thing towns are still getting his way back into the swing of things shout out to me league beastly Um and and and and for having big games But there shouldn't be a point Where it's a close game and we get Multiple possessions where car anthony towns doesn't even get a look at the basket Multiple possessions where though malik visa had a very good game where he just came up to court and in four seconds Put up a shot this ball should be going through car anthony towns on every possession Especially in a close game where like in that fourth quarter before they iced him out There was nothing they could do about it was nothing the charlin hornets could do to guard him But there was like four to five possessions late in this fourth quarter where car anthony towns didn't get the ball And i'm like bro give give him a goddamn ball and then uh, joshie kogi literally doesn't do anything I feel like he's just doing cardio every single game the spurs. I love watching the spurs I told y'all a few weeks ago. We are buying all the kelton johnson stock and it continues to rise um, this game was way way um More of a gap than the final score the final score ended 125 to 114 But I promise you this is a 40 point win I don't care at the last fourth court the whole fourth quarter was garbage time If you ask me the whole fourth quarter is garbage time um, and the reason why I do like watching these spurs teams so so much is because Typically teams have like lineups that are bad, right? And I don't know if the advanced stats will not back me up here whatsoever, but like we're not Talking about my chicago bulls, right our bench though. We have some good bench players. They're still lineups. We're like It just won't work long term You know I'm saying like you put those lineups in for three to four minutes of games Just so you're starting to get a breather the spurs backups and different lineups that they run can be just as good as their starters That's how good that's how deep of a team they have now Yes, they don't have like the superior all-star calibur player The mark is going to get some consideration this season But they don't have like that takeover player But like they have so many good mid tier players and when they're all rolling is is really really good Derrick white and the jonte murray in the backcourt is clamping on everything and they're hitting shots Lani walker off the bench. I really gave did not have a good game But we know we're really gay can bring off the bench. They don't need to mark us all just anymore So i'm very curious to how he gets played when he comes back from his injury Um, or if there even is a market for him if some team would be willing to trade for him But he is I don't want to say he's done with but he has not looked good this season I'll just leave it at that. He hasn't looked good this season whatsoever And then the hawks where they lost by 40 if you ask me Nashi televised game luke puts up his career high in a game where it looked like it was porzingis's game, right? He comes out. He hits what five threes in the first quarter They don't know how to defend that and luke was like, I'm sorry to ran on your parade porzingis Um, yeah, I'm gonna put on my career high very efficiently and it was it was amazing to watch Um, he's just one of those dudes that when he has it going on you got it He's must see tv Um, but porzingis having another good game and if i'm not mistaken This team has really got themselves back on track after a couple weeks ago We were really talking about how they were struggling four straight wins for them They are at the 10th c right now, especially with the king's losing tonight So a very good win for them. Um, and it's good to see. It's very good to see now the palace Zion was 11 for 11 11 for 12 in the first half and finished with 15 shot attempts and I don't know what he said in that locker room for his teammates to ice him out But they did There's no excuse for especially a guy like him because everybody watching this game knows what he wants to do So you can't say oh the mavericks play really good defense on him. No, they just didn't give him the ball Give him the ball until it doesn't work anymore Give him the ball until he misses two shots or three You know, I don't understand how he goes from being the most efficient first half and almost NBA history To not even getting shots in the second half It makes no sense whatsoever And I feel like eric eric blezzo is a couple games away from tweet and I don't want to be here anymore And him getting shipped out. Um, but give give zion the ball, bro He there's no reason for him to only have 15 shot attempts The bulls lose to the clippers where kawaii liner is virtually unguardable The bulls desperately need the team to get healthy a sentence that I have said every single week of my life over the past three years Um, but I think window card is coming back next game to guard sabonis. So that'll be fun Patrick Williams is a fun player. Um, playing against his idol and kawaii is literally young that we had no answer for him If you if he got that ball in the paint or in the in the mid-range area Give him two points, bro. Give him two points So dig bay. Oh man, how long are we going? So dig bay, um, makes me super happy So dig bay is one of my um, my god, dear I mean my god, Mike's favorite player coming out the draft for some reason not not that so dig day's city So dig bay's bad or anything But like he doesn't watch college ball So it was very weird for him to fall in love with so dig bay without watching college ball So dig bay was unstoppable. I'm giving a the selty the slight pass back to back day. Yadda yadda yadda Um, but the detroit piss continue to be giant slayers coming out and beating good teams Um, and it's this allows the Celtics to fall to 13 and 12 Which is uh, not not very good not Not very good, but against slight pass next game. I didn't watch too much of this game, but I do remember hamidou diallo um Tipping in a half court he for the other team and they lost by two so Hamidou diallo, don't do that next time Um, there is bay's he'd be a little bit better. I love seeing isaero. We play well and um Um, karen's williams has been a very very surprising player to me this season He had he had the game early this year what Which like 20 something points, which is something i've never seen him do before and today seven nine and 11 Um, and then al horford continues to be really really good for the team I was very surprised that this this game was even close, especially with shaggyos Alexander not playing Um, but that hamidou diallo point at the end of the third quarter Just cost him the game. That's all I want to say the yuletah jazz beat up on the bucks um This game is not as close as what the final score tells you and if you need an Explanation of why rudigo bear needs to be an all-star this season watch this game again This man I am I am under the belief that you can throw any four players in in the NBA With rudigo bear and you'll have a top 10 defense That man holds everything down and the fact that they held yon is to what two points in the first half as a team Is ridiculous that's a Royce O'Neill. He did not shoot the ball at all But his defense was stellar today now yon is an MVP caliber player So he wasn't just going to allow two points to happen So in the second half he really cranked it up and even through grit defense he cranked it up Um, but but man the yuletah jazz are 17 and one in their last eight ten games Super super ridiculous play. This is out mic without my connolly without your holiday So both teams are missing their lead ball handler and and another game where dynamite you does not play well by himself But the team is just so damn good that it doesn't matter. It is spursy and We talk about spurs with tim duncan model jenoble and tony parker Where it doesn't matter if one of their top guys has a bad game because they have so many other pieces that can pick it up The ball movement on this team is ridiculous If you ain't watching if you ain't watching the yuletah jazz right now you are you are missing out on The purest form of basketball 100% rudigo bear donovan mitchell Increment to the all-star game and god damn it give my connolly some votes He didn't play today, but you he yeah, he didn't play today But yeah, he deserves it and in the games that I did not talk about are the games I did not get to watch a single minute of so my apologies to the nix fans I hate to see that mitchell robson broke his hand that is unfortunate because especially in this game For me box score watch I was a box score bandit on this one He was playing really really well getting the first half double double Um, I did not watch the poyland trailblaze get another win But I will say I'm still impressed with the fact that the the poyland trailblazers do all their injuries are still damn good Um, the cavaliers sexland. Is it over? Is it tank season now? I don't really know Is it time to sell drumming? I don't really know and then without without deer and fox I had no interest in watching this game where rusevitz put up 42 So maybe I'll watch rusevitz highlights on this one, but again, no deer and fox No candy beach I'm watching if you enjoyed it leave it a like and I'll see y'all soon. Call game