 What's the word y'all? Yesterday we dropped the video we were talking about contenders versus pretenders in basketball and today I wanna do the exact opposite and talk about the contenders for the first overall pick because as we continue to go throughout the season these bottom feeder teams, these tank teams honestly get talked about less and less every single day cause we're starting to think about the Lillio Bryan when they're starting to think about lottery odds. But I mean, if you watch these bottom feeder teams these tanking teams, there's a lot to be excited about if you're one of the teams that have committed to the tank. Today we found out that Kate Cunningham is gonna be out for the rest of the season which obviously sucks because Kate is a really good player and a really fun player to watch but you know, the silver lining is pretty big because right now the Detroit Pistons are a bad basketball team when it comes to wins and losses and their best player, their friend size Cornerstone will not suit up again this season. Now there's an argument to be made about him not being able to play and how they could potentially set back its individual development but the bad Pistons fans ain't trippin' too much. I bet you they ain't trippin' too much because this just puts them in the better position to potentially get that first overall pick. Actually, I take that back. There's no good thing about your friend size player missing the rest of the season even if that means you might get a top three pick because it's not like what Kate Cunningham playing that they were about to go out there and win 30 games or even close to it. Kate Cunningham played 12 games this season before his injury, they won three of those 12. So yeah, they were heading in a direction that we all know. They're currently seven to 22 who puts them at the lowest win percentage in all the basketballs. Which means that they have the highest odds to potentially get Vic because we know that's who the first overall pick is this year. I know there are some things that you can really look at for the rest of the season if you're a Detroit Pistons fan and kind of gauge and great. The first one, of course, being Killian Hayes because for a long time it felt like Killian Hayes was about to be one of the biggest busts of the biggest busts but in the games like the seventh overall pick, whatever. But it didn't look like he deserved to get NBA minutes and since Kate Cunningham has been out with his injuries they've given him basically the keys to be the lead ball handler and he's produced some okay stuff. Scoring at the NBA level has been a problem for Killian Hayes and though he's not doing anything too spectacular his shooting splits are going higher. And if you look at the last month the basketball is averaging about 11 points per game a 45% shooting and about 40% from three on about four attempts per. That's really good. Cause we knew he can defend, we knew he got the vision but we needed him to be able to shoot and score the basketball and he's doing that to some extent. And now you try to figure out how much of what he's doing right now is replicatable once Kate Cunningham comes back and how much of that do you buy into because you already got Jaden Ivy who we'll talk about in a second and you're gonna have Kate Cunningham that is your projected backcourt of the future. We don't know what pick you gonna get but it might end up being a guard too which I mean you hope not again there's the big guy down there. So with what Killian Hayes is doing and his contacts are coming up soon you have to figure out what is his price and are we willing to pay that price. But you also are gonna see a lot of Jaden Ivy. He's struggled a little bit like of course when you talk about any player in the NBA coming into it from college they're gonna get a lot of flashes. His flashes look really good but then you get the shooting slumps and he's currently in one of those right now. You're getting to see Isaiah Stewart turn into a guy that didn't take any three point shots for the first couple of years of his career to attempt then I just checked the number a couple of days ago but I wanna give you the exact number of threes he's attempted per game with the exact shooting splits. He's shooting 36% from three on four attempts. That's pretty good. So again, there are things to look at and be excited about. Boyan by Donovan signed an extension and I do believe that he'll probably get moved again which a Troy Reaver you depending on what you get you should get an award for because you only gave up Kelly O'Lennick and Saban Lee who got cut for Boyan and he's averaging 20 points per game always 50, 40, 90, you could flip him and you're gonna get a first round pick for that type of production. So set out to them. I'm one of those guys that's gonna watch a lot of possessions of the pistons but it's gonna be hard for me to watch a full game of pistons basketball until next season. I'll be honest with you. Next in the Wimbanyama sweepstakes is the Charlotte Hornet. It's currently on a five game loser streak seven and 20 and they haven't even sold their pieces just yet. Gordon Haver might get traded. He's got two years left on his deal at $30 million each. I just don't know if a team is gonna be able or be willing to take that especially considering his injury history. So he might be at a state but Terry Rogier hasn't playing good basketball. Kelly Ubre's playing the best basketball of his career so his trade stock is at an all-time high. We don't know about Lamello. I feel like I haven't heard an update about Lamello in so very long. So I'm happy this is the direction they're going in as a franchise because I think for Charlotte to become anything more than a playing team in the future they have to hit on the draft picks and this gives them an opportunity to. My far hornest fans. We gave the Detroit Pistons like five minutes of basketball talk. I ain't got a lot to say. Shout out to Kelly Ubre. I'm excited to see what team he can end up on he will end up on. Kelly Ubre so far this season is having a career year but he's also one of those players. This is gonna sound like a shot but it's not, I promise you it's not. Kelly if somehow you come across this video got a lot of respect and love for you my boy. But he is one of those players that if I am a contending team I will be kind of hesitant to trade for because his production is cool but there's a lot of moments when I watch him play where I'm like, bro, what are you doing? And sometimes there was one of you doing moments end up in buckets which is dope but some of those like, we almost shot a three when we were up and we could have just dribbled the ball out. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Kelly Ubre but he'll probably get moved. The Orlando Magic on the three game win streak beating the Toronto Raptors who I wanted to make a video about the Toronto Raptors and their struggles. I'm gonna give them one more game before we really dive in because losing two games back to back against the Orlando Magic it sucks because so far this season when we talk about these back to back games in the same city, whatever it may be you don't get swept off them and they did to the Orlando Magic who just haven't been good before this is win streak they were the worst team in basketball. And yeah, so we might make a Toronto Raptors video but that's something for future me and not right now. Let's talk about the Orlando Magic because they took a chance on Bow Bow and so far this season it's been good. I guess more recently when Paolo Becaro came back from his injury the Bow Bow production has gone down but you saw what could be a Bow Bow Paolo as the former first overall pick looks ahead above everybody else in the class and so far the class has been really, really solid but undoubtedly Paolo has looked like the best player because even when he's not shooting the ball efficiently he gets to the free throw line as if he's a seven, eight year vet and you don't see that type of thing from a wing player or a ball handler in the NBA this early. And France after his slow start after Feeble basketball has put it together and he man against the Toronto Raptors in the first game at least he was unstoppable. Him and Paolo I think they missed like six total shots the entire game. And now Marquell is coming back there's a lot of good stuff in Orlando right now but I wonder if they're gonna be a team that's gonna try to consolidate some of those younger assets because again there's so many people over there that might be willing or deserving to get minutes and it's not enough minutes to go around. So we'll see. Mobile should 100% get traded. And the teams I'm thinking about for him to go it would be like a Raptors in this situation it would be like a Brooklyn Nets, Denver Nuggets I feel like they don't have the assets but I'm just thinking about teams that could give him an opportunity to at least play some basketball when he does play at least a couple of days ago he was hitting the shots but yeah I feel like he should undoubtedly get moved. The Houston Rockets we talked about them briefly in yesterday's video they are five and five in their last 10 including some wins against some really good teams. They held the Bucks to 92 points. They beat the 76ers and over time James Harden's return game if I remember correctly they beat the Phoenix Suns by one they beat the OKC Thunder and the Atlanta Hawks so they've had some really solid wins under their belt and I wanna talk about this recent game against the Milwaukee Bucks because it wasn't a pretty one, a 97 to 92 win for them and in this game, Jabari Smith Jr. shot one for nine, 0 for four from three, six total points. Bro, he had a good game, he had a good game. Kenny, how was that possible? Usually I just read you just that like he's six points, 10 rebounds, one for nine. He had a good game. One of the things people told me about Jabari Smith Jr. is that no matter what he is an NBA ready defender and I saw that against Giannis. Giannis had one of his worst games of the season in this game and no Jabari Smith Jr. was known for every single minute of the game that Giannis was out there but when it mattered the most and majority of those minutes Jabari Smith Jr. was the primary defender and I've seen it a few times on this season where obviously he's playing on one of the youngest teams of basketball if not the youngest team of basketball they're never gonna be, there's no team at this age that's gonna be a good defensive team. So as a collective, they're gonna look bad defensively but if you key in on Jabari Smith Jr. as an individual defender, you'll see the flashes. You'll see why people said he is going to be able to defend no matter what if even if the jump shot isn't falling. In this we played 35 minutes and it's not just because he was the former number three overall pick it's because his defense was so good that Steven Silas kept him out that even though the shot wasn't falling and the most exciting news for me as an outsider of the Houston Rockets fandom is that it seems like Eric Gordon is finally gonna get traded. Shams put out a report today that there's a potential three team deal that dealt with the Phoenix Suns and boom, boom, boom maybe Kenya Mark Jr. is a part of it. And I'm just excited about that because, well, am I excited about, yeah, I'm gonna say I'm excited about this mostly because it opens up more minutes for some of the younger dudes. I do believe that a team like the Houston Rockets we made a video about culture earlier in the season do need like legitimate like culture setters slash veterans in the locker room. But every time I watch Eric Gordon play I feel like he's just taken minutes away from somebody that could be developing. You can argue Kenny, that's development need to win those minutes and I can agree with that to some extent but the fact that he's gonna get traded at least it seems like it is pretty solid. The Spurs are on a three game win streak just occasionally they gonna go on win streaks after an 11 game loser streak. Three game win streak right now including a game that they wanted to give away. Oh my God, they wanted to give away that game against the Cavs tonight. They were up by like 10 points going to the fourth or whatever it was. They had some offensive fouls that college all over the place he fouls out and Kelton got a big old block down the stretch but they ended up winning against the Cleveland Cavaliers who are one of the more confusing teams of basketball right now but a three game win streak nonetheless. And with this being basically the first year of a Spurs tank like seriously I mean you can argue that last year might have been the tank job but they did have to John Tay Murray who was an all-star player. I think that they just look at me I'm trying to rig the lottery already. I think that they deserve to get a high pick because the entirety of me being an NBA fan the Spurs have won their championships the right way. Yes, right before I became a Spurs fan, not a Spurs fan an NBA fan they did a fake take or they don't wanna tell you that they tanked but they tanked to end up getting Tim Duncan and obviously that set their franchise up but every single season even the season where they weren't good they always found a way to reformulate, retool to get to that championship contention. And with the San Antonio Spurs being the market that they are the draft is extremely important like a lot of these bottom feeder teams right now and them getting a top pick would be crucial. I don't wanna say the word missed on draft picks because again a lot of these guys on this roster are still super young but they haven't hit to an extent where you feel like that guy is 1,000% a building block for the future. Keldon's really good, the Denver sale and these guys have the conversation right now but I can't say with 100% certainty that once the Spurs are that good that Keldon and Devin will be part of that and I think this draft class could potentially give you one of those dudes. I guess the Washington Wizards are low key in this conversation now. We made a video about mediocrity last week and they're on a seven game loser streak and they're talking about how cool is to potentially getting traded to a bigger market or a team that'll get them some money. So man, we talked about the Wizards last week so I don't wanna go too much in depth but are they in the victor women Yama sweepstakes? As of right now they're sitting at 11 to 17 and the difference between them and the Orlando Magic is about three games and the way they're skidding right now that three games, not that much with all this time left in basketball. And then we got the OKC Thunder who also on a three game loser streak at the moment. Shay has still been unreal. Even tonight against Luka, the Shay versus Luka game was really, really fun. Of course Luka ended up winning but Shay setting his career high or tying his career high is always really cool. They have a couple of people on this roster outside of course like Shay and Josh Giddy that I really like, like Jalen Williams the one not the big but the wing player. He has a, I hate when people say this but it's true. He has a very good feel for the game when I watch it like he doesn't excel at anything but he has a good feel and he's pretty solid at a lot of different stuff. And I think feel is one of the most important things when it comes to drafting especially for a team like OKC because with them having as many picks they do they can draft for a couple of different formulas. They can draft a guy that's 100% potential. They can draft a guy that's league ready and also draft a guy that's just have the feel and all one draft glass because they have seven picks or whatever it may be. And I think out of the Western Conference those are all of the teams that have committed to the tank as of right now. The Lakers are still trying to win basketball games. The Minnesota Timbers are trying without cat. It's rough and Wiccat it was rough. The Jazz are still trying even though they're three and seven in the last 10. I do believe that they might end up in the sweepstakes but they are so much ahead of everybody else that it might be rough for them to get to that top three spot but there might end up there but everybody above them feel like they're gonna be out there trying to win basketball games. And now East, I mean Indiana Pacers are kind of skidding a little bit three and seven but still a 500 team at the moment. My boy, Tarris had one point today, which is insane. Like one point off a technical freak bro. I was so surprised. That game in general was a weird one versus the Miami Heat where what was it in 1980 something to 80 something like it was 2003 but I can see a world where these flop a little bit. Benedict Mather is cooling down underrated story so far because he was so hot to start the season and he's not bad or anything. But if you look at his shooting splits over the last I want to say two, three weeks he's shooting like 10% from three. So those shots that he was taking and making earlier they just not falling right now. And with them skidding, if you want to call it that would it be surprised if they were one of the teams to sell? Quickly let's talk about some of the games from today. The Brooklyn Nets are probably gonna get their own video from me very, very soon because they continue to do some good things. Again, it was just a whizz or two we just mentioned haven't been very good recently but Kevin Oren and Kyrie Irvin were stellar. The Hawks were missing the Jaunte and Trey Young and the Grizzies were missing Bane and Ja. If I bought tickets to this game, I'd be upset until I got there. Cause I'm a believer that all of that goes away once you actually watch a basketball unless you paid specifically to see Ja or you played specifically to see Trey Young. This game ended up being a I, I mean it was more more of a blowout to what the final score says which was a 25 point game. But I do love the fact that Jiren Jackson Jr. ended up with eight blocks, eight blocks seven rebounds 15 points. He was insane today. AJ Griffin is one of my favorite rookies in his class. So I like watching him play even though he hit a game winner against my bulls like last night, it sucked. But hey, things happen. Two tip game winners in his young NBA career. He just is good. I was trying to say it in a different way. He's just good. And obviously people knew that. Him coming out of high school, having all those injuries they were afraid about his injury history and everything. But it was strictly based off talent. The brothers should have been drafted a lot earlier than that. And though today he didn't have an amazing game. There's a lot of good things to take away from AJ Griffin as a draft pick. Damian Lillard hit 11 three-pointers. 11 for 17. And the worst part about it all. So he only played 29 minutes because the Minnesota team couldn't keep it close. I mean, when you're giving up 11 three-pointers to one single player, I'm guessing it's gonna be hard to stay in the game. And they got out shot from three by 11. So that's a 33 point differential between the three-point shot. So yeah, I ended up being a blowout. But boy, I just wanted to see more. I want to see records broken, ladies and gentlemen. And unfortunately, records will not be broken if the game can't stay close. So Mr. Chris Finch, Rudy Gaubert and all the others gotta be better, gotta be better. Make this game more complete. And they might've ended up with 15 and the things. I don't know, he ate in the first half, bruh. He ate in the first half. And he was really good. And lastly, Kawhi Leonard had his season high game. Guess the Boston Celtics, they went by 20. Ended up with 25 points on 83% shooting, nine rebounds, six assists, undoubtedly the best game we've seen for him this season. And it was a good one. Clipping Nation, again, I'm not gonna overreact, but you did just beat the best team in basketball. The team that had been dogging teams around the league and you beat them, beat the breaks off of them. So I'm watching, I'm tuned to Clipping Nation. You know, we don't give it some more games that these boys playing together before we make our initial and final, not final, cause there's a lot of basketball left, but some reactions to what they got going on. Speaking of tank off tomorrow, we got Pistons versus Hornets for all of the lottery odds. It's an important game. If you enjoyed the video, leave it a like. And I'll see you also.