 What's the word y'all welcome back to call gang Kenny for real whatever you want to call it Well, we just sit here. We talk about hoops late night episodes, man Thank you to everybody that's watching turns out that about 70% think about this 70% of the people that watch these videos regularly Aren't even subscribed so make sure you are subscribed leave a like on the video and let's get right into it today I'm gonna have to admit a lot of my my faults as an NBA fan were on display today because My biggest thing is that y'all know I am a Chicago Bulls fan first So whenever the Bulls are playing they have 90% of my attention and today's one of those days where they decided to start five games at the same time So the Bulls starting off they got my eye and then the other four games were on the other monitor And I'm looking over checking scores trying to watch as much as I can all that being said I didn't watch every single possession of every single game I don't know why you didn't expect me to even be like that The Bulls got a bulk of my attention and and the Bulls are in the wind column y'all we did it We're not the worst team in basketball We'll see we'll see we'll see um so the last game of the day just wrapped up and people said on Twitter That this is a bad day for basketball a lot of blowouts I think you know I think I took away a lot of different things from today's Slater games and the one I want to focus on up top and The top of the show is with the Toronto Raptors, man I don't know what the title of this video specifically says but has something to do with the Toronto Raptors Are scaring me because through the first couple games of the season they look bad and not like all we'll put it together We're just missing shots bad, but like functionally They don't look good anymore and part of me is trying to figure out like I watched this game Like I mentioned the Bulls were started before so I we went back to rewatch portions of this game And I was trying to put together why this team doesn't look good First of all they were going to get stolen bead and we know that they lost their two best defensive players or Defensive's bigs and and Marcus Saul and Sergio Bakker. They're no longer here. So of course Joel and B was going to eat But it was more like The players that are on their team Pascal Siakum does not look good He doesn't look pre-bubble Pascal Siakum pre all-star break of the 2019 season Pascal Siakum And then the first couple games of the season they pay for it and lead obviously and well They're trying to give him a role that wasn't really his role the first couple years of him being the good friend We know so that the idea behind paying for every and lead is like okay Cal Larry's what 34 years old at this point eventually He's gonna be you know teetering at that point where he's no longer starter quality player It's just a age is something that hits everybody and people aids out of the league So we're gonna pay for evan Vlee and we're gonna slowly work them into this role where he's going to be our next Cal Larry and the problem with that is They aren't the same player the reason why they look so good when they're playing together Is because Fred Van Blee at the end of the day is more of an off-ball player than the pro ball handler He's he's not a playmaker like Cal Larry is so when we have those minutes were Cal Larry's on the bench and is Fred Van Blee trying to control offense It doesn't look good and and what surprises me is that like I Watched a lot of their preseason games because they have Flynn they have Malachi Flint And this is gonna be a crazy reason but Malachi Flynn is a dog in 2k So I don't watch college balls So my first introduction to these guys is first the NBA draft and usually when it comes to summer league But we didn't have any summer league so I was watching preseason and Malachi Flint looked like a guy that you can say hey He's good enough to be a backup point guard at this point At least that's what it looked like in the preseason to me But instead they're trying to build Fred Van Blee which makes sense But it just doesn't really work out and not to mention that when Cal Larry's not on the floor There's the other four players and this new guard whoever is gonna be none of them at ballhand in the billy Pascal Siakam as good as he can be we know he has only your right hand Ozyana nobby as good as he is in this catch a shoe. He had a beautiful game today He can't put the ball on the floor like you would want some of your other players So it's really like Cal Larry as our ballhandler as our playmaker and nothing else And that's one of the reason why they are struggling and I talked about this on our podcast is that They didn't do a great job in replacing the big-state loss like the first couple games of the season Like he might be that guy then today he went against up a real like center center and Joel and be one of the best in this class And well, he struggled and Alex Lynn struggled and and Aaron Bain struggled So that's that's my takeaway from the Toronto Raptors. I don't know what the remedy is There was a portion in this game where there was like maybe four to five minutes where the Toronto Raptors did not score a bucket And typically what we see from coaches when their team goes maybe two to three minutes without scoring There's usually a timeout, but Nick nurses like no, I'm gonna let my guys ride with this not being able to score thing for five minutes And that's not normal Nick nurse things is it like I was giving the nurse a lot of praise Don't tell me we have to take all that success away from you Nick. Come on, bro So I'm not saying this is gonna last for the 72 game season But they need to figure it out man They need to figure it out because as of right now all of those teams that we saw as far as like Bonafide playoff teams They're the one that looks the worst out of the bunch Which is which is saying a lot because I just always see that organization as consistency consistency Consistency and they have not been that through the first three games of the season on the other side of things Luckily Joel and beat is there because without Joel and beat the 76ers are not good Tobias Harris had his best game of the season, which is good There's portions of the game where you want him to take a shot But I say you put the ball on the floor But I'm not gonna complain with the production that they got from Tobias Harris if they had a Tobias Harris game like this More regularly than we might be having a conversation. I hope good the Philadelphia 76ers can really be I don't have the whole Ben Simmons conversation four games to the season. They are three and one So we're gonna leave it at that congratulations to the Philadelphia 76ers, but what I can say is That Ben Simmons is making it look like A James Harden trade might end up being inevitable. That's all I'm gonna say I'm gonna leave it. I'm gonna leave it at that move on to the next game Which is the Warriors getting their second win two game win streak Y'all remember people on Twitter was saying that Steph Curry wasn't good anymore Well, you want to get two bad teams and he's getting his mojo back and it's good Kelly Ubre finally hit a jump shot Wiggins what he put up like 19 points in the fourth quarter Those are the type of things you're gonna need and Draymond Green was questionable, but ended up sitting out I'm still waiting for the Draymond Green minutes because I do think he can fix some of the things He ain't gonna fix everything. There's a lot of things wrong this thing He ain't gonna fix everything but he does fix the the secondary ballhandle Secondary playmaker thing that a lot of the teams that are struggling struggle with so set out to them and when it comes to the pistons I mean the pistons are gonna do that They're gonna lose a lot of games this season I think every one of their games They've been competitive and been into it and I think 14 that's rebuilding even though they did some crazy-ass things this off-season That's all you clearly want. I'm still so confused about Christian Wood doesn't play for them anymore Maybe somebody in a comment section explain it to me because why do we offer Jeremy Grant? 20 and Mason Plumlee 9 But we couldn't just give Christian will whatever the hell he wanted because Christian Wood is better than Whatever whatever um the Celtic got a win today You know that little revenge game from the Pacers and I was I was very Intrigued in this game because the Pacers had moments in it with a We're running away with this seems like but I hate when people tell me on Twitter Hey, can you talk about this, but I have no choice if I'm gonna talk about this game I have to talk about the rookie man What's his name Peyton Peyton Pritchard came in and was super super important They needed that type of play and I don't know what he finished with 10 points It felt like more than that his his point his points were timely his his assists were timely And he was the reason to put them over to hump for this win I was talking not trash, but I was more concerned about the way Jason Taylor was playing for the first couple games of the season I think I mentioned how like he's taking these tough ass shots and then when he's making them They's cool, but when he's not he's it sucks and And I was talking about how he hasn't been to the free throw line much throughout the first three games This game he got sort of decent amount I'm not gonna add his last like five or six free throws because they were like late game We're gonna foul, you know situations. It wasn't him get into the basket Nonetheless, there's a good bounce back game for them in a game that looked like they were going to lose So I still like the way Nate Bork grin Tough Has this team flowing and I still like what the what the Indiana Pacers are doing the bulls got to win I don't spend too much time on the bulls because again 90% of y'all don't care, but We we finally got a win and the Washington Wizards are way worse than Then we even thought My biggest concern with them going into this season even after the rest of us betrayed is they didn't Address any of the defensive issues other than they brought in Robin Lopez who was a okay defender But he's not gonna be out there defending everything and through the first four games of the season We see why their defense is so bad. Let's talk about the game No, at one point was that like 50 the Bucks get their revenge on a Jimmy Butler list Miami Heat I don't know what else to really what to say about this one. I was out of it three minutes into it Hopefully you were too. There's no reason to watch this game I the worst thing about this is that the two games that were on TNT The two games that were on TNT both in let me like 40 point L's and like for the people that don't have league pass Or don't know any of the outside ways to watch the other games This was your NBA fix today and it ended up being ass You know, I hate when stuff like that happens. Yeah, because the Bucks did what they had to do What do I say? Okay, see loses another game one and two, but I am so jealous of what okay See are doing right now because each one of their ails have been super competitive I mean they got the one game winner and then she gives Alexander had a layup against the jazz that he missed And in this one, I mean, I guess it ended up being the 11 point game They were in this game the whole time They have their core group of guys that we would consider like their future and still with all the draft picks And they're still being competitive and similar to what I said with the Detroit pisses as a rebuilding team You want to have your young guys playing and have competitive basketball talk about the Suns three and one on the season y'all Chris Paul man, I'm not giving it all the credit to Chris Paul obviously But you can see his impact the way the ball moves on the Phoenix Suns is magnificent We saw portions of this in the bubble when it was Ricky Rubio is the starting point guard But obviously, we know that Chris Paul is better than Ricky Rubio and the ball just swings I would love to I would love to sit down and have a conversation with Cameron Payne Because I don't know how he went from one of the worst players I have ever seen and I am not Exaggerating when he was with the Chicago Bulls like two years ago to actually being a good Rotational player on a competitive team. I don't know I would love to see what he did in the off-season and the two off-seasons between the time He was really really bad to time. He's good Legitimately Cameron Payne is good at basketball and I never thought that would be a sentence that will come out of my mouth You know what I'm saying? So I like what they're doing when it comes to the pelicans I think we talked about this before but like it's so easy to gain plan against them I don't trust nobody shooting the ball in their team except for JJ Reddick and Brandon Ingram And that seems like what Monty Williams did today was like we're gonna pack the paint Zion's not gonna beat us if Brandon Ingram want to take those shots will allow him He went one for five if Lonzo ball would take the shot Lonzo ball has turned himself into a respectable shooter But teams right now just letting them shoot. He ended up one for seven There's not a three-point shooter that I trust Eric Bledtoe can't hit a shot obviously Stephen Adams not gonna do that So they had a good game playing defensively and it worked out this team ended up putting up what? How many points did they put up 80s 86 points on national TV is really bad He just really is and that was our major criticism of going into the season like I don't know What Dave Griffin was doing on some of the things he did like obviously Stephen Adams a good NBA player And he holds your defense down on most occasions But when your star player one of your star players the guy like Zion that's like I'm not saying he's limited to the Within the first six feet of the rim But that's where he gets his work done to have a guy like Stephen Adams on the team and extend him It was just it's just so weird to me It just is and then obviously with the Eric Bledtoe thing just the spacing is all love It's so hard to predict this team and this is some of this is the reason why games like this are going to happen Pretty often with this team because of if you don't get a random Eric Bledtoe game It's going to be hard to get Zion to be super dominant to have Brandon Ingram to do what he has to do and have everybody else be I don't like the way they play today. My favorite game of the day ended up being the Kings versus the Nuggets Now the Nuggets were missing Jamal Murray. Yes, but man, do I absolutely I love this Kings team And I think I've talked about him in the last three episodes because that's just how much I like this team Y'all from the very top to the bottom my boy Reese was out there hooping in the grinches and shout out to everybody Hooping in the grinches today. It was a lot of people a very special moment in Kobe history today So I think a lot of people had that a mile and they were picking their sneakers for today's games I just like everything about this team man I interviewed Reese and I was saying in that video that like This is a team that was going to be competitive now when it got to the draft and Reese felt to there and I see I was looking Out for him because he's one of the homies I didn't like the idea if I'm playing for them just because of the Organization not because of the roster, you know what I'm saying because all the bad track record when it comes to the Kings I mean we saw some of it this offseason two with the by none of its stuff I didn't like the idea of having one of my guys one of my friends going to an organization that has his Reputation of just being bad, but right now the team is fun. They're running Dear Fox has got him Rashaan Holmes keeps doing that little flip-up layup And he ain't missed a single one all season it feels like and then Reese hitting big shots But he healed it doing a sting and in Harrison Barnes Today at least was playmaking more than I've ever seen in Harrison Barnes playmaking my life Yeah, that's that's all I really have to say. Um, Yoko's is still doing things Michael Porter, Jr. I was talking about Jason Tatum is one of those tough shot taker and makers Michael Porter, Jr. Is up there, bro And I know it's a smaller sample size for him compared to some of the other players But there are plenty of times in this game was like, oh, that's a bad never mind. Good shot Michael Porter, Jr That's just the way he shoots the ball and I bet it could be frustrating for his teammates But when he was on like he was today specifically in the third quarter Then it's hard to guard him But in the fourth quarter he kind of went silent and then that's when the Kings took off and everything For the games that I did not talk about the Knicks are two and two they beat up on sex land I didn't really watch much of this game except for like a few highlights and I see that Julius Randall turned into Who is a Knicks player that got a lot of triple while Frazier did while Frazier get triple doubles back in the day I literally don't know he turned into that and I think I hit every single other game one of these days I promise you Knicks fans one of these days I'm gonna actually sit down and watch a game of yours. It has not happened yet So I don't have any takeaways from your games usually I apologize for that This is probably the game since Julius Randall became the greatest player of all time Let me know what you think in the comment section Oh in the description, I'm gonna leave a link to our flick chat if you don't know what it is the group chat We have maybe we have 6,000 people in there right now that like live react to games together There's pose. There's money on the line So I'm gonna put that in the description and just download it join the group and let me know what you think about it All right, I'll see y'all to soon call game