 What's the word, y'all? So yeah, the Chicago Bulls are the last undefeated Eastern Conference team. It feels good, man. It feels good to be on the top of something. Now I don't know how long we gonna stay at the top of the conference, but as of right now, I'm screen shot-ness. I'm making it my lock screen. I'm taking this number one C thing a little bit serious. So we're foreign all right now. We're gonna talk about the Bulls because for the most part today's Slater Games kind of man, you know what I'm saying? We got some blowouts here and there. I'm happy to see that the Celtics and the Hornets gave us a good game. Two of my favorite teams to watch. Jason Tatum with a 47 and seven. I think he's the fifth Celtics player of all time to do that. Jason, Jaylen Brown coming off of his injury or illness or whatever he was dealing with, giving us 30. And then yesterday it was Ishmith and Caleb found out it was Caleb Martin making the big time moments for the Hornets. And today it was Jayden or Jaylin McDaniels. If it's brothers and y'all not like stars or one of y'all not a star, I kind of get y'all mixed up. Like I ain't gonna forget Steph and Curry and call him Seth accidentally. But if y'all like role players and lower end of the roster I might forget your name. So my apologies. But I'm pretty sure it's Jaylin. He had some big time shots. Miles Bridges out of nowhere. Player of the week last week and he continues to take a lot of shots. So it's cool that they gave us an overtime performance. Shout out to JB for the nasty poster. And the other really good game was the Bulls going against the Raptors. And yeah, I'm excited. I'm legitimately excited that the fact that the Bulls are ain't no resisting. Now I'm counting those four pre-season games but the Chicago Bulls have not lost the game as long as this has been the version of their team. And majority of Bulls fans, 99.9% of Bulls fans are on cloud nine, man. We haven't started off four no since 96. I was born in 96. You know, Zach Levine just won four straight games in a row for the first time this entire career. You know, so it is exciting for us to be on top right now. Week two of the NBA season is here which means I gotta tell y'all about my presenting sponsor, PrizePix again. Hit that link in the description and use code Kenny and they'll match up to $100 in deposits. Let's get into it. Now let me show you some of my wins for this week because let's keep it a buck. Your boy has been on a hot streak. So this is the one from the other day, just a three pick power play. Cartonytown's rebounds, got that. Trey Young points, got that. And Yada's points, got that. Easy in the green. But then we had this one earlier in the week as well when the Lakers played against the Grizzlies. Now this one I put flex. Desmond Bain and Ja Maren came through on fantasy points. Russell Westbrook was point one away. But because I did flex, I still ended up in the money. And I really like it because it's just you versus the number. You see the number, if you think it's too high you hit the under. If you think it's too low, you hit the over. Simple. Now again, I mentioned we had a group chat where we're going to get each other on PrizePix and out of the eight people in the chat I am third place right now. And today might be the day I can jump up to second. So if you wanna play alone, hit that link in the description, download the app and use code Kenny because you're matching up to $100 deposit. A lot of y'all, a ton of y'all use code Kenny and week number one and I appreciate you. Let's try to match that again in week number two. Before the season starts every single year, I read a lot of columns, whether it be Zach Lowe, whether it be some people at the ringer, Kevin O'Connor, just some of the biggest names when it comes to NBA media, writers, even podcasters. And pretty much everybody had the same sentiment about Chicago Bulls. We believe they're gonna be a top 10 offense because they had DeMarco Rose and Lonzo Ball, Zach Levine, Volsa Viz, those are all positive offensive players. But we question the defense. We really, we think that they're gonna be one of the worst offensive teams in the league. And so far, I think the Bulls players saw all of that and decided to dedicate themselves to the defensive side of the ball because right now it's been completely opposite. I'm pretty sure they're top five defense so far through the first four games of the season. And the offense too has it come along completely. And I think it will. You gotta remember that Zach Levine has never really played with anybody that can do anything in his entire career, at least as he's been like an emerging star. I know he played with Kat when, you know, Kat was really good. But as an emerging star, he hasn't really had a really good supporting cast. So he's still trying to get used to that. DeMarco is still trying to get used to when he can take over games. And thank you DeMarco for taking over today because things were getting really, really scary. Volsa Viz hasn't been great so far offensively this season. So like the offense has not been there, but the defense has. Alex Caruso is coming off the bench and leading the league in steals. Alex Caruso had been in the Western Conference his entire career and it was a battle. And now he come to the Eastern Conference in his free chase. He's doing what he want out there. So the defense has come around, which is good. It's positive. Now Bulls fans, things are about to get a lot rougher because the next month of the season is hell, man. And what I can say, the Bulls have taken care of business. They have. The every single game this team has played or every team that this team has played, the Bulls, they beat a team that wasn't nearly as talented as them. So even starting in pre-season, the Cavs were more talented than them. The Pelicans without Xayah were more talented than Cavs in it. Again, this Grizz's game was interesting. Grizzlies had pretty much everybody back and the Grizz is our super talented team. But for the first four games of the season, we've beat teams that we 100% should have beaten. Now I'm not taking that as like a negative because you got to take care of business, especially right now because every single team looks at least solid. So you want to get these easy wins in but things about to get tougher. We got a couple of days stretch so we could just chill. And then we got the Knicks. We got the Jazz. We got the Celtics, the 76ers, twice, the Nets, the Mavericks, the Warriors, the Clippers, the Lakers, the Blazers, the Nuggets, the Knicks again, the Peck, like this is about to be until November 22nd. These are all playoff caliber team. And I even account 22nd because it's not like the Pacers are a pushover. I mean, these are all teams that are playoff teams. So this is about to be the realest testament to what this team could possibly be. And I'm excited for it, man. I'm super excited for it. I think my boys can hang. Will they still be undefeated a month into the season? No shot. But I still think we're gonna be really solid and I cannot wait. I'm just saying, if we end up going 500 here, I'm still on cloud nine. I just read you those teams. You saw how good those teams are. If we go through this next month's stretch as 500, I think we're in a very good spot for the remainder of the season to be like a playoff team. But it has been fun, regardless if we're going against teams that we should be beating and has been extremely fun to just, like I feel like this is the first team since like maybe like their growth era where I feel like they're like super likable players on the team. Like we didn't have that in the Garpacks era and right now we got that. Enough Bulls Talk. Let's talk about this 2021 class because they have surprised the heck out of me just a week into the NBA season. Now I've always mentioned this on here before but I know we got a ton of new subscribers. By the way, thank you. If you're new around here, subscribe, leave a like. I am not a college basketball guy. I'm a guy that will come to my work room at five o'clock every day and watch as much NBA basketball as possible. But when it comes to college ball, it just doesn't grasp me the same way as the NBA ball. So because of that, I don't know a ton about NBA draft prospects. Typically a month before the NBA draft, I'll start doing research and I would like read articles from people that I trust in the scouting world. I'll listen to podcasts. I watch YouTube videos of other creators that I know watch a lot of ball. But even within, I'm not confident enough to tell you before draft, that's the steal. This is that, this is that. And that's why we do the draft stream every year. And I ask y'all, WL Pick, y'all. And well, this draft class even surprised me more than I expected it to. And it's not even just the top end talent. So Jaylen Green had his first really, really good game the other night where he dropped 30. He was unstoppable behind the arc. He even got to the basket and dunked on some people. He hasn't, if I'm not mistaken, he has not got to the free throw line yet in his NBA career. And I watch Major, I would say Majority of this game where he dropped 30. There are times where he probably could have got some calls but he's a rookie, the rest not blowing a whistle. He has not got to the free throw line yet but I'm still impressed with his ability to score the ball. Everybody knew he was gonna be able to do that. The next guy, do I dare say he's been the most impressive to me? I'm gonna say he's been the most impressive especially considering his situation. And that is Evan Mobley. I watch Evan Mobley switch on to Trey Young two times in a game where they end up beating the Atlanta Hawks by the way. And again, they beat the Denver Nuggets today so the Cavaliers are like really riding. They traded Torian Prince for Ricky Rubio and I don't think they even expected Ricky Rubio to turn into the prime version of himself. The version of Ricky Rubio that got drafted before Steph Curry, he's turning into that with the Cavs right now. He getting into fights with Composal and stuff. Anyway, Evan Mobley, I watched him switch on to Trey Young and hold his own. I've seen him in the pre-season, I saw him switch on to some of the Bulls guards and hold his own. And I interviewed him before the NBA draft and when I'm doing an interview, I try to do as much research on a person as possible because you know what I'm saying, I wanna make a good impression. And by that time I had watched a lot of film and I knew that the defensive impact was gonna be there. I really questioned some of his offensive capabilities and some of those instincts and how they can translate to the NBA ball because we see a ton of NBA or college defenders be really good but not be able to translate that into the NBA, especially not in their first couple games. I see defensive player of the year like potential when I see Evan Mobley play ball. And the reason why it's even more impressive is because a lot of the lineups this man has played with, he's got Jared Adler and Laurie Marketer on the court with him. He's got Kevin Love and Laurie Marketer on the court. He is always surrounded by other forward bigs and he is still doing his thing on the defensive side of the ball and even better offensive like than I expect. I thought he was gonna come in super, super raw and he has not been. He's been able to take advantage of like the smaller defenders being on his back. He's been able to shoot but what I'm more impressed with is his playmaking. JB Biggersaf gets a ton of credit from me because he's basically led an Evan Mobley play. A lot of coaches out there don't really do that. Now I know JB Biggersaf is a part of a team that's rebuilding so part of the reason he is like getting, he gets a contract is because we like, hey, we want you to help develop these younger players but he continues to let Evan Mobley be in these last minute lineups and be on the court when it matters the most. And that is crazy and very important for the development of some of these young players. Evan Mobley, ridiculous. So the next guy, fourth overall picks Scottie Barnes. I remember being in our draft stream and him jumping up to number four and I asked the chat what y'all think about it and y'all that fall for it again. Last year Patrick Williams did the exact same thing from the exact same school out of nowhere a couple of weeks before the draft people were saying he's going up to draft board, draft boards and they're both drafted at fourth overall. Last year they were like, hey, that's an L Patrick Williams don't deserve to be fourth and he turned out to be pretty solid at least a year and some change into it. And so far, Scottie Barnes is doing a similar thing but I would take on an even higher level as a rookie. People saw him as an extremely raw player. They gave a lot on the offensive side of the ball. No, the jump shot looks way more fluid than a lot of people expected. He's a guy that can get it off the glass and just run coast to coast with it. There's a play in his biggest game of his career when they were going to get to Celtics in the TD Garden where he got it off the rim when coast to coast in like four seconds Euro step layup and that caused the TD Garden fans to boot in Celtics and that was a big time moment. And even today, he did not have a good game against my Bulls but he was everywhere. Defensively, him, Ojiata Nobi, Fred Van Vleet, Pascal Siakam. I don't care who that fifth is. It could be precious, it could be Chris Bush. I don't care that team, maybe not this year. Next year, year after, who's scoring on them, bro? Legit, legit, who's scoring them? I want to look at their defensive numbers. Now they won't add today's game because it just ended but they are clamping up as a defense right now. And right now, their seventh in defensive rating, which is really good. The only problem is they don't have a lot of shot creators other than Fred Van Vleet and I guess score and draw a little bit. So they might not win a ton of games this year but again, as these players continue to grow, I don't think there's that much of a ceiling for Scotty Barnes. I legit think his potential is through the roof. Let's go straight to Josh Giddy. I remember talking to some of my Australian friends who watched him overseas and they basically gave me the scout on portive. We believe that he's gonna be really good in the NBA but it might take him a year or two to get used to the tempo and the speed of the NBA. And he hasn't really showed them yet. His best game against his 76 the other night and he showed his ability to be able to score the ball. But the thing that I was super impressed with is his pick and roll play. Oh man, he was kind of a master out there and you know, relative to him being a rookie and stuff. You know what I'm saying? He not out there looking like, I don't know, James Harden on the pick and roll with Trey Young, but you know, he was really good for a rookie against a solid defensive team. And I think his statistics would have been better than I think it was like 17, seven and eight, which is really good. I think it would have been better if he had like competent shooters around him because a lot of the times he would get past his defender on a pick and roll but since we don't trust Darry's Basely now Tobias Harris is helping over and you know, Basely is gonna miss his shot or he might not even get the look. I believe that Josh Gidee is gonna be really solid in that respect. I remember him getting drafted and Thunder's fans was like, hey, Josh Gidee's a point guard. I was like, is he really? And turns out, yeah, he can be a primary ball handler. And listen Thunder fans, y'all are super lucky by the way, because I was this close, two games into the season to say, it's a wrap for me watching them. And I mean like lifetime, like I would be okay with catching highlights of Shea because he's one of my favorite players in the league or highlights in general. But as far as watching live games of them, I had almost cut it off in game number two. But Josh Gidee ruled me back in, man. I'll be watching y'all more. Never have a guy like Franz Wagner who I haven't been able to deep dive into so that's gonna come in the future but it looks like he's playing pretty solidly too. I'm gonna transition to the very next pick which is Davion Mitchell. I am a person that is able to admit when they were wrong and I'm gonna say face-to-face or face-to-camera that I was wrong about Davion Mitchell slashed the Kings. Now Davion is legitimately the homie. I never doubted him as a player. I doubted his pick with the Sacramento Kings and I was wrong. Actually, put up the editor, put up the picture of me and Davion. Now put up the DMs of me and Davion. Like that's legitimately my boy. But I saw the Kings with D.R. Fox, Tyrese Halliburton, Buddy Heald, already at the guard positions and I didn't think he'd be able to, not that he wouldn't crack the rotation but he wouldn't be able to be as impactful as we think he could be because he's playing behind some of these dudes and I was completely wrong there. The first couple of games of his career, he played against Dan, he played against Steph, he played against like CJ McCullum and he did what he had to do. He defended them really well. Like some of those guys are like the greatest scores of their positions so he's not gonna completely stop those dudes but he slowed down the offense of some of these dudes and we knew he can do that but in the last games, he has to worry, he had his best offensive game too and I think that was his first game where his family was in too. So he just need mom, pops and whoever else was there to show up every game and he gonna mess around and win Ricky of the Year. The defense was something that we all knew was gonna translate. The man's nickname is Off Night for a reason because when he is guarding you, you're probably gonna have an off night but I'm happy that Luke Walton has found a way for him to be impactful even though some of these games they lost, he hasn't really been able to be on the floor. So his defensive impact hasn't really been shown in the crunch time and actually the last two games that they lost, it was a lot of Luke Walton back coaching. Still fire, we still fire Luke Walton gang around here. Best believe it. And the very last one, the one that has surprised me the most as far as like a name that I didn't even really know until a couple of days before the draft, Chris Dorte. And I was calling him Chris Dorte like two days ago but I learned it. I've watched the Pacers a few more times and it's Chris Dorte, wow. And it's very rare. Actually, I went back throughout Rick Harliot's history as a coach, every single team that he coached and tried to figure out how often does he allow a rookie player to come in and not just shoot as many times as he does but get the amount of minutes that Chris Dorte has so far in his career. And the answer is one player and that's Luka Dončić. He had a young Danny Grainger, Rookie Danny Grainger. Danny Grainger, he cracked the rotation in year number two. Chris Dorte came into his NBA career and was firing like no hesitation. And I believe that that shows the confidence of Chris Dorte himself, but the confidence that Rick Harliot has in Chris Dorte to allow him to take the shots that he was taking when you already have Malcolm Braga. Now things might be a little bit different if Karris wasn't injured or TJ Warren wasn't injured but they found a diamond in the rough. Rick Harliot don't be letting rookies do this. Now he is a 36 year old rookie or something like that but he is still a rookie player. And it's cool to see players that may not have been able to super blossom in college because the college game is so much different than the NBA game but my boy Pierre always says when he's watching college prospects he's not looking at what they're doing in college. He's looking for things that translate to the NBA game. And I guess Chris Dorte had a million things that translate to the NBA game because he is fearless as a scorer and you love to see that. But shout out to Chris Dorte, man. These are the type of picks that you wanna have in the late lottery slash right outside the lottery. It don't happen often. I actually, the 13th overall pick then produced a lot. The 13th overall pick be producing a ton, ton of great players. You can go do your history about it but it's crazy. And those are the players that just jump off the page for me. There are other rookies in this class that have impressed but maybe just not to that level. We still haven't seen Cade Cunningham or Jonathan Kaminga in an NBA game just yet and I'm excited to see them eventually come back. But yeah, man, 2021 draft class, killing it.