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The Indiana Pacers lost a game to the Pistons tonight where they failed to put up at least 90 points and they lost their last game to the Knicks and they failed to put up 90 points. And as an NBA fan, that's just, you know, I just want the what's best for every organization. I know it's unrealistic for every NBA fan to be happy with the direction of their organization. I have not talked to or seen a Pacers fan on the timeline that is in love with their players. Then you know what? That's actually not true because anytime I say something negative about the Indiana Pacers, I always get a group of people that say, hey bro, we're still missing TJ Warren. We're still missing, well today they missed Chris Dorte again. We're still missing this player, this player, this player and that is part of the problem. Every single year it's we're missing this player, we're missing this player. So we never get to see the full strength of this team. That is a problem. We've seen this team, this orchestration of this team about three years in a row. And it's always, dang, if X player wasn't injured, we probably would have made it out of the first round. Man, if what you recall it wasn't injured, we might have had the fourth seed instead of the sixth seed. And then last year, they had a lot of turmoil in the locker room with the head coach and it was like, you know what? We don't need to change our roster at all. The only thing we need to do this season is bring in Rick Carlisle and everything will be good. And what have we seen? It has not been good. It's frustrating because on paper, they have a bunch of players that are contributing NBA players. They have like a 10 man when they're healthy, a 10 man roster of players that can go to almost every other team and get good rotational minutes. But it has never worked out more because ah, now Karris the Verdi's injured. Oh man, Malcolm Brandon's banged up. And what makes it worse, coming to this off season, they were in rumors, ladies and gentlemen. There's a name on the market named Ben Simmons. And whether you love or you hate him, he is a guy that is on the market that can potentially make some changes in your organization. There's rumored that the Pacers were talking to the 76ers. Malcolm Brandon with Joel and B, you might have to throw in another piece like Jeremy Lamb and maybe some picks or whatever. That would have changed up their organization at least a little bit. Nah, ownership was like, we gonna extend Malcolm Brandon. So nobody can even give a call about him because now he cannot be traded for the entire season. It is so wild that they're okay with just rolling the balls out with this team. And I think the best thing that can happen to them as a fan of the NBA and one of their fans to be happy is that they missed the playoffs completely. Because if you continue to make the playoffs as a 60, but oh man, Malcolm Brandon missed 40 games. We just need him to get healthy. The organization's ownership are gonna convince themselves that we just need one more year of this core. We need one more year of this core. One more year, it's never going to work. But this is the crazy part. Because like I mentioned, there are six and 10 at the moment, right? Six and 10. Not that terrible. I mean, it is below 500, but not terrible enough. 60 games of the season that they're out of the playoff hunt. They will mark my words, ladies and gentlemen. They're gonna go on and run soon. They're gonna go on a four, five game win streak. And just like that, they're back to the sixth seed and nobody really cares again. And then they're gonna have an injury and they're gonna get to the playoffs and they're probably gonna get eliminated in the first round. It's the same cycle with the Pacers every single season. And I've been to a Pacers game. I was met with nothing but good hospitality. It feels like a college basketball game. It's like a Coliseum style. It's amazing atmosphere. But if the team is not, is feeling to score 90 points against the Pistons, then something is wrong. Again, Pistons fans, that's not a shot at all because since Kate has been in the lineup, again, you guys have been okay. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to y'all. But yeah, this is dreadful. Seven attempts for your all-star Demontus a bonus. And a lot of that is due to the fact that nobody's getting him in the ball. Kara Slivert at this point, since he's come back, he's just taking mid-range shot, shot-shucking and attempting threes that he's not gonna hit. And I can't even talk about Michael Brogdon because nothing I can say right now even matters because you can't trade him anyway. So, yeah, I don't know. Pistons fans, that's just an outside view of your organization. Let me know in the comment section how you feel. Now let's go to the next game, which is Lakers vs. Butcher. Originally, I didn't really plan on watching much of this game because since LeBron has not been in line up, the Lakers have been very hard to watch. And I've known a lot of y'all Lakers fans have noticed that since LeBron is when I was injury, I haven't really talked about y'all as an organization and y'all games recently because I can't look at what's going on and overreact to it because one of the greatest players of all time who's on your team is injured, you know what I'm saying? Like here, there's some takeaways you can get like Kim Baysmore shouldn't play anymore basketball for y'all, you know what I'm saying? Those type of takeaways we can still see, but as far as like how will this team bear in the crowd at Western Conference, it's hard for me to make an assumption because your best player, one of the greatest of all time has not been able to play. One thing I can say, at least in today's game, Russell Westberg had one of his best individual games, which is good because recently he's been better than like the first week or two of the season. And that's always the thing for Russell Westberg, right? And when he's going to a new team, it's going to take him a minute to adjust to whatever the heck they're doing. This one, even though they didn't win this game, him individually and Talon Horn Tucker, Taylor Horn Tucker, were great. It's the outside things that weren't made. Hopefully Anthony Davis is okay. He ended up playing 37 minutes, but I know he got hit in the thigh or the leg area, but it's the nickname is so terrible because he can't control the fact that he gets beat up every day. But the day that Davis is crazy because he is getting picked up every day. But it's just, I would love, and maybe I'm asking too much of Anthony Davis, maybe this is not too much. We talked about a player that was voted one of the top 75 players of all time, which I love AD, one of my Chicagoans, but that's low key wild that he's top 75 of all time. Anyway, is it too much to ask for him to draw a foul or two? I don't know, maybe it is, maybe it is, because he is dated Davis, that you don't want him banging down near and potentially getting hit in the eye and now he's missing seven games. Zero free throw attempt is kind of wild for anybody that's playing 37 minutes at the center position. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Let's turn it around, we'll talk about Yanis. The Bucks, another team that have not talked about a lot because they've been missing three stars for the entire season. Juhane recently came back and though he didn't have a great shooting game, his playmaker was up there, his defense was up there, Chris Middleton at his first game and that was one of the reasons why I really tuned in. I knew that James Christopher Middleton, which is always fun to say that his name's James, wasn't gonna have a great game because he hasn't played in a few weeks, but to have him back on the court is a step in the right direction. They still don't have Brooke Lopez, they still don't have Dante DiVincenzo and because of that, you get minutes from Semi-Ozale and there was like a two possession in a row where he was getting the ball in the block and he did like a turnaround jump shot. Brooke Lopez get well very, very soon. So Semi-Ozale can be spot minutes instead of the 14 that he got, but this one, this one was the Yanis game, ladies and gentlemen, Yanis with a 47 piece, a 47 piece and the jump shot looked as good as ever. You know, he was my pick pre-season for the ADP because, well, his jump shot was good, but the fact that the Bucks have not been near 100%, he's kind of been under the radar for the entire season. Let me look at what his actual counting stats are on the season, 28, 11 and six. I mean, he's putting up amazing stats to be in MVP conversations, but since the Bucks haven't been able to win much because of their injuries and since they haven't looked great because they're injuries, he's kind of been under the radar. Chris Middleton is back, Jorahale is back. I don't know the timetable on Dante DiVincenzo or Brooke Lopez, but if I'm not expecting Yanis to put up 47 a night, but if he's playing this nicely, he will slowly creep his way back into MVP conversations for sure. This was a beautiful, beautiful game for him. All right, the Bulls. Ah, man, you broke my heart today. You broke my heart today, but what did I say? Every time I talk about the Bulls, I never get too high and I never get too low. We were up by 20 points and this is the thing. I have been burned on this many times, right? And that's saying something, because the Bulls are never really good. Well, I started to talk a little bit trash on Twitter. I do it, you know what I'm saying? I'm an NBA fan, I'm a basketball fan. Talking trash is part of the game, ladies and gentlemen. And at halftime, Damien Lillard and CJ McCullum, they had like six points total. And like four of them were at the free throw line and the only point, only field goal they had as a backcourt was a goal, 10-call. So what did I do? I tweeted, I tweeted a lock because, hey, we were locking up the backcourt. Well, did that come back and bite me? Did that come back and bite me? Because then boys, you know what? It wasn't even the backcourt because CJ still got locked. Damien hit a couple shots in the fourth quarter, but I would still go out and let him say, he got locked. It was the surrounding pieces. And this is 100% the best win on the season for the Portland Troll Blazers to be down by 20 plus points and gets one of the better teams in the entire league. And come back and win when your two-star players weren't having great games, that's good. That's a momentum builder. And if I'm not mistaken, that puts them at a 500 team. And again, you still didn't have a great Damien Lillard game. You won this one. A lot of credit goes out to Larry Ness Jr. That third quarter he was unstoppable. I would have loved for Billy Donovan to start calling a timeout once the Troll Blazers started to, you know, it was snowballing in that third quarter. He waited very late to call the timeout. But again, never too high, never too low on my favorite team. Yes, it's the epic collapse and I hate these. But this is not the first time in the last two seasons that we've collapsed to Damien Lillard in the Portland Troll Blazers. Even when we were up by 20, I'm never gonna say this game is over, especially when I'm dealing with the Bulls. No matter who's on the Bulls team, I just know there's always a possibility with our luck that we're gonna blow a game. But they deserve a lot of credit in this one, and they definitely deserve a lot of credit. The Bulls, and listen, we're, I think on this West Coast road trip that puts us two and two. And we're going to Denver. So we need to win Denver to win this West Coast road trip, come out here, 500, or over 500. What I need from this Bulls team, until Vucovic is back, which is coming, he's getting back in shape, and he should be back very soon. We need to be better with allowing free throws. We allow 28 free throws in this one. And in the last game, even though we won, the last two games, even though we won, we had a ton of fouls. And in the first 20 seconds of the game, Tony Bradley, he had two fouls. Dear Jones Jr., he wasn't great today. He had a 16 point game and 16 minutes last game. He had 5,000 very quick minutes. We have to be better defending without fouling. Now, the defense has been good the whole season, but we got to get our fouls down, at least right now. Without having Vucovic and relying on other players that should have been getting as many minutes, that's what we're getting in trouble, you know what I'm saying? But listen, we lost, we move, you know what I'm saying? We lost, we moved south to the Portland Trailblazers on a big time comeback. Next game, we have the Charlotte Hornets beating, beating the Washington, oh, that's another reason why one of my bulls to win this was so bad, because if we've won this game, with the Wizards losing, we would have been back in first place, and I just want the screenshot. You know, 15 games of the season, we're number one. But no, no, the Wizards lost in the Trailblazer, no, not the Trailblazers, but the Charlotte Hornets win. You know, I don't have too much to say about this one because it wasn't a pretty game at all. The main reason the Washington Wizards lost is games because they did not shoot the ball. They could not shoot. There's a play, they shot 40, two threes, and they hit eight of them. You know what I'm saying? It was just the worst shooting night of their entire season. Can't look too much into it. The Atlanta Hawks beat the Boston Celtics, and this was the best game of Jason Tatum's season so far, which is a very good thing, because the last episode we were talking about how he has been very inefficient this season, how 90% of his shots are isolation, and I was listening to NoDunks with the podcast hosted by the people that used to be known as the starters. If y'all didn't know, they had a YouTube channel named NoDunks now. Go subscribe to the homies, you know what I'm saying? They've been trying to get 50,000 subscribers for a minute now, and I know a lot of y'all grew up watching the starters, and don't even know those dudes are still kicking it on YouTube. Shout out to them. I was listening to their show, and they were doing a list of the most disappointing players of the season so far, and one of the players was Jason Tatum, which makes sense, man. Though Jason Tatum hasn't been God, God awful, he hasn't been the Jason Tatum that we expected. Remember, when I was giving my pre-season award, one of my dark courses for MVP was Jason Tatum, because in my mind, Jason Tatum's gonna come out this season, and he was gonna perform individually, and maybe that may lead to the Boston Celtics winning more games than they probably should, right? That has not been the case this season. He's been super inefficient, and most of his shots, I mean, how do we phrase this? He has the lowest-maid shots on assists of his career. Is that how I'm afraid of that? Basically, his shots are coming to isolation instead of in full of the offense, catch and shoot type stuff. But today, he had a big game, 30 points, 34 points to be exact, on 50, 40, 83, which is great. Unfortunately, they don't have any offense outside of him, and if Dennis Shrewd is not having a good game, which he didn't have a bad one, but he had a good one either, then nobody else on this team can really score, especially when you have Jaylen Brown and Robert Williams not playing, it's gonna be hard to get wins. And then, another win for the Atlanta Hawks. West Coast road trip was a fluke, and just like that, the Atlanta Hawks are on a three-game win streak. Oh boy, oh boy. Y'all know a team that I'm heavily invested in is New York Knicks. Five U.S. Reads, Tom Thibodeau, Derick Rose, Todd Skipson. Okay, you understand that. So I would say 90% of Knick games. And today was one of those games where I really tuned in, because they were gonna see Orlando Magic at home. And the Orlando Magic, if I'm not mistaken, their first win of Jamal Mosley's career was in the garden against the Knicks. So I'm like, okay, let's see what the Knicks got on this one, and what they had was nothing. So shout out to Franz Wagner. Shout out to Cole Anthony, who, hey, one thing I like about Cole Anthony is I can take his threes on prize picks, and I'll be okay with the result because I know he's going to attempt a bunch of them. Like today, he was one for nine. I think his threes were at two. He didn't hit two, but it wasn't for lack of effort. He is not afraid to shoot that ball. And then Jay Lasaus came back from his injury, looked pretty solid. Late game, Terrence Ross got a steal, breakaway steal, and he did a nice dunk in the garden. And then Wendell Carter has been playing pretty solid. I think he had nine points in the fourth quarter, but he ended up with 11. And one of the last point he scored was the alley-oop late in the game. You know what I'm saying? But the next, it's starting to get a little bit worrisome. Right, and I've mentioned this to him before. I don't know how long before we look at a team, sample size, and be like, ah, this is who they are. Now, they're still one game over 500. It's not like they're a bottom-theater team, but they have not been nearly as good as what I wanted them to be or expected them to be. And most of that is due to the fact that their starters do not play well. We've mentioned this before. We talked about the stat muse, stat word, the start, it was like three games in a row, where all five of their starters had a minus plus minus, and then all five of their bench players had a positive, you know, positive plus minus. Today was not one of those days. But man, man, man, Julius Randall, and I have to say this very, very clearly. He shot 11 shots, 10 of which were threes. Hit four of those threes. That's fine. But for a guy whose play style has always been, I'm gonna bully you, bully you, bully you. I might take a turn around, mid-range jump shot heavily contested, but hit it or get to the basket. For him to go in this game and not to get to the basket one time is like, boom to me. RJ, who at some points of the season, like he was about to be a breakout player, has regressed Evan Florey, who we gave, I say we because I'm talking as I'm a Knicks fan at the moment, who we gave a big bag to set the entire second half. Right? And in this one, this is another game where Obi-Tonpin like tied his career high of 14 points. He only plays 17 minutes. He had a lot of momentum in this one. And then guess what happened? Tom Thibodeo yanked them. You shouldn't be losing to the magic at home, twice. The magic got four wins. Two of those were at the garden. I'm just saying. You know, and the Knicks have to figure it out. Man, they really have to figure it out because they are letting a lot of Knicks fans down. At the moment, man. A lot of Knicks fans are starting to talk, man. Starting to talk about the starting five. I even saw people mentioning or suggesting that Tom Thibodeo decides to bitch all the starters and start the bitch unit. Get the boys. That sounds, if that don't sound like freshman B team strategy, I don't even, if that don't sound like freshman B team strategy, you can't do that in the NBA, right? If there's anybody crazy enough to do it, it is Tom Thibodeo, so we shall see. And I feel bad about not being able to talk about this game as much as I want to. But the Phoenix Suns are now in a 10. 10 game win streak. And that is the longest win streak of the NBA season so far. The Warriors, I don't think they ended up at 10. I'm gonna go back and count. It's not that big of a deal, Kenny, but now I'm just very curious. No, the Warriors didn't even hit a 10 game. They had a four game streak and then a six game streak. And then a one, okay. So the longest active win streak in the NBA this season, double digits, the first team to do that. And y'all don't really understand how tough that is to do. Like, yes, some of the parts of their schedule when they were on this streak were against teams that are not great. But like we've mentioned a few times today, any team can win on any given night. And because the Bulls game, because the Bulls game was so close, priorities man, I had to watch my team. So as quick you go over some of the games I didn't pay too much attention to. I'm doing this specifically for the one guy that tweeted at me, these are your exact words. I'm giving it to you. The Cleveland Cavaliers are missing so many players and still came close to beating the Nets. I don't know how true that is cause I didn't watch the game but that's what the one fan said with the Cavalier logo as his profile picture. PJ Tucker put up 13 points. That was the best stat in this entire game. It wasn't the fact that Jimmy Butler had a 30 point triple double. It was PJ Tucker ending the game with 13 points on one three. If PJ Tucker was gonna put up double digit points I'd just assume he had like three threes and it may be a layup or maybe he got fouled on one of the threes in the four point play. This man ended up with, I gotta go watch all of his possessions cause I need to know how did you allow PJ Tucker to score five baskets from inside the three point line. PJ you know we love you. Next game, the King's loss. Beautiful. D'era Fox had one of his better games of the season which is good. But hopefully there's the last straw. I'm gonna go out on the limb and say Luke Walden might be fired by the time this video comes out. Finger scrolls. And I always say those type of things. I don't like doing it because obviously this is, we're talking about a person's livelihood and he has a family and everything. So I never want to root for somebody to lose their job but I'm rooting for Sacramento to get in a better state. And I mean I'm not saying exactly that firing Luke Walden will fix the Sacramento Kings but I'm just saying that it would help at least in my opinion and then very, very lastly, Lou Dort has put up 20 plus points in five plus games in a row. See my boy, Cone keeps saying that now Lou Dort is a two way player because he always said the defense but he wants to see the offense come around. He's averaging 17 and a point two on the season. That's insane. We're talking about Lou Dort. Lou Gid's Dort. Teens were leaving him wide open in the corner his first like two years of his career and now he's averaging 17. I didn't watch his game I might watch every possession of Lou Dort's 34 points tonight. All right, y'all be asking for the longer episode so here we are. Y'all better see the retention right on this video. Be crazy. But then again, we talked about the patients at the top of the show so maybe not.