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The first thing that's on my mind is going to stay worse. And it's been since January. Well, let me see my day. It is March 18th as of today and they just lost to the Grizzlies. And the last game that they won on the road was January 30th. January 30th was the last time they won a game on the road. That is a mind-blowing statistic for any team, but specifically for a team that is trying to win a championship. Specifically for a team that just won the championship last year. Have you told me a team was on an 11 game losing streak on the road? It would make sense for some teams like the Houston Rockets trying to get victory with Miyama. It would make sense for the Senators on your spurs. It would make sense for the Detroit Pistons. No, this is the Warriors. And after they lost today against the Memphis Grizzlies, they are now the worst-rolled team in all of basketball. The worst-rolled team in the entire association. It blows my mind. They are 29 and seven at the Crip and they're seven and 29. Any place is not to chase them. This is a team that is trying to win a championship. How can it be that they just can't win a road game? Now, the entirety of the NBA right now is struggling at the road. Even the best team in the league or the best team in the conference at Denver Nuggets are a sub-500 team on the road. The only team, shout out to these boys, the only team that's a good road team out West is the Kings. They're nine games over 500 there. But no team is seven and 29. The Spurs ain't seven and 29 on the road, y'all. You know what I'm saying? Are there six and 28? Percentage-wise, who's worse? It don't matter. If I got to do some mathematics to figure out if you're worse than the Spurs, then you're worse than the Spurs. Just offer it. And I keep getting tweets. And I don't even know if these are Warriors fans or just people that care of my opinion. Thank you for that, by the way. Asking me, why can't the Warriors win on the road? And the answer to that is, I literally do not know. I've watched every single one of their games in the past two weeks, I want to say. And there's a combination of a lot of different things, but they're not like, it doesn't make sense for them to only come into play on the road. Again, they are 29 and seven at home, which is the third best home record in the Western Conference. This seems in a plan. And they got the third best home record. So some of the things that I'm watching, it doesn't make sense for this to basically be going for a month and a half, but it is. Now I've heard some people that are intellectually up there when it comes to basketball. Look at the numbers, and look at the luck percentage, the adjusted luck, the boo boo boom. And the Warriors are on the road super unlucky. But even super unlucky going in one out of 11. You know what I'm saying? So it don't make sense. I watched this game against the Memphis Gris tonight. Let's talk about this one. They look very small out there. Geron Jackson Jr. had a great game, 30 plus points. He was stretching them out and he was also putting the ball on the floor, guarding by Jonathan Camighe, small ball lineups to get it right to the basket going over him. The game a couple days ago, Steph Curry had 50 of them things. Ridiculous performance, 50 of them things. Wasn't even a close game. He had to give them 50 and it wasn't close. And in today's game, where he didn't have it on completely, he wasn't the Steph Curry that he's been off season, they don't have a chance. If Steph is not Superman, they don't have a chance right now. So I'm talking to the homies because you know, I be thinking about these things and sometimes I bounce out ideas off of them. Sometimes I'll bounce ideas off of y'all before I bring it to them. But I was asking them on the podcast, why should I give them the benefit of the doubt other than the fact that they just won last year? What about this team has redeeming factors enough for me to believe that they're a legit title contender? And I asked them, am I wild for thinking that? Am I wild even having this conversation with myself? Because remember, this is, this is Steph Curry plates off to drink my green and throughout the history of them playing together, as long as they've been healthy, they've been a contending tight team. Again, they're elite at home, but like, there's not a lot of redeemable things while I'm looking at them versus some of the other teams that they're gonna have to match up against. And I'm not usually just talking about our West. Hypothetically, if they make it out of the West again, and they still got one of the juggernauts out East, they gotta be in the seven game series again. So why should I believe this team that is tied or close to the worst role team in basketball can get it done in the playoffs? Cause you're asking them, no matter what, right now they're the seventh seed and the idea of them getting up to the fourth seed to get home court advantage at least in the first round don't seem likely. It is just three games. It is just three games. But you gotta win on the road to make up those three games, you know what I'm saying? So regardless if they make the playoffs, cause it's not even a guarantee at this point, we're asking them to at least win one game on the road and basically be perfect in the home games. They get every series. That is a lot to do. And even if they are Steph Curry, Draymond, Clay Thompson, one of the greatest trios we've seen ever, this is a lot. It just objectively is. And they don't want to be in the playing, y'all. They were in the playing two years ago and they were the higher seed and lost two games at Mystic completely. So being in the playing for everybody is like, oh, we don't want to do that. But for the Warriors, not so much. Now you could say if you're a Warriors for, hey, right now we're the seven seed in the playing and that means we're going to be in a chase center. Right now we're money at the chase. But still, you don't want to be in this position. If they do win that first game, let's say they stay in the playing, they win that first game. I mean, they're going to be on the road. Everybody's talking about the, oh, get the Kings in the playoffs. Everything's getting the Kings in the playoffs. Everything going to be good. Bro, have we watched the same Kings team? Like, I know they don't have the experience of the Warriors do. The Warriors have four championships with that core and some years that they didn't win, they was in the finals, you know what I'm saying? They have a lot of experience with that core and the Kings basically have nothing outside of Harrison Barnes. But are we watching this Kings team right now? I know their defense is lacklustre at the moment, but they scored with the best of them and they got one of the best home court advances in basketball too. So like it's, I don't know how I can put the Warriors personally. You caught me crazy and I'll accept that. I don't know how I can personally put them in the upper echelon right now, especially considering the big elephant in the room when we talk about the Warriors we don't know about it wins. I'm not even thinking about the rumors that's out there. I'm not even gonna comment on it cause I don't believe nothing until it's factual. Will he come back this season? And if he doesn't, GGs, if he does, I mean we just saw a whole playoff run last season. He was the second best player on this team. So he matters that much. But if he not hooping no more, I just can't look at them and say, oh yeah, we should write them in as a title contender cause I just, I'm watching this team every night. And I just, I'm not seeing it, y'all, I'm just not seeing it. And they're 500 team at the moment. They're 500 team. And again, majority of teams in basketball are about 500 right now feels like, but like, I don't know, man. You let me know what you think about the Warriors. Am I tripping with that idea? I don't know. Next thing I wanna talk about is Lonzo Ball. Give me a couple seconds to talk about my bulls who are now one and a half games above the Indiana Pacers for the 10th spot in the play-in. Friday for the spot to lose to the Milwaukee Bucks in the playoffs. Again, the Lonzo Ball stuff just makes me extremely sad, man. And I'm not just saying that from the perspective as a bulls fan, I'm saying that as a NBA lover. Because if you watched Lonzo Ball in the last season, you saw that he was taking on strides again, he wouldn't go be who they call him, Jason Kint 2.0 or what did Corzimba call Lonzo Ball? I gotta go look it up. Why can't I find the video? Oh, Steph Curb with a 40 inch vertical. That's what he called them. Hey, that video bang though, 2.5 million views. Do you think, Corzimba? He didn't turn it to Steph Curry with a 40 inch vertical or anything like that. But he was starting to take strides for himself. We look at the numbers with him in the projected star lineup for the Bulls, Lonzo Ball, Zach Levin, DeMar DeRose, and Patrick Williams, and Nicola Busavis. They played five games together. They were four in one. They had a net rating of 9.6. It's a small sample size, but they were good. And when Lonzo Ball and Alistair Russo on the court together, they were causing havoc and Lonzo was in the 98th percentile when it comes to catch and shoot threes. Like, a lot of things were going right for Lonzo Ball. And unfortunately, he has his injury and now he's going in for his third surgery and he's saying his career is in jeopardy. It is just overall a sad, sad ass story. And I'm gonna say this right here, of course, I'm wishing him nothing but a healthy recovery. Again, not even as a Bulls fan, but this is person to person. I just, I hate the idea of somebody's, somebody losing out on the thing that they love the most. And obviously, as an NBA player, what he loves the most is the game of basketball. I can imagine this YouTube stuff getting taken away from me where I just gotta chill and not do it. Like, this is what I'm passionate about. And Alonzo Ball is gonna have two full seasons, two and a half seasons where he won't be able to hoop. It just sucks. It just sucks, so get well soon as well. But it got us, me and the homies start talking about this article that we have saw. And I think Baxter Holmes in 19, not 19, what am I talking about? In 2019, he wrote an article named These Kids are Ticking Time Bombs, A Threat to Youth Basketball. And this was a story, a write-up about, well not, man, not Jesus right now, but about AAU and the culture around it. And basically you're saying that, hey, these players be going into the NBA and they already got miles and miles and miles in their body because they're doing AAU tournaments on the weekly basis. And it's not just one game. Some of these AAU tournaments is like four games in a day and they're doing this all the time. And it feels like, and it feels like in a lot of cases you need these tournaments to even make a name for yourself so people can know who you are. So even if you wanna go the route of just chilling, I don't wanna play five games this weekend, coach, you can't really do that and get your name out there at the same time. So these kids are coming in, their bodies are developing, they're putting all this wear and tear in their body, they get to the league and, well, they are already like, and you're four to NBA careers are rookie because they got so much time on it. So I'm sure we're gonna have an entire debate and conversation about that, but it just boils down to like, these boys have been hooping for so very long. I can't say that that's the reason Lonzo Ball got injured, obviously, but it's just unfortunate. And I don't know, bro, because again, I'm a parent, right? So I always try to think about it from a parent's perspective. If my boy told me or my girl told me they wanted to run or play AAU, how would I feel about it? I can't say, nah, you good, and like, no, we wanna save those leagues until you 20, knowing that the, even if they play AAU, don't mean that they gonna make it to the league. So it's like, I don't even know what to stand on I played AAU when I was a kid. Now, it wasn't this intense. I wasn't on the high levels like Lonzo Ball and those type of dudes, but I played in my fair share tournaments and it was like that. Also wasn't playing the full games like some of these dudes we play. We also didn't have mix tapes when we were nine years old because I played from 10 years old to 12. So we didn't have mix tapes back then, but I do have a team picture and I don't know where any of them dudes are nowadays. Not a single one of them. I can tell you what one of them is doing. I hope they're doing fine. Couple of quick hitters, I do wanna say I've loved them what I've been seeing from Jabard Smith Junior over the last couple of weeks. The energy is like that. You know what I'm saying? You hit the game winner. He's talking to the camera. He's talking to people. I love somebody that can get emotional moments like that because if you look at the way his career has been up to this point, it's been underwhelming for sure. But in the last couple of weeks, he's looking like the guy that they drafted third overall and I'm loving that it's coming around for him. Oh my God, with the 76ers win today, we just updated the 76er to two seed now. Look at that. Joel and Bede on an absolute tear. I'm just saying, bro, we made the video about the MVP race earlier this week. I'm gonna make another one, but it's about as close as it's ever been in my lifetime. And I'm loving it. Joel and Bede is out there killing. He said in his interview today that he could play make more, but that's just not his role. Which makes sense. Obviously he ain't gonna be on the Yolkens level less. Come on, man. But like, it makes sense. I would say his playmaking has gotten dramatically better throughout the course of his career. Something we talked about about a year and a half ago where he sees it going, he's doubles and he had the where with all is at the where and to make the right pass and stuff like that. And people, I saw people tweet the clip of him getting double team the other day and he threw it behind the rim or whatever. He has become a plus playmaker, but it's just not part of his role right now. So I cannot believe that they took the two seed. I mean, the Boston Celtics have been kind of existing for like a couple of weeks now. Let's be real. They're five and five in their last 10. And I wanna look at where they at since the All-Star break. Cause I think, you know what I'm saying? Tatum came out the gate after the All-Star break and he was struggling. It's the All-Star break. They are seven and six. Is that right? That makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. Seven and six, they're All-Star break, which is slightly above 500. That's not very good. And then some of those games, we talking about 20 point blown here, 20 point blown there. I turned off this game against the Jazz today, thinking that they had it wrapped up. They were up about seven with two minutes to go and they listened to this basketball. I should know about it. But like I turned it off because there's Celtics and it's Jazz, and Jazz is missing this player here, here. So that's a Chris Dunn. Happy to see you back in the association. I turned it off. They got a notification clutch block Walker Kessler and they lost the Celtics lost the game. And right now they're looking league average and a lot of the stuff since the All-Star break. And some people are saying, oh, they're just bored. They're gonna cut it back on, come play off time. But I just hate that idea. I hear it all the time about like good, very good teams when they start to slump. Oh, they just bored. They'll be all right. And yeah, in some cases you're right. You know what I'm saying? Everting goes through the ups and downs of the season. But like at what point do we stop looking at somebody going through a down and say, this is something to be concerned about. I don't know. I'm not saying to be concerned about the Boston Celtics either. I'm just saying for some people it should be worrisome and some people maybe not so much. I didn't realize it was that bad. And I actually don't even know if this accounts for tonight's game. They might be seven and seven since the All-Star break, which would be literally 500. So yeah, something to just watch closely. Just watch very closely because, well, the 76 is whoever, whoever ends up getting the two seed. I cannot say. I mean, I guess it don't matter too, too much. But whoever has a two seed, once these two teams go against each other in the second round, it's gonna have that game seven if it goes to them. And I think that's kind of a big thing. You know, I think it's kind of a big thing to have a game seven in your home spot. Cause I'm saying that they're gonna make it, right? Both of those things go make it to the Conference Finals in another team. That's gonna take that away. That's under that. You know what I'm saying? Cause the two seed gonna go against the play-in team. I trust the 76 and the Celtics versus all the play-in teams right now. Then the three seed is gonna go against the six seed. Who has of right now is the Brooklyn Nets. I trust whoever the two to three seed is. So those two teams probably gonna go against each other in the seven game series and whoever ends up as that two seed is gonna have that game seven at home. And the Bucks showed us last year that you do want that game seven at home, man. You do want that game seven at home. So yeah, it's important. All right, so enough talking. I'm gonna try to be better. I keep saying that, but I mean it this time around. We just gonna be chatting about hoops and some of it gonna be rambling, rambling. Most of it's gonna be rambling, but to deal with it is.