 Good Monday morning. This is a run it back stand. Duel Keeve joined by my great friends Chandler Parsons and Lou Williams here and Shamsherania joining us from his lair out in Chicago as he gets ready for the trade. Are you trade deadline prepping already Shams? I mean it ten days away so we're ready. We're definitely getting ready right now. The drinks and like you're you're just stuck in that house for a while until then but the good news is up until then we've got things to talk about and this last week was just a scoring juggernaut if you will. I'm gonna throw this full screen up. Well I'm not somebody who control room is but I just want to point it out. We had eight players with 40 or more points four of them with 60 or more and two dudes had over 70. Okay which one of these was the most impressive. Good luck. See I think it was Joellen Bede. Me and Lou are going to argue on this one. I think first of all this is a statement game. It was against women Yama National TV. He wanted to prove that this is going to dominate him from start to finish and it was efficient. He got to the free the line. I don't think he took his first three to the second half. It's it's he was just a sheer check performance. They won the game was actually closer than I thought it'd be. I think they only end up. Thank you. Only 10 points. You're happy with the 10 point loss there. But this was down my career high and and rebounds with 18. So to me this was a tone setter. This was an example. He said all right Wimby you're gonna be the future of the NBA. But right now it's mine. And then he sat out against Jokic. So piggyback off of Joellen Bede. I was I guess I was a little tone deaf watching that game because I just remember then on my phone constantly looking up and I was like damn he's not passing the ball at all. And that was gone and he was going for that was my initial thought. And then we looked up and I was like he might have 40 at halftime. And so but my pick is going to be my pick is going to be Luca Dunch. It's returning to Atlanta efficient 73 points. Damn they had a triple double with it. 10 and 7 to go along with it. And like we always like to talk about it's against a team that originally drafted him and traded him away for the rights to Trey young. So we talk about statement games him and him and Trey young. They have this weird little quiet Cold War rivalry that's not really talked about a lot. So for him to go to Atlanta and do this was very impressive to me. This is this is going to get my vote. Yeah. I mean this game was insane too. And honestly the best week is Devin Booker. The guy's average of 50 points. And I would say the P.J. Washington watched it. Way to get in there. He just knocked on that screen putting up. Yeah. No I'm saying that's that's what if. Hold on. What if that's Shams favorite performance of the week. Shams. There's no who are you most impressed by this past week. I'm breaking the time going with Luca Dodge. Any time you can have the most points since Kobe Bryant 81. You have to pick that player. Second player since Kobe Bryant to have multiple 60 point games before turning 25 as well. Like Lou's just said he did against the team that drafted him. He did against Trey young. He didn't Atlanta. They were shorthand without Kyrie Irving without Dante Exum in the lineup. And I mean honestly just watching that game compared to Joel Embiid's game. Joel Embiid was shooting a lot down the stretch. Luca Dodgers I think could have had 80. I think there were moments where he passed the ball up. He was in situations where he could have been fouled went to the free throw line but he passed the ball. He's making the right basketball play. There was one play he also he drove kicked out to teammate multiple times. I just think he could have had 80 but he played the right way and he took the ball. The defense gave and the defense wasn't really that present against Dallas. The defense gave him everything Shoms. So you could have had the 80. We're talking about Gunnar and Carl Anthony Towns. They were trying to get him 100 in the first half. Yeah and didn't even score in the first half. He was watching him. It's hard when you get going like this though. You want to get your teammate involved. You want them to set a record and this was the first week of games where I said like oh my god someone could actually get close to 100 points. Like what are we saying. I want to see that. It's ridiculous how all these games are unbelievable. So let me ask you because they're always going to be negatives to everything right. Do you are there any negatives to having these types of performances. Is it watering anything down for you. I think for old head basketball players I think they're watered down because there's given them the opportunity to shatter all these records there are getting to the free throw line a lot like when you see Joel and beat getting 25 27 free throws. That's not fun for a fan experience but I will say fans kids they like points they like scoring when you grow up when asked someone as you how you play the first question is how many points did you have. That's what the NBA is entertaining. That's why it's fun. So I think it's great for the league to have this but yeah now as a coach like a Steve Kerr who hates it. Yep. How do you coach the defense now because these guys are getting so elite at getting to the line drawing fouls getting players in foul trouble to where they are forced to be in the bonus and go to the free throw line. So it goes both ways but yeah I think it's more entertaining for fans and for NBA people to watch points being scored high scoring games. Yeah I think I think Joel 70 was first and I was like this is this is great and then Katz was was next and I was like wow this is amazing like two big guys really going at it and then by the third when I was like this looks bad. Yeah. I was like you know this looks bad. This is a this is an eyesore because now you're going to have people complaining about the lack of defense being played and trust me guys guys that are who are defensive minded in the NBA they're trying they're putting out the effort but the rules stands on the offensive guy side. We do have to understand we are in the sports entertainment business. Fans love to see a lot of points being scored. It's almost impossible to touch guys now and they're just rigging these guys that can score the high clip they're just rigging these games up but you give a guy like Luca you give them credit man they're making a bunch of shots too. Yeah it's not like teams and coaches don't go through training camp and work on their defense and schemes and coverages and stuff you saw Joel and Pete he was getting triple teamed at one point. Right. They didn't want him to keep scoring this they were just they were convinced that alright we're going to foul them or we're going to make someone else do it but as a coach it is getting impossible to be able to teach these guys how to defend without giving up this many points because we already know the three pointers are going up at a high rate the pace is played at a faster rate so that naturally there's going to be more points. What about the idea that Steve Kerr said that changes actually need to be made to defensive positioning do you think is that even realistic. No because when you can't make these players less talented they're still going to change the rule to something else they're going to find ways around it to continue to score to continue to get the whistle called for them so it doesn't matter whatever it is look at the load management thing you can control that to a point right guys you're still going to find ways to sit out games and miss games and still meet the threshold of being these awards so no matter what it is I do think coaches it's tough for but again I think this is great for the NBA I think it's great for the fans because people want to see this entertainment my only requirement those you have to win the game and you can't have the 62 and oh yeah we don't celebrate no we don't celebrate he was he was probably that I don't know if the Charlotte was the only guy who was Devin for a lot of Portland I'm assuming lost when he had 40 but like that to me is the least impressive I think I think cats was the only one that no I think Devin had a couple what Devin had a he had 40 one of those 40s is a loss look at Devin's week not one game them particularly a 40 in the loss we've seen that movie before but a 60 in the L that's kind of and you can always argue they lost the game going to him trying to feed him they got lost they they got lost in it in a different type of dolls yeah I like that