 What's the word y'all? The NBA does a good job when it comes to scheduler. Adam Silver completely understands his demographic. Today, they gave us a 12 game slate and we had battle after battle after battle. With 12 games, obviously I couldn't watch everything, but we had a ton of battles. And then tomorrow, we have just a simple one game slate because even Adam Silver realizes that the diehard NBA fan, like me, is still gonna watch day one of March Madness over anything NBA really. Oh, I guess the first day of the round of 64 because March Madness started up. Either way, they understand that even they can't compete up to March Madness. Would I rather watch games 67 of the regular season than the NBA or a one game elimination where people are giving a y'all and at the buzzer, somebody 100% is gonna cry? Give me the second option. You feel me? And the game that they did give us tomorrow is the battle for the 15th seed. It is Detroit versus Orlando. You know what? That's kind of like a little March Madness because the teams are just so young. But no, I'm gonna take March Madness to 100% of the time. So today they gave us 12 games. And you know what? Some of these games are better than other summer games. I decided not to watch completely but we're gonna open up the show. Let me say it. As a diehard Bulls fan, I am no longer having fun. The honeymoon stage for me as a Bulls fan with this roster is over. And I hate to say that, man. You know what? It lasted pretty good. I think I might be going to last Bulls fans to get out of the honeymoon phase, but it's official, man, it's official. But before we deeply talk about that, it's back talk, ladies and gentlemen. It's not often that we get ads on this channel, but we got one today. So shout out to our sponsor. Today's video is brought to you by Keeps. Fellas, let me keep it real with you. Two out of three of us will experience some form of male pattern baldness by the time with 35. 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We gotta get our bags. So hit that link in the description. Let's start off talking about the bulls because we fall to another good team. This one, the fight escort ended up being 125 to 110 and the bulls lost to the Utah Jazz in the game where in the third quarter, Donovan Mitchell absolutely dominated. You know, I watched this game when the first half, Donovan Mitchell was struggling slash he wasn't taking a lot of shots. I think he had like five, seven points at halftime. And in my mind, I knew that that was not sustainable. There's no way you're gonna prevent Donovan Mitchell from at least having 25. And in that third quarter, I think he had 25 by himself in that quarter. Like the pick and roll defense for the Chicago Bulls has to be one of the worst in the entire league. I don't have the advanced status to prove that, but it just feels like when you have a very good pick and roll player, the bulls are going to get dominated. And I'm past the honeymoon phase of the bulls. I'm still excited for the fact that we are gonna have playoff basketball in Chicago because even at the record of 41 and 28, that's better than a lot of people expected. And I think coming into the season where we were talking about on my podcast or even across this channel, I mentioned plenty of times before, even when we were the height of the days where the bulls were seven and zero or seven and one and we beat up on the Lakers when everybody thought the Lakers were a good team. I said multiple times on all my platforms that I did not see this bulls team as a championship team as a contender, all of that. But they were still like a 2% chance deep down. The bias bulls fan to me was like, if the pieces fall right, it's a possibility. I just don't see that as a reality because we're getting to the point now where like I'm tuning into bulls games against good teams and I'm like, how much we losing by today? You know what I'm saying? I hate to do that because it's my team and we're supposed to be good at this point. Like when you're a rebuilding team, you can do that. And you know what I'm saying? You don't feel guilty about it. But I feel guilty having that feeling when we're going to get good teams because this roster has a showcase that they can be competent, good talent. And what makes it worse is with these last 13 games left for the season, we have the hardest schedule and the entire NBA with today's loss and the Boston Celts is winning. We've lost the fourth seed and now we're the five seed potentially going against the Boston Celts as if the season were to end today. That's a terrible matchup for us. That's the first round exit for my bulls potentially. You feel me? And with 13 games left, we still got to play against the Suns once which is coming up on this Friday. We got to go against the Heat once. We have to go against the Bucks two more times. Somehow we've only played the Bucks two times a season. We have to play against Boston one more time, Minnesota and then the Toronto Raptors. Those are our toughest games left and we got a couple easy ones but even the easy ones haven't been necessarily easy for the bulls recently. We just lost to Sacramento and so we have Washington, we have New York and we have New Orleans. Those are our easiest games left and those aren't even like guaranteed wins. So it's getting a bit interesting now. The one thing that you can say about the Chicago Bulls that maybe they're looking out on as far as them as an organization is the sixth seed who is the Cleveland Cavaliers who deal with so many injuries. They're getting so unlucky that they still have a two game lead on them but they're even playing teams very well. I mean, they haven't won a lot of their games recently but they're playing teams very well and they feel like a coin flip on some of their recent games. So with the tough schedule that we have left, holy crap, am I really about to say that the Bulls could be a play-in team? They're two games up on the play-in because the Toronto Raptors won tonight too. Oh, snap. I don't even want to think about that anymore, right? We move on to the next topic, bro. That would be tragic to go from a team that was consistently one, two, three seed to drop to the play-in and go against Brooklyn. Oh, a Bulls fans, like keeping in the book, that's a possibility this season. That's like, if I'm looking at Toronto, Toronto's middle of the pack when it comes to strength of schedule. The Cleveland Cavaliers are in the bottom third when it comes to strength of schedule. So we have the toughest role left of the season with 13 games left. We go against the Toronto Raptors one more time this season. We need to win that one. I think only time will tell. Playoff basketball, we'll be back in Chicago, but will it be a four game or will it be a seven game series or will it be a win or go home? Damn, I'm so mad at myself for even getting that thought in my head. Let's move on to the next game. Some of these are definitely gonna be rapid fire. Birthday boys Joel and Bean end up with 35.17 rebounds, five assists. In a game where he only shot 10 free throws and I say only that feels like low for Joel and Bean. And I remember I clicked on this game. It was the first game of the day. I'm like, all right, let's see how they match up against Joel and Bean. Will it be Evan Mobley? Cause I was super excited to potentially see the rookie Evan Mobley who is one of the better rookie defending big men that I've seen in a very long time. I was curious to see will he get the Joel and Bean assignment? Most of the time. And no, they gave it to Lori marketing. And though again, Joel and Bean had an amazing game, 35 points on 19 shots and efficient with it. I don't think that Lori marketing played them very bad. Like the Cavaliers, like I said, our team that feels like a coin flip a lot of nights where they just struggled to close things out. Man, they were given a lot of hustle. Lori marketing is diving all over the floor. You got, you got big shots from Isaac O'Coro but they just didn't have enough to put it away. That third quarter run was ridiculous. But then you got Tyrese Maxey stepping up. You got Tobias Harris having one of his best games with James Harden in the lineup. But the thing about the 76ers recently at least and probably gonna be the thing when it comes to playoff time is the depth just did not showed up show up. I do not understand. And I might sound like a hater right now. But hey, I don't understand how DeAndre Jordan continues to get opportunities dog. I don't understand. I'm at the go back. I'm looking at DeAndre Jordan. He's played for Philly. He's played for LA. He's played for Brooklyn two years before that. And so I would say these last two to three seasons for DeAndre Jordan have been like nothings. And he continues to get constant. And listen, every NBA player that I've talked to that has had DeAndre Jordan in the locker room admits that DeAndre Jordan's one of the best teammates they've ever had. But like, if I need a backup center, I don't know if DeAndre Jordan is a dude I'm signing at free age. I mean, again, I don't know my options where I guess Moses Brown was an option, right? You feel me? Willie Collison is an option. I just don't understand how DeAndre Jordan keeps doing it. I mean, I guess you could probably convince yourself, whew, DeAndre Jordan for 10 minutes again. Can you just hold it down for 10 minutes? We have one of the best centers if not the best center in the entire league. We need 10 minutes of rest for Joel to be tonight. He's not effective. And I don't trust him or pretty much anybody on their bench. Other than, I guess, Jordan Yang, I trust a little bit. The last couple games he's been struggling to get the ball in the basket. But I trust him a little bit. But other than that, their depth is definitely a big question mark. And I got people tweeting at me like Kenny, why is everybody holding the microscope on the Philadelphia 76ers where you make the biggest trade of the deadline? And it was a trade to try to win a championship. So yes, you're gonna get scrutinized a little bit more than you normally would a month or two months after a big old trade like that was shown on one of the bigger games of the day when it comes to playoff seating and everything was a Charlotte Hornets beating the Atlanta Hawks. These two teams were neck and neck when it came to the ninth seed and the tenth seed. And with this win, the Charlotte Hornets take over to ninth seed during a three game win streak which is crazy because it just feels like just last week we were talking about them being really bad. They're the hottest in the league, team in the league sometimes and the coldest team in the league a week later. It does not make any sense. But you know what was very interesting to me. First of all, the defensive scheme against Trey Young tonight was probably the one that more teams should throw at him. Trey Young for the Atlanta Hawks to win a lot of their recent games Trey Young had to be dropping 40. Today he wasn't able to drop 40 because they were throwing double teams that broke every opportunity. I think he had nine assists in the first quarter because they were getting the ball out of his hands and luckily early on at least his teammates were hitting their shots and they just prevented Trey Young from doing anything that Trey Young would normally do. That's a great defensive scheme against Trey Young. And what I thought was very interesting is the post game interview with Trey Young. Let me read you some of these thoughts from Trey. Last year the ball was bouncing our way. I think we had a little bit of luck that came with it. I mean, we had guys healthy. We had guys ready to go. I think Gallo missed most of this game tonight. That hurt us. He's playing really well. Just another guy down. I think that's really the difference. I think last year we kind of had a little bit more luck on our side. I think that's what any team that goes all the way needs a little bit of. Reading is definitely a thing that is not my strong suit but I think that's a very interesting perspective for them because if you're talking about the most disappointed teams in the NBA, the Lakers are gonna come up 100% of the time. You think about the aspirations. The Knicks are gonna be mentioned a lot as well. But the Atlanta Hawks are another team that is super disappointed. We consider the run they're going on or they went on last year compared to what they are now. They are at the end of the playing right now. We talked about a team that was in the Conference Finals. And luckily for them, this is not a big market team like New York or LA. So people ain't really thinking about it like that. But this has been an extremely, extremely disappointing season. And what Trey Young's saying is very, very true. When it's something I've mentioned to people many a times before, that in order to make a deep run, in order to make a Finals or even in order to win a Finals, you have to have a ton of luck. You know, you don't wish injuries on anybody. You don't wish that somebody gets suspended for kicking somebody else in the nuts. But there takes a lot of luck to do these things. Of course you gotta be skilled. You have to be a team, a player that is able to take advantage of these things. But there takes a lot of luck. And last year, they had a lot of that. They also had a lot of good players. You know, it has to be a balance of the two. And this year, they're not having a lot of luck when it comes to their injury history or they're not having a lot of luck as far as the players that they expected to take a jump haven't taken a jump. Like you can go down every champion in NBA history, I would assume. I'm not doing the exercise. And just point out a moment where they got lucky. One way or another, point out a moment where they got lucky. If it was the 73 and nine warriors getting beat, where it's the Draymond Green suspension help opened up a door for the Cavaliers. Last year, James Harden, Cary Irvin, and then Kevin Durant stepped on a line. That was the Bucks championship right there. What's the Lakers one? Is it the bubble? Is that the luck involved in it? Is that the bubble? You let me know, I don't really know. The Toronto Raptors, you saw Kevin Durant and Clay Thompson get injured. But you also have opportunities that people don't take full advantage of. Like the Utah Jazz had Kawhi Leonard go out in injury and couldn't close a series. So it takes good players, but a ton of luck to continue to advance in the playoffs and eventually win a championship. Maybe the game of the day, man, you got a game-winner. I buried a lead with the game-winner. I keep doing that. Spencer Denwoodie, or win-win-win-win-win-Witty ends up hitting a game-winner where it was the Luka versus Kevin Durant show. Oh, okay. Kevin Durant hit the big shot. This was not an amazing game per se for Kevin Durant, but he hit the big shot where like Luka hits the turnaround jump shot from the elbow. And I was like, eh, that was clean. Three seconds later, Kevin Durant, double team, three feet behind the line, cashed a three. Cause he said, we want to go up one. We're not trying to send us to overtime. And they knew what they, I think Luka and the entire Dallas Mavericks team kind of knew what they were going to do in this last recession. They were going to throw a double team late at Luka. And it was about Luka either making a decision to hoist up a shot or find his teammate. And he found Spencer Denwoodie to hit the second game-winning three, game-winning bucket in his short time with the Dallas Mavericks back to back games. And now I got to say this, this trade has turned into the Spencer Denwoodie trade. He has been the most productive of any player that is associated with this trade. I know we only a couple of weeks past it, but it's the fact. And people made an argument. The original Chris Stapps, Brazilian trade when he got traded from New York was the Tim Hardaway, Jr. trade. This one has been a Spencer Denwoodie trade. Shout out to him. I'm not really worried about this for the, for the Brooklyn Nats that he's just on the back to back. Even though yesterday, I was a back to back for them, but they didn't really play basketball yesterday. It was the Carrie Irvin show. It felt like they was just out there doing whatever they wanted to. I Carrie Irvin cooked, but it wasn't back to back for them. And they don't have Carrie Irvin for a majority of the games left of the season. But Luca, man, Luca, you know what? You know what's so crazy? I mean, I've been the All-Star weekend a few years in a row. So I have seen Luca play live, but I need to see him in like games that matter. You know what I'm saying? More than the All-Star game. So next time he's in Chicago, I got to pull up or maybe make a road trip. Milwaukee does play as Dallas again this season, but I don't, I can't tell you if that's home or away for him. So I'm gonna have to see what I could do. But if I could take a road trip to Milwaukee to watch the game, cause I ain't been to the new Milwaukee arena just yet. So I'm gonna have to pull up, bro. Cause Luca's ridiculous. The Lakers lost by 22, the Timberwolves. And though I did not watch a ton of this game, I did watch a little bit. And I'm more interested about the post game shenanigans between Russell Westbrook, the entire Minnesota Timberwolves scene. If you did not know, the Minnesota Timberwolves swept the Lakers in the regular season series and they beat them by 10 plus points in every single one. And right after this game, I got a notification from Bleach Report that I thought was so very interesting. LeBron James led team falls to 11 games behind 500 for the first time since his rookie season. Insanity. And then it got to the debate in the party about, is this the worst team LeBron James ever played with? And my argument was, is it the worst team on paper? Absolutely not. Is it the worst team by talent? Absolutely not. But by execution, very, very good case. Again, I did not watch this game, so I can tell you the ins and out of it, but I have seen the clips that have surrounded or circled around Twitter. They're not good looking for anybody involved on the Laker side, whether it be the Patrick Beverly Sneaky behind Russell Westbrook, still in the offensive rebound from Mellow and going right up, talking trash. And then you got the one play where Russell's not even guarded by Patrick Beverly. Patrick Beverly gives this man 10 feet of space to do whatever he wants. And instead of Russell Westbrook making a move and maybe getting to the basket, try to throw an entry pass and it's intercepted by Patrick Beverly. You got the corner three that is shot up in the air. It's an air ball. Now you got Kat doing the Al Hoofer thing. And then Patrick Beverly looking to see if there's a win in the arena. I love meaningless trash talk. And this is a reason why I love Patrick Beverly. I know he's a very polarizing player in the NBA history. I love Patrick Beverly. I love meaningless trash talk because he does it all the time. It doesn't matter the situation. I understand he's a dirty player and I don't like that side of him. But overall, I know what Patrick Beverly brings to the team and I know how he can impact a team. And I like this meaningless trash talk and I like this rivalry, if that's what you're gonna call it between Russell Westbrook and Patrick Beverly because Russell Westbrook throughout the course of their career has won this rivalry for a majority of it. But now Patrick Beverly is winning. They swept them in the season series. They beat him by 10 plus points every time. And Russell Westbrook has struggled in a lot of these games. So after the game, Russell Westbrook goes to the podium. He's asked about this trash talking or these antics and he says, nobody on this team has done anything, anything to warrant the trash talk that they are spending. And I just don't agree with that. I don't think you need to have a whole of fame resume to pop your collar a little bit. That's all. I don't think you need to be a person that's been in the finals. I don't think you need to be a former MVP to pop your collar a little bit. I think it's cool. I think it's fine. It's a regular season game of basketball. And this team gets up to play y'all. Y'all are the LA Lakers. Majority of teams are gonna come up or get up to play against you because you have some of the most historically gifted basketball players of all time. LeBron James is might be the greatest player of all time. He's one of these number two. Dwight Howard is a Hall of Famer. You are Hall of Famer, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony is Hall of Famer. So yes, these are people that the people are gonna get up to play against y'all and y'all still be not doing nothing. So I hate the idea of like you, and Russell Westbrook, you have to be a former MVP to talk trash to him. It's kinda lame. It's kinda lame. I want a world where the Patrick Beverly's of the world can talk trash and also you Russ. I miss seeing you rock the baby. I need you to get back to that point. I ain't saying bro rock a baby or call somebody a baby in a minute. And I know it's hard to do something like that when you can't win a game unless LeBron is dropping 50. You know? And I understand post-game interviews has never been a Russell Westbrook thing. He's never given you a really good answer in a post-game interview. But this one rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. And even, I guess you can look at it from banter in itself, it might have been blown out of proportion for sure, but it's okay to trash talk. Lonnie Walker hit a game winner. You know what? I watched the majority of this game and I don't really have any crazy takeaways other than Shaya Silling-Guardable when he puts his head down and try to get to basket. Dears Basley has had 20 plus points in three straight games. Poku had a great defensive possession on Dejanse Murray. He had a game-winning layup, at least that's what we thought it was going to be. And he scored 10 plus points in this last, like five games or so. But you did get Lonnie Walker, who did not have a good shooting night, but he ended up with a dub and he hit the game winner. Dejanse Murray, a good counting stats game. Counting Johnson, again, has just continued to be a sniper early in the season. Bro, you had to pay him to take shots in three pointers specifically. And now he's doing that. And he has this release point that it's always looked like he kind of lean it. You know what I'm saying? Getting a good contest on it is basically non-existent. And they win this game. Okay, see, this is a good loss if you ask me. You competed, but you lost and just improved the lottery odds. You know what? The Celtics Warriors game is something that didn't get a lot of eyes to me. And I know people are tweeting me, Marcus Smart must be stopped, but I don't even know what Marcus Smart did. I saw that Steph and Curry left the game in the second quarter. I don't, was that because of Marcus Smart, I would have to go back and look. I don't even really know what happened in this one. I did see that they scored like 32 points in the first half. So that's not great. And then lastly, the Raptors sneak away with a win again, some controversial calls down the stretch, folks, show some bad boxing out down the stretch, folks, show. And Freddie missing two free throws down in the clutch. I don't really like that, Freddie. We gotta be, we gotta be better. Scottie Barnes, big plays down the stretch, but I really want to talk about Pascal Siaka because he has been absolutely incredible in this month. And this is not even calling. Oh, this is now including tonight's game. Shout to ESPN for being up to date with their statistics. This month from March 1st to March 16th, and that is two, four, six, eight, nine games. He has been averaging 26 points per game, five assists, eight rebounds, 50% from the field, 42% from three. And the team has only lost three games in that span and currently on a five game win streak. Pascal Siaka, again, if he was playing like this to start the season when he's come back from his injury, I think he would have been a guaranteed all-star. I think he might even be in conversation for all NBA if he was playing like this, but in due time, Pascal, it ain't going unnoticed completely. We are here. The people that are watching are watching and we understand how good of a season you're actually having in the grand scheme of it all. And it couldn't happen at a better time because just two weeks ago, before this five game win streak, they were heavily struggling. And I know that they were missing Fred Van Vlea had been in and out of the lineup and they were missing this player and this player. But I had saw some people in Raptors Reddit that were really upset with the way things were going. And now that quickly, just like that, a five game win streak could change all the perspective on all the players in the front office and everything. That's my recap. I know it was longer, but hey, I mean, it was a lot of games today. I mean, there would not be a recap tomorrow. I'll tell you that much, but you should subscribe to all of my channels. Subscribe to this one. If you're new around here, you just found this video somehow. I'm thinking about for my Kenny channel, doing something like this as just me talking to a camera. What about other things that are normally not talked about by me? Not basketball, not baseball, because we do got a baseball channel that needs to be revived. Cause I've been, like I said, I've been binge watching Attack on Titan. I have so much to say and I don't know who to say it to. So I should say it to the six people that will watch that video. You know what I'm saying? Let me know in the comment section what you think about that.