 The Spurs play the Lakers three times this week. I feel attacked. Run it back, starts now. Happy Monday morning. It's Thanksgiving week, big holiday week ahead of us. This is Run It Back. My name's Michelle. We're joined by Stadium Insider, Shamsha Rania. Chandler Parsons. We'll get to you in a second. And Eddie Gonzalez goes. We're all separated again. I'm already suffering from PTSD. Chandler, what did you do yesterday? What? I just want to know how do you spend your Sunday? Was it a fun Sunday? Nice little double date. First of all, I'm healing a stiff neck is what you see here. But yeah, I walked into a grenade here. I had no idea. This is what happens when I only work three days a week. You guys are giving me too much time. Oh yeah, it's our fault. Yeah, so for people who don't know, this is a fellow video that's Marcus Jordan and Larsa Pippin. And I never thought I'd say that on any kind of form of media in my life. And you were caught in a storm by somebody who just wasn't approving of their love, you know, and that's not right, Chandler. But it does look like you're on a double date for the record. Yeah, I was just trying to see Andy Dalton masterclass. I just went to see my boy Travis Kelsey break records last night and I ended up in that situation. But you know what? All the seats of all the seats in that stadium, you had to sit in that one. All right, let's get to it. We had a big week in a basketball, some good, some bad, some ugly, but we're going to start with, I think a pretty good move in the right direction. Oh my God, it's Gary Irving. He is back. Ned's pulled out a win here. Shams, I want to start with you on this one. You know, we have to overreact because it is a Monday, but have they turned a corner? Did you see enough to think maybe this could work? Well, I don't know if it's sustainable, but for now, I mean, how Ben Simmons has played the last three games. Ever since that LA trip where he did not play against the Lakers, there was mounting frustration around the players, the coaches, the front office. And he ends up, what he did in the blog, Game Against Sacramento, I think was a step. And what he did the other night in Portland, and last night against Memphis, I mean, this is exactly the momentum that he needs going into Philadelphia. We've seen the focus level that Kevin Durant has displayed, but I think the way Ben Simmons has played, he's always been the motor of this team. I think everyone in the organization knows that. If he doesn't bring forth this type of effort, this type of energy on a nightly basis, this team is not going anywhere. So yes, if he plays like this and this is sustainable, then their success will be sustained. But I think you also have to give credit to the role players. Utah Watanabe, Royce O'Neill, Joe Harris is starting to play a little bit better. So they're starting to get more and more efforts. And we'll see as Kyrie Irving gets back on the floor, you can tell he's not fully, fully acclimated yet, being back with this group. But when he, and if he gets back to that form, definitely this team has the making of something that will be dangerous. Yeah. And to me, this was the first time in a while I've seen the Nets have fun. They're out there, they're smiling, they're moving the ball, they're laughing. Like this is kind of the team we expected to see. And Ben Simmons, listen, does he look like the old Ben Simmons? I don't think so, but we're talking effort here. He's just got to play hard like this. He's got to get the ball on the rebound. He's got to push it and find good guys. He's got to be aggressive to get to the rim. And he's showing a little bit of that. Honestly, he's playing a lot better the last three games. But look, they played a very, very depleted team last night. They put a team where Dillon Brooks took 30 shots. This was a team missing their top three guys. But yeah, I think this, they should use this as, you know, motivation. They're getting back. They're getting healthy. They're getting the whole team together. And honestly, Yuda, I had Yuda and Memphis. This dude is such a good dude, hardworking guy, and he's taken advantage of his opportunity right now. So I'm super happy for him, but this is a right step in a direction against a very banged up team. They did what they're supposed to do. Eddie, I know that you personally are more invested in this than anyone up here. How do you feel about what you saw yesterday? I'm a little high and cold. What I will say is they do look great. They do look to have a better energy about them. I know the comments Kevin May last week kind of caused a stir, but in his mind and in my mind as well as we dug into it and we discussed a little further on our podcast as well that, you know, he was more speaking about the unity of the team and just their ability to fight through what they're going through and guys extending their roles and playing beyond what they played before. I think that includes Ben at this point. He's been great the last week. He's not the old Ben, like Chandler said, but he's improving. To me, the Euro step he made against the Blazers was like the first like, wow, moment of the season for him. And he's built on that. He's attacking 22 points yesterday. And, you know, just two weeks ago it was a joke if he could even score 10. There is a little bit of like, yes, they're benefiting a little bit from the schedule. They've played a few bad teams, but they did beat the Blazers on the road, number one seed in the West at the moment. You know, they got to play who's in front of them. They're probably going to play a weekend sixers tomorrow as well. But those guys, Yuta Wontonabe, leading the league in three-point shooting, Kevin leading the league in points scored, Nick Claxton leading the league in field goal percentage. The team's starting to make a little bit more sense. I do have a little bit of concern about Kyrie though. He looked a little out of it yesterday, did not look himself. We could call it Rust, but he wasn't a big part of the offense, wasn't in the actions. He was sitting in the corner. I've never in my life seen Kyrie just lose his dribble out of bounds. He did that yesterday. And I get it. It's a lot going on for him. It's a lot of pressure on him. It's a lot to handle. But yeah, he reworked on his sleeve a little bit yesterday. So we're going to need him to snap out of it as well going forward. Yeah, Chandler, are you able to give Kyrie a bit of a break? I mean, he was gone and not just gone peacefully and quietly, gone with a lot of outside noise. And literally there was outside noise yesterday before the game started with a lot of his supporters being out there. So I mean, what kind of a window are you giving him, Chandler, before he's back to normal? Yeah, you got to give him some time. I mean, the things he is going through, not many people have gone through that. And granted, it's self-inflicted. But you can't really simulate game reps. You can play five on five. You can play one-on-one against the end of the coaches or the managers. But you can't really simulate a game action. And it's going to take him some time. But I think last night was a perfect game to come back against the banged up team. Everyone was getting involved. They had six, seven guys and double figures. Kyrie Irving is going to find his rhythm and when they do, I'm not counting the nets out. This is a team you got to keep your eye on. When Kyrie Irving is healthy and rolling, he's a top three-point guard. Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant. And these other guys, when they start finding it and they start clicking, I don't want to see the nets. Even with all the drama, with all the noise around them, this team can still win an NBA championship this year. So it's nuts. Am I the jerk? Because I just want them to put like a poster up that says this many days since our last incident. And we just sort of wait for what Kyrie is going to do next. Am I the jerk? No doubt. They'll be more. And I will say they can handle all this adversity. They're definitely going to handle things on the court that they got a bunch of practice. It's going to be, I mean, look, there's always something to talk about. And I thank them for that, for what we do for a living. But Shams on the other side of things, Jon Morant didn't play last night. We all saw the video of him being helped off with the ankle issue. Would you have an update on any timetable for him? It's a grade one sprain, the Grizzlies said. And they announced him as week to week. But I'm told they're looking at anywhere from one and a half to two weeks, as far as a potential return for Jon Morant. It could be sooner, but they're going to be cautious. They always have been cautious when it comes to Jon Morant. And this is not his first ankle sprain. So every time he has it, they make sure they even put out timetables that are even more extreme. And then he comes back a little earlier. But right now they're looking at that window. And I will say, the Memphis Grizzlies medical staff, Eric Otter, he's great. But they are super, super cautious, with pretty much everybody. This is their nightmare, Jon Morant going out. And he is their engine. He is their future. He is their everything. So they are not going to rush this dude back. And it's smart, too. They have guys that hold the fork down. And like I said, he's so critical to their franchise. He's going to be out for some time, I think. I mean, that makes sense. Every time he jumps up and just kind of holds your breath. There were more basketball games last night. I had the privilege of being at this next one. Lakers first. You know what? I will say this. I had a moment where I realized that's the Anthony Davis that everyone gets excited about. Everyone talks about. Everyone wants to see 30 points, 18 rebounds, Chandler. What has changed? And are we getting too quick to think that he's back? No. And this is, like you said, this is the Anthony Davis that we've been waiting on. This is his team. LeBron is LeBron, but LeBron's out of his prime. LeBron is on his way out. This is Anthony Davis' team. And for them to be successful, he's got to be this version of him. Obviously 30 and 18 is a great game, but we're seeing him with LeBron out kind of be that monster, do it all for them. And it's helping. They're not playing the toughest schedule right now. They haven't had the craziest teams come in there, but no offense to your spurs. But, uh... How dare you. Yeah, but this is the MVP caliber, Anthony Davis, that they need and that makes them an actual threat. So I'm happy for him. They got to find a way to have him continue to do this and go through when LeBron does come back because they're only going to get better when LeBron comes back. But this is what he has to do for this team to be successful. Can I go like Radio Show Morning Show host Scott? Yes. Do it. Are the Lakers better without LeBron, Jay? Yes. They're obviously not like even in his advanced age, but what you do see is they're absolutely featuring Anthony Davis in ways they generally don't when LeBron is there. And that's something they're going to have to continue going forward. They have to figure out a way to use AD in the pick and roll as often as they do right now. He's a monster. He's destroyed three teams in a row doing this, 30 and 18. He made it look easy. For whatever reason, he's also playing with a little bit more physicality over the last week. And that's kind of what you want. When you watch AD, that's what you're always asking for. Like, yo, if AD had Yanis's physicality, he'd be the best player in the world. He's looking like the best player in the world in the last week. He needs to be featured like this in the offense. And the thing about it is LeBron can do it. LeBron can absolutely run pick and roll and find him in his spots, whether it's in Dunker, whether it's on post-ups, or whether it's rolling to the rim where he's a monster. But he looks great. For the first time in a few seasons, he looks great. He's found his way back in the shape. And this is the AD that the Lakers absolutely need if they're going to go, you know, maybe pass the play-in, maybe in the actual playoffs, if they're going to need that. Stop it. I mean, look, they're finally going on the road. And yes, they do play the spurs again two more times this week, Friday and Saturday. It's a crazy bit of schedule. But do you... Okay, so LeBron returns realistically. I know there will be some shifting and some changes, but can AD just stay this version of himself? Because if I'm a Lakers fan, it's fun to watch when he plays like that. There's nobody. I mean, granted, Yaka Pertle, I don't even know that that would have done anything last night. He's just unstoppable. But there will be changes, Chandler. And will they be too big to overcome? I don't think so. And I think LeBron is good enough and smart enough to see what's happening, to see him kind of come into, you know, this basically this monster, he's become the last three games. And LeBron is the one player that will continue to feed him. He'll continue to go through him. And I got to say the depth, the Thomas Bryant and Schroeder back healthy. I kind of made a joke earlier about, you know, Thomas Bryant, that's, he's the savior, but he looked really good last night. And you're seeing the deeper the team goes. And the, you know, the, you know, the longer these bench guys can stay in the game and keep the lead, it really helps these teams. And Schroeder looks good. Austin Reeves looks good. And, and yeah, I think, and I think LeBron is the perfect guy to come back, to continue to go through Anthony Davis. I saw AD in the bubble last night. Thomas Bryant was five or five last night, by the way. Yeah. And so they got, they got something going on. But yeah, go ahead, Sean. I'm sorry. Yeah, I saw AD in the bubble. And this is the type of performance and that he was having on a nightly basis down there. And then it kind of went away and he was injury riddled the following year. And last year we know what happened. That Lakers team was an absolute disaster. But how he's performing now is what everyone expected organically to happen, where he would emerge as that face. He's leading them in every major category. When we look at points, rebounds, steals, assists, or steals, blocks. So he's doing a lot of everything. They need him to be dominant. Yeah, it'll be an interesting week to say the least. We got Warriors doing some things. And specifically, Clay Thompson, look, he issued that. I'm not going to say it was a warning, but it was kind of a warning that he would be back. And man, was he 41 points in the win. I know he had words after as well. You know, Eddie, do you want to start here as far as? This is a great sign, obviously. But is it Clay becoming Clay or was this a one off? Yo, to need this from Clay and then Steph's obviously incredible game as well at 33 to beat the Rockets, to get your first road win of the season. I mean, I guess Clay's not going to average 40 a night. Shouts to Clay for looking like the old Clay finally, backing up some of the talk. But yeah, I don't know if this is like a great sign, but they do look like they're playing a little bit better. And I'm happy for Clay that he's able to continue to play this media game and tell everybody that they're underestimating him. We're not underestimating you, Clay. It's way more fun when you play like this. Trust me. Oh, I agree. You know, go ahead, Taylor. Yeah. Listen, they played arguably the worst team in the NBA, but I don't care who you play. If you go 10 for 13 from the three and you have 41 points, that feels good. And that's a great game. And listen, Clay is taking criticism for the first time his career. We always talk about it. And this is what he has to do to silence the critics. And he's, I hope he builds off this. I don't think it's a one off. Listen, he's not going to miss forever. He's a second best shooter of all time. But this was a huge step forward for their team. And again, they played a horrific team, but this was the potential that they have when their shooters are clicking. And their bench is still really bad. I mean, the Rockets hung in pretty much all night long because of their bench. And they're going to need Clay, obviously not to score 40, but this was a huge step in the right direction for him. And I'm happy for him. Well, a lot of eyes on the trio of Clay, Stefan Wiggins, 23-3s last night, a little history being made. And I get it. It was their first road win. It almost feels like they just needed to get that first one so we could all move on with our lives. But do they look as dangerous as they once were this particular trio? Is there worry from other teams when you see these three coming? Is that back, Chandler? Yeah, I mean, I think so. Listen, these guys are proven. These guys are champions. These guys know how to win. They're going to figure it out. I'd like to see Jordan Poole kind of play good with these guys. I feel like it's either one guy or the other. And Jordan's best game was when he started instead of Clay. And now Clay goes off and Jordan kind of does nothing. So I'd love to see them find a way to all kind of mesh together, which we haven't seen, but when they do, watch out. Yeah, I mean, people talk about spacing all the time. And the spacing that Clay provides, there's no world where a defender's ever just going to sag off Clay. So they can be dangerous. They're still dangerous in that sense. And when Andrew Wiggins is playing well, it adds obviously that element and his athleticism and what he does on defense. But that's the end where they're not as dangerous and they're a little defanged, if anything. People are actually attacking Clay now. And that was not seen three, four years ago. People were calling for his man to screen and trying to get him on switches. So that's where their concerns really lie. They're going to shoot the lights out three, four times a week when they be, it's what they can stop on the other end. And again, last night, Kevin Porter Jr. had 30 points himself. And so that's where they have to make up the difference. And it's going to take time. They really miss Gary Payton. It's crazy as it is to say, this is a role player off their bench, but he's somebody they threw at the point of attack to defend. And Portland's still waiting for him to come back and to help what they got going on over there. But they absolutely miss him on that end of the court. Shoms, have we reached the end of the road for the night night from Steph Curry? Are we done with that yet? The end of the road. I think the road is just beginning. I think this is, I love this celebration. And like, I think, I think when Steve Kerr last week spoke about them playing Drew League basketball, I mean, I don't think it was a secret that he was looking at, you know, the shot attempts that Clay Thompson was taking and what we saw last night was a lot of those same shots he just was making now. And so it's not really about forcing shots. I think for Clay Thompson, a lot of those shots that he was missing are shots that he has always taken his entire career. And now finally last night, he's able to get some of them to go down. We'll see if that continues, but I'm never going to count on Clay Thompson. I think last night would probably amazing for him confidence wise to see those shots go in. It is funny. Those shots are all crazy until you make them and then you're the best ever. And that's, that's why I laugh sometimes. Mavs lost to the Nuggets. This, this game had some weird moments. So I'm not going to lie. It was a 98, 97, the rare low points that we've seen so far in the NBA, but Luca with a three at the buzzer, that's more than a three. That's like a five. Do we question his shot selection in these moments, Eddie? Do we think that maybe he's not great at that part of the game yet? Shot selection. I mean, I don't know if I question it. I question that one. That, that was a terrible decision. I don't know what he's barking at the ref about. Like, is he asking for an extra point there? I don't know. Maybe he should have came off the ball. They ran a, they ran a straight double at him in the middle of that. But no, I mean, this is his shot. Like he wants to step back. He's, he's six, 10. He can shoot from that range. But yeah, maybe go for a two there, Luca. You know, maybe come off the ball with that quick double. Maybe hit, maybe hit Dodo right there and see if he can make the shot. But that's, that's, yeah, he's missed three of those now this year. You know, and, and we'll look at their record, but those count and, and we look at seeding next, and next year in the end of the season, and they're playing a game seven on the road. Yeah. We're not going to remember these shots, but these, these are the reasons why. Yeah, you can, you got to imagine this isn't what Jake Kidd wanted out of a time out here with, with, I mean, and again, this is, this has happened a bunch now. When they throw a double team, he's got to get off that ball real quick. And he's got plenty of time. They got to get something going to the basket here. But it's like the Steph Curry shot we just saw there. That's a horrible shot, but he made it. So we're not, so we're not saying anything. This is a bad shot and it's a low percentage shot. And look, if he makes it, we're talking about how great it is. But at the end of the day, that's still not the look you want. And he's not going to make a high percentage of those. So you got to get something to ask, you're down one point, get to the foul line, get anything other than this, you know, hell, Mary. How demoralizing was that be for teammates? When you're just like, no, not again, dude, not again. That's what I was going to ask. I mean, it's also like, I question that at a time out, the play call, like this can't be just a screen down 40 footer. This can't be what they drew up. And if it is, it's a horrific play call. So I don't know. I'd like to see what he actually drew up and what were the outcome was supposed to be. But yeah, if my teammates getting double teamed at half court and he's launching shots over that, instead of making the extra pass, it's definitely not going over well. Uh, we've got to get to the topic from the weekend. There will definitely be documentaries about Laddergate, sometime in our near futures, because what the heck is any of this? Of course, if you haven't seen it by now, wherever you've been, it's Yanis in Philly, trying to get some extra shots up after the game because he was horrific from the free throw line. He's told no, it doesn't want to move the ladder. He gets frustrated. This is all also on the heels of Montrez Harrell incident on the other end of the court, where he was trying to get his free throws up. And Montrez literally took his ball from him and said, this is my court. You can't play. So, guys, the two people involved in this could not be more opposite ends of the spectrum. So where are we? Are we team Yanis or are we team Harrell? Eddie, I want to start with you. Uh, I hate to say it, but I'm team Yanis. This is really weird. I'm not really any team here, but this is just such a weird, stupid incident. Like, and more details came out. It got worse. And I love that, like, you know, tough guy, Montrez Harrell, he didn't go take the ball from Yanis. That would have been great. No, yeah, right. We could round it out the net and then just start cussing from 30 feet away. I love that. I love that he cussed his brother out. I love that, like, this is just dumb. I love that the guy put the ladder right in front of the rim, like a true a-hole. Like, I just, I love everything about this stupid story. It's so dumb. I also like that Yanis said, I'm not apologizing. I was like, Yanis, just like, go home, bro. Like, there's usually baskets like in the back. Like, you can practice your free throws somewhere else. This is just insane. Like, Chandler, have you ever went out to the gym afterwards and got some shots up? It seems like the dumbest thing of all time. This, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen, honestly, because number one, I love that Yanis was feisty. And I've never seen him kind of turn up like that. I've never seen any negative, you know, kind of media towards him. But yeah, this, this is super lame from Montrez here. I get it. This is his role. This is why he's brought here. He's the tough guy of the team, but like every team does that. Every team pre, post, they share the locker room, the training room. If I wanted to go to the cold tub in Atlanta, when I'm playing them, they let you go. It's kind of a mutual understanding. Guys have been doing it for years. Guys shoot, to me, this is, this, this is super whack and petty by Harold. The guy, he's trying to work on his game. He had a bad game. There's another end of the court. I don't know if the hoop was up or not, but this, this has been happening for years. Guys always do this pre and post game. But some arenas, there's a practice facility connected to it. So, you know, the home team can go there and give the guys the main court. Just honestly, I think it's hilarious. I think it's funny, but it's super unprofessional from Harold and I think it's uncalled for. Oh, I just love the pushing of the ladder. It's such a non-Yanis moment. The sound the ladder made, it was just like, it just amplified this whole thing. It even scared Yanis. When it hit the deck, Yanis even looked back. My thing is, look, I understand this guy has a job and he's going, I think he was egg gone a little bit by Montrez, but I've been watching people tear down arenas for years. They had plenty of time left to go do other things and let Yanis shoot for five minutes. I just was like, did he not know who Yanis was? Like, what was this all about? No, I mean, imagine being that guy, you're like, you went home, how was work, honey? I don't know. I had to tell this large man that he could not shoot baskets. Then he threw a ladder at me. Like, there's like this whole, I just love, I love everything about it. But yeah, it just seems like boys being boys. Oh, you children. I haven't gotten in my mandate yet on the show. So now I feel good. We got it in there. You're welcome, guys. Look at Chandler's face. He hates me. All right, we're going to take a break. No big deal. We need to find out if John Collins, is he getting traded? Is he not? Plus we've got a non NBA dunk. So good that we're going to include it. And that man has a family, all of that, and much, much more when Run It Back comes back. All right, the Hawks, John Collins opening up preliminary, like it's hard for me to say, trade discussions. Shams was a busy weekend for you. A lot going on out there. So what is the very latest on whether or not John Collins could be seeing a new home shortly? It's like every year John Collins finds his name in trade rumors. But this year, I think there is more momentum there has been in past years. On a potential John Collins trade, I'm told the Hawks have opened up preliminary trade conversations. Utah, Phoenix are two teams that have shown desire in him. But this is a guy who is in the second year of a five year, $125 million contract that he signed a couple off seasons ago. So the hope is for the Hawks is that potentially they can find a deal that makes his team better. They still want to compete and contend. But what deal could form, I think, as we get closer to trade deadline in February, we could see something come up. A big name on the injury list is Tyrese Maxi. Any idea when he'll be back for the Sixers? Out three to four weeks. And it's a small fracture of a bone in his foot. James Harden is a couple of weeks away. But this is a very, very tough loss for the Sixers. Tyrese Maxi has really played at an all-star caliber level so far this year. And it looked like it was only an ankle tweak. And I think that's what people initially thought. But there was some underlying foot issue that clearly they found in further imaging over the weekend. Yeah, that one is a big one. As well as Damian Lillard, I just, I wish we could get through a season without ever having to say Damian Lillard an injury. But a bit of a calf strain against Utah. Any updates on that? It's another calf injury. And like Chandler knows, like calves, groins, like those are two very tricky areas, hamstrings as well. And so he re-accurated his calf. It's a different area of the calf this time. So he's already hit a couple different areas of that calf muscle that's been bothering him. He will be re-evaluated in one to two weeks. But I think this time around, Portland and Lillard will be more cautious than bringing him back. Last time he was out for one to two weeks, he did come back on the shorter end of that timetable. I mean, look, they're putting together something kind of special up there. I would imagine you want to be conservative with Damian Lillard. You're going to need him down in the long run. A team that has, I guess, underperformed for what we sort of expected after lecture, Detroit, Kate Cunningham, out indefinitely. What do you expect to see here? Well, he's been considering a couple options over the last several days. He's feared to have a stress fracture in his shin. And so they're really looking at either him resting for an indefinite period of time or undergoing surgery that would sideline him for a significant amount of this season. He's, of course, wanting to resist that option of surgery. That's not something that you want to do at this juncture of the season, because it could really tack you out for an extreme amount of this season. But we'll see when and where they've reached that mark. But Kate Cunningham will be out for a while here, I think, either way this goes. That's a big one. Unless they're in the women's yamba sweepstakes and they've already entered that ring. I don't know. I'm not saying this is my favorite part of the show. Thanks, Sean. By the way, I know there's so many injuries going around. You've got updates left and right, but it's time for some fun video. That man has a family. Kenyan Martin Jr. is going to be a big star in today's episode of this, because he's kind of all over the place in the first one with the monster block. Gentlemen. That's one of those Bill Russell, keep it in bounds, let your teammates get it blocks. But man, this guy is so bouncy, it's crazy watching him jump out the gym like this. With the left, with the two foot left hand block on a footer. He gets up there. His head is literally at the rim. Yeah, that's that must be fun. Put him in the dunk contest, please. All right, we still got more. We got more. And the knee to the face of one Dwight Powell. Disrespectful. I mean, it's knee, it's foot, it's everything. Hey, man, look out the way. The way he dunks is so violent and angry. Right? He's got some issues inside. Literally like his pops, yeah. Pops sitting in court side. He's got to help a little bit. But yeah, he definitely plays just like his dad, which is crazy. I guess it's, I guess it's hereditary. Yeah, that's a little bit extra. Basically, I don't know what he's doing there. That's like a little much. But yeah. And then he acts confused. Like he didn't just need a dude. Right? Like he didn't just need a dude. How about this one? Mowgli over Yanis. I saw this dude play live and against the peppers. He is so springy and so like such a quick hop dunker. I don't know how he doesn't have five dunks every game because he does it so fast. It's like he's one of those guys. It's like way taller and bigger than you think. And then you watch him run around like that. He's like a deer. Like, you know, like a baby deer just ran around elegantly. It's great. It's so quick. Graceful. I'm going to use graceful. Yeah. And it's over Yanis. You get extra points for that. Oh, yeah. Happy moment for the Spurs. Jeremy Sohan. Yeah. I mean, I love it. Obviously. This is dirty. This is. This is a real. He's smacking the face. Yeah. This is a real body. This is he doesn't even have to touch the rim. He throws it in, which is even cooler in my eyes. He did a nice little spin move to get there. And one. I like this kid. Yeah. This kid and he's finding a little role with the kind of the bad boy that the Dennis Robin vibe. I mean, I'm taking points away for the no rim, but like, like it's just like a super layup, right? But he did get smacked dead in the face. So it canceled out. A super layup. I mean, Eddie, we can fight if we need to. Look, that's like a powerful loader. Like fine. We kill bridges. And Clay's. Oh, you can pick up. This is awesome. Clay of all people. Clay's going to remember this as he continues to remind us every time he speaks. He's going to remember all this. I really hope we get this play out series because that's kind of just how the Warriors get revenge. And they just blow them out four times. But this is great. I will say to usually usually players only turn back around and do this type of stuff if someone from the bench is chirping at them. Yeah. So you got to imagine he's just kind of clapping back because someone said like, oh, he's missing or he's off or brick or whatever they said as he's shooting. And clearly he took offense to it. But that's there's no way he just did that after making shot. It's too close to the face. I feel like that's. And bridges isn't that guy either to just do that out of nowhere. Someone definitely popped off as he was shooting that and he didn't like it. Oh, I love it. I love it. We get a little college hoops. This is, you know, it's special if we're willing to do this. Arkansas, Trayvon, Brazil. But I feel. Yeah, this was nuts. This is. What a deal. What's crazy is I don't know this dude, but someone's going to take a flyer on this guy for like training camp or something like based off this duck. I mean. Are you kidding me? I'm sending scouts to the next to the next archival game. All this alone. Like watch number two and tell me. Like just let me know. Yeah, this is like a full extension cockback. That's nasty. His draft stock went up on one possession. I just want to do it once. What was that feel like? And so embarrassing South Dakota state. So embarrassing. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, are we panicking on the brawn and could the pistons beat the Celtics with a six on five advantage? I don't know. Run it back next. White Howard is back in Taiwan. Got some monster 25 rebounds. That seems like a typo, guys. What do we think? Is this going to be a trend? Will more dudes go to Taiwan if this takes off? Seems to be having fun. I mean, there's no one in this league with his size and physicality. Yeah, I expect he's going to dominate this league. I don't know if it's going to get like NBA guys like hyped back on him, but like it's Taiwan is an incredible place. Their fans are nuts. They love basketball. He's going to be an absolute megastar there, but no, like he's not. This is what he's, of course, he's going to do this. He's seven foot 260 and he's playing against a bunch of guards. Okay, my stupid, my stupid like fan mind. I'm like, if I'm a player, I do this every summer. I'd go to one of these leagues and dominate like a video game. I remember Kobe was going to play at Italy and I was just geek. Like I want to, I want to see all this, you know, chicaneery. I want to see all the shenanigans, put a NBA guy in a college game. Like, let's just do it all. I want to see it. This is a layers to me. He took 10 threes in a real professional game. Is that a lot Chandler? Is that a lot for Dwight Howard? I mean, yes. And he made two of them, which is crazy. And that's why he took 10 because he's feeling himself. It makes total sense. We got, we got panic button time. More Dwight Howard video. Keep it coming. We're going to do some panicking here and RJ Barrett Chandler is the first one up. Here are some numbers, okay? Shooting 26% from the field and 8% from three over his last five games. Is it panic button time on RJ? Yeah, that's not good. And here's why because he got the big extension. He's finally playing with a pure point guard in Jalen Brunson and he's expected to take that next step and he just simply hasn't. He's inefficient. He's too good to just be a role player and they're paying him to be a star player. And he's neither. He's kind of in this Tobias Harris role where he's really like a three, four option on the contending team, but they're paying him to be the guy. And he's not the guy. He's a streaky score. He has potential and I think he could figure it out. But I'm hitting the panic button because, you know, again, he's playing with Jalen Brunson who should be making the game easier for him, who should be making him getting open looks and being way more efficient than he is. But I'm panicking and this is classic Knicks where they can't catch a break, but he can't be shooting these type of numbers handling the majority of an offense for a team if they want to go anywhere. So that chart was ugly. That was an ugly, ugly red chart. Lot of red. Lot of red. Red is not good. It is not good. You're up, Eddie, LeBron James. I mean, granted, has been playing, but when he has played lowest field goal percentage since his rookie year, career worse from three, and the plus minus, if you're into that, at negative six, minus 6.1, hitting panic button on LeBron. Yeah. I mean, look, this is year 20. There was eventually going to be some slippage. You could see it. He's had a bunch of different leg injuries over the last couple of years. He's not injury prone, but these injuries happen and they matter and they stack up. He's settling for a ton of threes. If you watch him, he's just not driving as forcefully as he used to. And the knock on LeBron has always been that he's never had a consistent jumper. And at some point, it was going to hurt him. He's going to pay for it. And it's now, you know, and now his game isn't aging as gracefully. So yes, there is a little bit of panic. You just gave him a bunch more money for a bunch more years. You've got to worry a little bit. And I joked earlier like, yo, are the Lakers better without him? They're not obviously, but that has to be a little alarming as well. They have been playing some pretty good ball over the last couple of nights. So yeah, I think panic is the right word for what's going on with LeBron. You never want your other guys going off. Like they've been going off when another star guy goes out. You would love ideally for them to do that together. And it is a little concerning that it's taking LeBron to sit to Anthony Davis to kind of blossom into that star monster that he's been the last three games. So panicking is, I mean, I'm not panicking. It's LeBron James, but I'd love for them to figure out a way to all do it on the floor at the same time. Would you, Chandler? Would that be fun for you if they figured that out? That would be fun. Yeah, the league is better when the Lakers and the Knicks are good. No, they keep telling me that. I just disagree. Chandler, after the book started this season, 11 and 0, they've lost four of their last six. Are we panicking on the books? No, I don't think so. I don't think you hit the panic, but when you have the best player in the world and you have another top 15, top 20 player on Chris Milton that's coming back, when they're at full strength, I fully expect them to be a top two team, if not the best team in the East. I look for them to kind of make a move. I know they're kind of shopping Grayson Allen. I know they're in the mix for Jake Crowder. And this is a team that made a move for PJ Tucker and ended up winning the championship. So I'm not hanging the panic button because push comes to shove. You have to beat Yanis four times in the playoffs and that's really hard to do. And we've seen Yanis mad now and I like it. I like Yanis mad. I'm glad you brought up PJ Tucker. That was a nice sagui because Eddie, you're getting PJ Tucker has this sort of point in his last three games, has only scored five in his last five games. Panic button time on PJ. Yeah, this is an alarming contract in the summer. I'm not exactly sure whether they gave him three years and a player option. You grab the ankle piece that you felt that one a little bit. Good thing you missed. But yeah, I mean, his entire point of him was to defend in the corner and make threes and he's not making any shots. And he's not as great defensively. He has a player option for his third year. He's making $10 million a year. You lost some draft picks for, suppose a collusion going on there. Yeah, you got to panic a little bit. You need him. You need him if you're going to be a great playoff team. Chandler, help me out here. I just explain this to me. Is it bad to not score points in games? It's not good. Unless you're doing what she's kind of, he's that junkyard dog role player where he's supposed to be the lock up tough, you know, taking charges, diving on the floor. He's supposed to be that guy, but not scoring, playing 20 plus minutes was pretty hard to do. It's a long time. I mean, Eddie, I feel like, I mean, you hear me out, we could at least get two points, right? At least two points. Uh, I'm, yo, some of them shots he's getting, I'm going to make some. I'm going to look a little crazy, but I'm going to get one of them. I promise you. I knew it. And that's the confidence we're looking for. Chicago Bulls have lost four in a row, six of their last seven, Chandler. Are we hitting the panic button on Chicago? I am hitting it a hundred times. So listen, I think Zach Levine is beefing with Billy Donovan. Busevich just feel like it's not finding his rhythm. And the last time we hear about Lonzo Ball, it's like it doesn't seem like he's close to returning at all. And the worst of all, the magic, the magic, get their pick, which I think is top four protected. So they, they have no incentive to lose. And they are struggling mightily anytime a player and a coach aren't vibing, it trickles into the locker room. This, this is a, this is a sticky situation. And I'm definitely, I'm hitting that thing. Yeah. I mean, I think you have to, you know, the, the, the class of the Eastern Conference is a good tier or two above them. They know that this time last year, I think they were the second best record in the league. And it's, it's, it's complete opposite now. They missed Lonzo Ball. But yeah, the Zach Levine stuff is alarming. Look, Zach, you played like crap that game. I guess your, your coach, he does have the option to bench you, but to keep going at him like this as he has, is pretty, is pretty crazy. You hate to see that if you're a fan or maybe if you're in the locker room, like, yo, our, our star player, our highest paid player and our coach, he's not exactly getting along. Yeah. I mean, they're going to get to a point where push comes to shove because like you said, that pick is going to Orlando unless they're really bad. And the ping pong balls go their way. So they might be moved them to go all in with the losing. And we're finally getting our tank watch. Our tank teams are not tanking. So if I get a surprise tank, we need it. I need to see that. I need to see that really bad basketball. Yeah. It's definitely happening. And it's including some teams. You're right that I don't think we, we saw that we're going to be part of tanking. Convince me time. Some of these are some outlandish ideas, Chandler. Convince me that the Detroit Pistons, Detois, could beat the Celtics in a seven game series if they were allowed to play with six starters against Boston's five. Yeah. This one, I mean, I think they'd beat them for, I think they'd sweep them. It's respectful. Yeah. This is disrespectful. We're talking about, we're talking about professional basketball players here. I don't care how bad their record is. I don't care if they're tanking. They could just keep one guy cherry picking the entire time and just throw it down to them. They're going to, they should sweep this series and it shouldn't even be closed. I don't care what team it is. Worst team ever against the best team ever. Six on five with NBA players. I'm taking the team with six. God, no, not even a hesitation. All right. Eddie's just over there laughing. That's great. No way. It's disrespectful. Very disrespectful to the Detroit Pistons. By the way, for the record, don't at us. We didn't come up with that one. So if you're mad, Detroit fans, I'll give you the tweet later. Eddie, convince me the number of free throws that a team attempts should be capped. Yes. Please. I'm tired of watching Joel and me shoot free throws. I'm tired of watching Joel and me fight to shoot free throws. I also think about like the strategy of, yo, we have two free throws left for the last 12 minutes of the game. Love it. How do we parcel them out and all that? Yeah. I mean, you get the ball in bounds. I don't know how you would do this, but I love watching guys play basketball. I don't watch them. I don't love watching them stand there on lines and shoot the ball unimposed. So yeah, let's, let's see. Let's see if this works. I actually would like that because the end of the Spurs Clippers game on Saturday night, there were, it took 15 minutes because of the free throws and it was a Chick-fil-A Spurs miss two in a row. You all get, it was just, I mean, look, it was fun because they never got their free sandwiches, but it took forever. No more free throws. Chandler, convince us, convince me the MVP should be voted on by players. Yeah. I think this should actually happen because I mean, listen, the players are the ones out there playing. As a player, I know who's the best player. I know who contributes to winning. I know who means more to their team, as opposed to media who has, you know, their own narrative and whatever reason what they're voting for. But like, like a guy like LeBron James, he's been the best player in the NBA, you know, he should have way more MVPs. He's the best player. And when the, when the media votes, if the players were voting, Jokic would not have won the last two, you know, back-to-back MVPs because, yeah, he had a great season, but if we're voting the best player, it doesn't really show like players know that players are out there on the court. They know who can really hoop. They know who's that guy. And they know it best. They know it better than fans. They know it better than media. So I think it should be, I think, you know, these are the guys that are on the floor. These are guys that are physically seeing it and living it and playing it. I think it should be voted by the players. I wonder though, would it turn into a popularity contest at all between guys? Like if guys don't hang out with a certain guy, but he's amazing, would he lose votes because of that? There could be some like petty, like I'm not voting for James Hardin because, you know, Giannis hate, like Giannis hates James Hardin. He'd like to vote for him. So there would be a little bit of that, but yeah, because how do you keep it like honest if the players? Yeah, we're just humans, guys. We're just humans. Taking a quick break. When we come back, we're going to give it, we're going to give it a shot. We're going to try to make you rich. Once again, Chandler and Eddie, with their on-the-fly NBA Parley, next. How about this? A game shown on FanDuel Plus on Sunday. Victor Wimanyama, 30 points, nine rebounds, five blocks. His next game will be on Saturday at two Eastern on FanDuel Plus. It just, it doesn't look real. This is the craziest layups I've ever seen. First of all, the way he handles the ball and then this is like a sloater. Is this a finger roll? I don't even know. I've never seen a layup like that. Look at this. It's kind of high it was off the glass, too. Like, oh, why? It's like a tear drop. Yeah, I don't. And this, he got the double team coming, which is the worst, the worst double team in the history of basketball. This is like a opposite hand, opposite foot, like push shot. I mean, that was weird. It's, you know, that big fella. Whoever gets that guy, I mean, you do? Okay, fair enough. Eddie's the only one that's, all right. Four leg parlay. We're going to get it. Okay, Eddie, you're first. Your first two legs go. All right, look, I really want us to do well here. So I did some research. Hawks, calves, I'm going over. They both average 115 points a game. It should be a great game, by the way. Okay. All right. There you go. What's your, what's number two for you? Uh, what did I go with? Oh yeah. Jazz, underdog versus the Clippers on the road. I'm picking the jazz. I think they're going to win out right. Giving these guys three points got crazy to me. Lori and Lori, we trust. And Lori, we trust Chandler. Number one for you. I got the bucks and the blazers under with Dame out. I don't think they're going to score a lot of points. Okay. Bucks are going to slow it down at home. I think this one's a lock. Lock, great. Right, right. And then I like the Knicks plus two and a half. Honestly, I like the Knicks to win this game. But again, they're, they're, they're trying to win. The Thunder aren't like there's no, they have no, they have a better team. They have a better roster. Like, enough, like go and win the game. Okay. So there it is. These are the four legs to this parlay. If you bet 20 bucks, you could win 248. I don't know why I'm laughing guys, because at some point one of these is going to hit. I got a good feeling. I can't wait. I can't, I got to be feeling about this one too, but I'm worried about Shea. Chandler, my son. Do we have a running? You know what we should be doing? We should do the four leg parlays and then a side bet of which of the legs is going to be the one that ruins it for the entire parlay. Yeah, I'd like to see, I'd like to see a running total of who's been the one that's messed up. Because I feel like it's me. Okay, we're getting it on the side of like, if you picked against us and everything, would you win? And I bet they've won before. Somehow, someway, if you didn't listen to us. You know what? We keep missing them. That's coming up next. That's us for us. We will be back tomorrow. Enjoy your Mondays, y'all.