 What's the word y'all welcome back to call game Kenny for whatever in the college. I'm coming to the realization I am really bad at my job. I have tried to fire up this episode another 20 times. I can't do it Let's talk about today's games. I know you are super excited because the Bulls they did something legendary But in a negative way be sure to leave a like some scrap all this type of jazz is getting to today's slated games We'll start off with the Bulls I won't spend too much time on it because I know 90% of the league don't give a damn about the Bulls But I'm gonna talk to my Bulls fans here. It is super impressive How the Bulls find a way to blow games they can't just lose right the Bulls can't just lose games It always got to be something super legendary We're like, you know that little meter that ESPN has we're like It's a 99% chance at this point in the game that that team is gonna win The fact that the Bulls have been in 99 a couple times this season with the okc game And then tonight and still blow those games is crazy. It's impressive Similar to like when Cody Park get the uprights two times. I hate it because I'm a fan But it's impressive. You know what I'm saying after keep reminding my fellow Bulls fans out there We are in a transitional year. We have a new front office This front office is looking at the players that the previous front office draft and trying to figure out This is the guy I want to keep these are the guys we trade away and that is very very relevant right now So when I'm looking at these games, of course, I'm upset that we lost Nobody wants to see their favorite team lose a game, but it was over in like 10 minutes, bro It was over like 10 minutes I mean because I know that in two years down the line 90% of this roster won't be here We're not competing for anything at the moment, you know, I'm saying of course I want to see wins But I know things are gonna change soon, you know how they're gonna change I don't know like if the Bulls traded Zach Levin right now because there's rumors that the Knicks are looking at him If they trade him right now, I'll make a reaction video talk about what I think about it But I can be a fan of Zach Levin if he's in New York I could be a fan of Zach Levin if he's somewhere else. I just want my team to be good again If that means trading the whole roster get everybody out of here. I like these guys Look at them all out of here and let's be honest. It's current core. There's a ceiling to it And and that ceiling is what maybe making a playoffs. I don't want to just maybe make the playoffs I want to win games, but on the other side of things this game is not blown by the Bulls If anybody other than Damien Lillard is that point guard that man Damien Lillard is so So different and he was basically shooting open threes out game because the way to the Bulls defend the pick and roll That drop coverage is still really really bad and when you have a lead player like Damien Lillard He's gonna hit 90% of those and that's what it felt like today, but Damien Lillard The fact that they're missing CJ they were Robert Coving his first game back They're missing Derek Jones Jr. Now use of nerken say that's for super quality players And the fact that they're still afloat as a team is just a testament to how great this man Damien Lillard is And you know what? I'm gonna parallel him right now to another person that we're gonna talk about later in episode and Kimba Walker and And Damien Lillard has elevated to the point where like even if his shot is not falling Which seems like very rare for him now It feels like 40 point games are just the normal for him. He can elevate his teammates The fact that he's getting nine assists a game with this roster is crazy And you if you remember Damien Lillard and Kimba Walker won't similar similar like levels at one point And obviously Damien Lillard's up here now Kimba Walker's toy, you know Not up there with him, but we're gonna talk about Kimba Walker a little bit later But Damien Lillard special guy talk about the second game of the day Which is the Bucks losing to the Charlotte Hornets. I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again Bud cannot be the head coach on a championship team. I'm saying it. I'm saying it You know, I was kind of hesitant to really put it out there, but it's a fact I don't care what the defensive numbers say. Oh, this team is top five defensively Any team that hits their threes because there's a lot of open ones against the Bucks will win against the Bucks You give this the bosses Celtics the same threes that you gave the Hornets You don't just lose by 12 here. You lose by 20 The Hornets are not necessarily a great three-point shooting team You give these same shots to the jet I know the jazz aren't competing with with them in the conference But the same shots with team like the jazz you're losing that game And ultimately you're losing the series to the top teams because coach Bud has them like these are good defenders true holiday great defender Yanis defensive player the year brick Lopez defensive all defensive team conversations Chris Middleton that's it even chance are all positive defenders But like the way codes bud plays them defensively. It's kind of like Babying them let them defend bro. Let them defend. I don't understand it I won't understand it and as long as he's the coach I don't think this team is going as far as you as you want them to go And what's scary about that is they won't they won't fire coach bud, right? So the ceiling on this team right now in my eyes is like not winning the championship, right? Juhaley is a free ace this offseason It's just some thoughts um the Charlotte Hornets man. Lamello ball is blossoming into a star And I was in the camp and I'm kind of selling the camp of like start Lamello ball start Lamello ball But I read something on twitter. I'm a little while ago. There's like so true It was like I don't really matter who's starting. It's about who's finishing and Lamello balls finishing games I know a lot of that had to do with Terry Rozier going down with an injury But Lamello ball finishes game because he had stretches in this game in that fourth quarter where he was legitimately dominated The rookie dominating Malik muck getting 22 minutes is music to my ears Malik muck is a guy that I believe can be a Jordan Clarkson type player a heat check I can get you some buckets type player six man type player And of course the off the court things have to be fixed and I don't know if if those have been fixed, but if he can Quit playing that's basically all I wanted from him. I remember When lorry marketing got drafted, um, there were some bulls fans like why do we drive lorry marketing when us for sure Guy like Malik muck is still on the board I guess he ain't that for sure But I'm happy that he's getting minutes here him Lamello ball and miles bridges playing together Magnificent keep that keep that going james brago. Keep that going. It's a good win for your team Next team or game we have to talk about is the rockets. I don't know how many game win streak This is for the rockets button four five. Maybe they have this identity now I think it was kevin o'connor that tweeted it after their last game Um, that they are the second best defense in the league Since the james hard and straight and you can see that John wall was all defensive player before his injury victor depot all defensive player You got pj tucker that man's a fire hydra. Nobody can move him Christian woods a good defender and then jason tate has shown as a undrafted rookie He can defend and the identity of this team is like we all have tips on our shoulders, bro Who we all do victor depot ship is kind of fake He's like, I just want to play for a team that that wants me even though the indiana patients offer him 20 plus million dollars a year They wanted you bro. They legitimately They wanted to keep you around but you didn't want to stay there Um, but if that's the motivation he needs to be great again, take that motivation him John wall christian wood the markets cousins jason tate These are all guys daniel house These are all guys with big chips on their shoulders and they come out They defend very well and john wall hit four threes and if john wall is shooting four four six from three They're probably gonna win games, bro. It's just realistic for the pelicans I would love to see uh, uh, louis jr. Get more minutes. I still don't know if it's kyra or carol louis jr I haven't watched a single pelicans game with the sound on this year. Um But it reminded me of my career 2k We're like he got minutes late in the fourth quarter when the game is pretty much over But he made the most out of those minutes just showing stan vegan He put me in the rotation he can shoot better than majority of people on his roster and um And that helps that would help him at least it should help him get minutes zion is still being very dominant I think he's only played 40 ish NBA games and he's dominating stuff. So eventually like I said, I would love to see the pelicans grow Um, not on national tv. So this was a loss, but did they grow a little bit? Maybe I don't really know jimmy butler came back Oh, and it's so crazy how much one player coming back and really changed things the The might be he were down in the dumps and I know they're still missing gordon drage who didn't play today They're still miss avie bradley But jimmy butler came in and he is in the in the classification of trey young And james harden when it comes to draw fouls not no 90 percent of the viewers out there Don't like the idea of people, you know searching for fouls, but it just helps the team a lot more I mean that's more energy, bro. I know it's it ain't long. It's what a minute and a half at the free throw line But a minute and a half break I'll take it He is he is such a leader And I think that my team had him at the age of 28 and he's like no, we don't want him anymore We don't believe he's good enough Sad I love to see him succeed though. I love to see him succeed And eventually when gordon drage is back um and avie bradley's back in the rotation We're gonna slowly see the mighty heat rise up the ranks of the the standings and be right back into the playoffs On the other side of things the kings I like to see that diara fox is shooting more threes and there was a period late in the fourth quarter They were down by like 10 or 15 or so and he had like a takeover moment I love to see diara fox like that because he's one of my favorite younger point guards in the league But the thing about diaren as quick as he is as easy it can be for him to potentially draw fouls He's got to make free throws He's got to be able to hit free throws and it's his percentages have slowly gone down every single year I think he's down to like 70 percent this year, which isn't Terrible but for a point guard that's about attacking the rim. You want him to be a lot better You want him to be a lot better? Um, and as soon as he gets a lot better I'm i'm guessing he'll be more confident We're going to the rim and he's not he's already super confident in that as a team they didn't get a lot of free throws and And then jimmy baller out shot them from the free throw line as a team But I like to see diara fox have those takeover type moments That's all you can really ask for they were just on a big game win streak But I think also I have to keep putting this into perspective I think the the pelicans are here too. There are a lot of teams today. They're on a second half a back-to-back Like the prime example of this is the spurs Um, kelda johnson played All of his minutes in the first three quarters It didn't play a single minute in the fourth and yeah, I'm like, oh why is pop doing this? Oh, it's probably because they're on the back the second half of the back-to-back And derg white is back, you know what I'm saying? So keep that in mind when we're talking about some of these teams just get to the nashu televised game I don't know how I got this long to get here, but I like this game. I'm grinding out game. Neither the team looked really good Especially down the stretch the Lakers like dreadful They they should have lost this game if we've been honest with each other from anthony davis turn over to lebron turn over to Anthony davis miss shot two miss shots from anthony davis Didn't assure to turn over late in the fourth The last couple possesses for the Lakers were disgusting and the fact that they walk out of here with a w Is is a is a miracle Um, and that doesn't mean that the Celtics outplayed them either because the Celtics really struggled today too But you would think with all the things that that the Lakers were doing that the Celtics will be able to do it And this is what I said on twitter. Um I understand the notion of of just letting the players play it's happening a lot throughout the course of of the last couple years I think about the shot that step curry hit on the okc thunder was a rebound and he hit it from the logo Basically game over so I understand the idea of letting it play um the Lakers didn't have time to set up their defense But the moment that jaylon brown start fumbling that that ball a shout out to alice caruso for getting back Um, he fumbled the ball that would be a moment for me personally and i'm not brass demons. I'm not a legendary I'm not an nba coach So take it with a grind of salt that would be the moment personally for me that I call time out But at the end of the day the Celtics got a good look it happened to be from kemba walker Who can't hit a goddamn thing right now and we have to have a conversation about kemba walker right now I was a game six coming back And i'm not one of the people that's willing to say that he is was but obviously he is not the player That that we want him to be um And I think that might be the it's two things that is really really struggling or really Preventing me from from saying that the Celtics are next level right kemba walker at this point What is he their fourth best player you paying him 36 million dollars is crazy He's like the fourth best player if kemba walker come out here and give you half the production that he gave you last season I think you're good, right? He's got to stay healthy. He like I said I'm gonna parallel it to damian lily damian lily has gone to the point where he was a guy that was like If he is not scoring he's not really helping the team kemba walker is the embodiment of that He doesn't playmake for his teammates He doesn't have that second aspect for a game that he's won for 12 to impact the game at the end of the day in this game He was a liability offensively and offensively Right and I mean at this age He's not going to develop into a lead playmaker anything But those are the type of things you would want from kemba walker It's kind of been the criticism we've had from for him his entire career Like how much this is he elevating his teammates, right? But at the end of the day him not playing up to that level and then then they don't have a bench The bench play God awful God got off as good as jaylin the jays are jaylin brown and jason tater marre They can only do so much when they're not in the game The team just doesn't know how to flow and I did like the minutes between daniel teis and um and daniel teis and and samiozale Um worked really really well together. I like that, but The bench just don't have anything Jeff teek has been god awful this year and I thought that was going to be a good sign for them Jeff teek is slowly going down I I hope for boston seltsic's fans sake that maybe they're a player in the bio market People are trying to get any age to make trades, but I don't know what trades you can make What assets you are you are you giving up picks to improve your bench? I don't really know. I don't really know. I don't really know, but I do like this team a lot I just don't I think kemba walkers play And the lack of bench scoring Lack of bench spark is what's going to prevent them from potentially winning a championship As good as jason tainham and jaylen brawler because both of them aren't locks to be in a be a all start this year They need a little bit more help and you you would wish that kemba walker is that help because you're paying him to be the guy Um, but he hasn't been he hasn't been and I don't know if he'll get back to that If you can get half a three fourths of kemba walker from last year, this is a super super scary team I'm happy that from what we know right now The the mark is smart injury is just a calf strain and not anything more severe than that because if they look bad You know non-contact injuries are always super scary I hope that it stays is that and never it doesn't get elevated to something else after some tests The grizzlies continue to win after what two weeks off it feels like but I mentioned earlier I killed in johnson playing the fourth quarter. I think that the the spurs are trying to figure out a way to win this game Um on the second half of a back-to-back Derrick white came back and he looked really good in his first game back But ultimately the memphis grizzlies just have this team basketball thing. I love to see jetty out there. I mean, I'm sorry I'm sorry. Not jetty. I'm jumping jitty Did I say that right jitty out there? Um and john conchard getting the hella boards Um dylan brooks's defense is so good and it's not even just like good on paper or like go When you watch he's just trying to get under people's skin And that's what he did today to demar de rosen and uh, if you got a player like that they can also Here's some shots pretty solid. Um, the The mavericks lose another game. They played better though. They did play better today But the thing about them is that their offense is so staggers. So it's so james harden used to rock It's like, um, where it's like we're gonna have four people stand around and let lucas at the top of the key Do what lucas can do and I think there's a ceiling on the offense like that Um, especially if they're not a legendary offense like last year The sun's got a big win where chris paul looked like the point god and then de andre aiden was dominating Dominating you get me? Um on the glass in that fourth quarter. He was very very crucial Um, they were missing chris stops were ziggas today and never booker didn't play either But they could have really used chris stops, you know on the glass a little bit even though He's not like a really great rebounder, but what they what he was going against Would have been a lot harder if chris stops was down there and then lastly We do have the warriors winning I will eventually spend a lot of time on the words because I have been super impressed with some of the stuff They've done. Um, but I only watch the third quarter of this game because clay thompson was commentated and clay thoms is a joy I wish he was playing basketball I did it take 21 got through it. Leave a like subscribe. Let me know what you think and I'll see y'all soon call game