 What's the word y'all welcome back to the call game recap listen there's a lot of stuff to talk about today So I'm gonna hop right into it after you leave it like Okay, let's talk about the next to start off man 4c new york nicks one game over 500 somebody asked me on twitter kenny Why are we talking so highly on a new york nicks with them just being one game over 500? We're talking bad about some of the other teams with similar records and the real answer is expectations The nicks were not expected to be a competent good team this season They just weren't and the teams that we are also talking about that have similar records We're supposed to be title contenders So yes, we're gonna say great things about the nicks right now And we might say bad things about the other team because they're lower than what we expected and the nicks are better than what we expected We do that getting time to be going to this team was going to raise their defensive ceiling I didn't expect it to be a top five top three defense in the entire league and since the dare grows straight The offense is coming around too. Let's keep it a buck if you watch any nicks games You know that um elfer payton just really ain't that and now the dare grows in the star lineup because elfer payton is out It's just working way too more fluid way more fluently And I can't see a world where elfer payton comes back from his injury and and time for those like d rows You're going back to the bench because d rows been out here hoping even on twitter saying on phonem Come on man. You can take the man out of chicago. You can't take the chicago out of the man I'm just happy for nicks fans. The worst thing about them being competent and good this season Is that the fans can't really enjoy it because they can't go into the garden I've been to the garden two times in my life in the same week And this was when the nicks are really really bad and it was filled. It was loud. It didn't matter Now I can't imagine how great it would be now that the team is good Um tom thibodeau has been so so great today was very confusing to me though But then again, I remember that it is tom thibodeau They're up by 20 um with five minutes left and jeweler's randome are still out on the court And it's just brought back like vietnam flashbacks for me, you know if you know, you know But I want to I want to talk about jeweler's randome specifically right now because Well, this is this is a question I wanted to post to you guys and I'm gonna post to my My podcast co-host because I think it's a very interesting question about when a narrative changed I may have asked y'all this question before but like julius randome's narrative as an nba player has significantly changed now Now I guess narrative is the wrong word because if you watched new york nicks games last season You know, he was a black hole And he nobody expected this man to turn up to be an all-star And and this is what I want everybody walking away from this video to learn because this is something I'm learning as well. It is okay to be wrong When you learned from what you were wrong. I was completely wrong about julius randome as a basketball player What I learned is if a player is 25 years old, let's not just put a ceiling on him Right because what I saw last year when they brought him to new york was him as a black hole Spinning all over the place turning the ball over trying to be a point guard and not really being that And this year some of the same things he was doing last year. He's more efficient at he's turning the ball over a little bit At least the volume of it a little bit less his playmaking has got better His shooting has got better and I forget that this man is only 26 years old He's one of those players that feels like he's about 30 It just does maybe because it's been on three to four teams at this point in the last year He just it felt like it was he was done So what I learned is to not put a cap on these younger players, bro Not too So you think about the I think what the best thing about the nicks grind right now then being over 500 If it's other than rj who's playing really really good, Emmanuel quickly, um, jules randall mitra robison The rest of the team is like just guys Right, so their cork continued to get better nicks might end up being a free agent destination and you still got man Hey, quick plan bro nicks fans should be excited Now I don't know how much of this do I expect to continue second half of the season But listen, I'm excited for them because there's been too many years Where they were just like bottom of the conference or close to that is a lot of turmoil Dolan hasn't said a thing all season long and I'm like what this man They never said his mouth for this long and the nicks are good because of it. It's just cool. It's cool All right, let's get into like individual games because again They went against the the pistons and that wasn't really that much of a game But shout to jules randall dare grows quickly still doing pretty solid things Let's get to the other games of the day starting off with the first one The the matinee of them all the clippers losing to the bucks and well, y'all Honestly, here comes that man like he is a very far choice for MVP. It's not gonna happen not after two in a row This man The voters will not give him a third MVP. He could be average average of 60 right now It's just won't happen. It's gonna be the same thing. Let's let me see you do it in the playoffs before we get you more love But this mail is completely dominant today literally took over the game And and some of the things you saw from clippers, which is so funny because I think that Twitter is a very weird place Because paul george was amazing all season long until maybe the last week and a half when he's coming back from his injury And now people are back on twitter clowning him like he wasn't just coming off injury before that He was like 50 50 90 club whatever Um, they had this period of time in the last couple minutes of this game where they could not do anything And it reminded me of of that playoff run or the playoff drought where we're under dock rivers It was so stagnant. It was like i'm just gonna force up some bad shots And because i'm paul george because i'm kawai linard some of them will fall and they didn't Drew holiday did not have a great statistical season, but him being back on the defensive floor You really saw the impact late in that game and like I mentioned yannis Amazing amazing game amazing amazing game next game is also really good down to the wire Celtics versus wizards now i've seen i've seen some wizards fans as i mentioned like kenny You never drop a recap on the days that we went and my apologies for that But i am still very very pro Fire scott brooks even after the success of the last 10 or so games I just need that man out of here because his last minute of this game was dreadful And if I was a fan of this team, I'd be hot at the way this all ended Um, because I I listened to the celtics cast on this and which is weird because I don't really like the celtics announcers no disrespect to bryan scalabrini, but what he was saying There's a point in time where the celtics had no timeouts They were down by three and he was like, yeah, I expect to watch the wizards to commit a foul here Send somebody to the free throw line and you still have ball and up by one They didn't do that Right and then they inbound the ball of bradley biel. He steps on the the line You know the things like that happen But they had an opportunity to use that last time out and then they do Jason tatum comes back and scores out to jason tatum because he was very clutch at the end of this as well And then then scott brooks ran the same exact sideline out of balance play that he always run to try to get bradley Beal a bucket and well brad steve is a company they were ready for it They brought the double team got him into the place you want him to be and he had to force up a shot But but the bradley biel, I think it's 11 straight games where when he scores 40 or more they lose 40 more and I was excited for this one I was excited to talk about this one They would potentially want it because there's moments in his game Especially down to stretch or russell westbrook had big time moments a couple turnovers over over over that stretch But big time moments for him I was excited to talk about them positively and I'll probably steal wheel as soon as scott brooks is out of there um daniel tice Kimmel walker jason tatum all big games with jayla brown bea now you needed that one and they got it next game We're moving on to is not a game. I did not watch heat versus hawks, but he got a win without jimmy bowler So that's encouraging and a game when john collis put up 34 and 10. I got to see how he did that Okay, okay. Okay. This was one of those days where like if it was looking like it was going to be a blowout I wasn't going to watch more than the first quarter same thing happened with the lakers versus the the warriors today I didn't watch more than that first quarter somebody's like Kenny I better hear you talk about the the elbow or shoulder or something and I had no idea what he was referencing until later on I saw it on twitter. I don't know. I don't I don't have anything to say about that a game that I did not turn Or I turned off and tuned back into Was this miffus grisly Versus used to rockets game and I had told myself I had told the audience here like I haven't watched many houston rockets games. This is james harden trade My fault, especially since christian wood has been out. Ah Today was one of those days are like i'm gonna watch them well well This team if you did not know i'm gonna this team shot four For 45 from three pointer today This team had 24 turnovers And 23 made field goals today That is insanity It is crazy crazy crazy bro And it's it's too early to overreact to some of the things but I can't help but the today I was watching this game and i'm like man Can you imagine if they would have pulled the pen Simmons trade off? Instead of being greedy and trying to get terry's maxi too Can you imagine How different it could be especially with ben simm is turning up right now And then the the victor the depot situation is so weird to me because they trade for him They they send jared allen and and carissa verge to different places when they could have been on this team and being helpful Because they wanted to stay relatively small and like christian would be the only real center on the roster They started justin patin bro Justin patin ain't played an mba like a real life mba game until like three weeks or like two weeks ago For real he scored against the bulls and they were like man. Um, that's his first mba bucket The man was drafted three years ago So like they sent these pieces other what other places and then they brought back victor the depot who don't want to be there Unless you get in the mother load of of assets for him. Why wouldn't you just take carus? Why wouldn't you just take jared? I don't understand it, bro And i'm telling you they're not getting the mother load of assets victor the depot because We're just don't seem like he has his eye on one specific spot And we know what that spot is me and you and he not signing the extension to anybody else So who's about to really give you some assets for that? I don't know Devin booker big time win devin booker took over this third quarter and it was a beauty to watch This is the second game in a row I watched if de andre aiden where he had periods of looking dominant if de andre aiden is starting to put it together at This this extent. Well, it's a bit trouble Devin booker I think he had 20 plus points in the fourth quarter alone in the third quarter alone Put it out of reach because um, the timbles are kind of hanging on through the first half The book said none of that next game in the very last game of the day. Um, might have been the best one, bro Well, i'm still luke walton. It was my tweet luke walton is done He's over it. It's a wrap This team just went on like a nine game loser streak the other day They get a win cool And then they end up losing again today in a game where they should actually win now The reason I say they should actually win because they were up about like six with um, What were like 50 seconds left or something now? I'm not blaming luke walton because marvin bagley missed two free throws Um and and buddy healed mr. They missed a lot of free throws down the stretch I think it was like five in a row at one point. Um, I'm not blaming him for that But it's it's hard to look at this team and and his success or lack of success over the past year or so since he's got the job And be like, yeah, he's safe Team is just on a game losing streak. They lost nine out of the last 10 It's hard for me to look at this team and this roster and be like, this is where they should be They should be better than this You know, they they get an old bench production, especially with tyree sitting on the sand last suited up I see you reese kind of fresh Um, there's no reason for them to to be as bad as they were especially with just Three weeks ago. They were like six and one and seven I don't like the the ups and downs the valleys and and and the highs of this team are crazy Let's talk about the charlotte hornestowe pj washington dropped 42 tonight 42 I had to go back to look at like, okay, this is his first 40 point game But other than this, what was his career high his real career high y'all Was his first mba game that was against the bulls I remember him tearing us up in his first game of his career him a large market and we're going hand to hand And he ain't scored that much since that day 27 what it was in his first mba game and today he dropped 42 Malik munk was getting dmp's coach's decision Um, a couple weeks ago and I know a lot of it had to do with the the substance Substance whatever it was for the mba. I'm guessing james bray goes like no, you don't get pt You got to earn it which which I respect but since this man has been back in the lineup He has been electric and we've talked about this before Basically when he was getting dmp's I'm like, yeah If you want to win basketball games, you want to put a little bit more offense on the floor And malik munk has to be out there because he will have these games or yeah He will shoot you out of some games. It's a fact But when he is when he is on he is jr smith light He is jordan clarkson light these these microwave lou Williams light. There's a there's a mold jamon croffer There's a mold of player and malik munk is that guy miles bridges continues to be one of my favorite Role players in the league this man started every single game last season this year He's been so so so selfless to be like I'll come off the bench. I'll do a lot of the dirty work I'll hit some shots and he's a lefty which I really really like tear rozier couldn't hit a shot the whole game He hit a three then hit three big free throws after drawing a foul Lamello continues to look like a floor generator at the age of 19 years old What a game What a what a game um harrison barns was was putting people in the post and there was a time Especially late in this game where the charlotte hornet who run is super small with pj washington as the center And pj washington is what six seven and then the sacramental kings are running big They had harrison barns through six eight They had marvin bag lose like six ten six eleven and they had rachan holmes and I was thinking like okay This team better dominate that glass They didn't dominate the glass in those minutes. So they end up losing Yeah, what a what a day what a day for the nba world man, and hopefully tomorrow's a bit better I would wish that my bulls got to got to play today Whatever they flew think about this y'all first of all, I hate flying for reference So I have to fly a decent amount because of work and projects like even on a wednesday today on wednesday this week I'm flying to atlanta for a shoot. I hate flying and I know nba job You own 40 flights a year. It's just it's just the nature of it But flying from chicago to tampa bay florida And then getting there and finding out all my game is canceled and having to fly right back because they have a game in chicago tomorrow I'd be I'd be exhausted. That's all I really say. All right. Leave a like subscribe for your new I see y'all soon call game