 What's the word y'all? I think I just watched Sammy Ozele get a bucket in this Clippers vs. Nick's game. Legitimately had no idea Sammy Ozele played for the Clippers. When did that, okay. This is not what this video's supposed to be about, but I need to know. How many games does he have under his belt as a Clipper? The answer is four. I'm sorry Clippers fans, I guess I ain't really been tuned in. What a week in for the association, man. We already talked about yesterday, LeBron James dropped a 56, gets a goal to say Warriors and how incredible that is. I saw this morning that if LeBron James drops 30 in his game tomorrow, then he'd be number one in points per game this season, which is insane considering again he's 37 years old. Either way, yesterday was a nice day and then today got even better. And I know your weekend is probably consistent of you going out shopping, hanging out with friends, maybe going to see the new Batman movie. I ain't done that just yet. 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I've never really been this indecisive about something basketball related. The closest thing I've had to this is the year that Russell West were going to his MVP. But even this season is even more difficult. Like as early as Saturday, somebody asked me who my MVP is and it was on the podcast. And I always prefer this by telling you the exact date and time that I'm saying this. So for example, if you ask me right now, March since 6th, 11th, 18 PM, my MVP is Nikola Jokic. Now I've had so many different people as my MVP at certain times. Steph Kerr is my MVP early in the season. Kevin Arant had a time as my MVP. Yannis had his time as my MVP. Then Jokic had a time as my MVP. Then Joel and B took it. And now Jokic, in my opinion, just took it back. If I was a media player person and I had a vote right now on March 6th, I would give it to Nikola Jokic. And yes, it could be that simple as somebody having one amazing game that can sway me in one other way. And I've been this way for these two players for like two to three seasons now where somebody asked me who was the best in the league, sometimes I'll answer Joel and sometimes I'll answer Jokic. I hate comparing the two because it's like apples to apples. Like both of them are just so very good that you can make an argument for each of them being the dude and I could not tell you you're wrong. Right now my MVP is Nikola Jokic because what he did against Apelicus today was absolutely ridiculous. Now early into this game, they were dominating. And I made a conscious effort to try to watch this entire game. And I'm so happy that I did not tune out because like I mentioned in yesterday's video, Apelicus fans were hitting me up. Kenny, you got to talk about us. You got to talk about us. And I was like, you know what? Okay, let me sit down and watch the entirety of your game. And they started off very dry. Nikola Jokic came out, tip off easy bucket, assist easy bucket, assist easy bucket. It was just at ease. And I was like, aw snap. The Pails ain't gonna really put up a fight. And then they did. Coach Mike Malone gets ejected because the Apelicus are coming back and then the officiating, and I'm gonna say this for both sides was pretty ass this game. I'm just gonna be honest, it was bad. It was bad both ways. And again, I ain't got no dog in this fight. So that's just me telling you the way it is. Mike Malone gets, I almost said Mike Malone got executed instead of ejected. I need to get more sleep. He gets ejected. And in that time they were down by like 10 or 12 points. And sometimes we see this, and even they were talking about this on the broadcast where like some coaches get ejected and they use that as the fuel to get the team to play well because they had started off very good, start to look terrible and Mike Malone got ejected. And he's like, we got to do this for Coach Mike Malone. And they did. And then the fourth quarter came around and Nikoli Okaj was as unguardable as I've ever seen him be. And that's saying a lot. He was unguardable as I've ever seen him be. And you know what? It made me go dig up this old video and I'll play a clip of this. For reference, I made this video in November of 2018. And this happened to be the year that Nikoli Okaj got his first all-star appearance. But look at what I said in this video. First of all, don't pay attention to the way I look and stuff like that. I've grown a lot since 2018. But just listen to what I say and come back. Can we take this time to talk about Yokaj right now? Listen, Yokaj. You have the offensive tools to average 22 at least. There is no reason for you to attempt one shot in the game. Last night against Memphis, he attempted one shot. But instead of showing how good he is and scoring the ball, he's too passive. Also, that Xerzi that was on a hanger is now over here now. Look at me. I travel with the same stuff. It's just crazy how things have changed. And yes, every once in a while, Nikoli Okaj does have the game where you're like, bro, can you please just take over? Because nobody can guard you. Like it actually happened a couple of nights ago and luckily for them, they still won. We had like eight points. And he was just waiting for like the Yokaj moments to happen. But it happens way less likely now or way more less often now than it did then. It's just him growing up and just being better and more conscious about how good of a player he is. If I was an NBA player, which obviously I'm very, very far away from it, I liked the way Nikoli Okaj doesn't stay. He goes into work. He plays basketball. He goes home and he plays Counter-Strike or he plays League of Legends or he plays Apex. And then that's what it is. He doesn't have social media bone in his body. It's just basketball, elite level basketball, MVP level basketball, go home to my wife and my daughter and I'm gonna play a little bit of League of Legends. It's just amazing schedule. And the reason I'm so fascinated with him and Joel and B is because they don't get easy looks whatsoever. It's a lot easier to throw a double team at a center that it is a guard that's saucing up. You know what I'm saying? So these dudes do not get a lot of easy looks in their life. So the fact that they're both so very elite at what they do is just mind blowing to me. And I still think the defense that he's putting together or getting better at every single season is still underrated. I think people still think of him as a negative defender when he's very far away from that. He's got some of the most active hands in the entire NBA and has seen something about a dude that doesn't have a lot of speed, a really good act of hands. He gets blocks or just great rim protection. No, you know what? I'm gonna do this again. If you've been around in town for a while, you know that I believe that there's a difference between a rim protector and a paint protector. A rim protector is where Rudy Obert is both and that's what makes him elite. But a rim protector, in my opinion, is like a solid white side, a dude that it gets you a lot of blocks. A paint protector could be like Al Horford or even Robert Williams. Robert Williams has a case to be both. Nicoliocas is a paint protector more than he is a rim protector, but every once in a while he'll surprise you. And that's how he's got the three game winning blocks this season. Or in this game, I think he ended with three blocks as well. Yeah, he ended with four blocks and three steals. Nicoliocas, man. Nicoliocas, man. Nicoliocas, man. I just, I hate that he is one of the more, I don't know, I don't want to say disrespect because I do believe that I personally use the word disrespect very often. I don't know if people disrespect Nicoliocas. Actually, yes, people do. Yes, yes, the Nick right to the world are very disrespectful to Nicoliocas when in reality, bro, just flat out can hoop where you can roll the balls out with him and four of the dudes and he's gonna find a way to make you competitive enough to be not in the plan. Think about the lineups that this team has been running the entire season. Let me, let me read you the lineup that they've been running for most of the season. Let me, let me just, let me just showcase it. They won this game with Monte Morris, Will Barton, Aaron Gordon, Jeff Greed and Yolkich. Off the bench, they had Brent Forbes, Jamaico Greed, Bows, Highland, Boogie, who tonight wasn't great, but Boogie just had a crazy game the other night, which is amazing. This roster has no business being as good as they are and the reason they're as good as they are is because of the guy that's in the middle. I don't know, man. I just, I love watching Nicoliocas play and as of right now, and it is now March 6th, 1127, he has steal my MVP. We'll see what it looks like in six hours from now or even 24 hours from now because I believe that Joel and B goes against the Bulls and Joel and B makes the Bulls look like kids every single time he plays against him. So maybe he takes it back, I'm not sure. Jason Tatum versus the Brooklyn Nets. I've said everything there is to say about the Boston Celtics, whether it be on this channel or my TNT segment, nothing has really changed whatsoever. I'm still impressed every single game if they win, but I more want to focus my attention to the Brooklyn Nets because, well, I saw something after this loss. They said they were 3-17 in their last 20, which is the same as the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets won today against one of the best teams in the league, Satsa Christian Wood, Jalen Green play really well and Kevin Porter Jr., you know what I'm saying? Sometimes you have those nights where all three of them have a good game and that was tonight and they ended up winning this. So shout out to them. But 3-17 at any point in the season for a team that has the aspirations of winning the championship is completely unacceptable. I don't think I'm, I'm not breaking any news by saying that 3-17 at any stretch is unacceptable. And I understand that Kevin Arrant missed a huge chunk of that and he's only, I think it's the second game back and he still looks like Kevin Arrant is so, so crazy to me. A guy like Kevin can miss six weeks of basketball to still come in and still look like one of the best players in the world, but the rest, everything around him is just whack. Even after this game, coach Eme Yodoka says something along the lines of like, we don't really think about the defense versus the Brooklyn Nets because they're not running anything complex, which is just basically saying that the Brooklyn Nets play Iso ball. It's like Kevin's turn, then Kyrie's turn. And Ree, Ree just had such a bad game, bro. I know he ended with 19 and six and four. He was not positively impactful in this game. And it was just a six point game and a lot of that was Kevin Arrant. A lot of that was Bruce Brown and Lamarcus All just hitting his shots. Kyrie Irvin was not that much of a factor. And in my mind, and we talked about this on our podcast today because we were ranking the duos in the NBA. In my mind, the combination of Kevin Arrant and Kyrie Irvin wasn't losing a lot. And I think a lot of that is because the last memory I have of them playing together is a lot to do with the Milwaukee Bucks series where they were stellar. But in reality, that duo has not played well together. And I thought I screen shot at the stats, but I did not. I definitely screen shot at this one that they are five and 11 on Kyrie Irvin in the lineup this season. And I know some of those are like without James and without Kevin, but still an alarming statistic. And the fact that they're a play in game or a play in team, anything can happen once you're in a play in. It's only a one to two game depending on where your seating is and anything can happen. And I want to give them benefit of the doubt because Kevin Arrant is a type of dude that can give you 50 and play 48 minutes if you need him to like he did in the playoffs last year. But like that last piece, the big three piece, we don't know when he's gonna play. Kyrie Irvin only has like seven, eight more games left for the season depending on if the vaccination thing changes. And it just feels like a team that we were thinking about next year more than next year as them being like title winners potentially. Now I know a lot can change in a short amount of time. And maybe what I'm saying right now is completely washed in a week's time because they won a three to four game win streak. But right now it's not looking great. And the top post on the Go Net subreddit says that Kyrie Irvin shouldn't be a net next year. I am personally of the mind said that Kyrie shouldn't be here next year regardless of what happens the rest of the season. Look at the story between the two scenarios. Either the nets wake up and run to a chip winning despite their start actively sabotaging the season or they don't win the chip slash Mr. Playoffs and Kyrie was instrumental in the season being destroyed. We can sit here and make a thousand excuses of why we are good but the main problems all tied to one thing. Nets don't have chemistry due to their lack of star point guard shooter guard in and out of the lineup all season. James Harden left the team due to Kyrie's part time status. Our players are playing high minutes to get an exhaustive slash injured because a healthy body who could take some of those minutes and help balance the load is choosing to sit out. I don't care whether or not the mandate is stupid or unfair. Life isn't fair. Almost all the team sacrificed instead of Kyrie. Even when we have Kyrie on the floor sometimes he doesn't even play well. Today he had 19.08 of 18 shooting as a superstar that's just flat out unacceptable. If I'm Sean Marks in the off season I'm sitting with Kyrie and giving him the ultimatum. Either you can reside with us for a much lesser contract with clauses built in to protect the team from stuff he pulls. Cause remember last year there was no mandate and Kyrie just willingly just left the fucking team for a weeks at a time or you agree to give Kyrie the contract he wants but a sign in trade. I'm tired of the Kyrie era and that has 245 upvotes and it was the number one most upvoted thing today. Granted it is just seven hours ago which is like right after the loss. And I know that the emotions at an all time high after a big loss on national TV but a write up by Neiman Smith in the top comment says well, he has a player option. So yeah, you're probably gonna take that. But even Nets fans are upset with the Kyrie urban thing. Cash money Chris with a 44 piece but you know what? Shout out to Chris Middleton. He deserves his flowers. All star player, all star player. But I want to give my flowers to Drew Holiday because he went into the fourth quarter with seven points and by the end of it he ended up having a 24. Yes, Chris Middleton had some of the biggest shots down the stretch but Drew Holiday is one of the reasons why they stood afloat and they stayed in the game cause Giannis obviously was not having a great one. I think in the first half he, I think in the first half he had 17 and the second half he had two. They did a very good job of guarding Giannis in this one and he stayed in foul trouble. But it was the Chris Middleton, Drew Holiday thing and I was super impressed by this one. I mean, I'm impressed by the Sons more than that. I'm impressed by the Sons more than Milwaukee because the Sons were missing their two all stars and still stuck around in this one. But the thing that you're gonna learn about the Giannis led Milwaukee Bucks at least this season, they don't play to their competition every single night. Some of these games they should be blowing teams out and they just don't. But they'll turn it up in that last couple of minutes and you're like, oh, okay, here he is. DeAndre Aden putting up 30 points is great. I still, and I'm gonna say this about DeAndre Aden until we fix it. I've been saying this is a rookie season. I need my boy to get his free throw rate up because two free throw attempts is a starting center where you end up with 30 unacceptable. It's super exciting that he ended up with 30 points and one free throw. I mean, because you think about somebody other centers in the league to get 30 points. You need to cut, you know what I'm saying? You need more free throws than that. But I guess it's all about the growth as a player because I think he's only 21 years old or something right now. Oh, he's 23? Why am I always so under, like when it comes to age, it's so hard when he's 23, which is still very young in NBA world. He needs to get better at draw and fouls is all. He's a finesse center though. He's not a guy that loves a bunch of contact. It's like hook shots, floaters and things like that. Going, you got those muscles, Brad's gonna go ahead and draw a couple. Don't have anything else to say. Like there were other games that I watched like for Ziggins his first game. I watched a five minute stretch in the Napalm and I was like, oh, okay, poor Ziggins looks cool. And it's just about keeping poor Ziggins healthy more than anything. And he was running like five minute stretches and he looked all right. I don't even know who won this game. Oh, what's Washington won this game? And he ended up with 25. So there's that. I think Kuzma had his fifth straight game of putting up 20 plus. And the Rockets won a game against the Grizzys. Not very great for the Grizzys to lose this one, especially since they had just taken over the two seed. And I would guess that they dropped them back to the three seed, the Jazz beat the Thunder. That's about expected as anything. And then the most disturbing news from today's Slater Games is that Jared Allen is gonna be out indefinitely because he broke his finger watching this game. And he got kneaded in the quad and they were like, he won't return. So you imagine the surprise of everybody when they tweeted, oh, he's out of definitely with a broken finger. I'm like, bro, didn't he get kneaded in the leg? Why, how did that break his finger? Two different plays, I guess his fingers broken and a team that has been riddled with injuries. And I don't know. Cause anytime you start to talk about teams that have missed games, it's always that one Orlando Magic fan and bring up that graphic, like that's heavily skewed because Markel Fos miss like two years basketball, it feels like, and John Isaac missed a bunch of time. But like when it comes to players that were expected to play this season, the Cavaliers have lost many players. So it's just bad for them of them having a breakout season. And one of their all stars is just out now. They still ended up winning this game because Evan Mobley decided to turn up. And you know what? If there's anything interesting about this, I'm interested to see how they start next game. Who's going to be in the start lineup? Do they move Mobley over to the five or did they let Ed Davis who played a couple of minutes in this one start all of a sudden? I'm not completely sure what they're going to do. But I think the idea of Evan Mobley running some more five or starting at the five could be interesting. Interesting for me as a fan, that's all. Recaps usually aren't supposed to be this long but I think we spent a lot of time on the Brooklyn. That's who cares, right? It's my show.