 What's the word y'all welcome back to the final called game episode of 2020 when the time this video is coming out the clock with a struck midnight and we can finally put 2020 to rest now I'm gonna say I'm not one of those people that think just because we're in 2021 things about to be dramatically different But 2020 was such a bad year that it being over. I mean, I'm not the optimistic about 2021 because I just feel Like it could only go up, right We'll see think about what we we had to go through this year started off We were impacted heavily as a community and as a basketball community with losing Kobe And I've mentioned it plenty of times before that Kobe was such an influential person in my life I got a whole rib tack tattoo for him So losing him to start off the year was was obviously hard Then we go through lockdown and just found out today that another very influential person in my life MF doom also passed away So I'm starting on ending 2020 the way I started with a very tragic death I hope that his family is doing well and everybody close to him is doing well But 2020 was definitely one of the years to be to be forgotten for a lot of reasons I don't focus on all the negatives one of the few positives that This channel we came into 2020 with 50,000 subscribers And if you look below the video, we're at 340,000 subscribers So it has been a dramatic year for growth over on this channel and that's meaning a lot because I haven't just been Uploading every single day like I took months off on this channel at a time So the fact that y'all came here and y'all been rocking with me I really appreciate it and here's to nothing but greatness for 2021. Here's my goal before we get into today's slated games Let me give you my goal for 2021. I Want to make the called game brand the called game show a household name for every NBA fan I don't mean just this sit down when we talk about the slated games But me and my guys have been working for the past couple months to turn called game into more than just this We're gonna have guests We're gonna have NBA players people in the NBA world coming to a show and I don't want to spoil everything But called game it's about to get a lot bigger The way to set now so you can say that you were one of the oh geez in a couple of years Let's let's hope that and without y'all support we can't do that So continue to support leave a like on the video subscribe if you are new let's get into new years Eve game So started off very early man Cavaliers versus Indiana Pacers where the Indiana Pacers ran away with this one of the worst pieces of news in the NBA world today is That TJ Warren is out with an injury and a significant injury that he is going to be out indefinitely And it's just a huge blow to the Pacers who of course have been looking really good through the first five games So one of the best teams in the league and it just seems like they can't catch a break now I understand that every team goes through injuries But it's something about Indiana that they always lose one of their best players We talk about seventh man in a rotation We mean top three top four players always get injured whether it be Sabonis where they'd be Victor Ledipo from the past couple years And now TJ war now we weren't getting bubble TJ throughout the first couple games of the season But he is obviously a significant upgrade from what they had today's game They started Aaron holiday in his in his place and they're how they hit a good game Don't get me wrong, but you're not gonna feel that void of TJ Warren, which is a problem Um, they broncher in still not do that Has these guys rolling and I'm sure they'll still be good Don't get me wrong But like this obviously lowers the ceiling of an Indiana Pacer team that a guy that can go out there and give you 20 a night Is no longer in the rotation when it comes to the Cavaliers We knew that that three-and-no-star wasn't going to last forever But what I can say to the Cavaliers fans before I move on to the next game is this should be a year about growth for y'all Especially for your young backcourt last year. They didn't look great together this year so far They look great imagine what year three year four year five can look like so that's what you should be thinking about and not to mention some of the other younger guys and Isaac Kuro didn't play because of a foot thing, but like he looked good in this first couple games So I don't know if the playoffs is on the radar for Cavs fans But again growth should be number one on a priority list speaking of growth My Chicago bulls it on the two-game win streak y'all it should be a three-game win streak But the last two-minute report why does that exist? Okay before we get to talk about the wash it was because that's what this video is really about Why does the the last two-minute report exist? Can somebody explain it to me? Understand wanting to have the refs know like oh you missed this call and you got to be better next But why give that to the public? So if you don't know what I'm talking about Damien Lee called game on us about a couple days ago and turns out after that game came out They said in the last two-minute report that they should have been a foul called on Kevin Looney, which would avoid at the shot and the bull should have got the win But the problem is we don't get the win So why even tell the public that we should have we should be three and two right now y'all wait no Yes, we should be three and two right now in a three-game win streak the bulls to be looking and it doesn't matter I don't know why it exists Maybe somebody could give me a logical reason why the fans know about the last two-minute report because at the end of the Day the only thing it does isn't rage us when we find out that somebody missed a crucial call to end the game Now let's talk about the watch the Wizards the bulls your graduations two wins That's not what this video is about we want to talk about the watch the Wizards because I don't know if many of Us expected them to come into this season and start off on five especially when you look at their schedule There's no reason for them to lose back-to-back games to the Chicago Bulls Let's be honest and my major criticism because again I've been watching this team heavily because they went against my bulls and y'all know I don't miss a minute of Bulls basketball. It's one of my biggest faults One of the biggest things I could take away From why the watch the Wizards suck has a lot to do with Scott Brooks And the thing about Washington is that they they very rarely fire coaches on time They usually give a coach way too much room to be bad before they were like, okay You remember like who's who's Alaska Randy Whitman should have fired like two years before he was actually fired You know and I feel like Scott Brooks is about to get that too, especially we consider Scott Brooks has his connection with like Russell Westbrook They're like, oh, we just traded for Russell Westbrook and now we're gonna fire his former coach Maybe that's not the best thing to do when they should there are times throughout the last couple games where I'm looking at his Rotation I'm like what the hell is going on now a slight pass because a Rui Hachimura had been out for the first game He's finally back and we had a short offseason where they made trade So he doesn't really know his roster as much as maybe he should because of the offseason the things but there was a time Where there's a lineup of Russell Westbrook is Smith raw NATO Troy Brown Jr. And Thomas brought on the court together. No, Bradley Bill and I'm looking at this team And I'm licking my lips because I know for damn sure they're not stopping a single Basketball team and they couldn't stop the Bulls when that lineup was out there and it's like why does that lineup exist? There was also a lineup and this was from one of their opening nights where Moe Wagner was at the center Davis Bertens was at the four there was Troy Brown raw NATO and Russell Westbrook Who the heck is that team defending as good as Thomas Bryant can be as an offensive player His defense is heterosis for the center position and that's why I'm kind of skeptical skeptical about him as a starter center in his league because You can get away from not being a great defender in the NBA at the center position, but to be terrible It just won't work no matter how good of an offensive player you are Thomas Bryant today was Dominating my Chicago Bulls, but he was giving all of it back. He let he let that boy Daniel Gaffer come in and do a stay no matter what we took in the paint It felt like it was going directly in defensively that team doesn't have it and when you stack it on top of bad rotation and bad play calling and all of that It's just a recipe for disaster. This is a game They should have 100% won with Bradley Beal basically putting up 30 Thomas Bryant basically putting up 30 and Russell Westbrook looked better in this game That he did in the last game. They should not have lost this game But when none of those guys are on the court, their offense looked terrible the bench wasn't there and of course like I mentioned They have no defense whatsoever Now people are questioned read they already reevaluated the Russell Westbrook trade for John wall Because you would think that Russell Westbrook being traded to a team That's where as bad as they were last year would be a obvious upgrade because of how good of a player Russell Westbrook is and through The first five games of the season there has not been an upgrade They look like the same damn team They just added another player and that's scary because that's not what the front office thought they were getting think about it They went from a team with no John wall as your starting point guard to Russell Westbrook That's automatically should be a W and do the first five games of the season and has not been now The one thing I can say is that the NBA is so weird that like we could be talking completely different in two weeks They can figure out how to play together. They'll be five and five. We'll be like, okay. We were just overreacting That's just kind of the way things work. Like I was thinking about last year The Utah Jazz had a period of time in there in the NBA season where they just looked really bad, right? And then they went on like a 14 game win streak You're like, okay, those seven games they lost don't really matter because they went on a 14 game win streak So it's just the way the NBA works and NBA news works. It's always changed And so who knows about the Washington Wizards, but I can say confidently to the first five games They look terrible. Nobody would expect that them to be the worst team in the NBA right now There's two teams without wins left is Detroit who we expected to be bad and the Washington Wizards Who in my mind were a team that would be competing for a playoff spot and they are oh and five The next game had the 76ers beat the the win. No, no, the lossless Or let no magic, but that that is no more because Ben Simmons hit a three in the white How we hit a three and that's all if both of those players hit a three in the game Somebody go and do the fact-checking. You're not gonna lose. I'm not falling for it though, Ben Hit another one hit one more and then we got that conversation But going one for one. That's just that's just how he is every single year Right, he'll tease us with one three-point shot early in the season They go the rest of the year We're not even looking at the rim unless he was three feet away from it. Come on, Ben But the team the team is like a good man We talked about in the last episode that like that Seth Curry trade is looking better and better And that's two straight games from Tobias Harris where he looks incredible that 34 million dollars ain't looking too bad I talked about this when Doc Rivers was was Hired that's the reason for when Doc Rivers was hired people are like Why was Doc Rivers the guy that they went out to get and as much as it is they're like, okay He is a better coach than Brad Brown when Tobias Harris was at his best It was with Doc Rivers as his coach Doc Rivers knows how to coach Tobias Harris to be the best version of Tobias Harris and through the first five games of the Season that has been it other than the one game where they lost everybody looked bad in that game But all the other ones Tobias Harris has looked good And I'm given Tobias the love for for taking the shots that are there and Doc Rivers were put into bias Harris in This position where he can actually beat Tobias Harris. It's a beautiful thing But the next game is that the Raptors or the Rockets got their their first win in the season one thing that is bothering me or something that's in my mind is like The rest of James Harden's teammates everybody in the world knows that James Harden wants to get traded It is no secret to anybody including the guys in that locker room So when they are traveling to new places to do games like this is he's just silent on the plane now I know that he has friends on the team But I'm gonna be honest with you if I was teammates with James Harden and he wants out of the team that we have Right now I would feel a little maybe not disrespect and maybe disrespect is the wrong word But I will have some type of feeling about that. You know what I'm saying We could be cool through two two months ago and now you don't want to play for us no more I don't know bro, but they came out. They won a game. Um, I just don't like the last possesses from the Kings Bro, I didn't like the last possession the air Fox not a good three-point shoot He was already one for six and there was a couple more seconds for them to potentially get into my hands of a real Shooter and he took the shot they catch it out But nonetheless, y'all know I'm a I'm a Kings fan low-key, so they were just fun to watch again Um, oh the first time I watched the Knicks was today and it just so happened the day that they decided not to shoot the ball Throughout the first couple games of the season. They were the best three-point shooter team in the league Percentage wise and today I think they were three for 36. So I guess I'm bad luck Knicks fans I'll never tune into another game. We can both Live in happiness Shout to Julius Randolph still doing Julius Randolph type things The Raptors benching Pascal Siakam for him leaving the game early was surprising. I like that though No matter the stature of your team, you should be held to a standard and Pascal he left his team So I understand him Ignorance the side of that. No, you good, bro. You just sit on his bench foot today. That's not his character I don't think I don't think we'll ever hear something about like that with Pascal Siakam again But good for them for getting their first win of the season Pelicans dominate the thunder thunder rebuilding team. Oh last game is the suns versus jazz For a second, I was going to record this video a little bit early because the suns were up by like 15 20 And then the jazz were like, no, we don't have this little comeback. So I had to put my recording on hold one thing that I'm afraid of First of all, shout out to the suns. I love that all of my friends in the NBA world are doing well Shout out to my boy, mckill bridges for having another great night. Um one thing I'm afraid of with the suns when we look back on them and seven years This team I because again, I'm pretty sure this team is going to be a playoff team We're going to look at chris paul stats and so far throughout the season I think he's averaging 11 points per game eight assists his efficiency is a little bit down and people are going to do what they did With jason kid for him when jason kid won the championship with the dallas mavericks Now we look at it in 2020 and I've seen people have conversations on twitter that was like Look at the numbers jason kid wasn't even that good and jason kid was really good for them Sometimes what you're doing is not in the overall stat sheet and I feel like that might get lost of this year of chris paul There were games throughout the season where chris paul didn't even put up double digit points But you can tell that this team is running under what chris paul has instilled in them in these couple months I don't want to give chris paul all of the credit because obviously money williams had them looking good in the bubble They have players that are buying and to let's go out there and win basketball We're tired of losing but chris paul has definitely put a stamp on his team five games in and with the statistics I'm telling you people are going to do it and I'm going to make sure that everybody watches this video We get four years down the line and we're talking about this son's team and people like man chris paul. Yeah, I was 15 Shut that up immediately Because impact goes more than just how many points you can put up All right, y'all I'll see y'all very soon again. Happy new years Love y'all card game