 What's the word y'all listen? I'm just not to get back into talking about whatever the hell I want I've been trying to be very picky with what topics we do because the numbers were doing so good I don't care anymore because I have to talk about Larry Markner today. I'm watching this game I've been loving watching your lendo magic. They were 11 and six in their last 17 games Frans Wagner has been a pleasure. I've always dropped gyms about window Carter Everything is going well over there in Orlando. They played against Utah Jazz and that's must-see TV for me I get to see my boy window Carter versus my boy Larry marketing and just shed a tear because both of them is looking good And in this game Larry marketing had basically his his worst efficient shooting night of the season And yet he was still the best player on the course out to Frans Wagner He was amazing tonight as well But Larry was still the best player on the court even though he shot like 30% from the field And and I'm still amazed at how good he's been I still haven't even like like came to grips that he's probably going to be an all-star this season I don't think it's going to really hit me until I'm in Salt Lake City And they announced his man's name over the intercom and his home crowd goes crazy He's finally did it after all of these years of us believing he did it But I can't say I've been a believer forever by the time his time in Chicago ended I believe that he was just going to be a good starter in the NBA I didn't think that he had this next gear and we're going to talk about What made me fall out of love with Larry marketing the prospect and what he has done To to basically prove me wrong through the first month of the season Utah Jazz were doing amazing stuff and I was giving them their love I was giving them flaps. I made the whole video about um This video won't jinx them or whatever it was called and I was dropping gyms and showing love to to larry But in that video, I said I've seen this larry before and bulls fans go remember this 2019 february of 2019 We got uh, whatever game stretch in february nine game stretch where he was amazing averaging 26 points per game 12 rebounds 48 percent from the field 35 percent from three He was a bona fide star this month and you know at the rest of the season 28 shooting 28 shooting 35 percent shooting 23 percent shooting That month alone made a lot of bulls fans who are already in love with larry because once your team drafts a player You have no choice but to love them until they show you otherwise that month for a lot of bulls fans I was like he's going to be the next Everybody's gonna say dirt because he's a he's a foreign born player that plays the forward That also likes to shoot threes and whatever but but that was the best month of his career So when I was talking about the utah jazz the first month of the season I said i've seen this larry before let's see he if he could keep it up Ladies gentlemen, he's kept it up and he's way better than that larry way better this season He's averaging 24 and a half points per game eight and a half rebounds to assist 52 percent from the field is so crazy 41 percent from three And I think I saw a graphic that said it's only him and like Stefan curry that are averaging like this amount of points on this crazy efficiency And this was something that I did not see coming for larry marketing when he was here in chicago His job was to sit in a corner sit on the wing and shoot three pointers And if he wasn't hitting the shots, he wasn't impacting the game And I do want to give a lot of blame to jim boyland He he screwed up the progression of larry and window card a pigeon holding him to play a certain Certain way when the options were endless for these dudes But for him to have a night like tonight where he shot 30 percent from the field And was the best player on the court blows my mind Because what he saw today or what he did today was was noticed that his shots weren't falling. Okay. What can we do? To steal score points He got to the lane. He got fouled. He had to shoot 37 free throws and I don't know the exact number He shot a total of 21 free throws tonight 21 There is no version of of mr. Marketing that was doing that while he was here in chicago So what's changed? How do we get to the point that he's playing like an all star after the last couple seasons We've just seen him be a really solid role player and I got three things running down here There's a lot more But these are the three things that stick out the most to me and number one is him being used in different ways You mentioned now when he was here in chicago under jim boyland He was basically a spot up shooter the entirety of it He very rarely put the ball on the floor But guess what when he did a lot of the times good things happen You get some posters you get some dunks and we should have started right on the wall That we should allow this man to have the ball in his hands more. He's being used as a pick and roll ball handler He's being used as a pick and roll roller. He's taking mid-range jump shots He's using his body his size which is number two on my list Because one of the things I hated most about watching larry in his first couple years of his career here in chicago Was like even when he had the switches of the smaller defenders or whatever He stood he still just stood there and nowadays if he has a small defender on him He will put his ass in the post and get him an easy bucket That was that's a mind shift a mindset shift But it's also him feeling out of his body more if you look at pictures of him as a 19 year old rookie I mean, it's no surprise that at 25 years old. He's he's buffering. He's bigger But he's he's put on that muscle and he's using that size differently than the first couple years of his career I mean, he's as efficient as can be on every single level of the court a true Three-level score. I still have some kind of skepticism about his shooting right now because it is so otherworldly but again, we're 42 games in the year so So could this just really be him when it comes to shooting even if it's not There are a few things that I know for sure will be there and that is him running like a gazelle in the transition I think when it comes to points per possessors in transition He's like in a 97th percentile. We're like if they're on a fast break You better find lauri market because if you don't he is going to dunk on your head when he played against the bulls last week I think he had eight ducks in a single game. That's the most he's ever had in his career He is doing stuff like this over and over and over And he's impacting the game more than just sitting in the corner and shooting threes Let's go back to talk about my bulls fandom around lauri market because december 28th 2018 I tweeted. I'm so convinced that lauri will be a five to eight time all star Now, this is not no super hot take. I think everybody feels that way about their young players At least that's the type of hope that you have actually. I wonder what he did that night specifically For me to tweet that hold on. I'm going through the game long real quick He didn't do anything the bulls want to basketball games. So that's fun But in this game he shot five for 15 He had 14 points 14 rebounds but something about this night made me tweet that but I was feeling good I was feeling great about lauri marketing as a prospect and I honestly did believe that in the moment But by the time we got to that last year with the chicago bulls It was very apparent that the partnership between chicago and lauri marketing had run his course So by the time he was traded to cleveland It was it wasn't no like oh man We traded my boy the guy that I said was going to be a five to eight time all star because I thought that it Has run his course Together and I think That was pretty unanimous across bulls fandom We all believe that that season was the last of lauri because well He was up for a contract extension after his rookie deal We didn't know how to value him the league didn't know how to value him so much so that What do we get back? There's jones jr. In a lot of your protective first round pick that was the value of mr Marketing and it was a three team deal that I think larry nance ended up going to the pelicans And I vividly remember seeing that lauri marketing was traded To the calves and in my mind. I thought we were getting larry nance and I was fucking hyped I said we getting larry nance from marketing There's tweets for for every tweet that you see me say oh larry's gonna be a five to eight time all star There's also tweets towards the end of our relationship. That sounds crazy where i'm like I'm like joking to woldz Who wants larry marketing? You know what i'm saying? At that point I had basically given up on him as the guy that I thought he could have been in 2018 when I was sending that tweet and mostly it was because we weren't able to see all the things that he could do And and this is a conversation about development mostly within the chicago bulls because you can look throughout the history Of us in our drafting and our lack of development. We do have some great success stories like jimmy butler drafted 30th overall Uh the d2 school did marquette draft 30th like we have those but that was 67 years ago So the whole time we were in a larry that five years stretch We didn't develop anything you can argue we we developed zack levine after the jimmy butler trade But I honestly believe that zack levine was just a hooper. You know what i'm saying? I think that that there's like a thing that they show beginning of every single bull's game If you're in an arena where he talks about every single day of his life when he found the game of basketball They use putting up thousands of shots a day So I thought I think that the development that was zack levine was zack levine just putting in the work But when you look at window carter you look at larry marketing You look at chris dunn because we traded for chris dunn, you know one year into his career You look at all of the people that we had And in our system none of them really developed. We drafted denzel valentine. He's put up triple doubles in the g We drafted patrick williams. So i'm super optimistic about But but we haven't seen significant growth from him and it's still early He's still younger than majority of the people that was that was drafted the last two seasons We didn't sleep on you pat. I saw you tonight even though we lost to okay. See which is a conversation in itself So the bulls have their own problem, but this might be a problem across the league in general When do you know it's time to part ways with a younger talent because when the bulls traded him away He was only 23 years old again. He didn't even get that second contract under the bulls He he genuinely played out his rookie deal and the bull says see you later So when do you know it is time to flip the switch to throw somebody out? I honestly do believe that the the front office came in here in chicago and looked at all of the pieces that the previous front office Drafted and said hey, we want our own pieces. We want our own guys So larry was under the previous regime and we might think he cool We might think he's solid, but like we don't want to extend that dude. He's not one of our guys So we're gonna trade him away We're gonna draft patrick. We're gonna draft dale and terry Those are our draftees those are guys we want to invest in and not miss the marketer And then when you look deeper even in his time in cleveland Good season, you know, he only shot 35 percent from three, which is not great for a guy that's shooting six attempts We're gay, but he was he was moved over to the three position And I vividly remember that video when they when they traded for him I said in that video, there was no way larry would be able to run the three I watched him for four years chicago. He was slow footed whenever he got a switch He was dominated. There was no way I saw him playing the three successfully and guess what? He was alongside evan mobily He was alongside Jared Allen. He held his own and as if they were to stay healthy They would have made the playoffs and been one of the top seats. He played a crucial part in that But now here we go a year later and he's traded for donovan mitchell Though he doesn't play a ton of three anymore. You still see Some of the things he learned while he was guarding wings all last season All of these little things throughout the course of his career has added up to him being an all-star in this moment And I'm extremely excited and happy for him, man Again, I thought it was going to happen and then I thought it was it going to happen and I'm glad that it is So larry if you're watching this video, you know, I'm going to be in salt lake city for all star We'd love to chat it up and maybe you can come on to my show I'm just I'm just saying I'm just saying All right, I'll see y'all soon