 What's the word y'all? Hey listen, everybody here is an enjoyer of the game of basketball. You would have not have clicked this video if you'd enjoy the game of basketball slash the NBA, but you have to be able to admit when things have gone awry, when things need to be changed. And this weekend we saw two great examples of one of the worst things about the game of basketball, one of the worst things about the NBA basketball specifically that definitely needs some changes. Starts off a couple nights ago we got Lakers versus Clippers, the LA versus LA Classic, and it actually ended up being a pretty good game until you got to the last couple minutes because the last 30 seconds of this game took 20 minutes and real time to finish. 30 seconds took 20 minutes of real time. You probably thought oh that's not that big of a deal. This doesn't happen often, does it? A couple nights later, Bucks versus Nets, another really good game until you got to the last minute or so and this one in my opinion was even worse. Now I don't know if the stats say this, but the last 20 seconds, 20 seconds of time, took 20 minutes to finish. Now the first one you had a bunch of fouls, you had some reviews, but the second one, the Bucks versus Nets game, I was so close to clicking off because I was so very annoyed and I know I'm not in the minority here because the number one upvoted thing on Reddit in the last 24 hours, which has 25,000 upvotes right now, is talking about this issue. Shout out to Daniel Bauer. After two cluts and exciting blocks by the Nets to keep their lead, Andre Drummond grabbed the rebound and was fouled with 21.7 seconds remaining. After that, there were two timeouts, 33 substitutions, eight fouls, 19 free throw attempts and just one field goal attempt all over the course of 17 minutes in real time. It's ridiculous, ladies and gentlemen. It's got to the point where it's devaluing the product. I watched 47 and a half minutes of decent good basketball, fun basketball. One of the teams is heavily depleted because their star players either injured or ramping themselves up and the other team got an MVP candidate. It was solid. It was a good matchup. And then that last 30 seconds hit and bro, impossible, impossible. I thugged it out. I thugged it out. And I feel like most of y'all thugged it out too, but there were so many things wrong. And I've complained about stuff like this before because there's basically two to three different issues inside this one core issue. And one of them is the fouling when you're up by three or more. I understand it. Again, I understand it. Don't come in the comment section. It's the statistically analytically is the right play is good coaching. You know, you don't want to allow it three for the optically the basket, the NBA, the national basketball association is definitely about us entertainment factor, right? It is the antithesis of entertainment to see a team down by three and not able to at least get up a shot. It sucks. And that is what happened on the both sides of this game. Oh, we're about three, let's go ahead and get a foul. Oh, we are about three again, let's go ahead and get a foul. It sucks. And listen, I admit, if I was a coach, I would probably do the same thing, but I'm not thinking about, I'm not thinking about it from the coach's perspective. I'm thinking about the millions of fans that are at home watching this game. It's not fun for us. And the kicker of it all, the kicker of it all. Again, a shout out to Steve Nash, a beautiful game to be winning all things considers, consider the circumstances to be going against the defendant champions with a very depleted team. This is a very big win for them considering they were on 11 game loser streak at one point of the season and couldn't beat anybody for them to beat the opposing champions or the defendant champs is dope. And we're going to talk about the bucks because they suck right now. All of that. You know, the idea is we're going to foul up by three because we trust our free throw shooters. Cary Irwin is 50, 40, 90, or he has been 50, 40, 90 in his career. He missed the free throw. And guess what? You did all of this, turning that 20 seconds into 30 minutes and the bucks steal were in a position to tie the game. It's not like you completely secured the game by playing this way. LaMarcus hits both of his and guess what? The bucks have the ball down by three with two seconds ago. If you just let this game play out the organic way, you're still in the same position as before you started the foul thing. It just sucked. Big win. Again, big win. I'm not discredited in the wind, but I'm just saying it was boring as hell to watch 30 minutes of just this and then the Lakers Clippers game that had to do around the refereeing. And the fact that we had the longest review of all time. And what bothers me the most as I'm listening, I'm not saying that us at home are better at our jobs and referees because there's a reason they get paid the money and there's a reason why they do what they do. But the first replay I saw of that play, I could immediately tell what it was or what it should have been. And guess what? It took them 20 minutes or I'm exaggerating. It took them a very long time, different angles. We hit up Steve Javi back in Sokakis for him to say the same thing that I saw in the very first replay. There has to be a time limit. If we can't figure it out within the first three minutes of looking at it, then we're going to stand on our grounds of what we originally called. It has to be a rule that if we're up by X amount of points, we can't foul. We can't intentionally foul. I don't know. Adam Silva, get to work, my guy. Get to work. It got so bad. The people the other night were tweeting at me asking, should the NBA should incorporate an E-limb ending for fourth quarters? I'm like, bro, that lets you know that the product, they looking good. When people are like, forget 25, 30 point comebacks in X amount of time. We want it to be like the all-star game. No, I'm not. I'm not with that thumbnail. No, no, no, no. Anyway, let me know in the comment section what you think could be done about all of this. Quickly touching on some of the things from today, James Harden and Joel and B continue to do their thing, which is draw a million fouls. And they're going to be, if they stick together for a long time, they're going to be one of the most hated duos of all time, strictly based on the fact that those guys get their fouls. And you know what, I'm not even mad at them for every one of their games might be four hours long, but I'm not even mad at them because they have figured out a way collectively to manipulate the referees, which again, this season, the referees told us we not, we not falling for that shit this year. And here we are 50, 60 games to the season. And they're falling for it just like it was three years ago. But shout out to them. And Joel and B fouling out both centers for the next is a wild thing. There's a tweet I saw that I had to quote. I want to show you all this tweet because one of the most underrated things about the NBA, one of the most underappreciated things about the NBA is the scouting department. So at TV bass and I, bass sign, I'm sorry if I mispronouncing it, tweeted just for fun, the average height, weight and draft position of each team this season. And I don't, I don't really care about the average height or weight of an NBA player. That's not, or NBA team. That's not very interesting to me unless we got some crazy anomalies. And I ain't even looked at it to this moment. The thing I'm more geeked about is this column, average draft position. Um, the Orlando magic in the New York Knicks have the, the lowest draft position amongst teams, which makes sense. They got, you know, RJ Barrett third overall pick, you know, Julius Randall was a high pick and you know what I'm saying at the very bottom by a wide margin, the Miami heat average draft position of their roster is 41.3 insanity. And my tweet was the Miami heat don't have any business being that good and, and scouting talent and it would be higher or lower. How do you lower higher? It would be better, but Victor Lodipo's on the roster and bro ain't even played the season, but Victor Lodipo is the top three pick. If you just look at the rest of the roster, excluding Victor Lodipo, it is insane how many low tier players, low drafted players are on this roster and contributing to championship level basketball where they went and all, we don't know, but they're a contender. Jimmy Butler, 30th overall, not, no, again, they don't get the credit for that. The Chicago Bulls get the credit for that one, baby. You feel me? We get the credit for that one, but the other ones, they definitely do. Max Stross had been on a couple of different teams before he got to Miami and became a real player. Um, Gabe Vincent had, had been in and out of the G league. Duncan Robinson, I'm pretty sure was undrafted. Now he's making a $15 million a year, a great story. Caleb Martin, and then in case you see like Hayward Highsmith get minutes and be okay. They have continuously over the last couple of seasons been able to just find diamonds in the rough. And yes, they've been able to hit on free agencies like Jimmy Butler and Cal Laury because the city of Miami is beautiful. I've never been there, but I've heard stories. City of Miami is beautiful. They built this culture that people want to be a part of, but none of that really matters unless you're able to build the exterior things around them. And that's how you find the diamonds in the rough. It is insane how good they are at this thing. The Toronto Raptors are similar, but Toronto Raptors aren't necessarily great right now. This team is a championship quality team right now. And their average draft position is mid second round. Denver has done a really good job of that as well. Speaking of the Denver Nuggets, they just won another game today. I didn't watch a single second of this one, but I did see that you'll get scored eight points and they won by like 25, which is like, if you could have yokas do that and still be winning, that's a good sign, especially since there was a port later earlier today that Michael Porter Jr. is ramping up and he might be ready to go by mid-March. Very interesting. If you remember my video from earlier in the season, before the season started, I made a video basically saying these are my teams that might be sleepers to win a championship and they are submissive. And they're for show, they're submit. Did I say Boston Celtics in that one? Very interesting. I got to go back and rewatch it. The Denver Nuggets right now for sure, because I just believe that if Jamal Murray comes back and Michael Porter Jr., who a lot of people had had penciled in as a most improved player candidate, if both of those things click, then boom, the Nuggets can be right back there in contention. Right now they're in a six, seven game streak. Boogie Cousins has been amazing for them. By the way, shout out to Boogie. They have not lost to games when Boogie is suited up for them. And hopefully they guarantee his contract for the rest of the year. Michael Porter Jr. being back could be very, very good for them. And just make the Western Conference playoffs be a whole other monster. It could. Now, before he went out with his injury, he wasn't looking great. And I would assume that he was trying to play through that injury. But if we get last year's version of MPJ and then Jamal Murray eventually coming back, which he said he will come back this season, this six seeded Denver Nuggets who've been able to trail water enough for them to be outside of the playing, could be a team that people like, Hey, I ain't trying to see them in the first round because you still got to be playing. And we got an approving playoff player in Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. might be, he might not be, who knows. And that's good because, because I was listening to, I was listening to no dunks and, and I never really, I haven't really realized how much, how many big injuries have, have been going around the league right now. I'm going to just go through some of the top teams in the league and tell you the injuries they're currently dealing with or have dealt with. The Miami Heat were missing Jimmy, Laurie and Audubio for a significant time. The heat, I mean, the Bulls are missing Lonzo and Alice Caruso currently. The 76ers went an entire 60% of the season without been Simmons. And obviously they figured that out, but no Collins sexton. Darius Garland is now missing time. The Bucks, let's quickly talk about the Bucks is they are struggling. And actually, I didn't even realize they were struggling until I did my daily dive onto Reddit and a post by Nitro X, Y, Z says, Gawkin, clearly under the radar, the defendant champion Milwaukee Bucks are 11 and 12 and 2022. And they're the five seed, not ideal. And one thing that desperately hurts them is, is a couple hours, a date, 48 hours, 72 hours after they traded, they traded Dante DeVincenzo for Sergei Baca practically. Pat Connaughton goes out and injured. And now they just don't have the wing slash guard depth, especially when Chris Middleton and drew how they haven't been playing up to their standards. And I'm still trying to figure out, and I think that was a consensus in this, like this overall thread or thread, is it a thread? People are trying to figure out if this is just like post championship fatigue? Or is this something we should really be concerned about? I don't have an opinion just yet. But definitely looking back on the Sergei's deal now that you had an injury that you could have predicted, it looks a bit iffy. The Boston Celtics had not been healthy the entire season until basically right here in this moment. The Brooklyn Nets, you know, their struggles. And if we go to the Western Conference, now Chris Paul is out. You still got Draymond Green out, Michael Porter Jr., Jamal Murray, then you got the LA boys, Kawai, Paul, George and Anthony Davis, Zion Williamson. The list goes on and on to like just big, high level players that are currently not playing basketball. And if any of those dudes can come back in time for the playoffs, this season's playoffs is going to be insane. The Eastern Conference is already frightening the hell out of me because my bulls can't beat anybody that's good. So yeah, we the two C, but they bro, you know what I'm saying? If we match up against Boston, we match up against Brooklyn who I don't even know if they go get back on track. I'm afraid. I'm afraid. But also makes for good basketball. And that's what we're here for. More entertaining basketball. I know this video is all over the place. No real topic other than the first one, but I'm just happy to pick up a microphone and talk all things basketball. If you enjoyed it, as always be sure to leave it a like, let me know in the comment section what you think. Oh, also I made a tweet as I was watching this game that just wrapped up, um, flex every Lakers game that's on national TV. I'm done. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. It's not even entertaining. You know how like some things can be not good, but also entertaining. Like, oh my God, this is about to be a shot. He's the homie back in the prime fortnight days. I used to watch Los play fortnight. He is ass. He was terrible at it, but he was so bad that it was fun. The Lakers are so bad, but they're not fun either. You know what I'm saying? It used to be, ah, look at the, oh, they can't stop turning the ball over. I'm past that point. Go put on, go put a good team on TV. Please go put a good team on TV. Other team that, uh, that blew a game, um, 26 to one run for Spencer Denwitte in the Dallas Maverick. Spencer Denwitte crypto kid. Crypto kid really turning up after the trade that line. I guess he entered the locker room and people didn't tell him to shut up immediately. And that does a lot for your mental health. And he's actually hooping Luca continuously making that MVP, uh, candidacy just a little bit better. Obviously he not on the same level with me, but the top three guys in the, in the race, but he up there. He doing it.