 What's the word y'all? Damian Lillard just dropped 71 points and it wasn't against my favorite team this time around. Listen, the all-star game was Bunce. We all know that. Jayla Brown was saying, and Shay was saying, and then Mike Malone was saying that it was Bunce. But all little hoops after the all-star break every single night has been elite level hoops. I hope y'all realize what is going on right now because honestly, a lot of these games are mattering. Like, I genuinely know people that keep up with the game of basketball, but don't actually start watching games until post-all-star break because, again, there's 20 or so games. We're not trying to figure out, oh, if we win this one, we're down to 60. If we lose this one, we're down to 80. Like, you know, these games matter more than anything. Of course, technically, the games in October matter, but the stakes aren't extremely high. And every single day from this point on, the stakes are getting higher and higher and higher. Dame dropped 71 points today. Obviously, that is the headliner. But let me walk you through everything else that's happening in the association to just let you know how ridiculous we have it as NBA watchers. First of all, the first game of the day for me started at noon. So noon, I sat down in this chair and geared up to watch Devon Booker versus Drew Holliday, and it did not disappoint. No K. D. Isley, no Yanis. He still doubted his injury. Drew Holliday an all-star caliber performance. He made it before. We had big-time shots. Brooke Lopez continues to show me why he deserves not just to be in the conversations, but for me as of right now, February 27th, as things are changing, he is my DPO. Why? We can talk about that in the further video, but that was the first game of the day. Second game of the day, the Brooklyn Nets were down by 18, brought it all the way back with Trey Young called game and hit the game winning shot. The Lakers became the first team this season to be down by 27 points and win. The graphic that popped up was like 0 and 128 or something like that. The Lakers came back all the way down 27 points to win a basketball game. And again, they're the 13th seed. They need every win they can get, and this is an important one. Clay Thompson is sneakily having some crazy, crazy months. I made a tweet, he's absolutely like 26 and a half points per game over the last 20 games, shooting 45% from 3 on 12 and a half attempts, and they beat a Minnesota Timberwolves team. And then Yoko just had a 40-point triple double in the game and went to overtime. The last couple nights that we've had primetime TV, NBA games, we saw Joel and B throw up a shot at the end of the buzzer that did not count. That was a full court. And it went in and it didn't count. And then Paul George did the same thing, like we are getting some crazy hoops. And I just mentioned all of that from 12 o'clock, noon to 12, 11 midnight is what I'm calling 12 straight hours of hoops and not a bad game. Like it doesn't even make sense. But again, none of that matters because a Damian Lillard dropping 71 points this season. We've had two different people hit 70. There's only eight players in history to do it and two of them happened this year. Again, yes, we had a scoring boost. Yes, it's inflated numbers, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that these boys are having ridiculous performances. And Dame did it in regulation. That's not taken away from Donovan Mitchell either. Dame did it in regulation and he was gunning for more too. There's a couple shots at the close to the end of the game last minute and a half when he had all backboard. You know he wanted it. He didn't only just want the 71. He wanted to break Clay Tom since most of the reason that's in game. You knew he was going for it. Obviously he did get that. But what a crazy performance. I was not watching this game live because I'm being honest with you. I saw the Houston Rockets and I have no interest at all to watch the Houston Rockets play basketball. It's a mess. It's not very fun. So I wasn't watching, but then I got a notification. It was like two and a half minutes into the second quarter said Damian Lillard 20 points. I'm like, oh, we about to have a game. I didn't think it was going to be 71. I didn't think it was going to be 71. But I was like, you know what? I cannot tune in too late for another day of performance. The last time he had a 60 piece. I came in so late. I think I came into the fourth quarter. Then I had to re-watch the game. So from 0.21 to 71, I'm locked in, y'all. I'm locked in. I'm seeing everything. Shots off screens. They going under. He's shooting over. The defensive scheme for the Houston. We don't have to talk about the Rockets. It's not about them. Damian Lillard is ridiculous. That's what this is about. And, you know, the unfortunate part of a game like this for Damian Lillard, as far as narratives and talk I've been seeing on Twitter since this has happened is like, yeah, 70 point is crazy, but it don't mean nothing because he's a trailblazer and they may not make the playoffs. You see the hat? You know the monster. Enjoy the damn game, man. Enjoy the game. Listen, every, I know, I'm already knowing. I'm already knowing what the TV is going to be talking about tomorrow morning. I'm already knowing that some of y'all favorite creators, no disrespect, are going to have to conversation about Damian. Man, imagine if he was on this team. We should just accept the fact that this is who he is. This is where he wants to be and just be, just be cool with it. Because at the end of the day, he's still giving us crazy performances. Like, yeah, you might want to see him win a ring. He might not. He's probably not going to get it in Portland, but still, he is the, he is the all time leading scorer going down in history. He's the greatest player to ever lace it up for their organization. I think that's fine. People have this idea that that players can only be one team guys, as long as they got that jewelry. Tim Ducky got a lot of jewelry. Dirt got a lot of jewelry. Cove got a lot of jewelry. We praise these dudes and then we should because they're all time like, like those are top five of top 10 to top 15 to 20 players in history. Like for sure, we praise those players. But a guy like Damian Lillard, who the league also voted to be one of the 76 greatest players in the game of basketball, he may never get a ring, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that this man is a bona fide, hooper, holofamer talent. It always is funny though, when we do get Damian Lillard quotes of him talking about his time in Portland and how he wants to get it. I think the most recent one happened this week. Actually, he was saying that all y'all better hope we don't get one in Portland. And I think the number one comment I saw into that tweet is don't worry, Dam, we're not, we're not really worried about it. It's like, oh yeah, but, but this is, this is the type of thing that Dam is able to do. He's 32 years old and I always had this conversation. I've mentioned this on the channel a ton of different times that progression is not linear, right? And that's why I always tell people with a person going into year two, don't look like 10 times better than they did a year number one. Don't believe that they're a bus or they're not going to get better about the course of their career because it doesn't happen like the game of 2K. You don't go into the office season automatically. You jump up three overalls. It's not, that's not the reality. And the same thing goes for the opposite side, Damian Lilith is 32 years old and a lot of people believe that since Dam is 32 years old, well, here's that start to decline. And eventually, yes, he's going to decline because father time is undefeated against every single person, but it's not happening now. You can argue that this is, this stretch, this season is the best season of Damian Lilith's career. And he's 32, like, come on, bro. This is some admirable stuff. Also realized that my shirt has been freaking out this whole video and I hope that hasn't distracted the two recipes to cope. I think it's completely okay to have players that are going to be one team guys, even if that means that they never make an NBA finals. He's been to the conference finals. He's had some of the best playoff moments ever, hitting two shots to in series. Don't forget it happened twice. He's done that in his career like, yeah, you sure we'd love to see it on the highest of highest stages, but I think it's okay if he never gets there. Would I rather see him as a, as a spectator of Damian Lilith, would I rather see him drop 70 on a random night in February on a lackluster team or see him team up with somebody where he only getting 26 points? I think I'll take the 70. I just think it's some weird nasty discourse going on revolving around this game specifically. And none of this existed a couple months ago when Donovan Mitchell dropped 71 as well. The entire timeline about Donovan Mitchell 71 was how great it was. Except for the couple Bulls fans that was upset with the free throws and the terrible officiating, which I understand. But again, it happened against my favorite team, but I admired it because 71 is 71. It's just because Damian's older and he's on this team that isn't very good. The conversation is different than Damian's a goddamn monster. And I think that's what the conversation should be. He shot 58% from the field, 60% from three in a game, and he dropped 70, 100% from the free throw line. He had 71 points. And people are saying, well, it's against the Houston Rockets, but the Houston Rockets have played a total of 60 games on a year so far. No, nobody has got 70 other than Dam right now. So yes, it gets the Houston Rockets, but he just had the biggest game against them. You know, it's weird. I mean, sure, it would be better if he did it against the number one defense since January 4th, the Chicago Bulls, sure. Donovan mentioned, damn, Donovan mentioned, did that, didn't he? Donovan mentioned, did that, didn't he? I think the stat that I saw about the Bulls and how great their defense was started the day after Donovan dropped 70. Since that moment, the Bulls have been lights out, which is crazy. And they can't shoot either. When I say the Bulls have been lights out, I mean strictly on the defensive side. But yeah, looking at Houston, this was from the NBA Central. Dame had 71 points. Luke ahead of 50 point game, 49 point game for Larry Martin and 49 point game for John, 48 point game for LeBron, 44 from Giannis and Anthony Edwards and Trey Young. Shay had 42. Clay had a 42 and a 41. And Clay getting them stats back up. They're strictly going against the Houston Rockets. Devon Book had 41 and Tyler Hero had 41. All of that is against the Houston Rockets because, well, they go out there and say, hey, we doing this strictly all vibes, y'all. We ain't got no defensive scheme. We're not going to make no changes. Only got to have 41 points going into halftime. We're not going to try to change nothing. And then what blew my mind is he has 63 and now they try to deny ball. Just let him do the rest. He already there. He's already there. Now we started to deny ball. Soon we have done that and we had 20 in the first quarter. I don't know, bro. I don't know, man. Anyway, shout out today, man. What a ridiculous performance. Got nothing below for you.