 What's the word y'all at this point I just be using this channel to like to like bounce ideas off for y'all to see what y'all thinking here Here's the newest one. Um, and it might be my worst take my boldest take of all time All of what we just watched for the last couple months. I don't even know if it mattered No, absolutely. There's the enjoyment factor That's what that's why we watch the game because we love the game of basketball But I mean in the sense of trying to predict or trying to figure out who's going this championship I don't know if the 82 game sample size is enough and that is crazy before I explained it even more Today's video is brought to you by prize picks hit them link in the description and download the price picks app I use co-candy so they can match your deposit up to a hundred dollars now I've been playing price picks with the NBA all season long But now I'm doing it with the MLB since the season is there I've been doing a lot of no run first innings and it's super fun to root a root for pitchers Roof of pitching in the first inning and then the rest of the innings roof of the hitters Anyway, you pick between two is six of your favorite at least favorite athletes across the NBA MLB NFL league of legends calendar strike Whatever you pick something like points rebounds assist total hits and you look at the number And you decide if you think the athlete is gonna have more or less than that number and again It's very very simple. 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Let's look at the out West Five to eight all have 38 losses on the season Five to eight and a lot of situations thinking about five to eight Does it doesn't matter because usually the championship is won by one of the top three teams, right? But five to eight in this case are the Clippers the Warriors The Lakers and the Pelicans in this 82 game sample size may not have mattered because I listen I was I was saying and listen I don't even know if I even truly believe it myself But a team like the Lakers and I'm not just saying that because they beat up on the used to rockets tonight But a team like the Lakers can blow out every single formula that I mentioned two weeks ago or earlier in the video Because again, if you look at the Lakers overall stats for the season, they're 20th in offense They're 12th in defense. They're two games over 500 That don't sound like a team that should be in the conversation of contenders But then a whole roster is completely different from February now if you like any why don't you just look at the look at the Statistics from February from the trade deadline. Well, D'Angelo Russell missed a lot of time LeBron James missed a lot of time So I can't even look at those numbers that sample size and say, ah, that's that's the team we're gonna get so I'm using Basically just using the eye test Which again is what people had to do way before analytics were like this big thing So I really could play it too much But like I'm now using the eye test more than any other time to determine how I feel about a certain team Which is kind of kind of refreshing, you know what I'm saying and the Lakers again Not because they beat the used to rockets today, but the Lakers Look like real contenders to me And I think that is because they they make sense You know some of the other versions of the Lakers early in the season didn't make sense You had LeBron James and Anthony Davis with no shooting Ah, that don't sound like a team that's gonna do anything and now they have LeBron James and Anthony Davis with some shooting with some defenders Like again looking at the smaller sample size in the last two weeks The Lakers have had the fifth-ranked defense in the eighth-ranked office and the last 16 games that Anthony To see this is what we got to start doing and the last 16 games that Anthony Davis is suited up They're the number one defensive basketball and he's averaging 30 This is the version of Anthony Davis. They traded for last year Undoubtedly, there's not a single person on the earth that can convince me that last season wasn't a disappointment for Anthony Davis And now this year he been all led in the bag of chips Because in my mind Anthony Davis as far as talent goals should be in the conversation with the yonuses Denim beads and the yokiches as the greatest Powerful slash centers in basketball and last year he was good But he wasn't Anthony Davis good and now he's looking like as far as statistics go and all of that He's looking like the Anthony Davis that we thought was gonna be a multiple-time EP the guy that we thought was gonna be a multiple-time Defensive player here. He's looking like that and Bronn after the first game against the Bulls we came back and he didn't look a completely like himself has looked back physically in shape and Then they got people like Austin Reeves They'll come out and have a bad game like tonight and steal have what 18 and 6 That that was a bad game for him and they can have these contributing players whether it be a Vanderbilt out of nowhere Giving you some great performances or a game where we got you more is out of the line enough for four straight games And then he come out of nowhere and give you 20 like I'm starting to believe in the LA Lakers as a legitimate title contender And every single advanced stat and every single thing that I usually would use to like Verify this tells me otherwise, but I kind of believe it man I kind of believe it a few months ago after the trade deadline Kevin O'Connor put together the post trade deadline NBA power rankings Where he basically ranked what teams he thinks is gonna win a championship You got the Winby Watts yada yada yada you don't care about this You want to care you only care about the true true contenders and in this he deemed the 76ers the Lakers the Warriors as True finals contenders and then he had the favorites as the nuggets the Suns the Celtics in the Bucks Now I'm be honest with you Kevin because I'm always gonna be a straight shooter when you when I read this article two months ago I thought you were insane by having the Lakers that had because at that point the Lakers were a sub 500 team They broke they broke good. It wasn't just me How the F of the 13th seed a true title contender not even the Lakers fans believe that Kevin O'Connor's content is worse Of worse. Oh my god. I'm sorry Lakers are at six is absolutely insane. Sorry and again in that moment I had this opinion as well, but but a lot has changed in two months They look like a well-oiled machine and if Anthony Dave's gonna play at this level and we know what LeBron is You know what I'm saying Now what I picked them to come out the West right now There's one team and and this video was going to be titled. Are we overthinking it with a picture of Kevin direct? Because the the Suns and the Kevin direct error are six and oh and today he had 35 five and five against the 35 five and five and two Against the Thunder and now that I'm thinking about it I steal my title at are we overthinking it because that's that's what I'm doing right now. There's another stat This was from stat news Kevin a rent is 19 and one in his last 20 games. So are we overthinking it? Is this team undoubtedly the favorite at least to come out of the West? I've said it since the moment the trade went down But I saw them as the as the team that was gonna win the rest of conference now This is change Kevin right miss some time and and when he'll miss some time We thought that when he did come back He was only gonna have five or six games left for the NBA season I guess that's relatively true on but we all gave Kevin a benefit of the doubt because we've never seen him come back From an injury and not look like Kevin, but at first game since he came back He didn't like Kevin. It was a little bit scary So like 5 18 from the field and what he didn't make his first basket to like halfway through the second quarter It was a bit weird But then you get a performance like today where he was unstoppable So maybe we are overthinking it maybe this whole video is me leading up to saying I just talked about the Lakers being contenders But the Suns it's the Suns then also the Denver Nuggets crew to speak the Warriors It was at home You know the Warriors don't win on the road like that, you know, they've been a little bit better But not like that. I mean at the ball arena where that's what's called, right? They just beat up on the Warriors without your kids. So again, are we overthinking it? I think we are But in the best possible way I think because if you ask me right now, who do I have winning the Western Conference? I'm gonna say the Phoenix Suns and again that that's every ball of it because it has changed, but the Phoenix Suns are my team This this is this can be concerning If you're going against the Phoenix Suns because the five-man lineup of Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Josh and Kogie, Kevin Arrant and DeAndre Aiden Arnie 97th percentile when it comes to point differential The offense is not as elite as you would want it to but the defense is in the 99 percentile Bro, Halliburne, Matheryn, Heald, Niece Smith and and Miles Turner is the greatest offensive lineup in basketball by a large margin But seeing the team in the in the in this percentile It's kind of scary. You saw down the stretch today How good Kevin Arrant can be on the defensive side of the ball getting some big-time blocks and stops and stuff So are we overthinking it probably and I think that's okay because recently we've had so many years where we didn't have to Think at all it was like Cavs, Warriors, all right Let's play 82 games even though we all know what's gonna happen and how we gonna get there So the fact that we do have to think so much is kind of cool I think it's kind of happening on the Eastern Conference side too because the boss of Celtics blew out the Milwaukee Bucks by a hundred and six points The Bucks played five games of seven nights leading up to that But still like they beat them by a time beat the brakes off of them and then took the the tight breaker in that You know, they're undefeated against the Bucks in the 76ers, you know And I've been Bucks Bucks Bucks all season long. So maybe over thinking that you know Probably thought a little bit more of the Dallas Mavericks Before they pulled the trigger on that tray and Caviarva is not the problem. Caviarva is not the problem. Um, it's the it's a lot of Different stuff. I cannot believe how they keep digging themselves deeper and deeper and deeper into this hole They're full game back With just a couple games left they got Sacramento in a couple nights and the Bulls then the Spurs The Spurs should be an undoubted out undoubtably be a win, but you never really know The best thing to happen to them is the fact that the OKC Thunder have had a few losses and the Pelicans have also had a few losses So they're still in the hunt. OKC have the Warriors Utah Memphis to close out the year And that is a that is a tough way to close it when you need to win a few of those to keep your spot So I said the pelicans I meant to say to the Timberwolves who had another bad loss by the way They got Brooklyn San Antonio and then the Pelicans I mean this last week and a half is gonna be crazy for the seeding stuff, but we'll keep track of it as it go down