 What's the word y'all? Let's talk about it. I'm gonna preface this by saying I will probably only be talking about Bulls vs. Nets today Today was a film session day I try to allocate one to two days a week to film on my main channel videos all of that And that was today because I saw the Bulls head a home game and start at 9 o'clock bed I'll be done with filming by 9 o'clock and I was and I tuned into this game And I wish I know I don't miss Bulls games regardless of how the outcome is There was a good game for two and a half quarters 71 it was 71 to 71 a couple minutes past and it was like 75 to 100 I don't I don't what I do know what happened James Harden started to turn up at Kevin Rant with supernova in the third quarter But yeah, you you know things things happen. This is what I hate about social media I made a jokie joke about the Bulls in that third quarter like man They got to stop putting us on national TV because we not built for yet obvious joke considering We've won games on national TV this season, but it was just a little jokie I know that 90% of the people that saw that tweet knew it was a joke But I only can think about the 10% of people that thought I was serious The Brooklyn Nets won a game and I'm gonna say that they have a big-time decision to make It's crazy to think that James Harden Kevin Rant and Carrie Irvin have only played a handful of games together if I'm not mistaken 13 and 3 or it's like 15 and 3 or 16 and 3 regardless their win percentage when all three of them play is really good And this is the first time this season where they had all three of the players on a court together They'll carry Irvin and have a carry Irvin type night He had an impact on this game and it is scary now This is the first win the Brooklyn Nets have had this season of a team above 600 So, you know, but this is why I say that they have a big decision to make now I'm not here playing epidemiologists. I'm not here to talk about The virus or vaccine. I'm not trying to talk about that But there was something that came out earlier today talking about the Brooklyn Nets and how they can maybe loophole their way to have And Carrie Irvin play home games Optically, it would be really bad for the team. I'm considering when the game the season started they were really they stood on this heel of trying to keep people safe and keep the adiata and Obviously things have changed right where they're allowing Carrie Irvin to play at away games But there's a little bit of a loophole here and this is published by NY Daily News if Nets and NBA really want to They can let unvaccinated Carrie Irvin play in Brooklyn for a small fine And they continue to go on and say hey if you let Carrie Irvin play his first game in Brooklyn It's a warning second game is a thousand dollars third time is two thousand dollars fourth time is five thousand dollars and fifth time It's another five thousand dollars So they will be paying close to or a little over five thousand dollars every time he plays now If you look deeper into this article deeper into the rules it says for that last time the fifth time It's no less than five thousand dollars So I guess the city of New York or I guess the state of New York could come to the Brooklyn Nets and say hey It's five times but now instead of a five thousand dollar fan. It's a ten thousand dollar fan There's the fifteen thousand dollar fine But there there might be a loophole to have Carrie Irvin play in Brooklyn again Like I said optically it might not be the best decision for them considering where they stood at the start of the season Versus now and it could completely turn 180 would maybe look bad, but they do have pressure on them Y'all they do have pressure on them Kevin around has been up for a few seasons Carrie Irvin has been up for a few seasons and now James Harden has been up for a season and some change and They want to win a championship There's reports the other day that the Deer of Morrie in the 76ers are trying to make deals dealing around Ben Simmons and Tobias Harris try to get off all of that money because they want to make a run on James Harden They have some pressure the Brooklyn's do to win a Championship and and since Carrie Irvin came back a lot of people wonder like hmm Do you want to be the top seed if you to Brooklyn Nets? Because if Carrie Irvin can only play away games you go to a game seven in Brooklyn He's not there and obviously when he is there whether he's having an amazing game or not when all three of these Do's are here. They are a super super edley team even though they are one and eight versus teams over 600 I think you would be crazy to say that this team can't be the good team in a series I think you'd be absolutely wild in your line to yourself because you know the top and talent in itself is Enough for them to be real-life contenders and real-life championship team today Kevin Ryan had an amazing game James Harden may um day Ron Sharp look like the greatest center of all time Those are the type of impacts you can get from these guys and imagine if Carrie Irvin is back on his 27 points per game 50 40 90 stuff and he's playing a series now. This is what I think might happen again. It's just a prediction I could be completely wrong. I don't think they bring this this card out yet I feel like if they wanted to do this where Carrie Irvin is playing home games They can just coast their way through the regular season letting Carrie play half the games They already the two seed right now with Carrie Irvin not playing for a big chunk of the season where James Harden was playing Terrible not terrible bad for his standards obviously turned it up bad for his standards for a good chunk of the season They've coasted their way to like the two seed. You know what? I think they might end up doing my prediction would be that they wait to the postseason surprise You wasn't planning for Carrie Irvin to play on this game one at home We'll take that we'll take that warning or game two at home We'll take that thousand dollars or game five. Oh, we need even a game five We swept the first round of the playoffs. I so game one of the next series We'll take that fun So that's what I think might happen But they have to make the decision again because optically it might not be good for the team So they have two games at home coming up that is tomorrow against the OKC Thunder and then the game after that It's the pelicans and they have four straight role games That is the calves that is the wizards that is a spurs that is a Timberwolves And that will allow Carrie Irvin to get more PT behind them The first two games he didn't look bad and today he didn't score the ball amazingly, but he didn't look bad today either I mean obviously still in really good shape But they have that big-time decision to make man And I'm curious to see how they decide to do these things because I really do believe that They are pressured to win this championship this season I mean we have contracts of James Harden that's gonna be up and this offseason Carrie Irvin has a option on it I'm a player option on it so he could potentially opt out So again, there are some pressure to try to keep these guys happy or win that championship Because even if James Harden decides to walk or Carrie opts out and goes to a team where he can play a whole season Regardless of the vaccination status if you win a championship, it's all worth everything every trade you did everything You've done it's worth it even if you just get one championship And that's what I've been trying to explain to people for a million years Let me talk about the Chicago Bulls side of things because obviously I have no other choice, right? So what I got to do a couple days ago We were going against the Dallas Mavericks and me and the homies watch a lot of these games in the party together And one thing that we were talking about or I mentioned to them is that good teams are able to just have elite level offense And some okay subpar defense and just win regular season games, right? We've seen a lot of teams in NBA history be able to do that even when we were on that nine game win streak We had the number one offense in the league in that span, but we had the 22nd defense They can make an argument to me. Hey, we're missing Alice Caruso, Givante Green and today we lost Dara Jones, Jr I hope bro. It's not like out out because that would hurt our hearts We've missed in some of our best defensive impactful players for sure and even during a lot of that streak We didn't have a Lanzo ball in the court That is true But the great teams that separates the good power from the absolute great teams are the ones that have it on both sides of The floor early in the season. I mean the Bulls were a top 10 defense So I guess we just got to get healthy to get back to that point But it seems like health is not something that you're gonna get to completely So you have to figure out all of the other things too, you know I'm saying not a great game for us Especially when you you know, we didn't start off with a lot of nasty televised games But we got a lot of flex action because we are the number one team in the Easter Conference at the moment record-wise So because we don't have a lot of nasty televised games people They're only interpretation of us other than looking at the box and say all the Bulls beat the Pacers today The Bulls beat the Whistaday is when we are on national TV and that's why I made the joke y'all damn man I'm I'm still mad that people took that joke at face value and thought I was being serious We team enjoy basketball around here man, even though we was getting blown now It was disgusting. It was like six straight possessors. It felt like we're DeMarg got ripped up Zach Levine got ripped up. We couldn't get his stuff 71 to 71 blew out to like crazy crazy proportions Ridiculous, I know somebody I bet if I went to Twitter right now stat muse has put out a tweet talking about James Harden in the last X amount of games because bro has been hooping his butt off and you can argue I mean, he's not the only one right a lot of people that made superstar players that started off really slow They were like, oh man, bro, they gotta save Luca Donchich. I don't know how he played today I started they lost but look at Donchich James Harden those guys are coming into form man All it takes is time All and they have plenty of his 80 plus games of an NBA season and you getting ready for the playoffs James Harden says Christmas I told you he was gonna have a tweet 27.3 points per game eight rebounds 11 assists We'll round up for you. The real number is 10.8 assists 45 percent shooting. Oh The tweet right below that is talking about Russell Westbrook in the last three games I did watch the last minute of that game That's not enough for me to dive into it and talk about the game completely But I know everybody's talking about Russell Westbrook right now and honestly, I was gonna make a video a couple days ago The last game that they lost I don't remember who it was against but in the post game interview Russell Westbrook got me low key sad for him, bro Like he's always been kind of a standoffish guy when it comes to the media But in this one, it had a different feel to me Like somebody was asking a question about him being a team point guard and he like laughed and like was basically the nine The fact that he's a point guard. He was asked. What do they what did the team go from there? And he stood inside and sat in silence like 30 seconds before he said anything and then it says right here in the last three games nine points six points eight points and he shot 20 percent in that span and again only watched the last minutes of this Kings game and One of the last possesses of the game is him holding the ball for 20 seconds and jacking up a three It's it's rough out here man Obviously, I've said this plenty of times before but I know there are new people coming to the channel all the time I'm very neutral Russell Westbrook. I'm not a Russell Westbrook stand or lover. I'm definitely not on the haters side either I'm very neutral. I look at him the way I look at 90% of NBA players But in that moment when I watched that that post game interview, I felt bad for bro Then again, I got a look at the history. He basically requested out of okay See he requested out of Houston. He requested out of Washington and well I Wouldn't be surprised that he's like man. I wish I was in the Laker right now I already see Laker fans coming after Russell Westbrook and I mean they blew this game, right? They lost the game to the Kings again. They split the season series with the Kings. It's not something you want to do the Kings are The Kings are not you understand what I'm saying I Will do I want to go back and watch this game or maybe just watch the Russell Westbrook possessions I don't really know is it must have say on the January 12th game about Russell Westbrook on a team That's 500. I know this because they have LeBron and Anthony Davis and Russ that no matter what and because they're the Lakers No matter what's going on in their organization People are gonna talk about it, but man, I wish that the spotlight won't really on I'm really one on them right now. All right. That's the end of my ramble