 What's the word y'all welcome back to call game Kenny for whatever gonna call it I don't even know if this is a good day to upload an episode because I know a lot of stuff is going on in sports outside of basketball But I only know basketball and I've watched a bunch of it today So I wanted to talk about it be sure to leave a like subscribe if you are new get in on the ground floor because Well the next month or so this call game thing is like y'all didn't even know what we got on the agenda We've been working very hard behind the scenes. You don't want to miss out so subscribe leave a like Let's talk about today's slater games and I'm starting off with the pelicans because Man am I disappointed so first of all give a lot of love to Minnesota Timbers for winning this game If you did not know the pelicans lost to the Timbers, which ain't bad Until you consider that Carthy Towns missed this game with the virus still and then the Angelo Russell was sitting because arrest This was a game that the pelicans should not have only one But instead of one convincingly but instead they lost by 10 in a game where they didn't look good at all There was not many bright things you could take away from this game And I want to talk about that but before let me give a lot of love to Minnesota Timbers because this is easily A game where they go out and they don't play hard because they're missing their top two guys And I'd even just their top two guys They're like their top two guys by far like there's a drop-off between one and two and then two to three that is heavy But they came out they fought a Nasri Coming in playing very very well I love watching Nas play because he always hooping in those Kobe grins is behind me And it's one of my favorite basketball sneaker of all time him shooting perfect from free throw line is great From the center. I've always liked Nasri even in college the little bit that I didn't know about him in college Another real bright spot for them is the fact that Jerry Kovar got minutes and today He was really really good and then lastly to see Jerry Vanderbilt play this well is very promising for them I hope this open the eyes of coach Saunders to finally start him when Carnegie Towns comes back because he's just the best Power forward on their roster to fit alongside Carnegie Towns because he plays with his intensity plays his defense He rebounds very well So he should be getting those starting spots over Her and Gomez and they are still missing her and Gomez too So they got a good team win today But the pelicans as much as it was a good team win for the Timbers is a really really bad loss for the pelicans Now I want to talk about this because if you remember some of my preseason stuff when I was talking about teams The pelicans are one of the most confusing teams for me to predict because obviously they have good quality NBA players Brandon Abrams is coming off an all-star year Zion Williamson and the small sample size we saw of him last year was really really good Steven Adams has been a winning player for the majority of his career and he plays amazing defense as like an anchor Eric Bledsoe has shown he could be a very good starting point guard on a good regular season teams You see I had to throw that regular season in and then Lonzo ball positive defender great playmaker and opens floor They had players and JJ ready coming off the bench. They have players on his roster. You're like, okay I can see I can see them being okay But then you think about those players not just as individuals But as a team and that's what makes them weird because obviously the spacing is really bad and the pieces just don't fit together There's been really a decent amount of time to see is where they start off like think about the game That was on Astro TV the other day I guess you touch that so they come out guns blazing and and they hit an extreme amount of threes in that first quarter But they played at this pace that you want to see the pelicans play at when you have Lonzo ball Say what you want about Lonzo ball? He has not been good this year Objectively has not been good this year and we can talk about that in a second about his role and his fit Alongside the rest of his team where he fits best is in the open floor He is a I would say he's maybe a slightly above average playmaker in the half-core But in the open floor this guy's at the top of his game and when you have a guy like Zion Williamson You have a guy like Brandon Ingram you want this team to be running a gun I don't know where they sit at pace in the league But it doesn't feel like this team has playing to that strength of running gun It's set for like that first quarter against the Utah Jazz and arguably the first quarter this This game as well. They were running the gun and then something happens We're like we're gonna play the half-core game now And the half-core game is so much worse because Brandon Ingram is a guy that needs his isolation touches But it's hard for him to isolate when teams are doubling off of Eric Bledsoe They're diving in because they don't they don't trust Lonzo ball to three anymore. It's just doesn't work And I think a stand-up gunny has to start playing choice the strength of his team and not just playing what he knows Because he is not playing to the strength of this team Zion and Brandon Ingram Can work together, but the way the stand-up gunny is playing them together. They can't He has to change things up And there's no reason for us to be 15 16 game to the season and Eric Bledsoe and Lonzo still be starting together The experiment has failed. Can it it's over bring one of those other players into the starting lineup I know JJ has been really bad this year and that's a little bit scary for JJ to be The most lethal knockdown shooter one of the top five lethal knockdown shooters over the last decade Now he can't get a shot But they need some type of spacing in the kill Alexander Walker having them in the starting lineup for a little bit Was positive he adds a different element that Lonzo ball playing as a shooting guard just does not work The reason he has not been good is For himself too, but like the role that they have changed him to be from the where he's been over his tight career It's crazy It's decent of a spot-up shooter Lonzo ball was last year because he had turned himself into a positive spot-up shooter For him to be just that right now is kind of crazy to me And even in this game, they had this little run towards the end of it and a lot of that was when Lonzo ball had the ball in his hands It just doesn't really work Stan Vagani has to change some things and these these players have to learn Other than Zion And Brandon Ingram. Everybody should they should be taking calls about everybody Lonzo balls market as a player is going to be super super interesting Because I know there are going to be some teams out there to convince themselves that they still see all of the potential In Lonzo and he's been dealt a bad hand here with the pelicans But I can also see a lot of gms like Nope, we'll say far away from that. There's going to be a gm out there to offer him big time money I just know it. I just know it. I just know it and then the pelicans probably at their best if they just let him go They just let him go or trade him before then Trade him before then I would say probably right now his trade value is at an all-time low because again He's not hitting the shots to the scent that they want him to until like the last couple minutes of this game But this team is just very very weird and and even like I said, they were a hard team for me to predict Me predicting them to be look looking like One of the worst teams in a league was definitely not on my radar So stan van gunny has to get it together as a as a coach. He just does because they're the system They are running does not fit their person now So that's my pelicans talk Let's talk about the other games of the day that I watched the 76 to get another win Detroit has another and I mean another game With a fight super hard just to lose But this one is different And the reason this is different because it wasn't blade griffin playing 40 minutes It wasn't derrick rose playing 30 minutes They actually allowed their young guys to go out there and play um sadeeg bay started because of the injuries and sadeeg bay played 20 minutes Um, I say a student played 20 minutes and a lot of it is because mason plum today fell out Josh jackson's fee mackay luk seku nambuya. These are all guys that play 16 17 18 minutes And they even statement league got like 18 i'm in 12 minutes So it's really good to see the younger guys getting a little bit of love today because of derrick rose being now because of blade griffin being Now and look at that. You were still competitive Even though jeremy grant got the clamps put on him By one of the most confusing players in the nba this season Ben Simmons two back-to-back really really really good games for ben Simmons back-to-back Could this mean he's back on that all start to jack three maybe because the first couple games of the season He wasn't looking like that He put the absolute clamps On jeremy grant today I don't somebody's gonna have the advanced live stats later tomorrow where jeremy grant shot 0 for 12 when Ben Simmons was guarding them That's what it felt like today shout to jeremy grant for this amazing streak of the season It stopped this 20 point per game streak stopped today because ben Simmons did that thing So i'm in MVP joellen b and i'm saying MVP up to this point showed out for one once again He has been the most dominant player in the league so far this year The most dominant player in the league so far this year I still want to see them play a very healthy team and a very good team It has not happened so far at least i don't think off the side of my head But man that that man joel and ben Simmons today really really good next game The brooklyn nets get out with the victory the first victory the victory planner got the great against the miami heat Bam out of bio the way this man has progressed every single year of his career is ridiculous Why the hell did he look like he was taken kevin direct pull-ups this today? That's just in his bag now apparently I went to look even at the advanced stats of like his accuracy and his um His frequency of taking these mid-range jump shots from year one to your two to your two to your three and your three Man the way he has jumped every single year is very scary for the league I'm just saying that man putting up 40 and 10 basically and assists On a depleted heat team against one of the better teams, I guess It's scary now the defense of the brooklyn that's Terrible, uh, but but bam crazy game very very crazy game even expanded to shoot a three today So shut out to him No, siri just be quiet, please But you did have Okay, and then you did have um kairi ervin I don't know what she'd be up to Kairi ervin having a spectacular fourth quarter first half Joe harris hitting a bunch of shots and the kevin iran hitting the last dagger of the game James harden again I set this after the very first game they played together when james harden is on the court with the second unit I need him to be james harden from Houston and he will eventually do that I am pretty confident that he's still trying to find his way But there's no reason for him to be passing up to reggie perry when he could be doing that step back Stuff he did for the last four seasons. You know what I'm saying? So yes, um Quality win, I guess utah jaskin another one south of steve curry for passing reggie miller Utah jaskin to you there hot streak keep it up man The the value at which this team is shooting threes is so much different than what they've been doing over the past couple years And that's a testament to quince snider being able to read and adapt I mean the personnel is the same but I mean they always had a Good three-point shooting cast but this year they just like let's just go off balls to the wall Balls to the wall and today they shot a bunch of threes and guess what they won another game Um, the bulls lost a game to the lakers where anthony davis got his mojo back I had a very good feeling about anthony davis dominated my bulls because we don't have interior defense Especially since windell carters out So congratulates to anthony davis Could this be the turn in the right direction for him offensively possibly and again if you want to hear me Talk extensively about the lakers I recommend going to the last video after the bucks game because I spent a lot of time on them anthony davis getting that swagger back is really really good the bulls got to learn how to defend the interior Or the exterior They just got to defend um boogie had a very good game his first 20 plus blank game of the season But I admit I did not watch much of this one But I will go back and watch because I am a big fan of boogie so to see him put up 28 and 17 I got to see how he did it my apologies rocket fans You will get that love once I eventually get to it and then the last game of the day the double ot game I could I I need this to be a series. I need seven straight games It is the last two nights have been incredible between these two teams Even with the injuries of devil booker in game number two Super exciting games to watch yokas is a different beast different monster and these are two back-to-back very quality wins for them as a team Um as cool to see uh chris paul have point god type moments in both of these games You know the first game having a bunch of sisters in this game He had a bunch of clutch shots Obviously they end up losing because jamal murray has built different that that shot He had hit to send it to the first overtime God's here difficult shot. I'm telling y'all they are players in the league that do nothing But hit take and hit heavily contested super tough shots in jamal murray's like Top five at that in the league him jason tatum pass gal siakum Kevin i mean michael porta juniors on that list too, please in the comment section Talk to me about some more super heart shot takers and makers in the league because those are some of my favorites Enjoy the video leave it a like. I'll be back soon. Peace out call game