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So here we go. I wanna preface this by saying, like I said in a couple videos ago, no matter what the front office of the Chicago Bulls do at the trade deadline, I'm gonna be behind them until they show me otherwise. So if they do trade Patrick Williams for Jeremy Grant, boom, I'm here for it. If they don't boom, I'm here for it. But this is my opinion about it again. I'm not the president of Bulls fandom. I know a bunch of Bulls fans that would love to see this trade happen but here's my reservations with it. Jeremy Grant is a very, very good NBA player and I understand the idea of him leveling our ceiling because we need a big wing that can guard other positions. We haven't played Yanis this season so far and I'm sure that Yanis is gonna kill us and Jeremy Grant with his size, could not gonna stop Yanis but he'll be the best option that we have. I understand that. The only thing is like when I look at the Chicago Bulls other than the big wing thing, we struggle without rebounding. Jeremy Grant is not rebounding the ball whatsoever. The reason he left the Denver Nuggets is because he wanted to be the number one, number two option. If he came to the Chicago Bulls, Bro be back at the four option, the five option. We have to figure out if he's willing to go back to that because he's only got a couple more years left for this contract. So even if we trade for him, yeah, he's under contract for a few seasons but if Bro wanna do the same thing and go to another team to get a bigger role again he could do that. And it just scares me a little bit to give up a lot of our future for a guy that could potentially walk. But I understand the idea of like, hey, the Bulls are the one seed. Let's go all in. I understand that. But it's a little bit scary. I would love that if there was more people on the marker or better people on the marker for it that's just not the way it works. Like if we can get Jeremy Grant to say, yeah, I'm good, bro. I wanna be the four option again because I went to Detroit as the one option and I ain't won a game since. If we could get him to say, I'm okay with being a role player, a glorified role player, then boom, I'm here for it. But it just scares me a little bit. That's all. I mean, it wouldn't matter grand scheme if they made that trade in the Bulls won a championship. I don't care. The whole team could be going to next year. We won a championship. But those are the type of things, like I said, that's why I'm relying on the front office to make the decision because I literally do not know. I just talk about hoops. I'm not really in tune with it like that. You feel me? And I understand the idea that the production that we would get from Jeremy Grant is tenfold to what you're getting from Patrick Williams right now. But as a firm believer, Patrick Williams and what he could be is an NBA player. Maybe Patrick Williams needs to go to a team like Detroit to get the full version of himself. Maybe it's the best option for him as an NBA player. But you know what I'm saying? We shall see what happens at the trade that line. Brady says, who is your favorite young core in the NBA? The only answer is the Cleveland Cavaliers. I've mentioned it many times on this channel that I don't miss Cavs games very often because I really do love Evan Mobley. My interview with Evan Mobley back in California over the summer and when I was interviewing him I had no idea that he was about to be this good. Again, as a guy that does watch Munch College basketball I watched some film on him because if I'm going to do an interview of a person I want to be sure that I know at least a little bit but I didn't know he was going to transition to the NBA just like that. The man if you ask me should be in all defensive team conversations as a rookie and that means a lot because if I'm not mistaken that hasn't been done very often it might have been Tim Duncan as the last dude. That's how great of a player he is. And I can see him when I watch him even though he doesn't have great games back to back to back to back. I see the flashes of how good this player can be and I'm invested. Jared Allen, people looked at him as like man you gave $100 million to a dude that might be the 12th best center in the entire league. The man is on the trajectory where he's going to be an all-star this season more than likely. There is Garland might not be an all-star this season but he looks like he's going to be an all-star next season. You're after that, you're after that. They have such a nice little core and also some pieces around them that like hey if we wanted to go completely in we have draft pick, we have draft capital. We still have young players that maybe we're not necessarily given up on but some teams might value a little bit more if we want to go out and get a piece. Now I'm not saying I'm doing that at this deadline even though some people are predicting it I don't think they do that this year. They still have to figure out the Colin Sexton thing but as far as like visually which core looks the most fun to watch, it's them. And I think they get an advantage mostly because they're winning games, right? Like the Houston Rockets have a solid core for the future but they're so far away from being a playoff team while the Cavs are a young team with a young core that is in the playoffs right now. Kid said too soon take, LeBrona Center is amazing for the Lakers. I think it proves that he can play any position. Small ball has been around for a while but it's different when the biggest also the smartest and best passer on the team. I agree. The only problem is is that your second best player is also a center. So like yeah, LeBrona at Small Ball Center right now is great. It's been working in there on the win streak right now but long-term you're not gonna run Small Ball Center when they're closing out games because your second best player is Anthony Davis. You know what I'm saying? And the reason why Anthony Davis don't love playing centers is that it takes a big toll on the body. I like as good as it has been. I don't want 37 year old LeBron James playing Small Ball Center for the entire season and the playoffs. You know what I'm saying? It works right now because Anthony Davis is out and it's been looking good but I think for the sake of his body and for the team's success once playoffs come around this is not something you should look at as like yeah, we doing this every single night LeBrona playing 40 minutes at the five. It shouldn't be like that. Dominic says if Josh Giddy was American he'd be in the lead for Rookie of the Year. This is, that was very weird to me and that's why I screenshotted it. That is a take that doesn't make much sense to me because I'm again, it made me like squint my eyes because I don't, okay. Luca Donchich, Ben Simmons, Andrew Wiggins, technically Kyrie Irvin. These are non-American born players that won Rookie of the Year. Are we saying that, are we, Paul Gasol did it in 2001, 2002? I don't think it has anything to do with where he's from, my boy, especially when a lot of the MVP ladders have Franz Wagner right now. He's German. I don't think Josh Giddy not being American is the reason why he's not the Rookie of the Year. I just think that they're, Rookie's playing better than them. That's not saying he's bad because he's far from bad, but Franz Wagner has been better this season. Evan Mobley has been better this season. Scotty Barnes has been better this season. It's not the wrong of being the fourth best Rookie in a very good class. This class was amazing. You know what I'm saying? That's just based off right now. He's had the triple-double. He's the youngest player to ever get a triple-double. He had the double-double with zero points. Those are amazing feats. I mean the second one is cool. I wouldn't count it as amazing to not be able to score in the NBA game, but 11 assists and 10 rebounds is dope. But I don't understand it. That's why I screenshotted it. And I wanted people in the comment section to maybe flush out what he's thinking because we've seen so many foreign board players succeed in the NBA. That is just weird that he would say, nah, it's because he's foreign. Specifically, Australian. Ben Simmons was just Rookie of the Year for like three years in a row. Man, that joke is so tired, but I'm gonna say it every once in a while. I'll be honest with you. Jadon says, R.J. Bear progressing has been held back by the Knicks been competitive now. Ja and Zion were given the keys to be the first and second option. R.J. has flashes, but I don't need to do so much we have Randall, Kimball, Fournieres, et cetera. I understand what you're saying completely, but I think that once we look back on that draft class, even if you go back in real time, a lot of people saw it as a two-person draft and there was like a gap between Ja, Zion and R.J. Not saying that people didn't believe he could be a star because I'm still not off that train either, but the reason that Ja and Zion are so great, of course, situation does matter, but they were also like really, really talented and had things that they were already great at coming into the league and then was able to round out. A lot more is talking about Ja at this point because we ain't seen Zion in so long. They had things that they were very elitist and this has to do with the speed of Ja Moran. His vision as a rookie was really, really good. And those things were good and then he continued to flesh out the rest of his game and now he's a 40% three-point shooter. So like it was a two-player draft where people still believe in that R.J. could be great. Situations do matter, but those two prospects were just seemed like miles ahead of R.J. Be Young says, I think people underestimate the talent as young rockers seem past. This rebuild will be a pretty fast one. I don't know, man. Rebuild the NBA is typically not fast. And I don't think, I think a lot of people recognize the amount of talent or raw, I mean like literally raw talent that's on the team. With Jaelyn Green, especially right now is shooting like 50% on threes in the last X amount of games while attempting eight of them. He's been great. If you ask any draft nerd, everybody love Sengun coming out of the draft if you were a draft nerd. Josh Christopher, people love Kevin Porter Jr. People know that he's talented but has the other stuff that's going on. Christian Wood, like people understand the talent level that's on the team. It's more about the Jaelyn and how do you flesh out this much young talent to all be in the right lane for them to be successful? Now honestly, I think we're gonna talk about this in the question that we get to a little bit later which I don't wanna spoil any things but it's hard to be a team that is super young with a bunch of draft picks and a bunch of 19 and 20 year olds in a row and be like, yes, they click in a year number two and we in the playoffs again. Especially right now where it seems like a lot of teams are super well rounded. So as the part of you saying that this rebuild be pretty fast, I would be surprised if it was. This feels like a rebuild that's gonna take, I mean, I don't know what you mean by fast. I think that's relative but if you're trying to say to me like in two years the Raptors or the Rockets are back to a playoff team, I would be hesitant to say that. Peter says, do you know anyone personally from school or where you grew up that played or had a chance to play in the NBA? I'm beyond as what you Peter, where I grew up there are a lot of great basketball players. None of them really made it out which is unfortunate. Once I moved to the suburbs, I got to play against some players that I knew had the ability to maybe go pro and one of them is in a G League right now as he's the homie Mike Smith. He plays for the Sioux Falls Sky Force. He played for the Miami, he's summer league team this year. Before Mike was one of my friends, I guarded him in eighth grade. He's a year younger than me. So he's a seventh grade player in eighth grade and I don't even know if he remembers this. I don't talk about this because it's kind of low key kind of embarrassing but I transferred to the school in eighth grade. I went from all black school from the first X amount of years in my life until I got to eighth grade where I went to school where it was me and three other black people in the whole school, right? Three other black people in the whole school and we all were on the basketball team which I mean stereotypes or whatever. But my coach, Coach Rear in this first game going against Mike Smith and his team was like, hey, I need you to guard this guy. He wasn't even pointing that mic. He's pointing at another guy that was in eighth grade. He was like six, three point guard in eighth grade. He's like, Kenny, you need to guard him. Mind you, as of right now as an adult, I am five, seven, five, eight. So imagine me in eighth grade how tall I was. Right, okay, so boom. I got to guard this six foot plus guy but the six foot plus guy wasn't even trying to hoop. He was giving it to Mike to hoop. So coaches like Kenny, or I guess nobody called me Kenny until I was a dope. He was like, control, I need you to guard that guy. I'm like back, literally. Back to back possessions. Mike put me in the basket and one, put me in foul trouble at the sit the entire second quarter. In that moment, I was like, yeah, this guy's really, really good and he has a chance to go pro. And here he is really having a chance to go pro. So it's really cool to see him go out there and hoop. Aiden says assuming Clay is back when you film this video, how do you think he's gonna impact the words, especially in the playoffs when he's got him back into NBA shape? Oh yeah, when Clay Thompson coming back the day this video is released, a lot of the questions were Clay Thompson related. And to answer your question, I don't really know, man. I wish it was as simple as me saying, yeah, Clay's coming back, so he about to be 100%. The Warriors about to do this and that, but I try to be more realistic and when you're missing basketball for 600 plus days, more likely than not, there's going to be a period of time where you're getting things back. Now, Clay Thompson is the type of dude that I feel like if he had no legs, he would still be one of the greatest shooters of all time. So I feel like that thing might be cool, but it's all the other things. He was one of the better perimeter defenders in the entire league. That might be down now that he suffered two leg injuries, you know? I like how the Warriors are trying to slow roll or try to slow roll it. We're like, once we got news that Clay Thompson might be coming back in a week or so, they were like, okay, Jordan Poo, even though you're good enough to start on us now, we're gonna have you roll to the bench because that's your role now. And let's get used to you coming off the bench again. And the first game they did that year, like 30, you know what I'm saying? Just adding a guy like Clay Thompson, even if he's 80% of himself, 70% of himself is a W-4 team that already is one of the deeper teams in the league. No more blue guys in the NBA All-Star game. Averaging nine, seven and five is not an All-Star. I'm gonna assume this is him talking about Drey Montgomery, obviously. No other guy is even in conversations averaging less than 10 points. I just, I don't think that's true. Though the All-Star game is about entertainment, it's bigger than that. You know, we're talking about players' legacies, we're talking about players' Hall of Fame candidacy, we're talking about players' contracts. So sure, is Drey Montgomery the most fun player to have in the All-Star game? No, but he has been one of the best 24 players in the NBA this season, regardless if he's only averaging eight points because you played my boy a little bit when it came to his stats. It's eight points, eight rebounds, a seven and a half assists, don't forget it. He is not just a blue guy, he's the ultimate blue guy and he's the best defensive player in the league this season. Basketball is more than just let me score a bunch of points. Drey Montgomery has the ability to win games strictly on his own court coaching, his defense, and his play-making. Legit, and that's no exaggeration, of course. He needs Steph Curry to his shots, he needs Jordan Poo to his shots once he gets the ball. Yes, it takes the whole team. But if Drey Montgomery, what he was doing was so insignificant, we'd have 10 Drey Montgomerys across the league. In reality speaking, there's one Drey Montgomery. There's one player who was sitting at 6-6 power four that could guard almost every position on the court. There's one player sitting at 6-6 at the power four position that is looked to really orchestrate the offense. There's one player at 6-6 that is leading the league and defensive player of the year as a four. Like, it is way deeper than, oh, he not scoring enough points. And what type of message would it show to the people that's coming up in the league if we have a player who is arguably the greatest defensive player of this decade? Like arguably, I'm not saying he is, but arguably the greatest defensive player of this decade and the league like, nah, you just, you don't deserve to be an All-Star. That would just tell me, why do I have to do anything on the defensive side of the ball if it doesn't matter? If I'm not gonna get rewarded for other than maybe being a defensive player of your conversations. We talk about resumes, we're talking about a lot of different things. Drey Montgomery deserves to be there, my boy. Especially, look, I made my All-Star Ballad video a couple days ago. The West of Conference is kind of me when it comes to the forward position anyway. You feel me? Nikola Jokic is overrated. He plays zero perimeter defense, has no rim protection, only gets steals. Dear Jones Jr, this is not the official DJJ because I think if I ask DJJ right now, if I DM'd him, do you think Jokic is good or one of the best players in the league? He would say yes, because he's played against him for a few seasons. You're spewing a bunch of like old tired narratives. The idea that Jokic is not a plus or even an okay defender, it's like three years old, my boy. Jokic has been a good defender for the past couple of seasons and he's getting better and better. He has zero perimeter defense. I'm not expecting him to have a hundred perimeter defense. He doesn't have zero, but I'm not expecting him to be the best perimeter defensive player on the team. He is not a rim protector, but I'm telling you, I've said this on the channel before. There are two different type of centers that are good on defense. There are rim protectors and there are paint protectors. When I'm thinking rim protectors, well, I guess Rudy Golbert is both and that's why he's a guy that wants to fence play the All-Town. But like you think a traditional rim protector is a guy like Javail McGee, Hassan Waishad that's gonna get hella blocks. But a paint protector is a guy like Al Horford in his prime where he might not get a ton of blocks, but you know you're not scoring a lot of points in the paint because he is such a smart, positional defender in the paint. Jokic is a paint defender. He might not average two blocks a game ever in his career, but he has not been a minus defender in years. And that's the eye test, advanced stats, that's everything. Him being overrated is wild to me. And that just tells him you haven't watched him at all this season because the team goes with him. And if he has an even sub part night, they have no chance to win a basketball game. And that's on the offensive and the defensive side of the ball. That was fun, wasn't it? You know, you might disagree with everything I said in this video, that's completely okay. We're just humans that like the game of basketball. I'm gonna remind you to enjoy it. You could like it, but some of y'all like it, but don't enjoy it if you know what I'm saying. So enjoy basketball. Go out there and watch some games today. Clay Thompson comes back tonight. I'm excited about that one. And the Bulls are going for win number 10 in a row if I'm not mistaken against Dallas. Tune in, baby. 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