 What's the word y'all welcome back to called game Kenny for real whatever you want to call eventually this channel will be named called game I like that y'all have taken this thing and try and like giving it to me again I didn't come up with called game It's been in the basketball NBA community for a very very long time But like yesterday last night she gives us Alexander hit a game winner and bleach report tweeted She called game and a lot of y'all were tagging me in that tweet like they still in your whole flow again It ain't something I came up with it ain't mine Yeah It will be eventually man be sure to leave a like on the video subscribe if you knew I'm gonna be giving a lot of NBA opinions in today's video. You may disagree, which is completely okay. Use that comment section Let's have this conversation. That's what this community is about So I've decided that the called game show would be me going through the slate of games that I thought were interesting It's not a daily thing because some days it's not gonna be anything to talk about But there are a decent amount of games yesterday that were excited think about this Christmas all all terrible Booty disgusting yesterday a lot of these games were fun or enjoyable single-digit overtime double overtime games It's ridiculous. Everybody's watching yesterday in the NBA look like it's stunk But now today where people don't have anyway, let's start with the first game of the day This game started off so much earlier than the other ones I'm not complaining about it because it allowed me to really hone in on this game And this was a good game for me Because I was trying to figure out how good the Atlanta Hawks are and I guess I'm still trying to figure it out Because in the first game of the season they went against a g-league team Chicago Bulls and the second game of the season They wouldn't get some if it's Grizzly's who are still missing Jaren Jackson, Jr I can't wait to see them go against like one of the top teams one of the for sure playoff teams around the league and see How they how they fare but through two games man The Atlanta Hawks were a team that go into the season are projected to be like seven seed eight seed and through two games They look a lot better than that. I must admit man Trey young I hate how like some players coming into the league They get this little stamp on their name very early in their career and Trey young got that stamp of a guy That's gonna be putting up great numbers on bad teams throughout his whole life Which is like how what makes y'all think that bro? He was an early lottery pick everybody that is an early lottery pick is usually gonna come into a team That sucks So yes, he was putting up good stats on bad teams But if you really were watching the games you knew that the when the Atlanta Hawks had Trey young on the floor last season They were a solid okay Average team when he was off the floor. They were the worst team in basketball So now this season the front office puts pieces around him. They make some signings They're younger guys are getting better and now he has a legitimate NBA quality team And of course he looks still looks good that y'all got to stop painting these players for for what they Going are going to be based on how they perform in their first couple seasons That's just the most dumb thing possible, but through two games They look really good the fact that Trey young has such a high uses rate And he just doesn't turn the ball over it's just a testament to how good of a player He is 36 points He's got this neck y'all and this pissed me off the first game in a season where he will get past his first defender And he'll kind of slow up and he'll get him on his back and he'll get the shot up And that's a foul the man shot 17 free throws in this game 17 And I can't even complain because he just he has found the ability to draw the foul now I know a lot of people hate that when it comes to the viewing aspect of basketball That's why James Harden has such a bad name for some people but as far as being a basketball player Those are easy easy points 15 for 17 from the field or from the free throw line I mean what coach wouldn't want their player doing that and this is another thing about this Alen Hawks team yesterday. They were missing Six rotational pieces yesterday and still looked really really good Let me count out the six for y'all. They're missing Galanari They're missing Rajan Rondo Chris Dunn and Yaka Okong will click appella and Tony snail You may disagree with the Tony snail being a rotational piece But Tony snail is a rotational piece and they still look good now might be a thing that like Less is more like I can't imagine six players coming into this team that already has looked good through the first two games And you know somebody's minutes is getting cut it might be Brandon Goodwin It might be a Nathan Knight who who looked pretty solid for a guy I didn't even know existed until a couple days ago The Alen Hawks are a good team and I like that Laurie Pierce is coaching them Well, the defense doesn't look bad and again, they are missing some of their better defensive players John Collis doesn't project to be a very good defensive center in his league Click appella is usually going to be there for this team, but they didn't look bad defensive I don't have much to say about the other side of the ball when it comes to the Memphis Grizzlies because again They're still missing Jiren. John Moran is still an electric electric player I can't wait to Jaren Jackson comes back and hopefully somebody in the comment section Is there a timetable because me and my guys were talking about this And we couldn't find a single report about when we when people believe that Jiren Jackson junior will be back Let's get to the second game of the day, which was the okc Thunder versus the Hornets This is not a game that I paid an extreme amount of attention to I'm going to admit it One thing that I really hate about like NBA media and I understand it's about clicks and hell I work for a company that is about clicks, you know, it's a house of highlights It's it's about getting people to watch highlights But they put these some younger players on the pedestal while while not talking about others And of course Lamello ball is that guy from this drag class no matter what Lamello ball does whether he stinks or he's really really good He's going to get a post on house of highlights He's gonna get something about on bleach report about it and just like just let him live and just like how about we post Anthony I were to just look very very good through the first two get it's just so weird how things work And of course it is a popularity contest when it comes to social media I understand that but it's just it it puts an unfair pressure on Lamello ball and not gives enough credit to some of The other rookies out there. That's what I mean And again Lamello ball didn't he did he did okay this game people were mad that he only played what 15 minutes Yeah, 15 minutes and it's a game. He actually scored He scored 13 points of 15 minutes and people are said that he wasn't playing but For being honest from what I've saw from this game again I wasn't you know magnifying glass on this game the other guards ahead of him just looked better yesterday and I Turned this game off when they were up by what like 10 Okay, she was about like 10 with a couple minutes ago I was like, okay, that's a wrap and then my those bridges turned into Tracy McGrady And he was like I got us and I'm gonna get us back in this game and then eventually say you saw Alexander called game Now I think that Sam Pressley's about to do this thing where he always does or he did with like Chris Paul and some of these other Dudes were like they get a veteran player. He's gonna look good And we're gonna flip him for a first-round pick and that's what George Hill looks like to me George Hill was magnificent throughout this game He looked like a veteran on a team full of younger players and same thing with Al Horford Who didn't shoot the ball relatively well, but he looked like a veteran on the team of young players and eventually they win this game And you know what? I'm looking forward to when okay, she starts to lose not that sounds very sinister sinister But I like the the post that people would like you you just help the tank and it's a picture of K. Cunningham in a okc jersey, but K. Cunningham will be a bull because the bulls absolutely stick Let's get to one of the more excited games of the day, bro. The Cavaliers are fun I'm looking for any team to hold my attention because my team Stinks and the Cavaliers and the Kings have been those those teams are the first two games of the season again I didn't watch their first game, but I went back to watch it in today's game or last night's game I was really into that because dear girls is playing and then I was really trying to see what sex land looked like There's some really good names for for teams out there sex land is one of them Collin Sexton and deers Gardner look like a good backcourt through the first two games of the season again defensively They're going to struggle being under-sized guards, but offensively they they look potent I still can't figure out or this is something a drum and it's gonna have to figure out who the hell he is on this team He had a good game, but there was moments in this game where I think he thought he was the star player and Nope, you're not anymore, but congratulations to him for hitting free throws That was something we weren't saying about him a couple years ago Sex land is fun. It really is Isaac Acuro ended with zero points I'm looking at but it didn't feel like that his defensive impact was definitely there There's the plate and I don't know if it was the end of regulation or the end of the first overtime We're Jeremy Grant got the ball from their grows and Isaac Acuro closed out and prevented Jeremy Grant from even getting the shot up Even getting the shot up The calves are fun. I don't want to spend too much time on them because I again I don't know if they're gonna be a playoff team I doubt they're gonna be a playoff team, but through the first two games of the season they look fun Madden versus Wizards, I did not watch a single minute of my apologies to the Wizards fans out there only to Bradley Beal put a 40 and lost I'm gonna I'm gonna eventually watch them in its entirety coming up this season Next game same thing. I have no watch a single sit next minute Why would I do such a thing? Why would I torture myself when I'm already torturing myself with the Chicago Bulls? I was spending one minute on the Bulls because I know 90% of y'all do not give a damn about the Bulls But God we look awful and and I don't mind us being only two because again This is not a season. I thought we're gonna come in and be as good as some people thought Um, I didn't even have us in the playing game y'all I don't I don't think that's who we are But the fact that we have got absolutely terrorized is something that's different Like there's difference between bad and being awful and I expected us to be bad and not awful and through the first two games We are awful And that's all I'm gonna say about that the Marta Rosen it took him 11 seasons y'all It took him 11 seasons, but the Marta Rosen is here and he has a jump shot a three-point shot specifically The Marta Rosen went from a guy when he was with the Raptors that I would consider probably a little bit overrated to being traded to the Spurs and now he is super underrated. Nobody gives a damn about the Marta Rosen anymore And that's that's a shame because this team is actually fun, too And it's kind of like it's crazy to think about the identity of pops teams and they're they're changing because his personality is changing These younger guys can hoop count in Johnson to John say Murray with a triple double these guys can hoop and the Marta Rosen being Being the vet on the team is so crazy to me The Marcus all just being the vet on the team is so crazy to me and DeMar is good. DeMar is very good I want him to have another all-star parents again The Western Conference is ridiculously tough when it comes to all-star appearances, but I want him to have it, bro He's shooting the three ball. He's shooting the Hey Hey, that's a different monster. We have been talking about it for 10 years If he got a jump shot if you got a three-point shot specifically the offense around him will be so much more fluid And here we are two games to the season and exactly that the Raptors whoo through two games It's been kind of rough man It's a team that I thought that with their veteran leadership that they'd be able to face adversity and do the first two games They face a lot of adversity on court adversity They haven't been able to put it together And I don't know what part of that is the fact that they're they're away from home and all of these type of things But they have not lived good through the first two games in a season The next one has a lot to do with with car Anthony Towns and D'Angelo Russell. I talked about Anthony Edwards a little bit earlier Really good. The first overall pick is good at basketball y'all and he needs more spotlight And it sucks because maybe it's because he's in Minnesota Which doesn't make sense because Lamello's and Charlotte These are smaller market teams give Anthony Edwards a microphone Let him talk because that man is hilarious and he's very good at basketball and they are two and no I don't want to overreact to the timbles because last season they started off very good as well And then they made that one tweet that was like we're good and then they lost like 20 in a row That's what it felt like. They were like 19 and 1 in 20 games So I don't want to overreact but um, they look they look solid man Which is crazy because I was this didn't this didn't like a team I'm going to admit that I'd look that and be like this is going to be a good team because they just lack defensive impact on that team Um, they got rid of Ronnie Hollis Jefferson again Who wasn't going to be a guy that's going to change your franchise But having Jake layman start was a big question mark to me I think the first game of the season Jake layman didn't do anything and the second game of the season He didn't do anything either. He has not put up a point He's played He's played like 30 minutes of basketball this season and he hasn't put up a point and last game He didn't even put up a shot attempt. Wow Wow They're putting out a lot of line-ups that is four guards and carthony towns And it's not looking bad because um, joshie kogi can defend his own Cool. The next game has to do with the sons and the the kings who I mentioned earlier is one of my league past teams The kings are super super fun. Um, one thing that that is Pissing me off through two games is yandere aida looks afraid to play basketball I don't I don't if you aren't watching the games. You don't understand what i'm saying But he looks afraid like his hands aren't as good as they were last year throughout two games Um, he's not crashing the glass like you want him to he just looks afraid to play basketball. Why? I just traded for him in fantasy. Why? Be better, please get better And maybe that's him feeling out what it is to play with chris paul and and all these guys that hopefully he'll get better Um, but the kings the air fox is everywhere on the court and that's that's exactly what we wanted, man They went from a team that was one of the most fun teams two years ago Pace was amazing last year They stunk and the pace was trash and now they're back on that trajectory to be a fun NBA team again And that's all I want from the kings. I don't know if they're gonna be a playoff team I'm not here projected to be to see if they're a playoff team But if you want a fun team to watch night in and night out the sacramental kings of that My only thing is that they're a western western conference team So their games are super late. So in order to watch them, you got to stay up a decent amount The last game Is the rockets versus the trailblazers? Um, this this is so stupid to say but this felt like a muslin game for the trailblazers Then it felt it had a playoff atmosphere for both teams and um, what were people calling it? Hardwood christian wood and james harden is a combination that I want to see play together for the rest of the season So we continue to call them hardwood and you can interpret that any way you want to Um, they look man james harden and christian wood look like an all-star and get christian wood is a good NBA player Don't get me wrong. He's he's probably better than what he got paid this off season. Um, but with james harden to spawn feed in him What did he finish with 31? She's 31 and james harden hitting those two back-to-back threes I know he turned it over in regulation and he turned it over in overtime to like close out the games, but I think throughout the the whole thing that's going on with james harden right now I think a lot of people are not Appreciating james harden the basketball player anymore and the fact this man had 44 and 17 assists in a game where they were missing zha wall um boogie cousins and Uh, eric gordon they were missing three really good rotational pieces david and wabba played big minutes And david and wabba should not be playing big minutes for any nba team anymore Uh, they were in this this game with a team that a lot of people project to be one of the better western conference team this season james harden is an amazing basketball player and I think that people aren't really It's it's a Media thing. It's a fan thing. We're like instead of just appreciating the basketball we have on court We want to talk about the things like I made a tweet yesterday that was like as long as james harden is on your team You're a playoff team that's that's objectively so far throughout his career a fact that he's been able to do that He's that type of beast and somebody's like, yeah, but he can't make it to the finals Which okay, he hasn't been to the final since he was okc, but like it's just Can we just appreciate what we get from the players and i'm not specifically talking about james harden This could go for lebron. This could go for luke or this could go for all the players Instead of just us appreciating basketball for what it is on court People find a way to make a narrative driven when in reality bro as a fan of basketball I couldn't give a damn if james harden ever makes a finals. I enjoy watching him play basketball at the end of the day I just do shout out to cj. They needed his performance and he was there throughout the first game dame is just trying to facilitate trying to get his teammates involved and knew a teammates and That's not who dame is dame go drop 30 and today he did um and that's that's pretty much it Um, hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did leave it a like subscribe if you knew um call game