 What's the world y'all welcome back to the call game recap today was a very busy day in the NBA world man We had 25 point comebacks game winners overtime games a lot of things went on today. It was busy. I was also busy Believe it or not There are sometimes we'll have to allocate my time in other places other than basketball typically I come into this room at 6 o'clock and watch basketball until midnight today was not one of those days I had to do some other things that You will see eventually because it's related to some of the things you do around here But I'm telling you that because there are a lot of games on today's slate that didn't get a lot of attention from me Yep I might have tuned in for the last two to three minutes or not have tuned in at all So some games will not be talked about but y'all know long season I will eventually talk about your favorite team if that's what you're worried about Foggan today show I was on Duncan Robbins's podcast Which is a big moment for me cuz typically when I talk to NBA players I am the host but this time I just talked I just hopped in the zoom call. They were asking me questions I was being interviewed by Duncan Robinson NBA player so south of him and Davis for inviting me the long shot pot That'll be out on Thursday, so please show that some love Just let him know Kenny sent you and I think it'll go a long way if y'all show some love, right? Leave a like subscribe if you're new let's get into today's slater games everybody in the world Has your own personal pet peeves right for example my girlfriend's pet peeve is when our dogs lick themselves You know dogs do that all the time and lick themselves for a clink to clean themselves It's Clint the work to clean themselves and she hates the sound of it, right? My personal pet peeve is when people go on to Twitter to tell me what to talk about on this show It bothers me way more than it should because I think most people out there that watch these videos Understand that I am everywhere when it comes to the NBA world I Typically get to see a lot of the stuff and I bring it to attention right and sometimes it can't be helpful Right like I said I didn't watch every single game today, so I didn't watch Philly versus Houston So my I think it was my guy ninja bands. He was like you got to talk about my t-stibals defense I didn't watch the game. I know my t-stibals defense was great, but I know when I go watch this game tomorrow morning I'll pay a closer attention to my t-stibals defense So I really get a full grasp of what he saw right but the things that bother me is when people come into my mind to say man You better talk about Damian Lillard tonight When has somebody had a legendary performance and I put together a show and I didn't talk about it It doesn't happen. So please please refrain for from doing stuff like that. I told like it really bothers me more than it should Okay, let's talk about Damian Lillard though. Um yesterday This is how you know this bothers me because yesterday after he had his big-time shot He had another game-winner type shot somebody said Kenny You got to talk about Damian Lillard MVP candidacy. I told him no I will not talk about Damian Lillard's MVP candidacy not that he didn't deserve to be in the conversation because he definitely does It's because that one fan told me I should talk about it. I told him no But that one fan that was yesterday We'll talk about Damian Lillard's MVP candidacy as of right now The top three guys in no particular order is Damian Lillard Joel and B to LeBron James in my own personal book And if you watch my podcast, you know that we do every single season We do like who do we think is gonna win MVP rookie of the year? Yada yada Damian Lillard was my my MVP pick preseason And a lot of it had to do with the team being more complete around him Damian Lillard has done a lot of things with a lesser cash, right? They've been able to make the playoffs He's made big-time moments and stats is always incredible But they always find themselves Like on the bottom of the conference or they did have that conference finals run But they always find themselves in the middle of the pack is probably what I want to explain it But this year I think that Adam Robert Covington the way Gary Trent played in the bubble and use of knurkens being completely healthy I was like, yeah This can be a year where they end up top three in the Western Conference And if Damian Lillard still puts up the same type of numbers have the same type of moments I think he can win MVP and well Things haven't gone completely like that because they still dealing with a lot of injuries But the thing I love the most is it doesn't matter and Damian Lillard's post game interview He mentioned two things that were super interesting to me He said that the Portland Trailblazers landed in the world is three hours before tip-off went right to the arena and got a win That is crazy and the second thing the second thing that really brought to my attention was like he was saying Yes, we have a lot of injuries and things, but we don't care. We still believe every single night We are the better team even though we're missing so many guys This is amazing mindset to have man me and my guys are watching watching the game together Pierre asked a question It was 26 seconds ago. The trailblazers were in the time out He was like is Damian Lillard shot going in because everybody in the world knew the ball was going to Damian Lillard's hands He's on a hot streak. He already hit like three game winners in the last week or so So we knew it was gonna be in his hands and me being a nerd a Stats nerd trying to play the law of averages. I was like no He's already hit too many this one's bound to miss. It's just the way it's gonna work Nope, it's Damian Lillard. So never bet against Damian Lillard is what I'm saying They came in the fourth quarter thing. I gave myself when I was 12 years old I'm giving it to Damian Lillard because he can be 0 for 33 in the first three quarters Expect him to take over in the fourth quarter and potentially win that game and MVP candidacy is looking real good I think I think a lot of it What can help his case a lot is the team getting better Getting even better than what they are right now Right now they're closing out games even with all the injuries once they get back healthy Them winning way more games would definitely increase his chances because like the other two guys I mentioned are towards the top of their conferences with LeBron and Joel and B And at the end of the day whether you like it or not when it comes to the voting Those are the type of things people care about right you need to be a winning team to the highest tier except for like the Russell Westbrook year, but those are crazy circumstances, right overall No, they even though Damian Lillard did take over like he typically did does it was a great team win Robert Covington's the defense was very versatile today being able to guard Zion was for some possessions Then guard Brandon Ingram other possessions was was very well Well needed today. So a big win from them. I hated that last possession for the Pelicans Just really really bad. Just a bad bad last possession. We'll leave it at that day We literally continue to do your thing, bro. He called game. You know I'm saying he called game the next game Of course, I got to watch is a bulls game Can't miss those haven't missed those in years no matter what is going on in my life Expect me to watch the bulls and today was a very satisfying win to me Now the bulls have this thing where where they come out in a lot of games very very dry They've done it for a few years now And I was hoping it will be remedied with us having a new coach But maybe it's the personnel right and then they got down by 25 To the Detroit Pistons now every time the bulls play and they do something good I kind of have a hard time trying to figure out how much time I should spend on it Because I know that the bulls have a big fan base But I know I could talk about my bulls for hours. So I don't really know I'll give it a couple minutes I'm so they go about down by 25 against the Detroit Pistons and and though the Detroit Pistons at this point is our 8 and 20 They are way better than what their record says right? They've got wins against the Lakers the Celtics the 76ers They got quality quality wins and they basically begin better every single week in the NBA season for sure So I knew the bulls being the bulls This is not gonna be an easy game like you would expect it to be based off record Jeremy Grant is absolutely incredible Let's focus on them for a second Jeremy Grant is absolutely incredible I think personally the bulls defended him very very well tonight and he ended with 43 Did you hear me? The bulls defended him very very well tonight and he ended with 43 So please if you did not watch this game or just watch the Jeremy Grant highlights from this game Hella difficult shots so many difficult shots. So shout to Jeremy Grant He was trying to put his team on his back because nobody else was really showing up They had Player of the Weeks to dig Bay had a couple decent moments Other than that it was just them and then Josh Jackson want to be the tough guy And you know what I was rooting for you Josh Jackson But the moment you try to be tough against my bulls is when they get cut off But the bulls with a big big comeback man very satisfying win Zach Levine is a all-star lock I don't want to see a single comment that disagrees as he is a all-star lock And if you don't agree with that you aren't watching the bulls the bulls were down by 25 and In this man just decided he was going to take over the third quarter and bring us within single digits And then do it again in the fourth quarter to bring us the lead So that's my guy Patrick Williams man. He had three points going into the fourth They didn't turn into Kawhi Leonard in a fourth quarter. I love I loved a lot of things I saw today and even Kobe white right Kobe white was bad for a majority of this game He hit a very very clutch three pointer later I love Billy Donovan as a coach because when the team is down by 25 He felt okay with benching the guys that were playing bad Like I said Patrick Williams had three three points through the first three quarters Kobe wasn't hitting the shots So he went in with that is young he went with Garrett temple He went with the vets and the vets plus Zach Levine as defense plus offense Amazing run but then again He trusted them enough to put them in the game when it mattered the most and both of them performed Well, a brilliant coaching job from Billy Donovan. That's all I really want to say. All right Move on to the next game again, I can talk about the Bulls all day whether it's good or bad I could do it, but I'm happy today because we caught a win the next and I caught the end of the game between the Watch the Wizards and the Denver Nuggets. This is definitely game. I got to go back and rewatch because when I take the box score Davies Bertans 9 of 9 of 11 now we knew a game like this was gonna come eventually He's so good of a shooter to continue to be in the slump and this was a big time one and guess what? The Wiz Three-game win streak a guy if you don't know There's a guy who bet $10,000 Today or yesterday he bet $10,000 if the watch the Wizards will come back and win the championship And I forget it's an extreme amount of payoff I think it's like one point something million or even something like five million. I don't know But if they do win a championship that man is a genius 99.9% chance He's not a genius and he's actually an idiot because he just wasted $10,000 But what a great game the moments that I did see as Russell Westwick was very wild and I was like, bro, y'all need this win Y'all need this win slow it down slow it down, but um the Garrison Matthews making plays I don't want to parallel it to to Alice Caruso because it feels weird because they're both like white NBA players But but he was making a lot of Alice Caruso type plays It's like hustle plays things like that and those are the type of things that can keep you on the basketball Court at the end of the day and then the Denver Nuggets man What a what a disappointing start up, but I'm still giving them a pass until they get completely healthy It did help the Gary Harris was here. I mean to see him on the court. He didn't play well today Um, I don't know. I don't know very very very weird to see the Denver Nuggets continue to do like this this slide And right now they're 15 and 13 man A lot of teams this season are with their injuries and with the health of safety protocol It's hard to really gauge how good or how bad they really are right? But there are other teams where they've made it pretty pretty easy the Miami Heat man today was a weird one I did not watch the first Three and a half quarters of this game Actually, I was going to record this call game episode while that game was going on because I was like I didn't watch the first three quarters. I don't know was really going on But when I tuned in oh, I saw everything I needed to see Captain Ken Basemore the base guy decided to take off which is fun because I remember when Ken Basemore was like a rookie sophomore at Old Dominion and he was the one on the bench doing the dances You know, he was a benchmark guy. He didn't play but he was fun when something happened They'd pan over to see what Ken Basemore was doing and now he's making clutch and big big plays man The heat could not do anything on the glass They weren't doing a good job to fit and this messed up Curry didn't do a single thing for the first three quarters That's when I checked the box score. He was like 2 for 19 from 3 Yeah, that's what it felt like and then in the late in the fourth quarter in overtime He had some big old shots the heat are wow, bro It's so crazy. How far they've how much worse they look this season versus last and you know what? I'm not blaming this one thing particularly But it's the one thing I keep thinking about when I watched the Miami Heat. They could really use a J Crowder They could really use a J Crowder instead of the 10 mil that they gave Myers Leonard You know what I'm saying J Crowder here's a cool start about J Crowder in the last seven years J Crowder's played for four different NBA teams and oh, I guess five now when you count the the Suns Everyone in those teams have made the playoffs. He just has that thing now. He's not he's not the guy You know I'm saying but he's a glue guy great defender He's been able to hit his shots consistency over the last couple years and he's a part of this finals run last year Let him go. I don't know if they let him go or he walked out of yada yada But he's that he's a winning type player Especially to help you get to the postseason and they need that type of thing Kelli Olenek. Ah, I don't like to see him on the court In moderation he can be good, but starting and playing big minutes. No, not so much man It's it's rough. It's real rough shout out to the Warriors man. No Drake my green note No center whatsoever They got want to scuttle Anderson with a C by his name mean and he was a center tonight and they won a basketball game Team rebounding team defense and in the game where Steph Curry shot 5 for 20 from 3 Also, no Dreymon. Also, no Clay Thompson. They caught a win Wiggins a big time shot Kelly Ubrey continued to look better Hey, man, it's a big win. It's a big win in a terrible It's a big win for them and a terrible loss of Miami heat all the other games on the on the book I like some of these games I do want to watch like the Atlanta Hawks getting the win over the Celtics I know that the Celts were missing Marcus smart. They're missing Kimber Walker, but I do want to see the 40-point performance from Trey Young did somebody told me that this 76 versus Rockets game wasn't as close as the final score says But I still want to go back to watch that. Oh I'm glad I look back here I did watch the fourth quarter of Timberwolves versus Pacers and I was so upset when that shot a fourth quarter in overtime I was so upset set when a shot by Anthony Edwards didn't go in because I was I was ready to tweet Anthony Edwards called game The ball was in and you know how many shots we've seen a season for game winners that were in the basket But rolled out it was another one. It was another causing it sounds like the maze it but at the end of the day Malcolm Brogdon just got that clutch G man So bonus has another all-star performance after basically not being as good over the past couple weeks The stat line looks ridiculous 3617 and 10 With three steals, that's an amazing stat line But it was the big shots from Malcolm Brogdon late in that game and in overtime to put them over the hump But I think that this Timberwolves fans and this is it's for the few of y'all out there I think you're happy with some of the things that's going on. Yes You have only seen your best players play together five times in a year But like Carnegie Towns coming back and having a 30 Anthony Edwards didn't shoot the ball well But he he looked good again if that makes sense, right? Even a shot going in and out Malik beastly going to the bench so they could try to get more defensive versatility Looks solid He had 30 off the bench and Nasri Looked it like there are some things you can take away from what the Minnesota Timbers have right now Did you can be positive about at the end of the day? Like like that's what I could say. That's what I could say. All right. That's all I got call game