 What's the word y'all 11 games slate in the association, which is nothing. I just went up to Twitter and somebody told me that on Monday All 30 teams are playing 15 games. So I had trouble keeping up with the 11 I cannot imagine the type of work room I had to put in Monday Um, but the thing that's on my mind as of right now in this second Is matt ryan the Lakers game just ended matt ryan off the bench comes in a fourth go to his two big shots Including the one to go to ot and then codes darvin ham said thank you for your service Get your butt on that bench and let the real players play and the Lakers get they second win of the season We'll talk about that a little bit later I really want to talk about the Cleveland Cavaliers Because boy, oh boy, do they look amazing right now They are six and one on the season and their only loss was the first game of the year When it went against the Toronto Raptors in a game where Darrius garlic I hit all up in his face and he missed Three quarters of it. So the team has been really really good. They beat the Bulls by million points They beat the wizards the magic the Celtics and overtime the nicks and then the Celtics and overtime again I saw people on the timeline going as far as saying a this is a preview of the Easter Conference finals for this season And I I can't go that far Because in my mind At least through the first two weeks in basketball the the Kenny power rankings in my brain without thinking about it says milwaukee bucks So i'm gonna like that were they're my pick to win the championship So milwaukee bucks sons calves or calves sons one or the other So, uh, I don't know if the season's gonna be in the conference finals But hey, they did it last year. They could definitely do it again I know they tired of seeing that boy donovan mitchell because boy, oh boy two games two over times and really The game of the night if you ask me there were some question marks for me When this trade went down, I was extremely excited if you go back and watch the video of the trade where we reacted to the donovan mitchell trade I was extremely excited I told the world that it was not an overpay because donovan mitchell is that nice and people low-key kind of forgot The one major concern I had was like how good of a defensive team Can you be down a stretch if derrius garland and donovan mitchell are your two guards? And again, the sample size is really small because this was their first real game together in the clutch The defense looked really good and the offense looked even better. So I did some digging Oh, I did some digging You know, I'm excited about something if I did some research So last season the cleven of cavaliers played in 46 Clutch games at his second most in basketball last season under the la lakers And I think what they determined to be clutch is like the game was within five points What x amount of minutes ago and in those games the cleven of cavaliers were 22 and 24 sub 500 team when it got down to the nitty gritty And it makes sense if you watched the team last season because we got to the fourth quarter We get to the clutch situations Let's be honest the NBA is very simple once we get to the clutch situations Like give the ball to our best player and let him do something and in that case it was derrius garland derrius garland derrius garland And derrius garland is such an unselfish dude like he can't take over these games But like once we get to the fourth quarter, they were just giving them the ball likes Please do something. Please do something and what we saw in today's game It's like don't admit to a takeover and then now is derrius garland too Like they have multiple options down the stretch That's not just derrius garland gold maker play and this game. It was don't admit you um step back jump shot lay up Dunk there was three straight possessions in this game where don't admit you score late in the fourth quarter He missed a shot and derrius garland called for the ball and then he hit a shot We saw the tandem working in real time and it was amazing And I also think it's going to be amazing from donovan mitzvah because I don't know if y'all remember some of the clutch stats from last Year in utah. This article was written last year this year mitzvah has atrocious shooting splits of 37.5 field goal percentage of 22 3 point percentage and a 53 free throw percentage in clutch time Which is wild donovan that you went this far into a season and you were shooting 53 percent from the free throw line That was like the yips or something and you know, he got that free throw We close his eyes and he breathes deep shooting 53 percent of clutch time free throws is ridiculous I and they were saying that last year he was better in fact And they were saying the year before that wasn't much better And he's never had a season in which he shot over 42 percent from the field and 33 percent from three in the clutch And so far this season it is a small sample size But not really because they've played six clutch games this season already Um, and that's like tie with the utah jazz. It's tied with the miami heat or whatever And in this one so far he's shooting 44 percent from the field and only 30 percent from three in the clutch time But again, keep her into his field goal percentage Before hand and his three percent before hand slide upgrade And what we saw in this one is that you had him going off but also derrius garland doing this thing as well so far The teams that made the big time traits I always just say it will take a minute to gel to take a minute to gel I said to say think about the land of hawks. They had a big win today We'll talk about that in a minute And you're seeing it with the with the minnesota timbles as well Once you add an all-star caliber player to your lineup It will take time, but for the cleave and cavaliers. It hasn't really yet I still believe there will be a gelling pier because we have to remember that derrius garland and donovimichu Played 12 minutes together basically in the first game and then this was their real first experience on the court together For a full full cycle So I wouldn't be surprised if maybe they lost a few games in the near future as they try to figure everything out But for it being their very first game basically playing together It looked really really good the unksong heroes on this one Of course had to be like dean wade or specifically today evan mobily got a huge huge rebound and overtime Offensive rebound overtime that led to a derrius garland three point shot And evan mobily in general has just been so amazing like you just watch him individually When they're on the defensive side of the ball all the things that he has been able to do With him being the his size and still pretty slim when it comes to mba power four to mba bigs He has been amazing. So even with the small guards up top They've been locked in and the defense still looks elite before this game They were one of the they were the last team that was top five in offense of top five in defense But again small samples as considered with seven games to the season I think their offense dropped from like number four to like number 11 after today Regardless if they stick around there in their defense to steal top five This team is a legitimate team And I thought it was going to take maybe a year before I consider them a contender But based on what I've seen so far it's hard not to put them in that camp Maybe I won't because some of the competition they've played so far isn't amazing like the two selters wins are big But I need to see maybe another game against one of the top ant teams before we say it officially But boy oh boy do they look damn good All right, let's get to some of the other games on the day like the lakers beating the pelicans And they are now two on two or five on the season When streaking la ladies and gentlemen, they are here. This is a second game And I guess technically third game in a row where it feels like russo westbrook Is I don't want to say him because the version of him that we know was averaging like 30 10 and 10 But he he has really bought into the role off the bench And it's kind of weird that it took this long considering that they played a game And the pre-season were rus coming off the bench and it was I and they were like Ah, we're gonna get to the regular season We're gonna start him anyway, and then it took him x amount of games But the game's off the bench. He's look good. He shot 60 percent feel today He hit a three nine assist seven rebounds all of this off the bench and uh overall The team won another basketball game not the most beautiful game for anthony davis He missed a lot of bunnies down the stretch But a win is a win to see uh, chicago bulls led in shroy brown jr. Cutting back door every possession Is dope the pelicans definitely could have used somebody down a stretch That would be their primary shot taker maker and that would be brandeningrum So pelicans fans everything will be okay. Um, this is definitely not a game you want to lose But they looked young today Um, dyson danu's played really really solid But at the end of the day he missed those two free throws open up the door for matt ryan regardless Eventually brandeningrum will be back and so will y'all and oh to have a game Where trey murphy shot 0 for 5 from 3 that don't happen off. I'll just say that don't happen often Tyler hero in the fourth court actually I don't remember how many total points it was in the fourth quarter Tyler hero gave them 13 points including the game winner And you know what was the best thing about this if you're in miami he fan It's kyle larry's kyle larry's performance today man 22 points seven assists This was the best he's looked on the court all season long And i'm not even just talking about the production because 22 points can be I don't know 12 points. He was moving way better today than he has moved all season And that is a very very good sign. Um, the kings are of course missing deer and fox in this one I saw somebody say hey if deer and fox was playing This is the king's win and then somebody else said if jimmy butler was playing The the heat went by 20. So uh jimmy butler told the world Hey, we gonna win the championship still and then since that day they have not lost so i'm I don't know jimmy butler gave it in that pet talk and it is what it is When I watch this king's team and there are so many different versions of this team It's the it's the deer and fox version, right? It's the sub-bonus version And then it's the sub-bonus and deer and fox version and i'm sure every team has their own But it feels so disconjointed and they're still trying to figure out which version of the team Is their best lineup or which version of their team is going to have the most success But in this one, I mean you could tell that they were Desperately desperately missing a lead ball handler in a uh playmaker and they have losing down the stretch So it is what it is king's fans the streak ends at two But you'll probably be back only once deer and fox comes back I need deer and fox to come back for the sake of my fantasy team because I am losing Deer and fox and jimmy ball on my fantasy team and they both set out these games crazy The bulls win a back-to-back and you know what the best thing about this is zack levine played Us bulls fans have been a little bit scared. We talked about knee management for knee injury management Oh, no, he was questionable questionable questionable. He hadn't played a back-to-back all season long played today And we didn't I mean none of our starters actually played really well other than patrick williams But luckily for us, we're going against the team that was missing their star player in lamella ball They're missing probably their second best player in terry roger and their third best player got injured halfway through But a win is a win at the end of the day. The best thing about this entire game was patrick williams I know I got to give a lot of love to givante green He was the first chicago bull player to go seven for seven from the field since christianna felicia Stacy king said that on the broadcast the first bull since felicio did it years ago to go seven for seven from the field Crazy But two games in a row back-to-back nice patrick williams looked aggressive And billy donovan talked about it yesterday Saying that patrick williams has to realize that his role isn't just play defense and pass the ball to the to the good players it's like Go get yours and he has been doing that over the last two games And if we get this version of p will all season long or for an extended period of time I think a lot of bulls fans are super happy with it, you know because of the first Week and a half of the season a lot of us were really iffy on some things But the bench unit so far this year for the bulls has been really good one of the best Benches in basketball, but deeper than that. I think a lot of bulls fans We're going to be excited about the fact that we're defending this season the offense has to come around Actually, our offense is one of the worst in basketball, but the defense is slightly above league average I thought it'll be the other way around, you know So um eventually shots will start falling and eventually opposing teams like tonight We'll stop hitting every shot because the bulls give up a ton of made three pointers and a lot of them not even open They just hit contested shots today. They did not and the bulls went comfortably next game Paul george did his thing again 28 points But this is what I want to talk about alprensen going while this game was going on the seltsics and the cavaliers game Was also going on so I feel like the only people that are watching this game is probably clippers fans and rockets fans I want you to go to mba.com and then go to play-by-play and watch all the singoon's possessions I'm talking about get all 13 of his shot attempts even the one to be missed I need you to go out there and get his 13 rebounds just watch his performance today because he was amazing He was going at zubach and uh, he looked like the better center today and zubach has been really good all season long So he got outplayed by the young guy the bucks wind did not get a single second of play for me And then the spurs game got like the first quarter and I was like, oh my god The spurs are gonna do it again. There was no Keldon. There was no A dev of a sale they sat up bunch of people today and through the first quarter Hold on when the score was 32 to 31 I'm like, I didn't go try to I didn't go figure out a way to win this game without like three starters Nope Because we get to that second quarter and it was 32 18 then it was 40 to 21 Both in the favor of the the raptors by the way and in the fourth quarter it was 39 To 30 So yeah, the the raptors put it all together after that first quarter and killed the game Pascal Siakam is just looking so amazing So far. I've been seeing people who sent MV Pascal MVP Pascal I don't know if we're going that far but boy, oh boy He said he wanted to be top five and he's probably at this point in the season looking top 10 Oh, so that is an improvement 22 11 and 10 today and only played 27 minutes because they were winning by 40 Um, oh gian and obi continues to pick pockets second game in a row between the last one against the ellen hawks and then tonight five steals tonight and I think six steals the previous night So he is really clamping up, which is great the jazz didn't have the magic today Just all right, you know, it's all right Because on the other hand we saw christian would have probably his best performance other than I guess open a night For him with 21 points and then who else um, do I pow do I pow gave them some really really quality minutes Basically being out of the rotation for the first week and a half of basketball Then javiel mcgee wanted to rest and then do I pow is played pretty solid in a minute So they've given him um since the javiel mcgee rest javiel played eight minutes in this game And then the rest was to christian wood slash do I pow slash Maxi cleaver one thing that was really interesting that came out in the news earlier today Was that there was one western conference team that was thinking about giving up veteran shooters to get Ben Simmons And I saw a lot of people in the timeline saying the only team that makes sense is the mavericks Because they do have tim hardaway jr. Who in this game shot one for nine and they also have um Davis burton at the google it because he's not even on the stat sheet and I know He didn't play but like even the people that don't play like a puzzle jayden hardy and the open And get a dmp coach decision. So I don't really know what's going on with davis burton. So I'm not even to be on the report Ah, he has knee injury. That's why okay cool. I mean not cool. That makes it seem like That made it seem like we were rooting for an injury. Absolutely not I have actually skipped over this atlanta hawks nicks game a game that I turned off to focus on other ones Because at one point in this one, let me see what the biggest lead actually was for the nicks tonight The biggest lead was a 23 point lead in the first half and they ended up losing by 13 They were up by 23 and then later in this game was down by 19 Uh, did y'all say murray put together his best performance on the team? I'm doing a little bit everything getting them passing lanes and getting steals and then running the break Hitted three pointers. I think this is the most three point. He's ever hitting this nba career Or i'm sorry attempted attempt. I don't know about the mix But 12 attempted threes the most he's ever seen I think nine was the previous one a 36.5 is five steals nine assists and You know how tray young is once he gets to that mecca, you know, I'm saying even though he didn't have no crazy game It just feels like he always wins And you know, I put him in one of my entries today because if you look at his numbers in madison square garden He has hit the over every single time and in today Just 17 points. So I didn't hit on that one But I did get one five or five on prize picks shout out to me and that was pretty solid Um, I I did not watch the turnaround of this game So I don't really have any notes and I asked nicks fans like what the hell happened And he was saying tom thibodeau put ever forney a back in the game and then julie's randall was selling nicks fans you tell me if that's true. I don't I don't really know and that is every single game That we were able to watch today the grizzlies trailblazers one got no seconds because I was really invested in lakers versus pelicans I'm gonna be honest with you. Um, but the grizzlies end up winning the game I see effort assignments had 31 points desmond bane had 29 So, you know, some of the young players that are really enjoyable to watch had good games and I probably I probably Watched the possessions from anthony simons and the possessions from john desmond bane Uh, but overall great slate of games, man Great slate of games tonight if you enjoyed leave it a like and uh, see y'all tomorrow. Maybe or did they have that? I don't know