 What's the word y'all? What an amazing day for hoops. We got the NBA draft lottery. We find out that the San Antonio Spurs are gonna get Victor Ibn Yama after every single team was interested. We know where he's finally going. And then we got Lakers versus Nuggets game one. And it lived up to all of the hype even after the first quarter or two. It looked like it was gonna be a blowout. The Lakers made some adjustments. We're gonna talk about that. I am ready for six more of those games, I will say. But before we do that, let me tell you about our sponsor PrizePix. Hit the link in the description down at the PrizePix app and use Co-Kinney because you're matching all the pods. It's up to $100 for new players. PrizePix is daily fantasy that is just you versus the numbers. You pick some of your favorite or at least favorite athletes. You pick something like points, rebounds, assists. You see the number and you decide to think the athlete is gonna have more or less than that number. 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And it felt like through the first couple of series for the LA Lakers, those were some of the places that they were winning. They were winning on the hustle plays. They were winning on the rebound attempt. And in this one, at least early on, it was a lot of Yolkets. I mean, through the first half, Yolkets had 19, 16 and seven. I don't know what the number was. It was something ridiculous where he looked like the best player in the world. It was a lot of Anthony Davis straight up and then every once in a while you'll get a little double team. And the goal, Yolkets is one of the most difficult players to guard in the NBA because he is such a wizard when it comes to his passing where he's looking two to three steps ahead that like throwing a consistent double at him doesn't make a lot of sense because he trusts his teammates more than anybody involved and he knows that they're gonna hit shots eventually. So in those times they were bringing those double teams, he's just kicking it out, boom, you got Brucie Brown running the floor or hitting the open shot. And Yolkets dominated through three quarters. And then the fourth quarter came around. Actually, what the Lakers did, didn't start in the fourth quarter, it started in the third where the offense started to turn around. I think they scored 36 points on 70% shooting. Like the offense for the Lakers really got up to play in that third quarter. But they were in so much of a hold that even them scoring 37 points on 70% shooting only got the lead down to like six, down to like eight. And then the fourth quarter came around. And this is where things got interesting because Nikola Yolkets didn't score in the fourth quarter until the last minute or so and those are the free throws in the intentional foul. So what happened? He was the most dominant player in basketball for the first three and a half quarters. What happened in the fourth quarter? Darvin Ham made an in-game adjustment that is something that you don't see as often in the NBA. It usually takes, okay, game one, Nikola killed us so let's start something new in game two. Darvin Ham made two big adjustments that not just neutralized or slowed down Nikola Yolkets, but it made him more tough for Jamal Murray. Early this game, there was a lot of possessions where Dennis Schroeder had the assignment on Jamal Murray and the entail was go under, go under, go under, go under. And Jamal Murray was shooting the skin off of that. And they really took advantage of the going under gameplay. And there was one specific play that I remember where he went under a screen and he had no help, no hedge, no nothing. And Dennis Schroeder looked back at his guys like, what's going on? And then after that possession, there was no more going under. He fought through every single one at all screens and he just made it more tough for Jamal Murray. And the biggest thing, the thing that they, I think that they can bring it to game two through whatever that can make the Lakers fans feel like, hey, we lost game one, but I saw a lot of good stuff. It's to switch Anthony Davis off in the Koli Jokic. Anthony Davis, as we know it, is one of the best defensive players in the ball. We just saw for two series in a row where he was dominant in the paint. So the original idea was like, okay, Anthony Davis is one of the most dominant players and basketball on the defensive side. And the Koli Jokic is the most dominant offensive player, one of the most dominant offensive player. We just gonna let them go hand-to-hand and we gonna trust our guy AD to get as many stops as possible. Didn't get a lot of stops, realistically. I don't think there's a lot of people in NBA, in the current NBA, that can guard Jokic 101 and calls him to miss a lot of shots, you know what I'm saying? But what they did was, they allowed Anthony Davis to switch on to the Jeff Green's in the world, to the Aaron Gordon's of the world and let Anthony Davis roam. And with that roaming and Rihachi Mora kind of playing the fire hydra, PJ Tucker-Rola just guarding Jokic 101 and then allowing Anthony Davis to come over and to help and muddled up the game enough when the Koli Jokic did not get any clean looks of the basket for an entire quarter. It's very similar to what Joe Missoula ended up doing in game six and game seven where when he started Robert Williams, he put Robert Williams on a non-shooter or what the team decided to be a non-shooter and let him just muck things up. And that's why Joel and Bede couldn't, one of the reasons why Joel and Bede couldn't do much. Or one of the reasons there was not a lot of lanes for James Harden to get to the basket. And when Anthony Davis was roaming, he was everywhere. He's got blocks. You know, a lot of things won't show up on the stat sheet but his presence was well known. And now this offense that in the first three quarters was looking legendary. I mean they have, if I'm not mistaken, in the playoffs to the number one offense of the four teams remaining, actually, I ain't gotta go with that. That's a fact. They've had the number one offense of the four teams remaining in the playoffs alone. And that fourth quarter got a lot more stagnation and a lot more, uh-oh, what's happened in tight possessions. And on the other side of the ball, the Lakers are going on their run. Austin Reeves hit a couple shots here near LeBron, James and Anthony Davis are getting a good whistle and boom, that lead that was at 1.20, something is now down three and we got a game where the people in ball arena are like, yo, we blow game one, we in some huge, huge trouble. Luckily enough, they got a couple of possessions where LeBron James settled for a few three that he missed. Austin Reeves got another open look on the wing in the same spot that he had two of them, like two possessions ago, he missed that shot. And ultimately the nuggets ended up getting his win. But the reason I'm so excited for the rest of this series is because I know Mike Malone is not gonna take that adjustment and send down. They got it out of there with the win. They're undefeated at ball arena. So that's a dub, but even Mike Malone said after the third quarter, hey, they score X amount of points or X amount of shooting. If we don't buckle down, they gonna take this game and they almost did. So I know Mike Malone's gonna have some type of game plan to kind of scheme against the idea of having Anthony Davis roam. I just don't know exactly what that means because in this one, you did see Jeff Green take a three when Anthony Davis was wrong and he hit the three. I also saw a lot of Aaron Gordon kind of just sitting in the dunker spot when he was guarded by Anthony Davis and that just makes it even more difficult. I know that Aaron Gordon is not some type of stretch where he's gonna sit at the three point line and hit six threes if you leave him open, but he has to make himself more of a threat to make it so that Anthony Davis can't just park himself down in that paint to keep the game open for Yolkish or the drivers or things like that. But what the nuggets need to try to do maybe in game two is get back the energy and get back those fast break opportunities they got in the first half because they were running, man. Bruce Brown, Jamal Murray, they just had so many possessions where I'm watching as a Nutri fan, like what are the Lakers gonna get back on? Like what are they doing? You know, they came out with the energy and that energy may have not lasted the entire 48 minutes but those spurts of energy was enough that even though you were gassed and almost out of it for the last couple, you had a little cushion. I want this series to be long, man. I can't lie to you, bro. That game was too good and it had no business being that good. The Lakers had no business coming back but they put together stops and they got the offense going. There's a couple plays in this one where Yolkets, no, no. The shot that everybody's gonna talk about for Nicola Yolkets is the one where the game or the court is about to end and he just hoist up a shot where it looks so unorthodox, but for Yolkets that's a pretty normal thing and even Anthony Davis who was guarding him couldn't even believe the idea of that ball going in and he just had to smile and walk it off. Like that's the type of gamesmanship that I'm kind of into because what is he supposed to do there? And even to start the court of Jamal Murray was guarded by LeBron James and LeBron, you know, like me and the guys always say, he's sitting in that chair. He was in his stance like, I love when a player just like, okay, I don't normally get like this, but we need to stop. And LeBron was sitting in that chair and Jamal Murray threw up some BS and it failed in and my boy Mike who was watching this game on Twitch, he was like, man, if they didn't have those two shots, whether they was luck or not, if they ain't had those two shots, this game is an overtime right now. And that's a fact. It was a six point game and there's two threes that they made. The Lakers also did a really good job of winning the nine Yolkets. And it's like, if there is a crypto knight to the Denver Nuggets, it is their ability to keep a lead or just maintain okay basketball when Nikola Yolkets is off the floor. And that happened again today. KCP was great. I think Bruce Brown again, gave really good minutes. Rihachi Mora gave really good minutes. Like again, on the defensive side when he was guarding Yolkets 101 and then waiting for the help. This is gonna be a well coach matchup. And I'm excited to see what each coach does next to see if this is gonna go seven. Is it gonna go five? It's gonna, whatever, you know, the lottery was today. Every single year for the past couple of years, I've been, I've streamed the lottery, right? Cause for the most part my team is in it. So I wanna see if we go magically win the lottery and get the first pick. And we had the year where we jumped up and that was to get Patrick Williams. I thought that maybe this could be another year. 1.8% chance for the Bulls. Ended up going to the Spurs. And I'm excited to Spurs fans. Like, cause earlier in the season they went poof. They started off super decent, right? I think they were six and seven to start off the year and they ended up being six and 17 right after that. We kind of understood what their agenda was. And I don't even remember saying this. Somebody tweeted me a video of after the Jamal Murray Trey because there are people out there critical of Jamal Murray Trey because not Jamal Murray, it's John Tay Murray Trey, my fault. Because he had another year left on his contract and you didn't get a single real player. He's got a lot of draft picks. And in my video when we were talking about these trades I say, hey, there's a dude in this draft class named Victor Wibanyama. I pronounced his name wrong back then but Victor Wibanyama and a 14% chance to get that dude is way better than whatever team you gonna put together with John Tay Murray at the helm. And somebody just tweeted me that video of me saying that. And I'm like, damn, sometimes can't even be spitting. You know what I'm saying? And here they are. They went through a whole season of just say, what was the brightest part? Jeremy looks cool. Zach Hollins looked good. You know what I'm saying? Like that was the highlight of their season, especially with coming off the Primo stuff and all of that. So for them to win the lottery, a good franchise, bro, a franchise that doesn't normally do this. That's why I don't think it's rigged. I just think that the basketball gods are in the favor of San Antonio because the low key to San Antonio Spurs, at least in the last 30 years, have tanked twice. And one of those times they got Tim Duncan in the time they get a Victor Wibanyama. Now, of course, Vick still has to come to the league and prove that he's worth all of the hype. But it's happening. It's happening. And he looked excited on the broadcast. They have Brian Windhorse in France at 2 a.m. He looked dead tired and Victor's excited. You know what I'm saying? It looked like genuine excitement. Well, I don't know if we would have got that same response if it was any other organization outside of the Spurs. One thing that the Spurs have is that's a really good infrastructure, really good coaching obviously, Greg Popovich, who is he ever gonna retire? I doubt it. Good infrastructure, good coaching, they're ran well and now they got a legit, like we use the word generational talent very loosely in sports nowadays. According to what I've seen, this dude is a legitimate generational talent. I feel bad for Pistons fans after 17 wins and falling out of the top four. Like that is the worst case scenario. You know what I'm saying? I mean, again, you don't need the first overall pick the draft well and get a stupid start player for sure, but you won 17 games because you won in Victor Wibanyama and now you're gonna settle for some other guy. I don't know enough about this draft class, but some other guy that's not Victor Wibanyama. He might, he could be better than Victor Wibanyama if you do it right, but I guess I don't know. I'm excited to see what the trailblazer do with their pick. I think that was another little wrinkle because there were some rumors before everything that like they would be willing to trade that pick away to help Dane. And now it's a top three pick, you know what I'm saying? That's a valuable asset. It's not Victor Wibanyama, but it might be Brandon Miller or school Henderson who are two really good players. I'm at Brandon Miller today. I'm a fan now, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think he can be special in his league. So yeah, I'm excited to see what they do. And around the edge is the team that weren't in the top four but maybe right outside. I'm excited to see what they pick, you know what I'm saying? All right, well, I appreciate you all watching. I do wanna let y'all know I am going to Philadelphia for a couple of days. So if you don't see videos from me for the game one of the next series or game two of this series, that's why I'm probably on the road. I'll see you on the next one. We'll go.