 What's the word y'all it's been a minute since we've done like a real traditional ramble And you know what it was the genesis of this channel and I'm just I'm just gonna do it The idea is to just talk basketball for having many minutes and try to not cut anything The only problem is I need losing train of thought So yeah, this will probably be edited and kind of defeats the purpose But I want to remind people if well, maybe you're new around here. These ramble videos basically have no structure I have a few topics that I want to talk about but these are just what goes on in my mind as an NBA fan and whatever I Know I shouldn't be uploading this on Sunday because it's football's day It's but I can't get I can't do the football thing anymore ladies and gentlemen This was supposed to be a year where I cared about football and for the first couple weeks I did we did fantasy fantasy football put some money in on it my team was a good and Who would have thought that not watching football for five seasons then immediately jumping into a money pool fantasy football tournament Wouldn't be a good idea. I did it anyway and Some people might Brandon cooks. Have you played at all this seat? Like it's a it's some people on my team I'm like damn what it anyway? Son is supposed to be for football But as enjoy your basketball and it be in my full-time job, I can't help but to talk and think basketball The first team I want to talk about is the Minnesota Timberwolves. I don't know what their record is. It ain't good and It's unfortunate if you've been around for at least a month You may have seen the video of me trying to predict the Western Conference standings for this upcoming season I said in that video something along the lines of the Minnesota Timbers are gonna win a ton of regular season games because they are built That way and through three weeks how that that's the L take that's what these ramble videos are by the way It's it's me a microphone a camera and lukewarm takes that usually turn out to be pretty bad My idea behind the Minnesota Timberwolves kind of made sense in the moment It was Rudy go beard is damn good and carries defensive teams defensively and Anthony Edwards and the playoffs looked amazing And current details was really good too So that right there should be a formula to win at least a good regular season games and then once we got to the playoffs I mean we still have really go bear is our back line defense So we'll see exactly what that looks like, but I thought the regular season they was gonna be fine in peachy But I underestimate it How long it would take for things to jail because here we are three weeks into the basketball season and they ain't yet a little bit Like I've watched every if maybe not every game But majority great majority of the games of season to guess what? They had one fun moment not one. I'm not even and I'm not even exaggerating The the best they've looked was last night or two nights ago against the Memphis Grizzlies And that's that's a game they lost ladies and gentlemen, and they didn't even have fun doing it You remember when when Carthage Towns was going against the Lakers and he was miked up This is towards the end of the season. He's saying 10 toes down We hear what you remember the celebration of making the winning the goddamn play-in You remember how happy Anthony Edwards was all season long when he dunked on you to why the knobby when he said Step back threes making people fall. He's he was a guy that enjoyed it. He smiled regularly pretty regularly I Legitimately could not account a time. He smiled this season. I can't I can't account a time or car. Anthony Towns was trash talk I could count him fouling a hell of a lot, but I can't account him Trash talking and having a bunch of fun Rick or bears always been a pretty stoic player on the course I guess that is still the same but the joy of this roster has completely gone away. What's what sucks? Because last year especially towards the second half of the season They were one of the most enjoyable teams and basketball. You didn't really know what you was gonna get you got v8 in the dunker spot You got Patrick Beverly running around and fooling people apparently and then Carthage Towns have a great moments And then we get to the playoffs and Anthony Edwards look like he hit another step And then the offseason comes around and of course the the biggest trade at the offseason possibly Going down as the biggest trade. I don't know that let me stop talking in extremes because off the top of my head I this problem. I don't know. It's probably more trades, but the really go bear trade happen and Even in the moment even with me believing that the Minnesota team was who went a bunch of regular cities games in the moment Go back to my video if you don't have you more receipts. I said that was an overpay I didn't understand who they were going against. Why did you have to give up this many first-round picks plus all the Rotational players? I didn't understand it, but in the moment. I was like, I don't understand it But I can see a path of this being good Underestimated how bad Carthage Towns will be on the perimeter guarding force I underestimated how long it would take for them to jail on the offside of the ball and I Overrated D'Angelo Russell's ability to play a high-picking role. So there's a lot of things that I Was wrong about a lot of things I was wrong about but even in the moment I was thinking to myself This is this is definitely an overpaying that is coming from Maybe the biggest Rudy go bear fan on the platform My boy TTW clips put together video That that's the reason why I'm doing this video by the way because I it made me think and I was this I thought it was extremely funny TTW clips is a channel that watches every episode of my podcast with me in the homies and just finds funny moments And stuff memes and whatever there's a video he dropped today that was called Kenny being a Rudy go bear fan for 38 minutes It is a 38 minute video of me arguing with my co-host about how good Rudy go barrier is compared to general consensus And and you want to know the super crazy part about all of that? He could have added another 38 minutes on top of that. I am about to add more minutes to that conversation Because I tweeted that I tweeted a screenshot from the videos like I'll do it again In the comment section under that to nobody's surprise it was like People were genuinely asking me Kenny why you such a really go bear fan considering You know how he performs yada yada yada and some people think that Rudy go bear is as a net negative To Ross to the roster right now and I that for me that cannot be the further from the truth I've been the guy that have defended Rudy go bear, but I'm not an ass So I'm not a jackass I can I can look at the deficiencies of him In the Clippers game in the in the second round in the playoffs a couple years ago Where the Clippers went small and he had no No bag. I'm not a bad guy But he had no way to take advantage of him be a guarded by Terence man Or we got to FIBA basketball or you're a basket. Sorry. I don't know which one it is And they were going against Germany and he was guarded by Dennis Schroeder and Dennis Schroeder locked him up like He for for somebody that's been in league as long as he has you would expect him to develop one go-to move When a reality to go-to move is dunk the ball and he's been good at that four years before this one He led the league in dunks by the night He just doesn't space the floor obviously with his lack of jump shooting But he doesn't provide a lot on office side of the ball and what you would want from a guy of his size Is to be able to take advantage of mismatches and he wasn't able to accidentally hit the stop recording button Thank god I realized that um he hasn't he has not in the life for the life of him been able to take advantage of mismatches And um that has hurt them come play off time for sure like I'm not gonna be a jackass about it But I am a firm believer that when it comes to protecting the basket There's nobody in basketball That's as good as him and has not been anybody in basketball as good as him over the last five years The numbers say it the eye tests say it that people do not go to the basket Really go bare this on the court and when they do they get stopped. This is actually the lowest Determinance rate of his last five. I'm just gonna keep saying five years I don't know the exact number of the last five years or so This is his lowest deterrence rate Which means that people are challenging him more at the basket this year to any other season But guess what them of us they they still not finishing at the rim. They're attempting it. They're still not doing it So I've understood How bad he can be offensively But I just look at that defense and the paint being of course the easiest place to score in And be like he prevents people from doing that. So I am a fan of that thing. So that is my reasoning For kind of jumping on this video because that that is my belief and and I've been seeing people blame Rudy go bare For the lack of success through the first couple weeks of the season And again, everybody deserves their own blame because he's a part of the team and not only see a part of it He's a guy that that is is an all-star caliber player And they basically they have two all-star caliber players and one guy that people project to be there or wanted him to be there This season and they've been extremely underperforming But I I want to try to put this out there y'all tell me if i'm bugging, of course, it's always a conversation I think we should and not just in the case of not just in the case of Rudy go bare But in the case of pretty much every trade in my opinion We should be able to separate The player that was traded versus the trade And here's what I mean by that Rudy go bare this season has been doing exactly where Rudy go bare has done for the last x amount of seasons There's there's been no progression. No regression where Rudy go bare to play. He is doing the exact same thing Right So I can't in my mind and you again tell me if i'm bugging Say That he himself is the reason for the lack of success if he's doing exactly what you thought he was going to do And exactly what you traded for Now when I say you separate the trade from the player This is what I mean when you you got to look at what you gave up versus that I can't completely understand You can say that the team's lack of success is because they gave up all the depths who gave Rudy I understand that part but saying that Rudy go bare is the reason when he's doing literally exactly what you expected of him Is it it doesn't really compute? Now I can't understand you saying like hey Because Rudy go bare is on a Rudy go bare is on the floor the offensive suffer and that is that has been the case When Carthage town is a really go bear on the court together the offense is god awful When Carthage town is on the court by himself for no Rudy go bare the offense has been great But the defense has been one of the worst in basketball when Rudy go bare has been on the court The office has been dreadful but the defense has been one of the best in basketball So like when they're on the court together they cannot coexist and when they're on the court without each other The thing that they're lacking is a big like it's a big hole there So I can't say our Rudy go bare the Rudy go Rudy go bears the reason for his lack of success But I can't say Tim Connelly and the Rudy go bare trade Played a big part in this not necessarily the player and I think I would say this for I don't know a lot of different trades. Um I mean, I don't know some a lot of these other trades that happen this off season have somewhat been successful the Atlanta Hawks Have been hit or miss but uh above 500 team The Cleveland Cavaliers have been really good even though they're currently on the loser streak I think they go against minnesota tonight. So that's going to be a really really solid game But I want to go down there big four the the fantastic four and and talk about what they are doing That is bad for the organization slash same starting off with D'Angelo Russell I thought that when the Rudy go bare trade happened and and I'm a guy that does not do extra notes I don't understand that it is a level above my knowledge and a level above my IQ So if you put me in a room with a head coach a hundred percent of the time that head coach is Is the smartest man in the room just it's not it's not even close that that man got the IQ of six billion And I'm sitting in the corner with a three. You know what I'm saying? So in my mind pairing Rudy go bare and D'Angelo Russell On the court together no cat Maybe D'Angelo Russell, whatever or maybe uh, anything else, whatever I just thought that a high picking role D'Angelo Russell And Rudy go bear will be elites because in my mind The best moments I've seen of D'Angelo Russell Is when he had an elite level role man and Rudy go bear is still an elite level role man this season. Um So I thought that hey, he's got another one. He ain't had one since he got to Minnesota. Boom. Here's the moments Ain't really been the case D'Angelo Russell. Um has not been able to shoot the ball And even Chris Finch is talking about always maybe lack of um, what did you say lack of confidence and things like that? Which is something you never want to hear because once we start getting to the mental aspect of basketball is it's hard to To fix is really based on the player and getting out of their own slumps But his lack of shooting and his lack of I can't say lack of playmaking But I'm just I'm just gonna say that just because I'm dumb and can't think of any other way to word it His lack of playmaking has been a detriment to this team moving on to anthony erwards those plays Or the play I mean, I can't even I can't even play plural Pluralize it But like the play that went viral of him sitting on the wing with his hands on the shoulders and tarry eason is guarding Literally face guarding. What's this funny? Um and him not doing anything but just watching the play develop on the opposite side of the court Is is terrible and I think that a lot of young players in basketball It takes them a while to kind of understand what the hell to do when they don't have the ball Um and I think it will come around for anthony erwards because he's a really really talented basketball player But stuff like that obviously doesn't help Um, he has not taken that step that a lot of people expected him to take Remember before the season started when anthony erwards was the odds on favorites in vegas to win most improved player The guy that was drafted first overall two seasons ago Y'all went to vegas and put money on that man who already averaged 22 points per game to win most improved player You had a better chance of giving that money to me and me turning that into more money A post is just donating it to vegas. I don't even know how that was even a theme That was pre rudigo beer trade and post rudigo beer trade People was like, oh anthony erwards is gonna take that super jump and i'm not and And I understand the idea of him taking a jump because he was damn good come playoff time But taking a most improved player jump is I don't know what the hell y'all was thinking Um, but he hasn't taken that jump that a lot of people expected him to take And I'm not he's just talking about in the scoring department. I'm also talking about his playmaking Kind of a disappointing in his the way he's been reading the floor so far this season Um, and it's not like he was ever chris paul or anything But I always look at a guy like anthony erwards who is so talented on offense and think that a We know he can score. We know he can get to the basket at will a lot of cases We know what step back jump is looking nice But like in order to put it all together on the offensive side of the ball He has to make the people around him a threat because if you can make the people around your threat We'll also be an extremely lethal. You are un fuck withable The the best example of this is luka right now. We don't I think we talking about luka maybe a little bit later Is like luka is such a good playmaker That he's he's making dorfini smith and like a real threat, which means that oh we got a guard dfs Which means that luka kept more matches from like so anthony erwards hasn't taken the next step As a playmaker cardin towns Has been a cone on the defensive side of the ball Keeping up a force A lot harder than I thought it was going to be for him a lot harder than I thought it was going to be Maybe it's the size 22 sneakers that he's playing in or maybe it is the fact that he came into camp Or after camp really late to camp because he was sick and lost x amount of pounds and yada yada yada But cardin towns is such an infuriating player to watch. Um, I will say I have enjoyed The efforts he's made on the playmaking tip to try to make it work with him and really go bear like and through the first Couple games of the season. I was like, oh snap. They doing like hello Actions he's ducking it down and really go bear who's who's sealing off a player Oh snap. He's I think he's averaging a career high in assist this season. So that's been fun But the reason he is infuriating is because his body language has to be bottom three in basketball Where when things are not going good for him personally or for the team You can see it and you can't tell me as a guy that is looked to be the leader because that's that's what he's trying to be When he comes to the podium and say hey, I need Anthony Edwards to stop eating goddamn papas He's trying to be a vocal leader and the leaker leader in the locker room If my leader is going back on defense with his head down and his shoulder slump I think that make me feel as his teammate his body language is bad His it's just I don't know. He's a he's a flailer as in like I do believe that he he should be getting more calls There's a lot of times where he does get hit and I'm like damn where there was a lot of contact ref But I think because he doesn't get those calls He's trying to embellish these interactions and it makes him looks like look like more of a fool because bro You 6 11 with his ass 22 on your feet like It's no way you can flop or or make a foul look more like a foul without you looking weird And then the last thing He cannot stop fouling And I think part of that is because like I mentioned he's a cone and I mean he's I mean I guess he's trying as hard as the It's it's been bad Over the last couple seasons he's ended up bottom top five bottom I'm I'm saying this bottom five because this is a negative statistic He's bottom five and fouls per game And I think over the last last week. He's found out twice or so That's unacceptable For a guy that's supposed to be the best player the building block of this team The one of the most impactful players in the organization. It is completely completely unacceptable and rudigo bear I think I already mentioned a lot of his deficiencies even wick karthin towns um And him on the court he has been negative spacing like like not posting up but standing on the same side as karthin Towns, I don't know if that's a chris fencing But I'm just gonna put that over to go bear because chris fence showed us last season. His offense is pretty damn good So I can't say he's telling rudy to stand on the same side It's Karthin towns for plays at a time You know, I can't I can't do it offensively He has been hurting the lineup on the other on off numbers and stuff say that so Everybody has had their own little thing to prevent this this team from being nearly as good But we even all that said I still want to give him more time before I start thinking about people Saying this is all people already saying this is the worst trade of all time And I can understand why it looks like that right now And I'm not saying it won't end up being the worst trade of all time But it's still too damn early for me to say that but if you do go to tank it down right now And you look at the lottery odds Um the jazz have a chance to get a victor women yama While also being towards the top of their conference right now Because that first pick is this year's pick and it is unprotected But I also think I think they gave up a pick that is to 20 29 to protect it Holy Bro, that is such crazy You know, it's look really good right now. Walker Kessler as a backup center has been damn good um uh Yeah, Tim Connelly's a crazy mofo any he's a crazy mofo and the the the craziest thing about it It's like hypothetically this don't this don't work out two years down the line Tim Connelly might get fired, but like So, you know what I'm saying if he gets fired He doesn't have to live with the consequences of setting the organization back seven years Setting an organization that has been bad for 20 years. Remember that Back another seven He won't he will never This turns out to this is what we need to do we need to start adding this to uh GM's contracts If you if you blow a trade so bad and again This still has a lot of potential to be solid, but I'm thinking about the billy king Danny ain't Danny ain't been finesse the people for a long time And that's one of the reasons I don't I don't really mess with Danny ain't because he won't pull off a trade Unless he absolutely certain that he is the winner of this trade. There's no infancy much about it. Um, but like You need jail time Simple as that you need jail time if you said if you set an organization back half a decade you need jail time Um No, that's that's extreme But you give what I'm saying tip Connelly if he gets canned in two years He's got two years salary that he just made a then they give him partial equity in the in the the team Isn't him kind of like a part owner of the of the I gotta move on, but that's a lot of Minnesota temple's talk. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Um The pelicans have been interested and they almost lost the game to the Houston Rockets today Um shout out to hosie alvarado because legitimately he put his backpack on Um and won them this game with a couple clutch threes and then some some steals that led some emotions From kevin port of junior or whatever, but I continuously watched this this season And last season when they traded for cj mccullum, it was a match made in heaven They needed another spark somebody that could come in and score the ball And there's the first time you've seen cj in like a full point guard role and he was doing a damn good job at it I watched this game and I think he ended up with like seven or six or so I I I think they need a real playmaker. I don't know who that is I don't know how they even accumulate that especially when they tried to see j extended cj They extended this uh larenance jr. They extended a lot of people already, but when I watched them play I I think that there's no such thing really as a traditional point guard Chris paul has become a traditional point. I know I can't I always gotta talk about Chris paul Chris paul has become a traditional point guard like a legitimate traditional point guard now because his ass can't score anymore He's just playmaking. That's about as traditional as against um, and I don't know where you find a traditional pg Or anything or how you do such a thing But like I watched this team play and the fact that xion shoots I think eight shots today or nine shots today and he was damn efficient in those and I think to myself How how are we not getting him the ball? We ended up with 26 points on nine shots. He had 12 free throw attempts. It was amazing It was a good game from xion seven assistant cj But I feel like he almost shot them at it. Well, he kind of did shoot them out of this game And I also think about their defense and xion Um, I already said that car anthony towns has been the cone xion to the third degree I mean xion doesn't defend a goddamn thing. I forget what game it was It might have been against the portland trailblazers. It might have been jeremy grant tearing this boy Up and and teams whether we get to the playoffs or whatever it may be right now They have two players in their starting lineup that if i'm luka or if i'm tray yarn Or if i'm another Great western conference guard that's great in isolation I'm like xion whoever's guarding xion come set me a screen whoever's guarding val come set me a screen Because those are two dudes in open space. I feel my chances of scoring Is super super duper high I ain't got no numbers to back this up. I test why xion is like Maybe bottom five in the league defensively Which is crazy because I genuinely remember his days at duke Um, and yeah, you had to highlight plays of him jumping out the gym to block the shot It's in the third row. We don't get no blocks like that no more by the way Um And and things like that, but he he wasn't this bad of a defender He was not this bad of a defender and I understand he's coming back from some major stuff But even pre major stuff his defense was a lot to be desired So I can't look at herb and brandon ingram's length They'd be like, oh, are we going to be able to defend whatever in the playoff time? Uh, because it's just just not really it's not really the case man. Not really the case. Um, the next thing There's a tweet from a prominent mba twitter account That was tweeted a video of the miffus grizzlies The miffus grizzies won a game against the minnesota temple's and they were on half core doing a post game interview Dancing doing minnesota to nope doing miffus grizzly stuff stuff. They've done for the last three seasons And the caption is always the same with these it's like oh, I can't wait for somebody to humble this thing Um, and I just maybe I'm an oh head at this point in time I guess because I look at the miffus grizzlies and them enjoying wins and being like that's what I would want If my favorite team was winning games the clip that they're winning an ns fun Don't forget that they're winning games, but they're like they I don't know the spurs of old No disrespect to the spurs. We got a little for the spurs right here But this is they're legitimately one of the most fun teams of basketball They're a young team with some great personalities some great basketball And they they have fun when they have a random player like uh, dillon brook score off for 12 points in the first quarter And at the end of the game, he's still hot. They interject on each other's interviews and stuff That looks like good chemistry good team stuff and the idea of them needing to be humbled It's kind of wild to me because at the end of the day, they're just enjoying their jobs You know I don't see it as unprofessional I think that that word in itself is problematic as hell Especially when you're talking about the game of bad the game of basketball You remember when they told alan ira saying he can't wear jerseys anymore And he needed to wear a suit because he was being unprofessional Like let these boys hoop and let these boys dance Let them do they thing. You know what I'm saying? Need to be humbled. I mean honestly if you want to see them as a villain go ahead you could do that But I do believe you're missing out on some great ass basketball if you hate watching because jamarant is crazy um You know what I saw article Yeah, this is what the rim was. I saw our article talking about jamarant's time management Um and and how more than any other player in basketball right now How he's he's got the refs about a collar And they linked to a video of in this game. It was fourth quarter It was nine minutes seven seconds left from the clock the Timberwolves just scored but the ball kind of goes it wasn't like a quick pickup inbound the ball goes underneath and Kind of around and instead of jamarant or whatever player jogging to get the ball or getting it back in play fast They walked and the clock went from like one a 906 To 850 because it was a running clock at that point. So they they ran off 16 ish seconds Of basketball that the Minnesota Timberwolves could have used to come back in this game They won't go come back in this game We just talked about the all the inefficiencies and the bad things about the team They won't go come back But like how if that was going to be the case for almost any other team It's a delay of game both the miffus grizzly slash jamarant. It wasn't they're like, oh Okay, let me start let me start looking out for this a little bit more a little bit more Maybe there's something to it. Maybe there's something to it. Maybe there's not a next thing on the list That I want to talk about was the brooklyn that's yes Um katie and the kids is what I always call it even though again It's not like they out here running with just a bunch of young dudes They do have a few But it's not really kids because let me let me look at this box score right now Rayson neo vet joe harris vet seth curry vet patty mills vet That's four of their top eight players have been in the league for like a billion a billion years But I call it katie and the kids because alliteration is fun to me and I'm I am personally a kid and I like alliteration But also it feels like katie doing it himself If you want to say that Um since the the dilemma the dilemma of this conversation is Is it's kairina's out there? Or is it because steven ask i find because this streak that they own This elite level defense and good all fence streak that they own right now Comma size of both of them And I and in due time because eventually kairi every will come back whether that's in a week or a month or However long it takes for joe sigh to reinstate that man Eventually he will come back. So let me let me look at the numbers right here Let me look at the numbers live on the show and the last two weeks The brooklyn nets are five and two pretty damn good They have the highest point differential in basketball with a plus 13.4 They have the 12th best offense in the number one rink defense in that time frame by a wide-ass margin number two for reference is the Milwaukee Bucks at a 106 and the brooklyn nets are at a 106 whole points Better than the number two defensive team in the last two weeks So I I and a lot of people are trying to figure out is that a nasty is that a kairi thing? I think my initial thing and say that was an that's a nasty Um because kairi ervin is not the difference between a very bad defense and the best defense in basketball Uh kairi's not a good defender. Don't get me wrong But it's his his um presence isn't From 25th in basketball to number one like it when kairi's on the bench I'm assuming for a good portion of his career the team has got better defensively But not not this much better. So I'm gonna assume This is a joc van in a post firing boost Because by a lot of reports Steve nas was calling our plays in his last game as the brooklyn nets head coach And they weren't listening And I guess they they respect joc van who's just again one of the most fun names to say They were talking about his beer on the broadcast today. They showed a picture of him in the bubble We had he just had a goatee and now you got this big bushy beer with a little bit of with a little bit of white down there So that's a joc van. Um, but it seems like they're listening to joc and it's been so I made a tweet about this It's been so good. They've been so good that nobody cares. They've been sentenced to play 14 minutes at four fouls and hit a shot Nobody cares anymore We have a max contract. They have two max contracts not playing they have one and operational Organizational disciplinary action and the other one don't play and they're like, are we good, bro? We good because seth curry starting to hit his shots again and at kevin the rent is just Really ridiculous, especially when you start looking at what these opposing teams are doing to try to prevent kevin from being kevin A lot of the times they're sending two to three different bodies. I am there's Legit times where I was watching this clippers game and there was three people running at kevin And they found out away They found out away Um, so I'm really really intrigued now because now they're starting to look like a cohesive basketball unit And I wonder if that changes once re comes back Because right now they decided against More bad, uh publicity and not how they didn't hire e-mail and let zhokvandu was staying for the rest of the season And I'm guess I don't know but I'm guessing post kairi coming back All of the scandals are behind them But it is the brichonettes So that might be cap I mean they could just go out they could just go out there and who ebb and summoner When he's finally been on the court. He's been a revelation revelation yuta has been injured He was really good for them this season But like ben simmins I said I said in my tweet that ben simmins is like the I think ninth best play on the roster I was giving him just a little bit more love than maybe I should have because a lot of these people are out there right now Hooping they're just they're just there's this hooping. So we'll see what happens with the brichonettes when kairi comes back They said it was supposed to be a five game, but I think he's going to gate number six and joe sigh said he's not ready yet. So We'll see The last thing I wanted to talk about and this is not night This is idea that I want to spend more time on but I kind of want to put it on y'all plate As of right now and it has to do it has to do with player development And the reason this is on my mind right now is because the other day I was watching the spurs play and I made a tweet that was like charles bassey and his nba minutes has looked pretty good And that's been the case. I mean charles bassey Coming from the 76ers has been really good and this morning I woke up to a tweet from the senate's on your spurs that says charles bassey is the second player in nba history To to have 14 rebounds four blocks four assists and less than 20 minutes played And the first player in the league in the history to do that off the bench Pretty good and a pretty small sample size. So I tweeted charles bassey has been good because again, that's what he has been And there were a lot of 76ers fans saying that hey Somebody has to pay Somebody has to pay for this On a lot of people are blaming doc. This makes sense doc doesn't like to play young players But a lot of people are blaming it on the lack of talent development across the league And and like as some organizations Are damn good at it They pride themselves on whether it be a late first round pick second round pick on drafted players Putting them in the best position to become the best version themselves And people are arguing that the 76ers are not one of them organizations think about the process Think about everything post process How many of their draft picks have we seen under the two tutelage of the 76ers hit peaks and people start throwing out examples Like jeremy grand was there He didn't really do anything until he left robert covington was there. He played some of his best basketball post that um And just so on and so forth somebody gave like a whole list and not all of them Do I think are like yeah, that's a great example because like some players? You know this goes back to the bulls as well um Some teams give up on players so early that like Them hitting that next step 100% should be about the team that they went to once that helped them develop that but also was like damn He was only 22 when team a gave up on him in only two years of basketball Do his belt like we could have saw that he was going to get better. You know I'm saying, um, so it just had me thinking like What is some of the best Development teams in basketball versus the opposite the opposite point and then it got to my chicago It's like we had this player this player this player this player and the bulls I've had a lot of players large market and be in the prime example the one that owns top of everybody's head right now Or window carter who's been pretty solid um post trade to the urlendo magic Where the player will leave the organization and glow up Or a player that we used a pretty high draft pick on Fizzles out of the league because we didn't develop them the right way and I mean for every Three bad examples. It feels like there's one really good example, um of the opposite But but it's just it's just something interesting that i'm i'm thinking about doing For a bunch of different organizations and trying to figure out like Who has the best player development? um I can think of a few off top just based on What i've seen in the last couple seasons, but I think I want to dive in just a little bit more, um So that's my ramble Enjoy some football or don't i'm team don't so yeah