 What's the word y'all? So we're about the quarter mark of the NBA season. I decided that once we start hitting these milestones a quarter, halfway, three quarters, and then the end of the season, I want to document my feelings about every single NBA team because you know a lot of stuff can change from a day to day basis. So it's definitely gonna change from a month to month basis. So yeah, this is like a temperature check for the first month of the season. We're gonna be talking about every NBA team for about a minute. So I'm a little bit less, maybe some a little bit more but I'm gonna try my hardest to stick to my timer. And yeah, there are some teams that I'm gonna talk in depth about more than others because once we get to this part of the season I have decided on certain teams, hey, y'all gonna get me peeking into your games but I'm not about to deep dive into your game. 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Now let's get to talking about these teams. Whenever I do a video like this, I'm always going through the comment section and there are people that do the timestamp thing and I know there are people around the channel that appreciate the timestamp thing because you don't wanna hear me talk about all 30 teams. I understand that, that's a lot of talking. But I just want y'all to watch the video, bro. Don't just skip to your favorite team. How about this? How about we make a deal? If you gonna skip to your favorite team, at least watch a little bit more. Don't just watch the one minute about the hornets and just leave, bro, please. And there's no particular order. Actually, I'm literally spinning a wheel in front of me or whatever team it lands on. That's a team we're talking about. First, it is the Portland Trail Blazers. Got my timer starting to talk about Damian Lillar. He is back to form, at least close to form. If you're one of those people that thought that Damian Lillar was about to struggle for the entire season, you're not really in tune with the NBA because he's Damian Lillar. We're talking about whether the greatest 75 players of all time, according to some people. I'm not saying I agree with it completely. But Damian Lillar last five games, looking at the stats right here. He's average of 27, seven and a half, assists 2.6 rebounds per. And he's been back up to form, but this team is the same team they are every single year. They're 10-10 at this moment. Two game losers streak. And they're a team since Damian Lillar has been back to close to form. They have had the number two office in the entire league. Nobody questioned whether or not the Portland Trail Blades are gonna be able to score the ball. It's always been about the defense. And in that same stretch where they've been the number two offense, they've been the 28th worst defense. It's the same recipe every season. Like when Luke Walden got fired, we were talking about how the Sacramento Kings at the worst defensive team almost of all time with the Portland Trail Blazers weren't that far away from neighbor 29th in the league then. But the offense was so good. And because of that, they're gonna make a playoff appearance. If I was a Trailblazer fan, I'd be kind of, I've always said there's value in being decent, but it can only go so far. Once you've had eight seasons of just the same recipe and recipe, you gotta get tired of it eventually. I've been campaigning, oh, we're already over the mark. I've been campaigning for them to split up that duo for some time now. They made some moves this off season with Lear and H. Jr., where you wanted them to pivot towards a different side of the ball, and there's your littles in the lineup. Anthony Simon's playing really good, but they can't defend. And because of that, there are probably gonna be a playoff team, but nothing much more than that. That minute really did creep up on me. The next team we got is the Indiana Pacers. Let's talk about Indy, man. Listen, bro, we gonna talk about this when we get to the Bulls. Indiana Pacers beat up on my Bulls by 30. They dogged my Bulls. And they're not people, people going out to like, oh, out of context, not, oh, cause they were like three days before. Out of context, tweets. Everything that I said about the Indiana Pacers a week ago still stands, where I know that they're gonna be a good enough team to make a playoff appearance, but similar to what I said about the Portland Trailblazers, being good enough to make the playoffs and just making a first round or maybe a second round is gotta take a toll on the fan base. It's just that simple. I've mentioned they have 10 players that are quality rotational players on other teams, but all together, it's just good enough to be the six seed or whatever seed they end up on. I said in that video, they're gonna go on a win streak eventually and people are like, oh, it's whatever, it's the Pacers. But it's just like, when will it stop? When are they gonna do something? Whether it be in the front office or whatever to pick a real direction? Because of right now, they're kind of teetering with just good or okay. I mean, I can't even say good at the moment, because if I'm looking at the standings, they're three games under. So they're okay. Shout to Pacers fans though. Y'all are a passionate group and I mentioned that in my video. So when y'all came at me, I wasn't even mad, I wasn't even mad. The next thing is a Sacramento King start the timer. Two and one, it's just a lukewarm firing. And yesterday they played a triple overtime game against the Lakers on Buddy Hill, stepped back on LeBron, Jains had reached with like a 14-6-6 of full steals. But the good thing about it is D'era Fox realized that hey, nobody on the team on the Lakers can stay in front of me other than maybe Avery Bradley. And I can just run to the basket whenever I want to and do a layup. And he did that over and over and over. I'm not saying that since Luke Walton is gone, this team looks super rejuvenated, but they've won two out of their last three. Marvin Baglin, player that was denying the access even going to a game a couple of nights ago has been playing quality minutes against the Lakers. I'm pretty sure he was perfect from the field. His defense has never been really be like that. But he had a corner shot late in the game that was like super clutch. Like they had at one point basically given up on their former number two or number two overall pick. And now Alvin Gentry like, bro, we need him out there playing because if anything, even if we want to trade him, we want him to be out there to show people he can hoop at least a little bit. So two and one. They're very interested, that's all I'm saying. Yes, sir, I got the Pelicans next. Let's start this time because I do got to stand in front of me waiting for this moment. The Pelicans had lost 22 straight when they trailed with a minute to play in the fourth quarter in overtime prior to tonight. They could not come back with a minute left or close the game with a minute left and they did it against the Utah Jazz. Devontae Grimm crazy shot. Brandon Ingram making that pass. Valenchunas has been one of the bright spots for the season. But a team that started off so historically bad since Brandon Ingram is back in the lineup, if I'm not mistaken, there are four and four in that stretch. But Brandon Ingram, all star caliber player. Of course he's gonna help the team. But the thing I like the most about the scene when I made a whole video because of this man is Herb Jones. Last night against Donovan Mitchell. We know Donovan Mitchell won the best scores in the league, won the best perimeter scores in the league. Not against Herb Jones. He was everywhere, bro. If we're given a plaque to Kenny's most favored role players to watch, Herb Jones is like number one. Seth Curry, is Seth Curry a role player? I see a superstar. I don't know. Him and Seth Curry for opposite reasons are up there. Now we got the Orlando Magic. They just lost to my Bulls last night. But regardless, this is a team that's rebuilding. So I didn't expect them to beat the Bulls. At this point, they are at the bottom of the conference at four and 16. But even in that four and 16, they've played some really cool games. They beat the Knicks two times. Some of these games have been close. Franz Wagner's the most awkward player in the NBA. But in a good way, like he had a bucket last night where he like ran baseline. They're like, there's like over the shoulder hook against the Bulls. And it fell in like, oh snap. I still don't believe that he should be ranked higher than Shay Gilgis Alexander though. But they do have a lot of bright spots. I've always been a fan of window card in Obama. So the C number flourishing individually is really good. I liked that window card that came out last night with a chip on the soda. Are y'all trading me away? Bet. I'm gonna get y'all 26 or whatever it was. And he was going right at Voo. She was going right at Derrick Jones June. Derrick Jones June found out in 10 minutes because he couldn't guard window card. I liked the aggression. Not just from this game from Wendell, but pretty much every game in the season because he realized there's nothing to lose. I'm playing on the rebuilding team. I just got a bag so I could just go out and play my game. The entire time he was in Chicago, he was saying, I want to be a four. I want to be a four. And now with him playing alongside Obama, I guess he's guarding other fives, but he has the ability to set up the perimeter and hit shots. He's hit a crazy amount of threes this season, and pears into the rest of his career. So shout out to Wendell. Okay, see thunder is next. Lou Dord is making his way into the MIP conversations. In his last 10 games, he's averaged a 21 points per game, five rebounds and two assists. And in that time, he's shooting 48% from the field and 38% from three. And not to mention, of course, there's Lou Dord, so he's gonna clamp up on the other side of the ball. My guy, Cone. See, I'm gonna keep it a buck. There's one in teams. I'm not watching a ton of. If anything, I'll watch the highlights or the condensed version of okay, see games. But my boy, Cone, always keeps you up to date. Every single night, Josh Giddy's throwing a crazy pass, thought of threatening the needle and getting somebody open. Jeremiah Robinson, Earl has been good for them. Shay is still struggling individually, but nope, I don't think anybody's looking at that other than the Bleacherport employees that this is the 30% from three is what Shay is about to be for the rest of his career or the 40% because this is not the case. Detroit Pins is another team that I have not been watching a ton of. I do like watching Kate Cunningham, but everything else on the roster is kind of hard for me to really tune into. You know what I'm saying? They got Jeremy Grant, who I've mentioned on Twitter plenty of times, or I guess on the podcast a couple times. I would love to see Jeremy Grant in the Bulls jersey. I know it's a pipe dream. We don't really have much to give y'all, but hey, I would love to make it happen, but I don't wanna give up Patrick Williams, so I know it's not gonna happen. Okay, Cunningham is slowly climbing up the ladder of the Rookie of the Year, which he should be there. Of course, Isaiah Stewart, I like the way he addressed the media after the LeBron James thing, basically saying that whatever happened happened. I think it was intentional, but whatever, he was basically saying he doesn't want his whole reputation to be based on that one moment of him being down in his career, which is a good perspective to have because as long as he's not doing this stuff on the regular, he should have a long NBA career and you wanna be known for more than just the dude that was trying to body slam LeBron. But then again, he was a boxer, so I guess he wouldn't be body slamming LeBron. He probably gave him a little two-piece. We got the New York Knicks. Okay, I'm recording this very early on Saturday, literally right before I hit record. We found out that Kimba and Dergrozer are out for tonight's game against the Hawks, which means finally, maybe, I don't know, time for those are crazy dude. We might get Emmanuel quickly starting, which would be amazing because he does, I think he deserves to be a start at this point over Evan Fournier because Evan Fournier hasn't done a damn thing since the season opener. The team in general, the start of five has been struggling. I've been waiting for the day and since the last time we talked about the Knicks, them having their start of five being one of the worst offensive teams in NBA history and then their bench five being very good, I've been waiting for the moment for Tom Thibodeau to make the adjustments where, hey, Evan Fournier is coming off the bench or Kimba Walker, who's been really bad individually, come off the bench, he hasn't really done it and maybe the rest of Dergrozer, the rest of Kimba Walker, whatever it is, is the initiative that he needed to throw quickly into the lineup because when I watched the Knicks, quickly makes that team go. The Lakers, there was a quote that I saw on Reddit this morning where Anthony Davis says something along the lines of, we're the Lakers, we can't, I know we can't win 10, 12, 15 games in a row if we wanted to. What the hell does that mean, Anthony? If you want, one team is lacing up their sneakers and saying, we don't feel like going on a win streak right now. Stop it. Last night, honestly speaking, shout out to the Kings. Last night was an embarrassing loss for the Lakers at home at crypto.com arena or center or whatever it's called because not just because you lost the game because the NBA, anybody can win on any given night. The Bulls is lost to Houston, anything can happen. But it's still in the fashion in which it happened where the offense for the last five minutes of the fourth quarter and then every quarter after that, every overtime after that it was standing around, let's do something. I saw a tweet from Kirk Girlsberry today saying that Anthony Davis is the least efficient jump shot shooter in the entire league this year. Top 75 player of all time who takes a ton of jump shots is the worst in the entire league at jump shots through the first 20 games of the season. Mind blowing, you cannot win 10, 12, 15 games in a row because there is problems with your team. Cut it out. No, oh yeah, we could be the best team in the league but we don't really feel like it. The Spongebob, I don't really, stop. Come on Anthony, I expect more from you, bro. Legitimately, I expect more from you. The next team we get is the Minnesota Timbers. They were on the five game win streak and they lost it last night to the Charlotte Hornets who's playing good basketball as well. But I'm still impressed with everything I've seen about the Minnesota Timbers. I made a whole video about them like two nights ago. So if you wanna really see me dive into the Minnesota Timbers, I recommend watching that video because everything pretty much stands the same. That's how you get somebody to watch multiple videos at one time. After this video, Timber was fans, go back and watch that one because that video did not perform well. The Houston Rockets, but a boom. They beat my Bulls the other night, got their second win in the season. That was even without Jalen Green being there. They had players off the bench just go crazy. Daniel House, I was talking to the homies and I'm like, bro, what would they want for Daniel House, you know what I'm saying? Big dude, defense a little bit. Basically don't miss from three if he's open. What would they want from him? You know what I'm saying? If anything, anything I wanna talk about for them. There are few players, few rookies, Herb Zellers is one, but another rookie who I obviously fell in love with before the draft was a Sengun, right? Any time Sengun is on the court, the offense just looks a ton better. I've watched, I will be honest with you. In the last two weeks, I've maybe watched, I've watched three Houston Rockets game, the game against New York where they almost won. Of course, the game where they did beat the Bulls and there was one more after that. And every time Sengun is on the court, Sengun is on the court, I'm still kinda iffy on that. The team looks dramatically better. And part of that is his playmaking, his defenses, I think undervalued. I think people see tall white center that doesn't move well or I guess European center that doesn't move well and immediately think negative defender. I don't think he's that. I think the team in general is a negative defensive team, but I think he projects to be, if anything, an average defender in the NBA. That was a fun moment for me too. And once we get to the Bulls, we're gonna talk about that more. And listen, when your favorite team beats my Bulls, I'm gonna throw it, throw all the hate. I'm not the hate, but the, you know, just talk trash. I like it. Our next team is the Utah Jazz. Okay. Let's talk about the Utah Jazz because they just lost to the Sacramento Kings. And after that game, Rudy Gaubert said, I don't know how many years we're gonna keep losing in the playoffs and not learning from it. I might be 30, I might be 40. We need to put our egos aside and learn. Very, very interesting. He went on to talk about how, or him and Don Vimentu both said in different interviews that they have to be better. And part of this is something I've mentioned when they did end up getting eliminated from the playoffs last year. The perimeter defense from this team is atrocious. It's like, let's funnel everything to Rudy because he's one of the greatest defensive centers of all time and let him cover everything else up. Well, at some point you need someone to stay in front of someone because Rudy can't guard five players by himself. So I need Donovan. I need Bogdanovich. I need all these players to at least give some type of, some type of effort on the defensive side of the ball or that elite level defense that you've seen for four years, three years now, is now what the 11 defensive for them is terrible. The offensive rating is deceiving for the same. Yeah, I'm about to spend a little bit over a minute because I really wanna talk about the Utah Jazz. The offensive rating is deceiving because if you're looking at the offensive rating right now, they're like number two in the whole league when you watch this, when you watch them being a close game, it's isolation, isolation. And I think a lot of teams do this. This is not Utah Jazz specific thing, but it's isolation, Donovan, isolation, Donovan, chunk up, contested three. And that's not gonna win you a ton of games. As talented as Donovan Mitchell is, it has to be more than that down the stretch. It has to be. The game against the Grizzlies, the last couple of possessions for the Jazz was terrible. It was legitimately, nobody was moving, nobody was even shot ready just in case he did kick it out because everybody knew the ball was going to Donovan and he was gonna try to ice off whoever was guarding him. And when I see a quote like this, I don't know how many years we're gonna keep losing the playoffs and put our egos aside. That is talking about somebody or a group of people on this team. And who else could it be? My colleague's not beating isolation. I need the ball right now. My colleague's never been there. He's been one of the most unselfish players in the history of basketball. It ain't by Donovan, it ain't Joe Wiggles. So who is it? Who needs to put their egos aside? It ain't Rudy's not asking for the last touch of the game. I'm just saying. And there's six minutes of year last year has been bonds. The Utah Jazz gotta pick it up eventually, bro. Like, if they want to win a championship, which is the goal, we're not playing like a team that wants to compete for a championship. These are Rudy's words. Even the young teams are playing better than us in the clutch. They're not a young team. Not eventually, maybe a young star, but everything else, my colleague, Bogdanovich, Joe Wiggles, these are 30 year old people. 30 plus year old people. Rudy Gobert is up there. Rudy Gagoff, the bench, is one of the oldest players in the league. This is a team that should be better in the clutch and have been better in the clutch in previous years, but right now it's the same Osamo. Man, they got three minutes. Woo, a three minute segment for the Utah Jazz. I legit wanted to come into today talking specifically about the Jazz, but we'll cut it to three minutes. The Miami here next. I don't know what to really feel about the Miami if I'm being honest. They play against the Bulls tonight and I'm gonna say right now they are probably gonna win a back-to-back game where the Bulls are coming back from Florida. I'm not giving the Bulls excuses, but I'm just saying they're well rested. They had their turkey and then went on and relaxed. And we just had to play a dog fight against the best version of the early. Okay, I still don't really know to think about the Miami here. I still believe that they're a title contender, but if I'm ranking them amongst the other title contenders, I'm having a hard time placing them, like them versus Bucks in the seven. If they made it to the finals, them versus the Warriors in the seven, them versus the Sons in the seven, I don't know where to put them. I do think this is a team. It seems like every single year they make a move once we get to the deadline. And I'm not saying they're gonna make anything dramatic happen, but just having extra quality players at the end of that bench or in that rotation would definitely help them. Victor Ladipo, we still don't know what the hell is going on with VO. And I don't know. I don't know if I have any expectations with them at all. I still think the Heat are one of the best teams in the league. Every statistic shows you that, but I'm still trying to figure out where I would rank them in the whole hierarchy of the NBA. Next on the list, we have the Toronto Raptors. We don't really have to talk about Scotty Barnes. If we can all agree that Scotty Barnes is one of the best rookies in the class. Last night he had like a 17, 7, 4 and 2 game like he was great. But there's a player who went from super underrated to being an all-starred and people realizing that Pascal Ciak, Spicey P was that dude, NBA champion. And then last year, a lot of the backers of Pascal Ciakom voided ship, you know, it was anti-Pascal narratives and all this. And so far, yes, he's only played nine games this season. But in those nine games, in my opinion, he's been really good. Now he's not averaging the 21 points per game that he was averaging a year before that or the 23 the year before that. But in his nine games, he's averaging about 18 points per 47% from the field and about 39% from three. When I am watching Pascal Ciakom play this year comparison to last year, he's not, he's not trying to force anything like he was. I feel like last year he might've came into the scene like, okay, I got to prove to the world that I can be the guy. I can be the number one option. I was just an all-star NBA player and I, you know, tried to get my bag a little bit heavier. You know what I'm saying? Last year he took heavily contested pull-up three-pointers. When I watched him, I don't know if I've seen a single one of those this season. It seems like he's getting, yes, he's still getting isolation touches because he's Pascal, but it seems like a lot of his points are coming more in the flow of the offense rather than last year where it seemed like he was trying to prove to the world that he can be that. He doesn't have to do that this year. And maybe it's because the Toronto Raptors are nine and 11 or whatever they are and the team doesn't have a ton of expectations since one of their best players, if not their best player is a rookie. But a lot of people aren't talking about how solid Pascal Skiakum has been again this season. So there you go, Pascal. What is there to say about the Warriors? Man, man, man. So the Warriors are sitting at the top of the conference at 17-2. There's a team right beneath him on a 15-game win streak, but the Warriors are still, yeah, we're number one in the conference. No big deal. Everything about them is just amazing to watch. They are the purest form of just like enjoyable basketball. There's nonstop movement. They have the greatest shooter of all time, one of the greatest players of all time. In my opinion, the MVP of the season so far even last night, last night the boy took over again. Yes, it was this Portland and put the game away, hitting a couple of big shots down the stretch. I am so impressed with the team building of this team, how they were able to go get players that maybe were like cast offs, like for example, the Monty Bialitta, he's been up and down this season, but he's kind of a cast off. He's been on different teams where he wasn't even getting PT. I want to scan a way into came out of nowhere a couple of seasons ago. Gary Payton Jr. couldn't even keep a job for the first couple of years of his career. And now he's like the most efficient player in the NBA because it's all dunks from this 6-3 center. So yeah, I love watching him play and then Wiggins recently has been really good, like really, really good. I mean, it is not as long as I want it to be. 76ers, I'll be making jokes. And it's like, you know how they say every joke is rooted into some honesty or something like that. I've been making jokes about the 76ers being Terry's maxi's team because I don't believe it, but it's still like he's been so good this season. And I said this on our podcast today that should have already dropped if you want to go listen to it, go ahead. That Terry's maxi is a player that when I watch him play, he makes me want to go to the gym and play. Now I play nothing like Terry's maxi. I'm one millionth times worse than Terry's maxi at the game of basketball. But his brand of basketball is so enjoyable for me to watch it makes me want to go lace up the kicks. And I've been out of commission for four months now with a shoulder injury. I'm going back tomorrow though, like tomorrow's my first day on the gym. But when I watch him play, I'm super impressed with him. The team itself, even though right now they're sitting at one game 0500, the fact that they're one game 0500 is the blessing because they've missed a couple of weeks of Joel who should be back today. And of course, he still don't have been. They've had a lot of virus stuff going on, but they keep having players step up, step up. It's how Riggs has made, has made the Ben Simmons thing a little bit easier because he is playing so well. Next you have to watch the Wizards who are sitting at 12 and seven. They got past OKC by the skin of their teeth last night, ladies and gentlemen, I was watching. There's not a lot that I can say about the Wizards that I haven't already said in previous videos. Pretty much everything is the same. Last night we had Daniel Gaffer have a career night, eight blocks or like 20 something minutes, which is crazy. Daniel D is still clamping up. Bradley Beal is still struggling for the most part. And you would hope that eventually, they don't need him to average 35 again, but they would want him to be more efficient. And so far they've been able to win games without him playing his best brand of ball. All right, Celtics fans, here it is. I made a video talking about how good y'all have been playing in the last 10, that was like three nights ago. And since then y'all haven't won a game. And people on Twitter have said the Kenny Curse is real, the four real curse is for real. So I've made a decision that I will not talk about the Celtics after today. Because every time I do y'all start to struggle, whenever I give you like your last night, y'all make that big ol' comeback against the Spurs. And I tweeted, the Celtics have the lead. Then two minutes later I had the quote and they said the Celtics no longer have the lead. So if you see the rest of the season go on and I'm not talking about your team, I'm protecting y'all from the Kenny Curse. I saw somebody in my comments saying the Kenny low key is a Celtics hater, which I just, I wonder what people start to get those feelings from. What did I say to make you think I'm a hater of your organization? What, what, what, you know what? Okay, next team we have is the Phoenix Suns. 15 game win streak. And for the most part, still under the radar. Which is a good thing, bro. I'll be seeing the Suns fans hit me like, bro, you got to talk about us more. You got to talk about us more. I think teams that stay under the radar benefit from that. There's no spotlight on the fact that y'all are in a 15 game. Now tonight y'all going to get the Nets and the Barclays who are the number one team out east. And y'all just beat the Knicks last night. So maybe a schedule loss coming up, but I'm not going to say y'all won't lose because they're asking sister, that's can be Devin Booker's in his bag. Very, very deep. Yesterday in the garden. You can tell that players left playing in the garden for sure. Chris Paul, I love him, but sometimes I feel like he's searching for that assist record, which is fine. Cause the team is on a 15 game win streak. So I can't tell you to stop passing the ball and score more, because even in the closer games he finds a way to be like, okay, I already got my 13 assists for the night. Let me go ahead and give me a couple buckets and get them a couple buckets down the stretch. Even with Carol Bridges on JJ's podcast, like we don't really care about nobody talking about us on TV or in pocket. Nobody cares about that. We want to go out there and prove to people that the last year wasn't a fluke. And so far they've proved to people, hey, we're still one of the best teams in the league. Just talked about the Suns tonight. They go against the Brigolettes and boom. Kevin Ryan is my second for EVP. They've put it together. Let me, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not only have they put it together. Let me go ahead and pull up my stats because the stats tell me that defense that we was all worried about for the entire season, year number 11. And for the last couple of weeks, they've been a little bit better than that. The defense is low key, great. James Harden is slowly, slowly coming to a self. LaMarcus all just had the hard thing, pulled him out for a season and he came back better than ever. Patty Meals, one of the best signings of the season. Blake Griffin is, Blake Griffin has been really bad this season. He's been really bad this season. And it's hard for me to say that because I'm a Blake fan, but it's been rough. You know, it's been rough. Their ability to close out games seems so easy because they have Kevin and Kevin is a walking bucket no matter what time of the game it is. But in the last minute or so, get out of the way, it's Kevin's time. The Grizzlies just saw Jamarang go down an injury and I was so afraid because obviously big fan of Jamarang is one of my favorite, oh wait, he's one of my favorite young players in the entire league. I got this signed rookie car from Jamarang. Like me and Jamarang go way back. I was interviewing bro, like his rookie season. And to see him go down an injury will seem like a non-contact injury was super scary, but it turns out it is just a knee sprain or knee strain or whatever. And no matter how long he's out, the Grizzlies are, it's gonna be so tough. Cause even yesterday they lost to the Hawks when Jamarang went down, they lost by 30. Nobody on that team can create for themselves or other people. They relied on my guy, John Contrard, to come in and make some plays for them. And like, it's going to be rough. They've already been one of the worst defensive teams in the league and now without Jamarang, they're probably about this crater a little bit on the office side of the ball. So I don't know what the timetable is for a guy that hurt his knee like that, but for their sake, if they're trying to stay in the playoff hunt, you better hope that boy got that super healing ability that Evan Mobley got and he can come back faster than what they expected. The Bucks are undefeated when Drew Yanis and Chris Middleton play together. That's all you really need to know. These boys are coming back and trying to repeat. Brooke Lopez said he's got a timetable from when he's personally gonna come back. I don't really have months to say about the Bucks, man, Bobby Portis. I saw some people say, Bobby Portis out of nowhere has rejuvenated. Everybody knew. If you've watched Bobby Portis' system beginning of his NBA career, you knew that Bobby can score the ball. So when people see his counting stats of him averaging 19 points per game and X amount of time since Brooke has been gone, I look at that and I'm like, that's not that much of a surprise to me because Bobby has always been a bucket. People questioned him on the other side of the ball. So if you're talking about Bobby as far as the progression as a player, we all talk about how good of a defensive player he's turned into. He's always been a ton of heart, a lot of hustle and a bucket. It was about the other stuff that was the reason why he was getting traded and he was doing this and that. And I'm happy he's found his home, man. Trey Young is playing some of the best basketball of his entire life. And since they switched the lineup of having Kevin Herter and by Dynamics in a lineup, the team looks way better. I make this joke on the podcast that you knew that Klikapel was dealing with an Achilles injury for the most of the beginning of the season. As soon as they got back off that road, went West Coast trip, that Achilles looked fine. Klikapel is playing impactful basketball again, y'all. And because of that, Seagna started off so slow as currently on a seven game win streak and climbing up the ranks. We have them in the Bucks teams that we knew were gonna be playoff teams for sure, slowly coming back to form. And it makes me wonder a little bit. Maybe I'm jumping a gun here. And the guy said I was, but I was standing on the pocket on me on here too. Did it make me think about Deonzer Hunter? Not saying that he's not a contributor in playing. I don't want anybody to misunderstand this, but the team has been better without him on the floor, whether it be with him being injuries and stuff like that. So it makes you wonder when he does come back from injury, do they make the substitution of having Deonzer Hunter back in the lineup and how does that impact the team that's already playing great basketball right now? I mean, those are good problems to have. Too many good players sounds like a good problem to have because if somebody gets injured, ba-da-ba-da-da. The next thing we have is the Senate's on your spurs. Hit that timer. Dejaunty Murray, another player that's in most improved candidacy. I'm looking at the stats right here from 16 points to 19 points, from five assists to eight assists, from seven rebounds to eight rebounds and he closed out games for them. He's been taught by DeMar DeRose and that the mid-range jump shot is your friend and he's been taking advantage of it. He's definitely one of the best mid-range jump shooters in the entire league and he's only 26 years old, 25 years old or so. He's a fun player to watch. He was all defensive player, one of the first years of his career and though he doesn't have the same, I would say defensive impact that he did back then, but the office is coming around. So like you can kinda yada yada yada. He's a cool player to watch. They almost gave up that game last night, but Dejaunty hitting shots and the clutch is the reason they were able to close it out. The one thing I think about the Spurs is what direction are they really going in? Like yeah, they have some youth, Dejaunty Murray being 25, if I'm not mistaken. That boy is on the last couple years of his career. His current contract, oh, he's got two more years after this. I was about to say what's going on with Dejaunty as a trade piece, but nah, he cool. Dallas Mavericks are hard to really talk about. We mentioned before at the beginning of the season, they were looking like, what did we say? The worst good team in the league or the best bad team in the league, whatever. And then Luca got injured and then they went on some streaks against the Suns and the Clippers. When they played against both of these teams back to back, it was very weird. And then those times, without Luca, those teams were staying into games and Luca came back and they ended up beating the Clippers. So I don't really have an opinion about the Dallas Mavericks at the moment. I need to see more of Luca and KP. KP still playing some of the best, bad small of his career, which is great. And I need Luca to get back there too. He's still coming off the injury, but they won an overtime against the Clips the other night. Right now, if you look at all of their stats, they're sitting around league average at everything. And I would expect things would go up when Luca dances back to form, but right now he's still coming off his injury. And even before then, he wasn't looking like the great level of Luca, but it seems like a lot of the star players that were struggling to start the season have come back to form or close to it. And I'm expecting Luca would do the same thing. Next we have the Denver Nuggets. Oh man, the Denver Nuggets season has taken a turn, taken a turn. Injury after injury after injury. Talk about unlucky. So they have now lost six games in a row. Jokic out. Obviously Jamal, Michael Porter, Junior seems like he might be off for the entire season. PJ Dozier just got injured. It's just like, I believe that this team, if they're completely healthy, not me completely, completely healthy, will be a team contending, legitimately contending for a championship. That's how talented, how good, how amazing Nicola Jokic is. But with all of this going on, you gotta question what the heck they're trying to do now? Okay, we got the Bulls. I've mentioned this before. I'm never too high, never too low as a fan, right? When we beat up, when we beat a good team, I'm never saying, ah, NBA championship, or if I am, I'm saying ironically or as a joke. And when we lose to a bad team, I'm never like, oh, we're the worst, you know what I'm saying? I never get too high, never get too low. But this is why I really enjoy this season because other people care. I've been making YouTube videos for a decade now. Never before this season where a team would beat the Bulls and I get people in my mentions like laughing or having fun talking trash. People care about beating the Bulls and that's fun. I dish it out as far as trash talking. I receive, you know what I'm saying? I hope y'all realize that there's no hard feelings. When I'm going against your team, I might tweet about it, but you have to know it's just in that moment, right? So when we lost to the used to Rockets, I let y'all have it, y'all deserve it. You know what I'm saying? It's been fun. It's been really fun. I've said this before. I know there are some Bulls fans out there that think we're contenders. I don't think we're in that stratosphere of the elite of the elite, but I do think we're fun enough where Bulls fans can be expecting to make a playoff appearance and have some fun. And at the end of the day, that's all I've been asking for for five seasons and we got it right now. Hey, the clip is don't play. MVPG13 is a real thing. I mean, I don't think he's necessarily in the top echelon of people, but I'm just trying to show acknowledgement to Paul George's season so far. Again, without Kawhi Leonard and he might be gone for the entire season. We don't really know because it's Kawhi Leonard. You never get a timetable for Kawhi. He is gonna tell you one day I'm ready to hoop. But they said he was working out again, which is a good sign. They're 11 and eight. The offense is struggling. Let's be honest. It's the offense struggle. They don't have a ton of bucket getter type dudes. It's basically Paul George and some Randy Jackson. And occasionally you'll get an Eric Bletzo game or Zubas gets you like 15 or so. It's not a ton of shot creation, but the defense. Those dudes have bought in this season. They're second in defensive rating and then, I'm sorry, points per possession given up. And then they're number one in the last couple of weeks, but the offense has been hit or miss. But if you can hand your hat on the offensive side of the ball, you're gonna be a team to reckon with. And that's what the clippers are right now. The Charlotte Hornets are eight and two in their last 10. They've ended some streaks more even last night. They ended the timetable streak. So yeah, streak busters, that's them. I love watching this team play. Lamello balls are my favorite players to watch because I love a player that can impact the game even if his shots not falling. For example, yes, I think he ended with 10 points. But to me, when I watched it, he was one of the best players on the court. Behind Kelly Ubre, of course, because Kelly Ubre occasionally can give you 30 off the bench and sometimes he'll give you two. It's no in between. It's 30 or two. And I think he averaged just like 15 points per game. Lamello ball, even though he did not score the ball well, his ability to get his teammates involved is amazing. Even his defense, who people say he wouldn't be a good defender is good. I still wish that this team, and this is not a team try. I mean, everybody's trying to win a championship, but this is not a team that we can all agree is competed for a championship. In the near future, they need to get a big that you can trust on the defensive side of the ball. Every single season, they seem like they try and try and try and they need to just get the guy. I don't know who the guy is or when he will become available. But if Lamello ball had like a good center, GGs. And then thanks to the wheel, the Cavaliers are the last team. I almost said worst team, GGs, the last team. The Cavaliers are one of my favorite league pass teams at the beginning of the season. Because they were running this huge, big lineup and it was working. Evan Mobley was looking amazing, one of the best defensive players in the league. Not just one of the best defensive rookies, but looking like one of the best defensive players in the entire league. Jared Al was playing like an all-star. Collis Sexton was scoring a bunch of points, Dearest Garland was coming to his own and Ricky Rubio was coming off the bench and legitimately closing games for teams. And then they got smacked. Kevin Love out COVID. We got Laurie Margann out. Then they had Collis Sexton done for the season. And then Evan Mobley, I heard his elbow and they said he was gonna be off for like two to four weeks. He was, he's back. He's back. That's cause he's like 19. Bro, I'm telling you, don't take for granted that healing factor. I'm 25. It took me four months to come back from a shoulder injury that normal people probably would have came back in like two months. I'm old in comparison to like Evan Mobley. But since they've had all these injuries, it's been hard to watch, but now that Evan Mobley's back it'll probably be better. That is 30 teams and about one minute each. Yes, I know that this video is way longer than it should be, but I had to do what I had to do, man. Like I said, it should feel like a pod, should feel like us just chatting about the NBA. I think we did that. If you enjoyed the video, leave it a like. If I misspoke about your favorite team, leave it in the comment section, my boy. Like I said, I can't watch all 30 teams in depth. So I might be mistaken on some things.