 What's the word, y'all? Oh my, I decided that I wanted to hold the mic again. It was just a different feel to the show when I had the microphone in hand. I even went back to watch the original episodes that created the ramble or the recap, whatever you wanna call it. First of its time, believe it or not, the first person to hold the microphone and talk about the NBA in existence and put it on YouTube, it was me, I did it. And I went back to watch those videos and it just had a different feel than what we've been doing this season. I'm not saying what we have been doing this season was a bad thing at all, but I do like the me talking in front of a camera and a microphone and not really think about what I'm saying and then going back and re-watching the video and realizing that I said something stupid. For example, we were in the bubble and I was talking about the Lakers because if you don't remember the Lakers and the regular season of the bubble or the pre-season, all of that, the bubble, they looked terrible. And in that video, listen, I'm a man and I can admit when I was wrong about something. And I guess I wasn't, I said I commit when I was wrong and here I am saying I wasn't wrong, but I was speculating. So I didn't say this verbatim, but I was speculating whether or not LeBron James will slow it down because in that moment, LeBron was averaging like 15 points per game dog. And what we've seen this season is that he can still have average 30, but you probably don't want your 37-year-old to average 30 because it ain't working out great. The Lakers aren't great. And I've been a guy that said plenty of times in the channel, I was gonna refrain of talking about the Lakers extensively until I got a bigger sample size, over 30 games to the season, they still are bad. But this video is not supposed to be about the Lakers, but that's what the Ramble is, ladies and gentlemen. So we had a slated game today that was super interesting and super fun. I will say that Dejante, remember I'm giving you your love right now which are 24, 12 and 13. I did not watch your game, my boy. I'm gonna make it my sole purpose tomorrow morning to watch this game that was a 20-point blowout because I feel like Dejante Murray is one of those players that I absolutely would love if I watched more of him. When I do watch him, I do enjoy watching him play, but I just, the Spurs have this point in my mind where it's like a mental block and it goes from the years of Tim Duncan where I just wasn't watching him because in my mind they were boring and in reality they were just good. And now, I don't know, would you call them boring? I haven't even watched out of the 30 games I can count on a single hand how many times I've tuned into the Spurs games. And you know what? That's my fault. That's not their fault. That's my fault. So Dejante, I promise you, tomorrow morning I will be tweeting about you because I will watch this game. But I wanna see other ones. And I hit my boy Bucks up, shout out to Bucks. He's my thumbnail designer. He's been doing it for what seems like two or three years now and he is so flexible. Typically I'll just tell him the title of my video and he'll come up in his brain and come up with something great. And I told him, let me read you what I told him that the title of this video was and I don't know if I'm sticking to it. Rambling about the NBA and making people upset. Because I want to stir the pot on many things. I want to stir the pot on many things. Let's talk about the Kings at the top of the show. Let's see who that gets us. They went to go to say Warriors today. They go and say Warriors are the best team at basketball. I guess you can say that. I'm not looking at the standings but I know it's them and the sons at the top. And you know, they're missing some players like everybody in the world is. So they had Jonathan Camingo start. Shout out to Jonathan Camingo. He has like a 20 plus game, 27 point game from that mistake in last game. And then I guess it was Steve Kerr. He was asked about it. He was, and Steve Kerr basically told him if we were a rebuilding team or a bad team you can put that up every single night where we're trying to win and we're trying to develop you. So today he only plays six minutes. He put up 27 the game before and got six minutes to game after. Development. A little bit different on the warrior side. Let's see how that works out for them, man. Because obviously he can hoop, but they're playing so well. Like Iggy has such a game. He threw the behind the back pass and he's playing the defense, yada, yada, yada. And when you have him playing well, you have OP playing well and you got Gary Payton a second who don't want to call. He doesn't want to be called the mitten which is a missed opportunity if you ask me. But I understand the glove feels more like a real nickname with some value and like it's not necessarily soft but when I think about a mitten I'm thinking about it. Like you could say a glove, a baseball glove, yada, yada, yada. They got some thick leather on that. That was Gary Payton. And a mitten I kind of think of like, oh, you know what I'm saying? Oh, I don't even have fingers. I don't, oh, oh, stirring the pot about the Kings. Okay, so the last couple of days the Kings are another team that has hit heavily with health estate, the protocol and some injuries here and there. And because of that D'Earn Fox has been out with an injury. And I am here to just say they need to build around Tyrese Halliburton because over these last couple of games what I've seen in Tyrese is a guy that for the first year and so of his career he's been trying to find the balance of being able to score or when to score and when to pass. And by nature he is a past first guy and you're seeing that 11 assists today and you know, he's been averaging, hold on, last three games he's averaging 11 assists per. And by nature he is a past first guy but with D'Earn Fox not being in the lineup and him being the focal point of the offense he's been able to find a balance of when to score and when not to score and when to pass. And he doesn't really have that opportunity with D'Earn Fox. Now I think, I don't know who made the tweet and there's somebody I follow and I apologize. I mean it was a mean tweet or a joke tweet but every joke has some form of trueness in it, right? And they put a picture of D'Earn Fox and D'Earn Fox and Tyrese Halliburton and then a picture of Maté Alice and Steph Curry saying it was time to make that decision where you might have to break up the backcourt for the better of your organization. Like D'Earn is not necessarily having a good individual season but I still believe you can trade D'Earn Fox and get a lot of value out of him because what he's 24, 25 years old and I think most people realize that D'Earn Fox is still a really, really good basketball player and I would still put money on the fact that he will be an All-Star eventually someday but the backcourt last year they struggled together. See the Ramble was never supposed to be like looking up stats and stuff but I wanna make sure that I'm still thinking about things the right way. So yeah, last year when they were together on the court they had a net rating of minus 4.7. Again, we're not an advanced stat channel but I think it says a little bit something. And this year's at a minus 4.7 and sometimes you see this in NBA history all the time where two players just don't fit together because I want Harry's hella bird and run in my offense because what we've seen over this very small sample size that we're determining the rest of our franchise on is that he, with the ball in his hands he is a great playmaker that can find the buddy heilds of the world, the Harrison Barnes and I guess in this case, Chamezi Metzl was a God. And when you're doing something like that, when Harry's is the primary ball handler and D'Earn Fox is doing whatever he's doing, he's not much of a threat. If I am the opposing coach with Harry's hella bird at the top of the key doing what he does to try to create offense for his team, I'm not guarding D'Earn Fox. I'm preventing him from cutting to the rim but other than that, if he get an open look in the corner we doing one of these on him, shoot the ball my boy. So I would love, here's the two moves that I want the Sacramento Kings are doing. I'm not telling them to do that right now. I'm not telling them at the trade deadline, trade D'Earn Fox. But I'm saying that they're gonna have to make that decision. This is what I want them to do. Make the decision on D'Earn Fox, what the right pieces is or who the player is. And I know there are some people that already wanna see the 76ers, Kings win. And I think that might be the best because the Kings need defense and the guy that name I said yesterday that I wasn't gonna say anymore until he's actually traded. He can bring that to you, whatever, figure out what that is. And second, maybe Rashawn Holmes is his dude actually. Not that I'm thinking about it. Terry's Halliburton is a guy that loves to throw the lob. Chamezi Metru of the last couple of games eating off the lobs. And maybe Rashawn Holmes is that dude when he's coming back from his injuries. But he needs a like real life, big old lob threat, continue to put the shooters around him or there it is buddy, whereas it is a TD or Harrison or whoever it may be and let him go to work, man. You wanna see the playoffs? That is the key. I'm giving you the keys to the car right there. But D'Earn, I do wanna make it very, very clear, very apparent. I am still a big time fan of D'Earn and Fox. All right, I just wanna quickly transition to OKC versus Grizzlies because the last time OKC played against the Grizzlies, they lost by 73. And here they are with a win. And I guess we gotta talk about this Jamerran stuff because apparently I'm looking on my Twitter account right now Jamerran heard by fans telling him to sit back out as Grizzlies lose. I don't like the wording of that article by fans telling him to sit back out. Sit back out. It just don't feel, anyway, I guess there were some fans core side and the process of the Memphis Grizzlies losing this game, there's some people core side telling Jha, we better without you. And if you look at the replies of his tweets, like he said he was going zero to dark 30, he not going on social media for a while, which kind of sucks because I think Jamerran's one of the better Twitter followers and Instagram followers and the NBA. If you look at the replies, 99% of fans are going to agree with me when I say, Jamerran is Memphis. He is the star of Memphis and yada, yada, yada. That one person or two people sitting core side does not represent the entire organization for sure. But what I will say on Jamerran's behalf is that it's hard to drain out that one person to say something negative about you. Even if Jamerran has a million fans in Memphis that are saying we love you here and we love, we want to keep you here. We want you to sign that max extension when you get eligible for it. It's hard not to hear that one fan. It just is. I know a lot of people say, ah, you get paid millions of dollars. You got to have thick of skin, but it's easier said than done. That's all I'm really saying. But, shake your hand, Alexander. The clutch gene is a real thing. I've had this conversation with people and there is a percentage of sports fans in general that will tell you the clutch gene is not really a real thing. I am a firm believer that the clutch gene is very real and his last three games are proof of it. Shay hits a crazy half court shot when he was trying to draw a foul. Devonte Graham ended all of that, by the way. Shout out to Vonte. Game after that, hit Nicholas Batum and a nasty step back, waited one second to make sure that the time ran out, hits the three and in this one, I don't remember the exact play by play, but I think I made a tweet about it. He got an assist. These are the last couple seconds of the game. He got an assist after drawing a double team. I think it was down to Josh Giddy who will talk about coach Mark D end up drawing a good baseline out of bounds player, sideline out of bounds play that I've definitely seen some high school teams run. Got an open layup for Shay. He got a steal, then iced it with two free throws. Now it wasn't the step back game when they're like Nicholas Batum's game, but like those are super clutch plays from one of the youngest up and coming stars in the NBA and I will not forget about it because Bleacherport has not apologized a month ago. Less than a month ago, they were ranking the 24 players under 24 and Taylor Horton Tucker was above Shay. This team lost by 73 to this exact organization two weeks ago and Shay comes in, he's like, I'm gonna win us this game and he did. Not okay, it wasn't all Shay because Lou Dorot still has his three point streak in this game. I mean, he was 27% from three, but hey, he hit his three and he ended up having a big time block down the stretch. We're gonna count that. And Josh Giddy, career high, at least I think he tied a career high, ended up with 11 assists and that's coming off a game two nights ago. We had 18 rebounds. Josh Giddy, there's a meme before the NBA draft and they were doing like a scouting report on Josh Giddy and it was like weaknesses, shooting, finishing, defense and somebody quoted and it was like, so basketball, his weakness is basketball, but what we see in his weakness is not basketball, that is his strength. He can play make, he can rebound, he can hit shots, he can do a lot of different things. So shout out to Josh Giddy, man. They called him, oh man, why did I see his nickname was? It's not super relevant. Go win for OKC. The Bulls got revenge on the Houston Rockets and I needed this win for my blood and soul because the last time we played against them, we jumpstarted this team to a game one streak. So I'm happy that we were able to win this one. DeMarco Rosen being on my favorite team is a blessing. And you know what? Like I mentioned earlier, I am a guy that can admit when they're wrong. I talk about sports for a living, I'm gonna be wrong tons of tons of times. Yes, before the season started, when we were raking small forwards in the league, I did have DeMarco Rosen kind of low, but here's my excuse. Yes, I'm saying again, I was wrong, but here's my excuse. Bro was not playing an MVP caliber last season. He was not playing an all NBA caliber last season. I did not see this coming. If you saw that DeMarco Rosen was gonna jumpstart into an all NBA players slash MVP candidate. Now, when I say MVP candidate, everybody knows the Core 4 right now. It is Giannis, it is Steph, it is KD, and it is Jokic, that's Core 4. But if you're looking at number five, DeMarco Rosen really has a case there. You didn't see that coming. If you did, you should have put money on him. My God, because you'd be a millionaire right now because the odds were not in his favor. So I did have him relatively low. And I was wrong. And I'm happy I was wrong because now the bulls are okay. Legitimately, carrying an entire offense. Now, I would like for other people to wake up a little bit more so he doesn't have to do all of this. But again, we are still missing Zach Levine who's at home watching games and everything. Shout out to DeMarco Rosen. I will not disrespect you ever again in your career. Cause again, yeah, last year he was good. I'm not saying he was scrubbed last year. He made my list, but I think it was gonna be this good. And also, if you go back and watch those videos, I have a tendency of ranking my favorite player, my favorite team's players lower because I still don't know if I'm higher on my favorite favorite players than I should be because they're my favorite players. And I think I've talked about that before. I think Patrick Williams could be the next coming of whatever. And you may not think that way. And maybe it's just because he's on my favorite team. The Boston Celtics continue to let me down. And I mean, I guess it's not really letting me down because I'm not rooting for them, but like they were up with like three minutes to go. And I was typically we're in a party watching these games together. And I remember telling Mike like, the 76ers are gonna win this game one way or another. Cause I was not confident in the fact that the Boston Celtics can close out this game. Now I will say Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown can make a ton of clutch shots, isolation shots, yada yada. But I hate the way they close games. Even the games that they pull out where JT does hit a big shot or JB does hit a big shot. I walk away from that saying, ah, good win. But it didn't have to be that difficult. When I watch Jaylen and Jason play basketball, they make things look so difficult. When it's going in, it's like, man, them dudes are beasts because they make the difficult shots. But when it's not, it's hard to watch. And today specifically talking about the last three minutes was extremely, extremely hard to watch. And what I would hate for the Boston Celtics organization to do, whether it be this season or next season is to make the ultimate decision. And you know what I'm talking about, whether or not you want to keep or get rid of one of these core guys. I do not think the solution is to trade Jaylen or trade Jason or pick between the two. What the team needs is a guy that can facilitate. Simple. I mean, oh, maybe I'm making it way more simple than it needs to be or than it actually is. But these dudes have not played with a person that can set them up and have a Florida offense ever. And they just need that down the stretch. Jaylen Brown turnover, Jason Tatum turnover. They don't have the guy to set them up and they haven't had that at all in their careers. And I would hate for them to split up these core great young players without at least trying to get them a point guard. Now, if they get them a Ricky Rubio type guy they can really facilitate and get everything going and they steal a trash, make your decision. But don't make it yet is what I'm saying. Jaylen and Jason can work together. It's players three through 15 that can't. Now, again, they are missing Robert Williams and Al Horford in today where they had Joel and B beating up on freedom. But still, the idea is the same for me whether or not Al is there or Big Rob, Time Lord is there. They need somebody to get everybody involved and they don't have that, all right? But Joel, when Joel is playing 40 plus minutes it's a sight to be seen, man. I think he's averaging 42 points per game when he's playing over 40 minutes. And they were talking about that on the Celsius broadcast how per 36 Joel and B is like top five all time, per 36 with some type of filters because I bet per 36 of some dude that scored one basket in his NBA career, boom. His per 36 is 144 or whatever the math works out to be. But Joel and B when he's playing a bunch of minutes it's insane. This team won a game where they had one point and they contributed from the bench. One singular point. Tobias Harris was very, very clutch here. I love when he is a third option. Seth Curry is a Kenny for an All-Star. We'll talk about him eventually one day. He's a Kenny for an All-Star. He's just so damn good at his job. And when I am super impressed with Joel and B it's his ability or his uptick in like his playmaking ability. And I'm not saying that this wasn't always there. I mean, now you have extra assist to dish out because Ben Simmons is not there. This is a team playing without a point guard right now. Like real life playing without a point guard. And they ran the ball through Joel and B and seemed like every single possession. And he did an amazing job when the double team started to come find his shooters. Danny Green, big shot in the corner and Seth Curry, 74% from the field, three from three from three. Joel and B was amazing today. One of his best games of his career was tonight. And that's a good comeback because again, the last time they played against each other he's stunk. And maybe that is just because Al Horford was there. I will say this though, even before Ennis freedom changed his name and he was talking all on socials and going on TV shows, I will say this. And I think I'm on record saying this years ago. I like watching Ennis Cantor or Ennis Freedom get killed in a game. It's so hilarious to me because I guess that's my cue after this statement. It's so hilarious to me because he doesn't look like he's giving effort. I'm not saying that he's not. I'm not saying Ennis, if you're watching this, I'm not saying you're not giving effort. But when I watched Joel put up 41 points today it feels like a lot of them were like not contested shots. Some of them he was legitimately walking to the basket and it was like, here you go, here's a layup. But it's fun. I feel like 90% of centers can see freedom on the other team when he's in the game and like, all right, let's go get some buckets. And they do. The only bad thing about these type of formatted videos is they tend to go way longer than I wanted them to. Like I didn't talk at all about Charlotte, who can't score in the first quarter. But you know, once things got together, after that first quarter they played a lot better and Lamello ended up with 20. Ted Rosier had a good bounce back game because I don't even know if he got on a board last game, I might be exaggerating a little bit, but last game was a huge, huge stinker. I took the over on Rudy Gobert tonight. This is not a plug for prize picks, but if you want to download it, go ahead and do that. I took the over because they were going to get the Hornets and just the night before they let Javel McGee drop 19. So I'm like, hey, if Javel McGee can drop 19, I know Rudy Gobert can give me 20 and he gave me a 20-20 piece. So shout out to him. Don't expect these to happen every night, by the way. I actually have to have something to say for me to do like a Rambo, even though I probably didn't say anything.