 What's the word y'all? Hey y'all know I absolutely love my job and it's not just because I get to talk about basketball for a living, it's because I have an archive of pretty much every NBA opinion I've had for the past three seasons, somewhere out on the internet. And every once in a while, I like to go back and watch old videos of mine and just laugh at myself because I am very far from the perfect guy when it comes to talking about basketball. There's nobody out there that is shooting 100% on takes. So I like to go back and listen to my old takes and think, you're wild for that my boy. Because I learned from a very young age where you talk about something that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. And that's what sports is to me. It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Being wrong is okay. I am not a dude that will die on the NBA opinion because everything is fluent and everything is changing. I have a lot of things that I've said that I've been wrong about. Like last year, there's a period of time when the Milwaukee Bucks were struggling to close out games and I came onto this channel and one of my recaps was like, yeah, this is why I don't believe that they can win the championship this season. They did that. They did that. There's courses of my podcast. We first started where candidly, I was like saying I was picking a random player on the Toronto Raptors and I said something like, Pascal Siagami will never be an All-Star. And two seasons later, he was an All-Star. Those moments are funny to me, y'all. Bad takes or takes that miss are funny. So today's video, we're gonna be looking at some other people's takes that didn't live up to the hype and just enjoy ourselves. Let me know in the comment section something that you thought might've happened in the NBA or you completely wrong about that you can look back and laugh at yourself because that's what this is about. At the end of the day, I just wanna remind y'all to just enjoy basketball. So we are on Reddit with it. Drakey504 said, what is your worst take in the past three to five years and why? For me, I was adamant on taking AD over Yanis. I like players who can shoot. So they're both our dominant. I liked how AD can space the floor more than Yanis did on the clown. And this is great because again, he's laughing at his bad take. And you know what? This wasn't that crazy of an opinion to have three to three so years ago because Anthony Davis was on the path to be the best player in the NBA or one of the top five players in the NBA. He stopped. He has not got much better while Yanis has continuously got better. So he was wrong here. But in the moment, having this opinion three to five years ago wasn't that crazy. It just didn't age well. Number one post, Lamello would be a bust. And though I didn't think Lamello was gonna be a bust, I didn't really understand the hype. Now, I got to interview Lamello Ball where he was in the JBA when it was Ham LeVar, Leangelo. We interviewed them. And at that point, Lamello Ball was like six three because he was standing next to Pierre and they were the same. He was like six three. And that was the only time I really watched Lamello Ball play because at the age of 25 or I guess I wasn't 25 then when he was playing in high school, I was out of the age of like social media watching high schoolers play. So I knew what Chino Hills was. I had knew that he had existed but I never watched him in high school. And when he was playing overseas, I never watched or kept up with him. I'm a guy that tunes into NBA basketball almost exclusively. So while majority of people already had this opinion about Lamello whether you thought he was gonna be a bust or whether you thought he was gonna be the next comment of Jesus Christ, I was somewhere in the middle because I had no idea. And here he is, you know, might be an all-star this season. You can make the argument. I was extremely hesitant with the CP3 trade. I didn't wanna sacrifice years of contention down the line for one to two years of a low playoff seed. I'm an idiot loser and he has a son's flair so he is a son's fan. I'm happy I'm reading this because I am on record on this channel or on my podcast. I was in the same boat. I'm not a son's fan, but I'm a Chris Paul fan. For a long time there was a Chris Paul jersey hanging up here and then it failed when I was in a job interview and it failed in the middle of the interview. And when Chris Paul got traded, I was like, man, I was mad because in my mind, I wanted to see Chris Paul get traded to a contender. And in that moment, the sons, I had no idea what was about to come. In my mind, the sons were so far away from being a contender. I thought the same thing he thought. It was like, hey, they might be a seven seed. They might be a six seed. Never in a million years would I expected them to be a team that was literally in the championship and this season potentially competed for another one. So I was in the wrong there with you, Mr. Pistol Pete. Back when EG was still around, I remember him saying something like Yolkich is gonna be at least as good as Kat. And I was thinking, there's no way they end up on the same level of player where it turns out that it isn't close, just not in the, who are we referring to as EG? Not Eric Gordon, is there EG? I don't know about. Oh, a Redditor who predicted Yolkich would be the MVP when nobody else thought so. Now he's saying similar things about Isaiah Hardenstein. Buy up the Isaiah Hardenstein stock, ladies and gentlemen, because Mr. Redditor who predicted Yolkich is now saying the things about Isaiah Hardenstein, yo. But I guess he said the same thing about Poku and Jonah Bolden. So I mean, he's not a prophet, but he's shooting a decent percentage because I even brought this up on my podcast like a week ago where I don't even remember Yolkich's rookie season, which tells me that in my mind, there is no way Yolkich is gonna turn it to the best center in the league or an MVP player. So the fact that this guy, Random Redditor, EG, said that he was gonna be on the same level as Kat, it's kind of wild. That's kind of wild, man. That's, I need to find Mr. EG. What is his, I would love to go through his archive of predictions, but I wanna make a prediction like that, yo. I wanna make a Superbowl prediction that ends up being right, and then that's the only thing we talk about ever again. If, okay, give me some time. I need to, who is in this draft class is this year's Yolkich. That guy does not, that doesn't happen every year, this year's Yolkich. Why would LeBron go to the Lakers? I thought, well, he's in the mid 30s and presumably wants to win as many championships as he can before retiring. Why would he go to a team that's nowhere near ready? I've been wrong about every LeBron free agency decision he's made. This is what, this is the thing about LeBron James is free agency decisions or every decision he's made. He's always been able to look at a team and be like, okay, they got this piece, this piece, and this piece, and we can trade this piece and get this player. So when he went back to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he knew that they, well, he didn't know that they were gonna get Wiggins, but he knew that they were about to have a high lottery pick. He knew that they had Kari Irvin there who was a young player that was amazing already. He knew that they had pieces to potentially make trades to make them better. Boom, he's going back home. And now Andrew Wiggins, who was the first overall pick, is going to the Minnesota Timbers and Kevin Love is coming back. When he saw the Lakers, a lot of it, you remember, I remember when he signed, a lot of people was like, oh, LeBron is giving up on basketball because he's going to LA because he wants to make movies, he wants to be in commercials, he wanted to endorsement stuff. He's not looking to win basketball, but in reality, yeah, he still wanted to make movies and do all that other stuff, but he saw that there was Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram. He saw these young dudes there that he was like, I'm going to give them a year. I'm not going to tell the Lakers to destroy this team just yet, but best believe, if they don't come to play in this first season, we have all the pieces to get a guy, and that guy ended up being Anthony Davis. Was that some colluding under the table, tampering probably, but he saw a guy and Anthony Davis who wanted to be out, and Anthony Davis was like, I will only go to LA to sign an extension. So LeBron has figured out a way. And right now I know the Lakers aren't good because they made some even more trades, and these trades don't look as good as the Anthony Davis trade, but the end of the day of LeBron, Jay's retires and he only won one with the Lakers. That's successful to me. There's so many people out there that don't end up getting four or don't even get to end up getting one. So LeBron has figured out a way, man. I thought Dennis Smith Jr. would be a perennial All-Star. I thought he was very good too. And now that there have been reports coming out for the last couple of weeks about how he was treated once Luca got there, maybe derailed his career a little bit, but he also could have been a dude that was just putting up good stats on a team that was really bad his first year with the Dallas Mavis. Could be either way, but now he's like a journey, man. And it's just kind of sad what happened to Dennis Smith Jr. Another thing about CP3 saying that he would have made an All-Star team after 2018-2019 season through the entries and his age, yikes. The Vic and Diary returned to a full-time point guard duties and all of that stuff, age, life, fine wine. For sure, I love to see that so many people were wrong about Chris Paul because this was kind of a consensus about CP3. Then I said that he was washed, but a lot of people thought that his career was starting to decline and that again, he wouldn't be an All-Star again and he was an All-Star last year. He's going to be an All-Star this year. I'm pretty sure he was an All-Star to get before that when he was with OKC. So he was able to completely turn his career around after the time with the Rockets. Ooh, Jimmy Butler trade for Zach in the seventh pick was a bust. Zach will now recover from his injury and we just lost our best player. One that I could talk about because I was there in the moment and you know what, Mr. Benjamin 9292? I was similar to you in this trade. Actually, on my Reddit account, from the day that this trade happened, I was sitting at home in my fire guard packed shirt. We knew that Jimmy Butler was getting traded. We just didn't know what the package was. And when it ended up being that, I was very skeptical because Zach Levine had just towards ACL. And that was right around the time that me and my guy started our podcast. And Zach Levine was up for an extension and we were talking about him in restrictive free agency. Remember Zach Levine came back to play but he only played like half a season if I'm not mistaken with the Bulls. And he looked decent, but we were trying to figure out and as a podcast, what would be a number in restrictive free agency that would be too much in the Bulls shouldn't match? And I think I went on that podcast and said, if somebody offers him $25 million, we shouldn't match. Thank God I was wrong. I think he got offered 20 from the Sacramento Kings and we matched that. But if we were to let Zach Levine walk and he turned it to the star player that we got today, I would have been mad at myself. So that is a moment where I was completely wrong. But I think that I wasn't crazy in that opinion because at that point, he had showed flashes of him being an elite level scorer but he was known as a dunker around the league and he was coming off an ACL injury. So I didn't think he was going to be as electric. And I was wrong. That's Zach Levine. And now give him the Super Max. Anything less than that is a disappointment front office. He actually got a lot of different opinions about the Bulls. He said he thought Lonzo was a bus and now he's on the Bulls and he's good. Alex Caruso was a meme and only got recognized because of LeBron. I think a lot of people thought this and now that he's in Chicago playing better, a lot of the Lakers fans like, man, he been doing that. Which is true, Caruso was good before he got to the Bulls, 100%. But just more opportunity with the Bulls is just made it a little bit better. That's all, that's all. Alex Caruso was not an all defensive caliber player or all defensive caliber bus player with the Lakers. He might've been having that type of defensive impact. It's hard to explain what I'm trying to think. Oh man. Oh look, Clay is going to shoot the free throws. He must be okay. Oh man. There is another Reddit post that was on the front page this morning about the amount of money Clay Thompson has made since his injury and it's kind of crazy. So before his injury, Clay Thompson had earned $78.8 million in his career. Since his injury, he's made $84 million. He's made more money while being injured than playing. That's insane, Clay. Go get your bag. Go get another bro. Can't wait to see Clay Thompson back. But yeah, I didn't think this because I saw Kobe, right? I saw Kobe shoot his free throws and then get pulled out of the game. So I didn't think he was going to be okay, but I also didn't think that was going to be the first injury that was going to move him out of the NBA for two years. It's still early, but I lost my mind when the wraps took Scotty. Little did I know how talented it was. I think maybe a lot of people didn't lose their mind, but a lot of people thought that Jalen Sutch was going to go number four because y'all needed a guard then. And I was doing my draft, my yearly draft stream of the draft. And a lot of people were saying that that wasn't a bad pick, so I trusted my chat and my chat ended up being right because Scotty Barnes is super, super talented. Yeah. I genuinely thought the Kings would turn a corner after one decent season. They had three years ago. I thought Fox was immersed as a star and they were going to burst into the playoffs next season and they fired the coach. They got them there. I had Luke Walton out of all people. Fox never got better. Rest of the team regressed and they still suck. Kings basketball is hell. I am 100% in this boat. Dave Yeager had them boys hooping and they were the 10th seed that season. And if they were the 10th seed now they would have been in the playing and that was a success. They were running, they was playing great. And then Luke Walton came in and they went from one of the top five paces in the NBA to one of the bottom five paces in the NBA and everything has been bad since then. Fragrant Flee will never be a true point guard and can't run an offense. That is not the case because he's been really good this season. So yeah, that was a bad take. I was convinced Ben Simmons was going to develop some kind of shot even if it was just a small mere range. Here's my prediction and we're going to end the video off right here. Ben Simmons will develop some sort of a shot. Ben Simmons will not be a three point shooter but he will develop something that makes him somewhat of a threat late in games. I am still a believer in Ben Simmons though he has not played and all what seems like almost a year and he's been sitting at home denying checks. I still don't believe we're Ben Simmons and him progressing as an NBA player. So that, you remember how I said I wanted to make a bold prediction that was similar to Yoko to be a star? Is that a bold prediction? I don't really think that's that bold. But let me know in the comment section what your worst or weakest take has been over the last three to five years and we will review them and laugh. Cause that's what we do. Enjoy basketball, y'all.