 What's the word y'all? NBA opening night could not have been any better. It's like the universe knew that today was the day. We got two good games in my opinion, but we also got a lot of stuff to happen off the court that's worth talking about. Like Ben Simmons getting kicked out of practice and subsequently suspended from the 76ers. Then we saw Marvin Bagley completely kicked out of the rotation of the Sacramento Kings and his agency coming out and dropping a statement talking about this as a case study of bad management and just, ah, it's a lot of stuff going on. And then we waited a couple of hours and then we got games. And I'm here to talk about all of that. A couple of housekeeping things. For the beginning at least of the 2021-22 season, I want to start dropping these videos early in the morning. Now I'm recording this. Steph Curry is being interviewed right now. Apparently this is his first triple doubles in 2016. So I'm recording this fresh out of the game so it's in my mind, but I won't publish them super late at night anymore. We're gonna do it in the morning. We'll see how y'all like that and we'll adjust accordingly. But think of us as like the NBA version of Good Mythical Morning, but not as early and not everyday guaranteed. You understand? Okay, cool. I actually want to talk about the games first and we'll talk about the things outside of the games because I think that's what y'all are here for. So let's start off with game number one. We saw the Milwaukee Bucks going against the Brooklyn Nets and I am here to overreact to everything. I like how we watch one game of the NBA season and we already have our opinions about certain teams because we've been voided of like real basketball that's worth anything. So this is our only sample size. So let's take it as that. Giannis, like I said yesterday is the MVP of the league. That boy was unstoppable. As confident as ever playing both sides of the floor, but y'all already knew that because you've been watching these videos. The Brooklyn Nets were missing a few things. It looked like those boys retired. But even with that saying, it felt like they were able to flip a switch and they really needed to and dropped the lead down to like five. But defensively them boys was not getting back on defense and there were an extreme, extreme amount of defensive miscommunications where like something will happen on the Bucks offense and then Blake Griffin and LaMarca Solis looking at each other like, I don't know. Some of those things will get better, but we did see this team struggle from the defensive side of the ball in the regular season last year. So some of the things might not completely get figured out, but I do think there's gonna be a learning curve because they do have new players getting into the locker room and even when they were together, they were very good. But it was cool to see Giannis and Kevin O'Ranck go head to head man. I think all of the star players that we saw today had a good game. Like Steph Curry didn't have a good shooting game, but I just mentioned he had his first triple double in the last five years. So he had a win, I guess. All of the big players that we know and love, that we wanted to see have good performances did that. Kevin O'Ranck offensively was crazy. He had a stretch. I think it was either in the third quarter or the fourth quarter where it felt like he was unstoppable and Giannis literally was unstoppable. He was doing everything. There is a moment in the fourth quarter where Giannis got pulled out of the game with like six minutes to go. The crowd gave him a standing ovation because they were about 15 or 20 at this point and the world just thought, okay, Giannis is sitting. And then like two minutes later, Coach Bub put him back into the game and I was like, I don't like this. These are bad vibes for me. I've been here when I saw my superstar player going to a game when it was already over and in the beginning of the season, no, he's good. So he put it back into the game for like two more minutes and brought him out again. It was a very, very weird thing. I hope that Juhade is okay because he started off really, really good. And I placed some things on his over and him going out of injury kind of screwed up my, yeah, the eggs, but hey, I hope he is completely okay. But there are some star players that we want to shine the light on outside of Giannis because I told myself in a video from in my main channel, like maybe two weeks ago that when Jordan, dang, I had it. Jordan Wara, Jordan Wara, I gotta Google it again because at this point I said specifically in my video, if Jordan Wara hits three three pointers in the regular season game, I will learn his name and get it down pat. And here I am coming into the show, going back on my word. Let me Google it one more time. Everybody knew that Jordan Wara, Wara, Wara, it's not as hard as I'm making it. I just see two consonants next to each other in the N and the W and my brain doesn't recognize that, you know, the dyslexia. I'm always gonna go back to that. It's the dyslexia. We saw in his rookie season that he was able to score the ball. It was all the outside things that we worried about and he showed a lot of those too. And if he's a quality NBA player for them, that's great. I mean, I didn't really realize how many players are gonna be injured from pretty much every team that played today was dealing with a good amount of injuries. So we saw Jordan Nora step up huge and he's gonna be a good rotational player for them the entire season, I believe. We also saw Finances onto the Kumpo get minutes is something I didn't expect for day number one. But again, they're dealing with injuries. Justin Robson had to play a couple of minutes because that's when Drew Hallying went down. So it was really Jordan Wara, Wara. Next episode I promise I'm not gonna mess it up. And though Grayson Allen shot three for 10, I promise you he was way more impactful to the game than his three for 10. I guess he had six assists and four rebounds, two steals. And that was one of the reasons why they extended him. They saw him, his ability to not think and just shoot the ball, that could go a very long way for a team that's like the Bucks. You have so many dribble penetration guys and now you gotta open corner three at this and that. If this, I saw somebody on Twitter that say if he shot his season average today and it was one of the player, a Peck Hodgson, if they both shot their season average, this game would have been way over it, way earlier. And it ended up being kind of a blowout. We were doing a show on our podcast channel. So I pretty much had to listen to the first quarter of the game instead of watching it. When I got home, it was like 25, 21 to seven. I was like, yeah, this is probably reps. Even though they have James Harden and Kevin Arrant, I don't see the Bucks giving up on the lead like that. Now we talked about how the Bucks needed better defense, they weren't give back with defense. A lot of defensive miscommunications for part of it and he got better throughout the game. Nicholas Klax, it felt like he could not play against the Bucks and I'm sure that's gonna change. If they're gonna see each other in the playoffs, Nicholas Klaxon has to be a player that can play because of his size, right? They needed the upgrade on defense. And as crazy as it is to say, for a team that has Kevin Arrant and James Harden, they needed more shot creation. Do you know what I'm getting at? They need Kyrie Irvin, they need Kyrie Irvin. They need Kyrie Irvin. I believe that this team could be a competent, good championship quality team without Kyrie. But to put them over the top in the matchups like this, where James wasn't as aggressive as you want him to be, and Kevin Arrant can't score everything, a guy like Kyrie Irvin is a great guy to have. 50, 40, 90, 27 points per. They need him back. They need James Harden or Kevin Arrant to do the crying in the parking lot, calling him like, bro, please get the, come on, we need you. We need you. Not super overreacting though, but I don't think the Brooklyn Nets have won in Milwaukee in the last seven games or so. So a little kryptonite right there. That crowd was incredible. Good ring ceremony, the warmup jackets with the gold and the white was dope. The rings are dope. The banner going up, it was amazing tonight. I didn't expect them to actually win because I thought there was gonna be some championship overlay with the banner and then the championship ring ceremony. I thought they was gonna come out lack today's cool. They did exactly the opposite of that. Shout out to the Bucks. And just a reminder for people and for newer guys, when I'm do these recap type videos, there's no script, there's no anything. I'm just talking about the things that I saw that's on my mind. And typically when I get to the edit part process, I'm like, dang, I forgot to, I forgot to say this. Follow me on Twitter though, because I do be live tweeting these games. Let's transition to the second game of the day. We are in a state who sent us for the Warriors versus the Lakers. A couple hours before I saw Chris Haines tweet. I don't know if he was the first one to have it, but the starting lineups, I saw Russell Westburn, Ken Baysmore, LeBron, Anthony Davis, and Deondra Jordan. And I was disappointed. I was extremely disappointed. I realized that Wayne Ellerton was injured and they just need more shooting in that lineup. And the fact that Anthony Davis didn't wanna start at center, now he did play a ton of center today, so I'm not gonna fault him for that. And he played amazingly today. He ended up playing a ton of center. But the fact that he still needs a center to start alongside him, whether they're playing 12 minutes like Deondra Jordan did, or the 12 minutes that Dwight Howard got, and just like, oh, like, okay, they started off pretty solid. Anthony Davis could not miss. LeBron's days I think started off seven for seven, six for six. They looked really good, but Deondra Jordan got the first pass of the game and didn't do anything else for the entire game. Ken Baysmore ended up with eight points, but I feel like he had one total shot the entire game. And talking about overreactions, trending on Twitter right now is Russell Westbrook. Final stat line for Russell Westbrook was three points, five assists. No, I'm sorry, eight points, four assists, five. I was looking at Rondo stat line, which they might as well be the same thing. Not great. He shot four for 13th in the field, 0 for four from three, did not get to the line one time. Not one, two, super overreact, but this was a bad start. And at the halftime show, Charles Barkley was trying to put it in perspective for people at home. Now when you're joining a team like the Lakers that already have championship pedigree, and now you're coming in and being the third fiddle, it can take some time to really adjust to being that third guy. And I do believe we saw some of that today with Russell Westbrook. I'm not expecting him to average eight, five, and four for the entire season, but they're going to need him to step it up because they're top two guys, look like top two guys. LeBron showcased to the world that I'm still one of the best players in the league. Anthony Davis is trying to get rid of that mantra around him. Charles Barkley before the game even started called him street close. You know, and everybody knows that he's banged up every single game. Last year was a down year for him. He's got called soft, I've heard a lot. And he came out and he was guns blazing. The only thing about him that I can really, really criticize today is he didn't hit his free throws, which is not Anthony Davis like shooting 2% for 80 from a free throw line is something I don't know if I've ever seen before, but the rest of the team outside of AD and outside LeBron look buns. And even with that being said, they were still in this game until the very end, but nobody else showed an impact other than Ava Bradley, who sat on the bench for three and a half quarters, played the last eight minutes and basically was the third best player on the team today in his eight minutes play. And I know for every single team, because even when I go back to the first game, Bruce Brown and planted garbage minutes, you're gonna see for the first week or two for every single team out there, coaches are playing around with rotations trying to figure some things out. So yes, Ava Bradley got picked up yesterday and immediately came to LA. I would expect him in game number two to play more than eight minutes because he showcased, hey, I can still defend because he had some moments on Steph Curry in that eight minutes where he was looking really solid and I can still hit some shots. They needed somebody to do it because it was just him. Rondo hit one, Mellow hit two, Malik Monk hit two, but it felt like it was just weird out there, man. They got a lot to figure out, but luckily for them it was a long season and they have the pedigree of leadership and stardom to weather the storm and look, I'm pretty sure they're gonna be better. But I would have told people to bet against the Lakers today because LeBron James has not won an opening night game since 2017, that is a fact. So I would have told people to bet against them in the Warriors. Let's talk about them because they won this game. Steph Curry shot five for 21 and they won this game. That's insane. I don't know if that's credited to them or that's a knock on the Lakers for not being able to capitalize with Steph Curry having a bad game. Jordan Poole came into that third quarter who's the early fourth quarter and I made the corny joke of it was a pool party and the Lakers were invited. He's a microwave guy. He didn't start off that hot, but he had a period in the game where he was doing his thing. There was also a period in this game where the Warriors were like waiting to bring Steph and Draymond in and they had all bench players and the Lakers were practically out there with the starters, Bron, AD, Russell Westburn on the court and the Lakers could not take advantage in the fact that Steph Curry and Draymond Green, the two most impactful players, were not on the court. That's a bad sign, but it's also a good thing for the Warriors because last year they were about a league average offensive team but when you watch the Warriors play when they're working at like a whale-oiled machine, there's no better basketball in the league and I just cannot wait for Clay Thompson to be back. Nemanja Bialitza is a guy that when he was signed I was like, that's a good pickup if he can give you anything because the last time, last memory I have in Nemanja Bialitza is him being on the heat and him not being able to even hit the rotation on the heat who traded for him, right? Was it the heat? Let me double-take him, I'm pretty sure it was the heat. Survey says it was the heat. They traded for him from the Kings and he basically didn't hit the rotation for the second half of the season and if I'm not mistaken once playoffs came around he wasn't getting any PT. Last year, yeah, he was getting like 15 per. So when they signed him I was like, that could be a good sign depending on which version of him you get and he was amazing, 15 points, 11 rebounds and what I didn't really realize in the first couple of years in Nemanja Bialitza's career is how good of a playmaker he was. He was running the Dreymont Green role when Dreymont Green was on the bench. I'm like, whoa, is that what we about to get off the bench for him? Otto Porter didn't have a good game but defensively you ask him to guard LeBron from Spurz and though LeBron had a great game I think Otto Porter did a solid job guarding him wants to scuttle Anderson doing some crazy stuff playing hustle plays and the best thing about this for the Warriors at least they won this game with their best shooters did not shoot the ball well 25% from three from Stephen Curry, 36% you'll take 36% from Jordan Poole but on 11 attempts who else, who else, Damian Lee won for five these are players that they're expected to be 38, 39, 40% three point shooters and they didn't hit that today but they still ended up winning the game. Kevon Looney I took the over on this point he had that joint in the first quarter I don't think he scores since then I don't think he scores since then so maybe I underrated what the Warriors could be this season. I just didn't believe that a lot of people would be able to learn this offense pretty similar to last year where they started off struggling they had so many young players coming in and players that never run the system and though they do have a lot of new players in the team they still have people like Steph like Jordan Poole who's been here, Kevon Looney basically they're starting five had been there for at least a season and they know the offense and then off the bitch Iggy is back wants to scuttle Anderson, Damian Lee these are players that have been in the system for the last couple years and they're starting to learn it and boy it is beautiful in this work because there's not a selfish player on the team yes Jordan Poole is like a shock chucker type dude but he's willing to make the extra pass when you need him to and it's amazing and those two games man though they weren't like down to the wire buzzer beater games they were fun for me and maybe it's just because I haven't seen basketball if we had the same slate of games and December and both of these games ended up the same way maybe I wouldn't be as optimistic or excited about it but it was the first games of the season man that's great so instead of talking about Ben Simmons because I'm tired of talking about Ben Simmons in the 76ers I want to talk about the Marvin Baggler thing because they kind of came out of nowhere for me and he is not in the rotation like he was told by whether it be Luke Walden or ownership management that he will not be in the rotation to start the season and I think that is extremely, extremely wild and listen I'm not saying that Marvin Baggler is a guy that deserves 35 minutes but when you look at what they have on that team I just kind of assumed that he was going to come off the bench like he had been at least get some type of minutes and they're just saying he's not getting any and listen I would be lying to you if I told you that I was watching a significant amount of Sacramento Kings game last year but he, oh I'm sorry he started almost every game that he played last year which is 42 games, 14 points per he basically has put up the same statistics the entirety of his career he's has injuries here and there so he never plays over 50% of the season but for him to be completely out of the rotation is kind of weird let me read this to you Sacramento has informed Marvin Baggler he is not in the open to night rotation which is completely baffling it's clear they have no plan for him in the future and yet passed on potential deals at last year's deadline and this summer based on value and said they chose to bring him back but not play him a move completely contradictory to their value argument in this case study in management oh this is a case study in management by the Kings organization that's from Jeff Schwartz and listen I even tweeted after this came out the fact that he's not in the rotation is wild to me and I saw some die hard Sacramento Kings fans the people that I trust the people who watch them every single night since not that wild and they proceeded to list off players that are better than him nine players are the better than him but even if that is the case if this is what Jeff Schwartz is saying right here they passed up on deals based on value on the deadline in this summer based on value to bring a player back and not allow him to play does nothing but negatively impact his value negatively impact his value there's no team that was willing to give you two solid players of Marvin Baggley three months ago the fact that he's not even in a rotation and be willing to give you those same quality players it's not gonna happen so I listen I'm not saying I'm pro Marvin Baggley because I don't know what the heck he's gonna be in his career but him not being in a rotation on a team like this is again you understand so what is next for him um well not he doesn't have much trade value the only thing I can see happen here's my trade prediction I think I may have saw this on Twitter so it's not like I came up with it myself it was the Marvin Baggley for Thaddeus Young trade once Thaddeus Young is able to get traded the Kings are trying to make a push for the playoffs Thaddeus Young was basically the bulls second and third best player for a lot of last season that's a fact and I don't know if he's gonna replicate that this year but if that is the type of player you're getting the Sacramento Kings can use that and the Spurs are in the rebuild mode so why not take a flyer on a dude who is gonna hit restrictive free agency but based on what he's done so far he's not gonna get that many offers so take a shot on the dude for a guy that you probably don't even want on your team anyway do I expect each one of these videos to be this long realistically speaking probably cause look tomorrow's Slater Games though we got like 10 games and though obviously I can't watch all of the 10 games I'm gonna have to cherry pick which ones I do do watch and talk about all of those I'm sorry 11 games tomorrow man man man I cannot explain bulls basketball is back so that's a W what is my favorite game of the day tomorrow ESPN has Nuggets vs. Sons that is a must watch NSES on national tv Celtics vs. Nick should be good too am I sleeper from best game of the day my sleeper is going to be Rockets vs. Timberwolves a bunch of fun players in those two organizations so them going against each other should be fun so let me know in the comment section what is your opinion slash overreactions from day one we're not gonna fault you if you overreact dawg everybody knows it's day number one and we just out here getting our feelings a little bit so I'll be reading those comment sections and I'll see y'all tomorrow, peace