 What's the word y'all the NBA always gives you something to talk about man We had a three game slate yesterday and only one of those games ended up being competitive at all But we also had the NBA 75 Liz being complete We had some new Ben Simmons news this morning and though I don't want to talk about Ben Simmons news This might be a a light at the end of the tunnel situation where we can finally say it's all over We'll talk about that I didn't get to watch the first two games of this late live But I woke up earlier this morning to do my new diligence so I watched those games even though they were blowouts I had to see what Jason Kidd's offense is looking like for the first game in a season And I had to see what the Miami Heat were looking like so I'll talk about all of that After you leave a like after you subscribe and after we talk about what I want to talk about the NBA 75 first Now if you didn't know this is the 75th anniversary of the NBA's existence was a huge W and once it hit the 50th Mark they had a list of the top 50 players of all time These players got nice leather jackets and they got the accolade of being the top 50 players of the existence of the NBA It's huge. So for the 75th anniversary, they were like let's expand this list now when they announced that they were gonna do it And one of my main question was What do they do about the first original 50? Are they the first original 50 just cemented in or is there some wiggle room and The answer was it was cemented in and that's how I knew that this list was about to be on some other stuff There were some huge snubs, but none of them were bigger to me than the white Howard now understand Some of you may not remember prime to white Howard or even really recognize how great of a player The white Howard was for half a decade, but let me fill you in. So these are just his awards according to Wikipedia Go medalist NBA champion is a role player, but still played a big part of that eastern conference champion He went head-to-head with LeBron James in the conference finals and beat LeBron James One is division three times the main guy won three defensive player years There's only two players in the NBA history more defensive player years in the white Howard eight times all star selection six times starter a Time all NBA selection five of those being first team Which means that he was the best center in the league voted best center in the league for half of a decade five time all defensive selection Six would you care about player of the months? Whatever? Don't contest check that should have gave it to a 2008 contest champion 2007 2008 the white Howard's fifth in MVP voting cool next year fourth in MVP voting next year fourth in MVP voting next year second Second behind dare-grows who you know I'm saying their girls got almost every single first I'm just gonna say that but whatever so the people that voted for this list were commentators were analysts Former players and current players There's some people that voted on this list that are actually on the list was a W So we got people that played against the greatest players and watched the greatest players And I think that makes for a nice mixture of ballots, right? And I had to come to the realization that there there's definitely a scale here, right? Because I think we can all agree and this is not a shot at the earlier players I'm not specifically talking about a person or somebody on this list because I didn't get to watch 6070s and even 80s basketball, you know what I'm saying But I think we can all agree a second tier superstar in the 60 slash 70s It's not even close to the talent level of a second tier superstar now, right? Can we agree on that because now we got kids growing up with a basketball in their hand by the age of one And that's their soul dream to make it to the NBA in the 60s to 70s These boys was going to war the company and like I guess I'll be a Hooper now I'm a I'm a licensed carpenter, but I'm 6-3. So let me get an NBA cop like it's a little it's a little bit Different but I can't look at this list and see some of the names on it and look at the resumes of the names on it And think that the white how it was supposed to be left off this list And the white how it is not even the only snub that I think but I think he is the biggest snub considering the sheer amount of dominance that this man had for half a decade now you can look at the fact that He got clown for the last what six years or so of his career before he's got a championship with the LA Lakers He was team hopping a team hopping, but that shouldn't neglect negate The time of his NBA career where he was the most dominant big on both sides of the floor I'm just saying I it was just so weird to me especially since they expanded the list and it was actually 66 days because there was a tie They said they will never release the ballot So we don't know who would have left the white Howard off or where he actually ranked of snubs But him not being on this list was was was ridiculous to me Hey, y'all lucky. I'm nice because there's some names on his list where if I wanted to be if I wanted to be on some other Stuff I can name some players in his list that I know do I have what would have been whatever Let's transition over to the Ben Simmons thing. I've mentioned this plenty of times before I don't like it's like talking about the Ben Simmons situation But um today's a little bit different y'all notice I really talked about the last like two weeks of reports or something like that Today's a little bit different because we got this from Shoms Ben Simmons spoke to Doc Rivers Drawing being the entire team today and except everyone needs to take responsibility including himself But Simmons informed him that he is not mentally ready to play yet and needs time Okay, Simmons has to be evaluated now and the next steps will be based upon determination of medical professionals So now why is this different? Whoa my light went out. Oh snap. I'm not joking when I say this is a big part This light is a big part of the atmosphere and I will not continue until I find my charger from the very beginning I said that everybody needs to take accountability Ben Simmons teammates ownership Coaching staff front office everybody played their own role in us getting to where we are today Well, that'd be a small role or a big role Everybody played a part in the moment that everybody admits it their faults We were gonna get on that next step or that next step be Ben Simmons playing for the team or the next step being him getting Traded we needed that baseline so we can get over that hump and we could figure out what is happening next and today might have Been that day him sitting down with Joel is huge I don't know what happened in the conversation But the fact that it happened is huge for the next part of what is going on with Ben Simmons now this next part I Don't even know if I want to touch it There's nothing I can say you can say That that would negate the fact that Ben Simmons might be dealing with his own mental blockage I can nobody can look into Ben Simmons's mind to say that oh he's faking it just because he wants to be traded I've seen people say it and it might it might be true It might be true But I can't look Ben Simmons in his face and say nah, bro You need to hoop because I don't know what's going on and Ben Simmons is mine now They are report. I think it was Jackie McMullen that was like a couple weeks ago or a couple days ago She was saying I think the next move for Ben Simmons's camp is to is to call mental health Right or something along those lines because if I say ah my back hurt They'd like give him x-rays cat skins give him everything and if my back comes back cool They'd like you're good, bro There's nothing that I can say or anybody can say about someone else's mental health to prove that they are ready to do Anything so the fact that they're saying he'll be reevaluated with his mental health soon is is I don't think there's anything They could say That will push Ben Simmons to play if he doesn't think he's ready to play so again fine line I don't want to talk about other people's mental health because your brother's going through some stuff, too but some people called this and listen medicine afford our tests in the very beginning that Ben Simmons was dealing with some type of blockage and I think I agreed with them like like for him to be in a position to pass up on the dunk in the game seven That close when he is a six foot eleven beast in this tray young garden him There's some type of mental blockage for him to go to every offseason and take a thousand three pointers and post videos online But never showcase that in the game. There's some type of mental blockage there So I can't say that he's not dealing with mental health issues But I can see a world where it's not necessarily true and it's his camp just trying to get deeper and deeper with him Not playing but also trying to get traded um Darrym more We went on the radio yesterday, and I don't think him and his team is bluffing when they say listen We'll set out his entire contract. We're not trading him away for nothing We have the prime of Joel and beats career, and we're not gonna waste it But not getting anything for Ben Simmons is low-key kind of wasting it because we're not getting any assets for a guy That's good enough to get us you know what I'm saying And I think that Ben Simmons can't probably saw that and they're like, oh, I don't think Darryl's bluffing So let's try to figure out this next step and that next step with some meeting with the team Wow, okay, let's move on to the top the three games of the day Y'all didn't even know how long I looked for that charger for that little thing Part of me wanted to get rid of it and just like you know what we'll find it tomorrow But again, it's part of the atmosphere You know I'm saying we got this rare room in a rare light see rare Bulls pre-season opener home opener I'm going to that thing. Let's talk about these games though The first game of the day was the Atlanta hogs beating up on the Dallas Mavericks again I didn't watch this game live But I had to go back and re-watch it because it was Jason Kidd's first game as a head coach of the Dallas Mavericks and I want to see what he was doing different because there were a lot of talks about Jason Kidd going to meet up a Chris Daps for Zyngas and Laffia, I had to think about it for Laffia to talk about his role with this next team Luca Donchez was like man We've got to do some things that's different with poor Zyngas He's playing with a different amount of confidence and we got this whole defensive thing a whole different offensive thing Because before Riccarla had these boys Luca uses rate out of this world Nobody's beating that uses rate and we're gonna have his shooters around him And he gonna pick apart a defensive fine shooters and that made for one of the most efficient offenses of all time Now Jason Kidd took that and and tear some things down. I have some notes here Let me read let me read you my notes from this morning seven o'clock in the morning I first woke up and watch this game note number one Dora Finney Smith is posting up too much and when I wrote that he had posted up one time and I immediately wrote he was posting up too much Because listen Trey Young is not a defender right so every game of Trey Young career for the end of it He's gonna try to get he's gonna be hit on the defensive side of the ball And that aside was Dora Finney Smith because the last couple years of Dora Finney Smith career sitting the corner catch three shoot Threes they're like no we gonna try to take advantage of those mismatches And they didn't really work out because Dora Finney Smith probably practice a post move since I don't even know when we saw Note number two poor Zyngas can't take advantage of mismatches They did mention that poor Zyngas do more than just stretch the floor He tried to get to the to mid post he tried to get to the low post the high post and he wasn't moving anybody You know like y'all know that picture of Carthony towns trying to back down to Marcus Cousins Yeah, that's what it felt like poor Zyngas was trying to do no matter who was guarding him John Collins was killing him in the post. They got the switches where where Deandre Hunter was guarding them Deandre Hunter Stop all of that You know what I'm saying and it Again, it might take some time, but there was a reason and Rick Carlisle talked about this like two years ago He was asked why does why don't we get more post-touching poor Zyngas? And he was like Look at the statistics a poor Zyngas post up is blank blank blank below league average when it comes to points per possession And we'd rather not do that even though he does have this big size of Venice. It's not something he's good at Charles Barkley went on to the half-time show he's like a mismatch is a mismatch which is true But if your player doesn't practice these mismatches and the player can't take advantage of these mismatches I'm not trying to give him the ball doing the mismatches So Jason can't try to do that And maybe it's about developing a confidence and developing them into a point where he is trying to do that But the Mavericks our team is trying to win do we have time to be to be trying to progress a player That was an all-star three four years ago. I don't really know another note Willy coli Stein shot a jump shot stop it cut it all out I if I see another Willy coli Stein jump shot for the rest of this season I will not I'm still watch but ridiculous The offense was not five out and because that Luca didn't have room to operate and when he got to the paint It was Clint Capella being there and it was Deandre Hunter being there Which we'll talk about Deandre Hunter's great defense on on Luca tonight. It was overall super ugly I do think they're gonna get better in this offensive scheme because it's game one under a new coach But game one was not very good for them offensively other side let's talk about the Atlanta Hawks because Earlier in the day Trey young says something along the lines a lot of people are counting us out Everybody got the top three teams yada yada in the conference and nobody's mentoring our name We was just in the conference finals and they played like they were just in the conference finals It wasn't pretty Trey young did not have a pretty game 6 for 16 in the first quarter I don't even know if he scored But everybody else was there Deandre Hunter and Cam Reddice's assignment on Luca Dodgers was disgusting Every star player that is a ball handling is going to have a crazy night because you think I'll Deandre Hunter off the court Whoo. All right. Let's go get some buckets Cam Reddice is there Cam Reddice career are just early in his career is amazing They were talking about how he was bullied by Lloyd Pierce and that was one of the reasons why everybody wanted Lloyd Pierce out there. He had he had Cam Reddice who was a McDonald's all-american was one of the top Recruited players his confidence was an all-time low under Lloyd Pierce and what I saw from game number one is Cam Reddice is trying to be different He ended with 20 points and we see times where players luck into 20 points not luck into it But like the shots were there like I'm opening the corner. Nike. Yes. I'm shooting five or five for three No, Cam Reddice came off that bench and it was like this is my unit I'm going to take the shots and he did that and that's some of the things that we saw from Cam Reddice and high school and a little bit In college and obviously in college he failed down the draft board But these are the type of things we wanted to see from Cam Reddice because we knew the defensive impact was going to be there And now that the office is coming around to the Atlanta Hawks and one of the most deep teams in the entire league Because when Trey Young is going to the bench, you're gonna see some cam Kevin Herter the law right was one of my favorite backup point guards He didn't have a good game today, but he's one of my favorite backup point guards last year They got that you got cam coming off the bench Gorshy Chang is an amazing pick up to hold down minutes. Why Yaka Kang was coming back. It seems good, man And John Collis is arc as a defender amazing Listen, I would not like to go against this team in a seven-game series. No way. No, sir So shout to them for getting that win second game Keep it brief the Bucks were missing like six seven players And when I saw the lineup of them starting Pat Conniton at the center technically Yeah, this is center, but you understand Pat Conniton at the center. I was like, oh, there's no way You know I'm saying Justin Robson played 27 minutes And I know a lot of that was after the game was pretty much over But still they were missing so many prayers Brooke Drew Bobby really really good rotational players in the championship team were not there But I still want to do I still want to give credit to the Miami He because they came out was like this game was circle I know a circle for PJ Tucker It was circle it was seasoned opener and this team like humiliated us last year We'll come out and play the BAM versus Yanis matchup was amazing yesterday And for this game one of them matching up because each other BAM on a bio one He got him into early foul trouble to take advantage of that all of last not all of last But like the the postseason run that they have which is what five games four games I felt like BAM was not looking at the rim He came out with the aggression that you want to see from BAM on a bio and a defensive impact because Yanis Could not do a damn thing on the offense side of the ball when he was guarded by BAM And that's the type of defense that I think the Miami He they're gonna bring for the entirety of the season Jimmy Kyle BAM PJ ridiculous Tyler hero had a baby So you know he was gonna drop 27 So good game for them. I want to see them play again with both teams being healthy And the last game was the best game of the day But even with that being said I don't have a lot to say about the exes of nose and stuff like that I want to say that obviously watching Steph Curry do is taking that first quarter was incredible And there's a moment that I saw when I woke up this morning of Paul George being mic'd up and talking to Stephen Curry like hey Give us one from the logo it was like a minute left in the game and Steph Curry shot from the logo and I said it was Steph Curry's version of when MJ shot the free throw with his eyes closed like oh you want to see me do something I'm gonna do it even if the game is on the line I'm gonna do that and Steph Curry was amazing in the first quarter and in the second half second quarter We're not gonna talk about them Dubs fans. It was nasty a ton of turnovers the fact that y'all turn the ball over as much as y'all did and still came out He would have victory is a testament to Steph Curry going on supernova Paul George second quarter Don't want to look over that Paul George in the second quarter yet 18 points by himself MVP G13 type performance from Paul George Reggie Jack just started to score a little bit in the fourth quarter His final stats were four for 19 and he kind of sold me because I took the over and you needed one more point But whatever this clippers team is good though Obviously the clippers team is good and they're gonna surprise a lot of people his team is it's still probably gonna be a playoff team without Kawhi Leonard being there and the only thing I could think of the entire time of watching this game is that Kawhi Leonard is sitting sidelined and he got an album that's dropping in the hour We were the fourth quarter and I got the notification that Kawhi Leonard's album dropped So he's sitting there watching his team lose the game when he should be out partying Executively produced that I listened to the album. I saw who was on it and told myself. I'm good He said it was part one of like a series, so we'll see who else he can get on this album That's it though, man Let me know what you think about the NBA 75 the Benz semi-situation of three games late today We have a huge you slated games, but I am going to bulls versus Pelikus today, which means that obviously I won't be able to watch these other games So you probably won't get a recap for me tomorrow unless something crazy happened I come in and do what I did today where I watch it the next morning But a crazy slate of games man I'm excited to at least see who overperforms underperforms and until then I see y'all man base