 What's the word, y'all? What are your most unpopular NBA opinions? Feel free to leave them in the comment section, but this was a question that was asked on Reddit, and this comes up once every, like, what, two months over on Reddit, but I'm always intrigued to dive into it because I just want to see what other people are thinking because sometimes I see someone's unpopular opinion. I'm like, man, they kind of write on that. A lot of the times I see someone say unpopular opinion, but in the thing that they say it's not even an unpopular opinion, it's damn nitty consensus. I don't want to see that today. I hope we don't see that today, but we're going to go through this Reddit thread and just react to some of the unpopular opinions that other NBA fans have. Leave a like, subscribe. I want to say shout out to Raul Raja for starting it off. They give us 10 of their own, and I'm beyond as with you. I don't want to spend the entire video on your own, so I'm going to go through the first one. The NBA's draft age should be raised. Oh my God, he's already starting off. That is a legitimate unpopular opinion. Players will come in more developed. Okay, hmm, we're going to make an argument. We're going to make an argument against these. Rebuilds will be shorter, and there will be more scouting opportunities. Yeah, I'm completely against this. I'm assuming that the next level to be raising the age has to be 21, because right now it'll be 19 or one year removed from what would have been your college season. I don't know what the hell the rules are. I am very pro. If someone wants to give you a job at a high school of millions and millions of dollars, and you want to say yes, then you should have that opportunity. So I'm saying I would like to see straight out of high school and basketball again. Understand that that somewhat hurts the product, and I think that's what these guys allude into when we go into getting players that are one year removed from college, even in my example, going straight out of high school, the product is going to suffer because everybody's shooting for the fences. Oh, we want to get that 19-year-old, because by the time he is 23, he might be one of the best players in basketball, and we see a lot of bust. We see a lot of people not hit that full potential because everybody's drafted full potential instead of just drafting the best player available. But like, dawg, if we've raised it up to 21, that mean we wouldn't have got the first couple of seasons of John Moran. The hype that was Zion Williamson, Palo Ben Carro averages like 20-something points per game, he's 19. We were told, bro, stay over there, stay over there and duke for two more seasons. I think that does more hurt than greatness for the league and for these young people growing up. Because as y'all know, in the game of sports, something can end just like that. Can you imagine a dude that would be good enough to come out at 19-years-old but they had to stay for two more seasons and boom, a rupture of the killings happens? Like that wraps, you're done. So I really don't like this. I mean, you can make the argument like he does that people be more developer, but I would argue that there's nothing better than NBA development. That planning college is not getting you ready for the NBA exactly because the styles are stylistically different. Stylistically different. That's why we see so many players dominating college and then Scouts like, Tyler Hans, bro, he might be the greatest college player of our generation. We not drafting him in a top 10 or something like that. Man, that was extreme exaggeration. No disrespect, Tyler Hans, bro, but I was exaggerating. But you get what I'm saying. That guy was elite, like he's what? 13th all-time and points scored in college basketball history or something like that. Couldn't run in the NBA. He talked about the Bulls. Yeah, they're not gonna want to play off series with this score. We know that that's not an unpopular opinion. The Tim Bulls are making a mistake trying to build around Carthage Towns. It's an interesting one. And maybe what I'm about to say right now is an unpopular opinion. You let me know if I'm bugging or not. I don't think you should build around anybody that's not top 10 or damn near it. Because that's how you pigeonhole yourself to a roster that might be good enough to make the playoffs and win a couple of playoffs series. But that's it. You know, if I am a GM, I'm not building around a particular player unless that dude is really, really that goddamn good. And instead of rebuilding around Carthage Towns in this situation that we're talking about, I'm just gonna accumulate pieces that I think are good. We're not gonna say that, hey, Cat is our one and everything we do after this is because we wanna put Cat in the best position. I think you gotta be top 10 for that if I'm a general manager. But this off season, they did exactly that. They built around Carthage Towns. They knew Carthage Towns had a ceiling as your starting center when it comes to defensive side of the ball. So let's go get the best defensive center when it comes to rim deterrence and rim protection in the last 10 years. And they started off struggling through the first 20 or so games. And look, somebody said, I feel like this one is a pretty popular opinion. Talking about the Carthage Townsman. Okay, the Bulls just sell their parts and start over Zach Levine, is it a franchise player? It goes back to what I just said a couple seconds ago. Yeah, I mean, if you aren't a franchise player, I'm not building around you. I wouldn't even say that the Bulls try to build around Zach Levine. Because I don't know if a lot of the pieces on the roster are complimentary to what Zach Levine does. I mean, you can't say, hey, we building around Zach Levine, but in the last five minutes of the game, he not gonna touch the ball because DeMarco Rosen is really that nice. You know what I'm saying? I don't think they built around Zach Levine. I think they built a team to make the playoffs that just so happened to have Zach Levine as one of the best pieces. You know what I'm saying? Cause fit-wise, that's to be real. If you're building around Zach Levine, you're not going to get DeMarco Rosen and Nicola Woosiewicz because those aren't plus defenders and Zach Levine has never been a plus defender. You know what I'm saying? So that, I mean, that's a lot of Bulls fandom. Selling their parts is a play state they kind of want to be in, especially if Patrick Williams is more in it. And it's talking about, hey, I'm starting to feel like I could be a superstar. It's going to be hard for me to be available to a superstar if Zach Levine and DeMarco Rosen are there taking all the shots. I don't have an opinion either way. It's so hard to say when it is my team. I would tell every other organization, oh, you need to blow it up, oh, you need to buy, but when it is my team and I am emotionally attached to this organization, I can't say that we should hit the reset or we should be buying. I don't know. Last week I was so down after Jailer Suggs gamed us and then we won two back to back games against the Celtics and the Bucks. And then we came back and lost to the OKC Thunder. I don't know what my emotions should be with this Bulls team. This one right here is interesting. People keep telling me Evan Mobley is the next great big guy that he has first team only be a potential. And then I watch him play and barely notice him out there. I'm not saying he's a bad player, but I personally not seeing this potential next level star. And I can, I guess understand where this person's coming from, but I disagree completely. I do believe that Evan Mobley has a potential to be that good. And examples like tonight is why I say that when they're missing Jared Allen, so now it's a little bit easier for Evan Mobley to do the things that we see that Evan Mobley can do. Let me see if I can find a couple of possessions from the game that I watched against the Detroit Pistons. Obviously, I can't play you too many of these clips, but this is just a small sample size of the versatility that we as Evan Mobley truth or see when we watch him play. This one is just a screen with Darius Garland. His vision on a short roll is really, really developed for somebody that's basically what, just old enough to drink alcohol. I mean, we have bigs in the NBA right now that we all consider as really, really good bigs that don't have the vision to make that pass and he's 21 doing that. Or we could talk about the soft touch around the rim and he knows when to do like this little one-hander and when to try to dunk on you. And then sometimes Broke completely gets into his bag. This is a workout session high off the glass move. And if I can have you listen to the commentary, the Detroit Pistons commentator said, well, that was impressive. And it was, you know, so I am a truth of Evan Mobley. Obviously the defensive side of the ball, I need to show you highlights of that because you should know that Evan Mobley is really, really good of a defender as a big. But you know, him playing alongside Jared Allen for the first couple of years of his career is kind of pigeonholing his ability to just do what he could potentially do on the offensive end. And he's playing with Darius Garland and now Donovan Mitchell. So he'll always at the, not always, but for the first couple of years of this team being together, he will be looked at to be like the third option at the most because Darius and Donovan are such ball dominant, good guards, but you do have Darius who is one of the better passers in basketball, who goes to the podium after games and say, hey, Emobe is great. Emobe does this, Emobe does this, Emobe does that. And we gonna get him more involved. We want him to be more aggressive. They got good leadership. They got a good point guard and I think he's gonna be a star. This person says too much scoring makes the game boring. And we all have our own personal preference when it comes to basketball. I, myself, is a guy that loves a good grinded out game, that loves great defense, but I still don't agree with this. I know we have an all-time high of people averaging 30 points per game in a season. The shooting efficiency is basically an all-time high. The points per game is the highest it's been since like the mid-70s. So yes, we're having another scoring renaissance, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. I mean, we could be talking selfishly, but I think the scoring aspect is great for growing the game. This next generation that falls in love with basketball and becomes the NBA players of 20 years from now, I can't imagine how talented and good they're gonna be because you got all the footage in the world to watch Jamaran do his speed through move that I keep seeing on TikTok over and over and over. Kids doing this move. The Curry renaissance, or the three-point renaissance in the kids coming out and just shooting from half court already. I know bad for development, but when they hitting, they hitting. So I don't think it makes it boring. It does lead to maybe more blowouts than we would want in individual games, but this season, I don't have a status to prove this, feels closer than last season. I vividly remember last season coming on to this and be like, man, another day of blowouts, what do we even talk about? And I feel like every single night we at least got a couple very close games. So I mean, I don't know. I think defenses do ramp up obviously once we get to the postseason and we all know that. Lamella Ball is not a winning player and is not a franchise cornerstone type prospect. He's inefficient. He plays no defense, doesn't take care of the ball, and it's terrible shot selection. People give him way too much credit because he's flashy, but no one sees all the terrible moments. That, I mean, I can't really say that's a super hot take because you've got about 800 people that upvoted that. And you know what? There's probably people that upvoted it because it is a hot take, even if they don't completely agree. This is a tough one for me, because I've heard this argument before and I've watched a good amount of Charlotte basketball, especially last season with the announcers being at least comical and Miles Bridges when he was doing his thing. And I kind of understand what this guy's coming from, but the only reason I'm not agreeing is because Lamella Ball's, what, 21 of that? Based on where Raul won in the beginning of this video, he would have just been making it into the league right now. So I can't really say that I agree with this because even though we do get the bonehead shots, like he mentioned, or the turnovers, the Charlotte Hornets last season were the six best offense in basketball. Sixth, and that ain't without Lamella Ball. I'm just saying, I don't know if he can be the best point guard in basketball, like maybe some people believe, but as far as being the engine of an adequate and to really good offense, Lamella Ball can really do that and we saw that last season. He's one of the best transition passers we have in basketball, one of the best transition players we have in basketball in general, even though he don't like to get to the basket himself, he, I can't, I can't agree. I just can't agree. So for the end of this video, I decided to sort by controversial because those are the legitimate unpopular opinions is baffling how Reddit is such a consensus against this, but Tatum is unilaterally better than Luca. And someone said a basketball question mark, unpopular opinion. Yolkes is the best offensive player of all time. Can't say that, but he's high on that list. He's definitely high. People worry way too much about getting out rebounded. Now that is an unpopular opinion because that if you can't close a possession, you didn't play good defense. So that now that's actually a wild bad, like I think that's a unpopular take and a terrible take too. Someone said, I strongly disagree with this one. The last five years, the playoff offensive rebound percentage ranking of the championship team, fifth, second, second, 14th and fifth, only one team in the last five years won a championship without being a dominant offensive rebounded team when it came to the playoff. So boom, take that Sebastian. This is the last one I'm going to read because it is a novel. I think Draymond is the greatest defensive player in history. I think most of what he does isn't measured by stats. The guys we consider to be the greatest are the ones who block a lot of shots, but blocking shots is one small aspect of playing great defense. The same way cornerbacks shouldn't be judged by interceptions. Disruptor who will read the play and break it up before hand forcing. Okay, I mean, if you ask me who's the greatest defensive player of all time, I'm going to shrug my shoulders because it's not extremely important for me to have a list of greatest defensive players of all time. I think Draymond himself claimed that he was the best offensive player of all time. And at the end of the day, that's all that really matters. If you're the best in your heart, that's all that really matters, Draymond. And I mean that to you two watching this video. It's all about what's in here, it's on this side.