 What's the word y'all? I'm recording this video doing Bulls versus Warriors. I can't take it no more. This man Steph Curry got a rebound through a full court pass to Dre My Green and Dre My Green marched to Marta Rose and they went up for a lay. I've seen enough. The Bulls aren't coming back to down by 14. I know my team too much to know that this game is over. So let's talk about things that don't make me very, very sad. And that's all of the other stuff around the game of basketball because I'm extremely excited and happy that this is what we get to watch because the product right now in the league, the actual basketball is so damn elite right now. But we have two players that in recent history have been battling injuries. And because they've been battling injuries, we've seen people kind of be turned off by these players. And as of right now, Anthony Davis and Zion Williamson are playing out of their mind. And I'm here to talk about that. These are ugly for Chicago. The worst thing that can really happen is people start talking about your team. I swear, I just absolutely hate it because now everybody's drawing up their own trades, which is fine, do a trade. I really don't care. But now I'm getting mentioned. Kenny, what do you think about DeMarco Rose going to the league with two first round picks and this and that and this and that? I'm like, bro, I'm not the GM, okay? I'm not the GM. But yeah, once your team starts to get like national attention for the negative, it is rough. Look, I used to make fun of y'all for caring. My fault. My fault. The Bulls just ain't never been in a light like this as far as me being an NBA fan. So I ain't experienced this. I understand why y'all get pissed off when y'all favorite team is doing bad and everybody talking about it because leave me alone. You feel me? That's all, leave me alone. Today's video is brought to you by PricePix. 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You know, obviously they won a championship in 2020 and even Anthony Davis had the league right now. You got that championship in 2020. I'm a firm, firm believer. At the end of the day, we play for rings and if you got one, whatever you gave up to get there, I don't really give a damn about it even if that sets your franchise back 10 years. I don't care. But Anthony Davis helped them win a championship and then he had two injury-riddled seasons and we were having a conversation like, damn, will we ever get the version of Anthony Davis that they played for? Will we ever get the version of Anthony Davis that was voted by his peers to be one of the 75 greatest players of all time? And in the last couple of seasons, he been all right, but because he has been injured, he hasn't been able to hit that full potential, that full version of New Orleans Pelicans where you could turn on an Anthony Davis game and he can almost single-handedly win you 35 to 40 games. That's what it felt like. Yeah, he did have Joe Holiday and Rondo, which was a really cool portion of their time together, but he had been so goddamn dominant that the idea of giving up Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, Lonzo Ball, Three Picks, Three Swaps, whatever it was, didn't even feel like an overpay because Anthony Davis was that great. People were looking at the Lakers trade as the biggest trade since Karim Abdul-Jabbar, because that's how talented Anthony Davis was and we're talking about him going to a bigger market so in and so forth. But the last two seasons, like, man, we waiting AD, we waiting AD, LeBron can't keep doing what he doing forever when it's Anthony Davis going to take over and say, this is my goddamn team and these last, let's say, two week, two and a half week stretch, boy, oh boy, does he look like the version of Anthony Davis that everybody was praying for. And I'll be honest, I watched the Lakers because it's the biggest market in basketball. They have LeBron James and you never really know what you're going to get night in and night out. But the last couple of seasons, I didn't feel like I was watching for Anthony Davis, if that makes sense, but recently, oh man, yeah. The Lakers playing no Anthony Davis's plan tonight and I need to see that. Obviously, you have that one really bad blown out loss that we talked about against the Pacers a couple nights ago, but other than that, this game against the Milwaukee Bucks is easily their biggest win on the goddamn season. The Bucks just had Chris Middleton come back, Drew Hally had a really good game. Giannis also gave him 40, so he had a 40 piece from AD, 40 piece from Giannis and it was great. So you got that win, you beat the Portland Trailblaze, you blew that game to the Indiana Pacers, but you got a couple wins, some layups against Detroit, descendants on your Spurs and then a Brooklyn win. And right now, the Lakers are winning basketball games. Like I said, I just mentioned those teams, some of those teams are bad, like the Spurs on the 10-game losing streak, shout out to Victor Wim and Yama, because he might be a Spur at this rate, this team may never win another game in basketball, but you need those wins, you need those reps, you need to see Anthony Davis dominate the little bitty Spurs because they didn't have Yaka Pertle. So we get to these opportunities to go against the Milwaukee Bucks who are one of the best defensive teams in basketball, who have the best rim protecting big and Brook Lopez in the best hope defensive person and Yanis and you still had Anthony Davis give them 44 points. That's what you need if you Lakers. And now this opened up so many different opportunities for the rest of this Lakers season because the version of Anthony Davis that you want has arrived. Again, I don't know what the rest of the schedule look like, hell, they might have a tougher schedule left in basketball, I couldn't really tell you, but he's been looking really, really good. And now you have, I think I read an article about the three different paths that the Lakers could potentially go down. And it's a real thing, I don't want to give Robin Lincoln any love. That's like some very hater stuff. But he has a big decision to make and this next decision is super crucial. I do want to give so much love because I think that Darvin Ham played a huge part in what is going on in LA right now. There are two major, major things going on in LA right now. I think Darvin Ham, or I guess three, if we will encounter it, Darvin Ham deserves so much goddamn praise for it. The first one again is the Anthony Davis Renaissance. I honestly think that having a coach that believes in you and you believe in that coach can really go a long way. And I think that's what's happening with Anthony Davis and Darvin Ham. The second thing is getting Russell Westbrook to buy into this bench row. I read somewhere that Russell Westbrook for the first time in his career, you hear me? In his career, had back to back zero turnover games. That's a wild statistic. He has had Russell Westbrook, who seems like he might have been going down to Carmelo. Hey, they want me to come off the bench row, ha ha ha. It seemed like he was gonna go through that portion of his career. He's playing some of the best basketball we've seen in the last couple of seasons with him coming off the bench. And the last thing Darvin Ham deserves a lot of love for is the defense, because they started off as one of the top defensive teams of basketball. Remember they had the number one defense, or number top three defense, they had the worst offense ever. And remember that timeline when they had, they were shooting 25% three, now they still not a good three-point shooting team, but they were shooting like, no, 21% from three through like the first two weeks of basketball, but the defense are still there. And then eventually they went in their loser streak, Utah Cleveland, Utah Clippers, Sacramento. And when they went through that, they went from like a top three defense to a bottom three defense, and guess what? They back to the top. Not the very, very top, but they back bought in on the defensive side of the ball. Anthony Davis deserves a lot of love for that as well, as being the anchor of the defense, but the Lakers look a lot better now that they did two weeks ago, three weeks ago. And that's really dope. I'm actually, okay, Rob Link, you get a little bit of praise, just a little bit, because I do believe you've done some stupid stuff in the recent years. You get a little bit of praise for not super panicking and making a big decision when you weren't on that six, five game loser streak. Now I do believe you still need to do some, don't send it your hands and act like this, the Lakers team that's gonna win a championship, but now that you see that, oh, Anthony Davis is like this, okay, maybe we don't need to go after this, so you're so on and so forth. I just want to give a lot of love to Anthony Davis, man, because this recent stretch has been so fun to watch. He's getting to the basket. Right now teams don't really have an option other than to either foul him or let him do what he want to do. He's shooting more free throws in the last month or so that he's ever shot in his career. He's shooting nine free throws a game. And if I'm looking at it correctly, last season entirely he shot six free throws per, six free throws per. And his last real, really good season was that first year at LA where he was getting to the free throw line eight and a half games per. And he's back to near numbers like that. He's rebound on the ball, the best he's ever been in his career and the defense is back to where it should be. I'm loving the season from Anthony Davis, man, keep it up, you're representing Chicago where. That's all I gotta say. The next guy is Zion. Boy, oh boy, is Zion a absolute joy to watch. I ain't had no interest in watching the Spurs. Be honest with you, like I said, 10 game losing streak, they have an objective and they about to hit that goddamn eject. They won the top three pick and right now ain't no team. I can't say no team is close. The Rockets won today, which is dope. And the magic are still really bad, but it's not a lot of teams on this trajectory. I will say that, but I watched their game because Z was playing. And the last couple games of Z, oh, if you ain't been watching you'd be really sleeping. I guess the Raps, he had 23, 10 rebounds, five assists, four steals, two blocks. We're gonna talk about the defense. And then tonight, again, I guess the Spurs, but it's still a basketball team, 30 points, 15 rebounds, eight assists, two steals and they block. I have loved his game so far. And that is coming from a dude that has been critical of Z, now for the offense side of the ball, but because his defense over the last couple of seasons that we see from him, has it been nearly as good as we thought it could be. And it is a three game stretch, but the defense has been good. He's conscious of it. He's conscious of it. I mean, he's been to the podium a couple of times at the games, he asked the people that's interviewing him, what would you rate my defense on tonight? Okay, I take that like, he has really locked in defensively. So much so that either on the point of attack defense has been good, the help defense has been good. And with his athleticism, you go see him jump out of the gym and get a crazy block every single game. I'm in love with the defense. Like, I know for sure he gonna give me 20 plus points because he's a sure freaking nature and he can get to that point. And that's coming off, or that's with him starting off the season relatively slow. I mean, in this, he had one game, he scored nine points. He had a 14 point game here, a 19, 16 point game. Like he's had games, he started off really, really struggling. But as of recently, he's got his groove and you know that defense is infectious, man. When they see their star players, Zion Williams to go out there and play defense on a rotation, I know that gets them hype. And you know I know that for a fact, the Pelicans with Jonas Valentunas, who was started center by the way and CJ McCullum, who's like started point guard by the way, is one of the best defenses in basketball right now. And that's not something I saw coming. I knew that they were gonna be good. I knew for sure they were gonna be good. But I thought that their greatness was gonna be on the offensive side of the ball because Brandon Nigram was a bucket. Zion is a force of nature. CJ McCullum is a bucket. Jonas Valentunas can get his head, put his head down and body and get your bucket. They had so many offensive weapons. I thought that that was gonna be where they did their thing. Nah, they're the number three defense in basketball in the number six offense. They're one of the few teams in basketball that have a top 10 offense or the top 10 defense in this moment. And guess what? I'm talking about Zion Williamson's games in the last couple. CJ just came back today. Brandon Nigram has been out. So because of that, we've seen point Z. And I swear to you, there's not a lot of things more enjoyable in basketball. To me right now, then point Zion Williamson because he has this gravity. We talk about gravity a lot. It's a word that a lot of NBA fans don't like because it feels like a cop out. It feels like, oh, we always talk about that, especially when we talk about Steph Curry. Zion has this gravity to him. That's on a different level because his gravity is on ball gravity with Steph Curry is everything. You know what I'm saying? As long as Steph Curry's on the court, you gotta pay attention. But there was portions of today's game. I swear to you, like these boys, Greg Pavich thought, we need to throw three players at him, three of them. One more time. Three players were being thrown Z's weight and it didn't matter because point Z's vision has developed a lot. Like we saw a lot of point Z in his rookie season in the other season. It felt, I guess, Alvin Gentry Gentry, everybody say I pronounce his name, but I don't know. Good coach. Willie Griggs has been better, I will say. And point Z has been, I wonder if I have some of these passes because I know I saved some of them. So Z up top being guarded, right? The vision to find, trigger trade Murphy. First of all, I mean, this is really cool. Isaiah Roby gets lost in the absolute sauce because he thinks that this cut is a cut through. But it said trade Murphy being a great position and position guy. I don't know how to hell you say that. He finds the open space and with him being one of the best shooters in basketball, he gets a wide open three. But Z sees that happen and he makes the right play as the point guard to get to that spot, to get his best shooter on the court of open three. Here's one of those times. This is three defenders, y'all. This is three defenders being thrown as Z. It doesn't matter right now. It doesn't matter. It lose the ball, that's all right. You see Keldon's like, hey, watch my man. Literally did not matter. It doesn't matter. That is three NBA caliber players. Shout out to Charles Bassie, Keldon and Romeo Lankford. They're running like a little mini zone but still there's three people at the point of attack on Z and he runs right past him for easy ass layup. I have another one from the game, the previous game. I think I tweeted this one. Every team that every team he goes against they're gonna send a double team because he is just that much of a force. So it's his opportunity, it's his job to be able to capitalize on this. And the lucky thing is they have so many options in the world is that like when you send a double team you helping off somebody that can score the ball. So in this case, look at the pass. Look at the pass. Look at the pass from Z. Come on man. It's kind of unfair how much talent this roster actually has. Like I mentioned, Brandon Ingram hasn't really played recently. They just bring Trey Murphy up. Trey Murphy comes off the bench normally. That is crazy to me. He's easily talented enough to start on so many teams in the league right now. He comes off the bench because he just have so much talent. So those are just two players that I've been watching a ton of recently that I absolutely love watching. Shout out to Z and AD for being healthy so far this season. I pray that we keep this because again, they have their histories. Can I show you a Evan Mobley play? I don't remember why I even saved this one. So let's figure it out. Is it the pass? I don't know. I remember this one. Look at the pass. That is maybe 21-year-old Big making that quick decision. Seeing that Bobo is bought in on him right here in this area and to know who he's on the court with to know that Kev is flaring out to that three and Kev takes a heavily contested shot but it's Kevin Love. Like that is an amazing pass for a year too big to make. And the split second, bro. Bro, there's not many people. Now I don't know. There's nobody drafted in the last couple of seasons that I like more than Evan Mobley, bro. Nobody. Nobody at all. First of all, he should have got three seconds. He's just kind of sitting here. But look at the defense. No foul anticipation. Get the first contest on France. Forces amiss there. No foul. Does a great job here. Again, he's in the lane for at the minimum three seconds. That's to be real. And he challenges Ben Carroll at the rim and gets a hands on hands block. So that's just beautiful. Anyway, go USA. I believe that when this video is dropping, USA is already played. So let's pray that the states have won because that's the way we rock it, baby. USA, USA.