 What's the word y'all welcome back to call game Kenny for real whatever you want to call the man We have to talk about today's slater games. I gotta admit these West Coast games have been kicking my butt I'm 24 now, but I swear I feel like I'm 46 where I need to be in bed by a certain time and these West Coast games prevent Me to do that But I knew today had to be an episode because James Harden made his appearance with the Brooklyn Nets It's so weird to see how some of the players are playing immediately and some of them aren't while that's on my mind get Well soon Keras Lever like this is so insane. I don't know biology I don't know anatomy the human body health or anything like that But to hear that he had what a mass on his liver or on one of his kidneys is some scary It's just just the terminology sounds scary So I don't know how long he's gonna be out It's kind of like a blessing in disguise that he got traded because he had to pass his physical And maybe this is something that he didn't even notice until weeks and months down the line So is it is it? I don't know how to put into words But hopefully he gets well soon and we'll see him on the course sooner rather than later But Brooklyn and James Harden today was the day I love Twitter And I hate Twitter in the same way because this this is gonna sound disrespect for when I don't mean it is disrespect But I can see you taking is that this was the most Watch Orlando Magic game of the season so far and probably going to be the most watch Orlando Magic game of the season You gotta think about it Whether you watching legally or illegally everybody wanted to see James Harden's first game and they didn't disappoint He didn't disappoint and a 30 point triple double. It's crazy. How like People have forgotten in just a couple weeks. How good of a player James Harden was or is a 30-point triple double He was doing that very regularly over the last couple seasons. Where have you been at? Oh, it's just surprise because now you're watching. I don't I don't really know. I don't really know This is what he does Nothing James Harden and did today was like, oh That's different other than I think he took like one or two mid-range jump shots. I don't think I've seen them take a mid-range jump shot since 2018 is what it feels like. So he took a couple mid-range jump shots. He was barking a little bit He was getting in the passing lanes Maybe maybe a little more defensive effort because he knew everybody's watching today overall the team look good Offensively, I swear that Kevin Arant gets the most effortless buckets of all time bro Cuz I'm watching this game and nobody puts up a silent 42 points But like there was like halfway through the third quarter and I looked at the box goes like I cannot I don't remember him scoring that many points, but it's Kevin Arant So I couldn't question it because I noticed what he do So like offensively, they look good. I one thing I'm gonna love about this is that with the Brooklyn Nets being gonna be a Fun team to watch everybody's gonna be tuning in with his league pass or whether it's on national TV A lot more people are gonna realize that Joe Harris is a lot more than just a catch-and-shoot three-point shooter It's kind of the reputation he has got because he's so damn good at it Good at it and he won a three-point competition in Charlotte a few years ago But he's a lot more than that and today you kind of saw that but the two biggest question marks that I had going into this Trade and that kind of showed in this first game or the defense and Deandra Jordan at the center position again You don't want to overreact to a single game But like we kind of expected this right when I was talking about this trade initially a couple days ago And I was talking about them losing Jared Allen. How much is going to hurt? I saw a lot of comments like Kenny They still have Deandra Jordan Deandra Jordan is still good and that just told me you haven't really watched this season That's all it tells me that man It's not been good this year and and the worst part about it is that like the one thing that you would expect Tim to to bring to the team. It's his vertical spacing Vertical spacing. I just love putting those two words together Basically what that means is he can be a lob threat and so far in that first game I expected him to catch a couple loss from James Harden because he's James Harden, right? If James Harden is gonna have a seven-footer on the floor I just anticipate them running a PNR and then he's still on the lob and somebody's going to get it And it didn't work today It didn't happen today and maybe that's something Steve Nash incorporates eventually But if he's not a vertical threat and he's not guarding anything Why is he on the court and I think Steve Nash and him realized that because I don't know if he played a single fourth Quarter minute because they went ultra small ball and I kind of feel bad for Jeff green because I feel like he left Houston because he was tired of playing small ball center and now he's got to be closed now a ton of games at the small ball center So yeah, the defense was kind of iffy and Deandra Jordan. I was bad too, but This is this is I don't know with Spencer. They were going out I know that they apply for the disabled player exception But I don't know if they use part of that in the James Harden trade Maybe somebody in the comment section can help me out there, but it's gonna be hard for them to trade for a center I think that what they're hoping for is that, you know, they continue to do what they do They get wins because this team is gonna be able to win a ton of regular season games strictly based off them outscoring people you have James Harden and Kairi eventually and Kevin around you're gonna outscore a ton of teams But you're hoping that once you get towards the trade that lie in the bio market comes around you can snag a center Let's be honest with each other man The bio market super super great for these super team type teams that are that are projected to win a championship Because at the end of the day everybody wants a ring on their resume So you may see an older center that gets bought out and now he wants to play in Brooklyn And he could be the determining factor the good The good side is that Reggie Perry play good quality minutes at the center position But I don't think you think about Reggie Perry long term this season because you don't expect a second round rookie to be playing High-quality playoff minutes or even finals minutes at the end of the day anytime my boy Bruce Brown And yes, I'm Sam my boy Bruce Brown ends up making a big play. I feel elated I feel super happy for him and today he made the dagger over three would have like a minute and a half to go But the defense was a problem and shout out to Nick Vusevich, bro They put on the show this could easily have been a game that mirrored their last couple games I think in the last four to five games since the Markel folks injury this team did not crack a hundred points until tonight and Vusevich was taking advantage of what was guarding him and Another thing that's going to be a struggle for them is their ability to guard centers Especially centers that can stretch and if you think about the Eastern Conference These are conference has so many centers that can stretch now all of them can't do the inside outside that Vusevich does But think about all think about these teams the Bucks have like Brooke Lopez who stretch mouse turners are stretch Joe and the beat has been hidden in three points. I probably more than usual, but I wouldn't call him a stretch But he can who else will be talking about maybe that's it. I don't want to say Aaron Baines I don't really want to say Aaron Baines Yeah Garden centers is gonna be a real problem this season and hopefully that changes on the bio market But it gets out to your lendo magic for coming out to play Vusevich looking great people are saying free Vusevich And I understand you saying that but I feel like Vusevich name has been in rumors at the trade deadline for four seasons Now and he has yet to be traded and I don't know what team is trading for Vusevich right now Every I feel like every team that needs a center Doesn't have the money to get a center and then the teams that you will want to see Vusevich on don't need a center So yeah, that's that's kind of my opinion. I'm just still waiting for Kyrie It was rumored that he could have possibly played today, but he was a lay scratch Which is kind of trash kind of trash So today was a weird day for me on the Saturday had Aaron's had video shoot So I didn't get I didn't get around to watching every single minute every single game So a game that I came in late to was the Charlotte Hornets versus the Raptors I got in at like the midway through the fourth quarter basically in those couple minutes I saw a lot of Stanley Johnson good minutes and including the last basket I've been seeing a lot on Hornets fence upset about on Twitter Which makes sense tear roger gets a shot off with a couple seconds ago Stan Stanley Johnson first of all I rewatched that play maybe four to five times to see him jump the pass to get up because they were doing this Off-ball action and they were switching everything with pass gas yakem gas stuck So stand the man jumped out and he jumped out and there was a little bit of contact Which I can see the Charlotte Hornets fans saying that there was a foul But I think it was we'll see the last too many report what what the people say But um, that's back-to-back wins for the Raptors that got down to the wire against this team They end up closing out and that is a good sign because this was a game that they did not have good play from some of their Best players and and these are the grinded out games that the that the Toronto Raptors won endlessly last season And they're starting to put together a little bit more this year, which is a good sign again This is a little tough spot for the Charlotte Hornets cuz the last two games I could see people talking about the officiating as the reason, but I'm not one of those people so shout out to the The Raptors foreign foreign eight now on their way to 500 The the Miami Heat are the hardest team in the league for me to gauge I Know they were missing Jimmy they were missing Tyler here wrote today I think Avery Bradley also was out with with the injury or something. They were missing some key quality players but they still lost by 22 the Detroit Pistons, which is rough and When I look at the Eastern Conference of How many teams got better this offseason and then look at the Miami Heat and their Them getting better is really banking on Tyler here. We're taking a step is really banking on that 10 million dollars They gave Myers Leonard for some reason but they lost players like Jay Crowder Right Jay Crowder was such a big part of their championship run last year And then the Bucks got better with like drew holiday trades the 76ers got better with Seth Curry and everything Of course the Brooklyn Natchez got better with bringing in James Harden and that leaves the Miami Heat as a course of good team And right now they may not look like it But they've been dealing with a lot of stuff But even at their full strength they're a good team, but these other teams may significant moves to be better And the heat didn't do that and it's hard for me to watch my I'm not gonna say my boy Kendrick now But he's from Chicago So I got a little bit of love from to just fall off a cliff as fast as he did from being the first half of the season He was like in real conversation for rookie of the year That's not crazy to say that he was this close to winning rookie of the year Especially through the first half of the season came out of nowhere and he was averaging 15 16 points per game And now he can't do anything. It is the weirdest one-year change that I've ever really seen in a negative for real I want to say shout out to my boy Derek Rose The the rookie center Isaiah Stewart looked really good He plays with a ferocity and he plays he plays that rebound game very well And of course Jeremy Grant bet on himself and he continues to show why that was a good idea The 76ers lost a close one to the Grizzlies. No Joe Ellen bead But this is a game they should have won it's so great to see John ran back on the court Love some John Moran I swear his hair is growing faster than anybody I've ever seen hair grow and that's just a fact every time I see him His hair is in a different style and I know that takes hours job. I got experience with the two It takes hours. So you are a patient guy and he came back and he looked really good He said he was rusty which I could see that but again coming back from a Great two ankle sprain as fast as he did to come out and lead his team to a win is important But no Joe Ellen bead. This is still a game that the 76ers should be able to win That's all I really would say this is a game They should be able to win and this is the type of game that you want to see your all NBA player Your second all-star come in and take over just take over and I know that hasn't been what Ben Simmons It's it's hard for me to really gauge him as like when he is in a situation where it is his time to go You know the man has 16 rebounds nine assists. He had a couple plays down the line They're really they kind of cost and he attempted to threes both which were airballs But this would be a type of game where I want to see Ben Simmons insert himself as the guy and it wasn't him It was shake melting. It was Toby until he stepped on the out of bounds at a bounds line So I don't know. I don't know a Philly fans. I think I would guess that Philly fans are probably 50 50 on Ben Simmons And I think the general public is probably 75 25 on Ben Simmons But I would want to see some die-hard Philly fans give their opinion on Ben Simmons because this is a type of game I'm watching and I'm like Let's do something Ben. Let's just let's just do something and he's just he just didn't really do it Um, I I love Brandon Clark, but this season has been kind of scary to me He changed his jump shot and if you're a fan of me, you know that going into his draft class There are five players that I knew about that. I was I really loved and Brandon Clark was one of them He's a high-physicist guy good defensive guy. He like I said he doesn't miss shots until this season So I want to see him go back to his old jumper, which is probably easier said than done But they end up getting a win and a lot of a lot of respect to them I know I haven't talked about them a lot over the past couple weeks But for them to go out there without John Morant and still win a bunch of games Just tells to you how good of a group they really have I cannot wait for Jaren Jackson Julian to eventually come back and then Justice Winslow with his blue side hair part To come back if he ever if he ever hits the NBA court again the last game of the day Is the Atlanta Hawks versus the Portland Trailblazers? I waited to this game to end so I could record this because this was a fun game to watch for a few reasons the first half It was all Atlanta Hawks and and the Portland Trailblazers win this game But they didn't win this game the Atlanta Hawks lost it and yes Damien Lillard had a couple very clutch plays where they'd be the steel where they'd be the charge and things like it Those are winning plays That's why Damien Lillard is one of the greatest in the game But the Atlanta Hawks threw this game away and Trey young had a better game And that's that's a that's a good thing I guess because compared to what we saw from him a couple games ago But in the second half man, it was it was still very hard to watch for Trey young He wasn't hitting any of his shots And there's one specific play that it's gonna be burned into my mind because I still don't understand the thought process Here here's the scenario. They're down by two with twenty twenty-five seconds on the clock 24 seconds on the shot clock and a lot of situations you hold for one because there's a one second turnover You know what I'm saying? But instead of getting a good shot setting up an offense They got a rebound they pushed a Trey young and he shot it from like the logo I And luckily for them and went at a bounce off of Portland But I was so my Trey young could not have known the situation for him to take that shot He couldn't have known a situation for him to take that shot, especially when he was already one for eight on the night It's a better game from him. Not still not still not a good game still not a good game whatsoever And again, they're still dealing with injuries. This is click appellate's best game as a part of this organization They're still dealing injuries, but the pulling trailblazers aren't dealing with a lot of injuries Atlanta First of all use of nerkage broke his wrist or whatever it was and they cannot catch a break with these injuries Robert Coveton had like the worst offensive performance. I've seen from him since a couple years ago And then CJ went out halfway through the game This is a game that y'all should win and that's not to mention bro and Enos cancer got hella minutes And as cancer not getting dominated more than what he was and I know click appellate was dominating the first half But he cooled off in the second half. They weren't giving the touches. He wasn't on the glass as much It's just a it's a it's a young loss You know what I'm saying? It's one of those losses that young teams end up having a lot and this is a type of dirty Ugly win that veteran teams like the Portland Trailblazer can't squeeze out Yeah, yeah, that's how I want to put it. Yeah, um, that's pretty much it Those are my takes on today's slater games if you enjoyed the video leave it a like let me know what you think call game