 What's the word, y'all? Every single team is flawed. Some of our teams are more flawed than others, as you know. But every single team has its flaws and today we're looking at one surprise problem from every NBA team from Bleacher Report. Today's Thursday, which means that is the drop of the Kenny Beach and podcast. On this episode, we talked about the Regal Bear, Jory Marguerite, Scuffle, and I kind of went in more than what I anticipated. But I was really passionate about this. You should go check it out. The link is in the description. It's on Apple, it's on Spotify as well. These articles where it's not a singular person, but it's an entire group of people writing because it's always super cool because you get so many different perspectives. It's not just one mind, it's at least two. I don't know how many people are on the Bleacher Report staff. At least two, at least. First one is the Atlanta Hawks Trey Young's Icey Shooting. This season, Trey Young is shooting 35% from the field, 28, yeah, we're round up for you, Trey. 28% from the field or from the three, which is just so much worse than what we're used to. And last year of his 42% and 33% from three, that was a down year. I don't know how much of a sample size we need to say that this 2021-2022 season was the outlier, but boy, could they use this guy versus this guy, you know? Then again, if every single other one of his years in his career is not close to that level of efficiency, then maybe this is the outlier. I don't know. They had that version of Trey Young with this roster, maybe like a kind of dangerous, now they're cool, but they not looking too crazy because he can't get his stuff together. Still a little stagnant. So the Boston Celtics are a team that we mentioned everybody has their flaws, their team, we're not a lot of them, but to be inclusive for all 30 teams to talk about, we have to find something. And it being a little stagnant, I think you can see that with the eye test, also the percentages back it up with them having the 21st and assist percentage, I still think that it's not gonna matter too, too much. I don't believe they're gonna finish 21st. I think they're gonna finish in the top half, but yeah, we just had to find a reason for, I mean, that's it. Next we got the Brooklyn Nets disappointing defense, which is interesting. Before the season started, I questioned how they were gonna score and scoring has not been a problem. It's been a defense. Well, McHale Bridges, Nicholas Klaxon, when he's healthy, Ben Simmons, when he's healthy, and even Cam and Dora Finney-Smith, these are all positive defensive players and they haven't been able to put it together defensively. It's the offense that's been carrying them so far this year, which is something I couldn't have expected. Too many fouls for the Charlotte Hornets. I think you could have anticipated that. Young teams don't defend and young teams commit fouls. So I don't think this is a problem that we didn't see coming, but it definitely is a problem. Something we didn't see coming is the Marta Rose missing his mid-range game. Yes, because that is 85% of the Marta Rose's value is that mid-range game. So if he's not performing at least to his averages, then he's not being an impactful NBA player and that's what we're seeing right now. I don't wanna talk about them. Next, Darius Garland shooting. DGPG's been adding out a lineup a ton. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. Even his assist to turnover ratio is way lower than what is used to being. The Cavs just had a couple big wins on the road though, so shout out to them. But I look at Darius Garland and his framework and saying that the jump shot is one thing I wouldn't be worried about too much. The Josh Green stagnancy is there for the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah, I definitely thought there's gonna be a very good year for him. I thought that the contract that he signed was like a bargain, three years, 41 million. I'm like, oh yeah, he gonna outperform that and so far he hasn't. Luckily the Dallas Mavericks offense is so very good that they haven't needed him, but obviously his defensive impact is what they need the most but they're able to win a bunch of games with just their offense, so I'll give it more time. Christian Brown not building off his rookie campaign. I think he's been smooth so far, but yeah, he hasn't been able to feel the role that you're missing in like Bruce Brown and so on and so forth. Luckily, another one of those teams with not a lot of flaws, even with Jamal Murray out, they're still taking care of business. So this is very minor in the grand scheme of the Denver Nugget. Jaden Ivey's diminished playing time. Yeah, Mindy Williams came in and said, hey, we wanna try to build a defensive identity. So even though Kylian Hayes is not as good as an offensive player as Jaden Ivey, not as good of an offensive scorer as Jaden Ivey, we're willing to put Kylian Hayes in the starting line up because we wanna get this culture of defense. And because of that, we've seen Jaden Ivey be not out of the rotation, but not a starter and his minutes have dropped down dramatically. He's had a couple of DMPs for reasons, not saying that this coach's decisions, but it's just something we didn't anticipate considering he was their pick from last year. And you want their team to be K Cunningham, former first overall pick of Jaden Ivey in the backcourt, but we don't know if that's gonna be the case because of this, the demise of their best five-man unit. Where nobody in their starting line up is living up to expectation right now. Clay Thompson is as inefficient as he's ever been in his career. Luckily, we saw him start off inefficient last year, then he put it together later in the season. Wiggins, I don't know what the heck happened to the Wiggins that helped him win that championship. He is completely gone on the scorer, on the defense, on the rebounding, on the playmaking. He has regressed completely over the first couple of games of the season. Draymond Green can't keep his hands to himself. So the unit that had been the best start in line up in basketball last year is now not that. They also have been a victim of like really good shooting, like absurd and great shooting from opposing teams when this lineup is out. But it doesn't look perfect where nobody else in the starting lineup has been able to drop a 20 point game when Steph is playing. Clay hasn't had a 20, Wiggins hasn't had a 20. Like those are crazy things to say three weeks into the, four weeks into the season. I don't even know. It's so deep into the season. So yes, a minus 17, which is crazy. Fred VanVleet, two point shooter. I think we could have saw this comment. Fred VanVleet has never been a great two point shooter. His value is not in that. His value is in him being able to play make, which he's doing a great deal right now. His value is him being a good defender, even though he's undersized. His value is that leadership. You're seeing that a part of the Houston Rockets where like even though we can't hit his shots efficiently or what we deem to be efficient, he's still a quality, quality player for what they're doing. Oh, but struggling even by his standards. Oh, the transition offense is just okay. They have the number one offense in basketball and it's not even a transition. Look at what their team has put together. You think that is their transition. It's their half court oldest killing it. And if they ever get this part up, I don't know how you guard this team. Because if they can also run with the best and their half court office is the best, it's like, boy, they gonna put up a ton of points every single night. The hapless start to the James Harden era. I don't know what that word means. I understand bringing out the disorders every once in a while, so I respect that. The unfortunate start of the James Harden era. Yeah, I don't think anybody, and even the people that were so down in this trade definitely wouldn't anticipate the fact that they'd be windless after five games together. Nobody would expect that. So yeah, that is a problem. Again, I mentioned in my video a few days ago that they were doing some things that I think could be interesting once they start hitting their shots. I don't think this is the end all be all, but it has been, let's just say, not great. Austin Reeves, yes, yes, Austin. Now since he cut his hair, because that was something, he's been better, but a lot of people expected him to hit a step. He's already 25 years old, and I'm not saying that ends his progression or anything, but 25 is older as far as young prospects go. He has not hit the next step that a lot of us were anticipating. He does not look like the same player that we saw in FIBA a couple of months before that. And in due time, maybe he gets there, but it hasn't been that way. Like they were really held back or really interested to see Austin Reeves as a third best player. And I guess you can argue he still has been a third best player, but he hasn't been to the level that they thought he could. Oh, that's unfortunate. Oh, man, yeah, just been in rough time for the crazy fans out there. Man, it's been a rough time. And now Jabaretta is tweeting again after a little scuffle, scuffle. Yeah, just well, everything. For show, for show. You couldn't, nobody expected this. I expected this team to be decent when Jabaretta was gone. And now they got Stephen Adams out, Brandon Clark out, Derek Rose out. They missed Lucanar for some time. Satya Dhamma for some time. It has not been pretty. I have not watched much of them because the games that I have watched were ugly. Kaolari's usage rate, interesting. Over 100 players are averaging at least 29 points per game this season. And only one of them, Mitchell Robinson, has a lowest usage rate that might be starting point guy Kaolari. I've been watching a lot of heat recently because they've been a fun watch and been able to buy you on how many hockey ads have been tearing it up in their own respective rights. I've never really recognized the fact that Kaolari's usage was that low. Like, of course, it's hard not to recognize that the point guard is not playing the true point guard position, but I don't think he would have as low of a usage rate that Mitchell Robinson, who's a lob guy. Yikes, it's working. That's all you can ask for right now. The ceiling is maybe a question, but it's working at the moment. Makes him kind of expendable in a potential trade with a player and her team. The inexplicable Shabi. What is happening? That's what happens when you have 14 people working on one article. You start getting people that just bring out the words. That's not even a big word, it's just a difficult word. The inexplicably Shabi defense. I don't think this was something that we didn't see coming. A lot of us recognize that when you sacrificed Drew Holliday to get into Damien Liller, the defense wasn't gonna be good. All right, I just checked it, it's 25th. Okay, you got a point. I didn't expect it was gonna be the 25th worse or the 25th best. Have you worked that? I knew it wasn't gonna be good. I thought it might be league average, but 25th is just something. Now, early in the season, they were doing a lot of different coverages and stuff and I think they're starting to realize that we probably should do that. But yeah, can you win the championship with a 25th right defense? Who knows? I guess we'll find out. Carthony Towns, outside volume. Oh, they're just saying that they're nitpicking because the wolves have been so good and they want to see Carthony Towns get more three point shots up, simple. I like to see that the last three, four games or so, we're seeing a better version of Carthony Towns after a very slow start. Last night they got destroyed, but Carthony Towns put out another good performance. So silver lining of all of this is that Cat looks better than what he did over the first two weeks of the season. The best player minutes. Where do we start off with the Pelicans, man? So Ingram and Zion on the floor together is a minus 6.7 net rating. Zion on and Ingram off is a minus 10. Ingram on, Zion off is a minus 12. And with both of them off, it is a plus 3.3. And that's a good value compared to the other ones. I don't know what to think about that. Now they have had so many injuries. This is just to name the players that have been injured right now, CJ, Larry, Jose, Trey and Herb. So like they haven't got the full grasp of their team because they haven't been healthy just yet. But we've seen, let me see how much time we've seen in these players together. Okay, small sample size this year because throughout their times of playing together, they have a net rating of 5.5. I was hoping this wasn't a good old fast Chicago Bulls since it's that your team is bad when your best two players are in the court. It's just happening this year, a minus 6.7. I would assume that's gonna go up specifically when Trey Murphy's back because, and CJ I guess, because they need playmaking and they also need other shooting. I'm not worried about the Jalen Brunson's Floaters MIA. That feels very nitpicky. So he was a 49% shooter in that area. Now it's down to 34%, whatever. Josh Giddy up and down starts, yeah. This was something that I was really looking forward to with Josh Giddy playing the way he didn't feebe and everything. I think the O.K.C. Thunder were maybe expecting a jump from him and it hasn't really been that. You have games like this one against the Spurs where he was one of the best players in the court. And we've had other games where he completely was a non-factor and didn't even close out games. So when you have a player of his age of just 21 years old, it's gonna be a lot of ups and downs. And I think that most of us look at young players and think that progression is linear. He played this many games last year. He should be better this year. That's not the way it works a lot of the times. And it's gonna take some time to adjust to adding another guy in the rotation like Chad Holmgren. So I'm not too worried about Josh Giddy's up and down start, but it is something that maybe we didn't anticipate because of how well he looked earlier and how well he looked at the end of last season. The resilience of Jonathan Isaac. I watched John Isaac last night kind of put his imprint on a Chicago Bulls game because he was everywhere. So to see him back on the court is cool because y'all know when he was drafted, he was one of my favorite prospects because of the defense and obviously over the last couple of years he hasn't been able to play for multiple reasons. So to see him finally on a court in a rotation is good. And I liked that for him. The 76 are giving up too many shots at the rim. Which is interesting because their defense is still one of the best in the league. So that might be the one thing they got to figure out. A lot of that is just like preventing your man from getting to the basket. It's not a jewel and bead issue as much as it is. The perimeter players not staying in front of their guys and preventing backdoor cuts and so on and so forth. It's something I didn't I guess recognize from all the games I've watched of the 76s because I would deem it to be a really good defense. I guess I didn't recognize that they were giving up so many layups and stuff. The victory availability I lacked thereof. The pump fake that we got last night, I was so excited for Timberwolves versus Sons and then to see that Brad was gonna be out. It was cool to see book come out and show out but to see Brad was gonna be out again. I'm like, bro, no way. So eventually we should be seeing these boys play and then we can find, I haven't talked about the Phoenix Sons because I haven't seen their team yet. We haven't seen their team yet. So Brad, get well soon, my boy. Deondre Aiden's offensive usage. Yeah, I thought that this, I wanted to draft Deondre Aiden in fantasy this year. Thank God I didn't because he's not getting the amount of touches as he was last year. I'm not even close to the amount. And I can now, I kind of realized that, yeah, you're playing with Chris Powell and Devin Booker to really plus playmakers. You're gonna get more touches. And now he's playing with some players that can't get in the ball like Michael Brodin and stuff. But for the most part, when you have young guards, they don't really facilitate as well as some of the, Chris Powell is one of the oldest men in the league, you know what I'm saying? So yeah, his offensive usage has gone down. I think he's looked good over the last couple of weeks individually, but we're not seeing him get as many touches as he did. And Phoenix, because it's hard to get the ball when you're a center, you know? Unless you are the center, you hear me? Harrison Barnes is regression. They also have the struggling second year player and Keegan Murray who can't find his jump shot at the moment. I guess that's not a problem you worry about because he has second year player, it happens all the time. Through the first nine, oh man, nine games last season he averaged under 10 points while knocking out 16% of his triples. Since he dropped 33 on open and night, he's downing just 31.3% of his triples while getting rocked on defense and rebounded at a clip that is even low for him. Interesting, I guess it didn't recognize the slow start of Harrison Barnes. And it makes it as a guy that is looking to trade Zach Lavigne, it makes the Kings fans, the few Kings fans that hit me up, it makes sense. It makes a little bit more sense now. The cost of experimentation. I ain't got nothing to say about the G.R.B. So-Hand experience at that point. I ain't got nothing to say. I ain't got nothing to say. I don't like it. That's all I'll say. So the one problem that they didn't see coming is that everybody else saw a company come in that this team was going to struggle. There's a lot of things to be fixed there in Toronto, they are as up and down as any team in the association where some games I watch them like, man, they look pretty good. And then like the other night, with no Yanis, they lose by 30 points to Damian Lillard and Malik Beasley. So it's like, whoa, there's so much great area with this team where they look really good one night and then really awful the next. And a lot of us believe that this could be a possibility. I guess I'm gonna sign him, did it. And we got a couple more. The front line weirdness, front line combination weirdness. I think this was predictable. When you have Walker Kessler, Larry marketing, Kelly Olenek and then you add in John Collins objectively, this is gonna be a tougher fit when all of this, even though we've seen Larry Market play a good amount of three over the course of his career, it's just, I think he projects more as a four. And now he's playing a lot more. All three of their bigs together, they are a minus 20. When there's no Collins, they are minus nine. And when there's no marketing, they are minus six. And when it is a no Kessler, they are plus 4.1. Ooh, the small ball John Collins, Larry marketing lineups that look kind of good. It's actually their most used combination of two players. So just something to take a look out on for the next, I guess a year or so. Jordan Poole's lack of counting stats. That's a good way to put it. I don't think many of us went into this thinking that Jordan Poole was gonna average 25 on grade efficiency. But a lot of us thought he would at least average 20. Me included. I thought he was easily a shoe win for 20 points for a game. He ain't really close to that right now. 16.3 is the actual number. And he's playing less minutes now than he played over the last two years. Part of that is that the team is not normally in game so he don't play a lot in fourth quarters. But still, he hasn't been able to score officially. Of course you see the viral moments of him doing crazy stuff here and there. He has a one to one assistant turnover ratio as one of the prime ball handlers on the scene. There's a lot of things looking bad about the Jordan Poole thing. It was a rumor that they traded for him to up his trade stock. They're doing a poor job of that through the first 11 games. What is the problem of your favorite team you didn't see coming? Cause I think a lot of us were optimistic about our favorite team. Not saying that everybody thought they was gonna win a championship but that this player was gonna hit a jump or this player was gonna do this. This team is gonna do this. I'll let that happen. So let me know in the comment section. Of course as always I'll be there. Check out the Kenny Beach and podcast. Link is in the description.