 What's the word y'all the end season tournament was nearly perfect if I was grading it one through ten It was like a nine point seven and that point seven was just because when we got to the neutral site Sometimes it didn't feel like the crowd was into it Both of the Lakers games it felt like Lakers fans showed out But like that one game with the we saw the Bucks versus the Pacers maybe wasn't as exciting as far as the crowd What whatever Adam Silver got everything he could have wanted this was like a movie for him You got to think about of course He's looking at this from the aspect of I won good basketball, but like at the end of the day He wants to market it. He wants to sell it in a year once the TV rights is over So to have a final where we have an up-and-coming small market team led by God that's on the brink of super stardom Go against a legendary organization a big market organization It also holds one of the greatest players of all time like Adam Silver couldn't had it even better And then the Lakers going on to win it. It's just Again, Adam Silver's probably really really happy now. I'm recording this as things are going on They're about to now to win CNVP. I'm not sure who it's gonna go to because the entire tournament It's no no doubt Braun, but that finals game that finals game Anthony Davis was was the what one of the best Anthony Davis performances ever and of course that is saying a lot because Anthony Davis has a ton of amazing performances The only unfortunate part is because this is an incident tournament final. It gets lost in Ether Just like a play-in game like it's hard to find those stats So he had what a 40 20 and five game ridiculous stat line He was everywhere as great as he was offensively because he ended with 40 points the defense is where he had his best thing I'm gonna pause for a second there about the notes the MVP. It's so funny to see like the younger players react to you see Jackson Hayes is turning up LeBron like yeah, we like this and all but this ain't really the end goal Outstanding play throughout the entire tournament Tournament to me that's nothing He's at a tire tournament. I know if it's about to buy it. Give it to him right now. I'm sorry, but it doesn't come with a franchise I'm sorry, but it doesn't come with the franchise. That's crazy It's not all bronze. I don't run. All right. It's official. It's official You want to know the super crazy part about this in a couple years and a million years whenever LeBron retires This in season tournament MVP award will be named after him It will be every other historic player or super historic player has an award named after them for the most part And now that we're adding new awards, you're not gonna rename the DP. Oh, why you're not gonna rename the MVP But one trophy without a name in the first one that's won by is LeBron That's gonna be the end season tournament LeBron J. Strophe This man is almost 40 years old and he treated this run as if it was an NBA championship He's gonna get that named after him Anyway, I kind of want to get back to Anthony Davis because again, he was the most dominant player in this entire game And I've said this before before this even started throughout the the course of this year that the Lakers are for sure contenders to me I know when they're slower star people like oh, should we be worried about this team? Should we not I feel as though with LeBron James still playing at the level that he is because again He's having one of his better recent years Which is crazy to say because again, he's almost 40 and when Anthony Davis playing the way he does This team has a ceiling of an NBA championship now players three through ten or three two fifteen We have to figure out completely But Austin Reeves and switching over to the bench roll has looked amazing and this one people calling it his flu game because they end up With what 30 ish points 28 ish points when before the game and said that he was gonna give it a go Because he had been bedridden the whole time, but when you have those two dudes Playing at the level that you've seen through the course of this incident tournament that you've seen in this very last Game they're gonna be a hard team to take out and I can't help but to think about last year when you think about the playoffs the last Year LeBron was cool But we know the LeBron wasn't a hundred percent and they got all the way to the conference finals without LeBron being the Superdominant force that he usually is in the playoffs Do you know how ridiculously dominant you have to be on the inside for you to win a basketball game where you shot Two of thirteen from three two of thirteen from three I think they made their first three point there like the third or fourth quarter Obviously, it's not a perfect team. That's one of the complaints right there They're low-value low percentage three-point shooting team, but the other stuff the defense of capabilities from pretty much one through five on Many different lineups and to have players like brawn or ad that could completely take over like there's a there's parts in their Pelicans game where brawn hit those three back to back to back threes that is taking over a game Anthony Davis's defense by itself is like no matter what I'm gonna end up with having us a top seven to five defense And to have the people around him also be locked in This is a team that funnels and the offense like hey You got to go meet Anthony at the rim and Anthony's one of the best in the world when it comes to protecting that basket I've said this years and years ago that if Anthony Davis ended up ending his career with zero DPO wise That would be a travesty Because he's one of the top three defensive players in the in the world and you saw that on national TV today He was everywhere. You've seen it on national TV on season. You've seen it now Obviously his health is always a big thing this year He's been really healthy even though he got banged up in history like oh no, it's not happening Is it he's been healthy and right now? It is like it's like Rudy go bear as a DPO why favorite Anthony Davis is there You hear me Anthony Davis is there with a lot of basketball left We always talk about when he's gonna take the torch when he's gonna take the torch from LeBron Well, he becomes the best player and because LeBron is so good steel That's not even a question that I even think about no more. You know what I'm saying because Bron is so good I mean both of these players are top tennis players in the league Yeah, you know any given day, okay a game like tonight and the Davis is like the fifth best player You know what I'm saying? So I'm not even thinking about oh when he's gonna pass the torch because LeBron is not in the position to pass the torch He's that dominant steel now the Pacers are a team that They don't defend They don't defend it up like they are a high offensive team and they gave Tyrese Halliburton so many different looks So many different lengthy defenders a second to third defender coming at all times that this guy that and Tyrese Halliburton Who has been dominant this entire way this entire season had a game we end up with 20 points 50% shooting That's that's not who we normally have seen he ended up with 11 assists three turnovers for Tyrese Halliburton That's that's like the worst game of all time That's how much he's been protecting the ball they forced him to turn the ball over three different times That is a lot for him and then when you think about their paint protection I mean I think going into this game They were in the bottom five when it comes to percentage of like points given up at the rim Like this is a team that runs you off your three-point line You saw that for the Lakers the only attempt at 13 and they only hit two they run you off the three-point line But the sacrifices you make it that is that you get a lot of baskets at the rim And though Miles Turner is a good rim protector He can't do it all and you saw him get get bullied a bunch today were even fouled out of this one They had no answer for the Complete dominance of LeBron going to the basket ad going to the basket and Austin Reeves like they continue to continue to add Pressure and pressure and pressure it even all that said the Pacers were in this until the last couple minutes You know they were in it in the last couple minutes, but the dominance of Anthony Davis prevailed I'm happy that everybody well for the most part took the in-season tournament very seriously And I would expect next next year to be even more Intense from every team really because I believe that that first week of the in-season tournament I definitely remember some teams not that they weren't taken as serious, but they didn't think about the point differential They didn't think about it like that and then towards the end of it. They like oh my god We're up by 30 points. We need to foul Andre drumming, you know So I think that next season because we understand how the point differential work or how this and that work We're gonna see all 30 teams completely locked in for the comic goal because the team like the Indiana Pacers So a lot of people believe is like a playoff team got all the way to the NBA finals You didn't have to be a contender a NBA championship contender to make a deep run and you think about the money Attached to these players. I mean for the most part everybody that walked out of here got paid Was it a hundred thousand dollars for making it to the finals? Of course 250. Oh, I'm sorry $250,000 to make it to the finals $100,000 to make it to Vegas and then a half a million to the actual winners across the board So like the money is there and and based on what we just saw with the Lakers and Bronn and some of the most Respected players and ball taking it real serious. We will continue to see that I wonder if Adam Silver and them are gonna make any adjustments to it because I personally did not love the the courts I can't be the only one and actually saw that Adam Silver said today that when it comes to the NBA Finders, they're gonna put the Lario Brian in the middle again Just like when I was a kid, which is dope But he also said there's gonna be a pop of color and I'm like Adam We don't need it. I don't I don't know a single person is looking at that course Like I actually want to watch basketball now because the courts is green and red and blue and all no You can keep the course the same but you can continue to put the Lario Brian in the middle That's all we want. That's all we want 109 points is what the Pacers scored the first two games of the season They didn't score a bunch of points I'm sorry. That's not the first game in season But somewhere in the beginning of the season they had a couple hundred and fours But since then I mean they've been the best offensive nearly all time and the Lakers holding them to 109 Is the least amount of points they've scored since the beginning of November? They went a whole month of putting up 120s 130s. Where's that one game? 157 130 or that's the pistons 144 like and that was without Tabry's Halliburton. They put up 144 points like them holding them to 109 It's just like a really great defensive game. Let me know what you think about the Lakers in season tournament Whatever it may be is always I'll be in the comment section