 10 years in the league and now broadcasting for the Houston Rockets. Ryan, how did you like your hype video, Ryan? Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm feeling myself right now. Okay. They didn't act like they forget I haven't played basketball sometimes man show that to all the kids so that they know that this is real. He's been broadcasting for the Rockets for a minute now. And yeah, I want to just get into it because this team, this team was kind of fun. And they made quite the comeback and they improved their win total by 17 and for a hot second there thought they were going to catch the Warriors. So you have a front row seat night in night out. What have you seen as far as improvement with this squad? Man, the three had a horse right here came into Houston. First off, I'm emailing Doka. I think he's the best coach in basketball. He's right up there. Obviously, I like to compare him. If pop was a former player, if pop played some years in league, that's what email is. Okay, that makes sense. Then he's a dog. He's leading the league in text. Come on, fellas, you know, your coach get a tag, he lied for you. You want to go on hoop. He has the X's and O's and he's just brought a toughness to Houston where he's teaching these guys how to play and his show. Houston is that team that you don't want to match up with. And then to me was even more oppressive. If the team was able to go on that streak without outpouring Shingoni, I argue IP has been the best player on the team that Jalen got hot. You can say he's one of the hottest players in the whole NBA, but that's just emailing the next man upside the mentality. Fred Van Fleet has changed our ball club from one of the worst teams in turnovers to arguably the one of the best. If I'm not mistaken, the best in rocket history with the in assist the turnover ratio as a team for a franchise. So that's huge. The team would have 20 plus turnovers. It's like there's no way you win with turning the ball over. And then Dylan Brooks has just turned everybody into villains. Our guys talk trash. They're chippy. They're elbowing. And I remember the first couple of games in preseason with Dylan played like you have four guys playing at one speed and then Dylan will be going wild and it took a while for the Rockets kind of respond to say, OK, that's what it is. That's how how we play. So those three have absolutely been culture changers here in Houston, and I can't be more excited. I know this season's not over, but next season. Oh, man, it's going to be one special one. Yeah, next year. Are you thinking playoffs next season for sure? Don't have me quoting that deal. That's not that's not for me. That's for the player to do. But I'm going to stand out. I don't want to be a playoff team. Stand out. I was surprised if it did happen. And for those who don't know, when me and Lou played in the G League, our coach out, send me my creep. He will talk about the opposing team. He go, I'm just licking my chops when I see somebody come around. So me and Lou see each other through the career. We go, I'm about to I'm about to have problems with you tonight, man. He was a filly. I'm being bossed in LA. We go out at man. So good stuff there, man. All right, let's talk about Tara Easton. You know, you know, we've got to talk about it. It was a beautifully done moment, but a moment where we all went, not a good idea. Warriors come out to play. You're not playing. Then you wear the T-shirt day of game. And then we know how that game plays out and everything that goes with it. I got to ask, when you guys saw it as broadcasters and members of this team, what were you thinking? And what was everyone? I mean, I'm looking until it works on the screen. Did anybody say anything like, yo, just change the shirt? Do something now? I'm not sure what was said in the locker room. I don't think Dylan, of all people, had any problem with it. You see Dylan's like sitting right next to me, dawg. We go right out tonight. But but we all know and Tara may not know just the respect that you have to have for those real champs and Chandler Lou. We knew we got the league. We didn't have respect for some of them. Oh, geez, because they didn't turn into what they were until it was play off time until it was time for them to, you know, kind of become themselves. And it just put it just woke up the word just a little bit enough. And they've been playing great basketball. You guys know it. Dreymon is it is, you know, Dreymon does some silly things. He goes over the board sometimes. But the thing Dreymon knows is how to get his team motivated. He's willing to sacrifice himself. So people don't know Dreymon made the first comment and said, I don't care about the word about the Rockets. I don't care about the Rockets. So it's all right, like, you don't care about my god, we ain't worried about you. You know, like, what's going on? So, you know, you know, the problem is he wasn't playing. That's the beat. Now, if Dylan Brooks, a friend or one of the Jalen, one of those guys wear the shirt, completely different. But if you can contribute to the to how this game is going to go, we ain't trying to hear it, bro. We ain't trying to hear it like, get out the way. You know those don't play Lou. Make no mistake, Lou, you're right. It's a lesson learned and I learned one of those lessons one time, you know, I was on the bench in Charlotte and, you know, guys, generally, you know, I run my mouth. I'm always talking. You know, I didn't just run my mouth on TV. I was running my mouth in the game and bean came in the town. Kobe came in the town and I'd always talk trash. Man, Brevard Knight done this, done this slap me on the bench dog upside my head and say, do not say anything to Kobe. Do not wake him up because if you wake him up, I'm not a dog. We got to see him. Don't zip it. If he shoot me, just silence the whole time. So, yes, young Phillip wasn't out there. He has that type of motor. He's a dog, even your hard dream on say, I fool with Tarees and personally, he caught him out. So those are the things that our young guys are going to have to learn is the mental game, OK, like the mental game. So they ain't scared of nothing. They just got to learn how to fine tune it. That's why we're so excited in Houston. Yeah, my problem was obviously that he wasn't playing, but also poked a bear, but not, not the Warriors. Anybody but anybody. But Ryan, he talks about Jalen Green. He was on fire since the beginning of March, average in 26, 6 and 4. This time, do you think he has it to be the number one guy on a playoff team? And when St. Goon comes back, how are they going to mix these two together and have them both playing at high levels and have it work as one of these duos going forward? Man, I love that question. Chandler, the main thing that I pulled away, does he have it? It is that thing that you can't really explain. Well, why did Lou Will, every time the buzzer was ready to go off? He found a way to just make something happen. Jalen Green has it, but Jalen Green this season has been going through this refining process through one of the best coaches I've seen where he makes like, I don't care who you are, what you look like. If you're not defending, if you're not doing the little things, you're not going to be playing. And when Jalen bought into that, everything went like this. Everything has gone like this. So, yes, I think he has it. It's on Jalen to put in the work. It's on Jalen to humble himself. And these are the things that we saw in him to understand, hey, man, this is what it's going to look like for me to be the guy. Now, since he's been on the flamer, what he was happening and you guys know this and Lou, we've seen this happen when you get hot. He's been getting trapped in double team that he'll have a ball in the pick and roll and guys are going to get the ball out of his hands. Dallas or our guys lost to that Dallas game. Jake hit off rip, double team, get a ball out of his hands. Go make him a passer. So as you said, how are he and Alperin Chengoon going to fit? Alperin Chengoon is a guy who's been all season long, getting double teams on the block. He didn't see single coverage until he saw Wimby. Not drunk. I think he dropped about 45 on Wimby. We remember that. OK, that's the first time that young boy saw single coverage. So now you got a guy to pick a role, but you got a double team to get the ball in his hands. When he gets double team, what's he going to do? How can you go eat, big fella? How can you go eat, big fella? He's got some of the most unbelievable hands. He may have eyes in the back of his hands and in the back of his head. And he may be arguably right behind your kitchen. So bonus, the best passing big, one of the best passing bigs in the NBA. So that's how they're going to fit the challenge for those two. We're going to be transparent defense. If those two can defend being the right spot, be a student in the defensive playbook and adjustments. Now we're talking about Houston really cooking at a national scene. Crazy, crazy times. Let's talk a little Victor Wimby, Yama, shall we? He's a tall man. You're a tall man against Houston. He was he almost had the quad double, and I am just waiting for it to happen at some point. What do you see when you see him? I mean, I don't want to say how amazed are you? I just assume you are. So go on. Well, Biddle, of course, you're going to go straight to Spurs. You couldn't wait to get to Spurs, Biddle. OK, we know we know about that every day. Man, I think he's got all seriousness. I think he's going to be the face of the NBA. He kind of got the swagger. He understands American culture. He's big. You know, big guys normally aren't marketable. Why? Because we don't dribble, shoot through. We don't have the highlights. This dude is a walking highlight. I remember talking to shout out Sean Elliott, man, the legends Sean Elliott and Sean was like, Ryan, because I asked him the same thing. He said, Ryan, every time I see him, he does something I've never seen in the sport of basketball. Guys, we've been playing since we were little. We're in our forties now. We got guys in the fifties and sixties. They are saying they're seeing something from him that you've never seen in the sport of basketball. I'm thirty seven, so you're almost forty. Big fella, big fella, you're on the other side now, big fella. I'm thirty nine, but I count forty. OK, big fella, you're on the other side now. You got to accept it. We're behind the mic now, big fella. But, you know, in all seriousness, I think that pop has taken this as a refining gear for Wimby. I think he just threw him in the swimming pool, said, don't figure out how to swim. I think the game when he made out him guard out P one on one. He tried to teach him a lesson. Oh, you don't want to do things my way. Play him straight up. You don't feel it's going to drop drop forty five on you. So I think for him, he just got to figure things out. And as they put the right pieces around him, it's going to be special and all due respect to Spurs, they even know how to get in basketball. He could he could go he could go forty and twenty. If all he did is run, run, block shots and play around a rim. And the fact that he has a bag. So now he's a match up nightmare. I think he's going to be that guy. And now Wimby, he keeps on the progress that he's at. Michelle, our challenge is going to be how many championships does he get because he's far too good not to dominate and he's in that he's in that realm where LeBron should be given that torch to him. As long as those pieces are put in place around him, he it's the craziest thing because just at a simple level, I'll say as I finish up, he can take the big guys outside and mix. He can take in the challenge for him is taking the little guys in the paint and holding his ground. Right now he can't hold his ground. But when he figures that out, it's going to be it's going to be a problem. I know there's a three on one moment last night in that Grizzly's game. It was just a funny video to watch. If you know, if you're bored, I want to bring back a quote you had in 2019 about Yanis said he was the most overrated in basketball. Well, fast forward a couple of years here and now we've arrived. Have you changed your mind at all on Yanis? Where do you have him now? He was overrated. He was he was overrated at that time. So that wasn't for the Hoopers. That was for my colleagues. Let's let's put this on. I'm glad you brought this up. This is for a lot of my colleagues at ESPN that were overhyping and calling Yanis. And by the way, I love Yanis. Don't mistake none of this that we're saying Yanis is Michael Jordan. Yanis is this and his numbers were astronomical astronomical. They were there. So I was saying at that moment, he should walk away with the championship, all that at that moment. He was overhyped at that moment. But I love Yanis. I love the story. He's a throwback. He plays every night. He's a dog. He works. He loves his teammates even more so he take care of his family. He goes somewhere. His brothers be right there with him. So at that moment, I did not think that they were putting him on the right pedestal. I think he's deserving of all his all of his accolades he put into work. So when I say over overhyped out from my ESPN colleagues, not for the real Hoopers, we all knew he had to develop that jump shot. We knew the young that young boy was a dog. We knew the right pieces need to be put around him. So that was not a shot to him or anything like that. It was just more so for for my colleagues at the time. That we're like, we're looking at Michael Jordan. It's like, nah, he's not Mike right now. He's he's on that pace. But so that's that's what it was for. That's what it's for. I love me some Yanis, man. Shout out to freak and get well soon, brother. Speaking of staying on the walkie, you and I both play for Doc. You play for him on two separate occasions. They've had their struggles in Milwaukee since bringing Doc in. Right decision, wrong decision, bringing a man midseason. What's your opinion on bringing Doc in? This was going to be tough for anybody to do with midseason. And I'm not sure who pulled the trigger on it, but Doc is in a lose lose situation. You know, they had the scheme set up. They're already prepared, whether you love the hate coach Griffin, I always believe in writing things out. So I think a midseason change that should have happened before. So I don't know if there was something they want to do before the season. But that timing was horrible because not right now, Doc is going to be the scapegoat. And I don't think that all the blame necessarily should go to him. But at the end of the day, man, it puts him in a very, very tough situation. For Doc, we noticed it takes you a while to kind of get used to what Doc wants to wants to do, and he can draw it up to Xs and O's with absolutely the best of them. So I think the challenge was to say, hey, we know Doc was able to go in. And we're all going to go back to those Boston days with that big three. And he made things work with some big personalities. Doc knows how to manage personalities, but Doc has to go back and get him another chip the way that he did in Boston. So I think maybe they wanted to get somebody more respected. I think the timing was off. So whoever pulled the trigger on it, I think it was it was poor judgment on that time. Either wait till the season rise out. Let Adrian have a chance to see if he can get a championship or do it before the season. But when it happened, I didn't agree with it. And I think it is tough. And I think for Doc, he's just going to have to take accountability. He's going to have to eat all the criticism right now. And Doc's been there before he was booting Boston and he was celebrated a few seasons after. So he's been around his league long enough. How you got your own personal emojis going up right there? I see you guys like every channelers a little curious with the thumbs up popping up. No, I was going to ask y'all the same thing. I don't know if the producers are just showing me love right now. I don't know what I'm going up right now. Hold them up. Hold them up. Like things will happen. We can just do an hour of this, y'all. Oh, that was great. Oh, oh, snap. I don't know what we're doing right now. Ryan, Ryan, appreciate the time. Love the nice open floor plan. A big fan of that as well. I hope you'll come back soon. Hey, any any time. Hey, Chandler Lou, I love seeing y'all on the dark side, fellas. Congratulations to the dark side. You're killing it. Look at it, man. Y'all know we go way back. Send out to y'all boys. Could not be happier and beat them. But by the time you bring your boy home, man, by the time you bring your boy home. I know, right? We waited. We're saving you for the end there. We're saving you for the end. We appreciate it. We'll talk soon. We'll be back. Any time, guys.