 Good morning, let's talk hoops. Did I cook with that intro? Oh no. Today we're just testing something out. I feel like there are a lot of people that don't get a chance to watch basketball in a game like last night where it's an 11 game slate. And I want this to be the source where they can kind of keep up with the league without having to watch every single minute of every single game. So again, 11 games last night, pretty much every single team that wasn't a part of an in season tournament game played. And we got crazy performances. We got game winners and we gonna talk about it all. Leave a like, starting off with the number one performance of the night, Joellen B going into DC and dropping 50, 13 and seven. Come on man, how do you stop that? Now, admittedly DC is a very thin front court where it's like, as you can see, Galanari in a zone at the center position. It's like there's no real resistance and Joellen B taking advantage of that. Even it went, oh my God, hold on. Can I get that one again? Cause that one went under the radar for me. That one went under the radar for me. Hold on, look at the shake. He been working with Hakeem? He had to be cause that is a bucket. Another storyline from this game is that Kelly Ubrey was back. Obviously Kelly Ubrey had missed a bunch of time with him getting hit by a car. It's a story that you can, you can look up. I'm not gonna talk about it too much, but he is back playing basketball and he was crucial in a fourth quarter for a win. The second best performance of the night is Luca Dancers dropping 40, 16 and 10 in just 31 minutes. This man Luca went into halftime in his game with a 28 point triple double. He had a 30 point triple double in just 20 minutes play. I'm not taking nothing away from the legendary performance, but this was the start of five for the Utah Jazz last night. Chianti, George Rookie, Ote Abadje, year two. Simone Fantechio, import player from Italy who doesn't play a ton of men traditionally. John Collins and Omar Yertsev. That might be the worst start of five we've seen so far this season. Again, not taken away from Luca Dancers 40 point triple double. But I'm just saying this man, Chianti George was a minus 48 on the night. That's all I gotta say. Some people saying that Luca Dancers got that new dad swag. I mean, he just welcomed baby girl into the work, congratulates to the Dancers family, but he also started wearing a headband, the thinnest headband. It's like a ponytail holder. A headband look, I guess. We dig at a moment when things got chippy between Luca Dancers and Chris Dunn and legends underscore NBA got the audio because somehow he always does. Hands in the face, Luca smiling. He ain't ever lied. He definitely was giving them boys buckets. The third best performance of the night is Desmond Bain dropping 49, eight and six, a career high for Desmond. I feel like every single team is trying their very hardest not to let the Detroit Pistons in they streak. Cause now with this loss, what is it at 17, 18 straight losses for the Detroit Pistons? And this was one of the games where they was into it late. But as you can see, Desmond and the Memphis Grizzlies went on a nice little run. And this one is the icing on the cake, pull up mid-range jump shot 49 piece for Desmond. One thing I thought that was interesting and this one, Manny Williams was playing his rotation. And we saw Jaden Ivey was the 11th man on the court for the Detroit Pistons. There's a lot of things going wrong in Detroit. I just didn't expect that Jaden Ivey was going to fall almost completely out of the rotation at one point. I wanted to get his man top three performance of the day, but his team ended up losing, but Paulo Bankero had 42 points and he only made one three. A good old, like an old fashioned of a 42 pieces you could get mid-range jump shots and buckets, straight buckets, but they lost because the Cavaliers are really on their stuff. They've won seven of the last 10. They're starting to look more cohesive after a slow start with all of the injury. We also got a game winner last night. Here's Trey Young and Dennis McJr. Step back three, he hits it. 16 seconds go, put them out by one. He's saying it's cold in here. Ice Trey, no timeouts. I mean they have one to give, but they say, hey, we going to let him run his stuff. McHale Bridges tells Smith and then we get out of the way. Here comes the screen from Claxton. McHale Bridges get downhill. Tough midi. Well, four seconds to go. The Atlanta Hawks call timeout. They didn't get up a really good shot. And just like that, I'm not going to say what Twitter said. These are two teams that are teetering around 500. So people saying this was battle of the men and I'm not going to say it. I mean, even though I said it, I'm not going to say it. These are two good dish teams going hand to hand and we got a game winners. So shout out to McHale Bridges. Back in the 1996, 1997 season, the NBA started to track lead changes in like a singular game. With this game had 43 different lead changes, which is the most we've seen since they started tracking it. Also, shout out to Trent Waffer for his reaction to the game winner. Just look at him in his corn on the bench. Hey, he held the stands for a minute that ran on the court. The Clippers had a signature win. Like probably their best win on the season. Last win versus the Warriors, I said, was their best win of the season. They double down and had another one versus the different nuggets. And this was the worst shooting night of Nikola Jokic's NBA career. A graphic they showed during the game, 9 for 32. That is 23 miss field goals, the most in Nikola Jokic's career. Did he feel the wrath of Daniel Tice or Zubac? I actually don't know. I only watched the last couple of minutes of this game. So I had to go back and see how the heck did we get Jokic's missing 23 shots? But the Clippers did it and they got a very, very big win. This is two in a row. This is what? Oh, six of their last 10. Why don't I think it was a little bit better than that? Six of their last 10, they're close to 500. So give it a little bit more time. Tyrone Lucey, he needed at least 10 games. I actually think it's been about 10 games since the James Harden trade, but give it a little bit more than 10 games, I guess. But a huge win versus the definitive champion. And one of the other games earlier today, Regal Bear gets a standing ovation from the home crowd of Minnesota as they were up by nine points or 20 seconds to go. He was very close to a 20-20 game. It was Frenchman versus Frenchman. And the two, I mean, the three times, sooner before time, DPOI, look at those fans. Based on what last year was, I thought I would never see a time when the 10 Bulls fans gave Regal Bear a standing ovation. And here we are. They're the number one team in the entire league and they continue to pile on win after win after win. This is back to back dominant performances offensively and defensively for Regal Bear. So watch out, he might make an all-star appearance. Also in this game, we saw Zach Collins shoot six for 20. I don't know a situation where Zach Collins should be getting 20 plus shots up. And we also saw that the Spurs changed at the starting lineup. A pointy contention for a lot of fans like, hey, the Jeremy Sohan experienced that point guard is not working. So he was out of the lineup. I'm like, okay, cool. Are we gonna get some, some Trey Jones? Nope. Jetty Osmond, welcome to being a starting point guard of the Senate on the old Spurs. I don't understand. The Bulls ended up winning the game and get to beat up Charlotte Hornets scene. That's not the story today for the Bulls though. Zach Levine were missing additional three to four weeks to treat his right foot inflammation. And because a lot of players are eligible to be traded December 15th and more players are eligible to be traded January 15th, there is a chance that we might have seen the last minutes of Zach Levine as a Chicago Bull. I got mixed feelings about it. The watching the man play Chicago for six and a half years. So if he ends up getting traded in the last memory I have of him is them lose about 50 to the Boston Celtics. It's just not gonna feel great. Get well soon, Zach. We'll see if the Bulls trade him while he's rehabilitating or whatever. The story of this game should probably be about how Caleb Marden had one of his best games of the season, but instead I walk away from it continuing to be impressed by Jaime Jaquez. This is a game where in Miami he went into Toronto and gotta win relatively easy and Jaime kind of did a little bit of everything. Look, look, like look at that. That's on, that's on Scotty Barnes. Shout out to Jaime Jaquez. Also no bam on a bio in that game. They just, they just, they just do that type of thing. One day they Miami, he look elite. The next day they look less elite. Jimmy Butler said that they have looked mediocre at time. So I don't know what to think about him. But again, how many high cast has been great? Speaking of great, let's look at some Alperin Shingoon assists baby. That's one right off the Dylan Brooks. It was a long assist, you know what I'm saying? Looked like more than just a couple dribbles, but hey, an assist and assist nonetheless. The best home team in the league went against the best role team in the league. Two of the younger teams in the association and the Houston Rockers walked out of there with a win. Let's enjoy some Alperin Shingoon assist for a second. Another really good performance from him. They had a bunch of people that showed out and showed up for this one. There's another one from Alperin Shingoon. Having a center that can be labeled as your best playmaker goes a very long way. A weird possession right here. Look at it fight for it in the dish off to Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks did not expect that ball to go to him. Under, over and under pass. Dylan Brooks basically missed it but Lou Dorsey, you know, whatever. Jabari Smith, Jr. in this game attempted four shots. He shot 50%, dope, six total points. He had 18 rebounds and put the claps on Che Hungry. It's a very, Jabari Smith is a very interesting case of a top three pick, having a mediocre year number one and year number two, not seeing his numbers jump off the page. But if you're watching, he looks significantly better than he did last year. Now the Houston Rockers are the only team left in basketball without a real win. But if they continue to be this dominant at home, maybe you don't need to win one role game. It's overrated, it's overrated winning on the road. You go on the road, you eat new food, you do tourist stuff and that's it, no hoops. And the last game of the day saw this up by one with 13 seconds to go. Steph Curry versus Anthony Simon. Steph Curry stepped back three, boom, that's the dagger. It was the first game back from Anthony Simon, he looked pretty good. This young Blazer team has been one of the better defenses over the last couple of weeks. So I'm interested to see if they keep that up. They lost to the experience and grit and greatness of Steph Curry in the goal to say warrior. And that's it, that's everything from the association on an 11 game slate. Tomorrow, I guess tonight, we get in-season tournament semifinals. And that should be amazing. The NBA dropped this tweet about the in-season tournament semifinals court. And y'all, it's bad, it's bad. I've been hating the super colorful courts. This is the same thing. The big pop of the blue was just a little bit too much in my eyes. One of the reasons I liked the quarterfinals is we didn't see a bunch of crazy courts like the super red courts, Chicago, Miami, and Toronto or whatever, but now we get the super blue court. Thought at all about how you're gonna celebrate if you're able to pull this off? Man. No, we ain't thought about it, but I know it's gonna be a good time.