Slightly Early – The Mavericks Roller Coaster Win, Another Horrible Loss, Lakers Beat the Thunder

Slightly Early – The Mavericks Roller Coaster Win, Another Horrible Loss, Lakers Beat the Thunder

Hello YouTube it is January 16th already the 16th damn 2024 it is 9:21 a.m. it is cold as [ __ ] in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex you don’t even mean to tell you that a lot of stuff happened in the NBA yesterday obviously Martin Luther King Jr day yesterday so a busy slate of

NBA games as per usual and there was some interesting stuff some interesting uh results some interesting storylines some returns Draymond Green his first game back with the Warriors they lose again they’re now four games under 500 we’re going to talk about them Jimmy Butler comes back for Miami he goes off

Against the Nets in an overtime win a score out of the 1990s 96 to 95 in overtime a lot of stuff happening across the league the Lakers get a win against the Thunder what Derek Lively back for the Mavericks that’s where we’ll that’s where we’ll start Derek Lively back for the Dallas

Mavericks they pull out a win against the red hot nor or Pelicans this roller coaster of a season for the Dallas Mavericks continues they win games you wouldn’t think they would win they lose games you wouldn’t think they would lose a home stand that a lot of us had

Circled for the Mavs seven games against some pretty tough opponents of course when this homeand started we thought like johnar would be back for the Grizzlies and stuff unfortunately he heard his shoulder right before this but a seven game home stand the Mavericks go 5-2 over that stretch including some pretty impressive

Wins obviously uh the Knicks who are Five-0 winners of five straight going into that game the Timberwolves the Pelicans some pretty strong wins um of course a 20po blowout loss to the Grizzlies without johnar without jiren Jackson Jr Marcus Smart got hurt halfway through this game pretty inexcusable loss there a loss to

The Pelicans where the Pelicans were arresting four starters but then uh a win against a healthy Pelicans team make it make sense I don’t know a healthy and rested Pelicans team I don’t understand them nobody does Kyrie Irving goes for 42 points Tim Hardway Jr goes for 41 points Derrick

Lively in his return has 12 rebounds seven offensive rebounds just a crazy game with a crazy ending the Mavericks it felt like executed on pretty much every play down the stretch that they needed to execute on it was pretty impressive and here’s uh here’s the thing the Mavericks are

Now halfway through the season they’ve played 41 games they’re on Pace for 48 wins which is pretty good pretty good I I believe their o over under on wins heading into the season by Vegas was like 44 and a half I mean it wasn’t a lot on paage for 48 wins

Despite all of the injuries that they have endured so far this season you could definitely make a case that this team gets relatively healthy maybe makes an addition at the trade deadline who knows I’m still of the belief I don’t really think if if they do something as the deadline I don’t

Think it’ll be anything too big this team could could push 50 wins which is is what you would like to expect from a Luca donic Le team at this stage six years in that you would hope that the Mavericks were good enough to regularly get 50

Wins th had to drop 40 for us to stay in the game well yeah I mean the matters were short-handed here’s the here’s the record breakdown for the Mavericks halfway through the season 24 and 17 can I just say can I just say I I really don’t like that the

That the All-Star break happens like 60 plus games into the season it’s kind of weird to me not 60 plus like around 60 games into the season it’s just weird it doesn’t make sense like you usually the All-Star break is smack dab in the middle oh yeah the All-Star game’s [ __ ]

But 24 and 17 they’re 21 and 13 when Luca plays so two and four when he doesn’t I’m sorry I can’t do math three and four when he doesn’t that’s not that’s not horrible they are 20 and 10 when Derek l Lively plays so four and seven when he

Doesn’t play 15 and 10 when Kyrie plays Luca plus Lively 19 and8 Luca plus Kyrie 12 and8 Kyrie plus Lively 12- six and all three of those guys 11 and five so 41 games into the season the three best players have only been on the floor together in 16

Games you think they play better if the AAR game was in the summer [ __ ] no no one would show up to that [ __ ] in the summer I don’t think you can fix the NBA Allstar game I don’t think people are going to Care like World versus USA is the only thing

In my brain that makes sense it’s something that could get competitive how many teams in the west would beat a fully healthy map team in a playoff series so the Mavericks have a have a decently high ceiling I don’t think they’re a championship team has the alar game not been 10 times

Better the past few years last year’s allstar game was a joke last year’s All-Star game was one of the worst I can remember unless I’m unless I misremembering something so the maps are currently the six seed which means they would play the nuggets in round one

Jesus yeah I don’t I don’t see that one going well for the Mavericks however everyone else ahead of them Timberwolves in a series I don’t know I you know the Mavericks obviously wouldn’t be the favorites in that series I don’t know if I would bet on the Mavericks but I I

Could see a world in which they win a series against the Timberwolf I could see a world in which the Mavericks win a series against the Timberwolves Thunder again I could definitely see a world in which the Mavericks win a series against the Thunder the Thunder are just super

Green Mavericks have guys who have been there Clippers [ __ ] I don’t want to play the Clippers in the playoffs again man at least not in the first round at least not in the first round Clippers would be tough I think the Mavericks could definitely hang with them everyone else I would straight up

Pick the Mavericks to beat in a playoff series every other team I I would I would pick the Mavericks to beat the Nuggets are the only team that I could say with utmost confidence the Mavericks have no chance to win the series the the three teams around them the four

Two and ones Timberwolves Thunder Clippers I could talk myself myself into the Mavericks winning that series Kings I would like to think the Mavericks win that series like I’d be disappointed if the Mavericks don’t win that series Pelicans I’d be disappointed if the Mavericks don’t win that series Suns

Jazz Lakers you know any of these other teams like the Mavericks would need to win that series or else I’d be very upset but they need to be healthy we’re talking about like a fully healthy Mavericks team though yeah this team is built the Mavs are built for the playoffs for

Sure I mean that win against the Pelicans was was massive massive massive massive I think they said during the broadcast the Mavs have four games left in the division um with two of those being the Spurs and two of those being the Rockets So if they take care of business in those games

The Mavs will have a pretty damn good division record which would give them the tiebreaker over the Pelicans they’ve already beat the Suns want so they have a good chance of having the tiebreaker there got to win these Kings games I believe the Clippers have the tiebreaker over the

Mavs so we’ll see I like this team gets somewhat healthy I think they could easily push 50 wins but again they got to get healthy the Pelicans play too much team ball they were taking the ball out of their best players hands yesterday well it’s funny because that

Team ball is what beat the Mavericks a few nights ago but yeah yesterday was just weird I mean the Pelicans are just an up and the Pelicans are roller coaster themselves same record as last season during this time yeah but the the team’s nowhere near comparable to last year’s team I

Mean I I don’t I keep seeing that get brought up the team is nowhere near comparable to where the Mavericks were at this time a year ago like just genuinely nowhere near comparable yes the schedule remains brutal to close out the month for the Mavericks uh they played the Lakers

Wednesday night in LA Lakers maybe figuring some stuff out just got a nice win against the against the Thunder last night we’ll talk about them in a bit The Warriors you know Draymond is back the Warriors aren’t very good you’d like to win that game but it’s still the Warriors then Celtics then

Phoenix Atlanta’s a mess Kings a very important Kings game of course that’s on the second night of it back toback Mavericks only play the Kings on backto backs it feels like wow the Mavericks get a full weekend off they haven’t had they haven’t had like multiple rest days in a long

Time Mavs Lakers games are always intense yes they are they are always intense the Mavericks have beat the Lakers twice already this season so they have the tiebreaker against them which could be important on the line winning two out of three non Luka games unrated yeah that’s very big it’s

Hilarious that they that the one game they lost was the game they they should have won so the schedule was tough for the Mavericks and we’ll see I mean as of lately they’ve been uh as of lately they’ve been beating the good teams and losing to the bad teams

So this this kind of bodess well for them we’ll see if they can keep that up we need Lakers killer Dante XM back soon the Mavericks really do need Dante XM back soon I mean his absence has been felt especially since Luca has been out Tim Hardway Jor is running pick and

Rolls and [ __ ] and it’s just ending a disaster almost every single time so I’m starting College this week any advice go to class go to class you you don’t you don’t need to go out on a week night you know you don’t need to do that you don’t need to do

That if if you’re going to a bar and it feels disgusting it’s because it is get out because it is gross if you’re at a bar and there’s liquid on the ground it’s sludge get out of there it’s disgusting it’s a [ __ ] place you don’t

Even want to be at no one you meet there is going to be a serious person in your life that would be my advice all right um number one realistic trade Target I really don’t know budget your time on assignments based on your weight in the syllabus yeah you you need

To be more organized than I was when I first started college I won’t go too deep into it let’s just say my f my first uh attempt at College was not very good um yes sit down map out your assignments map out what projects you have do and

When get a feel for your professors which ones are going to be hard asses which ones aren’t I I went out earlier I went outside earlier I have two pairs of socks on I have three pairs of pants on I had two hoodies a long sleeve shirt and a coat

On I’m not [ __ ] around with this weather man I’m not yeah Maxi coming back is interesting he’s going to have to hit threes espe es if he’s going to play alongside Lively kba is going to have to shoot three pairs of socks actually makes it worse wait really so we’ve just

Never bought cold weather gear I I have like a pretty heavy coat I mean no man it’s 110 degrees here for [ __ ] 99% of the year it’s horrible it’s a miserable place to live it should never be 110 degrees anywhere ever yeah Maxi shots look a little bit

Rough the moisture makes him colder okay used to be a sock salesman well I’m not sweating I’m moving my foot around I’m not sweating I got these bad boys on all right the the a great win for the Mavericks Kyrie Irving’s just been incredible he’s been absolutely

Incredible he’s not going to make the All-Star Game just because he’s missed too much time he’s missed an entire month highly doubt it he makes it you look at some of the other guards in the Western Conference I mean obviously Steph’s making the [ __ ] allar game

Like let’s not trick ourselves but uh I mean uh yeah I mean yeah I could probably make an argument that Kyrie has been better than Seth this season why not yeah Deen fox has been struggling a lot lately I don’t know have you ever been skiing I have been skiing

Yes 37 points per game over his last five games for Kyrie that’s the third time he’s achieved such a feat in his 13-year career incredible stuff what Kyrie’s doing man what an incredible player what an incredible player to watch and also too he’s just so mature

Now you know he’s always been like a cereal player but it’s just feels like he’s in such control of the game now like he’s in he just looks like an NBA vet which he is he’s just in control of the game he knows he knows how to Pace himself he

Knows the pace of the the game he he can play Within the flow of the game incredibly well he’s been incredibly consistent he knows when to take games over and even in games like in this game he started off poorly shooting wise but none of the shots he takes you’re like

Oh my God like you know even Luca at times and I’m just using Luca as an example because he’s on the Mavericks even Luca at times will get into into like ruts within a game where he’s taking you could tell he’s trying to shoot him his way out of a out

Of a rut or whatever and the shots he’s taking are just like okay we can get better shots than that you know you’re settling for bad shots because you’re frustrated or whatever the case may be doesn’t really feel like Kyrie ever does that and that’s not that’s not uh

Something that’s unique to Luca a lot of players do that a lot of players whenever they’re kind of struggling or you know having a hard time against defenses will settle for bad shots and an attempt to shoot them shoot their way out of it but damn like Kyrie like even the

Shots he misses you’re you’re you’re cool with him taking ESPN we don’t want you to autoplay any video ever you understand me and Timmy I mean some of the threes he was hitting last night were just nuts absolutely nuts so the Mavs get some guys back and

You know we envision a world where everyone’s healthy that’ll probably never happen but Envision a world where everyone’s healthy and you know you have Dwight pal Off the Bench 12 minutes a game maybe that’s good Dwight Pal’s been really good he’s been good since Lively when since Lively went down with an

Injury and pal had to step up he’s been good a world where Maxi is probably ALS also coming off the bench that gives you another you know a a taller dude a lengthier dude who’s good on defense he can do a bunch of different things defensively that’s nice to have drik

Jones Jr we know how good he’s been this season exm gives you another another ball handler who’s good on defense and can do a bunch of different things and is a versatile player and then we know what Luca can do like when healthy this is a good de this is a good

Team this why like when people bring up they have the same record as last year man they’re not even [ __ ] comparable like this this team’s not even comparable to the team last year so anyways the the Dallas Mavericks roller coaster continues the Mavericks roller coaster continues the war Warriors

Lose four games under 500 now they’ve lost a lot of games this one might be one of the worst I saw someone who I won’t name say that this map team is losing games the same way as last year that the case they would have lost yesterday some of the recent losses have

Been uh akin to some of the losses a year ago to be fair but um this is one of the worst losses of the season for the Warriors which is saying a lot Clank Thompson with nine points he had just a hilarious sequence where I don’t remember at what point in the game

It was the warriors were down and desperately needed baskets out of a timeout Klay gets up two shots misses the first one which was a pretty decent look Warriors get an offensive rebound Clank Thompson gets gets the ball back and decides you know what I’m going to

Shoot have contested one like it fade away on the Baseline cuz I think I’d earned it and then he clanked that as well this team just doesn’t play defense man DM lest team in the press conference yeah Draymond in the press conference is pretty much like we don’t play

Defense and and think about this Grizzlies team right now the Mavericks had a very embarrassing loss to the Grizzlies a week ago to be fair but this Griz team Marcus Smart we already know John Mar’s out for the season you know um Steven Adams Brandon Clark all those guys out for the

Season Desmond Bane is now out at least six weeks Marcus Smart is out multiple weeks in this Grizzlies team man GG Jackson 23 points all over the floor two steals two blocks playing defense on Steph he’s the youngest player in the league GG Jackson is Vince Williams Jr is like unlocked on

Offense now 24 points on six of 11 Jacob Gillard had two steals in a block he was all over the floor all these guys just play hard as [ __ ] I mean this is a team that you like can’t really sleep on BL beans being shacked in the

Interview yeah that was that was a cool moment that was a cool moment I was honestly kind of like I’m not like a I don’t do scouting and stuff like that but I’ll look around and just some of the stuff that I saw and heard about GG Jackson I was like I

Don’t know I I don’t know about him but they got him in the second round it wasn’t like they they you know gave up like spent crazy draft C capital on him but people were shooting on GG so much last summer well I mean I mean he was bad at College like

Bad uh but of course like you could see his skill though and everything and he was the youngest player he is the youngest player in the NBA like he just turned 19 he was 18 entering the league which I didn’t think you could do I thought you had to be 19 to get

Drafted did they change that rule he was 1869 and and athletic and skilled people are overthinking that well to be fair there’s always like big athletes who come into the NBA and they’re trash I thought it was a rule you had to be 19 when you got drafted or is it like

You had to be 19 at a certain point in the season yeah I mean cam radish is a good example cam radish is a lengthy skilled guy who’s just not a very good player you have to turn 19 the year you get drafted like the calendar year or the

Season I knew it was something like that let’s look at the Warriors subreddit shall we calendar year okay so damn he barely because he his birthday is December 17th so we have at least five losses that could be the most embarrassing loss of the season I think this is the mo their most

Embarrassing loss of the Season I’m not going to go through their schedule but this feels like it’s the most embarrassing one of the Season every time we say this is the worst there’s one worse oh man true the Denver one was bad they blew an 18-point game in what was it five

Minutes yeah they got they got no Defenders man no Defender Wiggins just doesn’t care and what do they do I mean do do they really like go all in for seak at the Dead I mean why siakam’s not saving you and even okay SE yakum stays next

Season all right Steph’s a year older clay you bring clay back draymond’s a year older like what Golden State fans are not used to losing well to to be fair in their defense this has been a very frustrating season for them this isn’t like this isn’t like they’re just

Complaining about losses and they’re you know seven games over 500 and melting down after every loss like they’re four games under 500 it’s been a disappointing season and what’s crazy is in the final like in the closing time of this game that the Grizzlies went on like a three

Or four minute stretch without scoring a point and then they just went crazy at the end 24 points for Vince Williams Jr that was a Seas in high for Him Luke Canard was was riging threes two of seven must have just been what I was watching he did have five assists I

Thought luk Canard played well which is why I’m shocked at his uh shooting splits because I he he just jumped out at me as having a good control of the game all superstars have sad endings to their careers except Tim Duncan yeah very rarely do

Uh do you ride off into the sunset said like a Disney Channel movie you know it usually ends like this unceremoniously then you look back on it and you’re like wow that was really the end of it huh like 2022 the the Warriors win was like oh my God the two timelines like

Holy [ __ ] I was listening to a podcast recently forgot what it was but there was a warriors uh reporter on there or whatever and she made a great Point she was like yeah the the Warriors to the two time thing but then you think you look at it and nobody from the second

Timeline did anything really in that finals run I was like yeah kaminga didn’t play Moody didn’t play was wisan on that team still he was wasn’t he didn’t play or was he injured that year I mean whatever the case is definitely didn’t play Then Jordan P who was very big for

Them in that finals run got traded for Chris Paul we suck so bad it’s clear that we’re too old too slow and too unathletic to seriously compete with anyone that’s what I’m saying like it would be a pretty remarkable turn around if the Warriors Were Somehow able to to write the

Ship fire Mike McCarthy wait what what’s up Gary pton is injured again Gary pton is just hurt all the time he’s Mr glass God bless him fire Mike McCarthy this guy’s not doing himself any favors uh Cowboys fan and a Warriors fan cowys fan and warriors fan come on

Brother although I’ll keep saying this there’s no such thing as a Cowboys B bandwagon anymore what the [ __ ] are you jumping on what bandwagon are you jumping on a bandwagon that’s breaking down and falling into a ditch this is supposed to be the one that galvanized the team Instead This is

The game that gets Wiggins traded I’m yeah this is I agree with this guy like what is Wiggins trade value there’s not teams lining up to get Wiggins clay they got to rip the Band-Aid off with Clay you can’t bring clay back I mean you just can’t you can’t give clay

A big contract you just can’t do it and and the thing is who’s going to blame you at this point like the concern for the Warriors would be well we we have to give clay a contract it’s just a bad look you know it’s the business side of

Things it is a business and that’s the business side of things it’s a bad look if you don’t give a guy like clay contract extension at this point Who’s going to give a [ __ ] Warriors fans will not care everyone around the league will be like yeah well it was probably time to

Rip that Band-Aid off if I’m the Spurs I try to get Wiggins on the low how bad do they have to be over the next month or so for them to like sell at the deadline I mean like maybe Clay’s gone maybe draymond’s gone how bad where do they need to be around

February 8th or whatever the trade deadline is six seven games under 500 I think if they stay where they are right now they they trick themselves into trying to make a move they’re currently uh a game and a half out of the play and I get in their

Eyes it’s like all right just get into the play tournament with Steph and and and our guys and we can do something if they below Memphis oh my God they’re only three games ahead of Memphis holy [ __ ] they’re closer to the Grizzlies than they are a top six spot

Yeah that’s what it is there’s no trade that fixes this team oh my God they’re talking their pick they don’t have their pick this upcoming year it’s top four protected they’re talking about maybe keeping that pick holy [ __ ] oh man wow brutal great win for the Grizzlies

Though how does Dean Wade look on the Mavs that’d be kind of interesting but but why though are the warrior are the the Cavs trying to trade him another another lengthy Defender can knock down a three or two how about this win from the uh Lakers

Huh I guess they I guess they own the Thunder good win though for the lake show uh ad just continues to be really [ __ ] good saw a lot of Lakers fans really impressed with Christian Woods minutes last night Cam reddish has been out and I

Think it’s in a way like kind of helped this Lakers team get out of your own way and like play the lineups that makes sense you know put some Shooters out there put some guys who can actually do some [ __ ] things it might end up being addition by

Subtraction I think cam reddish has been like horrible this year he hasn’t really but but a really nice win they played really well defensively I thought the problems for this Thunder team that could come back to hurt them in the playoffs I’ve said it I have said

It giddy Cas Wallace Isaiah Joe jayen Williams like that grouping right there whoever’s on the floor next to your big three and Dort but I’m including Dort into this as well you are going in a playoff in a playoff setting you are going to be so

Reliant on those guys to hit threes like that’s going to make or break break you as a team in the playoffs when teams clamp down and they’re going to make life as hard as possible on Shake gild’s Alexander that’s what they’re going to decide we’re going to make life as

Difficult on Shake guilders Alexander as possible jdubb and Chad we’re going to do whatever we can to gaml in them out whoever the other two are whether that’s Josh giddy ludor case Wallace Jaylen Williams whoever the [ __ ] out there Isaiah Joe who went 0 of six in this

Game those guys have to hit threes or else you’re in trouble because other teams will just put their centers on giddy I mean who gives a [ __ ] we’ll put our siners on Giddy and we’ll we’ll help off we’ll we’ll let him roam these equal opportunity teams always

Look worse in the playoffs well to be fair that the the Thunder could be a good I mean they are one of the best halfcourt offenses in the league and Shay’s very good at ISO ball jdub is is good in isolation too like they I think

They’ll be fine in that regard but it is just like you’re going there’s going to be a lot of Defenders sent those guys ways and here’s the thing with Josh giddy the Thunder take him out of the game when they need offense they take him out of the game when they need stops

A lot of the times they take him out of the game in in clutch situations who the [ __ ] is this guy you want me to take this guy seriously at all you take him out of the game when you need when you need anything Thunder have absolutely no

Pressure to do anything this year yeah that that’s a good point too this isn’t some make or break here for the Thunder I still think the Thunder are going to be really good I think they’ll be good in the playoffs but that is the that’s the question for them

Ultimately will those guys step up to to where they can punish defenses that will inevitably help off of and in some instances just completely leave those guys by themselves and also Shay Shay didn’t look great in this game but he’s he’s dealing with like a knee injury or

Something uh I think they played I think the Thunder played tonight as well so he’ll probably rest tonight if I guess but yeah not not the best Shay game but again he’s like he he was clearly dealing with some type of KN injury I’m surprised they even played

Him especially with how careful they are usually with this type of stuff the Thunder did you see the Nuggets funny injury report no it was it send it in here I don’t know if Shay’s is good in the playoffs either the free throws won’t be there as much I I have no

Reason to believe Shay won’t be incredible in the playoffs I I have no reason to believe that his game won’t uh translate very well to a postseason setting yeah Thunder play tonight on TNT oh is is this like the first time they’re doing the players only one injury report heading into

Tomorrow’s matchup against the 76ers wait what’s funny about this lot of people in the replies who don’t understand this is hilarious trolling are they’re trolling embiid is that what it is people like to make up this like embiid yic rivalry in their head but I don’t think it exists wow nugget Sixers

Tonight is embiid there’s no way embiid plays in this game huh isn’t beid going to play in this game second night of it back to back he just came back yesterday did do some Shameless stab padding did some Shameless St padding in that game oh yeah they are saying he’s

Playing today all right right embiid vers yic I mean what was the last time we had that actually well let’s go that’ll be a [ __ ] blast that will be a blast poorest defensive impact per EPM Malachai brandom is is not a good NBA player not a good NBA player at all

I always wonder what all goes into these stats to be honest with you Tim’s 11th worst yeah I mean I mean looking at this list of guys what Wiggins is that is that and Aaron or Andrew looking at this list of guys nobody really jumps out here as

Surprising reevs being the second worst is actually a little shocking do I think Jeremy Grant is better than Tobias Harris Jeremy Grant is I think a better player than Tobias Harris but like Tobias Harris might be a better role player does that make any sense I listen to a podcast talking

About that a trade and I was kind of surprised they thought gr was a big upgrade well if it was a 76ers podcast they they [ __ ] hate Tobi haris so anyways nice win for the Lakers maybe maybe they’re figuring some stuff out out still a game below 500 but

They’re kind of in this weird little limbo win a game lose a game win a couple games lose a couple games uh so we shall see they do Play The Mavericks tomorrow night that’s their next game when is Josh Green available for trade I’m pretty sure that’s all like

January 15th is like everyone’s available now pretty much right all right what else happened yesterday the Joan beid made his return after missing a few games came back against the Rockets the Rockets are now a game under 500 they’ve been struggling lately embiid with 41 points 10 rebounds

He keeps the 30 point 10 rebound streak alive uh definitely some pretty intense stat padding in this game for Mr Joel embiid but hey he gets the job done the magic beat the Knicks nice win though Orlando um it’s starting to happen a little bit guys the the Knicks are starting to get

A little upset Julie frandle has been great all year long everyone’s been really happy with him but uh it’s starting to get a little ugly misses two free throws here yeah no Brunson in this game misses two free throws here jogs back on defense horrible help defense his guy just back door

Cuts he’s running away from the from the play entirely he’s guarding nobody wide open three or Pal steps into a wide open two yesh these are the moments these are the moments with the uh with Julius Randall Nick’s downfall we get OG in the off season yeah that Ain happening yeah

No bradson in this one so tough one tough one for the Knicks you low scoring games last night Pistons beat the Wizards in the toilet bowl part two of course the uh hilarious irony kman tweeted earlier in the year nobody wants to be that team to lose to the

Pistons and the Pistons who looked like who looked like they were mounting another pretty historic losing streak it it kind of looked like they were on their way to another historic losing streak pull out a win against the Wizards what was it seven straight before they get the dub Dam near 2020

From Jaylen durren I’m not gonna stop believing in you dur Duran 34 off the mid for Alec Burks eight of 12 from three that’s what I’m say like the fact that this team lost damn near 30 straight games is insane to me Ju Just how difficult that

Is to do in the modern NBA one just cuz with three-pointers with how often teams shoot threes like you never got a performance like this from somebody like Alec Burks going eight of 12 and having 34 points and that just leading you to a win like that’s

Insane you giv up 130 points to the Wizards the the Wizards are like so I I’ve actually weirdly watched a lot of Pistons games this year um I know their records so bad I don’t think they’re actually the worst team in the league as crazy as that is

Say if they went in a seven game series with the Wizards I think I’d pick the Pistons I think the Wizards might the Wizards are the Blazers the Blazers have like completely given up they have completely given up the Pistons still at least kind of play hard and have some interest

Games Hawks and Spurs wow wow wow wow the Hawks had a 35-point lead in this game at one point and holy [ __ ] they almost blew this I know that the the Spurs lost by 10 but this thing got dangerously close at one point how close did it get 95 10 two was

That the closest he got seven points no I thought it was like a fivepoint game one point this is where this is where it happened okay wimy made a dunk that made it a six-point game Jaylen Johnson turned it over in the backourt right and then Kellan Johnson missed a

Layup that would have made it a four-point game and then it kind of went downhill from there for the Spurs but my God this is one of those wins for Atlanta where you’re just like wow we [ __ ] suck like we we suck yeah and wimy in this game wimy

Finishes with 26 points 13 rebounds five blocks 12 of 18 I need you guys to understand really quickly here let me pull up the stats I need you guys to understand something here that in the first half of this game okay so look at Victor Obama statline in the first half of this

Game wimy 04 from the field zero points zero points yeah we we looked at that tweet be dot wimy had zero points in the first half and Fin finished the game with 26 26 points in the second half of this game 12 of 14 from the field holy [ __ ] this guy’s

Incredible this guy’s incredible if he stays healthy throughout his NBA career wow he’s the Mavs better get it going soon that’s all I’ll say the MS better get something going in the next couple years I’ve been tell I’ve been trying to tell you guys for a while now like hey wm’s

Playing some insane [ __ ] basketball and then like the video I posted the video I posted got had some very late life about wimy like it’s it’s like 12,000 views and like a lot of people have been watching it lately and there’s like always comments like yeah they’re terrible and wi’s shooting splits I’m

Like dog watch the games do have the W stopper no I think I I think this process will take like four or five years for for the Spurs but that means wimy will be what 24 25 he’s 19 right now right 20 yeah 24 25

Years old and the Spurs will have like a good enough roster like that that’s where I think they’re at with their roster I don’t think they’re at a good place with it wimi has a very good chance to get a quadruple double at some point a very good chance damn he’s

Crazy first rosters in his power they have two guys that’ll be on it in five years yeah that’s that’s probably the case already talked about Warriors grizzli Cavs beat up on the Bulls not a lot to talk about here Heat beat the Nets Jimmy Butler made his return 31 points that really is

His picture huh nice to have Jimmy back Brooklyn fought hard but another loss just just kind of Free Falling a little bit whole lot of red Jesus there’s a whole lot of red here what is that one two three four five six seven eight 9 10 11 12 13 three

And 13 in their last 16 games two of those wins against the Pistons and then hilariously one of them against the Thunder holy Moses that like did this is one of those teams that like you just need to make trades like you you just need to break this team

Up you know like you just got to break this team up you just got to break him up man we see some game uh some games King fans are already super mad at Mike Brown yeah every fan every fan base hates their coach besides like besides the

Heat yeah Nets fans Nets fans are I rate at at jock Jack vongh didn’t challenge I mean there there was like a whole a whole [ __ ] fest for Jack vaugh he he he’s probably he’s probably done he’s probably done at a certain point in the near future I would

Imagine Celtics beat the Raptors yeah I saw the the Shudder Brody for Life go get that chip this year PS top five Dennis shuder gave that uh that Jersey to Jason Tatum that’s actually hilarious that is hilarious halfway through the season a guy of the Raptor is just like hey we don’t got a [ __ ] shot in hell I mean the players know

They’re not idiots everyone says we always think we have a chance no no no no no no you’ve ever played Sports at any level you’ve been on a team before you’re like oh we suck we suck PS top five that’s just disgusting this is what people say like there’s no

There’s no more rivalries in sports anymore where are the dogs obviously shooter and Tatum her teammates so Tatum a top five no I don’t think there’s much of an argument for Tatum top five this year just in terms of play this season embiid Giannis yic Luca and Shay it’s

Just I don’t know how you can have anybody else I don’t know how you could have anyone else in your five so the the fun uh the fun little little post trade Raptors that that ship has sailed Losers of four in a row five of their last six they’re 10 below

500 it’s time trade yakum please let’s get the let’s get this show on the road let’s get this show on the road and then the Jazz just continue to visis rate teams they blow out the Pacers seon with 30 Markin in with 32 this team is [ __ ] good

Guys they’re 15 and five at home man look at this oh my God I mean they’re they’re on a crazy stretch of basketball and I don’t know how much it’s just they’re they’re red hot and will cool off a little bit at a certain point but the

Way that they play you know they just they play in such a great system they move the ball around it feels somewhat sustainable to me to be honest with you like nothing that they’re doing right now jumps out to me is like oh yeah they’re not going to be able to do

This will Danny AG got the Jazz gate at the deadline I really don’t think so I mean who would get gutted maybe they trade away John Collins but I don’t think that’s changing much for them and I don’t know who would want that contract at this point maybe kellyo maybe

Clarkson but they don’t really need to do any of that they already have they already have a slew of draft picks they already have a slew of young players like they don’t really need to if they want to be good they could be good so anyways that’s what went down

Yesterday um only three games tonight nugget Sixers let’s ride Philly three and a half Point favorites at home on the second night of a back toback interesting Kings and Suns that’s even a pretty good game right there and the other TNT game Thunder Clippers I mean that’s a banger hopefully shap plays in

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