Ja & Grizzlies are cooked, SGA & OKC look unstoppable, Top 5 players the best ever? | Nerd Sesh
The nerds discuss a number of key early-season NBA storylines, breaking down the disastrous state of Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies, whether the current Top 5 players in the NBA make up the best group we’ve ever seen, if anyone can stop Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the OKC Thunder, and which NBA teams, players and league-wide trends have stood out as the most fascinating so far.
Timestamps
00:00:00 – How cooked are Ja Morant and the Grizzlies?
00:16:47 – Is this the most talented top 5 players ever in NBA history?
00:27:10 – Who would you take to win the title: OKC or the field?
00:36:33 – Who is the most interesting team in basketball?
00:56:55 – Players who have taken under-the-radar leaps
01:11:24 – What’s the most interesting league-wide trend this season?
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23 Comments
15:46 the nets attendance is at 99% maybe do youre research before speading lies about only having 12 fans fool. Also we're rebuilding nobody wants the corpse of ja and his expensive contract.
terrible take bulls have a good defense you must be a analytic nerd.
30:00 Being the favorite to win the title and being in a tier of their own are two different things. They have lost one game less than the Spurs and Nuggets. I wouldn't call this "a tier of their own".
27:37 they’re 23-1 without JDub
As long as they association allows OKC to get away with play other teams would get called fouls on and give SGA calls they won't give to everyone else they are close to unbeatable. If they get the same calls everyone else does and with the lack of 3pt shooting and half court offensive efficiency they are very beatable.
16:35
Great analysis guys 👍👍 I am feeling great about my Thunder too 🎉
15:00 hmm I think I have a little hope for Ja, at his best he really is explosive and dynamic, but he does need to get traded yeah
OKC at full strength is unbeatable in a 7-game series.
When J-dub gets back, he will be completely ambidextrous.
lol ja dislikes a coaching staff and he’s the worst person to walk the earth, this pod gets so unwatchable pretty often
Currently watching ja spray diarrhea all over the court against okc haha
The OKC glazing is getting out of hand here
Wemby's recent struggles is only on offense. He's still by far the best defender in a generation. His defense should be lauded in the same way as Jokic or Luka offense.
You guys have no idea what the situation in Memphis is. Make better research. This is pathetic.
Honestly the fact that the warriors passed up on Lauri because they didn’t want to trade Podz is so fucking laughable to me. Our front office has been pathetic and delusional went it comes to our rookies
Ja ain't worried about the west because his next team is in China.
Ja Moron
Cedric is not a Coward like Ja.
Yeah. Not having a carry and conceal permit, in a motor vehicle out in public, is not serious. Not at all. You do realize that is illegal right? And can actually cause a death in the right circumstances…..
Even though you essentially would have 3 "centers" I would take this year's top 5 against any other top 5 ever and as long as Jokic took it seriously (not ASG Jokic) they would absolutely destroy everyone and anyone.
17:00 I think I would have to go with the 1988 first team All-NBA: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, and Hakeem Olajuwon. As great as the top 5 players today are, I think it's hard to top those 5
I don’t want to imply these two aren’t excellent wtih all of their attention to detail! BUT I would love it if someone on YouTube would mention in the context of Shais great start and 33 ppg that he has played 12 games, and he has only played in 6 4th qtrs. I promise you that is unheard of. By far the most in the league. If we break it down by the numbers that is an extra 8.2 points every one of those 6 games. BUT, if you watch Shai youll notice he often scores more at will as the game goes on, 3rd/4th qtr, than he does in the first half. He figures a defensive scheme out, or wears out his denfenders, and typically all of them will have relented and accepted by that point that it isn’t a contest, they can’t guard him, and they just want it to be over. Shai seee every teams best defenders WITH massive help being given from their teammates, and just slowly makes them give up the idea of their defensive ego. They all start the games with this competitive ego contident denfensive energy as if “I got you this time” and you watch as it slowly fades from confidence, to frustration, to doubt, to anger, to acceptance, and sometimes even withdrawing/boredom. OR, oh oh oh! The best one is awe lol. But that typically isn’t coming from the best defenders who take pride in their defense. Usually it’s only the older veteran players who know they can’t do anything to stop Shai from the start, and they have no ego tied up in their succsss vs him, so it doesn’t take long for you to notice they are genuinely enjoying his more spectacular successes, and possibly even begin to wax nostalgic about how they’ll be telling their friends family and kids about these years of their life and the nearly inhuman adversaries they faced. 😂