The Deep 3 Podcast - 1 Thing We Want To See From The NBA's Biggest Stars This Season | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

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And you guys tell me one thing you want to see from this player this season. Let's do it. So whatever that means to you, they're at random. I've got like 20 players in here. First off, well, Victor Wenbanyama, what do you guys want to see from Winby this year? Chat, you guys let me know too. I want to see All-N-B-A-Wemby. all NBA first team won't be

I was gonna say all NBA is too low football where you get there easily All NBA first team won't be I believe it's positionless this year or it's been positioned over the last year or whatever a couple years yeah he needs to cement his spot as one of the five best players

in the entire world if you're like genuinely on goat trajectory it should start now sorry it's not fair but with the type of expectations with the type of dominance he's already shown in preseason already you look like one of the

the five best players in the world prove it to me yes i think and also actually it's not unfair it is completely fair it's a hundred it's a hundred percent fair and like everybody has all all of their rankings and preseason rankings that we've been pushing out all that stuff theory can only take you so far facts i need to see the product i need to see you average 25 12 in five with three blocks like you need to have one of those yonis type of stat lines correct and we need to have an actual season, an actual season from front to back of you being the guy that everybody

has thought you were going to be for the last four years, right? It's, it's funny because it's like we're in year three, but it's time. Yeah, I want to see clear DPOI and averaging so many points on such efficiency that you have to be in MVP combos, blitz your way

into MVP convos by pure two way force. Also, you can't put a bad rap on the monks because you were out there hanging hanging with them for a month and you can't make it seem like the monks messed up your game dude if he wins all in goes to make all NBA first team you know that no god no other way around that would mean that yo wemby's on the team I'm assuming yonis is going to be there yokech she's always going to be there she's going to be there and luca probably

will be there where are americans at where are the americans at what our country let me see you get a triple double with blocks in the season two come on that's actually like pretty reasonable i think i think he could do i think he i think he can the only reason why i wouldn't is just because everyone does the the turnaround whenever they see him yeah like he has to get a lot of blocks on the perimeter yeah okay yeah i agree next up luka donchich show me that your weight loss was not just for the magazine right show me that everything that everybody has talked about since you got trained He's going to get skinny.

He's going to be motivated. He's going to prove Nico Harrison and the Mavs wrong. I need to see Luca set fire to everything that that walks in his path this year. Fuck that. Give me back to the finals. Let me see my Lakers be the finals. He's so greedy. Give me 60 wins and a finals appearance.

He needs some, man. Give me a championship. I'm about that. Let me see that. He needs to feel some, man. Me personally, I genuinely believe that Luca Donchitz should, would and probably will prove that he is one of the five-grade point guards of all time. And if you're going to go ahead and do that,

you need to etch your way into NBA history this year. You already let Shea win MVP, won finals MVP. He won regular season MVP. His team won the championship. The whole night, he did what every single guard dreams hopes to do in a singular year. Everyone thought coming into the,

after your first year in the league, that you were the one, you prove to be the chosen one. I need you to, like, genuinely stamp that. Top five is crazy, but listen. Ask the agenda, you should have said. True. Fuck it. Let's making sure you're going to go. How about that?

Yeah, I need to see it. He's done all these 70, he scored what, 73 points or was the 77? Oh, I don't know. You remember the number just fine. Yeah, no, something like that. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I need to see prove you are a legend. Get an MVP or get a championship. Finally stamp it. Let's do it. Yeah. Next one. Zion Williamson. We get all the heavy hitters right away. Once again. No pun intended. What do I want to see you?

65 games. That's all like, that's all like you a fuck about. but display yeah well prove your skinny and prove you can maintain that for the entire season you've come into the year in shape before do it for the whole year don't let the traveling get to you and get you back into bad habits traveling getting all the best food in every city and stay healthy because of it that's what happens that's what happens no hard I know I know the best food in every city it's tough like he's Keith Lee just traveling time it's very tough but yeah like play the whole season and be the best for yourself that's all that matters Don't be Keith late.

Please. Do not be Keith Lee. Keep the muck base to a minimum. We don't want to hear your opinion on the barbecue in Texas. We don't want to hear what's good with the keto diet. That's what you're funny as hell. Next one. Shea Gildes-Alexander.

How does he follow up his legendary season? Man. Listen, just prove to me that you're not a liar. Okay. And do it again. Because you told me my whole life is consistent. You know, from the way I eat to what I sleep, to how I train. I just, like, we're at a point in Shay's career where you've already done the hard part.

Everybody always chases like the ring and having a good playoff run. You had, they really had one year of them being the number one seed and having playoff droughts. And then they just went and, you know, won the title. Could have won 70 games. Like they, they had the, the Thunder had one of the best single season years of all time. And so now, how do you follow it up? So I guess the thing that I want to see is, actually, I don't want to see it because obviously I want the Knicks to do it. But go back to back, right?

This new era of the NBA, nobody goes back to back. You shut everybody up if you are, if you go back to back in your industry. I comments are getting crazy. They all hate Shay. Next one. Dude. Devin Booker, what do you guys want to see from the lonely man in Arizona? Damn.

I want to see a smile. I want to see you have a good time this year. Yeah. I want to see the light and dry. How about that? It's going to be tough. You're going to lose games. The team is not going to be good.

But I just want to see that twinkle in your eye that I saw five years ago whenever you were getting buckets. That's all I want. I want to see him freed, man. I want to see him demand a trade. We're going to march in Phoenix. Shit, I will be with you when he comes to that as well. It's like from, like in Selma. Everyone's right behind you with that LeBron picture in the commercial.

Oh, fuck. That's so old. I don't remember that. All right, next up. LeBron James, what do you want to see you from the oldest player in the league? I want to see you on the court. Fair enough. I want to see you be the best second option in the goddamn league.

I want to see you march in the playoffs, throttle every single team that comes your way. But really, be on the court. That's all that matters at the end of the day. I want to see average 25 again. I just want to see how many years you can do it for. I think it would be cool if he'd never drop so low 25 for the whole career. I think it's career average right now. Oh, he didn't do 25 last year.

My bad. Did he? No, he didn't. I think it was 24.2 or something like that. Yeah. But stay high up there. Stay in that range. Let me not see you ever go below 23 or whatever the number is.

Yeah, I need to see, honestly, the greatest season that we've seen from LeBron. Like, to date. What does that mean? What do you mean? It means that we're getting the best memes, the funniest moments. There's only so many more years that we have with LeBron. And obviously, he has all his basketball accomplishments. His contribution to the meme game to just being funny, I need as many LeBron means as possible.

I figured it out. want to see brawny throw him a lob we need that one time before he retires i don't care if it's in the preseason actually you won't play the preseason i don't care if it's the most meaningless garbage time game i need to see a clip of brawny tossing it up and lebron finishing it that happens you better go on chat gbtiet right now if that happens man i'm putting that picture that poster behind this wall bro and i don't give a fuck what no one says leave me alone it can be a layup lob i don't care just need something i need something in warmups that'll be enough nah nah not not not i'll live not not not warmness i'm

It can be in the All-Star Skills Challenge. Ooh, they should do the skill challenge together. That'd be fun. Ooh, that would be fun. I feel like he probably doesn't want to do that kind of like bastardization of the something that he probably doesn't want to do anything. It's like too cute like that. Just because like, you know, the context around Brownie and brawny

and everyone talks about them. They probably don't want to put them on that stage. But it would be cool. I guess. You think they would? Hell yeah. I don't think so. Hell yeah.

I think they're pretty conscious of like Bronny's a whole like image and how people treat them. Maybe someone like Brony wouldn't want to do that. If it's the skills challenge. I don't know if Bronny would want to do that. Brownie can't be in the skill challenge before he's in a rotation. I think they know that. Danesis was in the skill challenge

and also... Danesis has way less criticism on his shoulders than LeBron James Jr. Alex. He was in a skill challenge too. Fuck the out of the Gumpos. They're completely different.

Next name. Bradley Bill. What do you want to see you from the new clipper? Tailu apparently told me that you were like a great defender back in the day. I found that to never be true. But prove it to me.

Yeah, look, yeah. I think, I know he can get buckets. Sit down in your stance. Yeah. I know that like you're genuinely a good NBA player still. Like people act like you're the worst thing to ever step on a planet of earth. You're not fucking that. Like you can walk into easy 15, 16 points a game.

Show me that, but also play defense. Yeah, I think what I want to see, there's obviously like the infamous clip of him yelling at at his AAU squad and be like, everybody can't be a score. You got to have a role. this and that. Oh, yeah. All right, like, on a night-to-night basis, you might not be the score. You might have to do something else, Bradley Bills. So I want to be able to see on any given night, especially if Kauai is there, can you do the other things that the clippers need you to do?

Okay. Next up. Anthony Edwards. I want to see you win MVP. Oh. I want to see you start your prime officially peak Anthony Edwards. I want to see you win MVP. I want to see you drag your team again for the third time to the Western Conference Finals.

and not losing five games exactly can you lose in six can you go out respectfully yeah how about that even though he has but okay next one joel and bead what do you want to see from the uh ailing MVP that's number 55 55 can we get can we get 55 games if it's 57 58 this is a very successful season so happy with what compared to like what I what is at the bar at 53 because I think anything closer to 60 is too high if we yeah right over 50 games we'll get 53 and a half and you'll probably consider that a successful season hell yeah that's yeah that means that the sixers are at least like a top five seed in the eastern conference major success yeah 53 and a half as well I put the line at yeah I just want to see him have a good time you just

want to seem to smile I just want to seem happy yes next name Kyle Kuzma what do you want to see Janice's co-star. What have you worked on in the off season? What do you do during the off season? Show me what you... Show me your back. So new tattoos. That is hair. It looks like you lost some weight. That too.

Basketball. Let's show me what you're working with me. You're asking for too much. I gave you the answer. It's not my fault. You don't like it. Be a third option. Please, I'm begging you. Or at least a second option. Someone's like, get out of my face. It sounds that I can't say on YouTube. all right next one what do you want to see from austin reeves playing next to luca donchich

hmm what do i want to see what success for austin reeds this year i really thought 20 he already did this last year i think he averaged 20 last year i don't i just want to for austin reves i want you to have a good of a performance as you can have that set you up to get the bag that you deserve

yeah that's that's really yeah all our homies get paid austin reese edition yeah i don't want I don't want Austin Reeves to take a dime under what he can get. Okay, okay, I see. Make Rob Polinka's pockets hurt. That's what we want to see. Make his pockets hurt.

Exactly. Make the Lakers trick. I don't want to see. Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, I feel like Austin Reeves is who he is. I don't really have any other, like, on the court things outside of that. Just be a really good secondary ballhand of Luca. Yeah.

Can you not be a walking look on defense, too? Oh, can we see you score well in the playoffs at the first time? Yeah, but a couple of playoffs runs where those elite defenders. come around and shit gets googie real fast. Yeah, he looks very small at times. And he's not a small guy necessarily at all. So listen, when Jaden Daniels is crossing you with fucking 26 feet of arms, everybody looks small.

Jayden and Daniels. He got long arms. Jaden Mick Daniels. It'd be like that sometimes. Next up, Blake Griffin. What do you want to see from him from his first year on TV? I just need solid commentary. I need every five years, I feel like some new people come into the game.

they always say we're the new media and then you know we get like 30 35 games into the new media stint and then they start doing the things that old media does can you be the true new media i need some fuck that can you be hilarious yes we know you can be funny you do stand-up comedy can you be the air of parents inside the NBA can you be hilarious while not being an old man that hates on everybody can you be both positive and funny yeah well like sprinkling in like a little bit of actual intellect in the basketball world. Exactly.

Can you like fulfill that and like be like the next actual new media's darling? I think that used to be JJ Redick Lakers coach now. Now all eyes are on you. The cake is to be had. Be entertaining and not an asshole challenge level impossible. I agree. Let me see that.

I don't know if it's possible from a former player but if anybody can do it is Blake Griffin. Hell yeah. Last name. Kate Cunningham. What do you want to see from the young star? I want to see him score 60 this year. What the fuck? that's tough I like that I like that

I like that I'm pretty cool I want to see him score 60 ooh that's tough that's hard as hell for him to do on that

I want to seem get 20 assists how all that yo in the same game I want to see you B prime James Harder

so motherfuckus is Luke and Jay's Hart not even prime I want to see you be prime Chris move I want to see B prime Chris move that's funny

as hell let me see you put a to MP stateline. Obviously, get to the second round, can tell you'd be all NBA. Someone said be better than Shea. Hell no. Dude, what's the high bar?

But honestly, I was, and this is for, this is for Cade and for the Pistons as a whole, lead your team to a top four season. I want the Pistons to have home court advantage. Because, like, out of everybody else, they do have the most continuity coming in, in terms of, like, the Hawks changing up their roster. You got the magic trying to bring in Desmond Bain.

everybody on that piss and roster a majority of them were there last year you made it to the playoffs i need to see you guys take that leap together and then let's let's have let's have a game one in detroit this splash shot clock cheese