The Deep 3 Podcast - We Power Ranked Every NBA Playoff Team | Ep. 84
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Literally over the last week, I've seen Batman versus Superman.
Then I saw fucking Justice League shit.
Yeah, I'm just going back in time and catching up to all this stuff.
Dude, why are you watching the DC movies after the universe got canceled?
You're just watching all these shit movies for no reason.
Bro, it's up late at night.
It's like 2, 3 a.m.
I ain't got shit to do.
Bro, go to sleep.
I can't sleep.
Bro, it's been Ramadan for like 30 days.
And Moses is just trying to make it harder for himself.
Like he's watching the worst movies known to man.
Well, I person was having a great time.
He's running towards the spiritual grind.
If you love those, you're going to be fucking mind-blown by Marvel.
Marvel?
It's a million.
Batman is like the worst fucking movie ever.
That shit is horrible.
It was interesting.
You're going to watch Age of Ultron Avengers and be like, oh my God, it's cinema.
He's going to watch Thor for him and be like, this is so much better than DC.
Oh, my God.
Why didn't I start here?
No, dead ass.
Honestly, I think I'm going to do Marvel next year for sure.
You see next year.
But start now.
Stop wasting your night
I'm not fucking sorry now
Stop wasting your night
This is only a Ramadan type of event
What
When I got shit
When I don't got shit else to do
It's 2, 3 a.m.
Tired to watch
YouTube videos or whatever
And I need something to
You act like you're not gonna be up at 2, 3 a.m
for the next like six months
Not consistently, that's the issue
You also could just during the daytime
That's so
If watching full movies during the day
It's major loser material
Watching movies is loser material?
No, during the day?
During the day, who does that?
He said, yeah, as a man, you should never watch movies during the day.
Like, you should be out at a job making money.
During the day, it's crazy as fuck.
Why are you a man at leisure to where you can watch multiple films in a day?
That's crazy.
The movie during the day is weird.
That's an absurd thing to say.
What are you doing from sundown to?
like midnight watching basketball like a real man what the fuck this is absurd what about the off
season what about the off season he does push-ups that's what he does six hours of push-ups
a night dips oh my dips he does dips all night do dips yeah he's just curling gallons of milk
This hell of diamond pushups
Oh my God, bro
Diamond pushups is madness
That is crazy as fuck
You know, I'm keeping this as the intro
Welcome to the news that is so
Mo doesn't watch movies
Not during the day
Oh, not during the day
Oh man
It's such a loser take
Today we are
doing our final power rankings
of the season
and this is going to be
special power rankings
because we are doing it
playoff specific
it's going to be the top 20 teams
through the playing in each
in each time
Nikiel's dying
and is fucking me up
let's get serious
we're doing the final power rankings
of the season
it is playoff specific
this time
we're going to be projecting
to who we think
are the best teams in the NBA
going into the playoffs
you know who will
fair best in the playoff settings, not necessarily who's had the best seasons. So it's going to be an
interesting one. And that's something we've done in the past. In the past, we've kind of focused on
what they proved to us. Now it's all theoretical. This is an open. This is an open. Going from this
to like basketball talk, this is a transition. I'm not to like lock in for a second. I'm going to
have to be quiet for like 30 seconds. But if you guys didn't watch the last live stream we did a couple
days ago. We did our TD3 award show where we picked all NBA awards, did all
NBA teams, all defense, all that stuff. Great stream. I'd really recommend watching that
to, you know, get our view of what we think of the MVP race, the defensive player
of the year race, all that stuff. Go watch that first. 100%. I 100%. 10% agree. You're also in
for a good one. We debate serials sometime in that stream to you as well. Very passionate
debate. I conic TD3 moment. Check our Twitter. Check our Instagram. I posted the clip of it.
hilarious. Donovan was very passionate about anti-cinimento's crunch agendas.
Somebody has to say the truth, right? Like, I feel like we live in a culture. Everybody
just wants to tip-tow. The truth needs to be said. You know what I'm saying? And I'm here for that.
Rejoice!
Before we start, the final power rankings of the season, we're going to start with the
new opening segment to every episode, Comment of the Day.
As you guys know, I ask you to comment your favorite question, your favorite hot take, whatever
may be, and every week we're going to respond to one of your comments and really dive deep into
it.
Today, we have a comment from Samuel Johnson 4585.
He says, now that the season is winding down, who do you all think is going to be on the coaching
carousel this summer, whose job is the most in jeopardy?
So I picked this question, basically, who you think is getting fired?
Who is losing the job after this playoff run?
Who's tapping in what's Indeed.com?
Who's going to be on LinkedIn, open to work?
All right.
Who's the first one comes in mind?
There's a few.
There's a few I'm thinking of.
Darwin Ham.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, he's on there.
What does Durbinham have to do to keep his job?
I feel like he's, he's the most hated coach right now.
Conference finals.
Conference finals again?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What are they made the conference finals and get blasted by the Nuggets again?
Is that doing enough to save them?
Yeah, because I mean, I think, I feel like everybody in the league is like, hey, man, it's the Nuggets, right?
If you lose to them, then you lose to them.
So a loss to them, regardless if it's a sweep or not, is fine.
And they got swept last year by the Nuggets.
So it's not like it's anything new or embarrassing.
It's just what they do.
So if they can get to the conference finals, he might be safe.
But he's the first name that, yeah, he's going to be on.
somebody's bench if he's not
at the top of the Lakers bench next year.
Yeah. I think
there's very few scenarios
where I think he should keep his job.
I think the entire reason the Lakers are struggling this season
and are currently the nine seed is
almost entirely his fault. You know, what we're going
to talk about them obviously when we get to the power rankings. They've been
a fantastic team as of late. They're actually not fantastic
that's me, not gas it, but they've been a good team
and it coincides exactly
with him playing Dilo, Austin
Reeves and Ruey in the starting lineup and being serious
and playing his best players. The only reason
they are bad because they didn't do it all year
and he overthought the shit out of it
and played ridiculous linos for a big chunk of the season
you can direct if they get eliminated
to being Darbinham's fault
I think he's good
yeah wow I would say so as well
well who do you think is being fired
I think if me personally
if I was to lean any certain way
it's not that I think this player
this person will get fired I just feel like
all signs point towards that
J.B. Bickersstaff's name
probably going to be a
earlier in the season like he was catching the most heat in the most hell do i think it's fair
yeah to a certain extent yeah but every single fan in them in the entire NBA has beef with
their head coach unless you're like an okay c fan or i guess like the miami heat or something like
that so with all the inconsistencies in that roster and just like all the volatility is going on
in and out i think his name was probably cooked because he hasn't done enough in my mind to help
you know maintain an identity and part of that a large part of
that is the coach's fault.
Yeah.
The cabs are a fucking tire fire.
Again, we'll talk about them come power rankings time.
We'll talk about them a lot.
I will be shocked if Davey Bickerstaff is still on this team next year.
Thanks.
I got two names for you.
One, Chauncey Billups.
Listen, might have to go back to ESPN.
I think it's time for Chauncey Billups to get up out of Portland.
And I don't know if it's going to be a firing or if it's going to be like mutual parting of
ways i i would be kind of shocked if billy donovan was the coach of the bulls next year i was to say
that too yeah it doesn't seem that he's on the hot seat like you said but like what are they doing
like why does he even want i mean i'm sure he wants a job he wants to get money you know so it makes
sense but like what is the goal for either side there yeah i think i think like for them
they clearly have uh some type of love for this core nobody knows why and this core is going
to be together until they're not and so the only change or like the sign that they're going to give
is, hey, we're going to move on from Billy Donovan, bringing somebody new and see if he can
really unlock this score, especially after Kobe White and has his like breakout season.
Plus, there's, there's been some talk about Billy Donovan going to Kentucky, right?
His name has kind of been thrown around in there after Coach Cal left.
So I could see a situation where he goes back to the college ranks and then they bring in
somebody new.
He would be the second Chicago Bulls head coach to like leave from the pros to go back to
college. Remember Fred Hoydberg? What a name. I forgot of our Fed Hoyberg. I don't know a single
defining characteristic of Fred Hoyberg. I don't remember a thing about his tenure there. I mean,
he's white and he looks like he works in corporate America. That's all I could tell you.
Well, that doesn't tell me much. He's an NBA coach. It's a lot of white people. So does Billy Donovan.
Billy Donovan would be a fantastic CLO just based off looks. That's a that's a sales
manager if I've ever seen one. Someone who I think should get five.
also but probably wouldn't because he just signed like a two-year deal or whatever it was his
Doc Rivers we can again bull bucks there's gonna be plenty to talk about him later but I'm just like
what's the point of bringing him back you know yeah well if you decide he was a good coach to hire
then there's no reason to fire him now you might as like give him a full season to have an actual like
you know off season to build around his vision they they're stuck with him and they just keep
giving coaches half years to prove to that that they're crazy they're close to be hilarious
they pay five coaches at once just because they keep running through them
Hell of contracts
Yeah
So yeah
That's all the main names
So is that
That's five
You know
Something like that
Listen
There's always surprise ones
Nobody thought
Mike Boodenholz
Was getting fired
He seemed to be
One of the safest
In the league
They flamed out
In the playoffs
He was out of there
That could happen
To any which coach this year
I don't know
If that can actually
Happen to a lot of coaches
This year
Because what team
Has like real deal
Expecting
Oh Jason kid
If the Dallas
Mavericks
Flame out
Immediately getting fired
bro. If he's a first, if they're losing the first round, he is cooked. He is
unemployment line immediately. Fired as fuck. He, I think he is one of the few
coaches in the NBA who's like, all right, bro. Like, if you
underperforming the playoffs this year, you're getting that two weeks notice.
Frank Vogel, there's a report today that his job may be on a line, which if they lose
their play in, he shouldn't be skateboarded again. But if they lose in a plan, you got to change
something and they're stuck with the score. So I wouldn't be shocked.
If I was Frank Vogel and I got scapegoated again, I'd be like, y'all.
I'm going to college
Like I'm just not dealing
With these guys ever again
Exactly
I'm taking a job
Of the rebuilding team
With no expectations
Because apparently if I don't win
A championship
I'm just bad at my job
Yeah
Go coach the Hornets
Yeah
That's fucking gross
Who knows who's
Detroit business coach
Monty Williams
He's not
He signed the richest
Contract in coaching history
So far right
Yeah
He's not going to give
They're gonna give him
Two years
On that deal
At least
Before they consider
Like firing him
yeah yeah all right well that's that's interesting conversation my coaches losing their jobs
interesting conversation about unemployment at first at first at first i thought i was like oh like
there's probably only like three coaches and then we just listed like eight guys who could lose
their job this all season yeah we just call out of people loves firing coaches it's there's always
the grass is always greener with these teams people love it yeah last year we went through like
a fucking crazy ass frenzy with this shit and people were just firing coaches as if like they
were on trees and I guess apparently they do
because not a lot of coaches jobs are
on the line or at least it's not a lot
compared to like last year or whatever
but again the playoffs change a lot
we didn't know so many jobs will be available until they were
that is true
Nick Nurse got fired who thought Nick Nurse
did get fired that's great you're right Nick Nurse did get
fired that was a disgusting move still to this day
Nick Nurse and Budenholzer if we ranked the top 10
coaches in the league they would both be in there as locks
last year and they both got fired
okay a lot of it too
I don't think that the bud thing was
too crazy though. No, I mean, it made more sense, but you know, it was still shocking. Like,
we knew that it was, when they did it, it was like, all right, I get it, but I don't think
anybody predicted it. It was more shocking. I think it was more shocking that they pulled the
trigger on it rather than the actual idea than like he was fired, you know? Yeah, it made
sense of logic. You got to make something up, but like most coaches in his situation would have
been safer than that. They fired him. It was, it was shocking that they fired him and they
traded drew holiday because normally like you think that you just make one massive change up
and that's it they they changed up everything so that's the that's the big move from them that's
crazy and they got poor poor poor tough scene for the bucks but we can go ahead and move on
crown eaters welcome to one of the newest segments in TD3 started doing this like three weeks ago
I believe fourth week in a row welcome to moment of the week
where today we go ahead and look back of what had looked back and see what happened in the NBA over the past seven days since we last recorded and today's moment of the week is Paul George hitting a game winner against the Cleveland Cavaliers specifically stepbacking Evan Mowby out of his Achilles dropping him and hitting a right elbow two pointer with seven seconds left to go on a clock now yes it might be a fake game winner but still
in terms of Paul George
what he's been known for
to do in the clutch
for the entirety of his NBA career
this is a pretty nice highlight
what do you guys think about this
what do you mean fake game winner
it wasn't like a buzzer
it wasn't like a buzzer beater
oh I hate that
whenever someone thinks about
game winner and shit like that
they think about like a real life buzzer beater
why we did a tier list
of game winners and people were like
this isn't a buzzer beer doesn't count
why does it matter if there's half a second level
I'd never understood that
the excitement factor that's why
that's what matters the most
I mean they went up
I get excited as fuck.
It's a go-ahead bucket that eventually turns it into the game winner.
Like, he did it.
Yeah.
Because it's Paul George.
Good for Paul George.
You know, these two teams are floundering.
Good for Clippers getting a winner of their belt.
They obviously need the positive momentum going to the postseason.
They have had none of it over the past month.
And especially as a team that we saw as the second biggest threat in the conference at one point.
Yeah.
Good for them that they can have a good moment.
I will say, you know, I saw the slow motion, like video of this clip.
and the social media
like Brandon for Paul George
is so strong
because there was no audio
but I heard Erica Badoo in my head
whenever I was watching it in slow motion
and I was like okay
I'm not going to lie
I see the appeal
I see it like that that was kind of tough
yeah Paul George's had a good
past couple weeks after being
kind of stinky for his standards
for a couple months or so
Clippers fans were like
you know every team when they struggle
they pick somebody to pinpoint the blame on
yeah a lot of Clippers fans
are pointing to blame at Paul George
for some reason
I he needs to carry good momentum going to the postseason the most because kawai's going to be kai james hardens
is going to be jans hardin for better or worse paul george needs to be rock setty especially
is i don't know because we haven't seen kai like at all plain blank period and if kawai is not even
on the court then i think they're just a cook case bro yeah obviously assuming his knee injury
isn't serious i think we can safely say he'll play like kai winner in the playoffs and don't
forget paul george we have that video of you saying where's paul at though we have that
And I promise you, people are waiting to use it.
You better show up.
He has to show up.
It's on the way.
Anyways, I have thoughts about the Cavs.
We'll save it.
Let's get to the power rankings because we're going to talk about them plenty.
So like I said in the intro, we're tier rate.
So like I said in the intro, power ranking, all the NBA playoff teams, which essentially
means the top 20 teams.
We went through the 10 seed because I think at this point they're all locked up.
I don't think any teams that are below have a chance of making it.
And like I said, different from our previous power rankings.
We're factoring in obviously what they've shown us, but a big factor into it is what we think they'll do in the playoffs.
So some teams that have a lot of wins, they've done really well for the whole season.
We don't really see them, you know, making a splash in the playoffs.
So they might not rank as highly as you'd like and vice versa with teams that are lower in the standings.
We can keep that in mind.
All right.
Now there's going to be some foolishness on here.
When are you all going to trust somebody way too much?
I have a habit of positivity when sometimes I need to be more negative with these teams.
So we'll see.
Listen, and I have a habit, a negativity, sometimes I need to be more positive.
We'll see what happens.
I'm a mucher, a hater, apparently, we have our titles.
I guess I'm the perfect combination of both.
Let's fucking go.
I think I'm up first.
We got 20 through 16, number 20, surprise, surprise, the Atlanta Hawks.
Trey Young recently came back, still the worst team out of the bunch.
Who cares?
19, the Houston Rockets.
He's so down on his own team.
He trusts him less than a team that's not in the playoffs.
You said what?
Why are the rockets on here?
That's supposed to be here.
Oh, the rockets did get eliminated.
You're right.
Who'd you leave off?
I think I, who did I leave off?
He left the Warriors off?
No, I didn't leave the Warriors off.
That's some team that I'm really high on.
I think, I believe I left the Bulls off probably.
Okay, so that's supposed to be the Bulls.
I just swapped out of the Bulls in your head.
Yeah.
Hawks, 20, 19, Bulls, 18, Magic, 17 Cavs.
and 16
the New Orleans
Pelicans
Interesting
Well okay
First of all
You're doing the magic
Dirty but I get it
I know why
You will let you explain that
It sucks to see the pelicans
And Cavs so low
Because they are so injured
And unreliable
A month ago
They've been much higher
But I understand
Yeah
I hate to put the
The Orlando Magic there too
They're very well
By the time this podcast
comes up
They could be like
The second seat
In the Eastern Conference
Because it's just so down bad
Overall
But you know like
Young team
Young team
young team first year in this bitch
they'll get their time
I don't think their time is just now
no yeah I understand the reasonings right
we've never been that high on them
I think just because the conference is so
historically garbage right now
I put them a little bit higher just to give them credit
but I'd be lying if I said I expect them to win
more than one playoff series they do I won't be that shocked
damn shit don't think they win two playoffs series
so I can't really justify putting them too much higher
yeah I also wish I could put
doing more as pelicans higher as well
But they just have so many kinks in their entire starting lineup that just don't flow well.
Like, I can't, you can't just go ahead and bench your starting center, you know what I'm saying?
For random times, draw the entire course of a playoff series in favor of Larry Nance.
You know what I'm saying?
And expect that to produce real wins deep into the playoffs.
On top of that, like, I'm more so just like Ingram's not there.
And I don't even have a huge issue with their lineup.
I think they've proven that they can win despite their performance.
flaws. But if Ingram's not there, as we see, they're significantly worse. They are
basically a sub 500 team. I haven't written down. Let me see. The record without Ingram is
9 and 7. So they're just barely 500 without him. That's not going to make a splash. If it was
fully healthy, they'd be really high because they were clicking at the perfect time. But, you know,
with so much of a question mark, even if he comes back, what he'll look like, hard to rank
them super high right now. Yeah. Ingram adds like a touch of predictive unpredictability to their
offense and also he's you know very viable uh facilitator as well on that team to for sure
rebounder and also the shit so it's the low key the best passer in the lineup you can have that
i wouldn't argue that at all which is not a high bar to clear being a better path yeah exactly
but he's been good and his defense has been very very improved this year he's been legitimately
go defensively which i don't think has ever really been the case throughout his career i agree
okay donovan what's your what's your first five yeah let's see that all right so i have the
at 20 at the Bulls at 19 Kings at 18 Pacers at 17 and the Golden State Warriors at 16
Interesting, okay so so has the Golden State Warriors top 15 clearly interesting
Yeah, so my bottom four so from 17 through 20 these are the teams where at least 18 19
and 20 I don't expect these teams to make it out of the playing the Pacers they could
potentially fall into the seven I don't know if they are but I still just don't have a
lot of hope for them actually like winning a playoff series whereas like Miami, Philly,
even if they are in the playing, I can see them getting out of the plane, winning a
playoff series, that type of stuff. So that's where the bottom four comes from. And then the
Warriors is kind of the same thing where we every like not everything doesn't even look the same.
Steph Curry is there and Draymond Green is there. Like the names are still the same. But if you
are watching this team, I don't see how they can win.
a playoff series, it just, all of their wins seem like they are so hard to get.
And like everything has to be right.
Like they had a really good game against the Lakers last night, but Anthony Davis isn't there
and they made a million threes.
And so that's best case scenario for them.
But when they played the Lakers, right, potentially in the playing,
Anthony Davis is probably going to be there.
And we've seen this year that when AD's there, that game feels completely different.
and the Lakers normally have a lot of control on that.
So I don't know if they're even going to get out of the playing
and I just think that they're going to struggle too much.
Steph is going to have to do way, way too much
to even get them to like a competent level.
So I don't want to be tricked just by,
just because the logo is the same.
I have them a little chunk higher than you.
It's more so about the teams below them than them.
I feel better about them than you do
because it's the same thing with the Lakers
who I have probably higher.
you'd expect, because I think both teams have been
pretty solid since the All-Star break.
They just, you know, we're in a deep hole.
The conference is loaded. They can't make their way out of the hole.
But I don't feel like they've been playing bad basketball by any means.
I do think they have a low margin for air, like you said.
Everything is difficult.
Everything has a click at the right time.
But I think in a playoff matchup against certain teams
that the Warriors would not be an easy push over whatsoever.
Now, the thing is, similar to the Lakers,
we don't know what they're making out the plan.
They very much cannot.
One of them is going to knock each other out.
So I have the Warriors over some teams
that are actually in the playoffs
So that's a little weird
But I think they've been playing better
Than some of these teams
I don't even think that's any of it weird
I'm higher on the Warriors than both of you guys
Because the Warriors have had like since the All Star break
They have a record like 17 and 9
They've been one of the seven six best teams
In the entirety of the NBA
And them starting
The guy that I was going to bat for ironically
Trace Jackson Davis
Putting them in the starting lineup of course
putting Clay back in the starting line, taking out pods, has changed, not the trajectory
of this team, like same old, same old, but it gives them an entirely different look because
of the things that Trace has been able to produce as a starter averaging like 13 points,
nine rebounds and two blocks a game, insanely valuable shooting like 70% from the field as well.
And then Clay Thompson, he's obviously, he helps make this work as well because you can't
play two non-shooters in the year 2024 alongside, you know what I'm
saying you can't you just can't do that anymore and clay helps bring all that versatility come to
life and so i don't know i feel like having them at 16 is fucking nasty
they're gonna lose in the plane they're not gonna make it out they're probably it's weird
they're not gonna make it out of the plane i don't think i don't think they're gonna be the lakers
in the first game they they're last their last year right like they had they had a very
tough way into into the um or actually no well they were the 60 but like they're playing they're playing
the Kings, they were down in that series, right? And if Deeran Fox doesn't break his finger,
who knows how that series turns out? Like, they've had their backs against the wall for what
feels like a year and a half now, maybe even two years. And you see that the way that they got
out of that hole, Steph Curry dropped 50 points in Game 7 on the road. Like, that's the level
that he has to be at for them to overcome some of these teams. And so if you talk about them
getting the eight seed and now they're going to have to go play minnesota um denver or or o kc or somehow i actually
know like that's where they're going to be they're going to be the eight seed yeah and now you have to go
on the road to to play those guys they're getting stumped by denny wopped right then Denver is
running them off the floor Minnesota is not scared of them and has shown over and over this year
he does not care about any of this dynasty any of that and okay see okay see okay
he's just a better team and they match up with them very very well they have shooting they have a
a very versatile big like i just don't i feel like the path for them especially coming in at the 10
seed it's it's probably the hardest yeah now i'm thinking about it they're not gonna they have no chance
in the playoffs so i think i notice and it's a lot of teams and you're kind of moving things up and down
and you end up like you move to many teams somebody moves up naturally because of it i feel like i
overlook the fact that there's simply no chance
of them winning a playoff series, I think.
So I probably should put them a little bit lower.
I lean towards credit for how good they've been as of late
for the Warriors, but if I'm being realistic,
they have literally no chance of making another first round.
Say no chance is crazy to me. I wouldn't
say they have no chance at all.
They have none. Because they have Steph Curry and
the new lineup that they've put out there
and the lineup that Steve Kerr has committed
to as of late genuinely
works and gives them all the versatility
in the world that they need and having someone like
John that can make to come off the bench,
give them an extra scoring punch
and also, you know, have improved
defense as of late
and just being able to punish teams
when they're smaller or whatever
generally helps, bro. I like what I see for the words
and I'm a little bit higher, or at least
a lot of bit higher compared to them, you know,
prior to the All-Star break.
Dude, they have to beat the Lakers in L.A. to do that
and they still have to go and beat the loser
of probably Pelicans Kings, maybe sons that they're still in there.
That is a harsh stretch as is
to get to the eight seed. And then they're going to face,
is the Timberwolves or the, or the freaking
Nuggets.
Yeah,
Nuggets is different.
To get there is already insane.
I don't think
they're going to be the Lakers.
If they do,
can they go on the road
to Phoenix and beat the Sons
after that?
Or the Kings probably
because they'll probably lose
that game actually.
I don't know.
I don't even know.
I don't even know to make it out of the play in.
Exactly.
It's tough.
It's tough for them.
So,
so yeah.
So that's why I'm the lowest.
And so hopefully after this,
you guys see my bottom four
are the same as your bottom four.
Hawks,
Bulls,
Kings,
Pacers at 17 through 20,
or 20 through 17,
I guess the way I said it.
Pacers are just not good enough,
I don't think, to make a flash in that conference.
Shout out to the-Tarries-Halliburton's playing better.
Tyreys Halliburton is looking like he's recovering a shot a little bit.
A lot is riding on his shoulders.
He has to really be a high-level shotmaker in a playoff setting,
which is going to be tough if his rhythm isn't going to be quite there
like it was early in the season.
We'll see how he looks, how that hamstring looks.
He's going to have to be balls to the walls shooting the lights out again.
Don't know if you can do that for a full, you know,
series against a top-level defense.
they don't have buddy hills anymore
they've been struggling to find that shooting
the offense is still good but you know
they're trying to figure out how to make that work
defensively is still not that great
you know I just don't see them making a splash
the Kings are missing
Malik Monk who's like loki the third best player
and Kevin Herder
they stink right now without that guard
depth I think there's no chance they win to play
first round series either so that's why they're low
and the calves
had the calves at 16
Moe has my 17 so you're even lower on than I am
but yeah
There is no reason for optimism right now, bro.
They are a disaster.
John Mitchell got hurt, and he's came back looking clearly not healthy.
They have been an unmitigated disaster over the last 15 games.
I am so worried about this team because I think they're going to get first round it again.
That's tough.
They're going to have some major decisions to make in the offseason.
Everybody's kind of been talking, right, about like the Tray Young, Wembe trade and like trying to pair them together.
And then once you start, you know, diving into that, you kind of hear some people saying, like, well, what if you can just try to go get Darius Garland maybe for like a cheaper price?
Like, maybe he's, he's available if the cabs want to stick with Donovan Mitchell.
Like that, we talked earlier about J.B. Bickerstaff probably being on the hot seat if they get first round.
Yeah.
Like, there's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff going on with them where it just seems shaky.
Evan Mobley, you still don't really know, like, like right now, how do you guys feel about?
every mobile ceiling compared to where it was coming into the year or even i don't know last year i mean
can't feel great right like you obviously you got to recalibrate a little bit offensively he's
shown signs he's got better a little bit more so than is the biggest haters will say he but the jump shot
doesn't come around at all and the jump shot doesn't come around then the finishing won't be that
important because there won't be any reason respect them from the perimeter which will open up his
finishing the passing you know it all starts and stops to shooting with the guy like him who doesn't
have like elite elite athleticism finishing he has to be respected as a jump shooter to make
that work but that doesn't happen you're just going to you know he's going to be a elite defender
and decent offensive player but can never be a true two-way star and he will never be able to reach
his full potential as long as he's alongside jared allen like the spacing and the math is just not
mathing the space is not spacing bro too many bodies in the paint alongside alongside him so it's just
hard for him to elevate to that next level when he has another dude who does similar
things on offense, maybe even a little bit better sometimes like Jared Allen.
And the hard part is that you can overcome that.
You can overcome the lack of spacing there and the lack of leap from Evan Mobley as a creator.
But the front court, I mean, the back court has also not been good.
Donovan Mitchell, like I said, has not been playing well since All-Star Break because of injuries
and just a lot of missed games.
In the nine games post-all-star break, he's averaging 17 points per game down from 28 before
the break.
on 53% true shooting
that is below league average
he was at 60 before
he went from being an all-MBA level player
to outright not good
while he's dealing with his injury
Darius Garland
down to 42% from the field
since all-star break
he has been awful
he has been just overthinking things
not making good decisions
not shooting well from the field
and neither one of them
have been playing well
and if you're not going to have
truly all-MBA level
Donovan Mitchell like we saw early in the season
this team has literally no chance
they might get swept
yeah
Yeah. And so I think that's kind of the only, the only caveat of why I have them higher is, well, I guess not only caveat. There's two reasons why I have them higher. One is there's still the possibility that you get playoff Donovan Mitchell and that like we've seen him. We've seen him rise to a level that is like insane, right? That that duel that he had with Jamal Murray. Like that's a, that's a crazy, crazy ceiling. We've seen that from him time and time again.
And so that's kind of there in the back of my mind where I kind of want to give him credit for that.
And I know that they're going to be in the tournament.
Like I know that they're going to be in the playoffs.
So that's a little bit like more assuring.
But yeah, something's changing this offseason.
Something is going to have.
There's a lot of things are changing.
Exactly.
There's absolutely no way that we're going to go into next season.
And that core four is still together alongside J.B. Bickers' app.
Like that's just not, that's just not in the cards.
they're projected starting lineup
that I started all year
Alan Garland Mitchell
Mobley Shrews is plus 3.3
per 100 possessions for the season
that is so fucking mid
like just be three points
positive net rate
no it's not good
that is in the bottom half the league by far
closer to the bottom five
than it is but in the middle
like that is not a good net rating
for a starting lineup
tough
that's girls bro
not gonna lie
I sit here and knows
I'm like damn bro
y'all really are that high on the Orlando
magic in the playoffs going against his playoffs
higher than them yeah let's talk about it
paces and calves let's talk they're good
they're really good I mean like they are
legit good I agree they're good
but damn brough now you're hate us are a different
beast nah nah nah nah yeah
you hate it no let's do
let's do the next five I want to see where everybody has
as the magic you know you have good reasons
I'll let you talk about it more I understand you
you're not getting enough credit for what they've
shown relative to the rest of the conference
but I understand why it's clear they're not
make a big splash but you know it's a balance between projection and what they've shown they deserve
more credit than a lot of these motherfuckers yeah and I'm going to give them that credit and so that's why
I have the suns at 15 I have the calves at 14 I have the heat at 13 I have the magic at 12
and I have the new Orleans pelicans at 11 um you get the pelicans a lot of credit for how poor they look
without round and ingram listen I understand that um but I'll say this for the sons at at 15
I also think that they're going to get first-rounded.
But I kind of think, like, especially with the way that, like, the season's going to end,
like they're probably going to be in the sixth spot.
The Cavs, I gave them that 14 just because that's just the Donovan-Mitchell stuff, like I said earlier.
And I think that the suns and the fact, we've talked so much about it.
And I'll just say it again.
But the fact that your team is built off of bucket getters.
And in the fourth quarter, you guys can't get buckets.
that's a problem for me.
And I just can't get over it.
So that's why you're at 15.
The heat, the heat like, guys, it's not going to happen.
It's not, it's not going to happen.
They are not going to go on the same run that they did last year.
We've seen they have over and over and over again just try to live off of that reputation.
And that has kind of massed the second half of the season or where they haven't vaulted
up the standings like you've hoped that they would when they finally turn it on and it's because
they don't have it this year they it's not it's not going to happen jimmy does not look the same and
granted we say that every year but you are asking a lot of him to go from another decline version of
himself in the regular season all the way back up to oh yeah i'm scoring 36 35 points a night in the
playoffs and we're doing all that that's not it's just not happening and i think that the magic
the magic's defense is legit and i think that they are going to be able to i think they're going to be
able to bog down a lot of teams and if they are in the three seed let's say they play a team like
the nicks or they play a team like the calves or the pacer's or the he i think they can legitimately
win a playoff series against all of those teams because their defense is real i think palo is going
to be able to um to hold up the scoring enough and all of those other
the teams are faulty to a point where they're not at full strength so it's it's kind of fine you
know and you can kind of see that yeah that's the sounds are too low i get the flot that sounds are too
low look the calves the calves have are in disarray the magic as much as we respect them don't have the
high-level offense creators to be able to outshute the best teams in the conference as well great's
defense is the offensive end isn't able to keep up the pelicans don't have brand ingram
have looked like shit since you don't believe in the heat he the i don't
I don't even got to talk to you out of that.
Yeah.
The Sons are there because you saw Limby down 16 to 51 yesterday, isn't it?
No.
No.
I haven't been high on the suns this entire year.
I thought that their ceiling coming into the year was a second round exit.
And I think that now it's probably a first round exit.
And it wouldn't, it wouldn't shock me.
Also, this third guy, I don't, how do y'all feel about Bradley Biel?
Because I'm not a huge fan of Bradley Biel or like,
or I'm not, like, scared of Bradley Beal in a playoff setting.
He's given a reason to be this year.
He's giving you zero reason to be.
Exactly.
They just don't see.
They also, like, quietly are also, like, a mess and don't really know what's going on.
Because they are kind of like the heat where everybody's like, oh, yeah, the offense is going to be good.
And we'll just see, like, how they defend this and that.
That hasn't necessarily clicked the way that you want it to.
And it hasn't been as high powered as you wanted to.
So, no, I don't believe in the.
And unlike the other, well, I guess outside of New Orleans, but they're the 14, 13 and 12, once again, those matchups like the Knicks, if OGs hurt, they're a completely different team.
The Cavs, they're in disarray.
The Bucks might not have Janus in the first round.
Those teams kind of have a little wiggle room in the first round.
The sons are going to have to go up against one of the elite teams of the league in the first round.
So that's also why I have them lower.
Yeah, I can see that.
If you're being realistic, they have a harder path, but I just think they clearly have a higher ceiling than some of these teams above them.
But I didn't rank them in the top 10, so I get it.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, I didn't rank them in the top 10 either.
I was pretty damn close to it.
But I would say, I can understand your qualms for the Phoenix Suns, and they haven't done enough at all to go ahead and shore any of us up to.
be one of the best at anything in the fucking game at all, bro.
You know, like you have Katie, Devin Booker, and Bradley Beale.
And it feels like they got, they collected this trio to do absolutely, like, nothing with it at all, bro.
Like, it just feels like, all right, we're here.
What's next?
That's the weirdest part is we thought they would be, like, one of the most high-powered offenses and a bad defense and, like, have this incredibly strong strength, but, you know, big weaknesses.
They don't have any incredibly hard strengths, but they just are, like, well,
rounded. They're 11th in offense, 12th in defense, just like cool in both. And that's a weird
thing to have happen when you have that type of shot making from your top three to only be
11th in offense. Not promising. But, you know, I talked about how the Cavs starting line
has a plus 3.3 net rating. They're just not that good. The Sun starters for all the weaknesses
are plus 7.5 in 100 possessions. I think it's in a higher floor than some of the calves who
are downtrodden. And listen, we saw in two games last year against the Nuggets.
what happens when Bradley win a Devin Booker
and Kevin Ramp both get cooking at the same time
since unstoppable
makes them win two games against the best team in the league
they have to do that four straight times
or not four straight before out of seven times
in the playoff series
I'm not betting on that
but that gives them a higher ceiling
than some of these teams above them
who you don't really see a path
to them beating some of these better teams
while the sons at least have
some chance even if it's not great
you know
yeah
I can I can I understand that
and I do agree that their ceiling
is is high
higher not much but it's higher yeah i just don't but i guess i just i guess we just disagree on how
low their floor actually is yeah that's what it is yeah and yeah yeah and i just think that they
for how disappointing they are the 13 and 10 post break better in some of better than the cabs
you know right now they're just the calves that holds me back okay they're they're first of all
they're in the playing right now right so i i i thought i thought that they would be able to get up
up to six, they'll probably beat the Clippers tonight and may end up at six.
Yeah, because nobody's playing for sure.
Yeah, everybody, everybody's resting for the Clippers.
So if they're at six and it stays right here and they play the Thunder in the first round,
would any of you be shocked if they lost in five games to the Thunder in the first round?
I'll be shocked if it was in five games.
I wouldn't be shocked if they lost in six, though.
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't be shocked.
The only thing that would shock me is if they get swept, but I think that a five game series,
against any one of these
of these teams
is 100% in play.
It just, they, yeah,
they just don't move me.
I'm just not a fan of theirs
going into the playoffs.
I get it.
Listen, I'm not the biggest fan of the world either.
It's just, like I said,
about the teams above them,
but we can move on.
Not a team I believe in horribly either way,
so I understand you.
All right.
Who's next?
I don't know.
Kill telling me.
Okay.
Let me pull my list.
My screen's covering up a little bit
so I can't see.
Okay, so at 15,
I have the New Orleans Pelicans
All the reason we said
I wish they were higher
They're not healthy
Without an ingroom
They don't say much of a chance I think
Sad to say
14
Orlando Magic
You know same reason Donovan said
I think they deserve a little bit more respect
Than Mo gave them
I guess I'm in between you guys
Because well I think they deserve that respect
For how great their season's been
Their defense is suffocating
Palo and Franz
Obviously great wings
I can do a lot of the creation for you
Jonathan Isaac and Suggs
are some of the best offenders in the league
I don't think they have no chance
of beating the Celtics.
Very little chance, I think,
to beating a team like a healthy Sixers.
I don't even know if I pick them over the bucks
or the Knicks, you know, so.
Do you know why?
Like you said, their defense is suffocating,
but also their offense is suffocating as fuck too.
No one has space to do shit.
It's claustrophobic in that motherfucker, bro.
You can't do shit offensively.
I think their spacing is overhated.
I think they do a good job of finding spacing
with good coaching.
And I think there's room to operate,
but the shot making isn't there.
And even if they're space,
you're going to have
to make shots at a high level, and they just, everything is so tough because the lack of
playmaking and lack of creation and, like I said, shot making in that lineup that they're
not going to out shoot some of the best teams in the league.
You go total to toe with Janice and Dame and Chris Middleton and Brooke Lopez.
As much as they struggle, it's hard for me to imagine them being able to out-execute them
in a late-game situation.
I agree.
But looking back, if I were, looking back, if I was to adjust my list, maybe I'd want to
give them a little bit of credit because their defense is just that serious.
And in the playoff setting, we've seen teams playoff setting.
we've seen teams plenty in the past before lean on defense more than offense and get by
with this with the series or whatever and if any team wants to do it though i know magic i guess could
be that team yeah and again i just because they've been so good while so much the conferences
shit in themselves that i want to show them a little bit of a yeah just give me a little respect
okay okay 13 i went to golden state warriors i should have put them a little bit lower because i didn't
again i was tinkering teams too much i put some people below them that i don't think they're
going to make it out to play in tournament. So why am I ranking them so highly? But they've been
good as of late for all the reasons the Mo said. So there's another thing why get them credit
for how good they've been playing. But there's very little chance they can make anything of it.
Okay. Okay. Miami at 12.
12 Miami Heat 11 Knicks. It hurts me so much with the Knicks lower because I love the Knicks
a couple months ago when they got OG and we're fucking cooking. Yeah. But we know Julius Randall's
not going to be there. I want to
I believe in Jalen Brunson as much as anybody. He's
awesome. He's one of the best
scorers in the NBA. I don't think people realize he is
a top five score on points your game this year.
Utterly ridiculous. Can truly
carry them much more than a lot of other stars can
with lack of help around them. They've done
a good job of not letting
teams just throw doubles at Jalen and
knock him out of the game. They do a really good job of
using Dante Divencenzo as a release valve, Isaiah
Hardenstein. They have built
themselves in a way that allows
Jalen to thrive even his only star.
But without Randall, like there's a ceiling
that you know as much as i want to hype them up and say they're going to be this great team that
does all these things if you don't have randall and you have just one shot maker and you're up
against teams like the celtics teams like the bucks you have multiple that can match up and slow things
down and really really put the pressure on jalen i don't know if the ceiling's there anymore
i 10% agree nico can we pull up my next five because i had the new york next at 15 actually
because their ceiling is just so much lower now i'm not that low i'm looking the keys of
14, get the fuck out of my face.
What do you mean?
The kick suck.
Okay.
Let's relax.
All right, you got it.
Let's relax.
You're not going to sit down and disrespect the beam like that.
All right.
The beam sucks.
They're horrible without Malik-Munk and hurry.
Let me read off the list to the audio.
To the audio.
My bad.
Okay.
There we go.
Sorry.
Sorry.
15.
New York Knicks.
14.
Sacramento Kings.
12 of y'all stand up.
Don't hide.
13.
Indiana Pacers 12.
Miami and 11
the Phoenix
I let Donovan
Nick's fan of
overtaking me for a second
I got mad for him
so New York Knicks man
how are you guys
Donovan how are you feeling
about this selection
specifically
I mean
let's yell
listen
no we don't we don't have to
I'm trying to do a better job
of controlling my emotions
and like
some class
it's like
I mean listen
like when you see stuff
that is foolish
you don't have to react to
it so I don't
I don't feel the need to get all riled up.
Like, it's fine.
You said you're taking it's beneath them.
It's fine.
So you have the Knicks top 10 is what you're telling me.
Yes, I do.
It's disgusting.
I do.
But I mean, and obviously, like, that's because I like them.
And I think that, I think that like the Knicks and especially if OG is there, I think they, even without Randall, I think they still have a little bit of a ceiling against some of the other teams in the East just because everybody has problems.
And I've seen what like when OG is on the floor, the defense goes to a crazy level.
And so like having that defensive ceiling and being able to have more of a free Jalen Brunson
offensively with OG out there, I think that they do have a high ceiling in the Eastern Conference
to still to still kind of fight their way to a conference finals potentially.
But I mean, to have them beneath the Kings and the Pacers is kind of wild.
I mean, that's fine.
Teach their own, you know.
Oh, wow.
I forgot OG's playing.
I completely forgot OG's playing.
He recently came back like, what,
two, three games ago?
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, I think I'm actually,
I'm actually going to do Knicks up a spot.
I think, I know who's at 10.
I have the Sun's at 10.
I'm going to swap them.
The Knicks, I think it's still making conference finals.
I don't think the Suns can.
Yeah.
Which maybe that's just a testament to the week conference.
But I think I want to swap that.
Put the Knicks at 10,
sons at 11.
You don't got to change it to kill,
but let the next.
viewers know i'm pushing the next up one okay yeah okay yeah that's fair if i also swap anything
as well maybe you'll be the Orlando magic in sacramento kings my only thing about the kings though
is that like no matter what who they face up they're not going to be like an easy go at it you know
i'm saying no one's like oh thank god sacramano kings genuinely speaking they're not going to get
everybody will say that no matter who everybody will say that if i've any team in the conference
and i can have a first round matchup i want the i want the i want the kings
They don't have heard or a monk
They're so they have no depth now
And you're telling me I get to play subonis in the playoffs
Yes bring them
You say I like subonis is Trey Liles or some shit
What the fuck
If I got to go bare he might as well be
Listen I would be so happy to play the Kings
They can have home court advantage
I would give them home court advantage
And I would still beat them in five
It's okay
They are food in the in the playoffs
They were already if he as is
They were already got surpassed
But the fact that they're not healthy completely,
it's just, they're finding an uphill battle
against teams that are simply more talented.
Yeah.
It's similar to the Warriors thing where even if you're high on them
in their play style, which I know you're higher than me.
Obviously, I'm Sabona's hater.
I get it.
I appreciate you being higher than me on them.
I understand it.
But you think about the matchups they're going to have in front of them
that are going to be healthier teams or talented teams.
It's hard to imagine really make any type of run.
For sure.
No one's, or at least I'm not expecting them to go ahead
and be winning a first round series.
That's not what this range is for me at all.
True, true. Good point. Good point.
This is just quite literally. Yeah, this is just literally, yo, could you take them to a fucking six bare minimum in the Sacramento Kings or a six series out of type team? That's all it is.
You're right. It is still just 14s. I get it. But yeah, I'm just, I view them as such a walking look right now.
Exactly. Wow, bro. You disrespect the king so much. And once they get outed in six games, I want to be like, ha. Episode 84.
Out of 40.
I feel comfortable tripling down on Kings 8 because I think they're going to get clapped either way.
So I feel like this is a safe hill to die on.
I mean, if I look stupid, I look stupid.
They're going to get clapped.
I agree with you.
But it's which way, which position are they going to get clapped at.
That's where we're having this conversation, you know.
And I just don't think they're going to get clapped in the worst way.
You do.
I don't.
I don't.
I don't think they're going to make it out of the plan.
If they're going to plan, I don't think they're making it out.
I don't, I don't either.
I've, I've said it for a minute.
I if they played the Lakers everyone wants to point to like oh the Kings they own the Lakers they own that matcher be be for real like in a one game scenario are you taking Dier and Fox and subonis or are you taking LeBron and AD like come on like we we have to be real about that even if they played the the Warriors Steph has had a lot of success against against Sacramento I would take them over over them Phoenix even for as much as as you know we just talked about their issues I still.
still think that in a one game scenario i would i trust i trust devon booker more than i trust
them alone i trust him more than fox and a bonus combined like you just go up and down
the list and you start you start you start you start thinking about the matchup and it's like yeah it's
not it's not really great like i'm gonna have to go into into war with kean ellis like he's cool
and barns he's cool he hasn't been watching keon ellis minutes that's all that's telling me he's
cool he's fine but like he's a good bad
Bench player. When he's your starting shooting guard
and has to play big minutes because you don't have Monk and
Herder. That's just asking a lot
of somebody so young. Exactly. He's impactful. He's impactful.
He is, he is, but he's overtax now.
He is good though. Overtax to some extent, for sure.
He's great as your seventh man. It's a very good luxury
to have. As you're starting shooting guard with
nothing behind him, I'm a little worried.
Can't do it. Can't do it.
But I am. We can move on the top 10.
Yeah, interesting top 10.
Listen, we're spending a lot of time debating teams that are all going to wax.
doesn't matter yeah exactly like we said we're just arguing two games right now that's it
and that's why that's why we're us we'll argue about nothing yeah to break into the top 10
at number 10 it says the suns I'm switching them with the nets with the Knicks the next
the next number 10 sons 11 nine I have the Los Angeles Lakers eight 76ers seven bucks
and six clippers do you all feel like I had the Lakers too high actually no none of you all
sudden yes we all have in top 10 yes yeah I mean the Lakers look at us
Look at us believe in Darwinham
Sixes are fine
I promise you
It's not a vote of confidence in
Darwinham
He is not the reason
Why I have them in the top ten
Yeah
I mean
I low key kind of want to put them
A little bit higher
I felt like I had to just like
Fight my own bias here
So I went to 76 years
Who
Listen, Dwell and beats back
He looks pretty good
I prior to his injury
I felt like they have as good
As good as a chance as any
As given the Celtics
A tough run at it
So I put them higher
The bucks
You know it's a conference thing
They're going to, second best team in the conference
because this conference is garbage.
I think they have a higher chance
of making a run.
I don't feel great about the bucks right now.
And the Lakers have been
legitimately good
over the, since the All-Star Brady.
They just are in the conference from hell,
but they've been number two in offense
for like 30 games.
Since they've added Rue Hachamor into the lineup,
they're legit,
have a big offensive ceiling,
and defensively has not been impressive.
They've been bottom 10.
But, you know, in a playoff series
and LeBron's going to ratchet it up,
you have Anthony David,
can use him in creative ways.
I have a feeling their defense can be fine
and they have the offensive firepower
to really outshute some good teams.
I don't necessarily feel strong about it
because, like the Warriors,
they might not make it out of the play in tournament.
They had to win two straight games
in a single elimination scenario.
Anything can happen.
There's a world where they straight up
lose the first time in the Warriors advance.
But if they make it into a seven-game series
against the Timberwolves, against the Thunder,
whoever may be, anybody but the Nuggets,
I think they have a chance
of winning the first-on series.
Yeah.
I think that's very fair.
I have the Lakers actually in the same exact spot.
I think they have a chance against anyone not named the Denver Nuggets as I believe any
any other any other NBA team does.
But yeah, that's not.
That's not a bad pick at all.
That's not a bad placement.
I wouldn't have any qualms about that.
It's interesting having the 76ers at number rate because of the unique situation that they're
in.
Joe Meebiz coming back.
Tyrese has seen like all types of fucking cover just now that he's been the lone star.
and to some in some weird way
I feel like that's been an advantage of his
because now you know
like he knows what that pressure feels like
as the lone guy and at times
during specific moments in the playoffs
you will feel like that
and so having him a having in May 8
is very interesting
sometimes some weird feeling in me
wants to put him higher than that
I don't even remember where I put him out my list
Hey cook yeah I did have I'll be mad I had him higher on my list
and that's so interesting and I think that speaks
to how fucking
low I had the Milwaukee bucks.
Yeah.
Honestly, you could put the seven years higher.
I don't have any problem with it.
I just felt like I was doing a lot as is projecting because like they said, they've,
they've fallen so far down the standings.
They're seven seed now.
But, you know, Embed's back, it looks like he's going to be Embed for the play in
tournament if they're still in there.
They're 30 and eight with Embedithes this season.
That's incredible.
15 and 27 without him.
So they were straight up dumpster fire without him.
But like you said, maybe Maxie got some good reps from that.
Maybe everybody healed will look better with Joelle Mb the full time.
the lineup of Batum
and Bede Harris Maxi Melton
which I don't even know if Melton's gonna be
there and healthy but if he is
plus 33.2 in 219 minutes played
Pretty good
one of those dominant lineups in the league
with over 200 minutes played
that's utterly ridiculous
that's the highest in the NBA
of teams that played at least 200 minutes
yeah special stuff man
Moe what's your next five
I want to see you let's roll into
next five here we go
I got 10 the Los Angeles
Angeles Clippers, nine, the Lakers, eight, I'm standing on it.
Trace Jackson, Jr.'s Golden State Warriors, seven, the bucks, and at six, I have the Philadelphia 76ers.
I love the six replacement, not mad at it.
Let's talk about it.
Obviously, you're bugging with the Warriors, given their incredible, incredibly hard path to get there.
I get it.
They've been good.
I don't think they've been this motherfucking good.
come on why don't you think they've been this good bro they've genuinely been like they've turned
the page of this was the starting lineup that they ran throughout the entirety of the season
if steve cur did not just straight chose to give this rookie dnps for half of the league
you know what i'm saying no so just put jonathan comminga into the shadow room not even talking
about this season for the past season or whatever this team would not be as down bad as they
word they wouldn't be a fucking 10th seat in this position so much of the lakers i think they
have a new newfound light and step said in this in the uh press conference last night they
have a fucking pulse now and they have started to find their new identity sucks that has been
so late but it's fucking happening it's here don't be a fool don't ignore it and acknowledge it
i did acknowledge it i put them in the top 15 instead of nope the bottom of the top tenets
be a man do you think of the lakers in the playing tournament both teams healthy with anthony
David's there. Yeah, I'll put money on the, I'll put money on the Warriors.
We can make it, we can make a bet right now. Put it on the TV three board. We can put
$50 on this game. Do you want it right now? Shake on it. Yeah, virtually shake on it.
$50, Lakers are going to beat them in home in Los Angeles. I'm going to virtually slap
your ass to one of the Lakers going.
Hanging shit. Now if they win, do you think they're going to beat their sons? You can
win both in a row. Listen, I'm just talking about the goddamn Lakers. That's it.
But I would have them at eight.
They would have a great chance
against the Phoenix Suns, for sure.
Okay.
Actually, there's sons probably win their first game,
so they'd beat the Kings,
which I think they will do, actually.
But can't they beat the Timberwolves?
Can they beat the Nuggets or the Thunder
when they go to eight against one?
Fuck no.
I would be so surprised
if the Warriors have a chance
of being the one seed.
Unbelievably surprised.
Yeah, the Timberwolves
had literally, quite literally have the Warriors number.
They've never beat them
this entirety of the season.
So it's hard for me to go out and say,
yes, confit.
I look like a fucking bozo.
So I don't know about that
The Nuggets, obviously not
I think the Thunder
will beat the living shit
out of the Golden State Warriors
in a playoff series
There are better matchup
for the Thunder
I think they would blitz them
I think it would be bad
Which maybe it's to be those
I'm clearly I've been
It wouldn't be a year
Maybe I'm a little bit too high on them
Maybe it would be a hard fought
Six game series
They match up the best against them
They match up quite literally
The best against them
Compared to the Denver Nuggets
or the Minnesota Timbles
Because of the spacing issues
and show like that
For sure
But that's just because the other
That's just because they have no fucking chance
with the other two teams
and they have a little bit of chance
against the Thunder.
So like, yeah, it's the best of it
but it's still not a good scenario.
And like, listen,
you could pick,
you agreed you can find a world
where you see the Lakers
being one of those teams
if it's not the Nuggets
and they're having a run.
Do you really see a world
with the Warriors and do the same thing?
One of those teams?
Yes, and if one of those teams
are the Oklahoma City of Thunder,
then yes, of course.
Why?
So would you pick the Warriors?
Would you pick the Warriors
if it started today,
then against the Thunder?
It's not about me picking the Warriors.
If I pick the words on a fucking out in top five, bro.
I put the words at eight.
You want me to put him at fucking five.
I'm not doing that shit, bro.
Damn.
All right.
You got it.
You got it.
I appreciate you being on.
I get it.
They've been good.
I understand.
Too rich for my blood.
Trace.
The Clippers have been bad as of late, but not that bad.
My only thing is that similar to how I felt about the Knicks and Ogen, Nounobi.
Of course, I would have put them higher if I was aware that this dude was playing actually well over the last two, three games.
James, Kauai Leonard.
If he's going to be back, then this is a completely different conversation.
Kauai Leonard and having conversations about his knees is so fragile.
And I just, it worries me, scares me, and it changes everything about this team.
So I assume he would be healthy to be there.
I get it.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's get my five.
So I have the clip of that team.
I have the bucks at nine, have the Sixers at eight.
Let's go.
Mix at seven, the Lakers at six.
where do we want to start where do we want to start okay so you two both agree the clippers
and number 10 i that's way too low for me i think give their flaws are there but we know
kauai turns it on the playoff setting i still think they have a higher ceiling than a lot of these
teams why are you also down on them because their floor is bad james hard and bad paul george and
they haven't been good um for a long time um yeah and so i feel like limping into the playoffs is
not a great sign. And they are scheduled to face somebody that it looks like we all have
in the top five. Listen, that white man is on his way. And he has vengeance in his heart because
he's lost to them two times in the playoffs. He's coming for blood and he's ready. So I think that
they are in very, very dangerous territory of getting first rounded. So that's why I have them
at 10. And their path right now is already hard. They would have to go through Luca and Kyrie. And
then on top of that potentially go through Yokic as the as the one seed really whoever they play
in the you know whoever it gets to one seed it's going to be hard but I think that the nuggets
are going to end up getting it so that's why I have them at 10 uh so yeah you're right yeah again
I have overlooked a lock first on matchup I forgot it's a near certainty they're going to play the
Mavs and I had the MADS extremely high so I think I think I should probably move down the clippers a little
bit. Yeah, I don't. I agree. I'm not, I'm not feeling too good. I'm not feeling too good about
them right now. Yeah. I'm not feeling great either. I forgot they're going to play the Mavs and I don't.
Spoiler alert to our predictions episode coming soon. I'm not picking the Clippers in that series.
Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. And then you haven't seen. Y'all got it. Y'all got it. You win.
Nice. Nice. Nice. I have the bucks at nine. Nice. Yonis, listen, Janis just got hurt.
Just saying he has a left cap strain. I don't know when he's going to be back. And then whenever
he does come back. I don't know how much of, I don't know, like, how healthy he's going to be.
We saw last year he missed a couple games in that first round series. And even whenever he came back,
they still weren't able to get the job done in round one. So I think that they're at, again,
serious, serious danger of losing in the first time, especially if he's not there. And on top of
that, they, you, I just can't get on on their bandwagon. I can't be a part of their program.
Doc Rivers doesn't, Doc Rivers doesn't move me. I don't think that they have shown
all year they have not put together a legitimate stretch where the wins and the performance on court
has matched up. So I just can't trust them. Embed at eight, probably I could see a scenario where
they're at seven for me above the Knicks. I just want to see Mb play a whole playout series.
Coming back from this, like it's been a, you know, he's ramping back up. Hopefully he's fine,
but I just need to see it. I just need to see the health and that's it. And then the Lakers at
six for everything that you guys said it's part of the reason why they made that run last year was
because ruy was shooting the lights out right was because everybody around them was just going
crazy from from from three you had these crazy Lonnie walker games all that that's a part of
their identity now and if you have that three point shooting that is the formula you have
lebron james shooters and a fantastic room protecting big and anthony davis who can also give you
27 they deserve to be higher and you'll see the only people that they're lower than are the
elite elite of the conference so yeah that's that's my list i'm with you i just couldn't put them
that high when there's such a real chance they lose in the playing you know like that's fair that's
fair it's a path thing where like i'm trying to balance what they've shown us plus what i think
they can do realistically hard to win two straight games lebron's gonna have to try as hard as he can
burn himself out a little bit and then play the one seed which you know it very well could be the
nuggets there's a good chance they'll have to play the nuggets
in the first round because they are probably going to be the eight seed.
And that's, and that's fine.
And I, and I do get that.
I look at, I look at one game scenarios and I always look at who's going to be on the other
side of that.
Yeah.
And if you have LeBron, I'm just never going to be scared in a one game scenario because
I'm always going to feel like when we get to the last five minutes of the game, I'm going
to have the best player on the floor.
I'm going to have somebody, I'm going to have somebody.
I'm going to have somebody who's going to make the right decisions.
I'm going to have somebody who can control all the chess pieces.
And I just don't trust that many people more than I trust LeBron in a club situation.
So I, the playing for, I would be shocked if they went home in the playing.
I hope you're right.
I will be devastated losing the plane.
Oh, that one time.
Yeah.
Before we get to the top five, Donovan.
What's up?
Before we get to the top five, I think it's time for producer corner.
Let's go.
So, as you guys know, we've gotten a kill here.
He's prepared something for us.
We don't know what it is.
Just your time to shine, your producer corner,
tell us what the top of conversation is today
before we get to the top five.
What's up, y'all?
What's up?
Hey.
Listen, this is quickly becoming my favorite time of week.
Because I can tap a mic in front me, you know?
But yeah, as you all know,
I've been kind of cutting down.
We have Donovan's bachelor party coming up.
So the cravings have been at an all-time high.
Okay.
After our show ended last week, I don't even think I said bye.
I immediately got Popeyes.
Big back.
Big your behavior, man.
Oh, shit.
It was tracked in the macros.
I had sugar-free syrup on it with some hot sauce.
It was delicious.
All right?
Nice.
By the way, dog chicken?
Oh, yeah.
It's a little sweetness.
It's a little sweetness.
I understand honey.
Serum's a little strange, but I get it.
By the way, quick quick little plug Donovan's getting married if you're if you're an attractive woman in your mid-20s
What?
What the hell?
What I need a date for the wedding bro?
Come on
Oh
That's not where I thought you were going but good
Hashton
Five always that you last chance
Guys don't think so great cravings have been all time all right I've been all time I've been
trading every type of fried chicken there is like crazy.
Oh, this is about to get racist.
I don't mean for that to happen.
But yes, we are going to tearless different types of chicken of eating chicken.
Okay, let's go.
So that's the producer corner.
All right, let's go.
You came on here.
You're cooking.
You're a real eater, man, for that one.
I've never seen anyone my entire life.
Tearless different types of chicken.
It's crazy.
You're dedicating. I'm not going to like mentally this kind of runs through my head all this only happened in the ex-launch. It's crazy
I'm mentally I'm holding back so much
Honestly, I was on the edge of doing this, but that's why I gave such a such a detailed segue. I was like I need any context to be captured. Okay
You need to make sure it doesn't look crazy. Yeah, all right. Let's start out. Is I ready to raise some fried chicken?
Do you can say you set yourself up? You're never in two million years beating yourself with those elegans
Oh my god.
Alright, let's start.
Let's start, let's start.
Let's rank some chicken.
He's the y'all are experts.
All right, let's lock in.
Let's lock it.
Isaac, your feet are swinging, bro, relax.
Alright, let's get the basic side of the way.
We got the basic just grilled chicken.
Like homemade fire at the grill?
Sure.
Yeah.
Barbecue sauce on or not?
It doesn't matter.
Let's do as is.
As is.
I mean, it's probably a C.
Nah, I'll go about a beat.
Even with barbecue sauce, what's the ceiling you're giving just grilled chicken?
You can get some really good grilled chicken.
I think like especially depending on like how, like how you cook it, you get the right
season and rub.
It's like even like you can get a nice like barbecue seasoning rub.
You can you can put that at B.
I'm okay with that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
High floor.
I was going to nest, but okay.
Oh.
Oh.
Listen, there's a lot of good chickens here.
I don't want to shoot a little too fast.
I know, but I'm also factoring a health in here, too.
And that is.
Oh, no, I'm not talking about that.
I'm not talking about that right now.
Yeah.
My fitness, pal.
Let's talk to it.
Yeah, more for straight taste.
Okay.
All right.
You guys said B.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
You're factoring protein levels.
Get out of my shirt out.
I think another easy one just, listen, rotissory chicken.
That's like a, it has a B ceiling, but it's like a C.
It's a C.
It's a C.
See?
This is kind of the word.
It's got to be the worst item on here.
Are we giving everything to see her above?
If you're walking into someone who's asking for rotissory chicken.
Listen, rotissary chicken does what it needs to do.
It's cool.
It's a staple.
It's a staple.
Don't disrespect rotissory chicken.
You, if you had Sam or Costco, fresh off the line?
What?
Have you ever stood in line for a rotisserie chicken?
Oh my goodness.
And you stood in line?
Of course, did you have to wait for a hot?
Like, it's a lot.
I've never done.
that yeah listen but listen before you before you eat it it's esther because you're hungry from
like grocery shopping whatever after you eat it it's probably like c i'd tell you this i've stood in
line longer for rotissary chicken than i have for jordan threes okay so i'm i'm giving it i'm giving
it some some credit i have to put it at c i have to do it i have to do it wow you fucking eater
Capital E, A, T, E-R.
God damn, bro.
You need that deadstock, Pat.
I'm putting it at C, I guess.
I'm putting it at C.
I can understand putting it at D just because it can't get a little bit played out.
But I will go see.
Waiting in line and putting it at C is fucking wild.
You said that as if it fucking made your fucking Friday, bro.
Like, you know exactly when the trucks come in.
They start the goddamn chicken.
Put that bitch in the oven, like, see, it's crazy.
Okay.
You're like the people that.
11.30 every Friday.
You can say, which is the past.
Yeah.
11.30 every Friday.
Like, that's whatever they, they come out.
This is insane.
Come on.
Let's, I love this.
Come on.
This is my favorite type of conversation to have.
Okay, man.
What's next?
All right.
Cain's chicken, just a chicken.
No sauce?
F.
No.
But everybody eats it with sauce.
That feels unfair.
You don't eat it with sauce.
You don't even like the sauce.
I was thinking the same thing.
I'm one fourth of the people here
So
It's unfair to
It's unfair to raising Keyes
To put in a scenario that would never happen
All right, let's vote on it
You don't want to include sauce or not?
No
Sure
I say no sauce
Okay, no sauce
I would put it at D
Because we're just talking about
Chicken
Okay
I've only had it once
I get kids
I add sloppy mama seasoning
Every single time
So sloppy mama seasoning
What is that?
Oh see
You're not a
You're not a
You're not a real seasoner.
Ew.
What does even look like?
What color is it?
It's a red bottle?
It's a sloppy mama.
Come on, man.
I'm not going to.
You're a grown man.
Like,
you don't know how to cook?
No.
I'm from Atlanta.
We don't got fucking canes down there,
bro.
All we know is Popeyes,
KFC,
bow jangles type shit.
You know what I'm saying?
Don't have kings?
I love canes.
To me,
it's a personal S tier,
but I understand you're a little lower.
I go,
I'm going D.
I'm going D.
Okay.
I would.
D?
I've also kind of been off of Cain's for a while
Since we since we left college I've been off of it
I love Cains
I think those are at least A tier
But I know it's polarizing
I think when they're firing in all cylinders
Like when those teenagers are back there
I'm like they're actually caring
When the oil's fresh
Listen I beef with fast food employees all the time man
When they're back there and they care about their job
Cains can be like an A
Like an S
Put it an A
I had it
I had it once
But it was never like
Oh my God
This carries me
I'm looking forward to this meal
Like B
Sounds like a B
I'm going to be in the middle of B
I'm meat too in the middle of B
Feels like B
I understand
Alright next one is a
Like chicken cutlet
It's like chicken parm
That type of chicken
But that shit ass
I see
I'm about to get here real
You know what I'm about to get real
Listen
A good chicken cutlet
A good chicken cutlet
right you get some nice sauce on it oh my god it's something you want to get real sauce
you don't make me get a good bro don't chicken from college listen man over some rice
let's come on i'm walking in it wow right is it really like that yes i've had it a few times
yes it's like a nice crispy a nice crispy chicken cutlet right some good i think good sauce
you you can get kind of spicy with it get a get like a vodka sauce
on it as well brother listen we can we can do some things right we can eat i guess the last time
that i had chicken cutlet it was like my sandwich was literally massacred with tons of coles you got
trauma just ruined everything coles no no we're not we're not putting the coleslaw on this
again we're putting mariner sauce we're putting a nice tomato sauce we're putting the vodka sauce on it
right you ever have fresh fresh moots right on a on a chicken sauce we're putting a
cutlid sandwich right on the chicken palm sandwich who per schmutz come on man what is that exactly you're
not you're not a you're not a real eater put it put it in a put it i'm not a real eater i guess you're fine
speed this up we spend a lot time my chicken yeah my fault all right let's do let's do wings
s s too oh s we're not talking about yeah yeah all right just regular fried chicken poppice
s yes a yes okay fine that's for sure staple all right uh so what about a chicken sandwich it can
This is a chick-flay sandwich, but it can get anything.
Let's the chick-flat specifically, S-deer.
S.
Clear-ass.
All right, what about hot chicken?
A, I'm kind of fucking sick of it.
I'm in L.A. now. I've been here for about a year.
Every fucking block in Los Angeles, at least on the west side where I live,
non-stop hot chicken.
I'm being assaulted by Dave's hot chicken on my eye line every single day.
Every time I step outside, I'm fucking tired of it.
You got it.
But it's still great.
A-tier.
I've never had hot chicken, so I can't speak on it.
What?
Wow.
It's good.
No.
Yeah.
You've never had it before.
No.
You've never had hot sauce on chicken?
No, like the
No, no, like the Nashville hot chicken.
Like Dave's hot chicken, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, but it's just chicken toss and hot sauce.
You know, it's kind of self-explanatory.
I've never.
It's pretty good.
I would have it.
I prefer Dave's over like Keynes.
I agree.
I can't get there, but I get it.
Yeah, I've never had it.
100%.
I'll go eight-tier.
Yeah, A-tier is the perfect range for it.
And that, and that's our tier list.
Once again, Donovan, this is another perfect,
deep, tear list.
Wow.
How could it not be?
Listen, I have jokes, but I know you, I know people can't, listen, they can't, they can't tiptoe the line, you know, it's going to get real crazy.
So good list, comments from us.
Good list from us.
Wow.
Listen, they'll be correct.
If I see the comments, I'll laugh.
Okay.
Back to the top five of our power rankings.
Let's go.
Let's go ahead and let's move on to this.
top five. Show us everybody's list. Here we go. Okay, so obviously, it seems that we all have
the same teams here. Yes. Let's go ahead and read off. I'll go first. At number five, I had Minnesota
Timberwolves. At four, the Oklahoma City Thunder, three of the Dallas Mavericks, two of the
Boston Celtics, and one, the Denver Nuggets. What Isaac just said, I have the same exact list,
same exact order. Okay, there we go. First of a dab. Me, I'm different. I'm different. I
I had the thunder, I mean, I had the Timberwolves at five,
had the Mavericks at four, the Thunder at three,
the Nuggets at two, and the Celtics at one.
Interesting.
Okay.
Biggie's difference, obviously, you have the Nuggets, Celtics at one,
which, you know, I can't really argue with.
They have been unequivocally the best of regularities
and team in the league by far.
Well, honestly, one of the best statistical teams of all time.
They are on a ridiculous pace, going to blitz through the finals.
So on that account of you saying you're almost guaranteeing they're making the finals,
I understand.
But I think the Nuggets are going to win the finals.
I think they're going to beat them when they both make it to the finals.
I view both of them as a near lock to make it.
I went with the team I think he's going to win it all.
And that's fine.
That's exactly what I did.
I said at the beginning of the year that I thought that Boston was going to win the title.
And so going in like at least going like off of the regular season, bro, they're 15, 16 games ahead of the second place team in the Eastern Conference.
They are.
That shows how shitty the East is too.
I mean, but they're also, but they're also one of the few teams, I mean, they're the only team that's going to be over 60 wins.
Like, they are so, so good.
And when we get to the playoffs, like, obviously there's still some stuff about them, late game situations where I don't feel the best, but their top six, they are able to just blitz everybody.
And the fact that you can have Drew Holiday or Derek Wyatt or Alhofer or any one of them come off of the bench and you can move so many pieces around.
Even within just those six players,
I think that when they are firing at their best,
they are the team to beat in the NBA.
And so that's why I have them at one.
Yeah, I respect that fully.
They are, they, by all accounts, should win the NBA finals.
The only reason we're picking the Nuggets is because we've seen what Yokch can do.
And we trust the guy who we think is one the best players of all time.
But all logic, take that away, all logic says the Celtics should win the finals.
It will be a massive letdown if they don't.
100%.
So yeah, so that's what I'm going there.
And then also, I really wanted to give the Thunder credit for everything that they've done.
And they have shown, they haven't really shown a lot of weaknesses in terms of, in terms of like their play style.
Now, obviously they do have a weakness and we'll see if Josh Kitty is going to hold the team back.
But he's played pretty well in the last couple of weeks.
And it's gotten better from where we were like a month ago when it was like legitimately a problem.
And also, I think that if he starts to play like that, I do think that Mark Dagnon is good
enough of a coach to where in the playoffs, Isaiah Joe, you take that spot.
Aaron Wiggins, you take that spot.
And he will make that adjustment.
So I'm putting my faith in Mark Dagnon.
I'm putting my faith in Shay, who's, I'm putting my faith in J-dub, who is probably going
to have a coming out party.
Like I think a lot of people in like who watch the NBA like very closely, they've kind of
tracked his ascension and they're like no like he's good he's a star do you get to you get to the
playoffs and you're going to see him being shay's running mate and being able to have 30 point
games have big moments he's about to hit the mainstream for real yeah don't mo i think i speak for
both of us we both agree i've been on high as a thunder as anybody in the fucking world this year
people call me a thunder glazer a check glazer j wazer wazer all this stuff but that white man in
Dallas is
motherfucking
dangerous and over the
last 15 games
they have the number
one defense
in the NBA
and it's been
pretty easily
they have a 105.5
defensive rating
over the last 15
games
their starting
lineup with
PJ Washington
and Daniel
Gaffer both starting
next to the
other three usual
has been the
most effective
lineup in the NBA
recently.
Lucas playing
one and two
is the best
playing
in the world
with Nicola Yokic
Kyrie is
playing fantastic
I at this point
am penciling
them into the
Western Conference
finals.
I think they
are peeking
at the right
time they have the best player in any matchup except against the nuggets and it's damn close
still I will be so baffled if they're not in the conference finals yeah I can I can agree with
you they just have everything written in in terms of like the checkbox checklists which is like
you know for the Dallas Mavericks for the longest time they haven't been able to check off
having a good defense longest time meaning the last two years and they finally got over that hump
have a legit obviously second star
you can't have too many second options
better than Carrie fucking Irving
then alongside of that of course
like you have the non-tale excellence of the world
who's reliable. Derek Jones Jr. hasn't gone anywhere
and has been one of the better role players
in the entire NBA.
Daniel Gafford is there.
Derek lively hasn't gone anywhere.
PJ Washington's there like bro.
They are, I don't want to say loaded,
but they have plenty and they finally have enough
for Luca Donge to be like
I can cook with this shit and I can turn up
an entire playoff series and leave.
Exactly. As soon as the deadline happened, we all picked them as the winner of the deadline.
We thought that these additions to the big men would make them so much better and fix their issues.
Like I said, early in the season, I said their biggest weakness is a lack of athleticism in the front court.
Insert Daniel Gaffrey and say PJ Washington.
Fix fixes that.
Immediately they look good.
After that, they had a little skid when I was like, oh, God, did I overreact?
Is it just PJ Washington?
Is it just Gafford?
Am I, oh, God, did I expect too much of these guys?
No, I did not.
That was the overreaction to a few losing games.
They have been as great for them
as we could have been
We were right at the deadline
to expect this team to be good
and they've been even better
than we could have ever imagined
Like Mo said
You have the best guard in the NBA
The best second option in the NBA
Potentially up there
Maybe it's Anthony Davis
Maybe it's whoever
One of the best second options
And the literal best defense in the league
How can you pick against them
In any series that's not
Against the best offensive big man
We've seen in recent years
Listen, it's hard
They have a listen
The Thunder
While not as dangerous
they too have a very very scary white man that they can that they can deploy and the fact that
you can put Shay and Chet into actions down the stretch that you can have all this versatility
between him J-dub and Chet like that big three right there or that okay not not big three but
call it a big three it is big three okay cool that that big three they're able to do so much
and the fact that Chet is going to be able to hold down the paint and really, really anchor this defense.
And you're not going to have a situation where, like, he's not going to have to go up against a Yokic if they play the Mavericks.
He's not going to have to go up against it and be somebody that can really, really push his skinny frame to the test.
And so I think that he's going to be able to stay doing what he's been doing and really, really, you know, be an impact defender.
And so if that happens, I think I like OKC to do to do what they do.
And Lucas is going, obviously, I trust Luca to do whatever he does offensively.
He's going to have to work defensively.
He's going to, like, Shea's going to go at him.
J. Do's going to go at him.
They are going to figure out if he is up to the test to play some defense.
And if not, it could get scary in a couple of games.
Yeah.
I guess all the things I'm saying, too, also Pye the Thunder.
Also a top defense, also one of the best guards in the NBA.
NBA also a second star in jdub so I understand that's close like I said I love the thunder
too but I just can't pick against Luca at this point that's fair that's fine that's fair
but something I will pose is that we all have the Minnesota 10 rolls at five could you guys
not edge them any higher into this elite top four group not without cat it seems like cats
it seems like that's gonna be back though we'll see what that looks like it doesn't really matter
you can put them above the thunder if you'd want you can swap them I view them as relatively
close. Like the Timberwolves are the five seed in this, not five seed, but the fifth team here.
For reasons that aren't really about them, it's just the teams above them are so incredibly
talented that I think while they are last of this group, they belong in this group very much.
You know, like I don't need his disrespect to say the last in the group. The top group is just
so insane. But I think the Timberwolves very much belong and I'm not mad at you if you put them
at four. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. I'm with that.
Why do you ask? Did you hesitate? No, I didn't hesitate at all. I'm just like Denver.
Timberos have been doing so good.
They've been surviving like a motherfucker
without Carnes any towns.
As we speak in the making of this podcast,
they're going toe to toe to with the Denver Nuggets.
Like they usually have over the course of the last 12, 13 months.
And damn, they're at the 5C.
This is the best that they can be with this roster.
I don't envision them getting any better unless like obviously
cat healthy changes a lot or whatever.
But still, you know, they've done all this.
And they still can be one of the four best teams
in the entire NBNR.
I mean, that's his life when you have the two toughest white men alive, the most stacked team in recent NBA years, and then Shea and them who are just obviously fantastic too. Like it's, again, no discount to them. It's just a really good group of teams up top. Yeah. I would put, I wanted to go ahead and put the Timberwolves over OKC, but then I saw Shay come back off of like the quad that's been bothering him over the past few, over the past like a week or so. And he dropped for you on Deere and Fox's head. And I was like, okay, never mind. That dead means absolutely.
nothing. The injuries mean nothing to him. So I'm like,
okay, he's still back. So
yeah. It's tough
though. Again, I'm not mad at any options here.
Dude, it's
if, okay, so we all
expect a Nuggets versus Celtics finals.
If that doesn't happen,
why do you think that'll be? What team do you think will
replace one of those teams?
It'll be had to pick one.
It'll be the Dallas Mavericks. There's no way in hell.
It'll be anyone else other than them in my
mind. I just can't see. Can't envision a world.
Can't envision a world.
world's not to the Dallas.
Yeah, think about that.
Okay, so Donovan, you put the thunder above the Mavericks because you think they'd win
that series, you'd be a little bit better if I'm understanding that correctly.
Yeah.
Which one of those teams do you think has a better chance to be in the Nuggets, though?
I think the Mavericks have a better chance.
But this is tough.
Yeah, I think the Mavs would have a better chance going up against the Nuggets just
because that singular, like, force of Luka, being able to match.
match um being able to match yokech i think that kind of levels out where like as the thunder it feels
even though the shade is like amazing and he scores all this it feels more of like a collective team
effort and i think that if you're going team for team Denver kind of gets the edge there whereas
all right yokech is going to do what he's going to do obviously like jamao mary will see how he
elevates but it if it's yokitch and murray and that two main game versus luka and kairie and
their, you know, two superpowers doing all that, I think that matches up a little bit better.
Yeah.
It's tough, man.
Like, it feels like we're the, I keep telling you guys this off camera, Luca Donchish is the main character.
And it feels like we're at that point of his story arc where we're due for an insane run
and for some legendary building block of a career type shit where we see a guy like break through
for lack of a better term and like solidify himself in history.
It just all the vibes are there that we're going to.
witness a Mavericks run and somehow they
end up in the finals at the very least end up in the
conference finals and it's again
it's all vibes all like it feels like it's
happening is nothing like nothing
empirical
it just feels right to pick them
listen we'll see yeah we'll see all this talk
everybody's been waiting you have a squad
are you going to go get the chip or not let's
let's see what happens
yep
if
if this Mavericks team
was a team to the start
of the season meaning PJ
Washington was there and Dante Exam has been hooping the entire season, all
of this stuff and all the other new additions were there, I honestly would have put them
in number two over the Boston Celsius, simply because they just don't have guys
that fuck with Luca and Yolkits, of course, but they don't.
Yeah.
And the continuity still thing.
If the Dallas Mavers were just the whole year, we'd be talking about a very special
season from them and Luca Donchish, like the winning rate they've had since All-Star
break, we wouldn't be having an MVP debate.
they were this good all year.
Yeah.
But they weren't so tough shit.
Well,
Luca,
you still are my MVP.
I respect it.
Again,
I tweeted,
we had,
obviously,
like I said,
go watch a live stream.
We did the whole MVP debate
and met our final award show.
I was pro Yokic,
so I kind of like argued against Luca.
And like,
really I was just arguing against his fans
that act like it'll be a travesty if Yokich wins.
Like,
Yokich isn't also having a great season as an all-time great.
But I'll be so happy if Luca wins.
Like,
I don't care either way.
Like,
it would be great to see either of these guys have that moment.
Nah.
Just go get around.
That's all that matters.
That's all that matters.
It's just going to go get a chip.
Mo, do you got to watch on?
Uh.
Oh my God.
We're fucking late.
It's TikTok time.
What the fuck?
Holy shit.
We've been waiting for this shit.
For ages.
This shit has been running on for too long.
Fuck all this basketball talk.
Let's get to the real shit.
Let's go ahead and enjoy.
draft some shit let's put some shit into tearless
let's talk about fucking logos
let's go ahead and do this shit man
that was so many questions
in the 30 seconds span
demonetize demonetize demonetize
welcome to dick dot time
today
we are starting with a draft once again
took a couple weeks off but we're back
and today we are drafting
the best NBA line is possible
with five NBA players that cannot
shoot.
Bricks on bricks on bricks.
Nikiel wrote down the bricklayers draft. That's what it is.
If we're going to try to find a way to make NBA lineups with no spacing and see who can
make a team that can somehow win games.
Let's go.
All right.
So the draft order is Mo Donovan, me.
I can tell us give me some questionable picks here.
We'll have to argue about it in the moment.
I went with players on my list that either don't shoot whatsoever, like a Ben Simmons,
like a Shaq, whatever.
Or if they shoot a little bit because they like, you know, everybody's
shoots a little bit they've never been good never been effective and are like clearly somebody
would label a non-shooter for sure okay cool it all depends bro the goal of this is to fucking
have brick layers bro let's see whose team can break the backboard as fast as possible dent
the rim as fast as possible let's see which one of you guys slipped in some good mid-range
shooters it's gonna happen all right you know mo who we got first pick first pick at point guard
I have to go ahead and select Ben Simmons.
I ain't hitting shit, bro.
From the free throw line, from the mid-range, especially from the three-point line.
In terms of laying bricks, if you ask me to shoot, you're going to need a construction hat.
Ben Simmons is a wild first pick, but you can't go wrong with the lack of shooting there.
I love it, bro.
Listen, we're going all time.
And even though these guys can shoot, I still want to win games.
So with my first pick, give me Shaquille O'Neal at my center.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, listen.
I love it.
in the can't shoot Olympics
Shaq is going to win
if you're going to talk about
missing the most shots possible
Shaq's up there
no threes no middies
no free throws
nothing
not a lick
nothing damn
first pick
can I have young
Magic Johnson
before he developed a shot
excellent choice
go ahead
there we go magic Johnson
who's second pick
give me his running mate
give me career Abdul Jabbar
I see
okay
okay listen
he could hit sky hooks
from like 18 feet out.
So I'm going to take that as a jump shot.
We're counting Skyhooks as a shot.
I'm taking that as a jump shot.
You might have floating a hand.
You're throwing the ball downwards.
It's not a shot.
Listen, the wrist flicks.
So I don't know.
The wrist flicks.
There's a follow through.
I don't know if I go through.
I don't know if I go to us that.
But I'll let you have it.
Let's see.
At my three,
give me.
Actually, no.
At my power forward.
Give me somebody who used to shoot but can't shoot anymore.
Give me Anthony Davis.
He still shoots midi, though.
He's a high midi shooter now.
Not one of the most efficient.
Listen, nobody's calling Anthony Davis a non.
Come on.
Listen, when I think of non-shooters, I'm thinking about non-three-point shooters.
So, and, yeah, so we'll put AD at the four.
All I know is that Darwin Ham said, he will shoot six threes a game.
Nah.
And everybody collectively looked around.
I was like, nah, that's not going to happen.
This pick is cheating, but I'll let you have it.
Mo, who's next?
Listen, if you don't want to get, give me Yonis.
Now you can have that.
Give me Yonis.
Give me the real non-shoiter.
Swiper, no swiper.
That's me.
You can have AD, but the comments know you're cheating.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Yannos is a super easy pick.
Super non-shooter.
Next up, go ahead and give me André Drummond.
I need a great bricklayer, bro.
Interesting shooting form.
Not a lot of people talk about it enough.
Great role player still.
Drummer is a center.
Yeah, drummed at the five.
Drummond at the five.
Okay.
Still tough.
All right.
You listen, your team is,
there's definitely no shooting on your team.
I'll say that.
Yeah, no shooting whatsoever.
We're going to be banging elbows.
Everybody, literally.
Okay.
I need some perimeter defense.
Give me.
Assar Thompson at my three
Wow
You're definitely not shooting too
Damn
You're shooting fucking
Meteors bro
God damn
You're assault in the room
Yes
Felony
Conviction
Facts
All right next up
You know what
None of us can shoot
I need some goddamn
Rebounding to catch those bricks
Give me Dennis Robbins
been at the four okay that was a great pick elite pick I need all the rebounds I can get
elite pick that's a great big not all I see elite pick a small forward give me Julius
Irvin okay you you have a talented non-shooter but then again what was his free throw
percentage Isaac if I know I can tell you he came to the NBA was not shooting threes
yeah that free throw that free throw percentage was not asked that's one thing I can say
He has Anthony Davis don't want to hear it
Keep going
You're not letting that slide
Can't let that slide
You know what
We cannot go
In a non-shooter's draft
Without bringing one of the goats
Of non-shooting
Give me Andre Roberson at my two
Fuck
You stole my pick
This might be the best non-shooter of all time
This man has a legit highlight tape of bricks
we've never seen that.
Damn.
And not a bricks,
air balls.
This is a shout to Andre Robeson.
Yeah.
What a guy.
Hall of Fame stuff.
Oh my goodness, bro.
You stole my fucking pick.
That's...
Robeson and Asar
is filthy criminal defense.
We're locking people out.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, now that is literally filthy.
That is literally filthy.
You know what?
Okay.
I'm going to put Janus at my three
and give me Ben Wallace at my four.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
This is the biggest hell.
You want to play that game?
Let's play that game.
I'll show you some non-shooters.
The rules are quickly changing.
We're fucking playing jailball.
We're punching each other.
This is going to be crazy.
Exactly.
I changed my ego in this bitch right now.
All right.
Okay.
At my two, go ahead and give me a SARS brother am men.
Let's play a family.
Okay.
Let's play a family.
Okay.
I like that.
I like that.
So my one, I got Ben Simmons.
And my two, I got Amin Thompson.
three, Janice, four, Ben Wallace, and my five, Andre Drummond.
Love it's the worst team I've ever seen.
It's perfect. It's the worst team for sure.
All right.
And any metric.
Let's see, let's see.
I don't know if this counts.
We'll see how y'all feel about this, but I do need somebody to direct traffic.
So give me Rajan Rondo as my point guard.
Does that count?
That's a great pick.
Does it count?
Sure, you're going to have whatever.
Go ahead.
He shot 40% one year.
I mean, point.
When Rondo was at his best, he was not shooting.
So I understand.
He was not a real threat, bro.
They gave him the young Rondo was not hoisted.
Yeah.
Okay, we'll put that.
We'll put young Rondo.
Okay.
Fair enough.
You know, am I too?
It would not be right for us to not have this guy on this team.
Give me Tony motherfucking out.
I was thinking about that.
I was thinking about Tien.
I wanted to Tony Allen too.
Give me Andre Roberson on horse steroids.
Give me Andre Robeson with a crazy mentality.
I need it.
Oh my goodness.
He's saying, listen, Tony Allen's a great big.
He shoot like he got crow bars for arms, bro.
I love it.
Andre Roberson versus Tony Allen one-on-one.
Wow.
That one-on-one will last 20 years.
The ball would explode before somebody gets to 15th.
It would go flat from all the blocks.
Facts.
So my team, Young Magic Johnson, Tony Allen, Dr. J., Dennis Rodman,
Camry Abdul-Jabbar
My team
Young Rondo
Andre Robeson
Asar Thompson
Recent Anthony Davis
and Shaquille O'Neal
A recent AD
You're nasty for that
Anyways
My team is Ben Simmons
Asar Thompson
Yannis
Did I say a sorry
My bad
No you have a SAR
I have a man right
There we go
Ben Simmons
A men Thompson
Janus
Ben Wallace
And Andre Drumman
That's crazy
Non-shooters break layers.
Let's do it.
Elite draft.
I agree.
Great.
I love it.
Next thing we're going to do,
it's time for a tier list.
If you guys saw Victim Women Yama
had a logo revealed by Nike
on the day of the lunar eclipse.
And it's the hardest thing I've ever seen in my life.
It's an alien logo.
Very cool.
Obviously one of the better logos we have in the league today.
So what we're going to do,
we have 15 NBA logos of players
who have a signature shoe with the company.
So many logos.
And we're going to put their logos in a tier list.
So many logos.
Let's go.
Let's go a lot.
Let's go.
It's going to be a long one.
We'll go through it fast.
First of all, so real simple, let's put these NBA player logos into a tier list.
First of all, Jordan, obviously, S tier, right?
S tier.
It's the most iconic logo of logo history.
Let's put it in S.
Yeah.
Transcend sports.
I agree.
What about LeBron?
Is his logo also an S tier?
Not an S.
I think it's probably an A.
it's a really good it's a really good logo but it just it's not like on its own it's as
clunky brer powerful as as a generous too i think it might be a b i said a and then i wanted to be
like brats really a b but it's lebron yeah what about lebron deserves a b he's an a plus everything
we're going to be we'll go b okay yeah it's cool but there's better on this list
the better or maybe maybe what do we do with victim woman yama is he s tier is he a tier i'm gonna go
a tier i don't think it's as good as the as the jordan ones is because i don't know how many
people want to be rocking an alien on their on their body like that yeah but listen this is
really freaking hard so yeah i'm gonna go ahead in terms of who he is as a player it matches up extremely
well and it perfectly depicts a victor wambayama but yeah like wearability wearing i can't wear like a victor
when miyama jack with an alien on it looks kind of corny but on shoes it represents him
perfectly i don't put it in a day you can't now give us some time we're all going to walk around
with aliens i promise i will not be inducted i'm gonna don't count said inducted yeah i said
i'm cool with a tier we're we do with shack the iconic shack shoes the logo's hard
the logo's fire i'm gonna i'm gonna go a the shoes is it listen the shoes
different story but when you see that even if you took away the name you know exactly who that is
that's that's diesel really yeah yeah it's so hard for me to separate it from the shoes and i know
what this logo belongs to i'll go i'm fine with a or b where you want to go mo don't hate me
personally i would say c what like it's not it's not any lower than that it's not a special logo
now i understand you're not a special logo like oh four
If I had a logo, it would be harder than that for sure.
But it would not like, it's just, it's not special.
You didn't rock shacks for real.
You did it.
You did it rock shacks for real.
That's why.
That's why you're putting that seat.
The logo has no place in culture.
We can go see.
Exactly.
It's not.
No place in culture.
It wasn't special then, not special now.
You guys are underrating shacks.
All right.
What do we do is Steph Curry's logo?
This little scribble.
We, this shit is.
We put that in that.
I'm, listen, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Steph.
I have no idea what this is
Yeah
What is?
I can try to justify
I'm like listen
The S goes into the C
It has the flow
It has the smoothness
Of Steph Curry's game
It looks like a different language bro
That's what it is
It looks like something else to me
It looks like you're in therapy
And they throw a bunch of ink on here
And like what do you see in this
That's what it looks like
I'm trying to find some inner demons
Via Steph Curry
I see a trash logo
And that sucks
Bro yeah
This logo looks like it's at the front of like
a fucking, I don't know,
some type of ballet dance
dance area, bro. It just
doesn't look like basketball or
anything like that. It doesn't look like
anything. It looks like literally nothing.
Yeah. What do we do
with Kevin Durant, the iconic KD?
That's hard. I'm going to give her a solid
B. It's pretty good. Solid B.
What?
B? Do you think it's an A?
I think I'd agree with that.
I think it's a name. It's just two letters.
Like.
Yeah, it's two letters, but they're bubbly, though.
What do you mean?
But they're bubbly.
They're round out.
No,
that reason alone is stupid.
I all agree with Donovan in a beat here just that reason sucks.
Oh,
you guys don't know.
Tell me you guys,
you guys are screaming.
I mean,
you guys never wanted to pair of Katie anything.
No,
I had Katie sentence.
All right.
Cap.
Here it is.
What do we do with Lanzo ball, Z-O-2?
Big ball of brand.
Never lost.
They don't.
Undefeated.
Undefeated.
Now, the shoes, once again, suck.
They probably made his knees, you know, turn into dust.
But this logo's hard.
Put it in S-tier.
Okay, you need to relax.
Big Ball of Brand is never lost.
S-tier?
Big Ball of Brin is never lost.
We don't disrespect Lovar Ball's legacy.
Bro, they're not going to sign you if you say this.
You know that, right?
They're not sponsoring the show.
They don't have any money left.
You're just making yourself look bad.
Guys, I'm trying to work on something here.
Put it in S-tier.
Shake it ass for Lovar Ball.
Get out on my face.
in 2024 get a grip
that's a shame
I don't understand his pull
LeVar Ball knows people
Oh you're in wait
I think I think it deserves to be in C bro
To be honest stop don't disrespect
Zoh like that
Why are you doing this?
It's not on the same tier as LeBron
It is
It's pretty cool
That looks like a Pokemon logo bro
What are we doing here?
And Pokemon is one of the most famous games in the world
name five
Pokemon right now
I don't play it
but I know other people
do
Exactly what are we talking about
Don't use Pokemon
Blastoise
You got Pikachu
You got squirtle
Um
Muteu
Evie
Thank you
That's five
So what's good
All right you got it
Be it is
Venusaur
I can go for days
Oh my god
You can't
You're a real Pokemon kid
Girls
Now we're going
with Derek Rose
That's hard
my bn s that's hard that's hard
the d
and the rose diffusing oh my god
that's ill as fuck bro it's a shame
his brand died after 2013 because this is a good
logo that should have went places
this shit is an s bro I'm sorry
one of the hardest logos out one of Adidas
best job is it better than wemby I think it might be a
no it's better than wembe's for sure
easy better
is it yeah all right whatever
Carmelo anthony
no no
don't do this to me
Because this
You know that
This logo sucks?
I hate it
I hate this logo
So much
It looks like that
S
It's like
What is this?
It's such
It just literally
Look at her ass logo
It literally looks like
An alternate logo
For Monster
It's so bad
It's a monster
It looks like a logo
It's
I was so upset
See this for years
It's F
It's either DRAF
It's a logo
It's a logo for white boys
I listen to Eminem
On and M&M
Headphones
Listen
We're in
White Boys
Hops and Fancy
Fancy Fancy
Love this logo
And them white boys
And then you're writing
Lopsin fans is crazy
Oh
So tech nine's wearing this
On his chest every day
You don't think
Joyna Lucas
Has eight pairs of mellows
In his closet
Right now
Come on
D tier
Yeah this is D
Looks like a fucking
Motorbite gang
tattoo or some shit
And what about
Dwayne Wade?
It has to be a C
because, like, I like it, I like it,
but I don't know that this.
There might be an F.
I don't know that this is Dwayne Wade's from his logo.
And I feel like you should know.
It looks like, it looks like stance, the socks.
It looks like nothing.
It looks like nothing.
It looks like my favorite boba place, bro,
across the street.
Like, it looks like nothing.
What am I looking at right now?
It does look like a boba shop.
It looks like it serves some fire eateries.
What does that have to do with basketball?
Dude, that looks like a boba company.
That looks like a little teas of assorted varieties.
That's hilarious.
Exactly.
Tears or candles, bro.
Candles, yes
Yeah
Candles may be more
than over
This is a company
that curates vibes
That's amazing
Oh god
All right
Anthropology has logo
That's hysterical
All right
What about Alan Iverson
Okay
I'm trying to think
This is
Is it like an A
Is it B
I think this is a cool logo
I like it
It's fine
It's cool
It's not bad
But it's definitely not A
So B
I think the shoes are great, but the logo itself is just fine.
I lean C.
I'd lean towards C2 when it comes to this logo.
It's just so mass.
Same area as Shaq.
It's just like, well.
Inoffensive, not bad.
It's not horrible by any means, but not great.
All right.
Yeah, I agree.
Chris Paul, the big CP.
Listen, put him with his banana boat brother, Indie.
What?
This shit is dog water.
That shit is terrible.
I'm not doing this.
Dog water.
It's not great.
It's not great.
Just zero creativity of any sorts.
Zero smoothness, classic looks,
something you can put on clothes,
nothing of that sort.
Do you not good on shoes?
No character.
Nothing.
You don't see the C, P, and then in between
in the middle of that's the three.
That doesn't.
I see what they want to do.
But I also see a very, very suboptimal logo.
Put this in D.
You don't need to do too much.
You guys don't appreciate real art.
If I showed this to 100 random
NBA fans of random ages, maybe 15 will know was Chris Paul's logo.
Maybe.
You know, that's not a fair assessment.
But that shouldn't have.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, F is a bit much.
Can we go, D?
All right, D is.
Okay.
There we go.
See, you hate.
The way of Wade logo is cool with this, but I'll, I'll live it, let it live.
Paul George.
This is a good logo.
It's a cool logo.
I don't want to hate, uh,
Um, but I do detier.
What?
Kind of a PlayStation logo.
I was going to say Xbox logo, but we're right here.
Exactly.
All I know is that this feels more like video games than basketball.
So drop it down.
I agree.
Yeah, this feels like a, this feels like a cryptocurrency company that came into disrupt the industry and quickly crashed.
Thanks.
Looks like it is a tech company that was more money laundering.
Facts.
That's good.
Yeah.
So what, D?
Yeah, I'm with it.
Okay, I bet.
Okay, whatever.
I'm out voting like a mug.
Nicole Yokic
Let's talk
This is just biting LeBron's logo
I kind of want to put this in A
This logo is hard
Nah, you can't put it
Just a better version of LeBron's logo
Okay cool
So LeBron is in B
Better version gets A
Thank you. Oh my God
That's just how it works
Listen I was thinking B
But Mo you just sold us on A
It's gotta be A
You inadvertently made an argument for A
It's not
Creative
That's the thing I've seen this before
I knew what you were doing.
You see the end, the J, you see the 15, all in one with the Joker hat.
This is what logos are supposed to look like.
Encapsulate everything.
It's A.
All right.
I was thinking B, but I'm fine with A.
Kobe Bryant.
Put that in S tier.
S.
Yes.
I don't know what it is actually, but it's cool as fuck.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It looks like sort of like Halo emblem.
No idea what it means, but it's a vibe.
It's a pure vibe, bro.
It looks like a...
Could be the move.
It feels like
could be the move.
What is it though?
Was it a snake or is it just simply a cool shape?
I think it's a snake.
A mamba, probably.
I look real hard.
I can almost see it.
I still don't, but I'll pretend I do.
There you go.
It doesn't matter.
If you see it or not,
it's a S-tier logo.
It doesn't matter.
It's provocative.
Exactly.
Keeps the people going.
Another perfect tier.
How do we keep doing this?
There we go.
I think it's really hard.
I feel like other people do cheerless and they mess up, but like we just don't.
You know?
Kind of hard.
Next thing we got, Mo, I was told that you decided in your free time to rank the top 10 point guards in the NBA and you want to share it with us.
Yes, this is a very, very nasty discussion because the point guard position is the hardest position to rank because it's the deepest position to rank.
So I'm going to go ahead and sit down.
For the sake of engagements, if you're wrong.
I think we're obligated to cook you
Really? I agree
I think we have to fry you if you're wrong
So I think we have to give you the reaction that you don't want
You know what? Let me know how you feel as I read each of them off all right
All right so you guys on me you start from 10 up yeah or one down 10 up 10 up
All right here we go these are our top 10 point guards in the NBA
Okay number 10 Demal Murray number nine Deeran Fox okay and number eight
Damien Lillard
At number one
Dame fell to eight
You got slow down
Dame fell to eight
Yeah
Yeah I'll see who you put above him
But that feels crazy
He's not lower
He hasn't been playing like Dame
He's not lower
Okay
That's kind of crazy
Okay
Okay
I don't know I feel about
Dame right now
Given his team situation
But I'll keep going
The efficiency's not there man
The official's not there
Defense has always been trash
He is not
Damy Lur from the past
It also it also sucks
that he hates playing with his other star player.
Because when Yannis isn't there, he's like, oh my gosh, I can be me.
I can score 30 points every single night.
And then when Yannis is there, he's like, bro, who is this guy taking all the shots?
Why is he here?
Yeah.
Does it not a fit.
Seven, Trey Young, six.
Okay.
Tyrese Halliburton.
Five.
Tyrese has six?
Yeah.
Five, well, I think.
Who's at five?
Jalen Brunson.
He's a.
truther and I'm with it.
You're here.
He has been a top 15 player in the league this year.
He has been incredible.
I support it.
You see division.
There we go.
After Jalen Brunson, four.
John Morant has been healthy, but can't forget what he looks like when he is healthy.
You're doing good.
You're doing good.
You're doing good.
Number three, SGA.
Number two, Curry and one Luca.
Was that the perfect list?
No reaction?
You know what?
I'm rocking with it.
I think that's the right top three.
I personally went Shea over Curry,
but I respect it if you still want to give Curry the nod.
I think it's the time's coming for Shea to elevate,
but Luca's won by far.
There you go.
Yeah, I'm good.
I'm good with that.
I'm good with that.
Jamal Murray at 10 feels right.
And, um, okay, I'm okay with it.
Yeah, I think you got to,
you might want to move Dame down a little bit,
especially going into next season.
Wow.
But I'm, I'm okay with that.
Are we sure Jamal Murray is better than Tyrese maxi?
Ooh.
See, that's a conversation.
He's in the same exact world as fucking Jimmy Buller.
You only rank him based because of what he does in the playoffs.
Or regular season, snoring.
So who were your first cuts on this?
My first cuts would be Tyrese magazine.
He was the very first one.
Okay.
Okay.
Very first one.
I see that.
All right, good list.
Good list.
I also a mellow ball, too, but he doesn't.
the fucking claim. Oh, no, he's not tapped it.
He's not tapped him.
Good list. You survive slander today.
Nothing's too crazy. I respect it.
Good job.
Woo! Crown eaters, here we go.
We on a fucking roll.
You live to rank another day.
There we go. Next thing we're going to do,
let's talk about Mount Rushmore's.
It's a new series I want to start where
we basically pick the four greatest of all time
of a different category and make our MBA Mount Rushmore
of a topic. And today,
I want us to make the NBA Mount Rushmore
for the greatest teams of all time.
Okay, okay.
You can talk about that
whether it's just who's the best,
just who's, you know,
you can, whatever you want to count into that,
whether it be influence,
how they stagnant with other competition,
whatever may be.
Let's make the Mount Rushmore
of the greatest NBA teams of all time.
First of all, who's on there?
Who's the locks on the team?
Okay, locks is 96 Bulls.
And then immediately,
2017 or 2018 Warriors.
17 wars.
Exactly.
17.
teams that have to be there yeah yeah the first year they had kd the defense was clicking kd was playing
out of his my energy on both ends those two teams are undeniable yes i would go those two do we go
oh one lakers after that i would argue i would argue i would argue showtime lakers with magic
kareem jamesworthy and byron sky can we only have one yes i think we should have two like
really yes because there's a lot of teams out there if we have to pick one
Listen, the three-pete is a three-peat.
That's pretty impressed.
Not many teams have done that.
I mean, but...
Best duo of all time.
Listen, I think we should have more than...
I get that.
Technically, that's the back-to-back one.
And the Showtime team also went back-to-back.
So, like, we can do that as well.
I mean, I just want to know...
I guess, let's end with that.
Let's figure out who the third team is, right?
Do we want to go with, like, the 86 Celtics?
does that I was thinking
I was thinking bird self
except to be there
yeah wow
so I think that's the third one
and so I guess now
now we're right back
to where we were five seconds ago
this is hard
I mean
what we're thinking
because I'm stuck
a three pete is tough man
a three p is tough to deny
I'm not going to lie to you
who do you think we win a series
if those two teams face each other
shit
gun to my head
maybe showtime
I'm my
I think I would go
damn that's tough
that's tough
that's such a hard question
what I think about the match
this will decide it
if I say
greatest Lakers team
of all time
what pops in your head first
show time
I think about
I think about the
oh one team
oh my god
that didn't help either
I mean
I mean
but here's the thing
right
so like we have
magic ranked above
Kobe
we have
Kareem
ranked above shack and that and the showtime team has another hall of
famer on it on top of the all right all right all right showtime it is listen you can't
deny two top five players of all time on the team some people would say it's the same thing for
the oh one lakers but we can go showtime okay so so last spot 86 Celtics or oh one
lakers we kind of have to go 86 Celtics I feel like it would be wrong
LeBron doesn't have a team on here what the hell man now man listen
I wish he was drafted next other Hall of Famers too
I wish he had a Scotty Pippin too
Wasn't so lucky
You act like he wasn't paired
With two Hall of Famers in Miami
You want to put Miami on there?
No
I'm just
I just say don't act like
You didn't have the opportunity
No no no but it's different when you're drafted to them
Because you have a much better chance
Of team building with depth around them
When you can nationally build that way
If you go through free agency
You're not going to have depth there you know
Yeah
Nah that's a real nerdy
And also they went when Dee Wade's knees
Fell apart two years later
So that's a little difference
They had opportunity
They had opportunities to 3P, even with his knees being bad.
I don't want to hear it.
They did.
Well, we're not talking about kid.
They three p.
We're talking about could they be single season,
grating in all time?
And it's hard to do when you're building through the free agency like that.
Nah,
LeBron,
I hate yours.
So are we,
have you cool with this?
Are we cool with the top four NBA teams of all time on Mount Rushmore,
being the 2017 Warriors,
96 Bulls,
and then Showtime Lakers and Bird Celtics?
I'm okay with it.
I'm fine with it.
It's locking in.
I feel confident.
No, no, no,
Will Russell Celtics in there?
No, sorry.
Can't do it.
Yeah, exactly.
I can do it.
Mad respect, Bill.
Yeah.
All right, there we go.
Next thing we're going to do,
we're going to run back
a jersey TikTok.
It's the only we did in the past.
We started a series
of giving every single NBA teams
greatest jersey of all time.
We went through, I think,
about 10 teams last time.
I got eight more for you today.
So real simple,
you guys know how it works.
I'm going to tell you
an NBA franchise's name.
You tell me the best jersey
they've ever had in franchise history.
Talk to me.
Let's do it.
First off,
we're going to start with
the Oklahoma City Thunder.
See, okay, so this is hard
because I feel like their jerseys are very polarizing
and not a lot of people like their jerseys.
My favorite,
they had a baby blue one
with Paul George and
Russell Westbrook.
I really, really like that one.
I think that that might be
one of the best jerseys
but also this navy blue
with the little off center
okay C that's a that's a top container
dude I ain't gonna lie
that baby one that original baby boom
that you were talking about was fucking ass
it was discussed like a failed superhero
it looked like what's that what's that
superhero superhero movie
Beetle that shit was trash
Blue Beetle I really liked it
I thought it was cool
that or that movie
no the jersey
the jersey there was also one they have a navy blue like an all navy blue one with just and it just says thunder on the like on the side that one that one's fire that one's hard that was a nine to five ass jersey i fuck with that one too you all are sleeping on the fact that they had an all white jersey with silver lettering on yeah that one sucked what that was that was awful that was we're so that was such that was such a boring jersey it was not good
good.
I mean,
fuck the under jersey.
There my.
I hate this team.
Next up.
The Brooklyn Nets.
Eight of them look the exact same.
I'm not going to lie.
Over the last six years,
the Nets might have the best jersey in the league.
Their throwbacks have been impeccable.
That white one with the red and blue on the side and the stars to throw back to Dr.
J.
That was an incredible jersey.
You've seen Kyrie and Katie wear that beautiful.
Hard.
Okay.
Now we're talking.
My top three right now.
that I want you guys to pick from that white throwback one that Isaac was just talking about
listen the blue one with the um the blue light gradient one that they wore as the throwback
that one and it's hard the black uh the black biggie small jersey that they had oh i forgot
about that one the deal of city jersey that one was crazy that that was that's one of the best
jerseys that they've ever had that's that that's that's behind the best jerseys of all
that's might be pound for pound the best jersey team they are crazy
But at the same time, they, I'm going to
listen, they did have that stupid
Boscaj jersey a couple years ago. That was stupid.
People like those. The kids like them.
So, don't care what they like.
That was disgusting.
They don't know nothing.
No, I'm going to go to the white one, though. The white one is too clean.
It's timeless.
It is.
I can rock with that.
Okay, cool.
Let's do it.
Yeah, I see, I see that jersey.
And I can just see Dr. Jay in an Afro.
It's fucking aura.
Ozing.
All right, next team.
The Toronto Raptors
Now listen
I know the answer
Is the purple one with the dinosaur
What's the second best
And why is it the OVO jerseys
And why is it the OVO jerseys
The black ones are so tough
Just say that Drake's your favorite artist
Just say that
I'm wearing a Kenjic Lamar necklace right now
You know he's not my favorite artist
Oh okay
You choose it now, okay
I got the eye around my neck every day
Not going to have
The O'Neill jersey is pretty nice
They aren't
Yeah they're
They're as a bitch
I can't lie
They're clean as a bitch
I would be very happy
To be their full-time colors game
Nah
They need to go back to being purple
That's either one
Pick one of the directions
They were good
Not the one you have now
One with the purple
Baby Raptors
Let's do it
Block it in
Next team
The Miami Heat
the all pink city jerseys the hot pink city jerseys back in 2019 hard as fuck very
I think the white ones like the white hot ones really the white the white the white Miami vice
ones are really tough I do I do like I do like those I like the white Miami vice ones
this little like 90s one with the drop shadow that's very cool and I'm a bit I'm a
hard it is cool you can't sleep on the
That yellow city one was so weird.
That is like the Indiana Pacer's jersey.
They just got bored and they just looked over the next door neighbor, but.
What about the all black one, LeBron War?
Oh, the blacked out ones?
That shit was menacing.
Peak super villain Jersey, bro.
That fitted LeBron so well.
I sound like I'm talking about LeBron instead of the jersey, but you know what I mean.
A bit of sprinkling some glaze.
I'm cool with either Miami Vice or the black one from LeBron era.
I'll go I'll go with the with the Miami Vice because I legitimately could see that being like a permanent rebrand for the Miami Heat yeah
I honestly pick whichever color you want as long as it's not the gradient one any of the solid colors ones that could be the greatest jersey of all time I agree thanks
next team the Milwaukee bucks listen a very underrated team when it comes to all time jerseys yeah very who where we where are we going because this Ray Allen one is is very tough
I like this a lot
It's tough
So there's the one with the big buck on it
The one that the buck
That Mo was sexually attracted to
That one time on the TikTok
Oh that is true
It's actually attracted to
Stop spreading lies on my name
The boy with the big buck
Hard as fuck
Listen
They've had some good city jersees
As of late
Are we going with Cream City?
Of course we are
You know who I am?
Cream City me
No I'm kidding
But I really really like
the blue one they had that had like the green and white like little like yeah tiles on the side
that was that was cool it's not the best one in franchise history probably not but the best one is
the one with the buck on it yeah i agree honestly all the jerseys that have been pretty good
they don't miss i mean they they they put out a cream city jersey
was that not hard it wasn't you're not a fan it wasn't you don't frequent cream town all right bro
what's the next team you're not a cream
what's the next team
the Dallas Mavericks
they need a rebrand back to this shit
I'm sorry man what they have right now
this isn't even good
this looks like a fucking middle school team
what this is not good
this is way better than what they have right now
that white one that white one on the edge
with the blue lettering and the green
that's the best one
that one's great yeah
they are one of the weaker jersey teams
in all time but I'm cool with going with that white one
I'm fine with that one one
that genuinely is the best out of the other
ones for sure
It's just tough because they've got no modern options
That are good
All their modern stuff is terrible
They have nothing
They have the regular basic jerseys
And a bunch of misses
On their city jerseys
No design in Dallas
Who the hell's buying
Dallas Mavericks jerseys bro
Sorry for Dallas Mavericks fans
So bad
All right next team
The Orlando Magic
Another one of the Strongs jersey
Teams of all time
That black pinstripes, that's where it's at.
That, that's where it's.
I got that jersey in my closet.
That shit is tough.
And I don't even care about the magic.
That black, any one of those colors, the black, the blue or the white with the pinstripes, any one of those is the best jersey in that team's history.
I agree.
Beautiful.
And the 90s cuts, the big letters on it, the bold outlines.
It was perfect.
But I do enjoy that jersey that T-Mack has on him as well.
Very underrated.
Yeah.
it's real ball what do you mean
no i mean
you don't respect the stars i have a very
like crayon either view when it comes to jerseys
it's it's okay
i'm not wrong
it is fire what do you mean
no it's cool it's cool it's all right the magic pops really well
you don't respect
i think the blue is a little bit too dull if the blue
is a little bit more saturated and vivid
maybe i'd like it more
things are ugly shade of blue
i'm sorry get get into your bag let them know
let him know
you do this design
by passion
come on
all right next team
the Boston Celtics
I mean listen
they've had like
three jerseys their entire
I know I know
they've been the same forever
but they got some alternates
and the answer is that fucking Christmas
I mean to say without cussing
I can be cause away too much
in TikToks
yeah the answer is that Christmas
jersey that Isaiah Thomas was wearing
with the cream
font on the sides
beautiful
listen Isaiah Thomas they might have forgotten your legacy not me not us we know what you did for that
city and you put yeah I know you played in Christmas that one time with the cool jersey I was
exactly I watched it that jersey's fire I'm with you man I mean it's it's solid it's all right
Isaac your track record is looking real suss man you are a cream man to the core and that's what
it is that's sure off white is a beautiful color in fashion
Oh, yeah. I know you love that.
That was so weird.
You made it weird.
Anything where you should replace white with the tan of some sort of cream like that,
immediately makes it hard.
Oh, really? Tell me more.
All right, man.
All right.
Oh, God. Next up. I think it's the last one.
one of the next freaking video
what do you want to do next
okay next thing we're going to do
I'm going to give you guys
two NBA teams and you guys have to make
the best starting lineup possible combining their two
lineups so basically you're going to go
through each position and pick who
wins that position you know
point guard versus point guard shooting guard
versus shooting guard etc tell me more
it's current
it doesn't matter
it just a mixture
but I'm going to give you two teams
it'll be specified for you
cool
so real simple
Let's make the best combined starting five out of these two teams
First up
We got the 2016 Golden State Warriors
And the 2024 Boston Celtics
I was 2016 Warriors
Just replace Harrison Barnes
The center
Oh
Yeah
Oh whoa whoa
I mean
Both of them fuck it
Both of them let's do it
No no no no no no
Okay so point guard
Lee Bogie
Point guard Robbins is going Steph Curry
Yes
Point guard Rondo for sure
Clay has started
as well. Jason Taylor, I'm sorry.
You just said Rondo? I said Rondo, my
bad. Steph is starting.
Yes. Clay is starting
as well. Are you sure Clay starting
over this year's Jalen Brown? Yes.
He's starting over Jalen Brown. One of the greatest
years of all time in his time. I had to ask. I agree.
I had to ask.
Yeah. Jason Taylor 3. Easy.
Okay. Dremont has
has to play. He has to. Oh, I forgot. Wait, no, no, no, no.
Makes us all up. Two is Derek White, so he's not starting over Clay.
Three. What?
is Jalem Brown versus Harrison Barnes.
We're going to Jailen Brown?
Yeah, for sure.
Okay.
Ah, okay.
I guess.
I see how you're playing this, yeah.
You go position by position.
Okay.
Okay, gotcha.
Power forward.
Dreybong Green or Jason Tatum?
We're going.
That's gross.
We're going, Draymond Green.
Over Jason Tatum?
Yes, you have, listen, the 2016 Warriors is the better team.
we are revolving or we are putting people based on how they play not based on how this
Celtics team to play so draymond has to be there it's so hard because it's like do you want
a more talented player or the better fit with step currie i want the better fit with step curry
because he's the best player yeah exactly it's so hard because jason tatum is galaxy's better like
it's i'm sorry fam jason not on defense he's a great defender but he's not better than draymond
point bank period and then also what draymond does for step offensively it's invaluable
no but tatum cannot do that jason tatum cannot set moving screens the way that draymond green does
he's not he's not doing it he is not past protecting for step kerry the way that draymond is
put dray in that lineup he's definitely not dick kicking the way draymond wasn't 2016 nobody
has steps back like draymond you can't find that kind of connection everywhere
It's one to one.
It's special.
Center, Christophers were Zing is starting?
Yeah.
Give Andrew Boggi his respect.
Now, I'm playing.
It's, it's Christoph.
Dude, if you gave the freaking, if you gave the 2016 Warriors, Jailen Brown and Christophs,
they would never lose a game.
Wow.
It'll be over.
They would quite literally win, like, 78 games.
All right, next team.
This match up we got.
Oh, it's not loading.
Okay.
The 2012 Thunder or the 20204 Thunder.
Oh, this is sad.
Come on.
Point guard.
Do we go young Russ or do we go Shea?
25-year-old Shay has to go ahead and start.
Or is he 26th?
Shea has to start.
Has to?
Yeah.
This is an MVP rest.
This is younger Russ.
Come on, guys.
Come on.
She's been top of MVP voting.
Was Russ that year?
No, he wasn't.
And this was.
It's Russ.
I don't know.
Oh, my God.
You don't know how good Russ and Westbrook was.
You don't know what I did.
What do we go with, Donovan?
You decide.
I'm torn.
We'll go with Shea.
Torn.
Oh, Shee, okay.
Shooting guard.
Who started?
James Hardin was.
Let's assume James Hardin started.
No, no.
No, we can't do that.
James Hardin was coming off the bench.
Put Jalen Williams in there.
Okay.
That's what I'm saying.
to be consistent.
No, Jaylen Lewis has higher forward.
Oh, true.
So shooting guard is, I guess, Josh Giddy?
I don't know who started.
Who's two and three between him?
Tabo Cephalosa was, oh, wait, hold on.
Yeah.
Who's to start shooting guard again?
For them, it's a giddy.
For O'KC right now, it's a giddy.
But back then wasn't, I believe it was Tabo Sefalocia.
He wouldn't, no, he wasn't the two, was he?
Tabo?
Yeah, he was.
Tabo was the two
Tabo was the two
Tabo was Russ Tabo Kady
Ibaka and
Okay you're right
You're right
It was Tavo okay
Cool
At the two
Do you go Cephalosha
Or Josh Giddy
Listen
Cepalosa
Give me
I need some defense
Give me Tavo
Okay we go with the size
Actually Josh Gattie just installed
All right
At the three
Kevin Durant
Or Lou Dort
I don't know
I mean listen
Lutz been hooping this year
Right
His shooting, his defense.
I love the three-point shot progression.
I know.
I can promise you Ludo bench presses more than Kevin Durant.
We need some strength on our team.
He can do more pull-ups.
I can promise you.
All right.
Let's go ahead and pick up Kevin Durant.
Yeah, I agree.
Sergei Baca or Jaylon Williams.
They used to call him Sergei Blaka with the way he was sending shit left in right back then.
You said that with so much passion
Yeah, because I was passionate
About my Congo King, man
No, that's got to be racist
If I said it would be racist
Moken said it
You know what
I have a feeling
I know who I want to go with
at the five
So give
Because here's the thing
You got to pick the four
And the five together
I don't feel like
Like we can split up
So if we take Sergei Bacca...
I assume we're picking Abe Lincoln over Kendrick Perkins.
Chet Hong went to five.
Sergei Baca and Chet together is pretty ridiculous.
That's dangerous, bro.
But this was Chet...
I mean, this was Sergeh before he developed that three-point shot at that time.
He didn't have a three on him at all.
Hey, let Chet space the floor. It'll be fine.
All right. Give me Serge Baca.
I'm sorry, J-Dubb, I love you, but we got to go Sergio Baca.
Oh, man, that's tough.
This hurts.
I think you guys folded on that one.
This hurts
So be
The defense is crazy
But still
Exactly
Ruins ridiculous
You're on
She's game though
That's what it is
He needs spacing
He has Kevin Durant
And Chet Hung
So
So he needs
optimal spacing
He needs everyone
Out of the fucking
spacing
Well listen
He has all stars
Like he's gonna be okay
He's gonna be okay
He's gonna be fine
He's gonna be fun
The 2011 Dallas Mavericks
And the 2021 bucks
Um
All right so at point guard
Jason Kidd or Drew Holiday
Jason Kidd
Oh it's an old man Jason Kidd
Are you sure?
I want Jason Kidd
Drew Holiday was so inconsistent back then
Wait
I want
Defensively he was not
I want Donovan
Real quick
This matters a lot
Are we gonna have Janus or
No no no no
Is it play the goal position my position
Don't don't cheat
I know but we have to like make
No you play the game
I want Jason kid
Okay
Fucking you're passionate about it
You can have Jason kid
Thank you
Shooting Guard
Jason Terry or Dante DiVincenzo
I'll take the Jay
I'll take Jason Terry
You don't want Dante
This is before Dante was a Nick
I'll take Jason
I'll take the jet
Dante was hurt hell of for this year bro
he wasn't playing like that
okay
small forward
who's a small forward again
it was a Sean Stevenson
Marion
oh yeah
where Sean Marion
shout out Sean Marion
shout out Sean Marion
or Chris Middleton
Chris
oh wait hold on
keep it mind
Chris Middleton was
Nashville Chris was hooping
Chris's hooping Chris's who
he did drop 40 in the finals
yeah give me Chris Middleton
fair enough
Janice or
Dirk Novitsky
the spacing is going to be nasty
bro because you already picked Jason kid
if we pick Yonis
I understand that
Dirk looked the big three in the eye
and said it's just big me
I'm taking Dirk Novitsky
Yonis had 50 points in a closeout game
Dirk came back from 20
and and beat
LeBron
I think I might
take dirt.
Honest is a D.P. O.Y. too, though.
That's okay. We're going to have defense on the back in.
We're going to take Brick-Low. We're either going to have Tyson-Channel or
Brooke Lopez. It's going to be okay. Give me Dirk. Give me some shooting.
Where are you going, Mo?
I'd rather have Yonis.
Yonis, it is. Bricks.
I actually have Bricks.
I don't have Yonis, but having Jason Kidd there makes it tough.
I'll go jerk. Fuck it.
Let's go.
Dirk's a better fit.
At the five.
Brooke Lopez or Tyson challenge?
Give me Tyson.
I mean,
give me Brooke Lopez.
Yeah.
Hey,
we got spacing.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
The spacing is.
Jason Terry.
Jason Terry, Chris Milton,
Dirk and Brooke Lopez?
With Jason Kidd operating?
Guys, you got to let me,
you got to let me build these teams.
The team is.
I have visions.
Premonitions.
All right, next up.
The 2023 Nuggets and the 2014 spurs.
Point guard, Tony Parker or Jamal Murray.
This is tough.
This is tough.
Tony Parker was out here.
Jamal.
Yeah, but Jamal Murray's one of the greatest playoff rises of all time.
He average is like 25, 26 a game, bro.
I mean, but Tony Parker is the finals MVP.
He wasn't at this point, at this moment, though.
he was on the wash more wash side of things so I think I might lean
he was out here hitting games last all-star season he was out here hitting game winners
in the finals just a year before no Tony Parker was his last all-star season so he was
still really good I don't know very good I'll take Jamal Murray I feel sacri
religious but okay we can take tomorrow I know I just want some shooting shooting guard
Danny Green or KCP who same player it's different
Literally same players.
This is different.
This is prime Mohawk, Danny Green.
Like, this is, this is when, oh, this is people.
I don't know if you mean that a good way or bad way, but I don't want a mohawk on my team.
Give me KCP.
All right, cool.
That's a fair reason.
So I get it.
Yeah.
Michael Porter Jr.
or Kauai Leonard?
Kauai.
What the hell?
Yeah.
Kauai at this age.
Give me Kauai at any age, bro.
I'm taking him over MPJ, Indy Day.
There we go.
Kaui Leonard.
Finals MVP.
Power forward.
Boris Dio or Aaron Gordon?
Boris Dio or Aaron Gordon.
Let's see.
Two very different players.
Very different.
Essential pieces to their team in similar ways.
Listen, I love Boris Dio.
I love a good passing big man.
I think I got to go Aaron Gordon.
Aaron Gordon can't shoot a lick, bro, and he don't have the finesse of Boris Dio.
No, he can shoot a lick.
He can't shoot a whole lot, but he can at least shoot a lick.
Nah.
No, you're giving him too much of a great defender.
He can't shoot a lick.
Oh, y'all are hating.
I've seen him make some corner threes.
Mm-mm.
I think the only time...
Listen, he can hit corner three is when you're controlling him on 2K.
Not really in real life.
Should we go, Boris Dio?
We everybody likes...
Come on.
Everybody likes to pass him big man.
He's so fun, too.
We're going to have another one down low.
I don't know if we need Boris Dio to be doing it.
So why can't we just double up on the everybody passes?
That's how the Spurs
Win the championship
This is the beautiful game Spurs
This pass, pass, pass
But Boris Dio
You're the powerful
No, no, no, no, no, no no
Boris Dio wasn't shooting like that
Also, you did shoot more
But I value Aaron Gorda's defense
Boers Day out with the LeBron's
Aaron Gordon, you continue on
Let's do it
Donovan eat shit
At center
We got 2014 Tim Duncan
versus 2023 Nikoli Okitch
Where are we going?
Guys, damn
This is old man Duncan
he we have to go yokech oh man duncan was still fucking the best big man defender at that time i understand
but he wasn't the MVP of the league we we need to go with nicoly yokech
hey you won't hear me arguing if anybody was going to give yokitch problems that's this man
fucking right here tim duncan 2003 tim duncan listen we have a legit conversation different story
we can talk 11 years later i don't
I don't know. Yep. Nicole Yolkis. It is you. It's Yolkits. Damn. I've got two more with me through these. Next one. The 2020 Lakers and the 2019 Raptors.
20 20 20. Point guards. Rondo or Kyle Lowry. Take you man's. Lorry. Take your man's.
There you go. Give me all that girth. Shooting guard. God. Do we go? Did Norm how? Why am I? A friend of Lee started, right?
Yeah.
yes Fred Van Vleet or KCP give me KCP well actually actually listen Fred van Vee was
a father give me post give me post baby Fred van Vleet because he was going crazy part of Fred van Vleet was
unfuck with the bull oh my goodness can stop him do it for the baby he was out here showing his
showing his child a good example of what a winner looks like yeah small forward 2020 LeBron
Our 2019 Kauai.
LeBron.
This is tough.
No, it's not.
Give me LeBron James.
Get out of my face.
It is tough.
What do you mean?
2019,
Cori was special.
Yeah, 2020 LeBron James is LeBron James,
who hasn't lost a step yet
and is having the best defensive season
of his career, leading the league and assist.
Watch the best defensive.
He's having a great defensive season.
Led the league and assist.
This is not a conversation.
It's a conversation.
Wait, word?
He led the league and assist in 20?
Yeah, he was a point guard full time that year.
Oh, that's crazy.
I forgot about that.
This is versus LeBron is filthy.
I forgot about that.
Yeah, he averaged like 10 and 11 assists.
It was crazy.
Frank Vogel had him defending his ass off to.
That's LeBron James.
And they escape go to that man.
Power forward.
Anthony Davis or Pascal Seacom?
Pascal Seacom.
Ad me all day.
It's hard to Pascal, but God damn.
Yeah, I'll take AD.
Obviously AD.
Mark Gassal or Javelle McGee?
Javelle McGee.
I'll take Marcissau
They traded away
Jonas Valentinus for a reason that year
And leveled up so tremendously
Because of Marcusal
So give me Mark
Mark. Markisal is so awesome, man
I agree
Shut out Mark
It's a fucking shame that the Lakers scapegoated
To bring on to Drummond into the building
I'll never figure of them for that
They made Marka Saul look like he was a telitope
Now maybe he did look like a little bit physically
But still it was so good man
They replaced him with Andre
Why are you got to say that?
that man did nothing to you and you called him a tennis was a great player i was there at his jersey
retirement i'm on i'm the number one marcos off when you were you were just in memphis yeah
i'm lying i was completely made at that scenario that's crazy i was about to say i was like
dang i need a jersey for sure i would get i was like i thought we were friends i didn't know you were
in memphis that's crazy that's crazy right next up
the 2024 clippers and the 2021 sons they all suck we'll have to do this
I don't want none of them that's hilarious all right guess we're not gonna talk
about it trade them all he's a how we go bum on bum yeah there you go I got one
TikTok left this video doesn't be real simple we did this last week with Mo and this
time I'm on the hot seat you two are gonna think of a category you I'm sure
you already communicate with each other.
You guys are going to name random players
until I can guess what the category is.
You ready?
If you guys saw it last week,
L was in the blender.
I was in now.
I'm returning to favor.
Yeah,
we had you in Guantanamo.
Let's see if you can get me.
All right.
Let's go.
I'm ready.
I'll start.
I'll start.
I'll wait.
My back.
Go with the hook.
All right.
The hook is.
Guess what category this NBA player is in?
All right.
Go ahead.
All right
First up
Jay Crowder
Players of dreads
Nicole Iokic
Not not players are good
Jimmy Butler
Steph Curry
Okay
I was thinking second round picks
And now that is out the door
Hmm
It's not champions
Javelle McGee
Lebron James
Okay
Jalen Brown
Was this NBA players
That I made the finals
You're getting you're kind of there
Kind of there
Right
You're on the you're on the right track
I see the tracks being late
Robert Williams
He's also made the finals okay
Hmm
okay there we go
Name players.
Okay, I got a name.
I got a name.
There we go.
I got a name.
There we go.
Pat Cunnington.
Patrick.
Patrick.
Patrick McCall.
Oh my God.
These aren't players that just made the finals?
It's deeper than that.
There's an added layer to it.
Okay.
Keep going.
A little bit more specific.
Yeah.
All right.
Think very granular.
You said Patrick McCaw?
Yeah.
Patrick McCaw.
Okay.
Rajon Rondo.
Pascal Siaco.
Ooh.
mckel bridges
man
straight players that made final teams
okay i got to think about what the rendition is
keep going
Duncan Robinson
oh
this is know what this is
this is NBA players who made the finals
in the last 10 years
so close
so close
you're in the 2010s
no no no no right track
right track just think more specific
in the last five years
yeah
there we go
congratulations
I was thinking
a long mark in my
brain
yeah
congratulations
let's do
another one
those games
let's do it
with Donovan
on the hot seat
this time
because that was
a little too easy
honestly I could have got
that six guesses
earlier
ruined too fast
the Mo
I'm gonna text
you a category
all right
but let's go ahead
and do it
put his ass
in a blender
you got that text
all right
Let's see if Donovan can do this since his turn.
I'm going to name random MBA players.
Donovan has to guess what category they come from.
Yeah.
Josh Hart.
Scotty Barnes.
Hmm.
Rudy Gobert.
Mm.
Jared Allen.
Anthony Davis.
Whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Russell Westbrook.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Where are we going with this?
Josh Hart, Scotty Parks.
Mr. Robinson.
What?
Mm.
Jason Kidd.
Mm.
Oscar Robertson.
Mm.
James Hardin.
Any thoughts?
Is this players?
Wait, you said,
Ah, dang, you said Mitcher Robinson.
I was thinking.
players who have had like a triple double or something maybe too hmm this is Ben
Wallace oh Clyde Drexler okay yeah like ridiculous feel my pain
Jakob Podal is this second round oh wait no it's not second round page
I'm in the blender right now
this sucks
I don't like this game
Luca Donchich
Luca Donchich
It's not
Dennis Rodman
What the hell
What the hell?
Blender
Blender
Blender
Blender
You got on a coffin
Drummond
I was waiting for that one
I was waiting to say that one
Wait who did you say?
Very telling
I said Andre Drummond
Is this players who have had 20
rebounds in a game?
No, it's not that specifically
but you're thinking around the right lines
Is this players
who have been top 10 in rebounding?
Nope, you're getting warm though
close
Yana Satenekumbo
Michael Jordan
Okay, that throws off my rebound
Michael Jordan, all right.
That's all my rebounding stuff.
Dasht, don't lie.
This play, not Jaron Jackson.
Are these people who have led their team in rebounding?
It's not that specific.
Were they just good rebounders?
Like, what are we talking about?
Yeah, there is go.
Just good to rebounders.
These players are good at rebounding.
What?
Yeah, there we go.
It was so simple.
You said top 20 in rebounding?
You're just going to hit this head on a horn.
Yo, that's all we have today.
Mo, people are still here.
What should they comment?
What they should do is they should go watch the last stream to see our TD3 award show.
But after that, what should they comment, Mo?
No, you're absolutely right, bro.
I was going to say, if they didn't catch that one, tune in TD3 lives every Monday, 8 p.m.
Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific.
Facts, but that's not a comment.
So what should the comment after they do that?
Tune in.
What the fuck?
That's what they should do.
Let's ingrate it into their minds.
All right. Next person, Donovan, what should they comment?
You're not about the grind.
That's all that tells me. We're out.
Comment comment that. Comment Mo's not about the grind.
Yeah, comment Mo's not about the grind. I don't know why.
That's so backwards.
See y'all lady.