DMs, Quadruple Double Laker Trouble & Cavs Looking Good

of the season. The more thing change, the more things stay, the motherfucker saying, get rid of Danny Ains, you fire Brad Stevens, you move him up to the top of the food chain, you hire a brand new coach. It's supposed to be a hard rock basically shit talking as players anytime they do anything wrong, and you know what, do you get everything the same?

a chucker. He is a bona fide chucker. I don't know if you know what that word means, but it means he takes a million shots and they don't go in and he keeps on chucking. What did I fucking say is exact same player who's a old Marcus Smart looks amazing and training camp, he looks phenomenal. He's shooting well, he's slashing, he's playmaking. Heat is our guy. The dude is shooting twenty three percent from three right now, he's

shooting seven threes a game. A guy shooting twenty three percent from three that's not in a slump should be taking zero. Three's a game, not seven. And it's like a good thing that that Marcus Smart is you know, balancing out his three point shooting woes with being a leader, leading from the front, you know, not like missing flights or anything like that. After signing his massive contract, having to be suspended for a game, like, it's not like

he does that systematically. And then secondarily, the next problem is my guy, Jaylen Brown, who I really hate to say anything negative about because he's just honestly a consummate pro, but he is such a roller coaster maybe the most inconsistent player in the NBA up and down. His new coach Ime Udoka just blew him up in the press about how much of a roller coaster ride. Jalen Brown is. Forty six in the opener against the Knicks. That's like, okay.

Everybody was saying Jalen Brown look good in preseason as well. Okay, if we're getting forty six and the opener in double overtime, you got me. Then the next game nine against the Raptors. Then the next game he sat with niss soreness. That's not good. Thirty against the Rockets, and then thirteen against the Washington Wizards. Welcome, folks to the Jayleen Brown experience. You never know. Betting Jalen Brown is something you don't want to do. That prop is a nightmare. Imai Udoka

said this about Brown. He described his inconsistency as kind of mind boggling that honestly, I had to look back to make sure that we were talking about the same thing, like, Oh, no, you do not want your head coach to describe your play as mind boggling when it comes to negative things like you want him to be like man, his playmaking is mind boggling. Like the things he can do, I don't even know how to comprehend or put it together

into my brain. No, no, no, your inconsistency as a pro basketball player is actually makes my brain hurt like I had a slurpee from seven to eleven. It's more mind boggling than that. He said this. It's tough. I see his inconsistency as well. Yeah, I bet you do. I bet you do. I'm trying to ramp them up during the game, pump them up to get going. Are you kidding? Excuse me? Are you kidding me? Did he just say I'm trying to pump him up during this? Guy?

Are you serious when your coach is saying I'm trying to find new motivational tactics throughout the game to get my star player going. And I'm struggling to find solutions to be effective at that thing for him to be consistent on the floor. That does not seem to be a winning formula to me. The world wanted to know whether Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum function well together, and I have said for a very long time the answer is no. Man, I don't know which one needs to go,

but it does feel like it's en. Jalen is way too talented to need to be cheered at, yelled at. Is it carrot? Is it stick? Is it forty percent carrot? Is it sixty percent carrot? Like you're literally trying to find You've got Eme Udoka the fucking alchemist over here trying to find like a potent cocktail of how to motivate Jalen Brown. Folks, I'm not even making this up. This is comedy. This is not a great sign when a guy who should score it well will needs sets

run for him in order to get him going. Udoka said he thinks Jalen should get to the line early to get his mindset going. Are you fucking serious? Name me another all star that needs that besides Ben Simmons. Well, actually that's probably the actual antidote for that. I mean this is that's the opposite. Like Jalen when he is on, he's unstoppable. But there's something going on now because there's no other elite players going from forty to nine to twenty seven to four, like that's just not in a

span of like a week. So this to me means yet again things you hate to see, more uncertainty in Boston. Let's be honest, things aren't and they aren't going to be good this season. This is not a team that's going to contend, truthfully, Like everyone's laughing at them. Everyone's laughing at you, Boston, Like you've got Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown and everyone's laughing at you. You are a fucking joke. You are Jokeville, USA. The roster is strange,

Your GM is a mess. When Dennis shrewd, When Dennis Dennis fucking Shrewder is your bright spot. You are inrouble. Trouble more news around world. Speaking of teams in trouble, did you see the Lakers last night? Oh my god? Without Lebron, Now we know what the Lakers are they suck? I mean I've known that, we've known that. I mean, you don't want to be like the one standing on the rock too early, but you don't want to be too late. And we've all sort of known this was coming.

And before the Lakers played the Oklahoma City Thunder, I knew something was off because Vegas had the line at five. Okay, let me just be very direct. The Rockets beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. Bye, I want to say over thirty points yep, ninety one to one, twenty four. Okay, So the Houston Rockets, no one's expecting a goddamn thing from They beat them by over thirty points. Okay. So then the line for Vegas Los Angeles Lakers five points without Lebron.

I'm like, this is sus something is either very disrespectful, which I love. I love when Vegas disrespects the Lakers because Russ is cooking without brawn and Anthony Davis is gonna play. And yeah, they immediately came out swinging up almost thirty with a ninety nine percent chance of winning at halftime. And and folks, they lost that game. They lost that game. The Lakers lost Wi WO Lakers lost

to the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was so embarrassing. You had multiple Hall of Famers, former Lakers being like, these motherfuckers need to hit the Greyhound, Like we shouldn't even let them take the team plane. I didn't make that out. That's a real quote. They blew a twenty six point lead against the worst team in the NBA, and it was delicious. It was. It was a prototypical, prototypical Russ game. Twenty points, fourteen rebounds, thirteen assists, and oh boy, yes,

ten turnovers, a quadruple double. You got it. Do you know how embarrassing that is? You are the Los Angeles Lakers losing to a team actively trying to tank. I don't even be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Trista, it's one game. You can't see it's rock bottom. It's game five. But this team has too many problems right now for me not to say you are fucked. You can't defend your twenty fifth ranked overall. You gave up all your defenders, Alice Cruzo, CACP, basically everybody who's now on the Wizards.

They are also You are also a awful shooting team. You cannot shoot at all. Lebron James is your best shooter. Yuck, that's true. You have atrocious spacing. You're pretty tiny outside of Trevor Ariza and your little like the cute Dwight Howard DeAndre Jordan thing where they don't really even play. And these issues are not easy to fix. You brought in a bunch of twenty twelve all stars on league minimums. Can't defend their prime, so they can't defend Now. You

can't stop runs from other teams. You're way too streaky. You cannot shoot. You shot sixty eight percent in the first quarter against Okay, see them brick the rest of the game. My guy Carmelo Anthony had an open three, wide open three to tie the game and miss that motherfucker by three feet. He literally didn't even hit rim, didn't even hit net Scheck said that that was the worst miss in Carmelo Anthony's career. You got a guy named Reeves. Have you ever heard of him? I haven't.

He's getting twenty minutes a game. Reeves some random generic player two k my player white boy that you've never seen before. Reeves, Like, that's not a fake, that's not a real person. Kent Bazemore is starting Baysmore was a laughing stock of a lottery team in Golden State. Avery Bradley, who was waived by Golden State, is also getting significant minutes. This is comical. This is so bad. But no one. Everybody's like, la la la la la la la, it's fine,

a la la, We got Lebron. You are terrible. Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook wants to run wind sprints for forty eight minutes. No one can keep up. Literally, like, Russ, can you fucking slow down so we can catch these passes from you? No, you need to catch up with me. He even said that they're just learning my speed. No one has ever known your speed. Russ, You're a Tasmanian devil. Literally, that'd be like you saying Bolt being like, they're just learning

my speed. They just gotta keep up. No one is keeping up. Listen. La has done exactly nothing to assuage anyone's doubts. What are they done in the preseason? Are in their first five games that gives any Laker fan hope that this is gonna work out? Oh Russ picked up a technical foul at the end of the game because the Lakers were so lazy that with four seconds left to go, they just like threw an inbound pass, just wild, so lazy. Darius Baisley intercepted it like a

dB in open space and dunked no time left. And Russ was like, that's fucking garbage. No, no, Russ, let me tell you what's garbage. You are garbage. This is what we said. We're old school. When shit like that happens, I don't let it slide. I take it on the chin and move on. In the game of basketball, there's certain things you don't do. Then there's certain things you don't do in sports. Games already over and I didn't like it, simple as that. You know what I don't like.

I don't like unwritten rules. I don't like poor sports. You, Russell Westbrook, are offensive. Not the move that pass was offensive, that fourth quarter was offensive, your second half offensive. All of the moves that the Lakers made in the offseason absolutely disrespectfully offensive. So if you want to get mad, Russ,

get mad at your ten turnovers. I don't know, get mad at Carmel Anthony airballing a tying three by three feet or Malik wont going one for five from three, or I don't know, just all of the moves that Rob Plink has made. Lebron cannot be happy watching this shit show in his little crop top sweater. He cannot be happy with that. He's got to be planning out a new movie like Space Jam four has gotta be on the way. He's like, I'm just trying to get

Brony into the league. Honestly, I could retire right now. Five games in he's not even playing. His ankle injury that he said he would never be one hundred percent again is now already giving him fits after he didn't play basketball for an entire two months during the offseason, said he never touched a basketball so that he could fully rehab, get back in shape, get back to one hundred percent, and now he's out with the same fucking injury.

Rot Row buckle up, Blaker fans. It is going to be delightfully disastrous in La La Land.

sex Land, sex Land's fucking amazing. Darius Garland, Colin Sexton, you put them together, sex That's the best backcourt name of all time. I am fucking in, get me season two. It's the Calves games. No, then they proceeded to go out and like win I don't know, twenty five games. So yeah, that wasn't a great prediction. Not all my predictions are. So now that the Calves are three and two and on a three game winning streak, they beat the Clippers, the Nuggets and the Hawks, holy shit, and

how do you do what they ask? Was it sex Land? It was not sex Land. They had held all of those teams, all of those high flying teams, under one hundred points. The Hawks and Trey Young had ninety five points you'll catch and the Nuggets at home scored eighty seven. Paul George and the Clippers, who scored a measily seventy nine points. I mean, the Clippers had that many points through the third quarter against the Blazers. So yeah, this is a different team, a different style of play. What

are they doing. They're doing something that I don't know nobody crazy or brave enough has done. They've rolled out three or four seven footers at the same damn time on the floor. All of these seven footers though, like you would think, Okay, how does this work? I mean that's what I thought. All of these seven footers are different. They all have different skill sets and because of that, they're spacing the floor really well. And listen, and I

didn't see it coming. Have you ever seen like a series of individual decisions that just didn't make sense and you're like questioning every single piece of the puzzle until they come together and you're like, oh, that was that. Like, you got Jared Allen into trade, you locked them down long term. Nice piece, but you did already have uh, Andre Drummond and Larry Nann's junior and Kevin Love getting

paid like thirty million dollars a year. Then okay, you get rid of Andre Drummond, you keep Kevin Love's fat ass, then you draft Evan Mobley. It's like well that I don't know. Uh, what are they doing? This is the most calves move I've ever seen. You already have Jared Allen. Why would you need Evan Mobley? Like everybody knows, like

Southern California players like they don't hold up. And then and then inexplicably signed Lowry Marketing in free agency, and then it was like I am starting to self destruct. I really do not know how to comprehend what they are doing in their heads? What is going through their mind? What are you doing Cleveland? How is this spacing gonna be? Who is who is gonna be out? What position? You literally have two spots for five guys? What where are

you putting Lowry Marketing? He can't defend anybody. Larry Marketing is a trash ass defended defender. Well, if he's a four or five, he's trash. If you use him at the three spot, he's a fucking demon. How is Mobiley going to guard bigger fives? Are you really gonna put him on the floor at the same time? Like, are

you playing three big men? What's happening with Kevin Love? Like, but somehow, some way, Jared Allen at the five, Evan Mobley at the four, and Laurie Markin at the three is actually somehow maybe unguardable, like maybe unscoring on them able. People are noticing. So when asked about the all big lineup, Jared Allen said this in the post game, because they are running through teams. Well, we just have a lot of versatility that can bring us far. I'm the defensive guy.

Evans the rookie of the year, gonna be I want him to be. And Laurie can shoot the hell out of the ball. So you got a rim protector. You got a huge athletic wing like Chris Bosh and Evan Mobley, and he can cause havo. A sharp shooter, he can gun over any small ford in the league. And then they are meshing. In their three game winning streak. The trio has combined for twenty blocks and steals. All three are averaging double digits on offense. Nick Batum was in

prison against Devin Mobley. He's like, Yo, they got marking In at the three. I mean that's unusual for sure, a seven footer, but you know we gotta face that to win a game. Mobley's doing great things for yesterday, He's like, I don't know, what you want me to do? Like he's seven feet tall. I'm six' eight And i'm playing.

Five he is a three nick batum in the age of small, ball is LIKE i don't even know what to do with, This like this dude shouldn't even be on the floor in small ball, lineups and they are getting. Mirked hard to get rebounds when three, long athletic seven foot monsters are boxing your ass, out and The clippers did get out rebounded fifty seven to thirty. Six hard to get your shot off over someone with an eight foot winkspan is like a step. Back he puts these

like steps four, one and you are blocked even. Worse trying to get a ball off around the. Rim imagine imagine crossing over cooking somebody getting past the seven foot Of you're feeling real. Good you get to the lane and there's another seven foot right behind, him and then another seven foot right behind, him an impenetrable. Wall, demons. Demons then you add In Ricky, rubio who seems to have found Some he's The Collin sexton, whisperer apparently like

he's Like, colin pass the, Ball. Colin everyone's making fun of. You colin if you want to be, paid you gotta play like. This you can't just be chucking from half court whenever you. Want we got three other guys, here and then you've Got Kevin love shockingly. RESURGING i don't know what he's. Doing eleven seven and, Three that is. ME i am super. CONFUSED i stayed up all night last night looking For cavaliers podcasts On. Spotify turns out there's not many of. Them there's not a lot Of cavaliers.

Breakdown so what do we make of? THEM i don't. Know they are like the real Life, monstars that's what they. Are imagine if The monstars came to, life came To earth and then put ON i think they call it. Wine, Wine, yeah wine and. Gold because last YEAR i bought in. PREDICTABLY i ate the garbage in The. Calves they hurt. Me they made me look. Ridiculous people still in my mention being like when you thought The calves were, Good, ah you're, stupid you, know like ten year, old who's

here for The? Calves when they win twenty, games like you think they've turned the. Corner but it's, like really they just Have Dan gilbert as their owner and they go back to their stupid. Ways but you, know even Though i'm a child of, TRAUMA i want to BELIEVE i have optimism in my. Soul and this feels. DIFFERENT i feel like they could have turned a. Corner but let's wait another couple of weeks and check, back because it Is cleveland AND i have been fooled.

i got. This he's just joyfully blissfully disregarding all the like quote unquote suggestions that are really requirements on like how to deal with. Us, so, yeah no one gives funnier quotes Than Aunt. Edwards this is What aunt had to say throughout the. Year the most recent one was about The wolves. Defense how do you feel about The wolves defense this? Year? Aunt, man we walk we will walk. UP i don't care what anybody says about. Us we play the best defense in the. League AND i stamp.

That he starts. Laughing we gonna have two three people on all defense AND i might be one of. THEM i, mean, yeah we Let giannis get, forty but we still, won so our game plan kind of worked for. Show so, yeah, Uh, aunt what do you think About yannis scoring forty sixteen and. Seven, well you, know with a guy like, that you can't stress about him. Scoring that's what he's gonna. Do motherfucker's like seven to two and eighty. Pounds, shit she and

we put four people on him and they'll still score the. Ball, like what are you talking? About? Aunt? Edwards, Hey, aunt we notice that you're always bringing the guys. Up how do you how do you make sure that the team brings the same. Energy, WELL i talk my shit before the. GAME i put on, rap put on put on a little baby. Wrap the lyrics that'll get everybody. Hype we, up it's time to. Go you read him and you're just, like this is these are real. Lyrics these are not the.

Onion they asked him About wancho hern And gomez's. Shooting, Yeah Wan wancho can shoot the piss off the. Ball he can shoot the hell out the. BALL i Tell, wanho if you can catch the ball open and don't shoot, it you losing. Money that's, easy that's. Simple that's what you get paid to. Do it's. True wancho should shoot the ball a. Lot, uh he says on getting his own shot in THE. Nba you, know it's hard to guard screens in THE. Nba them dude's. Big them dudes setting,

screens they be. Big ONCE i watch enough film on, that it'll become easy for me Because i'm pretty. Big, also we didn't catch that were? You are you? Big? Yeah, edwards it has grown two inches since he got into the. LEAGUE i have to remind folks he's managed to turn something that we all know is going to be bland and boring into like must, see must. Listen there was another time Where Aunt edwards had popeyes on his chair

and they Asked, aunt, like what do you got? There and he's, going, AH i brought popeyes and they're Like, aunt, h where do you rate the? Fries And he's like top four for, show and he's, Like, aunt it's either top three or it's top, five top, Four, like top four is not a ranking system that we, use but he just made it. Up so to, me even though he's averaging twenty, five eight and four this, YEAR i think his quotes make him maybe the funniest guy in

THE nba by. Himself who are your top ten players twenty five and under in THE nba right? Now super hard. List there's gonna be people who are mad about this because there are players that are going to be left. Off the first player that will be left off THAT i just have to get it because don't wait for. Him he's not. Coming he's not gonna be on the.

LIST i know you're gonna be, like, Oh, trista she's setting us up for anticipation because she's always slandering, him and you know, what she's always saying he's non shape and she's always saying he eats too many. Begnets maybe he'll be ten in the top. Ten, No zion's not on this, list. Folks he's not. Coming he's not going to be there Because zion is his fat And zion is is injured all the. Time did you see him in his uh his he had the uh what's it

called the anime vest. On he looked like he was about to bust out of the. Buttons he is not back to the. List. Uh first and, foremost we're gonna Go Trey. Young he's twenty. THREE i, mean he's just regular anybody who can nutmeg on the regular and transition just, electric, leader, gritty you, know shutting Down Madison Square, garden an elite,

shooter phenomenal, passer chip on the. SHOULDER i, mean you never know when he's either gonna throw a lob or a. FLOATER i, MEAN i Love Trey, young especially because he's he. Is if you saw him walking down the, street you wouldn't know that he was a basketball. Player incredible for someone to be able to do all of those things against guys Like Evan, Mobley Laurie markan in seven footers on a regular basis just cooking weight shift. Incredible next

up Is. LUCA i, Mean luca's top ten at any, age no matter if it was thirty or, under forty or under or. Like luca is an all time best. Player his, Passing i've never seen a person pass quite Like. Luca, Andy you Know dallas is not a good. Team he can take this team to incredible. Heights he's. GREAT i, mean he saw what he did With. Slovenia that team should not have gone as far as they. Did incredible at getting the. Rim how big He's he's also a big. Boy you, know he has a shockingly fast for how

big he. Is elusive and it'd be like if someone who was six or eight pattern their game After harden and actually. Executed That's luca At. Edwards LIKE i, said just nobody plays Like Ant like there's nobody who likes contact as a basketball player more than Ant. Edwards he's, explosive he can dunk over. Anyone underrated Shooter MUSTY. Tv next Up. LAMELLO i think we're in a renaissance for,

passing But lamello is like a quarterback out. There he can not only thread the, needle but he can lob in the entire length of the floor and drop it in the bread basket for a layup. TWO i, mean there's just so many highlights just like. That shooting, underrated especially since that was the knock on. Him he's got bounced. Like he is so tall for a point, guard can do so many things on the. Court his vision is. INCREDIBLE i think he's going to be probably one of

the faces of the. League speaking of face of the, league player Up John, Morant jaw Is ai in twenty. Twenty jaw can do. Everything he dunks on, people and he is. Tiny he is, like not only is he somewhat, short he's pretty thin. Too he's got a chip on his, shoulder unapologetically. Himself, swag, Insane bounce can lead a team on his. Back he can, pass he can shoot, once he can shoot free throws in the, clutch, once he can shoot deep. Consistently he might actually be a legitimate

contender for AN. Mvp maybe the most underrated player in the league is Probably. Jaw he even Told Chris haynes the other, day it took me averaging thirty five a night in order for me to get Any All star. Consideration Sga sja also very. Underrated the guy plays in the worst market in THE, nba and yet still people are tuning in for. Him. Infectious he's having fun playing For Oklahoma City Thunder, like imagine having fun. There he's six y, six but he plays like he's six eight six.'

nine he can knock. Down threes he can take the ball to. The rim he's really nice around the. Rim too he. Can pass he's. Just mellow HE got i, would say really took a step when he got Mentored By chris paul and he's got rare confidence for a guy that's. That young next up on The List, donovan, mitchell sheesh he. Is it can We Stave donovan Mitchell? From utah can we can we just take him out? Of there because he has the ability to do things

that would look Good In Madison. Square garden, you know he has the ability to make, Plays defensively he's an underrated passer and. A playmaker he's got, nasty handles his big. Time shots he can create space over those. Bigger defenders. He's TENACIOUS he, i mean he doesn't he can't see. Out there he said he needs glasses and he's doing. All this so the only real reason that he's not higher on everybody's list as you just forget about him

because He's. In Utah devin booker sort of shouldn't make the list because he's just turned. Twenty FIVE but, i mean he's maybe the best two guard in. The league he's he saw what he did in. The finals, two way he can put up huge numbers on massively, tense moments, take teams put him on. His back people legitimately shit on him for reasons that were not in. His Control because phoenix. Was terrible he took a leap FOUR was. CP three I Think devin booker is going to take

another step into the. Public consciousness people are going to talk about him. Even MORE and i think maybe because he's a, pretty boy maybe because he likes to shoot jumpers and not particularly efficient, from three people sort of. Slammer him but his footwork. Is insane. His footwork speaking, Of footwork tatum is the next player on. The list he's got like an. Unlimited bag he has maybe one of the smoothest players in. THE league, i mean NEXT. To kd he's probably the best scorer IN. The nba

he's only, twenty three he's, six' eight first. Step deceptively quick he's just he's so fun. WHEN he's cooking i don't even know what. His ceiling is somebody asked me last year who was who would, You rather Take? Luca OR tatum And i said tatum just because. Of his, position but man that's. A Tough Call FIRST team all nba for. Years and years i'd say. Is, A Ceiling. Finally DeAndre ayton that last spot WAS tough because, i

was it Bam, was it Fox. WAS it Collins i put, jalen on there but he's just such, a ROLLER coaster so i had to. Take Him Off but ayton aiden's the player that you can put in any roster and. They're just better they. Just automatically, better he's gritty he, could be mbad but he's just not allowed. To be unbeat but his skill set could be that he likes to play. On the perimeter, he can dribble he can,

play face up. He can Shoot I've watched DeAndre aden since he was, a little kid and he can actually. Shoot the three they just. Don't let him. He's so fun Honorable, mentions Bam, Adebayo Dearon. Fox Jamal murray jamal murray would be on that list if, He Was, Healthy John, Collins Jalen, Brown Miles, bridges McHale bridges and Honorable. Mention z ion if you could STOP watching one, nba team forever which team? Would it? Be? And why? Oh magic

fan you know you, Know it's you you. Know it's you who else would it Be Anytime that JULIUS randall says i could NOT sleep because i lost, to, this guard like not a wink OF sleep because i lost to. This garbage team that's how bad. That team is any team that, a, star SAYS well if i, WAS traded there i. Would just retire that's a team you. Shouldn't be watching that's a team that. Should be relegated that's no Shade. The window carter that's No Shade to cole

anthony shout out to his father Who Was. A portland trailblazer that's No Shade, to JALEN sucks. WHO i love i like a lot. Of these players THE only player i Don't Like is jonathan isaac because he is a menace and he's. An anti vaxer but that's a. Whole other thing but there's just something about this franchise as a whole that's. Just a know it's just if that's there's ONE team that i should, not ever watch that's. What it be that's all the time that we Have

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