Spider Mitchell and Doncic are Taking Over

remember on this podcast we said it first. And you know what, I think, if Cleveland keeps winning, I think if they sit atop the East, I think Donald Mitchell does win MVP. I don't know what the odds are right now, but I tell you what it might be worth a sprinkle. It might be worth a little Pepperoni money, as they say, think about that Rookie of the Year stolen from him from Ben Simmons to MVP. I did not see that coming. I did not see that coming because and I think this is probably one of the

worst things about Donald. I mean, there's a lot of bad things about Donovan Mitchell going to Utah, like for him, there's a lot of bad things. The fan base is terrible, Like, they're very white, they're low key ist in every way, you know what I mean, not a lot to do. They don't even allow coffee shops and most of that place. He went from New York to Louisville, Kentucky to Utah. Could there be more of a juxtaposition? I digress. But on top of playing for Utah, he's also got to

play with Rudy Gobert. And Rudy Gobert, we don't know. We don't know how these two are meshing together. Is Donovan Mitchell worse or is Donald Mitchell better with Rudy Gobert. I don't know. He's a dynamic two guard, and we now see that dynamic two guards like Anthony Edwards are saying very shady things about what it's like to play with Rudy Gobert, already six games in the season, saying, Hey, I actually like smaller lineups. It's better for me when

this motherfucker's not here. As an aside to the aside. Turns out Tim Connolly, new GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves, told absolutely no one consulted, absolutely no one within the organization on the player side about bringing in Rudy. Gobert did not ask for any gold stars, did not ask for any approval or hey, do you have any thoughts on this matter? Aunt Edwards, Dicey, his numbers are down, but we couldn't tell Donovan Mitchell for years what he was.

Would he be better or would he be worse without Rudy? You have a team now full of players at that point, actually at that point they didn't make sense together, right, And Donovan Mitchell is averaging twenty six four and five and you're saying, is he going to excel or is he going to decline? He goes to the Calves and you're like, man, there's a lot of young guys that need the ball on that team. You've got Darius Garland, he's gonna have the rock. You've got Jared Allen, he's

gonna need the rock. Evan Mobley, Caris Levert's a bucket. All these guys are gonna demand the ball. What is Donovan Mitchell gonna do. It's not like he's been this assist monster. But you know what, shockingly, surprisingly happily, I'm very happy because I like DONOVD. Mitchell as a person. He's he's really fucking good, like much better than we

even knew he's. He was held back in Utah. Let me just say that very clearly, Donovan Mitchell was held back on the Jazz, not just from a scoring perspective, but in every facet of the game as well. We know that Donovan Mitchell is really good. He's been really good for a long time, been an All Star for a long time. But now he's on a whole other level. He's on another planet right now, and he could probably, just like Jaw last year, be in the conversation for

most Improved Player. But that's kind of shady. I think when you're a star, winning most improved Player is shady. He's improved in every area, though career highs in everything from points to steals, to rebounds to assists. Let's look what's happening. His scoring, specifically from deep range, has jumped like crazy from thirty five to forty five percent from last year. This year, he's already hit in six games twenty five threes. What the fuck is that? Including eight

in one game? What is that? What is that? He's a shooting guard, as we know, But now that Darius Garland has been out he's been playing part point guarden with ease at an elite level. His career numbers for assists like four or five. What is the averaging now checks notes seven and a half, seven and a half. And they're not just like swing swing, drive kick to a corner shooter. These are legit fucking dimes. These are bounced passes through a passing lane between defenders, threading the

needle lay. And on top of that, because I've killed him on this dom Michell's playing some defense now, all of a sudden he leaves Utah. He's playing some defense. He has ten steals in six games. Ten count them ten steals. He had two blocks against the Knicks. Two blocks, Oh my god. In Utah. His defensive rating was one twelve, which is abysmal this year one oh five Drew Holliday is probably the best on ball defender for a guard.

His is one oh one, so like k not that far off truthfully, very big difference between one twelve and one oh five. His points per game, like I said, is up despite being on a better team. I don't understand it. He's averaging almost thirty three points per game, which is the fourth best in the NBA. And his career numbers are at twenty four. The dude is just out of his mind right now. One hundred and ninety three points total in six games. How does that happen?

How is it possible? Then you add in he has forty four assistering that time, he's recorded ten steals, hit twenty five three pointers, and most importantly, the caves are five and one. That's kingshit right there, that's MVP. Put my face and my body on a billboard next to the queue and add some chalk in the air dust like Lebron James kind of shit. And if he keeps us up, people are gonna be replacing Lebron jerseys with Donovan Mitchell. One's because he's only twenty six years old

and his ceiling apparently can get much much higher. We gotta move on because the only other guard right now is this crazy? You look at the numbers, is crazy? The only other guard right now that's on And Jaw's great. I love Jaw. Jaw's playing great, so I'm not gonna shade Jaw. And he's up there in stats as well, So don't get in my mentions and be like you didn't mention Jaw But the only other surprising jump besides Donovan Mitchell is Luka Doncics. I knew he was playing well,

I've watched the games. Obviously, you see him putting up numbers. You see him giving people the business. But then you look at the stats and you're like, that's not it can't be right. That cannot be right. If he does this continuously for the rest of the year, and we'll get into what will happen to the maps if he does,

because it's not good. But if he does this for the rest of the year and keeps this up, he will have the best numbers in history we've ever seen from a guard, and that is including Michael James Jordan, Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Jeffrey Jordan is Jeffrey. It's not close either, Luca. You might not even realize it is averaging thirty seven, thirty seven, ten and nine. That would be the best total season in the history of guard play. James Harden at one point averaged thirty six, seven and eight in

twenty nineteen. In Jordan's career, he never averaged ten rebounds a game. Never like this is Michael Jordan level and above type shit, Who the fuck What the fuck is Luca? What's going on? What is he doing? His worst statistical game this year was thirty one, sixteen and ten. Let me just say that again. Luca's worst statistical game this year is thirty one, sixteen and ten against Oklahoma City. He has scored over thirty one in every single game

with a higher forty four points. He had thirty points in the first half against Magic the other night. Oh yeah, and he's doing it shooting twenty one percent from three. When he shoots thirty five percent for his career from three, he could legit be scoring forty points per game by now. That is so insane. That's like only as shocking this year as Yannis from like a total player perspective, and then only as shocking from a guard perspective is Donovan Mitchell.

I don't understand it. I don't understand it. And as good as Luca has been, the problem is really just that other teams don't care. Other teams don't actually mind. Other teams would prefer that Luca goes crazy, because as long as other Mavericks don't do anything, this Mavericks team's gonna lose a lot of games. This makes for a very simple defense, when it's just like, let Luca go off and we'll just guard everybody else. And the issue

is it's quite simply JaVale McGee. Unfortunately, hate say it. JaVale McGee is getting starting minutes and JaVale McGee's not very good right now, He's the starting center on a team with two other centers that are much much better. I want to say that Javal McGee has a negative thirty five so far this year when he's on the

floor in every single game. Combined Christian Wood, Javal McGee, Dwight Powell, all three centers right the team has the highest plus minus with Power, second highest with Wood, and behind them the team is committed to a negative plus minus. Guy JaVale McGee, he stinks. He stinks right now. I hate to say it. I love JaVale McGee, good player, really fun guy, nice guy. He stinks right now, he's terrible.

You have Christian Wood right there, Christian Wood at one point, at sixteen points in a row, and Jason Kidd put him on a bench. I do not know what's going on. I am not sure Wood is bawling. He's per thirty six. Christian Wood twenty three to eleven and one. But he's getting twenty five minutes per game with the second unit. He's not out there in the fourth quarter either. He's not closing games. I don't care if you don't start, but you're closing games, You're kind of a starter, you

know what I mean? They are now. The MAVs are now one of only a handful of teams right now to blow a sixteen point or greater lead with under four minutes to go against Okac and in game would game one, when Christian Wood, like I said, had sixteen straight points against the Suns in the second half, kid just took him out and never played again. Why? Well, house way? How? And then they asked, Jason Kidd, how committed to you? How committed are you to continuing to

start JaVale McGee? How how strong is your commitment to him? And he said extremely strong. And I said, you're gonna lose a lot of games like that, so you can all love and I'm gonna love watching Luca ball out. He can put up video game numbers this year, but if he does, Mavericks fans need to be very scared. That's so bad. He had thirty in the first half against Orlando and the game was tied at halftime. So if he has to score forty every night, folks, Dallas

just might be a play and team. And that is a scary, scary thought.