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welcome to Hoops Tonight, presented by fan Duel. Here at the volume. Happy Thursday, everybody, almost to the weekend. Hang in there. We are at the end of our top twenty five players in the NBA list with number one today, You guys can all take a wild guess and who that is before we get started. You guys know the drill. Follow me on Twitter at Underscore Jason lt so you guys don't miss any show announcements. I also have some several clips that I'm gonna reference today that I tweeted
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as many Janni's fans will remind me. Um But like I told you guys so many times over the course of the last couple of years, especially those of you guys who have been listening since I was doing State of the Lakers back in the day, Um, but I'm slow to move people to the top. I'm a big believer in that's a position that we don't pontificate about.
That's a position that you have a dominating grasp of It's It's not like it always drives me personally insane when I'm watching an NBA regular season and people are like, oh, man, Yokich is the best player in the world, and I want to be like, he's amazing. I I love Nicola Yokich. I know I love everything he brings to the table as a basketball player. But because he's killing everybody in March, we're gonna put him over the top of people who year in and year out are playing in June. Like
that's disrespectful in my opinion. And it goes both ways. If Yokich ends up taking the top spot one day and he's there for three or four years, and some other young player comes onto the scene and is playing amazing and winning a regular season m v P and and you know, losing to a better team in the playoffs, I'm gonna be hesitant to move that guy into Yokich's spot because I'm always the kind of player that is going to favor the people that have been there and
done that time and time again. And I was very hesitant to move Janice ahead of the likes of lebron Um because of the fact that even though he had been showing us a great deal. It's different to do it once than it is to do it time and time again. And there was obviously some things that went Janice is way in that playoff run. In one I specifically was as a tint as it pertained to his
playmaking ability in that Boston Celtics series. That was the final straw for me, him averaging over seven seven assists per game. Me watching the film and watching Boston Celtics defenders hesitate to offer help on Janice because they were worried he was gonna make passes, and that opening things up for him to get to the paint and make eight field goal attempts in the restricted area per game in this playoff run. That was what did it for me.
I was seeing now multiple playoff runs in a row, one year that he won the title and this year where he lost but lost in spectacular fashion. That was demonstrating to me consistency that I hadn't seen from Janice in previous seasons. It was ugly in. It was ugly in there were reasons for us to be hesitant there. I wanted to see that wasn't a luke, and Janna showed that. So he's got my top spot now just for me personally, and he's gonna be there for a long time. It's gonna take a lot for me to
see somebody to knock him off of that spot. I believe that his two way impact is substantially greater than any player in the NBA. I think he's on a tier by himself atop the league. And this is the first time I've said that about a player since Lebron almost ten years ago. We're talking like two thousand twelve. Two thousand thirteen was the last time I saw a player like Lebron be significantly better than even the second best player in the league. I think he's got a
strangle hold on that position. So I mean, I'm excited to dive into his game a little bit today. You know, Janice gets frequently portrayed as just a brute force monster, which he is um, but there is a lot of of of of detail to his athleticism that separates him from other great athletes around the league. I want to spend some time diving into that today as well. You guys know the drill strengths and weaknesses, biggest hopes, biggest fears, and biggest what if? So, Yannas in this regular season
average thirty points, twelve rebounds, six assists, true shooting, that's outstanding. Uh, in this playoff run thirty two points, fourteen rebounds and seven assists on fifty true shooting. His efficiency tanked because of the Celtics series. Don't take that personally. Almost every player that ran into Boston, their efficiency tanked pretty much
except for Steph and Jimmy Butler. Everybody else seemed to fall apart against that Boston defense, and a lot of what happened with Steph had to do with scheme and Jimmy Butler is an anomaly. None of the statistical things about him make any sense whatsoever. Um, but so, I'm not too concerned about jannass efficiency taking a dip. I thought the Boston Celtics series is. The Boston Celtics series is one of the most impressive losing efforts that have
ever seen. So with Jannat's strength, you can't start anywhere other than the fact that he is an unstoppable athletic
force on both ends of the floor. He led the league this year with six point six restricted area makes per game on scent shooting, he bumped that up to seven point eight restricted area makes on seventy in this playoff front against teams that were scheming against, deliberately trying with every bit of their personnel and attention on defense to stop him from getting to the paint, he was still getting there and scoring eight times per game on shooting.
I was watching a bunch of film on him this morning, and I was aware of this in the Celtics series, but it was even more jarring to go back and look, It's amazing to me how wing defenders are useless against him. Wing defenders are one of the most valuable pieces that you could have on a basketball team in the modern NBA because of the way that the game is space stout in the need to contain ball handlers. Jayson Tatum and Jalen Brown are two of the best perimeter defenders
in the game. I said in the Jayson Tatum segment that I think he is the best perimeter defender in the game. Those two guys had no chance against Janice in that playoff series. If they got switched on him, it was a basket. They were completely and utterly useless. Go to my Twitter feed, I grabbed a couple of examples to demonstrate it. But if you go to my Twitter feed and scroll down, you'll see some video clips that show Jannis getting Tatum and Brown on switches and
then basically being tissue paper. The best perimeter defender in the league and another really high level perimeter defender tissue paper against nice. It's it's such a weird matchup problem. You have to guard him with the big but bigs are too slow. So the only bigs that you'll see perform okay against him are the very best defensive players in the league, and even taller guys like uh like
Anthony Davis and Rudy Gobert. They struggle because of how low, how low Janice is center of gravity is and how easy it is for him to get around them. It's it's honestly funny that Al Horford does as well as he does in individual matchups against the honest and really all that has to do with is up here. He's a He's a very savvy defender. He's good at anticipating where you're gonna go. He's very big and strong, and he's laterally quick. He's good at beating you two spots. Honestly,
the best type of defender you can throw at. Janice is a big, athletic forward that's very strong, and there's only a handful of guys like that in the entire league. We're talking like Lebron James. You know, maybe Kahi Leonard and I had some success in two thousand nineteen against the honest by going after his handle with his long arms. Janice is a hell of a lot better now than he was back in. I think that's why Grant Williams
had some success. He's a barrel chested, big strong forward who has some lateral quickness and some good defensive instincts. And all of those guys I mentioned, including Al Horford and Grant Williams, they can hold their own for a handful of possessions, but they will eventually give way, and they did in that playoff series as it progressed. I think that if I was building a defender to guard Janice, it would be Lebron, and I'd love to see him get a chance to go against him in a playoff series.
But I believe even someone the likes of Lebron James would eventually succumb to the physical onslaught of Janice. Obviously, Janice is ridiculous. Athleticism is part of what makes him the best defensive player in the world. We talked about this a lot with Steph Curry yesterday when I was talking about the difference between Steph and the other players at the top of the league. Steph is a very good defensive player, and if you put him in a system,
he will be a productive defensive player. He's good at playing passing lanes. He's a good possession positional defender at sliding his feet contesting shots without fouling stuff is very good. But Steph can't like hit the athletic jets and shut down an offense by himself. Janice can do that. Janice can dominate basketball games as a defensive player, similar to
Lebron James in the two thousand sixteen Finals. The defining moment of Janice's career is him blocking DeAndre Ayton on the at the rim on a possession where he wasn't even guarding Ayton. He was on Booker in a drop coverage and turned out of his contest to block DeAndre Aton at the rim. That swung an NBA Finals series. That's the level of impact that Janice can have as
a defensive player. When he hits the Jets, shows up in rebounding dominant rebounder fourteen rebounds per game in the playoffs. That's ridiculous. You see him. He's playing over right now for Greece in the uh prepping for the World Cup, the Febo World Cup or World Championships, whatever they call it, and the dudes putting up straight Wilt Chain Emerland numbers like fifty and twenty and fifteen, just completely ridiculous stuff. Obviously,
he's a great shot blocker as well. One of the biggest ways that I saw this manifest on film is when he's around the rim, teams just don't even try to go in there the for whatever reason. He just well, I know the reason he's so terrifying down there that people are just scared to even try to challenge him at the rim. Janice is athleticism in his ability to get to the rim and his ability to affect games
on defenses. That on defense, that's his best skill, and there's not a single athlete in the league that can hang with him in that regard. He's turned himself into a serviceable mid range shooter. In the regular season, he shot on three attempts per game this year. That has not translated to the postseason. Over the course of the last couple of years, he also has added a decent
little hook shot in the lane. Um, but he'll do this is a shot that you it's ironically it's the first post move you teach young basketball players, but for Janice, with his athleticism, it's a completely unguardable move. He'll have the ball in his right hand on the left block and he's going to power dribble, hit you in the chest, and then take a big step into the lane and just go high with his right hand. He'll protect the shot blocker with his left hand and he's gonna make
a good percentage of those. He shot on three attempts per game inside the paint outside the restricted area. Once again, the problem there is it has not translated to the postseason yet. But we'll get to that when we get into his weaknesses. UM, Joannice has a relentless motor, and not like the Russell Westbrook, Oh I just yell and scream hard motor. He's got the I try hard on
every single offensive and defensive possession motor. Kind of reminds me of old Lebron, or excuse me, young Lebron, like back in Cleveland before he went to Miami, and a little bit when he was in Miami where it was just seemingly like this endless ball of energy that no one could keep up with. When other teams would go through lulls where they'd stop trying hard, Lebron would be getting run out dunks and things along those lines. Compared to Lebron now and he can't be bothered to try
on three out of four nights. But Janice doesn't have that issue. Janice is relentless in the in the manner in which he keeps coming at you, And that's why they can have a wear and tear effect on defensive players like Al Horford and Robert Williams. They're big and strong enough and mobile enough and smart enough as defenders that if you put them in a possession in front of you, honest, they can probably force him to shoot
over the top. That's great. And they did it for a game, and then they did it for a second game, and then they did it for a third game, and then all of a sudden they weren't getting in front of honest, and then all of a sudden that that that effort was too much for them to match what Janice was bringing at them on a possession by possession basis. That's where janice Is relentless motor comes in. He's not
going to be the one that settles first. He will occasionally take threes and things like that as a rest possession, but you bet your ass he's gonna try to knock you over. It's twenty or thirty times a gain, and if that amounts to two hundred times in a playoff series, chances are right around that eightieth or nine time, you're gonna get tired of getting in front of him, and he's gonna start going right around you. There's not a lot of skill set stuff for me to get into
with Janice. Like I'm not gonna sit here and talk about Janice's fluidity like I did with Staff for Paul George. I'm not gonna sit here and talk about the honest's shooting ability that way I have as so many players on this list, He's adding that kind of skill and who knows where that will end up towards the end of his career. But it really is purely physical dominance at this point. But there is a ton of detail
in his physical dominance. There are a lot of big athletic people in the world, so why is it that Janice is as successful as he is in so many or not one he can handle the basketball. There are a lot of guards that lower levels of basketball. It can't dribble the way that Janice can't. That takes a great deal of work. That's what allows him to get to places where he can be a threat scoring the basketball without having to be set up by his teammates. Footwork is a huge deal. Footwork is one of the
most underrated areas of athleticism. As many of you guys know who have listened to the show for a while, I coach high school basketball. Now. With my job, I primarily help in the mornings um in the partnership that I have with the head coach that runs the program. I go up there in the mornings and I train the kids. And when I'm working with them, I work on footwork a ton because I think it's very important for attacking closeouts, guards, navigating screens, things along those lines.
There's a million different ways that footwork is used in the game of basketball. But you'll be surprised and how often like I'll be like, hey, we're gonna work on attacking clothes outs. We're gonna do a jab step here, You're going to fake a rip through a jab step. You're gonna take a dribble to the left and shoot a pull up jump shot, and they will travel every single time. And I'm not insulting the kids. That's just
the reality of footwork. A jab step pull up going left without dragging your left foot on the jab step is extremely difficult footwork and a lot of people struggle with that. That's just one simple thing. That's one very basic piece of footwork that takes a great deal of effort and focus in repetition to get down. Now, imagine that for every one of Janice's moves, his euro steps, his spin moves. If you guys look at those Twitter clips that I've talked about with him destroying Jayson Tatum
and Jalen Brown, it's a lot of spin moves. You know. Joannice has like even like a little bit of like a a chicken wing that he uses when he's trying to get around you on a hard drive to the basket, and he'll take an extremely long step and get his left elbow just barely around your shoulder. He doesn't do
a dramatic one. If he does, he gets called for an offensive foul typically, But he'll just take that big step and he'll just slightly pin his elbow on you as he's going up to the rim, and he's right past you when he does that. There's a great deal of coordination to what Janice does with his athleticism. He had a game winner in Game three against Boston. If
you guys remember it, series is tied at one. Milwaukee plays really well for the vast majority of Game three, but then Boston goes on a big run in the fourth quarter and ends up taking the lead. And at one point the Celtics are actually up one and Janice catches the ball and takes a hard dribble to the middle. He's being guarded by Grant Williams and takes a nasty euro step back to the left and Grant Williams is left in the dust and Johannice gets a layup again.
I believe it was out of time out. Out of a time out against the best half court defense of this era, where the coaches set up a plan to keep your honest from getting to the rim, and through coordination and footwork he was able to navigate around Grant Williams and get into the basket. The spin moves that
he hits Jayson Tatum with and Jalen Brown. He gets that right foot in on the left side of Tatum and Brown so that he can pirouette around them and hit them with his left shoulder to get that separation to go to the rim. And he's so big and strong that on most of the possessions the wing will just get out of the way. They don't want to try to hold their ground because it's gonna hurt the bottom line. There is the reason why I say all of that is footwork is a lot harder than it looks.
And when you see Janice looking remarkably coordinated and getting wherever he wants to with his athleticism, don't mistake that for just natural ability. Janice has a great deal of natural ability, but he has also worked extremely hard to become extremely coordinated to have very good footwork, and that's a huge part of why he is so effective on
the offensive end of the court. I told you guys before I had the honest number one that the number one thing I was looking for was not top making, which we're gonna get to, but passing the basketball, because the reality is is what stops Janice from getting to the rim is not the defender. Typically, it's not like Janice has to shoot jump shots because he can't get
by his man. He shoots jump shots to rest. Those are okay, I've I'm exhausted because I've been busting my ask four or five possessions in a row, and Al Horford's playing way off me. Why don't I take this three? That's that's what he's using the jump shot for. Those are rest possessions. The actual dynamic at play is can I get to the rim? And in single coverage he can, but eventually teams build a wall on him and make it so that, Okay, you're starting to treat Grant Williams
like tissue paper. Let's put Marcus Smart on your left side and Jayson Tatum on your right side. Which way you're gonna drive? There's a defender waiting there. I always felt like the most important part of Janice's development was passing in the ability to get defenders away from that wall so that he could get back into single coverage to get to the rim and all of that was
resolved for me. In the Celtics series. The average seven point one assists, which is better than Katie managed, and k D to that point had been a better playmaker in his career. You average seven point want to say this, his turnovers were high, but excuse me. His turnovers were high, but everybody's turnovers were high except for Stephan Jimmy Butler against Boston in that defense, when it really started to stand out to me in the film was the way
that defenders started to think twice before offering help. There were several plays where then I have a clip of one of them on my Twitter feed where Janice is barreling down the rim and you see Marcus Smart like go like he's gonna go try to take the ball away, but then freak out and turn and run to the shooter in the corner, and similar places from Jayson Tatum. This is the thing that I talked about a lot
with Lebron. One of the reasons why Lebron is so efficient is teams are terrified to send help to him, so he's frequently operating in single coverage. Now Janice isn't to that level yet, but he's making enough reads as a passer that he's starting to earn more single coverage opportunities. Now. One of the things that I will give some credits to my Buddenholzer here, they do make his reads easy. They either clear the side for him or they let him operate in the middle of the floor. There's always
shooters in the corner. There's typically someone in the dunker spot, and if the shooters are in the corner and the defender ends up running out, they will cut back door. There are a bunch of plays in this playoff run where Janice hit Pat Connaughton or Grayson Allen cutting along the backside for easy layups under the basket. Just because he's keeping his head up and paying attention to what's
happening around him, they have simplified his attack. They get him in positions where he has an advantage, and they give him easy reads to make out of that. He's making the reads and teams are starting to get scared to help. That development is what put on top of
the league for me. That was what originally I was concerned as to whether or not he had that ability, and for two seasons in a row, now he's demonstrated that, and I thought that Celtics series was the best playmaking that I've seen him flash against an elite defense in a high stakes situation. Lastly, on the on the strengths for your Honest, he's just a complete and total force of positive energy. It's infectious and the impact that it
has on a locker room. What does that mean. It means he's an outstanding leader, and it means that is fun to root for, and it means that it's the perfect kind of guy for us to have as the face of the league. We're gonna talk a little bit more about this when we get to the Greatest Hopes. But one of the biggest reasons why I think it's good that Janice is heading on an all time trajectory is his story is so interesting, the definition of humble beginnings.
It's very different from a Lebron James esque type type of story. Now, when it comes to those lists, I'm not going to factor that in. All I care about is the basketball. But it just makes Honest a fun guy to root for, and when he has success, it's a moment we can all appreciate. Rather than him being an unlikable prick that half of the world hates you know what I mean, Like it's not And I'm not saying that's Labron. I'm saying that a lot of people
out there are like that. This is not Jannie. Jane is a fun guy to root for, Alright. His weaknesses, I've got one. He's unreliable scoring away from the rim, especially in the postseason. So in this playoff run, he
was three for in the restricted area. That's outstanding, eight makes per game, that's ridiculous, But he was twenty three for seventy one in the paint outside the restricted area, only forty seven in the mid range, only over two from the corner, and nine for thirty eight from above the break, which is overall, he was four seven for one eight outside of the restricted area, which is only
twenty nine point seven. Even in his championship year, the year the one the title the previous season, he was seventy three for two twelve outside the restricted area, which is thirty outside the paint. He was only in that playoff run. So every time he makes one, even though you're feeling helpless in those moments, it's not the reality of the result. He's going to miss. The vast majority of his shot attempts that art layups when he's in
the playoffs. Now he's making more mid range jump shots in the mid range excuse me, in the regular season than he used to. Hopefully that eventually translates. Obviously, if he starts to figure this out, then everyone's screwed. But as of right now, that's his one big weakness. If you can keep him from getting to the rim, he will miss shots. But outside of that, there is no weakness. He's the best rim scorer in basketball. He's a better
playmaker than most wings. Already. He had lots of turnovers versus Boston, but so did everybody basically except for Stephan Jimmy. Like I said, he has no defensive weaknesses. These are just rest possessions that he's not converting at a high rate right now. But if he does get to the point where he can convert those again, we're all screwed.
The one other really nitpicky thing is that that specific dynamic of shooting over the top of the defense away from the rim has been somewhat of a problem in clutch situations in the postseason. He played eleven clutch minutes in this playoff run. Is either eleven or thirteen. I'm just gonna say eleven. You know, he played eleven clutch minutes in this In this postseason run, only made two field goals and had four turnovers, and his team lost
those minutes. They think he's minus four and eleven minutes. Now Again, in the regular season, he's been a very good clutch player, but in that postseason setting, when teams are really dialed in and taking away the paint, he's not capable of making over the top. But even then it doesn't matter because they have Chris Middleton and he kind of feels that role for them, and that's what
makes the Bucks so scary when they're healthy. Um, but that that that that again, if he starts consistently scoring over the top of defenses and is able to create shots for himself over the top of defenses and clutch situations, then it's over. Then we're then we'll be talking about one of the most dominant stars in league history. He's gonna rip off a ton of championships in a row and no one's gonna be able to do anything with him. That's his only weakness. If he figures that out, it's over.
There's there's nothing anybody's gonna be able to do all right, biggest hopes kind of like I said earlier, if he figures out that shot making peace, uh, then he is gonna have a dominant run and he's gonna enter the goat conversation and with his humble beginnings, that'd be a really cool story to have a player like that, a fifteen overall draft pick, to get into this position where he could be potentially on you know, top five basketball
player of all time. That's remarkable and most importantly, and you know that this is just for me personally, I hope that Janice gets appreciated for his level of skill. You know, this is James Harden's fault with the whole running and dunking thing. But people underestimate how hard he had to work to get to the point where he could handle the basketball the way he does. People have underestimated the amount of work it took to get to the point where he could pass the basketball the way
that he does like that. That's not easy, especially without having grown up playing the game like he got into the game so late. It typically takes decades to learn how to pass the basketball, which is why most of the best passers have been guards since they were kids. Johannice doesn't have that advantage, and he averaged seven point one assists against one of the best defenses I've ever seen.
That can't just be running and dunking guy anymore. You have to acknowledge the skill there and then, like we talked about earlier, the footwork. Janice is not just a big, strong athlete. He is a remarkably coordinated, big strong athlete. He is a remarkably coordinated, big strong athlete that has spent an enormous amount of time and repetition turning himself
into an athlete that's difficult to handle. There's a clip that I posted um from this semifinal series against Boston where Janice is dribbling at the top of the key and he kind of slowly navigates over to the left wing and gets a switch off of Horford onto Jelen Brown again. Jalen Brown a great perimeter defensive player in this league and one of the best athletes we have at the position in this league. Joannice doesn't in and out dribble and just drives left. It's not bullyball. He
doesn't do the chicken wing thing. On Jalen. He doesn't elbow him in the chest, he doesn't run him over, he goes around him, and Jalon Brown has no chance. It's a straight up blowby, and Janice is hanging on the rim. That's coordination, that's foot speed, that's stuff that takes a whole lot of work. And I and my biggest hope for Janice is that people eventually give him the appropriate level of respect for the amount of work he's put in, not just his natural set of physical abilities.
My biggest fear with the Honice is kind of like what happened to Lebron throughout his career, is that he never finds a consistent and reliable co star to take some of the weight off of his shoulders. Like Chris Middleton breaks down physically in this playoff run, he also has been somewhat inconsistent. Drew Holiday is like the model of inconsistency. Offensively best defensive guard in basketball, but on the offensive ent, he can be very hit or miss.
Just ask Bucks fans. Kind of reminds me of the Bron thing, where it's like didn't have a reliable co star at all for the first seven years. Goes to Miami, and Dane Wade's great for a bait like one and a half seasons, but then he falls apart physically. Kyrie Irving falls apart physically, Kevin Love falls apart physically. Anthony Davis follows apart physically and can't be bothered to care. Ever since the bubble, Lebron has never had like a straight up dude in the trenches with him for like
five years in a row. He's never had that. He's never had like a real partner in crime. And who knows, maybe Chris Middleton becomes that guy for Janice. But if he never gets that guy, if it's kind of like a combo of mixed results from Drew Holiday and Chris Middleton and he never gets another legit costar, he's not gonna win six titles because, like I've said on the show so many times, you don't win championships in the NBA consistently unless you have great basketball players around you.
It is a team sport. And so my biggest fear with Janice is that he has some of that Lebron type dynamic where he just never quite has consistent help um in the form of of a star that cares as much as he does, and that is capable of producing consistently. All right, this is a fun one biggest what if of Janice's career. So two thousand thirteen NBA Draft, Janice goes fifteen. I guess who had the number one
pick in that draft? The Cleveland Cavaliers, if you might remember, they took Anthony Bennett, who has been out of the NBA for a very long time. That was a bad draft or weak draft relative to other drafts around. Anthony Bennett went number one, Victor Oladipo when number two trivia time, who do you guys think? What number three that year? Role player for the Golden State Warriors, Otto Porter Jr. So again weak draft, They're the honest. Film was weird.
He's playing in these games where it kind of looked like he was playing against rec league players, you know, so it's really hard to tell if he's dominating because he's great, or if he's dominating because he's playing rec league level players, right, and that led to the hesitancy. He's also very skinny and super super raw, and so we fell down to fifteen. But there was no player that was a home run pick in that draft. And
if maybe the film was a little bit better. And if there was a little bit more of a tantalizing aspect to Janice at that point in two thousand thirteen, maybe the Calves take him number one, and then we'd end up with Lebron and Janice together in Cleveland just destroying the world. Like basically, like, imagine the Lebron Anthony Davis partnership is so good, Imagine the Lebron Joannas partnership with how much better Janice is than Anthony Davis. It
just would have been completely ridiculous. Um. Anyway, insummation this this list has been a ton of fun. I've I've been always I've always liked the idea of of player rankings, not not even so much from the standpoint of the numbers, because that's so subjective, but just the skill analysis, the diving into the differences between the players, the way they play, their approach to the game on a possession by possession basis,
the difference in their skill sets. I've always been fascinated with that, but I've never had the time with my other jobs to really dive into it the way that I did this year, and so actually having the time this year to just wake up every day and dive into these guys skill sets and and and watch a ton of film and do This series has been a ton of fun. I know not everybody has agreed. I know every single pick that I've had people have had issues with. You're not gonna agree with my player analysis
for everybody too. I had strength and weaknesses for everybody. If you're mad that I talked about one of your player's weaknesses, I hate to break it to you. There's not a player on this list that I didn't talk about weaknesses for. And you know, this channel is not a propaganda channel. If you wanna, If you're a Steph fan and you want to only hear great things about Steph, I highly recommend you go find a show where they propagandize that stuff. That's not what you're gonna get here.
We're gonna talk basketball. We're gonna talk to good that we're gonna talk to bad and and it's it's gonna be basketball focused and and uh, I really sincerely appreciate you guys um supporting the show, supporting this series. This has been fun. I've I'm not entirely sure what the schedule is moving forward. We'll probably take a couple of days off now, um, but we will eventually do some all time stuff, which we gotta approach now that Steff has one another title, we gotta figure out where he
lands and all of this. And then, if I'm not mistaken, we are less than two months away from the season starting, So we're gonna probably have a Kevin Durant trade that we're gonna break down. We're gonna probably have a Russa Westbrook trade that we're gonna break down. We're gonna do season previews for all the important teams around the league, and then before you know it, it's going to be back to what it was last year, five nights a week of us breaking down NBA basketball games, which I
very much am looking forward to. Alright, guys, I sincerely appreciate your support and I'll see you in a few days. The volume