NBA Cup Semis Reaction: Wemby returns as Spurs beat SGA's Thunder + Brunson's Knicks beat Magic

all the different aspects of that game. And then also we had another game tonight is the Knicks, fueled by yet another amazing performance from Jalen Brunson forty points on sixteen for twenty seven shooting, as the Knicks advance to the Cup Championship on Tuesday night. We're gonna be breaking down both games tonight. You guys are the jop Before we get started, subscribe to this channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Don't forget to like

this video as well. That helps us a lot. And then lastly, if you want to get mail back questions in for our weekly mail bags, drop them into our YouTube comments. All right, let's dig into the basketball here. I was super super excited. As I had been watching the Spurs over the course of the last couple of like really about a month now. I was really excited in the big picture about seeing the combination of what

was a very successful offense. I talked about this after the Spurs beat the Lakers, that everything they did to the Lakers was what they had been doing to everybody for a month. I didn't want to make it like oh, about the Lakers and their weaknesses and whether or not they showed up for a big game. I wanted to call attention to the fact that, like, yeah, like Steph Castle and deren Fox have been beating people off the dribble like the all season, you know, and especially since

Darreon Fox came back. They've been shooting the three ball extremely well. Over the course of this stretch. They'd built out this offense built on dribble pay penetration and kickouts getting out in transition that was super successful. Keldon Johnson is a dominant rebounder and driving the basketball as a bullyball guy, and all these different trends that they had started to show with their offense that were consistent. Opponent

two opponent good team bad team. They were doing it to everybody, and I really wanted to see the combination of both the offensive level that they had reached with dearon Fox, as well as just all that scrappy athleticism on the perimeter. All those guards are big and fast and strong, and they compete and they play hard on defense, and I just wanted to see those dudes combined with what I believe is the greatest game breaking defensive talent the game of basketball has ever seen. And so I

wanted to see that in the big picture. And I had already kind of bought into San Antonio I talked about after the Lakers game. I viewed them firmly in that same grouping there with the Lakers in Minnesota. Jackson and I were talking about it through text during the game. I don't see any case for either of those teams over San Antonio. At this point, you could argue there right now the third or fourth best contender in the

entire NBA. I've been buying all this spurstock over the last couple of weeks, and then you look at this matchup with Oklahoma City and it's like, you know, Oklahoma City had been so dominant and so successful over the course of this season. You're almost just hoping they compete, right, Like, for me, I was mainly looking at it like man reincorporating Wemby's gonna be kind of funky for the offense, like it can be a rhythm disruptor. I wonder if it's more just I want to see what they look

like on defense in this game. Screw all that they won. They went out there and they beat the thunder tonight. And you know, one of the things I want to call attention to before we start digging into some of the details, one of the most underrated elements behind a true superstar talent in the NBA is the ability to elevate your teammates, right, And there's a lot of different

ways that that can manifest. And you know, so for instance, on offense, that can be by creating advantages, right like Jokic and Lebron and Luca and Chris Paul and all the great passers in NBA history have elevated their teammates through creating advantages by making easier offensive opportunities, you know, or like Tim Duncan and some of the greatest defensive anchors in NBA history, they can elevate their teammates by making their defensive jobs easier, right, But one of the

underrated elements for all of those guys is instilling confidence. The Spurs went out there and they didn't use one b in the first quarter, and a lot of things went wrong for them. You know, there's an adjustment period. It's such a talk about going from one of the basement defenses in the NBA, the Lakers, to like maybe the best defense in the history of the NBA in the thunder tonight. It was clearly an adjustment for them.

Harrison Barnes a little rushed on those three pointers. I think give missed six of them in his first shift. You know, like that's a pretty rough start, right. Steph Castle had some really bad turnovers. Darreon Fox was taking some bad shots, like the cross court passes that you can get away with against other teams, you can't get away with against Oklahoma City, and they got killed. They remindus twenty three in the first half with Victor wem

Minyama off the floor. But what happened was is Victor comes in to start the first or the second quarter, goes on a massive run, gets them back in the game. Checks out, they fall apart again in the middle of that second quarter. Wenby comes in to end the first half and takes them on another run to get them back within three. And so what happens all those dudes. All of a sudden, It's like, hey, all that trashketball you were playing to start the game, none of it

matters anymore. It's forty nine to forty six, check ball. We got a lot of basketball left. And the starting group came out to start that second half with a completely different set of energy and intensity, and they were ready in a way that they weren't to start that game. That is confidence in belief that was in instilled in them by their star Darren Fox. Came out immediately started making plays in pick and roll and driving the basket

to start the second half. The defense, the level of intensity and the scrappiness and the flying around in rotation and the digging down on drives and all that stuff from the Spurs defense shot up like a rocket in that second half, and they were able to stay in the game. They obviously weren't going to continue to outscore the Thunder by twenty points per seven minutes when they got into the second half, they were gonna need their other lineups to find a way to succeed, and they did.

And I give Wemby a ton of credit for that, just in the sense that like he instilled them, he erased all their mistakes and instilled in them a sense of belief and confidence. And those dudes came out and played an awesome half there in that second half. And you know, again, fundamentally, what makes this whole thing interesting is that Wenby is a game breaking defensive talent. What that means is he is so transcendently great at what he does being rangy and protecting the rim that it

breaks what opponents do. So I've talked about this a lot this season. There have been three offenses that have separated from the pack in the league. In the half court, okay, there's a lot of margin. You can you can do damage on the offensive glass, you can do damage in transition. But when you look at the strict job of like your five dudes are back on defense, my five dudes are up on offense. We have a you know, seventeen seconds left on the shot clock. We got to find

a way to score against you. When you're set and in front of us there's three teams that have separated themselves from the pack, and it's the Denver Nuggets, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Interesting because this is not the Thunder team from years past that didn't have that same level of like confidence and you know, separation from the rest of the league in terms of

their half court offense. They've been killing teams in those slow down half court situations this year, even though they also obviously have this devastating defense to transition attack right getting points off of turnovers. But we got to see an offense that has been slicing and dicing everybody this season. The relentless drives of AJ Mitchell, the relentless drives of Shake Kills with Alexander, the relentless drives of Jalen Williams

since he come back. Jalen Williams drives per game or like twenty percent up year over year, or his shot attempts in the restricted area per game, like he's been getting to the basket like a madman since he came back. That's the fundamental entry point that they take advantage of every time they're attacking on offense. And then from there they've been one of the top five unguarded catch and shoot three point shooting teams in the league. And they

move them all extremely well. They're extremely connected. They're great at using their vertical spacers, and so it's all dribble drive and kick or dribble drive and lob and they use really good relocations and cuts to get really high quality looks out of their drives. Right well, Victor breaks

that because he shuts off the damn rint. I need to go back and look at the film to make one hundred percent sure, but if my count is correct, I had them at three shot attempts at the rim in the entire time that Victor wemen Yama was on the court tonight. There was a shay layup in the early second half where like mid third quarter, where he toasted it, then out the dribble got to a right handed layup and Wemby was right there. He barely missed it as he came across just to it came across

the lane just to split second late. There was one. Because I want to dig into this a little bit, there were some different ways that the thunder tried to attack the Wemby problem, but one of the ways that they had some success is they put Chet in the strong side corner and there's some basic defensive principles that

make it hard to help in that situation. So JDub was at the left wing and JDub was looking to drive, and Chet was in the strong side corner and Wemby was there, and it was just a position where Wemby was unwilling to help from Jadub was able to get all the way to the basket for a layup on that one. And then the playing crunch time where Shay hit like six counter moves to get past his man and then Wenby came flying over and he dropped it

off to Chet and Chet drew the foul. Other than that, they didn't even want to go in there for obvious reasons. That's a game breaking defensive talent. When you take one of the prolific driving the basketball teams in the league and turn them into almost purely an off the dribble jump shooting team in crunch time. That's the type of game breaking defensive talent that Wenby was. So then we

look at how Ocase tries to attack it. It's like, okay, well, what if we try to bring Wenby up into the action. If we bring him up into the action, maybe we can get him away from the rim. And they do, and it's like a chet ball screen up top, and they try rescreening a few times, and what happens. Wemby

ends up switching out onto Shay. Shake gets a decent look at a catch and shoot three, but Wemby's close out is so ridiculous because of his arms that Shay has to shoot a moon ball that goes like six or seven feet higher at the top of its arc than any of his other three point shots and he misses it. And it's like then from that point on, they didn't break one be into the action anymore because no one wants to shoot over him from the perimeter.

So they're like, okay, well what if we work from the mid range, And they were able to score a few times from there, right like Shae hit a little step back jumper over steph Castle in the left baseline. There was another one where I think it was Devin Vessel came over and doubled where Shay was working right around the foul line and Wenby was underneath the basket.

So they weren't looking to drive, but they sent a help from the right wing off of j Dub, and Shay pitched it back and JDub ended up hitting a catch and shoot three off of the right wing, And so that was the gist of their offense down the stretch was like Shay working in the mid range taking really tough, contested jump shots because they didn't want to drive because Wemby was down there, and they didn't want to bring Wemby into the action because he's too difficult

to shoot over if he's in the action. That's game breaking defensive talent. And this is where we have to start looking at the other parts of this Spurs roster, because this is what makes them so unique. And like, here's the thing. Do I think the Spurs are gonna go beat Oklahoma City in a seven game series this year? It's way too early to say that Oklahoma City has clearly demonstrated themselves to be a better basketball team this year.

Them losing tonight is not a referendum on everything they've accomplished this season. They still are the runaway championship favorites. I personally would be surprised if they're not hoisting the

trophy when we get to mid June. But looking at this matchup both as an upset threat this season and most importantly as the only hope for the rest of the NBA when we talk about teams that could compete with the Thunder in this era, as they are staring down the barrel of potentially like three more first round picks this season, as they continue to load up, as Chet continues to get better, as jadeb continues to get better, this team is not going anywhere, and the league, in

terms of intrigue, needs a team that can go toe to toe with these guys. And one of the specific things about the Spurs and the way they're constructed that has me looking at them as a real threat against the Thunder over the course of the next you know, three to five years is it's the combination of Wemby as this game breaking, paint, shutting down defensive weapon, but also the lanky, athletic guards that have the strength to hold up on the ball and that can get great

contests on those shots. There were a lot of missed pull up jumpers in this game. Shay was one for seven from three. You know, this is the thing Shay's been shooting, you know, over forty percent from three. This season, he's been deadly on his step back three. He's been shooting over fifty five percent on pull up twos inside

of seventeen feet. Right. Here's the thing, though, You get a longer, better athlete on the ball, and you give that guy the leeway to know, like, hey, dude, if you get beat off the dribble, don't worry about it. It's Victor webin Yama back there. Right. That allows that defender to be a little less on their heels, a little bit more on their toes. They're a little bit more on their toes, and they're a better athlete than some of these other guards that the under had been

going against. That's a substantially better contest. The whole point is that math game can tilt in your favor. If those short twos go from fifty five percent to forty percent, and if those threes go from forty five percent to one for seven, or you know, in a larger sample something closer to thirty thirty five percent, that's when the

math can start to tilt heavy in your favor. And that's what makes this particular team construct such an interesting build to compete against the San Antonios or to compete against the Oklahoma City Thunder. It's that combination of that game breaking defensive talent on the back line and you've just got all of these guards that are like legitimately athletic matchups for this team. Steph Cassell got to the basket at will in this game, twenty two points on

nine for sixteen shooting. He had some struggles with turnovers specifically. I thought him and Dylan Harper were both a little sloppy with their handle out on the perimeter. They were losing control the handle getting picked. Dylan Harper in particular, were struggling with Ja dub in terms of just how long his arms were when he was trying to make moves to go around him. Uh. But it was also the cross court passes specifically Steph Castle, I think he had.

I think he might have had three turnovers in this game on uh on cross court passes. And a big part of that is just you know, uh, him learning the lesson. Right. He's a young basketball player. He's going to continue to get better. But when you look at the baseline physical traits there, the dudes built like a truck and he's like six six sixty seven and No. One can keep him in front, always plays off two feet, so he's always winning the leverage battle on the ground.

And the dude is just a really good finisher in that short in that short range and at the basket. That's like a real physical problem. Devin Vessel, I thought, had some really nice one on one reps against Shay. He's got long arms. I've seen this over the years with these kinds of guys, whether it's Nikhil Alexander Walker, it's like uh Karius Lavertz another one of those guys. Devin Vessel is one of those guys. Those guys that

are like six' five six,' six pretty lanky and. Very, quick laterally those are the dudes that do the very Best. On shay they're the guys that can actually beat him to spots a. Little, Bit again, shay's literally in, my opinion the second best player in the world. Right now not trying to say that this, dude's guardable but the, point is the kinds of dudes that can make him work harder are the dudes in that kind of. Physical

build And the spurs just have a bunch of. Those dudes and you Look At dylan harper and it's another big, athletic guard and you look At deeron fox and it's another super fast guard with some, good length and it's like they just have everything you need to Compliment what Victor wiman. Yama DOES and i thought there was some

really impressive offensive stuff all. Night long Deer and fox continued to get, dribble penetration took care of the basketball, all night hit plenty of jump shots that felt like huge breaths of fresh air For The san. Antonio offense he only had one. Turnover Tonight devin vessel huge shots in that, second half massive momentum shots that play where the blob got blown UP to j dub and they move it down the Floor And devin vasseil hits that three on the. Right wing that was, a massive massive

shot in. This GAME and i think it's, You know JACKSON and i were talking a little bit about this before we went on, the, air like, you know with How Good steph castle looks and with how this team, is progressing maybe they're not the, honest team, you know like maybe they're not the team that needs to be looking to make that aggressive of, a move but maybe they are the team that needs to make some sort of aggressive move this season to bring in something to

try to make a better attempt to win. RIGHT now i don't know if that's like the if they're Like The Michael porter. Junior team are they the team, that, goes hey We Upgrade harrison Barnes To Michael. PORTER junior a better, defensive rebounder a better secondary, rim protector a guy who's been in a lot of big games over the last, three seasons a guy who like legitimately is a microwave scorer and a like dead eye awesome spot.

Up SHOOTER like i don't know if that's the direction they look, to go is to try to bolster things with some sort of move to, Win now because all of, a sudden you're the third, or best third or fourth

best team in. The league you're you're staring down the barrel of like a true real opportunity here to try to make a run IN this nba, Playoff run, and man what A huge there are these moments that happen IN an nba history where you can feel like something's like a real shift, is occurring and there's been a couple of those With the spurs, this season and like,

You Know bill simmons always has talked. About this he's always talked about, you know when you talk about, young teams they always end up somehow, being ready like a year before you think they're going to be Able TO and i made that mistake. THIS season i, was, like yeah, you KNOW like i believe In the, spurs ROSTER but i don't think it's. THIS year i think it's like next year or the. Year after and, it's like here,

They are they're ready. Right now and, You know wenby goes on and goes out an opening night and just like Completely Humiliates anthony davis for the world. To see they show Up In los Angeles against lakers In The Cup corner finals and beat the shit out. Of them and then they Go to vegas and they go toe to toe WITH what i think is one of the greatest teams ever assembled in the history OF, the nba and they beat them in a. Big game in, This

spot victor is the game breaking talent that makes the whole. Thing, happen literally they, were. Dead guys they were dead on arrival forty nine to. Thirty three after They get wemby comes in to start the, second quarter goes on a nine to. Two run he checks Out the thunder immediately going a fourteen to. Two run they. Were dead wemby just GAVE, him cpr brought him right back, to life and then they came out and played an awesome half there in the. Second half so we kind of fun

stuff down the, stretch too before we. Move on the guys on the broadcast did a really nice job calling, this OUT and i think in General The Amazon prime prime broadcast has, been fantastic both the studio stuff and the stuff on. The court they just they just do an awesome job breaking the. Game down but there were several things the broadcast was. Calling out wemby on the

ball on, the inbounder which was a really. Important piece they actually Forced the thunder to burn a time out in that sequence down, the stretch which stem prevented okay see from really setting up an offensive set when they were trying to tie the. Game late i'd also argue one of the big kind of like cheat codes there down the Stretch was wemby's Seals against chet on. The inbounds the one player Where the spurs almost blew it

was a Player where wemby made. A mistake he grabbed the ball as it went through the net and made the, inbounds pass which removed him as this easy solution for the inbounds and that almost led to, a turnover but it was kind of a cheat code, That like okay sees this scrappy team full of all these guards that can they can cause all this problem flying around with physicality, and rotation and, it's, Like well wemby's just ceiling chet there and he's got his arm up and it's, you

know ten feet off the ground when he's, Not jumping so all you have to do is just throw it up to him and he's going to catch it and be able to. Draw foul like it's amazing how much he did in this game that just like broke Everything That oklahoma city likes. To do, and again like to wrap it up before we move On to, nick's magic and again we've done nothing but celebrate the thunder like two or three times a week for the last couple. Of weeks i'm not gonna spend too much time on. THEM

tonight i still think they're the. CHAMPIONSHIP favorite i don't Think the spurs are anything more than just an upset Threat Against oklahoma city at this point in. The postseason, but like it. Just was it just was an unbelievable Performance From Victor wembin yam And, the Spurs and i'm buying all the stock. RIGHT now i think they're one of the very best teams in. THE league i don't think this. Is fluky they are still going To incorporate

wenby more and more into. The offense and we didn't see very Much Of fox wemby pick and roll in this game because of obviously the way That the thunder Re guarding wenby by constantly having j Dub Or alex caruso. On him so you're not gonna see a lot of pick and roll there because they're just gonna, switch. It right, but like as this team gets more and, more reps we're gonna See More fox wemby pick. And roll we're gonna see this team continue to build on the defensive

Foundation that wenby brings to. The table i'm really excited to see where this. Is going, and again if You're a, thunder fan you saw the ways they tried to, attack it trying to work more from the, mid range trying to get the defense and rotate out of Doubles of shay there at the mid Range. Situating chet that was the.

Big key they got a Couple of shay got a dunk on a big drive late on a Play where chet was also situated on the right Wing and wemby was kind of glued up, to him And Then jay dubb got that one Layup when chet was in the. Left CORNER so i think that's a big part, of it Like keeping wemby out of that low man position as much. As possible but that's the, Chess match Like to,

WEMBY'S credit i don't know if you guys. Saw it did you guys see How much wemby was calling out pre switches throughout, That game like he would sit there on the baseline and whenever his man would run up to the top of, the key he'd point at whoever was there on that side of the floor with him and,

be like you. Got him i'm staying on this corner no. Matter what and that's, The, thing, like ultimately there's only So Much oklahoma city can do to keep To keep wemby away from, the paint and if they can't keep him away from, the paint it just turns him into a pull up jump, shooting team and thankfully for a, thunder fans they happened to be one of the great pull up jump shooting teams in. The league but just, absolute cinema super. ENTERTAINING game i can't wait to dig more.

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way started with their defense to. Transition attack it was one of their better transition games of, the season constantly running their lanes and throwing kick aheads and Beating the magic down. The floor they had thirty two transition points in, this game and that's always been When the knicks are at. Their best we talked about this last, year too like they were relatively low volume, last year but they were the second most efficient transition offense in the league last

year According to synergy when they did run. The floor so just ticking up the volume this year, has helped and this season their ninth in transition points. Per game and then in the, Half, Court Honestly jalen brunson just cooked them every single. Which way he did some damage and drop, coverage against like like getting downhill and hitting, little floaters Or Like Wendell carter junior when he would switch out on. To him he got him a couple, of times but he was like Torching the magic guards

all over. The floor one of the big things he was doing that was Killing Both Jalen sug's Anthony And anthony black was. Rejecting screens this is a, little basic like fundamental. Basketball thing if you're a ball handler at, any level this is a good lesson for you. To learn when guards are chasing over the top, of screens

there's a basic footwork that, they. Use right so like They if i'm like dribbling out, ball screen and let's say the ball screen is on my right hand Side and i'm in a, high Hesitation like i'm going to the Right and i'm getting close to, the screen the on ball defender is going to begin a series of like footwork to deal with, the screen and a lot of cases that's going to be getting that, top foot your left foot in, this case for chasing a right

handed player over a screen going to, the right you're gonna get that left foot over the top of the top foot of the screener so that you can sidle, up along keep chesting up the guard and try to beat him over the top of the, screen right or at the very least to chase him over the top right so that you can stay attached and apply that, back pressure which is such a fundamental part of drop. Coverage.

Defense right but a lot of times what you can do in that situation is catch them as they're starting to prep to go over the screen by snatching back across. Your Body And, JAYLEN brunson, i Think got black with this twice and He Got jalen suggs with. It once but he just sits with that hand up in, the ball up in that right, handed hesitation and then as soon as that defender starts to kind of bail on him to prep for, the screen he just snatched across,

his back across his body to his. Left hand and then it's like a, double wayman because not only do you shed the on, ball defender but the. Screen defender the guy who's defending, the screener he's coming up to, the level or at least up into, like somewhere preparing for a drop coverage on the opposite side of. The screen so when you get downhill on, that side you can find some real. Driving Lanes and jalen was getting to the basket easy with that kind. Of stuff did

a ton of Damage To. ANTHONY black i Didn't Think. Anthony black as Much as i'm A Big anthony, BLACK believer i just didn't think he had a particularly good defensive Game. Against brunson he kept getting up out of his stance and like kind of giving natural Angles and brunson was just absolutely killing him in. This one and then if he Ever got Tristan to Silver Or, desmond bayne his eyes, lit up Or The tyas jones was

the other guy that he. Was getting anytime he got any of, those guys his eyes just lit up and he just killed those GUYS in. Iso quickly but he did a lot of Damage to Suggs And anthony black in. This one forty points on sixteen for twenty. Seven shooting just a remarkable Season from jaylen runs and actually his highest permanent scoring rate of. His career if you take a scoring rate at per thirty, six minutes it's the highest mark of his entire career and he's doing it

on over sixty percent. Trough shooting really impressive. Stuff There Carl anthony towns Just Torched Wendell carter junior kind of that combination of like the jump shot and his face. At footwork he was just getting easy Drives on wendell all. Night long he just kind of turn and face and you just look at the rim with the ball in,

the pocket and that would Get we wendell to step. Up. Too much he got him with a jab step out of the left corner and got a. Big dunk he had two big drives on him in the fourth quarter where he just ripped through to. His right the cat just puts your bigs in those weird positions where they have to guard. In Space and kat is just such a gifted driver of the basketball when his shot is like causing that sort of of, you know kind of antsy defense from those bigger centers that don't know how

to guard out on. The perimeter he Absolutely Torched Wendell carter junior in. This game so many little wrinkles In the knicks, offense tonight Like The Karl Anthony McHale bridge's two man game was. Killing it kat had one where he threw this beautiful wrap around pass as mkale was cutting off of him off of the. Right elbow early in, the game they ran a ball Screen where bridges through a beautiful little lob Pass to kat right there in.

The lane we saw a lot of ball Screens Between josh Hart And mitchell robinson that were getting some good. Looks too kind of a random little wrinkle in their. Bench units they have so many little bits of off ball movement that helped make things easier. For them like there was a play where Og and andob got a wide open three in the, right corner where at the beginning of, The possession OG's in the. Left corner McHale's in the. Right corner they're running action, out top and

the two guys just decided. To swap they're, just like you, know what rather than just, stand still why don't we just cross along. The baseline and so the two of them just xed along the baseline and The two magic defenders were caught ball Watching And og andnobi runs out to the. Right corner he's. Wide open he ends up hitting, A three and just all of that extra, ball movement all of that extra those transition pushes the little bit of like, you know motion and variety they've added to.

Their offense and, THEN honestly i think they're starting to benefit from the continuity, as well just from how long those guys have all been. Playing together they're just playing

at a really really. High level five straight wins For, the knicks now sole possession of the second seed In, the east and an offensive rating of one, twenty two which is now the second and best offensive rating in THE, entire nba just Behind The denver nuggets and now a date With The San antonio Spurs on, tuesday night which should be a. Fun ONE and i would imagine at That point Victor women yama will be in a little bit higher minutes total on the magic front real quickly

before we get out. Of here they looked really Good When jalen suggs was moving well and scoring the. Ball well that combo of Him And desmond bane together was really causing problems for the, next defense just because they were both getting some pretty good like pick and roll

looks against like traditional kind of drop coverage type. Of looks but Then When jalen suggs started to like favor that groin injury and he started losing the ability, to move That's where palo being so out of rhythm became a problem because it was just Like Only desmond bane that really could, create anything and it kind of looked like a void of offensive talent at. That Point and palo's just really far from the best version of himself, right now like he's very out, of shape looks out.

A rhythm every jumper was short off the front of, the rim even some of his closer ones to, the basket and they just got so many open looks. From three it kind of reminded me of some Of those magic playoff runs where they just were getting good looks

from three and couldn't knock. Him down and, You Know anthony black is the main guy looking at There like i'm A Big anthony, black believer but he's the biggest thing standing between him being just like an exciting young player and like a foundational piece for this team is the stuff that You Know jalen suggs does when he's at, his best which is just being a more reliable catch and, shoot shooter but good showing overall From the magic in. This tournament they just have to figure out a way to.

Stay healthy one of the problems is all these guys that are hurt for them are guys that have a history of. Getting hurt franz has been, Hurt before palol

has been. Hurt Before jalen suggs seems to break down every time he starts playing, good basketball and he's had a couple of good games in, a row and here goes another, groin, injury right and so kind of a depressing end to it in, that SENSE but i am still a believer in this magic team is you need to get healthy and they need a couple of guys to pop, as shooters and this thing can come together and they can be a. Dangerous team but really Excited

For nick Spurs on. Tuesday night i'm not one hundred percent sure what our schedule is, right NOW but i would assume we're going live. That night so for, RIGHT now i just planning us going live on YouTube after the final buzzer of that Game on. Tuesday night THAT'S all i have, for. Tonight guys is always as sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting us and supporting. The show

what a fun night. At basketball that was one of those cool moments FOR us nba fans where you can feel like the beginning of something special there with the rivalry Between the thunder And. The spurs it's going to be a, fun. One everybody Enjoy. Your sunday we'll be Back on monday morning with our typical. Power rankings episode should see a couple of teams. Moving around there should. BE fun i will see you, guys then