Midseason Awards Special ft. Kendrick Perkins | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME Basketball

Published Jan 26, 2022, 3:51 AM

The NBA season is almost halfway over and the boys are joined by Kendrick Perkins for a special full episode of ALL THE SMOKE where they hand-out their midseason award picks. Plus, they talk Lakers, Nets and more. 

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M hm hm. Welcome back to another episode of All the Smoke. We got a special guest in Today Man and recurring guests on our show, Big Perk. We're gonna have a mid season review, talk, some game, talk, some ship. Make sure you guys enjoyed this episode. Alright, fellas, mid season awards and questions. I want you guys to give me your starting five. How do you feel who's playing the best this season? Your guests quite on the spot. I'm gonna guest with our family, you know, I may. I mean, you know what? Am I building my start in five like a team that I want? Or I gotta select from great players what you want. I'm gonna take your honest moving. I'm started out my players today, players today, I'm taking your honest. Look, I'm taking you honest, and I'm putting them right at the center position. Hold on, Jack, who's your Today's who's just sing? Who's just embed with Joel? And beat myself my center? What fun? Y'all up? I'm gonna take Lebron. Hold hold on, don I thought we was building out. Yeah, we're gonna build it. But if you know I'm moving, okay, so it's cool. Then I'm moving honest, people where you want to go ahead, that's why, that's why my son is alright cool. So I'm building the team to win with superstars, my point guard. I got need somebody else going out of this the rock bill, a live thread, be a threat the basket going with John Murray at my that's this guy, yeah, my point God, damn right, the duck side your point guard. Man, y'all know which way I'm going. I'm going to Kyre all day. I'm not mad, question it. I ain't mad. They can't. Nobody can't. Nobody can't, and I want. I want to go with my brothers CP, but it's hard to pass up on Staff. I'm gonna take Staff is my PG you got. I'm sucking with him working with it. So I'm building my squad. I got yann Is at the five, John the one, So I got my pick and roll action with the live threat motors. Right now now, I need a stretch big or four. I'm gonna get Kevin Durant and I'm gonna slide him to the power for position. Yeah, because he's a sniper. Don't need the ball in his hands to be able to get buckets shoot the three of the high clip going with Katie as my stretch for a powerful that's crazy right there. That's super crazy for me for my stretch for uh, I'm gonna go Yokich. So I'm going I'm building a big team. I'm going back to the San Antonio San Antonio Spurs day, So I'm going too big. We're gonna spread this my fun out and make him work. I'm gonna go my power My power forward is gonna be a healthy Anthony Davis. And my power forward is Anthony David's ever gonna be healthy. And yeah, I'm from my team, from my team. Ye when we're talking about players today, so you you you're asking for a banged up player that possibly not gonna be there in two weeks. Not no bullshit, No on my team. You know what, you might be right, he might be healthy because I ain't gonna lie. My joints and ship was hurt when I was pulling up and whatever you gave me. You know what I'm saying. Up, I'm solid right now. I might go touch the room. You know we had something ready for you. Shout seven leaves ahead. So so I'm next position. Mm hmm. I needed I need a to guard. I need a too guard. I need a too guard, need a two way defend. The two guard that could snipe and played defense. He just got back. Give me Clay Thompson. That's what I was going. That's definitely give me Clay talk. I got the first pick. You have the advantage. I got somebody else and I'm not. I'm good. I'm good, Okay, So look, so that's what we're gonna do. That's what we're gonna do. Then at my shooting guard, Ah, I'm gonna have to get a dog and somebody that could gool. I'm gonna go Jimmy Butler. I ain't mad at it. I'm not mad at that at all. I'm gonna go for my too. I should get two picks now because I've had the last picks my littlest day. We can't go back on Vers and Jackie. So my two, I'm gonna go with Devin Booker and my three, I'm going with Kauai Leonard Nice. I got Steph bo, Kauai Lebron and Anthony Davis nine Nice. So it's my pick, right, Yeah, who are you closing your team off with? Who you got so far? You got Kyrie, you got embed, you got yo, Jimmy Butler and my last pick to close things out on my side. You know, I'm going with James Hard and I can't pass the months. I ain't mad at that small look up big ain't up front small and I see, I see I could dig. They're gonna make up for a lot of mistakes on defense. I could dig jage well, I think I may shock y'all with deal shock y'all this ship. But I'm looking at my line up and I got y honest at the five, Katie at the four. So I got scored, got y'all got Clay Thompson. So I need a wing defender. I need a wing defender. I need a guy that's capable of knocking down shots. But I need a guy with size and lent. Okay, size and lent like six a six nine listed maybe six ten. I'm going with Jeremy Grant. He can score two. I'm gonna who pick bron me Yeah, not bad. I'm going to Jeremy Grant if you need it, and then he definitely plays d. You really only need them with you know, ten points three bucks, yes, sir, okay, but that's our current five. Next up, our top three m v P candidates at the midpoint, park will start with you goddamn. So here is the thing, all right, I feel like this year is different when it comes down the m v P. I think that we've ever had this many at this point, we don't. And to be honest, it could switch every month because just like they're putting out a number. So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go with the three in my opinion, that's been the most consistent, like they didn't have no bumps and bruises. And I'm going with Steph Curry. Oh, I'm going with John Moran. And people can say Memphis win eleven and two without a message, y'all know how that how that worked, you know what I mean? Somethings just rally together. Then the other pony just don't respect you, like the yeah, right, And I'm not disrespecting the Memphis Grizzlies. But then at number three, number three, I gotta I want to go with k D. Katie been out. I gotta go with Joe L. N B. Here's why I was one of them. I thought that Philly, No, I actually I thought that phil it was gonna be a top six seed right there, top five seed in the Eastern Conference, and people, a lot of people thought they would go, you know, being that play in at the playoffs without Ben Simmers and now every single night you could count on Joe Be to get you thirty Who well been this way? I don't matter, to be honest, outside of Katie and Kyrie, I don't know if anybody else is more skilled than him there those two. I mean he with all the respect, I said this a few weeks back to me, he's the best big in the game. And that's saying a lot, motherfucker. So I'm a big fan of Ebat. I'm not mad since you talked about in bed. If you're in bad right now, having this season, you are, and you know that Darryl Morey and Elton Brand are sitting on Ben Simmons. Are you mad because you've had an injury play career, you're playing probably the best basketball of your career, and your and your team is sitting on Ben Simmons. He's not coming back, no matter what the funk they say or do, He's not coming back. Are you mad? If you're Joe mbiad and you go have a conversation with the front office, like can you trade this dude so we can see who's gonna be on our team and try to really make this run because you know they're not gonna make it far without getting whatever they're gonna get for Ben Simmons. That I'm not mad. I'm not mad. Let me tell you why I'm not mad. Because you don't think that they didn't have that conversation with Joe ellen By right, So what I'm saying is like conversation had to be had, like before all this transpired, and Joe ellen b before the season, he came out and he said it. You know what I mean, Hey, look, I can't worry about Ben Simms. I gotta worry about going to win some games with the guys we got right now. So it showed me already where his mind was, no, no, no, but I'm getting to this, so something had to be said. I'm gonna say, straight up, it's this is real life. This is not rumors. Okay they no matter how much he may try to deny, But right now, I don't think I think Philly want to win. I know they're not gonna win the championship unless they make a big move. But I think they're thinking more so about next season. You see what I'm saying, And so I'm gonna just give you hints and you can figure it out. But James Harden didn't signed his contract extension, all right. He didn't sign He was supposed to sign it. He was supposed to go Katie Kyle Ree. James Harden didn't happen, all right, so he insigne it. Now James Harden camp is telling people and Philly we want to come play with them be next year. This ain't a lot of his facts, but he didn He's telling the Brooklyn Nets, the ownership group different. You see what I'm saying. Yeah, so what And I never said I ain't telking no about this ship, but this has happened in real LuFe, you got damn, I gotta get all the mos. So that's so now, so not in me like because of who wouldn't be is he's a dog and he want and he want to win. Can you imagine that picking roll coming down here with Harden coming at you wouldn't be just setting a big pick on the best game in the league easily. But that's that's what that said. So that's why I m b ain't doing no complaints. So you got Steph Murant and be Jack excuse me, m v P. I'm going stuff. I'm going exactly I know, excuse me us, and I'm going to beat mm hmmm mm hmmm. Yeah. Yeah. People's argument with Steph Curry he's been off four months. When I laughing, I hear your thoughts on that. Oh he's been cold for a month. He can't be in the conversation anymore like you would basketball. If you want to get taping cool, you shouldn't want to last year. Ye, So thet when I go there, but here, thank you. So the unanimous person, So the unanimous person on all of this, because I'm gonna start with Steffs. So Steph, the unanimous got across the board. I got k D and then I got you. Honest, I really I've been not a critic, but someone who's you know, always been saying, you know, for Milwaukee to get past, for us to believe in you. We talked about or also with lay the first to believe in you, you gotta win it. We talked about on the other day similar way, you know, the way we were talking about the jazz, but the way we look at Milwaukee, like we wasn't really believing in Yannice m VPS until you win it. And to me, Johannice is continued to improve and get better. He's a dog with the motor picking up his skill. Though, like it's hard to say, like you said, I agree, We've never had at this point the season so many candidates and we're probably missing a few people, you know what you mean, But those are three, um at this point, at the midpoint, I got one thing is go ahead, see the thing is with Jannice. He made me up believe it. But I had to see it, right, I had to see it, Like I wanted to see that game six. I want to see him go up to the free throw line. Because a lot of people and Jack Canal, the Big Bro was on the same page, they wouldn't understanding what we were saying about the Badman and Robbin Ship right right, Like who wasn't saying that Chris Milton is the absolute best player on the team. That's not what we were saying. All we were saying was in the in the actually the stats actually showed it, but we don't get into stats like that. But every time it was crunch time, he was that motherfucker gonna get those buckets. But if you watch the game, Perk but was calling plays for Chris, Middleton and christ He wasn't calling for you know what I'm saying, But that's motherfucker that don't know the game. But it's different now. I just don't want us to get bored with Yann and what the numbers that he's putting up. I mean, when you say the most when you say the most dominant players in shack Chris, that's some explanatory rights. And they don't then one moment, Steph Kurt check this out. People saying he's going through a slump, and he may be right, but bro, people, you got organizations showing their fucking hand already like they're running playoff type Schames to go out the three. But even if he does go through that, like they're showing their hand in January detailing a playoff like you don't pull off to the playoffs, come on, messed off with that and Draymond coming back nasty. Moving along the top five teams at the midpoint, Jack, I'm gonna start with you top five teams at the midpoint. Let's go go to State Phoenix. Uh, we'll go New Jersey, Brooklyn, Brooklyn my bad when I was there. That's what I'm saying. Milwaukee. I'm from Memphis and the like the dark Side. Ain't nothing wrong with Listen, Ain't nothing wrong with the dark Side. I'm going I'm gonna go to Stay Phoenix. Can you not? Can you not? I'm putting Chicago in there. I'm putting Memphis in there. Number five hard Man number five and number five hard But here's the thing with Woma. Put the Bucks at five and not Brooklyn. It just hasn't been enough for me. When you look at Brooklyn, like the consistency with James Harden been at you know what I'm saying, Like he shows up every nine, and then you know what's up with Kyle, Like you know what I mean? How the chemist should go work? And here's the thing about Brooke. I don't give a funk. Would nobody say you cannot name me one championship there was one without having a defensive anchor in the middle of center. You can play as much small ball as you want, but you in some kind of way, You're gonna look at every championship team they had some type of center, a guy that could play center, anchor that defense in the Brooklyn Kness just don't have that. Yeah, So I'm going with the books at five my top five. I got the Warriors, I got Phoenix, I got Memphis, I got Milwaukee, and I got Miami. And although high on Chicago, high on Chicago, and I think I think I think they've exceeded with all the respects, I think they've exceeded expected to. People want to change, but you know I think they Yeah, I think they've forgot that's your team, that you you're two. Yeah, I think it. Chicago has had a great season at this point. But when when I said at the beginning, Sea And I thought they were top four team, people like, no, they're number one right now. But I think once they come back down to Earth. They're going through some injuries. Right now, I think they'll come back down in the pack. Because I want to say, it's only a two and a half gap between the one seed and the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. So a bad week and have you at six for one. So because we all felt that we're all feel in this way, we just we was just like we can't put them in just yet Calves, I like that team. Well, that's leading to let's talk about them. Let's lie, that's leading to our surprise team of the year. Let's go So would you give that your team? Right there? That's it, that's it. I mean seriously, I'm I'm looking out Bernie Bigger Staff Jr. Yeah, man doing this, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm looking at a right and I'm at this at the start of the season. I'm like, at some point Kevin Love is gonna get traded. Kevin Love still up, matter of fact, like coming in off the bench. I'm like Evan Mobley Washington in college. I'm like, he got potential, but it's gonna be two or three years. No, it's right now. It's right now. And dar Is Garland. Okay, that first, Jared Allen, he's for facts, Jared Allen bating his asshole. But man, listen, when it comes down to Darre's Garland. People have to realize this. It could have been a lot of things that would change in that draft class was ion and job right, I would like, we have to realize this. There is Garland in college before he tours a c L was actually considered the best point and just in that draft. But because his knee injury, you know what I mean, it's set them back in the draft. But if he was healthy, it could have been a whole We could be talking about some other things. But it's the Calves, man like, like they ain't balking, ain't talking about but they and they got wings, They got athletely young wings, Core Row and all those guys. That's some dogs. I think they've created life after Lebron, you know what I mean, Like I finally have a new identity over the Inland. The same thing with Memphis. Will touch on that later, but you know that that grindhouse, grit and grind zbo and them like that. That Memphis team has created a new identity UM as well. But I really like that team, your surprise team at the midway point of this season. Man, you said that Memphis by far. I mean I was high in Chicago. Chicago, you know, started out to a good start with the team. They had a new team to to be at the top of the East like they are. But Memphis, for sure, the West is that it's a different animal and they've been going to the Eastern conversation. Western conference is strong people, so I got to go with mad I'm not mad at that. Uh my pick of Chicago. They were my pick at the beginning of the season. I'm not going to change that. I love what they got going on over there. I love with the bar de Rosen has brought to that team as far as obviously you see what he's doing with the big shots and game winners and points. But I think his leadership in and and he you know, studied under Pot for a few years and he's been in the wars in Toronto. I love Crusoe and Ball in the back court, that defense. When they're both healthy, they really get to a Voostovich is a little slow. I think they need a stretch, for an athletic stretch forward their career to really take them to the next level. But I looked they got a young, hungry team. Billy Donovans over doing this thing, man. So that's my team up to this point. Most improved player perk Man, most improved player. I can't go with a guy like the conversation, Yeah, like you know what I mean, after number two, you want Rookie of the Year, Like the next step is all starts. Like I'm not saying most improved is beneath you. But it almost it's almost like even that one year when people was almost like, man, Lucas should get most improved, You shouldn't you know, we got like the expectations of high to put him in the m v P cast Rent Like, now I'm Rents in the m v P category to me, and I agree with you instead of the most improved because he's had a great leap man so many it's so many out there, man, Like you know, you got Bronson, man who Luca was out he putting up big numbers. So I mean, damn, you got Jordan Pool. But I think join Pool gonna be affected by Clay being back, so I don't see him being now towards the tail end of it. But if I gotta go with the most improved, man, I gotta go with Desmond Baks. I'm staying on the dog side of Memphis a matter of time. That's your average and nine point this your average at eighteen like no dealing Brooks, no problem. I got killer right here, and then he added more to his game. It's not just I'm labeled as a sniper. It's not like I'm getting to the rap one to driple pull ups and I ain't the hole. I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'm gonna go to Thomas with Lebron James and okay cool, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Tyler Hero. Oh good, I think my mother. He talked, He talked a lot of talking. We love guys that talking talking about backed it up, and he backed it up. So I gotta go with Tyler Hero and he really stepped in. Darla Andrews dad going on beginning say he should be an All Star. I was about to be he should be an All Star. I'm gonna go with Miles Bridget No, no, no, no, I'm gonna go with Yeah, Myles Bridges and Charlotte made a great move. We talked about it earlier in the season. Made a great move by turning down Charlotte's Do you think it was a sixty million dollar day at the beginning of the season. He got itself a lot more money. The way he's been playing this year, career year, Him and Lamello's chemistry is is is unbelievable. So to me, those are the two cornerstones of that franchise. And I'm a big fan of h Miles Bridges. The rookie of the Year is talented class um. Some guys haven't really you know, I guess projected the way we thought they were at this point, but it's it's a tough thinging they're gonna be fine. But park who at this crafway point usual rookie of the Year mm hmm, God damn right now is between Scottie Barnes and Molbley. Kay couldn't have been bothered by the way Detroit's they like he he didn't have a triple double. They just fucking sucked. So it's not his fault. But he's actually putting up the numbers. But man, I'm gona have to go with Evan Mobili top ten in black and blocks like top ten down there playing like a season vet, like you know what I mean, like playing this role. I'm looking out versatile years. He's he's putting up the numbers, but you gotta watch them. You gotta actually watch him, you know what I mean. Like I think he's up there with one and two in every category. But man, I'm I'm i gotta go with Mobile Man at that it's really I mean, when you look at that's the only person you can really go if if you look at like the effect he brings on the game with his team like he does, he does a lot, you know what I'm saying. And like you said, playing to play a role like that as a rookie, you gotta give him his props. I think he got that locked. Yeah, shout out now I agree the same thing for me. And what's crazy is you know he went to that seat, so I got to see him play, and he played really well in college. But I think he's gonna be a better pro than you know, sometimes it's do their transer. I think he's gonna like he's game has built for the pros and uh, he's definitely someone that's gonna, you know, be there for a long time. Park. Who's your favorite team? I mean I already know the anth No, I ain't gonna keep righting with Memphis like that. Who's your favorite team to watch this season? Every fine team to watch them? Yeah, yeah, but they are, I mean ain't number one, but it's other teams I could give some credit to. So I'm gonna I'm gonna go obviously Memphis at one, but everybody know this ship I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Damn Man, I want to go with the Hawks, but they've been losing. I don't really know if I can go against the grade against against Memphis, do they Son? I want. I'm trying to give somebody else to benefit. Is that more exciting team in the NBA right now outside of Memphis? I think that the most exciting team in the game. That's what I'm saying. Well, I mean go to State. Yeah, yeah, that's my team, but that I like, I'll sit down and it's just some time. Just something about Memphis. Man. Yeah, I'm not mad at that. Jack, you gotta go go to State with me. I love to play, but I also like watching the Nets play when they got all three of those guys. Yeah, I like smart teams, you know, go and stay. There's a smart team that evolved movement similar to the teams. Oh, that's what I was thinking of. It wasn't a house Charlotte. Charlotte is fun to watch Charlotte, Mellow Nobs and Ship, but I can't get pick them up, but I put them sick. My team is Golden State, Dark Horse Jack, a team that maybe not not a lot of people are talking about, but you think has a chance to to get to the big game, the big Finals. It's kind of hard, man, because this year, I think the front runners are gonna be the ones that we can rely on. You know, I don't think it's gonna be a team that's gonna maybe Yeah, I really, I really don't think. But if I had to pick a dark horse, I would have to go ship. It's just a Memphis show man, Memphis show how this thing going, park Man? You know what, I think? Memphis a move away. I think Memphis. You know, if they you know, they say, hey, man, we can live without dealing Brooks, give up for first round picks and maybe Ty Jones and go get jay Len Brown, then we have a different conversation. I just don't think that there yet. Brown. But look, I believe that alone. That's just I'm wishing to thinking. Yeah, I'm wished for thinking. But go ahead. My dogs is the heat. It's the heat. And I because they got dogs, the old dogs, all dogs. So this is this is a team that went to the finals just two years ago. And then you go out there, you are you add col get Jimmy but I mean j G P J. Tucker Bam. Then got bam is playing like more like he has some rest man. He's snatching the screw like everything is deep shoulder. I'm ain't got the defense. And then man like you said, Tyler Hero and then we already know what Jimmy go bro Man, Tyler Hero Man. So I'm looking and then to me so disrespect to any other coach out there, man was the best in the game period period when it comes the game adjustment. I'm talking about adjustments, not at half time, in the time many and this we're about to go to this? Are we about to go and this and make them do this? I haven't seen that man at that my dark horse. I was gonna pick Miami, but since you picked Miami, I'm gonna go with you. I'm gonna go with Chicago again. Inexperience overall, but the mar has been there and when I feel like whenever you play hard man, you got a chance. And they got a lot of dogs over there in Chicago too, so if they can stay healthy, they will be my dark horse to reach the finals. Six Man of the Year, I gotta go with Tyler. Tyler Hero many year. He got to be something one of those awards you get no argument out of me about that. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Tyler Hero too, But I also want to give a shout out to Buddy Heeled up in Sacramento. Not that I just worked there, but he's right behind Tyler Hero and scoring points off the bench, having a good year over there to although the team's not playing well. But I definitely am rolling with Tyler Hero as well. Defensive Player of the Year. Yeah, start with you, Defensive Player of the Year. I'm going Jomond m I'm going to jerk. If I was the numbers guy, stats guy, I would have to go with real to go bird like everybody else because the per hundred possessions bullshit analytics and all that ship that sucked up the game. Oh but if I'm going on the ye test person that straps up, damn godly man, you know what, you know what, I'm gonna go out on a limb and I'm gonna say it's about time for like a guard a wing to win it, not just bigs or you know. So, I'm I'm I'm gonna go with mkill Bridge. You've been locking up. He's definitely first team on defense this year. I mean he's on the person. I know, they could on him so long you could stand up in side shoe scratching his I'm gonna go with Draymond. I'm gonna go to Draymond because to me, he's the one guy on the lifting and guard every position on the floor effectively any night. So passion right, It's the difference between guarding my fun because coach tell you, go Guarden, are you embracing this ship? Yeah? And and to be a back line blanket at six five, Yeah, I think it's a back line blanket in the NBA six five and putting filling boys hard. Yeah. Uh. Coach of the Year perk, I'll start with you. I think you might already mentioned them, but you got at this point midway coach of the year that go biggest style call. Actually you're not. I mean, it's a lot of coaches. I feel like that's deserving of it. But man, just know, I don't know about child, but I didn't. I wasn't even thinking of the Cows being in the playoffs. Nobody I said this is another year for them to get a top ten PI you know what I mean. I wouldn't even think not not only to be in the playoffs, but one of the best. Sh I gotta go because when you come to defense and guys by and end, that's a real fliction of the respect that you have for your coach as a coach. So I gotta roll with I gotta royal with j be on this. For me, I love JB and you know I would love to put him in that position, But for what this coach has done to this team as a new team, I gotta go with Billy Donovan. I gotta go a bill of dog. I liked that. I liked that. Yeah, I'm in double up on that. I got Billy Donovan to Also, you could put Monty Williams in there. Phoenix has the best record in the game. You could really the second half of the season really gonna test Steve nash you know, we talked about this the other day. Katie's is in and out, James is you know, So Steve nashally gonna really get put to the test the second half the season. But y'all agree with you. I'm on Billy Donovan. At the beginning of the season, the two I think the two teams unanimously that everyone wanted to see in the finals was this team in l A and the Brooklyn Nets is big three. Um, let's talk about both these teams where they're kind of at at the midway point and moving forward, Parking, Let's start with the Brooklyn Nets. Thoughts on Kyrie's back and forth, now, Katie's hurt, James Hardness had an up and down year, top heavy team. UM, talk to me about the Nets. You know what that they're gonna be just fine, like healthy, They're gonna be just fine. It is the thing I tell people this all the time. I'd rather have a part time Kyrie than a no time Cyrie. So it is what it is to this point. And you have to respect the man's decision when it comes down to being vaccinated, because Kyrie Irvan is not the only player and that's not vaccinated, right right, right exactly. So you know that was never my thing with Kylerie. My thing was I just wanted him to stand on wherever he was standing. But you know when I look at them, okay, cool. We all know in the playoffs, in the playoffs, role players, role players play better, play better with at home, right, Okay? If the role with the role players the Brooklyn Nets guy and James and James Harden and Katie can win them home games in the playoffs together, then they're not who they're not who we think they are. Okay, But when you go on the road role players sometimes, you know what I'm saying, they tightened up, tightened up. Now you gotta fresh Kyrie fresh fresh coming in. They could give you that thirty forty fifty and take you home, you know what I mean. So when I look at the Brooklyn Nets and this whole situation from listening on how Kyree talk about it, the guys got his back and that's all that mattered. What every and I and I feeling them for starting it early, like let's get these reps in early so we know how idea. So I'm cool with it. Jack, What if I said, what if I threw this wrench at it? Katie's down for six weeks. My whole thing was always like he said, part time Kyrie is better than no time Kyrie. Game seven at home? But what if this team, like I said, the East is so tight right now, what if Katie's injury this team slides out of a home court advantage. Now Game sevens are on the road and you've got Kyrie for Game sevens. I mean, that's that's crazy. You brought it up the other day. That's crazy. That's the crazy way to look at it too. But I think with Katie going down right now, you know, you got to look at the good side of it. It's just giving him some time to get rest. He had lot been on him, uh this season with Carrie being out and James being herd so it's been a lot oppressure on Katie. So this and to give him a time to rest reboot his mind. I mean then to something that you know that's factual that we ain't brought up. The only thing about paying the fine so Kye can play full time. So we don't know what next team is gonna be there at the beginning this season. But for us, we want to see the whole. We want to see the whole next team healthy. But I'm I want to re interest uthing that Perk said. I'm not confident in their bench at all. It was confident in Joe Harris last year. What do you do leg So I'm not. I'm not confident in the guys that got coming off the bench. If anything's happened, if enough the star goes down. I started not having a good game, you know what I'm saying. So they've bench or something I can't rely on. So who you leaning on? So you're leaning on the Big Three, You're leaning on LaMarcus, Argists, Patty Mills and Blake. I'm leaning on the Big Three and LaMarcus Argists and Patty Mills because Patty Mills has been there. You know, Patty Mill is gonna do his job on both ends. Marcus has Shawn signs you know, of being the same guy, but we know his role. He's not gonna get that many touches like he used to playing with those guys. They gotta go through him. The perk was talking about this stuff, that thing right now, they gotta feature him a little bit more out James Simmon, James at home. It was it was like Leving and two, Eleving and two when he scores over I think like nineteen points. Yeah, you know, I hear these stats, but it's true. You watch them play. They go through them off the bench that was using them. They was using them as almost a six man it's type and you can play sounding for them. Yeah. Um, so a healthy Brooklyn Brooklyn nets can we can we picture this lineup direct people, we go off with nets. Picture this picture this Patty Mills at the one, Kyre at the two James, the Marcus and Katie. That's a good line up in these days. Again, in this day's game, they're gonna get beat up on the on the glass. You don't think, um kay, they'll get in there, get your he gonna get in the team to get your tin. Now they're gonna get beat up on the glass. Change to get your tiny. They're gonna get beat up on the glass. So just because they're small, but I like a lot. That's that's the killer offensive and that's what they might need to go to. Those are their best players. That's the best five players. Yeah, man, that's a lot of that's a lot of a lot of heat. Now you want Los Angeles Lakers. UM eight has been out going on six weeks back soon. Lebron has transition to working smarter, not harder. So he's working on that pinch post in that block area that Kobe and might used to dominate. The game is going through him. Westbrook up and down season. Um Taylan Horton Tucker not playing the way he thought he was, well what they thought he was gonna play. Trevor Reaves is working himself back in the big experiment hasn't been working. DJ hasn't been playing at all. Credit to Dwight Howard. Whenever he's been called upon, he's played well. Um thoughts on this team, Malik Monk having a great season. Shout out Malik Monk, Dandy Johnson, Stanley Johnson. They need to sign him for the year. He's that young bulldog they that they don't have that they need. But park thoughts on the Lakers. Oh, you know when they first when they joined, right, we was like it gotta work, it gotta work. They got too much, you know, firepower. Then all of a sudden they age started to show, right, the game started all of a sudden. You see Golden State with these athletic wings and and they're faster and things to that nature. So when I look, when I look at the Lakers and start with Russ, and I'm watching Russ and and his as he gets older, right as he's getting older, his athleticism is the climate a little bit, it's the climbing a little bit. That's why that fifteen foot we used to see, they used to go in for him is short now because he's not getting the elevation on his shot anymore. Right, So when you look at him attacking the basket and like, yeah, we know we saw him blessed Rudy may he blessed his game, but think about the lay up so help him get caught in between whether he was gonna dunct. So with that being said, it's almost like he's not fighting to get up over screens. And then when I hear Russ say ship like after the after the games, he was like, it's more it's more to basketball. Is it's more to life than just basketball. And I'm like, na, Russ, ain't no, Like no, bro, Like you came to l A for one reason and one reason only even if it is, and ain't it is, But like no, that that ain't. So I'm like, I don't know where he's at, but I will say this. I will say this, Malik Monk. Yeah, when they are fully healthy, he that Mothercker needs to be in the rotation period. Was the lefty from Miami. Hendrick Dunn is still but he's tough, but Braun moving to the center and playing the center the way he did, a lot of people don't see that mess. It you see that message was the A D coach asked me to play the sin I'm gonna show you how to play the ciner B said, I got magic in me too. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. So when you get back, I want you to and not not us force you to play sin a D. I want you to waste this ship watch I embrace it, still dominate and enjoy. And y'all y'a already know, like I know when you hurt, and no matter how look, when you're hurting, you're sitting on the sideline for the standard period of time. You start seeing things through a different lens. You start evaluating the game a little bit differently. And that's what I think that Braun ain't gonna say ship to a deal about it? Here go, I got the five spot. That's a message to A D like I need I need you on this when you get back. Mm hmm. But I think Lebron and a D at the four or five however they played together, it's gonna be seen. See. But they're not coming. I mean they're not coming questions. What's that again? They're not coming out of was I don't even think they have a chance, and that's that. It's hard to go against Braun because he didn't proved us wrong for us get in to the finals. But Matt, I just I just can't see it because teams are not scanned, absolutely not. They look forward to let after that game, they look forward to open that as. The only thing I'll say is I think to combat what you said, because they are an older, slower team. To me, they're built for the playoffs, and I think right now they're on Coup's control, knowing that at the end of that we just got to get in and then that's gonna be our best shot. And I'm not saying you could flip the switch, because an older team who knows if you could flip the switch, Lebron is always gonna give you a great chance. But I say this team is built for seven game serious, because they're gonna get days off in between. The game slows down in the playoffs, so I think that's where they're gonna be at their best. I feel like they're gonna hit their stride after the playoffs, if that excuse me, After all Star breakup, they can get healthy. But we'll see. To me, the best Lakers in the playoffs because it's a seven game series. It's gonna slow down and they won't have to be like you said this with team Jack thoughts on them? Can can they come at if everyone is healthy? Can they come out of the West? Yeah? If they fired the head coach? Oh no, Jack, No No. I've never been a fan of Vocal. I've never been a fan of Vogal. I just know I don't think he's the coach for this team. Bro. And I've been right, godamn it, not this thing. You know, the championship team was new k D and Braun knew they're gonna They're good enough to figure it out for a season. They're getting older. You add in all these pieces. He can't handle all that rust. Miller just too much for him. And that's why the ain't coming together because they don't respect him, right, I could see that. But its locker room down. If you have Frank Vogel shoes and y'all acquired a Russell Westbrook that's making forty three million dollars to you, not not you. I don't not you. I don't want you. I know how you were reacting. I want you to put your so like in my frame of just a coach, not take it, you know, go into a whole another character. Just how can like what you're supposed to tell Russell Westbrook about getting up over screens? You know what I mean about? Stop gambling about stop leaving your feet to pass the ball when you learn this ship at the age. I got a better one for your big Femi, I got a better one for you. Fuck being somebody else and pretending I'm gonna go with red Greg Papovitch, I'm gonna set your ass down. Fuck the money, funk how much I'm paying you. You're not helping us win. I don't know how good you win. I'm a Greg Papa bitch. I'm gonna set you at the end of the bench until you buy into what we need you to do to be successful, not what you want to do or what's been successful other places. We're talking about what we need you to do. Here. You you you can. You bring a lot to the game, but you're not doing what we need to do at the times we need you to do it. You know, say so, I'm gonna go Greg Popas, I'm gonna see your ass down. But look, do you think do y'all think Vogel has that type of power and support from the front office because we know the politics side. Is that a conversation bron can have for him. Brown ain't no guy that want to have conversations. See See that's the thing. See that's the thing. People don't really but that's the thing. Ain't having no conversation with different Come on to the office, Russ. I'm gonna sit you down and just like I did Tony Park in the championship game, I'm gonna sit you down, let Speedy cast and play because he compete competing with Stefan Marbre and all these other guys. Jason Kid, you're not competing. So you know what, Tony, I'm gonna sit you down. I don't know how mad you is. I'm gonna sit you down and play speedy because that's how that's what's gonna get us. Only see only see maybe three coaches doing that in the NBA, POPA and Hoyluke. Yeah. Yeah, I don't see no other coaches doing that. I don't see no other coaches doing that now. But I feel you though, man, it's just it's just man. But now I feel your point on that stack. But but the boys just haven't been playing because here's the thing, and I want to say this, here's the thing. Just look at the wind when they beat the Jazz of thenight, Frank Voga said fuck it. When they made they run. He had Braun, he had uh Horton Tucker, Avery Bradley was guarantee, Stanley Johnson who's on a ten day and Belik Monk who's on the minimum. He had those five guys and he wrote that ships about the three minute up and then he said, come on the Russ. We got the seven point lead. If you fuck this off you, it's on me. I guess, but that's what I'm saying. So it was people that bought in and actually did the ship that he asked them to do. And I when I go back to even a guy like Mello best score, we get that one of the greatest scores the game I've ever seen. But when it comes down to it, I need that effort on defense. He's giving you sixth thing points on one end, but he's giving up thirty to thirty five on the other. He can't slide his feet that. I mean, what you want to do if you vote with what you're doing, because I know broad advocating for don't get your drink defense. All right, um man, it's coming up on two years. Uh since the passing of Kobe, Gigi and the other people on the helicopter. Um man, sending love and enlightening energy to the family. Um perk real quick. Uh, you had two runners with Cobe in the finals, um talk to us about both them. You got one at home, then you got hurt in the finals, and they got it at home. Two thousand and ten, he said, I was at the loss was his hardest Larde series he ever took, and in the wind that was his best championship. It was it was in his loss. Cold gave everything he possibly could. Like we were to the point in two thousand and eightl we was like, you know what we're gonna give code. We we we ain't gonna give it to him, but we can't stop him. So it is what it is. You know, Ray wasn't stopping his ass. So you know what I mean that we're already battling down there with these two trees and little more old him. So it was like we gotta counsel everybody out. He gonna get his Let me tell you what that two thousand and ten Ship it hit different, and I feel like it hit different for Code because I was watching, and man, he struggled that whole game. He really kind of struggled that whole series. But every team, each the team that won that game in that series wanted to rebound in battle, and Kobe knew that ship. So in game seven, I thought he shot like maybe six for twenty four from the field. I believe he had like fifteen eighteen rebounds, six or seven. The motherfucker's was offensive to go to the free throw line, Like that's how bad he wanted this. He will, yeah, he will, And then you have to realize this it was him. Yeah, he had gassault Becausaul wasn't the same at the time, and no disrespect took us ault. But he's not in the same he's not in the same conversation with Kobe Ray Paul KG. So so in Kobe eyes, it's really is one against three. And I didn't took you, I didn't took out out one day. Yeah, one deed, I got you all. I got you one ded. You was playing well though two for you hurt your knee. You was playing really well out there trying to get it man, how to get it? Sir Jack, your moment that stands out to me. Obviously you guys have some great battles the league, but you're McDonald's all American experience, Like you said, talked to us about that, you knew the vibe coming in Code's stamp that you should have been m v P. Talked to us about that ninety six McDonald's game with Code Man. That was a good experience, man, you know, just being able to grow up with him, you know, know him as a teenager and seeing them the player he becomes, you know, one of the greatest ever to do it, you know. But for me, my greatest moment with Cold was when me and you was gonna Golden State. Uh it was a tie game, you know. Actually we're up to Kobe comes down to hit the three. I was going back and forth. I come back and hit another three. Kobe put us up. Kobe come back and hit another one. A in l A. Did I come back and hit another one? And just what happened we was playing We played them back to back nights. We played them home first in l A. Then then they go to State. But just that night, you know, so I watched that game all the time, you know what I mean. Uh, to be going back and forth with him on that on that stage was was something I always remember. But he said he was gonna be one of the great man. He did that. A lot of people say ship and don't do it now he did that. Yeah, I mean, I just got to see, you know, from going to someone I watched since I was in college up at U c l A coming up on campus, to competing, to almost getting into a fight to become a teammate, to really getting to know him as a as a brother, as a man, as a father, and just the bond we built outside of the basketball. We had some cool times during basketball. But you know, him always sent in the Twins. Every time he dropped the shoe, he send the Twins and their team shoes. If the Twins played at nine and g G played at eleven, COVID hit me the night before the time you guys played nine am covild come two hours early and watched the Twins play like I'm gonna go watch eight year olds nine year olds. But but he just did it because he loved it. So just to really get a chance to see him outside of the Mamba to get to get to get to know Kobe was a very dompe experience to me. So again, Man, rest in peace, star brother Man. We love when we miss you. Sending love to the family, the girls, sisters, Mom and Dad. Man. Make sure you check out Kobe Bryant muse on showtime. We're up next with our favorite segment fan questions. Let's get to it, fellas s F. Curry Tree. If y'all could come back on a ten day, who is a squad you with? Picking? Why? For me? I would want to go probably to Miami because I think fit that style. I think I could be a a good asset to them with score and a defender on the way to help PJ and Jimmy. I would say, Miami is more of my style. To call perk and I'm going to Miami. I'm going to Miami for everything Yo's outside of the basketball to Miami. So it is the thing. One I need to get in shape, and you know in that coachure you gotta get into two. I ain't gonna have to do much. I ain't gonna have to do what you do. You go there and kick it with you deal a little bit. You know what I'm saying, learned just how to be a vet ship. I'm with it. I'm with dope best friend, and I want to go to a healthy Lakers, but I would want to run it back from Golden States and I got hurt going into the playoffs that year in seventeen and there was a dope situation. So a healthy chance to rock with them boys to be dope. Jack, you're up at s r S fifteen ninety four. What do you think about that? The possibility of a mid season tournament n c A style? No like man like no like, like you know what, I was against the play in, and after I saw the playing we could play in, It's like, okay, the play in is the playoffs before the playoffs. I'm with that, But let's not keep adding this, Like, what's the point of even adding this and talking about two million dollars? Well, two million dollar prize to the motherfucker making forty two million. That ship don't mean that. I'll tell you this. I do got the idea for the All Star Game one on one tournament. One on one tournament was winning from two million dollars. All the top players in the league in that tournament. Who's winning. Katie's not gonna be playing Clay is not all Kyrie won't be an All Star this year. I'm going Greek. I'm going to honest to dogs, deebo everything and if you big, he go go buy you, Ego, Euro Step Dunc that hold all that. Yeah, I'm going to honest dog No Katie though, I'm going to honest at roots life form. Who had the better block? John mored two hands off the glass this year? Uh Ta Shaw prins on Reggie Miller back in old Folk. That was more meaningful. That was in the Eastern Conference finals, Right, I'm not going to either one of them. Jordan gonna pen Ron Mercer ship and fifty two hands pinned and fifty and gave him forward of that game. Stop it, y'all better do your homework. But he wasn't fifty years old, was he? Man? He was damn nil. Yeah. It was goddamn yeah yeah, party by party too, by party. Um. I would say that that obviously the Shan block is a historic block. It meant so much. But John just for how fucking little he is and the way he got it. He putting his arm pits on the on the backboard, he lets you know he's about to jump. Before he jumped to he get the steps together, he wind up and all that his hair be swinging in the back, your flying and blocking your ship that we already know. You know, like Tay Shawn saved the day with this man. Here's the thing about job it just says. It just goes to show you the type of competitor he is and a team guy. Because because he's the one that turned over the ball. So he turned over the ball and he got back in transition and he really meant that, like he got back not to the far I like, he got back on something like I'm trying to win something like hello, man, this dude twenty two man, Like we already know what he could do, everything else he could do, but he that team has kind of embodied his personality that and the franchise is taking his energy. Love it. You know what I love about him? No, I see him in the spot Memphis, no drinking, no nothing, saying it was up to everybody. He went in the you know what I'm saying. But he's standing alone, he's doing his own thing. He locked in, super locked in love to hear it. Skott Walker underscore twenty six. Do you gotta see the Lakers making the run of the playoffs and can the Bulls make a run in the Eastern Conference? They can make it look what's the first question? Of course the Lakers. I think the Legs are them squeezing the playoffs. They're gonna find they're gonna un run. They can do that too. It depends on how healthy they are. They can't like, we're not gonna dispect the Lakers like they ain't got Brough and Rugs. Come on now, they still got Hall of Fame with all over the roster. But can they can they turn it around in enough time when we send history shows us from being professionals. You can't just turn it on. I don't get from who you got. I'm going to the playoffs to one of the championships. But uh, I still think they can the Bulls. They can make it look interesting and you know, some things will have to go They wait for them to make it out a lot of things, you know what I'm saying, injuries with other teams and ain't talking about they say somebody has heard others. You know what I'm saying. Things got to go right for the Bulls to pull it off. I think with the Lakers, you can't count Brawn out. He's proving that to is a D. Like we're talking about a D, but a D quality like I'm talking about because I expect Bore but like he's bro. He's quietly averaging leven like and it's effen. But like if you would get the A D back to the A D where we were actually having a conversation about who will we take Jani's or a D. If you get to that a D, then you definitely can't count the Lakers out. Um, And I figured I feel I feel like their path as well, Like I feel like if the Lagacy Phoenix, Phoenix is a better matchup than them, saying go to State like in the second round or something to that nature. So I think that's what matters. But then you know, when I look at the Bulls, when I look at the East, just overall, I think east Man, the East is really wide open, and that's the fun thing about the league. So I'm looking at I'm looking at the Bulls and can they make the conference finals? Yes, that actually they really can. Like the Martin Rose exact Lavine twenty seven and points a game, we see what Alonzo Doring, We know what Alice Caruso do without even showing up in the box scores. And then Vossovich man like like he's on some other ship. And then you look at Kobe White. Man, Kobe White this last of them games has been averaging two points off the bench in the story like he's sniping it. He's sniping it. Aye, oh Good, the little backup, big fun Good who got into it with John. So yeah, they definitely could make it to the Eastern Conference finals. Balls is life? Tin, Matt, you were and you were in to think like a man? Can't you explain to us? How long did you guys do the same for? How hard was it not to laugh at Kevin Hard was crazy? That was two thousand and ten. I was with the Lakers that was coming off in surgery that summer. But we shot that basketball where Ron and rest In Peace, Russell Butler, Shannon Brown and me and Lisa Leslie against Kevin Hard and his crew and Kevin could really play, but he's so motherfucking funny. I promise you probably took us like three hours, three and a half hours to shoot this little basketball scene because he would make everything so like trying to post people and I try to grab the ball, like try to go ice, so like stop filming and try to play one on one with somebody. So it was an honored man to get down with Kevin. Definitely a funny situation. It would go. Uncle Grabs says, y'all are such big supporters of women's sports. You're fucking right, especially basketball. What for women would you take to hoop with you on the black top? I'm going down the line? Was that? So we're going one of the time. I'm going I'm going I'm gonna buy a position too. I'm going down stay at the point. I'm going sent to a Cooper at the two. I'm going Sherll Swoops at the three, I'm going Tina Cool, Tina Thompson at the four, and I'm going Lisa Less left to five. You just did that was covering fans. I'm just stay. I mean, who, I mean, who Coo? Can you really add? I mean and shift? I gotta guess. I gotta go Diana Treassi, uh six man of b Kandis Parker. Now you can't have hand. I'm taking Treasi, I'm taking Candis Parker. I'm taking ship to Bird, she's tough. I'm taking uh Sabrina as the as one of mine and Who's and then fucking big Liz Campbadge, Big List, need you on the show, Big List. So I'm I'm, I'm going, I'm going, Tina Thompson said, there Cooper chrll swoops them three and then I'm and Kandice Parker. Remember we're going to the black Top and not saying that, but we're going to the black Top time. You know what I'm saying. We might go spank a couple of guys teams. Well, that's a wrap all the smoke, Big season review with our brother Kendrick Perkins, Big Stack, my brother, you cast us some Showtime Basketball YouTube and the I Heart Platform Black Effects. We'll see y'all next week. You did

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