Speaker 1: We're back, and the Pelicans are looking like legitimate title contenders,
Speaker 1: and it appears to have some other teams in their
Speaker 1: collective feelings, which I understand. Meanwhile, the Celtics continue to
Speaker 1: dominate in the Eastern Conference, and we'll get into that
Speaker 1: and plenty. Moore with the co host of the Dunk
Speaker 1: Tales podcast, James Hollis on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray
Speaker 1: and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is my Jack got bab.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, y'all, Thanks so much for coming bye.
Speaker 1: If I said, wait, welcome so much for coming by,
Speaker 1: Thank welcome much, so much for coming by, and welcome
Speaker 1: so much, and thank us for welcome. Therefore we should
Speaker 1: welcome our guests. The man who comes from Trinny grew
Speaker 1: up in South Carolina and was a Bulls fan, then
Speaker 1: switched to Celtics once magic, I said, Magic, Michael Jordan's retired.
Speaker 1: Please welcome. Mr James Hollis. How are you so? I
Speaker 1: didn't know on my my business peeping our front street.
Speaker 1: Yeah we had to know because the second Jabari was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about the Celtics next week, and
Speaker 1: I said, okay, what's who's the guest And he said, oh,
Speaker 1: you know it's James, you know he's he was He's
Speaker 1: from saying yeah, good. But I'm like, wait, what I'm not?
Speaker 1: And obviously that's why I said, and see, that's why
Speaker 1: Trinny came in the bio. Now do I have that right?
Speaker 1: You were born in Trinidad and I was born triniad
Speaker 1: big blood across Nixon over here. Man was brilling right,
Speaker 1: that is correct, right, sir, So let the records show
Speaker 1: that my man is from Trinny. Okay, I played the
Speaker 1: fifth Wait so that when you switched to the Celtics,
Speaker 1: they were they were rough. Yeah, it was like the
Speaker 1: mL car Rick Petino era. Yeah, that's the you know,
Speaker 1: Walter Walk McCarty and then yeah, yeah, all right, my
Speaker 1: dad was in there. Jim O'Brien coached them for a
Speaker 1: little while. Yeah, I'll be down. Yeah, and then along
Speaker 1: Dark Winter for Celtics fans, the Big Three, Dan KG
Speaker 1: came into Yeah. I was like, wait, what does this
Speaker 1: roster look like again? And I'm like, yep, yep, Dana Barrows, Barrows,
Speaker 1: Tis Edni Purvis Ellison stand up, nervous, nervous purpose exactly
Speaker 1: he was the number one pick, wasn't he coming out
Speaker 1: of Louisville? Never nervous purviose that he was the first Yeah,
Speaker 1: eighty nine and Travis Knight. Look at look at them,
Speaker 1: look at these, look at the gang altogether. Wait, so
Speaker 1: what was that? Like? I mean, so we always like
Speaker 1: to ask up top, you know, like what's your what
Speaker 1: was your fandom journey? Essentially? I mean I basically cut
Speaker 1: my teeth on MJ and the Bulls. That's when I
Speaker 1: first really got to the league. And uh, look I
Speaker 1: have the re worse about it. Once MJ left, I
Speaker 1: jumped ship. I didn't. I'm not I'm not watching I'm
Speaker 1: not watching this trash. And did you did you like
Speaker 1: strategically jumped to the Celtics because they had had so
Speaker 1: much success, And you were like, all right, no, I
Speaker 1: like Paul Pierce, like like Antonine Walker for some reason,
Speaker 1: Antwine Walker. You know, I think I had a pair
Speaker 1: of shoes and people my favorite players and so like
Speaker 1: even though they or fun to watch. So yeah, Employee
Speaker 1: number eight was that was that his? He had like
Speaker 1: some nickname that just never got off the ground. It
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, something, I mean, it was all manufactured
Speaker 1: by Adidas, right right, they really climed some employee that
Speaker 1: I make baskets. Wow, this is in the feat you
Speaker 1: wear era of Adida's shoots out of Me, right, because yeah,
Speaker 1: that's when they had their their basketball commercials on Point.
Speaker 1: What was that like, you know seeing Rick Fox kind
Speaker 1: of leave y'all and then go to the Lakers. Did
Speaker 1: that hurt or you don't? You don't even care? No,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I've never been a super emotional fan, like,
Speaker 1: you know, wow, how do you do that? Because every
Speaker 1: time we have all of our guests come on, they're
Speaker 1: all like emotionally healthy. They're like adults about their basketball.
Speaker 1: I'm over here like wedding my pants because the Clippers
Speaker 1: scored a basket, you know what I mean. So, like
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do it. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to parse through it all. I just don't get that, man,
Speaker 1: Which is I find like super fans like fascinating because like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sucks the lose, like we lost the finals that year.
Speaker 1: This sucks. And my friends like, oh, you must be
Speaker 1: so piste off, like we were just in the finals, bro,
Speaker 1: Like where were y'all? Man? Like, why would I be
Speaker 1: piste off and trying to talk trash the Lakers, my friends?
Speaker 1: Who was a Laker? You like, what why would I
Speaker 1: Why are you trying to trash talk me? You didn't
Speaker 1: you were you didn't make the playoffs? What do you so? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you operate from wisdom like you're like, but comparatively, I
Speaker 1: have nothing to be upset about, but you have everything
Speaker 1: to be I mean, think about where Celtics worked last January,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, at one point eighteen and
Speaker 1: twenty one, and go from that to the finals, like
Speaker 1: to be sad about it. Stucked watching Jayson Tatum play
Speaker 1: like you know, Gerald Wallace, you know that stuck watching
Speaker 1: him get locked up by Wiggins. That wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. You know that we saw the camp last
Speaker 1: weekend a couple of times, but you know that happen.
Speaker 1: What are your feelings on the Celtics because like over
Speaker 1: here we're like, man there, who's who's gonna stop them?
Speaker 1: But I know, you know, the last couple of last
Speaker 1: couple of games been of a bit of a hiccup.
Speaker 1: The last couple of games it looked identical to last
Speaker 1: season where and took off. So that lets me know
Speaker 1: that there's still remnants of whatever kind of hanging around
Speaker 1: the team. I'm a huge Jalen Brown fan. I like
Speaker 1: Jayleen more than Tatum, Like, that's my guy. I've been
Speaker 1: a big market smart guy since he's there. So those
Speaker 1: are my two favorite Celtics. Um I get that Tatum
Speaker 1: is the Rolls Royce, but I like the other two better.
Speaker 1: Um So, yeah, I have a good feeling about him.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I've been kind of waiting for the other
Speaker 1: shooter drop all season, you know, and I think the
Speaker 1: last two games almost maybe I've been a little self
Speaker 1: fulfilling prophecy, like, man, they can't be this good. This
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. I didn't think that shooting, really, that shooting
Speaker 1: might not be sustainable. They had four guys over and
Speaker 1: like they were just bombing. I thought it would come
Speaker 1: back down to earth a little bit. I didn't think
Speaker 1: they would do what they just did. That's working against
Speaker 1: the Suns and then the Clippers. Those are really too
Speaker 1: bad stinkers. Two real stinkers though. You mean the Warriors
Speaker 1: and the I'm sorry the Warriors. Yeah, yeah, he beat
Speaker 1: up on the Sun. I was gonna say, did that
Speaker 1: kind of for me? It looked like once that game happened,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh boy, here we go. And then
Speaker 1: it looked like up the Warriors came, and then a
Speaker 1: lot of fans are like, man, Tatum's got the Warriors
Speaker 1: living rent flee in his head. It's true. I think
Speaker 1: he wants so bad to overcome it that he he
Speaker 1: looked want it too bad. And then last game he
Speaker 1: gets the Clippers, same kind of thing. The Clippers just
Speaker 1: put two bodies at him and he gets I feel
Speaker 1: like he gets into his own head a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I mean he doesn't just play. I can see
Speaker 1: him try to do moves and like, why would you
Speaker 1: just yours into that guy? But in his head he
Speaker 1: was already thinking I'm driving, I'm gonna do to yours
Speaker 1: DAF I mean right right. Yeah. So the thing we
Speaker 1: talked about, I think on last week's episode is that
Speaker 1: their offensive efficiency, their offense this season, like last season,
Speaker 1: the thing that really was the engine of their kind
Speaker 1: of breakout success. Halfway through the season when yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he said eighteen twenty one, they were they were
Speaker 1: not a special team, and then their defense just jumped
Speaker 1: up a level and they became one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive teams of all time and suddenly they were like unbeatable.
Speaker 1: And this season their offense has been that so home,
Speaker 1: their offense is just weigh head and shoulders. When they're
Speaker 1: at home, there it's head and shoulders above everybody else
Speaker 1: in the NBA. And when it's away, they have the
Speaker 1: fourth best offensive efficiency in the league. So overall they're
Speaker 1: still heading shoulders above everybody else. But it feels like
Speaker 1: there's something where they're just like a little more comfortable
Speaker 1: at home, which obviously is not out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1: But do you think in watching the games, do you
Speaker 1: feel like there's something repeatable. Do you think like the
Speaker 1: Warriors or the Clippers like figured out something or is
Speaker 1: it just there there's a mental block there. Um, I
Speaker 1: think the big thing was out or for being out
Speaker 1: for both. Now I call him it's it's a funny term,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really said. I call him the offensive lubricant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he makes everything so yeah, he makes everything to
Speaker 1: run smoother. You know, he's a just smart player. And
Speaker 1: then defensively, especially against the Warriors, Blake Griffin and Luke
Speaker 1: Cornette can't be on the floor and they they had
Speaker 1: to be on the floor and and and up and
Speaker 1: play and even Jordan Pool just feasted right there in
Speaker 1: the deep drop. So these guys are coming off and
Speaker 1: take a shooting practice and they got comfortable, and that's
Speaker 1: what happened against the Warriors. Um Al Horford kind of
Speaker 1: mitigates that, and then rob Williams help mitigate that. So yeah, defensively,
Speaker 1: I think Boston's problem right now they let the game
Speaker 1: affect them. So when they get behind, they start playing
Speaker 1: a little tight on. You start playing a little hero
Speaker 1: ball only Jalen Brown doesn't seem to really care things
Speaker 1: like I'm going to scoop, But yeah, Tatum gets in
Speaker 1: his head a little bit. I think Malcolm Brodden trying
Speaker 1: to do too much last game, So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they got something to figure out. Jayleen Brown gets better
Speaker 1: every season, which is like this season he's an averaging
Speaker 1: twenty nine point eight points, nine point six boards, and
Speaker 1: four point two assists a contest I guess in the
Speaker 1: month of December. But he's he's just getting so he
Speaker 1: just gets so much better season after season. Do you
Speaker 1: think the thing that I think I'm most excited to
Speaker 1: see about when Robert Williams returns is do you think
Speaker 1: he will be doing the contest from the paint the
Speaker 1: Cornett contest to contest where he jumps when he's not
Speaker 1: even close, just to like some of the concentration. I've
Speaker 1: seen one player make a shot when he did that.
Speaker 1: It was a guy from tront what's it, I think,
Speaker 1: Gary Trent Jr. I think, yeah, I think I saw
Speaker 1: him maker three. Other than that, I literally haven't seen
Speaker 1: a single of the person make a shot. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because now even like they're talking about it on
Speaker 1: the games, Um no, I doubt anybody else and gonna
Speaker 1: start doing that. Yeah, did someone else do it? I
Speaker 1: thought someone else tried it? Yeah, Marcus, Marcus, I know
Speaker 1: on the other night we talked about the last episode,
Speaker 1: but I could have swore Now maybe I'm just yeah,
Speaker 1: taking that left over excitement like it's becoming a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, the proof is in the pudding, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: people miss shots when he does it somehow, and he's
Speaker 1: done it a lot and people a lot of shots,
Speaker 1: so it's it's it's uh, it sounds dumb, and I
Speaker 1: know that, um what's his name, TNT guy, Jeff. I
Speaker 1: know Jeff Van Gundy was making fun of him how
Speaker 1: ridiculous it was. But but it works. I Mean that's
Speaker 1: what's so funny. Like, sometimes the most effective things are
Speaker 1: just things that are right in front of you, Like man,
Speaker 1: that looks foolish, and you're like, you're actually blocking their
Speaker 1: vital moment of seeing the basket when they're like, you
Speaker 1: know whatever. But it's because, like we talked about how
Speaker 1: Shacks did, I'm not shooting Granny free throws because it
Speaker 1: wasn't cool. Yeah, you know, and that Shack you could
Speaker 1: have scored like a billion more points if I gotta
Speaker 1: be cool. So it looked cool, but I don't worry.
Speaker 1: My fused wrist is all good. Check this out. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna push it straight there and make Charles Oakley
Speaker 1: look like Mark Price or something. It's also like Shane
Speaker 1: Battier did that. One of his secret hacks was he
Speaker 1: would put his hand directly in the face of the
Speaker 1: shooter so that they couldn't see the basket, so they yeah,
Speaker 1: there there might be something there. There's also this basketball
Speaker 1: documentary called Basketball where they just try and distract the
Speaker 1: players well shooting. Yeah, Matt Parker and Tray stone Man
Speaker 1: really slept on in the league. Would the best for you? James?
Speaker 1: What's the end rule with the Celtics, like we're ending up.
Speaker 1: Are you saying, are we getting to the finals? It's
Speaker 1: it's gonna stop at the conference finals. What do you think? So?
Speaker 1: I'm very much a pragmatic basketball fan, where I know
Speaker 1: to make the finals, you can have all the talent
Speaker 1: in the world, but it takes a combination of luck, talent, discipline, endurance,
Speaker 1: mental stamina. All these things have to be in the
Speaker 1: in the gumbo and the right ingredients, because not only
Speaker 1: luck for you to you know, hit shots right down,
Speaker 1: You're gonna run into an opponent that has somebody injured,
Speaker 1: gonna run to an opponent that has might suspended, opponent
Speaker 1: with somebody in a deep funk. It's gonna happen. Last year,
Speaker 1: there's a confluence of events that led to Boston making
Speaker 1: the finals. The chances of that happening again are so
Speaker 1: low that I wouldn't be disappointed if they didn't. I
Speaker 1: want them to, and I think they have to talent
Speaker 1: to what we all will know. Rob Williams health is
Speaker 1: a question. Just a couple of years ago, Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: heard himself before the playoffs and didn't get to play.
Speaker 1: All it takes is one badly spring ankle. All it
Speaker 1: takes is one uh pulled hamstring. All it takes is
Speaker 1: one concussion protocol at the wrong time. So I know
Speaker 1: the chances are really really low, but I think all
Speaker 1: the ingredients are there for Boston to do it. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: when you're sitting a top the league like the Celtics
Speaker 1: currently are, I think in a lot of people's estimation,
Speaker 1: but like, just like you know, sitting up looking at
Speaker 1: the challengers, like, I think you have a unique vantage
Speaker 1: point as to you can tell us who scares you
Speaker 1: when you're looking around the league, like who who actually
Speaker 1: scares you? Because the Celtics are the in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the best team in the league, and when that's the
Speaker 1: team you're rooting for, you have a confidence. But you
Speaker 1: also have like an increased heightened sensitivity to like who's
Speaker 1: actually dangerous around the league? I'm curious to hear what
Speaker 1: are the teams that that frighten you as a Celtics fan. Milwaukee, Um,
Speaker 1: your honest is a force in nature. And while Boston
Speaker 1: did a decent job, but they still barely escaped with
Speaker 1: the scared their teeth last year to playoff Chris Middleton
Speaker 1: being back. They're gonna be tough. I do. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: walk in. After all, this thing with Boston and the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee had look great. I think Milwaukee but a game
Speaker 1: behind Boston right now. When Middleton came back, he was playing,
Speaker 1: I think I was watching his second game back. He
Speaker 1: was just hitting threes that are the most contested three.
Speaker 1: It's just a skill that like he has unlike anybody else,
Speaker 1: Like it's just a bad shot from anybody else, and
Speaker 1: he's just you know, he doesn't like elevate that much.
Speaker 1: He just has a quick release and he will shoot
Speaker 1: it directly in your face like that. That really put
Speaker 1: me back in the Milwaukee's really dangerous. Something about him
Speaker 1: playing Boston, he turns into prime freaking almost t mac
Speaker 1: or something. I'm thinking there was a couple of games
Speaker 1: that I remember when like he hit a shot I
Speaker 1: could turn around over Marcus Smart from like thirty feet
Speaker 1: at the buzzer to go in overtime. And Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: something about seeing Boston Green, Kelly Green, he just kind
Speaker 1: of he goes bonkers. Obviously, the Warriors, the wars are
Speaker 1: in their head right now. They're they're in their head.
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown said that at the press conference at the
Speaker 1: last game that he thinks that we wanted to win
Speaker 1: this game too badly. We had a circled on you know,
Speaker 1: on our on our calendars, and we were pressed thing.
Speaker 1: We played a little tight. So yeah, that the words
Speaker 1: that wanted to sit in their head. You gotta win
Speaker 1: the games that you want to win. So in my experience,
Speaker 1: you gotta learn to win those because, like I feel like,
Speaker 1: especially if I'm in the NBA Finals, I'm gonna want
Speaker 1: to win that game the first Personally, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose that when a lot of
Speaker 1: people are watching. Yeah, I know we've all seen somebody
Speaker 1: who tried. You try too hard and you end up
Speaker 1: screwing it up. I'm number one tried too hard guys. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Those are two of the real ones. We're not scared
Speaker 1: than that. They shouldn't be scared than nets. They've they've
Speaker 1: proven that they can deal with the nets anytime. They're
Speaker 1: just two disciplines over the nets. Philly, obviously you're scared of.
Speaker 1: But we don't have to talk about that, um any
Speaker 1: anything on the any other teams at West. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what, you could say that, but when Philly
Speaker 1: has their three guys all when Maxi's right, you know,
Speaker 1: Hardens hard but in beads and beat, So they're gonna
Speaker 1: they have to have a healthy respect for Philly. Hardens
Speaker 1: Harden but in beads and bed. Yeah, Like, that's just
Speaker 1: so much knowledge of the NBA tied up in that. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: in the West, No, uh no, not really. I mean
Speaker 1: I think Boston has the horses to go with anybody.
Speaker 1: They're deep, they have a lot of sighs, and the
Speaker 1: wings their range e, they have shooting. You know, once
Speaker 1: Rob comes back, they're gonna have you know, him and
Speaker 1: al Man in the middle. You know, I think maybe
Speaker 1: Boston needs one more like Josh Richardson would be great,
Speaker 1: another wing to guard kind of defender off the bench.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. Yeah, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the hottest team out west, right, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, the Pelicans. Yeah, nine and one over
Speaker 1: the last ten as of this recording, twelve and three
Speaker 1: in the last fift team. Yeah, Zion is playing angry.
Speaker 1: We haven't really seen Zion we we we we We've
Speaker 1: seen him play like he was just for for the
Speaker 1: first part of the season. He was just like excited
Speaker 1: to be back out to the point that like it
Speaker 1: was the first time I've seen a player just play
Speaker 1: with a giant smile plaster on their face for an
Speaker 1: entire NBA basketball game. That Son's game, though, he's he
Speaker 1: was villain. Yeah. The dunks. The dunks alone, I mean,
Speaker 1: turn over this one in the fourth quarter, second chance points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of in this match, a lot of
Speaker 1: people feeling what Zion was about to do again, another one,
Speaker 1: Zion ceiling, Zion slamming, stole it with two hands, and
Speaker 1: then get out the way, sir. The controversial one where
Speaker 1: they were mad because the game was over. You know,
Speaker 1: do you know you guys remember when Chris Paul a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, we're playing against Portlands and they
Speaker 1: were up and the game was over, and he went
Speaker 1: to the layup as pets Budgers and Dame said something
Speaker 1: to him and he had that little what what I
Speaker 1: do look in his face. Yeah, you don't want dunking
Speaker 1: points in them? Yeah, Chris Paul will try to make
Speaker 1: a lap right before that. That's going to read exactly
Speaker 1: got the ball game was over because you tried it.
Speaker 1: It's like I wouldn't have done anything if you hadn't,
Speaker 1: but I guess here's the deal. And again I love
Speaker 1: it because at the end of the game, you know
Speaker 1: they're going, like, if the ball gets designed, you're Antonio
Speaker 1: Daniels on the play on the play call going oh no.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite part of the clip. He's like, don't
Speaker 1: do well, don't do it. So Zion. Seven seconds left,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul comes down, misses a layup, the the Pelicans
Speaker 1: are up nine, is the game's over, and and then
Speaker 1: Zion just kind of leaks out just here. He goes, no, no,
Speaker 1: and he hit the three sixty windmill, three sixty win. No.
Speaker 1: It was very similar to the Vince Carter dunk that
Speaker 1: opened the most legendary dunk contest performance, except Zion's left handed,
Speaker 1: so he's in that direction and he feels like he's
Speaker 1: gonna do with the reverse the way Vince Card did it.
Speaker 1: But then he brings up with the left hand again
Speaker 1: just to hear the please of no, no, no. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite because he knows they're like, we know Cleveland
Speaker 1: a family guy. When Cleveland's house gets blowing up and
Speaker 1: he falls out the bathtub. No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: just one more time, please again. It's more than the
Speaker 1: it's like the setup of him. It's basically, do not
Speaker 1: unleash the power of the crystals. It feels like a
Speaker 1: scene in like a sci fi film of like do
Speaker 1: not unleash the power. I love that. And then Zion
Speaker 1: like the bench is completely turned up, and I just
Speaker 1: like for him, he was almost like that wasn't the
Speaker 1: entertain y'all, Like, I'm letting people know right now where
Speaker 1: I'm at and he's playing D. He's playing D the Pelican.
Speaker 1: When you look at the defensive efficiency and offensive efficiency,
Speaker 1: they are top four in both categories, which that's that's dangerous.
Speaker 1: And Herb Jones out brandon ingram Out out, Yeah they're deep.
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about them before the season, but seeing
Speaker 1: what they're doing now with ingram Out and Herb Jones out,
Speaker 1: knowing that they're gonna get two players that caliber back again, UM,
Speaker 1: teams only go far as their stars, and Zion has
Speaker 1: proved himself to be a superstar. You know, I think
Speaker 1: about the end the season, we're gonna talk about him
Speaker 1: in the top you know, obviously top ten, top five,
Speaker 1: top whatever, somewhere in there, he's that kind of game
Speaker 1: changing player. Um. And then with a guy like c J,
Speaker 1: they got a couple of shooters, Um Alvarez, that's his name, right,
Speaker 1: Alvrez Alvarado. So he's a he's a great player, he's
Speaker 1: a good bench. He's there. They got, they got role players,
Speaker 1: they got the stars. They have everything you need. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they have enough shooting, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? When they get to play the elite of
Speaker 1: the elite, and teams just build a wall around Zion.
Speaker 1: But that's where you got Ingram right them. Yeah. My
Speaker 1: only thing is we all know teams usually go as
Speaker 1: a progression, right right, and this is gonna be their
Speaker 1: first year really with with Zion. So if they can
Speaker 1: make it to the conference finals, would be amazing. Um,
Speaker 1: if they make the finals, would be amazing. But we
Speaker 1: all know that's not how how it kind of goes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it would be interesting to see. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you're looking at them in like Memphis, so we're just
Speaker 1: saying perform like pretty soon that's gonna be the Western
Speaker 1: Conference finals. Warriors are in there in their last you know,
Speaker 1: in the kind of twilight here of being a super
Speaker 1: elite team. So it's interesting. Just I always checking with
Speaker 1: five thirty eight because they're right about everything and the
Speaker 1: politics and everything. But one thing they did get right
Speaker 1: I remember last year, so they have their this is
Speaker 1: like Nate Silver's analytics thing. And last year I remember
Speaker 1: just watching when the Celtics were like eighteen and twenty.
Speaker 1: They had the Celtics near the top for like most
Speaker 1: likely to win the title. I was like, oh, their
Speaker 1: models broken. And then I watched a couple of Celtics
Speaker 1: games and I was like, oh, maybe their model is
Speaker 1: not broken. And then by the time like they had one,
Speaker 1: you know, like five in a row, they were heading
Speaker 1: shoulders above everybody else. Um, they're actually like less a
Speaker 1: favorite this season than they were last season, but they're
Speaker 1: still like they have them as chance to win the finals.
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies are next at then the Bucks, then the
Speaker 1: Sixers for some reason, uh Sons, but like the Pelicans
Speaker 1: aren't aren't anywhere near the top. I mean I guess
Speaker 1: they're like eight. Yeah, yeah, So should we take a
Speaker 1: quick break and then come back since we had a
Speaker 1: big chunky first, take a big chunky first, big chunky
Speaker 1: buttery first. All right, let's take a quick break, we'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll come back with our mad boost these
Speaker 1: underrated performers of the week and some players and performances
Speaker 1: that blew us away. And we're back. And this is
Speaker 1: the segment Matt Boosti's Underrated Performance of the Week, where
Speaker 1: Miles and I completely without any assistance from super producer Jabari. No,
Speaker 1: not true, Jabari uh goes through all the performance of
Speaker 1: the week. Jabari knows all he sees. Otherwise I will
Speaker 1: just keep bringing up Austin Reeves and that doesn't there's
Speaker 1: actually twenty lines of Austin Reeves copy here that Jabbar
Speaker 1: just put a line through, even the one when I said,
Speaker 1: well he got a haircut. That's what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: right Nope, Okay, all right, so we we haven't talked
Speaker 1: about yet. But the Lakers and the Sixers played and
Speaker 1: it was a sloppy affair. But Austin Reeves was one
Speaker 1: of the most fun and like I mean, he had
Speaker 1: a really good game, but he he was putting it
Speaker 1: together and one of the four people I was most
Speaker 1: scared of on on the Lakers side. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: you're just saying this because the Lakers and the Celtics
Speaker 1: play tonight, and we've already said off Mike that the
Speaker 1: Lakers are probably gonna get absolutely tossed, because I was
Speaker 1: I was gonna actually ask you see, we're trying to
Speaker 1: talk about underrated performers. But James, like, with the loss,
Speaker 1: the two losses, right, you feel like the Celtics got
Speaker 1: it like they don't want to lose three in a row,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it feels like a
Speaker 1: good emotional emotional dimension, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: how are you feeling? Because in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, they got someone to prove and we played
Speaker 1: them tonight. So every year, this is the first time
Speaker 1: Tatum came out so smoking hot, But the last couple
Speaker 1: of games he's he only starts off really slow, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not super shocked. I'm wonder if he's gonna
Speaker 1: go through a swoon. Um again, he's been pressing. He's
Speaker 1: like trying, trying a little too hard. So it would
Speaker 1: be nice if be kind of relaxed. This game that
Speaker 1: came out. I don't have a good feeling about it. Um.
Speaker 1: Oh so we well we have that in common city.
Speaker 1: Adversity hits every team, right, you know, Boston was on
Speaker 1: a tremendous swell and the upswing all season. This might
Speaker 1: be part of a dip. You know, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they're gonna lose eight, right right right, but they looked
Speaker 1: I mean what they scored like ninety three points of
Speaker 1: the night, you know what I mean? Like that's I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I don't have the greatest feeling.
Speaker 1: I could be a little pestimistic too, Even though I
Speaker 1: said'm a pragmatic fan, I could know the same. That's
Speaker 1: how I deal with it too. Yeah, just because expectation
Speaker 1: is the mother of suffering. I just completely throw all
Speaker 1: my expectations out the window. So that's how I protect
Speaker 1: my ego. Funnily enough, when I didn't think the team
Speaker 1: was a contender, it was so much more fun watching.
Speaker 1: And then last year in the playoffs, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, had an indigestion a little bit because yeah,
Speaker 1: why so, Yeah, when when you're at the when you're
Speaker 1: actually on top of the league, it's it's a lot
Speaker 1: harder as a fan, right right right. The hardest playoffs
Speaker 1: for me was when the Sixers had Jimmy Butler and
Speaker 1: I did feel like they were a contender. If they
Speaker 1: could get by. Yeah, like I really was. That was
Speaker 1: the hard That was the most painful one. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody remembers how that ended anyways. Underrated
Speaker 1: Performers of the Week. A. J. Griffin out of Duke
Speaker 1: Blue Devils has made two game winners this season. Which
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty uncommon for rookies. We've seen that a
Speaker 1: lot this season. Actually, I don't want to remind anybody
Speaker 1: about you know, what happened between the Pacers and the Lakers,
Speaker 1: but thanks. He is just the second rookie if you
Speaker 1: ever have multiple game winners, joining Tony Ku coach. Wow. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's not that's a recent good company there, I guess
Speaker 1: ye Kelly Ubre eight or more and four of the
Speaker 1: last eight games. But I want to talk about Bogdanovitch's
Speaker 1: last two games off the bench for Atlanta. Twenty nine
Speaker 1: point five points off the bench, seventy two point two
Speaker 1: true shooting percentage threes in two games. Remember thirty eight
Speaker 1: against the Lakers. Yeah, twenty two and the third quarter
Speaker 1: when he is locked in, he's got he's got that
Speaker 1: like a and hm that like you know you just
Speaker 1: want once he's locked in, it's it's over, it's target practice,
Speaker 1: and it's NBA Jim, He's on fire type territory. Could
Speaker 1: you imagine if the Bucks had got him like they
Speaker 1: were supposed to. Yeah, that would be ugly, that crazy,
Speaker 1: That would have been a problem. Hey, speaking of a problem,
Speaker 1: Joel embiid is a problem. We're moving on to our
Speaker 1: players and performances that blewest away. I'll let you guys
Speaker 1: talk about and bead putting up and twelve. Hey, Jack,
Speaker 1: this is the question I see. There was a there's
Speaker 1: like a meme going on in like Sixers Twitter talking
Speaker 1: about like the sort of inevitable cycle of how the
Speaker 1: sixer seasons go. Starts off, Sixers look underwhelming, then in
Speaker 1: bad goes god mode, Sixers look dangerous, then Team Shortcoming
Speaker 1: start to show up. Then GM trades for somebody, then
Speaker 1: in beads supporting cast lets him down in the Sixers
Speaker 1: losing the second round, off season moves bolster, hope and repeat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they forgot about the part where and beats face gets
Speaker 1: broken in there somewhere. That's happened a couple of times
Speaker 1: for some reason, just like you know, the largest most
Speaker 1: indestructible force. You know, we're always worried about his feet
Speaker 1: or his knees, and his face always gets broken and
Speaker 1: just random accidents. But yeah, that's about right right now.
Speaker 1: The cynical Sixers fans are like, we're right now and
Speaker 1: in Beagles god mode. Yeah, and now everyone's like, but
Speaker 1: what's the next move? Where the shortcoming? He start to shop?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I feel like if Harden
Speaker 1: Stay is healthy and Maxie comes back looking good, I
Speaker 1: feel like I wouldn't be too. I would say you'd
Speaker 1: get out of the second round. Out of the second
Speaker 1: round is the Eastern Conference finals. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. That's a big about hard in his health. Man. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying. I'm trying my best to give positivity
Speaker 1: out here right now. Harden did in that same game
Speaker 1: where MB went fifty three and twelve, had nineteen points,
Speaker 1: sixteen assists, nine rebounds. So my question about the seventies
Speaker 1: Sixers is they didn't have enough last season, and then
Speaker 1: they didn't add anything. They didn't like make a coaching
Speaker 1: change or anything this offseason. I mean, they had they had.
Speaker 1: I guess that I shouldn't say that. They added the
Speaker 1: guy from Memphis whose name is escaping me. Who's who's
Speaker 1: been really good? But yeah, Melton, Melton has been really good,
Speaker 1: but just watching them doesn't feel like, Okay, they've gotten
Speaker 1: over that hump and their different team than the team
Speaker 1: that can't make it out of the second round. So like,
Speaker 1: that's that's my question. And he wasn't got mode last
Speaker 1: season two? You know, um so is it enough? Like
Speaker 1: did did Harden take it up enough? It hasn't looked
Speaker 1: that way to me yet. I don't think. I think
Speaker 1: Will Max is a boardline All Star when he's healthy
Speaker 1: and he's cooking. So that yeah, that even though you
Speaker 1: didn't really, like you said, add much him his game
Speaker 1: taking elape is adding something, you know. Yeah, I'm hoping so.
Speaker 1: And it's been tough to tell because he's been hurt
Speaker 1: right right, but he looked. My thing is I wonder
Speaker 1: if p J. Tucker washed a lot. He looks he's
Speaker 1: averaging like three points yet in like thirty minutes cardios.
Speaker 1: That'd be my one concern. He playing with an Apple
Speaker 1: Watch on it keeps checking it when he gets to
Speaker 1: Melton is really good. It does feel like they need
Speaker 1: to make some changes rotationally to get more melting maybe
Speaker 1: less p J. Yeah, I don't know. I think they
Speaker 1: were so much expecting Bible to kind of pop, right,
Speaker 1: and he's just he's done something. He's he's something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just too I don't know, you can't do anything
Speaker 1: on offense. Triple J had fifteen points, seven boards and uh,
Speaker 1: let me see eight blocks and win over the Hawks.
Speaker 1: Tis Jones filling in for job with twenty two and
Speaker 1: eleven assists. Can they lose? Are they? Yea? The Pelicans
Speaker 1: are exciting now, but like the Grizzlies have that experience,
Speaker 1: right yeah, and no Desmon Bin too, You're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're deep. Bins is playing a lot like an
Speaker 1: All Star this year too. Um, Like said Triple J.
Speaker 1: He made a mood to other night. He uh, he
Speaker 1: drove from from the wing to the room and it
Speaker 1: hit a little like a low runner and he just
Speaker 1: guys were bouncing off him like he started. His body's
Speaker 1: filling out. He looks big and strong. So um yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's they're they're dangerous and they're they're deep. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, I think the Celtics depth might have him
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, the West is interesting because
Speaker 1: it does feel like Memphis and New Orleans are the
Speaker 1: two most exciting teams right now. In Memphis, I think
Speaker 1: has one of the best city jerseys. So you know,
Speaker 1: everything that chrome except for the gritty. I think the
Speaker 1: gritty is the stupid dance. Oh sorry, Memphinians. Memphinians, that's correct. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kauai put up his first pointing point game of the
Speaker 1: season nine and six versus the Celtics. Uh. That's his
Speaker 1: first game in over five hundred days. Miss him. Marcus Smart,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, whoever, didn't matter. He was stuck on automatic.
Speaker 1: And even the TV announcer, the Clippers guy, was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's downloading his second half software and yep,
Speaker 1: he went to work. Did you see his interview after
Speaker 1: the fact where he was like, I'm just like focused
Speaker 1: on the postseason, Like this doesn't matter, This is like
Speaker 1: boring essentially. You gotta love it though, right, that's what
Speaker 1: they brought him in, Paul George for. They don't care
Speaker 1: about the regular tees stuff like, hey, I get to
Speaker 1: the postseason, man, are you thinking the Clippers want me
Speaker 1: to playoffs? No? I mean I don't know. You don't
Speaker 1: want to be in the seventh place. Heading into the postseason,
Speaker 1: Tatum said the same thing. Over the day. He goes, hey,
Speaker 1: all this is cool. It doesn't matter if we don't
Speaker 1: we don't hang a banner, you know, I mean yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah for sure, Which that kind of sucks
Speaker 1: though as a fan, I love the journey and I
Speaker 1: don't want to have that feeling where I'm like, they
Speaker 1: don't win. If they don't win at all, this is
Speaker 1: none of this matter. Watching Jaylen Brown be awesome is incredible.
Speaker 1: Watching Smart when deepoy is incredible. So I love that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yeah. Man. Then Dame that game against
Speaker 1: the Wolves, like disrespected that first half. I think he
Speaker 1: had eight threes in the first half. Threes in the
Speaker 1: first half. Love it. It was, Oh man, I just
Speaker 1: love when you're like, make him do anything about this,
Speaker 1: no matter how hard you try. And it's like the
Speaker 1: second he knew is like, I think I've reached the
Speaker 1: point where I have just enough space to get this
Speaker 1: shot off. He was taking it and even when he
Speaker 1: didn't have enough space, it was just like I'd like
Speaker 1: to shoot, like writing your face, Yeah, let me just suggest,
Speaker 1: let me just give me a little space. Okay, there
Speaker 1: you go. Here now you're next year's upper deck card.
Speaker 1: And then sails Just Alexander three three assists, three steals
Speaker 1: against Luca only at thirty eight, but I think they
Speaker 1: lost that game. And then ultimately, yeah, I'm curious, is
Speaker 1: there any chance Shakil Just Alexander could ever start the
Speaker 1: All Star Game? Starters is based on voting, right yeah, well,
Speaker 1: oh right, right right, But it's because I know Charles Barkley.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's been like lobbying for him heavy.
Speaker 1: But I just think, like when you look at how
Speaker 1: he's playing, like clearly he's going to be in the
Speaker 1: All Star Game. But I'm just like, is there like
Speaker 1: another level of I don't know, um presence or like
Speaker 1: having more fans like attention or something could change that,
Speaker 1: or just like like you're gonna get on the team,
Speaker 1: but it'll take a while to the fans about you.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they start winning in a couple of years, right,
Speaker 1: the Thunder make at least a playoff run, and they're
Speaker 1: on national TV a little more because he's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what sucks. The casual fans, don't They only
Speaker 1: see him once and like, oh that guy was pretty good.
Speaker 1: When they got him and to seven ft two plus
Speaker 1: guys in the middle. If if they get Wendy, then
Speaker 1: I feel like people start paying attention. Oh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be It'll be three seven plus guys because they
Speaker 1: then have Poku and then have Jet Please. I just
Speaker 1: want to see that. Yeah. By the way, I like
Speaker 1: you said, Luca only had thirty eight kind of season
Speaker 1: he's having. I know, I just like to, you know, comparatively.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be like, look, and he did
Speaker 1: four points better, but yeah, he's also incredible freak that
Speaker 1: will not be stopped. Um and then Lebron still doing
Speaker 1: it and a D had thirty four fifteen and seven assists,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, Man's got a D in foul trouble.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason they were able to, you know,
Speaker 1: dominate the way they did. And even then the game
Speaker 1: went to over time because they just tried desperately to
Speaker 1: give it away so hard, Like they that lead quick
Speaker 1: they were nine I think with thirty something seconds something.
Speaker 1: It was like that pretty all that just completely throw
Speaker 1: it away. It was a very different experience on my side.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean again, I think for me, I'm
Speaker 1: I will look closely at this game tonight. Um, as
Speaker 1: you hear this episode, you will already know what happened
Speaker 1: between the Celtics and the Lakers. But that is one
Speaker 1: I want to feel good about. But part of me
Speaker 1: just feels like there's the emotional momentum may swing the
Speaker 1: other way. So the lebron gonna get the scoring record
Speaker 1: this season? Yeah? Right, like soon? Ysh right, he's eight
Speaker 1: hundred points away. I did the math. He only has
Speaker 1: an average like sixteen points a game over season, So
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it somewhere February maybe anywhere. Exciting. Alright,
Speaker 1: should we take one more break? I think we should.
Speaker 1: It warmed up? Oh yeah, let me just get warmed
Speaker 1: up for this next sea and we're back and it's time,
Speaker 1: amazing brother, amazing brother, for James Hollis to get into
Speaker 1: the hot seat. This is the rapid Fire round of questioning.
Speaker 1: Let's ask this question segment. Let's go so anti clematic
Speaker 1: that it ends with round of questioning. Yeah. I love that,
Speaker 1: you know, because you gotta you want to be technically,
Speaker 1: I could be too concise with the name rapid fire.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no. We'll give people a chance
Speaker 1: to catch their breath exactly because you're not like you're
Speaker 1: not make you spit the rap God verse from Eminem
Speaker 1: or something like that, kind of rapid fire or maybe
Speaker 1: something from Big Pun. But no, we're talking about these questions.
Speaker 1: I will come very quickly now, James, We're gonna ask
Speaker 1: you a question. Just respond, just react, don't think too much,
Speaker 1: don't give it exactly, don't give long answers. And if
Speaker 1: we start, you know, bloviating and start you know, giving
Speaker 1: art to just just cut it off and keep it
Speaker 1: going because at the end of the day, this is
Speaker 1: the fact keeping us. Swing a sword at a four
Speaker 1: door four swing whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. So that was
Speaker 1: that the Whole Foods the other day, this is this
Speaker 1: is on topic the other day and they had in
Speaker 1: the magazine rack of magazine that was just called Eminem
Speaker 1: and it was a picture of Eminem on it and
Speaker 1: it's the greatest rapper a life. It's like, Yo, what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Whole Foods client? That's his manager
Speaker 1: who did that, because you know he doesn't use the
Speaker 1: internet right right, because they probably were like, Yo, go
Speaker 1: to your news stand and tell me if you're still
Speaker 1: popping Marshall and then I've been a great guy. Gift
Speaker 1: to you guys. Yeah, all right, here we go, start
Speaker 1: the clock. Um, don't now no no knees weak, arms
Speaker 1: are heavy. Mom spaghetti Jack, would you like to go first? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mom spaghetti. Indeed, you know the rules we play. It's
Speaker 1: moms spaghetti, so you're going to play mom spaghetti rules.
Speaker 1: So uh uh James contender or pretender? All right, uh
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you some some teams here. Denver
Speaker 1: currently has the seventh ring defense and find themselves in
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack in a crowd of Western
Speaker 1: Conference Contender or pretender, pretender's pretender. They just don't have.
Speaker 1: The defense has been horrible. Their backup center is the
Speaker 1: corpse of DeAndre Jordan's pretender d j K. How about
Speaker 1: this out there doing it in the high altitude, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: good for him. I'm just amazed that he can, you know,
Speaker 1: keep that many steps and no no break. Their congratulations, sir.
Speaker 1: Next one, Brooklyn is seventeen and twelve, winners of nine
Speaker 1: out of ten and finally looks like a team many
Speaker 1: people anticipated contenders or pretenders. I have to go if
Speaker 1: I got the quick pretenders only because the Bucks are there,
Speaker 1: the Celtics are They're both those teams are deeper and
Speaker 1: more disciplined, and right now the Nets I still don't
Speaker 1: trust Ben Simmons, mhm, Really what do you trust about? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is it about? Might not take a shot in
Speaker 1: the dark? Depending that come back to that one. Alright, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: uh thirteen and fourteen? Not quite off to the start
Speaker 1: they would have, like, given how much they swing for
Speaker 1: the fences this past summer. You know, they're having a
Speaker 1: little trouble because they've had to move Cat out to
Speaker 1: the perimeter, out to the fourth spot, which want where
Speaker 1: it wants to be, but it also doesn't he he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the matchup that like allows him to, you know,
Speaker 1: be the best shooting center of all time and therefore,
Speaker 1: you know, draw the center out. So are they a
Speaker 1: contender pretender? They are an ab laughing stop And I
Speaker 1: love it. As the original Rudy Gobert hater, I love
Speaker 1: every minute of it. They told me he was elite,
Speaker 1: he was top fifteen, They told me he was a superstar.
Speaker 1: That roster is a is a total travesty. They're ruining
Speaker 1: our our boy, Anthony. What's his name Edwards and Wards.
Speaker 1: They did a terror job building around him. They should
Speaker 1: trade cat as soon as possible. They are a pretender,
Speaker 1: they're frauds. When did they go wrong? Do you think
Speaker 1: because they felt like, yeah, like if without that, it
Speaker 1: felt like we were on a trajectory there with I mean,
Speaker 1: they should train for traded for Donovan Mitchell, we should
Speaker 1: trade it for Is that a warning tale? Two teams
Speaker 1: like the Pelicans in Memphis who were just thinking like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we start doing stuff or do you
Speaker 1: just kind of like hold on, let this thing paying
Speaker 1: big money for for centers, like you gotta stop paying
Speaker 1: less unless they're Yokick or embiid and what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's very It's very much
Speaker 1: a move I would have made. I thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna work out, and it's move I would have made
Speaker 1: because I was like, yeah, well they can't like defend anyone,
Speaker 1: so you just put that guy back there and her
Speaker 1: play on the perimeter and he's gonna stop everything. But
Speaker 1: it just totally messes up all the things that are
Speaker 1: gone else. It was a very bad idea that I
Speaker 1: would have fallen. Four Because I'm dumb. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If that was evident to you, it would be a
Speaker 1: very bad GM. Next question, and you know, James, we
Speaker 1: gotta keep this going. You know, I appreciate the answers,
Speaker 1: but we have to keep moving. The next question is
Speaker 1: you have the chance to win ten thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: make a layup with each chance twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to make five out of five free throws, or a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to make at least four of five
Speaker 1: room deep. Which challenge are you taking. I'm taking the
Speaker 1: easy money and the layups. Uh. As I was to
Speaker 1: keep it moving, okay, all right, I'll respect that. See
Speaker 1: I would be so worried about missing the lamp and
Speaker 1: then everybody would laugh at me. Each hand, I would go,
Speaker 1: could I do a two hander for the left handed
Speaker 1: because I'm not allowed. You gotta you gotta do a
Speaker 1: full left de lay up. There's gonna be a judge there, Miles,
Speaker 1: and going up on my right foot. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: dribble up lay up. I can't. Oh, no, it's a
Speaker 1: dribble up. No, No, you know, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: pull up. I'm still taking that one over there. They
Speaker 1: used to give me a panic attack when I was
Speaker 1: playing like junior high basketball, doing the layup lines all
Speaker 1: right from the left. I'm like, yo, come on, now,
Speaker 1: do all this in front of people. Also, I like
Speaker 1: making George mike In's name Ryan with the con that
Speaker 1: was like, hey, look we like Rudy Goilbert and George
Speaker 1: McConn over here. You know what I mean? Here are
Speaker 1: big men around here. Is James, what'll be saying? Man,
Speaker 1: we gotta keep the same moving. Man. I'm sorry, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We love you, man, we love you,
Speaker 1: but we gotta keep this moving. Please appreciate it. Appreciate it?
Speaker 1: Um is this many? Yeah? All right? Okay, so all right, James,
Speaker 1: it's a new rule. You know we we we like
Speaker 1: to say new rule around here when we're doing our
Speaker 1: rapid fire. What's a new rule you'd like to see
Speaker 1: implemented or altered effective immediately? I would love to see
Speaker 1: them go the international rule of the goaltending stuff was
Speaker 1: the rim it's in play. I would love to see
Speaker 1: the NBA do that. Is that because you just watched
Speaker 1: the Redeemed team and you saw how fun that was.
Speaker 1: I think every year I think because like it's stupid.
Speaker 1: What's it hit the ring to be alive? And I
Speaker 1: think about how many how many blocks the guy would average,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, learned how to time and
Speaker 1: knock him off the rim, got tip dunk so easy.
Speaker 1: It just I think it'd be more entertaining. I like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Redeem Team documentary is fun, but just I just
Speaker 1: finally watched it and it's a blast. I'll tune in
Speaker 1: and check it out. But I mean, I remember watching
Speaker 1: all that, reliving it, watching a live so I remember
Speaker 1: Ricky Rubio being a big part of that, and just
Speaker 1: like how how good he was, even though he was
Speaker 1: I think twelve at the time that that game was played,
Speaker 1: and they don't mention his name one so I don't
Speaker 1: think of a documentary, which is weird, but I respect
Speaker 1: this saying about him. It's about America, it's about the
Speaker 1: US of eight. Yeah, James, we have to keep it moving.
Speaker 1: I was at man. Okay, fine, next question, James, you
Speaker 1: know a thing or two about NBA Twitter. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite NBA tweet or Twitter moment of all time. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna get me and you're not gonna suck me in.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna. I'm just asking him. That's I'm not
Speaker 1: asking about anything because I'm just asking you for you,
Speaker 1: as a person who enjoys the NBA and Twitter, what
Speaker 1: is your favorite? It was probably seeing Steve Nash. Uh,
Speaker 1: somebody was heckling him and he said, I'm the hardest
Speaker 1: forty year old you know, Brody Mecula. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah, yeah, I just reply. So that's just a
Speaker 1: one word way of now telling people to fight them.
Speaker 1: It's I see people will at me all the time
Speaker 1: or tag me and tweets all the time where somebody
Speaker 1: is talking and one guy like, yeah, man to Mechla,
Speaker 1: meet me to Mechula. It's all the time, honored, and
Speaker 1: I'm proud to be part of the NBA Twitter lexicon.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, we gotta tell people what what that is, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, if they don't know the ballad of snotty
Speaker 1: dripping and u AF, just do some digging on their own.
Speaker 1: It's Uh, there's plenty of articles. Plenty of articles have
Speaker 1: been written. When I reachet this out, I'll make sure
Speaker 1: I dropped out. We did a whole podcast out of
Speaker 1: over on dunk Tails and all there's articles I was
Speaker 1: we made huff posts, we did all kind of bleach report,
Speaker 1: did the whole thing on it. Yeah, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: Someone basically asked you to fight them into Mecula on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. On Christmas Day, yeah, that isn't important important detail.
Speaker 1: And he actually he actually drove away from his family
Speaker 1: because I told him, yea, I'll meet you. But I
Speaker 1: was actually in Arizona. So we left. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: driving down the five the fifteen highways, just blaring fight music,
Speaker 1: ready to fight over Kobe Bryant. It's always incredible with me.
Speaker 1: I got death threats over that, Yeah, one of us.
Speaker 1: I got death threats. I got called every name in
Speaker 1: the book because they're like, why do you agree to
Speaker 1: meet him? I said, because he's stupid. I'm not kind
Speaker 1: if he did it, like he's the idiot, not me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I got called a coward, pump all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Though maybe you learned a lesson about his anger, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, Jack, How are you gonna tell James? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, would you rather meet me in Vegas or
Speaker 1: miles in Temecula? Is there a sea option? Because neither
Speaker 1: one of those things sounds very favorable. Oh man, I'm
Speaker 1: so much fun in Vegas? Are you serious? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: don't like the gamble. What about wine Country in Temecula,
Speaker 1: But we can go to see a show. I don't Oh,
Speaker 1: I know all the man. I thought I had this one.
Speaker 1: I mean, am I paying? I'm not paying, I'll say, Vegas? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that anything? I think that counts? Jack?
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, well, let's let's find are you
Speaker 1: paying to me? Yeah? Now he's back. Have you seen
Speaker 1: how much tickets cost? I just want to buffet? I
Speaker 1: just want to buffet. I want to That's all I
Speaker 1: want some try til Yeah, the buffets advertise the like
Speaker 1: one price, but then they get you on little little
Speaker 1: ways and then yeah, I'm gonna lose all my money
Speaker 1: on a black jack hand, so I don't care. I
Speaker 1: do need you to cover this. Actually, uh okay, look
Speaker 1: you know what, I think that counts. That's a win
Speaker 1: in my book. We're putting that up. Yeah, hang the
Speaker 1: banner up. James hollis Man, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us. Before you go, we want to share some
Speaker 1: tweets of the week with you and our listeners before
Speaker 1: you tell us where people can find you. But we
Speaker 1: asked all of our listeners, you said, what is your
Speaker 1: NBA jam squad? If you could put anything together? Who
Speaker 1: are you guys putting together for some fantastic matchups? I
Speaker 1: just want to read a couple at alex K fourteen
Speaker 1: dfsaid Tim Duncan and George Gervan on the Spurs Dr
Speaker 1: J and Charles Barkley, Sixers, Kareem and Janice Bucks. That
Speaker 1: one's wild shooting, though, you gotta have a three point shooter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. Let we're playing a different kind of game.
Speaker 1: I'm goaltending all day in that one. It's like nothing
Speaker 1: is nothing's getting near that that ram. Then let's see
Speaker 1: at Mark Bauman said Jaw and Big Country Bryant reefs together.
Speaker 1: I would have gone with a Reef on that one.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm more of a shriek of Doreine fan.
Speaker 1: But also Anthony Edwards and Isaiah Ryder, Interesting Shay and
Speaker 1: Seawan Kemp. That would be a fun one too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know we're taking from the Origin Origin team. And
Speaker 1: then at Saul Underscore, Bookman said Nash and Barkley would
Speaker 1: be Dopeli, Juan and Hardened Mullin and Curry or PG
Speaker 1: and Reggie Miller on the Pacers and the Realist Jay
Speaker 1: Mark said, Durant Petrovitch is almost unfair. Okay, So make
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Speaker 1: these b double O S, T I E. S and
Speaker 1: James Hollis Man, thanks again for showing up. I mean many, No,
Speaker 1: I would actually I agree man, this is that this
Speaker 1: has been really fantastic. We've had a good time. Where
Speaker 1: can they find you and support you and all that? Um,
Speaker 1: my favorite player was Scottie Pippens or just change letters
Speaker 1: and you can find me on Twitter and instrement's notty dripping.
Speaker 1: So we have our dunk Hills Pie, which I can
Speaker 1: say it's on all platform. Um, we're just trying to
Speaker 1: be like you guys. Uh yeah, me and my partner J. P.
Speaker 1: Hive once a week check us out. We're not We're
Speaker 1: not on you guys level. Yet you give us something
Speaker 1: to aspire to. You appreciate you that we're in the lobby.
Speaker 1: We're in the lobby, you know what I mean. We're
Speaker 1: just in the lobby. We're all trying to get on
Speaker 1: that elevator. All right, y'all, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with the games we were talking about,
Speaker 1: like the Lakers Social two knows what's gonna happen there,
Speaker 1: But we'll be back and we'll be talking more NBA
Speaker 1: action as usual. We'll see it then. By by bad
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