Pelicans vs Rockets SHOWDOWN What’s the Key to Victory

Well, do let’s let’s talk about that because I know this game is a game that’s coming up soon, fam. I mean, we got a little time for this game. October the 14th, 700 p.m. tip off time. Pelicans, I know the Rockets won. They won u they won last night. I want to say they beat down the team. U FL Fred Van Bleet. Yeah, Fred Van Bleet is done for Oh, he got ACL, so he’s going to be done for a while. But let’s kind of talk about this game right here if we can say again. DC, you got to muddle, bro. Who’s their point guard? Um, they really don’t have one. Not like a traditional one. Uh, that was a that was a big loss for them. How this keep happening to Kevin Durant? I don’t know. He didn’t have a point guard. He went to I think they’re looking for Shepard. Then they draft Reed Shepard. It was a first round pick for him. DC, I think they’re going to have Thompson run the point. KD keep running in the TE’s where he don’t have a goddamn point guard to start line. What’s going on? Well, they had he had Chris Paul, but they sent him on his way. That [ __ ] crazy. What up, Jessica? But by the I mean, but this is the thing, man. We got this team. Y’all mentioned and talked about, okay, y’all were very positive about the the competition we seen in Australia, how the Pelicans handle it. One of the pe some people, including myself, were very happy how the Pelicans played. They were did a lot of positive things offensively, defensively, a lot of stuff to kind of iron out. But we asked for how does this look against NBA level competition Houston Orlando next on the slate. Uh despite right despite Fred Van Vleet going on with his injury DC and um you know it’s going to be tough suffer the torn ACL might be out for the entire 2526 campaign according to shams. So that’s that’s big. So you know at some point they’ll try to probably more than likely try to see about making a a trade perhaps or try to see if they can acquire some help. Like I said, just showed uh some of the family members the depth chart for the Rockets. Uh Reed Shepard, the draft pick that they have. Aaron Holidayiday is the backup. And of course, they can run point I guess through other players like you mentioned Am Thompson. Uh you know, it could be that the team added Josh Kogi. They got a very interesting This is a very feisty team, but yet very much incomplete. I I I anticipate more than likely they’ll probably end up making a trade at some point uh to try to maybe add a veteran here or there. We’ll see Emodoka how he plays it. But let’s kind of preview this game with y’all to see what’s the keys to victory and how you see the the Pelicans taking care of business in preseason game number three against the Rockets. That there’s one and only one key to victory against the Rockets. That’s it. That is to not get [ __ ] injured. That’s it. If we don’t get hurt, we won. I don’t care what I don’t care about the final score. What? Bro, what are you talking about, man? I don’t care about the final score. Don’t nobody else get hurt. But look, listen. Look. Okay. What’s up, James? I understand they have. Okay. Are the Pelicans trying to get prepared for the regular season? Okay. So, in regular season, in preseason, the logic does iron out though. No, I mean first of all if you play you don’t you don’t play with you know be like hey avoid to get hurt chicken like we we already know that. I mean playing any sport you could be walking down your steps in your house and and trip over something. You don’t even have to play in the game and that’s happened to a couple of players and they tore some major things. I don’t want these guys to go out there playing skittish. You either healed or you ain’t. Say I’m not saying that. I just see that’s basically what you said. Why say they need We can’t be playing spirit though. If we thinking about, oh, you know, oh, let’s be careful. Oh, let’s watch the way that we run. Well, they not about they not about to run those strategies and those schemes to really try to I’m just saying, man. I mean, if we vanilla, but what’s up, girl? They match up good against us. I mean, I don’t want to assume that I like to look, I’m not I’m not bringing last year’s last season’s energy into this season’s energy, but we still got we we still want the guys to play cuz you’re getting ready for the season and look at really what’s concerning is look at the gap. They look ready for far as conditioning wise. Um, no, but look, right now they’re dealing they’re other teams are playing consistent games in the preseason. Look at the gap. the next time the Pelicans plays on the 14th. Houston just played yesterday right now. That right there is very concerning. That huge gap and then they go on the 14th to play this game. Houston, I don’t know who made the schedule, but they were high on played Saturday. They played yesterday. We got a few few more days than them. They going to be, you know, out of playing for a while, too. But no, not like the Pelicans. I’m not worried about them. That’s fine. But the most important thing coming out of the preseason is that we don’t get nobody hurt. So if they don’t get hurt, regardless of uh how good or bad this game looks, it still ain’t a win in the win column and it ain’t a loss in the loss column in the regular season. So as long as nobody gets hurt, it’s a win. That’s all. But that’s not okay. Well, I mean that’s You know what, though? Then that’s for the whole season and the playoffs necessarily. Yes, it is. cuz I don’t want none of these chicken heads to get hurt. I don’t want none of them get hurt either. But if you wanted to win to get in the playoffs and you won that game with somebody get hurt. [ __ ] I’m still happy we won and got in the playoffs. It’s it’s it’s about risk versus reward. So that that’s the only reason I said it ain’t that big. But I just, you know, but I I still want them to play though, you know. I mean coming out. Oh yeah. I mean, hey man, you play hard. If you look, I wasn’t saying they shouldn’t play like the players should go out there. Oh, I don’t want to get hurt. I’m just saying if nobody get hurt, that’s the I mean, I I I just that just I just feel like automatically that’s for the whole season. I don’t want them I don’t want anybody on this team like even third string and anybody like you know if they send somebody down to the G-League and bring them back. I don’t want nobody to to deal with any type of injury. And I think every everybody wants that. I want that for the really I want that not just for the season, for the really the the way the Pelicans been dealing with injuries, man. For the rest of however the organization goes on and is in New Orleans and all that stuff cuz I’m tired of injuries. I really am. I I don’t want nobody to get injured, though. But I do want those guys to go out there and play hard so we can see what we have that’s that’s coming for the regular season. I can tell you I can tell you right now I don’t think Houston has an answer for us offensively. What you going to w want to see for this game is what we can do defensively again cuz you know well they definitely have rebounding. Oh that’s that’s what I’m saying. So this is a good test to be able to um test out their improvements that they should be working on right now on rebounding because that’s exactly where I was going with it. Because defensively, um, I think the PL can make some stops, but they clearly can’t end the possession. If you can’t end the possession, are you really playing defense at this point? Cuz if somebody get a second chance rebound and they score, nobody cares how you force them to a miss shot before that. It don’t matter. They going to have another chance to try to see if they can figure out figure out this rebounding issue. I think it kind of depends on, you know, it comes down plays and who doesn’t play. If Herb is out there and we got Trey out there, I don’t know how rusty they may look like you said because they definitely won’t. Yeah, that that’s a concern that long. But um if if we got a uh you know Herb that added addition, he’s not enough to fix all the rebounding woes from what I’ve seen. But it definitely will change the game though. I’m curious to see if he’s improved cuz to me Herb is kind of the key. If anybody should be chasing down rebounds some type of way, it’s got to be him. you know, uh, obviously Looney in the start lineup, but you really need Herb to be that guy and clean up everything. Uh, I I got to We got to step up, too. It’s not just her. It’s got to Everybody Everybody Exactly. Everybody, you know what? I I’m going I’m going back to Oklahoma City. No, I’m just saying like if we want to rebound, it’s about effort. It’s about getting back fundamentals. Dude, box out. Find your man and box him out. It works. I haven’t seen the Pelicans play, but I haven’t seen the Pelicans play like that in a long time. Von Looney plays. Was that for Golden State or what? For the Pelicans. No, for the Pelicans. They just wasn’t getting the Heat boxing not getting the rebound. Okay. I’m just saying, Lex, it’s the it’s a you’re right that it’s the team. It’s a team effort. Like you mentioned, OKC, man, those guys, that’s a team mindset they all bought into. They had both their big men out last season, early last season, and they were leading in rebounds. They had a whole bunch of miniature people out there, and they were rebounding. You can’t tell me that these guys You can It It’s not about height. I think I think we affiliate having height with rebounds and that’s not the case because we’ve seen guys that are 7 foot and up and they don’t rebound very well. Luca Donuch has had more rebounds than some sevenfooters. Don’t care about no. But I’m just saying like it it’s it’s it’s really about effort. Box out and go get the ball. If you box out, somebody on the Pelicans is going to get the rebound. If everybody’s pushing their man out, they’re the the team is going to get the rebound. That’s all it takes. If you start there, that’s going to change things in itself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s true. Uh James makes a good point about OKC. They turn you over. So that’s a part of the philosophy, too. The defense, the caveat, the playing stiff defenses. They they turn you over and then they run and they score off it. It makes the game a lot easier. Like they really aggressive. They force the turnovers then convert the turnovers into points. That’s what OKC strategim is and it works a lot. They they are very handsy. They play the passing lanes very well. They’re intelligent. It’s a part of the overall they that’s bred into the mentality. I have not seen the Pelicans play uh that style of ball in a very long time if any. And if I did see it wasn’t a sustained way of you know mindset it but they play tough like that per season. We all know the problem though. We understand that. But I’m saying at the same time, you know, you people got, you know, it’s it’s supposed to be bred into like if the guy is a head coach that’s a a defensive player, that’s he cut his teeth talking about he’s a defensive guy. You know, he’s obviously not an offensive-minded person, but the defense is not there. I don’t see what they’re trying to do defensively. Sometimes they look lost. Sometimes the the floor is unbalanced. Sometimes they overcommit. The communication is not there. And they call zones for no reason. Yeah, it’s it’s very weird that this kind of stuff happens, but I’m saying at the same time, it’s just interesting for me to see what Joe Dumar does there, you know, cuz like I I’ve said before, people would look at Joe, all his accolades. And like I said, Joe Dumar is was good enough to be a head coach in the league with all of the stuff that he knows. He could have marched in there and been a head coach. He didn’t have to make the jump from player to exec. He could have been a head coach. somebody would have gave him a shot and he probably would have been a good one. But the the thing is him sitting look, you know, sitting courtside looking at Willie Green and the defense. I don’t think Joe Dumos is going to keep it he’s not going to keep his mouth shut on the communication issues. His big thing is about communication. You cannot what he said DC Lex, you cannot uh uh live in a silo. You cannot operate in a silo. That that was his terminology and speaking about have to be able to communicate. So that translates on defense, offense, all over the place. And we know defensively speaking, just just to the defensive end, the Pelicans do not communicate well defensively. They really don’t. I wonder if um how it looks if they run point Zion and let Zion attack the boards and bring the ball up instead of I mean, I know sometimes he’s going to want to crash out to get them uh easy buckets, but to me it see everybody be trying to run. Yeah. Everybody’s trying to run out, but nobody’s getting the rebound to get the rebound, man. like somebody got to pick up that job. And who’s it going to be? Cuz we we know Kavon Looney going to make sure he got the big seal off. He going to get some rebounds obviously, but he can’t get all of them. Who else trying to do that dirty work? They going to put Herb on that mission. They going to put Trey on that mission. Somebody has to step up there. Jordan going to be everybody. It’s not a rebounding point guard or is it going to be a collection of all of them? It has to be everybody, Lex. And y’all, right, it has to be collective. Like I said, if you haven’t ever been collective with this unit, but hey, I mean, uh, what’s the goal? What What did Joe put up there? One goal. There’s one goal. And you got to get rebounds. Rebounds means possessions. And a whole bunch of, uh, Hall of Famers or ex players, they say all the time, rebounds means championships. We know the defense wins championships, but rebounding is very important. It holds just as much weight as defense, if not more, because it’s possessions. You got to have possessions in order to have the opportunity to score more points than the other team. And you also got to get a rebound to finish off the defensive possession. Oh, you ain’t do nothing. You You absolutely right. And you you know what? Another thing, how can you get out into transition if you don’t get the rebound? I’m just saying. They could they could attempt to get out in transition like, you know, that’s what they be doing. You know what I’m saying? If everybody’s running running back in transition like dog, we don’t have the we don’t have possession of the ball. That be looking like some free. What is going on? You need the ball. There is no transition without the ball unless you’re getting offensive rebounds. Okay. I think I think they going to figure it out though. But we we can we can obviously see their intentions this year and I like it. They want to be a team that’s gonna get out and run. I think that’s uh where we probably gonna be at our best. Um I think James pointed out, yeah, right here talking about that 23 24 uh season we was getting all those deflections and points in in the fast break and we gonna have to get easy buckets because we know that our coach and I going to scheme up schemes to get us easy buckets. So you you got to get the easy buckets like that. Where’s the joystick at, boy? That joystick is there, man. You going to see it go crazy when when Joe Dumar see this [ __ ] happen. If when it happened, Joe Dum, he going to be yanking the hell out that joystick and Willie back. Willie going to be bucking his eyes and [ __ ] and everything. Green snapped out his nose. Our philosophy on Dumar’s coaching the team is gonna come real and it’s going to be revealed and exposed when this one thing happen, bro. And what’s this? got they got a minute and 30 seconds left in the game. Uh-oh. And we win that game. Not with a lucky shot, but through a series of very convincing high IQ basketball plays. You You going to know right now, bro? You going to know that ain’t Willie Green doing that [ __ ] He called a timeout at the right time. They calling the right play, the right atto’s and [ __ ] You know what I’m saying? They uh they they doubling the right person, blissing the right person at like, “Oh, ain’t no way Willie Green drew that [ __ ] It’s going to be exposed, bro. Hey, but Big Q DC, we can’t do the secret contract no more cuz the it’s already out. So, we got out our joysticks now. You hear me? We got to break out our joysticks. Hey, hold up. I got it. I got it, y’all. We got to bring these bad boys down. I love it, Lex. Hey, look. I’mma add something to your [ __ ] Lex. Y’all got to Hey, go get it. Okay. trying the uh the PlayStation uh music or the Sega. You got to you got to pull one of them out, dog. Sega, you pull out the the joystick, man. Any one of them. You mean like the Super Mario Brothers? That type of [ __ ] Yeah, they’re they’re Super Mario Brothers. There you go. Yeah, we we got the song, but like the theme for We all got to bring up just like this. So you bring the joysticks out when there is a positive play that happens that’s not customarily something Willie Green would do. Then we bring the joyst because you know it’s Joe Dumos. Okay, I got you. And y’all can join us in the chat and y’all get joysticks cuz Joe Dumar is definitely going to be on his joystick with Willie Green till he’s gone. Just telling you he gonna be there too, man. I I say Joe Joe is Joe Dumar is is going to be there, man. Let’s go with the uh the PlayStation song. PlayStation. You know the little Chinese. PlayStation. What you talking about? Say Sonic loses his coin sound when he lo when Sonic loses his coins. The Mario [Music] from the uh the 80s era. [Music] Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I got you. I got you. So that’s what we going to rip out. We going to rip that out for I got you. There it is right there. Hey, there it is right there. There it is. So yeah, he tell man, you looking for it. No, that joystick got to be back there somewhere. Yeah, got it again. See during this time, but this is a early this is an early picture. He he didn’t install it yet. It was later on and they start practicing. This was introductory. The joystick wasn’t putting into after the practices started happening. That’s when it started going. The joystick is in the practice facility and and now he it wasn’t there yet. See, this is just the introductory presser right here. This what this just got started. The joystick was placed after practice. That’s what happened. That’s what happened. But Willie Green Willie Green ain’t no way in the world Joe Dum is just going to let him sit up there and fail. That’s why he’s sitting right there watching him at courtside. That’s that’s a lot of pressure, man. And Willie still going to get fired. Yes. Well, Joe Dumo is eventually going to get tired of telling what plays to run and then he going to put somebody else in charge cuz he got a job to do his damn sad that he got to hold his hand though. It’s sad. I mean, it’s he he doing but but he did every part that he could do as a as a exec. I mean, the Gail I think Gail is in this picture somewhere. I think she was in this picture somewhere. But Gail is the one. She got the joy. She There go Gail right there. Joyce thinking Gail. Gail right there. There she go. [Laughter] Gail got it right this time. She got Jo. I heard uh I heard a rumor uh the dude who own um Kane. Come on, DC. Nah, he wants to buy the Saints. So, I know if he buys the Saints, he probably wouldn’t blank twice at buying up. I didn’t hear no rumor. I didn’t hear anything about hear nothing about it, man. Don’t know nothing about no football, bro. I don’t I didn’t hear anything about that. You ain’t got to know much about football. What you think, Miss Benson? No. She got the team from from Tom Benson who knew about football. I think he brought That’s crazy cuz uh they all dabbing him up. At least one of them are not here anymore. But see y’all seen that? They had Compassion up there. They See, they did this press conference. See, look. Compassion still up there. They ain’t up there no more. They took all that [ __ ] down. This the introductory press conference right here. They still had That’s before he stepped in and took a look around. You see, you see a couple of them old bill them old signs up in the background right there. See how he’s smiling? Look. Look at that. Joy. They got Joy. You see Joy back there? You paused it just in time. Look at that right there. Yeah. Hey, how you doing, buddy? How you doing? All right. Bye. He leaned in. He like, “Look, he was playing the politics, man. He he leaned into CJ and said, “Bro, you know you you getting the [ __ ] up out of here, right?” You know, he he that’s what he said. You know, you you about to go, right? Oh, goodness. Where the applause at? Where’s the applause? [Applause] You know you about to get the [ __ ] out of here. You right. You know that, right? That’s what that looked like right there. Then he even bunched and pump bumped into him a little bit. Yeah. Jose, stop that acting. That what he’s doing. Hey, stop calling out. Stop being dramatic. I’m not hurt, Mr. Joe. Mr. Joe. That’s right. You referred to Joe Dum as Mr. Joe. That’s right. But man, I would love I would love to see a Joe Jackson come out of him though. You know what I’m saying? Who Who’s Michael? Who’s Randy? Who’s it? Who’s Well, I mean, he already set the hierarchy, right? Oh my goodness. But I don’t I think Joe I think Joe I think she got this one right. The hire to get him here. I think she got this actually right. I think she got this right. Now, you know, my only critique or criticism of the Joe Dumas thing was, you know, I thought they should have had more of a a open scope, you know, a wider field of interviews with other people. We could have talked to Myers and some other people, but she seen Joe as the answer. And that’s probably because of Make Lumis. Lumis was he referenced this Joe to her because they were supposed to hire Joe when they created the the top executive position early on and you know then turned around gave it to Dale Dempse but they came back around to try to rectify it. Joe Dumos is the right decision for the Pelicans. I know some people criticizing this trade to get Queen. I think that’s still something that’s yet to be determined because number one I think Milwaukee is going to be better than what you think they are. Number two, uh, Queen is going to be good for the Pelicans. He’s going to be all right. And I I don’t think, uh, then number three is that it’s too premature to even talk about that [ __ ] yet. Let’s let let a year or so pass before we can get to that. Go ahead, DC. This year, brother, but did y’all hear about um, Giannis, his whole family’s moving back to Greece. I wonder next year, is Giannis contemplating leaving the NBA and playing overseas or something? I I didn’t hear that. I didn’t hear that. But what I did hear was it was a a New Yorker trade attempt for Giannis. Now, I did hear that that they were considering trade attempt. New York was trying to get Giannis and they turned the I don’t know, but they tra they turned the trade down because they said it wasn’t strong enough. Got to be called Anthony Towns. But he got a championship. I mean, if Milwaukee is not the thing, he don’t seem like he wants to go anywhere else. I mean, then uh not him play next to, right? But then he say he let his family choose and you know his wife and kids they wanted to go back to uh Greece and got his kids enrolled in school and everything out of that. I don’t know what that mean for him next year. I would think he probably definitely plays this year but he’s becoming a free agent at some point. So I’m wondering if Giannis is thinking about just going ahead and leaving the league. I’m sure he probably could get a bigger bag or the same bag playing over there now with with how the the system is going right now cuz he did allude to this. That’s why what you’re saying DC does not surprise me. But with everything that’s been going on as far as like injustices and things, um he did mention that. He actually I think he mentioned it either last year or the year before that he was like, you know, should I raise my children here in America? like he he he he did say that. So that doesn’t surprise me if he does want to move out because really this country ain’t the place to be. I’ve been that way for a while now. I’m just I’m just, you know, just lowkey. You know what I’m saying? You know, I’m just saying it’s like there’s there’s better living situations in other places. You know, this a goddamn million talking like that, too. So that go to show you he got this a man that got millions of dollars right you know melanation too much here he got millions of dollars get doors open for him wherever he go he’s treated but he still felt like that that’s that’s quite eye opening right ain’t blue collar you know we still got a a Bucks pick right after um we got they pick next year still I think that’s the last one have to look it up but I think you’re right DC I want to say you’re right on that but it’s it’s it’s got their first round pick he ain’t going to leave him behind drawing How many left on this deal? I think got two years left. I think you Yeah, they were tell the Warriors this year and next year. Warriors are always looking at I don’t know. You got to look it up, man. I’m not sure. Use your computer, DC. You got more than one over there, right? I’m not on the computer. I’m on the phone right now. Isn’t your phone a computer? Why? You can look up he and when I click over, you ain’t going to be able to hear me, too. Okay. Well, there you go. All right, DC. Yeah, man. DC says phone is not a computer. This is why I could do some [ __ ] I told you I can’t do. Okay, I know. That’s why I was pressing it pressing you on that. But anyway, yeah, let’s see. Yeah, but uh this is But anyway, before we get ready to shut it, we talked about the Houston matchup with the Pel. I know Alex Lex kind of alluded to fact that the time difference in in so far as the Pelicans taking so long to get ready to get that preseason match up. I know they’ll be practicing during that period of time, but like I said, what I’ve seen from over these first couple of games were very positive. We do understand the difference this season cuz that’s what it’s all about. The play, the personnel, the leadership, you know, are you guys just to the flock how confident you guys are in the leadership of one Joe Dum on the screen? Do you believe in Joe Dum’s moves? I mean, you might not agree with everything, but his he has been consistent in his thought about uh communicating and the team playing a certain physical style of play that he played when he’s Detroit and some of that mindset. I think that mirrors the the temperament of the territory we live in, the mindset of the city and the region to play physical. So, hey, yeah, the only incumbrance in in in from what I’ve seen in covering the Pelicans this long is the head coach. But as long as he got that that uh that PlayStation joystick in his back, we going to see how far this goes. Man, this is going to be a very a very interesting thing. But it’s true time. If Willie can’t elevate the team’s play, then he he got to go. And and besides, Willie, you know, Willie has one year remaining on his contract. This is it for Willie Green. He had that one extension year that was added. After this year, his contract is over with. So either way, he’s gone. If he doesn’t perform is is, you know, and do what he’s supposed to do, he’ll get fired. in in the fact that he has one year remaining. And of course, Joe Dumos wants his own guy. I know he wants his own guy. How he cleaned up how he cleaned up house and bringing all these people. He wants his own guy to run it. And one of the family members made mention of Malone, former Denver head coach. That was a great uh point that he made mention that Joe Dumas uh he said the head coach was Malone’s father. I thought it was Daly, wasn’t it? Chuck Chuck Daly was the head coach. Was uh Piston was the Piston head coach when Joe Dumas was there. Unless he had another coach that I wasn’t I’m not familiar with. But y’all the historians of the game, y’all let me know. Wasn’t Joe Dumar’s only coach that I remember unless he was before that. I remember was Chuck Daly. Chuck Daly was the guy that got him the that that took him to the promised land is what I remember. Y’all let me know in the chat. Okay. Assistant Stacy say was Stace said was the assistant coach under Chuck Daly. Okay. Thank you, Stace. All right. But that’s still that is still a very great that might be the the stat of the night right there. Yeah, that would be the stat of the night right there. And that is very interesting. Chuck Daly was Joe Dum’s head coach. Uh, and his son, his father, uh, Malone’s father was the assistant coach and Malone is out here as a free agent. Some of this [ __ ] just writes itself. Yeah, he’s on he’s on, baby. That’s it. Some of this [ __ ] just writes itself, don’t it? And not only that, Malone is older and we know that Zion responds very well to older the cats. But what but but let me ask you, this is just hyperbole, but what you would would it would Malone and Joe Dumals get alone? Why would they? I’m just asking a question. Would they would they cuz some people say Malone has somewhat of a a um somewhat of a temperament. I’ve heard before that they talked about some of Malone’s temperament. Maybe it was with that that leadership group out there in uh Denver, but that’s what I remember hearing about about Malone at that time being difficult to deal with. He seemed kind of like one of the old school guys, man. And I think that’s what was all about like I, you know, like, you know, from the era when men could be men without all these, you know, restrictions. And I think there’s a mutual respect because Yeah. Malone didn’t get get along with the uh the GM. That’s that’s facts. James, was that was he James? They they were clashing. I can’t remember what uh who team was Malone. Oh yeah, sure was. That wasn’t Malone was a he was an assistant here in New Orleans. Well, that shouldn’t surprise us. We had a lot of great coaches that left went somewhere else. We and did really well. Our latest and greatest. Finch. Yeah. They show our competitive. They got a competitive team and they won a championship. See, Pelicans don’t have that type of Denver’s ownership is broken. Yeah. Let me see. Yeah, man. Don says Malone and Burggos coached together in New Orleans before as assistants. Ain’t that crazy? So, who was the head coach? Why I think this is all under Monty Williams if I’m not mistaken. Lord Jesus, man. What is you know what I’m saying? Like, y’all had you had these dudes. Yes. You know what I’m saying? Like Yes. Joe wasn’t here, was he? No, Joe wasn’t here. Joe wasn’t in the house. We had uh D and Dale Dems. Stupid ass brother still up there. Deal and Dale. Well, well, you know what? That does make a point cuz Joe, I think with all the studying that he’s been doing, he wanted the team to get younger as far as I mean, he talked about that uh in his interviews. It’s building a roster around Zion with younger players. Yeah, because I’m alluding to what you’re saying. What you’re saying, uh, James, as far as uh, can Zion play at the level he’s playing at? Do we look at Zion seven years from now still being exactly what he is or will his game He hasn’t hit his prime yet, right? He going to get better, right? He’s not technically in in his I ain’t saying he’s not in his prime cuz I mean, he’s had Will his prime last? Will his prime 2010 2011? It it was the the excuse me for the Michael Malone Hornets. It was the served as an assistant coach for the Pel for Hornets at the time during the 2010 2011 NBA season. During his time with the Hornets, the team achieved a 4636 record and made the 2011 NBA playoffs under Malone’s assistance. The Hornets had the most improved defense in the league, averaging 8.7 fewer points than in the previous season. Following his stint with the Hornets, Malone went on to become the head coach for the Kings, most notably the Denver Nuggets. He led the Nuggets to the championship in 2023. Was fired by the Nuggets two years later. Say again. Malone coach Demarcus Cousin. What? Uh as the Pelicans or at a different style? Oh, with the Kings. Yeah, he did. His early coaches, man. Everywhere Malone went like the bigs. The bigs did well. Yeah. Yeah. And he had run in with their uh their front office, too. Yeah. That’s what too But that’s when y’all ask me the question about probably got history. But that’s what I’m saying. That’s when y’all ask me the question. He had a problem with leadership in Sacramento. He had a problem with Denver. That’s why I asked the question, would him and Joe get along here with previous with problems and issues with those? Well, anybody have Sacramento’s an idiot club, so I guess I can exclude them. So, but but it does have he had an issue with Denver as well. So, that was my question about that. I mean, yeah, 23 and 2014. He had they wanted that he he helped Denver get a championship but you know keep about that. Nobody saw Jokic coming either man. You you got to give him some credit for building that guy cuz I I remember seeing Jokic when he was young. You you saw some flashes or something there. Nowhere near like what he looks like. Yeah, he was definitely a gym coming out of second round. [ __ ] He probably one of the best second round picks of all time if not probably. So it’d be hardressed to find one that would be considered great better than him, man. That that was that’s big, man. It almost boggles my mind that he was a second rounder, man, and doing like that, man. MVP. Yeah. Yeah. I can’t think of anybody else that came out the second round that’s done. The only person that probably comes close. He He’s not an MVP, but you know, it’s probably Draymond. I mean, with with his four championships, but he’s not the he’s not the best guy on his team. Jokic guy on his team. Huh. It ain’t even close, Lex. Draymond ain’t No, I’m I’m just saying like if if we are doing that cuz Draymond’s not the best player. That’s what I was saying. Like he like Joic is the MVP of his team. Draymond isn’t. So that that that’s the only difference is it’s a distance

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