17 Burst results for "Dj Augustine"
Lakers Nation Podcast
"dj augustine" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Hire, you need indeed. Yeah, I think and the chat is agreeing right now. They're saying Stanley Johnson when he gave DJ Augustine has been good. I mean, DJ Augustine, this was unexpected. Yeah, it was great. Yeah. But he's also 34. He's also 34. We also know that he's a Frank Vogel guy. He's afraid Vogel guy. So I mean, it's a fact. It's a fact he's played at the two previous Frank Vogel shops. He's had DJ Augustine on his team. Indiana, Orlando, DG Augustine and both teams. So he's a Frank Vogel guy, Frank Vogel is not back. Maybe that makes a difference in terms of whether or not D geography is back. I think the age matters too. Stanley Johnson, Wendy Gabriel, both mid 20s, both probably on and Stanley Johnson, I believe they have, yes, they have under contract next year. So I think that's an easy pickup. And it doesn't mean you're relying on him to be a starter next year. No. But you need guys like that that you can plug in that are going to produce on a veteran minimum. That's been one of the problems for the Lakers have had this season that they've got guys that age wise weren't able to produce any more taking up roster spots on better minimums. You need guys like Stanley Johnson when you Gabriel as well. He's been really good. Yeah, if you're counting on Stanley Johnson to be like, I don't know your 5th best player, you are in trouble. Yes. But if he's your 9th tenth and arguably even your 8th guy, that's not bad. And yeah, the Lakers would be very dumb to not keep them around for next season. But I think it's roster spots pretty safe. He's been impressive since he signed his first ten day with the team. He's a hometown kid. You have to like that. And he just plays with competitive edge and fire. You need the guys like that off your bench, for sure. Here's this is going to be a bit of a curveball for you Matt. Sure. Michael Montenegro with a super chat said, do you think we bring back mellow? We've been talking. We've been talking about the young guys. What about Carmelo Anthony? He is the one veteran player that I think really has hit for the Lakers. Sure. I think this really comes down to does he want to play? Does he does he want to or does he say, does he say this is it? This is it for my career. I think so. I mean, for all intents and purposes, mellow has been like kind of like the quintessential veteran guy. He's been a positive locker room guy, hasn't bashed the team or seemed down. He's got to play in Los Angeles where he resides next to his buddy LeBron. I mean, I think it really is just going to come down to am I done? Do I feel like retiring or if I have another year in me? I don't see why he wouldn't stay in LA for another year. Unless and again, I don't know, maybe because of how well he's done in a limited role. Maybe he's got other offers from other teams. But I just have to assume that assuming it's a veteran minimum contract for him again, which I think it will be. Why not just run it back with the Lakers and see, can we turn this team around? Can we get healthy? And let's go from there. Yeah. Absolutely..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"dj augustine" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Horton Tucker zero for 5 shooting, three boards three assists. -12 on the night, Avery Bradley was -17 on the night, DJ Augustine was -17 on the night. That was the rotation at the end of the third that really hurt the Lakers. Do you think it was the Lakers offense or defense more that lost this game? If you had to pick talk about Vogel, but which side of the floor would think was most responsible? I want to say defense because I personally believe that you should be able and you should rely on your defense. But this defense has been far from reliable this season. So, still though, I think I'll go defense. I'd say a little defense. They lost some of that sense of urgency. They were really flying around defensively on that first quarter. I think a part of it is because they had a little bit more size on the floor, but I think they were flying around in that first quarter and kind of faltered after they had that 14 point lead and they kind of started feeling themselves a little bit. Yeah, I do think credit to the wizards, they really adjusted well, mid game. And said, okay, the Lakers switching everything. They're switching one through 5. That's really attack this..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"dj augustine" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"A little bit. And also, as you mentioned, the Lakers guy down to four in the early beginnings of the fourth quarter, cat makes a tough shot, and then LeBron gets called for a movie screen. I think it was. And then they go down, they hit a three when he Gabriel misses the three, and then after Avery Bradley lay up or whatever, they go ahead another three LeBron hits a three day come right back or whatever. And it's a ten point game now and the cat gets a few free throws in a row and all of a sudden you look up at 14. So that was kind of the way this game went and the movie screen was a big call. Because DJ Augustine played really well up to that point. And they hit the three too, so just chewing themselves in a foot at the worst possible times. I feel like that just encompasses the Lakers season so far. Donna Daniel espinoza said Trevor, where do you rank this season? Is this one of the worst seasons in franchise history? What do you think? Yeah, I think it is. I think it is. This is, this is there's a difference between the rebuilding teams and this team. In terms of the disappointment factor and in terms of how poorly this team is represented, the fan base, if we're being honest, right? I mean, this is a team that really hasn't shown the heart or the fight or the hustler or anything that you would expect out of a professional team, right? Whether it's the Lakers or otherwise. It feels like they've kind of checked out to some degree. And that's, I think, what gets fans extra frustrated and makes it that much more of a joyless season. You go back and you look at the rebuilding. I mean, people were talking about this on Twitter today. The Lonzo, Brandon Ingram teams. They played harder than this team's playing right now. And part of that is human nature. Part of that is, man, we just keep getting our teeth kicked in. How are we supposed to continue playing hard when, gosh, I've been doing this for 19 years or 17 years, however all these guys are veterans. That's a factor here. It's a little different when you're a rookie and it's your first season and you're going on here trying to prove yourself every single night to continue playing hard this late in the season. So I'm not saying it's the same thing. I'm not saying there's not a reason why these guys would have trouble focusing and locking in on a game, but from the fan perspective, yes, I think this, this is, it's crossed the line, I believe this is the worst. I think this is the most disliked Lakers team that we've seen. Somebody asked on the our live broadcast that we did of the game, somebody asked, is this team or who wins basically this team or the 2012 13 team?.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"dj augustine" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"One of the smallest lineups that anybody's put on the floor around the NBA this season. It's gotta be. It has to be. Like you said, 5 11 DJ Augustine, Russ has maybe 6 three. Bayes Moore's 6 four ish, and then gosh, what's the other guard? That's every brother already 6, two. So that's a really small and then you have a mellow as your 5, which don't get me started on the mellow at the 5. I've hated that lineup all year. Any line up with mail with the file for that matter, but. Man, it's wrong. I don't know what to say other than it's raw because that is just because like you said, we can talk about X's and those and I know I can talk about X's nose all day, but it doesn't matter if you don't have 5 guys on the floor locked in and wanting to win or are wanting to have the will to win 'cause I think it's a difference. Like I said everyone wants to win but I think not everybody has the will to win. If that makes sense. Yeah. That does. That does make sense. And I think that may be just part of it is it's a long season. They recognize that, hey, this team is probably not going anywhere. I wouldn't fault something guys for starting to think about, hey, you know, what are your summer plans? What are you going to do? But again, as a professional, you've got to finish out the season the right way. You have to. Love Lamar said asking LeBron to play center when no one stays in front of their man and give you all the offense is ridiculous 80 doesn't even want to play center. Yeah, you can't ask him to really be your last line and clean up everything at the rim, but I also don't think that they're asking him to do those things. They understand that they're going to give up some shots at the rim when they run LeBron at the 5. They're more asking him in terms of being the last defender to be the guy to try to keep everybody else organized. But you do have a point, look, the perimeter defense was atrocious in this one. The rockets just, I mean, just walked into the paint most plays. They won the points in the paint battle. Not not good, not what you want to see for sure..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"dj augustine" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Apply. Need to hire, you need indeed. Yeah, I don't know. That's the decision. It's kind of the question you're asking. Yeah. And they've got a couple kids, but clearly they're trying to win a championship. So they're not in the development of, hey, let's play Charles bassi or Paul Reed. And we'll sort through it. I mean, I have no huge issue with it. I certainly wouldn't claim him if I was really. It just doesn't make sense to go that way. So let me try to connect some dots here because I've got this theory about what may have occurred here. And this is, again, this is complete just guess by me. But Deandre Jordan is a Doc Rivers guy, right? I mean, they've got history. So if the fellow Philadelphia 76ers let it be known that, hey, they were interested in signing Deandre Jordan if he does get bought out. From the Lakers perspective, is it worth eating that hit to get rid of Deandre Jordan just so you can pick up a DJ Augustine? Well, if it was, they probably would have paid some team just to take on Jordan's salary at the trade deadline or something like that. Is it really worth going from DJ Augustine or going from Deandre Jordan to DJ Augustine to take that much money on? Is it going to make a difference this season really? Probably not. So my guess is that through whatever back channeling they needed to do, there is 76ers said, hey, if you wave this guy, will claim him. And then, yeah, that's awesome. That just seems to make some sense to me. And again, those sourcing or anything on that, that's just, that's my guess. Yeah, I think that I think that's definitely reasonable, I think, to look at it that way. I think as you get into it to the, it may be one of those where, hey, we just need anybody who kind of gets docked and what docs looking for. A lot of defensive schemes and stuff. So let's run with Deandre Jordan because he knows that stuff. So yeah, let's see, but yeah, I think interesting too with DJ Augustine if one of them to that for a minute for the Lakers side. This, I guess. This tells me they have no faith. Why would you do this otherwise? Avery Bradley has also been out for a while on that one a couple of weeks, at least going on. So whatever is happening there. And my guess is they're looking at it as, hey, we need somebody to come in so that it's not Russ for 32 minutes a night. And then the other minutes, we got a stagger and put it all on LeBron to just even dribble the ball up to court because when I watch them, it's pretty rare that it's anybody but one of those two even bringing it up court. And so just getting another guy who can even just do that gets you in your offense and go. Like that will have some value because you got to start finding ways if you're hopeful to be competitive at all in the postseason. You gotta start finding ways to take some of the load off LeBron's plate. Even just simple stuff. I know that sounds so stupid. But it's so true. Yeah, you know, 7, 8 seconds to get it up, then a couple more to get you into your set. That can be, you know, you're talking doing that 40, 50 times a game. Now you can just kind of run down, get in the corner, set the play, whatever it is, and go from there..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"dj augustine" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"If he's claimed off of waivers, though, the Lakers are going to celebrate because then it doesn't look nearly as bad for the Lakers because the 76ers he's a veteran minimum of the 76ers will just assume that contract and the Lakers are off the hook. So if that's the case and maybe the Lakers caught wind of the 76ers are really looking for a bake and they might claim Deandre Jordan, maybe that was the impetus that caused the Lakers to say, yeah, let's do this then. Let's just wave him. Knowing that it's probably not going to cost us that much if the 76ers were really will use a waiver claim on them. Yeah, and I also think there's a part of this where, you know, we said a lot that, oh, they'll just attach some cash to Deandre Jordan and they'll pour them off at the deadline. Well, what if the teams that had the open roster spot said nah, we don't want cash. We want picks. We want a second round pick. The Lakers probably, you know, I don't want to give them too much credit, but they probably looked at it and said, well, if it's between eating the luxury tax on him by waving him or attaching a second round pick to get off of him, I'd rather hold on to the second round pick and eat the, you know, four or $5 million, whatever it is. That felt like what kind of went down and why it went this way. Yeah, I mean, if Philly claims him, great. That's best case scenario, right? And Philly will have gotten their guy that will have landed the big fish and Deandre Jordan, so good for them. Physically, big fish. That's what it is. He's actually, he's a big dude. So when we're looking at this with the Lakers, this whole situation, I could very well see where at the trade deadline, the Lakers, if they had the option of if teams and by the way, this has kind of been out there that a lot of the teams that had room wanted a lot for anybody who was going to use that room. So if the Lakers are staring down, do we part with the second round pick just in order to clear Deandre Jordan so that we can sign DJ Augustine. And I'm not going to disparage DJ Augustine here, but if is it worth a second round pick to go from Deandre Jordan to DJ Augustine? Probably not. Probably not. So that's where it makes sense from the Lakers standpoint to not do that to not try to clear up that roster spot. And now perhaps fortuitously, they heard, hey, the 76ers will indeed claim him so you go ahead and make that move. Now again, that's me speculating. I don't know if the Lakers actually heard that or not. I'm just saying if you connect the dots, it kind of makes some sense. Why suddenly this is happening. By the way, Deandre Jordan of course getting waived before the deadline, which is March 1st. Today now, before the deadline, which again makes him play off eligible. Had he been waved, say, march 2nd, then he would not be playoff eligible, which with whatever team signed him, which makes him much less desirable of a player to go inside..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"dj augustine" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Can find me on Twitter at Trevor underscore lane or on Instagram at Trevor lane NBA. Got a lot to talk about today. We've got the Lakers actually making a move on the biome market. We've got fans Boeing at crypto dot com arena. I'm slowly getting used to saying that, but fans booing their Russell Westbrook reacting to it in a way that might make fans boo a little bit more. We'll talk a little bit about that. Plus we'll talk about the Lakers future and what that's going to look like moving forward as we prepare for. It's going to be a very eventful off season joining me today is veron government from Lakers nation dot com and the NBA front office show as well, which everyone should definitely go subscribe to. Run, welcome in. We've got a lot to talk about. It kind of cool that the Lakers actually made a move shortly before we sat down to record, which gives us even more to get into. Yeah, I don't know what this show would have looked like if they didn't make those two moves earlier today. I think it would have been I think it would have been pretty sad, just us for 30 minutes. Venting about how they can't beat the New Orleans pelicans at this point. So I don't know. This gives us something good to talk about. Is it something good? So they've waved Deandre Jordan and they are bringing it or they're going to bring in good. That's good. That's it. Good. They waved Deandre Jordan. Good. End of segment. Perfect. They waved Deandre Jordan. They're bringing in DJ Augustine. So we know that. There's also another move which I've yet to see it. So maybe you've seen it and I missed it. There are also bring in Wendy and Gabriel on a two way contract, but I've yet to see who they're waving in order to open up that two way contract, whether it's mason Jones, or a secret Dubois, but we'll get to that in a moment. Let's start with the bigger one here. DJ Augustine coming in, Deandre Jordan going out. What's your just surface level takeaway on that one? Surface level takeaway is I can't believe Deandre Jordan's going to get another shot in the NBA. I can't believe and for those who don't know the Philadelphia 76ers are, by the way, I laughed out loud when I saw this. Adrian will join tweeted the story link and the title was 76ers FrontRunner to land Deandre Jordan as if it's like as if it's a big free agent. The Brooklyn Nets landed Goran dragic. Deandre Jordan is going to stumble his way into the Philadelphia 76ers rotation. Like that, this is not a big moment for the sixers. I just can't believe he's getting another shot. It's nothing against him as a dude. He seems to be very well liked everywhere he goes. But I mean, he played yesterday. Or he played Sunday against the pelicans. He can't play anymore. He just can't play anymore. He threw a pass into the tenth row..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"dj augustine" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Not a move that your hope there is get him back, get him, you know, at least showing something the rest of the way and then maybe you do something in this off season with him as the centerpiece of a trade. But the other thing is they just don't have a ton of needs and they don't have any easy kind of cuts that they want to move on their roster of get rid of this guy or get rid of that guy. So I figured what you see is what you gave up the warriors that they're going to set this thing out. Maybe buy out season, but I don't even think that happens for them just because I think they like their guys one through 15 right now. We're making the west sound so boring like the first three teams were like they're not doing it now. But I agree. We're on the warriors 100%. Yeah. The Houston Rockets. Now, these guys are sellers, but what are you selling? John Walsh? Sure. Hey Lakers. They're on the first round pick with the Russell Westbrook, John wall is yours. My guess is I've said this is either takes to the off season or we'll see if they can do a Blake Griffin type situation where trade deadline passes and wall is like, yo, well, I'll get back some money because I want to play. We'll see. But then DJ Augustine definitely they would move him if they need to. We've talked it over and over and over again who needs a point guard. There's a full team like guys like Dennis Schroeder, maybe Spencer didn't witty those are probably better options for teams that are point guards. Daniel tice, very available. Let's see what happens with Christian wood. I think that after we kind of bold over by an offer to move wood, they actually talked in the last couple games about they want to get more minutes with him in outburn Schengen together to see what that looks like with those two. So that kind of leaves Eric Gordon. So maybe, but they're asking for a first round pick and we kind of laughed about it on a recent show of like that seems like it's crazy, but the way Gordon has played, that's really not all that insane of an ask, especially if it's coming from a team whose pick's going to be in the 20s. Absolutely makes all the sense of the world for them to try to move Gordon right now if they can. Again, this is probably the highest his value is going to be..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"dj augustine" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Decided to cut him loose entirely. And Christian wood, while productive over the course of the last couple of years in a couple places, Detroit and Houston has had some bumps along the way too, but this is what happens. I mean, when you're the rockets and you're looking for hidden gems or, you know, just some, you know, just try to find young guys to build around who may have some rough spots, you knew you were taking a risk when you brought these guys in, especially Kevin Porter junior and do you have the infrastructure? Do you have the foundation to deal with it? John Lucas is a great place to start. So if you had asked me in the abstract a year ago, hey is this a good place for these guys to go where they'll have the right support and the right leadership? I'd say yes because of John Lucas in particular and any of the rest of that coaching staff too and certainly Steven Silas. But do they have the veterans there? Outside of Eric Gordon and I don't know DJ Augustine. I mean, like there's no there's not a lot of gray hairs on this roster. Not a lot of guys who've been through a lot. I just, I don't know if you've got enough there to coax these guys through these kinds of times. And, you know, listen, maybe they're just not going to be. Like maybe there is no good answer. Maybe Kevin Porter junior is never going to get it right. We see that happens sometimes too. I'm not saying that that he won't. I never want to write a guy off this early in his career. He's very young. But some guys never figure it out. So maybe it's not in the rockets. But you do have to have the support system there when you're taking a risk on guys who have a history as these guys do. So I don't know where it goes from here. I mean, you know, look, teammates can forgive it, they can bring them back into the fold and admit that that's tough to that's not a fight in the locker room. That's just quitting. Like, it's as simple as that. That's quitting. You quit on your team. Two players, two starters, two of the best players on that team just quit. Now I wrote a column about this on SI dot com. I know it sounds like a nuclear option to just cut ties with these two players, but the rockets, they've got to build a culture. Now you just said, when you're in a position like the rockets, you're trying to take a flyer on these guys, try to see try to find a diamond, whatever. The rockets have talent on that roster. Pretty good young town. Like jaylen green has the potential to be a terrific score. Alperin sanguine is someone that has looked like he could be one of the steals in the draft from this past year. 6 foot ten can rebound, looks like he can shoot the three down the line, good player. You got Jay Sean Tate, who's got a little bit of that PJ Tucker in him can be a defensive minded guy in your front court, defend a bunch of different positions. Like those are the guys you are going to be building around. It's not going to be Kevin Porter and Christian wood. It's just, I think we've reached that point. Like Kevin Porter junior is extension eligible this summer. Can you imagine any scenario where the rockets committed serious money to him? Like real money? Anything beyond like money that they wouldn't mind eating if things go wayward once again? Same thing with Christian Woods got one year left in his contract. He's extension eligible this summer. Like wood puts up numbers, he was fourth in the most improved player voting last year, but he has yet to show anywhere that he's a winning player. It's not, look, it's not on him that he played for Detroit, and they're bad. Now he's with Houston, they're bad, but all I've seen from Christian wood is that he can put up numbers. I have not seen contributions towards winning yet, at least not the kind of contributions that would warrant being paid real money by the Houston Rockets. Your future, if you're Houston, is green, it is Tate, it is sanguine, and it's whoever comes out of this high lottery pick that you're going to have next year. Whether that's Chet holmgren or jabari Smith or any of the other guys that are out there sitting at the top of next year's draft. Those are the guys you're building around. Every other roster spot needs to be devoted to guys that will help them succeed. Veteran guys that will help them succeed. I don't I just don't see the point right now at keeping Porter junior and would around when you I mean you know like they're smart people in Houston. They know that these two guys are not going to be part of their long-term future. So my opinion is that you just cut Kevin Porter junior like you eat the last of the 1.8 million. He's due this year. I think it's 3.2 million next year. And you trade Christian wood. Like there's a market for Christian wood. Like Charlotte would love to get their hands on Christian wood. Portland would love a guy like Christian wood. I'm sure the Lakers want everybody at this point. They would love to get a guy like Christian wood. So you can deal him and then just focus on your culture, try building, you know, things in a more productive way. Like you have the coach, like Steven Silas, is an excellent coach. He's probably going to wind up getting scapegoated for this mess. At some point, at the end of the year, because that's the way it goes in the NBA. But Steven Silas is an excellent coach, a very good developmental guy as he's shown in previous stops as an assistant. So you've got a good coach. You've got some pretty good young players, a decent foundation. I don't know why you're messing around with stuff like this that can only serve to create negativity around your team, potentially hamper the development of some of the young guys you're really locked in on. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to disagree with any of that, Chris. I don't know what the rockets are going to become where this is all headed, what the overall plan is. I mean, obviously, look, it's a tear down, and they are going young and they're trying to stock up on young players and that's the general direction, which is the normal thing to do when you were forced into a position to trade guys when you had to offload harden and Westbrook and start over. And I don't mind them going, you know, making some rolls of the dice, but you also do have to acknowledge when those roles have gone bad when you've crapped out. I don't know if we're there yet. I mean, you know, look, there's often a lot more to these things than we see or hear, right? So have there been any other incidents that are of a serious nature with either Porter or wood? Have you hit the third strike yet with these guys? Are you okay still proceeding with maybe just one of them? And you're right on Porter junior it's a small price to pay with another whatever you burn 3 million or whatever off of cap if you cut them now for next season, that's not gonna kill you. You're gonna be below the cap anyway and you're rebuilding team. It's fine. And I agree that there are teams that would not only love to have Christian wood for his talent, but could handle whatever comes with that. A more veteran team, there are plenty of places I could see him. I think he'd be great in Dallas. Portland, as you mentioned, there are plenty of others who could use a talented big. Um, I just don't know if we're at that point yet. I don't know. It has Houston definitively reached the breaking point with either or both. I do think there's the danger of if you hold on to them too long and if those things continue and are unchecked or they're not held accountable unless to their credit, they suspended them both for a game. They're trying to establish what the rules and what the limits are. But you don't want to poison the overall environment, right? When you get Jalen green, when you get, when he's back, when you have the next group that comes behind that in the coming draft and the one after that, you certainly want to have a good stable and accountable environment for guys to come up.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"dj augustine" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Do they need? A center, you could play him 25, 30 minutes a night right now on this team and who cares if you lose games, but you'd be developing him and you'd be doing that moving forward. They've got tons of picks, but they've got to turn those picks into something. And right now, the only something they've really got is Shay Gil just Alexander. We'll see what happens with Katie. I do like giddy. I think he's going to be good moving forward. I like him too. He just can't. Yeah. And so you need to find those pieces, which is easier said than done. Because everybody's trying to fight shooting. Yeah. And we're going to talk the Lakers in a little bit, but one of the things a Lakers are going through with their own pains is, in today's MBA, you can't play more than one non shooter at a time. Yeah. It's just it's too hard to create and find good offense. On the warrior side since we talked about them and they won this game. They do not win this game without Damian Lillard off the bench 20 points. He really was came in and helped stabilize and get them into it. As much as it hurts me because our guy Jordan Poole. He was better than Jordan Poole, was in this game, but 7 assists for Jordan Poole, and that speaks to a bigger thing with the warriors. 30 assists on 39 baskets, which is, you know, that's the word impressive stuff. And that's how they get it done, but I don't want to talk about this game anymore. Let's move on to another pad came Dallas and Dallas and Houston oh man. So the Mavs pick up the win one 16 to one O 6, which you would expect. Again, though, the Mavs, they rely on a massive massive output from Lucas 26.14 board 7 assist two steels. That's the recipe for success in the in man's land. I mean, look, it's pretty much wherever Luca takes us. That's where we're going to go. If Luca has an off night, we're losing, if Luke has a good night, then we've got a shot to win games, and that's overly reliant on one player for my liking. As good as he is. And we also see Kristoff's porzingis go down with a back injury, how severe it is, we don't know. It sounds like it was more of a precautionary thing. But only 9 points for him, three rebounds. He definitely has not. We were hoping this was gonna be kind of a bounce back year for him, have not seen that so far up to this point. You did get 16 points out of Tim Hardaway. Junior, but before we jump to the rockets, I figured we should start here. Reggie Bullock to get 16 points, including four of 9 from deep. So that was nice to see even coming in on the ventilator. And a lot of Mavs fans are saying, well, why are you running Reggie Bullock off the badge when the whole point was to put shooting around Luca and now you're not playing him with Luca? Jason Kidd, what's happening? Yeah, I mean, they're not going to play Chris steps at the 5. So that means you have to play another defensive guy, which is why Finney Smith gets in there. I think they're also leery of going, although you're not going to be necessarily small in terms of height, but Bullock and Hardaway are not rebounders in porzingis is not a good rebounder. So you're really putting the pressure on Luke I mean, he had 14 in this game, but your impression on him and then whatever 5 is in the game generally joy Powell to start games to do everything on the boards then. At least Finney Smith will get on the boards a little bit. He's probably, yeah, I'm not gonna say probably. He's the best defensive player on this team. So I think that is also why you're just not going to see regulators start. But yeah, there's room for me. The two with him in Hardaway around, Luke, can you mention Luca was very bold on? I thought when he came in because Houston plays with two bigs a lot, whether it be Tyson and wood to start or Schengen him would or Tyson Schengen on occasion. They'll go with two bigs. This was a good spot to get ball bond in there. 11 points on 5 of 5 shooting just kind of did the unleashes. But Jalen Brunson really did 11 assists off the bench for him, he really came in and was running the offense. Going well, those minutes he can give them with Luka or so important too. Because that allows Luke to just kind of take a possession or too long. Yeah. On offense. It's just hard because you're not going to get any traction defensively with those two in the game. So it's a weird roster construction for Dallas, a little bit. I feel like maybe there's a trade coming later that will reset. Things. But so much of it is just prison. I guess we're lying. In what's rough is he had just played a pretty good game. And now we're right back to where you see her and we'll see what ultimately happens with him, but it's like the definition of one step forward two steps back with that guy kind of for what 5 years running now it feels like. On the rocket side, they're bad, but at least I'm like, okay, see who I just ripped. They're bad with the purpose. That's a pretty good vision, and they're really fun watch. Just be careful if you sit close to the floor in a rocket game because there's going to be balls sailing up into the crowd because they don't all over the gym. They play, they get up and down. They need the netting, like in baseball. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you might definitely need that. Ugly shooting night for jaylen green and Kevin Porter, junior. They kind of is what it is. Christian wood, it's going to go unnoticed. I think this year, but he's putting up some numbers. They're just going to be so bad and I don't know that people are going to pick up on it. Chin get not his best name off the band chum. And then I'm looking forward to sometime in the next few months when Eric Gordon and DJ Augustine are gone, nothing against those two guys. Just there's no role for them on this rockets team. I'm like Daniel tyce, who serves a role as the third big with their younger bigs. Those two guys it just doesn't make a lot of sense for them to be there, especially Gordon, eating up those wing wing minutes. Off ball wing minutes. It's just that I don't know. I'd rather see at this point our Monte Brooks, Josh Christopher, better see those guys in the Gordon. But this is about making sure teams know. Hey, Gordon's, he's healthy. He's good and good for him while he is healthy. Yeah, I'd imagine that every GM in the NBA had got a text message last night from the Houston Rockets and all it was was just a screenshot of Eric Gordon's stat line from last night, 22.7 for 11 shooting three of 5 from three. And then maybe a little something saying like, want to talk train, right? Like this is exactly what you want to showcase to other teams before you're going to move a guy at 22 point outing. He was a plus 13 on the night, which was a team high. But you mentioned Kristen would great stuff for him. 17 and 16. He's one of my guys in the NBA where I think he can be a lot better. I think he would be on a good team, he'd be getting a lot more recognition for how good he really is, but on the rockets you don't get quite as much attention because they're bad team and they continue to lose jaylen green, had a big night, a couple of nights ago, but was not as effective tonight for for 16 shootings. Yeah. He's a rookie. That's what rookies do. But still very excited. And then not great the next. All right, let's get to New York. Let's do it. Lakers and spurs. I think the big story out of this at the top is Anthony Davis late and regulation bang means and for a minute, stayed in, played the entirety of the over time. After the game, he said it was just a little stinger, Frank Vogel. Knowingly, right, especially on the first night of a back to back, was very feels in the morning. But sounds like he avoided anything serious, which is clearly really important the Lakers the last thing they need is another guy injured. It's getting to the point of absurdity with the number of players out. LeBron sat out and what he's saying, it's nothing big. This is I like to have vocal centers. We're prepared for America. Yeah. In that there's no reason to play him. In a game, spurs are frisky in their tough, but you feel like you should win without him. I have to wonder too. I'm curious to get your thoughts on this. If we talked a lot about why you go get Russell Westbrook is so when one or two of the other guys is missing you have one or two to still there, I get to wonder if Vogel was a little bit like, all right, LeBron's banged up and off the sitting is probably the right thing to do, but let's get a look what it can look like if we let Russ cook with the ball in his hands. It was that baby part of the thinking.
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"And we'll see, you know, there was so much hype on him coming into the NBA. I remember this was a big deal. Him coming into the NBA draft. He never really hit in the NBA at this point, but still intriguing, got the size and the handle and all that kind of stuff. So we'll see what he can do with the Houston Rockets. Plenty of opportunities there, but definitely a team in transition as well. Yeah, again, another team. They don't have a roster. So not entirely sure where that one's going to go either. Now they've got guys. They can wave to bring action in on the 20 man roster, but it's getting them out of that 15 man roster. It sounds like the deal is going to be very incentive. For Exxon, my guess is the guy who probably goes if this comes to fruition, is probably Kyrie Thomas, who they signed the late last season to a multiyear deal, but he's on a non guaranteed contract, and the idea with excellent would be now we've got enough point our depth because they're committed to playing Kevin Porter at the one quite a bit. They've also got DJ Augustine still there and then Dante axum would come in as the third guy. And then John wall, but we know what that situation is as we talked in depth. But yeah, it sounds like this one's going to be very similar to what the rockets did with Manet a few years back where the number is going to be like, wow, that number is big. And then does he actually hit those incentives or not? That's going to be what ultimately will determine. If the contract comes in, where was that? But yeah, I think people forget too. He was on his second deal already because he had signed an extension previous. So he's by no means old, but he's also not a 20 year old kid anymore. He's just been out of sight out of mind for a couple years now. And lastly, jumping from Dante exams, Olympic performance to Team USA. Yeah. They're going to have a new coach before the start of the NBA season fresh off of winning a gold medal. Do you have anybody in mind that you think would be would be a good candidate for Team USA at this point? Yeah, it was for a long time, the rumor was that it was going to be Brad Stevens, was going to be the one who was going to take over Team USA. I think now in his new job, that's not going to be the case. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it's Steve Kerr, maybe gets elevated to that job. There's been some rumor of potentially maybe Jeff van Gundy, who is coached Team USA through several of the qualifying cycles and was a big part of just getting the team into the Olympics because that was big and into the World Cup and those kind of things. But the other names that were mentioned guys who have USA basketball experience are exposed to a Tom thibodeau Monte Williams name McMillan Doc Rivers, Lloyd Pierre, as well as Steve Kerr and Jeff van Gundy. That was from Grant Hill mentioned to some of those things. Grant Hill is now in charge of USA basketball. He took over for Jerry colangelo and his running thing. So he basically wants somebody who comes in, understands their regular season game, but can manage the guys..
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"It's the contract that really complicates things here for his situation. So it'll be interesting to see how the Houston Rockets do handle this. It is a bit ironic. I mean, they go from Chris Paul to Russell Westbrook tonight and John wall and here we are. But it is good to hear that is an amicable situation. It says John wall demanding out. This is both sides came together and said, look, this is the reality of this situation. Let's work together and let's see what we can find. And so that's where now John wall's agency, they can go around to teams around the NBA and they can openly talk like, hey, what are you, what can you guys offer? What can we create here and they don't have to do anything secret behind closed doors because both sides are on the same page. And I think that does help the process. Yeah, for sure. Now, for the rocket side, without John wall playing, opens the path, Kevin Porter junior at much like he was after he got traded there is going to be the starting point guard for the Houston Rockets going into next season. My guess is they might bring Jalen green on along a little slowly. Maybe Eric Gordon starts initially, but my guess is by the holidays, it's Kevin Porter junior and Jalen green are playing all the meaningful minutes in that rockets backcourt and then the vets like Gordon DJ Augustine, David dewa, those guys are just going to be filling in here and there for those guys back up minutes. At this point, they're still trying to move Eric Gordon. We know that. That's been going on for months now that that's been rumored. So we'll see. But yeah, Kevin Porter junior, he wasn't bad. It's going to be bumpy at times, so it was, but why not you're not a good team, you might as well see if you can turn them into a point guard because if you can, you have an infinitely more valuable player than just an off ball wing player, which Porter probably is never going to shoot it enough to give you a ton of value there, but as an on ball guy, you might have something there..
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"Keith, let's start things off with John wall, a Houston rocket for now. But will not be a Houston rocket into the future. It sounds like he is going to be treatable. The rockets are hoping. They're hoping anyway. Let's get into that. What's going to happen here? The rockets, John wall working together to try to find a trade and he will not play any more games for Houston. Yeah, so this is that working together part is where it's very different from the 76ers and Ben Simmons who are not exactly working together. They're kind of working apart right now. So it sounds like by all accounts John wall has been very good in his time in Houston. He's been somebody that the younger players have really come to rely on for leadership. He's been a great leader for them. In the rockets are looking at insane. Look, we have a ton of guards that we want to play young guards to Kevin Porter junior, jaylen green, Josh Christopher, just adding in the last couple of years. Kyrie Thomas, who we picked up on a late season edition last year and he played quite well for them. So they want to play those guys. They don't necessarily want to play John wall, nor do they want to have John wall get hurt in kind of completely ruined maybe whatever little tiny modicum of trade value he may have left. There's no other way to slice this. It's 91.6 million. That he is owed. It's bad money. There's John wall would probably say at the same thing. Good for John wall for getting him what he did. And this is why you should never criticize a pointer for taking a max contract when it's offered to him. Team, other story we can have there. But at the time this contract was offered, wasn't necessarily as a bad contract. And either he's one of the first class of supermax guys to get it. So yeah, so what they're going to do is they're going to have them come to camp. He sounds like he's going to be there to kind of almost be like a glorified assistant coach. While they continue to try to work on
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"And i don't think things will be able to figure it out christian elite lob threat and elite point shooter playing that guy designed williamson is just a way of score. A lot of points won't really guard anyone given where we were last year. At least going forward we had superstar potential that later down the road and future assets that if we start being good teams might lead. Players may wanna come to figure out like a real coaching team and then that also dj augustine. Gordon daniel house. We got off a lotta bad money. But got on like more long-term bad money. Eric gordon and the extent but like i want bad money who shoots instead of bad money. Who all is why it value gordon. Augustine i we have two young guards. Entira lewis junior and mikhael alexander walker who have potential of jones jones and things. We can really count on getting august. Inning gordon gives us the ability to give them a chance but also if they don't show themselves than we have options that are at least cover and so we think we can play real five-man units with the team had this year's opposes. Yeah and i think christian would like ability to just dribble also like separates him from someone like myles turner where you can like continue place like you can post up zay and pass it to christian would attacks close out. Passes back design. You know just like that. it's going it would be. I'm pretty sure it would have a historically good offensive rating when those and those guys ingram shared. Get exactly and we're gonna we're gonna do something. It's stupid williams. Focus on offense defense so much unwrap side of things we are fully rebuilding christian would have two years left on his contract. There's no way we're a good team in those two years. Let's deal him now. We got a top ten pick next year and we get bad money and adams and blood silk but at least a good guy move eric. The time working with the bec- we are going. Jaden sprinter at tennessee..
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"Telling you, I referenced this song last week to the last time it came up on our On our show. I believe the people who did this song right here right now They were one hit wonders. Perhaps I'm going to Google that this because I asked last week and I never got the answer. So we're doing one hit wonders stuck in your craw. Always until it came back around. I loved it. I loved it back in the day when it came out and then what? You watch something, Jones. Someone tweeted us after he played last time. It sounds sounds right. Let me Google that here you throw throw it to a call here. Welcome back. It's let's go to Steve and Joliet, Steve here on ESPN 1000. Hey, guys. Um, I was thinking, Isaiah Thomas. Had that great run with the Celtics and the playoffs and then got replaced by Kyrie. What do you guys think? It's not bad. I mean, he was really good. He was a good player. That was a longer head. I mean, Then the the hip injury like someone mentioned Nate Robinson on Twitter for the Bulls, the Bulls, part of Nate Robinson, all those point guards. Yeah, DJ Augustine kind of made a DJ. Obviously, he still had an extended each one more. Who's a Phoenix sun? Because they know he's on the bench. There. This this NBA playoffs has been a bunch of Boles former role players who all of a sudden Contribute. Now It's the latest is Bobby Portis. We've been talking about campaign for the last week or two. Now. Everyone's like in on Bobby Portis. I know everyone. The Twitter sphere wants to support Cameron pain, but I'm going to support Chris done in his efforts. There are crystal Yeah. Yes, He is on the bench. Yes, I believe. I think I could quick reference this the roster. I believe Tony Snell place of the Hawks to he does. Yes. He just never plays insane with done, neither of them play. But I mean that that just goes to show you how deep some of these teams are that Players who were like legit role players for the Bulls, who are not very good. They're not even getting into conference final games. In that vein, the Hawks I think this is more of a two hit wonder. There were two months in Nikko Merit Pictures career where he like that was a hitter. You know you're right. You think that he was going to be a star? First of all March of his rookie year when the team was good under Tibbs? He had this unbelievable heater that I thought he was going to be Dirk Nowitzki. It was unbelievable. We'd waited for Nico so long And then just on the brink of the place And then tips didn't want to play him. But he sort of knew that that was the heater. Then after Bobby Port has punched him in the face, remember when he came back that December when you and I both wanted them to be tanking? Yeah, and I think the Bulls went like 13 and six that month. Thanks to Nico Mirotic's scoring, like and like we had see Red Fred, Don't try Nico and Dustin him. We've got to sign him. He's good. He's finally blossoming Do didn't even play in the league last year? No, I know he chose to go to Europe. No, I know that's what I'm saying is like like he doesn't. He's not punitive. Yeah, like I'm just going to go back. Alan 90 year on ESPN 1000 What's up, pal? What's going on, guys. Happy Holiday weekend. Thank you. You too. So yes, I want to wonder would be Philip Numbers perfect game. That's a good one. I mean in Seattle, right? Isn't that where he threw the perfect game? Yeah, it was. It was unbelievable. And then it's Korea was never the same sense you've done. Can we say the same about Alec Mills? I think so. It will be interesting. Thank you Know, guys? Yes, I know. Give me the side note by my 2019 ton of fit does not come with HD radio. Your your 2019..
Big Fellas Basketball
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"That it's gonna play for them as as we close out the season some walk it and make any moves on deadline day think. Bj tucker's and rodion screw who not a huge fan of. I think that was all they needed to do their hot right now. That once while thirteen run an eight game win streak the biggest thing of the. Pj trade was there to roster spots and now room. so they're going to be very active in the buyout market. And i had two guys that they are going to be heavily recruiting. I think one of them gets sign. One from doesn't i think austin rivers will be a buck on. She's bought out curious whether or not they continue to pursue isaiah thomas but that is a possibility and indiana buys. Lt joe mcconnell. It'll be on the list. But i fully expect austin rivers to be a buck within a week and a half. And i think that'll be exactly what they need with. Dj augustine on houston. Now we don't have the backup point guard and be able to sign austin rivers. Who's played experience end for less than two million which we have room for. I think that'd be big for us. Any games this week that you have some insight on the ultimate on how they can play out. Yes so last night. Box played the celtics. They were dominating they were up. Twenty five and then the game ended up coming down to miss game winner by the former celtic fan base. They have a rematch. Tomorrow night. friday. I had a one hundred sixteen to one zero seven victory for the bucks walking to gen z hoops today. What's on by northwest division expert. Spencer frank hitter breakdown the of nba action for the jazz nuggets timber. Wolves thunder trailblazers spencer. Nuggets made a pretty big move. Getting near slam dunk champion. Aaron gordon ngoma gear in a trade over the past trade deadline. We're told a lot of teams but this one really stuck out. What do you think the What do you think goes here. Yeah i think this was one of the best trades on the deadline in my opinion denver. Nuggets definitely one this trade. They didn't have to give away too much. They traded away. Gary harris and our jonathan and the biggest thing to me was they were able to keep michael porter jr. I think that's such an important piece for this franchise going forward not only this year but in the future i love the addition of devel- mcgee we saw could do with the lakers last year. He added a lot of size and depth. And i think he adds a great experience a great experience and of vet to the nuggets who has playoff and championship experience and is in a good spot to backup yoke Minutes and really defend the ram. Give yoga too quick breather. When they're making that playoff push as for aaron gordon. He has great size on the perimeter. And he's a defensive guy who can guard multiple positions. And i think that's a very important piece going into the playoffs if they do match up with a team. Like the lakers are the clippers. And they're trying to give guys like lebron and quiet decision. Look defensively and they can easily put aaron gordon on him and he can focus solely on defense and giving those guys in issue for the whole game. Move over the blazers. They also made some moves. I think that be both spoke off. Air can really help their chances at making a run in the playoffs. What do you see these things. Are these moves taken them. Yeah i think it was a great trade for the blazers. In my opinion. I think it was a tough trade. Make airy trend. Junior really showed his ability to score last year in the playoffs..
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"Today. We're joined by central division expert. Zach carson hit over down the past week of nba action for the bucks bulls cavs pacers pistons zach. The bucks out of Landed really trade over the weekend getting. Pj tucker on. What do you really think that gonna mean for them. And and what do they go from here so that trade was huge for a bunch of reasons. Not only did we have. Bj tucker who's incredible defender. Great locker room guy and corner three shooter with a lot of our offense runs through the corner threes. We were able to when we got rodion crooks and then also traded torrey craig for no player just for cash considerations which is nothing just cap relief to the bucks from four hundred forty one thousand dollars under the heart. Get to three and a half million under the hard cap with now to roster spots. So now we're going to explore the buyout market and even though we did trade our backup point guard dj augustine. We have two guys. Were looking at isaiah. Thomas and jarrett jack filler backup. Pg rule anybody else that comes available on the market so that was a huge trade because we made cap them got a great defender could shooter and to russell spots when you put it that way goes so much further than just the player for player transaction. What are what are the this week in general and how do you think that he He was gonna men with his team. Dj is a perfect struggling this year. He shouldn't thirty one percent from three. That's just because he's been unhappy. The offense hasn't steady new coach new system. But there's a reason he's paid. He has a thirty two million dollar contract as a thirty six year old. It's because his locker room. Presence is unbelievable. He's a vocal defender. He's the lockdown defender and Middleton lopez in tucker lineup. It's hard to score against them. So what makes straight even more impressive. Is that by rule. According to the you're not allowed to trade first round picks in back to back years if it's not a part of the same deal and the bucks a get rid of almost all the Holiday so they were not actually able to make this trade unless it was only with the rockets because the rockets had the bucks twenty twenty two first round. Pick which the gut. From cleveland in the kevin puerta junior deal and so they gave us our own At twenty twenty two and we give them are twenty twenty three first round. Pick one nine protected which obviously will follow one nine. Which was the only way that this trade could be eligible so they gave us our own big back and we just push the picked back. One year still gave him the two players Both dj's dj wilson dj augustine. But it was a very impressive. Move by john to be able to do that. And then with j. tucker since futures been on the rockets for more than three years he has rights which means we can resign for your seventeen million dollar extension at the end of the year. Which we'll see how that goes if he plays well. We might look into doing that but he is a thirty six year old with maybe two years left. Hopefully you can play the same capacity but has contract. his salary's can jump about twenty million dollars is going to be a lot of games. Played with the stay under the luxury. Tax arca awesome breakdown of just how the wreckage trade has all the rules and regulations that go into it another team in division that might might look to russia changes as the chicago bulls with their of auto porter. What do you think having for the bulls not in that situation. So the bulls are five five in the last ten two and three post. All-star break..