Alex Speers

Is this your third NBA Cup?

Have you been there since the beginning?

I have been to every single NBA Cup.

geez louise i mean i mean you're setting yourself up for like 30 years you could be the nba cup is the preeminent nba cup i could be i could be the cup expert that could be like that your thing golly i've been looking for a thing for a while this is it this is the thing quit the athletics start your own podcast just about the nba cup 12 months out of the year

multiple times per week i'll have to just change my last name to cups andrew cups that'd be cool uh andrew speaking of the cup we're going to talk about some things we like this week some things we didn't like and some things that left us a little confused in the segment we call good bad what so andrew what was your good this week

Zero.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, and the big question now is just how many of these guys are you going to be able to play in the playoffs?

How many of Jordan Clarkson, Tyler Kolek, Yabusele, how many of those guys are you going to be confident in once you get to the playoffs?

And you're probably not going to find out until the playoffs, which is why I have heard talks about the Knicks maybe trying to make a move for just one more depth piece.

And I do like that idea because it still does worry me a little bit when you get to the playoffs how many of these guys we're actually going to be able to trust.

Yeah.

And maybe this turns everything around.

Maybe he becomes a staple of the rotation following this cup win.

Let's go.

For my good, I want to talk about the All-Star game because All-Star voting opened up this week.

I think we have one of the strongest crop of potential first-time All-Stars we've had in a long while.

Austin Reeves, Chet Holmgren, Jalen Johnson, Jalen Duren, Duren.

Danny Avdia, maybe Josh Giddey, since the Bulls decided to start winning some games this week.

But the one guy who I want to talk about, because I think it's finally going to happen, is Jamal Murray.