Zach Lowe

And that's not exactly what I would be chasing.

Yeah, it's just a wild group of teams, and the swings are going to be wild night tonight.

The Hawks...

I wasn't fully buying it.

Like they were playing well, but they were just playing a bunch of horrible teams.

They're legitimately playing well.

They're, they're pretty interesting.

They have a style of play that I'm not sure how well it would translate offensively in the playoffs when teams are really geared up for it.

But in the regular season is, is tough to play against the ball movement, the unpredictable combinations of pick and rolls where people are coming off screens, the pace, all of it is really, really hard.

And I think Jalen Johnson is, is pretty much a borderline lock, at least for an all NBA spot.

Okay, before we talk more about awards real quickly, we have to get into this.

It's been a wild week in the NBA.

We have the Jaden Ivey thing, which I don't even know what to make of that, except it seems strange and a little bit like...

stuff is going on in his life that is difficult and we hope everything's fine.

By the way, disaster for the bulls, like a great second draft chance, like a actual smart move to try to grab a top five pick, uh, heading into restricted free agency goes bust on them in a way that so many things have gone bust on them.

Um,

we've had that and we've had what other strange things it's been a strange things but uh oh the hansen yang uh young uh rather the blazers are fined a hundred thousand dollars and two of their front office executives mike schmitz and sergey oliva are fined are suspended without pay for two weeks for improper contact with yang in china before he was draft eligible worth noting by the way that um

he has been like disastrously bad in his limited NBA minutes.

Like, so like, like two years away from being two years away, kind of bad.

Now he's been good in the G league.