Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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We're going to hit the beach today to answer some of your NBA questions. But we start with a wedgie. And it's wedgie number 69. All together now. Nice. Yeah, Landry Schammett, very nice. underneath the rim at the end of the third quarter, has to get it up there to try and beat the buzzer, and he sticks the very interesting wedgie from that angle. He's under the rim. as he sort of looped it up.
Yeah, a real loopy one. Yeah. Doesn't seem like it would have enough force to stick, but hey, who knows?
That's fascinating.
That's a good point. Yeah, look at that pace. I mean, obviously, every wedgie we get now sets the all-time record for wedgies in a season. So 69, you know, 70's happening. It's just, how high can we go with this thing?
And again, right at the buzzer. Yeah. You don't see that very often. No. How often?
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the Hawks and Rockets games?
You know, Avdia flirting with that, probably a little shorter down the list. But Nikhil Alexander-Walker, you know, not an all-star this year is my point. I mean, well-deserving. This guy is obviously leveled up.
Chapter 3: How do the Hawks compare to the Rockets for a playoff upset?
Did you say Durin was the favorite? Who, me? Yeah, I thought you said that. You said he was an all-NBA lock. Oh, okay. I wasn't going to be surprised, though, because he had like 30 and 15 yesterday. So why wouldn't he be the favorite yesterday? And then Nikhil Alexander-Walker has his 30-point game, and now he's the favorite. Wow, it's moving around.
Do you think Nikhil will win? It rides the player and how they're doing, that's for sure.
But do you think Nikhil Alexander-Walker will win most improved when they actually vote on this? I think it'll be Durin. Okay. Yeah, my point is I think as great as he's been, I think he's going to be like third or fourth still. I mean, he's had an awesome year. He's scoring over 20 points per game. Like I just went through the three-point numbers.
He's leading a team right now to a bunch of wins. It's great timing.
Do it at the end.
Don't do it at the beginning. Like maybe an Avdi or something like that. But I think the guys that did turn into all-stars and all-NBA guys, I think they're going to win it over him. Yeah. Maybe I'm wrong.
I don't know. FanDuel says I'm wrong. We'll see. New theory. Nikhil Alexander Walker's highlights are better than Shea Gildress Alexander's highlights. I'm not totally in on it. It's just something I've considered because his exciting plays are a little more exciting. Yeah, I hear you. He plays with a tiny bit more flair than Shea. Shea's a metronome.
He's getting his buckets and you know how he's going to get them. He gets a wide open fast break dunk. It is a two-hander. Barely put it over the rim.
Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the recent NBA fines and arrests?
He just missed it quite by a lot off the glass. And Brown, like Johnny on the spot, like, it looks awesome.
It does look cool.
It looks very cool. And then Paul George scored a season-high 39-point Sixers touchdown. overcame Joel Embiid's absence because of an illness that I don't think he knew he was sick. I don't know if you saw that yesterday. He was like joking. He's like, what? I'm not in the lineup? You have diarrhea? I don't think so.
It happened to him one time in the playoffs.
I remember that. Marcosolitis. No, no, he didn't play though, but Paul George was awesome, Tass. And he was playing well here since having a very long break because of the suspension. 15-22 from the field, 6-3, 6 assists, 5 boards. He's going to be in a woe boy running now.
Oh, Paul George. Watching his moves, the drives, the step backs. He had to pull back through the legs. It looks like old Paul George. Most and a half since 2022. So most and a half as a sixer. Those 24 points in the first half that he had. He looked like ISO George out there. I mean, he was literally it was just up to him to do whatever he wanted.
So that's a heck of a performance peaking at the right time as they go into the playoffs.
yeah and season high 39 I guess that's his career high with the Sixers I think too 39 I don't think he's done that and not a shock it came against the Wizards well yeah but I mean they're Sixers are in the same position as the Raptors last night you're playing a team you gotta beat yes one team did Yeah, and like the Raptors, you're missing one of your main guys.
Obviously, the Raps missing Ingram and Quickly, but they're missing a beat. Yeah, no, they actually put up. They didn't take the team lightly and played hard right from the get-go. And yeah, the Wizards can't stop anybody. They scored over 150 points, for crying out loud. But Paul George looks solid.
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Chapter 5: What insights do the hosts share about the Celtics' player development?
Okay. Mark Williams looks way older than 24. Okay. Anyway, I got an answer to this, though, besides the Mark Williams of it all. A blink and you missed like their ascension to sort of a pretty good player.
I think this happens with everybody that the Celtics have. I have the Celtics. I have four Celtics. Luke Cornett. He was a failed stretch five for the Bulls. Jim Boylan was trying to compare him to Robert Ori. He wasn't Robert Ori. Turns out he's just a good backup big who offensive rebounds and slam dunks alley-oops. Robert Ori.
I forgot about that comparison.
We're talking about the dumbest coach in NBA history. We can't totally factor in that. Peyton Pritchard. Guy requested a trade because he never got an opportunity. Then he won sixth man of the year. Now he's like a 20-point-per-game scorer. Namish Keita was like a backup for the Sacramento Kings.
Now he's a good starter for the Boston Celtics, and by God, they've done it again with Baylor Baggins.
Oh, boy.
They got this guy's start for like 20 games, and now he looks awesome coming off the bench for the Celtics. So I kind of think that anybody the Celtics get their little fingers on turns into a great, great player.
Well, that's interesting because I have one that they maybe got away from them and turned into a really good player.
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Chapter 6: How did Aaron Neesmith's career trajectory change after leaving the Celtics?
Aaron Neesmith. Aaron Neesmith. That's true.
Right?
That's very true. High draft pick, like 14th overall by the Celtics in 2020. Same year as Peyton Pritchard, if I remember correctly. And he didn't have much of a role, though. Like, Pritchard got a lot more of the minutes when Kemba Walker got injured. Neesmith was struggling to crack the rotation. This was when Brad Stevens was the coach. He eventually made a good impression.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of the 65-game threshold for NBA awards?
Started to play a little more regularly But in the second season, his minutes dipped even more He shot poorly in limited role. He did make the finals with them. I mean, he was on that team that made the finals. But then he was traded to Indy in the summer in the Malcolm Brogdon deal. And that's where things took off for him. He's a great, great player.
He agreed to a three-year, $33 million contract the first time there and got the starting role in, I think, a very important piece. We saw him have huge playoff moments and just an awesome 3 and D guy. So that was one that got away from the Celtics.
That's true. Speaking of 3 and D, guys, I think Peyton Watson is growing into that right now. I'm watching him in 2023 when they went to the finals, his rookie year. You just saw this athletic guy in practice as I watched him. I thought, well, this is amazing. But he's turned into a fantastic defender. There's some games this year against Kevin Durant, against Jalen Brown.
He looks really, really good. The offense has come this year. We'll see if he can do what he's done this year regularly because he was awesome in that starting role regularly. where he's able to create for himself, and the three-point shot went up. That's going to be hard for him to do, but somebody's going to pay him a ton of money. He's a restricted free agent.
I don't think the Nuggets are willing to give him as much as he's going to get from somebody else. Restricted free agency is different right now in the CBA. Teams aren't willing to give a lot of money, it seems like, but with this guy, I think you have to. And so there's lots of talk. You know, the Lakers here, it's a big, big rumor for Peyton Watson going there, but he is good.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts feel about the Coach of the Year award?
He is very good, and I wonder if he's going to be with the Nuggets next year. We shall see. I think Nikhil Alexander-Walker, I know he's on sort of another level, but he's a guy that I didn't see coming. After the way he started with New Orleans, he was the starter with Zion. Here he goes. And it was bad. I mean, they traded him away. You're going to Utah, my man.
You're going to Portland, my man. Then Minnesota got the secondary role on the bench, but now he's grown into a different guy here with the Atlanta Hawks. I didn't even see that coming into this very comfortable guy shooting on the move, triple handoffs, left, right, catch and shoot.
I mean, he really can finish with both hands as we talked about that shot from midcourt with his left hand, but he is so good. So yeah, I didn't see it coming.
That's fair. I think if you had asked us, a lot of people, do you think Nikhil Alexander-Walker will score 20 points per game this year for the Hawks? I don't think many people go that high, even if you loved him as much as I did. And obviously how he played in the playoffs with Minnesota, I was like, nah, I don't think he's that type of guy. But the fact that he's doing it, that's a good one.
Yeah, so the most improved player.
Helps being in the East. It does. And the opportunity. Oh, yeah.
No doubt.
He's a great defensive player, too. So Quinn likes him there alongside Dyson, and then CJ comes after the Trae Young trade. So, yeah.
Yeah, maybe it came too early, that opportunity for him at the beginning with Zion. Maybe it just didn't work there. But they gave him the keys, basically, to start, and it didn't work out there. But the reason why he may win most improved, maybe, is because of that points climb from 9.5 last year to 20.5 this year. Hell of an increase. All right, moving on here. Hey, no donkey bunch.
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