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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Was popping real with Logan Murdoch here, Howard Beck, and a few along with Roger Bell. And we got into a great conversation about a lot of different things.
Chapter 2: How does Victor Wembanyama make his MVP case?
Victor Wiminyama trying to put his bid in for MVP, both all on the court and in the press area, trying to put his bid in. That was interesting. And just to think about what players do to get the MVP and the politics that is required to do so. So that was fun. Then we talk about what the hell is going on with the Houston Rockets. Pour out a little liquor for Cam Thomas.
Then we answer your mailbag questions. It was a really, really fun episode. Realonesmailbag at gmail.com. Realonesmailbag at gmail.com. Realonesmailbag.
Chapter 3: What challenges are the Houston Rockets facing this season?
at gmail.com um we'll see you guys soon for now clip plenty music spot with real ones. Logan Murdoch here. Roger Bell there. Howard Beck over there. Sorry to all our Netflix people who are expecting pristine video from me.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Wemby's comments about the Thunder?
I'm on location somewhere. I apologize. I'll be back on Friday in the normal setup. This won't happen again.
Chapter 5: What strategies can the Rockets implement to improve?
I apologize. I feel like I need to apologize because I don't have... Right, Roger?
Not apologizing.
Shit. Okay.
It's all downgrade today. Yeah, you can. Let's just go low res, old school. We don't... Fuck the 4K.
Okay. All right. All right. For sure.
For sure.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts feel about Wemby's impact on the Spurs?
Okay. 4K.
Chapter 7: What insights do the hosts share about the MVP race?
We've said this before, Howard. Logan, 4K is not... is not where you want to be living 45 plus with no team to get you ready like 40 that's tough yeah i'll be looking at back at the video and i'll be like there's a lot boogers and that they're showing on here like just just eye gunk like yeah that's crazy boogers is crazy but even in studio you're like that camera catches you at like a
I don't know, seven foot, eight foot. This bad boy is two feet away from the face. It's just so if you ever want to go less than 4K, I don't think you have to ask Howard or I think.
Okay. All right. All right. For sure. I don't have a transition for what I'm about to say. I've been thinking about one as you were talking, but we're going to talk about Victor Wimonyama just basically putting. He plays 4K. Good job. Good job. There you go. He was asked about MVP last night, and he said, quote, I have thought about it. I think right now there is a debate.
There should be, even though I think I should lead the race. I'm trying to make sure at the end of the season there's no debate.
Chapter 8: How does the discussion shift to player retirements and their impacts?
He's actually giving it real time. This is a great quote. One of the first reasons I should be MVP is that defense is 50% of the game, and that is undervalued so far in the MVPs right now. I believe I'm the most impactful player defensively in the league. Second argument would be that we almost swept OKC in the season series, and we dominated them three times with their real team.
The third argument would be that offensive impact is not just in points. We'll go down to the panel. I'm going to start with Howard. I'm going to go with Raja. What do we think about, when's the last time that we have seen a player just outwardly put their bid in for MVP? And what does that say about Wimbinyama?
I feel like there's at least once a year, maybe every couple of years, where somebody will just outright say it. It's usually their coach, right? It's usually the coach like somewhere around early, mid-March, you know, will just like, go off on some tangent that was not even asked about it. Right. But it'd been like a pregame.
And by the way, guys, I don't know if you've noticed, but you know, Luca or fill in the blank, whoever is leading the league and scoring. I don't know why he's not getting more run for MVP. Like you'll get that. You'll get like the sort of passive aggressive, cutesy little campaigning from the coach, or sometimes it's somebody's teammate.
Doing it like just using the opportunity to kind of like lightly scold the media or the public at large for not giving my guy enough credit. Advocating for it yourself is a bold move at age, whatever, 22. But I don't think we should be surprised. This is what we should know about Wemby by now. He's going to talk the talk and walk the walk.
And he doesn't leave any doubt on the court about what he's capable of doing. Both ends of the court. And he's right to say that we often overlook defense in this discussion, right? Like, look, the history of MVPs, it's mostly guys who are like 90% offense, right? Like, we talked about this, I think, last week. Like, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Dirk Nowitzki, Raj's guy, Steve Nash.
Like, most of these guys won it because they were just awesome, awesome offensive players. And Wimby is awesome offensively, but he doesn't have the gaudy stats...
that say luka shea and yokich have statistically because we still don't have great stats to quantify defense other than if you want to go old school block shots and steals and oh boy he's like killing them all in those categories right um he's averaging three blocks a game nobody else that i mentioned in the mvp race is even averaging a block a game but that's not their roles Oh, I love it.
I love it. The short version is when he's an absolute legit MVP candidate right now. And I love that he is actually stumping for it in his kind of like confident, but somehow not egotistical way. It doesn't sound obnoxious.
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