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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode we'll be talking all star ballot voting.

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The first round has happened so we'll talk about that.

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We'll also talk about some teams on the rise like the Clippers in the Oklahoma City Thunder,

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some teams that are floundering a little bit, the Milwaukee Bucks in the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Also we'll talk Naismith Hall of Fame nominees as well so just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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Ok guys it's your boy GD back with all things basketball with GD podcasts and I want to cover

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some topics here. It's been a pretty good season so far I must say that but I gotta talk about

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some of the teams that are on the rise. One that everybody's in panic mode about so I want to talk

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about that but first I want to talk about the all star voting. We have our first fan returns guys

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and I want to get into that so let's get right into it. So we will talk about the Western Conference

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so far in terms of the voting and I think they're going back to the East versus West concept so

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if that's the case which is good you know it takes away the draft you know with the top players

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and it seems like every year it's LeBron versus somebody else last year was LeBron versus Giannis

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and this year it would have been the same thing pretty much but with the Western Conference

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in the front court so far you have LeBron James no surprise to anyone who's leading the pack there

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followed by Kevin Durant followed by Nikolai Yokic the Joker getting his props there

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and then from there it's kind of a drop-off I mean fourth place you have a Anthony Davis

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followed by a Kawai Leonard followed by Paul George Operin Sengun Victor Wimbaayama no surprise there

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Chet Holmgren and Carl Anthony Towns so no real surprises in terms of the front court

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that's pretty much how I saw it shaking out is there room for movement maybe

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Anthony Davis can catch some steam but I think your front court there of those three guys I think

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that will probably be the way it shakes out Kevin Durant is still popular some people want to say

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he's not he is especially among the fan bases throughout the NBA Nikolai Yokic former MVP

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multiple-time MVP finals MVP now he's a world champion so of course he's start getting his

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flowers now and rightfully so so I think that front court will stay status quo in terms of the guards

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I don't think it's really surprises here Eva it's Luca Donkage for the Dallas Mavericks and

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Steph Curry for the Gold State Warriors and they're ahead by a good margin amongst the two guys

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your next closest person shy Gilchis Alexander who's been an absolute monster this year

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he's third followed by in a distant fourth James Harden followed by Kyrie Irving

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Anthony Edwards John Moran I'm surprised he's of Paul's about seventh amongst the fan voting

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De'Aaron Fox Clay Thompson he still gets votes believe it or not and then Austin Reeves is in

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10th nothing of major surprise there either I think when the dust settles I think it'll be those two

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guys at the top Donkage and Curry I think SGA comes maybe close with in breathing distance but

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I think when all the setting done they'll be Curry and Luca your guards in that regard so no real

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surprises other than maybe John Moran being seventh he still has fan appeal regardless of what has

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happened transpired with him he still has fan appeal so I guess I shouldn't be surprised but pretty

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much I guess the only surprise about the front court you didn't see the likes of a Demata Sabonis

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within the top 10 so I guess that's the that's a bit of a surprise in that regard so I guess that's

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my bit of a surprise in the West so that's your Western Conference fan returns for the first

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round of the voting in the East I think the East is pretty much as I would surmise in the front

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court of course Giannis after the Tocumpo for the Milwaukee Bucks he's first actually right now he's

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the leading vote getter among both Eastern and Western Conference in terms of getting votes

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he's followed by your reigning MVP Joel L. MB for the Sixers and third Jason Tatum it looks like

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Durant moving to the West has paid dividends for Jason Tatum now I think he's pretty much a shoe

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in to be a starter amongst the front court for the Eastern Conference so I guess he's the big winner

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in all of this Jason Tatum so after Tatum big drop off guys Jimmy Butler's next followed by Tatum's

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teammate Jaylen Brown he's followed by Bam out of Bayou, Mikhail Bridges, Kristoff Porzingis, Kyle

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Kuzma and Paulo Boncaro the biggest surprise amongst front court well I'll say what the surprise is

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but but I'll give you my analysis on top of it the biggest surprise is what a lot of people are

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talking about especially Nick fans are talking about the fact that Julius Randall is not amongst

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the top 10 right now in terms of Julius Randall's numbers they're on par with the likes of a

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Joel MB a Yanisanta Tocumpo and a Nikolai Yoko in terms of all around numbers his numbers on that

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par guys but I'll give you my analysis after I talk about the guards for the guards you have

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Tyrese Holly Burton number one amongst the guards and he's followed by Damian Lillard at two Holly

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Burton who did himself a huge huge service to himself by his performance during the end season

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tournament a lot of eyeballs was on there so they saw what he did so I think that really carried him

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in terms of this voting here. Dame's gonna be Dame he's always gonna be in the running he's followed

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by Trey Young of the Atlanta Hawks who's not too far behind him in terms of the votes he's about

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a little over 80 votes behind Damian Lillard there's room for movement there and then after Young

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is Donovan Mitchell followed by Tyrese Maxey he's getting love now and then he's followed by Jalen

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Brunson of the New York Knicks so you have a Knicks player appearing on top 10 he's followed by

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Lamello Ball after that Derek White who's having a fine year guys DeMar DeRosin of course and then

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Drew Holliday so wow you have five Boston Celtics among the top 10 in their respective categories

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wow with the guards any surprise omissions I don't think so I think this is well

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Lamello Ball being there is a bit of a surprise yes but I want to go back to Jalen Brunson and

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Julius Randall Julius Randall first of all not being amongst the top 10 and Jalen just at six

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I've been following the Knicks for over 40 years guys and I could tell you Knicks fans do not stuff

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the voting boxes for their players they just don't but yet they're the first to moan about

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their players not being starters but they don't do the voting they don't only Knicks I can remember

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within the time I've been watching who ends up being the starter is Patrick Ewan and Carmelo

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Anthony I think there was one instance where a Maury Stardemire got voting in as a starter

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I think there was one instance but besides those three no one else no one else for Knicks fans to

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grumble and moan about these things it's pretty much your own fault because you don't vote I'm a Knicks

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fan I really don't vote I don't I probably should but I don't do I moan and complain when

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Nick isn't a starter who deserves to be one I don't really because I know if I'm voting then I have

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a say but I gotta tell you I don't vote I pretty much rely on the fact that I know certain guys are

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gonna be popular so my eyes are turned towards who the coaches end up putting on the bench so

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that's where my eyes turn towards is it right to put the onus on the coaches hoping that they do the

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right thing and adding a Nick or two to the roster yeah but in this year it's gonna be tough guys

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I gotta say it's gonna be tough you're not gonna be able to omit a guy like Tariq Maxi the way he's

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playing Donovan Mitchell it's gonna be Donovan Mitchell Trey Young missed out last year guys

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does he miss out again this year it's possible Atlanta's kind of meandering a little bit Derek

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White I don't think even though he's having a fine season I think he misses the cut Julius Randall I

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think if he doesn't make it there needs to be drug testing because he is playing superior basketball

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right now outside of that in terms of the front court East I don't know if Jimmy Butler makes it he's

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just too much in and out of the lineup I think Bam makes it before Butler does Jaling you go

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always make a case for Jalen Brown making an all-star team. Mikhail Bridges man he's on the fence to me

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Paulo Boncara I think has a real chance of making it guys I think he's had that kind of year for the

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Landau Magic who's been a surprise team so I think he has a shot here there'll be interesting how it

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shakes out guys so we'll see what happens in that regard and I still say they should expand it to 15

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players on the roster that's my feeling on that but so we'll see how the returns play out we still

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got another series of returns before the final return and then we can talk about that so so

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that's that on the all-star voting now let's talk about some teams guys we got a couple of teams in

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the west on the rise the LA Clippers LA Clippers have been a hot team over there in the west

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we know that James Hartman came over to them about six games into the season

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he's been a model citizen guys he really has he has very good numbers for the role that he's playing

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over there he's been pretty good pretty efficient too guys I've to say that for him he has been

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the fact that he has those two other guys Paul George and Kawai Leonard kind of opens things

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up for him a bit so that has been a help to him but he's been a model citizen I must say that he's

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been healthy Paul George and Kawai they haven't missed a great deal of time so far they're balling

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right now and hats off to Russell Westbrook guys he's a guy who saw James Hartman coming in he said

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look for the betterment of the team let me go to the bench I've been on the bench before over there

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with the Lakers I could do that here for this team he's done that with no complaints whatsoever I

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give him his props big time but the Clippers are playing well they're playing well I think if health

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permits they're going to be a problem in the West I think size will be an issue when everything is

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set and done they have nobody to go against the likes of a Nikolai Yokic Anthony Davis I think

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that could catch up with them but as them now they look good I must say that and then you have

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the Oklahoma City Thunder a team who I thought would be improved I thought they'll be amongst the

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top six that's how high I thought of them shy Gilchis Alexander he's playing MVP basketball guys I

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look at his numbers I just standing off he is third amongst the scores with 31.4 points per game

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6.4 assists nearly six rebounds he's leading the league in steals guys and he's shooting at a blistering

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pace from the field 54.6 percent from the field over 90 percent from the free throw line his three

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point shooting still a little suspect but that's not really his game guys he's the in between guy

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he gives you that but he's been absolutely sensational guys and again of MVP candidate

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Jaylen Williams in his second season in league he has been very good guys he's been solid for them

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and Chet Holgren I knew coming in that Chet Holgren the fact that he missed all of last season I knew

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he could be a difference maker on this squad he's been that guys he's given them what they needed

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the punch that they needed my only concern with this team is the Josh Giddy situation remember

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he still has that case out there of him being with the underage girl I think that's kind of affected

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his game a little bit where he hasn't had the eye-popping numbers that he's had in the past

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but I think once the dust settled from that I think you'll see a different player but as of now

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he's hasn't given you all that you're getting contributions from your bench guys like Isaiah Joe

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Kenrich Williams so you're getting contributions from other places as well and Mark Degno I talked

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about him being a coach of the year candidate I think he's right there in the mix guys the way he

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has this team playing they're balling guys they are balling and you don't see that very often from

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such a young team as what they have which is why I mentioned in my last episode if they were to

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somehow get their hands on a guy like Pascal Siaka I mean they got the draft capital to do it

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the salaries is the only thing I would wonder about but if they were to get their hands on him

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this team will really be a absolute threat in the west that's for sure but right now they're playing

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well without getting a guy like Siakam so hats off to that organization there so much so as a recently

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Stephen A Smith he said he had to apologize to Sam Presti because he thought he was accumulating

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all these draft picks and what is he going to use them for and those sort of things but Sam

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Presti knows how to pick talent he knows how to draft he knows how to make the most of what he has

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and that's why I say and I've mentioned this before when you are picking high in the draft

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you have to hit on guys because if you don't you're just spinning your wheels I talked about

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Philadelphia 76ers in there losing streak all that had to do with the fact that you know they

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were picking these guys they were hitting and missing on guys and when you're picking that high

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you have to hit you have to hit because you don't know how long you're going to be in that situation

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you got to get guys that I know it's not an exact science drafting but you have to be able to strike

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goal at least once or twice at least and Oklahoma City's done this they've done that they've

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got some good draft picks here so and guys that are contributing so we'll see what happens with

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them but they are a team that's pretty much in the mix here then you have some struggling teams

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right now the Milwaukee Bucks are among those well I mean they're not struggling per se they're

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definitely struggling with the Indiana Pacers individually Pacers have beaten them three

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times this season thus far there doesn't seem any panic over there in Milwaukee a lot of people

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want to say that Adrian Griffin's on the hot seat how in the world can that be he just walked in the

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door but I think you know the season is a marathon not a sprint so I think you got to give the man

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time to figure out this roster and you know figure out his way because this is his first coaching

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stint so I think it's just a matter of time for you figure stings out right now they're talking

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about the defense the defense isn't all that great so they can be scored upon and those things

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but I think once the dust settles the Milwaukee Bucks will be fine they'll be amongst the top

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two or three teams in that conference so I think as long as you got that you're okay for the moment

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I'm not too worried about them the Lakers not so much well a lot of people are down on the Lakers

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let me just say that they won the NCs in tournament I know we've talked about that but their record

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coming out of that so far has been three and nine and counting and the thing is there's no

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like middle ground with the Laker critics and the Laker fans it's either everything is beautiful

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we're winning the championship or everything is horrible get rid of the coach get rid of this one

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that one make a trade there's never any middle ground where it says okay maybe they can play

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their way out of this and so forth there's not that discussion at all people want to point to the

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coach Darwin Ham but this is the same coach who got them to the conference finals last year this

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is the same coach who oh by the way got them that in season tournament championship this is that same

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coach so how from a month ago to now he becomes this coach that has to be ousted I don't get that

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so you kind of lose me with that and then now we want to say you can't rely on LeBron given his

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advanced age there's a lot of things going on Anthony Davis you can't say much about him he's

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been available he's playing like a beast they just need other guys to help out that's what they need

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guys you need guys to step in now you got Austin Reeves coming off your bench it's starting guys

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like Cam Reddish I think they need to pull the plug on the Cam Reddish experiment I think the

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Lakers will be fine in the long haul they'll be fine they'll be okay they'll figure it out but to

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the Laker fans to the Laker critics my whole thing is why is it that when these sort of dry

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spells happen you have to make a trade you have to do this you have to do that why is that always

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the case because we saw this play out last year where they made all the mid-season moves and so

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forth and that propelled the team that's for sure I don't know we'll see what happens with the Lakers

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I'll just leave it at that and then the last thing I will talk about is the Naysmith Hall of Fame

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nominees you got a bunch of new time nominees on there 2008 redeem team they're amongst the

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first time nominees that's the team of LeBron James Kobe Bryant Carmelo Anthony Dwayne Wade Chris

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Bosch Jason Kidd Chris Paul Carlos Boozer Doron Williams Dwight Howard Michael Redd and also

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Tayshon Prince and remember that four of those guys were on the previous team the 2014 that ended

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up in the bronze game under the likes of Larry Brown who was the coach at the time they were

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younger players then so didn't get much playing time but on this redeem team they were vital parts

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for that team so you have them that team was coached by Mike Shasiewski and then of course

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he had on his bench Jim Bayhine Nate McMillan and Mike Dantony so that team is being nominated

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it also players like Chauncey Billups he's among the nominees first-timer Vince Carter

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Tom Chambers Michael Cooper Terry Cummings Mike Jominski is this first time being nominated

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Bill Lane Bear this is his first time being nominated I thought Lane Bear would have appeared

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by now but Bill Lane Bear he's a guy who I've told people I think if he doesn't get in as a player

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definitely as a coach from what he did in the WNBA but Bill Lane Bear he's a guy who I think if he

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doesn't get in as a player guys he could get in as a contributor or coach so bear that in mind

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but he was a fine player as well Marcus Johnson Maurice Lucas Sean Marion Reggie Theis Buck Williams

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and Super John Williamson of the New York Nets from the ABA days so you have those guys there

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coaches you have guys like Rick Barnes this is his first time on there John Beeline Jim

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Laranega Raleigh Massimino Dick Mada Lou Henson Bo Ryan so you have all these different coaches

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there amongst the women Simone Augustus this is her first time being nominated Jennifer A.C. I

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always thought she was already in but I think she's in because she was with that 1996 ladies team that

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of course sparked the pro leagues that followed after them but Jennifer A.C. she's being nominated

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Cheryl Ford the daughter of Carl Malone she was part of those Detroit shock teams that dominated

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for a period in the WNBA you have coaches as well Leta Andrews Marion Washington you got

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contributors like Pete Babcott or Marty Blake Doug Collins from him being a coach and a commentator

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Mike Fratello is his first time being nominated as a contributor he coached he commentates as well

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Johnny Red Cur Jean Shoe Donnie Walsh Jerry West as a contributor obviously he's on as a player

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now he'll be nominated as a contributor as well giving his work in the front office and so forth

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amongst the international nominees David Black who at one time coached the Cleveland Cavaliers

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but he has vast history as a coach overseas Andre Carillanco one of the best nicknames

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ever given AK-47 as a player for the Utah Jazz Penny Taylor who's played with the Phoenix Mercury

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Michelle Thames Andrew Gaze another international player there and then you have the Cheyenne

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State Final 14 from 1982 that defied all the odds and made the Final 4 that team HBCU by the way

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and that team which coached by C Vivian Stringer then you have the 1972 U.S. Olympic team that was

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to team that was robbed of winning the goal they're being nominated Dick Barnett as a player I

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thought for some reason he made it apparently not so those are your nominees guys it'll be

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interesting to see who ends up being nominated into that class of 2024 I look forward to seeing

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who gets picked amongst this crop of fine people who have contributed to the game so with that said

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