Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.
In this episode I'll be doing week 10 and week 11 recap.
I'll give you both of the players of the week for both weeks.
Also we'll talk about Ricky Rubio retiring guys.
So Shaquille O'Neal gets his honor from the Orlando Magic.
Dremont Green is back guys.
Reinstated so we'll talk about that as well.
A few injury bits of news and a few other things as well.
So just sit back relax and enjoy the show.
Okay guys it's your boy GD back with all things basketball with GD Podcasts.
And what I'm going to do in this episode I'm going to combine week 10 and week 11 because
it wasn't real heavy heavy on the news.
Seems like week 12 is going to look like it's going to be a heavy news one.
So while I'll do I'll just combine with this one and then we'll do week 12.
So yeah so that's how we do it.
Once again folks you take a look inside it's producing on the fly so that's how we're
going to do it.
So let's get right into it shall we.
So we're going to start with players of the week and we'll do that for two weeks now so
you have week 10 and week 11.
So let's get into it.
The players of the week for the East Tyrese Holly Burton who has been playing fantastic
guys he's been balling and that seems to continue with this honor that he's getting now.
His team went three and oh they beat Houston at Houston they beat Chicago at Chicago with
Holly Burton getting a 20 assist game and then they beat the Knicks and in that game
he had 23 assists which tied a franchise record.
So Tyrese Holly Burton putting up historical numbers for the Indiana Pacers.
For the week he averaged 25.3 points per game.
Get this 17.7 assists.
And man this decision.
And then 4.7 rebounds and Louis was stealing a half per game.
He shot it from the field nearly 51 percent over 41 percent from three point range and
he only took seven free throws for the week guys and he made five of those.
So Tyrese Holly Burton balling right about now.
And then the other player for the West is shy Gilchis Alexander.
Guys you know I've been singing his praises for the longest time he's having the MVP campaign.
This team went four and oh for the week and they beat the likes of the Minnesota Timberwolves
my Knicks.
So both guys beat my Knicks for the week to get the honor go figure.
And then the Denver Nuggets and the Brooklyn Nets.
Here's the numbers he put up for the week.
33 and a half points per game.
Five and a half assists.
Five point three rebounds a steal and a half and a block per game is what he produced.
He shot it from the field get this guys 62.3 percent from the field.
Wow.
Outstanding.
Shot it five for 13 from three so you know he doesn't take a lot of threes guys.
And then from the free throw line out of 35 attempts he only missed two so fantastic week
for shy Gilchis Alexander who again I say MVP candidate for sure I have him at least
top three if not maybe even squeezing it to the second spot.
That's how well he's playing guys.
And then we'll look at week 11 week 11 we have players for the week.
Our Perun Sengun who's been playing fantastic for the Houston Rockets at center.
His team with three and one for the week.
He averaged 24 points per game seven rebounds four and a half assists and a steal and a
half per game shooting it from the field 51.4 percent and from the free throw line of 32
attempts he only missed six so our Perun Sengun.
Hey listen he's making himself a case for making the All-Star team.
He's making a strong case guys that's the type of year he's having and given the way
Houston is playing like to see some representation at the All-Star game so we'll see what happens
there.
And then for the East my guy Jaylen Brunson for the New York Knicks the team went four
and 0 for the week beating Minnesota Chicago they went to Philadelphia blew them out and
at Washington as well.
For the week Jaylen Brunson averaged 27.3 points per game 9.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds for
him.
He shot it nearly 47 percent he had the one bad game where he was horrendous from the field
which kind of lowered that field goal percentage where he had a five for 23 game which kind
of soiled it but nonetheless nearly 47 percent from the field over 37 percent from three
and guys he was perfect from the free throw line for the week 18 for 18 so Jaylen Brunson
need I say he's doing Jaylen Brunson type things guys having the All-Star caliper season much
like last season let's see if he gets the nod this go round we'll see Jaylen Brunson
the catalyst for my New York Knicks.
Alright so that's your players for the week let us move on to other news Ricky Rubio's
retiring guys he's played 12 seasons in the league came in the league during that 2009
draft he was drafted fifth overall that's the same draft that we saw other point guards
that later got picked in that draft guys like Steph Curry drew Holiday Jeff Teague and Adarin
Collison all in that same draft but Ricky Rubio retiring guys he was drafted out of
Spain played in Spain so he's an international player he had stints with the Minnesota Timberwolves
who that's the team who drafted him and actually they reacquired him later on in this career
also he had stints with the Utah Jazz the Phoenix Suns and as of late the Cleveland Cavaliers
the thing with him he's had a couple of torn ACLs that he's had to deal with so he's saying you
know what that's it for me so kudos to Ricky Rubio a solid career nothing ground shaking
he did make a all rookie team that's about the size of it for his career 10.8 points per game
7.4 assist he averaged over four rebounds nearly two steals per game he averaged guys
that's pretty impressive was always pretty bad from the field 38.8 percent overall for his career
definitely not what you want to see 32.4 percent from three and actually he got better from three
later in his career because earlier in it he not so good and 84.3 percent from the Frito line so
Ricky Rubio hanging up his sneakers and calling it a day so we salute you Ricky Rubio
so let us move on to other news and actually this is big time news here guys
Dremont Green your putty in mind reinstated after being suspended for 12 games so it ends up being
guys a 12 game suspension barring what happens as far as his game preparation and ramping up to
actually playing games so whatever that is add on this 12 games with it in the 12 games
the gold state warriors went seven and five so you know it's not what you want to see that's for
sure I mean at least it wasn't 500 or below but still valuable time missed by Dremont Green
and during his time away he did meet with a counselor as well as joint meetings with league reps
the gold state warriors organization and also the the players union as well we're all in on the
meeting and those meetings actually will continue throughout the season so he will stay plugged in
in that regard and I imagine he'll still see some sort of counseling as a side as the season goes on
as well so looks like Dremont will be back guys what happens with him we'll see of course we know
he can't keep his mouth shut so he'll talk about what he went through and I'll be here to talk about
it so we'll see what happens there so Dremont Green coming back guys after a 12 game suspension
which will probably be more with him being ramped up for play moving on guys the Orlando magic
are to retire Shaquille O'Neal's jersey his number 32 jersey will hang in the rafters
that will take place February 13th against the Oklahoma City Thunder and guys he will be the
first player in franchise history to have his jersey hanging in the rafters Shaquille O'Neal
came into the league 1992 course first overall pick and one of those overall picks that has
panned out in them some highly regarded as one of the top five centers ever you can arrange it
however you want to arrange it so far but he's in that conversation guys you want to say top three
it's he's in that conversation for most as well so Shaquille O'Neal getting his honor due
doing big things after basketball of course with the inside the NBA guys on TNT businesses all
over the place so Shaquille O'Neal also with podcasting his voice is everywhere so Shaquille O'Neal
ganging his honor due him and rightfully so let's talk about injury Chris Paul of the
gold state warriors fractures his hand in a 113-107 win versus the Detroit Pistons that happened in
the third quarter about 608 to go in that quarter he fractures his hand so big blow to the warriors
but it kind of coincides with Dreymon's return so hopefully they'll be able to
write the ship until his return I'll have a diagnosis as far as how long they expect to miss
him but expect at least a month guys that I would say when you fracture your hand at least a month
he'll be out and guys returning from injury Zach Levine has made his return back for the
Chicago Bulls he missed 17 games with that combination of the foot in the shoulder that kept him out
and then also Nikola Vusovic also he's back now he missed five games with that groin injury
and Andre Drummond filled in for him very well but both guys are back and they came back to the
lineup for Chicago and they ended up beating the Charlotte Hornets on January 5th 104 to 91 so
a triumphant return for both of those guys and we'll see how Chicago does going forward
a couple more items and then we're done guys the Indiana Pacers they have a 50 assist game
which is a franchise record and they did that against Atlanta in a 150 to 116 game guys
Therese Holly Burton he had 18 himself but the team as a whole sets a franchise record
again I spoke about the Indiana Pacers and what they're doing this season what they're doing is
substantial guys what Rick Carlisle has those guys doing I'm really in disbelief because
Rick Carlisle is more of a button-down guy he likes his team to play hard-nosed defense and
keep the score low so for them to be going off offensively like this again that's a mark of
a good coach knowing his personnel and saying look I got a cater to the personnel that's in front of
me so Indiana Pacers and kudos to Rick Carlisle and that organization there and then the final thing
I'll talk about is the Brooklyn Nets they were fined for violating the player participation
policy for sitting four players who could have actually played in a 144 to 122 loss to the
Milwaukee Bucks and those players that sat were Nick Claxton Spencer Denwitte Cameron Johnson
and Dorian Finney Smith so the league looked into it and said look these guys were available
they were ready to go so how come they didn't play but my thinking is this is the Brooklyn Nets I mean
I expect that from like maybe a great pop of itch to kind of rest guys like that maybe Steve Kerr
and that organization there the Lakers perhaps well not so much this season even like guys
have been playing Anthony Davis he's been available just about all season long so for the Brooklyn Nets
to get fined like this and get pulled out like this is a bit of a surprise to be honest with you
but that just tells you the league is taking this load management stuff seriously so kudos to the
league for looking into this and saying look these guys could have played man definitely kudos to the
league for pointing this out and this is just a lesson to other teams listen the load management
thing it's hurting our game it's hurting folks spending their hard-earned money coming to the
game to find out that these guys are sitting for this reason or that reason and not really a
injury reason so this is the right thing to do for the league I give the league credit in that regard
so with that said that's it guys that's it for this episode like I said I was it was going to be nice
and short it is so I just thank you for listening as always plenty of more content coming guys I'm
back on it so week 12 it's going to be jam packed guys the way I'm looking at it it's probably going
to be a two-parter that's the way it's going to go you got Martin Luther King day coming and that's
a big slate of games there so we'll cover that also your all-star voting we'll cover that as well
play a spotlight should be coming on the way if not this month definitely next month I like doing
it for black history month so we'll have something in line for that haven't thought of the lineup as
of yet but I have a few ideas so we'll see all right guys so with that said that's it for this
episode so thanks guys for listening as always it's much appreciated your listenership is welcome
and appreciated always all right guys with that said we'll talk soon take care hello my peeps thank
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