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00:00all right um talking some basketball here in the offseason a few hypotheticals thrown out

00:12in the chat uh so again thank you to sutrain uh sutern sorry on uh kick for letting me know

00:20um what he was kind of thinking so um this first one who will make the nba finals again

00:26katie lebron or steph let's go with that group first he puts a few of the euros after but who

00:32will make it first katie lebron or steph um i think man katie's in the best spot with the houston

00:40rockets like that team is really good and what he does is basically tailor-made for their situation

00:47right like they needed someone who can come in and make a big shot he can do that and he's not what

00:54he was defensively but i think he is still good enough that the rest of the team's elite level

00:58of defense can pick them up so i think katie is probably the answer there if i were to rank them

01:03i think it does man lebron having luca on his team really does make that that much more intriguing i

01:12do think like golden state getting a full season with that group with jimmy butler after the trade

01:18that they made and getting that whole unit uh all together i think that can be a really dangerous

01:23basketball team over 82 games i don't know that playoff success how much there there could be

01:28though so i will say katie lebron and steph i'll put it in the order that you put it in and then

01:32the same thing for the europe group with uh greek freak yokich and luca fat body um their words not

01:38mine just for the people who aren't seeing the twitch chat or the kick chat sorry right now i think

01:43yuka sorry yokich is number one by leaps and bounds um i i love the offseason that the nuggets have had

01:50by switching out porter and using that extra money to bring in some actual usable nba depth

01:56around yokich who is still an elite level player with jamal murray and aaron gordon who all fit

02:02around that great uh christian brown fits on that roster still very well and and continues to to work

02:08his way up so i think when you look at the the depth that has been added which was really the only

02:13thing holding that team back and how close they came against the oklahoma city thunder in their series

02:18to um upend them i think that you have to put yokich number one on this one i am gonna put um

02:26yannis number two and the reason for that is he's in the eastern conference and right now this season

02:31he's the best player in the eastern conference with all the injuries that have happened to tatum and all

02:36of those guys then i don't love what they did with the turner lillard situation but it's still a good

02:44basketball team and he's still the best in the east so i'm i'm gonna say that um he has the second

02:50best chance and then it would be luka um with the lakers coming in at three second nba question what

02:57nba rookies are you going to be watching this year uh great white hope uh cooper flag and then the nba

03:02son harper for the spurs i think harper with the spurs is going to be the most fascinating to me

03:07how he fits with when minyama and if that works then you just have a dynasty again out in san antonio

03:13also like they went out and signed um d'arren fox to a gigantic contract so where where does that fit

03:20i wasn't on the bill simmons train of like these guys aren't going to fit you have to trade one of

03:25these things now i want to see it first and i think that there is a world given how good san antonio

03:31has been at utilizing a lot of very talented players i think there is a world that you can kind of

03:36spread the love around with all those guys and make this a very dangerous basketball team so harper

03:41would be the one that certainly has uh my most attention aside from that um we might get leggy

03:47here for a second i'm just googling i need to refresh myself on um who uh some of the picks were

03:53in the draft and who i might get um might be looking at edgecombe with um the 76ers and there's a little

04:00bit there i mean ace bailey that situation with him in utah is just going to be interesting a guy who

04:05kind of tried to diva his way out of utah is now there so i think that that is going to be

04:11really interesting just to see how that all goes um malawak going to the rockets infuriated me

04:21because that was the one i wanted for the raptors and so for malawak to to go to again a rockets team

04:27that we think can win a championship i think that fits there so very effectively and um esengay

04:33going to the chicago bulls i think that team is going to be just absolute dog shirt this year

04:38but i think that there's going to be some intrigue with um with them so we will see but those are a

04:44few of the rookies that i at least have an eye on uh derrick queen uh some have said is the worst

04:49trade in history there's a little bit of that um yeah that that was not a great trade but it's still

04:55a good basketball player on an atlanta team that feels intriguing at least as well so there's a little

05:01bit of that as well uh what nba team will fold this year uh a team that thinks they are good but

05:06will just fail oh i see um not actually full but yeah a team that thinks they that has high hopes

05:11and will fail i we just kind of mentioned them i think the atlanta hawks are in a difficult situation

05:16right now um i i think that they've made some smart moves and the east is a little bit open but i

05:23just i still don't view trey as like a number one on a contending team so i don't think this year

05:29is going to go as well for the atlanta hawks as maybe they think it should be going right now um

05:35more here what west nba team is going to be way better than people think uh minus timberwolves

05:41i think they might grab the the number one seed um i mean yeah like they're they're such a good

05:47ball club i i like so many pieces of what they are doing or sorry i like so many pieces that they have

05:53on that team and a lot of the stuff that they are doing there i think that they're going to be

05:57dangerous i think i honestly i think san antonio jumps up a couple of steps this year like i i think

06:03that they will be this year's houston rockets and the team that kind of elevates to a couple of

06:07different levels um i i think they will be the ones that do that uh some more rapid fire questions

06:12here will oklahoma city still be a juggernaut this year in the west that's an easy answer i think

06:16yes yes they will um what uh last what two teams in the east are going to leapfrog up since the

06:23pacers and celtics are dropping off um like i said before like i think the bucks take probably

06:29a pretty big step from what happened to them a season ago and i know like homer pick i do think

06:35the raptors are going to be better than everyone thinks they are it is a bit of a weird fix uh fit

06:40sorry and a bit of a weird unit but if everyone's healthy they just they kind of have 10 rotation

06:45players that you feel comfortable with and in the east being so all over the place and in a new nba

06:49where with the second apron you're not going to get three stars on a team it's going to be a couple

06:54of good guys and then you try to build out the depth i think toronto fits pretty well with that

06:58um orlando is another good one um there is that there uh sutern i i agree with that as well so um

07:04there is that and then a few more um i'm russian so uh no the nets um igor talk is my main thing

07:11uh yeah um look i think the nets are a weird team this year michael porter jr being kind of the big

07:18addition i have some concerns with but i think um igor is going to fit there quite well i think

07:23there are going to be opportunities for him to shine anyway there's going to be a lot a lot of

07:27basketball that he can play that is going to be interesting so i i think that that's probably a

07:32good fit so i i like that um as well

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