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00:00All right, welcome back in to The Drive as we are here on a Thursday.
00:05Good back and forth here with the text line, YouTube and Twitch.
00:10Also, the base power text line, 713-572-416.
00:15Phone lines are good as well.
00:17Love the back and forth.
00:19Love we can interact with you.
00:20This show is as much yours as it is ours.
00:24So we appreciate going back and forth.
00:29If you agree to disagree, that's what it's about.
00:31Damn it.
00:32It's about we hash it out and then we have good times and then Clint will buy a round of
00:36drinks.
00:37And we'll be good to go.
00:39Yeah, man.
00:40Let's do it.
00:41Tyler's got the queso and I've got the encouragement.
00:43Oh, yeah.
00:44I'm always going to buy the hot cheese.
00:48He got the queso for you?
00:49Maybe show you some nipples.
00:50Is that what he got last night?
00:51No.
00:53Not a steak night.
00:54I never saw Tyler eat last night.
00:56I had a steak.
00:58But, again, I never saw Tyler eat last night.
01:00Got them asparagus peas just like you.
01:03I mean, did you stick around long enough to see him eat or what happened?
01:07Did you eat and I just missed it?
01:09No, I was waiting to order away after y'all because I brought Bajani and Creighton some steak up here.
01:14So I ordered theirs when I ordered mine.
01:16Oh, okay.
01:17Oh, you brought them some steak back up here?
01:18That's nice, man.
01:19Yeah.
01:19Damn good guy, man.
01:20Did you Uber back up here?
01:21No, I didn't go hard last night.
01:25I just had a couple sippers with the boys.
01:28Oh, okay.
01:29Stayed responsible.
01:30Yeah.
01:31Okay.
01:32Well, we all stayed responsible.
01:35That's what we did.
01:36It was a good time out.
01:37Good time out.
01:37Except for Reggie.
01:39Oof.
01:41Just kidding.
01:42I had a real misfire with Reggie.
01:47I may have been feeling real good.
01:49You ever grab a text or something and just read fast to it?
01:53I forgot about it.
01:54Just read fast to that bad boy.
01:56Somebody send you something and just, you know, really read all the words.
01:59You just kind of see them.
02:00Scam it.
02:01Reggie, I was holding down the tables.
02:03Tyler went to the bathroom or something.
02:05And then, oh, shout out to Chris Santiago who was out with us.
02:08Reggie and Chris went to go order steaks.
02:09And Reggie said, here, I'll order yours if you just hold down the table.
02:15Little drinks on your bed.
02:16Do that.
02:17Easy.
02:18My man texted me back.
02:19Texted me, said, I don't know what I read.
02:24Well, I read in my mind what kind of steak.
02:27He clearly texts, how do you want your steak?
02:30And I text back, ribeye.
02:33That's the only cut they serve on steak night, folks.
02:37I ain't got no New York strips up in there.
02:39Hey, Mike, I'm going to strip.
02:40Maybe give me a full name.
02:42I said, ribeye.
02:43He said, no, fool.
02:45What's the temperature?
02:47The hell?
02:48What the hell?
02:49Like he's asking me to cut.
02:51You got any tomahawk cuts back there for me?
02:54Yeah, let me grab a tomahawk.
02:55My man thought he was at a steakhouse.
02:57I did, man.
02:58You're the ice house, fool.
03:00Got any wagyu?
03:01He said, yeah.
03:02No deal.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Like they out here, like they choosing cuts.
03:07Oh, that was very good.
03:09Shout out to Rich.
03:10Rich said, I almost cussed you out when he came back to the seat.
03:13I can feel, you ever feel the tone in a text?
03:16Oh, yeah.
03:17What temperature?
03:19Hey, idiot.
03:20You want it rare or what?
03:25Yeah, that was good.
03:27That was good.
03:27All right.
03:28Last night, we were at Kirby Ice House watching the Rockets and the Kings do business.
03:34And what did we say last night?
03:36I said, Reed Shepard, you're going to go in against this sorry-ass Kings team that maybe,
03:43maybe if you watch the game, Russell Westbrook might have been, maybe DeMar DeRozan, maybe you had him.
03:49You didn't have many Kings out there.
03:53And Russell's wearing old quarterback numbers in 18.
03:56And I don't know why he's wearing that.
03:58You pointed that out.
03:59That is such a horrible number.
04:01It's Peyton Manning's number.
04:03Omaha.
04:04The greatest athlete on the floor, 18.
04:08But Reed Shepard, we said he's going to go off.
04:11He's going to get the minutes.
04:13The men, Thompson's hurt.
04:14And he's going to put up a performance where people are going to be like, yo, man, this dude's got
04:18to play.
04:19And Clint, he did that.
04:2132 minutes.
04:22And baby, he got him up.
04:2528 points, four rebounds, two assists, nine of 21 from the field, seven of 16 from three shot, 43%
04:34from the three-point line,
04:35made seven of them jokers, led the team in scoring as they put them away.
04:40Hell, he got froggy.
04:41He tried to dunk on people.
04:43I mean, Reed was out there filling himself.
04:45And Clint, again, I think we have reached the point here.
04:49And maybe you think I'm out over my skis, 713-572-4610 on the base power text line, YouTube and
04:55Twitch.
04:55Maybe you think I'm aggressive.
04:56This is almost becoming like sit-down fireable.
05:02If Udoka continues to just push him back to his little 20 minutes and allow, like we can roll down,
05:11man.
05:11How many guys on this team do you get out there and you think to yourself, they should most definitely
05:17play more minutes than Reed Shepard?
05:20How many guys when you start to look at, because this is.
05:23I got two.
05:23This is, this is, this is, I got three, but this is ridiculous.
05:27Like he can't go back to his 20 because now you're just wondering what, like, what is this?
05:32What's going on?
05:33Because his stretching of the, of the, of the court helped everybody.
05:37Shingun went out there and lost his mind for a triple-double easy.
05:42And the space he had and a couple of those assists he got was to Reed Shepard.
05:45This, this cannot go on any, any further.
05:48He is not a 20 minute a game player for you.
05:50Well, I'm a, I mean, this isn't going to surprise anybody that's been listening to this show.
05:55I am.
05:56It is, it is hard for me to watch isolation, isolation basketball at any level.
06:03It was hard for me to watch when, when James Harden was doing it at, at, at an unbelievable level,
06:08level, just sitting there chewing up the damn shot clock and then, and then yakking one up.
06:12Like it was, he was as good as anybody in the game at the time.
06:15And it was still hard for me to watch.
06:16I just don't, I don't have an eye for it.
06:19And when, when Reed Shepard's on the floor, I, the, every time I can see the entire group attempting to,
06:29to, to run some kind of team game.
06:31Uh, and last night, I, it just, the, the control, the, as you said, the spacing, you can see when
06:39you got a guy that can knock down shots, the way that he's knocking down shots or that he, that
06:43he knocked down shots last night, the way that he can knock down shots.
06:46It changes the entire dynamic of, of the game of everybody on the floor.
06:50And it is, it is ridiculously valuable that what we watched last night and I understand the opponent.
06:56Yeah.
06:57I understand it's not, but, but that, but that, that should be what your stride, like we should like right
07:02now, M.A. Doka should, he could very easily say what you just said of like, Hey man, you can
07:06lead with, Hey man, it was a jazz.
07:08Or you can go, or the Kings, who the hell it was, or you can go, Hey man, this is
07:14ultimately what we've got to be shooting for.
07:17Like we've got to be shooting for somebody to get to, to, to, to demand and command the defense to
07:25stretch the floor.
07:26That's going to give Kevin opportunities.
07:28That's going to get Shingun opportunities.
07:30That's going to give Bari opportunities.
07:31It's going to create opportunities for people around them versus just the, the, the one man game, regardless.
07:37It's whether it's Kevin or I'm in or Shingun, those guys bringing the ball across the court and, and, and,
07:44you know, trying to play a one-on-one game at isolation game is just, it doesn't fit with my
07:49eye and what we watched last night.
07:50And this is coming from a guy that, hell, I tried to bench Reed Shepard after one preseason game.
07:55So don't, don't give me the whole L you just, I mean, look, I, I just, to me, it's, that
08:01is what you should be shooting for.
08:02If I'm in a Doka, I got to see a better team, shut that down.
08:09Like I got to see a better defense, not saying that it won't happen, but I got to see a
08:13better defense create major fits for everybody involved with what we saw last night before I decide I'm going to
08:21venture back to the, I'm just saying he got, he has some defensive flaws.
08:24He does, but there are some people who have some offensive flaws on this team that are getting minutes that
08:30equal his defensive flaws.
08:32They're like, what are we, what are we going to do?
08:34I mean, you look at all, you look at all the young guys, Ron, they've all got, I mean, if
08:38it's not an offensive flaw, it's a defensive flaw, right?
08:41I mean, maybe not Bari, but the young guys, I mean, you can say the same thing about Shingun.
08:45There's right now, I mean, for, for a small sample size, but right now there's some, there's some flaws that,
08:50that, that stick out, man.
08:53So I don't, I don't know.
08:54I just, I watched that game last night and I just appreciate that you can, I can watch the game
08:59and I can see, man, there's an effort to execute something.
09:03Like we're trying to, we're trying to execute something here.
09:05And last night it worked at a, at a, at a high clip for several guys.
09:08And his, and, and that's, he wants it.
09:11His confidence is through the roof.
09:13I mean, he's stepping in, he, man, he got off 16 threes last night.
09:17I mean, he's stepping, he is, he is not deterred by what he made you Doka and company are doing
09:23with him from a, you know, playing time perspective.
09:27But like he just, it is unacceptable, unacceptable from you Doka.
09:32I don't give a damn.
09:33I know it was the Kings.
09:35All right.
09:36But I know it was, but dammit, as you said, man, I, I, I want to see him out there
09:41against the Spurs.
09:42And let's see what the hell happens late.
09:45Like I, I got to man.
09:46That just his, his ability to space the floor for everybody.
09:51And there's a little, there's a little wiggle that he, and he's able to get his ability to space it
09:56and shoot it off the dribble,
09:58catch and shoot and how that helps space everything for your other two main guys.
10:03I mean, when you got him and Smith on the court together, that creates so much more space than, than,
10:10than, than, and I'm not saying Thompson has to come off, but I bet.
10:13But I'm saying when you got those two guys on the, like, you got to think twice about how you're
10:19going to allocate your double teams to, to, to Kevin Durant.
10:24I think you could use pick and rolls with him, with those guys to force it.
10:28Like it's, it's just, that's where I was going to go with it, Ron.
10:30It's, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not trying to say he's Chris Paul, but, but I
10:34mean, there's, there's some craftiness to him.
10:36And when you start getting in those pick and roll games and the two man games, there, there's just a,
10:41uh, yeah, he's getting more confident with his handle.
10:44And, and, and, but there, but, but like, but there's people got to close out so hard to him anyway,
10:48that it's, it's like that, like he even has an advantage, even when he gets bad people and he is
10:54a, and he's a good athlete too.
10:55Well, the exact reason that I wanted to quit on him after one preseason game, when I just felt like
11:00he looked like he was overwhelmed.
11:02I mean, that completely has disappeared from his game.
11:05Now he still has turnovers and still makes mistakes and I get it.
11:08But like the, the, the Jake Myers at the plate look disappeared really, really quick.
11:13It's no longer there for him.
11:14So I'm, I'm in, I'm, I'm, I'm a fan.
11:16Yeah.
11:17That, yeah, that, um, yeah, his, his, like, they can't go back to whatever.
11:22And I, and I know, uh, a man Thompson is dealing with something that was a big part of why
11:26he got the minutes he got, but you can't like, I don't know.
11:32He knows his team and basketball better than I do.
11:35I don't know how you go into games and say.
11:43Tari Eason needs to play 15 more minutes than him.
11:47I don't know how you go into games and you're like, like, like the difference in how much time he's
11:53getting on the floor between him, Jabari, and, and Eason is that big of a gap.
11:58But he should, hell, if he ain't going to start him, he should at least be getting like starter type
12:04minutes.
12:05Yeah.
12:05It just, I don't, I don't, it is, it is what I do want to acknowledge, uh, bounce back performance,
12:12uh, guys for, uh, Shingun, who I think has been struggling.
12:1632, uh, 32 minutes, 26 points, 13 rebounds, 11 assists last night, two steals, three box blocks.
12:23This is the best we've seen of him in a while.
12:26Great performance.
12:27I've been hard on him about what he's looked like.
12:30He looks like he's a, a, he's becoming a role player with his 16 points.
12:35But, but with the expectations that I have for Shingun, my thoughts of that performance is a, slow clap.
12:48Yeah.
12:49Nice.
12:50He's, he's a, he's a, he plays the bully well.
12:53Nice.
12:54Okay.
12:56Good job.
12:57I mean, I know some of you may think I'm an ass for that, but hey, all right.
13:01I don't know who some of those people were you were going up against.
13:05Hey, who's some fans?
13:06I am so happy.
13:07There was a Maynard guy.
13:08I think he was from Stanford.
13:10Uh, I remembered him.
13:11I don't know who Max, Max rent, Renard from Stanford.
13:15Max, Max, Max Renard, number 42, who he was giving him the work to.
13:23That's what the whites used to do.
13:24You couldn't do anything with Carl Anthony towns.
13:27And I just say that to you because the expectations are that you, you, you're an all-star, you're
13:33a back-to-back all-star that I thought had a chance to be an all NBA level player.
13:38And for this to work, you need to be doing that against Jokic.
13:44You need to be doing that when they play the Spurs, you need to be doing that when they're
13:48not let Carl Anthony towns, the person that everyone wakes up to go punk, punk you in the
13:54game.
13:54So good performance.
13:56That's a beautiful triple double.
13:58I love the stat line.
13:59Whoop-de-damn-do.
14:01It's the Kings and it's 42.
14:04What is his name?
14:05What's 42's name?
14:06I got to look it up.
14:06I ain't got it, man.
14:07It was a kid from Stanford and it's, this guy stinks.
14:12It's, it's Max, Max and Renard or something like that.
14:16Oh yes.
14:17Max.
14:17I mean, he hit a couple of, he had a couple of spin moves where he didn't even have
14:21to jump and he finger rolled again, just right over him.
14:23Yeah, man.
14:25Yeah.
14:26I was here for it last night.
14:27Oh, Max Raynard.
14:30Maxime.
14:31Maxime.
14:32Oh, it is Maxime Raynard.
14:33It is Maxime.
14:34It's a hell of a name.
14:35And he's got some eyebrows.
14:36Holy hell.
14:37That means he's European, huh?
14:38God damn.
14:39I mean, ain't nobody around these parts.
14:41Somebody named Paldon.
14:42He was giving that work to.
14:44Yeah.
14:44Patrick Baldwin.
14:45Who are these people?
14:47Text line, Ron is an ass.
14:48I can't be sometimes.
14:49But I'm sorry.
14:51I, I, like, this is, the expectations for Sagoon is, is higher than this.
14:57And you're going to give me 16 and 13 points against these other, these, these teams.
15:02Who do they got tonight?
15:02We need Joe asked at the magic.
15:04We need Joe asked to play.
15:05And here you go.
15:07Now, now, oh, oh, Max Raynard comes down and now he's, now you look at your chops.
15:14Maxime, the king.
15:16Come on.
15:17We're like Maxime, the queen.
15:19Then Carol tonight.
15:20Wendell Carter.
15:21Angel Reese's man.
15:22Let's go.
15:23I want to see something.
15:24Let's see something tonight.
15:25Show him something.
15:26He's still in great players.
15:27These are, these are, this is a game against the magic.
15:30It's a good team out of the East.
15:31At least with a good record.
15:33That you should, you should work over.
15:38He is really getting under my skin.
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