00:00LeBron got a chance tonight? No?
00:03Always got to give him a shot, being the second best player we've ever seen on the court.
00:07Well, first off, there were two inaccurate statements in that one.
00:13First, the lead. No, you do not always have to give him a chance.
00:22Tonight, in the next three games that they play, you do not have to give him a chance.
00:28And second, he is not the second best player we've ever seen on the court.
00:34I guess we'll put Wilt in front of him up there with him.
00:37Certainly wouldn't be Wilt.
00:41Anyway, just get it right.
00:44Fourth?
00:45Get your opinions right here.
00:48No, they're going to get their ass kicked, but they may make an appearance in T-Mills Best Bets.
00:53By the way, he's still rolling now. Two for three last night.
00:56It's a heat turn.
00:58This has got to be four or five days in the green in a row.
01:02Maybe more leaning into last week.
01:05I think, actually, every day last week, except for Monday, you were in the green.
01:10Really? So that's seven straight days?
01:12Well, they missed Thursday.
01:14Oh, six straight days?
01:15Yeah, so he's rolling.
01:16Twenty for our last 24 on Best Bets, man.
01:19There's got to be some nice bread in the pocket, though, huh?
01:22He's riding high there.
01:24He's feeling good.
01:25You can share a little bit of that with the drive?
01:30Yeah.
01:31Okay.
01:32Yeah, probably not.
01:33That's all right, man.
01:34You're smart, man.
01:34I wouldn't either.
01:36All these things you've got to pay for.
01:37No, you ain't sharing nobody.
01:40Nobody thought you were.
01:41Yeah, I know it.
01:43I think y'all should be sharing some with me.
01:45As soon as you know, walking in here, man, you're the one who got it.
01:48That's fair.
01:49Maroon money.
01:50You told us yesterday.
01:50Oh, yeah.
01:51Yeah, I mean, I got it.
01:52It never quits.
01:53I'm not sure my pay stubs are quite the same as y'all's.
01:56I don't know.
02:00Anyhow, it feels like to me, Clint, and the people you can join in on the base power text
02:06line, 713-5724-16, YouTube and Twitch, it feels like the Rockets are sort of in a
02:12similar situation they were in last year.
02:14I remember at the end of the season, Clint, we sat here, and I think everybody, at least
02:22on this show, and I think a lot of our listeners at the time, were like, all right, I'm in
02:29a
02:30place where I'm ready.
02:31I can be ready to move on from Jalen Green.
02:34At the end of last season, at the end of, you remember that playoff series against the
02:38Warriors?
02:39Yep, yep.
02:39And that went seven games, and you remember what he did, and it was just like, all right,
02:44this team is ready to maybe take the next level.
02:47Let's do something.
02:48How can you get that next piece?
02:50And I think a lot of people were in a space where, yes, we've wanted to keep this group
02:55together.
02:55We've believed in Jalen Green.
02:58There were a lot of Jalen Green supporters, but it felt like, based off what we were seeing
03:02from kind of the Rockets' Twitter, social, you know, the text line, that people were ready
03:11at that point to move on from Jalen Green.
03:15We're prepared for that.
03:16We weren't holding on to that as much.
03:19Are we there with Shingun?
03:23Have we reached, are we to the point like you were last year?
03:26713-572-4610.
03:28Are you in that place with Alper and Shingun?
03:32Are you ready to, or at least you're open to moving past him in the way that you were
03:39last year with Jalen Green?
03:40Well, no, I mean, if you tie Jalen Green to it, the answer's no.
03:43You're not.
03:44I mean, I was just ready to get out of the Jalen Green business last year.
03:47I didn't care how you did it.
03:49Okay.
03:51Shingun, look, I would be A-okay.
03:54In fact, I would like for them to move on from Shingun.
03:57I mean, if you just asked me, I'm not a big Shingun fan.
03:59I'd be okay with them.
04:00But we got to get something in return.
04:02We ain't just getting out of the business.
04:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:03I mean, we're not just getting out of the business because he can't get it done.
04:07No, I mean, we got to get something out of the young fella.
04:10And so it's not anywhere near with Jalen Green.
04:13Again, I was just ready to get out of the business.
04:15I didn't, I didn't, was not a fan, did not believe that you were going to win with it
04:22and won it out of the business.
04:24I think you can win with Shingun with the right system, with the right people around him.
04:28I mean, I think Shingun's a good player.
04:31But I have no, I have zero emotional tie to the young fella.
04:35Yeah.
04:35So you could, you were at a place where you could, you could move on.
04:39But not, not, not, not, like I said, I'd like to.
04:44I'd like to.
04:45I don't turn my TV on and watch Shingun.
04:47I'm like, hell yeah, man, let's go.
04:48Yeah, because you were saying it yesterday, you don't, you don't believe, even though
04:51you don't, you didn't agree with him being the most overrated in the league, but you,
04:55you don't, you don't view him.
04:58And I'm guessing it's gotten worse after this year.
05:00View him as, now this is a guy that can be a major, major piece.
05:06One of your top two pieces.
05:08No, he ain't.
05:09Ain't never going to be.
05:10He's 23.
05:11I don't care.
05:12It don't matter.
05:13It ain't never going to be.
05:14That is, if he's, if he's a number two on a basketball team, they ain't winning in
05:19the playoffs.
05:23Book it.
05:24Let's see who that one is.
05:27Well, you know, KD ain't one of them.
05:30We know, yeah.
05:31Even though he didn't, he only played, he only played one game in the playoffs with him.
05:34Yeah.
05:34But yeah, no, I don't, I'd be, I'd be a-okay.
05:36I don't turn my TV, as a Rockets fan, I don't turn my TV on and be like, hell yeah,
05:41I
05:41got to see Shingun go tonight.
05:43I don't, even when he plays well, I mean, it's, it's, I appreciate it.
05:47Good look, good production, love it.
05:50But I don't, I don't look at it and go, yeah, yeah, this is what we're going to, this is,
05:53this is the run we're going to make is behind this dude right here.
05:55Yeah, I think I'm at a point, and I think I was with this with Jalen Green, I'm at a
05:59point
05:59with Shingun where I don't fear, God dog, if we let him go.
06:07Like, if we let him go, man, we're about to be what the Clippers did with Shea.
06:12You know, the Clippers traded Shea, Gildress, Alexander, they've got to be regretting that
06:16every single step of the, every time they watch him walk out on that floor, they've got to
06:21be, like, I don't, I, I think there was a little bit of that with Shingun, maybe out of last
06:27year of like, I don't know if he's going to be like, but, but can that guy be a two?
06:31A really big, I thought there was some, I don't have that fear.
06:34I still have a little bit of it with a men, Thompson.
06:37I still have a, boy, if you, if you let him go and he goes somewhere, like that, that there
06:43could be a real regret in, in everything that he does, because I don't think he's reached
06:48his, I don't have that feel with Shingun.
06:51And again, not just giving him away for nothing, but he is somebody where just like with, with
06:57green, I am, I am, I am preparing and looking to see, is there something that really makes
07:04sense, that really makes sense?
07:07And I wouldn't be afraid to pull the trigger because I wouldn't be afraid like, all right,
07:11man, we're about to give it what this dude's about to turn into one of the best players
07:14in the game.
07:15I don't, I don't think that, I feel like he's going to, maybe he's not reached his ceiling,
07:20but I think he's knocking on it even at the age of 23.
07:23Yeah.
07:23Look, I think his ceiling is always going to be tied to his ability to go harder, longer,
07:27than everybody else.
07:28I mean, that's, that's, that's his deal is the running, the grinding, the, the, the
07:33just high motor.
07:35I mean, there's not a, there's not a shot there that blows your skirt up.
07:38There's, there's, there's not an athletic ability there that blows your skirt up.
07:43I know he's a big, but there's not a, there's not a size thing.
07:46There's not a size there that just is like, boy, he's size wise.
07:50He's going to be a handful for, for the, the bigger centers in the league.
07:53Like there's, there's, there's none of that there.
07:56And I, I think he's, I think he's playing at his ceiling.
07:58Now that ceiling, maybe it's an all-star, even though the league thinks he's the most
08:01overrated guy out there.
08:03That ceiling is, can give you 17, 18 a game.
08:06I don't know what he averaged this year, 17, 17, 18 a game.
08:11So what's he going to average this year?
08:12About almost 21.
08:1321.
08:14May give you 20, 21 a game.
08:16Okay.
08:16Yeah.
08:16That's, I mean, I know it's a big number, but I just, I don't see it.
08:20I don't see it carrying when you need it, when you need it the most.
08:22I don't think he's going to be a two, a two or better on any, any, any playoff squad.
08:26I don't think he's going to be a two or better on any playoff squad.
08:26Okay.
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