00:00But I want to stick to Yaxel because this kid, like, I love him already.
00:06I mean, his filter, he has no filter, really.
00:09He says what's on his mind.
00:10He already called out Luka Doncic for whining and complaining,
00:13and that alone to me, that got me.
00:16I was like, I'm all in now on Yaxel.
00:18And they play tomorrow.
00:19And they play tomorrow.
00:20And listen, he had 31-12-6 in the win over Denver on Monday.
00:27This kid is not just talking like a superstar already,
00:31but he's playing like a ready-made player.
00:34And, John, we were talking about this at Summer League, right?
00:36We knew that this was going to happen.
00:38Now, did we know that it was going to be this quick and he was going to be this good
00:41this quick?
00:42No.
00:42But my goodness, what are your thoughts about Yaxel Lendeborg, just in that Warriors system?
00:48There were a couple of players that we talked about.
00:51You can't let this player get to this particular team.
00:53And when the Warriors called this name, I went, wow, they let that happen.
00:58And when Adyamara got called for Oklahoma City, I went, oh, they let that happen.
01:03Look, man, I think that his game is tailor-made for where he is.
01:08Steph Curry is aging.
01:09He's basically playing the Jimmy Butler role.
01:12He's getting the shots of Jimmy Butler.
01:13He's playing the defense that Jimmy Butler would be out there playing
01:16until Jimmy Butler gets out there playing healthy.
01:19I think that he is single-handedly saving Steph Curry's, the end of Steph Curry's career.
01:25I agree.
01:26Because season started with what was going on with Porzingis.
01:29I had no idea the direction of this team other than poor.
01:32But Yaxel, after opening night, has been fantastic.
01:36Because I think after he had that run-in with Luka, he went, I can do this.
01:40Yeah.
01:40And I think Draymond got in his back.
01:42Like, oh, you can do this.
01:43And Steve Kerr and Steph Curry, you can do this.
01:45And that belief in him has really paid dividends in these really big games
01:50against really good opponents.
01:51Yeah.
01:52You know, I keep looking around, like, these stats and these headlines.
01:56Like, first player since this to do this.
01:58It's a lot of that.
01:59There's so many of them.
02:01Like, you can go down the list of all these rookies.
02:03And we knew it was a very good rookie class.
02:05Like, we kind of assumed that it was going to be this good.
02:07But even me, like, even me, who's very high on a lot of these players,
02:11I didn't expect some of these guys to be this good.
02:13Like, you even go to Cam Boozer, who obviously the Grizzlies are playing very well at this point.
02:18They opened the year.
02:19They came out of the gates really strong.
02:2115.3 points a game.
02:22Ten and a half rebounds.
02:24Like, almost five assists a game.
02:25He leads rookies in rebounds and assists.
02:28I mean, even Cam Boozer.
02:29Like, John, when we talked about Cam Boozer, we were like, well, he has probably the lowest ceiling.
02:34I wouldn't say lowest ceiling, but he has a relatively low ceiling, but such a high floor.
02:38So you know what you're going to get.
02:39And that's kind of the case so far.
02:42That, you nailed it at the end.
02:44With him, you knew what you were going to get.
02:46It was just a matter of, can his physicality overdo the athleticism that he's going to face at this level?
02:53And he's shown you, I can do what I can do.
02:56I'm not really worried about what the athleticism.
02:59I'm going to play my game.
03:00He's been able to make NBA threes, which is stretched out the defense, which opens the court up for him.
03:05And again, Ty Jerome, playing the way that he has played, has taken a lot of attention off of him.
03:10And so he's really been able to put good numbers up and be effective night after night so far.
03:16It's early, but I'm really liking what I'm saying from him as well.
03:19And then we have the debate.
03:21Wagler versus Acuff.
03:22John.
03:23John and I got to see it firsthand.
03:25We got to see it up close.
03:26First game of the season.
03:27Add into it.
03:28We got to show Super Bowl.
03:31It's crazy that that's our Super Bowl.
03:33It was a show Super Bowl.
03:34But so.
03:35It's like the Indy 500.
03:36It was at the start of the year.
03:37It was a show.
03:37Yeah.
03:37Yeah.
