00:00Are there any players that you're looking at and you're like,
00:03man, what happened to that guy?
00:05He was pretty good last year.
00:09There are a couple that I could say that.
00:12I mean, there are some that have been on a little bit of decline,
00:16but all of a sudden at the start of this season,
00:18I know, again, we're only roughly 10 games in this season,
00:21so we can't jump to drastic conclusions yet,
00:24but they have kind of turned into a shell of who they were.
00:27First guy is James Harden.
00:30Because James Harden, now he had a great game tonight.
00:33He had a great game tonight, but excluding tonight,
00:37all of a sudden one of your top scorers of all time,
00:41the guy that you just paid yet again for another big contract,
00:47he's averaging 15 points a game for the Cavs.
00:51And call me crazy, but I don't think 15 points a game
00:56from the guy that you're hoping to be your number two scorer
00:59is going to lead to wins.
01:02So he is definitely one that is like,
01:07oh, you are falling from grace very, very quickly.
01:13Second guy I have on my list would be Mikael Bridges.
01:16Oh, the NBA is the Iron Man.
01:20That's true.
01:20Guy who does not miss games.
01:25And the Knicks are still been fine,
01:28but also Mikael Bridges,
01:30while not an elite scorer,
01:33he's usually mid-range,
01:35like anywhere from gets you 14,
01:36maybe up to 20 points a game,
01:38depending on the night,
01:39he's averaging six points a game.
01:41And currently,
01:43he is playing like right around half the game.
01:47I have his minutes,
01:4925 minutes a game,
01:50which is way below his normal average in minutes per game.
01:55So I don't know what's going on with Mikael Bridges,
01:57but he's not being able to produce
02:01in that scheme of things
02:04that the Knicks have had this recent success with.
02:07And my last one that I would say would be,
02:11bro, what happened to Jalen Green?
02:13Wasn't Jalen Green supposed to be like good?
02:17Wasn't he supposed to be a guy to help lead Houston?
02:21Well, he was supposed to be a good scorer though.
02:23Right, right.
02:23Well, he was supposed to be a good scorer
02:26to help lead Houston.
02:27And then they're like,
02:28oh, we're going to give up on him instead of the Phoenix.
02:29Oh, well now he could be a good one-two punch
02:32with Devin Booker.
02:33Okay, great.
02:35He's averaging less than 12 points a game right now.
02:38And Phoenix is a complete laughingstock.
02:41The best player on Phoenix has been like Dylan Brooks.
02:43Until they play the Clippers, Josh.
02:45When they play the Clippers.
02:46Then they look like the Harlem Globetrotters.
02:49Yeah, Jalen Green obviously went off against them.
02:51But yeah, those are the three
02:53that have really stuck out to me.
02:55John.
02:56The Jalen Green one is the one.
02:58Because Mikael Bridges,
02:59I'd never expect him to do anything
03:01until it's time for him to do something.
03:03That's where I'm at with the Knicks.
03:04I think the Knicks are in a situation
03:05where they've won the championship.
03:07They know that they're going to get
03:09everybody's best shot in Madison Square Garden.
03:11Or anytime people see a Knicks jersey,
03:13they're going to get their best shot.
03:14And so I don't necessarily look at them as a...
03:16Statistically, across the board,
03:18I don't look at what they're doing.
03:19I look at whether they win or lose.
03:21That's with the Knicks.
03:22That's anybody on the Knicks.
03:23That's OG Ananobi.
03:24That's Jalen Brunson.
03:25That's Mikael Bridges.
03:26That's Josh Hart.
03:27I don't look at their box score.
03:28I look at whether the Knicks won or not.
03:30But I think that might be
03:31my own personal evaluation of the Knicks.
03:34Jalen Green has always sucked.
03:40This is not a long conversation.
03:42Jalen Green can score on a bad team.
03:44Because I say this to people all the time.
03:46Every person who makes the NBA
03:48can score 20 points a game
03:49with the right amount of shots.
03:51I'm talking about Hugo Chavez from the Celtics.
03:53He can give you 20.
03:54If you give him enough shots,
03:57Bronny James can get you 20 points a game.
03:59In the NBA.
04:00If you give him the proper amount of shot attempts.
04:03I don't know about that.
04:04Let's not go that far, John.
04:06But this is the point I'm trying to prove to y'all.
04:09I guarantee you he can get 20 points a game
04:12with the right amount of shots.
04:14I will disagree.
04:15Because he is a good player.
04:17But unless if you put him in a box
04:19where he only has to be one particular way,
04:22now he can't score like that.
04:24But every player in the NBA can score
04:25if given the opportunity.
04:27Because again, Tim Parker will tell you
04:28he had 20 points in the G League game.
04:30But that's not my point.
04:32My point is this.
04:34Jalen Green is the type of player
04:36who can score on a bad team.
04:39Zach Levine is a perfect example of someone
04:42who can get very rich scoring points on bad teams.
04:46So I wouldn't necessarily say Jalen Green fell off.
04:49Jalen Green ran into a grown man
04:51in an Eme Udoka
04:52who wanted to coach him for real.
04:54who wanted him to be great.
04:56And he responded by not doing
04:59what he was asked to do
05:00when he ended up on the Phoenix Suns
05:01playing with Devin Booker,
05:02a guy who we all know can score points.
05:04But he ain't great.
05:06The person who I will tell you
05:08who will be a fall-off all-star
05:10is Paul George.
05:12He'll be an all-star?
05:14This isn't a...
05:15No, no, no.
05:16A fall-off all-star.
05:18So he's going to decline?
05:20Oh, listen.
05:21Listen when I tell you.
05:22Oh, steroid pee?
05:25All right.
05:26I'll do it again.
05:29Listen, I'm going to the...
05:30I'm dying on this hill, okay?
05:33Steroid pee by...
05:35I'm going to give you what is it?
05:37By February,
05:39steroid pee will be useless.
