Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. It's Monday, you know what that means. It's market outlook time. Let's take a look at what could be happening during this last week of team and season. Ultimate Tots. I'm gonna talk about stuff that we know, stuff that we could be seeing, that Ultimate Tots guaranteed SBC if that does get added to the code. And just what we can expect with a lot of cards this week. I know a lot of you guys are wanting to know when can you buy teams, what's the outlook on some of that stuff. Again, that's all up in question depending on what happens with the Euro's content. And we'll talk a lot about that this week. But I think some of the stuff is gonna reach more of a lower point or just reach a point where it's gonna get more rare after this week. Especially if EA don't do summer heat. So we might even figure out some information about the summer heat or whatever is coming out with the Euros this next Friday during this week, like with loading screens or tweets or whatever. So we'll talk about the potential for that as well. Now right now, again, it's Sunday squad battle rewards timeframe, a little bit after that. And a lot of these cards, we can they sell off has taken them down a decent amount, especially just like I looked at last week. Some of the team of season cards that are still in packs that are going out of packs today, specifically this Nani card, right? He was extinct for you guys know like 650,000 coins for the longest time. He was like 700, 800K. He is now down to 480,000 coins and still getting relisted up right now and kind of dropping there. So right now what I'm kind of looking at is maybe this Nani card, pretty rare item tavernier. Some of these other MLS or Rest the World Tots cards, definitely watching them dropping off a little bit right now. You know, Sezonia 57K or such 50,000 coins. So some of these guys are getting pretty low with that last bit of supply before they go out of packs. I don't know if you're going to see a big rise like I bought Malin last week and I bought that card for like right around 100,000 coins and he went to over 140 just a couple of days later. I don't know if you're going to see any insane rises. I think like Nani or tavernier would be, you know, the card that people want to buy at the most. But yeah, that's just kind of my opinion on what's going on. And of course, if you look around, Ben Yetter 1.35 to Pi 640, some of these prices are really, really, really down. Why are people selling off this weekend, right? There's not a lot of content out. What's going on? Well, there's not a ton of content, but there's enough content to keep people interested and there are player picks that are out right now. Even though I think these are really not good value, I really don't think these are worth it in my opinion. It only costs you eight players. So people are coming in here, they're turning in some gold rares. I'm not going to do one of these on the video because I really don't have much of my club. But I mean, people are doing these player picks, right? And the thing that I'm going to just caution with these packs right away is number one, A, it is probably going to rent some coins from this market this week because whenever there are player picks like this available, people just go bananas for them, right? People just love player picks. They love opening those types of packs. But again, what I'll say is it's so hard to pack these ultimate tops cards. Yes, some people might get lucky. They might be able to do it. Rares and non-rares both, I believe, are up in price. Non-rares were at 1.1K earlier today. It looks like they're right around 850 now because people are just going and buying cards to do those packs. But again, it is going to be so hard to pack these players right here. It's really, really not going to be easy. So of course, you have seen some price drops, footpins bugging out, messy, and it's allowing not extinct. Kimmich 470, that is down a lot. Taylor Hernandez 560, De Bruyne 514. De Bruyne had a big drop today because he was named the PFA Player of the Year. And we did some more research and we were talking about it on stream. Usually, EA actually gives the SBC to the PFA Player of the Year. So hopefully, in the next couple of days, we would see a De Bruyne SBC and maybe a Phil Foden SBC award winner cards because Phil Foden won Young Player of the Year. That'd be really awesome. So again, you're seeing a lot of these ultimate tops cards drop, right?  We're going to talk about this heading into the week. If the content stays slow, I would argue that the content during ultimate tops is overall an L, right? This ultimate team in season is not very good. We did not have any player SBCs yesterday. And again, I said yesterday that hey, Sunday's content is going to set the tone for this week. And we had, in my opinion, the 80 plus player pick is like the smallest of W's out there. And the reason why I say that is because I haven't gotten really good fodder from this. If it's really cracked for your account and for you guys, then maybe it's worth it, right? But fodder is so cheap. A lot of people have fodder right now. So if only you're going to send a lot of coins and then trying to pack in ultimate tops cards, which are just so very hard to pack, I really don't feel like it is worth it. So that's my opinion. We've only had two player SBCs, the Javi Martinez, Usman Dembele. We have had icons that have expired now like Drugba and those guys. They have not been replaced. And again, I feel like we're just waiting for that next big upswing and content. Whatever EA is waiting for, whether it's the Euros, whether it's to actually start summer heat, whatever it may be, there's got to be something coming, right? And again, that's going to lead me to talk to fodder at some point in this video as well. And just again, talk about that because fodder is just going to be very, very low. But on the market, since cards are so rare, they're going to be incredible to trade with. I bought this at all. And I'm saying this because I want you guys to watch those right mids. Because Usman Dembele, yes, this caused a lot of right mids to crash. I got on a tall undercut here at 278. I think right now he's like 290. But this guy, I mean, to a lot of people, this a tall card is still going to be very usable for them. And just like we see a lot of times with SBCs like this that crash the market, like remember that when the Dignay moments, Tots moments, SBC came out, a lot of your Prem left backs took a hit, but then they rebounded, right? This Kingsley Coleman, I bought two of these for 330 because he's a very rare card. Wow, 320, this big undercut. So I was trying to sell these earlier today and I didn't get the sales out. But I'm just going to hold on to him, right? Because I think he's going to rebound later on this week because Ultimate Tots content this week, the way that it's going, you know, a lot of this stuff, it doesn't really to me look like that we're going to have an insane, insane week of content. It really doesn't. If you're less like to me, we're going to have maybe a little bit of a quieter one. We're going to have some SBCs and I'll talk to you guys about those, but I don't really know if it's going to be an insane week. So those are just kind of my feelings right now and that's why I'm kind of trying to get involved maybe with some of these cards that are being sold off so much that are very rare, especially if it's a card that did not get into Ultimate Team in the season, like this Goretz guy I'm watching. I want to watch the young, of course, with the links to Usman, then Bailey's SBC card, you know, Hyunmin's son. So there's a lot of cards out in this game right now that have dropped off from the week and they sell off icons included. And I think some of those could bounce back right at the content is really not that good. But again, what's hype this week, right? What's hype this week is the 80 plus player picks. If you're trying to spam those to get really, really lucky in packing in Bappe, Messi, De Bruyne, I mean the drop rates from those can't be really good. A potential player of the year, SBC, which hopefully would come again, not guaranteed to, but also let's talk about a little guaranteed team of the season, SBC. I want to talk about that as well. Ultimate Tots guaranteed. That's going to be a highlight of this week too. Now I want to talk about what it was last year because last year it was a bit expensive. It was an 89 rated squad. It was 320,000 coins. And as you can see, SBC fought a rose with this SBC because it came out as 319K and it rose to 368 by the time that it was gone. They were releasing decent SBC content in terms of the upgrades, right? We also had a deluxe Tots SF guaranteed, which was a top five league guaranteed card. It was not the ultimate Tots only. It was just the top five league. So again, 89 rated squad, one Tots player, 70 chemistry. This SBC was expensive last year for the ultimate team of the season, which of course, if we take a look at that squad, I'll take a look and show you here in a second. I mean, you know, it makes sense why that SBC was pretty expensive because you had players in here, multiple million coin players in the squad.  If you guys remember, it was the guaranteed Sancho pack last year as well. The Sancho card was literally getting packed at every single one. EA had to like take it down and to re-release it. There was a lot of, you know, situations with that, some people. And then if that happens, right? Just a general rule of thumb. If content is released that you think is not right or it just does something is happening in FIFA that does not seem right, do it right away because oftentimes, if you do it right away, you might end up getting double the reward because if you can do it before EA realizes there's a problem and they take it down, then usually what they'll do is either compensate you with the card's back for doing that SBC or to let you keep whatever you got and then re-release that SBC again at a later time, either in the day or at a later date. So just mental rule of thumb there. That's for like year round anyways. But again, I think that the ultimate thoughts again this year would probably be 88 or 89. I think the ultimate thoughts as a whole is a bit cheaper than it was last year if I'm being completely honest. So hopefully they'd make it in 88 but that could make some of the 85, the 86 market go up because again, team of the seasons that are high rated, people have those in their clubs. They're going to be putting those into that SBC and they're going to be buying some of those 84s, 85s. Now again, I think tonight I'm going to be doing a big time club stock. Now again, some of the 84s are trickling up a little bit and I think a lot of people are going to be investing in fodder. I do. I think this is going to be a time where a lot of people go out and buy 84s, 4,000 coins to these guys, man. It's crazy, right?  If you can get 83s for like, you know, low 1Ks like 1,100, 1,200 coins get involved, right? 87 is really, really, really low. So this is in for me and the reason why I've continued talking about fodder for these last couple of days but I just want to again spam it to you guys and talk to you guys about it a lot because I really, really feel like this is going to be a point in the market where we have supply stopping, right? These are the last lightning rounds that we might see for a couple of weeks. We really might be seeing the last lightning rounds that we saw yesterday on Sunday. For the last couple of weeks, I don't know if they're going to do a pack promo around the Euros. I really, really, really don't expect it. So this is an incredible time to stock up on fodder, finish up an SBC if you do want to. Now again, I mean, even look at Usman Dembele's price, 640,000 coins. He was 750K when he first came out. So, I mean, all I'm saying is this fodder is primed for a rise because again, the content's been slow but it's going to pick back up in some way, shape or form. So again, probably just one Ultimate Tots guarantee this week. Again, talking about fodder and the guaranteed SBCs, I would really doubt it if they did two of these but what we're going to have to see this week is we're going to have to see some code. We're going to have to see some code dropped with this pack being added in because I do not believe it has been added yet. Speaking of code though, there was this that was added yesterday. In Footwatch added two new car designs, Copa Liberta Doris, some sort of car design and a Sudamerica car design. Now these are not man-to-match car designs. These are brand new into the game and this is what people are thinking might be actually coming out today on Monday to kind of replace the Latin America team in the season potentially. We're not really sure but these types of cards might be in packs tomorrow. Now the only thing and this is just a very, this is a tinfoil hat theory. As you guys know, we say this a lot, right? This is just something that I'm not expecting to happen but hey, you never know, it could. The last time when they dropped these Konami Bowl man-to-the-matches and they dropped like kind of Konami Bowl like a team of the season cards. Wow, this Butchera Grenier was insanely low. 900K. Wow. You guys remember like the Tevez from last year? You remember those sorts of chords, right? Like the Tevez had like a 93 rated item. When they did that, they also released the two-for-one packs in regards to the buy one, get one free and foot player days. They literally had a foot player days. Now that was back in March and again, I don't understand why EA would need to run a foot player days promo right now but all I'm saying is I think, I'm just keeping my tinfoil hat on because I really don't think EA is going to run foot player days with two-for-one packs. It wouldn't make sense but if they did, that would be, I mean, that would be crazy time for the market as well. So just kind of putting that out there. I don't think that's going to impact the game that much because the convo cards in the whole game sense as a whole, if you're a huge Libertadores fan then boom, it's massive for you, right? Those cards are awesome but for the whole landscape of the entire game of FIFA, I really don't think that it impacts too much of what's going to be going on this week. Now again, hopefully this week we get some good player SBCs. We've had two, right? We've had good, two good ones with Dembele and Javi Martinez but we need more, right? EA Sports, we need more. We need this content to turn up because right team of the season is ending so you got to keep your user base involved and if you want longevity for this game, well, you know, let's see your plans of action kind of finish off and continue on with the longevity piece or portion of this game. So that's kind of what I think about, you know, that sort of stuff this week. Now again, I want to take a look back at Ultimate Team of the Season last year and also just talk about what happened with the market, right? What happens with this stuff? Yes, during the summertime, a lot of cards get rare. A lot of cards go down. Some cards go up, right? And I want to look at these Ultimate Tots cards specifically. There's any of them that are in the current team that you want to put in your team.  You know, I would watch on some of these cards and I think there's a couple of different examples because last year we really didn't see the market absolutely like just go to the bottom of the barrel until, you know, the end of June. The end of June, early July's when we saw this stuff really, really, really go down and that was when the summer heat content was really ramping up. Now, summer heat last year started like right after Ultimate Tots and then the pre-season promo came in July and in August. So, I mean, summer heat was a really good SBC promo. Now I'm not saying it's going to be the same this year, right? Because if they do Euro's cards and Euro's content and put cards like that in packs, then that might change some of the value of these cards that are in packs right now, like some of the season cards. So, that's just of course up to EA and what they're going to do. But last year, these Tots cards were still the best in the game. They were a very good value and of course, COVID going on, right? There's a lot more demand. So, I don't know if prices are going to hold this long this year. I'm going to be completely honest with you but I think they could hold for a week or two depending on the content that we get. You see, this Mars dropped down a lot during Ultimate Tots. He boomed on Ultimate Tots rewards day and then, you know, he was really cheap on that Monday sell off 427K during Ultimate Team this season. He rebounded back up to 523 before dropping down for the rest of the year. Now, let's take a look at a guy like Mbappe, very high tier card. He goes into these Ultimate Tots, right? Hits a low of 3.16. That very same weekend goes to 3.3. So, a 200K swing. But then really he's staying between 3.2 and 3.3 million coins. Again, until July, then he drops off to 2.4. And then the only other option here and the other thing that I had to say is if there's any low tier cards that you want from this Ultimate Tots squad, the cards that are going to get packed the most DeVry, Oblak, Cancelo, Cain, right? I really want to carry Cain for my team, whether I have to buy him or whether I can get fortunate enough to pack him in Reds or doing a couple player picks this week, those cards are going to get packed a decent amount. Watch what happened to Carval Hall last year during rewards. So, he was 300K, dropped off from being in packs, right? But then he was 200,000 coins this. So, he dropped 100,000 coins from the Weekend League Supply, dropped, dropped, dropped. Look what happened on rewards there. He goes from 193, all the way down to that next week on Weekend League Sell-off to 134. Now, rebounds back a little bit after that because he's the best right back in La Liga, Real Madrid Lynx, stuff like that. But, again, just watch out for some of these Ultimate Tots cards that are on the lower tier when we get to rewards this week. Like, I know Harry Cain seems really, really cheap for a 96 rated item. I know Oblak is getting almost to a price where like, excuse me, this is becoming a really good SBC fodder investment. But, in my opinion, some of these lower things are gonna drop even lower. Even Kimmich, I think, is gonna drop lower. Salad, De Bruyne potentially, especially if De Bruyne gets an SBC. This card's sitting at 500K. If they make that SBC like a 300K SBC with the exact same squad, not squad, sorry. The exact same stats as what KDB has, then that would be incredible and that's gonna be a lot of hype. So, that's just kind of my thought this week on what's going on. I'm really heavy on the fodder, right? And I'm really also heavy on just buying cards that have big time undercuts because these Tots cards are gonna become very rare, but they're still gonna be in demand because there's some of the best in the game, right? I love trading with this Malin. I love trading with this Dumfries. This is the best Aeridivisie striker in the game. He's 130K. He was 170 this past weekend. Again, I'm watching Alessandrini, French right mid. Those are the hot links right now. I know that Usman came out. Usman's a 600K card. Alessandrini was 320, 330. He's down literally 33% from where he was. Blundestiga Tots cards are super rare. I love watching these cards. Again, Koman being 320, super-duper low. LaCroix was like 540K at some point this weekend. Right now, he's 479. Yeah, he was like 540, I think, on Saturday even. 545. So, if I could snag one of these at like 460, 450 even, I'm down, right? Because these rare cards that people are gonna wanna use are just gonna get rare and you're gonna see fluctuations like you saw with this Marez last year during Weekendly Rewards for Ultimate Tots. There's gonna be a lot of coins put on the market this week, right? For the high tier end of the market and if people need to be linking some of these stuff together, like this Marez last year, the right-wing positions were scarce and you just see a huge, huge balance here. So, we'll be looking at some of that stuff later on this week to see what's out there because what could be going up with the cards that are in Ultimate Team this season. But again, you know, it's Ultimate Tots and the content, again, is gonna have to carry this week. But I'm gonna be sending a lot of coins into fodder. I'm gonna do a huge club stock, a lot of players across the board. Like literally, I'm thinking, I might even drop like 700,000 coins, seriously, because I think that's gonna be an incredible, incredible thing going forward. Now, it's gonna be hard not to use that club stock fodder for actually, you know, doing SBCs. But I'm gonna have to have some, I guess, self-control in terms of that. But I think fodder is gonna be a play going forward. I don't like investing in fodder all the time, but I think that it's got its spaces, right? This cantana is ridiculously cheap. 425, I mean, this is easily gonna bounce back. So to, you know, to kind of stop myself from spending too much on fodder, I might buy some rare cards tonight so that I can just put my coins into other things. And of course, finish the week in the league as well and get some of that done and dusted. But that's kind of my plan for tonight, boys. That really is my plan for even today on Monday. I'm really curious to see what the Convy Bowl cards mean and what EA's gonna drop if they drop any pack code and what the content's gonna look like this week if EA ramps it up, if they keep it pretty chill. And cause there's a lot of potential for the euros. So I think that's all again, we're just in that waiting game once again for what's gonna be happening during the euros this week. Now we're gonna follow the market very closely this week in terms of the out of packs cards. I mean, it's gonna be very easy to make coins, getting stuff on bid. One thing I will say right now is this man of the match Conte card. Man of the match cards always get very low on Sunday nights. And this Conte was just 375, a brand new Conte man of the match, which by the way, again, I said it last night, but this is an atrocity from EA Sports that they are putting out this card as the, you know, the card that we get in FIFA now for just commemorating what the Champions League victory for Chelsea with this card being the man of the match. Again, I think it's just atrocious in my opinion that that is what is going on with this card, man. I think that's just bad because I think this card should be a 94 rated card. It should not be on the market. It should be an SBC. So those are just my thoughts and my opinions. But again, watch out for this Conte tonight and cause he might be coming back up a little bit in the morning cause he's dropped down a lot today. 375K, he was like 400 plus K all day. So just kind of keeping an eye on that one, but should be an interesting, hopefully weak of content. It'll be an interesting week for the market. Again, one tip I'll have too is watch these cards that are not in Ultimate Tots again. I mentioned that fluctuations are huge on these items. Ben Yetter for sure, not being into Ultimate Team this season down to 1.35. Like I've been eyeing this guy all day. He's really, really, really, really low. So yeah, really watch this sort of stuff because that's what's hyped right now is these Tots cards still. These are the best cards in the game. Ben Yetter at 1.3 flat on Bill. Oh my gosh, this guy is going so cheap.  Anyways, I'm going to keep watching this card cause he's dang cheap and I want to get involved if it's going to get too cheap cause it's the Rat King. It's Ben Yetter, French Lynx and that's still what is hyped in this game right now. But I want to know down below what do you guys hide for this week? Are you doing the 80 plus player picks because I want to know if they're cracked? I'm probably not going to spend that many coins. If I could pack Kane, that's all I want to do. Of course I'd take Mbappe or Ronaldo Messi but it's probably not going to happen. So that's the market outlook video for you guys today. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you do. It's been Nathan Photocoun. I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


Good morning everybody Starting the day off and Tim Horns It's gonna be a good day today We're gonna make it a good day. It was kind of sad. I had to leave home, but we're going to work Got a load that's taking us out west to Regina I'm just gonna go pick it up and Head on out You can take up pretty much the whole trailer, hopefully I'll hit the room at the back for my tarps And these like I said are all going to Regina's the sketch one.  I believe from there I'm heading up to Meadow Lakes to sketch one pick up a little lumber Which is gonna take me down south into the US and there's a load waiting down there somewhere for me That's sort of the rough plan right now. We'll We'll see what the plan turns into for now the plan is we're going to Regina with this The flying Jane headingly just west of Winnipeg. I worked up quite a sweat Tying this load down. It's a pretty warm day So I went in for a shower as you do When you sweat and you get all smelly you go for a shower Or is it just me? That's just something I do well Now you know more about me May as well because I didn't want to sit all day. I was thinking I could wait till Balgony, right? Six hours down the road right by Regina. That's where we might spend the night Well, we'll probably spend the night. I was like, oh, we can wait till there I'm gonna shower at the end of my day right and go to bed clean and I was thinking Means I've got to sit here in my filth all day Driving why when there's a perfectly good shower right here. So I've here shower now I don't have to sit in my own filth all day and drive Feeling good and clean smelling good looking good No It's subjective. Just putting my shoes on if you're wondering what I'm doing. I Want to show you the load. I'll show you my load one second here turn you around. It's ready. Oh Oh, let me be exciting Here she be. I have no idea what it is big Oh, I think maybe HVAC HVAC stuff like I can't even get underneath it to show you but Well load of it. It's super light super light my tarps at the back there Now we're going on to Regina with us All of these bundles are maybe a couple hundred pounds each Few hundred pounds each we are set. We are ready. We are showered. We are smelling good We are looking better or are we looking good smelling better? Well either way we're smelling good The other stuff is debatable. I guess Let's get out there. It's gonna be a good day lights on Load tied down trucking gear Release the clutch on the steering wheel. Let's go six hours Six hours to go. So my delivery is on the west side Light left on. Can't manage to road and then turn left in 270 meters That's Karen everybody. She likes to talk over me a lot Very annoying and she swears no swearing Boys got to beat that out whenever I'm about to make a turn. There's a ding that may GPS makes that's what that is It's supposed to alert me. Hey, you remember the thing I just told you five times you're about to do it's now time to do it ding ding elevator, right? Your turn has arrived That's a stale green green for way too long. There's that ding again. She tells me I got her left in a bit and then ding ding Your turn has arrived. What was I saying? What's I talking about? Yes, we're going to the west side of Regina and Balcony is on the east side, but I can't think of any good truck stops on the west side of Regina So I think I'm going to go to Balcony the flying J there and spend the night there. We'll unload in the morning Drive over there. It'll probably be an extra 30-40 minutes Once we're unloaded like I was saying we go up to Meadowlake We're on this road for 85 kilometers I think it's still tight as it should be. I guess you could say I get a little I think it's a good thing I'm not scared that anything's gonna fall off. I'm sure when I roll away with it. I am double sure that it is all tied down But I still like to double check and make sure so the way I do it I've said this before but for the new people I tie down a load Make sure it's tied down and then I look how it's tied down and then maybe I'll add one or two straps or chains Just to make sure as I travel down the road I go about 30 minutes 30 miles 50 kilometers and I'll find a place to pull over I'll check my straps because as you bounce down the road your freight usually settles right Either in its packaging or onto the trailer or it wiggles together or whatever it settles and your straps become loose For a half hour. I stop check my straps tighten them if need be and then I go down the road and about two hours down the road I stop again Make sure that everything is tight same thing as before Usually it stays the same And I don't have to adjust it again after that first time depending on what you're hauling though because sometimes you Sometimes we haul stuff that settles slowly and consistently and constantly so the whole trip it's Settling down and compacting and you have to stop like every hour to keep tightening keep tightening And some other freight you don't want to keep tightening like the stuff I'm hauling now has aluminum frames around it and sensitive components on the inside So I can't tighten it too tight. They always say, you know kind of leave it uncomfortably loose Because it's got to be loose enough that you don't damage it But it's got to be tight enough that it doesn't go flying off the trailer And find that fine balance So that's why I stop and check I stopped and checked uh Little ways down the road now that i'm in brandon about two hours down the road stopped again Everything is good to go and then after that I stop about every Four hours or so two to four hours whenever Yes, you know do a walk around usually I get out stretch my legs and I just do a walk around the truck just You know pull on every strap. Just make sure it's all tight. Look at the load Make sure it's all as it should be that nothing's shifted and blah blah blah do the walk around and then you go inside grab your coffee or Go for your walk or whatever you do on your break Whatever in canada here like I've said we don't have to take a 30 minute break In the us you have to buy a law take a 30 minute break within eight hours of starting your day You can only work for eight hours and you have to stop for Up here in canada, we don't have that regulation. We don't have that law So we don't have to have to stop for a half hour. I can stop for 21 minutes if I want to I can stop for 29 minutes I'm gonna stop for 15 I don't legally have to stop at all but They're gonna want to see that you stopped at least, you know every every couple of hours two to four hours Just you know, especially if you're on a flatbed and you have to mark it down to the load check They're gonna want to see that you check to your load because if you don't show proof That you check to your load and something goes flying off the back or something and hurt somebody And they the lawyers are going to go straight for your logbook, right? They're going to make sure That you are within the law. They are going to Tear that apart to see if there's any way they can get you That's the lawyers of the people that you hurt, right there.  Well, did you check? Were you stopping regularly?  Yeah until proven guilty, but by the court of public opinion You're guilty until you prove yourself innocent and you gotta you gotta pass both courts Thankfully, I've never had to go through those courts I never want to you want to make double sure that you stay out of trouble like that because it can drag you down fast Because if if anything happens, especially if someone gets hurt and absolutely for sure if someone dies They're gonna come after you for absolutely everything they can So make sure all your ducks are in a line all the time.  That's a new one bibble babbling coin that phrase It's josh trucker josh Now put it on a t-shirt bibble babble too much bibble babbling Would you buy that t-shirt? Makes me so happy Favourite time of year all summer yet to look forward to it's already warming up to wear a t-shirt outside But it's not too hot. There's no bugs out yet. No mosquitoes yet I'm j travel plaza I see it. Thank you find the best one. Let's circle the lot a couple of times make sure we get the best one I will settle nothing for nothing less than the best Ah, I see that spot right there already.  Hey, they patched all the potholes That's nice. That should last a few weeks right on This guy knows what he's doing to neighbor on this side And I've got a neighbor on this side and I've got a straight path Straight out here in the morning Perfect. I'm gonna go all the way back here. Make sure that we're all good Make sure that we are straight Nothing is out of place that I didn't rip the mudflaps off These mudflaps are high enough that they don't get caught on curbs actually And even if those were to get ripped off, which that would still wouldn't be good. We have these back here Gotta be careful when you're backing in your trailer Uh, if you hit the curb and your mudflap is too low It'll actually rip the mudflap right out of the hangers Done that before been there done that pretty nice little back here too Head on into the sleeper and I'm just non-stop. We arrived here just the right time. I just talked to this driver next to me here. Really great guy great guy Truck says he's from Saskatoon, but he just picked that up in uh Southern Manitoba that load of pipe And he's bringing it out to Where does this swift current? He was working beside his uh truck there just tightening his straps on his on his load And I want to walk and pass and say hey, how's it going? It's good. Good. Good. I'm so glad you parked next to me Just thank you. Thank you for picking the spot next to me Because as soon as I saw him roll in I passed him on the highway already And as soon as I saw him roll in and start backing up I'm like, hey, thank god This guy knows what he's doing. He's been doing this a long time and sure enough Yeah, when I talked to him he's been driving for probably 20 years or so if not longer He said the same thing. He's like, yeah, I was just so glad to have two neighbors right off the bat Are you staying here for night? Oh, yeah, I'm staying here for night good And we both know our trucks are safe. He owns this truck too That's a constant struggle getting to getting to a truck stop and getting a safe parking spot because there sometimes there's a lot of parking And you can't complain that when you find parking you find parking if you need a spot You're thankful that there is a spot, but Some spots are better than others. Not all parking spots are created equal I'll tell you that right now So this is like a perfect spot. He said the same thing as me before I could even say it He's like, yep, this way we know we can drive straight out. We're not going to get blocked in by people parking like, uh Over here, how do I say this? Over here, we don't have to worry about people parking that way over there and blocking us in Look, that guy's got some backup lights over there, right? No one's gonna miss the fact that he's backing up It's just nice to meet up with a driver that you can just relate to right away It's gonna be a good night So i'm just making some food here for myself now and as soon as my hot water kettle is finished heating up the water I'm gonna put all my stuff away here.  Shut the truck down And uh That'll be it for the day Have I told you already my my engine heater is on the fritz or it's uh Giving me problems now, which is okay because the weather's warmer now and I don't really need the engine heater I just used it to like warm up the engine a little bit anyways, but in wintertime. I really need it It's not working now. I think I need to clean it out. You can hear it trying to fire To start it up I have a wabasto like engine style engine heater just runs off like a little bit of diesel fuel And then it warms up the lines going through the engine It helps me start my truck in in the cold of winter without plugging it in And I tried to start it up this morning. It wouldn't start up And I was having problems with it last week already. It was giving me kind of like When it first started up it smoked a little bit and it doesn't usually smoke I noticed that right away. I noticed everything about this truck. I know how everything is supposed to be So I noticed that I'm like, oh, that's gonna need a cleaning very soon and sure enough today. I tried to start it up wouldn't fire so It's probably just They open it up or you open it up. You just clean it out It's got a bunch of soot build up in there and it can't ignite the fuel That's probably what it is best case scenario worst case scenario by next winter I have to replace it and get a new engine heater But good thing. I don't need it until next winter. So we have a good six months To worry about that problem. We'll get it fixed as soon as possible because I don't like to let a problem fester I like to fix things right away So that I don't have to you know, be surprised by it later and be like, oh, yeah I have to fix that. Shoot. I forgot about that. I didn't budget for that now You know, I just it breaks boom fix it. Thanks everybody for hanging out with me today It's been fun. We're in Balgoni, Saskatchewan Tomorrow we deliver down the road in Regina just on the west side of the city And then we go up to Meadow Lakes of Saskatchewan. I've already got my next load planned out I'm going to pick up a little lumber there. We're going to go straight to Minneapolis, Minnesota Where everyone is so happy all the time because it's minnehapless We're going to go there and then from there. I don't know the plan yet. Okay, that's all I know so far But I'm most likely going to be going home From there Because we got plans a few days after that It's a very special day coming up By the time you watch this, it'll probably be it might be closer or gone already, but It's Mother's Day And it's a very big one for Brett Very much her first Mother's Day as an actual as a mother As an actual mother And I want her to be perfect. I want her to be great So I'm not going to tell you what the plans are in case if Mother's Day hasn't happened yet because I don't want to spoil it for her She says she wants to do something low-key So not something overly big I've already got one gift for her which is the big one but that's going to be happening on a different day than Mother's Day because My plans If a lot of other people had the same plans for Mother's Day, and it was already all Filled up. That's all I'll say But we'll just have to do it another weekend, but it'll be for Mother's Day Anyways, don't forget to hug your mother and tell her you love her on Mother's Day, and uh, I'll see you tomorrow. Take care


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Good Tuesday morning. This is Run It Back. The intros, if I shall. Very good mood this morning, Lou Williams. Wow. Danny Green there on the edge. Shom Sharani joining us from Chicago. How fun for you. A normal time, right Shoms? I love that for you. Guys, I don't want to speak for the entire world, but the end season tournament is kind of fun. And I kind of loved it. We had the first game last night, Celtics Pacers. Yeah, Halliburton, first appearance ever on TNT, which I still find a little bit shocking, but they beat Boston 122-112. The first ever, they'll go down in history as having done that. He had 26-10 and 13. Also his first career triple double, zero turnovers. It was a fun game to watch. It felt very playoff-y. But as far as the Pacers are concerned, do we need to reevaluate how we speak of them? Is there something else going on here that we maybe haven't given them enough love for? I thought they've earned their respect. I think they're part of the party now. They're part of one of the teams that need to be talked about this season. They're exciting to watch. They play at a high level, very competitive basketball team. And like I said, they're exciting. They play fast, get up and down the floor.  That's a completely different beast, but so far so good. I think they're in the mix of everybody else that's been one of those teams that we expect to do some things in the playoffs. But that part remains to be seen for me, but this team is definitely exciting. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I agree. They're playing at a high clip. They're getting up and down the floor. I love the way they're playing. Rick Carlisle is letting them do their thing offensively. I think this year, Indiana and Orlando are the two teams in the east that made a jump. The east is usually pretty wide open, but those are the two young teams that Indiana offensively, Orlando defensively, strangely enough. But they're two teams that put themselves in the conversation of being a solid playoff team in the Eastern Conference. There was the whole Halliburton needed his inhaler at halftime because he was having trouble breathing. I don't know if that's just a norm thing for him. I don't know if it was the experience or the craze that was going on. Probably adrenaline and excitement. Did it feel playoff to you? For sure. I mean, it was a lot of fun. I wouldn't give them a playoff experience of just one game. They got a small taste of it. I see all the memes of Adam Silver cooking up what he did in season tournament. Adam Silver dancing in the kitchen. But yeah, he did his thing. It's turning out very well for the league. They're getting a lot of good viewership and a lot of fun, a lot of excitement, and a lot of great atmosphere for teams that haven't experienced it in a long time. A city like Indiana, they haven't experienced that playoff atmosphere in a while.  I like the term that Rick Carlisle used yesterday. He said it was a playoff simulator. Ooh, I like that. Yeah, he said it was a playoff simulator. And I agree with him. It's not quite there, but it gets you in the mindset of this is what it can be like. And so that was fun to watch. I don't know if it's a coincidence that the young teams seem to be embracing it or it feels like they are. Do you think there's a little more weight added to the in-season tournament for the younger guys? For sure. 100%. I've read somewhere, I don't know if this is true or not, but they said they have 10 roster guys on Indiana that make it $3 million or less. So that $500,000, if they're making that, that's a big change for those types of players. That means that pretty much under the cap, they're only very few teams, I think, under the cap. You have 10 guys on the roster making it under $3 million. So yeah, for the younger guys, I wouldn't say it means more, but it definitely gives them more excitement and it can definitely change their year a lot more. I'm interested to see how Vegas would feel and how it's going to look. Because if the NBA knocks this out of the park and they kind of make it feel like an all-star weekend type of environment, make it a little bit more important than what we're used to, I think we see a lot of guys get excited for in the seasons to come, because we have fear of missing out. We love to be involved in the cool things. So if they get this right, I think you see a lot of guys, not just the young guys, but the veterans as well, start getting excited about it. I'm just so weirdly excited more than I thought I would be. I'm excited to see what they do in Vegas. Two weeks ago, we ranked the top five point guards. Lou, you had Halliburton at four. Yes. Now you don't get to say anything about that, because you already made your call. But do you think he's the best pure point guard in the league? It's hard to say the best, the best of a one season, but he's proven up and said the most impressive part of the stats, and I let him be in his first triple double, with the zero turnovers. That's the more impressive part to me. Having the ball in your hands for that duration of the game and not turning it over throughout the whole duration of the game, but him putting up high club numbers of scoring, usually 25 to 30 points a game, but also 13 assists and making big plays and making great decisions down the stretch without turning the ball over. That says a lot for a point guard and a high IQ player. So that puts him definitely in the conversation as one of the best pure point guards in the game today. One of the best. I think if we call him the best pure point guard, then we have to call him the best point guard in the league. I don't know if we're ready to give him that crown yet. The best is tough for anybody. There's a clip I want to play for Lou right now of Halliburton, actually, a moment in time with Drew Holiday. Talk to me about... Oh, yeah. Listen, for Drew, this happens a lot. And I'm saying that with all due respect. It's like shot blockers. If you challenge the rim enough and you're known for that, you're going to get dunked on every once in a while. So Drew Holiday, with the effort that he puts on that ball and things that he's trying to read his spot and he got turned around. You know, good offense, be good defense. And so this happens every once in a while for Drew. That's a great analogy. You play enough basketball. You're going to get dunked on. You're going to get crossed over. But he competes at a high level. He's guarding the other team's best player. And he still challenged that shot. He still got back into the shot. You know, three feet behind the three-point line, which in most times is a bad shot. It's a good contested shot for the defense. But he said, you play enough basketball. That's going to happen. Especially when you're playing or guarding the other team's best player every night. He had some moments last night. It was just fun. Shoms, the Celtics on the other end, of course, they have big aspirations. They want to get to the finals and win that whole thing. What were some of the problems you noticed last night? My concern with the Celtics is a lot that we've seen the last couple of years, which is late game execution. They get outscored 17-7 down the final minute 30 of this game last night. And I just think, yeah, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, have been unbelievable throughout, you know, the seasons and throughout playoff runs. But late game execution, I just think that's still an issue for this team. No Christos Porzingis. So that was a significant loss in the lineup. We'll see how he comes back. But a strained calf. That's something that you want to be careful with. Porzingis, given his injury history. But I just think from a style's perspective, getting timely baskets. The Celtics clearly were a little bit lacking last night. And 21 points off the bench. Sam Hauser scored a little bit. Luc Cornette scored. The Pacers, on the other hand, they got 33 points off their bench. They had multiple players in double figures coming off the bench. The Celtics gave up a couple first-round picks in that Drew Holiday trade. They still have a few first-round picks left over. I expect the Celtics to be active in the trade market as we get closer to February to try to see if they can beef up their bench rotation and players coming off that bench and see what they can do in the trade market. You know what? The struggles. The bench is the big one. Everyone's mentioned that. You guys have all talked about it a lot because they don't seem to have one. The struggling in the half-court. I know Christoph's Porzingis obviously in the street closed last night. When he comes back, is that enough to fix some of these issues? Or are you with Shams? Like, they need something else. I think it patches the leak. Excuse me. I think it patches the leak. He gives them another big that can stretch the floor out, Al Horford type of guy that's... And he can go out and get 25 to 30 on any given night. He's a post-up threat. You know, he's one of those guys that can create switches on offensive end. And so he gives them a look. But as far as this basketball team, they got two of the best one-on-one players in the league. This is their identity. This is who they are.  And so... And that's by handing them the ball and telling them to go get a bucket. Will there be a problem in the playoffs? You know, they've got... They've had some deep playoff runs. I think for them to get over that hump, they've got to be a better half-court team. I think they just have to be better defensively. I don't think him coming back patches it up, but it definitely helps. Offensively, they can score more with him there. Defensively, he protects the rim a little... A lot better than they've had. He's a decent rim protector. He's a decent rim protector, but he's better than what they don't have when he's out. But it doesn't make them a great deal better defensively. So that's the lack... So they don't have the depth from the bench and they lack defense. So that's the biggest concern from my standpoint for them, is the defensive side of it. And also half-court, playing in the half-court set. And this team, the Celtics, they've never had a bench to me. They've always been a top-heavy basketball team and it's gotten them this far. So I'm not completely concerned about them because that's how they've been playing. But I think for them to get over the hump, some of these things have to be addressed. Something different has to occur. Jason Tatum, last week, we talked about him being the best... This was where we got stuck. Was he American or American-born? But Chandler's not here. We can ignore that now. Best American player in the league. Do you agree? I think he's up there in the top three. It's hard to say. Who's your three-quick guff? That's tough, man. That's tough. Americans, like you said, you think of the best players in the league and when you think about them, they're not all of them American. Right. Yolk, it's Joel. Exactly. Even though Joel wants to play for Team USA. So that was the argument. Chandler wanted to argue that Joel's now American. I was like, but are we doing American or American? Joel's not American. He's not American. He's championed Africa this entire time. That's the trick. American-born. If he wants to play for Team USA, he should say that. It's very tough to say. That's a great point, actually. I mean, as we talk later in the show, we're talking about the match-ups of the season tournament coming up tonight. You know, the most consistent to me, Bron has been... Oh, duh. Yeah, that's a good one. You know, so... Bron Steph. He's been a pretty good American for the last 20 years. Yeah. So I always have him in the conversation, regardless of who's up and coming. And the younger guys, Ann Edwards is one of the younger guys up and coming, American players. But I think Jason Tatum, for sure, is in the top three. I can't rank them or give you... It's tough. I'd have to really go through... We like rankings around here today. We need lists all day, every day, Danny. We got games tonight, Nick's Bucks. That is the...  Who's the better match-up? For Indiana? Mm-hmm. It's going to be the Knicks. I would... For me to advance and have to look at Giannis, Dame, Chris Middleton, and the rest of that group, I would much rather play the Knicks. But I think the better match-up for Indiana would be the Bucks. Because I think... New York is going to muck up the game. You know how tipped this. They're going to slow it down. I think defensively, New York is a little better than Milwaukee all around. I think Milwaukee has... With the trade, when they lost Drew, when they lost Drew, when they traded Drew, they lost a lot of defense in that aspect. So I think Indiana, if they want to get up and down and play and score a lot of points, it's against the Milwaukee Bucks team. They're not going to do that against the New York Knicks team, I would think. I'm just apprehensive because the Knicks are just hiding cold for me. You never know what version of the Knicks you're going to get. And so, for me, I just feel like when it comes down to it, Milwaukee, they got a couple of guys they can throw the ball to that can win them a basketball game on any given night. And the Knicks do too, but you just don't know what version of that team that's going to show up. For sure. I wonder if we'll know right away if it's going to be one of those nights. We'll see. I don't know. I'm really pulling for that. Shoms Vegas, as it gets ready for this first of its kind tournament during the NBA season, how will it be? Do we have any insight on what to expect? Yeah, I think Lou called it like all-star. Like, I think it's going to go the other way. I think they're going to, I think the league is going to make it more like the NBA Finals. We're going to see NBA Finals light or whatever you want to call it, simulator of the NBA Finals, the media day on Friday. Danny's been a part of a ton of media days. I mean, I don't know how it's going to compare to an NBA Finals media day, like the attention that you get in whatever host city that the NBA Finals in, I don't know how it's going to compare in Vegas, but that's the only similarity you can make to it. It's Vegas. Yeah. It's Vegas. Bright lights. It's going to be amazing. The lights are going to be bright. Look, Twitter is usually a cesspool of garbage, but sometimes it's positive. So, we're going to show it. Get a Drusky. There you go. Shout out to Drusky. Adam Silver, getting love. I mean, look, a lot of us are, maybe we thought it was going to be a bad idea. We didn't know. Oh, yes. Yes, chef. Yes, chef. Could we have the answers in the tournament? The Bear Show. Yeah, it's so good. I love it. I like that one. That's a good one. He actually looks like Adam Silver. It just does, actually. Yep, that's good. Twitter approves. Some of us were wrong about this tournament. Pelicans, Kings. I think some of us predicted this one incorrectly. What happened? Kings lose. 127, 117. Well done, New Orleans. They move on to Vegas as well. Brandon Ingram finished with 38 and six. Herb Jones had 23 points and always want to check on the Aaron Fox, who threw in 30 points. Shoms, this wasn't close for a lot of it. So if you're taking away something for this Pelicans team, what is it? First of all, Zion Williamson last night, he says we can do something really special. The fact that he believes that, I think it's a good sign for them. When you watch this team, how has developed the last few weeks? The offensive balance throughout the roster, Zion Williamson only scores 10 points. But you get BI, he scores 30. Herb Jones, undrafted player, he scores 23. They have so much depth right now. And if these guys are all healthy, last year we saw before, Zion Williamson strained his hamstring. They were competing for a home court advantage in the Western Conference. Then he gets hurt. And their season just nose dives a little bit. But now these guys have been healthy. Can't remember the last time Ingram and Zion Williamson have played this cohesive, this long stretch of time that these two guys are on the floor. And Jose Alvarado comes in the game last night. I thought he completely changed the tone of the game. He has that GTA moment where he steals the ball in the front court, comes from behind. And to me, the way he changes the tone, he only has nine points. But they were down double digits. They got it to within one or two points to end the first quarter. And they never looked back. And so I agree with Zion Williamson. If the Pelicans are healthy, I think they're a legitimate threat in the first round of the playoffs if they make it. It's like the Aaron Foxx forgot what Alvarado does. He's right behind you the entire time. Look, he had 10 points in 28 minutes. Charles Barkley talked a little bit about his physical, what he saw. When he saw him out there, it doesn't seem to have the same explosiveness, although Barkley said it in a more Barkley-esque manner. Are you concerned at all? Not for me. The way that Brandon Ingram was playing, the way that CJ McCullum was playing, I think this is okay for him. It's going to take him some time to find his rhythm, get into a groove. This is a guy we hadn't seen playing 40 games in two years. And so to see anything positive from him, to see him consistently on the floor is a great start, especially when you got two guys that you can hand the ball to, and they can go get a bucket for you. And that pressure isn't on him for them to be there. But I saw some defensive plays that he made last night that were incredible, that he showed his athleticism. He hadn't played over the rim like we're used to him playing, but I think his presence has been felt. So I'm not that concerned about it. I'm not concerned at all. I think he's on the floor. That's the biggest thing. And he'll get back in playing shape, or Charles Barkley shape, that he expects him to be over time. So as long as he's available, I'm happy. And I think he needs to be their best player all around. I think BI needs to be their best offensive player and lead the charge on the offensive in the floor and scoring. But Zion, to defensively handle the ball, making plays and understanding and trusting their process or their system or how he's buying in, as he would say, is the biggest key. And he has to be their best player all around for them to succeed. All right. So I'm glad you said that because Ingram had the 30 points last night, but you're saying who is their best player right now? I think Zion is. But I think BI has to be their best offensive player for them. He's still trying to get back into his Zion shape, and it's going to take some time. What is Zion? I feel like a million dollar question. I mean, when we know to see him as explosive, he's been in the past. I think that's out. It's tough, but I think you can get there. I think he can get there. It's just going to take some time. But I think he needs to be their best player always. Right now, BI is playing as their best player. And offensively, he's leading the charge. So I think he needs to continue that for them to be successful. But as long as they stay healthy and he's available, Zion's available, they always have a chance. But the X factors for me on that team, Trey Murphy and Herb Jones. OK. Well, I'll see what he needs to get up. But hold on. Wait. You don't think Zion can get back to physical shape? No, I don't. But I don't think that's a bad thing. I think he's just getting older. He's getting more mature. Even though he's still a young guy, he's naturally going to be this big muscular kid. He's not old. No, not at all. I said he's getting older. Oh, who is it? Yeah.    You have to have a different type of discipline to get back to your younger self. And I don't think Lou trusts that in Zion right now. He's going to be 23. I was trying to dance around with him. I appreciate it. He's 23. He lives in New Orleans. The food is great. The willpower. We're not going to see a thinner version of him. Yeah, he has a willpower state where he's at right now. But to get back to the younger Zion. We've got to send him to a crappy food city. Yeah, but he has a chef. He has everything. There's no excuse. Listen, everybody has a chef. And your chef is going to cook whatever you take. He has the resources to do a lot of things. He has the resources to get really good or to get really bad. He really does. So that's kind of funny. It's all right. Okay, we'll keep an eye on that. There's some sound I want to play from Willie Green talking about the win. Here he is. High intensity game, fun to be a part of. I think the guys just relish these type of moments and it's experience for us more than anything. So we can lean on these experiences when we start to get down the stretch, when we face adversity, things like that. And, you know, we love these moments. I mean, I don't know how many of these moments. Yeah, it's a young team and he's talking about it like the experience. That's valuable, right? It has to be. I think atmosphere-wise, yes, they can draw on that experience. Playoffs is a different beast. I'm almost positive none of these teams in the end-season tournament were going into it trying to take away an option, trying to do the things that you're accustomed to in a playoff atmosphere, in the real one. In the playoffs, you're going to have to play half-core basketball. You're going to have to do something different than what's been your calling card throughout the season in order for you to be successful. I think these games are fun and they're exciting. The playoffs is still a completely different thing for me. For sure. It's definitely chess in the playoffs. This is more of a fun NCAA-like tournament. Yes.  It's still regular season. So they're not looking at these teams or we have to play them in a seven-game series. And what do we want to take it? When we start with what things we're going to adjust to, it's a one-game, one-and-done type situation. So it's not like a, you know, who can play off who or read off what they have to game one and two. So it's very different, but it is a small taste of what it can be like atmospheric, like for certain cities. But it's way different animal than the playoffs. Pelicans have now beaten the Kings three times this season. I love when this happens where it just seems like one team has another team's number. Is this that case? We're looking at one of these right now? I think so because realistically, Sacramento, I think, when I look at it, I think they're the better team. Right. It's just, for some reason, it doesn't add up to why they can't beat New Orleans. New Orleans is very up and down, hot and cold, and sometimes healthy, sometimes they're not. They play well.  But some nights you're like, oh, this team could actually make a run. But for Sacramento to be one of the top teams in the West, in my opinion, and be able to beat, like, the Golden State Warriors consistently or to beat, you know, the Lakers or, you know, beat some top teams in the West and then lose to New Orleans, it just shows that some teams just have your number. What's a team that you remember that had a number of a team you were on? Man. I played on a lot of different teams. Fair. I can't say one team or the other. I don't. It said I have to go really back far. To the archives. Because it's just different. But I do remember there's like, there's little brother, big brother moments. Yeah. There was a time when I was in San Antonio, we were the big brother of Golden State. Yes. And at a point, you know, younger brother gets better than the older brother. You know, I guess another analogy would be Marcosol-Palcosol. Yeah. No, that's fair. At a point, you know, big brother's going to handle the brother.  So he's going to, you know, eventually get better. By the way, San Antonio, I feel like also had that with Memphis sometimes. For sure. I'm like, what's happened? For sure. It's refreshing to hear San Antonio again in here, by the way. Lou, just because you're in a good mood for one day. We were a heavy San Antonio group. It's a process. I already know. It is a process and we're being patient. Well, so I went back to San Antonio days. I know she'd appreciate it. Oh, God. All right, Tray Murphy, we could talk about him. Look, his second game back, he had the off-season knee injury. He had 16 points and you already mentioned him that he is one of the X factors. What do you expect to see more of from him? I don't know if they'll continue to bring him off the bench, but the way Herb Jones played last night, you know, he's been a very key factor as well. But those two guys, they're three in D-wings. They give them a different type of look. You know, CJ and BI can score the ball, Zion can play point forward and also play a little bit of defense. But these guys are the ones that stretch the defense and also defend and they lead the charge on the wings with guarding the bigger guards, the Kevin Durantz, the LeBron James that they're going to see in the playoffs, the Jamal Murray. You're going to see Herb Jones get thrown on them or Tray Murphy, you know, bigger, long athletic guards to affect those smaller guards' shots. So these guys are not only key for them offensively but defensively because they're the ones that are going to be leading the charge on that end of the floor. Can we just... I love Mike Brown. Took a little bit of time in his pregame presser and wanted to sort of scold the media because they're not talking enough about De'Aaron Fox as a potential MVP. I mean, in fairness, it's the beginning of December. But... It's very early. It's very early. Do you agree, though? Is he on that list? I'd like to see how long this list is. You know, this... This early is probably a really long list. Really long list. Yeah, I mean, this Sacramento team is sitting at fifth in the West for him to be a constant part of that conversation. He got to get them in that top three. And I mean, it's not great for them to get knocked out on that home court for this end-season tournament to have, you know, somewhat of a rent for that to happen. And so on the list, sure. But I would like to see how long that list is. Agreed. And I think a lot of times what we do as people, as players and coaches, we try to put together the full body of work into one season. You know, we can't count. Obviously, he was the most clutch player last season. He had a great season, all of last year in the end of season. But you can't add that with this season.  If you put them together, yeah, he's definitely an MVP conversation. But this season is different from last season. It's a regular season award. And so far, there's a lot of guys on that list that's playing very well in the regular season. Demona Sabonis had, you know, 26 points, 13 rebounds, 10 assists. I would... I will say this personally. I think the Sacramento Kings are the team. I most hear the question, can they beat and then fill in the blank? Like, are they good enough to do this, this, and this? And so I wonder if they're missing something. I don't think so. I think they have enough. Maybe defensively, at moments, they have some lapses, but they have the depth, they have the scoring power, they have, you know, the coaching. They have the star power with, you know, Fox and Sabonis. So I think they have enough to get it done. And they were right there on the brink of it last year playing Golden State. It was just a more experienced, more mature team that got them. I think if, you know, it's strange how playoffs match up, because I think if that season, that series ends up differently, it may end up differently for the Lakers, because I honestly think Sacramento would have been a tougher matchup for the Lakers in the next series. So strangely enough, I think, I think they have enough. I don't think they have anything missing. I don't see them making any moves before the deadline. Right. But defensively, they need to tweak some things. Better match up for the Pelicans, Sons or Lakers? Neither way is an easy route. Neither way is an easy route. But listen, the Pelicans played really well last night. I'm excited to see Sons, Lakers tonight. But if I'm going to pick one, I'm probably going to say the Lakers. The Sons, D-Book and KD, they've been playing at a high, high clip. And, you know, this Lakers team can also be hot and cold at times. And so I'm going to say the Lakers will probably be a better matchup for them if they want to get to the next round. I think either one of these teams are an easy route. Yeah, I hope not. I'm going to go with the Sons. It all depends on AD. I don't want to see a aggressive... Can you elaborate on AD? Because we have these debates about AD, like for sure, we just don't feel his presence. No, AD, and I think this year he's done a better job of you don't see it in the numbers on the stat sheet as much, especially offensively. But defensively, he's carrying that what he did last year at the end of the season of protecting the paint. And if I'm the Pelicans, I don't want to be bothered by AD's room protection. I don't want to be bothered by AD's room protection. I think Phoenix has, you know, not as good defensively. So I think if you want to score, you want to be able to chance to beat a team or be effective the way Zion is, the way Valentunus is at the room last night, I think you don't want to play against Anthony Davis when he's playing his best basketball. Yeah, if you get a hot Anthony Davis night. You never know. You never know. That's the beauty of the system. Take it a quick break. When we come back, we've got some shams, scoops, they always rank their top five shooters. Run it back. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. I love this part. Shams, scoops and Austin Reeves. Oh, got himself a little deal or at least extended it. What's going on? Yeah, it's never a dull moment. Austin Reeves gets a new contract in Lakerland. But he had a multi-year deal with this Chinese shoe company, Rigor, last summer, seven figures per year. Two months into this NBA season, him and his reps, they rip up that contract. He signed a new extension with Rigor that now includes part ownership. He's going to be a shareholder with the company. He's dropping new shoes on Friday. So for Austin Reeves, we know what he's done this season with the Lakers. He's taken, I think, a step last year in the playoffs. You know, was a star, maybe a third star on different nights. But now as a shoe brand, has his own signature shoe line with the Chinese shoe company, Rigor. Oh, I'm not going to just let that pass. You ever heard of Rigor? No, I have not. But I mean... Seven figures, seven figures. It is. It's a great deal. A smart deal. Nobody wants to make that magic, Johnson. Oh, don't say it, say it! Nobody wants to make that mistake when I get, you know, steak in the company. So it could be a big deal in the future. We never know. I never heard of it, but I'm sure we'll hear of it 20 years from now. It might be one of the biggest sneaker companies in China. He might be the pioneer in on the ground floor of this company. For all we know, they're the biggest company and we're just ignorant. That's probably more likely. But we have talked about the Austin Reeves situation in the year 2023. Obviously he got the deal. Now he's coming off the bench. Do you think this is a good move for him? I think it's a good move for them. For the Lakers. With the ball handling, D'Angelo, Russell, you got LeBron James on the ball. You don't need too many guys on the ball in the first unit. I think this gives him more freedom. It gives him a spark off the bench. Another aggressor offensively off the bench. So it's better for him. Yes, he can pick and choose and have more opportunities for his spots. And it's better for their team collectively. So it seems to be working out. And I'm assuming they're going to keep it going from hearing out until things seem broken. It's not affecting his other money. So clearly everything is good in Austin Reeves Land. Shams, is it snowing in Chicago yet? It is. We got a couple layers of snow today, but it's all good.  I was kind of kidding. Oh my God, I love it so much. Bring some. All right, we will see you bright and early tomorrow. Appreciate you. And since we have Danny here, it's what better time than a rank of a situation. 40% from free for his career. So we thought, why not? Top five shooters. It seems pretty logical. So, Danny, you're first. Your top five. It's hard to rank shooters and scorers. So my number five, I'm going to go, and I gave this kid a lot of slack, Tyrese Maxie. The scout report on him when he first came to the league was, you know, go under. You know, you can't, he's not a great shooter because he's so fast. You don't want to let him get to the rim. But the last couple of years, he's been shooting at a high clip, 40 to 42%. The last couple of years. So I'm going to put him at number five. I like it. That's one of my top five young guys shooting because most scorers don't shoot well from three. They usually shoot under 40. Gotcha. Even Book is a great scorer, a great shooter, but I don't think he's ever gotten to 40 from three in his career, interestingly enough. But yeah, most scorers don't shoot from three. Tyrese, I think is one of those guys that's going to be a scorer that still shoots really well from three. All right, Tyrese. Number four, Desmond Bain, another guy. He's been shooting at a high clip since he's been in the league. 42, 43%. You can, you know, count it. You can put it. You can scratch him in for that each year. And he's been happy to carry away, even though Memphis has not been playing well this year. He's still scoring a high clip, you know, 25 to 30 points for them. And he still shoots 40 plus from three. All right. I like that. Number three, Clay Thompson. He's a forever going to be in the top five. Regardless of how much he's struggling or not. Forever. Forever, as long as he's playing, he's going to be in that top five for me in the league and in history. He's one of the top five shooters in the history of the game. You cannot have him not in the top three while he's an active player in the top five shooters in the league. I like seeing that. So number two, Damian Lillert, another one. A scorer shoots at a high clip from three and, you know, him and Steph are just in the league of their own from the range they shoot from. And of course, number one is Steph. So these two guys, you know, go hand in hand. You can't go wrong with either one of them, which how they shoot with off the dribble, off the catch and multiple various ways, but they shoot a 40 clip and a high volume as well. If somebody didn't have Steph at one, I think we couldn't take the list seriously. But that's not a pressure on you to tell us your list now. Top five. I think Danny's a percentages guy. For sure. He went with the numbers. See me, I'm just a, I'm a bucket. You know what I'm saying? So I'm thinking in terms of if I got one shot, who do I want to give this basketball to to win me a basketball game? So at number five, Luca Dunchich is at my five spot. It was a stretch when I was playing for the Clippers. We literally had to guard this guy before he crossed half court because of the range. He gave you guys struggles though. Yeah, he gave us. He had a thing with the Clippers. I don't know why, but he had a thing. He has the number. I think once the cover was pulled off of us and he realized that he could take advantage of a few scenarios, it began to get a little difficult for us. So Luca at five, for me, number four, I'm going with Devin Booker. Who has a prettier jump shot than Devin Booker? Who's more consistent in the mid range than Devin Booker? Super smooth, consistent. Within the three point range, this guy can totally shoot the basketball. At number three, I'm also going with Damian Lillard. Ranging consistency. This is another guy that you have to guard as soon as you get out of his car at the arena. You know, he just has the range where he can shoot the ball from anywhere. He's always going to be a threat. Number two, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. It's Clay Thompson. For sure. He's one of the best shooters in the world. I'm giving Clay Thompson number two based on the body of work, the things that he's done over the course of his career. I don't care that he's struggling right now. He's the second best shooter in his league. And obviously, it's his brother, the Splash Brothers. Steph Curry. There you go. Splash. He got notes. I don't even have to elaborate on that. Steph Curry is the best shooter in the world. I kind of love that Clay Thompson's earned enough equity that he will be on the list regardless. That's a respect.  I mean, it varies year to year. There's always a couple of guys that I believe of. And Book was one of them. Katie, he was shooting at 50. I had Katie there too. Katie was up there, it's the earliest season, like 57 at one point. There's a couple of guys that had to leave off. And there's also guys that don't get the recognition that shoot very well. Malik Beasley and Milwaukee shooting very well. There's always Luke Canard, who shoots very well from three. There's a bunch of guys. I go by numbers. You go, yeah. It's percentages.  There's always some of those guys that don't play a lot of minutes or get the notoriety that I think can change the game. And you know, you see in Dallas, there's a couple of guys there that can change the game.  Oh, yeah? They can shoot it very well. And even though Steph is number one, Steph has a really good career percentage as well. That's right. The numbers. Wait, is there anything, because everyone knows Clay, obviously with the struggles and whatnot. Could he turn it on and have him above game? Oh, it takes his one. Absolutely. Yeah, okay. All it takes is one. One game, one shot. Yeah. For shooters, you get one shot. If you get one that gets you high and then one game to get your confidence back. It's where you're not thinking about it and getting in rhythm. But that's just the life of a Hooper and of a shooter. It's part of it. By the way, the fact that you were writing the entire time, like a lawyer in court was quite interesting. It's a professional. It's my style. Yeah, just every time. It's my style. You can possibly be writing right that. All right, so we got some guys that were left off and maybe next time we'll make a game both though. All right. Time for another edition of Say What after this break. Run it up. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. You know, I'm looking forward to his first game whenever he's cleared and whenever he's ready to have his first game. I already told my teammates that if they play on the same day we play and then I might have to catch them next game. So, yeah, I told y'all I told y'all I'm gonna play. Family over everything, champs. So, like y'all, if I could definitely got to see Bronny's first, you know, his college game whenever he's cleared and ready to go. Yeah, I told y'all on the plane, remember? That's my favorite part. Nobody has a problem with this, right? This is totally acceptable. He's definitely earned that. You know, his sons, his sons' first colleague is going to play his son's first college game on top of the adversity that he's been through, how hard he's had to work to get back on the basketball court. I think everybody is perfectly fine with that. I'm actually looking forward to seeing this as well. So, this is not a problem at all. Same. We're all fans of the game, but I think Bronny is such a workaholic when he, I don't think he believed himself when he was saying it. As you can see it in his face. So, you don't think he will actually do it? I don't know if he'll actually do it, but he loves to compete himself. He loves to play. He's going to try to do both if he can. Somehow he's going to try to attend the game and then go to his game if he can do that. Oh, man. So, yeah, that's what he does. But as a fan, we're all, everybody's looking forward to Bronny being back on the court. I'm not surprised now that he said this publicly. It might get rigged up to his liking. Oh. The scheduling sort of changes last minute. He has that type of pool. Everybody. I kind of like that, actually, if that happens. Yeah, good. We're all in agreement there. John Sully had some words on LeBron saying, I think he can play as long as Tom Brady until he's 45. 45, though, huh? You played with him. Can he do it until 45? I'm a big believer in... no. I don't think you could be father time. Absolutely not. And I didn't think that he would make it to playing with Bronny. But the way he's playing this year and how fresh he looks, he looked better than last year to me. So I think he'll be able to play with Bronny, but another 60... because he's going to turn into 39, he's going to play. I just don't see it. But the way he's really making me a believer each year, each game, each month of how fresh and how he's chasing down blocking dunks, chasing down blocks, dunking the ball, having five or six dunks in a game, which is unbelievable. I'm like, man, he looks young again. I don't know how he's going... he's beating father time right now. But another five years, I think father time is going to get another two or so. That's a long time. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it does. No, five years is a long time. Yes, that's fun. Jordan Hawkins said the following, anybody has the ability to become a 40% three-point shooter. Yeah, Danny. That'll get you on any team in the league. Just shooting the ball and defending. All that dribbling is cool, but I just keep it simple. A 40% shooter will get you on any team. Yeah, right? I feel like what's happening here? No, I agree. I agree with him. I don't know if he should have threw a shot at the dribblers in the league. The ballhandlers, he really exposed not his cup of tea. Fair. No, I agree with this take. If you're a 40% guy, you're going to get an opportunity in this league. Shooting is at a premium. You know, teams are always looking for a guy that they can throw out on the floor that can go make shots to them. So I agree with this take. I agree that you have an opportunity, but I don't agree that anybody can be a 40%. Right. It's not, some guys, as much as hard as they work at it, they just may not have the touch. They may not have the shooting. They may have the footwork and agility and, you know, hand-eye coordination and the IQ to be able to read people's rhythms and chemistry to play defense. Some people can work at it really hard at a long time, a lot of hours and still not be great at it. So I don't think anybody can do it, but to his point, a lot of guys are capable of being a role player and doing or being great at what they're good at and get an opportunity to play in this league. Tribbling is the hard part of talking about the wizard's struggles. This is, we can't guard a stop sign. That's kind of really what it boils down to. We let anybody get whatever they want on us. So until we change that, then that's probably going to be the result. I don't disagree with them. Who's at fault here? I mean, they need some leadership and I think this is him trying to be a leader and trying to set a fire under them or light a fire under them. There's other ways to go about it. I don't think this is wrong. I'm not going to say wrong or right, I'm going to say something and let them know. They are lacking some veteran leadership. They're lacking a lot of things. I could see them being one of the teams that makes some moves because right now I expected them to be a lot better. I think that the world expected, not a lot better but better for sure. We expected more from their two guys and they're doing what they can but they said they're just lacking that leadership. That's the only way I can put it. I mean, he's been a part of some of those Jordan Poole experience moments though where they're just doing their best. This is the question of the day and I've just been waiting to get to this loop. Anthony Edwards said he thinks he might be the first NBA player to play also in the NFL. Now, of course, he said he wants to win an NBA championship first but is it going to happen? Hell no. Why? Listen, just imagine an NBA player saying he's going to wake up and I'm just going to go play football. So I would like to hear more context of what he meant by this. You know, maybe if he's saying I'm going to train, I'm going to do what's appropriate to try to get myself. Let's say he's going to train. Train however many months you want. I'm still saying no. I'm still saying no. You just have to be built for it. I think when we train we are big guys. We are muscular guys. We are in shape but we're in shape to do something completely different than play NFL football. So no, Ant-Man. Hell no. You can't play in the NFL. I'm a dream killer.  Come on. I think we are able to adapt and adjust other sports better than other professional sports. But to be a professional I think you can try but you have to put your 10,000 hours in. And I don't think this is going to happen overnight. I don't think six months or a year is going to where you can just change and transfer over to be another professional athlete or another professional sport player. I think it would take some time. But it would be interesting to watch. I'm obsessed with this. I would think it would be a lot of fun for other sports to be able to change sports if they can. We just don't see it anymore. And with Deon Sanders doing back in the day when Mike went to baseball and we had a couple guys playing sports. These guys are unicorns. Yeah. You don't have that anymore. You don't have any more. Because we had Travis Kelsey on the show and he and Chandler said he could walk in the NFL and get things done and Travis Kelsey no chance. But then I'm thinking he could walk into the NFL and get a touch down. What a strong one that's. What's wrong with us. What's wrong with us. It's not. It's the world blue. You know a lot of the world is delusional. On the basketball court, he plays at his own place. He's smooth. You got three seconds to make a play in the NFL. It's a different type of speed. Obviously, our game moves fast. Their game moves fast, too, especially when you don't know what you're doing, and you haven't done it 10,000 hours, and you're not a professional at it.  It takes a while for you to adapt and adjust to it. I'm just thinking. I can't imagine a guy just going to another sport and how fast that game seems for them. Listen, as freakishly athletic as DK Metcalf is, if he woke up today and said, I can go play in the NBA, every single NBA player would be offended. For sure. Every single one of us would be offended, and we would make it a point to make it miserable for him to even think that. So for us to think that we're going to flip-flop and go do something that's way more physical, we have a flop rule in the NBA. No, I know. If we get pressed at the line, we're not going to fight through that and still run our route. We're going to be looking at the referee swan the flag. Did you see that? Yes, it's not happening. This is always the great debate of every sport and every barbershop. We love talking about it, and it's going to be until it happens again, because we've seen in the past other players change their sports. People always going to debate whether they can box, whether they can play baseball, whether they can swim. Oh, this guy can go here. It's going to forever be a debate until it happens. And I think it might be one of the first ones to let us see what happens if we change the sport. Well, he said he wants to win a championship first. So first things first. Let's get that accomplished. I'm going to take some time.  All right, tell me one player in the league, because now I'm just stuck down this rabbit hole. Who's going to hit the hardest in the NBA? Who would hit the hardest right now, if needed? Isaiah Stewart. Isaiah Stewart. No! He's proven he's about that line. I love that. OK, so we got that. We like a little contact. That's going to be the next example when we try to figure out how to stick someone in the NFL. This topic is one of my favorites to do. We can do it every day. But we'll move on. Darvin Ham said, trying to contain Tyrese Maxie is like trying to contain a Lamborghini. Hmm, is this accurate? Very close, yes. He's very fast.  He's not just a fast player. He's athletic. He's explosive. But he knows the game. He understands the game. And now the fact that he can shoot, it makes it that much harder to guard him. Because you can't just go under screens. You can't give him space or cushion. You have to guard him out there. That's the reason why Trey is one of the hardest players to guard in this league as well. Because he can shoot from far out. And he's very fast. So you have to come up with schemes, whether to double them or different types of schemes on the pick and roll of how to guard them. Because they're so quick and smart and can shoot the ball from deep range. Where are we raking Lamborghinis on the sports car list? That's pretty high. I'm not much of a sports car type of guy. We need them, but I'd say it's probably top three. Top three? Most money I've wasted in my life are sports cars. Wasted? Didn't you not enjoy them when you had them? I just don't enjoy them. The engines are too loud. They're a little small on the inside. It's just it's not a very pleasurable thing for me personally. I don't think I've ever disagreed with one of your takes more in my entire life. Oh, you're an engine. The engine's too loud. Yeah, in the Lamborghini, your engine is literally behind your. That means it's an amazing car. American muscle, huh? I'm not American. I'm in the music. I want to hear my music. Oh, that's fair. I'm a cruiser. I listen to sports talk like every cool person does. Oh, take a quick break here. When we come back, we will preview the next two games happening tonight. We got games tonight. The second games of this entire beautiful process. So we've got Suns, Lakers, and Lakers won the West Group. They were 4-0. Suns were 3-1. Got the wild card. There are so many stars in this game. It's kind of silly, but let's just for the sake of it. LeBron, AD, KD, Booker, best player that's going to be on that floor tonight is who?  I think he's been the healthiest this year, the most available, and he's its most consistent. Book, obviously, is always at a high level, but he's been in and out of line-up, so I'm KD. Been in and out of line-up. AD as well. Offensively, inconsistency is here and there, but defensively, he's been great. But I'm going to go with LeBron. LeBron has been playing it. So he looks fresher than to me than he was last year, which is unbelievable. And he's playing at another level that I haven't seen. We haven't seen anybody do it at this age, so. We haven't seen what LeBron's been doing at this age. Extremely impressive.  But pre-injury, Kevin Durant was the best player in the NBA. And so among these four, Kevin Durant is the guy. All right, are those your keys as well, or do you have keys that we should be looking out for that maybe no one's thinking about? You know, honestly, I don't have a key. I'm excited to watch this game. Same. I'm just excited to watch it. I do have a key. I think AD is the key for the Lakers. He's the puzzle. Oh, Lakers, he's the key. For Phoenix, I also think Nurkic, because in that matchup, you know, if Nurkic can handle or contain AD, if he plays defensively, protect the paint for them, protect the rim. So I think the big man matchup is the key for this game. But I think, for some reason, I got the Lakers. I think the Lakers, in season tournament, they've been playing at another level. They've been playing very well. It's something about that in-season tournament hasn't played at a very good playoff-like type of chemistry and winning some games. Do you agree, Lakers, tonight? Prediction time. I'd go against the Grand. I like the Sun. I do like the Suns. I think the Suns is a better team, but in season tournament, Lakers have been playing really well during that time. The value of a LeBron James buying into the in-season tournament for everyone to see, that has to be critical to the league. LeBron is a fan of the game. He watched last night. He's seeing the excitement. He's on social media. He's seeing how the fans are reacting. He's going to come out and try to win this basketball game. But I think all of these guys are. I think we're all in at this point. So it'd be exciting to watch. Well, the other game, of course, is Knicks, Bucks. I really just simply, who's winning tonight? That's all I want to know. Milwaukee. For sure. I got the Knicks. I got the Knicks sneaking them. I got the Knicks sneaking them. Last night, we saw Sacramento get upset and Boston. So I think this is the tournament of the upsets. And I'm going to go with the Knicks. And I'm going to see, I guess, Knicks-Lakers matchup. I think that's how it happens. Oh, in the end? Yeah. No, the next one would be Knicks would play the Pacers or the Bucks. I always lean on star power. So Jalen Brunson. Yeah, Jalen Brunson is a star. However, he's not a Dame Lillard star at this point of his career. I got the Lakers in the finals. And Indiana. Oh, I love this. OK, that's going to be fun. We'll get your predictions tomorrow. Everybody else's. That's going to do it for us today. We'll be back tomorrow.