What will you have your eye on in this game today?

I want to see how the Nets defense handles two big wing stars and Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown.

Because if there's one thing that makes it just a little nervous about the Nets is, are they gonna be able to get enough stops?

And who, other than K D do they have to guard those bigger wings that dominate the playoffs?

Historian Prince going to step up Jeff Green?

Are they gonna trend small and just try to get by?

But Nets defense is one of the biggest story lines of the season.

You know, Big perk.

I said all year.

If Katie is fully healthy, the Nets should be the favorites in the Eastern Conference.

I know it's only one game, but he looked awfully good in your mind.

Is Brooklyn Kendrick Perkins, the team to beat in the Eastern Conference this quickly?

Absolutely greeny.

Katie is back.

He looks Look, he looks 100% healthy.

He's back to being that elite scored that we once seen before his injury, and when you look at the Brooklyn Nets.

I don't care if Kyrie have been, you know, doing his sage and and sitting Indian style that don't even matter when he gets between those lines.

He's a walking bucket.

And then when you look at the others on the team DeAndre Jordan, Joe Harris, Darren Allen and, most importantly, Harris Laverty, I love the way that they're using him as 1/6 man of the sixth man off the bench.

He is a guy that could come in and give you 20 tonight.

And I love the make up of a team that got one of the deepest rosters in the NBA.

And I'm looking.

I'm with you.

Greeny.

The Brooklyn Nets are coming out of the East.

You know, we had a debate earlier this week.

Zack about about the pressure that is on them.

Do you feel like it's finals or bust for the Nets?

Year one.

You're one.

That's tough.

I mean, that's tough to be.

Finals Airbus winning.

We have to see how K D looks 30 40 games in, but I agree with you guys.

I think people slept on the Nets because of the soap opera aspects of the Instagram live.

This team is awesome.

There deep.

They could play a lot of different styles.

And if it's not finals or busted close because to me, they and the Bucks are the favorites in the East.

And we've seen what's happened to the Bucks in the last two playoffs, and we know what Katie does in the playoffs.

All right, so that's the Eastern Conference story today.

Let's go to the West in a fascinating match up again between the Lakers and the Mavericks.

Kendrick.

What's one thing you have your eye on in that game?

Anthony Marshawn Davis Jr And here's why the Dallas Mavericks do not have an answer for him in the inside, and I think Anthony Davis should have a monster night today on Christmas Day.

He's a generational talent greeny Who could dominate?

He got a post moves on east on each block, right?

A lip stole the dub book.

He could take you out, shoot the three point shot.

They don't have anybody to guard him, so he should have one of those will table in type nights and have one of those epic performances.

I'm keeping a close eye on Anthony Davis Zach.

I spent a very enjoyable hour at the beginning of this week reading your embassies in preview and you have the Lakers.

You put teams in tears and you have the Lakers on a tear all to themselves.

Why?

Why are they so much better in your mind than anybody else?

Well, they just rampaged through the bubble.

They got better.

They got a shot creator and Dennis shrewder, which is an ingredient they really needed to have.

I think Marcus Solo teacher says one more good year in A is a perfect fit with their starting five.

They could play big, but with shooting to clear the lane for LeBron and A D and greeny, the two teams that were supposed to challenge the Lakers, it was three contenders all year.

They were all equal.

The Clippers, the Bucks.

They fell on their faces in the playoffs.

And when that happens to you, you just gotta prove it.

And when the Lakers they don't have to prove anything, they already proved that the bubble was a tough adverse environment.

They rose up.

Those other teams fell on their faces.

Yeah, they got better through holidays of a huge edition.

Serge Ibaka is a perfect fit for the Clippers, but we got to see how those teams respond when someone hits him in the face in the playoffs.

We know how the Lakers responded already.

Meanwhile, Big Perk, the betting favorite for M V P this year, is Luca Dante.

I picked him myself, but I saw in the notes you have a concern.

What is your concern for Luca Don changes This season begins.

Well, Granny.

First of all, Luca is absolute stud.

I think he's a super.

He's is a superstar and he were in the M V P.

Probably not this season.

But I'm looking at Lucca right now and he needs to get in better shape.

I thought he would focus more on his body this offseason and come in a little, chills it up.

I understand he has a wag body.

Let me give you a definition of a whacked by the greenie.

It's a term that we use in the NBA for guys like myself.

Paul Pierce, Big Glenn Baby Davis that played the game.

No matter how hard you work, you could never get that six pack or get ripped up with some strong biceps, but you can't get in great shape.

And I think if Luca want to take that next jump and B that at least Superstorm be able to sustain it, he has to get in better shape.

In my opinion, yes, he has to be built less like Big Perk and more like Zach Lowe if he's gonna wind up winning an M.

V P.

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