We give you the stats you buy or sell whether you think those trends will continue.

So first up is Joel Embiid shooting a career high 54% from the field this season.

It's kind of surprising.

He's never shot 50% from the field in his career.

That shocking, right?

I would have never guessed that.

So, Paul, do you buy or sell and bead finishing above 50% this season?

I'm buying it.

His looks like he's in the best shape of his life.

He had a nutritionist.

Hey, is out here bawling and she'll be in the M V P conversation.

Yes, Joel, and be surprisingly, should be over 50% for a career.

But I truly believe he will this year.

Surprisingly, Joel, when I see you.

And now that I know that I'm gonna be on you, brother, you cannot be that dominant of a score shooting in the 40 percentile.

I'm sorry.

I'm not having it.

So he better stay above 50 this year dot Call me if you need, because I'll come out there and get after him.

This dude is a monster and he's got the skill level.

Yeah, there's no reason he shouldn't have get for the rest of his career being over the top of 50% with that kind of skill set and that ability.

Now I know he shoots threes and mixes up his game like that, but still, even with that being said, he should be, Ah, higher percentage player from that I was surprised.

He is very surprised he is now, and he does have the best quote of all time about shooting.

He said that when he was growing up very far from the N B A and wanted to learn how to shoot better, um, and shoot for more distance, he said that he went to YouTube and put in white guys shooting three.

He just learned from there, even though he wasn't getting the game on a day to day basis.

There you go.

Next up.

Nikolai Yokich, who is currently averaging a triple double on Lee Russell Westbrook and Oscar Robertson, have ever done that over a full season.

But as we discussed in the last segment game, never seen a guy quite like Yokich.

So do you buy or sell Coach Yokich averaging a triple double.

I'm buying it because I want to see it.

E.

I changed my answer because I think it's so hard, especially for big, just not normal.

He's not normal, and I just have to accept that this guy is special.

The way he moves the ball, the way he sees the game, Look at the placement of his passes.

LeBron is one of the only few guys that I saw that I've seen in my life.

Put the ball right there.

He always puts the ball right there.

From a timing standpoint, the scoring in the in, the rebounding is gonna be there.

Is Can you keep the assists at that level?

And I just think this would be awesome if he pulls it off.

So I am buying it.

Look how much higher his paces than will, though.

Sign me up.

I'm buying your way.

He calls is so much attention when he gets the ball.

If you noticed that every time he got the ball in post, he got double team, he got guys cutting.

He has shooters, then what's the most surprising thing his ability to get the rebound and push it, You know, for a center and make plays because there's no other center in the league right now that can do that.

That you could get the rebound pushing full court and give you the pass right on the Don for for a layup.

And so in the way they run their offense threw him to the high post in the half court, the way he could make them balance past for cutters.

I'm buying.

Hey, by the way, we was talking about it on the break.

He got a few guys paid in off season that they lost.

By the way, I think it's like three guys be easily.

Grant and Craig all ended up doing very well in the free agent market, and a lot of that had to do with having that unselfish big that gets that ball Where Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

And he also, you can see, has been really dedicated to the training regimen that he picked up in the break before the bubble.

He's now walking around telling other people on the team, he told Tim Conley, he said, You can't eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Sugar that's bad for you, which is pretty amazing.

I think if you're Michael Malone, you're pretty excited to hear that.

He's the one who's monitoring other people.

Eating habits.

Um, lastly, New York Knicks.

They're relying on their young guys at the moment is.

Obviously you are intimately familiar with R J.

Barrett leading the league with almost 38 minutes per game.

His teammate Julius Randle third with 37 minutes a night.

Do you buy or self?

Is them carrying this type of load for the Knicks?

You know them better than anyone.

I'm buying.

Those guys in great condition come, aren't they?

Barrett's like 14 years old.

He don't get tired.

They gave me crap for this.

When I was in New York, the press was like, Oh, you're playing RJ so many minutes.

I'm like he's 12 thes guys, they're young.

They're having success with those two guys on the floor together.

They're gonna need them on the floor to take that big jump man.

Latrell Sprewell play like 42 minutes a night for like, three seasons.

So I think sometimes we get a little too much with the minutes minutes management, Let me tell you something.

Coach.

This man has have nothing to do with their conditioning going because the coach tips.

But there could allow that.

Yeah, they will.

Yeah, these guys air conditioning.

Heywood.

Nobody out here playing seven.

But you know what?

Here's an important point, I think, Paul, that's important for them to make this jump that they wanna make.

They're not playing to get to the end of June.

Like, you know, the Finals.

They're trying to get into the playoffs.

And so for them to make that jump, he's got yeah, So it's not like he's wearing them out for June.

So he's gonna play them out to get that team to take that big jump that they needed me.

Oh, that's the closing bell.

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