And it was k D.

The Slim Reaper from the top of the key off a rebound from harden toe ice.

The victory for the Nets.

Jalen, I know you're watching every second of this one.

What did you see?

Dio.

See what I see?

Do you hear what I hear?

Jacoby.

We have must see TV each night league past Eastern standard time.

These guys have made themselves the proverbial villain in sports.

K D left the Splash Brothers and is returning from an Achilles injury.

Put him in a conversations of top player in the game Already.

James Harden back to back triple doubles on a new squad.

It's a pecking order We got going on in the East, and they did it against the Bucks.

They did it against the Bucks.

James Harden is putting up elite level numbers.

His first couple of games.

He really is.

He did not quite reach a triple double, but he's almost a triple double.

Last night looked so good to see him in that black as the true villains of the MBA creating this super team.

I'm not gonna overreact toe one regular season game in January against the Bucks.

Oh, wait.

Yes, I am.

Yes, I am.

This is the team to beat in the East and against these bucks so they may meet in the playoffs, perhaps the Eastern Conference finals.

It's notable to see how they defended Yanis.

Something that you notice is, well, what do you see about how they went at Yanis on the defensive end?

So that's classic mental manipulation.

That's not just about Yanis percentages or his ability or inability to shoot the ball, because if that was ah, point guard or a wing, you went back off of them like that.

But based on the geometry of the floor, since Johannes plays a lot of four or point center with Lopez in the center in the corner now you're basically saying we want your big man to come down and shoot it from 30 ft each time and we're gonna play those percentages.

And so everybody stands back and watches because you know you're gonna make all of his dunks.

And I remember he made a strong duck in the first half.

I saw the Nets bench in the back, like whatever dog, you really going to celebrate like that?

I know James Harden was like, Yeah, I remember.

I told y'all when I was in Houston that he was just getting dunks.

So they're trying to mentally manipulate the back to back M v P.

So what Yonas needs to do Jacoby is continue to play with pace and continue to play with force.

If they're gonna give you that space, you occupy it.

That's what you do.

If you don't wanna walk into a three, then you take up that space and you turn that until downhill play and or into a pull up jumper.

But you know what else you could dio dribble, handoff?

It could be other action passes, quick screen aways.

So now that Middleton can turn the corner, they tried it with forms.

A couple of times, he just missed the shot.

So for the Milwaukee Bucks, there's so many things offensively they could do to take advantage of a team like the Nets.

That's gonna try toe force, you honest toe shoot all three pointers.

But they're also things he could do as a player to continue to attack and take up that space and then also made DeAndre Jordan work, who had a double double, was catching lobs and ended up being a game changing player along with Joe Harris for the Nets.

DeAndre Jordan shoots 1000% from the field in, like, 10 of 12 games thus far.

But one thing to note about DeAndre Jordan.

You know I love Jerry down.

I'm gonna miss him on these Nets.

Is he played over 37 minutes last night, and I don't know if that is a recipe moving forward night after night after night.

Now, one thing I do want to pay attention to is just what James Harden brings this offense.

He is like the sun.

He has a gravitational pull towards him, Like they just doubling, tripling.

They leave Katie wide open for a junk.

That's Kevin Durant wide open for Duncan that at the end of the game, everyone's focused on Harden.

That leaves Katie again.

One of the best scores has ever held in basketball wide open, 43 His assistant is just gonna go up.

He that gravitational pull that he brings his offense is gonna make those dunks that you saw from down in Jordan.

The open threes from Joe Harris, who hit a big one at the end of the game.

And I cannot believe this, but Kevin Durant gets left open from defense's theory.

Elephant in the room is actually not that big.

He's actually kind of small, and it is a gentleman by the name of Kyrie Irving.

We have some new information as to his whereabouts in just hours.

Kyrie Irving is going to play MBA basketball.

That's right.

He's expected to join Nets practice today, just right in front of a back to backer.

A doubleheader, I should say, not a back to back against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Sounds like a good backcourt that potentially they could mix it up against Jalen.

What does Kyrie Irving have to do when he steps in this locker room to re establish himself in this new look?

Nets?

Well, there's the score of the game in the game of life, and I do wanna acknowledge him purchasing a home for the family of George Floyd, the gentleman who was killed at the knee of an officer in Minnesota for eight minutes and 46 seconds for Kyrie to do that in the charitable things that he's been done have been very notable as he returns to this basketball team in that locker room.

Pieces on the chessboard have changed your Kobe because at first he was the lead domino K D was coming off in Achilles injury and somebody needed to sign on the dotted line that hold it down and create an incubator for K D to return and be working on building something special.

Que de kyrie signs que de signs.

And then, all of a sudden, Kyrie goes out with personal reasons in a trade for James Harden, somebody Katie has played with before and also is gonna be, ah, high volume assist player, flirt with triple doubles and get his numbers different, then Kyrie, which actually doesn't mean they have to necessarily take turns.

I know a lot of the players that they did weren't like assisted toward one another, but like you broke down, there are a couple of plays where they concentrated so much.

Oh, hard that K D was wide open and then Katie got a late three.

Also, Kyrie usedto having that thing in his hands to Kobe and he ain't necessarily used to being a spot of player or a player that's gonna do a lot of cutting.

So will they make it work?

Absolutely, absolutely.