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  • All right, guys, it's crunch time here on the jump.

  • The Jazz have made at least 15 threes in 11 straight games.

  • That is a new MBA record.

  • Brian Can.

  • The Jazz continued the hot shooting tonight against the Hawks, though.

  • Yeah, I mean, this was one of the things that was just defined.

  • Their season so far is they become the best three point shooting team in the league.

  • It is fueled their top offense and top defense, and it's something that they're really relying on now.

  • It's not just, uh, you know, the notable guys.

  • Guys like Rice O Neill and, you know, and Bogdanovich have done so Well, this is gonna be huge for them going forward.

  • This shooting gets contagious.

  • You know, when you get on a team and everyone's hitting big shots, not just your star, guys, it gets contagious.

  • This team is gonna be a very tough out.

  • I don't see Atlanta stopping their hot shooting tonight, but there's gonna be a tough out come playoff time.

  • But could this be somewhere that Zach Lavine or Bradley Beal possibly land?

  • Wow.

  • Boom!

  • Matt Barnes, MBA insider.

  • Alright.

  • Dallas Mavericks snapping their six game losing streak by beating the Hawks last night.

  • They play.

  • The Wizards are sorry.

  • The Warriors tonight.

  • This will be the first of two games because they're also gonna be our ABC Saturday primetime games.

  • So, Matt, do you trust Dallas to keep the momentum going tonight?

  • It's a very quick turnaround for them with travel.

  • Um, yeah.

  • Like I said, they're still trying to find their footing.

  • You know, they've struggled this year with a lot of high expectations.

  • They haven't necessarily lived up to those I'm interested to see when they start finding their footing there.

  • Not too far out of the A spot right now.

  • So we'll see.

  • So a big thing for tonight Poor Zynga's is going to play in the back to back for the first time on the Warriors have no centers.

  • Uh, no.

  • Come on, Looney.

  • No.

  • James Wiseman due to injury, you would think that the Dallas Mavs We'll take advantage of that.

  • We will see.

  • Alright, guys, I wanna move over the blazers because they have ruled out Dame Lillard Derrick Jones Jr.

  • Not seen Sorry.

  • Nice your little tonight.

  • Sorry, Junior was gonna be someone else.

  • And that's confusing.

  • CJ McCollum use of mortgage Zach Collins, of course, already out with various injuries.

  • The whole point is this leaves Portland with nine available players tonight.

  • Brian.

  • Are they in trouble tonight in Philly?

  • This is tough.

  • Well, it's not like they're playing the great team.

  • It's, you know, should be an easy win Either way, right?

  • This'll looks like a white flag game to me if I've ever seen one.

  • This this'll looks just take your loss and move on.

  • Don't get anybody else hurt.

  • You should be able to Just when in situations like this you should be able to just say, you guys got this one, We'll see you next time.

  • Take the l were good.

  • And Portland, by the way, are Kevin Pelton pointing out earlier today that Portland already had a reduced roster.

  • They were carrying the smallest roster in the league because of certain personnel decisions they've made.

  • So this hits them even harder than a normal team.

  • Alright, as I want to get the All Star because the first round of fan voting was released today, let's take a closer look.

  • Beginning in the Eastern Conference, the fans are voting for Kyrie and Bradley Beal to start in the backcourt in the front court.

  • The fans are currently going with Katie Yannis and Joel Embiid to start.

  • K D leads all players in voting, by the way, like he never missed a beat.

  • Guys, now let's move over to the West.

  • Right now, the fans are picking Luca and Steph to start in the backcourt to go along with LeBron, Nikolai, Yokich and Kawai in the front court.

  • Two interesting things to note here.

  • First of all, LeBron leads all Western players, Western Conference players and voting and Clay Thompson guys 10th among West guards.

  • 99,000 votes despite not playing in a single game in the last two seasons.

  • I guess this shows how much Warriors fans love Clay.

  • Everyone loves Clay.

  • Let's not kid ourselves, Um, at first of all, the talent in the league right now is just absurd, which makes all star voting kind of fun and interesting.

  • For years, the Western Conference has been so much tougher, right?

  • A much tougher ticket to make the All Star team.

  • Is that still true, or is the East actually tougher this year?

  • What do you think?

  • I think it's much more balanced this year, to be honest with you, I mean, it's very top heavy, but you know everyone you listed on your list.

  • I saw your instagram post today.

  • I mean, everyone is deserving.

  • I think what's gonna come down there's gonna be tough on media and coaches because obviously the popular vote is going to get in.

  • But there's tons of guys like Zach Lavine, Devin Booker, guys that continue to get looked over.

  • That puts pressure on you guys and the coaches to get these guys in the game.

  • So the Eastern Conference is gonna be some disappointing folks, because if you look at it, there's just more good players than there are spots.

  • You know, Zach Lavine is deserving, but I think he's gonna be on the outside looking at Julius Randle.

  • Same way.

  • Gordon Hayward.

  • Same way.

  • Collin Sexton.

  • Same way.

  • It's just not gonna work.

  • I am glad, though.

  • Bradley Beal is leading all guards and by a healthy margin after last year, in my view, he was snubbed.

  • The fans are putting Bradley Beal into the game.

  • He's got 200,000 vote lead over Kyrie for the top guard spot.

  • I don't know if that will hold, I don't know if hard will overtake him.

  • Bradley Beal is getting in the game this year, but some of those guys in these and that's I'm leaving Jimmy Butler out because of he's been away.

  • Even with Jimmy Butler probably being out, it's too tight in the East.

  • There's gonna be a lot of snubs.

  • Yeah, I mean, that race on the East Side is tight for the forwards.

  • Front card, front court center position and then the West to Matt.

  • You mentioned the fans versus the media players coaches again.

  • The breakdown is fans vote for 50%.

  • In terms of who starts, players actually vote for 25% media votes for 25% percent.

  • And then the coaches picked the reserves in the West.

  • Matt.

  • Right now Nikolai Yokich is starting and Anthony Davis would be on the bench.

  • How would you vote in that race if you were voting right now?

  • That's tough.

  • I mean, a d is obviously great, but so is Yokich.

  • Um, but I would obviously give a d the edge me personally.

  • Plus they're just coming off a championship.

  • But, you know, it's tough, you know, like Brian said it.

  • It's loaded on both sides and you know, the games have been great of late, so I'm excited to see what this All Star Game is gonna bring us.

  • Brian, Where do you see the West shaking out in terms of that top front court?

  • Yeah, I would.

  • Nikolai Yokich deserves to be the starter.

  • I hope he has no offense.

  • Dady way.

  • We'll see.

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