I'm looking at Sorry, I'm looking at the rest of these cats, even if Jae crowder and all of these boys and I'm just saying to myself, Excuse me, the Phoenix Suns are coming best record in the NBA since late January.

15 of their last 18 games.

They've won.

They play defense, they go at it.

And I just love the fact that they're on the rise and they're doing what they're doing.

Because again, if they had been a team that had been there all of his time, Max, then it would not have been a big deal that they beat the Lakers.

But the fact that they're just now ascending from bubble play to now and you see them continuing to get better and better.

You see how exceptionally well coached they are?

You see how exceptionally exceptional of a defensive team they are?

You recognize the star?

That is Devin Booker because he is a star.

Make no mistake about it.

And I just love what I'm seeing right now.

Man, I'm just looking at these guys right here and ate.

And why?

By the way, he finished with 17 points this brother can play.

Big Boy could play, obviously was picked before Luca, Dante trade young and those boys.

And so we sit up there and look at him along with his injured history, and we say, What's what's the big deal?

But the brother can play, the brother can play.

And so I'm just happy with what I'm seeing right now, and I'm gonna give him props.

Were to do bunch of things based on what you just said.

First, Devin Booker gets ejected, and, by the way, Stephen a not just consideration for the fans, because if he deserves to be ejected, he deserves to be ejected.

But was that first whistle about?

And then after the game, they say, constant complaining.

You tee him up for That's basically nothing.

And then he directed something that an official they didn't like to whistles and you're out.

Come on.

But at that time, so we're on the same page about that.

But at that time, the sons had a lead like they were controlling the game and they had a lead.

I think they were up like seven.

We're talking about the third quarter.

It's not like they played the whole game without Devin Booker, and the sons are a deeper team than the Lakers.

In terms of their talent, that would be in most rotations, talent that would start on a lot of teams.

They're deeper in that sense than the Lakers, who, in addition to not having a lot of those guys like you know, LeBron and a D maybe better than anyone they have.

But the next five or six or seven players on the list would all be from the sun, and the Lakers are shorthanded.

That's why I'm discounting it.

Got to say this about the sons.

They're a high I Q team.

In addition to everything else, you look at Chris Paul and Devin Booker, the court vision that Devin Booker has.

Of course, we know about Chris Paul, the connection between Chris Paul and a guy like Sarich.

If you just ever you have legit three and D guys, they're legit, and we knew this coming into the season, it's not like this is some kind of new information.

I'm just saying If the Lakers and by the way, LeBron did his thing like he started hitting threes late in the game.

He just didn't have enough with him.

And based on that game, I'm not convinced, For example, if a DS back Oh, the sons are going to beat the Lakers in a seven game series.

Excellent win by an excellent team.

But it doesn't like change my thinking about anything.

I can't call it a big deal win.

Well, I say it changed my thinking from the standpoint that I'm going to look at Phoenix with a level of seriousness.

I may not have looked at them before, even though I saw them in bubble play, and I saw them earlier this season.

The fact that they're on this comment here beating the teams that they've beaten along with the leadership of CP three, combined with the fact that Devin Booker Devin Booker has emerged as a star.

That's it, that's that's valid in and of itself.

But forgive me for taking a moment to give props to Monty Williams, you see, because we just lamented the other day the paucity of African American coaches in the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and what have you look at the job that Monty Williams is bringing?

And by the way.

Notable names that have been assistance for years or have been scouts for years.

The Willie Green's of the world that were once in the Golden State.

The Mark Bryant of the world.

The Randy Ayers.

People like that.

My brother, the former head coach for the Philadelphia 76 former head coach at Ohio State University.

You're just seeing some of the personnel on their staff, and I just can't say enough about Monty Williams, Man.

So many people talk about this guy is a character guy, obviously, is a great, great person and what have you?

And worked under Popovich and others?

But the job that he is doing his head coach of the Phoenix Suns cannot go unnoticed.

Think about what we were saying about this team before he will.

He arrived.

They want a fast track to nowhere.

We were lamenting the fact that Devin Booker had to sign a long term deal there to make sure he got his money, etcetera, etcetera, and look in just a year and a half or so there.

Look at the job that this man is doing along with his coaching staff in the Phoenix Suns, I ain't gonna lie to you.

I am very proud.

I'm very, very proud of what I'm seeing from those brothers down in Phoenix.

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