Paul, how does this happen when you lose James Harden?

This is what happens to a generational talent.

This is what seems to happen to your franchise.

You know what?

I just feel so sorry for Coach Stephen Silence his first year coaching, and I mean, this is what he had to deal with.

A lot of guys on 10 day contract, a lot of guys on bed minimum trying to fight for a job.

This is what's gonna happen.

Yeah, no, I agree with you.

Although I think I mean, it's not like management's gonna hold him responsible for all of this.

It's just it's rough.

It's rough right now over Houston.

Make Sharon sharing is caring.

Speaking of James Harden, well is a ball and then give and go with him and D.

J.

I don't know how you guard this perk.

Take a look.

You can't go at it, Rachel, you can't go at it.

See, that's the thing.

You know what?

People don't give James Harden enough credit.

This is the James Harden in the Oklahoma City days with him and Nick Collison, although Nick Collison wasn't catching lives.

But James Harden is the hell of a cutter back door.

Nick Collison was landed up, but now you got that live threat to DeAndre Jordan.

That's good basketball right there.

Listen with Joel and be going out.

James Harden is my front runner for M V P Right now, you have no argument for me.

Anthony Edwards dropping a career high 34 against the Blazers perk.

Is he starting to put the league at all notice here?

He's been putting the league on.

Look on notice to me.

This this kid reminds me a lot of Russell.

Westbrook has Russell Westbrook athleticism, but he is relentless.

He is fearless.

He is a bucket getter, and the sky's the limit for him.

He is going to be a problem in the for in the near future, I can tell you that.

Yeah, you can tell he's starting to get a better understanding of the speed and athleticism of the NBA game.

And you know, the last few weeks he's been posterized in people.

Yeah, a couple weeks ago.

Oh, my Lord.

And you know, look people want to redraft this draft already.

Not so fast.

These guys have to develop.

Although lamelo speaking of Lamelo, let's get to miss dizziness because death, taxes and lamelo ball feature to make miss that, you can count on check out the spin and the swish.

Paul.

I mean, I don't know what more we can say about this kid.

He's clearly the right.

I mean, yeah, he's gonna be the rookie of the year, and people are gonna be like, Why he didn't go number one.

He just didn't fit into what Minnesota plans were.

They have a point guard, and so he's going to be the number two pick.

He was number two pick, and he's gonna be rookie of the year, and both teams are going to benefit from their picks First.

I'm gonna tell you to step further a while back, I said that if I had to take a player to be the future face of the NBA will be Joe L M B.

No, it will be lamelo ball.

He has the swag, He has the drift.

And he also has the game.

And by the way, the Hornets are sitting.

I believe in the fourth spot in the Eastern Conference.

He plays winning basketball along with everything else he bring.

The action park is Big Baller, brand back Big Baller brand, but not even the Melon ball would say that.

All right, make freebies, clips, pelicans.

Reggie Jackson tries to take a charge.

My goodness.

Instead of getting rewarded, he gets posterized by Jackson Hayes.

Now he's got teed up.

Perk.

It was worth it, right?

Yeah, it was worth it.

But here's the thing.

The referees get caught up in the highlights because there was a charge.

If he would have laid the ball up, they would have called that a charge.

But because he went up and snatched the screws, I they they didn't want to mess up the highlight.

But there was a charge.

Well, they call them for the taunting right away.

It's like you can't do anything you can't get excited for putting a poster on.

You can't.

I don't What do you do?

I mean, I've seen a guy do like this.

Get a technical.

I see a guy do it's man, but that's fans right there.

Seven footer.

You don't get credit as a 7 ft of Duncan on the point guard.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry we gave DeAndre Jordan credit for dunking on Brandon Knight.

We still play that.

Still play that like, but that was That was my fault.

That was different.

That was a different type of dunk on.

Okay, before I want to stick with clippers Pelicans, Guys, you mentioned it before the break.

Kendrick New Orleans one by 20 after the game.

Coach by Leonard Tile.

Ooh, Not pleased to take a listen to what they had to say.

Very concerned.

No, I want to have a chance or anything.

You got to be consistent.

You know, that's what the great teams do.

Their consistent, um, you know, they have a nice when you know the energy is not there.

But, you know, it's all about consistency from a team to players to culture.

You know that that's what makes a team great players.

Great culture is great because indecency of being, you know, wanting to win and doing they wanna.

You know, pretty much the same habits of winning teams are going at us, and we got to put up more resistance, you know, and that's from everyone and Until we do that, you're gonna have games like this.

So I'm not discouraged because, you know, we've shown that we can do We can play at a high level, but we gotta do it every single night.

You know, we can't just keep talking about it.

We gotta We gotta do it.

All right.

So, Paul, you heard different things.

They're Kawai says he does have a level of concern.

Tile.

Ooh, not as much.

What is your level of concern, Paul Members.

Right now.

You know, I watched this game last night, and I don't really have concerns because you got when you watched the pelicans and their their DNA to make up.

You know, they're they're strong on the inside When you miss Serge Ibaka.

When you When you miss Patrick Beverley to all defensive players?

Uh, two starters.

You're gonna struggle at times.

And this is a young, pretty good pelican team who has aspirations of possibly making the playoffs.

And so, you know, I'll be concerned if I'm fully healthy and this type of blowout happens when you missed two starters on the road against two of your premier defenders.

It's gonna be tough.

Try to get a win anyway.

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