BORI-D-DSON- the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, February 7th, 2024. I'm Jay Eskietz, here on the Classic Factory and alongside me, as always. Tassmellis. Podcast listeners, this is for you. Next to him, it's the bearded woman, top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Hey, yo. Hey, yo. And over yonder, making the magic happen today. Back in the studio, it's Eschua Kid. How y'all doing? What's up, Esh? We also have J.D. and Jerome up in this mother all hands on deck for a very busy NBA trade deadline week. We can't miss this Tyos Jones trade skis.

It's not going to be big. Crickets right now. We're going to be learning that football song with a plastic bag, I think. I think that's what we'll be doing. We got lots to talk about, though, last night's games. We'll look at some other names that we haven't talked a whole lot about when it comes to the trade deadline. We've done a lot, obviously, on like your DeRosans and your Caruso's and your DeJante Murrays. There are other guys that we can talk about. We'll do that later.

But we had another Wedgie last night. Wedgie number 31, and it was an emphatic block

wedge from Jalen Smith, who is just going to stuff this dunk attempt into the wedgy position.

Oh, come on.

Let it breathe a little bit longer than that.

But nice stuff I said here yesterday, I would love 33 to 35 before the All-Star break and got another one last night.

Maybe we'll get there to us.

And that was a super quick one. Block. Just a beautiful thing. Just a beautiful thing. None.

Love a defensive wedgey. Block Wedgy there. All right. Let's get to drafting last night's games.

We have a bunch of All-Star News again. So we're going to just do one round, a game that jumped out to you from last night, one you want to touch on because of a performance, because of the ending, whatever you want, Tass, you have the number one pick. What game are you drafting from last night? I'm going to start with the Rockets and the Pacers because Jalen Green was a guy that was talked about in possible trades. We'll get to a lot of those. We'll get to a lot of guys just growing a little bit.

But the Pacer is also growing a little bit. Tyrese Halliburton hasn't been playing a ton of minutes since his hamstring injuries.

He's been playing about 20 minutes per game. This one got up. He got up to 29. He played the fourth quarter and started the game,

which hasn't happened since he came back. They've really been watching it, so it hasn't really grown with Pascal Seaccom,

but this one looked great.

Halliburton needed to be there at the end to clinch this one.

This guy is ready for the All-Star game.

It was a beautiful shot and then talking trash to Dylan Brooks.

This guy is ready at home here in front of his Pacer's fans to clinch it. And just on Pascal Seacum, how those two guys are working together a little bit. Pascal is quietly doing this thing. It doesn't have to be the number one guy on this team, just efficient. A.F. That's what he does. 29, Alon 11 of a 16, and this team played defense for one quarter, as they do. That's all they needed to do against the Houston Rockets. Because going to Jalen Green's performance, man, that looked great. He didn't have Fred Van Vleet in this game. So he looked like Fred Van Vleet. He took over. He was running that snake pick and roll with Shengoon. That's exactly what Fred Van Ville does. He's hitting those pull-up threes going all the way to the hoop. Threw down that ridiculous Alley Upe from Cam Whitmore. Oh, my goodness, that was great. And just on this rocket team, because I don't know what they're going to do here, but Cam Whitmore is alive. He's in the rotation as a rook. Jalen Green obviously looking fantastic. Javari Smith at the 4. No one talks about that guy, but he's got a post game. He can shoot the 3s. He had 20 in this game. Shangoon had 20 in this game. Dylan Brooks had 20 in this game. It was just fun all the way up and down the roster. It's so interesting with Jalen Green because people say, oh, he's not good enough.

Let's trade him.

And obviously, he's not good enough to be an elite point guard. And they went and got Fred Van Vleet and signed him to two years guaranteed, and then a team option for the third one. So maybe he'll just be the teacher for two years and then gone. It's a good contract, and we'll see what Jalen Green does, but I doubt they're trading them.

Anyways, it's just fun.

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