We've been talking a lot this episode in our hot takes about how many players have been breaking

out this season.

There is like 10 players right now that we can say are the most improved player in the NBA.

So what we're going to do is I'm going to show you an NBA player.

You let me know if this player's leap this season is real or fake.

Okay.

So whatever that means to you.

You know, if you think they're bound to have some regression or if you think they're just a star

now. Okay. Okay. I got my diamond tester out. Yeah, exactly. First off, Jalen Duren. Oh, that's real. Real as fuck. That is real. He is a all-star now. He has leveled up everything that everybody wanted him to be. He is that now. Exactly. The defense is more than passable now offensively the level of ball handling he has the fact that he can

take mid-range jumpers after between the legs dribble while also being the ferocious rim finisher

and pick and roll threat all star yeah i don't know how many centers in the league that i'd rather have

over um jill and durin there's just wemby wemby you could say, Yokic. Yokets, of course.

And then after that, Sangoon maybe, but it's a tight conversation. Convos begin, but I'll take probably Schengun and Chet. Yeah. And then I'm, but those are like, you, if you tell me Jalen Duren gets in that tier and those talks, I believe you. It's close, man. It's close. Yeah, this is everything the Pistons needed from this position.

They have a bona fide second star now.

Yeah.

Welcome to the upper tier of contention in the Eastern Conference, Detroit. Tyreys Maxie. Currently averaging over 30, 40 minutes for game, being the best player on a team's offense, carrying the load. Is this real? Can he be this player? Real as fuck, bro. He has shown nothing over the last few years, but signs that he will eventually come into this.

One of the biggest issues with his game was his ability to have gears into his game and no one to start and stop.

And then, oh, no, like, Hardens there.

And he's like one of the best heliocentric players of all time or whatever

he leaves gives tyrese a buffer year and he just becomes this demon on offense who can finish

at the rim you already know what he does from the mid range standpoint he's developed and took a real

leap from playmaking and just like continuously polish his game. It's so real he's here.

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