How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Hello and welcome to The Daily Ding on the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave DeFour, joined by my man, Travon Edwards, for your Tuesday morning update. Before we get started, don't forget. If you haven't already subscribed, you can get this podcast with no ads and all of our reporting and journalism and opinion over at The Athletic by going to theathletic.com slash NBA show. It's only $3.99 a month right now, so go and get that deal before it ends. We've got a lot of stuff to get to, so we're going to jump right in. And, Trey, we're talking Hornets Wiz. Kyle Kuzma, big, big night. Kyle Kuzma had a season high, 36 points, also had 14 rebounds. Bradley Beale had 35, and the Wizards beat the Hornets, 124 to 121.

Trey, you know, when they got Kuzma over the summer and they got KCP, we all kind of

thought this team could have improved, right?

But to see this kind of performance from Kyle Kuzma, I mean, this is the stuff that he

was doing in bits and spots when he was with the Lakers, but now having

more opportunities for these, it's nice to see him show up even more often.

Yeah, I mean, I can personally come out and say that I didn't expect this team to be, you know,

a good team immediately.

They have basically put together games and, you know, obviously had the early

the hot start.

And then they've regrouped since then and been able to, you know, get some wins.

And, you know, you mentioned Kyle Kuzma.

He is playing at a high level.

His confidence has always been there. but I think now, uh, with,

without having to wait, I think, uh, you know,

Bradley Bill does a good job at sharing, you know,

sharing the floor with Kyle Kuzma and others, um,

to allow them to be them, you know, in this situation,

you know, he came up big.

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