Welcome back to another episode of Small Ball with Kenny Beecham, ladies and gentlemen.

I am feeling so amazing to start today.

I just, I don't know, the vibes are just always high coming off a Bears win.

And, you know, obviously this is not an NFL show, but man, oh man, when the vibes are high in the NFL for my favorite team i just feel like i get more in a flow state when it comes to talking about these hoops so y'all better hope the bears keep this up because if they keep it up i'm to continue to produce fire fire shows before we get into today's episode to let you know that if you go to enjoy bball.com, we still got a little bit of merch left.

We've been dropping these, enjoy run clubs, shirts, hoodies, and hats. So be sure to check it out on today's agenda. I got a team with the most disappointed players in the NBA. I heard somebody say that we're about at the quarter mark of the NBA season, and it blew my mind because I feel like just yesterday we were starting the season. So we got like a quarter of the NBA sample size about players and teams and stuff. And, you know, I get asked quite a bit like how much sample size you need to kind of understand a player's jump is real or a team is real. It's about at this point. So I want to talk about some of the guys that have been disappointing. I don't know how we can talk about the NBA right now without mentioning the

Lakers, considering how nice they have looked specifically since LeBron James has been back.

We're going to jump around the league and talk about some comments from Stan Van Cundi,

the Orlando Magic, and so on. And lastly, I will answer your questions using hashtag AskKB,

but let's get into these disappointing players. Now, maybe it is slightly unfair for me to do

this today because I think it's really easy to be like, Trey Young's been disappointing in the minutes

that he played. La Mello Ball has been disappointing because he keeps getting benched in fourth

quarters when the game's been good. But my disappointing list is different because these are the

players that have been disappointing to me. Just not overall disappointment, if that and in order to be disappointing that mean I had to have some level of expectations for you right so just think think about that with my own lens just think about that as we talk through these players just because they have been disappointed don't mean they can't turn it up or that I'm completely out on these players because the first guy on the list is a guy I bought all the stock in the first moment I met him before the NBA draft that is Evan Mobley. I remember just a few weeks ago before we started the season, I was reading comments from Kenny Akison. I was reading comments from NBA ownership that was saying, oh, this is the Evan Mobley year. It's just, I don't know. I know teams and players are always going to talk about their players in the highest regard, but I just felt like it felt different the way Kenny was talking about the way they were going to use him in the offense. Ownership was talking about him being a 20 point, 24 point per game guy, and I bought all of it it because I thought that last year's offensive jump was

amazing if you know progression is not necessarily linear for everybody but evan mobley felt like a

guy that it would be linear and it has not been the case i've just been underwhelmed with his

performances he has been bad you know and i know he's become somewhat of a punching bag and that

kind of happens in the NBA eventually if you don't get better when people expect you to get better. But I've just been underwhelmed by his production. And I thought that this could be a season where he can overtake, you know, in the offensive importance role, at least be higher than Darius Garland on the list. And as we continue to see for the Cleveland Cavaliers, that team don't really go of Darius Garden. And they're there. Shout out to Donva Mitchell for holding it down when he can.

But Evan Mowgli, top of the list.

The rest of this is not in any order, but Evan Mowgli had to be number one on my list because I am an Evan Mowgli superfan slash investor with all the Ricky cards I got of him. Next, I'm going to get to a guy named Rob Dillaham.

Yeah, I mean, it's maybe a bit unfair to talk about year two guys.

I got another year two guy on the list as well, but maybe it's a bit unfair. But I kind of think about the situation that the Minnesota Timbles are in and the capital that they use to move up to acquire Rob DeLanham from the Spurs on draft night, them giving up a pick all the way in 2030 and 20, 20, 31. And thinking about the Minnesota Timbles and how much help they need from the

point guard position for Rob to basically getting close to no PT. It's just sad. Because I think,

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