Today's podcast loaded with a ton of hoops tells the couch we go over Miami's wind Utah's incredible comeback win against Cleveland.

We're going to talk some Charlotte, Toronto, Orlando's wind in Portland, not as much on Golden State playing the backup sons and getting smoked.

We'll do that with KOC. Some of the second year guys, Wemma Nyama fits. I don't think we agree on that one on that much and then life advice. So a lot of hoops enjoy.

We start Wednesday's pod. Tales of the couch. Okay. This really became a preference thing on what I wanted to focus in on here.

It feels a little long at the beginning, but we'll keep it moving towards the end. Little zone fest for you early viewers. Yes, I start almost every day slash night early evening with Detroit basketball.

It was not going to happen last night down Florida, the sixers congrats to the sixers.

Still like the all of them still like but Detroit is missing a few people last night. So zone fest there, Toronto against Charlotte Miami doing it against SGA early on there.

So let's let's dig into Charlotte at Toronto here for a bit.

I don't know if there's much to talk about here with the Hornets. This could be an end of the season rap for me.

Lamello, I float between wow, this guy's amazing. He's awesome. And then there's other nights where I'm like, what is he doing out there, which is probably not fair to him still because if there's one lesson that I keep reminding myself of now.

It's that we've had these incredible development stories that have been pretty unprecedented throughout NBA history to have players that.

No, look like they're going to be somebody and then there's a step and it's like, okay, that's probably who they're going to be and then there's this next step. It feels like it's happening more and more than I can ever remember.

And watching NBA basketball, but it also doesn't absolve anyone from getting off to a slow start because then it suddenly becomes this fan default defense of any player that you spend a high pick on where you just point to everybody else that's gotten good later on.

Like if you're a guy in the lottery, he hasn't scored any points. They're like, well, look what I did really cool. Now he just has to be a finals MVP in like three or four years. So both are worth reminding ourselves of, but at the same time that defense can be a little different.

But look, Lamello's far further along than some of these other development mental guys that I'll talk about. But he has these stretches where I just don't know what it is that he's doing.

And the third quarter he had four heat checks, three's in three minutes like bombs, but then you look up the numbers. And he's like 38, 39% from three, even though he's taking 11 a game right now feels a little settle.

He's still at a really high number. So you can't knock him for taking those. I've always talked about his start stop with the ball in his hands. It's pretty incredible for somebody his size. He sees things other people don't see he had van Vleet on him. He went right past him, then froze the defenders like there were safety.

And then he's like a quarter back frozen with his eyes and they just dumped it off to a big. It's not like the team is great around him. You know, Mark Williams is finally starting to play a little bit nine games since Christmas. Hey, word was out again last night. He's missed 21 of the 42 games. We know Rozier is pretty good.

He's a decent, Janelle McDaniels. I don't know really it feels more like he's a Charlotte rotation player than NBA rotation player. I know that he's build his defense. The handles a little bit better than you would think the shootings dipped a bit. But I think he's 25 at the end of this month, which makes him a little bit older in the

middle so we get confused with that are in the league. And yeah, I already mentioned PJ and Rozier the foul rate for the mellows up a bit more. He's fouled out a few games. I don't know if that's that big of a deal. I think the weird thing is that he's so locked in and dynamic.

And he keeps possessions alive later. He keeps his dribble alive later. He sees passes that other people usually don't see. And yet that on defense, he looks like a bored kid who's in a classroom who, you know, if it's not his turn, he's just not interested.

He's flat footed. That's what leads to the foul rates. He makes he takes really bad risks. He gets out of position. He just kind of falls asleep all time. You're like, what is going on?

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