Week 18: It's Over!

[00:00:00] are coming to you live after having witnessed a sad, nuggets to feet preparing for the sad end of a Broncos season but there's hope on the horizon.

[00:00:15] Ryan and I are handing out our nuggets, grades thus far into the season and telling you why we think it will be a new season in the end. All that more, things up, Dan, play that funky music. Let's go Mike.

[00:00:32] Welcome in to another episode of The Blucifer Brothers. Hi, I'm your host Kyle Poland. Join us always by my brother Ryan Poln. We are produced by our Super Producer Dan, the man. And we are coming to you live after the Amber nuggets,

[00:00:51] and we are going to give you a few more nuggets. Soundway to God, give it to God, take it away. God gave 18 point come back for the nuggets and let them blow an 18 point lead to the Orlando Magic. And so there was some cemetery in that.

[00:01:08] That was beautiful. But the abs are getting a little hot Ryan. The nuggets, even with the night, they've only lost three out of their past like 14 games. And the Broncos are mercifully coming to an end. So things are looking up for Colorado sports here.

[00:01:31] How are you feeling today? I'm feeling great. I can't wait for the regular season to be over. Obviously excited about how the nuggets have been playing. I was just going to look up their last time. Let's see what it is. We're eating to in the last time.

[00:01:48] Now, I'm just a game and a half back from first place in the last. So the universe is starting to feel like it's in its natural place. Yokech hit a miracle game winner last night.

[00:02:01] So they were coming off a high and Jamal tried his best to replicate that. But fell a little short tonight. I'm looking forward to some state of action this weekend as well. I mean, it's it was a rough weekend for your fins.

[00:02:22] They got smoked and they lost job. So feels like that's done. So well, they're literally playing for an AFC's Championship. But or an NFC's Championship. They're not done in the sense of the bronch goes being done. But it feels like perfect time for you to come on home.

[00:02:44] That's what I'm saying. No, you can you can just come right on over for this last day don't game. I'm going. I'm not going to bat on it. But I am going to ride the ship down with the mic and the fins this season.

[00:02:58] And I forced foreseeable seasons as well. As long as Mike McDaniel is the coach there. I think that is where my loyalty lies. And I will trust the Broncos when they deserve when they show me that they deserve to be trusted.

[00:03:16] Which do you think that they deserve to be trusted? I think you know my feelings on the matter. No, that is a resounding note right now. But you know what? I think sometimes Ryan like in hitch you got to go 90. So that the Broncos can come 10.

[00:03:36] I think the Broncos need to go 90 so I can come 10. That's there big organization. They're my 40s. They're cutting their courting me. That's what I'm saying. I'm not I'm the lost fan in this situation like it's me who had to change.

[00:03:55] It's not them they they got to stay the same. They get to some of you people, you know, you three brain cells. Broncos fans decided to stay with us and you've been defending him this whole time. And look how that turned out for you.

[00:04:12] So I don't I'm just not I'm not willing to join the three brain cell train yet. I'm not willing to hop back on that train. You know, they was hurtful. I just wanted to start by saying that just out now hurtful.

[00:04:28] And I didn't disagree with tons of it. But it was hurtful. All right, it was hurtful sometimes the truth hurts. Speaking of the truth, we got to see the bare naked truth of Jared Stidham.

[00:04:43] And it looked about like Russ if not a little bit worse when they beat. East and stick in the boys. Uh, it was hideous offense. There was obviously one play where little. Humphrey little George. Little Jordan Humphrey broken on believable play.

[00:05:13] But like that's not replicable necessarily and the charges defense is awful and was missing both. I don't think we need to talk much about that game. It's it is though.

[00:05:29] I think Broncos fans were ready to cheer for anyone but Russ and it's caused them to put on some rose colored glasses with Stidham

[00:05:38] to be like, well, if he can do that for 7 million now let's give him a full season and then he'll still be making 7 million and he'll get better and all the things. But except that he's Jared Stidham. Other than that though, I agree.

[00:05:52] What have we learned from watching 17 weeks of NFL football if not that backup quarterback's often come in? Look a little bit better than the person they're replacing and then plummet back to earth.

[00:06:06] Like there are a dozen examples of that in the NFL this year including some that I got bought in on. I was all in on the Josh jobs train. I was like, oh my god they're going to replace Kirk Cousins with better Kirk Cousins.

[00:06:21] But most franchises, most good franchises don't just give up an asset like that. Like the Cardinals gave up on Josh jobs. They gave him away for essentially nothing but like that should tell you something about the talent.

[00:06:38] They watched him all of you know, yeah those weeks in the game and in practice. And Jared Stidham's only redeeming factor to this point is that the organization that he's coming from is one of the most and competent organizations in the NFL.

[00:06:54] So if anybody is going to potentially mess up a quarterback evaluation and give him away for too little it might be Jared's

[00:07:02] instead of I don't think that's the case, but I'm just saying that if anybody was going to give it up give him up and he would be awesome it would be the writers and that would make everybody really happy.

[00:07:13] But I don't think that's the case so if you're looking this is a Brock Oswiler situation like The Broncos let him walk in the Texas paid of $56 million or like have fun paying that salary for the next 10 years.

[00:07:27] Like that's it's you can't get bought into this stuff and certainly not in the last two weeks of the season. You're definitely not going to get bought in.

[00:07:36] Yeah I also do think the Max Crossbee is going to absolutely terrorize him on Sunday and it's going to be a very different thing because the writers can actually score points Whereas there was very little pressure to score once he saw what the charges were bringing out there.

[00:07:55] Did you see that video of Jared stood or not Jared stood him who's the cardinal in chew? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He goes, man Max Crossbee's mean he keeps calling everybody little boy is he? Yeah you are a little boy.

[00:08:14] But so I really looking forward to I can't wait to see what Max Crossbee is calling Jared stood him. If he called gardener mention little boy, I don't know what it's going to be but who's our backup? Just Russ.

[00:08:29] Well now away we bring him in if Max Crossbee is teeing off on June and Stin. The whole point of this is to not pay the guy when he gets us a head blow. What are we doing? We can't break it in against Max Crossbee.

[00:08:44] I mean who's a real backup? Wait, where's the are we just going to run past our wild cat? I don't know. Hey I wouldn't be opposed to it. I'm just saying yeah that's a great point. We should just be parlaying Josh Allen and Max Crossbee's sacks.

[00:09:04] Also need to that's what this whole podcast should have done. We should have looked up every contract incentive and just come up with a massive parlay of all of the player props of like whatever

[00:09:16] Grong needs three receptions to make a million dollars and they're like well that stuff like it happened like you're going to make that happen. So anyways there are lots of nice fun batting angles but I do agree that this Raiders defense could be putting it to the brawl.

[00:09:33] Yeah, let's get into this Raiders game here just for a moment. Peyton has said hey this is a meaningful game. This can bring some momentum into the new season. Obviously Raiders players have come out in support of peers and so you figure they'll play hard as well here.

[00:10:01] This just feels like a let down spot for the Broncos where they just kind of let go of the rope here and the Raiders are like oh we've been playing for nothing forever. Is Josh Jacobs playing do we know?

[00:10:20] Because if he is like they're going to gouge us all the ground. I mean this defense has just been extremely porous and I just I agree with you. Except that there is a lot of there is a lot of hypothetical talent on the Broncos team and it's not.

[00:10:44] It didn't really seem to cover last week like it was not the natural bump that you see sometimes in the bench a quarterback where like people start getting excited and you can tell the team really hated him

[00:10:55] and like there was some of that but it wasn't enough to really make you super confident that you're going to beat a relatively decent Raiders team. So I think it's a complete stay away outside of the player props for me like maybe just taken under.

[00:11:15] But then there could be five fumble return touchdowns and I wouldn't be surprised so it's it's a hard game to hand it out.

[00:11:23] Yeah no I agree through stay away but if I had to if I ran out of one I would go Raiders money line and I would say a twenty ten Raiders.

[00:11:42] Well I think it's an ugly game where like ninety percent of it you're like well I know we haven't done anything all game but this could be our drive and then it'd be tied and then late kind of like go to the rope.

[00:11:55] But yeah I think this is a Raiders victory here. So yeah I'm well so Raiders money line is now minus one sixty two.

[00:12:11] So you are you having to pay that I think they play here is the under they have the total set at thirty seven and I mean your game script plays into that and I think that's two million points.

[00:12:27] Like I don't think I don't think the Raiders are getting to twenty and I don't think the Broncos are getting to ten so I would be playing the under here.

[00:12:36] Yeah to your point I think the only way I see this going over is like max cross be strips acts or you know them throwing the ball directly just special teams yeah some odd plays that are out of script.

[00:12:55] And both of these quarterbacks are more than capable of giving up those plays but Josh Jacob is out so but they can run the ball with whoever and anybody has been gashing this team so.

[00:13:08] It's an interesting one I mean the the Raiders are not going to not want to give this to anybody so also. Why in earth would we want to win this game I know it's like whatever it's not at this point the biggest and draft position but.

[00:13:25] It still makes no sense to me to be like oh yeah we're going to come in here guns blazing for this meeting list like why. No they should lose and they should have been losing for the last ten weeks so.

[00:13:42] If you've been listening to podcasts you know that I've been right basically this whole time that we just shouldn't have been trying pretty much so. You should have pulled Russ you should have been just asked and said if you to the players association come after me.

[00:13:57] Did you watch him play did you watch him play for the first five weeks you're going to come after me because you think I you benched up because of this injury clause alright let's watch the tape.

[00:14:07] Let's look at his a pat throwing chart let's see the big gaping hole in the middle of the field. Anyways so let's move on I hope they lose and I hope it's embarrassing honestly I don't think it like shut out or some shit like.

[00:14:23] I hope it's just absolutely terrible to the point where Broncos fans are starting to like call for patents job.

[00:14:29] Like the Walton's bought this franchise and they're going to be the only rich people to lose money in the first three years of this of owning an NFL franchise because they're going to have to pay.

[00:14:40] Payton out his contract and then they're going to have to pay Russ out his contract so. It's a good thing they own Walmart. Yeah I don't think they can get rid of paid necessarily but my lord that would be quite the.

[00:14:57] Hubbub show he said they can't get him rid of him this early but if he loses this game if they got shut out and then next year he starts terrible if he starts on three with the new quarterback there going to be people saying you need to get rid of this guy.

[00:15:13] And he has a lot of time left on that contract and a lot of money so you are correct it's a good thing now in Walmart. A great thing. Well let's move right along to speaking of owning people.

[00:15:29] Nicole Yoch now owns the Warriors as well as the Clippers as well as the Lakers just if you're in LA. No you exist because like you also wow so bonus the business he's got all the California. Yeah that's true so yeah the whole state.

[00:15:50] Yeah so I think that's probably the fun place to start this discussion here. What was where does that Yoch get shot rank in some of your favorite Yoch get shot moments okay well I got to paint the picture for you.

[00:16:07] So we watched the first half together and things were going okay and then I listened to the third quarter in my Uber ride back to my apartment.

[00:16:19] And most of the third quarter then took the dog out listen to a little bit more than the third quarter and cause was not optimistic about how the game was going.

[00:16:31] And he was very he literally said in the third quarter I do not like the way this feels right.

[00:16:39] And so I decided to give myself a night off I was like you know what I'm not going to make myself watch them lose on national TV to the Warriors and then have to watch TNT come on and be like you know complaining.

[00:16:55] I'm just going to listen to cause because he's going to be as mad as I am well this is happening.

[00:17:00] And so I start taking a shower and I'm listening to the fourth quarter in the shower like the entire fourth quarter but the entire crunch time with fourth quarter the entire comeback I'm in the shower. Losing my goddamn mind.

[00:17:17] And so I did see the shot live on TV I like could tell some wild shit was happening and there were so many stops at the game in that last couple minutes that I was able to catch the last couple of minutes on TV.

[00:17:31] But it is I that Jo Ellen bead we're wearing pants no when yoga chit the chat no I was wearing only boxers.

[00:17:42] Wow yeah wow I it's quite the picture when the the game winner of not technically wasn't a game winner but the game winning shot against the six or just the last time and be decided to drag his raggedy asked Denver.

[00:18:02] That one I think is probably always going to be my favorite because I was sitting so close to it got to yell at a beat as he walked off the floor.

[00:18:12] But it's I mean in terms of just horseshoe in the ass shots it's got to be number one with a bullet.

[00:18:23] But there are lots of very memorable game winners to me and honestly the yokech ones are pretty down on the list like when he hit the shot I immediately thought of the Monta more a game winner.

[00:18:38] Yeah in golden state which Malone also brought up in his press conference it was from a similar spot. So yeah it's probably too for me at this point because somebody said it on Twitter but if you would hit him with the sleeping after he hit that.

[00:18:58] I don't know what I would have done I mean that's number one then. The celebration was great I loved everything about it. Yeah it's I still have the over AD.

[00:19:12] Step back and the over LeBron step back those are in my pantheon of yokech shots they weren't game winners though no no but just yokech shots. I really like the game winner over Luke and the boys that was a good one and then the step back three.

[00:19:34] Over Orlando last year and deer point the one over Philly that was so long ago but that was pre-pandemic yeah but it was basically yeah that was fantastic.

[00:19:50] Yeah so I feel like pretty pretty solid list of highlights for someone who's supposedly a little bit bland and tough to market. Putting together quietly a pretty good real out here if you're paying.

[00:20:10] It's just so stupid like Ed I think people now are realizing how stupid it is because his highlights are starting to go a little bit more viral like.

[00:20:20] It's just not a narrative that should be there because watching him play basketball like if you don't want like watching a yokech highlight of some ridiculous pass or him like hitting somebody the volleyball pass in the middle of the lane like you just don't watch like watching basketball.

[00:20:39] That's okay you know you don't have to watch basketball you could do something else but that narrative is fucking ridiculous.

[00:20:48] Yeah that's really all I had to say six straight roadwinds too which I think is key it was one of the things that the championship team last year was just terrible out like they could not win even in the regular season they couldn't win games on the road so.

[00:21:06] Yeah it's nice to see them pick up some of these roadwinds you'd like to see them pick up the back to back at home which we just watched them drop to Orlando but.

[00:21:17] You can't have them all you know you're just there a lot of games in the season so. Yeah it it was a kind of a flat off tonight the magic we're coming in missing a lot of players they didn't have Franz bag Wagner. They didn't have.

[00:21:38] Oh Mark Elfoltz. No Gary Harris. They were missing players we were on a back to back and we got it in like 430 in the morning so. Yes, would I have loved to see the nuggets close out in 18 point lead.

[00:21:56] Yes but do I understand running out of gas there and not having the deep drive to care about it maybe like you did in previous years because you're like. Yeah it's fine like we're only a game and I have back from yeah the table will work yeah.

[00:22:19] I want to do a little mic on the lawn with you because I know you have sort of an interesting take but I want to start with the last possession.

[00:22:32] Like you looked at me when they when they called the time we're coming out of the time out and we're like I don't hate it three here. Like I love a three here like don't go to overtime what are we doing.

[00:22:43] Jamal gets the switch gets the big guy on him and then goes at the bucket like he's trying to get to the rim like what do you do it like shoot the three you had the switch shoot three.

[00:22:54] Or give the ball the ochre if you're going to take a two yoke chas the small guy on him like you just ran the two man I don't I didn't understand it and I wonder. You know like.

[00:23:06] Melon does get a lot of credit for his like off of a time out out of bounds those sort of actions.

[00:23:17] But the one last night against the warriors was trash yeah like that was a terrible play he literally ran against okay see when we blew that one game I didn't really

[00:23:31] know I was going to go to the top nine blissfully didn't watch his second in the game yoke it's imbounding the ball like a second and a half and so it's like oh I bet he's going to throw a lob to Gordon and still reason and not have Gordon inbound the ball.

[00:23:44] So yeah I agree they've been some suspect end of game stuff you just tell Jamal they're like hey man if you get the switch like dance on him and pull up like take one of those three we don't want to play five more minutes we're on a back to back like.

[00:23:58] Let's see the lose this game and like have you get a good look at it or let's win it right here like I don't know that would be my nitt to pick if I was going to pick nits.

[00:24:10] Now I agree not about picking nits I don't want to pick any nits.

[00:24:19] I think you have a nitt to pick kind of like please probably think a nitt is like a fly right like oh lordsy yeah I don't want any part of nits but yeah I don't think that's the reason for saying exists. I don't know.

[00:24:41] But I did you are correct in terms of I do have a little bit of a bone to pick with Mike Malone it doesn't. Feel like rather pick it up bone than a than a then vice. Yeah and McAfrey's femur.

[00:25:04] Oh god I just pick it up that's it yeah well it's we see the future someday the on the unreleased tapes of what I had to say about Edmund Capford's femur will be real. I think that's it.

[00:25:23] Those are locked for a reason I will tell the viewer at home. But with Malone I do think that in some degree he's kind of holding his cards for the playoffs as well so it's minor but I do think we've seen against warriors and we see

[00:25:52] tonight he took Yokech out and snuck tried to sneak extra rest in the first half which I'm fine with.

[00:26:00] But then bring him back in earlier so that you can stop the bleeding because that second unit if Reggie Jackson does not have it going to have five out with no.

[00:26:15] Let's start with them is awful and before we were staggering Murray more with that lineup and now it feels like we have Murray Porter in Yokech coming at almost the same time together and that stagger just doesn't make any sense to me having a porter or having a Murray with that second unit makes a lot more sense to me.

[00:26:41] Do you think it has an eye group with you? I think I understand trying to steal minutes on the second night of a back to back but I do agree with you that like you kind of have to choose one of them to go after.

[00:26:55] You can't be resting him both nights but the thing that I literally just thought of is do you think it's at all related to have close the trade deadline is like we're officially about six weeks from the trade deadline.

[00:27:07] Do you think he's trying to get Zeknaji for more minutes of run?

[00:27:11] See if he can have a little spark here and potentially up that value a little bit or even just get him like noticed in the league like have some tape to send to teams to be like are you interested in this?

[00:27:26] You know I don't think that Malone would play that game. I do think that he is right now trying to let Zek win that job and he is experimenting more with that second unit too.

[00:27:45] But let me tell you Malone is very loyal and he will let you try your best for a long time. But when he makes the decision that he's done, he's done in your never coming back.

[00:28:02] So if Zek wants to keep messing around with that role it'll go to DJ pretty quick and it will then be very hard to take away from him.

[00:28:17] It's been the interesting part right because DJ did look good like when the nuggets were struggling when ever when Jamal was on me sort of had that streak where it was like wasn't looking great.

[00:28:30] DJ was playing great and then he sort of just disappeared like Zek just took those minutes in part of its matchup to paint it right like the magic tonight are very small like there's not a lot of minutes for DJ in that matchup because they don't have anybody over six ten once Wagner goes to the bunch if they don't have the other Wagner.

[00:28:50] So it's an interesting and interesting dynamic and to me I don't think the nuggets are going to do anything at the deadline like I think it's probably going to be another stand-pats or the situation they might do something around the margin but I could see them being a buy out team and that is where the center start to become available.

[00:29:12] I think if you look at this team and your a center who wants to potentially earn some money like why are you not coming here. I mean then we made Javail McGee two contracts worth the money so come on over.

[00:29:27] Yeah I don't disagree with you that I think it's going to be hard for them to be super active in the trade market this year. Just the contracts they have it's like anyone who has a good contract you don't want to trade them.

[00:29:45] Like we don't want to trade KCP for anything almost and so you know what is it matter what his salary matches up with.

[00:29:55] I'm just not messing with your start and not touching the starters yeah they're all untouchable and and the bitch bench guys like it is to your point it's hard to make the contracts match because the got we because we've drafted so well.

[00:30:07] Yeah, like that's the hard part is that you're getting rookie for rookie and you're not willing to give up on these guys on a rookie deal yeah so. Yeah, so I guess if you had to.

[00:30:23] Give the nuggets a grade this far there as you mentioned game and a half back in Minnesota they've played the highest percentage it's been almost 50% of their games have been back to backs. I'm going to start off here.

[00:30:42] One of the easiest schedules remaining correct so taking into account everything there what would be your grade that you would give.

[00:30:51] And now gets thus far in the season if I'm going to grade on a championship curve so like given the fact that we want a championship and whatever that was June. Yeah, I would give them an A.

[00:31:04] I think this has gone about as good as you could ask we've eaten Jamal injury we've eaten a couple games without yoke each we've eaten.

[00:31:12] Injuries to a g we've eaten games from I mean almost everybody in the starting lineup has been out for us some number of games and then you're missing you've got these guys on the bench who.

[00:31:25] You we had turnover right like it's sort of like band an experiment to figure out who exactly can score on that bench unit to your point and we've had the ups and downs from Peyton Watson we've had.

[00:31:37] Also the Christian Brown has a bad play not well we were talking about that tonight at the game so like I think.

[00:31:44] There's you can't ask for them to be in a better position arguably they're in a better position right now then they were last year so and I know actually don't I wouldn't even say that's arguable I would say that true because I don't trust the thunder or the timbre wolf so we're technically in front of us in the west right now I don't trust either of them to.

[00:32:03] To be there at the end of the year I don't think they I don't think they can withstand what we have with Stutt. Honestly, I mean they've that wolves have had great health. The thunder are a young team a lot of those guys have never played 80 games.

[00:32:22] Chat this is his rookie year like rookies tend to slump at 30 games and then they've figured out again about 60 games like that that college season is not in the 82 game season so.

[00:32:34] I think it's all those teams are fun and while the west to me is wide open too like nobody in the west scares me right now so if we're just going to be talking about like how we've performed and relative to the rest of the league I think it's pretty.

[00:32:51] It's pretty hard to give us anything less than a. Yeah I'm gonna get a little greedy. I would say like be plus I agree with you with the championship curve I agree with you with the Jamal injury I think that's a huge huge part of it.

[00:33:13] But I was there I've been a few giveaway games where it was just mentally weren't quite ready to you kind of assumed it was over and we gave those games last year though right 100% and you will over the course 82 no matter what I'm just saying as of right now.

[00:33:36] I think by the end of this season I think we will both land on a but what's been in front of me so thus far some of those blown games are frustrating in terms of I love the greeniness. Yeah love it why not you know ask for perfection.

[00:33:59] I'm not just I've done this in jettiness I think that's fair minutes not like I don't think anybody's gonna look at the season and say oh it's been like this is better see. No come on I think you're just your hot taken yeah up so.

[00:34:17] You put in order to mount a money on the nuggets minus nine tonight in your angry alright and you shouldn't have done that. I need to have texted us and asked. No I think it's an interesting the interesting odds to me at this point are yoga gem vp.

[00:34:44] I think there's there's a real chance that he comes away with that with those with that award however.

[00:34:52] For basically the same value you can also get the nuggets to win the division which somewhat correlates to them winning the West because the wolves in the thunder are both in the division and technically ahead of us right now.

[00:35:10] Yeah but as I mentioned I don't trust either of them and the nuggets are plus 250 to win the Northwest right now so.

[00:35:17] I think there's some real value out there if you're a futures person and I trust this now get staying I think they they've proven right that they can withstand a lot so. I'm. Excited to see this ass whipping on my birthday on Sunday.

[00:35:37] That's going to be a beautiful thing. I did a last thing maybe here on the pod is. With this you know kind of trust that you talk about and overcoming does this too big.

[00:35:59] I think that's a great help against yoga and it feels like more teams are just hard doubling as quick as they can.

[00:36:09] Leaving jim all in Porter open and saying if we can get you to stop playing through yoga and start having other guys think oh I'm open now I can do it I got a you know. I'm a long run.

[00:36:25] Are you concerned about that because it does feel like and part of it's jim all is coming back we're getting into a rhythm it's been a while since there's been a full season but there does feel like there's stretches. There you go.

[00:36:42] Oh why am we just posted the okay job he's being guarded by someone worse and they're going to have to go double team and we can just play from four on three.

[00:36:54] If we just give him the ball with 18 seconds left and let him dribble once towards the basket. Yeah I mean I'm not worried about it long term like I don't think that people can do that in a playoff series against yoga you can do that.

[00:37:10] But a night and you might confuse him and you might send the double from a weird place or some might might be off that night and miss some threes or jim all you know isn't hitting his mid range or whatever but like over a big enough sample size yoga just going to fuck you up.

[00:37:30] Because he's the best player in the world so. I agree with that I'm just saying are there's too many stretches now where we're now we're. Like there's something healthy about not being totally yoke at centric but also.

[00:37:46] Oh you know what is going away from him too much yeah like there's and I don't necessarily hate the plays or hate the shots there is all from them but it's kind of like a. Hey let's just put this pressure on teams. I also agree.

[00:38:01] That's just that's going to be that has to come from alone though like that could be your nitpick. Because yoke is never going to yell at Mike or yell at jim all and be like hey mother fucker like.

[00:38:15] Give me the ball like he's not going to do that so.

[00:38:20] It does have to probably come from somebody else to be like hey let's make sure that yoke gets a touch on this possession like whoever that is it's that needs to be DJ or you know it could be from a lot of people but.

[00:38:34] It is a little bit concerning yeah of course like you want your best player in the in the in the actions all the time I mean I was yelling at it for the fourth quarter but I also had him over six and half but.

[00:38:48] It also is so easy when he gets the ball it's just like. Everything moves so he is like a planet it is everything orbits around him so.

[00:39:01] There shouldn't be a possession he's on the floor that he doesn't touch the ball is has always and will continue to be my my theory on that.

[00:39:09] Yeah I so some to keep an eye on like I said we're just monitoring the temperature right now we're not overreacting it's not boiling over but. We're monitoring it. I would like him to take a look at six shots.

[00:39:24] Yeah he's he's had some alarming field goal attempt numbers in the last two weeks yeah it's. I mean he's obviously more than happy to give up all the shots but. He also did only miss before tonight where I think he missed three shots or maybe four but.

[00:39:48] Before tonight he had only missed five shots and four games. Yeah he was shooting 89 percent from the field so I mean we're we're talking about. Yeah like. No that's what we're saying is you know why is that number like you really should be shooting 75% if you're shooting 88% like.

[00:40:10] Yeah you need to put more shots up you have to that's a requirement so yeah no but it definitely feels like. Yo Kitch is still in cruise control and he hasn't turned it up like randomly that Chicago game. He's been here he was like insanely early as Brooklyn.

[00:40:34] He was insanely active on defense and just loved him. I have no idea what they did do him but it's been years to I have a that triple double card I have from him is from a perfect triple double. I think you recorded against the nets.

[00:40:51] Yeah it's it's but we haven't seen the like yokech from the playoffs or like anything closed even. Some of the intensity we saw last season right there season he hasn't had a game where he's coming and been like all right we're winning this game.

[00:41:08] And that gives me hope for the season like I said to end in a as long as we play through the big fella in everything else comes easy off of that.

[00:41:22] I think that is really why I'm giving them the name because at this point of the year last year we felt like okay like it felt a little tenuous honestly like.

[00:41:31] We were winning potentially the same amount of games or even more but like it was like oh god it feels like we're fighting this a little bit and still feels like we're fighting it but.

[00:41:44] There's just this innate trust that's like well it doesn't really matter what I doubt what I hope doesn't happen is that same 20 games won towards the end of the year.

[00:41:57] Yeah, I won't be able to afford that after the all star break you can't do that and it wasn't even really like we lost that much ground you know that that really happened because we had the one seed basically locked up.

[00:42:10] But so it's a little bit different of a situation this year as well, but I think we potentially have the opportunity to send three nuggets to the all star game and then.

[00:42:25] I think we have the opportunity to build into the playoffs as opposed to feeling everybody feeling like we're limping it didn't feel like that to us but.

[00:42:36] Right, well, I, I think there's some good opportunities to be looking really good and that's another reason why I think yoke it's as MVP case is just going to continue to get better.

[00:42:50] I mean we know he's not going anywhere and we know that Joellen B won't play against anyone who's actually good so be might not make the game requirement.

[00:43:00] Well, and it's Joellen B keeps averaging 12 free throws again I mean like we just have to throw out these points per game stats like you can't just saint to the other game you can't compare it you know I can't wait to see what Steve curse as after the quarter.

[00:43:15] The 76ers it's going to be disgusting disgusting so the nuggets overall in a good place.

[00:43:24] McKinnan and we didn't touch a lot of abs but that guy's been losing his mind that's still minus one 15 I was looking at it before the podcast is minus 115 discoracle of my life might just be.

[00:43:37] I mean what are we talking about like the guys automatic at this point he's been awesome. Yeah.

[00:43:44] Minor set back and see you basketball they caught a beating on the road near his own but you know what sometimes get knocked down so you can get learned to get back up the ages all the modern so it doesn't come as lost. It's correct.

[00:44:00] So it's a time of transition in the Colorado sports scene. Much more abs and nuggets coming your way I can't wait to talk about the Broncos off Broncos.

[00:44:15] We are headed to another off season after this week and do you think we can become a united fence playoff podcast? Can you root for him in the playoffs?

[00:44:27] There they're at this point there's sort of a fun underdog they're like a plucky underdog I mean they're so hurt like there's a fucking way probably through for them again see anyone in the Fc yeah. Who's in the playoffs? Okay, okay that's great. It's up maybe let's go.

[00:44:44] I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that as well I draw the line. But thank you next week next week once they have the match up. When they're playing the chiefs you'll be fins up. I'll be chief downing.

[00:45:02] That's what I'll be doing on that note. That is our episode for the week. Please rate and subscribe and give us a follow on Twitter, Blues for Brothers. And we will talk to you next week in the TikToks. Fins up. Bye!