FIRST THINGS FIRST | “100% Luka is MVP” – Nick on Doncic 47 Pts, 12 Reb lead Mavericks ruin Rockets

FIRST THINGS FIRST | “100% Luka is MVP” – Nick on Doncic 47 Pts, 12 Reb lead Mavericks ruin Rockets

472 and 7 and all of a sudden MVP chatter is picking up again Luca saying I can’t answer that the MVP question that’s from the media I’m happy we’re winning man that’s it you know I’m not going to answer that question Mavs have lost one Nick in their last 12 games

Yeah could your guy Luca win the MVP absolutely could uh I think right now he’s got a really really strong case the only argument against him every time we talked MVP at any point of the season was Mavs record the numbers were jaw-dropping and I want to put the

Numbers in context he’s averaging 34 points per game and I know the gut reactions a scoring’s way up not So Much Anymore the last half of the Season only three players are averaging 28 you know and over the last guys hav’t played right over the last 30 years the average

Guys per season average 28 plus is two and a half and right now this year it’s three four if you include embiid but embiid’s only played like 30 games so the scoring’s up but not for everybody across the board he is averaging 349 and N the only people average 30 n

And n are Oscar and Russ neither of them averaged 32 those seasons and both of them had way lower field goal percentage and effective field goal percentage than LC is doing right now so it’s him and joic and Brew we can show you their numbers obviously Luca’s way ahead in

Scoring joic is considerably had in rebounding the assists call it third right second in the field goal percentage it tilts heavily to yoke Joker but then effective field goal percentage which includes the fact that Luca’s field goal percentage is pulled down by the fact that he

Shoots so many more threes it’s a lot closer mhm so here’s what I’d say Brew right now they’re two and five in the Western Conference if as far as the team standings if they finish third and fourth how B you know if Denver finishes third

Which right now it’s a half game out of it and the Mavs get up to the four line is there enough of a difference in team success to disqualify Luca I say there is not well look Dallas and and I think a lot of the voters are smart enough to

Recognize this as well one of the reasons their record was so poor early was that a lot of guys were injured not LCA so much but a lot of their teammates were you know out here and there and so they really were they didn’t have any continuity all right and now they’re

Playing so well if they get up to the fourth seed then I I’m I’m seriously considering him already and as the fifth seed in the west they’re two games behind Milwaukee which is second in the East and nobody not that Giannis is going to win it but nobody’s holding

Their record against them as a reason I mean early on it was disappointing and stuff but nobody saying oh they’ve only won 47 games they’re probably going to win 50 a lot of years 50 has kind of been thatch and now if they get 50 and you you showed the numbers and the

Interesting thing is how much like I hate to say this but I think it’s true because you should go year to year but there’s a lot of history and I even as one of my criteria I do put history in there all right and a lot of people I

Think joic started this season with a head start right because a lot of people felt like he should have won it last year all right and so he started with a Head Start and that’s fine cuz he he’s been fantastic and if he wins it this

Year it can be justified for sure but throughout history we’ve kind of divvied if because every year there’s several guys that play well for the most part it might be a year here and there where there’s one guy right whether there’s new or Jordan won five you’re gonna tell

Me he’s only the best player in the league five or you know the MVP five times LeBron’s only got four but Durant got one in there was he really better than LeBron that year I mean we’ve seen Barkley all these guys Carl Malone get them cuz it’s like this is an alltime

Great player he hadn’t gotten one yet list Luca obviously is in that class and when it’s this close and you’re right I mean if the records are right like that then I think Luca would get it um and Shay Shay is great they could be the

Number one seed but he doesn’t have the allaround numbers he’s got the scoring but not the assist or the rebounds that LCA or Y I mean since the merger 34 a night Harden once Kobe once Jordan that’s it like that’s the he’s winning doing and so right and and the and so it

Is it’s a tough what Wilds nothing you think it’s clearly y I’ve been saying that he needs to win and you guys are like no no no and now he an Fox had a solid week one more on that later in the show jumbo version a weird and wonderful

Start with the wonderful Mavs up 23 on the Rockets I mean this was I that’s one of the most unbelievable shots I’ve ever seen I agree I mean I totally agree like that’s probably and with all due respect probably that’s better than Kyrie’s shot I know that was

A good winner yeah this is ridiculous yeah Kyrie shot because it was the gamewinner is insane but this is bananas it’s almost a three-pointer like that’s crazy 47 on the night uh weird Friday night Warriors and Charlotte who said Draymond can’t change everyone’s like you know what he’s never going to change

He tries to kick him and he just does did he I mean he could have he drove also terrible job by Grant there because the refs aren’t going to give him benefit of the doubt if he just fallson is out man 8 and four words but

That’s what guys are going to be doing of course NASCAR Infinity race we got Joey gase throwing takes his bumper he’s upset at Dawson Crim here you go have my bunker buddy jaylor Smith takes the checkered flag throwing weird Lakers Pacers this is underrated highlight I saw on Reddit shout out to

Reddit of course you ever seen him hey that was pretty good it’s pretty good I know he hit nine threes yesterday but I thought this was yeah little volleyball and it was accurate yet I I have to get through 17 yic touch pass retweets from

Wild just to open my ass this makes the show weird C in Denver speaking of oh L dah perfect Pass 2 6 18 and 16 Denver wins this one by 29 after a brutal loss in a must-win game yeah against the wolves that wasn’t great uh weird Philly

Braves Bryce Harper goes all out to get this ball he ends up falling into the Dugout group but watch the ball here he gives it a shot and then the ball but BR did you see where the ball landed ball landed five six feet behind

It watch look I mean the ball is they not even in the there it is I hate laughing one and two to start the year good though that’s a weird and wonderful from the national he lost the ball uh wem’s dominance two games since our last show totals for wemy 72 points 29

Rebounds his defense has been Stellar here’s the uh Josh’s full screen more blocks than ad or goar opponent’s field goal percentage way down and defensive rebounds 8 ad has almost 10 goar is nine so Brew the team has only won five more games than the laughing stock Detroit Pistons

But does wemi deserve a look at Defensive Player of the Year well he also leads the league in stocks you know that’s the new Steals and blocks you didn’t know that it’s not that new look I’m not going to hold their record against them he’s going to be my vote for player

Rookie of the Year and he’s going to win that obviously and I’m considering him I said what two weeks ago I think it was I said I’m going with gobear I still have go Bear Minnesota has the best defense in the league all right and he is the

Anchor he discourages everything at The Rim he you know he rebounds defensively he can guard the the post uh and AD is in consideration but neither ad doesn’t really guard the screen and roll either like goar doesn’t guard that well the difference is goar doesn’t mind the

Physicality of garden big centers and AD doesn’t really like that so that’s why I kind of like Gober over ad and I got also the Lakers are like middle of the road defensively and then San Antonio is bottom 10 Y and I I just for a rookie he’s playing spectacular basketball

Obviously but I think I’m lean I’m leaning Gober right now but I’ve got an open mind all right prediction Brew ends up voting for wimi wow I think he’ll overtake by the end of it I think he will maybe I’m wrong I I don’t think their record should be

Disqualifying I I think their team defensive rank could be you know what I mean like if they if they had this record but it was because their offense was just God awful and they had a top 10 defense then I’d listen you know what then I’d listen to it but it it’s it’s

Hard in that regard can I give you a Counterpoint from the athletic sure the defensive rating just last 15 games with wemi on the court is at 106 which is best problem is he’s not maybe not on the court no no no but it’s the other

Problem with that is last 15 games rest of it like and so the and the defense rating isn’t all of it because I think Anthony Davis has a case for defensive player of the year and it’s because what the Lakers defense is when he’s off the

Court yeah I know they’re middle of the pack overall but it’s because I think that they are the one of the worst defenses in the league when he’s not out there but whether he wins this or not I don’t think he’s going to win it I think

Goar is going to win it this is really hard this is a tough Monday for me guys I had to say this thing to Wilds before and I have to say this to brew I mean I think Brew was right about this guy I I don’t think it about the

Most heralded Prospect Brew is an American Sports history here’s the thing he said it like I was in France Scout that’s not what European I thought I thought Brew was over the top I thought Brew was over the top with what his expectations were but if we go back

To what we were saying he would be what Fair expectations his rookie season were from a stat perspective I think we all might have undershot it a bit but Brew was closest and while I expected instant defense of this level and I know we’re having a defensive conversation what

He’s doing offensively the last couple months is shocking to me and I don’t think it’s shocking to brew and so that’s one where Brew maybe is amongst others but as far as like where he how quickly he can be one of the five best players in the league I think you know

Year three is on the board now he has a great off seon it’s it’s possible could be next year like if he really works and gets stronger I think he’s going to be embolden he’s going to be more confident you agree with me the ceiling is go I do

You agree with that that’s a little it’s a little it’s on the board guess okay sure is it on the board it’s going to be how much can he

FIRST THINGS FIRST | “100% Luka is MVP” – Nick on Doncic 47 Pts, 12 Reb lead Mavericks ruin Rockets