Warriors repeat? How bad could the Charlotte Hornets be this season?

This is the gold shell brought guys here put out his sneakers about the middle last night left out some cookies for Adam Silver showed itself because it was MBA, opening-day eve that the holiday that I know he celebrates. If you have not hung out with Brian Geiser of the past couple months. Maybe you are fortunate to have them attend your wedding. Maybe we do a concert together and just get some beers in Raleigh.

If you haven't seen Brian recently missed a chance because now you're not to see them for about six months. Could you be watching every MBA game and every potential MBA prospect college game here to talk about some casual MBA fan topics with us. My good friend Brian Geiser what's going on dude, good man. How about you, yeah. It's unfortunate a subtle think we grabbed you, no lunch, and I started basketball season so I don't I'll see you in May or something. They are June. Depending on yeah how hot the playoffs are under admit you brought guys here, you catch up on the Busby podcast.

You can also check out his work this season is an ACC/MBA prospect analyst overpack pride in the Devils then to check out his work there. How excited are you about the opening of NBA season specifically as a Charlotte hornet for Brian Geiser well specific to being a Hornets fan low, but outside of that very excited like it's good to have it back. This was the first you know full off-season in a while if you think about just how distorted the schedule was last couple of years ago due to value D of the pandemic and trying to get in as many games and a certain amount of time and start on certain days, so I feel rested and ready to go but is forced to wanted skill note there sort of tail spinning right now so it's not good. I don't know how much I may come back to the Hornets but because just opening-day and concentrates on some general MBA stuff with you Brian Geiser.

Let's get as big ESPN – national headline MBA question as I can give you because let's talk about superstars Lebron's in LA calorie Kd are in Brooklyn, said New Jersey.

They were high expectations last year both Dick did not feel them.

Who do you expect to come closer to meeting their expectations this season.

Yeah, I think it just depends on what those expectations are first off like we probably need to back away from the title aspirations on me, maybe for Brooklyn like you know when the have Kevin Durant and he's available to play. They've generally been really really good when you got some injuries that popped up with Joe Harris and Seth Curry are two important shooters to them. I'm still not sure how they like to integrate Dan Simmons into the mix, and it remains to be seen if you can build a functional half-court playoffs offense with Dan Simmons as one of the guys I suppose if he's playing here as the de facto small ball center on some of the soffits of lineups, then you can make it work in the postseason.

But then defensively what's up with second look like with you. If Durrant is also your best friend protected and how much workload are you putting up will carry Irving decide to stop showing up halfway through the season. Just don't know what this team and the Lakers. I mean who knows for right now I think there like a top eight or nine team in the Western Conference. That's assuming you good health and good production out of both Lebron James and Anthony Davis, which is been kind of a big ask since the 2020 bubble, but the talent around them is decent in some areas. It's a lot of like good solid do your job type players like Thomas Brian and Damien Jones and Patrick Beverly was a guy that'll probably help both the defense and just sort of like the overall effort and output from this team compared to a season ago, but to the West is loaded like go down the list of teams in that conference.

You can easily easily name seven or eight teams that on paper are better than the Lakers will see what they do. If they're able to swing a trade.

At some point in time in and maybe a superstar becomes available. Maybe Damien Willard becomes available. Maybe Bradley Peel comes available. May be they settle for someone like Gordon a word may be, they try to swing this this hypothetical deal with the Pacers which would be Westbrook for you know Miles Turner and Buddy Heald was some traffic compensation also going to Indiana at some point the roster is probably not incomplete product are to me the roster is likely not complete on.

I just don't know how they drastically improve it. So I would say Brooklyn probably is the best answer your question, but I don't think either of these teams are necessarily like threats to win the title this year they are threats to be in your national MBA lineup still have nonstop every time every stop paying out a little bit. But what is the future look like for Lebron right now I'm it's it's one of those were like he still an amazing playwright. There's no question that he's in elite player, but that's going to start diminishing more and more you eat, we think of. And I don't I don't see them playing to 45. Do you, but in that it also highlighted for 50 if he goes about it the right way it is. It is not expecting to start or play 35 minutes again. Maybe he could be in a roll but I but I don't know. They could see Lebron doing that and I don't know if it also means we have to pay them a certain amount and that makes it that much harder to to build your new teams like in in the way MBA contracts work in the way what it whatever his desires are.

How do you see a play not usually play more than three years.

Do you think the one to play with his kid is a real thing like what one puts the end of Lebron look like much I hate to say that what he gets tough to fathom because like the rain coming in the year 20 right, which is hard to believe but last season when healthy Lebron averaged 30 points per game and eight rebounds per game to six assists per game.

He shot over 52% from the field. I think with Lebron what you see now is you're going to get me absolutely, he can still be a written pressure guy and a guy that breaks down a defense and was able can even still be a monstrous transition by he's not the same method obviously is not the same athlete as he was even towards the end of his time during the second stint in Cleveland so he's gonna be like a little more judicious with with Wendy. You know uses every single part of his athleticism, but is more the half-court player now is more of a jump shoot what average 83 point attempts per game last season.

That's a career I now shot 36% of them because he's incredible but it's going to be the compensation; where taking takes more jump shots. It's less free throws. It's less dominance at the rim, but he's still a supercomputer with the basketball. He still the best pastor in the world and he is in East a terrific outside shooter now so Pekin still has the ability to be incredible on the offense of side of the court defensively.

It's not the same thing, though I do think you got them into a playoff setting in a sort of like wind or go home scenario for Lebron would would be able to dialogue or defense. I do think you can get this output from them for a couple more years knowing that it's going to like diminished a little bit here and there on the margins. I don't know if there will ever be some sort of like colossal falloff. I think he really would have to play well into his 40s for that to happen because I do think she's found some sort of lease defensively, a stable weight produced by being huge by being a good outside shooter and by being again.

One of the best pastors in the history of basketball. So I think you keep this up.

The I do think he wants to play in the NBA. When you know at least when when maybe Brontë's elder son would perhaps be in the league as well. There are you doing commercials together which school somebody a couple weeks ago for the birthday was requesting like hot sports takes give your spicy sports take like ridiculous sports eggs and mine was like I held Jordan Jordan at 6260. Yeah, this is he is getting really close, he would have been the wood and what a freshman and 80 to 18 years old and 82.

She's gotta be 58 96 lots about my my think was that he could ever stand in the league. I can start to get started but like a regular sent in the playoffs like it is minutes to get faded. We get we can't really would have on the court, but so I obviously like I want to see Lebron tried to 45 and you have four or beyond doing. I mean if if if Brady can do it in the NFL quarterback. Why can't Lebron do it. You know the NBA is Brady didn't have to go lineup on defense. Brady benefit, like I was through. Employees will team that I'm super excited about that.

I know you are. I want to know what your ceiling is for the New Orleans pelicans. Brendan Ingram given Kitson and Duke obviously super coolies started quietly under the radar superstar that out of the gets talked about that much Zion I was to the question is his help as well. But you know if if he's healthy, it's still monster and then to give a column is a supercool great player funded route for an awesome what's your ceiling on them or they topped read team in the West, or by being too optimistic. I wouldn't go top three because you still guide you got Golden State, it's easy to forget about the clickers right but have clippers until they are in clockwise and Paul Georgia back and mean who knows what the sons but even if the sons within you know 14 fewer games this season than they did. There still literally still a 50 win team Young Memphis 156 games on Harry Jackson Junior seem to be out so I wouldn't go top three for them and I think Minnesota's good one a ton of regular-season games in also Denver with yoke H is fully healthy. Now with Michael Porter Junior and Jamaal Murray back plus they had a contagious cobble Pope Bruce Brown. So I see them as a top – all my hopes.

Thank you thank you thank you. That said, can this be a top six team in the Western Conference.

I don't think that's out of the question. You like to get to the six of the six line they avoid the player I dudes I do think that's possible if Psion recovers gets back to the form he did his second year in the NBA when he was a top 12 player in the league, and is, you know, basically 6 foot seven shack Brendan Ingram who we saw make real strides not just talking about oak.

He shot better on three user. The average more points per game on time at what he was doing in the playoffs was like stone cold killer assassin you know NBA high leverage yellow offense of creator type stuff, like it was incredible to see and he's just in certain spots of Florida Keys on Carnival because of his size of his shooting touch and they just have so many guys they can go so deep that they got someone like Trey Murphy, second-year guy out of Virginia is from right in our backyard. Carrie Durham, North Carolina.

Like that's a guy who was playing eight minutes for them during the second half last season, including the playoffs that you can even cracked their starting lineup. You would be like the second best player on the Hornets right now.

Seriously, they got they got a garlic herb Jones was a rookie wasn't was all defensively was one of the top five, six defensive players in the NBA units balance Eunice can mass guys in the post at center and on the offense of glass. Larry Nance gives him a small ball center who can passing and replacing CJ McCall missive is a guy that will play point guard for them.

So we'll see what how what he could do sort of like setting other guys up but he's a walking bucket.

So I think as long as they get enough shooting on the court. I think this team has the chance to be incredible. They probably over performed back half of last season. But sort of ended up balancing out.

Now you add Psion back in know.

I think this team is awesome.

I think there definitely a top A-Team in the Western Conference and I think they have the chance to get up to the fifth or succeed as well by guys eager to get his work Busby podcast.

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Things are bad for the Panthers, and as Brian mentioned that indwelling Hornets too much for the file bridle probably here talking Hornets break you down as the season goes on and really didn't just want continue to pile on how bad the authors was for the Hornets with the Panthers being really really bad thing spiraling downward is as Brian said for the Hornets. It's a reminder.

Charlotte is still considered like young as a sports town right it's not done of the history of like a Cleveland or Detroit or whatever, but its history is growing and it's mostly bad.

I'll explain how bad it is bad pro sports town Charlotte has been next examine his name in the back to preachers examines the monkeys name yeah now that I'm not not not hugged to ensure they're not confused though that I did is God's producing not ruled, occasionally taking over the board and filling in Hayes Brevard. Here we are still taking them.

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