Wizards & Rockets 'traded problems' with Russell Westbrook-John Wall deal — Skip | NBA | UNDISPUTED

who won the trade long before I said that,

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, I'm sorry Washington, because I talked this into existence. I remember when Russell Westbrook first requested the trade and I'm searching and exploring as if the only trade that really makes sense,

skip

, is him. for

john

wall

because they said that first, I said that first gift, I really thought it had been rumored for weeks when I first heard, saw the news, came here, hey Internet, do your thing, now you know the Internet, it's good at this because it omits. if you look at it, it jumps out, they are very similar players, they shoot about the same from the field, they shoot about the same from the three point line, the contracts are basically identical, they have an injury history and the question is based on their injury history. what are these contracts going to look like not only this year, but you still have two more years left after this year, roughly three years, $131 million, so what's that going to look like?

But for me, it scales who won the trade in the short term, I'll say. the Rockets because they got a first-round pick, but they lost overall because you cut Chris Paul a year early and gave up four first-round picks to get rusty and you only get one of those back and that's protected in the short term. They want you, if you look good, to train to trade, uh, Russ for John Wall. I'm going to say the Rockets won because they got a first round pick in return, but overall they lost this one, they leave out what they gave up and that's the risk you run if you give up so many of these assets and I guess it's hard to call them assets because We don't know what they are going to do with these selections, but when you give up all their jumps and the type of a suddenly he is not happy but what happened to the friendship you know well I have been knowing him but I have been knowing James since I have been Disney I have been meeting my guy we're from california we grew up aau put this all together hmm yeah I don't know how people thought this was going to work you got two guys that led the NBA that were one or two in use which means I got the ball in my hands, they alternate, I'm number one one year you're number two, I'm number one one year, you're number two and you put those two guys together, you jump around and people actually vote yes, yes, I know that's my guy, let's see if I look at him, my brother, I like to think that me and my my brother is closer than Russ, I'm pretty sure they want to play with him because I know he'll hold on to the ball and I I'll also walk with my receivers, so you know what's best: you stay in Green Bay, out there.

Denver, it would have been better if you didn't put these guys together so as not to ruin the friendship. I don't think I ruined it, but they realized they couldn't play together. They realized that Russ, as you like to say. rust like this a man comes back hey look I can help other people but I can if I can do this if I can be the master of the ring if I can be the trapeze guy if I can be shot with the cannon if I can do all that things why I need all that skill if I can do it?

Yeah, so for me, plus, Russ can get back with Scottie Brooks, he coached him in the uh, okay, jump, you know, three consecutive triple double seasons, MVP, he knows Scotty Book, but I don't. Think if Bradley Bill is happy, no, if James Harden is happy, no, James Knight has the tightest beard, okay, hey, y'all got me, John Wall, I'm good to see, let me sign that extension, I don't think that one Whatever the case, skill, so I can. we say anyone what because I don't think anyone would be happy with this, they just had to do it, which brings me just in time to my conclusion in trying to figure out who won this.

Last night I had a headache and I fell asleep and I'm still not sure there was a winner in this exchange, they

traded

problems

, that's all they did. John Wall is not a problem for the team as far as being on the team. He is beloved in Washington. Yes, they love him. He's been great at it. The community there is incredible and they are heartbroken to lose him, but he hasn't played in two years. Who is he? What is it? What remains and I had the dreaded Achilles injury on top of the ACL. I think he did it when he fell.

He comes down the stairs at home and the thing is, he's a fast guy, so he's probably going to be impacted more by the Achilles tendon than Kevin Durant and I know he's posted some videos and he looks explosive again. God bless you. Knock on wood. for him, but who knows what he is now, who knows if he can live up to those last two years with the bigger money, so what am I supposed to do with this? I don't know because you have to tell me how good it's going to be. Look, you've got two guys that are capable of averaging double figures because they both did, yeah, it could be 20 guys, they're both capable of leading the league in assists the same way Lebron just led the league in a sense, but neither Of the two it is a talent. passer for me, they have to work on it, they have to focus on getting rid of the ball in the lane, how to drive it and leave it well, I really want to leave this ball but they blocked me, so I'm I'll kick it to you so you can do something right, so I don't love any of them as a show runner as a right as a distributor as a pure point, they're not pure points, either, right, John?

Wall when he was in his athletic prime, he's really a highlight, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, he can fly, shoot and make some sensational plays. For me, Russ is a much bigger blockbuster for me than John Wall, so I'll give Wizards a higher rating. because they got

russell

westbrook

to sell because they don't have much to sell but like i tweeted last night poor bradley beal yeah i don't love him love bradley b he's a good guy right? and he's such a talented shooter, and now Look, he was looking for a reason to stay and now he has the biggest solo act in basketball and it's hard to play with Russ because my mom used to call me stubborn, but have you ever heard that yeah, are you stubborn? yeah, you just won't listen, just go, go, go, well that's Rosie, she just has a bull's head, right, she just sees a basket, a tax basket and loses touch, wait, it's a team sport, well , it's not for us and remember what your line was.

Why did he leave Houston? I want to play my game again. Yeah, what's your game? You just said it. Yes, he is determined to go to the basket. It's all about him and I swear he became in those three years where he averaged a triple-double he cared more about stats than winning, he just did it, that's what put him on the map, even though he did it because they got it, it made people like, wait, man, Kevin Durant, this guy won the MVP the year Kevin Durant left and then. average average triple double average 40 had 42 triple doubles and then followed it up with another season of triple doubles and then followed it up with another season, okay, now jump, I've already tried it and that's how people know me.

I'm not getting a no, so I'm the 4th or 5th seed, wait, no one's talking about Russ, no, so I don't even know if they can make the playoffs. I'm serious, because look at it. I missed last year, right, I list the Nets Bucks, the Celtics, the fixers, the Raptors, Heat Pacers, and the magic made to play in the last two seasons, so if you throw the falcons, the falcons are better, Here come the hawks, they are better, I don't know if they can. Do it, it'll be close, yeah, uh, I'm watching this, okay, I don't see if you make it, what's your eight?

You might remember they had 25 and 47 with Bradley Beale having a career year, yeah, and they just delivered. davis barton is my ex stimulus a lot of money they gave him five years 80 million he can shoot he has six nine but it's okay Russian skill with those shooters bradley b yeah and the sticks run every 15 assists of the night okay it probably won't make you damage Say I said yes, but what I should do will skip it and if you look at his last season before he got hurt, guess who was second in time of possession with the ball in hand behind Harden, that guy John Wall, so this notion. that oh he's a no, he's not, yes, he and Russ understand that's why they changed him.

They are exactly the same guys. They are shooting more or less the same from three thirty-two percent. They shoot the same from the ground. They play basically the same. phonetic rhythm up and down, I agree what the advantage Washington has right now. Well, Scotty Brooks trained Russ for seven years in Oklahoma City, so at least he probably approved of this, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty cool with that and everyone is around Ross. like he, you know, they just know when the game goes on, he gets a little bit blind and goes into solo applications. Jump, I'm sure he's a great guy, I think he is, he's a great guy to be around, he's just a terrible guy. a teammate, I agree, I agree, okay, let's change things from a gameplay point of view, not that it's bad, totally agree, completely co-signed, look at the

rockets

now, so we've reunited two Kentucky teammates and Wall and Demarcus' cousins.

I'm still a big Demarcus fan. I don't know about their physical condition right now, so now you have two former Kentucky stars, one who went first overall in that draft and I don't know who they are physically right now and another one had an Achilles tendon injury, he had an ACL, had a quad strain and now you bring him in to form a teammate who had the same very similar injuries and what am I supposed to expect from them if you have them at peak performance? Oh yeah, I like it, yeah, sure, yeah, and still, I have to give Russ a prop. you said it didn't work out with james i thought they were working as hard as they could i thought

russell

sacrificed last year and had a good year and a more efficient year was 27 eight and seven right not bad right and shared shared but that's the thing , but jump, he wasn't happy about it, that's what I'm saying, well the reason he wasn't, because okay, so they go to the bubble, what happened to Russ right away, they coveted him, you remember and then go down there. and he took out his quad and that kept him out for a while and he went into the playoffs lame, lame, and then they won the first game against your guys, and then I'll go to my grave saying that about Danielle House going south.

I violated the quarantine, right, yeah, so the point was that all of a sudden everything went away and then everyone was unhappy because they lost, but I think the thing is the skill, if they were ever really happy playing with each other, I mean to this. The team is that they're happy to be together, yeah, and I think the thing is because we're guys, it didn't boil over, no, as it would have if they hadn't met and you try to get these two guys together, but then , except I don't even think that if they didn't know each other, they would never have mixed it, they would never have mixed it, you know, they shoot gas because they already know it's fuel, so with this situation, skip, I think they maxed out.

They maxed out as much as they could as best they could, but Russ wasn't going to be happy to jump because he's happiest when he's a one-man band. Okay, I get it, so both teams are happier to trade issues, but I don't think either of them, James. Wait, wait a minute, yeah, get everyone out of here except me, you got Covington out of here, you got the russ out of here, you

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cp3, you traded capella, you can leave dwight howard. You can all get out of here and help me what are you going to do for me and I'm not going to sign that 50 ooh you know you want to get out of somewhere with a really bad skill someone has two years 100 million on the table for you. say no, I'm fine, you must really want to get out of there unless you really think you're going to, you're destined for Brooklyn hey, I don't know, I can still be brave Brooklyn, give me that to give me that. they can eat me oh they still trade for their son now but I don't know if Brooklyn wants to get rid of all those assets they're going to ask for because they're going to want Kyrie KD along with Dean William Levert.

I'd probably like to think it could just be dinwiddie Levert and whoever else you want to say no to, no, but they had a superstar that we need, we need the equivalent, we have to get a superstar in this, you can, james harden, yeah, thanks for looking at you. You can subscribe here to get the latest from the show and be sure to see more of

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