Nicolas Batum

The first one I think has aged better than the second one.

So the first one is about Nick Batum's performance against the Miami Heat in the play-in game when he hit all those threes.

It is sung to the tune of P.O.D.'s Boom.

It is called Batum.

[upbeat rock music] I want heat.

I never knew that a guy like Nico still had it in him to be popping threes like Bub Cleco.

And Bead looking sick, Maxie nowhere to be seen.

But it's all right, it's all right.

I think, uh, honestly the only reason that I would go a little bit lighter is just this has been, everybody's been doing this, right? And everybody's been getting away with it for 20 years now.

And so to just be like, oh yeah, it's gonna be five first-round picks in this instance and you didn't do shit to everybody else just because, you know, with Nick Batum and the Clippers it was like...

Uh, or Bradley Beal and the Clippers, it wasn't just, like, such crazy sticker shock on the contract even though they did do the exact same thing.

That's, that to me, it just, it would be unfair to have not done any of these other guys and then just completely hammer the Bucs.

But one of his first game winners.

Nicolas Batum, journeyman.

See, see, here, here's my, here's my thing with the Thunder.

Mm-hmm.

Is I almost think that they would, like- You need Nicolas Batum because you have injuries to the team.

Mm-hmm.

That would be why you would put him on the team.

The 2021 Clippers I considered because, man, that was just such a special season.

offense that they put together where you have Kawhi peaking as a playmaker you have him and PG both handling the primary responsibilities as your ball handlers and your creators and then you just had so much shooting around the Marcus Morris hitting 47% of his threes and canard hitting 45% of his threes and Terrence Mann and Nick Batum like Patrick Beverly I mean this team was just chock full of great three-point shooters Reggie Jackson is bringing you a spark as another ball handler and he had a really good shooting season that year very elite offense ultimately I do feel like their lack of a real high-end playmaker and at times their over reliance on the jump shooting in the three-point shot is held them back a little bit, but you just can't deny.

I mean, they shot 41% from three that regular season, and they were a pretty nuclear offense.

A lot of great offenses in the NBA in 2021.

There's a, there's a couple.

Nick Batum took a strange deal in 2021 with them.

[laughs] There's, there's a few small ones here and there that, like, maybe those things were in shape to come back.

Man, leave Nick Batum out of this, man.

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He's in France right now, man.

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