Yaxel Lendeborg

Not bad.

Not bad, Yaxel.

And where do they go tomorrow?

They go to

I mean, last night against the Denver Nuggets, and then we'll see about tomorrow against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Yeah, that'll be tough, but no Anthony Edwards makes it a lot different.

Yaxel's been fun, man.

I mean, we could get him more tomorrow, but I think Yaxel, I know what I said about him after the first performance, and he was pretty good on Luka defensively.

But he's also not like somebody that's taking a million shots either.

So Kerr is really just letting Yaxel get a ton of run.

And it's a little... odd to watch a Kerr led team give a rookie this much like leeway but I think that that's just kind of where they're at right like they don't have a lot of options right now I think they know they're not particularly good so they're like look our best path towards something is if Yaxel's good um so I think they're giving him plenty of opportunity the the press conferences have been bizarre with about Yaxel I mean like Kerr is just openly flaming him sometimes just like I know Yeah, he's awful.

He's awful defensively.

It's really a bizarre thing to watch, but I can't talk you off of that over.

Probably stay away, though, because I really don't like this Golden State team.

I need Yaxel to play.

Like, they have no supporting cast scoring ability besides Yaxel right now, and they need him.

So I can't bet this, at least for Golden State's side, not knowing if he's available.

So pass.

But if Yaxel plays, I'll take Golden State.

If not, I'll go for Minnesota.

Yeah, either way, I like Minnesota.

And

after that, Yaxel said he lost all respect for the Joker.

Yeah, Yaxel doubled down too.

But yeah, so Jokic... doubled down and said, if you're going to boo, stay home because he's hearing a lot of that.

And I actually do

Probably stay away, though, because I really don't like this Golden State team.

I need Yaxel to play.

Like, they have no supporting cast scoring ability besides Yaxel right now, and they need him.

So I can't bet this, at least for Golden State's side, not knowing if he's available.

So pass.

But if Yaxel plays, I'll take Golden State.

If not, I'll go for Minnesota.

Either way, I like Minnesota.

Couple of young player developments in the West that we want you to keep an eye on.

Yaxel Lendeborg, who for me, if you weren't impressed, like watching him play on Saturday, I raved about him on the postgame show with you, raved about him in the thing where I was like that I wrote that was like, this is he is going to get good very fast.

And I think he's going to be a two way star in this league pretty soon, as long as his head is screwed on straight.

last night he had 31 points took 13 free throws made 12 of them so he's already figuring out the foul baiting game that he complained about earlier like remember mitch he was like oh this is the nba now three games later implementing it immediately like that's fast that's really fast stuff he's picking up yeah 12 rebounds six assists three turnovers like he's a playmaking point forward for them right now and this is a team where you were mentioning it Bill Simmons went on and was like, the Warriors are awful.

This is different.

Losing Ademara, losing Yaxel Langenberg, losing...

Help me out.

Fuck, I'm flanking.

more than that.

You got to keep going.

You lost Yaxel, Merez, Johnson, Ademara, LJ, Kasson, Amari, Burnett.

I was

Not bad.

Not bad, Yaxel.

And where do they go tomorrow?

They go to

I mean, last night against the Denver Nuggets, and then we'll see about tomorrow against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Yeah, that'll be a—that'll be tough, but no Anthony Edwards makes it a lot different.

Yaxel's been fun, man.

I mean, we could get him more tomorrow, but I think Yaxel, I know what I said about him after the first performance, and he was pretty good on Luka defensively.

Obviously, the three main players from that team all get drafted in the first round of the NBA.

Yaxel Lendeborg to the Warriors, Adai Amara to the Thunder.

And Mraz Johnson goes to Dallas.

So that's going to be a huge deal for Michigan to replace them.