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Speaker 1: M. Welcome to the State of the Lakers post game

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Speaker 1: show presented by DASH Radio. Jason is out tonight, but

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Speaker 1: I'll be here. After the Lakers played the Dallas Mavericks. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what a game. Still trying to come down from that

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Speaker 1: emotional roller coaster. This team hates us right like that.

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Speaker 1: What a what an up and town back and forth game.

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Speaker 1: But the story tonight, I had a bunch of things

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get to. I'm not gonna go too

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Speaker 1: long tonight. I was gonna keep it kind of short.

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Speaker 1: But this is the Austin Reeves game. I think I

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Speaker 1: have to start there. And I'm gonna try some new

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Speaker 1: things with this space. Uh and and might look a

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Speaker 1: little weird. I'm gonna try to share some tweets in

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Speaker 1: here and try to go over some place I saw.

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Speaker 1: So if it looks kind of weird, I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 1: I'm a kind of experiment a little bit. But Austin Reaves, Man,

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Speaker 1: what a game from the kid. It's been building this

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Speaker 1: way right And Marion Vader, who for the Ringer, just

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Speaker 1: wrote an amazing piece and I recommend everyone to go

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Speaker 1: read that kind of shows where Austin comes from and everything.

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Speaker 1: But man, to step up like this to defend the

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Speaker 1: way he did. Every Bradley got bent Frost and Reeves

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Speaker 1: probably was getting cooked by Jillian Brunson. Tonight he went

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Speaker 1: to Austin Reeves and Reeves stepped up. Brunson still was

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Speaker 1: able to get to the basket a little bit, was

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Speaker 1: still able to score, was still able to create, but

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Speaker 1: his defense being at this level, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: where I'm gonna start with this in my notes, because

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Speaker 1: it's just not normal. It's just not usual. And you know,

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Speaker 1: he went undrafted, and I know the Pistons could have

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Speaker 1: selected him, but he chose, but he still went undrafted.

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Speaker 1: Right if the Pistons liked him so much, Austin Reaves

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Speaker 1: would be a Detroit Piston. They still let him get

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Speaker 1: past get let let him get past him and come

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Speaker 1: to us. And his defense is just absolutely incredible to watch.

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Speaker 1: He has verticality on drives. His physicality still is in there.

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Speaker 1: That's his one weakness, right, but he's just ahead super

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Speaker 1: high basketball I Q on both ends, and you really

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Speaker 1: saw it tonight. I thought the Mavericks trying to go

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Speaker 1: at him a little bit. Again, his body isn't there,

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Speaker 1: but he's just in the right spots every single time,

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Speaker 1: and it just looks like he connects with our big three, right.

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Speaker 1: It just looks like it's a smooth transition. And his

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Speaker 1: threes were going tonight. They said on the broadcast he's

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Speaker 1: shooting like thirty one from three or something like that,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't feel that way just because of the

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Speaker 1: type of shots he takes. We had like four threes

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Speaker 1: I think in that first half really picked them up

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Speaker 1: when they needed it. He fits along rust right, he

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Speaker 1: runs to the corner, he says, little pin screens. He

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Speaker 1: just does all this stuff that you want from a

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Speaker 1: guy that's playing next to three superstars. And you saw

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Speaker 1: it tonight and they missed Taylan definitely defensively, but you

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Speaker 1: just see kind of where he fits around. And I

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Speaker 1: don't want to make this in Austin versus tailing thing,

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Speaker 1: but he just did an awesome job. He was great

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Speaker 1: as a screen as right as well. Tonight he continued

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Speaker 1: the let me see if I can kind of post

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Speaker 1: this in here, but he continued his short role passing

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Speaker 1: with with Lebron and let's see if I can get

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Speaker 1: this video onto their Alright, we're gonna experiment this, uh,

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Speaker 1: if you guys can see the tweet in the in

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Speaker 1: the space es basically Austin working uh with Lebron in

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Speaker 1: the short role as a screener and he's a great

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Speaker 1: job rolling to the open space. And tonight he did

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Speaker 1: a nice job in the first half phase. More ms

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Speaker 1: to lay up off of it, a d missed to

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Speaker 1: lay up off of it. But there's just stuff that

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Speaker 1: Austin does that's super basketball, a cute stuff that you

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Speaker 1: just you just can't teach. Um. And I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: people in there put a fire emoji if you can

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Speaker 1: see the posts that I've posted in the Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: I think I see it up there now. But if

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Speaker 1: you see the play up there and people listening on

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Speaker 1: dash radio tomorrow or on the podcast, um, the video

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Speaker 1: up on the space is basically just Austin coming and

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Speaker 1: setting screens for Broun and Austin rolling to the short role,

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Speaker 1: which is where you don't roll all the way to

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Speaker 1: Lebron obviously the pastor, uh Rob being a great pastor.

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Speaker 1: It just with okay, and then I'm gonna try to

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Speaker 1: share one more thing in here one second. Alright, Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's not working, but yeah, Austin's chemistry with with

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Speaker 1: see how many minutes he played tonight. Yeah, so it

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Speaker 1: doesn't show here, but I think he played around thirty minutes.

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Speaker 1: He played both overtime. He played the full overtime, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's just awesome to see a guy this young, undrafted,

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Speaker 1: beat out every Bradley tonight to close and it was

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Speaker 1: just cool to see. Man. I'll talk more about Austin

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Speaker 1: little bit, and I want to move to Wayne Ellington. Man,

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Speaker 1: I've been hoping that he starts. I've been parading for

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Speaker 1: him to start. And this is not the way that

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Speaker 1: I wanted Wayne to start, right Like, this is not uh,

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Speaker 1: through a COVID situation right where he had to fill

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Speaker 1: was again, I thought he didn't make a shot. I

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Speaker 1: believe until the fourth quarter he was over four. But

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Speaker 1: there was just a bunch of good process stuff, right

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Speaker 1: this RUSS got off to a good start tonight. I

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Speaker 1: thought something I thought a lot of it was because

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Speaker 1: we had the spacing. We had Avery Bradley, who's still

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Speaker 1: a guy they don't guard, but we had Wayne Ellington

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Speaker 1: running to corners and Russell was able to you know,

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Speaker 1: get to the rim, and he had a good start.

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Speaker 1: He was getting to the basket. And Wayne just allows

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Speaker 1: us to run some actions that I think we just

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Speaker 1: aren't able to do with anyone else. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: try to share it in the in the space here

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Speaker 1: really quickly. One of the players that I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: I'll get more into that a little bit later, but

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Speaker 1: let me see if I can share this into that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So if you see this, uh this post that I

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Speaker 1: shared in the space and again for people listening on

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Speaker 1: dash radio or on Spotify or Apple Music tonight or tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: it's basically Ellington and a D in the corner right,

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Speaker 1: the action. And it's why it's a wide pinned down

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Speaker 1: th ht UM. They're on a lot for th HD.

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Speaker 1: They rent it and they rent it tonight for Wayne.

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Speaker 1: And the difference with Wayne is he's such a shooter

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Speaker 1: that the big has to kind of step up on it, right,

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Speaker 1: And when the big steps up, he hits it with

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Speaker 1: a little pocket past to a D. And that's just

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Speaker 1: the kind of actions I'd like to see them run more,

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Speaker 1: and as Wayne gets more comfortable with the team, and

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys can see the tweet in the space,

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Speaker 1: but it's just a little wide pinned down. It's not

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Speaker 1: something too complicated. It's just actions I would like them

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Speaker 1: to run. Because in that second quarter we scored ten points,

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Speaker 1: and that's we scored ten points with bron a D

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Speaker 1: I think the reason we get on these offensive lolls

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Speaker 1: as we go into isolation basketball, we go to non

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Speaker 1: screen basketball, we try to post up a D post

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Speaker 1: like we have offensive weapons that we can use. You

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Speaker 1: can even throw Malik Monk into those kind of actions.

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Speaker 1: But it's why I've been pleading for Wayne to start

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Speaker 1: eventually well, good shooters will eventually get going. We saw

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Speaker 1: that tonight, right, Wayne was over four to start, He

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Speaker 1: the hit the one to tie, like good shooters are

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Speaker 1: eventually gonna hit yuh. And it's why I've kind of

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Speaker 1: but he fights right, And that's the that's the missing

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Speaker 1: thing I think a lot a lot of times that

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Speaker 1: Because if Wayne Anton was a good defender, he's not

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Speaker 1: on the minimum and he's not on the Lakers, right,

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Speaker 1: And we look a lot at what a guy can't do,

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Speaker 1: but this guy can legit shoot the ball. And I've

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Speaker 1: always said this, go look around the league what shooters cost. Right,

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Speaker 1: And we joke Luke Arnard is a really good player.

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Speaker 1: He's come into his own. He's at sixty four million

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Speaker 1: the handle of Luke Nard. But I believe you give

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Speaker 1: Wayne Ellington enough movement shots like he can produce, that

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Speaker 1: he can put up those kind of numbers. Four shots

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Speaker 1: to me in three quarters of play wasn't enough. And

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Speaker 1: He's never gonna be great, but I just thought tonight

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Speaker 1: the last thing on Ellington here, Sorry if I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of rambling, but we won this game with the Ellington

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Speaker 1: Lebron two man game like, that's what won this game.

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Speaker 1: And I'm trying. I would try to get some more

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Speaker 1: same time. But we won this game with an Allington

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Speaker 1: Lebron two man game, and that's been a staple of

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Speaker 1: k CP, right, we saw it with to a greater

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Speaker 1: version with Kyrie. Like small small guards who are defended

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Speaker 1: by smaller players, teams don't want to switch it, right,

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Speaker 1: That's why Dallas kept trapping. So they had Trey Berg

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Speaker 1: trying to hide on Wayne Allington. He comes and sets

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Speaker 1: the screen. Wayne Allington rolls out nicely. Wayne Alan has

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Speaker 1: been setting these screens his whole career, right, because this

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Speaker 1: is kind of what people do with shooters, said him

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Speaker 1: as screeners, and he rolled off. They had to rotate

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Speaker 1: and gets a gets an animal that he misses. But

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Speaker 1: when you just have shooters that you can put in,

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Speaker 1: that situation changes it, right, because if that's Avery Bradley

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Speaker 1: sitting the screen, Dallas can trap and they're not going

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Speaker 1: to rotate out to Avery Bradley, right because they don't

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Speaker 1: I would like to see more Russ Lebron pick and roll.

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Speaker 1: They still don't rotate um, they don't rotate out to

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Speaker 1: everything has to be occus to where it needs to

428
00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 1: be a perfect situation, like there's a give and take there.

429
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Speaker 1: But you know, I think eighties eventually going to figure

430
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 1: it out. It's just gonna it's gonna take some time.

431
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 1: And he came back from an injury. You could tell

432
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,840
Speaker 1: again he wasn't himself. That was a lot of rust,

433
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,399
Speaker 1: but he fought through it. Hit you know, hit a

434
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 1: big shot late on parsoning is it was like a

435
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 1: dribble through step back midrange pull up jumper, beautiful shot

436
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 1: that you know it's in his bag. I guess, oh

437
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: last thing on my note, Sorry if I'm sorry if

438
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 1: I'm jumping around here. There's a play tonight where A

439
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 1: D got the inbound. I wish I got the film

440
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: of it. He was gonna give it to Russ, but

441
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 1: I think Russ was like getting overplayed and he just

442
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,919
Speaker 1: dribbled it up the floor. And then Russ came in

443
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 1: said a step up screen, which based just a screen

444
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 1: when when the guys dribbling up and eighty was able to,

445
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: the guard had to make a decision, and eighty got

446
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: to the got to the mid range, pulled up. The

447
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,639
Speaker 1: guard was leaning on him and he got fouled and

448
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: drew fout. That was the only play tonight I believe

449
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,199
Speaker 1: for a D brought the ball up, you know, and

450
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 1: to me like that like represents to me again, it's

451
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 1: not eighties fault. It's not the team's fault. It's just

452
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 1: stuff that I see that I feel like we can adjust,

453
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 1: like that stuff where A D is just too good,

454
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 1: too talented to me to limit him into the role

455
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 1: that we have him, which is into a straight up

456
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 1: post up guy. Or straight he's a great screen role player,

457
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,440
Speaker 1: but just straight screen and roll like, there's stuff I

458
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 1: would like to see more where let a D bring

459
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 1: the ball up, let him come up, let him in

460
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: and out, dribble a big who's who's backpelling like, let

461
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Speaker 1: him free him up to do some of that stuff.

462
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: And he's never gonna be honest, right he doesn't have

463
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 1: the like the body or the you know, the body

464
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 1: of the honest where he just or defenders, bump off

465
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,159
Speaker 1: and like that. But to me is handled like should

466
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 1: be right there. Again, the thing about a D grew

467
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: up as a guard right has all those guards skills,

468
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 1: put them to use. There's no reason for a D

469
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: to just be back to the basket big That plays

470
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 1: right into his worst skills, right Like, it's just not

471
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Speaker 1: into what he does well. So that's the last thing

472
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Speaker 1: on a D. I think a D will um. I

473
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 1: think a D will eventually figure it out as we

474
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Speaker 1: go here. It's just we have to have some patience

475
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Speaker 1: with him. I guess, um, I guess as as he

476
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 1: tries to uh knock the rust off, and I think

477
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: he eventually will. We just have to we have to

478
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Speaker 1: give him some time, Okay, I think the let me

479
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: see the last thing I wanted to I guess talk

480
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: about here. The team has won three games in a row,

481
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,719
Speaker 1: and it's not it hasn't at all been pretty um

482
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 1: this team is. This team has given us a lot

483
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: of up and downs and it's been annoying. But I

484
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: think I'm starting to see some good process stuff here

485
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: that we can build off of. I think the Austin

486
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: Reef stuff is real. I think him playing more minutes

487
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 1: is going to happen, and I think that helps this team.

488
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: And if we can get Trevor reesa backman. And I'm

489
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 1: not trying to sound like some you know, just unrealistic

490
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 1: optimists here because I watched I try to watch all

491
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 1: these games. I try to look at it from you know, unbiased,

492
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 1: which is impossible to look at it from unbiased opinion,

493
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: but try to look at things that we're doing well man,

494
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: And tonight, like to me, if you know, Russ and

495
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: Braun are going out the way they were, and Lebron

496
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: was great. I even I don't think I even got

497
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: to Lebron really tonight. I think Lebron just been consistent.

498
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: Most people who fall on their agnicle like that don't

499
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: don't even walk for like, you know, a couple of hours.

500
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: Let around, go back and do you know dunk Cotton

501
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 1: tests while the ball is dead. But Lebron was. Lebron

502
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 1: was awesome tonight. I just think there's process stuff and

503
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,120
Speaker 1: I want to give it some time. The trade request

504
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: or you know, the trade rumors like those two those

505
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: are two those two me are so far out of

506
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: what this team is. And another just good process note

507
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: tonight to me is like Austin Reeves needs to play

508
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 1: like I love, you know, I think THHD is great.

509
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: I think his defense is a big part. But Rous

510
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: is not that far off defensively. He doesn't have the

511
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: physical tools, but his defense is right there. I think

512
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: when the reason gets back as well, I don't think.

513
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 1: I don't think Avery Bradley will be the starter. Like

514
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: there's good process stuff that I'm seeing. We got Russell

515
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: Lebron to come through. I believe in these last few

516
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Speaker 1: games if we can just get a d to add

517
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Speaker 1: to that. We were up thirty three to twenty three

518
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: in the first quarter and just let it all go.

519
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: Lebron played the five in the second quarter. Lebron was

520
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: not trying to rotate and I've always said, we can't

521
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: play Lebron at the five if he's not if he's

522
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 1: not engaged defensively, and I thought tonight he wasn't. Yeah,

523
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Speaker 1: for a lot of this game, I thought that run

524
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Speaker 1: they went on a fifteen run that second quarter. We

525
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Speaker 1: had Lebron with all bad defenders that you know, to

526
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Speaker 1: give him credit like we had I think Ellington. I

527
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: think we had Carmelo as well out there, but like,

528
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: we just can't play small if all those guys aren't engaged.

529
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: And I thought that brought it back and we're not.

530
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: This isn't like a super happy when you know, the

531
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,880
Speaker 1: MAVs didn't have a superstar player tonight, an m VP

532
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: candidate type guy Luca Donchers was on the bench. But

533
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: I'm still seeing good process stuff from the team, and

534
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: that's basically what I kind of want to keep it

535
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: at with this. It's been so negative, the talk around

536
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: the team has been so negative, and I kind of

537
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: wanted to, uh to lift the kind of spirit up,

538
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: spirits up a little bit. I'm optimist in just my

539
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: my general sense, but there's there's good process stuff here.

540
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: So I think I've been going around half an hour.

541
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to try. I've been just rambling. It feels

542
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: like I'm in front of like a class and talking.

543
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: Let me, I'll bring some people up here. Um, if

544
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: you want to come up request, I'll try to bring

545
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: up people for the for the final half hour here

546
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: trying to come up man, and just gonna see me Jonathan,

547
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 1: what's up? Man? It was fucking hear me. I can

548
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: hear you. What's up? Bro? Much? Man? How you doing? Brother?

549
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: Doing all right? Emotional game right? So I'm cool, man.

550
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: I just want to touch basis on some of the

551
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: points you made. Man. Hey, I see you learn how

552
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: to pin the top two man trying, But yeah, I

553
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: think Wayne need more minutes. Man, that'll play. That stuck

554
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: out to me. They had like a fast break two

555
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 1: on one. He hustled back to like slap it out

556
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 1: of bounce. Oh my, that right there, that's solidified. I

557
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: don't know what Frank doing after that. Man, you gotta

558
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: put him out there. Um, and the thing too. I

559
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: want to took the A D thing. Man. I'm at

560
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: the point where I think he don't want to play

561
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: the five. We just need to scrape that, get him

562
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: at the four and do what you were saying as

563
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: far as like letting them bring it up, like play

564
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: it to letting him, you know, if he wants to

565
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: play like he thinks he's youngest or you know, a

566
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: three guard or whatever. I've seen a quote and I

567
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: don't know if it was true, but it was about

568
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: him saying he want to play the three more or

569
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know if that was the

570
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: true quote, but that was I don't think that was.

571
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: I kind of think he feels that way, bro, like

572
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: we have to let him play like that, resident beating

573
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 1: it to him in the post, because I don't you know,

574
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: I don't know what that what's going on with that,

575
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, I don't think he

576
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: wants to play the five like that. I think it's

577
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: so he's saving himself or whatever. So we just gotta

578
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: let a D B A D at this point, is

579
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Well, I mean, there's no

580
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: think they're A D has been very clear about this,

581
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: has been very clear that he doesn't want to play

582
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: the five until it matters, right until the playoffs are

583
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: in big games or whatever. But this team just can't

584
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: survive that, Like they need him at center and they

585
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: just don't need him at center. They need him engaged

586
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 1: fully as the defensive Player of the Year candidate he is,

587
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: and to his credit to me, he's been that on

588
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: defense a lot. It just doesn't look pretty all the

589
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 1: time because defense isn't pretty right when you're fighting or

590
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: you know, fighting for rebounds download like that's not fun.

591
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure a D is tired, especially when you have

592
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: guards that aren't don't do that instinctually like Reeves is.

593
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: That's why Realves should play. To me, is he's a

594
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: guy that instinctually goes down and fights for rebounds and

595
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But our guards don't really do that.

596
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: So it really leaves a D and and Lebron and

597
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: Russ to kind of shoulder a lot of that. And

598
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: you could tell it's getting him fatigued as well. He

599
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: looks tired earlier in games. He looks like he's resting

600
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: on offense a lot of times. So you just you

601
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: just see stuff like that. And and man, I've been

602
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: preaching the way now and stuff forever now. I've been

603
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: preaching that he should start again. This is not the

604
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: situation I wanted him to start, but this is, uh,

605
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: this is kind of what I expected from it, just

606
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: especially late game, right Lebron had someone who pass too,

607
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: Like Lebron had a shooter to find um and I

608
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: thought in a shooter to work two man game with

609
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: and a shooter to just you know it was it

610
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: was nice, man, It was. It was cool to see

611
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: see uh, see him get minutes and see him come

612
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: through as well. Yeah, I agree, man, real stuffed up

613
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: big man man reads that was that's a steal man

614
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: that that's crazy that dude. But here Wayne, he gotta

615
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: get more minutes. Man, it ain't evitable now push with

616
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: the way everything is going. But yeah, a d is

617
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: gonna coach man. And then another point, I was making

618
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: some people to um, you brought up the reason and

619
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: returning right like I was telling somebody. I was telling them,

620
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not counting the reason to come say

621
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: this season him or none, you know, come safe to see.

622
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: But I look at a couple of things. We were

623
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: fourth in the West right now right for like come

624
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: on there, like as bad as just being we're right there. Two,

625
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: we don't need a reason to come back and do

626
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: too much, you know what I mean, we need them

627
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: to come back. It's allows us it's the lineups, you

628
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It allows us to do what

629
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: we need to do. So yeah, I don't know. I mean,

630
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: you know they were shorthanded, no, Luca, but we were

631
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: turning a corner kind of I see for me or

632
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: that's the way I think. You know, three wins in

633
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: a row. I don't think we went through in a

634
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: row all year. We had a I think we had

635
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: a four game win trigger in the year. Yeah, I

636
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: think so. Um, but yeah, you're right, we haven't been

637
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: winning though. It's when we're five hundred teams. This is

638
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: kind of what it what it looks like you just

639
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: win loss, win, loss, um. But yeah, good. It could

640
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Speaker 1: be a stepping stone up man hoping. I feel that, man,

641
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: But I'm only get out of her ride. Man. I

642
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: appreciate you letting me come up and speak. Man, you

643
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: know I'm always here, y'all. Keep anything you and Jason

644
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: Man appreciate, appreciate you. All right, Let's see Joe are

645
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: you there? Joke? Hear me? All right? I don't think

646
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: Joe Desmond? What's up about? How's it going? See A

647
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: couple of things just golf. You know what you guys

648
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: have been talking about um, yeah, you know you said

649
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: we can't really you know, look at uglier are good

650
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: winds are right now anymore? And I think I think

651
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: that's good. You know, we just gotta it's good that

652
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: we're beating the teams are supposed to be beating. And

653
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: I think that's the first step. You know, it's starting

654
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: off from the beginning of the year. You know, losing. Okay,

655
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: see you losing to the Kings and you know, doing

656
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know, we should beat a Dallas

657
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: team with you know, without Luca, we should obviously you know,

658
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: be close to being in the even with Luca. So

659
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happy for this point. I'm happy for

660
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: the three. Get whittis shriek at this point. I mean,

661
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: just getting confident, um with winning, getting confidence with closing lineups,

662
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: getting confidence with Wayne Allanton and you know Austin Reeve's

663
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: confidence right now is I mean it's gonna be. It's

664
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, out the roof right now. I

665
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: mean he's making playing really good defense, making shots um

666
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: making passes that passed to Russ when he dripple left

667
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: in that one hand, left handed past, I mean that's

668
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: a lebroad past that buzz routies wouldn't be making So

669
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: I mean, he's doing really good. And then I guess

670
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: my next comment on on Frank, I mean, it's gonna

671
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: be interested what he does when th HT comes back.

672
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: I mean that last game when he rolled out th

673
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: HT Lebron russ a d and uh, I forgot who

674
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: the other person was, Avery Bradley. I mean that's just

675
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: setting up for failures because I mean, you're you can

676
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: literally have every defender with the foot in the paint

677
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: and they're they're they're okay with whatever happens. So I'm

678
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: I think I'm with you guys being aids got to

679
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: start or rings just gotta start. Somebody has to start

680
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,959
Speaker 1: to where we feel some type of confidence going into

681
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: our half court offense, fast break offense, whatever we're I

682
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: think everybody feels good about that, but we were going

683
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: to have court. We can't just have those that that

684
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: that offense out there. And I'm a, uh, let you

685
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: guys talk about that. Yeah, man, No, I agree with

686
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: everything you're kind of saying. Reeves just fits right, and

687
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: it's passing is there is legit and it's not like

688
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: passing where you just give him the ball and haven't

689
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: run after actions. But he knows what to do when

690
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: the defense is closing out right, and he did a

691
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: lot of that late as well. He doesn't get you know,

692
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: he doesn't get stifled by you know, late game pressure

693
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: or anything. He just understands how to play and it

694
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: fits so seamless with Lebron. And I said this, you know,

695
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: if you pods ago, it's no coincidence to me that

696
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: him and Lebron have instant chemistry. It was no coincidence

697
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: that Crusoe and Lebron have instant chemistry. Lebron connects with

698
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: super high basketball like you guys. And it's not saying

699
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: that other guys don't have great basketball like you, but

700
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: it's just it's just different. When you can see how

701
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: those two kind of can play off each other. It's

702
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: funny Lebron had to play tonight where you try to

703
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: hit Austin in transition, so like it was a fast

704
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,919
Speaker 1: break and uh, he threw Austin a bounce pass where

705
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: I think Austin, you know, didn't didn't expect it because

706
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: it's Lebron James in a in a freight train right

707
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: coming down with the one on one advantage and Lebron's like,

708
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 1: why don't you expect the pass? You see Austin like, well,

709
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: you're right at the rim. I thought you would shoot it.

710
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: So it's just funny to see their kind of relationship

711
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: grow and and with Vogel Man. Vogel's got a lot

712
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: of craft for the season. Like, I get it, I

713
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: understand it. The lineups have them been great. The avor

714
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 1: Bradley starting is just it is a just a representation

715
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: of Vogel values, right, and every badly shoots enough jumpers

716
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: that the efficiencies and great, but he shoots enough threes

717
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: where you can kind of sell it Thhd again, the

718
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: defensive potential along with the offensive ceiling. You kind of

719
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: get it. But this team has a strict identity. I

720
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: think that it needs to kind of move to and

721
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: I think Vogel is starting to do that. Again, there's

722
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: no easy answers here. I don't think any of these

723
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: decisions are, you know, easy. I've always said that, um,

724
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: it's going to be trial and error, and maybe the

725
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: trials take a little longer than you want. Right, the

726
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: errors have been We've seen a lot of errors and

727
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: the trials have been the same. But it's starting to

728
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: go up in my opinion, wins over Okay, seeing the magic,

729
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, that's not great. This Dallas team was playing better.

730
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: They came in I think with a two game win streak. Uh.

731
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 1: They beat the Hornets, who are you know, a pretty

732
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: pretty good team. They beat them on the road by

733
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: a lot. They're a solid team to me, even without Luca,

734
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: they just play a solid They're not a good team,

735
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: but they play solid basketball. So it's good to get

736
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: this win. And where we can't be picky, but Den

737
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you coming up my guy. Yeah and

738
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: shout out to the getting back to the top ten

739
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: and defense. Yeah, absolutely, Joe, it's going on. Yeah, I'm here.

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00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: Sorry about the poor connection first time. Hey, um, one

741
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: of the things I notice towards the end of that,

742
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: you know, the fourth quarter and over time, I noticed

743
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: where and I don't know if Dallas's defense dictated it,

744
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: but you saw where when they would inbound the ball,

745
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: I thought Braun would just bring it up, but he

746
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: would you know, constantly give it, you know, handed off

747
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: the russ Um. Do you see that as him just

748
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: trying to get Russ going or was it just dallas

749
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: Is defense that dictated Braun doing that because I got

750
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: nervous once Russ got the ball in his hand late

751
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: in the you know, late in the quarter. But to

752
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: his credit, you know, he didn't jack up at three.

753
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: He you know, penetrated the inside and keep that pass out.

754
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: But man, I'm I just I'm always watching Lebron and

755
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: how he operates, and I'm just wondering if he saw

756
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: that as a game to kind of build some trust

757
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: and confidence in Russ with your with your idea on that. Yeah,

758
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Dallas was definitely trapping Lebron on any kind

759
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: of screen roll, and I think it's taxing for Lebron

760
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: to be the guy who attacks every possession. You're right,

761
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: he tried. He did try to give a couple of

762
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: possessions to Russ. Russ are you know, frustrating at time player,

763
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: But I mean I think when you kind of understand him,

764
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: he's just trying to get to the rim and that's his,

765
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, main prerogative, and then try to find players

766
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: outside of that. And sometimes in crunch time that looks

767
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: ugly right field drive and it's like there's no help

768
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: that was created and it's a turnover. But I thought

769
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: Russ was pretty solid tonight, Like just overall, him and

770
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: Lebron are starting to kind of build more and more

771
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: chemistry upon transition. You see it a lot those two

772
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: coming off the fast break, like that's that's what this

773
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: team is supposed to do. Man, I thought we played

774
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: way too slow as well. In the fourth quarter, those

775
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: players are talking about where Lebron and Russ kind of

776
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: take turns, like we're playing too slow. This team needs

777
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: to run, and we're so different when we're running. But yeah,

778
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 1: some of that, I'm not sure if Lebron is trying

779
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: to just give the ball to Rust, but I think

780
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,959
Speaker 1: they try to share ball handling duties. They're both shock

781
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: creator guys. But when it mattered, I thought Lebron took

782
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: the reins like it was Ellington Lebron two man game.

783
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: When this game mattered, when they needed baskets, it was

784
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: him and Ellington's screen role. Uh, they played out of that,

785
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: And I thought that's something again, another just tick on

786
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: good process stuff that we can use because I think

787
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: this team begs for it, especially with you know, a

788
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: d at the struggling that he is, like just having

789
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: a guy that creates an advantage in that way. And

790
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: then again Austin reeves with the uh coming out party tonight,

791
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: but his his game just overall fits that identity. But yeah,

792
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: I thought I thought Russ was good though tonight I

793
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: thought he I thought he created advantage. Um, I thought

794
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: we missed a lot of open shots off his office

795
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: advantage and he pushing in transition. I thought, is what

796
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: got us up, you know, ten points in that first quarter.

797
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: So I thought he was I thought he was good tonight.

798
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: But he had some late turnovers for sure, But they're

799
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: working it out. Like I think Lebron and Russ and

800
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: a D. Stuff needs to needs time. And this is

801
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: what Lebron's seventeenth game I think of the season. Um,

802
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: eighties missed the last few, so the big three has

803
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: probably played like fifteen or fourteen games together. So like this,

804
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna an time. But I thought we're seeing good

805
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: process stuff in them. Yeah, and um, you know last thing,

806
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here watching the Clippers in the in

807
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: the Jazz and man, I'll tell you what. The Clippers

808
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: small lineup is just carving up Utah and Utah. It

809
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: looks like that full strength. So I just think we

810
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: need to stay with what we're doing, man, But um,

811
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel really good about the Lakers. Man.

812
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: We just gotta get it together. Man. Yeah, they've lost

813
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: the benefit doubt, right, So it's just like it's like

814
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: game the game type of stuff. But yeah, you don't

815
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: want to lose the bigger picture in that. Like again,

816
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: they lost benefit the doubt to say that they're moving

817
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: upwards and stuff, but that's just an optimist. I'm hoping

818
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: they are. I see process stuff every game that kind

819
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: of tells me that there's a good team in here.

820
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: It's just gonna take a lot of trial and air

821
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: to find it. Um, But you know, when you play

822
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony, I don't know how many minutes Carmelo Anthony

823
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: played tonight. Um, let's see if I can try to

824
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: check that, Uh yeah, twenty four minutes for comment Carmelo Anthony, Like,

825
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: I'd probably like him in the in the fifteen minute range. Like,

826
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: but it just that's just stuff with I hope when

827
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: our team is healthy, like we have some better defenders

828
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: and again Trevor Reasa putting our prayers and that it's

829
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: probably unfair, but it's just kind of the stuff I'm

830
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: seeing this that we can hopefully flip again when Kendrick

831
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: Nun gets back as well, Austin Reaves being added to

832
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: the rotation now as a legit two way a guy

833
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: like that stuff. I'm hoping, uh lens for better success

834
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: in the future. But Joe, I appreciate you man coming up. Hey, thanks, Rod,

835
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: appreciate Uh. Penny Penny Are you there, Penny Penny Hardaway? Yeah?

836
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: Can you hear me, I can hear you whatever. Hey, Hey, Roch,

837
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: how you doing. I just want you to know I

838
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: listen to you and Jason a lot. I appreciate the

839
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: pot um listen to you guys like real glass half

840
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: empty type of guys when it comes to the Lakers,

841
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of the opposite, you know, I'm kind

842
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 1: of just believing in them just because of Lebron wanted anything.

843
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: I kind of want to hear your opinion on just

844
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: the end of game execution, like a d misses that

845
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: three in the corner, and then in like um the

846
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: two miss air balls by Bran then we live and

847
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: die by Russell hitting that shot, then cleveblood history three

848
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: because of a defensive breakdown. I just kind of want

849
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: to hear your appearing on those situations and more of

850
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: like when is it when is like we stopped kind

851
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: of depending on what's gonna happen, and more of like

852
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: the reality of the team, you know what I'm saying,

853
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what to really expect because playoff times,

854
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about how bad spacing games and

855
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: playoff comes and like it's a different game. The the

856
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: um riffs, so I litter whistles the floor strings even

857
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: more space and can get worse. I don't know if

858
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: I really believe in rest when it comes playoff time.

859
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: You see how he plays during the playoffs. I just

860
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: kind of get your oppeion on all those things. Yeah, man,

861
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: those are all like million dollars questions, you know, like

862
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: that's all stuff that a season is supposed to work out. Um.

863
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: And I thought, you know, late game tonight, Lebron definitely

864
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: took some like uh, you know, long threes or you know,

865
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: like backbreaking threes where if it goes in, like it

866
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: changes the whole momentum, but it misses it's it's like

867
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: a bad shot, right, It's like one of those no, no,

868
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: no yes type of shots. Took some of those. I

869
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: thought we saw some late games stuff that we can

870
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: go forward. Like I thought, the two man game between

871
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: Ellington and Lebron is something that we'll see. It's stuff

872
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: that Lebron. It's a staple right of Lebron's you know,

873
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: Lebron's career. He loves those guard to guard to guard screens.

874
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: It gets him the worst defender. It's mismatch hunting, which

875
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: is what playoff basketball is all about. Lakers a run

876
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: the playoffs fourteen months ago, it doesn't feel like you're

877
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 1: fifteen months ago, and losing track of time doesn't feel

878
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: like it. But go watch those games and again they're

879
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: this roster is different, but the ideologies of the offense

880
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: and the coaches the same, right, Like a lot of

881
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: those are similar. Um to where you kind of look

882
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: where we use we use ball screens with KCP. Now

883
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: we're using ball screens for Wayne Ellington. Like that's all

884
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that I see late game, and I

885
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: trust Lebron as well. Lebron is not the reason that

886
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't think I'm glass half empty,

887
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: but but Lebron is not the reason that I kind

888
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: of feel that way. I think there's a lot of

889
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: stuff that this team has to build too. I think

890
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff where our coach and our

891
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: actual identity is kind of still kind of a pull

892
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: him uh, pulling away from each other at times. But

893
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: I think they are going They're getting closer and closer

894
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: every game. Like I thought tonight, again we went a

895
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: D at the five, and I think that's what where

896
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: we're best. And I think our defense was enough to

897
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: win tonight. Honestly, I thought our offense was the issue.

898
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: And again that's what you're talking about with the late

899
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: game offense and that stuff that has to get worked out.

900
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: We have to find where. I think Russ is starting

901
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: to find little places like you saw Russ finding out

902
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: where to cut right, and he's starting to become better

903
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: as a cutter. He's starting to find places where to

904
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: where to find open lanes when Lebron's posted and they

905
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, they zone up on Lebron and he finds

906
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: ways to kind of cut in and that stuff you

907
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 1: will see build. But those are definitely in question marks,

908
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: Like Russ is not a shooter, and you have to

909
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: put him in places where it works. I think a

910
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: D has to become at least some kind of shooter

911
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: for this team to get to the ceiling and needs

912
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: to um and right now he's just can't hit a

913
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 1: jump shot. But that's all stuff. I think our legitimate

914
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 1: questions that that they'll work out. But I think Lebron

915
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: two man game with a guard that can shoot, like

916
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: those are all stuff you can use. And I thought

917
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 1: tonight that's something we saw. That's that's good process hopefully

918
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: going forward, going forward after you play more games here,

919
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: all right, thank you? All right, just get to a

920
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: let see if I can get to a few more here, Caleb,

921
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Speaker 1: are you there? Yeah, you can hear me. I can

922
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: hear you. What's going on? Bro Um? I just kind

923
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: of wanted to ask about, um, how to better utilize

924
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: a D specifically when it comes to him offensively, like

925
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: every time, like we saw this starting with like the

926
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: Bulls game, and like other teams have done it afterwards,

927
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 1: like he's getting doubled on the catch. So like I'm

928
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: just wondering, like, what are better ways that we can

929
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: like utilize them in the offense, because like like Um

930
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: after the first quarter, they were like, yeah, we want

931
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: to get any out of rhythm, which seems to be

932
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: you know a point of a lot of these teams defenses,

933
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: so like, what's the what's the good way that we

934
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: can get it involved. Yeah, so the Lakers first play

935
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: almost every game without fail, and again it was tonight

936
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: that they just didn't run any action. They just went

937
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: to a straight a D post up, and to me,

938
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: like those are kind of not wasted possessions, but like

939
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: they just don't put a D in any kind of situation.

940
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 1: So again the MAVs, it was I think Lebron throwing

941
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: the post entry and it's like Russ and Lebron standing

942
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: next to each other, So two guys can guard one, right,

943
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 1: you have like Reggie Bullet guarding both of them. Adie

944
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: gets doubled right away, kicks it out. I think the ballstone.

945
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: I think a Bradley hit a three, UM, but again

946
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: they were closing out late because it's Avery Bradley, so

947
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: like it broadly hits the three. The defense kind of

948
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: feels like they did what they could. UM. I just

949
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: think like a D has put in a lot of

950
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,240
Speaker 1: positions where we play him as he is a center,

951
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: but we play him as if his skill set is

952
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: only a center. And some of this is also on

953
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: a D to be more aggressive, and I think the

954
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: player you know, holds some kind of responsibility, but I

955
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 1: think like high screen role is probably where he should

956
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: use be used best. I'd like him though, and I

957
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: said this earlier, I like, I'd like him to get

958
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: more ball handling stuff. I think it's like because Adie

959
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: gets to rebound and he just right away looks for

960
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: a guard to give the to give the past two,

961
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: and I feel like he's too skilled, Like if Adi

962
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: gets rebound like I want him to, like, I want

963
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: to open stuff up, get him more like eight. You

964
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: can push the basketball, like you can dribble like you

965
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: know you're not some you know, slow footed big, You're

966
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: not Steven Adams. Steven Adams takes three dribbles and the

967
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: ball is gone right some guard has stolen it. I

968
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: feel like a D has more skills than that. We

969
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: don't use him in that way, but that's one way

970
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: I think more screen roll. I think russ adies. We

971
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: do weird things where like we'll have a D at

972
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: the five with all shooters, but then we'll put like

973
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: I saw tonight, like bays Moore in the dunker spot

974
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: where dunkers was like right under the rim, which is confusing.

975
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: We do weird stuff like that. But yeah, I think

976
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: just more screen and roll, getting him more touches on

977
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: the move, getting him facing up more against Biggs, Like

978
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: I think that works to his advantage, giving the ball

979
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: with the with his back turned like that's just not

980
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: playing into his hands. You can see when he gets doubled,

981
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: he's he reads, he reads the floor like second slower.

982
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: And that's fine. I mean, he's so great at other

983
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: things that it's fine. He's not a great pastor out

984
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: of double teams and stuff, but it's just stuff that

985
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: I would like to see more. I'd like to see

986
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: him catch more with the ball facing the basket. I'd

987
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: like to see him get more touches as a guy

988
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: who can bring the ball up with more ball handling

989
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: duties and stuff like that. But you know, this is

990
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: the offense kind of we run and it's not pretty,

991
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what they're doing right now. But

992
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: I think there's just so much more to eighties game.

993
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: And again, he sleep walking to like twenty and twelve,

994
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: so the numbers have still been amazing. He's still dominating

995
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: the pain all that stuff. I just think there's more

996
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: to it. But yeah, that's kind of what I would

997
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: do and these are not easy stuff. This is not

998
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: like I'm sure Vogel has his as his points about

999
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: what he does, and I'm sure Adie has a way

1000
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: that he likes to play as well. But I just

1001
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: think Ade is more talented than we use him for.

1002
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm gonna close this one out. I appreciate

1003
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Speaker 1: everyone coming out here on a Wednesday night. This was

1004
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: a big win. Not big win, but a fun win.

1005
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: At least we got an Austin Reaves game winner, Austin

1006
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,439
Speaker 1: Reaves coming out party. Uh. Hopefully we get a couple

1007
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: more Fune ones. The Lakers play him in a to

1008
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 1: on Friday. I'll be back. I'll be back for that one.

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Speaker 1: But again, thanks for everyone for coming in and tuning

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Speaker 1: in to this one. This will be up on dash

1011
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 1: Radio tomorrow. This will be up on the podcast feeds

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Speaker 1: pretty soon. I hope everyone has a great night and

1013
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: happy Holidays to everyone here.