WEBVTT - Lakers/Mavs Postgame Spaces 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:13.960 M. Welcome to the State of the Lakers post game 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:19.400 show presented by DASH Radio. Jason is out tonight, but 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.920 I'll be here. After the Lakers played the Dallas Mavericks. Wow, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.960 what a game. Still trying to come down from that 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.440 emotional roller coaster. This team hates us right like that. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.280 What a what an up and town back and forth game. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.520 But the story tonight, I had a bunch of things 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.480 I wanted to get to. I'm not gonna go too 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.680 long tonight. I was gonna keep it kind of short. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.360 But this is the Austin Reeves game. I think I 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.879 have to start there. And I'm gonna try some new 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.640 things with this space. Uh and and might look a 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.519 little weird. I'm gonna try to share some tweets in 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.880 here and try to go over some place I saw. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.840 So if it looks kind of weird, I'm sorry, but 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.400 I'm a kind of experiment a little bit. But Austin Reaves, Man, 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.840 what a game from the kid. It's been building this 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.920 way right And Marion Vader, who for the Ringer, just 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.600 wrote an amazing piece and I recommend everyone to go 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.520 read that kind of shows where Austin comes from and everything. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.399 But man, to step up like this to defend the 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.479 way he did. Every Bradley got bent Frost and Reeves 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.520 probably was getting cooked by Jillian Brunson. Tonight he went 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:24.000 to Austin Reeves and Reeves stepped up. Brunson still was 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.000 able to get to the basket a little bit, was 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.399 still able to score, was still able to create, but 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.679 his defense being at this level, and that's kind of 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.160 where I'm gonna start with this in my notes, because 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.319 it's just not normal. It's just not usual. And you know, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.920 he went undrafted, and I know the Pistons could have 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.839 selected him, but he chose, but he still went undrafted. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.000 Right if the Pistons liked him so much, Austin Reaves 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.520 would be a Detroit Piston. They still let him get 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.480 past get let let him get past him and come 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:55.080 to us. And his defense is just absolutely incredible to watch. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.000 He has verticality on drives. His physicality still is in there. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.240 That's his one weakness, right, but he's just ahead super 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.600 high basketball I Q on both ends, and you really 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.480 saw it tonight. I thought the Mavericks trying to go 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.200 at him a little bit. Again, his body isn't there, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.800 but he's just in the right spots every single time, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.480 and it just looks like he connects with our big three, right. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.640 It just looks like it's a smooth transition. And his 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.080 threes were going tonight. They said on the broadcast he's 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.080 shooting like thirty one from three or something like that, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.400 and it doesn't feel that way just because of the 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.800 type of shots he takes. We had like four threes 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.760 I think in that first half really picked them up 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.880 when they needed it. He fits along rust right, he 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.800 runs to the corner, he says, little pin screens. He 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.640 just does all this stuff that you want from a 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.839 guy that's playing next to three superstars. And you saw 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.880 it tonight and they missed Taylan definitely defensively, but you 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.079 just see kind of where he fits around. And I 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.799 don't want to make this in Austin versus tailing thing, 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.360 but he just did an awesome job. He was great 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.480 as a screen as right as well. Tonight he continued 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.519 the let me see if I can kind of post 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.600 this in here, but he continued his short role passing 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.520 with with Lebron and let's see if I can get 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:19.080 this video onto their Alright, we're gonna experiment this, uh, 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:20.760 if you guys can see the tweet in the in 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.160 the space es basically Austin working uh with Lebron in 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.600 the short role as a screener and he's a great 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.600 job rolling to the open space. And tonight he did 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.440 a nice job in the first half phase. More ms 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.480 to lay up off of it, a d missed to 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.320 lay up off of it. But there's just stuff that 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.480 Austin does that's super basketball, a cute stuff that you 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.760 just you just can't teach. Um. And I'm not sure 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.960 people in there put a fire emoji if you can 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.560 see the posts that I've posted in the Okay, all right, 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.240 I think I see it up there now. But if 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:52.800 you see the play up there and people listening on 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.720 dash radio tomorrow or on the podcast, um, the video 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.840 up on the space is basically just Austin coming and 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.680 setting screens for Broun and Austin rolling to the short role, 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.480 which is where you don't roll all the way to 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.360 the you roll to the open You rolled to the 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.120 open spot and it just works really great with Lebron 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.560 Lebron obviously the pastor, uh Rob being a great pastor. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:21.719 It just with okay, and then I'm gonna try to 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:29.440 share one more thing in here one second. Alright, Okay, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.320 maybe that's not working, but yeah, Austin's chemistry with with 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.360 those three is absolutely undeniable. And I think his minutes 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.000 is are going to continue to go up. Let me 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:43.560 see how many minutes he played tonight. Yeah, so it 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.479 doesn't show here, but I think he played around thirty minutes. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.080 He played both overtime. He played the full overtime, right, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.560 and it's just awesome to see a guy this young, undrafted, 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.719 uh play the role he did. Man, he's he's he 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.120 beat out every Bradley tonight to close and it was 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.960 just cool to see. Man. I'll talk more about Austin 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.240 little bit, and I want to move to Wayne Ellington. Man, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.920 I've been hoping that he starts. I've been parading for 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.560 him to start. And this is not the way that 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.040 I wanted Wayne to start, right Like, this is not uh, 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.279 this is not how I wanted. I wanted to be 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.280 through a COVID situation right where he had to fill 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.520 in because of guys out for for COVID. But he 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.760 was again, I thought he didn't make a shot. I 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.120 believe until the fourth quarter he was over four. But 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.760 there was just a bunch of good process stuff, right 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.359 this RUSS got off to a good start tonight. I 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.520 thought something I thought a lot of it was because 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.120 we had the spacing. We had Avery Bradley, who's still 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.960 a guy they don't guard, but we had Wayne Ellington 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.839 running to corners and Russell was able to you know, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.000 attack one on one the in and out he will 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.559 get to the rim, and he had a good start. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.560 He was getting to the basket. And Wayne just allows 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.000 us to run some actions that I think we just 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.280 aren't able to do with anyone else. And I'm gonna 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.640 try to share it in the in the space here 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.880 really quickly. One of the players that I'm talking about, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.080 but just using a guy that has a type of 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.760 gravity and it's why I've paint so much for him 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.400 to start because I think and tonight I thought the 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.800 reason we lost tonight was honestly offensively to me. And 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.960 I'll get more into that a little bit later, but 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.719 let me see if I can share this into that. Okay, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.640 So if you see this, uh this post that I 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.000 shared in the space and again for people listening on 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.680 dash radio or on Spotify or Apple Music tonight or tomorrow, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.360 it's basically Ellington and a D in the corner right, 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.880 and so it's an empty side corner, which means there's 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.200 no one there except the two players who are running 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.599 the action. And it's why it's a wide pinned down 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.280 for Wayne Ellington and then run this a lot for 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.200 th ht UM. They're on a lot for th HD. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.120 They rent it and they rent it tonight for Wayne. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.760 And the difference with Wayne is he's such a shooter 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.200 that the big has to kind of step up on it, right, 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.560 And when the big steps up, he hits it with 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.640 a little pocket past to a D. And that's just 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.479 the kind of actions I'd like to see them run more, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.159 and as Wayne gets more comfortable with the team, and 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.599 I hope you guys can see the tweet in the space, 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.560 but it's just a little wide pinned down. It's not 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.839 something too complicated. It's just actions I would like them 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.960 to run. Because in that second quarter we scored ten points, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.680 and that's we scored ten points with bron a D 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.880 and Russ healthy, and that's just stuff that can happen. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.440 I think the reason we get on these offensive lolls 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.120 as we go into isolation basketball, we go to non 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.679 screen basketball, we try to post up a D post 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.280 like we have offensive weapons that we can use. You 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.640 can even throw Malik Monk into those kind of actions. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.880 But it's why I've been pleading for Wayne to start 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.640 for so long because I just think good shooters will 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.000 eventually well, good shooters will eventually get going. We saw 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.520 that tonight, right, Wayne was over four to start, He 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.360 had a he had his first three and the fourth 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.720 I believe he airballed one lay, but then he hit 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.560 the hit the one to tie, like good shooters are 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.200 eventually gonna hit yuh. And it's why I've kind of 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.040 been uh begging for that is defense is never gonna 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.040 be great. They try to pick on him again tonight, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.280 but he fights right, And that's the that's the missing 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.000 thing I think a lot a lot of times that 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.520 we see is that guys like that are never really great. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.400 Because if Wayne Anton was a good defender, he's not 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.360 on the minimum and he's not on the Lakers, right, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.760 And we look a lot at what a guy can't do, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.280 but this guy can legit shoot the ball. And I've 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.680 always said this, go look around the league what shooters cost. Right, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.040 And we joke Luke Arnard is a really good player. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.400 He's come into his own. He's at sixty four million 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.800 for four years. Like that's what shooters with a little 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.920 bit of a handle of costs. Well, Ellington doesn't have 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.000 the handle of Luke Nard. But I believe you give 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.800 Wayne Ellington enough movement shots like he can produce, that 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.360 he can put up those kind of numbers. Four shots 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.560 to me in three quarters of play wasn't enough. And 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.200 you saw him when he started to get jumpers up, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.240 when he started to get shots up. He saw him 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.280 getting a rhythm again, hitting pocket passes and stuff like that. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.679 He's never gonna be great, but I just thought tonight 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.320 it was something, uh, this team desperately needed. And he 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.440 came up big, came up big, and overtime and he 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.920 just fits again. That Reeves, Uh, the Reeves Ellington kind 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.920 of combo one us this game in my opinion, And 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.280 the last thing on Ellington here, Sorry if I'm kind 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.920 of rambling, but we won this game with the Ellington 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.200 Lebron two man game like, that's what won this game. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.120 And I'm trying. I would try to get some more 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.520 place here. It's kind of hard during the game to 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.839 get them, but working this, working the kinks out of 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.960 trying to share tweets and break it down at the 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.200 same time. But we won this game with an Allington 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.800 Lebron two man game, and that's been a staple of 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.679 Lebron James basketball for many, many years. We saw with 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.760 k CP, right, we saw it with to a greater 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.960 version with Kyrie. Like small small guards who are defended 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.000 by smaller players, teams don't want to switch it, right, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.920 That's why Dallas kept trapping. So they had Trey Berg 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.319 trying to hide on Wayne Allington. He comes and sets 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.840 the screen. Wayne Allington rolls out nicely. Wayne Alan has 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.520 been setting these screens his whole career, right, because this 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.600 is kind of what people do with shooters, said him 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.240 as screeners, and he rolled off. They had to rotate 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.760 ball moves, a d dunk, ball moves. Lebron comes down 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.440 and gets a gets an animal that he misses. But 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.000 when you just have shooters that you can put in, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.120 that situation changes it, right, because if that's Avery Bradley 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.840 sitting the screen, Dallas can trap and they're not going 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.440 to rotate out to Avery Bradley, right because they don't 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.160 mind him shooting or even when it's Russ sometimes and 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.640 I would like to see more Russ Lebron pick and roll. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.880 They still don't rotate um, they don't rotate out to 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.280 Russ in that same way and putting Russ. Russ had 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.280 a big three tonight as well. I want to give 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.480 him credit for that kind of get into Russ a 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.080 little more. But that's why I've been so big on 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.880 Ellington starting. And it's not about Ellington, I guess, because 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.680 Ellington is not a championship saving guy, right. And again 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.679 the caveat tonight obviously is Luca Donches didn't play for 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.800 the Dallas Maverick. So I'm not getting too excited about 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.319 this win. But we're not really in position to be 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.280 like picky about wins either. And Jalen Brunson, I mean, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.839 if I just started watching basketball today, I'm not sure 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.640 you could have told me there's another guy better than 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.360 this guy. You know, Jalen Branton absolutely came through and 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.320 and delivered for his team. He looked, he looked awesome. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.000 I think he was ten out of he was ten 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.040 for twelve or something like that. Uh for until like 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.439 the late third or the way that Chilean Brnson killed 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.680 us off pick and roll, but that's neither hard. Yeah, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.480 I mean, I I like the Wayne Allenton starting man, 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.600 and I don't know if this is will stay. This 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.440 is what we were sold at Media day though, right 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.200 we were sold Wayne Ellington starting with Trevor Reza and 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.960 Brown and a d at the four or five. And 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.800 I think that just open things up for us so much. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.560 And we saw it late how Lebron was able to 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.600 play two man game with the shooter and you know, 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.520 and that just looks so seamless. And then when you 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.760 have Austin Reeves as well, being such a being such 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.760 a great guy who can attack close out, it just 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.760 fits so well. Austin makes passes that fit when you 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.880 have a good offensive system around them. And again not 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.920 to go back into Austin, but these are all kind 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.000 of connected. And that's why I just want a shooter 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:42.959 in there. I don't think Lie Monk is gonna be 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.839 that guy, which is why I've never really paid for that, 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.360 uh six one guard who's not known for defense is 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.520 just there's no way on a vocal team he was 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.240 ever getting the starting nod. But Wayne Allenton I thought 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.520 could have a chance. And again tonight I didn't want 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.960 this to be the situation where he starts just because 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.800 of uh, COVID and hopefully those guys three people in 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.240 in COVID protocols and all the all the people on 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.079 the staff as well, Um, Phil Handy, I believe it's 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.640 one of them. I hope they're all Okay, I hope 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.280 they all you know, get get treatment or whatever they 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.240 need to to come back healthy. But but yeah, it was. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.920 It was great to finally see Ellington with the starters, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.480 and it's just a identity shift. Ellington is not this 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.240 representation of a championship, you know, changing player. He just 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:31.320 represents what this team I think needs in that starting lineup. Okay, 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.280 So the next thing I kind of uh after when 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.559 after Allington, the next thing I kind of want to 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.120 get into is Russ because I wanted to bridge those 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.920 kind of together. Russ started the game I thought really well, Um, 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.920 I thought his athleticism jumped off the page. You could 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.440 just see it, right, you could see his burst there. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.680 And again with the starters, they weren't hitting shots great. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.240 It was still kind of it was still kind of 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.520 ugly offense with Avery Bradley in the corners. But getting 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.200 Russ off the good stars I think is important. I 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.679 think him getting to the rim. I think him being 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.920 able to attack early right, not playing a phone booth 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.760 is so key for him. It gets him engaged as well. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.000 And there's questionable shot selection and that's gonna stay with 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.959 Russell Westbrook throughout this whole season. That's not going anywhere. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.880 But I think there's we saw we saw tonight. Just 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.600 again it's it's all about process stuff for me, and 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.040 we saw tonight what Russ works well with right, And 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.000 I thought putting Russ next to Reeves and Allington, Rust 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.640 does a lot of this where you'll just drive into 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.400 the paint like that's his only goal. Really, it's just 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.959 to get in the paint because he knows two defenders 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.520 are eventually going to show up, right, and once once 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.760 he gets in the paint, he's able to kick it 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.679 out and he wants to kick it out right. And 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.480 you'll see this a lot and sometimes you'll get stuck. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.760 And I hated the Rust DeAndre Jordan minutes. Honestly, that's 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.560 just I don't like that fit. I don't like that pairing. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.679 DeAndre Jordan fits an archetype and I get it. He's 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.680 a screen real big. I just don't like where he stands, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.480 like they'll rust, they'll run a Russ um a d 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.440 pick and roll and sorry Russ DeAndre Jordan's pick and 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.200 roll and DeAndre would just flash try to get you know, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.880 try to get a post touch or just stand in 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.120 the way, and it just went. It just doesn't mean anything. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.760 Um So I just want to show this this next 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.640 clip here in the in the space and so this 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.760 is with Austin Reeves, and this is why I think 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.400 Reeves and and Russ as well works so well. So 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.560 this play start and if you can't see it again 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.000 people listening at home on the podcast, I'll kind of 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.400 try to explain to play the best I can. So 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.840 basically this is just Russ, you know, this is off 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.000 the screen roll. It's with DJ, but he's trying to 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.240 get in the pain. And Austin Reeves starts this play 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.960 setting a pin screen and that's that's what the Lakers 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.400 usually do um on a lot of players, but Austin 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.320 Reefs does this instinctually. He does it without it being called. 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.720 So he's he's setting a pin screen in the corner 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.080 there for Baysmore. But he realizes that Russ needs a 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.880 passing lane, right, and this is stuff that you know 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.840 you need around. You need guys who can kind of 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.480 notice this stuff. A lot of players, what will happen 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.120 is Russell get in the paint and he'll try to 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:06.800 kick it out and there's two guys, there are three 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.440 guys there like this is. But Reeves able is able 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.480 to rotate right, like he rotates to give Russ a 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.840 passing angle. You can even see his arm kind of 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.840 pull out there to kind of show Russ like, hey, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.920 I'm going I'm going out here to get a three. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:20.840 He gets to open three and hits it right. And 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.520 that's just stuff that is instinctual with Austin Reeves and 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.840 it fits around a guy like Russ who's main objective 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.840 again on offense is just to put uh two ft 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.160 in the paint. And that kind of stuff, to me, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.360 is is so key to open things up for him, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.520 to get him going right too, to play into his style. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.080 And I think that's kind of what we have to 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.680 lean to here. And again, sorry if I'm I'm rambling 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.240 where just feels like I'm talking to myself, But that's 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.480 just stuff we need to lean into to me this 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.440 season and Reeves and Allington both represent that um in 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.600 a way that a lot of players don't, and Reeves 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.680 obviously the defense makes it otherworldly. It's like this is 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.280 a coming out party, honestly, Like this is just tonight 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.040 was a coming out party. Four three is plus the 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.360 game winning three Like there's no hiding anymore. There's too 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.760 much tape on it now, like there's too much film room. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.960 You can go back and and watch and just show 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.280 all the plays. And again it's hard to get plays 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.040 while you're watching the game, So I'll try to do. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.800 It's better in future pods, but there's just too much 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.120 film where he helps, recovers, helps multiple efforts on the 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.520 same play. And that's what this team desperately needs around 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.960 around his superstars when it doesn't have that. And again, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.720 moving this on, because I think the main topic, at 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.400 least from my mentions, and I think most people mentioned 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:46.000 tonight was Anthony Davis right and eighty to me didn't 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.160 look like himself. Um, it was again some lack of 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.000 engagement stuff. And I talked about this with Van at 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.680 a lot where when he's at the center position, it 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.800 looks like he holds himself back. Um, there's a lot 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.120 of you know, trying to save himself, and he picked 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.880 up two quick files, which I think, which I think 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:08.560 hearted as well. It's tough to kind of say because 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.679 the broadcast also was talking about something that I've I've 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.679 kind of discussed, which you know, the numbers are all 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.320 great for a D but there's just too many quarters. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.760 I guess where it goes. And he's just too talented 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.560 to me to not have an aggression that I would 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.520 like to see. But there's also stuff we can do 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.040 better for him. But let me I'll guess. I'll start 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.320 with like what I wanna see from a D because 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.480 I thought tonight, defensively, I thought he was still fine. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.400 Plus minus obviously isn't an amazing status flawed in its 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.479 ways in which every stat is. I think David's finished 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.280 plus twenty one tonight, which if you told someone they 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.399 would not have believed that, right, I think it was 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.640 plus twenty one, Like that just doesn't match the film 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.920 that you're watching. I think he does impact the games 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.439 in ways that it's not as noticeable. Right, he had 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.640 twelve rebounds tonight, um no offensive rebound, but the twelve 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.920 defensive rebounds tonight. He fought on the board six turnovers, 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.639 which is gonna get you know, plastered on on every 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.160 on every wall if they lost, especially tonight, I thought 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:05.000 a lot of them were just out of rust, turnover rust, 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.840 not rust, having rust from not playing the last few games. Um, 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.679 I thought that's what it turnovers are. There's still a 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.919 lack of aggression that I that I that I I 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.520 don't like because I think a d is just too talented. 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.920 I think he has too much talent to go. I 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.280 think he was like one for five a half time 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.400 and the and the four mrs doesn't bother me. It's 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.679 the five shots right, and Dallas trapped him on the 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.800 catch as most teams do. And I'm still frustrated with 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.520 the way we give a D post touches. Uh, Like 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.920 tonight it was, you know, Lebron giving a DA post 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.480 touch and then Russell Westbrook and Lebron kind of standing 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.119 on the same area. So it's basically they trapped one 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.880 pass away Reggie Bullock or whoever the next guy can 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.920 defend two. And I'll try to get a film of that, 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.280 Uh next time we do spaces and stuff like that. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.520 But there's still stuff we can do a little better 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.199 for him. But Yeah, there's just a I don't know, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.399 there's a lack of like, watch Westbrook come off of 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.320 pick and roll right, watch when running when Westbrook's right 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:02.840 right now every game rest has been right, but the 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:07.040 Restrook comes out. It's high velocity, it's would choose, it's 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.760 even if the even if the result isn't great. There's 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:15.240 a there's an aggressiveness. Aggressiveness to it. Um, it's what 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:16.840