WEBVTT - What's Wright - Lakers Eliminated: LeBron James & LA knocked out by Anthony Edwards & Wolves in Game 5 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.600 Welcome in What's drive in the Great episode three twenty seven. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.479 I'll be honest, A show that the audience is likely 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.360 looking forward to quite a bit more than me. A 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.800 show that you know, it's very ironic. I'm drinking out 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.360 of the coffee cup game theory with Bamani Jones. Bimani 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:24.320 texts me this morning, just trolling me. Well, he started 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.640 by trolling JJ Reddick, but then he started trolling me 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.800 saying shame the Lakers didn't last long enough for us 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.040 to watch a playoff game together. That would have been fun. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.440 And I wrote him back. Given how the Lakers playoffs win, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.000 it wouldn't have been fun at all. And so listen, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.000 let's just get into Demons High. Good to see, uh, 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.120 happy to see. I love you, I'm proud of you. 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:51.040 You're my believed great awesome fun stuff. Let's get to 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.800 what missed the cut. Stefan Castle becomes a fourth San 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.520 Antonio spur To win Rookie of the Year. If he 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:00.520 does not end his career as one of the twenty 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.960 five greatest players of all time, he has not carried 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.520 on that legacy. No big shoes, kiddo, but Robinson's there 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:12.840 Duncan's there, Wimby appears to be on his way, Dyson 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.520 Daniels wins Most Improved Player and Boston Flute Gentleman sweep 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.400 of Orlando. A reminder, please like, rate, subscribe, review, check 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.679 out the podcast you control me in the comments. It's final, 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.160 be honest. Probably won't be reading them today, but the 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.679 producers might pick a select few to bring to my 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.360 attention if they find them particularly funny. Because it's not 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.800 just that I'm bummed. It's not just this the second 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:41.479 straight year that the Lakers and Lebron and the playoffs 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.560 don't get out of round one. It's also that this 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:52.960 is the first Lakers playoff loss since Lebron's been there 0:01:53.720 --> 0:02:00.360 that is shocking. This one is shocking to me. The 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.840 the when they lost to the Suns that series turned 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.840 on Anthony Davis. Pulling is growing. Like I thought they 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.560 would win that series. But your second best player, best player, 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.720 I don't know. Depending on how you viewed Anthony Davis, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:17.239 then Pulls is growing. It changes two years ago when 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.840 they got all the way to the conference finals, I 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.800 thought they could win. They obviously got swept by Denver, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.320 but it wasn't shocking that they lost last year. When 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.240 I they got Denver in round one and Denver was 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.320 the overwhelming favorite, I said, hey, if you're ever gonna 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.800 beat Denver, round ones the time that you have the 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.080 best chance. But I wasn't shocked by it. This one 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.359 shocked me. And so I have some you know, accounting 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.079 to do on that front. And so I'm not sure 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.200 how much we're going to talk about today that isn't 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.520 about the end of the Lakers season, the ascension of 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.960 Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert having his annual Rudy Gobert game, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.519 which is honestly demons here is. You know, it's really 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:05.640 important to remember stay humble, like Gianness would say, stay humble, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:15.400 be grounded, because nobody took more pleasure on TV last 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.480 year than me in the root the last Rudy go 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.160 Beart game we got, because that was against Denver in 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.480 Game seven, and Kevin Wilds was covered in shame and 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.160 I got to mock him for it. And I've never 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.160 really been a Rudy Gobert guy. I don't know if 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.720 there are many Rudy Gobert guys outside of Leone. However, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:41.400 I enjoyed that performance and then the Rudy go beart 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:47.040 game came for me and in really maddening fashion. So again, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.480 subscribe on YouTube, hit the bell, subscribe on all your 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.120 podcast platforms, and now demands go ahead. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.960 Yeah. So the Lakers season ended last night, I think, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.240 and the hands of Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves, so 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.280 might say. Rudy Gobert JJ w Rennick had a similar scheme. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.440 He played his starters a lot of minutes. They came 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.440 closer at the end, but then kind of ran out 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.240 of gas. They couldn't do it. How'd you get this 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.680 series so wrong? You said there was this one they 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:17.520 obviously didn't. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.479 Well, yeah, and I said Lakers. I said my favorite 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.280 bet was Lakers minus a game and a half, meaning 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.440 Lakers in four or five or six. And when I 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.719 was giving the analysis of that bet, I said, I 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:34.040 didn't even really consider the possibility of the Lakers losing 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.360 the series. Is the reason the bet didn't come in. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.679 I thought it was because the Lakers, you know, maybe 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.400 they win in seven, but I thought they would. I 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.600 thought they would be hard fought games. The Lakers were 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.120 clearly better. So I do want to start with me 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:55.920 because I gotta a whiff this strong, you gotta figure out. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.200 You gotta kind of do an autopsy, a post mortem 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:05.280 of your own tape. And the number one thing that 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:15.200 I clearly overestimated going into this postseason was how dynamic 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.680 and unstoppable the Lakers offense would be. I thought there 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:26.680 was a little too much attention paid to the Lakers 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:31.320 defensive deficiencies, not because I thought they'd be a great defense, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.440 but because I thought it was pretty clear we had 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.520 proof of concept that the Lakers defense could be average, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.040 that the Lakers defense could be fine, and that if 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:48.080 the Lakers defense is fine, even given their size limitations, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:53.760 that this offense with Luca and Lebron was going to 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.760 be a top three in the league over the court, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.039 you know, net rating wise or offensive rating wise offense. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.800 And it was nothing close to that. And so that 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.560 was with number one whiff. Number one was that the 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:14.520 Lakers offense would be would put the other team under 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.599 such pressure to keep scoring and to keep pace that 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:24.159 a younger Timberwolves team, a Timberwolves team that only has 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.400 one true superstar, a Timberwolves team that has a few 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:34.960 guys who are max players who there have long playoff histories, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:41.000 but the playoff histories are you know, checkered in Rudy 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.560 Gobert and Julius Randall that the weight of Lebron and 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:51.039 Luca on the offensive side of the ball would be 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.039 too much for him. None of that happened. We didn't 0:06:55.080 --> 0:07:01.760 have a single game this series where where Lebron and 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:08.280 Luca were both outstanding on the offensive end, and we 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.320 did have last night. And we'll talk obviously more about 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:19.080 the individual parties involved here shortly, but last night was 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.920 the first time in an elimination game that Lebron wasn't 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:30.600 outstanding in a decade. Honest to god, if you go 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:35.320 through it was it was somewhat jarring to see if 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.840 you look at what Lebron James, who averages thirty five 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:44.560 points per game in his career in elimination games, what 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.680 he did last night in comparison, like if I can 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.320 just quickly give you the game logs last year against Denver, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.080 face well, he had two games facing elimination against Denver. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.760 The first game he had third thirty five and four. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.480 The next game and because they won it, he had 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:10.120 thirty nine and eleven. The year before facing elimination against Denver, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.720 he had I think thirty in the first half and 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:20.000 he finished with forty ten and nine. When they lost 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.600 to Phoenix in a game they got, they really didn't 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.400 have much of a chance. If you remember, that's the 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.480 game Anthony Davis started and then played like thirty seconds, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.960 then came out of the game. Lebron twenty nine to 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:36.679 nine and seven facing elimination. They never faced elimination and 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:41.080 route to the bubble in the championship run. And then 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.600 if you look at game seven against Boston or game 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.920 six and seven against Boston facing eliminations, are down three 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.280 to two, forty six, eight and eleven, thirty five, fifteen 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:56.199 and nine, you can go his whole career. It's like, Okay, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:02.440 we're facing elimination. I have to ramp it up. Here's 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.880 the part that last night informed me on he fired 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:13.760 those bullets over the weekend. He felt correctly, clearly we 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:19.920 were facing elimination in game four and in game three 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.400 he had the thirty eight, ten and four and they 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.319 blew it at the end. In game four he had 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:30.319 twenty seven, twelve and eight and the defensive stops at 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:34.520 the end, and in game five the forty. It was 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.520 a weird Lebron game because he had three of his 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:44.280 most explosive offensive plays of those three dunks that he's 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.880 had all postseason. But he just didn't have the juice 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:52.239 last night, So Lebron didn't have the juice. Luca's performance 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:59.080 last night even more shocking because Luca has been a 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.199 back against the wall, I'm gonna f you up everybody's 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.199 top when they're up. 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.280 Lucas seemed pretty messed up, like basically this whole series. Though. Yeah, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.840 whether it was sicknesses or yesterday, I feel like he 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.160 came out with like some backspasm type of thing. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.000 Yeah. I mean, listen, he got hurt, but he didn't. 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.520 If it was he had looked awesome and until the 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.800 hard fall, that would be one thing, but that's not 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.720 what it was. Like. He was relatively passive in the 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.000 first quarter, which is when he has crushed. It felt 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:37.600 early on like Lebron and Luca were both like, Okay, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.640 let's conserve energy in the first quarter so we have 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.520 more in the fourth quarter. And at first it looked 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:51.840 like a bad strategy because they were down fourteen, but 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.320 then once despite all that, they were able to claw 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.200 their way back into the game and actually take a 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.000 one point lead, You thought, oh, this could work out, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.440 but Lebron didn't have the extra gear and Luca didn't 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.439 have it. The really, I don't want to say the 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.640 whole series, but the last three games since he got sick, 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.439 Luca didn't have the Luca playoff gear. Twenty eight to 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.720 seven and nine on seven of eighteen from the field 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.640 for Luca is by his standards, a bad playoff game. Now, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.080 the flip side to that, and where, folks, where credit 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.840 must be given is the other guys are paid too. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:39.600 And the Timberwolves defensive plan against Luca and against Lebron 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:46.920 was outstanding. The Timberwolves trusting you know what, Austin Reeves. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.559 If you beat us, you beat us. We don't think 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.680 you're gonna beat us. It was smart, it worked, and 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.760 so I'm not gonna kill Austin Reeves. He had a 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:04.000 rough series. But also the Lakers shouldn't have needed Austin 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:09.080 Reeves to be great to force a Game six against 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.920 the Timberwolves. And I understand that the Timberwolves are now 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.840 twenty one to five in their last twenty six and 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.760 I think they have ten or it's either ten or fifteen. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:25.360 I don't remember double digit wins in that stretch I 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.800 get that that maybe I was I am still even 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:36.040 to a degree underrating or disrespecting the Timberwolves. But this 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.280 Lakers team it was not. And this is what's so 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.880 frustrating about the way the season ended. It was not 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:51.480 some hope in a prayer media creation. They had almost 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.600 the exact same record against the Western Conference as Oklahoma 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:00.959 City did. They were a dominant team home where they 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.800 lost two of these games. They had I think the 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.480 third best record in the fourth best record in the 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.920 league against the best teams in the league. We saw 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.319 them at the end of the year against a full 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:20.200 strength Oklahoma City team, blow them out, and then go 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.320 toe to toe with them a week before the playoffs. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:30.199 They were rested. All of those things happened, and while 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:35.240 Lebron did not have a great Game five, you did 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:40.320 get great Lebron performances in Games two, three, and four. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.720 So it wasn't that oh the you know, the old 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.000 man slowed down at the end. He did at the 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:52.040 very end, and they still just got annihilated in this series. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.400 The thing about last night that made last usually demons. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:03.720 If if a team loses a close out game that 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.800 you know, is a one possession game with a few 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:12.720 minutes left. It's heart wrenching. I gotta tell you, it's 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.200 not how I felt watching the Lakers squander that game 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:23.280 at the very end, because they were incredibly lucky last 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:28.440 night that they weren't blown out minutes. I mean, Anthony 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:33.720 Edwards was zero for eleven from three. The Timberwlves as 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:39.040 a whole shot forty seven threes and made seven of them. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.400 Think about that, they were fifteen percent from three. So 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.840 Ant was five of nineteen from the field. And that's 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:52.040 another weird thing for Ant because he's going to get 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:58.200 his flowers today, as he should. But it reminded me, 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:03.800 actually a lot of game Game seven against Denver, the 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:08.080 biggest win of Anthony Edwards career. He was six of 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.280 twenty four from the field, two of ten from three, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.800 had sixteen points. It was his worst game of the series, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.920 and they came back and beat Denver. Anyway, last night, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.040 he's five of nineteen from the field, oho of eleven 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.840 from three, has fifteen points. And it's the game that 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:32.000 he knocks off Luca and Lebron that which is a 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:37.760 testament to the Timberwolves and a testament to Julius Randall 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:43.680 was excellent. This entire series. Julius Randall was reliable, and 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:51.640 obviously Rudy Gobert's nine offensive rebounds twenty four total rebounds, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:58.040 him scoring twenty seven points in a playoff game was unfathomable. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.480 And you can say, oh, listen, this is the Lakers 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.560 don't play a center. The Lakers haven't played a center 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:11.160 all series. Rudy Gobert's stat lines prior to last night 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:18.640 two and six, six and six, one and three, five 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:23.520 and ten, and then twenty seven and twenty four. Prior 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:29.280 to last night, in the series, Rudy Gobert had fourteen 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:35.440 points twenty five rebounds in the four games. Last night, 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.200 he had twenty seven points, twenty four rebounds. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:39.920 Not having a big guy in there is gonna come 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.680 back to bite you eventually, right. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:47.280 Well, clearly, I mean so clearly it did. But the 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:52.120 point that I'm making is, and you guys know from 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.160 what I was saying earlier in the series that I 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.960 thought and even though the Lakers were in a tough spot, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.800 but one of the things that had worked out for 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:09.399 them was that the Timberwolves, and we talked about this 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.359 that even though the Lakers were everyone, the Lakers were 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.760 playing with six' eight and. Below rudy wasn't killing them 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.920 that they were getting away with playing that small because 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.600 The timberwolves didn't want to Give Rudy gobert the. Ball 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.679 And i'll be honest last, night they didn't give him 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.800 the ball that. Much it was all on like of 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.280 but it was, yeah it was on offensive, rebounds it 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.040 was on. Putbacks it wasn't a lot of like they 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.640 passed it To Rudy. Gobert and so a guy who 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.440 has in his seventy how how many games is his playoff, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.760 career seventy four game playoff, career who went into last 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:57.280 night with five career twenty point playoff games and zero 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.919 career twenty five point playoff, game puts twenty seven on your. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:06.400 HEAD a guy who in his seventy four career playoff 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:11.160 games once going into last, night had more than eighteen 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.960 rebounds in a game in the, playoffs puts twenty four 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.639 rebounds on your. Head it Was it was a dominant 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.440 performance by. Him it was a great performance By jalen 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:30.720 By Julius. Randall they and that's the other. Piece jade 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:35.040 McDaniel's in foul trouble immediately and it didn't. Matter so 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:41.000 this was A it felt to me like and this 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.480 is is not an excuse and it might even be an. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:48.680 Indictment it felt to me like The lakers felt they 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:54.080 lost the series On, sunday and that is and that 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.119 they came out because there was no energy in the first. 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.080 Quarter it was something of a. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.960 Miracle minnesota was leaving it up there for. Grabs, yes 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.679 they were playing pretty complacent with the, lead taking a 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.440 lot of beef shots instead of. Driving it was a. 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.720 Miracle it's exactly right demonse that this game was closely 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:23.200 If minnesota just has A c minus shooting night instead 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.720 of the worst shooting night any team will have in 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.160 the playoffs over the next three, years which is really 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:34.840 what they. Did The lakers are down twenty, five, right 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:40.560 and so the credit to The. Timberwolves, Man and. 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.199 What about The Mark williams? Trade, Man, like what is? 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:45.800 Well would that have changed? 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:52.399 This here's the thing it what they gave up in 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:57.280 The Mark williams trade Was Dalton connect a first round, 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:03.080 pick AND i think a. Swap so there is no 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.840 arguments that you made like well for this series in 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.879 this postseason that would have hurt you Because Dalton connect 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.720 got zero. Minutes you know WHAT i. Mean so since 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:20.240 the guy you traded you never played in the short, 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:23.479 term And Mark williams took a bit of a victory. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.960 LAP i understand On, TWITTER i get that it certainly 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.160 felt like and they when they didn't Get Mark, williams 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.399 they Signed Alex, lynn who played zero. Minutes Now Maxi 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.400 kleiba comes off the bench after not playing in months 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.520 because of his, INJURY jj gives him five minutes and 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:50.960 more ON jj shortly there is. There it sure feels 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.520 like they would have had a better chance now in 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.400 retrospect in this series they Had Mark. Williams we never 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.560 saw him play with him and they now that powder 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.359 is dry for you, know a move this coming summer. 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.560 Potentially BUT i. CAN'T i can't pick a team to 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.800 win the championship and then when they get popped in 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.919 round one and five be, like, well here's all the 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:20.240 obvious flaws with the, Roster like that's. BULLSHIT i Knew 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.200 Mark williams wasn't on the. TEAM i knew how big 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.640 The timberwolves were WHEN i said After day eighty, Two 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.800 game eighty two of the season THAT i thought the 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:36.360 bracket fell perfectly for The, lakers and now you look 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:41.280 at it and you, say, well that was wrong, obviously so, 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:46.760 no it's A i but at its, core people are, 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.720 GONNA i, think focus on the wrong. THINGS i think 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:56.080 this what happened to The, lakers in my, opinion is 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:04.000 three games of this series and they scored less than 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.840 one hundred. Points four games of the series they scored 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.840 less than one oh. Five the one game they won 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:20.760 they only scored ninety. Four and you can so folks 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:25.040 are gonna say the issue was they were never gonna 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.800 be good enough, defensively, maybe but the issue in this 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:35.120 series was an offense that the only way to look 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:39.040 at This lakers team as a legitimate contender was going 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:43.560 to be they have an elite. Offense that offense was never. 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:48.879 Elite it was never even very. Good and it's just 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:53.040 remarkable to me that it's the same. OFFENSE i saw 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:57.679 a few weeks ago drop one twenty six IN okc 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:02.560 in a GAME okc one and then have like one 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:08.520 ten with six minutes left N okc against that. Defense 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:15.320 in the, Game luca got ejected IN i the The 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:23.000 lakers role players all had some. Struggles luca obviously wasn't 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:26.520 Himself lebron ran out of gas in every every one 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.520 of these fourth, quarters and that's how you lose in. 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.920 Five given, It, Austin, YEAH i feel like you Were 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:36.360 you did really go easy On Austin. Reeves if those 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.800 guys aren't gonna show, up that who has to show? 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:39.760 UP i think it has to Be. 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:44.080 Austin, well, no, LISTEN i So Austin reeves for the 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:50.280 series was sixteen to five and three on forty one 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:55.879 thirty two. Splits it's a bad. Series the Reason i'm 0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:00.240 not focusing on that is BECAUSE i JUST i think 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:06.840 that would be kind of bullshit in THAT i didn't 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:10.640 pick The. Lakers people ARE i think MAYBE i think 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.720 people that are discerning listeners to HOW i do this 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:18.679 stuff are maybe at times surprised at how FAIR i 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:23.480 try to be to what is honest. COMMENTARY i didn't 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:26.359 pick The lakers BECAUSE i Thought Austin reeves was gonna 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:31.280 cook so like and so this was the first playoff 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:35.720 run of his career where a lot was expected of. 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:41.840 Him that's where and and he didn't. Listen he wasn't, 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:45.439 great but he's a young player who doesn't make a 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:51.080 ton of. Money who you just? EAT I i don't 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:57.680 like when stars are, awesome their team, loses and people 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:01.360 then blame the. 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