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Speaker 1: State of the Lakers post game spaces after what's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, the lowest point we've had since

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Speaker 1: the the Terrible Day when when Lebron went down and

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Speaker 1: Shrewder got his COVID suspension for fourteen days. Um, that

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Speaker 1: was probably the lowest we felt this season. This is

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Speaker 1: kind of getting kind of close to that. Uh, try

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Speaker 1: I mean at the end of the day. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's with how good this Phoenix Suns team is,

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Speaker 1: which is what's something something that Roger and I talked

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Speaker 1: are you at right now after all of this. Yeah, So,

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Speaker 1: like before every one of these spaces, I try to

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Speaker 1: and after a D went down, it was kind of

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Speaker 1: like they were just trying to fight through that. Um

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Speaker 1: We just have to see. But you're right. This is

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Speaker 1: It looks like that's what will be. They'll have one

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Speaker 1: So I guess that's the silver lining with it. And

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Speaker 1: there were good things to take from this game. UM.

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Speaker 1: I thought Phoenix came out, they punched hard, the Lakers

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Speaker 1: energy was non matched. They went up like eleven and

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Speaker 1: then Lebron went out and all the all the things

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Speaker 1: So that's the main thing here. And Chris Paul I

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Speaker 1: And that's how this game went. And now you have

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Speaker 1: let's we'll talk about a D as we start to

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Speaker 1: project forward to game five. But you know a couple

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Speaker 1: kind of a general rule of fund with NBA playoff

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Speaker 1: It's not always the case, but it's generally the rule.

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Speaker 1: his growing. We'll talk about it after we talked about

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Speaker 1: Which makes me think that Lebron was discouraged. Um, which

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Speaker 1: I thought Booker got a lot of like touch fouls

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Speaker 1: And I think that that kind of really frustrated them.

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Speaker 1: But they lost this game on open jumpers. Again, I

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I looked they looked really frustrated tonight, and

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Speaker 1: But I think I look, it's a two two series,

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Speaker 1: so both teams are really good. This is I've said before.

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Speaker 1: These aren't easy games, These aren't easy series for either

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm everyone everyone knows I'm a Lebron fan.

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Speaker 1: I grew up with two USA on Arizona. I'm not

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Speaker 1: But I'm I'm the kind of Lebron fan that's hard

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Speaker 1: and I thought the rest of the team to followed suit.

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Speaker 1: noticed in the second half that the Sun's did a

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Speaker 1: really good job of as they would have Booker and

431
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 1: Paul on opposite wings, or before Paul came back, to

432
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 1: have Booker and Pain on opposite wings, and they would basically,

433
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,159
Speaker 1: you know, kind of start slowly dribbling up to that

434
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,879
Speaker 1: wing and you know, whether it was Crusoe or or

435
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:03,320
Speaker 1: or Schroder, they would start she shading heavily over so

436
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 1: almost the top of the key in the health defense

437
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,120
Speaker 1: spot because they were giving up so many straight line

438
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: drives to those guys, and then they would just throw

439
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,880
Speaker 1: a quick swing pass and all of a sudden, you've

440
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,440
Speaker 1: got Booker or Paul or Pain attacking in a close out,

441
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they've already got you on

442
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 1: their hip and they're going into the basket. So they're

443
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 1: they're like and again like they don't need to shade

444
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 1: over as far if Anthony Davis is one of the

445
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 1: guys on that back line that is rotating around, and

446
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 1: so it's it's it's a problem, you know, Like I thought,

447
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 1: like you know, we always talked about playoff series as

448
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,959
Speaker 1: a list of advantages. One team is more advantages than

449
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,439
Speaker 1: the other, and that usually over the course of a

450
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,159
Speaker 1: seven game series, those advantages will will show. You know,

451
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 1: they might the other team might steal a game by

452
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 1: by by playing off of their advantages. But if you've

453
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: got significantly more advantages, like this Laker team does, you're

454
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 1: just gonna inevitably win over the course of a seven

455
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,919
Speaker 1: game series. Well several advantages. Anthony Davis on the offensive end,

456
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis on the defensive ent got taken off.

457
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 1: You think about k c P. We don't know if

458
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,159
Speaker 1: he's going to be a go on Tuesday. So all

459
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,399
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's like a lot more level playing field.

460
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 1: And so now it's really going to be about the

461
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: little tiny details that are gonna end up swinging these

462
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 1: next three games. Like you know, Lebron didn't have to

463
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: be a consistent jump shooter to win this series when

464
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 1: everyone else was playing well and was healthy. But Lebron

465
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: is gonna literally have to shoot the ball really well

466
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 1: in this next three game stretch or if a d

467
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 1: s out or the Lakers won't win. That's a little detail.

468
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 1: That's a huge difference. It's gonna have to be really

469
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 1: smart strategy from Frank, It's gonna have to be role

470
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,360
Speaker 1: players making shots. All of it's gonna have to come

471
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: together at this point under the circumstances. That's just kind

472
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 1: of the way that the math of the series changed.

473
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Speaker 1: And like I said, what was unfortunate about today. I

474
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys felt this way, but I

475
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 1: felt like the first half was kind of a continuation

476
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: of of the Game three's fourth quarter, a little bit,

477
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: show Body, a little bit loose, a little bit, We've

478
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: got these guys already, and and they went into halftime

479
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: down four, and then the A. D News comes out

480
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: there shell shocked. They waste seven eight minutes of game clock,

481
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: and then they finally kind of snapped to a fight mode,

482
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 1: but it's too late. Like you look at it and

483
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: you think, oh, Chris Paul sitting shot. Stephan book are

484
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 1: sitting shots and Kale Bridges sitting shots, but really those

485
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: shots are just stemming the tide of what was a

486
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: Laker run. They were playing well, but they wasted their

487
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: opportunity by by sloppy in the first half in Show Body,

488
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: and then by being shell shocked there to start the third.

489
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: So now it's like this clean slates two games to two.

490
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: Two of the games are gonna be in Phoenix. All

491
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,959
Speaker 1: of these little details become so much more important, and

492
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be really interesting. And Frank

493
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: Scott's work cut out for him, Like I keep saying, um,

494
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. What kind of adjustment teammates? Yeah,

495
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: and just looking at like the forest through the trees

496
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: or however that saying goes like, you still held Phoenix

497
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: to a hundred points, And we talked about it before, like,

498
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: I don't think they mind DeAndre and going off. If

499
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: you can hold off Chris Paul, Devon Booker, and Chris

500
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 1: Paul went eighteen points tonight Devon Booker seventeen, you hold

501
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: those due to like thirty five combined thirty six over

502
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: that math goes on, Um, I think you've kind of

503
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: done your job there, um, right, so you hold them

504
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: to that low scoring eight and gets goes six for eight.

505
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,399
Speaker 1: He's been going eight for twelve or lines like that,

506
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 1: and they've still been held to a hundred points. So

507
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: I think their game plan still was there. It's just

508
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: they did not score enough. Tonight Phoenix against Phoenix shot

509
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: from three again, they shot low from three. I don't

510
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Speaker 1: think those are coincidence that they shot low from three

511
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: for like three straight games. Um. I think that's part

512
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,880
Speaker 1: of the game plan. Fly them up three point line.

513
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: So I think their defense still kind of held up

514
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 1: in like a larger some point, but they just did

515
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: not score enough. They did not hit enough open threes.

516
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: They shot forty three shot like thirty two percent. If

517
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: you just hit a couple more of those. This game

518
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: is a little closer. I think that's the key here.

519
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: And now, like we're going into small and smaller sample size,

520
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: like I know I've been I keep tweeting you have

521
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: to take these open ones. They'll go and eventually, but

522
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: like the sample that we're getting is getting smaller and smaller.

523
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: I guess that's like this, that's like the silver lining

524
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: to kind of look at you played, what four games?

525
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: You defended well on all four of them, Like you

526
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Speaker 1: defended well enough to where if you scored just at

527
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: an average amount, you win these games. Like you hold

528
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: the phoenix is the top offense, Like you held them

529
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Speaker 1: again to a hundred points. They were completely healthy tonight.

530
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: Chris Paul even said he's back, so he's healthy. It

531
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Speaker 1: looks like so you held them to a hundred and

532
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Speaker 1: I think they'll live with that. Chris Paul seven for fifteen, Um,

533
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: you know you put them to the line only four times.

534
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: I think you live with that. Devin Booker one to

535
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Speaker 1: five from three. You make him take all these mid

536
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Speaker 1: range jumpers. He did get to the line seven times.

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Speaker 1: A lot of that was in the first half. Like

538
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: those are things you can take in the game. Five.

539
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: Those are things you can do. Eight being out really hurts,

540
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: but those are things you can still kind of due

541
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: to even a lesser extent with eight with a drummond

542
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: and gasol. That's the things that I would take from this. UM.

543
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: I think they'll go into game five expecting eighty not

544
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: to play, and that's how you have to go into it.

545
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: And Lebron being a little bit more aggressive and man

546
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: if our shooters can just hit a couple more open

547
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: open looks. Cru So I think got a couple ago tonight.

548
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 1: Who's might think I wanted to go just just the

549
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: open ones. Man, that's all we're asking that they're creating

550
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: open looks. The phoenix is living, dying in the paint,

551
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: just just living with these shots. So that's what I'll

552
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: take from this um. And look, it's a loss, but

553
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 1: it's too too like this is how good teams go,

554
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: Good conference finals teams go, like this is not a

555
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: first round matchup to me, um, I I keep saying it.

556
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 1: These are the two best teams in the West. These

557
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: are extremely well coached, Chris Paul is a superstar. On

558
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: the other side, like, these aren't gonna it's not gonna

559
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: be easy series. Man, I never thought it was so

560
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: um six gamer, seven gamer. It is what it is.

561
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: But I just think that's how these go. In game five,

562
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 1: they'll we have to be ready and I think they will. Yeah,

563
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: you know, the series that I would compare this to

564
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: in Lebron's career um as of late, would be the

565
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Speaker 1: game in the series against Indiana in the first round

566
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: of two eight team. It's not a straight up comparison

567
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: in terms of the identities of the teams and the

568
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: stars involved in blah blah blah um. But I still

569
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: think even with Lebron in his somewhat limited state, which

570
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: by the way, he looked better physically today, I don't

571
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: think you can blame Lebron's ankle for his behavior in

572
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: that second half in my opinion. I know I said

573
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: behavior that's a poor choice of words, but just his

574
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: his passivity in the in the second half I thought,

575
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: I thought, what mostly had to do with his him

576
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: being a little bit mentally psyched out by the e

577
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: D injury and and then the lack of spaceing um.

578
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: But that said, like, he's still the best player in

579
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: this series. And if you remember, in the Indiana series,

580
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: Indiana was up two games to one, and they were

581
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: going on a run in the fourth quarter, uh in Indie,

582
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: about to go up three one in the series, and

583
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: Kyle Corver hit a couple of shots and and it

584
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: just completely changed the psychology. All of a sudden, the

585
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: Calves had like a two point lead with like three

586
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: minutes left, and Lebron just took over. He had like

587
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: a driving layoup where he scored on Miles Turner and

588
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: then he had another, uh driving spin move on boy

589
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: on Bogdanovitch where he scored. He just sucked the pace

590
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: out of the game and and just and just slowed

591
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: things down and just made the plays, and he won

592
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: the game. And then it swung the series back in

593
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: Cleveland's favor, and then they won their two home games

594
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: and ended up winning. And that's kind of the way

595
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: I see this, this game, this game five here in Phoenix,

596
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: Like this game, the Lakers are not going to go

597
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 1: in there and manhandle him. That's not gonna happen. Even

598
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: if a d plays, He's gonna be some limited version

599
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: of himself. So what's gonna end up happening is that

600
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: game is gonna be close, and Lebron's gonna have a

601
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: run in him somewhere, and somebody's gotta make some shots.

602
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: Somebody's gotta make some plays somewhere down the roster to

603
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: give that little bit of a boost, just like Kyle

604
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: Korver did for that calvs team, just to kind of

605
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: put it to a Ray Tames where Lebron can can

606
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: close the deal. That's kind of the way I see

607
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: game five. And you know, fortunately with this Laker team,

608
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,959
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of candidates for that role. There are

609
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who are capable of that, and

610
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. The Lakers made thirteen threes today.

611
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: I think they took forties, so wasn't a great percentage necessarily,

612
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: but some guys got to see some shots go through

613
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: the rim. Crusoe made some shots after he didn't make

614
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: any in the previous two. You know, West made some

615
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: shots again, Mark made some shots. Um Kuzma was his

616
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: jumper still off, but he's getting into the paint and

617
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: starting to make some of those little like running floaters

618
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: that he likes to make. There's something there they that

619
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: group just needs to kind of, you know, Galvin, I's

620
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: come together and and just get through this game. Because

621
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: if you can go home for the Lakers in Game six.

622
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna attack that game from the start in

623
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: a way they didn't today, And I like their chances.

624
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: And if you can close this series in six while

625
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: Denver in Portland are beating the hell out of each other,

626
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: do you have a better chance to get a d

627
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: back to something resembling himself. So I think I think

628
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: this Game five it's gonna be a really a really

629
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: really uh pivotal moment for this season. Yeah. One of

630
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: the last things that kind of wrote down here was

631
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: like no KCP tonight, which obviously he's not as big

632
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: as missing Anthony Davis, but I thought they still kind

633
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: of missed his speed is athleticism in transition. Um, he's

634
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: not shooting well in this series, but he would have

635
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: been nice to have one more shooter out there right

636
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: just trying to get some open looks. Um. I thought

637
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: Wes Matthews was good on Booker, but he's a little

638
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: bit more physical. I thought Devin Booker kind of used

639
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: his physicality against him to draw a couple of those

640
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: cheap vouls. KCP does a really nice job of top

641
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: locking and uh putting back pressure on him at a

642
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: point where he doesn't really get get called for those,

643
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: So I thought he was a guy that they really

644
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: missed as well. And hopefully, um he can go, he

645
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: can play in Game five. And also I just wanted

646
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: to give you a chance. Ben McLamore got met his

647
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: with Lebron tonight. Um, I thought Vogel again was looking

648
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: for shooting. Ben hit his first three and then decided

649
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,959
Speaker 1: to hit a fade away three pointer as well um

650
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: his second shot. So it was cool to see him

651
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: get minutes and look that they need shooting man and

652
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: game I thought Bend kind of hurt them on defense.

653
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: His off all defense was still kind of lack of

654
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: days ago to me, Um, the whole team wasn't locked in,

655
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: but still like he kind of lost his man a

656
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: few times. But they're gonna need shooting man. They're gonna

657
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: need anyone who can help in Game five to just

658
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,959
Speaker 1: to give offensive production. Like I said before, sixty points

659
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: and like the end of the third quarter is just

660
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: not enough offense to be any team. I don't care

661
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: if you have the best defensive league, it's just not enough.

662
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: So those are things they'll have to go. And I'm

663
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: sure Bogo and everybody else will look at the film

664
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and hopefully eighty can go. Eighty

665
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: is a guy we talked about it like he falls

666
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: almost every game. He gives us heart attacks like two

667
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: or three times every night. And maybe this is just

668
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: another one, another like lingering um to hope this is

669
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: separate from the one that he was questionable, right, So

670
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,959
Speaker 1: he was questionable with a knee contusion I believe before

671
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: the game, and this was now growing strain. So these

672
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: are two separate issues. Hopefully these are both of minor

673
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: issues that they find and hopefully you can go in

674
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: game five. But yeah, did you have anything else, um

675
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: from tonight, from this game or looking ahead to to

676
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: game five? You can go ahead and start bringing up

677
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: the first guest, I mean, the last thing I was

678
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: gonna say. Everybody gets your request, and I will take

679
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: at least four or five collars. Um. Uh my, my

680
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: impression of the a D injury. The one thing that

681
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: made me nervous was in immediately grabbing at it, Um,

682
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: and then also the fact that he had some growing

683
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: tightness you know a few weeks back, Um did the

684
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: thing that makes it sketchy is like that, like he said,

685
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: you know to to Chris Haynes, like I'm I'm I'm

686
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: gonna give it a go, um, like no matter what.

687
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: And so you could tell a d S mentality is

688
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: like I'm playing. And so him not playing in a

689
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: game that they trailed by four, I mean, I don't

690
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: know if there was a psychology, you know, amongst the

691
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: team where they felt like they could win without him

692
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: or what. But and then again, that attitude from the

693
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: team coming out of halftime him was a little bit

694
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: you know, sunken and and and just like like they

695
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: all just looked like they lost their belief, which I

696
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: haven't really seen them play without belief like that since

697
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: that Clippers game a few weeks back when Lebron was

698
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: out and uh, and the Clippers just punched him in

699
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: the mouth to start the game. Um, So it's definitely

700
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: it's definitely concerning. But if you if you can somehow

701
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: win this series without him, you know, there's a chance

702
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: that you can give him seven to ten, you know,

703
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: seven days off at least here. So I would I

704
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: would hope that that they see the opportunity. Uh, if

705
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: he's not playing, I hope they see the opportunity too,

706
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: that they're still, in my opinion, even without a D,

707
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: the Lakers are still capable of winning this series. I

708
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: really do believe that. And even tonight it was a

709
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: seven point game, Marcusol had to turn over in the

710
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: backcourt and Dennis Shrewder missed the point point blank layout

711
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: with like two and a half minutes left. Um, that's

712
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: not to say they would have won, but the point

713
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: is is like from that, you know, two thirds of

714
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,959
Speaker 1: the way through the third quarter, the Lakers put their

715
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: foot on the gas and when they really engaged defensively,

716
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: the Suns were sloppy. They rushed things because they're a

717
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: young team. With Chris Paul on the floor, he was

718
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: able to make some tough shots, but he wasn't There

719
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: was also something that he missed because they defended him

720
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: really well. So I still think they're capable of getting

721
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: enough stops and making enough shots to win this series

722
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: without a D. But yeah, let's get somebody on. Yeah,

723
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: I agree, Let's see if if I can get Evan

724
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: on here. It's connecting. Yeah, they're gonna have to try

725
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: to win without him, But I don't know, I feel

726
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: like they just saw a half time that he wasn't

727
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: ready to go. It looked like he limped off really hurting. There.

728
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: It looks like Evan's connecting. And see if I can

729
00:34:48,400 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: get appreciate everyone's staying with us here on uh on

730
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: a Sunday afternoon with a bunch of more basketball. I

731
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 1: think coming this this day, h yo, j are you there?

732
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: Can you hear essay? Yeah? I think you're muted? My guy?

733
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: Okays it's also muted, and Evans is still connecting. Got

734
00:35:51,400 --> 00:36:09,439
Speaker 1: anybody else mhm? Thinking most people are kind of down

735
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: after this loss. I don't have that many requests here. Well,

736
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 1: if you don't have anybody, we can call it. Um.

737
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: We take a lot of callers in the other games.

738
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: Everybody must be enjoying their Sunday. I thought you came up. Yeah,

739
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: it looks like and it's not connecting. I'll give the

740
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: last shot. Last shot anyone wants to come up. But now,

741
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: well we'll call this one. Let's see. It looks like

742
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: that's all we have here. All those guys kind of left,

743
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: all right, everybody, Thank you guys so much for coming

744
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: hang out with us. I'm sorry that Roger and I

745
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: didn't have something more cheery to talk about. Hopefully we

746
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: will on Tuesday night. As far as I know, UM,

747
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: I should be able to do Tuesday night for sure,

748
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: and then maybe on Thursday. I'm going to a Ruba

749
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 1: on Thursday on an overnight flight, but it doesn't leave

750
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: until eleven thirties, so even if it's just for like

751
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty minutes, I'm hoping that I'll be able

752
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: to get get that one in with you guys. But

753
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: I think this game on Tuesday is going to be

754
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: extremely entertaining, extremely kind of like coin flip type of game,

755
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: and I'm very excited and I'm looking forward to it.

756
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: And I think you guys coming to hit for, come

757
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: to hang out with us, and we will talk to

758
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: you right after that game. Appreciate everyone, Thank you every bye,