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T's a lot of 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.640 requests o Cho for a tea to come into you 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.799 and our face on the front to come in black. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.600 Guess what we dropped that last week. Quantities are limited, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.880 make sure you go grab yours wild supplies. Last o 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.960 Cho the game we just ended the Lakers defeat the 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.240 Grizzlies to one twenty three. Lebron James became the oldest 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.200 man in NBA history. Well, he was already the oldest 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.520 because he had three straight triple doubles. I think he 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.280 was thirty four years of age three. You know, he 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.480 was a couple of days older than Jason Kidd, who 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.600 did it when he was thirty four. But he became 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.000 the oldest man in NBA history to record three straight 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.640 triple doubles. Thirty five points, twelve rebounds, fourteen assists, and 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.960 they needed every single point, every single rebound, every single assist. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.440 He had nine points, seven rebounds, five assists in the 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.080 fourth quarter alone. The Lakers stayed undefeated at home as 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:00.480 they beat the Grizzlies minus job Morant and minus Dein. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.640 I didn't think it would be that difficulty, O show, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.160 but the grim Bikes are very battles team that had 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.120 won two, three, four, five, six guys in double figures. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.680 Another guy had nine points. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.560 They are very no they had seven guys in the 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.159 double figure Excuse me, they're a very strappy team. You 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.240 know what you're gonna get when you played at Grizzlies, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.320 You're gonna get a lot of effort even without two 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.000 of their best players. John obviously is their best player, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.600 but Jaren Jackson had a superior had a great game. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:33.320 Twenty nine points, seven rebounds. Zach Edy had nine points. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.440 Zach Edy No, Zach Edy had twelve point excuse me 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:44.320 had twelve points. Ada Lama had what fifteen. Scotty Pippen Jr. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.120 Has been playing extremely well. He just needed he just 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:48.719 needed a place where he could go and he could play. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.120 He wasn't gonna get the minutes there. I'm sure the 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.520 Lakers would love to have him, but when you got 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.800 Lebron who needs the ball, you're gonna have Austin Rivers 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:56.520 on the point. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.359 And I think they had him before it. Maybe they 0:04:58.360 --> 0:04:59.280 had d Low also. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.320 That was just too many guys handling point, and so 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.640 he wasn't gona get an opportunity to handle the ball. Ojo, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.599 but I thought the Lakers really needed this game. They 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.120 had to dig deep. I don't know if they took 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.520 him for granted, because Bain and Job was going to 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.080 be out. But I had a twelve point lead, built 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:15.880 the lead all the way to fifteen. I think the 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.680 Griz cut it the one then outscore them in the 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.320 third quarter. But the Lakers get it together. Ad was 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.120 in foul trouble a large part of this game, and 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:24.520 I think that had a lot to do with it. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.839 Edie is just so big man. I don't know how 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.760 tall that. I think he's about seven four ojo. He 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.880 just takes up so much space. So this was a 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.400 big win. The Lakers stayed undefeated at home. But I 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.240 thought the Lakers played really well when they absolutely have to. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.400 But you got to tip your hat to the Grizzly 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.680 because they played well without two of the best players. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.679 When you watch the game on what you think. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.800 I mean, I enjoyed it up and down the field 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.680 out without John morons it. They played very well in 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.320 transition on both sides. On both sides of the court. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.800 Defensively they did the best that they could, but offensively 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.600 in transition they played extremely well. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:04.200 Outside of that. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.480 For for me, knowing that you know how much I've 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.640 really just started watching the game of basketball, I would 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.200 have liked to see the difference with Baine and John 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.320 Moran playing the night and see if that would have 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.520 made a difference in the game. The fact that the 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.520 Grids were able to keep it somewhat close. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.039 Keep it somewhat close. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.040 Because of the way they played, because of how you 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.839 just spoke on and how scrappy they were. I would 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.280 have liked that a little better. Outside of that was 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.720 a good game. You did mention that Ad was in trouble, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.000 in trouble and he really couldn't get int the rythm early, 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.240 but he did find his rhythm later on in the game. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:36.359 He was huge. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.200 Yeah, yeah, he had quarter threes. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.880 Yeah, to kind of extend that lead a little bit more. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.560 Outside that, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. And one 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:47.960 of the things that would I would I would want 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.640 and ask from you, being that the season is really 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.599 just starting, and as I continue to learn the game 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.560 of basketball, I think we need to sit courtside. I 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.120 think we need to we need to sit courtside so 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.640 you can teach me the game better. And I think 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.920 I'm a visual learner. It'd be perfect. So you take 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.239 me to all the games court sides. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.880 Probably I can put your touch with the guy that 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.960 got that can get you the tickets to sit court side. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.760 Oh no, no, no, I want to talk. No, guys, 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:17.800 I'm gonna talk to you. I need you sit next 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:18.120 to me. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.920 So I know what them court side ticket costs, bro, and. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.400 I know you got it. That ain't nothing to a 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:25.800 player like you. That ain't none to it. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.640 Just like I'll sit court side if there's not a 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.240 game on. But for me, I like watching all the games. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.520 It's hard for you to sit court side and watch 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.960 the games when you got to be critiquing and analyzing 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.800 all the games and come back and have a conversation 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.880 about them. It's just that's one of the reason why 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.200 I don't go to football games on Sunday, because I 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.560 can't analyze all the other games that's going on if 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.360 I'm sitting in the stadium watching that one game, and 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.520 there's so many other games that I need to talk about. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.840 So that's the main reason why I don't go to games. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.440 You know, I have an opportunity to go to games, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.360 go see the Broncos or Ravens play, but I'll be 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.760 doing a disservice to try to come in here and 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.160 have a conversation about other games that played, knowing that 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.680 I was at a game watching focusing on that game. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.680 So that's the main reason why I don't even go 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.760 to that. I don't even go to games. It would 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.520 be nice to be able to go to a game 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.760 here and there. I think the Broncos are coming out here. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.000 Well I know they are, but and somebody asked me 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.040 to gym today, are you going to the Broncos Raiders game? 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.440 I was like, Nah, I'm not. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.040 When I look at the game on Joe, you look 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.640 at the Lakers, they shot and they're not the greatest 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.600 three point shooting team. They can get their streaky don't connect. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.800 Obviously their best three point shooter they made. They shot 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.360 forty eight percent, almost forty. They shot basically forty nine 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.960 percent from the three. But the turnover, that's what to 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.840 get you in trouble. And you had a fifteen point 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.880 lead and you turn them ball over a couple of times, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.840 you get lazy on defense and guys you know, basically 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.440 hit a shoot around three's on you or they get 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.120 you know, uncontested lay up to the basket. I think 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.600 that's what really hurt them because normally the Lakers, you 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.760 shot fifty one percent from the floor, you shot forty 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.720 nine percent from the three. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.600 You was terrible from the free throw line. You was 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:57.880 twenty two or thirty two. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.160 You got to be from Lebron was five of eight, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.240 cam Reddis was one of four. Austin Reeve was five 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.120 or seven. You got to be better in a closer game. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.959 You're gonna need to make those free throws. You need 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.120 to be twenty eight of thirty two something like that. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:16.960 Twenty nine and thirty two. There's no reason for you 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.880 to miss that many free throws. But you know, other 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.200 than that, connect play good coming off the bench. Uh 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.480 Co Loco played good off the bench. D Low struggling 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.360 a little bit tonight. Gabe Vincent hadn't found this stroke yet. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.199 He hadn't found this stroke in a while. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.840 Hey do you do you think d Loo coming off 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.559 the bench? Do you think that bothers him? You think 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.719 it bothers him not being able to get a rhythm, well, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.360 not not having that, I don't know the word to use, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.000 not not confidence. But usually when the player is coming 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.199 off the bench that is normally a starter, it's harder 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.079 than to catch rhythm and a little bit a little hesitant, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.080 you know, when they decided to pull the trigger out 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:54.160 there on the court. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.559 Yeah, I think you know he's been a starter basically 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.760 his whole career. So you have to revamp your game. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.000 You know lou You see, Lou Will was a starter. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.720 Then all of a sudden they brought him off the bench. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.079 What's the guy named Jamal Crawford. Guys that I mean, 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.000 you have to you know, basically you have to just 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.000 like but you do have the green light. Normally, guys 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:16.760 that come up the bench, you understand they're gonna have 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.559 they have the green light. A elite monk was the 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.280 start and now they move him to the bench. He 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.400 has the green light to get it rhythm. And but 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.040 I think this role is better suited for him because 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.920 you insert Cam Reddish and you ask Cam Reddish to 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.960 guard probably one of the premium backcourt guys. That takes 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.000 a pressure off of Bostar Reeds, so he didn't have 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.520 to exert so much energy trying to stay in front 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.280 of a guy like a job, trying to stay in 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.439 front of one of the better one or two guards. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.280 And so that's the thing you have to tip your 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.880 hat for a guy like Jordan, a guy like Kobe 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.520 that took the challenge Lebron in his prime, that took 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.959 the challenge to guard the best guy and still had 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.959 to give you an offer offensive production. On the other end, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.920 That's what separates the guys, the really good uh and 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.480 the great players is that they were willing accept that challenge, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.320 even if they didn't do it for the entire game. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.560 When the Rubber needed to meet the road, they would 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.720 take that challenge in the fourth quarter, overtime or late 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.000 in the ball games, and says, okay, nah, give him him, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.360 give me him. But yeah, but I mean, what do 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.760 you say about Lebron? I mean, I mean, you look 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.160 at this point in time, the man is what thirty nine, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:22.480 three hundred and fourteen days? 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:23.720 Whatever is it? 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:23.920 That? 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.600 No more than that is, yeah, because there's forty five 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:40.640 more days, three sixty five, so yeah, three hundred fourteen days, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.480 So there's forty six more days. I'd like to say, guys, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.840 there's forty six more days before his birth of his birthday. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.200 But I mean, what do you say, thirty five points, 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.840 twelve rebounds fourteen or sis? 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:51.560 He shot great? 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.360 I mean officially efficiency was off the chart thirteen or 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.440 twenty two four to seven from the three. Like I said, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.920 Ad was in foul trouble. He missed some easy shot. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.800 Lebron missed a couple of easy shots. But in the 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.280 fourth quarter when they needed both of their big guns 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.079 to step up. Ad has played great all year long. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.160 I got no qualms, but Ad tonight it was a 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.439 relatively quiet night for him. Twenty one point fourteen rebounds, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.199 six and sixteen from the floor. He was shooting fifty 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.480 seven percent coming into the game. Like I said, it's 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.319 kind of hard for him to get a rhythm. He 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.800 was dealing with a guy that's so so much taller 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.160 than he is. And even when you turn around and 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.760 create space shooting over a guy that's seven foot I 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.079 think he's seven foot four. Even if he jumps a 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.840 little bit, you know, it's like problem. Yeah, and so, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.480 but give those give give him credit. I want to 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.280 give the Grizzlies credit because I thought they played extremely hard. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.679 Like I said, given they didn't have Job, that didn't 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.600 have a Desmond May. You know, Job was chirping on 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.480 the bench. You know that that's his game. They do 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.120 a lot of talking. But that's that's who they are, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.360 That's who that team is. But the Laker was able 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.400 to keep their focus and win a ball game. Then 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.360 they could have easily lost. Maybe I'm not so sure. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.640 Last year when they play they have that lead for 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.440 whatever reason. Oh Joe, and I've been watching the Lakers 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.640 since Lebron got there. It's always that third quarter where 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.600 they slip walk coming out the first six or seven 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.840 minutes of the ball game and the next thing you 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.000 know they might have a lead, the lead is gone, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.000 or if a team, if it's a close game, the 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.080 team puts separation. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.160 I don't know what it is. And it does not 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:24.720 matter who's the coach. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.040 If you go back and look at the Lakers being Vogel, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.679 be It, Luke, Walton, be at Darren Ham and now JJ, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.199 that third quarter for some reason they sleepwalk. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.920 Hey, listen when it comes to the game of basketball, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.000 whether it be the Lakers or not, regards to who's 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.240 coaching a basketball team. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.800 What I've come to learn in my short tenure is 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.000 being a basketball. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.640 Savant, is that the game of basketball is about runs. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.520 It's a game of runs. No matter how much you 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.800 extend to lead. For some reason, no matter what, that 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.800 lead always shrinks significantly when another team gets in rhythm, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.160 gets in rhythm and they have their run. Then at 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.400 some point in the third, maybe the fourth quarter, then 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.559 the game becomes a game where the games are somewhat 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.280 even very seldom is it just a blowout. And you 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.440 get a lead, you extended lead or in early in 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.920 the game, and you just blow them type, blow the 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.080 game out out the water the entirety of the game. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.000 For some reason, the opposing team the three point shots. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.400 Yeah, I mean, I mean, the Lakers got up forty one, 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.640 the Grizzlies got up thirty three. The Celtics shoot forty fifties, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.440 almost sixty three a night. So when you get in 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.560 a situation and you got teams that can make twenty 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.480 five twenty nine threes, yeah right, No, leaders say because 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.200 you turn the ball, you miss a couple of shots, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.640 or you turn the ball over and the team could 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.040 easily go on their next five possessions, hit four to three, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.680 to the two, and a twenty point lead all of 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.640 a sudden is a seven point lead. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.360 Yeah, and it's just like that. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.320 So yeah, normally, teams, I mean, look, they were all 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.360 they've always been big comebacks things of that nature. But 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.240 it seems to me now with the way these teams 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.960 can shoot the basketball, that a twenty point lead in 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:10.600 the first quarter. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:11.680 I mean I saw the. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.680 Oh just the other night, the Spurs had like a 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.960 twenty something point leading the first quarter on the Clippers, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.120 and by the third quarter the Clippers had done called 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.480 him and had a ten point lead and ended up 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.360 winning the game. So, yeah, it is. It's always been 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.800 a game of runs. But now with that three point 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.960 shot and team's ability to have multiple guys on the 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.920 court that can shoot, Yeah, there's there's really no lead 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.360 that's really safe. Yeah, but I I look, this has 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.400 been basically the same roster that they had last year. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:49.000 So for Darvin ham to excuse me, for JJ Reddick 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.240 to get this kind of production, ad is playing off 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.480 the chart statistically. He's playing his best balls of his career. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:01.840 Lebron is Lebron, lebron Is Lebron all reeves. Now that 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.480 he doesn't have to guard the best player, you know, 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.800 the best backcourt player, he has some energy to give 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.560 you something. Now, Cam Reddish is not the guy that's 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.200 gonna give you. He's a defensive guy. He's a wing defender, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.040 and anything that he gives you offensively you greatly accept. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.000 But you just want to make sure that you limit 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.760 the backcourt guys. You don't let him get his average. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.840 If you can hold a guy from his average, give 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.680 us some limited production. Cam Reddish has done his job. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.240 Now d Low, you come in and you get your 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.520 fifteen points coming off the bench. I thought Dalk connect 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.400 was unbelievable. Think five to five from the three, seven 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.720 of eight from the free throw. From the field, he 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.760 had nineteen big points. He had the highest plus minus. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.600 He was plus seventeen. You can't complain about that. Coloco 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.920 gave you four points, gave you a couple of rebounds. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:56.320 D Low gave you eight points. Gave Vinson for whatever reason, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.160 gave Vinson hadn't found this stroke was I remember when 0:16:59.160 --> 0:16:59.720 he was in Miami. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.400 D every time he shot the ball it seemed like 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.080 it was going in on end. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:03.400 Yeah. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.080 Now all of a sudden he was all six from 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.560 the floor, all four from from the three, got thirteen. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.080 Minutes of cardio. In listening, bright lights and bright light's different. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.520 Now, I know Miami is Miami, but the bright light's 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:15.800 different over there in Hollywood. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:17.600 Expectations are different. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.040 Oh yeah, most definitely. You're playing alongside Lebron. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.960 The ball is still weigh the same, the rim is 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:28.399 still the depth, reception is absolutely the same. It's just 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.600 a different level of expectations and you're playing alongside a 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:32.760 historically great player. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:33.520 And people. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.520 It does matter. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.520 You know, you know who's the ball, you know what's expected. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.600 But the Lakers hold on to win the ball game 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.639 to one twenty three to remain undefeated at home and 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.320 moved to seven and four on the regular season. The 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.600 Lakers have this that Bronnie James will play in the 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.080 G League home games, but will not travel with the 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.080 team during the road games. Browny will be with the 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.320 Lakers during road games. Brian Winhorse doesn't think that's a 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.120 good idea. I'm going to apply the brakes on everything. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.760 It's fine on Bronnie front, with the things that's now happening. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.960 He's only he's only he's only gonna kind of be 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.480 a part time G League player, and he's not getting 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:25.480 on the United air lines and going to fly and 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:26.760 go play these road games. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:27.000 Now. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.600 I know he was getting so much special treatment and nepotism, 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.520 and that's fine, Honestly, I don't care. Like I said, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.640 it's normal. Now, I think it's actually detrimental to him. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.159 I don't know whose idea was obviously with the Lakers 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.600 are fine with it. They're doing it. On this particular instance, 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.480 I think you've gone too far. I don't think it 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.520 benefits Bronnie. I don't think it benefits South Bay Lakers. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.000 I don't think it benefits Lebron at this point. I 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.720 think it'd be better if Bronnie played more developmental player 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.600