1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. If you're listening to Fox 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: Smith Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon, Brook Macmersony. Uh, 10 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: maybe it's time, maybe, maybe maybe it's time to look 11 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: out for the Lakers. 12 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: What are you doing? 13 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: Fourth winning a row for the Lakers. They are now 14 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: tied for third in the West. Allbe good, You're eleven 15 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: games out behind Oklahoma City. Yeah, you know you are 16 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: now third in the West. Four wins in a row. 17 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 1: Lebron James returns a big night to night for Luca. 18 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: Look for Lebron, just really quick. It looked awful for 19 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: Lebron early, all right. He did not score first thirteen 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: minutes of the game. It looked terrible, but the Lakers 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: were winning big. Lebron starts scoring the Bulls start coming back, 22 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: but in the end, one forty two to one thirty, 23 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: Luka Doncic goes for fifty one points, ten rebounds, nine assists. 24 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: Tonight a huge night. Lebron ends up at eighteen. 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 3: My favorite stat of the night though, only five points 26 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 3: from the Laker bench. Yeah, one hundred and forty two points, 27 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 3: only five from the bat well. 28 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: You had fifty one from Doncic and thirty from Reeves 29 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: and twenty three from me. There's only so many points 30 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: out there. 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: I'm just saying it. 32 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 3: It kind of felt like this was the must win 33 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: of must win games for JJ Rennie. 34 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 2: You're all playing forty minutes. 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 4: Now. 36 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: Look, here's here's the thing is that tonight we had 37 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: two big performances in the NBA. Right, we will get 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray in a second. We had Luka Doncic 39 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: with fifty one, and you had SGA breaking the tie 40 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: with Wilt Chamberlain for most consecutive twenty point games in 41 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: your career with game number one twenty seven. 42 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 3: Right, there was a great game too. 43 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: Now, great game, and you know, obviously when you pass Wilt, 44 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: just understand the level Wilt is at. Will only didn't 45 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: score twenty points because he got thrown out of that 46 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: game in the first quarter. 47 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 3: You got to keep yourself from getting ejected. I mean 48 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: that's I mean, when you're talking about, you know, a 49 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 3: streak of such magnitude, there's a million things that can 50 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 3: take you out. You know, maybe you're out a little 51 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 3: too late the night before, you can't answer the bell. 52 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 3: I mean, all these things, you leave early, you're in 53 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 3: a blowout situation, or you get yourself thrown out. I 54 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 3: mean that that's the one on the Bengo card that's 55 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 3: probably the least likely to come up. 56 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: I mean, so, yeah, look SGA was great SGA's but understand, 57 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: you know that streak would have continued a lot, but it. 58 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 3: Didn't because he couldn't control him. Wait, I never heard 59 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 3: that about will Chamberlain get me a hot take? Luca's 60 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 3: fifty one is better than BAM's eighty three? Oh, that 61 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 3: is a hot take. 62 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: That is a hot take. That's pretty hot. 63 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 3: And you know what he's calling everybody right now, We 64 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 3: could probably get him to call us it's not right, 65 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 3: but it's a hot take. That's a hot take has 66 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 3: been waiting for now. 67 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: But here's the deal with with Luca, right, because you 68 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: look at these two performances. Tonight performance is performance. The 69 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: Lakers are tied for third. It's been a great year 70 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: for Luca. He had a period of a two three 71 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: week period not too long ago where it was, oh, 72 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: Luca's bad, They're never gonna win with Luca, blah blah ah, 73 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: that stupid ass crap you heard about Luca with the 74 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: Lakers were slumping. If the Lakers were just a little 75 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: bit higher in the standings, if they had a little 76 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: bit more of an even season instead of a great start, 77 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: then they meandered. Lebron came back, they had trouble finding 78 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: their footing, but now here they are playing well in 79 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: the spot you want to be playing at, you know, 80 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: twenty ish games, a little bit less than twenty games 81 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: left to go in the regular season. If the Lakers 82 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: were just a little bit better, if they were just 83 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: on the heels of the Oklahoma City Thunder, or they 84 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: didn't have such a such a an up and down 85 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 1: two three week span to start the new year, Luca 86 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: would be right there for MVP with SGA is there. 87 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 1: But instead now SGA is gonna win, He's gonna I 88 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: could see Luca coming in second one hundred percent. I 89 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: could see. Look because all the other guys that that 90 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: that were up there. Now you have Jalen Brown, right, 91 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: I had him number one, But now Jason Tatum's back, 92 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: so he's not gonna win. Kevin Durant for a while, 93 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: not gonna happen, Jalen Brunson, the Knicks are not winning 94 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: like they should be there waiting for the playoffs. Most 95 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: likely he's not doing it. So Luca will be a finalist, 96 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: and I could, I can. I can see him finishing second. 97 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: But it would really be a toss up because the 98 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: star power of Luca being a Laker, you know, voters 99 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: would want to anoint him MVP, they'd want to do it. 100 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: But it's just he's not quite done enough to raise 101 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: the Lakers to a point where, hey, this this whole 102 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: season's been great. They've been on the uptick the entire time. 103 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: And part of it is Lebron James and his storyline 104 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: of it's Lebron, it's his last year. Are they better 105 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: with him? Are they better without him? They're better defensively 106 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: when he's When he's not on the floor, you can't 107 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: have him and Luca and Reeves on the floor at 108 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: the same time because that's awful defensively. So there's enough 109 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: of a negative narrative that surrounds Luca, oh a tiny 110 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,239 Speaker 1: bit of one, that's enough to make that difference between 111 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: him and SGA really big, because you look at a 112 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: night like tonight, here's Luca with fifty one. That's great. 113 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: SGA now breaking a record that was held by Will 114 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: Chamberlain that stood for sixty years, six decades. Will Chamberlain 115 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: had this record six No One. Michael Jordan didn't break 116 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: this record on sorry, on court record that he had. 117 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: Jordan didn't break it, Kobe didn't break it, Lebron didn't 118 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: break it, nobody brought. But SGA finally breaks it. Like 119 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: he's he's going he's the favorite for MVP. He is 120 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: gonna win. But if the Lakers were just and I'm 121 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: talking like a five game difference in the standings, if 122 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: they were five more up and five down, if they 123 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: were like forty five, and if they were like forty 124 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: is forty five and eighteen something like that, yeah, I 125 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: could see Luca really in the thick of it for 126 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: MVP if they were right behind the thunder. But it's 127 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: just gonna be a little bit too much. 128 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's stuff to close that gap, particularly I mean 129 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 3: Shay Gilgas Alexander. The only wild card to it all 130 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 3: is does he qualify. Well, he's at fifty five games 131 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 3: now with plenty of remaining. He can actually sit out 132 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 3: a week if he wanted to. He's currently minus one thousand. 133 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: Victor winmbin Yaba at fifteen to one, Yo, get you 134 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 3: twenty to one, get down to Cunningham and at sixty 135 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,119 Speaker 3: to one, and then Jalen Brown is now one hundred 136 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 3: and fifty before you get to Luca at two hundred 137 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: to one. And then the gap to everybody else is 138 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 3: just astronomical to Ant and everybody else, But for Luca 139 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 3: it's you know, we start finding out more and more 140 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 3: about what's going on in his life off the court, 141 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 3: so you can understand where someone might be a little distracted, 142 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 3: et cetera. The other hard part for the and this 143 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 3: is where we get deep in the weeds on analytics 144 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 3: and records and everything else, is against the best of 145 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 3: opponents outside of this past week, you know, Nicks Ye 146 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 3: and things of that, they hadn't been very good, right, 147 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 3: and that's some might say bum slayers, which is where 148 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 3: we're at in the state of the NBA this year, 149 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 3: where you do have a lot of teams that long 150 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 3: ago decided that they were cashing in their chips for 151 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 3: the season. Look, you can only beat who's on the schedule, 152 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 3: can only play who's on the schedule. And Luca's been phenomenal. 153 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: We've gotten to watch it front row seats here time 154 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 3: and time again here from the Fox Sports Radio studios 155 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 3: to see what he's been able to do. And obviously 156 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 3: he and Austin Reeves have something the two of them working. 157 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 3: This was a nice example again of the starting five 158 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 3: coalescing to where Luca's fighting and chirping with the guys 159 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 3: from the Bulls and is able to comfortably sit on 160 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 3: the bench and cheer them up on as they put 161 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 3: this game to bed Lakers in a twelve point win. 162 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: But yeah, you would need to close that gap and 163 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 3: SGA not qualify, and then maybe we can have that discussion. Unfortunately, 164 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 3: it's just a nice season. So we'll have more on 165 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 3: this coming up in a few minutes. But I want 166 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 3: to spend a couple of minutes here on the Kyler 167 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 3: Murray story because it was last night that I told you, hey, 168 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 3: Kyler Murray wanted to be a Minnesota Viking, he'd be 169 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 3: a Viking. If Aaron Rodgers wanted to be a Steeler, 170 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 3: they wanted him, he'd be a Steeler. No, Kyler Murray 171 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 3: gear RTT going. 172 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: To the Steelers. 173 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 3: He hates you. 174 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: He decided today to sign a one year deal with 175 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, he's going to the Vikings to 176 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: spite me, just to spite you. He would probably was 177 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: better off going to the Steelers, better weapons, better right now, 178 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: he's going just to spite me. Now. Now, I hope 179 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: the guy doesn't get the job now it he sits fine. 180 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy all year, just top. You could have gone 181 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: to the Vikings anytime you want it. 182 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: You gotta go. 183 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: We finally do. We talk about it last night, this 184 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: is our destination. And then a few hours later, Hey, 185 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: guess what, I'm going to Minnesota. No, come on, just 186 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: to spite me? He did it? 187 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 3: Man, Well, I mean I like that it matched up 188 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,319 Speaker 3: on my bingo card. I feel bad for you, I 189 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 3: mean cause your logic, your logic held pretty nice land man, 190 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 3: I know people are trolling you. And how about a 191 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 3: fresca at Fox Sports Radio on the YouTube page at 192 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 3: Jason Smith Show and everywhere else. Please bring the bring 193 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 3: the heat and tell your friends. 194 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: But that take stood up like like it was produce 195 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: on the clearance racket a supermarket. It's not gonna be 196 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: there very long. 197 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 2: You got one day. This is done. 198 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 3: But I look I like the fit in Minnesota. I 199 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 3: like that he was able to go and broke it. 200 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 3: No trade, no franchise tags, none of that stuff. He 201 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 3: plays one year bets on himself, puts it on his 202 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 3: shoulders and says, all right, I'm gonna go beat out 203 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 3: McCarthy and and take care of business. So it was 204 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 3: either O'Connell or was McCarthy. Either way, he was at 205 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 3: a pretty good spot and the chance to go win 206 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 3: the job long term just seemed like you. You had 207 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 3: the whole wife swap thing going on with Kyler Murray 208 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 3: and Aaron Rodgers, and you did it eloquently. And then 209 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 3: he said hold my beer. You know, let me just 210 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 3: say this too as well, because now we're going forward 211 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 3: with this right now that he's signed here out of spite. 212 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 3: A couple of details on it are really interesting, and 213 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 3: the most interesting one is that he's gonna be free 214 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 3: after this year. No you can't tag him, can't do anything. 215 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: You're you. You, We have you this year and then 216 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: I hit free agency next year. Now that helps Kyler 217 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: Murray if he wants to go someplace else and start. 218 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't work out for him Minnesota. But understand that 219 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: he's going to start from the jump with the Vikings. 220 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: He's not coming into Hey, you're our guy that's gonna 221 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: sit behind uh JJ McCarthy, and if he doesn't step 222 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 1: up this year, we're gonna go to you. 223 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 2: No. 224 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: No, if you were gonna do that, you would have 225 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: gone out and got Kirk Cousins. You'd go out and 226 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: got somebody else that that that is a that is 227 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: a backup to say, hey, you come in, you will 228 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: push the guy, but he's our guy. However, if he falters, 229 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: we're not gonna stick with him, and you'll get a chance. 230 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 2: That's you. 231 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: You go get a backup with upside. They went out 232 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: and got Kyler Murray, who is a long time starter, 233 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: two time pro bowler, who's still twenty seven years old. 234 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: They did not bring him in to say, hey, you're 235 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: gonna sit behind JJ McCarthy. They fully expect him to 236 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: be the starter. And not only that is Kyler Murray 237 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 1: betting on himself. Yeah that I'm gonna have a big 238 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: year this year, and you're not gonna get me for 239 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: free next year, and someone's gonna sign me for a 240 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: long term. I'm gonna get a Sam Darnold type deal, 241 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: three years and a one hundred million dollars. He's not 242 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: going to Minnesota unless he knows you're the guy and 243 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: in the right system. With Kevin O'Connell getting him outside 244 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: the pocket, be able to throw downfield. This is a 245 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: great marriage. I didn't think it would work with him 246 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: being out there as long as another team would snap 247 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: him up. Hey guarantee you're coming in as a guaranteed 248 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 1: starter instead of hey, we have the JJ McCarthy ghost 249 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: hanging over you. But this was they waited, They waited out. 250 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: They played it. Great one year deal. It's not costing 251 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: him anything. They can move on if he stinks, they 252 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: can keep him. If he's good, they can move on 253 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 1: from JJ McCarthy. They mitigate and tamp down that Sam 254 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: Darnold absolute failure were of the worst failures in the 255 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: NFL in the last twenty years. So great day for Minnesota. 256 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: But he comes in Kyler Murray's going to start right away. 257 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those concessions to the contra happening. Yeah, 258 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 3: those details solidify it and give him the opportunity to 259 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 3: go in assuming full bill of health. I mean, look 260 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 3: at the weapons that are there in Minnesota, and you know, 261 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson is really itching to get past that lost season. 262 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 3: Right That guy never says anything, and we talked about it. 263 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 3: He shows up on a podcast wistfully thinking about what 264 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 3: could have been with Sam Darnold and the rapport they'd 265 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 3: started the build the year before that they would have 266 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,199 Speaker 3: loved to run it back him Aaron Jones, who coincidentally 267 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 3: got cut. So the running back position it might still 268 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 3: need a little bit of work, but otherwise, you got 269 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 3: a roster, you got a guy as your head coach 270 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 3: who's also a little bit on the hot seat after 271 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 3: what happened this last year. Quezi walked the plank and 272 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 3: he's off back in San Francisco to help with the 273 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 3: draft analytics and everything else. But now for O'Connell, he's 274 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 3: got to prove he can do it again. He is 275 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 3: someone that he's gotta bear a lot of the blot 276 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,719 Speaker 3: of the blame for. Hey, you could have staid you 277 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 3: could have kept You could have said no, Sam's a guy, 278 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 3: but you didn't. You could have been the guy saying, no, 279 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 3: I just watch it. You really want to do this, 280 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 3: but he. They should have not only just gotten rid 281 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 3: of everybody in Minnesota after Donnad won the Super Bowl, 282 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 3: they should have gotten rid of the franchise. Hey, we 283 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 3: can't have you anymore. It's really embarrassing. You let go 284 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 3: of a guy that won the Super Bowl a year later. Sorry, guy, 285 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 3: they got Ragnar rolling up on his motorcycle to an 286 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 3: empty spot where a stadium once stood. 287 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: You got rid of a pro bowler who threw for 288 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: thirty five touchdowns and four thousand yards because you wanted 289 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: an unproven guy who got hurt. Sorry, you lose the franchise? 290 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 3: Are you doing? Frank Costanza yelling at Steinbrenner. 291 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:53,719 Speaker 2: How could you trade J? 292 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: Buoner? 293 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 3: How could you trade jam Rocket for it on? 294 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: How could you trade J? 295 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 3: Punter? Best on a fielder in the. 296 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: Gameken Phelps get best home run to at bat ratio 297 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: and history of the game. Get Gun Phelps Rocket. 298 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 3: For an on J. Buner. 299 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: Your cadence was drifting back in exit up Boutifresca exit 300 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: swollen Dome. We got more big NBA coming up next. 301 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: Bam at of Bio's reaction to this hate for his 302 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: eighty three point game. Have the Lakers really become a 303 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: big time threat? Keep it right here, Jason and Mike 304 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Huge Boner. 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Uh well, I think fifty one in a 331 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: game in which Lebron James played, because you know they're 332 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: better without him. I think that's the real achievement. Joining 333 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: us now from the Crypt where he covered the Lakers 334 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: win over the Bulls. Longtime NBA Inside of Sports, Keita 335 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: Cbs here in La on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. 336 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: It is Mark Medina, Mark. What's happening man? 337 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 3: How are you? 338 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 4: Jason? This is how important it was to talk to 339 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 4: you and Mike tonight. Lebron James is speaking postgame interviews 340 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 4: and after he answered my question, I had to duck 341 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 4: out on the Merlin so I could take this call. 342 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: Did you tell him say hey, listen I would stay, 343 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: but the Lakers are better when you don't play, So 344 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out and make a phone call. 345 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 4: He was in the middle of talking about that. It's like, 346 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,239 Speaker 4: you know what, I don't really care what you have 347 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 4: to say. I gotta talk to. 348 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: So listen, we watch the Lakers, and you understand how 349 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: much better they are defensively when Lebron doesn't play. He 350 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: comes back tonight rough beginning, Luca goes for fifty one, 351 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: but they win their four straight over the Bulls. Can 352 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: they figure this out with Lebron down the stretch it 353 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: become big time title contenders? Like, can they do this 354 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: in the last fifteen games? 355 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 4: Well, I don't think they can become big time title contenders. 356 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 4: That honor belongs to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Santania Spurs, 357 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 4: the Boston Celtics. Sorry, Nick, I'm not included in New 358 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 4: York Next. They're pretenders in my book, but so are 359 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 4: the Lakers. So are the Lakers. I think what we 360 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 4: saw tonight against the Bulls and moving forward, is that 361 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 4: to fit with the Big three with Lebron, Austin Reeves 362 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 4: and Luka Docia Chitsu. Offensively, I think Lebron whose credit 363 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 4: is willing to make the extra pass jj Reddick credit 364 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 4: him for being willing to sacrifice. But defensively, they're not 365 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 4: a good team, and so I think what we're seeing about, okay, 366 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 4: are they better off without Lebron James. It's not so 367 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 4: much Lebron's presence. It's the trickle down effect with everything 368 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,479 Speaker 4: else on what's the right rotation, the fact that they 369 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 4: don't really have a lot of defensive oriented players you had, 370 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 4: and the fact that Jackson Hayes and Marcus Smart are 371 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 4: currently out. It's not a good recipe for success. The 372 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 4: reason why they won against the Bulls tonight is a 373 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 4: the Bulls are terrible and B they have a lot 374 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 4: of offensive deaths, but there are times they're not making shots. 375 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,360 Speaker 4: So I don't see this as a necessarily a big 376 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 4: picture of a championship parade, you know, happening in Los Angeles. 377 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 3: Sadly, as a Chicago kid, all I can do is 378 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 3: shrug and go, yeah, he's not lying. They're terrible. They're 379 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 3: entertaining at times. 380 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 2: Though. 381 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 3: The thing that's done out and brought it up with 382 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 3: with Jason earlier, Mark you had five bench points in 383 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 3: again that the team scores one hundred and forty two. 384 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 3: That was that was kind of interesting to watch that development. 385 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 3: It's like, no, no, no, you guys are playing forty 386 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 3: plus minutes even though this team stinks. 387 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the bulls. Think I lost track of who 388 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 4: was actually flanks. It seems like CAF their team is 389 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 4: hurts your point. The Lakers are very, very very top heavy. 390 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 4: They don't have a lot of death and so it's 391 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,919 Speaker 4: going to rely on Luka Dacca's scoring fifty one and 392 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 4: Lebron you know, being facilitator mode and Austin reeves the 393 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 4: shots going down and maybe you know, DeAndre Aiden's being 394 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 4: able to score off of miss Tippins. I mean, he 395 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 4: was very productive tonight because the Lakers are missing a 396 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 4: lot of layoffs and that's the way that he is 397 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 4: going to get involved in the offense. 398 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: Mark Medina Lakers Inside, whether it's Jason Smith, Mike Harman, 399 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: all right with Luca tonight fifty one points. We talked 400 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: with this a few minutes ago. I feel like if 401 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: the Lakers didn't have that stumble into the new year 402 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 1: where they tried to figure things out, lost some standing. 403 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: There were the questions about Luca, hey, can he be 404 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: a guy that can carry the Lakers if they didn't 405 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: have that stumble, I thought Luke would have a great 406 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: chance to win MVP. Right now, I can see him 407 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: in the finalist. I can maybe he's even seen him 408 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: finishing second to SGA. But if they were just a 409 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 1: little bit better, a little bit closer to the top, 410 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: I can see it being a much closer battle for MVP. 411 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 4: For him, Oh, no doubt. I mean, he's playing very, 412 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 4: very productively, but a lot of times the vote comes 413 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 4: down to, Okay, what are you offering Defensively? He's getting steals, 414 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 4: he's drawing charges, he's trying hard, but he's not making 415 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 4: all defensive to him. And the secondly, a lot of 416 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 4: it goes down to win loss records. When you're looking 417 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 4: at MVP rankings, I would put shake Gilgess Alexander first, 418 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 4: Nicole okicch second. The only way he falls out is 419 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 4: if he misses literally more than one game because of 420 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 4: the sixty five game rule. But you go down the line, 421 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 4: then it's victor one. Binyama, Jalen Brown. You know with 422 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 4: the Celtics, and you know you can make the case 423 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 4: for Kate Cunningham and Jalen Brunson with the Knicks, and 424 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 4: so when you add up all those players, like, yeah, 425 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 4: I can't put Uca ahead of any of those guys 426 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 4: because where the Lakers were in January and right now 427 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 4: they're kind of playing catch up. And you know not 428 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 4: to rub it in, but I will. But basically, ever 429 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 4: since they beat the Knicks, they've been an entirely different 430 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 4: Lakers team. Their identity is shifted the lot. 431 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 3: We'll get to see the test going forward. It's not 432 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 3: the Bulls anymore. You have Denver followed by a couple 433 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 3: of games against the Rockets, a team we're still trying 434 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 3: to figure out exactly how potent they are. 435 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, the Rockets. I thought they were going to be 436 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 4: a team that wouldn't get to the Western Proffers Finals, 437 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 4: but could be a very competitive out and challenging O 438 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 4: case San Antonio. Now I just think they're one and done. 439 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 4: They got Kevin Durant playing a high level, but there's 440 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 4: not a lot of chemistry he may have. Doka is 441 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 4: a great coach, but defensively they're disorganized. Young guys haven't 442 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 4: really taken that giant stepth that they thought they would, 443 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 4: and it also shows that they really miss Red Van 444 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 4: vleeping out for the season because they don't have that 445 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 4: traditional point guard that can sell you the ship as 446 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 4: well as be another veteran that holds Sky's accountable. So 447 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 4: when I'm looking the Western Conference landscape, I think it's 448 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 4: the Thunder, the Nuggets, the Spurs, the Lakers fourth, and 449 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 4: I'm not in maybe Minnesota. But after that, I think 450 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 4: the Rockets would fall in that sixteen. Frankly, the Clippers 451 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 4: would be able to challenge them more if they hadn't 452 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 4: been such in a hole at the beginning of the season. 453 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 4: But if you look at second half alone, the Clippers 454 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 4: have been one of the best teams in the NBA. 455 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 1: Hey Mark, what's been the overall vibe around the Lakers 456 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: as far as how they feel about bean Adebaio's eighty 457 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: three point game. 458 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 4: Well, I think what signified a lot was that Lawrence Tanner, 459 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 4: the longtime public address announcer, he shared the news before 460 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 4: the game the other night, and he shared it with 461 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 4: this somber tone, is if there's going to be a 462 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 4: moment of silence for someone, and no, he was annow 463 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 4: saying the vam Adebado got eighty three points. All Laker 464 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 4: fans booed here, you know what, like I would make 465 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 4: the case that if the Lakers decided to spend the 466 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 4: final for three minutes of tonight's game intentionally failing, Luca 467 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 4: probably would have gotten eighty four points, but it probably 468 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 4: wouldn't have resonated well with the Laker fan base. Here. 469 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 3: Well, I mean they would have gotten the record back, 470 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 3: you know, the second place. 471 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 472 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 4: Well, I will say this. There were a lot of 473 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 4: Laker fans in beginning beginning the game, yelling out, hey, Luca, 474 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 4: get eighty four, get eighty four. I think right now 475 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 4: it's about okay, let's get the Laker Let's get that 476 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 4: second place record back somewhere in the Laker history books. 477 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 3: Well, I could do in March twenty fifth at Indiana. 478 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 4: There you go. I mean, I don't think Luca will 479 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 4: get eighty four, but you know, he came pretty close 480 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 4: again in seventy three or so. Just give him a 481 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 4: few more games than maybe the Lakers will finesse that 482 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 4: intentionally failing strategy. And I think they do play the 483 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 4: Wizards at the end of the month, so all things 484 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 4: are possible. 485 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: Get ready, hey, ruey hotcha. Morris got seventy eight. 486 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 3: After three you know what, March thirty at that home 487 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 3: tickets as low as thirty one bucks. There you go, wow, 488 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 3: circling on the calendar. He's on Twitter at mark G 489 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 3: Underscore Medina. That's at mark G Underscore Medinah. Please our 490 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 3: apologies to Lebron for you leaving his postgame press conference, 491 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 3: and make sure you say hi to my best friend 492 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 3: JJ Redick will do. 493 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 4: I've been trying to undermind him this season hasn't worked. 494 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 4: We're importantly Jason. I said hi to the Knicks this week. 495 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 4: They feel that Jalen Bronson's MVP Canada and Carlton town 496 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 4: play really well together, one of the most dynamic duos. 497 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 4: But man out side of those two players, and I'm 498 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 4: not really staying it here, so it might be a 499 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 4: might be an early season for him, So really. 500 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 1: Sorry, Yeah, it's okay because you know next year will 501 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: be Karl Anthony Towns and mcal Bridges on the Bucks 502 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: and it'll be Jalen Brunson and you, honest, So it'll 503 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: be fine. Yeah, it'll be fine. 504 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 4: Do you want those five first round picks back? 505 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: We'll find a way and we'll recoup them. We'll find 506 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: a way. They print them they'll give them back to 507 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: the next to keep them in contention. It's fine. It's 508 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: like stock options back in the late nineties. See you man, 509 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: I have fun. Mark, We'll talk to you next week. 510 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 4: I appreciate the guys market. 511 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 3: Now. 512 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: Look the point about a guy like Luca right fifty 513 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: one points, because it sometimes it just comes down to 514 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: how much you like somebody, which is what you feel 515 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: about them. Because all the the the attention that's gone 516 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 1: to bam Oda buy all the negative attention. We played 517 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: his SoundBite earlier from the game tonight about how I 518 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: don't care if you don't like that I went for it. 519 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: Of course I'm gonna go for it. I have seventy 520 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: points with nine minutes left to go, Eric Spolster saying, 521 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna apologize to anybody. It just depends on 522 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: how much you are liked by by the fan base. 523 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: And bam out of Baya was not somebody that fans 524 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: didn't like. You know, the average NBA fan. Okay, bam 525 00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: Ouda Bayo, Okay. For a long time, he's been this 526 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: second best player. 527 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 2: On the league. 528 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 3: Good player, big defensive player, offensively occasionally at big night, 529 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 3: but nothing dramatic like we talked about, ye forty one 530 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 3: was his career high. 531 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: I don't think that, you know, Look, yes, I can 532 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: see where people get upset about the end of the 533 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: game and how it went, but I think that was more. 534 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: This helps me make my argument because I just don't 535 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,199 Speaker 1: think he's worthy of having this mark. Kobe Bryant is 536 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: worthy of having this mark because of the talent of 537 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: the guy he was and the level of respect he 538 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: has throughout the game and for all the fans. But 539 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that if his record, or if his 540 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: second record of second most points ever got broken, it 541 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: would be mad about whoever did it. There's a handful 542 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: of guys in the league right now. If they did, 543 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,199 Speaker 1: people would go wow. And Luka Dodgics would be at 544 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: the top of that list. If Luca scored eighty four points, 545 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: eighty five points, look, he's come close before you had 546 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: the seventy three point game. There's a few guys out there. 547 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: If if Gilgess Alexander did it, of course, if Nikola 548 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: Jokic did it, it would be you couldn't have enough 549 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: flowers for these guys because of the image they have 550 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 1: of the talent. Oh, this guy I'm okay with him 551 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: doing it because he's a star. Bam Ade Baio is 552 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: not a star. I mean when when he said last 553 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: night or after he said, hey, it's Wilt then me 554 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: than Kobe, It's like, wow, that is true. It's it's 555 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 1: Wilt then bam aut of Bayo, and then it's a Kobe, 556 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,679 Speaker 1: and then it's Wilt and Wilt again, and Wilt and 557 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: Luca and Wilt again. I mean, like when you see 558 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: that beating listened, go wow, yeah, bam Adebayo. If bam 559 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: Adebayo was liked more, if he was more of a star, 560 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: the the reaction to this would be completely different. 561 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 3: Well, how often do we talk about bam Adebayo when 562 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 3: when he's they're in the playoffs, Yeah, right, and they're 563 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 3: trying to win a playoff series and it's a defensive 564 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 3: stop or a big play, or he's at some big 565 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 3: games in the playoffs scoring wise, and and as you 566 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 3: go through his game Loge, there are there are some 567 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 3: pretty pretty good moments, but it's not he's on a 568 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 3: prolific score. He can go it just as easily like 569 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 3: he did tonight, go oh for five from three point 570 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 3: range as at the seven of twenty two that he 571 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 3: did the other night. I mean, we do have plenty 572 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 3: of audio and video of Kobe Bryant talking about any 573 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 3: of his marks, going yeah, I want to see it broken. 574 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 3: Whatever the problem is, he's not able to speak for 575 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 3: himself now about it. Right, So there's the memory of 576 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant that people want to keep any of those records, 577 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 3: any of those milestones, any of those things preserved because 578 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 3: he's no longer with us, unfortunately, But there's plenty of 579 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 3: evidence of him just being like, yeah, whatever, you know, 580 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 3: team marks, league marks, whatever else of go out and 581 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 3: take them. That's what we play these games for, to 582 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 3: go chase those milestones. For bam Adebayo, I like that 583 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 3: he's defining about it, like this is the best. 584 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: Part of it. Right. 585 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 3: All the complaining folks that didn't watch a minute of 586 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 3: the game, maybe thirty seconds of highlights, having the grandiose 587 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 3: debates about it, that's fine, you know for Amna bios, like. 588 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: You get the impression that the entire game was him 589 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: getting these calls and always at the line and fouling 590 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: in the third quarter, in the second quarter. It's just no, 591 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: the guy had an insane game the last few minutes 592 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: were to get him that record. But the guy got 593 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: to seventy pretty good. 594 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 2: Man. 595 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 3: He had a thirty one point quarter. That's pretty bleeping down. 596 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 3: Right off the jump, you're watching him going, this is 597 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 3: pretty crazy. By time you get to halftimes, I can't 598 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 3: wait to see how they this develops. And I had 599 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 3: hope that it would be more three point makes because 600 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 3: I don't think he had one after the halftime. But 601 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 3: all of that to say, he gets to eighty three 602 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 3: and it's created and spark some great debates. If nothing else, 603 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 3: it's made people also go back in history with the NBA, 604 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 3: which I don't know that we do as well. You know, 605 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 3: Baseball does it best. NFL is getting better, and for 606 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 3: the NBA, outside of a couple of ceremonial things every 607 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 3: now and again, it's all compartmentalized into moments. 608 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: Here. 609 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 3: I think we went back into the history a little 610 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 3: bit and grab some Wilt moments, some Jordan moments, some 611 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 3: Bird moments, Kobe obviously with the eighty one, and we 612 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 3: celebrated a little more of the history of the game 613 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 3: and the score and some of the great moments and 614 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 3: what ifs of guys. Right, you talked about Carmelo Anthony 615 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 3: and well, he got sat down at one point he's like, well, 616 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 3: don't you wish you would have gone for it? And 617 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 3: for bam Adebaio and Eric's bolster to be like, beat it. 618 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 3: We're not apologizing for a damn thing. 619 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: I love it. 620 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 621 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 622 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 2: pm Pacific