WEBVTT - Lakers shocking upset & blockbuster NBA matchups 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.080 Welcome in. We'll drive in the great episode three oh four, 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:08.800 final show before vacation. We'll be back the first Tuesday 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:13.320 in March. It's March third or something, and also on 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.640 TV today and then off tomorrow. So this is really 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.960 getaway day normally, I'll be honest, getaway days, last days 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.600 before vacation. I don't want to say you mail it in, 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.120 but you know, it's just like, okay, let's just get 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:31.479 to the finish line, regroup, refresh. However, not only was 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.400 there in an infuriating basketball game last night, but there 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.000 has been and you can set your watch to it, 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.000 and even more infuriating discussion in the eight hours since 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.599 that game ended. So we're gonna get to all of that. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.519 I don't know how we might spend more time on 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.559 Lakers hornets than the entire fourth quarter actually lasted. So 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.960 we'll do all of that. But first, demand'sa's here with us. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.440 Of course, here's what missed the cut for the show 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.520 that we will discuss briefly, Jah Aaron Gore and Zach 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.240 Lavine allegedly interested in the dunk contest. Here would be 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.680 my only concern with that, Tomase, I don't know, I 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.920 feel like Aaron Gordon and Zach Lavine might have set 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.560 the standard too high with their younger selves. I don't 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.240 know if they still have that performance in them because 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.320 they had an all time dunk contest duel. So I 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.880 would want I wouldn't want them to almost sully their 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:30.920 dunk contest. Rats exactly. Kyrie, who has been the most 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:35.520 reasonable person related to Dallas Mavericks. Amazingly, he essentially should 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.440 be the Dallas Mavericks spokesperson. What a crazy journey for 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.920 him the last few years to where he is now 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.200 the respected, measured mature elder in the room. He also 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.000 said he might want to play for Australia in the 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.320 next Olympics. That'd be dope. He was born in Australia. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.560 And then there is this so have it so this 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.720 So NASA said there's like a three percent chance and 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.840 asteroid's gonna hit the US in a couple of years, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:04.800 highest they've ever recorded. They then, you know, adjusted that 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.200 down to like one point seven percent or something. This 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:14.799 is oddly something demands that the asteroid hitting the Earth 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:21.240 probability stuff. It could be at forty percent and I 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.880 don't think I would change it would change my day 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:30.240 one day, Yeah, because I look at that as such 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:36.280 a binary a there's nothing you can do and it's 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:41.679 either total human destruction or everything's fine. So I just don't. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.200 I can't wrap my mind around worrying about it. It's like, well, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:50.200 if it the bright side I suppose is if it happens, 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.200 none of us really know, right, it happens just lights 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.200 out on the planet, you know. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.200 What I mean? And so does it have to Is 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:00.880 it going to destroy the whole planet or is it 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.280 going to destroy like parts of it? 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:07.200 Well, listen, you're you're raising a good point, which is 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.760 is it instant lights out destruction for the world or 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.440 is it like lights out god kids, and then the 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.320 sun gets blacked out and we're all in that movie 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.440 The Road. Yeah, that would be worrisome. But I just 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.639 I'm I'm gonna trust that you know that the one 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.000 and thirty three shots not gonna come in. That's that is. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.280 That is what I'm going to trust. All right, Let's 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:36.240 get to the one basketball game last night, the worst 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.880 Laker game of the year, And I was, well, I'll 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.680 let you set it up and then I'll and then 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.560 I'll tell you what I was going to discuss and 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.160 then I guess what we end up having to discuss, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.240 So go ahead. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.119 All right? Yeah, So the Lakers were embarrassed at home 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.160 last night by the Hornets at home. That's now the 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.000 Jazz and and now the Hornets. Lucas still struggling on offense. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.960 I think the team still needs to mash a little 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.840 bit better. But he had fourteen points, celever rebounds, eight assists, 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.840 so that was nice. Austin Reeves got ejected. Is it 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:09.880 time to sound the alarm? 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:10.040 Here? 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.120 Are you scared? What's going on here in Leyton? 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:17.479 Later? Well, I was. I thought the conversation was going 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:25.320 to be about Luca today because Luca looks unsettled. However, 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.640 it's not because if people didn't stay up to watch 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.800 this game. Let me give you a quick recap. Lakers 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.280 were up twenty. They then slowly but surely blew the game. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:45.160 They then late down four, uh, well actually down two. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.839 Ruey misses back to back free throws with thirty five 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.240 seconds left, just a killer, just a good free throw 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.760 shooter misses both. They then find themselves down four after 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.880 LaMelo kind of cooks Luca out on the perimeter and 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:04.000 they get a layup. Lebron hits an impossible three to 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.960 cut it to one the Hornets. Then LaMelo hits a 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.359 couple free throws, and then Lebron has a really good 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.400 but deep look and misses it. They get the rebound, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.000 gets another decent look and misses it, and they lose. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.400 And I'm like, man, I was like, we're gonna have 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.839 to talk about how sad Luca looks. That to me 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.719 is the actual story. Little did I know? And this 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.320 is a bad job by me, bad media, you know, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:41.039 kind of seeing the tea leaves. I missed what the 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:46.640 obvious story was gonna be. Lebron missed another clutch shot, which, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.920 by the way, he has been shockingly bad at those 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.760 in the regular season since he's been a Laker. Last 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.039 five second shots to tie or take the lead as 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.839 a as a Laker one of twenty nine, so like, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.240 really really bad at those in the regular season, and 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:14.480 that's a legitimate complaint. I guess, like whatever, But I 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:20.360 foolishly thought we were done with and passed the Lebron 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.839 clutch gen stuff. I thought maybe, and you guys know, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.200 I you know, I've always been pretty respectful to my 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:34.200 former colleagues skip baylists, But I did think that with 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:39.280 Skip moving to a different part of his career, maybe 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:44.000 the Lebron clutch gen stuff would you know, wander off 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:49.440 into the sunset as well, because not because it's unfair 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.880 to talk about whether or not guys can come through 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.839 in the clutch, but because it has always been an 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:03.400 empire built on lies. You know, a mid February regular 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.960 season game against the Hornets miss threes. It's like, man, 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.240 Kobe would have made that. So now I have to 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.840 I don't want to do this, but now I have 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.360 to be the person. And by the way, this is 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:20.360 something that if we edit this properly and because I'm 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:24.840 gonna machine gun you with numbers and put this on 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:31.520 the TikTok and the Instagram, folks are going to say 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:38.120 these are fake stats because there's such a Mandela effect 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.560 of oh, I know what I remember and what is 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.040 true and what isn't. So again, I did this eighteen 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.000 months ago, I looked it up in our archives. I 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.960 will now do it again with the updated numbers. Thanks 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.400 to our friends at Statthead and Basketball Reference. The database 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:01.320 goes back to nineteen ninety seven to now Here are 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:06.680 the clutch shooting numbers for Lebron and for all your 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:11.000 favorite players. We will go from the max to the men. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.920 So the set, the setup is this shots to tie 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:20.840 or take the lead in the playoffs final minute Lebron 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:27.200 James twenty three of fifty forty six percent. That is 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.640 a better percentage than every player in the database from 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.160 ninety seven to now, except for Demonse's Guy Ray Allen, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.760 who was just an absolute killer. So it's not only 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.560 that Lebron has made the most and taken the most 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.920 forty six percent. You might be like, well and ninety 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.440 seven to now that covers Kobe's entire career. Kobe was 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.360 assuredly better than Lebron at these again, playoff games, tie, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.240 take the lead final minute Lebron twenty three to fifty 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.360 forty six percent, Kobe Bryant it twelve of forty four 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:08.720 twenty seven percent, Kevin Durant nine of thirty five twenty 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:14.920 six percent, Steph Curry six of twenty five twenty four percent. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.320 You want to go to We've heard forever. Uh, you know, 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.959 Lebron just put his head down, get to the basket. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.840 It doesn't have the bag. What about threes Lebron final 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.520 minute of playoff games to tie or take the lead 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:38.480 four of eleven from three, Kobe Bean Bryant three of seventeen, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:45.680 Kevin Durant three of sixteen, Steph Curry three of fourteen. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:52.880 Let's go smaller. Final thirty seconds playoff games tie or 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:58.520 take the lead Lebron James fourteen of thirty five forty 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:04.840 percent from the field, Kobe mister clutch killer, Kobe Bryant 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.719 Bron fourteen of thirty five forty percent, Kobe eight of 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:16.240 thirty one twenty six percent, Durant six of twenty four 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:23.080 twenty five percent, Steph four of nineteen twenty one percent. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.320 Let's go smaller. Let's go to the stat that we're 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.040 hearing about Lebron in the regular season as a Laker 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.920 final five seconds tie or take the lead in the 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:44.120 playoffs Lebron eight of twenty forty percent, Kobe Bryant four 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:51.000 of eighteen twenty two percent, Kevin Durant two of eleven 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.200 eighteen percent. Let me, where is Steph on this? I 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.440 know he's on this somewhere, I can't even find him. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.320 Step maybe hasn't taken in the final five s seconds. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:07.560 Oh there's Steph one of six seventeen percent. So the 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:16.080 reason the Lebron clutch thing has always been so such 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:21.960 an outrage in an affront to kind of the way 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:27.559 we consume basketball at large. Is it was literally not 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.760 only was it never true, the opposite was true. The 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.240 guy hit a game winner in the first playoff series 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.520 of his career at twenty one years old. And if 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.560 we go for again now, I'll just do percentages and 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.160 show you the full list of guys in the last 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.640 thirty years in the NBA who have been more clutch 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:54.679 in the postseason final minute tire take the lead of 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.880 every player to take at least fifteen of those shots. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.400 There have been twenty in twentieth place. This one's rough 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.880 Russell Westbrook three of twenty four in nineteenth place, Steph 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.880 Curry six of twenty five, second place, Lebron James twenty 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:16.040 three of fifty forty six percent. Ray Allen first place 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.559 by a lot, eleven of twenty one fifty two percent. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:25.240 If you want to do three point percentages, Ray Allen 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:31.199 sits alone ten of sixteen pretty remarkable, ten of sixteen 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:37.520 sixty three percent, Dame five of ten fifty percent, Reggie 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.480 Miller fairs fair six of thirteen forty six percent, and 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:48.000 then Lebron four of eleven thirty six percent. You go 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:53.240 down the Russell Westbrook yikes again, one of fourteen, that's 0:12:53.280 --> 0:13:02.120 seven percent, Kobe three of seventeen, that's seventeen percent. Fourteen again, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.720 if you want to just go raw percentages, final thirty 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.120 seconds of the playoffs, Tire take the lead. The only 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:15.440 guy ahead of Lebron is Ray Allen nine of eighteen 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:21.439 fifty percent Lebron fourteen of thirty five forty percent. Ray Allen, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.880 by the way, final thirty seconds on threes Demons eight 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.959 of thirteen to Tire take the lead in the playoffs. 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:34.080 Guy just unbelievable at those on those shots, Gene, He's 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.600 maybe the best ever. The statistically is the best ever. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.280 Now if we expand that to where you don't have 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.480 to have taken fifteen of these shots, just to where 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.360 you only had to have taken ten. Two more guys 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.920 jump ahead of Lebron. One is Chris Middleton six of 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.800 eleven in the playoffs to Tire take the lead in 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.280 the final thirty seconds and Jimmy Butler six of thirteen 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.360 at forty six percent Lebron fourteen to thirty five. But again, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.840 the guy in your head that was the ultimate clutch 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:10.440 guy Kobe Bean Bryant on these shots final thirty seconds, 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.520 Tire take the lead eight of thirty one from the 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:20.120 field and on threes one of twelve final thirty seconds 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.120 Tire take the lead in the playoffs and Steph Curry 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:28.000 four of nineteen overall, Again, these numbers are not very 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.360 kind to Russell Westbrook Russ one of fourteen from the field, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.960 zero of nine from three, and then last but not least, 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:43.080 final five seconds, Tire take the lead playoffs. If we 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.600 just make it to where have you taken five of 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.840 these shots? Because Lebron's taken twenty The only guys with 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.840 a better percentage Jimmy Butler's three of five, Reggie's five 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.280 of nine, Chris Middleton's four of eight. Lebron is eight 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:02.880 of twenty forty percent, and on threes in those spots 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:09.280 Lebron's two for five forty percent. Kobe, who everyone remembers 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.560 as the ultimate clutch killer. Final five seconds of playoff 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.040 games to tire or take the lead four of eighteen 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.440 twenty two percent, one of seven from three, Steph one 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:26.200 for six, Durant two for eleven from the field. So I, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.960 so the lesson on This is multifaceted. One is nobody 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:36.080 really aside from Ray Allen shoots an amazing percentage on 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:43.640 these nobody but shooting more than thirty percent on him 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:51.440 is remarkable. And across every five second, thirty second minute 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.200 playoff game, TI take the lead, Lebron's looking up at 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.240 one guy, Ray Allen, and again you might be like, well, Jordan, 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.640 I know was eighty percent. The database only goes back 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.600 to ninety seven, so I can't tell you what Jordan was. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.920 The NBA is very cagey about play by play data 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.240 early in Michael Jordan's career. Maybe it's because the eighties 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.400 were a different time, or maybe they're, you know, protecting 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.480 a legend. I don't know. What I do know is 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:26.040 this that if you asked one hundred basketball fans what 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.960 they thought Kobe or Lebron or Durant or Lebron or 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:34.240 Steph or Lebron's percentages were in these circumstances, the vast 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.800 majority would look at Kobe's numbers and be like, those 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.800 are Lebron's. And look at Lebron's numbers and say those 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.080 are Kobe's. And even after I present this data, you 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:48.080 know what, folks, are gonna say, Ah, I don't believe it. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.760 It didn't feel that way. And the reason it didn't 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.240 feel that way, and the reason I'm doing this today 0:16:54.880 --> 0:17:01.800 is because no other player ever could miss a twenty 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:06.360 eight footer down three after hitting the three to cut 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.720 it to one in a regular season game against the 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.840 Hornets when he was the best player on his team 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:17.400 that night, and have that morning sports television be an 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:22.400 indictment on him. The reason you don't remember the Kobe 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:29.119 misses is because every single Kobe game wasn't a referendum 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:34.240 on his clutch or anti clutchness. There's been one athlete 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.000 ever that has been treated like this, and it's the 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:43.720 same guy who was criticized for not playing in his 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.080 twenty first straight All Star Game and then was criticized 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.880 for playing last night. Oh looked awful healthy last night, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:57.080 didn't he? But he couldn't get it's the regular You 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.359 saw that right, Yeah, he's having a good time. The 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:06.160 thing he got that rest on Sunday for real, it 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.840 might not have been able to do it. So I 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:14.920 do find these I find this this stuff fascinating, if 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:21.199 for no other reason than how gas lit kind of 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:26.840 sports media has been or sports fans have been by 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:32.800 sports media like Chauncey billups Mister big Shot is his nickname. 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.560 Chauncey billups On in the final minute of the playoff 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.240 games to tire or take the lead is five of twenty. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.800 The exact same five of twenty is James Harden. But 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.639 that's it's just not how we remember it because we 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:55.840 remember the moments of it. So also there's a couple 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.800 funny names on like if you go through the in 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.359 the last third years, the twenty guys who have taken 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.560 at least fifteen shots in the final minute of playoff 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.680 games to tire take the lead. The names it's all 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:14.360 names of like Okay, stars, Hall of Famers, all time greats. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.720 And then also Haydu Turkalou who took sixteen of these, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.560 And I just imagine that was because he was on 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.560 deep playoff runs with Dwight and you know, Dwight, you're 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.000 not going to give the ball to in the fire. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.760 He was the guy who ended up having to take 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.600 those shots. Yeah, but it's it's ray Allen, Lebron Jimmy. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:37.280 This is in order of field goal percentage, descending number one. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.760 Ray Allen then Lebron, Jimmy Butler, Reggie Miller, Manu Ginobili, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:45.280 Chris Middleton, John Stockton, Derk Novitzky, Steve Nash, Damian Lillard, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.399 Haydu Turkalou, Tim Duncan, Dwayne Wade, Kobe Bryant, Paul Piers, 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.840 Kevin Durant, John T. Billis, James hard and Steph Curry, 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:59.320 Russell Westbrook seventeen No Doubt Hall of Famers two, borderline 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.240 Hall of Famer, and hate who so shout out to 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.480 my guy hat Turkle. I don't know why he's my guy. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.359 All right, Now, let's talk about the lucapiece of it. 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:18.040 Demanse Uh. I think he's legit sad, and I think 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:27.280 he is really unsettled by this. He looks so unsure 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:32.399 of himself. Go ahead, yeah about Yes. I think that 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.840 he is still in a state of shock that this happened. 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.520 And I don't think it's about wanting or not wanting 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:47.920 to be a Laker. I think it's more about this team. 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.080 That he looked at himself as the leader of obviously 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.280 the best player this franchise, that I think he truly 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.840 believed he might be able to do what Dirk did 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:08.560 and play with one team forever, that they traded him 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:12.240 under the dark of night and then have done everything 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:16.479 they can to just tell the world we don't believe 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.520 in you. We thought you were a bad leader, of 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:25.000 mediocre teammate, out of shape, all of it. He seems 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.879 less confident on the court than at any moment of 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:36.520 his career. And Luca is at his best when he's 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:41.840 like a snarling, angry monster. But he also has to 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:46.159 have that kind of swagger and confidence and I just 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:54.120 haven't seen it, and I don't know what how long 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:58.439 this is gonna this is gonna take. But he looks 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:03.679 he looks relieved when he makes a shot. He looks 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.000 unsure of what he wants to do with the ball. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.320 And it's not again. I'm not sure how many people 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.040 stayed up late to watch the entirety of Lakers hornets. 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:21.200 I oddly did. Late in the game, he like, there 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.720 was I forget I think maybe Bron shot it. I'm 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:27.920 not sure. There's a misshot and Luca is down fighting 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.280 on the offensive glass gets a rebound and gets a 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.879 putback is to tie the game. It's a huge play, 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.040 and you saw a shot of him after that, and 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.840 it was. It wasn't even like it didn't. Again, I'm 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.560 not a body language expert, but just from watching this 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:49.439 guy every step of his career, it wasn't excitement as 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:52.520 much as it was relief, like I finally made a 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:56.680 play and I don't know how long this is gonna last. 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:04.800 My hope would be the MAVs game next week snaps 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:09.200 him out of it. That there is that seeing like that, 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:13.679 that is I'm because the Lakers host the MAVs on Tuesday, 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:22.399 so they have the Blazers tonight, Dane between that Nuggets Saturday. Yeah, correct, right, 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:27.600 and I would imagine Lebron's not playing tonight, so maybe 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:32.280 tonight like with Luca just running the full show. But 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:38.960 so I'm not I'm not as worried about what these 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:44.000 losses mean for the Lakers in the standings, because I 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:47.679 know we talked about could could they catch Denver climb 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:51.159 to the three and you know put Denver and Okac 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:54.080 on the same side of the bracket. Losing to Utah 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.400 and Charlotte probably made that, I don't want to say unrealistic, 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.600 because they could beat Denver on Saturday and then just 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:01.879 be a game back. But I now look at it 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:06.120 more like, just stay in the four five, don't fall 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:08.320 to the six where you might have to play Denver 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:11.400 in round one. That sounds awful. Stay in the four 0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:16.199 or five and then you know, theoretically get Houston or 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:19.440 the Clippers in round one and then take your chances 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:21.720 with Oka See and again, Okay See is a great team, 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:26.640 great team, but I think for a team that young, 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:30.800 I think they're you know, playing Luca who beat him 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:33.359 last year in the playoffs, and Lebron could be tough, 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:36.679 and then you know, see what happens with Denver. But 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:43.920 Luca is out of sorts, like really truly out of sorts, 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:50.200 and he seems like he is not yet fully dealt 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:57.000 with or is consistently still dealing with the trade. There's 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.359 also evidently some breaking news to him on say you 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:00.600 want to share it with the audience. 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:04.520 Uh, yeah, Bobby Portos has been suspended twenty five games 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:10.200 for a performance enhancing drugs Yes, so games of the season. 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:13.440 So yeah, I mean there's only twenty nine games left 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:16.880 and the Bos need him. Let me. I just saw 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:23.000 someone tweeted that his agent, So what his agent is 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:28.399 saying that Bobby unintentionally took a pain medication called tramadoll, 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:31.520 thinking was taking a pain medication called tour it All. 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:37.119 Tour it All's approved, Tramadoll is not approved, was recently 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:40.520 out of the band substance list tramad All. I feel 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:41.879 like I've taken tramadoll. 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:44.800 Yeah, I've heard of tramad all before. 0:25:45.240 --> 0:25:49.920 Yeah, I think tramadoll. Uh, so it's a painkiller. Maybe 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:51.600 I was wrong. I thought tramado all was like an 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:54.200 anxiety thing, So maybe I haven't taken it. Tour it all. 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:56.200 We all know tour it all. A lot of football 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:59.199 players take uh tram it all. Oh yeah, trama all 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:04.000 is in a super strong painkiller. It's an opioid. So listen. 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:07.159 Everybody always takes steroids by accident. We all know this. 0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:12.240 Like nobody's ever actually intentionally violated the performance answering drug policy. 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.080 I don't know, you know, the So people can decide 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:17.400 whether or not they want to believe Bobby Portis's agent, 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:20.439 that's fine. What does matter is this bad for the Bucks. 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:25.440 Is bad for a Bucks team that is trying to 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:30.320 climb the Eastern Conference standings. Now they I think it's 0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:33.720 more important for them to just stay where they're at 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:37.600 in the four to five line rather than move They're 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:40.240 not gonna move up. There's six games behind the Knicks, 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:42.359 so they're not going to catch the Knicks for the three. 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:45.679 But what they don't want to do is fall to 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:48.679 the six and then end up having to play the 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:53.080 Knicks in round one. Like, there's clearly three teams in 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:57.160 the East in Boston, Cleveland, and New York that seem 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:01.440 that are considerably better than every one else, with Milwaukee 0:27:01.520 --> 0:27:05.320 lurking because of Giannis. Milwaukee doesn't want to have to 0:27:05.359 --> 0:27:09.520 face one of those three in round one. And you 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:15.960 traded Middleton. You I know you have Kuzma now Kuzma though, 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:19.800 shout out Kyle Kuzma. Good for him, buddy, congrats engage 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:25.000 Winnie Harlowe. Unbelievable. I know they've been together for a 0:27:25.040 --> 0:27:30.120 long time. But the listen, I Kyle. Kyle was once 0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:33.640 upon a time a real pro for that Lakers team. 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:36.320 He was a real pro as the year they won 0:27:36.359 --> 0:27:40.080 the championship, did the dirty work, rebounded, defended, did all 0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:42.320 that stuff. Then went to the Wizards and just played 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:46.199 nonsense basketball for three years. But maybe now he's with 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:49.080 the Bucks, he'll be a real pro again. But Milwaukee 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:53.760 needs to stay where they are in the in the bracket. 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:56.200 They can't drop down to the six. All right, let's 0:27:56.200 --> 0:27:58.440 do a little more on the Luke ad trade because 0:27:58.520 --> 0:27:59.560 Rich Paul talked about it. 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:02.399 So yeah, Rich Paul had a little bit on the 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:05.880 Gilbert Arenas podcast. He said, a ninety nine point nine 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:08.320 percent of the time, I'm gonna know what's going on. 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:10.960 The one time I didn't was the one time we 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.480