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What did 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:23.840 you think? How did you think he looked? 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:25.440 Man? 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.880 He looked great tonight, Ocho. He got off to a 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.840 great start. You know that first quarter. He had sixteen 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.960 in the first quarter, o Cho, I said, oh, yeah, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:34.920 he gotta go. He he when he started hitting you 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.240 with that little walk out there, look out, yeah, yeah, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.080 you know what time it is. You know what time 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.440 it is. So I knew he was gonna be in 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.240 for a great night. And I think he understands the 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.240 moment too, man, knowing that you know, Luca's out. Yeah, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.160 he can go out there and get twenty five thirty 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.520 on Ocho, but to be able to get tennisists with that, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.920 I think, uh, he knows that that's that's definitely needed 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.080 for that team to keep other guys involved so they 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.840 can just stay afloat to Luca getting back. And I 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.120 mean it's the game to close out the All Star break. Bro, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.560 he knew how important this was just to have that 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.320 winning morale, you know, going into All Star Break on 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.320 a winning note, knowing that this second half of the season. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:15.800 It's gonna make it break you right here. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.120 Twelve assists and ten rebounds, along with twenty eight points 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.120 ten or twenty from the floor. He didn't shoot the 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.479 three ball well. Although he got off to a great 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.719 starter of shooting the three ball. He missed his last 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.680 I think he missed his last five attempts on the 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:28.160 three ball. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:29.480 But I thought he played well. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.960 He knows, like you said, Joe, he knows Luca's out 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.919 and Austin Reeves is on the minutes restriction, so he 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.960 had to play well. I thought Ruy played really well. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.880 Also hit some big shots. They swung the ball like 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.120 some nice catching shoots. But he also was able to 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.080 put the ball on the floor. Now he'll get to 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.320 put the ball on the floor and get to that 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.160 mid range and pull up from there. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:49.760 But I thought the overall they played well. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.560 Look, the Mavericks are very under man They've traded Ad 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.719 Cooper Flag is out with a mid foot spring and 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.120 so clearly they're rebuilding. They're gonna center everything around Cooper 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.840 Flag moving for and it says you know what, you know, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.840 they played hard. I mean I wish, I wish the 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.520 Lakers could have kept Max Christy. I really like Max Christy, 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.080 but hey, it is what it is. But this team 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.280 right now, they're not gonna really compete. They might as well, 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.560 you know, don't do that. Don't do what Utah is doing. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.520 And some of these other teams are doing trying to 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.800 tank because this is a pretty solid draft coming up. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.479 Oh, Joe, you see Lebron do what he does, and Joe, 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:23.119 you know the problem. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.520 The thing is is that when you've been great as 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.920 Lebron has, people don't factor in that the man is 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.280 forty one. We just oh, Joe, you know this with Tom? 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.440 This how I work with Tom. I don't care he 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.520 forty two. I don't care he's forty three. He's Tom Brady. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.080 And I want to see four hundred four touchdowns and 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.280 no interceptions. And when you great, this is the level 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.320 of expectations that people have for you. It's kind of 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.560 like your kids, no matter how old they get. I'm like, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.400 y'all thirty got kids of your own, y'all still expect 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:51.800 your Christmas gifts. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:06:01.040 Damn fang so but this was this look middle to it. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.039 I mean, Joe, they don't they don't have they're gonna this. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.640 I think this team Maverick is gonna look very different 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:07.120 next year. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.760 I really do. Oh yeah, yeah, they're gonna look different. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:15.839 I mean, listen, we just it's unfortunate because we never 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.720 seen you know, obviously what Nico Harrison was trying to 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.120 put together there in Dallas, and that was Kyrie and 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.480 a d playing together Cooper fo Yeah, with Cooper Flag. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.480 You know, it's just without Kyrie, man, I'm gonna keep 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.160 it real. No, none of this work, you know what 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.400 I mean, You just you just you just need him 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.480 at the helm, you know, controlling things obviously him being 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.160 a prolific score that he is. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.640 But they just they missed so much. Bro. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.000 It's just Yes, it's a tough time now for Dallas, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:46.920 so I expect that, you know, the Lakers to kind 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:48.120 of blow this thing up to night. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:48.600 Yeah. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.000 When you look at you look at Kyrie. He's a 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.120 guy that can get his own shot. He's a three 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.719 level scorer. He's the best under six foot of wil 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.000 with all of us, He's the best finisher at his 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.159 sides in NBA here. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.080 Street nobody can fins. Now. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.960 I'm not saying he is above the rim, but the 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.440 english that he can put on the ball right left, 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.120 and people don't realize Kyrie does everything with his left 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.680 hand except you the basketball with that being saved. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.160 I mean he's phenomenal. I mean, you can get the 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:14.840 three ball off. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.760 We saw that in the NBA Final when he hit 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.440 the biggest shot of his career in the NBA Finals. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.160 We know he can get to the mid range. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.480 And when it comes to putting the ball on the 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.360 floor and pat in the rock and finishing at the rim, he's. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:25.720 Second to none. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.680 And he doesn't take a back seat to anybody. So 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.360 he's special in that aspect. And I think him and 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.720 Cooper flag in the pick and roll. I would have 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:37.120 loved to see Cooper flag, Ad and Kyrie, but unfortunately 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.680 we never got an opportunity to see that materialized. We 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.880 didn't get a whole lot of opportunity to see Kyrie 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.520 and Ad because as soon as as soon as Ad 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.160 got there growing and then shortly after that, Kyrie ends 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.239 up tearing his ACL. So we never, like you said, Joe, 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.840 what Nico probably envisioned for this team, it never got 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.400 an opportunity to materialize because both of the guys that 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.360 he was counting on ended up getting hurt. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.360 You want to now I was gonna say, I really 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.040 enjoyed a nice game, obviously the Lakers playing against a 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.320 depleted as depleted MAVs team. But it's also talked to 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.560 the greatness of Lebron James, that he doesn't get enough credit. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.360 A lot of people chastised him despite what he accomplished 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.160 throughout his career, being in his twenty second twenty second 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.320 to twenty third, being in his twenty third year, and 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.640 seeing him evolve over the years, and seeing how he 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.320 played the night, obviously Luca being out and Lebron, whether 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.120 whether he has to play on the ball or off 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.000 the ball, and being able to do some of the 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.360 things he did tonight, obviously setting the tone for the 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.840 Lakers very early in the game, you know, and getting 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:45.360 those shots and getting everybody else and getting everybody else 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.040 gone as the game went on, him being able to 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.920 transition and playing on both ends of the court. I mean, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.719 it looked hell, he looked like Lebron that were used 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.200 to seeing. So it sucks for the MAVs and the 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.719 situations that they're in, obviously with Rees, but seeing seeing that, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.200 seeing the Lakers stay afloat in the absence of Luca, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.800 I mean, it's it's pretty cool. But again, they were 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.200 playing the MAVs team that is completed, and they really 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.840 not a full strength, not not even close for that matter. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.840 No, hey, look, Joe, we can't help it. They on 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:19.440 the schedule. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.720 This is where they got playing this a a hey, hey, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.440 we ain't got nothing to do with it. He look, 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.880 ain't nothing better than that when you go into a team. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.040 Oh yeah, they got about four five people here. Oh yeah, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.040 we gotta get us all to night, Joe. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.400 So so, even as a player, knowing that their team 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.400 is depleted the way it is, do you still count 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.480 that as a win, knowing that everybody's hurt. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.200 Yeah, yeah, we're gonna kick you when you're down, man, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.280 We're trying to get it done. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.880 Broncos didn't have bow knicks. Uh huh. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.480 You think the patients felt sorry for the Broncos didn't 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.679 have bow knicks. No, exactly. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.080 Yeah, didn't feel sorry for y'all. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.440 When Carson went down in the first the first drive 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.560 of the game, they didn't like, Oh man, you know what, man, 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.880 hey Carson out of the game. Man, come on, mant 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:08.160 fist bumping like you No, no, yeah. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.800 I mean I understand, but you know, just ay. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.360 O, Joe, when you see that on the schedule, you 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.000 see you see they depleted the way like the MAVs are. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.240 If you the Lakers, you penciled, you. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.240 Already got it checked off. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.760 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.680 If I like Broun, say, going into the break, you 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:28.719 see how he came out. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.679 He came out with it on your mind. He wasn't playing. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.280 Yeah, he got straight the team like that that you 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.400 just make sure you make sure you don't let off 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.479 the gas and let them nip you. Because that that's 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.559 that's the frustrating point part part excuse me, is that 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.440 you know they're they're nicked up, they're banged up, and 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.840 then you take them lightly. No, you killing that with 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.280 a sledgehammer. You make sure so you do what you're 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.560 supposed to do to those that that team. So like 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.040 Joe saying, I don't feel no, sorry, man, we ain't 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:01.320 have our best player and y'all put somebody out there, right, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.160 So so he didn't get his ass to it, but 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.120 the mother left them got their ass toe up. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:08.280 For sure. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.640 But show that's say, look, that's what guys be thinking. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.200 Man when you going to games and you see the 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.800 injury report or you see that this team being nicked 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.320 up for a while. Oh yeah, we got the maths 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:18.760 in the night. Yeah, we got to go and get 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:23.000 them up out of Joe. It's not like Rebember he 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.920 called somebody this at the beginning. Is that they would 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.640 literally try to get your best player out the game, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.080 which is the quarterback will knock your lass out the game. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.559 We greatly increase our chances to win it. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.719 So right, I had damn man, I feel bad for 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.160 y'all quarterback. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.080 I just said that, bro, I don't right. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:46.319 And but looking basketball in BASKETBALLO, you know, sometime it 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.960 can backfire you too, because they got guys that's playing 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.720 and then they start having these out of body experiences. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.080 You're like, he wasn't even on the scot report. I 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.840 mean you look up, this man got twenty seven. Yeah, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.760 so it can backfiure you at times too. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.120 Now, yeah, I think the thing is when you look 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.880 at Lebron sometimes Joe that's a blessing and a curse 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.760 is that he get off to that hot start and 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.559 then he'll fall in love with the three. Because you 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.800 remember he hit that first three and then he came 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.199 back down he checked it, and I was like damn 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.880 in transitional blessing and a curse because he will he will. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.280 I got to see if I got it to night, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.400 so I gotta take at least one to two more 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.800 from about twenty eight to twenty nine, just to see 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.760 if I'm still good. But the fact that he was 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.480 getting everybody, that was getting people involved, he probably should 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.240 have had a few more assists because Jackson Hayes let 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:34.920 one go out of his bounds, he had a wide 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.920 open dunk. Ruin let one bounce off his knee, So 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.960 he had a couple that he probably should have had 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.920 about fourteen to fifteen assis. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.880 But I thought overall they played, they played pretty well. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.679 Marcus mart could not buy basket the night he was 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:52.640 four fourteen, but he but he normally plays really well. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.720 I mean, his defense is what he's known for. He's 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.480 the four defensive player of the Year. But he just couldn't. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.560 He just couldn't make a shot tonight. Joe, Nah, he 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.960 normally you know what it is oo. He normally a 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:04.600 game change. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.320 I know he's been starting lately, but normally when he 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.240 comes off the bench, he's good at gauging what the 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.240 game needs, right, like if they're down, he know how 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.880 to muck it up a little bit, make the game 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.120 a little ugly, and you know what I mean, some way, 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.520 somehow trying, you know, get the Lakers the momentum to 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.120 kind of get things going. But he's been shooting the 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.000 three ball all well. I think tonight, you know, it 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.560 was just one of these nights, one for nine from three. 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.520 He just couldn't buy when he finally made one that 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.640 second half. But man, listen, he a dude who can 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.880 play on my team in any day. Ocho, you need 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.520 fighty guys like that, Bro, you need guys like that 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.120 on your squad. Yeah, I mean he's gonna make it 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.720 on the ball. He's a defensive guy. Yeah, try to 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.720 take some pressure off the guy. He normally tries to 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:47.160 guard the. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:51.280 Best team's wing player, hopefully normally if that's a point, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.960 is not, you know, even though he try to guard KD. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.439 I mean, they don't have a whole lot of great defenders. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.959 I mean, when you really look at this team, the Lakers, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:07.360 they got smart and they got a listen, Vando, that's it. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.199 Jackson Hayes is a rem protector. He's not a great 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.640 on ball defender, and you know, yeah, he can help 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.600 weak size. He's not a king, he's not big Wallace, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.680 He's not but tumbo guys like that that can defend 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.560 their position. He's a great help defender. He got great 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.720 leaping ability. But they really have two own ball defenders. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.520 They probably need another guy. Unfortunately they weren't able to 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.240 get one at the trade deadline, which makes it really 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.160 because your three best players aren't defenders that Lebron can't 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:36.880 defend anymore. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.480 He can defend for a possession or two. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.800 But to ask a forty one year old to still 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.840 be able to defend at the level that he could 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.400 in his twenties, you're asking a bit much. Hey, Luca, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.960 it just it is what it is. He gonna give 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.920 you thirty to forty, but his guy might have twenty 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:59.360 five to thirty. Austin reeves, Hey, he tries, but hey, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:04.000 it is what it And yeah, I don't even want 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.680 to talk about d A. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:11.560 I just man, listen, look yo, cho in basketball, man, 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.960 if you cannot guard that first dribble, if you getting 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.080 beat off the first dribble to first move, we can't 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.520 get help there fast enough because every play we're gonna 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.880 be in the huckle Buck. They're gonna be penetrating the paint, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.320 kickout for three throwing lives, So we're gonna have to 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.120 pick our poison. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:27.680 That's when I. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.080 See what the Lakers bro. They getting beaten off the 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.640 first dribble. You can't do nothing about that. The whole 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.720 defense weaken. Yeah, it kills you. It breaks your whole 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.800 defense down because now you let penetration in the teeth 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.880 of your defense, and now you're exposed because you got layups, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.600 you got lobs, you got kickout for. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.320 Threes, ay Joe. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.800 And that's the same conversation we've been having over the 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.040 years when it comes to the Lakers obviously has obviously 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.600 having so much offensive power, but being a liability defensively. Yes, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.720 I mean, at some point it all come down and 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.960 you got to hustle. You got to want to at 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.320 least a pick and choose, pick and choose your times 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.040 when the play goddamn defense. But if you always get 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.720 beat especially off the goddamn first dribble, I mean, I 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.440 don't care how many points you score if the other 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.240 team scoring just as many. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.920 Yeah you hey, look, that's why in the playoffs, an Ojo, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.440 the Lakers don't need to see the timber Wolves or 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.240 the Thunder. They don't need to see them type of 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.560 teams you need, I don't know how, Like you probably 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.480 rather play against Denver, but you don't want you don't 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.280 want them teams that got them dudes that go off 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:35.080 the bounce like that. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.040 It just can't. It's too much costs too much, Bro, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.360 They give up too many points. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.920 Even though the Lakers, if you look at their record 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.440 and clutch time right now, Joe, they're probably one of 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.480 your better teams than clutch time. By the game within 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.440 five points the last five minutes of the ball game, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:49.600 that's what clutch means. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.480 They're probably one of the better teams. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.480 But come postseason, when you get beat off the dribble 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.280 like that in clutch situation, guys are gonna get getting 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.760 white layups. They don't get wide open shots. And you 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.960 can because you want to make it as difficult as 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.640 you possibly can. Well, if you can't guard anybody off 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.159 the first dribble and I got to come help. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:08.840 Now, I've weakened my defense. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.520 And so that's the problem that they have is that, Yeah, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.480 like I said, the regular season is one thing. The 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.880 postseason is something entirely, entirely different. So they have success 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.359 in the regular season and think that carries over it, 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:24.680 but no team's weekend. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.680 And that's what OKAC. They were great in the clutch situation. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.560 Yeah, because their game plan for OKC is to weigh 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:39.679 you down. Okay, yeah, you may get a couple appetizing shots, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.320 but we want this tempo and we know Ojo at 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.080 the end of the game, under five minutes in crunch time, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.439 we know you're gonna be dead. Leg got that, man, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:49.960 you ain't gonna be able to get too much. We're 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.920 gonna be still like we in the first quarter. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:54.240 Yeah. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.160 And when one of your three best players is Lebron 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.920 at forty one, played the second most game, the most 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.120 minutes in NBA history, he can't get up and down 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.320 like he once could. That's not Austin Reeves, and and 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:13.320 and and and and and uh Luca. They're not speed merchants. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.639 So the one thing that you don't want to get 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.640 get into it with these teams is attract meet. You're 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.760 a distance runner and you're trying to sprint. Now, it 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:21.360 ain't gonna work. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:21.520 Bro. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.480 Every once in a while you might have a guy, 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:27.600 I mean, you had a guy that could run the 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.360 mile or the half mile. He was on your mile 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:34.800 relay team, but he was really really special. That ain't 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.399 what the Laga have. Lega got a lot of distance runners, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:44.320 so they getting last. You're just putting them out there 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.800