Speaker 1: Welcome to the State of the Lakers on DASH Radio.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for coming to hang out
Speaker 1: on a Thursday. Um weird stretch of Lakers basketball. Obviously,
Speaker 1: with the way the schedule worked out, they played on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and then before their game on Tuesday. Next week they
Speaker 1: only play once and that's on Friday. And obviously Rog
Speaker 1: and I have been in a groove of recording basically
Speaker 1: every single every other day for the last couple of months,
Speaker 1: and so obviously this break is kind of strange. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna be getting away from some of the Twitter spaces.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing a mail bag pod today. A
Speaker 1: bunch of you asked some really good questions and I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. And then probably on either Saturday or Sunday,
Speaker 1: Rog and I will get together again to do something
Speaker 1: along those lines, whether it's mail bag, whether it's some
Speaker 1: midseason awards stuff, whether it's some you know, trade ideas
Speaker 1: for the Lakers or something along those lines. Not really
Speaker 1: sure what we'll do. We'll figure something out to do
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and then obviously we will have our
Speaker 1: normal postgame show tomorrow night after the Lakers Clippers game,
Speaker 1: and again on Tuesday. Um, but we're gonna We're gonna
Speaker 1: dive straight into the mail back. We're only gonna go
Speaker 1: for about thirty minutes today, so it'll be nice and
Speaker 1: short and easy. The first question I got was from
Speaker 1: Nicholas Quick. Uh did you hear cowherds take yesterday that
Speaker 1: the Sons are the team for now in the next
Speaker 1: five years? The Lakers are old and poorly constructed, chopped deliver.
Speaker 1: What's your response? Um, you know, first of all, Laker
Speaker 1: fans have to come to terms with the fact that
Speaker 1: this team has opened themselves up to slander and that's
Speaker 1: just part of the deal. Um, they've played themselves into
Speaker 1: this situation. There are other teams that have done the
Speaker 1: same thing that Laker fans have taken advantage of in
Speaker 1: sent years. A lot of you probably had a lot
Speaker 1: to say about the Warriors over the last couple of
Speaker 1: years and in their uh predicament that they were in.
Speaker 1: But if you talk to somebody in the Warriors fan base,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they would tell you, like, we believe that
Speaker 1: when Clay gets back, and when we get some veterans
Speaker 1: around step instead of some of these young players, we
Speaker 1: believe it's going to get better. They have their optimism.
Speaker 1: They see the light at the end of the tunnel,
Speaker 1: just like we do. We see, you know, hey, Lebron
Speaker 1: is gonna come back. The guys are starting to play harder.
Speaker 1: Trevor Rees is coming back, which fills like a direct
Speaker 1: need and the roster. This effort is the first time
Speaker 1: we really are seeing consistent buy in this entire season.
Speaker 1: We see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: So we believe in what this team can be. But
Speaker 1: people outside, people outside of our fan base, have every
Speaker 1: right to look at us and kick us while we're down,
Speaker 1: so to speak, in terms of Laker fans in the
Speaker 1: Laker team in general, and we just kind of have
Speaker 1: to live with that and understand that that's just how
Speaker 1: this works. Um. As far as Cowherd particular take, he's
Speaker 1: not wrong in the sense that if you're looking at
Speaker 1: the picture right now, it appears that Phoenix is in
Speaker 1: a much better position. You know. They He talks a
Speaker 1: lot about how they do have They are built for
Speaker 1: now and for the future. They do have a lot
Speaker 1: of really exciting young pieces. Michail Bridges reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of Tashaun Prince, like a better offensive version of
Speaker 1: Tashaun Prince, just in the sense that he's this incredibly
Speaker 1: long wing that causes problems for basically every perimeter player
Speaker 1: in the league. DeAndre Ayton projects to be an all
Speaker 1: star level center in this league. We know what Devin
Speaker 1: Booker and Chris Paul are capable of, and it's easy
Speaker 1: to kind of draw a line between this is Chris
Speaker 1: Paul's potential decline and this is DeAndre Ayton and Michael
Speaker 1: bridges potential ascent. So it's easy to see like this
Speaker 1: team is gonna be relevant for a really long time,
Speaker 1: and they are. I would argue that because he said that,
Speaker 1: you know, in his take, he said that the Lakers
Speaker 1: had zero of their ten top ten players that are
Speaker 1: in their prime. I would disagree with that. Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: is very much in his prime. Th h t is
Speaker 1: not in his prime now, but he will be sometime
Speaker 1: in the next five years. The Lakers do have a
Speaker 1: lot more flexibility and a lot more potential for the
Speaker 1: future than people think. Um. The other thing too is
Speaker 1: payroll flexibility. The Lakers don't have any long contracts tying
Speaker 1: them up, so they have a lot of flexibility moving forward. Yes,
Speaker 1: next season, You've got Russ on the books. That makes
Speaker 1: some things complicated for the next season, but after that,
Speaker 1: other than Lebron and a d it's pretty much wide
Speaker 1: open outside of th h T. So this team is
Speaker 1: built in a way that they can retool year after year.
Speaker 1: That said, yes, they're very much invested in this two
Speaker 1: year window, so it's easy to get discouraged with how
Speaker 1: it looks here because they don't have a ton of
Speaker 1: flexibility strictly within these next two years. That's fair. What
Speaker 1: I would say is all the things that I've been
Speaker 1: saying in recent pods about them trending in the right direction,
Speaker 1: the effort is better. Help is on the way. In
Speaker 1: terms of the role players, Kendrick Nunn, it would be
Speaker 1: better than most of the guards that the Lakers are
Speaker 1: playing right now. Trevor Reasa is a forward that just
Speaker 1: doesn't exist on the roster in terms of a role player,
Speaker 1: those things will absolutely help. The Lakers do have a
Speaker 1: little bit of trade flexibility, which we'll talk about later.
Speaker 1: But the point is is there there Things aren't as
Speaker 1: dire as they appear. But from the outside looking in,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you rather be the Suns right at this exact
Speaker 1: moment in time with the way things look. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's not exactly the most outlandish take. Now where where
Speaker 1: I would personally choose the Lakers over the Suns has
Speaker 1: to do with the idea of a ceiling, And this
Speaker 1: is a concept that is kind of convoluted because it's
Speaker 1: hard to It's hard to justify using a ceiling as
Speaker 1: the as the silver lining or as the light at
Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel when so much of this
Speaker 1: is regular season basketball and playoff basketball. Before you get
Speaker 1: to that point, the Suns look fantastic all year. Last
Speaker 1: year they look fantastic. In the first round, they look fantastic,
Speaker 1: and second round they look fantastic. In the third round,
Speaker 1: they look fantastic for two games in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: and then guess what happened? Milwaukee, because of their elite
Speaker 1: high end talent and Janice, We're able to hit a
Speaker 1: ceiling as a team that Phoenix could not touch and
Speaker 1: they lost four straight times. And during that time there
Speaker 1: were some really good punches from Phoenix Game four, really
Speaker 1: good punch. Devin Booker got really hot a couple of
Speaker 1: times in that stretch and showed some shot making that
Speaker 1: could have gotten them over the top, but it just
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. The ceiling for Milwaukee is higher than the
Speaker 1: ceiling for Phoenix considerably, and it costs them a championship.
Speaker 1: And so the way I would look at it, you know,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the Laker championship odds the other day,
Speaker 1: I remember, and one of the things I pointed out
Speaker 1: was like, you know, yeah, it's easy to say, why
Speaker 1: would the Lakers have Some sports books have them at
Speaker 1: fourth and some sports books have them closer to six
Speaker 1: or seventh, depending on where you look. But like, the
Speaker 1: reason why it's still a reasonably decent bet to bet
Speaker 1: on the Lakers is because Lebron and a d can
Speaker 1: reach a ceiling that these other teams can't reach. Most
Speaker 1: of these teams can't reach. Brooklyn can reach that ceiling potentially,
Speaker 1: you know, Milwaukee can reach that ceiling potentially. Golden State
Speaker 1: if Steph gets going, can can reach that ceiling. But
Speaker 1: a lot of these teams, like Phoenix and like Utah,
Speaker 1: they just don't have that super super high end talent
Speaker 1: that can match those peak peak guys in those biggest
Speaker 1: moments That significantly limits their ceiling. So where I would
Speaker 1: disagree with Colin is. I would say, if you're the Lakers,
Speaker 1: you have the two best players in that series, like
Speaker 1: absolutely no question. So even if the Suns have the
Speaker 1: best system ever, and even if the Suns have really
Speaker 1: good habits that they've established all season long, and even
Speaker 1: if Chris Paul and Devin Booker played to their best,
Speaker 1: ability if Lebron and A D played to their best,
Speaker 1: you might lose. As a matter of fact, we saw
Speaker 1: that last year. We saw a limited version of Lebron
Speaker 1: coming off of an ankle injury. We saw Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: a few games removed um achilles tend to tend to
Speaker 1: tend to noses or tending to pathi or whatever the
Speaker 1: heck they called it, and Anthony Davis still couldn't make
Speaker 1: a jump shot. Um The entire Laker corps of role
Speaker 1: players went ice cold from three. They had absolutely no
Speaker 1: space to operate. And guess what happened. Lebron and A
Speaker 1: D physically overwhelmed Phoenix, and they won back to back games,
Speaker 1: and they were up two games to one, and they
Speaker 1: were clowning the Suns in the first half of Game four,
Speaker 1: throwing lobs off the backboard and stuff, until Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: pulled his growing and then at that point, because the
Speaker 1: team has all of their talent tied up in those
Speaker 1: two players, the wheels came off, and that was to
Speaker 1: be expected. But at the end of the day, if
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this situation as long as I have,
Speaker 1: even even with them declining apparently with Anthony Davis trending
Speaker 1: down into the bottom half of that top ten and
Speaker 1: Lebron as well, it's still is of higher ceiling potential
Speaker 1: than what you get with the Phoenix or with the
Speaker 1: Utah or teams teams in that tier or like Miami
Speaker 1: is another good example of that. Um So, from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: if you're a Laker fan like it always could be
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot worse. But again, like I
Speaker 1: said at the beginning, let's not let's not discount the
Speaker 1: feelings of those outside of our fan base, because they're
Speaker 1: well warranted. This Laker team has played an incredibly weak
Speaker 1: schedule to start the season in their twelve and eleven So,
Speaker 1: I mean, are is anybody really wrong in in the
Speaker 1: in the stuff that they're saying that was that that
Speaker 1: would be my little caveat there alright? How many days
Speaker 1: this is from Dre Dave how many days before DeAndre
Speaker 1: Jordan gets removed from this roster. Strategy of hiding DeAndre
Speaker 1: Jordan behind first unit players was understood DJ is unplayable
Speaker 1: with the second unit players because they lacked the skills
Speaker 1: to hide DJ. So the DeAndre Jordan thing I talked
Speaker 1: a lot about this in the last part is one
Speaker 1: of the more interesting phenomena that I've seen in recent
Speaker 1: history in the NBA. Because you know, like I, I've
Speaker 1: been slandered relentlessly for this specific take because of the
Speaker 1: fact that I said that I actually liked the DJ
Speaker 1: signing over the summer. Now, I've tried to explain that
Speaker 1: as best as possible, Like I saw him as an
Speaker 1: end of the bench center, a guy who would only
Speaker 1: play when Dwight Navy rested, not as a guy who
Speaker 1: would be the starter for this group. I saw him
Speaker 1: as a guy who would be able to maintain scheme consistency.
Speaker 1: You could run drop coverage with Dwight and a D
Speaker 1: and essentially when one of them is out, rather than
Speaker 1: having to change your scheme the way you had to
Speaker 1: sometimes with the Montrez Harrald, you could just do the
Speaker 1: same thing with DeAndre Jordan's have that scheme consistency to
Speaker 1: carry you for one or two nights in the regular
Speaker 1: season and then subbing back out. I never saw him
Speaker 1: as that type of player. Now, obviously, in my little
Speaker 1: diet tribe over the summer, I said that I saw
Speaker 1: him as a athletic primarily defensive center in terms of
Speaker 1: the archetype. And just for the record, guys, I've done
Speaker 1: over a hundred episodes of this stuff. You don't think
Speaker 1: occasionally I slip up with my words and use a
Speaker 1: little bit of hyperbole and exaggerate a little bit and
Speaker 1: maybe put my foot in my mouth. Sometimes that's happened
Speaker 1: more than once. I promise you, if you go back
Speaker 1: and listen to all that junk that I said over
Speaker 1: the course of last year, you're gonna find stupid stuff
Speaker 1: that I said. That's the nature of the of what
Speaker 1: this is. That's the nature of podcasting. So if you
Speaker 1: want to rub that in my face, be my guest.
Speaker 1: I can take it. But essentially, what's been interesting about
Speaker 1: this is I also anticipated that Brooklyn, in their poor
Speaker 1: defensive identity and their tendency to switch rather than run
Speaker 1: a drop coverage, would lead to DeAndre Jordan's looking better
Speaker 1: with the Lakers. Why Because they're a drop coverage team
Speaker 1: and for the last two seasons they've had an amazing
Speaker 1: defensive identity and Frank, even with limited defensive players, people
Speaker 1: forget Avery Bradley was trending way down defensively before he
Speaker 1: signed with the Laker. Kyle Kuzma was viewed as a
Speaker 1: bad defensive player before Frank got his hands on him.
Speaker 1: K CP was viewed as an okay defensive player. A
Speaker 1: lot of these guys were were has massively outperformed what
Speaker 1: their defensive expectations were under Frick coming into this season.
Speaker 1: So I allowed that to make me optimistic about plugging
Speaker 1: DeAndre in with this group as opposed to that Brooklyn group,
Speaker 1: running a scheme that actually makes sense with what he does,
Speaker 1: and having a group of guys that would, you know,
Speaker 1: commit to that with him, and that he would look
Speaker 1: better than he did in Brooklyn. That's what I was
Speaker 1: expecting and where I was obviously way wrong is this
Speaker 1: team just completely punted their defensive identity from day one
Speaker 1: of training camp and from the top down, including Lebron
Speaker 1: and a b have mostly mailed that end of the
Speaker 1: floor in So, of course DeAndre is gonna look terrible.
Speaker 1: That's just the reality of the situation. So I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's just my two cents on that take from
Speaker 1: the summer. And again, yeah, I was wrong about some
Speaker 1: stuff with that. I failed to anticipate Frank and the
Speaker 1: way he would use him in the rotation. I failed
Speaker 1: to anticipate the way the team would fall apart defensively
Speaker 1: outside of DeAndre. Guys, when they were in drop coverage
Speaker 1: with Anthony Davis. This season, it has looks terrible outside
Speaker 1: of specific stretches of games. That's that's just the reality
Speaker 1: of this team. So it's not fair to put all
Speaker 1: of that on DeAndre. That said, I get just as
Speaker 1: annoyed as you guys when he's on the floor because
Speaker 1: I don't think he should be unless a break class
Speaker 1: in case of emergency, here's an injury, here's the rest day,
Speaker 1: we need to use him. That was what I always
Speaker 1: saw with DeAndre. Now, as far as cutting him, goes
Speaker 1: back to the question. You know, DeAndre has to inevitably
Speaker 1: over the course of the next few weeks if Frank
Speaker 1: does what we hope you will do, which is bench
Speaker 1: Jim Hays, who embraced the bench roll. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw that little video of the altercation. I think it
Speaker 1: was on Pickup Hoops Twitter page where they seem to
Speaker 1: get into it Frank and DJ on the sideline if DJ,
Speaker 1: if Frank opts to take DJ out of the rotation,
Speaker 1: and that's DJ's behavior, that's the way he chooses to act. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta cut him. You can't have a a realistic
Speaker 1: championship goal and have a really, really unhappy player in
Speaker 1: the locker room that's constantly messing with your team chemistry.
Speaker 1: You can't have that. But my guess is what will
Speaker 1: happen is because you do need d Guys. We need
Speaker 1: DJ as an end of the bench center. We need
Speaker 1: him in case a D goes down for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, because if a D goes down for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, there's no guarantee that Dwight can handle
Speaker 1: all of it. At the end of the day, DJ
Speaker 1: is needed. He's just miscast in his role. Okay, I
Speaker 1: know everyone says, let's play j Huff, but guys, there's
Speaker 1: a reason why he wasn't on a roster coming into
Speaker 1: this season. If J Huff was playing every single minute
Speaker 1: that DJ was playing, you guys would be slandering him too,
Speaker 1: because he's probably a fringe NBA player, and so if
Speaker 1: you play a fringe NBA player against good NBA teams,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna look great all the time. That's just
Speaker 1: the reality of how this stuff works. So, yes, if
Speaker 1: DJ becomes a problem for the chemistry, you have to
Speaker 1: cut him and try to work around that sign someone else.
Speaker 1: But hopefully you move him to the bench. He embraces that.
Speaker 1: A lot of the guys in that locker room are
Speaker 1: friends with him from Team USA and from other basketball
Speaker 1: related engagements. You want him on the team, You just
Speaker 1: need him to be in his proper role. Alright. Moving on,
Speaker 1: who's a realistic target for the deadline slash buyout? So
Speaker 1: the reality is of the Lakers are not very flexible
Speaker 1: right now. Um, they basically have one trade piece and
Speaker 1: that's Taylor Horton Tucker, and they have one other player
Speaker 1: that they can use a salary filler, and that's Kendrick Nunn.
Speaker 1: Those two players get you to right around sixteen million, okay,
Speaker 1: So realistically you're looking at players within within a couple
Speaker 1: million of twenty million dollars is like your cap for
Speaker 1: what you can trade for buyouts? Are tough. You never
Speaker 1: really know what to expect in the buyout market. It's
Speaker 1: a lot easier to get a feel for that sort
Speaker 1: of thing as we get closer to that time in
Speaker 1: the season, and quite frankly, guys like there are guys
Speaker 1: out there that have the time to comb through every
Speaker 1: single roster and make phone calls to exact and try
Speaker 1: to get a feel for who might be a buyout candidate.
Speaker 1: That's not what I have time for. With everything that
Speaker 1: I have on my play as a coach and as
Speaker 1: a real estate agent and doing this, I have time
Speaker 1: to really really focus on Laker basketball games in a
Speaker 1: handful of other big games around the league. But there
Speaker 1: are better places for you to go for, you know,
Speaker 1: checklists of different buyout guys that that might be available
Speaker 1: that that come that time of year. As far as
Speaker 1: the trade candidates go, the one that I have my
Speaker 1: biggest eye on is Jeremy Grant. And I've talked about
Speaker 1: this in previous podcasts, But the thing with Jeremy Grant is,
Speaker 1: you know, I've seen him in the playoffs and what
Speaker 1: he's capable of. Yeah, did Lebron have his way with
Speaker 1: him in a lot of ways. Of course, Bill Lebron
Speaker 1: has his way with the vast majority perimeter defenders in
Speaker 1: the league. He did a pretty damn good job on
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard in the bubble. He is a good shooter,
Speaker 1: not a great shooter, but a good shooter and a
Speaker 1: guy who can put the ball on the floor. He's
Speaker 1: capable of that advanced closeout attacking that I always talked
Speaker 1: about that, Okay, they rotate to the rim and they
Speaker 1: chase you off the three point line off of a
Speaker 1: skip pass. What can you do to create offense in
Speaker 1: that situation. We're getting a lot of this from the
Speaker 1: Leak Monk this year, that in between stuff that, Okay,
Speaker 1: they chased him off the line, he ripped through the baseline,
Speaker 1: ripped through the middle, and he makes a tough floater,
Speaker 1: or he makes a pull up ten footer, or he
Speaker 1: makes a layup, but it's a contested layup where he
Speaker 1: contorts his body around the guy and finishes on the
Speaker 1: other side of the rim. That's advanced close out attacking.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna get any of that from Trevor Ariza.
Speaker 1: What we're gonna get from Trevor Easa is really really
Speaker 1: solid individual defense and really really solid team defense at
Speaker 1: the wing position with some size versatility. That's true. But
Speaker 1: Jeremy Graham as an athlete and what he's capable of
Speaker 1: on the defensive end is another level or another tier
Speaker 1: above that. And then offensively, he's a guy that in
Speaker 1: the playoffs can have games re scores twenty points. And
Speaker 1: so I like him as a as the ideal target
Speaker 1: because he's at a healthier salary. We're not looking at
Speaker 1: trying to go after a Harrison Barnes that's up around
Speaker 1: twenty five million or whatever. We're looking at a guy
Speaker 1: who's right at twenty million. We can flip Kendrick Nunn
Speaker 1: and th h T for him and bring him in.
Speaker 1: And it's this obvious, clear ceiling raising move with our
Speaker 1: core five man line up. Our core five man lineup,
Speaker 1: which is another question that we're gonna get to in
Speaker 1: a minute, which will address, you know, in a in
Speaker 1: a world where we don't have Jeremy Grant, but our
Speaker 1: core five man line up is gonna send around Lebron,
Speaker 1: a d and Russ some kind of forward in some
Speaker 1: kind of guard. And so that forward right now is
Speaker 1: probably gonn be Trevor a Resa. But if you upgrade
Speaker 1: that to Jeremy Grant. That's a huge upgrade. Not to mention,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Grant can defend up and down a position, so
Speaker 1: you can even go wild and play Jeremy Grant and
Speaker 1: Trevor a Resa in that lineup and have a ton
Speaker 1: of length of versatility. There's a lot of potential for
Speaker 1: ceiling raising lineups if you add Jeremy Grant to the mix.
Speaker 1: And I also just think it's a very realistic trade, uh,
Speaker 1: in terms of both sides being interested. Detroit through a
Speaker 1: bunch of money at Jeremy Grant. They threw it because
Speaker 1: they were in a situation where they didn't really have
Speaker 1: any sort of obvious pending contending season in the future,
Speaker 1: right because they're just basically a perennial lottery team. They've
Speaker 1: got killing in Hayes that they just picked up in
Speaker 1: the lottery, they just got Kid Cunningham. They're they're they're
Speaker 1: not really in a position where throwing twenty million dollars
Speaker 1: a year or two player cap straps them. So it
Speaker 1: was like an easy little money investment for them. It's
Speaker 1: money they had to spend, doesn't hurt the team, doesn't
Speaker 1: hurt their future, flexibility, gives a guy that they can
Speaker 1: run the offense through while these young guys are developing.
Speaker 1: It was an easy move for them. But that said,
Speaker 1: Detroit is not invested in Jeremy Grant in their future.
Speaker 1: He's not part of their long term vision for what
Speaker 1: they're doing with the team. So Jeremy Grant is there
Speaker 1: to be had, and he only has one more year
Speaker 1: on that deal. So th HT that is an obvious
Speaker 1: fit as a guy that a team could use to
Speaker 1: project forward with their their development window, with their rebuilding window.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, Kay Cunningham projects to be a guy
Speaker 1: who can eventually guard twos and threes, and th h T,
Speaker 1: as we've seen, can guard threes and fours because of
Speaker 1: how strong he is. And again, when you're when you're
Speaker 1: talking about position, it's all about who you can guard,
Speaker 1: not what you do offensively. Th h T projects within
Speaker 1: the next five years to be able to be a
Speaker 1: guy who can defend one through four and a guy
Speaker 1: who can hold his own and post mismatches, and a
Speaker 1: guy who can offensively be a slasher in the same
Speaker 1: way that a small forward or any sort of stretch
Speaker 1: forward would be. So he's a guy that is an
Speaker 1: obvious fit alongside Killy and Hayes and Kake Kan cunning him,
Speaker 1: and he's a very clear investment in the future. So
Speaker 1: if you're the if you're the Pistons and like you
Speaker 1: get a chance to flip Jeremy Grant for a player
Speaker 1: like th HT who has the potential to be an
Speaker 1: All Star within the next five years with all of
Speaker 1: his physical tools and everything that he brings to the table,
Speaker 1: what's a no brainer. And if you're the Lakers, you
Speaker 1: believe in th HT, you know what he can do
Speaker 1: for you now and in the future. But the reality
Speaker 1: is is he's not a fantastic fit right now with
Speaker 1: this championship window. He's not a You're not there's a
Speaker 1: diminishing return there. What the Lakers are getting from th
Speaker 1: h T right now on a championship contending team does
Speaker 1: not match up with what his value is elsewhere in
Speaker 1: the league. So from that standpoint, it's the perfect time
Speaker 1: to trade him. You of an opportunity to cash in
Speaker 1: a piece that other people think is more value valuable
Speaker 1: than it is to you in this moment. But it's
Speaker 1: it's just to me, it's it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: perfect case of a trade that makes sense for both sides.
Speaker 1: We'll see, as is always the case, Like you just
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in the Laker front office.
Speaker 1: Like it's like we're about to talk about Frank Vogel
Speaker 1: in a minute. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the internally, what the team is thinking about Frank. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Lebron and a d or trashing him
Speaker 1: in a group chat. I don't know if Rob and
Speaker 1: Genie are having conversations about firing him, or if they're
Speaker 1: all on board and we're all in our own heads
Speaker 1: about this stuff. We don't we don't know. We're all
Speaker 1: guessing at this point. And that's the same. The same
Speaker 1: thing goes with th h T. We don't know if
Speaker 1: they're completely invested in th HT would never in a
Speaker 1: million years consider trading him. They think he's the future,
Speaker 1: or if it was like, hey, we're gonna sign him
Speaker 1: to a three year, thirty million dollar deal, and the
Speaker 1: idea is if he fits with this group, great, If not,
Speaker 1: we're trading him. We don't know. And there's obviously the
Speaker 1: clutch element in there as well, But Jeremy Grant is
Speaker 1: my favorite trade target going into the deadline. What do
Speaker 1: you think it will take for Anthony Davis to take
Speaker 1: over and play like the number one option for the
Speaker 1: Lakers on a consistent basis if you won't do it
Speaker 1: now with Lebron's availability issues this season, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if you'll ever get there. He's twenty eight. Lebron
Speaker 1: is about to be thirty seven. That question is from Rob.
Speaker 1: So I've talked a lot about this on previous pods,
Speaker 1: But Anthony Davis will never be what you want him
Speaker 1: to be if you're trying to get him to be
Speaker 1: like Lebron can be for a team. He's just not
Speaker 1: that archetype of player. This is one of the big
Speaker 1: reasons why, you know, I was thinking about maybe doing
Speaker 1: a top ten podcast today and I opted for the
Speaker 1: mail bag instead. But when I was thinking about that,
Speaker 1: I went back and listened to my top ten lists
Speaker 1: that I did about about two years ago. Just about
Speaker 1: two years ago, eighteen months ago. I can't even remember.
Speaker 1: It was right after the bubble, so yeah, wow, that's
Speaker 1: only like thirteen fourteen months ago. It's not that long ago.
Speaker 1: But anyway, in that pod, I talked a lot about
Speaker 1: how that do you guys remember after Janice in the
Speaker 1: Bucks got eliminated by Miami and the bubble, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about trying to convert Janice into
Speaker 1: a center, this idea that he was miscast as a
Speaker 1: perimeter initiator, and we all kind of reached out a
Speaker 1: conclusion because of watching him perpetually dribble the ball up
Speaker 1: and be completely neutered in half court by defenses that
Speaker 1: packed the paint. Now, in that podcast, in that top
Speaker 1: ten podcast that I did forever Go, I pushed back
Speaker 1: against that and I said the Bucks were smart to
Speaker 1: invest in Janice as a perimeter initiator because your potential
Speaker 1: value as a superstar in this league is infinitely higher
Speaker 1: as a guy who can bring the ball up the
Speaker 1: floor and initiate from the perimeter than it is is
Speaker 1: a guy who needs to be set up. And I
Speaker 1: was proven right about that, and the Bucks were rewarded
Speaker 1: on that investment when Janice became unstoppable in last year's
Speaker 1: playoff run and it held up the Larry O'Brian Trophy Janice.
Speaker 1: That investment in that area of Janice's game was the
Speaker 1: difference between him being what many consider to be the
Speaker 1: best player in the world right now and a guy
Speaker 1: who's in that same tier with a d you know,
Speaker 1: like incredibly good in many nights, looks like the best
Speaker 1: player on the floor, but just not the same as
Speaker 1: those top guys when they really have it going. And
Speaker 1: that's the situation with Anthony Davis. His inability to persistently
Speaker 1: initiate offense from the perimeter perimeter with a live dribble
Speaker 1: significantly hinders his ceiling, and so because of that, you're
Speaker 1: never going to get him to be Lebron, so to speak,
Speaker 1: the guy who can be the engine of a team
Speaker 1: night in and night out and carry you for long
Speaker 1: stretches when Lebron is out with injury. It's just not
Speaker 1: something he's capable of now. In fairness to Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that he ever could have been that
Speaker 1: because an underrated part of Janice's game is his foot speed,
Speaker 1: both laterally, straight line, first step, all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: long steps, those like really heavy hamstring steps that used
Speaker 1: to see Dwyane Wade do all the time. He does
Speaker 1: all the time that we gather the ball att and
Speaker 1: somehow get all the way to the rim, and like
Speaker 1: two steps that those are all areas of Janice's athleticism
Speaker 1: that are significantly higher than Anthony Davis's athleticism, So it's
Speaker 1: not really realistic to compare the two of them. Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis has a great handle, so I'm not necessarily convinced
Speaker 1: that it's not something that they've tried and it's just
Speaker 1: not worked for him because of his lack of foot speed. So,
Speaker 1: but that's that's the thing. If Laker fans, you're setting
Speaker 1: yourself up for disappointment if you want Anthony Davis to
Speaker 1: eventually become that guy, because I just don't think he's
Speaker 1: physically capable of that, uh in any time, and he's
Speaker 1: already twenty eight. Like the like the question asked, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're building around him moving forward, if you're looking
Speaker 1: at this from a five year window, kind of getting
Speaker 1: back to that first question we had, you know, you're
Speaker 1: constantly retooling around him. Right, So Lebron rejects as he
Speaker 1: ages to be a slower player, for sure, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he can't be a perimeter initiator. He absolutely
Speaker 1: can come up the floor and run offense. We've seen
Speaker 1: in tons of times in NBA history really really big
Speaker 1: slow forward to be able to run offense We've seen
Speaker 1: that with Kedo Turkoglue with the Orlando Magic. You know,
Speaker 1: like that the Spurs used to do this a lot
Speaker 1: with bores d O. You can use big, slow players
Speaker 1: as playmakers. Playmakers, guys that can put the ball on
Speaker 1: the floor and get guys into positions. So I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about Lebron being able to do that. Projecting forward,
Speaker 1: when you're building around that, though, you just target Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis's weaknesses. That's why they went after us. Part of
Speaker 1: the reason why they were so good in Sacramento the
Speaker 1: other night is your ability to have this high end
Speaker 1: perimeter initiator next to Anthony Davis playing at his best,
Speaker 1: and so that that's kind of the way that I projected.
Speaker 1: You know, if you get to the point where Russ
Speaker 1: is done and you don't want Russ anymore, and he
Speaker 1: goes and signs somewhere else, maybe you'll get lucky you
Speaker 1: signed him at a discount to stay with the lake Yrs.
Speaker 1: But you have an opportunity to look at the landscape
Speaker 1: of the league and primarily focused on perimeter initiators, guys
Speaker 1: that can get Anthony Davis. Is Anthony Davis into his
Speaker 1: spots at that point you can potentially extend this window
Speaker 1: in moving forward. That's one of the reasons why it
Speaker 1: maybe if he for the Laker front office to let
Speaker 1: go of th h T as I'm sure they're hoping
Speaker 1: that by the time th h T turns twenty four
Speaker 1: and Lebron is forty, that th h T can kind
Speaker 1: of slide into that spot. You know. That's that's where
Speaker 1: you get your best opportunity with when you're cap strapped
Speaker 1: to have that type of player is when it's in house,
Speaker 1: when it's from the draft, because you just have more
Speaker 1: flexibility to go over the cap to bring those kinds
Speaker 1: of guys in. But Anthony Davis is always going to
Speaker 1: need that kind of player. He's never gonna be able
Speaker 1: to be honest, And the sooner that we all understand that,
Speaker 1: the more realistic we can be projecting forward with Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis on this team. All right, Next question, moving on
Speaker 1: to Frank Vogel. If Vogel was to get sacked, who
Speaker 1: would you want to replace him? Including external coaches? Thanks,
Speaker 1: This is from M so I have come around to
Speaker 1: not wanting to fire Frank for the time being. Now
Speaker 1: this is like a horse race. This thing is constantly
Speaker 1: sliding back and forth, and we're always adjusting and responding
Speaker 1: to new information. During the ugliest parts of this season,
Speaker 1: you know, namely after the Sacramento loss and triple overtime,
Speaker 1: we you know, there were a ton of problems with
Speaker 1: the Lakers. They had a lot of issues. Frank was
Speaker 1: just one of those issues. The reason why I advocated
Speaker 1: firing for Frank at that point was I saw him
Speaker 1: as the only real fixable issue, right, Like, the Lakers
Speaker 1: don't have the roster flexibility to make significant changes to UH,
Speaker 1: to line up versatility. You know. The only thing they
Speaker 1: can do there is hope Trevor Reason gets back, you know,
Speaker 1: and hope Kendrick Nunn gets back. They can't even trade
Speaker 1: th h t intil the middle of December, so there's
Speaker 1: just not a lot of flexibility on that front. Talking
Speaker 1: about like, oh, we need more defensive guards, Okay, that's great,
Speaker 1: but what you can't You can't get any more defensive
Speaker 1: guards unless they're currently outside of the league, which means
Speaker 1: they're probably not that good. Okay. And then the same
Speaker 1: goes for you know, trying to get UH, you know,
Speaker 1: Frank to not play DeAndre Jordan or something like that
Speaker 1: that all all of those problems could only be fixed.
Speaker 1: The only fixable, like actual actionable item that the Lakers
Speaker 1: could go to was firing Frank, and the reason why
Speaker 1: I supported that at that point in time had to
Speaker 1: do with buy in. I saw Lebron and a D
Speaker 1: not caring about this season nearly as much as they
Speaker 1: did in the previous two seasons. It was blatant to
Speaker 1: anybody who was paying attention. Yes there was scheme stuff,
Speaker 1: Yes there were lineup stuff, Yes there was injury stuf off,
Speaker 1: but Lebron and a D also weren't bought in, and
Speaker 1: as I've seen with Lebron in the past, a coaching
Speaker 1: change has the potential to invigorate him in that regard.
Speaker 1: It's whether it's because they need a new voice or
Speaker 1: just the chaos of it all breeds urgency, I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, it appeared that those two guys
Speaker 1: weren't bought in, and so I thought firing Frank, even
Speaker 1: though he's not the only reason why this season went
Speaker 1: off the rails, would be a good opportunity to try
Speaker 1: to light a fire under Lebron and a D well
Speaker 1: in the last two games. Obviously, Lebron missing the last
Speaker 1: one with COVID, the stars have been fantastic. In that
Speaker 1: game against the Pistons at home, Lebron and a D
Speaker 1: were unbelievable on both ends of the floor physically, uh
Speaker 1: actually attempting to use their physical tools. Two bully teams
Speaker 1: on both sides of the floor. And then Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: looked like he was the best player in the world
Speaker 1: candidate the other night in Sacramento. So if that's turning around,
Speaker 1: if the guys are buying back in, then I would
Speaker 1: want to stick with Frank because I think in the
Speaker 1: long run, what he can get out of this team
Speaker 1: defensively is more important for the ceiling of this team. Now,
Speaker 1: with we've talked a lot about how that has to
Speaker 1: be within an offensive context, right, Like, he needs to
Speaker 1: bring the most defensively out of our best offensive players
Speaker 1: in hopes of kind of building that identity that you
Speaker 1: know that we saw in the second half against Sacramento.
Speaker 1: That's what we need to build towards. But Frank is
Speaker 1: the best guy for that specific job. Now, let's say uh,
Speaker 1: the like Lebron and a D are back in the
Speaker 1: lineup in the next couple of weeks and they both
Speaker 1: are playing fantastic on both ends of the floor, but
Speaker 1: Frank just continues to be completely offensively and apt and
Speaker 1: it starts costing his games, whether that's through DJ or
Speaker 1: just you know, a bunch of really really poor concepts,
Speaker 1: and even though Lebron and d are trying, it's just
Speaker 1: not king. If that's the case. I like Mike D'Antoni.
Speaker 1: I think he's an obvious fit in terms of the
Speaker 1: identity of this team as a running up and down
Speaker 1: the floor type of team, as a team that will
Speaker 1: lean heavily into their offensive talent. Most importantly, as we've
Speaker 1: seen with him in Houston, he is the ideal five
Speaker 1: out coach. So you know, five outs all about spacing.
Speaker 1: The one of the biggest things that's been frustrating about
Speaker 1: this Laker team is you'll see Lebron or a D
Speaker 1: post up on the wing or on the block, and
Speaker 1: when they do, rather than going to a five out
Speaker 1: spacing concept, especially with Anthony Davis because he doesn't feel
Speaker 1: comfortable having a person behind him because he doesn't like
Speaker 1: having to watch his backside, they'll have to cram all
Speaker 1: four other players on half of the floor, and so
Speaker 1: what inevitably ends up happening is you'll have a even
Speaker 1: when they go small, you'll have a guard sitting in
Speaker 1: the dunker spot, which actively undercuts the point of going
Speaker 1: small to begin with. And so what's great about Mike
Speaker 1: D'Antoni is he's really really well versed in five out
Speaker 1: offensive concepts. He will be the best guy to give
Speaker 1: Lebron a D and Russ isolation sets where all four
Speaker 1: guys are properly spaced on the floor in positions where
Speaker 1: they can shoot so that there's not a body in
Speaker 1: the paint, or if there is a body in the paint,
Speaker 1: there's an easy swing pass available to make the team pay.
Speaker 1: He nailed this down in Houston, especially after the Capella trade.
Speaker 1: The Lakers, if they lean into playing small and having
Speaker 1: a lot of Anthony Davis and Lebron at center, can
Speaker 1: play basically a five out scheme like Houston did, and
Speaker 1: so Mike D'Antoni would be the perfect guy for that
Speaker 1: type of job. Then you just hope that at the
Speaker 1: highest Mike D'Antoni is probably gonna lean heavily into switching,
Speaker 1: which would be great on defense, and even if it's
Speaker 1: not the best defensive scheme, that you've ever seen, like
Speaker 1: we've seen in the past with Frank Lebron in a DS,
Speaker 1: physical ability raises the ceiling of that defense nificantly compared
Speaker 1: to what Mike could have done in Houston. So again,
Speaker 1: don't want to fire Frank right now because I was
Speaker 1: only interested in firing him to try to light a
Speaker 1: fire under Lebron in a D and right now they
Speaker 1: seem to be trending in that right direction. So I
Speaker 1: would keep Frank, but things go off the rails again.
Speaker 1: If the group does decide the front office and Jeannie
Speaker 1: decide to fire Frank, I would look in the direction
Speaker 1: of Mike D'Antoni. Right. Okay, this is the last question.
Speaker 1: This is from Chenny Britt. How should a guy like
Speaker 1: th h T approaches outside shooting struggles. It seems like
Speaker 1: he's put in a lot of work into his jumper,
Speaker 1: in his form and his free throw percentage are both good.
Speaker 1: What's the next step for translating that into a better
Speaker 1: on court percentage? So not to get into the weeds
Speaker 1: of shooting coaching here, Um, but shooting is is such
Speaker 1: a fickle thing because it's a it's a low percentage task,
Speaker 1: even on your best, even when you're at your best right,
Speaker 1: Like if we look at you know, there are a
Speaker 1: handful of guys in NBA history that I've had seasons
Speaker 1: where they get over and you know, they knocked down
Speaker 1: fifty three o the threes or something along those lines.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, like even if you're a
Speaker 1: really really good shooter, you miss more than you make.
Speaker 1: So it's a really really hard thing to figure out mentally,
Speaker 1: especially for a young player, when you don't really know
Speaker 1: how to contextualize your misses and understand that that's just
Speaker 1: kind of part of the game. I think THHD projects
Speaker 1: to be a really good shooter because he's a really
Speaker 1: good shooter at the free throw line. The reason why
Speaker 1: is the free throw line is the static situation of shooting.
Speaker 1: The free throw line is the best indicator of your touch.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence that Lebron is a
Speaker 1: very inconsistent shooter from the perimeter because he's inconsistent at
Speaker 1: the free throw line. I don't think it's a coincidence
Speaker 1: that outside of a couple of really bad shooting games
Speaker 1: this year, Lebron is shot pretty well from three and
Speaker 1: also is having a good season from the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Because his touch this particular season is better. He's doing
Speaker 1: well in that regard. Um. You know, we I've talked
Speaker 1: in the past about Lebron's form. I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: into it right now, but th HD has a really
Speaker 1: really good, solid base, and he's got good touch, and
Speaker 1: he's got big hands. Big hands are important for shooting.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds crazy. You think of a lot
Speaker 1: of the centers in NBA history who have shot poorly
Speaker 1: because there because a lot of people think it's because
Speaker 1: of their big hands, But there are so many players
Speaker 1: in NBA history with big hands that have shot great,
Speaker 1: So I think it's kind of a cop out excuse.
Speaker 1: When you have big hands on the basketball, it actually
Speaker 1: helps you to avoid left right misses. It's actually a
Speaker 1: form thing that I teach kids, and then I had
Speaker 1: a coach teach me when I was in junior college.
Speaker 1: Spreading your fingers further out around the ball help you
Speaker 1: stay in line with your shooting stroke. It makes it
Speaker 1: a focus on distance rather than left to right. So
Speaker 1: th h T projects to be a really good shooter,
Speaker 1: as in the sense that he's got huge hands, he's
Speaker 1: got a really strong base. It'll help, it'll be easier
Speaker 1: for him to stay on balance. In the long run,
Speaker 1: I do believe we'll see him be a really good shooter.
Speaker 1: He's struggling now. Why is that? I think it has
Speaker 1: a lot to do with shot selection and inconsistent role.
Speaker 1: He started again against uh the Kings on the road
Speaker 1: the other night. Since he came back into the lineup,
Speaker 1: it's just been a complete cluster f of differing circumstances.
Speaker 1: It's been I'm starting this game, Lebron's out, I'm shooting
Speaker 1: a ton of shots. Okay, Now Anthony Davis is out. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now I'm coming off the bench. Okay, now Lebron's out again. Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm I'm coming off the bench with Lebron out. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now Lebron is um out, and I'm moved back into
Speaker 1: the starting lineup. Like it's just been, it's just been
Speaker 1: a roller coaster of of differing circumstances for him. And then, honestly,
Speaker 1: one of the worst things that happened to him was
Speaker 1: he played so well in the first few games, tricked
Speaker 1: him into thinking he was ahead of where he was
Speaker 1: in his own development. You know, if you come into
Speaker 1: the league and and you come off of an off
Speaker 1: season when you worked really hard and your average over
Speaker 1: twenty points a game for a three game stretch and
Speaker 1: you look like a potential future All Star. Gets in
Speaker 1: your head a little bit you start to think I'm
Speaker 1: here in my development when in reality, um somewhere further
Speaker 1: down here, you know what I mean. And so he
Speaker 1: had to kind of have a wake up call in
Speaker 1: that in that respect, you know, we we saw Davion
Speaker 1: Mitchell just apply a little bit of ball pressure and
Speaker 1: completely throw him out of his rhythm offensively and really
Speaker 1: struggle as a playmaker and make a lot of bad
Speaker 1: decisions one after the other. That's kind of a youthful thing.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's part of that. And we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about how we want him not to be an
Speaker 1: on ball creator, but a guy who would work on
Speaker 1: the second side. Always work against a already compromised defense
Speaker 1: lebron or rust come down and run in action. If
Speaker 1: that action gets shut down, you swing it to th
Speaker 1: HD guy closes out at him. As opposed to dealing
Speaker 1: with ball pressure, He's working with an advantage. The defense
Speaker 1: is pre shifted over to the lebron a D side.
Speaker 1: He has more opportunity to succeed in that second side.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see more of that the as a
Speaker 1: posed to what they did with Sacramento putting him on
Speaker 1: the ball the whole time. That's that as far as
Speaker 1: the shooting goes. Once he had embraces and understands he's
Speaker 1: not the guy from the first three games, but he's
Speaker 1: actually closer to what he was in the beginning of
Speaker 1: last year when Lebron and n A. D were healthy,
Speaker 1: which is a guy who plays off the ball, who
Speaker 1: sells his soul on the defensive end of the ball
Speaker 1: to be an all defense level guard and then attacks
Speaker 1: closeouts and then up in a little bit from there
Speaker 1: to have him run some action on the backside, like
Speaker 1: we just discussed, that's where he's gonna be at his
Speaker 1: best with this group in this championship window. Inside of
Speaker 1: that context, he needs to just be more disciplined with
Speaker 1: the shot selection. We talk a lot like when you
Speaker 1: take bad shots and you miss him, you can trick
Speaker 1: yourself in your head to thinking I just don't have
Speaker 1: it tonight. Do you really not have it tonight or
Speaker 1: are you showing bad process? Because where I say I
Speaker 1: don't have it tonight, is when I'm getting wide open
Speaker 1: looks all day long and they're just not going in.
Speaker 1: That's that's different. But with th HT, what I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of is taking the same shots from when
Speaker 1: he was averaging twenty points a game, them not going
Speaker 1: in and a kind of snowballing on him and him
Speaker 1: doing the classic young player thing, which is that I'm
Speaker 1: having a bad game and so now it's manifesting everywhere
Speaker 1: on the floor, turnovers, bad defense, x y Z. So
Speaker 1: this Kyle Kuzma used to have this problem a lot
Speaker 1: when he was with the Lakers. But that's what I'd
Speaker 1: like to see is just really really tightening up a
Speaker 1: shot selection, taking wide open threes on kickouts. But I
Speaker 1: want him to be aggressive as a catch and shoot shooter.
Speaker 1: That's so important because it tricks the defense into thinking
Speaker 1: you're a shooter even when you're not. That was the
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma thing. Again, always a low percentage three point shooter,
Speaker 1: but he accomplished real spacing for the Lakers because he
Speaker 1: was a gunner. You had to run out on him
Speaker 1: because if you didn't, he would shoot. And he had
Speaker 1: enough hot nights over the course of his career that
Speaker 1: he had a reputation as a guy that she had
Speaker 1: to close out on. That's what th h T needs
Speaker 1: to be aggressive as a catch and shoot shooter. Be
Speaker 1: aggressive attacking closeouts. From there, through high shot quality, he
Speaker 1: will break out of his slump when kids, when high
Speaker 1: school kids come up to me and say, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: in a shooting slump. What do I do? I always say,
Speaker 1: don't think about your release. Focus on little details in
Speaker 1: your shot. The two details that I always focus on
Speaker 1: our legs, like my base, how balanced to my am
Speaker 1: I going straight up and down? And are my hands big?
Speaker 1: If I have big hands on the ball, I won't
Speaker 1: have those left right misses. So for me, when I'm shooting,
Speaker 1: as I'm as I'm going into my shot, I deliberately
Speaker 1: think legs and hands, legs and hands, legs and hands,
Speaker 1: and I do that deliberately to get out of my
Speaker 1: head about my release and just focus on these little
Speaker 1: details that are controllable. Then if I missed the shot,
Speaker 1: I run down the floor and I go did I
Speaker 1: have my hands spread out? Did I have a good base? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: that was good process. The miss is the miss who
Speaker 1: cares move on. If I'm running down the floor, and
Speaker 1: I go I didn't really feel like I was on balance,
Speaker 1: or I didn't I didn't pay attention to my hands
Speaker 1: and I missed left or right. Eight. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I'm mad at myself for missing I'm mad at
Speaker 1: myself for bad process. I'm mad at myself for bad form.
Speaker 1: Or maybe I just took a bad shot in terms
Speaker 1: of you know how much separation I had from the defense.
Speaker 1: And then I can get me out at myself and
Speaker 1: go like, hey z, good one, make a couple of
Speaker 1: good back to the tough ones that I approached that.
Speaker 1: And so with th HD, by attacking his own neurosis
Speaker 1: as a in terms of his shot selection, by getting
Speaker 1: on the right track taking easy shots, he will inevitably
Speaker 1: bust through his slump because that's just how this works. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: So tomorrow night we will be doing a postgame show
Speaker 1: after Lakers Clippers. This will be on my podcast feed
Speaker 1: here in about fifteen minutes while Aaron Dash Radio tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning at seven am Pacific Standard time. As always, I
Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate you guys support of the pod. We continue
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