Speaker 1: Welcome to the State of the Lakers on DASH Radio.
Speaker 1: Happy Saturday, everybody. I am so sorry I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to be there for the postgame show last night. I'm
Speaker 1: especially thankful for Raj for covering for me, and for Vane,
Speaker 1: who's awesome, one of my favorite people in the business,
Speaker 1: who always brings really good perspective, and I appreciate that
Speaker 1: he's available to step in and help us when one
Speaker 1: of us has to miss for whatever reason. They did
Speaker 1: an amazing job breaking down the game last night. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna dig too much into that game in particular, um,
Speaker 1: I loved how they got into Lebron and how he's
Speaker 1: starting to look better physically and and the things that
Speaker 1: he's doing on the court to start to make things
Speaker 1: easier for himself, and the way that he's adapted as
Speaker 1: he's gotten older. I loved how they dug into Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves and all the little details that make him such
Speaker 1: a good player at a young age. If you guys
Speaker 1: haven't listened to that podcast yet, please do. I appreciate
Speaker 1: them for covering for me today. What I'd like to
Speaker 1: do just too. This is gonna be a really quick
Speaker 1: short pot maybe fifteen twenty minutes. I wanted to dig
Speaker 1: into the idea of what the Lakers are good at
Speaker 1: because it's been an extremely frustrating start. Obviously through the
Speaker 1: first you know, to be what is it twenty seven
Speaker 1: games to be fourteen and thirteen with their strength of schedule,
Speaker 1: it's really easy to be a pessimist. But the reality
Speaker 1: is is we've been building towards something. There has been
Speaker 1: good on the horizon. Our guy Pete from Laker Film
Speaker 1: Room tweeted out last night after the game that since
Speaker 1: benching DeAndre Jordan's the Lakers are top ten in offensive
Speaker 1: rating and defensive rating, which is a hallmark for a champion. Now,
Speaker 1: there's some weak opponents in there and some decent opponents
Speaker 1: in there, and obviously we still have a long way
Speaker 1: to go, and you'd like to get a couple of
Speaker 1: wins in Memphis and against the Clippers in order to
Speaker 1: make this feel more legitimate. But without a shadow of
Speaker 1: a doubt, the Lakers are playing better basketball out than
Speaker 1: they were last month, So there is a silver lining
Speaker 1: there and we are progressing in the right direction. But
Speaker 1: I wanted to really talk about what we're good at
Speaker 1: and when you combine that with understanding where areas of
Speaker 1: opportunity are, you can kind of start to paint a
Speaker 1: picture of what the Lakers are gonna look like when
Speaker 1: they really start to get going, when the ball really
Speaker 1: really starts to get rolling. So to start, you have
Speaker 1: to understand what we're bad at. Obviously you can look
Speaker 1: at just by watching the team. You can be frustrated
Speaker 1: with some of the lineup decisions that we've made in
Speaker 1: in months past, although Frank I think is really trended
Speaker 1: in the right direction in that regard, and you can
Speaker 1: talk about some personnel decisions and our lack of forwards
Speaker 1: and things along those lines, But in terms of what
Speaker 1: has actually happened on the court that I can narrow
Speaker 1: down our flaws to two key things, and they break
Speaker 1: down into a couple of different stats. So, for starters
Speaker 1: were dead last and contested shots per game. Tracking stats
Speaker 1: are a little bit tricky. I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 1: of them because they're flawed, But given the fact that
Speaker 1: we're second in pace, for us to be dead last
Speaker 1: and contested shots per game is a huge red flag.
Speaker 1: What that tells me is more often than not, when
Speaker 1: the offense when there, when the opponent runs a little
Speaker 1: bit offense and they get a decent look. We're more
Speaker 1: likely to just concede the shot than we are to
Speaker 1: make some extra effort or attempt to cover for a
Speaker 1: teammate get a hand up and make someone feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: That's a problem that directly relates to the fact that
Speaker 1: we've underachieved defensively compared to the way we were in
Speaker 1: previous years. We're dead last and defensive box out percentage
Speaker 1: according to the NBA's tracking data. We box out the
Speaker 1: other team less than anybody else in the entire league.
Speaker 1: That's a huge problem. That's again directly related to the
Speaker 1: fact there were twenty four and defensive rebound percentage. Frank
Speaker 1: has consistently complained that defensive rebounding has been a problem
Speaker 1: for the team. We all know it has just by watching,
Speaker 1: and we're not even doing the work the box out.
Speaker 1: This isn't a matter of we don't have enough size
Speaker 1: on the floor. This isn't a matter of you know,
Speaker 1: guys even Cray sing, we're just not boxing out. That's
Speaker 1: a huge problem. So in addition to that, we don't
Speaker 1: take care of the basketball or four and turnover possession
Speaker 1: a percentage a lot of that has to do with
Speaker 1: Russ and Lebron and continuity. Anytime you change out a
Speaker 1: lot of players, it's turnovers kind of come with the processes.
Speaker 1: Guys really start to feel each other out, and then
Speaker 1: we don't this too. These are two. These two are
Speaker 1: completely related to each other. We give up the fifth
Speaker 1: most fast breakpoints per one hundred possessions. Now that's part
Speaker 1: of that's turnovers. When you turn the ball over, the
Speaker 1: team starts running the other way. But a lot of
Speaker 1: it's jogging, and some of it's that line up decision
Speaker 1: from Frank to consistently play two bigs, which puts our
Speaker 1: team foot speed below a certain threshold to where fast
Speaker 1: teams can really just run it up and down on
Speaker 1: us and get a lot of easy shots. But if
Speaker 1: I had to take all of those stats and kind
Speaker 1: of combine them into two concepts, we don't value possession
Speaker 1: of the basketball in terms of offense and taking care
Speaker 1: of the ball, and in terms of defense. After you
Speaker 1: get a stop, finishing the action by getting the rebound,
Speaker 1: and then we don't finish plays defensively. You make a rotation,
Speaker 1: not sticking a hand up, not contesting the shot, make
Speaker 1: not making that extra rotation, not making that out of
Speaker 1: area play to contest a shot, which will directly lead
Speaker 1: to lowering opponent field goal percentages and getting you more
Speaker 1: stops which will help you get out in transition. And
Speaker 1: then after the shot goes up and misses, grabbing the rebound,
Speaker 1: boxing someone out getting that rebound we do. We do
Speaker 1: not finish plays well, and we don't value possession of
Speaker 1: the basketball. Those are two biggest flaws right now in
Speaker 1: my opinion. The good news is those are fixable flaws.
Speaker 1: There's no point in us talking about forward depth. There's
Speaker 1: no point in us talking about, you know, personnel, when
Speaker 1: the personnel is what it is at this point, you
Speaker 1: know that we there's no point in living in fantasy
Speaker 1: land about what we might be able to do to
Speaker 1: change until we really know what those options are. And
Speaker 1: right now I don't even really necessarily like some of
Speaker 1: the options that have been thrown out, so we kind
Speaker 1: of have what we have. We can fix. However, boxing
Speaker 1: the other team out and taking care of the basketball
Speaker 1: and running back in transition, those are fixable problems. So
Speaker 1: when we combine those fixable problems with what we're good at,
Speaker 1: we can start to have an idea of what this
Speaker 1: team is gonna look like. So here's what we're good at.
Speaker 1: We run the floor on offense. We don't run the
Speaker 1: floor and defense at all, as I just discussed, but
Speaker 1: we run the floor and offense. We're second in pace.
Speaker 1: We're fiveth in fast breakpoints per one possessions. That's really
Speaker 1: important for a bunch of different reasons, but the main
Speaker 1: reason is we are able to generate higher quality shots
Speaker 1: by avoiding the half court as much as possible. This
Speaker 1: directly shows up in our field goal percentages. We get
Speaker 1: good shots. We are six in field goal percentage in
Speaker 1: the league. A big part of that is pushing the
Speaker 1: ball in transition. We are tenth in effective field goal
Speaker 1: percentage in the league. That's again directly related to pushing
Speaker 1: the ball in transition staying out of the half court. Now,
Speaker 1: those numbers may not seem great, but when I say
Speaker 1: sixth and tenth, even though that seems low, yet factor
Speaker 1: in the on has missed a bunch of time, and
Speaker 1: we shoot about four percent better from the field and
Speaker 1: about four percent better from three when Lebron's on the floor.
Speaker 1: So even factoring that in, we're doing really well in
Speaker 1: terms of our shot quality, and to me, that's all
Speaker 1: about avoiding the half court as much as possible and
Speaker 1: pushing the ball and transition. What I'd like to see
Speaker 1: better process and the half court, sure that are spacing
Speaker 1: better lineups, prioritizing shooting Lebron and a D and rush,
Speaker 1: doing a better job of pressuring the rim. We're only
Speaker 1: twelve and paint points per one possessions. That's not good
Speaker 1: enough for a team that has the type of rim
Speaker 1: pressuring talent that we have. But that's exciting to me
Speaker 1: to see us twelve and paint points six and field
Speaker 1: goal percentage in tent and EFFECTI field goal percentage because
Speaker 1: I know those are gonna go way up. Why because
Speaker 1: not only are we starting to play better, but Lebron's
Speaker 1: consistently in the lineup. You can depend on those numbers
Speaker 1: going up. So it's good to see that we're already
Speaker 1: pretty good in those areas despite Lebron missing time. We're
Speaker 1: already pretty good at pushing the ball in transition, getting
Speaker 1: high quality shots, were already pretty good at pressuring the rim,
Speaker 1: and that's only going to go way up from here.
Speaker 1: Another little interesting stat in their seventh in the league
Speaker 1: in percentage of our three point attempts that are assisted.
Speaker 1: I like that because it means we're not taking bad threes.
Speaker 1: There have been a handful of games, and I've been
Speaker 1: critical of of Lebron in particular for taking a lot
Speaker 1: of really really tough off the dribble threes. But the
Speaker 1: threes that we get in our offense are primarily drive
Speaker 1: and kick or transition running wide open threes. We have
Speaker 1: two of the ten best percentage wise three point shooters
Speaker 1: in the league when they're wide open, for guys who
Speaker 1: have made at least ten in the league. I tweeted
Speaker 1: out those stats earlier. Wayne Ellington and Carmelo Anthony are
Speaker 1: both comfortably over on wide open threes. That's a huge asset.
Speaker 1: So we're doing a good job of pushing the ball
Speaker 1: in transition when we have an opportunity to and kicking
Speaker 1: the ball out to good shooters for good set, balanced,
Speaker 1: high quality three point attempts. That's all very very good.
Speaker 1: We block a lot of shots. We are fifth in
Speaker 1: block shots per game. That's been a staple in the
Speaker 1: Lebron ad era. A lot of it because of Frank's
Speaker 1: defensive schame in the way that we play bigs Um
Speaker 1: but we actually give up a ton of paint points.
Speaker 1: So that's the one thing that's interesting there. What that
Speaker 1: tells me is that when we actually make an attempt
Speaker 1: to protect the rim, we do a good job of
Speaker 1: protecting the rim. The problem is is we don't make
Speaker 1: that attempt often enough or too quick to concede baskets
Speaker 1: around the rim. This is something that Frank has been
Speaker 1: talking about lately in his postgame pressors and his pregame pressers.
Speaker 1: The idea of being early in help. This is something
Speaker 1: that I was very critical of the Lakers of after
Speaker 1: the Memphis game. Memphis did such an amazing job when
Speaker 1: you watched them covering for each other. When one of
Speaker 1: their players would step over to help on a drive
Speaker 1: or on a backcut, there was always another player coming
Speaker 1: in from behind, whether it was Kyle Anderson, whoever, was
Speaker 1: w just come in and make a play, be willing
Speaker 1: to cover for their teammates. I call them out of
Speaker 1: area plays. It's very easy to get kind of tunnel
Speaker 1: vision in your defensives insibility. I'm in charge of this guy.
Speaker 1: I just have to keep him off the glass. I
Speaker 1: just have to keep him out of the lane. I
Speaker 1: just have to take away his open threes. When the
Speaker 1: reality is is, again, the goal of defense isn't for
Speaker 1: me to stop you. The goal of defense is for
Speaker 1: my five guys to stop your five guys, and so
Speaker 1: we have to be more willing to make out of
Speaker 1: area plays. That's a big, a big point of emphasis
Speaker 1: that I've been pushing this season. What what that shows me?
Speaker 1: Again in those numbers, when we're giving up as many
Speaker 1: paint points as we are, we're too often covering for
Speaker 1: each other, but not covering for each other additional times
Speaker 1: in the same possession, Those multiple efforts, guys willingness to
Speaker 1: leave their man to help a teammate, that's not good enough.
Speaker 1: It's a big area of opportunity for us. We turn
Speaker 1: the other team over. We are tenth and opponent turnover percentage.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Um, we're six and points off of
Speaker 1: turnovers when you factor in how poor we've been in
Speaker 1: other areas of defense. That's exciting to me. That's an
Speaker 1: indicator of defensive talent. Us turn earning the other team over,
Speaker 1: getting steals and getting out in transition off of that.
Speaker 1: That to me is what happens when you have guys
Speaker 1: like th ht on the floor, who has super long
Speaker 1: arms and is super active and disruptive on the ball.
Speaker 1: When you have Avery Bradley on the floor, who's a
Speaker 1: ball pressure guard who makes UH primary initiators uncomfortable. When
Speaker 1: you have Anthony Davis and Lebron incredible back line defenders
Speaker 1: on the floor, or reason coming in is gonna make
Speaker 1: that better. Russ had a bad defensive game last night
Speaker 1: and no case. But for the most part as of late,
Speaker 1: he's been trending in the right direction and he can
Speaker 1: be flat out disruptive. When I see that when we're
Speaker 1: turning the ball over and we're getting out in transition
Speaker 1: and scoring on those turnovers, that's exciting to me. We
Speaker 1: are starting to put together some pieces here that are working,
Speaker 1: and you could tell we we undercut ourselves in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. Like I said, for you to be
Speaker 1: six in field goal percentage even without Lebron, for you
Speaker 1: to be sixth and field goal percentage in ten and
Speaker 1: effective field goal percentage, but to be a bottom ten offense,
Speaker 1: I think we're twenty three in offense right now. What
Speaker 1: does that tell you? That tells you that we're hemorrhaging possessions,
Speaker 1: because when we have possession of the basketball. We're getting
Speaker 1: out and we're getting good shots, but too often we
Speaker 1: don't even get a shot attempt because we turn over
Speaker 1: the basketball. Too often. We score, but the other team
Speaker 1: gets additional possessions because we are not securing a defensive rebound.
Speaker 1: That that was the huge problem in the Memphis game.
Speaker 1: I think between turnovers and offensive rebounds, we had nearly
Speaker 1: thirty possessions that were hemorrhages at hemorrhage. I can't remember
Speaker 1: the exact numbers. I know we gave up fourteen offensive rebounds,
Speaker 1: but there was like twenty two turnovers. You're talking thirty
Speaker 1: six possessions that are hemorrhage. It doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 1: a high field goal percentage team or high effective field
Speaker 1: goal percentage team. When you're hemorrhaging possessions like that, you
Speaker 1: have to take care of the basketball or none of
Speaker 1: this works. You have to finish defensive possessions or none
Speaker 1: of this works. But again, the exciting part, we have
Speaker 1: good offensive process. We avoid the half court, we pushed
Speaker 1: the ball in transition, and we don't take crazy, stupid
Speaker 1: off the dribble three's. We've worked the ball around for
Speaker 1: high quality catch and shoot threes. We're doing an okay
Speaker 1: job pressuring the rim, even though there's a lot of
Speaker 1: room for improvement there, and just in general we have
Speaker 1: we have good process in the possessions that we value.
Speaker 1: We defend well up until the end of defensive possession.
Speaker 1: So if we can put the cap there, if we
Speaker 1: can contest a few more shots and box out more frequently,
Speaker 1: it will help us get more stops, which will help
Speaker 1: every other area of the game, help us get into
Speaker 1: out and transition even further, help us apply even more
Speaker 1: rim pressure. It will cascade into all those other areas
Speaker 1: of the game. It's encouraging that we're doing as well
Speaker 1: as we are in those areas. When you factor in
Speaker 1: all of those other things that we talked about, there's
Speaker 1: an identity shaping up here. It's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a tweak on our identity, a little more transition play,
Speaker 1: a little more shooting, but the core of the identity
Speaker 1: turning the other team over, trying to get transition opera
Speaker 1: tunities when they're there. The Lakers were not a consistent
Speaker 1: fast breaking team, but they did fast break on defensive
Speaker 1: stops and turnovers. That was an area where they were good. Again,
Speaker 1: it's it's a modification of that identity, but you can
Speaker 1: see it kind of starting to take shape. They just
Speaker 1: have that they have to ditch the games like Memphis,
Speaker 1: where all of those little things and all those little
Speaker 1: details get way on the back burner and we don't
Speaker 1: do the dirty work and then we end up struggling.
Speaker 1: The last thing I wanted to talk about today was
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. I just wanted to It is only gonna
Speaker 1: take couple of minutes. I just wanted to give him
Speaker 1: a little shout out. You know, Kevin Durant is an
Speaker 1: interesting kind of figure in this in this timeline, because
Speaker 1: you had the foot injury in two thousand fifteen, and
Speaker 1: then you have him nearly win the title in two
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, you know, just some some Russell Westbrook mistakes
Speaker 1: and some poor shooting nights on his part, then honestly,
Speaker 1: just really good Warriors basketball that cut him short. Then
Speaker 1: you have this weird, funky phase where he's in Golden
Speaker 1: State where he's winning but people really aren't giving him
Speaker 1: credit for it, which is not necessarily fair, and then
Speaker 1: he suffers a really really bad injury. He's had a
Speaker 1: rough go of things and as a result, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: has just been more available and more you know, whatever
Speaker 1: you wanted to however you want to characterize it. He's
Speaker 1: just had more team success. Him and Lebron have kind
Speaker 1: of separated themselves from him, and so he kind of
Speaker 1: gets put on the back burner a lot. I thought
Speaker 1: he deserved unequivocally to be the best player in the
Speaker 1: league after losing to Milwaukee last year. I think when
Speaker 1: you go head to head with a guy like that
Speaker 1: and you clearly outplay them, even when the result doesn't
Speaker 1: come out your way, which was clearly a result of
Speaker 1: injuries as we saw James Harden could barely move and
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving was out of the lineup. I thought he
Speaker 1: firmly had a grasp as the best player in the
Speaker 1: world out of the playoff run last year, with Joannice
Speaker 1: having a reasonable case, obviously, but I thought Kevin Duran
Speaker 1: had the best case, and then this season Steph Curry
Speaker 1: has gotten all the shine and I do personally believe
Speaker 1: that's the best player in the world right now. It's
Speaker 1: something I've discussed. I think Lebron is starting to creep
Speaker 1: his way back into that discussion again, and Janice is
Speaker 1: very much hitting his stride right now. I think he
Speaker 1: had forty one on like nineteen shots again last night,
Speaker 1: so he's looking great as well. It's a crowded field
Speaker 1: up there. Joannice, Katie Lebron, and Steph are all kind
Speaker 1: of up in that up in that range. But Kevin
Speaker 1: Durain is having a very underrated season, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to give him some credit because the truth of the
Speaker 1: matter is he's been dealt a really, really bad hand
Speaker 1: of cards. Okay, not only with the injuries and all
Speaker 1: the things that I just discussed that have derailed varying
Speaker 1: points of his career, but he comes to Golden he
Speaker 1: comes to Brooklyn to build something new, you know, on
Speaker 1: his own volition, where he is the centerpiece and he
Speaker 1: is the architect, and quite frankly, he did a damn
Speaker 1: good job of it. You know, even when we were
Speaker 1: all super critical of the Kyrie Hardened Katie trio, we
Speaker 1: were proved clearly wrong when that team was just steamrolling
Speaker 1: everybody and was beating the living ship out of Milwaukee
Speaker 1: before Kyrie sprained his ankle. He he did it right
Speaker 1: over there. And then Kyrie goes down and James Harden
Speaker 1: pulls his hamstring and the wheels come off, and then
Speaker 1: he nearly hits a series cleansing clinching shot, but by
Speaker 1: an inch his toes over the line. And then you
Speaker 1: come into next season and Kyrie Irving won't get the
Speaker 1: vaccine and he can't play, and James Harden, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: even though he had a whole summer to rehab the hamstring,
Speaker 1: comes into the season overweight, looking his steps slow, really
Speaker 1: struggling with the officiating changes. Now he's starting to to
Speaker 1: pick back up and get back to his former self,
Speaker 1: and James is starting to look great, and that's part
Speaker 1: of why Brooklyn is looking so good. But the point
Speaker 1: is is, like Brooklyn has had, Kevin Durant and Brooklyn
Speaker 1: have had plenty of excuses to not be as good
Speaker 1: as they have been. Look at the Lakers. The Lakers
Speaker 1: have played an incredibly weak schedule, the Western Conference is
Speaker 1: wide open outside of Phoenix and in Golden State they
Speaker 1: have They've done nothing but make excuses for their poor play.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant has had those same excuses, and he just
Speaker 1: hasn't made them. All he's done is just be available
Speaker 1: every night and play some of the best basketball of
Speaker 1: his career. I've always been critical of him for not
Speaker 1: embracing the defensive end as much of his peers as
Speaker 1: his peers have this season, he's doing it. He's protecting
Speaker 1: the rim. Last night he literally was guarding Trey Young
Speaker 1: and crunch time, disrupting him, causing him serious problems, rushing
Speaker 1: him and forcing him to make decisions before he wanted to.
Speaker 1: Took a bunch of bad shots at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. Kevin Durant is playing arguably the best basketball
Speaker 1: of his career. He's flying a little bit under the
Speaker 1: radar right now, but I wanted to give him some
Speaker 1: credit because again, he has all the excuses in the world.
Speaker 1: He has every reason to not be doing what he's doing,
Speaker 1: and people would cut him all the slack in the world,
Speaker 1: but he's just not taking that as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make excuses. He's taking it as an opportunity to step
Speaker 1: up and carry his team. And I think I think
Speaker 1: we're headed for an epic playoff run. We've had unfortunate
Speaker 1: circumstances where big guys have missed playoff runs in recent years.
Speaker 1: Right like a two years ago, it was like Lebron
Speaker 1: and Janice, We're in it. James Harden was in it,
Speaker 1: but Katie and Steph were on their couches with injuries.
Speaker 1: And then last year it's like Janice and k d
Speaker 1: are in it, but James Harden's on his couch, or
Speaker 1: was on his couch until he tried to to play
Speaker 1: when he was hampered, and Steph Curry and Lebron James
Speaker 1: are on their couches. So all these guys were missing
Speaker 1: for various reasons, unfortunate reasons, and we're finally heading for
Speaker 1: this epic playoff run and I'm hoping that everyone stays healthy.
Speaker 1: Knock on wood, but you're you should see Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: with his own team healthy and in the in the postseason,
Speaker 1: Lebron James and his own team healthy and in the postseason,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry with his own team healthy in the postseason,
Speaker 1: and Janice with his own team healthy in the postseason.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see how that shakes out. It'll
Speaker 1: it should be a much a much more you know,
Speaker 1: depth of competitive like a much more competitively deep playoff
Speaker 1: field than we've had in recent years. And I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: But again, I just wanted to give Kevin Durant um
Speaker 1: some credit for for the way he's playing. I think
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, especially for a guy like
Speaker 1: me who has been very critical with him over the years.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to to pay him that compliment. So
Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow night for the postgame show after
Speaker 1: after the Orlando game. UM, My grandfather passed away yesterday,
Speaker 1: so I will be flying to Iowa for a funeral
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. So I will likely end up missing the
Speaker 1: Wednesday night game because I probably won't be back until
Speaker 1: pretty late on Wednesday. That obviously remains to be seen. UM,
Speaker 1: so rog is gonna have to cover from me again.
Speaker 1: And then my high school team has a game on
Speaker 1: Friday next week. UM, and the Lakers play on Friday
Speaker 1: as well, so I'm gonna be missing. I'll be there
Speaker 1: for the Sunday post game show, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: missing the Wednesday and Friday post game shows next week. However,
Speaker 1: I am going to try to do these little during
Speaker 1: the day shows on the off days so that at
Speaker 1: least I can give my perspective on those games. Because
Speaker 1: I will obviously watch them, I just won't be able
Speaker 1: to watch them live. UM. As always, we sincerely appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys, support this. Uh, this particular pod won't be
Speaker 1: on dash Radio because it's the weekend, but it'll be
Speaker 1: on our podcast feed on Saturday night at midnight for
Speaker 1: all of you guys to listen. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: on Sunday night.