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For the first time, he entered the game 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.919 from the fourth quarter, where he had scored a field goal. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.520 He has three points. If I'm not mistaken, I think 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.000 he only had two points at the half. And he 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.480 has a streak eighteen years. He scored at least ten 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.320 points in every game for the last eighteen years. It's 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.200 the longest consecutive streak of double digit games in NBA history. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.840 And he kept the streak alive because he was sensation. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.840 I think he scored twelve points in the fourth quarter, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.680 but none bigger than the tip it at the buzzer 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.520 to give them the win. The Lakers beat the Pacers, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:33.240 uh nineteen. Lakers had a seventeen point lead. They squandered 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.120 that again. O Joe, ay, what quarter? 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:36.000 What quarter? 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.960 Third? Third? Every time they gave up thirty seven points 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.800 in the third quarter. Remember the other night they gave 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.160 up thirty fourth points in the third quarter, and it 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.800 looked like they scored sixty a little over sixty points 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.240 in the in the second half. And that'll get your beat. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.400 And the Lakers is gonna have to fight out until 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.040 it's important to them to take care of the basketball, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.200 to play federal def They're gonna find themselves in these 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.000 kinds of games because they allow teams to hang around 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.360 because they turned the ball over when they can stretch 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.280 and lead to twenty twenty two to twenty three. They 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.080 turned the ball over in a couple of quick threes, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.960 and now all of a sudden, the seventeen point game 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.200 is down under ten. But when it mattered the most, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.440 and that's what good player, that's what great players do. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.280 They can play bad no matter the sporto till they 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.800 can play bad for a particular period of time, but 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.120 when they absolutely have to have it they can dig down. Now, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.400 a lot of times you and I both played the 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.040 game of football. Sometimes when things are not going our way, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.760 real allowed to creep. When I gained cre creep into 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.680 our minds and of the effect that overall play, Yes, Sir, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.080 I thought he rebounds the ball extremely well. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.159 He had thirteen rebounds. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.400 He led the Lakers and rebounds he did a great 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.120 job of facilitating, considering Luca is the primary ball handler. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.040 Now it'mental sis with seven. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.280 But when he needed it, he dug down and in 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.800 the fourth quarter he got it going. He played half 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.720 primarily had the ball in his hand while Luca was 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.479 on the getting his risk. To start the fourth he 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.680 got his double digits and then he turned it back 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.480 over to Luca, and Luca got hot to getting down 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:06.880 the stretch. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.080 I think Luca ended up with thirty four points. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.839 Ar Austin reeves at twenty four, but it was Lebron 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.599 at the end of the ball game they got the 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.320 tip in at the buzzer. Because this would have been heartbreaking, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.400 but this would have been a gut rig they lost 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:20.760 his game. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.240 They would have looked, listen, they are the three. They 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.320 were on the old three skid. Then O three skied 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.640 for one. Like you said earlier, they can play in 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.599 stretches in the game and get a lead, but because 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.000 of the lack of defense and always being inf and 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.240 beating transition, being lazy turning the ball over, they allowed 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.719 teams to come back in team that they should be dominating. Obviously, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.000 the game of basketball is about against is a game 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.960 of runs. But still you're playing the Pacers. I'm not 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.560 saying the Pacers are horribly sorry, but when it comes 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.000 to the Lakers, if you're serious about not only making 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.600 the playoffs or keeping the scene that you're in, this 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.000 is the game that you're supposed to go in and 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.480 dominate quarterback quarter But yet again in the third quarter, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.840 after after happy the lead they had, they almost squandered that. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.080 Because the Pacers ended up taking the lead. 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:08.520 Don't joke. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:10.800 The Paces took the lead. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.160 And then I don't want to, I don't want to. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.760 Butcher's last name Roy rue Ruey Ruey Hotche Murrow brother 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.920 brother hachimror Hakatana hit the two threes towards the end 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.240 of the game, and Lebron had to come through in 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:26.480 a magical moment in the game. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:31.599 They should have lost. Honestly, yeahntly he owed him that 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:36.000 on Lebron. He's in the locker room, say hey, knowing Lebron, 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.880 he's probably the locker room guy like, hey, that was 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.159 a big win. But I owe y'all, are y'all owe 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.560 you for that first half for the game, because I 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.400 think what was he ended up four and twelve? Yeah, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.919 so he was three eleven four before that. Tim So 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.320 he ended up going four and twelve and he's he 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.039 knows all seven from the three. He knows he didn't 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.320 his overall game. But the thing is about a great 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.360 player and you find the other ways to impact the game. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.080 Look at it, defensive, rebounding. Look, I mean, look at 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:06.120 his rebounding. Look at his assists. His assists, let him assists, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.640 let him in rebounds. But that's what great players do. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.640 They find ways to impact the game, even though he 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.120 wasn't scoring a lot of times the score. When he's 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.760 not scoring, no Joe, he molts, he pops, and all 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.960 of a sudden it impacts other areas of the game. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.800 Can you impact the game when you're not doing what 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.840 you normally do to impact the game, find whether other 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.240 ways to influence the game? 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:28.680 Rebound the basketball? 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.520 Can I facilitate, Can I play defense, can I guard jaw? 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.160 Charge of things of that nature? 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.560 And I was very happy to see Lebron and pull 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.120 it out at a lot going on today. Luca in 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.640 the month of March thirty one point four points a game, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.040 eight and a half rebounds, eight point six suspense, forty 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.960 three point so basically forty four percent from the three 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.920 point line on eleven on eleven tenths of per game. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.760 He's on pace to be the youngest Laker to average 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.360 thirty points in a single month since Hoby in two 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.120 thousand and three. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:08.440 Nah, hey, uh, I like the Lakers chance. I love 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.880 all the mantras, all the quotes of Lakers and five, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.200 but I honestly think they need one more pieces as 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.160 greate as they get it as great as greatest Hakatana 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.360 you Rory is playing. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.040 Yeah, they need they need something else. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.240 On another another score, Lebron has an off night, then 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:27.360 Luca gives you what he does. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:27.640 Tonight. 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.160 He was kind of off and on, but he still 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.200 ended up with thirty four. But I think if they 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.800 just had him one more person, they give him just 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.120 a little bit more. I know reads is good. I 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.120 know can work and score as well. They just need 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.880 one more, one more piece of that puzzle. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.520 And that's what they were hoping for. What they were 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.160 hoping for that Alex Lenne could give them something. Now, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.679 I don't know what they see from Alex League and 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.839 you don't like Buddy Man. It's not about lack or 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.319 dislike O Choe. I mean, I think the chatter would agree. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.959 They've watched him at many different stops. I think he's 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.680 been in Washington. I think he's been with the Sons, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.480 He's been different places. He's what he is. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:09.839 He's what he is. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.559 I don't care. You take a grizzly bear out of 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.640 the forest, whether he in the alask cub, he's in Canada, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.920 or it does not matter. You take him out of 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.280 that and you put him in a different environment. He's 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.200 still a grizzly bear. His instincts does not go away 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.360 for another word. If he's sorry over here, what do 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.800 you expect him to be over there? He's to be that. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.319 I mean, it's not like he was good at one 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.400 point in time on Joe and you say, you know what, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.800 hopefully he can summon that up again. But he has 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.679 not been good at any stop. He's tall now, a 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:50.439 coaching is calling his name. It is what it is, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.280 and I'm just being factual. They're not anybody else side 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.120 there that can help him on Joe. And the problem 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.760 is is that when when Jackson Hayes goes to the bitch, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.760 that's that ball team don't have another big Lebron got 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.400 to go to the five. Lebron has to go to 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.240 the five, or you bring in during your phineis Smith 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.840 and he has to play the flap five. Right, They're 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.880 a very very small team, and that's the problem that 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.559 you have because you're really not playing Jackson Hayes more 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.959 than twenty five minutes a night. Right, And he's a guy. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.360 And the fain that I love, I mean you love it, 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.120 you hate is that you don't run plays for Jackson Hayes. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.640 He's a lob guy. He gets it off the rim. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.000 He gives you a second chance of opportunities. But he's 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.319 not a guy that you can run to the bard 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.439 and say, hey, he gonna put hey, put his back 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.319 to the basket, throw it to a head and you're 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.319 gonna do something with it. That I got what he is. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:40.160 That's not who he is. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.880 Right now, I got a question. Now now listen. You know, my, my, 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.600 my knowledge of the game of basketball is a little limited. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.640 I'm getting better at it though. Now listen, if they 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.080 got to go small, if they gotta go small, shouldn't 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.280 the Lakers that at times, depending on who this is, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.719 be at it be at an advantage when it comes to, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.640 you know, playing small and having to transition up and 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.559 down the court as opposed. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.480 To you know, yeah, for the other team, go small, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.000 But what happened when they got Joki out there? 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.840 What do you do thenn And that's the problem. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.920 Okay, let's just say you played you played Memphis, right, 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.360 Memphis got Zach Keatie who's seven, seven to three. Yeah, he's. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:22.920 He's said, clogging up space. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:23.679 He he he. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.480 He's not advantageous on offense at all. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:27.320 Or am I wrong? 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.040 He gonna give you, He's gonna give you extra possessions 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:34.480 because of rebounding, okay, And without rebounding, there are no 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.439 rings without rebounding, okay, And that's the that's the problem 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.320 that the Lakers gonna have. Even when Lebron Lebron has 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.760 an off night, you still have ar and Luca that 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.400 can carry the load. If Lucas struggling Lebron and arntruct 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.520 can carry the load. If Ar is struggling, Luca and 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.200 Lebron can still carry the load. Will look, you got 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.480 three guys that can score. Uh Ar has given you 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.520 like twenty a night. Lebron has given you twenty five. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.160 Lucas given you a thirty. Right, Okay, that's fine. One 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.280 of those guys struggling that other guys can take can 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.520 take over. Need a little bit better production consistently from 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:13.440 the bitch. You got some good minutes tonight. But JJ 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.839 is just gonna have to trust Dalton connected. I think 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.560 the thing is is that he loses his way sometime 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.880 of the defensive end and being around JJ, the little 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.040 bit I had working with him at ESPN. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.959 He doesn't like that. He likes students of the game. 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:28.640 He likes smart. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.559 He likes smart guys, Smart guys you can win with, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.440 even if they're not the most talented, supremely talented guys. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.440 There aren't bad that doesn't have basketball IQ get jazz 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:39.240 bat now. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.120 That frustrates JJ because JJ wasn't the most talented, although 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.240 he was a great player in college, really good player 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:46.720 in the NBA. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.480 He was very smart. He knew where it was. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.800 Supposed to be when he was supposed to be there, boom. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:57.920 So he did all the small things right, Mary, Yes, yes, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:12:58.920 very discipline. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.200 And when you're out aletic O, Joe, you're not pre 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.760 le athletic, you're not six Saint sixty nine. Do everything right, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.679 or you don't have handles like a kyrie, you're not quick. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.959 So what other way can I find a way to 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.400 get on the court, steal on the court and not 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.800 cost my team? And if you look at it, Oho, 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.840 I think there's ten games left, and you look at 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.080 three through eight, there's only four games different. There's only 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.839 four games difference. They're basically you're three four games back. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.400 Denver Nuggets have the same well lost record as the Lakers, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.720 and they're in the three seed. Lakers are four, memphisis five. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.040 All of them have twenty eight losses. And then you 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.319 got the Clippers Golden State with thirty one losses, with 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.439 are three games back, and you got Minnesota at thirty 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.520 two losses at a game back of them. So four 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.400 games separate three through eight, and there's ten games to go, right, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:58.440 ten games to row. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.800 Excuse me, ten games to go. So the rubber got 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.120 to beat the road something got to give. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.000 Yeah, what's what's what's the high what's the highest seed 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.120 or what you think is preferable for you as a 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:13.719 leaguer fan for them, get what would be easy for 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.920 them best case scenario to be able to get out 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.679 of the first round or at least have a chance 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:18.640 getting to the second round. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.480 Have home court advantage. So you need to be you 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.840 need to be one through four to have home court advantage. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.920 They're not going to get to one seed because Okay, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.160 seed is run away with that, right, So the one 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.720 seed is already etched in stone. Now could they get 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.040 the two seeds? Yeah, that's the possibility they got. They 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.280 got the Rockets on the schedule. They need to close 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.080 out this road game strong and then go home and 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.720 close out that home homestand strong. I could see them 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:51.680 three or four, right, Uh, three or four? So that 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.560 means that they if everything remains the same, that means 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.480 they get Memphis in the first round. What you what 0:14:58.600 --> 0:14:58.800 you like? 0:14:58.880 --> 0:14:59.520 What you like by that? 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.360 Mass I say, just stay away from Okac. We need 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.520 to get some rhythm before before we see ok See, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.880 we need some pressure them. Ound ain't no pressure in 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.560 the first round. They need pressure. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.560 So he's saying Memphis ain't no pressure, No, not for 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:13.080 the Lakers. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:14.800 I like, I like that matchup against Memphis. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.720 But you know, you know who Memphis got over there? 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:22.480 Yeah job, Yeah, yeah, I give you, I give you 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.080 jobs to give you a Luca. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:24.840 Who you tak it? 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.600 Okay, I give you John, give you Lebron? Who you 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:29.000 take it? 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:30.720 Okay? Okay? 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.040 No, Now they got Jared Jackson, who's a def dp 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.440 O why play candidate who made the All Star Game. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.840 Bain has played well in the absence John's nursing a 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.440 hamstring or something. But he's been up and down now 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.160 when he's been in Yeah, oh he's John. I mean, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.000 the second pick of the jaff. He's been an All Star, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.800 so you know what he can do. I mean, nobody's surprised. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.560 I mean just to actually go to a game and 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.000 watch him, and to watch the way he elevating, the 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.440 way he can con toward his body. He's Yeah, he's 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.200 a guy that you know, I pay my good money 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.800 to go see because that's what he is. Look I basically, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.200 if I'm paying my money to come see it, th't 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:11.760 for having my money come to see you have? Oh 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.160 you have? Damn How many points you have, and I'm interested. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.760 Jack got to do with me. John's interested because he 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.440 can finish above the rim. Got a nice little float game. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.760 Mitt rainshot. He's gotten better than to shooting the set three, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.720 but he's fun. He's fun to watch. I like that matchup. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.600 Do I think they can beat anybody? 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:33.920 Yes? 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.640 In seven games, absolutely, because Luca and Lebron can both 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:43.120 take over game and give you forty So those two guys. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.040 But the thing ere O Joe. In the playoffs, your 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.720 three best guys need to be really good. Two of 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.640 the three need to be great damn near every single night. Now, 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.720 if I was getting eighty points sixty, if I'm getting 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.040 sixty five to eighty points from my big three, I 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.000 don't need the other I'm gonna need the other six 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.240 guys because you're not gonna go that deep playoff start. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:08.240 You might go nine. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.480 As you go further, you do, you reduce that, but 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.600 I'm gonna need those other other nine guys that if 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.359 those three guys give me eight, i'm gonna need those 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.560 other guys to give me thirty five. And they're gonna 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.240 have to give a little bit more production from the bench. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.160 Gabe Vinson is shooting the ball a little better. Phoiney 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:24.680 Smith is doing a little better. But they got to 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.120 make a decision. What are we gonna do it? Don't 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.040 connect because he can shoot the three, but he gets lost. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.440 He gets lost on defense and he gives up easy 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.160 buckets and I don't know what something is being lost 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.200 in translation, O Joe, he's a liability, well all of them. Look, 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.440 Luke can't playing no defense. Austin reason this, it's hard. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.040 Ain't playing defense. Lebron can't sit in the chair no more. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.239 Lebron is mainly an up side defender. He does use 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.760 his body really well. Guys try to go round him, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.159 he'll body him up because that's that's that's a big 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.359 man to try to move, and so he slows him 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.880 down like that. But Lebron can't sit in the chair, 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.479 and no one, no one expects him to, Ojoe, he's forty. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.920 What guy you know play defense at forty? Kobe didn't, Jordan, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.560 I'm talking about historically great players, even Pipping that, Pipping 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.919 that didn't blay till he was forty. He couldn't slide 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.600 those feet like he could when he was in his 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.920 in his pride, we understand that because you and I 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:19.960 talking about the other night. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.400 The lateral quickness is what Lou Lou you lose as 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:24.600 we starts to aid. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:25.400 Yeah. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.120 So with that being said, O, Joe, I like the Lakers. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.560 I believe they could beat anybody in the Western Conference. Yeah, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.160 it'll be a struggle. Uh uh for the Okay, see 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:43.360 hold do you see that five? We still we're still 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:49.240 were still winning at five? Uh so you want to 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:56.000 hold up going to the next topic? Fashion Okay, oh 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.359 Joe Yo. I don't know if it was this morning 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.879 or tape yesterday. I'm thinking that this morning. What happened 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.800 Lebron went on the Pat McAfee show. Yeah, yeah, he 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.639 had a lot to say today. Hey, that was that 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.920 was added character him. I've never seen him in that 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.800 setting before and actually just talking freely like that. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:15.840 Yeah. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.360 So we're gonna get We're gonna get to that. Yeah, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.399 just a second while we wait for TJ to connect. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.320 But the Lakers, I'm looking at the Clippers. I think 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.080 the thing is oto you're trying to stay out of 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.040 seven through ten because you don't want to play any 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.920 more games than you have to. You won't rest and 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.199 it won't start until be a seven, eight, nine, ten, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.160 is determined who to play and who's gonna be seven, 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.600 who's gonna be eight? To that determined, So you need rest. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.320