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Speaker 1: Go James. For the first time, he entered the game
Speaker 1: from the fourth quarter, where he had scored a field goal.
Speaker 1: He has three points. If I'm not mistaken, I think
Speaker 1: he only had two points at the half. And he
Speaker 1: has a streak eighteen years. He scored at least ten
Speaker 1: points in every game for the last eighteen years. It's
Speaker 1: the longest consecutive streak of double digit games in NBA history.
Speaker 1: And he kept the streak alive because he was sensation.
Speaker 1: I think he scored twelve points in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but none bigger than the tip it at the buzzer
Speaker 1: to give them the win. The Lakers beat the Pacers,
Speaker 1: uh nineteen. Lakers had a seventeen point lead. They squandered
Speaker 1: that again. O Joe, ay, what quarter?
Speaker 4: What quarter?
Speaker 1: Third? Third? Every time they gave up thirty seven points
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Remember the other night they gave
Speaker 1: up thirty fourth points in the third quarter, and it
Speaker 1: looked like they scored sixty a little over sixty points
Speaker 1: in the in the second half. And that'll get your beat.
Speaker 1: And the Lakers is gonna have to fight out until
Speaker 1: it's important to them to take care of the basketball,
Speaker 1: to play federal def They're gonna find themselves in these
Speaker 1: kinds of games because they allow teams to hang around
Speaker 1: because they turned the ball over when they can stretch
Speaker 1: and lead to twenty twenty two to twenty three. They
Speaker 1: turned the ball over in a couple of quick threes,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, the seventeen point game
Speaker 1: is down under ten. But when it mattered the most,
Speaker 1: and that's what good player, that's what great players do.
Speaker 1: They can play bad no matter the sporto till they
Speaker 1: can play bad for a particular period of time, but
Speaker 1: when they absolutely have to have it they can dig down. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of times you and I both played the
Speaker 1: game of football. Sometimes when things are not going our way,
Speaker 1: real allowed to creep. When I gained cre creep into
Speaker 1: our minds and of the effect that overall play, Yes, Sir,
Speaker 1: I thought he rebounds the ball extremely well.
Speaker 2: He had thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 1: He led the Lakers and rebounds he did a great
Speaker 1: job of facilitating, considering Luca is the primary ball handler.
Speaker 2: Now it'mental sis with seven.
Speaker 1: But when he needed it, he dug down and in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter he got it going. He played half
Speaker 1: primarily had the ball in his hand while Luca was
Speaker 1: on the getting his risk. To start the fourth he
Speaker 1: got his double digits and then he turned it back
Speaker 1: over to Luca, and Luca got hot to getting down
Speaker 1: the stretch.
Speaker 2: I think Luca ended up with thirty four points.
Speaker 1: Ar Austin reeves at twenty four, but it was Lebron
Speaker 1: at the end of the ball game they got the
Speaker 1: tip in at the buzzer. Because this would have been heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: but this would have been a gut rig they lost
Speaker 1: his game.
Speaker 5: They would have looked, listen, they are the three. They
Speaker 5: were on the old three skid. Then O three skied
Speaker 5: for one. Like you said earlier, they can play in
Speaker 5: stretches in the game and get a lead, but because
Speaker 5: of the lack of defense and always being inf and
Speaker 5: beating transition, being lazy turning the ball over, they allowed
Speaker 5: teams to come back in team that they should be dominating. Obviously,
Speaker 5: the game of basketball is about against is a game
Speaker 5: of runs. But still you're playing the Pacers. I'm not
Speaker 5: saying the Pacers are horribly sorry, but when it comes
Speaker 5: to the Lakers, if you're serious about not only making
Speaker 5: the playoffs or keeping the scene that you're in, this
Speaker 5: is the game that you're supposed to go in and
Speaker 5: dominate quarterback quarter But yet again in the third quarter,
Speaker 5: after after happy the lead they had, they almost squandered that.
Speaker 2: Because the Pacers ended up taking the lead.
Speaker 1: Don't joke.
Speaker 2: The Paces took the lead.
Speaker 4: And then I don't want to, I don't want to.
Speaker 5: Butcher's last name Roy rue Ruey Ruey Hotche Murrow brother
Speaker 5: brother hachimror Hakatana hit the two threes towards the end
Speaker 5: of the game, and Lebron had to come through in
Speaker 5: a magical moment in the game.
Speaker 1: They should have lost. Honestly, yeahntly he owed him that
Speaker 1: on Lebron. He's in the locker room, say hey, knowing Lebron,
Speaker 1: he's probably the locker room guy like, hey, that was
Speaker 1: a big win. But I owe y'all, are y'all owe
Speaker 1: you for that first half for the game, because I
Speaker 1: think what was he ended up four and twelve? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he was three eleven four before that. Tim So
Speaker 1: he ended up going four and twelve and he's he
Speaker 1: knows all seven from the three. He knows he didn't
Speaker 1: his overall game. But the thing is about a great
Speaker 1: player and you find the other ways to impact the game.
Speaker 1: Look at it, defensive, rebounding. Look, I mean, look at
Speaker 1: his rebounding. Look at his assists. His assists, let him assists,
Speaker 1: let him in rebounds. But that's what great players do.
Speaker 1: They find ways to impact the game, even though he
Speaker 1: wasn't scoring a lot of times the score. When he's
Speaker 1: not scoring, no Joe, he molts, he pops, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it impacts other areas of the game.
Speaker 1: Can you impact the game when you're not doing what
Speaker 1: you normally do to impact the game, find whether other
Speaker 1: ways to influence the game?
Speaker 2: Rebound the basketball?
Speaker 1: Can I facilitate, Can I play defense, can I guard jaw?
Speaker 2: Charge of things of that nature?
Speaker 1: And I was very happy to see Lebron and pull
Speaker 1: it out at a lot going on today. Luca in
Speaker 1: the month of March thirty one point four points a game,
Speaker 1: eight and a half rebounds, eight point six suspense, forty
Speaker 1: three point so basically forty four percent from the three
Speaker 1: point line on eleven on eleven tenths of per game.
Speaker 1: He's on pace to be the youngest Laker to average
Speaker 1: thirty points in a single month since Hoby in two
Speaker 1: thousand and three.
Speaker 5: Nah, hey, uh, I like the Lakers chance. I love
Speaker 5: all the mantras, all the quotes of Lakers and five,
Speaker 5: but I honestly think they need one more pieces as
Speaker 5: greate as they get it as great as greatest Hakatana
Speaker 5: you Rory is playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they need they need something else.
Speaker 5: On another another score, Lebron has an off night, then
Speaker 5: Luca gives you what he does.
Speaker 1: Tonight.
Speaker 5: He was kind of off and on, but he still
Speaker 5: ended up with thirty four. But I think if they
Speaker 5: just had him one more person, they give him just
Speaker 5: a little bit more. I know reads is good. I
Speaker 5: know can work and score as well. They just need
Speaker 5: one more, one more piece of that puzzle.
Speaker 1: And that's what they were hoping for. What they were
Speaker 1: hoping for that Alex Lenne could give them something. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they see from Alex League and
Speaker 1: you don't like Buddy Man. It's not about lack or
Speaker 1: dislike O Choe. I mean, I think the chatter would agree.
Speaker 1: They've watched him at many different stops. I think he's
Speaker 1: been in Washington. I think he's been with the Sons,
Speaker 1: He's been different places. He's what he is.
Speaker 2: He's what he is.
Speaker 1: I don't care. You take a grizzly bear out of
Speaker 1: the forest, whether he in the alask cub, he's in Canada,
Speaker 1: or it does not matter. You take him out of
Speaker 1: that and you put him in a different environment. He's
Speaker 1: still a grizzly bear. His instincts does not go away
Speaker 1: for another word. If he's sorry over here, what do
Speaker 1: you expect him to be over there? He's to be that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like he was good at one
Speaker 1: point in time on Joe and you say, you know what,
Speaker 1: hopefully he can summon that up again. But he has
Speaker 1: not been good at any stop. He's tall now, a
Speaker 1: coaching is calling his name. It is what it is,
Speaker 1: and I'm just being factual. They're not anybody else side
Speaker 1: there that can help him on Joe. And the problem
Speaker 1: is is that when when Jackson Hayes goes to the bitch,
Speaker 1: that's that ball team don't have another big Lebron got
Speaker 1: to go to the five. Lebron has to go to
Speaker 1: the five, or you bring in during your phineis Smith
Speaker 1: and he has to play the flap five. Right, They're
Speaker 1: a very very small team, and that's the problem that
Speaker 1: you have because you're really not playing Jackson Hayes more
Speaker 1: than twenty five minutes a night. Right, And he's a guy.
Speaker 1: And the fain that I love, I mean you love it,
Speaker 1: you hate is that you don't run plays for Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 1: He's a lob guy. He gets it off the rim.
Speaker 1: He gives you a second chance of opportunities. But he's
Speaker 1: not a guy that you can run to the bard
Speaker 1: and say, hey, he gonna put hey, put his back
Speaker 1: to the basket, throw it to a head and you're
Speaker 1: gonna do something with it. That I got what he is.
Speaker 2: That's not who he is.
Speaker 5: Right now, I got a question. Now now listen. You know, my, my,
Speaker 5: my knowledge of the game of basketball is a little limited.
Speaker 5: I'm getting better at it though. Now listen, if they
Speaker 5: got to go small, if they gotta go small, shouldn't
Speaker 5: the Lakers that at times, depending on who this is,
Speaker 5: be at it be at an advantage when it comes to,
Speaker 5: you know, playing small and having to transition up and
Speaker 5: down the court as opposed.
Speaker 1: To you know, yeah, for the other team, go small,
Speaker 1: But what happened when they got Joki out there?
Speaker 2: What do you do thenn And that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just say you played you played Memphis, right,
Speaker 1: Memphis got Zach Keatie who's seven, seven to three. Yeah, he's.
Speaker 4: He's said, clogging up space.
Speaker 1: He he he.
Speaker 4: He's not advantageous on offense at all.
Speaker 5: Or am I wrong?
Speaker 1: He gonna give you, He's gonna give you extra possessions
Speaker 1: because of rebounding, okay, And without rebounding, there are no
Speaker 1: rings without rebounding, okay, And that's the that's the problem
Speaker 1: that the Lakers gonna have. Even when Lebron Lebron has
Speaker 1: an off night, you still have ar and Luca that
Speaker 1: can carry the load. If Lucas struggling Lebron and arntruct
Speaker 1: can carry the load. If Ar is struggling, Luca and
Speaker 1: Lebron can still carry the load. Will look, you got
Speaker 1: three guys that can score. Uh Ar has given you
Speaker 1: like twenty a night. Lebron has given you twenty five.
Speaker 1: Lucas given you a thirty. Right, Okay, that's fine. One
Speaker 1: of those guys struggling that other guys can take can
Speaker 1: take over. Need a little bit better production consistently from
Speaker 1: the bitch. You got some good minutes tonight. But JJ
Speaker 1: is just gonna have to trust Dalton connected. I think
Speaker 1: the thing is is that he loses his way sometime
Speaker 1: of the defensive end and being around JJ, the little
Speaker 1: bit I had working with him at ESPN.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like that. He likes students of the game.
Speaker 2: He likes smart.
Speaker 1: He likes smart guys, Smart guys you can win with,
Speaker 1: even if they're not the most talented, supremely talented guys.
Speaker 2: There aren't bad that doesn't have basketball IQ get jazz
Speaker 2: bat now.
Speaker 1: That frustrates JJ because JJ wasn't the most talented, although
Speaker 1: he was a great player in college, really good player
Speaker 1: in the NBA.
Speaker 2: He was very smart. He knew where it was.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be when he was supposed to be there, boom.
Speaker 4: So he did all the small things right, Mary, Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: very discipline.
Speaker 1: And when you're out aletic O, Joe, you're not pre
Speaker 1: le athletic, you're not six Saint sixty nine. Do everything right,
Speaker 1: or you don't have handles like a kyrie, you're not quick.
Speaker 1: So what other way can I find a way to
Speaker 1: get on the court, steal on the court and not
Speaker 1: cost my team? And if you look at it, Oho,
Speaker 1: I think there's ten games left, and you look at
Speaker 1: three through eight, there's only four games different. There's only
Speaker 1: four games difference. They're basically you're three four games back.
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets have the same well lost record as the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and they're in the three seed. Lakers are four, memphisis five.
Speaker 1: All of them have twenty eight losses. And then you
Speaker 1: got the Clippers Golden State with thirty one losses, with
Speaker 1: are three games back, and you got Minnesota at thirty
Speaker 1: two losses at a game back of them. So four
Speaker 1: games separate three through eight, and there's ten games to go, right,
Speaker 1: ten games to row.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, ten games to go. So the rubber got
Speaker 2: to beat the road something got to give.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's what's what's the high what's the highest seed
Speaker 5: or what you think is preferable for you as a
Speaker 5: leaguer fan for them, get what would be easy for
Speaker 5: them best case scenario to be able to get out
Speaker 5: of the first round or at least have a chance
Speaker 5: getting to the second round.
Speaker 1: Have home court advantage. So you need to be you
Speaker 1: need to be one through four to have home court advantage.
Speaker 1: They're not going to get to one seed because Okay,
Speaker 1: seed is run away with that, right, So the one
Speaker 1: seed is already etched in stone. Now could they get
Speaker 1: the two seeds? Yeah, that's the possibility they got. They
Speaker 1: got the Rockets on the schedule. They need to close
Speaker 1: out this road game strong and then go home and
Speaker 1: close out that home homestand strong. I could see them
Speaker 1: three or four, right, Uh, three or four? So that
Speaker 1: means that they if everything remains the same, that means
Speaker 1: they get Memphis in the first round. What you what
Speaker 1: you like?
Speaker 4: What you like by that?
Speaker 1: Mass I say, just stay away from Okac. We need
Speaker 1: to get some rhythm before before we see ok See,
Speaker 1: we need some pressure them. Ound ain't no pressure in
Speaker 1: the first round. They need pressure.
Speaker 4: So he's saying Memphis ain't no pressure, No, not for
Speaker 4: the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I like, I like that matchup against Memphis.
Speaker 4: But you know, you know who Memphis got over there?
Speaker 1: Yeah job, Yeah, yeah, I give you, I give you
Speaker 1: jobs to give you a Luca.
Speaker 2: Who you tak it?
Speaker 1: Okay, I give you John, give you Lebron? Who you
Speaker 1: take it?
Speaker 2: Okay? Okay?
Speaker 1: No, Now they got Jared Jackson, who's a def dp
Speaker 1: O why play candidate who made the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: Bain has played well in the absence John's nursing a
Speaker 1: hamstring or something. But he's been up and down now
Speaker 1: when he's been in Yeah, oh he's John. I mean,
Speaker 1: the second pick of the jaff. He's been an All Star,
Speaker 1: so you know what he can do. I mean, nobody's surprised.
Speaker 1: I mean just to actually go to a game and
Speaker 1: watch him, and to watch the way he elevating, the
Speaker 1: way he can con toward his body. He's Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, I pay my good money
Speaker 1: to go see because that's what he is. Look I basically,
Speaker 1: if I'm paying my money to come see it, th't
Speaker 1: for having my money come to see you have? Oh
Speaker 1: you have? Damn How many points you have, and I'm interested.
Speaker 1: Jack got to do with me. John's interested because he
Speaker 1: can finish above the rim. Got a nice little float game.
Speaker 1: Mitt rainshot. He's gotten better than to shooting the set three,
Speaker 1: but he's fun. He's fun to watch. I like that matchup.
Speaker 1: Do I think they can beat anybody?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: In seven games, absolutely, because Luca and Lebron can both
Speaker 1: take over game and give you forty So those two guys.
Speaker 1: But the thing ere O Joe. In the playoffs, your
Speaker 1: three best guys need to be really good. Two of
Speaker 1: the three need to be great damn near every single night. Now,
Speaker 1: if I was getting eighty points sixty, if I'm getting
Speaker 1: sixty five to eighty points from my big three, I
Speaker 1: don't need the other I'm gonna need the other six
Speaker 1: guys because you're not gonna go that deep playoff start.
Speaker 2: You might go nine.
Speaker 1: As you go further, you do, you reduce that, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need those other other nine guys that if
Speaker 1: those three guys give me eight, i'm gonna need those
Speaker 1: other guys to give me thirty five. And they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to give a little bit more production from the bench.
Speaker 1: Gabe Vinson is shooting the ball a little better. Phoiney
Speaker 1: Smith is doing a little better. But they got to
Speaker 1: make a decision. What are we gonna do it? Don't
Speaker 1: connect because he can shoot the three, but he gets lost.
Speaker 1: He gets lost on defense and he gives up easy
Speaker 1: buckets and I don't know what something is being lost
Speaker 1: in translation, O Joe, he's a liability, well all of them. Look,
Speaker 1: Luke can't playing no defense. Austin reason this, it's hard.
Speaker 1: Ain't playing defense. Lebron can't sit in the chair no more.
Speaker 1: Lebron is mainly an up side defender. He does use
Speaker 1: his body really well. Guys try to go round him,
Speaker 1: he'll body him up because that's that's that's a big
Speaker 1: man to try to move, and so he slows him
Speaker 1: down like that. But Lebron can't sit in the chair,
Speaker 1: and no one, no one expects him to, Ojoe, he's forty.
Speaker 1: What guy you know play defense at forty? Kobe didn't, Jordan,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about historically great players, even Pipping that, Pipping
Speaker 1: that didn't blay till he was forty. He couldn't slide
Speaker 1: those feet like he could when he was in his
Speaker 1: in his pride, we understand that because you and I
Speaker 1: talking about the other night.
Speaker 2: The lateral quickness is what Lou Lou you lose as
Speaker 2: we starts to aid.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, O, Joe, I like the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I believe they could beat anybody in the Western Conference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be a struggle. Uh uh for the Okay, see
Speaker 1: hold do you see that five? We still we're still
Speaker 1: were still winning at five? Uh so you want to
Speaker 1: hold up going to the next topic? Fashion Okay, oh
Speaker 1: Joe Yo. I don't know if it was this morning
Speaker 1: or tape yesterday. I'm thinking that this morning. What happened
Speaker 1: Lebron went on the Pat McAfee show. Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: had a lot to say today. Hey, that was that
Speaker 1: was added character him. I've never seen him in that
Speaker 1: setting before and actually just talking freely like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get We're gonna get to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a second while we wait for TJ to connect.
Speaker 1: But the Lakers, I'm looking at the Clippers. I think
Speaker 1: the thing is oto you're trying to stay out of
Speaker 1: seven through ten because you don't want to play any
Speaker 1: more games than you have to. You won't rest and
Speaker 1: it won't start until be a seven, eight, nine, ten,
Speaker 1: is determined who to play and who's gonna be seven,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be eight? To that determined, So you need rest.
Speaker 1: Lebron James is forty. He's been playing. He played what
Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty nine minutes tonight, so he's gonna need
Speaker 1: rest any buffs and bruises. You want to try to
Speaker 1: get those guys as health as you possibly can. Now,
Speaker 1: the best thing about the playoffs you don't play every
Speaker 1: other You don't play in back to back, right, I
Speaker 1: mean the first game you play and then you might
Speaker 1: have a couple of days off, and then you get
Speaker 1: into the routine you play it every other day. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can live with that, but you try to get Lebron.
Speaker 1: And Lebron's gonna need as much rest as he possibly
Speaker 1: can because he is forty.
Speaker 2: Here's what it is.
Speaker 1: And so once they determine who they're gonna once they
Speaker 1: are if they can secure one of these top six seeds,
Speaker 1: you avoid the play in. You get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get a couple of days of rest, and then hey
Speaker 1: for the markets for all the game, Oh Joe, Now,
Speaker 1: Lebron James went on the Pat McAfee sere Today, nearly
Speaker 1: three weeks after confronting steven A, had a basketball game,
Speaker 1: Lebron broke his silence on the incident's referring to the
Speaker 1: fallout as a Taylor Swift tour run for steven A
Speaker 1: to be started. Excuse me over comments stephen A made
Speaker 1: regarding Bronny. I initially wasn't gonna say anything. I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it. We didn't talk about it. Y'all
Speaker 1: didn't hear anything from me for about for three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But now Lebron has went on P Matt and we
Speaker 1: have to talk about it now. Lebron said he hadn't
Speaker 1: been too happy with how stephen A has reacted to
Speaker 1: the situation.
Speaker 2: He's on a Taylor run Swift tour right now.
Speaker 1: It started off with I didn't want to address it,
Speaker 1: but since the video came out, I feed it. I
Speaker 1: feel this is Lebron talking. I need to address it.
Speaker 1: He completely missed the whole point. The whole point never
Speaker 1: would I allow people to talk, not allow people to
Speaker 1: talk about his sport and criticize players about what they do.
Speaker 1: This is your job to criticize or to a position
Speaker 1: where that's a guy's not performing. You know, that's all
Speaker 1: a part of the game, but when you take it
Speaker 1: and you get personal with it's not It's not my
Speaker 1: job to not only protect my damn household, but protect
Speaker 1: the players. He's gonna be smile the ear to the
Speaker 1: ear when this comes o talking about it, because I
Speaker 1: know he's gonna be happy as hell. I wish Steven
Speaker 1: they would just left it alone once he addressed it.
Speaker 1: Once it happened the first time address it. This is
Speaker 1: what happened.
Speaker 2: He came over to me, said what he said.
Speaker 1: I want to address it now, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: done with it, because as my Grandma's to say, boy
Speaker 1: stirring up old ish. It still smells. So every time
Speaker 1: every time stephen A talks about it, it reached it,
Speaker 1: it stirs it up again. And look, I see both sides.
Speaker 1: I see both sides of the equation. But Stephen they
Speaker 1: just need to let it go. He needs to let
Speaker 1: it go. And now you're like, well, if you to
Speaker 1: head it, I don't think Lebron was coming to hit you.
Speaker 1: Lebron was coming to tell you, Bro, just stop talking
Speaker 1: about my son. He said, because you said or have
Speaker 1: a father. Now you make it personal. You're making it
Speaker 1: personal because now you''re making it seems and this is
Speaker 1: how Lebron, I think, took it. You make it it
Speaker 1: seem that I'm not a good father, that I'm not
Speaker 1: putting myself and putting my son in the position to
Speaker 1: be successful. And so you're like, you're pushing this, And
Speaker 1: so Lebron took it a certain weight. And am I
Speaker 1: surprised Lebron responded the way he did so publicly? Because
Speaker 1: Lebron is a very private person. He might have an
Speaker 1: issue with someone and.
Speaker 2: You will never know. Yeah, you will never know it.
Speaker 1: And so for him to do that at a game,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't after the game, it wasn't before the game.
Speaker 2: It was the third corner during.
Speaker 1: The time out. Let you know how upset he was
Speaker 1: that stephen A and what Steven had been saying. But
Speaker 1: at this point in time, I understand Lebron. They asked
Speaker 1: Lebron about this, But if I'm stephen A, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I've already addressed that. He said what he said. I
Speaker 1: understood his point. I said what I said. Now it
Speaker 1: is time to move on. Look, it's not gonna stop
Speaker 1: me from talking about Lebron. James the basketball player on
Speaker 1: the court. But the incident, I feel that we've talked
Speaker 1: about it at nauseum. I feel talked about it enough
Speaker 1: and now it's time to move on. That's what I wish,
Speaker 1: Stephen they would do. But like you said, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I get it, that's Lebron James is the biggest name
Speaker 1: and wrote North Americans more and when you mentioned his name,
Speaker 1: good batter and different people don't want to click and
Speaker 1: hear what you have to say about him. But the
Speaker 1: one thing I know about this guy, and I know
Speaker 1: him a little bit, I don't know him as well
Speaker 1: as a lot of people do.
Speaker 2: That man loves his family. He's gonna protect his family.
Speaker 5: Now, always, always, And I think, I think when you
Speaker 5: think about it and you go back to the way
Speaker 5: things things happen with Lebron actually addressing stephen A courtside
Speaker 5: is well, what what Stephen A said obviously was said.
Speaker 4: Publicly on a public on a public forum on TV.
Speaker 5: So he addressed it the same the exact same way,
Speaker 5: publicly courtside in the middle of a game. Yes, yes,
Speaker 5: as a father, you know, And like Stephen A said,
Speaker 5: he understood where Lebron was coming from. Knowing Steve I
Speaker 5: think and the individual that he is, Lebron said what
Speaker 5: he had to say today.
Speaker 4: I'm sure stephen A is going to respond to that
Speaker 4: because he did.
Speaker 5: Think about any time anyone says anything too or about
Speaker 5: stephen A, He's going to have an answer.
Speaker 4: To whatever's being said. That's just him and it's always
Speaker 4: been him. I know you would like him leave it alone,
Speaker 4: but I don't think that's that. That's not how it's
Speaker 4: gonna go.
Speaker 1: The only thing I would have said is stephen A. Look,
Speaker 1: I know people that don't like man Lebron should have
Speaker 1: stole on you. Lebron should have did this. Man. They
Speaker 1: just talking stephen and men, you saying, man, you about
Speaker 1: how about to be fifty seven? You about to be
Speaker 1: fifty eight? But not even your right a't gonna find nobody.
Speaker 1: Lebron wasn't gonna swing on you, and you weren't go
Speaker 1: and look and he Lebron w wasn't go swing on you,
Speaker 1: so there would have been no need.
Speaker 2: For you to swing on him.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys stood there and y'all talk. Look,
Speaker 1: he said what he said. You seem to be receptive
Speaker 1: at the time of it. You under see me, and
Speaker 1: you said you understood because he was speaking to you
Speaker 1: as a father and nott Lebron James the basketball player,
Speaker 1: and he seemingly you said you understood that.
Speaker 2: Let it go? Now, let it go? Now, look I look,
Speaker 2: I mean down had this you?
Speaker 1: I remember I had a conversation with Kevin Durant when
Speaker 1: he first got traded the Phoenix U and I walked
Speaker 1: into the hotel.
Speaker 2: I said, damn that Ki, and he said, oh, lem me,
Speaker 2: holl at your right quick.
Speaker 1: I said, what's up?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: You know I you know, I'm like, damn, I ain't
Speaker 2: get no da da it's lemon. Hall at you right quick?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 1: He said, Man, what it is?
Speaker 2: You you got beef?
Speaker 1: You don't like me or something? I said, Now why
Speaker 1: you say that?
Speaker 2: He said, Man, the way you talk, I said, KD Bro,
Speaker 2: I'm passionate.
Speaker 1: I say, any topic that we discussed on that show,
Speaker 1: I'm very very passionate. I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: researching it, and I'm very very careful to what I say.
Speaker 1: I said, kad, ain't about no like or this, Like
Speaker 1: I said, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know you personally. All I talk about is what you
Speaker 2: do on the court.
Speaker 1: That's it. Whatever you may or may not do out
Speaker 1: the court, I don't give a damn, I said, you
Speaker 1: can ask your mom. I've had I've talked to your
Speaker 1: mom at nauseam or he used to come on the show.
Speaker 1: I've seen that event, I said, Katy, ain't no like
Speaker 1: or dislike, I said, I'm just passionate about topics. Bro,
Speaker 1: I said, I ain't got no I don't dislike anybody
Speaker 1: because I don't know anybody to dislike him. It's not
Speaker 1: like like me and oh when when I used to
Speaker 1: hang out with oh oh you started Charles Oakley used
Speaker 1: to run track with us, used to come to the
Speaker 1: gym and work out with me. Oh can I used
Speaker 1: to go out to Houston's, that said, if that was
Speaker 1: his favorite restaurant. The N word always got the cheese toes.
Speaker 1: Men oak had a have a relationship. I been a
Speaker 1: phony call Oh, I said, I don't know any of
Speaker 1: these current players like that. I said, But I'm just
Speaker 1: passionate about topics, I said, bro, I ain't no like
Speaker 1: or dislike. I said, but if I probably didn't let
Speaker 1: if I didn't like you, you know it right?
Speaker 2: He said, all right?
Speaker 1: He said, man I just he said, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I said, cool, bro, I said, I ain't got no
Speaker 1: problem with you, I said, anytime he say, hey, here
Speaker 1: give me a fall with Shange's numbers.
Speaker 2: Left it at that.
Speaker 1: He saw I was at the game the other Uh
Speaker 1: last year, A couple of years ago, I took my
Speaker 1: daughter to the first Well it might have been this
Speaker 1: now I was two years ago. But anyway, Yeah, talk
Speaker 1: to hey, talk to one of the mens. You laugh
Speaker 1: and talk. I ain't got no problem with nobody on
Speaker 1: Joe and and I'm not trying to go for bad
Speaker 1: or nothing like that. But that ain't how I am
Speaker 1: that guy. I think when guys see me, they know
Speaker 1: I ain't. Ain't all about that, man, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just cool. I just want to vibe, have a good
Speaker 1: old time. But I, like I said, I appreciate instead
Speaker 1: of him like you know, bal on Twitter and and
Speaker 1: and and the end of that, trying to blow it up. Hey,
Speaker 1: somebody got a problem with me, Just hey, come to me.
Speaker 1: It's coming, man. I ain't got no problem. I talked
Speaker 1: to anybody anybody anywhere about anything.
Speaker 2: You got a problem with what I said?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Why you said that, Sean?
Speaker 1: Why you said that, right, Hey, this is why, this
Speaker 1: is why said that A right, you know what I
Speaker 1: do like though I'm not sure how the people.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure how the people in the chat field,
Speaker 5: but I enjoy when you talk about Kevin Durant, players
Speaker 5: of that magnitude, elite players. I mean, obviously we talked
Speaker 5: about one of the greatest scores of all time. I
Speaker 5: love the way Kevin Durant uses social media. I love
Speaker 5: the way he's so accessible to the people.
Speaker 2: To be the star that he is.
Speaker 5: Will Lebron would and allow himself to be vulnerable we
Speaker 5: Lebron did today. I've never seen Lebron do before what
Speaker 5: he did on the Pat McAfee show, sitting there for
Speaker 5: an hour straight and actually just being vulnerable, talking about everything.
Speaker 5: I really really enjoyed that because that's some from Lebron
Speaker 5: that we've never been that obviously, I've never seen before,
Speaker 5: and I really really enjoyed that. And I wish more
Speaker 5: superstar elite athletes would do that, be a little bit
Speaker 5: more open, be a little bit more accessible, and I
Speaker 5: mean it would just enjoyable.
Speaker 4: It was enjoyable to see him outside that that normal setting.
Speaker 1: Of of not being.
Speaker 4: Not being viewed as the king.
Speaker 1: If that, if that makes sense, well, most of the
Speaker 1: great players are gonna be guarded because they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna only gonna give you so much. They're gonna allow
Speaker 1: you to see so much of what they want you
Speaker 1: to see. If you look at all the great players,
Speaker 1: they've always been very, very guarded. They're not gonna totally
Speaker 1: let you inside. It's especially why they're a current player.
Speaker 1: But back to this Lebron and Pat McAfee, Like you said,
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, we're not used to seeing Lebron James sit
Speaker 1: down for an extended period of time. Normally, right when
Speaker 1: he's in the finals or he's in the playoffs, he
Speaker 1: would sit down. That's like five that's like ten minutes,
Speaker 1: and it's always it's always basketball related. He's to he's
Speaker 1: literally talking about other stuff going on in life. He's
Speaker 1: being vulnerable, letting people in something he's never never ever
Speaker 1: done before. Players like that of his magnitude, of his
Speaker 1: status that allows the world in the public to see
Speaker 1: what he wants you to to actually sit down for
Speaker 1: a change, I guarantee you if they were to do
Speaker 1: the numbers on how many people watch that, Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 1: I bet it's astronomical crazy because this is something he'd
Speaker 1: never done, right, and you know, and see and to
Speaker 1: see like you said, to see him, But that just
Speaker 1: lets you know that he and for me looking at
Speaker 1: him considering that he had ever ever done anything like
Speaker 1: this before, to think about how many people have criticized him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's never ever done it before. So that lets
Speaker 1: you know he had gotten to a place that he's like,
Speaker 1: I've had it up to here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I don't know if he knew.
Speaker 1: I don't think he knew steven A was gonna come
Speaker 1: to the game, but he had it in his mind
Speaker 1: if he ever saw stephen A, he was gonna step
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 5: But uh, he got steven a number, he got a
Speaker 5: TEXTA call him if there was an issue, you'a Texas calling.
Speaker 5: They communicate with each other, obviously, they have some some
Speaker 5: some some sort of relationship.
Speaker 2: No they don't.
Speaker 4: You don't think so, No, Okay, well I'm bad.
Speaker 2: No, but like you said, I mean.
Speaker 1: What you mean.
Speaker 4: No, they don't now as opposed, No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've ever had a relationship where they
Speaker 1: picked up the phone and they talk to each other
Speaker 1: like that. I don't. I don't think they've ever had
Speaker 1: that type of relationship. Do I think they've been cordial
Speaker 1: to each other. I remember, I think I saw something
Speaker 1: on an old cliff maybe with YouTube, where Steve and
Speaker 1: they actually sat down to the interview Lebron. But I
Speaker 1: don't think they're in a situation where they like picking
Speaker 1: up the phone. They have each other, they can call
Speaker 1: each other like that. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if any Lebron is maybe teammates. It could.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, I could be wrong. I could
Speaker 1: be totally wrong. But I don't know if Lebron has
Speaker 1: is Nomber or he has Lebron's number. Lebron is, you know,
Speaker 1: very very very Lebron rock with who he rocked with.
Speaker 1: And I think once you get to this level, if
Speaker 1: you had if you haven't developed a friend by now, Lebron,
Speaker 1: James ain't letting you in the circle.
Speaker 2: It's really that simple.
Speaker 1: So he got he got his friends. You know, Rich
Speaker 1: is his agent, Maverick is his steps the chief of staff.
Speaker 1: Mav is one of his business partners. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think who else he wrote Chris Paul, He's very close
Speaker 1: to Chris Paul. I think he's the grand grand godfather
Speaker 1: to run a CP three that I think if if
Speaker 1: vice birds are the same thing with CP.
Speaker 2: But other than that, I don't think.
Speaker 1: Lebron has a whole a whole lot of what we
Speaker 1: call I look at those guys like I look at Bucket,
Speaker 1: like I look at bucket and burns. He ain't got
Speaker 1: a whole lot of bucket and burns.
Speaker 2: In his life.
Speaker 1: You ain't got a whole lot of you know, KEJ,
Speaker 1: your boy you rock with TJ t O, you ain't
Speaker 1: got a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3: Nah.
Speaker 2: And I look at Lebron and I think Lebron is
Speaker 2: kind of like that.
Speaker 1: But hopefully, hopefully, hopefully everybody's made their point. Yeah, Lebron
Speaker 1: was upset what he said, Stephen, They said what I
Speaker 1: was trying to say.
Speaker 2: Sometimes things get lost in translation.
Speaker 1: It is what it is.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I think we've
Speaker 2: got a We've got a lot of juice.
Speaker 1: I think both have kind of squeezed that orange jojo yeah,
Speaker 1: and got a lot of juice out of it. And
Speaker 1: then Lebron took aim at Wendy. Brian Windhor said, this
Speaker 1: guy says he's my best effing friend. These guys are
Speaker 1: just weird. I don't know if Wendy's ever said I
Speaker 1: think Wendy went to the same school he went to Ojo.
Speaker 1: I don't think when I've never heard, and I could
Speaker 1: be wrong. Guys, hell, I was on I was on
Speaker 1: Undisputed for seven years. I didn't hear everything Wendy said.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I didn't watch anything on anywhere.
Speaker 1: All I watched was the games that were on his spend.
Speaker 1: I don't watch any of the debate shows. I don't
Speaker 1: watch any of the shows that do what I do.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be talking about something because I don't
Speaker 1: want what they say to creep in what I's going
Speaker 1: to say, so I don't watch it.
Speaker 2: So Wendy Chad, if he's said that he was Lebron's
Speaker 2: best friend.
Speaker 1: I apologize, but I don't recall, and if I misspeak,
Speaker 1: I apologize to you guys.
Speaker 2: But I don't believe Wendy has said that he is
Speaker 2: Lebron's best friend.
Speaker 1: I think because he's covering Lebron for so long, and
Speaker 1: I think they went to the same school, Saint Visus,
Speaker 1: Saint Mary. He says, I think he said, I might
Speaker 1: probably know him better than anyone else, but I don't
Speaker 1: get why.
Speaker 2: I mean, he would say that about Wendy.
Speaker 1: Man. You never know. I think.
Speaker 4: I think, like, like I said, Lebron is probably Lebron
Speaker 4: is fed up.
Speaker 5: He's he's he's on I'm not saying he's on the
Speaker 5: way out the door, but he's on the tail end
Speaker 5: of everything, and now he's opening up a little bit.
Speaker 4: More, doing things out of character that he normal wouldn't do,
Speaker 4: which is giving them people what they want, letting us in,
Speaker 4: you know, giving giving us a glimpse of what's inside
Speaker 4: the world and mind of Lebron King James and I
Speaker 4: enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: I hope he does more of it. I hope other athletes,
Speaker 5: uh do more of it. You know what I wish Lebron.
Speaker 5: I wish Lebron was like Jeff t have you ever
Speaker 5: heard have you ever sat and listening yet? Yeah, Lebron
Speaker 5: would it would be It would be an honor for
Speaker 5: him to take a page out of Jeff Team's book
Speaker 5: and be that bone over and open and just just
Speaker 5: just give it, just give us the stories.
Speaker 1: I would love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, Lebron talked about his relationship with MJ.
Speaker 1: While he still has a misrespect for Jordan, the pair
Speaker 1: don't talk much these days. I think that would change
Speaker 1: when he retires from NBA, saying jordan intense competitive spirit
Speaker 1: is why the two don't talk much. Now, we all
Speaker 1: know MJ, even if you don't know him personally. He's
Speaker 1: one of the most ruthless competitors there. He is and
Speaker 1: until I'm done and he doesn't have to look at
Speaker 1: me run up and down that court where in the
Speaker 1: twenty three every time my name is mentioned is mentioned
Speaker 1: with his, he's like, I don't want to and talk
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: Do you agree with Joe?
Speaker 5: I mean, that's dope, that's dope list and that's a competitor.
Speaker 5: The competitor nature in MJ. I think it's understandable, especially
Speaker 5: when it comes to him. I think he's he's not
Speaker 5: closed off. But MJ and Kobe are like in a sense.
Speaker 5: MJ and Kobe are like in a sense. I think
Speaker 5: their relationship will be much better and a lot closer
Speaker 5: once Lebron is done playing. Yeah, they go play together,
Speaker 5: go play golf together, smoke cigars, you know, have a
Speaker 5: little have a little one whatever it is that they do.
Speaker 5: But right now, while Lebron is actively planned, I don't
Speaker 5: think him and the MJ just outside of playing the
Speaker 5: game of basketball and being successful businessman, there's not much
Speaker 5: for them to talk about right now.
Speaker 1: The only friend I know, Jordan, got it oat. I mean, okus,
Speaker 1: this guy. Now, I've been around Jordan a little bit,
Speaker 1: and his ultra competitive first thing got ben. I mean,
Speaker 1: I want, hey, you want to play cards? No, I
Speaker 1: don't want to play cards, because you know Jordan games.
Speaker 1: You got to come down at least a hundred one hundred,
Speaker 1: one hundred grand, two hundred grand in cash.
Speaker 4: You don't play?
Speaker 1: He do not. I was like, no, I said, Bro,
Speaker 1: you're not going to have me. You're nothing to have
Speaker 1: me living on the streets. I love my house, ain't
Speaker 1: it ain't.
Speaker 2: George, But I ain't trying to keep up with you.
Speaker 5: No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't play No five five fifty thousand dollars in hand.
Speaker 1: Hell no, no, bro, Bro, guess what, as long as
Speaker 1: they make shoes with that logo, you got money coming in.
Speaker 2: I ain't in the NFL no more. I ain't got
Speaker 2: no more money coming in.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I was thirty five. Then I could draw my pigeon
Speaker 1: in sixty two. So I got five other five years
Speaker 1: before I could get that on job before I take.
Speaker 2: A pen of it.
Speaker 1: Hell no, I ain't gambling with you. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I'm mad you asked me that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Damn well, I ain't got no money. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you and I'm let you, oh because I think
Speaker 1: they played guts. It's kind of like bou ray You
Speaker 1: ever played boue Ray? No sir no, sir, no sir
Speaker 1: or in between? But nah, hell day? Also uh uh
Speaker 1: Lebron talked about Giannis on p MAC. You trying to
Speaker 1: tell me Joannas wouldn't be able to play in the
Speaker 1: NBA games in the seventies. Johannis would have had two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty points in the game in the seventies.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you, see you transporting Gianni's today
Speaker 1: back then?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Do y'all really know what they did? Did y'all see
Speaker 1: those fights? How many people gonna got to go down
Speaker 1: the lane? See the stuff that they called They called foul, Now,
Speaker 1: that wasn't no foul. There was nobody getting suspended for
Speaker 1: slapping an inshot of somebody. There was no I mean
Speaker 1: there was no I mean wanting a calm alone put
Speaker 1: forty four stitches in, I say a head. You still
Speaker 1: think you want to come down the lane? Do y'all
Speaker 1: remember uh the finals in eighty four when when Larry
Speaker 1: Bird when who's that Kevin McHale snatched Kurt Ramba say,
Speaker 1: it's out the sky and it wasn't a playground, It
Speaker 1: wasn't nothing. If nobody was suspended. You can't take the
Speaker 1: modern play because oh Joe, you're talking about technology and
Speaker 1: you talk about the modernization. Yes, if you transport uh
Speaker 1: uh jahns today and put him back then looking at
Speaker 1: as Yeah, what player cutting? What player? If I take
Speaker 1: oh Joe, if I take you today, you know what
Speaker 1: you know in the technology that you've been able to develop,
Speaker 1: and put you back in the seventies.
Speaker 2: Man, oh Joe was killing?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, modernization.
Speaker 2: That's unfair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think from.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's unfair one more thing, o Joe,
Speaker 1: Just like it's unfair to say, oh, man Jordan play
Speaker 1: today he averaged fifty. Let's how about this. Let's leave
Speaker 1: everybody in the era in which they've been Yanni's plays
Speaker 1: in the twenty tens and twenty twenties. Lebron has been
Speaker 1: in the two thousands to twenty tens and now the
Speaker 1: twenty twenties. Let's lead everybody that because it's unfair. It's unfair. Look,
Speaker 1: I get it, and it's a conversation, but come on,
Speaker 1: because we're robbed. We're not being fair to the guys
Speaker 1: that played in that era that was great, right, Because
Speaker 1: it's almost like if you talk about these guys like
Speaker 1: you're trying to minimize them, and I get mad at
Speaker 1: the old guys for trying to minimize the current players.
Speaker 2: Guys, you were great. Nobody's trying to rob you of that.
Speaker 2: You were great. These guys are great.
Speaker 1: The guys in the sixties that were great, the guys
Speaker 1: in the seventies were great.
Speaker 2: Guys in the eighties, right, But.
Speaker 5: It's unfair, Oh Joe, I mean, I mean, listen, now,
Speaker 5: I understand what Lebron was saying. Obviously he is is
Speaker 5: exaggerated a little bit, But if you look at the
Speaker 5: players from back then, I know, just being honest, from
Speaker 5: a technical standpoint, from a physical standpoint, I know what
Speaker 5: they did in between the lane and being physical, and
Speaker 5: you know, slapping and punching and all that. But you're
Speaker 5: thinking about Giannis and Jannie today and it, oh my goodness, athletic.
Speaker 1: It's called technology. Oh Jo, you got an opportunity to
Speaker 1: work on things guys didn't have. They didn't have modern medicine,
Speaker 1: they didn't have technology. Think about when you rupture the
Speaker 1: killis you were done. You tore a knee, you were done.
Speaker 1: You had that big as balky knee, brace that big
Speaker 1: dune joy on.
Speaker 2: It's different.
Speaker 1: Now we got modern medicine. We know how to eat,
Speaker 1: we know how to trained, We have personal trainers and busyo.
Speaker 1: Those guys in the sixties and seventies and eighties didn't
Speaker 1: have the money to have all of this stuff, right,
Speaker 1: But Brian, when you're making fifty million dollars in basketball
Speaker 1: in another seventy five eighty million dollars off the court,
Speaker 1: you could have a chef that prepares every meal to
Speaker 1: your specifications. You can have a physio, you can have
Speaker 1: a Mike Masiles as lebron as an excuse me and
Speaker 1: Jordan had Tim Grover. Tim and Tim and I we
Speaker 1: still we text a lot now, but it's different. It's
Speaker 1: not fair that you try to compare fifth era to
Speaker 1: that era or that era to this era. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillardu was diagnosed with blood clots in his right calf.
Speaker 1: He's the third player this year to have blood clott issues.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, the playoffs, no Chris Middleton. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Yannis plays two out of five games.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Dame and Giannis both were injured.
Speaker 1: Dame is out indefinitely. Should the Bucks be thankful that
Speaker 1: Janni's had all time finals run in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I mean twenty twenty one, because it seemed like ever
Speaker 1: since then, at some point in time, a key player.
Speaker 2: Has been injured. Chris Middleton was injured, then there was
Speaker 2: a couple of years.
Speaker 1: That Janni's was injured, and then you had Yannis and
Speaker 1: Dame both injuries, and now Dame is injured, and the
Speaker 1: Bucks for not going anywhere without just with just Yanni's.
Speaker 1: First of all, he's not gonna be at the calv
Speaker 1: without him, and he's not gonna be able to beat
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to beat the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Damn hell.
Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna probably be able to beat the Celtics
Speaker 1: with Day whatever along with it. Without him, I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure they can beat the next without Dame. The
Speaker 1: Day is the one guy dominating a series and winning
Speaker 1: the hope that's over.
Speaker 2: You forget all about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate.
Speaker 5: Obviously, it's very very serious when Mayama has something similar
Speaker 5: to this. If I'm not mistaken, I don't know if
Speaker 5: they diagnosis is exactly the same, but obviously.
Speaker 4: It's a blood clock. I'm glad they were able to
Speaker 4: catch it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: It sucks.
Speaker 4: It sucks for the Bucks, it sucks for the organization,
Speaker 4: and it most definitely sucks for Damian Letard and his family.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping a speedy recovery for him.
Speaker 5: Especially something like this is very very serious, especially when
Speaker 5: it comes to oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on blood and you probably go you'll build
Speaker 2: blood thunders the rest of his life.
Speaker 4: Man. Hey, that's that sucks. Man, I'll be Oh he
Speaker 4: gets better fast man.
Speaker 1: The Lakers fall to the Magic One on nine ninety eight.
Speaker 1: The Lakers win three with three losses in a row.
Speaker 1: They lost seven out of their last ten ball games.
Speaker 1: They lost to Boston, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Denver, then they won
Speaker 1: three straight beat Foix, San Antonio, Denver. Then they lost
Speaker 1: another three straight Milwaukee, Chicago, and Orlando. The Lakers bench
Speaker 1: was outscored thirty to fourteen, which was an issue. The
Speaker 1: Lakers got to do a better job of guarding. Watch
Speaker 1: this game from start to finish. They're just not garden.
Speaker 1: They're just not guarding.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Look they'll fout a year or two away. Orlando, Paulo
Speaker 1: up On Caro and Paun Bardner. Oh they legit, Oh
Speaker 1: they legit, legit. Yeah, they legit legit. Ben Carroll had thirty,
Speaker 1: Wagner had thirty two, and then they got black came
Speaker 1: up the bitch and gave him seventeen. But they are legit.
Speaker 1: The Lakers got to do a better job of defending.
Speaker 1: It's really that simple. They didn't shoot the ball well.
Speaker 1: They shot about forty six percent. They shot twenty eight
Speaker 1: free throws or the free throw was pretty close, ten
Speaker 1: of thirty two from the three point line. The difference
Speaker 1: with us Orlando shot down there fifty percent from the floor.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna beat a team if you allow them
Speaker 1: to shoot fifty percent from the floor. But everything was
Speaker 1: really close. I mean Orlando had forty three rebounds twelve offensive.
Speaker 1: The Lakers had thirty nine eleven offensives. But the only
Speaker 1: difference I could really see Ojoe was that third quarter
Speaker 1: got him again. They had a two point lead at
Speaker 1: the half and then they get out scored the third
Speaker 1: quarter by about fourteen sixteen, and it's the third quarter again.
Speaker 1: JJ's gonna have to put some different buttons because they
Speaker 1: come out lacks of days ago, and they let the
Speaker 1: team go on a run, and it's hard to reattack
Speaker 1: yourself to them when they go when they get a
Speaker 1: streak like that.
Speaker 2: But give a Orlando credit. They won their the ad.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they they broke they stopped Cleveland.
Speaker 1: They went on the road, Cleveland had a sixteen to
Speaker 1: seventeen game win streak. They went into their building and
Speaker 1: they won. So the record they're better that their record
Speaker 1: would indicate. The problem was man Carroll got hurt at
Speaker 1: one point time. Lagner got hurt at one point in time,
Speaker 1: so they haven't been able to play extending period of
Speaker 1: time together. But this is a good team. Don't let
Speaker 1: don't let their record fool you. But the Lakers have
Speaker 1: to be disappointed. They got to play better than in
Speaker 1: fourth spot. Right now, they're two and a half, I
Speaker 1: think two and a half games out of the second spot.
Speaker 1: But tonight, again it was defense. They gave up one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty six Saturday night, and they gave up
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighteen to night. And they had been
Speaker 1: playing really, really good defense up until that point.
Speaker 5: Okay, now with everything that you said, they're in fourth, right,
Speaker 5: they lost the night. You understand the problems and the
Speaker 5: wolves that the Lakers are having consistencies they want to run.
Speaker 5: You're understanding their woes coming out of halftime in the
Speaker 5: third quarter, allowing teams always going to run. You think
Speaker 5: about everything you just said. I'm wanting to I want
Speaker 5: your honest answering, your honest opinion. It's still Lakers in.
Speaker 2: Five Leaggas are five, niggas are five. Look that's fix something.
Speaker 2: Look that's that's fixable.
Speaker 1: Oh cho, that's something like, Look, guys, we've got to
Speaker 1: do a better job of defending.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you can't.
Speaker 1: Guys can't get broken down off the first dribble, Right,
Speaker 1: you get broken down in the first dribble. Now you're
Speaker 1: compromised because help's coming. And now they swing the ball
Speaker 1: they're getting wide open threes or getting uncontested layoffs, so
Speaker 1: you can't get broken down off the first dribble. They
Speaker 1: got to score thirty four to eighteen in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: I mean there's no there, in no way should Lakers
Speaker 1: team that got Luka Doncic and Lebron James on the
Speaker 1: court only score eighteen points in a quarter. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: if you only score eighteen, you better make sure they
Speaker 1: don't score more than twenty two because if you do that,
Speaker 1: and I get it, the Lakers, I think they played
Speaker 1: what seven games, well at one point time they had
Speaker 1: seven games and ten days. But we don't do excuses here.
Speaker 1: You either win or you lose. It's a very shot
Speaker 1: on sports menu. At my restaurant, the only thing I
Speaker 1: got on my menu is doves and als. That's all
Speaker 1: you could order. I can't order excuses because I don't
Speaker 1: serve it. So the Lakers are gonna have to find
Speaker 1: a way to play better in the third quarter. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to fly find a better way to find
Speaker 1: a better way to defend because this is not this
Speaker 1: is not acceptable. This is not acceptable. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at all these minuses. Daurian Phinney Smith minus six, Lebron
Speaker 1: minus seventeen, Jackson Hayes minus ten, Luca minus nine, Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves minus seven. Every starter was minus hell. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, everybody was minus. That's not good enough.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't win. You can't win like that.
Speaker 1: There's no where round you can't win like that. And
Speaker 1: when you take Jackson Hayes out, Bron is basically playing
Speaker 1: the five.
Speaker 2: Too small of a lineup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean maybe maybe the last two three minutes,
Speaker 1: four minutes on a ball game, you can run this lineup,
Speaker 1: but not when they go in bank, not when they
Speaker 1: go in bank, Carol, not when they're going window Carter,
Speaker 1: not when they going Fronz Wagner. Too small, just too small.
Speaker 1: Reddick admitted the Lakers look tired tonight. We weren't able
Speaker 1: to sustain the level of intensity we started a game with.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 1: They scored thirty in the first quarter, thirty in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, sixty. They had a two point lead, sixty
Speaker 1: to fifty eight and a half.
Speaker 2: But then again out of the third quarter, here come on, Orlando, boom.
Speaker 1: Boom, boom boom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, same quarter every time. Maybe they
Speaker 4: play some different music in the half.
Speaker 1: Huh. They need to do something because this ain't getting done.
Speaker 1: This ain't getting it done. I mean, and what's the record,
Speaker 1: So that's fifty, that's sixty one, that's seventy one game.
Speaker 1: They only got eleven games left, O Joe. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be gearing up. You're supposed to be playing
Speaker 1: your best ball heading into the playoffs. Not you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they left a little bit on the look because
Speaker 1: at one point they were like eighteen and three at
Speaker 1: old less won a bunch of games. You don't want
Speaker 1: to be sliding going into the playoffs. You want to
Speaker 1: be playing your best ball hitting into the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: this performance was unacceptable. And dog Connect only played five minutes.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of that has to do
Speaker 1: with it. Look, his defense intensity, I mean, he needs
Speaker 1: to understand. I mean, he just gets lost. It's like
Speaker 1: and I could tell JJ is. JJ doesn't like minim mistakes.
Speaker 1: That irks him because he's a perfectionist and he wants
Speaker 1: guys like guys, we went over this.
Speaker 2: That's why I couldn't coach. We went over this.
Speaker 1: The guy comes, Okay, you still on that guy, don't
Speaker 1: try to fight over the top of the lead, a
Speaker 1: guy on a wide open three Solncoln's got some problems,
Speaker 1: nothing they can't solve. They got what three more games
Speaker 1: on this road trip? I think they got a four
Speaker 1: game road trip before they turned back to uh the Crip.
Speaker 4: Well, I know that hurt that. I know that, I
Speaker 4: know that those road trips back to bed Indiana.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they got, they got, they got a way,
Speaker 1: they got, they got. They got three more games on
Speaker 1: the road show before they turn return home. They need
Speaker 1: to play better than what they played tonight or what
Speaker 1: they've definitely what they played against the Bulls, they picked
Speaker 1: right up where they left off, not playing defense. They
Speaker 1: started with great intensity in the first half, but that
Speaker 1: wayne in the third quarter, and that was really the
Speaker 1: undoing of them.