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Speaker 1: Hmm, what's up everybody. Welcome to the Jason timp Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for taking time out of

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Speaker 1: your day to come hang out and talk some basketball

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Speaker 1: with Roj and I. You guys may know Raj has

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Speaker 1: unwritten rules on Twitter is one of my favorite Laker accounts.

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Speaker 1: Rags how you doing? Man? Doing great? Man? Uh? We're

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Speaker 1: up early here on the West Coast around just just

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Speaker 1: past nine am. So wondering how many other people are

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Speaker 1: awake this early, but yeah, here we are. I'm impressed.

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Speaker 1: When you and I talked about doing this, I did

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Speaker 1: not expect us to actually do what was necessary to

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Speaker 1: get it done. But I'm glad we're gonna We're gonna

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Speaker 1: knock it out early here this weekend and we can

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Speaker 1: go back to relaxing. I really do think that, in

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Speaker 1: spite of some unusual circumstances rounding these first what do

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Speaker 1: I really do think there's some interesting stuff that we

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Speaker 1: could take away from it. We're gonna we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about how the Lakers schedule may have had some impact

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Speaker 1: on the way that they've been playing. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about Anthony Davis and how he kind of seems to

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Speaker 1: be I don't want to say unhappy, but he seems

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Speaker 1: a little frustrated with the defensive end, and how some

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Speaker 1: other stuff may have been impacting that. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about Montrese Harrold and how his fit has been a

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Speaker 1: little weird. And then we're gonna talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about how the Lakers have changed their defensive scheme this

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Speaker 1: year as a result of losing Dwight and Javail and

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Speaker 1: how that has kind of impacted them, uh in particular

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Speaker 1: as as they've played some of these bad teams in

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Speaker 1: the last week. Uh. And then we're gonna take your

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Speaker 1: guys his mail back questions. So while we're talking, feel

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Speaker 1: free to drop any questions you have in the comments.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna save some time there at the end to

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Speaker 1: rapid fire through those. Um but you know, on that note,

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Speaker 1: we'll get started the I do. So, the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: seven and three. They are currently second in offense and

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Speaker 1: or excuse me, third in offense, and they are eighth

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Speaker 1: in defense, second in net rating. The defense has slipped

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Speaker 1: particularly as of late. The thing that I think is

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Speaker 1: interesting is that the it was hard enough to get

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Speaker 1: these guys to turn around and come back and play basketball.

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Speaker 1: We had these interviews from Danny Green and and Lebron

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Speaker 1: with the quick turnaround. You compound that with the situation

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Speaker 1: with the fans where there's no adrenaline rush while they're playing,

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Speaker 1: and then you add to that a weird schedule circumstance

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Speaker 1: and now they're basically playing like a bunch of NBA

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Speaker 1: role players every single every single day without any star

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Speaker 1: talent on the floor that they're going against. And it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like night after night after night, and it's

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Speaker 1: like then again last night, it's like, here we go

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Speaker 1: with the Bulls. This is a terrible team. How about

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Speaker 1: let's let's see if we can try to find the

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Speaker 1: energy in this empty, cavernous stadium to try to play

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Speaker 1: hard again. And I really do think that, like it's

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Speaker 1: it's been an immense challenge for these guys to find

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Speaker 1: just the motivation to try to play hard. Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 1: And like I tweeted out the first quarter scores after

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Speaker 1: the previous five games. Um, they gave up thirty points

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Speaker 1: They can just outscore them. And that's not a fun

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Speaker 1: strength of schedule was a funny joke last year, but

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Speaker 1: After that, they blew out Minnesota, Dallas. UM tough game

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Speaker 1: What are you? What are your what's your whole impression

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Speaker 1: Lakers won the title ninety like two days ago. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you look at a regular offseason, you go from June,

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Speaker 1: and by the time you're in this stage of the season,

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Speaker 1: then I mean go ahead, right, Why waste all that

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Speaker 1: But I think he's been He's been fine right there.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis after the game was like, no, we were

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Speaker 1: still you can just see the effort effort, Wayne, and

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Speaker 1: last year people are kind of worried those regular Bubble

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Speaker 1: You can see his conditioning still try to get up there.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he's still hurt. He sat out

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Speaker 1: He just his aggression will pick up. I'm sure nobody

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Speaker 1: wants to lose games. I see you say this a lot.

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Speaker 1: Competitors will eventually like, I want to get their asky

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Speaker 1: And I think he's taken more shots out of the

429
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Speaker 1: paint than he has inside, which is just strange considering

430
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Speaker 1: the Marcus all was supposed to kind of open that

431
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Speaker 1: up for him to be the one of the paint,

432
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Speaker 1: but it seems like Mark is kind of in the

433
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Speaker 1: dunker spot for some reason, it's kind of like flipped.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that's just scheme or if that's

435
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Speaker 1: just because Anthony Davis is kind of walking around during

436
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Speaker 1: the start a game. So yeah, but like to your point,

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Speaker 1: I think he'll be fine, He'll get in a better

438
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Speaker 1: rhythm as we go here. Well, I think you're absolutely

439
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 1: right like that, And that particular that particular game where

440
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Speaker 1: Vogel had that quote was one of the worst games

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen Anthony Davis play like. He was absolutely

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Speaker 1: b sing the entire night, and I was. I was

443
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Speaker 1: really annoyed by that comment, and I remember tweeting some

444
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Speaker 1: stuff out about it that night. But I was frustrated

445
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 1: because I wanted to be like, like, look, does Anthony

446
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 1: Davis need to get more touches? Yeah, but dude, now

447
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 1: is not the time to be saying that. He had

448
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Speaker 1: literally one of the most passive games on both both

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Speaker 1: ends of the floor that I've ever seen. And the

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Speaker 1: reality of the Anthony Davis experiences is you're right. He

451
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Speaker 1: is an alpha. He can demand that. You know. I

452
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 1: was watching Bulls Lakers last night and at the end

453
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Speaker 1: of the game, Lebron just kept looking at Schroeder and saying,

454
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Speaker 1: give me the ball, and he did. It was funny

455
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Speaker 1: that they kept in bounding to Schroeder and Schroeder bring

456
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Speaker 1: the ball up the floor and Lebron would just come

457
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Speaker 1: up and get it from him. And it's like the

458
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: point is is like, like Lebron and a d are

459
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Speaker 1: at a status in this league that there's not a

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Speaker 1: player in the league that they can look at and

461
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Speaker 1: say give me the ball and they won't give it

462
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Speaker 1: to him. Anthony Davis does command that kind of respect.

463
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Speaker 1: It's it's absolutely something that he can that he can

464
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Speaker 1: bring to the table and and you're absolutely like it's

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Speaker 1: not just the it's not just the rhythm and the

466
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Speaker 1: shot attempts in his defense, like some of these shot

467
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Speaker 1: charts that he's putting up are laughable. There was one

468
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Speaker 1: two nights ago in Memphis where he had one shot

469
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: attempt in the paint. It took like twenty four shots,

470
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Speaker 1: Like that's that's just inexcusable, Like you even if you're

471
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Speaker 1: trying to save yourself, and there's just no way in

472
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Speaker 1: the world that a guy is physically talented as as

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Speaker 1: he is can't be getting more attempts closer to the

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Speaker 1: rim and but what we'll keep an eye on it.

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Speaker 1: It's I don't I'm I'm with you. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any reason to be concerned. It's just frustrating. It's

477
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Speaker 1: frustrating that, like, coming into this season, you might have

478
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Speaker 1: told yourself, like, hey, like Lebron is probably gonna coast

479
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Speaker 1: and they're really gonna lean on Anthony Davis because he's

480
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Speaker 1: or eight or whatever he is. And and the reality

481
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Speaker 1: is is like he's primed to go on an m

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Speaker 1: v P type of run on a really good team

483
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Speaker 1: and and and be the guy who kind of takes

484
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Speaker 1: that mantle, and the exact opposite has happened. Lebron's like,

485
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Speaker 1: like squarely in the MVP conversation, Anthony Davis is taking

486
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Speaker 1: nights off and Lebron is carried like like Lebron, Lebron

487
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Speaker 1: is approaching this season with a lot more gency than

488
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has been. And I and it's it's not

489
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Speaker 1: a problem because I know Anthony Davis is gonna be

490
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Speaker 1: ready when the time comes. It's just weird, Like it's

491
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Speaker 1: just it's just a strange. It's a strange outcome that

492
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Speaker 1: you would not have expected under the circumstances. Yeah, yeah,

493
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Speaker 1: for sure. And like you've watched Lebron, like obviously through

494
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Speaker 1: his all Cleveland days as well, is he just better

495
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Speaker 1: at looking more engaged? Like I'm wondering because I watched

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Speaker 1: Lebron and I know he's coasting, but I don't see

497
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Speaker 1: it because he's still like putting his head down and

498
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: just getting to the rim. Like it's not like he's

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Speaker 1: taking all these jump jump shots. He's still getting to

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Speaker 1: the room, So maybe he's Is he just better at

501
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Speaker 1: looking like he's not coasting because I know he is.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he's not going a full Lebron, but just like

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Speaker 1: when you're watching a game, just like through a forty

504
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Speaker 1: eight minutes, you I don't watch the game and like,

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Speaker 1: oh Lebron is like taking this position off, you know

506
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Like he's still attacking the room from

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Speaker 1: the get go. He's getting to the line um when

508
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Speaker 1: it matters. So I'm I'm just wanting, like, as as

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Speaker 1: you you've watched Lebron for a long time, is he

510
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Speaker 1: like just better at looking like he's not? Because when

511
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Speaker 1: I watch Think Davis, I can clearly see like, oh,

512
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: this dude does not care about these three minutes of

513
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 1: basketball that I just watched, but I watched Lebron. I'm like,

514
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Speaker 1: I don't get that on the rewatch I see it,

515
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, he was resting here. He was like

516
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: he wasn't caring about this position, but just live you

517
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: don't you don't catch that from him. So maybe that's

518
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Speaker 1: just that's just him. Some of it has to do

519
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Speaker 1: with him, uh having an easier defensive set of responsibilities,

520
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: So that's part of it. They're putting him on a

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00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: lesser defense, lesser offensive player. That's that's that's definitely part

522
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Speaker 1: of it. So like he you know, if they were

523
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Speaker 1: constantly attacking Lebron James and pick and roll, like, he

524
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to to coast as much as he

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Speaker 1: does on the defensive ent. So that's definitely part of it.

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Speaker 1: The other part of it, honestly, is just he is

527
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: so smart now at this phase of his career that

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Speaker 1: he under he understands how to efficiently efficiently use his energy.

529
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Speaker 1: And I think, like I think that it's it's it's

530
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Speaker 1: one of the most underrated parts when we're evaluating players,

531
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: were so obsessed with like, oh, he looks like he

532
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: lost his step or you know, Kauai is looking a

533
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: little slow right now, or you know Steph Curry's not

534
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: getting as much separation as he used to, and you're like, well,

535
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: actually all of these guys are better than they used

536
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: to be because they're just seeing an understanding the game

537
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: at a higher level than they used to. And and

538
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: that's what's crazy, is like Lebron, Lebron hasn't really had

539
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Speaker 1: a lot of like explosive athletic plays this year, but

540
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Speaker 1: he but I would argue that he's that he's scoring

541
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Speaker 1: in a in a in an easier looking fashion than

542
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: I can remember in a long time. And I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of that has to do with just just

544
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: he is. He's anticipating things and and just like he's one.

545
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: He's like one or two steps ahead of the defense

546
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Speaker 1: at every single moment. And he's just he's I tweeted

547
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: the other day, he's playing basketball offensively at a higher

548
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: plane mentally than any other player in the league right now.

549
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Speaker 1: And as a result of that, he can, like if

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Speaker 1: you watch him sometimes on a pick and roll, like

551
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: he'll slow down and get the defender on his hip

552
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,959
Speaker 1: and he'll take like four or five dribbles to kind

553
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Speaker 1: of just inch his way towards the basket and then

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Speaker 1: wait for righte at that exact moment when the shot

555
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: blocker kind of drops back to the dunker for a second,

556
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: and then he'll shoot his little floaters hook shotter will

557
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: pump bike to get him off his feet, and you'll

558
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: go up like that's just old man, veteran savvy stuff

559
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: that just uses very little energy. But his damned defective

560
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: And that's the That to me has been the funnest

561
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: part of watching him this year, and and and for

562
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Speaker 1: the record, like it's one of the reasons why I

563
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Speaker 1: do think he deserves to be in the m v

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Speaker 1: P conversation is the Lakers have been, for lack of

565
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 1: a better term, shit in a lot of these games.

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Speaker 1: But he's been he's been very fine tuned and when

567
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: he's aggressive and understanding when the game is slipping one

568
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: way or the other and just grabbing control of it.

569
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Speaker 1: And that's why they're seven and three. There're seven and

570
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: three because Lebron has has been very deliberate about when

571
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Speaker 1: he's aggressive and he's been able to close a lot

572
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: of these games. And and now I I for the record,

573
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about this more later. But like the

574
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: Lebron to win the MVP, the Lakers would have to

575
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: just have a ridiculous record. I don't act like think

576
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: he'll win it. But the reason why he's even in

577
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: that conversation, which you never in a million years would

578
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Speaker 1: have thought would have been the case given the circumstances,

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Speaker 1: it's just because he's discovered away to be a really

580
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: effective basketball player without using a lot of energy. It

581
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: really is that simple. Um, So I want to move

582
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: on to this this uh defense, uh, this defensive scheme

583
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: that the Lakers have been using. So for the record,

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Speaker 1: I was really really impressed by this video that I saw.

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Speaker 1: Uh he. I tried to find out what his real

586
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Speaker 1: name is. I think it's Tim cran Just, but he

587
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: goes by cran Just Nick Basketball. A lot of you

588
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: guys follow him. He's a he does NBA agent player

589
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: and team consulting. He's like an analytics guy and and

590
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: he's just really he's really really smart with the XS

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Speaker 1: and os. And it was my first time watching one

592
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Speaker 1: of his videos yesterday, and I was really really impressed.

593
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: So shout out to Tim. If you guys don't follow him,

594
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: you need to follow him and watch his videos, it's

595
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: really really good stuff. So um, he did this video

596
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: yesterday and it was really interesting. Had to do with

597
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,719
Speaker 1: the Lakers pick and roll coverage. So last year when

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00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: they had White Howard and JaVale McGee, because they were

599
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,360
Speaker 1: better shot blockers and better presences around the rim, they

600
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: used like a modified version of drop coverage, where that basically,

601
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: whenever the rollman or the drive the ball handler were

602
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: getting into the lane, the Dwight or Javeail or Anthony

603
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: Davis would drop to whichever the lowest man was and

604
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Speaker 1: if if the ball handler handler became the lowest man,

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00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: he would shift over to the ball handler, or if

606
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Speaker 1: the if the ball handler was hanging back and the

607
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: rollman was going to the rim, he dropped to the rollman.

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Speaker 1: And it worked because they were so long and athletic

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00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: around the basket with Javail and Dwight that they were

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Speaker 1: able to just kind of funnel guys into the length

611
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Speaker 1: and block a lot of shots, and the Lakers led

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Speaker 1: the league in block shots last year, and then the

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00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: ball handler would chase the guy over the top. So

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Speaker 1: what they're doing this year, Um is what's called a

615
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: catch hedge, which essentially involves a soft trap. It's not

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00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: really a trap, but basically they're doubling the ball handler

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00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: off the ball screen, but loosely. And when they do that,

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Speaker 1: the other three guys have to be in rotation in

619
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Speaker 1: the drop coverage. They could play it too on two,

620
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: so the other guys on the floor were in a

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Speaker 1: more traditional like man to man situation. But at the

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00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: result of this trapping strategy that they're using on these

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00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: pick and rolls, it immediately is leading to a rotation

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00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: on the back end where guys are playing four on three. Now,

625
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: where that that's a problem in in two for two reasons.

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Speaker 1: And when I say a problem, I don't mean a

627
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: problem with the defensive scheme. Just it's presented problems for

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00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: the Lakers early on because of the fact that they've

629
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: been a little sloppy and lazy and unfocused, and as

630
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: a result, they're not able to execute the rotations properly.

631
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: Because rotations on the back end it's a scramble, and

632
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: it's all about instinct and knowing where guys are gonna go,

633
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: and it's all about effort and focus. So if you're

634
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: bringing effort and focusing able, you're gonna lose guys in

635
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: these rotations all the time. So that's been the first

636
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: problem with it. And then the second problem with it

637
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: is that guy who's doing the catch hedge, so the

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00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: the big man, whether it's Montrez Herald or it's Anthony

639
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: Davis or Marcosol, when they're coming over and hedging on

640
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: the ball handler, there being a little bit too unaggressive

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00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: and and and and passive in the sense that they're

642
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: they're doubling, they're leaving the rollman, but they're not really

643
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: bothering the ball handler. So as a result, the Dames

644
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: of the World or any of these primary demard Rose

645
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: and whoever it is, these primary ball handlers for these

646
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: other teams are able to throw really efficient and quick

647
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: like bounce passes or chests passes to the roleman and

648
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: it's putting the Laker rotations and a step behind, whereas

649
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: if they were a little more aggressive and active with

650
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: that hedge, they could force them to throw a looping

651
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: pass over the top or maybe like tip a pass

652
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: or two that that's getting that's getting thrown through, uh,

653
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, in the pocket pass to try to slow

654
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: down that first pass to let the rotations catch up.

655
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: And and the last thing I'll say about it is, uh,

656
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: the the whole point of the catch hedge is it's

657
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: better for the playoffs. And Tim does a really good

658
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: job of explaining this in his video, because in the playoffs,

659
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: you're constantly playing super elite um primary ball handlers, and

660
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: if this forces the ball out of their hands, and

661
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: it's a much better defensive scheme in the playoffs, even

662
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: though it can hurt you from time to time in

663
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: the regular season. And it's supposed to not only get

664
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: the ball there out of their hands, but it's a

665
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: more aggressive defense that is supposed to force turnovers. And

666
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: the Lakers are twenty eight in turnovers forced this year,

667
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: so they're they're getting all of the bad that comes

668
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: with this defensive scheme without any of the good because

669
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: they haven't quite been aggressive enough on that primarily primary

670
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: ball handler to prevent them from just immediately having an

671
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: aggressive four on three opportunity when guys are wide open.

672
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: If that makes sense, Yeah, yeah, for sure. And like

673
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: obviously you don't have the rim protection of last year,

674
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: so this team is kind of relying on those turnovers, right,

675
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: Like when you watch against Minnesota Dallas and they blew

676
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: them out, they just created a lot of turnovers on

677
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: their aggression. UM, and I like when they're more aggressive,

678
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: like I tweeted this out, like, I like when Mark

679
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: is trapping hard like I don't like him. I think

680
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: they tried out some drop coverages early on, and it's

681
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: just too easy for the guard to just get right

682
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: to the rim and finish over. Mark is in the

683
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: right position, it's just that he's just not at that

684
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: level anymore where you can change the shot at the rim.

685
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: So I like when he's more aggressive trapping and you're right, like,

686
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: you can't be going and playing this trapping trapping scheme

687
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,239
Speaker 1: because you have to be in perfect rotations. The guy

688
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: who's in the paint needs to know whether he's closing

689
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: out to the corner or to the wing. So, and

690
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: then you'll a lot of incidents you'll have, especially in

691
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: the Spurs game, you had guys, two guys running to

692
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: the corner and you had a wide open three and

693
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: then two guys are into the wing a wide open

694
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: corner shot. So and also Anthony Davis is chasing around

695
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: a lot of guys UM this year. Um, they have

696
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: him on like I think they have him on the

697
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: rosen and guards like that where he's kind of moving

698
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: around screens, which means he's not really near the paint

699
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: as much as this year as I see as he

700
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: was last year. That's kind of impacting it. I don't

701
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: know if that will change going forward. Um, but yeah,

702
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: that's most Lee why And the treads, Um, I like

703
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: him when he's aggressive. I don't like treads in a

704
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: back drop coverage at all. I think it just leads

705
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: to really bad habits for him. Um, he has a

706
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: bad habit of like when a screen comes, he just comes,

707
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: he just sits all the way back, so he just

708
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: sit in the paint and these dudes are walking into jumpers.

709
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: You can't do that with Dean, say Murray, with margin

710
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,239
Speaker 1: Rose and that's exactly what they do. That's what they

711
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,719
Speaker 1: get paid to do to hit those little midrange pull ups.

712
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: Needs to be up. And uh, I thought last night

713
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: he was a lot better. He was a little bit

714
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: more aggressive, especially with Zach Lavine late in the game. Um,

715
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: they had him go all the way up and uh,

716
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: I think he contest contested like two late shots, so

717
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: I think you're right there. They Zack Lavine won the

718
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: game winner that he missed. Yeah, exactly, and against like

719
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: I think Houston the playoffs they did this as well.

720
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: They had guys just trapping him. Um a lot against Dame.

721
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: So like, like you said, it's a little bit more

722
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: playoff ready kind of basketball. Um, getting guys trapping. But

723
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: trapping is always tough because you're at a disadvantage. Right

724
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: once you trap, you are at a disadvantage no matter

725
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: what happens. Um. So you have guys running around trying

726
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: to get two shooters, and it's all about communication. I

727
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: think that's what Anthony Davis was piste off about at

728
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,719
Speaker 1: the end. He said, our schemes are communication was awful. So,

729
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: but that's on him. He's on the he's on the

730
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: back line. He needs to be talking. He needs to

731
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: be talking back there. Um. I know he blamed Dennis Shooter,

732
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: but you know that's he's he's in charge of the defense. UM. Yeah,

733
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think the scheme is different

734
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: this year. Um. And it needs to be a turnover

735
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: turnover based defense. They're very aggressive. If you're aggressive like that,

736
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: you need to force the turnovers to two. Uh, offset

737
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: the easy attacks at the room. H and and for

738
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 1: for the record, they have the personnel to run this defense.

739
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: It's just this is a brand of defense that will

740
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: get exposed if you're not playing hard. That's just that's

741
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: just the reality of the situation. NBA players now are

742
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: too smart with the ball to to run a lazy

743
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: trapping scheme against them, and and just let them play

744
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: four and three all night. They're gonna kill you. Like

745
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: and you made a great example like the in the

746
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: game against Dame Mantres. This was and I was complaining

747
00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 1: about it that night before he even saw Tom video.

748
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: Like Montrez was kind of in no man's land, like

749
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: he was he was hedging over on Dame, but it

750
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: was like such a soft hedge that Dame was just

751
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: literally taking two dribbles over and throwing a pocket pass

752
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: to the role man, and the role man was already

753
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: like in the pocket pass was so perfect and dialed

754
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: in and fast that the rollman was was already at

755
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: the ring before the back line defender could get over

756
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: and stop him. And and that's the problem. It's like

757
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: if Montrese is aggressively hedging like with effort and and

758
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: because he has super long arms too, just making Dame

759
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 1: have to, like I don't know, do a pass fake

760
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: before he throws the pocket pass or to have to

761
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: loop it over the top because if he throws a

762
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: bounce pass it will get stolen. That sort of thing

763
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: just slows down the action and gives the back line

764
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: of the defense the chance to recover. But yeah, bottom line,

765
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine. They've got the personnel to do this.

766
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna be better for them in the playoffs. But

767
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: right now they're going through some growing pains as a

768
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: result of one. It's a new scheme, so they need

769
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: to just get used to it. And too, they're just

770
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: a little bit less styled in than than uh than

771
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: they will be later in the season. But but it

772
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: will inevitably work out. I think this is a perfect

773
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: time to to segue into Tres because you know, um uh,

774
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: so zach Loo actually talked about Trees yesterday. Is the

775
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: one player on the Laker roster that didn't really make sense.

776
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: And there's some truth to a couple of things he

777
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: brought up. Montres is not playing with Lebron and a

778
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: D much at all. He's specifically playing in line ups

779
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: when they're staggering. Um uh, he is still I think

780
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: he's doing a couple of things, particularly well, he's still offensive,

781
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: rebounding extremely well. He's had a lot of of random

782
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: key moment uh, you know, post mismatch attacks where we'll

783
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: get an end water bully through someone and get a basket.

784
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: But we are at a point though, where it is

785
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: time to start acknowledging that he hasn't been great on

786
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor. And and and a

787
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: lot of that has to do with, uh, his size limitations.

788
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: A lot of that has to do with him, you know,

789
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: caring more about the offensive end, and you can see

790
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: it in his body language and in his effort um.

791
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: But but a lot of it has to do with

792
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, you're you're literally requiring a

793
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 1: six ft six inch tall guy to be your your

794
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: primary pick and roll big defender. And it's just it's

795
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: it's just it's causing some problems. So my question for

796
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: you is is like, are you at all concerned with

797
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: with the Tread's situation or do you view him as

798
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: like a you know, the Lakers have such a huge

799
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: margin for error, who cares? Yeah, No, I mean I'm

800
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: sure there are concerns, Like I think Clipper friends are

801
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: right a little bit that he's not obviously this back

802
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: line defender. I think the problem for me is like

803
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: Vocos playing him a lot with MARKI Morris, So it's

804
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: it's like a Markis Morris mantras harrold Um uh forward

805
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: center at the bench, And that's just a really tough

806
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 1: thing for him to be the main cog as your

807
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: defensive rim protector on that back line, and he's having

808
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: to switch a lot more um and I kind of

809
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: like him when he's switching, but you could just tell

810
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: he's not comfortable out there yet, especially knowing where to

811
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: be on defense. There's a lot of like when someone scores,

812
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: he's like, where was my help? Like he does that.

813
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: He does that a lot when someone scores. You could

814
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: just tell he's still kind of confused on where the

815
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: rotations are. And he plays with a lot of like

816
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: experimental lineups like when why Night, He'll play with like

817
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: THHT Matthews. He keep it's like just tough for him

818
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: to get any kind of rhythm. Uh. And he's a

819
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: guy that's like begging for screen role actions, like he

820
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: just like he could tell any time a guard brings

821
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: it up, he wants to run like screen roll action.

822
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: And he's playing a lot of minutes next to Lebron

823
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: without a d without shrewder So, and Lebron is really

824
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: a screen roll action type player. He wants to go

825
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: in the post and isolate, and that just leaves Harold

826
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: the dunker spot and then they'll just have a big there.

827
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: So Lebron is looking for that dump off dump off

828
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: past him, but it's just blocked there right there. Um,

829
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: it's causing a lot of turnovers, um, and he's finishing

830
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: it seems like he's rushing. I don't know if he's

831
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: like if you see that as well, Like when I

832
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: see him catch it down low, he seems to rush

833
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,720
Speaker 1: the shot a lot, like he'll get the offensive rebound

834
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: and put back and then do his like screen Man one,

835
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: which which is awesome. I think that turns the team up. Um.

836
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, it seems like he rushes a lot of

837
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 1: shots down low and he doesn't get as many isolation

838
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: to just that I thought he would like. It seems

839
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: like when he gets when he uh, he kind of

840
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: rushes still take like a step back jumper or um,

841
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: like you'll drive in and try to finish over two guys.

842
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: So I think he'll get his rhythm back again. I

843
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: would like him to play with a little bit more

844
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: pick and roll action like him and t HD looked good.

845
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: She did a good job finding him, like he's just

846
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: begging to run like scretal actions. And when he's playing

847
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: with Lebron, he's just sitting in that dunker spot waiting

848
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: for the ball because he's not spacing the floor. So

849
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: he's the he's the center, and so that's that's his

850
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: job there and it's hard for him. You could tell,

851
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: right he's a rhythm player, like he's a rhythm player.

852
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: Once he gets that first and one, it's like, okay,

853
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: here we go. The game started. He starts to talk

854
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: a little crap to the other backup center, like oh,

855
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: you can't guard me, you know. Things like that just

856
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: gets him, gets him going. And I think just getting

857
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: him a couple of buckets early kind of keeps his

858
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: energy up on on both ends. Well, and I agree.

859
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,919
Speaker 1: I think I think, like, uh, you can you can

860
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: see him visibly getting not annoyed, but just confused by

861
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: what he's supposed to do while he's out there. Yeah,

862
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: And what I like a out him is he doesn't

863
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: pout if he found if he finds out, okay, I'm

864
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: not going to be involved in this action. He just

865
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: bullies his way under the room and tries to get

866
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: offensive rebound. So he there's been there has been a

867
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: lot of good to come with the bad with Montrese.

868
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: Harrold um I view him as a as a luxury

869
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: and not a necessity. Um I thought that little framed

870
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: it really well on his pod yesterday said he's in

871
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: a regular season innings eater, and that's what he is.

872
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: He's a guy that that raises your overall talent to

873
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: the team to help carry you on the average nights

874
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: in the in the regular season when you need just

875
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: you just need somebody to step up. The bottom line

876
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: is is the Lakers this season when they play Lebron

877
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis in no center, so Lebron and a

878
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: D and three perimeter players they're getting They've only done

879
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: that for thirty one minutes, but they're outscoring teams by

880
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: twenty five in those thirty one minutes, so that at

881
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Lakers still have this

882
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: ace in the hole, which is we're gonna put Lebron

883
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: at the four, Anthony Davis at the five, then we're

884
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 1: gonna go with some combination of perimeter players based on

885
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: who's been playing well, who's been defending well, and we're

886
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: gonna be able to bully teams physically while at the

887
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 1: same time having this ridiculous offensive versatility and offensive talent.

888
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: So they're gonna be fine. It's not a necessity that

889
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: Montrase Harold is basically who we thought he was. Um,

890
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: And there's and there's no point in being, you know,

891
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: Mr Captain hindsight and going back and being like, well,

892
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: what if we did this instead, you know, as signing

893
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: someone else, Like it is what it is, This is

894
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: what he is. He's gonna he's gonna bring a lot

895
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,240
Speaker 1: of good and a lot of bad. That's pretty typical

896
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: for a guy who comes off your bench. And you know,

897
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm not really overly concerned with it. All right, So

898
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 1: let's go for the next eighteen minutes here. Before we're done,

899
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's hit some questions. So, um, first of all,

900
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: we had one from Jason Maples, my guy. He says

901
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: thoughts on Schroeder as a starter versus off the bench.

902
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: We did talk about that earlier. So all you gotta

903
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: do is hop on when I released the pod come

904
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: back at the at the beginning, as we both said,

905
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: like we're we're kind of concerned earned with how it

906
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: might be impacting Anthony Davis's rhythm. I tend to think

907
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: that he should be coming off the bench, should be

908
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 1: better for literally everybody involved, But it seems pretty clear

909
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: that his ego is going to dictate doing the opposite. Um,

910
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: what adjustments should Frank make to improve the on off

911
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,439
Speaker 1: numbers when Braun is on the bench. As I showed

912
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: the other day after getting off to a pretty pretty

913
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: good start the season, the Lebron on off stuff is

914
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: actually worse than it was last year. They're negative without

915
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: him instead of just slightly about positive like they were

916
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: last year, and they're massively positive with Lebron on the floor.

917
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: So what do you think was a way to try

918
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: to improve that? Yeah, I think I brought this up early,

919
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 1: Like you have Shrewder and Lebron starting, which is fine.

920
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: I think Shrewder has earned a starting spot. You want

921
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 1: him coming up the bench still, but um, I think

922
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of played well enough that you

923
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: can kind of keep him there. But the problem is,

924
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: like he's not playing with that second unit at all,

925
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 1: so you really don't have like a like a main creator.

926
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: It's like th HT, who's great, but you know he's

927
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: twenty years old and still kind of finding his robes.

928
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,280
Speaker 1: And carus Oh. I think last night you are teaching

929
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: Caruso trying to create shots and that's just really tough.

930
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: And also like a D is kind of playing with

931
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: Mantras Harrold and you know those lineups kind of uh

932
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: and again his ten games, so you really don't know

933
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: how loud those numbers are are yet, but yeah, it's

934
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: really to see. I think that's the main thing I

935
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 1: would do. I would like to create it. I would

936
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: like to keep one of lebron inshooter on the on

937
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: the floor at kind of all times to keep I know,

938
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: teach she's getting there, but he's not the He can't

939
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: be creating for NBA level offense right now, like a

940
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: championship championship team level UM offense. So that's that's the

941
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: main adjustment I would do, and kind of see how

942
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: that goes with the numbers. UM. I think this also

943
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: has to do with the effort level. As we talked earlier,

944
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: UM A D is walking through these games UM at

945
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: least in the first half, and that's gonna make these

946
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: numbers even louder because he's the defensive He's the force

947
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 1: on defense. That's that's his job. And uh so that's

948
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: I think that's mostly what those numbers speak to. Yeah,

949
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: I agree. I think I think there's one really really obvious, easy,

950
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: clear fix for this. It's to bring Shoulder off the bench.

951
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: Have have have Braun and Adie start the game, Have

952
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: Schroeder come in at the six minute mark when Lebron

953
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: checks out, and literally shoot Schroder out of cannon and

954
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: and then and then run. I'd run Caruso with him

955
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: because then the two of them are such great ball

956
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: pressure guards. Okay, so you run in that role as well.

957
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is is then your defense is

958
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: picking up and you've got, you know, Schroder being optimized

959
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: in what he's bringing to the table. But it's clear

960
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: that that's not gonna happen. So the realities, I'm with you.

961
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: It's about effort. It's about, honestly, just getting Anthony Davis

962
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: to understand that he's the fourth best player in the

963
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: world or even better potentially, and that the only way

964
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 1: that they're going to be positive in the Lebron off

965
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: minutes is that if you start playing up to your potential. Um.

966
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: I do think that that's going to correct over time.

967
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: The bench is too talented. I think that. I think

968
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: that most of that weird statistical anomaly has to do

969
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: with with their scheduling and just guys not really playing

970
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: particularly hard. All right, let's seem do you think Lebron

971
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: could snag an m v P so as I As

972
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: I said earlier in the show, I think there's an

973
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: outside shot for it, and it's pretty much dependent on

974
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: no rising star, meaning like guys like Luca, you know,

975
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: continue to be floundering around the bottom of the standings,

976
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: guys like Janice not getting votes because the NBA is

977
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: kind of sick of him in his regular season stuff.

978
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: And then the Lakers just kind of ending up at

979
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: the top of the standings by a decent margin two

980
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: or three games. And and part of that involves Anthony

981
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: Davis struggling. Like if Anthony Davis is right there with him,

982
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: I don't think he could get it either. So for me,

983
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,479
Speaker 1: it's like an outside shot. I don't I think he'll

984
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: be right up in there in the voting, but I

985
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: don't necessarily see it as a realistic outcome unless a

986
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: lot of things break his way. Yeah, exactly. I just think,

987
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: like Anthony, you can't. I don't know, Lebron can't win

988
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: an MVP with Anthony Davis next to him, Like, I

989
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: just don't see that happening. I don't see that getting

990
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: voted for. And like you said, that means Anthony Davis

991
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: had a really bad season, which again that means a

992
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: lot worse than than Lebron just getting his his m

993
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: v P. Exactly. Cous still doesn't have a designated role

994
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: on this team. What is what is his best way

995
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: to be effective on offense? What do you think? Yeah,

996
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: it's tough, Like he still looks like he doesn't know

997
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: where to be where shots should come from. Um, he

998
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: seems like a guy who takes a lot of like

999
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: he checked shots before he's hit a shot. It's it's

1000
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: a funny kind of thing that he does take like

1001
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: a contested three. Um. Yeah, I feel like he just

1002
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: needs to be a little like you could tell he's

1003
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,240
Speaker 1: thinking out there and he's playing with a lot of lineups. Um.

1004
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: Even when he started, he was playing well, but now

1005
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: he still seems kind of lost his defense, kind of

1006
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: stick step step back, Um, so I really don't know.

1007
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: I think it's all in his head, like he's he

1008
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: needs to just stay stay in spotting up, stay cutting

1009
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,720
Speaker 1: off a Marcasol like that's where he should be getting

1010
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: his shots. He takes a lot of like like he's

1011
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: one of the few people on the team who catches

1012
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: the ball and holds it, and we're like jab step

1013
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: and try to like figure out what to do from there.

1014
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: They'll have like beautiful ball movement and the ball will

1015
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: get to him, you know, like hold it jab step,

1016
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: look like if he can do a one on one

1017
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: move and I just like him to get a little

1018
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 1: them on the flow. I think that will happen as

1019
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: he gets more committed to the lineups he's playing in.

1020
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that just comes with time and

1021
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: hopefully his shot it's kind of it's still up and down,

1022
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: but he's he's been pretty well doing catch and shoot.

1023
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: He's still pretty automatic on the corners. So I don't

1024
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:17,919
Speaker 1: know what else to ask ask for him right now,

1025
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: but he needs to be better for sure. Yeah. I

1026
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: think I think that he's going through a similar thing

1027
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: that a lot of basketball players do. You're seeing Kelly

1028
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: Ubre go through it right now where he's he's really

1029
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: trying to find what his role is on the team,

1030
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 1: and the way he's coping with it is by being

1031
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: like kind of forcing the issue and by like, you

1032
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: brought up a great point. Kelly Ubre does this all

1033
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: the time for whatever reason. Kelly Ubre and Kyle Kuzma's

1034
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: first shot of the game tends to be an extremely

1035
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: difficult shot, and if it goes in, then the whole

1036
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: night changes for them and they feel great. But if

1037
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: they miss it, it like starts them off on a

1038
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: bad note and then it just can kind of spiral

1039
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: out of control from there. And it's crazy because, like,

1040
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is if they actually let

1041
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: the game come to them and made sure that their

1042
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: first one or two shot attempts every game was an

1043
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: easy shot in the flow of the offense, balanced and open,

1044
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 1: it would actually trigger them into being in a better

1045
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: rhythm so that they could make them more difficult shots

1046
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: later on. But I've I've said this about seventeen times

1047
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: about Kyle Kuzma, and it's the truth. Kyle Kuzma is

1048
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: what he is an inconsistent basketball player. It's not just

1049
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: in his results, it's in his methods. He's inconsistent with

1050
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: his defensive effort, he's inconsistent with his form on his

1051
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: jump shots. So that's a natural side effect of that

1052
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: is gonna be he's gonna have night spare goes in

1053
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have night sports. Not Sometimes he's kicking

1054
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: his legs, sometimes he's landing straight up and down. Sometimes

1055
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: he's fading, sometimes he's more balanced. Like every everything about

1056
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 1: what Kyle Kuzma does changes on a night tonight basis,

1057
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 1: and that inherently is going to lead to inconsistent results.

1058
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: This is just this is the Kyle Kuzma experience. I

1059
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: do think the glass half full thing is as he

1060
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: gets older, as he becomes a more savvy veteran, he's

1061
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: gonna learn how to replicate his good nights better just

1062
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 1: by by just learning and maturing as a basketball player

1063
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 1: and as a person. So I'm not overly overly concerned

1064
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: by it. All Right, let's see, do you expect Mark

1065
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: to be more involved in the offense by season's end.

1066
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: I've been a little disappointment disappointed in his utilization thus far.

1067
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, I hope so, Like his

1068
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: assists have been weighed down the last few games, I

1069
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: think he had like zero too, and like one assist. Um,

1070
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: you can tell they're trying to learn how to play

1071
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: off him. I think Lebron's got it pretty well, but

1072
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,959
Speaker 1: the other guys are still trying to learn um, and

1073
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 1: he's got to take the jump shot. Like that's there.

1074
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: Like I feel like him passing up that jump shot

1075
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: kind of just leads to all the other bad things

1076
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: teams can drop in the paint, and then his passes

1077
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: aren't aren't as open um. He's had a few turnovers

1078
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: with that um. But yeah, like I think the more

1079
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: important thing is like him and a d need to

1080
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: learn like how to make advantages out of each other,

1081
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: Like how to bend defense is to where like you

1082
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: can't guard one or the other, you know what I mean.

1083
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: Like that's where like the more important thing is. I

1084
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: think him a shooter a nice connection, but like that's

1085
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: where we important in the playoffs. Um, that's whole point

1086
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: of getting Marcosol, Right, You're trading in the like shop

1087
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: blocking for the offense. Like that's basically what the Lakers

1088
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: did this off season basically. So I think that's where

1089
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 1: I would like to see a little more. But he's

1090
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: you know, he's a thirty, he's in his mid thirties.

1091
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: He's gonna be um going slowly into this into this

1092
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: season as well. So I hope so, like I said

1093
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: this before, like I would like to see him get

1094
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: a touch every single time down the floor, like he's

1095
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: he's just too unselfish, not too It's not like he's

1096
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: gonna hold it, you know, jabs to drop drop hook

1097
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: like jump hook, like he's gonna make the right play

1098
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: every time. And I would like to see him get

1099
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: a touch every time. He goes way too long, like

1100
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 1: they'll just go up and down six times before he

1101
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: even gets to touch. In the post and against the Spurs,

1102
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: he was getting guarded by damarda Rosen, Like put him

1103
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: in the post, like, you know, give him a give

1104
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: him a shot. I would like him to see, see

1105
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: him more involved. Yeah, I agree. I think I think

1106
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: you can keep him involved with that at this serrupting

1107
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,439
Speaker 1: the rhythm of the other guys on the floor. Um,

1108
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: some of this, some of this, as far as utilization goes,

1109
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: comes in time because you know marcosol is is this

1110
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:09,479
Speaker 1: kind of goes back to what I was talking about

1111
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: with point guards. Later one of one of the there's

1112
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: there's been a good side and a bad side to

1113
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: what has happened in the NBA over the last several

1114
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,240
Speaker 1: over the last decade. The good side is that every

1115
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: single higher end player in the league is more skilled individually.

1116
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: Everyone can dribble better than they used to be able

1117
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: to twenty years ago. Everyone has more variations of different

1118
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: shot attempts that they can get off against different types

1119
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: of defense at any at any given point. Where where

1120
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: there has been a decrease is there's been so much

1121
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: of this James Harden ball and pace in space and

1122
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: drive and kick that there's actually kind of like a

1123
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: limitation in the traditional forms of basketball like backdoor cuts

1124
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: and deep seals and high lows and and and different

1125
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: sort of off ball actions that that that that people

1126
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: used to rely on in older iterations of basketball, And

1127
00:51:57,920 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that it needs to happen all the time,

1128
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: but means that when a guy like Marcosol gets involved

1129
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: in an offense, you're the guys on the floor aren't

1130
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: used to playing with a really really smart player that's

1131
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: gonna get them, that's gonna be able to hit them

1132
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: when they go on the back door cut you know,

1133
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: and it's funny because you know, it was kind of

1134
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: fun watching Lebron and Shrewder last night kind of have

1135
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: a little bit of an off ball thing going on,

1136
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: where on these Lebron post that Shrewder was cutting through,

1137
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: and sometimes Lebron hit him for a floater, sometimes he

1138
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,439
Speaker 1: cut through the other end. Sometimes there are being over

1139
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: help and he'd pop out for three and and you

1140
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: can see that chemistry building. It just takes time. As

1141
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: long as Marcus All can stay on the floor defensively,

1142
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: which has a lot to do with just matchups, that

1143
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna learn how to play with him

1144
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: better and they're gonna understand that it's gonna open everything

1145
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 1: up for them. Um, there's they they're still putting him

1146
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 1: at the dunker spot a little bit more than I like. Um,

1147
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: I think it makes way more sense to have him

1148
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: at the top of the key. Is a post entry guy,

1149
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: and like you said, a guy that you swing the

1150
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: ball to that every possession that's just gonna continue to

1151
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: move it and keep thinking that that keeps the defense

1152
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: shifting from one side of the floor to the other,

1153
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: while at the same time not disrupting the effort of

1154
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 1: the or the rhythm of the other players exactly. Alrighty uh,

1155
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: why do you think Vogel doesn't use a all switching defense,

1156
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: especially with having Montrez. I'll take this one first. So

1157
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: the switching defenses require a certain type of personnel. The Lakers,

1158
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: if you actually like wrote down all of their heights

1159
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: and what their specialties are, they have a lot of uh.

1160
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: They have a lot of players on the shorter end

1161
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: of the spectrum, and they have a lot of players

1162
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: on the taller end of the spectrum. They don't have

1163
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: a lot of big switchy wings. They just don't have

1164
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: many of them. There's basically two on the roster in

1165
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: uh in In Lebron and Kyle Kuzma. So the reality is,

1166
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: if you look at a team like the Warriors in

1167
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen or two thousand eighteen, they're running lineups

1168
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: with Kevin Durant, andre A Guadala, Clay Thompson, you know

1169
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 1: they're they're running a lot of these bigger, switchy wings.

1170
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: So it makes more sense within their personnel to run

1171
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: a switching the defensive scheme. The Lakers have one of

1172
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: the best defensive rim protectors in the history of basketball,

1173
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis and the Lakers have a bunch of

1174
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: these quick, high effort, you know, ball pressure guards, guys

1175
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: like Casey, guys like Alex Cruzo, guys like Dennis Shrewder

1176
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: that are up in everybody's shirt and forcing them to

1177
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,439
Speaker 1: forcing them off the three point line, into their height

1178
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: and into their their shot blocking. So running a switching

1179
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: scheme for them doesn't necessarily lend itself to the personnel

1180
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: that they have, and it's one of the biggest reasons

1181
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: why I think that the Clippers have always been a

1182
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: bigger than usual threat to the Lakers, even though I

1183
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 1: still think the Lakers are a better team. They're kind

1184
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: of set up to attack some of the weaknesses in

1185
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: the Laker defense, But the Laker defense is specifically designed

1186
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: for their personnelity, something that I appreciate about Frank Vogel.

1187
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: They they they they they have built their scheme to

1188
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: their personnel, even to the extent of making a change

1189
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: in their pick and roll coverage based on the loss

1190
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: of Javailan Dwight. So I think it's I think you

1191
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: try us. These guys. They're pros, they know what they're doing.

1192
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: They've they've watched the tape. They've analyzed what their strengths

1193
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: and weaknesses are and they've built a scheme around that

1194
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,919
Speaker 1: and it works. And and switching for these guys would

1195
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: actually be a negative, not a positive. What do you think, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

1196
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: And like you said earlier, like the Lakers trump card

1197
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: RSE eight at the five, and like that's with Lebron

1198
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: eight at the five, and that's where you can kind

1199
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: of switch. That's what kind of makes a d the unicorn.

1200
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,959
Speaker 1: He is um. You can switch on to Dame, switch

1201
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: on into these uh smaller cards. But like right now,

1202
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: when you're playing a traditional five, I know Harrow is

1203
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: a undersized, but he's still a traditional kind of big

1204
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:36,439
Speaker 1: um when you're playing him in Marcasol. It just doesn't

1205
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,360
Speaker 1: make sense to have guys just on an island like

1206
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: that switched onto these guards. It's just your defense is

1207
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: gonna give up a million points, you canna get a

1208
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: bunch of gibral penetration. So I think you're right. It

1209
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: is better to have a scheme that's uh goes with

1210
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: his players. So that's what we should be doing. That's

1211
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: what he does. And I think a lot of it's

1212
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: gonna change a lot of the fortunes defense, and they're

1213
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: gonna change when when KCP comes back. I mean, at

1214
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: the end of the day, he's a star. KCP has

1215
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 1: been the biggest like kind of breath of fresh air

1216
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: for Laker fans in the last couple of years in

1217
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: the sense that he used to be kind of the

1218
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: butt of the joke because he was missed passed as

1219
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: like a not a primary ball handler, but like a

1220
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: secondary ball handler with those bad Laker teams. And like

1221
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: now now he's he's been kind of like focused into

1222
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: this like you know, intense ball pressure, perimeter defense role

1223
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: mixed with like just really simplified spot up offensive role

1224
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: where he's catching and shooting and catching and driving where

1225
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: he's just a ridiculous one like leaper that that that

1226
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: can finish around the rim and then and then getting

1227
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: out in transition. And like ECP is a really, really

1228
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: good player that the Lakers have been playing without for

1229
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: the last little while. And you know, it's it's like

1230
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: with th HD. You know, uh, you talked about this earlier.

1231
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: He's just not ready to really make primary decisions. He

1232
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: has all the talent in the world. He's gonna start

1233
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: seeing the floor better eventually, but that's gonna come in time.

1234
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: He's not a guy that the Lakers can depend on

1235
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: this season, and sou the reality is he's been playing

1236
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: a lot and asks to do a lot because the

1237
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: Cruizo being out, because the k CP being out, Like

1238
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: he's he's he's gonna kind of fade out of the

1239
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: rotation as as he should. He's gonna be guess what,

1240
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a Laker for a long time that

1241
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: no one needs to worry about unless I trade him.

1242
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: But like he's gonna be involved. They don't need him

1243
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: this year. Anything they get from him is just absolutely

1244
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: like gravy they have. They have a lot of depth

1245
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: in the back court this year that they didn't really

1246
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: have last year. And and like I think, like, uh,

1247
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: my guess is that as the schedule picks up here

1248
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: before the end of the month, that you're going to

1249
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: see a lot of really dominant Laker performances because the

1250
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: talent really is there. And the biggest thing is that

1251
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: there is no other team in the league that is

1252
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: separating themselves like like the the the Philly has been

1253
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: the one team that's been that's been better than the

1254
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: Lakers with their record, and also just with with impression

1255
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: around the league, and the Lakers literally have Marcus al

1256
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: who's one of the best Joe LMB defenders in the

1257
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: entire league. Like, what a great UH like weapon to

1258
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: have for that specific matchup, Like if I if I

1259
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: was a Laker fan. Even with this crazy uh inconsistent

1260
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: and disappointing as the start has been, there are a

1261
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: lot of reasons to be really optimistic about what this

1262
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: could eventually look like as time goes on. Yeah, and

1263
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: I have these notes here, have a Jason tim podcast notes.

1264
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: In my final note here is like does any of

1265
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: this matter? Because I looked at up like you said,

1266
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: that Trump card was lebron N d at the five.

1267
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: It's really just lebron and a D lebron N d

1268
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: R plus seventeen um net rating together this year, they're

1269
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: they have a hundred and two point five defensive rating.

1270
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: That would be the number one pretty clearly. Calves are

1271
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: number one right now, which just doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: But um, yeah, so that's pretty much it. Like all

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Speaker 1: these other things are obviously luxuries, like treads, the luxury

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Um, it's gonna come down to those

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Speaker 1: two and I think they're still the best duo UM

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Speaker 1: in the league. And you saw last night, like there's

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Speaker 1: I mean, I watched the Clipper I don't know, you

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Speaker 1: got to watch the Clipper game last night? Yeah, own it.

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Speaker 1: And they don't ask you about that because they obviously

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Speaker 1: have a new motion offense and everything right that's going on.

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Speaker 1: But once it goes down to that like late game situation,

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Speaker 1: it's still give the ball to your star player and

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Speaker 1: get out the way. Like I saw that, and I'm

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Speaker 1: just thinking, like, that's what the playoffs is about. It's

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Speaker 1: about giving the ball to your best players. And I

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Speaker 1: think the Lakers still have the top two UM top

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Speaker 1: too going well. And I thought there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of interesting stuff about that game last night, because, like

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Speaker 1: you know, I I thought a lot before the season

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Speaker 1: about how how I would rank the players in the league,

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Speaker 1: and I thought that UM, even after everything that went

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Speaker 1: wrong for the Warriors and for Steph last year, that

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Speaker 1: I thought he was still the second best player in

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Speaker 1: the league. And a lot of that had to do

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Speaker 1: with the fact that Steph and Lebron are are the

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Speaker 1: two best players in the world in my opinion, at

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Speaker 1: generating easy shots for their teammates, and that is such

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Speaker 1: an immensely valuable thing that constantly gets glossed over because

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Speaker 1: the Clippers from top to bottom are filled with all

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Speaker 1: of these players like Lou Williams, like Kawhi Leonard, like

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Speaker 1: Paul George, like Reggie Jackson, like Marcus Morris, even guys

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Speaker 1: who are who have developed a skill set that helps

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Speaker 1: them make extremely difficult shots. But the problem is is

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Speaker 1: that when deep at the end of these close games,

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Speaker 1: when defenses really dial in, basketball has a tendency to

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Speaker 1: degenerate into a lot of isolation because guys are grabbing

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Speaker 1: and holding off the ball, they're switching screens, just nothing's

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Speaker 1: open in your traditional actions, even within the trying offense

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Speaker 1: that they're allegedly running, which uh my, guy Vene says

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Speaker 1: that they're not actually running it at all whatsoever. So

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Speaker 1: the point is is the Clippers, it's really easy to

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Speaker 1: stagnate their offense, and when you stagnate their offense, they

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Speaker 1: have a tendency to have these terrible runs where there

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Speaker 1: you know, there was another one last night where they

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Speaker 1: gave it was like four run or something like that

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Speaker 1: against the Warriors. Whereas guys like Lebron and Steph when

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Speaker 1: offenses stagnate, they actually can continue to generate open looks.

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Speaker 1: Steph by getting double team far away from the basket

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Speaker 1: and getting guys into position where they can play four

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Speaker 1: on three or three on two and Lebron with the

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Speaker 1: ability to basically back down to the basket until a

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Speaker 1: second defender comes and start a three on two on

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Speaker 1: the perimeter where it either is a one pass away

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Speaker 1: three or two pass away three or something along those lines.

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Speaker 1: Those two guys have a sense with the floor of

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Speaker 1: how to continue to generate easy shots when basketball degenerates,

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Speaker 1: while at the same time having the ability to make

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Speaker 1: the difficult shots that you also need to be able

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Speaker 1: to make. And that's why I think they're the two

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Speaker 1: best players in the world. And I think last night

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Speaker 1: was another great example of that. The game degenerated. Steph

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Speaker 1: kept the floor open with his playing style while things

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Speaker 1: really congested and slowed down for the Clippers, and they

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Speaker 1: literally fell apart. And the problem for the Clippers is

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Speaker 1: good luck finding a good discounted point guards somewhere on

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Speaker 1: the market with them not having any assets, no draft picks,

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Speaker 1: no players that anyone around the lead wants, except for

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Speaker 1: their two stars. That that they don't They don't really

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Speaker 1: have a lot of options, and it's one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest reasons why I'm not particularly worried about them compared

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Speaker 1: to some of the other teams in the league. Yeah. Right,

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Speaker 1: and and we'll see they're trying to make Paul George

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Speaker 1: the point guard, um the defective point card. And again

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Speaker 1: their offense loves beautiful. Those first three quarters are running

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Speaker 1: like seperactions, getting him like corner three. But once like

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Speaker 1: the game slows down and I'm just watching it, just

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Speaker 1: reminding me of the playoffs, running of the bubble, not

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Speaker 1: just the you know, just them being blowing a lead,

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Speaker 1: but like just looking at the offense, how it boils

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Speaker 1: down into the playoffs. And like you said, you watch

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Speaker 1: the rest of the league, Um, you know that other

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Speaker 1: than Philly, who has two losses, like you talked about,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty much just open season. Utah blew out the

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Speaker 1: Bucks last night. I mean, it's just a weird season.

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Speaker 1: So right now, it's just a time to stack up wins.

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Speaker 1: However you can get them one point wins, twenty point wins.

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Speaker 1: We just put them up and then from there you

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01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 1: can get a rhythm in March and hopefully this team

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Speaker 1: is hitting on cylinders. When when that happens, well, hopefully

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Speaker 1: the fans are a lot in the stadium in time

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs. That would be great because if fans

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Speaker 1: were allowed in time for the playoffs, the Lakers seem

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Speaker 1: to have a decent track to potentially get the number

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Speaker 1: one overall seat, which would which would be interesting because um,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Lakers were as dominant as they were

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Speaker 1: last year without the Staples. Faithful they're behind them. Um. Anyway, Roger,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys so much. Everybody for listening in. Roch

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking time out of your weekend. I'm

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Speaker 1: glad we got this knocked out early. Everybody can go

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Speaker 1: back to relaxing again. I really appreciate all of your support. Roger.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you being a consistent guest. You know, I

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Speaker 1: always love having you on UM. But I hope you

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Speaker 1: have a good rest of your weekend and I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you guys later. Appreciate man, thank you for having

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Speaker 1: me