1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: Mmmmm, all right. Welcome to the State of the Lakers, 2 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: presented by DASH Radio. I thank you guys for coming 3 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: to hang out two nights in a row with us 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: here on a Wednesday. I know that was an extremely 5 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: frustrating loss, and I know how many of you are 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: probably feeling right now. However, Memphis is a really, really 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: good team and we were severely undermanned. It was There's 8 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: a reason Memphis was favored by six in Vegas. It 9 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: was a tough loss. We're gonna dig into it. First 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: of all, Ross, how you doing, buddy? Oh man, I'm 11 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: doing all right. That was a tough one for sure, 12 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: all those you know caviatects true. Um, still tough to 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: blow a four teen point lead late in the third. 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: But I'm a wow man, how are you? I'm doing good? Um, 15 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: you know I can't coming into this game. I I 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: predicted that Memphis will win by fifteen. And the reason 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: why it's just as the Lakers are currently constructed. It's 18 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: a bad matchup for them. Memphis is very big and 19 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: strong at every position. They come at you with an 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: onslaught of strength. They're not the most skilled team in 21 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: the world. They are heavily independent on shop making from 22 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: the perimeter from guys like jaw And and Uh and 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: Desmond Bayne. However, they can physically overpower you over the 24 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: course of a game, and if you don't bring it 25 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: with your effort and intensity in all of those areas 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: of the game, all those physicality areas of the game, 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: you'll get beat. And that's why they're fourteen, and that's 28 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: why they have a bunch of really impressive wins this year. 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: I think I saw stat today that they've they're the 30 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,559 Speaker 1: only team in the league that's one on the road 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: against the three top teams in the West. I think 32 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: was the stat that I've read. That's that's really impressive. 33 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: This is a good basketball team. And what you saw 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: tonight was an absolute master class from Lebron James and 35 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: some timely shot making from guys that aren't usually great shooters, 36 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: and a couple of guys from the Lakers go really cold, 37 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: and it's just not being enough. It wasn't enough. But 38 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like when you're going 39 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: to the bench and Lebron's taking a rest at the 40 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: end of the third quarter and Carmelo Anthony is playing center, 41 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: that's I don't know how you compete with a team 42 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,839 Speaker 1: like Memphis with Carmelo Anthony at center. It's just now 43 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: we can get into that, and how frustrating it is 44 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: that that's the direction we went. And obviously I would 45 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: hope that they make the adjustment, but at the end 46 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: of the day, it's like their only other adjustment is to, 47 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: you know, play Dwight or somebody there. But like, it's 48 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: just this is it's hard to win games against good 49 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: teams in the NBA when you're at full strength. We 50 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: literally watched the Lakers go into Memphis what two weeks ago, 51 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: I think it was just about two weeks ago, and 52 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: uh and get beat and even though they were playing 53 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: good basketball at the time, And that's just what happens 54 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 1: when you go on the road to play a good team. 55 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: So I know we're going to dive into all the 56 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: reasons why, and I know it's frustrating, but I would 57 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: just ask everybody to kind of contextualize this by saying 58 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 1: an understanding that this is a game they were supposed 59 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: to lose. Memphis is really good. There was some good 60 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: process tonight, but when Memphis hit the gas during the stretches, 61 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: when Lebron was off the floor. There just wasn't anything 62 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: we could do. Yeah, I mean, all that's true, and 63 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: I agree with that, I guess in a sense. John 64 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: Morant went six for seven from three. I thought a 65 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: lot of those were like good defense, you know, you 66 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like the ball moves around and 67 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: the guy you want to shoot is John Morant, and 68 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: he hit a bunch of them. I think he hit 69 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: his first six threesum mrs last one, including like a 70 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: last second you know, heave at the end of the quarter. 71 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: To me, though this game was lost at the end 72 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: of the third, like, you do enough to win. They 73 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: did enough to win this game in my opinion, and 74 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: you lose a game that Lebron hits eight of fourteen 75 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: from three, Like, that's just really tough. All that stuff 76 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: is true. Memphis is a really damn good team. They were, 77 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, winning even without John Morant. They get their 78 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: superstar back, right, and he was just incredible tonight. He 79 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: was up for the moment obviously, even when they went down. 80 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: But that's just tough to me. To lose the game, 81 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: I believe in like a short two minutes span which 82 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: you know they went with Mellow at the five again, 83 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: which we've talked about a lot at nauseum that you 84 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: know that's probably that's not sustainable against bad teams, against 85 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: teams like the Houston Rockets, let alone a team like Memphis. 86 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: I would love seeing Dwight Howard. I thought Dwight was 87 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: good tonight, Like in his minutes. Um he finished, I 88 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: believe a plus sevent team in a game that we 89 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: lose by six, which is interesting. Um leak Monk as 90 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: well plus twelve, give him credit. But yeah, man, that 91 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: that's really rough for me to to kind of accept. 92 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: Memphis was shooting like eight percent as well from three, 93 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: and I thought our defense was part of that as well. 94 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,119 Speaker 1: They also miss him open shots. Some balls didn't bounce 95 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: our way right, A cup of like offensive rebounds went 96 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: to Desmond Bane. He hit threes. But yeah, men, those 97 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: mellow at the five lineups. It would have just been 98 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: so nice to have one of Areza or Reeves healthy tonight, 99 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: either one. And you probably cut Carmelo Anthony's minutes down 100 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: from thirty minutes. Is just too much for Carmelo, And 101 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: it's not his fault. He's an older guy. That's just 102 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: unfair to him to throw him out there for many minutes. 103 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook again, the miss Layoup is gonna get plastered everywhere, 104 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: which kind of sucks. So I thought he was actually 105 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: good tonight. We can kind of get into it perfect 106 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, we'll get into that later. But honestly, 107 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: like to me, would you agree though that this game 108 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: was lost in the last, you know, three minutes of 109 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: the third because that was incredibly frustrating, and I thought 110 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: that was something I saw a mile away. They took 111 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: Lebron out, put Mellow in and against Stanley Johnson and 112 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: those lineus makes it a little bit better, but he's 113 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: still on the perimeter and it was just a layup 114 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: line to the rim man. John Morant was hunting Russell Westbrook, 115 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: which was kind of strange. And I thought Westbrook again 116 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: did a nice job on him in his last few possessions. 117 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 1: But that third quarter, man, they just got going, got 118 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: to the basket and then jaw hits that three lay. 119 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: Russ took a bad shot there. I thought he played 120 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: well tonight, but that was just a bad decision. Should 121 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: have just let the shock clock go down, you get 122 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: you end the third quarter up eight. Instead, you know, 123 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: he takes this weird fade away jumper and it's you know, 124 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: five seconds for John rand Darren Carlson as well, still 125 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: looked like he was moving two speed slower than John 126 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: Morant was going. Let alone with the game was going um, 127 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: and he couldn't stand from me hit three. But would 128 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: you agree with that the game was kind of ended 129 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: in the third quarter because I could just see Lebron 130 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: right when he checked in the fourth again to start 131 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: that fourth quarter. You could just tell I thought he 132 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: was exhausted, um, And you could just tell, like, man, 133 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: I did all that and have to re regain this 134 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: right once once Tias Jones hit that floater to put 135 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: them up one, I honestly thought Memphis was going to 136 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: take take this one. But I thought this was decided 137 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: in the end of the third. You know, there are 138 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: two different kinds of runs that happened in the basketball game. 139 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: There's runs that are part of the normal EBB and 140 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: flow of effort when you play. For when you played 141 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: for forty eight minutes, it's extremely rare for one team 142 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: to be the aggressor the entire game. Usually there are 143 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: these little two three minute stretches where you get a 144 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: couple of stops, you make a couple of shots and 145 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: the complexion of the game changes. That's normal, but then 146 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 1: there's like runs that are kind of an error of 147 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: process too, you know what I mean. And that's what 148 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: the end of the third quarter was. That was a 149 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: run that could have been avoided. And this is something 150 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: that I talked about a lot coming into this game. 151 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: Dwight Howard is a quality backup NBA center. There's no 152 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: reason to play him with Lebron who is your only 153 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: other center on the roster, only other functional center, and 154 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: then to have stretches of the game where neither of 155 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: them are on the floor, especially against the team that's 156 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: as physically imposing as Memphis. So that run to end 157 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: the third was straight up a coaching era in my opinion. 158 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: It was an error of strategy that led to a run. 159 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: Memphis had too many runs in this game. LA responded 160 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: to most of them, but it ended up being one 161 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: too many, one too many runs that was too much 162 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: for them to overcome. And it's just you know, like 163 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you have to control 164 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: which you can control. There are some personnel things on 165 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: this team that are outside of our control. I expect 166 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: a certain amount of of shortcomings on any given night, 167 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: based on our roster shortcomings right now, even Lebron. Like Lebron, 168 00:07:58,840 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: there was a big play at the end of the 169 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: game where John missed two free throws and he got 170 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: beat under the basket on a box out by Steven Adams. 171 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: But like Steven Adams outweighs Lebron by like forty pounds. 172 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: So the truth of the matter is is that's a 173 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: tough matchup for Lebron. That's in that in an ideal situation, 174 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: that's Anthony Davis trying to box him out there, right 175 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: So the point the point is is like some of 176 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: this we can expect, but when you willingly play Carmelo 177 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: Anthony at center to end the end the third, that's 178 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: self sabotage. When you willingly go into crunch time with 179 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: th Ht on the floor and Mellow who can't make 180 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: a shot to save his life. This is a whole 181 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: other topic, but Mellow has been playing bad basketball for 182 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: the better part of a month now. Last night, Total 183 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: Outlier Mellow has been massively regressing defensively and he's not 184 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: making shots anymore, tweeted out this recent stretch of game, 185 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: He's below from three, so a lot of that has 186 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: to do with the personnel situation and guys having to 187 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: do more. But you didn't have to play Mellow there 188 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: that could have been Stanley. You didn't have to play 189 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: th HD there with the closers that could have been 190 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: Avery Bradley that you know, you didn't have to play 191 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: Mellow at center and the third that could have been Dwight. 192 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: So if we're going to have our best opportunity to 193 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: get wins over the course of this next you know, 194 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: month or so without Anthony Davis, we have to at 195 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: least get ourselves in a position where we're at the 196 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: best possible version of what we're putting out on the floor, 197 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: and when we're deliberately undercutting ourselves with some poor decision making. 198 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,599 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of nights like this that 199 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: should have been kind of night. It's kind of like Chicago, 200 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: kind of like Tonight games or the efforts there. You know, 201 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 1: you get just otherworldly performance out of Lebron and it's 202 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: just not enough, and that's extremely frustrated. Yeah, And to 203 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: be fair to fit is like this is definitely like nitpicking, 204 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: Like I think he actually coached a really good game tonight. 205 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: Other than those minutes. But it's just tough, man, because 206 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: we started Dwight Howard Tonight in you know, in place 207 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: just to win those Steven Adams minutes right to when 208 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: the box out minutes where Lebron wanna have to be 209 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: that guy. And I would have loved to see Dwight 210 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: kind of mirror I guess Adams minutes, even especially a 211 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: night where he's playing well. I think he had four fouls. 212 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: UM picked up a lot of them on John Moran 213 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: as well when John tried to get it going. But 214 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: I thought he was just really good. He was had 215 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: his verticality going, moving his feet as well. That's not 216 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: only I guess Nippig because it was just really tough 217 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: to survive, especially when Carmelo. You talked about him shooting 218 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: under thirty percent recently, Like to me, like again, we're 219 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,319 Speaker 1: playing him just a ship ton of minutes right now, 220 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: we don't have another forward. Maybe Stanley Johnson can play 221 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: more than twenty two minutes. I would have loved to 222 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: flip that. I would have love to have Stanley Johnson 223 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: played thirty minutes UM and then Carmelo play around twenty two, 224 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: especially if you can kind of go as the game 225 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: is going, the flow of the game, right, Carmelo just 226 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: didn't have his shot going. And I said, tonight and 227 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: other nights where if Carmelo is not you know, Inferno, 228 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: which he has been for a lot of games. He's 229 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: saved the lagers for a lot of games this season, 230 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: to give him credit, But if he's not Inferno, then 231 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: you know, those Carmel at the five line ups were 232 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: just really tough to survive. And that was a struggle, uh, 233 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: for this night and nights going forward until hopefully the 234 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: Reeves gets back the next night. I think he's he 235 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: exited COVID protocols as well, based Moore as well, but 236 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: just to get them to having one of the reefs 237 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: or reads of time would have been great, just to 238 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: limit those minutes. But yeah, and I thought that's where 239 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: this game was lost. Memphis is a damn good team. 240 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: Like this is not something you know to go cry about, 241 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: Like Memphis is a great team. They're playing at home. 242 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: You talked about the wins that they have on this season, 243 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: but this game was there for the taking. Even with 244 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: John Marant, you know, as hot as he was, with 245 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: Lebron playing at you know, best player in the world, 246 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: level thirty seven minutes to night on a back to 247 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: back eight of four team from three, like you just 248 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: don't want to I wouldn't say waste, but I mean 249 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: you're getting that kind of production from your best player, 250 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook. Again we disagree on you know, how he 251 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: played tonight. I thought he played pretty well, but I 252 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: mean the numbers aren't there are sixteen points, twelve rebound, 253 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: twelve assists, ten rebounds, Like you get that production as 254 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 1: well um five turnovers, which you know still probably a 255 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 1: little higher than you want, but still like I thought 256 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: you played enough to where you could win. It's just 257 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: those minutes. Man, you build that four team point lead, 258 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: you want some kind of cushion. And with Lebron coming back, 259 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: and Lebron came back, and the game was I think 260 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: it was a three point game or something, and then 261 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: they had to one floater by John Rant one floater 262 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 1: by Tayas Jones, and to me, the game was over there. 263 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: I didn't think we could, you know, re re get 264 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: that like control, especially with the crowd into it. And 265 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: Memphis is just a solid team. Their physicality took over 266 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: as well. Um late in that game, desmit Vane, all 267 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: those guys really defend at a super high level. But yeah, 268 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: that's that's why it's so frustrating tonight because I thought 269 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: this was a winnable game. We're in win collection mode 270 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: right here, where like if you have a chance, like 271 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:32,959 Speaker 1: if this game was over by the third, like I 272 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: would understand, But this is a winnable game. And like 273 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: all those caveats about Memphis, you know, being a really 274 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: good team are true, but this was this is a 275 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: game for a taking that you lost, and you can't 276 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: do that as a team that's you know, game two 277 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: games over. I agree with you, and I see a 278 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: lot of people talking about what he staid Lebron James performances, 279 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: and I tend to go the other way with that. Um, 280 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: as long as he doesn't get hurt, which is obviously 281 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: a risk when you have him taking on this kind 282 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: of workload, as long as he doesn't get hurt, I 283 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: tend to go Lebron looking this great is absolutely good news, 284 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: and there's no other way to interpret it. Because, as 285 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: we know, the number one based formula for bigger team 286 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: being able to compete with the Phoenixes and the Golden 287 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: States and the Brooklyn's and the Milwaukee's of the world 288 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: is for Lebron and Anthony Davis to be top five players. 289 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: And right now, Lebron looks every bit as good anybody 290 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: else that's in the league right now, and Anthony Davis 291 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: has not been that guy, but right now he has 292 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: some time to step away from the game, to get 293 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: right physically, to figure out whatever that is and try 294 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: to get back to that level. So I know it's 295 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: extremely frustrating these performances feel wasted, But at the end 296 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 1: of the day, the way I look at it is, 297 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: this is Lavron learning to play a new style of 298 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: offense with this group, a different style of offense that 299 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: he's played then he's played in the last couple of years. 300 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: And as long as he stays healthy, so as long 301 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 1: as he's listening to his bodies and make your body 302 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: and making the right decision on that front, I look 303 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: at it is nothing but good news. But I wanted 304 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: to move on to Russ, So you and I got 305 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: into a conversation at the end of the pod yesterday 306 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: talking about Russ and you know his press conference recently 307 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: where he seemed to be focused on the wrong things, 308 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: and it was frustrating for me. Hearing that press conference, 309 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: because my number one concern with russ is is for 310 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: him to understand that the most important thing he could 311 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: do for this team is not sabotage. Then that's the 312 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: most important thing he could do. And as long as 313 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: he understands where he fits in the picture of this 314 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: team when it's healthy, and can control his ugliest urges, 315 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: then that makes me feel optimistic because he does bring 316 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: a lot of good to the table. To me, he's 317 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: a textbook good play, bad play kind of guy, and 318 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: you in theory, over the course of the meat and 319 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: potatoes of the season, you just want more good plays 320 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: than bad plays. Then then you could say okay, net positive. 321 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: But when we're in crunch time, when we're in these 322 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: big moments, when you're playing good teams in game situations, 323 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: every bad play is catastrophic. And for him to have 324 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: made the mistake he made the other night trying to 325 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: turn over that dunk against Brooklyn and smoking it off 326 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: the front of the rim, and then to come into 327 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: tonight's game in a critical possession, Lebron just hit a 328 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: massive three at the top of the key to get 329 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: you back to or to get you back with the three. 330 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: I don't remember what the score was, but they were 331 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: back within three. And then you get a stop and 332 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: you're running out in transition, and he tried to turn 333 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: over a transition lay up attempt into a dunk again, 334 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Like? That is him telling me 335 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: he is incapable of learning his lesson, Like, how is 336 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: it that after that massive stage on Christmas Day when 337 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: you made the exact same mistake, you didn't learn your lesson? 338 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: He literally turned that over like he was gonna dunk it, 339 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: and then at the last second realized he wasn't high 340 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: enough and tried to go back and finger roll it. 341 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: That is inexcusable mistake. And you know, our friend Jason Maples, 342 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: he tweeted out right after the game, He's like, yeah, 343 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: you gotta get off of Russell Westbrook. You can't beat 344 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: the good teams with this guy. Now. I'm not there 345 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: yet neither, but there is an absolute truth to the 346 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: fact that if he can't control himself in late game 347 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: situations with his decision making, it will get this team beat. 348 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: Because even if Lebron and a d are at their 349 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: absolute best and everything clicks and you make it to 350 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals and you're playing Phoenix or you're 351 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: playing Golden State or you're playing Utah, it's going to 352 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: be close, and a couple of errors like that will 353 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: get you beat. And I just I it's like I 354 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: couldn't believe what I was watching when he did that 355 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: again tonight, I couldn't believe it to be fair to 356 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: that like particular play that was different at least to me, Like, again, 357 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: you don't want to miss the lay of you know, 358 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: late game situation, but that was at least, you know, 359 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: open floor transition, Like I think the Brooklyn one was 360 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: like more in a more in a half core kind 361 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: of situation, right, he had a close out opportunity, you're 362 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: more in a half gay situation. In transition, he has 363 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: a full you know, head of steam. He's already picked 364 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: up momentum, he's already you know, on the way there 365 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: to the basket. Like that's a little different to me, 366 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean by that? Like I don't, 367 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: I don't put those two in the same do But 368 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: the decision, the decision to attempts to dunk that basketball 369 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: when when a layup he would have absolutely made, to me, 370 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: is the problem? Sure? Okay? So like so do you 371 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: you don't think he played well tonight? I guess right, 372 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: like just in in a hole because like to me, 373 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: I thought he had a good floor game, Like yeah, 374 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: I think three turnovers with like the game again that 375 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: that layoup in transition is going to be plastered everywhere. 376 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: That's going to make a couple of ugly turnovers in 377 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: the fourth too. Ros Sure, I understand he did it 378 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: during that time, but you know, I thought the whole 379 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: team kind of played bad. I thought the wall is 380 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: kind of being built on them, that you can feel 381 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: the Memphis avalanche coming right. The Memphis physicality definitely picked up. 382 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: Memphis definitely figured out like hey, we can win this game, 383 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they definitely found out 384 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: once they took that lead. To me, the game was over. 385 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: But like for the most parts, and I thought Russ 386 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: had a good floor game, Like he had a bunch 387 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: of players. I have my notes here, like one of 388 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: them he went into the paint, he slowed down. They 389 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: we spanned this like we spun this Lebron Dwight. Uh 390 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: you know double double screen pick and roll? Did you 391 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: see that? Like we spanned that play a bunch of times. 392 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: It was like Lebron and Dwight screening for Russ and 393 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,719 Speaker 1: just made his decision making a little bit easier. You 394 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: had a Lebron popping and Dwight rolling, and he found 395 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: Dwight on a few lobs. He bade Adams a few times. 396 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: Like I thought, his floor game was fine tonight. And 397 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: again the numbers are what they are. You can kind 398 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: of calm with you know the impact of them. But sixteen, 399 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,360 Speaker 1: twelve and ten, like you're getting that out of your 400 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: who's supposed to be your third, you know, third option here, 401 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: Like I think that's enough against a really good Memphis team. 402 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: There were some bad turnovers for sure, not just from him, 403 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: from Carmelo Anthony as well. There were just some bad 404 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: passes that you know you're gonna get with Russell Westbrook 405 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: when you up his usages like this. But I think 406 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 1: the mislayup is going to construte a lot of what 407 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: I thought was good basketball from him tonight against a 408 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: really good defensive Memphis team. Like I thought he created shots. 409 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: He had a bunch of these, like in air passes 410 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: where he changed his mind mid air and then switched 411 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: to the corner on point to like Malikue Monk or 412 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: two other guys David Bradley on one play when we 413 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: were building our leads, Like, I want to give him 414 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: at least credit for that. The late game stuff is 415 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: what it is. We've we've talked about this at nauseum, 416 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: Like the late game stuff should be Lebron a guard 417 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: screen pick and roll, or Lebron a d pick and roll, 418 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: or you know, Lebron making two decisions, whether it's in 419 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: the post um and all that. But like I understand 420 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: the misslayoup was tough, and Lebron just hit a super 421 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: jab step break rhythm jumper to put us I think 422 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: within three, and we have to turnover Russ, you know, 423 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: in transition couldn't decide if he was gonna one hand 424 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: slam it, which he's probably done three d fifty million 425 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: times in his career, and he's like, oh, I just 426 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: don't have that last little lift, and I decided to 427 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: finger roll it and it missed there. But I thought, 428 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: you know, overall, do you do you disagree with that? Though? 429 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: With his floor game, I guess for the rest of 430 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: the game, take away that fourth quarter. I know you 431 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: can't really do that in basketball, but like, do you 432 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: agree with the rest of the game in terms of 433 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: just what you kind of want to see from him 434 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: on a night tonight basis, in terms of decision making, Yeah, well, Roger, 435 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: you're right, he had a lot of good moments tonight. 436 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: But what did I tell you after the Brooklyn game. 437 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: I told you he would do the same thing if 438 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: he was twelve or twenty. That's what I told you. 439 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: This is the Russ experience against Brooklyn on Christmas Day. 440 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: It was especially horrifying because he also was actively point 441 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: shaving the entire game. Okay, tonight tonight was more of 442 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: what I'm afraid of. Even if everything goes right, even 443 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: if everything clicks, even if he's in that tertiary role 444 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: behind Lebron and a d even if he plays great 445 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: all game, what is there that makes you think he 446 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: won't try to turn it over and dunk in a 447 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: late game possession like that in the playoffs. That's That's 448 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: where I'm coming from here, And and this is where, 449 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: like again a couple of weeks ago, if I to 450 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 1: see the tweet like what our friend Jason Maple said, 451 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: I would have been like, come on, man, get out 452 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: of here. But like the the reason why I'm even 453 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: entertaining it is that the reason why I'm even entertaining 454 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: the idea that the Lakers need to get off of 455 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook is this ship will get them beat. It 456 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: will get them beat, and I don't and like, even 457 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: though it would be a catastrophe of a trade, because 458 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: now you're turning KCP and Kyle Kuzma and Montrez Harrold 459 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: into salary filler. Get yeah, you're you're absolutely right about that. 460 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: But the only, but the only reason I'm even considering 461 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: it is because this will get them beat. And I don't. 462 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: I don't see. I just don't see any way or 463 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: anything that could happen over the course of the next 464 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: few months that would change my fear of that type 465 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: of outcome. Well, but what happened is what we've seen 466 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: in some other you know, late game when the team 467 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 1: was healthy, right, we we've seen it against Remember that 468 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: you posted that video when we beat the Calves, right 469 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: and that you know that went over. The Calves is 470 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: actually looking a lot better and better as we move 471 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: into the season. They just lost Ruby r Ricky Rubio, 472 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: which sucks, but they're a really good team and we 473 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: beat them earlier in the year before they kind of 474 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: built their momentum. But you know the late game, what 475 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: was that? That was just Lebron. You know, straight screen roll, 476 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: straight pick and roll. He gets to the side where 477 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: the ball goes. I believe Russ was in the dunker 478 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: spot for a lot of that, or Russ was you know, 479 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: on the week side kind of where where it's tougher 480 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: to help. He got ever mobili on switches, drive to 481 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: the basket, someone someone helps he get he kicks it out. 482 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: Like to me, that's more what we'll see. And I 483 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: talked about this last night as well. Tempering Russ is 484 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: just not the way you go with this, like you know, 485 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: to me, it's just taking down his usage and possessions, 486 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: which will naturally happen to me when the team gets healthy, 487 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: when Anthony Davis is back. Like this, this type of 488 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 1: stuff you kind of have to just live with. Like 489 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 1: the late game situation stuff is what it is. I'd 490 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 1: like to see him more as a screener. I think 491 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: playing him next to Teach. We are closing lineup tonight 492 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: with him next to HD. I don't remember if Avery 493 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: Bradley was on the floor as well, but just mellow, 494 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: mellow Lebron and then of Russ and Bradley, I think, yeah, yeah, 495 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: that's what I'm just one, but I think it was 496 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: two nonshooters as well. Next to it where and he 497 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: talked about how Memphis you know, didn't close out to 498 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: him in the corner. I still would have liked to 499 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 1: see um them swing it to us, have him kind 500 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: of attack a defense that's in rotation. I still think 501 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: that's I still think that's a threat, you know, even 502 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: late game, even with his high levels decision making, I 503 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: still think a defense closing out to him is a threat. 504 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: It's how we got the Austin Reeves game winner as well. 505 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: But yeah, man, that late game stuff is kind of 506 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: it is like the bigger picture of the process stuff 507 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: tonight with stuff I want to see from him when 508 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: the team's healthy, in control, slowing down in the in 509 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: the paint, you know law passes, which stuff that he's 510 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: good at, that he's done at for his career. The 511 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: you know, dunks turning into layups is him kind of 512 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 1: facing mortality. To me, We'll see if how that works 513 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: as the season goes. U you don't want to see 514 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: him mislayups. I heard the Memphis broadcast today I don't 515 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: know if you were listening to the Memphis podcast. Yeah, 516 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: they're they're really good. Um, they were talking about how 517 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: Russ leads the league in layup attempts. That yeah, attempt 518 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: I think it was. It was attempts or makes. They 519 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: said lead the leads and lay up. So I don't 520 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: remember if its attempts or makes, but I mean, still 521 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: lead the league in layups is something, you know at 522 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: the guard position, Like, I think that's something big. He 523 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: had one play tonight where I think it was on 524 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: the play where he you know, I saw it against 525 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: Brandon Brandon Clark and then did a nice you know 526 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: lay up kind of worth Clark contesting, and they said 527 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: that he leaves the league in layup, so he's getting 528 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: to the basket at least, and like that's the process stuff. 529 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: I want to see. Lay game stuff is what it is. 530 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's tough. It's not gonna be easy, especially 531 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: with a d out for this long, Like he's going 532 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,360 Speaker 1: to have lake game possessions to kind of control high 533 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: level situations. It's just you kind of got to live 534 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: with and you know, entertaining Russ trades. To me, it's 535 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: just so like it makes no sense. Russ is not 536 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: going anywhere like that. He's just not like entertaining Russ trades. 537 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: To me, I get tweeted and I'm sure you do 538 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: too in my d M s and even on the timeline, 539 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: what do you think about this Russ trade with Like 540 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: none of these are happening, Like he's like he's on 541 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: the team for this full season, like he just is, 542 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: and we kind of have to accept that and try 543 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: to maneuver around that. So I agree with you. I'm 544 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: just saying, like the reason why my brain even allows, 545 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: like the reason why I even allow myself to think 546 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 1: in that direction is because of this recent stretch. But 547 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: I mean, dude, I'm aware of all the good that 548 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: he brings, Like rim pressure has not been the issue 549 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,719 Speaker 1: with Rust this year, you know, Like ironically, jump shooting 550 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: hasn't even been the issue with Rust this year, at 551 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,719 Speaker 1: least off the ball. I would say that he's like 552 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: they're still are way too many possessions every game where 553 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 1: he'll get the inbounds pass, bring the ball up the floor, 554 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: call for a ball screen, and shoot a pull a 555 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: jump shot with like twelve seconds on the shock walk, 556 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: And I'm literally like that should never ever be in 557 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: our offense. You know that I go in though the 558 00:25:52,119 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 1: little yes, but again I I just I think of 559 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: Lakers are are taking a gamble here and it could 560 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: pay off. You know, there are all these jokes before 561 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: the season, Oh, Lebron's the goat if he gets Westbrook 562 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: a ring, and it's it's it's true, Like, yes, there's 563 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: the scenario where this works out, where you end up 564 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 1: on the biggest stage and Russ actually does a good 565 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: amount of mismatch mismatch hunting. And you know, he had 566 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: a couple of really nice defensive sequences against John Morant 567 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: at the end of the game, and like, again, if 568 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: you could bottle that stuff up, it would be amazing. 569 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: Like if I could care, if I could say, hey, 570 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: like I can stick Russ on all the best point 571 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 1: guards in the league and he's gonna get awesome isolation 572 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: defense and caused him to have rush it frustrating nights. 573 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: Then man, this this looks totally different. But you and 574 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: I both know that's just not the case. Those sequences 575 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: like the one against job there at the end of 576 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: the game are the exception. They're not the normal, and 577 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: so it's just it is what it is. I'm with you, 578 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: he's gonna be around the rest of the season. In 579 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 1: all likelihood, it's too us. What what we've seen in 580 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: the last week is a great example of what I 581 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: described coming into this season as my fear with Ross, 582 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: which had nothing to do with the fit, nothing to 583 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: do with his perimeter shooting, everything to do with his 584 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: basketball i Q or lack thereof, and and how I 585 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: thought that that could be fatal in in the right situation. 586 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: But I mean, we can move on from Russ now. 587 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: I just I wanted to get that off my chest 588 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: because it's been us. It's last thing on the rust thing. 589 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 1: Like I think our perception of it, our whole perception 590 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: kind of changes because the Lakers record is what it is, 591 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: right where two games under five hundred. So every mistake, 592 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,239 Speaker 1: every turn over, every mislayout, you know, every you know, 593 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: small screen that leads into like a layout that he 594 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 1: thinks he gets fouled and the ball just goes over 595 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 1: the room, like all that is accentuated because the Lakers 596 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: are two games over five hundred. And I'm kind of 597 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: thinking the Lebron at center lineups are killing, like they're 598 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: destroying teams, right and we're like plus twenty. I think 599 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: in those lineups, Rush is on the floor for a 600 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: lot of those as well. It's not just Lebron, Lebron 601 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: and Russ and you know, Lebron at center, Russ Russ 602 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: and those lines are doing well. And I just wonder 603 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,439 Speaker 1: if our perception of this team would be different, Like 604 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: if we started the season off, maybe DeAndre Jordan doesn't 605 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: start twenty plus games, right, maybe it's you know, maybe 606 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: we do go smaller earlier. Maybe you know, we're able 607 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: to play at a fastest speed earlier, that kind of 608 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: exceptions what the roster needs and we're like twenty and 609 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: I can't really do math right now, but for like 610 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 1: five six games over five, maybe like the view of 611 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: us is a little bit different if we're not at 612 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: this page. I just think every game now everything's such 613 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: a bigger deal because of where we are in the standing. 614 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: So that's my last thing on this is that, like 615 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: I think if the lines were a little bit better, 616 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: maybe earlier in the year, maybe if a reason is 617 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: out and we sub him with like a wing instead 618 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: of just going fully into the two big directions that 619 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: we decided to go in, maybe the view on him 620 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: is a little different. The games are frustrating, the miss dunks, 621 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: the mislayops are all super frustrating. But I just think 622 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: like that would kind of change the person section and 623 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: change all these you know, trade scenarios that are that 624 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: come up, that come up after we game. So I'm 625 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: I would push back on that a little bit here 626 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: because it wasn't the whole purpose for sacrificing the depth 627 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: to have Russ be capable of carrying the team and 628 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: stretches when Asara is missing for one reason or another. 629 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: And I mean, i'm the way the season gone has 630 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: has gone in terms of injuries and luck is what 631 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: it is. I actually was thinking about this earlier today 632 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: because there are a lot of like silver linings here 633 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: because it was clear, it was clear that the Lakers 634 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: when they signed DeAndre Jordan and Dwight Howard, that they 635 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: still had this Lakers type of ideology for their you know, 636 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 1: their identity, and ironically, all of this cascade of injuries 637 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: has forced them to play small and now they're seeing 638 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: all of this offensive success and it's kind of they 639 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: basically tripped and fallen on accident into the best version 640 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: of themselves offensively. And we talked a lot about this 641 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: in our last parts. We won't go any further into it, 642 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: but like, five out basketball is just the way you 643 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: succeed in the modern NBA, and Anthony Davis can play 644 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: five out basketball. So this, this system they tripped and 645 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: fell in, is good. Even a step further Stanley Johnson, Like, 646 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: we probably have no chance of getting Stanley Johnson on 647 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: the roster if we stay healthy. My guess is, you 648 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: know reasons in that role, they if everything goes well, 649 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: maybe they don't consider trading tailing at the deadline. And 650 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: it's just kind of more or less this. There might 651 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: be a moment in the playoffs where we're rocking to 652 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: line up with Lebron the reason and Stanley Johnson on 653 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: the floor, and that just doesn't happen unless we get 654 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: completely railroaded by COVID. So I'm with you in the 655 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: in the sense that there's a silver lining to some 656 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: of the way that this went over the course at 657 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: the beginning of the season that said, like, this was 658 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: the whole point of giving up a legit fifth star 659 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: in KCP and a legit bench wing in Kyle Kuzma 660 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: and Montraz Harold would take him or leave him But 661 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: the point is is that you were hoping, I think, 662 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: and I think who I think, if cooler heads were 663 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: available at the moment, they would have realized, like, hey, 664 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: Russ really isn't that guy anymore. He's not the guy 665 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: that can carry you for stretches like this, And so fundamentally, 666 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: when they made that decision, you know, it just I 667 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: just didn't. I I that was why I disagreed with 668 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: it in the moment. And I know Lebron loves back 669 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: up playmaking and that's something that he's always placed a 670 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: great deal of value on, but it just would have 671 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: made more sense to do it with someone like Hollison, 672 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: you know, or trying to find somebody like that out 673 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: there that can make plays that you didn't have to 674 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: sacrifice your depth for. And and and and it is 675 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: what it is because like you can even take it 676 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: a step further to trade flexibility and the fact that 677 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: they don't really have a lot of options this deadline, 678 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: aside from you know, th HT and none in hopes 679 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: of pulling back somebody in that twenty million dollar range. 680 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: But it just you know, if Russ had, to your point, Raj, 681 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: if Russ was the Russ that I think rob Polinka 682 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: and Lebron thought he would be they wouldn't be seventeen 683 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: and nineteen, they'd be fifteen or something because Russ would 684 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: have been able to carry the weight when Anthony Davis 685 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: went down or when Lebron went down, And so that 686 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: that's where, that's where if I'm a Laker fan, I'm 687 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 1: looking at this like, hey, guys, what the hell? You 688 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: know what I mean? Well, I mean, relitigating the Rush 689 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: trade is always tough. But like to me, like, even 690 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: if we're fully healthy, I guess, and we still go 691 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: to two big lineup, but we saw what that did 692 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: for us, And you're right, Russ is not that guy. 693 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: He's not the m v P guy. But I said, 694 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, five games into this season, this season is about, 695 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: you know, acquiescing to Russ, making sure lineups are conductive 696 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: to him. And I think we're starting to see at 697 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 1: least a little bit of that um like going down 698 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: a d going down would have hurt this team anyway. 699 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: Like to me, I don't know, I don't know how 700 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: many you know games that flips with Russ and Lebron 701 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: missing as many times as he did, right, Lebron missed. 702 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: I think two or three weeks. Like this team was 703 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: built around those three being able to carry, because that's 704 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: what you do when you have a team full of 705 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: minimum guys. Plus you know, Taylor Horton Tucker, who's kind 706 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: of taking a step back due to situation, also confident, 707 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: all the stuff that we've kind of litigated, you know, 708 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: back and forth. And our other non minimum guy, Kendrick Nunn, 709 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: hasn't played a single second in the regular season. So 710 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: you're filled with minimum guys, Russ and A D particular, 711 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: we're supposed to take over the non Lebron minutes. And 712 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: I do think, you know, Russ a D as a 713 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: combo should have been able to probably win a couple 714 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: more games, and then they did when lebronos out. But 715 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: that's neither here and there, so it's tough to kind 716 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: of again, these are all situational stuff that we can't 717 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: really get into. The lineup stuff is always frustrating league 718 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: Monk probably should have been playing more earlier in the year. Um, 719 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: all that stuff is into it. But we are starting 720 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: to get to a good team, Like you can start 721 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: to see a good team here, and I think that's 722 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: the positive. I guess you can take but you're right, man, 723 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,719 Speaker 1: it's it's been rough. It's not been a clean season. 724 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: You're when you're two games under five hundred, there's issues 725 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: that are all around. But yeah, relay again. The RST 726 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: trade is is really tough for me, I guess because 727 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: you can kind of see what they were going for 728 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: even if we disagree. I think both of us were 729 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: still kind of you know, unsure about it, uh when 730 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 1: it happened, but you kind of see what they're kind 731 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: of going for. And I think you're starting to see 732 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,359 Speaker 1: at least bits and pieces of that media day. Man. 733 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: I keep going back to this. We were sold this, 734 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: you know this a d at the five with Wayne 735 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: Ellington and Trevor Ariza and then a reason's injury really 736 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: and Wayne I think was out as well for yeah, 737 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: and so instead of you know, trying to find fast 738 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: facility whatever familiar players like them to put in that lineup, 739 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: we just went with a totally other identity, which was 740 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan's starting for so many games, anton Or Trucker, 741 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: who who eventually gotten the starting line up but every 742 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: badly essentially filling the shooter role when he's not essentially 743 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: a shooter, even though he's shooting well for the season. 744 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, I digress, like, that's kind of that's kind 745 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 1: of where we went. We put twenty games into that, 746 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,439 Speaker 1: and so now we're kind of starting the uptick into 747 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: what we're going to become. It's gonna take time, but yeah, 748 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 1: and I was frustrating the man. That's a I was 749 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: a tough loss. But I don't even know where I 750 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,479 Speaker 1: was going with this anymore. Let's yeah, so let's let's 751 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 1: finish with this. Let's finish with moving forward for the 752 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: next month. How would you structure not not every inch 753 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: of the lineup obviously, but the front court in particular, 754 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: how would you structure that moving forward until Anthony Davis 755 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: comes back in terms of the rotation, like who would 756 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: you have on the floor? Wind? Yeah, so, I mean 757 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: I think some games Dowight is definitely gonna start due 758 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,880 Speaker 1: to just big man, even though I don't think there 759 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: are that many big men now in the league that 760 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 1: would give Lebron too much issues. But I would like 761 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: to stagger right and Lebron at least until our wings 762 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,880 Speaker 1: come back. If reeese reevee can't really play center, but 763 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: just until we get some more of those wings back. 764 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,799 Speaker 1: I would like to kind of stagger those two at least, 765 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: um just to go away from the because I feel 766 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,879 Speaker 1: like all this team is kind of missing is those 767 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 1: a few minutes where we play Mellow at the five, 768 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: And to me, those are just unsurvivable. We've seen that 769 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: against Houston last night. We've seen it actually all season. 770 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,680 Speaker 1: Look at them. Look at the numbers when mellows at 771 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: the five, they just kind of burned points and teams, 772 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, see that as a layuplind to the rim. 773 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 1: I don't know how really structure the minutes that way THHD. 774 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: I think coming off the bench is nice, Like I 775 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: think that's helped, you know, that helps the kind of 776 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,879 Speaker 1: the team flow when the games start. But oh yeah, 777 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: and he's he's completely gone mentally on the offensive end 778 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, he's in a real struggle. He had 779 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,800 Speaker 1: a one on one against like desmc bane in transition 780 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: and absolutely had no clue what he wanted to do. 781 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 1: Flipped up a like no, looker, yeah no, look. I 782 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,319 Speaker 1: was like, oh man, Taylor is gone, because that used 783 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,759 Speaker 1: to be a power, you know, through through guys and 784 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: one finishing out. Yeah for sure. But yeah, I would 785 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 1: love to stagger kind of Lebron and why just to 786 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 1: take away some of those mellow at the five minutes. Um. 787 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: I know that kind of hurts Russ because Russ leads 788 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: a lot of those second units, so it kind of 789 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 1: takes some space away from him him. But I thought 790 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: Russ and Dwight Man had some nice chemistry tonight. Like 791 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: again I talked about that play. We spammed Rose, Russell, 792 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: Lebron and Dwight running like stagger screens for Russ where 793 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 1: he can kind of make decisions off that. I thought 794 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,799 Speaker 1: that looked good and rust with some shooting. He had 795 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,319 Speaker 1: some passes to shooters tonight in the corner that we're nice. 796 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: But I would I would just stag to those two, 797 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: like that's all we can really do right now. Those 798 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,880 Speaker 1: those mellow at the five minutes are killing us, And 799 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,160 Speaker 1: I thought it killed us tonight. Um. I thought even 800 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 1: against Houston, we had a little bit of a lead, 801 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 1: we went to mellow at the five and teams just 802 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,360 Speaker 1: attack us relentlessly at that free to advantage again a 803 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: lot for Memphis. I think it was like twenty five 804 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 1: to eight. But yeah, that's what I would do. How 805 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: about you, man, what would what would you kind of 806 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: do with the forward big minute rotation because I think 807 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,840 Speaker 1: John J. Jordan's definitely not saying yeah, he's done, and 808 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 1: that might lead to what I think is their next 809 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 1: roster move. Honestly, like, that's just kind of how I 810 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: see this this going. But what would you kind of 811 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: do with the center forward rotation so staggering Dwight and 812 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,120 Speaker 1: Lebron It should have been the biggest no brainer that 813 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 1: this coaching staff has ever had to decide. That is 814 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 1: definitely a confusing um decision tonight to bring Dwight back 815 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 1: into the rotation, but then to also have minutes with 816 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,800 Speaker 1: Dwight and Lebron off that was genuinely confounding. You know, 817 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,440 Speaker 1: But I look at it like this, When you go small, 818 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,720 Speaker 1: I think having more big forwards on the floor becomes 819 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,799 Speaker 1: absolutely imperative. And you know, I need to dig into 820 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: the numbers after the all up date, but my guess 821 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 1: is lineups that have had Lebron and Stanley Johnson on 822 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 1: the floor have done well. And the reason why is 823 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: because when you get a couple of those guys flying around, 824 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,239 Speaker 1: it kind of generates the same type of defensive disruption 825 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: that one really big guy does. You know what I mean, 826 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,200 Speaker 1: so I the way I look at it is that 827 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,879 Speaker 1: we have Dwight, who's kind of like the odd man 828 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: out here in the front court in terms of his style. 829 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,399 Speaker 1: But then the rest of the three, four or five 830 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,240 Speaker 1: minutes have to be taken up by Lebron, a Resa 831 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 1: Mellow and Austin Reeves. And so what I would in 832 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,839 Speaker 1: Instanley Johnson, So what I would do as I would 833 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 1: try to have two of the more athletic guys on 834 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: the floor at all times. So never go with like 835 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 1: Mellow and Reeves, because if you have Mellow and Reeves 836 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 1: on the floor run in the front court at the 837 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 1: same time, then now your biggest players on the floor 838 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 1: are just too slow and too small, you know. But 839 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,440 Speaker 1: like if you could always have on a Reason on 840 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,480 Speaker 1: the floor, on Stanley Johnson on the floor, Lebron on 841 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 1: the floor, you know, with those guys, then you have 842 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 1: that baseline level of athleticism. So if you are going 843 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 1: to force a Carmelow at the five lineup, which who knows, 844 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,279 Speaker 1: maybe that's the way they see it, then it needs 845 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,880 Speaker 1: to be Mellow at the five alongside a Reason and Reeves, 846 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,160 Speaker 1: you know, two guys that are going to do a 847 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: lot of the dirty work that mellows unwilling to do. 848 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 1: Two guys that will put their bodies on the line 849 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,120 Speaker 1: to get in front of guys barreling through the lane 850 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: and things along those lines. But you know, I've been 851 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,359 Speaker 1: talking a lot over the course of the last week 852 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,399 Speaker 1: that you know, Austin Reeves and Trevor Reason are two 853 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,320 Speaker 1: best defensive forwards not named Lebron in a D. So 854 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:03,800 Speaker 1: they're absolutely, you know, incredibly important to this team and 855 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,280 Speaker 1: just being functional. And and that's why you've seen Stanley 856 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,319 Speaker 1: Johnson do so well is because he's really the only 857 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,239 Speaker 1: guy on the roster now not named Lebron who can 858 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,360 Speaker 1: do that stuff because of COVID. So now with everybody 859 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,600 Speaker 1: coming back, we can get that same invigorating feel that 860 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,520 Speaker 1: we get from Stanley Johnson plugged into a lineup. We 861 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 1: can get that all the time with combinations of Stanley 862 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: and Lebron and combinations of a Reason Reeves and mixing 863 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,879 Speaker 1: that up in a bunch of different ways. But I think, 864 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,719 Speaker 1: I think you gotta lean in on and this is 865 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 1: gonna be really hard for Frank because Frank is such 866 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,880 Speaker 1: a big believer in ball pressure and such a big 867 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,799 Speaker 1: believer in a little quick guards that can chase guys 868 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,440 Speaker 1: over the top of screens. But this team, now that 869 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,320 Speaker 1: Lebron is playing so much center, needs to go a 870 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: lean heavier into playing their bigger wings. And so I'll 871 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,160 Speaker 1: be really curious to see if if that ends up 872 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,680 Speaker 1: being the the direction that they're going. Um. But that's 873 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 1: all I have for Deny. Is there anything else you 874 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: wanted to hit ros before we call? Now? It's funny 875 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 1: you talked about the ball pressure. Um, the ball pressure 876 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,919 Speaker 1: that Frank Vogo like the sick joke about tonight. Really 877 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:07,960 Speaker 1: I thought, you know, they did a nice job on 878 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,840 Speaker 1: John Morant, at least in that first half. He just 879 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,200 Speaker 1: did all his threes. But like Avery Bradley was chasing 880 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 1: over the top, Dwight was moving his feet. They're pourcing 881 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,400 Speaker 1: him into tough shots. That's what It just makes tonight 882 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,759 Speaker 1: a tough loss. But hopefully, you know, they can pick 883 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,600 Speaker 1: it up. I think they played Portland's on Friday, UM, 884 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 1: and I think the schedule gets a little bit easier here. 885 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a tough one man. Jason Maples, I 886 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,319 Speaker 1: think tweeted this is rock bottom. I want to say 887 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: this one's rock bottom, but Okay, see lost losses film 888 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 1: felt a little bit more rock but or the lost 889 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 1: in Minnesota at home that was actually you know, in 890 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,719 Speaker 1: the building for that one felt awful as well. But yeah, 891 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,960 Speaker 1: this was a tough one that you can't really give 892 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,120 Speaker 1: up games while you're two games under five. But I 893 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 1: saw a good process stuff tonight. Man. I think we're 894 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,440 Speaker 1: getting if you know, if a d can come back 895 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,160 Speaker 1: and we get this type of Russ at least through 896 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: the first three three and a half quarters. That that 897 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,200 Speaker 1: fourth quarter was rough, but I thought he played a 898 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 1: good floor game, man, and I want to kind of 899 00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: keep that. I'm gonna go rewatch the game and maybe 900 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: I changed my opinion and when I go, when I 901 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,400 Speaker 1: go rewatch it, but just watching it live, I just 902 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: you know, in my notes on how much of like, 903 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,600 Speaker 1: oh that was a nice like Russ was pick and 904 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 1: roll with Lebron and Russ saw the pocket past but 905 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,680 Speaker 1: then he was in the air and found a guy 906 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,080 Speaker 1: in the corner or like he was driving and get 907 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,440 Speaker 1: a nice finish at the basket through contact, like there 908 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,840 Speaker 1: was stuff to and I thought that was good. So 909 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: good plays. Yeah, yeah, the late game stuff is is 910 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,759 Speaker 1: what it is. But I thought he made some nice 911 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,480 Speaker 1: plays as the game one. All right, everybody, that's all 912 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,080 Speaker 1: we have for tonight. So just you guys know, Raj 913 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,520 Speaker 1: is gonna be out of town on Friday, so I'll 914 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,160 Speaker 1: be trying to find a guest. Maybe I'll reach out 915 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 1: to Maples and see if he wants to join us. 916 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,319 Speaker 1: I know he needs to give me a hard time 917 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 1: about my THHD Drew holiday camp. And then I think 918 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,120 Speaker 1: he also is one of the guys the captain of 919 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: the Let's Trade RUSS ships, So we'll try to reach 920 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,880 Speaker 1: out to the NMC if we can't get him on. 921 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,719 Speaker 1: But we appreciate you guys hanging with us. This is 922 00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,800 Speaker 1: gonna be on dash Radio tomorrow morning at seven am 923 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,280 Speaker 1: Pacific Standard time, and we'll also be on our podcast 924 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,240 Speaker 1: feed here in about twenty minutes. Has always, we appreciate 925 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,279 Speaker 1: your support and we will be back for the game 926 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,560 Speaker 1: show on Friday. Thanks everyone,