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Speaker 1: Um So Roser just made you the host of the

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you know what you guys do as far as

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Speaker 1: the proper roles. It really is that simple. I mean,

429
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Speaker 1: you know everything everything gets colored by recency bias, right.

430
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Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't a whole lot of Laker optimism

431
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Speaker 1: after the seeding games last year because you're like, oh,

432
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 1: they can't shoot, there's no offense, like they missed Rondo.

433
00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,159
Speaker 1: Everything is, the wheels are coming off. Lebron and a

434
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Speaker 1: D look sloppy. There was all this stuff because you

435
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Speaker 1: just get caught up in the way basketball looks as

436
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Speaker 1: of late. However, the bottom line is is you still

437
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Speaker 1: have to be Lebron and a D. With this backcourt

438
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Speaker 1: and with this front court, with these role players and

439
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Speaker 1: and with every all of the pieces that they have,

440
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Speaker 1: it's easy to see how this could be very, very successful.

441
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Speaker 1: And they remedied two of their biggest problems back when

442
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Speaker 1: they were healthy, which was they need a little bit

443
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Speaker 1: more front court depth and they needed more shooting, and

444
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Speaker 1: especially with as well as Alex Cruz has been shooting

445
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Speaker 1: the ball as of late, and with Mark Keith getting

446
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Speaker 1: going and with Marcusol getting going, like I tend to

447
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Speaker 1: think that if Lebron and helped you were healthy right now,

448
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 1: the Lakers would be looking just like as dominated as

449
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 1: Brooklyn has been as of white. Yeah, and like the

450
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 1: thing that people a lot of people like compare this

451
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Speaker 1: to like the Clippers last year, right like they only

452
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Speaker 1: played a few games, or even the nets this year

453
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: they've only played a few games together. I guess like

454
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Speaker 1: the only counter to that was, like lebronon a D

455
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,119
Speaker 1: built all their chemistry last year, right like, they got

456
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,360
Speaker 1: a pretty much a full season last year, a full

457
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Speaker 1: playoffs so they're not coming in like still trying to

458
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Speaker 1: learn each other's games. Um, they haven't really blend with

459
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Speaker 1: the team as fully, but I mean at least those

460
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Speaker 1: two together have kind of built a camaraderie in and

461
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Speaker 1: from in the playoffs. Is gonna be those two together

462
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Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes a game, right, Like that's really

463
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Speaker 1: what it's gonna be. So I think it right, we

464
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Speaker 1: have Lebron in a D back, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: they care what seed they are. I don't think they

466
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Speaker 1: want to play four straight games on the road, if

467
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Speaker 1: especially if fans are back. But I don't think they

468
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Speaker 1: have a problem with it either. So I think the

469
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Speaker 1: Calves w went to the finals as the four seed

470
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Speaker 1: Lebron's left room. Yeah, so I don't think. Yeah, I

471
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Speaker 1: don't think they're worried about that. And then obviously a

472
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Speaker 1: Clippers matchup would be a home game anyway, so from

473
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Speaker 1: there it's not really not a big issue. So I

474
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Speaker 1: think you're right, Joseph, appreciate, appreciate you coming on here.

475
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Speaker 1: But Jazz to her hand, Uh, yeah, I think I

476
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Speaker 1: think he's right that if if you have to run

477
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Speaker 1: an a D back on the seating doesn't really matter.

478
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Speaker 1: You just want to stay out of that seven h

479
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Speaker 1: that's seventh seed. Yeah, And at the end of the day,

480
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Speaker 1: so much of it just depends about the playoff path,

481
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 1: like it was one thing. It was one thing last

482
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Speaker 1: year when I was like, oh man, you want to

483
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Speaker 1: have the one seed because you don't want to play

484
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Speaker 1: the Clippers in the second round. I mean that happened

485
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Speaker 1: to Houston in two thousand nineteen if you remember, Uh,

486
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Speaker 1: Houston slacked off during the regular season, ended up dropping two.

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Speaker 1: I want to say, I can I think it was

488
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Speaker 1: a three seed. I think they dropped to the three seed,

489
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Speaker 1: and then the Warriors ended up dropping to two, and

490
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the

491
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Speaker 1: Rockets dropped four. That's what it was. And then they

492
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Speaker 1: played Golden State in the second round and they got

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Speaker 1: beatn and then that shows up as a second round exit. Well,

494
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Speaker 1: this year, everybody's good. So yeah, I mean, like, who

495
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Speaker 1: are you who really are you avoiding here? Because I mean, uh,

496
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Speaker 1: you know, the Warriors when when they're healthy or probably

497
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Speaker 1: the worst of the top eight teams in the West,

498
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Speaker 1: and I don't I wouldn't want to play Steph Curry

499
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Speaker 1: in the playoff series, Like he's a complete nightmare in

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Speaker 1: the playoff series. And you know, Luca with with is

501
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Speaker 1: coming into form, and the Mavericks look really good. They

502
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Speaker 1: beat the Jazz the other night. Uh, and they're probably

503
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Speaker 1: gonna end up being like the seven seed, and then

504
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Speaker 1: the Nuggets there and Gordon look like better than the Clippers,

505
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Speaker 1: and then the Utah Jazz are like a bona fide

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Speaker 1: number one overall seed. It's just there's no there's no

507
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Speaker 1: easy path, so like you're really not um, You're you're

508
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Speaker 1: really not getting Like even if the Lakers had some

509
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Speaker 1: killer crazy comeback and they got the number two seed,

510
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Speaker 1: it's like you're still gonna play Luca in the first round,

511
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Speaker 1: probably the Clippers in the second round, in the Jazz

512
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Speaker 1: in the third round. That's literally what it's gonna be.

513
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Speaker 1: So there's just no advantage to straining yourself to get

514
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Speaker 1: a higher in the standings. Yeah, exactly. And if everyone

515
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Speaker 1: anyone else wants to speak, they can request or just

516
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: typed in the chat as well. Um April says, Malcolmar

517
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Speaker 1: is a good ad when you think we are solid

518
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Speaker 1: on defense, and that's true, like talked about earlier, defense

519
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Speaker 1: has been pretty consistent. They just need to hit some

520
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Speaker 1: open shots. That's what happened against Sacramento, That's what happened tonight. Um,

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Speaker 1: it just sets that they hit none of the shots

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Speaker 1: against the good teams, which I think. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's a coincidence totally, but they did miss a bunch

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Speaker 1: of open looks. Um, I'll honesk you this one. Jason

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Speaker 1: is Aramo Saley Sorrify. But your name says Who's is

526
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Speaker 1: taking a lot of bad shots? What do you think

527
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Speaker 1: about his comment there? What do you think do you

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Speaker 1: think Who's is taking a lot of bad shots? It's

529
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Speaker 1: in his personality. He's like, he reminds me he's a

530
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Speaker 1: little bit of like a J. R. Smith kind of

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Speaker 1: guy in the sense that lighten he he insists on

532
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Speaker 1: trying to get his rhythm by taking crazy shots, which

533
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Speaker 1: is insane to me because you know, like you know,

534
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Speaker 1: for me personally, like one of the biggest areas of

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Speaker 1: growth that I experienced as I got older was understanding

536
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Speaker 1: that the best way to get going in a basketball

537
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Speaker 1: game is to take easier shots so that you approached

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Speaker 1: the rest of the game with confidence because you've made

539
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Speaker 1: easier shots, and you know, some of that gets more

540
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Speaker 1: complicated when you're playing with out Lebron in NAD because

541
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Speaker 1: there just aren't a lot of easy shots. But he

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Speaker 1: played the same way with Lebron and Nad, where it's

543
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Speaker 1: like a lot of times like who's his first shot,

544
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Speaker 1: Like first shot of the game Lebron and Nadi are playing,

545
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 1: He's flying off the screen contested, it's not even open.

546
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 1: He's fading, he's kicking his legs and it's off the

547
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Speaker 1: back room and it's like, Okay, here we go. We're

548
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Speaker 1: starting the game with the miss and I certainly would

549
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Speaker 1: like to see him try to um, try to get

550
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Speaker 1: going in a more under control manner. But the flip

551
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:34,959
Speaker 1: side of that is he's your stereotypical irrational confidence guy.

552
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: And irrational confidence guys they're always like they succeed based

553
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Speaker 1: on the fact that they think they're a lot better

554
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: than they actually are, and part of that manifests as

555
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Speaker 1: a desire to take really difficult shots. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just kind of take it as it is what

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Speaker 1: Kuzma is um and you you got, you kind of

558
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Speaker 1: gotta live with it. I mean, he's one of the

559
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Speaker 1: biggest hot and cold players that I've ever rooted for

560
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Speaker 1: my time as a basketball fan, Like when he gotta

561
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Speaker 1: go in, he looks like Jayson Tatum. But when when

562
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have a going I mean, he looks like

563
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Speaker 1: a bump. And that's just that's just kind of how

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Speaker 1: it goes. And I feel like there'd be a little

565
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Speaker 1: more consistency if he reined in his shot selection, but

566
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Speaker 1: it's just not in his basketball identity. Yeah, I always

567
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Speaker 1: say I'll tell him, like like my grandkids about rookie

568
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: Couz right, that was like it was like an offensive

569
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Speaker 1: Monsters rookie year, but really just just a finish up

570
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Speaker 1: on him. I think I agree with your points on him,

571
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Speaker 1: like Lebron and a d r out Right, guys are

572
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Speaker 1: gonna try to do more and whoever they think is

573
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Speaker 1: more right, shooters gonna drive more. Um Kuzin was gonna

574
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Speaker 1: take a lot more tougher shots. He's gonna run a

575
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Speaker 1: lot of more picking roles, even though his handle is

576
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Speaker 1: still really chompy. Right, he gets stripped a lot, But yeah,

577
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Speaker 1: that like him do more. But his defense to me,

578
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Speaker 1: like if you watched last year, not not last year, yeah,

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Speaker 1: last year early in the year, Um Sam really picked

580
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Speaker 1: on him, right, I think that was one of their

581
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: losses to the Raptors was at home, uh and it

582
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Speaker 1: ended their eight game win straight if I remember correctly.

583
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Speaker 1: It was a home game and Sam really picked on

584
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Speaker 1: him like they would call STOs out just for him,

585
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: and he got to the rim, got layups scored this year,

586
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: you could really see his defense like st Sa wasn't

587
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: pretty much hell all night. That's not all Kuzma. The

588
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: Lakers health defense is obviously great, like we talked about earlier,

589
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: but um, like he was able to stay in front

590
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Speaker 1: of him. Sam got a few like mid range contested

591
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: pull ups, but I think you live with that. He's

592
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: really took away his drive to the basket and it

593
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Speaker 1: was just cool to see him still. Like his defense

594
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: is still um really top tier for a for a wing.

595
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Speaker 1: So that's what the Lakers need. He's able to switch.

596
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: He was able to switch on a lot of guards.

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Speaker 1: You got a few blocks to night as well at

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Speaker 1: the rim. So his defense is playing well enough that

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Speaker 1: I'm not really worried about the offense. Like I think

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Speaker 1: his offense will come and go as it is. Like

601
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Speaker 1: he's a he's a streaky shooter, right, He's a score

602
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: he's a guy that can score thirty or you can

603
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: be like two P ten right. That's that's his offense

604
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Speaker 1: right now, and I think it's fine on this team.

605
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Speaker 1: His spot up shoot numbers are okay, and he's sitting

606
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Speaker 1: his shots from the corners at least, so I think

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00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: we'll live. We'll live with that. Um uh, you live,

608
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Speaker 1: you live with the offensive inconsistency if he's consistent in

609
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Speaker 1: all the other parts of his game exactly. Uh t

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Speaker 1: O G, what's up? T he says. Bogil says that

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Speaker 1: drummon will continue to start. I'll give this one to you, Jason. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He says that, Yeah, what are your thoughts on that?

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Speaker 1: The Bogos says a drumming will continia start even though

614
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: Mark played so well tonight. Well, I mean, similar to

615
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Speaker 1: what happened with Javel last year. I think it was

616
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Speaker 1: probably some sort of commitment before the fact. But there's

617
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Speaker 1: a there's a basketball rationalization to that, and it has

618
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Speaker 1: to do with the fact that Marcusol makes way more

619
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Speaker 1: sense to play alongside Montrese harrold Um. Playing Montrese hele

620
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Speaker 1: Andre Drummond next to each other would be like basketball blasphemy,

621
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Speaker 1: would be horrible. It would ruin everything offensively for them. Um,

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Speaker 1: So you can explain it away that way. But as

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Speaker 1: I said earlier today, if you guys were following on Twitter,

624
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Speaker 1: like if Mark Keith is gonna keep shooting this, well,

625
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: I mean they can start drumming all they want, but

626
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be kind of like Javel last year, where

627
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: they're just gonna go away from him after that first

628
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: stint and they're gonna end up going with their more

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Speaker 1: skilled in verse little lineups. Um, because they have so

630
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Speaker 1: many options to go there. And Mark Kis Morris literally

631
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: right now looks like one of the best stretch fives

632
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Speaker 1: in the league because he's guarding so well, he's defending

633
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Speaker 1: post a players so well, and he's shooting from three

634
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Speaker 1: on like five attempts per game. So I mean, they

635
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: just have all sorts of options. But yeah, I mean, uh,

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Speaker 1: they I would imagine they promised it to Drummond, but

637
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like it actually does

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Speaker 1: make sense to play Drummond with a d and to

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Speaker 1: play with MARKIV. Yeah, Mark got a lot of minutes

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00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 1: next to that young Lakers corps, right, all the young

641
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: players that were like flying around and he was the

642
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: one at the top kind of like Yo kitch light

643
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: kind of where he was just kind of directing and

644
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: guys were cutting off him and playing. Well. It's funny

645
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: because I was really looking forward to him playing with

646
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: Tres because they don't have a minute together still. I

647
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: don't think this season Blo said he wouldn't do it

648
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: against Milwaukee and then this game Treads gets ejected. I

649
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,239
Speaker 1: believe was that in the first quarter? Um so when

650
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,479
Speaker 1: the first I believe in the first coutter? Yeah so, um,

651
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: Tred's gets ejected. So Mark still does not have a

652
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: minute with Tread's. Hopefully in the next game. In the

653
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: next game they can they can play together and see

654
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: how that works. But yeah, I'm really looking forward to

655
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: because I think Mark and played the four on offense

656
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: and the five on defense and just give a really

657
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: nice dynamic off the bench, and how much he wants

658
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: to do that. It's obviously he's he shared how he

659
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: feels about it. But uh, yeah, I think Drummond fits

660
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: better with the starters as well. Give give Shooter a

661
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: nice pick and roll target um option and that starting

662
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: lineup and have Mark off the bench and hopefully he

663
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: can he I know he'll eventually accept in that role

664
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: market just he's a professional, he's a competitor and you

665
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: expect him to kind of to speak on that and

666
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: uh Andy again, if anyone wants to speak, yeah, go ahead.

667
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: Drummond is such a physical presence to that when the

668
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: Lakers have those games where they really attack early on

669
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: by just bullying the hell out of you physically. Uh gosh,

670
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: like having Drummond out there with those guys, who is

671
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: going to be a nightmare for the opponent when they

672
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: really get that going. So I mean, you know, like, yes,

673
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: what the Lakers have, they've been playing really well, but

674
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: Drummond is also good and he's also going to be good, right, Yeah, definitely,

675
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: And if anyone wants to speak or anything, or again,

676
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: or you can put stuff in the chat as well. Again,

677
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: t O G says, a great th HD game. What's

678
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: his ceiling? I'm not sure, honestly, I think it's pretty high.

679
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's not a Toronto Raptor tonight. So I

680
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: guess I'll say that Jason was hoping you would be,

681
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: but but no, But yeah, he looked really good. He

682
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: just needs a service full jump. He needs a serviceable

683
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: jumper just to get what he wants. He's already game

684
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: to the rim. He pulled these guys at the basket. Um,

685
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: he gets to the he gets to the line as well.

686
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: For a Laker guard him and Shooter. Only Laker guards

687
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: that really can get to the rim. And yeah, he

688
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: played well. His his passing is already super creative. He

689
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: does things that like, like once a game at least

690
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: you'll do something where I'm like wow, Like tonight he

691
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: split a double team the three sixty pass on on

692
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: on point to the corner to Caruso. We get at three,

693
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, that's like the ceiling. That's like if

694
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: everything comes together, his body, his you know, his control everything.

695
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: By like four, he can be an on ball creator.

696
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if he gets there, but he'll have

697
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: all the tools. What do you what do you think

698
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: about th HDS game tonight and how do you think

699
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: he'll he'll move on for going forward? He was great.

700
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: He created open shots for his teammates. That's that's something

701
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: you don't see often from someone in his age. I

702
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: mean he came in first possession and he had to

703
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: turn over and then uh and then after that almost

704
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: immediately had that play where he had the ball at

705
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: the elbow and dumped it off the kios going down

706
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: the uh going down the lane for the layup. And

707
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: then he and he had the play that you're talking

708
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: about to Crusoe where he kind of palmed it with

709
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: his hand and like flipped and flicked the wrist out there,

710
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: and then he had another driving kick. I want to

711
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: say it was a Kuzma, but I'm not hunder percent sure.

712
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: But you know I've said this a hundred times in

713
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: conversations with you, like he's always gonna look really good

714
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: at times and and show these flashes. I just think,

715
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, especially with McLamore now, like it's

716
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: hard for me to believe he's gonna play much uh

717
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: come to playoff time. I mean, I think Frank will

718
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: give him a chance. But unless he all of a

719
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: sudden develops into a defensive player that never makes mistakes.

720
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about his peak, uh like athletically as

721
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: a defender. I'm talking about one that doesn't make mistakes

722
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: because mistakes cost you. If he develops into that, then

723
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: I believe that that he can um become that type

724
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: of player. But I just Yeah, I love the potential.

725
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: I love all that, but there's I'm I'm fully mentally

726
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: prepared for him to not be a factor in this postseason. Yeah.

727
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: I mean most like a lot of twenty year olds

728
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: don't get them any minutes, right unless you're like Jayson

729
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: Tatum or something like that, Donovan Mitchell. Those guys are

730
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: lead guards or stars when they came into the league, right,

731
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: those those guys PhDs role is kind of field by Lebron, right,

732
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: Like he's kind of playing the the Lebron role right now,

733
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Speaker 1: and obviously when Lebron comes back, Lebron is going to

734
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: play the Lebron role. But that's basically what he is.

735
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: He's just running high screen role in the ball in

736
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: his hands, and he had a bunch of turnovers, which

737
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: you know you can. I mean, Shooter is also having

738
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of tune numbers. So that's gonna happen when

739
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: you have guys trying to play that superstar role. So

740
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: I think you're right. In the playoffs is a little less.

741
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: I do think he'll get spot minutes. Like he's a

742
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: guy that can come in and just get a quick

743
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: six points, right. The other team doesn't have good room protection.

744
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: He's a guy that would really attack the basket, like

745
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: Aaron Bains today he got some fouls on him. Aaron

746
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: bad isn't really a shop blocker. He's more of a

747
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: guy that wants to draw charges. And the THHD did

748
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: a nice job kind of attacking him. Um uh. Joseph says,

749
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: where they put the all clutch lineup? I mean the

750
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: all clutch lineup includes the bron A D, so I

751
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 1: think you can't really go wrong abother three are there.

752
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess all clutch would be what bron

753
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: A D, tres K t H. I think that's an absolute.

754
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely a lineup you'll see at some point.

755
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: It will be an Instagram post. Shortly after t says

756
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: Ka cook the new tres next year. I want I

757
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: want to ask you this because I watched Kake cog

758
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: in Summer League. Obviously, summer League is not, you know,

759
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: anything close to the league. But I thought he had

760
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: Treads comparisons back then, before we even got dress or

761
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: two summer leagues ago. Yeah, man, time is flown. I

762
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: forgot whenever ended in started, but yeah, they summer League,

763
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: I thought he looked like Treads back then what do

764
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: you see from Can't Cook. I know there wasn't a

765
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: lot tonight, but he seems like he has a good

766
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: motor and like you can finish at the rim. Um

767
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: do you think like he has a he has a

768
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: role maybe not this year, but next shot on this

769
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: team or anything that you saw it from him. There

770
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: was a play in transition tonight where he had a

771
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: block at the rim where he kind of almost jumped backwards,

772
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: stuck his hands up and the guy kind of caved

773
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: in his chest and then he blocked him on the

774
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: way down and then he ran down the floor and

775
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: got a lay up, and I almost the first name

776
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: that came to my mind was Draymond. Now that's completely

777
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: insane because Draymond is so skilled, it's such a good passer,

778
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But defensively, I saw some of that

779
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: from him, because the difference between Draymond and UH and

780
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: montrez is Montrese has all of this length. They're both short,

781
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: but he has all of this length and he kind

782
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: of is a little too thin. He doesn't really have

783
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: much of a presence around the basket. K Cos just

784
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: did a really good job of of of being disruptive

785
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: around the rim with his hands without fouling, while also

786
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: being kind of a pain in the ass, big strong

787
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: dude that was difficult to bully. And that kind of

788
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: reminded me a little bit of Draymond. So obviously I'm

789
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: just speaking about the defensive end, but yeah, I mean

790
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: he's good and he and he, for the record, is

791
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: another great example of all the things that I've said

792
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: to you about about these young centers. Um, you know,

793
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: kind of like Claxton with the nets, or or our

794
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: Damian Jones that was here with the Lakers for a

795
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 1: little bit. Like when you give guys who have athletic

796
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: tools a really easy job, they can have some success.

797
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: And and it's nice when you've got the rest of

798
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: the scheme dialed in. You can be like, oh crap,

799
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: Montrese got ejected. Uh you here you go, Davante, it's

800
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: your turn. And and because he has the tools him,

801
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: because there's a scheme in place, he can just step

802
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: in and do his thing. Yeah, you could tell like

803
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: the Raptors kind of players were kind of he's the

804
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: kind of guy that's like playing super hard while the

805
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: game is what up thirty right, And they're like what

806
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: are you doing? Like, why are you who are you

807
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: finding super hard Robin while the game is like super

808
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: out of hands. So that's kind of what I saw tonight.

809
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: And he hads a good finishing ability at the rim,

810
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: I thought he has pretty good hands. Um, it's kind

811
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: of telling that cost Costes couldn't get minutes tonight. Um,

812
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: in a game where you know the Lakers have treads

813
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: also out, I think kind of shows that Ki Cook

814
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: pretty much passed him as well in the rotation. And

815
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: so I don't think I don't think Coast this is

816
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: getting minutes anytime soon. Um, since we're doing this live,

817
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: we can kind of see the Marcus All had a

818
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: quote today, um after the game from Harrison Fagan shout

819
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: out Harrison. He says, I'm staying ready. I understand that

820
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: we have to get Andre acclimated to what we're trying

821
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: to do. I'll be ready whatever happens, whether it's five minutes,

822
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: ten minutes, I'll stay ready no matter what. So, like

823
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: we talked about that was, yeah, that's kind of expected, right,

824
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: That's what we were expecting out of Mark eventually. I mean,

825
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: I know initially he was kind of upset the situation

826
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: but I think that's what we were expecting from Mark,

827
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 1: Like he's a professional, he's competitor, but he's gonna he's

828
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna play his role. Alright, guys, I got time for

829
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: one more question otherwise I'm gonna get in trouble with

830
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: my wife. Alright, one last question here. Can we still

831
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: cut McKinney for a roster spot? Auto Porter would be

832
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: the cherry on top. I'm not sure, Honestly, I'm not

833
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: really I think we could, um, but I don't think

834
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: we'd be able to afford Auto Porter. I feel like

835
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: you would be um, pretty coveted out there, unless he

836
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: just wants to play in Los Angeles, So I have

837
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: to check with the salary people on that. But I

838
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: think that would be a smart move, right, Jason, I

839
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: think you're high as well on auto Porter as a

840
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: out reporter would be amazing, But like he's basically a

841
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: taller a taller version of Ben McLamore in terms of

842
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: what he'd be asked to do. The difference though, is like,

843
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: so out of Porter is really good, Like we'd be

844
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: really good and so uh And what I mean by

845
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: that is like he's not a veteran minimum kind of

846
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: guy like, he's a guy that next year is probably

847
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: going to be in the hunt for a bid level

848
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: exception somewhere, So he's gould be looking at like two

849
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: years twenty million, and so from that standpoint, there's there's

850
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: no real reason for him to take a buyout to

851
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Speaker 1: go to some tiny role somewhere where he might be

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Speaker 1: relegated to something that might hurt him. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's why he's been because he actually has come out

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Speaker 1: and leaked to the press. I should say, I don't

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Speaker 1: he's leaked to the press. There is agent or whatever

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Speaker 1: that he intends to stay in Orlando, and uh, my

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Speaker 1: guess is that it's because he thinks he has a

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Speaker 1: better chance of showing something that will get him paid

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Speaker 1: next year, whereas like Benn mcilmore's probably a veteran minimum

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Speaker 1: guy regardless next year, you know what I mean? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was always my thought too. On Auto Porter, He's

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Speaker 1: he's a lot better than a buyout guy. He just

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Speaker 1: But again, I think Andrew Drummond was in that situation

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Speaker 1: as well. But I mean, he's free agent after this year,

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Speaker 1: so I was looking to see if the Magic might

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Speaker 1: keep on the trade him. But yeah, it's all on him,

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Speaker 1: I guess, but I mean not' I'm not sure why

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Speaker 1: they would buy him out right now. Um. They need

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Speaker 1: they need players who think in Orlando. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure I think he'd He'd be really coveted though if

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Speaker 1: he does come out. So yeah, And it also gets

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Speaker 1: complicated in the sense that, like I wouldn't be surprised

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Speaker 1: if Rob Polinka is already basically told Andre Drummond that

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Speaker 1: he's getting the mid level exception next year. Um, and

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Speaker 1: that's some sort of under the table thing. Um. Again,

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Speaker 1: we don't know. We're always it's always conjecture with this

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. You'd absolutely love to have, um to

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Speaker 1: add another three and d wing like that that can

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Speaker 1: that can be a dead eye shooter and give you

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Speaker 1: another body to throw at a Kauai or another body

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Speaker 1: to throw at a you know, um out of Paul George.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like man, like

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Speaker 1: I said earlier, this roster feels pretty complete to me.

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Speaker 1: It was rose for a second there guess h Alright, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm leaving you in the capable hands of ras from here,

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Speaker 1: I gotta run um, but thank you guys for turning in.

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Speaker 1: This was fun. We gotta do this more often, especially

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Speaker 1: when we have somebody like Lebron and n D back

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Speaker 1: on the floor to make the games a little bit

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Speaker 1: more exciting. I'm gonna sign off here as well, so

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Speaker 1: this is a This is a lot of funny guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone who came and I asked questions. UM.

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Speaker 1: This will be out in podcast for um UM pretty

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Speaker 1: soon as well, so I appreciate everyone for listening. I'll

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Speaker 1: touch you later, Jason, and I'll see you guys. Hi, everybody,