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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to these Day of the Lakers post

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Speaker 1: game show presented by Dash Radio Man. The season has

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Speaker 1: been a hell of a roller coaster ride, and tonight

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Speaker 1: felt like a big six Flags level drop. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if anyone else has ever been on Goliath, but

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Speaker 1: there's like a huge shock on Goliath, and that's what

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Speaker 1: tonight kind of felt like. And honestly, before this game

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Speaker 1: I kind of had a bad feeling about tonight. There

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Speaker 1: was a lot of just chaos surrounding the team, right,

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Speaker 1: just with all the people coming in and out, Malik

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Speaker 1: Monk being okay to go on the plane, but he

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Speaker 1: wasn't okay to play. Russell Westbrook coming in and out

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Speaker 1: of protocols, signing Isaiah Thomas right, And I felt, just

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Speaker 1: for me, I'm a big process guy, but tonight I

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Speaker 1: felt like it was just, uh, just get a win

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Speaker 1: my thought process going to this one. I wasn't really

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Speaker 1: going to care about process. And again, it's not about

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas or John j. Brown or Jahoff, but just

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Speaker 1: to me, those kind of players coming up just signaled

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Speaker 1: that we were in survival mode, right that Johnny Brown

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Speaker 1: and then were and Jayhoff just were never with the

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Speaker 1: team before. And Isaiah Thomas to me, just doesn't fit

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Speaker 1: with this team needed. And I'll get into him a

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Speaker 1: little bit better, a little bit more later, because I

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Speaker 1: actually played well tonight, but again on the team with

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Speaker 1: in January, his fit just didn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 1: So like this game felt very survival mode, very panicky, right,

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Speaker 1: That's what the moves and the signings kind of told

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Speaker 1: to me, and you could tell it. You could tell

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Speaker 1: that with the team as well. I'm not gonna go

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Speaker 1: too long tonight because I don't think anyone needs to

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Speaker 1: hear me ramble about this game. This wasn't a It's

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Speaker 1: not a very happy game to talk about, especially just

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Speaker 1: right after the game, all the us still there. Let

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Speaker 1: me start with the start of the game. Obviously, Karl

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Speaker 1: Anthony Towns and the whole Minnesota Timberwolves to me came

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Speaker 1: And I was at that. I was at the game

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Speaker 1: where they played US at home. I was at the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Laker game when they played US and beat us

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Speaker 1: by thirty. There was a physical dominance to them that

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Speaker 1: they had that I saw again tonight, and even without

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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, there was a physical dominance that I saw

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Speaker 1: them just keep up. And Lebron didn't play in that

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Speaker 1: first game, but it felt a lot like this. Jared

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Speaker 1: Vanderbilt how the same type of impact, a lot of

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Speaker 1: offensive rebounding, a lot of players where we just weren't there.

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Speaker 1: And that was the most frustrating thing for me. We

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Speaker 1: just didn't give the requisite effort to win this one.

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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Town's obviously cared about this. He cares about

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Speaker 1: the A D matchup in a way that you know,

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Speaker 1: some big dudes, some big stough. I don't think your

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Speaker 1: I don't think even in b doesn't take it the

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Speaker 1: same way to me that Towns does when they play.

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Speaker 1: Towns obviously has some kind of personal feeling and a

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Speaker 1: D just was not there for it. And I can't

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Speaker 1: blame him for that. I mean, Anthony did this is

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Speaker 1: a superstar, Like in his mind, he's like, what do

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Speaker 1: I have to prove against kar Anthony Towns and some

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Speaker 1: matchup at the end of February. But it would have

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Speaker 1: been nice to see him kind of pick that up.

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Speaker 1: And obviously a D is the story tonight, right, He's

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Speaker 1: the backdrop of anything I say, because all the jokes,

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Speaker 1: and I'm tired of the soft jokes about a D.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you watch a guy have someone

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Speaker 1: of is you know, he's made of glass, or he's

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Speaker 1: soft or he's not tough, Like I don't know how

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Speaker 1: that's the first thing in your mind, but anyway, that's

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Speaker 1: obviously everything that this revolves around. Now, hopefully a D

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Speaker 1: is fine. Hopefully a D is good to go sooner

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Speaker 1: than later. I don't think he's gonna play Sunday. That's

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm an kind of rambow around back. The first

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Speaker 1: this team has been theoretical for a very long time,

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Speaker 1: it felt like we've had a theoretical team for so long.

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Speaker 1: I mean, especially when a D went down in February

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Speaker 1: and that team had its issues, right, and then I

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Speaker 1: and then from then on it just felt like a okay, well,

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Speaker 1: when Lebron gets back, now, what would this team will

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Speaker 1: it looks like when a D gets back and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden it's game four of the playoffs, right,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden and then a D goes down.

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Speaker 1: And then you have this year as well, right, which

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Speaker 1: is felt like a oh, wait till Trevor Reason gets back. Oh,

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Speaker 1: HD gets back. And we've been in this like constant

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Speaker 1: before we can judge the team, which is not really

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Speaker 1: how basketball works, right. A team is a construction, it's

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Speaker 1: its own ecosystem. Every single year, my team has a

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Speaker 1: new kind of way that they perform on the court.

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Speaker 1: And this is what this team has been. They are

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Speaker 1: what fifteen and thirteen now two games over five. I

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Speaker 1: saw a lot of comments tonight about people hate this team, right,

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Speaker 1: and and that's kind of been the feeling for this team,

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Speaker 1: that the effort is just so lackluster for for way

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Speaker 1: too long. And I just hated the start of this one.

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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns punked a lot of our team, and

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Speaker 1: we can get mad at him screaming and all that,

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Speaker 1: but he obviously felt like this was a game his

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Speaker 1: team could win. The Wolves haven't been great. I think

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Speaker 1: they've lost like five in a row recently. They've lost

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Speaker 1: they won two in a row, but they lost like

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Speaker 1: five in a row recently. But obviously tonight's the game.

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Speaker 1: They felt like they can out physical us, out rebound us,

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Speaker 1: dominate us inside. And we were like four for twenty

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Speaker 1: a half time and stuff like that as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: doesn't help at all. But it just felt like we

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Speaker 1: got we got really outplayed. And let me start with Lebron,

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Speaker 1: I guess because Lebron was disengaged on both ends, and

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Speaker 1: that's that's extremely clear, and it reminded me of the

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Speaker 1: Memphis game. Honestly, there were a lot of turnovers. There

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Speaker 1: get mad at lebronx He's played so well recently and

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Speaker 1: I keep competing this drum that it's unfair that he

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Speaker 1: has to be this level, this certain level of defense,

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Speaker 1: is what it is. That's the roster construction, uh, that

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Speaker 1: both have to be this super engaged four or five combo,

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Speaker 1: especially when they're starting. And the next thing I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get to his the starters, But just from an identity

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Speaker 1: basis here, this team needs Lebron A D to be themselves.

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Speaker 1: And I like, as a person watching, can't get mad

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Speaker 1: at lebron And you're nineteen for taking plays off, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: how can I get upset at him for taking defensive

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Speaker 1: plays off. He knows what he needs to do for

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Speaker 1: his body and all that, but it's just looks bad

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Speaker 1: on film. It also looks bad when you have all

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Speaker 1: these cards that also don't do the same thing. Then

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Speaker 1: you're playing Isaiah Thomas and again you you can't. I

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Speaker 1: really can't get mad at Vogel either. What he's gonna

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Speaker 1: but man a d has and again I hope he's okay.

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Speaker 1: You know, the injury sucks. He had two injuries in

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Speaker 1: the same game, which is just I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you call that. I don't think bad luck. I don't

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Speaker 1: for having two separate type of injuries. Um, and the

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Speaker 1: body is obviously one whole thing, so they can kind

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Speaker 1: one injury and then get injured again. But he's been

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Speaker 1: in a funk for a while. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: you can walk into twenty and twelve, right, That's just

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Speaker 1: that's just how good Anthony Davis is. Like he can

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Speaker 1: at a time, And that's really what's been happening. And

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Speaker 1: again we started him at the five tonight and at

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Speaker 1: the five it's just a lot of possessions he's it

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Speaker 1: looks like an injury prevention, right. And look, Karl Anthony

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Speaker 1: Towns is a superstar player, but if a D is engaged,

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Speaker 1: if he's locked in, and we saw some of them

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Speaker 1: we saw him engage, and that when you can when

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Speaker 1: not happen if Anthony Davis is engaged and he wasn't,

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Speaker 1: like he just plane wasn't, And he starts these games

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Speaker 1: to trying to work his way into rhythm, right, And

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Speaker 1: I disagree with the approach. I understand the approach. I

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Speaker 1: that's how the roster's construction. But that's what he does.

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Speaker 1: He gets into these games and he tries to work

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Speaker 1: third quarters, right, so have like five points at halftime

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Speaker 1: and he'll still finish with his twenty two twelve because

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Speaker 1: we'll have like a third quarter where he dominates. But again, tonight,

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Speaker 1: I thought we needed it. We were so short handed.

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Speaker 1: Like I can't judge the team. I could judge the

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Speaker 1: Stars every levels though, like that's I think that's fair.

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Speaker 1: I can judge a D as being worked by Karl

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Speaker 1: Anthony Towns, like I would like him to take this

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Speaker 1: matchup a little bit more personally. Uh, he just wasn't.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, Ad has been in a funk and I

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Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Hopefully you know he can

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Speaker 1: come back. And I don't think it's just a jumper either.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think it's just lineups. I remember early

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Speaker 1: in the year everyone just said, you know, take DeAndre

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Speaker 1: I thought this team had bigger issues then just DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Jordan's taking him out of the lineup. And you see

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Speaker 1: that right that I've I've been kind of preaching this

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Speaker 1: the five line, and I still think that's the best

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Speaker 1: to uh to see that. And and hopefully eighties okay.

429
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,320
Speaker 1: And like I said, that's the caveat for all this stuff,

430
00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,360
Speaker 1: that's the backdrop for everything. There's a lot of jokes

431
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,440
Speaker 1: about anythin Davis, but this team is going absolutely nowhere

432
00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,919
Speaker 1: if he's not available, Like that's just the honest, the

433
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,360
Speaker 1: honest truth. So hopefully he's okay. Uh. And again, like

434
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 1: another positive, I think Arisa being questionable tonight got lost

435
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,880
Speaker 1: in the news like it got lost in the chaos.

436
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 1: Trevors was healthy to play tonight. He wasn't gonna play,

437
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,119
Speaker 1: but he was in uniform, and I think that's great.

438
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,360
Speaker 1: I think if we can just again this team has

439
00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 1: been three or theoretical for so long. It's been frustrating,

440
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 1: going back to last year, like I talked about this

441
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 1: year again, just trying to fit around pieces. All of

442
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 1: our non minimum guys have been out. pH D again

443
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,000
Speaker 1: being out. Austin Reeves after he plays well is out.

444
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 1: Like it's been just a roller coaster. That's been rough.

445
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,640
Speaker 1: But hopefully, you know, it can go move up here.

446
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,680
Speaker 1: Hopefully a D s okay um and and we can

447
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 1: start to get some get some wins here. Let me

448
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:50,679
Speaker 1: check my notes fired anything else from from tonight. I

449
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 1: think that was that was pretty much it, man, and

450
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,360
Speaker 1: I hope we just continue these these as the starters.

451
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 1: Ellington didn't shoot well tonight. I think it was like

452
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 1: over six, but he's getting good looks and I think

453
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,320
Speaker 1: that's all you can ask. And again, this starting lineup

454
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,399
Speaker 1: we were we were told on media day we're finally

455
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 1: getting it. We finally got four of the four the

456
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: players starting, and hopefully that keeps up. Let's see that's

457
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty much what I had for today.

458
00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 1: I'll try to open it up for some people to

459
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 1: come up here. If you want to come up and talk,

460
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 1: even you can request. But it's just a tough one.

461
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 1: The Lakers were building good momentum though, man Like I

462
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,400
Speaker 1: think I think they were building good momentum. I don't

463
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 1: think this has to kill it. Obviously. The eight News

464
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 1: would be so rough to kind of get. Hopefully it's

465
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,639
Speaker 1: just hopefully it's a minded things. We've had people in

466
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: and out. We'll see how COVID kind of rolls to

467
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 1: the NBA as we go forward here. This was a

468
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,120
Speaker 1: rough one. I feel like we got out hustle our

469
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 1: heart out. I'll destroyed by Minnesota team. Man, Minnesota Minnesota

470
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 1: team flexing at thirteen and fifteen on us because they

471
00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 1: felt like this was a game they could get, you know,

472
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 1: like that was really frustrating just to watch. But yeah,

473
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,959
Speaker 1: that was a This was a rough one. All right.

474
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 1: Let me I'll get some people up here. I appreciate

475
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,919
Speaker 1: everyone coming out on a Friday night to spend their

476
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 1: Friday Friday night with me. Let me get a few

477
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: people up here, yo, Well, what's going on? Rode? What's up? Bro?

478
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 1: Are you doing. You know, I'm good man, just feeling

479
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 1: your pain, bro. If I've been with you, man, I hope,

480
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 1: I hope I don't sound like I'm in too much pain.

481
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 1: And I hope that I hope that's not how it

482
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: came across. I mean, you know, I always talk about

483
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 1: appropriate pain and appropriate fear in life, so we can

484
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 1: just file it as an appropriate pain man. But I'm

485
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:52,679
Speaker 1: pretty sure you'll bounced back later on. But yeah, the

486
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: one thing, like you talked about it, I was I

487
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: was glad to hear. And it's something that it's always

488
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: I guess you can call it a concern that I

489
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: have about the Lakers. Is there a team of caveats

490
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: mainly the Stars where you got Lebron, you know, you

491
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: you get the whole package. You know, um superstar, one

492
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 1: of the best to ever play the game. But when

493
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 1: he not engaged, when he want to turn it off,

494
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: he will turn it off and it will affect everybody

495
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: around unfortunately. And then with a D you know, we

496
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: know he want to play before he you know, want

497
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: to do guard things. But by the number in some

498
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: cases some cases, and just by the Lakers being their best,

499
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: they want to put them at the five. But you know,

500
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: the body can only take so much for him. So

501
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: when you combine those two caveats on top of everything

502
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: else they've been dealing with this year, on top of

503
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 1: what you said about always it always being like a man,

504
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: wait until X, Y, and Z happened, then we're gonna

505
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: hit that peak. And then on top of us already

506
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: getting to that peak winning the championship, knowing what the

507
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: formula is, and then going away from the formula, it's

508
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: gonna be super frustrating, um, dealing with like a whole

509
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: new team, a whole new atmosphere, watching players, you know,

510
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: with brand new habits that we're just not used to.

511
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: And we know these habits don't equal championship basketball. And

512
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's I hope for the best way e

513
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: d getting hurt because, like you said, without him, I

514
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: mean pretty much need to just pack it up, Give

515
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: Lebron the rest of the year, give rest the rest

516
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: of the year, all to you know, recalibrate, get healthier,

517
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: and try to go after it next year. I think, um,

518
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: rest Uh, he'll be a free agent after next year. Right,

519
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: Oh man, we we cannot have those discussions like we can. Hey,

520
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: look man, yeah, we don't want to get that bleak,

521
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: so you know, and it's it's your it's your host

522
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: hosted show. So yeah, I won't bring that negative e

523
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: gym man. But it's not it's it's not native. It's

524
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: just I feel like it's, uh, like that's a that's

525
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: a bridge of cross when you know I'm in front

526
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: of it, Like I feel like that's such a that's

527
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: a bridge that's so far away, like even there trading

528
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: like uh, you know, like trading Russ talk or you

529
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: know that that's so far away, like that's if a

530
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: lot of things have to go wrong, I feel like

531
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: for that too to have opened up, and I just

532
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't want to entertain those at least yet, you know,

533
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: like you never know in the NBA, things move, players move,

534
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: you know, players move around. But just like that, that

535
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: feels so far away from where we are. Yeah, absolutely,

536
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: that's fair, man. And I mean ultimately you can just

537
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: file this game where as a trap game. Bro like

538
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: the way everything played out before the game, all the shuffling,

539
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: and you know, I love to talk about like human

540
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: nature and like what the coaching staff and the organization

541
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: has through. Malik Monk got clear was on a fly,

542
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: then they say, oh, yeah, he's not playing. You gotta

543
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: consider stuff like that when it comes to thinking about

544
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: a coaching stay making the game, playing UM and then

545
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: having to kind of scrap stuff at the last minute,

546
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: and then having to integrate players out of the G

547
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: League that ain't played basketball like this level of basketball

548
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: in like a while. So it was just like a

549
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,239
Speaker 1: perfect storm for the end up like it did just

550
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: at the A D injury on top of that just

551
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: make it like super hard to digest. They've still been

552
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 1: playing decent basketball lately, still in a way better position

553
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: than there was a few weeks ago, you know, as

554
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: far as getting to the sixth place out West and

555
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: people getting healthier and anticipating them getting back Lebron even

556
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: with this, think of the night playing better UM and

557
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: then a D kind of working his way back from injury,

558
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: because I think that's a big piece with why he

559
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: kind of looked the way he looked the last game

560
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 1: he played basketball in a while. And it's kind of

561
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: hard bro go from like zero to sixty. So he

562
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: gotta like work his way up, gotta warm car up. Well,

563
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 1: you said you said this was a trap game, but

564
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: I feel like if you're two games over, you can't

565
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: have trap games, right, Like there's like they can't be

566
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: And I get it. We were shorthanded, and I'm not blaming.

567
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: I'm not like upset about the laws. It's more like

568
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: we didn't really give ourselves a chance. Like Lebron had

569
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: seven points at halftime. I think a D had eight,

570
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: had seven as well, Russ had eight points. They had

571
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: twenty two points combined. Car Anthony Towns at twenty three

572
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: points at halftime himself. You know, like we just we

573
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: weren't into this game, and I feel like we're not

574
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: in a position to be picking like they could have

575
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: won this game even with being shorthanded as they were

576
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: in my opinion, like there was there were spots in

577
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: places to take this game, and we just it wasn't there.

578
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: It just wasn't in it. And then obviously eighties injury

579
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: ended the game. To me, we were on like eleven

580
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: O run. But that's the stuff I'm seeing, And you're right,

581
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: eighty needs time to kind of you know, revs engine

582
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: back up. But like to me, eight has been like

583
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: this all year, Like this is kind of what we've

584
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: been getting, right, We've been getting like you know, up games,

585
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: down games, and he's at a huge load to like carry.

586
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying he hasn't, it's just, you know,

587
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: it just feels like the engagement drops off too big,

588
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: like there needs to be a baseline level to stay at.

589
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: There's like it webbs and ebbs and flows way too

590
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: way too high and low for for what this team

591
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: needs on a night tonight. And that's why to me,

592
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: we're like we're winning and losing almost every other game,

593
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what you get mm hmm, yeah,

594
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: nets you know, by the same token, like you said

595
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 1: about a d kind of going in and out and

596
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to hit that that sweet

597
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: spot for them to do what they can do best.

598
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what they've been doing as a team

599
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: all year. They get into these games and I think

600
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: we talked about it before, like three or four of

601
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: these games they could just win out with the proper energy.

602
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: We're talking about a whole new season as far as

603
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: like how we perceived them, the conversation around them, the

604
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: different things they can do, as far as having like

605
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: cushion when you get the winds you're supposed to get,

606
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: like being able to rest eighty when you see you're

607
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: not right or wrestler Brock. But when you play with

608
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: your food, man, you you know, it's like everything else

609
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: you're doing life, you can't afford yourself, like the luxuries.

610
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: You probably need to get down the road and do

611
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: the things you want to do to be successful and

612
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: try to win a championship. Yep, I agree, and hopefully,

613
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: you know, we we keep moving up. Like I felt

614
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: like we were on a good, good process run here

615
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: and this was a weird week, weird couple of days

616
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: as well with all the COVID protocols and stuff. So hopefully,

617
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: like you know, Sunday is a chance. I think Chicago

618
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: has a bunch of people out too, so there's a

619
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: chance to win that one. It just it was. It

620
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: sucks that they didn't build on it because I feel

621
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: like we had a chance tonight to get to get

622
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: a win and it just didn't happen. But while I

623
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: appreciate you, I'm gonna try to get through a few

624
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: more people here before I called that. I call this

625
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: one to night. I appreciate you, bro. Have a good night, man,

626
00:29:51,720 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: stay safe and go Lakers. Thank you, bro. Yeah, Petty

627
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: are you there. Yeah, I'm how you doing then? I'm good,

628
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: I mean relatively, you know, uh in regardless of being

629
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: a Laker fan. I'm a little frustrated, but I mean

630
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: outside of it, I'm doing it. That's good. That's what's important.

631
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: Tell me what you see from tonight, all right. One,

632
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: I saw Carl Anthony Towns doing some front running like

633
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Like I was baffled, um that a team

634
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: that had just lost, like you said, like five games

635
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: in a row, there was a guy out there just

636
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: acting like this was like the you know, the NBA

637
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,719
Speaker 1: Finals like that. That was really frustrating to me. And

638
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: like kind of along the same Linds, what you're saying

639
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: is like Anthony Davis just he doesn't get up for

640
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: for Karl Anthony Towns. I don't know why what it is,

641
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: but it's just like Carl Anthony Towns is like going

642
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: to his chest doing hook shots like over him, you know.

643
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: And it was a little bit frustrating to watch. And

644
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: I don't want to make too much about him because

645
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: he's you know, like you said, he has a big load.

646
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: And tonight, you know, the first thing you're thinking about,

647
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: what's him rolling his ankle on on on a body

648
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: that's on the ground and then follow that up by

649
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: someone flopping onto his knee and trying to call him soft.

650
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: I just can't respect it, you know. But he I

651
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: don't know why it is that he And it feels

652
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: like the theme of this team is like not being

653
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: able to get up for like on a night tonight,

654
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: eighty two games season, Like it feels like everybody on

655
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: this team has nothing to prove except for like Austin Reeves,

656
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: and every time he steps on the court, it's like

657
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: an injection of energy to this team because it feels

658
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: like a bunch of people who are just like going

659
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: through the motions. Yeah. Man, absolutely, It's it's annoying to

660
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,479
Speaker 1: watch right after you know, a few years of you

661
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: did get this like every night tonight playing hard, and

662
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: I don't expect Lebron to do that. I think that's

663
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: where I give him a lot of leeway. But you know,

664
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: the whole point of bringing Russell Westbrook was so that

665
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: his energy can be contagious. It was supposed to rub

666
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: off on Anthony Davis. That's just not how the season

667
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: has really worked out. And there's still time for that.

668
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: It's just that's not how I've seen it gone. That's

669
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: not the way it's played out, and maybe it'll play

670
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: out that way as we go here. But yeah, it's

671
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: been frustrating to lose these games, like we have two

672
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: losses to Okay, see very kind of similar manner, right,

673
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: Like a very similar manner to where we come out

674
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: just disengage lack of lack of engagement and the other

675
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: team realizes we can get a win. Okay, see Shape,

676
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: and I'll realized, like I think one of them was

677
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: without Shape, I don't remember, but but yeah, they look

678
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: like they can get a win in Memphis as well, right,

679
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: the same kind of issue. Memphis is a good team

680
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: though even without John rand there a good team that

681
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: should that should be a game you win when all

682
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: three of your stars are healthy and when you're playing

683
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: five hundred basketball for a lot of the season. But yea,

684
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: hopefully it picks up here. There's still good things, like

685
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: I'm happy Ellington's starting, but I've been I've been painting

686
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: for that and Ellington's finally starting. He didn't shoot well tonight,

687
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: but I think could just fits the identity of this

688
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: team that that we need to get to. So hopefully

689
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: it's a positive. I mean no, absolutely, and honestly, like

690
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, like, what is the identity

691
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: of this team, because like that's the like, you know,

692
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing that I'm kind of struggling with.

693
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: Like for me, I felt like the first year, of

694
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: course they had a very defense was their identity. Even

695
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: the second year, I felt like they had they kept

696
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: that same identity. There were some pieces that they didn't

697
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: really fit with it that well, but and there was

698
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, some some ups and downs with like injury.

699
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: But like this year, like I'm really trying to figure out,

700
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: like what's the tone, what's the focus? Doesn't seem like

701
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: they do anything good enough, you know at all. I

702
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: really like I'm trying to understand what do you think

703
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: like the like the heartbeat of his team? And I

704
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: can't figure it out myself. Well, I mean to be fair,

705
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: I think they were like seventh in defense for the

706
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: last ten games or something. Lebron started to pick it up.

707
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: Like I think the identity of this team is to

708
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: run to get stops, create turnovers. They're not really like

709
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: a defensive team where they you know, lock you down

710
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: there like a create turnos, create chaos, type of team

711
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: and then they run out and in that third quarter, man,

712
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: we saw some of it. Like I was so excited

713
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: that they're not just because we went on a run

714
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, but I saw like a glimpse into like, oh,

715
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: this is what will be, you know, Like I saw

716
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: Basement running down and I thought of like Trevor Reason

717
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: that role and Lebron and a D running on the break,

718
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: and he saw Russ. Russ and Braun are starting to

719
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: get some chemistry and transition, like they'll start to understand

720
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: where where they like, where they like the basketball. He

721
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: saw a D get a lob dunk in the third

722
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: quarter as well. Um, It's just like to me, that's

723
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: the identity of space space out. You have Lebron, a

724
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: D D as your back line engage. There's a play

725
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: tonight where it was like Karl Anthony Town's I believe

726
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: had a D on him. They ran a ball screen

727
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: and then it was like Lebron on him right, So

728
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: it was like no no advantage created. And that's to

729
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: me where this team will live. And hopefully when the

730
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: Reason gets back he could fit into into that. We'll

731
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: see if Wayne Ellington continues to start, I think they

732
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: might even look at th h t in there. But like,

733
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: to me, like that's the idea, and you have once

734
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: you have a couple of shooters out there. Hopefully Trevor

735
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: Reasa can continue to shoot, you know, the thirty that

736
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: he was shooting Ford to percenting the shooting in Houston.

737
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's still doing that, uh, doing that now. But

738
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: to me, that's the identity of the man. Were we

739
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: run a gun, get stops and Vogel starting to imprint,

740
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: Like I think it's hilarious that, Like we've started to

741
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: defend really well, and the team was like, here's Isaiah Thomas,

742
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: Like I think that's I think that's absolutely hilarious. Like

743
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: we've started he started to really imprint. He started really

744
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: put an imprint on the defense he wants to play.

745
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: We've started to really lock down, Russell Westbrooks getting getting

746
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: good at you know, chasing over screens, giving back pressure,

747
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: giving what Vogel wants. And then he just threw Isaiah

748
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: Thomas into the mix. I don't think Isaia Thomas gonna

749
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: be here long again. Nothing against him. I hope he's

750
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: you know, has a I hope he finds a way

751
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: in the league. I don't think he'll be for this team,

752
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: but I hope he finds a way. But yeah, I

753
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: think I think that's the identity. Man. We're starting to

754
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: figure it out defensively, and it would suck if a

755
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: d comes out because I feel like we were building something,

756
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: even though tonight wasn't a great, you know picture of that,

757
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: like if we can get our team healthy. We were

758
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: out five rotation guys tonight, Minnesota didn't have Anthony Edwards

759
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: as well, But I think we were building something and

760
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: tonight hopefully doesn't doesn't stop that momentum fully. Absolutely, It's funny.

761
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: It's like all of this doom and gloom I think,

762
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: you know, because this team has expectations obviously with the

763
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,959
Speaker 1: bringing in like, you know, such a polarizing player, and

764
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: and you know what the controversy with you know, just

765
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: how how people how people view Anthony Davis, and of course,

766
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: like anywhere Lebron goes, it's like a whole you know,

767
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: or deal by itself. But like, I don't know, I

768
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: feel like this team they don't they don't they act

769
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: like they've won something already or like that they like

770
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: they're just kind of like trying to get to the playoffs,

771
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like you can't. I don't know.

772
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: That's how I feel like. I feel like you're right

773
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: like the last I think as soon as we start

774
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: to get like, you know, um, you know, some momentum,

775
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: things start to you know, something happens, like someone gets out.

776
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we're still like

777
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: a five hundred teams. It's not like we're like, you know,

778
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: four and twenty or something like that, and we're still

779
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: in the playoff pictures. So I gotta you gotta keep perspective.

780
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, for sure, it's not you know, season

781
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: not over. There's still some good process uh stuff that

782
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm seating and hopefully that continues. Uh, Patty mcguy, I

783
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: appreciate you, man. I'm trying to answer them. Some other

784
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: people up here, yeah, my guy, all right, let's see, Uh,

785
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: j Rod is connecting. There's a lot of people requested,

786
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: all right, let's see, all right, Joe, are you there?

787
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: I think it says you're up here. Yeah, yeah, I'm here. Rog.

788
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: How are you doing, Buddy good? How are you joking?

789
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: A good man? Good? Um? I just got a quick question,

790
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: you know, how is how was the chemistry between Lebron

791
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: and a D this year. As far as on the court,

792
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: I know they do. I know they do a lot

793
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: of the postgame interviews and stuff like that, but it

794
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: just seems like something is just off with them, you know,

795
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. Maybe I maybe I'm just

796
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: because this team has so many different types of things

797
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: that happened that I'm just maybe over analyzing. But I

798
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: just want to get your view of it. Um, what

799
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: did you see? And then also, how did that Rondo

800
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: Russ pairing look this time? I know that the game

801
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: was just joined it but didn't look halfway decent or

802
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: just whatever. We're just trying to get through this game.

803
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: I guess I'll start with Rondo. I hated the Rondo

804
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 1: lineups tonight, and I think Rondo has a very clear

805
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: every night. Rondo has a very clear like if he

806
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: has it or doesn't have it, you know, it's like

807
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: it's it pops off the screen. I thought that Patrick

808
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: Beverley thing would wake him up a little bit, but

809
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: it didn't. Um. You just it's a lot of activity

810
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: and it's not really productive. Um, he runs up the

811
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: court again. Playoff. Rondo is a is a different at

812
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: and what we kind of saw that, but that's not

813
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: what we're what we got tonight. And I don't like

814
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: him next to Westbrook either. I thought that pairing is

815
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: just it just kills your spacing. And Vogo didn't really

816
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: have a like a choice. I can't get mad at

817
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: him out of like to see Rondo and Lebron kind

818
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: of have their minutes fluctuated a little differently. And if

819
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna play Isaiah Thomas, to me, like, you don't

820
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: need Rondo on the floor. Like to me, that's like again,

821
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: we had some Rondo Westbrook Isaiah Thomas lineups, which is

822
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,479
Speaker 1: just very confusing to me. But yeah, like I didn't

823
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 1: really like those lineups. They haven't worked all year Rondo

824
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: with another ball handler unless it's Lebron because he's Lebron,

825
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: but another ball lander just doesn't work. Russ th ht

826
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: any of those guys you put next to Rondo dozen't

827
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: makes it lebrono a d chemistry. Man. I don't know.

828
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: I don't think they've had the reps. I don't think

829
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: they haven't had very many games where both of them

830
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: are super engaged. Um. I think the Boston game is

831
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: one of them. Where where both of them were kind

832
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: of on, especially that second half, but both of them

833
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: have kind of come in and out of games. Lebrons

834
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: really picked it up the last ten games. Eighties played

835
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,879
Speaker 1: well in those times, but again they're trying to fit

836
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: Russ around it as well. You're not seeing as many

837
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: Lebron a D with like three spacers, so you don't

838
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 1: see at a lot of Lebron eighties screen actions. It's

839
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: still a lot of just Lebron post ups are a

840
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: D post ups. They're doing a lot of separate actions

841
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: instead of actions that they run together that that they

842
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: used to and I think that, again is a lot

843
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: of trying to fit Russ into it. I think they're

844
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: fine though. I think those two know how to play

845
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: with each other. That's like my least of the worries

846
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: about this team, and my worries about this team aren't

847
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 1: even like playoff level. It's just night to night effort,

848
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: night to night game, night to night habit building because

849
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: I feel like when it matters, they're good enough to

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Speaker 1: turn it up. It's just it's annoying to watch it

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00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: on a night to night basis of them building bad habits.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think a d and bronchemistry is fine.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's something I worry about, at least

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Speaker 1: at least for now. Cool. Cool. And also do you think, um,

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Speaker 1: do you think they will make uh like a move

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00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: for Jeremy Grant or somebody like that, or do you

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00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: think they with with things being just so inconsistent, they

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Speaker 1: might just ride this thing out and see how far

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Speaker 1: they can go. Maybe if they can, you know, catch

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Speaker 1: a break and get healthy and get some continuity. Man

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Speaker 1: Like to me, I mean, I'm sure they'll keep their

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00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: options open. I just think that's so far. Like THHD

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Speaker 1: can't even trade un till I think January or something

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00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,720
Speaker 1: like that, so that's still a couple of weeks away.

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Speaker 1: I think they want to see what this team looks

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Speaker 1: like healthy, and I would too, um and Jeremy Grand

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Speaker 1: If you can get Jeremy Grant, I think that that's

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Speaker 1: great to me. Like to me, I look at it

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Speaker 1: from the other side, like, why would Detroit kind of

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Speaker 1: do that. I feel like if they open up things

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Speaker 1: for Jeremy Grant, they're gonna get a lot of players,

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00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people offering. So I want to see

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00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: this team healthy first, man. I want to see what

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00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: it looks like. I don't think we've really seen it yet.

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00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: I think if you can get a great player like that,

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00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: that's fine. Even the Miles Turner you know, talks and

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00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I just don't think THHD brings you

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Speaker 1: that back. That's why I don't really entertain those much.

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00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: But who knows, maybe they love it. But yeah, I

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00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 1: think they make some kind of move that they've never stayed.

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00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: You know, they've never stayed pat every single trade deadline,

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00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: they've done something, whether it's bringing Andre Drummond or whoever.

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00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: So I think they'll definitely do something. But I don't

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Speaker 1: expect a big trade. I don't expect like Aen Calves

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00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: type of type of retool of the roster, you know,

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00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: like I think we're gonna kind of keep with this team. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, appreciate route well, bro, you too, Joe. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm a I'm anna call it and I here. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone for coming out tonight on a Friday night.

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Speaker 1: This was a tough one, I know, but hopefully hopefully

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't kill the spirits too much and

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00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: try to try to bring some positivity to it. Again,

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Speaker 1: thank you for tuning into this day of the Lakers

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Speaker 1: post game. We'll be back on Sunday Night. I think

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Speaker 1: Jason will be back on that one as well, where

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Speaker 1: we play the Chicago Bulls. Um yeah. Happy Holidays, Thanks

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00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: for everyone listening, Stay safe, and I'll see you guys

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Speaker 1: next time.