Speaker 1: All right, welcome to these Day of the Lakers post
Speaker 1: game show presented by Dash Radio Man. The season has
Speaker 1: been a hell of a roller coaster ride, and tonight
Speaker 1: felt like a big six Flags level drop. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anyone else has ever been on Goliath, but
Speaker 1: there's like a huge shock on Goliath, and that's what
Speaker 1: tonight kind of felt like. And honestly, before this game
Speaker 1: I kind of had a bad feeling about tonight. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of just chaos surrounding the team, right,
Speaker 1: just with all the people coming in and out, Malik
Speaker 1: Monk being okay to go on the plane, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't okay to play. Russell Westbrook coming in and out
Speaker 1: of protocols, signing Isaiah Thomas right, And I felt, just
Speaker 1: for me, I'm a big process guy, but tonight I
Speaker 1: felt like it was just, uh, just get a win
Speaker 1: and get out of here. Like That's kind of was
Speaker 1: my thought process going to this one. I wasn't really
Speaker 1: going to care about process. And again, it's not about
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas or John j. Brown or Jahoff, but just
Speaker 1: to me, those kind of players coming up just signaled
Speaker 1: that we were in survival mode, right that Johnny Brown
Speaker 1: and then were and Jayhoff just were never with the
Speaker 1: team before. And Isaiah Thomas to me, just doesn't fit
Speaker 1: with this team needed. And I'll get into him a
Speaker 1: little bit better, a little bit more later, because I
Speaker 1: actually played well tonight, but again on the team with
Speaker 1: so many guards and getting another guard back hopefully sometime
Speaker 1: in January, his fit just didn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1: So like this game felt very survival mode, very panicky, right,
Speaker 1: That's what the moves and the signings kind of told
Speaker 1: to me, and you could tell it. You could tell
Speaker 1: that with the team as well. I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: too long tonight because I don't think anyone needs to
Speaker 1: hear me ramble about this game. This wasn't a It's
Speaker 1: not a very happy game to talk about, especially just
Speaker 1: right after the game, all the us still there. Let
Speaker 1: me start with the start of the game. Obviously, Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns and the whole Minnesota Timberwolves to me came
Speaker 1: in with a we can get a win on this team.
Speaker 1: And I was at that. I was at the game
Speaker 1: where they played US at home. I was at the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Laker game when they played US and beat us
Speaker 1: by thirty. There was a physical dominance to them that
Speaker 1: they had that I saw again tonight, and even without
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, there was a physical dominance that I saw
Speaker 1: them just keep up. And Lebron didn't play in that
Speaker 1: first game, but it felt a lot like this. Jared
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt how the same type of impact, a lot of
Speaker 1: offensive rebounding, a lot of players where we just weren't there.
Speaker 1: And that was the most frustrating thing for me. We
Speaker 1: just didn't give the requisite effort to win this one.
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Town's obviously cared about this. He cares about
Speaker 1: the A D matchup in a way that you know,
Speaker 1: some big dudes, some big stough. I don't think your
Speaker 1: kid cares about it in the same way. And Beat
Speaker 1: I don't think even in b doesn't take it the
Speaker 1: same way to me that Towns does when they play.
Speaker 1: Towns obviously has some kind of personal feeling and a
Speaker 1: D just was not there for it. And I can't
Speaker 1: blame him for that. I mean, Anthony did this is
Speaker 1: a superstar, Like in his mind, he's like, what do
Speaker 1: I have to prove against kar Anthony Towns and some
Speaker 1: matchup at the end of February. But it would have
Speaker 1: been nice to see him kind of pick that up.
Speaker 1: And obviously a D is the story tonight, right, He's
Speaker 1: the backdrop of anything I say, because all the jokes,
Speaker 1: and I'm tired of the soft jokes about a D.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you watch a guy have someone
Speaker 1: running to his knee and the first thing you think
Speaker 1: of is you know, he's made of glass, or he's
Speaker 1: soft or he's not tough, Like I don't know how
Speaker 1: that's the first thing in your mind, but anyway, that's
Speaker 1: obviously everything that this revolves around. Now, hopefully a D
Speaker 1: is fine. Hopefully a D is good to go sooner
Speaker 1: than later. I don't think he's gonna play Sunday. That's
Speaker 1: probably out of the picture now, but hopefully he's ready
Speaker 1: to go soon. And I wanted to start I guess
Speaker 1: I'm I'm an kind of rambow around back. The first
Speaker 1: place I really wanted to start with. It felt like
Speaker 1: this team has been theoretical for a very long time,
Speaker 1: right after the bubble, obviously after the title. I mean,
Speaker 1: it felt like we've had a theoretical team for so long.
Speaker 1: I mean, especially when a D went down in February
Speaker 1: one and six. Record just gets stamped in my head,
Speaker 1: and that team had its issues, right, and then I
Speaker 1: was fine with all the roster moves in in a
Speaker 1: hole from that season, but a D went down in February,
Speaker 1: and then from then on it just felt like a okay, well,
Speaker 1: when Lebron gets back, now, what would this team will
Speaker 1: look like? Okay, now we have Andre Drummond. Oh what
Speaker 1: it looks like when a D gets back and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it's game four of the playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden and then a D goes down.
Speaker 1: And then you have this year as well, right, which
Speaker 1: is felt like a oh, wait till Trevor Reason gets back. Oh,
Speaker 1: wait till Kendrick Nunn gets back, or wait till th
Speaker 1: HD gets back. And we've been in this like constant
Speaker 1: circle of like okay, wait till this player gets back
Speaker 1: before we can judge the team, which is not really
Speaker 1: how basketball works, right. A team is a construction, it's
Speaker 1: its own ecosystem. Every single year, my team has a
Speaker 1: new kind of way that they perform on the court.
Speaker 1: And this is what this team has been. They are
Speaker 1: what fifteen and thirteen now two games over five. I
Speaker 1: saw a lot of comments tonight about people hate this team, right,
Speaker 1: and and that's kind of been the feeling for this team,
Speaker 1: that the effort is just so lackluster for for way
Speaker 1: too long. And I just hated the start of this one.
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns punked a lot of our team, and
Speaker 1: we can get mad at him screaming and all that,
Speaker 1: but he obviously felt like this was a game his
Speaker 1: team could win. The Wolves haven't been great. I think
Speaker 1: they've lost like five in a row recently. They've lost
Speaker 1: they won two in a row, but they lost like
Speaker 1: five in a row recently. But obviously tonight's the game.
Speaker 1: They felt like they can out physical us, out rebound us,
Speaker 1: dominate us inside. And we were like four for twenty
Speaker 1: a half time and stuff like that as well, you know,
Speaker 1: from four for twenty from three from a halftime, which
Speaker 1: doesn't help at all. But it just felt like we
Speaker 1: got we got really outplayed. And let me start with Lebron,
Speaker 1: I guess because Lebron was disengaged on both ends, and
Speaker 1: that's that's extremely clear, and it reminded me of the
Speaker 1: Memphis game. Honestly, there were a lot of turnovers. There
Speaker 1: was one turnover I think where he hit a guy
Speaker 1: in the face, Um, get a guy right in the
Speaker 1: head and went and went the other way. A lot
Speaker 1: of just lack of engagement turnovers. And I can't really
Speaker 1: get mad at lebronx He's played so well recently and
Speaker 1: I keep competing this drum that it's unfair that he
Speaker 1: has to be this level, this certain level of defense,
Speaker 1: this baseline of defense for this team. But it just
Speaker 1: is what it is. That's the roster construction, uh, that
Speaker 1: we have this year, is that Lebron and A D
Speaker 1: both have to be this super engaged four or five combo,
Speaker 1: especially when they're starting. And the next thing I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get to his the starters, But just from an identity
Speaker 1: basis here, this team needs Lebron A D to be themselves.
Speaker 1: And I like, as a person watching, can't get mad
Speaker 1: at lebron And you're nineteen for taking plays off, right, Like,
Speaker 1: how can I get upset at him for taking defensive
Speaker 1: plays off. He knows what he needs to do for
Speaker 1: his body and all that, but it's just looks bad
Speaker 1: on film. It also looks bad when you have all
Speaker 1: these cards that also don't do the same thing. Then
Speaker 1: you're playing Isaiah Thomas and again you you can't. I
Speaker 1: really can't get mad at Vogel either. What he's gonna
Speaker 1: do with the roster. He the roster he had um tonight,
Speaker 1: but man a d has and again I hope he's okay.
Speaker 1: You know, the injury sucks. He had two injuries in
Speaker 1: the same game, which is just I don't know what
Speaker 1: you call that. I don't think bad luck. I don't
Speaker 1: think bad luck. You know, gives it the proper name
Speaker 1: for having two separate type of injuries. Um, and the
Speaker 1: body is obviously one whole thing, so they can kind
Speaker 1: of be connected by I mean, it just sucks to
Speaker 1: have two separate kind of injuries, to come back from
Speaker 1: one injury and then get injured again. But he's been
Speaker 1: in a funk for a while. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. The numbers are still there because
Speaker 1: you can walk into twenty and twelve, right, That's just
Speaker 1: that's just how good Anthony Davis is. Like he can
Speaker 1: walk into twenty and twelve while being disengaged for quarters
Speaker 1: at a time, And that's really what's been happening. And
Speaker 1: again we started him at the five tonight and at
Speaker 1: the five it's just a lot of possessions he's it
Speaker 1: looks like an injury prevention, right. And look, Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns is a superstar player, but if a D is engaged,
Speaker 1: if he's locked in, and we saw some of them
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, which I'll get into later, but
Speaker 1: we saw him engage, and that when you can when
Speaker 1: a D is engaged, like Karl Anthony Towns is not
Speaker 1: going to be able to just post up from the
Speaker 1: free throw line, extended dribble down with five dribbles and
Speaker 1: get into an easy jump up like that. That does
Speaker 1: not happen if Anthony Davis is engaged and he wasn't,
Speaker 1: like he just plane wasn't, And he starts these games
Speaker 1: these way. He starts these games walking into him trying
Speaker 1: to trying to work his way into rhythm, right, And
Speaker 1: I disagree with the approach. I understand the approach. I
Speaker 1: disagree with it. I just think this team kind of
Speaker 1: needs him engaged from from tips like, I just think
Speaker 1: that's how the roster's construction. But that's what he does.
Speaker 1: He gets into these games and he tries to work
Speaker 1: himself into it right and tries to get engaged later
Speaker 1: on the game, and you'll see him have a huge
Speaker 1: third quarters, right, so have like five points at halftime
Speaker 1: and he'll still finish with his twenty two twelve because
Speaker 1: we'll have like a third quarter where he dominates. But again, tonight,
Speaker 1: I thought we needed it. We were so short handed.
Speaker 1: Like I can't judge the team. I could judge the
Speaker 1: Stars every levels though, like that's I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: I can judge a D as being worked by Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns, like I would like him to take this
Speaker 1: matchup a little bit more personally. Uh, he just wasn't.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Ad has been in a funk and I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Hopefully you know he can
Speaker 1: come back. And I don't think it's just a jumper either.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's just lineups. I remember early
Speaker 1: in the year everyone just said, you know, take DeAndre
Speaker 1: Jordan out the starting lineup and and you'll get the
Speaker 1: real bubble a D again. And I always thought that
Speaker 1: was kind of misguided. And look at DeAndre Jordan was
Speaker 1: not an answer to any solution. I just don't think
Speaker 1: he was a He was a problem where you pull
Speaker 1: the you pulled the you pull the plug on DeAndre
Speaker 1: Jordan and all of a sudden everything else kind of
Speaker 1: lights up, like I just never thought that was the case.
Speaker 1: I thought this team had bigger issues then just DeAndre
Speaker 1: Jordan's taking him out of the lineup. And you see
Speaker 1: that right that I've I've been kind of preaching this
Speaker 1: because everyone's been so high on the A D at
Speaker 1: the five line, and I still think that's the best
Speaker 1: for this team. I just think there are there are
Speaker 1: places where it pulls from and you could see it
Speaker 1: when he starts there's he's not as mobile, he's not
Speaker 1: as live defensively, and he's been very clear about wanting
Speaker 1: to play the four. And I don't want to make
Speaker 1: this podcast all again about a D playing the five
Speaker 1: or four. That's not what I wanted to do tonight.
Speaker 1: But you could you could totally tell he likes playing
Speaker 1: the four in terms of being able to roam right
Speaker 1: and he can't roam as much if he's the back
Speaker 1: line center. And you could tell he gets frustrated a
Speaker 1: lot because like he'll like, you have help the helper principles, right,
Speaker 1: So when a D comes over, when a guard, usually
Speaker 1: they'll run a lot of screen role at the Lakers
Speaker 1: because they have small guards who get eaten up by screens.
Speaker 1: You put a D into any action, that means there's
Speaker 1: really no rim protection besides, you know Lebron. And again
Speaker 1: on a game like tonight, Lebron is not trying to
Speaker 1: go up and block a hundred shots or being verticality
Speaker 1: of million times like he just wasn't trying to do
Speaker 1: that tonight. And again all those caveats heasy in year nineteen,
Speaker 1: it's not really fair to expect that. But just from
Speaker 1: a D side of you, he picks up the guard
Speaker 1: he has. His job is now to protect the paint.
Speaker 1: His job is to make sure the guard doesn't get
Speaker 1: a lay up and make sure the big doesn't get dunk.
Speaker 1: But the guard who comes over that screen has to
Speaker 1: then help the help it right. He has to go
Speaker 1: back and tag or take away to take away the
Speaker 1: role in kar Anthony Towns tonight. He got a lot
Speaker 1: of roles on that. And that's not eighties fault, but
Speaker 1: it's it's just the way that the team is, uh,
Speaker 1: the team is kind of constructed. So this is a
Speaker 1: rough night, man, This is a this is a tough one. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I got kind of the negatives out of here.
Speaker 1: I want to go into that starting lineup. I want
Speaker 1: to kind of I kind of want to go into that,
Speaker 1: so the starting lineup to preface this. On media day,
Speaker 1: we were sold that we were gonna get russ lebron
Speaker 1: A d with Ellington and Trevor Reason. Four of those
Speaker 1: guys have been healthy for the last few weeks, but
Speaker 1: we haven't really started to get that until recently. Um
Speaker 1: just with the way things that work have gone big.
Speaker 1: You know, we've started Avery Bradley instead of Wayne Allington,
Speaker 1: and I've been I've been really parading for Ellington to
Speaker 1: start because I just think the spacing is needed, and
Speaker 1: I thought we saw some of it tonight. And again
Speaker 1: the game started and we were running right. We we
Speaker 1: got out and ran, We created I think two turnovers.
Speaker 1: Rust was on the role. Baysmore missed a layup I
Speaker 1: think at the rim, but I that was like the
Speaker 1: identity and he saw a little bit of it and
Speaker 1: the Basemore picked up two fouls and then it just
Speaker 1: went right out right. We we subbed in John Dy
Speaker 1: Brown and it's not Chohndy's Brown's fault. It's just it
Speaker 1: just felt like they didn't know what to do on
Speaker 1: that end. And I feel like base more can be
Speaker 1: some kind of a facsimile of Trevor Reza, right, Like
Speaker 1: he's not obviously as good a defender, but he's a
Speaker 1: lot younger, he has a lot more legs. He had
Speaker 1: his three ball working tonight as well. I just think
Speaker 1: that that's something that we can kind of move into.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna share this like little play here, bear
Speaker 1: with him me here, Okay, I'm gonna see if you
Speaker 1: guys can see it. But this is kind of what
Speaker 1: I kind of want to see, and this is kind
Speaker 1: of how the Lakers have to play to me, and
Speaker 1: again people listening on the podcast feed later on, I'll
Speaker 1: try I'll just describe it. It's not too complicated, um
Speaker 1: all it is. We started this game. We started a
Speaker 1: d at the five, and we had all guys around, right,
Speaker 1: we had Russ, a d Baysmore Ellington with Lebron and
Speaker 1: you had Russ coming up and it was just in
Speaker 1: transition eight sets a little screen and it's an empty
Speaker 1: side screen, so they have to come up and he
Speaker 1: finds Wayne Ellington open in the corner. And I'm just thinking, like,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how we have to play. And I
Speaker 1: thought we did, uh and again, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can kind of see it, if you guys can
Speaker 1: see it in the space or not. But again it's
Speaker 1: just an empty side screen role. So Russ comes up
Speaker 1: the left side of the left side of the floor
Speaker 1: and that's where he likes to come up from left
Speaker 1: or right. Crossover, gets in the paint two feet in
Speaker 1: the paint and finds Ellington in the corner and you
Speaker 1: can just see the spacing on that as well. And
Speaker 1: I just think that's something that was a positive I thought,
Speaker 1: and we saw that in the third quarter as well.
Speaker 1: They want to They went on an eleven oh run
Speaker 1: I think to come back in the game, and I
Speaker 1: think that was a towards the spacing. I thought baysmore
Speaker 1: Is hitting threes was a big part of it as well.
Speaker 1: And that was kind of my positive from tonight is
Speaker 1: that that was the you know, we got a little
Speaker 1: glimpse of it. I don't remember what the run was.
Speaker 1: He was and also a d was engaged right Adi
Speaker 1: started defending. He started to he started to really get
Speaker 1: engaged on carl Ampy Towns. He started winning the physical battles.
Speaker 1: Right Towns couldn't just back him down five again like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, if adies engaged, there's no way Towns
Speaker 1: is just doing five dribbles from the free throw line
Speaker 1: down and getting a jump hook, right. And he was
Speaker 1: engaging that third quarter. He's winning the physical battles, he
Speaker 1: was boxing out, he was starting to uh, he started
Speaker 1: to win that match up a little bit and uh.
Speaker 1: And I just thought that was something that was a
Speaker 1: positive for me in this game. And hopefully when the
Speaker 1: reason gets back, like I said, he can play that
Speaker 1: bigmore role Ellington or he can even be Kendrick Nunn.
Speaker 1: I thought seeing Isaiah Thomas played as well. And I
Speaker 1: don't think Isaiah Thomas is gonna be a big part
Speaker 1: of this team. Nothing against him, like I hope he
Speaker 1: gets a spot in the league. It just made me
Speaker 1: think of Kendrick Nunn, Like, how Kendrick Nunt can come in.
Speaker 1: We miss a guy that has a mid range game, right,
Speaker 1: I think we. I think that's why Isaiah Thomas pops
Speaker 1: off the screen so much. That's why he looks so
Speaker 1: different than any of our other scores. Carmelo has a
Speaker 1: mid range game, but it's more like back to the
Speaker 1: basket fade away, right, Carmelo is not really a come
Speaker 1: off a screen roll and pull up in the mid range.
Speaker 1: And I thought Isaiah Thomas kind of brought that that
Speaker 1: kind of spark. He also has a floater. Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: is our starting guard, but he doesn't have a floater game.
Speaker 1: Lebron James isn't a floater type of guy, right. Lebron
Speaker 1: is more of a get to the rim, step back
Speaker 1: three or the fade away jumper. He doesn't take floaters either.
Speaker 1: A D this year A D honestly is a great
Speaker 1: He has great floater shots. He just hasn't taken them
Speaker 1: this year. He hasn't been getting to that as he
Speaker 1: used to. He hasn't been as mobile in the paint either.
Speaker 1: And I thought, that's why Isaiah Thomas just popped off
Speaker 1: the screen of me. It's why his scoring just felt
Speaker 1: like it felt like a breath of fresh air. Honestly,
Speaker 1: this game was awful, by the way, but his scoring
Speaker 1: kind of just felt like a breath, a breath of
Speaker 1: fast share to me, just watching watching a guy who
Speaker 1: can get to the mid range and he's still super quick.
Speaker 1: And again, I hope he I hope he kind of
Speaker 1: he kind of gets into it. I'll just go through
Speaker 1: a few other things that I had in my notes here.
Speaker 1: Regyard Jefferson was on the broadcast and he talked about
Speaker 1: how we have a team full of guys that don't
Speaker 1: do the little things, and I thought that was so
Speaker 1: on point, and I just want to bring that up,
Speaker 1: and I think that's another reason why. And it sucks
Speaker 1: that Austin Reeves had to come out after probably the
Speaker 1: game of his life, Like I think that's extremely unfortunate,
Speaker 1: But I think that's another reason why Austin Reeves just
Speaker 1: pops up so much. Right, It's because he does do
Speaker 1: the little things, and he's a good player outside of
Speaker 1: that pigeonhole pigeonholing him into just a guy who does
Speaker 1: a little things also isn't fair. But he does do
Speaker 1: those things. He goes in and he boxes out, and
Speaker 1: it's all just institctional, instinctual. You don't have to tell
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, hey, go find a body, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, you don't have to tell him that.
Speaker 1: He just goes and finds a body by himself. And
Speaker 1: there's one more player I kind of want to sharing
Speaker 1: here if I could, Okay, if you can see this
Speaker 1: disengaged play, so again people listening on the podcast and
Speaker 1: on dash radio. I'll try to I'll explain. I was
Speaker 1: playing what happens, so Russ misses a layup on one end.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to slow this down, but I don't
Speaker 1: think that was able to. But so if you can
Speaker 1: kind of rewind, del does a pump fake and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis leaves his feet A d doesn't really do that,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of my start of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy isn't really just that engaged in this game,
Speaker 1: leaves this feet for no reason right on D'Angelo Russell,
Speaker 1: like it's a transition three eighties right there. There's no
Speaker 1: reason to leave your feet off that leaf, leave you
Speaker 1: feed on that takes him out of the play. And
Speaker 1: then Russ Lebron and then I believe that's Ellington or
Speaker 1: On on the other side, just staring at the all
Speaker 1: while Vanderbilt goes and gets it. And the Lakers were
Speaker 1: annoyed at Vanderbilt tonight, and I thought he was flopping
Speaker 1: a lot. I thought Lebron was annoyed it as well.
Speaker 1: But he played. He played harder than our whole team
Speaker 1: combined for a lot of this night. And he again,
Speaker 1: I don't like to use the word punk, but he
Speaker 1: really killed us on the boards. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many rebounds he had, but that was really frustrating. And
Speaker 1: again you saw Baysmore try to box him out and
Speaker 1: he finally kind of Vanderbilt fell down right and Baseemore
Speaker 1: kind of looked at him and that was kind of
Speaker 1: our first like box out right and Lebron is not
Speaker 1: really a box out guy either, like right now, especially
Speaker 1: in this type of game. He had a lot of
Speaker 1: like tap rebounds right where he just taps it away
Speaker 1: and when that worked, that's great, but a lot of times,
Speaker 1: like Minnesota is a team that sends everyone to the boards.
Speaker 1: Richard Jesman was talking about that as well. I remember
Speaker 1: seeing that when I went to see them in person
Speaker 1: as well. They're they're just a physical team and when
Speaker 1: they're feeling themselves like that's when they really get into it, right,
Speaker 1: they'd like to get in you. You saw Patrick Beverley
Speaker 1: start to just start to really get into it and
Speaker 1: their team that when they start to get physical, they
Speaker 1: can be tough. And you saw de Los jumpers going
Speaker 1: as well. But that was really just disheartening to me.
Speaker 1: After you know, we won you know, three games in
Speaker 1: a row coming into this, it would have been nice
Speaker 1: to take this one. I understand there are a lot
Speaker 1: of issues from tonight. There was a lot of COVID situations,
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people in protocols, and I feel
Speaker 1: like the team kind of felt that way as well.
Speaker 1: This didn't feel like a normal basketball game at all.
Speaker 1: But I feel like we just got out hustle tonight
Speaker 1: and our stars were not engaged, and I feel like
Speaker 1: that's why we lost. And again we saw it shot
Speaker 1: four for twenty from three, and that's part of it
Speaker 1: as well. But the Wolves gonna hit it three either.
Speaker 1: This game was right there, and it was just frustrating
Speaker 1: to uh to see that. And and hopefully eighties okay.
Speaker 1: And like I said, that's the caveat for all this stuff,
Speaker 1: that's the backdrop for everything. There's a lot of jokes
Speaker 1: about anythin Davis, but this team is going absolutely nowhere
Speaker 1: if he's not available, Like that's just the honest, the
Speaker 1: honest truth. So hopefully he's okay. Uh. And again, like
Speaker 1: another positive, I think Arisa being questionable tonight got lost
Speaker 1: in the news like it got lost in the chaos.
Speaker 1: Trevors was healthy to play tonight. He wasn't gonna play,
Speaker 1: but he was in uniform, and I think that's great.
Speaker 1: I think if we can just again this team has
Speaker 1: been three or theoretical for so long. It's been frustrating,
Speaker 1: going back to last year, like I talked about this
Speaker 1: year again, just trying to fit around pieces. All of
Speaker 1: our non minimum guys have been out. pH D again
Speaker 1: being out. Austin Reeves after he plays well is out.
Speaker 1: Like it's been just a roller coaster. That's been rough.
Speaker 1: But hopefully, you know, it can go move up here.
Speaker 1: Hopefully a D s okay um and and we can
Speaker 1: start to get some get some wins here. Let me
Speaker 1: check my notes fired anything else from from tonight. I
Speaker 1: think that was that was pretty much it, man, and
Speaker 1: I hope we just continue these these as the starters.
Speaker 1: Ellington didn't shoot well tonight. I think it was like
Speaker 1: over six, but he's getting good looks and I think
Speaker 1: that's all you can ask. And again, this starting lineup
Speaker 1: we were we were told on media day we're finally
Speaker 1: getting it. We finally got four of the four the
Speaker 1: players starting, and hopefully that keeps up. Let's see that's
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty much what I had for today.
Speaker 1: I'll try to open it up for some people to
Speaker 1: come up here. If you want to come up and talk,
Speaker 1: even you can request. But it's just a tough one.
Speaker 1: The Lakers were building good momentum though, man Like I
Speaker 1: think I think they were building good momentum. I don't
Speaker 1: think this has to kill it. Obviously. The eight News
Speaker 1: would be so rough to kind of get. Hopefully it's
Speaker 1: just hopefully it's a minded things. We've had people in
Speaker 1: and out. We'll see how COVID kind of rolls to
Speaker 1: the NBA as we go forward here. This was a
Speaker 1: rough one. I feel like we got out hustle our
Speaker 1: heart out. I'll destroyed by Minnesota team. Man, Minnesota Minnesota
Speaker 1: team flexing at thirteen and fifteen on us because they
Speaker 1: felt like this was a game they could get, you know,
Speaker 1: like that was really frustrating just to watch. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a This was a rough one. All right.
Speaker 1: Let me I'll get some people up here. I appreciate
Speaker 1: everyone coming out on a Friday night to spend their
Speaker 1: Friday Friday night with me. Let me get a few
Speaker 1: people up here, yo, Well, what's going on? Rode? What's up? Bro?
Speaker 1: Are you doing. You know, I'm good man, just feeling
Speaker 1: your pain, bro. If I've been with you, man, I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope I don't sound like I'm in too much pain.
Speaker 1: And I hope that I hope that's not how it
Speaker 1: came across. I mean, you know, I always talk about
Speaker 1: appropriate pain and appropriate fear in life, so we can
Speaker 1: just file it as an appropriate pain man. But I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you'll bounced back later on. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: one thing, like you talked about it, I was I
Speaker 1: was glad to hear. And it's something that it's always
Speaker 1: I guess you can call it a concern that I
Speaker 1: have about the Lakers. Is there a team of caveats
Speaker 1: mainly the Stars where you got Lebron, you know, you
Speaker 1: you get the whole package. You know, um superstar, one
Speaker 1: of the best to ever play the game. But when
Speaker 1: he not engaged, when he want to turn it off,
Speaker 1: he will turn it off and it will affect everybody
Speaker 1: around unfortunately. And then with a D you know, we
Speaker 1: know he want to play before he you know, want
Speaker 1: to do guard things. But by the number in some
Speaker 1: cases some cases, and just by the Lakers being their best,
Speaker 1: they want to put them at the five. But you know,
Speaker 1: the body can only take so much for him. So
Speaker 1: when you combine those two caveats on top of everything
Speaker 1: else they've been dealing with this year, on top of
Speaker 1: what you said about always it always being like a man,
Speaker 1: wait until X, Y, and Z happened, then we're gonna
Speaker 1: hit that peak. And then on top of us already
Speaker 1: getting to that peak winning the championship, knowing what the
Speaker 1: formula is, and then going away from the formula, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be super frustrating, um, dealing with like a whole
Speaker 1: new team, a whole new atmosphere, watching players, you know,
Speaker 1: with brand new habits that we're just not used to.
Speaker 1: And we know these habits don't equal championship basketball. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's I hope for the best way e
Speaker 1: d getting hurt because, like you said, without him, I
Speaker 1: mean pretty much need to just pack it up, Give
Speaker 1: Lebron the rest of the year, give rest the rest
Speaker 1: of the year, all to you know, recalibrate, get healthier,
Speaker 1: and try to go after it next year. I think, um,
Speaker 1: rest Uh, he'll be a free agent after next year. Right,
Speaker 1: Oh man, we we cannot have those discussions like we can. Hey,
Speaker 1: look man, yeah, we don't want to get that bleak,
Speaker 1: so you know, and it's it's your it's your host
Speaker 1: hosted show. So yeah, I won't bring that negative e
Speaker 1: gym man. But it's not it's it's not native. It's
Speaker 1: just I feel like it's, uh, like that's a that's
Speaker 1: a bridge of cross when you know I'm in front
Speaker 1: of it, Like I feel like that's such a that's
Speaker 1: a bridge that's so far away, like even there trading
Speaker 1: like uh, you know, like trading Russ talk or you
Speaker 1: know that that's so far away, like that's if a
Speaker 1: lot of things have to go wrong, I feel like
Speaker 1: for that too to have opened up, and I just
Speaker 1: I don't want to entertain those at least yet, you know,
Speaker 1: like you never know in the NBA, things move, players move,
Speaker 1: you know, players move around. But just like that, that
Speaker 1: feels so far away from where we are. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's fair, man. And I mean ultimately you can just
Speaker 1: file this game where as a trap game. Bro like
Speaker 1: the way everything played out before the game, all the shuffling,
Speaker 1: and you know, I love to talk about like human
Speaker 1: nature and like what the coaching staff and the organization
Speaker 1: has through. Malik Monk got clear was on a fly,
Speaker 1: then they say, oh, yeah, he's not playing. You gotta
Speaker 1: consider stuff like that when it comes to thinking about
Speaker 1: a coaching stay making the game, playing UM and then
Speaker 1: having to kind of scrap stuff at the last minute,
Speaker 1: and then having to integrate players out of the G
Speaker 1: League that ain't played basketball like this level of basketball
Speaker 1: in like a while. So it was just like a
Speaker 1: perfect storm for the end up like it did just
Speaker 1: at the A D injury on top of that just
Speaker 1: make it like super hard to digest. They've still been
Speaker 1: playing decent basketball lately, still in a way better position
Speaker 1: than there was a few weeks ago, you know, as
Speaker 1: far as getting to the sixth place out West and
Speaker 1: people getting healthier and anticipating them getting back Lebron even
Speaker 1: with this, think of the night playing better UM and
Speaker 1: then a D kind of working his way back from injury,
Speaker 1: because I think that's a big piece with why he
Speaker 1: kind of looked the way he looked the last game
Speaker 1: he played basketball in a while. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: hard bro go from like zero to sixty. So he
Speaker 1: gotta like work his way up, gotta warm car up. Well,
Speaker 1: you said you said this was a trap game, but
Speaker 1: I feel like if you're two games over, you can't
Speaker 1: have trap games, right, Like there's like they can't be
Speaker 1: And I get it. We were shorthanded, and I'm not blaming.
Speaker 1: I'm not like upset about the laws. It's more like
Speaker 1: we didn't really give ourselves a chance. Like Lebron had
Speaker 1: seven points at halftime. I think a D had eight,
Speaker 1: had seven as well, Russ had eight points. They had
Speaker 1: twenty two points combined. Car Anthony Towns at twenty three
Speaker 1: points at halftime himself. You know, like we just we
Speaker 1: weren't into this game, and I feel like we're not
Speaker 1: in a position to be picking like they could have
Speaker 1: won this game even with being shorthanded as they were
Speaker 1: in my opinion, like there was there were spots in
Speaker 1: places to take this game, and we just it wasn't there.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't in it. And then obviously eighties injury
Speaker 1: ended the game. To me, we were on like eleven
Speaker 1: O run. But that's the stuff I'm seeing, And you're right,
Speaker 1: eighty needs time to kind of you know, revs engine
Speaker 1: back up. But like to me, eight has been like
Speaker 1: this all year, Like this is kind of what we've
Speaker 1: been getting, right, We've been getting like you know, up games,
Speaker 1: down games, and he's at a huge load to like carry.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying he hasn't, it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it just feels like the engagement drops off too big,
Speaker 1: like there needs to be a baseline level to stay at.
Speaker 1: There's like it webbs and ebbs and flows way too
Speaker 1: way too high and low for for what this team
Speaker 1: needs on a night tonight. And that's why to me,
Speaker 1: we're like we're winning and losing almost every other game,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what you get mm hmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: nets you know, by the same token, like you said
Speaker 1: about a d kind of going in and out and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to hit that that sweet
Speaker 1: spot for them to do what they can do best.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what they've been doing as a team
Speaker 1: all year. They get into these games and I think
Speaker 1: we talked about it before, like three or four of
Speaker 1: these games they could just win out with the proper energy.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a whole new season as far as
Speaker 1: like how we perceived them, the conversation around them, the
Speaker 1: different things they can do, as far as having like
Speaker 1: cushion when you get the winds you're supposed to get,
Speaker 1: like being able to rest eighty when you see you're
Speaker 1: not right or wrestler Brock. But when you play with
Speaker 1: your food, man, you you know, it's like everything else
Speaker 1: you're doing life, you can't afford yourself, like the luxuries.
Speaker 1: You probably need to get down the road and do
Speaker 1: the things you want to do to be successful and
Speaker 1: try to win a championship. Yep, I agree, and hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, we we keep moving up. Like I felt
Speaker 1: like we were on a good, good process run here
Speaker 1: and this was a weird week, weird couple of days
Speaker 1: as well with all the COVID protocols and stuff. So hopefully,
Speaker 1: like you know, Sunday is a chance. I think Chicago
Speaker 1: has a bunch of people out too, so there's a
Speaker 1: chance to win that one. It just it was. It
Speaker 1: sucks that they didn't build on it because I feel
Speaker 1: like we had a chance tonight to get to get
Speaker 1: a win and it just didn't happen. But while I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, I'm gonna try to get through a few
Speaker 1: more people here before I called that. I call this
Speaker 1: one to night. I appreciate you, bro. Have a good night, man,
Speaker 1: stay safe and go Lakers. Thank you, bro. Yeah, Petty
Speaker 1: are you there. Yeah, I'm how you doing then? I'm good,
Speaker 1: I mean relatively, you know, uh in regardless of being
Speaker 1: a Laker fan. I'm a little frustrated, but I mean
Speaker 1: outside of it, I'm doing it. That's good. That's what's important.
Speaker 1: Tell me what you see from tonight, all right. One,
Speaker 1: I saw Carl Anthony Towns doing some front running like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Like I was baffled, um that a team
Speaker 1: that had just lost, like you said, like five games
Speaker 1: in a row, there was a guy out there just
Speaker 1: acting like this was like the you know, the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals like that. That was really frustrating to me. And
Speaker 1: like kind of along the same Linds, what you're saying
Speaker 1: is like Anthony Davis just he doesn't get up for
Speaker 1: for Karl Anthony Towns. I don't know why what it is,
Speaker 1: but it's just like Carl Anthony Towns is like going
Speaker 1: to his chest doing hook shots like over him, you know.
Speaker 1: And it was a little bit frustrating to watch. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to make too much about him because
Speaker 1: he's you know, like you said, he has a big load.
Speaker 1: And tonight, you know, the first thing you're thinking about,
Speaker 1: what's him rolling his ankle on on on a body
Speaker 1: that's on the ground and then follow that up by
Speaker 1: someone flopping onto his knee and trying to call him soft.
Speaker 1: I just can't respect it, you know. But he I
Speaker 1: don't know why it is that he And it feels
Speaker 1: like the theme of this team is like not being
Speaker 1: able to get up for like on a night tonight,
Speaker 1: eighty two games season, Like it feels like everybody on
Speaker 1: this team has nothing to prove except for like Austin Reeves,
Speaker 1: and every time he steps on the court, it's like
Speaker 1: an injection of energy to this team because it feels
Speaker 1: like a bunch of people who are just like going
Speaker 1: through the motions. Yeah. Man, absolutely, It's it's annoying to
Speaker 1: watch right after you know, a few years of you
Speaker 1: did get this like every night tonight playing hard, and
Speaker 1: I don't expect Lebron to do that. I think that's
Speaker 1: where I give him a lot of leeway. But you know,
Speaker 1: the whole point of bringing Russell Westbrook was so that
Speaker 1: his energy can be contagious. It was supposed to rub
Speaker 1: off on Anthony Davis. That's just not how the season
Speaker 1: has really worked out. And there's still time for that.
Speaker 1: It's just that's not how I've seen it gone. That's
Speaker 1: not the way it's played out, and maybe it'll play
Speaker 1: out that way as we go here. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been frustrating to lose these games, like we have two
Speaker 1: losses to Okay, see very kind of similar manner, right,
Speaker 1: Like a very similar manner to where we come out
Speaker 1: just disengage lack of lack of engagement and the other
Speaker 1: team realizes we can get a win. Okay, see Shape,
Speaker 1: and I'll realized, like I think one of them was
Speaker 1: without Shape, I don't remember, but but yeah, they look
Speaker 1: like they can get a win in Memphis as well, right,
Speaker 1: the same kind of issue. Memphis is a good team
Speaker 1: though even without John rand there a good team that
Speaker 1: should that should be a game you win when all
Speaker 1: three of your stars are healthy and when you're playing
Speaker 1: five hundred basketball for a lot of the season. But yea,
Speaker 1: hopefully it picks up here. There's still good things, like
Speaker 1: I'm happy Ellington's starting, but I've been I've been painting
Speaker 1: for that and Ellington's finally starting. He didn't shoot well tonight,
Speaker 1: but I think could just fits the identity of this
Speaker 1: team that that we need to get to. So hopefully
Speaker 1: it's a positive. I mean no, absolutely, and honestly, like
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, like, what is the identity
Speaker 1: of this team, because like that's the like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing that I'm kind of struggling with.
Speaker 1: Like for me, I felt like the first year, of
Speaker 1: course they had a very defense was their identity. Even
Speaker 1: the second year, I felt like they had they kept
Speaker 1: that same identity. There were some pieces that they didn't
Speaker 1: really fit with it that well, but and there was
Speaker 1: you know, some some ups and downs with like injury.
Speaker 1: But like this year, like I'm really trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: like what's the tone, what's the focus? Doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: they do anything good enough, you know at all. I
Speaker 1: really like I'm trying to understand what do you think
Speaker 1: like the like the heartbeat of his team? And I
Speaker 1: can't figure it out myself. Well, I mean to be fair,
Speaker 1: I think they were like seventh in defense for the
Speaker 1: last ten games or something. Lebron started to pick it up.
Speaker 1: Like I think the identity of this team is to
Speaker 1: run to get stops, create turnovers. They're not really like
Speaker 1: a defensive team where they you know, lock you down
Speaker 1: there like a create turnos, create chaos, type of team
Speaker 1: and then they run out and in that third quarter, man,
Speaker 1: we saw some of it. Like I was so excited
Speaker 1: that they're not just because we went on a run
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, but I saw like a glimpse into like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is what will be, you know, Like I saw
Speaker 1: Basement running down and I thought of like Trevor Reason
Speaker 1: that role and Lebron and a D running on the break,
Speaker 1: and he saw Russ. Russ and Braun are starting to
Speaker 1: get some chemistry and transition, like they'll start to understand
Speaker 1: where where they like, where they like the basketball. He
Speaker 1: saw a D get a lob dunk in the third
Speaker 1: quarter as well. Um, It's just like to me, that's
Speaker 1: the identity of space space out. You have Lebron, a
Speaker 1: D D as your back line engage. There's a play
Speaker 1: tonight where it was like Karl Anthony Town's I believe
Speaker 1: had a D on him. They ran a ball screen
Speaker 1: and then it was like Lebron on him right, So
Speaker 1: it was like no no advantage created. And that's to
Speaker 1: me where this team will live. And hopefully when the
Speaker 1: Reason gets back he could fit into into that. We'll
Speaker 1: see if Wayne Ellington continues to start, I think they
Speaker 1: might even look at th h t in there. But like,
Speaker 1: to me, like that's the idea, and you have once
Speaker 1: you have a couple of shooters out there. Hopefully Trevor
Speaker 1: Reasa can continue to shoot, you know, the thirty that
Speaker 1: he was shooting Ford to percenting the shooting in Houston.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's still doing that, uh, doing that now. But
Speaker 1: to me, that's the identity of the man. Were we
Speaker 1: run a gun, get stops and Vogel starting to imprint,
Speaker 1: Like I think it's hilarious that, Like we've started to
Speaker 1: defend really well, and the team was like, here's Isaiah Thomas,
Speaker 1: Like I think that's I think that's absolutely hilarious. Like
Speaker 1: we've started he started to really imprint. He started really
Speaker 1: put an imprint on the defense he wants to play.
Speaker 1: We've started to really lock down, Russell Westbrooks getting getting
Speaker 1: good at you know, chasing over screens, giving back pressure,
Speaker 1: giving what Vogel wants. And then he just threw Isaiah
Speaker 1: Thomas into the mix. I don't think Isaia Thomas gonna
Speaker 1: be here long again. Nothing against him. I hope he's
Speaker 1: you know, has a I hope he finds a way
Speaker 1: in the league. I don't think he'll be for this team,
Speaker 1: but I hope he finds a way. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think that's the identity. Man. We're starting to
Speaker 1: figure it out defensively, and it would suck if a
Speaker 1: d comes out because I feel like we were building something,
Speaker 1: even though tonight wasn't a great, you know picture of that,
Speaker 1: like if we can get our team healthy. We were
Speaker 1: out five rotation guys tonight, Minnesota didn't have Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: as well, But I think we were building something and
Speaker 1: tonight hopefully doesn't doesn't stop that momentum fully. Absolutely, It's funny.
Speaker 1: It's like all of this doom and gloom I think,
Speaker 1: you know, because this team has expectations obviously with the
Speaker 1: bringing in like, you know, such a polarizing player, and
Speaker 1: and you know what the controversy with you know, just
Speaker 1: how how people how people view Anthony Davis, and of course,
Speaker 1: like anywhere Lebron goes, it's like a whole you know,
Speaker 1: or deal by itself. But like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel like this team they don't they don't they act
Speaker 1: like they've won something already or like that they like
Speaker 1: they're just kind of like trying to get to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like you can't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel like. I feel like you're right
Speaker 1: like the last I think as soon as we start
Speaker 1: to get like, you know, um, you know, some momentum,
Speaker 1: things start to you know, something happens, like someone gets out.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we're still like
Speaker 1: a five hundred teams. It's not like we're like, you know,
Speaker 1: four and twenty or something like that, and we're still
Speaker 1: in the playoff pictures. So I gotta you gotta keep perspective.
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, for sure, it's not you know, season
Speaker 1: not over. There's still some good process uh stuff that
Speaker 1: I'm seating and hopefully that continues. Uh, Patty mcguy, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, man. I'm trying to answer them. Some other
Speaker 1: people up here, yeah, my guy, all right, let's see, Uh,
Speaker 1: j Rod is connecting. There's a lot of people requested,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see, all right, Joe, are you there?
Speaker 1: I think it says you're up here. Yeah, yeah, I'm here. Rog.
Speaker 1: How are you doing, Buddy good? How are you joking?
Speaker 1: A good man? Good? Um? I just got a quick question,
Speaker 1: you know, how is how was the chemistry between Lebron
Speaker 1: and a D this year. As far as on the court,
Speaker 1: I know they do. I know they do a lot
Speaker 1: of the postgame interviews and stuff like that, but it
Speaker 1: just seems like something is just off with them, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. Maybe I maybe I'm just
Speaker 1: because this team has so many different types of things
Speaker 1: that happened that I'm just maybe over analyzing. But I
Speaker 1: just want to get your view of it. Um, what
Speaker 1: did you see? And then also, how did that Rondo
Speaker 1: Russ pairing look this time? I know that the game
Speaker 1: was just joined it but didn't look halfway decent or
Speaker 1: just whatever. We're just trying to get through this game.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll start with Rondo. I hated the Rondo
Speaker 1: lineups tonight, and I think Rondo has a very clear
Speaker 1: every night. Rondo has a very clear like if he
Speaker 1: has it or doesn't have it, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: it's it pops off the screen. I thought that Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverley thing would wake him up a little bit, but
Speaker 1: it didn't. Um. You just it's a lot of activity
Speaker 1: and it's not really productive. Um, he runs up the
Speaker 1: court again. Playoff. Rondo is a is a different at
Speaker 1: and what we kind of saw that, but that's not
Speaker 1: what we're what we got tonight. And I don't like
Speaker 1: him next to Westbrook either. I thought that pairing is
Speaker 1: just it just kills your spacing. And Vogo didn't really
Speaker 1: have a like a choice. I can't get mad at
Speaker 1: him out of like to see Rondo and Lebron kind
Speaker 1: of have their minutes fluctuated a little differently. And if
Speaker 1: you're gonna play Isaiah Thomas, to me, like, you don't
Speaker 1: need Rondo on the floor. Like to me, that's like again,
Speaker 1: we had some Rondo Westbrook Isaiah Thomas lineups, which is
Speaker 1: just very confusing to me. But yeah, like I didn't
Speaker 1: really like those lineups. They haven't worked all year Rondo
Speaker 1: with another ball handler unless it's Lebron because he's Lebron,
Speaker 1: but another ball lander just doesn't work. Russ th ht
Speaker 1: any of those guys you put next to Rondo dozen't
Speaker 1: makes it lebrono a d chemistry. Man. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've had the reps. I don't think
Speaker 1: they haven't had very many games where both of them
Speaker 1: are super engaged. Um. I think the Boston game is
Speaker 1: one of them. Where where both of them were kind
Speaker 1: of on, especially that second half, but both of them
Speaker 1: have kind of come in and out of games. Lebrons
Speaker 1: really picked it up the last ten games. Eighties played
Speaker 1: well in those times, but again they're trying to fit
Speaker 1: Russ around it as well. You're not seeing as many
Speaker 1: Lebron a D with like three spacers, so you don't
Speaker 1: see at a lot of Lebron eighties screen actions. It's
Speaker 1: still a lot of just Lebron post ups are a
Speaker 1: D post ups. They're doing a lot of separate actions
Speaker 1: instead of actions that they run together that that they
Speaker 1: used to and I think that, again is a lot
Speaker 1: of trying to fit Russ into it. I think they're
Speaker 1: fine though. I think those two know how to play
Speaker 1: with each other. That's like my least of the worries
Speaker 1: about this team, and my worries about this team aren't
Speaker 1: even like playoff level. It's just night to night effort,
Speaker 1: night to night game, night to night habit building because
Speaker 1: I feel like when it matters, they're good enough to
Speaker 1: turn it up. It's just it's annoying to watch it
Speaker 1: on a night to night basis of them building bad habits.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think a d and bronchemistry is fine.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's something I worry about, at least
Speaker 1: at least for now. Cool. Cool. And also do you think, um,
Speaker 1: do you think they will make uh like a move
Speaker 1: for Jeremy Grant or somebody like that, or do you
Speaker 1: think they with with things being just so inconsistent, they
Speaker 1: might just ride this thing out and see how far
Speaker 1: they can go. Maybe if they can, you know, catch
Speaker 1: a break and get healthy and get some continuity. Man
Speaker 1: Like to me, I mean, I'm sure they'll keep their
Speaker 1: options open. I just think that's so far. Like THHD
Speaker 1: can't even trade un till I think January or something
Speaker 1: like that, so that's still a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 1: I think they want to see what this team looks
Speaker 1: like healthy, and I would too, um and Jeremy Grand
Speaker 1: If you can get Jeremy Grant, I think that that's
Speaker 1: great to me. Like to me, I look at it
Speaker 1: from the other side, like, why would Detroit kind of
Speaker 1: do that. I feel like if they open up things
Speaker 1: for Jeremy Grant, they're gonna get a lot of players,
Speaker 1: a lot of people offering. So I want to see
Speaker 1: this team healthy first, man. I want to see what
Speaker 1: it looks like. I don't think we've really seen it yet.
Speaker 1: I think if you can get a great player like that,
Speaker 1: that's fine. Even the Miles Turner you know, talks and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I just don't think THHD brings you
Speaker 1: that back. That's why I don't really entertain those much.
Speaker 1: But who knows, maybe they love it. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they make some kind of move that they've never stayed.
Speaker 1: You know, they've never stayed pat every single trade deadline,
Speaker 1: they've done something, whether it's bringing Andre Drummond or whoever.
Speaker 1: So I think they'll definitely do something. But I don't
Speaker 1: expect a big trade. I don't expect like Aen Calves
Speaker 1: type of type of retool of the roster, you know,
Speaker 1: like I think we're gonna kind of keep with this team. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, appreciate route well, bro, you too, Joe. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm a I'm anna call it and I here. Uh.
Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone for coming out tonight on a Friday night.
Speaker 1: This was a tough one, I know, but hopefully hopefully
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't kill the spirits too much and
Speaker 1: try to try to bring some positivity to it. Again,
Speaker 1: thank you for tuning into this day of the Lakers
Speaker 1: post game. We'll be back on Sunday Night. I think
Speaker 1: Jason will be back on that one as well, where
Speaker 1: we play the Chicago Bulls. Um yeah. Happy Holidays, Thanks
Speaker 1: for everyone listening, Stay safe, and I'll see you guys
Speaker 1: next time.